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September 30, 2007
Insane Moonbat Horde Invades DC
Peacenik moonbats converged on DC over the weekend, displaying their pathology for all to see. Age of Hooper returned from the spectacle with pictures and video that will scar the psyche of any decent person who lays eyes on them, so be warned. A few samples:
Here's one you can thank me for censoring:
If you've got the belly for it, the full-sized, uncensored original is here. Check out the beard on the babe in the middle.
Age of Hooper also has video of these charming folks burning an American flag.
No doubt the like-minded if more understated establishment media will spin the demonstrators as normal, everyday people, who love America and wouldn't dream of endorsing slavery and genocide.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:15 PM | Comments (13)
Bob Dougherty's Home Depot–Induced Diabetes Acts Up
As announced in a press release sent out by his lawyer, Bob Dougherty was rushed to a Boulder hospital in a diabetic coma last weekend. It's a relief to hear that he's now "doing okay."
According to a pending lawsuit, Dougherty's diabetes, as well as his nightmares, insomnia, and post-traumatic stress disorder, were caused by Home Depot. Dougherty was availing himself of the facilities in a Louisville store when he discovered that some prankster had glued his rear end to the toilet seat. Paramedics had to unbolt the toilet seat while it was still attached to his behind.
Home Depot is to blame for this, supposedly, because employees at first thought his pleas for help were a hoax. How this could have caused his diabetes is unclear. Where's John Edwards when you need him?
On a tip from Dave.
Posted by Van Helsing at 4:26 PM
Rush Sets Record Straight on "Phony Soldier" Ambush
Remember the John Kerry wannabe Jesse Adam Macbeth, who invented extravagant tales of U.S. atrocities in Iraq, only to be found guilty of falsifying his military record? He claimed to have witnessed first hand the iniquities of the American soldiers Senator Durbin compares to Nazis and communists, allegedly including hanging burned bodies in mosques and routinely executing children. In actuality, Macbeth didn't make it through boot camp at Fort Benning.
Transcripts of Macbeth's phony allegations were translated into Arabic, and distributed via the Internet to help motivate terrorists. Also, he cheated the taxpayers out of $10,400 by claiming to have post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his imaginary military career. Here's his Wikipedia bio.
Rush Limbaugh has accurately dismissed this cockroach as a "phony soldier." Either viciously lying or willfully divorced from reality, Senate Democrats — including Hanoi John Kerry — have seized on this to accuse Rush of maligning our troops.
Ersatz war hero Kerry has himself repeatedly insulted American troops, falsely accusing them of outlandish war crimes in Vietnam, of being losers and idiots, and of breaking into Iraqi homes "in the dead of night" to terrorize women and children. The hypocrisy of this traitor chastising Rush, who has never been anything but supportive of the military, would seem to be too extreme for even the most shameless Democrats.
As always, the Dems are counting on their mindless followers to be so tightly enveloped in the bubble of misinformation constructed by the liberal media as to have no clue as to the actual situation.
The dinosaur media and scoundrels like Kerry went running with some propaganda spat up by Media Matters, showing little if any interest in what Rush actually said or why he said it. Here's Rush setting the record straight:
On tips from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:32 PM | Comments (5)
Shrillary Proposes $5,000 Handout for Being Born
If you think W spends like a drunken sailor, wait until Hillary Clinton moves back into the White House. Apparently she swiped her latest plan for giving away our money from the leftists at Time magazine. It calls for federal $5,000 payments to every baby who makes it past the abortionist.
Shrillary floated this notion while pandering to the Congressional Black Caucus, where the idea of being given other people's money just for existing predictably resonated. She didn't offer any idea of how much the program would cost (a lot), or how it would be paid for (still more excessive taxation).
According to Shrillary, we don't save because we can't afford to. I wonder why, with government vampires sucking half the blood from our veins so they can buy votes from the unproductive.
On a tip from Eoin.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:56 AM | Comments (11)
Environmentalist Bureaucrats Are Bad for the Environment
It's a good thing manmade global warming isn't real, because if it were, the meddling of politically correct bureaucrats would be making it worse.
According to Nobel prize–winning chemist Paul J. Crutzen, most crops grown in the U.S. and Europe to make "green" fuel should actually increase global warming. The plants could produce up to 70% more greenhouse gases than conventional diesel, due to the nitrous oxide released by fertilizers.
Remarks Professor Keith Smith, coauthor of Crutzen's report:
As it's used at the moment, bioethanol from maize seems to be a pretty futile exercise.
In other global warming news, environmentalist restrictions on drilling for natural gas are making it difficult for power plants to transition from allegedly polar bear–oppressing coal. According to the National Petroleum Council, an estimated 79 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas is going to waste beneath U.S. waters where drilling is banned, and 69 trillion cubic feet of off-limits gas is held in the Rocky Mountain region.
Attempting to cut greenhouse gas emissions without allowing this natural gas to be extracted will naturally drive up prices, inflicting a burden on all of us. But our economic hardship is a small price for bureaucrats to pay for their trendy green posturing.
On tips from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:27 AM | Comments (1)
San Franfreakshow Treats
The Bay Area puts its stamp on everything it touches. For example, snacks from Oakland-based Tainted Inc. come laced with marijuana.
Drugged foods include chocolate-covered pretzels, candy bars, cookies, marshmallow pies, ice cream, peanut butter, jelly, and even barbecue sauce. Laced snacks are reportedly more potent than smoked marijuana.
Tainted Inc. has used medical marijuana laws to justify its product line. However, DEA authorities aren't buying it. Four Bay Area houses have been raided in addition to the factory, and several arrests made.
On a tip from Nanc.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:46 AM | Comments (3)
Michigan's Excessive Deposit Law Leads to Fraud
Michigan's exorbitant 10¢ per can deposit mandate has resulted in some enterprising crooks — apparently inspired by a Seinfeld episode — to smuggle in millions of out-of-state cans.
Authorities seized more than $500,000 in cash from the operation. According to Michigan State Police director Colonel Peter Munoz:
Each year, this type of activity defrauds the state [of] approximately $13 million.
As we have seen again and again with welfare and healthcare, wherever government intrudes, there will be large-scale fraud. At least somebody besides bureaucrats, lawyers, and shiftless layabouts benefit from the relentless growth of government: criminals do too. Unfortunately this adds still more to encroaching socialism's already outlandish costs.
On a tip from Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:30 AM | Comments (1)
September 29, 2007
Moonbats Campaign Against Hygiene
Actress Cate Blanchett, who reportedly is helping to save the planet by no longer washing her hair, has insisted that the plumbing in her new mansion be constructed so that the inhabitants can drink their own wastewater.
This fits with Sheryl Crow's admonition that we should use only one square of toilet paper, and Drew Barrymore's announcement that she "took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal" outside some crude Third-World village and found the experience "awesome."
As Mark Steyn notes:
[T]here's something very curious about a culture whose most beautiful [sic] women, the beneficiaries of every blessing this bountiful society can shower upon them, are so eager to flaunt their bodily waste in the public prints. And even more bizarre is their conviction that one of the most basic building blocks of modern life — hygiene — is now an example of Western consumerist excess.
Hygiene is what allows us not to waste a great deal of our time dying of nasty diseases like dysentery. But the Tinseltown campaign against it makes perfect sense in terms of moonbattery's penultimate desire: the dissolution of civilization. Beyond that there's only one thing left for progressives to progress toward: the end of the human race.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:35 PM | Comments (13)
Red Cross Provides Support for Racist Jena 6 Marchers
It seems that all's fair in love and moonbattery — even things that are unfair in war. Snopes confirms that the Red Cross has been supplying marchers in Jena, Louisiana with supplies.
The very symbol of the Red Cross signifies political neutrality, protecting its vehicles from attack in wartime. The organization is there to provide disaster relief, not to take sides.
But this doesn't apply in Jena, to which anti-Caucasian demagogue Jesse Jackson summoned an army of cockroaches to swarm over the town in protest not against six black thugs for beating a lone white guy unconscious and leaving him for dead, but against the authorities for arresting them.
Bottled water for troublemaking moonbats bused in from Detroit was paid for using "existing disaster relief funds," per the Red Cross itself — although in an astonishing display of gall, it has asked Louisiana taxpayers for reimbursement.
On a tip from Barb.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:35 AM | Comments (9)
September 28, 2007
Verizon's NARAL Flip-Flop
If there's one organization that any morally sane person could identify as not just wrongheaded but satanic, it's NARAL (formerly known as National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws). Among its priorities is forcing people who regard abortion as murder to finance the abortions of those who consider it a convenient way to get rid of unwanted babies. It opposes banning the nightmarish procedure known as partial-birth abortion, in which a baby is partially delivered before being gruesomely murdered by having scissors jammed into his or her skull.
Considering that until today it had a policy against distributing text messages on controversial topics, it's not surprising that Verizon balked at providing this service for NARAL. But even less surprising is the way Verizon instantly caved when the left-wing media started to holler.
More disturbing than NARAL witches texting high-fives to each other for all the babies they help kill is the mentality to which Verizon so quickly capitulated. Art Brodsky sums it up, writing for HuffPo before Verizon's reversal:
At some point, responsible leadership is going to have to wake up and realize that a private company's discretion is no substitute for public standards. It might be a good idea for the FCC to spell out what rights they think consumers still have, and for Congress to make its own judgments. Discretion has its limits.
In other words, don't make liberals angry, or it will be the State that determines what can or cannot be communicated.
Personally I don't agree with Verizon regulating the content of text messages. But those who are upset about it can always take their business elsewhere. The only censor that matters is the government, which by definition (a monopoly on force) does not allow competition.
Libs don't even need to pass legislation. Just the threat of it can effect a Finlandization of private companies, as when unscrupulous goons in the Senate (including Reid, Schumer, and Durbin) threatened to pull ABC's broadcast license over Path to 9/11 because parts of it depicted Bill Clinton in an accurate but unfavorable light. As a result, three minutes of the movie were cut, and the much-anticipated DVD has not been released.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:28 PM | Comments (5)
Even Bloomberg Aghast at Spitzer's Irresponsibility
Not even Michael Bloomberg is enough of a moonbat to be pleased by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's plan to pander to illegal aliens by granting them drivers licenses.
Homeland Security has been urging states to tighten their identification standards for the sake of our safety, to which Spitzer responded with a one-finger salute. Ever Bloomers, no enemy of illegal immigrants, is annoyed that a New York drivers license will cease to be valid identification. For example, New Yorkers will be required to use passports to get on an airplane.
Bloomie frets:
I'm really skeptical that we should be issuing driver's licenses willy-nilly, because it then leads to lots of other problems in terms of voter registration and other things. But it's the governor's call.
Spitzer replied in his trademark rabid pit bull style:
[Bloomberg] is wrong at every level — dead wrong, factually wrong, legally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong.
The Governor must think there are an awful lot of illegal alien voters out there. Maybe he was inspired by the way Slick Willie pardoned FALN terrorists to help Shrillary get the Puerto Rican vote in her first Senate run.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:52 AM | Comments (1)
Animals May Be Eligible for Welfare
Moonbats in Austria are still at it, trying to get a chimpanzee legally defined as a person.
The chimp in question was brought into Austria for use in pharmaceutical research, but confiscated by authorities. It wound up at an animal shelter that has gone bankrupt, possibly because it costs €4,800 ($6,800) per month to house the animal.
Animal rights nuts are now headed to Austria's Supreme Court. They want the monkey declared a person so that a guardian can be appointed for it, ensuring that it won't "wind up homeless." I suspect this has something to do with the guardian collecting benefits on an animal's behalf.
Now a short lesson in moonbat taxonomy.
A person:
Not a person:
If this makes sense to you, please consult clergy or mental health professionals.
On a tip from Steve.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:15 AM | Comments (8)
NY Times to Be Hoisted on Sarbox Petard?
The Enron and WorldCom scandals provided moonbats with an opportunity to stick it to the capitalist system that makes our standard of living possible and that they so detest. They imposed the draconian Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which costs the business world $billions upon $billions per year to comply with absurdly extraneous punitive regulations. Even leftists like Nancy Pelousy and Schmuck Schumer admit that Sarbox burdens are excessive. But the quasi-Marxist New York Times loves it.
As American Thinker observes, the Gray Lady may get a taste of her own medicine. The recent debacle in which the Times granted a $77,508 discount to fellow moonbats at MoveOn.org on a disgraceful full-page ad sliming General Petraeus, admittedly in violation of its own policy, was an example of a "material weakness" in its internal controls. Sarbox-decreed punishments for not discovering such weaknesses and documenting them for the appropriate bureauweenies range up to 20 years in prison.
Jail punk would make a fitting second career for Times Publisher Pinch Sulzberger, don't you think?
The Gray Lady's blues don't end there. American Thinker also notes that Rupert Murdoch, who just acquired the Wall Street Journal, is already positioning himself to steal the Times' advertisers. Bankruptcy specialist Edward Altman devised the Z score to measure the risk of corporate bankruptcy. The lower the score, the more trouble a company is in. A score of 1.8 is "considered the upper bound of distress." WaPo's score is 4.118. The Times' score: 1.835. Time to start looking for a life raft.
Although Pinch is unfortunately unlikely to wind up in jail, he's unlikely to be running the Times for long either. Any White Knight stepping in to save the sinking paper would need a whole lot of money and politics acceptable to the Sulzberger/Ochs family. Candidates include Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, and any number of people from Dubai.
On tips from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:37 AM | Comments (8)
September 27, 2007
Rosie O'Donnell's Middle Eastern Fan Club
Rosie O'Donnell may have lost her soapbox on The View, but she still has a ready fan base — among Muslim terrorists.
WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein conducted interviews with members of terror groups such as al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in researching his new book Schmoozing With Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land, Jihadists Reveal Their Global Plans to a Jew! Among his findings: Rosie's message resonates.
Enthuses Ala Senakreh of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades:
I agree with what this O'Donnell says. … We welcome Rosie O'Donnell to stay among us and to get to know the truth from being here, like many American peace activists are doing.
(If you're wondering why peace activists would be interested in hanging out with homicidal maniacs, click here.)
Klein managed to assemble a group of terrorist leaders, but unfortunately neglected to get coordinates to the Air Force. He read them a series of Rosie's political statements, and found that the terrorists lapped them up like Democrat housewives.
On the topic of their pampered colleagues at Camp Gitmo, they agreed with Rosie that America "robs them of their humanity" and that American soldiers "torture them on a daily basis." They also approved of her assertion that we shouldn't fear them because they are mothers and fathers.
Gitmo vacationer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admits to planning "the 9/11 operation from A to Z" and to beheading the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl. Rosie bellowed to her zombified audience that the poor guy was tortured into making a false confession. Abu Jihad of Islamic Jihad concurs:
I am sure the Americans tortured Mohammed and forced him to say these untrue things.
Rosie's theory that Iran's kidnapping of 15 British sailors was actually a hoax perpetrated at the behest of the Bush Administration also found a receptive audience, as did her ravings about controlled demolitions at Ground Zero, supposedly intended to destroy documents incriminating to Enron and other evil corporations.
No doubt when Rosie gets another show, Ramadan Adassi of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades will be a guest of honor. His heartfelt endorsement:
I agree with everything O'Donnell said. Regarding September 11, there is no way the American intelligence and administration was not aware of what was going to happen that day. How come the Jews and Israelis disappeared from the buildings? Was it by miracle? They knew that an attack would take place. This meant that Zionist elements and the leading elements of the administration who are aligned with economic companies and interests, like Bush and Cheney's companies of oil, were very interested that the attack would succeed in order to start their campaign for the oil of Iran and Afghanistan [sic].
If Rosie has a hard time finding another gig, she might try Al Jazeera. The audience would love her, and a burka would do wonders for her appearance. Of course, they might cut her head off if they find out she's a lesbian, but she'd still be no worse off. Remember: "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America."
On a tip from Ashley.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:56 PM | Comments (9)
Michael Bloomberg Echoes Michael Moore
Michael Moore is widely recognized as perhaps the most profoundly vile human being to acquire access to the public stage as a result of the abhorrent propaganda he spews. A particularly contemptible example is his infamous comparison of the terrorists killing our troops in Iraq with the Minutemen who helped found this country. Appallingly, we now hear this same obscene comparison from the Mayor of New York.
From the New York Post:
In his most detailed comments on the Iraq war, Mayor Bloomberg last night suggested the United States was in the same difficult position as the British in the Revolutionary War — facing a determined band of insurgents.
Bloomberg said the comparison occurred to him when he visited his mother recently and was driving through Lexington, Mass., where a scrubby group of farmers rose up against a well-trained militia more than 200 years ago.
"We're the British," the mayor said during an interview with Tom Brokaw at Cooper Union, part of a series featuring potential presidential contenders hosted by former Gov. Mario Cuomo.
The difference from Moore is that Mayor Mike speaks from idiocy rather than malice. Fortunately the conspicuousness of this idiocy will spare us all from any serious threat of a Bloomberg presidency. If only Hillary were dumb enough to make public comparisons between Islamic terrorists and the Minutemen.
Hat tip: A Blog For All, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:52 AM | Comments (14)
DU Moonbats Stick Up for Mad Mahmoud
Once again we see that hostility to America trumps all else for moonbats. No one could be more adamantly opposed to everything liberals claim to believe in than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But since he hates America, they're willing to propagandize on his behalf. Check out some of these howlers from a piece at Democratic Underground:
[Ahmadinejad] is an elected President, not a Dictator.
[Mad Mahmoud's potentially genocidal anti-Semitism is a] vicious cycle of hatred for which both sides bear the responsibility (Israelis, and Arab/Muslims).
[Oil mega-exporter] Iran has a legitimate need for electrical power. Nuclear is a logical step for them that avoids turning horrible pollution (already) in cities like Tehran into an even worse nightmare.
Islam itself was very progressive in its view of women[…]
Peaceful dialog is ultimately what is needed here… Bush should have met him at ground zero with the hand of peace[…]
The first reader comment:
Carter would have met him.
For once, I agree with a moonbat. Carter probably would have — right at Ground Zero too, to the delight of moonbats and Islamic terrorists all around the world.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:05 AM | Comments (5)
Little Kid Investigated for Hate Crime After Getting Beaten by Adult
After a 35-year-old woman beat a 10-year-old boy with an iron bar, police were quick to react — by investigating the little kid for hate crimes violations.
The woman, whose name apparently has been withheld to protect the guilty, is a Slovak. To the moonbats running Britain, this constitutes a separate race, so that little Jake Stedman's alleged suggestion that she "go back to her own country" is racism, the modern equivalent of witchcraft.
Jake stands to be the youngest Briton yet to be officially charged with racism.
Bellows Chief Inspector Peter Wedlake of the Medway Police:
We won't tolerate racially motivated offences, whoever they are committed by.
The only thing that could save Britain from moonbattery at this point would be Thorazine in the water supply.
On a tip from Panday.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:29 AM | Comments (4)
Islamic Rage Boy Captured, Subjected to HillaryCare
Via Free Republic:
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:07 AM | Comments (1)
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: John Monti
Here's some good news:
Minuteman John Matthew Monti of Bellflower, California has been found not guilty of various charges following a violent altercation that resulted when he tried to photograph some illegal aliens lurking under a freeway overpass.
Predictably siding with the bad guys, authorities brought up Monti on seven misdemeanor charges, including several civil rights violations. This alleged enemy of civil rights is a staunch opponent of the human trafficking and prostitution associated with our invasion by Mexico.
Naturally he was accused of racism.
On a tip from Bob.
Update:
See Save Our State for more on this case in John Monti's own words, including a list of strange happenings during the trial.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:51 AM | Comments (8)
Pro-Abortion Pinheads on Parade
From a recent Planned Parenthood rally, via Free Republic:
As far as I know, this isn't a photoshopped joke. "Every human has the right to choose what's right for them." Apparently babies aren't humans. "Pro-woman Pro-child Pro-choice." Given that "choice" is liberalese for "abortion," you certainly can't be pro-child and pro-choice on the same placard. Since half the babies these fiends kill would have grown up to be women, you can't even be pro-woman and pro-choice.
Here's another one:
These two constitute a family? My breakfast just turned over.
One more:
Maybe the kid should elaborate: "I'm so glad Mommy killed my brothers and sisters because that means more toys for me."
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:18 AM | Comments (11)
Florida Dem Leader Denounces Other States as "Terrorist"
Not long after 9/11, I heard a moonbat shouting through a megaphone at a Manhattan rally that having to pay for housing was a form of terrorism. The liberal concept of terrorism hasn't grown any less demented, to judge by Florida Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller, who has denounced Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina as "terrorist rogue states."
Given that he's a Democrat, Geller's plan to punish these evil states is predictable: he wants to sue them.
The "rogue states" stand accused of being permitted by the DNC to select delegates before February 5, and of threatening penalties against Dem candidates who campaign in Florida.
Unhinged though Geller may be, he's astute enough to have this to say:
The Republicans are so lucky that they're running against the Democrats. With everything that's happening right now, we may be the only party they can beat … We'll find a way to shoot ourselves in the foot, which is what we're doing right now.
It's appreciated.
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Special thanks to Steve Geller and other Dems for their unhinged ineptitude. |
On a tip from Freedom Now.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:38 AM | Comments (3)
David Shuster's Inept Ambush
A little follow-up on the story of MSNBC brownshirt David Shuster browbeating Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn again and again with her failure to remember the name of the last soldier from her district to be killed in Iraq.
When Shuster sprang his gotcha trap, he identified the soldier as Pvt. Jeremy Bohannon — who as it turns out is not from Blackburn's district. Next time Shuster, prepare a better ambush, so you won't have to go back on the air to apologize.
NewsBusters lists a few other examples of Shuster sacrificing professionalism to moonbattery:
• Last month, he called the Larry Craig scandal a "moral insult" to Hurricane Katrina victims.
• Shuster collaborated with left-wing fabulist Jason Leopold to spread false stories about the Bush admin.
• Giving play to wild accusations of "voter intimidation" in the 2006 elections (in case GOP won them).
• Relying on skewed, left-wing sources, Shuster falsely predicted that Bush aide Karl Rove would be indicted in the Valerie Plame investigation.
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His fellow libs would benefit if Shuster just shushed. |
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:01 AM | Comments (10)
Boulder Student Moonbats Protest Pledge of Allegiance
Boulder High School's oxymoronically named club "Student Worker" is waging a righteous campaign against the religious oppression so prominent in their festering nest of moonbattery by protesting the Pledge of Allegiance.
They've called for students to walk out of class every Thursday at 8:30 when the pledge is recited over the intercom, and gather in the courtyard to recite their own moonbat version:
I pledge allegiance to the flag and my constitutional rights with which it comes. And to the diversity, in which our nation stands, one nation, part of one planet, with liberty, freedom, choice and justice for all.
Their main problem with the real pledge is the reference to God. As you can see, they have substituted their own god, "diversity." By "choice" I assume they mean abortion.
The club's president, 17-year-old constitutional scholar Emma Martens, holds that the words "on nation, under God" violate the First Amendment, which ironically enough was intended in part to protect our religious freedom.
For a liberal, Martens is quite open-minded. She thinks students who want to hear the real pledge should be allowed to go off to the auditorium and listen to it on their lunch break — just so long as moonbats don't have to hear it, which would qualify as "almost religious oppression," on a par with sprinkling holy water on a vampire.
Slapstick Politics has video of the little darling.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:26 AM | Comments (30)
September 26, 2007
Berkeley Moonbat Calls for Extinction of Human Race
If anyone has failed to figure out the ultimate objective of liberalism taken to its logical conclusion, the Berkeley Daily Planet makes it plain — moonbats literally want to put an end to the human race:
The hour of judgment is at hand for our planet. Doom is knocking on our door in the form of catastrophic climate change. Global warming not only threatens our so-called way of life, it threatens the very existence of the planet itself! […]
The only real, long term hope for the eco-sphere is a massive human population collapse, hopefully leading to the voluntary extinction of the human race. Already, a new urgency and groundswell of support is building for the idea that humans are a type of super toxin which the planet cannot sustain or support in the longterm. Cogent support for the voluntary extinction of the human race is well-articulated in all its ramifications and implications here: www.vhemt.org.
The idea that humans are a toxin has a precedent in Kurt Vonnegut's assertion that humans are "a disease on the face of this planet." Vonnegut's juvenile tripe is considered literature on today's college campuses.
The city and residents of Berkeley should be on the leading vanguard of the voluntary extinction of the human race. First of all, if China can implement a very sensible one child policy in urban centers, Berkeley voters should approve an advisory No Child policy for residents of our city. It could be our answer to the Bush regime’s No Child Left Behind Act! Next, on the state level we need to rally support for a ballot initiative which allows us to die with dignity when we choose to. When this option is legally enacted, Berkeley should be the first city in California to open a euthanasia clinic. Hopefully, if we are true to our principles, our city’s residents will be lined up for many blocks waiting for their turn to be recycled into the earth!
Unfortunately, dead Democrats still vote. Just ask ACORN. Back to Berkeley:
Even before that time, younger readers of the Planet in particular should refrain from having children. Every person less makes a huge difference; a far bigger difference than using rapid transit, riding your bike or recycling bottles once you are born. Readers of the Planet who are already parents and grandparents should actively discourage further destructive procreation by their relatives. If pets need to be neutered and spayed by law, so should humans for many of the same reasons!
Imagine if Berkeley has the honor of becoming the first human ghost town on earth to revert to a primal state of nature!
True enough, if you believe the fashionable rhetoric regarding global warming, the only thing we could do about it would be cease to exist. Calling for human extinction is nothing new among moonbats. Katharine Jefferts Schori, as Presiding Bishop of the moonbatty Episcopal Church, encourages people not to have children for the sake of "stewardship of the earth." Author David Benatar has devoted an entire book to arguing that it would be better if humans didn't exist.
So get with the program, progressives. Stop reproducing.
On a tip from Mike.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:50 PM | Comments (21)
Identifying with America Makes Katie Couric "Uncomfortable"
There are certainly good reasons for CBS News' continued tailspin with Katie Couric in the anchor chair. Here she is at the National Press Club yesterday, letting slip her dislike of America:
The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying "we" when referring to the United States and, even the "shock and awe" of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.
Yes, being asked to identify with your own country in time of war will make many an American liberal uncomfortable — but mainstream media folks aren't supposed to admit this in public.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:08 PM | Comments (10)
San Francisco vs. the Marines Blackout
A little follow-up on San Francisco's refusal to let the Marines film a commercial there:
American Thinker reports that other than Fox News, USA Today, and a local ABC station, the mainstream media has completely ignored the story.
Too bad, because it has some interesting hooks. The Marines were denied by Film Commission Executive Director Stefanie Coyote, who we learn has been a teamster and is married to barking moonbat Peter Coyote. When she got onto thin ice by firing Film Commission Deputy Director Michael Billington without cause, leftist screwball Sean Penn came running to offer her public support.
Odds of Ms. Coyote becoming the next Mayor of San Francisco would probably improve from the current 500 to 1 if the papers would give her dissing of the Marines a little publicity.
At least, by refusing to cover it, the liberals who run the media tacitly acknowledge that this story reveals something awful about them.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:12 PM | Comments (6)
Dutch Name Deemed Offensive by DMV
Mike and Shelly Udink and their son Kalei have vanity license plates reading UDINK1 UDINK2, and UDINK3. But then Kawika Udink's application for UDINK4 was rejected, and now the state of Oregon wants the other plates returned.
It seems their Dutch name might be read as "You dink." The various meanings of the word "dink" include a sexual reference and, worse still, a racial slur against Vietnamese.
So far the Udinks have not been ordered to change their name.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:03 PM | Comments (10)
Jena 6 Fact Check
Anyone buying the liberal spin that the Jena 6 thugs are somehow the victims might want to examine a few of the facts:
It was widely reported that [Jena 6 thug Mychal] Bell, now 17, was an honor student with no prior criminal record. Although he had a high grade-point average, he was, in fact, on probation for at least two counts of battery and a count of criminal damage to property. In any event, his conviction was overturned because an appeals court ruled he should not have been tried as an adult.[…]
_The so-called "white tree" at Jena High, often reported to be the domain of only white students, was nothing of the sort, according to teachers and school administrators; students of all races, they say, congregated under it at one time or another.
_Two nooses — not three [which would symbolize the KKK] — were found dangling from the tree. Beyond being offensive to blacks, the nooses were cut down because black and white students "were playing with them, pulling on them, jump-swinging from them, and putting their heads through them," according to a black teacher who witnessed the scene.
_There was no connection between the September noose incident and December attack, according to Donald Washington, an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department in western Louisiana, who investigated claims that these events might be race-related hate crimes.
_The three youths accused of hanging the nooses were not suspended for just three days — they were isolated at an alternative school for about a month, and then given an in-school suspension for two weeks.
_The six-member jury that convicted Bell was, indeed, all white. However, only one in 10 people in LaSalle Parish is African American, and though black residents were selected randomly by computer and summoned for jury selection, none showed up.
Hopefully not all of the facts will be lost to history as moonbats strive to turn America into Zimbabwe by granting blacks the right to beat whites unconscious.
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Jena 6 thug Robert Bailey Jr. enjoying cash showered upon him by moonbat admirers. |
Hat tip: Ace of Spades, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:31 AM | Comments (1)
James Hansen, George Soros, and the Lack of Transparency
Creepy NASA bureaucrat James Hansen once provided computer model support for the hysterical notion that burning fossil fuels would soon create a new ice age. More recently, he's been shilling for Al Gore, screeching that we're all doomed thanks to these same fossil fuels causing global warming, meanwhile sweeping bogus temperature readings under the rug.
No doubt the switch was largely a matter of keeping up with the liberal fads that the mainstream media passes off as news. But more importantly, Hansen was following the money.
We already knew that Hansen the global warming crusader was making a mint on prizes like the Heinz Award and the Dan David Prize. Now we learn that he was paid as much as $720,000 by the relentlessly anti-American George Soros' absurdly named Open Society Institute.
Too bad this wasn't public knowledge during Hansen's 1,400+ news interviews, during which he often screamed that he was being silenced by George Bush. But then Soros isn't known for transparency when it comes to financing moonbattery with his ill-gotten riches.
Other examples have come to light with the release of OSI's 2006 annual report:
OSI's ominously named Justice Fund, with a $17 million bankroll, helped instigate and finance the massive illegal immigrant rallies we saw last year.
The Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ruling that abolished special military commissions for Gitmo terrorists was obtained with Soros-financed lawyers.
Soros money helped sink a program called "Secure Flight" that matched passenger lists with terrorist names.
Lawyers who persuaded a Texas judge to block the tracking of terrorist cell phone communications were paid by Soros.
OSI partners with the Tides Foundation, which passes cash along to groups engaged in "direct action" — often a euphemism for eco-terrorism.
George Soros is a one-man termite colony, eating away at America's foundations on countless fronts. Perhaps best known of these fronts is MoveOn.org, recently in the news for its attack on General Petraeus, which crows of the Democrat Party:
Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.
You might wonder why a cipher like Barack Obama is being taken seriously as a presidential candidate. It wouldn't be surprising to learn that Soros' cash has something to do with it.
On a tip from Charles.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:46 AM | Comments (4)
Elton John's Nan Goldin Kiddie Porn Seized
Child porn from Sir Elton John's private collection has been seized by British police from an exhibit at the Baltic modern art gallery in Tyneside, England, where it hung by similar works by its creator, photographer Nan Goldin, and others who have learned to transform degeneracy into cash via the sick sham that now passes for the world of art.
Goldin specializes in photographing prostitutes, homosexuals, transvestites, fellow drug addicts, derelicts, and other assorted perverts and weirdos, often during sex. The quality of her work is generally what you would expect from a drunk with a Polaroid, so the degenerate subject matter must be the whole point.
A sympathetic visitor to the exhibit had a strong enough stomach to partake of this haute couture:
There a man holding his penis, which is a bit odd and pictures of people in coffins who appear to be dead but may not be.
There are three exhibitions with very bizarre content and all carry warnings. Nan Goldin's was the most uncomfortable of the three but there was certainly nothing in any of them that I found grossly offensive.
Nonetheless, the idea of subjecting children to Goldin's world would make any decent person shudder in horror.
Yet not everyone objects. Richard Dorment of the Telegraph responds to the kiddie porn with a yawn and "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Shamed be he who thinks evil of it). He does make an interesting point:
The trouble with censorship of any kind is that what shocks us today has a way of looking completely innocuous to the next generation.
Give some thought to the idea that in the future, no one will have a problem with naked children photographed in an aggressively depraved and sexual context. We do seem to be headed toward that future.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:03 AM | Comments (11)
Jena 6 Rake in Cash
The "Jena 6," six black goons who are being transformed by the media into civil rights heroes as a reward for beating up a white guy, are rolling in cash, thanks to donations sent in by sympathetic anti-Caucasian racists — many of them presumably white. Via Free Republic:
One day liberals will get the kind of America they've been asking for. Then there will be nowhere for the rest of the world to escape to.
On a tip from Cheetah.
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Descent Into Third-World Chaos Continues
A couple more candidates for the list:
In Jonesboro, Georgia, Martin Flores was found guilty of jumping out of the bushes "undocumented Americans" often inhabit and trying to rape a 12-year-old:
Judge Matthew Simmons asked Flores if he wanted to say anything before he was sentenced Friday morning.
"No," he replied, "They just don't have any evidence against me. What kind of evidence do they have against me? If she was really hurt, why didn't they take her to the doctor?"
The court-appointed translator, standing next to the now-empty jury box, wearing a tan pant suit and a translators' headset, repeated the words in English as the prosecutor, defense attorney, judge and court recorders looked at the defiant defendant.
"Judge," said Lloyd Matthews, Flores' attorney, "that's our attempt to establish remorse."
Simmons told Flores that there was, actually, a lot of evidence against him.
Is Flores here legally? Who knows? Media reports often don't tell us.
The same goes for Cesar Mendez-Barrientos, who was arrested yesterday for knifing a guy in a Mount Kisco, New York laundry known as a hangout for illegals. Whether he's illegal or not, he'll be legal once politicians manage to push amnesty through.
Also in Mount Kisco, Jose Manuel Arias, whom the Journal News was honest enough to describe as an "illegal immigrant," bit a state trooper after being stopped for driving 100 mph while drunk and on drugs. It took several troopers to subdue him.
Welcome to the Third-World version of America.
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Jose Arias, one face of the America politicians and the media are imposing in place of our own. |
On tips from Bob and Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:38 AM
Blasphemous Ad For San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair
Check out the ad for San Franfreakshow's Folsom Street Fair:
The fair describes itself as "the world's largest leather event." The city supports it by shutting down several city blocks and providing security. It is financed in part by the same South African–owned Miller Beer that has also supported illegal alien rallies.
Matt Barber of CWA comments:
"Gay" activists disingenuously call Christians "haters" and "homophobes" for honoring the Bible, but then lash out in this hateful manner toward the very people they accuse.
In their version of The Last Supper, Christ, Who gave His life for our sins, is despicably replaced by sin itself as the object of worship.
Barber calls upon California's lefty pols to condemn the ad, and:
We further challenge the media to cover this affront to Christianity with the same vigor as recent stories about cartoon depictions of Mohammed and other items offensive to the Muslim community.
Unfortunately, Christians would have to fly a few planes into buildings full of people before that will ever happen. The media only sides with the bad guys.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:02 AM | Comments (22)
September 25, 2007
Kevin Spacey Latest Hollyweird Moonbat to Kiss Hugo Chavez's Ring
In the grand patriotic tradition of Harry Belafonte, Cindy Sheehan, Danny Glover, and Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey — creepy Clinton groupie and star of the America-bashing movie American Beauty — met privately yesterday with virulently anti-American despot Hugo Chavez.
AP reports that neither of them spoke to the press following "the nearly three-hour encounter in the presidential palace in Caracas." Spacecase may be even creepier than we knew — Chavez too.
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Now Spacey has found a new love. |
On a tip from Byron.
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Red State Update on the Mad Mahmoud Dog and Pony Show
On a tip from Jim Bowie at the Alamo.
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Animal Rights Kook Steals Bunny From Preschoolers
AP reports from Spokane:
A pet rabbit named Sugar Bunny was stolen from a preschool and fliers protesting circus animal acts were left in its empty cage.
The preschool's children gathered in a circle Monday to remember Sugar Bunny.
"We talked about how some people have different ideas about animals," said teacher Lori Peters. "Some people don't think they should be in cages."
A 5-year-old had a more intelligent response:
Somebody stoled him. I'm sad.
The fliers targeted Ringling Brothers Circus, much hated by PETA and other militant moonbats for delighting little kids at the supposed expense of the animals.
As observed at BelchSpeak, this was almost certainly an inside job — i.e., a staffer with keys to the Community Building Children's Center abducted the rabbit. But chances of the perpetrator meeting with justice are slim.
On a tip from Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:28 PM | Comments (1)
More on Suppressed Path to 9/11 DVD
National Review has more on the suppression of Path to 9/11's DVD release.
You might recall that Harry Reid and other Democrat thugs threatened to go after ABC's broadcasting license for daring to show the miniseries, which neglected to gloss over Bill Clinton's failure to take responsibility regarding Islamic terrorism. The show didn't flatter W either, but Republicans don't insist that the media refrain from presenting them in a negative light.
NR backs up Path to 9/11's credentials:
Because ABC insisted that Cyrus [Nowrasteh, the writer] accompany each scene with no less than two footnotes and two sources to verify that the assertions were true, the annotation he turned in was 50 pages longer than the script itself. ABC, their lawyers, and fact-checkers approved the script, and it went into production. […]
Michael Scheuer, former chief of the OBL unit at the CIA's counterterrorist center sent ABC News an e-mail, claiming, "the core of the movie is irrefutably true: the Clinton administration had 10 chances to capture or kill Bin Laden."
Gary Schroen, former CIA field agent who was the first American into Afghanistan after 9/11, said publicly, "…the movie is remarkably accurate." He also maintains that there were 13 such opportunities to capture Bin Laden. Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, chief White House military aide to President Clinton, said, "In terms of conveying how the Clinton administration handled its opportunities to get bin Laden, it's 100 percent factually correct… I was there with Clinton and Berger and watched the missed opportunities occur."
But after Bill Clinton denounced the movie as "lies in there parading as truth," CNN came to the rescue:
Wolf Blitzer provided Sandy Berger and William Cohen prime time on CNN in order to disparage the movie and demand that it be pulled off the air. None of them had in fact, viewed the film, which de facto prevented them from "lying" about it. In Berger's interview, Blitzer even failed to inquire about the 2003 incident, in which Berger stole original documents from the national archives, destroyed them, and then lied about it. It would have been a valuable and highly pertinent part of the interview, since Berger was in fact sent by Clinton, ostensibly to prepare for their testimony at the 9/11 Commission, and since Berger pled guilty to charges in April of 2005. Apparently there wasn't space to squeeze in a bit of worthwhile information, since interviewer and interviewee were set on discussing a movie both have admittedly not seen. In their own words, "only on CNN."
In a memorable scene of the miniseries, bin Laden escapes because Berger is too much of a useless bureauweenie to okay a strike.
It's a miracle the miniseries aired at all, although three minutes were censored to placate Harry Reid and his fellow goons. But the DVD remains in limbo long after it should have been released, though given the higher viewership of the miniseries, it stands to make an estimated $200 million.
Apparently Disney/ABC would rather forego the fortune than risk the wrath of Hillary Clinton before an election.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:01 PM
Confirmed: Bilingual Education Keeps Kids Behind
A new study has stumbled upon the obvious: Bilingual education keeps Hispanics behind. From the Rocky Mountain News:
A study looking at whether poor children in Denver do better in wealthier schools turned up an unexpected — and far more controversial — finding that is raising questions about the use of Spanish in classrooms. The analysis by the Piton Foundation and the University of Colorado, to be released today, shows that students learning English make dramatically greater gains in wealthier schools than in poorer ones.
A key difference between the schools is that students in poorer schools typically learn English with help in their native language, generally Spanish.
In wealthier schools, students learning English are typically immersed in English.
"It raises more questions than it answers," Brad Jupp, senior academic adviser to Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet, said of the study.
The main question it raises is: What possible purpose could bilingual education serve, other than to keep Hispanics poor and unassimilated so that they will be more likely to depend on government handouts and vote for Democrats?
On a tip from El Presidente.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:17 AM | Comments (3)
Day Laborers at Play
I believe we can add this one to the extremely long list:
Last week Edgar Gomez and Cirilio Martinez, described as "day laborers" or alternatively by the more politically correct term "construction workers," stabbed a woman 76 times after raping her in Bonsall, California.
Were they in the country illegally? Since media accounts don't mention their immigration status, it's probably safe to assume the answer is yes.
On a tip from Bob.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:02 AM | Comments (3)
Time to Chuck Hagel
The time has come to throw the execrable Chuck Hagel out of the Republican Party. Then when he spews his Democrat talking points, his fellow moonbats won't be able to chirp, "Even a Republican Senator admits that blah blah blah…"
Here's Schmuck denouncing Republican attempts to defend us from Islamic terrorism:
The Republican Party has won two elections on the issue of fear and terrorism. [It's] going to try again.
"Fear" is a buzzword in this context. Standard Democrat procedure is to associate conservatives with the words "fear," "hate," and "corruption" at every opportunity — even if they have to make their own opportunities.
Hagel has decided we need to close down Club Gitmo, lest any useful information be obtained from the vacationing terrorists. According to liberal ideology, terrorists aren't lethal enemies; they're just criminals, in need of lawyers and rehabilitation. We certainly wouldn't want to oppress them by insisting they share information about upcoming terror attacks.
Gitmo has been exploited as a propaganda symbol by America's enemies. But closing it would hardly turn them into friends. The media would spin its closure as a validation of unfounded allegations, before moving on to the next propaganda front.
It would also leave us without a suitable place to detain terrorists. Too bad we can't store a few in the Hagel household.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:38 AM | Comments (2)
Miracle Theater Rebukes Tinseltown Blasphemy
The treasonous kooks at MoveOn.org ar