In Minnesota, a couple dozen Somalis are “missing.” Right. The men are “missing” but everyone knows where they are–fighting for jihad and sharia law in Somalia.

Anyway, good riddance, and don’t come back!

MINNEAPOLIS — Young Somali men are vanishing off the streets of the Twin Cities. More than 20 have left in the last few months, and the community fears they’ve gone back to Somalia to fight in a holy war.
[The Missing: Somali Men Off Twin Cities Streets, Back in Somalia, Fox News Twin Cities, Nov 23, 2008]

“The Community” of course doesn’t refer to the town or city, as the word once meant in America, but to the ethnic tribe relocated to the foolish United States (which has assembled an extreme collection of squabbling nationalities in the name of “diversity”).

They’re known in the Somali community simply at The Missing. More than 20 young Somali men, between the ages of 17 and 22, who have left the Twin Cities in the last few months, without a single word to their families.

The families and community leaders believe the men have gone back to fight in a bloody civil war, in which Al Qaeda is a major player.

One of the missing Somalis went kablooey: Twin Cities man behind Somalia bombing.

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned that federal law enforcement sources believe that a Twin Cities man blew himself up in a suicide bombing in Northern Somalia last month.

The FBI and Homeland Security are investigating whether Shirwa Ahmed had developed a terrorist recruiting network in the area.

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS learned that Ahmed came to the Twin Cities in 1996 and graduated from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. He was a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Note that the suspected terrorist recruiter had been welcomed into the American nation as a citizen.
In a timely publishing note, Islam expert and author Robert Spencer has recommended the obvious prescription in his new book Stealth Jihad: Author: halt all Muslim immigration to America [by Kathy Shaidle, Examiner.com, November 24, 2008].

Spencer’s diagnosis is dire, and his prescriptions are dramatic and definitely politically incorrect; halting all Muslim immigration to America is his most daring suggestion.

Of course, it’s not radical at all to suggest that murderous enemies from cultures which despise western values not be welcomed, because Muslims use immigration as the new way of war. Keeping potential enemies out of the country is basic to national security. What could be more obvious than that?

It’s time for Americans’ annual dose of Thanksgiving Diversity! Yes, the various polygamists, slave-holders and honor killers are really happy to be in the United States and partake of our wonderful welfare benefits, er freedoms.

“Some of Ali’s family are in Boise. Left in Somalia are a sister, some brothers and three of his father’s four wives. Those here are all working and receive no government assistance. By sharing bedrooms and pooling their money, they are living better than they ever dreamed was possible.

The chaotic and violent East African country of Somalia has no official government, but it has some big-time pirates. Their latest acquisition on the high seas, just last week, was a Saudi oil tanker the size of three aircraft carriers.”

[Thankful for Thanksgiving Without Pirates, New West News, By Jill Kuraitis, November 25, 2008]

These days, no American holiday celebration is complete without major fawning about diversity. Thanksgiving comes in for particular abuse by the multiculturalists, who think it is a perfect vehicle for promoting their agenda of cultural relativism.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution is quite the busybody in this regard, and has created America’s Table complete with a downloadable booklet (A Thanksgiving Reader) full of happy Hutus, Tutsis and other diverse immigrants. Everything is sweetness and light, except for the skunk at the garden party–citizens who like traditional American values and may believe we have had enough immigration for the time being. (As of March 2005, America was home to more than 35 million foreign-born persons, the highest number ever recorded.)

As head of the New York Immigration Coalition,[Chung-Wha] Hong now helps immigrants of all backgrounds cope with what she describes as a convergence of issues facing new arrivals, including: poverty, lack of English language skills, and limited access to government services. These challenges, says Hong, are compounded by anti-immigrant sentiment.

“Part of my job is to challenge people that this is not what this country is about, to tap into people’s better instincts of generosity and justice.”

Here’s the Detroit Free Press’s interview with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (via KausFiles):

Q: With more Democrats in the Senate and the House and a Democrat in the White House, how do you see congressional efforts playing out on such issues as health care and immigration?

A: On immigration, there’s been an agreement between (President-elect Barack) Obama and (Arizona Republican Sen. John) McCain to move forward on that. … We’ll do that. We have to get this economy stuff figured out first, so I think we’ll have a shot at doing something on health care in the next Congress for sure.

Q: Will there be as much of a fight on immigration as last time?

A: We’ve got McCain and we’ve got a few others. I don’t expect much of a fight at all. Now health care is going to be difficult. That’s a very complicated issue. We debated at great length immigration. People understand the issues very well. We have not debated health care, so that’s going to take a lot more time to do

What to make of this?

• A couple of years ago, a technician who deals with Senators daily told me Reid is pretty ga-ga most of the time, perhaps from his amateur boxing days, so he may be just rambling. But everybody else seems to think he’s totally on top of the things, so what do I know?
• Or, it’s true. If so, why would Obama and the Democrats want to walk into their Stalingrad, trying to shove amnesty through in the teeth of unemployment rocketing upwards? If Bush couldn’t pass it during the phony prosperity of the Housing Bubble, how is going to pass during the Crash? And as a higher priority than health care? Are they nuts?

Well, one possibility is that the Democrats don’t get how the politics of economic collapse work when it comes to immigration. It’s not as if they’ve allowed themselves a free, wide-ranging, penetrating debate on the subject of immigration. Most Democrats are superstitious ignoramuses on the topic, intellectually emasculated by political correctness.

Another possibility is that far-seeing Democrats are thinking: Now or Never for amnesty. They’ve been saying for years: “You can’t deport 12 million people.” Well, unless the U.S. government does something quick to stop the illegal aliens from leaving, quite a few million illegals are going to self-deport themselves over the next few years because it’s a lot cheaper to be unemployed in sunny Mexico than in, say, Denver.

A few sharp cookies on the Democratic side may realize they’ll be waving adios to part of their Permanent Majority unless they “put them on a path to citizenship” early in 2009 while the media’s chant of “Obey Giant Obama” hasn’t yet worn thin and before the public has a chance to realize just how deep this recession will be. Then the illegals will be free to go home but they’ll also be free to come back to the U.S. legally when the economy picks up in 2015 or whenever. But if they vamoose before the Democrats get a chance to put them on the path to citizenship, then, when the Border Wall and E-Verify are finally working, the Democrats could find themselves bereft of millions of votes a couple of decades down the road. So, Obama has to work his bipartisan magic with McCain NOW. The media will wet themselves with delight in forgiving McCain for his rampant racism in putting up token opposition to The One.

One of the zanier con jobs that Barack Obama got away with is positioning Michelle Obama as the epitome of unambitious maternal femininity rather than as the second coming of Hillary Clinton. Here’s an October 5 Lynn Sweet blog item from the Chicago Sun-Times that I (and everybody else) totally missed, which contains an excerpt from the upcoming biography of Michelle Obama, “Michelle,” by Washington Post Magazine writer Liza Mundy. It tells of her few years at the high-paying Sidley Austin corporate law firm, where she was employed before quitting to work as a fixer for the Daley Machine.

“But Michelle could also frustrate her supervisors. Quincy White, the partner who helped recruit Michelle and who headed the marketing group, remembers finding her a challenge to manage. White, who is now retired from the firm, says he gave her the most interesting work he could find, in part because he wanted to see her advance, but also because she seemed perennially dissatisfied.

She was, White recalls, “quite possibly the most ambitious associate that I’ve ever seen.” She wanted significant responsibility right away and was not afraid to object if she wasn’t getting what she felt she deserved, he says.

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From Time, “The Anti-Obama Ad Campaign that Never Happened:”

“My favorite ad of the campaign was as simple as it could be,” [McCain advertising director Fred] Davis said. “And it started out something like, ‘Long before the world knew of John McCain or Barack Obama, one of them spent five years in a hellhole because he refused early release to honor his fellow prisoners, while the other one wouldn’t walk out of a church after 20 years of the guy spewing hatred towards America.’ And the last line was, ‘Character matters, especially when no one is listening.’ ” The ad never ran, however, because McCain ruled the topic of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the preacher of Obama’s Chicago church, out of bounds shortly after he locked up the Republican nomination.

Good advertising men are almost always mischiefmakers at heart, the sort who don’t mind a little confrontation and who revel in a bit of controversy. And so Davis is wistful at the missed opportunities of the McCain campaign. “I made a list once, which no one will ever see, of all the reasons that my hands were tied on this campaign,” he says. “And I’ve never had a list this long.” One of his biggest struggles, Davis says, was to come up with negative spots against a historic, groundbreaking candidate without stepping on taboos. “One of the big hands that I felt was tied behind my back was [that] so many things — like [Obama's record on] crime — you would logically do were perceived as ‘Oh, we can’t do that. That was playing the race card,’ ” he says, adding that the campaign created a whole series of crime attacks against Obama that were never aired. “Reverend Wright? ‘Oh, can’t do that; they’ll say we are playing the race card.’ [William] Ayers? For the longest time, ‘Oh, can’t do that. We’re playing the race card.’ “

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Theodore Dalrymple once pointed out that being a Big Man in Africa isn’t as sweet a deal as you might think.

Imagine you get out of school, get your first decent job, and your own apartment. You decide to celebrate by inviting four relatives to your place for Thanksgiving Dinner. A year later, you get a promotion so you start thinking about where you’ll take your first vacation. But on Thanksgiving Day, instead of just four relatives showing up, eight show up. You mention to your nearest and dearest that you only bought enough food for four guests. They say in loud voices for the more distant relatives to hear, “Oh, we are so proud you are getting to be a Big Man and have offered to go to the store to buy more food!”

And so it goes. Next year it’s 16 relatives, and a half dozen of them need to crash at your place and need you to drive them to the airport. You try to hint to your mom that it’s getting to be a little much, but she makes it clear that any slacking on your part would bring shame to all your loved ones. So, each year you get a promotion and the number of relatives you must feed and entertain and find jobs for and bail out of jail and generally subsidize keeps growing with every increase in your income.

It’s kind of like what Anthony Quinn says as Auda Bin Tayi in “Lawrence of Arabia:“

I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies’ tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because I am a river to my people!

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Russian analyst Igor Panarin, a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is predicting a U.S. breakup. According to the Drudge Report,

A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts. Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: “The dollar is not secured by anything. The country’s foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse.”

So according to Professor Panarin, into how many parts will the U.S. break up into?

He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts - the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.

And, get this part:

He even suggested that “we [the Russians] could claim Alaska–it was only granted on lease, after all.”

Hmm, a Russian reconquista of Alaska? What would Governor Palin have to say about that? After all, she seems totally oblivious to the Mexican reconquista of the Southwest !