Global Warming?

As far as I'm concerned, Al Gore can come up here and lick my flagpole!

"Believing" - Until You Don't Need To

What ever happened to John Ashcroft who was, once upon a time, the most hated and evil man in the world? At least by Democrats.

Or Karl Rove, for that matter?

These two (and many others) were the subject of thousands of screeching, daily rants warning the American people of how they were going to (literally, in Ashcroft's case) bring Armageddon down upon the world.

Funny, but you hardly ever hear about either of them any more. You only hear about Rove because he writes a column for Newsweak magazine. John Ashcroft may as well have gone on to his reward for as much as the Left mentions him anymore.

Could it be that maybe the Left didn't really believe that these guys were as bad as they said they were? I doubt it. At least during the time that they were shuddering in fear over these "evil, warmongering, Christian haters", they believed every word that spewed from their spittle-flecked lips.

It's just another sign of the Orwellian insanity of being a Leftist that they truly believed that John Ashcroft was the Antichrist - until he no longer threatened their power or policies. Once he no longer threatened them, he became just another human being, no longer imbued with the power to destroy the earth.

And I'd bet that not one of them made the connection between their irrational hatred, their political ideology and the fact that John Ashcroft abruptly disappeared from their radar screen. Once Ashcroft stepped down, he became a non-person. He disappeared - just like mommy does, in an infant's mind, when she leaves the room.

When a Leftist hates someone, it is always in a self-righteous, "I'm going to personally help save the world from this person" point of view. They use the worst epithets that they can possibly think of to describe them, and they believe every word that they are saying at the time.

And then, when this evil person goes off and retires, the Leftists apparently lose the belief that something needs to be done about them. Karl Rove apparently chose being a columnist over world domination.

To be a Liberal is to be completely deranged.

X Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescent

3-Ring Circus

Appearances and Ann Coulter's joke about him notwithstanding, its really too bad that John Edwards isn't gay. Think about it: they'd have all three of their biggest victims groups represented - women, blacks and gays.

Watching Hillary (via her subordinates, of course) try to call Barack Obama a "nigger" and still maintain her elitist liberal image is absolutely fascinating. Especially when you consider that Obama has, as far as I know, never once tried to use the race card. In this day and age, when blacks go ballistic over things that have nothing to do with race (i.e. "niggardly") that's unheard of. I give him all the credit in the world for that.

It's not that Obama doesn't actually believe that blacks are a horribly oppressed minority in this country, as evidenced by the racist church to which he belongs. Hell, he wouldn't be a liberal if he didn't believe in the supposed inherent racism in this country. But he has managed to restrain himself on the campaign trail at least.

And then you have Hillary and her fellow man-hating feminist travelers whining about the boys picking on her and not giving her a level playing field to play on. At least when she isn't crying like a little girl.

(I, for one, believe that her tears were completely real: after 35 years of plotting to become the first female President, her dream looked as if it were crumbling within 11 months of achieving it.)

If only John Edwards really was gay, we could have the pleasure of watching him whine about getting the shaft (sorry, couldn't resist) because of his sexual orientation and attacking Obama for being a man. And attacking Hillary for being even more of a man (except when she's crying).

The Democrats are showing their true colors in this race: after decades of preaching to us about how tolerant they are towards others, their power-at-all-costs mentality comes shining through in their attacks on one another regarding the very things which they'd like us to think they are tolerant of.

We on the Right always knew that they were a bunch of lying hypocrites. Now the rest of the country gets to see it, too.

Wanted: Adult Moderator

Everyone who believes in global warming, raise your hand!

A few years back, my daughter used to do that: "Whoever wants ice cream, raise your hand!"

If the Dhimmocrats want to use their fellow children as moderators, all well and good. But when are Republicans just going to say, "enough!"?

Good for Fred Thompson for finally putting the hostile little girl from The Des Moines Register in her place. When Liberals act like nasty little children, they should be treated like nasty little children.

It's just too bad that they waited until the last debate. They all should have done that from the beginning.

At the very least, Republicans should insist on at least one moderator in each debate who isn't a liberal trying to make Republicans look bad.

That way, we'd at least have some adult supervision.

Gee...What a Shock

Nobody on the Right will be surprised that Al Gore is willing to sacrifice the economy of America, the freedom of Americans and God only knows how many lives in third-world countries for his insatiable ego. After all, he's a Liberal. And, given the chance, that is what all Liberals would do.

Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet – after charging £3,300 a minute to deliver a poorly received speech.

The former American Vice-President was also accused of being "precious" at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.

...

"Al uses his position for great personal gain. He goes from event to event delivering a similar speech, earning a large fee, and a lot of the time he doesn't actually inform the audience.

"He refused to speak to journalists and security would usher away VIP guests and the Press.

"He was being very precious and demanded his own VIP room before the event, where he held his own exclusive reception.

"The other guests were cut off. It was very clear that many guests were disappointed by this."

The only people who will be surprised by this are his fellow disciples/Liberals who believe that Saint Algore can do no wrong. They are, of course, the same people who were surprised every time that Bill and Hillary were caught lying.

They are, of course, the same people whom Lenin called "useful idiots".

But...That's Different!

Let me guess: The National Intelligence Estimate saying that Iran has stopped it's nuclear-weapons program will be taken as Gospel by the Left.

But, the intelligence that said that Sadaam Hussein had WMD's was "cooked up" by the Bush Administration as an excuse to attack Iraq and steal all of their oil (which, by the way, we seem to be still waiting for...).

And yet, the Liberals will see no contradiction whatsoever.

Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.

Start the Clock!

It's been about half an hour since this began. Has anyone on the Left blamed Rush Limbaugh yet?

ROCHESTER, N.H. - A man claiming to have a bomb walked into Hillary Rodham Clinton's storefront campaign office Friday and took at least two hostages, police and witnesses said.

What's Goin' On?

Rarely does one sentence sum up our situation as much as this one does:

WASHINGTON - The Marines plan to buy fewer bomb-resistant vehicles than planned despite pressure from lawmakers who are determined to spend billions of dollars on the vehicles.

Nowhere in the story does it even hint that part of the reason is that IED attacks have plummeted, and that we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the Iraq campaign in the War against the Islamist death cult.

And, of course, the sickening part about pork-hungry politicians who are "determined" (!) to spend millions of dollars of our tax money on things that the Marines don't even want, just to keep the campaign contributions flowing in.

I don't know who's more disgusting, the press or the politicians.

The Joys of a Complete Lack of Memory

Correct me if I'm wrong (although I know that I'm not), but wasn't it just a few years ago that liberals were all in a tither about banks not giving loans to "low-income" (just like "inner-city", "low-income" is Libspeak for "minority") borrowers?

The Libs, ignoring the reality of the situation as they always do, were up in arms because loan applications from minorities were being rejected more often than those from non-minority applicants (which, as usual, includes Asians, who are a minority in this country). It never occurred to these Leftist morons that the banks were rejecting applications based on income and credit status and not on race.

And so, under threat of legislation and penalty, lenders were forced to give home loans to people who really had no business buying a house, regardless of race.

And now the housing market has gone bad (or, more accurately, back to normal), interest rates have risen, equity has plummeted, and people with Adjustable Rate Mortgages are being foreclosed upon because they can't pay their mortgages. Why? Because many of them are...low income earners!

So who's fault is it that these people took out loans that they couldn't afford? Is it Jesse Jackson and the rest of the left-wing race-industry's fault for strong-arming banks into giving these people loans that they should never have taken out in the first place?

Don't be silly. Nothing is ever the result of bad decisions made by liberals. Their role in the whole matter has been thrown down the memory-hole, never to be seen again.

No, it's all the fault of "predatory lenders" who were "greedily" fooling stupid low-income people into buying houses that they couldn't afford. The borrowers weren't at fault. In the eyes of the Left, poor equals stupid and easily-fooled (they do, after all, vote for Democrats). They just didn't know what they were getting into. There were too many words on the papers that told them what would happen if they didn't pay the loan.

The Liberal/Democrat Party should really rename itself the Wile E. Coyote Party: they get a bright idea, implement it, and it backfires with disastrous results. And, like Wile E. Coyote, the damage is immediately forgotten and it's on to the next foolish idea - which will also blow up in their face and be forgotten. Ad infinitum.

The only difference is that Wile E. Coyote doesn't blame the ACME company for his bad decisions.

Only in the StarTribune

Just a little story that I noticed in the world's most Leftist newspaper.

Police: Bus stop attack was a hate crime

A woman attacked at a bus stop in St. Paul on Monday was the victim of a hate crime, police said.

Cut in the face with a knife, the woman was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul and treated for a laceration. Police said she was not seriously injured.

The suspect, who was arrested on suspicion of felony assault, approached the victim at a bus stop on the 800 block of Payne Avenue in St. Paul near York Avenue, police said.

He started yelling at her for no apparent reason, used racial slurs and told her to "get out of here," police said. Then he left the scene but came back with a knife and said,"I thought I told you to leave." He then attacked her with a knife, police said.

According to court documents, the suspect has an extensive record.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.

First of all, let's note that the neighborhood is in what we would call a "bad part of town". And that's putting it mildly.

Isn't it odd that, other than mentioning "racial slurs", the story never mentions why it's being considered a hate crime? No mention of either person's race at all. Wouldn't any normal person think that that little piece of information might relate to the story?

If you know the StarTribune, it doesn't take much thought to realize exactly who the suspect is: a member of one of their favored minority classes of whom nothing derogatory shall ever be said. If the victim were a white male, I guarantee you that you'd know about it. Mostly because the story would cover half of the front page, rather than a tiny story on page 8 of the "B" section.

On the bright side, the police were allowed to label it a hate crime. That in itself is somewhat amazing when you consider the fact that St. Paul is just slightly to the right of Minneapolis, which is slightly to the Left of Moscow in the heyday of the Soviet Union

Nothing Shocking Here

Saudi court hands jail term, doubles lashes for victim of gang rape

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A Saudi court sentenced a 19-year-old woman victim of gang rape to six months in jail and 200 lashes — more than double than in her initial sentence for being in the car of a man who was not her relative, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Nothing shocking there.

And here's the link to the story on the National Organization for Women's website:

Oh, wait. There isn't one.

Nothing shocking there, either.

The Logical End of the Democrats

They'll take it all...

Letter on "extra-hard assignments" for independent farmers from M. Ye. Boncharnikova, Central Black Earth Oblast, 1932

The rural commission gave us the extra-hard assignment of [delivering] 150 poods of grain: a hundred poods of winter wheat and fifty poods of spring-sown wheat. I wasn't able to fulfill such an assignment in view of the fact that there are three in my family and we have three plots of land. . . in all fifteen sazhens. I delivered fifteen poods of grain, and that's the most I can do. . . . My husband is an old man of sixty eight, unfit for work, and my boy is twelve, and I'm forty seven. The commission didn't take our circumstances into consideration. They took our horse with its harness, the new harness we purchased and the young horse, our seven sheep, twenty five poods of flour, two fur coats, two homespun coats, twelve arshins of ordinary cloth for leg wraps, one pair of felt leg wrappings, one curried hide, two pair of warm women's boots, one pair of leather men's boots, nine pieces of sun-bleached linen, four warm shawls, two sarafans, two mugs, four knives, two ropes, and so forth. When they came to take all these things, my husband wasn't home. I didn't want to let them take them. They hit me and tied me up, lay me face down and abused me. . . . They left me with nothing to my soul and they also took the seven solid boards that we had ready for our coffins, and one saddle and thirteen hens. I petition . . . to restore my house to me, that is, my hut, and return the property of mine indicated above.

- Stalinism as a Way of Life co-edited by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov

If you want to see where the Democrat/Leftists are taking us, you need to read this book of letters and reports from Soviet archives. The Hell that these people went through, with the help of the useful idiots in this country, is astounding.

The Comparisons Are Amazing

Just one more way that the Islamofascists and Liberals resemble twin theologies:

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida sympathizers have unleashed a torrent of anger against Al-Jazeera television, accusing it of misrepresenting Osama bin Laden's latest audiotape by airing excerpts in which he criticizes mistakes by insurgents in Iraq.

Users of a leading Islamic militant Web forum posted thousands of insults against the pan-Arab station for focusing on excerpts in which bin Laden criticizes insurgents, including his followers.

No matter how loyal you've been in the past, if you step out of line and criticize any part of the agenda, you are attacked (see Larry Summers).

It's just incredible how closely the two resemble each other. Or maybe it's not so incredible when you really think about it.

Harry Election Ahead!

Maybe now he'll finally put a lid on it:

The surprise was in the degree of voter disenchantment. The poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal showed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's unfavorable rating had moved past the 50 percent mark -- 51 percent, to be precise. His favorable rating was 32 percent, 2 points lower than embattled, lame duck President George W. Bush.

Now that he's looking at losing the most precious thing in his life - power - I'd almost bet that we don't hear much more out of Harry Reid from now on.

Almost.

Top 10 Reasons the Left Hates Ann Coulter

10. She's tougher than they are - both their "men" and their women.

9. She points out their faults - they hate that.

8. She looks better in a dress than they do - both their "men" and their women.

7. She's smarter and more clever than they are - and not afraid to rub it in.

6. She has fun poking them with sticks through the bars of their cages.

5. She's not the least bit intimidated by them.

4. She sneers at them.

3. She makes fun of them.

2. She ridicules them.

1. She right about them.

Ann Coulter embodies the people that tormented those who have become Liberals all through their lives. She brings back the unbearable memories of having their self-esteem devastated all through their formative years (why do you think that they're so obsessed with self-esteem in the government schools today?).

Ann Coulter is like an unquiet ghost from their past that endlessly haunts them.

White Like Me

No matter who ends up running in the next election, I am going to vote for a white male.

Pretty racist & sexist, huh?

But millions of black people will vote for Barack Obama for no other reason than he's black.

And millions of women will vote for Hillary Clinton for no other reason than she's female.

So why wouldn't I vote only for a person whose skin-color and genitalia match my own?

Because I'm not an idiot, that's why.

Once a Loser...

Why would the Democrats back a Presidential candidate as psychologically damaged as Hillary Clinton? Why would they back someone power-obsessed to the point that she has broken numerous laws, given new meaning to the words "dirty politics" and stood by her husband as he humiliated her because she just had to be a politician? Part of it is that most of them can relate to that kind of lack of morals. But there's a bigger reason:

They think that she can win.

Think about exactly when the Democrats went completely off the rails. It was the second that President Bush won the Presidential election in November of 2000. Even while the recount was going on, most of them knew that Bush had won, whether they wanted to admit it or not.

It was bad enough for them when Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, but when we took the White House too, it propelled them back in time to their miserable childhoods, when they always lost at everything - physically, socially, academically - you name it. Living life as perpetual losers and misfits is, in fact, what made them into the Leftists that they are today. Just look at any anti-Bush - err, anti-war - protest and you'll recognize the same losers that you went to school with.

They can't bear to lose again. If they're not actually psychotic at this point, they would certainly be so after another loss. It would bring back just too many bad memories and, of course, make them feel bad.

And they figure that they've had enough of that for one lifetime.

And so, they're willing to ignore what an absolute scumbag they would be putting back into the White House. Not to mention Hillary's felonious husband. They don''t care. To them, the end always justifies the means.

Especially when it keeps them from reliving the Hell of their depressing childhoods.

First Comes the Purge

The Left is going after Rush Limbaugh, Clarence Thomas, General Petraeus, Bill O'Reilly and a thousand others with both barrels. Nobody should be surprised: purges are so much a part of their ideology that they may as well be part of the Left's DNA.

There has never been a Leftist organization that didn't feature a good, old-fashioned purge. In fact, they are usually a recurring thing, happening whenever someone new takes (or is trying to take) power. Real elections and the orderly transfer of power doesn't work in a Leftist society. You have to murder (sometimes figuratively but, more often, literally) your rival political enemies. If they thought they could get away with it, those on the Left would have already put all of those mentioned above up against the wall and shot them.

Leftist "revolutions" always start with the purging of those who are not on the Left (they eventually begin infighting and killing other Leftists with differing viewpoints, but that's another post). The lucky ones are sent to "re-education camps" where they are tortured and brutalized. The not-so-lucky ones are murdered outright because their ideas and their stature threaten the Leftists. Truth and ideas are just as threatening to the Left as guns and soldiers.

Make no mistake: Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Noam Chomsky, and the rest of the cold, dead-eyed, hate-filled Leftists in positions of power are exactly the kind of people who have ordered such purges* in the past. And the mindless, shrieking, hysterical dolts who follow them (you can see them at any anti-war protest) are exactly the kind of people who carried out those orders.

What would be frightening if I thought that it were true, is that many of these people apparently believe that we are on the verge of a new "revolution". They mistake the volume of their howling for actual numbers. They make so much noise that they seem to honestly believe that the entire country (other than the Conservatives, of course - you can't have a revolution without a demon to blame all troubles on) is howling along with them. Another thing about Leftists is that they never learn from history. Eventually, as in the 1960's and 70's, they will go too far and they will find that the American people are anything but on their side. We will run out of tolerance and patience and marginalize them into even more complete irrelevance just as we did 30 years ago.

But a large portion of them do believe that their lust for power over others is about to be satisfied. They have control of Congress and believe that the White House is theirs for the taking. And that is why they are attacking their enemies with even more visciousness and lying than usual (and you didn't think that it was possible!). They're gleefully warming up for the inevitable purge.

*That link is from The National Review, April 1977 - 2 years after we had left Vietnam. If you need a refresher on what happened after we surrendered (or "redeployed" as the Democrats like to sweeten it up), it's a great article, as is the website it comes from.

Ruh roh!