Galloway Gone Crazy!

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The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair.

In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"

Mr Galloway replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did."

I reckon my only question is this: "If such an act were "equivalent" to "ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people" and "justified", does that mean Galloway thinks "ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people" is justified?

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Reinventing Reality

"Hostage taker"



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Ouch

So I was over at Cold Fury, reading Al's rant on "art".

Wanna dunk a huge crucifix upside down in dung & urine? Sorry, it’s been done. How ’bout you make an image of the Virgin Mary out of shit? That’ll scare the rubes. That’s been done too? Hmmmm… Okay. How ’bout pictures of people with whips up their asses. (NSFW). Sorry, that’s been done too? Hmmm… this is getting hard.

Okay, I got it. We’ll have a film of some gay guy getting slammed by his buddy, and while that’s going on, the wide receiver in this little game of catch will sing the Star Spangled Banner as a brilliant, artistic slam on President Bush. Oh, sorry, forgot. That’s been done too. Um, okay, how ’bout we have sex with holy communion, pay prostitutes to stamp on the rosary beads, and dare God to strike us down? Now that will be a work of art, right? Sadly, it’s been done. A long time ago. It’s not new.

The idea that art is only worthy if it transgresses some perceived social norm is something the elites have foisted on us for a long time.
Would you like to know more?

Leftist critical theory - specifically Marcuse and Gramsci - tells us we need to champion the outlaw over the cop, the prostitute over the priest, the profane over the reverent. In this way the existing social order may be destroyed, and some new Rousseauian Natural Man utopia created. Thing is, this wasn’t new to leftism, leftism was instead the embodiment of a lot of older bad thinking by half bright drunks and malcontents. Prior levelers are often called crypto-marxists, but if you really dig around, you discover that these early communists - dating back to around the 12th century AD or earlier - were basically either lunatics, malcontents, con-men, or crazed millenarians. Modern Marxism just put an industrial age glow on the whole anti-civilizational philosophy of the diggers and levellers and others of their ilk.

As a result, the triumph of leftism in our schools and other social institutions has resulted in an attempt to undermine what have long been believed to be objective standards of beauty and truth in representation, in the mimetic process by which art describes something in the real world. The turning of art’s purposes to the destruction of civilization, first by destroying the standards that governed art, then by attacking social norms and the fabric of society itself, has coincided with a sharp decline in interest in fine art.

It's a well done piece. But then I got to the bottom, and saw a link to the Rottweiler (which you know I love reading) and clicked on over.

Ouch.

So we hear that “Madonna”’s latest “brave” and “provocative” act in defiance of established religion involves, yawn, stretching herself out on a cross.

How innovative. How positively shocking. How brave. How “speaking truth to powery.”

How utterly, fucking, predictable.

Listen, Madonna, your shtick is as tired, flabby and old as your vulcanized labia. The same labia that are affectionately known as “7-11? on account of the fact that they, too, are open 24/7.

You want to really impress us with your “bravery?”

Take a hint from LC & IB Bill Quick.

Stretch your naked, skanky, aging body out on a crescent. Urinate on a prayer rug. Make a picture of yourself performing cunnilingus on a replica of the vagina of the black rock in Mecca.

You want to really turn yourself into an icon against established religion? You want to hear your name whispered in awe of your bravery? You want to become a crusader against dogma and the establishment? Go ahead, because there’s your chance. Stand up, just for once in your miserable, useless life, to something and somebody likely to actually strike back rather than shake their heads in pity.

But of course you won’t do such a thing. That would require actual bravery and, as we all know, the only “bravery” exhibited among the feckless, “progressive” cowards is the kind that doesn’t involve any actual, you know, risk.

I think that right now, Madonna is rubbing her scorched buttcheeks and wondering just what the hell caused her spandex pants to catch on fire.

I think of the rag tag band of farmers that grabbed their muskets in 1776, who risked their lives and every single thing they’d struggled to build with their blood, sweat and tears to throw off the yoke of Imperialism, to be allowed to live and breathe freely when accepting the status quo would have cost them nothing but an ideal.

I think of the hundreds of thousands who died on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War to end slavery.

I think of the young men who stormed the beaches in Normandy to defeat Naziism and liberate people they didn’t even know, much less had a reason to care about. My family happens to be one of the beneficiaries of that entirely selfless sacrifice so yes, I’m a little biased there, as anybody who had a total stranger risk his life for him should be.

I think of the young men who did the same in the Pacific.

Then I look at you. You sorry, cowardly, pathetic Band of Losers who never saw a risk you wouldn’t run screaming from. I look at your self-righteous, condescending, self-worshipping carcasses and I wonder why the Hell those fine men even bothered.

They bothered because of people like you, Misha.

The Da Vinci Hoax

Alrighty folks - here's my big hint for the day:

If you want to know what "The Da Vinci Code" says, go buy the book that "Code" was based on (some say plagiarised), "Holy Blood, Holy Grail".

Dan Brown is a make-believe intellectual who hates Christianity. BFD. I really don't give two shits about him, and I'm not going to waste any money on his book or the movie. Especially when I know that the ideas and thoughts behind his book aren't really his.

Having said that, check out this piece, The Trashing of the Christ, by Tim Graham. Graham makes the shocking discovery that the Has-Been Media practically performed fellatio on their guests involved with "The Da Vinci Code", while they broke out the whips and thumbscrews for Mel Gibson when he made "The Passion of the Christ".

Duh. No kidding? Gosh, who woulda thunk it?

Look folks, I hate to break this to you, but the media exhibits all the predictable character traits that Leftists have, because THE MEDIA IS MADE OF LEFTISTS! And one trait of the Left is their hatred of Christianity. There are probably a number of reasons for this, and many of them are open to debate. My opinion is that their problems with Christianity are related to their socialist (i.e. communist lite) backgrounds. Marx hated religion in general. The Communists knew that in order to make people subject to the state, they had to remove anything else that might interfere with their plans. Religion was one of those things that interfered. Socialism is just a few steps down from Communism. And let's be honest, the only reason more people don't actively advocate for communism in America is because of people like you, or myself, who can see what communism does, and did for the world in the past century. The goals of a socialist and a communist are the same. The only difference is the degrees of control by the State.

Now, that's my opinion. You wanna debate it, cool. But the Left's hatred of Christianity cannot be debated. It's on display all around this country. Crosses removed from a city's seal? A cross removed from a Korean War Memorial?

What's next, are they going to demand that Arlington Cemetery remove all the crosses they have on Federal land? Perhaps the City of Los Angeles, (Full name of L.A. = La Ciudad de la Riena de los Angeles, or The City of the Queen of the Angels) needs to change it's name to something more secular. Same with San Francisco (St. Francis), San Juan (St. John), San Jose (St. Joseph), Santa Barbara (St. Barbara) Santa Monica, yada yada yada you get my point. Half of California should change it's name to fit with the Left's goals of wiping religion off the map.

That ties in with the fact that "Code" is a direct assault on Christianity, more specifically the Roman Catholic Church. Since all other Christian denominations are derived from the Catholic Church from one time or another, and hold many (if not damn near all) of the same views, an assault on the Catholic Church's basic doctrine is an assault on all of Christianity.

Of COURSE the Left is going to drool over "Code"! It indulges in one of their favorite pastimes! Hell, it was only two years ago that the Left blamed the downfall of their man, John Kerry, on the great, vast stretch of land they titled "Jesusland". Us Jesus-freaks are just so backwards, you know? The Left can't understand why us knuckle-dragging Neanderthals believe in some fake god, when their religion of environmentalism, multiculteralism, and communism could make the world such a better place, man! Like, really! Yeah! Don't bogart the bong, man!

As if our religion had anything to do with the fact that John "Flipper" Kerry was a ginormous assclown that couldn't be trusted to tie his shoes correctly, much less run a country. But that's what the Left focused on. "God, Guns, and Gays" is what we care about, according to Howard Dean. Because to the Left, God is so yesterday!

And yes, I meant to spell "ginormous". It's a cross between "gigantic" and "enormous". Deal with my idiosyncracies for a moment longer, please.

I swear, if George Cloony got up on national TV and said "You know what, all you Jesus-freaks out there need to grow up and get modern, because you're just a bunch of relics that are dragging us enlightened saviors of the world down" the collective media would stop doing the verbal equivalent of a blow-job and move on to the full-blow, on-air knob-slobbing. Complete with a facial money-shot and a "ThankyousirmayIhaveanother!" from Katie Couric. Meanwhile, Mel Gibson tells people, "You know, some of us actually believe in God the Father" and he's getting the secular version of the Spanish Inquisition on live TV.

Tim Graham shouldn't be surprised that the Media gave their "Code" guests cushy interviews. Graham shouldn't be surprised that the Media gave flaming ass-loads of free publicity to the movie. Graham shouldn't be surprised that the Media is anti-Christianity.

But it is rather nice of him to document everything for us.

A great reminder

Deroy Murdock has a post up with all of Saddam's links to international terrorism.

There are still people, like my emailer "Ken", who flat out refuse to believe that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with terrorism. In these people's little make-believe world, Saddam was a little fuzzy puppy who wouldn't hurt anyone, just as long as the big, mean US of A would leave him alone.

Sadly, I think these people are too far gone into mental deviancy to be of any use to the real world. There is simply too much evidence linking Saddam Hussein to international terrorism to be ignored, unless one is willing to forgo truth and reality in an attempt to remain a partisan zealot. And willful ignorance is a trait that can no longer be tolerated, unless you want another smoking crater in the middle of an American city. L.A. perhaps, or Boston. Miami? Maybe. But for those of us who live in the real world, willful ignorance of the type displayed by Ken, by the DU lunatics, Kos, San Francisco, and the Democrat Party is a sign that we have to push their lies back even harder. Bludgeon the Left with facts. Force them to deal with reality. I don't think we can win the War on Terror if half of our country is running around with wet diapers and their fingers in their ears going "LA LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA LA LA!"

Which, in essence, is what the Left has been doing for decades now. The proof of that is in their elected leadership. The people elected by the Left to speak for them are some of the biggest lunatics of all. You can make all the claims you want about how the Far Left isn't representative of the Democrat Party, or how the Far Left doesn't speak for the party. That's fine, but if that's your opinion I'm going to point to Michael Moore sitting in the Presidential Box at the DNC Convention, 2004. I'm going to point to Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, John Murtha, Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKenney, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, and every other ELECTED DEMOCRAT OFFICIAL who share the very same talking points with Kos, DU, and the rest of the Far Left.

All you people who say that the Democrats aren't represented by the Far Left.... fine. Mince your words if you wish. But the honest assessment is that the Far Left controls the Dimocrat party. The Far Left tells the Dimocrats what to say, how to act, and how to think. The Far Left calls the tune, and the Dimocrats start dancing. The Dimocrats "aren't represented by the Far Left" is an empty platitude used to cover the fact that the Dimocrats simply represent the Far Left.

If the Dimocrats don't like that, then maybe they should change their leadership. But you know what? It's not going to happen. Because the Dimocrats know that they're headed off of a cliff, and rather than trying to stop it, they're screaming "FASTER, FASTER! CHIMPYMCHALIBURTON! NOBLOODFOROIL! EVILNEOCONGOYPUPPETFORJEWISHRACISTS!" and various other slogans that easily fit onto a 2 X 2 piece of cardboard.

The Left of today is a scary thing. The fact that Deroy Murdock even needs to put up a webpage should make sane people shake their heads.

Oh, and for a real mind-bending treat, check out protein wisdom's recital of Peter Wehner. And while you're reading the article (With Jeff's comments spliced in) see if you can tell - Did Jeff make those comments up, or did he copy and paste them from a Leftist website?

I honestly couldn't tell.

I can be heartless

Because I read this news:

Federal drug agents and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are stepping up the investigation of dozens of fatal overdoses linked to heroin laced with a strong prescription painkiller.

The synthetic painkiller fentanyl has tainted the illegal heroin supply in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, authorities said. In Detroit, the drug combination has been linked to at least 23 deaths in less than a week, officials said Tuesday.

And my reaction was "So what? Let the dopers die."

I have such a visceral reaction to drug users that I really couldn't care less if all the heroin users in Chicago OD'd and kicked the bucket. You know what? That's the chance you take when you do an illegal narcotic. I hope the high was worth it.

At least if they die, we don't have to waste any more time or money on them, short of a coffin and a plot of ground.

I think I'll sit back and wait for the hate mail from this one.....

UPDATE: Just another example - I read this story:

A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.

His crimes deserved a long sentence, District Judge Kristine Cecava said, but she worried that Richard W. Thompson, 50, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers.

And I say "Too fucking bad! If he didn't want to go to jail, then he SHOULDN'T BE HAVING SEX WITH YOUNG CHILDREN! Gosh, he can't survive in prison? Not my problem. That's his problem, and it became his problem when he stuck his dick into a child.

A CHILD!

Lock his ass up and throw away the key. Let the other prisoners let him know how they deal with kiddy-diddlers.

Good question

Dave asks a good one. Sounds like Hastert & Company think CONGRESS > JUDGE + FBI

On the other hand, at least the President has made good on being "a uniter". The Congressional Wagons are circled nicely around one of their crooks.

Oh sure, NOW they take a stand!

Because if we allow congresscritters to get investigated, we might actually find out what a corrupt group of asscannons they all are! And the vermin can't allow that!

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House leaders of both parties stood in rare election-year unanimity Wednesday demanding the FBI surrender documents it took and remove agents involved in the weekend raid of a congressman's office.

"The Justice Department must immediately return the papers it unconstitutionally seized," House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.

The leaders said that the congressman, William Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, should then cooperate with the investigation.

Earlier, Hastert had said any FBI agents involved "ought to be frozen out of that (case) just for the sake of the constitutional aspects of it."

Both parties have protested the Saturday night search of Jefferson's office on Capitol Hill, which they said violated the Constitution's separation of powers doctrine.

Separation of powers? Someone with a bit more legal background than I have please explain to me how the investigation of a corrupt congressman is a violation of the separation of powers? Can anyone explain that to me?

Kick the bums out. Kick all of the worthless, feckless, corrupt, power-hungry, money-grubbing, spineless, incompetant bums out. Get rid of them all. And then let's start over. But I have a feeling that until we rid ourselves of the parasites currently infesting Capitol Hill, none of the problems facing this country will be dealt with in a satisfactory manner.

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Hastert demands FBI return documents - Yahoo! News

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Amazing peole, these Congressfolk.

I noted this while reading:

FBI agents searched Jefferson's office in pursuit of evidence in a bribery investigation. The search warrant, signed by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan, was based on an affidavit that said agents found $90,000 in cash wrapped and stashed in the freezer of Jefferson's home.

So it wasn't overreaching by the Executive, but by the Judicial as well.

Sounds like an Imperial Politcongress.

Yahoo! News

Last night in Edmonton

O Canada

Awesome.

Jesse Macbeth and the Left

Tim has a few posts down below about MacBeth. I'd just like to point out a little bit about how this is an example of the Left's hatred for the military.

I guess if you come forward and claim that you were in the military and committed atrocities against civilians, the Left will take you at your word, point blank, and use you to spread their agenda. How long did it take people to check some of his stories and find out he was a fraud?

Not very long. Anyone with a military background could look at his pictures (posted at Michelle Malkin) and see that if he was a soldier at all, he was a piss-poor one.

Here's a clue for those who don't know - if you make it through Ranger training, you will NOT... let me repeat that, YOU WILL NOT be a Private E-2. Which is the rank that MacBeth is wearing on his uniform collar. And the other mistakes in that photo are so obvious that the only explanation for them is that MacBeth never served in the Rangers, probably never served in the Army, and is lying out his ass. I'm not a Ranger. Probably never will be, thanks to my eyesight being crappy. But I can look at that photo and tell you that the guy wearing it is full of shit.

So the people who used MacBeth to push their anti-war, anti-military agenda couldn't even be bothered to do a basic check on him. No, he came forward with tales about murdering civilians, so heck, put him on film! Credibility? Who cares, he makes America look bad!

It's the Left's desire to hurt the military that makes them push people like MacBeth forward without even doing some basic footwork on him. He's a fraud, a scam, but the Left is so desperate to trash the military and the country that the military protects that they'll toss any crap they can, no matter how preposterous the claims, or how fake the people making those claims. And it shows just how deep a hatred the Left has for the military, and for America in general.

If this were just an isolated incident, I would brush it off as moonbats being moonbats.

But it has happened before.

Yes, it has happened before.

The Left hates the military. From Murtha's latest smears against the Marines, to the systematic attempt to portray the military as deranged, murdering lunatics, the Left has proven to me without a doubt that it hates the military with a passion that is rather frightening. From the people in Seattle waving "Baby-Killer!" signs, to the Leftists calling me an unthinking tool (check out DU's reproduction of Time's Person of the Year cover featuring three soldiers), to the unquestioned support of wild, hysterical claims such as we're seeing today, and as we've seen in the past, the Left hates the military with every little drug-addled bone in their bodies.

And quite honestly, the military is starting to hate them back. Or even worse, simply becoming indifferent to them. And that's something that the Left should be quite frightened about.

Afghanistan not falling apart

Granted, it ain't Wiakiki Beach, but if you listen to the MSM, Afghanistan is a hellhole about to sink below the Earth's crust into Hell.

The reality is something much, much different.

May 24, 2006: The last two weeks have seen an ambitious Taliban offensive shot to pieces. As many as a thousand Taliban gunmen, in half a dozen different groups, have passed over the Pakistani border, or been gathered within Afghanistan, and sent off to try and take control of remote villages and districts. The offensive was a major failure, with nearly half the Taliban getting killed, wounded or captured. Afghan and Coalition casualties were much less, although you wouldn't know that from the mass media reports (which made it all look like a Taliban victory). The Taliban faced more mobile opponents, who had better intelligence. UAVs, aircraft and helicopters were used to track down the Taliban, and catch them. Thousands of Afghan troops and police were in action, exposing some of them to ambush, as they drove to new positions through remote areas.

The good news is not that we're killing the bad guys. The good news is that the AFGHANISTAN MILITARY is killing the bad guys, something that the MSM doesn't want you to know, something that the MSM is going to attempt to prevent you from learning. They don't want you to know that Afghanistan, while not a tourist hotspot, is not a pit of hellish warfare.

The Afghan and British governments are both accusing Pakistan of looking the other way as Taliban groups set up shop and openly operate in Pakistani border areas. Pakistan denies this, but anyone who is bold enough to travel to these areas, will see evidence of Taliban presence (including enforcement of conservative Islamic lifestyle practices.) In truth, the Pakistani government has never controlled many areas along the border, and is only now, for the first time in its history, trying to exert control.

When the USA buddied up to Pakistan, it was for pragmatic reasons. We needed (and still need) help destroying al Queda. We've caught some of the big fish in al Queda with Pakistan's help, including the #3 man in charge of operations. Who was captured IN Pakistan, by Pakistani troops and our boys working together. But we also need to keep in mind that there is a huge segment of Pakistan's population who has more in common with the turbaned tumblefucks than with any kind of modern world. Remember a few months ago when we bombed a house in Pakistan, trying to kill some high level terrorist poo-bahs? We didn't get the people we wanted, but that was because the terrorists we were aiming for showed up late, and thus escaped the bombs. However, we DID get some of the lower level al Queda goathumpers, and the fact that these people in the hills of Pakistan were inviting the upper-level al Queda turds shouldn't surprise anyone. The reason we support President Musharaff is because he's the lesser of two evils, not because he's some great liberating force in the Middle East.

May 21, 2006: Coalition forces found that about a hundred Taliban gunmen were staying at a religious school near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Smart bombs hit the school in the middle of the night, but several dozen of the Taliban fled to nearby homes. As Afghan and Coalition forces closed in, the surviving Taliban fired back from nearby homes. So smart bombs were used on the homes as well, which killed about 16 civilians and wounded another twenty. Over 80 Taliban were killed, with no Afghan army or Coalition dead. The Taliban promptly spun their use of civilian homes, as human shields, as a Coalition atrocity.

The quote I remember most about this incident is the Afghan Defense Minister telling the people of Afghanistan NOT to help the Taliban, because if they do "then this is what happens."

I'd say that the Afghani people have a few less moral inhibitions than we Americans do, eh?

I hate it when Blogspot is weak

This morning, DANEgerus notes an issue with the First Amendment as quoted by the ACLU. Quel suprise. I know we posted about something similar about a year ago, but I cannot find it. Searching Blogspot is not helpful.

Carnival of the Duped [ Jessie Macbeth | Jesse MacBeth ]

Who is desperate to believe the worst about the men and women of the American Armed Forces?

Witnesseth:

*** World Can't Wait

* Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (operationtruth.com, ironically)

*** Peace House

* After Downing Street

* socialistalternative.org

* Dying to Preserve the Lies

* Media Monitors

<*** TPM Cafe

And this classic running commentary:

* LiveJournal

CLASSIC STUFF here. Click and then search for "Jesse". There are even posts by "jesse". I was crying in laughter.

*** al Jazeerah

* Step Down Bush in Seattle

* MetroEast Community Media (Oregon) Jesse was on air somewhere between Democracy Now and Cannabis Common Sense.

* Progressive Independent

Sheesh

Why the hell did this guy have all this information in his damn HOUSE?!?!

"Hmmmm, let's see here.... I have the Social Security Numbers, Names, and Birth Dates of over TWENTY-SIX MILLION VETERANS here in this e-file. What should I do with it? Let's see.... Keep it locked up at work? Nah. Put it in a safe place? Nah. Gosh, I think I'll take it home with me so a fucking BURGLAR CAN STEAL IT FROM MY HOME! Yeah, that's a GREAT idea!"

If the employee isn't fired yet, I want to know why. This isn't just negligence, this is CRIMINAL negligence, and if any veterans end up effected because of this asshole, the Dept. of Veteran's Affairs needs to make sure everything is put right.

Of course, I'm not holding my breath on any of this. Being a federal employee means never having to say you're sorry if you completely screw up other people's lives. Gah. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Oh, and if your outrage quotient hasn't been filled up, check out this piece in the Examiner.

You would think members of Congress would learn from the onslaught of public outrage generated last year when the nation first heard about wasteful boondoggles like the "?Bridges to Nowhere"? earmark for Alaska. But just when they seemed to have taken a step forward last week, we find out they also took a giant leap backward.

First, the good news. The House of Representatives adopted on a voice vote an amendment offered by Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., that limits official attendance at the overseas conference junkets so popular with federal civil servants. The Garrett measure says no more than 50 employees of the U.S. Department of Interior or the Environmental Protection Agency can attend such conferences at one time. The Senate still must approve the measure and President Bush must sign it for it to become law.

Interior Department officials admitted in a letter last year to Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., that they don'?t know how many employees actually attend such conferences, which are often conveniently held in attractive vacation spots around the world. Even so, the Interior officials estimated that their department spent $6.2 million on overseas conferences attended by 30 or more Interior staffers in 2004. At EPA, the estimate was $22.4 million to send staffers to 400 such conferences.

Stop. Think about those numbers - $6.2 million for the Interior Department. $22.4 Million for the EPA. $28.6 million for two departments alone, sending their employees to nice cushy "conferences".

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!?!?!?!

And then there is this: Most cheered earlier this month when the House approved a lobbying reform bill that included provisions requiring greater public disclosure of earmarks and names of the members seeking them. But then people started looking at the fine print and discovered lots of earmark loopholes. That means lots of representatives were playing a legislative game of three-card Monte.

On the one hand, many of these representatives stood before America and crowed about the importance of lobbying reforms. On the other, they were busily inserting exceptions like the one that exempts from disclosure the identity of the author of an earmark that directs tax dollars to a federal agency. About half of the thousands of earmarks approved in recent years would thus be exempted from public knowledge!

That's a favorite tactic of Congress - make a law, then exempt themselves from that law. Just another reason why we should bulldoze the Capitol Building with all the congresscritters inside it, and start over.

There'?s another huge loophole that can exempt from disclosure the authors of earmarks directing tax dollars to state and local governments. Example? Funding for Alaska'?s infamous bridges goes to the state government, which means if the lobbying reform were in effect last year, we probably would never have heard about that boondoggle.

This sort of legislative sleight-of-hand was properly condemned by Republicans when they were the minority before 1994. Now it appears many of them have learned to love playing three-card Monte with our tax dollars.

I say it's time to start kicking the incumbants out of their seats during the primaries. Maybe if we flush the waste, we can get some decent people in Congress.

But considering how long Ted (hic) Kennedy has been in office, I don't see that happening any time soon.

The more I see my government in action, the more I want to seceed from the Union. The more I see of Congress, the more I see that the people in Congress are nothing but rancid turds dressed up in suits, voting to give them a bigger cesspool to swim in.

I really don't know what I'm going to do this November. I hear people shrieking "DON'T LET THE DEMOCRATS BACK IN POWER!" and they all bring up good points for why we should keep a republican majority. But looking at the Republicans in office, I don't know if I could vote for them without vomiting. But voting for a Democrat right now would make me puke so hard I'd probably snap my own spine with my convulsions. Democrats are the sarin gas of politics.

I'm hoping the Republicans give me a reason to vote for them before November.

The Legend of Jessie Macbeth

Jesse is a guy who says he was an Army Ranger who witnessed war crimes in Iraq.

Find his video here: www.peacefilms.org

Debunking here and here.

But they support the Troops...

Nauseating.

Today is Military Appreciation Day

So find a military person, or a vet, and shake their hand.

Of course, if you know the person well, give 'em a hug.

Murtha Roundup

What a creep he is.

"Against All Enemies"

Richard Clarke has a book.

It is called "Against All Enemies".

It is being made into a movie.

Guess who's playing Richard Clarke?



I am laughing so hard I literally have tears running down my face.

Murtha

Gateway Pundit: Now, Murtha Blames Marines for Mass Slaughter of Innocent Iraqis!

Redefining "Do Nothing"

Classic from The Corner.

UPDATE: Frist's site is here.

The screenshot above is from May. Wondering what's on there for April? Click it and find out.

Then try March. And February. And January. And December.

Embarrassing.

Hyperspinners...

...keepin' busy at the AP.

Michelle Malkin chases her tail

Her book is described on Amazon as follows:

The spewing of vitriol, epithets and wild conspiracy theories suggest a collective nervous breakdown among liberals...This syndrome...is democratic (small d), affecting stuffed-donkey clutching college students and seasoned congressmen and journalists whose overweening diatribes and hand-wringing Malkin has seized to illustrate an emotionally charged and irrational hatred of everything conservative.

Malkin has now become the very epitome of the foaming and irrational chucklehead she derides in her book. Here she reports the story of a Guatemalan immigrant with an expired visa who killed a woman in New York in April 2005. At trial, the accused asks the Court: "Forgive me."

Malkin's dart:

"Forgive me."

Well, that's exactly what Bush and the bipartisan open-borders water-carriers in Washington would have done if this "undocumented worker" hadn't been caught...

Unhinged.

Dead at age 46

Officer Gary Skerski
Philadelphia Police Department

The Officer Down Memorial Page

Meanwhile, in France:

...news comes that a suburb of Paris has named a street for Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.

Loathesome.

Rest in peace, Officers Faulkner and Skerski.

The Pentagon Video

I don't know about you'all, but for me, this pretty much sums it up:

Something for Dave

Go'head, buddy, click it!

Venezuela Weighs Selling U.S. Jets to Iran

Chavez colors wayyyyyyyyyy outside the lines and I have to admit I kind of admire that in a leader. He's a special kind of Fascist.

One of you is messing with me, right?

I mean, a week ago I post about how Protein Wisdom gets all the good hate mail, and two days ago I get an email from one Ken Hoop, who tells me:

One ,most of Hussein's "atrocities" to which you refer
occured when he was a chum of the US doing our
bidding,as when he attacked Iran with our help and
even anthrax! Rumsfeld took part in this.

Two, Rumsfeld admitted two weeks ago, in his
confrontation with Ray McGovern, ex-CIA man, that
"apparently there were no WMDs in Iraq"....

And then Ken links to some anti-war website full of so much propaganda and half-truths that I can only chuckle. Oh, and Ken is insisting that Ray McGovern was a "conservative". Ken also likes to claim that he's a "Rightist".

Right. So I shoot an email back, mostly polite, expressing my opinion of Ray McGovern and the "There were no WMD's" meme. Yesterday, I get this diatribe from Ken:

You're GD right I take Ray's word over the lying
neocon Rumsfeld, of a guy who identified himself
as a Conservative Republican who was Bush Srs.
chief intelligence advosor! (McGovern)

If McGovern no longer identifies himself as a
conservative its because you guys let the
Zionist Lobby neocons take your brand over.

Did you get that? IT'S ALL THE FAULT OF THE JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!

Ken then goes on to quote Hans Blix and Scott Ritter. Scott Ritter! I guess Ken has been living in a cave for the past few years. So I email him back, expressing in the most polite terms just what I thought of his arguments. I also told him that I'd be posting whatever he sent next for our reader's amusement, and this morning I get a spittle-flecked rant in my inbox - so disjointed and raving that even excerpting it requires effort. Seriously, Ken went from pretending to be sane, to sheer lunacy in a matter of three days. For the record, Ken's responses to me are ****included in the asterisks**** and bolded, just so you can feel the psychosis rolling out of him.

Seriously, you honestly believe there's such a thing as a Zionist Lobby neocon? Please. Put the bong down. Step away from the crack. Whatever you're smoking, stop it. I'm actually getting embarassed FOR you. You're not a rightist, you're just an
anti-semite.**You're a goy puppet for Jewish racists**** There's a reason Pat Buchanan has been marginalized,****there's a reason why the US is
getting its ass whipped in Iraq,and why chickenhawks like you don't much care**** and that reason is because he's a nutcase who the networks keep around to get good soundbites from. Why bother with logic and facts when "IT'S THE JEWS' FAULT!" is so much easier, right?
***********************************************
**Perle, Wolfowitze and Feith are the chief architects of the war, as the Mearsheimer paper "THE LOBBY" reveals, foolish chickenhawkAlso Likud Party
activists**********************

Can you feel the insanity? Ken also calls me "chickenhawk", "chickyhawky", or "chickybaby" no less than six times. Apparently, along with the inability to read more than what his kool-aid making masters feed him, Ken can't do any kind of research on who he's sending email to. Ken ends his last email with this:

****IF YOU HAD ANY PERSONAL BLOOD AT RISK IN THE WAR YOU MIGHT TALK DIFFERENTLY, CHICKENHAWK PUSSY. BACK IN THE BARNYARD ,BEND OVER, LET THE REAL
HAWKS HAVE AT YA'

*****

At this point, I'm laughing so hard that I can barely see my computer screen, much less type a response! And to top it off, Ken is now sending me email links to various leftist screeds, all the while calling me chickenhawk or other seeming insults. To make it even better, he's doing it with names like "Euroman" and "tradcon". I eventually managed to stop laughing long enough to email him a response, albeit not a very polite one. I mean, to have someone calling themselves a "rightist" while hollaring "VIETNAMQUAGMIREDEFEATZIONISTCHICKENHAWKNEOCON!" is just too damn rich. And I don't know about you, but getting called a "goy puppet of Jewish racists" makes my day!

And I admit, I keep poking at him, like a kid poking at a toad with a stick. I'm wondering how much more I can get him worked up before his little tin-foil covered head explodes.

Anyways, just a little taste of what's been coming into my inbox for the past few days. Is one of you messing with me? Tim, TVE, are you getting anythink from him? Because you can't even do satire on a guy like this. How can you mock someone who debases himself past any mockery you can put out? He's so far out in Left field that you can't make anything up that would be half as funny as he already is.

Heh. It's time for some coffee. I wonder what response I'll get from him today. I'll keep everyone posted.

UPDATE: The loon actually emailed me back! And guess who he's quoting now?

JOHN MURTHA! HAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

JOHN MURTHA! Oh god, my sides are killing me!

UPDATE #2: Little Kenny boy, having lost all control of his higher thinking functions (to include punctuation and control of the Caps Lock Key), has sent me what might be his final email. See if you can guess which writing is mine, and which writing is his.

ROTC grad? And?

Do you think that military service automaticly makes you conservative? That either shows me how little you know about the military, how little you THINK about the military, or both.

***NATURALLY A HYPOCRITICAL CUNT LIKE YOU WOULD BELIEVE THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH WARMONGERING OTHER PEOPLES' BLOOD AND CALLING HIMSELF 'CONSERVATIVE' PUSSYBOY/COWARD.....

Ray McGovern is the same asshat who proudly sits with Cindy Sheehan and Joe Wilson at press briefings, both outright moonbats who are also on the short list when
it comes to credibility issues. The fact that Ray McGovern calls himself a conservative doesn't mean jack squat to me,

BECAUSE YOU ALREADY DISCREDIT IT BY YOUR CONTEMPTUOUS DIREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE,MAKING SHEEHAN ,TOO, MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN YOU,PUSSYBOY.

because he's another liar that Leftist like you trot out anytime you try to make a
quick point. It might work with the uninformed such as yourself, but against people who have actually done some reading and learning, that crap won't fly.

Hell, you called yourself a Rightist, and I've already

PROVEN YOU'VE A CONTEMPTUOUS DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE AND TRUTH,AND ARE A SIGN OF AMERICAN DECADENCE WHO GIVES NOT A SHIT FOR AMERICAN BLOOD SPILLED IN A NO-WIN WAR BASED ON LIES--- BECAUSE HE WILL SPILL NOT OF IT HIMSELF,PUSSY.

that you're nothing but a lying little Leftist.

PUSSY

So pardon me if Ray McGovern's

ROTC' STAUS,MIRRORED BY SCOTT RITTER'S ROTC STATUS, MEDALS,MIRRORED BY MURTHAS WAR MEDALS
BACK IN YOUR HOLE PUSSY,

"self identification" doesn't mean anything to me.

But please, continue proving that you're an asshat. I'm getting much amusement out of it! Oh, and I love how you keep calling me a chickenhawk. It not only proves

IVE GOT YOUR NUMBER, LIMPWRISTED WARMONGER WHO RISKS NOT A DROP OF HIS OWN BLOOD
YOU HYPOCRITICAL QUEENISH COWARD.....

YOUR POSTS WILL NOW BE PROMPTLY DELETED UNTIL YOU MAIL AUTHETICATED DOCUMENTS PROVING MILITARY SERVICE,SNIVELLING LITTLE CUNTBOY

Right. What does this idiot want, my DD 214? He wouldn't know what the hell a DD 214 is, much less how to read it.

Ah well, if I get any more emails from this moron, I'll keep y'all posted. I'd apologise for taking up so much bandwidth with one of my stalkers, but I just thought it was too damn funny not to share! My fans - gotta love 'em!

Linky Love

Holocaust denying Democrat travels to New Jersey to fight for the white man.

The Mayor of London welcomes the President of Venezuela, after banning demonstrators. The President of Venezuela calls the President of the United States "the biggest genocide person alive, in the history of humanity". The masses cheer. Ah to witness Great Britain's descent into a Third World state...

Chomsky suckles Hizballah.

Michigan Trial Lawyers celebrate the indictment that wasn't.

Read about Marine Corporal Jeremiah W. Workman.

Get your military blogging here.

Reactions to the speech here. Ugly.

Cuba Hires China to Drill Oil Off Florida Coast

This is almost comical.

Aesop would be proud

Fables. The Left loves their fables, because when they can spout off with a fable it makes them look smart, and anything that can help make the Left look smart is a good thing in their eyes.

Well, here's a fable for ya. And unlike Leftist wet dreams, this fable actually might learn ya somethin'!

And when you're done reading that fable, which should be taught in every public school in America, scroll on down to this post.

I love Alger, man. And Dolly is the SHIZ-NIT!

Whoa. Flashbacks from Ft. Riley. Sorry bout that.

Yep, I've noticed that too!

I'm not sure that injecting fact into political discussions with lefties does much good. One reason is they tend to rely on other lefties for their ''facts.'' Like this.

The "NO WMD'S! NO WMD'S!" crowd always seemed stunned when I asked them, "Then where the hell are they?". They sputter, get outraged (because Leftists always get outraged) and call me a chickenhawk, but when I point out that Saddam Hussien not only possessed WMD's, he USED THEM ON MANY DIFFERENT OCCASIONS...

Well, Leftists tend to not have an answer for that. Because they got their "NO WMD'S" chant from other Leftists instead of looking at the facts of the matter.

The NSA kerfluffle

The Usual Suspects are howling about the NSA's program of using phone records to track down terrorists.

Please, go read Kim du Toit so that you can hit the next leftist who whines about "wiretapping" with a cluebat.

Car wash can't ask status of workers | Chicago Tribune

Chicago:

A federal judge in Chicago has found that a suburban car wash tried to intimidate its mostly Hispanic employees by requiring verification of their immigration status after three workers complained about alleged sexual harassment.

The judge is an appointee of President Clinton.

Have a nice weekend.

Car wash can't ask status of workers | Chicago Tribune

Why do American workers have bad reputations?

At Michelle Malkin's place, yesterday:



As synchonicity would have it, here are two items from today:

About 18 percent of Americans in 2002 said they had a disability, and 12 percent had a severe disability, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Among people with disabilities, more than half of those 21 to 64 years old had a job, more than 4-in-10 of those ages 15 to 64 used a computer at home and a quarter of those age 25 to 64 had a college degree.

Is that a high number?

BREITBART.COM - Census Bureau Report: More Than 50 Million Americans Report Some Level of Disability

And then:

A wheelchair-bound Los Angeles woman, who has repeatedly filed lawsuits over access for the disabled, got up and ran after police arrested her for fraud, authorities said on Thursday.

Laura Lee Medley, 35, had sued in at least four California cities over injuries she claimed she sustained while trying to navigate her wheelchair before she was suspected of fraud.

Medley, who claimed to be paralyzed from a drunk driving accident, was tracked to Las Vegas where police there took her into custody and then, when she complained of medical issues, to a local hospital, Long Beach prosecutor Belinda Mayes said.

'She gets to the hospital and while she's waiting for an examination, she gets up from the chair and runs,' Mayes said. 'Somebody remarked, 'That's where the great miracle occurred.''"

Oy!

My Way News

Gee, why do so many people have issues with the American workforce?

Sorry I haven't been posting much

Life gets busy sometimes, ya know?

Anyways, I just wanted to let people know that I'm still alive. Couple of things in my head to get out, as it were.

First, Jolly Time makes a salsa popcorn now. Good stuff. The wife picked some up, and we've been munching on it. Just spicy enought to make me happy. Not enough to make me beg for milk.

Second - I was taking my NCO to his medical appointment yesterday, as he's new here and doesn't know his way around San Juan yet. Yes, for major medical stuff, we have to go on the economy. It's paid for by the Army of course, but.... well, let's just say that I hope to G-d that I never break a bone here.

Scratch that - I'd be sent to the VA, and that's one of the better hospitals in San Juan. But my wife? Well, you might remember this little three week stay we recently had in San Antonio? Yeah. Ain't no doctor down here was gonna open her back up.

As I was saying, I was taking my sergeant to his medical appointment. It was going to be a while, so I went and got a cup of coffee, and found a place to smoke my pipe while I waited for him. It was during the duty day, so I was in uniform. I found a little bench, settled down with my java and my pipe, and just enjoyed the weather.

I saw a father and son walking up to the building, and the kid waved at me. So I waved back. I'm thinking "Nice kid", and thinking about things I have to do back at the office when the kid stops and whispers something to his dad, and his dad whispers something back, and all the sudden the kid runs over... and shakes my hand.

Every now and then I'm forcefully reminded that the world isn't all Leftists and "progressives". That was one of those moments.

The agenda

Duncan Black lays out The Plan.

I think the GOP have squandered a great chance to set things right, and I know that has pissed a lot of people off, but aftr clicking the above, have you a choice not to vote for Republicans?

Coarse America

"DJ" Fired:

A popular radio personality was fired yesterday after making a series of shockingly ugly, racist and violent on-air remarks - including a threat to sexually molest the young daughter of a rival deejay. The comments by Troi Torain - better known to his listeners on top-rated hip-hop station Power 105 (WWPR-FM) as DJ Star - were so over the top that he could be in hot water with the FCC and the Manhattan district attorney's office.

Torain offered listeners $500 to tell him where the daughter of nemesis DJ Envy, of Hot 97, went to school.

"Yes, I disrespect your seed," Torain ranted. "If you didn't hear me, I said I would like to do an R. Kelly on your seed. On your little baby girl."

Torain, 42, described in graphic detail what he meant by the reference to the R&B singer Kelly, who allegedly committed an unnatural act on an underage girl, a stunt captured on a widely circulated video.

Torain, who warned in his diatribe that he carries a gun, also called the wife of DJ Envy, whose real name is Rashawn Casey, a "whore," a "lo mein eater" and far worse anti-Asian slurs.

Nice.

Can you even imagine sitting at a microphone at a radio station and saying such things?

More:

Casey could not be reached for comment. But his wife, Gia Casey, who appeared at a news conference with several City Council members yesterday, said she's now afraid that her kids could fall prey, if not to Torain, then to a crazed listener.

"I want his job to be yanked from him, and I want Clear Channel to have to be responsible on some level for allowing this to happen," she said. "Because not only have they condoned it, but by condoning it they have promoted it."

Yesterday afternoon, the station suspended him. Hours later, they fired him.

Oy!

New York Daily News

One Crap Poll

Ankle Biting Pundits decomposes a poll for us.

Conclusion: What's even worse is how the spineless GOP members of Congress will use this poll to play Chicken Little and demand that the GOP "soften" its positions on certain issues.

Methinks those positions need to be HARDENED.

ABA lowers rating on Kavanaugh

Follow the money.

To tie in with TVE's post below....

When it comes to who's winning in Iraq, the only people who think we're losing are the Democrats and their media allies. And to quote Powerline:

And spare us the hate mail: I didn't say it. al Qaeda did.

At the same time, the Americans and the Government were able to absorb our painful blows, sustain them, compensate their losses with new replacements, and follow strategic plans which allowed them in the past few years to take control of Baghdad as well as other areas one after the other. That is why every year is worse than the previous year as far as the MujahidinÂ?s control and influence over Baghdad.

It seems that every day, there's more proof that we are winning in Iraq, while the Donks and the MSM play up American deaths in their desperate attempt to wrest defeat from the jaws of victory. How much longer can the traitorous Left deny what we're doing? How much longer can the surrender-monkey Left ignore the victories that we've accomplished in Iraq and Afghanistan? How much longer.....

Ah, forget it. Right now the Left is a lost cause, amorasss of insanity and delusion, spiraling the drain of irrevelancy and plummeting further and further into the cesspool of forced ignorance and anti-Americanism. Is that harsh? Good. Because words can't explain just how sunk into la-la land the Left has become. Up is down. Black is white. Good is bad. Defeat is victory. When even al Queda knows they're losing, the only excuse the Left has for continuing that meme is such a deep and abiding hatred for America that they'll ignore the plain truth and hide from reality. Anything to get back into power and return America to a UN peacekeeping lapdog.

I don't vote Republican because they're conservative. I vote Republican because to allow the Democrats back into any semblance of power might just sink this country for good.

Mapping Gas versus Bush

Interesting.

And the dozen years of Republican "control" of Congress will pass without reversing any of the policies that drive us to addiction to foreign energy.

In Iraq, Thousands of Construction Projects Completed

How many have you heard about? The Democrat media can report every death at the hands of al Qaeda scum faithfully referred to as "insurgents", but in order to get reports like this we have to rely on conservative websites like National Review and authors like Bill Crawford who brings us another in illuminating series of compendiums on progress made in Iraq. Here's a sample:

Since March 2003, 11,600 construction projects have been started and 9,340 projects valued at $9.3 billion have been completed," said Kathye A. Johnson, director of reconstruction for the Gulf Region Division of the Army Corps of Engineers. "Rebuilding the infrastructure is helping the emergence of democracy and establishing the foundation for a strong economy.

In addition, reconstruction projects have added 1,400 megawatts to the Iraqi power grid and added 1.2 million cubic meters of water per day to the water system. Other progress includes:

— Hours of electric power in all areas of the country except Baghdad are now above prewar levels; U.S.-funded electricity projects have added 2,710 megawatts to Iraq's prewar generation capacity;

— U.S.-sponsored projects have provided potable water to 3.1 million more Iraqis and sewer service to an additional 5.1 million.

— Almost all Iraqi children have been inoculated against a variety of diseases.

— A total of 5,108 schools have been refurbished or repaired and more than 47,000 teachers have been trained.

I know people usually put a "read the whole thing" at the end of their entry, but you'll read what you want. Instead, I'll tell you to SPREAD THIS AROUND. Get it in front of as many eyes as possible because the Democrats, who recoil in horror any time someone mentions how obvious their desire to see the United States fail in Iraq is, don't seem interested in spreading around anything other than the number of soldiers and civilians killed in Iraq since the beginning of the war (the people killed before that point in time in Iraq don't count). If we want people to know how many schools we've built, teachers we've trained, students who are getting an education, hospitals built, supplies delievered, innoculations performed, increases in the amount of electricity available, the amount of potable water, the new sewer systems, roadways, police stations, trained Iraqi soldiers, terrorists killed, terrorists captured, weapons caches found, territory transfered over to Iraqi security forces, or any of the numerous indicators of progress within the country - we're going to have to inform them ourselves. Democrats can't find it within themselves to mention our accomplishments. I don't wonder why.

Jeff gets all the good hate mail

I mean, even when my trolls were at their worst, I never had people writing crap like this about my blogging.

How Goldstein manages to write a response without laughing hard enough to have a stroke, I'll never know.

Well, according to the UN

Those little tramps were asking for it. I mean, they were just DYING to get their hands on some cash!

Aid workers and U.N. peacekeepers are trading food for sex with young girls in Liberian camps housing those left homeless by years of war, an aid group said Monday.

Save the Children, which surveyed nearly 160 children and about 170 adults who were either living in camps or had recently returned home, said they were repeatedly told of girls having sex with older men in exchange for money, food and other goods.

The accused included peacekeeping troops, aid workers and other powerful men in the community. The report did not give the nationality of the aid workers or peacekeepers involved. About 17,000 U.N. peacekeepers are based in Liberia.

Why is it that whenever the UN sends "peacekeepers" who aren't part of NATO forces, you hear about child sex camps, pedophilia, rape, drug running, and all manner of illegal shit?

I mean, it couldn't be because the UN is a group of worthless dictatorial fuckwits, could it?

MORE: And distressingly familiar.

Here's the lesson of the past three years: The UN kills.

In 2003, you'll recall, the US was reviled as a unilateralist cowboy because it and its coalition of the poodles waged an illegal war unauthorised by the UN against a sovereign state run by a thug regime that was no threat to anyone apart from selected ethnocultural groups within its borders, which it killed in large numbers (Kurds and Shia).

Well, Washington learned its lesson. Faced with another thug regime that's no threat to anyone apart from selected ethnocultural groups within its borders which it kills in large numbers (African Muslims and southern Christians), the unilateralist cowboy decided to go by the book. No unlawful actions here. Instead, meetings at the UN. Consultations with allies. Possible referral to the Security Council.

And as I wrote on this page in July 2004: "The problem is, by the time you've gone through the UN, everyone's dead." And as I wrote in Britain's Daily Telegraph in September 2004: "The US agreed to go the UN route and it looks like they'll have a really strongish compromise resolution ready to go about a week after the last villager's been murdered and his wife gang-raped."

Several hundred thousand corpses later Clooney is now demanding a "stronger multinational force to protect the civilians of Darfur".

It doesn't matter how many times the evidence is presented to the Left, they still believe that a corrupt group of thugs, dictators, communists, theocrats and self-appointed "leaders" can help the world more than those nasty, brutish, goose-stepping stormtroopers in US military uniforms. And they're consistently proven wrong, but they never learn the lesson. From kiddy sex-rings, genocide that goes unstopped, drug and weapons-running, the UN does it all. Except help anyone. That would be almost "unilateral".

So who, in the end, does "multinational action" boil down to? The same small group of nations responsible for almost any meaningful global action, from Sierra Leone to Iraq to Afghanistan to the tsunami-devastated Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia and on to East Timor and the Solomon Islands. The same core of English-speaking countries, technically multinational but distressingly unicultural and unilingual and indeed, given that most of them share the same head of state, uniregal. The US, Britain, Australia and Canada (back in the game in Afghanistan) certainly attract other partners, from the gallant Poles to the Kingdom of Tonga.

But, whatever international law has to say on the subject, the only effective intervention around the world comes from ad hoc coalitions of the willing led by the doughty musketeers of the Anglosphere. Right now who's on the ground dragging the reluctant Sudanese through their negotiations with the African Union? America's Deputy Secretary of State Bob Zoellick and Britain's International Development Secretary Hilary Benn. Sorry, George, that's as "multinational" as it's gonna get.

Clooney made an interesting point a few weeks ago. He said that "liberal" had become a dirty word in America and he'd like to change that. Fair enough. But you're never going to do so as long as your squeamishness about the projection of American power outweighs your do-gooder instincts.

If the Left would stop hating this country and what it stands for long enough to realize that good can come out of US military intervention, we could have possibly stopped the genocide in Rwanda and Darfur in it's tracks. But sending troops to a country raises shrieks from the Left like howler monkeys disturbed from their rest by a clear-cutting team of loggers in Panama.

What's the quintessential leftist cause? It's the one you see on a gazillion bumper stickers: Free Tibet. Every college in the US has a Free Tibet society: There's the Indiana University Students for a Free Tibet, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for a Free Tibet, and the Students for a Free Tibet University of Michigan Chapter. Everyone's for a free Tibet, but no one's for freeing Tibet. Idealism asinertia is the hallmark of the movement.

Boldface is mine, because I think Steyn hits the nail on the head. Hard. The Left is wonderful about promoting their causes, and Tibet is one of the longest lasting causes they've ever taken up. So what do you think would happen if the US, Britain, Australia and India went into Tibet and finally kicked the ChiComs out once and for all?

The same riots, protests, and claims of imperialism that we've seen for the past five years would happen all over again. Arab street? Hell, the Progressive street would ignite in howls of rage. There would be marches in Seattle, protests in NCY, and riots in San Francisco. Despite all their calls for action, the Left will never authorize action from the US military, because unless military action is undertaken with UN approval, then it's somehow illegitimate. Which is the biggest crock of shit I've ever seen, and it simply proves that the Left, despite all it's claims, is simply unwilling to do what has to be done in order to carry out it's supposed goals. They're hypocrites, spineless jellyfish demanding action and not wanting the action to happen. They want the world to be all rainbows and fluffy bunnies, and then shriek like children when it rains or people breed rabbits in non-PETA approved cages. They use catchy slogans and causes to help them feel good about themselves and allow themselves to sleep at night, but when the rubber hits the road they step on the brakes. They want world peace, and yet oppose removing the people who would bomb the world flat. They claim to want to end the genocide happening in Africa, and yet absolutely will not accept the US military being sent to stop the genocide. Because when you've self-indoctrinated yourself to believe that the US military is the root of all evil, controlled by the evil Bushiter and his oil baron buddies, you simply cannot accept that our troops have done more good for the world than all the UN resolutions combined.

So long as the Left continues to put their blind faith in a corrupt organization controlled by dictators and thugs, instead of in the countries that have actually, ya know, prevented genocide from happening when they've been allowed to, we will continue to see dead bodies piled up. And no amount of posturing or hot air from the likes of George Clooney is going to change that. Stop genocide in Darfur? Gladly, if you would only get out of the way.

I don't see that happening any time soon.

Gosh, who woulda thunk it?

I mean, why in the world would a communist goatscrew want to stay in power?

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said that if opposition parties boycott December's presidential election he would call a referendum asking voters to decide whether he should govern Venezuela for the next 25 years.

Cause' ya know, our old pal Jimmah said that Venezuela's election was free and fair! Just like Saddams!

Speaking Saturday at a stadium packed with supporters in central Lara state, Chavez rejected allegations he was a power-hungry tyrant but said he might seek to extend his rule beyond current term limits if the opposition pulls out of the presidential vote, as it did last year's congressional election.

Now I must admit that I haven't had first hand experience with Venezuela's electoral system, but a guy who intimidates his opponents, rallies around a communist flag, and sucks up to Fidel Castro might not be the most honest guy in the world, ya know.

Chavez supporters won all 167 seats in the National Assembly on Dec. 4 after major opposition parties boycotted the election, saying they did not trust Venezuela's electoral system or the country's elections council. The opposition has raised doubts about the nation's electoral registry, an electronic voting system and electoral audits conducted by the council.

Chavez on Saturday slammed political foes for suggesting that the elections council, which was appointed recently by pro-government lawmakers, is biased in his favor.

Because it's not at all rare for one party to get ALL the votes! It happens all the time! Just ask Chavez's mentor Fidel!

Polls indicate Chavez is likely to win the Dec. 3 election, and international observers have signed off on recent votes as fair.

Yep! Jimmah Cah-duh and Harry Belefonte both say that it's good. And they wouldn't have an agenda, would they?

I got ten bucks that says when Fidel finally kicks the bucket, Chavez is going to be rushing troops into Havana faster than you can say "Cuba Libre". And won't we have a fun time with that?

Tax rates down...

...tax revenues up.

Great stuff at Austin Bay

A look at the Strait of Hormuz

I'm with Dave RE: Moussaoui

At the same time, for me this sums the trial up.

Life in prison

Moussaoui gets life in prison. Couple of thoughts here.....

I would have preferred the death penalty. Apparently so would he. That alone makes a life sentence without possibility of parole worth looking at in a different light.

He'll be at Supermax, where he'll rot in a cramped cell with no contact other than the guards. No group of people to hang with, no mosque full of people to brag to, no weekly cribbage games where he can discuss what a badass he is. After a week of that, I'd probably go insane. I hope he does. And while being in constant isolation means that he probably won't get the anal gang-raping he so deserves, it will ensure that when he dies, he will die alone, a shell of his former self, a forgotten relic that was put aside and forgotten about except for the few people responsible to ensure that his body lived it's natural span. And there won't be groups of people protesting his execution, either. No media circus at Supermax, so hopefully he'll be off the airwaves permanently in a few days. Good.

I honestly think that the worst thing you can do to animals like Moussaoui is drop them in a hole and forget about them. They've prayed for a martyr's death. Deny it to them, and then forget about them.

Again, I would have preferred his execution. But I won't complain about what he got. He'll be removed from society and he will die alone in a concrete cell.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

The Left Supports the Troops, v.2

OK, so I'm over at Protein Wisdom, checking out some hysterical leftist comments on a post he wrote. One commenter, Major John, remarked about the Leftist hue and cry with this:

Thanks for making that point, Jeff. I do get a bit peeved when I see the oddballs that comment here...Do they assume we in the United States Armed Forces cannot apply force with any sense of discrimination? We are damned careful about what we do - not that any credit is ever given by the beets, Robs, et al. It feels like the unspoken assumption is that we are butchers, barely held in check, and that people like you would slip our muzzles off so we could go drown the world in blood… Bah.

To which a Leftard named "Dave" responded:

I believe Jeff’s argument consists mostly of your desire, to some degree, to do so....

Now, this is the same half-brain idiot who, when reminded that he had not addressed the actual point of the post, responded:

There you go, again. Insult, insult, insult. You guys might make someone feel unwelcome if you keep that up.

So, for those who are keeping tabs, that one count of deliberately ignoring the arguemnt while wildly making strawman arguments, and one count of flat out admitting that they think the military is nothing but a group of bloodthirsty thugs who want to raze the Earth flat.

Tell me again how the Left supports the troops?

Targeting the Labor Cartels

The Center for Union Facts

But, but, but.....

They were just pesticides!

Joseph Shahda has translated another Iraqi intelligence document, which appears to indicate that Iraq procured equipment to detect nerve gas in or about December 2000. This equipment is described as Â?prohibitedÂ? and as Â?similar to the required quality compared with the Russian equipments,Â? which are described as having Â?expired.Â? It appears that the equipment was tested in December 2000 and was found to detect Â?nerve agentsÂ? successfully. Which certainly seems to confirm that Iraq had some quantity of nerve gas as of early 2001.

Remember when we found traces of nerve gas in Iraq, and the Leftists were howling about how it was just "pesticides"? Yeah. Guess what pesticides are.....

Never agent, anyone? In fact, wasp and hornet sprays are actually two different nerve agents combined - one fast acting nerve aparalyzeparalize the bug, and another nerve agent to kill it once it's flat on it's back.

There's a reason you ain't supposed to use that stuff indoors, folks.

Go read Ace's post, and then try to answer his question:

And why exactly was Iraq attempting to detect nerve agents at all?

Hmmmm, gosh, it must be for peaceful purposes, right? Because we know Saddam would never actually use nerve agent on anyone, would he?

Oof!

"Well, that day without illegal immigrants went pretty well. How about we try a year?"

The Corner on National Review Online

Unbelievable

So the May Day boycotts are over, and the country is still standing. However, I think that you now have a few more people who are just a bit pissed off. And why shouldn't they be? As Michelle Malkin puts it, May 1st was A DAY TO HATE THE YANQUIS. And check out all the Che signs being waved at these rallies. "The Worker's Struggle Has No Borders"?

Oh, I think it does.

When a group of people sneak into this country illegally and then demand all kinds of crap, well, they can go straight to hell. Did they advocate for immigration reform? No. They advocated for amnesty without any constraints.

Hey Paco - fuck you. Let me tell you what you can do with your demands. You can take them and your illegal ass right back to where ever you came from and shove them where the sun don't shine. At this point I don't give a shit whether or not they "just want a better life" or "support their families". They broke the law. If I break the law I go to jail. If I break the law, I lose my job. If I break the law, I suffer the consequences. But I guess just because these people "just want a better life" we should all get over the fact that they're criminals?

Hell no!

And what gets to me is the fact that these people don't think they've done anything wrong! Check out the last line in this news story!

In San Francisco, Benita Olmedo pulled her 11-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son from school.

"I want my children to know their mother is not a criminal," said Olmedo, a nanny who came here illegally in 1986 from Mexico. "I want them to be as strong I am. This shows our strength."

YOU ARE A CRIMINAL, YOU STUPID BINT! You came here ILLEGALLY! YOU BROKE THE LAWS!

THAT MAKES YOU A CRIMINAL, YOU LAW-EVADING WETBACK!

To hell with giving them anything. The only thing we should give them is a swift kick in the ass right back across our southern border. Fuck these criminals and their demands. Fuck the people who give them jobs. And fuck Mexico for pushing all of their problems northwards. We need to build a damn wall RIGHT NOW! And when we can control our southern border, THEN we can deal with immigration reform. But any illegal aliens have lost whatever goodwill I had. It's gone.

Oh, and fuck our worthless government for not doing a damn thing about illegal immigration. Unless you count sitting on their collective thumbs as doing something. I hope the fence that the Minutemen are building shames those worthless goatfuckers on Capitol Hill into doing what needed to be done years ago.

What am I talking about? Politicians have no shame.

Hezbollah, Illegal Immigration, and the Next 9/11

Of course, the real issue with unfettered influx from Mexico is not Mexicans having jobs or using libraries. It's influx of Islamists. My program is fourfold:

a) secure the border. completely. pull four of every ten American soldiers out of England, Germany, and Japan and send them to Texas, Arizona, and California.

b) everyone in country must get a card by end of year. some of them can use their card to get in a union and help build the wall.

c) anyone who employs someone without a card, starting at end of year, gets fined. heavily. reward "whistleblowers".

d) invest in Mexico. we send $2 Billion a year to Egypt for heaven's sake. so long as there is a third world economy on our southern border, there will be people clamoring to leave it. Mexico is oil rich, sun rich, mineral rich, and worker rich. so why is nearly every product on WalMart's shelves from China, and none from Mexico?

On a related note...

...Tom Tancredo:

But if illegal aliens all took the day off and were truly invisible for one day, there would be some plusses along with the mild inconveniences.

Hospital emergency rooms across the southwest would have about 20-percent fewer patients, and there would be 183,000 fewer people in Colorado without health insurance.

OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24-percent fewer deliveries and Los Angeles’s maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40 percent and maternity billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66 percent.

Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50 percent in many states, and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34 percent and auto theft by 40 percent.

Someone needs to clone this guy's spine and implant it into some squiggly worm Republicans.

Tom Tancredo on National Review Online

Ouch

This guy ain't happy. Don't click the link if you're easily offended, because he's an equal opportunity offender.

So it is now with the wetbacks. What was totally off the radar two months ago now has normally docile Americans ready to lynch a damned person who can't produce a temporary visa. And all this talk of Aztlan. Lookit, my little brown brethren: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, that shit is not reverting to you. Ever. You have, in your attempts to sway the discussion, managed to infuriate 75% of the populace here. I, for one, won't buy a Subway sandwich a fucking mestizo makes without they shows a green card. We let you in here, we tolerated you, now you have pissed us the fuck off. Real bad. Again, a real shame. But you must understand the average American is a working stiff themself, and struggling to make ends meet. Why should you get a pass on paying income taxes, whilst leeching our welfare state? And all the while sending your filthy lucre back to Little Mexico? Fuck you!

Oh, shit!!!! This was supposed to be about May Poles. Man, I got real diverted there. Thank God I have more bloodlines running through me than a Josef Mengele experiment run amok.

Linky Love

The Other Side of Kim: "United 93"

Some people in the media seem to be asking the question about United 93, the movie about 9/11, whether it’s “too soon” to make such a thing.

Here’s my response.

Of course it’s not too soon. This is a story which needs to be told: a story of heroism, of bravery, and of plain resistance to the forces of terrorism. Hell, we were making movies about WWII heroism during WWII, and no one wanted to know whether it was “too soon” then.

Here’s my take on the issue.

I suspect that other than the very few people who may be protective about the feelings of the families of the fallen heroes of UA 93, most of the people who are opposing this movie are people with an agenda: and it’s an anti-war agenda.

Think about it: once anger and grief have faded from the shock, loss and trauma of 9/11, it becomes so much easier to regard the war against terrorism as just another law-and-order problem, instead of as the warfare that it actually is. Once the war becomes a crime, you see, we can stop spending so much time talking about it, worrying about it, and the rationale for ditching the Iraqis in the soup (aka. bringing the troops home) becomes so much more palatable.

Well, I call bullsh*t on that.

My question to every leftist whining and sniveling about how a movie about United flight 93 is "too soon" (and by and large, it is Leftists doing the complaining) is this: Where the hell were you when Micheal Moore made F9/11? I'll tell you where you were - you were pounding your fists on your cheetos-and-semen crusted keyboards, yelling about how Bush was evil and how the Fat Fuck from Flint was gonna prove it, that's where. Making a movie about September 11th wasn't too damn soon when it fit your corrupt political goals, so you were just fine with it. But make a movie that actually brings to mind the events of that horrible day, and you're seething and whining like the petulant spoiled brats you are.

So piss off, and shove your temper tantrums up your ass sideways, because I'm calling bullshit on you. Deal with it.

Glen Dean: Gas Taxes

The five year average that oil companies make per gallon of gas is around 6 cents. With the surge in prices over the last year, they are now making about 9 cents per gallon. Government takes about 45.9 cents per gallon. The federal government alone takes 18.4 cents per gallon. So you claim you are being gouged, you are right. You are being gouged, but not by the oil companies, by the government.

Government and eco-freaks are the reason gas prices are so high. They are the reason gas prices will remain high. Until America faces that fact, we are going to pay more at the pump.

It really is that simple.

Bleeding Brain: Socialized Health Care (and this one scares the shit out of me!)

The family of a 57-year-old Meath Park woman says it will take at least three months before their mother gets to see a Saskatchewan oncologist who can tell her if her cancer is treatable or fatal.

And while Health Minister Len Taylor says three months is too long to wait, he offered little Wednesday to indicate wait times to see cancer specialists in this province will soon be getting shorter.

Emily Morley has already waited a month to see an oncologist since receiving her biopsy results that identified her secondary cancer, but were inconclusive in determining the primary source. Until that primary source is identified, her treatment cannot begin.

And even though the cancer is now in Morley's lungs, liver, pancreas and spine, the Saskatoon Cancer Clinic has advised her it will still take at least three months to see an oncologist.


This after several weeks of diagnostic wait times piling up. However, the Health Minister has assured the family that as soon as they find some oncologists, those lists will shorten!

If you want a lower life expectancy, shitty healthcare, and lack of healthcare providers, just go to a socialized healthcare system. Or "single payer system", which is just another way of saying "commie clusterfuck healthcare". Look at what socialized healthcare has done in Britain, Canada, and every other country it's been tried in. The results aren't pretty. Government control of healthcare should scare the living hell out of anyone with half a brain. Emily Morely is a dead woman, she just hasn't stopped breathing yet. And she's going to die because a socialized healthcare system cannot provide the medicine she needs, even though her disease has been diagnosed and they know what the cure is!

Think about that. Mrs. Morely will die because of socialized healthcare.

Let me repeat that. Mrs. Morely is going to die because of socialized healthcare.

Once more with feeling! MRS. MORELY WILL DIE BECAUSE OF SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE!

Now tell me how you would feel if Mrs. Morely were your wife or mother.

Geek with a .45: John McCain Decides He Doesn't Want To Be President, Shoots Self In Head...

"He [Michael Graham] also mentioned my abridgement of First Amendment rights, i.e. talking about campaign finance reform....I know that money corrupts....I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government."

John McCain

We already know that McCain doesn't give a flying fuck about the 1st Amendment (See: McCain-Fiengold) but it's nice to hear him come out and admit it.

And last but not least, Analog Kid has pissed off a typical Seattle Leftist. There ain't nothing the Leftist can do to him, so if you're in a mood, go poke at her with a stick and see if she tries to threaten you like she did to AK.

Liberals. Treat them like you would a common garden reptile.

Hey, they have the same morals of a garden snake, don't they?

More Proof

That the MSM can't be trusted. Ever.

Larry C. Johnson and Ray McGovern, to oft-quoted names, both defending Mary McCarthy, the CIA officer who was fired for leaking classified information.

Sweetness and Light has the lowdown on these two partisan hacks, and how the MSM won't give you their background.

Found via Cold Fury.

UPDATE: DANEgerus has more, including the photo for this post, which has the trio of Joeseph Wilson (lying liar who was busted for lying), Cindy Sheehan (Moonbat extrordinare, absolutely batshit crazy tool of the Democrats), and...... Ray McGovern. Now gosh, why would Ray McGovern be sitting with two truth-impaired tools of the Left?

Perhaps because.... he's a lying tool too? Hmmmmmmm......

In the oven as we speak.

Seafood lasagna. Crab, scallops, and shrimp, with a cream sauce instead of tomato sauce, and lots of cheese.

Oh yeah, come to daddy! The miles I'll have to run tomorrow will be worth it tonight.

Just remember

Liberals "support the troops".

Yeah, right.

Liberals support the troops like communists support democracy. I mean, between the asshats at UC Santa Clara forcing military recruiters off campus with their riots, and this at UNC-Chapel Hill, I think the lie that liberals "support the troops" can be laid to rest.

I will concede that there are liberals out there who DO support the troops, but they are the exception to the rule. And the exception PROVES the rule. The Left has been anti-military since the 60's, and they haven't changed their attitudes one bit. They've just been forced to lie about it in recent years.

UPDATE: No, really, tell me how the Left supports the troops. Really. I wanna know.

These are the same type of sick, virulent wastes of oxygen who spit on returning troops during Viet Nam. They just wear different cloths now.

Well, most of them do.

Blame Big Oil?

That's what Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer would like to do. Of course, seeing as how he's nothing but a moronic asshat, that's what we expect out of him. But it turns out that the people to blame are on Capitol Hill.

There's been unconscionable behavior all right, most of it on Capitol Hill. A decent portion of the latest run-up in gas prices -- and the entire cause of recent spot shortages -- is the direct result of the energy bill Congress passed last summer. That self-serving legislation handed Congress's friends in the ethanol lobby a mandate that forces drivers to use 7.5 billion gallons annually of that oxygenate by 2012.

At the same time, Congress refused to provide liability protection to the makers of MTBE, a rival oxygenate getting hit with lawsuits. So MTBE makers are leaving the market in a rush, while overstretched ethanol producers (despite their promises) are in no way equipped to compensate for the loss of MTBE in the fuel supply. Ethanol is also difficult to ship and store outside of the Midwest, which is causing supply headaches and spot gas shortages along the East Coast and Texas.

These columns warned Republicans this would happen. As recently as last year, ethanol was selling for $1.45 a gallon. By December it had reached $2 and is now going for $2.77. So refiners are now having to buy both oil and ethanol at sky-high prices. In short, the only market manipulation has been by politicians.

For the record, the FTC has an entire crew that pores over weekly average gas prices in hundreds of cities, looking for evidence of gouging -- to no avail. Perhaps this is because no oil company controls enough of the market to exercise enough power to raise prices. The Hastert-Frist call for an investigation is nothing but short-attention-span political theater.

By the way, MTBE was the additive that lawmakers FORCED GAS COMPANIES TO USE! And then when it was found out that MTBE released some rather long-lasting toxins when it was burned with gas, lawmakers backpedaled as quickly as they could. Unfortunately for the companies that manufactured MTBE, they don't have the protection that congress has. So they're getting hit hard with lawsuits (of course) and gas companies are once again forced to deal with legislation that completely ignores the free market.

As long as the government keeps sticking their noses in business, we the public are going to get screwed. This is just the most recent in a looooooooooooooong list of examples.

By the way, if any one of the congresscritters can explain to me just how we're going to grow all the damn corn needed to make the US an ethanol based economy, I'm all ears. Because unless you want to clearcut half the states in the Union to grow that much corn, I don't see it happening.

So, along with preventing any new refineries to be built, the congresscritters have legislated us into $3.00 a gallon gasoline. Which 20% of is TAXES, by the way. Want to drop the price of gas by sixty cents? Cut the taxes out.

But you'll never hear Chucky the Worthless Asscannon suggest that. He'll just continue fucking up the economy and blaming other people for his miserable failures. Along with most of Congress.

Gah. It's really time we fired every single one of those idiots. Preferably out of a cannon into the Gulf of Mexico.

How much are you paying for gas?

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - until this country builds more refineries, the price of gas will continue going up.

It's a matter of supply and demand, something that the politicians in this country either don't know about, or don't care about.

Anyways, here's a nifty little map of how much different counties are paying per gallon.