December 17, 2005 by s.z.

Who Said It?  (Canadian Edition) Right off the bat, D. Sidhe got both of our previous Mystery Guests. The one who predicted a "battle of enormous proportions from sea to shining sea" if he doesn't get the Supreme Court Justices he wants was indeed James Dobson. Here's another quote from that same Focus on the Family newsletter: The enemies of morality will not stop and will not back off. The Left cannot and will not change. Right now they are working to impose "hate speech" restrictions on Americans which would make it unlawful to quote the Bible regarding homosexual acts, as has already happened in Canada and the Netherlands.   And yes, it was William Safire who told us about the "idealistic neocons" and the "plodding, pragmatic paleocons" who would inevitably "fuzz" the GOP's winning character.  (At least, the NY Times said it was Safire -- all that alliteration does remind one of Doug Giles, doesn't it?) Congrats, D. Sidhe -- you win Safire's position as NY Times columnist!  But first, you have to get Dobson raptured. Now, on to today's Mystery Guests, all of whom are Canadian in honor of how Canada has made it illegal to quote the Bible. 1.  Europe in general and the UK in particular are in ZERO danger of succumbing to the menace of German Nazism. Meanwhile, genuine fascists dressed in keffiyehs are engaged in thuggery, subversion, assassination, and terrorism on European soil. Can't we persuade the journalists busy inveighing against poor Harry to take on that cause instead? Frankly, I personally find it much less disturbing that Harry wore a swastika to a party that his father, the future King Charles III, is reported to enjoy relaxing in Islamic bedouin robes at home.   Yeah, he really said that he thinks that it's worse to wear Arabic robes than it is to dress up like a Nazi -- and his reasoning is that England is no danger from Hitler, while some people who wear keffiyehs are terrorists.  I'm sure his next piece will be about how the 9/11 terrorists dressed like Americans, and so journalists should be picking on people who dress like Americans, and not on "poor Harry." Oh, and if you check out his linked article, you'll note that it's a 1997 piece from Daniel Pipes' "Middle East Quarterly" which claims that Charles is a little too fond of Islam, and which quotes gossip from the tabloid The Sunday Mirror about Princess Diana possibly marrying a Muslim cardiac surgeon.   However, it doesn't say one word about Charles wearing bedouin robes around the house. 2.  We were encouraged after Afghanistan to see al Qaeda as less a hierarchical structure and more of a loose franchise operation. But it seems doubtful these days it's anything at all — except perhaps a meaningless media shorthand for a network of diffused autonomous Islamist groups operating from Central America to the Balkans to Southeast Asia, not to mention gazillions of British, Canadian and European Muslims who graduated from the Afghan terror camps and either returned home to await instructions or sallied forth to join the jihad in Chechnya, Gaza and Bali, plus various disaffected individuals who just got the Islamist fever, like the July Fourth shooter at Los Angeles Airport and, indeed, the Washington sniper duo, the younger of whom liked to draw pictures of planes crashing into skyscrapers, etc. "Al Qaeda" is just "meaningless media shorthand" now?  Then why does George Bush keep telling us stuff like, "I have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down al-Qaeda wherever it exists — and we're making progress, three-quarters of al-Qaeda leaders have been brought to justice"? And "gazillions" of Western Muslims have graduated from Afhan terror camps and are just awaiting word to start attacking us?  Um, could I see some data to support that?  Heck, even a link to a dated, bogus article by Daniel Pipes that doesn't even address this claim would be better than nothing. And does anybody except this guy (and maybe Michelle Malkin) EVER try to lump the Washington snipers in with al Qaeda? And if we get to pick one Canadian to deport, can it be this one? 3.  People in Phuket were actually still trying to out-surf the killer wave when the Bush-haters started whining about the US President being on ‘vacation’ at his Texas ranch. The same folks who are always calling Bush a “moron” were apoplectic over the fact that he didn't use his supposed Rain Man-like gifts to predict precisely when the tidal wave was going to hit, and then make sure that he was back in DC to handle the crisis when it did. [...] Before cutting a check to a largely Muslim area that’s known as a terrorist haven, you’d think people would be in favour of vetting things out, first. The tsunami hit on December 26.  Bush made his first statement about it (from his ranch in Crawford) on December 29th.  This pundit apparently thinks that George would need to have have eerie autistic abilities in order to figure out in less than three days that a horrific natural disaster had hit a large portion of the world, and so be able to say something sympathetic and helpful to the afflicted nations.  Sure, the liberals might think that he could have seen something about it on TV, but this pundit says that Memogate has proved that we can never trust TV when it shows us footage of waves knocking down buildings, wrecked towns, and children who claim to have seen their parents swept out to sea (the little fiends could be TERRORISTS, after all). Here's another paragraph from this person: Criticisms are being leveled at Bush as a result of some appointments he has made in dealing with the disaster. Liberals are suggesting that Bush sent his brother -- Florida Governor, Jeb -- to tour the disaster zone with Secretary of State Colin Powell because Jeb is being groomed to continue the Bush dynasty. The only other people currently in the USA who are as qualified as Jeb Bush to deal with disasters of such epic proportions might be former Kerry Campaign strategist and renowned political train-wreck expert, Bob Shrum, and songstress-wannabe Ashlee Simpson (who is reportedly still in hiding after her Orange Bowl screech-fest the other day). While this sounds like Ann Coulter, it's just an incredible simulation. 3:06:20 AM