Moussaoui

I'm not much for the death penalty. But in this case, I say:



Hang him



by the neck



until



he



is



dead.






And, if I might border on blasphemy here, may God have positively no mercy whatsoever on his soul.

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Moussaoui trial exhibits and documents

Sissy Nation

At Ohio State.

Tolerance

A professor at Northern Kentucky University said she invited students in one of her classes to destroy an anti-abortion display on campus Wednesday evening.

NKU police are investigating the incident, in which 400 crosses were removed from the ground near University Center and thrown in trash cans. The crosses, meant to represent a cemetery for aborted fetuses, had been temporarily erected last weekend by a student Right to Life group with permission from NKU officials.
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Sally Jacobsen, a longtime professor in NKU's literature and language department, said the display was dismantled by about nine students in one of her graduate-level classes.

"I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to," Jacobsen said.

Oy!

Professor Jacobson's web site states that she was (or is) "Interim Director" of "Women's Studies" at NKU. The top "web link" at the Women's Studies web site?

Cincinnati Women’s Services is a woman-owned and operated healthcare facility offering well-woman gynecological care and specializing in abortion services. Providing women with reproductive health choices since 1973, Cincinnati Women’s Services is an ambulatory surgical facility licensed by the State of Ohio and is a member of both the National Abortion Federation and the National Coalition of Abortion Providers. Cincinnati Women’s Services offers reproductive care in a holistic manner that honors a woman’s body, mind, soul and spirit.

Wingwah!

NKY.Com

UPDATE: Dr. Jacobson is on the board at the World Prout Assembly. WPA is STILL citing The Lancet.

UPDATE: See Sally here.

On the other side

Some comments from those who don't support the troops. Funny that those are the kind of people who frequent WaPo.

The "leak" proved that Joe Wilson was a liar

.:DANEgerus Weblog:.

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How many Condoleezzas does it take to drop a watermelon off a federal building???

Meanwhile, in Texas, some teachers display a level of cultural insensitivity that is simply unacceptable. To the gallows with them!

And with Tiger Woods as well! Can I say "Tiger Woods" and "gallows" in the same post??? Perhaps here but not on Google China, or vice versa.

Sissy nation.

And then there's Comedy Central.

Sometimes I despair.

Blame the Republicans, that's what Democrats Want

Thinking of punishing Republicans for not solving the illegal immigration problem? Democrats are thrilled with your decision, but don't look behind the curtain!

From Today's Evans-Novak report:

The Washington Post was correct in editorializing that Democrats had killed the immigration bill. Reid decided that immigration is better used as a political issue than a legislative one, hence his decision to block all amendments, leading to the bill's death on the floor.

At a meeting of principals, Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) proposed a compromise by which some amendments to toughen the bill would receive a vote on the floor.

Reid refused. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) took Reid's side. He reportedly remarked to a colleague that he didn't care whether a bill passed because Democrats would gain three Senate seats this fall and return to construct an immigration bill as they liked. Schumer and Reid are actually harnessing the Right's rage over the immigration issue to unleash it against Republicans.

Reid has shown his skill once again at dragging out the legislative calendar. Despite a 10-seat disadvantage in the upper chamber of Congress, he has figured out numerous ways of milking the clock, draining away the last precious days of the large GOP Senate majority. The entire week he managed to waste on the immigration bill was a serious accomplishment. Reid likewise forced the waste of an entire week on the asbestos issue.

The comments of House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Sunday--that a guest-worker bill would be inappropriate until border security had been finished--represents a change of direction, a new recognition that the immigration bill is dead. Senators rejected cloture on a stand-alone border-enforcement bill after the compromise on the immigration bill died. This could become a weapon for Republicans in some races. No Democrat supported the enforcement bill.

Could it be a weapon? Sure. Will it? It depends on whether conservatives can stop beating their team up long enough to whack the opposition. Think letting the donkeys run the show will end in border enforcement? Go ahead and punish the Republicans for Democrat obstruction. They aren't perfect, right? That'll show those Republicans! That's what Schumer wants too. Should we run down a list of the other things Schumer promotes and opposes to see how well the meriad of conservative causes are advanced by giving Democrats the power that they lust after?

Army Re-Enlistment doing fine

"Two out of three eligibile soldiers are re-enlisting."

I recall some prior-service officers calling Greyhawk a liar because he stated that the Army was meeting it's recruiting goals. I wonder if they now will apologize to him for their statements.

Not looking good at Duke U.

For the strippers, that is. DNA tests were done on 46 members of the lacross team, and guess what?

Not a single bit of DNA matched the rape kit that was done on the strippers.

Bad juju folks. Much bad juju.

Are the criminals still protesting?

I mean, I keep hearing about these hundreds of thousands of people protesting and rioting so that illegal aliens, ie. criminals, get to become US citizens at the drop of a hat.

I wonder, if I sneak into Mexico and demand Mexican citizenship at the drop of a hat, how long do you think it would take before I was tossed in jail?

Anyways, I hope that the average American gets to see lots of non-English speaking criminals waving Mexican flags, because right now that's the best way for this country to get serious about illegal aliens. And normally placid folks (or at least folks who can hold their temper better than I) are getting flat out sick of seeing criminals flood the streets waving the flag of a corrupt shithole like Mexico.

Dok Russia: If Mexicans want to come here, then fine. Do it legally. Register, so that we can make sure that your employer is not skipping out on his responsibilities to you, and passing along the costs to us. Do it legally, and let us make sure that we can weed out the murderers and drug dealers that are preying upon all of us. Do it legally. Get an education, Learn to speak English. Fine. Do all of those things. Just do them legally, or stay in Mexico.

From a health care professional at What Now Murphy: Hasn't it hit anyone between the goddamned eyes yet that there is only ONE group getting all in a hissy about this illegal immigration shit? You don't see any Vietnamese out there marching; nope, no Danes, hmm... where are the Canadians? The Japanese? Maybe because everyone ELSE does it legally. This will be an incredible insult to anyone who has ever gone through the process to become a legal citizen. Instead of, you know, the MEXICAN way of hanging out at a 24 hour Wal-Mart in the ninth month of pregnancy to drop their kid.

And someone who's quite possibly more pissed off than I am on any given day, Acidman:

I'm pissed from watching television coverage of the recent immigration protests. The Latinos surely impressed me. I never want to see another fucking Mexican flag again in my life. (There's your precious "multiculturalism" in action.) And if an illegal immigrant wants to wave one, I suggest that he take his wetback ass back home to do it.

Don't sneak into MY country and then flip ME the finger. (Learn to speak English so that you can cuss me properly, dammit.) What the hell are you trying to do, anyway? The message seems to be, "We want your country, but we don't want YOU." Boy, THAT'S the way to win American hearts and minds to your cause.

As for me, well... when I was working in the hospital in Seattle, when you saw entire floors wearing masks over their noses and mouths, you knew some border-jumping wetback had arrived for their free healthcare and were making themselves unwelcome. There's nothing quite like a criminal alien with tuberculosis screaming in broken English in your face. Trying to wrestle cigarettes away from a half-lung criminal alien who's determined to smoke even though we have oxygen being pumped into his room isn't something I like doing.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: All those illegal immigration protests are a target rich environment for the INS. But hell, the INS have been hamstrung for at least a decade. Otherwise we wouldn't have the criminals out in the streets protesting in the first place.

Hell, just build the fence already. We'll deal with the criminals once we have control of our borders.

I know I might piss off some people with a post like this, but right now I'm sick of criminals demanding all kinds of shit. I'm sick of border jumping illegal aliens demanding to be citizens of this country when all they want are the perks and non of the responsibilities. Piss off. My tax dollars have better things that they could be used for, like a twenty foot high wall topped with razor wire and snipers positioned every half a mile to pick off anyone stupid enough to try to crawl over it.

One Question

I know I'm a little late on this, but as I haven't seen it TOO much in the blogosphere, I figured I'd finally jump on the bandwagon and repeat the question.

Can you demonstrate just one time, one place, throughout all of human history, where restricting the access of handheld weapons to the average person made them safer?

Before Stalin rounded up people and sent them to the gulags, the population had to be disarmed.

Before Hitler rounded up whatever group he wanted, the population had to be disarmed.

In fact, before any act of genocide on this earth, the people in control all did the same thing:

They refused the people of their country the right to bear arms.

I'd say that this question needs to be asked a bit more often.

OK, so I haven't stopped smoking....

I mean, I enjoy cigars, and I still like smoking my pipe on occasion.

But by god, I've bought the last pack of cigarettes of my life if I can help it.

Tornado Footage

KFVS12 Home. Check out the high school surveillance camera footage especially.

Sissy Nation...

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The University of Colorado men's golf team went to a strip club. SUSPEND THEM!!!!

Bizarre. Yesterday at the local YMCA there was a sign inviting kids to come back on Saturday to get their picture taken with "The Bunny". And then there's the fact that we are the first nation on Earth to ever have its flag banned as being "divisive". What the hey?

This is the problem: Iran Threatens to Close Strait of Hormuz. The problem is not an Iranian nukes launched at Tel Aviv or Brussels or Miami -- it's Iraninan nukes emboldening them to cut off oil out of the Persian Gulf.

Toleja.

Related: What if?

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Democrats aim to destroy Michael Steele: Poll Finds Steele May Be Magnet for Black Voters, just like they said they needed to do with Latino nominees for the Federal Bench -- they lose their stranglehold on blacks and Democrats are dead. DEAD!

Michelle Malkin says "fly our flag high" to protest illegal immigration. I decline. Too many good men have died in defense of our flag to use it as a mere hammer to bludgeon immigrants. Enforce the law, fix INS, secure the borders, but don't wave our flag as an insult to somebody. And no - that's not at odds with decrying bans on the flag. Were I school principal, I'd not ban the flag but instead educate young people about how using the flag as a means to infuriate people insults the flag and all those who have fought to defend it.

Random news

Tom DeLay is stepping down. Yay. Now, if only we could get the Dimocrats who sucked up money from Jack Abramoff to step down......... 'cause there would be a whole lot of Dimocrats out of office if they held themselves to the same standards they demand of Republicans.

But I forgot, the Dimocrats only hold OTHER people to standard, never themselves. That way, when they get caught being hypocritical shits, they can whine and say "Well I never said I was going to be like that!"

Trent Lott opens his mouth and shoves his foot in it again.

I'll just say this about the so-called porkbusters. I'm getting damn tired of hearing from them. They have been nothing but trouble ever since Katrina.

Uh huh. Hey there, Mr. FORMER Majority Leader, there's a reason you got booted out of your seat. I'm glad to see you reaffirm that Republicans did the right thing back then.

Oh, and from that same link: Dimocrats are fillibustering a bill that would prevent felons who are in this country illegaly to become citizens.

That's right - Dimocrats are trying to give illegal aliens who are already felons the right to become citizens. Wouldn't you just love to have a person like that move in next door to you? But then, the Dimocrats are increasingly desperate to get new voters on their rolls by any means necissary, I guess.

And last, but I'm loving it:

DEAR NEW YORK TIMES: When the largest single fatality-causing event for your (well, our) soldiers in recent months is a single vehicle wreck, isn't it officially time to retire the theme that we're losing the war?

The Dimocrats and their whores in the media will continue calling the war a failure and a quagmire, even if we find OBL, dismantle Iran and Syria, and bring all of our troops home in the next year. We could single-handedly bring peace to the Middle East, and the Dimocrat controlled MSM would be shrieking about "Failure" and "Rush to war", and "Quagmire", and "Incompetance".

So I wouldn't expect that failure theme to be retired any time soon. It's too valuable for the drones and robots of the Left.

Perfect As The Enemy Of The Good

Republicans "Spending like drunken sailors". The horrors of Pork in the Federal Budget. "Record budget deficits." Failed Social Security Reform. Conservatives pissed off by an "ineffective Republican majority". All hyperbole, emotionalism, and misunderstanding. This is not to say that Social Security reform is not important. It is the number one issue concerning the growth of federal spending. Nor is it to say that congress could not reduce spending. They can. It is to say that the way in which these issues are being discussed is counter productive and invevitably self defeating.


What is "pork"? It's the term for items in the federal budget that were put there by elected representatives in an effort to bring home the bacon (hence the name) in the form of tax revenue collected by the federal government. The voters of the locality that elected that representative will decid whether they are happy or unhappy with the bacon brought home. If one wishes to nationalize the issue, one should push for responsible reform of the process by which such spending items find their way into the budget. The federal government has a legitimate interest in maintaining an efficient and functional infrastructure in the states for purposes of transportation, military presence, economic prosperity, and other matters relating to standardization, efficiency, prosperity, and security. It is up to the representatives of each state to address the concerns of their constituents and square them with the objective interests of the federal government. So while the process itself is legitimate, abuse can occur in it's practical application. It should be our goal to specifically and comprehensively define what constitutes abuse and advocate those reforms. Instead we invest ourselves in scare politics. According to Citizens Against Government Waste's "Congressional Pig Book":

The 2005 Pig Book identified a record 13,997 projects in the 13 appropriations bills that constitute the discretionary portion of the federal budget for fiscal 2005, costing taxpayers $27.3 billion.

And conservative pundits of all stripes shout - "TWENTY SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS!!!" That number is often included in rants about how "Republicans spend like drunken sailors". What is never mentioned is what a miniscule portion of our $2.4 TRILLION federal budget or our $12.7 TRILLION GDP that amount actually constitutes. As a percentage, the CAGW-CPB's $27.3 BILLION is 1.3% of the federal Budget for 2005, and .2% of our GDP for the same time period. A literal mountain made out of mole hill.

The same tactic is used to describe recent budget deficits as "records". If that were the measure, the budget deficit for almost every year of the past several decades has been a "record". What matters is what percentage of our GDP the national debt and budget deficits comprise. Look at our recent budget deficits and national debt in it's proper historic context:

Well, let’s take a look at the Reagan legacy on federal spending and deficits. In 1980, the last year of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, government outlays were running at 21.7% of GDP and the budget deficit was 2.7% of GDP. (The economy was also a basket case, which is when you would expect budget deficits to be at their worse.) In 1988, Reagan’s last year in office, outlays as a percent of GDP were running at 21.3% with a deficit of 3.1% of GDP. The budget deficit over Reagan’s eight years averaged 4.2% and ran as high as 6.0% in 1983.

Bush entered office with an economy that was booming: in 2000 government outlays ran at 18.4% of GDP with a budget surplus of 2.4%. But the stock market implosion, 9/11 and the war quickly changed the budget dynamics and the surplus switched to a deficit of 3.5% in 2003 and 3.6% in 2004. In 2005, the budget deficit came in at 2.6%, with government outlays running at 20.1% of GDP.

Luckily, Bush was successful in implementing the Jobs and Growth package of 2003 which accomplished it's goals, exceededing the expectations of it's architects and defying it's ignorant critics. Unemployment - low. Stock Market value - Up. Housing value - Up. Business Investment - Up. Dividend payments - Doubled. Most importantly - GDP - UP! And to those imbiciles who asked "how will Bush pay for his tax cuts" - They pay for themvelves! - Tax Revenue UP! Which means - Deficits - DOWN!

What about spending? From the article above at Real Clear Politics:

Conservatives may harp on President Bush for increasing government outlays from 18½% to 20%, but the increase is almost exclusively spending on defense, homeland security and the war - all of which is a response to 9/11. The growth in non-security discretionary spending has been cut every year of the Bush presidency.

These are but of a few of the accomplishments that the GOP congress and the President have willed into existence that go uncelebrated. It's like I tell people who harp on federal spending - You must look at the entire picture in order to fully understand what you have to lose. Our elected Republicans have enacted legislation that protects gun manufacturers from lawsuits by people who blame THEM for crimes involving guns. If you think that isn't currently an unspoken target of the power-mad DNC, you're out of your gord. And this medium I'm using to communicate with you now - they HATE it. This is us bypassing the DNC infested MSM. They'll set to work crafting legislation to protect you from reading this type of stuff as soon as they get that power they've been lusting after. Humorously, you hear Democrats harp on the budget deficits and federal spending. They aren't going to spend less. In fact, they propose MORE spending with their next breath. They aren't going to worry about the deficit, they have votes to purchase with "the government's money" and dependency to enshrine. Social Security reform did not fail for lack of trying. It failed because of an obstructionist minority:

March 10, 2005 The Washington Post newspaper has surveyed the Senate's 44 Dems and Jim Jeffords, and they've determined that 42 to 44 rabidly oppose private accounts.

They need 41 to filibuster.

The answer to your frustration with the status of the conservative agenda is 2 fold - 1) Advocate advocate advocate. You have the facts on your side. Push them! Talk loud and talk often. We don't have the DMSM on our side. In fact they work against us. We choose the hard way because it's also the right way, so our positions require more than appeals to the lowest parts of human nature. Everyone wants something for nothing. Understanding why nothing is free tasks the intellect. Fight! 2) If you live in Lincoln Chaffee's district and you are frustrated with what you percieve as a stalled conservative agenda, BOOT THAT MOTHER OUT! Get a real Republican in there. You have nothing to lose. If you live in Rick Santorum's district, consider the opposition. Your agenda sure won't get anywhere by allowing them to win.

Vote Smart and Fight Hard. And watch out for rhetorical pit falls like the ones highlighted here in. Your goals are good and there are a lot of good people working to advance them on your behalf. They aren't perfect. Not one of them. But Democrats don't hold their representatives to such high standards, or any at all it seems. At least none they're willing to talk about publicly.

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Oy!

Students at Shaw Heights Middle School are no longer allowed to wear anything that's patriotic, including camouflage pants, because they have become a political symbol for a version of patriotism.

Tensions Change Dress Code At Local Middle School

A "version of patriotism". I LOVE IT!

And:

A state judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force the city to allow private, social dancing in restaurants, clubs and bars. State Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman found that the city's license requirements for cabarets -- places that have food and drink and allow personal recreational dancing -- are constitutional.

Please email if you know what that means.

wnbc.com - News - Judge Says Dancing Not Constitutional Right

Simply Classic!

Instapundit

Deja vu....

...could you be the dream that I once knew?



Conference call, redux.

Lovely Linkies

Oliver Stone feels he has been slandered.

Sure, let's be more like Germany.

"I paid a LOT of money to make this darned movie and no one is showing up to see it! I need someone to blame! Waaaaaah!"

Staging the news again.