Saturday, April 12, 2008

The Renegade Exodus and Other Crimes of Moses


The Cube of the People strikes again.

Groupthink :: View topic - The Renegade Exodus and Other Crimes of Moses: "Now that the idea of social awareness and class struggle has reached American pulpits, it was only a matter of time before progressive historical revisionism left its academic confines and flooded the nation's churches, raising consciousness of the worshiping masses and prompting them to re-evaluate archaic concepts of 'faith,' 'freedom,' and 'morality.' Armed with the winning theory of class struggle, more and more oppressed churchgoers are finding the courage to speak out against violations of human rights in the ancient world, and indeed against the entire litany of 'traditional' 'conceptions' based on the 'Bible' and its 'teachings.'

In this sense, the conference of religious leaders and scholars from around the world, titled 'From Security to Homelessness: Moses and the Renegade Exodus of the Hebrews' was the first major event of its kind, focusing on Moses' fraudulent activities and the resulting major humanitarian disaster called the Exodus."

Hamas undertaking a broad military buildup, Israeli study finds

The reason Israel invades Gaza is because Hamasistan keeps attacking Israel. If the attacks stoped, so would the invasions. Idiots.

Hamas undertaking a broad military buildup, Israeli study finds - International Herald Tribune: "He said that some of the assertions in the study as described to him were correct but misunderstood. The training abroad, for example, was for police and administrative skills, not for combat, he said. 'It is a fact that our defensive tactics are developing and it is not a secret,' he said. 'But such tactics can be learned from books and the Internet.'

Israel is engaged in an internal debate about whether to pursue a truce with Hamas, whose charter calls explicitly for Israel's destruction but some of whose leaders say they want a mutually agreed period of calm. The study asserts that any kind of truce would allow Hamas to build its military structure further although it also says that Hamas's big worry is that Israel will reinvade Gaza and that such a concern is one motivation for the buildup.

A senior Israeli official in the prime minister's office said what he took from the report was that when there is relative quiet in Gaza, Israel runs the risk of playing into Hamas's hands by allowing it to continue its military buildup."

Fighting erupts in Sadr City after Sadr aide killed - The Long War Journal

This area still sounds safer than Detroit or The District of Columbia.

Kill the terrorists and free the world.


Fighting erupts in Sadr City after Sadr aide killed - The Long War Journal: "The Iraqi government had planned on lifting the curfew in Sadr City on April 12, but the recent fighting and the murder of Sadr’s brother-in-law has put the plan on hold.

Mahdi Army forces rose up after the Iraqi government started the assault on Basrah on March 25 to clear the city of the Mahdi Army and other Iranian-backed Shia militias. Sadr called for his forces to leave the streets on March 30 just as Iraqi Army and police reinforcements began to arrive in Basrah.

US and Iraqi forces killed 173 Mahdi Army fighters in Baghdad alone during the six days of fighting from March 25-30. The fighting has not abated in Sadr City and other Mahdi Army dominated neighborhoods in northern and eastern Baghdad."

Ayatollah Sistani on the Mahdi Army: “the law is the only authority in the country” - The Long War Journal

Ayatollah Sistani on the Mahdi Army: “the law is the only authority in the country” - The Long War Journal: "With the Iraqi government applying pressure to the Sadrist movement and Muqtada al Sadr to disband the Mahdi Army, Iraq’s senior Shia cleric has weighed in on the issue. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most revered Shia cleric in Iraq, backed the government’s position that the Mahdi Army should surrender its weapons and said he never consulted with Sadr on disbanding the Mahdi Army. Instead, the decision to disband the Mahdi Army is Sadr’s to make."

Friday, April 11, 2008

Siemens Slimed Over Sleazy Sales

Poor Germans are so desperate for jobs that working for the terrorists is good for them. Sickening what happened to such a great race.

Intelligence: Siemens Slimed Over Sleazy Sales: "Siemens has supplied Iran with over half a billion dollars worth of high-tech equipment and
is being investigated for paying $30 million in bribes to Iranian officials to
get these sales. The U.S. and Israel have tried to persuade Siemens to stop
selling technically legal technology to Iran. The electronic monitoring
equipment could be justified as non-military because it can be used by police
to pursue criminal investigations. Iranian police are most interested in
keeping tabs of political opponents. The last time there were free elections,
about 80 percent of the population voted against the clerics who run the
religious dictatorship in Iran. So the police have a lot of opponents to
monitor. The German government is reluctant to crack down on Siemens, because
all those shipments to Iran help keep the high unemployment rate in Germany
from getting higher. Siemens insists it's done nothing illegal, except maybe,
possibly, for the bribes (or 'sales commissions', as Siemens insists calling the
payments.)"

What or who ordered US army not to interfere in Basra?

Interesting...

Too interesting. Iran is play with both sides. What will that lead to?


DEBKAfile - Exclusive: What or who ordered US army not to interfere in Basra?: "Because the US military command was not approached for assistance, Tehran stepped into the breach with logistical support to supply food, water, ammo, fuel and vehicles for mobility.

All the Iranian military and intelligence agents and cells who were working undercover in southern Iraq, behind such fronts as charitable foundations, medical facilities and religious seminaries, were quickly mobilized. Armed with fistfuls of dollars, they hired a fleet of hundreds of trucks and pick-ups to ferry Iraqi government forces fighting to dislodge armed groups between Basra, Kut, Nasiriya, Dawiniya, Al Amara and dozens of small townships and villages.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers distributed the vehicles among the sectors. They delivered ordnance from Iraqi army stores across the country and food to the soldiers in the South, filling the tanks of Iraqi armored vehicles. Pick-ups rounded up the wounded from the battle arenas and drove them to hospitals.

IRGC agents also succored the militias, notably Moqtada Sadr’s Mehdi Army, which government forces were fighting to quell. This militia too depended on the Iranians for supplies, food and vehicles. (The al Qods Brigades are responsible for running Iran’s external terrorist organizations in Iran, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority and the Gulf.)

By keeping its..."

Two Palestinians sent by Hizballah to poison Tel Aviv restaurant food

Nope, these murderers are not terrorists. Just as the Europeans. They are innocent freedom fighters. Who like to poison innocent women and children during their meals.

DEBKAfile - Two Palestinians sent by Hizballah to poison Tel Aviv restaurant food: "The two men, Ahab Abu Riyal and Anas Salum, from the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, were arrested by Israeli security Shin Bet officers last month before they could carry out their mission on behalf of the Lebanese Hizballah. Their Fatah-al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades branch is controlled by Hizballah.

Posing as illegal out-of-work entrants from the West Bank, they were hired as kitchen workers by the Tel Aviv Grill Express fast food outlet at the Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan. Their orders from their Hizballah controllers were to dump slow-acting colorless, tasteless and odorless poison in the food set out for customers. It was to take effect after four hours, time enough to murder a large number of Israeli diners. The substance has not been identified.

The pair also plotted to spirit a suicide bomber into Tel Aviv from Nablus.

One of the two men was detained on March 19, days before the target date for their mission, the second was picked up at the home of an Israeli Arab friend in Jaffa. The poison had not yet been handed them."

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker

Wolf Howling: "General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker gave their brieifing before the Armed Svcs Committee today, concluding at 2 p.m. They will brief Foreign Relations Committee this afternoon. My contemperanous notes of the questions and answers are below the fold. Both Petraeus and Crocker gave opening statements. General Petraeus's statement is here, and Ambassador Crocker's before the Armd Svcs Committee is here, and before the Foreign Relations Committee (not sure if they differ)is here.


Highlights and summary of the questions and answers:"

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Liveblogging Petraeus & Crocker Testimony - Senate Armd Svcs Committee

Excellent! I wonder how he got the time to watch like this....

Thanks for this, Wolf.


Wolf Howling: Liveblogging Petraeus & Crocker Testimony - Senate Armd Svcs Committee: "General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker gave their brieifing before the Armed Svcs Committee today, concluding at 2 p.m. They will brief Foreign Relations Committee this afternoon. My contemperanous notes of the questions and answers are below the fold. Both Petraeus and Crocker gave opening statements. General Petraeus's statement is here, and Ambassador Crocker's before the Armd Svcs Committee is here, and before the Foreign Relations Committee (not sure if they differ)is here.


Highlights and summary of the questions and answers:"

The Coming Tax Bomb - WSJ.com

More "Lies" from the "Right". Also known as the people whose logic skills are better than that of crack heads. Not that the Media or Left can understand.

The Coming Tax Bomb - WSJ.com: "The The Coming Tax Bomb
By JOHN F. COGAN and R. GLENN HUBBARD
April 8, 2008; Page A21

As the presidential campaign enters its final stages, there will be increased debate over budget priorities and how they will be paid for. Many commentators and political leaders, including Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, believe that tax increases are needed to restore near-term budget balance and finance longer-term entitlement growth.

These claims fail budget arithmetic and economics. Worse, they raise serious questions about the nation's broad fiscal policies and its commitment to economic growth.

By historical standards, federal revenues relative to GDP, at 18.8% last year, are high. In the past 25 years, this level was only exceeded during the five years from 1996 to 2000. Still, we stand on the verge of a very large tax increase, one that will occur unless the next Congress and president agree to rescind it. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire will drive the personal income tax burden up by 25% – to its highest point relative to GDP in history.
[The Coming Tax Bomb]

This would be the largest increase in personal income taxes since World War II. It would be more than twice as large as President Lyndon Johnson's surcharge to finance the war in Vietnam and the war on poverty. It would be more than twice the combined personal income tax increases under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The increase would push total federal government revenues relative to GDP to 20%.

Why this large tax increase? The tax code changes enacted in 2001 and 2003 are scheduled to expire at the end of 2010. If they do, statutory marginal tax rates will rise across the board; ranging from a 13% increase for the highest income households to a 50% increase in tax rates faced by lower-income households. The marriage penalty will be reimposed and the child credit cut by $500 per child. The long-term capital gains tax rate will rise by one-third (to 20% from 15%) and the top tax rate on dividends will nearly triple (to 39.6% from 15%). The estate tax will roar back from extinction at the same time, with a top rate of 55% and an exempt amount of only $600,000. Finally, the Alternative Minimum Tax will reach far deeper into the middle class, ensnaring 25 million tax filers in its web.

Proponents of bigger government invariably argue that allowing all or some of President Bush's tax cuts to expire is necessary in the near term to balance the federal budget, and necessary in the longer term to finance the retirement and health-care promises made to the baby-boom generation. But a tax increase is neither wise nor necessary.

As has so often been true in the past, the economic damage caused by the tax increases and tax avoidance behavior will prevent the promised revenues from being realized. At the same time, the promise of higher revenues will encourage Congress to continue its profligate spending. As a result, a tax increase won't lower the budget deficit.

Moreover, current tax rates can be maintained and even reduced and still allow for necessary increases in national security appropriations and the balancing of the federal budget. Although budget balance may not be achieved overnight, a firm commitment by the next president to spending control will enable balance by the end of his or her first term.

Balancing the federal budget without a tax increase will require strong fiscal restraint. To achieve balance by the end of the next president's term in office, federal nondefense spending growth needs to be restrained to 2% per year instead of the currently projected 4.5%. This will be tough, but the federal government has been on a bipartisan spending binge for a decade. How large is this binge? Compared to the 1997 level adjusted for inflation and new homeland security spending, in 2007 actual nondefense appropriations were $125 billion higher, or cumulatively, a nearly $900 billion excess for the decade. If the next two congresses were to remove this excess gradually and shave 1% per year from projected entitlement growth, the budget could be balanced.

But what about national security? Certainly, balancing the budget without raising taxes requires that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan be brought to a successful conclusion over the next five years. However, it does not require that the U.S. troop presence in either country be eliminated. Nor does balancing the budget preclude overdue and necessary increases in the defense budget.

The costs of needed improvements in our national security, though seemingly large, are small when measured in the context of the federal budget. According to the Congressional Budget Office, adding 100,000 active duty soldiers and 60,000 Army or National Guard members costs about $25 billion per year. Increasing the size of the Defense Department's procurement budget by 25% costs a similar amount. Each of these adds just 0.1% to annual federal spending – a small difference in the federal budget, but a powerful addition to our nation's security.

The current economic slowdown will increase the federal budget deficit this year and, in all likelihood, next year as well. But as the economy enters its recovery phase, raising taxes would choke off the recovery. The right policy, for both the economy and the budget, would be to make current tax rates permanent well before the scheduled increase. Giving investors greater certainty that current tax rates will be maintained will spur investment and aid the economic recovery, as it did in 2003. Federal budget balance will be achieved once the economy is again operating on all its cylinders.

This near-term budget debate foreshadows the more significant long-term budget debate the next president must lead. The CBO tells us that after a generation, Social Security and Medicare spending, left unchecked, will rise by 10 percentage points of GDP. Continuing the current hands-off entitlement policy will have severe consequences. The strategy of ratifying spending with higher taxes would require that all federal taxes rise by nearly 60%, bringing them to a European-level tax burden.

We still have time to prepare for the looming entitlement problem. Although baby boomers soon begin their retirement, the real impact of their numbers on the federal budget will not be felt for a decade. According to official budget forecasts, Social-Security costs will claim 4.5% of GDP in 2013, no higher than its claim on GDP during the first half of the 1990s.

Having time is no excuse for inaction, but a near-term tax increase is the wrong way to prepare. Higher revenues will encourage Congress to raise spending, compounding the long-term budget problem. And, the long-term tax increase required to fund unchecked long-term spending would likely reduce annual GDP growth by a full percentage point.

The proper way to prepare to meet the entitlement challenge consists of three essential elements: Change entitlements to slow their cost growth; eliminate all nonessential spending in the remainder of the budget; and, most important but often overlooked, adopt policies that promote economic growth. The greater the economic growth, the larger the economic pie, and the greater the public and private resources available to finance entitlement obligations and other national priorities.

Last year's federal budget illustrates the importance of economic growth to the federal budget's overall health. The federal budget deficit was recorded as 1.2% of GDP, half its average level over the past four decades. This modest deficit occurred despite the fact that Congress has been on a decade-long spending binge; despite the fact that not a single entitlement program has been significantly reduced since the late 1990s and two entitlements, Medicare and farm support payments, have been significantly increased; and despite the fact that we are in the midst of costly but necessary wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The consensus that tax increases are needed for fiscal balance is wrong. The next president can fund our defense priorities, maintain tax cuts, and balance the budget. A tax-increase consensus blurs the basic debates over our budget priorities in 2008 – and severely limits our choices in 2028.

Mr. Cogan, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, was deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan. Mr. Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush."

Al-Qaeda in Iraq Has Its Own Agenda, Which Transcends the Borders of Iraq

The Left will call all this lies by the Right, too bad it is true.

MEMRI: Latest News: "Al-Qaeda in Iraq Has Its Own Agenda, Which Transcends the Borders of Iraq

'Regarding the reasons for the confrontation with Al-Qaeda, Salah Al-Din stated: 'We do not regard Al-Qaeda [in Iraq] as a resistance organization, since it has its own agenda which transcends the borders of Iraq. This has been clear since Abu-Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi vowed allegiance to Osama bin Laden - because after the occupation of Iraq, Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad, [1] which was under Al-Zarqawi's command, was close to all Iraqi resistance factions and even planned to join forces with Al-Jaish Al-Islami. However, after Al-Zarqawi's vow of allegiance to bin Laden was publicly announced, things changed considerably: Al-Qaeda began openly spreading its ideas, goals, and hatred, and accusing of heresy anybody who took part in the political process, including Sunni Arab parties.

''Following Al-Zarqawi's assassination, Al-Qaeda intensified its aggression against Iraq's resistance factions, until they became its primary [targets]. A confrontation ensued between [Al-Qaeda] and most of the Iraqi resistance factions, including the Thawrat Al-'Ishrin brigades - after Al-Qaeda had the audacity to murder Hareth Al-Dhari, the nephew of Sheikh Hareth Al-Dhari, secretary-general of the Council of Muslim Clerics in Iraq.''"

Afghanistan: Looking For A Fair Loss

More good news!

Afghanistan: Looking For A Fair Loss: "The Taliban has been defeated on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border, but survive by living on one side of the border, while fighting on the other side. Money is still a problem. On the Afghan side, the drug trade provides a lot of cash, while wealthy religious conservatives (both local and foreign) sustain the effort on the Pakistani side. The cash quickly disappears because of the high pay that tribal gunmen demand. Fighting NATO and U.S. troops is near suicidal. It can be nearly that when going after Afghan security forces, if the foreign warplanes can be called into action. Unlike the Russians in the 1980s, the NATO and U.S. aircraft have much better sensors, and smart bombs. Death from above is more certain and accurate."

Iraq by the Numbers: April 2008 - The Long War Journal


Things just keep getting better. Unless you are a terrorist or Leftist.

Iraq by the Numbers: April 2008 - The Long War Journal: "Multinational Forces Iraq released statistics on the improving security situation and the current level of violence in Iraq, al Qaeda in Iraq’s area of operations, and the development of the Iraqi security forces. Violence in Iraq continues to drop as the Iraqi security forces begin to take over a great responsibility for security. Al Qaeda’s safe havens in Iraq continue to decrease as the terror groups is isolated to largely rural areas in the north. Mosul remains a major hub for al Qaeda activity."

Hizbullah’s indirect war

This sounds like a great reason to seal more borders. If the Israelis, who have fairly strong borders, are having issues, I wonder how the terrorists trying to get in America are doing?

Hizbullah’s indirect war - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews: "In other words: The way to bring down the State of Israel not through fire and slaughter, but rather, by flooding Israeli society with drugs. This is not paranoia. This Hizbullah strategy is well known in Israel for two decades at least."

Monday, April 07, 2008

Sharia: Islam's Warden

This explanation of Sharia is long, but so are the rules it lists. IT is a wonderful way to learn more about the Perfect Religion. The Religion that the Left is slowly embracing. After you get done bumping your head on the floor for Allah, read this and learn.

Sharia: Islam's Warden: "To be sure, we must understand why Sharia is the life-force of Islam, and why Islam must impose (by force, if needed) Sharia to the entire world. Once we grasp this tenet, then we can understand how and why myriad specific Sharia laws affect lives.

The basic tenets of Sharia emanate with the assumption that Allah has chosen the believers (i.e., the Muslims) to rule the world. It might sound fascistic, but make no mistake: the Qur'an is absolutely determined to hand over the rule of the world to the followers of Islam: more specifically, to the Bedouin Arabs. Because Islam = Arabism. In the Qur'an (3:104, 3:110) Allah says that Arabs are the best of people ever created.

In verse 2:143 Allah says He changed Qiblah to distinguish between Muslims and non-Muslims. Maulana Maududi, the ideological guru of the current Islamists explains this verse in this manner: This constitutes the proclamation appointing the religious community (ummah) consisting of the followers of Muhammad to religious guidance and leadership of the world. In the second place there is an allusion to the change in the direction of Prayer from Jerusalem to the Ka'bah. People of limited intelligence could see no significance in this change of direction although the substitution of Jerusalem by the Ka'bah amounted to the removal of the Children of Israel from their position of world leadership and their..."

Swiss soccer ref stands by his 'crusader' whistle

The Swiss Flag offends Muslims? What a shock! Christianity itself offends them, too. Get over it, Islam.

AKI - Adnkronos international Saudi Arabia: Swiss soccer ref stands by his 'crusader' whistle: "Swiss soccer ref stands by his 'crusader' whistle



Riyadh, 2 April (AKI) - Swiss football referee Massimo Busacca vowed he would wear a whistle with the Swiss Cross symbol on it during of the Saudi championship on Wednesday, despite anger voiced in the Kingdom at the 'crusader' item.

'I have respect for all religions, including Islam, but I don't see anything offensive in this and am optimistic. I will not give up my 'crusader' whistle,' he told pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat.

Many in Saudi Arabia had called for Busacca to sport a different whistle to avoid offending Muslims. He has previously refereed several soccer matches in the Kingdom.

The Swiss Cross is Switzerland's national flag and also forms the world famous Swiss army knife logo.

But Muslims associate the Christian symbol with the bloody medieval crusades to conquer Jerusalem and the Holy Land."

Arab Commando Casualties in Afghanistan

It is wonderful to see that the Arabs are doing more than usually gets into the media. Keep on fighting the good fight guys! Not that most of you have a choice since you are facing death if the terrorists win.

Attrition: Arab Commando Casualties in Afghanistan: "These Arab counter-terrorists often get a crack at any Arab terrorists caught in Afghanistan, or Pakistan. The combination of interrogation skills, and cultural affinity, sometimes gets results where Western interrogators have failed.

There have been some casualties among the Arab commandos, who take part in combat operations. Those wounded or killed are referred to, if at all, as 'international troops.' The Arab operatives are eager to serve in Afghanistan, which is seen as the Big Leagues within the commando community. But there's also the self-interest angle. Many Arab counter-terrorist specialists are on al Qaedas hit list, and some of these men even have prices on their heads. So it's sometimes a question of getting the other guy, before he gets you."

Machete-Wielding Teens Attack Australian High School

Sounds like there needs to be a ban on bats and machetes. That is the only solution! Keep these dangerous weapons out of the hands of kids! That is much better than educating the kids that this behavior is wrong.

FOXNews.com - Machete-Wielding Teens Attack Australian High School - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "A group of teenagers armed with baseball bats and machetes attacked Australian teachers and students on Monday, injuring 18 people and forcing a high school in Sydney to be locked down, police told the Reuters news agency.

Five youths barged into the morning assembly at Merrylands High School in southwest Sydney, witnesses said, grabbing students before smashing windows at the school.

The school then locked its students in classrooms as the youths, who were not students, went through two school buildings, smashing more windows and equipment, Reuters reports.

'They caused a considerable amount of damage,' a police spokesman told reporters. 'There have been some assaults. But there are no serious injuries as a result of those assaults.'

Attacks on schools are rare in Australia, where schoolyard security is usually low-key but southwestern Sydney has seen a growing problem with youth gangs.

Ambulances treated 18 people for minor injuries, including cuts from shattered glass, and shock, but one student and one teacher were taken to hospital with minor facial injuries and severe bruising.

Dozens of distressed parents rushed to the school, some in tears, police said.

Police arrested five boys, aged 14 to 16, after"

Sunday, April 06, 2008

'In All Its Forms'

These imams are obviously Islamophobes who do not understand ...

Oh, they DO understand! Islam is the Religion of Peace and can not ever be blamed for the actions of of its members.


lgf: 'In All Its Forms': "Organised by the coordination committee of madrassas of Andhra Pradesh, the meeting, which continued till late in the night, said Islam or Muslims had nothing to do with terrorism and blamed government policies for terrorism.

While pointing out that Islam unequivocally condemned terrorism by describing the murder of innocents as the killing of entire humanity, a resolution passed at the event said the ‘repression on innocent people and injustice’ promoted terror.

See what I mean? The only “terrorism” they’re denouncing is the imaginary “terrorism” perpetrated against them."

Iran joined militias in battle for Basra

The Iranians escalate, and the US will ignore it as long as possible. Disgusting to ignore a foreign country that has declared war on the US. It is time to send in the hippies to convince Iran that they are peaceful and not at war. If that does not work , then it is time to start bombing things to remind them who is the power in the region.

Iran joined militias in battle for Basra - Times Online: "IRANIAN forces were involved in the recent battle for Basra, General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, is expected to tell Congress this week.

Military and intelligence sources believe Iranians were operating at a tactical command level with the Shi’ite militias fighting Iraqi security forces; some were directing operations on the ground, they think.

Petraeus intends to use the evidence of Iranian involvement to argue against any reductions in US forces."

The Bad Guys Come Out To Die

HA! It is good to see that the terrorists are continuing to fail, despite the efforts of the American Left.

Attrition: The Bad Guys Come Out To Die: "The Sunni Arab and al Qaeda terror networks in northern Iraq have been under a lot of pressure these the past few months. These new desperation tactics, apparently to try and increase the number of attacks dramatically, failed. And the main reason was that you can't hustle around carrying guns, day or night, while the AH-64s are up there."

Charlton Heston, Epic Film Star and Voice of N.R.A., Dies at 83

I think I will have to have a movie marathon. I declare a day of mourning.

Charlton Heston, Epic Film Star and Voice of N.R.A., Dies at 83 - New York Times: "Never much for socializing , he spent his days either working, exercising, reading (he was fond of biographies) or sketching. An active diarist, he published several accounts of his career, including “The Actor’s Life: Journals 1956-1976.”

In 2003, Mr. Heston was among the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President Bush. In 1997, he was also a recipient of the annual Kennedy Center honors.

Mr. Heston continued working through the 1990s, acting more frequently on television but also in occasional films. His most recent film appearance found him playing a cameo role, in simian makeup, in Tim Burton’s 2001 remake of “Planet of the Apes.”

He had announced in 1999 that he was receiving radiation treatments for prostate cancer.

He had always hated the thought of retirement and once explained his relentless drive as an actor. “You never get it right,” he said in a 1986 interview. “Never once was it the way I imagined it lying awake at 4 o’clock in the morning thinking about it the next day.” His goal remained, he said, “To get it right one time.”"

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