The Urban Grind

Once again, the lefty Israeli government has capitulated.

“I am happy to annouce that the two leaders have agreed that the cessation of hostilities and the end of the fighting will enter into force on 14 August, at 0500 hours GMT,” the statement said.

I’m sure you and your terrorist loving goons are ecstatic.

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The resolution, adopted unanimously, authorizes 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israeli forces that have occupied the area withdraw.

Hezbollah’s leader on Saturday grudgingly joined Lebanon’s government in accepting the U.N. resolution but vowed to keep fighting until Israeli troops leave and hand over territory to a muscular U.N. peacekeeping force intended to separate the antagonists.

Israel also signaled its intention to approve the plan, and a senior official predicted fighting would stop Monday morning, but there was no slowing in the bloodshed.

More Israeli tanks and soldiers surged into southern Lebanon on Saturday, reaching the Litani River and engaging in some of the heaviest ground combat of the monthlong war.

Sounds like a “Hudna” to me. The Hezbos will get stronger than ever now. And if Israel attempts to defend its citizens, the Hezbo thugs will just go crying to the UN.

The Security Council resolution leaves out several key demands from both Israel and Lebanon in efforts to come up with a workable arrangement.

Despite Lebanese objections, Israel will be allowed to continue defensive operations – a term that Arab diplomats fear the Israeli military will interpret widely. A dispute over the Chebaa Farms area along the Syria-Lebanon-Israel border will be left for later; and Israel won’t get its wish for an entirely new multinational force separate from the U.N. peacekeepers that have been stationed in south Lebanon since 1978.

There is also no call for the release of Lebanese prisoners held by Israel or a demand for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops. Although the draft resolution emphasizes the need for the “unconditional release” of the two Israeli soldiers whose July 12 capture by Hezbollah sparked the conflict, that call is not included in the list of steps required for a lasting cease-fire.

This is not good.

That’s according to a Canadian general who was informed of the fact by one of the UN peacekeepers who was killed in the Israeli bombings.

We received emails from him a few days ago, and he was describing the fact that he was taking fire within, in one case, three meters of his position for tactical necessity, not being targeted. Now that?s veiled speech in the military. What he was telling us was Hezbollah soldiers were all over his position and the IDF were targeting them. And that?s a favorite trick by people who don?t have representation in the UN. They use the UN as shields knowing that they can?t be punished for it.

Pamela from Atlas Shrugs has more on how UNIFIL has been complicit in aiding and abetting Hezbollah:

[...] Hizb’Allah has been known to base itself right next to UNIFL forces in the hopes that Israel would inadvertantly hit UNIFL in response. This is understandable from Hizb’Allah’s cynical [Cynical? savage is more like it - Atlas] perspective, but harder to fathom in relation to UNIFL’s mandate to restore peace and security.

It is often noted that UNIFL failed in its mission, but even that is too kind, to the extent that implies that its presence is benign. In reality, UNIFL has provided more security to Hizb’Allah than it has to Israel increasing the likelihood of conflict and helping to make the current confilct inevitable. Jerusalem Post International Edition (no online link – transcribed from hard copy) More here

I was right about Koffing Anus after all!

In his latest attempt to curry favor with his terrorist backers, Koffing Anus is now accusing Israel of deliberately attacking the UNIFIL station.

The Belmont Club has a very detailed post on all this, and how the U.N. deliberately put itself smack in the midst of the hezbos.

Now I haven’t read his entire post, but then again, how do we know the U.N. is not actively helping the hezbos?

In a nutshell, Prime Minister Siniora whined that big bad Israel was cutting his country to pieces. The wimpy Euro-peons just wanted a cease fire with no obligation on the part of the hezbos. But Condi stood firm, insisted that any cease fire would have be part of a bigger package, which would include disarming Hezbollah.

That Siniora has a lot of nerve. Lebanon would not be in its current situation if that dumbass would have bothered to kick the hezbos out of his country.

As usual, the Arab terrorist fellating Communist News Network had to throw in a jibe at Israel.

With the violence still ongoing, participants said they agreed to continue discussions, but CNN’s John King said there was a sense among European and Arab leaders that the United States was buying time for Israel in its offensive against Hezbollah.

Like it’s Israel’s fault that the Euro-peons are a bunch of appeasing panty-waists who won’t even designate Hezbollah as a terror organization? And what is this about Israel’s “offensive” when the hezbos initiated the attacks and the kidnapping?

This was the same man who, last year, accused the United States of being stingy in its financial aid to the tsunami victims.

Granted, he also accused Israel of using disproportionate force in Lebanon. But I have to give him some credit for telling off the Hezbos.

“Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending . . . among women and children,” Egeland said at Larnaca airport in Cyprus after visiting Lebanon to coordinate an international aid effort.

“I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don’t think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men,” Egeland added.

No doubt the Euro-peons, the MSM and the left in this country will ignore Egeland’s comments and continue bashing Israel. Also, due to his refusal to (completely) tow the Hezbo party line, I have the feeling that Egeland won’t be long for this world.

According to their most recent biodiversity report, human beings are responsible for many of the animal extinctions since the time of dinasours.

Good heavens! It’s bad enough that we have multiculturalism. But now they are making a big deal out of biodiversity? What will they think of next?

Apart from the disappearance of the dinosaurs, the other “Big Five” extinctions were about 205, 250, 375 and 440 million years ago. Scientists suspect that asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions or sudden climate shifts may explain the five.

A rising human population of 6.5 billion was undermining the environment for animals and plants via pollution, expanding cities, deforestation, introduction of “alien species” and global warming, it said.

Ok, time to go back to living like cavemen. After all the alien species and plants have a right to exist solely for their own sake, but humans do not.
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According to a “Red List” compiled by the World Conservation Union, 844 animals and plants are known to have gone extinct in the last 500 years, ranging from the dodo to the Golden Toad in Costa Rica. It says the figures are probably a big underestimate.

Oh those poor creatures!

Why don’t these Gaia worshipping U.N. people practice what they preach, or advocate for? Let them give up their fancy Manhattan headquarters and set up shop in the Sudan. Better yet, if they feel so strongly that they would pay people to put together a 92 page report, let them give up all their modern comforts.

As I see it though, these enviromental/biodiversity advocates seem to view humans and animals as almost equals. The Ayn Rand Institute sums it up perfectly.

In a nation founded on the pioneer spirit, environmentalists have made “development” an evil word. They inhibit or prohibit the development of Alaskan oil, offshore drilling, nuclear power–and every other practical form of energy. Housing, commerce, and jobs are sacrificed to spotted owls and snail darters. Medical research is sacrificed to the “rights” of mice. Logging is sacrificed to the “rights” of trees. No instance of the progress which brought man out of the cave is safe from the onslaught of those “protecting” the environment from man, whom they consider a rapist and despoiler by his very essence.

Nature, they insist, has “intrinsic value,” to be revered for its own sake, irrespective of any benefit to man. As a consequence, man is to be prohibited from using nature for his own ends. Since nature supposedly has value and goodness in itself, any human action which changes the environment is necessarily immoral. Of course, environmentalists invoke the doctrine of intrinsic value not against wolves that eat sheep or beavers that gnaw trees; but only against man, only when man wants something.

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The expressed goal of environmentalism is to prevent man from changing his environment, from intruding on nature. That is why environmentalism is the enemy of man, the enemy of human life. Intrusion is necessary for human survival. Only by intrusion can man avoid pestilence and famine. Only by intrusion can man control his life and project long-range goals. Intrusion improves the environment, if by “environment” one means the surroundings of man–the external material conditions of human life. In the environmentalists’ paean to “Nature,” human nature is omitted. For the environmentalists, the “natural” world is a world without man. Man has no legitimate needs, but trees, ponds, and bacteria somehow do.

Here’s yet another reason why all this biodiversity is all b.s.

And G-d said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” And G-d created man in His own image, in the image of G-d created He him; male and female created He them. And G-d blessed them: and G-d said unto them: ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living that creepeth upon the earth.

Genesis Chapter 1, Verses 26 through 28

If it’s a choice between the Useless Nitwits, Ayn Rand and Genesis, the Useless Nitwits will always lose.

President Bush has finally bypassed the U.S. Senate and installed John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Naturally, the Democrats are not happy. They are forever complaining about our lack of crediblity before the U.N. But they are wrong as always. It should be the U.N. that is worried about its credibility before America. For a political party that?s against any public display of religion, they sure are obvious about worshipping at the altar of the U.N.

They?re calling this recess appt. an abuse of power. But Bush is not the only one to issue recess appointments. Here?s a more detailed look at the history of Presidential recess appointments.

Via C-POL, James Taranto lists ways to avoid future filibusters.

BMEWS has more about how Kofi Annan has issued a warning for Bolton to make nice.

Looks like it.

A senior administration official suggested that a recess appointment a presidential confirmation of an official while the Senate is in recess would antagonise relations with Democrats ahead of what is expected to be a contentious Senate debate over filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court.

The debate over Mr Bolton has been overshadowed since Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced last week her pending retirement from the Supreme Court. The White House is now gearing up for a battle to find a replacement.

President Bush just doesn’t want to antagonize the Donks.

I’ve hear fellow New York conservatives say they believe Bush is saving the fight for Supreme Court Justice nominee. But I kind of doubt it after reading this.

Here’s a look at possible nominees for the Supreme Court. (Sorry quick registration involved)

First off, Benon Savon, head of the U.N.’s Oil For Food program has fled the U.S. for Cyprus. That doesn’t surprise me, given that the Security Council recently agreed to hand over sensitive Oil For Food related documents to the Independent Inquiry Committee, headed by Paul Volcker.

It just goes to show you that threatening this corrupt, terrorist loving organization with the loss of half its U.S. dues really does work. The sooner they are gone from the U.S. the better. I wonder if the Supreme Court’s recent eminent domain ruling could somehow be applied to throwing them out. Think about it. Manhattan would no doubt have more tax revenue in its coffers if Donald Trump were to buy up that real estate and build some coops or condos there.

Never mind that a newly discovered memo shows that Kofi Annan wasn’t so ignorant about the Oil For Food Scandal, Jorge Bush is against withholding dues to that corrupt organization.

Are there any true conservatives left in our government?

Apparently not.

The administration argues that cutting off dues would jeopardize its chances of winning changes like streamlining the budget, improving accountability to avoid a repeat of scandals like the one involving the oil-for-food program for Iraq, and preventing human rights abusers from sitting on the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

Well what has our $400 million gotten us thus far? It didn’t prevent the Oil For Food scandal, nor did it prevent Cuba or Zimbawe being on the Human Rights Commission. Like I’ve always said, throw their a—- out of this country and stop giving them money, permanently.