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January 31, 2008
Josh Brolin to Play W: Wicked Stepmother Babs Enraged
Someone seems to think that the planned Oliver Stone bio of W won't be the hatchet job you might expect. Militant moonbat Barbra Streisand is reportedly enraged that her stepson Josh Brolin is slated to play the lead role. Digital Spy quotes an anonymous source:
Barbra thinks this movie will show a side to George W. Bush that draws sympathy from the public and she does not think Bush deserves anything positive.
Josh's father and Streisand's husband, James Brolin, is a leftist kook who has publicly ridiculed 9/11 commemorations. He played Ronald Reagan in a made-for-TV movie that CBS refrained from running due to public outrage at the idea of moonbats disrespecting the memory of Ronaldus Maximus. I don't recall Babs getting bent out of shape about him taking the role.
Could it be that Stone will give W a fair shake? Or has her severe case of Bush Derangement Syndrome pushed Babs over the edge?
On tips from Charles and Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:49 PM | Comments (18)
Blood Drives Halted in the Name of Gay Rights
Moonbats don't seem terribly concerned about the collateral damage they inflict in pursuit of their radical agenda. For example, Don Kassing, President of San Jose State University, has suspended all campus blood drives to protest the longstanding FDA policy against homosexuals donating blood.
Some would like to see the advance of AIDS limited. But if that were important to Kassing, he wouldn't be taking up the rainbow banner on behalf of homosexuals, whose depraved and decadent lifestyle has been primarily responsible for spreading the disease. For Kasinine, protecting the public at large is less important than pandering to gays, who are regarded as sacred beings by moonbat educrats.
Boasts Larry Carr, the school's associate vice president for public affairs:
It's a position based entirely on principle. President Kassing stood up for our non-discrimination policy.
Let that be solace to those left behind by anyone who dies because moonbattery was given priority over maintaining a supply of safe blood.
On a tip from dpt.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:13 PM | Comments (55)
Obama Subjects Hillary to Withering Sneer
At least we shouldn't have to worry about Shrillary and Obambi on the same ticket. Check out this sneer, delivered on the floor of the House of Representatives during W's recent State of the Union:
Obama stands accused of turning his back so as not to have to shake Shrillary's claw. What the heck, haven't we had grownups in the White House long enough?
Via Bob McCarty Writes.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:45 AM | Comments (16)
While Others Laugh, Moonbats Bark
Congrats to Jody Miller and NewsBusters: their latest episode of NewsBusted made it to #1 in comedy on YouTube, and #4 overall.
Unfortunately some moonbats are too bitter and humorless to share in the fun. A few of their comments:
This fucking bitch is not funny at all I hate the laugh tracks and her retarded looking smirk every time she thinks she says something funny holy shit I want to kill her wow
Dude, I'm high right now, and its still not funny.
Conservatives should stick to what their good at: raping the poor and pandering to Jesus.
I think you'd find more success with just being a whore.
umm i dont get anything… this is stupid.
Your portrait of an "illegal alien" was rather a racist attempt to make fun of brown people. Really bad move.
Typical republican right wing conservative propaganda trash! The only thing they know how to do is point fingers, make fun, ridicule, critize and swift boat everyone who disagrees with their right wing neo-con warmonger ideology.
Here's a particularly tasteless one:
Jody Miller: You suck. You suck really bad. You should be doing knock knock jokes in front of Rumsfeld. May be you would not need canned laughter then. You are lucky most illegal aliens do not know English, because you would be out of a job. You remind of the one night stands of my misspent youth, in where I felt dirty the nano second I ejaculated inside their white trash mouths. Go back to cosmetology
Lighten up, loonies! Even moonbats have to stop barking long enough to laugh from time to time.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:24 AM | Comments (9)
Illegal Aliens Continue Converting NYC's Northern Suburbs into a Sewer
It's nice to see that the illegal aliens who have been overrunning parts of Westchester and Putnam Counties, just north of New York City, have the initiative to do more than sleep in the woods and stagger around downtown areas drunk:
Five men face felony drug charges after selling a large amount of cocaine to undercover Putnam County sherrif's [sic] deputies, police said yesterday.
The arrests bring to an end a nine-month investigation by the Sheriff's Narcotics Enforcement Unit into what they suspected was a cocaine distribution ring. The investigation, which began in May, focused on the towns of Brewster, Carmel and Southeast.
The five men were accused of selling a total of 1 1/2 pounds of uncut cocaine with a street value of about $30,000, police said. Officers also confiscated three vehicles and nearly $7,000 in cash.
Grudgingly, the Journal News admits in the 15th paragraph of the 15-paragraph story that all of the drug-dealers are "undocumented immigrants from Guatemala" — just trying to do best for their families, no doubt.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:44 AM | Comments (8)
CNN Tells Grim Tale of Economic Hardship
As America plunges headlong into recession, times are getting tough. Business & Media Institute describes a heartwrenching CNN report that aired yesterday:
"Veronica McNeil has two kids," said CNN correspondent Alina Cho. "She recently lost her job. Her husband's an iron worker and the family is feeling the pinch."
While McNeil was introduced as struggling financially, she then announced that for the right price she'd buy an unnecessary high-ticket item.
"If I'm here to buy baby stuff and I see a TV at a good sale price, I'll grab it," McNeil said.
Cho pointed toward "rising gas and home heating oil prices and Americans losing their homes" for money being "tight." Unfortunately, Cho entirely missed the personal responsibility angle — if there is something you can't afford, don't buy it.
Cho also cited another shopper who complained "it seems like everything I buy is a little more expensive today than it was yesterday." Still, the man was willing to splurge on a "big TV for the Giants game" because he's a fan of the team.
"So everybody agrees that we're all feeling the pinch, but the Super Bowl gets a pass," said Cho. "Please excuse the pun."
Poverty must be completely out of control if people have to "feel the pinch" while they're buying basic necessities like oversized televisions to watch the Super Bowl. Where's John Edwards when you need him?
Hat tip: NewsBusters, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:30 AM | Comments (15)
New York Observer Helps Out Al Qaeda
Sometimes providing crucial propaganda support isn't enough for the moonbat media; it feels compelled to assist its terrorist allies more actively. For example, the New York Observer is helping them locate former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan, who discovered the names of the 9/11 hijackers and who might have prevented the atrocities had the CIA not petulantly withheld information.
Soufan is in the private sector now, and unsurprisingly does not want al Qaeda to know his address — so instead of printing it, the Observer thoughtfully tells terrorists how to find it for themselves, printed "in large capital letters."
The next terror attack on New York might leave a smoking radioactive crater where the Observer's offices are now. But guys like Soufan are working hard to prevent that, regardless of the absolute lack of gratitude from moonbats.
Hat tip: The Jawa Report, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:14 AM | Comments (1)
Gitmo Terrorists for Obama
With this, I could easily rest my case against Barack Hussein Obama:
More than 80 attorneys who have been offering free-of-charge legal services to Guantánamo detainees issued a statement Monday supporting Democrat Barack Obama's presidential bid.
Now we know who Lynne Stewart must be rooting for.
Like Lettuce McCain, Obambi calls for closing Club Gitmo in an effort to appease our enemies. But that's not enough: he also wants to grant the terrorists held there legal privileges they do not deserve, as if they were not foreign unlawful combatants but American citizens held for conventional crimes.
Meanwhile:
Republican candidate Mitt Romney, in contrast, has advocated doubling the detention center — which today holds about 275 foreign men as enemy combatants and cell space for more than 1,500.
The Pentagon regards Gitmo as essential for incarcerating "high-value detainees" — guys like Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who earned Rosie O'Donnell's undying affection by planning the 9/11 atrocities. Apparently facile posturing is more important than national security to Obambi, McLame and other irresponsible liberals.
Hat tip: JunkYardBlog, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:38 AM | Comments (13)
A Moment of Candor from Slick Willie
Bill Clinton's mouth has come open again, and out fell an inconvenient truth: the main consequence of buying into the global warming hoax would be to cripple our economy. While more responsible leaders attempt to stave off recession, Slick Willie endorses the swindle — but with a caveat, proclaiming:
Everybody knows that global warming is real, but we cannot solve it alone. And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada — the rich counties — would say, "OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren." We could do that.
In other words, we could deliberately induce a severe recession or even a depression, in the name of a discredited hoax. If this sounds like a good idea to you, by all means vote for John McCain or either Democrat.
However, Bubba admits that our willingness to commit economic suicide will not be shared by developing nations, and consequently would accomplish nothing, even if anthropogenic global warming were anything but a con job.
On a tip from furballz.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:38 AM | Comments (6)
Moonbats Attempt to Focus the Nation on Global Warming Hoax
Moonbats certainly have a knack for publicly making fools of themselves, as the Focus the Nation propaganda blitz has given them yet another opportunity to demonstrate.
At the University of Rhode Island, students placed 300-pound blocks of ice around their campus and let them melt to symbolize how global warming is affecting polar ice caps.
Since global warming hasn't materialized, beyond a slight warming trend in the 1990s, moonbats have been forced to stage it.
At Missouri State University, students will pile 20 tons of coal on campus to show how much of this air-polluting fossil fuel is needed to power their school for an hour.
And the point would be… they should close down the school? No one seems to be learning much anyway.
At UCSD, young conservationists are preparing a performance-art show that will feature a faux polar bear in an 8-foot-tall "electric" chair.
Despite their burgeoning population, polar bears are said to be oppressed by our use of electric power — all the more reason to shut down colleges and let the kids play and watch cartoons instead of sitting through boring classes.
Supposedly 1,700 colleges are taking part in the massive brainwashing push. Whether it will succeed in convincing anyone that it isn't cold out is doubtful.
Hat tip: Knowledge Is Power, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:57 AM | Comments (6)
Berkeley Declares War on Marines
Berkeley's city council has voted 8-1 to declare that the Marine recruiting office in their moonbatty town
is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders.
The council officially encouraged the Code Pink sociopaths who have been vandalizing the office, granting them a special parking place in front of it and a free permit so they can continue their disruptive activities.
Because the Marines go by the "don't ask, don't tell" policy instituted by Bill Clinton, the council intends to harass them legally with the help of laws that enshrine homosexual depravity as politically sacrosanct.
Yaps Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates:
I believe in the Code Pink cause. The Marines don't belong here, they shouldn't have come here, and they should leave.
Even in Berkeley, there are normal people who regard the Code Pinkos with contempt:
An employee of a nearby business who asked not to be identified said Wednesday the elderly Code Pink protesters are aggressive, take up parking spaces, block the sidewalk with their yoga moves, smoke in the doorways, and are noisy.
"Most of the people around here think they're a joke," the woman said.
But the joke isn't funny when it entails using government power to spit at the Marines.
Say, has the military found a replacement for Vieques?
On a tip from Mike H.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:26 AM | Comments (44)
Toronto Brings Back Segregation
Proving that condescending patronization is no different in its effects than outright racial hostility, Toronto educrats are reinstituting segregation with an Afrocentric school.
Blacks don't do as well in school, primarily for cultural reasons. To keep it this way, moonbats want to cut them off from the rest of society so they don't assimilate. Instead of learning about Canadians' common heritage, they will be fed the sort of African-oriented victimology that should ensure a lifetime of uselessness and alienation. That way the Left can continue to count on their dependence and their votes.
Hat tip: BelchSpeak.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:45 AM | Comments (5)
January 30, 2008
Illegal Aliens and the Subprime Problem
While blubbering over the plight of Harry Reid's "undocumented Americans," Reuters highlights the connection between the illegal alien and subprime mortgage crises.
Many subprime loans were taken out by illegal aliens who had no business buying houses in this country. They climbed into debt over their heads just in time for a slowdown in the construction industry, in which many of them work.
Illegal immigrants were able to buy U.S. homes during the boom years, either by showing evidence that they pay taxes or by simply presenting false documents.
Many of them took out high interest fixed-rate loans or subprime mortgages with a low entry rate that later rose sharply. Experts say language difficulties made them more vulnerable to being offered, and taking, bad deals.
"They were more exposed to abuse," said Alejandra Louden of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's housing department, which carried out a recent study on Latino home loan foreclosures. "Documents were in English and explained in Spanish, and some vital explanation would be missing."
Exposed to abuse? They break into our country, take out loans they can't repay, help drag our economy toward a recession and they're the ones being abused because our legal documents aren't written in their language? Welcome to the world according to Roto-Reuters.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:54 PM | Comments (21)
British Schools Strike "Mum" and "Dad" from Newspeak Dictionary
Bureauweenies have forbidden the words "mum" and "dad" in British schools, having determined that they reinforce the hated conventional family by assuming that a child's parents are of different genders.
When discussing marriage with secondary pupils, teachers should also educate pupils about civil partnerships and gay adoption rights.
The guidance — produced for the Government by gay rights group Stonewall — will be formally launched today by Schools Secretary Ed Balls.
Just call him Ben Wa.
While educrats aggressively impose acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle, children are forbidden from using the word "gay":
It [the "guidance"] states that children who call classmates "gay" should be treated the same as racists as part of a "zero tolerance" crackdown on the use of the word as an insult.
The expression "be a man" is forbidden, because it "leads to bullying of those who do not conform to fixed ideas about gender." Gay role models are to be encouraged. The zero-tolerance approach to anything even remotely suggesting disapproval of homosexuality "is central to achieving progress and an environment in which being gay is not thought of as being inferior."
There used to be a law against openly promoting homosexuality in British schools. It was repealed.
It's not surprising that politically correct establishmentarians would try to remake children in their own image. Unfortunately, that means trying to reduce them to squishy, pathetic, depraved obscenities.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:17 PM | Comments (9)
Prospect of Obambi Defeat Reduces Tweety to Tears
On MSNBC's Morning Joe today, liberal bloviator Chris "Tweety" Matthews was reduced to the verge of tears by the prospect of Barack Hussein Obama not getting the Democrat nomination. Click for video:
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:43 AM | Comments (8)
New Low for McLame Campaign?
You have to wonder if any tactic could be beneath John "Lettuce" McCain's Doubletalk Express campaign, after his phony claim that Romney supports a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, and now this outrage:
The day before polls close in Tuesday's critical Florida primary, some voters in the Miami area received automated phone calls in Spanish falsely accusing Mitt Romney of supporting an opening of relations with Cuban President Fidel Castro.
A key member of Romney's Latin American policy team, Ambassador Roger Noriega, had been on local radio on Monday morning talking about Romney's anti-Castro stance. "It was obviously a dirty tactic and strategy to rebut the efforts we made to let the [Hispanic] community know our position," said Al Cardenas, Romney's Florida state chairman.
Asked if he suspected rival John McCain, Cardenas responded, "Obviously it's a camp of one of our opponents," later adding "I can't specifically state with certainty it is John McCain's campaign, all I know is there are two campaigns making these calls, ours and his and these calls started immediately after our programming on that issue."
McCain took Florida largely because of overwhelming support from Hispanics, many of whom are refugees from communist Cuba.
As we've learned from the Clintons, there's a difference between hardball and gutter ball.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:34 AM | Comments (21)
Swedes Put Dhimmitude Before Child Safety
In Gothenburg, Sweden, parents attending children at the municipal pool are required to wear shorts and T-shirts so they can jump in the water and save their kids from drowning. Reasonable, right? Wrong: it is oppressive to Muslims, who insist that women waddle around in gunnysacks.
The dhimmis running Sweden value the multiculturalism that is literally obliterating their civilization far above the safety of children. Muslim women now officially have the "right" to attend swimming kids while wearing tip-to-toe tents pleasing to their prophet. Speaking of profit, the Gothenburg taxpayers even had to pay two Muslim women $3,000 apiece in damages for having committed "ethnic discrimination."
Muslims tried repeatedly to conquer Europe by the sword. It didn't work. But now they've found an easier way: conquest by moonbattery.
Hat tip: Gates of Vienna, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:00 AM | Comments (10)
Tomorrow Is Mandatory Kool-Aid Day at CU
As forewarned, tomorrow the University of Colorado will indulge in an entire day of total saturation in the global warming hoax. Entitled "CU Focus the Nation," the 60s-style teach-in will subject students to wall-to-wall propaganda intended to instill the irrational belief that the climate change crisis is anything but a farce.
The event has been endorsed by Chancellor Bud Peterson and the Boulder Faculty Assembly. Even Governor Bill Critter will be on hand. The goal is to see to it that "a student cannot get through the day (January 31st) without somehow encountering the topic of climate change."
To accomplish this, the Kool-Aid wholesalers want to "engage at least fifty campus educators." Fortunately, "Faculty do not have to be climate change experts to participate." Events include a long list of brainwashing sessions pushing the radical environmentalist agenda. Focus the Nation lists specific policy actions it wants rammed through.
But what's this? A memo Chancellor Bud sent out to all Boulder campus staff reminds them they are there to teach, not indoctrinate:
IN GENERAL, UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES MAY NOT:
• Engage in any activity during working hours designed to urge electors to vote for or against any campaign issues, which include campaigns for public office, state-wide campaign issues or referred measures, and local campaign issues or levies.
• Employees wishing to participate in a campaign activity should take personal leave.
Roger Pielke, Jr., director of CU's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, is so confused:
Focus the Nation is unadulterated political advocacy. But my campus forbids me to use my official time, paid for by taxpayers, to advocate for particular campaign issues. But global warming is so important. But my Chancellor forbids me to engage in political advocacy as part of my job. But my Chancellor is the keynote speaker for our Focus the Nation activities. But my job is to teach not indoctrinate. But I actually agree with many of the proposed policies. But it is not my job to use my platform as a professor to tell students what to think; I am supposed to teach them how to think and come to their own conclusions. But if I don't go along I'll be castigated as one of those bad guys, like a Holocaust denier or slave owner. But doing the right thing is so obvious.
Thank goodness I am on sabbatical.
No need for confusion: Political activism is forbidden, except when it's moonbatty, in which case it is mandatory.
Hat tip: Slapstick Politics.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:31 AM | Comments (7)
January 29, 2008
The Prostitute as Genius at William and Mary
The college William and Mary was established by the Anglican Church in the 17th century. But the only religion recognized on campus now is moonbattery, which will be celebrated on February 4 with the Sex Worker's Art Show:
The Sex Workers' Art Show features performances and monologues by strippers, prostitutes and other sex workers, with its goal being to "dispel the myth that (the performers) are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses."
Chief educrat Gene Nichol has decreed that the school has no choice but to host this tasteless spectacle, on the grounds that
My views and the views of others in the community about the worth or offensiveness of the program can provide no basis for censoring it.
If only that applied to crosses in chapels and politically incorrect opinions, privately expressed.
On a tip from Lyle.
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:59 PM | Comments (10)
Pandering Obambi Calls for Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens
Barack Hussein Obama lost big among Hispanics in Nevada. His solution: pander extravagantly to the illegal aliens who are creating a major crisis in the Southwest. Managing to outflank even Lettuce McCain on the left, Obambi is calling for driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
Federico Peña, former Denver mayor and a supporter of Abominable, explains why our sovereignty, security and rule of law must be sacrificed:
I think when the Latino community hears Barack's position on such an important and controversial issue, they'll understand that his heart and his intellect is with [the] Latino community.
Too bad his heart and intellect aren't with the American community.
Hat tip: Hot Air.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:20 AM | Comments (20)
Gwyneth Paltrow Boycotts America
Bad news for the USA: it has been subjected to a boycott by moonbat actress Gwyneth Paltrow. She says she won't return to the USA unless she "absolutely has to" after a scuffle between her husband and a paparazzo.
America has incurred her disfavor before. Though born in LA, she lives in the UK, reportedly because it's "not as capitalistic" and because "the British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans." Yet capitalist American audiences make her rich by paying good money to sit through her movies.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:21 AM | Comments (30)
Shrillary as Tracy Flick
Did the 1999 movie Election predict Shrillary's 2008 campaign? You be the judge:
Via Houston's Clear Thinkers, on a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:47 AM | Comments (2)
Boston Globe: Each Palestinian Needs Half a Ton of Flour a Day
Maybe a good copy editor could keep the MSM's lies from spinning out of control. A weepy pro-terrorist op-ed in the Boston Globe, amid whimpers about the "stranglehold" on Gaza, declares the following:
Although Gaza daily requires 680,000 tons of flour to feed its population, Israel had cut this to 90 tons per day by November 2007, a reduction of 99 percent.
The population of Gaza is less than 1.5 million. The math comes out to just under half a ton of flour per Palestinian per day. At least they have a healthy appetite, despite all the Zionist oppression.
The 680,000 tons wasn't a typo. The authors had gotten away with using it before. The phony stat originated in an Egyptian newspaper.
At least we're getting something in return for the $2 billion per year we've been handing over to Egypt ever since the Carter days. Our media recycles "facts" invented by theirs.
The lesson is one we have learned before: Never believe the mainstream media, particularly when it is riding to the defense of its terrorist allies.
Hat tips: Sandbox, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:19 AM | Comments (5)
Moonbats Kill Karl Rove Commencement Address
When liberal fascism kills freedom, it will be by the death of 1,000 cuts. One cut was inflicted yesterday at the prestigious prep school Choate Rosemary Hall, where a commencement address by Karl Rove was nixed because leftist students didn't want to hear his mild opinions.
Some students planned to walk out of the ceremony. Others demanded that conspicuously unfunny but reliably liberal comedian Stephen Colbert give an alternate speech. After canceling Rove, headmaster Edward Shanahan bleated cravenly about outsiders who might disrupt the graduation.
Maybe Choate should follow the lead of UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Antioch College, Occidental College, Evergreen State College, et al. and have radical leftist and vicious convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal give a recorded commencement. That way they wouldn't have to worry about any frightening disturbances.
Those who do not deserve freedom won't have it indefinitely.
Hat tip: NewsBusters, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:43 AM | Comments (12)
Another Deported Illegal Alien Inflicts Mayhem on Arizona
Lacking a functioning government to defend them from foreign incursions, American citizens are literally under siege:
A felony conviction and subsequent deportation didn't stop Manuel Enrique Morales from crossing the border to return to Mesa, where police allege he and others terrorized victims with an assault rifle in a series of home invasions.
This is hardly unusual. In neighboring Chandler, Arizona, serial rapist Santana Batiz Aceves was finally caught recently. He preyed on children in their homes, and had been deported twice. Erik Jovani Martinez was deported the year before he shot and killed police officer Nick Erfle in Phoenix last September.
This time Morales will sit in jail for awhile. When he gets out, he'll be deported. Soon afterwards, he'll be back in the US with his assault rifle or whatever else he cares to bring across the unguarded border.
But Lettuce McCain and the Democrat candidates aren't too worried about it; they have plenty of heavily armed security.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:13 AM | Comments (10)
January 28, 2008
Congress Blows Our Money on Pointless Eco-Indulgences
Our obscenely bloated government expropriates enough of our wealth to significantly retard economic growth and diminish the standard of living we have earned. Adding insult to this injury, it often flushes the money straight down the toilet.
WaPo reports that last November the House blew $89,000 on the preposterous carbon offsets swindle in an attempt to compensate Mother Earth for its existence.
Some of the money went to farmers in North Dakota, for tilling practices that keep carbon buried in the soil. But some farmers were already doing this, for other reasons, before the House paid a cent.
Other funds went to Iowa, where a power plant had been temporarily rejiggered to burn more cleanly. But that test project had ended more than a year before the money arrived.
Even according to Joseph Romm, a leftist envirokook from the Center for American Progress who believes in global warming:
It didn't change much behavior that wasn't going to happen anyway. It just, I think, demonstrated why offsets are controversial and possibly pointless. … This is a waste of taxpayer money.
The frivolous eco-indulgences were part of the new Dem Congress's Green the Capitol initiative, which has also entailed the use of melting biodegradable utensils in Congressional cafeterias.
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:52 AM | Comments (9)
Subprime Crisis as Racist Oppression
Whites really do oppress blacks: by using the liberal media to promote a parasitic, self-pitying attitude that makes success impossible. This moonbattery degenerates into self-parody in an AFP piece that weeps over the unjust plight of Cleveland blacks caught up in the subprime mortgage crisis. Apparently they should not be expected to pay back loans like everyone else — or else the banks never should have given them a chance by lending to them in the first place.
Activist Nikita Bailey is quoted as calling the situation "financial apartheid." According to Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Phillip Morris, it's worse than Katrina.
City councilor Zach Reid explains why Cleveland is such a basket case by echoing the irresponsible rhetoric:
It would have been better if it was an earthquake or a hurricane, we respond better to natural disasters than to men in suits disasters.
Cleveland resident John Brett holds forth from the counter of the Velvet Dog Bar:
People in Washington — George Bush, the US Senate, the US Congress — witnessed it, they stood by and they didn't do nothing to stop it. It was almost like they were on the Titanic, and they could see the iceberg coming and they did nothing about it. They wrecked our American dreams, the willingness to own a home.
It might surprise Brett to learn that the American Dream entails earning a home, not "the willingness" to have one handed to you at someone else's expense by the federal government. No doubt if he knew, Brett would push off from the bar and go look for a job.
On a tip from Matterhorn.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:14 AM | Comments (14)
Moonbat Bicycle Will Save the World by Filtering Water
If only all enviromoonbattery took the form of the harmless, noncoercive idiocy on display at the Official Google Blog, where the "Don't Be Evil" folks are ecstatic over a bicycle that filters water. Five moonbats will share a $5,000 prize for creating the Aquaduct bicycle, utilizing technology adapted from the Flintstones.
I defy anyone to take environmentalism seriously after watching this video:
This must be the most revolutionary concept since Sped Begley learned to use a bicycle to make toast. The polar bears are safe at last!
On a tip from Dave D.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:16 AM | Comments (31)
Berkeley Moonbats Equate Recruiting Offices With Porn Shops
Sure they support the troops — the same way Rudy Giuliani supported the porn industry when he was Mayor of New York. If a proposed initiative is passed by Berkeley voters, military recruitment offices will be banned from opening within 600 feet of residential districts, public parks, public health clinics, public libraries, schools or churches.
The author of the initiative, Berkeley-based lawyer Sharon Adams, modeled the initiative after current zoning law that restricts the location of adult-oriented businesses.
Berkeley Councilmember Dona Spring has a problem with this. Why wait for the elections in November?
"I think we should just go ahead and pass it," she said. "We can't take everything to the voters."
She also wants Berkeley's only existing recruiting office removed, because it "offends our public standards."
Berkeley is only the beginning:
Proponents hope that this ordinance will become a template for communities around the country to follow.
The soldiers out there fighting to the death to preserve liberty are as obscene to moonbats as porn shops are to decent people.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:47 AM | Comments (22)
Oklahoma Accused of Killing Baby, Compared to Nazi Germany
MSM propagandists have no shame when it comes to tugging on heartstrings to undermine support for defending our borders. To attack an Oklahoma law that can lead to illegal aliens getting deported, AP dug up the story of Edgar Castorena, a 2-month-old baby who died after 10 days of diarrhea because his illegal alien parents wouldn't take him to a hospital. Apparently they preferred letting their baby die to risking the minor inconvenience of being deported and having to travel all the way back to Oklahoma after bouncing back across the border.
Naturally, Oklahoma's law is held to blame. How dare the Government place our country's sovereignty and best interests before the convenience of illegal colonists?
Snivels Laurie Paul, who runs the clinic they brought the baby to after it was too late anyway:
The sad part of it was the child didn't have to die if House Bill 1804 didn't ever come around. It was a total tragedy because the bill was there to create the myths and untruths and the fear.
No, the sad part is that the child didn't have to die if the parents had refrained from invading our country, or if they had been responsible enough to make their kid's survival a priority.
AP found someone willing to spew even sillier rhetoric. Illegal alien Maria Sanchez gripes:
I feel like I'm in some kind of Nazi country where if they see your color, you'll be stopped. I can't work, I can't study, I can't go out, there's no point of me staying here.
Here's an idea, Maria: If you don't like our Nazi-esque country, why don't you go home? Nothing doing, though she has threatened to leave Oklahoma.
Other interview subjects denounce Oklahoma for being xenophobic and unchristian. At least with AP, you always know where they stand.
By the way, Edgar Castorena died months before the law even went into effect.
Hat tip: NewsBusters, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:46 AM | Comments (8)
British Doctors: Withhold Treatment From the Unhealthy
Obviously, socialized medicine could never function as efficiently medical care in a free economy, because when you set the price of a highly valued commodity like healthcare at zero, demand will quickly reach infinity. Since supply is far from infinite, rationing must be imposed. In Britain, it is already getting ugly:
Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.
Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone. […]
About one in 10 hospitals already deny some surgery to obese patients and smokers, with restrictions most common in hospitals battling debt.
Supposedly half the British population will by "dangerously overweight" by 2050, which should at least keep the wait down to a few years for emergency surgery if all these people are denied medical care.
The Government has stepped up to the plate by offering to pay fat people to diet and exercise. Just as they once thought the supply of healthcare is infinite, bureaucrats now believe there is no bottom to taxpayers' pockets.
One in three doctors surveyed think that old people shouldn't be given treatment if they are going to die soon anyway. Half think that smokers shouldn't get heart bypass surgery. Ninety-four percent think alcoholics should not be given liver transplants, which is almost exactly the percentage of alcoholics who stop drinking after receiving one.
Giving an indication of how depraved the medical profession has become under socialism, only one in five doesn't think taxpayers should have to finance "social" abortions. Limited resources are to be focused on ending life, not prolonging it.
On tips from Kevin and V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:10 AM | Comments (12)
January 27, 2008
Dolphins Not So Nice After All
Deaths of young porpoises and dolphins that had been blamed on the US military and the oil industry were in fact the work of roving gangs of dolphin thugs:
The first clues to solving the riddle came in 1997 when, by coincidence, marine biologists in Virginia were finding young, dead dolphins with horrific internal injuries at the same time as young porpoises were washing up on Scotland's north-east coast with identical causes of death. The body count was growing in both locations.
The two groups of biologists pooled information and, at first, it was believed the mammals had died through "blast trauma". In American cases, this was supposedly from exercises by the US Navy, and in Scotland from air guns used by oil rig technicians to detect undersea caverns.
This theory was dismissed after further examination of the mammals' bodies revealed the injuries — broken ribs, imploding lungs, damaged livers and massive internal bleeding — could only have come from prolonged, focused attacks.
Bite marks and violent videos confirmed that dolphins were to blame.
Marine experts now believe that these displays of attacks on non-rival, non-predatory, peace-loving porpoises and, more shockingly, of dolphin infanticide, may have always taken place.
It is only now, with dolphins' more human-friendly behaviour taking them closer to tourist boats and beaches, that the violence is being witnessed first hand. Until the shocking realisation, dolphin-watchers in America had believed they were watching the mammals at play with their young.
Dolphins use their ultrasound capabilities to home in on vital organs during their attacks.
Guffaws Warner Todd Huston:
How many times have you heard about how smart and caring these beneficent mammals are? How many times have you heard dolphin sycophants scold we lowborn humans, telling us that if we were only more like the dolphins the whole world would be sooo much better?
Once again we see that the gentleness moonbats manage to see in nature is a projection of the human soul they so often deprecate.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:28 PM | Comments (19)
Zionists Oppress With Giant Killer Bulldozer
Gaza exports more than terrorism. It is becoming a leading center of creative photography. Check out this picture of a giant Israeli bulldozer from Palestinian propaganda organ International Middle East Media Center:
This is reportedly the same death device employed to martyr Rachel Corrie, aka "Saint Pancake."
Via Small Dead Animals, this is what conventional D9s look like next to a normal-sized person:
Are Israelis really using Godzilla-sized bulldozers? Or have they employed mad scientists to shrink the long-suffering Palestinians into Munchkins?
A third possibility is that Reuters helped out with the top picture.
Hat tip: The Jawa Report, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:51 PM | Comments (15)
Janet Greene, the Anti-Baez
Contrary to popular belief, not all folk singers are moonbats like Pete Seeger and Joan Baez. Janet Greene was even billed as the Anti-Baez.
The countermoonbat songs she released during the 60s include the gem "Poor Left Winger." The lyrics tell the heartbreaking tale of a dupe sucked in by moonbattery:
I'm just a poor left-winger
Befuddled, bewildered, forlorn
Duped by a bearded singer
Peddling his Communist corn
In the Café Expresso
Sounds of guitars could be heard
Twanging a plaintive folk song
Spreading the Communist word
Hair hung around his shoulders
And sandals were on his feet
His shirttail was ragged and dirty
Making the picture complete
I followed him off to college
The man that I came to adore
Where student demonstrations
Blocked every classroom door
We led the march on the White House
And forced the cops to come in
We claimed each one was brutal
As we kicked him in the shin
It was all so intellectual
What glorious tales I was told
Of history's certain progress
Into the Communist fold
I fell for those empty falsehoods
But now I know full well
Those little words on the posters
Were all that he could spell
Those dialectic phrases
Made a marvelous spiel
But hidden behind that beard
Beat the heart of a frustrated heel
Now all my illusions are shattered
About the man I admired
I'm just a poor left-winger
Befuddled, bewildered and tired!
A 1966 review listed some of Janet's advantages over her hippie competition:
Janet has a number of unfair advantages. For one thing she looks like a girl. Not many female protest singers can say that. And that may be what they are really protesting against, deep down. Granted, there are plenty of male protest singers who look like girls, but they don't look as good as Janet Greene either. Also, Janet does things that most protest folk singers wouldn't dream of. Like taking a bath. And like wearing clean clothes and dressing neatly and being legally married and having legitimate children and loving her country. You know, corny things like that…
Unfortunately, her qualities were not much in demand during the flower child generation.
On a tip from Bryherb.
Update:
Matt Fitzgibbons offers more contemporary songs with an emphasis on inspirational countermoonbattery.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:36 PM | Comments (17)
More Pro-Terrorist Fauxtography From Al Reuters
Here's some of the funniest fauxtography to come out of al Reuters since it photoshopped smoke into a picture of Beirut to make it look like Jews were burning down the city:
Above we see Palestinian parliamentarians, probably deciding on how many suicide bombers to send into Israel. The candlelight is to indicate that the poor guys have no power, thanks to sanctions against the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Of course, they could always open the drapes, which the daytime sun is clearly trying to penetrate. The willful idiots at Reuters published a series of these silly pictures, as if the farcical candlelight session weren't staged.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:11 PM | Comments (39)
Terrorist Demonstrate at Israeli Embrassy in DC
On Friday afternoon, moonbats protested the Israeli embassy in DC, demanding the tiny besieged democracy surrender to the hordes of Islamofascists terrorists arrayed against it. This Ain't Hell was on the scene, and provides original photography:
Here's video of the circus:
Note the scattering of moonbats mixed in with the Muslims. One day this marriage of convenience will result in an ugly divorce.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:12 AM | Comments (35)
January 26, 2008
Chris Matthews Reminds Us to Cherish the Constitution
Via NewsBusters, I present the wisdom of noted constitutional scholar Chris "Tweety" Matthews regarding the Second and Fourth Amendments:
You know what I think? In big cities they ought to check people on sidewalks like getting on airplanes. And why an airplane should be safer than an American sidewalk is crazy to me. Why you can walk down the sidewalk of an American city carrying a concealed weapon without a license is wacky. […] I want to see people disarmed. I want people disarmed in our major cities. How's that for a plan?
Since you asked, Tweety: It stinks.
We are forever indebted to the Founding Fathers for bequeathing to us the Constitution, which so far has prevented people who think like Tweety from making defenseless victims of us all.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:05 PM | Comments (29)
British Fire Department Targets White Guys for Discrimination
In once-great Britain, institutionalized anti-male and anti-Caucasian racism isn't always subtle:
White men have been banned from fire brigade recruitment sessions because bosses want to hit their diversity targets. Four out of five "open" days held by Avon Fire Service were restricted to women and ethnic minorities. […] Avon's bosses insist their ban on white men is simply "positive action".
Tory MP Philip has an excellent suggestion:
If the chief fire officer is so concerned, he should give up his job to an ethnic minority woman instead of depriving other white men of a job.
To find favor with the firefighting authorities, white males would have to be homosexual:
Back in October, the same brigade demoted a fire crew who shone their torches at four men they found having sex in bushes. The decision sparked an outcry from critics who claimed it was politically correct madness.
At least the moonbats haven't yet applied their "positive action" restrictions to putting out fires in white guys' homes.
On a tip from xantl.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:28 AM | Comments (18)
January 25, 2008
Open-Borders Activist Juan Hernandez Works for McCain Campaign
To get an idea of just how contemptuously John McCain is lying through his teeth when he claims to have learned his lesson from the shamnesty debacle, Michelle Malkin reports that Juan Hernandez, whom she accurately describes as an "ethnocentrist, border obliteration activist," is working as McLame's Hispanic Outreach Director.
This would clearly indicate that the outreach is not to Hispanic Americans, but to Mexicans who are colonizing this country illegally.
You've probably seen Hernandez on cable TV, smarmily calling everyone "my friend" as he demands that the USA renounce any claims to territorial sovereignty. He has headed up Mexico's Office of Mexicans Abroad. That is, he's served as an agent of a foreign power whose interests are clearly hostile to our own regarding the unacceptable border situation. Declares Hernandez:
We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.
In other words, America must submit to unlimited Mexican colonization, as well as provide healthcare and social services for any Mexican who cares to take a ride north. Among his causes: defending Mexican bus drivers for bringing illegal aliens to the USA.
Mexicans in America are still Mexicans in Hernandez's scheme of things: "I want 'em all to think Mexico first" — no matter how many generations they have spent in the USA. Assimilation is clearly not on his agenda, any more than border security is on McCain's.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:38 PM | Comments (38)
Suicide Bomber Falls Down Stairs, Explodes
Without assistance from their moonbat allies in the Democrat Party and MSM, our terrorist adversaries would not be much of a match for the best-trained and best-equipped military the world has ever seen. From AFP:
A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say. […] The would-be attacker tripped as he was leaving a building apparently to target an opening ceremony for a mosque that was expected to be attended by Afghan and international military officials.
Democrats have been known to do the same thing, politically speaking. An example would be Harry Reid declaring the war lost not long before it became clear that we're winning. But they live to fight another day, because their supporters vote for them anyway.
On a tip from Lyle.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:55 AM | Comments (13)
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: John Matel
John Matel leads the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Anbar Province. He has some instructive insight into the success of the Surge:
It may take a while for the magnitude of this to sink in. I can walk around in the same places where heavily armed American & Iraqi forces could not safely walk only months ago. Here the debate has shifted to providing everyday services such as sewer, water and electricity. Marketplaces where insurgents dumped headless bodies last year are now crowded with shoppers. Children are returning to school instead of being abused by terrorists and coerced into deadly activities. What a difference a year makes!
Sometimes you just have to win. Some conflicts just need to run their courses and some bad guys just need killing. Nazi ideology was not discredited UNTIL it was defeated on the battlefield. No amount of peaceful persuasion or appeasement worked. People thought communism was a viable alternative to the free market UNTIL it ignominiously collapsed. Massive economic evidence and even the presence of a very large and deadly wall running down the middle of Berlin did not convince the believers to abandon their failed ideology. Earlier forms of terrorism from the Barbary Pirates to the Bader-Meinhof didn't go away until they were defeated. We tried appeasement in the 1930s and we tried ignorance in the 1990s. These things did not work.
Like General Petraeus, Matel would no doubt be denounced as a liar by the Democrats who after voting to send our troops over there, have done everything possible to derail their efforts — the same Democrats who could be running our country a year from now.
If we were to fail in Iraq, it's inevitable that the enemy would follow us home. But our worst enemies are already here.
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If only things were going as well on the home front. |
Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:23 AM
British Ad Portrays Troops As Broken Victims
It's nice to know that American soldiers aren't the only ones to come home from war as shattered, pathetic husks of human beings, incapable of functioning in society without psychiatric assistance, as frequently implied by Hollyweird and the New York Times. Check out this ad running in British movie houses:
Does anyone really think they are supporting soldiers by smothering them in maudlin pity? A more intolerable insult would be difficult to imagine.
Via The Jawa Report, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:59 AM | Comments (2)
Imam Denounces Infidels, America Before Iowa Legislature
In a righteous multicultural gesture, the Iowa legislature recruited Muhammad Khan of the Islamic Center of Des Moines to deliver opening prayers. Unsurprisingly, Khan took a Muslim point of view, delivering a prayer that featured requests for "victory over those who disbelieve" (i.e., us infidels) and "protection from the great Satan" (i.e., America).
If Pearl Harbor were to happen now, we'd respond by inviting Japanese officers to give speeches.
Hat tip: