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January 31, 2007

Liberals Learn to Love State-Supported Religion

Always on the cutting edge of moonbattery, Boston has discovered a way for liberals to love state-supported religion. It doesn't have to be a religion tolerant of their beloved homosexuals. It doesn't have to be a religion that advocates treating women like human beings. It just has to be a religion sworn to the destruction of our civilization.

Islam is the only one that fits the bill, which is probably why the al-Qaeda–linked Islamic Society of Boston was handed a $2-million chunk of taxpayer-owned land for a token fee of $175,000.

When asked about this outrage, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino responded by shrugging, "That happened before me."

Actually, it didn't — and Menino took part in a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate this generous gift to Islam on behalf of the taxpayers, at which he gibbered about the project "creating a space for inter-faith dialog."

You would think the ACLU would have some interest in all this government-owned wealth handed over to a religion. At least, you would think that if you believed the ACLU acted on any principles other than a reflexive hatred of Christianity, capitalism, and America. But as it turns out, the Massachusetts ACLU apparently couldn't care less.

Neither could the Boston Globe or the Boston city council. Maybe they consider it a first installment on their jizya payments.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:44 PM | Comments (8)

Herouxville, Quebec Takes a Stand For Cohesion

Hats off to the citizens of tiny Herouxville, Quebec for taking a stand against encroaching dhimmitude and the disease known as multiculturalism that enables its advance.

The town welcomes immigrants, but insists they make themselves aware of a declaration of "norms" adopted by the town council. These include:

• At Christmas, children sing Christmas songs.
• No stoning women.
• No burning women with acid.
• No ceremonial daggers in school even if you're a Sikh.
• Boys and girls can swim in the same pool whether Muslims like it or not.
• Men can drink alcohol whether Muslims like it or not.
• No walking around with your face hidden except on Halloween.
• Female police can arrest male suspects even if it troubles their egos.
• Women are allowed to dance.
• Women are allowed to drive.
• Women are even allowed to make decisions on their own.

Needless to say, ethnic grievance groups like B'nai Brith Quebec and the Muslim Council of Montreal are outraged. Too bad. As Herouxville's town council has figured out, the farther we bend over backwards obsequiously pandering to arrogant and sometimes hostile foreigners who refuse to assimilate, the less social cohesion we're going to have.

Social cohesion may not conform to multicultural fashion, but we will miss it when it's gone. The Balkans, Sudan, and Iraq are examples of the style of life in store for us if we continue to let our society fragment.

On a tip from Hope.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:52 AM | Comments (30)

Brother Jermaine Wants Michael Jackson to Become a Muslim

Jermaine Jackson says he wants his brother Michael to convert to Islam, and believes the cross-dressing, child-molesting, homosexual pop star has been giving it some serious thought.

If he does convert, maybe he'll execute himself. At least that would spare us from his planned musical comeback.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:51 AM | Comments (7)

Al Franken Calling It Quits

Wonderful news: the obnoxious Al Franken has set February 14 as the last day he will befoul the radio waves with his moonbattery, as his Air America continues to flounder in bankruptcy.

But there's a cloud inside this silver lining. He may actually run for a Senate seat in Minnesota, where he moved from New York last year. Minnesota has offered us the first pro wrestler Governor and the first Muslim Congressman; next could be the first Senator who is literally a clown, if not a very funny one.

In a possible reference to a Senate run, Franken warns that his last show will be "sort of a valentine."

On a tip from Wiggins.

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January 30, 2007

Muslim Kids Celebrate Ashura

Today is Ashura, a day on which Shiite Muslims pay homage to their bloodthirsty god by — how else? — shedding blood. The idea is to commemorate the martyrdom of Hussein ibn Ali, grandson of Mohammad, whose death marked the split between the Sunni and Shia sects.

Ashura is celebrated by publicly beating, cutting, and/or flagellating yourself. Children are expected to participate. It's a quaint multicultural practice that we'll be seeing more of as Islam supplants Christianity in the West.

Something… And Half of Something offers a fascinating collection of Ashura photos. A few samples:

Religion of Peaceniks really know how to throw a holiday party. Isn't it great the way they involve the whole family?

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Should We Put Mexico on Welfare?

A Freedom of Information Act request has resulted in the revelation that at a session on "Border Infrastructure and Continental Prosperity" at the North American Forum in Banff, Canada last September, discussions dwelled on the question of whether to be secretive or forthcoming with the public about attempts to integrate the USA, Canada, and Mexico into a North American version of the European Union.

If they're wise, they'll stick with the stealth route. Not too many Americans are likely to endorse their bureaucratic dreams, especially after exposure to the views of Robert Pastor. Pastor, an American University professor who was prominent at the Banff conference, says that narrowing the income gap between the productive USA and the not-so-productive Mexico "may be the single most important issue on the North American agenda." Apparently he wants to put an entire country on our welfare roll.

This plan does beat leaving the border open, which will eventually result in all the poor in Mexico ending up on our welfare roll anyway, without improving our access to Mexican oil.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 4:32 PM | Comments (1)

Moonbat Blast From the Past: Begging For Bin Laden

WorldNetDaily recalls that on this day in history, January 30, 2003, they reported on Ben & Jerry's ice cream tycoon and hippy moonbat extraordinaire Ben Cohen's Internet column dated September 4, 2001, in which he posted the following "enemy wanted" ad:

ENEMY WANTED. Serious enemy needed to justify Pentagon budget increase. Defense contractors desperate. Interested enemies send letter and photo or video (threatening, ok) to Enemy Search Committee, Priorities Campaign, 1350 Broadway, NY, NY, 10018.

One week later, 19 Muslims hijacked four planes and used them to kill 3,000 Americans.

Unfortunately, not even the dramatic arrival of the enemy he asked for was enough to jar Cohen out of his moonbattery. He has since used his "grassroots education and advocacy project" TrueMajority to undermine our attempts to suppress Islamic terror by spreading democracy in the Middle East.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 4:07 PM | Comments (8)

The High Cost of Hysteria For Australia

A new report predicts that achieving the 30% emissions cut global warming cultists are demanding by 2030 would cost Australia $75 billion (about $58 billion US). The cost of electricity generation would be doubled, inflicting hardship on every economic endeavor.

Meanwhile, the cultists continue to stoke the hysteria in an effort to distract us from the crippling cost of complying with their moonbat demands.

If only because the big polluters like China, India, and Brazil aren't eager to plunge themselves back into abject poverty to indulge the apocalyptic fantasies of Western liberals, it is extremely unlikely that the extravagant sacrifice demanded of Australia would have any effect on the weather whatsoever.

On a tip from Metalgarth.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:17 PM | Comments (2)

Eurabia Almost Inevitable

According to world-renowned Middle Eastern and Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis, Muslims "seem to be about to take over Europe." Whether Europe becomes part of the Muslim world will soon cease to be an issue; the only question will be:

Will it be an Islamized Europe or Europeanized Islam?

Given the long list of ancient cultures Islam has totally obliterated (Egyptian, Persian, Byzantine, etc.), the smart money will be on an Islamized Europe, distinguishable from places like Yemen only by the weather and superficial hereditary traits.

As Lewis observes,

The outlook for the Jewish communities of Europe is dim.

The same can be said for Christian communities — and soon will be said for any communities other than Muslim.

How is it possible that after centuries of trying and failing to conquer Europe, Islam is only now on the verge of succeeding? The answer can be given in a single word: moonbattery.

Lewis puts it like this:

Europeans are losing their own loyalties and their own self-confidence. They have no respect for their own culture.

He names "self-abasement," "political correctness," and "multiculturalism" as reasons Europeans have "surrendered" on every issue pertaining to Muslim conquest of their civilization through a combination of immigration and intimidation.

Just as psychiatric disorders can cause an individual to commit suicide, the disease known as liberalism is doing the same for European culture.

Yet while Europeans lie in their warm bath watching the blood seep from their slashed wrists, we're asked by Democrats to fret that they don't approve of the way we run our country.

Hat tip: Clarity & Resolve.

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

Hunter Defends USA From Kerry's Insults

Responding to the vile insults Hanoi John Kerry directed at America the other day, Duncan Hunter has proven we have at least one 2008 presidential candidate who will actually take his own country's side.

As you may recall, Botched Joke John told a gathering of elitists at Davos, Switzerland that America is a pariah, and that it is guilty of "duplicity and hypocrisy." He even blamed the USA for AIDS in Africa. Oh, and he said that Americans have an "unfortunate habit" of viewing the world "exclusively through an American lens."

Liberals have a more unfortunate habit of viewing the world exclusively through an anti-American lens, though few go as far over the top in denouncing their own country to foreigners as John Kerry, who is very possibly the most contemptible human being to have risen to prominence in our political system. That anyone would ever have voted for this piece of work for president makes me shudder with horror.

One reason treasonous vermin like Kerry push the envelope so far over the edge is that no one calls them on it. The largely likeminded press is all but silent, and even opposition politicians discreetly fail to notice, leaving the false impression that such behavior is acceptable.

Thankfully Hunter stood up for America, noting the tremendous good we have done for an ungrateful world, and pointing out that it was "terrible" for Kerry to have said what he did.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:20 AM | Comments (9)

January 29, 2007

LA Times Op-Ed: 9/11 Was No Big Deal

These days liberals are so sure they have the wind at their backs, they're coming out of the closet with opinions we might have suspected them of, but wouldn't have been able to get them to admit to until recently. For example, yesterday the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by David Bell that asks the highly progressive question, Was 9/11 really that bad?

According to Bell, the 3,000 lives lost are no big deal, because many more died in the Soviet Union during WWII. Hiroshima is presented as the non plus ultra of attacks on civilian targets, suggesting that America is guilty of far worse atrocities than any terrorists.

But the main reason to laugh off 9/11 is that Islamic terrorists supposedly aren't capable of anything worse.

Bell admits that those who attacked us "are indeed hate-filled fanatics who would like nothing better than to destroy this country." But he quickly retreats into a pathological state of denial, where he feels safe enough to scoff at conservatives for thinking Muslims could kill as many people as Adolph Hitler.

Unfortunately, outside of Bell's ivory tower we are faced with not a few million Nazis, but over a billion Muslims. Pakistan already has nuclear weapons. Iran is following suit. At this point the spread of nuclear technology throughout the Muslim world would seem to be inevitable.

To quote top Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:

Iran's nuclear capability is one example of various scientific capabilities in the country. … The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to transfer the experience, knowledge and technology of its scientists.

He was talking to Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan — as backwards a terrorist-breeding Islamic hellhole as you will find anywhere. The Muslim-controlled government has been at work for years exterminating the millions of Christians unfortunate enough to live under its control.

Like 9/11, the genocide in Sudan is a prelude to a future liberals like Bell would rather not face.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:09 PM | Comments (24)

Muslims Get Their Own Restrooms at Australian University

Just how far over backwards will we bend to placate Muslims in our obsequious dhimmitude? In Australia, La Trobe University has Muslim-only bathrooms that can only be accessed with secret push-button codes, so as to keep out unclean infidels.

Muslim "community leader" Yasser Soliman says Muslims need separate restrooms to wash their feet before they say their prayers.

Needless to say, insisting on separate washrooms is not an indication that Muslims plan to assimilate into Australian society. But why should they? It would cost them all their special privileges.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:23 PM | Comments (3)

Church-Run Hospice Procures Prostitute For Patient

Rather than provide moral guidance, the church-run Douglas House hospice in Oxford found it more nonjudgmental to procure a prostitute for a patient suffering from muscular dystrophy who wasn't able to find a date on his own.

The hospice staff consulted with a lawyer, clergy, and healthcare professionals before hooking up 22-year-old Nick Wallis with a call girl.

Unsurprisingly, Wallis reports that "It was not emotionally fulfilling."

On a tip from Bill V.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:56 PM | Comments (8)

More on Tim the Transsexual Teen

A little update on yesterday's post about the German boy whose parents have been encouraging him since he was two to think he's a girl, and who has been on a hormone regime since he was twelve to prevent the onset of puberty:

His name is Tim but he goes by Kim. At fourteen he has "a growing bust line." The Daily Mail reports that he has no boyfriends at present but according to his depraved parents, he's looking. His goal in life is to move to Paris and become a fashion designer.

Now for the best part. The treatments that have turned the kid into a freak are being funded by German taxpayers. The bill already comes to well over $35,000 — and they still haven't cut off his genitals.

Moonbattery sure isn't cheap.

On a tip from Bill V.

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

Don't Forget to Be Afraid of Salt

Freelance food Nazis are now going after salt. A group cleverly calling itself Cash (an acronym for Consensus Action on Salt and Health) asserts that certain foods contain as much salt as seawater, for which they proclaim there is no justification.

If consumed in high enough doses, salt is supposed to aggravate high blood pressure. The Telegraph frets that "children are particularly vulnerable."

No doubt legislation will not be long in coming.

On a tip from Bill V.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:14 PM | Comments (1)

Fat and Lazy

Via Davids Medienkritik, yet another example of the petty anti-Americanism that saturates the European media:

The title translates to "US Kids Are Fat and Lazy." Imagine picking up an American magazine and reading that European kids are ugly and stupid. Our media may have more class than we thought — relatively speaking.

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Muslim Medicine

Dr. Abdul Majid Katme, head of the Islamic Medical Association and a member of the Muslim Council of Britain, is demanding that British Muslims refrain from vaccinating their children for diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, influenza, diphtheria, meningitis, tetanus, etc., because the vaccines are not "halal."

Halal products are made from animals that have their throats cut like infidels and then bleed to death while Allah's name is invoked. Needless to say, the pampered vacationers at Club Gitmo are fed only halal foods. But vaccines include animal products produced without any Dark Age throat-cutting rituals. Some even include forbidden pork-based gelatin.

Vaccination rates among Muslims are already low, which endangers not only their own health but everyone else's because "herd immunity" is needed to curb infectious diseases.

But Katme says nobody needs vaccines:

If you breast-feed your child for two years — as the Koran says — and you eat Koranic food like olives and black seed, and you do ablution each time you pray, then you will have a strong defence system.

Socialized medicine is pretty awful, but when it is replaced with Islamic medicine in a generation or two, the British are unlikely to get any healthier.

Hat tip: Political Correctness Watch

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:38 AM | Comments (2)

NY Times Reporter Chastised For Wanting USA to Win

Here's some truly shocking news: a New York Times reporter publicly expressed a desire that America win the war in Iraq. Naturally military correspondent Michael Gordon was quickly slapped back into line.

Here's what Gordon let slip on PBS's "Charlie Rose" show regarding our efforts to defend democracy in Iraq:

So I think, you know, as a purely personal view, I think it's worth it [sic] one last effort for sure to try to get this right, because my personal view is we've never really tried to win. We've simply been managing our way to defeat. And I think that if it's done right, I think that there is the chance to accomplish something.

When the Gray Hag's moonbat readership came down on Gordon like a ton of bricks, "readers' representative" Byron Calame complained on their behalf to the paper's top editors. From Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman's response:

I would agree with you that he stepped over the line on the "Charlie Rose" show. I have discussed the appearances with Michael and I am satisfied that the comments on the Rose show were an aberration. They were a poorly worded shorthand for some analytical points about the military and political situation in Baghdad that Michael has made in the newspaper in a more nuanced and unopinionated way. He agrees his comments on the show went too far.

No, wanting us to win certainly isn't "nuanced." By "unopinionated," Taubman must mean, "not expressing opinions a moonbat wouldn't agree with." Left-wing opinionating is ubiquitous in the Slimes, from the front page to the sports page.

No doubt realizing that he had jeopardized his career, Gordon apparently accepted his castigation with meek humility. Calame reports that the "line drawn correctly by Mr. Taubman" was "accepted honorably by Mr. Gordon."

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Saturday's Surrender Rally

Terrified that a troop surge could lead to victory in Iraq, moonbats rallied against it Saturday in DC and California, led by the usual collection of Hollyweird degenerates, Democrat politicians (Reps. Maxine Waters, Lynn Woolsey, John Conyers, ad nauseam), and communist/anarchist hooligans. They are owed thanks for the reminder that before we can defeat the terrorist enemies coming after us from abroad, we need to overcome the enemy within, which is eating away at our country like cancer and will do whatever it can to bring about our defeat.

A glimpse of what America is up against:

To quote a comment on a post below by Beef:

One can only hope that the media's attempt to lionize these pathetic poseurs backfires with widespread revulsion at the sight of feeble minded has-beens knifing their country in the back for the applause of degenerates.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:06 AM | Comments (8)

Troops Soldier Forward, Despite the Liberal Knives in Their Backs

While Hollyweird degenerates and Democrat pols rally the moonbat hordes to demand we surrender, our troops are making headway in Iraq, despite Dems' every effort to cut them off at the knees. A plot to take over Najaf and kill Shia clerics was foiled over the weekend, with 250–300 terrorists dying in the process.

Meanwhile, Michael Moore's "Minutemen" continue to target schools. Five children died and 21 were wounded in a mortar attack early Sunday. This is what liberals want us to surrender to:

It's also what the steps of our own schools will look like if we retreat, emboldening the enemy and moving the front from the Middle East to our own neighborhoods. Not that Dems need to worry about it; I'm sure the media will help them blame it on President Bush.

Hat tip: BareKnucklePolitics.com.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:02 AM

January 28, 2007

Peaceniks Allowed to Vandalize Capitol

Left-wing vermin demonstrating on behalf of our country's terrorist enemies yesterday were actually allowed to vandalize the west front steps of the United States Capitol with spray paint.

US Capitol Police were told by Chief Phillip Morse and Deputy Chief Daniel Nichols to fall back, allowing the moonbat hordes to vent their spleens on one of the primary symbols of our country. The animals sprayed anarchist symbols and messages such as "our capitol building" and "you can't stop us." Police had to stand by and watch as the neo-hippies posed in front of their handiwork.

Not so long ago, heroic citizens prevented terrorists from crashing a plane into the Capitol. But there were no Todd Beamers on hand yesterday, only police whose hands had been tied by cowardly bureaucrats.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:45 PM | Comments (9)

Teenage Transsexual

Apparently letting your kids eat too much is child abuse — but this isn't:

A German boy who is now fourteen has been receiving hormone treatments for years to prevent the onset of puberty.

His evidently deranged family has been encouraging him to think of himself as a girl since he was only two. Their pediatrician was appalled at what they wanted to do to him, so they took him to Dr. Bernd Meyenburg, who heads a clinic for children allegedly suffering from sexual identity problems at Frankfurt University.

Meyenburg says "it would have been a crime" to let the boy become a man, although he does admit that:

From a purely medical standpoint we are dealing with the mutilation of a biologically healthy body.

They haven't cut off the kid's genitals yet because German law forces them to wait until he's eighteen.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:26 PM | Comments (16)

Britain's Nanny State Confiscating Overweight Children

One reason the nanny state has been able to bloat into the monstrosity it is without significant resistance is that many of its encroachments on our liberties are difficult to take seriously. Who is going to mount an expensive campaign to save trans fats or smoking in your car? Tiny bit by tiny bit, do-gooder bureaucrats have chipped away at our freedom until at last it has come to this:

In Britain, obese children are going on the child protection register right next to kids thought to be at risk for sexual or physical abuse. Children have actually been taken from their parents and placed in foster care due to weight issues. Some doctors advocate legal proceedings against parents who feed their children too much.

Reports Dr. Russell Viner, a London consultant pediatrician:

In my practice, I can think of about 10 or 15 cases in which child protection action has been taken because of obesity. We now constantly get letters from social workers about child protection due to childhood obesity.

Proving yet again that absurdity is no brake on moonbattery, a couple of Brits were found guilty of animal cruelty earlier this month for letting their dog get fat.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:10 PM | Comments (3)

No Federal Charges For Rolling Pig Head

In a small victory over moonbattery, Brent Matthews will face a state misdemeanor charge but not federal hate crime charges for his little joke of rolling a pig's head into a mosque in Lewiston, Maine. Pigs are on the long list of things Muslims find "offensive."

Lewiston is becoming overrun with emigrants from Somalia, a land where failing to pray to Allah five times a day could get you beheaded. It was the massive influx of Somalis into the Minneapolis area that resulted in our first Muslim Congressman, Nation of Islam alumnus Keith Ellison.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:01 PM | Comments (2)

January 27, 2007

Envirokooks Told to "Mine Your Own Business"

You have to be a moonbat to win awards for a documentary, but not to film one. "Mine Your Own Business" by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney swims against the PC current by exposing what the directors refer to as "the real agenda of global environmental activists" — namely, thwarting economic progress.

The movie focuses on Rosia Montana, a dirt-poor Romanian village that foreign environmentalists want to stay that way, despite opportunities for gold mining that would provide hundreds of jobs.

In addition to yelping about the ecosystem, envirokooks cite the "unique cultural and archaeological treasures in the area." In other words, they like the rustic peasants right where they are — charmingly starving in their wretched huts.

Unemployment in the area runs 70%. Too bad hungry villagers aren't spotted owls or sucker fish. Then maybe sanctimonious moonbats would care about their welfare enough at least to leave them alone.

McAleer originally set out to make a very different film, admittedly influenced by what he calls the "liberal environmentalist" views that are de rigueur in Europe. But after learning more about the struggle between envirokooks and economic development, he came to see environmental activism as "a massive human rights abuse."

Predictably, Greenpeace activists have attempted to prevent the movie from being screened.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:41 AM | Comments (3)

Girls Charged With Plotting to Kill the Energizer Bunny

Two ninth-grade girls from Sequatchie County High School in Tennessee, aged 14 and 15, have been charged with conspiracy to commit criminal homicide for compiling a list of individuals they allegedly would like to kill, including faculty members and fellow students as well as famous personages including Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey, and the Energizer Bunny.

School officials discovered the list in a classroom trashcan. Said Dunlap Police Clint Huth:

I am not saying we thwarted a shooting incident or an act of violence. On the other hand, had this gone unchecked, down the road it could have grown into something a whole lot more serious than a list of names.

I'll say. Imagine a world without the Energizer Bunny.

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Posted by Van Helsing at 9:59 AM | Comments (12)

January 26, 2007

Scientologists Resort to Fred Phelps Tactics

Borrowing tactics from the bizarre cult that calls itself the Westboro Baptist Church, Scientologists chose the day of James Alenson's funeral to stage a protest against the psychiatric drugs prescribed to John Odgren, a teenager with a form of autism who is suspected of stabbing Alenson to death.

The Church of Scientology disapproves of the medications used to treat psychiatric disorders, possibly because they might cure people of being nutty enough to become Scientologists.

Locals didn't take kindly to the protests. One passing motorist yelled at the kooks:

Have you ever seen a schizophrenic off his drugs? Obviously not.

But they have if they watch Oprah:

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:01 PM | Comments (14)

New Jersey to Ban Bike Riding While Talking on the Phone

Showing a bold willingness to address the imperative problems facing New Jersey, state legislators have refused to let themselves be distracted by trifles like stratospheric taxation, urban decay, gang violence, festering Muslim terror cells, etc., and have instead zeroed in on the menace of bicyclists being allowed to talk on the phone while they pedal their vehicles.

Trying to walk and chew gum at the same time remains legal, though not recommended for Garden State residents who voted for John Corzine. It also remains legal to ride a bike while drunk. There are no stats on accidents caused by riding a bike while talking on the phone.

Republican Assemblyman Richard Merkt doesn't appreciate the measure:

As my father used to tell me, "You can't legislate common sense," and that's exactly what this bill tries to do, as the Legislature has already tried to do on so many other occasions. Is anyone dumb enough to use a cell phone in a dangerous manner while riding a bicycle really going to be smart enough to know about or pay attention to some legislator's new law? Seems unlikely to me.

Some people just don't get it. Merkt should be grateful that New Jersey is now one step closer to bureaucratic perfection, which will be attained when every conceivable human activity is either mandatory or forbidden.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:08 AM | Comments (3)

Illegal Alien Suing For Free Corvette

Maribel Nava Alvarez won a Corvette on the Fourth of July, 2005, in a raffle sponsored by a Spanish-language radio station in Chicago. But she hasn't been given her car, because she is "undocumented" — Moonbattese for "a criminal in this country illegally."

The radio station says it can't give her the car because regulations require them to get a valid Social Security or tax ID number. Proving that even illegal aliens can assimilate in some respects, Alvarez has responded with a lawsuit. She wants the car, and also that the radio station's lawyer be punished for threatening to tell immigration officials about her.

While another lawyer carries on in her behalf, Alvarez has left the Chicago area out of an irrational fear of deportation, naively imagining that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement actually serves some purpose, and that the odds of her getting sent back to her own country are any shorter than those of winning the car.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:31 AM | Comments (7)

Moonbat Entourage

Nancy Pelosi has traveled to Iraq for a fact-finding mission and to drink a few beers with the troops, as the now-defunct Botched Joke Kerry was wont to do. Her entourage includes the infamous Abscam Jack Murtha, the corrupt traitor who has been loudly demanding we surrender for well over a year.

Here's the picture accompanying the story on Drudge:

Given who's in the helicopter, those must be bats circling around it.

On a tip from Bill V.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:09 AM | Comments (6)

Ten Most Polluted Places

The Blacksmith Institute has released a list of the world's ten most polluted places:

• Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Dzerzhinsk, Russia
• Haina, Dominican Republic
• Kabwe, Zambia
• La Oroya, Peru
• Linfen, China
• Maiuu Suu, Kyrgyzstan
• Norilsk, Russia
• Ranipet, India
• Rudnaya Pristan/Dalnegorsk, Russia

All of them have something in common that might surprise moonbats: they're not in the USA. But if you enjoy wallowing in Gaiaistic guilt, don't let this stop you. People in other parts of the world are only forced to engage in activities that harm Mother Earth because America stingily refuses to put them on welfare.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:43 AM | Comments (4)

Moonbats: Global Warming Causes Terrorism

Okay, so driving SUVs won't really cause polar bears to fall through the ice or Florida to vanish beneath the rising sea. But that's no reason not in indulge in hysterical panic. Now the experts have decided that global warming causes terrorism.

A Londonistan circle jerk entitled Climate Change: The Global Security Impact featured various prophets of doom including scientist-bureaucrat John Mitchell, who quoted a denunciation of America by the noted climatologist Osama bin Laden:

You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries.

Paul Rogers, a professor of "peace studies" at Bradford University, indulged in Mad Max fantasies, raving that fortress walls to keep out climate change refuges would be doomed to fail. He gave as an example the citizens of Bangladesh, a country "acutely vulnerable to rising sea levels, cyclones and droughts" according to Reuters.

Maybe Bangladesh can build an economy around tourists curious to see the first underwater desert.

By the way, global warming also causes suicide. But it has not yet been linked to Isaiah Washington's use of the forbidden "F-word."

On tips from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:12 AM

January 25, 2007

Jimmy the Dhimmi Even Objects to Jewish Names

You don't have to be Israeli to get on Jimmy "the Dhimmi" Carter's bad side; you just have to be a Jew — or have a Jewish sounding name.

Liberal law professor Monroe Freedman served on the Holocaust Memorial Council during the Dhimmi's catastrophic presidency. As he reports, Carter griped that there were "too many Jews" on the Council.

To please Jimmah, Freedman composed a new board consisting of fewer Jews. But the White House had a problem with a certain historian he had added to the list. Freedman reminisces:

I got a phone call from our liaison at the White House saying this particular historian whose name sounded Jewish would not do. The liaison said he would not even take the time to present Carter with the possibility of including the historian on the board because he knew Carter would think the name sounded too Jewish. I explained the historian is Presbyterian, but the liaison said it wouldn't matter to Carter.

At last Carter's views on the Middle East make sense — as does his eagerness to help the Jew-murdering SS war criminal Martin Bartesch.

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Multiculturalism Infects Chicoms

Here I was thinking that communist China had one redeeming quality: that it would stand up to the aggressive expansion of Islam, even as the West shows every sign of preparing itself for dhimmitude. But even totalitarians can fall prey to multiculturalism, the intellectual disease that Islam has exploited to attack Dar al-Harb from within.

Next month China's biggest holiday, the Lunar New Year, will mark the beginning of the Year of the Pig. The problem is, Muslims don't like pigs any better than they like infidels. So to avoid offending them, all images and spoken references to pigs will be banned from Chinese television. It's unclear whether the ban will apply only to commercials or to all programming.

Muslims constitute less than 2% of the Chinese population, yet as in Eurabia, they are able to impose their prejudices at the expense of the majority.

You have to hand it to Muslims: they are geniuses at boxing the world into a corner an inch at a time by extracting one token concession after another. Their parable about the camel with its head in the tent must be quite an inspiration to them.

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Texas Town to Criminalize a Word

The weird hysteria surrounding the "N-word" continues to escalate. Ken Corley, Mayor of Brazoria, Texas, wants to make speaking the word a crime punishable by a fine of up to $500.

As far as Corley is concerned, this is only the beginning:

I would like to, if possible, ban all racial slurs. We chose this word because it's the most controversial issue throughout the United States today.

Presumably other incorrect words will also be banned, "but we want to take this one step at a time, depending on public opinion."

Corley describes himself as a "middle-class white boy." Considering that the term "white boy" is derogatory, maybe the next step should be for him to have himself arrested for racism.

After all racial slurs have been banned, bureaucrats might move on to criminalizing objectionable phrases like "lower taxes" and "First Amendment."

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Bureaucrats Revoked Canadian Citizenship

A bizarre provision that was in Canada's Citizenship Act from 1947 to 1977 stripped Canadians of their citizenship if they celebrated their 24th birthday outside the country without filing the proper form. Now Canadians applying for passports to enter the USA are finding out for the first time that they are no longer citizens.

Barbara Porteous was applying for a passport when she discovered she had lost her citizenship the day after her 24th birthday in 1960.

Wept the piteous Porteous:

I cried for a couple of hours. I mean, the hollowness you get inside when you find out that everything you live for is gone.

Maybe she should try converting to Islam. Then she should have no trouble immigrating to her own country.

On a tip from Bill V.

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Professor of Public Health Branches Out Into Public Indecency

If you find yourself at Harsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, do your best to stay out of the men's room — unless you're homosexual. Eleven men have been arrested there in the past month on indecency charges. They come from far and wide to the "West Crossover Bathroom," drawn by Internet sites. In addition to forming anonymous sexual liaisons, a favorite activity is to masturbate while watching others — including children — go about their business.

Two of those recently arrested include University of North Carolina Professor Dr. Hugh Tilson (Public Health) and Spelman College Professor Lev T. Mills (Art). As Mike Adams notes, this sort of behavior isn't all that surprising coming out of today's debased art community. But shouldn't a Public Health professor know better?

Adams has a few questions for generating discussion in Tilson's classes while the professor sorts out his legal issues, including:

• What are the public health benefits to be derived from impersonal sex?
• How much money do we spend on AIDS research relative to cancer research? Why the imbalance?
• Is it more likely that Professor Tilson will be a) fired or b) promoted to a high-paying administrative position in the Office of Campus Diversity as a result of his recent arrest?
• Would your answer to the previous question change if Tilson were arrested in the ladies restroom?

Come to think of it, a professor of Public Health might want to devote whole courses to the effects of degeneracy in the age of AIDS.

On a tip from Steve.

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January 24, 2007

Simulated Pedophilia

Small wonder so many child stars grow up with serious issues. At 12 years old, Dakota Fanning is on the fast track to a fouled-up life after appearing in Hounddog. The movie has premiered at the moonbat Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival, which also features a film about a man dying of a perforated colon after having sex with a horse and another about a girl with vaginal teeth. Dakota plays a highly sexualized little girl whose suggestive antics lead to her violent rape.

Since the sex is simulated, not actual, child porn laws don't apply, though common decency would, if there were any to be found in the movie industry.

You have to say this much for Hollywood: it is doing an excellent job of chronicling the decline of our culture as it succumbs to decadence.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Washington State Bureaucrats Regulate Romance

At last bureaucrats have addressed the problem of people falling in love with whomever they please.

In Washington State, the government's misguided intrusion into healthcare is extending into even more personal areas. Healthcare providers — doctors, opticians, dental hygienists, etc. — cannot engage in any sort of romantic activity with anyone who has been a patient within the last two years, or with their close relatives, or with any former patient even after two years if there exists "an imbalance of power, influence, opportunity and/or special knowledge of the professional relationship."

Apparently the encroaching socialization of medicine and the permanent open season declared on the medical profession by pathologically greedy trial lawyers like John Edwards aren't driving doctors out of existence fast enough, so now bureauweenies are looking for a way to keep them from reproducing.

On a tip from V the K.

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Jane Fonda to Desecrate Navy Memorial

The DC Chapter of Free Republic is planning to gather at the Navy Memorial at 9 AM this Saturday, January 27, so that there will be voices of sanity present to counter Hanoi Jane Fonda, who is scheduled to appear there an hour later at a peacenik rally to demand we surrender to the terrorists our troops are fighting in Iraq.

Hanoi Jane won't be the only unhinged leftist on hand. From an announcement by the event's sponsor:

Join Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey, Rhea Perlman, Eve Ensler, Mimi Kennedy, Q'orianka Kilcher, the Co-founders of CODEPINK and many other amazing women. Other co-sponsors include: National Organization for Women, V-Day, WAND, Feminist Majority, Feminist Peace Network and WATER. Don't forget your PINK!

The Navy Memorial is an apt place for Hanoi Jane to vent her spleen, considering that during Vietnam, she posed with enemy soldiers on an anti-aircraft gun used to kill Navy pilots.

If you can make it, don't forget to bring an American flag and/or holy water to keep the moonbats at a safe distance.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Isaiah Washington to Undergo Brainwashing Treatment

Actor Isaiah Washington, star of the show Grey's Anatomy, committed the ultimate sin — according to the moral compass of the entertainment industry. He said something bad about homosexuals. But not to worry, he is so sorry he's willing to undergo brainwashing to have more politically correct attitudes installed.

Life&Style Weekly reports that the TV star was seen today entering a facility to undergo "psychological assessment."

In a formal statement, Isaiah groveled:

With the support of my family and friends, I have begun counseling. I regard this as a necessary step toward understanding why I did what I did and making sure it never happens again. I appreciate the fact that I have been given this opportunity and I remain committed to transforming my negative actions into positive results, personally and professionally.

An apology Isaiah issued the day after the incident in question was even more piteously abject:

I can neither defend nor explain my behavior. I can also no longer deny to myself that there are issues I obviously need to examine within my own soul, and I've asked for help.

Isaiah's crime was to inflict a "homophobic remark" upon cast mate T.R. Knight, who as a person of gayness is not to be trifled with.

The reprogramming is not voluntary, according to Life&Style's source:

ABC has told him he must enter a program to examine why he would say such hateful words.

If Moonbattery ever endorses a liberal opinion, you'll know that yours truly was subjected to a similar program.

On a tip from Bill V.

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HuffPo Vermin Spit on Graves of Murdered Americans

You might recall the time the charred corpses of American contractors killed by terrorists were dragged through the streets and hung from a bridge in Fallujah, and Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos infamy responded with this:

I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.

The Democratic Party's precious Netroots contingent hasn't been getting any less vile. Yesterday a helicopter belonging to the private security company Blackwater USA crashed in Baghdad, resulting in the death of five American civilians, four of whom were shot in the back of the head execution-style. Below are some samples of what commenters at the left-wing cesspool Huffington Post have had to say about the incident. As always when moonbats are quoted, you'll have to excuse the foul language, semi-literacy, and malevolent depravity.

finally, good news from Iraq.

Sorry, but I have no sympathy for mercenaries. They're hired killers, not soldiers.

Why not call these "Private Security" contractors what they really are? Mercenaries. Private security contractor dead. Sad. Mercenary dead. who cares?

"Private security contractors" is a euphemism for "mercenaries". These guys pledge allegiance to whomever pays them the most. Period. They are not heroes. They are paid assassins.

Fuck 'em. […] Just like when Blackwater goons were pimped as "our poor fighting boys" back in '04 and their bodies were strung up on a bridge in Fallujah. Then they were allegedly "guarding food" […] I'll be damned if I'll cry for them.

Excellent! You go Allah!

I love it when the bad guys are killed. I hope they burned for a while.....a proper entre' to the hell they are continuing to worship.

Great news when it involves mercenaries . […] the only way that we can have a victory in Iraq is by suffering a humiliating defeat. The school yard bully can only be reformed by a bloody nose. Hopefully the American public will learn from this . The real culprits are zionism and the military industrial complex.

Wow, I'm absolutely not shocked to see the glee on here over these deaths. You guys are fucking awesome!

See you mercs in hell and I hope your families choke on that blood money.

I agree with everyone calling the Blackwater bums "mercenaries". That's all they are.

how sad these portly fucks are now char-broiled dudes in the desert...

Too bad the Blackwater CEO wasn't on board, with his benefactors, Bush and Cheney.

Heh - the Corp Corps lost a team in Iraq WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. - One less bunch of Assholes. […] These people are not heroes. Neither are the Fascists gathering around their bodies to fondle and lament them.

MY FREINDS SAY THAT WE BETTER BE PREPARED FOR THESE GOONS TO COME AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SOMEDAY. THE PRESIDENT SAID HIS SPEECH, THAT HE WANTS TO HIRE A LOT MORE OF THESE MERCINARIES. IT IS NOT TO HARD TO IMAGINE, THAT THEY PROBALY ALREADY HAVE THOUSANDS OF THEM TUCKED AWAY SOMEWHERE, JUST WAITNG TO GET THE WORD, TO PONCE ON US.

Hopefully the partisans have acquired stinger SAM'S.

The silver lining is that if decent, patriotic Americans can live in the same country as the insects infesting the left end of the blogosphere, there's no reason Sunnis and Shiites can't learn to get along in Iraq.

Hat tip: LGF, on a tip from V the K.

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Jimmy the Dhimmi and B.J. Clinton Creating Moonbat Alternative to Southern Baptist Convention

Two of America's most embarrassing Presidents, the disastrous Jimmy "the Dhimmi" Carter and the irresponsible degenerate Bill Clinton, don't much like all that morality coming out of the Southern Baptist Convention — so they've decided to create their own "New Baptist Covenant," a judgment-free alternative.

In place of old-fashioned emphasis on biblical teaching and proscription of little peccadilloes like aborting babies and same-sex "marriage," their new kind of Baptist will lobby for environmental regulation and expanded welfare state programs, and against American military activity.

The idea is to create a politically oriented umbrella group to counteract the Southern Baptist Convention, which Carter and Clinton have judged to be "negative and judgmental," and which Carter has even compared with the ayatollahs who exploited his incompetence to take power in Iran. Their alternative would water everything down with shallow feel-good political correctness until Baptists can't be distinguished from Episcopalians — or moonbats.

In striking contrast to Jimmy the Dhimmi, the SBC strongly supports Israel. It also supports moral behavior, in equally striking contrast with B.J.

Liberals have had some disturbing success destroying the United States from within by hollowing out its defining principles. We'll see if they can do the same for the Baptist Church.

On a tip from V the K.

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Nothing to Fear, Says Jimmy the Dhimmi

What a relief! Highly paid Arab shill Jimmy "the Dhimmi" Carter says we have no reason to be afraid of Muslims.

According to the Dhimmi, the problem isn't Islam — it's our neurotic willingness to let ourselves get perturbed over little things like 9/11 and Iran's frantic quest for nuclear weapons with which to kill us by the millions.

From Jimmy's dhimmi preachings:

The distortion that we are about to be destroyed makes us suspicious of those who don't worship the way we do. And our country has no reason to be afraid.

Some people worship by singing hymns. Others by blowing up commuter trains and flying planes into skyscrapers. What's the big difference?

Hat tip: LGF

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Mesa, Arizona Council Member Won't Stand For Pledge of Allegiance

Regardless of the disastrous consequences for the USA, for Iraq, for the Middle East, and for the world, it looks like President Bush will be forced to withdraw American forces from Iraq, leaving the strategically crucial country to be fought over by Iran and al Qaeda. You see, Mesa City Council member Tom Rawles has demanded it, and he refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance until the President complies.

Don't think that Rawles isn't patriotic. He says he tried to join the Air Force during Vietnam, but they wouldn't take him because of his headaches.

If refusing to stand for the pledge doesn't work, Rawles might want to consider resigning in protest.

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January 23, 2007

German Magazine Reveals: Super Bowl Threatens America's Apartheid System

As you're probably tired of being incessantly reminded, Indianapolis's Tony Dungy and Chicago's Lovie Smith are the first black coaches to make it to the Super Bowl. In the past, teams coached by blacks have always been prevented from winning by shadowy racist conspiracies. But now a new day has dawned. Here's the headline from Germany's Die Welt:

Super Bowl As Victory Against Apartheid

If this keeps up, before you know it blacks will be allowed to vote.

Just be glad the Saints didn't make it. The moonbatty blathering about Katrina would have been unendurable.

Hat tip: Davids Medienkritik

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Moonbats Conspire to Cause Havoc at Dem Convention

Unpleasant as it may be to acknowledge, there are elements to the left of the Democratic Party — and they plan to wreak havoc during the Dems' 2008 convention in Denver.

Those logging on to a long list of URLs such as DenverDNC.org and 2008DenverDNC.org will quickly find themselves redirected to Recreate68.org, a site devoted to the liberal dream of traveling in time back to the flower child days, which is to be accomplished by restaging the mayhem that took place at the Democrats' 1968 convention in Chicago.

From the home page:

Join us in the streets of Denver as we resist a two-party system that allows imperialism and racism to continue unrestrained. We will demand change by making the Democratic Convention of 1968 look like a small get together in 2008!

Organizer Glenn Spagnuolo's other achievements include helping to organize annual protests against Denver's Columbus Day parade, presumably on the grounds that Columbus did the world a disservice when he discovered America by spreading the evil scourge of Western Civilization into the beatific realm of Stone Age savages.

Hat tip: Slapstick Politics

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Found: Sincere Global Warming Alarmist

James Lovelock differs from most global warming fanatics in that he actually believes in it. You can tell, because he advocates heavy reliance on nuclear energy. As Lorrie Goldstein observes:

[A]ny politician who says he or she is concerned about global warming, who is not advocating for nuclear power, does not really believe our world faces an imminent threat, no matter what they say publicly.

The reason is that if burning fossil fuels really has "brought us to the brink of cataclysmic climate change that threatens humanity," nuclear power is "the only energy source that can stave off disaster without plunging us into a new Dark Age."

Yet you don't hear much about nuclear power from Al Gore et al., because the envirokooks who set the agenda don't approve of it. It's not that they're against human activity that causes global warming. They're against human activity, so they pretend it causes global warming. Plunging us into a new Dark Age is very much a part of the agenda, for those who aren't ambitious enough to want to wipe out the human race altogether.

By the time this antihuman ideology filters down to the average citizen, it takes the form of puttering around in a Prius to save polar bears from falling through the ice, as if anyone intelligent enough to operate a motor vehicle could genuinely believe driving hybrids will affect global temperatures.

Lovelock doesn't. As a co-creator of the "Gaia theory" — which views Earth as a single living organism — his moonbat credentials would seem to be impeccable. The problem is that he isn't using global warming as an excuse to raise taxes, hustle a research grant, or advance some other agenda. He truly believes, so he found the only feasible solution. It's been right under our noses for decades: nukes.

But for some reason no one seems to want to hear about it.

On a tip from Bergbikr.

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Jew-Baiting Jimmy Carter Speaking at Jewish School

Brandeis University was founded in 1948, the year the modern state of Israel was created, as a "nonsectarian university under the sponsorship of the American Jewish community." It provided an opportunity for Jews shut out by the quota system the Ivy League had in place. Yet today Brandeis is lending a soapbox to one of the world's most infamous Jew-bashers, Jimmy "The Dhimmi" Carter.

Carter's book-length anti-Israel diatribe Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid is so over the top, it has resulted in anyone with a conscience bailing out of his ballyhooed Carter Center. Carter responded to criticism by implying that his exposure as a pro-terrorist liar was the work of a sinister Jewish conspiracy.

For awhile it looked like al-Jazeera was the only platform left to him, but perhaps due to the streak of self-hatred that causes most American Jews to support Democrats, Brandeis has validated the Dhimmi's pernicious views by inviting him to speak.

This isn't Brandeis's first brush with moonbattery. It's the alma mater of the criminal maniac Angela Davis — Black Panther, communist, and no friend of Israel. Recently Brandeis displayed an exhibit of anti-Israel artwork created by Palestinian children.

Carter's appearance would be a good thing, if it would allow people a chance to ask him about the $millions he's received from the Arabs he invariably sides with. They might also ask why he was so eager to intercede on behalf of a Nazi war criminal proven to have murdered Jews.

But like Al Gore, another unhinged Dem past his shelf life, Carter has developed an extreme aversion to opposing points of view. Rigorous critics will not be allowed at the Brandeis event. A debate with Alan Dershowitz, who has called Carter on his anti-Israel propagandizing, was nixed because the Dhimmster didn't have the belly for it. Stephen Flatow's daughter Alisa was a Brandeis student when she was killed in a terror attack by the Dhimmi's Islamic Jihad pals in 1995; Flatow was "privately discouraged" from attending Carter's speech.

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Moonbats Do Our Thinking For Us

On Hernando Today, John Reiniers lets a few quotations explain why our moonbat media will probably cause us to lose the war in Iraq, just as it caused us to lose in Vietnam.

Nikita Khrushchev:

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Ho Chi Minh, echoing history's greatest mass murderer, Mao Tse-Tung:

[Using the] media and elitist peace activists, an enemy of America could convince the American people [that they couldn't win a war].

Arthur Schlesinger Jr., winner of the Pulitzer Prize:

We suffered defeat in an unwinnable war... Vietnam was hopeless enough, but to repeat the same folly 30 years later in Iraq is unforgivable.

Joseph Pulitzer himself (1947):

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalism of future generations.

Pulitzer again (1947):

Our republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Presidential contender Adlai Stevenson (1952):

We are developing a one-party press in a two-party country.

Newspaper publisher E.W. Scripps (1951):

Few people…have any idea of the tremendous, the almost invincible power…of the daily press.…the press rules the country, it rules its politics, it rules its religion, its social practice.

Jerome Barnum, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association (1936):

The daily press has more power in the shaping of public opinion than any other force in America.

John Stuart Mill (1959):

The mass do not now take their opinions from dignitaries...Their thinking is done for them... through the newspapers.

The media now is more powerful than ever, given its pervasiveness. There is no question that it is dominated by irrational left-wing fanatics who do not want us to succeed in Iraq, just as their predecessors did not want us to succeed in Vietnam — and just as their successors will not want us to succeed in the next conflict.

This explains how an entire country could be convinced that there never were WMDs in Iraq, despite the readily available evidence that they were used on Kurds and Iranians. It also explains how a guy who was reelected just two years ago could now have approval ratings in the thirties. The media kept hammering away at Bush until it became common knowledge that he invented the Iraqi WMDs and invaded Iraq out of sheer recklessness.

Although it won't be pretty, we'll survive a loss in Iraq — in the short term. But there will be no long term if we continue to let reality be defined for us by liberal fifth columnists who will side with any enemy that comes along.

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Dem Discourse

If you're curious what's going through the minds of the folks whose representatives have taken over Congress and are now aiming for the White House, head on over to the blog at the Democratic Party's official website. Be warned though, you'll need a strong stomach. Here's a sample of the discourse on display:

BUSH makes me literally ill. the bile is rising up in my stomach as we speak....I wish I could race into bush's office and vomit all over his face. I wish I could stand over him and puke and gag and wretch until nothing but the last nasty drop of yellowish green bile runs down his ugly hate filled face, off his chin and down over his suit.

We might have better luck negotiating with terrorists than with the Dems' base.

Hat tip: Barking Moonbat Early Warning System

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January 22, 2007

CAIR Calls For Arrest of Muslim Terrorist

Now that I have your attention, a couple of caveats: Zachariah Anani is no longer a Muslim or a terrorist — which is why CAIR wants him arrested.

The former militant Anani has turned away from the darkness and converted to Christianity. Worse, he tried to warn people of the dangers of radical Islam at an Ontario church, in a speech consisting almost entirely of passages read directly from the Koran.

CAIR Canada and the Windsor Islamic Association are now trying to have him thrown in jail. Despicably, the Mayor of Windsor and two members of Canada's Parliament joined in denouncing Anani for siding with the good guys against Islamic terror.

The reverence for freedom of speech is somewhat limited north of the border. Consequently there are vague laws against spreading hatred that could conceivably be used to persecute Anani.

Walid Shoebat, another former terrorist, is understandably concerned:

Incarcerating or deporting a former terrorist who wants to warn the world about extremism will set a dangerous precedence for Canada. Instead of censoring free speech, CAIR should be encouraging Muslims to embrace Canadian culture, as other groups have, and not try to change it in a way that will censor the freedoms Canadians have fought and died for.

Shoebat would like CAIR and the countless other Islamic lobbying groups that have been sprouting like pustules on a smallpox victim to speak out against murder, rape, forced conversion, genital mutilation, and other wonderful multicultural activities excused or imposed by Islam. But that might be a little much to expect of terrorist front groups engaged in a struggle to obliterate Western Civilization.

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Global Warming Backpedaling

Global warming cultists have gotten so carried away with their Chicken Little rhetoric that they're going to have to start backpedaling if they expect people to take them seriously.

Even the hardly conservative Houston Chronicle observes that two of the events that helped win over the gullible — Katrina and last year's warm summer — hardly constitute proof of Al Gore's hysterical predictions. If global warming caused Katrina, where were all the hurricanes last year? Whose SUVs caused summers to be even hotter in the 1930s?

Inevitably, the hyperbolic hype is falling in on itself. As climate scientist Kevin Vranes of the University of Colorado puts it:

Some of us are wondering if we have created a monster.

Despite stern insistence by leftist fanatics that there is no debate, scientists who won't drink the Kool-Aid are raising their voices. Says Judith Curry, an atmospheric scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology:

I think the rank-and-file are becoming more outspoken, and you're hearing a broader spectrum of ideas.

A broad spectrum of ideas is the last thing Al Gore wants. He recently canceled an interview with Denmark's largest newspaper Jyllands-Posten, apparently because the paper would also publish the views of global warming skeptic Bjorn Lomborg.

Avoiding contradictory views is a priority for Gore, who is standing on thinner ice than any polar bear. His grand scheme to remake human civilization would make the average person 30% poorer by 2100, and cost $553 TRILLION over the next century. People might start to wonder if it's worth it, once they consider that Gore's threatened 20-foot rise in sea level is exaggerated by a factor of 20, that his tale of global warming causing malaria in Nairobi is simply a lie, that only 2% of Antarctica has actually gotten warmer over the last 35 years, that global warming would save 10 times more lives than it would end in the UK, and that the computer models they use to invent scary scenarios could just as easily prove that the world is turning into a lump of Velveeta.

On tips from Monsoon and V the K.

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Chuck Schumer's Imaginary Friends

New York Senator Charles "Schmucky Chucky" Schumer could be losing it. Not only does he talk with imaginary friends, he can't even keep their names straight. Here he is discussing his fictional pals Joe and Eileen O'Reilly:

I have fictional people in my head. They're Joe and Eileen O'Reilly. They live in Massapequa. They're registered independents. He's an insurance salesman who makes 50,000 bucks a year; she works part-time in the schools, makes 20,000 bucks a year. I know these people; I grew up with these people. And that's my neighborhood, transformed to 2006. And before I do anything, I talk to Joe and Eileen.

But then their names might be Joe and Eileen Bailey:

Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them. To me, they represent the hardworking and often-ignored families who are not tuned in to special-interest newsletters or editorial pages, but want a little something more from their government and their leaders.

Nice of Chuck to keep in touch with the common man, isn't it?

On a tip from V the K.

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NYC Losing Its Status As Financial Capital

According to a report commissioned by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), New York is losing its competitive edge and will not be the world's financial capital for long — due primarily to moonbattery.

Other cities are gaining fast on NYC, including Londonistan, Dubai, and communist-controlled Hong Kong. Major reasons for this include the demented Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the frivolous litigation personified by presidential candidate John Edwards.

The Sarbox abomination was spawned in 2002 as a direct result of the frenzied media hype surrounding a few self-correcting corporate scandals. The point of it was to allow liberals to indulge in their hatred of free enterprise by sticking it to corporations with mountains of pointless regulations. Similarly destructive legislation will no doubt follow in the wake of the current global warming hype. As the report observes, Sarbox is

a thicket of complicated rules, rather than a streamlined set of commonly understood principles, as is the case in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

People like to do business in free countries. That's what made America so rich. That's why America won't stay rich if it doesn't stay free. Appallingly, even the Chicoms have a higher regard for economic freedom than our Congress.

As the report also notes, nations other than the USA "far more effectively discourage frivolous litigation."

Seduced by the promise of something for nothing, we have allowed the sacred principle of property rights to become subverted by promises of free riches by parasitic buccaneers like the Breck Girl. But there is no such thing as a free lunch, as we're beginning to discover.

Becoming inhospitable to business will have a high cost in New York, where financial services are responsible for over a third of business income tax revenues, and one job in nine is in this industry.

There may be some justice in letting New Yorkers stew in their moonbattery. But the problem is the whole country's. The financial services industry contributes 8% of gross domestic product. It is the economy's third-largest sector after manufacturing and real estate.

Even liberal Mayor Mike seems to understand what's at stake:

The financial services industry is one reason that the 20th century was the American century and that New York became the world's capital. This is one of many challenges to our long-term health and stability that requires we move beyond partisanship to find solutions.

There's only one solution: drive a stake through the evil stinking heart of moonbattery, so that America can overcome vindictive anticapitalist kooks and locust swarms of lawyers to once again become a country of sound principles in which the government allows people to create wealth without interference.

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When Does the Global Warming Start?

This picture was taken in Tucson yesterday:

If only Al Gore et al. were still trying to terrify us with an ice age instead of global warming, they could get some serious mileage out of this.

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January 21, 2007

Australian Flag Banned

Australian moonbats are banning their own flag from this year's Big Day Out event in Sydney. Any flag or bandana bearing the national symbol will be confiscated at the gate. Producer Ken West equates the flag with "gang colors."

The event used to take place on Australia Day, but promoters moved it out of fear that it might become associated with love of country, which is of course an incorrect emotion.

West points out that Australia Day is disrespectful to aborigines, who if they have been properly indoctrinated believe they would be better off running around the outback in loincloths trying to hit kangaroos with boomerangs than living in a civilized country.

On a tip from V the K.

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Iraq War Has Liberal Columnist Nick Cohen Questioning the Left

As the media is always so eager to remind us, our struggle in Iraq against Islamic fascism and terrorism has failed to be a cakewalk. In the short term, this has benefited the Left, which is why the Democratic Party has worked so consistently to ensure our defeat. But in the long haul moonbattery may suffer, as the implications of the Left's willingness to side even with terrorists and genocidal dictators to advance their nihilistic objectives sinks in. Liberals with consciences may even abandon ship — as Observer columnist and lifelong progressive Nick Cohen seems ready to do.

The war in Iraq — and the Left's reaction to it — started Cohen asking himself some disturbing questions:

Why is it that apologies for a militant Islam which stands for everything the liberal left is against come from the liberal left? Why will students hear a leftish postmodern theorist defend the exploitation of women in traditional cultures but not a crusty conservative don? After the American and British wars in Bosnia and Kosovo against Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansers, why were men and women of the left denying the existence of Serb concentration camps? As important, why did a European Union that daily announces its commitment to the liberal principles of human rights and international law do nothing as crimes against humanity took place just over its borders? Why is Palestine a cause for the liberal left, but not China, Sudan, Zimbabwe, the Congo or North Korea? Why, even in the case of Palestine, can't those who say they support the Palestinian cause tell you what type of Palestine they would like to see? After the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington why were you as likely to read that a sinister conspiracy of Jews controlled American or British foreign policy in a superior literary journal as in a neo-Nazi hate sheet? And why after the 7/7 attacks on London did leftish rather than right-wing newspapers run pieces excusing suicide bombers who were inspired by a psychopathic theology from the ultra-right?

He arrives at answers that won't surprise conservatives, but are major revelations to a lib like Cohen:

Socialism, which provided the definition of what it meant to be on the left from the 1880s to the 1980s, is gone. Disgraced by the communists' atrocities and floored by the success of market-based economies, it no longer exists as a coherent programme for government. […]

It is not novel to say that socialism is dead. My argument is that its failure has brought a dark liberation to people who consider themselves to be on the liberal left. It has freed them to go along with any movement however far to the right it may be, as long as it is against the status quo in general and, specifically, America. I hate to repeat the overused quote that "when a man stops believing in God he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything," but there is no escaping it. Because it is very hard to imagine a radical leftwing alternative, or even mildly radical alternative, intellectuals in particular are ready to excuse the movements of the far right as long as they are anti-Western.

This is how it could come to pass that progressives only disapprove of fascism if it puts their own country first, or as Cohen puts it, "overwhelmingly and everywhere, liberals and leftists are far more likely than conservatives to excuse fascistic governments and movements, with the exception of their native far-right parties."

According to the Left's own rules, leftists have become the bad guys. Whatever high ground they may have held in the past, if only in their own minds, has been sacrificed to their all-consuming hatred of America and the moral greatness it represents.

Even with socialism dead, liberals still own a hodgepodge collection of causes in which they pretend to believe, but their eagerness to block for Saddam Hussein and the Taliban proves that their commitment to these causes is insincere. Deep down, they do believe in nothing.

You can't beat something with nothing for long.

On a tip from V the K.

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Zillionaire Moonbat Runs Naked Through Wheat Fields

Thank you Drew Barrymore, for once again reminding us why it's best not to let Hollyweird's royalty influence our point of view. In an interview with Parade Magazine, she has this to report:

I'll drive in Ireland and park my car and run out into the field and rip all my clothes off and just run in the wheat fields naked. That's for no one to see. That's to have that freedom of feeling, like, at one with nature.

Miss Barrymore has been at one with nature before. Here's what she says happened when she went on an ecotourist propaganda junket to Chile with fellow flake Cameron Diaz:

I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome.

In related news, a naked woman recently emerged from the Cambodian jungle, "burbling, grunting and walking bent over." She keeps tearing her clothes off and trying to escape back into the wilds. It appears she is not Drew Barrymore, but a woman named Rochon P'ngieng, who has been missing for 20 years.

Next time the media asks you to be outraged over executives' pay, keep in mind that Drew rakes in $15 million per movie.

On tips from Bill V. and Wiggins.

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Massachusetts Inflating Census Numbers by Counting Illegal Aliens

Here's some surprising news: Massachusetts is actually launching a serious effort to track down illegal aliens. But wait — it's only so they can be used to inflate census figures.

The Bay State's liberal policies have inevitably resulted in excessive taxation and a sluggish economy, chasing people in droves toward more conservative regions. Massachusetts stands to lose a House seat if it can't keep those census numbers up. Money is an issue too. Warns Rep. Edward Markey:

The money to fund many important federal programs is distributed to the states on the basis of population, so everyone in Massachusetts has a major stake in ensuring that we are not shortchanged by failing to get an accurate population count.

By "accurate," Malarkey means "as high as we can get away with" — even if it entails counting people who have no right to be in this country.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Arizona State Rep. Kyrsten Sinema Wants Minutemen Charged As Terrorists

Maybe we do need to worry about anti-terror legislation resulting in human rights abuses — because sooner or later it will be applied by liberals, who have no interest in jailing America's enemies, but would certainly like to jail the enemies of those enemies.

In an appalling example of the abuse of power in the name of moonbattery, flaky Arizona state rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Phoenix; lawyer, social worker, former Green Party member, confirmed moonbat) has introduced legislation that would allow the noble Minutemen to be thrown in jail as domestic terrorists.

The bill HB 2286 would impose a mandatory minimum jail sentence of six months for Minutemen trying to shame our government into defending our territory by alerting authorities to the flow of invaders across our southern border:

An individual or group of individuals commits domestic terrorism if the individual or group of individuals are not affiliated with a local, state or federal law enforcement entity and associate with another individual or group of individuals as an organization, group, corporation or company for the purpose of patrolling to detect alleged illegal activity or to individually patrol for the purpose of detecting alleged illegal activity and if the individual or group of individuals is armed with a firearm or other weapon.

Though the Minutemen do not shoot at the invaders (that's the military's regrettably neglected job), they would be fools to put themselves in the path of violent drug smugglers without possessing some means of defending themselves. Sinema wants to use this as a pretext to throw them in jail.

Ever the tolerant liberal, Sinema has referred to conservatives as "Neanderthals" and says that women who orient their lives around raising families are "leeching off their husbands." Though she doesn't think much of conventional marriages, she does support gay marriage.

Sinema screeches that the Minutemen are "scary." But they aren't the ones who want peaceful, patriotic Americans imprisoned for opposing illegal immigration.

On tips from V the K and Wiggins.

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January 20, 2007

Are We PC Enough For a Muslim President Yet?

A subscriber-only article at Insight Magazine notes that Hillary's henchmen have been busily digging away at Barack Hussein Obama's upbringing, and only dhimmis will much like what they've found.

Though Obama has not been very forthcoming about it, both his father and stepfather were Muslims. His own education included at least four years in a madrasah — i.e., one of those usually Saudi-funded terrorist incubators where education consists of rocking back and forth as you recite "DEATH TO AMERICA!" and bloodthirsty passages from the Koran.

According to a source close to the background check:

He was a Muslim, but he concealed it. His opponents within the Democrats hope this will become a major issue in the campaign.

Of course Dems won't dare criticize the nice Muslims who only want to kill us because we deserve it for being insensitive. But the idea is that Shrillary can portray Obama as having been deceptive on the issue, which will provide her with ammunition.

Or will it? Given the self-loathing mentality that causes liberals reflexively to side with the enemy, appearing to be attacked for his Muslim background might actually work to Obama's advantage. If this turns out to be the case, look for him to play it up. We might even see Keith Ellison in a cabinet position.

I'm still having a hard time believing that the obviously unqualified Obama's candidacy isn't some kind of joke. But Jimmy Carter's candidacy might have seemed like a joke too at the time, and look how much damage he was able to do.

On a tip from nanc.

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