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June 30, 2006

Flower Children Assault Federal Agents

The Rainbow Family is a loose coalition of moonbats who describe themselves like this:

Some say we're the largest non-organization of non-members in the world. We have no leaders, and no organization. To be honest, the Rainbow Family means different things to different people. I think it's safe to say we're into intentional community building, non-violence, and alternative lifestyles. We also believe that Peace and Love are a great thing, and there isn't enough of that in this world. Many of our traditions are based on Native American traditions, and we have a strong orientation to take care of the Earth. We gather in the National Forests yearly to pray for peace on this planet.

In a word, they're hippies. But it's not all peace and love with the Rainbow Family. In one of at least three clashes near Steamboat Springs, Colorado recently, these flower children attacked U.S. Forest Service officers.

There are already about 5,000 Rainbow flakes at a campsite in the Routt National Forest for an event not scheduled to begin until tomorrow. The Forest Service has refused to grant them a permit to camp there, because they are in an area where up to 60% of the trees have been killed by a Beatle I mean beetle infestation and the risk of a fire is high. The narrow dirt access road would quickly become clogged with trapped campers if one were to break out. Sanitation could also be a problem, as is often the case with hippies.

Fifteen officers who were attempting to assert some sort of authority were surrounded by 200 unwashed weirdoes in what must have resembled a scene from a George Romero movie. Verbal abuse escalated to physical violence. A female officer took an elbow in the face; another officer was nailed in the leg with a rock; others were slugged. They were able to arrest only one hippie before using their batons and pepper spray to enable a retreat.

The next day forestry officials met with the "elders of the Rainbow Family," and were told that the younger generation can't help behaving like untamed savages because they come from an inner-city environment.

Any hippies who are actually brought to justice for violating the camping ban face a piddling fine of $135, including court costs.

Forest fires can actually serve a benevolent purpose, by clearing out the deadwood. But I suppose the Forest Service won't be able to take that into account in this situation.

Posted by Van Helsing at 4:20 PM | Comments (17)

Another Animal Owed an Apology

By now everyone is aware of how drug dealers and violent gang members exploit our open southern border. Other types of criminal come across too: Junio Trenta might be an example.

Trenta, alternately described as a "transient" and as a "Mexican citizen working as a laborer" had previously been arrested for larceny. Now he's been charged with felony animal cruelty after he was caught anally raping a male puppy in the Martin County, Florida woods just after noon last Monday. On being discovered in this act, Trenta wondered aloud:

It's my dog. What's the problem?

One problem is that this guy is probably going to be a burden on American taxpayers for the rest of his life — and he is hardly alone.

Hat tip: Tomslick

Posted by Van Helsing at 3:26 PM | Comments (3)

6,000 Troops on Border? Well, Not Really

Stemming the invasion and colonization of the Southwest by hordes of penniless Mexicans continues to be anything but a priority for our government. When Bush agreed to send a token 6,000 National Guard troops to the border to provide support to the Border Patrol as the Minutemen have been doing, even that hollow gesture was enough to drive down illegal border crossings. But the improvement will be temporary, as word spreads south of the border that our bureaucrats have no sincere intention of defending our territory.

According to Bush's promises, 2,500 National Guard troops were to be on the border by the end of June. He's got 10 hours left and there are fewer than 1,000. All 50 states were supposed to send troops, but few are fully cooperating. Others whine that they have more important uses for the troops, like holding them in reserve to deal with forest fires and bad weather.

The full 6,000 are supposed to be in place by the end of July. That deadline will be missed also. But 6,000 is now considered to be a "maximum" — apparently meaning that there won't be more than 6,000 troops, but there may very well be fewer. Bush may as well have said he was sending 50,000 troops. At least that would be enough, were he actually to send them and let them actively defend the country from invasion.

Where there is no will, there is no way Mexico will be stopped from exporting its poverty into the U.S. Unless we find a way to hold the government accountable, this problem will inevitably fester into a crisis of historic proportions.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:58 PM

Moonbats Suing to Ban Portrait of Jesus

Two "civil liberties" groups are expressing their devotion to liberty by suing to ban a picture of Jesus Christ that has hung in a West Virginia high school for over 30 years. Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the West Virginia American Civil Liberties Union filed suit under the usual absurd pretext that permitting anything that acknowledges our culture's 2,000-year-old Christian heritage constitutes imposing Christianity.

Sputtered Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United:

I frankly cannot understand why this school insists that it is doing nothing wrong.

Maybe the suit should include punitive damages to get it across to these nonconformists that there is but one commandment they have to follow, now that progressives run our courts: Thou shalt have no gods before totalitarian moonbattery.

On a tip from The Right Reverend Rabbi Judah.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:14 AM | Comments (3)

Man Forced to Apologize to Bird

When an eagle tried to snatch the smallmouth bass he had hooked, Josh Williams attempted to scare off the opportunistic bird by tossing stones at it. Unfortunately this constituted harassing "an endangered or threatened species without a permit from the Secretary of the Department of the Interior" — and Williams was caught in the act by a Fish and Wildlife Service officer.

For this crime, Williams was sentenced by a judge to apologize to the eagle.

Let's hope that this miscreant has learned his lesson, and that next time he will obtain the relevant permit from Washington before shooing any birds.

Hat tip: Wiggins

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:16 AM | Comments (4)

Glimpses into the Abyss

What a dark and awful place it is inside the moonbat cave called the Huffington Post. Reading the rants there is like staring into Dante's dolorous abyss. Here are a couple of recent examples, on tips from V the K:

Apparently convinced that his party will not do well in this November's elections, Mark Crispin Miller is already accusing Republicans of rigging them. Bizarrely, he asserts that if we respect the election results, "we don't deserve to call ourselves the citizens of a republic."

Not to be outdone for paranoia, Russell Shaw believes that President Bush and Osama bin Laden have been collaborating on a video to be released on the Fourth of July for propaganda purposes. Sneers this sad little man (ellipses in original):

I can see it now- July 4 speeches and rallies, appearances with troops: "the war on terror is very real, and our brave men and women in uniform are there for us"... mention Osama..mention "emerging" Iraq democracy...keep America safe from terrorists and safe for the unborn and the true believers.

Bin Laden, according to this worldview, is a "scarecrow" — not a real threat at all, just a boogeyman to scare us with. In less that five years, some liberals have already managed to forget that September 11 ever happened — or crazier still, to convince themselves that somehow Republicans did it.

Withdrawing into their deformed imaginations may shield progressives from the effects of disappointment and grief. But it also shields them from hope, from pride, from love, from everything that makes life worth living. How awful it must be not to believe in anything but their own festering mental disease.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:39 AM | Comments (4)

June 29, 2006

New Superman Scorns American Way

So much for "Truth, justice, and the American way" — the classic Superman motto has been discarded for the new Superman Returns, as moonbat screenwriters Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris consider it to be excessively patriotic. Sneers Harris:

I don't think "the American way" means what it meant in 1945. He's an alien, from Krypton; he has come to Earth to be kind of a savior for this world, not our country ... And he has no papers.

Dougherty piles on:

He's not just for Metropolis and not just for America. What would happen with the immigration laws we have now?

Apparently, the two are complaining that our government even pays lip service to the concept of securing the borders from foreign invasion.

So Superman is no longer patriotic. At least, contrary to rumors, he isn't gay — yet.

Hat tip: Varla

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:21 PM | Comments (7)

Putting the PETA in Petaluma

In terms of the number of innocent human lives they have ended, rats are challenged only by mosquitos and communists as mankind's worst enemy. The instinctive loathing most people have for all three is more than justified. Among their accomplishments, rats spread the Black Death through Europe, killing off nearly half the population. So it is hardly surprising that when an animal shelter in the San Francisco suburb Petaluma was forced to euthanize about 1,000 feral rats, sympathetic moonbats went berserk.

The rats had been hoarded in the home of convicted armed robber Roger Dier, who has been cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty. This real-life Willard first made the news back in the 1960s, when his home was the hideout for two men later convicted of plotting to kidnap the son of Frank Sinatra, leader of the Rat Pack. Nancee Tavares, Petaluma's animal services manager, describes him like this:

He's an intelligent man to talk to, but he smells like rat urine. He told me that when he had only 100 of them, he'd let them sleep with him in his bed. They'd get all in his shorts and stuff. And you can't potty train them, so you know they were urinating and defecating in there.

As for his massive rat collection, Tavares says:

We euthanized all of the adults except the ones we have to keep on quarantine because they bit staff. They weren't social. I would call them feral. We found many with eyeballs missing, teeth growing into the opposite jaw, huge abscesses with open wounds. Some were starving.

The euthanizing outraged local "rat fanciers," who had formed an email chain called "petalumarats" to find homes for the cuddly creatures. They bombarded the animal shelter with angry phone calls and emails.

Self-described rat lover Phyllis Mason raged:

This is an unspeakable injustice to those rats who deserved better.

Fumed rat aficionado Tina Bird:

Maybe they would have been better advised to leave the animals in their horrible conditions until we, the rat community, had a few days to get moving. Be sure that animal lovers across the United States will be scrutinizing Petaluma's actions and culpability for this slaughter.

Just as the judges and pious MSM fools who sympathize with the terrorist barbarians vacationing at Club Gitmo would be unlikely to invite any of the objects of their affection into their own homes, few of the rat activists have been willing to take in rats themselves. As Tavares observes:

Everybody's saying you can't euthanize them and they all say they want to help, but very few can take any.

Some of the horrid creatures actually have been adopted. Others will be traveling all the way to Los Angeles, where they will be put up for adoption by the Rat and Mouse Club of America. Still more will go up for adoption after they have been neutered or checked for pregnancy. All adopters have to be screened to assure they will be suitable parents for the rats. If only aborted humans were offered the same consideration as snake food.

Sometimes you can almost envy moonbats. Imagine what a relief it would be to live in a world where the worst thing you have to worry about is the demise of a rat horde.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:08 PM | Comments (5)

Supremes Strike Blow on Behalf of al Qaeda

In a shocking triumph of moonbattery over common sense, the Supreme Court has forbidden military trials for the foreign terrorists interned at Guantanamo Bay. Unless the ruling can be reversed through legislation, it will probably result in the terrorists — most if not all of whom regard it as their God-given duty to kill as many of us as they can — either being sent back to their home countries, or granted normal criminal trials as if they were American citizens caught sticking up liquor stores.

If they are sent back to their home countries, they will either be set free to resume their terrorist activities, or they will be incarcerated under conditions that will almost certainly be much less comfy than the accommodations at Club Gitmo — which should cause the liberal justices some concern if their primary motivation is the terrorists' well-being, as opposed to poking their own country in the eye.

Granting them normal criminal trials in the United States is unthinkable. It would be extravagantly expensive, would compromise critical intelligence, and would result in cartoonish O.J.-style spectacles that would make a mockery of the War on Terror by granting terrorists and their left-wing lawyers a soapbox from which to denounce Western Civilization.

Since the moonbats infesting our legal system all the way up to the top will not allow us to interrogate or incarcerate terrorists, the only option is to kill them on sight. After that's been prohibited, I suggest converting to Islam and declaring sharia. What else is left?

Justices Alito, Thomas, and Scalia were dissenting voices of reason. Chief Justice Roberts had to recuse himself. Moonbats Stevens, Kennedy, Bader Ginsburg, Breyer, and Souter voted to put the imaginary rights of foreign terrorists above American self-preservation.

In his dissent, Thomas wrote that this foolish decision would "sorely hamper the president's ability to confront and defeat a new and deadly enemy" and that the court's willingness "to second-guess the determination of the political branches that these conspirators must be brought to justice is both unprecedented and dangerous."

Comments Ret. Army Major General Robert Scales:

The American people and the Supreme Court and the rest of [the] people in the enlightened world ... have to decide for themselves, are we in a state of war or are we not in a state of war? The enemy is using our confusion about the conditions in the world today to their advantage and ultimately, we're going to end up with innocent dead in Europe, the United States and elsewhere in the world.

But the Supremes seem to regard themselves as safe, and as for the rest of us... I guess we'll just have to hope we're not riding on the next jet that gets flown into a skyscraper. The New York Times and Osama bin Laden must be delighted.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:20 PM | Comments (8)

Government Sting Addresses Amish Milk Menace

Now that the borders have been secured, terrorism is no longer a threat, Iraq has been stabilized, Iran and North Korea have been permanently declawed, our education system has been rescued from leftist teacher's unions and made into the best in the world, our space program is back on track, and we have found a cure for cancer, our government at last has the time and resources needed to address the menace of Amish farmers who sell raw milk.

Last fall a guy with a plastic container showed up at the home of Arlie Stutzman in an Amish settlement in northeast Ohio and asked for milk. Stutzman was hesitant, but his religious views did not allow him to deny him the milk, so he filled up the container. The mysterious stranger gave him $2 and left.

Then the trap snapped shut. The visitor was an undercover agent from the Ohio Department of Agriculture, which revoked Stutzman's license because the milk hadn't been pasteurized to kill bacteria like E. Coli (although this also kills beneficial bacteria and diminishes vitamin content). Apparently pasteurization can be a problem for the Amish, who shun electricity.

It's comforting to know that vigilant bureaucrats will keep us safe from ourselves.

Hat tip: Byron

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Ditch Witch Diet

It looks like Cindy Sheehan is serious about her hunger strike:

Hat tip: Wiggins

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:07 AM | Comments (5)

June 28, 2006

Dean Acknowledges That He Lives in a 1960s Time Warp

Democrats often seem to live in a time warp, where the year is always 1968, the daisies in their hair never wilt, people still trust the mainstream media, left-wing politics haven't yet been proven utterly unworkable, and we can afford to lose our overseas war. Yesterday DNC Chairman Howard Dean confirmed this impression in a speech during which he attempted to equate the Bush administration with the allegedly "authoritarian" 1950s and promised a return to the "Age of Enlightenment," the 1960s (here's partial video).

As nostalgic Dems seem not to realize, the hippie era was not the apex of American civilization, but the nadir. It was a time of riots, assassinations, government bloat, social decay, and some of the tackiest fashion statements ever made this side of Paris. Ironically, the only good thing about their favorite decade is that it marked the beginning of their party's steady descent toward oblivion. As OpinionJournal points out:

[T]here's something bizarre about the head of the Democratic Party yearning for a return to the 1960s. After all, 1968 marked the beginning of the Republican ascendancy in American politics. Richard Nixon's narrow victory in that year's presidential election began an impressive 7-for-10 GOP streak, and of course the Republicans eventually broke the Democrats' congressional majority too. For a Democrat to long for a return to the '60s is the equivalent of a Republican looking back wistfully on the glory days of the Hoover administration.

While acknowledging that "we made some mistakes in the '60s," Dean promised to keep making them. Even after referring to the "culture of dependence" bequeathed to us by Lyndon Johnson's catastrophic War on Poverty, Mad Howie proclaimed his devotion to "moral principles" that would entail replacing our healthcare system with socialized medicine and driving up unemployment (and illegal immigration) by raising the minimum wage. The inevitable harmful effects of a minimum wage hike on American workers were dismissed as "economists' mumbo-jumbo."

The morality theme was laid on a little too thick because the forum was a religious conference. At one point he piously announced:

This is a moral nation, and we want it to be a moral nation again.

Dean, who left his church over a tiff about a bike path, even tried to pass himself off as a devout Christian:

I came in the wrong door when I first got here. I came in the back, and everybody was talking about praising the Lord, and I thought, "I am home. Finally, a group of people who want to praise the Lord and help their fellow man just like Jesus did and just like Jesus taught." Thank you so much for doing that for me.

Isn't there anyone at the DNC who can tell the Chairman that even if religious people aren't bright enough to embrace his enlightened flower child ideology, most do know when they're being patronized?

Thank you V the K for the tip.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:14 PM | Comments (3)

Low-Down Tactics At the Huffington Compost

The moonbats infesting the Huffington Post are still sore at the Swiftboat Vets for outing phony war hero Hanoi John Kerry — so sore that they have posted personal information on that execrable blog, for other kooks to use to harass veterans who refused to keep a lid on what they know about Hanoi John's service.

The names and personal info of vets were accompanied by comments like this one by "SatanLivesinUSA":

SwiftBoatVets who need some Black Ops done on them. I have some very good ideas I gleaned from "CIA BOOK of DIRTY TRICKS" Don't get mad, get EVEN.

After Huffington Post hosted this information, Swiftboat Vets unsurprisingly experienced an increase in harassment calls. Veteran Van Odell received calls at 1:47, 1:48, and 1:50 on a Sunday morning. A voice on the phone told him:

I want to know why you lied about John Kerry... Traitors must die. We will get you. You can't get away with this.

The call then degenerated into the inarticulate cursing that often serves moonbats as speech. Odell had to turn his phone off so that his 6-year-old grandson wouldn't be subjected to the calls.

The American Spectator managed to get the contact info taken down from Huffington Post. Here's a PDF of what it looked like up until yesterday afternoon (but with sensitive data blocked out). The complete information continues to be posted at the leftist blog Democratic Veteran.

Since Kerry remains unwilling either to release his full military records, or to stop assailing the Swiftboat Vets, they can probably look forward to more harassment. At least they won't be likely to forget that they're on the side of the good guys.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:27 PM | Comments (7)

Hooters for Neuters

When the Los Angeles Animal Services Department decided to team up with a Hooters restaurant to put on a bikini contest to raise money to spay and neuter animals, the resulting brouhaha illustrated the level of kookiness prevalent in the city of fallen angels under the moonbat regime of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (who incidentally is the former Chairman of the UCLA chapter of the rabidly anti-American and anti-Caucasian organization MEChA).

As La Times puts it:

The department's role in the July 13 event raised the hackles of those who believe that the government's domain doesn't quite extend to judging the relative merits of swimsuit babes.

Or, in the words of indignant City Controller Laura Chick:

What is going on here?

In response to the outrage, a poster displayed on the city's website last week, prominently featuring a well-endowed bikini girl (and the word "adopt" spelled "addopt") was soon replaced by a picture of a sad doggie wearing a "Hooters for Neuters" t-shirt.

What would cause LA's hyper-PC bureaucracy to consort with a restaurant chain built on the concept of large-breasted waitresses in short skirts? Said Paula Petrotta, Executive Director of the city's Commission on the Status of Women:

All of us are looking for money under every stone.

Maybe if they didn't waste taxpayers' money on bureaucrats with titles like Executive Director of the Commission on the Status of Women, they would have more to spare for spaying cats.

The Animal Services Department has known controversy in the past. A previous chief left due to safety concerns after his car was vandalized by activists.

For her part, animal activist Judy Cairns has no problem with the bikini contest, so long as male city officials also show some skin. Leered Cairns:

I want to see Mayor Villaraigosa's legs.

Perhaps it's for the best that the city's participation in the contest has now been canceled. Hopefully that doesn't mean the show can't go on.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:26 AM

June 27, 2006

Ehren Watada, Moonbat Hero

Moonbats have heroes like everyone else. But whereas as a normal person's hero would be characterized by courage, sacrifice, devotion, and honor, a moonbat's hero displays the traits of cowardice, selfishness, irresponsibility, and ignominiousness. No one has done a better job of personifying these vaunted characteristics than the Left's latest champion, Ehren Watada.

Watada volunteered for the Army after the invasion of Iraq and willingly completed officer training. But when it came time for him to be deployed from Fort Lewis, he decided that the war didn't suit his political views, and refused to go. After all, preventing terrorists from forcibly taking control of a fledgling democracy is unjust and illegal. Besides, a guy can get hurt over there.

Needless to say, no Army can function when its soldiers consider deployment orders to be optional. This is why Watada is such a darling to the Michael Moore set that they declared today to be a National Day of Action in his honor. Moonbats have been publicly celebrating Watada's disgraceful behavior all across the country, with events planned for a long list of cities by the cult Courage to Resist. Here's how they describe themselves:

COURAGE TO RESIST is a group of concerned community members, veterans and military families that supports military objectors to illegal war and occupation and the policies of empire. Our People Power strategy weakens the pillars that maintain war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere by supporting GI resistance, counter-recruitment and draft resistance, which cuts off the supply of troops.

Note that they not only side with al Qaeda and Baathists against the democratic government we are supporting in Iraq, but also with the Taliban, which they apparently would like to see back in power in Afghanistan. Their objective — to weaken our military by attacking morale and impeding recruitment — couldn't be more clear.

Here's hoping Watada is less comfortable in Leavenworth than his terrorist compatriots have been at Club Gitmo. Check out Hot Air to see Michelle Malkin give him a small taste of what he has coming to him.

Hat tips: Wizbang, Stop the ACLU

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:37 PM | Comments (2)

Gray Lady Advocated Tracking Terrorist Funding

As the al Qaeda collaborators at the New York Times batten down the hatches and wait out the storm over their deliberate crippling of government efforts to protect America from terror attacks, they might want to have a look in their own archives at what they were saying in September of 2001, back when 9/11 was so fresh in their minds, they were able to understand that terror attacks don't just blow up Americans in the abstract, but kill real people — possibly including them. These very words appeared on the Shady Gray Lady's pages:

Organizing the hijacking of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon took significant sums of money. The cost of these plots suggests that putting Osama bin Laden and other international terrorists out of business will require more than diplomatic coalitions and military action. Washington and its allies must also disable the financial networks used by terrorists.

The Bush administration is preparing new laws to help track terrorists through their money-laundering activity and is readying an executive order freezing the assets of known terrorists. Much more is needed, including stricter regulations, the recruitment of specialized investigators and greater cooperation with foreign banking authorities. There must also must be closer coordination among America's law enforcement, national security and financial regulatory agencies. ...

The Treasury Department also needs new domestic legal weapons to crack down on money laundering by terrorists. The new laws should mandate the identification of all account owners, prohibit transactions with "shell banks" that have no physical premises and require closer monitoring of accounts coming from countries with lax banking laws. Prosecutors, meanwhile, should be able to freeze more easily the assets of suspected terrorists. The Senate Banking Committee plans to hold hearings this week on a bill providing for such measures. It should be approved and signed into law by President Bush. ...

If America is going to wage a new kind of war against terrorism, it must act on all fronts, including the financial one.

But now Executive Editor Bill Keller et al. have come to realize that refraining from publicizing what are in effect military secrets regarding government efforts to track terrorist funding would violate the public's right to know. If you have room for your belly for any more of the Gray Lady's sanctimonious hypocrisy, Keller is now attempting to excuse his paper's despicable behavior by intoning that it would be "arrogant" for them to assume that attempts to keep Islamic terrorists from killing us "are perfectly legal and abuse-proof, based entirely on the word of the government."

Of course a guy who turned up his nose at the Treasury Department's urgent pleas not to hamstring this program wouldn't want anyone accusing him of arrogance.

If Keller, the reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen who wrote the funds-tracking expose, and whoever leaked the information to them are not either in federal prison or better still pushing up weeds by the end of the year, we'll know that the Bush Administration does not have what it takes to win the War on Terror.

Hat tips: Sweetness & Light, Cold Fury

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:45 PM | Comments (2)

The Return of Governor Moonbeam

He's back...

Decades ago Jerry Brown, current Oakland Mayor and former Governor of California, staked out a position on the furthest fringes of the lunatic Left. He has now won the Democratic primary for California Attorney General.

Brown's fanatical opposition to capital punishment is legendary. When they gave the needle to William Bonin, who confessed to raping and murdering 21 boys, Brown was bursting with indignation — not at Bonin, but at his "Nazi-style" execution.

However, this has not stopped Brown from admiring the brutal communist dictator Fidel Castro and his former chief executioner Che Guevara. He cherishes an original flag from Castro's disastrous July 26 movement, allegedly given to him by Che Guevara's widow.

Brown shares this affection for Cuba's tyrannical regime with the cognitively challenged cutie pie Linda Ronstadt, whose public romance with Governor Moonbeam back in the 70s helped propel her career. Ronstadt is known for enraging audiences with her left-wing proselytizing.

After getting together with Mother Teresa, Brown appeared to be developing a conscience when he announced that "the killing of the unborn is crazy." But when pro-abortion activists opened fire on him, he declared himself in favor of abortion.

Further insights into his moral character can by gleaned from his announcement in 1992 that if he got the Dem nomination for President, he would pick Jesse Jackson as his running mate. Jackson, spiritual adviser to Bill Clinton, has amassed a fortune through race-baiting and extortion, cheats on his taxes, and has blown funds sent by do-gooder idiots on a mistress.

As Attorney General, Brown will most likely follow the lead of fellow anti-business crusader Eliot Spitzer, the New York State AG who is expected to be the Empire State's next Governor. Here's a sampling of Brown's rhetoric:

Hundreds of thousands of working people are currently exploited, and as attorney general, I could and will go after employers with our lawyers to enforce the law.

As for actually fighting crime, forget about it. As he says on his website:

I will lead the fight against crime as I have done as mayor of Oakland.

According to the California Department of Justice, Oakland is the least safe major city in that state. It is California's car theft capital. Its homicide rate is twice that of Los Angeles and four times the state average.

"I will be an unusual attorney general," Moonbeam tells his fellow Dems. There's one campaign promise he will keep if elected.

He's expected to take a shot at getting back into the Governor's mansion in 2010.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:42 PM | Comments (4)

What a Soldier Thinks of the Gray Lady

It may never have occurred to the fifth-columnists at the New York Times and Los Angeles Time to wonder what the soldiers out there risking their lives to defend them think of their treasonous efforts to assist Islamic terrorists. But if the curiosity that's said to characterize journalists ever gets the better of them, they might want to refer to a letter from U.S. Army Lt. Tom Cotton regarding their willful exposure of the program to track terrorist financing, sent from Iraq and published on Power Line. Here's most of it:

Unfortunately, as I supervised my soldiers late one night, I heard a booming explosion several miles away. I learned a few hours later that a powerful roadside bomb killed one soldier and severely injured another from my 130-man company. I deeply hope that we can find and kill or capture the terrorists responsible for that bomb. But, of course, these terrorists do not spring from the soil like Plato's guardians. No, they require financing to obtain mortars and artillery shells, priming explosives, wiring and circuitry, not to mention for training and payments to locals willing to emplace bombs in exchange for a few months' salary. As your story states, the program was legal, briefed to Congress, supported in the government and financial industry, and very successful.

Not anymore. You may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis here. Next time I hear that familiar explosion — or next time I feel it — I will wonder whether we could have stopped that bomb had you not instructed terrorists how to evade our financial surveillance.

And, by the way, having graduated from Harvard Law and practiced with a federal appellate judge and two Washington law firms before becoming an infantry officer, I am well-versed in the espionage laws relevant to this story and others — laws you have plainly violated. I hope that my colleagues at the Department of Justice match the courage of my soldiers here and prosecute you and your newspaper to the fullest extent of the law. By the time we return home, maybe you will be in your rightful place: not at the Pulitzer announcements, but behind bars.

There is a reason treason is against the law. The anti-American Left has repeatedly taken advantage of the fact that this law seems not to be enforced any longer. They have been testing the limits, seeing just how far they can go before America wakes up and realizes that it has to defend itself from internal as well as external enemies.

By deliberately exposing the program to combat terrorist financing despite government pleas, the liberal elite media has made it crystal clear that a) they regard themselves as a higher authority than our elected government; and b) they will not hesitate to go beyond propaganda to offer concrete intelligence support to the Islamic terrorists who strive to kill as many of us as they can.

The time has clearly come to draw the line. People must be called to account for this overt act of treason. New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller — who ignored pleas from co-chairmen of the bipartisan 9-11 Commission, Governor Tom Kean and Congressman Lee Hamilton, and even from the vehemently anti-Bush John Murtha not to expose the program — needs to be arrested ASAP.

Anyone who agrees that the Department of Justice ought to prosecute is urged to send them an email at askdoj@usdoj.gov. Michelle Malkin offers some compelling sample letters.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:37 AM | Comments (11)

June 26, 2006

Curtains for Churchill

It took awhile, but the University of Colorado is finally ready to dump Ward Churchill, the plagiarizing, research-fabricating faux Indian famous for dismissing those who died at the World Trade Center as "little Eichmanns."

CU Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano broke the happy news that Mental Ward has been issued a notice of intent to be dismissed. A panel recommended he get the boot in response to his "repeated and deliberate" violations of scholarship rules.

Apparently Churchill won't bother to appeal due to his eagerness to take the matter to court, where he can posture in front of the cameras, denouncing America as he spins himself as the victim of an imaginary police state. It doesn't matter if he knows he's through at UC — the objective is to milk the spectacle of his downfall for every drop of infamy, guaranteeing a royal lifestyle supported by speaking fees.

What's even sadder is that for every Ward Churchill who goes so far over the top they actually have to cut him loose, there are a thousand more academics who less noisily share his depraved and corrosive ideology, and use their positions to inculcate it into the minds of the young.

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Murtha Declares USA Greater Threat to the World Than North Korea

John Murtha, alleged patriot and possible House Majority Leader if the Dems take back Congress, has been so over the top for so long now in his frenetic quest to endear himself to our fifth-column media that it's getting difficult for him to outdo himself. Yet he continues to manage.

Plunging ever deeper into the Michael Moore/Cindy Sheehan territory that provides the Democratic Party with its most energized supporters, Moonbat Jack has now announced that the United States is more of a menace to world peace than the nuclear threat from the deranged communist dictatorship in North Korea.

In addition to this new tune, Murtha played all his old favorites to a sympathetic audience at a town hall meeting organized by Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek at Florida International University, including:

• The war cannot be won, so we'd better just give up.
• Terrorism should be addressed through diplomacy.
• Our troops in Iraq must cut and run immediately, whatever the consequences.
• We do not want permanent bases in Iraq, presumably because that would only feed the perception that there has been a point to invading Iraq in order to use it as a beachhead in the war on terror.
• There has been a sinister conspiracy to cover up the true events at Haditha, which evidently are known only to Murtha.
• Don't forget Abu Ghraib!

The crowd reportedly lapped it up. Chirped an audience member named Alnoor Jamal:

I believe we are in a mess over there.

Thanks to the likes of Murtha, we're in a mess here too.

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LA Hosts Tinfoil Hat Festival

Over the weekend 1,200 paranoid schizophrenics gathered at a hotel in Los Angeles to indulge in bizarre fantasies based on the premise that President Bush was behind the attacks of September 11. Cried radio talk show host Alex Jones:

There are so many prominent people who are incredibly well-respected who have stated that the evidence is overwhelming that 9/11 was an inside job.

Unfortunately he seems not to have named any of them.

It would have added to the organizers' credibility if they had asked W himself to speak at their kookfest. He might have given a presentation along these lines (via Knowledge Is Power, on a tip from V the K):

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Gay Pride Weekend Wrapup

I knew al-Reuters had to be good for something. Below are some scenes from the weekend's gala gay pride festivities.

New York:

The kids were adopted into this lifestyle.

New Yorkers didn't have all the fun. Here's San Francisco:

Atlanta:

Paris:

Rome:

Athens:

Sao Paulo:

Welcome to the future our cultural elite has planned for Western Civilization.

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June 25, 2006

Death of a Moonbat

Yesterday openly lesbian University of California at Santa Cruz Chancellor Denise Dee Denton celebrated Gay Pride weekend by taking a leap off the top of a 44-story apartment building.

It's a tragic waste for Miss Denton to have tossed in the towel — especially when she was able to use the corrupt and opaque University of California system to finance the lifestyle of a degenerate czarina, courtesy of California students and taxpayers.

Here's what Metroactive had to say about her infamous $30,000 dog run:

Just how much money does it take to keep two dogs happy? Apparently, if they belong to UCSC Chancellor Denise D. Denton, the answer is around $30,000. That's $15,000 per pup for assured canine contentment at the university level. And what exactly do the dogs get for their 30 grand? While I can't be completely sure (Denton's around the clock security makes it difficult for even the most industrious of reporters to get a look inside the gates), I am willing to hazard a guess. For the University of California's money, I must assume that Chancellor Denton's dog run comes with fresh sod, new fencing, leashes, chew toys, a life-time supply of Kibbles and Bits, a flat screen TV and the first six months' payment on a hovercraft.

Of course, $30,000 for her pooches is chump change compared to the total of $600,000 in UC Office of the President funds she blew on remodeling her free house.

The university has also been shelling out a $50,000/year housing allowance to her lesbian lover, who lives in nearby Oakland. Mary Higgins, president of the Coalition of University Employees at UCSC, had this to say about the $192,000/year job Denton invented for her "partner" Gretchen Kalonji:

If you're sitting there at the regents' meeting, and you're hearing the students talk about how difficult it is to make ends meet and then they turn around and do something like this, it's just so arrogant. It's so unethical.

Denton was also arrogant and unethical enough to collect $68,750 in moving expenses to get from Seattle to San Francisco.

But despite her comfy seat on the gravy train, Denton was reportedly unhappy at UCSC. This might be because underpaid employees did not suffer in silence while she misspent funds that should have gone into their paychecks. It also might be because Denton had lost control of the spoilt left-wing brats who have turned the campus into a zoo, vandalizing SUVs, forcing out military recruiters, and even coercing Denton to sit through a skit about "institutional racism."

Denton displayed her devotion to the principles of free speech and free enquiry upon which higher education is founded by enthusiastically joining the lynch mob that went after Harvard President Lawrence Summers when he recklessly stated out loud that some think there may be gender differences in mathematical aptitude.

In a sane world, Denton might still be alive. Having risen to her level of competence and no farther, she wouldn't have been in a position to get in so far over her head that death seemed like the only way out. Unfortunately, academia is anything but a sane world.

Hat tips: Byron, The Radio Equalizer

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PETA Leans on Merriam-Webster to Help Spread Propaganda

It looks like the English language may suffer from collateral damage in PETA's war on circuses. The animal rights organization best known for staging foolish publicity stunts, advocating terrorism, attempting to convince children that their parents are monsters, and of course, killing animals, is now demanding that Merriam-Webster change the definition of the word "circus" to conform with their hyperbolic propaganda.

PETA insists that the dictionary entry preach that a circus is a "spectacle that relies on captive animals... forced to perform tricks under the constant threat of punishment." People who just want to know what the word means would also be told that "modern circuses include only willing human performers." Tell that to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.

As usual, PETA's extreme views are finding some traction: proper circuses (i.e., the kind with trained animals) are forbidden in 300 American cities, and a bill is pending to ban them from the entire state of Massachusetts, which once again finds itself at the cutting edge of moonbattery.

Look for similar assaults on the English language in the future. Activist thugs shouldn't find it all that difficult to bully left-leaning publishing companies into sacrificing accuracy to political correctness. They may even be able to get the word "kook" taken out of the dictionary.

If we really need to redefine "circus," too bad we can't use SondraK's definition:

Circus: any event that features Sheehan, Sharpton, naked hippies, paper maché puppets, Congressional Democrats...

Ironically, many PETA activists themselves seem to have escaped from a circus, if not a carnival freak show:

At least the nut with her face in the toilet was kind enough to put some clothes on.

On a tip from V the K.

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June 24, 2006

McCain Knifes Republican Candidate for Arizona Governor

If Janet "Nappy" Napolitano is able to inflict herself on the citizens of Arizona for another term as Governor, she will owe a big one to fellow open-borders advocate John "Lettuce" McCain, who has built a career on his knack for ingratiating himself with the liberal press by attacking the positions of his fellow Republicans.

Nappy has repeatedly used the veto to prevent any effective defensive measures from being enacted to protect her state from a deluge of Mexican colonizers. In stark contrast, front-running Republican challenger Don Goldwater (nephew of the great Barry Goldwater, longtime Senator and forerunner of the Reagan Revolution) wants to defend Arizona.

Possibly inspired by no-nonsense Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Goldwater wants to build a tent city to house illegal aliens, since there are so many that incarcerating them has been a major problem. Apprehended invaders would then give a little something back to the country they've abused by helping to build a wall to defend it, and by cleaning up some of the mess and property damage they have created in the process of breaking in.

The Spanish-language news agency EFE News got ahold of this perfectly reasonable proposition and went wild, irresponsibly spinning it into a call for concentration camps.

Now Lettuce feels compelled to pile on. From a written statement:

That Mr. Goldwater is either unaware of or indifferent to the loaded symbolism, injustice and un-Americanism of his "plan" to address the many serious issues caused by illegal immigration reveals his flaws as a candidate, and a stunning lack of respect for the basic values of a generous and decent society.

My, aren't we self-righteous? The smoke screen of sanctimonious indignation almost hides the fact that McCain is selling out not only his own party, but his own country, by once again doing everything he can to prevent defensive measures from being taken to stem the Mexican invasion, which promises to have absolutely disastrous long-term consequences for America.

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June 23, 2006

Mineta Leaving At Last

Wonderful news: Norman Mineta, the only Dem holdover in the Bush White House, is finally clearing out.

As Secretary of Transportation, Mineta is best known for adamantly placing political correctness ahead of innocent people's safety in the aftermath of 9/11. While everyone else scrambled for ways to defend the country from further attacks, Mineta busied himself by launching expensive lawsuits against airlines that were struggling to survive, on the grounds that they allegedly discriminated against Middle Eastern passengers by being sane enough to subject them to added scrutiny.

Did you know that Mineta was briefly in an internment camp during World War II because of his Japanese ancestry? If not, it's a sure bet you've never heard his voice.

As Peggy Noonan put it (via Michelle Malkin):

Mr. Mineta has received many awards for his sensitivity to ethnic profiling. Good for him, but I'd personally give him an award if he'd begin to act like a grownup and recognize that his childhood trauma shouldn't determine modern American security policy.

Mineta has been such an impediment to the safety of American citizens that the Instapundit (among others) called for his impeachment.

Unfortunately, his resignation isn't effective until July 7, but if we've been lucky enough to survive Mineta this long, we ought to make it a couple more weeks.

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Treason and Arrogance in the MSM

How's this for insolence:

Disregarding desperate pleas from the Bush Administration, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times have publicized government efforts to track global financial transfers as part of the war on terror, thus diminishing the program's effectiveness and imperiling national security.

The arrogance of these al Qaeda collaborators is so preposterous, you don't know whether to blow smoke out your ears or guffaw. Here's Doyle McManus, Washington Bureau Chief for La Times:

The key issue here is whether the government has shown that there are adequate safeguards in these programs to give American citizens confidence that information that should remain private is being protected.

Since when is it up to fifth-columnists in the media to determine what strategic information should be made public?

Here's what McManus has to say about the Treasury Department officials who yesterday pleaded at length with reporters not to sell us out to al Qaeda by making the program public:

They were quite vigorous, they were quite energetic. They made a very strong case.

As if that makes any difference. After all, whose side does Treasury think our media is on?

The Gray Lady, which had already accomplished the double whammy of handing Dems a phony issue and crippling our efforts to prevent terror attacks by publicizing the NSA's attempts to track terrorists' overseas phone calls, was predictably no better. Puffed NY Times executive editor Bill Keller:

We remain convinced that the administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data, however carefully targeted use it may be, is a matter of public interest.

If these pompous traitors had published what are in effect military secrets during World War II, they would be sucking on cigarettes in front of a firing squad — which is one reason we won World War II.

On a tip from V the K.

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Howell Raines Still Knows How to Get Laughs

Remember Howell Raines, the former Executive Editor of the New York Times, who was forced out in the aftermath of the Jayson Blair scandal, when the Shady Gray Lady had to admit to making up the news? Here's what he has to say about Fox News:

The key to understanding Fox News is to grasp the anomalous fact that its consumers know its "news" is made up. It matters not when critics point this out to Foxite consumers because they've understood it from the outset. That's why they're there. Its chief fictioneer, Roger Ailes, had been making up news in plain sight for a half century.

Raines is also remembered for his absurd campaign to get women admitted to the Augusta National Golf Club, which provided comic relief by displacing actual news as everyone else focused on the impending war in Iraq. Thanks for the laughs, Howie!

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June 22, 2006

ABC: Global Warming Caused Sedona Fire

It looks like global warming is more serious than I ever would have imagined. All this time I thought they were talking about temperature fluctuations of a few degrees in a century — fluctuations that would occur whether humans traveled by Hummer or by unicycle. But according to ABC (Anything But Credible?) News, global warming has caused Arizona to catch fire!

Here's Charlie Gibson's tease at the top of yesterday's Good Morning America:

The hot zone. Wildfires ravage the West and threaten homes. Is global warming to blame?

Reporter Bill Blakemore soon confirmed that yes it very well might be. And there's more: the smoke from the Sedona fire will make global warming worse still! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!

Don't forget to send your global warming anecdotes to ABC News. As you can see, they're getting a little desperate.

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ACLU Sues to Support Pro-Castro Propaganda for Tots

As if to enlighten anyone who hasn't yet grasped its political orientation, the ACLU is now suing Miami's public school system to force it to carry a book called "A Visit to Cuba" ("Vamos a Cuba") in its libraries. The book, which targets children aged 5–7, paints a rosy picture of life in this communist hellhole — so rosy that one of Castro's former political prisoners complained.

Chided Howard Simon of the ACLU of Florida:

We can appreciate that the book might be found to be offensive by some parents, but censorship is a cure that is worse than the disease.

ACLU termites really will stand up for free speech — so long as it's the kind of speech they like to hear. Too bad their anything-goes attitude doesn't extend to so much as mentioning Jesus Christ.

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Fluffernutter Kerfuffle

Nothing is sacred to food fascists: not even Fluffernutter sandwiches on their Massachusetts home turf. The Fluffernutter — made with peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff — has a long history in the Bay State, where Fluff was invented and popularized over 80 years ago. But that didn't stop state Senator Jarrett Barrios from reacting with outrage when he discovered the local delicacy is being served to Cambridge school kids. He plans to file legislation limiting Fluffernutters in schools.

State Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein is firing back with a proposal to name the Fluffernutter the "official sandwich of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." In words destined for the history books, Reinstein proclaimed:

I'm going to fight to the death for Fluff.

Possibly modeling himself on a famous Massachusetts politician who would no doubt vote for Fluffernutters before voting against them, Barrios plans to cosponsor Reinstein's bill. Claims a Barrios aide:

He loves Fluff as much as the next legislator.

Judging by some of the issues they've been using to divert themselves from real problems, this is saying quite a lot.

On a tip from William.

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First Amendment Trampled in War on Christianity

Since Christianity is unlikely to do what it takes to win the affection of moonbats — i.e., inspire legions of maniacs to devote themselves to killing the innocent by flying passenger jets into office towers, blowing themselves up at pizza parlors, etc. — Christians can look forward to ever more harassment and suppression from the increasingly intolerant Left, which is not about to let the Constitution get in its way. A couple of recent examples:

The perversely named New York Division of Human Rights is threatening to investigate the privately owned skating rink Skate Time 209 in Accord, New York for playing Christian music during an event it calls the "Christian Music Skate" party. A local newspaper may be charged with "aiding and abetting" unlawful discrimination for daring to advertise the party.

Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, wrote a compelling open letter to Governor Pataki, in which he points out that no one has ever been denied entrance to the rink or been discouraged from patronizing it because of their religious beliefs, and that

There is a reason why the amendment which guaranteed religious liberty and freedom of expression was the First Amendment.

An equally appalling example reaches us from Foothill High School in Henderson, Nevada. Valedictorian Brittany McComb was giving the commencement address when officials actually cut her mic for having the nerve to mention Christ in her speech. School officials and a lawyer from the ACLU defended this outrage on the grounds that McComb was "proselytizing" — that is, she was allegedly promoting Christianity, which in a world run by progressives is strictly verboten. We certainly wouldn't want anyone to get the idea that a school endorses the religion upon which our civilization is founded.

No one worries that schools will be accused of endorsing the loony-Left moonbattery or seditious propaganda spewed during commencement addresses by the likes of New York Times publisher Pinch Sulzberger or John "Tokyo Rose" Murtha — probably because these are exactly the sort of views our schools do endorse. What progressives don't endorse, they feel compelled to forbid.

In case any "human rights" activists, educrats, or ACLU brownshirts are reading, here's the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, with a little emphasis added:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The borders are open. Anyone who doesn't want to live by these principles is welcome to leave.

On tips from Wiggins and V the K.

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June 21, 2006

On First Day of Summer, ABC Asks Audience for Global Warming Anecdotes

All scientists agree that global warming is real, caused by humans, and an imminent danger to life on Earth, easily on a scale with the comet that killed the dinosaurs — any moonbat can tell you as much. Yet the MSM is having to stoop to some embarrassing lows in their attempts to convince us to fret.

Today ABC News marked the first day of summer by pleading with their audience to share anecdotes that would support the notion of a rise in temperature. This appears to be completely on the level:

Witnessing the impact of global warming in your life?

ABC News wants to hear from you. We're currently producing a report on the increasing changes in our physical environment, and are looking for interesting examples of people coping with the differences in their daily lives. Has your life been directly affected by global warming? ...

Show us what you've seen. You can include video material of the environmental change, or simply tell your story via webcam. Please fill out the form below, and be sure to include captions or other descriptive information if you're sending video. We hope to hear from you. Thank you.

The handy form lets you paste in your global warming allegations and shoot them off to ABC's producers for inclusion in their Chicken Little propaganda barrage.

I've got a story to send them myself. Just months ago, there was snow in my backyard. Now it's all melted. If temperatures keep rising at this rate, the blood will be boiling in my veins within a few years. But maybe I can still stave off disaster by taking an emission-free pogo stick to work.

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Palestinian Terrorist Sues Britain for Letting Israel Catch Him

Despite the best efforts of shysters like John Edwards, America's dominance in the realm of absurd lawsuits is being threatened by of all people a Palestinian terrorist.

Ahmed Saadat, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is believed to have masterminded the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi. He was held in a West Bank prison supervised by British and American monitors, until the monitors were called home because of threats to their security. Within minutes of their departure, Israeli troops stormed the prison, capturing Saadat and his accomplices before they could be set loose to murder more Jews.

Incredibly, Saadat's lawyer Kate Maynard is filing suit against the British Government, alleging that Britain violated the poor terrorist's rights by letting him fall into the hands of the Israelis he's been killing.

As it turns out, Saadat won't even be charged in Zeevi's murder due to insufficient evidence. But he has other blood on his hands, and is being tried on several terrorism-related charges.

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Federal Quislings Still Assisting Invasion

Despite a few token National Guard troops on the border, the situation regarding Mexico's war of demographic conquest and the participation in it by the Quislings running our government remains unchanged.

An emblematic event occurred in the wee hours yesterday morning in Belmont County, Ohio, deep in the Heartland. Local police stopped a van that was going the wrong way on Interstate 470. Out of the van tumbled 20 illegal aliens, three of whom had already been deported.

The local cops called federal immigration officials. By this time we can read without even dropping our jaws that the feds ordered the reckless invaders to be set loose.

It makes you wonder: can a bureaucracy that is so corrupt and irresponsible that it cannot even refrain from assisting the invasion of our country really be called a government in any meaningful sense? And if not, how can it justify taxing us?

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PC Police Go After British Royal Guards' Hats

No time-honored tradition is safe from the relentless corrosion of political correctness — not even the tall bearskin hats worn for centuries by the royal guards who have become emblematic of Britain.

The Labour Party's Chris Mullin has introduced a motion declaring that the hats "have no military significance and involve unnecessary cruelty."

It's no better on the other side: conservative lawmaker Ann Widdecombe wants her party to support the idea of replacing the bearskin with an artificial substitute, whimpering that

Black bears, who are intelligent and curious animals, are slaughtered in Canada so that their skins may be used for ceremonial hats.

Animal rights activists have been staging naked demonstrations in London because they don't like the hats. Canadian black bear are not endangered, nor are they killed just to make the hats. Fake fur is too hot and mats.

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June 20, 2006

Holy Trinity Found to Be Sexist

Like rust, moonbattery never sleeps, but continuously eats away at the pillars of our civilization. The corrosion is taking a heavy toll on Christianity, having progressed to such an extent that the Presbyterian Church's national assembly now regards the Trinity as sexist.

The phrase "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" won't do, because allegedly it "has been used to support the idea that God is male and that men are superior to women." Suggested substitutes include:

• Mother, Child, and Womb
• Rock, Redeemer, and Friend
• Lover, Beloved, and Love
• Creator, Savior, and Sanctifier
• King of Glory, Prince of Peace, and Spirit of Love

I don't know how they snuck that last one in. Shouldn't it be Queen of Glory?

Speaking of queens, the Presbyterian Church has decided to allow gay clergy. At this rate, it should only be a matter of months before Michael Newdow starts demanding atheist priests.

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DHS Pervert Suffers From BDS

Wouldn't you know it — the 56-year-old Homeland Security employee who was arrested on almost two dozen charges for trying to seduce a sheriff's detective he thought was a 14-year-old girl turns out to be a Bush-bashing moonbat.

Brian Doyle's electronic correspondence with his imaginary victim included this profound analysis of the Bush Presidency:

he is not a good president. nice guy but not a good president . . . he is not very bright and it is evident . . . bush is a liar . . . there were NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. total lie to go to war.

Doyle's lawyer says he is "consulting with some professionals" regarding psychological evaluation. If only all Bush Derangement Syndrome cases could be so sensible.

On a tip from V the K.

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Environmentalists for Mass Death

Today's Human Events piece by Deroy Murdock on the genocidal inclinations of the environmental movement includes a few quotes that should make your hair stand on end.

University of Texas biologist Eric Pianka, who has been publicly dreaming that airborne Ebola could wipe out 90% of the human race:

Things are gonna get better after the collapse because we won't be able to decimate the Earth so much. And, I actually think the world will be much better when there's only 10 or 20% of us left.

Brenna McConnell of Texas Lutheran University on Pianka:

He's a radical thinker, that one! I mean, he's basically advocating for the death of all but 10% of the current population! And at the risk of sounding just as radical, I think he's right.

Rebecca Calisi of University of Texas at Arlington:

There is no denying the natural world would be a better place without people. ALL people!

William Burger, Curator Emeritus for botany at Chicago's Field Museum of Science:

Surely, the Black Death was one of the best things that ever happened to Europe: elevating the worth of human labor, reducing environmental degradation, and, rather promptly, producing the Renaissance. From where I sit, Planet Earth could use another major human pandemic, and pronto!

Finnish environmentalist Pentti Linkola, who compares humanity to a sinking ship with 100 passengers and only room in the lifeboat for ten:

Those who hate life try to pull more people on board and drown everybody. Those who love and respect life use axes to chop off the extra hands hanging on the gunwale.

I wouldn't have thought it possible, but antihuman environmentalists are developing an ideology even more evil than communism.

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International Bureauweenies Attack Second Amendment

In an apparent attempt to redefine the word "chutzpah," the corrupt, America-bashing, child-molesting, anti-Semitic, and thoroughly useless United Nations will be staging a "U.N. Conference on Global Gun Control" in New York that will run through the Fourth of July. The point of the conference is to advance global gun control, despite America's Founding Fathers having made it clear in our Constitution that the right to bear arms is second only to freedom of expression and religion when it comes to maintaining liberty.

Activists from the Control Arms Campaign (a coalition composed of Amnesty International, Oxfam International, and the International Action Network on Small Arms) will use the conference to push their newly discovered human right to be denied the right to defend yourself.

Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, had some choice words on the subject:

We have done much for the U.N., and in return, the organization has hosted despots, tyrants and dictators whose record of human rights abuses, aggression and genocide speaks for itself. And now comes an attack on our Constitution, on our national holiday.

America has always answered the call to help our international friends and neighbors, but when our very way of life is attacked, maybe it is time to find more worthy endeavors for our material and financial support.

Amen. But meanwhile, U.N. bureaucrats are badgering us for money to rebuild their pesthole, despite the fact we'd all be better served to have the decrepit building that so perfectly symbolizes this morally decrepit organization bulldozed into the East River.

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More Knives in Backs: Diane Feinstein and Our Troops

All members of our government have a duty to do everything in their power to make sure America prevails in oversees struggles. Yet horrifyingly, some have shown themselves willing to sabotage our efforts for cheap political purposes.

As Debra Saunders notes, Senator Feinstein voted in favor of the October 2002 war resolution. Yet now she is yammering for "phased deployment" — the latest mealy-mouthed euphemism for "surrender and run away." As would be obvious to a child, this undermines the morale of our troops, while providing encouragement to the terrorist enemy.

The amendment she is pitching — calling for a strategically suicidal timetable for troop withdrawal — is not only counterproductive, but unnecessary. Bush is already under all too much pressure to withdraw troops as soon as it is feasible, as he has promised to do. But the idea of the USA winning the war and then coming back is unacceptable to Dems who want credit for bringing the troops home, and for the Republicans to get the blame for a thoroughly pointless enterprise, which the war will prove to be if we pull out prematurely and al Qaeda, Baathists, or an Iranian proxy government fills the void.

Here's how Saunders sums up Feinstein's perfidy:

Once a senator votes for a war resolution, the senator has not renounced his or her duty to criticize bad policies, nor does the senator forfeit the right to change his or her mind.

The senator, however, does have a responsibility to fight for victory — so that the troops who die abroad do not die in vain, or endure more fire because Washington pandered to voters' anxiety.

As awful as it is to imagine, our troops dying in vain may be the main objective of the cut-and-run crowd. As victory draws closer, they seem to be getting desperate to surrender before the military has a chance to return triumphant, leaving behind a secure democracy instead of a terror-supporting dictatorship that can be hung around Republicans' necks.

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Gore Sticks Another Knife in Joe Lieberman's Back

Joe Lieberman continues to reap the rewards for endangering his reputation for integrity by agreeing to run as Al Gore's running mate in 2000. Gore first repaid him when Lieberman ran for POTUS himself in 2004 by endorsing Howard "Dr. Demento" Dean instead. Now Al won't even endorse his "close friend" in his bid to hold onto his Connecticut Senate seat.

"I typically do not get involved in Democratic primaries," sniffed Prince Albert. It could be that he is too busy saving Gaia from the evils of human civilization to so much as say, yes I want Lieberman to win.

More likely, however, is that Gore is participating in the figurative stoning of the heretical Lieberman, who dared to observe the importance of winning the war in Iraq, and to highlight the significant progress we have made. Connecticut Democratic Party Chairman George Jepsen is endorsing Ned Lamont, Lieberman's primary challenger, no doubt because of Lieberman's unconscionable support for the war on terror. Fortunately for Joe, Gore is at least aware that his backstabbing would be a little too obvious if he followed suit.

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June 19, 2006

Approval of Homosexual Behavior Is Now Mandatory

A warning to anyone who is not on board with the militant gay agenda: lay very low or suffer the consequences. John Leo drives home this point on Townhall.com by citing the example that has been made of Robert Smith, a member of the Washington Metro transit authority board who was fired by Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich for publicly voicing this forbidden opinion:

Homosexual behavior, in my view, is deviant.

This thought crime, committed on a talk show panel devoted to gay "marriage," was denounced by the Republican Ehrlich as "highly inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable."

Since no reasonable person could dispute that homosexuality is deviant, Smith's crime consists of saying something that the gay lobby would rather people didn't hear. The Supreme Court has ruled that public employees and appointees have a First Amendment right to speak out on matters of public concern. But no one's going to let a piece of paper written by dead white guys get in the way of imposing the progressive agenda.

Smith isn't the first to get slapped for stepping out of line on the gay issue. As is usually the case when it comes to moonbattery, Europe and Canada are out ahead of the USA, even if we are catching up all too fast.

British writer on children's rights Lynette Burrows was investigated by Scotland Yard for daring to disapprove of homosexuals adopting little boys and for asking the highly sensible question, "Would you give a small girl to two (heterosexual) men?"

Also in Britain, police investigated Anglican Bishop Peter Forster for saying, "Some people who are primarily homosexual can reorientate themselves."

In Canada, it's gone even farther. A guy who ran an ad in a Saskatchewan newspaper listing biblical citations against homosexuality was ordered to pay $1,500 apiece to some gays who were offended. He was determined to have committed a human rights offense by quoting the Bible.

Quite apart from the highly destructive consequences of homosexuality in terms of health and society, the idea that merely disapproving of it is a punishable thought crime should terrify anyone who understands the importance of free expression.

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ACLU Addresses Amusement Park Hairstyles

After being hired by Six Flags America to impersonate Sylvester and Daffy Duck for the guests, 17-year-old Jonathan DeLeon was asked to cut his 3-foot-long braids. His mom chopped off some of the hair, but not enough to satisfy Six Flags, which explicitly states in its employee handbook that workers can't wear "any hairstyle that detracts or takes away from Six Flags theming," although exceptions are made for people who can come up with religious or medical reasons for not cutting their hair.

Sulked DeLeon:

They said they wanted an all-American thing. That's what they said to all the black people. I had already cut it a lot, so I just left.

More than a dozen black employees have complained. Naturally, the American Civil Liberties Union is investigating this outrageous assault on fundamental human rights.

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June 18, 2006

Murtha Wants Us to Follow Somalia Model

It only seems that defeatist Dems like John "Moonbat Jack" Murtha have no idea what they're asking for when they demand retreat from Iraq. The other day on CNN's Situation Room (video), Murtha revealed that he actually has a pretty good idea just how disastrous the consequences of a premature "redeployment" would be.

Unsurprisingly, Moonbat Jack wasn't pleased that the House passed a resolution rejecting an "arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment" of troops from Iraq and confirming that yes, preventing terrorists from taking over this critical country is in fact part of the global War on Terror. As quoted on NRO's Media Blog, Murtha whined:

The thing that disturbed me and worries me about this whole thing is we can't get them to change direction. And I said over and over in debate, if you listen to any of it, in Beirut President Reagan changed direction, in Somalia President Clinton changed direction, and yet here, with the troops out there every day, suffering from these explosive devices, and being looked at as occupiers, wahwahwah, wahwahwahwah, wahwahwahwahwahwahwah…

There you have it: Murtha wants us to "change direction" just like Clinton did in Somalia. Presumably he expects similar results.

The consequence of our turning tail and running after winning a battle but taking casualties in the process was Somalia plunging unhindered into total anarchy. While flies crawl on the faces of pot-bellied babies, al Qaeda is taking advantage of these optimal conditions to create a new safe haven from which to launch their operations.

Worse yet, our precipitous "redeployment" out of Somalia — just like Reagan's regrettable retreat from Beirut after 241 Marines were murdered by Hezbollah "with the approval and funding of Iran's senior government officials," as a U.S. District Judge found — clearly served to embolden terrorists and to escalate their violent campaign against civilization. As Osama bin Laden said of Clinton's Somalia surrender (as quoted in "Hunting bin Laden"):

The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat. And America forgot all the hoopla and media propaganda ... about being the world leader and the leader of the New World Order, and after a few blows they forgot about this title and left, dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat.

We must be headed toward victory if Moonbat Jack wants us to change direction.

On a tip from V the K.

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June 17, 2006

Dems Don't Back Defeatist Rhetoric With Votes

Considering the endless stream of pacifist sniveling emanating from Democrats, you would think they would jump at the first chance to turn tail and run from Iraq. But when it comes time to vote, something — common sense? conscience? — seems to get the better of their irresponsible rhetoric.

A resolution to bring the troops home by the end of the year come what may led to "bitter and sometimes raucous" debate in the Senate, before going down in flames 93-6. The only Senators supporting it were Democrats at home on the lunatic fringe: Hanoi John Kerry (MA), Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy (MA), Robert "Sheets" Byrd (WV), Barbara "Botox" Boxer (CA), Russ Feingold (WI), and Tom Harkin (IA).

In the House, antiwar Dems had another opportunity to take a stand by voting against a nonbinding resolution affirming that an "arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment" of American forces is not in our best interest. It passed 256-153, with 42 Democrats voting in favor of trying to win the war. The resolution also affirmed the obvious yet contested fact that the fighting in Iraq is part of the war on terror.

None of this should come as a big surprise. When the loudest advocate of surrender to terrorism in Iraq, Moonbat Jack Murtha, had his demand for immediate withdrawal put to a vote in the House, it failed 403-3, with even Murtha himself voting against it.

Kerry is planning to present a new pullout resolution soon, despite its certain failure, especially in light of the notable progress we've been making in Iraq. I can hardly wait to see how the vote comes out. By now even Democrats must be wishing that Hanoi John would just shut up and go away.

It seems that spewing defeatist harangues to corrode the morale of our troops and sour the public's mood is one thing — actually voting for surrender in a war that we must win and are winning is quite another. Their getting the blame for it would defeat the whole purpose of Democrats causing us to lose.

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June 16, 2006

Daryl Hannah: Unreachably Insane

When Daryl Hannah's preposterous crusade to prevent Mexican squatters from getting thrown off someone else's property by climbing up a tree and refusing to come down resulted in her arrest, some might have assumed it was just a cheap publicity stunt intended to revive interest in a flagging acting career. But Hannah is a moonbat's moonbat — so flaky that when she recites kooky progressive rhetoric, she actually means it.

Her career in moonbattery began at age 11, when she became a vegan after a prolonged kissing session with a calf. At 12, she argued with her father, who insisted on paying taxes, even though some of the money might be used to defend the United States. As an adult, she has taken green ideology to absurd extremes, reusing bathwater to irrigate her garden and driving a vehicle that runs on recycled grease from fast food restaurants.

Hannah's acting career has been less impressive — leaving plenty of time to make what she calls "sustainable video-logs" about "inspirational and cutting-edge developments in green culture and lifestyle." You can check them out here. For your keyboard's sake, don't be drinking coffee while you watch the videos.

To someone as far out there as Hannah, it must make perfect sense that probable illegal aliens should use someone else's property to grow a farm in the middle of a major city.

Environmental activist John Quigley enabled Hannah's principled stand in the owner's walnut tree by training Hannah and fellow moonbat Joan Baez on the finer points of climbing trees. Quigley recounts what happened when the law finally came around:

On the morning the sheriff showed up, I spotted them and called out. She was on the rope and up the tree in about three minutes. It was an amazing athletic feat.

Hannah was proud to have been "laying my body down on the line" with her misdemeanor arrest. As she blissfully recounts:

I knew what I was doing was taking a principled stand. In fact, there was a very strange and unexpected sense of calm that came to me while I was coming down. It made me more confident that I was doing the right thing. ... If you take a principled stand, the Sheriff's Department will treat you with a lot of respect. They don't treat you like a criminal who just held up a 7-Eleven. They treated us with a lot of respect and courtesy.

Incredibly, Hannah takes the professionalism and courtesy of law officers as an endorsement of her criminal behavior. Her ridiculous "urban farm" is a violation of property rights, just as holding up a 7-Eleven would be. In essence, they are the same crime.

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