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October 31, 2007

Dennis Kucinich Given Marching Orders by UFO

Apropos of Dennis Kucinich's announcement that we must "start asking questions" about the President's mental health, Shirley MacLaine throws some light on the Congressional munchkin's unique qualifications to evaluate sanity in her new book, Sage-Ing While Age-Ing. She writes that Kucinich

had a close sighting over my home in Graham, Washington, when I lived there. Dennis found his encounter extremely moving. The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered, soundless, for ten minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.

According to the Plain Dealer Politics Blog, Kucinich and MacLaine go way back:

MacLaine is a well-known believer of UFOs and reincarnation. And she's been close to Kucinich for decades. MacLaine is the godmother of Kucinich's daughter and attended Kucinich's 2005 Cleveland wedding to third wife, Elizabeth, who's often campaigning by his side.

MacLaine also recommended in the 1980s that Kucinich visit New Mexico spiritual adviser Chris Griscom, whom MacLaine featured in her then-best-selling book, "Dancing in the Light," describing how Griscom helped her communicate with trees. (Kucinich has insisted that Griscom was not his spiritual adviser but a "teacher and a very good friend.")

MacLaine's book goes on sale on election day.

On a tip from Mike.

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Dorothy Parvaz Discusses the Pros and Cons of Burning Down Churches

Dorothy Parvaz is a columnist and member of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial board. Here she is discussing a lunatic's attempted torching of San Francisco's historic Grace Cathedral, via NewsBusters:

On the one hand, I can understand the power of the image to someone who sees the church as an oppressive institution. On the other hand…it's still arson. And given how fires can get out of hand, there's a chance that this little stunt could have damaged other property and hurt some folks.

When members of the editorial board of a major newspaper can't decide whether to endorse or condemn burning down cathedrals, it's past time to give up on the mainstream media.

On a tip from V the K.

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Moonbats Fret About Environmental Spoilage of the Moon

There is nothing noble the human race could accomplish that moonbats wouldn't denounce. Even having reached the moon — so stirringly symbolic of human aspiration — is portrayed as exploitation by the kooks at The Guardian.

China, Japan, India, and the USA have all been interested in sending probes and/or people back to the moon. We're warned that the motives may be nefarious. Though the moon appears to be a barren, crater-pocked wasteland, helium-3 (He-3) deposited by solar winds could theoretically be used to generate clean energy.

A novice to the study of moonbattery might expect liberals to approve of clean energy. But no: they don't want us to use clean energy, they want us to use no energy. Any human activity is bound to be harmful to Mother Earth and now even Mother Moon. Shockingly, "mining He-3 would involve ripping up the lunar surface to a depth of one metre."

I won't even try to make fun of these weenies; they do too good a job of making fun of themselves:

Whether it turns out to be He-3, solar energy, or some as yet unknown technology that draws humanity back to the moon, there's an irony here. In 1968, Apollo 8 brought back the first shimmering image of an "Earthrise" as seen from the moon. Four years later, Apollo 17 came home with the famous whole Earth picture. These new views of our fragile, heartbreakingly isolated planet are often credited with having helped to kickstart the environmental movement — even with having changed the way we see ourselves as a species.

When moonbats demand that we sacrifice humanity to preserve the Earth in a certain condition, they can at least argue that some animals would benefit. Who benefits if this idiocy is extended to the lifeless moon?

The moonbats themselves, of course — because standing in the way of human progress makes them feel self-righteous. That's why — with their knack for inversion — they call themselves progressives.

On a tip from V the K.

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Justice Stevens Weeps for Architect of Pearl Harbor

This should give you an idea of the profound derangement of some of the moonbats who have infiltrated the Supreme Court. John Paul Stevens laments that during WWII, we shot down the poor Japanese Admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor attack, without "humanitarian consideration":

[Stevens] won a bronze star for his service as a cryptographer, after he helped break the code that informed American officials that Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Japanese Navy and architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, was about to travel to the front. Based on the code-breaking of Stevens and others, U.S. pilots, on Roosevelt's orders, shot down Yamamoto's plane in April 1943.

Stevens told me he was troubled by the fact that Yamamoto, a highly intelligent officer who had lived in the United States and become friends with American officers, was shot down with so little apparent deliberation or humanitarian consideration.

Having senile fools who will reflexively side with the enemy in positions of supreme authority doesn't help much when it comes to fighting back against the Islamic terror war being waged against us. Fortunately, this useless coot is going to retire soon. Unfortunately, if Shrillary takes the White House, he will be replaced by someone just as crazy and malignant, but younger.

Hat tips: Ace of Spades HQ, The Volokh Conspiracy; on a tip from V the K.

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Moonbat Judge Won't Deport Serial Sex Criminal

America isn't the only country where immigration moonbattery is threatening the fabric of society. The Evening Standard reports from the U.K.:

Britain's leading immigration judge has vetoed the deportation of a serial sex offender because it would breach his human right to a family life.

The Home Office wanted to deport Mohammed Kendeh — who has been assessed as presenting a "high risk of reoffending" — to his native Sierra Leone.

However Sir Henry Hodge — the husband of Labour minister Margaret Hodge — has rejected the attempt on human rights grounds.

He has decided that Kendeh, who has admitted indecently assaulting 11 women in the past five years and has committed a string of other offences including robbery, burglary, arson and drugs — should be allowed to stay because he came to the UK at the age of six and has virtually no family left in West Africa.

No doubt Kendeh's victims — both past and future — deserve their fate for being insensitive racist xenophobes.

On a tip from xantl.

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DU Moonbats Waterboard Themselves

The moonbats at Democratic Underground have proven the liberal contention that waterboarding is torture by waterboarding themselves. Unsurprisingly, they found the experience unenjoyable.

Now let's see if they can prove that the techniques used by al-Qaeda are torture by trying them on themselves. They might start with gouging their own eyes out, then move on to squishing their skulls in a press, etc.:

First they'll want to acquire an al-Qaeda torture toolkit:

Afterwards they'll look like this poor guy, and possibly begin to understand what the word "torture" actually means:

Since we know now that waterboarding is torture, we can look forward to being sued in our own courts by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, whose waterboarding produced information that foiled a terror attack on the Brooklyn Bridge.

On a tip from Cheetah.

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Authoritarian Brainwashing at University of Delaware

From a press release put out yesterday by FIRE:

The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university's own materials as a "treatment" for students' incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware's residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. […]

The university's views are forced on students through a comprehensive manipulation of the residence hall environment, from mandatory training sessions to "sustainability" door decorations. Students living in the university's eight housing complexes are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs). The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a "diversity facilitation training" session at which RAs were taught, among other things, that "[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality."

The university suggests that at one-on-one sessions with students, RAs should ask intrusive personal questions such as "When did you discover your sexual identity?" Students who express discomfort with this type of questioning often meet with disapproval from their RAs, who write reports on these one-on-one sessions and deliver these reports to their superiors. One student identified in a write-up as an RA's "worst" one-on-one session was a young woman who stated that she was tired of having "diversity shoved down her throat."

According to the program's materials, the goal of the residence life education program is for students in the university's residence halls to achieve certain "competencies" that the university has decreed its students must develop in order to achieve the overall educational goal of "citizenship." These competencies include: "Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society," "Students will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression," and "Students will be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality."

At various points in the program, students are also pressured or even required to take actions that outwardly indicate their agreement with the university's ideology, regardless of their personal beliefs. Such actions include displaying specific door decorations, committing to reduce their ecological footprint by at least 20%, taking action by advocating for an "oppressed" social group, and taking action by advocating for a "sustainable world."

In the Office of Residence Life's internal materials, these programs are described using the harrowing language of ideological reeducation. In documents relating to the assessment of student learning, for example, the residence hall lesson plans are referred to as "treatments."

No wonder the Breck Girl wants every American to go to college, even those who can't afford it and/or don't really have a use for it. Increasingly the point of college is not to prepare people for careers, but to brainwash them into zombified moonbats who will embrace leftist totalitarianism, while stalling their introduction to adulthood for four or more years — if not indefinitely.

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Moonbat Professor Explains Halloween

It must be Halloween, because academics have been creeping out of their lairs, blinking at the unfamiliar daylight, scratching themselves in unseemly places, fumbling around like zombies, and condescendingly explaining our culture to us. Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies Anne-Maria Makhulu of Duke University lectures that we celebrate witchcraft out of a desire for equality:

When people say they believe in magical forces, they believe in magic that can make the world equal and just in circumstances where it's not […] witchcraft is about recuperating what is ethical, just and moral. We need enchantment in our lives because our world has become disenchanted. We need faith that promises something bigger and better than what we have.

Of course, acknowledging God is out of the question.

I'm guessing that what is "ethical, just and moral" to Prof. Makhulu might look a lot like militant moonbattery to others. She is a member of the Duke 88, a frighteningly large group of irresponsible Duke professors who formed a lynch mob that publicly clamored for the heads of the racially railroaded lacrosse players.

Makhulu is teaching a course on magic and capitalism. Talk about voodoo economics. By the way, tuition at Duke is $35,856 a year.

On a tip from Cheetah.

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Lunatic Kucinich Calls W Crazy

Moonbats are famous for their projection — loudly accusing others of their own worst sins. Thus we have the party of race-obsessed, state-worshiping socialists calling their opponents racists and Nazis, we have fans of Bill Clinton calling Bush a liar, we have Pelosi's crew of criminal lowlife (William Jefferson, John Murtha, Alcee Hastings, et al.) babbling about a "culture of corruption," etc. Now we even have this:

The visibly insane Dennis Kucinich is questioning the mental health of the President.

Bush's sensible observation that the terrorist regime in Iran acquiring nuclear weapons could lead to a world war inspired the erstwhile Boy Mayor of the Mistake by the Lake to squeak:

I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health. There's something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact.

If only Kucinich understood this himself when he went on Syrian television recently to propagandize against the USA on behalf of Islamic terrorists. The leftist dwarf would seem to be a traitor, but he's probably just crazy as a bedbug.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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Happy Hillary Halloween

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October 30, 2007

Moonbat Looters Go After Chevron for Sins of Ecuador's State Oil Company

With the media and usually the courts on their side, there's no need for greedy moonbats even to pretend to be reasonable. This is why they are suing Chevron for the environmental mess caused by sloppy oil work in Ecuador, on the grounds that it merged with Texaco, which has done business in Ecuador — but not since 1990.

Unhinged envirowacko Daryl Hannah, having been extracted from some poor guy's tree in Los Angeles, has helped the cause by traveling to Ecuador for a photo op. I wonder how she got down there. It's rather a long drive for her customized auto that runs on restaurant waste. Maybe she has a plane that uses the same fuel.

Ecuador formally "absolved, liberated and forever freed" Texaco from "any claim or litigation by the Government of Ecuador concerning the obligations acquired by Texpet," the subsidiary that did business there, back in 1998. However, Ecuador now has a radical leftist leader named Rafael Correa, who has been lurching around yelling about Texaco's "atrocities." A farcical lawsuit proceeds, as the looters and parasites behind it angle for a massive settlement.

This is why moonbattery leads ineluctably to poverty. It simply isn't not possible to do business in an environment where the pathological greed of moonbats supercedes reason and the rule of law.

The Daryl Hannah Show goes to Ecuador in search of capitalists.

On a tip from V the K.

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Cycle of Moonbattery

In a piece entitled "Cycle of Dependency," Thomas Sowell fingers the culprit behind recent problems such as the mortgage crisis, the California wildfires, and Southwestern water shortages. It is the very entity that promises to rescue us from these same problems: our bloated and ever-expanding government.

The mortgage crisis was caused by people taking out risky loans they couldn't pay back. Lenders were pressured to offer the loans by the Community Reinvestment Act. Borrowers were reduced to taking out these desperate loans by housing prices driven up largely by government restrictions on building, often for the sake of "open space."

"Open space" imposed by the government is the main reason there are miles and miles of unbroken wilderness, so that wildfires are able to gather so much momentum and get out of control. People are willing to live in their path due to an expectation that the government will bail them out when the inevitable inferno comes their way.

The government also bails out farmers, allowing them to raise crops in the desert by subsidizing water, which is why the market isn't allowed to find the natural equilibrium of supply and demand. Given human nature, it's also why artificially inexpensive water is wasted.

But not to worry, the federal government is on the case, busily devising extravagantly expensive solutions to all of these problems it caused.

I once saw a movie where some misguided teenager set his girlfriend's house on fire so that he could be the hero who rescues her family. As I recall, the family burned up. The young Romeo probably went on to get a job with the government.

On a tip from Byron.

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Anti-Christian Bigotry Is Getting Scary

The scariest animal is a frightened one; this goes double for humans. That's why the anti-Christian bigotry prevalent among moonbats is so disturbing. Some progressives actually believe their own rhetoric, and regard anyone who has not renounced the Christian God as a malevolent psychopath.

This bizarrely incongruous opinion of Christians has backed up out of the lunatic fringe like something from a clogged toilet to infect mainstream liberal thought. You can actually turn on you TV set to hear popular celebrities exclaim that Christians are "just as threatening" as mass-murdering Muslim terrorists. Or you can click over to The Independent and read this by Johann Hari, in an otherwise sensible article that recounts the horrors faced by a woman who wanted to escape from Islam:

She was beaten for speaking out, and had to go into hiding. One day, her husband and four of their friends were taken away. Nine months later, in another hiding place, she read that they had been executed. […]

If Christian fundamentalists were doing this — as they used to, and would like to again — none of us would hesitate in erupting in rage.

Christians want to execute the relatives of their critics? Is this jackass completely insane?

Probably not: but his ideology is, and he shares it with an alarming number of people.

If Christians were even half so awful as bigoted secular progressives have convinced themselves, almost any measures would be justified to rid the world of them. In the future, Christians may long nostalgically for the days when all they had to worry about was being methodically repressed by the ACLU and ridiculed by the degenerates in the entertainment industry.

Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ, on a tip from V the K.

Update:

Access to The Independent at the link above has been sporadic (thanks to melvin_udall for the heads up). If you can't get through, read the article at Johann Hari's site here.

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Moonbats Ended the Cold War

Remember how Ronald Reagan faced down the Evil Empire and defeated it through sheer brinkmanship, relying on the superior economic efficiency of the capitalist system to cause the Soviet slave state to collapse in on itself, thus winning the Cold War without firing a shot? Never happened. Moonbats won the Cold War!

Or at least, they did if the Boston Globe could be believed. From the hagiography of deceased nuclear freeze advocate Randy Forsberg, check out this tortured inversion of history:

[Forsberg] helped end the Cold War, the most costly and dangerous confrontation in world history. This singular achievement was not hers alone, of course, but she spurred the massive social movement in the United States and Europe that convinced the superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - that they had to stand down from their nuclear rivalry. […]

The nuclear freeze idea, and the citizens' campaign that galvanized the world to embrace it, gradually altered the opinions of the public and then the policy makers in the United States and elsewhere. In America, the quickly rising popularity of the freeze collided with the equal popularity of President Ronald Reagan, who accelerated the arms buildup in the early 1980s. But the freeze movement changed Reagan's own calculations, driving him toward arms control negotiations and softer rhetoric toward the USSR by 1984.

As you might recall, in conventional reality, it was Reagan's rejection of the demands of kooks like Forsberg that led the Soviet Union to bankrupt itself trying to keep up with us.

Coming soon in the Boston Globe:

Hitler Surrendered under Pressure from Peace Activists

Civil War Never Happened, Slaves Freed Themselves

Only a Few Million Killed by Communism, and They Mostly Deserved It

Martha Washington Was a Male Transvestite

Africans Were Worse Off under Colonialism Than Current Socialist Dictators

Hopi Indians Invented Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

Mozart was African-American

Medeival Warming Period Caused by Ox-Drawn SUVs

The folks at the Globe can really utilize their creativity, now that they've completely liberated themselves from the chains of credibility.

Randy Forsberg and friends won the Cold War through moonbattery, but let Reagan take the credit.

On a tip from V the K.

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Bush Made Me Fat!

More amusing pathos from the losers at Daily Kos:

Before my head began exploding a few years ago in response to Busharama, I'd exercise a lot… I mean, almost daily, joyous-type exericising. Now I come home with a slight frown on my face and come here to hear the news & be a mojo-mama even if too tired to comment, and hang for hours here and on other blogs, as if the light will shine again and I'll be present to hear the BREAKING news about that.

Bush, I blame you for my new-ish extra 20 pounds.

That's certainly easier than blaming her own gluttony and sloth.

Hat tip: Right Wing News, on a tip from V the K.

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Self-Portrait of a Moonbat

Let's let a moonbat describe his tragic condition in his own words. Someone calling himself "meldroc" describes his sordid existence to fellow moonbats at Daily Kos:

After I actually took the trouble to inform myself about politics a couple years ago, and learned the true extent of the damage Bush has done to this country, I have a constant boiling rage inside me. Absolutely constant. Never ceases, though sometimes I can get it down to a simmer so I can go out in public and hang out with friends without doing something stupid. On top of the anger is a generous dose of fear and anxiety, coming directly from the Bush administration's march to fascism.

Frequently, I'm so intensely angry that I hit things. I just broke my bookshelf today because I hit it. My knuckles have decent callouses on them from hitting things, and various pieces of my property show signs of my rage. Thankfully, I've never turned violent against people since I was in high school, though I was sorely tempted to deviate the septum of a wingnut who called me a traitor and faggot to my face at the anti-war march last Saturday.

Of course, it's unhealthy to harbor this much anger, especially if I'm stuffing it down all the time so people around me don't see me acting borderline psychotic. These emotions leak out, turn into other emotions, like depression, which I've fought with since college. I've also developed a venomous hatred of Bush and his cronies and the 23-percenters that support him. Hatred's never a good emotion to hold, but there it is. I literally hate those motherfuckers who are destroying our country.

By all rights, I should be getting help, but I'm not going to. I was soured on the psychiatry business by my experience with anti-depressants - I ended up nearly emotionless, apathetic, and lost my motivation and creative drive, and as a result, I was unemployed for three years and had to move back in with my parents. I was your classic anti-depressant zombie. They didn't like the changes to my personality either, and stopped paying for the meds. After I tapered off the anti-depressants, I got my drive back, I was able to find work as a software engineer again, move into my own apartment, and now I'm supporting myself again. On top of that, if I told a counselor about my feelings, or that I'm so afraid of my government that I literally spent several hundred dollars on a shotgun, a deadly weapon, to defend myself against my government, I'm afraid I could get thrown into the psych ward. And I value my freedom enough that I will not allow that to happen under any circumstances. So, no shrinks.

At least he seems to acknowledge his need for psychiatric help, even if he's too far gone to accept it voluntarily. Frighteningly, many of the folks who will be voting for Shrillary regard themselves as totally sane.

For their own safety and that of the furniture, moonbats should wear these.

Hat tips: Ring Wing News, Ace of Spades HQ, on a tip from V the K.

Posted by Van Helsing at 7:59 AM | Comments (12)

Performance Artist Tries to Burn Down San Francisco Cathedral

Apparently churches aren't safe in San Fransicko. A few weeks ago we had homosexuals dressed as nuns and wearing grotesque makeup taking communion from an Archbishop to ridicule the onlooking congregation. Now a performance artist named Paul Addis has been arrested for trying to burn down historic Grace Cathedral.

Even by San Franfreakshow standards, Addis may have gotten carried away. Hopefully we won't see Mayor Gavin Newsom come out swinging in defense of the attempted arsonist, as he did for the blasphemous transvestites.

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October 29, 2007

Al Gore and His 35 Lies

It's been established that Al Gore's hysterical An Inconvenient Truth is riddled with politically motivated errors (i.e., lies). The British government ruled that it was unlawful to force-feed the schlockumentary to school kids without giving a disclaimer, since an Act of Parliament prohibits the political indoctrination of children.

The British court cited nine major lies passed off as science in the Goracle's movie:

1. The film claims global warming is responsible for the gradual retreat of the alpine glacier atop Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro. Scientists have conclusively demonstrated no such link exists.

2. The film presents graphs indicating that fluctuating carbon dioxide levels have always preceded and caused global temperature fluctuations. In fact, temperature changes have always preceded carbon dioxide changes.

3. The film suggests global warming caused Hurricane Katrina. Few hurricane experts believe this, and substantial scientific evidence indicates global warming is having no impact on hurricane frequency or intensity.

4. The film asserts global warming is causing Central Africa's Lake Chad to dry up. In fact, land use practices are causing the drying up of Lake Chad, and Central Africa is in an unusual and prolonged wet period.

5. The film asserts global warming is leading to polar bear deaths by drowning. Yet the only documented drowning deaths occurred due to a freak storm, and polar bear numbers are growing substantially.

6. The film claims global warming threatens to halt the Gulf Stream and initiate a new ice age. The vast majority of scientists who have studied the issue have determined such a scenario is implausible.

7. The film asserts global warming is causing the destruction of coral reefs through bleaching. Scientists have identified other causes for coral bleaching and have additionally noted bleaching is a natural process by which coral continually selects ideal symbiotic algae.

8. The film asserts Greenland is in danger of rapid ice melt that will raise sea levels by 20 feet or more. The scientific consensus is that any foreseeable Greenland ice melt will be gradual and will take centuries to substantially raise sea levels.

9. The film asserts the Antarctic ice shelf is melting. In fact, only a small portion of Antarctica is getting warmer and losing ice mass, while the vast majority of Antarctica is in a prolonged cold spell and is accumulating ice mass.

But finding nine lies barely scratches the surface with the Goracle, who can tell that many before opening his eyes in the morning. The Science & Public Policy Institute reviewed A Convenient Lie and uncovered a staggering 35 falsehoods.

It's not easy to pack so many fibs into a single movie, but if anyone could do it, you just knew it would be Prince Albert. Move over, Michael Moore — you've met your match!

On a tip from Scott.

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Breck Girl Promises Free College and an End to Free Meals

As you may have heard, John Edwards has been trying to out-pander Shrillary by promising a college education to all Americans, presumably even those of us who have no use for one and do not belong in college.

Stealing money from the productive to pay able-bodied adults to sit through lectures about queer theory and womyn's studies will — according to the Breck Girl — alleviate poverty.

Here's something almost as funny — while listing some of the extravagant freebies he plans to finance by looting "the rich," the zillionaire trial lawyer proclaimed:

There are no free meals.

In the upside-down, inside-out, topsy-turvy world of moonbattery, a "free meal" is when the government lets you keep what you earned. The goodies he's promising — college education for everyone, federally financed universal pre-kindergarten, matching savings accounts for low-income voters, a million new housing vouchers, etc., etc., ad nauseam — aren't free meals but entitlements, because they are coercively paid for by someone else.

On a tip from Matt.

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Moonbats Attempt to Steal the Word "Moonbat"

Urban Dictionary is a great resource for defining slang terms that haven't made it into normal dictionaries. Unfortunately, like Wikipedia, it is subject to abuse by dishonest ideologues who exploit its openness. Users can raise or sink a definition of a term by voting thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Apparently the site is infested with progressives, given the top definitions for "moonbat."

The first definition more or less admits what a moonbat really is, but attempts to spin it as a good thing:

"Bat", of course, refers to members of the order chiroptera (with some contending that the "megachiroptera" ; of South America should be classified as primates), strange and wonderful animals which are beneficial to humanity. Intelligent, well-educated liberals recognize bats as an asset, and seek to encourage them through environmental protection, including the building of bathouses on the outsides of their homes. The ignorant and superstitious hate and fear bats, and can think of no worse insult than to compare people they also hate and fear (out of ignorance) to bats.

"Moon" refers to Earth's primary natural sattelite, which humans visited for a brief period thanks to a massive liberal spending program. The scientific and technological benefits of the Apollo Project were immense, and would have been far greater if the program had not been killed by a right-wing administration that wanted to spend that money on a futile foreign war. Thus, the Moon is, like bats, symbolic of liberalism and all the benefits it brings to a culture, and naturally will be an object of hatred and fear to the Right.

Combine the two and you get "Moonbat"; environmental good sense, scientific curiosity, prosperity for all and the triumph of knowledge over traditional superstition. In short, all the things that enemies of civilization like Osama bin Laden and Pat Robertson hate most.

I support as continued ban on DDT because I am a moonbat.

Note the typical moonbat attempt to equate Islamic terrorists with Christians.

The next definition was provided by a moonbat named snooky b:

term used by those on the extreme political right wing (known as "wingnuts") to describe anyone who disagrees with their bizarre, fascistic world view. Used, despite the fact that it makes absolutely no sense, because they could not come up with a word or phrase as appropriately descriptive as "wingnut."

"What a bunch of moonbats!" cried the hooded Klansman, as the anti-Klan protesters marched down the street.

In total disregard for the truth, some even give the word a definition precisely opposite its actual meaning:

Mentally unstable persons of a decidedly conservative political affiliation.

Ann Coulter is a scarey-eyed, salivating, barking moonbat. She often frightens small children, dogs and occassionally even the cattle.

You have to go all the way down to #7 to get an accurate definition:

An extreme leftist, throwing aside logic for political convenience. A caller to the Howie Carr radio show summed it up as "These people wear winter clothes in the summer". Characterized by men in ponytails, sandals with socks, and 1.20.09 Bush's Last Day bumperstickers. Often seen at global warming marches that take place during snowstorms.

The moonbats were out in full force at the anti-war rally.

A few lines from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass are informative:

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all."

This quintessentially moonbatty attitude is a crime against language. If you don't want moonbats to be the masters, visit Urban Dictionary and make your voice heard.

Posted by Van Helsing at 10:43 AM | Comments (19)

Jena 6 Lies

The appalling deterioration of the mainstream media into nothing more than a vehicle for extremely pernicious leftist propaganda has never been in starker evidence than in the Jena 6 case, in which we were asked to side with six black thugs who attacked a white guy from behind, beat him unconscious, and left him for dead. Craig Franklin, assistant editor of The Jena Times, lists a few facts that contradict the misinformation spun by a national media that has lost all concern for truth:

1. The infamous "whites-only" tree was not whites-only at all.
2. The nooses hung in the tree that supposedly justified the assault on Justin Barker were actually a prank targeting white members of the rodeo team.
3. The nooses did not constitute a "hate crime."
4. District Attorney Reed Walters did not tell black students at Jena High that he could make their life miserable "with the stroke of a pen."
5. When Jena 6 thug Robert Bailey Jr. tried to crash a party and got hit, it was with a fist, not a beer bottle.
6. Eye witnesses corroborated the version of events described by a white guy who was attacked by Bailey and some other goons, and had a shotgun stolen from him.
7. In what was misreported as a "schoolyard fight," black students including the Jena 6 barricaded an exit to the school gym and laid in wait for Barker.
8. The attack was not linked to the nooses.
9. The Jena 6 jury was all white because blacks summoned for jury duty didn't show up.
10. The Jena 6 were hardly model youth. Some already had criminal records. Mychal Bell had been arrested for violent crimes four times prior to the attack on Barker.
11. Jena is not a "racist" town.
12. A U.S. Justice Department investigation found no support for the claim that local justice is biased against blacks.

As should be obvious, the Jena 6 are vermin, the sort of scum that can be scraped from the absolute bottom of any society. Yet we have been asked to sympathize with them, for no other reason than to conform with depraved liberal ideology.

As with the Duke Lacrosse case, black aggressors have been portrayed as victims, white victims have been portrayed as aggressors, and the most nefarious villains are the professional liars who call themselves journalists.

We have passed the point where it would still be possible to take the mainstream media's word for anything it reports. Liberal journalists are drawn to their profession by a festering hatred of America, which they hope to destroy with their corrosive ideology of defeatism and balkanization, so that it may be replaced with a moonbat culture more to their liking. This is the purpose of establishment journalism. Honestly informing the public is not on the agenda.

On a tip from V the K.

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Despite Goracle's Prophesies, Tropical Storm Activity Lowest in a Generation

According to moonbat scripture, hurricanes will become more frequent and ferocious until they wash us away as punishment for causing global warming. Katrina was just a preview of the horrors to come. Banning fossil fuels and shivering in the dark would appear to be a prudent course of action in light of the hysterical predictions bellowed by Al Gore and his sycophants in the media.

But now this, from the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies:

Unless a dramatic and perhaps historical flurry of activity occurs in the next 9 weeks, 2007 will rank as a historically inactive TC [tropical cyclone] year for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole. During the past 30 years, only 1977, 1981, and 1983 have had less activity to date (January–TODAY, Accumulated Cyclone Energy).[…]

2007 lowest September activity on record since 1977

2006 and 2007 lowest October activity on record since 1976 and 1977

As you'll recall, back in 1976–1977, it was global cooling we were supposed to worry about.

Even normal tropical storm activity would have been spun by the media into an impending apocalypse. Yet there's been virtually no activity at all.

But the polar bears really are drowning, right?

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Poll: Shrillary the Scariest

In an Associated Press-Ipsos poll, Hillary Clinton easily topped other 2008 presidential contenders when people were asked who would make the scariest Halloween costume. She scored 37%, leading the next closest candidate by 23 percentage points.

She would make the scariest President too.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Marijuana Is Not a Drug

Sometimes liberal politicians become so intoxicated with power, they take it upon themselves to redefine reality to their subjects. Remember when we learned from Bill Clinton that fellatio isn't sex? Now Arnold Schwarzenegger informs us that marijuana is not a drug.

What is it then? Ahnold explains:

That is not a drug. It's a leaf.

Schwarzenegger says he's never taken drugs. He's smoked leaves, though — and it shows.

On a tip from Wiggins.

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October 28, 2007

Massachusetts Moonbattery Eruption

Yet another massive eruption of moonbattery occurred in Boston this weekend, when a conference of loony-left windbags entitled "The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel: Issues of Justice and Equality" drew large numbers of antiwar types out from under their rocks and into the streets.

Nobel laureate moonbat Desmond Tutu was on hand to denounce Israel for engaging in "apartheid" by not having succumbed to Islamic terrorism. Proving that Jimmy Carter and Al Gore aren't the only utterly unhinged demagogues to be granted the once reputable Peace Prize, Tutu compared democratic Israel to the regimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Pinochet. The terrorists besieging Israel no doubt could be compared to the host of angels in Heaven.

For some excellent photojournalism of this distasteful event, take two Alka-Seltzers and have a look at Daniel's Public Gallery. A few samples:

Hat tip: LGF.

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Breck Girl Wants to Suppress Medical Advertising

Eventually we may have to choose whether we'd rather have doctors or lawyers. Those preferring lawyers can cast a vote for John Edwards, who bought his way into politics after looting a fortune from the medical profession in cartoonishly bogus lawsuits.

Far from contrite, Edwards now wants to wage war on the pharmaceutical companies that have done so much to alleviate suffering and salvage lives afflicted by disease. His latest scheme calls for a two-year hold on advertising new products. After all, if a new medicine becomes available that might improve or even save someone's life, we wouldn't want patients to know about it any sooner than necessary — not if that would mean a profit for Big Pharmaceuticals, the next leftist whipping boy after Big Tobacco and Big Oil.

In an astonishing display of hypocrisy, Edwards ridicules drug ads for raising false hopes. This from the same shameless huckster who promised that Christopher Reeves would walk again if Hanoi John Kerry was elected President.

Maybe he's worried pharmaceutical companies will come up with the ultimate drug — a cure for moonbattery.

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October 27, 2007

Tradition

Here's a very quick history lesson for the moonbats who disrupted Columbus Day celebrations earlier this month on the grounds that Columbus did a bad thing by spreading Western Civilization:

Save your money, students. You can learn more from a picture than you could from an Ethnic Studies degree.

Compliments of Panday.

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Whoopi Goldberg: Opposing Terrorism and Illegal Immigration Makes You a Nazi

Moonbats are famously unable to refrain from making fools of themselves by asserting that anyone who rejects their pernicious ideology is a Nazi. But coming from The View's Whoopi Goldberg, this idiocy is particularly ironic.

Take it away, Whoopi (via NewsBusters):

People started saying, "oh, yeah, it's all those people, you know, those people from other countries, you know, the ones that wear stuff over their heads and they're coming over here. And all those illegal people, they're coming, we've got to get rid of them. And we got to get-" And so everybody starts going, "yeah, we've got to take care of it, yeah, we got to take care of it." And it's so easy to fall into it. …

What I, what I've come to understand really over the last several years is how easy it is for us to become nationalistic and not recognize that we are — the Nazis believed that it was them and not us.

What's so bad about Nazis? Is it that they were socialists with no respect for property rights? No, because a moment later Whoopi is paying homage to socialist Nelson Mandela. Is it that they were totalitarians? Moonbats endorse totalitarianism, in the name of imposing "equality" and combating the fictional global warming menace.

What even progressives object to about Nazis is that they dehumanized people and then exterminated them — exactly what Whoopi reportedly did to at least six of her own babies. But according to Whoopi, those who dehumanize and kill their own babies deserve "reverence."

On a tip from Cheetah.

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October 26, 2007

Randi Rhodes Blames Blackwater for California Wildfires

It's nice to see that unhinged Air America klaxon Randi Rodent is feeling better after her little incident last week.

As you'll recall, she fell down in the street, reportedly losing a few teeth. Her colleague Jon Elliot initially announced that she had been assaulted by "the right wing hate machine"; later we learned that no conservatives were involved, but that 14 Bloody Marys might have been.

The resilient Rodent already has her mouth back in high gear. Unfortunately her mind remains in neutral, the conk on the head not having done her any good. Off she goes, explaining why Blackwater may be behind the California wildfires (via NewsBusters; audio available here):

I started just doing Google searches to try and figure out. You know, arson, arson, it was like crazy trying to figure out why is that being downplayed? Why is that, you know, just a small part of the story? And you know, every time I look for it what comes up, believe it or not, is that Blackwater wants to move to San Diego and build this giant complex in San Diego right where most of the evacuations are taking place and you know.

You just know wherever there is fire, this administration will be out there doing what it does best and that is fanning the flames, you know. It just spooks me, I can't explain to you how creepy this whole thing is that you know, you've got these fires. Some of them are thought to be the work of arsonists and in the same breath you've got a community that's on fire that just recently protested Blackwater West. Just recently said no to Blackwater and apparently you don't do that.

I mean, I don't even know what to think. You know, nobody is saying Blackwater set the fires, that is nobody that doesn't want their house burned down. Nobody is saying that, but it is all so bizarre that this is America and you have to sort of sit there and wonder … arson, same place Blackwater West wants to be, people protesting. And then you find out that some of the guys that used to work for Blackwater are now in Schwarzenegger's administration.

So not only the Bushitler Regime, but even the liberal administration of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was in cahoots with Blackwater to burn down California! Why isn't this on the front page of the papers? Could it be that even the Press has succumbed to what Shrillary boldly revealed as the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?

Apparently Bloody Marys are still getting the better of Ms. Rodent. As for her fans, their tinfoil hats must be on too tight — because they're willing to follow her over the cliff. Comments from the Randi Rhodes Show Message Board:

Blackwater USA, the private right-wing mercenary army that has spiraled out of control in Iraq, is trying to set up a para-military base right here in California, populated by 360 staff and "students."

[The fires started] either at or NEAR the facility Blackwater is trying to set up their training facility…

I thought blackwater was involved in this. I called it a couple of days ago.

Murderous land grab?

wow… this is getting weirder and weirder.It's like someone has waged war on us.

There have been petitions circulating about this for weeks — we don't want Blackwater here! I have to admit, when I heard about the fire starting in Potrero I thought, "Hmm. How convenient."

Last night Mike Malloy mentioned that he has a suspicion that these fires were set and he said that sounds conspiratorial but after all the years under bushco, truth is scarce and at a premium these days. Mike Malloy also said the wildfires can be used as a great distraction...but this story puts a whole new twist on it. IMO conspiratorial as it sounds the more I hear about this new merc base that BW wants to build in Cali the less conspiratorial it sounds.

Et cetera. You can see why it's going to be difficult to explain to these people why it's not a good idea to vote for Shrillary. By definition, moonbats are unreachably insane.

On a tip from V the K.

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Journalist Bobby Calvan Revealed As a Ass for Internet Posterity

Despite his attempts to hide, Knight Ridder journalist Bobby Caina Calvan has been exposed as the kind of jerk you can't help but suspect most of the moonbats in his profession to be, thanks to the efforts of Doc Weasel, who preserved in its entirety a since-deleted (now reposted without comments) blog post in which Calvan compares American soldiers negatively to those from Peru and Uganda, boasts of using his Fourth-Estate arrogance to bully his way through a security checkpoint in Iraq, and proudly describes his rudeness toward an American soldier who shockingly (to Calvan) wasn't familiar with Knight Ridder.

The post itself offers nothing that will surprise anyone familiar with the mentality of impertinent weenies like David Gregory. But the comments are priceless:

You seem like a pretty arrogant little guy. Do you realize what these soldiers are up against? Wow.

You're an idiot. Grow up. If you're half the man you think you are you will seek out that soldier ASAP and apologize to him.

Sorry dude. I have no clue who Knight Ridder is either. It's not exactly a household word, is it?

And you wonder why people don't like journalists? Maybe you should have tried being a decent human being. Maybe, just maybe, you and your little company aren't as important as you think you are.

I guess you really showed him. Too bad you showed a lot more about yourself.

You, sir, are an ass.

Rot in hell, mainstream media.

Someday, you will look at this blog entry and cringe with embarrassment. For your sake, that day cannot come soon enough.

Get over yourself. Your journalism degree impresses none of us. Unlike Uganda and Peru, the United States teaches her soldiers to think for themselves. Hence they are the best, most effective soldiers in the world. When the going gets rough, the Ugandan and Peruvian soldiers are as likely as not to run and hide. Not that young American. He will almost certainly stay and fight at his post and die to save the likes of you.

Why are you even there bothering the soldiers? You surely went with your angle and your story in mind. The facts wouldn't matter. Sit it your room and type it up.

You are an excellent example of why the general public despises journalists.

What a tool. You're so clueless you actually thought this would make you look good? Wow. No wonder MSM is held in such high regard.

The world is laughing at you.

And on and on for miles. I didn't see a single comment that was supportive of Calvan and his boorish behavior.

If only the lesson Calvan has hopefully learned could be taught to the whole profession.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin, on a tip from planetrock.

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Countermoonbattery Saves Lives and Property from California Wildfires

A little good news regarding the California wildfires that are finally starting to wane: by standing up to the envirokooks who forbid forest clearing and prevent it with lawsuits, people were able to save lives and property in Lake Arrowhead:

LAKE ARROWHEAD — As flames ravage surrounding communities, this resort town high in the San Bernardino Mountains emerged largely unscathed, an island in a sea of destruction.

The credit for that isolated victory, federal officials say, should go to firefighting tactics, shifting winds and favorable terrain — and a sometimes controversial U.S. Forest Service effort to eliminate the tinder that fuels forest fires.

Since 2002, the Forest Service has removed millions of trees, thinned brush and cut low-hanging branches, creating fuel breaks around almost 80% of the community. Fires don't spread quickly or easily through such areas, instead burning lower to the ground and with less intensity.

"The fuel breaks saved Lake Arrowhead," said Randall Clauson, the Forest Service's division chief for the San Bernardino National Forest and incident commander earlier this week on the two biggest wildfires still burning in the mountains.

He said he believes that, without the breaks, "the fire would have run right through Lake Arrowhead and gone to Highway 18, cutting off the evacuation route and probably resulting in the loss of hundreds of lives."

Environmentalists are no doubt appalled by all the CO2 emissions that will result from the lives that were saved.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin, on tips from Scott.

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Flag-Folding Ceremony Banned by Moonbat Bureauweenies

The latest outrage inflicted on our troops by moonbats:

Through thousands of military burials, Memorial Honor Detail volunteers at Riverside National Cemetery have folded the American flag 13 times and recited the significance of every fold to survivors of those being laid to rest.

The first fold, a narrator tells relatives, represents life, the second a belief in eternal life.

The 11th fold celebrates Jewish war veterans and "glorifies the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob."

A single complaint lodged against the words for the 11th fold recently prompted the National Cemetery Administration to ban the entire recital at all 125 national cemeteries.

A spokesman in Washington said the complaint originated from someone who witnessed the ceremony at Riverside National but would provide no other details and declined to release the directive banning the flag-folding recital, saying it was "an internal working document not meant for public distribution."

Veterans are furious.

"That the actions of one disgruntled, whining, narcissistic and intolerant individual is preventing veterans from getting the honors they deserve is truly an outrage," said Rees Lloyd, 59, a Vietnam-era veteran and Memorial Honor Detail volunteer. "This is another attempt by secularist fanatics to cleanse any reference to God."

Folds 12 and 13 aren't likely to appeal to progressives either:

12. In the eyes of a Christian citizen, represents an emblem of eternity and glorifies, in their eyes, God the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost.

13. When the flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost, reminding us of our national motto, "In God We Trust."

Referring to Christianity and Judaism, the religions upon which our civilization is founded, without mentioning every other belief system any veteran has ever held, presumably including not just Shintoism and Scientology but even those that are essentially hostile to our way of life, like Islam and Secular Humanism, "denigrates the patriotic men and women of other faiths who serve our country," according to a moonbat rabbi named Yitzhak Miller.

Welcome to America under the regime of the ACLU.

On a tip from V the K.

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Here Comes Halloween

Compliments of Ayres.

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October 25, 2007

Wildfires May Be Inspiring Mexicans to Cross Border to Loot

In case anyone is still collecting reasons why we need to demand that the government begin defending our border immediately, it appears that Mexicans have been crossing into the USA to loot houses evacuated due to the California wildfires. From SignOnSanDiego.com:

Two additional looting arrests were made Wednesday evening, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Kolender said.

The men were spotted on Tecate Road near the border with items in their hands taken from burned-out residences, sheriff's officials said. They were arrested as they tried to cross into Mexico at the Tecate port of entry.

The need to prevent neighbors from exploiting internal crises is one of the many reasons that countries with responsible governments defend their borders from foreign incursion.

On a tip from Bob.

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Executioner's Hair Is Sacred Relic to Moonbats

In some aspects, the depraved antireligion known as liberalism crudely mimics real religions. For example, it has saints, who leave behind sacred relics. Ranking high among liberal saints is Che Guevara, a vicious psychopathic killer who found his true calling as a communist dictator's chief executioner.

Since Guevara's evil life qualifies him as a moonbat saint, anything he left behind is a sacred relic to progressives. That's why bidding starts at $100,000 for a three-inch lock of hair alleged to be the dead murderer's.

To some leftists, Guevara is so sacred that they consider it a sacrilege to profit from his death. The Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auction Galleries has called upon extra security in light of the menacing remarks of moonbat bloggers.

Imagine an actual religion developing out of reverence for the deranged mentality of a brutal maniac. But I'm forgetting, we already have one.

On a tip from General Jack D. Ripper.

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Even To Kill a Mockingbird Censored by Moonbats

Censorship is so inherent to the moonbat mentality that, like a mad dog biting its own flanks, political correctness is censoring itself.

What book could be more P.C. than To Kill a Mockingbird, the tear-jerking tale of racial heroism that reportedly has been ranked second only to the Bible in terms of social impact? Yet to make her point, author Harper Lee had to use the "N-word," now considered by liberals to be a blasphemy more horrific than the darkest passage in the Necronomicon.

Okaloosa County, Florida educrats ruled that the unspeakable word be censored from a production of Mockingbird at Fort Walton Beach High School, in accordance with local black militants' demands. But there are problems:

Altering the text without permission also is copyright infringement, said David Faux, director of business affairs for the Dramatists Guild, a professional organization for playwrights, composers and lyricists.

"There can be rather large statutory damages," he said.

Not to mention that the censorship ruins the story.

When a similar case came up in Columbus, Indiana, the school ended up canceling the play — thus preventing a story highly sympathetic to the liberal point of view from being told. Talk about biting your own tongue.

Why don't we just ban the book, lest someone read the forbidden word?

On a tip from David.

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Italian Moonbats Pave the Way Toward Suppression of the Internet

Enjoy free speech on the Internet while it lasts, because if the Left has its way, it won't be around forever. Ricardo Franco Levi, chief assistant moonbat to Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, has drafted a law, recently approved by the Council of Ministers, that would shove a ball gag into the Internet's mouth:

The Levi-Prodi law lays out that anyone with a blog or a website has to register it with the ROC, a register of the Communications Authority, produce certificates, pay a tax, even if they provide information without any intention to make money.

There's more. The law also

obliges anyone who has a website or a blog to get a publishing company and to have a journalist who is on the register of professionals as the responsible director.

In other words, the government would forcibly incorporate the Internet into the mainstream media, ensuring that the hoi polloi no longer challenges the establishment.

This is on a scale with the Internet censorship occurring in communist states like Cuba and China. If it gets through Italy's Parliament and the violent resistance it warrants does not materialize, it will spread. A law like this, combined with the Fairness Doctrine, would make freedom of speech a relic of history.

Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ, on a tip from V the K.

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