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March 31, 2006

Democrats Losing Their Grip on the Courts?

The official party of greedy trial lawyers must be losing control of the system. When a California lawyer tried to sue the coach of his daughter's junior varsity softball team for calling the girl "a 2-year-old," the case was thrown out, despite the modest demand of only $3 million for all the emotional distress that was inflicted.

Hat tip: Wiggins

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School Reenacts Holocaust

Eighth graders at a middle school in Florida whose last names begin with L through Z were in for a big surprise when they were forced to wear yellow stars for Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Students without stars upon thars were privileged, but the star-bellied students had to stand at the back of the classroom instead of sitting down.

One poor kid was forced to go to the back of the lunch line four times by an administrator. When his father asked why he had come home crying, he explained, "Daddy, I was a Jew today."

The idea of this unannounced experiment was to introduce "a tolerance education component." But when asked what he learned from the educational experiment, the boy said, "Daddy, the only thing I found out today is I don't want to be Jewish."

Maybe middle-school educators should focus on reading and math.

Hat tip: William

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Profiles in Moonbattery: Cynthia McKinney

Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), the same one who shares Charlie Sheen's opinion that President Bush was behind 9/11, made the news yesterday by punching a member of the U.S. Capitol Police for expecting her to go through a metal detector at the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill.

As a spokesman for House Speaker Denny Hastert observed:

On a day when the Democrats are promoting their national security agenda, it's probably not a good idea for them to allegedly strike police officers.

McKinney has had trouble with Capitol Hill security before. Naturally, she suspects them of racism. Slate reported back in 2002:

In August 1993, during her first term in office, a Capitol Hill police officer tried to prevent her from bypassing a metal detector, as members of Congress are allowed to do. For years afterward, The Hill reports, the Capitol Police pinned a picture of McKinney to an office wall, warning officers to learn her face because she refuses to wear her member's pin. (And because officers are innately suspicious of a black woman with braided hair and gold shoes.)

McKinney is probably best known for groveling in an attempt to lay her paws on the $10 million that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal offered to New York in the aftermath of 9/11. Rudy Giuliani had rejected the money because it came attached to the prince's view that America had brought 9/11 on itself.

She has also distinguished herself by being one of only six representatives to vote against a measure commemorating the fourth anniversary of 9/11, and one of only three to vote yes when Republicans called Moonbat Jack Murtha's bluff and put his call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq up for a vote.

Among McKinney's legislative accomplishments is the recent introduction of a bill "to provide for the expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur," the infamous rap thug. The bill has no cosponsors.

Hat tips: Wiggins, William

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March 30, 2006

Future Map of North America

Don't worry. If current demographic trends hold, it will take a couple of generations before North America looks like this:

Via PoliPundit, on a tip from V the K.

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Today Show Finds Proof of Global Warming

Gene Shalit of the Today Show's "Critic's Corner" has come up with new evidence that global warming is more than a liberal superstition: the animated children's movie Ice Age: The Meltdown.

Here's Shalit making his case, via Media Research Center:

Think global warming isn't real? Ask Manny the Mammoth, Diego the Tiger or Sid the Sloth. They first met in the animated hit Ice Age and they formed an unlikely herd. Now in Ice Age: The Meltdown they're fleeing floods of melting ice and the results are joyous. ... The herd's 88 happy minutes will melt away your out-of-theater cares while attesting that global warming is no snow job.

If the propagandizing sticks, 12 years from now the movie's target audience will be in a position to vote Democratic in order to spare sloths and wooly mammoths from the effects of industrial civilization. Hold on Manny the Mammoth. As Hanoi John Kerry would say, help is on the way.

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Dems Ready to Shoot Themselves in the Foot on Immigration

Some Democrats are getting excited about the possibility (albeit remote) that Republicans will actually take some responsibility and deal with the illegal immigration crisis before it causes potentially permanent damage to the country, and that it will hurt them with Hispanic voters.

As for the Dems taking any responsibility were they to regain power, forget about it. Senator Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer (D-NY) crows that his party will "show Hispanics who their real friends are."

But they had better be careful about showing Americans who are in this country legally who their real friends aren't. As even the NY Times admits:

Polls show large majorities of the public both support tighter borders as a matter of national security, and oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants. Many working-class Democrats resent what they see as a continuing influx of cheap labor.

Defending our country will be a winning issue for Republicans, if they can just show a little nerve.

Hat tip: Wiggins

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Storm Clouds Gathering

Moonbattery can't claim to be the first to notice the parallels between the chaos engulfing France and that which we will see here if we don't get the immigration situation under control immediately. As far back as last November, Ernesto Cienfuegos of La Voz de Aztlan was crowing that his movement will bring to the USA the same mayhem Muslim immigrants have brought to France:

Today, here in Los Angeles, we are already seeing ominous signs of an impending social explosion that will make the French rebellion by Muslim and immigrant youths seem "tame" by comparison.

The idea of Mexicans conquering the Southwest quarter of our country is absurd at first glance, but their strategy of demographic conquest through massive immigration is entirely plausible. Naturally, the liberal elite will take the side of any militant racist groups that are hostile to Caucasians, including MEChA and La Raza. Some activists have reportedly called for the "summary execution of all white males over the age of sixteen" once they have the demographic leverage to impose their will. In the meantime, we can count on the media to portray them as put-upon victims and their opponents as "racists."

Hat tip: Andre

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Who's Spying on Americans?

Russ Feingold — who earned fawning attention from the press by screeching that President Bush deserves censure or worse for authorizing eavesdropping on international al Qaeda phone calls — is right about one thing: Americans should not be illegally spied on. That's why it's heartening to see an appeals court rule that Rep Jim McDermott (D-WA) violated federal law by turning over an illegally taped telephone call to the media.

The recorded conversation was between Newt Gingrich and other House Republican leaders in 1996. A Florida couple who later pleaded guilty to unlawfully intercepting the call passed it along to McDermott, who ironically was serving as the top Democrat on the ethics panel. After McDermott then handed it off to the press, a partial transcript was plastered across the New York Times and other papers. Gingrich was later fined $300,000 for minor ethics violations.

As Fox News reports:

Lawyers for 18 news organizations — including ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post — filed a brief backing McDermott.

Apparently from the MSM's point of view, electronic eavesdropping is not such a sin after all — provided all the parties are American, and there are no terrorists or national security interests involved.

Hat tip: Bergbikr.

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Michael Berg: The He-Sheehan

Most will remember Nick Berg, a pro-Bush supporter of the war in Iraq who was beheaded by terrorists on video. Now his father Michael, taking a page from Cindy Sheehan's book, is appallingly exploiting his son's death as a means of promoting himself and attacking what Nick believed in.

Michael Berg is running as a candidate for Congress from Delaware. Not even Democrats are kooky enough for the senior Berg — he's running on the Green Party ticket. His favorite policies are immediate surrender in Iraq, universal health care, and a "livable wage" — presumably a euphemism for socialism.

At first Berg Senior refrained from exploiting his son's death because of the pain it caused his family. His wife canceled her newspaper subscription to avoid seeing yet again the famous photograph of her son dressed in orange, loomed over by his executioners.

But Michael Berg, who counts himself a close friend of Cindy Sheehan, soon learned to fling any semblance of decency to the wind. Now he publicly screeches that his son "died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld" while staging scenes like this:

With Cindy Sheehan, antiwar liberals hit rock bottom. Now that they're there, Michael Berg is starting to dig.

Hat tip: Knowledge Is Power, on a tip from Prince of Leaves

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The Mexica Movement

Among the unsavory elements hiding behind the American flags that protesters have been instructed to carry at their demonstrations of force on behalf of illegal immigration are believers in the Mexica Movement. Unlike believers in Aztlan, promoters of this movement don't just want the Gringos out of the Southwest, they want us out of the hemisphere. Some of the signs they've been carrying give you an idea where they're coming from:

As WND points out, amnesty is not on the table for this group: all the white folks have to go— and presumably black folks and Asians too. They had no interest in playing along with the American flag ploy, which with the MSM's cooperation has helped to make the massive protests look less threatening. According to the group's commentary on the recent LA rally:

One of the more negative parts of the march was when American flags were passed out to make sure the marchers were looked on as part of "America."

The Mexica Movement accuses European civilization of killing zillions of indigenous people in past centuries. In response, they strive to "expel the invaders of the last 500 years, force them to pay reparations and return the continent to its rightful heirs" — i.e., Hispanics.

If you don't agree that only members of a certain ethnic group deserve to live in the Americas, get ready to be denounced as a racist.

Hat tip: Andre

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March 29, 2006

Comment Policy

Unfortunately Moonbattery's wide-open comment policy has been abused to the point that it has to be revised. While I'm a big believer in freedom speech, that doesn't oblige me to provide a forum for idiots. The relentless deluge of moronic and/or vulgar "Moonbat Supreme" comments has been alienating too many of Moonbattery's treasured readers. Those posting under that name can consider themselves banned. Any comments that slip through will be deleted. My advice to Moonbat Supreme: get your own blog.

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Sharon Stone, Sexual Missionary

Not content with her career as a movie star, Sharon Stone has begun a new one as an evangelist — for oral sex. Here she is on her proselytizing activities:

I was in the store the other day and I watched a young girl trying on clothes, showing her abdomen. Her mother was trying to talk to her about not being inappropriately luring. I said, "Gee that would look much nicer with a camisole under." Her mother walked away, and I said to the girl, "I'd like to give you a two-minute conversation about sex." Young people talk to me about what to do if they're being pressed for sex? I tell them (what I believe): oral sex is a hundred times safer than vaginal or anal sex. If you're in a situation where you cannot get out of sex, offer a blow job. I'm not embarrassed to tell them.

It isn't enough for the glitterati to instill their enlightened views in the young subliminally through everything that comes out of the entertainment industry. Some of them care enough about us little folk to climb out of their limousines and help total strangers raise their children.

Without Stone's help, the poor girl might have thought she could just say no to sex period.

Hat tip: William

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Following France

As the combination of socialism and excessive immigration proceeds to rend the fabric of French civilization, it would be nice to think we would have the sense not to take the same path. But while protests contrived to intimidate are staged all over the USA by illegal immigrants and their moonbat supporters, our representatives in Congress are tucking their tails between their legs.

The formula for disaster is the same, here as in Europe:

• Spineless, short-sighted politicians;
• Lavish and unsustainable benefits financed through excessive taxation, which are a magnet for unskilled immigrants and prevent natives from being willing to work at low-paying jobs, further fueling excessive immigration;
• Multicultural idiocy that actively discourages assimilation;
• An awareness on the part of immigrants that they can impose their will through shows of force;
• Fifth-column activists who side with the invaders just as they would side with any other threat to our civilization;
• A leftist media that deliberately quells a society's natural instinct of self-preservation by condemning it as "racist."

Stir these elements together and they spontaneously combust. Afterwards, you will have a pair of rotting holes where two great countries used to be.

France is blazing the trail. But the USA is hot on its heels.

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France's Collapse

It isn't pretty, watching a once-great civilization disintegrate in front of your eyes. The situation in France is like something from a dystopian science fiction movie — and it isn't getting better. Massive demonstrations by youths who object to even the slightest loosening of the regulations that have been suffocating the French economy have created an atmosphere of lawlessness that unsurprisingly is being exploited by other criminal elements — notably the Muslim "youths" who wreaked such havoc last November.

Pictures to be found on The Sun Online give an example of 21st Century springtime in Paris — they show a woman trying to walk down the street who is set upon and robbed by a bunch of thugs in broad daylight, in full view of camera crews and police.

The British Foreign Office has warned its citizens to stay away from Paris. The city has devolved into anarchy, as The Sun reports, "with fierce fighting in the shadow of famous tourist spots like the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame Cathedral." Hotels are boarding up their windows. Masked men roam the streets swinging baseball bats, preying on anyone reckless enough to venture outside.

The violence is spreading to other cities. Hundreds of police have been injured. According to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, many of the rioters are the same unassimilated second-generation immigrants that brought France the car-burning craze last fall.

A combination of socialist policies and unrestrained immigration inevitably created a powder keg and then set it on fire. It may be too late to save France from the consequences of its moonbattery. But hopefully it is not too late to learn from its horrifying example.

Hat tip: Andre

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Three-Year-Old Brokeback Fan

I had never been able to grasp the appeal of Sarah Jessica Parker, until receiving this tip from William. It's not her looks people like, it's her vivid imagination. Here she is telling the story of how even her 3-year-old son loves Brokeback Mountain:

He said, "Mama I've been hearing a lot about a movie lately." I said, "What movie?" and he said "Brokeback Mountain. I've heard it's about two cowboys. I would like to watch it tonight." I didn't want to deny him, because I didn't want to set up some idea about what's bad, because of the subject matter. We live in New York City, we live in the West Village. So we found an 18 minute segment he could watch. The next day he hugged his nanny and he wouldn't let go and he said, "That is like the two cowboys in Brokeback Mountain!"

Mama must have picked an interesting 18-minute segment.

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March 28, 2006

Penn and Coulter

A tip from V the K reveals that in addition to being a moonbat and a clown, Sean Penn is a very sick man. The Hollyweird limousine leftist owns a plastic doll of Ann Coulter that he "likes to abuse when angry." Said Penn of the Barbie-like doll:

We violate her. There are cigarette burns in some funny places.

Apparently money can't buy mental hygiene.

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Halliburton Flooded New Orleans

Apparently this is old news to tinfoil-hatters like our friend Moonbat Supreme, but I didn't know until receiving a tip from Prince of Leaves that according to some, the failed levee that flooded New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward was not secretly dynamited by the government, but smashed by an industrial barge owned by none other than Halliburton.

The evidence is that according to a Tulane University professor, "everyone knows" that Halliburton owned the sinister barge.

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Something Rotten in the State of Denmark

An interesting piece by J. Peter Pham on TCS Daily describes the state of affairs in Denmark that preceded the publication of the yawn-inducing cartoons that Muslims used as a pretext to bully the West ever further into dhimmitude.

A University of Copenhagen professor was kidnapped in broad daylight and given a severe beating by three Muslims for having read from the Koran during a lecture. A Danish publisher had to use anonymous translators for an essay collection critical of Islam to avoid violence. Fearing for their safety, Danish artists refused to work on illustrations for a children's book about Mohammad.

The reason Islamic thugs are so brazen in Denmark is that Danes have bent over backwards to accommodate them. The only food available in Copenhagen public schools is halal — that is, prepared in accordance with sharia. Danish Jews are kept out of some public schools because their presence is regarded as "provocative" to Muslims. The country's only Jewish school has to be defended by a double ring of barbed wire.

An Arab serving in the Danish Parliament has been living under 24-hour police protection largely because Muslims don't like it that he gave his daughter a Western name. Remarks an Iranian refugee, "It is an irony that I am today living in a European democratic state and have to fight the same religious fanatics that I fled from in Iran many years ago."

As Pham observes:

Historically, non-Muslim minorities (i.e., Jews and Christians) could escape the ravages of violent jihad only by surrendering to Islamic domination through a treaty of agreed-upon subjugation and oppression (dhimma) that turned them into "protected persons" (dhimmis) with second class status within the real of Islam. Today, it seems that even non-Muslim majorities are requested to descend into dhimmitude to avoid the wrath of some new immigrants. But, to paraphrase our own American Freedom Marchers, we are citizens, not dhimmis. Of course, once one has let oneself be treated like a dhimmi, it becomes hard to protest.

Hat tip: Bergbikr

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Questions for CAIR

The goons at Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — a terrorist front group that has been using political correctness, propaganda, and a hordes of lawyers in an attempt to impose dhimmitude on the United States — are not pleased that some Americans have noticed the fundamental and violent hostility Islam holds and has always held toward the rest of the world. Kudos to Investors.com for offering CAIR an opportunity to clear away the "Islamophobia" they decry by answering a few questions:

Is Islam the only religion with a doctrine, theology and legal system that mandates warfare against unbelievers?

Is it true that 26 chapters of the Quran deal with jihad, a fight able-bodied believers are obligated to join (Surah 2:216), and that the text orders Muslims to "instill terror into the hearts of the unbeliever" and to "smite above their necks" (8:12)?

Is the "test" of loyalty to Allah not good acts or faith in general, but martyrdom that results from fighting unbelievers (47:4) — the only assurance of salvation in Islam (4:74; 9:111)?

Are the sins of any Muslim who becomes a martyr forgiven by the very act of being slain while slaying the unbelievers (4:96)?

And is it really true that martyrs are rewarded with virgins, among other carnal delights, in Paradise (38:51, 55:56; 55:76; 56:22)?

Are those unable to do jihad — such as women or the elderly — required to give "asylum and aid" to those who do fight unbelievers in the cause of Allah (8:74)?

Does Islam advocate expansion by force? And is the final command of jihad, as revealed to Muhammad in the Quran, to conquer the world in the name of Islam (9:29)?

Is Islam the only religion that does not teach the Golden Rule (48:29)? Does the Quran instead teach violence and hatred against non-Muslims, specifically Jews and Christians (5:50)?

But don't forget: Islam is the Religion of Peace.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

Warning: the illustration for this one isn't a pretty sight.

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Morbid Unreciprocated Niceness

Far as we might bend over backwards to be nice to the Mexicans illegally pouring into our country, this morbidly excessive niceness is not always returned. For example, at a soccer match in Mexico, the local crowd nearly drowned out "The Star-Spangled Banner" with boos. As American players left the stadium, they were sent off with chants of "Osama! Osama!" The crowd was held back by police in riot gear.

Meanwhile, the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted 12-6 to pass an immigration bill that would effectively legalize illegal immigration, making it official that the United States is no longer a sovereign country in control of its territory. But at least we're nice.

Hat tip: Andre

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Aztlan

Naturally the MSM has painted a smiley face on the recent massive show of force on the part of illegal immigrants and their supporters. The issue is usually framed in terms of the hardship of illegal immigrants, who only want to come here to do the work our own willfully unemployed can't be bothered to do. There are even allegations of racism.

But what the matter really comes down to is assimilation and territorial sovereignty. As Cal Thomas observes:

It isn't race or ethnicity that bothers most legal residents of this country. It is our failure to make non-hyphenated Americans out of them. Instead of becoming English-speaking Americans, too many are retaining the language, customs, culture and political agendas of their native lands. No nation can long survive such an invasion without assimilation.

One of these political agendas involves the concept of "Aztlan" — which is where real racism comes into the picture. The idea is to establish Hispanic hegemony in the southwestern USA, and then split this region off from the rest of the country.

Insights into the movement this concept has inspired can be found at La Voz de Aztlan. The strategy is simple: conquest by immigration. This is basically how the USA ended up with the Southwest in the first place, since this region was once part of Mexico. The difference is, it had not been heavily settled then. Now it is home to three of America's five largest cities (Los Angeles, Houston, Phoenix).

The strategy seems to be working. Los Angeles is considered the capital of "Aztlan." It is now run by a Mayor who was once Chairman of the UCLA chapter of MEChA, a vehemently racist organization devoted to "Reconquista," or the driving of non-Hispanics out of the southwestern quarter of the United States.

Runaway immigration has resulted in mayhem in France. Worse is in store for America, unless we assert control over our borders immediately and limit immigration to numbers that can be successfully assimilated.

Hat tip: Wiggins

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March 27, 2006

Mary Mapes Still Won't Let Go

Mary Mapes, the left-wing propagandist who got canned from CBS News for her part in Dan Rather's phony document scandal, is still out there, and she is still screeching that the forged documents with which she and her elite media friends hoped to derail President Bush's reelection campaign are actually genuine.

How does she explain the fact that everyone but her and the Dan know they're fake?

It's like a lie. If you repeat it enough, it is true.

No one would know this better than a former CBS News producer.

Mapes also helpfully explained why the MSM's journalistic standards have gone to hell in a handbasket. It's due to insufficient government regulation, and to the fact that broadcasting should be a privilege, not a means to make money.

The intrusion of capitalism into the MSM's sacred realm has another downside. By only seeing ads on programs they choose to watch, people vote with their wallets. They haven't been voting for CBS News.

Hat tip: ex-expat

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Organizers of Illegal Immigration Demo Make Demands in Phoenix

The organizers of the massive demonstration in favor of illegal immigration that paralyzed Phoenix last Friday are now demanding that Mayor Phil Gordon apologize for objecting to the disorder they caused.

As Gordon observed in a statement on Friday:

I am incredibly upset. You can't tell us that you're going to have 2,000 or 3,000 people march on the sidewalk and then turn 20,000 or 30,000 people loose in the streets. That's not reasonable. That's not safe. Yes, you can march, but you must also obey the law and exercise good judgment. That didn't happen, and too many businesses and residents had their rights trampled on. It's shameful.

The show of power by illegal immigrants and their supporters crippled both traffic and business in Central Phoenix for hours. People were unable to enter or leave either businesses or their own homes due to the total paralysis caused by marchers and their vehicles.

Says Phoenix Councilman Greg Stanton:

This is not about the political message. The way this whole thing went down did not give Phoenix an opportunity to prepare.

The Mayor's Office had no comment on calls for an apology by Hector Yturralde of Unidos en Arizona, a sponsor of the chaos. Yturralde is also demanding a meeting with the Mayor.

Could it be that the illegal alien lobby is overplaying its hand?

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Morgan Spurlock: Dog Bites Man

Thanks to the stagnation and mediocrity imposed by teacher's unions, we expect less of educators than we used to. But we could at least expect them to realize that if you invite a Michael Moore wannabe to speak at a high school, he is going to behave like an obnoxious jerk.

Yet Morgan Spurlock — whose primary cinematic achievement has been to film himself eating nothing but McDonald's for a month — was invited to speak at Hatboro-Horsham High School in Philadelphia. Unsurprisingly, he delivered a profanity-laced speech ridiculing McDonald's employees, Indian immigrants, "retarded kids in the back wearing helmets," and pot-smoking teachers.

Apparently Spurlock has found his intellectual peers. The kids gave him a standing ovation and mobbed him for autographs.

With thanks to V the K.

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Moonbats Protest Pruning Trees

"The cause is just!" proclaimed Howard Skwer of PlantAmnesty, a Seattle group that has been hounding local officials and waving placards at motorists as part of a campaign to "end the senseless torture and mutilation of trees and shrubs." Skwer and his friends have been accosting drivers on Highway 99 in nearby Lynnwood, holding up banners and brandishing signs with messages like "Let the Trees Grow" and "Stop Topping Trees."

"This is a crime against nature," announced a PlantAmnesty member named "Ox," referring to some pruned trees. He had stalks of bamboo strapped around his waist that rose far above his head. "Whoever did it ought to be strung up. Why do we need to have tree circumcision in this town? It's not therapeutically indicated."

It sounds like Thorazine might be therapeutically indicated. But that's hardly unusual where moonbats are concerned.

Hat tip: Knowledge Is Power.

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March 26, 2006

Chicago Minutemen Assaulted by Moonbats

Yesterday members of the Chicago Minuteman Project and IFIRE (Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform & Enforcement) were protesting outside Bank Calumet in Munster, Indiana, because of that bank's practice of offering home loans to people who are in the country illegally. They were set upon by violent counterprotesters from the Progressive Labor Party of Chicago and Purdue University Calumet.

Rick Biesada, 63-year-old leader of the Chicago Minutemen, received this treatment:

The picture comes from Freedom Folks, who were on the scene and offer some helpful annotation to a picture of the ruckus that appeared in the local media:

Regrettably, this is a small taste of the violent social disruption to which we can look forward if we fail to get illegal immigration under control.

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Renting Children

Non-Mexicans who invade across the Mexican border, known as OTMs (other than Mexicans), have a new trick in their repertoire: renting children.

The idea is that if they dupe authorities into thinking they are a family, they can circumvent a new expedited-removal program for OTMs. Since overwhelmed authorities don't have the space to house them as families, they just let them go instead. Of course the aliens are supposed to report back for a hearing, but few of them do.

According to John Torres, director of ICE's Office of Detention and Removal:

They are passing themselves off as a family, paying to have children smuggled with them across the border, because the smugglers know we're not going to break up a family for the deportation process. They're renting babies — the younger the better — including those not yet of speaking age.

Torres says some of the children have been rented out more than once, which is actually good news, because it proves that at least some of them make it back to Mexico safely. With the hot weather coming, the danger to these rent-a-kids will dramatically increase.

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Castro Frightened of His Own Underwear

Fidel Castro has finally implemented a sensible policy: instead of trying to get his used underwear clean, the physically repulsive dictator has it burned.

According to Delfin Fernandez, a former member of Castro's inner circle, the point is paranoia, not hygiene. Castro is so thoroughly hated in Cuba that he lives in fear that someone will poison his underwear with chemicals during laundering.

Fernandez also reports that the health-obsessed Castro has built a multimillion-dollar clinic on the grounds of his Havana estate, a few yards from his front door. Meanwhile, his subjects are forced to use places like this:

Having worked at the heart of the Castro regime, Fernandez has special insights into the communist dictatorship:

It [the revolution that put Castro in power] has dissolved into this unstoppable, insatiable corruption without limits, a vast lie. The people are in misery. Cuba's people have been enslaved as cheap labor for foreign businessmen.

Fernandez has carried suitcases of cash out of Cuba for Castro and his brother, who have been systematically pillaging their country for decades. But none of this needs stop leftist nitwits in the entertainment industry and the MSM from comparing America unfavorably to Castro's island prison.

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March 25, 2006

Buddy Morph

No wonder Chirac has been in such a snit the last few years. It looks like he and his good friend Saddam were even closer than we knew. A little more moonbatterie a la francais, compliments of Wiggins:

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Moonbattery at Its Ugliest

Green Beret Sgt. Daniel Petithory was killed in Afghanistan in December, 2001. He was one of America's first combat deaths in the campaign to flush al Qaeda and the Taliban out of that country in response to the 9/11 atrocities that had occurred less than 2 months previously. Moonbats have acknowledged Petithory's ultimate sacrifice to preserve their liberty by vandalizing a sign indicating that a nature trail through his Massachusetts hometown has been dedicated to his memory.

"Oil" and "Christian Crusade" were scrawled on the sign. An anti-military dig favored by the likes of Bill Maher — that our troops are uneducated and/or not very bright — was also included, as was at least one potshot at the President.

Petithory's parents have tried to avoid a more sophisticated means of undermining the War on Terror and defacing the memories of those who have died in it by no longer reading newspaper editorials or watching TV news shows. But moonbattery will find a way to make itself heard. Take away their cameras and newspapers and many in the media would probably find themselves reduced to scribbling nasty graffiti on dead soldiers' memorials.

Cross-posted at The Wide Awakes.

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March 24, 2006

Chirac Throws Tantrum on Hearing English

French President Jacques Chirac (aka Le Ver or "The Worm"), stormed out of an EU summit session when the French head of Europe's employer union delivered a speech in English.

Huffed Chirac:

I was deeply shocked that a Frenchman would speak at the council table in English!

When Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, head of the UNICE employers federation, started his speech in English, Chirac interrupted to squeal complaints. But Seilliere explained, "I'm going to speak in English because that is the language of business."

So Chirac and a couple of French bureauweenies marched out "so as not to have to listen to that." They sulked outside until the speech was over.

The Brussels correspondent of Britain's Sun, which coined the nickname "Le Ver," couldn't help but rub it in by presenting Chirac with an English phrase book.

Here's some more salt for Le Ver's wounds: Chirac's promised "CNN a la francaise," a presumably leftist international news station meant to compete with CNN and the BBC, has announced that only 3 of its 24 hours of daily broadcasting will be in French. The rest of CII's programming will be in English so that people can understand it.

The point of CII is to "spread the values of France and its global vision throughout the world." But how can you spread your values when no one has a clue what you're saying because you're speaking in French?

Hat tip: Moonbat Alert

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Postcards from Paris

Thank you Wiggins, for kindly sending along some pictures and captions to keep us up to date on ongoing activities in France:

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Christian Peacemaker Teams Display Moonbat Gratitude

Some good news from Iraq is that US-led forces freed three members of Christian Peacemaker Teams before their terrorist captors could do to them what they had already done to their colleague Tom Fox, who was tortured and murdered and dumped like garbage. Now for the bad news: the experience did nothing to mitigate the very moonbattery of this demented organization that caused its globetrotting flower children to get kidnapped in the first place.

According to British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the rescue operation followed "weeks and weeks of very careful work by military coalition personnel in Iraq." That would be the very military personnel against whom CPT dispatches activists to Iraq to wage its propaganda war — personnel who will have to wait a lot longer for thanks than Fox's friends did to be saved.

CPT celebrated the rescue by releasing a statement that thanks their "Muslim brothers and sisters" for their "gracious outpouring of support." But it does not thank those who rescued the kidnapped moonbats — or even acknowledge that a rescue took place, saying only that they had "been freed safely."

Why would the troops expect thanks, when terrorist activity is actually their fault? CPT's statement explains:

We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by Multinational Forces is the root cause of the insecurity which led to this kidnapping and so much pain and suffering in Iraq.

In an appalling display of chutzpah, the useful idiots at CPT proceed to lecture the Coalition for supposedly illegal detentions:

We pray that Christians throughout the world will, in the same spirit [as the gracious Muslims], call for justice and for respect for the human rights of the thousands of Iraqis who are being detained illegally by the U.S. and British forces occupying Iraq.

A statement from captive James Loney's family not only does not acknowledge the rescue, it claims there wasn't one:

We have just learned that James is coming home. He has been released unharmed, with his companions Harmeet and Norman.

Released.

It's a relief that the three who were rescued didn't end up like Fox. But it would be more of a relief if it looked like something had been learned from this whole terrible episode.

With thanks to V the K, Byron, and The Corner.

Update
CPT seems to be feeling some pressure. They've added an addendum at the bottom of their statement acknowledging their debt to the troops they've gone to such lengths to undermine.

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March 23, 2006

Shrillary's Stand on Illegal Immigration

We can stop waiting for Hillary to take a stand on illegal immigration: she is officially for it. She's been using a House bill that would criminalize unlawful presence in the USA as an opportunity to indulge in silly demagoguery at the expense of our security and territorial sovereignty.

According to Shrillary, making it a crime to be in this country illegally is not only "mean-spirited," but reveals the hypocrisy of Republicans who claim to support faith and values. To let her explain in her own words:

It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scriptures, because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself.

Hillary is all for a clampdown — so long as it's on Americans. In addition to allowing the 11 million aliens already in the country illegally to acquire citizenship, she wants to penalize employers who "exploit" illegal aliens.

Here's an idea Hillary might float: since we're not going to send people who have invaded our country back to their own land, why don't we deport the employers who "exploit" them in their place? The demographic results would surely work out well for the Dems on election day.

Hat tip: William

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Dems to Make Props of Military Bases

The Washington Times reports on a new Democratic strategy described in a memo distributed last week by the office of Harry Reid (D-NV), the Senate Minority Leader. The plan is to hold press events at military bases.

Using military bases as props for political spectacles is particularly inappropriate when you consider that much of the rhetoric emanating from Democrats is clearly intended to demoralize our troops — an obvious example is the seditious propaganda gushing from the mouths of Howard "Dr. Demento" Dean and John "Moonbat Jack" Murtha. Their evident goal is to bring about a catastrophic defeat in Iraq, which their friends in the media would then help them hang around the necks of Republicans. The best interests of the country, much less our troops, isn't even an afterthought.

As Senator George Allen (R-VA) observed of the new tactic:

It is pitiful. We are at war. This country needs to be unified and realize who the enemy is — it's not fellow Americans.

Or is it?

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Moonbat Stamp

Here's another reason to make sure Democrats don't take back control of the government:

Of course, stamps wouldn't actually look like this. The price would be higher.

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Adults Only

You are forewarned not to look at this. The condition is deliberately self-induced, for reasons comprehensible only to moonbats.

From Zombie, on a tip from William.

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March 22, 2006

W Killed JFK!

If you think the 9/11 conspiracies moonbats cook up under their tinfoil beanies are kooky, try this one:

As NRO points out, JFK was killed in 1963. President Bush was born in 1946. That would make him a little young to be assassinating presidents.

But of course, birth certificates can be altered. By the way, the assassination occurred in Texas.

Thanks to: V the K, Right Wing News.

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Censure Carter Movement Is Growing

The idea of calling on Congress to censure Dhimmi Carter (discussed here previously) is picking up steam. The patriotic organization Move America Forward has launched a new website called CensureCarter.com devoted to achieving this noble objective. In their words:

Since leaving office, President Jimmy Carter has repeatedly sought to undermine U.S. foreign policy, criticized the missions of the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, as well as embracing known terrorists and terrorist organizations. Most recently, President Carter pressured the international community to provide funding for the terrorist organization Hamas.

Shocking details are provided for a long list of offenses, all of which richly warrant an official kick in the pants for America's worst ex-President, involving such topics as:

• Jimmy Carter Praises Hamas, "So Called Terrorists"
• Carter Praises Terrorist Leader Yasser Arafat
• Carter Tied to Iraqi Agent Samir Vincent
• Jimmy Carter: America Basher
• Carter Accuses U.S. Troops of Torture at GITMO
• Carter Tries to Undermine Operation Desert Storm
• Carter Undermines U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Cuba
• Carter's Appeasement of "Axis of Evil" Member, North Korea
• Moral Treason from Jimmy Carter

Don't forget to sign the petition before you leave.

Alternatively, instead of censuring Jimbo we could just start enforcing sedition laws.

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Maywood, California Descends into Anarchy

The anarchy on our southern border is becoming officially institutionalized in Maywood, California — a town that is effectively being run by illegal immigrants.

Maywood is 96% Latino. Its City Counsel has vowed to make it "a sanctuary city" for those who have illegally invaded our country.

Toward this end, it has eliminated the police department's traffic division, because too many illegals were getting into trouble for driving without licenses. There will be no more sobriety checkpoints or towing of illegally operated vehicles, so as not to inconvenience the aliens.

"No human being is illegal," Councilman Felipe Aguirre righteously proclaimed. He referred to the defense of the USA's territorial sovereignty as "this hypocritical policy."

If illegal aliens continue to find themselves oppressed by running afoul of our laws, Maywood may want to disband the police department altogether.

With thanks to V the K.

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Helen Thomas Smackdown

Possibly mistaking herself for Cindy Sheehan, Helen Thomas presented the President with the following question at yesterday's press conference:

I'd like to ask you, Mr. President, your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is, why did you really want to go to war? From the moment you stepped into the White House, from your Cabinet — your Cabinet officers, intelligence people, and so forth — what was your real reason? You have said it wasn't oil — quest for oil, it hasn't been Israel, or anything else. What was it?

Needless to say this is not journalism, but juvenile and disrespectful soapboxing. Waiting for the public to realize that they are being systematically misled by people who want to see our country degraded and defeated isn't working. If the dreary poll numbers that have brought so many smug smiles to the press are going to be reversed, it's high time to take the gloves off and fight back.

Bush did so with the perfect touch, never losing his graciousness, much less stooping to the yapping-dog level of his MSM detractors, as he put the loathsome little troll in her place by patiently yet passionately describing some of the recent historical events that made the invasion of Iraq all but unavoidable.

Expose the Left has video. Careful — Thomas got carried away with the lipstick again; she isn't a sight to take in on a full stomach.

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March 21, 2006

Jacques Chirac's Foreign Policy Wisdom

This might help explain why Jacques Chirac can always be counted on to do the wrong thing. Here's Chirac on international diplomacy:

I have one simple principle in foreign affairs. I look at what the Americans are doing and then do the opposite.

Apparently this principle has been applied to French policy as far back as WWII, when Americans put up a fight against the Nazis to liberate France.

Hat tip: ¡No Pasarán!

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Pushing All the Wrong Buttons

You have to say this much for socialized medicine — it makes for interesting news stories, like this one from England:

A baby boy died after an untrained doctor pressed the wrong button on his bypass machine because it was a less "horrid" colour than the other, an inquest heard yesterday.

Four-month-old Thomas Smith was on a heart and lung bypass machine when Simon McGuirk, a cardiac surgical registrar, accidentally turned it off.

Mr McGuirk said that he did not know whether to press the orange or blue buttons to restart the machine, so opted for the blue. It sent the machine into reverse, sucking blood from Thomas's body. He died a short time later.

The silver lining is that everyone waiting in line to use the bypass machine can move up a step.

Hat tip: Wiggins

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A Lesson in Imaginary History

Here's some more good news from the Left: Adolf Hitler may have been an imaginary problem!

This surprising revelation can hardly be questioned, as it comes to us from a woman of ultimate moral authority: Cindy Sheehan herself. When Joe Scarborough asked her if FDR wasn't just as much a "terrorist" as moonbats regard President Bush, considering all the Germans and Japanese who died in World War II, the Ditch Witch treated his audience to the following history lesson:

I'm a pacifist and I believe war is wrong. And if you look at the history, World War II happened because of World War I and the suppression and sanctions against the people of World War I. I'm a total pacifist and I think finally now, this is the 21st century and we need to stop killing each other to solve problems, especially imaginary problems.

Only the She-hag knows for sure if she was referring only to this imaginary problem:

or if she meant this one too:

It would come as a tremendous relief to the millions who died as a result of Hitler's maniacal regime to know that it was just an imaginary problem. If only we could have gotten the news to them in time.

With thanks to V the K.

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Medea Benjamin: North Korea Has No Nukes

This is certainly a relief: We have the word of Medea Benjamin of Code Pink that North Korea doesn't have nuclear weapons after all.

Never mind the evidence to the contrary. Never mind North Korea's public admissions. Never mind that America's worst ex-President Jimmy Carter negotiated the 1994 agreement by which Bill Clinton helped North Korea develop nukes.

A North Korean general may say:

What we can say to you definitely right now is that we currently have nuclear weapons.

But Medea Benjamin says:

North Korea does not have a nuclear weapon. We know that North Korea doesn't have a nuclear weapon.

Benjamin isn't your garden variety kook. Her Code Pink organization has important friends like Howard Dean and Jack Murtha. Certainly we can take her word on this, just as Carter and Clinton wisely took the North Koreans' word that if we helped them build nuclear reactors, they'd lay off their nuclear weapons program.

Hat tip: Wiggins

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