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The Lefty Lizard King posts this CNN report of yet another clash of Western and Muslim civilizations:

A Somali man was shot as he allegedly tried to enter the home of Danish political cartoonist Kurt Westergaard — known for his controversial depictions of the Muslim prophet Mohammad — on Saturday, police said.

The 27-year-old man, who was not identified, wielded an ax and a knife and cracked a window at Westergaard’s home in Aarhus, said police spokesman Morten Jensen. A home alarm alerted police to the scene at 10 p.m., and they were attacked by the man, he said.

The comments CJ has allowed to stand firmly denounce this latest incident of Islamic violence -- the usual list of terms, such as "Islamofascist" and "religion of peace," pop up as much as you'd see at immigration restriction sites such as FAIR or even VDare.

And yet, CJ is even more vehement in condemning political movements to stop the Islamization of America and Europe -- they're all "fascist," you see.

I hereby propose we refer to the blogczar of Little Green Footballs as Charles "Cognitive Dissonance" Johnson.

This is up there with the old joke about the campus atheist club meeting next Tuesday night at 9:00, God willing -- except this joke's for real:

"Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions," said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah.

It didn't take long for the six friends to pack up a bullhorn and posters they'd planned to use for their "scream-in," an outlet for their frustration about the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks earlier this month to curb the pollution blamed for climate change.

Still, they chatted with a few passers-by during the commuter-hour protest near the Gateway, and explained that, blizzard aside, climate change is expected to bring chaos to the global climate, said Major.

She called Wednesday evening's effort a success and possibly the first in a series. As for the snow, it's not entirely new; a protest she attended last year in Washington, D.C., suffered a similar fate.

"There is always the irony element," Major said.

Yes. And there's the suspension of common sense element, too.

Obama now admits a "systemic failure" in security is to blame for the Christmas Day attack on a Northwest Airlines jet.

Eight CIA agents were killed by an Afghan officer wearing a suicide belt.

And on the domestic front, 93 percent of all financial wealth is controlled by the top 10 percent of the country.

What can people do when they're confronted with undeniable systemic failure at home and abroad?

Change systems.

It was SOOO simple back in the 60s -- Republicans backed Big Business, and Democrats backed labor unions.

It's all so messy now. These days, big, politically connected corporations are the left's most potent weapons. Where would Jesse Jackson, La Raza, and ACORN be without corporate funding?

So it only figures that Barney Frank wants to give the banksters trillions of taxpayer dollars to provide more loans to the left's natural constituents. After all, that's what got us into the Diversity Recession to begin with.

Brace yourselves for Round II.

The Council on Foreign Relations is one of the chief cheerleaders for endless, pointless war. Its primary communication medium, Foreign Affairs, features an article with the clever title, "Mind over Martyr: How to Deradicalize Islamist Extremists." Yes, I know it's just another agitprop piece designed to make the world safe for armament profits, but it lays bare the War Party's mindset: The problem is not US military intervention, the problem is with people who resent it.

See for yourself:

Is it possible to deradicalize terrorists and their potential recruits? Saudi Arabia, a pioneer in rehabilitation efforts, claims that it is. Since 2004, more than 4,000 militants have gone through Saudi Arabia's programs, and the graduates have been reintegrated into mainstream society much more successfully than ordinary criminals. Governments elsewhere in the Middle East and throughout Europe and Southeast Asia have launched similar programs for neo-Nazis, far-right militants, narcoterrorists, and Islamist terrorists, encouraging them to abandon their radical ideology or renounce their violent means or both.

That last paragraph listing the types of miscreants and no-accounts who oppose the projection of DC's power is especially revealing about how the ruling elite views those who resist big government and militarism.

It's that mindset that classified Ron Paul supporters and homeschoolers as domestic terror threats. The oh-so-subtle metamessage here is that if you're shaken by the near-disaster of the Detroit underwear bomber, you should view all of the government's enemies with the same disgust and fear with which government views them.

So how do we stop Islamist extremists? It's simple: We can deradicalize Islamist extremists by de-Neoconizing American foreign policy.

That means: Stop intervening in other people's affairs. Stop propping up dictators. And at home, we must reclaim control of our borders.

They're coming over here because we're over there bombing their people and occupying their countries. Pretty simple, really.

Maureen Dowd asks a simple question:

If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?

via The Other McCain