Black - by popular demand

Apologies to W.E. Williams

William Rusher asks, "What is Obama up to" and why would anyone want him to be president? To be sure, the man is intelligent, articulate, soft-spoken and smooth, but his speechifying is pure socialism carried on a populist's tune.

I say he is manuveuring for the VP spot on Hillary's ticket in 2008.

Place yer bets!

Campaign strategy

Happy Reformation Day

Take a Catholic to lunch.

Its all fun & games until somebody gets a subpoena

Just a reminder, boys & girls, that on the internet, "Nothing is hidden that shall not be revealed."

YouTube shared user data with studio lawyers
Video site helped Paramount Pictures track down and sue filmmaker.

YouTube's action is in response to a subpoena it received in May show that it has been keeping tabs on users who post copyrighted material to its site -- and in one case shared the name of a user with lawyers from a Hollywood film studio.

On May 24, lawyers for Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures convinced a federal judge in San Francisco to issue a subpoena requiring YouTube to turn over details about a user who uploaded dialog from the movie studio's "Twin Towers," according to a copy of the document.

YouTube promptly handed over the data to Paramount, which on June 16 sued the creator of the 12-minute clip, New York City-based filmmaker Chris Moukarbel, for copyright infringement, in federal court in Washington.

When asked about YouTube, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Industry Association said "we continue to pursue those who violate copyright laws on all levels, and we will continue to monitor YouTube for copyrighted material."

That means YouTube users who post such material could face legal problems similar to Moukarbel's.

This fine print warning is brought to you by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 and youtube's TOS.

So, CYA.

Well, that explains all the moonbats

Testosterone Tumbling in American Males
Hormone levels have fallen over the last 20 years.

No wonder the whining gets worse every 28 days.

It's all George Bush's fault!

St. Louis Named Most Dangerous U.S. City

ST. LOUIS -- A surge in violence made St. Louis the most dangerous city in the country, leading a trend of violent crimes rising much faster in the Midwest than in the rest of nation, according to an annual list.

The city has long fared poorly in the rankings of the safest and most dangerous American cities compiled by Morgan Quitno Press. Violent crime surged nearly 20 percent in St. Louis from 2004 to last year, when the rate of such crimes rose most dramatically in the Midwest, according to FBI figures released in June.

At least the world series went off without any gun fire.

Boots on the ground

Call to duty: a profound twelve minutes. This is a video essay about the life of a modern U.S. soldier on the ground in Iraq and around the world. This is courtesy of Major John Tammes via Dean Esmay's blog.

The video in quicktime long form can be found here if you don't like my three piece hack job.

Part 1


part 2


part 3

Vietnam and Iraq: Myth vs. Reality

Oliver North explains.

While Mr. North makes a detailed arguement as why these two conflicts are different in most every way, the main thrust can be summed up in three short sentences that specifically deal with ideology and allegience: "...Every life lost was precious and every loss grievous to those who loved them. Unfortunately, our media intends to use every one of those killed to make their (anti-war) point. It's a lesson they learned in Vietnam...."

What? I can't hear you! pt 11

That prolific Brit, over at the USS Neverdock, has posted a video with more good news from Iraq that you will never hear on the nightly talking head shows called 'news'.

Zeitgeist pt 3

This is the last part in this series.


If you enjoyed this sort of thing or are interested in other educational materials, please visit RZIM.org to review the information for radio broadcasts, printed works, audio recordings and web links.

Zeitgeist pt 2

As Promised (blogger willing).

Zeitgeist

Is life too complicated? Do politicians have you befuddled?
Have the moonbats clogged your bellfry and you wonder who hijacked common sense and what's the ransom?

Well, CHEER UP, Bunky!

Dr. Ravi is here to answer all your questions about how society can offer a coherent set of answers, why absolutes do exist, who put the 'cult' in culture, and what nonsense it is to refute the law of non-contradiction.

Click here for good time. No video, just audio. Go on. Do it. It's easy, fun, and informative - your friends will be amazed and the leftist utopians dumb struck (is that redundant?).

Part II tomorrow.

A warning, an analysis and some good news

Since blogger is still such a horrid host, I'm off to find a new home so posting will be light the rest of this week.

I'll leave you with these three things:

ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) Survey: Paranoia, Conspiracy Theories, Support for Violence.

Radical Islam finds US 'sterile ground'
Home-grown terror cells are largely missing in action, a contrast to Europe's situation. I blame all them intolerable bible thumpers with their inflammatory rhetoric of grace, forgiveness and Jesus loves you. Oh, Rosie! The humanity!

Good News From Iraq Part #2
I've been slack, but 'Wake up America' has the high lights.

Why are 'peace' activists so violent? pt 92

MM highlights yet another 'peace' promoter gone bonkers with a violent attack that left another man in a coma.

A New Zealand peace activist has been jailed in Britain for eight months for attacking a rock singer leaving him in a coma. Christiaan Briggs, who acted as a human shield in Iraq, admitted punching 19-year-old singer Billy Leeson following an argument on a late night bus.

Mr. Briggs joins a long line of 'peace-niks' who show their true hypocrite colors with displays of intolerance and outbursts of anger towards others who do not pass muster with the leftist utopian thought police.

Cue 3 dog night... 'especially people who care about strangers; who care 'bout evil & social injustice. Do you only care about the bleeding crowd? How about a needing friend.....?'

Getting medical insurance from your boss is a bad idea

We all know there is no free lunch. John Stossel explains further how the attitude of expecting 'gimmees' - like health insurance - from employers and government actually contributes to sky-rocket prices.

Why?! Do our employers pay for our food, clothing, or shelter? If they did, why would that be good? Having my health care tied to my boss invites him to snoop into my private health issues, and if I change jobs, I lose coverage.

Insurance burdens us with paperwork, invites cheating, and, worst of all, creates a moral hazard that distorts incentives. The first question people ask a doctor who recommends a test is not "Do I really need that?" but "Does my insurance cover it?" Insurance raises costs by insulating consumers from medicine's real prices.

Suppose you had grocery insurance. With your employer paying 80 percent of the bill, you would fill the cart with lobster and filet mignon. Everything would cost more because demand would rise and supermarkets would stop running sales. Why should they -- when their customers barely care about the price?

Same goes for gov't programs folks. Its not 'the government' that pays for 'it' - its you & me and the IRS takes no prisoners.

And now, something completely different

I have admitted it before - I am the first loud mouth to blow off steam against the islamo-fascists and their riots, violence and murder spurred by even the slightest perception of critism against their kind. So when a concerned moderate Muslim appears in public and on video condemning the radicals and their outbursts, I have to applaud him for his courage and highlight it here.


While I disagree that there was a "clear condemnation of the attacks by Muslims" his point must be recognized: there are some in the Muslim community that will place themselves in jeopardy and stand to be counted as those opposed to this violence.

Ok, maybe he is a tool of CAIR, but I am feeling generous this morning. Does anyone else have an example of this type of public denouncement?

Do moderate Muslims act loudly & decisively to condemn violent radicals in their ranks?
	Yes, but it doesn't get reported.
	Sometimes, but they need to make greater effort.
	No, they are fearful of retribution.
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Thoughts on the unborn

While cleaning out my files, I came across this letter. I wrote this letter back in Aug., 2005 to the editor of a local newspaper. I thought it worth publishing here.


I have so many thoughts on this subject; not just
the embryonic stem cell research but on the question of
'shouldn't we be harvesting the frozen embryos that
would otherwise be destroyed through un-use?'

Your question is wrong headed. The true question
should be, "How can we, as a civilized society, reduce
our children's first inkling of life down to a frozen
bio-mass storage unit to be utilized according to its
owner's pragmatic decision for best use?"

Shouldn't life be sacred? Shouldn't life be viewed
as more than flesh and blood? More than just body
parts to be manipulated? This world is imperfect and
sickness and death are part of the package. This is a
tragic reality but let us not contribute to the
default misery by sacraficing our children in a
sterile scientic farming machine. Unplug the machine
and end this machiavellian nightmare to genetically
dominate those who have no voice.

Hoodie John Crow

They have no answers

I like this guy, 4 Mile Creek. In his latest post from Iraq, he explains how an email from Move.On.org led to him an interview with Stephen King.

Yes, that Stephen King.

But, judging from this interview, it is clear that Mr. King's moonbats have nested his bellfry. Why do otherwise intelligent, talented and creative people turn into mush brained adolescents when confronted with facts & figures?


Yawn.
This just in: Rubbin' Rosie dumps the chamber pot in her skull.

They have no answers - just diarrhea.

Cougars among the flock

An interesting interview with pastor and author David Dykstra about the current immigration debate.

'Fair & Balanced' journalism or sedition?

Much turmoil, there is, over CNN's dubious decision to broadcast an islamo-fascist sniper video of an American soldier killed this past weekend in Iraq.

In a video vent from Hot Air, MM details how CNN has been and continues to be a 'useful idiot' to the likes of the Islamic Army of Iraq; an organization that claims responsibilty for, and the organization that CNN admits it negotiated to obtain, the video.

We've gone waaay past 'gonzo' journalism, folks. I wonder if the gutless wonders in D.C. are paying attention?

Naive self-importance or sedition?

4 Mile Creek discusses 'Fairplay Revisited' in regards to the NY Times June, 2006 publication of classified government information as it pertained to the 'SWIFT' program. The extreme likely probability that this publication compromised national security (because al qaeda reads the ny times, too - and watches cnn) and endangered U.S. military personnel and millions of Iraqi civilians is expounded upon most unhappily here:

Hey Dickhead, how about wondering about what harm was actually done when you disclosed the program in your newspaper! You knew what would happen, and you were taking a very biased guess at what "harm" might happen. The fact that your newspaper's hatred of the Bush Administration moved you towards letting it publish knowing it would endanger fellow Americans makes your newspaper incapable of ever again being trusted as to what should and shouldn't be published.

Sleep well tonight. There's no reason to believe that your disclosure was at all responsible for the jihadis having more money over the last few months. That would be a coincidence. Maybe there is no connection between that increase in money available to the jihadists and the increase in the number of American servicemember deaths in Iraq since you published that article. Just keep telling yourself it was all because of something else. Something the Bush Administration had done, nothing you did. You are, after all, a patriot. You must be, right? Dissent is the highest form....and all that?

Where's my dictionary?

Stupidity or sedition?

There's that word again - sedition. I don't take it lightly, but, apparently, our government does not take it too seriously. It is one thing to wade into huffington's cess pool or stomach not-too-silent bob's spurious state of denial, or tolerate the NY Time's BDS, but quite another for the state department of the U.S. of A. to black list conservative blogs and quite more serious when a state department official appears on the propanda tool of al-Qaeda - al-jazeera TV - to speak in arabic against the U.S. of A.

IMHO, harder questions need to be asked than 'who is this guy working for?' It is time to take a hard look at the definition and the application of the word 'sedition'.

Oh, this is rich. Now the weasel wants to apologize for 'aiding & abetting' the enemy.
MM has more.

Psst. Over here. Be counted on election day.

I feel safe in writing this publically because, 1) The leftist utopians do not read this site; 2) Most leftist utopians sole political motivation is 'i hate bush' (and it is not a presidential election), and C) Judging by the popularity of one 'howard stern', information & entertainment are synonymous to all leftist utopians. So, it's a no-brainer.

Mariam Bell explains why Your Vote Counts

Incompetence in the Media War

The Confederate Yankee explains.

Same dog squeeze - different election

And the voters are the ones left holding their noses. There is an old adage out there that states: vote for the person, not the party. I used to say 'bollox to that' and say vote for the person and the party because political philosophy matters. But the moniker of 'republicrat' or 'demacan' is more a reality in this century than ever before with the dog squeeze piled unbearably high in yet another election. Maybe I am just jaded in my (not too) old age. Maybe I am more certain of another old adage that power tends to corrupt. I want to amend that adage: 'power with lots of other people's money tends to corrupt.'

It's time the citizens of the U.S. of A. get real about reforming the tax code in this country and remove the source from much of this wayward political power. Many advocate the fair tax plan while others advocate a flat tax plan. I prefer the flat tax plan as it is simple, straight forward and comes built-in with a tried & true catchy phrase: 'If its good enough for God, then it's good enough for Uncle Sam.' Even Russia, yes, Russia, has seen the wisdom in a flat tax, though they prefer the number thirteen.

But nothing will happen if the people - the registered voters - of this nation don't get off the duffs and get behind candidates that advocate and are commited to choking off the public money that feeds this government monster. Every one rants about 'throw the bums out' but why are they bums and what brings new bums to the table?? Money. Public money. Your money pried from your wallet via taxes.

Lots of old cranky b@stards like to rant, but now is the time to act. It is election time and those glad handing, back stabbing slapping, vote grubbing public servants are at least more accessable now than ever before what with web space, email and fax machines. Find and support those candidates that advocate tax reform. Raise your voices and let it be heard that 'we are mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore!'

Blogger still sux

I'm thinkin about 'Typepad' for a new home. Any other suggestions?

Cue Bill Shakespear

I arrived home this weekend from the conservative, white-guy secret meeting only to find most of the silent majority with their nickers in a knot over all this hoopla about 'conservative voters staying home and not voting'.

Toney Blankley was spouting off here and inferring an underlying stupidity to this decision.

The Washington Times seeks to explain on their front page a growing tide of 'disillusioned voters' seeking not to reward the status quo.

All this self-fulfilling blabber even crowded into the 'white house marching orders' on talk radio.

Enough already! Most of us neo-cons have obviously forgotten basic conservative training and failed to decode our double secret decoder ring secret!

Dang it. Stop making much ado about nothing and get with the program! Complacency - that's what 'they' are supposed to be lulled into. Don't spoil the brilliant Rove underpinnings of a sweet reverse political stategy by overplaying this hand. Get it? Got it. Good.
Shhh. I wasn't here.

Update: Uh oh. The WaPo is on to us!

Rush...get a handle on this guy, will ya?

What else could I do?

Cards, Mets Play for NL Pennant Tonight


Since I have an aversion to all things New York, I must root for the Cards. Besides, I'm a Missouri boy at heart, so what else could I do?

Hot water

Blame it on global warming.
Stingray leaps on boat, stabs man in chest.

An 81-year-old man is in critical condition after a bizarre attack by a stingray, which leapt out of the water into a boat and stung him in the chest.

Its poisonous stinger - nearly four centimetres long - lodged close to his heart in an incident similar to the one that killed Australian TV naturalist Steve Irwin last month.

A spokeswoman at the hospital said: "His condition is critical. He's in surgery.''

Good luck & God bless.

I can't find that in the dictionary

Lemmingcrats. 4 Mile Creek explains.

Speak softly and carry a big stick

That quote is from TR - Teddy Roosevelt, but can apply just as well to U.S. Supreme Justice Anthony Scalia. This is a brilliant, entertaining and informative vid clip that should be required viewing in all civics classrooms.
Part 1



Part 2


I want to thank Ms. Underestimated for providing the video clip of this debate between Justice Scalia and the current president of the aclu.

Pssst. I am entirely responsible for uploading this video to you tube. If I am abusing any property rights or copy right laws, please notify me at the email address located at the bottom of this blog and I will remove said material. FYI

Border war pt 2

Smugglers seen getting 'sophisticated, organized'.

Law-enforcement authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border are outgunned and outmanned by drug smugglers armed with automatic weapons, grenade launchers, bazookas, improvised explosive devices and state-of-the-art communications and tracking systems, a congressional report said yesterday.

The report echoes complaints from the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition, which repeatedly has said the federal government's inability to secure the Southwest border has resulted in a dramatic rise in violence against U.S. authorities and made it easier for terrorists to enter the country. Texas' Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. told Congress in March the cartels "have the money, equipment and stamina" to bring increased violence to the border, much of it aimed at law-enforcement authorities.

During his testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee, Sheriff Gonzalez said law-enforcement officers have found many items along the banks of the Rio Grande indicating ties to terrorist organizations. He said Border Patrol agents found a jacket near the border with Arabic military badges, one with an airplane flying over a building and heading toward a tower.

How many more red flags do we need?!

From the 'yur a frikken idiot' department

Via LGF: Charlie Rangel, the man who could be the next chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, refers to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, as a "so-called terrorist." He tries to backpedal when O’Reilly calls him on it, of course, but there it is on video.

HotAir adds, "It doesn’t get cooking until O’Reilly asks him how we’re supposed to get information from people like Khaled Sheikh Mohammed if coercion’s off the table.

He has no answer. They never do."

Border war

Subjects like this are what really concern most citizens of the U.S. of A.

Judge Upholds In-State Tuition For Illegal Immigrants.

A California judge has upheld a state law allowing public colleges and universities to charge in-state fees to undocumented immigrants. The law was challenged by a class action lawsuit filed last December on behalf of out-of-state students who claimed the tuition break discriminated against U.S. citizens.

Among other things, plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued the law violates federal immigration reform legislation passed in 1996. But Superior Court Judge Thomas Warriner ruled last week there was no indication Congress intended the Immigration and Naturalization Act or any other federal statute cited by the plaintiffs to determine resident tuition rates at state universities and community colleges.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs said they will appeal the ruling.

The Skipper over at the Barking Moonbat adds this footnote to the judge's tyrannical ruling:

Just in case you couldn’t afford to go to college and never took a course in US History, let me quote you something from an obscure 18th century document that very few people nowadays have ever read .... or understand ....

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

And, no, they weren't refering to the U.N.

Democratic shill?

Lou, say it ain't so!

CNN’s Lou Dobbs is peddling his book, the "War on the Middle Class," and it is the most phony war since John Gibson at Fox said there was a war on Christmas. Don Surber has more on the pampered middle class.

The middle class in America are the most pampered people on Earth, and perhaps the most pampered people ever. They enjoy free education, cheap food, great cars, computers and clothing, and access to every aspect of our culture. From music to great art to plays, there is no class barrier to them. Obesity, not malnutrition, is the national ailment.

Dobbs is a millionaire, making him as clueless about the middle class as Congress. And that ignorance is dangerous, because Dobbs and Congress assume the middle class is having a harsh time of it. Few things are further from the truth.

This just in: The Dow Jones industrials pass 12,000.

OCT. 18 9:38 A.M. ET The Dow Jones industrial average swept past 12,000 for the first time Wednesday, extending its march into record territory as investors grow increasingly optimistic about corporate earnings and the economy.

And this: U.S. of A. employed at 95% - wages rise.

WASHINGTON (AP) - American employers added 51,000 workers in September, the fewest in almost a year, but the unemployment rate declined to 4.6 per cent - offering a mixed picture of the job climate.

The figures released by the Labour Department on Friday were seen as fresh evidence that the economy has moved into a slower phase of growth. huh?

Average hourly earnings rose to $16.84 in September, a 0.2 per cent increase from August.

The Federal Reserve's next interest rate policy meeting is scheduled for Oct. 24-25, and many economists expect the Fed to leave rates unchanged for the third meeting in a row.

Want more middle class horror stories? Gas prices fall to lowest level in '06. Oil is down below $60 / barrel and its all Geo. Bush's FAULT!

What's the price of gas in your town?

Are you sure this means 'war', Lou?

Blogger sux

I'm looking for a new home. Any suggestions?

Whatever happened to Iran?

You know, that jew hating Herr whos-its with his imminent nuclear threat? Just wondering.

I've always wondered about that....

Why Do Black Americans Still Vote For Democrats?

Which Party started the KKK and the Jim Crow era? - democrats.

Which Party had a man named Robert Byrd FILIBUSTERING the Civil Rights Act of 1965? - democrats.

Which Party at one of its conventions called itself the 'white man's Party?' - democrats.

Which Party stacked the Supreme Court that finally rendered blacks 3/5ths human being in the infamous Dredd Scott case? - democrats.

Which Party has a history and pattern of terrorizing black Americans for over 170 years? - democrats.

Which Party accused those who opposed hooking blacks on those government programs 'racists' and 'uncle Toms?' - democrats.

Which Party FOUGHT to exclude blacks from getting a good education for over 170 years? - democrats.

And finally, which Party continues to pit blacks Americans against white Americans for disgusting political gain? - democrats.

Which Party was formed EXPRESSLY to oppose the Democrat Party on the issue of slavery? - republicans

Which Party passed the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery? - republicans

Which Party passed the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution so that blacks could have due process in law and so that their right to vote was not infringed upon regardless of their race or skin color? - republicans

Under which Party have black business and black home ownership set record levels? - republicans

Under which Party have blacks students made the greatest gains in over 30 years? - republicans

Which Party has enabled over 283,000 loans to small business ( 30% of which went to minority businesses) totalling $63 billion in five years, almost as much as was spend the previous 40 years? - republicans

Which Party freed 3.8 million blacks from the tax rolls? - republicans

Which Party started the funding of the first African American museum and culture center? - republicans

Which Party had the very first and second black Secretaries of State and the first black National Security Advisor? - republicans

Why Do Black Americans Still Vote For Democrats?


This circuitous link came to me via House of Eratosthenes
You're on your own for the correct pronounciation.

I'm shocked!

Muslim Moderates Under Siege By Robert Spencer.

Since I began work on my new book The Truth About Muhammad, I have often been asked whether I really think it will do any good to discuss the actions of Muhammad that jihadists use to justify violence. Doesn't that alienate moderate Muslims? I have responded that actually no Islamic reform can possibly take place without an acknowledgment that there are elements of the Qur'an and the example of Muhammad that need searching reevaluation: how can reformers succeed if no one admits that anything needs any reforming?

At the same time, however, Islamic reformers have a difficult road. They are often targeted as apostates by jihadists, and often physically threatened. Farzana Hassan Shahid, the new president of the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC), is the latest victim of this phenomenon. After her liberal views on many Islamic hot-button issues became known, she began receiving death threats from Muslim hardliners who considered her positions evidence of her falling away from Islam. One called her the "younger sister of Satan." Another accosted her husband at an Ontario mosque and demanded he "control his wife."

Control his wife?? I guess another round of obedience school is in order. At least the oppressive mohammadans aren't as bad as those Christians with their love & forgiveness terrorism. And stop with the 'Jesus loves you' assaults!
Oh, Rosie. The humanity!

This just in...

According to Boortz, right wing talk radio (RWTR) is now being blamed for the 6.6 earthquake that hit Hawaii over the weekend. We're also getting information that RWTR caused a miscarriage in Idaho and a minor traffic accident in New Hampshire. Details later.

Global apostate

Hey, Rosie. Did you hear the one about the radical leftist utopians being just as dangerous as - Oh, krykee. I can't stoop to that idiocy. But Debra Saunders does illustrate a good point about the ideas the left feels good about are nothing more than fanatical religious dogma.

Inhofe, the Apostate

Global warming is a religion, not science. That's why acolytes in the media attack global-warming critics not with scientific arguments, but for their apostasy. Then they laud global-warming believers not for reducing greenhouse gases, but simply for believing global warming is a coming catastrophe caused by man. The important thing is to have faith in those who warn: The end is near.

Global warming even has a martyr, NASA scientist James Hansen, who told CNN's Miles O'Brien in January that under the Bushies, "you're not free to speak your own mind." It's amazing that a scientist can complain that he is being muzzled -- while appearing on CNN and "60 Minutes."

I remain agnostic on global warming, as I've seen good arguments on both sides. I know, however, that I never will be convinced that global warming is a scientific threat as long as believers put most of their energy into establishing orthodoxy and denying that reputable global-warming skeptics exist.

Civil dissent

My favorite crank, Burt Prelutsky, doesn't always agree with me on certain issues, but that's ok. I agree to disagree with him on various topics, and he keeps mouthing off from his agnostic podium - sometimes making good observations and scathing remarks against the religious left.

Liberals who are aware that I’m not religious sometimes take me to task for not criticizing the religious Right with the same zeal I bring to bear on what I refer to as the religious Left. (For those unfamiliar with the term, it refers to those zealots whose bible is the Gospel According to James Carville. The prophets of the faith include Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter.) The fact is, I have nothing against Christian fundamentalists. Mainly, I disagree with them on the issue of abortion. But I don’t think that those in the Pro-Life movement are evil, whereas I think those on the other side, those who promote 13 and 14-year-olds having abortions without parental consent, are.

The Leftists get extremely upset because they feel religious Conservatives have undue influence every four years, when a presidential election rolls around, but they fail to acknowledge how much influence the secular Left has in college classrooms, in America’s courtrooms, and in the editorial offices of major newspapers, every single day of the year.

Off we go...

At long last, a Va. Air Force memorial

ARLINGTON, Va. — President Bush helped the Air Force make a dream come true on Saturday, dedicating a hilltop monument for the service to the memory of airmen lost defending America and to those that fight for it still.

Bush spoke at the base of three soaring steel stalks, meant to evoke the famed Air Force Thunderbirds' "bomb-burst" maneuver, that glinted in the bright sun. The 17,000-ton metal spires that are the centerpiece of the memorial arc as high as 270 feet into the air.

What's wrong with sin?

The Renaissance Nerd explains:

There is a reason for this. The research into Alzheimer's Disease has revealed that repetitive thoughts actually carve chemical pathways into our brains, that harden over time like wheel-ruts in a muddy country road. Those chemical channels through our minds are the result of our own choices, but they are not so easily brushed aside. The easiest way to break them is never to put them there in the first place.
Hence the commandments.

Jesus said, "What manner of men ought ye to be? Even as I Am." This holds a double meaning; we should behave as Jesus did during his earthly sojourn, yes. But I Am is also the name of God; therefore we should be like the man Jesus Christ, but also like the very God of the universe.

Sin cuts grooves into our minds that make us less and less like God, and less and less able to break free of those channels, until evil thoughts become hard-wired. So why does God care about the sexual proclivities of individuals on an obscure planet in an out-of-the-way corner of a fairly small galaxy? It is because He cares about those individuals. He doesn't want us to become enslaved by sin so that we divorce ourselves from Him forever, our minds crisscrossed with stony tracks of evil thought. He wants us to be happy.

Hocking up a Claire ball

Claire McCaskill is challenging incumbent Jim Talent for a Missouri senate seat in congress. It has been a skrappy fight that sells newspapers rather well and will probably be a photo finish. But Claire has some 'splaining to do over a recent television ad she ran slamming Talent for his stance on vets, the V.A. and veteran's hospital care. It appears she can't prove the allegations.


For other general information on the two skrappers, here's a good link courtesy of the KC Buzz Blog featuring a Q&A by Newsweek.


Pssst. I'm voting for Talent.

We meant all religions except yours

British Airways worker sues over cross

LONDON -- A British Airways employee was suspended from work for refusing to remove a necklace bearing a Christian cross, a British newspaper reported Saturday.

Nadia Eweida, a check-in worker at Heathrow Airport, told the Daily Mail she was suing the airline for religious discrimination after being sent home for breaching BA's dress code.

"British Airways permits Muslims to wear a headscarf, Sikhs to wear a turban and other faiths religious apparel. Only Christians are forbidden to express their faith," Eweida was quoted as saying.

British Airways said company policy said employees must wear jewelry, including religious symbols, under their uniforms.

Riiiight.

Mis-infotainment

Philosophy pervades our daily lives, but don't worry, there will be no pop quiz on Socrates, Aquinas or Dr. Phil. It is education, experience and belief that combine to make a world view. How we live is indicative of who we are - and words mean things.

Sadly, many people aquire information and reinforce beliefs through the television. And while I do not watch much television, I am aware of the Rosies, Montels and Oprahs with their two hanky maudlin shows. What disturbs me is that some of their veiwers actually get out and vote while fluffed up with this touchy-feely mis-infotainment and the reinforced belief of feeling and emotions over facts and figures. (Hmm, perhaps the nineteenth amendment was a bad idea.)

Just kidding, honey!

Before I make a complete meal of my foot, I'll turn it over to Ms. Underestimated who witnessed that type of mis-infotainment on a recent Oprah show. Ever feel like yelling at the television?

NYT's Frank Rich Slams Bush Admin on Oprah - Part Deux (VIDEO)
By MsUnderestimated

Folks, I was going to try to transcribe some of this, but I’m truly at a loss for words (save the expletive descriptors) watching Frank Rich hawk his book and drop his Bush-bashing cow-pies all over national TV. So, it’s up to you to watch these segments and have your own personal debates with both Frank and Oprah (and some of the audience members). I found myself yelling at the screen, and was going to cite references to dispute things that Rich said that I know to be lies here, but it’s quite frankly too time consuming and not worth my time. People like Frank Rich know the truth about why we went to war in Iraq, what Saddam’s connections were to Al Qaeda, the truth about WMDs, UN Resolution 1441, and everything else surrounding the current war. Educated people know the truth, but it’s obvious Mr. Rich preyed on a majority un-educated audience to spew his anti-Bush venom, and they bought it hook, line and, in this case, stinker (except for two or three outstanding folks in the audience).

This 'truther' style of mis-infotainment can only be counter balanced by facts, figures, logic and reason, but, unfortunately, the maudlin crowd Kant get there from the channel changer.

Media matters

Faux dead
The U.S. of A.'s largest theater chain, Regal Entertainment Group refused to screen Newmarket Films' morbid faux assassination film, "Death of a President".

Texas-based Cinemark USA also has declined to screen the film at any of its theaters. "We're not playing it on any of our screens," corporate spokesman Terrell Falk said. "It's a subject matter we don't wish to play. We decided to pass on the film."

Boston-based National Amusements, controlled by Viacom Inc. chief Sumner Redstone, is still pondering whether or not to show the film.

In anticipation of leftist utopian nickers-in-a-wad, Libertas correctly points out, "...major theater chains are freely choosing not to allow Gabriel Range’s Death of a President on their screens. Let me repeat that for you Lefties out there: what this means is that theater chains are freely electing not to screen the film, a film that is of course not 'entitled' to exhibition by anyone. This has come without interference from the Bush White House or Congressional Republicans, as opposed to what happened when Bill Clinton and Congressional Democrats pressured ABC to pull Path to 9/11 off the air or risk their broadcast license."

Still, expect a major tantrum from the tin foil hat brigade.

Door nail dead
People go ga-ga over Rush's blue wood in a bottle, but nary a peep over Air America stealing from needy boys & girls.

Radio Equilizer has the new low down on how execs of the Gloria Wise Community Center in New York city funneled nearly $900,000 earmarked for that community center to Air America. These same execs at the Gloria Wise Community Center were also investors in Air America.

Convenient, no? And all they had to do was steal from needy boys & girls.

I guess it was all too much to pay back because Air America has filed for bankruptcy.

Let the indictments begin!

The Matrix - south (park)

"All your conspiracies R belong to us."



Oh, the humanity, Rosie.


(NSFW - Hey, it's south park. What'd you expect?

Below the belt

Krykee.
It's pandemic.
It's about time Americans found out what Sandy Berger stuffed in his pants.

Berger admitted to taking classified documents from the National Archive in 2003 and to destroying some of them. His guilty plea to one charge of "unauthorized removal and retention of classified material" resulted in a fine of $50,000.

The theft and destruction of classified national security documents by former National Security Advisor Samuel "Sandy" Berger is a topic that never received the attention it should have. In an informal poll of my non-political junkie friends, I was unable to find anyone who knew that Clinton’s National Security Advisor had illegally taken and destroyed classified documents, much less that those documents related to events leading up to September 11.

Where's the tin foil hat guys when you need them?

Triskaidekaphobia

Oh, never mind.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, Lancet

Dare I wade into this cess pool?

Caution: depth my vary 10 to 130 percent.

The Lancet report is not based on an actual body count but on a random sampling of 1,800 Iraqi households in 47 areas across the country.

How about a reality check?

To me their motives are clear, all they want is to prove that our struggle for freedom was the wrong thing to do. And they shamelessly use lies to do this... when they did not find the death they wanted to see on the ground, they faked it on paper! They disgust me...

Lancet report on the web.

Note that Baghdad appears to be relatively safe compared to other parts of the country. And further, where are the bodies?

Block me?! Block you!!

Dept of Interior Blocking Conservative Blogs.

Here's a quick runthrough of what I've found so far at work. You'll see that its pretty one-sided.

Blocked Blogs:
Captain's Quarters
Cox and Forkum
Gates of Vienna
Little Green Footballs
Michael J. Totten
Michelle Malkin
Power Line
Protein Wisdom
Rantings of a Sandmonkey
Roger L. Simon
The Adventures of Chester
The American Thinker
The Belmont Club
The Doctor is In
Wizbang

Blogs not blocked
DailyKos
Democrat Underground
America blog
Atrios.blogspot.com
JuanCole.com
The Huffington Post
Talkingpointsmemo.com

In fact, every blog linked to off of DailyKos seems to work.

Please, please get the word out about this. It not only royally sucks that I can’t read stuff during downtimes at work, but they are being so blatantly biased as to what is being blocked. Thanks.

He makes the point rather nicely. Employers aren't happy when the herd is wasting time reading blogs (except for mine, of course). A uniform ban would keep the slackers in line and the work flowing, but it is obvious the ban is not uniform.

Geez.
The daily kos & the democratic underground??
Sounds like sedition to me.

I gotta work harder to get banned...

Truth in advertising

Shut up and sing.

That's all I have to say about that...

And now, something completely different

Oh, goody

More public school philosophy. Love that critical thinking.

Columbus Day Oct. 9th
- by Tom Purcell

'Dad, why does America celebrate Columbus Day?"

"Well, Billy, in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from Europe to America and founded the very first settlement in the New World. His arrival marks the beginning of America as we know it."

"But didn’t he discover America by accident, dad?"

"Columbus believed the Earth was a sphere. He thought he could reach the Far East by setting off on a westward course. Though he stumbled upon what is now the Bahamas by accident, he was still a great explorer and a great man, Billy."

"A great man, dad, or a racist oppressor?"

"Pardon me, son?"

"When Columbus came to America, he brought with him the greed of the white European males who subsequently colonized America for the dough. They fought and killed the Indigenous Peoples who were already here and took their land and their gold. Columbus eventually died a very rich man."

'Well, Billy, an unfortunate part of human history involves countries invading their neighbors to take control. This has happened in many parts of the world, including Europe, which has a long history of war. But remember that Indigenous Peoples were also prone to war and fighting to expand their control well before Europeans arrived."

"Well, Columbus is also responsible for many germs and diseases that Europeans brought to America, causing untold suffering and death among the people who were here before us."

"Have you been drinking too much caffeine lately, Billy?"

"America’s history of environmental destruction can also be laid at Columbus’ feet, dad. As soon as the Europeans colonized America’s pristine lands, they cut down the trees and plowed up the fields. Can you say soil erosion, dad?"

"Son, did I ever tell you that you take after your mother’s side?"

"And what about slavery? It was the Europeans who created a flourishing slave trade in America. They did it to develop the land cheaply, so they could make giant profits. Columbus even made slaves out of some of the Indigenous Peoples who attacked him and his men."

"Son, do you remember where your mother hid the bourbon?'

"I’ll tell you another thing, dad. Some people believe the only reason we even celebrate Columbus Day is because he was Italian, and the day is also a celebration of Italian heritage. Some believe that when FDR made Columbus Day official in 1934, he did so not just because Columbus discovered the New World, but because Italian immigrants in America represented millions of votes."

"Look, Billy, there are a lot of ways to look at what Christopher Columbus symbolizes. You can focus on the negative attributes, and there are some, or you can do what America has been doing for many years now: focus on the positive."

"Positive, dad?"

"Sure, Billy. Columbus represents the spirit of exploration, the spirit of pushing forward into the great unknown to find greater and better things. This has always been the spirit of America, the land of innovation and new ideas."

"What kind of ideas, dad?"

"How about the ideas of freedom and self-government, Billy? After Columbus opened a gateway to the New World, other European countries established colonies here, too. Eventually, some amazing historical figures would evolve in North America. They would create and fight for a way of life that has proved to be extremely successful - their ideas are still spreading and changing the world for the better."

"Really, dad?"

"Yes, son. The concept of freedom has taken root so solidly in America that people are free to criticize or praise anything, including whether or not Christopher Columbus was a hero or an ogre, or whether or not Columbus Day should still be celebrated in America. Now, do you have any other questions about history?"

"Sure, dad. Was Benjamin Franklin really a predatory male chauvinist womanizer?"

Tom Purcell’s weekly political humor column runs in newspapers and Web sites across America. Contact him at TomPurcell@aol.com. Distributed by Cagle Cartoons syndicate, call Cari Dawson Bartley at 800 696 7561 for reprint info.

Anarchy, mascots & campus idiots

Perhaps you've heard the tale of woe about a modern, (not)university campus. One marked by anarchy, mascots & campus idiots. I speak of the recent debacle @ Columbia (not)University were adolescent, violent malcontents engage in a peculiar brand of 'debate' and 'open exchange of ideas'.

This is what passes for academic sophistication and you're tax dollars are subsidizing it. It's time to end the gravy train, citizens and discipline the children.

MKH has more; even a video, boys & girls.

A new genre is born: Campus Gone Wild. Yeah, they're real.

Echo

Been there.

Done that.

...got a cheap T-shirt..

Praise the ACLU!

Whew. At least its not christianity.

'Five pillars of Islam' taught in public school

Another school has been "teaching" Islam by having students study and learn Muslim prayers and dress as Muslims, and a lawyer who argued a previous dispute over this issue to the U.S. Supreme Court said such methodologies wouldn't "last 10 seconds" if it were Christianity being taught.

Damn straight! And, don't forget, Rosie says to beware of the radical christians - lawyers and law suits and parental disapproval. Oh, the humanity!

Missing the boat

"To present facts to those whose heart is corrupt is to simply provide more information for those people to misinterpret."

Congress needs tutorial on the U.S. Constitution.

Your heart is in the right place, Mrs. Schafly, but another federal law imposed upon the local schools is a step in the wrong direction and it certainly won't wake the federal government out of its glutteny for tax dollars.

Thanks for nothing

Bush Holding Summit on School Violence

The man's against school violence. Gutsy move, Mr. President. But mopping up these tragic happenings is not in the purview of the federal government. This is a people issue. A family matter. It has little to do with government at all. The heart and soul of a people and a nation is best left to a higher authority, Mr. President.

If you really want to affect a change, dismantle the department of education and champion a state's initiative for school vouchers. Remove the fountain of public money that feeds a monster called the NEA. The NEA is a parasite; a parasite that fosters rote knowledge, moral bankruptcy and intelluctual platitudes. The NEA is an impediment to the successful oversite by parents of their children and their education, both moral & intellectual.

Take charge, Mr. President. For our children's sake! take charge and dismantle the department of education, remove public funds for the NEA and champion a state's initiative for school vouchers or 'thanks for nothing'.

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt

Maybe. Maybe not.

North Korea conducts nuclear test

"Seismic estimates place the size of the blast between "five and 15 kilotons, or up to 15,000 tonnes of TNT, making it potentially as powerful as the bomb which devastated the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945.

But an Australian seismology institute put the figure at one kiloton and the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources said the size of the tremor suggested an explosive force equivalent to 550 tons of TNT - a surprisingly low explosive yield."

I vote for the latter. My guess is this dirt poor gargoyle, and the North Korean nation he has ground into ruin, has neither the money nor resources to muster such a weapon. The gargoyle simply stuffed conventional explosives down a rat hole to up this ante & stature in his bluff to play with the big boys - in particular, the cash cow U.S.of A.

Information overload. Knock yourself out.

Update

Fanatics

It's not just the sports fans that yell at the tube....


A big thank ye, Uncle Tim

The world can stop now

Negro League great Buck O'Neil dies

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Buck O'Neil, a batting champion in the Negro Leagues before becoming the first black to serve as a major league coach, has died. He was 94.

The beloved national figure as the unofficial goodwill spokesman for the Negro Leagues died Friday night in a Kansas City hospital, eight months after he fell one vote short of the Hall of Fame.

Long popular in Kansas City, O'Neil he rocketed into national stardom in 1994 when filmmaker Ken Burns featured him in his groundbreaking documentary "Baseball."

He saw Babe Ruth hit home runs and watched Roger Clemens throw strikes. He talked hitting with Lou Gehrig and Ichiro Suzuki.

"I can't remember a time when I did not want to make my living in baseball, or a time when that wasn't what I did get to do," he said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2003. "God was very good to old Buck."

Positive attitude and enthusiasm marked baseball ambassador

John "Buck" O'Neil, one of a handful of survivors from the Negro Leagues, grew up too soon to benefit during his life's prime from a country that went on to dismantle the color barrier that stood in front of him.

"A steady hitter, O'Neil won the 1946 Negro American League batting title with an average of .353 to lead the Monarchs to another pennant," wrote baseball historian James A. Riley in "The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues."

O'Neil played baseball in Cuba and Mexico, and he managed the Kansas City Monarchs, a Negro Leagues powerhouse, through some of its best years. He later coached and scouted for the Chicago Cubs, though he never got an opportunity to manage in the bigs.

Barred by skin color from a career in the Majors, he toiled in Negro Leagues through its glory years in the 1930s and '40s, but when Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby opened the door to the big leagues in 1947, O'Neil was too old to walk through it.

Yet he'd often tell people, "I was right on time." He'd say his life was absent regrets, and that's a belief that might well be O'Neil's endearing message to others. It should be a message that Americans, black or white, cling to.

Negro League Baseball Museum

ESPN interview.

Good bye, Buck.

Looking at you looking back at me

It's getting crowded out there.

The Mars orbiter looks down on rover and photographs it sitting near the edge of a martian crater.



















Pretty cool.

All your blogs r belong to moi

No? How's about this 1, for now?

Turds

Over there.
Across the state line.
In Kansas. I never did like Kansas all that much anyways.

It's called a church, but it ain't like no church I have known. The turds from the Westboro Baptist Church have crawled out from under their rock again, intent upon spewing their cranial diarrhea at an Amish funeral for dead school children.

Mike Gallagher tried to talk some sense into one of their piles representatives on Mike's radio show. Apparently, he was successful and points out that No Good Deed goes Unpunished.

When I managed to convince the hateful, horrible members of the Westboro Baptist Church to call off their planned "protests" outside the funerals of the little Amish girls in Pennsylvania, I didn't expect to get a ticker tape parade or anything. In fact, I wasn't looking to do anything at all except figure out how to use my radio show to thwart these people from hurting the Amish mourners any further.

But getting slammed by people who are on the same side of the ideological fence as me was pretty surprising.

Dr. FrankenStein - call your office

Scientists are poised to press ahead with controversial plans to create hybrid human and rabbit embryos.

Messin' wit bunny wabbits?
Now the leftist utopians will really get ticked off.

Monday morning - who?

Krykee.
Too many people have their collective shorts in a bunch over these 'rathergate-esque' reports on this Foley excrement.
Oh, gee. A scandel in D.C.?
A sex scandel in D.C.?
A homosexual sex scandal in D.C.?
Get a grip.
Ms. Underestimated explains why:
ABC ONLINE GLITCH LEADS TO IDENTITY OF FOLEY ACCUSER / FEATURED IM EXCHANGE WAS WITH 18 YEAR OLD.

Eighteen is considered an adult in this country. Over & out. End of story.

Is Foley a perverted, adolescent slimeball that should, and has, resigned his public position? Yup. Is he a criminal? Nope. Now, if he were to lie under oath to a grand jury, that would be different...

Is House Speaker Dennis Hastert 'guilty by association'? Again, no.

Could he have applied more influence from his office to reign in this moral turpitude - judgements the leftist utopians vilify -? Yes. Hastert could have used better judgement against a man lacking in good character & indulging in aberrant behavior. Now, ask yourself why Foley fits that description and whether or not you are a hypocrite.

A time line of events.

Monday morning - who?

~Cue Bill Shakespear~

Spank me, baby!

MM is such a bad girl. It does appear MM and her anti-jihadist friends have been you-warned about 'abuses' of you-tube's TOS. What those abuses exactly are, you-tube has not said. Apparently, islamo-fascists posting jihad propoganda & anti-American screed is accepted by you-tube management, but criticism of those people is a no-no.

The Jawa has renamed the place 'allah-tube' and has been threatened with account suspension himself.

All of this begs the question: "where are all the 'open minded' & 'tolerant' leftist-utopian deanie babies screaming censorship?" Oops.
Here the lil hypocrites are - applauding the censorship of those they disagree with politically.
cue twi-light zone music

Sedition or free speech?

Mixed motives and mixed message?
Not sure. Calculated timing, to be sure.
I have not read Bob Woodward's new book, but I did catch not-too-silent Bob being interviewed by Charlie Rose last night. IMHO, Charlie is one of the best, but others may not like his style. Click the link for the whole conversation.

Is it just me, or does not-too-silent Bob get frazzled by Mr. Rose during the last half of their discussion?

It's still the best news show on television

'NewsHour' Faulted for Lack of Diversity

PBS' "NewsHour" tilts too heavily toward Republican white men in its sources and needs to do a better job promoting diverse points of view, a watchdog group said in a report issued on Tuesday.

Two-thirds of the partisan sources appearing on Jim Lehrer's nightly newscasts between October 2005 and March 2006 were Republican, and 82 percent were men, said the liberal advocacy organization Fairness and Accuracy in Media.

Krykee. They say that like it's a bad thing. Unfortunately, it is a bad thing since 15% of the operating budget for PBS comes from tax dollars, so the fairness & accuracy probe can infiltrate where the sun don't shine and those finding can catch the ear of the cash cow congress. But I wouldn't mind seeing a showdown between the PC busy bodies and the producers at PBS for content control. Any threats or demands from congress or the watchdog groups would ring hollow because any one of those high quality PBS shows, like The News Hour, would find an instant home on cable or the alphabet networks. I don't think the same could be said for the fetid stew of leftist propoganda eminating from FM enclaves of NPR - National Prolitariat Radio.

Well, looky here!

Bush Signs Homeland Security Bill

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- President Bush on Thursday signed a homeland security bill that includes an overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and $1.2 billion for fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration.

Standing before a mountainous backdrop in Arizona, a state that has been the center of much debate over secure borders, Bush signed into law a $35 billion homeland security spending bill that could bring hundreds of miles of fencing to the busiest illegal entry point on the U.S.-Mexican border.

Among other things, Bush said the homeland security funding bill deploys nuclear detection equipment to points of entry, raises safety security standards at chemical plants, provides better tools to enforce immigration laws and provides vehicle barriers, lighting and infrared cameras to help catch illegals trying to cross the border.

This is a good start to deal with the external problem. How about some stiff legislation to deal with the internal problem of American business people who hire illegal workers?

That new homeland security law is different than this port security bill which both houses of congress just passed on September 30, 2006. Once signed by the President, this law will initiate some very interesting gamma ray scanning technology to inspect cargo containers like the millions unloaded from international freighters everyday in this country.

VeriTainer Corp., formed by John Alioto of St. Helena two years after the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, is targeting shipping containers arriving from foreign ports as potential tools of terrorists with a weapon of his own, a gamma ray detector.

The most important part of the bill, the Port Security Improvements Act of 2006, at least for VeriTainer, is that it increases port radiation scanning requirements. It mandates that 100 percent of all containers inbound to the U.S. be scanned at the U.S. port of entry by the end of 2007.

Additionally, the act, if signed by President Bush, requires that three foreign ports, still to be chosen by the Department of Homeland Security, have 100 percent of their cargo container systems equipped with Vertainer-like scanning systems within 90 days from the time Bush signs it into law.

Bush Fires Rumsfeld, Nominates Bob Woodward

Who'd have thunk it?

Pelosi time-warp

I stole this from Flap's blog. Too good not to ~~~~

Traitors to the Enlightenment

Europe turns its back on Socrates, Locke, et al. by Victor Davis Hanson

But now all that hard-won effort of some 2,500 years is at risk. The new enemies of Reason are not the enraged democrats who executed Socrates, the Christian zealots who persecuted philosophers of heliocentricity, or the Nazis who burned books. No, they are a pampered and scared Western public that caves to barbarism - dwarves who sit on the shoulders of dead giants, and believe that their present exalted position is somehow related to their own cowardly sense of accommodation.

Europe boldly produces films about assassinating an American president, and routinely disparages the Church that gave the world the Sermon of the Mount, but it simply won’t stand up for an artist, a well-meaning Pope, or a ranting filmmaker when the mob closes in. The Europe that believes in everything turns out to believe in nothing.

Glass houses

The Left's Pedophile Problem

Democrats trying to make political hay out of the resignation of Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley should take a good look at their own party. There was Bill Clinton's last minute pardon of former Rep. Mel Reynolds, D-IL, who had been imprisoned for having sex with a 16-year-old staffer. (He was later hired by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition; both Clinton and Jackson had also had sex with subordinates.)

There is the case of Rep. Barney Frank, D-MA, whose office housed a prostitution ring.

However, less known is one Hawaiian case, in which more than seven high ranking Democrat senators and representatives (and one Republican) worked to assist one Leon Rouse - a convicted child molester serving time on underage sex charges in the Philippines.

Rouse, now released after 8 years in prison, was hired last session as an employee of a Democrat-controlled Hawaii state Legislative Committee. 2008 Democratic presidential hopeful Russ Feingold also came to his defense, along with a Clinton-era U.S. embassy and more than half-a-dozen Democrats.

Arrested in the Philippines on October 4, 1995, and later convicted for paying 200 pesos to have sex with a 15-year-old boy, Leon Rouse served eight years of a 10-to-15-year sentence in New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City. After

Burt has the right idea.

More rat killin'

Al-Qaeda fugitive killed in Yemen

Yemeni security forces have killed a key al-Qaeda fugitive who escaped from jail earlier this year, officials said.

Fawaz al-Rabihi was sentenced to death last year for plotting an attack in which a boat laden with explosives rammed the French oil tanker Limburg.

He was killed when security forces raided a house in the capital Sanaa.

My-my-my-my-my - My Sha-ria!

Geez. You take a few days off and the world zips by.

I think the guys over at LGF missed the boat on this one: At Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Somali Muslim cab drivers are refusing taxi service to passengers carrying alcohol.

The airports commission has struggled with the issue for several years. Alcohol is a serious concern for devout Muslims, said Hassan Mohamud, an imam and vice president of the society. The Qur'an, Islam's holy book, strictly forbids buying, selling, drinking or carrying alcohol.

Anyone who reads here, (all three of you), knows that I am the first loud mouth to blow off steam against the in-your-face-or-else islamo-fascists, but I think this is more about free enterprise than chopping these guys off at the knees for their beliefs.

Now, I'm no expert on cabbies, but from what I understand they are independent contractors; either owning their own rigs or leasing them from the established companies. In essence, they are small business owners with themselves for employees. It is their perogative to decide who will be a fare or not - if their business model works, then they are successful. If not, then they go out of business.

It comes down to private property rights and freedom to conduct your business as one sees fit. Afterall, that is very American of them.

Fuzzy fairy tales and fractured logic

"Yes, but the tire is only flat on one side."

A terrifying look into the mind's eye of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the 'South Park' cartoon show.

Hoobastank!

A perversion of Justice

My favorite crank, Burt Prelutsky, sounds off on parasitic freakazoids and their lawyers.

...I believe that sexual perverts really can't control their obscene urges. That's why I think they should be locked up once and for all in asylums for the criminally insane.

Some of you, knowing that I am a big proponent of capital punishment, are probably surprised that I'm willing to let these abominations live.

But, then, you haven't asked me what I'd do to their lawyers.

PS: I'm not a fan of the death penalty, but I'll give Burt, et. al., a pass on that proposition. - LB1901