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September 30, 2006

$1,000,000,000,000: The Cost of Indulging in Global Warming Moonbattery

A major study by PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that the cost of curbing gases alleged by people of a certain political persuasion to cause global warming will come to $1 trillion, the equivalent of a year's output for the entire economy of Canada.

Energy consumption and carbon emissions will continue to rise dramatically due to the industrial development of China and India, two countries much more focused on rising out of poverty than on environmentalism. Both have signed the preposterous Kyoto agreement, because it requires nothing of them. Meanwhile, the West is expected to pony up the $1 trillion so as to set Al Gore's mind at ease about the future of the planet.

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Muslim Prayer Zone Opens in Windsor Castle

In the name of the multicultural sensitivity that will completely cease to exist in Europe once Muslims establish hegemony, England is marching into dhimmitude one small step at a time. The latest step: a Muslim prayer zone has been established at Windsor Castle.

The prayer zone was introduced at the request of 19-year-old Muslim Nagina Chaudhry, who works in the castle's gift shop. She crows:

It feels amazing to be the first Muslim to read namaz (prayers) at Windsor Castle.

Windsor Castle is the official residence of the Queen of England, who is the supreme head of the Church of England. Buckingham Palace, the Queen's residence in Londonistan, already has a Muslim prayer zone.

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September 29, 2006

Al Gore Reveals That Cigarettes Cause Global Warming

There was a time when Al Gore pandered to voters with boasts like this:

I've raised tobacco ... I've shredded it, spiked it,... and sold it.

If this is true, he owes his environmentalist friends a fortune in eco-indulgences, because now Gore has revealed that cigarette smoking is a "significant" contributor to his current hobbyhorse, the bane of mankind and all life on Earth, global warming.

The revelation was made to a receptive audience at United Nations headquarters, where Prince Albert spent nearly 3 hours lecturing bureaucrats on the perils of warm weather, on invitation from his old pal Kofi Annan.

Those in the audience lacking the initiative to sneak out of the auditorium learned not only that cigarette smoking is causing the planet to heat up, but that Greenland runs the risk of "splitting in two" — and that if that happens, parts of Manhattan, Shanghai, and Mumbai "will disappear."

It just gets scarier and scarier, doesn't it?

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Carcinogenic Chicken Suit

Freelance food police are now going after restaurants and fast-food chains for serving grilled chicken that allegedly could cause cancer.

A DC posse calling itself Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine wisely filed their suit in moonbattery-laden California, where sympathetic judges and juries should not be hard to find. The goal is "to compel the restaurants to warn unsuspecting consumers" of the evils of broiled chicken, which contains an obscure chemical called PhIP that in sufficient doses could supposedly cause cancer.

Cries PCRM president Neal Barnard:

Even a grilled chicken salad increases the risk of breast cancer, prostate cancer and other forms of this lethal disease.

The victims of the suit are McDonald's, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Chili's, Applebee's, Outback Steakhouse, TGI Friday's, and indirectly, their customers, who will have to pick up the cost of warning one and all not to eat their grilled chicken.

It might be easier to list the foods guaranteed not to cause cancer.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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September 28, 2006

Lincoln Chafee Repays Party With Treachery

National Republicans chose to support the shameless RINO Lincoln "Chafing" Chafee against his conservative opponent Steve Laffey for a Rhode Island Senate seat, on the grounds that Chafing being an incorrigible liberal makes him more electable in left-leaning New England. Now that he has secured the nomination, Chafing is returning the favor as you might expect: with betrayal, by blocking John Bolton's permanent appointment as United Nations ambassador.

If we really are going to continue with the degrading charade of participating in the UN, it is essential that we are at least represented by a guy like Bolton, who has the character to stand up to this odious institution's corruption and anti-American moonbattery. Unfortunately, his recess appointment expires at the end of the year.

Chafing is holding up Bolton's nomination while he demands "some clarification" regarding US policy toward expansion of Israeli settlements. Earlier in the month he stalled a vote on Bolton, apparently because he couldn't make up his mind. You might call it a silent filibuster.

With Republicans like Chafing, who needs Democrats?

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TSA Policy Creates Job Opportunities

In light of the new Transportation Security Administration policy calling for "further inspection" of augmented breasts, this fellow should now be able to charge for his services:

It won't always be light work.

Compliments of Wiggins.

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Taking a Lead Pipe to Jeanine Pirro's Knees

Among the convenient (for Dems) pre-election leaks to hit the papers recently is the revelation that former Westchester County, New York DA Jeanine Pirro is the target of an investigation for considering secretly recording her husband.

Pirro's lowlife husband Albert is a political anchor tied around her neck that her opponents have exploited before. During their marriage, he has fathered a child with another woman and spent 11 months in the federal pen for tax fraud. Pirro blew off some steam by discussing with former NYC Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik the possibility of listening in on Albert's extramarital schemes. Ironically, someone else was listening in on them.

The reason investigators find Pirro's idle conversation worthy of an inquisition is that she is running against Andrew Cuomo, son of the infamous tax-and-spend liberal elitist Mario Cuomo, for New York Attorney General.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:42 PM

Nancy Pelosi Announces Democratic Anti-Terror Policy

At long last, the Democratic Party has come up with a strategy for fighting the legions of crazed Islamic maniacs eager to die in their struggle to destroy our civilization. Potential Speaker of the House (third in line to presidency) Nancy Pelosi expressed it with uncharacteristic succinctness in the course of a windy diatribe devoted to preventing the Bush Administration from incarcerating terrorists. Take it away Nancy:

This is a time when the Golden Rule really should be in affect [sic]. Do not do unto others, what you would not have them do unto your troops, your CIA agents, your people in the field.

In other words, maybe if we upgrade the halal honey glazed chicken, lemon baked fish, etc. they've been scarfing at Club Gitmo to champagne and caviar, they'll stop torturing and dismembering any Americans they can get their hands on. For once a Christian concept makes sense to the Dems.

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Why Should Gynecologists Have All the Fun?

The never-ending threat of senseless random murder in the name of Islam has made life hard on airport screeners, who now have to worry about formerly innocuous items like sneakers and baby bottles... and augmented breasts.

The TSA Bulletin lists items that are allowed on planes as of September 26, including:

Items used to augment the body for medical or cosmetic reasons such as mastectomy products, prosthetic breasts, bras or shells containing gels, saline solution, or other liquids.

However, if

items exceed 3 ounces or are not contained in a one-quart, zip-top plastic bag, you MUST declare to one of our Security Officers at the checkpoint for further inspection.

Recruiting airport screeners just got a little easier.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:09 AM | Comments (2)

September 27, 2006

Len Munsil Denounces 9/11 Desecration

Kudos to Arizona gubernatorial candidate Len Munsil for taking a stand against the depraved 9/11 moonbat memorial that disgraces Wesley Bolin Plaza in Phoenix.

Munsil describes this insult disguised as a memorial:

[The monument was] supposedly put in place to remember the losses of 9/11, an evil attack on our nation that killed thousands of innocent Americans. Instead it reminds us of American failings and American mistakes, real and imagined before and after 9/11. This memorial is a tribute to moral relativism.

By including inscriptions that cast America in a negative light and suggesting that 9/11 was significant mainly as a pretext for going to war, the monument expresses ambivalence at best about who the bad guys were: Muslim maniacs or the Americans they murdered on September 11. As Munsil observes:

Only in the relativistic context of left-wing protesters holding "Bush is a terrorist" signs do such inscriptions make any sense.

He wants the abomination torn down and replaced with a monument featuring more appropriate inscriptions like "LET'S ROLL," "UNITED WE STAND," and "GOD BLESS AMERICA."

But Arizona's current Governor, Janet "Nappy the Troll" Napolitano, likes the appalling monument. She defends this attempt to twist 9/11 into anti-American propaganda by piously bleating of its opponents:

I'm just sorry that they're trying to politicize 9/11. That's just wrong.

Arizonans are begged to make it to the polls and vote for Munsil this November.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Muslims Celebrate Ramadan by Rioting in Brussels

Apparently in honor of the Islamic holy month Ramadan, Muslims have been lighting up Brussels with nightly rioting. Festive multicultural activities include throwing stones at people and passing cars, smashing the windows of parked cars, demolishing bus shelters, setting cars on fire, torching a youth club, looting a shop, throwing Molotov cocktails into St. Peter's Hospital (one of the largest in Brussels), and stealing the keys of the fire engine sent to extinguish the ensuing blaze.

Rioting has been getting under way each night around 8:30 PM, giving the Religion-of-Peaceniks time to fuel up after the daytime fasting required by Ramadan before they head out to show the dhimmis who sign their welfare checks who's boss.

If this sounds familiar, you might be thinking of the 3 weeks of car-torching and rioting in France around this time last year.

Happy Ramadan!

Hat tip: Atlas Shrugs

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NYC Nanny-Staters Go After Restaurants Again

Having banned smoking in restaurants, New York City's nanny state dictators are moving on to new conquests. Next on their list: artificial trans fatty acids, which the health department proposes to ban at all of the 24,600 establishments that serve food in the city.

The felonious fats make their way into pie crusts, French fries, and donuts by way of shortenings, margarine, frying oils, etc.

According to Chuck Hunt, executive vice president of the NYC chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association, the proposal would result in havoc as cooks would be forced to pour over every ingredient and discard old recipes. Just having the wrong vegetable shortening on the shelf could result in restaurants facing fines.

Fast food chains that employ thousands of NYC residents — such as McDonald's, KFC, and Dunkin' Donuts — would have to revise their products or be banned from the city.

Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden admitted that the ban would not be easy on restaurants. But then, making it easy to do business is not a bureaucrat's job.

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The MSM's Formula for Defeat

It's not only the New York Times that leaks strategic details to the public. Through Military Magazine, Thomas Sowell has leaked the MSM's strategy for losing our wars:

The media seem to have come up with a formula that would make any war in history unwinnable and unbearable: They simply emphasize the enemy's victories and our losses. Losses suffered by the enemy are not news, no matter how large, how persistent, or how clearly they indicate the enemy's declining strength.

Casualties in Iraq have been extremely low compared to other wars we have fought. But in other wars, the media didn't hype each death for maximum demoralizing effect. Death number 2,000 was a much-anticipated event, squeezed by the media for the last drop of demoralizing effect. For perspective, consider that it took 2 years for 2,000 American soldiers to die in Iraq. During the Civil War, the Confederacy lost 5,000 in a single day, the same number of Marines that died taking a single island in the Pacific during WWII. Yet the Secretary of Defense is grilled by PBS's Jill Lehrer about the staggering loss of 10 Americans killed in a day.

The greatest victories in American history would have been perceived by the public as defeats, if the fifth-column propagandists who control the media now had been around to distort them. Focus like a microscope on American casualties, no matter how light, ignore what our forces accomplished in the course of incurring those casualties, and presto! Defeat is snatched from the jaws of victory.

Moonbats bleat that we need to win Muslims' hearts and minds. But our own hearts and minds are vastly more important — which is why our own media is by far the most effective branch of the global jihad against Western Civilization.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:54 AM | Comments (5)

September 26, 2006

Islam's Intimidation Campaign

As Daniel Pipes points out, Islam's current intimidation campaign against the West didn't start yesterday — although lately it has been picking up steam.

Pipes notes a few milestones:

• 1989: Over 20 were killed in rioting in India after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death edict against Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses.
• 1997: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to remove a 60-odd-year-old frieze that CAIR didn't like because it had Mohammad in it. More lethal riots in India ensued.
• 2002: Jerry Falwell referred to Mohammad as a "terrorist," resulting in still more lethal rioting as well as church burnings in India.
• 2005: A bogus Newsweek story alleging that Americans were flushing Korans down toilets at Club Gitmo led to at least 15 deaths in Muslim rioting.
• February 2006: The Cartoon Intifada over a few utterly innocuous Danish cartoons resulted in hundreds of deaths in Muslim rioting.
• September 2006: Christians have been murdered and churches firebombed by Muslims after Pope Benedict XVI quoted a Byzantine emperor who understandably wasn't fond of Islam.

The contrived outbursts come closer and closer together. When they shove, we step back, mumbling apologies that invite them to shove again that much sooner.

Pipes notes that incidents get a lot more traction in Europe than they do in the USA. This is due not only to the ongoing Muslim colonization of Europe, but also to Europe's more advanced moonbattery, which has made it easier prey for bullies.

No one can guess what excuse Muslims might seize upon for their next explosion, since any random pretext will do. The rioting and demands for apologies have no meaningful connection to Danish cartoons or speeches by the Pope. Religion-of-Peaceniks are getting across a message, loud and clear, which Pipes sums up as:

You Westerners no longer have the privilege to say what you will about Islam, the Prophet, and the Qur'an, because Islamic law rules you too.

In other words, Muslims are telling us that we are already dhimmis. If we don't shrug off moonbattery and recover the will to defend our civilization, each future round of rioting will make it all the more obvious how right they are.

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George Loony for President?

The good news: limousine leftist George Clooney is shrugging off suggestions from his moonbat fans that he should run for President. The bad news: "he sure sounded like a politician doing it."

Clooney's Hollyweird career has taken a hard-left turn recently, featuring the nostalgic attempt to exhume Senator Joseph McCarthy Good Night, and Good Luck and the convoluted exercise in anti-American paranoia Syriana.

To give an idea of what a George Clooney presidency would entail, below are a few quotes found on Celiberal.

Clooney as a judge of other men:

Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

Clooney as a humanitarian and defender of the Second Amendment:

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's. [...] I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association; he deserves whatever anyone says about him.

Clooney on combating terrorism:

I just want someone smart to stand up and shout, "Bullshit!" They tell us we're going to war and no one's saying "Bullshit" loud enough. And the language! Listen to the language! "Evil." "Evil"? "Nexus of evil"? "Evil-doer"? That's my favourite, "Evil-doer"! What's wrong with their vocabulary: couldn't they come up with "schmuck"?

Clooney the historian:

What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.

If we don't stop taking people seriously just because they are good at flashing self-satisfied smirks from the silver screen, we really are going to find someone like Clooney in a position to do much more direct damage to our country than what their Tinsel Town propaganda has been able to inflict.

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Keith Olbermann Calls Chris Wallace a Monkey

The lunatic Left's main man in the MSM, MSNBC's turbocharged twit Keith Olbermann, has been at it again, throwing hyperbole into overdrive and indulging in DU-style paranoia as he insults the President and defends all things Clinton.

Olbermann's frantic tone and total lack of respect for his superiors is so strongly reminiscent of a chimpanzee flinging feces at zoo patrons that the projection that characterizes leftists made it all but inevitable he would call the infinitely more dignified Chris Wallace a "monkey posing as a newscaster" for daring to ask Bill Clinton about his failure to deal with al Qaeda in the 1990s.

Clinton of course responded to Wallace's perfectly reasonable questions with a contrived thermonuclear temper tantrum that continued even after the interview had ended. Naturally Olbermann regards Clinton's jarringly childish performance not only as acceptable, but as "forceful and triumphant action for honesty."

With Olbermann, all roads lead to flinging poo at the President. In no time he was questioning Bush's honesty, "manliness," and fitness to serve as a prelude to plunging headfirst into paranoia. According to Olbermann, the Bush Administration was "re-writing history" by sending "its hyenas at Fox" to "sandbag" the "virtuous" Slick Willie.

Not only Fox News is at the sinister W's beck and call, but also ABC, which Olbermann is far from forgiving for airing "The Path to 9/11," a miniseries that failed to whitewash Clinton's well-documented irresponsibility, apathy, and incompetence in regard to Muslim terrorism. Apparently having been infiltrated by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, ABC "enabled an Authoritarian zealot to belch out Mr. Bush's new and improved history."

According to Olbermann's own "new and improved history," it was all the Republicans' fault that Clinton was too busy molesting interns to defend the country from terrorists, because they doubted the sincerity of his politically timed cruise missile attacks on empty tents in Afghanistan and an aspirin factory in Sudan.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:06 AM | Comments (5)

Berlin Opera Submits to Dhimmitude

A little at a time, Muslim intimidation is causing Western culture to curl up inside itself and die. At Deutsche Oper Berlin, the staging of a Mozart opera is being canceled for fear Muslims wouldn't like it.

Hans Neuenfels' production of "Idomeneo" was deep-sixed because authorities deemed it an "incalculable security risk." In other words, because Muslims would be likely to use it as excuse to kill some more of us infidels.

The production features the severed heads of Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammad displayed on four chairs. Whether Christians or Buddhists might be bothered by this is irrelevant. Ever since 9/11, it's Muslims we're expected to pander to, even at the cost of the freedom of expression I thought we held dear.

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September 25, 2006

Massive Terrorist Recruiting Center Planned for Londonistan

With funding from our Saudi friends, the Tablighi Jamaat Islamic sect is planning to build a "mega mosque" in their east London stronghold.

Tablighi Jamaat has close ties to the Wahhabi fundamentalist form of Islam that produced Osama bin Laden. Followers of the sect include 7/7 suicide bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer.

The mega mosque could seat as many as 70,000 Religion-of-Peaceniks. The largest Christian church in the country seats 3,000. London already has a mosque with capacity for 10,000.

Says Patrick Sookhdeo, international director of the Barnabas Fund:

The mosque would bring a radical transformation of the local community. The mosque is the center of the community and people gravitate to it. You would end up having a completely Muslim community... It would create a separate district, a parallel society.

Not that assimilation is much on the minds of Eurabia's Muslims anyway.

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Juan Leonardo Quintero: One More Reason to Secure the Border

As if we needed yet another reason to set aside the moonbattery and do whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico, "undocumented immigrant" Juan Leonardo Quintero has managed to kill a Houston police officer in the back of a patrol car.

Despite being handcuffed and having been patted down, Quintero produced a gun and shot Officer Rodney Johnson four times in the head. Johnson leaves behind a wife and five children. He had received a commendation for valor for rescuing children from a burning building.

As for Quintero, he had been deported in 2004 after being convicted for indecency with a child. But in the absence of a government willing to defend the border, deporting Mexican criminals is spitting in the wind. As Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt puts it:

The subject was deported, and yet he came back, so if the government fulfilled their responsibility of protecting the border we would probably not be standing here today.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:04 PM | Comments (4)

George Michael Falls Back on Moonbattery

Rather than gracefully fade away into well-deserved oblivion, ex-Wham! pop singer George Michael has joined the ranks of has-been musicians who resort to conspicuous moonbattery to generate interest in their moribund careers.

Michael is touring for the first time in 15 years. He doesn't have a new album to promote, but his props ought to put Neil Young's rusty flower child politicking to shame. Here's how Daily Mail describes the on-stage gimmicks that accompany a pacifist diatribe entitled "Shoot the Dog":

[...] as he belted out the anti-war number, which portrayed Tony Blair as George Bush's poodle, a cartoon backdrop showing Bush, Blair and the Prime Minister's wife, Cherie, in bed together, emerged.

[...] An enormous balloon, a grotesque cartoon version of the American President, rose out of the centre of the stage, hovering menacingly above the singer.

When the star leaned down to unzip the balloon's trousers, out popped a British bulldog draped with the UK flag.

The dog was stuck to the balloon's inflated crotch, wagging its tail.

It remains to be seen whether Michael's moonbat pandering will earn him as much attention as his 1998 arrest for engaging in a lewd homosexual act in a Los Angeles men's room, or even his arrest earlier this year for falling asleep at the wheel while evidently under the influence of narcotics.

Congrats to W for so reliably earning the disapproval of the sort of people you would hate to have to agree with about anything.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:27 PM | Comments (5)

Rights for Cockroaches

Bringing us one step closer to the day Americans are arrested for swatting bugs, PETA is demanding that Six Flags Great America kill a Halloween season cockroach-eating promotion, which it deems to be "gratuitously cruel."

Six Flags is defending the promotion on the grounds that cockroaches are highly nutritious and fat free.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:51 PM | Comments (4)

British Dhimmitude Extended to the Dead

According to ancient tradition, Christian graves should face east in anticipation of the Second Coming. But tombstones at the new High Wood Cemetery in Nottingham, England will be facing northeast, so that dead Muslims can look over their shoulders at Mecca.

The cemetery has separate sections for different faiths, since at this point in British history it is still permissible not to be Muslim. However, headstones in all sections will be oriented Muslim style unless a special request is made. According to the 2001 census, 70% of the population is still Christian. But ever since 9/11, catering to Muslims has become priority number one throughout the dhimmified West.

Hat tip: Symbel

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September 24, 2006

British Police to Consult With Muslims Before Launching Antiterror Raids

Apparently the subjugation of Britain by Islam has been proceeding too slowly, so authorities have agreed to speed it up significantly by consulting with a panel of Muslim leaders before executing any counterterrorist raids or arrests.

In addition to tipping off the targeted terrorists, the Muslims will pass judgment on whether evidence against them is sufficient to warrant action. They will also be given a forum for making threats about "the consequences on community relations of a raid."

This literally suicidal policy will begin in Londonistan, but may be made national. Also under consideration is sharing MI5 intelligence information with Muslim leaders.

In other news from the British battlefront, Muslim leader Abu Izzadeen snuck into a closed meeting in east London to heckle Home Secretary John Reid. Izzadeen is responsible for an online video that has been downloaded by thousands of religion-of-peaceniks in which he inspires his audience with lines like these:

In the UK no fighting takes place yet, but don't be fooled, the time will come to you brothers . . . fighting is so close at hand. [...] You prepare yourself now and when the hard time comes you are ready to defend yourself; you are ready to die for the sake of Allah.

It doesn't look like Izzadeen will be on the panel. But no doubt his point of view will be well represented.

If the moonbats currently running Britain had been in charge during World War II, they would have asked Hitler's permission before launching the invasion of Normandy. Brits are encouraged to please get rid of their nuclear weapons before Muslims inevitably take over the country.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:37 AM | Comments (6)

September 23, 2006

Patrick Kennedy: Socialize Decadence

Patrick Kennedy, Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island and son of the infamous Chappaquiddick Ted, has found a new way to spend our money: forcing insurance companies to provide treatment for his fellow substance abusers. The costs as always will be passed along to you and me.

You may recall that last May a profoundly intoxicated Pat Kennedy crashed his car into a security barrier near the U.S. Capitol. Explanations that he provided for his behavior include:

• He had to hurry to the Capitol to vote, though it was 2:45 AM.
• It's all a mystery because he couldn't remember any of it.
• It was the fault of drug companies for selling him Ambien.

Another possible explanation was provided by witnesses who saw him guzzling liquor at a local bar.

Being a Kennedy, he had no trouble evading the repercussions that would ensue if any normal citizen were to behave with such criminal recklessness. But it's not enough that he didn't have to pay. He wants us to pay.

According to Kennedy, people have no control over whether they get messed up and then get behind the wheel. Blissfully unencumbered by even a modicum of self-respect, he bleats:

I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.

His "illness" is just like asthma or any other physical illness, and has nothing to do with him being a spoilt and dissipated guy who finds that mustering the will power to control his own behavior is just too hard. Consequently, he demands that Congress pass "mental health parity" — which apparently means that neuroses and character flaws must be treated like actual real illnesses.

Indulging in the usual self-parodic liberal demagoguery, Kennedy declared that mandatory medical coverage for personal shortcomings is part of the "unfinished agenda for civil rights," because the dissolute are "discriminated against for an illness, a physical illness."

The effect this would have on health care costs is not hard to predict. Its effect on the economy and society in general when Democrats succeed in socializing medicine will be catastrophic. A culture in which feeling blue or liking your liquor qualifies you as a special victim to be financed by everyone else will inevitably rot away into a subspecies of penniless Pat Kennedys.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:23 AM | Comments (8)

September 22, 2006

Muslims Pay Their Respects to the Pope

Here's how Palestinians honor Pope Benedict XVI:

I used to do the same thing to models in the JC Penney catalog as a maladjusted six-year-old: eye patch, scars, etc. Except I gave them curly moustaches too. Good thing I didn't do it to pictures of the pedophile prophet, or there might have been riots. Religious tolerance is strictly a one-way street where Muslims are concerned.

Hat tip: LGF.

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Don't Be Stupid

You don't want to look at this:

I told you.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:08 PM | Comments (19)

Harkin Backs Chavez

Hugo Chavez's juvenile anti-Bush rants may have been too much even for W opponents Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi and the demagogic Charlie Rangel, but Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) is made of sterner stuff.

Chavez is becoming well known for anti-American rhetoric that makes his mentor Fidel Castro sound like a Republican by comparison. But former Dem presidential candidate Harkin defended him:

Let me put it this way, I can understand the frustration, ah, and the anger of certain people around the world because of George Bush's policies.

In an astounding example of the disconnect between a prominent Democrat and reality, Harkin raved about the love Muslims had for America, before President Bush ruined everything by insisting on responding to their terrorist atrocities. An actual quote from a member of the United States Senate:

Every Muslim country was basically on our side. Just think, in five years, President Bush has squandered all that.

If characters like Harkin end up in control of the Senate, we could be in for some very serious trouble.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:45 AM | Comments (5)

Moonbat Media Quote of the Week

Sometimes you can say more with a question than you can with a statement, as when CNN's wise and insightful Wolf Blitzer asked President Bush:

Why would it be so bad if this Iranian regime had a nuclear weapon?

Unless he's been relying on his own network for news, Blitzer probably knows that the Iranian regime aggressively supports terrorism, has been overtly and fanatically hostile toward America since its inception, and has repeatedly promised to wipe Israel off the map. Maybe he just figures that since the first mushroom cloud will probably appear over Tel Aviv, we'll have plenty of warning and can worry about it them.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:12 AM | Comments (1)

Religion-of-Peaceniks on Anti-Christian Rampage in Nigeria

Peace-loving Muslims have been celebrating their diversity again, this time by going on a rampage against Christians in Nigeria.

In a foretaste of Europe a generation from now, six churches were burned, along with an unspecified number of homes and businesses belonging to minority Christians. A day later 1,000 Christians were still camped out by police headquarters, afraid to go home.

The pretext for the rioting is unclear. Some say a Christian woman said something unflattering about Mohammad; others said it was a market dispute.

Thousands of Nigerians have died since 2000, when the Muslim-majority north began implementing sharia. The Cartoon Intifada alone resulted in 120 deaths.

At least the violence won't last. Eventually everyone will either escape the country, submit to Islam, or be killed.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:52 AM | Comments (2)

Lesbian Fire Chief Oppresses Women

Bonnie Bleskachek, lesbian, has many sad tales to tell of the sexist oppression she endured after joining the Minneapolis Fire Department: cold shoulders, anti-gay slurs, soda cans bounced off her head, etc. But after she became the fire chief, the whip hand was hers.

Currently Bleskachek is on leave pending an investigation into various allegations of sexual harassment occurring over a period of 10 years. The department has been found to give preferential treatment to lesbians. Several women accuse America's first big-city female fire chief of retaliating against them for rejecting her homoerotic advances by denying them training and advancement opportunities.

But Bleskachek's career has its upside. According to Tom Thornberg, president of the local firefighters union,

She put a lot of time and effort into making this a job that's available for women.

In part she accomplished this by changing "the grueling physical test so it more accurately reflected the tasks required on the job," as ABC News puts it. In other words, she eased the physical requirements so that women could pass. If you pass out from smoke inhalation during a fire, try not to do it in Minneapolis, where if you weigh over 120 lbs or so you might find yourself getting dragged down the stairs by the ankles instead of carried.

On a tip from the non–office-safe Right Reverend Rabbi Judah.

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September 21, 2006

Chavez's End of the Conversation

In case Hugo Chavez's anti-Bush antics at the U.N. yesterday weren't enough to convince you that at least one member of the vaunted International Community is not an adult in any meaningful sense, he followed it up today by walking the streets of Harlem, shouting bellicose absurdities like the deranged derelicts that help make Manhattan such a colorful place.

The moonbat solution to any international crisis invariably includes the word "dialogue." Here's an example of how Venezuela's current leader can be expected to hold up his end of the conversation:

Bush is an alcoholic, a sick man with a lot of hang-ups. [...] He doesn't know anything about politics, he got there because of Daddy.

I've heard remarkably similar observations from low-wattage moonbats whose limited mental capacities put intelligent conversation out of the question. But if dialogue is really the answer, maybe we could call upon insult comedian Don Rickles to draft an appropriate response on behalf of the State Department.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Moonbat 9/11 Memorial

Arizona taxpayers have financed a purported 9/11 memorial that is actually a monument to leftist propaganda, depicting the events of September 11, 2001 not as a terrorist atrocity or even as a tragedy, but as a pretext used by the USA to wage war.

Here's the design of the memorial, via Flopping Aces:

Now here's the real thing, at Wesley Bolin Plaza in Phoenix, via Espresso Pundit:

As you can see, the memorial is crescent-shaped, as if in homage to the Muslim authors of 9/11. Phrases are cut through the metal so that the sun will hit different ones throughout the day, inscribing them in light on the ground below — phrases like this:

This refers to an American plane accidentally dropping a bomb on a wedding party in Afghanistan.

Here's another one, suggesting it's all our fault for not stopping the attacks:

And a third, listing significant events that contributed to the USA going to war, namely the sinking of the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and of course, 9/11:

Many moonbats believe the Gulf of Tonkin incident to be entirely bogus. The attempt to equate 9/11 with Tonkin implies a correlation of Vietnam with the War on Terror — a notion cherished by liberals because, thanks to their fifth-column maneuvering, we lost in Vietnam.

To sum up, this is not a memorial to those who died on 9/11, but an attempt to trivialize that historic day in the course of hijacking it for left-wing propaganda purposes.

Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano describes this abomination as "unique, bold, educational and unforgettable." Ace is right to hope that after this outrage, Nappy will find herself no longer cruising toward victory in her reelection campaign.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Muslims Celebrate Diversity by Burning 6-Year-Old to Death

It isn't only infidels who pay the price for Islam's barbarism. In Birmingham, England, a 6-year-old girl was burned to death in a Muslim "honor" killing.

The killing was inspired by a dating situation that did not meet with the approval of killers Hussain Ahmed and Daryll Tuzzio. A young man named Abdul Hamid was accused of dating Hussain's teenage sister. In the time-honored Muslim custom, they resolved the conflict by setting Hamid's house on fire.

They knew full well that a whole family was living there, but didn't care. From the Muslim point of view, nothing could be cheaper than human life. Little Alisha Begun was burned over 95% of her body and died the next day.

It's a good thing we have multiculturalism to remind us that all cultures are equal and must be celebrated (except of course our own). Otherwise, we might be tempted to discourage this quaint Islamic tradition, which now occurs on a regular basis throughout Europe.

On a tip from Steve.

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Where Our Worst Enemies Get Their Ideas

Here we see Marxist thug Hugo Chavez of Venezuela holding up a collection of moonbattery by liberal guru Noam Chomsky as he denounces America at the den of dictators and their appeasers known as the United Nations.

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September 20, 2006

California to Shake Down Auto Industry in Name of Global Warming

Remember when greedy lawyers managed to sue Dow Corning out of existence, throwing who knows how many people out of work, on the basis of completely unsubstantiated allegations that their breast implants were harmful to women's health? A similar scheme has been initiated in California, motivated by not only greed, but moonbattery. The target: the auto industry.

California is suing six major automakers for causing global warming. This may not pass the laugh test, but that doesn't mean it won't fly in the land of fruits and nuts. The state is demanding "tens or hundreds of millions of dollars," a cost that would be passed along to consumers by those car manufacturers that aren't driven out of business.

The auto industry regards this as a "nuisance" suit, but it should be remembered that the lawsuits brought against tobacco companies were considered nuisance suits too, until pathologically greedy lawyers saw that they could loot these companies for billions by jury shopping.

According to the suit, car manufacturers have caused grievous injuries, costing untold fortunes

including millions of dollars of funds expended to determine the extent, location and nature of future harm and to prepare for and mitigate those harms, and billions of dollars of current harm to the value of flood control infrastructure and natural resources.

In other words, millions of dollars to pay moonbats to dream up imaginary damages are to be paid by car makers, with the cost passed along to us. How my Mazda caused harm to "the value of flood control infrastructure" might be a good subject for Al Gore's next feature.

This frightening suit is being pushed by Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who is running for state treasurer as a Democrat. It could certainly fill the state's coffers for him — provided it doesn't snowball into something that causes economic collapse. David Cole of the Center for Automotive Research doesn't need a crystal ball to predict that other states will hungrily pile on if California gets anywhere with the suit.

Lockyer bellows that car manufacturers are a public nuisance for having produced "millions of vehicles that collectively emit massive quantities of carbon dioxide." He doesn't bother to explain how we're supposed to get to work without them. Too bad we can't sue avaricious bureaucrats for collectively emitting massive quantities of politically correct moonbattery that stand to cripple our economy.

On a tip from Metalgarth.

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A Liberal Gets It

Sometimes it seems that reality is too politically incorrect for liberals to grasp. But a recent editorial by Sam Harris suggests they are developing at least a hazy idea of the Islamic menace massing on the other side of PC propaganda.

Harris is a true-blue lib who loves taxes, hates Bush, refers to Christians as "religious lunatics," supports gay "marriage," etc. Yet he has caught on to the fact that when it comes to the conflict with Islam, we in the West are the good guys, liberal ideology be damned. Here's the Reader's Digest version:

[...] liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world — specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe [...]

This may seem like frank acquiescence to the charge that "liberals are soft on terrorism." It is, and they are.

A cult of death is forming in the Muslim world — for reasons that are perfectly explicable in terms of the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and jihad. The truth is that we are not fighting a "war on terror." We are fighting a pestilential theology [...]

[...] despite abundant evidence to the contrary, liberals continue to imagine that Muslim terrorism springs from economic despair, lack of education and American militarism.

[...] liberal denial has found expression in a growing subculture of conspiracy theorists who believe that the atrocities of 9/11 were orchestrated by our own government. [...]

[Conspiracy theories] offer an unusually clear view of the debilitating dogma that lurks at the heart of liberalism: Western power is utterly malevolent, while the powerless people of the Earth can be counted on to embrace reason and tolerance, if only given sufficient economic opportunities.

I don't know how many more engineers and architects need to blow themselves up, fly planes into buildings or saw the heads off of journalists before this fantasy will dissipate.

[...] liberals hate the current administration with such fury that they regularly fail to acknowledge just how dangerous and depraved our enemies in the Muslim world are. [...]

In their analyses of U.S. and Israeli foreign policy, liberals can be relied on to overlook the most basic moral distinctions. For instance, they ignore the fact that Muslims intentionally murder noncombatants, while we and the Israelis (as a rule) seek to avoid doing so. Muslims routinely use human shields, and this accounts for much of the collateral damage we and the Israelis cause; the political discourse throughout much of the Muslim world, especially with respect to Jews, is explicitly and unabashedly genocidal.

[...] Unless liberals realize that there are tens of millions of people in the Muslim world who are far scarier than Dick Cheney, they will be unable to protect civilization from its genuine enemies. [...]

The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists.

To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.

But the fact that at least one liberal has caught the smell of coffee bodes well.

On a tip from Bergbikr.

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Pledging Allegiance to the Mexican Flag at a Texas Elementary School

At a school assembly at Velasco Elementary School in Freeport, Texas, the audience stood to show their respect as parent volunteers demonstrated their patriotism by pledging allegiance to the flag. Unfortunately, it was the Mexican flag.

Explains Principal Sam Williams:

We have stated in our mission statement that we are a campus that is a beacon of hope for a culturally diverse population.

According to a witness, the entire audience was asked to pledge allegiance to the flag. Calling in to KTRH, she asked:

Where is the sensitivity to the country and to the troops and the men and women that have fought and died for this country?

At least Americans aren't being asked to pledge allegiance to the United Nations flag — yet.

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September 19, 2006

Londonistan

Here's the sight that greated parishioners as they came out of Westminster Cathedral in London last Sunday:

The time has come to defend our civilization if we want it to survive.

Via Joee Blogs; hat tip: The Red Hunter.

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One Small Step Toward Sanity

An appeals court has ruled that it is possible to fire irresponsible airline pilots, even if they're Muslim.

Trans States Airlines pilot Mohammed Shanif Hussein was canned one week after 9/11 when he was seen in uniform, drinking in a bar. His presence was particularly conspicuous because he raised his beer in salute to a TV screen showing his fellow Muslims crashing a plane into the World Trade Center.

His lawyer argued that it would be discrimination to fire a Muslim. Besides, Hussein said that the huge smile he had on his face as he watched thousands of Americans being murdered was actually inspired by his wife being pregnant. But the 8th Circuit ruled that airlines do have a right to fire pilots for public drinking in uniform, even if they belong to a death cult sworn to our destruction.

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Get Paid to See the Doctor

Going socialized medicine one better, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to pay people to go to the doctor.

The idea is to break the dreaded cycle of poverty by inspiring people to get checkups and stay healthy enough to work. Bureaucrats are still trying to decide on the amounts of the payouts. Supposedly this will be financed privately, but not for long, once being paid to go to the doctor becomes established as an entitlement.

In New York, Bloomberg is regarded as a Republican.

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Chirac Buckles to Iran

Lest anyone entertain the foolish notion that there is any point whatsoever trying to negotiate Iran out of acquiring nuclear weapons, French Dhimmi-in-Chief Jacques Chirac has called for the suspension of U.N. Security Council action against the terrorist regime.

Blathered Chirac:

We must, on the one hand, together, Iran and the six countries, meet and set an agenda, then start negotiations. Then, during these negotiations, I suggest that the six renounce referring [Iran to] the U.N. Security Council and that Iran renounce uranium enrichment during negotiations.

In other words, the other five countries that have supposedly been trying to get you to lay off the nukes aren't going to get any help from us, so go for it, ayatollahs. As The Independent notes:

The French President is the first European leader to state publicly that a freeze by Iran is not a precondition for opening talks. The concession to Iran seems to be linked to events in Lebanon, where there had been concern that French soldiers may be targeted by Iran's proxy militia, Hizbollah, over France's previously hardline stance in the nuclear negotiations.

That is, French soldiers like this guy:

might get bullied in Lebanon if Chirac doesn't run diplomatic interference to assist an aggressive terrorist state in its quest to acquire nuclear weapons.

If Iran can push France around with just Hezbollah, imagine what it will be able to do once its nukes are ready.

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Jimmy Carter Denounces War on Terror

He simply will not shut up.

As if believing that sticking enough knives in his own country's back will win him a second booby prize from the America-hating ankle-biters of the Nobel Commission, Jimmy Carter has been gleefully playing into the most hyperbolic Islamic propaganda, accusing the current administration of torturing put-upon Muslims.

Jimmy the Dhimmi once had his own opportunity to confront Islamic imperialism, when his failure to stand by our ally the Shah resulted in Ayatollah Khomeini coming to power in Iran. The immediate result was the invasion of our embassy and the holding of American hostages for 444 days while Carter sat on his thumb and squirmed. The long-term result was the upsurge in Muslim terrorism from which President Bush has been doing an admirable job of defending us, despite heavy resistance from moonbat quislings like Carter, who croaks to the likeminded Dhimmis at al-Reuters:

Things that are unanimously almost or globally assumed to be torture, they claim that this is not torture.

In the ultimate indictment of terrorist-enabling RINOs like John McCain, John Warner, and Colin Powell, Carter gushed that he is "filled with admiration" for them as a result of their efforts to impede the War on Terror. Please remember this endorsement and under no circumstances pass up any future opportunities to vote against these useful idiots.

Ironically, one excuse McCain et al. have made for insisting on five-star hotel treatment for terrorists is that the slightest inconvenience to them might result in maltreatment of our own captured soldiers. As it is, they are tortured, dismembered, and dragged through the streets, so of course we don't want their treatment by Muslims to get any worse. But by screaming to anyone who will listen that America tortures Muslims, Carter is assuring the worst possible treatment for captured Americans — as he is not stupid enough to fail to understand.

According to Carter, detaining terrorists who have every intention of dwarfing 9/11 with their next strike constitutes "illegal punishment" that Bush's administration "has stonewalled so they can continue to perpetrate."

Casting away any pretense of fairness, Carter proclaimed that it's Bush's fault that Palestinians won't stop trying to kill Israelis, and that America is less safe as a result. Then he went the extra mile to harm our country by trying to turn our closest ally against us by announcing that Bush has increased the terror threat against Britain.

This attack on America's foreign policy comes as Bush prepares to address the U.N. General Assembly. To Jimmy the Dhimmi's dismay, Bush will not debase himself by chatting with Iranian maniac Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the U.N., as Iran has been brazenly developing nuclear weapons, engineering terror attacks on Israeli civilians, and calling for a second Holocaust.

It's only natural that Carter sides with Ahmadinejad; after all, Mad Mahmoud would not be in power today if it were not for the Dhimmi's policies back in the 70s. Ahmadinejad is carrying on the Carter legacy. Here's what Jimbo had to say:

Our government now has a strange and unprecedented and pervasive policy of not speaking to anybody who doesn't agree with us in advance on controversial issues. So we close the door, we go into a closet and pout.

It may seem strange to be accused of pouting by an 81-year-old infant who has been pouting ever since Reagan gave him the righteous trouncing he so thoroughly deserved back in 1980. But juvenile behavior is bound to be oddly defined by a senile child whose unending denunciations of his own country are reminiscent of an ill-behaved kindergartener's attempts to gain attention by shouting obscenities.

The Dhimmi continued to sulk on behalf of hostile regimes that he favors:

So we don't talk to Iran, we don't talk to Syria, we don't talk to the Palestinian government, we don't talk to North Korea, we don't talk to any leaders around the world who disagree with us and this is where the problems arise.

Every time this vile old man opens his mouth, laws against sedition make a little more sense.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Riot Alert

Lock the door, hide the women and children, board up the windows, and crawl under your bed: Catholics are sure to riot in the streets, shooting old women in the back, burning mosques and effigies of Mohammad, and screaming for suicide executions once they see al-Jazz's animated cartoon putting down Pope Benedict XVI.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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September 18, 2006

Liberals and Muslims Meet on "Path to 9/11"

Maybe the de facto alliance between liberals and Islamic imperialists isn't as strange as it seems. True, Muslims promise to put an end to everything liberals claim to believe in: women's rights, religious tolerance, acceptance of homosexuals, abortion, multiculturalism, peaceful coexistence, etc. etc. But down deep the only thing progressives really seem to want is the destruction of our civilization — which is exactly what Muslims want. Their reactions to hearing anything they don't like are as similar as their objectives. Just as the Muslims reacted to the Pope's implication that they might be just a little violent with yet another explosion of violence, liberals reacted to ABC's "Path to 9/11" miniseries, which failed to whitewash Clinton's failure to respond to the escalating Muslim terror menace, with demands for censorship and violent threats.

Cyrus Nowrasteh recounts how he received death threats for having written the screenplay to "Path to 9/11," which the liberal establishment tried to suppress, despite its nonpartisan nature. Democratic Senators actually threatened ABC's broadcast license. La Times waged a propaganda campaign, attempting to portray Nowrasteh as some sort of right-wing Islamist in cahoots with Rush Limbaugh. Nowrasteh is neither a Muslim nor a conservative.

His screenplay isn't any kinder to Bush than it is to Clinton. But the irresponsible degenerate felon who preceded W as President is sacred to the Left, so no criticism — even implied criticism — will be permitted on network TV, which they regard as part of Dar al-Moonbattery, the liberal domain.

Progressives are going to like sharia. Zero tolerance for blasphemers will suit them to a tee.

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British Muslim Calls for Pope's Execution

Whether the Pope's unprecedented apology to Muslims was sincere or not, it clearly hasn't been accepted by the fanatical goons who are using his recent remarks as an excuse to launch another intifada against Western Civilization. British Muslim Anjem Choudary — who helped organize the Cartoon Intifada last February — is calling for the Pope to be executed:

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

Saying or doing anything that displeases Muslims for whatever reason is inevitably regarded as insulting the poisonous message of their pedophile emperor prophet. The totalitarianism they are in the process of imposing on the West goes beyond anything dreamt of by Hitler or Stalin.

Just to make sure no one gets the impression that the reverence Muslims demand will be reciprocated with even a modicum of respect, Choudary's followers waved placards with slogans like "Pope go to Hell" and "Jesus is the slave of Allah."

In other parts of world, Muslims have been torching churches and gunning down nuns. In Iraq, the jihadists who according to Democrats have nothing to do with the War on Terror have called for the Pope to be assassinated by a suicide bomber. They've also put out a video that features a scimitar slicing a cross, intercut with images of the Pope and the burning World Trade Center.

Democrats who hold that we should be negotiating with Muslims instead of fighting them might be tempted so propose executing a few Cardinals instead of the Pope. But even the dimmest are probably starting to realize that trying to appease Islam by giving an inch to it under any circumstances is like trying appease a fire that has broken out in your house by offering it pieces of furniture.

Rather than issuing ambiguous apologies that leave no one satisfied, Benedict XVI is encouraged to take the moral leadership that has been shirked by everyone else by stating the obvious: Islam is evil and must be confronted.

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Dem-RINO Wrench Grinding War on Terror to a Halt

Thanks to the efforts of the Bush Administration, history has surprised everyone by presenting the USA with no major terrorist attacks since 9/11. But that will soon change, due to a wrench thrown into the gears of the War on Terror by Democrats and their RINO accomplices. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte confirms that the interrogations used to prevent terrorist attacks have been curtailed while the Administration attempts to fight off the moonbattery that is preventing it from protecting our lives.

In light of the Supreme Court's bizarre decision to extend Geneva Convention protections to terrorists who are not covered by this agreement, did not sign it, and most definitely do not abide by it, there has been "precious little" useful interrogation done, according to Negroponte, because using the sort of techniques that are liable to thwart terror attacks "may be kind of problematic because of the uncertainty introduced."

Attempts to resolve that uncertainty by defining just what is allowed and what is not allowed have been blocked by a coalition of reliably pro-terrorist Democrats and three prominent RINOs who have distinguished themselves by their willingness to sell out their party and their country in return for favorable coverage from the leftist media.

These three stooges are of course the allegedly Republican Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Warner. Every effort must be made to remove these irresponsible fools from office at the next possible opportunity. A fourth stooge, Colin Powell, fortunately does not hold office, but has been cheering from the sidelines as moonbats hamstring our capacity to combat terrorism.

According to McStain's pious posturing, the U.S. must "hold the moral high ground" by granting terrorists every advantage in their struggle to destroy us, including even a right to classified information that would further incapacitate our anti-terror efforts and put at mortal risk anyone who cooperated against terrorists.

According to the RINO brigade, taking the "moral high ground" requires granting "rights" to foreign terrorists to which they have no legitimate claim, in the full knowledge that this will inevitably result in the death of thousands if not millions of American citizens. A more profound example of moral depravity would be impossible to imagine.

Even defining what exactly is permitted would be too much of an encumbrance to terrorists, according to the sanctimonious RINOs, who apparently prefer a situation in which interrogators basically assume that they are not permitted to do anything other than ask politely.

It will take many more deaths than occurred on 9/11 to wake America up to the fact that Muslim terrorism is a serious threat, and that terrorist enablers like McCain et al. simply cannot be permitted to hold positions of responsibility.

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September 17, 2006

Pope Apologizes to Muslim Thugs

Muslims disputed the Pope's mild implication that their religion indulges in violence by shooting a nun and calling for the Pope to be assassinated. Naturally, the MSM screamed for the Pope to apologize, and he complied.

In the course of a speech in which he attempted to make the point that religion should not be used as an excuse to murder people, Pope Benedict XVI quoted Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus from the 14th Century:

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.

Muslims predictably took the quote out of context and used it as yet another excuse to see how far the West would let them keep pushing us. Off the end of the world, would seem to be the answer.

In Somalia, the brave and peaceful disciples of Mohammad shot an elderly Italian nun three times in the back before running away, evidently as part of the same contrived uproar that had Iraq's Mujahideen's Army movement calling for the Pope to be targeted by suicide bombers for daring to suggest that Muslims might be violent. The movement promised to "smash the crosses in the house of the dog from Rome."

As Muslim thugs screamed their threats and insults, the liberal media characteristically backed them up to the hilt. Stooping ever further beneath contempt, the dhimmified vermin at the New York Times sniveled that "it is particularly disturbing that Pope Benedict XVI has insulted Muslims" and arrogantly issued the following demand:

The world listens carefully to the words of any pope. And it is tragic and dangerous when one sows pain, either deliberately or carelessly. He needs to offer a deep and persuasive apology, demonstrating that words can also heal.

These evil savages are trying to kill us and to obliterate our civilization, and the sacks of slime at the Times are worried that their feelings might be hurt.

Proving that if Western Civilization is to be defended, it will not be by the Catholic Church, the Pope has issued an apology oozing with "respect and esteem for those who profess Islam."

Does anyone wonder what happened to this Byzantine Empire that Manuel II Paleologus used to rule? In 330 A.D., Rome's first Christian emperor Constantine moved the capital to Byzantium. After the collapse of Rome in 476 A.D., Byzantium carried on as the capital of Western Civilization. For hundreds of years it fought off Muslim hordes that tried to destroy it. Finally, in 1453, the hordes tragically succeeded. The ancient Byzantine Empire ceased to exist — just as we will cease to exist if we do not confront Islam.

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September 16, 2006

Loose Screws and Loose Threads

Kudos to Katherine Kersten for speaking up from Minnesota's left-leaning twin cities on the sheer insanity of the 9/11 conspiracy theories being hawked by kooks like former University of Minnesota–Duluth prof James Fetzer — even if, as J.R. Dunn points out at The American Thinker, digging for background information would have blown Fetzer even farther out of the water.

James Fetzer is the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth — a group of ivory tower moonbats who have been successfully promoting the fever dream that not imperialist Islam but the Bush Administration is responsible for the attacks of 9/11. Like an alarming number of people, Fetzer fantasizes that the World Trade Center was blown up with "secretly planted explosives."

To get an idea of just how divorced these folks are from reality, Uncle Fetzer holds that Osama bin Laden couldn't have been responsible for 9/11 because it's "contrary to Islam to kill women and children." As most of us have noticed over the past few decades, killing innocent women and children is a primary objective of Muslim terrorist groups. Islam has been spread by killing since its inception.

Fester also believes that Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Donald Rumsfeld teamed up to bring down Paul Wellstone's plane with "a directed energy weapon that overwhelmed its electronic system." By the way, he describes the courses he taught to college students for decades as "critical thinking, logic and scientific reasoning courses."

The fantasies indulged in by Fester and his ilk are so outlandish, the minor details don't seem to matter. But when we find 48,000,000 Americans willing to believe in 9/11 conspiracies, it's worthwhile to trip up paranoid proselytizers with a few nitty-gritty facts.

For example, Fester holds that the Pentagon was "hit by a missile from an A-3 Skywarrior, most likely." Other moonbats agree. But as Dunn notes, the last of these aircraft had been decommissioned 10 years prior to 9/11, and they were never fitted to fire missiles. The idea that this 80-foot, antique warplane could be flown across Washington without anyone noticing is almost as absurd as the notion that it would be chosen for the job in the first place.

The mainstream media hasn't been picking up on this sort of thing. But then, when it comes to debunking the 9/11 Truth movement's bizarre mythology, it's hard to know where to start.

On a tip from Byron.

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Global Warming Faithful Suggest Meddling With Atmosphere

To help you get some use out of your tax dollar, here's a little something from NPR:

A researcher says he has a way to "Save the Earth from Global Warming" — for a while, at least. The idea is to do what volcanoes do: inject material into the stratosphere. That would create a thin haze and reflect some sunlight. [...] But the paper proposes using it not as a permanent fix, but to buy time until greenhouse gases emissions can be brought under control.

If global warming true believers ever find themselves in the driver's seat, the inevitable economic ruin might be only the beginning of our troubles.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Clinton Appointee Outlaws Boating and Fishing

While Carter judicial appointees such as Joyce Hens Green and Anna Diggs Taylor distinguish themselves for their outstanding service to al Qaeda, Clinton appointee Robert G. James of the United States District Court, Western Division of Louisiana has found another way to wreak havoc: by declaring that the shallows of navigable waterways are no longer open to the public, he has largely outlawed boating and fishing.

According to Phil Keeter, president of Marine Retailers Association of America:

Even though this action seems like a horrible pre-April fools joke, it is very serious. Because essentially all the waters and waterways of our country are considered navigable in the U.S. law, this ruling declares recreational boating, water skiing, fishing, waterfowl hunting, and fishing tournaments to be illegal and the public subject to jail sentences for recreating with their families.

I think it's safe to say we have enough Democratic appointees in the judiciary to last until the last of them retires.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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September 15, 2006

Soros' Anti-Bush Strategy: Attack War on Terror

Zillionaire currency speculator George Soros, the Hard Left's answer to Dr. Evil, has his rhetoric in overdrive.

Evidently with a straight face, Soros preaches that we should be negotiating with terrorists, as opposed to fighting them. Perhaps we could have prevented the attack on the World Trade Center by offering to knock down one of the towers ourselves. Israelis might apply this approach by seeing if Muslims would be satisfied if they all waded into the Mediterranean to their waists, which would be an improvement over being driven into it completely.

According to Soros, the concept of a war on terror is "a false, misleading, counterproductive, destructive frame" that will only lead to angering the maniacs who are already trying to kill us.

Indulging in the cartoonish hyperbole that protects the lunatic Left from being taken seriously, Soros intones:

I would voice my concerns about the similarities between this administration and the Nazis and communist regimes.

Dick Durbin would certainly agree.

As chief Shadow Party puppeteer, Soros poured $23 million into 527s in 2004 in an attempt to tip the election to Hanoi John Kerry. According to Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center, he's trying a new strategy for the midterms:

George Soros has apparently opted to attack President Bush and the Republican Party by undermining America's war on terror.

The media and the Democratic Party are obviously on the same page.

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"Racial Vilification" Doesn't Apply to Caucasians

An Australian Aboriginal girl who assaulted a white woman, kicking her as she lay on the ground and calling her a "white slut," did not engage in racial vilification because she was only using "the patois of the street," according to magistrate Kate Auty.

The Aborigine had been charged under a racial vilification law that was enacted to punish white supremacists. As she is presumably not a white supremacist, it's hardly surprising that the law was found not to apply.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Ten Years to Doomsday

If you have any long-term investments, now might be a good time to unload them. A scientist agrees that we have 10 years left to start listening to Al Gore or the planet is doomed.

Even if the summer of 2006 wasn't as hot as that of 1936, it was still hot enough to remind us that if it got a lot hotter, it might be too hot. Arctic ice has been melting.

Yelps James Hansen at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies:

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most.

Hansen, who believes the Bush Administration is trying to silence him, wants us to stop burning fossil fuels. Perhaps as an alternative we could use telekinesis to make our cars go.

Although Gore has alarmed true believers with graphics suggesting that Florida will soon be submerged, others remain skeptical. As Julian Dowdeswell of the Scott Polar Research Institute observes:

The melting of the Arctic ice will not itself contribute to global sea-level rise, as the ice floating in the sea is already displacing its own mass in the water. When the ice cube melts in your gin and tonic, the liquid in your glass does not rise.

But progressives might counter this by pointing out that when they get sufficiently agitated about global warming to start waving their arms around, their beer rises up in the bottle and pours out over their hands.

Environmental sciences professor Fred Singer of University of Virginia has also voiced skepticism:

Any warming from the growth of greenhouse gases is likely to be minor, difficult to detect above the natural fluctuations of the climate, and therefore inconsequential. In addition, the impacts of warming and of higher CO2 levels are likely to be beneficial for human activities and especially for agriculture.

Sami Solanki of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is among those who note that if there is any global warming, it's caused by the sun:

It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently – in the last 100 to 150 years.

This might explain NASA's observation that it's getting warmer on Mars.

David Bellamy of the Conservation Foundation spells out the unbelievers' point of view:

Global warming – at least the modern nightmare version – is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy-makers are not.

Instead, they have an unshakeable faith in what has, unfortunately, become one of the central credos of the environmental movement: humans burn fossil fuels, which release increased levels of carbon dioxide – the principal so-called greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to heat up. They say this is global warming, I say this is poppycock.

But all these Doubting Thomases are failing to take into account a study released by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which found that global warming is real and caused by white folks.

Just to be on the safe side, banks might want to stop offering anything longer than a 10-year mortgage — unless normal people develop a capacity to take Prince Albert seriously.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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September 14, 2006

Kerry Taunts Swift Boat Vets

Incredibly, Hanoi John Kerry is still running for President, despite the word LOSER flashing neon-bright across his botoxed forehead. He's been up in New Hampshire campaigning and baiting the vets with whom he very briefly served in Vietnam before coming home to devote himself to undermining the war effort.

When asked if he feared being "Swift-Boated" — i.e., called to account for lying about his military service by people who were there — Kerry sneered:

I'm prepared to kick their ass from one end of America to the other.

No doubt he would have done the same to Charlie, except that he had to get home after a few months to attend hippie rallies at which he denounced those who stayed behind to fight as war criminals.

John O'Neill, a Vietnam vet who wrote the highly informative "Unfit for Command," was less than impressed by Kerry's taunts. Referring to the tour of duty that Hanoi John managed to drastically curtail by gaming the system for Purple Hearts for the sort of injuries you might sustain if you're not careful shaving, O'Neill chuckled:

Well, he's got eight times as much time to prepare for us as he spent in Vietnam.

Of course, Kerry could settle the issue of his war record once and for all by releasing it to the public — the whole thing, not just bits and pieces to sympathetic left-wing media outlets.

But that would be a drastic change of style for a guy obviously set in his ways. For example, he now supports a timetable for surrender in Iraq, despite opposing it last year. Shrugs Jean François:

I don't see that as a contradiction.

Not at all — it's just Kerry being Kerry.

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Jimmy Carter Denounces Lieberman

Senator Joe Lieberman has picked up a crucial endorsement in the form of a denunciation by the one man most reliably wrong on any important topic, Jimmy Carter.

Shadow Party stooge Ned Lamont has attempted to buy Lieberman's Senate seat, blowing $4 million of his own inherited cash and the Devil knows how much of George Soros' just on the primary. His single issue is immediate unconditional surrender to the terrorists in Iraq.

This resonates with Jimmy the Dhimmi, whom even the Clinton Administration regarded as a "treasonous prick." Appearing on Larry King the other night, Carter seemed to accuse Lieberman of taking part in a conspiracy:

He was one of the originators of public statements that misled the American people into believing that the Iraqi war was justified.

If only we could get our hands on the conspirators responsible for convincing the American people that letting Jimbo be President wouldn't be a disaster that would haunt us for decades...

More Carter on Lieberman:

He's joined in with the Republican spokespersons by saying that Democrats who disagree are really supporting terrorism. So for all these reasons, I've lost my confidence in Joe Lieberman and don't wish to see him re-elected.

Actually, I doubt Lieberman ever said that Dems who politically sabotage our efforts in Iraq are supporting terrorism. But it's certainly true.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:53 PM | Comments (3)

"Unbiased" Communists Charge Bush With Crimes Against Humanity

A mob of leftist misfits grandiosely calling itself the "International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration" has found President Bush guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The "commission" took place as part of a 17-day moonbat fest on the National Mall. Witnesses called before it include such notable kooks as Janis Karpinski, Ray McGovern, and Scott Ritter.

The adjudicators found W guilty on 20 counts, which boil down to five crimes against humanity:

1. Deposing Saddam Hussein.
2. Authorizing "torture" of pampered captured terrorists.
3. Altering the weather.
4. Promoting sexual abstinence.
5. Failing to do the job of local and state government in New Orleans after Katrina.

Bush has been found guilty by preposterous kangaroo courts before, notably one presided over by potential Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers. This one was convened by C. Clark Kissinger, who underscores the unbiased evenhandedness of the commission:

We did not proceed from the fact that we did or did not like George Bush and his policies. We proceeded from the fact that objectively there are such things as war crimes and crimes against humanity and we had to apply those criteria to decide what to prosecute the administration for.

Incidentally, Kissinger is a Maoist who writes for the newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party.

Even some moonbats are beginning to wake up to the fact that their "peace" movement is a facade for something extremely unsavory. Peace activist Jerry Olek expressed concern that both this silly commission and one of its sponsoring groups, World Can't Wait, are fronts for the Revolutionary Communist Party:

My concern is that the RCP is using, manipulating the legitimate peace movement concerns for their own strategic objectives — overthrowing democratic government and establishing socialism, communism.

Hopefully Olek and other peaceniks will one day move on to the next step, and ask themselves if they might be on the wrong course when they find themselves agreeing with totalitarian maniacs devoted to the destruction of our country.

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No Escape From Tranny Teacher

In Western New York, Batavia schools superintendent Richard Stutzman is blowing off requests from parents that their kids be taken out of classes taught by a transsexual teacher.

Bob Knight of the Culture and Family Institute holds that by imposing a teacher with "transsexual disorder" who shows up for class dressed as a woman, the school district is indulging in "arrogance at its worst" and promoting the "pansexual revolution" by telling parents "you're going to go along with it, and we're not even going to give your kids an out."

Fortunately, there is an out: avoid public education at all costs.

On a tip from The Right Reverend Rabbi Judah.

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Dem Congressman Had It Out With 8-Year-Old

Some of the most fascinating stories pop up in the media and then vanish, leaving us with no hint as to how it all turned out. For example, whatever happened to plans by Jack Murtha's Jew-baiting sidekick Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) to press charges against an 8-year-old boy with whom he had become involved in an altercation?

According to Moran, the boy claimed to have a gun, threatened to use it, and tried to steal his car. But then, according to Moran, the war in Iraq is the work of a Jewish conspiracy.

The kid's parents filed a formal complaint against Moran, whom they accused of attacking their unarmed son. Given eyewitness accounts of a "beet-red" Moran carrying the boy, yelling and cursing, the 8-year-old's account of the confrontation appeared more credible than the Congressman's:

He choked me and then cussed at me. I thought he was going to kidnap me or kill me ... All I told him was that I liked his car.

But Rep. Moran responded:

It's all lies.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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September 13, 2006

Blair: Anti-American Moonbattery Is Madness

Characteristically showing the courage to speak truth to moonbattery even in the degenerate playpen of European politics, Tony Blair has once again stood up to the nattering ingrates who forget the debt they owe America, and choose to side with the darkness against it.

Rather than pandering to the prevalent baseness by denouncing Americans, Blair points out that

The reality is that none of the problems that press in on us can be resolved or even contemplated without them.

As for the left-wing lapdogs that have been nipping at the USA's ankles, and at his own for siding with us against terrorism and dictatorship, Blair says this:

The strain of, frankly, anti-American feeling in parts of European politics is madness when set against the long-term interests of the world we believe in.

Tony Blair is a liberal in most respects, but when he's gone his principled and responsible leadership will be sorely missed — and not only by those who still support him as his historic stint as Prime Minister heads toward its close.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:41 PM

Bill Keller Calls Bush Administration "Disgraceful" for Impugning His "Patriotism"

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