Tehran has opened their little anti-Holocaust art gallery to an onslaught of… disinterest.

There is instead a drawing of a Jew with a very large nose, a nose so large, in fact, that it obscures his entire head. Across his chest is the word “Holocaust.” Another drawing shows a vampire, wearing a big Star of David, drinking the blood of Palestinians. A third shows Ariel Sharon dressed in a Nazi uniform, emblazoned not with swastikas, but with the Star of David.

The cartoons are among more than 200 on display in the Palestinian Contemporary Art Museum in central Tehran in a show that opened earlier this month and is to run until the middle of September. The exhibition is intended as a response to the cartoons in a Danish newspaper that lampooned the Prophet Muhammad and were condemned by Muslims as blasphemous.

And yet, the Israeli (and West’s) response to this pathetic display of Iranian nanny-nanny-boo-boo is not to rush out in the streets and burn cars, shoot people and cause death and destruction, is it?

The show’s provocative theme may attract the attention of the West. But it has gone little noticed here. Over a three-day period, the gallery was virtually empty at different times of the day.

Maybe they should hire the Dixie Chicks’ tour manager to help them spin this.

In February, the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri said that it would challenge the West’s concepts of freedom of expression by probing one of its own taboos and challenging accounts of the Holocaust. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was condemned in the West when he called the Holocaust a myth.

The idea of the contest is to expose what some here see as Western hypocrisy for condemning Ahmadinejad, while invoking freedom of expression when it comes to cartoons that many Muslims said were deeply offensive. The cartoons prompted riots in many countries that left people dead and several European embassies burned by demonstrators.

I wouldn’t expect you third world islamohellholes to understand the concept of “freedom of expression” anyway, but here’s a little lesson: The fact we’re reading about this lame little gallery supports the notion that you’re free to express anything you wish… even something as stupid as this. But the flip side of the freedom to express, is that it doesn’t come with the freedom from a response… aka, the freedom of expression being exercised by those that think you’re a moron.

Now all you’ve done by conducting this contest is exposed the total irrationality of your response to some badly drawn cartoons of Muhammed.

So, for that… thank you.

Is it really a suprise that the party of Robert “KKK Kleagle” Byrd and DNC Chair Howard “Candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks” Dean, and the party that filibustered the Civil Rights Act, called the first black Secretary of State a “House Slave“, and whose last President never elevated racial minorities to positions of real power, could finally be losing some of the black vote?

The Maryland Democratic Party’s traditional support among blacks appears to be slipping, now that hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons — who has helped register thousands of Democratic voters — has endorsed Republican Michael S. Steele for the U.S. Senate.

Mr. Simmons is scheduled to hold a fundraiser tonight at Baltimore’s Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park for Mr. Steele, the lieutenant governor and the first black to win a statewide office in Maryland.

“Russell Simmons is one of the leading progressive voices in America,” said Donna Brazile, who managed Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign.

“This is a major endorsement for Lieutenant Governor Steele that will help him attract young people, as well as black voters,” Ms. Brazile said. “Once again, this should serve as a wake-up call to Democrats not to take their most loyal constituents and voters for granted.”

Oops. I guess “takin’ them for granted” isn’t a successful political strategy anymore.

Thanks to Michelle for alerting me to this tribute website. It’s a pretty cool concept. On September 11, 2006, 2,996 volunteer bloggers will join together for a tribute to the victims of 9/11. Each person will pay tribute to a single victim.

I’ve signed up and will honor Celeste Torres Victoria, age 41, from New York.

If you have a blog, I encourage you to sign up as well.

Looks like the Carter-appointed judge was just a little too cozy with one of the plaintiffs.

According to her 2003 and 2004 financial disclosure statements, Judge Diggs Taylor served as Secretary and Trustee for the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (CFSEM). She was reelected to this position in June 2005. The official CFSEM website states that the foundation made a “recent grant” of $45,000 over two years to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, a plaintiff in the wiretapping case.

Talk about your all-time forum-shopping success stories. Normally, plaintiffs are just looking for a judge who may rule favorably… but rarely do you get to take your case before a judge who’s granted money to your cause.

Judge Diggs Taylor sided with the ACLU of Michigan in her recent decision.

Of course she did.

…Hillary’s butt again. But never fear, I’ve uncovered the draft covers for this month’s issue that didn’t make the cut.

Let’s help Time’s designers. Feel free to submit your own.

It’s like 1938 all over again.
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It’s not surprising that the country that worships David Hasselhoff still thinks appeasing terrorists is an effective strategy. It’s almost comical to hear their “surprise” when terrorists try to remind them that their vehement opposition to the Iraq war doesn’t mean jack when it comes to carrying out their jihadi goals of… killing us all.

A Lebanese student suspected of planting a train bomb that failed to explode had contacts in Hamburg, authorities said Tuesday, the latest link to the northern port city where three of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots prepared for their attacks.

The planned attack here stunned Germans who thought the country’s vehement opposition to the Iraq war would insulate it from becoming a terror target almost five years after the attacks on Washington and New York.

Oops. There goes that theory… again.

Spain was equally surprised 2 years ago when islamofascists were caught plotting a second attack against them just months after they’d elected a man who kept his word to pull his troops out of Iraq in support of the terrorists’ demands.

Will they ever learn?

When Harvey Weinstein’s company decides to fund a conservative documentary about illegal immigration, the media is eerily silent.

But let Harvey Weinstein’s company decide to fund a documentary about the Dixie Chicks and you’ll see headlines like, “Dixie Chicks documentary could be election issue“.

I’d love to see the statistics on how many Americans have replaced illegal immigration with the Dixie Chicks failed tour on their list of important election issues…

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Cross-posted at Newsbusters

Talk about your law of unintended consequences:

Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem: They’re not having enough of them, they haven’t for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if you picked 100 unrelated politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. That’s a “fertility gap” of 41%. Given that about 80% of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more little Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections. Over the past 30 years this gap has not been below 20%–explaining, to a large extent, the current ineffectiveness of liberal youth voter campaigns today.

How long before we see liberals moving to allow aborted babies to vote to recitfy the situation?

Only the liberal mindset could link the two:

Seth Brigham, of the Rocky Mountain Peace Center, holds up a sign about JonBenet Ramsey, Iraq and Lebanon, in front of a courthouse in Boulder, Colo., Monday, Aug. 21, 2006, in anticipation of a court hearing of John Mark Karr.

Just wait ’til next week, when they link JonBenet’s murder to 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Global Warming, gas prices and tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent.

Others:
Allah found an interesting tidbit on the guy holding the sign.

Update:
…and more on Seth Brigham.

Update 2:
Everyone say hello to the nutty fruitcake, Seth Brigham, who’s graced this blog in the comments section. Based on his comments below, it’s obvious the picture above wasn’t just a random act of idiocy.

Sugarland Mayor David Wallace has dropped his bid to run as a write-in candidate for Texas District 22 (Tom Delay’s old district). I had thrown my support behind David, but the local Republican leaders decided this past weekend to endorse only one candidate (a smart move) for the write-in campaign, and it wasn’t David. While I still don’t believe all of the accusations tossed his way (even from the Right), I applaud his sacrifice for the betterment of the TX-22 constituents. It’s better to get behind the consensus choice than run on personal desire, only to let liberal Nick Lampson backdoor his way into the seat.

On a cursory review of her credentials, it appears Shelley Sekula-Gibbs is a good choice. Check out her campaign site.

Here’s her take on issues:

- Secure America ’s Borders
- Reform Immigration without Amnesty
- Protect Life and the Family
- Guard Against Restrictions to our Right to Bear Arms
- Replace Federal Income Tax with a Fair Tax, Reduce the Debt and Increase Jobs
- Preserve Ellington Field for Local and National Defense
- Support NASA and the Johnson Space Center
- Create a regional Research and Biotechnology hub
- Elliminate Frivilous Law Suits and Provide Affordable Health Insurance