ACLU Takes One in the Jimmy

On December 20, a three-judge panel from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a public display of the Ten Commandments in a Kentucky courthouse.

6th Circuit Judge Richard Suhrheinrich wrote in the unanimous decision: “The ACLU makes repeated reference to the ’separation of church and state.’ This extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state. Our nation’s history is replete with governmental acknowledgment and in some cases, accommodation of religion.”

To recap for liberals, this is how the First Amendment reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Note no mention of the words “church”, “separation” or “state”.

The opinion explained that the "reasonable person" remark is particularly important because the legal standard requires the court to determine whether a "reasonable person" would believe a display endorses religion, not whether it offends someone in the community.

So to recap: the Court deems the ACLU to be unreasonable, tiresome and constitutionally ignorant. That about sums it up.

Why You Shouldn’t Send Your Kids to Public Schools

Reason #1: They are run by brain-washing hippies who will exploit their professional status to use your kids as pawns for their own political propaganda.

Front Page Mag reports that at Frank Allis Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin, third graders we told to “write letters to their congressman and various media outlets calling for an end to the war in Iraq.”

Parents were sent a letter justifying this political indoctrination as a social studies lesson. “The Frank Allis third grade will be writing letters to encourage an end to the war in Iraq,” the letter explained. “The letter writing will teach civic responsibility, a social studies standard, while providing an authentic opportunity to improve composition skills and handwriting. If the war has not ended by the 12th day [of the letter writing campaign] we will start the whole sequence over again, writing to students in middle school, high school, and college.”

By “civic responsibility”, they mean serving as their political drones. Even though this exercise violated at least two district policies: one that bans teachers from promoting their personal political beliefs to students; and another that requires teachers to address opposing views when presenting controversial topics, it never occurred to administrators that this might be a bad idea.

Liberal bias and indoctrination in schools? Nah!

Vote Democrat: We're Smarter Than You

Every now and then, I like to see what the enemy is saying. Check out this post from the Democratic Underground:

What we MUST realize in order to win - Americans are stupid and uninformed

This is very important because in order to win we must understand the way the average American thinks. I'm afraid WE have nothing in common with them.

I came to the two following conclusions when I saw the large number of people who voted for Bush back in 2000.

#1 - I would dare to assume that most of us here are in the upper 1%-20% of the population intelligence-wise. We must come to the realization that the majority of the population is in the lower 80% to 99% percent of the bell-curve. WE are not the norm. The Republicans understand that the average American is not very bright. They cater and pander to the masses. The Democratic Party tries to appeal to the population about "issues" that these people just don't understand.

I've heard it said that the reason that Clinton's sex scandal resonated so strongly among "the people" was because it was a scandal that the average American understood. The average person can't understand a financial scandal.

In addition, people of average or lower intelligence tend to not be as logical or reasoned as those of higher intelligence - they deal with emotion. Therefore they are more likely to get riled up about someone burning a flag rather than a illogical tax cut.

#2 - The majority of people do not read the newspaper OR listen to the news, CNN,
etc. Therefore -they get their news from the Tonight Show, Letterman, Oprah and Saturday Night Live. Or, they get their news from talking to their co-workers at the water cooler.

Also, for the few people who DO listen to the news - who do they hear it from? Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are the most popular. Most newspapers and media outlets are owned by Republicans.

THIS is what we are fighting against people. In order to win we will need to start pandering to the masses.

My guess is that is that “normal” Americans don’t vote Democrat because they think they are a bunch of elitist a**holes. But what do I know, only being in the lower 80 to 99% of the bell curve?

Also check out these responses in the thread:

I would prefer 20%-25% voter turnout!!!! There are very few people on either side of the aisle who understand the issues!

The masses can be so easily mislead that they really should not vote!

I know - maybe they should start giving tests to voters

You know, just like they used to do in the South when it was heavily Democrat.

I'm baaaack

After a long hiatus the Burque Boy is back. Now back to solving the World's problems...

Liberal Math

Found this by means of Best of the Web. According to the Seattle Public Health Office - and I’m just paraphrasing here, condoms are “at least 90%” effective, while abstinence has “a contraceptive failure rate of 26%”.

While I am only aware of one recorded event of conception without sex, apparently it is more common in the Pacific Northwest. Just so you don’t think I am making it up, here is the full quote:

A 1988 National Survey of Family Growth found abstinence to have a contraceptive failure rate of 26% when not practiced consistently. So, in abstinence, as in condom use, consistency is key.

So their definition of abstinence involves having sex, which really isn’t abstinence at all. But who am I to question their logic? If you recall, this is the same political idealology that had problems defining “sex” and “is”, so you can see the confusion over "abstinence".

Democrats "Win" Again

In absence of any sort of victory over the past 5 years, Democrats have relegated themselves to celebrating defeat:

Democrats on Wednesday celebrated a closer-than-expected loss in a special House of Representatives race in Ohio and called it a warning sign for Republicans entering the 2006 congressional elections.

Jan Schmidt, a former state representative, beat Democrat Paul Hackett by 3,500 votes out of more than 112,000 cast in the conservative and heavily Republican district, where no Democrat in decades had won or even managed 40 percent of the vote.

"Every Republican in Congress should consider himself put on notice," Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said of Tuesday's results.

Emanuel continued, “Because we plan on losing even more elections by potentially smaller margins, and we won’t give up until we have no more elections left to lose.” Even Hackett was quick to congratulate himself on a race well lost:

"Tonight was a victory for democracy," Mr. Hackett, 43, told supporters at a downtown Cincinnati theater. "People had a real choice." Mr. Hackett has said he expects to sign up for another tour of duty in Iraq, possibly next summer.

So true, brother Hackett, so true. People did have a choice, and well...they chose Republican. With continued victories like this, the Democratic Party will be extinct in no time. As expected, the Democrat’s more prominent election losers rallied to his support:

Among those offering congratulations to Hackett were Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee [and loser 0f the 2004 Democratice Primary], and 2004 presidential nominee [and 2004 election loser] John Kerry, who said in a statement that Hackett "talked about the issues that really matter and he wasn't afraid to speak the truth about his experiences in the war in Iraq."

Of course Kerry applauding anyone for telling the truth about their war experiences is like Lil Kim patting Rafael Palmeiro on the back for his great testimony. At least one Democrat is tired of all these “victories”:

Al Gore still holds a $9 million surplus from the 2000 election that is his and his alone. John Kerry holds a healthy un-spent balance (estimated at $25 million) and minor candidates, all Democrats, are now millionaires as a result of their failed runs for the presidency in 2004. It's true and it is a fact of life.

Howard Dean's pleas for bucks are beyond me anymore. He can call himself "Governor", or he can call himself "Doctor", he can even call himself "Chairman"; but in reality he is nothing more than another huckster trying to fleece a sucker. I am like too many other Democrats, tired of being that sucker. Howard Dean needs to understand it and so do the other so called leaders within the Democratic Party.

Our money needs to finally buy an agenda and a victory - any victory! The agenda needs to come first. We are far from that ever happening. Without an agenda, meat the voters can sink their teeth into, we are no better off today than we were in 2002 when the final shoe dropped and we lost the Senate.

Definition: Tartuffery

On my way into work today I noticed a demonstration against America’s bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And I thought to myself: that’s interesting - Germans protesting America’s treatment of another culture during World War II.

The ACLU: Making the World a Safer Place for Terrorists

The New York Civil Liberties Union plans to file a lawsuit today challenging the legality of the Police Department's new policy of randomly searching bags and packages in the subway system.

The lawsuit, to be filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, contends that the searches are "virtually certain neither to catch any person trying to carry explosives into the subway nor to deter such an effort." It also says that many riders have been selected in a "discriminatory and arbitrary" manner, creating the potential for racial profiling.

Of course they are right. The problem here is that random searches will not be very effective because cops will be forced to search 12 year-old girls and 80 year-old grandmas in order not to appear racially profiling. “I’m sorry we let the guy with the bomb get through. I know he was wearing a turban, an excessively large and bulging overcoat, and carrying a duffel bag that said ‘Death to American Infidels,’ but he was the 4th passenger, and well, we only check every 5th.”

Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said the searches, which began on the evening of July 21, were both effective and legal. Under the search policy, officers are to use an essentially random criterion - stopping every 5th, 12th or 20th passenger carrying a bag or package. Selecting riders on the basis of race or national origin is prohibited.

Let’s not parse words here. Terrorists are Muslim, male, and in their late teens to 30’s. And until there is a white octogenarian suicide bomber, we have no reason to think otherwise. Cops profile all the time. How do you think you they catch bad guys? “We are looking for a suspect. About 5-foot-8. Can’t give you any other information, because that would be unfair to other people of their race and gender. Now go bring him or her in!”

The suit is to be filed on behalf of at least four people, including two men whose bags were searched on July 22, at subway stations in Manhattan and Queens. A third man, a lawyer who works in Midtown, entered the Times Square station on July 26 but then walked out when he saw that officers were searching bags. A fourth man is described in the suit as a "political activist, writer and media critic" who is worried about being harassed if the police notice the political materials he carries.

There’s an old saying – if you throw a rock in a pack of dogs, the only one who barks is the one who gets hit. Ever notice that when a measure is enacted to deter crime (i.e., security cameras, searches, three-strikes laws), it is always the liberals that are worried? Think about it.

We Have No More Bananas, We Have No Bananas Today

I’ve always liked Cat Stevens music. It’s too bad his new religion does not allow him do so any more, because he is one crappy political activist. According to him, the problem with the world is that there is not enough Islam:

Education is crucial. Here in Britain, the education system has been slow, at best, in allowing Islamic teachings to be taught in their full breadth. There is a lack of commitment to the rigors of traditional learning. In the West, where Islam is denigrated and prejudice abounds, where headlines designed to shock and mesmerize dominate people’s minds, the real teachings of the faith are left for people to fall upon by chance. In terms of spiritual and moral nourishment, it has been left to largely irregular and inadequate models of religious education to deliver the goods.

An hour-long mosque sermon, once a week — which most Muslims attend — or a lecture by a visiting scholar who barely speaks English and has little understanding of British and European life, are never likely to deliver the balanced curriculum necessary to build the conscientious believer, one who not only knows his duty to God but also to the society and world he lives in.

The July 7 bombers attended state schools in Britain, not faith-based schools. Some of them, we are told, briefly visited madrasa schools in Pakistan. This may or may not be relevant, but it suggests that they felt they had had insufficient Islamic education in Britain. By going abroad, they laid themselves open to influences outside normal scholastic parameters.

You know more Islam for the kids, just like in this Australian school:

The teacher could not believe what he overheard. The “visiting” imam was launching into a tirade against the Jews and Americans that bordered on the ludicrous.

But then came the clincher, he recalled. “The imam told the students that the Jews were putting poison in the bananas and they should not eat them.”

The imam was told to ease up on the inflammatory language after staff objected.

"Why We are Pathetic Losers": A Frenchman’s Introspective

Don’t consider me anti-Frenchite, because I’m really not. I love the French, their fries, bread, onion soup, kissing, maids… But their Government is, how do you say… “le Crap.” Even they think so:

The President of one of the world's biggest advertising agencies has issued a damning state-of-the-nation assessment that describes France as being in steep decline and his countrymen as "narrowed and stunted".

Maurice Lévy, the head of the media giant Publicis, whose company owns Saatchi and Saatchi and has offices in 100 countries across six continents, said France had failed to get the 2012 Olympics because the world now saw it as a nation of perdants - "losers".

For good measure, he described the 35-hour week as "absurd" and the wails of complaint that followed Paris's loss of the Games to London as "pathetic"…

"What I wrote was hard, but true. France is not in a crisis, it's worse than that. A crisis is usually sudden and short, while we are in an endemic situation," he said. "I've just had enough and wanted to say what I felt."

In the article, Mr Lévy said the French had only themselves to blame for losing the Olympics, and that the country needed a wake-up call. "We have narrowed and stunted ourselves and we paint ourselves as losers, and no one wants to be among the losers. It's time we opened our eyes wide, took an icy shower and looked reality in the face: we are in decline, going down a slippery slope…

"…when it was necessary, alas, to make redundancies, the compensation was set at 90 per cent, therefore allowing those made redundant to earn yet more without working. Why in that case, make any effort to find a job? In doing this, trying to avoid any difficulties for them, we have turned the French into children.

"The final straw has to be the absurd decision to introduce the 35-hour working week when we were told repeatedly that we could work less and earn more. How on earth in this context can we expect the same French people to accept necessary reforms?"

Work less and earn more?! Right. But the real question here is will they smell any better?

America's Greatest President

Ok, but seriously if Jimmy Carter speaks and no one listens, is it still idiotic? It appears Jimmy Cater is on furlough from his nursing home and is talking to anyone who will listen:

"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.," Carter told a news conference at the Baptist World Alliance's centenary conference in Birmingham, England. "I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts."

Carter calling anything a “disgrace” is like Charles Manson calling someone a lunatic. Also, note the use of the liberal “BUT”: There is no justification for terrorism BUT Guantanamo Bay justifies terrorism. I am patriotic, BUT I think America brought 9/11 on itself. I like Jimmy Carter, BUT he is a spineless ass clown trying to make a legacy for himself. Get the idea?

Ok, so if Carter, Democrats, and other persons who hate the United States believe Guantanamo Bay “excuses” and “justifies” terrorism (You know, just like Attica justifies rape and murder), then what was the justification for this?

This…

This…

This…

And oh by the way, this…

If liberals had their way, this is how the U.S. would interrogate terrorists.

1. Ask “please”
2. If that doesn’t work, ask “pretty please”
3. Ask “pretty please with sugar on top”
4. Promise to be their best friend
5. When all else fails… boycott the Olympics

Carter uses liberal speak in order to make it appear that he does not believe there is a justification for terrorism, even though he just said there was:

Carter said, however, that terrorist acts could not be justified, and that while Guantanamo "may be an aggravating factor ... it's not the basis of terrorism."

"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said Saturday. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people."

The irony of all this is that it was during Carter’s administration that terrorists realized the soft underbelly of the US is the feebleness of a liberal administration. Al-Jazeera, of course, was quick to take yet another sound bite from a liberal; except they left out that useless part where Carter says “terrorist acts could not be justified”. Which he doesn’t believe anyway.

I think NYT writer Thomas Friedman has a better idea:

We also need to spotlight the “excuse makers,” the former State Department spokesman James Rubin said. After every major terrorist incident, the excuse makers come out to tell us why imperialism, Zionism, colonialism or Iraq explains why the terrorists acted. These excuse makers are just one notch less despicable than the terrorists and also deserve to be exposed. When you live in an open society like London, where anyone with a grievance can publish an article, run for office or start a political movement, the notion that blowing up a busload of innocent civilians in response to Iraq is somehow “understandable” is outrageous. “It erases the distinction between legitimate dissent and terrorism,” Rubin said, “and an open society needs to maintain a clear wall between them.”

So how do you identify the “excuse makers”? Oh, that’s easy:

1. Liberal use (literally) of the word “but”
2. They claim to just be “expressing their First Amendment rights”
3. They have to remind you they are patriotic and against terrorism
4. They are quoted in Al-Jazeera
5. Their biggest response to international aggression involved boycotting a sporting event

Spot the Trend

This from the WSJ:

Last Friday, [California] Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez told reporters during a conference call that he wouldn't consider canceling the special election unless the governor's office pledged in the future not to back any attempts to reform the state's budget process or restrict the right of public employee unions to spend member dues on political causes without written permission.

If you recall, a few days ago I pointed out California liberals desire to take legislative power out of the hands of the people and place it the hands of the few (presumably liberal) who know better than you what is in your best interest. Now they think union leaders (presumably liberal) should not be accountable to their members in determining which political causes (presumably liberal) to support.

This is rather interesting in light of what is going on at the AFL-CIO. It seems as though the Teamsters and Service Employees Union don’t think the AFL-CIO is acting in their best interest, but apparently Nunez never got the memo.

Bob Schieffer Outted as Racist, Gay Bashing Nazi

Here’s a good site. A liberal organization monitoring media bias. That’s a lot like John Gatti keeping crime in check, but needless to say that they’ve only been able to uncover conservative bias. Like this nugget, unearthing conservative bias at, (ahem) CBS.

In the July 21 edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, columnist Gail Shister quoted (registration required) CBS chairman Les Moonves: "That's not the end-all, be-all, but obviously the White House doesn't hate CBS anymore with [Bob] Schieffer in the anchor chair."

But far from hating CBS, the White House has reason to embrace the network and its selection of Schieffer to serve as interim anchor following Dan Rather's departure as anchor of the CBS Evening News. Schieffer has previously described his "golfing friendship" with President Bush "during the 1990s" and has said, "It's always difficult to cover someone you know personally."

Following the announcement that Schieffer would moderate the third and final presidential debate last year, Media Matters for America noted several statements Schieffer had made that raised questions about his objectivity.

Moreover, Shister wrote: "Moonves says Schieffer is looked upon kindly at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue because his brother, John Thomas Schieffer, was ambassador to Australia (he was posted to Japan in February), and was partners with the future President Bush in the Texas Rangers."

I don’t know enough about Schieffer to assess his political inclination, but the case for him being a Conservative mouth piece is a bit thin. As far as I know, Mary Matalin, who also worked for the President, is sleeping with James Carville, but that certainly does not make Cue Ball a Republican. I mean jeez, it isn’t like Schieffer was Jimmy Carter’s speechwriter, or I don't know... say, Lyndon Johnson’s Press Secretary. I mean trying to pass him off as unbiased under those cirumstances would be downright criminal, right?

California Judge Bars Vote on Change in Redistricting

A California judge has ordered the removal of a measure on California’s November ballot that changes districting and procedures around the state:

The judge, Gail Ohanesian of Sacramento County Superior Court, said supporters of the measure had violated the California Constitution by submitting a version of the measure to state officials for the ballot that was worded differently from the one signed by nearly 1 million voters.

"The differences are not simply typographical errors," Judge Ohanesian said. "They are not merely about the format of the measure. They are not simply technical. Instead they go to the substantive terms of the measure."

Supporters of the measure, who argued in court that the differences were both unintentional and inconsequential, said they would seek to have the judge's ruling stayed by the Court of Appeals as early as Friday or Monday.

Democratic California Attorney General Bill Lockyer says its not politics, he’s just doing his job. His spokesman stated, "The judge's ruling was well reasoned, well considered and correct. It basically stands for the proposition that the California initiative process isn't horseshoes and isn't hand grenades. Close is not good enough."

Sounds like a battle of semantics and technicalities, but isn’t this telling of how differently Democrats and Republicans view legislation? Whereas Republicans want to get this proposal into the hands of the voters and let them decide, Democrats are content with a single judge determining what is best for California.

News Flash: U.S. Cities Scarier Than African Jungles

Seems as though West Virginia's Democratic Senator, Robert Byrd likes the President’s pick for Supreme Court:

"One's life is probably in no greater danger in the jungles of deepest Africa than in the jungles of America's large cities," writes Senatro Byrd. "In my judgment, much of the problem has been brought about by the mollycoddling of criminals by some of the liberal judges who have been placed on the nation's courts in recent years."

Mr. Byrd essentially endorsed Mr. Bush's primary stated strategy for picking Judge Roberts and other judicial nominees. "The high court's share of the responsibility for our increasing lawlessness lies in two areas -- its zeal for bringing about precipitous social change, and its overconcern for the rights of criminals and its underconcern for the rights and safety of society," he writes.

I wonder why Byrd thinks the jungles of Africa and America’s cities are so dangerous? In case you missed the connection, here is a picture of Sen. Byrd in his more youthful days of indiscretion.

Make sense now?

The NYT Still Dancing

Remember this post? When a NYT editor slipped in some verbiage into a Military Officer’s op ed making it sound like he was involuntarily mobilized on very short notice, when he in fact volunteered for Iraq and knew for quite some time about it.

Well the NYT is still trying to dance around it. According to them an editor slipped it in to “clarify” the piece and make it “stronger”. And by clarify and stronger, the NYT means like, you know… make it more liberal.

When the Officer saw the changes, he threatened to pull the article. Except the problem is that the editor somehow “forgot” to pull the changes when the article went to print.

Not saying they did it on purpose. But it does give one a little insight on their agenda.

Speaking of Prisoner Abuse

Looks like the inmates at a Spanish prison have their own ideas how terrorists should be treated:

Inmates on Friday beat up Imad Yarkas, a suspected al-Qaida cell leader jailed on charges he helped plot the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, breaking his jaw, nose and a tooth and injuring one of his eyes, Spanish officials said.

So this just goes to show that not all Spaniards are spineless weasels. This of course leads me to rethink my stance on Gitmo. I say close the place down. Send the terrorists to Brazil.

NYT Uncovers More “Abuses” at Gitmo

These abuses include lap dances, getting perfume rubbed on their arms, a neck and shoulder massage, and whispering in the ear. And to think American men have to pay 100 bucks an hour for this kind of abuse.

Sounds like a Scrapple Face article, but it is an NYT Op-Ed. Granted that all of the above is very old news, but NYT feels the need to reframe it in the context of the American military and intelligence community “prostituting” its female members:

There are countless reasons to be outraged about the abuses of detainees at American military prisons. But there is one abuse about which there can surely be no debate, even among the die-hard supporters of President Bush: the exploitation and debasement of women serving in the United States military. This practice must come to an immediate end, and the Pentagon must make it clear that such things will never be tolerated again.

So the real question here is what does the NYT know about “die hard supporters of President Bush”? Ok, but seriously, lets be honest here. NYT’s real aim here is to embarrass the American military and the White House. They tried it by reporting so-called prisoner abuses, but the problem is that no one really cared how terrorists are being treated, save the terrorists, the Democratic party and Chuck Hagel.

So now they reframe the issue in a way that think will garner more sympathy. The problem is that this is not a forced prostituion camp, but rather trained professionals willing to do dirty deeds in the name of patriotism.

Karl Rove was right and Ace Of Spades sums it up best:

They're not serious. They are against war even in the most dire of circumstances, and they're against any of the dirtier parts of intelligence-gathering. They cannot come right out and admit they oppose war and covert operations on principle, so they simply object to every conceivable part of warfare or covert ops or interrogation in their details.

Then they can claim they are not reflexively anti-this or anti-that, they're just very outraged by this particular practice.

Trouble is, they're outraged by every particular practice of war or intelligence-gathering. It's like saying you have nothing against Western omelets, except you despise eggs, loath ham, destest green peppers, and find onions gob-smackingly vile.

And also-- you're not too crazy about the toast and orange juice they give you on the side. And that you frankly find toast and orange juice "unAmerican" and "contrary to the spirit of our living Constitution."Let's stop talking of eggs and ham and such and just admit you're anti-omelet.

The Enemy Without and Within

The Football Fans for Truth hit a home run:

In the war on terror, the West has its hands full challenging psychotic Islamism. Multinational forces battle remnant Taliban in Afghanistan while the United States, Britain and others try to mold a cohesive, functioning Iraqi society amidst constant terror by disaffected Sunnis and imported jihadists. While it can be fun to identify the buffoons who characterize all attempts to fight terror abroad as mere smokescreens for the Bush Reich, the undeserved attention on a Michael Moore, Al Gore or George Galloway tends to obscure the fact that there are true villains during this time, and they are men of consequence.

I nominate four.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero: After 9/11 and before London came Madrid. Hundreds massacred on Spain's rail lines, followed by a direct note of extortion from al Qaeda - get out of Iraq or we'll keep killing you. Zapatero, newly elected as prime minister in part because of his predecessor's shifty handling of the bombings, promptly supplicated himself to the Islamofascists. "Wars such as that which has occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate," Zapatero lectured. To be fair, Zapatero ran on a promise to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq. Nonetheless, by promptly capitulating to terror (two months later, Spain was out of Iraq), Zapatero instituted protection payments as national policy and paved the way for 7/7 in London.

Kofi Annan: Not because of his duplicity during the U.N. resolution process or because of his scummy involvement in the Oil-for-Food program, but for his cowardly leadership in the early days of the Iraqi occupation, especially after the bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. Approximateley 600 U.N. employees were stationed in Iraq before 2003 bombing of the U.N.'s Baghdad office, which killed 22 people, including the chief UN envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Did the U.N.'s flag still stand tall, uncowed by the brutal attack of a suicide bomber? Within a month, U.N. personnel staff totalled a few dozen. The U.N. turned tail and ran.

Ted Kennedy: His partisanship was so rank that it paved the way for the excesses of his party, from the drumbeat of "Bush lied" to Michael Moore sitting next to Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Convention to the entire Democratic leadership treating Abu Ghraib as akin to beheadings to Kennedy's colleague, Senator Dick Durbin, likening American forces' handling of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to the atrocities of Pol Pot.
Kennedy's calumnies are worth repeating:

* "This [the war] was made up in Texas, announced in January [2003] to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud."

* "The trumped up reasons for going to war have collapsed."

* "The President's war has been revealed as mindless, needless, senseless, and reckless."

* "Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management."

Kennedy's attacks, which are really no more than a reprise of his vicious excesses during the Vietnam war, underscore that at its heart, the American left is more comfortable waging war on its political opposition than on the likes of al Qaeda and Saddam.

John Kerry: He matters little now, but as the standardbearer for the opposition party in the last presidential election, Senator Kerry had an opportunity to offer a cohesive and responsible anti-terror and Iraq opposition policy. Instead, Kerry was either incoherent or destructive, communicating to Iraqis, the Middle East, and allies a significant fissure in American resolve. For example, prior to the war, Kerry voted for its authorization, wisely stating "We are facing a very different world today than we have ever faced before. September 11 changed a lot . . . We are living in an age where the dangers are different and they require a different response, different thinking, and different approaches than we have applied in the past."

Kerry added "It would be naive to the point of grave danger not to believe that, left to his own devices, Saddam Hussein will provoke, misjudge, or stumble into a future, more dangerous confrontation with the civilized world. He has as much as promised it. He has already created a stunning track record of miscalculation. He miscalculated an 8-year war with Iran. He miscalculated the invasion of Kuwait. He miscalculated America's responses to it. He miscalculated the result of setting oil rigs on fire. He miscalculated the impact of sending Scuds into Israel. He miscalculated his own military might. He miscalculated the Arab world's response to his plight. He miscalculated in attempting an assassination of a former President of the United States. And he is miscalculating now America's judgments about his miscalculations."

But in fighting off a challenge from the left during the Democratic primaries, Kerry disavowed his intelligent pre-war stand. In its place? A haphazard, desperate and shrill attack masquerading as policy. Kerry voted against funding the troops. He called the war he voted to authorize a "colossal error in judgment." He accused the president of lying to him personally. He degraded the particpation of other nations in Iraq as a "coalition of the bribed." Kerry's spokesman even called the Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi a "puppet," adding "and you can almost see the hand underneath the shirt today moving the lips."

Kerry could have beaten Howard Dean, who ended up being a self-destructive paper tiger, by taking an approach that did not rupture bipartisanship on at least the basics, as opposed to the prosecution, of the war. Instead, Kerry panicked, and the effect (coupled with the contributions of his party's leadership) metastasized the malignancy in the Democratic party. Under the Kerry campaign, the Iraq war became no more than a tool to demolish the administration.

Zapatero and Annan demonstrated that swift kicks to the soft underbelly of a coalition member and the world's premier international organization would result in an immediate retreat. In short, if the terrorists struck, Spain and the U.N. would cave to their demands come hell, high water, greater goal, or the needs of the newly liberated Iraqi people.

Kennedy made the entire endeavor political, thereby ever-cheapening American efforts, which soon degenerated to the gutter. As Kennedy charged on the Senate floor after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we became Saddam. Last month, Senator Durbin informed us that we became worse than Saddam, an amlagamation of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.

Kerry institutionalized Kennedy's defamation. What should have been rejected as bizarre and dangerous was embraced as mainstream.

All four men have done incalculable damage to the fight against terror, the efforts to stabilize Iraq and the image of the West in this fight against al Qaeda.

If it Smells Like a Duck...

The BBC can’t quite seem to bring itself to refer to use the word “Terrorist” when referring to those who murdered 50 people in London.

The BBC has re-edited some of its coverage of the London Underground and bus bombings to avoid labelling the perpetrators as "terrorists", it was disclosed yesterday.

Early reporting of the attacks on the BBC's website spoke of terrorists but the same coverage was changed to describe the attackers simply as "bombers".

The BBC's guidelines state that its credibility is undermined by the "careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgments".

Consequently, "the word 'terrorist' itself can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding" and its use should be "avoided", the guidelines say.

Unless of course they are referring to Israel and/or America.

USA Today has no problem applying this standard. Columnist Julianne Malveaux had this to say to Sean Hannity:

"Terrorism in the United States is as old as we are. You want me to give you a litany of terrorism? You want me to start with what's happened to the Indian population? You want to go on to what happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921?"

"C'mon now, Sean," Malveaux told Hannity. "We are terrorists."

Asked point-blank if the U.S. was a "terrorist nation," Malveaux shot back: "Oh, Absolutely."

"George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control."

The Grey Lady Shows It's Colours

An interesting “correction” in the NYT:

The Op-Ed page in some copies of Wednesday's newspaper carried an incorrect version of the below article about military recruitment. The article also briefly appeared on NYTimes.com before it was removed. The writer, an Army reserve officer, did not say, "Imagine my surprise the other day when I received orders to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., next Sunday," nor did he characterize his recent call-up to active duty as the precursor to a "surprise tour of Iraq." That language was added by an editor and was to have been removed before the article was published. Because of a production error, it was not. The Times regrets the error.

Now I know what you are thinking here: Another case of liberal bias at an Old Media stalwart. I don’t think that could be farther than the truth. This story was obviously planted by Karl Rove in a pathetic attempt to embarrass a, ahem... well respected news institution. For examples of NYT’s proven history of strong journalistic integrity, click here, here, here, here, and here.

Of course this is not nearly as clever as when CNN and Netscape posted a graphic of the President and the First Lady and titled the image assho… Well, I can’t go into detail here because me mum reads this site, but you can read all about it here.

In God We Fail

A California community college student is given an “F” for using the “G” word 41 times in an essay:

[Bethany] Hauf's teacher approved her term paper topic — Religion and its Place within the Government — on one condition: Don't use the word God. Instead of complying with Victor Vally Community College adjunct instructor Michael Shefchik's condition. Hauf wrote a 10-page report for her English 101 class entitled "In God We Trust.""

He said it would offend others in class," Hauf, a 34-year-old mother of four, said. "I didn't realize God was taboo."

"I don't loose my First Amendment rights when I walk into that college," Hauf said. She is demanding an apology from the teacher and that the paper be re-graded.

Mrs. Hauf has enlisted the help of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a conservative Christian legal foundation. A letter from the ACLJ to school officials also indicates that Mrs. Hauf posted her paper on an on-line blackboard for “review and comment from other students”. Shefick had it removed the next day.

So let me get this straight: A political ideology that thinks the public should fund an art project that involves urinating on a crucifix, thinks people might get offended by the use of the word “God”? These are the same people who throw feces on the Virgin Mary, but call handling the Koran without gloves torture.

You want to know what torture is? Listening to liberal yay-hoos tear this Country down everyday for their own political gain. Stuff like this:

“When the vice president absurdly claims the insurgency is 'in its last throes,' he insults the common sense and intelligence of the American people, and diminishes our stature with France, er the world, I mean,” Said C student, John Kerry.

"We just don't have a clue," Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat obviously speaking about his own party.

“YEEEEEAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!”, Howard “Screaming La Vida Loca” Dean.

You know what? Karl Rove was wrong. Liberals are not preparing indictments and offering therapy. They are taking up arms and like the Vichy French are marching along with the enemy.

Kerry Offers Presidential Advice

A guy named John Kerry offered the President some advice on what to say in his speech on Iraq:

So what should the president say tonight? The first thing he should do is tell the truth to the American people. Happy talk about the insurgency being in "the last throes" leads to frustrated expectations at home. It also encourages reluctant, sidelined nations that know better to turn their backs on their common interest in keeping Iraq from becoming a failed state.

Too many sarcastic comments running through my head. Pick one below:

A) That John Kerry is a smart guy! I bet he did well in college.

B) Sure! It makes perfect sense for the President take advice from someone who is 1) not on his side, and 2) has never been President.

C) John Kerry really knows how to connect with the American public. He ought to run for President someday.

GITMO Put into Persepective

Retired Green Beret LTC Gordon Cucullu gives his first hand observations on Guantanamo Bay. The last sentence surmises it well. Here are some excerpts, but I recommend reading the whole thing here.

After speaking with soldiers, sailors, and civilians who collectively staff Gitmo, I left convinced that abuse definitely exists at the detention facilities, and it typically fails to receive the press attention it deserves: it’s the relentless, merciless attacks on American servicemen and women by these terrorist thugs. Many of the orange jumpsuit-clad detainees fight their captors at every opportunity, openly bragging of their desire to kill Americans. One has promised that, if released, he would find MPs in their homes through the internet, break into their houses at night, and “cut the throats of them and their families like sheep.” Others claim authority and vindication to kill women, children, and other innocents who oppose their jihadist mission authorized by the Koran (the same one that hangs in every cell from a specially-designed holder intended to protect it from a touching the cell floor – all provided at U.S. taxpayer expense). One detainee was heard to tell another: “One day I will enjoy sucking American blood, although their blood is bitter, undrinkable….” These recalcitrant detainees are known euphemistically as being “non-compliant.” They attack guards whenever the soldiers enter their cells, trying to reach up under protective facemasks to gouge eyes and tear mouths. They make weapons and try to stab the guards or grab and break limbs as the guards pass them food.
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There is a good reason these unlawful combatants are being confined. They are evil and dangerous individuals. Yet these thugs are treated with an amazing degree of compassion: They are given ice cream treats and recreational time. They live in clean facilities, and receive a full Muslim religious package of Koran, prayer rug, beads, and prayer oils. An arrow in every cell points to Mecca. The call to prayer is played five times daily. They are not abused, hanged, tortured, beheaded, raped, mutilated, or in any way treated the way that they once treated their own captives – or now treat their guards.

You are right to worry about inhumane treatment taking place at GITMO. But your concern should be for the dedicated, well-trained, highly professional American men and women who are subjected to a daily barrage of feces, urine, semen, and spit hurled at them along with vile invective as they implement a humane, enlightened system of confinement on men who want nothing more than to kill Americans. These quiet professional Americans, who live under the motto “Honor Bound for Defense of Freedom,” deserve our utmost respect and concern. Shame on anyone who slanders or disrespects them for short-term and short-sighted political advantage.

Apologitis

Ok, we saw this coming too. Democrats are shocked and chagrinned by Karl Rove’s comments and want him to apologize and/or resign. I can hear the cries now. “Durbin had to apologize, so should Rove, you… you… you Nazi!” So I say, (1) Durbin did not have to apologize, (2) he did not apologize, (3) how can you even compare the two? (Durbin called American Soldiers: Nazis. Rove called Democrat politicians: liberal.)

John Kerry said, "don't dare question the patriotism of Americans who offer a better direction." Duh, he wasn’t. He was questioning the patriotism of Democrats.

Howard “Living the American Scream” Dean said, get this, President Bush should "condemn Karl Rove's desperate and divisive attempt to help the Republicans regain their political footing. YEEEEAAAAAAAARGH!"

Hey Dean, there’s a phone call for you. It’s the pot. He says you’re black. Just be thankful he didn’t accuse you of being a white Christian.

When asked by reporters whether President Bush will ask Rove to apologize, White House press secretary Scott McClellan replied, “Of course not."

Now all this causes me to wonder, when did it become socially acceptable to demand an apology? If you have to demand it, is it really an apology? Take my Uncle Fred, he’s half retarded and has Tourettes Syndrome. You won’t see me demanding an apology every time he calls me a name. And frankly, I don’t need it. I have come to expect that from him ‘cause that’s they way God made him.

As well, Republicans should just accept it when a Democrat starts vomiting their rhetoric. After all, most Democrats suffer the same afflictions as my Uncle Fred, well at least the half retarded part. And if Democrats don’t like what Republicans are doing, get over it and do something useful once in a while other than giving Al-Jazeera sound bites.

Update: Some may believe my above remarks crossed the line. There’s usually a quote by Abraham Lincoln that you can turn to in moments like this. If Lincoln we’re alive to day he would say, “Get me outta here, get me outta here,” while clawing desperately at the lid of his coffin. In the end I don’t want anything in my blogging career to detract from my love of this country. Again I offer my apologies to Tourettes Syndrome patients and retarded kids everywhere for comparing them to Democrats. As for the rest of you, you really know where I am coming from, right?! Mr. President I yield to the floor.

Karl Rove Tells it Like it Is

At a fund-raiser in Midtown for the Conservative Party of New York State, Karl Rove had this to say:

"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers"…

Citing calls by progressive groups to respond carefully to the attacks, Mr. Rove said to the applause of several hundred audience members, "I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble."…

"Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year?" Mr. Rove asked [regarding Dick Durbin’s statements]. "Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of
liberals."

What the?... Karl Rove, I just have one thing to say. And please don’t take this the wrong way… I love you.

News Flash: Some People Offended by Men in Feather Boas and G-Strings

Yesterday, Jerusalem city officials announced that they will “ban the annual gay pride parade set for next week, claiming the march would offend many of the holy city's residents”.

The city council, including the mayor, decided "it is not right to allow the march or other planned activities to take place in the streets of Jerusalem, fearing that it will create an uproar, offend a wide sector of city residents and out of fear of public disturbances," Eitan Meir, director general of City Hall, said in a letter to organizers.

Well, we all knew this was coming. For years liberals have been banning Christianity (and Jada Pinkett) from classrooms, government and the streets on the basis that it might offend people. Take this 2004 Christmas parade for example:

In the latest skirmish over Christmas in America, a Christian group is not allowed to participate in Denver's annual Parade of Lights, because church members sought to sing yuletide hymns and proclaim a "Merry Christmas" message on their float.

However, the event, now in its 30th year, will include homosexual American Indians, Kung Fu artisans, belly dancers and, of course, Santa Claus.

Looks as though turn about is fair play. Granted, this was Israel and not the United States, but American liberals have already laid the ground work for forbidding so-called offensive events. But then again, liberals have a warped sense of values – Nativity scene: offensive, Smearing feces on the Virgin Mary: art.

Now don’t get me wrong, the Burque Boy loves a parade, and a gay one at that - particularly if the participants look anything like Neve Campbell and Denise Richard ala Wild Things (unfortunately most of them look like Richard Simmons and Barney Frank.)

Dick Without a Pair

Dick Durbin needs to (as the Spanish say) find his cajones. These are not the words of a man, much less a sorry man:

Some may believe my remarks crossed the line. To them I extend my heartfelt apologies. There’s usually a quote by Abraham Lincoln that you can turn to in moments like this. Maybe this is the right one. Lincoln said “If the end brings me out right what is set against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong ten thousand angels swarming at his right won’t make any difference.” In the end I don’t want anything in my public career to detract from my love of this country, my respect for those who serve it, and this great Senate. I offer my apologies for those who were offended by my words. I promise you that I will continue to speak out on the issues I think are important to the people of Illinois and to the Nation. Mr.President I yield to the floor.

They are the words of a spineless weenie who is not sorry and is only apologizing because he feels he has to. Again, I don’t care what Dick said, I don’t care if he apologizes, but I had much greater respect for him when he was digging in his heels and refusing to apologize. At least he was standing up for his true warped feelings.

I feel like Don Corleone slapping Johhny Fontane around. “You can act like a man! What's the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood fannuchio that cries like a woman.”

News Flash: PETA Are a Bunch of Lying Phonies

Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been charged with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin.

Police found 18 dead animals in the bin and 13 more in a van registered to PETA. The animals were from animal shelters in [two North Carolina] counties, police said.

Investigators arrested the two workers after staking out a garbage bin where animals had previously been dumped, police said Thursday.

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said the workers were picking up animals to be brought to PETA headquarters for euthanization. Veterinarians and animal control officers said the PETA workers had promised to find homes for the animals rather than euthanize them, according to police.

Of course this is nothing new. PETA has killed over 13,000 cats and dogs since 1998 according to this web site. Hold on, I’ve got to sneeze. Ah... ah... achoohypocrites... achoohypocrites. Sorry, now where was I?

Dick Apologizes (Sort of)

I tried to stay away from this, because I really could not care less about what Dick Durbin thinks. In all honesty, I don’t even think he should resign. That is between him and the good voters of the state of Illinois. But then came his apology:

“My statement in the Senate was critical of the policies of this administration, which add to the risk our soldiers face. I have learned from my statement that historical parallels can be misused and misunderstood. I sincerely regret if what I said caused anyone to misunderstand my true feelings: Our soldiers around the world and their families at home deserve our respect, admiration, and total support.”

Note that he is not sorry for his statements, he doesn’t even regret them. He regrets that simplistic stupid Christian rednecks do not understand his complex emotions.

Is it just me or is the line that separates the thoughts and words of American liberals and the propagandist lies of Al-Jazeera slowly blurring.

Of course the real irony here is that Dick slurs same soldiers that protect his ability to freely emit his delusions.

Your Brain, and Your Brain on Drugs... Any Questions?

This is how a Red State welcomes soldiers home:

Two fire engines come screaming down the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport runway, with sirens blaring, heading straight toward a plane full of Soldiers that just arrived from Kuwait International Airport.
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What the Soldiers didn’t know was that they were about to experience what Dallas-Fort Worth Airport fire and rescue teams call a “water salute,” to honor troops coming home on R and R leave from Iraq. The water turrets on the fire engines shoot water arcs into the air at a rate of 1,500 gallons per minute. The aircraft drives under the arc.

“I didn’t expect such a welcome,” said Pfc. Heather England, a 578th Signal Co. satellite communications operator. “Soldiers aboard the plane got a bit choked up as they watched the water splash on the plane’s windows.”

Security guards held back the hundreds of clapping and screaming Texas residents who cheered the 200 Soldiers as they entered the air terminal.
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“An older lady asked me if I had any children,” Friedly said. “When I told her I had a girl, she took me by the arm and directed me to a group of volunteers sitting at the end of the corridor. They handed me a pink teddy bear, some candy and a bouquet of flowers for my wife. I was overwhelmed by the kindness of so many strangers."
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The volunteers perform this welcome every day at the airport. Hundreds of civilians spend hours greeting Soldiers, thanking Soldiers and giving to Soldiers.
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“After being stationed in Germany and Iraq for so long, seeing this display of affection at the U.S. airport has definitely reminded me why I love Americans, especially my fellow Texans,” England said.

This is a blue state:

Schiavo Autopsy Released

Terri Schiavo’s autopsy was released today. Pathologist Jon R. Thogmartin, chief medical examiner for Florida's sixth judicial district, had this to say:

"She died of marked dehydration. She did not starve to death"

Gee, that’s, uh… comforting.

Great Moments in Civil Rights

Russian President Vladimir Putin, “We all know that African countries used to have a tradition of eating their own adversaries. We don’t have such a tradition or process or culture and I believe the comparison between Africa and Russia is not quite just.” (Jun 12, 2005)

Mexican President Vicente Fox, “There’s no doubt that the Mexican men and women—full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work—are doing the work that not even Blacks want to do in the United States.’’ (May 13, 2005)

Democratic Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid, "I think that [Clarence Thomas] has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. I think that his opinions are poorly written." (Dec 5, 2004)

DNC Chairman Howard Dean, “You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had hotel staff in here.” (Feb 11, 2005)

Democratic Senator Robert Byrd on national television, “There are white n***ers. I have seen a lot of white n***ers in my time, if you want to use that word.” (2001)

Democratic Congresswoman Corrine Brown, “You all look alike to me.” (Feb 25, 2004)

And That's a Good Thing

Michael Jackson: Innocent
Robert Blake: Acquitted
Kobe Bryant: Charges Dropped
O.J. Simpson: Not Guilty

I bet Martha Stewart is pissed.

Amnesty’s Amnesia

An interesting read from Slate:

About Amnesty International's disgraceful performance, however, I can tell as well as ask. I was at one point quite close to its London headquarters, and I used to both carry and return messages for the organization when I went as a reporter to screwed-up countries. The founding statutes were quite clear: An Amnesty local was to adopt three "prisoners of conscience," one from either side of the Cold War and one from a "neutral" state. Letters were to be written to the relevant governments and to newspapers in free countries. Though physical torture and capital punishment were opposed in all cases, no overt political position was to be taken. (I remember there was quite a row when an Amnesty "country report" on Argentina went so far as to describe a guerrilla raid as "daring.") By adhering to these rules, AI became a credible worldwide group to which even the most repressive governments sometimes had to pay attention. All honor to its founder Peter Benenson, who died earlier this year.

And now look. I think it is fairly safe to say that not one detainee in Guantanamo is there because of an expression of opinion. (And those whose "opinion" is that all infidels must die are not exactly prisoners of conscience.) Morally neutral on this point, apparently, Amnesty nonetheless finds its voice by describing the prison itself as "the gulag of our times." No need to waste words here: Not everyone in the gulag was a "prisoner of conscience," either. But if an organization that ostensibly protects the rights of prisoners is unaware of the nature of a colossal system of forced labor and arbitrary detention—replete with physical torture, starvation, and brutal execution—then the moral compass has become disordered beyond repair. This is not even neutrality between the fireman and the fire. It surely expresses a covert sympathy with the aims and objectives of jihad and an overt, if witless and sinister, hatred of the United States. If only this were the only symptom of that tendency.

Germany's Conservative Problem

This woman will most likely be the next chancellor of Germany. Angela Merkel is the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU), which is leading current Prime Minister Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) by 15 points in polls. American liberals are already blaming it on the stupidity of Germany's red state voters.

I guess Germany's 13% unemployment rate turned out not to be such a strong selling point, which is what happens when you let liberals run your country for too long . However, I can recommend a good slogan, “Vote SDP: You’ll never have to work again. Even if you want to.”

Oddly enough, the CDU is comprised of mostly Christians, and white Christians* at that. Coincidentally, Germany (like the U.S.) is comprised of mostly white Christians.

*No comment from Howard Dean yet

German Academia as Delusional As American Counterparts

The University of Maryland has a campus in Germany. It is open to anyone, but it is primarily attended by soldiers, their families and citizens working for the U.S. abroad (DOD, State Department, etc.). For the 2005 commencement, UM invites an American bashing German professor. Hilarity ensues:

A local expert on German-American relations recently gave new University of Maryland graduates something to talk about — and, in some cases, chant about — with a commencement address some thought bashed America.
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Professor Detlef Junker, founder and director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, a self-professed great admirer of the United States — and the man who gave the address positing German-American relations were at their lowest ebb since World War II because of Bush administration policies — said he’s just the messenger.

“I still think it’s a balanced and fair statement and it is a correct European perspective,” Junker said Monday. “I thought on that day of history I should not only give some general niceties but say something substantial. After all, this is Jefferson’s first principle: Americans cannot be both ignorant and free.”
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While he was speaking — about the “almost free fall of the reputation of the U.S.,” which he credited to several Bush administration policies, foremost, the “unilateral self-empowerment of the United States through the doctrine of the pre-emptive strike” — Junker wasn’t sure what was happening with the crowd of more than 1,000 people.
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Afterward he knew. It wasn’t just the booing. One graduate came on stage, stopped and saluted the flag and then looked directly at Junker. “He gave me a very nasty look,” Junker said.

It could just be me, but I don’t think it is generally a good idea to call your audience ignorant.

Let Them Eat... Steak

Duncan Hunter, California Congressman and Chairman of the House Armed Service Committee had this to say on Fox News regarding the detention practices at Guantanamo Bay:

HUNTER: How do we treat these people? I sat down yesterday with the menu from Guantanamo so the average American can understand how we're brutalizing people at Guantanamo and I've got it right here. They're going to be having orange glazed chicken, fresh fruit Group A, steamed peas and mushrooms, rice pilaf, another form of torture for the hijackers. We treat them very well. If you go back to Sunday, it looks like it's lemon baked fish as an entrée, and if you look at the food and you also look at the list that has been prepared for the Armed Services Committee, which lists abuses of the way that you can abuse a prisoner, feeding them the food that we feed our soldiers, that is the MREs, which is the new C rations, is considered actually to be a form of abuse, something probably the manufactures of C rations or the new rations don't agree with.

Now treating terrorists better than American Soldiers is inhumane. It is the Burque Boy’s humble opinion that the whining about Guantanamo Bay is led by those (including American liberals and other enemies of the U.S.) that unconditionally hate the U.S. and their policies. Donald Rumsfeld could personally feed them lobster and give daily pedicures, and they would somehow find problem with that.

Jacko Beats It

Michael Jackson returns to Neverland a free man.

A jury pronounced the 46-year-old singer not guilty of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor, not guilty of plying the boy with alcohol, and not guilty of conspiring to abduct, extort and falsely imprison the child and his family.

“A 13-year-old cancer survivor” is one way of putting it. Another way is “a 13-year-old money grubbing punk”. Now his family can go through with their original intention, which of course is the civil suit.

AP Gets it Wrong Again

AP News -- Authorities say a disagreement over a frozen snack led a Mississippi teenager to fatally shoot his father and threaten his mother. Curtis McCray Jr., 16, was arrested and charged with murder last week after allegedly shooting Curtis McCray Sr. with a shotgun from about 20 feet away, the Pike County Sheriff's Department said. Investigator David Haywood said the shooting occurred after the teen was punished for being involved in a minor wreck, and the boy became enraged when his parents returned home eating Sno-Balls and there wasn't one for him.

Now every good-blooded American* knows that Sno-Balls are not a frozen treat, but rather a pink coconut and marshmallow covered, cream filled, chocolate sponge cake. And of course there wasn’t one for him – they only come two to a pack. Duh.

* Oops, sorry. I forgot that this was not coming from a good-blooded American, but rather the Associated Press, which somehow manages to get killer photographs from 3 or 4 different angles of every murder and car bomb in Iraq.

Maybe He Would Have Preferred Squealing Like a Pig

According to Time Magazine, a logbook from Guantanamo Bay includes entries for refusing a detainee a bathroom break, making him bark like a dog, and awakening him up with Christina Aguilera music.

Sen. Chuck Hagel had this to say:

It's not appropriate," said the Senator on CNN's "Late Edition." "It's not at all within the standards of who we are as a civilized people, what our laws are.

"If in fact we are treating prisoners this way, it's not only wrong, it's dangerous and very dumb and very shortsighted," the Nebraska Republican said.

"This is not how you win the people of the world over to our side, especially the Muslim world."

They’re blowing up school busses, killing children, and chopping people’s heads off; we’re making them play "See 'n Say" and listen to pop music; and according to Chuck “Blame America” Hagel, we’re the bad guys.

Uh Oh, 15 Minutes to Wapner

DNC Hothead Howard “I Have a Scream” Dean and U.S. opposition leader Sen. Harry Reid held a press conference which apparently involved a bunch of reporters crammed into a room shouting over each other to get their questions in.

After several seconds, a booming voice cut through the noise. It belonged to Brian Wilson, a Fox News correspondent who was standing in the middle of the crowd. He asked Dean "if people are focused on the other things that you've said about hating Republicans, about Republicans being dishonest and then this latest comment about the Republican Party is full of white Christians. You say you hate Republicans -- does that mean you also'' hate white Christians?

Dean’s response: YEEEEEAAAAHHHRRRRRGGG!...

Ok but seriously, Dean gave the DNC Chairman in the headlights look and Reid went off about how the Congressional cafeteria always serves fish sticks on Fridays. Wilson of course was kicked out and returned to California for some killer waves.

News Flash: Kerry Dumb as a Bag of Hammers

So now that Kerry finally releases his military records, we find out that he wasn’t trying to hide his service, but rather his grades which were attached to his application for Officer Candidate School.

Kerry… got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D's in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.

The transcript shows that Kerry's freshman-year average was 71. He scored a 61 in geology, a 63 and 68 in two history classes, and a 69 in political science. His top score was a 79, in another political science course. Another of his strongest efforts, a 77, came in French class.

So when Kerry said “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it,” he wasn’t intellectualizing, he was just being an idiot.

Hillary Shares Expertise About Liars

Just in case you forgot, Hillary reminds you that she is still a liberal. In a fund raiser for her Senate re-election campaign she “castigated President Bush and Congressional Republicans yesterday as being mad with power and self-righteousness, complained that the news media have been timid in taking on the administration, and suggested that some Washington Republicans have a God complex”

"I know it's frustrating for many of you, it's frustrating for me. Why can't the Democrats do more to stop them?" she said to growing applause. "I can tell you this: It's very hard to stop people who have no shame about what they're doing. It is very hard to tell people that they are making decisions that will undermine our checks and balances and constitutional system of government who don't care. It is very hard to stop people who have never been acquainted with the truth."

Yeah, but what does Bill Clinton have to do with this?

Mrs. Clinton described Republican leaders as messianic in their beliefs, willing to manipulate facts and even "destroy" the Senate to gain political advantage.

And to think that I thought it was the voters that stripped democrats of their political power.

Socialsts Smarter than Democrats

These words came out of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s mouth yesterday: "Between pleasing Bush and doing what Spanish people want, I will go for what Spaniards want, and you [the Popular Party] are, naturally, within your rights to decide to please the U.S. president," Zapatero said.

You might remember this nugget from John Kerry: "If and when you do it [protect the United States of America]… you've got to do it in a way that passes the, the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people, understand fully why you're doing what you're doing, and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons. "

And of course this response from George Bush: "I'm not exactly sure what you mean, 'passes the global test,' [that] you take preemptive action if you pass a global test. My attitude is you take preemptive action in order to protect the American people, that you act in order to make this country secure."

The Spanish socialists have it figured out. Act in the interest of your country. American liberals on the other hand prefer that you take an international poll, get your nails done, sleep on it, and then do whatever is politically correct.

Pope Fed Through Nose

This just in: Pope John Paul is “getting nutrition from a tube in his nose”. Michael Schiavo has petitioned the Florida Supreme Court on the Pontiff’s right-to-die. Schiavo is quoted as saying, “I distinctly recall the Pope telling me over a bacon cheeseburger that if ever had to be fed from tube, that he would rather slowly starve to death. Plus have you heard him recently? He can’t even talk. All that comes out of his mouth is some foreign sounding gobbledy gook.”

An Eye for an Eye

This man is Robert Harlan. He kidnapped Rhonda Maloney and proceeded to rape her. She escaped and managed to flag down Jaquie Creazzo, a passing motorist. Mr. Harlan caught up with the two women, shot Ms. Creazzo, leaving her paralyzed, then beat and killed Ms. Maloney. In 1995 he was sentenced to death. Two days ago, the Colorado Supreme Court commuted his sentence to life in prison. Why? Because the jury consulted the Bible.

After Mr. Harlan's conviction, the judge sent the jury off to deliberate about the death penalty with an instruction to think beyond the narrow confines of the law, as required by Colorado law. Each juror, the judge told the panel, must make an "individual moral assessment," in deciding whether Mr. Harlan should live.

Even Mr. Harlans’ lawyer had urged jurors to consider biblical wisdom with a request that they find mercy in their hearts "as God ultimately took mercy on Abraham." They instead chose an “eye for an eye”.

This jury chose the Bible as their compass. The Colorado Supreme Court declared that unlawful and compared the Bible to "outside influences that are always to be avoided, like newspaper articles or television programs about the case".

How is it that a handful of judges can ban the Pledge of Allegiance, allow for the starvation of a woman, made legalize slavery, endorse murder, outlaw prayer and declare the Bible illegal?

As CBN puts it, The Constitution starts off “We the People”, not “We the Judges”, yet some would have us believe that judges are the ultimate validation of law.

So what did the framers actually think? The answers are written down in history, in a collection of essays called "The Federalist Papers," where our Founding Fathers explained certain provisions in the Constitution. Alexander Hamilton expressed his belief that the courts would have the least power of the three branches of government when he wrote that, "The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution." And in 1820, Thomas Jefferson agreed with Hamilton on the judiciary's role, warning that "to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed."

Is it any wonder that Democrats are fighting to keep conservatives out of the Judicial Branch? With old media floundering, it is the last true instrument for them to force feed liberalism on the American public.

Liberalism 101

Your left-wing lesson of the day:

Starving this woman to death “is not a cruel procedure", “is a very comforting” way to die, and preserves the "sanctity of marriage".

But an Al-Qaeda blanket party requires a Congressional Hearing.

In summary:
Killing Americans: Good; Humiliating terrorists: Bad.

The L.A. Times Goes on a Bender

Under California’s Work Release Program, mental patients* are now able to work on the editorial staff of the LA Times (*either that or it’s Bill Moyers, it’s difficult to tell the difference).

Their latest editorial is such a target rich environment, I don’t even know where to begin. The Times accuses Republican leaders of using the Schiavo case as an “opportunity to appease their radical right-wing constituents”, and “shamelessly interject the federal government into the wrenching Schiavo family dispute.”

By radical “right-wing” they mean anyone this side of Al Gore (including you Joe Lieberman). Now there’s a concept, appeasing your constituents. Democrats ought to try that. They might win more elections. Plus I never thought I’d see the day liberals shun some good old-fashioned government interjection.

The Times even went as far to call this act a “constitutional coup d’etat”. Answers.com defines a “coup d’etat” as “the sudden overthrow of a government”. So as long as you consider a handful of activist judges in Florida the Federal Government, then you’re right. But then again, those were the same guys that tried to deliver Gore a victory in 2000, so you can see their confusion. And to think I thought this is how checks and balances work. Two branches of the government team up to bitch slap the other one when they, you know… like say, try to kill someone.

Then there’s this little nugget: “this case once again shows that some social conservatives are happy to see the federal government acquire Stalinist proportions when imposing their morality on the rest of the country.”

Ah yes, there it is - the obligatory comparison of the Republican Party to a dead dictator. So saving a life is the bureaucratic, authoritarian exercise of state power… but the long slow death of someone by starvation is ok.

They accuse Republicans of “wresting jurisdiction over a right-to-die case away from Florida's judiciary”. And we all know that the right-to-die is outlined in the Declaration of Independence - right after that "life, liberty, pursuit of happiness" mumbo jumbo. Andrea Yates carried out her children’s right-to-die, Ted Bundy oversaw about 40 right-to-die cases, Hitler… well, you get the point.

The Times describes Terri Schiavo as “bedridden for 15 years since she was resuscitated after she stopped breathing, Schiavo now breathes but is incapable of eating or drinking on her own.” And to think we let Christopher Reeve live under these same conditions for almost 10 years. I knew we should have killed him when we had the chance. Preferably sometime before Superman IV.

Working a Oui Bit More

France moves to dismantle its 35 hour work week, giving the French even less time for personal hygiene.

Heated debate over dismantling the working time law has fed into wider political and literary soul-searching in France, on themes ranging from the country's economic frailty and bureaucratic office culture to whether quality of life should be measured in time or money.

For Sophie Guilbaud, a Parisian who works as a loan company manager, that last question is a no-brainer.

"Work is not the only thing in my life," she said, suggesting she might quit rather than work more hours.

With France’s unemployment benefits almost equal to actually working, why would you want to work? Get yourself a nice job, then quit. Let the poor slobs who actually choose to work bear the burden of your indolence. Of course with a decreasing labor base, you will eventually have to raise taxes to support the idle, and eventually you make more money by not working. Thus giving the jobless more time for café au lait and quiche.

But with unemployment at 10 percent, politicians of all stripes acknowledge that the country's unique 35-hour law has failed in its original ambition: to force employers to hire massively. What's more, there are strong signs that it hurt living standards as employers froze salaries to make up for lost labor.

"The intention was to spread work around, but the effect was to spread our salaries around," Thierry Breton, France's new finance minister, said last week.

A government-backed bill that effectively restores the previous 39-hour workweek is expected to win final approval this week, despite massive public protests earlier this month and denunciations by the now out-of-power Socialists.

Go figure another socialist reform failed. But there’s more:

Often touted as the working mother's godsend, the 35-hour week actually made life harder for poorer women and single parents, according to women's organization CLEF.

"The women that suffered were the lowest paid, who needed all the overtime they could get to make ends meet," said CLEF president Monique Halpern. "I think this is one of the reasons that [Former Socialist Prime Minister] Lionel Jospin lost the elections."

Of course American liberals think it’s because France’s voters are stupid. Yes, believe it or not, Jospin lost to Jean-Pierre Raffarin and the UMP, France’s… (gasp) right-wing party. Of course, France’s idea of right-wing is Howard Dean.

Last year, a parliamentary committee reported that the 35-hour week cost France more than $13 billion a year, casting doubt on a labor ministry study that suggested it had created 350,000 jobs between 1998 and 2002.

But Nicolas Sarkozy, who pushed hard for the law to be loosened while serving as finance minister last year and is expected to one day run for president, has no regrets.

"It's wonderful to see so many people marching to defend the jobs they already have, pushing aside so many others who would also like the chance to have a job," he said.

See, not everyone in France is, as they say “trés stupid”.

SMACK!

Note to Self: Don't Go Into a Coma in Florida

This woman is not brain dead...

This man is...

Rep Jim Davis (D–Fla) sees saving Terri Schiavo’s life as” a clear threat to our democracy. Congress is ignoring the constitutional separation of power and is on the verge of telling states, courts, judges and juries that their opinions, deliberations and decisions do not matter."

52 Democrats and 5 Republicans voted against saving Terri’s life. I’ve said it before, Democrats have no platform. As a result there are relegated to just opposing anything Republican backed. Even if it means killing someone.

Constitutional Malarkey

Barbara Boxer made the mistake of showing liberalism’s true colors at a speech at MoveOn. The Constitution requires a simple majority of the Senate (i.e., 51 votes) to confirm judges. Boxer wants 60. If you can’t pervert the Constitution (i.e., Roe v. Wade, Separation of Church and State, the Pledge of Allegiance) then change it. This is what she said:

Why would we give lifetime appointments to people who earn up to $200,000 a year, with absolutely a great retirement system, and all the things all Americans wish for, with absolutely no check and balance except that one confirmation vote. So we're saying we think you ought to get nine votes over the 51 required. That isn't too much to ask for such a super important position. There ought to be a super vote. Don't you think so? It's the only check and balance on these people. They're in for life. They don't stand for election like we do, which is scary.

News Flash: There was an election - it took place in November. Conservatism won and liberalism lost. Americans voted a Republican President to nominate judges, and a Republican Senate to confirm them. Majority rules. If you want more power, then win more elections. That California saw it fit to elect her to the Senate does not mean the rest of the country should be forced fed her delusional ideology. Now that’s scary.

They lost the House, they lost the Senate, they lost the Presidency, they lost control of the media, they’re about to lose their stranglehold on the Federal Court System, and liberals are scared… and desperate

Wolfowitz Derangement Syndrome

What is Europe’s beef with Paul Wolfowitz?

It must be his well-known role in the instigation of the Iraq War, but according to the latest poll, 61.5% of post-war Iraqis now feel their country is headed in the right direction as opposed to 23.2 thinking negatively, a stunning differential of nearly 40% which dwarfs any similar polls I have ever seen about America and Europe. The only conclusion we can draw from this is perhaps we should have invaded Europe. It would have cheered them up.

This Place Sucks

Superfriends meets Office Space. Pure genius. Watch the whole thing here.

Robin: No one in this country can ever pronounce my name right. It's not that hard. Na-gheen-an-a-jar. Nagheenanajar.

Batman: Yeah, well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton.

Robin: You know there's nothing wrong with that name.

Batman: There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.

Robin: Hmm... well why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?

Batman: No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.

Overruled

We don’t get MTV Hits in Germany, so I don’t know who Dorian Davis is, but he makes a heck of a lot of sense.

In the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, it is perfectly legal to finance and train terrorists--and harbor them--but illegal to say the Pledge of Allegiance...

Oddly, modern liberalism is predisposed to believe these judges are infallible and enlightened, and ought to be entitled to override the majority opinion on issues like abortion and gay marriage. Poppycock.

A few questions for liberals. 1) Are judges smarter than we are? 2) What makes them smart? 3) Law school? 4) Is Anton Scalia smart? 5) If not, why? 6) If so, then who do you actually trust to make decisions about abortion and gay marriage--voters, or a panel of nine Anton Scalias? 7) Finally, if you preferred the voters to Anton Scalia, then why on earth should the rest of us put our fates in the hands of the Ruth Bader Ginsbergs or the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals?

Where Have All the Liberals Gone?

Or so wonders Ann Coulter:

Liberals have been completely intellectually vanquished. Actually, they lost the war of ideas long ago. It's just that now their defeat is so obvious, even they've noticed. As new DNC Chairman Howard Dean might say, it's all over but the screaming… The only people liberals can find to put up a fight these days are ex-Klanners and other assorted nuts.

There's former KKK "Kleagle" and Democratic Sen. Bob Byrd, who compared the Republicans to Hitler last week. Byrd having been a charter member of a fascist organization himself, no one was sure if this was intended as a critique or a compliment.

Howard Dean — chairman of the party that supports murder, adultery, lying about adultery, coveting other people's money, stealing other people's money, mass-producing human embryos for spare parts like an automotive chop shop and banning God — has called the Republican Party "evil." One Democrat in the audience, a preschool teacher no less, complained that Dean was soft-pedaling his message.

Teddy Kennedy's big new idea is to wheel out his 18th proposal to raise the minimum wage. He's been doing this since wages were paid in Spanish doubloons (which coincidentally are now mostly found underwater). Kennedy refuses to countenance any risky schemes like trying to grow the economy so people making minimum wage get raises because they've been promoted. Kennedy's going down and he's taking the party with him! (Recognize the pattern?)

I keep expecting the real Democrats to appear and drag these nuts out of the room, saying, Oh sorry, he's escaped again — don't worry, he does this all the time, and then Howard Dean will stand up and have no pants on.