So you thought Europe was safer

than say, NYC? Well, I remember Brussels when you could wander anywhere and have no fear. But since the influx of immigrants, many from North Africa and many who are Muslim, it appears that is no longer the case.

What this article details is a current rape, and then moves to an article from 2005, three years ago, that proves the situation is getting worse.

A few lowlights:

A 21 year old woman was pushed against an ATM machine in the Brussels South station by two young men and raped last week. According to the victim, at least three travelers passed by, but nobody tried to help her.


In a number of neighborhoods in Brussels there are less and less women on the street. Muslim girls are troubled if they don't wear a headscarf. Ethnic Belgian women are jeered at and called whores if they dare show a piece of naked belly. "An atmosphere of intolerance prevails. Ethnic Belgian women tel me that they wear a scarf because then they aren't bothered any more."

One of the most puzzling facts about the Left, to me, is the acceptance of the loss of women's rights that Islam brings with it.

I think we need to start thinking very hard about what larger Muslim populations will bring. And see if we really want that. Perhaps it is time to close the door.

Hussein's advisers

To get a grip on who someone is, you have to turn to who they associate with. Most of us are familiar with Hussein's buds William Ayers and the Rev "God dam America" Wright, but when we dig deeper we find other interesting things. Here's is what AP's Liz Sidoti writes:

Obama also announced his search committee shortly after clinching the nomination -- Jim Johnson, the former chairman of Fannie Mae, Eric Holder, a former deputy attorney general, and Caroline Kennedy. Within days, the committee went to Capitol Hill to consult with Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Under fire from Republicans and McCain, Johnson abruptly resigned after The Wall Street Journal reported he got home mortgages with help from the CEO of Countrywide Financial Corp. Holder, too, has faced a barrage of GOP attacks; he was the former Justice Department official who vetted President Clinton's oft-criticized 2001 pardon of financier Marc Rich.

Of course the Countrywide scandal, in which Demo Senators Chris Dodd and Conrad got sweetheart financing deals not available to the public, is dying a slow death administrated by the MSM refusal to cover the story. And few will remember, or bring up Marc Rich.

So this is the guy that Eric Holder vetted for Clinton:

In 1983, financier Rich was indicted for evading more than $48 million in taxes, and charged with 51 counts of tax fraud, as well as running illegal oil deals with Iran during the 1979-1980 hostage crisis. During his last week in office, President Bill Clinton pardoned Rich, who had fled the U.S. during his prosecution and was residing in Switzerland. Clinton's eleventh-hour move,

Hussein claims to be for change, yet time and again he returns to the past and the highly questionable actions of Democrats.

Igor Gouzenko

Monday PM I posted a comment regarding the "still" lack of belief by Gollywood, the MSM and academia that we actually had communist spies in the government....

You might call it the inconvenient truth....

Claudia from Toronto sent me the above name and asked if I had heard of him. I hadn't, but a little Google revealed this. My thanks to the lady from the north.

Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (January 13, 1919, Rogachev, Soviet Union – June 28, 1982, Mississauga, Canada) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West.

Gouzenko's defection exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the then-unknown technique of planting sleeper agents. The "Gouzenko Affair" is often credited as a triggering event of the Cold War. [1]

What I find fascinating is how poorly he was received..proving that we Yanks and Cannucks are closer than we know.

Gouzenko walked out of the Embassy door carrying with him a briefcase with Soviet code books and deciphering materials. He initially went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but the RCMP officers on duty refused to believe his story. He then went to the Ottawa Journal newspaper, but the paper's night editor was not interested, and suggested he go to the justice ministry, where nobody was on duty. ....

Even once the RCMP expressed interest in Gouzenko, it has been alleged that the Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King initially wanted nothing to do with him. Even with Gouzenko in hiding and under RCMP protection, King reportedly pushed for a diplomatic solution to avoid upsetting the Soviet Union, still a wartime ally and ostensible friend. Documents reveal that King, then 70 and weary from six years of war leadership, was aghast when Norman Robertson, his undersecretary for external affairs, and his assistant, H. H. Wrong, informed him on the morning of September 6, 1945 that a "terrible thing" had happened. Gouzenko and his wife Svetlana, they told him, had appeared at the office of Justice Minister Louis St. Laurent with documents unmasking Soviet perfidy on Canadian soil. "It was like a bomb on top of everything else", King wrote.

The evidence provided by Gouzenko led to the arrest in Canada of a total of 39 suspects, of which 18 were eventually convicted.... His information also likely helped in the investigation of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the U.S. Gouzenko, being a cipher clerk by profession, likely also assisted with the Venona investigation, which probed Soviet codes and which eventually led to the discovery of vital Soviet spies such as Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross (the so-called Cambridge Five), as well as Alan Nunn May.

A movie, "The Iron Curtain" was made in 1948. I am sure if it were made today Igor Gouzenko would be the villain.

That says much about our current cultural affairs.

Hussein played the race card today..

We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?"

Actually "they" won't have to. Hussein has been doing it for us on an almost daily basis. And he never mentions that he beat Hillary by getting 90-95% of the black vote. I mean all those blacks voting for a black was just because he was the best candidate, right??

In the meantime, Big Lizard hisses in with a scary thought.

So how long will it be before a series of thuggish, racist e-mails, street-mailings, and YouTubes crudely attacking Barack Obama really does materialize? My guess is that it will wait until the election itself looms; possibly one week beforehand, just like the DUI hit on George W. Bush in 2000.

Why wait? For a very good reason: The perpetrators of that series of attacks do not want there to be enough time to discover the actual source of the "attacks"... which will originate from some radical leftist group hoping for a "backlash" against McCain.

Obama as much as begs for a "false-flag" operation by his phraseology: "They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me." Translation: If you see any racist or xenophobic ads, you will know that they put them up. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain... blame McCain, blame McConnell, blame the racist, fascist Republicans!

I am about 70% convinced that somebody on the Left will attempt just such a dirty trick.

Would they do that?

Well, we know they will try and move negative stories about McCain further up the Google chain. (See my morning post.) That, of course, is not the same, but it indicates a "win at any cost" mindset.

The Chicago Politician Who Would Be King

Mr. Obama is running as a reformer who is seeking to reduce the influence of special interests. But like any other politician, he has powerful constituencies that help shape his views. And when it comes to domestic ethanol, almost all of which is made from corn, he also has advisers and prominent supporters with close ties to the industry at a time when energy policy is a point of sharp contrast between the parties and their presidential candidates.

And you have to just love this.

Links to Tom Daschle

Nowadays, when Mr. Obama travels in farm country, he is sometimes accompanied by his friend Tom Daschle , the former Senate majority leader from South Dakota. Mr. Daschle now serves on the boards of three ethanol companies and works at a Washington law firm where, according to his online job description, “he spends a substantial amount of time providing strategic and policy advice to clients in renewable energy.”

Mr. Obama’s lead advisor on energy and environmental issues, Jason Grumet, came to the campaign from the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan initiative associated with Mr. Daschle and Bob Dole , the Kansas Republican who is also a former Senate majority leader and a big ethanol backer who had close ties to the agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland

Another advisor with ties to the industry in question. Can this man find no one who doesn't have questionable ties??

Worse, when it comes to ethanol, corn based ethanol takes 400 pounds of corn. That will feed one adult for one year in third world countries. Its use for fuel also drives up the price for almost all food products because corn and corn starch is used in so many. Even worse, sugar based ethanol is available, yet:

Ethanol is one area in which Mr. Obama strongly disagrees with his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona. While both presidential candidates emphasize the need for the United States to achieve “energy security” while also slowing down the carbon emissions that are believed to contribute to global warming, they offer sharply different visions of the role that ethanol, which can be made from a variety of organic materials, should play in those efforts.

Mr. McCain advocates eliminating the multibillion-dollar annual government subsidies that domestic ethanol has long enjoyed. As a free trade advocate, he also opposes the 54-cent-a-gallon tariff that the United States slaps on imports of ethanol made from sugar cane, which packs more of an energy punch than corn-based ethanol and is cheaper to produce.

There is no shortage of sugar and it can be grown both as cane and beets.

So there we have it again. The man who inspires females to faint while he is speaking because of the purity and love he radiates is nothing more than a politician.

You can lead a horse to water

and you can provide all the information in the world, and the supposed halls of wisdom still won't get it.

American University historian Allan J. Lichtman notes....and the hysterical hunts for domestic Communists in the late 1940s and early 1950s;

What Lichtman leaves out is that there actually were communists in the government. Yes dear chums, no matter what Gollywood, the MSM and academia tell you, that is a fact.

And it is proven by something called "Venona," which was a successfull effort by the US to break the Soviet's secret code in the 40's and use it to follow their efforts for 40 years.

So McCarthy was right, he just did a miserable selling job. Plus, many of the accused were part of the establishment, went to the elite schools, worked for the right media, etc.

Sound familiar??

A young Meredith Gardner then used this material to break in to what turned out to be NKVD (and later GRU) traffic, by reconstructing the code used to convert text to numbers. Samuel Chew and Cecil Phillips also made valuable contributions. On 20 December 1946, Gardner made the first break into the code, revealing the existence of Soviet espionage in the Manhattan Project.[3] Venona messages also indicated that Soviet spies worked in Washington in the State Department, Treasury, Office of Strategic Services, and even the White House. Very slowly, using assorted techniques ranging from traffic analysis to defector information, more of the messages were decrypted.

Here's a link to John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr's excellent book, "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America."

BTW - Did you ever hear about the book in the MSM? NYT? Tribune? LAT? No? Why am I not surprised.

A good'un

I hadn't heard this:

Subject: Warning from Middle East

This morning, from a cave somewhere in Pakistan , Taliban Minister of Migration, Mohammed Omar, warned the United States that if military action against Iraq continues, Taliban authorities will cut off America 's supply of convenience store managers, and possible candidates for President of the United States .

And if this action does not yield sufficient results, cab drivers will be next, followed by Dell and AOL customer service reps., and then Motel 6 managers.

It's getting ugly...........

My thanks to Mike L.

And smile. You can't be PC all the time.