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April 30, 2007

Euromoonbats Ban Dog Breeds

The sanctimonious bureauweenies running the European Union have gotten so carried away with their intrusive regulations that they are now effectively banning breeds of dogs.

The European Convention on the Protection of Pet Animals act would set such severe limits on breeding that when it is ratified, it could mean the end of several popular breeds. The bulldog, once emblematic of British toughness, will be a symbol of Britain's decline when it ceases to exist at the behest of the limp-wristed moonbats in Brussels.

Bureaucrats now see fit to set precise limits on characteristics such as the length of the dog's back relative to its legs, etc. The requirements are insanely particular, yet vague enough that dog breeders won't know for sure exactly what is being banned until they find themselves arrested for breeding politically incorrect dogs.

Siamese and Persian cats could also find themselves banned. If only a means could be found to prevent the breeding of moonbat bureaucrats.

On a tip from Anthony.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:40 PM | Comments (9)

Hippy Photo Op Flops

Yesterday moonbats descended on the Mall in DC with the idea of spelling out IMPEACH! with their malodorous bodies so that the media could take pictures from the top of the Washington Monument. Fortunately, their numbers were so small they had to downsize their plans. WaPo describes the participants:

There were mothers dressed in pink, Naderites, peaceniks in tie-dyed T-shirts, a guy in a George Bush mask wearing prison stripes, and one Robert Greenough, with two dandelions entwined in his long red beard.

Jaime Todaro of the treasonous Code Pink couldn't figure out the low attendance. Four peace medallions dangled from her ears as she whined that people imagined their own lives to be more important than loopy moonbat politics.

Take heart, moonbats. Congressman Abscam Jack Murtha (D-PA) agrees that the President should be impeached for not complying with Democrat policy regarding Iraq.

On a tip from V the K.

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

BBC Promotes San Francisco Christianity

If all went as planned, BBC Radio 4 listeners were treated yesterday to a "gay Mass" broadcast from San Francisco.

The blasphemous "Mass" was to be held at the Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the gay-friendly Castro district. This church has featured transvestite bingo nights, at which sex toys and pornography were handed out as prizes by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who dress as nuns. Other activities of this group have included parading naked through the city to advertise a "hunky Jesus" contest. Their motto sums up liberal perversions of Christianity: "Go and sin some more."

The "Mass" was to feature prayers and readings tailored to homosexuals, whose exceedingly unwholesome practices are explicitly forbidden by the Bible. But according to Jesuit priest Donal Godfrey, who was slated to preside, homosexuality is "simply another gift from God who created us as rainbow people."

The Beeb's objective in broadcasting this abomination could only be to stick a finger in the eye of any decent people who might accidentally happen upon their taxpayer-supported station.

On a tip from Bill V.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:49 AM | Comments (7)

Compact Fluorescent Bulbs: Not a Very Bright Idea

Moonbattery sure isn't cheap. Those flickering, dim compact fluorescent light bulbs that moonbats want to force us to use because they will allegedly save a few pennies on the electric bill cost about $4.28 a bulb — so long as you don't break one. If you do, the cost will be in the neighborhood of $2,004.28.

Knowing that the bulbs contain highly toxic mercury, Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine got on the phone for advice after breaking one. She ended up dealing with the bureauweenies at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, who sent a specialist to her house to test for contamination. Her daughter's bedroom had to be sealed off while she scraped up the $2,000 to pay for cleanup. Her insurance wouldn't pay because mercury is a pollutant.

There are about 5 billion light sockets in North American households. Each will be a potential toxic waste site if liberals are successful at imposing compact fluorescents.

By the way, compact fluorescent bulbs are manufactured in China and India, where there are virtually no environmental regulations. Waste presumably goes into the nearest river.

Soon we'll need to dispose of billions of these subpar bulbs. According to Maine safety standards, it takes 16,667 cubic meters of soil to contain the mercury in a single bulb. The entire country is going to turn into a Superfund site at the behest of environmentalists, whose Dem allies are pushing for a ban on incandescent bulbs in the name of the global warming hoax.

On tips from V the K and Bill V.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:46 AM | Comments (9)

April 29, 2007

Jerry Brown Leading Charge to Loot Auto Industry

If militant moonbats have their way, the orgy of government greed that was excused by the war on tobacco will be dwarfed by the massive looting to take place behind the global warming smokescreen. Hard times for American automakers will get harder still when their resources are expropriated by unscrupulous bureauweenies like Jerry Brown, formerly known as California's Governor Moonbeam.

Now Attorney General of the Land of Fruits and Nuts, Brown is leading a looting expedition based on the notion that cars cause global warming, so the makers of cars should be sued for subjecting California residents to apocalyptic doom. In response, manufacturers have sensibly characterized the suit as a nuisance action and asked that it be dismissed.

Given the prevalence of liberals in our judicial system, the willingness of liberals to behave as if the global warming hoax were a real crisis when it suits their purposes, and the vindictiveness liberals often display toward the business sector, it's only a matter of time until Brown's suit or a similar one meets with success. Other states will of course pile on, and the automotive industry in America will be looted out of existence. Hundreds of thousands will be thrown out of work, but that's okay, because state bureaucracies will have stolen enough money to put them all on welfare — for a while.

On a tip from Kevin.

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

Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson Wants to "Unite" With Homosexual Lover

It's a good thing for the Reverend V. Gene Robinson that the Episcopal Church has switched religions from Christianity to Moonbattery. This way he gets to be a bishop, despite openly indulging in sexual perversions that are explicitly forbidden in the Bible.

Robinson and his homosexual lover plan to be among the first to "officially unite" under a new civil unions law in New Hampshire.

The merry reverend married a woman and had two daughters with her. But then he decided that his homosexual urges should take priority over his family, so he dumped it. However, Rev. Robinson did attend his daughters' after-school activities — with his gay lover in tow.

Robinson is an advocate of homosexual "marriage." He has participated in New York City's gay pride parade. Here's what this parade looks like:

Predicting that gays will have attained the privileged status they euphemistically refer to as "full equality" within 20 years, Robinson chirps triumphantly:

Fifteen to 20 years ago, most Americans would have told you and been reasonably honest that they did not know a gay or lesbian. Now, there's not a family left, or a co-worker, that doesn't know someone.

Did I mention that this militant pervert is a Bishop in the Episcopal Church?

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

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

Death Toll Caused by Illegal Aliens Keeps Rising

Yet another law-abiding American has paid with his life for the unconscionable unwillingness of authorities to protect us from the Mexican invasion.

Dacus Lamont Sims died at age 32, after trying to cross a Charlotte street with Luciano Melendres on the loose. Melendres is an illegal alien from Mexico who was arrested last year for drunk driving; instead of being sent home or put in jail, he received 12 months probation. Now, having run over Sims, he's charged with DWI, hit-and-run, driving with a revoked license, driving without insurance, and a registration violation. Apparently murder is not among the charges, so it's likely he'll be behind the wheel again soon.

Melendres joins a long list of illegal aliens who have taken lives while driving drunk on our roads, which includes Alfredo Ramos, Carlos Prieto, Eduardo Raul Morales-Soriano, Guillermo Paniagua, Gustavo Reyes Garcia, Hector Velazquez-Nava, Isidro Pena Soto, Joel Perea, Jorge Humberto Hernandez-Soto, Jose Trejo Encino, Luis Oscar Garcia, Marcos Ramos Medina, Miguel Garduno Gonzalez, Pastor Rios Sanchez, Ramiro Gallegos, and Vitalina Bautista Vargas, who managed to kill a 91-year-old woman asleep in her bed by driving right through her house.

Most of them had been arrested repeatedly before they killed. Some had even been deported repeatedly — as if there were any point, with the border wide open. Hernandez-Soto, who killed a college student by driving the wrong way on an interstate at over 100 mph, had been deported 17 times.

These drunken maniacs' victims have included police officers, Marines, women, and small children, whose blood stains the hands of the irresponsible moonbats from Bush on down who refuse to defend our sovereign territory from invasion.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:31 PM | Comments (2)

Dan Simpson's Disarmament Plan

One nice thing about liberals who work for newspapers instead of the government is they can be more upfront about their contempt for our constitutional rights. For example, Dan Simpson, a member of the editorial boards of the Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, explicitly lays out what should be done about those who assert our Second Amendment right to own firearms.

First, Simpson establishes his credentials as an open-minded guy, and not "a crazed liberal zealot":

I don't have any problem with hunting, although blowing away animals with high-powered weapons seems a pointless, no-contest affair to me.

Now, on to pacifying the American population:

First of all, federal or state laws would need to make it a crime punishable by a $1,000 fine and one year in prison per weapon to possess a firearm.

Thanks to Simpson's open-mindedness, hunting would still be allowed. But to prevent the nation of child slaves envisioned by liberals from using guns for self-defense against criminals or government tyranny, hunting weapons would be stored in armories. Hunters would only be allowed to use them upon submission of the proper forms, provided they passed "federal, state, and local checks" and held valid licenses — and even then only at the discretion of bureaucrats.

Simpson's brand of totalitarianism extends beyond hunting rifles. "Weapons of war" would be outright banned. As for collector's pieces:

All antique or interesting non-hunting weapons would be required to be delivered to a local or regional museum, also to be under strict 24-hour-a-day guard.

Few self-respecting American would voluntarily submit to being disarmed by the squishy invertebrate vermin who run our newspapers. That's why police state tactics would have to be used:

Special squads of police would be formed and trained to carry out the work. Then, on a random basis to permit no advance warning, city blocks and stretches of suburban and rural areas would be cordoned off and searches carried out in every business, dwelling, and empty building. All firearms would be seized. The owners of weapons found in the searches would be prosecuted: $1,000 and one year in prison for each firearm.

A martial law approach would be used to keep areas free of guns:

[F]airly quickly there would begin to be gun-swept, gun-free areas where there should be no firearms. If there were, those carrying them would be subject to quick confiscation and prosecution. On the streets it would be a question of stop-and-search of anyone, even grandma with her walker, with the same penalties for "carrying."

Presumably our liberal masters would then move on to confiscating all sharp objects and blunt instruments. After that, they might have our teeth pulled and our fingernails removed so we can't bite or scratch when they come to take our property away.

It would be a mistake to assume that because we defeated Hitler, Imperial Japan, and the Soviet Union, we can easily defeat sniveling liberal mollusks like Dan Simpson. The enemy within is by far the hardest to fight.

On tips from MoleOnABull and Brooklyn Red Leg.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:19 AM | Comments (14)

April 28, 2007

First Registration, Then Confiscation

Chicago's intrusive firearms registration requirements are being applied toward their intended use: disarming citizens.

Illinois State Police troopers have been going door to door, confiscating legally registered guns because owners forgot to jump through deliberately onerous re-regulation hoops. A taskforce called the Chicago Anti Gun Enforcement (CAGE) unit has been working with other police agencies to disarm the Chicago populace. Its target is not criminal gunrunners, but law-abiding citizens who can be disarmed using loopholes and technicalities. Those who have allowed their Nazi-esque Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) cards to expire will be tracked down by bureaucrats and have their guns confiscated by the State.

Bad enough that Illinois has managed to inflict Hillary Clinton, Dick Durbin, and Barack Hussein Obama on the rest of the country. Let's hope it doesn't do the same with its apparent contempt for the Second Amendment.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:14 AM | Comments (15)

April 27, 2007

Patrick Leahy Leads Charge to Free Gitmo Terrorists

Democrat Senators are conducting their War on Behalf of Terror on two fronts, not only demanding that we surrender to terrorists in the conflict's main theater Iraq, but also providing legal assistance to those in American custody.

Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, whines that the "rights" of foreign terrorists captured overseas are being infringed despite the obsequious treatment they receive at Club Gitmo. He wants foreign terrorists to be able to challenge our government in our courts, as if they were common criminals and American citizens. The result would be extravagantly expensive bureaucratic paralysis, quickly leading to terrorists sworn to our destruction being set free to kill again.

Leahy complains that the terrorists could be held forever. In saner times, this problem would have been solved with a machine gun. But Dems prefer that al-Qaeda operatives be released so that they can continue their activities on American soil, after the battlefield has been moved by Harry Reid et al. from Iraq back to Manhattan.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:25 AM | Comments (15)

EU Biofuel Targets Will Harm the Environment

Green fuel foolishness is a threat to more than affordable beer. Forests, peatlands, and even orangutans could also be in trouble.

Totally carried away by global warming hysteria, European Union bureauweenies have decreed that biofuel should account for 10% of Europe's transport fuel by 2020. Producing enough palm oil to meet this target will result in the destruction of tropical rainforests and peatlands in Southeast Asia, which according to currently fashionable theories will actually increase global warming, in addition to depriving exotic animals like orangutans of their habitat.

But the important thing is that setting biofuel targets helps bureaucrats feel engaged in dealing with the imaginary menace of global warming, so that they don't have to think about very real problems such as conquest-level immigration, Islamic terrorism, and the incipient collapse of the welfare state, which they do not have the character even to attempt to address.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:43 AM | Comments (5)

April 26, 2007

Washington State Defends Freedom of Speech From Campaign Finance Moonbattery

Campaign finance moonbattery suffered a setback today, when the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously overturned a ruling by Superior Court Judge Chris Wickham that would have silenced Seattle talk-show hosts John Carlson and Kirby Wilbur by claiming that their endorsement of Initiative 912, which calls for the repeal of a gas tax, constituted an in-kind campaign contribution.

William Maurer of the Institute for Justice called the development "a direct and clear repudiation of the use of Washington’s campaign finance laws to intimidate and harass media voices with which the government disagrees."

Efforts to use campaign finance laws to gag the DJs were led by San Juan County Prosecutor Randall Gaylord.

Hopefully this is a step toward the repeal of the flagrantly unconstitutional abomination known as McCain-Feingold, which is already coming back under review by the Supremes.

Hat tip: Reclaim the Media, on a tip from Kevin.

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

Senate Passes Surrender Bill

In the aftermath of 9/11, who would have guessed that in only a few short years, Democrats would dare this?

The Democrat-controlled Senate passed a bill today calling for the United States to unilaterally surrender to the Islamic terrorists from whom we have been defending the fledgling democracy in Iraq. Our troops are called on to begin retreating as early as July 1.

If this bill were to become law, the Bush strategy of combating Islamic terror by taking the battle to the enemy and spreading democracy in the Middle East will have been officially abandoned in favor of the Democrat strategy of distracting ourselves with imaginary problems like global warming until the terrorists hit us again on our homeland.

It's too bad for al-Qaeda that Islam proscribes alcohol. This would be a day for them to break out champagne.

But, as Barack Hussein Obama observes, we are still "one signature away" from official surrender. Bush will of course veto the bill, as everyone who voted in its favor knows.

The idea is for Senate Dems to absolve themselves of any responsibility for the crucial Iraq theater of the War on Terror, despite most of them having voted in favor of removing Saddam Hussein from power. Another benefit from the Democrat point of view is that the bill's inevitable failure will delay funding our troops in the field, helping to demoralize them and bring about their defeat. With their control of the establishment media and extremely low opinion of the American public, Dems believe they can spin this defeat and its catastrophic consequences to their own benefit in the 2008 elections.

The word "contemptible" barely does justice to today's Democrat Party.

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:57 PM | Comments (32)

The High Cost of Easily Accessible Beans

It is common knowledge that beans cause the dreadful phenomenon known as flatulence, a major contributor to the global warming that will soon embroil us all in a sweaty apocalypse. Nonetheless, beans are readily available to anyone who wants to purchase them, despite the absence of explicit Constitutional protection as we have for firearms. So far as I know, beans are not even regulated.

Now we see the consequences:

The picture is of movie star Hugh Grant, assaulting a photographer with a tub of baked beans. Grant was subsequently arrested.

It's time for us to ask ourselves: would this incident have occurred if beans were subject to prudent federal regulation?

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:21 PM | Comments (7)

Bill to Establish Legal Caste System Moves Forward

Reminding us just what we are doing to our country by allowing Dems to run Congress, the House Judiciary Committee has passed a federal "hate crimes" bill along strict party lines. Attempts by Republicans to so much as amend the abomination were defeated.

Contemptuously ignoring both the Tenth Amendment and the concept of equality before the law, the atrocious Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (HR 1592) would officially establish a legal class system, placing homosexuals, Muslims, and non-Caucasians in a category that would make it a federal offense to attack them.

Observes the Family Research Council:

Despite what its advocates say, this is not about crime — it's about special treatment. HR 1592 would further carve out "tiers" of victims, putting more importance on crimes committed against a Rosie O'Donnell than against her next-door neighbor.

Rosie, being a lesbian, would have higher legal status than mere heterosexuals — just as dhimmis have lower legal status than Muslims under Islamic regimes.

At the bottom of the legal caste system with which liberals are replacing equality before the law will be Christians. Although progressives celebrate homosexual perversion and even promote it to small children in our schools, the Bible plainly and repeatedly states that it is wrong (Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1:27, etc.). Consequently, referring to the Bible in this context will probably be regarded as incitement against a protected class, as Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) has warned.

If Democrats keep getting elected, it is only a matter of time until the Bible is designated as "hate speech" and banned for failing to support the homosexual agenda.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:38 AM | Comments (8)

Assistant Terrorist Lynne Stewart Is Disbarred

A little good news for a change: left-wing activist Lynne Stewart will no longer be practicing law.

As readers might recall, Stewart received a 28-month wrist slap for deliberately helping Islamic terror master Omar Abdel-Rahman conduct his operations from behind bars. Abdel-Rahman was behind the first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center. He also attempted to blow up the Lincoln and Holland tunnels.

No doubt Stewart's role in assisting this monster to conduct his terror operations by illegally relaying his orders helped win her the slobbering affection of the treasonous vermin running the New York Times and Washington Post.

The travesty of justice whereby Stewart was scarcely punished at all for crimes that clearly warranted execution took place only blocks from Ground Zero. She remains free pending federal appeal of her joke of a sentence. But at least now she's been disbarred.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:34 AM | Comments (6)

Armed Moonbat Matthew Hunter Kramer Assaults Nevada Republican Headquarters

A moonbat by the name of Matthew Hunter Kramer pulled up at the Nevada Republican Party offices in Las Vegas in a Mercedes with California plates. He noisily berated the workers within, calling them idiots, and proclaimed that the war in Iraq has nothing to do with anything but oil. After drawing Nevada Republican Party Executive Director Zachary Moyle outside, Kramer produced a rifle from the trunk of his car and with the barrel two inches from Moyle's nose growled:

Don't You know that America hates you? If your President vetoes this bill, I will be back. Do you understand me?

The reference was to a Democrat bill calling for American surrender in Iraq.

Kramer then went back into the office and helped himself to pictures of Bush and Cheney that were hanging on the wall, before returning to his Merc and driving away.

He was soon tracked down and arrested on a variety of charges. Authorities found a large cache of weapons in his car, including swords, knives, and a shotgun.

Everyone involved seems to agree that Kramer is insane. Nonetheless, he was released and is apparently wandering around loose at this very moment, very possibly planning to become the next Cho Seung-Hui.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:26 AM | Comments (16)

April 25, 2007

Surprise! Carbon Offsets Are a Scam

It's okay that conspicuously rich moonbats like Al Gore create massive carbon footprints while demanding that the rest of us relocate to the Stone Age, because they wash away their sins against Gaia by buying eco-indulgences — aka carbon offsets. But to the surprise of no one with a triple-digit IQ, it is becoming increasingly obvious that carbon offsets are a scam. Some findings of a Financial Times investigation:

• Widespread instances of people and organisations buying worthless credits that do not yield any reductions in carbon emissions.

• Industrial companies profiting from doing very little — or from gaining carbon credits on the basis of efficiency gains from which they have already benefited substantially.

• Brokers providing services of questionable or no value.

• A shortage of verification, making it difficult for buyers to assess the true value of carbon credits.

• Companies and individuals being charged over the odds for the private purchase of European Union carbon permits that have plummeted in value because they do not result in emissions cuts.

Francis Sullivan is the environment adviser at HSBC, Britain's biggest bank, which presumably for publicity reasons went "carbon-neutral" in 2005. He's been studying the carbon offsets market for months, and concludes:

The police, the fraud squad and trading standards need to be looking into this.

Maybe the Goracle and friends had better lay low for awhile.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:21 PM | Comments (13)

Holland Exports Abortion

Abortion fanatics are taking their jihad against unborn babies to the sea in a campaign to circumvent the laws of countries where public morality has not eroded to the point of permitting the ghastly procedure. The Dutch government has granted permission for fiends calling themselves Women on Waves to kill babies aboard their abortion boat in international waters. The unborn of Ireland, Poland, and Malta will be targeted.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:53 PM | Comments (1)

EEOC Moonbats Sink Their Fangs Into Salvation Army

The Salvation Army is an evangelical Christian organization that for 140 years has devoted itself to helping the helpless. Our government's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) — aka the Department of Political Correctness — wants to break its kneecaps.

EEOC moonbats are suing the Salvation Army because it fired two people (who may or may not have been illegal aliens) who refused to abide by a condition of employment, namely that they make some attempt to learn English, since according to most maps, this is still America.

Turning the country into a dysfunctional Tower of Babel rates almost as high as attacking all remnants of the Christian religion among the bureaucratic termites eating away at the foundations of our society. The EEOC was able to pursue both objectives by going to court with the claim that being asked to learn English caused the poor victims "emotional pain, humiliation and embarrassment."

Litigation isn't cheap. But that's no problem for EEOC bureauweenies, because they don't pay for it — you do. As for the Salvation Army, it will be forced to spend money on court costs that otherwise would have gone toward helping the poor.

On a tip from Bill V.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:29 PM | Comments (1)

Enviromorons Vandalize the Wrong Field

In a sociopathic attempt to invalidate what they thought was a test of genetically modified potatoes, a mob of 200 enviromoonbats calling themselves mutatoes.org dug up a field in East Yorkshire, England, and planted it with regular potatoes.

Actually, nothing had been growing in the field but cattle feed crops.

Laughs Chris Buckton, whose family farms nearby:

We found it quite funny, you know, it seems really stupid that these guys are supposed to be into the environment, but don't know what a potato crop looks like.

But a lack of expertise rarely stops environmentalists from interfering in other people's business.

Moonbats oppose genetically engineered crops, possibly because the crops alleviate hunger in the Third World, thus depriving children in quaint multicultural villages of their picturesque potbellies.

On a tip from Baldeagle390.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:44 AM | Comments (9)

Global Warming Hoax Driving Up Beer Prices in Germany

If this doesn't wake Germans up to the folly of global warming hysteria, nothing will: enviromoonbattery is driving up beer prices.

German brewers have had no choice but to raise their prices, because farmland once used to raise barley has been diverted to growing crops for politically correct if economically inefficient biofuels.

Beer prices matter in Germany even more than elsewhere. Last year 111.6 liters of beer was guzzled per German.

Manfred Weizbauer, head of the German millers' federation, notes that "Biofuels are monopolizing the land." He pleads with the German government to "be reasonable" — not likely, where environmental hysteria is concerned.

Biofuel foolishness is also driving up the price of bread in Germany by 10%. In our own hemisphere, the diversion of corn into ethanol instead of people's stomachs where it belongs has resulted in food riots in Mexico.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:20 AM | Comments (15)

Europeans Target Environmental Crimes

In another disturbing glimpse at where environmentalism is headed, Italy has adopted a draft bill anticipating a forthcoming European Union directive on environmental crimes. Those found guilty of sins against Gaia will be subject to 1–5 years in jail and fines of 20,000–60,000 euros — and still more if the crime actually endangers someone.

Punishments get even worse for committing "environmental catastrophes," which presumably go well beyond forgetting to throw your soda can in the recycling bin.

The European Commission is planning to enable the EU to issue arrest warrants for environmental crimes. If Brussels bureauweenies decide they agree with Cheryl Crow about toilet paper usage, Brits who overwipe could hear midnight banging on their door.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:23 AM | Comments (3)

Tinfoil-Hatter Reveals Cho Seung-Hui As Manchurian Candidate

The same sort of geniuses who figured out the Bush Administration must have been behind the atrocities of 9/11 have revealed that mass-murderer Cho Seung-Hui could have been acting on behalf of the CIA.

The poor maniac may have been a victim of Project Bluebird, which involves "brainwashing and multiple personality engineering." The purpose is to create Manchurian Candidate characters who go out and wreak havoc on behalf of President Bush and his evil cronies in order to "jack up the fear ratio."

Why hasn't Austin Powers put a stop to this?

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:59 AM | Comments (6)

April 24, 2007

Homosexual Brainwashing in Grade School

Most people find homosexuality highly unnatural, which is why the militant degenerates running our schools need to start in on their subjects at a very young age to instill the desired attitudes. For actual footage of small children being brainwashed into embracing the homosexual lifestyle on your dime, check out these videos before YouTube yanks them down:

The clips were taken from the film It's Elementary, which reflects what moonbat educrats think children should be learning instead of the three R's.

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

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:08 PM | Comments (16)

You Really Can Indict a Ham Sandwich

You might have heard it said that district attorneys have so much influence over grand juries, they could get them to "indict a ham sandwich." As OpinionJournal suggests, this is no longer hyperbole, in light of the high school students who may be charged with a hate crime for confronting Muslims with a piece of ham.

A student at Lewiston Middle School in Maine placed a ham steak in a bag on a lunch table at which Somali students were eating. Somalis are Muslims, and ham is on the long list of things Islam forbids. Other students stand accused of laughing.

Whimpered one of the traumatized victims:

[F]or the rest of my life when I remember middle school, this will pop up right away.

Stephen Wessler of the Center for Prevention of Hate Violence gasped that this incident was "an awful thing" and "extraordinary hurtful and degrading."

Superintendent Leon Levesque promised that a letter would be sent home to students' parents explaining the incident and describing the school's official response.

Just to put this absurd story into perspective, here's what some schoolgirls got for being Christian in Muslim Indonesia (via Laughyourheadoff.org):

Posted by Van Helsing at 4:28 PM | Comments (9)

Hugo Chavez and Joe Kennedy Offer a Taste of Socialism

Joe Kennedy's willingness to participate in the propaganda stunt whereby Hugo Chavez tried to make the USA look bad by supplying free heating oil to the poor may have been despicable and borderline treasonous, but at least it gave some Americans an educational lesson in socialism.

Due to bureaucratic incompetence on the part of Kennedy's Citizens Energy Corp., actually getting the free oil delivered proved more difficult that it would have been to scrape up the money to buy the stuff like everyone else. Beneficiaries were led to believe that their dealers would automatically bring them the oil. However, not all dealers were actually taking part, and calls to a toll-free help line went unanswered.

Complains 63-year-old Harford County resident Bonnie Chandler, who was told she would get 100 free gallons:

If I waited on that Joe Kennedy for my heating oil, I'd still be here sitting in the cold. When I called, none of the fuel distributors do it around here. […] I tried calling the 1-800-JOE-4-OIL number that the letter tells you to call if your dealer hasn't been notified, but I couldn't get an answer. Thank goodness my son helps me. But what if I was dependent on this and needed this free fuel? I feel like it's a ploy.

But so long as Joe Kennedy got in a few photo ops, and Chavez was able to broadcast his message that America stinks and only socialist dictators care about the poor, the program met its objectives, regardless of how many homes were actually heated.

On a tip from Charles.

Posted by Van Helsing at 3:34 PM | Comments (2)

Osama Obama Wants to Buy Off Terrorists

Until now I regarded Barack Hussein Obama as an empty black skin who was picked to be a figurehead by liberal media elites because his name reminds them of Osama bin Laden. But it turns out that he actually has a plan for confronting the worldwide Islamic terror movement that did not begin or end with September 11.

The plan does not involve fighting terrorists. Osama Obama wants US troops to retreat from Iraq within a year, handing that strategically vital country over to our worst enemies, with a virtual guarantee that its oil revenues will be used to finance terror strikes against our homeland.

Instead, Obama's plan calls for paying the regimes that harbor terrorists to be nice. He has promised to double foreign aid to $50 billion by 2012 if Americans should be so viciously self-destructive as to elect him. Apparently he thinks that if you pour enough money into corrupt Arab regimes that want us wiped off the map, helping to finance their weapons programs and the dissemination of militant Islamic propaganda, they will be so grateful that they will wait until after they've destroyed Israel before they come after us.

There is some precedent to Obama's idea. In the 18th Century, we paid off Islamic rulers to keep Muslim pirates from looting our ships and enslaving our citizens. But Thomas Jefferson got tired of paying tribute to a bunch of thugs and sent in the Marines.

Since the war in Iraq began, prominent Democrats have said whatever they could think of to break our country's morale. But no treasonous statement from Harry Reid or Jack Murtha could be as heartbreaking in its effect as being forced to imagine Barack Obama in the office once held by Thomas Jefferson.

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Even Some Libs Disgusted by Rosie O's Crassness

The Matrix Awards honor the most accomplished women in media in New York. Regrettably, organizers chose the obnoxious moonbat Rosie O'Donnell to emcee the awards.

In the audience, 17 "sweet-faced high school girls" who had won scholarships to pursue careers in the media could only gasp in horror as Rosie indulged in a vulgar assault on her nemesis Donald Trump, during which the overweight lesbian sneered that it's too bad Trump considers her "disgusting," because "it was always my dream to give an old, bald billionaire a boner" before concluding the rant by grabbing her crotch and shouting "Eat me!"

Barbara Walter, who attempts without success to lend credibility to Rosie's soapbox "The View," covered her face in her hands as her colleague let loose with the F-bomb.

Said active Democrat Robert Zimmerman:

I was offended by how vulgar and common O'Donnell was. It was especially inappropriate with young people present.

But Brandon Holley, editor-in-chief of Jane magazine, is much more hip:

I wasn't personally offended, but I thought it was fun to watch other people be offended.

In other "Queen of Nice" news, Rosie publicly responded to Cheryl Crow's edict that we use only one sheet of toilet paper in honor of the global warming hoax by yelling, "One little thing?! Has she seen my ass?!?!" (Video here.)

Now where would Trump get the idea that Rosie is disgusting?

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Global Warming Swindle to Cost NYC $32 Billion Under Bloomberg Plan

New York's RINO Mayor Mike Bloomberg has unveiled a new master plan to exploit the global warming hoax. The greedy scheme entails charging drivers as much as $21 to enter Manhattan and tacking $30 a year onto electric bills.

Bloomberg's 127 proposals not only appropriate money, but spend it too. Public plazas are to be created in every community, and city buildings will be retrofitted at who knows what expense so as to save a few pennies on heating bills. Rumors that a ten-story sculpture of Bloomberg's head made entirely of biodegradable tofu will be erected in Central Park have not been confirmed.

The Mayor's aides put the total cost of the initiatives at $32 billion. That's billion, with a B.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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April 23, 2007

Bill Moyers to Expose the Ideologically Impure

The execrable Bill Moyers is back, once again using our tax dollars to propagandize against our country from atop his soapbox PBS. His next project is a Stalinesque show trial, during which he will expose media people who revealed their counterrevolutionary tendencies by siding with their own country during the removal of the genocidal terrorist dictator Saddam Hussein from power.

Moyers nails his victims with damning footage. Even Dan Rather is caught on television expressing support for the President. Publications as far left as WaPo, USA Today, and even the New York Times are found guilty of publishing stories that do not conform to the current MSM consensus that Saddam was never a threat and the entire war was fought on an irrational whim.

At least we can be thankful we live in a country where characters like Moyers aren't actually in control. If this were the Soviet Union, instead of being skewered in front of their fellow libs on PBS, journalists found to have expressed thoughts at variance with correct ideology would be taking one-way train rides to Siberia.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Imposing Silence

Each year the "National Day of Silence" is used by the militant homosexual lobby to promote its agenda and lifestyle in our public schools. Duct tape is passed out so that students can wear it over their mouths to show solidarity with homosexuals, who allegedly face a dreadful silence imposed on them by normal people.

At Oakridge High in Muskegon, Michigan, David Gardner demonstrated who really is imposing silence by showing up for this year's event with the words "I'm straight" written on a piece of duct tape attached to his shirt. A teacher demanded that he remove the tape. When he refused, he was ejected from class.

Apparently silence isn't so awful, if the alternative is to hear an opposing point of view.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Reign of PC Terror Claims JV and Elvis

The reign of PC terror continues. Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay, aka JV and Elvis of "The Dog House With JV and Elvis" on WFNY in New York, have been suspended by CBS Radio without pay until further notice for airing a harmless skit that a race grievance specialist decided to find offensive.

The skit involved calling up Chinese restaurants and teasing the employees. Since Chinese are not white heterosexual Christian males, having any fun at their expense is strictly verboten under the despotic regime of obsequious multicultural humorlessness to which we have subjected ourselves. The phrase "flied lice" was used. The horror.

Vicki Shu Smolin, president of the NYC chapter of the Organization of Chinese Americans, screamed:

If they don't fire the D.J.'s, it will be a double standard.

The reference of course is to the Imus firing, which opened the floodgates of race grievance tyranny. DJ after DJ will be dragged to the guillotine until radio programming is as politically correct, predictable, and vapid as network news — at which point authoritarian multiculturalists will look for some other aspect of our culture to erase.

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Novel Allegations From Harry Reid

Harry Reid, who recently announced that the USA had been defeated by al-Qaeda and other Islamic terror groups, is making some novel allegations in his campaign to destroy American morale, thus securing the catastrophic defeat in Iraq that appears to be the centerpiece of Democrat election strategy.

In the midst of a long list of reasons America should just give up and die, Reid accuses us of causing Iraqi children to stutter and wet their beds, thus helping to "paralyze an entire generation that we had been counting on to harvest the seeds of democracy."

No wonder libs' allies in the Muslim world call us the Great Satan. Who else would be so dastardly?

Reid wants all our combat forces to retreat from Iraq by next April, thereby waving a white flag to both al-Qaeda and Iran, and leaving Iraqis who participated in the fledgling democracy at the mercy of terrorists, including Baathists who have not hesitated to engage in genocide. Here's why he likes this plan:

It prevents the jihadists from being able to claim victory over America, and begins to restore America's prestige, power and influence in the region and the world.

If that makes sense to you, please seek psychiatric help immediately.

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Shrillary Advocates Open Homosexuality in the Military

Maybe we should retreat from Iraq after all — before Hillary Clinton becomes the Commander in Chief. Shrillary may not know much about the military, but she does know that she wants it staffed in part by openly homosexual servicemen.

Shrillary is also letting it be known that she believes in the global warming hoax, and plans to respond to it by crippling the economy with emissions caps. Oh, and she wants to revive HillaryCare.

If the American people elect a Dem from the current crop, we will deserve the disastrous consequences — or at least, some of us will.

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Cheryl Crow's Carbon Footprint Almost As Large As Her Liquor Bill

Talk about a carbon footprint. Check out the transportation requirements of singer Cheryl Crow, who insists we curtail our toilet paper usage so as to save the planet from global warming:

• Three tractor trailers.
• Four buses.
• Six cars.

Yet I'm sure Ms. Crow makes up for all the emissions by neglecting to clean herself properly after using the bathroom.

Even more impressive are her alcohol requirements for each show, which include 12 bottles of Grolsch, six bottles of local beer, a bottle of cabernet, a bottle of merlot, and depending on the day of the week, a bottle of either Makers Mark bourbon, Bombay gin, Courvoisier brandy, "Good quality Champagne," silver tequila, or Absolut vodka.

I wonder which of these inspired her concept of the removable "dining sleeve."

Hat tip: Crush Liberalism.

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Saturday Night Live Hits New Low in Pro-Terrorist Propaganda

To get an idea of what the hyperbolic propaganda on al-Jazeera might look like if Muslim culture were as vulgar as our entertainment industry, just refer to Saturday Night Live, which recently ran a cartoon featuring an evil robot created by Dick Cheney that persecutes put-upon Gitmo terrorists by shocking their genitals, urinating on them, and sexually molesting them.

The robot also flushes Korans down the toilet, reminding us that inflammatory lies propagated by recklessly anti-American outlets like Newsweek live on even after they have been retracted.

Hot Air has video.

Hat tip: NewsBusters.

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Sheryl Crow Campaigns Against Toilet Paper

The list of things liberal elite moonbats want us to go without in the name of the global warming hoax keeps growing. Bubble-brained pop star Cheryl Crow is now crusading against toilet paper.

Proving that there is no aspect of our personal lives libs don't feel entitled to control, Crow says we should use

one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required.

If you see liberals feverishly scratching the seats of their pants, it could be an indication they're taking this directive seriously.

Crow just wrapped up a tour around the country on a biodiesel-powered bus with fellow moonbat Laurie David, with whom she has been preaching global warming gospel. Apparently intrinsic to this gospel is Crow's belief that forsaking toilet paper will improve the weather.

Being of the liberal persuasion, she naturally wants her bizarre dictates imposed by force:

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

Crow also disapproves of napkins. She wants them to be replaced with clothes that feature a detachable "dining sleeve." I'm not making this up.

Even Cheryl Crow can be humble:

Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating.

As with many a moonbat, it is actually her mind itself that is in the earliest stages of development.

Hat tip: Kim & Her Friends Explain It All

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April 22, 2007

Gavin Newsom Obstructs National Defense, Law Enforcement

As America awaits the inevitable follow-up to 9/11, and the illegal immigration crisis spirals out of control, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is rising to the occasion — by promising that no San Francisco employee will participate in immigration enforcement.

Secure in the knowledge that sedition and treason are not considered crimes when indulged in by Democrats, Newsom crowed:

I will not allow any of my department heads or anyone associated with this city to cooperate in any way shape or form with these raids. We are a sanctuary city, make no mistake about it.

"These raids" is a reference to the federal government's lackluster attempts to defend the country from foreign invasion. At best, the invasion will continue to result in an explosively growing alien underclass that already represents a crippling burden on public services and will inevitably lead to severe social strife. At worst, the invaders pouring into our country will include the next Mohammed Atta et al., possibly along with their nuclear weapons.

But that's not Gavin Newsom's problem. All he has to worry about is getting reelected by the same irresponsible moonbats who gave us Nancy Pelosi. He's on the right track.

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Dell Plants Virtual Trees in Alternate Reality

In an indication that environmentalism's divorce from reality is now nearly complete, Dell is exploiting Earth Day by planting virtual trees in a video game called Second Life.

The truly gullible can pay Dell to plant real trees so as to offset the carbon footprint left by planting the make-believe trees in the video game.

Hat tips: Watts Up With That?, Silicon Valley Sleuth, on a tip from Lou.

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European Parliament Versus Pro-Family Conference

The politically correct bureauweenies who make up the European Parliament don't like it one bit that Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey plans to speak at the World Congress of Families in Warsaw next month.

Nineteen parliamentarians signed a letter to Sauerbrey, demanding she stay home on the grounds that the Congress is being organized by the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society, which is deemed to promote "extremist and intolerant views" — in other words, it advocates the preservation of civilization.

The high-ranking moonbats find it unconscionable that Sauerbrey would appear at the same event as Steven Mosher, whose Population Research Institute has acknowledged the ongoing "demographic destruction" of Europe by encroaching Muslim hordes. They quote PRI:

These immigrants, particularly Muslim ones in Europe, are too many and too culturally different from their new countries' populations to assimilate quickly, and they are contributing to the cultural suicide of these nations as they commit demographic suicide.

No reasonable person disputes this is true, but how gauche to say it out loud!

Also attending the Congress will be Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo of the Pontifical Council for the Family, who has suggested that abstinence is more effective at controlling the spread of AIDS than condoms — another undeniably true political faux pas.

Still more outrageous is the fact that the Congress will be held in Poland, whose President Lech Kaczynski once refused to meet with the organizers of a gay privileges parade, and even went so far as to observe that they were "perverts."

Homosexual "marriage" is also at issue. The Euroweenies are appalled that

Many speakers have themselves or represent organizations that have expressed outright hostility to recognizing any family unit that does not include a married couple and their offspring.

Of course they believe in freedom of speech — but…

We have no problem with people expressing beliefs and convictions that we do not share. In a free society, that is right and just. However, we do object when foreign government officials lend support to such views, especially when platforms are used to denigrate and attack those with whom they disagree.

You know, like the way they themselves denigrate and attack the people taking part in the World Congress of Families by attempting to characterize them as hate-filled extremists.

Sauerbrey is unlikely to help the EU shut out the Congress, since she knows what it's like to get the cold shoulder for attempting to uphold morality in an immoral world. She was appointed to her State Department position after coming within 6,000 votes of becoming Governor of Maryland. However, her recess appointment will expire at the end of the year. Congressional Dems object that she's not a fan of abortion.

On a tip from Fellowes.

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Russian Journalists Ordered to Portray USA As the Enemy

Russian journalists have a ways to go to catch up to their Western colleagues. They still need to be told to portray the USA as the enemy, as employees of the Russian News Service recently were by their new managers, who are pals of strongman Vladimir Putin.

Journalists were also told that at least 50% of news about Russia must be positive. Lucky thing American journalists aren't asked to think of positive things to say about their country. At least it would make for shorter newscasts.

On a tip from Eoin.

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Parking Is Wrong

By now we're all aware that driving our cars is a sin against Gaia. But now moonbats want us to feel guilty even about parking them. Steven Landsburg complains on Slate:

It's crazy to feel guilty about dirtying the atmosphere without feeling even guiltier about clogging city streets. […]

Even if you never drive into the city, you're (at least indirectly) still part of the problem. Suburban shopping malls almost everywhere are required to have vastly oversized parking lots that are never close to full. You might not realize this because you tend to search for spots in the close-in areas that are full. But the outlying areas sit idle, precluding the use of that land for anything of social value.

Landsburg offers a typical liberal solution to the evil known as parking: make it less available and force people to pay more for it. That way we peasants would be forced to ride buses, while liberal elite environmentalists fly overhead in their jets.

On a tip from MoleOnABull.

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April 21, 2007

Big Brother's Eye in the Sky

Hugo Chavez has finally come up with a solution to the rampant crime that helps make Venezuela nearly uninhabitable under his regime. The rotting capital Caracas will be patrolled with zeppelins, which will spy upon the citizens below.

Three blimps costing $465,000 apiece will beam images back to the authorities. Unfortunately they will not be much use at night, which is when street crime tends to occur. But at least they will remind everyone that Uncle Hugo is watching. A Venezuelan lawyer who was afraid to give his name commented:

It reminds me of 1984, of George Orwell. This is Big Brother. It is not going to solve crime.

A more constructive approach to solving Venezuela's crime crisis would be lightening up on gun control. Gun ownership is severely restricted. As a result of law-abiding citizens having been disarmed, Venezuela has the world's highest rate of death by firearms.

On tips from MB and V the K.

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Lunch With a Moonbat

How would you like to eat a meal with a genuine Tinseltown liberal? This marvelous experience could be yours, if you're willing to pay. The current bid for lunch with environmentalist movie star Harrison Ford is $10,201.00. Proceeds will go to the E.O. Wilson fund, which evidently plans to save penguins from the global warming hoax.

Ford makes $15 million apiece for his movies, which recently tend to be flops. Hopefully he'll pick up the tab at the restaurant.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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URI College Republicans Derecognized

University of Rhode Island's College Republicans decided to shine a little light on the hypocrisy of academia's race-obsessed bean-counters by satirically offering a $100 grant to a white, heterosexual, American male student. Applicants were asked to respond to the following:

In 100 words or less, what does being a white heterosexual American male mean to you? As a white heterosexual American male, what adversities have you had to deal with and overcome?

The student senate was not amused. First it demanded that the College Republicans apologize for expressing their point of view. When the apology was not forthcoming, the group was officially derecognized.

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EU Campaign Against Freedom of Speech Threatens Bloggers

As noted earlier, the European Union has declared war on the concept of free speech with its outrageous Racism and Xenophobia Directive, which displays "Europe's common moral values" by making it a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison to question official versions of historical events, or to say or write anything that dhimmified moonbats choose to regard as xenophobic. This is expected to have a disastrous effect on the dissemination of information occurring outside of officially sanctified establishment channels — especially blogs.

Observes Chris Mounsey, who runs The Devil's Kitchen:

There is potential for this to have worldwide application. Free speech is at the centre of blogging. Part of the reason bloggers can tell the truth is because it is difficult to pin them down. This law tries to do it.

Most appalling is the sheer arrogance of EU bureauweenies who want to impose their leprous ideology even beyond Europe's borders. European bloggers would be subject to punishment even if their blogs are hosted in a free country like the USA.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Imposing Gay "Marriage" on Christians

In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, far from the militant moonbats so prevalent in Ontario, civil marriage commissioner Orville Nichols refused to perform a homosexual "marriage" on the grounds that it violated his Christian faith. Naturally there is going to be a price to be paid for putting principle above political correctness.

Although Nichols referred the gays to another commissioner who performed the service the day originally requested, Human Rights Commission lawyer Janice Gingell wants Nichols to be forced to pay the lovebirds $5,000, apparently just to show who's boss.

In addition, he will probably be hit with court costs. Deranged by moonbattery, the system stacks the deck in favor of complainants, who are not asked to pay any expenses even in the unlikely event that they lose, whereas the defendant is often forced to pay the costs for both sides.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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April 20, 2007

Yale Bans Stage Weapons

The moonbats running Yale University have responded to the Virginia Tech massacre in a manner so asinine, only the intellectual elite could have thought of it. They are censoring the use of weapons in stage productions.

Students staging a production of "Red Noses" found out about the ban the same day their show was scheduled to open. At first Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg wanted weapons banned completely, but she compromised by letting them use weapons that are obviously fake.

Brandon Berger, who must now use a silly-looking wooden sword, complains that his part has been changed from an "evil, errant knight to a petulant child."

But freedom of artistic expression is a small price to pay to have the world made safe at last from homicidal maniacs.

On a tip from V the K.

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Sherwood Ross: Virginia Tech Parents Have No Right to Grieve

If anything could be more contemptible than a psychotic loser who murders 32 people on a maniacal rampage, it would be a comparably psychotic moonbat like Sherwood Ross, who proclaims that the slain students' parents have no right to grieve because they're American:

The American people, including the families of the murdered Virginia Tech innocents, have collective blood-guilt on their hands. […] How many of those parents in the audience hearing the President's words had elected to Congress men and women who voted for lax laws on gun ownership? How many of those parents in the audience had also voted for legislators who backed the president's illegal invasion of Iraq? Are we, as a nation, too obtuse to grasp the connection between our "gun culture" policy at home and our militarist policy abroad that murders and mutilates human beings at every turn? […]

Who is responsible for the killings in Iraq except the same now bereaved parents of the murdered students at Virginia Tech? […]

The same parents who weep for their children might consider that they and their neighbors are also spending a half trillion dollars a year so that the Pentagon, just over the horizon from Virginia Tech, can wage a war that is snuffing out the lives of children of other parents just like their own. […]

All across America, people who attend church and regard themselves as "good" people, such as the bereaved at Virginia Tech, are working in the plants that make atomic bombs and warplanes and napalm and cluster bombs and are creating new, demonical designs of germ warfare and space-based weapons so vile and horrible they defy description.

America as a nation has become an organized nightmare. Yesterday, the nation woke up to the pain of the kind of killing it has been inflicting widely around the world since its fleets of bombers roared out to destroy Dresden, since it leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki, since it laid waste to Vietnam, since it overthrew Chile, and now since it has invaded two Middle Eastern nations in its thirst for oil.

Ross clearly has mental problems and lives in fabricated reality of grudges and delusions. But as with Cho Seung-Hui, that's no excuse.

Hat tip: Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

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Manny Lopez Reports on Venezuela

Detroit News editorial columnist Manny Lopez knows Venezuela well, and recently returned to see what leftist goon Hugo Chavez has been doing to the country. An interview with him at A Second Hand Conjecture is highly educational. Below are a few of his observations.

On propaganda, crime, and confiscated revenue:

Chávez has spent millions plastering the country with propaganda. "Socialism, patriotism or death" banners hang throughout Caracas as well as a litany of "death to American imperialism" murals.

There also is an unquestionable concern about crime among locals and visitors (though there aren't nearly as many tourists as there once was). Chávez has created such an atmosphere of entitlement among the truly poor that some now think they have a mandate to take what they want and redistribute it to themselves and their families. And why not? Though there is a decent police presence, I'm told they apparently don't act on theft or assault charges that often.

Ironically, the socialists are so caught up in the so-called revolution and the attack on middle and upper class Venezuelans, that they don't stop and think about why Chávez hasn't significantly redistributed the tremendous amount of oil money he's raking in. Since he took office the number of truly poor is the same, but he's confiscated more oil money than the three previous governments combined.

On the media:

It is going to get increasingly difficult for the opposition to have a voice because Chávez is shutting down anyone (Radio Caracas Television, for example) who questions or opposes him. And he pulls the puppet strings of his media without fail. Watch some of his "interviews" with them and he rarely allows them to speak. No one challenges his answers or his asinine statements.

What's worse, he's got plenty of American media personalities and pseudo-celebrities hoodwinked. Witness the inane interview Barbara Walters did of him recently. She's a joke and her interview proved it. It was painfully embarrassing to watch and she never asked why the overall poverty is the same despite his "socialism" or why he wants to shut the free press, etc.

On stooges in our Democrat Party who have played along with Chavez's heating oil propaganda stunt:

Can you say "lapdogs"? That's what Joe Kennedy, U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano, a New York Democrat, are when it comes to home heating oil and Chávez. I'm being kind with that description. All three ignore the outright threats and insults that Chávez has issued to the United States and its president and government. The shallowness of their character is astounding, especially since it's motivated by contempt for President George W. Bush and our own democratically elected government.

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Shrillary's Anti-Caucasian Co-Chair

Just when I thought nothing Dems could do would appall me anymore, Hillary Clinton has managed to achieve yet another new low by hiring Raul Yzaguirre, former president of the National Council of La Raza, to co-chair her campaign in an effort to pander for Hispanic votes.

Needless to say, this is a pretty good indication that Shrillary Rotten has no plans whatsoever to defend our country from the illegal immigrant invasion. La Raza is "one of the prime advocates for illegal immigrants" in the USA, according to Ira Mehlman of FAIR, who notes that the organization has done its best (or worst)

to make sure that laws against illegal immigration were not enforced and that illegal immigrants themselves paid no consequence for having violated the law, and [La Raza members] have been lobbyists for programs like amnesty [and] all sorts of other benefits for people who are in the country illegally.

But that Dems would put the interests of illegal foreign invaders ahead of those of American citizens will come as news to no one by now. We can expect no better even of many Republicans — President Bush most definitely included.

What's really disturbing here is that La Raza ("The Race") isn't just an advocacy group for illegal aliens — it is as explicitly racist as the Ku Klux Klan, and closely associated with the even more openly fanatical Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), whose platform calls for demographic conquest of the southwestern third of the USA, followed by an ethnic cleansing campaign to drive out anyone lacking the correct ancestry. Their motto:

For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.

No one could be more hostile to America and Americans. Even al-Qaeda would let us keep our own country if we converted to Islam. Shrillary's friends hate us right down to our DNA.

Hat tip: Curtains…

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Jim McGreevey to Teach Ethics

At least the libs running academia have a sense of humor — even if the joke is on those paying tuition. James McGreevey, the corrupt former Governor of New Jersey who put his homosexual love interest — a foreign national — in charge of the state's security, who publicly betrayed his family, and who followed it all up by moving in with a rich gay sugar daddy and suing his poor wife for custody of their 5-year-old daughter and even child support, will be teaching ethics at a New Jersey public college.

Via Blogmeister USA, here's where ethics expert McGreedy has been shacking up with his latest gay lover:

Here's where his wife lives — at least until she has to sell the place to pay legal bills and child support due to McCreepy's appalling greed:

Kean University in Union, New Jersey has seen fit to hire McCreepy as an "executive in residence," which means he is both a teacher and a consultant. Since it's a public school, it also means he can keep putting in time that counts toward his state pension.

Observes State Republican Chairman Tom Wilson:

Jim McGreevey teaching law and ethics is a little bit like Doctor Kevorkian teaching health maintenance.

Along similar lines, V the K wonders:

What's Next, Don Imus hired as Diversity Coordinator? Mark Foley hired as Director of Youth Programs? Cynthia McKinney for Director of Campus Security? Rudy Giuliani as a Marriage Counselor?

But McCreepazoid's friend Raymond Lesniak, a Dem State Senator, comes to his defense with this spirited endorsement:

The guy wasn't a complete failure. I wouldn't mind going to the class myself if I were a student.

Why not attend anyway? It's never too late for New Jersey politicians to learn about ethics.

At least now we have some idea how moonbat morality is passed on from one generation to another.

Hat tip: A Blog For All.

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April 19, 2007

Moonbat Morality in the EU and the Entertainment Industry

The European Union continues to lurch forward toward a bizarre, dystopian future in which it is a criminal offense to criticize your own society's enemies.

Any criticism of the ongoing Islamic conquest of Europe will be subject to a 1–3-year prison term if dhimmified bureauweenies choose to construe it as expressing hatred "against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, color, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin."

This outrage against the concept of freedom of expression reflects "Europe's common moral values," according to EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini.

In other moonbat morality news, Drudge reports on rap star Cam'ron's proud announcement that he would not tell the police if he discovered a serial killer living next door because that would violate his "code of ethics." The entertainment industry that produced Cam'ron systematically injects this code of ethics into the developing minds of our youth.

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Harry Reid Surrenders to Al-Qaeda

Harry Reid, top Senate Dem, has taken it upon himself to surrender Iraq to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups on behalf of the USA. Quoth Reid:

I believe … that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week.

The extreme violence he refers to would be so ineffective as never to happen in the first place if terrorists didn't know they could count on their allies in the Democrat Party and mainstream media to serve as amplifiers.

Having surrendered, the only thing that remains is to bring our allegedly defeated troops home, so they can fight al-Qaeda in Manhattan instead of Baghdad. Reid and other Dems hope to accomplish this by tying funding of soldiers in the field to establishing a timetable for their retreat. If President Bush won't play ball, our troops can walk home when they run out of bullets.

Needless to say the United States will not be winning any wars with characters like Reid in positions of authority.

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Chavez Imposes "Socialist Formation" Classes

Anyone still in denial that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has been positioning himself as a totalitarian dictator might be interested to learn that his government will require workers to spend four hours per week in "socialist formation" classes.

Employers are required to form "Bolivarian Work Councils" to run courses on the job. The point of the classes is to speed the transition from economic freedom to slavery by teaching the official government version of Venezuelan history and "basic tools for analyzing reality, the environment, the role of the state and socialist scheme."

The classes will start with public sector jobs, then be imposed on the crippled remnants of private business, after Chavez issues a new law by decree that will establish reeducation guidelines.

Reeducation. Chavez's fellow socialist Pol Pot was so fond of the concept, he built reeducation centers all over Cambodia:

Ordinary people were forced to march to agricultural reeducation centers all around the country. Families with sick members had to carry their sick members or drag them in their hospital beds. Because the Khmer Rouge were strict Maoists, they wanted to destroy all social divisions down to even the family unit. The Khmer Rouge wanted to purify Khmer society and bring the people back to the old way, before they were invaded by the west. Every one was put to work in the rice patties. Thousands died from overwork and malnutrition. Countless more were killed by the Khmer Rouge effort to eliminate all western influences.

If Chavez has something similar in mind for Venezuela (and Pol Pot is hardly the only precedent), the USA had better be sure not to put a stop to it. I'm sure the UN — not to mention the Democrat Party — would highly disapprove of such unilateral imperialism.

On a tip from V the K.

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Some Are Learning From Virginia Tech Massacre

At least some people are sadder but also wiser in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre. In Tennessee, a House panel voted to repeal a state law forbidding handguns on government-owned property.

As Republican State Rep. Frank Niceley explains:

I think the recent Virginia disaster — or catastrophe or nightmare or whatever you want to call it — has woken up a lot of people to the need for having guns available to law-abiding citizens.

Next time a misanthropic maniac goes on a rampage, it will probably be somewhere other than Tennessee. It's just not as fun when the victims aren't victims because they shoot back.

On a tip from V the K.

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April 18, 2007

Environmentalism's Genocidal Agenda

By now you're probably wondering just what we would have to do to satisfy environmentalists that we are not imposing on Mother Nature. The answer is: cease to exist.

Ric Oberlink of Californians for Population Stabilization cuts to the chase by proclaiming that the emission of gases alleged to cause global warming is a result of human activity in general, "like most environmental problems." Forcing people to use overpriced light bulbs will get us nowhere. What we need to do, according to Oberlink, is reduce the human population by half.

If we've got to get rid of billions of humans, who should go first? Since we are dealing with moonbats, the answer should be obvious: Americans. After all, we are "by far the most voracious consumers and the greatest producers of greenhouse gases per capita of any nation on earth."

At least they only want half the human population gone. Eric Pianka, a professor at University of Texas, is shooting for 90%.

Pianka is hoping disease can do the job. Others want us to stop reproducing. If these people had the power, it's likely they would resort to more direct methods. In the Third Reich, it was known as the Final Solution. Randy Alcorn, a senior writing fellow with Californians for Population Stabilization, calls it "prudent population reduction policies."

No ideology ever devised could be more profoundly antihuman — and therefore, more evil — than modern environmentalism.

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Olbermann Manages to Blame Bush For Virginia Tech Massacre

Guess who barking moonbat Keith Olbermann blames for the Virginia Tech massacre? Hint: the answer isn't Cho Seung-Hui:

At least one of the weapons used by the shooter is believed, as we said, to be a nine millimeter semi-automatic pistol […] with a clip designed to hold more than 10 shots. Clips like those were banned under the Assault Weapons Law of 1994, but Congress and President Bush allowed that law to expire more than two years ago.

By Olbie's alternative to logic, the massacre could never have claimed so many lives if George Bush in his bloodthirstiness, along with his henchmen in the Republican Congress we had two years ago, hadn't allowed the sale of high-capacity magazines, since it never would have occurred to Seung-Hui to remove an empty clip and replace it with a full one.

However, Confederate Yankee begs to differ that the 1994 had anything to do with high-capacity magazines:

High-capacity magazines have been around for more than half a century, and the sale of high-capacity magazines was not impacted whatsoever by the 1994 Crime Bill. These magazines were freely and commercially available, both in retail stores and online, without interruption, for the 10-year life of the ban, the decades preceding it, and afterward.

Apparently Olbie chooses to believe what he reads at ABC News. He should know better.

Here's video of Olbie once again making a fool of himself, via Olbermann Watch:

Hat tip: Hot Air, on a tip from Byron.

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Japanese Mayor Shot Despite Rigid Gun Laws

Maybe liberal politicians have no qualms about forcibly disarming us because it's only the little people who will get killed by maniacs like Cho Seung-Hui. Politicians — and pro–gun control entertainment industry moonbats like Rosie O'Donnell — have armed bodyguards to keep them safe. However, this didn't help Iccho Ito, Mayor of Nagasaki, who was shot to death yesterday by organized crime chief Tetsuya Shiroo.

Handguns are strictly banned in Japan. Unsurprisingly, criminals don't seem to honor the ban. This is the second time a Mayor of Nagasaki has been shot.

On a tip from V the K.

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Someone Besides Imus Himself Really Was Hurt by His Infamous Remark

In fairness to Barack Hussein Obama, who compares the Virginia Tech massacre to Don Imus saying "nappy-headed ho's," it's not true that Imus' remark didn't actually hurt anyone. One person was injured quite badly: New Jersey's Democrat Governor Jon Corzine, who was traveling in an SUV at 91 mph without his seatbelt when a crash resulted in his serious injury, was on his way to host a meeting be