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.

What Exactly Did She Say?

Harvard’s gay, lesbian and surgically altered have their feather boas ruffled over remarks by Jada Pinkett Smth at the school’s Cultural Rhythms show for, get this... being to heterosexual.

"Some of the content was extremely heteronormative, and made BGLTSA members feel uncomfortable,'' Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance co-chairman Jordan Woods told the Harvard Crimson.

And what exactly where here offending words? (WARNING: Liberal activists, ACLU lawyers, journalists, celebrities, and the otherwise reality-challenged, read no further. You will find this... horrifying)

“Don’t let anybody define who you are,” she said. “Don’t let them put you in a box. Don’t be afraid to break whatever ceiling anybody has put on you.”

She told the audience about her childhood with teenage parents both addicted to heroin, but triumphantly exclaimed, “I can stand here on this stage and say that I’ve proven them all wrong.”

She then addressed issues regarding the roles of men and women today.“Women, you can have it all—a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career,” she said.

“They say you gotta choose. Nah, nah, nah. We are a new generation of women. We got to set a new standard of rules around here. You can do whatever it is you want. All you have to do is want it.”“To my men, open your mind, open your eyes to new ideas. Be open,” she added.

Of course, this comes as no surprise as Harvard has taken the lead in being a critical opponent of hate speech everywhere. For example, take their exposé on Ward Churchill’s hate filled rhetoric:

[Crickets chirping…] Burque Boy

Best Seller

Look for the book Dem Strategy for Dummies (Isn’t that title a bit redundant?) An excerpt [with editorial comments]:

1. If Repubs say we're making a mistake, we're on the right track.
[If that were the case, then democrats have never been on the wrong track.]

2. If Repubs say we're being reasonable, we're making a mistake.
[Hard to argue with this logic. If a liberal is doing anything reasonable, they are likely experiencing a momentary lapse on sanity.]

3. If Repubs snicker at a candidate (think Dean), they are afraid of him.
[Just like they snickered at Kerry, Dukakis, Mondale…]

4. If Repubs praise a candidate (think Lieberman), he's a loser and/or a spineless wimp.
[Don’t kid yourself. There are plenty of democratic losers and wimps that don’t get Republican praise: Gore, Kennedy, Moore, Streisand, Churchill, Eason, Rather…]

Weapons of Mass Delusion

The Pentagon has a new weapon up its sleeve… a new "energy pulse" that can deliver a jolt of excruciating pain from more than a mile away.

The weapons involve Pulsed Energy Projectiles (PEPs), which fire a laser pulse that in turn generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something solid. It can cause temporary paralysis and knock a person off their feet.

Of course this has terrorists, liberals, France, CBS, the New York Times and other enemies of the US's panties in a wad.

Documents uncovered by the Sunshine Project, a self-proclaimed biotechnology watchdog, also reveal that the same technology could be used to kill a person.

I got news for you Einstein... IT’S A FREAKIN' WEAPON! That's what weapons do. They kill people and blow stuff up. This is what Merriam-Webster has to say:

Main Entry: weap·on
Pronunciation: 'we-pan
Definition: Kills people and blows stuff up

For the record, the director of the Sunshine Project is a German biologist named Jan van Aken. And well, if anyone who is an expert on inflicting pain and death on large numbers of people, it would be the Germans.

Rove's Brilliant Plan

This is good. Read the whole thing here:

Rove: And now it is time. Time to unveil our most hideous, most perfect plan. (Rove grips the briefcase with both hands) Do you people truly know of the evil that man can attain? Do you know of the Dark Lord’s majesty? Do you know of a terror so sublime that any lesser atrocity—Salem; the Holocaust; our coming assassination and cannibalism of the Pope—will from this point on make you giggle like little girls? Behold!

(Rove removes from the briefcase several sheets of paper. He studies them intently; every eye in the room is trained upon him. Finally, Rove speaks...)

Rove: This is the frickin’ Doomsday Device? A bunch of bogus National Guard memos? What the hell?

Clarence Thomas: Well, what we thought we’d do, see, was hand these over to the media and ...

Rove: Oh, come on! These are dated 1972 but they’re in Microsoft Word! Hellloooo! You think anybody in their right mind will fall for these? Oh, look here; you haven’t even changed the default settings! Why, I could type these up at home!

Ann Coulter: With respect, sir, the plan was to ...

Rove: Plan? Plan? Listen, legs, this plan wouldn’t fool a Kennedy! Or a crack-addicted homeless person! This so-called plan wouldn’t rate a segment on Air America! This plan I’m looking at wouldn’t be posted at Democratic goddamn Underground! This half-assed, retard plan isn’t worth the ...

Hugh Hewitt: Actually, we were thinking of giving the memos to Dan Rather.

Rove: Proceed.

How Red is the "Blue" Party?

For those of you that always thought the Democrats were in bed with the commies. Looks like it’s true.

Peter Schweizer, a Hoover Institution research fellow, has just written a new book, "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over
Communism."

Schweizer, after scouring once-classified KGB, East German Stasi and Soviet Communist Party files, discovered incontrovertible evidence that the Soviets not only played footsie with high-ranking Democrats they also worked behind the scenes to influence American elections.
…
Soviet diplomatic accounts and material from the archives show that in January 1984 former President Jimmy Carter dropped by Soviet Ambassador Anatoly
Dobrynin's residence for a private meeting.

Carter expressed his concern about and opposition to Reagan's defense buildup. He boldly told Dobrynin that Moscow would be better off with someone else in the White House. If Reagan won, he warned, "There would not be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan remained in power."
…
Schweizer reveals Russian documents that show that in the waning days of the 1980 campaign, the Carter White House dispatched businessman Armand Hammer to the Soviet Embassy.

Hammer was a longtime Soviet-phile, and he explained to the Soviet ambassador that Carter was "clearly alarmed" at the prospect of losing to Reagan.

Hammer pleaded with the Russians for help. He asked if the Kremlin could expand Jewish emigration to bolster Carter's standing in the polls.

"Carter won't forget that service if he is elected," Hammer told Dobrynin.

Carter was not the only Democrat to make clear to the Russians where their loyalty lay. As the election neared in 1984, Dobrynin recalls meetings with Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.

O'Neill told Dobrynin that no effort should be spared to prevent "that demagogue Reagan" from being re-elected.

Too bad there aren’t as many commies as their used to be. Looks like liberals will have to settle for hugging a terrorist.

When Liberals Attack Part II, or Dammit Jim! I’m a Doctor, not the DNC Chariman

Yesterday, Howard Dean debated Richard Perle on American foreign policy, National security, the Iraq War, and whether Folger’s Crystals tastes more like fresh brewed coffee.

Perle is a bright, well-spoken, experienced conservative foreign policy expert, and Howard Dean is … well, Howard Dean.

The debate began with a spectator throwing his shoe at Perle (Honestly, who throws a shoe?) Fortunately, as with most activists, he threw like a girl and couldn’t even clear the front of the stage, even though he was about 10 ft from Perle (video here). Which pretty much doesn’t matter since he was probably throwing a sandal anyway.

During the debate Dean clarified the DNC’s position on National Security, “Defense is a lot broader than swaggering around saying you’re going to kick Saddam’s butt.”

This guy is going to bring the American Democratic Party the credibility it needs!

When Liberals Attack

When 30 some Greenpeace protestors attempted to storm the trading floor of London’s International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), they were met with a collective can of whoop ass at the door.

“We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”

Another said: “I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.” Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: “Sod off, Swampy.”

Greenpeace had hoped to paralyze oil trading at the exchange in the City near Tower Bridge on the day that the Kyoto Protocol came into force. “The Kyoto Protocol has modest aims to improve the climate and we need huge aims,” a spokesman said.

Protesters conceded that mounting the operation after lunch may not have been the best plan. “The violence was instant,” Jon Beresford, 39, an electrical engineer from Nottingham, said.

“They grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.” When a trader left the building shortly before 2pm, using a security swipe card, a protester dropped some coins on the floor and, as he bent down to pick them up, put his boot in the door to keep it open.

Two minutes later, three Greenpeace vans pulled up and another 30 protesters leapt out and were let in by the others.

They made their way to the trading floor, blowing whistles and sounding fog horns, encountering little resistance from security guards. Rape alarms were tied to helium balloons to float to the ceiling and create noise out of reach. The IPE conducts “open outcry” trading where deals are shouted across the pit. By making so much noise, the protesters hoped to paralyse trading.

But they were set upon by traders, most of whom were under the age of 25. “They were kicking and punching men and women indiscriminately,” a photographer said. “It was really ugly, but Greenpeace did not fight back.”

Mr Beresford said: “They followed the guys into the lobby and kept kicking and punching them there. They literally kicked them on to the pavement.”

In related news, anther 20 Greenpeace activists were injured after chaining themselves to an salad bar in an Alabama nursing home while protesting the serving of Mrs. Paul’s Fish Sticks. Faced with the prospect of leftover Salisbury Steak, elderly residents beat the protestors with walkers, canes and Metamucil bottles.

Liberals 1 : Conservatives 246,387

Score one for the Liberals. They out a Conservative journalist. Of course if you put a thousand monkeys in a room, they’ll eventually write The Grapes of Wrath. Ok, maybe not the Grapes of Wrath, but definitely a CNN piece.

Jeff Gannon had been under scrutiny since asking Bush at a press conference last month how he could work with Senate Democratic leaders "who seem to have divorced themselves from reality."

Seems like a respectable question to me, but recall that I told you that sort of Common Sense has no business in American media, and he would never make it very far as a mainstream journalist.

This is what the left has to say about it:

Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), welcomed the news. In his question at the presidential news conference, Gannon had said that in an effort to disparage the U.S. economy "Harry Reid was talking about soup lines," which is not accurate and which Gannon later acknowledged was a characterization he picked up from Rush Limbaugh."

New media or old media, the fact is the question he asked was based on a lie, and that's unacceptable," Manley said. "Fundamentally, what he was reporting was not truthful."

The media not reporting the truth? Well I’ve never.

The Media Ain't Got No Manhood Left

This is a bit of old news, but I gotta speak up:

Marine Lieutenant General and outstanding American citizen James Mattis, recently made comments at a San Diego forum that has the military-hating, US-bashing, self-righteous American left media’s panties in a wad.

He said, “Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. . . . It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you, I like brawling."

"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil," he added. "You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."

Having been a soldier myself, let me explain how the military works. An Infantryman’s, and in particular a Marine’s job is to kill people and break things. General Patton said it best, "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." Or at least that’s how George C. Scott played it.

Apparently some of the left of the US would prefer a kinder more sensitive military. Even the Russians got it figured out:

What do liberals think Marines are doing in Iraq, handing out condoms to AIDS patients? Would liberals rather General Mattis had said, "I hate to fight. I think war is much too bloody. I think we should stay home and polish our nails and listen to show tunes."

Somehow, I think liberals would.

Liberals, especially young liberals seem to forget that war is a very nasty thing. It is not a panty raid on a women’s dormitory at a local college or a beer chugging contest at an off campus bar. In battle, the enemy has one thing in mind, he wants to kill. War is a contest of kill, or be killed and it is not nice.

Thank you again to the American media for aiding and abetting the enemy.

Get out of your coffee houses. Turn off Oprah. Wake up.

Mark Your Calendars

March 13-19 is Sunshine Week and the Burque Boy is as giddy as a schoolgirl. It’s a time when Big Media journalists come together hold hands, gossip about boys, braid each other’s hair, a whine about how irrelevant they've become.

According to the official press release:

Journalism organizations are planning a nationwide campaign to press for government access, which they say is being denied more often by officials who claim post-Sept 11 security concerns warrant keeping information secret.

For a week beginning March 13, news outlets will run stories, editorials and cartoons on the subject. The effort announced Tuesday has been dubbed "Sunshine Week.""From city hall to Congress, and from police chiefs' offices to the attorney general's office, the trend toward secrecy is unmistakable," said Tom Curley, president and CEO of The Associated Press.

"The most important thing from our standpoint, of course, is to connect what we do to the public interest, and to line up with the people and remind them how important it is that they get access to what their elected representatives are doing," he said.

Well at least he admits that media is not connected to the public's interest. So let me get this straight: At a time when Big Media has been accused of bias, aiding and abetting the enemy and all around deceitfulness, they want the be to ones to hold the Government accountable. So if they are watching the Government, who is watching them? Oh yeah, that’s right...

Sharpton Takes the Bait

Sean Hannity lures the Reverend Al into dissing liberal Teflon boy, Bill Clinton:

HANNITY: Hey, the president said tonight, for our children, that there's a looming crisis, Reverend Al, on Social Security. He said, if we don't deal with it now, it'll affect the next generation of baby boomers, whether or not they'll have enough money to live on and retire. It'll burden their children, burden their children's children. And he says, in 2023, two people will be working for every one person drawing Social Security.

SHARPTON: So that's why we should outsource jobs? That's why we should give tax cuts?

HANNITY: Is the president wrong?

SHARPTON: Yes. Not only is he wrong, his general economic policies would guarantee a burden on those...

HANNITY: But those statements about Social Security are wrong?

SHARPTON: I believe those statements are wrong. I believe, as just said to Newt Gingrich by Alan here, that clearly that is not backed up by impartial, nonpartisan agencies.

HANNITY: You're not going to like what I have to tell you.

SHARPTON: Of course I won't.

HANNITY: You want to know why?

SHARPTON: Of course I won't.

HANNITY: Those statements that I just read to you were Bill Clinton's statements when he was president.

SHARPTON: [Reverend in the headlights look]

The Pats Do It Again

What a great year for Massachusetts. The Patriots win their third Super Bowl, the Red Sox break the curse of the Bambino and even the Celtics are leading the Atlantic Division. It looks like the only loser from Boston is John Kerry.

Social Security, Iraq and Mr. Peabody

The Democrats have come up with an ingenious strategy to win the hearts and minds of the American voter - Following the example of their lapdog 2004 presidential candidate, their plan is to (a) not have a plan, and by (b) not having a plan, they are pretty much relegated to do nothing more than opposing all things Republican

Below are just a few excerpts from the post-State of the Union whining:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Democrats hit President Bush on Wednesday for his Iraq policies and planned Social Security overhaul, hoping a vigorous response to his State of the Union speech will fuel a turnabout from their election setbacks last fall.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who shared the response with Pelosi, said Bush's Social Security plans sound more like "Social Security roulette" than reform.

For those of you who missed his subtle joke, the good Senator Reid is from Las Vegas. Get it? Yeah, me neither.

Even so, Democrats were volunteering few detailed alternatives to Bush proposals. Reid told reporters that without a specific White House blueprint for overhauling Social Security, he saw no need for Democrats to offer "a counterplan to nothing."

Of course, some of Mr. Reid’s counterparts disagree:

Even stalwart Democrats agree that Social Security needs changes to be able to continue to provide for retirees in the middle of this century. However, all sides have different beliefs on what those changes should be.

"What we need to do is make sure there's enough money in the Social Security trust fund without increasing the risk to maintain the guaranteed benefits," Corzine told FOX News. "I believe in people investing. We have to increase investment in the United States. I just don't think we ought to be increasing risk in Social Security."

Apparantly what I need to do is make sure that I have absolutely no dependence on social Security or any government service when I retire.

The man whom Bush defeated last November, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., took on the president as well. He said, "Every American deserves a real plan to improve retirement security - not weaken it," and said Bush must do more to unite Iraqis aand persuade other nations to help train an Iraqi security force.

But wait, I though Mr. Kerry had a secret plan to end the war… or wait, maybe that was Nixon. Sherman, set the way back machine to August 1st:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me give you a crack at this, but in a slightly different angle. Going forward, Senator Kerry said on Thursday night, I know what we need to do in Iraq, but there weren't a lot of specifics there. Specifically, be as specific as you can, what are the differences between your approach and President Bush in Iraq going forward?

SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS: Well, the first and I think probably the single most important is with a fresh president, with a new president, we have the credibility to go to friends around the world, potential friends, to NATO, for example, and get them involved in helping provide security.

STEPHANOPOULOS: NATO is involved now.

EDWARDS: [Gives the Senator in the headlights look]

STEPHANOPOULOS: But how do you do it?

EDWARDS: [Mumbling] Uh, oh! Fifteen minute to Wapner.

SENATOR JOHN F. KERRY: I agree with everything John just said, and I would add to it. I've been involved in this for a long time, longer than George Bush. I've spent 20 years negotiating, working, fighting for different kinds of treaties and different relationships around the world. I know that as president there's huge leverage that will be available to me, enormous cards to play, and I'm not going to play them in public, George. I'm not going to play them before I'm president.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So we're not going to see ...

KERRY: But I have the ability, I have the ability to sit down with leaders that I know. I know President Mubarak. I know Crown Prince Abdullah. I know King Abdullah, we’ve wind surfed together. I've been there to those regions, and I believe there are many cards we have available to us that haven't even been put on the table by this administration.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But, Senator, forgive me. That sounds like the famous old Nixon secret plan.

KERRY: I am not a crook... er, I mean I don't care what it sounds like. It's truth. I don't care what it sounds like. It’s the truth. I don’t care what it…

EDWARDS: [Takes Kerry aside and replaces his batteries]

Bill Moyers Puts the "Fun" in Fundamentalism

No longer financed by taxpayer dollars, Liberal blowhorn Bill Moyers is off his medication again:

One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress.

And I always thought the delusional stuck to journalism. He accuses the government of, get this... being religious:

Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.

Oh curse those religious wackos! Not only are they going to destroy the environment...

So what does this mean for public policy and the environment? Go to Grist to read a remarkable work of reporting by the journalist Glenn Scherer -- "The Road to Environmental Apocalypse." Read it and you will see how millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even hastened -- as a sign of the coming
apocalypse.

But also kill poor people...

I read the news just this week and learned how the Environmental Protection Agency had planned to spend $9 million -- $2 million of it from the administration's friends at the American Chemistry Council -- to pay poor families to continue to use pesticides in their homes. These pesticides have been linked to neurological damage in children, but instead of ordering an end to their use, the government and the industry were going to offer the families $970 each, as well as a camcorder and children's clothing, to serve as guinea pigs for the study.

Ooh a camcorder! Where do I sign up? And where does Moy-yo get these outlandish accusations?

I read all this in the news.

Phew! For a second, I thought he was actually going to cite a reliable source.

News Flash: Iraqi Militants take Toy Hostage

Iraqi militants claimed in a Web statement Tuesday to have taken an American soldier hostage and threatened to behead him in 72 hours unless the Americans release Iraqi prisoners.

The posting, on a Web site that frequently carried militants' statements, included a photo of what that statement said was an American soldier, wearing desert fatigues and seated on a concrete floor with his hands tied behind his back. The figure in the photo appeared stiff and expressionless.

Oddly the figure looks remarkably like a "Special Ops" action figure.

In related news..

Vindication

John Podhoretz calls it like he sees it:

When you heard about the stunning success of the Iraqi elections, were you thrilled? Did you see it as a triumph for democracy and for the armed forces of the United States that have sacrificed and suffered and fought so valiantly over the past 18 months to get Iraq to this moment? Or did you momentarily feel an onrush of disappointment because you knew, you just knew, that this was going to redound to the credit of George W. Bush?

There are literally millions of Americans who are unhappy today because millions of Iraqis went to the polls yesterday. And why? Because this isn't just a success for Bush. It's a huge win. It's a colossal vindication.

It's a big fat gigantic winning vindication of the guy that the Moores and Kennedys and millions of others still can't believe anybody voted for.

And they know it.

And it's killing them.

Losers.

Reality? What Reality?

In Tuesday’s Presidential news conference, a reporter grilled the President:

"REPORTER: Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy: Harry Reid, who's talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet in the same breath, hey say that Social Security is rock solid and there's no crisis there. You've said you're going to reach out to these people. How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"

Not sure where this guy learned journalism, but he has absolutely no future in the mainstream media.

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