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July 31, 2006

Qana: A Hezbollywood Production?

The Qana tragedy was exactly the media coup Hezbollah was shooting for with their strategy of firing rockets at Israeli civilians from behind Arab civilians. Dozens of dead children dragged out of the Israeli-made rubble for the salivating MSM cameramen make Qana perfect — possibly too perfect.

As Israel Insider reminds us, there are questions as to what exactly caused the building collapse in which 54 civilians are said to have died. The closest Israeli ordnance landed 20–30 meters away from the structure more than seven hours before it fell. Although a secondary explosion or a weakening of the building that caused a delayed collapse can't be ruled out, there are other questions:

• Why were dozens of women and children packed into a building that terrorists had been using to store weapons?
• Why was the roof intact?
• Why did the civilians supposedly sheltering in the basement not leave between the attack at 12:00–1:00 AM and the collapse at 8:00 AM?
• Why were the dead civilians found in the building not residents of the building?
• Why did civilians not heed ample Israeli warnings to leave the area?
• Why did Lebanese rescue teams not start evacuating the building until the morning?
• Why was there hardly any blood?
• Why did the bodies appear to have been dead for days?
• Could bodies from the temporary morgue at nearby Tyre have been brought in as props?

Faked footage is hardly unheard of in that part of the world. Arabs are useless in a fair fight, which is why they resort to terrorism, which is essentially a form of propaganda — something at which they excel. Palestinians are infamous for filming phony Israeli atrocities at their makeshift Pallywood studies.

If this whole incident produces a feeling of déjà vu, it's because ten years ago, while fighting Hezbollah terrorists who were using civilians as shields, Israel accidentally hit a refugee compound, killing 106 civilians in Qana. Osama bin Laden has used the incident as a pretext for his terrorist atrocities.

Whether staged or not, last Sunday's event in Qana was the direct result of conscious Hezbollah strategy, and produced exactly the desired result. Israel temporarily suspended air strikes, and the "world community" is clicking its tongue at heart-wrenching pictures of dead Arab children.

Once wars were won through the raw guts and military genius of heroes like George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Ariel Sharon. If we don't pull ourselves together, this one will be won through the treachery of terrorists.

Hat tip: Sweetness & Light. On a tip from Monsoon.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:24 PM | Comments (4)

Prof Wants to Create Human/Animal Hybrids As Part of War on Christianity

Professor David Barash, who teaches Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology, and Peace Studies at the University of Washington, wants to take the depraved form of nihilism known as moonbattery to a logical if nightmarish extreme by creating human/animal hybrids — not for any scientific purpose, but simply out of hatred for God.

Since Darwinism as a comprehensive explanation of human life doesn't pass the laugh test, high priests of this godless religion feel compelled to defend it stridently. Rather than reject their preposterous beliefs, ideologues like Barash cling to them ever more frantically — and lash out at anyone who won't drink the Kool-Aid.

In Barash's words, the point of his horror movie hybrids would be to stamp out the belief that

the human species, unlike all others, possesses a spark of the divine and that we therefore stand outside nature.

You see, as PETA President Ingrid Newkirk put it, "A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." Princeton's illustrious bioethicist Peter Singer would agree. Human life, like all life, is just a random accident with no meaning whatsoever. There is no difference between you and gerbil or a turnip or a stone.

Reality is a vacuous, meaningless void, and our existence has no value — or at least, that's what the liberal elite wants us to think. But anyone gullible enough to be convinced of this by test tube monstrosities probably believes it already.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 4:49 PM | Comments (17)

Al Franken Considers Ultimate Insult to the U.S. Senate

I wish it were another of his lame jokes, but second-rate comedian and obnoxious left-wing fanatic Al Franken really might run for a Minnesota Senate seat.

AP reports that limousine leftists have been donating their pocket change to Franken's political action committee. The contributions tend to be small, considering the absurd wealth of the donors. Larry Hagman gave $555; Barbra Streisand could part with only $500. But the money's adding up. So far Franken has raised $500,000.

Although Franken claims he hasn't decided whether to run, he's already moved his radio show on the moribund Air America to Minnesota in preparation. The PAC money is not supposed to be used in his own campaign. But there's always a way to get around burdensome laws, as his Err America experiences will have taught him.

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:05 PM | Comments (5)

Iran's Strategy Is Working Well

Iran's strategy for distracting the world from its nuclear weapons program while simultaneously weakening Israel for the kill is simple. Their cat's paw Hezbollah hides amid Lebanese civilians while showering hundreds upon hundreds of rockets down upon Israeli civilians. When the Israeli military inevitably responds, Lebanese civilians are killed. The Western media finishes the job from there.

There is only one risk to this strategy. The mullahs in Tehran are gambling that the MSM will be stupendously depraved enough to play along. For the strategy to work, the media must ignore Israeli civilian casualties, ignore Israel's lack of any reasonable alternatives to fighting back, ignore the fact that all civilian casualties in this conflict are the result of Hezbollah's actions, ignore everything but the liberal elite's blind hatred of Western Civilization as it zeroes in on damage caused by the IDF.

Needless to say the risk was a slim one. The strategy is working perfectly. Even in Israel, the media is reading from Ahmadinejad's playbook. Here are some of today's papers, focusing relentlessly Qana:

The terrorists our troops are fighting in Iraq would be able to accomplish nothing without assistance from our fifth-column press. Iran is exploiting the same soft underbelly to attack Israel. As a result of the propaganda barrage, Israeli soldiers are already refusing to fight in Lebanon. By the time Iran has nukes — and it won't be long — Israel will be too eaten away from within by political correctness to offer any meaningful resistance to its annihilation.

Israel will be the Twenty-First Century's first Western democracy to cease to exist as a result of Islamic imperialism assisted by moonbattery. It won't be the last.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:16 PM | Comments (3)

Reconquistadors Teaming Up With French Dhimmis and Hezbollah?

Over the weekend Paris hosted a "pro-Lebanon/free Palestine" demonstration. Unsurprisingly, there was a great deal of moonbattery on display. Israel and America were denounced and terrorists like Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah praised. E-nough! has pictures and video. See if you can make sense of the sombrero guy in this shot:

Could it be that the Muslim–moonbat alliance is expanding to include the Reconquista crowd?

Hat tip: ¡No Pasarán!

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:43 AM | Comments (2)

July 30, 2006

Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Adriana Lima

Hats off to Adriana Lima, for proving you don't have to be a degenerate moonbat to join the ranks of the beautiful people. The Brazilian supermodel is the 97th highest-paid famous person in the world according to Forbes, but she hasn't sacrificed decency for her fame and fortune, as she makes clear in a GQ interview.

Miss Lima describes herself as a Catholic who goes to church every Sunday. She believes that real love happens only once in a lifetime, and that sex is strictly for after marriage. Consequently she is still a virgin. She regards abortion as a crime.

Does having that kind of character make her less sexy? You be the judge.

Hat tip: The Dick List

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:12 PM | Comments (6)

Ramsey Clark Plans Rally Against Israel

Ramsey Clark has announced plans to stage a "National Emergency March on Washington" to protest American support for Israel's attempts to defend itself. According to Clark, who was U.S. Attorney General under LBJ, the financial assistance our country has long provided to Israel is grounds for impeaching President Bush.

Participating in the spectacle will be various representatives of the moonbat–Muslim alliance, including the National Council of Arab-Americans, Partnership for Civil Justice, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation and the Stalinist ANSWER Coalition, with which Clark is closely affiliated.

Unlike the United States and Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas are not considered by Clark's ANSWER friends to be terrorist organizations. ANSWER's Brian Becker explains:

The characterization of Hizballah as a terrorist organization by the Bush administration must be understood in exactly the same way that they conducted the demonization campaign against the Iraqi government under the Saddam Hussein era. Which is simply to find a rationale to justify terrorist actions against the people who live in Lebanon, just as the Bush administration needed to find an explanation to carry out its war crimes, its crimes against humanity and its state-sponsored terrorism against the people of Iraq.

What does America have against poor little Lebanon? Apparently, we want to steal their nonexistent oil. According to Mounzer Sleiman of National Council of Arab-Americans, Israel is not trying to defend itself from terror attacks, but is acting as a pawn in an American scheme to gain control of oil reserves. Squawks Sleiman, who is described as an "independent military and political analyst":

The main aim of this war is not to free captured soldiers. It is not even to remove Hizballah. It is purely and simply to bring Lebanon down on its knees and bring about its disintegration.

Why anyone in the West would want to bring about the disintegration of a relatively civilized Arab state that has been moving toward democracy is not explained. If Lebanon did have any oil, we would just buy it. But in Ramsey Clark's circles, rational explanations are not to be expected.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:45 PM | Comments (6)

Illegal Aliens Bury Arizona in Garbage

Beautiful Southern Arizona is disappearing beneath mountains of garbage as a result of our government's outrageous refusal to get serious about defending the border with Mexico.

It's not enough for illegal aliens to thumb their noses at our laws by sneaking into the country. Apparently they feel compelled to demonstrate their contempt for the very land they are being allowed to colonize by strewing their trash across it.

From 2002 to 2005, 250,000 pounds of invaders' trash was cleaned up in Southern Arizona, without making a dent in the problem. Authorities estimate that invaders who were apprehended by the Border Patrol dropped 25 million pounds of garbage in the Arizona desert between July 1999 and June 2005. That estimate does not include garbage dropped by the majority of invaders who are not caught.

The accumulation of used toilet paper, human feces and rotting food that marks the trail of illegal immigrants is a health issue for those who live on or visit the land through which aliens invade. It also poses risks to livestock and wildlife.

It's estimated that the cost of environmental remediation for immigration-related damage in Southeast Arizona alone would come to $62.9 million dollars over five years. Hardest to clean up is the trash in formerly pristine wilderness areas. Authorities have had to resort to using helicopters and mules.

Naturally moonbats blame not the aliens who are raping our country, but the responsible few who have attempted to keep them out. Since border cities like Nogales have put up walls to defend themselves against the invasion, aliens are more likely to go out into wilderness areas. Carps Kat Rodriguez of Derechos Humanos,

If you were going to cities, you wouldn't need to carry three days' worth of food.

I knew it must be our fault somehow.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:28 PM

Dem Congressman Helped Code Pink Kook Crash al-Malaki Address

Code Pink militant Medea Benjamin managed to get some MSM face time last week when she interrupted Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Malaki's historic address to a joint session of Congress. Here she is getting tossed out:

Benjamin is a prominent radical whose views and tactics are extreme. She is credited with being "a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization" and has done everything in her power to undermine the American cause in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Code Pink, which Benjamin cofounded and in which she plays a central role, may be her primary claim to infamy. As documented previously, this bevy of leftist harpies is known for raising funds for terrorists, trashing recruiting offices and taunting wounded soldiers.

You might wonder how a sociopath like Medea Benjamin was able to attend a joint session of Congress. Radio Blogger has the disturbing answer: she was given a ticket by a Congressman, Rep. Major Owens (D-NY). Owens' claim that he did not know she would make a spectacle of herself is hardly credible, considering her resume:

2005: Benjamin and three other moonbats showed up at a speech by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Their shouting and theatrics interrupted the speech until police had dragged them away.

2005: Benjamin and other Code Pink operatives obtained VIP access to President Bush's second inauguration. During his speech, they unfurled banners with leftist slogans.

2004: At the Republican National Convention in NYC, Benjamin had to be dragged out of Madison Square Garden for disrupting a speech by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

2004: At the Democratic National Convention in Boston, police tossed Benjamin out of the Fleet Center for unfurling another one her banners.

2002: Benjamin was able to disrupt testimony by Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld in a Congressional committee room.

Needless to say, Owens was perfectly aware that Benjamin would disrupt al-Malaki's speech, just as Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) knew Cindy Sheehan would pull some kind of tasteless stunt when she got her into Bush's State of the Union in January. Letting Benjamin in was the equivalent of standing up during the speech and chucking rotten tomatoes at the Iraqi Prime Minister.

Democratic Congressmen have assisted Benjamin's activities before. When she and her supporters raised $600,000 to assist the terrorist insurgency in Fallujah, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) reportedly wrote a letter to the American ambassador in Jordan to facilitate getting the aid through customs.

This is the sort of leadership we can look forward to if Democrats regain control of Congress.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:23 PM | Comments (1)

July 29, 2006

Moonbat Photographer Abuses Toddlers

Photographer Jill Greenberg has hit upon a novel technique for expressing her political views: make small children cry and then snap their picture. She describes how she came up with the concept, after shooting a picture of a toddler:

He started crying on his own, and I shot that, and when I got the contact sheets back I thought, "This could go with a caption, 'Four More Years,'" like he was appalled at George Bush's reelection.

Elsewhere she describes her epiphany this way:

The first little boy I shot, Liam, suddenly became hysterically upset. It reminded me of helplessness and anger I feel about our current political and social situation.

Bawling children have the same effect on me — that is, they remind me of frustrated moonbats.

Now Greenberg has shot a whole collection of crying children. They usually don't start crying on their own, so she makes them cry by stripping off their clothes, giving them candy only to snatch it away again, making them stand on wobbly platforms, etc.

In case titles like "Four More Years" and "Grand Old Party" fail to hammer the point through viewers' foreheads, Greenberg explains that the images make

a kind of political statement about the current state of anxiety a lot of people are in about the future of the country. Sometimes I just feel like crying about the way things are going.

If only Greenberg would go back to her old practice of shooting monkeys. But she finds that children are "not as expensive as monkeys" — especially when she uses her own daughter.

Disturbing as Greenberg's behavior may be, she is hardly the worst offender when it comes to moonbats who menace children. At least she isn't threatening conservative bloggers' two-year-old sons with sexual abuse and death. At least she isn't making a heroine out of a maniac who systematically murdered her own five children.

Via YouTube, here's a sample of Greenberg's work:

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin. On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:54 PM | Comments (5)

Cindy Sheehan Uses Deception and Son's Insurance Money to Acquire New Moonbat Base

Apparently running out of ideas for obnoxious publicity stunts, Cindy Sheehan will be returning to her roots next month by once again camping out in Crawford while demanding a second meeting with President Bush.

This time it won't happen on the property of Mark Mattlage, who hosted her circus last year. Mattlage is a Democrat but not a moonbat, and offered his 1-acre property in the past not because he agrees with Sheehan's appalling views — which reportedly make him cringe — but out of concern for the safety of neo-hippy lowlifes who were congregating in a ditch and spilling out onto the road.

According to the She-hag, her freak show left Mattlage "with a better property and one with amazing positive and peaceful energy." But that wasn't enough for the greedy Mattlage, who wanted her to pay for increased liability insurance costs in anticipation of huge crowds, and to sign a "hold harmless" agreement. The Ditch Witch publicly responded with this:

I cannot in good faith accept the terms that you and your lawyers are holding us hostage with. ... I fear we will have to find alternatives to using your land...

Mattlage seems able to live with that. He had reservations about letting the moonbat troupe use his land when Bush was on his ranch "out of respect for the President."

Now Sheehan has acquired her own 5-acre spread in Crawford for stalking President Bush, admittedly paid for with insurance money from the death of her son, who died fighting for the very cause Sheehan strives to undermine.

As if that weren't disgusting enough, the property was acquired through a third party, one Gerald T. Fonseca of New Orleans, who shared with the sellers a sob story about losing his house in Katrina, but did not share his plans to turn the property over to Mother Moonbat and her army of tie-dyed creepazoids, who will use it as a base from which to disrupt the President's vacations at Prairie Chapel Ranch.

Mark Mattlage's last words to Sheehan were, "You can go away now." He wasn't speaking only for himself.

Hat tips: Hot Air, Hot Air. On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:22 AM | Comments (6)

July 28, 2006

Castro the Cowardly Comandante

Andres Oppenheimer regards Cuba's communist dictator Fidel Castro as "the least courageous leader in the region." It's hard not to agree, after reading his partial list of things Castro is afraid to allow:

• Free elections;
• Independent political parties;
• Independent media, or even independent thought on state media;
• Access to the Internet;
• His subjects to leave the country;
• Potentially critical foreign reporters to interview him;
• Foreign financial institutions to measure Cuba's crippled economy by international standards.

At 79, Castro may be a little old to acquire much courage. But since he won't be around long anyway, how much would it take for him to try to redeem himself for the death and misery he has inflicted on Cuba by holding free elections, rather than allowing the soul-crushing system he constructed to pass into another tyrant's hands?

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:05 PM

My Eyes!!! Part II

If the mirror has two faces, that's two too many in the case of limousine leftist Barbra Streisand, who isn't getting any easier to look at — or listen to.

Blame V the K for sending the tip.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:24 PM | Comments (2)

John Pilger Demonstrates the Left's Support for Israel

While Howard Dean denounces Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as an "anti-Semite" for not committing political suicide by declaring himself to be on Israel's side against Hezbollah, and top Congressional Dems Nancy Pelosi of the House and Harry Reid of the Senate threaten to disinvite al-Maliki from addressing Congress for the same reason, a piece by John Pilger in the liberal Guardian gives some insight into just how supportive the Left is of Israel, beneath the thin veneer of sanctimonious posturing on the part of prominent Democrats.

Pilger stridently laments:

Before our eyes, the Israeli regime (it is never called a regime, of course), armed and bankrolled by the United States, and backed by Britain, is set upon destroying an entire country, deliberately killing civilians, almost half of whom are children; and the crusaders are as quiet as mice or they are busy toiling in the great quarry of obsfucation.

One problem with using $5 words like "obfuscation" is they're hard to spell.

The Israeli military, which with awe-inspiring skill and bravery has managed to hold off the rest of the Middle East for generations, is dismissed with this:

In my experience of war and the Middle East, the Israeli army is one of the most craven. Every day, its soldiers humiliate defenceless, frightened old people and pregnant women at roadblocks and now its F-16 pilots drop phosphorous bombs on families fleeing in rickety vans.

In stark contrast to this "regime" called Israel and its "crusader" allies (namely the USA and Britain), the Hezbollah terrorists who started the current conflict by crossing into Israeli territory to kidnap people and by raining down rockets on civilian populations are the good guys, exemplifying "humanity at its noblest." They are glowingly compared with WWII partisans and the equally praiseworthy (per Pilger) freedom fighters who have been blowing up random civilians and cutting people's heads off in Iraq in an effort to reimpose totalitarianism in that fledgling democracy — or as Pilger refers to them, the "Iraqis who have succeeded in pinning down the American homicidal machine in their country."

Pilger concludes his diatribe by demanding that

those claiming to hold responsible office in "civilised" governments break their cowardly silence and tell the invaders to stop their killing and to get out now.

By "the invaders," he means Israel. Needless to say, you won't see stuff like this coming from conservatives — unless you want to count Pat Buchanan.

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:21 PM | Comments (6)

President Bill Moyers

Giving an idea of just how far from reality the "reality-based community" has wandered in search of some means to justify its anachronistic existence, professional Bush-basher Molly Ivins is calling for a "reality-based presidential candidate": left-wing propagandist Bill Moyers.

According to Ivins, one of Moyers' qualifications is that he worked for LBJ during Vietnam — just like traitor, communist puppeteer and lawyer to the dictators Ramsey Clark. Moyers' contributions to the Johnson administration included supervising task forces involved in the catastrophic "war on poverty" and orchestrating the shameless 1964 campaign against Barry Goldwater. He personally gave the okay on the infamous "daisy ad," which implied that standing firm against Soviet imperialism as Goldwater advised would result in little girls getting nuked as they picked flowers.

Another supposed plus is that Moyers "is not afraid of being called 'unpatriotic.'" No kidding. Patriotism is hardly a positive quality in Moyers' anti-Christian, anti-capitalist and anti-patriotic "reality":

Not just religious true believers threaten our democracy. It's true believers in the God of the market who would leave us to the ruthless forces of unfettered monopolistic capital where even the laws of the jungle break down. And they're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. While you're standing at attention with your hand over your heart pledging allegiance to the flag, they're picking your pocket.

Ivins admits that Moyers is "no Holy Joe." That's putting it mildly. As Discover the Networks notes, he has raked in more than $20 million in taxpayer money from public broadcasting, yet refuses to disclose his income.

Moyers often manages to come across as a well-meaning avuncular fool. Actually, he is a vicious moonbat — as Ivins is no doubt aware. His hatred of Republicans is bottomless. He bitterly sneers at them for being "people who wrap themselves in the flag and sing 'America the Beautiful' with tears in their eyes." His nasty brand of propaganda is so far over the top that he was forced to issue a left-handed apology for falsely quoting former Secretary of the Interior James Watt as raving that "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."

Even Ivins knows that Moyers would never get elected, because few normal people could fail to be horrified by the concept of power in the hands of such a spiteful fanatic. But she gets paid to toss out wistful far-left fantasies. It's all part of belonging to the reality-based community.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:02 PM | Comments (7)

WHO Discovers Sun Menace

Through its public health arm, the World Health Organization, the United Nations has alerted global citizens to a menace we might not otherwise have noticed: the sun.

If you look carefully during daylight hours you can often see a big yellow thing hanging in the sky. It shoots out invisible rays that can give you a sunburn — or even melanomas.

The WHO frets that 60,000 people a year die from sun exposure. A still more disturbing statistic is the 1.5 million "disability-adjusted life years" that are stolen from us by that insidious star. But WHO bureauweenies have come up with a clever list of stratagems to protect against the sun:

• Limit the time you spend in midday sun.
• Wear a hat and sunglasses when out in the sun.
• Use sunscreen.
• Don't waste your money at tanning parlors.

So long as the WHO is providing information this useful, world citizens can hardly object to the idea of global taxes to help finance it.

Moonbats should of course exercise extra vigilance in avoiding the sun, just as they should avoid crucifixes, holy water and getting stakes pounded through their putrid black hearts.

Hat tip: Wiggins

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:53 AM | Comments (8)

July 27, 2006

Hezbollah Using U.N. As Shield

In a natural extension of the time-honored terrorist tactic of using women and children as sandbags, it appears that Hezbollah has been launching attacks from behind the skirts of U.N. peacekeepers. Predictably, collateral damage has resulted, which the Left — personified by Kofi Annan — readily blames on Israel.

Canadian Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener was among the four unarmed peacekeepers killed when Israel hit a U.N. post in Lebanon Tuesday. His own words throw some light on the inevitability of such a misfortune occurring, considering Hezbollah's disgraceful tactics and the U.N.'s knack for obtrusive uselessness.

In an email dated July 18, the Major wrote:

We have on a daily basis had numerous occasions where our position has come under direct or indirect fire from both (Israeli) artillery and aerial bombing.

The closest artillery has landed within 2 meters (sic) of our position and the closest 1000 lb aerial bomb has landed 100 meters (sic) from our patrol base. This has not been deliberate targeting, but rather due to tactical necessity.

Retired Canadian Major-General Lewis MacKenzie spells it out:

What that means is, in plain English, We've got Hezbollah fighters running around in our positions, taking our positions here and then using us for shields and then engaging the (Israeli Defence Forces).

Jihadists are well known for launching attacks from near hospitals, mosques and orphanages. The point for the terrorists isn't so much to hurt the Israelis physically, as to provide their moonbat allies in the Western media opportunities to flood the news with pictures of mutilated Arab women and children when the IDF returns fire.

Hezbollah's tactics are despicable in the extreme, and their media partners share their guilt. The civilians the MSM weeps over would not be getting hit by Israeli shells if terrorists didn't hide behind them, and terrorists wouldn't hide behind them if they couldn't count on getting the coverage they want from the media. Terrorism is war by propaganda. It wouldn't work if the media didn't play their part.

Hopefully U.N. bureauweenies have gained some insight into what it's like to be a defenseless bystander in a culture dominated by terrorism. It's probably too much to expect them to learn the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. But at least they might learn to stay out of the way.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:20 PM

Philly Bureaucrat Tries to Impose Gays on Boy Scouts

The latest assault in the Left's crusade to subvert and/or destroy the Boy Scouts is taking place in Philadelphia, where City Solicitor Romulo L. Diaz Jr. is attempting to strong-arm the Cradle of Liberty Boy Scouts Council into excepting openly homosexual Scouts and leaders. Diaz is publicly gay himself, but absurdly claims that has nothing to do with his efforts.

If the Scouts don't knuckle under, they could face eviction from the building they have occupied rent-free since 1928. But if they do, the consequences will be even worse, and not only because it would undermine the basic liberty of freedom of association, and force them to forsake their principles.

Although it is almost never acknowledged by the media unless the Catholic church is involved, homosexuals often prey on underage boys — sometimes raping and killing them.

Does anyone remember Jesse Dirkhising? The 13-year-old boy was repeatedly raped and sexually tortured by homosexual lovebirds Joshua Macabe Brown and Davis Don Carpenter. He ended up dead with his own underwear duct-taped into his mouth. If you don't recall the story, it's probably because the mainstream media would hardly go near it.

If crimes like this weren't discretely buried by the politically correct media, it would be obvious to everyone that compelling the Boy Scouts to accept openly gay scoutmasters is not a bright idea. It would almost certainly attract an element that would endanger the lives of children.

But then, the lives of children have never been a concern for abortion supporters or Andrea Yates' apologists, so there's no reason to think this will slow down gay activists as they ruthlessly ram their agenda down everyone else's throat.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:09 PM | Comments (4)

My Eyes!!!

Artist Daniel Edwards created the above grotesquery, which is entitled "The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton." A suitably tasteful venue has been found for presenting it to the public: NYC's Museum of Sex.

The bust perches atop a pedestal inscribed with the presidential seal and the menacing words "The First Woman President of the United States of America." The monstrous piece was inspired by Sharon Stone's remark that 2008 was too soon for Shrillary to run for President, because people would be threatened by her "sexual power."

The artist describes his work as presenting New York's junior Senator

with her head held high, a youthful spirit and a face matured by wisdom. Presented in a low cut gown, her cleavage is on display prominently portraying sexual power which some people still consider too threatening.

The concept of Hillary as President is threatening, all right. But as for the "sexual power," it's too bad she doesn't have more. Maybe she'd be able to keep her husband from molesting other women.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:16 PM | Comments (19)

Moonbats' Jewish Infallibility Tactic

The "liberal infallibility" tactic that Ann Coulter courageously addressed in Godless has reared its head in another form: Jewish infallibility. As Ben Shapiro observes, self-hating Jewish moonbats have been using it lately to attack Israel in its hour of need.

As readers might recall, Coulter caused an uproar when she pointed out that the insidious Jersey Girls, a bevy of 9/11 widows who happen to be moonbats, have used their victim status as a shield from criticism while launching leftist attacks on the Bush Administration. Coulter's refusal to regard the widows as beyond reproach threw the Left into a frenzy. Senators Clinton and Lautenberg denounced her; other Democrats called for her books to be banned.

Jewish liberals are now using a similar tactic by prefacing their attacks on Israel with claims of moral superiority by virtue of their Jewish parentage. Fox News' token moonbat Alan Colmes, British MP Gerald Kaufman and Puffington Host blowhard Jeff Dorchen have all employed the device. As Shapiro writes:

For Jews who oppose Israel's right to defend herself, their Judaism is a convenient tactic utilized to silence critics. "Surely," they imply, "if I am a Jew, I must have a deeper and more abiding love for Israel than anyone else. If you challenge my arguments, you will first have to admit that I have the moral high ground. I have a personal stake in this matter."

Shapiro points out that though identity politics tends to dominate discussion, it is almost always illegitimate, because "even if you have a personal stake in an issue, your ideas may be terrible." But in this case, the identity politics angle is worse — it's a lie:

The self-hating Jews who now attack Israel's most basic aspect of sovereignty don't care a whit about Judaism. They may have been born Jewish, they may enjoy matzo ball soup, they may go to a Reconstructionist synagogue once in a while to worship nothingness, but the tenets of Judaism mean nothing to them. These Jews care about Judaism the way Madonna cares about Catholicism. When it comes to the daily strictures of Judaism, these Jews are nowhere to be found. But as soon as it becomes politically advantageous to tout their Judaism, they stand front and center, birth certificate held aloft.

Identity politics is a canard when it comes to Judaism. Being born Jewish says nothing about whether you care for Israel, because being a Jew is about more than emerging from a Jewish uterus. A secular humanist, born a Jew, is still a secular humanist. Noam Chomsky is a Jew, but he is also a twisted and evil thinker who pines for Israel's destruction. Tony Judt is a Jew, but he hopes that one day Israel will be wiped from the map. Are Chomsky and Judt immune from criticism because they are Jews?

As far as Shapiro is concerned, it's impossible to be Jewish in a meaningful sense without supporting Israel:

The believing Jew is tied to Israel because God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people; the believing Jew is tied to strong Israeli self-defense because God mandated such self-defense in the Torah. A Jew who believes in his religion may without question claim that his Judaism demonstrates his commitment to Israel. It is a foul and rank political convenience for those who care nothing about Judaism to flout their Jewish birth as some kind of defense for their cowardly and foolish surrender-first ideals.

But even some full-time Jews fail to support Israel. Rabbi Dovid Feldman of Jews United Against Zionism has been screaming that Israel must be "totally dismantled, and the entire Holy Land should be returned to the indigenous Palestinian population" — which would require ethnically cleansing the area of Jews.

Blissfully unaware of how the current violence started, Keren Batiyov of Jewish Voice for Peace raves of Hezbollah:

Since they didn't initiate it, I would see that it's Israel's responsibility to withdraw and come to a ceasefire.

If certain Jews want to destroy Israel, does that make destroying Israel a good idea? That was too easy, here's a harder question: Can a house divided against itself stand?

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:34 AM

July 26, 2006

Gay Police Accused of Breaking Moonbat Law

Using moonbattery to fight moonbattery, Rev. George Hargreaves of Operation Christian Vote has filed a complaint against Britain's Gay Police Association for placing a propagandistic advertisement blaming Christianity for violence against homosexuals.

The gay police club is now under investigation by Scotland Yard for possibly having committed a "faith crime" by violating the Racial and Religious Hatred Act of 2006, which was probably intended to insulate Muslims from criticism while they scheme of new ways to blow us to bits.

Here's the offending ad (click to enlarge):

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:34 PM | Comments (5)

Murder of Five Children Excused by Moonbattery

The moral depravity that brought us a woman's "right to choose" to kill her own baby is progressing as you might expect. Today Andrea Yates, a neurotic who systematically drowned her five children in a bathtub, was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Of course Yates is insane; anyone would have to be to commit such a crime. Still more insane is the society that kicks aside the corpses of five children in its rush to comfort the poor murderess for having been upset enough to kill them.

Instead of the appropriate execution, Yates will be subjected to a timeout at a mental asylum, to last until some bleeding-heart flake with a psychiatry degree decides that she's "cured" — at which point Noah, John, Paul, Luke and Mary Yates will still be dead.

The trusting children that she murdered one by one ranged in age from six months to seven years.

Yates' successful defense was to appeal to the moonbattery of our dysfunctional legal system by claiming to be a victim of one of the new-fangled mental disorders that the psychiatry industry is so creative at inventing.

The father of the dead children dutifully excused the woman who murdered them as a "loving mother who just fell to this disease." Rusty Yates has divorced and remarried, but he and Andrea are still "good friends." He expressed gratitude to the jury for "rising above superficial facts" — for example, the fact that she was undeniably guilty — because a mental institution will allow her to have a "better quality of life for herself" as their children's bones rot away in the ground. He called her acquittal a "tremendous victory."

It was a tremendous victory, all right — of moonbattery over sanity.

Katie Couric will be pleased too. When Dan Rather's replacement at CBS News was the anchor for the Today Show, she made a martyr out of Andrea Yates, even using the show to raise money for her legal defense.

Where do we go from here? How can our culture possibly become more morally insane than to excuse people for killing their own children?

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:27 PM | Comments (7)

Hunger-Striking Cindy Sheehan Packs on the Pounds

Cindy Sheehan ought to share the secret of her hunger strike regimen with Iowa farmers — it would be just the ticket to fatten up prize hogs. CR at Age of Hooper took a couple of shots of her sulking with Code Pink lunatic Medea Benjamin outside the Iraqi embassy, where she promises to sit pouting until Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki comes out to kiss her pudgy hand.

Here's Mother Moonbat three weeks into her hunger strike:

It's nice to see that her distress over "the barbaric Israeli attacks" against Hezbollah isn't affecting her appetite, although she seemed pretty upset in yesterday's diatribe at Mickey Moron's site:

I have been in such a blue funk of depression and worry since Israel's over-reaction — or "over action" in Lebanon... As hard as I may try, I cannot wrap my mind around the fanatical rhetoric coming out of DC and from all over the world and the mindless and seemingly overwhelming support of Israel's right to "defend itself." What Israel is doing in Lebanon by killing hundreds of innocent civilians in a relatively short period of time is like the US defending itself from the tens of thousands of innocent babies, women and children in Iraq. It is morally reprehensible and just an extension of BushCo's campaign to enrich the voracious war profiteers. ... I feel like I am living in Bizarro World. ... John Bolton said that there is no "moral equivalency" between innocent Arabs being killed and innocent Israelis being killed. It's not immoral for Israel to kill innocent civilians because they are fighting terror with more terror: it's the American Way!

And we all know nothing could be more evil than the American Way. It's enough to make a poor hunger-striking peace activist reach for another Mighty Cherry Charger.

Hat tips: LGF, Slapstick Politics

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:13 AM | Comments (8)

July 25, 2006

Hagiography of a Mentally Ill Moonbat

Connoisseurs of moonbattery who have exceptionally strong stomachs are invited to read the gushing hagiography of Kevin Barrett at Madison, Wisconsin's Capital Times. Not only does the piece describe the life story of the loopy drifter who went on to be a major figure in the "9/11 truth movement," but it reveals how it is possible that this sick little insect is still teaching at the University of Wisconsin, despite it being public knowledge that he inflicts upon his students a collection of delusions that would appall the most hardened psychiatrist — his fellow moonbats really like the guy.

Readers may recall that Barrett is active in a number of conspiracy cults centered on 9/11, and that the bizarre beliefs his students can expect to be subjected to include these:

• Terrorists did not cause the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
• The WTC towers were brought down by controlled demolition.
• Vice President Dick Cheney is the likely mastermind of the plot to destroy the WTC.
• Mohammad Atta was a pawn and patsy of the United States government.
• Al Qaeda is either a myth fabricated by the U.S. government, or a U.S. government front group.
• Many of the 9/11 hijackers are still alive.
• The FBI was responsible for the 1993 WTC bombing.
• The 9/11 attacks had nothing to do with Islam.

The path that led Barrett ever deeper into paranoid psychosis is downright clichéd in its moonbattery. Picking up the Capital Times account at the point he entered UW-Madison as a student:

Barrett combined his love of intellectual inquiry with a hard partying lifestyle, hanging out with "eccentrics and hippies," and receiving his bachelor's degree in journalism in 1981.

After graduation, he took off for San Francisco in a 1955 school bus. In the Bay Area, he sang in a punk band, wrote poetry and did odd jobs like moving furniture and proofreading academic papers. He spent a year in Seattle working for a group that advocated a nuclear arms freeze, and volunteering for former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign. But upon returning to San Francisco, he fell back into his life of partying and creative intellectualism, enjoying gatherings at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Barrett, from a family of "lapsed Unitarians," was at the time dabbling in existentialism, absurdism and Zen.

With nothing better to do, he enrolled at San Francisco State, where he got masters degrees in English Lit and French. His English thesis was on Philip K. Dick, a pulp science fiction author known for writing whole novels in the course of a day or two while fueled by amphetamines.

Barrett met his Moroccan-born wife in NYC, and promptly converted to Islam. Check out this paragraph:

Later that day, he and his future wife met up to chat again, this time at a train station below the World Trade Center. Just a month later, the complex would be bombed for the first time, piquing his attention.

Like a perpetual adolescent who never quite moves out of his parents' house, Barrett washed up in Madison again, where he got a doctorate and has been teaching courses on Islam, which allow him to share his remarkable 9/11 theories with impressionable students.

But the touching story of the useless hippy who finally found his calling isn't over yet — and it may end with a fall. In a letter signed by 61 of Wisconsin's 133 legislators and delivered yesterday to both university administrators and Governor James Doyle, state lawmakers demanded that Barrett be fired before the fall semester starts. Presumably more would have signed if the legislature weren't on summer recess. Some of the $1 billion in taxpayer money that is poured into UW-Madison every year could be in jeopardy if the school's sympathetic educrats don't stop circling the wagons around Barrett.

Hat tip: LGF

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:25 PM | Comments (10)

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors Puts Screws to Housing Developers

Not content to socialize medicine, the moonbats mismanaging San Francisco have set their sights on housing development.

Due to increased demand for housing in the Bay Area, prices have gone up, and this is fueling a huge construction boom that would soon solve the housing shortage, absent government interference. The problem is, this capitalistic process works without coercion, and is therefore totally unacceptable to the Marxists on San Fran's Board of Supervisors.

Their response to all this economic freedom is ever more draconian "inclusionary housing rules." Now when developers attempt to meet the housing need, 15% of the units they build must be rented or sold at below-market values. They can build the below-market units off site, but then the minimum is 20%, and the units can't be more than a mile away from the for-profit development. Otherwise low-income people might have to live in low-income neighborhoods.

Oh, there's another option: cough up a fee and the city will let you go about your business relatively unmolested. In law enforcement circles, this is known as "extortion."

Obviously by forcing developers to build units they will lose money on, SF's politburo is cutting into their profits, which will raise rents for normal people and slow down the building boom, thus preventing the free market from solving the housing problem. It will also result in people who work hard to pay the rent on a nice place having to share their buildings with low-class freeloaders who throw their empty beer cans in the pool. But the Board of Supervisors can take pride in the fact that their city remains at the vanguard of moonbattery.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:55 AM | Comments (9)

AP Pushes "DREAM" Nightmare

Lonewacko points to a classic example of the PIIPP (pro-illegal immigration puff piece) churned out yesterday by AP.

It isn't enough that a foreign nation should be able to invade and colonize our country at will; American taxpayers must be forced to subsidize the invaders' college educations.

Have your hanky handy as you read the poignant stories of noble immigrants who happened to have been crossed by our borders and subsequently encounter slight difficulties in getting us to finance their college educations. "I was crushed," whimpered Matias Bernal, an illegal alien who had to "push aside Ivy League brochures" and settle for Cal State Fresno. "I refused to believe my education was going to stop," declared another illegal from Mexico, Nora Razon, who is saving $8,000 a year on her San Francisco State tuition, courtesy of American taxpayers.

To AP's delight, 10 states now allow students to pay in-state tuition, though they aren't even legal residents of the country, much less the state. Meanwhile American citizens from across the state line have to pay full fare. AP crows that "the majority of undocumented students in the United States can count on paying the same tuition as the citizens who sit next to them in class." Translated out of propagandese, this would read, "The majority of illegal aliens have most of their tuition paid for by Americans."

AP approvingly notes that California will soon join Texas among the states that grant state financial aid to illegal aliens — aid that will not be going to American students whose parents finance it with their taxes.

The "DREAM Act" (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act) would impose this outrageous moonbattery at a federal level, making any illegal alien who comes out of a U.S. high school eligible for in-state tuition and financial aid. Needless to say, AP likes the idea:

Some universities, including the University of California system, have publicly supported the measure, saying they are interested mainly in getting the best students they can, whatever their immigration status.

Translation:

Our fellow moonbats in academia like the DREAM Act too, because their main concern is in recruiting black and Hispanic students instead of whites and Asians, and they couldn't care less whether this is fair.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:33 AM

July 24, 2006

Nobel Prize Winner Tells Children She Wants to Kill U.S. President

No list of sociopaths and nitwits who have been awarded Nobel Prizes would be complete without mentioning 1976 Peace Prize winner Betty Williams, who has just treated hundreds of Australian schoolchildren to this announcement:

I would love to kill George Bush.

Indicating that the political climate in Australian schools doesn't differ much from that in the USA, the kids responded by clapping and cheering.

Williams won her prize by circulating a petition to end the violence in Northern Island. She is in Australia for the same Earth Dialogues forum that has provided communist fossil Mikhail Gorbachev yet another opportunity to be conspicuously useless.

Speaking of useless, the delegates at the forum wrapped up their three-day kookfest with a 26-point action plan. Their pious conclusions include the following:

• There can be no sustainable peace while the majority of the world's population lives in poverty.
• There can be no sustainable peace if we fail to rise to the global challenge presented by climate change.
• There can be no sustainable peace while military spending takes precedence over human development.

To which I might add, there can be no sustainable moonbattery without pompous fools making fatuous declarations.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:32 PM | Comments (6)

NEA Tends the Seeds of Dystopia

The National Education Association is the USA's largest teachers union, and a very convincing argument in favor of any schooling other than public. As Phyllis Schlafly reports, moonbat resolutions piled up at their annual convention in Orlando this month faster than bat guano on the floor of a cave. The guardians of our children's future officially endorsed:

• Blowing taxpayers' money to alleviate "sexual orientation discrimination";
• Using multicultural education to reduce "homophobia" — i.e., to propagandize on behalf of the gay agenda;
• Including "diversity-based curricula" and "bias-free screening devices" in early childhood brainwashing;
• Abortion;
• Non-sexist newspeak;
• A federally funded women's commission to advance feminist goals;
• Every child's right to "freely available information and knowledge about sexuality";
• Teaching children about diversity of sexual orientation and gender identification;
• The United Nations;
• The International Court of Justice;
• The International Criminal Court;
• Socialized medicine;
• Statehood for Marion Barry's District of Columbia.

The NEA took the opportunity officially to oppose:

• School vouchers;
• Tuition tax credits;
• Parental option or choice plans;
• Sectarian schools;
• For-profit schools;
• Distance learning;
• Home schooling;
• Permitting home-schooled kids to participate in public school extracurricular activities;
• Renting or selling empty public school buildings to any non-public school;
• Allowing the use of surveys to measure women's interest in sports, in an attempt to reign in the senseless abolition of men's athletic teams under Title IX;
• English as America's official language.

Making these lists even scarier, the NEA is angling to sink their claws into children at ever younger ages. To get their mind-control regimen off to the earliest possible start, they've called for public school programs "from birth through age 8," for mandatory kindergarten and for pre-kindergarten beginning at age 3.

By the way, last year San Francisco's 9th Circus Court of Appeals ruled that parents' right to control the upbringing of their children "does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door" and that public schools can inflict upon children "whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise."

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:21 PM | Comments (3)

Students for a Democratic Society Creeps Out of Its Grave

The Left's attempts to drag us through a time warp into the 1960s are getting increasingly desperate. Students for a Democratic Society, a flower-child era organization that represented moonbattery at its most psychotic, has crawled out of its grave. Its first national convention in 37 years is scheduled to take place next week in Chicago, where it incited riots at the 1968 Democratic Party convention in an attempt to derail the presidential bid of pro-war liberal candidate Hubert Humphrey.

Seven SDS moonbats, including Hanoi Jane hubby-to-be Tom Hayden, were arrested for inciting the riots. The "Chicago Seven" were given token sentences that were overturned on a technicality. The Weathermen faction of SDS reacted to the trial by inciting more riots in Chicago in 1969. These were promoted as the "Days of Rage." The opening event was the demolition of a statue dedicated to eight policeman who had been killed in a riot. The red fist from "Days of Rage" promotional posters has been adapted to advertise the new SDS convention.

The original SDS was composed largely of "red diaper babies" — the offspring of communist activists from the 1930s. Eventually it was taken over by the terrorist Weatherman faction, which called for a race war against "Amerikkka" on behalf of the Third World.

The new incarnation of SDS espouses exactly the sort of moonbattery you might expect at its website, where you can register for the convention. It ought to be a riot. Chicago cops are reminded not to come without their nightsticks.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:35 PM | Comments (7)

Err America Cofounder Blames Karl Rove for Left's Anti-Semitism

You have to hand it to Err America cofounder Sheldon Drobny: unlike many leftists these days, at least he isn't an anti-Semite. However, that doesn't mean he isn't a paranoid lunatic.

Faced with the hatred his fellow lefties have been spewing at Israel and its citizens, Drobny was forced to fall back on the standard moonbat explanation for the existence of evil: Karl Rove did it.

I came to the conclusion that the hostile comments about Israel on these liberal blogs are not coming from true liberals. Most of the anti-Semitism comes from racism and most of the racism I have experienced has come from the far right, not the left. And history shows that the Christo-fascist policies of the right have been responsible for historical anti-Judaism. ...

So my conclusion is that the bloggers who violently hate Israel and see it in black and white terms are not really liberals. ... I would not put it past the right wing to flood the liberal blogs with hateful criticisms of Israel to advance a perception that liberals are anti-Israel or anti-Semitic. And I see Karl Rove's fingerprints all over this.

So the Right's passionate and nearly unanimous support for Israel is just a smokescreen to cover an insidious "Christo-fascist" scheme to replace the Left's true opinions with our own well-concealed anti-Semitism — a scheme coordinated by none other than the dastardly Karl Rove. Either that or Drobny needs to start taking his meds.

Hat tip: Discarded Lies, on a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:45 AM | Comments (5)

July 23, 2006

ACLU Backs Westboro Baptist Church

Apparently the ACLU places more emphasis on always taking the wrong side than it does on supporting gays, because it has filed suit on behalf of the Westboro Baptist Church, in order to allow this bizarre gay-bashing cult to keep disrupting the memorial services of fallen American soldiers.

Despite its name, the Westboro Baptist Church appears to have little to do with Christianity. The cult is led by a creepazoid named Fred Phelps, whose philosophy is built around the notion that God hates America for permitting homosexuality. His followers have managed to attract attention to themselves by crashing heroes' funerals, waving disrespectful placards and yelling hostile nonsense.

A highly sensible Missouri law bans protests "in front of or about" a location where a funeral is taking place, starting one hour before it starts, ending an hour after it's over. The ACLU wants this law declared unconstitutional on the false grounds that it limits protesters' free speech based on the content of their message. They are demanding an injunction that would allow Phelps and his gang to continue their disgraceful activities.

Phelps' daughter Shirley L. Phelps-Roper, a spokeswoman for the cult, triumphantly yelped:

I told the nation, as each state went after these laws, that if the day came that they got in our way, that we would sue them. At this hour, the wrath of God is pouring out on this country.

Speaking of people getting wrath poured out on them, wouldn't it be fun to lock Phelps-Roper in a room with Fox News' Julie Banderas?

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:45 PM | Comments (8)

Lefty Blogs Side With Terrorists Against Israel

Congress and the MSM aren't the only places where the Left's betrayal of Israel has been on prominent display. The anti-Zionism on the left end of the blogosphere rivals Hezbollah's.

Here's what a Daily Kos commenter had to say last Friday:

Hezbollah is a response [t]o a needless war caused by a mistake. Richard Cohen said today in the Washington Post: "Israel's worst mistake is forgetting that Israel was a mistake." That isn't all he said, but the mere fact that the Post had the brass ones to print it is the handwriting on the wall for Israel. Time to fold the tent.

In other words, time for the entire nation of Israel to just die, in accordance with Richard's Cohen's twisted wishes.

Yesterday, Daily Kos announced that it is an "obscenity" that the USA is providing material support for Israel's efforts at self-defense. Amazingly, the "corporate media" is berated for not being sufficiently hostile to Israel. According to Kos (italics theirs):

The United States is now a legitimate military target in that war.

Since 9/11, we all know we're a target, but only on the lunatic Left is it known that we are a legitimate target for providing supplies to a democratic ally struggling to survive against Islam's terrorist onslaught.

Less well known than Daily Kos, but no less left-wing or hostile to Israel, is Culture and Life News, which accuses Israel of war crimes, America of complicity and both countries of not being democracies. Israel, a tiny free nation surrounded by hostile Muslim autocracies, is characterized as "the bully boy of the Middle East" in the same sentence that our President is yet again accused of having "stolen" the election.

These two blogs are representative of the Left in that they spit up pure moonbattery, unadulterated by even a hint of common sense. By now it's clear that moonbat orthodoxy allows no sympathy for the Jewish state or its citizens. Jewish identification with the Left makes less sense with every passing day.

Hat tips: LGF, LGF. On tips from V the K and Prince of Leaves.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:10 PM | Comments (5)

Liberal House Dems Won't Condemn Terror Attacks Against Israel

Last week Congress voted on a bill "condemning the recent attacks against the State of Israel, holding terrorists and their state-sponsors accountable for such attacks, supporting Israel's right to defend itself, and for other purposes."

Who would vote against such a bill? Liberal democrats, of course, as noted by OpinionJournal:

• Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)
• John Conyers (D-MI)
• John Dingell (D-MI)
• Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI)
• Jim McDermott (D-WA)
• Ron Paul (R-TX)
• Nick Rahall (D-WV)
• Fortney Hillman Stark Jr. (D-CA)

Others voted "Present" — essentially the same thing as "Against" in this case, but with even less moral courage:

• Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
• Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
• Barbara Lee (D-CA)
• Maxine Waters (D-CA)

The lone "Republican" opposed, Ron Paul, is actually a Libertarian, who ran for President on that party's ticket in 1988, and who wanted to issue letters of marque to fight al Qaeda instead of going into Afghanistan following September 11.

Yet Democrats continue to rely on heavy Jewish support. Some mysteries defy comprehension.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:25 AM | Comments (2)

Gays Harass Heterosexuals in Massachusetts

Provincetown, Massachusetts is known as New England's "summer gay capital." Non-gays would be advised not to let the sun set on them there.

Heterosexuals are publicly denounced as "breeders" and "baby makers" in this enlightened rainbow town. As in Jacksonville, Florida, those who sign a petition opposing the abomination of same-sex "marriage" have their names posted on the Internet; at least one woman has been physically assaulted as a result. Verbal assault appears to be common.

Naturally these incidents are not classified as "hate crimes," because the targets are normal people.

As always, gays claim to be the victims. Art gallery owner Steve Bowersock squeals that "there are still a lot of straight people who treat gays badly." He admits to discriminating against heterosexuals, whom he delights in disgusting:

If I see someone nervous like a big butch guy, and you can just tell he's a redneck, I'll grab my partner and I'll kiss him.

I guess that's what people who you can just tell are rednecks get for probably being the kind who would stereotype.

On a tip from The Right Reverend Rabbi Judah

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:38 AM | Comments (3)

July 22, 2006

GM: Hybrids Are Concession to Moonbattery

General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has admitted that GM is building hybrids not because they are economically sane, but out of sheer moonbattery:

Hybrids are technologically of doubtful benefit, and expensive, but necessary from a political and public relations point of view. Toyota has said, economically, hybrids make no sense. The reduction in fuel [consumption] does not pay for the technological content and cost of the vehicle so therefore economically it remains fairly nonsensical, so that's the left-brain analytical argument.

The right brain is it's the popular thing to do, many people believe that if we all drove hybrids the world would suddenly get cooler again and then it's the patriotic thing to do because if you drive a hybrid you will no longer be funding the Arab terrorists, and so forth.

So, with all those beliefs out there, you have to do a hybrid for public policy reasons.

As for driving hybrids to pour less money into the pockets of Islamic terrorists, if we really wanted to stop paying our own executioners, we would stand up to the environmental lobby and lift restrictions on drilling for oil at home.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:38 AM | Comments (3)

Rick Santorum Comes Close to Naming the Enemy

Kudos to Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) for having the courage to admit that we are not at war with the tactic terrorism, but with the people who insist on using this tactic throughout the world to impose their barbarous ideology — which Santorum refers to as Islamic fascism.

Calling our struggle the War on Terror is politically "safe and misleading," Santorum observes. In WWII our enemy was not blitzkrieg but those who employed it, and the same holds true with terrorism today.

Santorum noted that "Islamic fascism" is "truly evil" and that it poses "as big a threat today as Nazism or Soviet Communism," adding that it "is the great test of this generation.

The first step toward passing this test is being able to look the enemy in the eye and call it by its name. Thank you Senator Santorum for dispensing with the staggeringly moronic "religion of peace" rhetoric and moving us in the right direction. We'll know we stand a chance when we can drop the redundant "fascism" part and just admit that what we are fighting is Islam — as our ancestors have been doing for well over a millennium.

No one wants to go to war with over a billion people, but that doesn't change the fact that over a billion people are already at war with us. The only way civilized people can live on the same planet as Muslims is if it is made very clear to them that we are not going to join them in the Seventh Century hell they have made for themselves, and that they will be held accountable for their behavior by the standards of modern society.

Few have been willing to do this, due to the corrosion called political correctness having rusted away our spines. This is why the menace of Islam, having lain more or less dormant for centuries, is once again attempting to conquer the West. They can smell our weakness, which has a single source: moonbattery.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:57 AM | Comments (2)

July 21, 2006

Dems' Enemy Within

This weekend the relatively centrist Democratic Leadership Council will try to figure out a way to deal with their party's enemy within — "netroots" liberals, who have shown decreasing tolerance for anything that reminds them of normal Americans.

Presidential threats Hillary Clinton, Evan Bayh, Tom Vilsack and Bill Richardson will be on hand — but not Mark Warner, who has been going out of his way to pander to the sort of rabid online activists whose support raised Howard "Dr. Demento" Dean to prominence.

An aide for one of Dean's rivals described his netroots backers as resembling the grotesque characters in the "bar scene from 'Star Wars.'" In other words, these weirdoes can be identified as moonbats by sight — if not by smell. They are vying for control of the Democratic Party.

Their deranged leader is not DNC Chairman Dean — who is expendable — but the creepy Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of Daily Kos. When the charred and dismembered corpses of American contractors — all of them veterans with distinguished records — were dragged through the streets of Fallujah, Moulitsas was the guy who reacted with these immortal words:

I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. ... They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.

Moulitsas has dismissed olive branches from "moderate" Dems (if that's not already an oxymoron) with terms like "LOL" and "DOA." Nothing to the right of the Khmer Rouge will win favor from his wing. Yet, thanks to lavish financing from unwholesome characters like George Soros and Peter Lewis, that's where the money is — and increasingly, where the power is.

Senator Joseph Lieberman is no moderate — his voting record is 90% liberal. Yet for his apostasy in supporting the American struggle against Islamofascism in the Middle East, he has been singled out for vilification by the netroots. Moonbat challenger Ned Lamont stands an excellent chance of swiping the Democratic nomination from this 18-year incumbent. If that happens, watch for the Democratic Party either to erupt into civil war, or to tack so far to the Left that their only hope of regaining power will be a coup d'état.

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:49 PM | Comments (4)

Ed Rendell Denounces America's Existence on Behalf of Illegal Aliens

While castigating Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta's praiseworthy attempts to protect his citizens from the threats posed by runaway illegal immigration, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell let his rhetoric get away from him yesterday — revealing himself as a moonbat of the first order.

Referring to attempts to enforce immigration laws, Rendell bellowed:

A lot of this is being pushed by politicians who... feed off hate and divisiveness.

Yes, anyone who doesn't want our country balkanized by an ethnic group that is flooding into our country illegally at rates that put assimilation out of the question must be feeding off "divisiveness." To prove Rendell doesn't belong to this club, he decried efforts to maintain English as America's de facto official language.

He went further. In an apparent effort to appeal to the ever more influential lunatic wing of the Democratic Party, Rendell plunged off a cliff into sheer moonbattery:

The only ones I want to hear speaking up and complaining about immigration are the Native Americans who we screwed.

According to this stale loony-left theme, America is an illegitimate nation because most of us have ancestors who were born somewhere else. In fact, all of us do — including Indians. Maybe every last human on the hemisphere should pack up and head off to the other side of the world, leaving the Americas to the spotted owls and sucker fish. You first, Ed.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:12 PM | Comments (3)

ELF/ALF Ecoterrorists Plead Guilty

Three moonbats affiliated with Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy and arson charges related to a series of ecoterrorist attacks occurring across western states. Kevin Tubbs admitted to several firebombings, Kendall Tankersley to a couple attempts to set fire to the U.S. Forest Industries office in Medford, Oregon and Canadian Darren Thurston to being part of the overall conspiracy to sow terror and wreak havoc. More are expected to plead guilty today.

Kudos to the Justice Department for tracking them down. Let's hope they aren't let out of their cages any time soon.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:17 AM

Children, Microchips, Cigarette Companies and Hillary Clinton

While indulging in the standard Democratic denunciation of tobacco companies yesterday, this time for allegedly targeting children with flavored cigarettes, Hillary Clinton got a little carried away, and as Newsday puts it, "took a slight detour into the political twilight zone."

Apparently not joking, Senator Clinton shared the following at a Kaiser Family Foundation forum on media and the children:

At the rate that technology is advancing, you know, people will be implanting chips in our children to advertise directly into their brains and tell them what kind of products to buy.

An R.J. Reynolds spokesman characterized Shrillary's remarks as "inflammatory" and affirmed that his company markets only to adults. But he apparently did not deny planting microchips in children's brains to compel them to smoke cigarettes.

Below, Hillary models headwear that will prevent signals from reaching any microchips that cigarette companies might have planted in her brain. That ought to foil them.

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July 20, 2006

A Glimpse Inside Dick Gregory's Skull

George W. Bush isn't the only one to aspire to the White House who spoke before the NAACP this week. The dubious honor is also held by Dick Gregory, who shared with his audience an amazing array of previously unknown information.

His revelation that the "insane, racist system" that allowed him the opportunity to become a successful comedian "turns ordinary people into violent criminals" will be old news to your average English professor. But Gregory was able to pull much more original assertions out of his hat — or wherever it is that he pulls them out of.

Here's an example:

White, rich, middle-class children have as much or more truancy and high school dropouts than poor blacks in the ghetto.

And another:

White teenagers in rural America are 83 times more likely to use crack than a black in a large, urban city, but they make you think it's black because they paint a black face on it, and you grab it.

Not only racism keeps the black man down. Pollution does too. "The FBI has documents on the relationship between lead exposure and homicide," Gregory revealed, but "nobody knows about it." Nobody, that is, except Dick Gregory.

Pollution is so serious because "polluted water can cause brain damage that turns ordinary people into violent criminals." Naturally anything this horrific will lead us back to our racist system:

They convince you that I'm just a heathen and I murder just 'cause I want to murder [but] I murder because something's in my food, something's in my water.

Unsurprisingly, it was the white man who put it there.

Malt liquor is made by white beer companies but only sold in black neighborhoods, and you don't get suspicious? They put a thing in it called manganese, and once you get so much manganese in you, you will kill your momma, but they've got you believing that's normal for you to act that way.

As if Gregory's bizarre allegations hadn't strained credulity far enough, he then went completely over the top by claiming that the work of the increasingly anachronistic NAACP is vital to the black community.

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Portraits in Jew-Hating Left-Wing Dhimmitude: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

The Left hasn't been generous in repaying Jews for their traditional support. In a time of crisis for Israel, the liberal press astonishingly sides with the terrorists laying siege to it. Communists march beside pro-terrorist Palestinians in San Francisco demonstrations. Among Europe's left-leaning elite, anti-Semitism is more fashionable even than anti-Americanism.

Take Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. The Socialist Zapatero was elected on a platform of appeasing terrorists and bashing America in direct response to al Qaeda's March 11, 2004 terror attacks in the most contemptible display of national cowardice ever witnessed in modern times. Unsurprisingly, the wages of appeasement has been more terrorism under Zapatero.

In addition to his hard-left politics, Zapatero is known for hating Jews. He claims to understand the Nazis when it comes to what they used to call "the Jewish question."

But don't call Zapatero an anti-Semite. After all, Arab terrorists are Semites too.

On a tip from V the K

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Gorbachev Joins Global Warming Crusade

Failed Communist dictator turned left-wing gadfly Mikhail Gorbachev is continuing his annoying efforts to seem relevant by carping on Australia to sign the preposterous Kyoto Protocol.

Gorby's vain hope is that the USA would then commit economic suicide by following suit. Fat chance of that: the Senate voted 95-0 not to go near Kyoto.

If Gorbachev really wanted to reduce carbon emissions, he would be preaching to India and China, not Australia. But hard-core polluters don't host envirokook stroke-offs like the Earth Dialogues forum in Brisbane, where Gorby is co-chair. This global forum reportedly features "leading international experts on the environment, economics and science." It's not clear which of these fields is Gorby's area of expertise, although we can certainly rule out economics.

Now chairman of the environmental lobby group Green Cross International, Gorby has been denouncing America for being a "stubborn animal" when it comes to the Kyoto treaty, which at this point looks almost as dead as his political career. In 1990, Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, allegedly for ending the Cold War (actually, for not being Ronald Reagan, who really did end the Cold War). As his prize gathers dust on the mantle, Gorby is reduced to traveling the world "to campaign about the perils of climate change" like a fat, bald Al Gore with a stain on his head.

Meanwhile, scientists continue to complain that global warming hysteria is bunk.

As for Prime Minister John Howard and his cabinet, they're too busy running Australia to meet with comrade Gorbachev. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer brushed off Gorby's visit with this:

Should I be trying to get people out of Lebanon or should I be at an Earth Dialogues forum? I think that answers the question.

Is Hollywood Squares still on TV? Gorby would be perfect for that show.

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Chavez Choking Freedom of Speech

The Inter American Press Association warns that leftist strongman Hugo Chavez is using courts and legal reforms to choke freedom of the press in Venezuela. Said its President Diana Daniels of the Washington Post Co.:

The different branches of government appear to have a strategy to weaken the work of the independent press. We are worried that, far from improving press conditions in the country, freedom could be further restricted before and after the election.

New laws allow Chavez to close media outlets that violate strict broadcasting norms. Prison sentences for libel and slander have increased. Criminal investigations target journalists on apparently trumped-up charges ranging from libel to homicide to keep the media running scared.

But even if journalists are smelling a rat in Chavez, there's no doubt his special place in Cindy Sheehan's heart is still secure — and if there are any problems with the election in December, he can always get it ratified by Jimmy Carter.

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July 19, 2006

Prize Dhimmi Caption

Congratulations to Reuters for exhibiting dhimmitude above and beyond the call of politically correct moonbattery with this gem of a caption:

It must have slipped someone's attention at al-Reuters that we can read the signs for ourselves. Supporting Lebanon is not the focus here.

Hat tips: LGF, Country Store

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Hollywood Leftists Donate Pocket Change to Lamont

The Democrat Party's ever more dominant lunatic fringe has been calling for Joe Lieberman's head to punish his apostasy of observing that the war in Iraq is worth fighting and that we are winning it. If money has its way, Lieberman might be evicted from his Connecticut Senate seat after 18 years. Moonbat challenger for the Democratic nomination Ned Lamont has outraised and outspent Lieberman by $600,000 over the past two months.

Lamont gets 70% of his contributions from out of state, much of it from Hollywood, where fortunately for Lieberman, generosity does not match the outlandishly opulent lifestyle.

Limousine leftists Barbra Streisand, Rosie O'Donnell, Norman Lear (producer of "All in the Family"), Jackson Browne, and Richard Donner (movie director) gave $1,000 apiece. Paul Newman parted with $2,100; he lives in Connecticut. Former "Baywatch" bimbo Alexandra Paul, who regards herself as an activist, coughed up $250.

Given the oceans of money these people swim around in, I hope they tip their manicurists better than this.

Billionaire hard-left puppeteer George Soros also contributed. Considering the millions of dollars he has sunk into efforts to manipulate our political process, I'm guessing he was a little more generous.

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Profiles in Moonbattery: Richard Cohen

When it comes to moonbattery at its most treacherous, no one tops WaPo's Richard Cohen, who has openly sided with the Islamic terrorists laying siege to our democratic ally Israel.

Squeaks Cohen:

The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake.

What an astonishing statement. But Cohen backs it up — with sheer idiocy, of course.

If you look at history in the funhouse mirror that serves Cohen as a mind, Muslim terrorism over the last 100 years is a result of the dumb idea of "creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians)." Inconceivably, Cohen seems not to be aware of the profound ties Jews have with their homeland, going back thousands of years.

Here's how Cohen feels about terrorists:

There is no point in condemning Hezbollah..... And there's not much point, either, in condemning Hamas.

You see, they're "zealots." That means they get to behave like savages, while civilized societies are morally obligated to cease existing for their sake.

Cohen's derangement extends to policy:

Whatever happens, Israel must not use its military might to win back what it has already chosen to lose: the buffer zone in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip itself.

After recounting the reasons why withdrawing from these regions produced Israel's current predicament — Gaza openly run by Hamas terrorists, Hezbollah showering Israel with missiles from southern Lebanon — Cohen gibbers that reoccupying these territories would subject Israel to "having the world look on as it committed the inevitable sins of an occupying power." In other words, Israel would be subjected to hostile propaganda by pro-terrorist moonbats like Cohen, who dominate the MSM.

But like America, Israel will be subjected to hostile propaganda from liberals no matter what it does. That's the price you pay for being the good guy.

So what should Israel do, according a sage like Cohen? Withdraw further, absorb the blows, wait to die. Here's how Cohen puts it:

The smart choice is to pull back to defensible — but hardly impervious — borders. That includes getting out of most of the West Bank — and waiting (and hoping) that history will get distracted and move on to something else. This will take some time, and in the meantime terrorism and rocket attacks will continue.

Clearly Cohen is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he could hardly be dumb enough to think that Muslims would ever "get distracted and move on" so long as Israel exists. To "hunker down," as he puts it, and wait until Muslims grow bored with rocket attacks, kidnapping and suicide bombing would mean acquiescing until the last Jew in the Jewish homeland had been murdered.

What this appalling little creature is calling for is willful submission to genocide.

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Senate Amnesty Bill "Far, Far Worse" Than 1986 Abomination

Some Congressional Republicans call the Senate's amnesty monstrosity the "Reid-Kennedy" bill, not wanting to admit that fellow Republicans would have a hand in such an irresponsible fiasco, despite Lettuce McCain's cosponsorship and the support of Majority Leader Bill Frist and even the President himself. Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN), comparing it to 1986's disastrous Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), observes that "Congress and the administration have no credibility with the American people" when it comes to illegal immigration, and asks:

Why should Americans have any reason to believe that the supposed enhanced enforcement provisions in Reid-Kennedy will be effectively enforced by the administration any more than successive administra