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August 31, 2006

Muslim Miss England Excuses Islamic Terror

Last September, England made a touchingly politically correct gesture by crowning Muslim Uzbekistan native Hammasa Kohistani as Miss England. Now it has received its just reward: Miss Kohistani is utilizing her position to denounce the West and even to blame it for Islamic terrorism.

Chirps Miss England:

Even moderate Muslims are turning to terrorism to prove themselves. They think they might as well support it because they are stereotyped anyway.

Got it? When moderate Muslims blow you and your family to bits for being infidels, it will be your own fault for not pretending that they don't want to kill you.

"There is this hostility," Kohistani complains, asserting that it comes "mainly from the Government" — not the countless imams in England and elsewhere who encourage confused young losers of the Muslim persuasion to kill themselves and take as many of us as possible with them.

Doing her part to keep mayhem in the Muslim mainstream, Kohistani drives her themes home some more:

Tony Blair addressed Muslims in particular, telling them that they need to sort out the problem within. That was a huge stereotype of the Islamic community. Even the more moderate Muslims have been stereotyped negatively and feel they have to take actions to prove themselves.

How dare Blair ask the Muslim community to stop blowing up buses and trying to bring down airliners? What is he, some kind of stereotyper? After all, at least 0.02% of terrorist acts are committed by non-Muslims.

Ironically, Kohistani and her family have received death threats from fellow practitioners of the Religion of Peace who don't like it that she goes out without a burka.

Meanwhile, girls who are better looking, English, and don't endorse an evil ideology that calls for our destruction don't get to be Miss England. But like any prize tainted by moonbattery (e.g., Pulitzers, Nobels), it doesn't mean much anyway.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:17 PM | Comments (4)

Political Porn

Moonbat moviemakers are taking the next logical step after Fahrenheit 911 with a "docudrama" depicting the assassination of President Bush.

Styled like a retrospective documentary, Death of a President criticizes Americans' beastly behavior after Bush is shot by a sniper next year. According to Peter Dale, who heads a company that will air the hatefest this fall,

It's a pointed political examination of what the War on Terror did to the American body politic.

Naturally an Arab is wrongly accused of killing the President.

Remember when Bill Moyers referred to talk radio as "political pornography"? I think we've found a more suitable application for his term.

On a tip from Bill V.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:40 PM

Dual Passports for Norwegian Perverts?

Norway's Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombud (LDO) is considering a request from a man who thinks he should be given two passports, because he is a "trans-person."

The supplicant wants both a man and a woman passport. Traveling in drag when your passport has you dressed like a normal person can cause difficulties, particularly with the increased security checks necessitated by the escalation of Muslim terrorism. The petitioner pleads:

For me this has made it virtually impossible to travel as a woman. I therefore make a plea that these rules be liberalized such that trans-persons have the opportunity to have two passports.

According to LDO adviser Stian Sigurdsen, the agency is currently trying to figure out "if it is discriminatory that these persons do not get two passports."

On a tip from Bill V.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:40 AM | Comments (3)

August 30, 2006

"Death to Israel" Rally in Salt Lake City

Today moonbats in Salt Lake City honored the scheduled arrival of President Bush to address the American Legion convention by staging a "Death to Israel" rally, the purpose of which was to protest "the torture and murder inflicted on Muslims by Israel and the penetration of the U.S. media by Israeli intelligence," according to organizer Robert Breeze, a local defense attorney.

Breeze referred to the derelicts who were paid to participate as "vicarious protesters." Not that there weren't a few genuine moonbats on hand. Desultory Thoughts has photos, including these:

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:51 PM | Comments (10)

The Wimpification of Our Future

Children are our future, and moonbats are doing whatever they can to shape it in their image — including turning kids into pansies by politically correcting playgrounds into settings suitable for the Teletubbies.

The jungle gyms and monkey bars we grew up with have been replaced by simplified forms in Day-Glo colors, made of rubber and foam, like the spongy souls of those who build them.

Whimpers Donna Thompson of the National Program for Playground Safety:

Getting hurt on a playground is not a rite of passage to be an adult.

If "getting hurt" means occasionally scraping an elbow or bruising a knee, she couldn't be more wrong. How is a kid who has never learned the hard way not to be a baby ever going to develop enough character to qualify as a grownup?

Not only playground equipment, but even games have been banned by moonbats bent on producing a generation of gelatinous wimps. Grade-school kids in places like Cheyenne and Spokane are even forbidden to play tag. Dodgeball is particularly incorrect. As the National Association for Sport and Physical Education preaches,

Dodgeball does provide a means of practicing some important physical skills — running, dodging, throwing, and catching. However, there are many activities that allow practice of these skills without using human targets or eliminating students from play.

The students who are eliminated first in dodgeball are typically the ones who most need to be active and practice their skills. Many times these students are also the ones with the least amount of confidence in their physical abilities. Being targeted because they are the "weaker" players, and being hit by a hard-thrown ball, does not help kids to develop confidence.

Yet I can state from personal experience that even a puny little brat with all the coordination of Ted Kennedy on his fourth martini, who invariably got nailed in the face with the ball, used to love dodgeball — because unlike most school activities, it isn't boring. As for confidence, avoiding any situation in which you might fail is the last way to develop it.

NASPE's whining continues:

And it is not appropriate to teach our children that you win by hurting others.

On the contrary, in a hard world like the one that surrounds us, an unwillingness to hurt others is a lethal flaw, as we will find out once Democrats are running the War on Terror.

Deliberate wussification isn't the only aspect of moonbattery at play. Trial lawyers have also left their mark. As Donna Thompson smugly observes:

[I]n the long haul, it's going to cost less to make the playgrounds safe than to go to court.

Ironically, prissified playgrounds are deleterious not only to kids' development, but to their health. Says pediatrician and professor of pediatrics Jay Noffsinger,

The much bigger problem in this country is sedentarianism and not being active, and though I would be in favor of people looking at making playgrounds safer, there may be an overemphasis on that rather than the fact that we need to be having more of them and encouraging physical participation with kids in any activity we can get them into. We need to be encouraging physical activity in any form, rather than legislating rules about the safety thereof.

Now we know why MLB needs to import so many ballplayers. Before long policemen, firemen, and soldiers will have to be imported too, while native Americas degenerate into quivering blobs of politically correct Jell-O that resemble Dennis Kucinich with a beer gut.

Posted by Van Helsing at 4:48 PM | Comments (4)

Could Moonbattery Lead to Extinction?

Maggie Gallagher is right to be appalled by Newsweek's latest cover story. Noting that plunging birthrates are leading to the depopulation of large parts of the free world, Newsweek spins this as meaning "good things for restaurants and real estate."

Depopulation must be good, from Newsweek's point of view — not only because it means a shorter wait for a table, but because it is the direct result of the social corrosion known as liberalism. As Newsweek puts it:

Powerful social and religious taboos (in Greece) labeled childless women as barren spinsters, and cast suspicion on the sexual preferences of single, middle-aged men. No longer. In the space of a generation, that tight social corset has largely vanished, thanks to an array of factors, including better education and job options for women and Greece's entry into the cultural mainstream of the European Union. The result: a marriage rate below the EU average, and a birthrate among the world's lowest, at 1.3 per woman.

Casual sex leads to fewer babies, because there is no commitment associated with sex anymore, and children are thought of as unfortunate accidents who must be put to death for the sake of our convenience.

There might be a biological purpose to the "social corset" that the left-wing degenerates at Newsweek find so restrictive. Gallagher sites some scary stats:

In Japan, says Newsweek, 56 percent of 30-year-old women are still childless, up from just 24 percent as recently as 1985. About a quarter of German and Italian women appear headed for childlessness. It takes just under 2.1 children per woman to replace population. As European demographer Francesco Billari has explained, at the European average of 1.5 children per woman, the population will be cut in half every 65 years. At a birthrate of 1.3 children per woman, (think Austria, Italy, Spain, as well as Greece and Japan), the population will be cut in half every 32 years.

The good news is that the USA, which is less socially degenerate than Europe, consequently has a higher birthrate. By the same token, conservative Americans have a significantly higher birthrate than liberals.

Maybe there really is a silver lining to depopulation. It would be too perfect if liberals were self-selected out of existence by the very Darwinism they use to prop up their nihilistic ideology.

On the darker side, a depopulated Europe will be all the more vulnerable to demographic conquest by immigrating Muslims — a process that is already well under way.

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:01 PM | Comments (7)

California Town Falls to Reconquista

Supporters of illegal immigration took down the American flag flying above the post office in Maywood, California, stomped on it, and replaced it with the Mexican flag in front of police last weekend.

When the cops eventually approached the pole to take down the Mexican flag, they were pelted with rocks and bottles. Apparently no one was arrested, and the Mexican flag stayed up there all day.

According to a volunteer from Save Our State, the demonstrators menaced pro-American counterdemonstrators. They shouted "Death to the Minutemen," jostled her, poured water on her, and threatened to "beat the s***" out of her. Another woman was beaten, as was an elderly man, as police watched.

Readers may recall that the "sanctuary city" Maywood disbanded the police department's traffic unit because it had been inconveniencing illegal aliens, who effectively run the town. Maywood has been completely overrun, and is now 96% Latino.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:47 AM | Comments (3)

Naked Teenage Moonbats Infest Vermont Parking Lot

The dissolution of civilized norms proceeds at a brisk pace in liberal Vermont, where the busiest parking area in downtown Brattleboro has been colonized by naked teenaged moonbats.

The Boston Globe describes the situation in the Harmony Parking Lot as "a lark or an ode to youthful exuberance." Andrew Wdowiak, who works at neighboring Everyone's Books, outside of which the naked youths have congregated, describes it differently:

I needed about three drinks to erase that vision.

Another business with a prime view of the clothes-free teens is the Back Side Cafe. There have been complaints, but there is no law against public nudity in Brattleboro, and it would take a while to get one implemented and enforced.

Meanwhile, the birthday suit fad has been growing in popularity, extending to "group bike rides, skateboarding, hula-hoop contests, and a grass-roots music event that the group dubbed the Brat Fest."

Says 15-year-old Vermonter Hannah Phillips:

I think most of Vermont wants Vermont to be nude. People have a basic human right to be naked if they want to.

Words of wisdom from the state that gave us Howard Dean.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:48 AM | Comments (6)

August 29, 2006

Ahmadinejad Forgets That Nazis Are No Longer Running Germany

In what appears to be a misguided attempt to suck up to Germany, Iran's maniacal Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested in a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Allies invented the Holocaust to embarrass their vanquished foe. As Mad Mahmoud put it:

Is it not a reasonable possibility that some countries that had won the war made up this excuse to constantly embarrass the defeated people ... to bar their progress.

Ahmadinejad has made a habit of casting doubt on whether the Holocaust really occurred, even as he openly threatens to reenact it using the nuclear weapons Iran has been feverishly developing, despite some diplomatic interference from among others Germany.

The letter also praised Germans as people with great potential "who are not allowed to play their constructive role in the world." This sort of rhetoric really used to resonate — back in the 1930s.

Fortunately Merkel is not as easily impressed as a certain senile MSM propagandist. She declined to grant the letter a formal response, dismissing its "totally unacceptable" criticism of Israel that "constantly put in question" that country's right to exist.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:50 PM

Losing Weight the MSM Way

Although primarily used to propagandize on behalf of Muslim terrorists, the MSM's talent for fauxtography has other applications. For example, it allowed cutie-pie mouthpiece Katie Couric to lose weight instantly. Check out the waistline:

As TVNewser documents, both versions of this photo came from CBS.

Hat tip: Sticky Notes, on a tip from Bill V.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:49 AM | Comments (12)

Bureaucratic Katrina Chaos

Writing on NRO, Congressman Bobby Jindal (R-LA) observes that the waste and fraud uncovered in the aftermath of Katrina has been a disaster in itself. Jindal notes just a few of the outrages taxpayers have financed:

• Months at a Hawaiian resort
• Five season tickets to the New Orleans Saints
• Hundreds of unoccupied trailers
• $175 per square paid for $5 per square roof tarps
• Overpaying by 20% on portable classrooms
• Cruise ships rented for months but only partially used
• Reimbursements to phantom victims
• Prison inmates collecting over $10 million in rental and disaster-relief assistance
• $2,000 debit cards spent on Louis Vuitton handbags, evenings at strip clubs, and Dom Perignon champagne

A staggering $100 billion has been approved in assistance, with not a whole lot to show for it. Meanwhile, private sector and faith-based organizations have battled their way through red tape to fill the extravagantly expensive void left by government incompetence, clearing debris that's still sitting there a year later, while bureaucrats publicly dream of taking over health care, where they would undoubtedly perform at a similar level of efficiency.

While moonbats exploit Katrina to propagandize in favor of racial balkanization, the real lesson is clear: we need to rely on ourselves, not the government.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:52 AM

August 28, 2006

Huffington Moonbat Accuses Republicans of Terrorism

Puffington Host whack job Russell Shaw raised a few eyebrows by expressing a hope that there might be a terror attack prior to the November elections, because he thinks this would hurt Republicans at the polls. To dispel the notion that he must be twisted and insane, Shaw has produced a follow-up post in which he defends himself by pointing out that Republicans themselves are responsible for the following theoretical acts of terror:

• Your military son being killed fighting terrorists.
• The victims of Katrina issuing "please help us" screams.
• Your being put out of work because Republicans won't let the greedy multinational corporation you work for go bankrupt.
• Developers buying your trailer park.
• Your having to wait for a bus because demand has driven up oil prices.
• Your niece having a baby because she would have had to drive 200 miles to have it killed.
• Your cancer-ridden aunt annoyingly moaning in pain because Republicans won't let her smoke pot or be put out of your misery.
• Medical insurance prices rising because of the runaway greed of trial lawyers — I mean, because of insufficient regulation.
• A real estate agent not returning your calls because you're gay.

But it isn't only humans that suffer from Republican terrorism:

The polar bear marooned on the ice floe due to global warming, the tiger who futilely scampers away from high-powered rifle fire at the game ranch owned by rich Republican contributors- well, they are victims of terrorism too.

Kind of puts the small stuff like September 11 into perspective, doesn't it?

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:26 PM | Comments (3)

Biden Boasts of Slave State Status

Joseph Biden (D-DE), known by some as the dumbest man in the U.S. Senate, has claimed that no one will dismiss him as a Northeastern liberal because Delaware was once a slave state. In an attempt to convince voters that he can compete with Southern Dems in the primaries, Biden raved:

You don't know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state.

Unfortunately for Biden, voters are likely to realize that only a Northeastern liberal could get his own foot that far down his throat.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:34 PM | Comments (1)

Tranny Teacher

The public is not invited to a parents' meeting in Rochester, New York, at which the topic of conversation will be a transgender teacher — i.e., a male faculty member who pretends to be a woman. There was no word on whether the teacher will assist in promoting "gender variance" among the students.

On a tip from The Right Reverend Rabbi Judah.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:16 PM

U.N. Has Been Providing Military Intelligence for Hezbos' Benefit

In the aftermath of the recent flare-up between Israel and Hezbollah, we can at least stop pretending that the U.N. is neutral in the greater war between civilization and Islamic imperialism. As the Weekly Standard reports, UNIFIL (the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) used its public website to post precise and up-to-date military intelligence regarding Israeli troop positions and movements, weaponry, and materiel.

The military intelligence handed out by UNIFIL — of obvious strategic importance to the Hezbos — could not be obtained from any non-U.N. source. Not even the blatantly pro-terrorist world press was publicizing this information, if only because reporters were too busy staging photos of put-upon Arabs to acquire it.

Stating the obvious, a retired senior military analyst noted that the intelligence "could have exposed Israeli soldiers to grave danger."

As for Hezbo movements and locations, the U.N. provided no specific information.

This isn't the first time UNIFIL did its part for jihad. In 2000, it videotaped the Hezbollah kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers, then stonewalled Israel for 9 months, pretending that it didn't have the tapes, even while clips from them were being shown on Syrian and Lebanese television.

Later U.N. bureaucrats justified their perfidious behavior by chirping that helping Israel recover the kidnapped soldiers by coughing up the tapes would have compromised their "full impartiality and objectivity," and that they had to "ensure that military and other sensitive information remains in their domain and is not passed to parties to a conflict." This shovelful of sanctimony is particularly amusing in light of the military intelligence they've been posting for Hezbollah's benefit.

Eventually Israel traded 429 Arab prisoners, including convicted terrorists, to get back the corpses of the soldiers, in whose deaths the U.N. is complicit.

The U.N. doesn't like the USA any better than it does Israel. The $billions we flush down this wicked organization every year are hardly likely to be applied toward advancing American interests, especially with the theatrically anti-American Hugo Chavez lobbying hard to join the Security Council.

The time has come to pull out of the U.N., before another cent is spent on the rope rogues will use to hang us.

Posted by Van Helsing at 3:34 PM

Sexually Disorienting Kindergarteners

Taking the culture war ever closer to the cradle, moonbats are now targeting 4-year-olds for sexual disorientation.

At the Park Day and Aurora private elementary schools in Oakland, allowances are made for incoming kindergarteners who don't "fit on either side of the gender line." At Park Day, a girl has been enrolled as a boy, and a "consultant" has been hired who worries that girls might become scarred by being forced to dress like girls. At Aurora, a clinical psychologist conducts staff training on how to nurture personality disorders in "gender fluid" children.

Apparently encouraging "gender variance" in kids too young to take the training wheels off their bicycles is all the rage in the Bay Area. Marci Riseman of San Francisco boasts of a 4-year-old son who likes pink dresses and wears a tutu to ballet class. Come back in 14 years and you will meet a very troubled young man who probably won't be voting Republican.

The Traditional Values Coalition refers to these efforts to indoctrinate little kids with sexual moonbattery as "normalizing the abnormal." Its executive director Andrea Lafferty zeroes in on the self-hatred that can be found at the root of all things liberal:

If you talk to your typical person across America, they would be appalled. [...] To teach a child at an early age self-hatred, and that's what this gender variance is, is very sad.

It's an open question whether "gender variance" advocates are only encouraging psychopathology, or actively creating it. As V the K asks:

What do you bet those confused little crumb-crunchers are just reflecting their parents' neuroses, or that "progressive" parents are encouraging little Emily to wear flannel and a toolbelt and little Berkeley to wear dresses and buttless leather chaps?

Whether they are planting the seeds of neurosis and depravity or just providing fertilizer, the gender variance crowd knows what it wants: future generations shaped in its own grotesque image.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:32 PM | Comments (5)

Ada Smith: New York's Cynthia McKinney

New York's answer to Cynthia McKinney is State Senator Ada Smith of Queens, who has recently been found guilty of harassment after pulling off a staffer's hairpiece and throwing hot coffee in her face. Smith's prior accomplishments include blowing off a direct order from a police officer after she improperly drove through a security checkpoint at Empire State Plaza in 2004, and biting a Brooklyn cop's hand in 1998.

As you might have guessed, Smith is a Democrat.

With McKinney on her way home to Atlanta, there is a gap to be filled in Washington. Smith's talents are being wasted in Albany. She is encouraged to run for Congress, where she can graduate to terrorizing Capitol police.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:42 AM | Comments (5)

August 27, 2006

British MP Praises Islamic Terrorists

Although the fifth column attempting to defeat us from within in our struggle against Islamic imperialism isn't exactly subtle, not even Reuters would make such a pageant of its treasonous allegiances as liberal MP George Galloway, who has been in Beirut praising the Hezbollah terrorists who provoked a deadly confrontation with Israel by kidnapping soldiers and firing thousands of rockets at civilians.

Raved Galloway:

I want to congratulate the Lebanese resistance and their leading edge, Hizbollah, whose martyrs [...] have achieved this great victory. And in particular to their leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose name now rings in joy around the world.

Galloway's heroic Hezbo terrorists, who hid behind civilians while repeatedly launching rockets into population areas so that Israel had no choice but to respond, are responsible for each and every death that occurred in this conflict.

This should go without saying, but it is the entire world's obligation to see to it that Hezbollah is completely eradicated. Their contempt for even the most basic conventions of acceptable behavior would have shamed Hitler. Civilization cannot function if rules apply only to the good guys, while the bad guys fire rockets from behind women and children. Nor will it be functional for long if it continues to be eaten away from within by the abject moonbattery that makes a character like Galloway possible.

Speaking of abject moonbattery, Galloway joins in Dhimmi Carter's recent bashing of Tony Blair with this nonsensical calumny:

Tony Blair did everything he could to extend, to prolong, to intensify the suffering of the people of Lebanon. The blood of these thousands is on his hands.

The difficulty of imaging a British MP traveling to enemy territory to denounce his Prime Minister during WWII gives an idea of how badly we've degenerated since the Greatest Generation.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:09 PM | Comments (1)

Carter Denounces Blair for Supporting America

Tony Blair has shown a great deal of political courage by standing firm beside Britain's historic ally America and participating in the struggle to defend civilization from the terror threats emanating from the Middle East. For this, former American President Jimmy Carter has rewarded him with a knife in the back.

As Blair attempts to rally his restive party behind him, Carter has once again let his mouth fall open to pour forth the seditious nastiness that appears to characterize his every thought. Clucked Jimbo:

I have been surprised and extremely disappointed by Tony Blair's behavior.

Blair earned Jimbo's stern disapproval by participating in rather than impeding the foreign policy of a country Carter obviously hates — his own. For this crime, Carter denounced Blair as being "compliant and subservient."

Carter also took the opportunity to repeat the tired and nonsensical canard that killing terrorists in Iraq will only make them angry, thereby strengthening al Qaeda. He also berated America for having low approval ratings in Egypt, the enlightened land that produced Mohammad Atta and that is handed $2 billion per year courtesy of American taxpayers as a legacy of Carter's disastrous administration.

Other irresponsible idiocies predictably spewed by this shameful old gadfly include the false and corrosive notions that Iraq is "not better off" having replaced a genocidal dictatorship with a democracy, and that the USA and Britain "are not safer" having rid the world of a tyrant who openly supported terrorism, developed and used weapons of mass destruction, and attempted to assassinate Jimbo's fellow ex-President Bush Senior.

That the Democratic Party would inflict treasonous vermin like Jimmy Carter on the nation without apology is reason enough to oppose it with every ounce of your will.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:03 PM | Comments (7)

August 26, 2006

Nagin Spits at Ground Zero

Don't forget to miss 60 Minutes tomorrow, so that you won't have to see New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin make this disgusting attempt to deflect criticism over his Three Stooges level of competence in dealing with Katrina:

You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed and it's five years later.

The "hole in the ground" is of course Ground Zero, where 2,752 people were murdered by Muslim terrorists on September 11, 2001. Cleanup of the site was finished ahead of schedule and under budget in May 2002. It involved removing 1.8 million tons of material. New Orleans remains a mess in every respect a year after Katrina.

Nagin's dig is a reference to the Twin Towers not having been replaced yet. True enough, the towers should have been rebuilt long ago, exactly as they were. Then we wouldn't have to worry about roaches like Nagin making fun of holes in the ground.

By the way, congrats to the Chocolate City Mayor on his Memorial Motor Pool:

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:21 AM | Comments (15)

August 25, 2006

Lettuce Lurches to the Left

Is John McCain (aka Lettuce McStain) getting carried away in a premature effort to jockey leftward as part of a misguided election strategy? Or is the inner moonbat that led him into the unholy matrimonies that produced such abominable offspring as McCain–Feingold campaign finance reform and the shamnesty proposal he cosponsored with Chappaquiddick Ted once again flapping out of its cave?

McStain, who favors the bureaucratic crippling of industry and transportation to placate liberal ideologues who believe human activity is responsible for climate fluctuation, is participating in a junket that will include a stop in the formerly temperate Greenland (now covered in ice), where he and other Senators will solemnly observe the alleged effects of global warming.

The trip will also take him to a ritzy resort in Italy. There he will pose with other bloviators at an economic and political conference, no doubt sharing with them his conviction that the Industrial Revolution must be repealed, if that's what it takes to get him into the White House.

This follows on the heels of an unseemly accusation that President Bush tricked us into thinking that the war in Iraq would be "some kind of day at the beach." Apparently Lettuce wasn't listening in March 2003, when the first bombs were dropped on Baghdad, and Bush warned that the conflict "could be longer and more difficult than some predicted," and that "helping Iraqis achieve a united, stable and free country will require our sustained commitment."

Larry Sabato of University of Virginia's Center for Politics says McCain is trying to distance himself from Bush to appeal to moderates, but will soon tack back in the other direction, so that primary and caucus voters will think he supports the President.

"In the next two weeks, minimum, he will say some very positive things about President Bush and his Iraq policy," predicts Sabato, who jokes that McCain "was against President Bush before he was for him."

As for me, I was against Lettuce McStain before I was even more against him.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:49 AM | Comments (14)

August 24, 2006

Moonbats Object to Addressing Canada Geese Plague

If there is one animal that no reasonable person could be exposed to without loathing, it is the Canada goose. They aren't ugly, other than being grotesquely large. But they are unnervingly aggressive, even dumber than you would expect, and above all, they are numerous.

Their numbers used to be quite manageable. But misguided efforts to increase their population succeeded all too well, producing a plague of the hateful creatures. They will congregate by the hundreds wherever they find mowed grass, quickly converting parks and baseball diamonds into disgusting no-go zones completely coated in droppings well over an inch thick, so that it is literally impossible to step anywhere without hearing a nauseating squish.

Due to their prevalence even in urban areas, their combination of mindlessness and aggressiveness causes Canada geese to wander into traffic, resulting in massive traffic jams since — due to our own combination of mindlessness and moonbattery — you can get in trouble for simply driving over the miserable beasts.

At last authorities are lightening up on the moronic restrictions that prevent people from dealing with this menace. Landowners will finally be allowed to destroy their nests and eggs without federal permits. Airports will be permitted to round them up to be put out of our misery. When the giant birds threaten public health by congregating in their copiously crapping multitudes at reservoirs, athletic fields, beaches, etc., local governments will actually be allowed to do something about it. The hunting season for Canada geese, which ought to be year-round with a bounty paid, is at least extended into August.

Moonbats are appalled. There are literally millions more geese than we know what to do with, but the Humane Society wants them gently moved to someplace where they will stop causing havoc. Raves its utterly delusional urban wildlife program director John Hadidian,

They are very smart birds, and they learn right away where they are and are not tolerated.

Anyone who has ever dealt with these winged vermin knows that Hadidian must be living in his own private reality, which is blissfully free of Canada geese.

Posted by Van Helsing at 4:19 PM | Comments (12)

Moonbat Mayor to Greet Vets With Cindy Sheehan

It's no wonder Salt Lake City's moonbat mayor Rocky Anderson is planning to bring in Cindy Sheehan for a protest during the American Legion's 88th annual national convention in his town next week. Countermoonbattery will dominate the Legion's agenda.

The convention will start with a recap of last year's resolution in support of the War on Terror, to which the loopy Left is so adamantly opposed.

Immigration reform will be discussed, with an emphasis on securing the border. Look for the Legion to reject amnesty and dual citizenship, and to call on immigrants to assimilate.

Also on the "top issues" agenda will be a discussion of how lawsuits waged by the ACLU are using taxpayers' money to attack American values.

Mayor Anderson's protest — timed to correspond with President Bush's arrival in Salt Lake City next Wednesday — may be understandable from the progressive point of view. But American Legion National Commander Tom Bock doesn't think much of it. He worries that service members will be maligned the way they were during Vietnam. Peaceniks may find it politically expedient these days to claim they support the troops even as they attack their mission, but in the end there is no separating the war from those who fight it. Says Bock:

When we start to fragment this country, that's when we start to feel defeat. America is not the bad guy — terrorists are the bad guys.

Terrorists — and their fifth column allies.

Posted by Van Helsing at 3:02 PM | Comments (4)

Fortune in Taxpayers' Money Goes to Goons Over Dead Dogs

The city of San Jose, California has agreed to pay nearly $800,000 to the Hells Angels because three of their dogs were killed during police raids following a killing at a strip club. Santa Clara County had already coughed up about $990,000 in claims as a result of the raids.

But that's okay. Taxpayers have lots more money where that came from.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:48 PM | Comments (1)

Animal Rights Creeps Target Dead Man's Parents

John Freeman died of pasteurellosis — aka "rabbit flu" — at the tragic age of 29, four days after picking up a rabbit on his Suffolk, England farm. Animal rights activists were so delighted, they repeatedly called his parents to share their joy.

One caller accused the couple's only child of "popping off rabbits for fun." Another suggested that his death was "rabbit's revenge."

The Freemans had to stay with relatives to escape the ringing phone. Said Mrs. Freeman:

They were implying that my son deserved to die. I just can't understand how people can be so callous. To ring someone up who is devastated with grief — it is disgusting.

Small wonder many moonbats identify more with animals than they do with human beings.

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Jerrold Nadler Discovers Republican Plot to Murder New Yorkers

A fuming Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) has revealed what "amounts to a conspiracy to murder thousands of New Yorkers."

This ghastly objective is to be accomplished by refusing to expand the clean-up area around Ground Zero. The conspiracy includes current and former NYC mayors Mike Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, New York Governor George Pataki, President Bush (naturally), and the EPA, which has offices near Ground Zero — possibly a clever attempt to throw off suspicion.

Karl Rove's possible involvement in this insidious plot remains a subject of conjecture.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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August 23, 2006

Tony Bennett Denounces America

Add Tony Bennett to the long list of ignorant zillionaire idiots in the entertainment industry who see fit to badmouth the great country that made their plush existences possible. Quoth the wise Bennett:

I have travelled around the world to Asia and Europe. They show you what they have contributed to the world. The British show you theatre, the Italians show you music and art, the French show you cooking and painting, and the Germans show you science. The only thing that the United States, which is still a young country, has contributed culturally to the world is jazz — elongated improvisation. It's tragic.

Worse yet, we don't even appreciate the jazz that is our only contribution to human civilization:

The Americans don't even know what they have come up with.

I'll have to admit, I can't stand jazz myself. But there are a few other American contributions that have apparently escaped Bennett's notice, including modern democracy, the telegraph, the sewing machine, the assembly line, the light bulb, the phonograph, the telephone, the airplane, splitting the atom, putting a man on the moon, the computer, the artificial heart, the human genome project, defeating communism, the blues, rock and roll, and a world-dominating entertainment industry that has made an ungrateful nitwit named Tony Bennett a very rich man.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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AP Making Amends?

Could it be that AP is feeling guilty about its left-leaning Lebanon fauxtography and wants to make amends? Look what they've put online:

The picture shows Seth Brigham of the Rocky Mountain Peace Center, who evidently believes that our termination of Saddam's genocidal dictatorship caused Hezbollah's recent attack on Israel, and that this somehow resulted in the death of JonBenet Ramsey in 1996.

I couldn't have summed up the lunatic Left any better in 1,000 words.

By the way, Brigham apparently really is a lunatic. Here's a sample of his writing (H/T: Hot Air):

From personal experience I can tell you that state mental hospitals are prisons unto themselves. I have never been convicted of a crime and have always volunteered for mental health treatment and yet I have found myself imprisoned and in isolation for many days on end.

Here's a little more background on Brigham, via Denver Westworld:

A longtime Boulder resident, he produces an off-color program for the city's public-access CATV Channel 54, during which he makes political statements against corporate greed and government censorship. And although Brigham is bipolar and suffers from anxiety, he handles his mental illness with humor. His show, called Notes From the Quiet Room, is mainly used to parody mental illness in hopes, he says, of removing the stigma.

This same sort of humor must have given rise to the term "reality-based community."

On a tip from V the K.

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Why Bumbling Savages Can Destroy Civilization

Special thanks to Walter Williams, for explaining why Western Civilization finds its very existence threatened by incompetent barbarians who are still living in the 7th Century. Iran, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, et al. would be insignificant pests if not for our only truly significant enemy, which works like AIDS to weaken our immunity so that a common cold hits us like pneumonia. That enemy is of course moonbattery.

As Williams observes, we have the capacity to blow Iran off the map. If the Iranians thought we had the character to exploit that capacity, they would immediately cease to be a problem. But being children of the Carter Administration, the ayatollahs know better.

Thankfully we didn't have to fight Germany and Japan amid the current state of decay. Imagine the outcry from the chorus of contemptible weasels known as the "international community" after Hiroshima and Dresden. Imagine how quickly limp U.N. types would call for ceasefires and negotiations as soon as we started to get the upper hand.

Before moonbattery had corroded both our spines and our minds, we realized that there could be no ceasefires with Hitler or Tojo. That would only have allowed them to regroup and then come back at us with more advanced technology. They were defeated because we understood that they had to be. The sort of insurgency we're dealing with in Iraq couldn't have occurred in Germany or Japan, because instead of fretting about their hearts or minds, we focused on totally vanquishing our foe, so that it was left with neither the means nor the will to resist.

The Germans and Japanese had competence, strong military traditions, and powerful economies in their favor. Muslims have a greater advantage: our press is on their side. If Joseph Goebbels had run our media in WWII, we'd be saluting swastikas now.

The internal enemies that flourish like toxic weeds in the smelly mulch of moonbattery are hardly limited to the media. Thanks to Democratic appointees like Anna Diggs Taylor, our legal system is lousy with them — to al Qaeda's great benefit. Our government itself is infected, as evidenced by Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), who recently announced, "I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah." Hezbollah isn't just waging a terrorist war against our ally Israel; it killed 241 members of the U.S. military when it bombed our barracks in Beirut.

Appeasement didn't work for Europe in the 1930s. If Hitler had been nipped in the bud, countless horrors could have been avoided, and tens of millions of lives saved — just as tens of millions of lives could be saved if we deal with Islamic imperialism before nuclear-armed terrorist regimes become a fact of life.

Iran knows we could kick it over like an anthill. It also knows that we won't. That is what gives it the freedom to develop weapons of mass destruction, to finance terrorism, and to wage proxy wars against Israel and the fledgling democracy in Iraq.

Having allowed Iran to develop nuclear weapons, why wouldn't we let it use them? Deterrence worked on the Soviet Union because they believed we would respond with massive nuclear retaliation if we or our allies were attacked. Why would Iran believe this?

If a nuclear device went off in New York City, would we retaliate on the appropriate scale? Possibly, but I doubt it. If I doubt it, the mullahs might doubt it. If the mullahs doubt it, they aren't just going to build the bomb, they are going to use it.

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Anti-Wiretapping Judge Has Major Conflict of Interest

Here's something appalling, but not at all surprising. The nonpartisan watchdog group Judicial Watch has discovered that Anna Diggs Taylor — who was appointed by Dhimmi Carter to impose leftist ideology from a bench in Detroit, and who recently ruled in favor of the ACLU that the NSA must stop protecting Americans from Islamic terrorists by monitoring overseas calls — has been pouring money into that same ACLU.

Judge Diggs Taylor's 2003 and 2004 financial disclosure statements reveal that she served as Secretary and Trustee for the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (CFSEM), a position to which she was reelected in June 2005. The CFSEM admits to having made a "recent grant" of $45,000 spread over two years to the pack of hyenas known as the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan — the same ones who brought the lawsuit against the NSA for wiretapping terrorists. Per the CFSEM website:

The Foundation's trustees make all funding decisions at meetings held on a quarterly basis.

In 2003, CFSEM made a donation of $180,000 to the Arab Community Center for Social and Economic Services, which has a case before Diggs Taylor.

Here's an idea: let's elect another Democratic President, and see if we can get Ayman al-Zawahiri appointed to the Supreme Court.

Hat tip: Stop the ACLU

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August 22, 2006

Enough Is Enough: The Anti-Moonbat Mutiny

Could it be that people have had enough of being fed to the teeth with moonbattery at the expense of their physical safety? Arnold Kling thinks so. Having noticed that "the political elites are out of touch with mass opinion," Kling refers to the Monarch Airlines Flight A320 passengers who recently refused to fly with a couple of suspicious Muslim-looking characters as evidence that there has been a "shift in the popular mood" in the USA, Britain, and Israel — the three countries that constitute civilization's front line in the conflict with Islamic imperialism.

Some of us were bound to get sick of being told we're "racist" if we don't like it that Muslims want to kill us for failing to worship their barbaric god. A few might even be a little tired of having to show up at the airport three hours early to have our toothpaste confiscated and be forced to take our shoes off because the authorities are too politically correct to concentrate their efforts on the people who actually pose a threat.

Kling lists a few "elite opinions" he feels we've heard enough of:

• The world's Muslims share our desire for peace and democracy.
• Equal-opportunity passenger screening at airports is a better policy than profiling.
• The United Nations is the world's conscience and policeman.
• The "international community" will deal with Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
• It is possible for the United States to bring about a constructive transformation of Middle East politics, either through diplomatic or military initiatives.

We're told we need to win hearts and minds. But it's getting harder to hide the fact that if this approach were going to work on Muslims, it would have by now.

Kling predicts that popular opinion will swing toward one of two positions:

• The Middle East is a hopeless cauldron of hatred. We should focus on homeland security, stay out of the Middle East, and have as little interaction with the Muslim world as possible; or
• A major war is inevitable, so that we need to get ready for it. Nothing else will stop Iranian aggression, and nothing else will stifle the funding, sponsoring, and glorification of terrorists.

The first is tempting to embrace, but Islam is not a menace we can turn our back on, as September 11 and the string of lesser attacks building up to it should have taught us. Britain, with its massive Pakistani population, doesn't have the option of withdrawal, nor does Israel.

We might just have to grasp the nettle and face up to the reality that Islam wants to hurt us. There's no use waiting for our superiors to figure it out.

On a tip from Byron.

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PSA: Lou Barletta

Lou Barletta, the Mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania who has been set upon by the ACLU for attempting to uphold the rule of law in the face of the tidal wave of illegal immigration threatening to wash away his town, makes his case quite eloquently on the Sam Lesante Show. You can see it streamed on SSPTV Wednesday at 11:30 AM, 7 PM, and 9 PM, and Thursday at 11 AM and 9 PM.

To show your support for the honorable and besieged Mayor Barletta, stop by Small Town Defenders.

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Liberal Columnist: We Need More Girlie Men to Confront Islamic Terror

St. Petersburg Times columnist Robyn Blumner has the struggle against Islamic terror figured out: all we need is "more girlie men."

The problem is that we are just too masculine. When terrorists fly planes full of our people into skyscrapers full of more of our people, we want to retaliate in a way that will prevent it from happening again. If we weren't so macho, we would realize that this only creates "a vicious cycle of ever-deepening depravity."

Instead of inviting Osama bin Laden to come on Oprah and talk about his feelings, we take "George Bush's swaggering cowboy approach to geopolitics." Bush "likes his enemies in black hats." If he weren't such a he-man, maybe he would be empathetic enough to understand that homicidal Muslim maniacs aren't bad people; they're only crying out for help.

Blumner quotes ivory tower wise man Gary Bertsch of the University of Georgia, who frets that people won't like us because we have used the military instead of Foggy Bottom bloviators to deal with terrorism. According to Bertsch, we must put emphasis on dialogue and give and take negotiation, as opposed to military dominance. Evidently that will enable us to set aside our differences, all hold hands, and sing Kumbaya with the Islamic fanatics so devoted to our destruction that they are perfectly willing to blow themselves to bits if they can take a few of our civilians out with them.

Blumner's piece is highly recommended for anyone who does not understand why it is a matter of life and death that Democrats do not take control of the government. It could quite literally be national suicide to put the country in the hands of these idiots at this point in history.

Nestled deep in that brown smelly stuff they call "nuance," liberals simply have no clue how to deal with reality. But reality will know how to deal with them. We certainly don't want them imposing their fate on the rest of us.

On a tip from Bergbikr.

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Why Dems Hate Wal-Mart

It shouldn't surprise anyone that Dems like Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Evan Bayh, Joe Lieberman, and Ned Lamont are making a campaign theme out of bashing Wal-Mart — after all, to many it represents capitalism and mid-America, two things Dems' base bitterly hates. But as Caroline Baum suggests, they might want to look for some other boogeyman, because many voters will know that Wal-Mart does far more good than harm.

A study by Global Insight associates Wal-Mart's expansion during 1985-2004 with declines of 9.1% in food prices, 4.2% in goods prices, and 3.1% in consumer price index, which translates to a 0.17% reduction in the annual inflation rate.

Wal-Mart stimulates retail job creation. Over the study's 20-year period, it has created 210,000 jobs that would not have existed otherwise. Wal-Mart itself employs 1.3 million people, making it the country's largest private employer.

Some whine that Wal-Mart pays low wages, but in reality, it is the retail industry in general that pays low wages; as Global Insight states, "Wal-Mart does not appear to be paying below market wages." Due to Wal-Mart's depressant effect on inflation, real wages are 0.9% higher over the last 20 years than they would have been without Wal-Mart.

Liberals portray a job at Wal-Mart as hell on Earth. Yet when one opened in the Chicago area last January, 25,000 people applied for 325 jobs.

As Baum writes,

When Wal-Mart opens superstores in rural America, it brings jobs to the community. It provides goods as cheaply as possible to Americans who wouldn't otherwise have access to such a wide array of merchandise at rock-bottom prices. It even offers health-care plans for as little as $11 a month in some areas.

Dems' real gripe is that Wal-Mart has been able to grow so fast and offer such low prices because it has avoided unionization. This is further proof that unions may be great friends of Democratic politicians, but by driving up not only prices but unemployment, they are no friends of workers.

By the way, it's not only Americans who benefit from the Wal-Mart dragon the Democratic knights would like to slay with regulations. Michael Strong estimates that Wal-Mart could be bringing 38,000 Chinese out of poverty every month.

About 70% of the products sold at Wal-Mart are made in China, giving it direct access to the American market. The result is that Wal-Mart pulls about 460,000 Chinese per year out of poverty — probably more than all the pious NGOs in the world combined. Considering that government-to-government aid damages economies as often as it helps them, no one does more to combat poverty than Wal-Mart, including the World Bank.

No wonder libs hate Wal-Mart. Just as the Soviet Union proved that socialism doesn't work, Wal-Mart proves how well capitalism does.

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Where Are All the Hurricanes?

Look for Al Gore and his Chicken Little acolytes to find something to fret about other than hurricanes this year. As you'll recall, last year a bad hurricane season highlighted by Katrina and Rita had the global warming herd stampeding to the conclusion that Bush's nefarious refusal to regulate SUVs out of existence was going to cause the world to blow away in a storm. But despite our government not having gone insane and signed the absurd Kyoto protocol, this year's Atlantic storm season is below normal.

Average at this point in the season is 1.5 hurricanes. So far in 2006 we're holding steady at none.

The reason we haven't had a hurricane is that sea surface temperatures have been cooler than average. Globally averaged temperatures in the upper ocean have cooled dramatically since 2003, countering 20% of the global warming occurring over the previous 48 years.

Proving that humans are causing global warming would be very hard. Proving that economy-ruining regulations would prevent it would be even harder. Proving that we are on the brink of a climatic catastrophe as Al Gore has been screeching so profitably would be impossible. Even proving that global warming is a problem is no cinch.

On the bright side for liberals, some glaciers continue to recede — as they have been doing since the 19th Century. Unfortunately, these are countered to some extent by "galloping glaciers," which grow by up to 50 meters per day; there are almost four times as many of these as were previously estimated.

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The Approaching Point of No Return

Thank you Thomas Sowell, for pointing out a few simple realities that our leaders do not seem willing to address. Nuclear-armed Muslim fanatics, like we will soon have in Iran and before long throughout the Middle East, cannot be reasoned with, negotiated with, placated, or deterred. You can't trade them land for peace, cash for peace, nuclear technology for peace, or anything else. What they want is our humiliation and destruction. If drastic action isn't taken soon, they will get it.

The humiliation of Versailles made the Third Reich possible. But Muslim humiliation goes deeper. According to their ideology, non-Muslims are subhuman. Yet the Islamic world is undeniably inferior, and has been for centuries. What Muslims want is not a Palestinian homeland, but to punish us for their own intolerable inadequacy.

If only someone at the State Department would listen when Sowell asks:

What kind of people provide a market for videotaped beheadings of innocent hostages? What kind of people would throw an old man in a wheelchair off a cruise liner into the sea, simply because he was Jewish? What kind of people would fly planes into buildings to vent their hate at the cost of their own lives?

These are the kinds of people we are talking about getting nuclear weapons.

He's right that this "is not just another in the long history of military threats." Communists were evil but rational. Radical Muslims are both evil and insane. Our only options are to fight them before they have nukes, or fight them afterwards.

Sowell concludes:

Their treatment of hostages, some of whom have been humanitarians serving the people of the Middle East, shows that what the terrorists want is to inflict the maximum pain and psychic anguish on their victims before killing them.

Once these fanatics have nuclear weapons, those victims can include you, your children and your children's children.

The terrorists need not start out by wiping our cities off the map. Chances are they would first want to force us to humiliate ourselves in whatever ways their sadistic imaginations could conceive, out of fear of their nuclear weapons.

After we, or our children and grandchildren, find ourselves living at the mercy of people with no mercy, what will future generations think of us, that we let this happen because we wanted to placate "world opinion" by not acting "unilaterally"?

We are fast approaching the point of no return.

As this situation spins out of control, American voters contemplate returning control of Congress to Democrats, who have shown nothing but contempt for the struggle against Islamic terror, and have done what they could to impede it. If you own stock in the human race, now might be a good time to sell.

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August 21, 2006

Ahmadinejad Calls for America and England to "Bow and Surrender"

It seems we just aren't negotiating hard enough with Iran's maniacal president. While Western bureaucrats wring their hands and mumble about carrots, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is giving speeches like the one you can see here. A couple of highlights:

I want to declare loud and clear, so that the whole world will hear: These two countries [USA and U.K.] are not worthy of being members of the Security Council. [...]

If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.

I guess that explains why oil-glutted Iran needs nuclear technology. But there's a bright side: at least Jimmy Carter isn't in the White House.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Muslim Gangs Shoot Up Norwegian Waterfront

Peaceful Scandinavia continued its slide into violent chaos yesterday as Muslim gangs turned Norway's crowded waterfront complex Aker Brygge into a shooting gallery.

Located on Oslo's inner harbor, Aker Brygge features shopping, restaurants, offices, and residences. It was packed when the shootout occurred a little shy of 8:00 PM on a sunny summer evening. Two men — apparently innocent bystanders — suffered leg wounds.

Police are asking for help from the local Pakistani community. Lots of luck.

Wondered one witness,

How on earth can something like this happen here?

Welcome to Eurabia.

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P.C. Bean-Counters Distort School Textbooks

The quest for "diversity" — i.e., political correctness — is resulting in school textbooks that are becoming increasingly surreal in their rejection of reality in favor of the imaginary world the liberal elite would like us to think we live in.

To avoid trouble with educrats, publishers set quotas for how many minorities and handicappers must appear in their books. According to New York University professor Diane Ravitch:

There's more textbook space devoted to photos, illustrations and graphics than there's ever been, but frequently they have nothing to do with the lesson. They're just there for political reasons, to show diversity and meet a quota of the right number of women, minorities and the disabled.

Race-obsessed bean-counters often bleat that they're only trying to stay true to actual proportions. But in 2004, non-Hispanic whites accounted for 67.4% of the U.S. population, 59.9% among school-age kids. The quotas don't reflect this.

Here are McGraw-Hill's allocations:

• 40% white
• 30% Hispanic
• 20% black
• 7% Asian
• 3% American Indian

Reed Elsevier's Harcourt Education is a little easier on the white folks:

• 50% white
• 22% black
• 20% Hispanic
• 5% Asian
• 5% American Indian

At Harcourt, 3% have to be disabled. Others apparently have quotas for this too. Wheelchairs are kept on hand for props. Photographer Angela Coppola estimates that at least three quarters of the ostensibly disabled children in Houghton Mifflin textbooks are faking it. Using phonies has its benefits — real handicappers aren't easy to find at modeling agencies, and can be a problem logistically. Besides, they often have conditions like cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy that can make them less pleasant to look at.

It's not enough just to satisfy the bean-counters with numbers. Groups must be presented appropriately. According to McGraw-Hill's 2004 guidelines, Asians are not be seen "with glasses, bowl-shaped haircuts, or as intellectuals"; blacks must be "in positions of power, not just in service industries." An older McGraw-Hill manual forbids showing Asians as waiters, laundry owners, or math students. Mexicans aren't to be portrayed wearing ponchos or wide-brimmed hats — or drinking tequila, presumably. Blacks must not be portrayed in "crowded tenements on chaotic streets" or even in "innocuous, dull, white picket fence neighborhoods," for they must be shown to reside in "all neighborhoods, including luxury apartments."

Specific pictures that don't comply with these standards get deep-sixed, included one which was incorrect enough to show a barefoot child in an African village. Evidently we're supposed to pretend that African villagers bounce around in Nikes.

Not only illustrations, but actual content is affected. The McGraw-Hill 2002 textbook "The American Republic Since 1877" includes a profile and photo of the first African-American woman pilot, but doesn't get around to mentioning the Wright brothers.

Of course, anything that might offend Muslims must go, including a picture of a pig walking down a street that was banished from the cover of a Pearson Education first-grade reader in 2005.

Given their nearly absolute control of publishing and education, moonbats can be expected to continue constructing an alternate world that is more to their liking. Someday kids may learn that "Native Americans" (as opposed to natives of America) invented the airplane and that Lance Armstrong was paraplegic when he won the Tour de France. Needless to say, public education is to be avoided at all costs.

On a tip from Varla.

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Libs Claim Kids Wrote "Children's Bill of Rights"

Those who think pint-sized bigot Autum Ashante actually wrote the racist diatribes she has been trained to recite in front of elementary school audiences will be impressed by Portland, Oregon's Children's Bill of Rights, which we are asked to believe was written by little kids.

Gushes the laughably credulous Oregonian:

Portland will soon become the first major U.S. city to have a children's bill of rights written by the very people it affects. [...] The document is a no-surprises list of fundamental needs and philosophies any parent or compassionate adult could support...

At least they got the "no-surprises" part right:

The three-page document holds a few basic truths to be self-evident: Every child deserves a voice in the decisions that shape their lives; every kid is entitled to a quality education, starting in preschool and extending beyond high school; and every youngster has a right to "physical, mental and spiritual wellness." [...]

All children [...] are entitled to extracurricular activities at school, including athletics and arts. Children should be free from discrimination regardless of race, religion, socioeconomic status or sexual orientation.

The bill of rights [...] makes it clear city and county governments should continue work to end homelessness and fight drug abuse.

In other words, it is a laundry list of liberal talking points, allegedly written by a "committee of more than 30 children," but apparently actually penned by Karin Hansen, wife of Portland Mayor Tom Potter.

Potter has been on a crusade to raise taxes so that more money can be flushed down public schools. A certifiable moonbat, he has children "testify" at the beginning of each week's City Council meeting, a tradition he links to the multicultural practices of African tribesmen.

Maybe politicians should stick to kissing babies, as opposed to using them for puppets.

On a tip from V the K.

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August 20, 2006

Sheehanistas Denounce Karl Rove's Foreign Policy

Here's something I didn't realize: White House political adviser Karl Rove is in charge of U.S. foreign policy. This surprising fact came to light when Cindy Sheehan led an army of moonbats in a siege of a fundraiser at which Rove spoke in Austin Saturday.

Chanting "Try Rove for treason," the Sheehanistas stormed the doors in an attempt to disrupt the $200 a plate dinner, while a jovial Rove made jokes at their expense inside. One moonbat managed to sneak into the dinner, but was soon escorted out again.

Screeched Sheehan:

I want him arrested. He planned the war that killed my son.

Earlier in the day, peaceniks carried a banner reading "Rove: Guilty of crimes against humanity." A moonbat named Ann Wright, who used to be a U.S. diplomat, yelled "Karl Rove, you are a criminal!" through a bullhorn.

Other than killing Casey Sheehan and usurping control of the American government, it's not clear what crimes Rove is alleged to have committed, although it certainly seems they must be serious.

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Michael Moore Inspires Terrorist Propaganda

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Michael Moore must be ecstatic. The terrorists he so admires for killing Americans in Iraq have offered him the ultimate tribute by lifting scenes from his "Fahrenheit 9/11" for a propaganda video produced by the Rashedeen Army, a Sunni insurgent group. Mixed in with graphic images of Humvees being blown up by IEDs and purportedly dead American soldiers is a scene of Moore lobbying on the steps in front of Congress as the terrorist narrator says:

After all, there are honest and influential guys in America and if Mr Moore can talk to you like that, so can I.

Imagine being called an "honest and influential guy" by the modern equivalent of the Minutemen! But Moore must feel an even more profound satisfaction to know he has had an artistic influence on the terrorist community.

On a tip from The Right Reverend Rabbi Judah.

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Blogger Fired for Thought Crime as Europe Slouches Toward Dhimmitude

Earlier in the month, blogger Inigo Wilson posted a funny and insightful Lefty Lexicon, which attempts to define a few terms of liberal Newspeak. Muslim activists took offense to entries like these:

Islamophobic — anyone who objects to having their transport blown up on the way to work.

Palestinians — archetype "victims" no matter how many teenagers they murder in bars and fast food outlets. Never responsible for anything they do — or done in their name — because of "root causes" or "legitimate grievances".

In the current political climate, it is unthinkable that a European would be allowed to say anything Muslim activists don't want people to here. Consequently, Wilson has been fired from his job at the mobile phone company Orange. Muslims are ululating in triumph.

Soon history will look back and ask how Islam could have displaced European civilization without even encountering resistance. The answer will be that this barbaric death cult is receiving a great deal of help from the liberal elite, which semiconsciously shares its goal of obliterating the West. The liberal elite establishment will see to it that thought criminals — i.e., anyone suspected of opposing Muslims' gradual conquest — are silenced, as we recently saw with the Brussels Journal, and as has been illustrated so appallingly in the case of Oriana Fallaci.

Dhimmitude, coupled by the massive immigration and explosive birth rates of Muslims, poses a far more serious threat to Europe even than communism and Nazism. Europe would have survived conquest by Stalin or Hitler; given enough time, civilization would have reemerged. When Islam swallows up Europe, it will be gone forever.

On a tip from Steve.

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August 19, 2006

Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Bashes Jews, Koreans, and Arabs

Prominent Democrat Andrew Young has been many things in his career: civil rights leader, Atlanta mayor, American ambassador to the United Nations. One job that he will probably leave off his resume is head of Working Families for Wal-Mart, which aims to counter the hostile propaganda Young's colleagues on the Left have been directing at the world's largest retailer.

For a former close associate of Martin Luther King, Young did a remarkably poor job of improving Wal-Mart's public image. When asked in a newspaper interview whether he was concerned about Wal-Mart driving mom-and-pop stores out of business, Young had this to say:

Well, I think they should; they ran the "mom and pop" stores out of my neighborhood. But you see, those are the people who have been overcharging us, selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables. And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs; very few black people own these stores.

As Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles observed,

[I]f anyone would utter remarks like this about African-Americans, his voice would be the first to rise in indignation.

But nobody should be too surprised, considering that Young was backing Cynthia McKinney — who is often associated with Jew-baiting — in her recent unsuccessful primary campaign, on the grounds that "Congress needs controversy."

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Zombies

Here's a classic blast from the past, compliments of Larry B:

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Flake on a Plane Follow-Up

Catherine Mayo — whose moonbattery blossomed into florid psychosis aboard a flight from London to Washington last Wednesday, forcing it to be rerouted to Boston — has found some sympathy among her fellow "journalists." Have an airsick bag at hand; here's how the Boston Globe (owned by the NY Times) tells the tale of how Cathy came to publish grade-school–level anti-American diatribes in a Pakistani newspaper:

It was March 2003, the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, and into the office of dumbfounded Pakistani newspaper editor Najam Sethi walked an articulate, fresh-faced Vermont woman, saying she wanted to vent her anger at America in his pages.

Violence-plagued Lahore teemed with anti-American sentiment, yet Catherine C. Mayo seemed to move about with ease, Sethi recalled. And writing for the Daily Times of Pakistan, Mayo told about her 1960s activism. About her love of Cat Stevens and Howard Dean. About the mountains and lakes of her native Vermont. And about her shame and anger at America.

It's nice that the "fresh-faced" Mayo refrained from pulling down her pants and piddling on the floor, as she did on United Flight 923. Cat Stevens, by the way, is a hippy musician who converted to Islam and went on the record as agreeing that Salman Rushdie deserves to be murdered for annoying Iran's mullahcracy. He now calls himself Yusuf Islam.

The sympathetic Globe sums up Mayo with this:

[T]he picture that emerges from her intensely personal writings and from brief interviews with her family is that of a longtime liberal activist who became angry and devastated by the turn of events in the world since Sept. 11, 2001.

Could this be a roundabout way of diagnosing Bush Derangement Syndrome? Speaking of Mayo's "intensely personal writings," here's another sample, from a work entitled A New Kind of Arrogance (hat tip: Sweetness & Light, on a tip from Byron):

It gives me a severe case of nerves when I know what the news is before I have read it. Once America decided that "might is right", everything else became a cliché, too. When dissent is not allowed, all truth becomes predictable. [...]

Americans are not surprised that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They are not surprised that Saddam Hussein cannot be found, and that Chemical Ali is missing instead of dead. They are not surprised that there is no Al Qaeda there. They are a little surprised that Iraq has so much desert, they thought that Baghdad made up most of the country. They are not surprised that Iraq’s only terrorist group has been recruited by US troops to serve as a police force. They are not surprised that Iraq’s nuclear facility has been looted, and Iraqi people are showing clear signs of radiation poisoning. What surprises them is that people are asking questions. [...] It goes right over the heads of Americans that when a crime has been committed, questions need to be asked.

Americans are true innocents when it comes to this. Since they did it, no crime has been committed, because America cannot do anything wrong. It is the innocence of an arrogance that even other empires in the world do not understand.

How tragic that she was wasting this talent at Pakistan's Daily Times. Maybe the Globe can make room on its staff.

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Politically Correct Fashion Casualties

In fashion news, condoms are reportedly all the rage at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto.

Franck DeRose, executive director of The Condom Project, aspires to "de-stigmatize" condoms by getting people to wear them as jewelry. He encourages people to create wearable art out of prophylactics, which allegedly "opens the door" to wider acceptance. According to DeRose, almost 400,000 condoms have been made into brooches and pins in various exotic places like Senegal and Burkina Faso.

Boasts DeRose:

I have grandparents making them in Togo and Ethiopia. I have groups of heterosexual men making them in Washington.

Adriana Bertini of Brazil does him one better by making clothing out of condoms, including "a blue harem outfit made of blue condoms, complete with a tight bodice and full-legged trousers." Here is Indian transvestite Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, admiring some of Bertini's work at the Toronto AIDS conference the other day:

If you'd like to impress your colleagues with both your fashion sense and your AIDS awareness, be the first in your department to wear a condom harem outfit to the office.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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August 18, 2006

Flight Psycho Is Confirmed Moonbat

As should surprise no one, the woman who went bonkers on a flight from London to Washington the other day, forcing it to make an emergency landing in Boston under escort by military jets, is a moonbat.

On board the flight, self-described peace activist Catherine Mayo made scary references to al Qaeda, asked if it was a "training flight for United Flight 93," produced a bag full of forbidden items including a Phillips-head screwdriver, and after pulling her pants down, urinated in the aisle in full view of other passengers. She was finally subdued and handcuffed.

Although this behavior is a little over the top even for a progressive, her political views aren't much wackier than the New York Times' editorial page. Mayo splits her time between Vermont and Pakistan, where she is a journalist for the Daily Times. Below are samples of her published writings.

From State of the Union, 2003:

I think the US people have forgotten that President Bush didn't win the election. He only got the job because they couldn't decide what to do with pregnant chads in Florida. [...] So when President Bush announced that God was telling him to bomb Iraq, my stomach turned over. He has no right to include God in his State of the Union address. [...] The government of the US has changed in the last few months, and the citizens of the country haven't noticed yet. It has become an oligarchy. Its leaders rule with a wave of their hands, laughing into their sleeves. They can create any truth they want, and then create proof that it is real. [...] When President Bush says that he is God, the ordinary people go out and shovel the snow out of their driveways. There is nothing else they can do.

From Value of Dissent:

The folksongs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush. He has hampered the liberties of my country in the name of September 11. Songs now can only talk of patriotism, they cannot mention peace.

From Freedom after 9/11:

Like their troops, Americans are plagued by questions about why they are in Iraq. No WMD, no Al Qaeda, no regime change. But they can't admit this to themselves. Never in history has the US made such a bad mistake. [..] Americans do not have a sense of humour anymore. This is the most telling characteristic now, the biggest cultural difference between them and the rest of the world. They can't laugh at a joke, they don't even understand it.

So maybe the scene on the airplane was a joke? More likely, Mayo's entire existence is a joke — a bad joke that the Left keeps telling.

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Conservative Blog Under Siege by Dhimmi Authorities in Belgium

In a frightening development, the Brussels Journal is under siege by the politically correct dhimmis overseeing the displacement of European civilization by Islam.

Based in Belgium, this excellent blog is edited by journalist Paul Belien, who lost his newspaper job by publishing an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that failed to toe the liberal line on abortion.

For drawing attention to the encroaching horror of the Islamic conquest of Europe, Belien has been accused by Muslims' dhimmi collaborators of "racism." This is the modern equivalent of denouncing someone as a witch. Clearly, the threat Belien has been attempting to warn us about is not a matter of race, but of culture and ideology. But the definition of "racism" is easily expanded to fit any thought crime.

Belien is now subject to an official investigation. Police have been visiting his residence.

If Europe's liberal elite is able to silence voices of sanity like Belien's, Islam's demographic conquest is certain to succeed. Within many of our lifetimes, we will look across the Atlantic and see nothing but totalitarian Islamic regimes armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. The great treasures of Western art will go the way of the Buddhist statues blown up by the Taliban. Concepts like democracy and decent treatment of women (let alone equal rights for women) simply won't exist there anymore. European culture will be eradicated, just as the diverse cultures of the Middle East were eradicated during the catastrophic spread of Islam during the Dark Ages.

The only hope for Europe is that brave voices like Belien's are allowed to be heard. It may not be too late for Europe to snap out of its moonbattery and defend itself from Muslim encroachment. Pardon the melodrama, but the future of human civilization is at stake.

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Liberal Activist Judge Scores Victory for Islamic Terrorists

Underscoring yet again how crucial it is not only to the health of the country but to our physical safety that Democrats be kept from positions of authority, a judge appointed by Jimmy Carter is demanding that the NSA shut down a perfectly legal wiretapping program used to gather the sort of information that saved thousands of lives when a plot to blow up transatlantic flights was foiled last week.

From her bench in Detroit, America's most liberal city, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor issued a nonsensical ruling claiming that listening to the overseas calls of enemies plotting to kill American civilians constitutes a violation of free speech and privacy rights.

The ruling came in response to a suit brought by a fifth-column alliance that included the ACLU, the Hamas front group Council on American-Islamic Relations, the watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) at Greenpeace, left-wing journalist Christopher Hitchens, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, whose former president Nancy Hollander "stated that she frequently engages in international communications with individuals who have alleged connections with terrorist organizations" in a footnote to the ruling. That was meant not as an argument to keep a close eye on this woman, but to prevent the government from surveilling terrorists.

Like the ACLU, Judge Taylor has a communist background. She helped set up an office of the National Lawyers Guild, described by Congress as the "legal bulwark of the Communist Party." She is exactly the sort of individual a Democratic president would appoint to impose left-wing ideology at the expense of our well-being and security.

That the Left is effectively operating as an ally to Islamic terrorists who are trying to kill us cannot be credibly denied. Distinguishing between terrorists and their liberal enablers is increasingly a matter of splitting hairs. They serve different roles, but in the same army. They share an objective: the destruction of our civilization.

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August 17, 2006

Molly Ivins: Lethally Stupid Liberalism Personified

A rant by liberal columnist Molly Ivins, published just a week after a Muslim plot was foiled that could have killed thousands aboard transatlantic flights, gives an idea of the kind of trouble we will be in if liberals take control of the government with the country under terrorist threat.

According to Ivins, who presumably is paid good money to share her Democratic wisdom, terrorism is not a threat at all, but rather a joke. The "Karl Rove tactic" of asking people to take terrorism seriously is "close to comedy." Here's how she dismisses a large terror cell that was broken up in Canada:

Seventeen people were arrested in Canada for intending to behead the prime minister. Has anyone in all of history ever cared that much about a Canadian prime minister?

Applying this same razor wit to attempts to incarcerate terrorists, Ivins smirks,

Of the hundreds of prisoners, alleged terrorists all, who have been held at Guantanamo on the grounds that they were the worst of the worst, only about 10 have ever been charged with anything.

The rest, presumably, are innocent as babes. Maybe Ivins would like to invite them over for tea.

As for the recently foiled transatlantic terror plot:

In the latest episode, shortly after the announcement of a British-based plot to blow up American airliners, the United Kingdom and the United States were already airing their differences over when the perpetrators should have been arrested.

The Bush administration has put itself in the position of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. If, God forbid, a serious terrorist conspiracy is uncovered, there will be a tendency to dismiss it as a backlash to these overhyped "plots."

A plan to murder thousands of people does not constitute a "a serious terrorist conspiracy" to an elite opinion-maker like Ivins. Trying to pass it off as some kind of big deal makes Bush the boy who cried wolf. As for September 11, Ivins has forgotten all about it, and expects the rest of us to do the same.

If you value your life and the life of your family, do whatever you can to prevent the sort of people idiots like Molly Ivins would have you vote for from taking control of the government.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:41 PM | Comments (3)

Clinton Family Portrait

Here's a portrait presented to Bill Clinton by an Indian delegate at the 16th World AIDS Conference in Toronto the other day. I recognize Bubba, but who's the woman to his left?

She's more identifiable when she puts her best face forward:

Compliments of Wiggins.

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Jimmy Carter Spouts From the Perfect Platform

Congratulations to Jimmy "The Dhimmi" Carter on finding the ideal platform from which to pour the deluge of seditious sanctimony that gushes unendingly from his undisciplined mouth. Who better to host our worst ex-President's most recent indulgence in gross moonbattery than Germany's tirelessly America-bashing Der Spiegel (The Mirror — possibly so-called because it reflects everything backwards)?

Even Der Spiegel was less hostile to America and Israel than Carter in their recent interview. Below are just a few of the lowlights.

After Carter denounced the USA for supporting Israel in its attempts to defend itself from Hezbollah's kidnappings and rockets...

SPIEGEL: But wasn't Israel the first to get attacked?

CARTER: I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

You read that correctly: there is no difference in the funhouse that serves Carter for a mind between incarcerating terrorists and sneaking into another country to kidnap soldiers. This is the guy Spiegel calls "the moral conscience of your country." Carter wouldn't qualify as the moral conscience of a rat's nest. As for Israel's "massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon" — this sort of cartoonish hyperbole sounds much more appropriate coming out of Hassan Nasrallah or the BBC than an ex-President of Israel's only ally.

It gets worse. With a little encouragement from his left-wing German friends, Carter lets his paranoid bigotry out into the daylight. Regarding the "rather strange coalition between Christian fundamentalists and the Republican Party"...

SPIEGEL: How can such a coalition