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February 28, 2007
Legislator Wants to Ban Term "Illegal Alien"
It didn't take a clairvoyant to predict that the horrific N-word wouldn't be the last term bureaucrats would try to forbid. State Senator Frederica Wilson wants to ban "illegal alien" from Florida's official documents.
Wilson kept encountering the distasteful phrase while trying to pass a bill granting in-state tuition to people who don't even belong in our country. She finds it "offensive" that illegal aliens are referred to as "illegal aliens."
Some of us find the idea of people illegally invading our country and then demanding special privileges offensive. But there's not much hope that they will be banned.
Hat tip: Hot Air, on a tip from Steve.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:07 PM | Comments (25)
Communist Brainwashing at Seattle School
As communism has proven at every opportunity, without property rights, there are no rights at all — not even the right to life and limb. But that's not what some kids have been learning at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle, where Legos were banned to stress to children "the inequities of private ownership."
According to the teachers:
Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.
Somehow "full democratic participation" never seems to last very long once the government has exerted the totalitarian authority required to impose "collectivity."
Teachers were disturbed to see kids supposedly incorporating into an elaborate Legotown they built "assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys" that "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive." One child was actually heard to say, "If I buy it, I own it."
Of course the way it should work is, "If I build it, the government expropriates it." To get this message across, Legos were banned while students were subjected to esoteric lectures on the evils of individuality over a period of several months, after which the kids finally got to play with Legos again. But first they had to agree to guiding principles such as "All structures are public structures" and "All structures will be standard sizes." Children were conditioned to recite chilling lines like these:
A house is good because it is a community house.
We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes.
It's important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building.
It's particularly important to learn these lessons in Washington State, where even before the outrageous Kelo decision state officials were making a regular practice of abusing eminent domain to steal people's property and turn it over to developers able to generate more tax revenue.
On tips from NudeGayWhalesForJesus and James.
Posted by Van Helsing at 4:40 PM | Comments (9)
March on the March on the Pentagon
Moonbats are scheming a March on the Pentagon to take place on March 17. It will consist of veterans, relatives of veterans, people who own used army jackets once worn by veterans, and creepazoids who have spat on veterans or wish they had the nerve to. The objective is to express a demand for immediate unconditional surrender to the Islamic terrorists our troops are fighting in Iraq.
In yet another manifestation of hippie nostalgia, the march is planned for the 40th anniversary of an antiwar march that helped communists prevail in the Vietnam War. Fittingly, it is sponsored by a communist front group, ANSWER. A list of initial endorsers boasts some of our country's most atrocious moonbats, including:
Besides demanding surrender in Iraq, the moonbats plan to denounce the USA for supplying Israel with the means to defend itself, for allegedly pointing nuclear weapons at their fellow Stalinists in North Korea, for defending South Korea, for using military bases to "extend the influence of US transnational corporations, oil giants and banks," etc., etc. They will also command America to close down luxurious Club Gitmo "and all other torture facilities" — which presumably means any place terrorists have been incarcerated.
Fortunately this flock of moonbats won't be the only gathering to take place in DC on March 17. Gathering of Eagles will be meeting at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial to counterprotest — and you're invited. Those who can make it will be in good company:
On a tip from Conan.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:24 PM | Comments (3)
Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer: Fight Global Warming With UFO Technology
Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer is serious about combating global warming. He demands that governments around the world apply secret alien technologies obtained from UFO crashes to put an end to it.
It only stands to reason that alien spacecraft, having traveled great distances to reach Earth, must have advanced energy technologies that do not require the burning of fossil fuels. Says Hellyer:
We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if applied quickly enough.
How better to resolve an imaginary problem than with imaginary technology?
On tips from Eoin and Daniel.
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:14 PM | Comments (4)
Prince Chucklehead's Gastronomic Hypocrisy
No doubt the energy-guzzling Gaiaist Al Gore deserves the Oscar for Most Outrageously Hypocritical Moonbat, but he does have competition. Take Prince Charles, for example, who as noted earlier has been calling for a ban on McDonalds due to its alleged unhealthiness. It turns out that Prince Chuckles' own "organic" Duchy Originals products aren't any healthier.
Here's how the Big Mac stacks up against the Prince's Cornish Pastry:
McDonalds responded to Chucklehead's call for a ban by pointing out that several members of his family have been regular customers.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:14 PM | Comments (7)
Hollywood Hero Leonard Peltier
One lowlife who was not pardoned by B.J. Clinton in his final days in office is the militant moonbat Leonard Peltier. This has been listed as a reason for David Geffen pulling Tinseltown's red carpet out from under Shrillary Rotten. As FrontPage explains, refusing to pardon Peltier is one thing Slick Willie did right.
Leonard Peltier had been arrested for the attempted murder of a police officer when he jumped bail in 1973 and turned up at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where the American Indian Movement was imitating the militant black nationalists that liberal elitists like Leonard Bernstein found so appealing in those days. The result was guerilla warfare between Indian factions, in which Peltier was involved.
In 1975, FBI agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams went to the reservation to investigate politically motivated crimes that included a murder. Leonard Peltier was found guilty of waylaying these agents on a back road and gunning them down with a high-powered rifle.
A few years later, left-wing author Peter Matthiessen came out with the book In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, credited with reflecting a new "multicultural spiritual sensibility." According to this politically correct sensibility, there's nothing terribly wrong with ambushing and murdering law enforcement officers so long as it's done in the name of moonbattery.
Matthiessen's book admits that Peltier shot at the agents, and took their guns after they were dead, but reveals that someone else in a mysterious red pickup truck swung by at the last moment to commit the actual murders. However, Peltier was found guilty anyway because the jurors were white and therefore racist.
But according to Matthiessen, not even the killers in the phantom pickup were really guilty:
All the Indians who were there that day were warriors and the nameless figures in the pickup truck were no more guilty than [Peltier and his accomplices], because no Indian that day was guilty.
You see, they were partaking in a noble struggle to kill the evil white man. From Viking's press release when the book came out in 1983:
This chilling, controversial book makes clear that Leonard Peltier is only one of the victims in the ruthless quest for land, minerals, and money that the government and industry have pursued at the expense of the Indians for the last 150 years.
The book was pulled for several years because of libel suits, but nonetheless managed to sanctify an Indian equivalent to the vicious cop-killer and liberal icon Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The entertainment industry picked up the ball and ran. Pro-Peltier propaganda was produced in film by Robert Redford, and in song by Steven Van Zandt. The ever execrable 60 Minutes got into the act by broadcasting a sympathetic interview with a mysterious "Mr. X" who offered testimony that he was the real killer and that it was the agents' own fault he had to kill them. One of Peltier's accomplices later admitted that "Mr. X" was a fictional character.
Peltier has been having fun in prison while the FBI agents' bones slowly crumble in the ground. He published his memoirs, of course, and his paintings have sold for up to $5,000 apiece to limousine leftists like Jane Fonda and Oliver Stone.
Whatever credibility Matthiessen had among non-moonbats was flushed in a 1992 Esquire article, in which he moved the site of the killings from a ranch in Oglala 20 miles away to iconic Wounded Knee. As journalist Scott Anderson put it:
The Peltier story has so entered the realm of myth that apparently its architects no longer feel the need to adhere to the most rudimentary of facts.
But Hollyweird deals in fantasy, not facts. As an enemy of our civilization, Leonard Peltier is a hero to the Tinseltown crowd. You can hardly blame Geffen & friends for wondering, if Clinton can pardon Puerto Rican terrorists, why not Peltier?
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:41 AM | Comments (4)
UN Expanding Jurisdiction to Cover the Weather
The ineffectual yet supremely self-important United Nations has indulged in hubris before, but never like this: A UN panel of scientists proposes that this club for corrupt dictators and posturing bureauweenies expand its jurisdiction to cover the weather by setting a maximum allowable temperature.
If the UN really is to be put in charge of the weather, maybe it could improve Alaska's tourist industry by bringing the temperature up a couple dozen degrees. Citizens' morale might also be improved by shortening those long winter nights. Here in Phoenix, we could save a fortune on air conditioning if the UN would just set the maximum temperature around 80 or so. It's too rainy in Seattle — let's have the UN mandate a few more sunny days for the folks up there. Kansas would appreciate a ban on tornados. After all, Americans bankroll the UN, we might as well get something out of it for once.
To enforce the maximum allowable temperature decree, a "carbon tax" is proposed. Red Ken Livingston is hardly the only one to use the War on Weather as a cover to slip his hand into other people's pockets.
More loot could be acquired by making the tax retroactive. Then the UN could fleece descendants of Vikings and classical Romans, who lived in much warmer times than we do, and therefore must have been cranking out the CO2 at unconscionable rates.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:42 AM | Comments (6)
February 27, 2007
London's Red Ken Tackles Climate Fluctuation
London Mayor and Hugo Chavez soul mate Red Ken Livingston offers an indication of where all the overblown global warming hype is heading. His new master plan to prevent climate fluctuation calls for, among other things, fees of up to $49 a day to drive a car in the city.
Whenever you hear a politician echoing the Goracle's War on Weather rhetoric, get both hands around your wallet and hold on for dear life.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:22 PM | Comments (5)
Prince Charles Declares War on McDonalds
Prince Chuckles of Wales — who appears to have an eccentric opinion on most every topic — announced at the launch of a public health awareness campaign in Abu Dhabi that the key to healthy eating is to ban McDonalds.
Cul-de-sacs have also incurred the Prince's disapproval: he blames them for crime, car dependence, and obesity, finding that they are not in harmony with a "low carbon lifestyle."
Prince Chas. has also raised eyebrows by denouncing the "monstrous carbuncles" of modern architecture. Few are aware that he was actually referring to Camilla's bosom.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:46 PM | Comments (9)
TerraPass: Sineating for Gaia
A reminder to those in the global warming Kool-Aid club who have to grapple with guilt and even feelings of hypocrisy for advocating Al Gore's absurd War on Weather while partaking of the benefits of industrialized civilization: an enterprising outfit called TerraPass sells eco-indulgences, which let you inflict climatic doom to your heart's content without putting a dent in your aura of righteous smugness.
Say you own a 2004 Ford Explorer and you drive it 20,000 miles a year. Plug the numbers into TerraPass's handy interface and out comes the amount you owe Gaia: $79.95 per annum. Since Gaia is a goddess and not a real person, TerraPass will collect the cash on her behalf, and send you a decal you can proudly display on your vehicle.
TerraPass also capitalizes on travel by air. To get the TerraPass folks to eat the sin of flying from Phoenix to Chicago and back costs only $9.95.
In light of the massive quantities of energy Al Gore guzzles at his Nashville mansion, a thumbs-up from TerraPass might cost him a pretty penny. But a clean conscience is a bargain at any price.
On a tip from Bernie.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:03 PM | Comments (12)
Woman Jailed After Preventing Bike Theft
In Britain these days, it's the prevention of crime that doesn't pay. Former traffic warden and store detective Wendy Challis-Jones chased down a punk who had stolen someone's bicycle. Her reward was to be arrested for suspicion of assault and locked up in a filthy cage for ten hours. In the process of liberating the bike, she had struck out at the thief after he lunged at her.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:20 PM | Comments (4)
Nutroots Moonbats Regret That Cheney Not Killed
As you've probably heard, a Taliban terrorist managed to kill at least 14 in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Vice President Cheney. Here are a few reactions from the enlightened progressives at Huffington Post:
Better luck next time!
Dr Evil escapes again...damn.
Another 14 people dead, and their blood is literally on Dick's hands.
F#$% Cheney. It's called poetic justice. This no good MF is complicit in sending thousands to their deaths via bomb blasts and you expect sympathy for the cretin. Karma's coming to get that rat basturd.
So Cheney is personally responsible for the deaths of 14 innocent people...and then he waddles off to lunch!! What a piece of shit!
Jesus Christ and General Jackson too, can't the Taliban do anything right? They must know we would be so gratefull to them for such a remarkable achievement.
Maybe Bush ordered the attack. After all, he has a telephone relationship with the Taliban. It could actually be revenge because, as some believe, it appears Cheney tried to have Bush asassinated on the morning of 9/11.
Let's see...they're killing him over there so we don't have to kill him over here?
You can never find a competent suicide bomber when you need one.
I wonder if Cheney was in Afghanistan at all.
If only Cheny and Chimpy traveled together. They could kill two turds with one stone. And then---President Pelosi!
Our country and the world are at great risk with every living, breathing monment Cheney walks this earth.
I don't wish Cheney's death, I want him sent to the Hague as a war criminal, along with Bush, Rumsfeld, and Gonzales. Death is too easy, I want him humiliated all across the GLOBE, and imprisoned for life...hopefully in a Singapore prison with daily whippings.
The Germans (von Stauffenberg and others)who tried to assassinate Hitler were heroes. They knew there was no other way of stopping him and the horrors for which he was responsible. Get it, moralists?
On HuffPo commenter posted a link to this picture of Benito Mussolini, hanging upside down, bloody and dead with his face bashed in, and implied our Vice President should receive the same treatment.
When you consider that the nutroots crowd at HuffPo represents the most energized sector of the Democrat Party's base, the treasonous policies of Pelousy et al. make perfect sense.
On tips from V the K and Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:17 PM | Comments (19)
One More Dose of War on Weather Hypocrisy
According to its website, the Save Our Selves concert series, which Al Gore and various sanctimonious (or opportunistic) pop stars will use to save the planet from the horrific but thankfully fictional doom of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, "will engage an audience of more than 2 billion people." As many as 3 million are expected to attend in person, with the rest watching from home.
As noted at The Evangelical Outpost, the first pop group moonbatty enough to go on a "carbon-neutral" tour was the Rolling Gallstones in 2003. Their tour drew 160,000 fans, who generated an estimated 13 kg of CO2 apiece by attending. This would mean that 3 million coming to Prince Al's concerts would produce 39,000 metric tons of allegedly harmful CO2.
As for those watching on their TVs and computers, if 2 billion people were to watch the 24-hour show for only one hour each, it would require 400 billion watts of energy. This would produce an estimated 172,000 metric tons of C02, for a grand total of over 200,000 metric tons in one day, more than the entire country Afghanistan produces in a year.
Fortunately, all the Goracle has to do to offset this is plant 200 acres of Douglas firs — or turn down the AC at his mansion.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:43 AM | Comments (7)
Goracle Spokesman Explains Prince Albert's Energy Gluttony
Al Gore's previously noted energy gluttony, which strikes such a contrast with his strident preaching that we need to cut down drastically or be doomed, has now been explained. In the words of Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider:
[T]he bottom line is that every family has a different carbon footprint.
The Gore family's carbon footprint just tends to be a little larger than most.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:05 AM | Comments (3)
Al Gore Energy Stats
In the wake of Al Gore winning an Oscar for his schlockumentary An All Too Convenient Lie, in which the Goracle demands that we cut down on our energy consumption, some interesting stats have been coming to light regarding his own gargantuan carbon footprint.
Let's leave aside the issue of his endlessly jetting all over the place to preach about global warming and focus on one of Prince Albert's several homes. According to the Nashville Electric Service, his mansion in the posh Belle Meade area consumes more electricity each month than an average American household uses in an entire year. In 2006, Gore's consumption was 20 times the national average. His average monthly electric bill cleared $1,359.
Since the release of his blockbuster, energy gluttony at his mansion has increased from 16,200 kWh per month in 2005 to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006. The gas bill averaged $1,080 per month.
Combined electricity and natural gas bills for the Nashville estate cost Prince Al almost $30,000 last year. With expenses like this, he'd better get to work on a sequel. It will be hard to top the hyperbole of the first one. Maybe he could claim that if we don't abandon our cars and homes and start living in trees by the time his next power bill comes due, the whole planet will go up like a match head.
On a tip from Metalgarth.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:09 AM | Comments (7)
February 26, 2007
Maniacal Muslim Cabbie Praised Hitler
Never mind Bishop Sullivan Catholic High, here's some racism that could be a problem. Remember Ibrahim Ahmed, the Nashville taxi driver who tried running down fares with his cab after getting in an argument about religion? It comes to light that his ravings included praising Hitler for "trying to rid the world of Jews." Some people make it difficult to stay out of arguments.
One of Ahmed's victims suffered a broken leg and fractured pelvic bone, among other injuries. Welcome to the global jihad.
Hat tip: Debbie Schlussel
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:29 PM | Comments (3)
Orgy of Guilt at Bishop Sullivan Catholic High
Students at Bishop Sullivan Catholic High School in Virginia Beach are in big trouble for a display of racism.
Announced Principal Dennis Price:
It is important that we work harder at having students leaving here who are tolerant and understand how serious these kinds of things are.
Harry Graber of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater was dismayed by the incident, and that no one came to tell him about it:
That was one of the things that concerned us — that such an event occurred and we, as the organized arm of the Jewish community, were not informed of it.
But Price did meet with the federation's community relations committee to apologize and to be advised on organizations that offer diversity programs. Price also sent a letter of apology to Norfolk Academy (a rival school that evidently has a large Jewish population), and a letter to the parents of his own school describing the horrific affair.
Gasped Stephanie Salerno, president of the school's parents guild:
I don't understand what possessed whoever the students were to do what they did.
As punishment, Sullivan juniors and seniors are to be subjected to a day-long seminar on tolerance by the Virginia Conference for Community and Justice, which will also give a presentation to sophomores. The school will work with the United Jewish Federation to arrange other events that will teach them not be such racists. Price has also been consulting with the Anti-Defamation League, and promises that diversity training will be permanently incorporated at Sullivan.
Just what was this outrageous racist incident that precipitated such a maelstrom of theatrical guilt and multicultural brainwashing?
During a basketball game between Sullivan and Norfolk Academy, some Sullivan students chanted "We love Jesus," and somebody wrote the word "Jew" on a wall.
If the PC authorities want people to take the whole racism issue seriously, they might try developing a little perspective.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:57 PM | Comments (8)
Crazed
I knew that look Gore gets on his face when he's pushing his global warming hoax or denouncing President Bush looked familiar…
Courtesy of Texascop.
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:24 PM | Comments (2)
Holland's Mark Rutte and the Progressive Culture of Death
Anyone curious about just where libs want to take us need only look at their cutting-edge colleagues in Europe, who are able to pursue the progressive agenda largely unimpeded by conservative opposition. Specifically, an idea of where calls for increased government involvement in healthcare will lead is provided by Dutch Liberal party leader Mark Rutte, who complains that the government places too much emphasis on palliative care at the expense of euthanasia.
Why treat patients when it's so much more cost-effective from a bureaucratic standpoint to kill them?
Rutte also thinks there is too much adoption, and not enough abortion. After all, adoption can have negative effects on a child — though it's hard to imagine them comparing to having their skulls crushed and their brains sucked out.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:17 PM | Comments (3)
Wacko Jacko Converts to Islam
The conversion of the child-molesting freakazoid Michael Jackson to the Religion of Peace has been confirmed. No word yet on whether he will exhibit his devotion to the faith by taking up terrorism or by crushing himself under a wall for being homosexual.
On a tip from Metalgarth.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:24 PM | Comments (9)
The Latest British Fad: Pregnant Schoolgirls
As Britain continues its downward spiral into decadence, becoming pregnant has become the latest fad among teenage schoolgirls. Explains pregnant 14-year-old Kizzy Neal:
When my friends see my bump they say they wish they could have a baby, then three weeks later they're pregnant and don't know what to do. Teenage girls think babies are cute, but they forget the physical side of being pregnant, then having to give up your own childhood to look after a baby. It seems to be fashionable to get pregnant.
While having babies is certainly an improvement over the depraved practice of killing them in the womb, better still would be if little girls held off on getting pregnant until after they're in a position to provide a proper upbringing. Nothing predicts poverty better than a single-parent home.
It's no accident that moonbats advocate both socialism and moral degeneracy. Apart from the immorality of an economic system based on theft, left-wing politicians need a large constituency of poor people on whose behalf they can offer to steal other people's money. How better to grow this underclass than to encourage childbearing out of wedlock, as liberal politicians, the media, and the education establishment do by offering economic incentives, glamorizing sexual permissiveness, and dismissing abstinence as an unworkable solution?
On a tip from Conan.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:17 AM | Comments (8)
CBS's Defeatist Propaganda Goes Into Overdrive on 60 Minutes
CBS's propaganda war on behalf of our country's terrorist enemies went completely over the top last night, with the airing of a 60 Minutes segment intended to convince us that our troops in the field no longer support their mission.
It seems a small group of soldiers, constituting less than 1% of those serving in Iraq, have signed an "Appeal for Redress" stating that they want to go home. In promoting this shameless example of astroturfing by the hard-Left outfit Fenton Communications, the 60 Minutes gang vaguely characterized the disaffected soldiers as a "large group."
The report cherry-picked a stat from a Military Times survey conducted last December, indicating that more soldiers disapproved than approved of Bush's handling of the war. NewsBusters lists a few findings from that same survey that 60 Minutes forgot to include:
- A plurality of troops felt it was correct for the USA to go into Iraq.
- A plurality thought we are likely to succeed.
- Bush's overall job approval was 52%, vs. 31% disapproval.
- Only 13% thought there should be no American troops in Iraq and Kuwait.
- Almost four times as many thought troop levels should be maintained at current levels or raised as wanted complete withdrawal.
- Almost three times as many supported a surge as supported withdrawal.
- An overwhelming 83% were satisfied with their job, and 81% would recommend a military career to others.
- Even with the risks, 72% would support a son or daughter going into the military.
- Those who would reenlist or extend their military commitment outnumbered those who wouldn't 66% to 21%.
- A full 90% considered themselves well trained.
- A plurality agreed that President Bush has their best interests at heart. Only 23% thought Congress has their best interests at heart, as opposed to 69% who did not.
Too bad the survey didn't ask how many think CBS News has the country's best interests at heart.
Hat tip: LGF
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:08 AM | Comments (12)
Carl Levin, Snake in the Grass
If there is one thing we can all agree on when it comes to Iraq, it's that the old plan of our troops training Iraqi troops and letting them do the fighting does not work because of loyalty issues. This is why General David Petraeus, whom Senate Dems in the Armed Services Committee unanimously approved, wants to embed American soldiers in Iraqi units. It's also why Carl Levin, chairman of this committee, "slithered" onto Meet the Depressed over the weekend to declare Dems' intentions to limit our troops to "a supporting role rather than a combat role in Iraq" — otherwise, the USA might win, which would be unacceptable to Democrats and to the fifth-column media that props them up.
Levin also declared that Dems can cap the number of troops. It's becoming clear why the Founding Fathers did not give the legislative branch authority over how war is waged.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:20 AM | Comments (4)
February 25, 2007
James Cameron Behind the Next Volley at Christianity
The Left's next attack on Christianity will be launched under the command of James Cameron of Titanic fame, who has produced an allegedly nonfictional documentary proving that Jesus was not resurrected, and that He sired a son with Mary Magdalene.
For those who think Cameron's a little short on originality, it should be noted that no one thought to pass off the disrespectful notions in The Da Vinci Code as historical fact.
Cameron has a publicity stunt planned for tomorrow at which he will present at a New York press conference three coffins, allegedly belonging to Jesus, The Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalene.
Hopefully his film, which will be showing soon on the Discovery Channel, won't have to go up against An Inconvenient Truth — otherwise it's a sure bet to win an Oscar. For budding filmmakers interested in prestigious awards, here's how to get them: tell moonbats what they want to hear.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:01 PM | Comments (6)
Wallowing in the N-Word at Stillman College
If the economic progress of blacks has been a little slower than some might like, this might help explain why: The historically black Stillman College is devoting four days to obsessing on the unspeakable N-word.
The N'Surrection Conference will harp on the word "through the use of intelligent dialogue and a thorough examination of black history." In other words, participants will indulge in still more navel-gazing, self-pity, and sanctimonious denunciations of the way the white man behaved generations ago.
I wonder if Stillman College has ever hosted a four-day conference on how to learn useful skills so as to become gainfully employed.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:19 PM | Comments (3)
ACLU's Charles Rust-Tierney Busted For Hard-Core Kiddie Porn
The ACLU's crusades don't always make a lot of sense, but its campaign to legalize kiddie porn is quite understandable in light of Charles Rust-Tierney's arrest Friday for possessing child pornography. Rust-Tierney used to be president of the ACLU's Virginia chapter.
Investigations revealed that "Charles Rust-Tierney has subscribed to multiple child pornography websites over a period of years." He admitted downloading videos and images from kiddie porn websites and collecting them on CDs.
The guy's no lightweight; he likes the hard stuff:
The videos described in the complaint depict graphic forcible intercourse with prepubescent females. One of the girls is described in court documents as being "seen and heard crying", another is described as being "bound by rope."
Rust-Tierney has been coaching various youth sports teams. On behalf of the ACLU, he advocated against restricting Internet access in public libraries. By the way, his wife Diann, also a moonbat activist, serves as executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty — which makes you wonder what else the Rust-Tierneys have been up to.
For some reason the media doesn't find this story all that interesting. I couldn't find a picture of Charles, but here's Diann:
Hat tip Ace of Spades HQ, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:55 AM | Comments (5)
Walter Cronkite Backs Anti-Christian Group
Walter Cronkite was once a very powerful moonbat. As "The Most Trusted Man in America," he arguably did more than anyone else to secure victory for totalitarian communism in the Vietnam War. Cronkite's career petered out long ago, reducing him to squawking on the Larry King show about the Karl Rove–Osama bin Laden connection and holding forth about America's inadequacies to an audience that probably doesn't extend far beyond his immediate family. But now he's emerged from his tar pit once again to endorse a new national campaign devoted to attacking Christianity.
The First Amendment guarantees our right to practice religion, so at least the campaign shows a trendy sense of irony by calling itself First Amendment First. It's devoted to quieting Christian voices in politics — the dreaded Religious Right being the Left's favorite imaginary problem after Global Warming.
Go back to sleep, Uncle Walt.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:59 AM | Comments (5)
February 24, 2007
What Would Freud Say?
Exactly what is it that makes Barack Hussein Obama so appealing to the media establishment, which has been exerting a great deal of money and effort to hype him into passing for a credible candidate? The guy seems to be an amiable cipher, an empty black skin into which the MSM/Hollywood crowd can pour their corrosive ideology. But why Obama in particular? Maybe it's his name.
Remember when the personification of the decadent big-money liberal establishment, Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy, called him Osama Obama? Here's a reminder:
Now The View's Joy Behar — whose liberal credentials include having accused Republicans of causing Senator Tim Johnson's stroke and publicly comparing Donald Rumsfeld to Hitler — has referred to Osama bin Laden as "Obama bin Laden." When called on her mistake, this brilliant intellectual star in the liberal firmament confusedly asked, "What's his name?" Baba Wawa emerged from her fog of senility to inform her that the head of al-Qaeda is named Osama, not Obama. Here's video, via Ms. Underestimated.
Since the Left could certainly use some psychiatric attention, here's a little psychoanalysis: At a subconscious level, the America-loathing liberal elite is pushing Obama because he's as close as they can come to voting for Osama.
Hat tip: NewsBusters
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:56 AM | Comments (4)
British Taxpayers Rescue Terrorists
Here's some prime moonbattery that almost slipped past:
Four British subjects who had been fighting for al-Qaeda were caught by the SAS while fleeing US special forces in Somalia. The jihadists would have gotten their heads chopped off if it were left to local authorities, so up to £50,000 was spent extracting them from Somalia to Kenya. From there they were jetted back to London, held for nine hours, then released without charge to resume their terrorist activities.
A terrorist has no better asset than a British passport. But as should be obvious by now, a British passport does not necessarily make you British in any meaningful sense.
On a tip from Patrick.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:09 AM | Comments (1)
Massachusetts Judge Rules Christian Children Must Be Taught to Accept Homosexuality
The progressive campaign to replace Christianity with degeneracy takes us back to Taxachusetts, where US District Judge Mark L. Wolf has ruled that it is necessary to brainwash Christian children into accepting homosexuality.
As MassResistance! reports:
Wolf's ruling is every parent's nightmare. It goes to extraordinary lengths to legitimize and reinforce the "right" (and even the duty) of schools to normalize homosexual behavior to even the youngest of children. In the ruling, Wolf makes the absurd claim that normalizing homosexuality to young children is "reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy." According to Wolf, this means teaching "diversity" which includes "differences in sexual orientation."
Children are not even allowed to leave the classroom as homosexual propaganda is rammed down their throats. According to Wolf:
An exodus from class when issues of homosexuality or same-sex marriage are to be discussed could send the message that gays, lesbians, and the children of same-sex parents are inferior and, therefore, have a damaging effect on those students.
Damaging effects on Christian children are obviously not a concern in our depraved legal system.
Wolf's reasoning was in line with that of aggressive gay agenda advocates Human Rights Campaign, the ACLU, Massachusetts Teachers Association, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, etc., suggesting yet again that the Left enjoys the same sort of hegemony in our courts as it does in our media.
On a tip from Wiggins.
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Cross-Banning College William and Mary Hosts Obscene Sex Show
Some might think that William and Mary is intolerant, in light of the church-founded college removing a 2-foot gold cross from a chapel lest someone be offended by reminders of Christianity. But the educrats there can be very open-minded — when it comes to degeneracy.
Last week William and Mary wallowed in the Sex Workers' Art Show, which drew a crowd of over 400; another 300 were turned away. The event was financed by student activity fees.
As part of the show, a woman weighing over 200 lbs and going by the name Dirty Martini did a striptease in a G-string and pasties, while her colleague Cono Snatch Zubobinskaya gave an anti-war performance featuring a gun-shaped dildo.
Maybe the educrats are right. Displaying a cross in a place like this just wouldn't be appropriate.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:10 AM | Comments (2)
February 23, 2007
Global Warming Hoax Setting Up Lawsuits
Since we obviously aren't going to ban the internal combustion engine, no matter how hysterically the Goracle screeches about apocalyptic doom, what exactly do liberals hope to gain with their relentless barrage of global warming propaganda? One answer is: grounds for lawsuits.
Lawsuits can be used to hurt your enemies, fatten your wallet, and impose your politics. For example, Taxachusetts and 11 other states are suing the EPA to force it to regulate so-called greenhouse gases, with potentially disastrous results for the economy.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has backed a lawsuit against the big six automakers, on the grounds that they make cars and cars cause global warming. Now the former Governor Moonbeam wants to meet with the manufacturers to "discuss ways to fight global warming without conflict." This is the equivalent of the local mob calling for meetings with shopkeepers to discuss ways they can keep their front windows from getting broken.
Enviromoonbats are suing the US Fish and Wildlife Service as part of an attempt to close down what limited oil drilling is allowed in Alaska's wastelands. The suit relies on widespread ignorance of the fact that polar bears are aquatic animals with improbable claims that these vicious man-eating beasts are drowning as the ice melts under their feet — which somehow has something to do with the US Fish and Wildlife Service not doing enough to prevent oil drilling. Given the state of our legal system, the suit may be judged to have merit.
Smelling free money, Eskimos are suing because if the weather got warm enough, it could interfere with their lifestyle.
In 2005, a coalition of states tried to sue power companies for causing global warming. This absurd suit was thrown out, but they might have better luck next time. The climate is changing rapidly for the worse — and I'm not talking about the weather.
When you find yourself huddled in the cold dark because righteous liberal crusaders have sued the local power company out of existence for oppressing the polar bears, you won't just have environmentalists to thank; don't forget to thank lawyers too.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 4:22 PM | Comments (2)
NY Times Still Looking for Secrets to Betray
The treasonous New York Times is at it again, undermining our struggle against Islamic terrorism by yelling descriptions of our covert operations through a megaphone:
The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa, including the use of an airstrip in eastern Ethiopia to mount airstrikes against Islamic militants in neighboring Somalia, according to American officials.
The close and largely clandestine relationship with Ethiopia also included significant sharing of intelligence on the Islamic militants’ positions and information from American spy satellites with the Ethiopian military. Members of a secret American Special Operations unit, Task Force 88, were deployed in Ethiopia and Kenya, and ventured into Somalia, the officials said.
[…][T]he extent of American cooperation with the recent Ethiopian invasion into Somalia and the fact that the Pentagon secretly used an airstrip in Ethiopia to carry out attacks have not been previously reported.
Here's the Great One's take:
Oh, do I long for the good old days when Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, punished such acts of betrayal. And no, I am not joking. This is a wholly gratuitous assault on our national security by the reckless Times corporate management. There is simply no public interest in disclosing any of it. For all the liberal talk about the need to build coalitions and work more closely with other countries, when we do the Times and media outlets like it are the first to try to destroy those relationships. The Washington Post did the same with black sites in Europe.
But at least this doesn't rise to the level of revealing — and thereby deliberately crippling — programs to monitor terrorist communications and money transfers, which the Gray Hag can count among her past accomplishments.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:19 PM
Dem Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Wants to Help Arm Hugo Chavez
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) continues to do her best to lay to rest any doubts that the Democrat Party is actively hostile to the USA and effectively in league with our foreign enemies. Her latest: she wants to lift a ban on selling parts for F-16 fighter jets to Venezuela, an ally of Iran and Cuba that is vehemently hostile to the USA.
Jackson Lee wants to show that "Venezuela has many friends in this new Congress" — as do all hostile regimes.
Ever see one of those contests where a shopper gets to keep whatever she can pile into her grocery cart in a set amount of time? That's Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez on a weapons-buying spree at Russia's Mayhem Mart. He also has nuclear ambitions; his friend Mad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will soon be able to help him out in this department. Then there is the possibility of biological weapons…
All this weaponry will come in handy as Chavez continues his efforts to export socialism and undermine democracy throughout Latin American. Sooner or later he will manage to force the conflict with the USA that he has been so loudly demanding. Parts for fighters will come in handy when he gets the chance to back up his noisy rhetoric by actually killing some Americans.
Dems support the troops, all right. They just don't support our troops.
Hat tip: Sweet Spirits of Ammonia
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Warning: Political Correctness Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Was it a lack of situational awareness, or political correctness that got the poor guy in this video knocked out cold?
The LawDog does some body language analysis, leading to this conclusion:
I think the reptile hindbrain of the victim was screaming warnings at him up to the point that the lights went out. And I think he consciously over-rode the signals — either to avoid the appearance of rudeness, or out of a desire not to appear racist.
If so, how emblematic of the way moonbattery renders us helpless before the lowest of lowlife. This also makes a great metaphor for our voluntary vulnerability to Islam's war on the West.
Hat tip: Dad29
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Harry Reid Takes Liberal Irony to the Next Level
Having taken over Congress, America's fifth-column enemies continue to push for our defeat to Islamic terrorists in strategically critical Iraq. The slimy Harry Reid plans to present a proposal that will tie the hands of our troops while Dems work to finalize our surrender.
The exact wording hasn't been worked out yet, but it will be something along the lines of restricting American troops to fighting terrorists who have been confirmed to be members of al-Qaeda and to non-combat functions while proceeding with a gradual retreat.
Get this: Reid "is expected to try to add the measure to anti-terrorism legislation."
Liberals do prize their sense of irony. They've used it to replace honor, decency, shame, patriotism, resolve, integrity, loyalty, courage, and common sense.
Hat tip: Clarity & Resolve
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:46 AM
A World Without America
Moonbats might learn more from watching this short video than they will in four years of college:
Via 18 Doughty Street, on a tip from nanc.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:04 AM | Comments (7)
Has Deval Patrick Discovered Shame?
Here's some good news: Taxachusett's prodigal Czar, I mean Governor, Deval Patrick is giving back some of the money he's looted from the public coffer.
Patrick will be making personal contributions toward the $46,000 Caddy he bought on the public's dime, to bring its costs into line with the Crown Victoria Mitt Romney used to drive. (Patrick alleges that Crown Victorias don't meet his security needs.) He also says he'll repay taxpayers for the $27,387 he blew on high-end furniture for his fancy office.
Despite outrageous tax rates, Massachusetts has a $1 billion budget deficit.
To those who carp on his habit of spending the public's money to finance his imperial lifestyle, Patrick responds:
Don't trivialize optimism and hope.
In other Deval Patrick news, the Governor is doing his part for optimism and hope by raising taxes even higher on the state's staggering economy. Pardon me: he's not raising taxes, he's lowering them and closing "corporate loopholes." But Michael Widmer of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation isn't buying the spin:
This is anything but closing loopholes. This is a large tax increase on corporations at a time when the state's economy is struggling.
Sorry Massachusetts. But you voted for the guy, you get to live with the consequences.
On tips from Bernie and V the K. Hat tip: Deval Patrick Watch.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:12 AM | Comments (3)
Charley Reese, on Behalf of the Left: Nothing Is Worth Fighting For
Modern liberals do not have the character to win a war, which is why the encroaching power of Democrats in Washington is extremely bad news for our troops in the field and for our country's security. For a particularly appalling example of evidence of this, let's go back to a piece published in January by lifelong journalist Charley Reese, who uses the freedom that better men died for to argue that armed resistance to tyranny is pointless because someday it will be forgotten.
Individual soldiers who survive combat often come home to realize that all of the horrific and heroic actions they took don't mean anything. Vietnam, for example, is ruled by a communist government.
Got that? A liberal says that trying to fight off communism in Vietnam was a waste of time, since liberals were able to secure our defeat despite the heroic efforts of our troops in the field. It gets worse:
Nobody but a historian even remembers what World War I was all about, much less the 10 million young men who died fighting it. World War II and Korea are likewise fading from public memory.
I'll go farther than Reese: if we had just struck a sanctimonious pose and then surrendered in WWI, WWII wouldn't have been necessary — because we'd all be ruled by German Kaisers and there wouldn't be any freedom to defend. At least then we wouldn't be drowning in moonbat bilgewater.
Now I'll go farther still: one day the Sun will go up in a supernova and die, and afterwards the Earth will be a frozen cinder floating aimlessly through space, or be sucked into a black hole. No one will remember anything then. So why bother getting up in the morning?
Reese's point of view — and progressive foreign policy — can be summed up it five words: "Nothing is worth fighting for." But rather than print this simplistic sentiment on a bumper sticker, Reese piles on the verbiage, because that's a journalist's job:
I'm glad that I discouraged all my children from serving in the military, even though I had served. It is important, I believe, to separate the natural and noble feeling of love of country from the present reality. The young people dying in Iraq are not dying to protect their country. As usual, they were lied to. They're dying for corporate profits, in which they do not share; they are dying because of some academic's harebrained belief that we can turn Iraq into a liberal democratic state; they are dying because of political opportunists in Washington.
Here's an idea for al-Qaeda: why not open up a PSYOP division to print liberal odes to defeatist nihilism on leaflets and distribute them for our soldiers to see? But of course, they don't have to: our media does it for them, with the hearty approval of the Democrat Party.
On a tip from Conan.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:31 AM | Comments (4)
February 22, 2007
Even the BBC Is Racist
No one can run far enough to the left to be immune from accusations of "racism" from elsewhere on the left — not even the BBC.
South Africa's sainted African National Congress accused the Beeb of this ultimate crime against political correctness for reporting on the rampant crime that renders that country virtually uninhabitable. According to the ANC, acknowledging that South Africa has a crime problem feeds "the deeply embedded stereotype that Africans are genetically inferior."
To get an idea of just how far South Africa has degenerated toward total anarchy under the socialist thugs responsible for maintaining order, I wouldn't trust the mealy-mouthed multiculturalists at the BBC either. Try this.
Hat tip: Tongue Tied 3
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:10 PM | Comments (3)
Poppycock
Today's piece on WND ridiculing the War on Weather includes this enjoyable quote from professor David Bellamy of London's Conservation Foundation:
Global warming — at least the modern nightmare version — is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy-makers are not.
Instead, they have an unshakeable faith in what has, unfortunately, become one of the central credos of the environmental movement: humans burn fossil fuels, which release increased levels of carbon dioxide — the principal so-called greenhouse gas — into the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to heat up. They say this is global warming, I say this is poppycock.
Bellamy must have missed the memo about the debate being over now that everyone has knuckled under to the politically correct "consensus."
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:21 PM | Comments (3)
Air America's Thom Hartmann Tricked His Way Out of Vietnam
Err America continues to stagger through bankruptcy, but at least it has found a replacement for the obnoxious clown and would-be Senator Al Franken. Thom Hartmann now shoulders the burden of going up against El Rushbo in the prime noon–3 PM EST slot. As noted by fellow Oregonian Lars Larson, Hartmann counts among his qualifications having tricked his way out of serving his country during Vietnam.
Larson quotes a fawning puff piece from the Portland Oregonian:
...Hartmann joined the Air Force, thinking he could work as an engineer, thus avoiding dangerous duty. Quickly realizing he was wrong, Hartmann managed to flunk an end-of-basic training physical, earning a quick ticket back to civilian life.
Evidently, Hartmann used deception to flunk the physical. The Uniform Code of Military Justice has something to say about this:
Any person who […] procures his own separation from the armed forces by knowingly false representation or deliberate concealment as to his eligibility for that separation […] shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
But don't expect this to prevent Hartmann from maligning President Bush's National Guard service.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:35 AM | Comments (13)
Osama Obama Racking Up Endorsements
Barack Hussein Obama's experience and lack of substance may not be enough to prevent him from picking up the Democrat nomination. His empty black skin and Muslim name are getting progressives excited. With the election almost two years away, key endorsements have begun to pile up.
The Hollyweird establishment — with its zillions of dollars and vast propaganda firepower — has dumped the Clintons in favor of B.O. Tinseltown string-pullers like Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen have already begun throwing lavish fundraisers for him, drawing such prominent limousine leftists as George Loony and Babs Streisand.
Now Obama has the endorsement of Keith Ellison, our first Muslim Congressman, who graduated from Louis Farrakhan's wacky yet frightening Nation of Islam and who took his oath of office on the same book that inspired 9/11.
Ellison — who also enjoys the advantage of some African ancestry — explains why he endorses Osama Obama:
Not because he's black. That's identity politics. I reject identity politics. He speaks with a unifying spirit.
He's unifying moonbats, anyway. Normal voters don't seem so impressed — Shrillary continues to lead in the polls. But normal voters don't control the media, which has nearly as much time to hype Obama into seeming like a credible candidate as Obama has spent in the Senate, where he has at least shown an aptitude for keeping his head down so that no one can pin him down on any unpopular stands.
Hat tips: DANEgerus Weblog, Hot Air
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Hollyweird Airhead Charlize Theron Compares USA to Cuba
Here's something new: a member of the Hollyweird glitterati appears to consider the impoverished communist slave state in Cuba no better than the richest and freest country in the world — no worse, of course, but no better.
On returning from a visit to Cuba, Charlize Theron sounded remarkably like a reasonable person:
I think the (Cuban) younger generation is starting to say, "You know what, it doesn't work. We're not happy. We want to have freedom of speech. We want to be able to travel."
However, realizing that she had sinned against Hollywood's official religion (moonbattery), Theron quickly made amends, before she could find herself blackballed. When CNN's Rick Sanchez — who was born in Cuba and is aware of the conditions there — started to ask her about the lack of freedom in the island prison, she interrupted with this:
I would argue that there's a lack of freedom in America.
Gasped Sanchez:
But do you think the lack of freedoms in Cuba are parallel to the lack of freedoms in the United States?
The answer should keep Theron on Tinseltown's A List:
Well, I would. I would compare those two. Yes, definitely.
Her justification for comparing the world's Last Best Hope to a miserable totalitarian dictatorship was a couple of reporters who were fired after making seditious remarks about the war in Iraq that their employers evidently regarded as unprofessional. When Sanchez attempted to extract a clarification from the lovely young nitwit, she interrupted him again with this:
I want to make out with you right now.
Humberto Fontova offers this analysis:
After many nights of scrutiny and meditation, the best my team of analysts can determine is that Charlize Theron equates the policies of a regime that incarcerated political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin's, that machine-guns to death entire families for attempting to travel abroad, that mandates (under penalty of prison or firing squad) what its subjects read, say, eat, earn, eat (both substance and amount), where they live, travel or work — she equates this regime with a government under which a private corporation owned by stockholders terminated some employees for violating company guidelines.
Who in Hollywood could argue with that? By Hollywood standards her logic seems airtight.
Actually, most people in Hollywood would consider what Theron said an insult — to Cuba. Fontova himself offers a few quotes:
Francis Ford Coppola:
Fidel I love you. We both have the same initials. We are both powerful men. And we both use our power for good.
Jack Nicholson:
Castro is a genius and Cuba is a paradise.
Chevy Chase:
Socialism works. I think Cuba might prove that.
Oliver Stone:
Castro is very selfless and moral, one of the world's wisest men.
Harry Belafonte:
If you believe in freedom, if you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, you have no choice but to support Fidel Castro!
Kevin Costner:
It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him (Castro).
Stephen Spielberg (describing dinner with Castro):
The eight most important hours of my life.
This chorus of useful idiots is referring to a corrupt dictator who has enriched himself while reducing his potentially wealthy country to such a wretched hellhole, people attempt to escape to the USA by crossing 90 miles of shark-infested waters on inner tubes.
If Satan were to appear on Earth, Hollywood would roll out the red carpet.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:45 AM | Comments (12)
February 21, 2007
Why the War on Weather Isn't Funny
An Op-Ed by Pete du Pont covers some familiar ground in dismissing global warming as bunk, but makes an important point: moonbats' bunk can hurt people.
As du Pont notes, Greenland wasn't covered in ice when the Vikings farmed there, long before the first Escalade rolled off an assembly line. The warming we've experienced over the last 100 years has been extremely slight, and is due far more to solar radiation than human activity. Not even the UN supports the outrageous claims of Al Gore, who promises a 20-foot rise in sea level by the end of the century; the UN is saying 17 inches. Nor does the UN expect global warming to affect the number of hurricanes, which has been steadily declining. As most of us know, the infamous "hockey stick" graph that makes it look like the temperature was static until it shot up in the mid 1970s is utterly bogus, having omitted the Medieval Warming Period.
But global warming is no laughing matter, because whenever moonbats bark themselves into a lather, people get hurt. Du Pont notes that mosquito-killing DDT was credited with reducing malaria in Sri Lanka from 2.8 million cases to 17, and deaths from malaria from 7,000 to none. Then Rachel Carson came out with a book called Silent Spring, which convinced the gullible liberal elite that DDT is bad. Third-World countries like Sri Lanka were pressured to stop using it, and malaria predictably skyrocketed. Environmentalists' reaction: tough luck.
There are two things we need to keep in mind about environmentalists:
- They are fanatics, impervious to reason.
- They don't care what happens to human beings.
Consequently, their War on Weather campaign is no laughing matter.
On a tip from Bergbikr.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:13 PM | Comments (24)
Courting Controversy at NYU
It's not hard to be controversial on a college campus. All you have to do is stray a few millimeters to the right of all the way left.
New York University's College Republicans are planning a "Find the Illegal Immigrant" contest for tomorrow. To win you have to be the first to point out a club member wearing a nametag that reads "Illegal Immigrant." The point is to draw attention to the fact that our border has been overrun by invaders who continue to pour into the country.
At NYU, this harmless game is so controversial that up to 300 students are expected to show up to protest it. According to protest organizers:
We need to show that this type of racist action is completely unacceptable.
The university actually felt compelled to explain why it would permit the game to take place:
At universities, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas — even difficult and unpopular ideas — is a key mission. […] Illegal immigration is a totally appropriate topic for debate, though this event seems principally calculated to produce outraged reaction rather than dialogue.
In other words, "These people are icky for thinking the USA is a sovereign country with a right to defend its borders, but we'll let it go this time."
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:15 PM | Comments (3)
Muslims Demand British Schools Conform to Islamic Culture
In a staggering display of arrogance, Muslim colonizers are insisting that Britain overhaul its schools to accommodate Islamic culture.
The Muslim Council of Britain's 72-page list of demands includes prayer rooms, individual changing cubicles, halal meals, head scarves, and no exams during Ramadan, which goes on for a whole month and slides all around the calendar. The MCB also saw fit to whine that students sometimes have to "experience Islamophobic sentiments," despite Muslims going so far out of their way to make themselves lovable to the rest of the world.
Big changes are needed in PE, where kids have to change and take showers right in front of other kids of the same gender. It's a "profound indignity" for Muslims to have to do this like everyone else.
Sex ed needs changing too, so as to promote "Islamic moral perspectives." Did I mention that this is not Saudi Arabia I'm referring to, but the United Kingdom?
Needless to say, if there's going to be any assimilating, it's the British who will be assimilated by their Islamic colonizers. Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, reacted to the extensive list of outrageous demands by fretting that there might be a backlash. If only.
Imagine if Hitler had demanded that British schoolchildren eat sauerkraut and wear lederhosen. Britain has come a long way in the last two generations. Let's hope it can find its way back while it still exists.
On a tip from Bill V.
Posted by Van Helsing at 4:46 PM | Comments (2)
Indian Idol Draws Death Threats From Religion of Peace
American Idol fans may have more of a stake in the War on Terror than they realize. India's equivalent Indian Idol is having Muslim problems in Kashmir, where a talent hunt has resulted in threats from the militant group Al-Madina to kill any Kashmiris who take part in the show.
Auditions are going forward anyway. Let's hope Hollywood shows as much backbone if we retreat from Iraq and the War on Terror follows us home.
On a tip from Bill V.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:17 PM | Comments (11)
Confederacy Faces Erasure
The Museum of the Confederacy is getting squeezed out of Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, and may end up moving its collection of artifacts, manuscripts, and photographs to Lexington, Virginia. What's worse, the name of the museum will probably be changed, in an attempt to erase the word "Confederacy" for being "racist."
Barked Lexington Councilwoman Mimi Elrod:
To me, the Confederate flag symbolizes slavery, oppression and denying people their rights. I have a problem with a museum that celebrates that being in our city.
Those to whom our history has been entrusted are prepared to pander to the totalitarian mentality that insists on the past being brought into line with currently fashionable political views. A group of historians and preservationists issued a report on the museum last October stating that the word "Confederacy" carries
enormous, intransigent and negative intellectual baggage with many. For them, the Confederacy, and by association the Museum of the Confederacy, now symbolize racism.
So history must be redacted to accommodate what "many" now think it symbolizes. For an explanation of the existential horror of what this implies, readers are referred to George Orwell's 1984.
What's next to go down the Memory Hole? As liberals never tire of reminding us, many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves. How long until these racists are erased? We'll have to change the name of the capital. How about Sharpton, DC?
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:18 PM | Comments (19)
Le Pen Pooh-poohs 9/11
There appears to be only one alternative to left-wing moonbattery in France: right-wing moonbattery. If that sounds like an oxymoron, consider right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen, who dismisses the historic atrocities of 9/11 as an "incident." As for the 3,000 who died:
3 000 dead, that is how many die in Iraq in a month and it's far less than the deaths in the Marseille or Dresden bombings at the end of the Second World War.
Someone bothered to bomb Marseille? You learn something new every day.
Le Pen asserts that the 9/11 atrocities were no more terrorist acts than were WWII bombings. He is currently indulging in his fifth presidential campaign. Past accomplishments include having been convicted of the absurd crime of Holocaust denial.
That Le Pen may represent the closest thing France has to hope gives and idea of how far that formerly great country has swirled down the drain.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:44 AM | Comments (12)
Shrillary Denounces America's Arrogance
Of all the shallow insults to come belching out of progressive mouths, the notion that America is "arrogant" is possibly the most irritating. By "arrogant," they mean America does what's right, regardless of how it plays with the corrupt and hostile denizens of the Turtle Bay Zoo.
Not to worry, libs. Shrillary Rotten promises that as Queen, she will do away with all this arrogance:
When I'm president, I'm going to send a message to the world that […] we're not the arrogant power that we've been acting like for the last six years.
Like a true hard-Left America-basher, Shrillary complained that America squandered the world's good will after 9/11 by actually fighting back against the terrorists. If we had just lain on our backs and whimpered, Europeans would have pitied and despised us, instead of resenting us for still having some character.
Liberals appear to derive some sort of loathsome masochistic pleasure out of being despised by effete European snobs. This is a big plus for Shrillary, because if she is elected, there will be plenty to despise.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:51 AM | Comments (7)
Most Americans Want to Win
Here's some news that will come as a big surprise to liberals — and an unwelcome one to those infesting Congress. A new poll shows that most Americans want to win in Iraq, rather than tucking our tails between our legs and "redeploying" to underneath our beds while we wait for the terrorists to come after us again.
Majorities were sensible enough to conclude that American troops need to stay in Baghdad until the local government can govern, that victory in Iraq is vital to winning the war on terror that began after 9/11, and that Bush should be supported in this effort despite his mistakes.
Only 25% were short-sighted and/or morally depraved enough to agree with the statement, "I don't really care what happens in Iraq after the U.S. leaves, I just want the troops brought home." The Demon-rats are going too far, too fast in trying to force a retreat, according to 53%. More than three times as many want to stay until the job is done as want to surrender immediately.
Even after years of a relentless bombardment of defeatist propaganda from the fifth-columnists who run the media, most of us still have enough character to resist its barrage of demoralizing misinformation.
As the Breck Girl would say, there are two Americas. But they aren't the rich and the poor. They are the America presented by our TV sets and newspapers — a nation of preening, sniveling, self-indulgent cowards — and the America that is either fighting terrorists in Iraq or supporting those who do. The honorable America may not hold the media or Congress, but it still has a majority.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:10 AM | Comments (9)
February 20, 2007
Not All Doctorates Are Worth the Paper They Are Printed On
What could be more emblematic of the degeneration of higher education into an echo chamber for left-wing ideology? The University of Minnesota is considering granting an honorary doctorate to Al Gore (who flunked out of divinity school) as a reward for spreading alarmist global warming propaganda that the establishment increasingly insists we regard as science.
University spokesman Daniel Wolter claims Prince Albert is "a legitimate expert on a pressing issue of global concern, climate change." The same university has already granted an honorary degree to Shrillary Clinton. Maybe Minnesota regards her as a "legitimate expert" on healthcare in light of the Hillary Care debacle.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:20 PM | Comments (7)
Silky Pony Reveals the Greatest Threat to World Peace
Can you guess what the world's greatest short-term threat to world peace is?
No, it isn't Mad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his messianic quest for nuclear weapons. It isn't al-Qaeda, or Hezbollah, or Hamas, or any other terrorist outfit. It's not the total chaos that will result if Democrats are able to engineer America's defeat in Iraq. It's not even the maniacal Hugo Chavez exporting poverty and totalitarianism throughout Latin America under the banner of socialism. Nor is it a worldwide depression brought on by legislative reactions to global warming hysteria.
Here's a clue: the greatest threat was revealed by John Edwards, the pretty boy ambulance chaser who has been trying to outflank Shrillary Rotten and B.O. on the left.
If you guessed America, nice try, but that would have been too easy. The greatest threat to world peace is Israel, which might rashly take out Iran's nuclear facilities before Mad Mahmoud can carry out his apocalyptic promises.
Yet just as feminist liberals will side with the most misogynistic ideology ever conceived (Islam) against their own civilization, American Jews will overwhelming support Silky Pony or whatever other Israel-shafting moonbat gets the Democrat nomination.
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:39 PM | Comments (3)
Senator Chucklehead Confesses to Vietnam Nostalgia
It will come as no surprise that liberals have been trying to relive their glory days of the Flower Child era, when they used their control of the media to lay low the mighty USA in Southeast Asia. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) confirms that the Dems are still reading from the Vietnam playbook:
There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment… just like in the days of Vietnam. The pressure will mount, the president will find he has no strategy, he will have to change his strategy and the vast majority of our troops will be taken out of harm's way and come home.
It's all part of the slow bleed strategy advanced by scoundrels like the seditious Rep. John Murtha (D-PA).
Surprisingly enough, both Murtha and Schumer voted to authorize the war in Iraq. Apparently they don't mind starting wars — it's following through until we win that Dems have a problem with.
You have to wonder: why would even Democrats want a reprise of Vietnam?
By now no one expects liberals to wish America well, so I won't go into how the loss disgraced and discredited this country, how our proud soldiers were left having fought for an abandoned cause, or how it gave a leg up to our totalitarian enemies.
You might think liberals would have some sympathy for the people of Indochina, who after all aren't Caucasian. Our defeat and the Dems' subsequent pulling out of the economic rug from under South Vietnam resulted in the enslavement of the entire region. People took to the seas in anything that would float in a desperate attempt to escape from our Democrat Party's communist allies, resulting in deaths by the hundreds of thousands. Khmer Rouge communists in Cambodia were able to kill millions, reducing that country's population by 30%. But insulated from guilt by their godless, nihilistic ideology, liberals appear to feel no regrets over these cataclysmic developments, nor do they hesitate to reenact them in the Middle East. As their good old Uncle Joe would say:
One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
James Taranto finds a more compelling reason Chuckles and his fellow Dems ought to hesitate to replay Vietnam:
It's hard to see any way in which Democrats benefited politically from becoming the anti-Vietnam party. In 1972 their antiwar nominee carried one state. They did well in 1974 and 1976, but more because of Watergate than Vietnam. And after the ineffectual leadership of Jimmy Carter, Democrats were not able to win the White House again until after the Soviet Union had disintegrated.
It is said that generals always fight the last war. Gen. Schumer is trying to fight this war using the same tactics that lost the last war for both the country and his party.
If there could possibly be a silver lining to fifth-columnists causing civilization to lose in Iraq, it's that the nature of the Democrat Party will become so obvious that supporting it will no longer be an option for any decent person — provided of course that a reasonably accurate depiction of events is able to make it through the media.
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Pakistani Minister Zilla Huma Usman Killed for Forgetting Her Place
Provincial Pakistani minister Zilla Huma Usman — an advocate of woman's rights — has been shot dead by a Religion of Peacenik for violating Islam's dress code for women and for participating in politics while female.
According to local officer Nazir Ahmad:
He killed her because she was not observing the Islamic code of dress. She was also campaigning for emancipation of women.
A police statement said of the killer, Mohammad Sarwar:
He considers it contrary to the teachings of Allah for a woman to become a minister or a ruler. That's why he committed this action.
Such attitudes are hardly surprising in the Islamic world. Yet the feminist Left that managed to set aside its alleged principles to support the sexual predator and probable rapist B.J. Clinton also has no problem siding with Islam in its war with Western Civilization.
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Global Warming Cultists May Go After Our Food
The global warming flimflam is a Trojan horse for any number of left-wing causes, including raising taxes, increasing bureaucratic control, hobbling the USA, sticking it to big business, arresting economic development so as to keep people poor, getting people out of their own cars where they have too much independence, etc. Here's another to add to the list: it could be exploited to prevent people from eating the meat that is an essential component of a healthy diet.
After all, livestock produces more greenhouse gasses than transportation, according to the ever trustworthy United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization.
This is due not only to cows blasting gas like Rosie O'Donnell after a trip to Taco Bell, but to deforestation used to expand pastures, and energy used to produce fertilizers, run slaughterhouses, run meat-packing plants, pump water, chew the food in you mouth, etc., etc. A similar approach might prove that gardening or crochet causes global warming — if that's what the UN's insidious bureauweenies wanted to conclude.
Intoned senior FAO author Henning Steinfeld:
Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems.
Livestock is said to produce 9% of all CO2 emissions, 37% of methane, and 65% of nitrous oxide. Rosie is presumably another big contributor of methane, which has 23 times the global warming potential of CO2, making it even more deadly than water vapor.
One excuse for pretending that livestock is now a problem when it never was before is that increased prosperity has allowed people around the world to eat more meat, underscoring the economics of the War on Weather, which can be summed up as: prosperity is bad.
Unsurprisingly, animal rights kooks seized on the report. Scribbles Noam Mohr in a report for Earth Save International:
Arguably the best way to reduce global warming in our lifetimes is to reduce or eliminate our consumption of animal products.
As we learn once again, Al Gore et al.'s War on Weather is actually a War on Humanity on behalf of moonbat ideology.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:11 AM | Comments (9)
February 19, 2007
Global Warming and the "Irony Tipping-Point"
The fashion world is no doubt infested with moonbattery — but at least it knows better than to take global warming seriously, judging by the ads promoting Diesel's spring/summer collection. The theme is the sort of environmental doom preached so theatrically by Al Gore — except that nobody seems too worried about it. As WaPo puts it:
Diesel's models are dressed fashionably if barely (to accommodate the weather) and they lounge amid this hip dystopia in glamorous unconcern, fanning themselves or applying suntan lotion to one another's tawny backs.
Actually, the folks at Diesel may be trying to be serious, to the extent it's possible to be serious and still be hiply ironic. In the past they ran ads condemning smoking by pretending to advocate it for the sake of developing a "sexy cough."
Certainly WaPo doesn't want you to think that the War on Weather is a laughing matter:
That global warming is being spoofed by a retailer in the pages of Vogue and Esquire suggests that the issue is sufficiently widespread and accepted to have reached the irony tipping-point.
In other words, there really is a consensus on global warming, because trendoid fashion ads are ironic about it. WaPo has reached the absurdity tipping-point.
On a tip from V the K.
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Angling For the Advantage of Being Disadvantaged
In the era of bleeding-heart moonbattery, it is such an advantage to be "disadvantaged" that there is talk in Australia of using DNA tests to determine whether people really are Aborigines or are only pretending for the sake of acquiring privileged victim status.
According to the census, Australia's Aboriginal population went from 265,459 in 1991 to 410,000 in 2001, presumably due to people reclassifying themselves so as to qualify for race-based handouts and favoritism.
Hat tip: Political Correctness Watch
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Global Warming Beach Party
Compliments of Wiggins:
