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March 31, 2008
Palestinian Illegal Immigrant Sues NYPD
An illegal immigrant from the West Bank is suing the NYPD on the grounds that it failed to abide by Michael Bloomberg's seditious promise not to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
Waheed Saleh alleges that a cop tipped off immigration officials as to his unlawful presence in the country, in violation of Mayor Mike's irresponsible policy of not reporting illegal aliens until they commit further crimes. Saleh isn't exactly a model undocumented American; he drives an unlicensed cab, has a habit of getting into fights, and is believed to have tried to run someone over with his car. His case is based on the claim that ICE was tipped off only as revenge for a series of unsubstantiated complaints he has made against the police.
Instead of being set packing back to Terroristland with a boot print deeply embedded in his backside, Saleh is now wasting everyone's time and the taxpayers' money with a lawsuit that he may even win — assuming he shows up for court; he was let out on bail and his current whereabouts are unknown.
No country can be run like this indefinitely and survive.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:59 PM | Comments (4)
Fatuous Moonbat Slogan of the Day
In honor of Cesar Chavez day, Phoenix refused to pick up my garbage, and a moonbat at Bowling Green State University stood around holding this sign:
The people of Tibet will be glad to hear that the Dalai Lama's approach must have worked after all. Say, why didn't we try using nonviolence to defend ourselves on 9/11?
Compliments of Sean M.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:23 PM | Comments (21)
Selective Lessons
Being a moonbat means learning only the lessons you want to learn. For example, a gunman pushed his way into the home of 77-year-old Illinois State Rep. Wyvetter Younge and stole her purse.
Being a Democrat, Younge drew the following conclusions from her experience:
This robbery and what's happening to this community is the result of a lack of a supportive system for our youth. We need jobs. This happened in broad daylight at noon. We need a mental health support system. This is further evidence of that.
As a result of the robbery, Younge is out $7. As a result of the kind of legislation she is likely to promote to make the system more supportive, taxpayers will be out $millions.
See if you can pick which one is more likely to rob you blind:
On a tip from Lyle.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:06 PM | Comments (14)
Moonbats Hold Up Wal-Marts for 5 Years
Humans won a small victory over environmentalists Friday when a judge finally ruled after a five-year legal battle that Wal-Mart can build a couple of stores in Bakersfield.
The stores were green-lighted by the Bakersfield City Council back in 2003. But then a group of moonbats calling itself "Bakersfield Citizens for Local Control" stepped in. Opposition was largely based on Wal-Mart supposedly not having completed a satisfactory environmental impact report, though the chain was later asked to prove that its wide selection and low prices wouldn't put any other stores out of business. So much for economic freedom.
Lee Jamieson, the developer of one of the stores, observes:
This had nothing to do with the environment, this had to do with labor unions and shutting down Wal-Mart. [Moonbats used environmental law] as a club, and used it to blackmail people — and they did a good job of that.
That's what environmental law tends to be for. The primary objective isn't to save polar bears from their imaginary threats, but to cripple the capitalist system by any means possible, the better to usher in socialism.
On a tip from Dave D.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:47 AM | Comments (14)
A Seal's Take on Endangered Status for Polar Bears
From the National Center for Public Policy Research:
On a tip from Jen.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:19 AM | Comments (4)
Local Global Warming
With even the U.N.'s IPCC admitting that global warming simply isn't happening, the media has been reduced to digging for evidence of local global warming.
I was startled to learn that here in the Southwest, the phenomenon has reached crisis proportions without my even noticing. Allegedly the temperature in the Colorado River Basin during 2003-2007 was 2.2°F hotter than the twentieth century average, which we're asked to believe has been causing economic havoc in the country's fastest growing region.
Next they'll attempt to induce panic by reporting that March has been warmer than February.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:53 AM | Comments (7)
Jamaal Turner Is Dating Again
Young women in search of a friendship that could develop into a relationship have the opportunity to "hit up" Jamaal Turner via the website Inmate-Connection.
Turner's very short relationship with first-grade teacher Bridget Kelly didn't turn out so well. They met when he broke into her home, kidnapped her, robbed her, raped her, beat her, shot her three times, and left her for dead. Her story is featured today on the show I Survived.
Her father, journalist Michael Kelly (not the Michael Kelly who died in Iraq), describes the climax of their date:
The rapist didn't want to look her in the eyes as he killed her, so he told her to turn around. From about five feet away, he fired a 9 mm bullet into her back, just left of her spine. The bullet missed her heart and exited below her left breast. She fell. He stood over her and fired again. The bullet entered her upper-left buttock, ripped through her colon and exited just above the pubic area. For good measure, he fired again, the third bullet slashing across her lower back and creasing the flesh of her right elbow.
Somehow she survived. Jamaal Turner shouldn't have.
On a tip from Lyle.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:29 AM | Comments (21)
Idiot Hour Spews Carbon
Too bad anthropogenic global warming isn't real; we would be in for some nice warm weather following all the carbon emissions spewed by moonbats as they celebrated Earth Hour Saturday. Complements of Burning Hot, a few examples:
The weather doesn't seem to have changed much. But I'm sure moonbats will try again next year.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:48 AM | Comments (4)
Anti-KKK Book Banned by Thought Police
Just how far does the Left want to take the brand of totalitarian thought control euphemistically called "political correctness"? A story from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis offers a clue:
Keith Sampson, a janitor and part-time student at IUPUI brought the book Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan by Todd Tucker to work. Black coworkers disapproved; apparently they couldn't be bothered to read the whole title, but saw the words Ku Klux Klan and wanted it banned. The school's Affirmative Action Office shared their point of view.
Sampson received a menacing letter from the Thought Police [PDF], chastising him for showing "extremely poor judgment" and reminding him that if he is ever caught reading the book in the presence of his coworkers, he could be subject to "serious disciplinary action."
How long before Tucker's book is removed from libraries because blacks decide it's "offensive"? What will be the next topic we are forbidden from even reading about?
On a tip from wz.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:27 AM | Comments (10)
Obama: Babies Are Punishment
The get an idea of the moral depravity personified by Barack Obama, you don't have to listen to the obscenity-laced anti-American rants of his 20-year mentor, Jeremiah Wright. Obama's own words get the message across loud and clear.
Obama on the miracle of childbirth:
Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Imagine learning about "values and morals" from a guy who thinks of children as punishment for not having gotten an abortion.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:57 AM | Comments (8)
March 30, 2008
Will Richard Williams Join Obama Campaign?
After 20 years of mentorship, Barack Obama was forced to terminate Jeremiah Wright's official role as an advisor two weeks ago. Obama must be in dire need of a new sounding board who can impart the sort of wisdom that will unite us so that we can Hope for Change.
I know just the man for the job: Richard Williams, father of the successful tennis stars Venus and Serena. A few of his wise words:
The white man hated me all my life and I hate him. That's no secret. I'm not even an American, it just so happens I was born in America. People are prejudiced in tennis. I don't think Venus or Serena was ever accepted by tennis. They never will be. But if you get some little white no-good trasher in America like Tracy Austin or Chris Evert who cannot hit the ball, they will claim this is great.
If Jeremiah Wright had gone into tennis instead of pseudo-religious leftist demagoguery, he might have said the same.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:27 PM | Comments (8)
Hollywood Backs Chavez, Chavez Backs Al Qaeda
Thor Halvorssen of the Human Rights Foundation has put his finger on why Hollywood likes the brutal socialist dictator Hugo Chavez so much:
What tickles [Sean] Penn and his ilk is that Chavez is the world's most visible opponent of the United States and the U.S. government.
Chavez's opposition to the USA has taken forms even more unseemly than allowing his ring to be kissed by treasonous vermin like Penn, Danny Glover, Kevin Spacey, Baba Wawa, Harry Belafonte, Oliver Stone, Cindy Sheehan, Naomi Campbell, et al.
After escaping to the USA, Air Force Major Juan Diaz Castillo, formerly Chavez's pilot, reported that Chavez responded to 9/11 by transferring $1 million to the Taliban, designating $900,000 for al Qaeda. The idea was to let Osama bin Laden know he has an ally in Venezuela, so long as it's under Chavez's thumb. On September 12, 2001, Chavez supporters burned an American flag in Caracas's main square.
America must be destroyed: it's the one thing all evil people can agree on.
On tips from Oiao and General Jack D. Ripper.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:59 PM | Comments (9)
Planned Parenthood Makes Record Profits
Not all the economic news is grim:
A new annual report from Planned Parenthood shows the nation's largest abortion business has made over $1 billion in income for the first time in its history. The non-profit [sic] pro-abortion group shows the historical gain in its new annual report covering 2006-2007. […] Planned Parenthood reveals it has doubled "excess of revenue over expenses" funds from $55.7 million in 2005 to $112 million in 2006.
This cash bonanza results in part from increased productivity:
The report shows an increase in the number of provided abortions from 264,943 in 2005 to 289,650 in 2006.
Of course, the nonprofit status doesn't hurt. Neither does receiving over $336 million in government grants. What goes around, comes around: $10 million of that will go back to bureaucrats in the form of donations to pro-abortion candidates.
Hat tip: Free Republic, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:09 AM | Comments (14)
Fresno Loots 3M
Compliments of Richard C.:
The city of Fresno sued 3M because their 1" tape was only .94" wide but labeled as 1" tape. 3M had to cough up $693,000.
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/818056.html
I'd guess they'll be going after Home Depot next for mislabeling their lumber as 2x4, 4x4, 2x6. We can look forward to buying a 1 1/2 x 3 1/2, 3 1/2 x 3 1/2, and a 1 1/2 x 5 1/2. Really rolls of the tongue.
Maybe after that they can go after the guy who advertises "Coldest beer in town."
With greedy moonbat Jerry Brown serving as California's Attorney General, this is only the beginning.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:50 AM | Comments (13)
The Case for Reparations
If anybody ought to be forced to pay "reparations" to blacks, it's the Democrat Party. Lt. Col. Francis Rice, U.S. Army Retired, explains.
Hat tip: Lone Star Times, on a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:36 AM | Comments (7)
Still More Evidence of Shrillary's Bosnian Exploits
Compliments of Sean M.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:30 AM | Comments (3)
Atlanta Judge Orders Whites Out of Courtroom
As we see once again, "racism" is a one-way street:
ATLANTA — Judge Marvin Arrington insists he's not a racist; despite ordering white lawyers out of his courtroom on Thursday.
The Fulton County Superior Court judge wanted to have a word with black defendants and "thought his message might have more power if it was delivered to a blacks-only audience."
Try to imagine a white judge ordering blacks out of the courtroom. At least this doesn't happen at White House cabinet meetings — yet.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:24 AM | Comments (7)
Evan Sayet Revisited
I've posted this video before, but the folks at Ace of Spades HQ thought it was worth posting again, and they're right. It explains why revelations of Barack Obama's jarringly anti-American background have not put an end to his alarming candidacy.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:53 AM | Comments (11)
Obadiah Marius's Seven-Ninth Chance
Career burglar Obadiah Marius can add to his lengthy resume having snuck into 9 Downing Street with the help of his Lithuanian girlfriend’s photo ID card, coming within yards of the Prime Minister's office. He was on bail at the time; at age 43 he's racked up an impressive 78 previous convictions.
Marius's punishment this time: a suspended sentence and drug rehab. Judge Christopher Hardy has decided to give him "one last chance" — that is, his 79th chance.
Marius knows perfectly well that he has dozens more last chances in his future, just as police know there's no point arresting him since the moonbat-infested courts will just set him free again.
On a tip from Lyle.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:34 AM | Comments (2)
British Bus Driver Kicks Passengers Off to Pray to Allah
As Britain degenerates into a carnival of Islam and moonbattery, even riding the bus becomes a challenge. In Langley, Berkshire:
A MUSLIM bus driver told stunned passengers to get off so he could PRAY. The white Islamic convert rolled out his prayer mat in the aisle and knelt on the floor facing Mecca. Passengers watched in amazement as he held out his palms towards the sky, bowed his head and began to chant.
When passengers complained that they had to get to work, the driver kicked them off. After he was done praising Allah, he let them get back on, but having noticed his potentially explosive rucksack, no one was willing to.
The driver, who calls himself Hrun, calmly explains his behavior:
I asked everyone to get off because I needed to pray. I was running late and had not had time.
Allah comes first, work later in Britainistan.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:55 AM | Comments (6)
March 29, 2008
Idiot Hour
It's not often that I advise people to visit Google, a company that uses its immense power to close off traffic to sites not conforming to its leftist ideology. But you really have to check out its home page today:
Don't you just love trying to read white type on a black screen?
The idea is that Google has "turned the lights out" for Earth Hour, an event that entails moonbats pretending they have attained their dream of dragging humanity back to the Dark Ages.
A still more precious dream to militant moonbats is total conformity. We are to turn our lights off from 8:00 to 9:00 this evening per our local time zones, not because anyone who doesn't live in a padded room thinks it will improve the weather, but to demonstrate our obeisance to envirokooks' antihuman ideology.
This is why all reasonable people are called upon to turn on every light in their house during Earth Hour. Any hardship this imposes upon the polar bears will be more than made up for by all the energy Google is saving with their sanctimonious black screen.
Actually, Google admits that the black screen saves no energy at all. But it does cause eye strain. So long as we suffer for Gaia, that's the important thing.
On tips from Varla, Matt B, Wiggins, and Big Al.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:52 AM | Comments (38)
March 28, 2008
Geert Wilders' Fitna, Take Two
Last night I embedded a LiveLeak video of Geert Wilders' film Fitna. But as you may have heard, LiveLeak has taken it down due to death threats from the Religion of Peace, from which our leaders are not willing to make a serious attempt to protect us.
Now the video is hosted on Moonbattery's server. Say Anything has it up too.
The liberal establishment thinks we have no right to see a film that warns us of the threat we face from Islam. Yelps the U.N.'s contemptible Ban Ki-moon:
I condemn in the strongest terms the airing of Geert Wilders' offensively anti-Islamic film. There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. The right of free speech is not at stake here.
The right of free speech is only the beginning of what's at stake. When we give that up, everything else we have will soon follow.
Here again is Geert Wilders' Fitna, which offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us if we don't have the spine to stand up to Islam and the quislings who would turn us over to it:
We'll know this is no longer America when Muslim thugs and their dhimmi collaborators can tell us what we can or cannot watch.
Thanks to OregonGuy, Refuter of Liberal Vermin, and Jimbo.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:54 PM | Comments (18)
Barking Moonbat to Play Bush 41 in Stone Movie
Some casting news regarding Oliver Stone's movie about George W. Bush, which they're trying to get out in time for the elections:
Bush 41 will be played by James Cromwell. Connoisseurs of moonbattery will recognize Cromwell as the unhinged and infantile moonbat ingrate who has this to say to the European press:
I can't handle living in the United States of America when I know the last two elections were rigged, and that we were denied our right to vote, where we live in a country where 32 percent of the people vote and even those people's votes don't count, and the people who should really have a stake, kids, don't have any say at all — people of color, very little to say, unions, practically nothing any more …
Too bad they couldn't get Sean Penn to play W.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:13 AM | Comments (21)
Red Light Cameras Deemed Too Effective
Did you think the purpose of traffic fines is to make the roads safer? Guess again: it's to raise revenue for ever-expanding government. A case in point:
Dallas officials reviewed the numbers and decided that a quarter of the cameras they had installed to catch motorists running red lights were too effective. So they shut them down.
They are not alone. Faced with data showing that drivers pay attention to cameras at intersections — resulting in fewer ticketable violations and ever-shrinking revenue from fines — municipalities across the country are reconsidering red light cameras, which often work too well.
Good thing murder isn't punished with fines. Local officials would be handing out knives and slipping PCP into the beer at Yankees-Red Sox games in hopes of driving up revenue.
On a tip from Lyle.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:46 AM | Comments (21)
Is Lettuce Already Back to His Old Tricks?
After the last time John McCain tried to ram through amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens colonizing our country, citizens rejected the treacherous attempt to undermine our sovereignty so resoundingly that he was left for dead politically. Yet he came back, like an unkillable fiend in a horror movie, purring that he had learned his lesson, and that he is now willing to stop undermining the defense of our country from foreign invasion.
Has Lettuce McAmnesty changed his spots? According to Blue Dog Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC), the answer is a resounding no.
Shuler bucked his own party in an attempt to bring the Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act to the House floor. The bill would strengthen border security and require employers to verify the status of new employees.
"It was going great until McCain blocked it," Shuler said.
McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona, called Republicans in Congress and asked them not to sign the petition, Shuler said. He said after McCain's intervention, Republicans in the House were less willing to sign onto the bill.
A McCain spokesman denies everything. I hope the spokesman wasn't Juan Hernandez, the "ethnocentrist, border obliteration activist" who used to head up Mexico's Office of Mexicans Abroad, and was signed up by the McCain campaign as Hispanic Outreach Director.
Hat tip: The Corner, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:29 AM | Comments (9)
Goracle: Doubting His Prophecies Is Like Saying the Earth Is Flat
As the hoax crumbles, and even his coconspirators on the U.N.'s IPCC quietly admit that there is no global warming, manmade or otherwise, Al Gore is ratcheting up the rhetoric:
Confronted by [CBS's Lesley] Stahl with the fact some prominent people, including the nation’s vice president, are not convinced that global warming is man-made, Gore responds: "You're talking about Dick Cheney. I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they're almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat," says Gore. "That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off," he tells Stahl.
Here's a better comparison: Al Gore and others who expect us to let ourselves be repressed and exploited, to diminish our standard of living, and to reverse the progress of civilization, all in the name of the global warming hoax are like evil priests still asking us to sacrifice our firstborn children to Moloch.
On tips from Oiao and mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:38 AM | Comments (2)
Obama's Church Sets Up Reverend Wrong in $1.6 Million Mansion
You can make quite a nice career out of denouncing America and white people in the name of Black Liberation Theology. Check out the 10,340-sqare-foot, $1.6 million, gated-community mansion B. Hussein Obama's church is building for his mentor Jeremiah Wright:
The home comes complete with a $10 million line of credit.
Ironically, when he's not spitting venom at Whitey or screaming "God damn America," Wright is often denouncing materialism. Maybe he figures that materialistic values encourage people to hold onto their money instead of giving it to him.
The only downside to his new digs: there might be white people in the neighborhood. Let's hope there are no Italians, who have earned the high honor of particular hatred from Obama's "sounding board." In a eulogy written last year, he referred to Italians' "garlic noses" and "Apartheid Rome," and even called Christ's crucifixion "a public lynching Italian style" (according to BLT ideology, Jesus was black).
All part of bringing Americans together, right Obama?
On tips from Wiggins and Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:59 AM | Comments (9)
Confirmed: Global Warming Isn't the Problem, Civilization Is
At last a little honesty from the enviropsychos behind the global warming hoax. Kate Rawles, lecturer at the University of Cumbria and a flaming moonbat, sets off some echoes at Greenbang:
Greenbang: What do you think is wrong with the debate on climate change?
Dr Kate: It hasn't really got to grips with the fundamental problem, which is that Western, industrialised lifestyles are literally unsustainable. Climate change is just one symptom of this. WWF famously calculated that if everyone on earth were to enjoy the lifestyle of an average Western European, we would need three planet earths.
Not even the most optimistic believers in technology think that we can technofix this problem so that 6 billion people (let alone the projected 9 billion) can enjoy a western lifestyle without ecological meltdown. It follows that we urgently need to rethink what we currently mean by a "high standard of living" and move away from materialistic versions of this to an understanding of quality of life that could be enjoyed by everyone, without causing environmental mayhem. This is about values, not just about technology.
WWF in this context stands for World Wildlife Fund, not World Wrestling Federation — although the level of scientific credibility is about the same.
While preaching to the choir "Dr. Kate" lets slip the actual objectives of environmentalists: to keep the poor poor, and force the rich to join them, using whatever totalitarian measures will be required.
For thousands of years, the story of mankind has been an upward striving to improve our condition. Now this cult of evil lunatics wants us to reverse that trend, and force us to deliberately worsen our condition.
No matter how much they may care about polar bears, environmentalists clearly do not care about human beings. Even Nazism benefited Nazis. Radical environmentalism is so profoundly depraved that it does not benefit anyone. Yet this sick, pro-poverty ideology has so much influence in this country that we would rather buy oil from our enemies than drill for it in a godforsaken wasteland like ANWR.
Hat tip: Coyote Blog, on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:04 AM | Comments (13)
March 27, 2008
Geert Wilders' Fitna
Muslims and their moonbat dhimmi allies definitely do not want you to watch Geert Wilders' film Fitna, which actually dares to tell the politically incorrect truth about Islam. Dutch television was too cowardly to broadcast it, and Holland's Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has been whimpering apologies on Wilders' behalf. The Dutch Islamic Federation is asking a court to impose a $79,000 fine for every day the movie is available to the public.
No doubt Wilders will end up like Theo Van Gogh if the Religion of Peace gets its hands on him. Watch the movie while you can:
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:48 PM | Comments (50)
More Evidence of Shrillary's Bosnian Exploits
Compliments of Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:33 PM | Comments (6)
In the Mouth of Moonbattery
Zombie has outdone herself documenting the moonbattery that bubbled over last Wednesday, when kooks took to the streets of San Francisco to commemorate the 5th anniversary of our opening the Iraqi front in the war with Islamic terrorists. A few samples:
It's starting to look like time for another earthquake.
On a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:50 PM | Comments (11)
Cop-Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal Given Another Break
The boobs running our judicial system continue to dither around concerning the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who with the help of overwhelming evidence was convicted of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner a generation ago.
The psychopathic Abu-Jamal is in a class with Tookie Williams when it comes to personifying the reason we need the death penalty. Yet a federal appeals court has refused to reinstate the death sentence he so richly deserves.
No one in his right mind doubts Abu-Jamal's guilt. The court upheld his first-degree murder conviction. It's just a question of how seriously we want to take shooting police officers in the back. The race card is being played yet again, with Judge Thomas L. Ambro whining that blacks weren't given a chance to apply jury nullification to the case of a brother killing a white cop.
The odds that this scum won't die of natural causes are long. In the meantime, maybe he can tape some more college commencement addresses, as he has for U.C. Berkeley, Antioch College, Occidental College, and Evergreen State College.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:21 AM | Comments (15)
Music to the Eyes
Favorable-unfavorable ratings, from Rasmussen via U.S. News:
Its like a teetertotter: as Osama Obama and Shrillary Rotten go down, up goes McCain.
Yes, McLame is an absolutely awful candidate, as he decisively proved yet again with his speech yesterday, featuring groan-inducing lines like this one on fighting Islamic terrorism, supposedly his strongest point:
In this struggle, scholarships will be far more important than smart bombs.
Yet he is infinitely better than the alternatives at this point. Conservatives lost when Mitt Romney dropped out. Now it's a question of whether we get a relatively moderate liberal, a corrupt socialist, or an adolescent Malcolm X wannabe.
Hat tips: Instapundit, The Corner, Michelle Malkin.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:47 AM | Comments (6)
Shrillary in Bosnia, Revised
Even CBS was able to disprove Shrillary Rotten's claim to have braved sniper fire in Bosnia:
But now her campaign has released new pictures in response:
Via Michelle Malkin, here and here; on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:07 AM | Comments (3)
Saddam Financed Dem Propaganda Tour in Iraq
Some idiots are so useful, they warrant payment. For example, when seditious Reps Jim McDermott (D-WA), David Bonior (D-MI), and Mike Thompson (D-CA) traveled to Baghdad to propagandize on behalf of Saddam's terror-supporting, totalitarian regime in the days preceding the war in Iraq, the Iraqi intelligence agency financed the trip.
The three stooges may not have known, but it couldn't have surprised them that Saddam would be willing to pay, since they were clearly there to do his bidding. Still more outrageous is that they were drawing salaries financed by American taxpayers at the time.
Hat tip: Free Republic, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:42 AM | Comments (1)
Snuffing Out the Lights in San Francisco
Taking effective action based on liberals' demented beliefs would result in catastrophe. Fortunately, they are often forced to settle for symbolism. Nothing could be more symbolic of where progressives would like to take us than snuffing out the lights that in turn symbolize mankind's triumph over the darkness:
San Francisco's picturesque skyline would be dark at night under a first-in-the-nation law proposed Tuesday that would mandate all skyscrapers turn off nonemergency lights after work hours. […] Under the proposal, energy-wasting scofflaws would face fines for each floor where lights are on, with $50 for the first infraction, $100 for the second and $250 for any subsequent violation. The proposal would also require businesses undergoing major renovations to install devices that would automatically turn off lights when nobody is in a room.
Ken Cleaveland of the Building Owners and Managers Association of San Francisco points out that any businesses wasting electricity are already being fined by higher electric bills, and that 90% of them in the city's downtown area are small businesses that can ill afford more government greed. But that doesn't change the fact that they are capitalist oppressors who must be punished for the sake of the polar bears.
For added symbolism, San Franfreakshow will participate in Earth Hour on Saturday, by encouraging people to turn off lights for an hour to help them envision a world without humans, on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:09 AM | Comments (27)
March 26, 2008
NUT Nuts Impose Dhimmitude on British Schools
Britain's National Union of Teachers, aka NUT, doesn't think representatives of the military should be allowed in schools unless they're forced to denounce themselves. But don't go thinking these militant moonbats are closed-minded. They have nothing against Muslim imams coming to speak at public schools. In fact, they insist on it.
Also, meals will have to meet religious requirements, i.e., be halal. Prayer rooms must be provided. Holidays must take into account festivals and special days, presumably meaning Ramadan, Osama bin Laden's birthday, etc. Catholic and Anglican schools would be forbidden from "discriminating" against Muslim students.
In NUT's defense, the numbers do suggest that Islam is becoming Britain's predominant religion — unless moonbattery counts as a religion.
On a tip from Essemess.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:19 PM | Comments (7)
Japanese Moonbats: Baseball Causes Global Warming
Soon baseball season will be underway at last. Enjoy it while you can; our national pastime has been found to exacerbate the nonexistent global warming crisis:
Japanese professional baseball players have vowed to shorten playing time per game as part of the national pastime's contribution to the fight against global warming.
They will aim to cut playing time by six percent, or 12 minutes, from the average of three hours and 18 minutes per game, the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) commissioners' office said.
"When a professional baseball game is staged, a huge amount of carbon dioxides, a cause of global warming, is discharged because it requires use of energy to move players and spectators, supply electricity for lighting and other purposes and dispose of food and drink waste," NPB said in a statement.
Let's hope trimming a few minutes off of games is enough to save the polar bears, so the game doesn't have to be banned altogether.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:29 PM | Comments (12)
Charlie Crist Open to Paying People for Being Black
Possibly the most preposterous notion to come from the radical Left is that blacks should be given free money expropriated by force from everyone else as a reward for having ancestors who were given a hard time — just like the ancestors of every human being on the planet. I won't insult the reader's intelligence by explaining the absurdity of thinking this unjust and profoundly moronic concept would improve race relations. But someone needs to explain it to Florida's Governor:
The resolution stops short of calling for reparations for descendants of slaves, though Republican Gov. Charlie Crist said after the vote that he was open to the idea "if we can determine descendancy, certainly."
The resolution in question consisted of idiots like Crist wallowing in the neurotic white guilt that is creating monsters like Barack Obama and his circle of America-hating, racist kooks.
Horrifyingly, Crist appears to be under consideration for McCain's VP. There are limits to what conservatives can forgive.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:31 AM | Comments (25)
Moonbats Go After McCain's Teeth, Smashed by Communist Torturers
You can attack McCain from the right on immigration, oil drilling, global warming malarkey, freedom of speech, etc. But attacking him from the left is more of a challenge. Moonbat Molly Priesmeyer has been reduced to running a piece at Minnesota Monitor with this headline:
McCain is accused of having teeth that "look like a mess of yellowed and contorted Chiclets."
Maybe Molly doesn't realize that they look like that because McCain had them broken off at the gumline at the Hanoi Hilton, while serving his country with the sort of courage and honor that would make a progressive's lip curl. But no: she does know, but the story remains on Minnesota Monitor's front page anyway. It doesn't look like an apology from Prissmeyer will be forthcoming.
Minnesota Monitor is bankrolled by George Soros, whose lackeys boast of having bought and paid for the Democrat Party.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:54 AM | Comments (10)
Hugo Chavez Scared of John McCain
Despite his flaws, John McCain does have a few things going for him. Most importantly, he is not Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Also, belligerent socialist thug Hugo Chavez seems to be afraid of him:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Republican Presidential candidate John McCain was seeking to promote war with Venezuela.
"Maybe he's seeking hawkish votes, from the right in Florida," Chavez said at a press conference today in Caracas with foreign correspondents. "Still, whoever wins we want to have better relations with the next U.S. president."
The "right in Florida" must be a reference to the many Cubans who have settled there, after having risked life and limb to escape a regime identical to the one Chavez has been establishing in Venezuela with Hollywood's effusive approval.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:57 AM | Comments (8)
Obama's Church: Being Designated a Terrorist State by USA Is "a Great Honor"
More hate-filled lunacy from the bizarre ultra-Left cult that serves Barack Obama as a church — from its newsletter, via Media Mythbusters Blog:
So Jesus wasn't a Jew, but the first Palestinian! Too bad the nasty Jews killed him, just like they've planned to kill blacks and Arabs with an "ethnic bomb," and Christians with their sinister "death squads."
I'll bet you didn't know that Libya was designated as a terrorist state not because it kept blowing up discos and airliners, but for opposing the righteous African struggle against white racists, which has turned out so magnificently in Zimbabwe. No wonder Obama's mentor Reverend Wrong and his colleague Louis Farrakhan were so keen to meet with Muammar Khaddafi.
Barack Obama has been attending this church since he was in this 20s, and gives to it generously. There are people walking around unsupervised and unmedicated who want him in the White House.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:36 AM | Comments (11)
Quote of the Day
You'd have to be a Darwinist to believe that a room full of monkeys with typewriters would ever produce the collected works of Shakespeare. But it has to be admitted that in the course of jabbering ceaselessly for decades, Hillary Clinton once said something sensible:
Voters are tired of people who lie to them.
The quote is from 1992, long before Shrillary became named after Sir Edmund Hillary and ducked sniper fire in Bosnia.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:11 AM | Comments (8)
Beeb Teams Up with NUT against British Army
The British Army does not actively recruit in schools, but will send in representatives if invited by schools to give kids an idea of what the military is about. According to the National Union of Teachers (which goes by the apt acronym NUT), this will not do.
The execrable BBC is only too happy to provide a soapbox for teacher Paul McGarr, who holds forth at length about what military personnel should be required to tell kids before being allowed into schools:
Join the Army and we will send you to carry out the imperialist occupation of other people's countries. Join the Army and we will send you to bomb, shoot and possibly torture fellow human beings in other countries. Join the Army and we will send you probably poorly equipped into situations where people will try to shoot or kill you because you are occupying other people's countries. Join the Army, and if you survive and come home, possibly injured or mentally damaged, you and your family will be shabbily treated.
Imagine if similar requirements were imposed on teachers unions and leftist media outlets like the BBC. They might be commanded to warn:
Become a moonbat and spew hysterical rubbish. Become a moonbat and stab your society's most honorable members in the back. Become a moonbat and assist the Muslim terrorists who want to kill you. Become a moonbat and behave like a snot-nosed child your entire life. Become a moonbat, and you'll deserve to be shabbily treated, because you will be shabby.
On a tip from Ian from the EUSSR.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:43 AM | Comments (7)
More Anti-American Bile from Michelle Obama
The wit and wisdom of Michelle Obama:
Because sometimes it's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance… That's America!
Reject America! Vote Obama!
Hat tip: Free Republic, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:10 AM | Comments (12)
March 25, 2008
Skipping School Can Be Noble
A bus tour by the group Vets for Freedom passed through the Twin Cities area today. It was to stop at Forest Lake High School, from which founder Captain Pete Hegeseth graduated. But the school didn't want the vets sullying the campus with their heroism, so they had to speak at the Forest Lake American Legion instead — where they were heard by dozens of students who skipped school to attend.
The vets were supposedly be "too political" to allow on campus. Apparently, local educrats didn't want kids exposed to what Hegeseth had to say:
I was out there for three days outside the neighborhood outside the green zone and I didn't hear a single shot fired or a single explosion. Markets were open, the Iraqi Army was out on the street corner — that's not political, that's what I saw first hand.
It's not political — but trying to prevent students from hearing it sure is.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:31 PM | Comments (12)
Transgender Freakazoid Thomas Beatie Is Pregnant
Men are men and women are women, much as moonbats might like to think otherwise:
Thomas Beatie, who used to be a woman, appeared in the most recent issue of The Advocate, a magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender readers, Portland, Ore., television station KPTV reported.
Beatie wrote the article, which includes a picture of him while he was 22 weeks pregnant.
Used to be a woman? Obviously, she is still a woman, despite having herself physically and pharmacologically mutilated by a medical system that forgot the Hippocratic Oath long enough to indulge her in her morbidly depraved fantasies.
She is "married" to another woman. Who did the impregnating was left out of the story, which dutifully refers to her as "him."
Let's hope she/he/it stays out of the men's room, and puts the poor baby up for adoption.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:03 PM | Comments (12)
Moonbat Professor: Let's Abandon the Written Word
It's a good thing the education field is completely dominated by moonbats, because they're always the ones who come up with cutting-edge ideas — like no longer teaching children how to write:
My son, who is in third grade, spends much of his school day struggling to learn how to form the letter "G." Sometimes he writes it backwards. Sometimes the tail on his lowercase "T" goes the wrong way. His teachers keep telling him he may fail the state assessment standards. We have had several "interventions." Simon now fears taking up a pencil. Repeatedly being told his handwriting is bad (a fine-motor-skill issue) has become, in his mind, proof that he is a bad writer (an expression issue). He now hates writing, period.
This is absurd: I am a college professor and a freelance writer, and the only time I pick up a pen is to sign a credit-card receipt. Let's stop brutalizing our kids with years of drills on the proper formation of a cursive capital "S" — handwriting is a historical blip in the long history of writing technologies, and it's time to consign to the trash heap this artificial way of making letters, along with clay tablets, smoke signals, and other arcane technologies.
So, because her kid has a challenge to overcome, civilization should abandon the millennia-old tradition of the written word. I guess it'll be worth it, if it raises little Simon's self-esteem, without requiring him to exert any effort.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:23 AM | Comments (32)
Michael Moore: "A Ferret with a Real Bad Thyroid Condition"
As even moonbats can attest, liberal icon Michael Moore is one of the world's most unappealing human beings. A former employee is auctioning off the signed copy of Moore-on's diatribe Downsize This!, which he apparently received in lieu of pay for two weeks of work. Here's what he has to say on eBay:
Not to come off as some Right-Wing looney (I'm pretty darn liberal, obviously - otherwise I wouldn't have worked for the man), but the above autographed book is all I have from working for Michael Moore for two weeks. Hypocritical bas*ard! […]
Ya see, back in the days when I was younger and less crushed by life, I got the great opportunity to work as an Asst. Office Manager for Mr. Moore's production company, Dog Eat Dog Films. IT WAS THE MOST OPPRESSIVE JOB I HAVE EVER HAD! Almost the entire staff was comprised of unpaid interns, who did everything from pick up his dry-cleaning, to babysit his daughter. My job largely consisted of fielding calls from former interns, all begging Mr. Moore to at least send them a letter of recommendation (he never did). I was expected to work until 9PM every night, for no extra pay! Mr. Moore was a genuine WEIRDO who would view you as Mark David Chapman if you acknowledged his existence, but be insulted if you didn't seem i