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August 31, 2007

Swedish Moonbats Suppress Knowledge of Communist Genocide

There's a reason 90% of Swedish students aged 15–20 don't know what a gulag is, despite living in the neighborhood of the former Soviet Union. Swedish moonbats openly hold that knowledge of communist atrocities must be suppressed, lest people develop conservative views:

A recent opinion piece in Biblioteksbladet magazine (a periodical for Swedish librarians) denounced the government's plan to spread knowledge to students about the horrors of communism.

In the article, two school librarians write that informing students about the crimes of communism would be wrong as it would risk making the pupils' views more right-wing.

Kjell Albin Abrahamsson, who worked as a foreign correspondent in communist countries, was enraged by the piece, noting that by its own admission the Russian government killed 32 million "counterrevolutionaries" during the Soviet era. (The total number of people killed by their own communist governments during the 20th Century is estimated at over 100 million.)

Nonetheless:

Support for communism, both hidden and visible, is still quite prevalent among many groups of intellectuals, such as journalists, librarians and those writing in the culture pages of the daily papers. Indeed, outright supporters of communism can be found not only in the Swedish Left Party but also in the Green Party and in the ranks of the influential Social Democrats.

One symptom of this tendency is the widely believed myth among Swedes that Cuba is a relatively prosperous welfare state, offering a decent quality of life and fantastic healthcare to its citizens. Few bother to question the official statistics from a communist country where thousands of citizens have lost their lives whilst attempting to escape on rafts to the United States. Cuba might have gone from being the richest country in Central American to being the second poorest due to Castro's rule — but this has not stopped Swedish intelligentsia from spreading a positive view of his policies.

Similarly, Swedish journalists seem more interested in pointing out that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is a morally superior socialist standing up to the vile Americans, than looking at his dubious moves towards a socialist planned economy and authoritarian rule.

Moonbats who continue to advocate communism aren't slow learners who haven't yet caught on that their ideology invariably leads to oppression, misery, and death. They know what they want: evil.

For evil to triumph, truth must be suppressed. This is why leftists flock to careers in journalism and academia that put them in positions to keep the good in ignorance, the better to corrupt them.

On a tip from Freedom Now.

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:02 PM | Comments (11)

Brian De Palma Throws Anti-American Propaganda Into Overdrive

Hollyweird has-been Brian De Palma has ratcheted up the propaganda in an admitted attempt to help bring about an American defeat in Iraq.

His outrage Redacted has managed to reduce European audiences to tears by graphically exploiting the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by criminal elements in the US military.

As even De Palma surely knows, the terrorists he would have us surrender to commit comparable crimes on a daily basis as part of a deliberate policy. But you won't see any movies about al-Qaeda torture houses, because those wouldn't advance De Palma's stated goal of causing us to lose the war.

Needless to say, if treasonous moonbats like De Palma succeed, there will be much more brutality in Iraq, not less. But brutality is to be exploited, not avoided. The objective is to bring about the defeat and humiliation of America.

Brian De Palma and his kind are no less the enemy than any of the al-Qaeda terrorists on whose behalf they propagandize.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:04 AM | Comments (19)

More Guns, Fewer Criminals

We've all heard the expression "more guns, less crime." Maybe that should be amended to "more guns, fewer criminals":

In Baltimore this year, about 91% of murder victims had criminal records. In Philadelphia, it's 75%; in Newark, 85%. Over the past two years in Milwaukee, 77% of murder victims had an average of almost 12 arrests.

As a professor at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, David Kennedy is able to see through media spin:

The notion that these (murders) are random bolts of lightning, which is the commonly held image, is not the reality.

Here's another stat:

Recent homicide records show about 97% of Baltimore's murder suspects have prior arrests.

Needless to say, criminals will use guns to kill each other whether law-abiding citizens are allowed to defend themselves or not. The cherished liberal idea that normal people exercising their Second Amendment rights leads to a significant number of innocents being murdered is absurd.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:10 AM | Comments (6)

Sutch an Idiot: Roman Catholic Priest Wallows in Self-Ridicule For Gaia

In case you doubted that enviromoonbattery is a religion:

Forgotten to recycle any newspapers or tin cans recently? Feeling guilty because you neglected to carbon offset your flight to somewhere, anywhere, outside England this summer?

The Roman Catholic Church is at hand with a new line in "green confessions" to help eco-sinners to find forgiveness.

Dom Anthony Sutch, the Benedictine monk who resigned as head of Downside School to become a parish priest in Suffolk, will be at the county's Waveney Greenpeace festival this weekend to hear eco-confessions in what is thought to be the first dedicated confessional booth of its kind.

Vested in a green chasuble-style garment made from recycled curtains, and in a booth constructed of recycled doors, he will hear the sins of of those who have not recycled the things they ought to have done and who have consumed the things they ought not to have done.

If the Catholic Church is to retain its credibility, blasphemous fools like Sutch need to be defrocked.

On a tip from the Matterhorn.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:46 AM | Comments (8)

Moonbat Judge Decides Iowa Will Have Homosexual "Marriage"

Polk County, Iowa Judge Robert Hanson doesn't give a hoot what the law says or voters want. Having decided there is nothing so sacred about marriage that it can't be applied to perverse same-sex relationships, he has commanded local officials to process marriage licenses for homosexual couples.

Longstanding state law specifies that marriage is between a man and a woman. But liberal judges don't need laws when they have their own decrees.

The county plans to appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court. As always, it's all in the hands of judges in the end.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:41 AM | Comments (2)

August 30, 2007

Global Warming Could Cause Cougar Attacks

As the global warming hoax begins its inexorable slide into well-deserved obscurity, its proponents are becoming increasingly shrill about the dangers of not taking them seriously. The latest menace: global warming could cause cougar attacks.

The logic is twisted like this:

Warmer winters kill off fewer deer, elk, and moose. This means more prey for cougars, whose numbers should grow correspondingly. More cougars, more cougar attacks.

Just this week a dog was attacked by a cougar in Canmore, Alberta. Let that lay heavy on your conscience if you're not driving a Pious.

Even more terrifying than the cougars is the vicious cycle created when the abundant moose further exacerbate global warming with their farts.

On a tip from Texan.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:36 PM | Comments (17)

Jimmy Carter Praises the Breck Girl

John Edwards may be too slimy and hypocritical even for Democrat Party apparatchiks, but not for the grand daddy of moonbats, Jimmy Carter, who calls the Breck Girl "a candidate whom I really admire."

I rest my case against John Edwards.

However, Jimmy the Dhimmi refrained from making an official endorsement. Maybe he doesn't want to cross his soul mate Fidel Castro, who is backing a Shrillary/Osama Obama ticket.

The last horse Carter backed was the visibly insane Howard "Dr Demento" Dean in 2004. For the country's sake, I hope his current pick sinks as quickly.

Unfortunately Carter's endorsement isn't the kiss of death it ought to be. Although his relentless propagandizing on behalf of terrorists and dictators and against his own country makes him arguably the most profoundly despicable individual on the public stage, he enjoys a 81% approval rating among Democrats.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:51 AM | Comments (7)

PBS Had Nation of Islam Vet Nixed Documentary

PBS suppressed the documentary "Islam Versus Islamists: Voices From the Muslim Center" — originally intended to appear as part of their "America at a Crossroads" series — when it turned out that conservatives had been allowed to participate in its creation, and it failed to present Islam in a suitably favorable light. Now we learn that PBS ran the film past the ultra-radical Nation of Islam before it was deep-sixed.

Nation of Islam is renowned for spreading a psychotic and viciously racist ideology that holds that the white man is "the devil" and was created by a black evil scientist, just as PBS is known for spending taxpayers' money to propagandize on behalf of America's enemies, both foreign and domestic.

Director/producer Martyn Burke complained in an email to PBS officials:

Is there anyone who understands that no functioning journalist — or network, or publication can ever allow this kind of outrageous action? This utterly undermines any journalistic independence. … It virtually hands the story to the subject and allows them to become an active party in shaping it. That is advertising, not journalism. Is that not obvious?

PBS moonbats were down on the film from the moment they realized that producer Frank Gaffney and consultant Alex Alexiev are conservatives. Burke was actually asked, "don't you check into the politics of the people you work with?"

As Gaffney reports:

What began as a struggle to prevent people like me from playing in the left's sandbox at PBS mutated into a concerted effort to ensure that a film that told the story of anti-Islamist Muslims never made it on the air. […] There's no doubt that part of what was going on at PBS with our film was a naked antipathy toward conservatives.

The politically homogenous PBS execs ironically condemned the film as a "one-sided narrative" because it reached the conclusion, as Burke puts it, that moderate Muslims "are speaking out in a vacuum and often at great peril and always with great difficultly" — although not with as much difficulty as non-moonbats trying to speak out on PBS.

FNC presents the story behind the documentary PBS made you pay $675,000 for but doesn't want you to see.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:10 AM | Comments (1)

Not Even Dem Party Leaders Can Stomach John Edwards

According to Robert Novak:

Edwards now is massively unpopular among party regulars who neither like nor trust him.

How can anyone fail to like and trust a cheesy trial lawyer? Yet even leftist pit bull James Carville is cooling on the Breck Girl, whose Marxist rhetoric has been backed up by $400 haircuts, $500,000 hedge fund salaries, and a $50,000 honorarium for giving a speech about poverty.

However, if Edwards scores a big win in Iowa, he could actually be nominated, whether party leaders like him or not. It's not as if the Dems have anyone much better to offer.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:09 AM | Comments (5)

Al Gore's "Consensus" Consists of Under 50%

Here's a truth the Goracle will find inconvenient: according to a new survey, less than half of scientists are still buying the threadbare global warming hoax:

Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus."

The figures are even more shocking when one remembers the watered-down definition of consensus here. Not only does it not require supporting that man is the "primary" cause of warming, but it doesn't require any belief or support for "catastrophic" global warming. In fact of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results.

But even if global warming is crumbling, the libs still have Larry Craig playing footsie in the men's room, so they won't get stuck without issues.

Hat tip: Slapstick Politics.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:08 AM | Comments (4)

August 29, 2007

MoveOn.org Gunning For Brian Baird

The heresy of erstwhile peacenik Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) will not go unpunished. As you might recall, his willingness to admit that the surge is working and that a timetable for surrender would be counterproductive created a firestorm at a town meeting in his district. Now MoveOn.org is gunning for him by running a campaign ad against him on his home turf.

Liberals aren't just invested in American defeat. They are committed to it to the extent that any Democrat who doesn't do his part to bring it about will be forced to walk the plank. It would not be the least unfair to describe the vermin at MoveOn.org as traitors — but they are not far outside today's Democrat mainstream.

On a tip from Nanc.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:50 PM | Comments (1)

Morning News Shows Push Dem Candidates

This doesn't come as much of a surprise:

In covering the 2008 presidential campaign, the network morning news shows are "overwhelmingly focused on Democrats, [and] they are actively promoting the Democrats' liberal agenda," according to a study released today by the conservative Media Research Center (MRC).

The study examined 517 campaign segments on the morning news shows broadcast on ABC, CBS and NBC in the first seven months of 2007. It found that the shows covered Democrats "nearly twice as much" as Republicans and framed interview questions from a liberal perspective most of the time.

It's becoming clear why housewives who watch too much daytime TV tend to recite DNC talking points whenever politics come up.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:36 PM | Comments (3)

Big Shrillary Donor Is a Fugitive

A little update on Norman Hsu, the NYC businessman who apparently has been illegally pouring money into Hillary Clinton's pocket in other people's names:

For the last 15 years, California authorities have been trying to figure out what happened to a businessman named Norman Hsu, who pleaded no contest to grand theft, agreed to serve up to three years in prison and then seemed to vanish.

"He is a fugitive," Ronald Smetana, who handled the case for the state attorney general, said in an interview. "Do you know where he is?"

Hsu, it seems, has been hiding in plain sight, at least for the last three years.

Since 2004, one Norman Hsu has been carving out a prominent place of honor among Democratic fundraisers. He has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions into party coffers, much of it earmarked for presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Hsu and his associates have also given money to Dianne Feinstein, Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy, Barack Hussein Obama, and Joseph Biden. Smells like a culture of corruption, doesn't it?

On a tip from Byron.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:21 PM | Comments (7)

Castro Gives Thumbs Up to Shrillary/Osama Obama

Here's some news to break the Breck Girl's heart: Cuba's communist dictator Fidel Castro, one of the last living(?) remnants of Stalinism, calls a Hillary Clinton/Barack Hussein Obama ticket "apparently unbeatable."

Castro's good feelings toward Clintons were cemented by this:

But Castro's favorite POTUS since he took power is useful idiot par excellence Jimmy Carter.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:42 PM | Comments (8)

Sheriff Obstructs Immigration Enforcement

A program called 287(g) is part of the Immigration and Nationality Act. It trains local law enforcement to run the fingerprints of foreign criminals through a national database to see whether they are eligible for deportation. The program can prevent things like illegal aliens with criminal records executing girls on playgrounds.

But in Putnam County, New York, just within commuting distance of NYC, Sheriff Donald Smith refuses to participate — ignoring calls from the Fraternal Order of Police, which regards 287(g) as "a necessary tool."

According to a reliable source, Smith has no law enforcement training, experience, or certification. But he does know how to play politics with our security. He kicks his responsibilities down the road by claiming that the program would have "no significant impact" in Putnam, without immigration enforcement being taken seriously at the national level — something that obviously will never happen under the current administration.

Meanwhile, Putnam County continues to be overrun by perpetually drunken illegals who live in the woods, hang out at school playgrounds, and sometimes rape little girls.

Donald Smith: A bureauweenie in a cop's job.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:08 PM

Howard Administration Sticks Up For Western Values

If moonbattery does result in the complete obliteration of England, at least the torch of British civilization may remain lit in Australia, where efforts are being made to preserve the cultural values that define it.

John Howard's conservative government has introduced a new test for those immigrating to Australia, which stresses what Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews calls "the core values that have helped to create a society that is stable yet dynamic, cohesive yet diverse":

They are, for example, respect for the equal worth, dignity and freedom of the individual, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and secular government, freedom of association, support for parliamentary democracy and the rule of law, equality under the law, equality of men and women, equality of opportunity, peacefulness, tolerance, mutual respect and compassion for those in need.

Needless to say, most of these values do not sit well with Muslims. Having learned to parrot the rhetoric of their liberal allies, the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network squawks that values are subjective.

The test may be a token gesture, but even so it is a very encouraging sign in a political climate dominated by the cultural suicide the Left has been attempting to impose on Western Civilization with alarming success.

On a tip from Dave.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:50 AM | Comments (2)

Suicide Chumps Get Special Phones on Tappan Zee Bridge

Taxpayers are now providing special telephones on the Tappan Zee bridge, which crosses the Hudson River above New York City, so that suicide chumps can call the Lifeline suicide prevention hot line and get the attention they crave. State troopers would be sent to the phones.

There's no walkway on the Tappan Zee; the headcases just stop their cars in the middle of traffic and climb over the side. Some of them jump; some of them just clamber up and wait for the police to rescue them, as traffic is forced to back up literally for miles.

As someone who commuted for years across the Tappan Zee, I have a better suggestion than the phones: anvils that the loonies can attached to their necks so that they will sink quickly, avoiding the traffic nightmares caused by rescue attempts.

On a tip from Nanc.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:21 AM | Comments (6)

ICE Manpower For Immigration Enforcement Cut

In case the high-profile immigration raids conducted to help get the amnesty bill passed duped anyone into thinking the Bush Administration has any interest whatsoever in defending our borders, the Washington Times reports:

Immigration and Customs Enforcement criminal investigators will no longer be involved in immigration work site enforcement or conduct checks for illegal alien prisoners.

Almost 1,000 ICE Office of Investigations agents will be reassigned exclusively to customs investigations, reducing the manpower involved in detention and removal of illegal aliens to 4,000 nationwide, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times and interviews with ICE union representatives.

Michael W. Cutler, a retired US Immigration and Naturalization Services senior agent, states the obvious:

We have only been given the illusion of making a serious effort to enforce our immigration law.

It is truly nice to know we'll never be called upon to vote for W again, after the way he has betrayed this country by refusing to stop the illegal alien invasion.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:38 AM | Comments (1)

Breck Girl: Give Up SUVs

John Edwards, the zillionaire trial lawyer who lives in the largest and most expensive house in his county, has announced that we little people should sacrifice for Gaia by giving up our SUVs. Please deposit your forbidden vehicles in front of the Breck Girl's 28,200-square-foot mansion for disposal.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:54 AM | Comments (12)

Illegal Aliens Still Burying Arizona in Garbage

As mentioned earlier, when other countries' dregs pour across our undefended southern border, it isn't only our laws that get trashed. In Arizona, the beautiful Sonoran desert is disappearing beneath mountains of illegal alien trash.

Compliments of Varla, here are some shots of an "illegal super highway" south of Tucson:

On and on and on it goes: discarded backpacks, water containers, food wrappers, clothing, soiled diapers, you name it. Hey, if they had any respect for this country, they wouldn't be invading it.

If only Hollywood enviroweenies would outgrown their global warming posturing, they might be able to do some good by drawing attention to a real environmental crisis like this one.

That our government allows this is unforgivable.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:36 AM | Comments (11)

August 28, 2007

Moonbat Mommies Shun Diapers

The latest modern convenience to be shunned by moonbats: diapers.

Moonbat mommies have convinced themselves that they can train babies from birth to signal when they need the bathroom, so that diapers are never required.

Once the signal is received, mothers need to act:

Isis Arnesen, 33, of Boston, has a 14-week-old daughter, Lucia, who is diaper-free. She said it can be awkward to explain the process to people, such as when she helped Lucia relieve herself in a sink at a public restroom.

If trannies behaved like this, I'd be all for letting them have their own bathrooms.

According to experts at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, kids have little control over bodily functions at less than 18 months, and none at less than 12. But moonbats don't often let scientific reality interfere with their fads. The important thing is that diapers are alleged to have a negative environmental impact.

Imagine the environmental impact of one of these moms with her kid on a transcontinental flight. Chirps Erinn Klatt, who uses "a gentle hissing sound" to encourage her 13-month-old to piddle on the yard:

[B]eing able to travel without a big, bloated diaper bag is terrific!

Sitting in the next seat is probably not so terrific.

On tips from Byron and Matt.

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

Shrillary's Rich Friends in Daly City

In the working-class San Francisco suburb Daly City stands this modest home:

Who would guess that some of Hillary Clinton's most generous donors live inside? The house is home to the Paw family, headed by Chinese-American mailman William Paw. The paws have donated $200,000 to Democrat candidates since 2005, including $45,000 to Shrillary. This is particularly odd, considering that according to a local elections official, they only vote "sporadically."

Apparently, the money is actually coming from Norman Hsu, who has been making a fortune in the NYC apparel industry, but once listed the Paw house as his address. He is one of Shrillary's top fundraisers, having earned the title of "HillRaiser."

Campaign finance laws restrict how much individuals can give to political candidates. But when high rollers max out, they sometimes give money in someone else's name — illegally.

What does Hsu want for the cash? Here's a clue: he has publicly criticized trade policies that restrict importing goods from China. With wheels left ungreased, there may be more restrictions to come, in light of the recent high-profile problems with Chinese imports.

When Chinese money talks, Clintons have proved to be very good listeners.

On tips from Byron and Charles.

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:39 PM | Comments (5)

Journalistic Objectivity, Chicago Sun-Times Style

Here's the Chicago Sun-Times headline regarding Alberto Gonzales' resignation:

Maybe they should have held off on the partying until after they had the headline written. But then, it can't be all bad that the mainstream media — which is essentially the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party — is dropping its annoying pretense of objectivity.

Local halfwit Barack Obama offers this thoughtful quote:

I have long believed that Alberto Gonzales subverted justice to promote a political agenda.

Since the Sun-Times forgot to mention it, I'll point out that Gonzales was never credibly accused of doing anything illegal.

On a tip from Kevin.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:07 PM | Comments (5)

Dem Rep. Brian Baird Admits Surge Working: Constituents Enraged

If you're a Democrat with the integrity to acknowledge that our troops are succeeding in Iraq, steer clear of the moonbat-infested Portland suburb of Vancouver, Washington, where Dem Rep. Brian Baird made the mistake of admitting in front of a town hall meeting at Fort Vancouver High School that the surge is working.

Baird's pacifist credentials were in order: he voted against deposing Saddam Hussein and against the surge. He even has an 84% lifetime approval score from the ACLU. But then he told the audience that since the surge is working, we ought to give it time.

According to an eye-witness report, the crowd erupted in raucous applause when Jon Soltz of the PAC VoteVets.org accused Baird of being fooled "by a dog and pony show" on his recent visit to Iraq and of "providing cover for President Bush." Then Code Pink kook Zanne Joi "brought down the house" by denouncing Baird as "arrogant" and the war as only about "American oil profit."

Doris Holmes, active in local Democrat politics, screeched of Baird:

He lied. He's toeing the Bush party line. I can't believe he's a Democrat.

If a Congressman came back from Iraq with the last al-Qaeda terrorist's head on a platter, liberals would still holler in rage at any suggestion that America isn't losing. Yet the soldiers they despise are over there risking their lives to preserve the cushy lifestyles of these vermin, so that they can live comfortably inside their bubbles of anti-American propaganda and never get pricked by the barbs of reality.

On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:25 AM | Comments (10)

Police Officers Targeted by Hartford Gangbangers

One of the many advantages of our colonization by illegal immigrants is that it makes police work much more exciting. The lawlessness associated with Latin American towns run by drug lords has made it all the way to Hartford, Connecticut, where members of the Los Solidos gang have threatened to "blow up squad cars" and "shoot an officer who approaches them."

According to police, the gang is obtaining bulletproof vests. Officers have been getting shot at at the corner of Park and Zion, an area terrorized by Los Solidos going back into the 1990s.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…" has turned into "Flush across our border your criminals, your freeloaders, your gangbangers yearning to spread chaos…" as a result of our policy of exerting control over our borders only by keeping out the law-abiding.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:48 AM

There Won't Always Be an England

Moonbattery is literally obliterating England. In the words of Cal Thomas:

June 2005 and June 2006 nearly 200,000 British citizens chose to leave the country for a new life elsewhere. During the same period, at least 574,000 immigrants came to Britain. This number does not include the people who broke the law to get there, or the thousands unknown to the government. […]

Britons give many reasons for leaving, but their stories share one commonality: life in Britain has become unbearable for them. They fear lawlessness and the threat of more terrorism from a growing Muslim population and the loss of a sense of Britishness, exacerbated by the growing refusal of public schools to teach the history and culture of the nation to the next generation. What it means to be British has been watered down in a plague of political correctness that has swept the country faster than hoof-and-mouth disease.

The response of bureauweenies to their country's tailspin: they are about to grant amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, most of them Muslims adamantly opposed to assimilation. The invaders will also get top priority for taxpayer-financed housing.

As Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch UK observes:

If you break British law for long enough, you acquire rights not penalties.

Imagine being forced by your own government to finance an invasion that is not merely conquering your country, but displacing it. Short of armed rebellion, all Brits can do is get the hell out before sharia is imposed.

Only two generations ago they fought off the Nazis. The cultural rot known as moonbattery works fast.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:35 AM | Comments (3)

Six Months in Jail For Making Home Improvements

Francisco Linares is facing six months in jail for violating the building code of Rolling Hills Estates, California, with a few modest home improvements:

When Linares asked the city to repair the white three-railed fence behind his house, he was told it was on his property and his responsibility. So he replaced the termite-infested planks. Then the city reversed itself and said Linares had illegally built the fence on city property.

In October 2004, the city charged Linares with three misdemeanors: for not taking down the fence, having a retaining wall built higher than a 2-foot restriction and for erecting stone columns without a neighborhood compatibility analysis. Later inspections found eight other violations, including a lack of permits for plumbing and grading.

He was eventually given six months to either acquire a pile of permits or tear down his work. When he did neither, Torrance Superior Court Judge Sandra Thompson threw the book at him.

Gasps Linares' lawyer:

We're talking about fixing a fence that was on city property. He didn't build a Las Vegas casino. You put a guy in jail for six months because he repaired the city fence?

Maybe Linares will learn that if you just sit on your tail and let everything go to seed, you can avoid attracting the attention of bureauweenies and stay out of jail.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:00 AM | Comments (5)

Clinton Lied, People Died

It's terrible that an American president tricked us into an unnecessary war with hyperbolic propaganda and then proceeded to bomb a faraway country into the Stone Age, leaving it in ruins. I'm referring of course to Bill Clinton's jihad against non-Muslims in the Balkans.

As Warner Todd Huston notes in a review of 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask, the alleged "genocide" by Serbs prior to US intervention was vastly exaggerated. Supposedly 400,000 Muslim Albanians had been murdered by Serbs. Yet fewer than 7,000 people were reported missing during the entire conflict. Mines that were reported to be stuffed to the rafters with corpses turned out to hold no corpses at all.

But people did get killed. For example, 2,000 were killed in Clinton's bombing campaign, which then created a lasting humanitarian crisis by destroying hospitals, schools, and infrastructure.

At least Clinton succeeded in defeating the Serbs on behalf of the Muslims, who having been given the upper hand, responded by killing and displacing thousands of Christians. Saudi money is now flowing into the area to finance the terrorist farms known as madrassas. Four of the Fort Dix Six were examples of the sort of exports we can know expect from Albania, which is reportedly obliterating historic Christian religious sites, just like Afghanistan under the Taliban, which blew up ancient Buddhist statues.

Perhaps worst of all, the UN was put in control of the Clinton-created blighted zone. As a result, many areas still don't have reliable water, electricity, or roads. But they do have teenage sex slaves to keep the UN thugs entertained.

America's interest in going to war on behalf of Balkan Muslims has yet to be explained.

On a tip from Nanc.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:32 AM | Comments (4)

Norway's "Ecological" Summer Camp Prison

More moonbattery from Norway's prison system:

Norway has put on show what it calls "the world's first ecological prison", where inmates play important roles in daily operations and learn to do their bit to protect the environment.

The Bastoey Island low security prison uses solar panels for energy, produces most of its own food, recycles everything it can and tries to reduce its carbon footprint. […]

The prison gained international media attention a few years ago for its living conditions, resembling a summer camp with activities like tennis, horse riding, and even swimming in the summer, when the North Sea waters warm up. […]

Surrounded by beaches and green fields, the prison grounds extend into a nature reserve and are popular with the inmates.

They have to make prison extra fun in Norway, since showing up to serve your time is voluntary.

On a tip from Panday.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:55 AM | Comments (3)

August 27, 2007

California to Ban Marriage?

The liberals running California — specifically Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown — have reserved the right to abolish marriage.

After all, if homosexuals can't marry each other, why should anyone be allowed to get married?

Both the Governator and former Governor Moonbeam are of the opinion that the words "marry" and "marriage" have no significance in the California constitution, that what we think of as marriage could legally be renamed whatever moonbat bureauweenies chose to rename it, and that the statutory rights and obligations afforded to married couples could be abrogated by the state legislature.

The Left has long struggled to destroy the family, and for good reason. Without the family to provide social cohesion, the populace is easy prey for statists. An obvious example is the way the government hooks single mothers on welfare, creating intergenerational dependency that in effect turns large segments of our population into electoral farms, where government dependents are bred for their Democrat votes.

Once marriage has been destroyed, all they have to do is finish off Christianity, and the liberal goal of reducing us from Americans to two-legged domesticated animals will be within reach.

On a tip from Nanc.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:09 PM | Comments (10)

WaPo Dhimmis Pull Opus Cartoon

The cowardly dhimmis at the Washington Post pulled a light-hearted Sunday installment of "Opus" by Berkeley Breathed because they thought Muslims might not like it.

The censored strip is currently available at Salon.com. It features the character Lola Granola explaining to her boyfriend why she wants to be a radical Islamist.

WaPo is Opus' home newspaper, though it is syndicated to others.

Just a week ago, the same strip suggested that the recently deceased Reverend Jerry Falwell doesn't belong in heaven. Needless to say, WaPo saw no need to pull that strip.

Once again, it is impossible to distinguish between depraved multicultural obsequiousness and rank cowardice. Whatever motivates the contemptible moonbats running WaPo, it certainly isn't devotion to freedom of speech.

Hat tip: Yellow Limes.

Posted by Van Helsing at 1:22 PM | Comments (7)

Texans Will Run Texas, Not Euroweenies

European liberals' misguided objection to the death penalty (except for inconvenient babies) has led to sanctimonious demands that the USA conform to their moonbat ideology. The European Union has even had the outlandish gall to ask Texas to enact a moratorium on the death penalty. Robert Black, spokesman for Texas Governor Rick Perry, offers this response:

230 years ago, our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination. Texans long ago decided that the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens. While we respect our friends in Europe, welcome their investment in our state and appreciate their interest in our laws, Texans are doing just fine governing Texas.

If only this healthy attitude were shared by certain members of the Supremes, who would use foreign laws as precedents in American rulings.

Hat tip: Crush Liberalism.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:56 PM | Comments (7)

HuffPo Moonbat Calls For Military Coup

Possibly inspired by liberal heartthrob Hugo Chavez, who originally tried to take power in a military coup, Huffington Post's insufferable Martin Lewis has called for a coup right here in the USA, on the grounds that his advanced BDS makes waiting until January 2009 for Bush to leave office inconceivable.

In a dust-dry yet extremely disturbing piece that quotes the United States Code and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Lewis attempts to make the case that General Peter Pace can and should:

1. Relieve President Bush of his elected role as Commander-in-Chief.
2. Place Bush under military arrest.

In the midst of earnestly pleading with Pace to lead a military coup and attempting to justify it legally, Lewis asserts:

I am NOT advocating or inciting you to undertake any illegal act, insurrection, mutiny, putsch or military coup.

This busts up John Hawkins at Right Wing News:

You've got to love how the guy is calling for a military coup, but then he includes a line saying he is not calling for a military coup. It's not a coup because he doesn't call it a coup.

Liberals love that kind of talk. It's not a baby, it's a "choice." Hillary isn't liberal, she's "progressive." They don't want to surrender in Iraq, they just want to "redeploy" the troops. It's not a tax increase, it's "making people pay their fair share." So, if you propose an "illegal act, insurrection, mutiny, putsch or military coup," but call it something else, it doesn't count. Gotcha.

Neither is Hawkins misled by Lewis' later obnoxiously condescending claim that he was just kidding, but the dummies in Jesusland don't understand satire. As Hawkins notes, the original post was dry, legalistic, and not even remotely humorous. Also, Lewis' initial reaction when challenged by commenters was to puff out his sunken chest and defend his position self-righteously:

I utterly reject the use of any force or illegal action of any kind and specifically reject and condemn any calls for it. I do call on General Pace to speak his conscience and to do his ethical, moral duty to his forces and to his nation. Sometimes the right words from a man of courage have a moral impact that resonates.

You see, no force will be involved, so long as the President comes along quietly.

This is the discourse on a major liberal blog before the Dems get back in the White House. Imagine the political climate when Shrillary can go back to collecting FBI files.

Martin Lewis: Demonstrating liberals' love of democracy by calling for a military coup in the USA.

Hat tip: Sister Toldjah.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:42 AM | Comments (5)

Rebels at the Beeb

The establishment media — particularly the coercively financed public establishment media, which doesn't have to worry about ratings — sometimes seems like a nightmare realm comparable to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which independent thought is inconceivable. But even at the BBC, there are exceptions.

Newsnight's editor, Peter Barron, and the BBC's head of television news, Peter Horrocks have attacked a project called Planet Relief, which would devote an entire day to propagandizing on behalf of the global warming hoax. Asked whether the Beeb should campaign for Al Gore's climate change cult, Horrocks was firm:

I absolutely don't think we should do that because it's not impartial. It's not our job to lead people and proselytise about it.

Adds Barron:

It is absolutely not the BBC's job to save the planet. I think there are a lot of people who think that, but it must be stopped.

If only News Corps' Rupert Murdoch had that kind of integrity.

Although the Beeb has guidelines that supposedly assure impartiality, Horrocks and Barron are likely to be ignored. Regarding Planet Relief, a BBC spokeswoman piously intoned:

This idea is still in development and the intention would be to debate the issue and in no way campaign on a single point of view.

You see, the entire day devoted to global warming alarmism will be impartial.

But Martin Durkin, producer of the highly recommended Great Global Warming Swindle, accuses the BBC of stifling debate on the global warming hoax:

The thing that disturbs me most is that the BBC has such a leviathan position … that if it decides that it is going to adopt climate change as a moral purpose, I have got a lot of trouble with that. I don't think it is the role of the BBC to spend my money on a moral purpose.

Apparently even moonbats need a moral purpose. Having discarded traditional morality, they are now irresistibly drawn to the antihuman faux morality of radical environmentalism.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:44 AM

More Special Bathrooms For Perverts

Another step downward in the freakification of America:

Four "gender-neutral" bathrooms have been added to the University of Vermont's student center — at a cost of $2,500 apiece. Each has a sign on the wall identifying it as a "gender neutral restroom."

Squeaks Annie Stevens, assistant vice president for student and campus life:

It's about inclusivity and accessibility and the importance of meeting all people's needs, not just a few.

A "transgendered" student calling himself Kelly adds:

Just because there can be tense situations in gendered bathrooms, especially for trans-identified people, you need a space to use the restroom and feel safe and comfortable.

The point isn't just to flush $10,000 down the toilet. It's to put the official stamp of society's approval on the practice of men walking around in women's clothes, sometimes even having themselves surgically mutilated to enhance their morbidly narcissistic fantasies.

At least this might keep these freakazoids from barging into the ladies' room.

Vermont also offers "gender-neutral residential suites," making it more convenient for perverts to hook up with each other.

But it's still not enough, according to Dot Brauer, director of the university's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Ally Services, who is demanding more special bathrooms, as well as private showers in the gym in case there are any cross-dressing athletes.

When these demands are met, more will follow. Moonbats are transforming America into a John Waters movie.

On a tip from Nanc.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:51 AM | Comments (16)

Spanish Moonbat in Israel

Via Spanned Shot, here's a Spanish moonbat who traveled to Israel to protest that country's attempts to defend its citizens from terror attacks, heroically waving a Palestinian flag as he/she/it runs away from tear gas.

At least some moonbats know they're clowns. It's the ones who take themselves seriously enough to run for president that you have to look out for.

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Risky Business 2

Many sequels are better left unmade:

Compliments of Ayres.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:45 AM

August 26, 2007

Hamas Inspired by Disney Again

When Hamas TV killed off Farfour the terrorist Mickey Mouse look-alike, who helped teach kiddies about the joys of killing Jews and other infidels, and replaced him with Nahoul the animal-abusing bee, it apparently was not out of respect for Disney's intellectual property. Now they're using an imitation Lion King to propagandize against the rival terrorist group Fatah.

Whereas a Lion King knockoff symbolizes Hamas, Fatah is subtly characterized by rats.

Hazem Sharawi of Hamas TV isn't coy about the intellectual property theft:

Disney stole a lion from the forest. We stole another lion.

Too bad Disney can't deduct royalties from the money expropriated from Western taxpayers and flushed down the Gaza Strip.

On tips from Wiggins and Byron.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:22 PM | Comments (4)

Firefighters But No Fire Trucks at Pro-Troop Rally

Moonbats will be pleased to learn that there were no fire trucks to be seen at a recent "Support Our Troops" rally in Nanuet, just north of New York City.

However, firefighters from eight Rockland County fire departments did attend the rally, which was held across the street from a moonbat demonstration in favor of surrender in Iraq.

Liberals have been complaining about the presence of fire trucks at previous pro-American rallies in the area. It seems that patriotism, like Christianity, must in no way be supported using government property.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 5:57 PM | Comments (5)

Cambodia's Sirik Matak: A Haunting Voice From the Past

Bill Kristol quotes a poignant letter from former Cambodian Prime Minister Sirik Matak to American ambassador John Gunther Dean, in response to Dean's offer to evacuate Matak after our Democrat-controlled Congress deliberately pulled the rug out from under democracy in Southeast Asia in 1975:

Dear Excellency and Friend:

I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion. As for you, and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection, and we can do nothing about it. You leave, and my wish is that you and your country will find happiness under this sky. But, mark it well, that if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is no matter, because we all are born and must die. I have only committed this mistake of believing in you [the Americans].

Please accept, Excellency and dear friend, my faithful and friendly sentiments.

S/Sirik Matak

Kristol describes what happened next:

The Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh a few days later. Sirik Matak was executed: shot in the stomach, he was left without medical help and took three days to die. Between 1 and 2 million Cambodians were murdered by the Khmer Rouge in the next three years. Next door, tens of thousands of Vietnamese were killed, and many more imprisoned. Hundreds of thousands braved the South China Sea to reach freedom.

If only there were some way to make Matak and the countless other victims of Democrat perfidy understand that most Americans are honorable. But if we give Democrats the power to do the same thing to Iraq that they did to Indochina, we'll have a hard enough time convincing ourselves.

On a tip from Bergbikr.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:29 PM | Comments (6)

CAIR Silences Christian Televangelist

Hamas' answer to the ACLU, CAIR, has struck again, this time getting a Christian televangelist pulled from the air for daring to criticize Islam.

The late-night show "Live Prayer with Bill Keller" annoyed Muslims when Keller observed that Mohammed was a "murdering pedophile," that Islam is a "1,400-year-old lie from the pits of hell," and that the Koran is a "book of fables and a book of lies."

Rather than start their own TV show and try to interest viewers in watching it, CAIR fired off a letter demanding equal time on Keller's channel, à la the Unfairness Doctrine. But Tampa Bay's CBS-owned WTOG-TV found it more expedient to cancel Keller's show.

Crows CAIR's Ramzy Kilic:

They really based their decision upon our letter. They really did not know that Bill Keller was involved with this kind of anti-Muslim rhetoric.

Keller agrees that his 1:00 AM show was canceled at CAIR's behest:

(CAIR) intimidated the folks in New York, and the folks in New York caved in.

Let that be a lesson to anyone who fails to embrace dhimmitude like the invertebrate belly-crawling liberals running CBS.

On a tip from Bob.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:49 AM | Comments (1)

Fighting Back in the Propaganda War

The fifth-column Left has waged a relentless propaganda war aimed at securing an American defeat to Islamic terrorists in Iraq. But the moonbats are taking some return fire.

Freedom's Watch has launched a $15 million ad campaign explaining why surrender is not an option. The ads are quite a bit more compelling than Michael Moore movies and the MSM's defeatist sniveling. Check them out here.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:06 AM

Hillary Clinton Most Disliked Candidate by Vets

Here's a very small surprise: vets don't much like Hillary Clinton.

In a recent Gallop poll, 59% of vets gave Shrillary an unfavorable rating. Her favorable rating was 37%. In stark contrast, Rudy Giuliani received a 64% favorable rating, and only 29% unfavorable.

The effect on our troops' morale of electing Shrillary should obvious. But if they can stand up to the barrage of defeatist propaganda endlessly disgorged by our fifth-column media, they can withstand most anything.

On the plus side for Shrillary, she is the favorite candidate of veterans who are Democrats. Why any vet would identify with today's Democrat Party remains inexplicable.

On a tip from Byron.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:34 AM | Comments (2)

August 25, 2007

Democrat Plan to Worsen Housing Market Crisis For Gaia

It can't be easy for Rep. John Dingell (D-MI). As Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, he has to pander to the global warming cultists who increasingly dominate the Democrat Party, without inflicting too much direct damage on the auto industry, which is all that stands between his Michigan district and Third-World status. Dingleberry's solution: punish people for owning houses over 3,000 square feet.

The plan is to remove the mortgage interest deductions on what Dingleberry derisively calls "McMansions" — i.e., houses large enough to raise a big family in. This may be because his liberal constituents abort their children instead of raising them.

Opines Dingleberry:

In order to address the issue of climate change, we must address the issue of consumption.

In other words, we must deliberately hobble the economy.

Naturally this will be spun as eating the rich, which liberals find morally acceptable. But as always, it isn't only the rich who get eaten. A senior economist for the National Association of Realtors estimated that Dingleberry's scheme would result in a national median house price decline of 4% — for all houses.

At a time when the housing market is already reeling from the mortgage foreclosure crisis, Dingleberry's idea would result in an estimated 280,000 additional foreclosures.

You have to wonder if any al-Qaeda plans could possibly damage America as much as those of Democrats.

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

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

Democrat Bumper Sticker Slogans

Count Orlok look-alike James Carville is asking Dems to provide "the bumper sticker slogan that will carry us through the 2008 elections."

Since liberals tend to think in bumper sticker slogans, I'll bet he gets some excellent suggestions. A few of my own:

What's So Great About America?

We Need Your Money More Than You Do.

Fighting Back Against Terrorism Is Too Hard.

The Decline and Fall of the West Is Inevitable Anyway.

Maybe al-Qaeda Will Be Gracious in Victory.

Everything's Free if You Force Someone Else to Pay For It.

There's Still Some Silverware Left in the White House.

Right Wing News has even better ones:

If you can read this, your taxes are too low.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

There is no baby on board because I aborted it.

Work harder! Hillary has new government programs to pay for!

And from RWN readers:

Unemployment checks for everyone! Vote Democrat.

Vote Dem: Killing our future 1 baby at a time.

If we give them what they want, they'll leave us alone.

Give the government back to the children. Vote Democrat!

EDWARDS'08: If you attack this country, my wife will talk mean to you.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Vote Democrat! We know who you are!

Abortion, regulation and the pursuit of hopelessness. Democrats in '08.

Hillary 08: Fork It Over, B***H!

Any ideas?

On a tip from Nanc.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:48 PM | Comments (16)

Is Castro Finally Dead?

Val Prieto at Babula Blog thinks he is, though Cuba's foreign minister denies it.

The more important question could be: does it matter? The answer is, only if the Cuban people use his death as an impetus to rise up and reclaim their country from communism.

Wiggins sends along some evidence that the evil old tyrant really has croaked at last:

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:15 AM | Comments (2)

August 24, 2007

Still More Firefighter Casualties at Deutsche Bank Building

Two more firemen have been injured at the Deutsche Bank Building, where two other firemen were killed last weekend as a consequence of the hyper–anal-retentiveness of government bureaucrats who demand that every molecule be inspected for asbestos before removal. It was slated for demolition as a result of damage sustained on 9/11, yet still stands there in its funeral veil of black mesh, inviting disaster.

Now that a piece of construction equipment has fallen from the 23rd floor, injuring another pair of firemen, have the bureauweenies who have dragged this out for six years learned their lesson? Hardly.

According to a spokesman for the state agency in charge of construction at Ground Zero, all work at the site has been halted. Furthermore:

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is coordinating an investigation with all relevant city, state and federal agencies.

Screams Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer:

They have got to shut this site down pending a full review.

Ten years from now, the Deutsche Bank Building will still stand there wrapped in its black burka, firemen and/or workers will still get injured inside, and bureaucratic fools like Stringer will still demand reviews and investigations, assuring that the demolition is never brought to a close.

On a tip from Mike.

Posted by Van Helsing at 3:56 PM | Comments (1)

Gideons Forbidden From Distributing Bibles at School

Another victory for the ACLU:

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that prohibited the distribution of Bibles to grade school students in a southern Missouri school district.

At issue was a long-held practice at South Iron Elementary School in Annapolis, 120 miles southwest of St. Louis, in which Gideons International representatives came to fifth-grade classrooms and gave away Bibles. A U.S. district judge issued a temporary injunction, and a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis agreed the classroom distribution should be prohibited. […]

The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in February 2006 on behalf of four sets of parents, asking that the district be stopped "from further endorsement of religion."

They ought to be more specific. After all, there's nothing wrong with endorsing Islam. It's only Christianity that liberals want suppressed. The ACLU would hardly be likely to sue if CAIR came into a school to pass out Korans, any more than they complain about grade-school–level books that promote homosexuality.

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

Posted by Van Helsing at 3:10 PM | Comments (6)

Venezuela Under Chavez: Totalitarianism Meets Anarchy

An irony of moonbattery is the close relationship between totalitarianism (ubiqitous government) and anarchy (absence of government), polar opposites that bleed into each other. For example, the sort of unwashed hooligans who stage riots at WTO meetings often refer to themselves as anarchists — yet to the extent they have any coherent ideology, it most closely resembles Stalinism. Another example is the authoritarian regime of Hugo Chavez. The more he tightens his grip on power, the more Venezuela dissolves into anarchy.

The streets of Venezuela are out of control — and according to the Financial Times, the economy may soon be as well:

President Hugo Chávez's tightening grip over Venezuela's economy is generating distortions that economists fear could, paradoxically, eventually lead to a loss of control.

Price controls, currency controls and negative real interest rates are just some of the elements that have contributed to one of the highest rates of inflation in the world and a substantially overvalued exchange rate.

The economy is ever more dependent on the high price of oil. If that falls, so will Venezuela — into economic chaos.

If things get bad enough, they could always try freedom. It works for America,

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:13 AM | Comments (9)

David McCumber, the Seattle P-I's "Decider"

David McCumber, managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has spoken from on high, explaining why his paper obstructed FBI attempts to defend us from suspected Muslim terrorists by refusing to run their pictures:

It seems that the lives of us little people are acceptable sacrifices for the sake of journalistic integrity. But McCumber does feel our pain:

I understand that people have a hard time with the concept that we get to decide what is news and what isn't, and what is fair and what isn't.

Ace responds to this weasel's staggering arrogance:

Umm... no, actually, you don't.

That's the problem. You keep insisting you have a more important, more influential job than the rest of us have agreed to give you. You jerkoffs keep describing the dream job that you wish you had, wished we would allow you to have. You simply refuse to accept that we do not give such important jobs out willy-nilly, and we especially don't hand them out to smugly incompetent morons like yourself who crave that sort of power just because they petulantly demand it.

You shouldn't wear so much make-up. It makes you look like a whore.

You're not the gatekeeper, "Decider."

McCumber tries to justify his terrorist-enabling irresponsibility with a dyslexic attempt to quote Benjamin Franklin:

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporaray safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The absurdity of moonbats' attempts to use their professed love for liberty to justify their willful obstruction of any and all attempts to defend our lives from Islamic terrorists has reached yet another peak of absurdity. We are asked to believe that publishing the pictures of suspected terrorist scouts before they've actually sunk a boatload of innocent Americans would violate their privacy. Yet privacy is not an issue when it comes to celebrating Seattle's recent Hempfest 2007. Here's a picture the Seattle P-I's high journalistic standards didn't prevent it from running:

There won't be much of this on display when sharia is imposed. But like all useful idiots, McCumber is oblivious to the fact that America's enemies are his enemies too.

David McCumber, aka "The Decider," should decide to go easy on the lipstick.

Hat tip: American Digest. On a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 6:53 AM | Comments (11)

August 23, 2007

Robert Spencer on the "Religion of Peace"

This is spot on, especially his reference to the cultural self-hatred — i.e., moonbattery — that prevents Western Civilization from defending itself from Islam:

Hat tip: The Irate Nation.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:38 PM | Comments (4)

Two More Firefighters Die at Ground Zero

Last weekend two more firefighters died at Ground Zero, while attempting to put out a blaze at the Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street, which was slated for demolition after 9/11. Unlike other firefighters who have perished at this location, Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia were not killed by Islam, but by our own neurosis.

The firefighters ran out of oxygen after being trapped in "maze-like conditions" created by plastic sheeting used in an overzealous attempt to keep dust from contaminating the air. Fifty others were injured, eight seriously. Air quality tests taken after the fire detected no contamination.

9/11 was six years ago. That's been enough time for liberals to suppress all but vague memories of that day — but not enough time to tear down one of the buildings damaged in the attacks. You see, since there might be "contaminants of potential concern" like asbestos inside, bureaucrats require that the building be dismantled one molecule at a time.

Daniel Henninger elaborates:

Basically, men in space suits were scrubbing virtually every interior surface by hand and dismantling it by hand. Who could doubt that the human error rate would rise over time under such conditions, such as the steel beam that fell and penetrated the roof of the firehouse nearby? Or indeed this fire. Abandoned buildings full of the same materials are demolished faster all the time, but not this one. Instead of a demolition plan that struck a balance between controlling the toxicity and getting the job done, the process created what is virtually a hermetically sealed environment—to demolish 40 floors of junk. They've made the building so "safe" you can't get it down. So after six years a fire erupted and two firemen caught in the "Matrix"-world of 130 Liberty St. died.

The details of this public-policy morass are no exception in the post-9/11 world. They are the norm. The hyper-complex requirements and mindset reflected in the public record over 130 Liberty St. mirror the endless debate and litigation we've also layered into efforts to surveil and prosecute terrorists.

Society needs lawyers and even a few bureaucrats. But we don't need for their legalistic, ultra-procedural mentality to so dominate our culture as to cause paralysis — and the avoidable deaths of firemen.

On tips from Varla and Bergbikr.

Posted by Van Helsing at 2:36 PM | Comments (5)

Parents of 9/11 Victim Side With Terrorists

As the atrocious Jersey Girls taught us, not only is having relatives murdered by Islamic terrorists not enough to cure liberals of their moonbattery, it can even be used as a pretext to wallow in it publicly.

Phyllis Rodriguez is a particularly appalling example of this phenomenon. Her son Greg died at age 31 at the World Trade Center on September 11. Now she's giving speeches to peace activists with her bosom buddy Aicha El-Wafi — mother of Zacarias Moussaoui, aka the 20th hijacker.

Greg's father Orlando is also in on the fun, having testified for the defense at Moussaoui's trial.

Phyllis says she and her husband were scared for their safety:

The atmosphere in the nation was so frightening, we were scared to speak out.

"But," as Westchester's left-wing Journal News gushingly reports, "the Rodriguezes did not let fear stop them."

Got that? Their son was killed when Islamic maniacs hijacked planes full of Americans and crashed them into national symbols full of more Americans — and the Rodriguezes respond by going out of their way to side with his killers, while denouncing America as "threatening." A New York area newspaper fawningly approves, and also passes along El-Wafi's baseless allegations that Moussaoui "is being tortured too," just like his pampered terrorist colleagues at Club Gitmo.

Moonbattery isn't just deranged. It's obscene.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Posted by Van Helsing at 12:14 PM | Comments (9)

Kid Suspended Over Doodle That Resembles Gun

This was considered enough of a crime to warrant a 5-day suspension for the 13-year-old who drew it:

As you can see, there is no blood in the doodle, no sizzling bullets, no mutilated victims. It's barely even recognizable as a gun. Yet educrats at Mesa's Payne Junior High deemed it to constitute a threat to other kids, comparing its creation to the 1999 Columbine massacre.

Only when the boy's outraged father got in their slack faces did the bureauweenies lessen his sentence to three days.

Do moonbats forbid even the concept of guns because they think that by pretending guns don't exist, they can make themselves bulletproof? Or is it that guns represent masculinity and individual empowerment, two things liberals cannot abide?

Whatever their motivation, totalitarian moonbats' attempts to forbid boys' natural and healthy fascination with weapons continue to expose the depth of their pathological ideology's absurdity.

On tips from Dwaine and Wiggins.

Update:

Actually this occurred in Chandler, Arizona, not nearby Mesa, per the East Valley Tribune. Thanks to Jim for the tip.

Posted by Van Helsing at 11:20 AM | Comments (12)

Moonbats Incensed by Page Three Beauties From the Ramalamadingdong Times

At a carnival in St Columb Major, a little market town in Cornwall, a group calling itself the Page Three Beauties from the Ramalamadingdong Times dressed up as Muslims to poke fun at Prince Chuckles' plan for a mosque at his nearby "Surfbury" model settlement, despite there being only 33 practicing Muslims out of a population of 22,000.

There being no Flight 93 memorial nearby to orient them toward Mecca, they goofed around by trying to find the direction with fake compasses.

The Muslim colonization of Europe hasn't reached rural Cornwall yet, but unfortunately moonbattery has. Some traveling students saw the carnival and went screaming to the police on the grounds that the clowning might be "offensive" to Muslims.

Fortunately no one was arrested, though the cup that was supposed to go to the group that got the biggest cheer from the crowd was given to a less entertaining group instead.

Reverend Chris McQuillen-Wright of St Columb Minor church piously intoned:

One can see the intended humour and the play on words but, in light of the current international climate, it was insensitive.

The "current international climate" is one in which Muslim terrorists are trying to kill us for being infidels, while we humbly beg to be forgiven for existing.

On a tip from Panday.

Posted by Van Helsing at 9:42 AM | Comments (5)

Suing Over Low-Power Radio Waves: The Next Goldbricker Gravy Train

Here's good news for parasitical hypochondriacs, bad news for all of us who use wireless technology:

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed a state ruling awarding an AT&T Inc. equipment installer total disability and medical benefits as a result of health problems tied to exposure to radio frequency radiation levels deemed to be slightly above those set by the Federal Communications Commission.

The state high court's decision to uphold Alaska's Workers' Compensation Board has potentially major implications for the mobile phone industry, the tower business and other wireless sectors, according to a consumer advocacy group specializing in wireless health issues.

Got a health issue, real or imagined? Sue AT&T! Their invisible death rays are everywhere. The lack of evidence that wireless ever hurt anyone won't count for much in a courtroom — just ask Dow Corning.

John Edwards really ought to abandon his frightening quest for the White House and hop on this new gravy train.

On a tip from Matt.

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:36 AM

Carter Helped Finance Takeover of White Farms in Zimbabwe

The erstwhile "Breadbasket of Africa," Zimbabwe, is now Africa's worst basket case, with an inflation rate of over 7,600% — a direct result of the communist policies of its dictator Robert Mugabe.

Mugabe ruined Zimbabwe's economy by stealing land from white farmers and handing it out to his associates, with the result that now the land lies unused while the people starve. Now we find out that fellow leftist Jimmy Carter helped finance this crime.

During a recession in the USA, Carter offered money earned by American taxpayers to buy Caucasians off their land. The payoffs stopped when it became clear that Mugabe was handing out the land to his cronies.

As even the left-leaning BBC admits:

The path to the seizure of white farms was opened and thus began the long slide to today's economic chaos.

More than a quarter century later, we still haven't finished assessing the damage caused by the Carter Administration.

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

Posted by Van Helsing at 8:09 AM | Comments (5)

Compost Queen Goes on Tree-Killing Spree

From AP:

Bette Midler cut down more than 230 trees around one of her properties on the island of Kauai without a permit, and the state has recommended she be fined. […]

Midler, known for her longtime commitment to the environment, was once known as the Compost Queen and appeared on billboards in Los Angeles advocating green recycling containers are for yard trimmings.

Midler's attorney sheepishly explained that she had the trees cut down on her 58,000-square-foot North Shore estate because they were nonnative species.

A better defense might have been that it's her own business what she does with trees on her property. But that kind of talk might endanger her precious reputation for being at the front of the environmentalist bandwagon.

On a tip from Byron.

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Even Communists Can See Through Biofuel Boondoggle

Writing about biofuels for Fidel Castro's propaganda organ Granma, F. William Engdahl manages to get it half right. Yes, the biofuel industry is a scam that will accomplish none of its stated objectives, and that will drastically increase the price of food. But no, it's not part of a sinister plot to control the world.

Engdahl certainly grasps the overall picture regarding biofuels:

Leaving aside the faked science and the political interests behind the sudden hype about dangers of global warming, bio-fuels offer no net positive benefits over oil even under best conditions. […] The green claims for bio-fuel as a friendly and better fuel than gasoline are at best dubious, if not outright fraudulent. […] Ethanol is not some benign substance as we are led to think from the industry propaganda. […]

But the killer-diller about ethanol is that it holds at least 30% less energy per gallon than normal gasoline, translating into a loss in fuel economy per gallon of at least 25% over gasoline for an Ethanol E-85per cent blend. No advocate of the ethanol boondoggle addresses the huge social cost which is beginning to hit the dining room tables across the US, Europe and the rest of the world. Food prices are exploding as corn, soybeans and all cereal grain prices are going through the roof because of the astronomical — Congress-driven — demand for corn to burn for bio-fuel. […]

Prof. M.A. Altieri of Berkeley University estimates that dedicating all USA corn and soybean production acreage to bio-fuels would only meet 12% of gasoline and 6 per cent of diesel needs. He notes that though one-fifth of last year's corn harvest went to bio-ethanol, it met a mere 3% of energy needs. […]

Prof. David Pimentel of Cornell University and other scientists claim that net energy output from bio-ethanol fuel is less than the fossil fuel energy used to produce the ethanol. Measuring all energy inputs to produce ethanol from production of nitrogen fertilizer to energy needed to clean the considerable waste from bio-fuel refineries, Pimentel's research showed a net energy loss of 22% for bio-fuel — they use more energy than they produce.

To sum up: biofuel is a snow job.

If biofuel is inefficient and expensive, why bother to trick us into giving up food for it? Engdahl hints at a shadowy capitalist plot to control the world:

In the mid-1970's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a protégé of the Rockefeller family and of its institutions stated, "Control the oil and you control entire nations; control the food and you control the people." […] As the popular saying goes, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."

That is, Bush and his Big Oil cronies plan to starve the world into submission.

Actually, the real explanation is much simpler — though harder to comprehend. Governments around the world know that biofuel is an extravagant waste of time, money, and natural resources, which has already resulted in massive destruction of wildlife and sharp rises in food prices. But they subsidize it anyway to placate moonbats, who insist we "do something" about the fictional global warming menace.

On a tip from Kevin.

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August 22, 2007

Brad Pitt Building Green Slum

Having bought a $3.5-million mansion in New Orleans with his common-law wife Angelina Jolie, movie star Brad Pitt is participating in the construction of politically correct "green" slums where commoners of the Lower Ninth Ward can live.

The award winning design for his slum is a house with a cistern and toilets designed for water conservation (very important when you're in a swamp), soy-based insulation (if the welfare check's late, maybe the residents can eat it), paperless drywall (paper causes global warming; just ask Cheryl Crow), and even solar panels (to help make it affordable).

Regrettably there was no mention of rooftop helicopter pads to allow for easy evacuation when the region inevitably floods again.

The plan is to sell the homes to former residents of the neighborhood. Since there's little chance any could afford them, I suspect government subsidies will come into play.

On a tip from General Jack D. Ripper.

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Planet Earth Not Doomed After All

It looks like we're on our way to the climate change consensus that moonbats keep barking about — but the consensus will be that significant manmade global warming is complete bunk. From the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works:

Washington DC — An abundance of new peer-reviewed studies, analysis, and data error discoveries in the last several months has prompted scientists to declare that fear of catastrophic man-made global warming "bites the dust" and the scientific underpinnings for alarm may be "falling apart." The latest study to cast doubt on climate fears finds that even a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide would not have the previously predicted dire impacts on global temperatures. This new study is not unique, as a host of recent peer-reviewed studies have cast a chill on global warming fears.

"Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming bites the dust," declared astronomer Dr. Ian Wilson after reviewing the new study which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Another scientist said the peer-reviewed study overturned "in one fell swoop" the climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore. The study entitled "Heat Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity of Earth's Climate System," was authored by Brookhaven National Lab scientist Stephen Schwartz. (LINK)

It turns out the climate is only one third as sensitive to CO2 as the UN's hyper-politicized IPCC has been screeching. At the current rate of increase, atmospheric CO2 will double around 2070. This would raise temperatures about 0.6°C — completely insignificant considering the climate's normal fluctuation.

This might be a good time for liberal elitists in the media and government to move on to a new phony crisis before the public starts to notice the egg oozing down their faces.

On a tip from Bergbikr.

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Norwegian Moose Blamed For Global Warming

From Spiegel Online:

The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year — equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.

Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting.

Actually, farts are considered even more harmful to Gaia than CO2, as they contain methane. But Norwegians mustn't feel too guilty about ruining the climate and condemning us all to apocalyptic doom with their 120,000 moose. At least they're not responsible for Ted Kennedy's belching and farting.

On tips from Nanc and Wiggins.

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Prof Set Upon by Transgender Moonbats

Life hasn't been easy for J. Michael Bailey, a psychologist at Northwestern University, since he put forward a theory of the bizarre "transgender" phenomenon that was determined by the mandarins of multiculturalism to be politically incorrect.

In the 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen, Bailey advanced the theory that guys who decide to go "transgender" are mainly motivated by an erotic fascination with their own selves as women. This jibes with the grotesque narcissism displayed so aggressively by transgender freakazoids. However, it does not conform to official moonbat dogma, which dictates that they really are women, who by some cosmic error were accidentally given male bodies.

At first the Lambda Literary Foundation, which exists to promote homosexual and transsexual deviance, nominated Bailey's book for an award. But then Lynn Conway, a sexually perplexed computer scientist at moonbat-infested University of Michigan, denounced the book as heresy and launched an email jihad, comparing it to Nazi propaganda.

A pack of feral academics descended upon Bailey, many o