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December 31, 2006

Genocidal Dictator Dies, Moonbats Mope

Unsurprisingly, libs grasp neither the justice nor the absolute necessity of the genocidal dictator Saddam Hussein's execution yesterday. Now at last Iraqis know that even if Democrats manage to impose a premature pullout, Saddam will never be restored to power to seek revenge on those who participated in the fledgling democracy. Moonbats are of course incapable of seeing this as good news.

Gateway Pundit has a wrap-up of some of the grousing going on at left-leaning blogs. The depth and maturity of their critical analysis is summed up in the title of a Huffington Post piece: WELL HUNG! Saddam Hung To Prove Bush is BETTER Hung... (Than His Dad).

Moonbat moping and childishness aside, practically everyone else is on board with Saddam's execution, even including in parts of Europe where capital punishment is considered as gauche as patriotism. Davids Medienkritik points to a poll taken by the leftist Spiegel Online, which was horrified to find the following percentages in favor of stringing up Saddam:

USA: 82%
Great Britain: 69%
France: 58%
Germany: 53%
Spain: 51%
Italy: 46%

It's a relief to see that despite decades of brainwashing by government-controlled media, not everybody in Europe is drinking the poisonous liberal Kool-Aid.

Here's video of Saddam departing for hell.

On tips from V the K, Wiggins, Varla.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:50 AM | Comments (10)

Sour Grapes For Racist Moonbats in Michigan Discrimination Ban

Equality before the law, one of the most basic concepts of a free and just society, won a victory over moonbattery Friday when a federal appeals court refused to let Michigan universities delay implementation of a ban on race-based admissions that had been overwhelmingly passed by the voters.

The inaptly named George Washington was enraged. He's an attorney for the group By Any Means Necessary — a leftist outfit that is at least up front about its willingness to bypass democracy in pursuit of its deranged agenda. Washington denounced the decision to let the will of the voters be upheld as an "arrogant opinion" by "right-wing judges trying to shut off public debate."

Of course there is nothing arrogant about left-wing lawyers attempting to use the legal system to thwart the public's will.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:10 AM | Comments (1)

December 30, 2006

Climate Change Consensus Does Not Exist

One of the many disturbing aspects of global warming hysteria is the way moonbats who use it to promote their ominous political agenda insist on a consensus that simply does not exist. A recent survey of more than 12,000 environmental scientists and practitioners by the National Registry of Environmental Professionals shows that despite the hysteria and considerable pressure to conform to the "correct" view, many scientists are choosing skepticism over the safety of the herd.

The survey found that:

• 34% disagree that global warming is a serious problem;
• 41% disagree that warming trends "can be, in large part, attributed to human activity";
• 71% disagree that human activity has significantly contributed to hurricanes;
• 33% disagree that the US government is not doing enough about global warming;
• 47% disagree that international agreements such as the preposterous Kyoto Protocol provide a useful framework for addressing global climate change.

The number of scientists who take the whole issue seriously can be attributed to the intense pressure that has been applied over the past few years. Liberals with a potentially disastrous political agenda have managed to manufacture a climate in which casting doubt on global warming moonbattery is a faux pas on a scale with using the forbidden N-word. Skeptics put their funding and even their careers at risk.

Nonetheless, the spirit of Galileo still lives. Just as he once insisted "E pur si muove!" ("And yet it moves!"), many of today's scientists are saying, "And yet it's bunk!"

Al Gore may produce a lot of hot air, but not enough to cause the Earth to warm by more than 1.2–1.7°C over the next century, which isn't significant given the planet's normal temperature fluctuations. Previous interglacial periods reached an average of 3°C warmer than current temperatures, and as you can see, the planet survived.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been sheepishly toning down its inflated numbers. Its worst-case temperature predictions are down more than 20% from what they were 5 years ago. It is now estimating that the sea level will go up by one foot over the next 100 years. It has already gone up by 370 feet since the last ice age ended 10,000 years ago, and we're not living on rafts yet.

But if the facts aren't on their side, the moonbat media can always run a picture of a cuddly polar bear in distress.

On a tip from Bergbikr.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:18 AM | Comments (8)

SFU to Remove Crosses From Coat of Arms

Simon Fraser University of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada is dropping the crosses from its coat of arms lest their presence cause "confusion internationally." In the current climate, that can be taken to mean, lest Muslims object.

No word on whether they will also be changing the school motto "Nous sommes prêts" ("We are ready") to "Nous sommes dhimmis."

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:52 AM | Comments (1)

Cop-Shooting Illegal Alien Finally Killed

Here's some good news: Oscar Gabriel Gallegos is all through sneaking across our essentially unguarded border with Mexico.

Gallegos had been deported three times for a variety of crimes including assault with a deadly weapon when Long Beach police pulled him over for running a red light a few days before Christmas. He responded by shooting them.

On Thursday Santa Ana police reported deporting Gallegos for the last time — this time to the morgue, in the course of a shootout in a strip mall parking lot, in the course of which more than 50 shots were fired.

There are many reasons why most countries have borders that they defend against invasion. The violent lowlifes that exploit open borders aren't even at the top of the list. But don't tell that to officers Abe Yap and Roy Wade, who are hospitalized in critical but stable condition after being shot in their squad car.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:31 AM | Comments (2)

December 29, 2006

Good News For Polar Bears, Bad News For Us

Global warming propaganda notwithstanding, polar bears are in no danger of being driven into extinction by our SUVs, as a report by the National Center for Policy Analysis makes clear.

Moonbats like to pull heartstrings by pretending that the cuddly monsters are threatened. However, a study by Dr. David Legates, director of the University of Delaware's Center for Climatic Research, found no basis for this claim.

Even the idea that the arctic is getting warmer is debatable. Greenland has been experiencing a cooling trend. Russian coastal stations also fail to show the rising temperatures predicted by computer models.

In some areas, there has been a warming trend, which is hardly alarming, considering that the climate has always fluctuated and always will, whether Al Gore likes it or not. Interestingly, but not all that surprisingly, the polar bear population has actually increased in areas that have been getting warmer, and decreased in areas that have been getting colder. Life likes warmth.

Unfortunately it will take more than facts and common sense to calm liberals out of their condition of deliberately induced climate change hysteria. CNN posted a dozen reader emails on the topic of polar bears being listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act — something that would be done for purely political reasons. Naturally, every single email took the point of view that global warming is real, is caused by humans, is dooming polar bears, and must be stopped by massive government intervention in the economy.

Global warming may be a farce, but global warming hysteria will result in poverty on a scale not seen since the Great Depression if hysterical liberals aren't distracted by some new fad before they are able to cripple the economy in the name of a few thousand useless and completely unthreatened polar bears.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:30 AM | Comments (5)

Stuck Mojo Lets CAIR Have It

Rap metal isn't for everyone, but regardless of your taste in music, you have to hand it to Stuck Mojo for having their hearts and their heads in the right place. They've done a remix of Open Season that lays into Islam's answer to the ACLU, CAIR:

On a tip from tatercat.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:26 AM | Comments (1)

Moonbat Christmas at YouTube

On Christmas Day, the #1 video on YouTube was a sweet little girl singing about how she wants her big brother to come home from fighting terrorists in Iraq:

Thankfully, the song steers clear of overt politics. Flush with Christmas cheer, here's how YouTube commenters responded (as always when moonbats are quoted, please excuse the foul language):

The first comments:

And a few more that soon followed:

Like rust, moonbattery never sleeps, even on Christmas.

Via TownHall, on a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:03 AM | Comments (4)

Israel Getting the Shaft From USA?

Israel has no better friend than the Bush Administration — which makes it especially terrifying for the lone outpost of civilization in the Middle East that Bush and the State Department may be pulling the rug out from under Israel to suck up to the Saudis whose citizens brought us 9/11.

There has been an unofficial suspension of arms deliveries since late September, despite the fact that Israel is as always in a perilous situation and might be needing the weapons desperately at any time. Foggy Bottom has prevented Northrop Grumman from providing Israel information on its Skyguard laser weapon, designed to intercept short-range rockets and missiles.

Two reasons given for Israel's marginalization in US strategy are its perceived failure to defeat Hezbollah and the desire to get Saudi Arabia to help America in Iraq. A diplomatic source told Middle East Newsline:

There's nothing like stopping the weapons flow to Israel to show the Saudis that the United States means business.

Just like there's nothing like airliners flown into skyscrapers to show that Saudis mean business. If Saudi Arabia does anything helpful, it will only be to help themselves. Sacrificing a civilized country to curry favor with Muslims who want us destroyed is sheer moonbattery.

On a tip from Allen.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:34 AM | Comments (5)

December 28, 2006

Red Ken Plans £2-Million Party to Celebrate Cuban Totalitarianism

London's moonbat mayor Ken Livingston has gone completely over the top in his adulation of communist dictator Fidel Castro. He is planning a "massive festival" to be staged in 2009 in celebration of the 50 years that darkness and despair will have been imposed upon Cuba. Indulging Red Ken in this tasteless farce is expected to cost taxpayers up to £2 million.

Of the 33 countries in the Western Hemisphere, only two are categorized as "not free" by Freedom House: Haiti and Cuba. Inmates of Castro's island prison are essentially slaves with no rights at all.

Under Castro, the only thing worse than being a Cuban is being a black Cuban. Contrasting starkly with the situation in free countries, institutional racism in Castro's hell is not a moonbat fantasy, but quite real.

In a pathetic attempt to justify his lavish outrage, Livingston trotted out the standard propaganda about Cuba's supposedly excellent healthcare and literacy rates — both of which are impressive only if you follow the MSM's irresponsible habit of taking the totalitarian regime's statistics at face value.

Remarks Angie Bray, leader of the Conservative group on the London Assembly:

Forking out to celebrate a totalitarian regime is a choice that most Londoners will find bizarre. The Mayor associates himself with some of the most odious people around and it's Londoners who are being asked to pay out. Sooner or later, there will be a reckoning.

I certainly hope so.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:46 PM | Comments (7)

Kid Has His Mom Arrested For Making Him Do Homework

It's not easy raising kids these days. When a mom in White Plains, New York insisted that her 10-year-old do his homework, he turned her in to the authorities.

The kid called 911 and asked that the police "come and take his mother away because she was pressuring him to do his homework." When she called to check on him from the restaurant where she was working her 10–2 shift, it was the cops who answered the phone. They arrested her for leaving him unsupervised.

City Court Judge Brian Hansbury forced her to sign an order of protection forbidding her from leaving the kid alone or abusing him in any way. Presumably the little darling will not be doing any homework for awhile, but at least his mom learned a lesson.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:20 PM | Comments (4)

Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Danny Bonaduce

Not everyone in the entertainment industry is a treasonous kook. One exception is Danny Bonaduce, who is best known for playing Danny on the Partridge Family. Here's what happened when a tinfoil-hat–wearing schizoid with a camera tried to entangle him in the Left's bizarre 9/11 conspiracy theories:

As a result of this encounter — and the presence of this video on YouTube — Bonaduce's family has been receiving death threats. Abuse and pictures of maimed Iraqi children have been sent through his 12-year-old daughter's MySpace page. The FBI is investigating.

If there's anything beneath moonbats, it hasn't yet been discovered.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:35 PM | Comments (5)

Tony Blair Plunges Headlong Into Dhimmitude

From its inception, Islam has been a vicious totalitarian ideology spread by violence and terror. It obliterated the largely Christian civilizations of the Middle East, wiped the great Byzantine Empire off the map, and spread its oppression from Spain to Indonesia. Only centuries of defensive warfare prevented all of Europe from being overrun. Today Islam is engaged in a terror war against the rest of the planet — a war that it is winning, with the help of dhimmi propagandists who absurdly believe that flattering this beast will appease it. An appalling example is Tony Blair, who really ought to know better than to tell destructive lies like these:

To me, the most remarkable thing about the Koran is how progressive it is. I write with great humility as a member of another faith. As an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, much as reformers attempted to do with the Christian church centuries later. The Koran is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and far ahead of its time in attitudes toward marriage, women, and governance.

Under its guidance, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands were breathtaking. Over centuries, Islam founded an empire and led the world in discovery, art, and culture. The standard-bearers of tolerance in the early Middle Ages were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in Christian ones.

Everything Eurabian dhimmis say on the topic of Islam is so outrageously false, you don't know where to start disputing it. Obviously, Islam did not manage to impose itself over so much of the planet by being "standard-bearers of tolerance." The idea that Islam was ever tolerant of other religions is a sick joke. Just as obviously, a religion that calls for stoning women to death for adultery is not "ahead of its time in attitudes" — unless we are headed into an era of unprecedented savagery.

Most obviously of all, if we don't stop obsequiously sucking up to this evil cult and start fighting it, we are headed the way of the Byzantines.

Hat tip: LGF

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:54 AM | Comments (10)

December 27, 2006

DU Moonbats Pay Their Respects to Gerald Ford

The moonbat version of Christmas spirit continues to linger at Democratic Underground, where commenters have been displaying their characteristic level of class toward former President Gerald Ford, a decent and thoroughly unobjectionable man who passed away yesterday at the age of 93. Please excuse the grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vile language:

May he rot in hell for his cowardice and complicity.

The guy was an EVIL MOTHERFUCKER who sent many innocent Americans to death for war profits. Fuck him and the bunch who rode in with him. 'm glad he is dead! I only wish he suffered more!

I will not be mourning this man.Wonder what it costs we, the people, to bury one of these men ?

There is not one thing sad about this guy passing on.

take your useless sentimantality and do something else with it.

His death was not mourned here at DU.

Except for the SNL skit Chevy Chase did, there wasn't much to remember Except for all those times they showed him on teevee falling down stairs trying to get out of Air Force One. Man, seeing that happen always made me feel proud to be an American. LoL

Ford sucked. Remember the W.I.N (Whip Inflation Now) campaign? Just another rethuglikan trashing the world at our expense.

I'm glad to see that DUer's haven't lost their edge after Xmas and still recognize a Rethug when they see one.

Ford was a bumbling idiot of a politician alright and little else except an enabler for the gop lies that continue to this day. Good damn riddance, thats my opinion.

Gerald Ford was possibly one of the most evil and murderous men to ever hold office.

Goodbye Mr Ford. I hope for your sake there are golf courses in Hell. Tell Raygun we said Hi!

Now I s'pose we'll drop to half-mast for what? A month? Like for stupid Reagan?

If you can't say anything nice about a person....then that person must be a recently deceased republic president.

MSM Hagiographers are busily putting the finishing touches on the rewritten history. And yet all some do is act concerned about DU's image and how we might be seen as mean by some other entity.

Ford was j.Edgar Hoover's stooge planted in the warren commission!

I have a big sloppy lugie for him.

The man was a Repug...... and the country is better off for every Repug who is gone. Good riddance.

There is NO SUCH THING as a good Repug ... They seek to expand this "American democracy" upon the rest of the world, through force if necessary. Fuck Republicans. All of them.

Et cetera. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to take a long shower.

Hat tip: Moonbat Monitor

Posted by Van Helsing at 4:56 PM | Comments (26)

Culture War on the Gridiron

Tomorrow the Culture War will be fought on a football field when Moonbat University, aka Cal-Berkeley, meets Texas A&M in the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl in San Diego. The Union-Tribune highlights a few of the differences between the schools, including these:

School bosses:

Texas A&M: The school president, Robert Gates, was recently chosen by President Bush to supervise the war in Iraq as the new Secretary of Defense.

Cal: Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, a native of Toronto, lists on his curriculum vitae an editorial he once wrote for the Toronto Star entitled "Celebrating Sexual Diversity."

Food:

Texas A&M: Several places serve well-cooked dead animals in College Station, especially C&J Barbecue, which serves jalapeño cheese sausage, pork loin and ribs.

Cal: The Free Speech Movement Cafe at the library boasts that its "coffee is Fair Trade and organic, and tea is organic and Fair Trade when possible. The menu is a manifestation of the ideals inherent in the Free Speech Movement ... through this philosophy, students become conscious that their choice for food is a political choice as well."

Campus faces:

Texas A&M: Football games are attended by former President George H.W. Bush, whose presidential library is located on campus.

Cal: A student became known as "The Naked Guy" in the 1990s by attending classes nude.

Curriculum:

Texas A&M: Students can take a class called "Amphibious Warfare."

Cal: Students can enroll in "Introduction to Nonviolence."

Military history:

Texas A&M: The school opened in 1876 as the Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) College of Texas, with mandated military training. Its Corps of Cadets remains the largest uniformed body of students in the nation outside the U.S. service academies, according to its Web site.

Cal: Students formed the epicenter of the antiwar movement in the 1960s as the Vietnam War raged on. In 1965, hundreds tried to stop trains of troops by standing on the tracks in West Berkeley.

Let's hope the guys on the field aren't representative of the student body, or it won't be much of a game.

Hat tip: Houston's Clear Thinkers, on a tip from Byron.

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:47 PM | Comments (4)

Troops Fail to Appreciate the Great Botched Joke Kerry

It seems those who are too lazy and dumb not to get stuck in Iraq don't even know enough to appreciate it when they are graced with the presence of the great John "Botched Joke" Kerry. Here's B.J. eating lunch in a crowded mess hall in Iraq — crowded except for his own table, that is:

Scott Hennen relays a first-hand report:

This is a true story.....Check out this photo from our mess hall at the US Embassy yesterday morning. Sen. Kerry found himself all alone while he was over here. He cancelled his press conference because no one came, he worked out alone in the gym w/o any soldiers even going up to say hi or ask for an autograph (I was one of those who was in the gym at the same time), and he found himself eating breakfast with only a couple of folks who are obviously not troops.

What is amazing is Bill O'Reilly came to visit with us and the troops at the CSH the same day and the line for autographs extended through the palace and people waited for two hours to shake his hand. You decide who is more respected and loved by us servicemen and women!

Hat tips: Caption This!, Power Line

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:10 AM | Comments (16)

Like a Bad Penny, Joe Biden Is Back

Soon we will be up to a full seven dwarves, as Joseph Biden has announced he will once again run for President, joining a motley crew of announced or apparent Democrat candidates consisting of Shrillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, The Breck Girl, Tom Milksac, and of course the leftist elf from outer space, Dennis Kucinich.

Biden wanted to run in 1988, but had to withdraw early when people made a stink about his plagiarizing stump speeches and academic work. Since then he has remained on the radar mainly due to the foot-in-mouth disease that has caused him to ridicule Indians for working at convenience stores and donut shops, and to boast repeatedly that his home state Delaware was a slave state. Too bad Biden is a Democrat; if he were a Republican, just saying the word "macaca" would be enough to put his career out of its misery.

Biden might be hoping that his role as new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will allow him enough evening news face time to gather support by bashing Bush and screeching for surrender in our war against Muslim terrorists. Here's his stirring response to the idea of sending enough troops to Iraq to quell the violence:

We've already broken Iraq. We're about to break the United States military.

Unsurprisingly, Biden favors the recommendations of the Iraq Surrender Group — i.e., that we leave Iraq to our sworn enemies in Iran and Syria and hope the terrorist don't come and find us hiding under our beds. His foreign policy views are so profoundly wrong that they have been endorsed by the treasonous Jimmy "The Dhimmi" Carter, who vehemently sides with Palestinian terrorists against Israel, and who regards the knucklehead Biden as "probably the foremost expert now on foreign policy."

Maybe President Biden could find a roll for Carter in his cabinet — Secretary of Surrender would suit him nicely.

Compliments of Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:41 AM | Comments (5)

December 26, 2006

Nappy Napolitano Nixes Christmas Packages For National Guard at the Border

The spitefulness of Arizona's regrettably liberal Governor Janet Napolitano knows no bounds. Governor Napolitano — aka Nappy Napolitano, aka Crappy Nappy, aka Nappy the Crapster — indulged herself this Christmas by refusing to let the noble Minutemen distribute care packages to the token handful of National Guard troops assigned to watch our southern border being overrun by Mexican colonists.

Operation Christmas Stocking was intended to show appreciation for the National Guard troops who volunteered to spend the Christmas season attempting to defend our border.

Lamented Chris Simcox, Founder and President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps:

We are grateful to the members of the National Guard who understand the importance of securing our borders and therefore we wish to demonstrate our appreciation for their sacrifice during the holiday season. Soldiers are always sent care packages while stationed on the front lines in combat and the US-Mexico border is the front line on the War on Terror. It is a shame they are punished by the politically motivated discriminatory acts of Governor Napolitano and the open borders lobby in Washington, D.C.

Now Governor Nappy has earned herself yet another alias: Nappy the Grinch.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:41 PM | Comments (5)

James Baker: Fool or Foreign Agent?

James Baker, with his defeatist Iraq Study Group and its absurd proposal that we stabilize Iraq by relying on help from the terrorist regimes in Iran and Syria, may be more comprehensible in light of a post on Euphoric Reality, where it is pointed out that Baker has been in bed with terrorists before — and evidently finds it a profitable place to be.

Baker is a senior partner in the Baker Botts law firm, which is representing Saudi Arabians against the families of 9/11 victims, despite openly acknowledging that their clients pour $millions into terrorist organizations. Baker's Saudi friends are still at it, shoveling money at the terrorists in Iraq to finance the killing of American troops — a subject Baker takes care not to mention. Just as most of the 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, so are most of the foreign fighters that have been killed or captured in Iraq, although you won't learn this from reading the Baker report. Saudis are also the #1 nationality at luxurious Club Gitmo. When 29 Gitmo guests were recently turned over to the Saudis, they were promptly set free to resume their terrorist activities.

Baker is also up to his neck in the Carlyle Group, which does a great deal of business with the Saudi royal family.

The Iraq Surrender Group had many people suspecting that Baker is a fool. But maybe it's those of us who expect him to promote his own country's interests who are fools.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:42 PM | Comments (2)

Multicultural Christmas

Yesterday Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas Day message was simultaneously countered on state-run television by a Muslim woman in a full-face veil bleating about why the English should accept Islamification under the false flag of multiculturalism.

Ironically, the one and only good thing about the unfolding Muslim conquest of Europe is that it will put an end to multiculturalism.

Hat tip: Atlas Shrugs

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:21 AM

Shamnesty Is Back — and Worse Than Ever

Unfortunately the damage to be inflicted on this country by the Democrat takeover of the Senate is likely to be permanent, as even the lamest attempts to defend the Southwest from Mexican colonization before a demographic tipping point is reached are being shelved in favor of a still more outrageously treasonous version of shamnesty.

The rewards for breaking into our country instead of patiently waiting in line like a law-abiding citizen could hardly be more lavish. Even last year's preposterous McCain–Kennedy Alien Amnesty Bill was found to be too much of a burden on the colonizers who are driving down wages throughout the country and very possibly permanently displacing us from the Southwest.

The token requirement that illegal aliens would have to leave the country before applying for citizenship has been tossed out the window, along with funding for the 700 miles of border fencing that had been agreed upon.

The dreary joke known as the Homeland Security Department is actually supporting this rejection of the notion that this is a sovereign country with a right to determine who crosses its borders.

Once again prominent among the drafters of the legislation are Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy — who has made it clear he will side with any enemy of the United States — and open-borders extremist John "Lettuce" McCain.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:36 AM | Comments (3)

NYC Food Nazis Imposing Tasteless Fries Nationwide

Due to impending bans on trans fats in moonbat-infested New York City and possibly Chicago, McDonald's has been anonymously testing more politically correct — but inevitably less tasty — fries at almost 1,200 locations.

It's not that customers have been complaining about the fries; it's that nanny-staters are once again on a jihad. As always, consumer choice falls victim. Says Bob Goldin, an executive with a restaurant consulting firm:

I don't know that their customers are crying out for trans fat-free fries. But with the ban in New York, and possibly Chicago, they're going to be forced to respond. They're behind the eight ball on this one.

We're all behind the eight ball. After all, if people really wanted trans-fat–free fries, the free market would be happy to provide them, with no bureaucratic coercion required.

But I'm forgetting: P.C. bureauweenies know what's best for us.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:49 AM | Comments (2)

Muslim Fifth Column Rallies on Christmas Eve

Our first Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison, formerly of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, spent Christmas Eve rallying Muslims in their North American capital, Dearbornistan, Michigan.

Members of the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America had gathered for panels and workshops exploring ways to exploit political correctness to spread their barbaric death cult in the USA.

Ellison psyched up the crowd with exhortations like this:

You can't back down, you can't chicken out, you can't be afraid, you got to have faith in Allah, and you got to stand up and be a real Muslim.

The audience responded by screaming "Allahu akbar" — just as Muslims are prone to do before they blow themselves up in the process of murdering Christians and Jews.

Displaying the astonishing combination of hypocrisy and chutzpah that characterizes the Islamic propaganda war, Ellison declared that Muslims — whose religion calls for them to kill converts to Christianity — will teach America what tolerance and justice are.

Equally outrageously, Ellison warned of more anti-Muslim attacks that will need to be bravely faced in the future. After all, you never can tell how long it will take Christians to get tired of suicide bombings, decapitations, and flying hijacked airplanes into skyscrapers.

On January 4, Ellison will actually become a member of Congress. He promised to take his oath to uphold the Constitution on the Koran — the Dark Ages version of Mein Kampf — according to which all other documents, obviously including our Constitution, are null and void except to the extent they advance Islam.

Unsurprisingly, the crowd responded by screaming "Allahu akbar."

Imagine a Congressman in the early 1940s whose supporters screamed "Heil Hitler."

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:13 AM | Comments (4)

Dems May Refuse to Seat Elected Republican Vern Buchanan

One of the disadvantages of being the good guys is that Republicans don't just have to win, they have to win by a lot. For example, Republican Vern Buchanan beat Democrat Christine Jennings for a House seat by 369 votes — which is not enough of a margin to allow him to take his seat without bitter resistance from Nancy Pelosi and friends, who may not let Buchanan take his seat with the rest of the new Congress next week.

Succinctly summing up Democratic principles, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill declared:

The bottom line here is that nothing's off the table.

Normally the winner is seated even in contested races. But according to Pelousy's office, that's only the way Republicans do things. Democrats would leave Buchanan sidelined while they haggle in the courts for months. Party Chairman Howard Dean has declared that Buchanan should "definitely not" be seated with the other elected Reps.

Even some Democrats have guilty consciences about the highly undemocratic tactics employed by Pelosi, Dean, et al. Said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), an ally of Jennings:

In my mind, I can't really justify leaving the constituents of the 13th District without representation during the House Administration and the court's review.

Meanwhile, her fellow Dems are angling for a new election, apparently on no other grounds than their inability to accept defeat when the vote is close.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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December 25, 2006

Merry Christmas

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December 24, 2006

The Breck Girl Is Back

Displaying the same political astuteness that inspired him to hook his carriage to the floundering John "Botched Joke" Kerry's horse in 2004, John Edwards, aka "The Breck Girl," has chosen the media graveyard of late December to announce his candidacy for 2008.

After making a fortune looting doctors as a trial lawyer, Edwards was able to buy his way into the Senate, where he no longer serves. Fortunately that is the highest he is likely to go. But he'll long be remembered for countless cesarean sections that are still being performed for no other reason than to avoid lawsuits by ambulance-chasing brigands. And of course, we all admire his hair.

Compliments of Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:22 PM | Comments (3)

Smug, Incorporated

Limousine liberals George Clooney and John Grisham are joining forces to produce movies devoted not to making money, but to "exposing miscarriages of justice" — which might be taken to mean, left-leaning moral posturing. Their first movie will be "The Innocent Man," directed by Clooney and based on a nonfiction book by Grisham about a man wrongly accused.

Clooney's father — unsurprisingly a newscaster — is credited with instilling leftist ideology into the perpetually smirking actor, who has made a multimillion dollar career out of being visibly in love with himself, and who apparently wants to funnel the money into ideological films that otherwise would not be able to stand on their own two legs financially.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Noble and Knave of the Year Contest

The Washington Times' annual Noble and Knave of the Year Contest is guaranteed to have a less moronic outcome than Time's Person of the Year contest because readers get to vote. The list of candidates for Knave of the Year reads like The Year in Moonbattery. A few examples:

• Vermont Judge Edward Cashman, for sentencing a confessed child rapist to just 60 days in prison.
• New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, for saying that Hurricane Katrina was an act of God in response to the United States being "in Iraq under false pretenses."
• Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein, who in a January column compared U.S. soldiers to corrupt politicians.
• U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir, who chose an Olympic setting to proudly wear a "CCCP" red sweatjacket.
• Yale University, for admitting a former member of the Taliban, but not the U.S. military.
• A Republican-controlled Senate, which drafted a budget blueprint that added $11 billion to federal spending, all the while claiming to be the party of fiscal responsibility.
• NBC's "Dateline," whose producers crafted an unethical scheme to ensnare NASCAR fans in a story on Arab-Muslim bigotry.
• The Cambridge, Mass., City Council, which in May declared Cambridge a "sanctuary" for the nation's 12 million-plus illegals.
• Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who was found to be not only an anti-American extremist but also an academic poseur.
• The American Civil Liberties Union, which attempted to prohibit its own members from criticizing the free-speech organization.
• The Dixie Chicks, whose lead singer Natalie Maines told the London Telegraph in June that she "didn't understand the necessity of patriotism."
• Susan Roberts, a Davidson political science professor who in May wrote that the Supreme Court had the power to strike down constitutional amendments.
• Rep. John Murtha, for trying to backtrack from comments he made in June that the U.S. presence in Iraq was more dangerous to world peace than a nuclear North Korea.
• "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan, whose "Troops Home Fast" fast ended pretty, er, fast.
• Jimmy Carter, for this, that and about everything else he's done, written or said recently.
• John Edwards, whose crusade against Wal-Mart apparently doesn't keep him from shopping there.

The Noble list features inspiring examples of countermoonbattery, such as these:

• BB&T Corp., for enacting a policy of not loaning money to private developers who have acquired land by way of eminent domain.
• Dr. Ward Casscells, now Col. Casscells, who, at 53, put aside a highly successful medicine career to join the Army Reserves.
• Robert Rector, the Heritage Foundation fellow whose research helped expose the Senate's disastrous immigration "reform" bill.
• Oakland A's pitcher Barry Zito's "Strikeout for Troops" campaign, which donated $500 for every strikeout thrown during the 2006 All-Star game to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
• Oriana Fallaci, the Italian writer whose unwavering and unapologetic defense of Western Civilization in the face of Islamist barbarism earned her a place as one of freedom's heroines. She died in September at 77.
• The Alaskan villagers, for refusing Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez's offer of cheap oil.
• The Minnesota National Guard, whose members had the perfect rejoinder to Sen. John Kerry's "joke" that only the uneducated get "stuck" in Iraq: "Halp us Jon Carry — We r stuck hear n Irak."
• Ambassador John Bolton, who leaves the United Nations better than he found it, but not as good as he could have made it — if given the chance.

The complete lists of candidates and voting instructions can be found at the Washington Times.

On a tip from Byron.

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Moonbat Versus Moonbat at Portsmouth High School

Patrick Agin of Portsmouth, Rhode Island is evidently enough of a geek to want to use this as his yearbook picture:

The school wouldn't let him, not because it's asinine, but because it violates the school's zero-tolerance weapons policy. Apparently a picture of a sword constitutes a weapon. This may seem to conflict with the fact that the school's mascot is a Revolutionary War soldier carrying a rifle. But according to the principal, Robert Littlefield:

That's an entirely different issue. I don't think anybody could reasonably construe a cartoon depiction of a soldier from 250 years ago as a threat to our educational environment.

A picture of a dorkazoid posing with his play sword, on the other hand...

But wait, we haven't gotten to the absurd part yet. The ACLU is suing the school to force it to let the kid pose with his sword, on the grounds that it's a free speech violation not to let him present himself any way he pleases, despite the fact that it is the school, not the kid, that is producing the yearbook. High school exhibitionists take note: if the ACLU wins this one, you can pose nude for your yearbook.

Only the ACLU could manage to go up against "zero tolerance" educrats and still be in the wrong.

Hat tips: Ace of Spades, Knowledge is Power, on a tip from V the K.

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December 23, 2006

Moonbat Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Christmas

Liberals have won a lot of ground in their war against Christmas — and they're not willing to give an inch of it back. When a San Joaquin Valley school district decided to call Christmas and Easter vacation "Christmas and Easter vacation" instead of "winter and spring breaks," an unidentified moonbat reacted sharply, setting fire to a Christmas tree, an American flag, and himself in protest.

The Christmas tree in question stood next to the Liberty Bell in Bakersfield, California — a common location for public events and demonstrations. A sheriff's deputy and a parole agent put out the flaming moonbat with fire extinguishers, leaving him with first-degree burns on his shoulders and arms. The angry progressive had brought along a sign reading:

[EXPLETIVE] the religious establishment and KHSD.

KHSD stands for Kern High School Board — whose trustees had made the radical theocratic decision to acknowledge Christmas and Easter.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Fellow Dems Rally Around Convicted Felon Gary Siplin

Democrats' epic battle against the "Culture of Corruption" remains on hold as Florida Dems rally around State Senator Gary Siplin, who has been convicted of felony grand theft.

Minority Leader Steve Geller is among the eight Democratic State Senators hosting a fundraiser on Siplin's behalf. Attendees are asked to cough up $500, the maximum allowed.

Siplin is a special guy, being the first convicted felon to serve in the Florida Senate. He hasn't been kicked out because he's appealing, and hasn't voluntarily stepped down because he's a Democrat.

Also hosting the gala fundraiser is State Senator Frederica Wilson. She was among those demanding that Republican Representative Ralph Arza step down for using an ethnic slur — he did so. But she sees no reason for her fellow Dem to follow suit, because felony grand theft is not an "egregious crime" like name-calling.

These are the sort of people we put in charge of the House and the Senate.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Al-Qaeda Celebrates De Facto Alliance With Democratic Party

Al-Qaeda's #2 man Ayman al-Zawahiri seems to have a pretty good grasp of American politics. Here's what he had to say to our Democratic Party after its midterm victories:

You aren't the ones who won the midterm elections, nor are the Republicans the ones who lost. Rather, the Mujahideen — the Muslim Ummah's vanguard in Afghanistan and Iraq — are the ones who won, and the American forces and their Crusader allies are the ones who lost.

Al-Zawahiri calls on Democrats to negotiate with al-Qaeda rather than Iran and Syria, who are favored by Jim Baker et al. — as if it makes any real difference which terrorists we surrender to.

On a tip from V the K.

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December 22, 2006

Political Correctness Does in the Gingerbread Man

Via Curtains:

At least now he will feel at home in unisex bathrooms.

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Ahmadinejad Tells Us What Jesus Would Do

Demented Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put his own spin on Christmas greetings by wishing Christians a happy new year — and blasphemously tying Christ to the demonic Imam Mahdi, a messianic character whose return Muslims believe will usher in a holocaust of "Islamic justice."

Raved the guy who wants to wipe Israel off the map and will soon have the nuclear weapons to do it, a guy who possibly thinks he is Imam Mahdi:

My one question from the Christians is: What would Jesus do if he were present in the world today? What would he do before some of the oppressive powers of the world who are in fact residing in Christian countries? Which powers would he revive and which of them would he destroy? [...] All I want to say is that the age of hardship, threat and spite will come to an end someday and God willing Jesus would return to the world along with the emergence of the descendant of the Islam's Holy Prophet, Imam Mahdi and wipe away every tinge of oppression, pain and agony from the face of the world.

In the context of Ahmadinejad's other ravings, this means that Jesus would nuke Israel and quite possibly the USA. It should be noted that in a bizarre attempt to rewrite history, Muslims hold that their cult — which was invented in the 6th century — actually predates Christianity and Judaism. They claim Abraham as a Muslim and Christ as one of their prophets. It's possible that Christ has also been claimed as a prophet of Scientology, but I don't know for sure.

Hat tip: In the Days, on a tip from nanc.

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Another Small Step Toward an Unthinkable Future

In a piece nauseatingly entitled "Tears of Joy as Muslims Win Mosque Battle," the Manchester Evening News notes that a small group of Muslim foreigners in the English town Clitheroe were able to overcome resistance and convert a Methodist chapel into a mosque by screaming the meaningless phrase "institutional racism" at their opponents.

While moonbats wage war against church bells in this country, across the Atlantic bells are already being replaced by the nails-on-blackboard yowling of Muslim calls to prayer.

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NYC Birth Stats Suggest Grim Future

According to New York City's latest release of vital statistics, there were 88,891 reported abortions in the city in 2005. When babies were allowed to live, Medicaid paid for 52% of the births. An appalling 44% of women giving birth weren't married.

And so social decay and government dependency are passed from one generation to the next.

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Even the Smallest Loose Wheels Get Oil When They Squeak

If Al Franken's bankrupt Air America can't make it in whacky Madison, Wisconsin, it will never make it anywhere — which may be why moonbats with nothing better to do staged protests when local carrier Mic 92.1 FM announced plans to dump the failed liberal network in favor of an all-sports Fox Radio format.

Festivities included a fake funeral procession featuring black crepe paper. Placards declared that pulling a format that only a handful of left-wing extremists want to listen to is "Death of the free speech." About 30 people participated, according to a sympathetic news report.

The moonbats presented the station with a petition with 4,500 signatures — not many considering that most people would sign their own death warrants to get smelly hippies out of their faces. Yet it was enough. The next day came a report that 92.1 would go down with Err Un-American's sinking ship after all.

On tips from V the K and General Jack D. Ripper.

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December 21, 2006

Confirmed: Clinton's National Security Adviser Sandy Berger Stole Classified Documents

It took awhile, but the National Archives has officially determined that President Bill Clinton's National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, aka Sandy Burglar, snuck classified documents out of the archives, hid them under a construction trailer, and later tried to retrieve documents that he had cut into small pieces from a trash collector.

In 2003, the September 11 Commission made the mistake of authorizing Burglar to be the Clinton Administration's representative, responsible for seeing that the correct classified materials were received. Burglar repaid the commission's trust by stealing documents in an evident attempt at damage control.

Whether all of the stolen documents were ever recovered remains in doubt.

Burglar pleaded guilty more than a year ago. Instead of the long prison term he richly deserves, he was sentenced to a fine of $50,000 and 100 hours of community service. He was barred from accessing classified materials for three years, which means that if Shrillary is elected in 2008, Burglar could be right back in the National Archives, once again stuffing incriminating documents into his pants to be disposed of later.

But you probably didn't need any more reasons to dread the return of Clintons to the White House.

On a tip from Bergbikr.

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Botched Joke Hits It Off With Baby Assad

Good thing John "Botched Joke" Kerry didn't get elected President — it might have gotten in the way of his creative diplomatic work.

The intrepid diplomat now reports that the terrorist regime in Syria — which for years has been playing Mini Me to Iran's Doctor Evil — wants to work with the USA to bring stability to Iraq, and even that dictator Bashar "Baby" Assad has personally offered his assistance.

It's not that Baby Assad couldn't help. All he would have to do is stop exporting terrorism. In addition to fueling the chaos in Iraq by supplying foreign terrorists, the Syrian regime has been using assassinations and its cat's paw Hezbollah to undo the Cedar Revolution and destroy the democratic government of Lebanon. Also, it supports Hamas, which is responsible for inflicting endless mayhem on Israel and CAIR on the United States.

The question is: how dim would you have to be to believe that Syria would cooperate in good faith with its arch enemy America? The answer is: no dimmer than Botched Joke Kerry.

Also generating publicity by crawling to Damascus to kiss Assad's ring are Kerry's fellow irresponsible moonbat Senators Christopher Dodd, Bill Nelson, and Arlen Specter. This behavior is most disgraceful in the case of Specter — who is both Jewish and nominally Republican — considering that these trips to Syria are deliberate slaps in the face of the Bush Administration, and that negotiations with the terrorists in Syria would inevitably occur at the expense of Israel's security.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Which Holiday?

One problem with using the vacuous "Happy Holidays" in place of "Merry Christmas" is that confusion might arise as to which holiday you're really referring to. Some people, given their natural proclivities, might even assume you mean Halloween.

Image via Bella Pelosi AKA Nancy Pelosi, on a tip from Wiggins.

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The Donald Goes After Rosie O

Donald Trump may come across as a clown in some respects, but he gets a few things right. Most notably, he wanted to rebuild the World Trade Center — but defeatist moonbats got in the way. Another point in his favor: he detests loud-mouthed talk show hostess Rosie O'Donnell, whom he plans to sue on unspecified grounds:

She's not smart, she's crude, she's ignorant and to be honest I look forward to suing Rosie.

Here's video of the Donald denouncing as a loser the super-sized lesbian kookazoid who has helped make The View such a rich lode of moonbattery.

On a tip from nanc.

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Hybrid Hype Waning

Just as carmakers ramp up their plans for more politically correct hybrid vehicles, consumer interest is falling off, along with gas prices.

A year ago 30% of car shoppers were allegedly willing to consider a hybrid, and to pay nearly $2,500 extra for it. Those numbers have fallen to 12% and $1,152.

Enviromoonbattery aside, hybrids don't make much sense. Highly fuel-efficient subcompacts start at less than $15,000. The Toyota Prius (aka Pious) starts at $22,175.

But I'm sure George Clooney's $85,000 Tango T600 is still parked prominently at the back of his ten-car garage.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Zune Preloaded With Homosexual Pornography

Moonbats who enjoy denouncing Microsoft for its capitalistic ways might be willing to cut Bill Gates & Co. some slack after learning that a Zune Media Player that a Chicago-area couple bought for their 12-year-old daughter came preloaded with video of a homosexual orgy that went on for almost two hours.

Remarked the little girl's mom Chanell Martin:

What do you tell a 12-year-old child that you have five men having sex with each other? That's not a conversation that I want to have.

At least they're not showing that sort of thing on TV yet — as far as I know.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Italian Moonbats Add Homosexual Dolls to Government Nativity Scene

The Radical Party has managed to attract attention to itself by placing dolls representing two homosexual couples in the Italian Parliament's nativity scene.

As arranged by deputies Bruno Mellano and Donatella Porretti, the dolls presented a banner reading "Gay weddings like those in Zapatero's Spain in Italy as well." (The government of Spain's socialist dhimmi Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero legalized gay marriage last year.)

Italy has not yet been corroded by moonbattery to the point of the dolls being left in place. Even Rosy Bindi, Family Policy minister of Romano Prodi's left-leaning government, denounced the stunt as

a useless provocation against the nativity of the Chamber of Deputies that hurts us as Christians and as citizens of this country.

Since this didn't happen in the USA, the ACLU hasn't filed a lawsuit on behalf of the dolls.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Bus Driver Gets to Keep Santa Hat

Not all bus drivers are faring as poorly as the guy in Germany who could be facing jail time for giving Nazi salutes. Kenneth Mott of Long Island will be able to keep his job and even the Santa hat that he has been wearing every Christmas for years.

He had been told to stop wearing the hat because a child who doesn't believe in Santa didn't like it; evidently, Mott believed his job to be in jeopardy. But fortunately we haven't quite reached the point where Santa has the same status as Nazis.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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German Bus Driver Faces Jail Time For Salute

A driver in Germany may be facing jail time for giving a stiff-armed salute to pupils as they board his school bus. You can get up to three years in Deutschland for using Nazi symbols, begging the question, who's more like Nazis: an eccentric bus driver or the government that throws him in jail on political grounds?

On a tip from Wiggins.

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December 20, 2006

PETA Objects to Convicts Working at Poultry Plant

PETA activists' capacity for self-parody appears limitless. Now they are screeching in horror at the idea of convicts filling in for the illegal aliens who have been booted out of the Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, Georgia. Their objection: violent felons might hurt the poor chickens — as opposed to just butchering them.

Observed PETA's maniacal Bruce Friedrich (who has advocated terror attacks against fast food restaurants, slaughterhouses, laboratories, and even banks):

Placing animals in the care of convicts with violent histories is like putting children in the care of child molesters.

Maybe Friedrich and his friends would like to fill in at Crider Poultry. That way they would be right on the scene to make sure no chickens are injured while they're being killed. Who knows, exposure to honest work might help them to mature.

On a tip from V the K.

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Trans Fat Ban For All of Massachusetts?

As John Stossel predicted, New York City's outrageously intrusive ban of foods prepared with trans fat from restaurants was not the last word in encroaching nanny state totalitarianism. Dem state rep Peter Koutoujian has introduced a bill to enact a similar ban throughout the entire state of Massachusetts.

Massachusetts already has one of the lowest rates of obesity in the country. But despite the sanctimonious posturing of militant moonbats like Kooktoujian, the idea is to improve not so much our health as the health of an ever-expanding bureaucracy that has the intolerable audacity to tell us what we can eat.

Where will it stop? Anything that tastes good is unhealthy according to someone. So is alcohol. So is failing to exercise every day.

As Stossel notes:

Often the health police say they must "protect the children." But children are the responsibility of their parents. When the state assumes the role of parent, it makes children of all of us.

Children — or slaves.

Like most moonbattery, this ban starting in liberal havens (NYC, Massachusetts) will spread, probably with the help of activist courts that will start allowing Breck Girl types to sue restaurants into bankruptcy if they serve anything that tastes better than bean curd.

Then the bureauweenies can start on the mandatory aerobics legislation.

On a tip from Bernie D.

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Sean Penn Wigs Out

Last night the deranged and obnoxious leftist Sean Penn was awarded the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award by his fellow entertainment industry moonbats. He exploited the opportunity to launch himself completely over the top, screeching about impeachment and insulting anyone he could think of who fails to toe the left-wing line.

In demanding that our democratically elected government be removed by force, Penn compared the imaginary crimes for which Bush and others should be impeached to "grand larceny," "large-scale distribution of methamphetamines," and even "contract killing on a pregnant mother." He insulted Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Joe Lieberman, and even country singer Toby Keith.

An example of Penn's disturbed ravings:

Oh, there goes Sean...he had to go and name-call. They say he can't help himself. Or, did I name-call? Maybe I just quickly summed up seven or eight little truths. Oh, no, you're right — I name-called. I said, "putz." I take it back. Or, do I? Did I say whore? Pimp? These are questions. But, the real and great questions of conscience and accountability would not loom so ominously — unanswered or evaded at such tremendous cost — without our day-to-day failure to insist on genuine accountability.

Not to mention our failure to insist on psychiatric hygiene from cultural mouthpieces like Penn.

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Human Rights to Be Extended to Machines

Long-suffering British taxpayers have now financed a report suggesting that human rights should be extended to machines.

According to Henrik Christensen, director of the Centre of Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology:

Would it be acceptable to kick a robotic dog even though we shouldn't kick a normal one? There will be people who can't distinguish that so we need to have ethical rules to make sure we as humans interact with robots in an ethical manner so we do not move our boundaries of what is acceptable.

In return for their rights, machines might be asked to vote, serve in the military, and pay taxes to finance moronic government reports.

According the report, human rights will even include nanny state entitlements:

If granted full rights, states will be obligated to provide full social benefits to them including income support, housing and possibly robo-healthcare to fix the machines over time.

Liberals will be pleased to learn that we will soon be able to abort all babies and still reproduce a constituency of government-dependent, Democratic-voting whiners.

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December 19, 2006

AP Manufactures Peace Granny

Over-the-top 69-year-old kookazoid Rosemarie Jackowski has won hearts among her fellow moonbats by getting arrested for blocking traffic during a peacenik protest (at least one ambulance on its way to the hospital was delayed). She crowned this accomplishment by refusing to plead guilty to a disorderly conduct charge, putting the courts to a lot of trouble and taxpayers to a lot of expense so that she could flip her gnarled middle finger at society. When a jury took only 15 minutes to convict her, she responded by appealing the verdict.

AP attempts to manufacture another Cindy Sheehan phenom out of Jackowski in a puff piece absurdly entitled "Vt. Woman Is an Unlikely Peace Activist." Here's AP overplaying the typical MSM tactic of broadcasting the opinions of nuts who just happen to agree with their views:

"She's not a loony toon by any means," said Andrew Schoerke, 73, a retired U.S. Navy captain who was arrested with her. "She's a very down to earth, sensible, caring person with some very strong convictions."

Actually, loony would be putting it mildly, as a cursory check of Jackowski's background reveals.

On her website, Jackowski describes herself as "an advocacy journalist living in Vermont" — i.e., a flaming moonbat. Here's a glimpse of her "down to earth, sensible" thoughts on nukes falling into the hands of the demented terrorist regime in Iran:

The United States owes reparations to the people of Iran. How much should be paid for the 1953 coup? How much is a democracy worth? Here’s a thought. Suppose the U.S. gave all of its nuclear weapons to Iran. Would that be a win, win, win scenario? The world would be safer because the only nation that had ever used nukes would no longer have any. The people of Iran would be compensated for the 1953 coup. The U.S. taxpayers would be spared a bill for reparations.

Other countries that are owed reparations by the USA according to Jackowski include Mexico, Cuba, Vietnam, Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Oh, and we owe reparations to blacks, Indians, and Chagossians (I'd never heard of them either). Jackowski wants to impose a "reparations tax" to pay for it all.

Here's her take on some ravings by Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill that seem to endorse terrorism:

As I read and re-read it over and over, I came to the conclusion that it is one of the most powerful pleas for peace and justice in literature.

In another essay, she likens the faux Indian Churchill to Galileo. In still another, she demands "a maximum wage which would be helpful in controlling excessive consumption" and snivels:

I care about the countless numbers of immigrants who are struggling to cross the border only to find that they are then in a racist and hostile environment. [...] I care about all of the kids in US schools who [...] will never learn that their country is responsible for invasions, occupations, covert actions, and deaths all around the world.

Remember Jay Bennish, the Colorado geography teacher who subjected his students to extended rants on the evils of America? Jackowski believes he should be a candidate for a "The Teacher of the Year" award. She chastises the media because it "never seemed to get the point" of a book by William Blum that was endorsed by Osama bin Laden in one of his videos.

Jackowski wrote a letter of thanks to socialist thug Hugo Chavez for an anti-American propaganda stunt involving discount heating oil, in which certain Democratic politicians despicably participated.

Just last month, Jackowski ran for attorney general on the Liberty Union ticket. This party's platform is pure moonbattery, including gems like:

Everyone have socially productive and personally satisfying work available and a level of living which generates a real sense of security, even when society fails to find a use for anyone's efforts.

In other words, in their communist utopia, you do whatever you feel like doing and the government gives you lots of other people's money. Great deal, huh?

Needless to say, AP didn't bother to mention any of this, as it conflicts with their portrayal of Jackowski as an everyday grandmother thrown in jail by brutal warmongers.

Hat tips: OpinionJournal, Riehl World View

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Pelosi Prepared to Make a Mockery of Catholicism

Our next Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is well known as a fanatical proponent of abortion — including the horrific procedure known as partial-birth abortion — who has earned a 100% rating from the sick fiends at NARAL. But did you know she's also a Catholic? She is even scheduled to attend Mass at Trinity College in DC on January 3.

Judie Brown, president of American Life League, is enraged by this publicity stunt:

Allowing Rep. Pelosi to receive honor at a Catholic college sends mixed signals about what the Catholic Church teaches. The bottom line is, abortion kills a living human being created in the image and likeness of God and is therefore always wrong. Because of this truth, it is unconscionable for Rep. Pelosi to call herself a Catholic in good standing while supporting the heinous act of abortion. We are hopeful that Archbishop Wuerl will intercede in this situation and prevent Rep. Pelosi from adding to an ongoing scandal.

You can't blame Brown for getting upset. When core principles like respect for the sanctity of life are sacrificed to political expediency, there is nothing left but a hollow shell of pomp and circumstance, with a rich history but no future, as impossible to take seriously as the British monarchy.

On a tip from Bill V.

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Moonbat Journalist Anthony Lewis Makes a Video

If you thought your contempt for journalists could not possibly be increased, Anthony Lewis, assistant editor and chief reporter of Britain's Jersey Evening Post, is out to prove you wrong. Dressed in a moronic reindeer outfit, Lewis utilizes the worst singing voice I have ever heard to exhort us all to "hug a Muslim this Christmas."

According to Lewis, the media is not yet sufficiently dhimmitized:

The whole media is guilty of using the word "Muslim" in a negative way, but there is no reason why. We're all just human beings.

It's as if people thought Muslims wanted to blow us up and fly planes into our buildings or something. But even if they do, there's no reason to object. We're all just human beings!

Amidst all the hugging, Lewis shares nuggets of moonbattery like this:

Terrorism will never be a match for materialism for destroying the earth.

and this:

They'll have you believe that Muslim fanatics are destroying the world. But the baby boomers got there first.

Don't try watching on a full stomach:

Sometimes I almost understand why Muslims want to obliterate our civilization.

Via Ace of Spades HQ, on a tip from V the K.

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Stuck Mojo Declares Open Season on Dhimmitude

It turns out country isn't the only kind of popular music with the character not to wallow in moonbattery. Here's a rap metal band called Stuck Mojo:

You can read the lyrics here.

Via LGF, on a tip from Bill V.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:45 AM | Comments (2)

Joy Behar's Foot Remains in Her Mouth

Joy Behar continues her campaign to overtake Rosie O'Donnell and Baba Wawa as the wackiest moonbat on The View, following up her accusation that the GOP caused Tim Johnson's stroke with yet another juvenile Republicans = Nazis barb. Reportedly even Rosie was stunned when Behar raved of Time's Person of the Year selection:

You have to put, like a Hitler type [on the cover]. Like, you put Donald Rumsfeld there, or something.

By putting vile little fools like Behar in front of the camera, ABC effectively validates her views. Mental defectives may even take her opinions seriously. Many others will be encouraged to take Nazis less seriously. One day the Third Reich may be remembered as kind of like Republicans, except with shiny boots.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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

Moonbats Turn Christmas Cards Into an Obscene Gesture

Even moonbats participate in the tradition of sending Christmas cards, according to retired Lt. Colonel Gordon Cucullu:

At holiday time it is customary for soldiers deployed to remote locations around the world to receive cards from a grateful American public addressed simply to "Any Soldier." Typically such cards are distributed throughout the units and top sergeants make certain that soldiers who may be light in the mail department or who may have a bit of holiday depression receive cards. This tradition has been in place at least since the days of World War II. [...]

But such is not the case at the US base in Guantanamo, Cuba where thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guardsmen toil to defend America. [...]

Instead of bullets and IEDs, troopers here duck noxious "cocktails" of the fab five: feces, urine, spit, semen, and vomit — tossed into their faces. They don't receive Purple Hearts when an enemy detainee requests a comfort item then grabs the hand of the kind guard passing it to him and breaks the trooper's arm or wrist.

Do you want to guess who receives the Christmas and Holiday greetings here in Guantanamo? The terrorist detainees who are confined here to keep them from killing you and your families! Last year alone Guantanamo detainees received more than 14,000 cards, the vast majority from muddle-headed well-wishers and sympathizers. This year local authorities estimate the number may exceed 16,000! Some are addressed to the detainees by name or by their detainee number, available on the Pentagon website. Most are simply addressed to "Any Detainee at Guantanamo."

Like the other 40,000 or so pieces of detainee mail that transit the post office on the base the cards are distributed into the cells. The cards are passed out to the detainees by troopers who may themselves not have received any sort of greeting from home in a long time.

Too bad progressives can't send their festive greetings directly to Osama bin Laden — though the terrorist vermin vacationing at Club Gitmo certainly aren't far removed.

By the way, Gitmo Christmas cards can also be sent to "Any Trooper," at JTF GTMO, APO AE 09360.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:47 AM | Comments (1)

December 18, 2006

Transgender Creepazoid Suing His Way Into Ladies' Dressing Room

A truly creepy man who calls himself Jane is suing Loehmann's department store in New York City for not letting him use the ladies' dressing room. His lawyer says that violates city law, and I wouldn't be surprised if he's right. Check out the video.

Of course, the report plays along with the politically correct charade of pretending the guy is a woman, and everyone interviewed is perfectly okay with this weirdo lurking in the dressing room. But what if this show is taken on the road, to where not even MyFox can find people who approve of it? No doubt the Supremes will find a relevant right hidden in the shade of a constitutional penumbra.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Tennessee Governor's Muslim Christmas Card

Tennessee's Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen has set a new standard for yuletide political correctness by sending out family Christmas cards featuring a picture of a Muslim.

Governor Bredesen explains on the back of the card:

While it may seem odd to put a portrait of a young Muslim woman on a Christmas card, this Season reminds us that He loves His children most of all.

Oh, now I get it.

As for local Muslims, Khaled Sakalla of the Islamic Center of Nashville complains that we can see some of the woman's hair.

On a tip from nanc.

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Lefty Ethos Leads to Crime For Namby-Pamby Liberal

Some food co-op hippies in New York may have started on the slippery slope toward voting Republican:

Last month, the Brooklyn Papers ran an exposé of sorts under the headline HAS SLOPE FOOD CO-OP'S LEFTY ETHOS LED TO CRIME? The muckraking piece quoted unnamed members as saying that those who appear to be outsiders (which some read to mean poor blacks) are not being carded at the door because the co-op's members (which some read to mean privileged whites) are afraid of looking racist, resulting in purse-nabbings. One anonymous member was quoted as saying that the organization had dropped its bag-search policy after being accused of racial profiling and now might as well wear "a big rob us sign" on its back. Letter writers quickly lashed out, defending the store ("We're not pushovers … we do prosecute thieves!") and attacking the story ("Both racist and insulting"). But in the end, Joe Holtz, the co-op's general manager, seems most offended by being dubbed a namby-pamby liberal. "Lefty ethos did not lead to these crimes," he said. "People feeling comfortable enough to leave their purses inside their carts while they went back to aisle three to pick up the can of tuna fish they forgot led to these crimes." Plus the co-op's installed video-surveillance cameras that recently helped the police arrest one offender (who was not a member).

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 4:36 PM | Comments (1)

Lord Monckton Takes Climate Change Thugs to Task

Kudos to Lord Monckton, formerly a policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher, for calling climate change fanatics on the thuggish tactics they have been using in an attempt to impose consent on their hysterical dogma.

As you may recall, left-wing Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (RINO-ME) sent a menacing letter to ExxonMobil, warning them to stop questioning global warming mania or else.

Monckton has sent the pair of moonbat Senators a blistering open letter of his own (PDF). Some highlights:

The US Constitution guarantees the right of free speech. It is inappropriate for elected Senators such as yourselves to suggest that any person should refrain from exercising that right, as you have done in your letter of October 27 to the CEO of ExxonMobil. That great corporation has exercised its right of free speech – and with good reason – in openly providing support for scientists and groups that dare to question how much the increased concentration of CO2 in the air may warm the world. You must honour the Constitution, withdraw your letter and apologize to ExxonMobil, or resign as Senators.

You defy every tenet of democracy when you invite ExxonMobil to deny itself the right to provide information to "senior elected and appointed government officials" who disagree with your opinion. You are elected officials yourselves. If you do not believe in the right of persons within the United States to exercise their fundamental right under the world's greatest Constitution to petition their elected representatives for the redress of their grievances, then you have no place on Capitol Hill. You must go. [...]

Why should ExxonMobil, or anyone, place the slightest credence in a body [the UN's climate change panel] that [...] has manipulated or ignored the truth, has suppressed the participation of dissenters, has failed to address scientists' legitimate concerns about the declared bias of its lead authors, and has failed to apologize even for its most blatant errors? Lord Lawson of Blaby, a distinguished former Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, has called for the outright abolition of the UN's climate-change panel. I concur. We need honest science. Therefore we do not need the UN.

You suggest that ExxonMobil should "promote technological innovation" to address what you call the "global problem" of climate change. If you regard the increasing concentration of CO2 as a "problem", which it is not, the quickest way to get the world to address the problem is to disband the UN's lavishly funded climate change panel and get the science right. Sceptics and those who have the courage to support them are actually helpful in getting the science right. They do not, as you improperly suggest, "obfuscate" the issue: they assist in clarifying it by challenging weaknesses in the "consensus" argument, and they compel necessary corrections such as the impending and highly significant more-than-50% cut in the UN's high-end projection for the increase in sea level to 2100. [...]

You acknowledge the effectiveness of the climate sceptics. In so doing, you pay a compliment to the courage of those free-thinking scientists who continue to research climate change independently despite the likelihood of refusal of publication in journals that have taken preconceived positions; the hate mail and vilification from ignorant environmentalists; and the threat of loss of tenure in institutions of learning which no longer make any pretence to uphold or cherish academic freedom. [...]

There is a consensus that there is more CO2 in the air than there was; that humankind may be to blame; and that some warming may result. That is all. There is no consensus on how fast the world will warm, or when or even whether any "disastrous" consequences will ensue. If, in any area of this debate, you hold that the peer-reviewed literature is unanimous in going beyond the limited extent which I have described, please notify me in your reply and, in each such area, I shall point you to peer-reviewed science that casts strong, reasonable, reasoned and well-founded doubt upon what you imagine is the "consensus". [...]

I challenge you to withdraw or resign because your letter is the latest in what appears to be an internationally-coordinated series of maladroit and malevolent attempts to silence the voices of scientists and others who have sound grounds, rooted firmly in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, to question what you would have us believe is the unanimous agreement of scientists worldwide that global warming will lead to what you excitedly but unjustifiably call "disastrous" and "calamitous" consequences.

Normally foreign meddling in domestic affairs gets under the skin, but Lord Monckton is so right, you can't help but tip your hat to him. Besides, climate change hysteria is a global issue if ever there was one.

On a tip from Bill V.

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It Takes a Nanny State

Apparently to burnish her intellectual credentials as part of the overextended run-up to the 2008 elections, Hillary Clinton has reissued her 1996 manifesto "It Takes a Village," and will soon be appearing on the carnival of moonbattery known as The View to hawk this paean to state-based child raising.

As summed up by Human Events, the book dismisses the traditional family as inappropriate for the modern world. "The village" — i.e., government bureaucracy — should take its place.

This point of view may explain why Shrillary opposed relief from the marriage tax, and favors publicly financed divorce — which she would treat as "a public health issue," presumably covered under HillaryCare.

Shrillary admires the disintegrating dystopia France, where kids are full-time students in government schools by the time they turn 3, although she grudgingly acknowledges that doing things the French way isn't feasible here because Americans would not put up with the crippling tax rates required.

Europe is also praised for the high rate of contraception that is depopulating some countries toward nonexistence, and forcing them to import massive numbers of Muslims. Bizarrely, she spins abortion as good for children — or at least, good for the ones who don't get aborted.

The book touches on Hillary's desire for media control. It suggests that childcare advice "could be running continuously in doctors' offices, clinics, hospitals, motor vehicle offices, or any place where people have to gather and wait." It also calls for the news to "balance" violent stories with "positive images of themselves and those around them, taking care not to exacerbate negative stereotypes." In other words, the mainstream media should further distort the news for the sake of advancing her political agenda.

This book being released again now indicates that Hillary hasn't had many new thoughts over the last decade — or at least not many she cares to share with the public.