ACADEMIES
1802 President Jefferson signed a measure authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
WAR!
1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima.
1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die.
2003 Five years ago: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein warned that if Iraq were attacked, it would take the war anywhere in the world "wherever there is sky, land or water." President Bush gave the United Nations one more day to find a diplomatic solution to the standoff.
TERRORISM
1977 US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland.
1978 Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas, who later murdered him.
1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen; he died in captivity.
1985 Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut; he was released in December 1991.
1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed.
DISASTER
1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60.
1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155.
1991 7 members of Reba McIntire's band killed in a plane crash.
DRAMA
1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
QUIET
1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded).
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1966 "Man From Uncle" star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London.
WOMEN
1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (New York).
BOBBIES
1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms.
ROCKETS
1926 rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid-fueled rocket, in Auburn, Mass.
BYE
1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union.
NAZIS
1935 Adolf Hitler decided to break the military terms set by the Treaty of Versailles by ordering the rearming of Germany.
ST. PANCAKE
2003 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American in Gaza to protest Israel operations, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.
NANNY STATE
1871 1st fertilizer law enacted.
SCANDALS
1988 A federal grand jury indicted former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, fired White House aide Oliver North, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard Secord and Secord's business partner, Albert Hakim, on charges related to the Iran-Contra affair. (Poindexter and North were later convicted, but had their convictions overturned; Secord and Hakim received probation after each pleaded guilty to a single count.)
ASSASSINATION
1978 Aldo Moro 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists.
JEWS
1190 Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism.
1998 In a long-awaited document that Jewish leaders immediately criticized, the Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius XII.
SURE
2007 Former CIA operative Valerie Plame told a House committee that White House and State Department officials had "carelessly and recklessly" blown her cover in a politically motivated smear of her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for publicly disputing President Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein was on the brink of acquiring a nuclear bomb.
BORN
1751 James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Va.
1849 James E Smith became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger.
BIRTHDAYS
Comedian-director Jerry Lewis is 82. Movie director Bernardo Bertolucci is 67. Game show host Chuck Woolery is 67. Singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker is 66. Country singer Robin Williams is 61. Actor Erik Estrada is 59. Actor Victor Garber is 59. Actress Kate Nelligan is 57. Country singer Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel) is 57. Rock singer-musician Nancy Wilson (Heart) is 54. Golfer Hollis Stacy is 54. Actress Isabelle Huppert is 53. Actor Clifton Powell is 52. Rapper Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) is 49. Rock musician Jimmy DeGrasso is 45. Folk singer Patty Griffin is 44. Actress Lauren Graham is 41. Actor Alan Tudyk is 37. Actress Brooke Burns is 30. Rock musician Wolfgang Van Halen is 17.
DEATH
37 Roman emperor Tiberius died; he was succeeded by Caligula.
March 16, the 76th day of 2008. There are 290 days left in the year. Today is Palm Sunday.
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ICONS
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly.
WAR!
2003 U.S. officials said President Bush might delay a vote on his troubled United Nations resolution or even drop it - and fight Iraq without the international body's backing.
DISASTER
1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die.
1928 Hundreds of people died when the San Francisquito Valley in California was inundated with water after the St. Francis Dam burst just before midnight the evening of March 12.
1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145.
1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake.
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed).
ATTEMPTS
1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit.
PATENTS
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs.
DEALS
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.
CLIMATE
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages.
1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US.
INVENTIONS
1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate.
ASSASSINATION
1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca.
NAZIS
1933 Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda.
1938 Anschluß-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany.
TRIALS
1998 Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney, once the Army's top enlisted man, was acquitted at his court-martial of pressuring military women for sex, but was convicted of trying to persuade his chief accuser to lie.
SCIENCE
1781 The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel. He thought it was a comet.
1925 A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.
JEWS
1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.
1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany.
MURDER
1964 Bar manager Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her New York home; the case generated controversy over charges that Genovese's neighbors had failed to respond to her cries for help.
RESIGNING
1980 Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Ind., found the company innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto.
2007 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted mistakes in how the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors but said he wouldn't resign.
POLITICALLY CORRECT
1988 yielding to student protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president.
TRAGEDY
1996 a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
2007 President Bush sought to soothe strained ties with Mexico by promising to prod Congress to overhaul tough U.S. immigration policies, but Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized U.S. plans for a 700-mile border fence.
ABORTION
2003 The Senate voted 64-33 to ban partial birth abortion.
BORN
1733 Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen).
1770 Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death).
1908 American billionaire, publisher and diplomat Walter Annenberg (TV Guide) was born in Milwaukee.
BIRTHDAYS
Jazz musician Roy Haynes is 83. Country singer Jan Howard is 78. Songwriter Mike Stoller is 75. Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 69. Actor William H. Macy is 58. Actress Deborah Raffin is 55. Comedian Robin Duke is 54. Actress Glenne Headly is 53. Actress Dana Delany is 52. Rock musician Adam Clayton (U2) is 48. Jazz musician Terence Blanchard is 46. Actor Christopher Collet is 40. Actress Annabeth Gish is 37. Actress Tracy Wells is 37. Rapper Common is 36. Rapper Khujo (Goodie Mob, The Lumberjacks) is 36. Singer Glenn Lewis is 33. Actor Danny Masterson is 32. Actor Emile Hirsch is 23. Singers Nicole and Natalie Albino (Nina Sky) are 22.
DEATH
1901 Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, died in Indianapolis.
1938 Clarence S Darrow Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80.
Today is March 13, the 73rd day of the year. There are 293 days left in 2008.
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NAZIS
On Feb. 27, 1933, Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming the Communists, used the fire as justification for suspending civil liberties.
WAR!
1864 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties).
1991 President George H.W. Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight, Eastern time.
2003 Iraq agreed in principle to destroy its Al Samoud II missiles, two days before a U.N. deadline.
TERRORISM
1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed.
1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup.
1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota.
1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed.
1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed).
2003 The Bush administration lowered the national terror alert from orange to yellow.
2007 A suicide bomber struck Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, who was rushed to a bomb shelter. (Twenty-three people were killed; Cheney was unhurt.)
DISASTER
1803 Great fire in Bombay, India.
1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead).
GOLF
1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath.
STARS
1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X" "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files).
1974 "People" magazine begins sales.
HAUNTED
1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire.
SWEET
1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener).
TIRED
1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw.
PATENTS
1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine.
DEATH PENALTY
1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption.
KILLERS
1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA.
1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati.
POLITICS
1801 the District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.
JEWS
1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I.
1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President.
SPORTS
1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes.
UNREST
1861 in Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland; five marchers were killed.
WOMEN
1922 The Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.
LIMITS
1951 The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.
MIRACLES
1960 The U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)
INDIANS
1973 Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until May.)
UPSETS
1979 Jane M. Byrne confounded Chicago's Democratic political machine as she upset Mayor Michael A. Bilandic to win their party's mayoral primary. (Byrne went on to win the election.)
ROYALS
1998 With the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son.
FINANCE
2007 The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 416.02 points, the worst drop since the 2001 terrorist attacks.
BORN
1807 poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.
1920 Reg Simpson cricketer (prolific England opener 1948-55).
BIRTHDAYS
Actress Joanne Woodward is 78. Actress Elizabeth Taylor is 76. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is 74. Actress Barbara Babcock is 71. Actor Howard Hesseman is 68. Actress Debra Monk is 59. Rock singer-musician Neal Schon (Journey) is 54. Rock musician Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) is 51. Actor Timothy Spall is 51. Rock musician Paul Humphreys (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) is 48. Country singer Johnny Van Zant (Van Zant) is 48. Rock musician Leon Mobley (Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals) is 47. Basketball Hall-of-Famer James Worthy is 47. Actor Adam Baldwin is 46. Actor Grant Show is 46. Rock musician Mike Cross (Sponge) is 43. Actor Donal Logue is 42. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chilli (TLC) is 37. Rock musician Jeremy Dean (Nine Days) is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer Roderick Clark is 35. Country-rock musician Shonna Tucker (Drive-By Truckers) is 30. Chelsea Clinton is 28. Rhythm-and-blues singer Bobby Valentino is 28. Singer Josh Groban is 27. Actress Kate Mara is 25.
DEATH
1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaya Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70.
1985 J Pat O'Malley actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83.
2003 Children's television host Fred Rogers died in Pittsburgh at age 74.
February 27, the 58th day of 2008. There are 308 days left in the year.
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1868 the House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate.
WAR!
1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram).
1945 Egypt & Syria declares war on Nazi-Germany.
1968 US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam.
2003 Seeking U.N. approval for war against Iraq, the United States, Britain and Spain submitted a resolution to the Security Council declaring that Saddam Hussein had missed "the final opportunity" to disarm peacefully and indicating that he had to face the consequences.
TERRORISM
2007 A suicide truck bomber struck worshippers leaving a Sunni mosque in Habbaniyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, killing at least 52 people.
DISASTER
1989 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die.
PIGS
1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford TX.
HUH?
1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife.
BLIMPS
1997 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp.
FINANCE
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74.
DIETS
1981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower.
PROGRESS
1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles.
PARADE
1868 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile AL).
ICE
1925 Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington NY.
ARRESTS
1923 Mass arrests in US of Mafia.
JEWS
1949 Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement.
CRUSH
1807 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth Godfrey in England.
FINALLY
1855 US Court of Claims established for cases against the government.
DISASTERS
2003 A powerful earthquake in China's western region of Xinjiang killed at least 268 people and injured more than 1,000.
BULLS
1582 Pope Gregory XIII issued a papal bull, or edict, outlining his calendar reforms. (The Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today).
GESTURES
2007 The Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution expressing "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery.
SUPREME COURT
1803 in its Marbury v. Madison decision, the Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional and established judicial review of the constitutionality of statutes.
INJUSTICE
1983 a congressional commission released a report condemning the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as a "grave injustice."
REBELS
1821, Mexican rebels proclaimed the "Plan de Iguala," their declaration of independence from Spain.
POLITICS
1863 Arizona was organized as a territory.
NAZIs
1920 a fledgling German political party held its first meeting of importance in Munich; it became known as the Nazi Party, and its chief spokesman was Adolf Hitler.
STRONGMEN
1946 Argentinians went to the polls to elect Juan D. Peron their president.
HUSTLER
1988 in a ruling that expanded legal protections for parody and satire, the Supreme Court overturned a $200,000 award that the Rev. Jerry Falwell had won against Hustler magazine and publisher Larry Flynt.
ASSASSINATED
1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament.
BORN
1874 Honus Wagner HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17).
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Abe Vigoda is 87. Actor Steven Hill is 86. Actor-singer Dominic Chianese is 77. Movie composer Michel Legrand is 76. Actor James Farentino is 70. Actor Barry Bostwick is 63. Actor Edward James Olmos is 61. Singer-writer-producer Rupert Holmes is 61. Rock singer-musician George Thorogood is 58. Actress Debra Jo Rupp is 57. Actress Helen Shaver is 57. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is 53. News anchor Paula Zahn is 52. Country singer Sammy Kershaw is 50. Singer Michelle Shocked is 46. Movie director Todd Field is 44. Actor Billy Zane is 42. Actress Bonnie Somerville is 34. Rhythm-and-blues singer Brandon Brown (Mista) is 25.
DEATH
1983 Tennessee Williams US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71.
1994 Dinah Shore singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76.
1998 Henny Youngman, a tireless comic who quipped "Take my wife — please" and countless other one-liners during a career that spanned seven decades, died in New York City at age 91. "I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up ... they have no holidays."
February 24, the 55th day of 2008. There are 311 days left in the year.
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To the Left, a sense of irony has always been over-rated.
Socialists and others, proclaiming themselves anti-fascists, proceeded to use fascist tactics to shut down an Oxford Union debating club forum recently.
An eyewitness reports:I was one of over a 1,000 protesters from all walks of life that gathered outside the Oxford Union debating club on Monday of this week to try and stop it from hosting a “forum” featuring two leading Nazis.
Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party(BNP) and Holocaust denier David Irving were to be two of the speakers at the debate. Neither is an appealing figure, but they weren't the only speakers who had their plans disrupted that night.
Their scheduled opponents never got to argue their cases either, thanks to the quick wits--and arms and legs--of the brave watchmen of British liberties.The atmosphere at the protest was electric as people thronged around the Union building, arguing with those trying to attend the meeting.
The real debate of deciding if a real debate gets to take place. The witness has a real future if the Soviet Union is ever reconstituted. 
The air was full of real political debate – in sharp contrast to the superficial rituals that the Union prides itself on.
Or Nazi Germany.
Getting to decide another's actions, or what is heard or said: it's enough to stir the blood of Socialist and Nazi alike.
People kept up a noisy presence by chanting and singing, when suddenly a gate swung open. Around 60 of us pushed our way into the Union compound past a pair of security guards that tried to rugby tackle us.
Eventually around 35 of us made it into the debating chamber – fending off attempts to physically block us by the Oxford Union’s champions of “free speech”.
We argued with the people inside, telling them that what went on in their chambers had real effects in the outside world.
At this point they decided to walk out of the debating chamber and hold their meetings with Nazis in two separate rooms elsewhere.
The atmosphere was getting ugly, so we negotiated to be let out.
One might remark that the atmosphere was plenty ugly well before that. But then that would spoil the mood.
The witness then recounts how he exited the building, "rejoining the protest outside to cheers."
Irony was not among the well-wishers, having long since departed.
It's disturbing whenever free and open debate is strangled. There's little doubt that had Griffin had 1000 of his cohorts and true-believers present, while the witness had tried to address a crowd, that the same results would have occurred.
Shout them down, shut them up: they're Nazis, they're Socialists, they're Jews.
The end justifies the means. What would Stalin do? Or Hitler or Mao or Che? What is Chavez doing at this very moment?
Tactics are tactics and totalitarian methods are totalitarian methods, no matter what the label.
The witness can slap some lipstick on his Nazi-like actions and pretend that they're now pretty and noble; just as he slapped some quotation marks around free speech and pretended that it wasn't.
The Brown Shirts excelled at disrupting the speech of anyone they disagreed with: breaking up meetings of opponents, shouting them down, hounding them in public until they silenced them. Physical violence shortly followed and grew.
As did the list of those whose speech they found disagreeable.
Once a group gets to decide who speaks and who is silenced, they develop a taste for it. Today's allies become tomorrow's enemies. And there's always a need for an enemy: a target's just the thing to produce an "electric atmosphere" among the faithful.
At least it can't happen in America. Can it?
Liberal zealots spend their days crafting Internet screeds against the coming Bush police state. The rants are so many, one would think they'd have time for little else.
But there's always time to be found to rush down to the College Union to fling a pie at the occasional conservative speaker who wanders on campus.
It's not really police state tactics if the target is Ann Coulter. After all, she's such a bitch.
A squelching of free speech is a squelching of free speech.
There's a reason that Nazis and White Supremacists and Socialists like our witness mainly flourish in the shadows with their cronies: when they come out into the light, most people can see how insanely ridiculous they are.
The issue of political elites not listening to their constituents is always a wild card in Europe, but I'll take the regular guy's good sense every time, Jerry Springer notwithstanding.
Give David Irving three hours of prime time every week and in less than six months, both he and his loony views will be as unpopular as any of the politicians who now hog the BBC's airwaves. As if they aren't already.
There'd be a line of historians from Oxford to Moscow forming up for a chance to debunk the nut.
If the Socialists are really interested in stamping out the BNP, they'd take up a collection so Nick Griffin could get his prime-time slot too. The British see through him. Let Nick have his chance to humiliate himself.
But then, that would be letting ordinary folk make up their own minds about what to hear.
Source: Socialist Worker, "1000 Anti-Fascists Wreck Oxford's Sham Debate"
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First, they came for the restaurants, then they came for the bars and bowling alleys, now if you live in Minnesota and are a smoker, they're after your apartment and car.
The victories of health Nazis have emboldened them to tackle new challenges. Private apartments and vehicles are their next target.
More top-level strategy for a Smoke-Free MinnesotaBy Mark Brunswick and Curt Brown, Star Tribune:
The answers to this increasing regulation has led to a bizarre invention: faux cigarettes. More from the New York Post:
Fresh from their success winning a statewide smoking ban in bars and restaurants, Minnesota's anti-smoking advocates are ready to zero in on where you live.
One anti-smoking group will kick-start a campaign this week to encourage landlords to outlaw smoking in their buildings. While the program would be purely voluntary for now, some communities might follow two California cities by considering broader ordinances that would apply to multi-unit dwellings.
Smoke-free groups are also considering pushes to restrict drivers who smoke with kids in their cars, park users who smoke and even cigarette-dangling youth-sport coaches. Still, condos and apartments appear to be the next battleground in the state's smoking wars.
It's part of a national trend aimed at snuffing out those who light up. Chicago can now fine people up to $500 for smoking within 15 feet of beaches and playgrounds. Albuquerque nixed smoking at the zoo. Davis County, Utah, has extended its ban to golf courses and cemeteries.A new smokeless, tobacco-free, reusable cigarette may soon blow rings around the city's smoking ban.
As the story states, it's an answer to Nanny State regulations. But is it the right answer? At what point do people yell, "Stop"? Those cheering on the increasing reach of regulators might quiet down some when the focus changes to other areas of private life.
The plastic Crown Seven electronic device, invented in China and sold online for $100, looks like a sleek cigarette holder and even glows red at one end when you take a drag.
It emits a faint water vapor from its battery-powered filter. Because it's not real smoke, the manufacturers hope the device will fly under health inspectors' radar.
Instead of tobacco, the e-cigarette contains a mix of water, nicotine, artificial smoke flavor and propylene glycol, the chemical used in fog-making machines.
Regulations about private behaviors keep multiplying: smoking, diet, health. And the list goes on. It's increasingly harder for regulation advocates to disguise their actions as "caring about health".
In the beginning, it was about the health of children and others affected by second-hand smoke, that great excuse to take decisions out of the hands of people affected. Some non-smokers applauded as noxious regulations, in many cases enacted by non-elected officials, took effect.
In most cases, smokers grudgingly obliged. Now the nabobs of the Nanny State have revealed that no place is free from where they will go in search of regulatory power over people's private lives.
Anyone overweight might take notice. With Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, mandatory check ups are part of their plans for more government intrusion into private health care.
Those applauding the increased crackdowns on smoking in private living areas might not be cheering so loudly when they are required to jog to retain health care benefits.
It's clear that the power to regulate smoking in private business establishments didn't satisfy the anti-smoking forces; it seems it only made them hungrier for more rules. This need to regulate others leads to a craving for more stringent regulation.
It meets some of the criteria of "addiction".
Once zealots get the power to determine what is best for someone else, it's a hard habit to break.
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Somebody call a doctor!
The head of the Muslim Council plays the victim card and increasingly, even the British are not feeling guilty.
Dr. Bari discusses the reasons for tensions in the Isles in the Telegraph:Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, the leader of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), thinks the Government is stoking the tension.
This is MAD magazine material. One wishes the interviewer--or someone in the Gordon government--would make the straightforward observation: the "disproportionate amount of discussion" will cease when the disproportionate amount of bombers blowing up British citizens ceases to be Muslim.
"There is a disproportionate amount of discussion surrounding us," he says. "The air is thick with suspicion and unease. It is not good for the Muslim community, it is not good for society."
Simple, huh?
Not for the doc.
He's like a growing number of his countrymen these days: fearing for Britain.
"Britain must", he warns, "beware of becoming like Nazi Germany."
He really did say that. Yes, he did. And ehe interview didn't mention anything about him doubling up in an abject fit of laughter while saying it.
As Robert Spencer put it in Jihad Watch:Nothing really surprising here. When have we ever seen a Muslim leader in the West say, "Yes, we have a serious problem in our community, and it's up to us to clean it up"?
Britain's possible march to a National Socialist future will halt the day Muslims assimilate to the culture of the country in which they've chosen to settle. It will also halt when the government and newspapers quit tiptoeing around the whining of these "community leaders" and issue some straight-talking statements.
Until then, the prescription for the U.K. and it's seething minorities is the same: assimilate with all due haste or perhaps you'd be better off elsewhere.
The British living in crime-ridden neighborhoods and wondering when the next terrorist bombing will occur will not agree with Dr. Bari. And Gordon Brown is slowly sensing that they don't agree with his government's handling of this matter, either.
Dr. Bari doesn't like the discussion? Start a new one; one that doesn't hold common sense up and call it "oppression". Start a discussion on why second- and third-generation Muslims are hot for jihad in England. It might also dampen his fear of Nazis.
If that discussion doesn't start soon, the British people might seek a second opinion.
by Mondoreb
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A serious examination of the connection between multiculturalism, societal suicide and rising anti-semitism in the United Kingdom is overdue.
Red Planets Cartoons steps up to the plate and delivers a case study.
Modern polling methods and the use of focus groups give their users instant information. But in the case of Great Britain, where issues of multiculturalism is concerned, the information can't be found.
The elites in the U.K. and all over Europe still practice the art of the tin ear on non-assimilated immigrants and unrest in their societies as a result. The information being has no trouble being digested in the streets--outside the halls of power.
In the coming showdown, one side will feature the ordinary citizens of many European countries. The other side will consist of smug political elites, the forces of multiculturalism and others eager to use the opportunity to increase their power.
A recent discussion in the blogosphere centers around the parties that have arisen to speak for the people in the streets: the native Europeans remaining in their countries while their countrymen flee to safer, more settled locales.
The discussion is about the purity of these parties and the unsavory elements associating themselves with the dissent. In many cases, those elements are Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist in nature. The ultra-nationalists are using the unrest to infiltrate legitimate political movements.
In that coming struggle, this scenario seems likely: the ordinary people, frightened by what they see and the lack of response by their elected leaders, will turn in desperation to any who promise help.
If history and current events are any guide, that help will come in jackboots. Neo-Nazis are on the rise in Europe. Truly, the people of Europe are caught between two bad situations.
If no middle ground is staked out by their leaders, there soon may not be any middle ground to claim. A serious examination of where multicultural obsession is leading Great Britain and Europe is overdue.
If the political elites won't conduct that examination, Neo-Nazis and others like them will.
by Mondoreb
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[NOTE: This is Part 1 of BabbaZee's eye-opening examination of the penetration of European mainstream political parties by White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis. Taking a page out of the Communist playbook, the Extreme Right has made gains in "conquering from within. And BZ nails them, despite their denials. First of a three-part series.]
A TOKEN OF HIS EXTREME:
Who is Filip DeWinter, and Why should you care?
Click here for a brief history,
What is that Odin's cross doing on his shelf at the end of the video, I asked myself? I know when I see it that is only used by two groups of people, Neo-Pagans and White Power groups. This is not an old clip, this is very recent.
That statue is in his HOME, on his shelf. IN HIS HOME.
The camera lingers on it intentionally.
This statue on his shelf in his personal study is symbolic of who he is.
There are not lots of knickknacks there, he is not a collector, there is only this one item.
Why?
Because it is of monumental import to him personally and he cherishes it.
Filip DeWinter was born in Flanders on 11 September 1962 as Philip DeWinter.
To appear "more Flemish" he later changes the spelling of his first name to Filip.
The former president of the Flemish Socialists, Franck Vandenbroucke, will say of him:
"DeWinter is an authentic Nazi" and Louis Tobbak, former minister SP of the Interior, will add: DeWinter is "a psychopath" (quotations extracted the book "Vlaams Blok" by Hugo Gijsels, 1994)
At the end of the seventies DeWinter joins the Jongerenfront or young people front, the Flemish version of the Front de la Jeunesse .
Jongerenfront is at that time in Flanders allied with the Face of Youth (FJ), a group of neo fascist students related to the CEPIC .
1988:
Whoops, looks like he got busted practicing white mans taqiyya there...
Here's a nice picture of him from his Jongerenfront days, who does he remind you of here?
Here is the entire Dutch documentary with French subtitles on Vlaams Belang's Nazi connections that the clip above is extracted from. Even with out a translation the images are revealing and edifying.
Some of the language is intelligible too, even with my American ear. I am working on getting an English transcript for it:
To read the rest of the story, Click Here: Now is DeWinter of Our Discontent
at The Outraged Spleen of Zion
by BabbaZee
[NOTE: Babba's attracted the attention of some White Supremacists shortly after this first part was released. Part Two will be up here at DBKP shortly.]
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More on the Vlaams Belang dust-up in the Netherlands (and the USA).
Atlas Shrugged weighs in with some sober, salient points on the affair.
Philosopher Roger Scruton, who also spoke at a VB event:AS goes on to add, concerning A. Bostom:
As the British conservative philosopher and author Roger Scruton said in a speech in Antwerp last year, the charge of racism and xenophobia in the EU countries “has become the equivalent of a charge of heresy in medieval Europe, of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, or of ‘deviationism” in the Stalinist state.” However, as Mr. Scruton pointed out, “we have a duty to brave the charge of ‘racism and xenophobia’, and to discuss every aspect of immigration.”
Moreover if I might add that Andrew Bostom was SPECIFICALLY requested by the organizers to speak about Antisemitism, AND I included at the end at the of his remarks a specific mention of NAZI Antisemitism in the guise of the annihilationist Johannes von Leers.Atlas was good enough to include Little Green Footballs' objections to VB:
(1) that the party abstained in the European Parliament from approving the above mentioned Holocaust resolution;DBKP's take at this point: There are always going to be fringe elements in any group. It's important, after all the accommodations Europeans have made with Islam and immigrants' refusals to assimilate into European societies, to make a stand for Dutch and European culture somewhere along the line.
(2) that early this month the party organized a “white supremacist” demonstration;
(3) that Nazi skinheads applaud the party;
(4) that neo-Nazis link to VB videos.
Because of some objectionable people, the Dutch people should be applauded for raising the question, even at this late hour. With Dutch emigration rising, it's important for assimilation to be stressed now. Whether there are those who take advantage of this concern for their own ends is largely immaterial to the larger debate.
Charles Johnson's been labeled a "Nazi", and worse, the Left countless times. It hasn't dampened his enthusiasm for spreading the truth of the jihadis or their apologists at LGF. No one should shut up because they're called "Nazi".
Either in The Netherlands or the United States.
by Mondoreb
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