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November 30, 2007
Mark Strauss, CNN Undercover Agent
Sordid details of the farce CNN made of Wednesday's Republican debate continue to surface.
Among the many left-leaning plants posing as Republicans was questioner Mark Strauss of Iowa. He encouraged Ron Paul to leave the party and run as an Independent, which Democrats hope would effect a Republican defeat, à la Ross Perot in 1992.
Strauss has a website, where he brags of kicking Mitt Romney off his property. A sample of his rhetoric:
In October 2006, Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts came to my door in Iowa, yes, at my house. He was there walking up and down the street with Robby Smith campaigning with him. Man, did he pick the wrong door.
What is the Governor of MA doing in IA, with a young rookie running for state house? He is a Republican first-American second...hopefully not our next "decider". With Security all around, we proceeded to debate the issues. He said Iraq attacked us...remember the twin towers?...I straightened him our there and pointed out who did that and that we are losing that part of the war on terror because we decided to go into Iraq. I also pointed out that Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium...under a government put in place by the Republican leader "the current decider". Mitt asked why I was so upset? I said a 8+ trillion dollar debt being financed by China? I told him I used to be a Republican but now I am an American. He asked me not to be insulting. After 5 minutes of his confusing smile and inability to counter any of my concerns with the direction his party is taking us, I waved my hand and said I'm through with you. As I was going inside he asked me to stay and talk more…Mitt asked me what I woud do in Iraq. I proceeded to explain how we need to get not only the effected nations in the region involved, but strike meaningful discussion and secure true resilution with the world thru the U.N.. Mitt laughed and called the U.N. a joke. This is the man that wants to be President. Don't we already have a decider in office that considers the other world leaders a joke? I then said "I have no use for you, get off my property", and I closed the door. This guy cannot be elected into office in 08.
Can't we take our country back? Can we bring home our troops to protect OUR borders...not have them out shoving democracy down the throats of people that do not want or understand it. Besides, if people in the middle east had the right to vote, they would vote to send us home. BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!
CNN may as well not bother with its laughable "we didn't know he was a left-wing activist" defense, because it had presented a video by Strauss at a Democrat debate.
Its having been caught trying to pass off a collection of politically active moonbats and Muslims as everyday undecided Republicans should lay to rest any claims that CNN is a legitimate news agency.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:16 PM | Comments (9)
Muslims Demand Execution over Teddy Bear
Gillian Gibbons sure got off easy. Sudan sentenced the British teacher to 15 days in jail and deportation for letting her students name a teddy bear Mohammed, after one of the kids in the class. Imagine if the Religion of Peaceniks out in the street screaming for her blood had their way:
Thousands of people wielding clubs and knives called for a British teacher to be shot today as a diplomatic row brewed over her sentence for "insulting Islam".
Sheikh Abdul Jalil Karuri, a leading cleric, whipped up a crowd attending Khartoum's Martyr's Mosque by telling them Gillian Gibbons had deliberately named her class's teddy bear Mohammed "with the intention of insulting Islam." […]
"Those who insult the Prophet of Islam should be punished with bullets," the crowd shouted after Gibbons, 54, was jailed for 15 days on charges stemming from naming a teddy bear Mohammed.
Gibbons had to be jailed in a secret location, or the Muslim hordes would storm the place and tear her limb from limb.
But don't forget: Christianity is just as demented, barbaric, and evil as Islam. Right, moonbats?
On tips from Ian from the EUSSR and Scott.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:40 PM | Comments (16)
Casa D'Ice
Thanks go to the Casa D'Ice restaurant in North Versailles, Pennsylvania, for using its sign to contribute to the war on moonbattery. A couple of examples:
Compliments of Bergbikr.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:12 PM | Comments (5)
Bureauweenies Better at Disposing of Cash Than Grease
Bureauweenies are to be congratulated on their creativity in finding new ways to waste taxpayer money. The City of Houston wants to solve the problem of grease clogging sewer lines by handing out 15,000 foil bags, into which citizens are to pour fat instead of down the drain, where their money goes. The cost: $63,000.
Granted 15,000 foil bags won't go far in a city of 2.1 million. But the important thing is for everyone to realize that bureaucrats are on top of the problem.
A voice of sanity on the City Council, Anne Clutterbuck observes:
Buying fat trapper bags when anyone could use an old tomato can or a piece of aluminum foil is to me a silly use of taxpayer dollars.
At least they aren't proposing a fat trapper bag for everyone, along with a new Department of Grease Disposal to enforce compliance.
Hat tip: blogHOUSTON.net, on a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:51 AM | Comments (4)
CNBC Correspondent Calls Our President a "Monkey"
With every airing of Keith Olbermann's show, it gets more difficult for NBC to push the envelope of infantile moonbattery to unprecedented extremes — yet it always manages. Here's CNBC's Erin Burnett repeatedly calling President Bush a "monkey":
Joe Scarborough is about all that's standing between NBC and Daily Kos.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:35 AM | Comments (7)
Desperate Propagandists Upgrade Storms
Two hurricane seasons in a row have been complete duds in the USA, despite hysterical assurances that global warming is causing hurricanes to become ever more frequent and severe. The National Hurricane Center has settled on a solution — pretending regular storms are tropical storms, so they can be named as if they were hurricanes.
Judging by central pressure, many of this year's "tropical storms" were actually nontropical or were only depressions. But fudging on classification serves a strategic purpose:
The number of a season's named storms forms the foundation of historical records used to determine trends in hurricane activity. […S]uch information is vital to scientists trying to determine whether global warming has had a measurable impact on hurricane activity.
In other words, more lies are being told to prop up the global warming hoax. If we don't start getting some hurricanes soon, they'll be naming scattered showers.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:14 AM | Comments (5)
Dems Silenced by Their Own Leftist Posturing
A Democrat debate scheduled for December 10 has been canceled because Shrillary Rotten and B. Hussein Obambi say they won't cross the picket line that might be set up by the thankfully striking Writers Guild of America Union.
As Bryan asks at Hot Air:
Why do they need writers for a debate anyway?
Oh. Right. Sorry I asked.
On a tip from Scott.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:35 AM | Comments (1)
Builder Forced to Spend £140,000 on Two Newts
Anwyl Construction in Rhyl, Denbighshire was forced to spend £140,000 on a habitat for newts before they could construct a 26-property development, because the great crested newt is protected by European law.
When the outlandishly expensive habitat had been constructed per Brussels' requirements, environmental specialists came to move the newts to their new home, so that construction of human homes could begin. They could only find two newts.
Director Matt Anwyl is keeping a sense of humor in the face of this extravagant moonbattery:
We could have built them a three-bedroomed house instead.
The same company had to spend £300,000 on newts at Aberkinsey Parc in Rhyl.
Anyone finding great crested newts on their property will be sorely tempted to squish the damned things before the authorities find out.
Hat tip: Nothing to Do with Arbroath, on a tip from Steve.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:17 AM | Comments (7)
Chinese Need Not Apply
To get the moonbat establishment to discriminate on your behalf, it's not enough to be a minority. You have to be a member of a correct minority. Just ask Asians. From the New York Post:
Three Chinese parents in Brooklyn are expected to file a federal lawsuit today challenging a popular city-run tutoring program on the grounds it discriminates against Asians, The Post has learned.
The Specialized High School Institute preps gifted but "underrepresented" minorities to ace the competitive exam to get into top city high schools like Stuyvesant or Brooklyn Tech. […]
A Department of Education internal memo obtained by lawyers trying the case indicated that eligibility criteria excludes whites and Asians.
"What this memo reveals is blatant and categorical discrimination by race. If you are white or Asian, you're not supposed to get an application," said Christopher Hajec, an attorney with the Center for Individual Rights, a conservative advocacy group.
You see, Asians aren't viewed as inferior losers by the liberal elite. Therefore they aren't expected to be forever reliant on the all-powerful and beneficent State — so they don't qualify for special priviliges under our racist spoils system. They may as well be Caucasians.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:42 AM | Comments (2)
CNN Debate Plants Included CAIR Intern
More on the disgraceful farce CNN made of the Republican debate Wednesday: Michelle Malkin reveals that among the many planted questioners was an intern of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Hamas front group that even some Democrats have denounced for its intimate terrorist ties.
From CAIR's website:
Here's Yasmin in action, going to bat for CNN on behalf of the Muslim–moonbat alliance at the debate:
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:23 AM | Comments (2)
Time Magazine Laments Science Moving Past Stem Cell Research
Scientists have discovered how to use normal skin cells for the sort of research that liberals want done on cloned embryos, thus voiding any valid reason to create human life for the sake of experimenting on it. Great news, right? Not for Time magazine, whose Parkinson-afflicted Michael Kinsley bleats in outrage that stem cell research ought to be pursued anyway.
If I can make any sense of his argument, he seems to be saying that President Bush cost Parkinson patients several years of research by hesitating to spend federal money on ghoulish experiments. Therefore, Kinsley wants to press forward by killing some embryos, scientific justification be damned.
Kinsley also argues that since embryos are killed in fertility clinics, they ought to be killed in research clinics too. He also asserts that paths of inquiry shouldn't be abandoned, just because better ones have been discovered.
Hopefully the skin cell research will yield results soon enough to help Kinsley think more clearly.
Once again it becomes apparent that liberal support of stem cell research is not based on science, but on a need to establish that the soul is a superstition, and that human life has no inherent value. Not only would this support their nihilistic ideology, it would justify the legality and taxpayer funding of abortion. Also, their beloved socialized medicine will lead inevitably to rationing of healthcare, which in turn will force a reliance on euthanasia for those no longer in a position to be of use to the State.
On a tip from Scott.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:42 AM | Comments (3)
Tragedy Averted
If there's one factor that overwhelms all others in causing poverty and social disintegration, it is having children out of wedlock. Children born without fathers almost invariably grow up poor and morally disoriented. The simple fact is that it requires both a mother and a father to raise children properly. Those raised improperly grow up to inhabit ghettoes.
The percentage of extramarital births has been exploding for two reasons: 1) moonbattery has corroded our moral values; and 2) liberal governments, which stand to gain power by making us more dependent, actually offer financial incentives to women who crank out fatherless babies they can't afford to raise.
A case in point is 17-year-old Kirsty Oldfield, a student at Salt Grammar School in Baildon, West Yorks. When both her parents died, bureauweenies informed her she could get money to stay in school — by getting pregnant:
A Department of Work and Pensions spokesman said a girl aged 17 who had a child and was not working would be able to claim child benefit and may also be able to claim tax credits, housing benefit, council tax benefit and income support.
They might as well offer teenagers benefits for taking up heroin.
Thankfully the pre-moonbattery means of helping those in need — voluntary charity — has produced almost £4,000 in pledges in just 24 hours to help Kirsty through school.
Hat tip: Nothing to Do with Arbroath, on a tip from Steve.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:57 AM | Comments (3)
Alaska Airlines' Heterosexual Surcharge
So there really is such a thing as discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air has announced a new program by which heterosexuals will have to pay 10% more on some flights.
It works by offering a discount to customers who buy their tickets on the company's "gay" page, which promotes flights to events that include the "5th Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival" and the "8th International Conference of Gay and Lesbian Tourism."
As Bryan Fischer of the Idaho Values Alliance observes:
Alaska is basically imposing a 10% surcharge for these destinations on travelers who are sexually normal.
Families tend to buy more tickets than homosexuals, who are more likely to travel alone or in pairs. But with moonbattery ascendant, politically correct pandering takes priority over sound business strategy, so gays appear to be the airline's target demographic.
On a tip from Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:28 AM | Comments (3)
November 29, 2007
Canadian Beer Drinkers Menace Biosphere
Canadian taxpayers have financed a study that reveals inefficient "beer fridges" to be yet another cause of the imaginary climate change crisis. As British environmental consultant Joanna Yarrow piously chides:
People need to understand the impact of their lifestyles. Clearly the environmental implications of having a frivolous luxury like a beer fridge are not hitting home. This research helps inform people — let's hope it has an effect.
The study's lead researcher Denise Young of the University of Alberta suggests the authorities hold buy-backs of aging secondary refrigerators (inevitably financed once again by the long-suffering taxpayers). Another option is simply to confiscate any refrigerators that aren't new enough to suit bureauweenies. Property rights are a small price to pay for rescuing the polar bears.
On a tip from Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:23 PM | Comments (11)
Seattle Times: Opposing Shrillary Is "Misogynistic"
The moonbats at AFP aren't the only ones appalled that Hillary Clinton has been subjected to criticism. The Seattle Times screeches that Shrillary "is facing an onslaught of open misogynistic expression."
In part this is the fault of "several thousand years of phallocentric history," but the freedom of expression allowed by the blogosphere is also held accountable.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, an ivory tower moonbat from UPenn, went searching the Internet for racial invective directed at B. Hussein Obambi. She couldn't find any, but discovered that the poor shrinking violent Shrillary has been oppressed by all sorts of "raw sexism."
However, the worst example cited is a woman asking John McCain, "How do we beat the bitch?" Since it wasn't a CNN debate, the question wasn't necessarily planted. Yet it was such a big deal that video of the occurrence has been viewed almost a million times on YouTube, as if McCain himself had used the language, and as if calling a notoriously nasty woman a "bitch" were somehow a slur against all women.
Against Hillary Clinton offers a few examples of why someone might call Shrillary a bitch:
"Where is the G-damn fking flag? I want the G-damn fking flag up every fking morning at fking sunrise."
(From the book "Inside The White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 244 - Hillary to the staff at the Arkansas Governor's mansion on Labor Day, 1991)
"Fk off! It's enough that I have to see you shit-kickers every day, I'm not going to talk to you too!! Just do your Gdamn job and keep your mouth shut."
(From the book "American Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p. 90 - Hillary to her State Trooper bodyguards after one of them greeted her with "Good morning."
"If you want to remain on this detail, get your f*king ass over here and grab those bags!"
(From the book "The First Partner" p. 259 - Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident.)
"Where's the miserable c*ck sucker?"
(From the book "The Truth About Hillary" by Edward Klein, p. 5 - Hillary shouting at a Secret Service officer)
"Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!"
(From the book "Dereliction of Duty" p. 71-72 - Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One.)
"Stay the fk back, stay the fk away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me, or else! Just fking do as I say, Okay!!!?"
(From the book "Unlimited Access", by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrige, p. 139 - Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail.)
"You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being."
-Hillary Clinton
(From the book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton" by Peggy Noonan, p. 55)
The purpose of the Seattle Times piece was clearly to shore up the female vote by casting Shrillary as a woman put upon by male chauvinist pigs, as ham-handedly revealed in a quote by Jamieson:
This has the potential to push a lot of moderate Republican women toward her.
Apparently MSM Clintonoids are counting on women not to realize that along with Shrillary, they would be returning to the White House the ultimate cad, who has been habitually molesting women for decades and probably raped Juanita Broaddrick.
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She's a bitch, all right. Does that mean I don't like women? |
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:56 AM | Comments (10)
The Multifarious Toll of Global Warming
British engineering professor Dr. John Brignell runs a site called Number Watch, which he describes as
All about the scares, scams, junk, panics, and flummery cooked up by the media, politicians, bureaucrats, so-called scientists and others who try to confuse you with wrong numbers.
He's compiling a list of all the baleful effects the media has ascribed to global warming, each linked to a source. Surprisingly, our alleged 0.006°C per year temperature rise hasn't been linked to bad breath or hemorrhoids. But it has been blamed for the following:
Agricultural land increase, Africa devastated, African aid threatened, Africa hit hardest, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, Antarctic grass flourishes, anxiety, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic lakes disappear, asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, atmospheric defiance, atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, bananas destroyed, bananas grow, beetle infestation, bet for $10,000, better beer, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, bird visitors drop, birds return early, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, bluetongue, boredom, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain Siberian, British gardens change, brothels struggle, bubonic plague, budget increases, Buddhist temple threatened, building collapse, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cancer deaths in England, cardiac arrest, caterpillar biomass shift, challenges and opportunities, childhood insomnia, Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, cockroach migration, cod go south, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink , cold spells, cost of trillions, cougar attacks, cremation to end, crime increase, crocodile sex, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, cyclones (Australia), damages equivalent to $200 billion, Darfur, Dartford Warbler plague, death rate increase (US), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, diseases move north, Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early marriages, early spring, earlier pollen season, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down, Earth wobbling, earthquakes, El Niño intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds, bats, pandas, pikas, polar bears, pigmy possums, gorillas, koalas, walrus, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang-utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, famine, farmers go under, fashion disaster, fever,figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flood patterns change, floods, floods of beaches and cities, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, food prices rise, food security threat (SA), footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frostbite, frosts, fungi fruitful, fungi invasion, games change, Garden of Eden wilts, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat, glacial growth, glacier wrapped, global cooling, global dimming, glowing clouds, god melts, golf Masters wrecked, Gore omnipresence, grandstanding, grasslands wetter, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, hazardous waste sites breached, health of children harmed, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, homeless 50 million, hornets, high court debates, human development faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, human health risk, hurricanes, hurricane reduction, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, illness and death, inclement weather, infrastructure failure (Canada), Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, industry threatened, infectious diseases, inflation in China, insurance premium rises, invasion of cats, invasion of herons, invasion of midges, island disappears, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, kitten boom, krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful, lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!), lightning related insurance claims, little response in the atmosphere, lush growth in rain forests, Lyme disease, Malaria, malnutrition, mammoth dung melt, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, marine dead zone, Meaching (end of the world), megacryometeors, Melanoma, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migration difficult (birds), microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, more bad air days, more research needed, mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountains break up, mountains taller, mortality lower, mudslides, National security implications, new islands, next ice age, Nile delta damaged, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom, oaks move north, ocean acidification, ocean waves speed up, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened, oyster diseases, ozone loss, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, Pacific dead zone, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts, plankton blooms, plankton destabilised, plankton loss, plant viruses, plants march north, polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears drowning, polar bears starve, polar tours scrapped, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychosocial disturbances, puffin decline, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainfall reduction, rape wave, refugees, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice threatened, rice yields crash, riches, rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war, rivers dry up, river flow impacted, rivers raised, roads wear out, rockfalls, rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, Ross river disease, ruins ruined, salinity reduction, salinity increase, Salmonella, salmon stronger, satellites accelerate, school closures, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, seals mating more, sewer bills rise, sex change, sharks booming, sharks moving north, sheep shrink, shop closures, shrinking ponds, shrinking shrine, ski resorts threatened, slow death, smaller brains, smog, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy, snowfall reduction, societal collapse, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, space problem, spiders invade Scotland, squid population explosion, squirrels reproduce earlier, spectacular orchids, stormwater drains stressed, street crime to increase, suicide, taxes, tectonic plate movement, teenage drinking, terrorism, threat to peace, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tourism increase, trade barriers, trade winds weakened, tree beetle attacks, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, trees could return to Antarctic, trees in trouble, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, trees lush, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, tsunamis, turtles crash, turtles lay earlier, UK Katrina, Vampire moths, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions, walrus displaced, walrus pups orphaned, war, wars over water, wars threaten billions, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20% of increase), water stress, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weeds, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever, whales move north, wheat yields crushed in Australia, white Christmas dream ends, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, wine - harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine - more English, wine -German boon, wine - no more French , winters in Britain colder, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, World in flames, Yellow fever.
Brignell has left out the most malign effect of all: our being subjected to an endless barrage of sanctimonious rhetoric from hypocritical frauds like the Goracle.
Hat tip: American Thinker.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:02 AM | Comments (8)
Missouri Compromise
Take heart, moonbats. One complaint from a Jewish faculty member is all it took to get a Christmas tree removed from the lobby of Missouri State University's Strong Hall.
Now for the bad news: as if devoid of sensitivity to those who hate Christmas, educrats are putting the tree back up! They've decided the tree is permissible so long as there are no Christian decorations, as if the very name Christmas tree weren't enough to wreak theocratic oppression on the Grinches of the world.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:31 AM | Comments (3)
More Debate Shenanigans
The retired general who asked about gays and lesbians serving in the military at the CNN/YouTube Republican debate on Wednesday is a co-chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton's National Military Veterans group.
Retired Brig. Gen. Keith H. Kerr was named a co-chairman of the group this month, according to a campaign press release.
He was also active in John F. Kerry's 2004 campaign for president.
Kerr asked candidates "why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians."
Claims CNN senior vice president David Bohrman, executive producer of the debate:
We regret this and apologize to the Republican candidates. We never would have used the general's question had we known that he was connected to any presidential candidate.
According to Joe Scarborough, it's "total crap" that CNN didn't know Kerr was affiliated with the Clinton campaign. Other questionable questioners include a Breck Girl supporter, a Barack Hussein Obambi supporter, and a prominent union activist.
This certainly wouldn't be the first time a question was planted — either by Shrillary or by CNN.
The debates are so staged and tiresome, people are liable to stop watching altogether unless CNN perks them up a little, maybe by allowing the candidates to compete for cash prizes. Is Vanna White still around? Or better still, they could take a Fear Factor approach; I'm sure Dennis Kucinich wouldn't mind eating a cockroach or two… Oh that's right, he's a vegan.
Kerr followed up his question by denouncing the current "don't ask, don't tell" policy that the candidates had defended. Ironically, this policy was instituted during the Clinton Administration. But given Shrillary's slavish pandering to homosexuals, a future Clinton Administration would probably have our troops wearing pink uniforms and training in a bathhouse.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:13 AM | Comments (12)
Seattle Mayor Terrifies Children with Global Warming Lies
Seattle Mayor Gregory Nickels is exploiting even Christmas as an opportunity to shove the global warming hoax down the throats of children innocent enough to swallow it. At Seattle's tree-lighting ceremony, he frightened kids by telling them that Santa's home is melting because of their video games, before handing them highly toxic (but politically correct) compact fluorescent light bulbs.
The Washington Policy Center counters Nickels the Grinch with news that Santa is safe from the imaginary climate change crisis:
A study released earlier this month by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and led by a UW expert found that natural, cyclical factors were the likely cause of changes in the ice pack. Further, there have been recent indications that the trend in Arctic ice pack may be changing or unrelated to man-made greenhouse gases.
University of Washington researcher James Morison commented in the JPL press release that, "Our study confirms many changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by global warming."
"Ho, ho, ho! It is good to know that I will be safe at the North Pole for many years to come," said a jolly Father Christmas. […]
Santa was also pleased to hear that, despite Al Gore's claims to the contrary, ice at the South Pole is actually increasing, leaving options for relocation open.
If greenhouse gases really were a threat to the North Pole, Santa's own reindeer would be the culprits:
According to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, the methane (a powerful greenhouse gas) released from one moose each year can equal the carbon footprint of a car traveling more than 8,000 miles. Moose and reindeer are both members of the Odocoilinae family. With eight reindeer, Rudolph and their associated families, Santa's team may be emitting more greenhouse gases than the Mayor's SUV and Al Gore's home combined.
Considering that the power bill at just one of the Goracle's numerous homes came to nearly $30,000 last year, that's quite a lot of gases — though not as much as global warming gasbags like Nickels have been emitting from their mouths.
On a tip from Scott.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:29 AM | Comments (5)
Bill Clinton Caught in Yet Another Lie
Via Sweetness & Light, here's a little background on Bill Clinton's outrageously false but politically expedient claim that he opposed invading Iraq from the beginning. Here he is back in 1998, while facing impeachment for the various felonies he committed while in office:
This was of course long before W had a chance to mislead Shrillary into voting in favor of the invasion.
If the Surge continues to work, watch for the Clintons to flip again, and use this footage as proof that they supported the mission from the beginning.
On a tip from Scott.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:48 AM | Comments (3)
Shrillary Nutcracker
Here's a gift idea for the libs on your list, via Free Republic:
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:26 AM | Comments (3)
Entertainment in Workers' Paradise
Who says there's nothing to do in Kim Jong-Il's workers' paradise other than collect grass to make soup? Last month, a factory chief was shot by firing squad in front of 150,000 stadium spectators for making international phone calls.
Having been reduced to cattle by generations of Stalinism, the audience stampeded on their way out of the stadium, resulting in six deaths and 34 injuries.
North Koreans who want even more excitement can try sneaking out of the country. Careful: it means torture if you get caught.
On a tip from Dave.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:11 AM | Comments (5)
November 28, 2007
Morrissey Notices Islamic Conquest
Morrissey, who croons songs like "Meat Is Murder" and "America Is Not the World," is sometimes derided as a metrosexual nancy boy. But his fellow moonbats are probably calling him even worse, now that he seems to have acknowledged the ongoing Islamic conquest of Britain.
He told NME that "England is a memory now" due to an "immigration explosion," and that "the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears."
Naturally anyone who admits to these obvious and tragic realities will be denounced as a "racist," so Morrisissy hastily added in a follow-up interview:
I find racism very silly. Almost too silly to discuss. It's beyond reason. And makes no sense and is ludicrous.
Too late; given the nature of his fan base, he's put his foot down his throat by suggesting that England should be defended rather than displaced.
Sniffed one of his fans on a message board:
It's totally out of order. Morrissey sounds like a Tory MP these days. It's a disgrace. I'll think twice about buying his next album.
It's not the first time he's sinned. Once he even appeared on stage wrapped in a Union Jack.
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Even sissies can love England — though Morrissey now lives in Italy. |
On a tip from Ian from the EUSSR.
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Puff Piece Warns of Hillary Haters
I wonder who the libs at AFP are pulling for:
Prowling the Internet, spilling venom on blogs and dominating the airwaves on conservative talk radio, "Hillary haters" are back and out in force as 2008 presidential nominating contests loom.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is sparking the same waves of vitriol in the conservative echo chamber that burst forth during her husband Bill Clinton's eight years in the White House.
Not to worry, moonbats; Hillary can handle it:
Clinton, a veteran of the fiercely partisan war raging through US politics, has in the past lambasted the "vast right-wing conspiracy" targeting her and her husband.
But the fierce attacks against her may amount to a back-handed compliment — testimony to a hardnosed, highly competent campaign, and a formidable politician.
AFP had better hurry up or they'll miss the scoop on the Bush haters who have been out in force for the last eight years.
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The actual picture AFP used in their puff piece. The original caption keeps on denouncing the "conservative echo chamber," but I've got a better one: Shrillary — bold, yet circumspect; certain, yet thoughtful; touchingly vulnerable, yet firmly presidential; noble in her countenance, yet… where's my Dramamine? |
On a tip from V the K.
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Government Bureaucracy Engulfs Outdoor Play
The government bureaucracy just got a little bigger: The latest addition is something called the National Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play.
It's part of a new effort by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to "coordinate and expand" the government's existing efforts to prevent childhood obesity.
First Lady Laura Bush made the announcement on Tuesday at a national health promotion summit in Washington.
Mrs. Bush proudly announced that this new National Center
will help Head Start programs across the country evaluate their playgrounds and their outdoor play spaces, and educate children and families about the importance of healthy food and physical activity.
When I was a kid, my mom would turn off the TV and shoo us outside for some fresh air and exercise. Those were the hard old days, before the Federal Government had taken over this onerous responsibility.
This is what we get from Republicans. President Shrillary will probably demand we finance the National Center for the Daily Flossing of Teeth.
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La Times: Romney Is Too Normal
Politics aside, Mitt Romney will have a hard time getting the moonbat vote. As the Los Angeles Times complains, the guy is too normal:
By central-casting standards, the former Massachusetts governor is the perfect presidential specimen — a comforting throwback to the 1950s, when nobody got divorced (they fell in love in high school and that was it), mothers stayed at home (he dubbed Ann the Romney CFO — chief family officer) and the greatest parental challenge was making the boys practice their piano (Ann used to pinch their necks).
But as his campaign picks up speed in a wide-open GOP field, Romney comes face to handsome face with an unusual challenge: Can a candidate appear too perfect? It's a question that modern American voters, fed a steady diet of infidelity, divorce, pot smoking, high-class call girls and foil-wrapped cash stashed in freezers, have not had to ponder in a long time.
Romney's campaign defends him from charges of being too wholesome by pointing out that he has a brother and a sister who are divorced. But that hardly holds up against being married to multiple felon and former Rapist in Chief Bill Clinton.
Hat tip: NewsBusters, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:22 AM | Comments (30)
Madonna Incurs Wrath of Fellow Moonbats
Animal rights militants are horrified that Madonna has dyed her sheep various Day-Glo colors for a Vogue magazine photo shoot at her English country estate.
The dye is said to be harmless and temporary. However, as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals screeches, what if others were to emulate her, but use the wrong dye on their sheep?
At last even moonbats have figured out that Madonna sets an awful example.
On a tip from nanc.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:24 AM | Comments (7)
Clinton Flunky Resorts to Hysterical Lies
Clinton spinner Mark Penn dug himself into a ridiculous hole while trying to discredit a Zogby poll showing the top five Republican candidates all beating Shrillary (video, via NewsBusters).
Penn's claim that this was the first time Zogby had done an online poll is particularly absurd considering that Penn's company has been requesting the results of their online polls for years. As Zogby Director of Communications Fritz Wenzel points out:
What is interesting is that no other campaign has made as many requests for Zogby polling data over the years than Penn has made on behalf of Clinton.
There is a line between spinning desperately and telling hysterical lies. Penn plunged across it.
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Is he trying to hide crossed fingers? Flunky Mark Penn demonstrates a classic Clintonoid regard for the truth. |
On a tip from Charles.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:10 AM | Comments (2)
Religion of Peaceniks Shoot Police in France
Muslim hooligans continue to riot in France, but there's a slight difference from the campaign that began in the fall of 2005: now the "youths" (MSMese for thugs from predominantly Muslim ghettoes) are using not only Molotov cocktails, but guns.
In addition to burning cars, libraries in Toulouse and Villiers-le-Bel, and a nursery school, Islamic colonists drove burning cars into buildings and managed to injure 82 police officers Monday night alone — some of them with shotguns.
Back in 2005, Nicolas Sarkozy made the media gasp by pointing out that the rioters are "scum." Now that he's the president, we'll hopefully see an improvement on Jacques Chirac's pathetic attempts to pander to France's increasingly violent enemy within.
Meanwhile, the media bleats about how the poor "Arabs, blacks and other minorities live largely isolated from the rest of society" in the massive housing projects where they indolently fester at taxpayer expense — all the while scrupulously avoiding the word "Muslim," lest anyone realize that France is experiencing another intifada.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin, on tips from Cheetah and Scott.
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MSM Libs Lose Interest in Peace Summits
When does a liberal ever disapprove of diplomatic jawboning with Middle Eastern terrorists? When a Republican president is behind it.
W has actually managed to get the terrorist Syrian regime to show up at the conference table with Israel. It won't do any good, but could it do any harm? NBC's Matt Lauer thinks so. Here he is on the Today show (video):
[D]oesn't history show us that when something like this, an event like this, a summit, comes up empty, doesn't the region become more volatile in the wake of that summit than it was even going into that summit?
Fellow liberal spinmeister Tim Russert happily agreed:
That has happened in the past; you're absolutely right.
Then why bother with peace summits in the first place? One reason: so Lauer, Russert, et al. don't accuse Bush of not being "engaged."
Hat tip: NewsBusters, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:59 AM | Comments (3)
Moonbats Push Unsightly Clotheslines
Now that we're required to regard carbon dioxide — the stuff that comes out of our mouths when we breathe — as a deadly toxin, lifestyle changes need to be made. Time magazine wants us to hang our clothes out on laundry lines to get crapped on by birds instead of sticking them in the drier. This will please Gaia, and she will reward us with more propitious weather.
After clothes driers, the moonbat media will go after dishwashers, then vacuum cleaners, then refrigerators, etc. When they've made us revert to the 19th century, they'll push us back farther still with complaints that our fireplaces release dreaded CO2.
Our houses themselves are no doubt offenses to Gaia, made as they are of the flesh of murdered trees. Teepees might make an environmentally sustainable alternative, except they mustn't be made from the skin of slaughtered animals. Vinyl teepees would do a better job of keeping out the rain anyway, but would involve environmentally damaging manufacturing processes.
Best if we climbed back into the trees. But that might disturb the habitat of squirrels. Maybe if we burrowed holes in the ground, we could avoid offending Gaia. But what of the poor earthworms, who after all were there first?
Where it will all lead us, only our enlightened superiors at Time magazine know.
On a tip from Scott.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:25 AM | Comments (4)
Trash Day
A friendly reminder: if this is collection day in your neighborhood, don't forget to take the trash out.
 A moonbat trying to block the movement of military equipment in Olympia is dragged out of the way after receiving a well-deserved dose of pepper spray. |
Via Free Republic, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:51 AM | Comments (8)
Even Sesame Street Was Politically Incorrect
It's not easy keeping up with political correctness, which demands that all people at all times be judged by up-to-the-minute ideological orthodoxy. Even early episodes of PBS's Sesame Street are now deemed so un-PC that their release on DVD has been accompanied by warning labels.
Objectionable content in the first two years includes a predominance of grumpy characters, Ernie's and Bert's dismal basement apartment, Cookie Monster's overindulgence in non-nutritious cookies, a lonely girl being befriended by an older male stranger, an excessive number of rural scenes inappropriate to the "target child" (a "4-year-old inner-city black youngster"), Big Bird's hallucinations, and the Cookie Monster not only smoking but even eating a pipe while playing Alistair Cookie, host of "Monsterpiece Theater."
Consequently, volumes 1 and 2 carry the warning:
These early "Sesame Street" episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today's preschool child.
At least those first two volumes escaped going down the memory hole.
On a tip from Mjolnir.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:38 AM | Comments (2)
November 27, 2007
Rosie Plays Rosie
In case anyone is disappointed that MSNBC was unable to land Rosie O'Donnell as a news commentator, here's a little something to tide you over until she's offered the helicopter ride to work she requires:
Like John Wayne, Rosie the actress specializes in playing herself. Too bad this video doesn't show her explaining that President Bush must have blown up the World Trade Center, since fire can't melt steel.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:14 PM | Comments (5)
Massachusetts May Ban Spanking
Prepare yourself for a generation of moonbats even more inclined to behave as if they were never disciplined as children. Massachusetts is considering following the lead of several European countries by making it illegal for parents to spank their kids.
Needless to say, actually injuring children is already illegal. But some nanny-staters believe we should not even be permitted to swat the behind of a misbehaving child.
If you're taken aback by the sheer arrogance of these seat-warmers presuming to dictate how you should raise your kids, keep in mind that from bureauweenies' point of view, they are the children's parents, not you — and they're your parents too.
Apparently some liberals believe that a slapped fanny constitutes child abuse. Speaking of which, here's a step-by-step description of the procedure they euphemistically refer to as "dilation and extraction" — aka, partial-birth abortion:
- Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps.
- The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
- The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.
- The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.
- The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.
Now that's what I call child abuse — though the sort of moonbats who would outlaw spanking often call it "choice."
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On tips from Robert and John.
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Pelousy Teams Up with Failed General for American Defeat
Having invested so heavily in American defeat in Iraq, Democrats are getting worried by the overwhelming success of the Surge. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has gone so far as to form an alliance with retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. WaPo reports:
Other senior military figures have turned on the White House, but none as senior as Sanchez, whose command of coalition forces in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 coincided with an explosion of violence, the emergence of a brutal insurgency and a prison-abuse scandal that still haunts the war effort.
It looks like having to watch Petraeus succeed where he had failed miserably has driven a bitter Sanchez into the arms of the Defeatocrats. On Saturday he delivered the Dems' weekly radio address, denouncing the Bush Administration's Iraq policy and praising Democrat calls for surrender to al-Qaeda.
Even left-leaning WaPo doesn't like the smell:
For Democratic leaders, Sanchez's address has been a triumph, covered by the media nationwide. It interrupted a stream of stories about declining violence, which had stalled efforts to force a shift of war policy.
But for critics of the war and of Sanchez's command, the radio address was curious. Andrew Bacevich, who was an Army officer in the Vietnam War and now teaches at Boston University, said Sanchez fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the conflict he faced. Sanchez's troops employed "kick-down-the-door" tactics that hardened resistance to the U.S. occupation, and helped turn an insurgency in its infancy into a guerrilla war spinning out of control, he said.
"Why he has chosen all of a sudden to attempt to return to public attention, and why he would do it in an overtly partisan way, frankly baffles me," said Bacevich, whose son was killed in Iraq. "And why the Democratic leadership would say, 'Yes, this is the guy who is going to deliver our message' is just baffling. He is a largely discredited figure."
But then, so is Pelousy, who recruited him for the address. As democracy gets the upper hand over Islamofascism, desperate times call for desperate measures.
On a tip from Charles.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:26 AM | Comments (13)
Dems Divert Vet Benefits to Foreigners
The new Democrat-controlled Congress's jarringly low approval rating isn't hard to understand, in light of abominations like the Filipino Veterans Equity Act of 2007 (H.R. 760). As revealed by Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), this outrage promises to
provide full veterans' status to World War II era Filipino soldiers and even their survivors.
This would include pay for service related disabilities, survivor pay for service-connected deaths, as well as pensions and death benefits.
Those who are living in the Philippines, and are not U.S. citizens, would receive $6,000 to $8,400. Low-income widows would receive $3,600.
[…] VA Committee Chairman Bob Filner, D-Calif., was determined to pass the Filipino Veterans Equity Act. When the exchanges between the chairman and ranking member (and former chairman) Steve Buyer, R-Ind., became too heated, Filner ordered a recess to plot strategy with the Democratic majority.
The measure passed on a straight party-line vote and Filner refused to recognize any additional Republican amendments.
Kudos to Filipino vets for fighting the imperial Japanese, but they were fighting for their own country, not ours. What's next: making the entire planet eligible for Social Security benefits?
You might wonder how the Dems plan to pay for their extravagant largesse. Here's how:
Democrats on the Veterans Committee voted to save nearly $1 billion by eliminating a $2,200 special monthly payment to veterans who are less than 100 percent disabled, but 60 percent or greater disabled.
That is, they have decided to take money from American vets to give to vets of another country. It looks like Democrats do support the troops — just not our troops.
On a tip from Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:58 AM | Comments (6)
Atheist Sunday School
The universities and hospitals bequeathed to us by Christians aren't enough for secular progressives — now they're even taking over Sunday school.
The Humanist Community Center in Palo Alto, California, offers atheist Sunday school, so that the offspring of local moonbats can learn liberal "values" — presumably including the sanctity of abortion, the nobility of homosexuality, and the iniquity of Christians, Caucasians, and America.
Similar programs are planned for Phoenix, Albuquerque, and Portland, Oregon. Atheists even have special sleepaway camps, where they probably don't have to worry about discrimination against homosexual councilors taking their little boys out into the woods.
One proud parent realized her child needed atheist summer camp after a neighbor showed the tike a Bible:
Damian was quite certain this guy was right and was telling him this amazing truth that I had never shared.
Not to worry: with the proper instruction, Damian will grow up understanding that human life is a random accident with no moral significance, and the universe is a vacuum devoid of meaning that created itself for no particular reason.
On a tip from Scott.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:00 AM | Comments (31)
Moonbats Go After Ann Coulter's Home
Not satisfied to throw food at her when she gives speeches on college campuses, hostile liberals have been going after Ann Coulter in her Palm Beach, Florida home, requiring her to have her address removed from public records.
So far there's been nothing life-threatening: just derogatory phone messages, nasty greeting cards delivered to her mailbox by hand, and some kook standing in the vacant lot next door, yelling obscenities at her house and then running away.
Moonbats are easily identified by their level of maturity.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:16 AM | Comments (12)
Global Warming Psychosis
Believing in the ballyhooed climate change crisis requires a disassociation from factual reality that can only be called psychotic. From Telegraph.co.uk:
On the one hand we have the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995–2006) than ever previously recorded.
This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level — not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.
The bill for indulging in this craziness is coming due in Britain:
Few people have yet really taken on board the mind-blowing scale of all the "planet-saving" measures to which we are now committed by the European Union.
By 2020 we will have to generate 20 per cent of our electricity from "renewables". At present the figure is four per cent (most of it generated by hydro-electric schemes and methane gas from landfill).
As Whitehall officials privately briefed ministers in August, there is no way Britain can begin to meet such a fanciful target (even if the Government manages to ram through another 30,000 largely useless wind turbines).
Another EU directive commits us to deriving 10 per cent of our transport fuel from "biofuels" by 2020. This would take up pretty well all the farmland we currently use to grow food (at a time when world grain prices have doubled in six months and we are already face a global food shortage).
The best metaphor for Western Civilization imposing the global warming hoax on itself at the height of its economic success would be lying in a nice warm bath and slitting your wrists out of sheer lunacy.
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Damned straight it's a hoax — and pretending it's real is becoming increasingly insane. |
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Pro-Abortion Hordes Infest New York City
Sorry to inflict this so soon after breakfast, but via Free Republic, here are a few shots of a recent NYC rally in support of the most sacred rite in liberalism: abortion.