New York Daily News: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Asks To Visit Ground Zero.
Iran’s president - a Holocaust denier, accused terrorist and proud member of the Axis of Evil - requested to visit Ground Zero but was promptly rejected by the NYPD, authorities said today.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has said Israel should be “wiped off the map” and has called the Holocaust a “myth,” made the request through the Iranian mission in New York about two weeks ago, authorities said.
Ahmadinejad asked to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site during the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week. The NYPD denied his request citing security concerns, authorities said.
Former NYC mayor Ed Koch suggests an all-Jewish police escort.
Rudy Giuliani:
“Under no circumstances should the NYPD or any other American authority assist President Ahmadinejad in visiting Ground Zero. This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring Bin Laden’s son and other al-Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents and is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons. Assisting Ahmadinejad in touring Ground Zero – hallowed ground for all Americans – is outrageous.”
“An old photograph showing a bearded student resembling him was widely reprinted, but it’s impossible to tell if it is the same man. Without any doubt Ahmadinejad was one of the central players in the group that seized the embassy and held hostages.” -Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah
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Note: This cartoon was inspired by the comments of a 9/11 survivor interviewed on Fox News on Thursday. One of Red Planet’s favorite cartoonists, Michael Ramirez, may have seen that same interview. Mr. Ramirez has a similar cartoon in Monday’s Investor’s Business Daily.
“I’ll tell you what your rights are. You have a right to live free, and to the results of your labor. I’ll also tell you that you have no right to any portion of the life or labor of another.
“You may, for instance, think that you have a right to health care. After all, Hillary said so, didn’t she? But you cannot receive health care unless some doctor or health practitioner surrenders some of his time - his life - to you. He may be willing to do this for compensation, but that’s his choice. You have no “right” to his time or property.” -Neal Boortz, from his famous undelivered commencement speech.
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Do you have a “right” to something which someone else must provide?
From Capitalism Magazine, Dr. Walter Wlliams, Rights vs. Wishes:
As human beings, we all have certain unalienable rights. Of the rights we possess, we have a right to delegate to government. For example, we all have a right to defend ourselves against predators. Since we possess that right, we can delegate it to government. In other words, we can say to government, “We have the right to defend ourselves, but for a more orderly society, we give you the authority to defend us.”
By contrast, I don’t possess the right to take your earnings for any reason. Since I have no such right, I cannot delegate it to government. If I did take your earnings for housing and medical services, it would rightfully be described as an act of theft. When government does it, it’s still theft — the only difference is that it’s legalized theft sanctioned by a majority vote.
Decent housing, good medical care and decent jobs are not rights at all, at least not in a free society — they’re wishes.
David Kelley of the Objectivist Center:
Health care does not grow on trees or fall from the sky. The assertion of a right to medical care does not guarantee that there is going to be any health care to distribute. The partisans of these rights demand, with air of moral righteousness, that everyone have access to this good. But a demand does not create anything. Health care has to be produced by someone, and paid for by someone.
Artist’s note: The role of the democrat party during the American War Between the States seems to be disappearing from many history books these days. Make up your own mind as to why, but every once in a while a reminder is needed.
For more on congressman Clement Vallandigham (D, Ohio), visit this page.
From Little Green Footballs (post copied in entirety):
Urban Outfitters called their version an “anti-war scarf.”
UK clothing store ARK was a little more honest; they called it an “Arafat scarf.”
When Kirsten Dunst showed up with one in Teen Vogue magazine, they called it a “breezy global-chic scarf.”
Delias.com called it a “peace scarf,” but when people protested they changed the name to “Euro scarf.”
Now the symbol of Palestinian terrorism and murder, the kaffiyeh, is being marketed at yet another store for young people, Alloy, this time as a “Riviera scarf.”
What’s going on here? It’s happened too often to be sheer coincidence.
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From Wikipedia, the symbolism of the keffiyeh:
In the 1930s, the keffiyeh became a symbol of Palestinian nationalism as a result of its association with rural areas (as opposed to the city-dweller’s fez).
The keffiyeh would later become a trademark symbol of Yasser Arafat, who was rarely seen without his peculiarly arranged black-and-white scarf…
Another Palestinian figure associated with the keffiyeh is Leila Khaled, a female member of the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Several photographs of Khaled circulated in the Western newspapers after the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 and the Dawson’s Field hijackings. These often included Khaled wearing a keffiyeh in the style of a Muslim woman’s hijab, wrapped around the head and shoulders. This was unusual, as the keffiyeh is associated with Arab masculinity, and many believe this to be something of a fashion statement by Khaled, denoting her equality with men in the Palestinian armed struggle. The use of the keffiyeh as a hijab remains very uncommon, and to the extent it exists, it must be assumed to be a personal political statement.
GatewayPundit: Nazis protest in Germany… wearing keffiyehs.
Michelle Malkin: “Anti-semitism. It’s the new black.”
“If you don’t provide for yourself, somebody else is going to provide for you, and you might not like it.” -Robert Frost
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Associated Press: John Edward’s government health care plan will include mandatory physical checkups.
TIPTON, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.
“It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.”
He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat “the first trace of problem.” Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread.
Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.
“The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death,” he said.
(h/t Drudge)
