Meshichist Chabad House Targeted in Terror Attack in Pune, India

So sadly there was a terrorist attack in India today:

A bomb tore through a crowded cafe popular with foreigners on Saturday in the city of Pune in western India, killing nine people and wounding 53 near a famed meditation center.

The blast threatened to damage new efforts to reduce tensions between India and Pakistan, with Hindu nationalist leaders already placing the blame for the explosion at India's Muslim neighbor.

Indian intelligence services say it is highly likely that the bomb was meant for the local Chabad House, several dozen meters from the cafe. It remains unclear whether the coffee shop, a popular tourist spot, was the target for the bombing, because the bomb apparently detonated after a waiter opened a bag left on the premises.

Now, I had never heard of Pune before, but that does not mean much. After all, I'd only heard of the ginormous 3 (Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi) and Bangalore (because of it being such a major high-tech center), or at least that would have been all I could name if challenged.

But apparently Pune is pretty huge, with over 5 million in the metropolitan area. So I checked the Chabad website (chabad.org) to look for the Chabad house there; nothing was listed.

I soon found out why. Here is a picture of the Pune Chabad house, run by Rabbi Betzalel Kupchik.



No, it's not the elephant. While (I'm pretty sure) elephants are treyf, so are horses, and it is clearly permitted to ride horses.

It's the big yellow flag, which says יחי אדוננו מורנו ורבינו מלך המשיח לעולם ועד
signifying that this Chabad house is on the hardcore Meshichist (i.e. they believe the 7th Rebbe of Chabad, Menachem Mendel Schneerson ז"ל is the Mashiach (or Moshiach, as they pronounce it)) end of the spectrum.

The photo came from here

Chabad.org, while (like the overwhelming majority of Lubavitchers) will presumably not rule out that Schneerson is the mashiach, they do unequivocally acknowledge the fact that he is deceased, and their shaliachs are, as far as I know, taught not to even mention the subject of the Rebbe and the mashiach to those not already deeply committed to Chabad (whether they mention it at that point, I do not know).

The Chabad.org branch of the Chabad I believe controls the vast majority of Chabad houses in the United States. However, I believe it is another story in Israel and elsewhere. I'm going to have to look into this.

Republican National Committee taking money from Terrorists, White Supremacists

Thanks to the Republican National Committee's new donation database search, we know the terrible truth; the Republicans are being funded in a big way by some very scary people.

• Don Black(donations of $100, $50)-Black is the founder and editor of Stormfront.org, the most heavily visited U.S. white supremacist site


• David Duke($80, $75, $50, $25)-Duke is a former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon and one of the most well-known white supremacists in America today


• Thomas Metzger($10)-founder of White Aryan Resistance


• Andy Martin($100, $150)-man behind the Obama Muslim smears; previously ran for Congress on a platform of "exterminating Jew power"


• Mark Weber($100, $70, $60, $10, $6)-director of Holocaust denying Institute for Historical Review


• Gerald O'Brien($100)-leader of a faction of Aryan Nations


• James Burford($3)-member of American Nazi Party


• John Bishop(various)-American Nazi Party member

Other disturbing donors:

• John Hagee($25)-crazy anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic pastor


• Pat Robertson($10)-generally crazy assassination-loving pastor


• Michael Bray($45)-member of anti-abortion terrorist group Army of God


• Paul Hill(various)-anti-abortion terrorist

Of course, it is not a possibility that there are different, ordinary people with those same names.

If there were, the Republicans would've provided the city, state, zip code, and the occupation of the donor to clarify the identity of donors.

After all, that is the reason they're angry and put the database up in the first place, right?

Because they're "concerned" that Obama is taking "questionable" donations?

So it's clear. The Republicans are, clearly, taking money from white supremacists

Saxby Chambliss Enables the Terrorists

At least that's what he and his campaign would say if his opponent had tried to block the defense bill.

And that is exactly what Saxby Chambliss has done.

Nearly every other Republican facing a semi-competitive race voted to move the bill forward, because they at least recognize that Osama bin Laden is a bad man and needs to be stopped.

But not Saxby Chambliss, Mitch McConnell or James Inhofe. They're giving bin Laden aid and comfort by blocking funds for our troops.

Shame on them.