Here's an interesting little dilemma for the Left.
The United States Federal Government is one of the world's largest (if not the largest) single consumers of "Our Mother the Earth's" resources.
Cut back the government, cut back the bearaucratic paperwork that the government lives on, cut back the vehicles, cut back the buildings (lighting, heating, electricity, etc.) cut back the office supplies...we could cut our consumption of resources by at least 10%, which should please the Left immensely.
Not to mention the pollution reductions from all of the above.
Then add the State and local governments into the equation.
Do ya think the Left would agree? Me either. They don't even want their Church of Governmentalism to be more efficient, let alone cut back; no matter what the reason!
Somebody should really do a study on how much of the world's resources the American Federal Government consumes.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Tell Me They Wouldn't
I had a couple of people e-mail me asking if I thought that I might not be going a bit overboard yesterday in suggesting that the Left in this country might be willing to kill people for power.
My reply was that the very people that got us to pull out of Vietnam and then refused even financial help to the South Vietnamese, are the same ones who are calling for us to pull out of Iraq now.
When the Democrats in Congress refused to help the South Vietnamese financially after we left, after we had promised that we would still help them stave off the North, they condemned about 1 million people to death.
And they did it for no other reason than political power. It was what their moonbats wanted and it's what they got.
And now they want us to leave Iraq. Why? For no other reason than to show that they still have some power and to strike a blow against Bush. In other words, for political power.
What do you think would happen in Iraq if we pulled out now? I'd say easily another million people dead over there.
Don't tell me that these people aren't willing to kill for power. They're just too chickenshit to get their hands dirty and try it over here because they know they'd get their asses handed to them.
They say that the war has killed over 100 thousand Iraqis. Well, even if that were true, it would be nothing compared to the slaughter that would result were we to leave now. They're so concerned about the supposed 100,000, but they can't look far enough ahead to see the additional 900,000 that would die. They can't link! They cannot see logical progressions!
That figure of 100,000 dead Iraqis was put out by some moron Lefty doctor in a medical journal and, as always happens with the Left, they took it and ran with it. He may as well said that 1 million Iraqis had died. The Left would have parrotted that, too. Because any fact that supports their side is automatically taken as gospel.
As has been pointed out so many times that even I'm getting sick of it, these people have no logic and never actually think about the talking points that are handed to them. Propaganda works on these people. If it sounds good, do it.
These people are idiots. Many of them are well-educated idiots, but they are idiots nonetheless.
The prospect of these people ever forming our policies is absolutely terrifying. The childishness of the Clinton years was bad enough. If these people ever regain power, it's going to be the Clinton years with a vendetta against half of the people in this country.
And these people are willing to kill to get their way if they think they can get away with it. I stand by that statement now and forever.
My reply was that the very people that got us to pull out of Vietnam and then refused even financial help to the South Vietnamese, are the same ones who are calling for us to pull out of Iraq now.
When the Democrats in Congress refused to help the South Vietnamese financially after we left, after we had promised that we would still help them stave off the North, they condemned about 1 million people to death.
And they did it for no other reason than political power. It was what their moonbats wanted and it's what they got.
And now they want us to leave Iraq. Why? For no other reason than to show that they still have some power and to strike a blow against Bush. In other words, for political power.
What do you think would happen in Iraq if we pulled out now? I'd say easily another million people dead over there.
Don't tell me that these people aren't willing to kill for power. They're just too chickenshit to get their hands dirty and try it over here because they know they'd get their asses handed to them.
They say that the war has killed over 100 thousand Iraqis. Well, even if that were true, it would be nothing compared to the slaughter that would result were we to leave now. They're so concerned about the supposed 100,000, but they can't look far enough ahead to see the additional 900,000 that would die. They can't link! They cannot see logical progressions!
That figure of 100,000 dead Iraqis was put out by some moron Lefty doctor in a medical journal and, as always happens with the Left, they took it and ran with it. He may as well said that 1 million Iraqis had died. The Left would have parrotted that, too. Because any fact that supports their side is automatically taken as gospel.
As has been pointed out so many times that even I'm getting sick of it, these people have no logic and never actually think about the talking points that are handed to them. Propaganda works on these people. If it sounds good, do it.
These people are idiots. Many of them are well-educated idiots, but they are idiots nonetheless.
The prospect of these people ever forming our policies is absolutely terrifying. The childishness of the Clinton years was bad enough. If these people ever regain power, it's going to be the Clinton years with a vendetta against half of the people in this country.
And these people are willing to kill to get their way if they think they can get away with it. I stand by that statement now and forever.
Monday, June 27, 2005
Wal-Mart vs. Target
Have you ever wondered why the Left absolutely hates Wal-Mart but says nary a bad word about Target stores?
They both have huge discount stores. They both pay low wages with so-so benefits. They both employ a lot of part-timers.
Here's a clue.
Wal-Mart was founded by the very Conservative and very religious Sam Walton.
Target is part of the same chain that owns Marshall Field's. Marshall Field's, at least here in Minnesota, used to be called "Dayton's". Yes, as in Democrat Senator Mark Dayton, who's family has been royalty here in Minnesota for ages, and who bought him a Senate seat that he wasn't smart enough to even attempt to keep.
I honestly don't think that there are a whole lot of people out there that know that little fact.
Does anyone think that it's a coincidence that the name was changed at the same time Dayton won his Senate seat? Me either.
Target may be a local company, but do you care to guess where I shop (when I have to)? And ladies, no more buying shoes at Marshall Field's.
They both have huge discount stores. They both pay low wages with so-so benefits. They both employ a lot of part-timers.
Here's a clue.
Wal-Mart was founded by the very Conservative and very religious Sam Walton.
Target is part of the same chain that owns Marshall Field's. Marshall Field's, at least here in Minnesota, used to be called "Dayton's". Yes, as in Democrat Senator Mark Dayton, who's family has been royalty here in Minnesota for ages, and who bought him a Senate seat that he wasn't smart enough to even attempt to keep.
I honestly don't think that there are a whole lot of people out there that know that little fact.
Does anyone think that it's a coincidence that the name was changed at the same time Dayton won his Senate seat? Me either.
Target may be a local company, but do you care to guess where I shop (when I have to)? And ladies, no more buying shoes at Marshall Field's.
Governmentalist Fundamentalism
This post is inspired by a rant that I unforunately went on in the American Princess' comments section regarding her post on the Left trying to wipe out Christianity. I ain't done so I'll continue it here.
In it she lists many wonderful reasons and examples of why the Left is so intent on ridding this country of Christianity. The one bit that I think was missed (or maybe all of what she said comes down to the same thing) is more fundamental than that. As in "fundamentalism".
You hear that word used quite a bit when referring to the Right, as in "fundamentalist Christian". You even hear it being used to describe Islam, as in "Islamic fundamentalists". But you never hear it said about the Left.
I believe that the Left is even more fundamenatlist than the 8th century Muslims we are fighting.
At least the Muslims have a big, thick book listing the fundamentals of their religion, just as Christians do.
The Left doesn't need a book. The fundamental principle of their religion can be summed up in one stupefyingly grotesque, unthinking sentence: "All that is good flows from the all-powerful Government".
And make no mistake, their goal is exactly the same as that of the Islamofascists: to wipe the competing religion of Christianity from the face of the Earth. Why do you think that they're so sympathetic to them? "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".
The Muslims are attacking America for one reason. We are the largest Christian nation on Earth.
It's not because we are oppressing them, it's not because we're not sharing our wealth with them, it's because we are Christians. Although everyone likes to tiptoe around the fact, this is a continuation of the Muslim invasion of the west that has been going on for hundreds of years. It was only the Crusades that pushed them back and saved any chance of enlightenment (not Enlightenment) for the world.
If France were the biggest Christian nation, they would be the ones under attack. Same with Germany, Spain or any other country.
In the same vein, the Left attacks Christianity in this country for one reason: It is the largest, most powerful religion in this country. If Buddhism were the largest religion in the country, the Left would be attacking them. And for the same reason.
Allah/Government shall be the only God. All others are false Gods and their followers shall either be converted or killed.
Isalm is trying to kill us, but I have no doubt that the Left would be attempting the same thing if they thought that they could get away with it. I firmly believe that we could be in the same place that Russia was in 1917. The only reason that we're not is because the leaders of the Left in this country made two fatal flaws:
1) They have so turned their people against guns that they have no means of starting a Revolution. They have demonized firearms for so long, that even their unthinking masses would probably notice if they suddenly told them to pick up a gun and join the fight. And most of their people are actually deathly afraid of guns thanks to the Left's backfired propaganda.
Why do you think they're trying so hard to disarm the rest of us?
2) They severely miscalculated when they turned against the military to gain political power. Now they have some political power (though they seem to be losing that, too) but no military power. Back in 1917 it may have been possible for a bunch of peasants to overthrow an army armed with the same weapons that they had, but now they're looking at a high-tech army that can't be defeated with handguns and deer rifles.
And that army despises the Left.
I know that the preceding sounds like moonbat conspiracy theory, but do you have any doubt that the tone of the Left in Russia in 1917 was any worse than the screaming, infantile hatred that we see today? I don't. I don't see how it possibly could be. It has surpassed even the worst political disagreement and become fanatical, murderous hatred.
No different than that of the Islamic terrorists. The only difference is that many of Allah's followers are willing to die for their God. In this country, the Left's God is secular and the followers of Governmentalism are too enamored of themselves and their lives to take much risk without some re-propagandizing.
Therefore, they use the courts.
Gird your loins, folks. The upcoming battle for Supreme Court Justices could very well be the one that tips the balance one way or the other. If we allow the Left to block Bush's nominees or force him to appoint anyone less than a Conservative, we could be done for.
We will have decision after decision like the "10 commandments" or the "Eminent Domain" decisions that completely go agains what The Constitution clearly says, and the only way to undo them will be to try to pass Amendment after Amendment, and that will never happen.
We need to do everything possible to get the message of the Right out there and stop the Left from Borking Bush's nominees. It's not a question of "if" it happens, but "when".
In it she lists many wonderful reasons and examples of why the Left is so intent on ridding this country of Christianity. The one bit that I think was missed (or maybe all of what she said comes down to the same thing) is more fundamental than that. As in "fundamentalism".
You hear that word used quite a bit when referring to the Right, as in "fundamentalist Christian". You even hear it being used to describe Islam, as in "Islamic fundamentalists". But you never hear it said about the Left.
I believe that the Left is even more fundamenatlist than the 8th century Muslims we are fighting.
At least the Muslims have a big, thick book listing the fundamentals of their religion, just as Christians do.
The Left doesn't need a book. The fundamental principle of their religion can be summed up in one stupefyingly grotesque, unthinking sentence: "All that is good flows from the all-powerful Government".
And make no mistake, their goal is exactly the same as that of the Islamofascists: to wipe the competing religion of Christianity from the face of the Earth. Why do you think that they're so sympathetic to them? "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".
The Muslims are attacking America for one reason. We are the largest Christian nation on Earth.
It's not because we are oppressing them, it's not because we're not sharing our wealth with them, it's because we are Christians. Although everyone likes to tiptoe around the fact, this is a continuation of the Muslim invasion of the west that has been going on for hundreds of years. It was only the Crusades that pushed them back and saved any chance of enlightenment (not Enlightenment) for the world.
If France were the biggest Christian nation, they would be the ones under attack. Same with Germany, Spain or any other country.
In the same vein, the Left attacks Christianity in this country for one reason: It is the largest, most powerful religion in this country. If Buddhism were the largest religion in the country, the Left would be attacking them. And for the same reason.
Allah/Government shall be the only God. All others are false Gods and their followers shall either be converted or killed.
Isalm is trying to kill us, but I have no doubt that the Left would be attempting the same thing if they thought that they could get away with it. I firmly believe that we could be in the same place that Russia was in 1917. The only reason that we're not is because the leaders of the Left in this country made two fatal flaws:
1) They have so turned their people against guns that they have no means of starting a Revolution. They have demonized firearms for so long, that even their unthinking masses would probably notice if they suddenly told them to pick up a gun and join the fight. And most of their people are actually deathly afraid of guns thanks to the Left's backfired propaganda.
Why do you think they're trying so hard to disarm the rest of us?
2) They severely miscalculated when they turned against the military to gain political power. Now they have some political power (though they seem to be losing that, too) but no military power. Back in 1917 it may have been possible for a bunch of peasants to overthrow an army armed with the same weapons that they had, but now they're looking at a high-tech army that can't be defeated with handguns and deer rifles.
And that army despises the Left.
I know that the preceding sounds like moonbat conspiracy theory, but do you have any doubt that the tone of the Left in Russia in 1917 was any worse than the screaming, infantile hatred that we see today? I don't. I don't see how it possibly could be. It has surpassed even the worst political disagreement and become fanatical, murderous hatred.
No different than that of the Islamic terrorists. The only difference is that many of Allah's followers are willing to die for their God. In this country, the Left's God is secular and the followers of Governmentalism are too enamored of themselves and their lives to take much risk without some re-propagandizing.
Therefore, they use the courts.
Gird your loins, folks. The upcoming battle for Supreme Court Justices could very well be the one that tips the balance one way or the other. If we allow the Left to block Bush's nominees or force him to appoint anyone less than a Conservative, we could be done for.
We will have decision after decision like the "10 commandments" or the "Eminent Domain" decisions that completely go agains what The Constitution clearly says, and the only way to undo them will be to try to pass Amendment after Amendment, and that will never happen.
We need to do everything possible to get the message of the Right out there and stop the Left from Borking Bush's nominees. It's not a question of "if" it happens, but "when".
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Hollywood East
Just a quick question:
Does anyone know when Hollywood is scheduled to vote on the European Constitution?
Does anyone know when Hollywood is scheduled to vote on the European Constitution?
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Profiling
OK. I finally got around to putting a photo of myself up on this blog. Probably not quite what most people would expect of a right-wing extremist.
Which leads me to a funny story.
A few months back, some little wannabe hippie in a tiny little car was aggresively tailgating me, probably because I have Bush/Cheney, NRA and a couple of other stickers on the Jeep.
It wasn't because I was going too slow or anything. When he finally got in front of me, his car was covered in anti-Bush stickers.
When we both hit a stoplight, he looked over at me like he wanted to say something, but very quickly found a new fascination with the roadway in front of him.
He was probably expecting some fat, balding businessman ala Karl Rove, but when he saw the guy with spiked hair, leather jacket and wrap-around shades smirking at him, he apparently decided that getting his ass kicked for 'the cause' wasn't worth it.
Yeah, it's macho bullshit, but it made my day.
Anyway, for those of you with any computer skills, this picture will lead you deeper into my life. Those of you who like me are more than welcome. Those of you who don't should understand that I have a small arsenal.
Either way, come on in.
Which leads me to a funny story.
A few months back, some little wannabe hippie in a tiny little car was aggresively tailgating me, probably because I have Bush/Cheney, NRA and a couple of other stickers on the Jeep.
It wasn't because I was going too slow or anything. When he finally got in front of me, his car was covered in anti-Bush stickers.
When we both hit a stoplight, he looked over at me like he wanted to say something, but very quickly found a new fascination with the roadway in front of him.
He was probably expecting some fat, balding businessman ala Karl Rove, but when he saw the guy with spiked hair, leather jacket and wrap-around shades smirking at him, he apparently decided that getting his ass kicked for 'the cause' wasn't worth it.
Yeah, it's macho bullshit, but it made my day.
Anyway, for those of you with any computer skills, this picture will lead you deeper into my life. Those of you who like me are more than welcome. Those of you who don't should understand that I have a small arsenal.
Either way, come on in.
Memo = Lie?
Hmmm. Whatever happened to that "Downing Street Memo" thing? I thought that it was supposed to create a "firestorm" and bring down the Bush administration.
Don't tell me that it was found to be lacking in credibility! I, for one, would be shocked!
Don't tell me that it was found to be lacking in credibility! I, for one, would be shocked!
Friday, June 24, 2005
If I Were a Rich Man...
The top 12 things that I'd do if I were truly a rich Republican.
(Bad British accent required):
Most blokes' top tens will be at 10. Some even go to 11 because they think they're clever dicks. Well, 12 is one better, isn't it? You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your blog. Where can you go from there? Where? Eleven. Exactly. One better. But 12 is even better, then, isn't it?
And without further ado:
1) Entangle the ACLU in an unending series of meaningless lawsuits designed to do nothing more than entangle the ACLU in an unending series of meaningless lawsuits.
2) Enroll in a left-wing moonbat college course such as "Women's Studies" and do nothing but argue with the "professor" until I'm booted out. Repeat.
3) Join "exclusive" left-wing associations (i.e. women's colleges). If they won't admit me, sue their asses off. If they do admit me, do nothing but argue with them until I'm kicked out. Then sue their asses off.
4) Follow Michael Moore around the country dressed as a giant cheeseburger.
5) Hire a Monica Lewinsky look-alike to follow Hillary around and heckle her.
6) Follow ted Kennedy around while pushing a portable bar.
7) Join protestors while holding an "I'm with stupid" sign. Spell it wrong.
8) Burn "Gay Pride" rainbow flags. Call it freedom of speech.
9) Start a campaign to make Bill Clinton the "first gay President". That's alright, he wasn't black, either.
10) Take out a full-page add calling Louis Farrakhan a "black devil". Wait for the hypocrisy to begin.
11) Claim to be Jesse Jackson's "Love Child".
12) Talk one of Dick Durbin's aide's into claiming that his office is run like a gulag and that they are treated like Auschwitz inmates.
(Bad British accent required):
Most blokes' top tens will be at 10. Some even go to 11 because they think they're clever dicks. Well, 12 is one better, isn't it? You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your blog. Where can you go from there? Where? Eleven. Exactly. One better. But 12 is even better, then, isn't it?
And without further ado:
1) Entangle the ACLU in an unending series of meaningless lawsuits designed to do nothing more than entangle the ACLU in an unending series of meaningless lawsuits.
2) Enroll in a left-wing moonbat college course such as "Women's Studies" and do nothing but argue with the "professor" until I'm booted out. Repeat.
3) Join "exclusive" left-wing associations (i.e. women's colleges). If they won't admit me, sue their asses off. If they do admit me, do nothing but argue with them until I'm kicked out. Then sue their asses off.
4) Follow Michael Moore around the country dressed as a giant cheeseburger.
5) Hire a Monica Lewinsky look-alike to follow Hillary around and heckle her.
6) Follow ted Kennedy around while pushing a portable bar.
7) Join protestors while holding an "I'm with stupid" sign. Spell it wrong.
8) Burn "Gay Pride" rainbow flags. Call it freedom of speech.
9) Start a campaign to make Bill Clinton the "first gay President". That's alright, he wasn't black, either.
10) Take out a full-page add calling Louis Farrakhan a "black devil". Wait for the hypocrisy to begin.
11) Claim to be Jesse Jackson's "Love Child".
12) Talk one of Dick Durbin's aide's into claiming that his office is run like a gulag and that they are treated like Auschwitz inmates.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
PETA
Just a quick one tonight. Lawns to mow, children to beat, minorities to oppress...just another busy day in the life of a right-wing extremist. I've been so busy that I haven't had a chance to pour arsenic into our local water supply in days!
But this website shows what a bunch of hypocritical lunatics the PETA people really are.
And don't forget to sign the petition to have PETA's tax-free status revoked. This really needs to be spread around.
(Tip o' the hat to the Anti-Strib)
But this website shows what a bunch of hypocritical lunatics the PETA people really are.
And don't forget to sign the petition to have PETA's tax-free status revoked. This really needs to be spread around.
(Tip o' the hat to the Anti-Strib)
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Running Out of Clever Hypocrisy Titles
I ran a cross this short biography of Eleanor Holmes Norton today. I'm sure that most of you know that she's the delgate to the House of Representatives from our nation's capital, but there are a few things I didn't know, such as :
- As an ACLU attorney she represented anti-Vietnam War protestors and Ku Klux Klan members
- In 1968 Norton won the first case she argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, defending the right of the National States Rights Party, a white supremacist and anti-Semitic group
- She also went to court on behalf of Alabama's longtime segregationist Governor George Wallace
- Republican President Gerald Ford appointed Norton to a panel examining America's welfare system. Among the ideas this panel endorsed was a "limit on the length of time that those who can work are entitled to welfare benefits." (sound familiar?)
- Contrary to the wishes of a large majority of African-American parents in the District of Columbia, Eleanor Holmes Norton has been an outspoken opponent of school vouchers
The black leaders call Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Colin Powell and any other black Conservative a "sell-out", an "Uncle Tom, a "race traitor" for nothing more than being a Conservative.
Look at what this black woman has done and ask yourself why the "African-American Community" has never called Norton any of those things?
This woman has gone against the black leadership's positions more than all of the Conservative blacks combined.
She has defended real racists, as opposed to those that the Left creates out of whole cloth.
But the Left loves her because she mouths all of the correct slogans and supports all of the big issues, including tax hikes for social programs. With one exception:
- During her 1990 campaign it came to light that Norton and her husband had paid no D.C. income taxes between 1982 and 1989.
- Without statehood, as Norton has argued since becoming D.C.'s non-voting Delegate and proposed in a 2001 bill, the people of the District of Columbia have no representation and therefore should pay no taxes.
Surprise, surprise: she lives in Washington D.C.
In other words, she's a typical Liberal who thinks that these social programs should be paid for not by taxing her, but by "The Government". This woman, this delegate to the House, this tax-and-spend Liberal, is apparently too stupid to realize that it's not The Government that pays for things, it's individuals like you and me. She's just another Lefty who thinks that The Government is an endless source of money that should pay for whatever she, in her infinite wisdom, wants. But she, personally, shouldn't have to pay for any of it.
After all, she is of the Elite. She's not of the lowly Proletariat who were bred for no other reason than to pay taxes so that she could create Utopia! She shouldn't have to pay taxes! She's doing the 'hard' work of envisioning what this country should be!
It's no wonder that she can get away with defending the KKK. Just as Robert Byrd can get away with being an actual member of the KKK.
It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, unless you're black and Conservative. The whole race controversy in this country is nothing more than the Left making sure that there's always a lower class that they can rule. The whole "ism" (i.e. racism, sexism) thing that is propagated by the Left serves only that purpose (we'll get to "ism's" very soon). Communism needs a slave class.
All that matters to these Elitist liberals, the ones who constantly decry "class" in this society just as any good Marxist does, is whether you've clawed your way into the upper class of the Elite Liberal. As in the Soviet Union, Cuba, China or any other Leftist country, once you're there, the rules no longer apply to you.
- As an ACLU attorney she represented anti-Vietnam War protestors and Ku Klux Klan members
- In 1968 Norton won the first case she argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, defending the right of the National States Rights Party, a white supremacist and anti-Semitic group
- She also went to court on behalf of Alabama's longtime segregationist Governor George Wallace
- Republican President Gerald Ford appointed Norton to a panel examining America's welfare system. Among the ideas this panel endorsed was a "limit on the length of time that those who can work are entitled to welfare benefits." (sound familiar?)
- Contrary to the wishes of a large majority of African-American parents in the District of Columbia, Eleanor Holmes Norton has been an outspoken opponent of school vouchers
The black leaders call Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Colin Powell and any other black Conservative a "sell-out", an "Uncle Tom, a "race traitor" for nothing more than being a Conservative.
Look at what this black woman has done and ask yourself why the "African-American Community" has never called Norton any of those things?
This woman has gone against the black leadership's positions more than all of the Conservative blacks combined.
She has defended real racists, as opposed to those that the Left creates out of whole cloth.
But the Left loves her because she mouths all of the correct slogans and supports all of the big issues, including tax hikes for social programs. With one exception:
- During her 1990 campaign it came to light that Norton and her husband had paid no D.C. income taxes between 1982 and 1989.
- Without statehood, as Norton has argued since becoming D.C.'s non-voting Delegate and proposed in a 2001 bill, the people of the District of Columbia have no representation and therefore should pay no taxes.
Surprise, surprise: she lives in Washington D.C.
In other words, she's a typical Liberal who thinks that these social programs should be paid for not by taxing her, but by "The Government". This woman, this delegate to the House, this tax-and-spend Liberal, is apparently too stupid to realize that it's not The Government that pays for things, it's individuals like you and me. She's just another Lefty who thinks that The Government is an endless source of money that should pay for whatever she, in her infinite wisdom, wants. But she, personally, shouldn't have to pay for any of it.
After all, she is of the Elite. She's not of the lowly Proletariat who were bred for no other reason than to pay taxes so that she could create Utopia! She shouldn't have to pay taxes! She's doing the 'hard' work of envisioning what this country should be!
It's no wonder that she can get away with defending the KKK. Just as Robert Byrd can get away with being an actual member of the KKK.
It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, unless you're black and Conservative. The whole race controversy in this country is nothing more than the Left making sure that there's always a lower class that they can rule. The whole "ism" (i.e. racism, sexism) thing that is propagated by the Left serves only that purpose (we'll get to "ism's" very soon). Communism needs a slave class.
All that matters to these Elitist liberals, the ones who constantly decry "class" in this society just as any good Marxist does, is whether you've clawed your way into the upper class of the Elite Liberal. As in the Soviet Union, Cuba, China or any other Leftist country, once you're there, the rules no longer apply to you.
What If...?
If this administration was everything that Dick Durbin, Charles Rangel, Amnesty International and the rest say that it is, where do you think that those guys would be right now?
If it what they said were true, they'd either be sitting in a real gulag right now, or they'd be making up a small part of a mass grave.
How can these idiots on the Left not realize that if even half of what they accuse the Bush administration of were true, they would have been executed long ago? You know, kind of like the Soviet Union, Pol Pot, Hitler and every other Leftist government has done over the years (and don't bother trying to tell me that the Nazis were "right-wing" because their ideas and their practices were far closer to those on the Left).
The stupidity of these people is awe-inspiring.
If it what they said were true, they'd either be sitting in a real gulag right now, or they'd be making up a small part of a mass grave.
How can these idiots on the Left not realize that if even half of what they accuse the Bush administration of were true, they would have been executed long ago? You know, kind of like the Soviet Union, Pol Pot, Hitler and every other Leftist government has done over the years (and don't bother trying to tell me that the Nazis were "right-wing" because their ideas and their practices were far closer to those on the Left).
The stupidity of these people is awe-inspiring.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Pravda of the Midwest
Why is this the lead story on the front page of The Star Tribune?
Eleanor Mondale begins battle with brain cancer
For the vast majority of you out there who have no idea who Eleanor Mondale is, she's the daughter of former VP Walter Mondale (aka the guy who lost 49 states to Ronald reagan).
This guy was washed up 20 years ago. His last claim to fame was running against our esteemed Senator Norm Coleman when Paul Wellfare...err...Wellstone's plane crashed and they actually figured that Mondale had a chance.
(I have a theory about what caused Wellstone's plane to crash: everyone was sitting on the left side, causing it to flip. Either that or it had no right wing.)
The only reason that they thought that Mondale would have a chance against Coleman is because, unlike the mainstream Minnesotan, the Left in this state worships this loser. Hence, the Red Star Tribunal running it's lead story on Eleanor.
If this were some Republican politician who was washed up 20 years ago, do you think that they'd be running a story about his daughter on page 1? To give them the benefit of the doubt, they mayhave run a couple of paragraphs on the back page of the Metro section, but even that is highly doubtful.
And to show you what we have in this city for a newspaper, here's part of the sub-head on an op/ed piece that took up about 85% of the second page of the op/ed section:
"From the loud denunciations he provoked, you'd think that Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, had called President Bush a Nazi."
Well, didn't he?
They then go on to print the entire text of Durbin's speech, which they think somehow proves their point that Durbin did nothing wrong.
And, of course, their lead editorial was about (what else?) Dick Durbin and how he shouldn't have apologized because he was right...err...correct.
So, all in all, about 3/4 of todays op/ed section was spent defending the indefensible Dick Durbin.
For all of you out there who think that the New York Times is the epitome of Leftist thinking, try reading this rag sometime.
Eleanor Mondale begins battle with brain cancer
For the vast majority of you out there who have no idea who Eleanor Mondale is, she's the daughter of former VP Walter Mondale (aka the guy who lost 49 states to Ronald reagan).
This guy was washed up 20 years ago. His last claim to fame was running against our esteemed Senator Norm Coleman when Paul Wellfare...err...Wellstone's plane crashed and they actually figured that Mondale had a chance.
(I have a theory about what caused Wellstone's plane to crash: everyone was sitting on the left side, causing it to flip. Either that or it had no right wing.)
The only reason that they thought that Mondale would have a chance against Coleman is because, unlike the mainstream Minnesotan, the Left in this state worships this loser. Hence, the Red Star Tribunal running it's lead story on Eleanor.
If this were some Republican politician who was washed up 20 years ago, do you think that they'd be running a story about his daughter on page 1? To give them the benefit of the doubt, they mayhave run a couple of paragraphs on the back page of the Metro section, but even that is highly doubtful.
And to show you what we have in this city for a newspaper, here's part of the sub-head on an op/ed piece that took up about 85% of the second page of the op/ed section:
"From the loud denunciations he provoked, you'd think that Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, had called President Bush a Nazi."
Well, didn't he?
They then go on to print the entire text of Durbin's speech, which they think somehow proves their point that Durbin did nothing wrong.
And, of course, their lead editorial was about (what else?) Dick Durbin and how he shouldn't have apologized because he was right...err...correct.
So, all in all, about 3/4 of todays op/ed section was spent defending the indefensible Dick Durbin.
For all of you out there who think that the New York Times is the epitome of Leftist thinking, try reading this rag sometime.
They're Hysterical
Found this on Michele Malkin's site. It's also on Captain's Quarters, but doesn't Captain Fishsticks get enough free publicity from Gary...err...Nick Coleman?
This is an actual obituary from Tuscon.com:
An avid atheist, he studied the bible and religion with more fervor than most Christians. He had strong political opinions and followed Amy Goodman's radio broadcast "Democracy Now." Alas the stolen election of 2000 and living with right-winged Americans finally brought him to his early demise. Stress from living in this unjust country brought about several heart attacks rendering him disabled.
These so-called "tolerant" people of the Left are obsessed and consumed with grotesque, writhing hatred towards anything that isn't to the left of Karl Marx!
This is an actual obituary from Tuscon.com:
An avid atheist, he studied the bible and religion with more fervor than most Christians. He had strong political opinions and followed Amy Goodman's radio broadcast "Democracy Now." Alas the stolen election of 2000 and living with right-winged Americans finally brought him to his early demise. Stress from living in this unjust country brought about several heart attacks rendering him disabled.
These so-called "tolerant" people of the Left are obsessed and consumed with grotesque, writhing hatred towards anything that isn't to the left of Karl Marx!
Apology NOT Accepted...Again
Senator Durbin gives us another half-hearted apology:
"Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line," the Illinois Democrat said. "To them I extend my heartfelt apologies."
Why can't he (or any other Democrat) just come out and say, "What I did was wrong. I'm sorry"?
Instead he has to say that "some" "may" believe that his remarks crossed the line. And his apologies are offered to "them". To the rest of you, "fight the power, man!".
What a bunch of weasels.
"Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line," the Illinois Democrat said. "To them I extend my heartfelt apologies."
Why can't he (or any other Democrat) just come out and say, "What I did was wrong. I'm sorry"?
Instead he has to say that "some" "may" believe that his remarks crossed the line. And his apologies are offered to "them". To the rest of you, "fight the power, man!".
What a bunch of weasels.
Have You Seen Me?
I was pouring myself a glass of cool, refreshing milk this morning when, who’s picture do I see on the side of the carton but…Michael Moore’s!
Needless to say, it was a gallon carton, and the picture still wrapped around 3 sides of it.
It seems that he hasn’t been seen since early November of 2005, after the Democrat Party used him like a $10 hooker and then wouldn’t return his calls. Can you imagine the awkwardness if they ever bump into each other?
Moore: You said you’d call me
Democrat Party: Hey, I really meant to, but I’ve been so busy lately.
Moore: Oh yeah, right. So all those nice things you said about me were bullshit just to get me in bed with you?
Democrat Party: No! Not at all! But hey, listen, I have a really important meeting I have to get to. I’ll call you, OK?
I thought that I saw him on TV last night, but it turns out that it was only Cartman on South Park. I only thought that it was Moore because Cartman was throwing a tantrum and screaming, "Respect my authoritah!" like the 8-year-old that he is.
That, and the other kids were calling him "fatass".
Needless to say, it was a gallon carton, and the picture still wrapped around 3 sides of it.
It seems that he hasn’t been seen since early November of 2005, after the Democrat Party used him like a $10 hooker and then wouldn’t return his calls. Can you imagine the awkwardness if they ever bump into each other?
Moore: You said you’d call me
Democrat Party: Hey, I really meant to, but I’ve been so busy lately.
Moore: Oh yeah, right. So all those nice things you said about me were bullshit just to get me in bed with you?
Democrat Party: No! Not at all! But hey, listen, I have a really important meeting I have to get to. I’ll call you, OK?
I thought that I saw him on TV last night, but it turns out that it was only Cartman on South Park. I only thought that it was Moore because Cartman was throwing a tantrum and screaming, "Respect my authoritah!" like the 8-year-old that he is.
That, and the other kids were calling him "fatass".
Monday, June 20, 2005
Hypocrisy to the Nth
Remember back in the 90's, during the whole Monica Lewinsky fiasco when Congressman Dan Burton called Bill Clinton a "scumbag"?
The Left and the media went absolutely insane, calling for punishments that would be considered barbarous torture if he were in Gitmo.
Remember when Trent Lott made an innocent comment to make an old man feel good on his 100th birthday and the Left and the media twisted Lott's comments all out of proportion and did everything that they could to ruin his life?
And now the Democrats in Congress, and everyone on the Left, daily call President Bush a war criminal and compare him to the worst mass-murderers in history with no sense of hypocrisy whatsoever.
And, though the MSM is covering this story (as little as possible, I may add), they aren't calling for any punishment or sanctions at all. In fact they're defending him more often than not. In fact, they keep saying that Dick Durbin has apologized when he's done nothing but offer the typical Clinton "non-apology apology":
On Friday, Durbin tried to clarify the issue. "My statement in the Senate was critical of the policies of this administration, which add to the risk our soldiers face," he said in a statement. "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."
Yes, his statement certainly was critical of the policies of this administration, but it seems to me that a United States Senator, by making it easy for the terrorists to justify their behavior by comparing this administration to the mass murderer hall-of-fame, will cause more risk to our soliders than turning off the air-conditioning in a prisoner's cell.
Notice that he says "can be misused and misunderstood". In other words, he doesn't believe that he misused historical parallels. He's also making the implication that Republicans are blowing this all out of proportion by saying that we "misunderstood" his words. We didn't misunderstand. We do understand that he's saying exactly what he wants people to believe. We understand his true feelings perfectly well: he's willing to say anything to score points on this administration.
Respect for our soldiers? Who exactly does he think are carrying out these supposed acts of torture and brutality if not the soldiers who are fighting these people day to day and also dealing with the prisoners at Gitmo? Nobody else is doing that except for the troops, whom he embraces with a dagger up his sleeve.
What he's really doing is putting out the implied talking points for the Dems: Imply that it's the administration and the hated CIA who are perpetrating these brutal acts and not the soldier, because that would be a dead give away to our true feelings and the American people would politically lynch us.
It's not what he believes, but that's no surprise when dealing with a Democrat. They all hate the military, including the troops. They think that the troops are a bunch of dumb, murdering clods, but they can't very well say that about the sons (and daughters) of the voting public, can they? Not if they ever care to be re-elected.
You know, I used to at least try to make a distinction between the extreme Left and the Democrats in Washington, but now I can't see any reason to bother. Dick Turban...err...Durbin is the #2 Democrat in the Senate and I have yet to hear any of his colleagues condemn his words. Not even from the "Conscience of the Senate" (Pthhht!), Joe Lieberman, have we heard a discouraging word!
All of the Democrats in Congress have bought into the hysteria. All of them. They have accepted the mark of the Left for no other reason than they believe that they can't win without the hysterics in their party. They're probably right. They've been playing the demographics of one small part of America against another for so long that they've finally painted themselves into a corner.
They have a painful choice to make: choose to alienate the part of the Democrat party that revels in these charges of "Republican Naziism", thereby condemning themselves to years and years of rebuilding their base of centrists, or face the death of their party while watching the center abandon them.
To you and me, the choice would be obvious. While painful, rebuilding would be preferable to death. But they have no sense of the future just as my daughter doesn't. She has no idea what death means, either.
They want power now! But they're certainly not willing to do anything painful to make that happen in the long run. Remember, these are the same people who want us out of Iraq now! They have all of the patience of a five-year-old, and I'm sure that that's what the terrorists are banking on.
I'd bet that if you added the number of Democrats who voted for John (the Frog) Kerry and the number of "independents" who voted for him, you'd come up with almost exactly the same number of people who want us out of Iraq.
The Democrats are who they are, but the "independents" who voted for him are the people who couldn't be bothered to look any deeper than the nightly news soundbites before making up their minds on who to vote for. They have the attention span of a two-year-old.
Some of the people whom we are fighting have been at war for decades, but these people lose interest in the war after a year or two.
Osama thought that America was "soft", and he was right about almost half of us. He probably watched "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and "Will & Grace" and the self-hating network news and decided that we wouldn't fight back. The Clinton administration certainly gave him no reason to think otherwise.
And now we have United States Senators who, if not self-hating, are self-aggrandizing and willing to sell this country down the river for their own power. That, too, has to encourage Osama.
To paraphrase the old Turtles song, "Sha-la-la-la-la live for (your power) today/ and don't worry 'bout tomorrow, hey, hey".
That pretty much sums up the hippie/Democrat attitude, doesn't it?
The Left and the media went absolutely insane, calling for punishments that would be considered barbarous torture if he were in Gitmo.
Remember when Trent Lott made an innocent comment to make an old man feel good on his 100th birthday and the Left and the media twisted Lott's comments all out of proportion and did everything that they could to ruin his life?
And now the Democrats in Congress, and everyone on the Left, daily call President Bush a war criminal and compare him to the worst mass-murderers in history with no sense of hypocrisy whatsoever.
And, though the MSM is covering this story (as little as possible, I may add), they aren't calling for any punishment or sanctions at all. In fact they're defending him more often than not. In fact, they keep saying that Dick Durbin has apologized when he's done nothing but offer the typical Clinton "non-apology apology":
On Friday, Durbin tried to clarify the issue. "My statement in the Senate was critical of the policies of this administration, which add to the risk our soldiers face," he said in a statement. "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."
Yes, his statement certainly was critical of the policies of this administration, but it seems to me that a United States Senator, by making it easy for the terrorists to justify their behavior by comparing this administration to the mass murderer hall-of-fame, will cause more risk to our soliders than turning off the air-conditioning in a prisoner's cell.
Notice that he says "can be misused and misunderstood". In other words, he doesn't believe that he misused historical parallels. He's also making the implication that Republicans are blowing this all out of proportion by saying that we "misunderstood" his words. We didn't misunderstand. We do understand that he's saying exactly what he wants people to believe. We understand his true feelings perfectly well: he's willing to say anything to score points on this administration.
Respect for our soldiers? Who exactly does he think are carrying out these supposed acts of torture and brutality if not the soldiers who are fighting these people day to day and also dealing with the prisoners at Gitmo? Nobody else is doing that except for the troops, whom he embraces with a dagger up his sleeve.
What he's really doing is putting out the implied talking points for the Dems: Imply that it's the administration and the hated CIA who are perpetrating these brutal acts and not the soldier, because that would be a dead give away to our true feelings and the American people would politically lynch us.
It's not what he believes, but that's no surprise when dealing with a Democrat. They all hate the military, including the troops. They think that the troops are a bunch of dumb, murdering clods, but they can't very well say that about the sons (and daughters) of the voting public, can they? Not if they ever care to be re-elected.
You know, I used to at least try to make a distinction between the extreme Left and the Democrats in Washington, but now I can't see any reason to bother. Dick Turban...err...Durbin is the #2 Democrat in the Senate and I have yet to hear any of his colleagues condemn his words. Not even from the "Conscience of the Senate" (Pthhht!), Joe Lieberman, have we heard a discouraging word!
All of the Democrats in Congress have bought into the hysteria. All of them. They have accepted the mark of the Left for no other reason than they believe that they can't win without the hysterics in their party. They're probably right. They've been playing the demographics of one small part of America against another for so long that they've finally painted themselves into a corner.
They have a painful choice to make: choose to alienate the part of the Democrat party that revels in these charges of "Republican Naziism", thereby condemning themselves to years and years of rebuilding their base of centrists, or face the death of their party while watching the center abandon them.
To you and me, the choice would be obvious. While painful, rebuilding would be preferable to death. But they have no sense of the future just as my daughter doesn't. She has no idea what death means, either.
They want power now! But they're certainly not willing to do anything painful to make that happen in the long run. Remember, these are the same people who want us out of Iraq now! They have all of the patience of a five-year-old, and I'm sure that that's what the terrorists are banking on.
I'd bet that if you added the number of Democrats who voted for John (the Frog) Kerry and the number of "independents" who voted for him, you'd come up with almost exactly the same number of people who want us out of Iraq.
The Democrats are who they are, but the "independents" who voted for him are the people who couldn't be bothered to look any deeper than the nightly news soundbites before making up their minds on who to vote for. They have the attention span of a two-year-old.
Some of the people whom we are fighting have been at war for decades, but these people lose interest in the war after a year or two.
Osama thought that America was "soft", and he was right about almost half of us. He probably watched "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and "Will & Grace" and the self-hating network news and decided that we wouldn't fight back. The Clinton administration certainly gave him no reason to think otherwise.
And now we have United States Senators who, if not self-hating, are self-aggrandizing and willing to sell this country down the river for their own power. That, too, has to encourage Osama.
To paraphrase the old Turtles song, "Sha-la-la-la-la live for (your power) today/ and don't worry 'bout tomorrow, hey, hey".
That pretty much sums up the hippie/Democrat attitude, doesn't it?
Friday, June 17, 2005
Talk Talk
I was reading a bunch of articles about "Air UnAmerican" today in which the commentators were trying to figure out why it's ratings are below that of the Carribean music station that it replaced in New York.
They all cited the boring hosts, the Left's excuse that their ideas are "too complicated for radio" (although, apparently, not for TV, where thinking is optional), the lack of a need for Lefty radio with all of the other left-wing media outlets out there, but they never hit the real reason why Lefty talk-radio always fails. I got the impression that some of them may have wanted to make this point, but they were too polite.
The Left always accuses the Right of being "mind-numbed robots" who get their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh. Why do they say that? It's because that's how it works in their world!
As I've said very recently, the DNC faxes out copies of their talking points to the NY Times and all of the other liberal media outlets and everyone on the Left just repeats them.
They figure that that's how we operate, too.
When I listen to talk radio, I don't need Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Dennis Praeger or anyone else to tell me what I think about an issue. I already know what I think because I have beliefs and principles that go beyond the Left's "Power At All Costs". Some (but not all) of them are even based on (gasp!) religion.
I suspect that most, if not all, of the Lefties out there know (or strongly suspect) that what they're being told and what they're saying is nothing more than a Marxist "means to an end". They need marching orders because they know that they can't come right out and say that they want America to be a Communist country. Not Socialist...Communist. Whether they admit it or not... hell, whether they know it or not, that is what they're aiming for. And I strongly suspect that many of them don't even know it. But they need to be told how they should spin their lies.
Talk radio for me serves as a springboard to form my own thoughts about an issue. Instead of parroting what Rush says, it gets me thinking about issues and going beyond what he says. Alot of my posts here on this blog are extensions of what I've heard on talk-radio. Not parroting, but extensions. Things that I wish the host would have said. In other words, they make me think about issues.
And there you have the reason that liberal radio talk shows always fail. These people can't be bothered to think. Most of them are college people who have learned that it's easier to just believe what you're told than to actually think for yourself.
The insecure children of the Left don't really think that they're smart enough to form their own opinions on issues. Deep down, they think that the "grown-ups" of their movement need to tell them what they think so that they don't say a "bad word".
Unfortunately for them, even their "grown-ups" are children.
They all cited the boring hosts, the Left's excuse that their ideas are "too complicated for radio" (although, apparently, not for TV, where thinking is optional), the lack of a need for Lefty radio with all of the other left-wing media outlets out there, but they never hit the real reason why Lefty talk-radio always fails. I got the impression that some of them may have wanted to make this point, but they were too polite.
The Left always accuses the Right of being "mind-numbed robots" who get their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh. Why do they say that? It's because that's how it works in their world!
As I've said very recently, the DNC faxes out copies of their talking points to the NY Times and all of the other liberal media outlets and everyone on the Left just repeats them.
They figure that that's how we operate, too.
When I listen to talk radio, I don't need Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Dennis Praeger or anyone else to tell me what I think about an issue. I already know what I think because I have beliefs and principles that go beyond the Left's "Power At All Costs". Some (but not all) of them are even based on (gasp!) religion.
I suspect that most, if not all, of the Lefties out there know (or strongly suspect) that what they're being told and what they're saying is nothing more than a Marxist "means to an end". They need marching orders because they know that they can't come right out and say that they want America to be a Communist country. Not Socialist...Communist. Whether they admit it or not... hell, whether they know it or not, that is what they're aiming for. And I strongly suspect that many of them don't even know it. But they need to be told how they should spin their lies.
Talk radio for me serves as a springboard to form my own thoughts about an issue. Instead of parroting what Rush says, it gets me thinking about issues and going beyond what he says. Alot of my posts here on this blog are extensions of what I've heard on talk-radio. Not parroting, but extensions. Things that I wish the host would have said. In other words, they make me think about issues.
And there you have the reason that liberal radio talk shows always fail. These people can't be bothered to think. Most of them are college people who have learned that it's easier to just believe what you're told than to actually think for yourself.
The insecure children of the Left don't really think that they're smart enough to form their own opinions on issues. Deep down, they think that the "grown-ups" of their movement need to tell them what they think so that they don't say a "bad word".
Unfortunately for them, even their "grown-ups" are children.
Too Cool, Earthman
Alot of you probably already know about this site, but I just found it.
It's a database that has profiles of any Lefty who's anybody. It also has profiles of left-wing media outlets and left-wing organizations. A must-have link for any blogger.
It's a database that has profiles of any Lefty who's anybody. It also has profiles of left-wing media outlets and left-wing organizations. A must-have link for any blogger.
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Un-American Senatorial Traitors
To Dick Durbin, Patrick Leahy, Joe Biden, Charles Rangel, Amnesty International Al Gore, Michael Moore, the MSM and all the rest, there can be but one reply:
"Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type make me puke. You vacuous, toffee nosed, malodorous pervert!" (Thanks, Graham)
All of these traitors want Gitmo shut down? Great. Let's shut it down and fly all of the prisoners back to Afghanistan where we'll drop them off in the middle of the country. Then we'll have a few options:
a) This time take no prisoners for the Left to whine about.
b) Take them prisoner, but hand them over to the Afghanis.
c) Just let the Afghan forces deal with them as they see fit.
Either way the official U.S. policy (call it the Democrat Appeasement Policy) should, from now on, be: "prisoners taken will no longer be the responsibility of any U.S. official, civilian or military". Which means we hand them over to whichever country we happen to catch them in or the nearest allied country.
When the Democrats start whining about that, just say, "Hey, we closed Gitmo like you wanted us to".
Our unofficial policy should just be: "take no prisoners". Hell, these guys are just itching to see Allah and get their 72 virgin camels anyway, aren't they?
Torture, my ass. I was sitting at a stoplight this afternoon, hotter than hell, when a car pulled up next to me blaring rap music. Not 1/2 hour earlier I had been listening to the charges of the "detainees" having to sit in the heat and being forced to listen to rap music! I wasn't being tortured; this was just my daily commute! And I wasn't even offered glazed chicken for dinner!
When's the last time that you heard any of these Democrat morons say anything bad about any of these Muqtars who were trying to kill our troops? Me either.
All of the Republicans in Washington and most of them in the (new) media seem to be afraid to call these people un-American. Well, I have no qualms about it. Not only are they un-American, but they're traitors in a time of war, and should be stuck in Gitmo as soon as we empty it out.
These people are United States Senators; one of the most esteemed positions that can be obtained in this country. You would think that they would at least like this country.
It doesn't matter if Moonbeam Schwartz down at the coffeshop goes on a ranting screed, but these guys are United States Senators. They should at least have some class, some tact and some diplomacy.
But that's where the entire Left is today, including the Democrat base. They have no class, no tact, and the only diplomacy that they like is at the U.N. They're a bunch of shrieking children whose favorite toy (i.e. power) has been taken away from them; only instead of calming down after awhile like most children, these guys just keep cranking up the volume and go on for years.
I've said it before, but I think that it's worth repeating: have you noticed that the phrase "hate-filled Republican" is rarely heard anymore? Using that phrase in today's political climate would be hypocrisy that's too obvious for even the Left to ignore. They know that everyone would laugh at them, and these children, like all children, hate to be laughed at.
"Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type make me puke. You vacuous, toffee nosed, malodorous pervert!" (Thanks, Graham)
All of these traitors want Gitmo shut down? Great. Let's shut it down and fly all of the prisoners back to Afghanistan where we'll drop them off in the middle of the country. Then we'll have a few options:
a) This time take no prisoners for the Left to whine about.
b) Take them prisoner, but hand them over to the Afghanis.
c) Just let the Afghan forces deal with them as they see fit.
Either way the official U.S. policy (call it the Democrat Appeasement Policy) should, from now on, be: "prisoners taken will no longer be the responsibility of any U.S. official, civilian or military". Which means we hand them over to whichever country we happen to catch them in or the nearest allied country.
When the Democrats start whining about that, just say, "Hey, we closed Gitmo like you wanted us to".
Our unofficial policy should just be: "take no prisoners". Hell, these guys are just itching to see Allah and get their 72 virgin camels anyway, aren't they?
Torture, my ass. I was sitting at a stoplight this afternoon, hotter than hell, when a car pulled up next to me blaring rap music. Not 1/2 hour earlier I had been listening to the charges of the "detainees" having to sit in the heat and being forced to listen to rap music! I wasn't being tortured; this was just my daily commute! And I wasn't even offered glazed chicken for dinner!
When's the last time that you heard any of these Democrat morons say anything bad about any of these Muqtars who were trying to kill our troops? Me either.
All of the Republicans in Washington and most of them in the (new) media seem to be afraid to call these people un-American. Well, I have no qualms about it. Not only are they un-American, but they're traitors in a time of war, and should be stuck in Gitmo as soon as we empty it out.
These people are United States Senators; one of the most esteemed positions that can be obtained in this country. You would think that they would at least like this country.
It doesn't matter if Moonbeam Schwartz down at the coffeshop goes on a ranting screed, but these guys are United States Senators. They should at least have some class, some tact and some diplomacy.
But that's where the entire Left is today, including the Democrat base. They have no class, no tact, and the only diplomacy that they like is at the U.N. They're a bunch of shrieking children whose favorite toy (i.e. power) has been taken away from them; only instead of calming down after awhile like most children, these guys just keep cranking up the volume and go on for years.
I've said it before, but I think that it's worth repeating: have you noticed that the phrase "hate-filled Republican" is rarely heard anymore? Using that phrase in today's political climate would be hypocrisy that's too obvious for even the Left to ignore. They know that everyone would laugh at them, and these children, like all children, hate to be laughed at.
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
The Rabbit Done Died
Papa's got the baby blues: French men yearn for pregnancy
PARIS (AFP) - Maybe it's that mix of hot Latin blood and cool Cartesian intellect, or perhaps is just a collective guilty conscience.
Whatever the cause, nearly 40 percent of French men told a recent survey that they would, science permitting, like to become pregnant.
Maybe it's the fact that French men are a bunch of pussies. I really hope I never meet one who pisses me off. It would be like beating up a girl.
Yeah, we should really respect these guys. The feminization of boys that the Liberals are trying to foist on America has already taken hold in France.
It almost makes me wish that I had a son so that I could teach him to be a man. But at the rate we're going, my daughter will be tougher than most of the guys out there.
(Tip o' the hat to The Blue State Conservatives)
PARIS (AFP) - Maybe it's that mix of hot Latin blood and cool Cartesian intellect, or perhaps is just a collective guilty conscience.
Whatever the cause, nearly 40 percent of French men told a recent survey that they would, science permitting, like to become pregnant.
Maybe it's the fact that French men are a bunch of pussies. I really hope I never meet one who pisses me off. It would be like beating up a girl.
Yeah, we should really respect these guys. The feminization of boys that the Liberals are trying to foist on America has already taken hold in France.
It almost makes me wish that I had a son so that I could teach him to be a man. But at the rate we're going, my daughter will be tougher than most of the guys out there.
(Tip o' the hat to The Blue State Conservatives)
Too Bad
Some of you may have noticed that the link to Vox Popoli's blog has disappeared from the Right Wing Extremist blogroll.
Well, it appears that he has bought into the whole tinfoil hat, conspiracy theory which says that it was actually our government that blew up the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Considering that the architect of the buildings was recorded on tape as saying "pull it down", that no plane hit Building No. 7 and that the government has been proven to lie about nearly everything from Pat Tillman's death to Private Jessica's heroics, it should hardly come as a surprise to learn that even the administration's officials don't believe the administration's official story.
This is no different from the Left-wing conspiracy theorists who came out of the woodwork after Bush was elected.
I realize that he'll never miss my contribution or traffic to his blog, but I can't in good conscience continue to link to someone who would believe that George Bush would slaughter 3,000 Americans and give the Islamofascists a pass.
It's too bad, really. He made some really good points on other topics in the past, but this discredits all of them.
Well, it appears that he has bought into the whole tinfoil hat, conspiracy theory which says that it was actually our government that blew up the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Considering that the architect of the buildings was recorded on tape as saying "pull it down", that no plane hit Building No. 7 and that the government has been proven to lie about nearly everything from Pat Tillman's death to Private Jessica's heroics, it should hardly come as a surprise to learn that even the administration's officials don't believe the administration's official story.
This is no different from the Left-wing conspiracy theorists who came out of the woodwork after Bush was elected.
I realize that he'll never miss my contribution or traffic to his blog, but I can't in good conscience continue to link to someone who would believe that George Bush would slaughter 3,000 Americans and give the Islamofascists a pass.
It's too bad, really. He made some really good points on other topics in the past, but this discredits all of them.
Vive Le Arrogance!
From the London Telegraph:
France performed a historic about-turn yesterday and abandoned the European Union constitution to its fate, dropping demands that other nations ratify the treaty.
Is it any wonder that the entire world sees these losers as arrogant? They couldn't pass the Socialist Constitution, but they demand that other countries do so.
Who the hell are they to demand anything from anybody? They seem to think that they are the natural rulers of the EU, which is supposed to be a Democratic body.
You'd think that they'd be a little more humble after having their bacon saved countless times since the country was founded. To paraphrase a very intelligent lady that I know, they only won the French Revolution because they were fighting themselves. It's a wonder both sides didn't surrender.
I taught my daughter French this weekend while we were at the cabin.
I said, "Repeat after me: I surrender!"
She said, "I surrender".
I told her that that was all the French that anyone needed to know. She didn't get the joke, but it got under my Democrat mother's skin, so that was OK. I love mom dearly, but she just doesn't get it.
If I'm not mistaken, the very word 'arrogance' comes from the French.
Anyone who ever suggests that the French are our allies in my presence should be prepared to be smirked at.
France performed a historic about-turn yesterday and abandoned the European Union constitution to its fate, dropping demands that other nations ratify the treaty.
Is it any wonder that the entire world sees these losers as arrogant? They couldn't pass the Socialist Constitution, but they demand that other countries do so.
Who the hell are they to demand anything from anybody? They seem to think that they are the natural rulers of the EU, which is supposed to be a Democratic body.
You'd think that they'd be a little more humble after having their bacon saved countless times since the country was founded. To paraphrase a very intelligent lady that I know, they only won the French Revolution because they were fighting themselves. It's a wonder both sides didn't surrender.
I taught my daughter French this weekend while we were at the cabin.
I said, "Repeat after me: I surrender!"
She said, "I surrender".
I told her that that was all the French that anyone needed to know. She didn't get the joke, but it got under my Democrat mother's skin, so that was OK. I love mom dearly, but she just doesn't get it.
If I'm not mistaken, the very word 'arrogance' comes from the French.
Anyone who ever suggests that the French are our allies in my presence should be prepared to be smirked at.
Close Gitmo?
Alright, they want Guantanamo closed? Let's close it.
We'll relocate all of the terrorists to Hollywood!
Or better yet, the World Trade Center site. I can't think of a more fitting use for it.
We'll relocate all of the terrorists to Hollywood!
Or better yet, the World Trade Center site. I can't think of a more fitting use for it.
Monday, June 13, 2005
Beat It
Michael Jackson has been found not guilty and, like O.J., has vowed to spend his time looking for the "real pedophile".
However, instead of looking for him on the golf course as O.J. does, Jackson is looking for them at K-Mart, where he's heard that boys' underwear is 1/2 off.
However, instead of looking for him on the golf course as O.J. does, Jackson is looking for them at K-Mart, where he's heard that boys' underwear is 1/2 off.
Intellectual Loafers
If there's one thing about the Left and the Democrats that really drives me nuts, it's their absolute insistence that they are the party of the thinking man (er...person), while the Right are just "mind-numbed" robots marching in lockstep to whatever Rush Limbaugh says.
You don't even have to look closely at the issue to see the lie in their stance:
Amnesty International compares Guantanomo to the Soviet Gulags.
Charlie Rangel compares the Iraq war to the Holocaust.
Teddy Kennedy claims that Abu Ghraib is "open under new management".
It takes any rational, thinking, informed person approximately 1/2 second to see the utter ridiculousness of such statements. How intellectually lazy would you have to be not to immediately see what a load of male bovine excrement those statements are?
I don't even believe that the leaders of the Left who put out statements like that believe them but, with their usual contempt for the sheep who follow them, they say these things knowing that their flock will run with them and believe every word of it.
1/2 second of thought would show these people that they're being fed a load of garbage. If they thought at all. But they don't.
The Democratic National Committee faxes their talking points to the New York Times, The LA Times, all of the Networks, Air UnAmerica and the rest who give out the buzzwords and spin to the sheep who propagate it amongst themselves.
It's like in the 2000 campaign when, all of the sudden, the obscure word "gravitas" was everywhere! Does anyone think that that was a coincidence?
(I'd like to tap into the DNC's fax line and send out the word, "Baaa!" sometime. Then we could watch them all run around screaming, "Baaa! Baaa! Baaa!" like the sheep they are.)
I don't even think that most of these people are stupid (I could be wrong). I think that they are just so incredibly lazy that they can't be bothered to think about these things.
Everyone (everyone!) thought that Sadaam Hussein had WMD's. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, France, Germany, The UN...you name it. There are documented quotes from hundreds of people on the Left saying that they, too, believed that Hussein had WMD's. These quotes go right up to the time when we actually got in there and didn't find any.
Then, suddenly, all of these people turned 180 degrees and said that Bush lied. He was the only one that believed that Hussein had the WMD's. Worse: unlike all of these people on the left, he didn't really believe that the WMD's were there but just used them as an excuse to attack Iraq.
How much thinking can you really be doing when your leaders are all repeatedly telling you one thing for 11 years and then one day they tell you the opposite? And you believe them. Especially when there are thousands of undeniable quotes from these same leaders? How "1984" is that?
I take it back. These people are stupid.
You don't even have to look closely at the issue to see the lie in their stance:
Amnesty International compares Guantanomo to the Soviet Gulags.
Charlie Rangel compares the Iraq war to the Holocaust.
Teddy Kennedy claims that Abu Ghraib is "open under new management".
It takes any rational, thinking, informed person approximately 1/2 second to see the utter ridiculousness of such statements. How intellectually lazy would you have to be not to immediately see what a load of male bovine excrement those statements are?
I don't even believe that the leaders of the Left who put out statements like that believe them but, with their usual contempt for the sheep who follow them, they say these things knowing that their flock will run with them and believe every word of it.
1/2 second of thought would show these people that they're being fed a load of garbage. If they thought at all. But they don't.
The Democratic National Committee faxes their talking points to the New York Times, The LA Times, all of the Networks, Air UnAmerica and the rest who give out the buzzwords and spin to the sheep who propagate it amongst themselves.
It's like in the 2000 campaign when, all of the sudden, the obscure word "gravitas" was everywhere! Does anyone think that that was a coincidence?
(I'd like to tap into the DNC's fax line and send out the word, "Baaa!" sometime. Then we could watch them all run around screaming, "Baaa! Baaa! Baaa!" like the sheep they are.)
I don't even think that most of these people are stupid (I could be wrong). I think that they are just so incredibly lazy that they can't be bothered to think about these things.
Everyone (everyone!) thought that Sadaam Hussein had WMD's. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, France, Germany, The UN...you name it. There are documented quotes from hundreds of people on the Left saying that they, too, believed that Hussein had WMD's. These quotes go right up to the time when we actually got in there and didn't find any.
Then, suddenly, all of these people turned 180 degrees and said that Bush lied. He was the only one that believed that Hussein had the WMD's. Worse: unlike all of these people on the left, he didn't really believe that the WMD's were there but just used them as an excuse to attack Iraq.
How much thinking can you really be doing when your leaders are all repeatedly telling you one thing for 11 years and then one day they tell you the opposite? And you believe them. Especially when there are thousands of undeniable quotes from these same leaders? How "1984" is that?
I take it back. These people are stupid.
Friday, June 10, 2005
Time to Go...
Time to go "up north" and hang out in the woods with the family for a couple of days.
See ya on Sunday. Maybe.
See ya on Sunday. Maybe.
The 100 Greatest Americans (of the Left)
I was doing some more couch research last night (i.e. watching TV) and came across something that I'm really not sure what to make of.
The Discovery Channel has a series that is attempting to discover who we, the people, think are the greatest American who have ever lived. From what I understand they had over 500,000 responses which resulted in 37,000 nominees. Last night's episode listed the top 100.
Now, as I said above, this whole thing has got me rather confused, so I'll just put down some of the points that immediately came to me. Kind of like a Larry King stream-of-conciousness thing. Quite frankly, I don't know how to put it all together.
The first thing that struck me was that it was hosted by Matt Lauer of NBC's Today show. My first thought was, "Nothing good can come of this", which seems to have been a good first impresssion.
The next thing, and the thing that probably got me hooked, was that number 100 was John Edwards! John Edwards? One of the 100 greatest Americans who have ever lived? I don't care what your political persuasion may be, you would have to be completely ignorant of history to believe that he would make even the top 1 million!
At that point it became obvious that the stupidity of this thing was going to be fascinating.
I also noticed that his "superior" in last year's campaign, John F. Kerry, was completely missing from the poll.
And after that came Martha Stewart. Martha Stewart! One of the top 100 Americans ever?
But I really started catching the drift after the next one: Barak Obama! Noboby even knew who this guy was a year or so ago! What has he done to earn the title of one of the 100 Greatest Americans? Apparently getting elected to the Senate against Allan Keyes (who hadn't a Frigidaire's chance in hell) was enough.
I started having real reservations about the intelligence of the American people at that point, until I noticed that the entire thing had a decided left-wing slant, which I'll get back to in a minute. For the moment I want to list some of the others who were nominated. The fact that they're even there points out that this, somehow, turned into a poll of the Left.
You'll notice that Hollywood (and the rest of the Left) is hugely overrepresented in this whole thing. But these were the ones who made me say, "Huh?"
- Lyndon Johnson
- Dr. Phil
- Brett Favre (OK, so they were drunk)
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Tom Hanks
- Tom Cruise
- Michael Moore
- Christopher Reeve
- Maya Angelou
- Madonna
- Lance Armstrong
- Oprah Winfrey
Is it just that most people with a brain have better things to do? How could anyone who is capable of anything even remotely approaching the hint of rational thought vote for these people? I don't think that it's a coincidence that these nominations are laughably stupid and that they all have Leftist ties. Except maybe Favre, but then, drunk Packers fans with access to telephones are always trouble.
You look at that list and it's "The Heroes of the Left". The fact that people would vote for any of them as one of the 100 Greatest Americans" shows me that the Left are idiots. At least the nominees who could be considered right-wing (I'll list them later) could be argued for.
And as the show went on, it quickly became even more obvious where this show was coming from.
During each short segment they had a "celebrity" commentator give their thoughts on the nominee. Here's a partial list.
- Tom Brokaw
- Al Franken (Whiner extraordinaire)
- Moby (Washed up)
- Tom Arnold
- Bob Costas
- Gloria Steinem
- James Carville
- Wendy Williams (Air America hostette)
- Star Jones (The View harpy)
- John Meacham (Newsweek editor)
And in the Right corner, wearing the Red, White and Blue trunks, we have:
- Sean Hannity
- Norman Schwartzkopf
Sean Hannity was on for about 10 seconds talking about Rush Limbaugh (we'll get to the more political niminees).
Norman Schwartzkopf spoke only of military-related nominees (i.e. Eisenhower).
On the other hand, Moby, and the rest of the Lefties, were apparently asked their opinions on all of the subjects. I think Gloria Steinam had an orgasm every time Hillary was mentioned.
Moby called any Christian who supported the war in Iraq a hypocrite. In other words, it was the Left's usual attack mode. He's a moron who writes really bad music, but the Left will use him for his opinion any time they can.
John Meacham, Newsweek's Managing Editor, had to toss in the whole "blacks as 3/5 of a person" thing. Do you really think that this guy is really so ignorant as to not know that this actually helped the anti-slavery movement?
On the one hand, it wouldn't surprise me that a person in his position on the Left wouldn't know the real reason behind the 3/5 thing (The number of Congressmen in the House is based on population in states. If all of the blacks were counted as 1 person, the slaveholding South would have had a huge advantage).
On the other hand, feigning ignorance to advance their cause is just a normal day's work for these people.
Now here's a list of people on the Left who you could actually make an argument for being one of the 100 Greatest Americans, however twisted that argument would be.
- Malcolm X
- Bill Clinton
- Hillary Clinton
- Jimmy Carter
Add them to the list above (minus Favre) and then compare it to this list:
- George H. W. Bush
- Barbara Bush
- George W. Bush
- Laura Bush
- Rush Limbaugh
- Richard Nixon
- Rudy Giuliani
- Ike Eisenhower
- Condi Rice
- Arnold Schwartzenegger
- Ronald Reagan
Those are the Conservatives nominated.
And, of course, George W. Bush had to be denigrated for "mangling" the English language.
All in all, it was an attempt to get rid of the poll a year or two ago that listed Ronald Reagan as the Greatest President. The media was shocked by that and couldn't let it stand. I'm just kind of surprised that the Discovery Channel let something this blatantly political be put on the air.
I doubt that I've captured the whole of how slanted toward the Left that it was, but all you have to do is watch it to see what I mean. It's fascinating because it's a perfect example of the propaganda of the Left.
Me? I voted for Reagan. Although it was a hard decision between him and the selfless George Washington, Reagan defeated the greatest threat that there ever was to our country by nothing more than outspending the Soviet Union on defense.
The next time you hear some smug liberal smirking about the deficit in the 80's, tell him that not only did the Democrat Congress spend all of the money that came in from tax cuts, but that part of it went to destroying a regime that had thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at our country.
Then call him a pussy just for that ad hominem effect.
The Discovery Channel has a series that is attempting to discover who we, the people, think are the greatest American who have ever lived. From what I understand they had over 500,000 responses which resulted in 37,000 nominees. Last night's episode listed the top 100.
Now, as I said above, this whole thing has got me rather confused, so I'll just put down some of the points that immediately came to me. Kind of like a Larry King stream-of-conciousness thing. Quite frankly, I don't know how to put it all together.
The first thing that struck me was that it was hosted by Matt Lauer of NBC's Today show. My first thought was, "Nothing good can come of this", which seems to have been a good first impresssion.
The next thing, and the thing that probably got me hooked, was that number 100 was John Edwards! John Edwards? One of the 100 greatest Americans who have ever lived? I don't care what your political persuasion may be, you would have to be completely ignorant of history to believe that he would make even the top 1 million!
At that point it became obvious that the stupidity of this thing was going to be fascinating.
I also noticed that his "superior" in last year's campaign, John F. Kerry, was completely missing from the poll.
And after that came Martha Stewart. Martha Stewart! One of the top 100 Americans ever?
But I really started catching the drift after the next one: Barak Obama! Noboby even knew who this guy was a year or so ago! What has he done to earn the title of one of the 100 Greatest Americans? Apparently getting elected to the Senate against Allan Keyes (who hadn't a Frigidaire's chance in hell) was enough.
I started having real reservations about the intelligence of the American people at that point, until I noticed that the entire thing had a decided left-wing slant, which I'll get back to in a minute. For the moment I want to list some of the others who were nominated. The fact that they're even there points out that this, somehow, turned into a poll of the Left.
You'll notice that Hollywood (and the rest of the Left) is hugely overrepresented in this whole thing. But these were the ones who made me say, "Huh?"
- Lyndon Johnson
- Dr. Phil
- Brett Favre (OK, so they were drunk)
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Tom Hanks
- Tom Cruise
- Michael Moore
- Christopher Reeve
- Maya Angelou
- Madonna
- Lance Armstrong
- Oprah Winfrey
Is it just that most people with a brain have better things to do? How could anyone who is capable of anything even remotely approaching the hint of rational thought vote for these people? I don't think that it's a coincidence that these nominations are laughably stupid and that they all have Leftist ties. Except maybe Favre, but then, drunk Packers fans with access to telephones are always trouble.
You look at that list and it's "The Heroes of the Left". The fact that people would vote for any of them as one of the 100 Greatest Americans" shows me that the Left are idiots. At least the nominees who could be considered right-wing (I'll list them later) could be argued for.
And as the show went on, it quickly became even more obvious where this show was coming from.
During each short segment they had a "celebrity" commentator give their thoughts on the nominee. Here's a partial list.
- Tom Brokaw
- Al Franken (Whiner extraordinaire)
- Moby (Washed up)
- Tom Arnold
- Bob Costas
- Gloria Steinem
- James Carville
- Wendy Williams (Air America hostette)
- Star Jones (The View harpy)
- John Meacham (Newsweek editor)
And in the Right corner, wearing the Red, White and Blue trunks, we have:
- Sean Hannity
- Norman Schwartzkopf
Sean Hannity was on for about 10 seconds talking about Rush Limbaugh (we'll get to the more political niminees).
Norman Schwartzkopf spoke only of military-related nominees (i.e. Eisenhower).
On the other hand, Moby, and the rest of the Lefties, were apparently asked their opinions on all of the subjects. I think Gloria Steinam had an orgasm every time Hillary was mentioned.
Moby called any Christian who supported the war in Iraq a hypocrite. In other words, it was the Left's usual attack mode. He's a moron who writes really bad music, but the Left will use him for his opinion any time they can.
John Meacham, Newsweek's Managing Editor, had to toss in the whole "blacks as 3/5 of a person" thing. Do you really think that this guy is really so ignorant as to not know that this actually helped the anti-slavery movement?
On the one hand, it wouldn't surprise me that a person in his position on the Left wouldn't know the real reason behind the 3/5 thing (The number of Congressmen in the House is based on population in states. If all of the blacks were counted as 1 person, the slaveholding South would have had a huge advantage).
On the other hand, feigning ignorance to advance their cause is just a normal day's work for these people.
Now here's a list of people on the Left who you could actually make an argument for being one of the 100 Greatest Americans, however twisted that argument would be.
- Malcolm X
- Bill Clinton
- Hillary Clinton
- Jimmy Carter
Add them to the list above (minus Favre) and then compare it to this list:
- George H. W. Bush
- Barbara Bush
- George W. Bush
- Laura Bush
- Rush Limbaugh
- Richard Nixon
- Rudy Giuliani
- Ike Eisenhower
- Condi Rice
- Arnold Schwartzenegger
- Ronald Reagan
Those are the Conservatives nominated.
And, of course, George W. Bush had to be denigrated for "mangling" the English language.
All in all, it was an attempt to get rid of the poll a year or two ago that listed Ronald Reagan as the Greatest President. The media was shocked by that and couldn't let it stand. I'm just kind of surprised that the Discovery Channel let something this blatantly political be put on the air.
I doubt that I've captured the whole of how slanted toward the Left that it was, but all you have to do is watch it to see what I mean. It's fascinating because it's a perfect example of the propaganda of the Left.
Me? I voted for Reagan. Although it was a hard decision between him and the selfless George Washington, Reagan defeated the greatest threat that there ever was to our country by nothing more than outspending the Soviet Union on defense.
The next time you hear some smug liberal smirking about the deficit in the 80's, tell him that not only did the Democrat Congress spend all of the money that came in from tax cuts, but that part of it went to destroying a regime that had thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at our country.
Then call him a pussy just for that ad hominem effect.
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Exorcism
I've got two legs
From my hips to the ground
And when I move them
They walk around
When I lift them
They climb the stairs
And when I shave them
They ain't got hairs
I've had that going through my head for 2 days. Yes, it's from Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Yes, I'm hoping that it'll quit once I put the words down here.
Ohhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
From my hips to the ground
And when I move them
They walk around
When I lift them
They climb the stairs
And when I shave them
They ain't got hairs
I've had that going through my head for 2 days. Yes, it's from Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Yes, I'm hoping that it'll quit once I put the words down here.
Ohhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
To Dean or not to Dean
It seems that the Democrat party has painted itself into a corner.
On the one hand, the ones who are somewhat rational (i.e. the ones who are just a bit left of Karl Marx), have to know that Howard Dean's vicious attacks on religious people (people of religion?) and Conservatives aren't going to attract any new voters.
On the other hand, the Democrat party's really big donors (i.e. George Soros, Hollywood, etc.) aren't going to contribute a dime to anyone who might possibly mouth the words, "while the Republicans may have a point...".
Howard the Duck's job as DNC Chairnut is to raise money. Unlike President Bush, most of the Democrat party's money came in large chunks from a few very rich people. People who viewed Bush as...well, I was going to say the "anti-Christ" but they'd have to believe in Christ for that to be true. So let's say that Bush was the epitome of evil to these people.
Huh. That doesn't work either. Moral relativism says that nobody is evil except America. Sawing off heads isn't nearly as bad as an infidel touching a Koran without gloves.
So the Democrat party is now stuck between kissing the asses of their small donors, who have been conditioned to believe that they should never have to write out a check in the name of the government (or party), or kissing the asses of the utter left-wing radicals who have tons of money and want to hear nothing other than "Bush is Evil".
They've obviously gone for the latter. Good for them. Good for us.
On the one hand, the ones who are somewhat rational (i.e. the ones who are just a bit left of Karl Marx), have to know that Howard Dean's vicious attacks on religious people (people of religion?) and Conservatives aren't going to attract any new voters.
On the other hand, the Democrat party's really big donors (i.e. George Soros, Hollywood, etc.) aren't going to contribute a dime to anyone who might possibly mouth the words, "while the Republicans may have a point...".
Howard the Duck's job as DNC Chairnut is to raise money. Unlike President Bush, most of the Democrat party's money came in large chunks from a few very rich people. People who viewed Bush as...well, I was going to say the "anti-Christ" but they'd have to believe in Christ for that to be true. So let's say that Bush was the epitome of evil to these people.
Huh. That doesn't work either. Moral relativism says that nobody is evil except America. Sawing off heads isn't nearly as bad as an infidel touching a Koran without gloves.
So the Democrat party is now stuck between kissing the asses of their small donors, who have been conditioned to believe that they should never have to write out a check in the name of the government (or party), or kissing the asses of the utter left-wing radicals who have tons of money and want to hear nothing other than "Bush is Evil".
They've obviously gone for the latter. Good for them. Good for us.
Monday, June 06, 2005
Oh God! Please stop. You're killing Me!
The Red Star Tribunal reported this story with absolutely no sense of irony. I honestly don't think that they even noticed the irony or, knowing them as I do, they never would have reported it.
It's about two enviropussies trying to call attention to global warming. They were forced to quit because the conditions became too winter-like!
Amid a stretch of extraordinarily heavy snowfall, strong winds and broken and shifting ice, the two men from Grand Marais, Minn., who had hoped to become the first adventurers to cross the Arctic Ocean in summer, abandoned their expedition Thursday after advancing only 45 miles in 24 days.
Conditions were so treacherous, in fact, that the men, who had hoped to make the crossing to call attention to global warming and the receding polar ice cap, couldn't be picked up and airlifted out by helicopter until Friday.
"The weather conditions deteriorated so significantly that it was putting them at risk," said Jane Kochersperger, a spokeswoman for the environmental group Greenpeace, which cosponsored the expedition.
Dupre, 44, and Larsen, 34, were en route to Moscow and not available for interviews, Kochersperger said.
Is anyone surprised that they're on their way to Moscow? Russia is obviously on it's way back to Communism. Maybe they figure that they can defect before the fact.
This reminds me of a few years ago when we had 20 below zero wind chills in Minnesota in May and the local envirowimps blamed it on...global warming! Apparently, one of their more intelligent members came up with the theory that because the weather down south was warmer, it somehow created colder weather up here (I say more intelligent because even coming up with a theory is beyond most of them).
They never explained exactly how that could happen. They couldn't. None of them know anything about how the ecosystem actually works. I'd bet huge amounts of money that I know more about the science of environmental dynamics than any of them do.
But that doesn't matter. That's what they feel.
These people are idiots. They are just, plain stupid. The scary thing is, the people who believe them are even more stupid. And they can vote!
It's about two enviropussies trying to call attention to global warming. They were forced to quit because the conditions became too winter-like!
Amid a stretch of extraordinarily heavy snowfall, strong winds and broken and shifting ice, the two men from Grand Marais, Minn., who had hoped to become the first adventurers to cross the Arctic Ocean in summer, abandoned their expedition Thursday after advancing only 45 miles in 24 days.
Conditions were so treacherous, in fact, that the men, who had hoped to make the crossing to call attention to global warming and the receding polar ice cap, couldn't be picked up and airlifted out by helicopter until Friday.
"The weather conditions deteriorated so significantly that it was putting them at risk," said Jane Kochersperger, a spokeswoman for the environmental group Greenpeace, which cosponsored the expedition.
Dupre, 44, and Larsen, 34, were en route to Moscow and not available for interviews, Kochersperger said.
Is anyone surprised that they're on their way to Moscow? Russia is obviously on it's way back to Communism. Maybe they figure that they can defect before the fact.
This reminds me of a few years ago when we had 20 below zero wind chills in Minnesota in May and the local envirowimps blamed it on...global warming! Apparently, one of their more intelligent members came up with the theory that because the weather down south was warmer, it somehow created colder weather up here (I say more intelligent because even coming up with a theory is beyond most of them).
They never explained exactly how that could happen. They couldn't. None of them know anything about how the ecosystem actually works. I'd bet huge amounts of money that I know more about the science of environmental dynamics than any of them do.
But that doesn't matter. That's what they feel.
These people are idiots. They are just, plain stupid. The scary thing is, the people who believe them are even more stupid. And they can vote!
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Tag! I guess I’m “It”.
# of books I own:
I can see about 100 from where I sit. There are another 50 or so on a shelf above my bed (if it collapses I’ll be an ex-Exile) and probably five hundred more in the attic. If we include my daughter’s books, we’re easily pushing 1,000.
Last Book I Bought:
The Dark Tower by Stephen King: The final book of the “Dark Tower” series. I’ve been waiting for 23 years for this! The first book came out in 1982. It is truly an epic and makes “War & Peace” look like a novella.
5 books that mean(t) a lot to me:
Jaws by Peter Benchley. Sounds silly I know, but I read it when I was about 8 years old. Although I didn’t quite understand the “sex stuff”, it beat the hell out of Dr. Seuss, which is what my contemporaries were reading.
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. I read this when I was about 12, before anyone had ever heard of Stephen King. The black cover and silver lettering just happened to catch my eye. The way that he portrayed real people and their petty lives hooked me into reading forever.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy: I could wimp out and cite this as 3 books, but I won’t. Again, I was about 12 or 13 when I first read it. This was well after the hippies thought it was cool and well before any of the movies. I just kind of stumbled across it.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: This is the only book that I have ever read that, literally, made me laugh out loud. The way that Douglas Adams phrased things was perfect. These books are the only things that have ever rivaled Monty Python for my fanaticism.
Slander by Ann Coulter: Although I was very well versed in politics, it somehow never occurred to me that reading “right-wing fanatic” books would be in any way interesting. Ann was my first (sigh), and who better? Now I have a shelf above my bed that is full of political books that may kill me.
Yeah, I know that the list doesn't sound very "literary". I've read Shakespeare, Melville, Nietzsche and a lot of the books that are supposed to make you "well read", but they really didn't "mean a lot to me". In fact they were so boring that it was a constant battle just to get through them. How exciting can a guy looking for a fish (yeah, I know: whales are mammals) or some 19th century nutjob trying to whip us into a frenzy over the "obermann" really be?
Yes, the "classics" have their uses and their place, but the reason most people read them is the sheer pretension of having been told that they need to read them if they care to be seen as intelligent.
Quite frankly, Stephen King taught me more about the human condition than Nietzsche ever did.
Nietzche was a fantasist, preaching about how people could be if only they'd march to his tune.
King is a realist who takes thousands of years of human nature into account and lets them march to their own tune. As even he's said, he has no control over his characters.
The only differences between Stephen King and Friederich Nietzsche are the fact that Nietzsche wanted to be a "serious" writer and King just wanted to be a writer.
It's kind of like Bill Clinton working his ass off to make a legacy for himself and George W. Bush doing it by default. Trying to make yourself a hero never works. John Kerry learned that the hard way.
I'm tagging:
Due to the fact that most of the blogs I visit seem to be group collaborations, any, all or none are welcome to respond.
Blogs Against Hillary
Anti-Strib
The Blue State Conservatives
California Mafia
I can see about 100 from where I sit. There are another 50 or so on a shelf above my bed (if it collapses I’ll be an ex-Exile) and probably five hundred more in the attic. If we include my daughter’s books, we’re easily pushing 1,000.
Last Book I Bought:
The Dark Tower by Stephen King: The final book of the “Dark Tower” series. I’ve been waiting for 23 years for this! The first book came out in 1982. It is truly an epic and makes “War & Peace” look like a novella.
5 books that mean(t) a lot to me:
Jaws by Peter Benchley. Sounds silly I know, but I read it when I was about 8 years old. Although I didn’t quite understand the “sex stuff”, it beat the hell out of Dr. Seuss, which is what my contemporaries were reading.
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. I read this when I was about 12, before anyone had ever heard of Stephen King. The black cover and silver lettering just happened to catch my eye. The way that he portrayed real people and their petty lives hooked me into reading forever.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy: I could wimp out and cite this as 3 books, but I won’t. Again, I was about 12 or 13 when I first read it. This was well after the hippies thought it was cool and well before any of the movies. I just kind of stumbled across it.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: This is the only book that I have ever read that, literally, made me laugh out loud. The way that Douglas Adams phrased things was perfect. These books are the only things that have ever rivaled Monty Python for my fanaticism.
Slander by Ann Coulter: Although I was very well versed in politics, it somehow never occurred to me that reading “right-wing fanatic” books would be in any way interesting. Ann was my first (sigh), and who better? Now I have a shelf above my bed that is full of political books that may kill me.
Yeah, I know that the list doesn't sound very "literary". I've read Shakespeare, Melville, Nietzsche and a lot of the books that are supposed to make you "well read", but they really didn't "mean a lot to me". In fact they were so boring that it was a constant battle just to get through them. How exciting can a guy looking for a fish (yeah, I know: whales are mammals) or some 19th century nutjob trying to whip us into a frenzy over the "obermann" really be?
Yes, the "classics" have their uses and their place, but the reason most people read them is the sheer pretension of having been told that they need to read them if they care to be seen as intelligent.
Quite frankly, Stephen King taught me more about the human condition than Nietzsche ever did.
Nietzche was a fantasist, preaching about how people could be if only they'd march to his tune.
King is a realist who takes thousands of years of human nature into account and lets them march to their own tune. As even he's said, he has no control over his characters.
The only differences between Stephen King and Friederich Nietzsche are the fact that Nietzsche wanted to be a "serious" writer and King just wanted to be a writer.
It's kind of like Bill Clinton working his ass off to make a legacy for himself and George W. Bush doing it by default. Trying to make yourself a hero never works. John Kerry learned that the hard way.
I'm tagging:
Due to the fact that most of the blogs I visit seem to be group collaborations, any, all or none are welcome to respond.
Blogs Against Hillary
Anti-Strib
The Blue State Conservatives
California Mafia
Friday, June 03, 2005
No Personal Attacks, Moron!
This has to be the perfect storm of the blindness of the Left to their own hypocrisy. It's from my friend, bob, at either orr's comment section and can be found here. Unfortunately my reply turned into a post. May bob forgive me.
The Exile said...
ndp nadine said:
Jonah Goldberg is a rabid anti-Canadian and all his rationale is cheap and petty, kinda like that geek Tucker Carlson.
The political discourse is so nasty, personal and franky, immature, condescending and petty .
And as for Jonah, would he have gotten this far in his career without his mommy's help?
Nadine, do you really not see the hyposrisy of your whining about "personal" attacks and what you've written?
Accusing Jonah Goldberg of being "cheap and petty" and calling Tucker Carlson a geek seems like a pretty personal attack to me.
Implying that Jonah Goldberg would have gotten nowhere without "his mommy's help" is the definition of a "nasty, personal and franky, immature, condescending and petty" attack.
Here's one for you: Nadine, you are an idiot. That may be a personal attack, but it is not nasty, immature, condescending or petty.
It is emininently true and proveable by the above.
And, for good measure, just let me add that you are a hypocrite blind to her own hypocrisy, like all of the Left are. Again, if you need a source, just reread your post.
UPDATE: I just tried to follow the link to Nadine on bob's blog and, of course, there's no way to contact this little troll. Just another chickenshit Lefty that can't handle a debate.
The Exile said...
ndp nadine said:
Jonah Goldberg is a rabid anti-Canadian and all his rationale is cheap and petty, kinda like that geek Tucker Carlson.
The political discourse is so nasty, personal and franky, immature, condescending and petty .
And as for Jonah, would he have gotten this far in his career without his mommy's help?
Nadine, do you really not see the hyposrisy of your whining about "personal" attacks and what you've written?
Accusing Jonah Goldberg of being "cheap and petty" and calling Tucker Carlson a geek seems like a pretty personal attack to me.
Implying that Jonah Goldberg would have gotten nowhere without "his mommy's help" is the definition of a "nasty, personal and franky, immature, condescending and petty" attack.
Here's one for you: Nadine, you are an idiot. That may be a personal attack, but it is not nasty, immature, condescending or petty.
It is emininently true and proveable by the above.
And, for good measure, just let me add that you are a hypocrite blind to her own hypocrisy, like all of the Left are. Again, if you need a source, just reread your post.
UPDATE: I just tried to follow the link to Nadine on bob's blog and, of course, there's no way to contact this little troll. Just another chickenshit Lefty that can't handle a debate.
My Theory of Conspiracists
Not long ago I heard some Lefty on TV or the radio whining, "When are these people going to take those Bush/Cheney '04 stickers off their cars?"
My answer to that: as soon as I see the last of the Kerry/Edwards '04 stickers. They're still out there and they lost. Yes, they lost. No, it wasn't stolen in some grand conspiracy (which we'll get to very, very shortly... again).
Besides, I think it offsets my NRA sticker rather nicely. It gives a sense of balance to the back windshield of the Jeep.
For that matter, I'll take my Bush/Cheney sticker off when I see the last of the Wellstone stickers! He died over 5 years ago and you still see them here! In fact, there was a big stink when someone designed a bumper-sticker that looked just like the Wellstone sticker that said something to the effect of, "He's dead. get over it!" The Left in this state went absolutely insane with rage (not that these people ever feel rage! ::smirk::).
Which brings me back to one of my favorite topics. I don't know why I find it so fascinating, but I do. I found this in my old bookmarks:
Wellstone’s death comes almost two years to the day after a similar plane crash killed another Democratic Senate hopeful locked in a tight election contest, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, on October 16, 2000. The American media duly noted the “eerie coincidence,” as though it was a statistical oddity, rather than suggesting a pattern.
Wellstone was in a hotly contested reelection campaign, but polls showed he was beginning to pull ahead of Republican nominee Norm Coleman, the former mayor of St. Paul, in the wake of the vote in the Senate to authorize President Bush to wage war against Iraq. The liberal Democrat was a well-publicized opponent of the war resolution, the only Senator in a tight race to vote against it.
No matter what or where I read about Paul Wellstone, he was either "pulling ahead" or "on his way to a win" against Norm Coleman (who's sticker also graces the back of the Jeep). It just ain't true. If anyone was gaining momentum, it was Coleman; and at the time of Wellstone's death the race was a statistical dead-heat.
My theory is that the shadowy people running the Left saw that Wellstone was going to lose, so they downed his plane with an electro-magnetic pulse generator given to them by George Soros. What? It's no sillier than what they're suggesting.
But the part that fascinates me, as I've probably said before, isn't the possibility that their conspiracy theories may be true, but the minds behind the people who believe them.
What would motivate someone to believe this stuff? Even sheer hatred of Conservatives in general and Bush in particular doesn't really explain it.
Now, I know that the Left has no logic, but their theories aren't even a lack of logic. This is illogic. The opposite of logic. It's like they're trying so hard to make sense of something with brains that can't really think rationally to begin with, that they end up spinning out of control and end up in La-la land.
These are the same people who believe that there is no such thing as an accident and somebody must be responsible (and sued for it). Maybe that explains part of it. Nothing bad ever just happens. Somebody must have caused it.
For example, global warming isn't just happening because of a naturally occurring warming cycle. Somebody must be blamed. And that somebody is inevitably Capitalism (code for Conservatives) and/or America.
Another weird part of the Conspiracy Theory Left, is how fast it came on. Ten years ago, the Left was certainly attacking the Right, but it seemed more calculating; as if even they didn't really believe their own bullshit. And, to be sure, there's still a lot of that out there, but now they also seem to believe anything that's put out there as fact.
It''s seems like the minute Hillary came out with her "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", it opened the floodgates and all of these people who had been holding back for fear of being called nutjobs, were given permission to start circullating their wildest fantasies. It started relatively slowly, but after the 2000 elections, it absolutely exploded!
I could almost see it if it were just about them losing elections. It's no different than a child making excuses for losing a game. But their theories cover everything!
Although, now that I put it down in writing where I can see it, when power is everything to them, I guess it's makes sense that their conspiracy theories would cover everything imaginable.
It's like propaganda for 5-year-olds. It allows them to justify their hatred for the Right by making us seem scheming and evil.
They can't just come right out and say that they hate us because we legally took their power away from them, can they?
My answer to that: as soon as I see the last of the Kerry/Edwards '04 stickers. They're still out there and they lost. Yes, they lost. No, it wasn't stolen in some grand conspiracy (which we'll get to very, very shortly... again).
Besides, I think it offsets my NRA sticker rather nicely. It gives a sense of balance to the back windshield of the Jeep.
For that matter, I'll take my Bush/Cheney sticker off when I see the last of the Wellstone stickers! He died over 5 years ago and you still see them here! In fact, there was a big stink when someone designed a bumper-sticker that looked just like the Wellstone sticker that said something to the effect of, "He's dead. get over it!" The Left in this state went absolutely insane with rage (not that these people ever feel rage! ::smirk::).
Which brings me back to one of my favorite topics. I don't know why I find it so fascinating, but I do. I found this in my old bookmarks:
Wellstone’s death comes almost two years to the day after a similar plane crash killed another Democratic Senate hopeful locked in a tight election contest, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, on October 16, 2000. The American media duly noted the “eerie coincidence,” as though it was a statistical oddity, rather than suggesting a pattern.
Wellstone was in a hotly contested reelection campaign, but polls showed he was beginning to pull ahead of Republican nominee Norm Coleman, the former mayor of St. Paul, in the wake of the vote in the Senate to authorize President Bush to wage war against Iraq. The liberal Democrat was a well-publicized opponent of the war resolution, the only Senator in a tight race to vote against it.
No matter what or where I read about Paul Wellstone, he was either "pulling ahead" or "on his way to a win" against Norm Coleman (who's sticker also graces the back of the Jeep). It just ain't true. If anyone was gaining momentum, it was Coleman; and at the time of Wellstone's death the race was a statistical dead-heat.
My theory is that the shadowy people running the Left saw that Wellstone was going to lose, so they downed his plane with an electro-magnetic pulse generator given to them by George Soros. What? It's no sillier than what they're suggesting.
But the part that fascinates me, as I've probably said before, isn't the possibility that their conspiracy theories may be true, but the minds behind the people who believe them.
What would motivate someone to believe this stuff? Even sheer hatred of Conservatives in general and Bush in particular doesn't really explain it.
Now, I know that the Left has no logic, but their theories aren't even a lack of logic. This is illogic. The opposite of logic. It's like they're trying so hard to make sense of something with brains that can't really think rationally to begin with, that they end up spinning out of control and end up in La-la land.
These are the same people who believe that there is no such thing as an accident and somebody must be responsible (and sued for it). Maybe that explains part of it. Nothing bad ever just happens. Somebody must have caused it.
For example, global warming isn't just happening because of a naturally occurring warming cycle. Somebody must be blamed. And that somebody is inevitably Capitalism (code for Conservatives) and/or America.
Another weird part of the Conspiracy Theory Left, is how fast it came on. Ten years ago, the Left was certainly attacking the Right, but it seemed more calculating; as if even they didn't really believe their own bullshit. And, to be sure, there's still a lot of that out there, but now they also seem to believe anything that's put out there as fact.
It''s seems like the minute Hillary came out with her "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", it opened the floodgates and all of these people who had been holding back for fear of being called nutjobs, were given permission to start circullating their wildest fantasies. It started relatively slowly, but after the 2000 elections, it absolutely exploded!
I could almost see it if it were just about them losing elections. It's no different than a child making excuses for losing a game. But their theories cover everything!
Although, now that I put it down in writing where I can see it, when power is everything to them, I guess it's makes sense that their conspiracy theories would cover everything imaginable.
It's like propaganda for 5-year-olds. It allows them to justify their hatred for the Right by making us seem scheming and evil.
They can't just come right out and say that they hate us because we legally took their power away from them, can they?
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Noble Cowards
The kids who are on the front lines of the protest movement believe that they are following in the footsteps of something noble. They believe that the people who were protesting the war in Vietnam were noble, principled people.
While listening to Michael Medved's annual Memorial Day "3 lies about Vietnam" broadcast, he pointed something out that had also caught my attention last year. Namely that as soon as the draft was ended, all of the protests against the war disappeared too.
The protestors weren't protesting the war. They were trying to end the war only because that would mean that they no longer had to fear being drafted. However, if they had come right out and said that, they would have shown themselves for the cowards that they were.
Since that time of the late '60's and early '70's, the anti-Vietnam protestors have been so romanticized by the MSM and the college professors who are encouraging today's budding Leftists (many of whom were these very same cowards), that these kids think that they are upholding a noble tradition instead of the cowardly act that the protests were.
So today's college kids think that they are doing work along the lines of the Civil Rights movement instead of following in the footsteps of frightened cowards who were willing to let other people go to war in their stead.
They think that it's so cool that these war protestors sat around smoking dope and drinking dandelion wine while discussing the big issues of the war and politics. Anyone who has ever smoked a lot of dope and poured a bunch of alcohol on top of it knows that, even if they attempted to have those conversations, what came out was gibberish. It may have sounded good, but once you sobered up it usually turned out that you were babbling bullshit.
(If that sounds like the voice of experience, so be it. The Exile wasn't always the hard-nosed Conservative that he is today. Once upon a time he had long hair, a biker jacket and a taste for chemicals that would have made Keith Richards flinch. I get many of my insights of the Left from having traveled among them, though even then I knew that what they were saying was bullshit.)
These kids have bought into the lie of the "noble protestor". The anti-war protests of the 1960's were an attempt to regain that feeling that the Left had when it was doing something which was actually good, namely the Civil Rights protests.
The Civil Rights movement is the "crack" of the Left. They felt so good when they actually did change the world, that they wanted to get to that high again. But, as any addict will tell you, you never get back to that first high. From then on you're just trying to get back to that point, but you never do. As we see in the Left today, that craving eventually becomes self-destructive, but by that time, it's almost impossible to stop.
It's no coincidence that these people who are so enamored with drugs are also the ones who are trying to get that "high" of feeling good about themselves that the Civil Rights movement brought.
It's a well-documented condition called the "addictive personality".
While listening to Michael Medved's annual Memorial Day "3 lies about Vietnam" broadcast, he pointed something out that had also caught my attention last year. Namely that as soon as the draft was ended, all of the protests against the war disappeared too.
The protestors weren't protesting the war. They were trying to end the war only because that would mean that they no longer had to fear being drafted. However, if they had come right out and said that, they would have shown themselves for the cowards that they were.
Since that time of the late '60's and early '70's, the anti-Vietnam protestors have been so romanticized by the MSM and the college professors who are encouraging today's budding Leftists (many of whom were these very same cowards), that these kids think that they are upholding a noble tradition instead of the cowardly act that the protests were.
So today's college kids think that they are doing work along the lines of the Civil Rights movement instead of following in the footsteps of frightened cowards who were willing to let other people go to war in their stead.
They think that it's so cool that these war protestors sat around smoking dope and drinking dandelion wine while discussing the big issues of the war and politics. Anyone who has ever smoked a lot of dope and poured a bunch of alcohol on top of it knows that, even if they attempted to have those conversations, what came out was gibberish. It may have sounded good, but once you sobered up it usually turned out that you were babbling bullshit.
(If that sounds like the voice of experience, so be it. The Exile wasn't always the hard-nosed Conservative that he is today. Once upon a time he had long hair, a biker jacket and a taste for chemicals that would have made Keith Richards flinch. I get many of my insights of the Left from having traveled among them, though even then I knew that what they were saying was bullshit.)
These kids have bought into the lie of the "noble protestor". The anti-war protests of the 1960's were an attempt to regain that feeling that the Left had when it was doing something which was actually good, namely the Civil Rights protests.
The Civil Rights movement is the "crack" of the Left. They felt so good when they actually did change the world, that they wanted to get to that high again. But, as any addict will tell you, you never get back to that first high. From then on you're just trying to get back to that point, but you never do. As we see in the Left today, that craving eventually becomes self-destructive, but by that time, it's almost impossible to stop.
It's no coincidence that these people who are so enamored with drugs are also the ones who are trying to get that "high" of feeling good about themselves that the Civil Rights movement brought.
It's a well-documented condition called the "addictive personality".
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
EU...Ewwwwww!
The EU Constitution is well on it's way to crashing and burning, and I'm sure none of the intellectuals over there can figure out why. *
The fact that it's based mostly on economic interests and not on ideals should give them a clue.
A Constitution has to be a starting point. A place where you say, "From now on, this is how the world will be." Instead, they changed nothing and just listed all of the wants and demands of the European elite as they now stand.
The United States Constitution takes up about 5 pages (according to MS Word). The EU Constitution takes up about 439 pages representing the interests of everyone from the Unions to the Reindeer herders of Lapland.
The equivalent in this country would be like the Democrats drafting a new Constitution and inserting every demand from their various constituency groups.
They'd insert individual "hate crime" rights as interpreted by GLBT's, blacks, "homeless" people, the "poor" and any other group that votes for them. That alone would take up 100 pages.
They'd insert a "progressive" tax code that would soak the rich at the expense of the less rich. That would take another 50 pages or so.
In other words, it would be a Constitution based on buying power and votes, written by a bearaucracy.
Our Constitution is based on Freedom and Liberty. Theirs would be based on 35 hour work weeks and 6 week vacations. There's a noble goal.
It's a Constitution based on the childish self-centeredness of the Left. If it doesn't have what they want, they're going to take their ball and go home.
And that's just fine by me.
*Proving my point, a large part of the article that I linked to above has to do with how France's "no" vote on the Constitution helps the UK's bid for the 2012 Olympics. It's all self-interest.
The fact that it's based mostly on economic interests and not on ideals should give them a clue.
A Constitution has to be a starting point. A place where you say, "From now on, this is how the world will be." Instead, they changed nothing and just listed all of the wants and demands of the European elite as they now stand.
The United States Constitution takes up about 5 pages (according to MS Word). The EU Constitution takes up about 439 pages representing the interests of everyone from the Unions to the Reindeer herders of Lapland.
The equivalent in this country would be like the Democrats drafting a new Constitution and inserting every demand from their various constituency groups.
They'd insert individual "hate crime" rights as interpreted by GLBT's, blacks, "homeless" people, the "poor" and any other group that votes for them. That alone would take up 100 pages.
They'd insert a "progressive" tax code that would soak the rich at the expense of the less rich. That would take another 50 pages or so.
In other words, it would be a Constitution based on buying power and votes, written by a bearaucracy.
Our Constitution is based on Freedom and Liberty. Theirs would be based on 35 hour work weeks and 6 week vacations. There's a noble goal.
It's a Constitution based on the childish self-centeredness of the Left. If it doesn't have what they want, they're going to take their ball and go home.
And that's just fine by me.
*Proving my point, a large part of the article that I linked to above has to do with how France's "no" vote on the Constitution helps the UK's bid for the 2012 Olympics. It's all self-interest.
Monday, May 30, 2005
Take a Break!
Well, I don't feel too bad. Apparently everyone else took a break from blogging this weekend. That's good. If politics consumes us, we'll be no better than Hillary.
I memorialized our troops by mowing my lawn and working on my house, neither of which I'd have if the Socialists took over and denied me the most basic of our rights, which is land ownership. Take that away and you can own nothing. Think about it.
Thank God for the people who are willing to go to war for us so that the protestors can still whine.
That says it all, doesn't it?
I memorialized our troops by mowing my lawn and working on my house, neither of which I'd have if the Socialists took over and denied me the most basic of our rights, which is land ownership. Take that away and you can own nothing. Think about it.
Thank God for the people who are willing to go to war for us so that the protestors can still whine.
That says it all, doesn't it?
Friday, May 27, 2005
Stupid is as Democrats Does
Canadianna got me thinking.
In any debate over the relative intelligence of the Left or Right, Lefties always claim the high ground. They claim that they are the intellectual elite, while any Conservative is usually portrayed as a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, gap-toothed moron.
And why do they consider themselves so far above we who are on the Right? Because they are the "intellectual elite" who are controlling the colleges and universities of this country.
Big deal. There are maybe a few thousand of them with a liberal arts degree that was turned into a PhD because of nothing more than their political views. Their thesis didn't have to make any sense whatsoever. As long as it meshed with their professor's political viewpoint, it was judged a passing grade.
As I've said before, some of the most idiotic people I've ever met had college degrees. Usually, college doesn't teach you how to think, it teaches you how to kiss your teacher's ass. If you do it for long enough, you get the Holy Grail of tenure.
But Liberals, having no grasp of the reality of numbers, think that because 1/100th of 1% of their ranks control the universities, that they are more intelligent than Conservatives.
Apparently, having a few thousand people in your ranks makes you the "intellectual elite".
It never occurs to them that the majority of the people voting for them are on the lower end of the IQ scale. They just know that they're smarter than the rest of the country!
Business degree vs. Liberal arts degree. Who do you think is more intelligent?
Running a business vs. running a beauracracy. Who do you think needs more brains?
IQ test. Any time, any place. Send us your best.
In any debate over the relative intelligence of the Left or Right, Lefties always claim the high ground. They claim that they are the intellectual elite, while any Conservative is usually portrayed as a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, gap-toothed moron.
And why do they consider themselves so far above we who are on the Right? Because they are the "intellectual elite" who are controlling the colleges and universities of this country.
Big deal. There are maybe a few thousand of them with a liberal arts degree that was turned into a PhD because of nothing more than their political views. Their thesis didn't have to make any sense whatsoever. As long as it meshed with their professor's political viewpoint, it was judged a passing grade.
As I've said before, some of the most idiotic people I've ever met had college degrees. Usually, college doesn't teach you how to think, it teaches you how to kiss your teacher's ass. If you do it for long enough, you get the Holy Grail of tenure.
But Liberals, having no grasp of the reality of numbers, think that because 1/100th of 1% of their ranks control the universities, that they are more intelligent than Conservatives.
Apparently, having a few thousand people in your ranks makes you the "intellectual elite".
It never occurs to them that the majority of the people voting for them are on the lower end of the IQ scale. They just know that they're smarter than the rest of the country!
Business degree vs. Liberal arts degree. Who do you think is more intelligent?
Running a business vs. running a beauracracy. Who do you think needs more brains?
IQ test. Any time, any place. Send us your best.
Why Lie?
What the hell is wrong with people who vote for Democrats? They vote for people who will lie about the smallest thing, even when there is no reason to lie.
Last night I watched Senator Harry Reid say something to the effect of being "saddened" that they didn't get to vote on John Bolton's nomination to the UN, and then go on to blame the lack of a vote on the Bush administration's refusal to hand over every document in the country that has any pertinence to Mr. Bolton including, I assume, his 1st grade report card.
Harry Reid was not "saddened" by the lack of a vote. Quite the contrary, it was exactly what he was aiming for.
Why lie about that? Think about it.
He could have just said that he was glad that the vote was postponed because he disagrees with Mr. Bolton on ideological grounds, and that he wanted time to rally more support for his views.
Nobody would have faulted him for that. Yet he lied. Why?
I can almost see the reason people with no principles (other than Power At All Costs) would lie about bigger issues, but why lie about something so trivial and obviously untrue? It's pathological.
My ex-wife was like that. Lying was so ingrained in her, that she would lie about the most mundane things. It was a knee-jerk reaction. It was so ingrained in her, that she didn't even realize she was doing it half the time. It was just one symptom of some deep psychological problems.
Just like the Democrats in Washington, she was vaguely aware that the way she thought wasn't quite right, so she was always on the defensive. She considered any question to be a possible (probable?) attack and would lie about it to put herself in the best position to defend herself. Or so she thought.
The fact is, most of her lies were so silly and childish, that they were utterly transparent. Again, just like the Democrats.
And yet, almost half of the country votes for these people. Yes, I married one, but I eventually got rid of her when it became clear that it was never going to change and was seriously harming our family (country).
Will your "Joe-six-pack" Democrat ever do the same?
Last night I watched Senator Harry Reid say something to the effect of being "saddened" that they didn't get to vote on John Bolton's nomination to the UN, and then go on to blame the lack of a vote on the Bush administration's refusal to hand over every document in the country that has any pertinence to Mr. Bolton including, I assume, his 1st grade report card.
Harry Reid was not "saddened" by the lack of a vote. Quite the contrary, it was exactly what he was aiming for.
Why lie about that? Think about it.
He could have just said that he was glad that the vote was postponed because he disagrees with Mr. Bolton on ideological grounds, and that he wanted time to rally more support for his views.
Nobody would have faulted him for that. Yet he lied. Why?
I can almost see the reason people with no principles (other than Power At All Costs) would lie about bigger issues, but why lie about something so trivial and obviously untrue? It's pathological.
My ex-wife was like that. Lying was so ingrained in her, that she would lie about the most mundane things. It was a knee-jerk reaction. It was so ingrained in her, that she didn't even realize she was doing it half the time. It was just one symptom of some deep psychological problems.
Just like the Democrats in Washington, she was vaguely aware that the way she thought wasn't quite right, so she was always on the defensive. She considered any question to be a possible (probable?) attack and would lie about it to put herself in the best position to defend herself. Or so she thought.
The fact is, most of her lies were so silly and childish, that they were utterly transparent. Again, just like the Democrats.
And yet, almost half of the country votes for these people. Yes, I married one, but I eventually got rid of her when it became clear that it was never going to change and was seriously harming our family (country).
Will your "Joe-six-pack" Democrat ever do the same?
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Non-thinking Education
Not long ago my daughter brought home one of those innumerable fliers from school. At least this one wasn't begging for money, but something in it did catch my eye.
The flier said that the kids were going to be learning how to measure lengths and distances. They would be using cubes and craft sticks as measuring devices.
It occurred to me that it might be easier and more productive to just "skip the middle-man" and use rulers and/or tape measures.
Why say that your desk is 15 cubes wide when it's just as easy to say that it's 2 feet wide?
Is it just me or is that just plain logical? Apparently, in the environs of the Government schools it isn't, because when I suggested it to her teacher, she looked at me as if I were speaking some lost language from the darkest reaches of Borneo.
It's no wonder that our kids aren't being taught how to actually think in these schools: their teachers don't know how to think! You can't teach something that you don't know.
I'm sure that she can teach the kids all about diversity, environmentalism and bullies, but her college never taught her how to be in the least bit logical. Apparently, rational thought isn't important to the "educational community", which would explain why they're all liberals.
I would give my left arm to put my daughter in a private school but, unfortunately, it's not in the budget and, at present, there's no way that it can be.
Which brings me to another of those points that are just too obvious and nobody seems to ask: whenever you mention school vouchers, the usual suspects always say that "It would take money away from public education". Well, yes it would. But if the child using that voucher is no longer in the public education system, you don't need the money for that child. Right?
If the child isn't going to be in their school, they shouldn't care that there's no money to pay for that nonexistent child.
Why have I never heard anyone who matters ask that question? I can't be the only one who's thought of it. And if someone would actually ask it, maybe we could point out that they really don't want the money "for the children" as they always claim, but are using it to hire more "grief counselors", administrators, vice-vice-principals and anyone else who can jack up the numbers on their union rolls.
Yes, I may be more logical than a lot of people out there, but I'm not Spock! I honestly think that people are trying to think so deeply about political subjects, that they miss the easy questions that would blow the Left's arguments out of the water. I know they would, because whenever I ask them, people are left blinking and stammering for an answer. Because there is no answer.
I take that back. There is an answer, but they would have to admit their real motives, and I don't even think that they can do that to themselves.
The flier said that the kids were going to be learning how to measure lengths and distances. They would be using cubes and craft sticks as measuring devices.
It occurred to me that it might be easier and more productive to just "skip the middle-man" and use rulers and/or tape measures.
Why say that your desk is 15 cubes wide when it's just as easy to say that it's 2 feet wide?
Is it just me or is that just plain logical? Apparently, in the environs of the Government schools it isn't, because when I suggested it to her teacher, she looked at me as if I were speaking some lost language from the darkest reaches of Borneo.
It's no wonder that our kids aren't being taught how to actually think in these schools: their teachers don't know how to think! You can't teach something that you don't know.
I'm sure that she can teach the kids all about diversity, environmentalism and bullies, but her college never taught her how to be in the least bit logical. Apparently, rational thought isn't important to the "educational community", which would explain why they're all liberals.
I would give my left arm to put my daughter in a private school but, unfortunately, it's not in the budget and, at present, there's no way that it can be.
Which brings me to another of those points that are just too obvious and nobody seems to ask: whenever you mention school vouchers, the usual suspects always say that "It would take money away from public education". Well, yes it would. But if the child using that voucher is no longer in the public education system, you don't need the money for that child. Right?
If the child isn't going to be in their school, they shouldn't care that there's no money to pay for that nonexistent child.
Why have I never heard anyone who matters ask that question? I can't be the only one who's thought of it. And if someone would actually ask it, maybe we could point out that they really don't want the money "for the children" as they always claim, but are using it to hire more "grief counselors", administrators, vice-vice-principals and anyone else who can jack up the numbers on their union rolls.
Yes, I may be more logical than a lot of people out there, but I'm not Spock! I honestly think that people are trying to think so deeply about political subjects, that they miss the easy questions that would blow the Left's arguments out of the water. I know they would, because whenever I ask them, people are left blinking and stammering for an answer. Because there is no answer.
I take that back. There is an answer, but they would have to admit their real motives, and I don't even think that they can do that to themselves.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Could it be?
From Reuters:
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday denied a report that he authorized the military to shoot down a small plane that prompted evacuations of Washington power centers earlier this month.
The Washington Post, quoting federal officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported on Wednesday that Rumsfeld had given the military authority to take the action, if necessary, against the Cessna 150 that had wandered into restricted airspace over the Washington area on May 11.
Gee, while trying to show what a bloodthirsty killer Rumsfeld (and by extension the Bush administration) is, the MSM relies on anonymous sources and gets it wrong...again. Anyone shocked?
You'd almost think that it's a disinformation campaign to make the MSM look bad while Rummy and Bush roll around laughing at how easy it is to dupe these guys.
But I'll save that conspiracy theory for Air UnAmerican. I'd bet that it shows up within a week.
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday denied a report that he authorized the military to shoot down a small plane that prompted evacuations of Washington power centers earlier this month.
The Washington Post, quoting federal officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported on Wednesday that Rumsfeld had given the military authority to take the action, if necessary, against the Cessna 150 that had wandered into restricted airspace over the Washington area on May 11.
Gee, while trying to show what a bloodthirsty killer Rumsfeld (and by extension the Bush administration) is, the MSM relies on anonymous sources and gets it wrong...again. Anyone shocked?
You'd almost think that it's a disinformation campaign to make the MSM look bad while Rummy and Bush roll around laughing at how easy it is to dupe these guys.
But I'll save that conspiracy theory for Air UnAmerican. I'd bet that it shows up within a week.
What Arrogance!
Apparently some "equal" branches of our government are more equal than others.
For their part, Senate Democratic Leader Reid and his House counterpart, Rep. Nancy Pelosi scheduled a "unity event" to argue that the agreement was a victory — and a message to the White House that the president must consult with Congress on future court nominees.
Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi apparently now expect the President to bow before them and kiss their rings.
If I were President Bush, I'd call a press conference and tell them that they can kiss my...well, you get the picture.
Why is it that Democrats in Congress seem to have no grasp of what the Constitution says? You would think that to get that far in politics, they'd have to have at least read it! Or is it that they think that the Constitution is irrelevant when dealing with their vast intellect? God, what arrogance!
There is nothing in the Constitution that even vaguely suggests that the President should have to consult with the Legislative branch before sending his nominees to the Senate. President Bush, Senator Frist and any other Republican out there should start howling to high heaven about this.
The "checks and balances" system was put in place so that no branch of the government (Executive, Legislative, Judicial) can usurp power from the others.
The Democrats whined about Republicans hurting our system of "checks and balances" when it came to disagreements between parties, which is not at all what the system was put in place for.
But they are perfectly willing to utterly ignore those checks and balances when it comes to the way they're supposed to be used: to balance power between the branches of government.
The Legislative branch has no power to dictate to the Executive branch! Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi have no right to demand anything of President Bush!
Come on! I'm just a grease-monkey and even I know that! Why isn't anyone else saying the same thing? I have yet to hear any outrage against the Senate demanding that the President consult with them before he does anything. The Senate can do no such thing!
The minority party has taken over the Legislative branch and, without so much as a "Thank you, maam", they start dictating to the Executive branch! Once again, I thank God that the military hates these people or they would be dictating from the chair of a Dictator once the smoke cleared and the blood dried.
Is this just one of those things that's too obvious for the deep-thinking 'professionals' to see, or what?
For their part, Senate Democratic Leader Reid and his House counterpart, Rep. Nancy Pelosi scheduled a "unity event" to argue that the agreement was a victory — and a message to the White House that the president must consult with Congress on future court nominees.
Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi apparently now expect the President to bow before them and kiss their rings.
If I were President Bush, I'd call a press conference and tell them that they can kiss my...well, you get the picture.
Why is it that Democrats in Congress seem to have no grasp of what the Constitution says? You would think that to get that far in politics, they'd have to have at least read it! Or is it that they think that the Constitution is irrelevant when dealing with their vast intellect? God, what arrogance!
There is nothing in the Constitution that even vaguely suggests that the President should have to consult with the Legislative branch before sending his nominees to the Senate. President Bush, Senator Frist and any other Republican out there should start howling to high heaven about this.
The "checks and balances" system was put in place so that no branch of the government (Executive, Legislative, Judicial) can usurp power from the others.
The Democrats whined about Republicans hurting our system of "checks and balances" when it came to disagreements between parties, which is not at all what the system was put in place for.
But they are perfectly willing to utterly ignore those checks and balances when it comes to the way they're supposed to be used: to balance power between the branches of government.
The Legislative branch has no power to dictate to the Executive branch! Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi have no right to demand anything of President Bush!
Come on! I'm just a grease-monkey and even I know that! Why isn't anyone else saying the same thing? I have yet to hear any outrage against the Senate demanding that the President consult with them before he does anything. The Senate can do no such thing!
The minority party has taken over the Legislative branch and, without so much as a "Thank you, maam", they start dictating to the Executive branch! Once again, I thank God that the military hates these people or they would be dictating from the chair of a Dictator once the smoke cleared and the blood dried.
Is this just one of those things that's too obvious for the deep-thinking 'professionals' to see, or what?
McCain: More Me Now!
I've heard endless debate over the past two days over who won and who lost in the filibuster compromise. Nobody can seem to figure out who the winners and/or losers are. Why? Because there aren't any winners or losers. Nothing has changed.
It was a political sleight-of-hand designed to accomplish nothing more than get 14 left-wing Senators' names in the news as being "bipartisan".
The Democrats can still filibuster and the Republicans can still vote to end the filibuster.
The problem is, just as when the Democrats started filibustering judges for the first time in history and then, when we tried to stop them, accused us of "changing the rules", they'll now filibuster some judge as "too extreme" and, when we bring up the "nuclear option", they'll accuse us of backing out on the deal.
You know it's coming.
But that's OK. John McCain got his mug in the spotlight and managed to get in a shot at President Bush, whom he's still mad at for beating him in the 2000 primaries. After all, the MSM had christened HIM as it's darling! Mostly because they knew he'd be easy to beat when the real race began; but his ego won't let him see that. The Republican base would never stand behind him. And after this, any further political aspirations he may have had (e.g. the Presidency) are finished for good.
As long as we don't forget this. I, for one, intend to make sure that we don't.
What a pathetic little man he is.
It was a political sleight-of-hand designed to accomplish nothing more than get 14 left-wing Senators' names in the news as being "bipartisan".
The Democrats can still filibuster and the Republicans can still vote to end the filibuster.
The problem is, just as when the Democrats started filibustering judges for the first time in history and then, when we tried to stop them, accused us of "changing the rules", they'll now filibuster some judge as "too extreme" and, when we bring up the "nuclear option", they'll accuse us of backing out on the deal.
You know it's coming.
But that's OK. John McCain got his mug in the spotlight and managed to get in a shot at President Bush, whom he's still mad at for beating him in the 2000 primaries. After all, the MSM had christened HIM as it's darling! Mostly because they knew he'd be easy to beat when the real race began; but his ego won't let him see that. The Republican base would never stand behind him. And after this, any further political aspirations he may have had (e.g. the Presidency) are finished for good.
As long as we don't forget this. I, for one, intend to make sure that we don't.
What a pathetic little man he is.
Monday, May 23, 2005
Remove Their Propaganda
I have the perfect solution to help Newsweek not make the same mistake and get even more people killed: take away all of the copies of the Koran at Gitmo.
What the hell are we giving these people copies of the Koran for in the first place? This is the book that got these savages into their present mindset to begin with! It would be comparable to giving German POW's copies of Mein Kampf during WWII!
Who's bright idea was this anyway? "I know, let's give these people the very document that started them off killing us in the first place!"
God help us, but the military has become "culturally sensitive". I think that we should give them a copy of the Bible and The Constitution. Maybe that would help them evolve into at least the 19th century.
Do they give Christians a copy of the Bible when they capture them? No, they give them a knife across the esophagus.
Saudi Arabia shreds any Bibles if it finds foreigners trying to bring them into the country.
You can be executed for converting from Islam to Christianity in most Muslim countries.
But some Leftist rag publishes a story based on nothing, and 17 people die.
Because that's what these savages want to believe about America. And they'll just conveniently ignore the part of the Koran that speaks of Muslims not killing other Muslims.
I swear, these people are looking as hypocritical as Teddy (whattya you lookin' at?) Kennedy.
What the hell are we giving these people copies of the Koran for in the first place? This is the book that got these savages into their present mindset to begin with! It would be comparable to giving German POW's copies of Mein Kampf during WWII!
Who's bright idea was this anyway? "I know, let's give these people the very document that started them off killing us in the first place!"
God help us, but the military has become "culturally sensitive". I think that we should give them a copy of the Bible and The Constitution. Maybe that would help them evolve into at least the 19th century.
Do they give Christians a copy of the Bible when they capture them? No, they give them a knife across the esophagus.
Saudi Arabia shreds any Bibles if it finds foreigners trying to bring them into the country.
You can be executed for converting from Islam to Christianity in most Muslim countries.
But some Leftist rag publishes a story based on nothing, and 17 people die.
Because that's what these savages want to believe about America. And they'll just conveniently ignore the part of the Koran that speaks of Muslims not killing other Muslims.
I swear, these people are looking as hypocritical as Teddy (whattya you lookin' at?) Kennedy.
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Odds Aren't
Dennis Prager had an excellent point the other day: If the media doesn't have a left-wing bias, why does it always err on the anti-American side? Always!
The odds say that the media would occasionally err on the side of the military or the Bush administration, but they never do!
The next time some Lefty smirks when you cite media bias, shove that one in their face.
The odds say that the media would occasionally err on the side of the military or the Bush administration, but they never do!
The next time some Lefty smirks when you cite media bias, shove that one in their face.
Here and Now
With all of my ranting about how the Left are just children in disguise, I missed this one completely.
Bob over at either orr whacked me in the head with a big ol' shovel and opened my eyes on this one. It was always on the tip of my tongue, but he hit it.
The sad part is, once liberalism had a vision of the past, a comprehension that we are on a continuum that began long before our great-great-great-grandparents were conceived and that should continue - barring the ultimate cataclysmic event - for long after our great-great-great-grandchildren have passed on.
The Left lives in the "now" just as my daughter does. She just recently grasped the concept that I'm a lot older than she is. That I've been around for far longer than she has.
It explains so much.
- They call Conservatives Nazis because they have no grasp of what the Nazis really were.
- They still embrace Communism because they have no real idea of the atrocities committed by all Communist regimes. I'm sure that they've heard about them, but it's just not real to them.
- They call the Bush administration "the most corrupt administration in history" because they don't know how corrupt some of the past administrations (i.e. LBJ's) have been.
- As I''ve noted in the past, they're trying to overcome thousands of years of evolution (i.e. men & women are equal, end of all wars, etc.) in their puny lifetimes, because they really can't grasp the difference between 70 years and 10,000 years.
Here's another one of those things where the examples are endless, but you get the idea.
Thanks, Bob. Consider yourself linked.
Bob over at either orr whacked me in the head with a big ol' shovel and opened my eyes on this one. It was always on the tip of my tongue, but he hit it.
The sad part is, once liberalism had a vision of the past, a comprehension that we are on a continuum that began long before our great-great-great-grandparents were conceived and that should continue - barring the ultimate cataclysmic event - for long after our great-great-great-grandchildren have passed on.
The Left lives in the "now" just as my daughter does. She just recently grasped the concept that I'm a lot older than she is. That I've been around for far longer than she has.
It explains so much.
- They call Conservatives Nazis because they have no grasp of what the Nazis really were.
- They still embrace Communism because they have no real idea of the atrocities committed by all Communist regimes. I'm sure that they've heard about them, but it's just not real to them.
- They call the Bush administration "the most corrupt administration in history" because they don't know how corrupt some of the past administrations (i.e. LBJ's) have been.
- As I''ve noted in the past, they're trying to overcome thousands of years of evolution (i.e. men & women are equal, end of all wars, etc.) in their puny lifetimes, because they really can't grasp the difference between 70 years and 10,000 years.
Here's another one of those things where the examples are endless, but you get the idea.
Thanks, Bob. Consider yourself linked.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Still Looking
A month or two ago I was wondering what ever happened to Michael Moore? Nobody had heard him flapping his jowls for awhile.
Well, I'm still wondering.
It seems that the only place he exists anymore is on "extremist right-wing" talk-radio and blogs. The rest of the media apparently won't return his calls. In 1984-speak, he has become an "unperson".
I bet they wish they could do that with Howard Dean, too. Unfortunately (for them), they put him at the head of their party's mechanism. Ya gotta love it.
Well, I'm still wondering.
It seems that the only place he exists anymore is on "extremist right-wing" talk-radio and blogs. The rest of the media apparently won't return his calls. In 1984-speak, he has become an "unperson".
I bet they wish they could do that with Howard Dean, too. Unfortunately (for them), they put him at the head of their party's mechanism. Ya gotta love it.
Gentlemen, Start Your Brains!
Yesterday as I was driving home from work, I flipped the radio over to Air UnAmerican to see what the enemy was up to. Lo and behold, the first guy who called started talking about how all of the military base closings were being implemented in the North. After about 3 minutes of the host trying to get him to make his point, he finally stated his theory that, in preparation for the coming "civil unrest", which the Conservatives knew would be forthcoming from their policies, they were consolidating their forces in the South to deal with it (apparently believing that all of the "rednecks" in the South were in lockstep with them).
The scary part of this was that this guy didn't sound like some stoned college kid, or ex-hippie. This guy sounded like he was an otherwise rational person who has been driven over the edge by the left-wing propaganda. He is the exact type of person who I mentioned in an earlier post about normal people falling for the Leftist propaganda and turning into conspiracy theorists.
He, and many, many others in the Democrat party have quit thinking completely. They were never much good at it to begin with, but all reasonable thought has stopped.
On a side note, I've come up with another theory (just full of them...or something...aren't I?) on the whole "conspiracy theory Left" movement: I think that they're trying to show their intelligence by coming up with the latest, greatest conspiracy theory. This is now what passes for deep thought amongst the Left. They're trying to "one-up" the last theory by seeing how "deep" into the twisted psyche of the Bush administration they can delve. They're looking for their Al Franken "affirmation" from their peers.
As another example of this, I was at work today and one of my co-workers stated that he believed that "Bush will go down as the most corrupt politician in history". Well, it's obvious that he knows nothing of history but, then I asked him why, if that was so, Bush wasn't being officially investigated for anything? Clinton had been investigated for many years and for multiple scandals by his 5th year in office. Did he think that the Democrats who are calling him a "loser" and a "liar" and comparing him to Hitler are just too nice to make a fuss by calling for official investigations? Did he think that if the Democrats had the slightest bit of evidence about any wrongdoing that they wouldn't be shrieking to have it investigated?
He just blinked for a few seconds before hemming and hawing. He had no response. None. Why? Because there is no response. But more importantly, he had never thought about that before. He had absorbed everything he had been force-fed by the MSM for the past 5 years with no questions asked or logical thought.
The scary part of that is that, if this guy would stop and think about these things, he would be a Republican in a minute. He hunts and fishes, has snowmobiles and ATV's, has nothing but scorn for welfare queens and the whole PC "victimhood" culture of the Left, probably makes over $100,000 between him and his wife (yet he bitches to me about the "rich", of course) and is exactly the kind of person that the Democrats stereotype Republicans as being.
The Democrats are attacking him and his lifestyle, yet, because he can't be bothered to look into anything more deeply than The Minneapolis Red Star Tribunal, he keeps voting for the very people who are attacking him.
I know many people like this. I'm sure that you do, too. Keep plugging away at them.
The scary part of this was that this guy didn't sound like some stoned college kid, or ex-hippie. This guy sounded like he was an otherwise rational person who has been driven over the edge by the left-wing propaganda. He is the exact type of person who I mentioned in an earlier post about normal people falling for the Leftist propaganda and turning into conspiracy theorists.
He, and many, many others in the Democrat party have quit thinking completely. They were never much good at it to begin with, but all reasonable thought has stopped.
On a side note, I've come up with another theory (just full of them...or something...aren't I?) on the whole "conspiracy theory Left" movement: I think that they're trying to show their intelligence by coming up with the latest, greatest conspiracy theory. This is now what passes for deep thought amongst the Left. They're trying to "one-up" the last theory by seeing how "deep" into the twisted psyche of the Bush administration they can delve. They're looking for their Al Franken "affirmation" from their peers.
As another example of this, I was at work today and one of my co-workers stated that he believed that "Bush will go down as the most corrupt politician in history". Well, it's obvious that he knows nothing of history but, then I asked him why, if that was so, Bush wasn't being officially investigated for anything? Clinton had been investigated for many years and for multiple scandals by his 5th year in office. Did he think that the Democrats who are calling him a "loser" and a "liar" and comparing him to Hitler are just too nice to make a fuss by calling for official investigations? Did he think that if the Democrats had the slightest bit of evidence about any wrongdoing that they wouldn't be shrieking to have it investigated?
He just blinked for a few seconds before hemming and hawing. He had no response. None. Why? Because there is no response. But more importantly, he had never thought about that before. He had absorbed everything he had been force-fed by the MSM for the past 5 years with no questions asked or logical thought.
The scary part of that is that, if this guy would stop and think about these things, he would be a Republican in a minute. He hunts and fishes, has snowmobiles and ATV's, has nothing but scorn for welfare queens and the whole PC "victimhood" culture of the Left, probably makes over $100,000 between him and his wife (yet he bitches to me about the "rich", of course) and is exactly the kind of person that the Democrats stereotype Republicans as being.
The Democrats are attacking him and his lifestyle, yet, because he can't be bothered to look into anything more deeply than The Minneapolis Red Star Tribunal, he keeps voting for the very people who are attacking him.
I know many people like this. I'm sure that you do, too. Keep plugging away at them.
Mike and Ike, They Think Alike
Is it possible that Muslims are just lefties? Could it be that easy?
But Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad says “The apology and retraction are not enough. “They (Newsweek) should understand the sentiments of Muslims and think 101 times before publishing news which hurt feelings of Muslims.”
They're worried about having their feelings hurt. Hurt feelings are the equivalent of flying planes into buildings and sawing people's heads off.
That sounds just like the moral equivalence of the Left in this country. It's no wonder that they actually have sympathy for these terrorists: they think alike.
They're both immature and childlike, but in a very dangerous way.
But Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad says “The apology and retraction are not enough. “They (Newsweek) should understand the sentiments of Muslims and think 101 times before publishing news which hurt feelings of Muslims.”
They're worried about having their feelings hurt. Hurt feelings are the equivalent of flying planes into buildings and sawing people's heads off.
That sounds just like the moral equivalence of the Left in this country. It's no wonder that they actually have sympathy for these terrorists: they think alike.
They're both immature and childlike, but in a very dangerous way.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Iowanian Rampage
Now this is funny. From Iowahawk:
“It is important that we remember that Lutheranism is a religion of peace,” said Army spokesman Maj. Richard Lehrman. “And we need to remember to avoid insensitive behavior and remarks that will cause these peaceful Lutherans to go on another bloody killing rampage.”
Read the rest of it at the link above. It's the funniest thing I've read in months.
(Tip o' the Hat: Right Wing News)
“It is important that we remember that Lutheranism is a religion of peace,” said Army spokesman Maj. Richard Lehrman. “And we need to remember to avoid insensitive behavior and remarks that will cause these peaceful Lutherans to go on another bloody killing rampage.”
Read the rest of it at the link above. It's the funniest thing I've read in months.
(Tip o' the Hat: Right Wing News)
That''s No Ordinary Lightbulb! It's a Killer!
While continuing my self-education in all things fluorescent, I ran across a little something from the Energy Star website run by the EPA:
CHANGE A LIGHT, CHANGE THE WORLD
Changing the world starts with simple actions. When you replace light bulbs or entire light fixtures in your home with ones that have earned the ENERGY STAR, you contribute to a cleaner environment while saving yourself energy, money and time buying and changing lights in your home. Every American is encouraged to change out their 5 most frequently used light fixtures or the bulbs in them to ENERGY STAR qualified lighting. If every American home made this "5 light change" not only would each family save more than $60 every year in energy costs, but together we'd also keep more than one trillion pounds of greenhouse gases out of our air. That's a $6 billion energy savings for Americans equivalent to the annual output of more than 21 power plants.
OK, let's be generous and say that there is one home for every two people (give or take). We'll give them 140,000,000 homes.
Divide 1,000,000,000,000 pounds of gases by 140,000,000 and you get roughly 7143 pounds for 5 light bulbs. Divide 7143 by 5 and you get 1428 pounds of gases for every lightbulb!
Does anyone care to do the math on how many cubic feet 1428 pounds of CO2 would take up? Or how about a trillion pounds of the stuff?
I would love to see the figures that they used to come up with this. I'm sure that there are some truly hilarious assumptions made. My guess is that they took every person on earth (including the dead ones who voted in the last election) gave them a home of their own, and rated the light bulbs at 5,000 watts. Or something like that.
And they have no qualms about putting this stuff out there. Why? Because so many people in this country have been conditioned to believe whatever the government tells them, that they won't think twice about that ridiculous figure.
And it's all about money. They've learned that if they put these ridiculously large numbers out there, eventually the usual unthinking "Our Mother the Earth" suspects will pick it up and start protesting while they should be looking for work. And if they can panic enough people, they get more money. Nice game they have there.
(On that subject, I saw a great protest sign from the Right side. The rally must have been held on a Saturday. "Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns!")
CHANGE A LIGHT, CHANGE THE WORLD
Changing the world starts with simple actions. When you replace light bulbs or entire light fixtures in your home with ones that have earned the ENERGY STAR, you contribute to a cleaner environment while saving yourself energy, money and time buying and changing lights in your home. Every American is encouraged to change out their 5 most frequently used light fixtures or the bulbs in them to ENERGY STAR qualified lighting. If every American home made this "5 light change" not only would each family save more than $60 every year in energy costs, but together we'd also keep more than one trillion pounds of greenhouse gases out of our air. That's a $6 billion energy savings for Americans equivalent to the annual output of more than 21 power plants.
OK, let's be generous and say that there is one home for every two people (give or take). We'll give them 140,000,000 homes.
Divide 1,000,000,000,000 pounds of gases by 140,000,000 and you get roughly 7143 pounds for 5 light bulbs. Divide 7143 by 5 and you get 1428 pounds of gases for every lightbulb!
Does anyone care to do the math on how many cubic feet 1428 pounds of CO2 would take up? Or how about a trillion pounds of the stuff?
I would love to see the figures that they used to come up with this. I'm sure that there are some truly hilarious assumptions made. My guess is that they took every person on earth (including the dead ones who voted in the last election) gave them a home of their own, and rated the light bulbs at 5,000 watts. Or something like that.
And they have no qualms about putting this stuff out there. Why? Because so many people in this country have been conditioned to believe whatever the government tells them, that they won't think twice about that ridiculous figure.
And it's all about money. They've learned that if they put these ridiculously large numbers out there, eventually the usual unthinking "Our Mother the Earth" suspects will pick it up and start protesting while they should be looking for work. And if they can panic enough people, they get more money. Nice game they have there.
(On that subject, I saw a great protest sign from the Right side. The rally must have been held on a Saturday. "Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns!")
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