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April 30, 2008
Overweight Americans First Up for Envirogenocide
Environmentalists frequently scream that there are too many people on the planet, implying some will have to go. We already know who goes last (environmentalists), but who goes first? LiveScience has the answer: overweight Americans.
[I]n the United States, obesity is at an all-time high; two-thirds of adults in the Land of Plenty are overweight or obese. Obesity is perhaps the ultimate symbol of resource consumption; it's visible proof that overweight people already has [sic] more than they need — and take more anyway. […] Overweight people create more air pollution than thin people do. It's simple physics: Extra pounds translate into extra fuel in automobiles and airplanes. Extra fuel means increased energy usage, oil drilling, and air pollution.
Plus you can get more soap and lampshades out of overweight people.
On a tip from ToddonCapeCod.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:32 PM | Comments (16)
Leftist Bigot Mark Morford Craps in Hand, Flings It at Laura Bush
As noted previously, moonbat columnist Mark Morford is the quintessential bigot. Here's the title of his latest disgorgement:
Laura Bush, docile doormat
Behold, the ideal Republican wife: Prim, sexless, nearly useless, lets the men do the real thinkin'. Hot!
She's not a gaudy, loud-mouthed ball-breaker like Shrillary or Tuh-reeza Heinz-Kerry, so she must be a pitiful victim of the heteronormative patriarchy. For being a lady, Laura Bush is denounced as "docile, prudish," a "limp wallflower" with a "dull-as-dishwater personality" — "the very epitome of nice, meek, domestic Republican female."
That's what women are like, out there in non-moonbat country. The bigotry gets thicker. Here's his sneering characterization of the traditional family:
It's not exactly a crime to simply want to be a good mother and housewife (noble and under-respected callings, both), to not seek the spotlight and not hunger for power and influence. And besides, meek, shy girls who want nothing more than to marry the male equivalent of a tub of spackling paste at age 22 and never think for themselves and never inspire anyone to do anything need role models, too.
As a writer for the San Francisco Comical, Morford can make a living finger-painting insulting caricatures of the decent, normal people he imagines himself to be in a position to despite. This helps explain why revelations of Obama's bigotry aren't hurting him much with his base.
Hat tips: NewsBusters, Sister Toldjah; on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:09 PM | Comments (17)
Mother's Day Gift Idea for Moonbat Moms
Just be sure she doesn't light the wick, or carbon might be emitted:
On a tip from Steve.
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:43 PM | Comments (13)
Global Warming Hoaxers Discover Natural Variations
Hoaxers are having to spin like whirling dervishes to keep the global warming farce alive in the face of cooling temperatures. Now we're asked to believe that global warming is real, but might not result in warmer temperatures until 2015 due to "natural variations."
There's no reason to think that natural variations don't account for all climate change, which is no more a problem than the fact that the weather yesterday was different from the weather today. But telling us that isn't going to generate any research grants, or justify any tax hikes or expansion of government control.
On a tip from Ian from the EUSSR.
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:26 PM | Comments (7)
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Russell Pearce
Kudos to Arizona State Rep. Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), who is attempting to do something about the appalling anti-American propaganda taught on our dime in public schools. He's proposed a measure that would bar teachings hostile to democracy and Western civilization from public schools, and prohibit race-based hate groups like Antonio Villaraigosa's MEChA from operating on state university campuses.
The measure is in part a response to the outrageous situation in Tucson, where students are taught revolutionary moonbattery in classrooms festooned with portraits of our country's worst enemies.
Naturally liberals are aghast that anyone would challenge their taxpayer-financed brainwashing efforts. Rep. Pete Rios (D-Hayden) whimpered about the alleged chilling effect of schools having some of their funding withheld if they openly advocate the destruction of American civilization.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:24 PM | Comments (3)
Religion, Family, and Conservative Values Cause Global Warming
Religion, the traditional family, and refraining from killing your own children result in the ultimate wrong from the environmentalist point of view: human reproduction. The more humans there are, the more CO2 they will emit. According to moonbat theology, CO2 controls the weather. Therefore atheism, gay marriage, and abortion will save the polar bears, even if they don't need saving.
Don Feder explains it all in an excellent piece. A highlight:
Global Warming is the left's perfect storm — a force to demolish faith, family and freedom. There's no area of our lives that can't be invaded — taxed, controlled, regulated or obliterated — in the name of serving and protecting the planet.
The liberal agenda is so soul-chillingly evil that virtually no one would support it if it were presented openly. This is why Obama won't say anything more explicit than "hope" and "change" — and why the environmental movement is being employed as a Trojan Horse.
On a tip from baldeagle390.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:46 AM | Comments (5)
Al Franken Agrees to Cough Up $70,000 in Back Taxes
Liberals are always generous with your money, but often stingy with their own. Failed Air America demagogue and current Senate candidate for Minnesota Al Franken in no exception. At least now that the noose has closed around his neck, he's agreed to cough up $70,000 in back taxes dating to 2003.
Franken whines that it's his accountant's fault for not telling him that even liberal elitists have to pay taxes. This hero of the working man also has to pay a $25,000 fine for illegally failing to carry workman's comp for his employees.
Looks like Al needs to come up with some cash. Maybe he could find a nice charity to rob.
On a tip from Sean M.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:48 AM | Comments (6)
Barack O'Bigot/Reverend Wrong Cartoons
New additions have been added to the collection at Burning Hot. A few samples:
Thanks for laughs, B. Hussein!
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:22 AM | Comments (9)
Educrats Ban Western Holidays, Impose Muslim Diet
Educrats in Oak Lawn, Illinois have banned Christmas, Easter, and Halloween activities for fear of offending Muslims, who whine that they don't like American culture. Meanwhile, pork has been removed from the lunch menu, because Muslims don't like that either.
True Oak Lawn is in the politically depraved Chicago area, which produced Barack Obama. Technically though it is still part of America. But in the name of political correctness, school administrators would like to cede it to Iran.
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:41 AM | Comments (5)
April 29, 2008
Reverend Wrong Goes Overboard
So Obama has finally acknowledged the necessity of throwing his spiritual mentor overboard.
Whatever happened to this:
What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics.
…and this:
[Jeremiah Wright is a] friend and a great leader, not just in Chicago but across the country.
…and this:
I can no more disown him [Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
Then again, if he could toss the grandmother who raised him down the stairs by denouncing her as a racist, it couldn't be too hard to stick a knife in his "sounding board."
O'Bigot had Wright on his campaign staff until the "God Damn America" videos came to light. Even after that, he refused to condemn him. Yet after Wright proved at the National Press Club yesterday that he's too crazy and arrogant to lay low until after the election, it became clear that the loose cannon had to go over the gunwale.
We are now asked to believe that in the course of their close 20-year relationship, Obama was unaware of the deafeningly and relentlessly expressed opinions of the demagogue who recruited him into the depraved cult of black liberation theology. Apparently he thinks we're not only bitter, but retarded.
On a tip from General Jack D. Ripper.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:03 PM | Comments (23)
New York Times Stock Now One Notch Above Junk Status
Looks like moonbattery doesn't pay:
Credit-ratings agency Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Tuesday cut its long-term rating on newspaper publisher The New York Times Co., as its advertising revenue continues to fall.
S&P cut its corporate credit rating and senior unsecured debt rating to "BBB-" from "BBB."
"BBB-" is one notch above "junk bond" status. The ratings were removed from CreditWatch, but the outlook is negative, meaning another downgrade could occur.
No wonder liberals think their propaganda should be financed by taxpayers. The free market isn't supporting it.
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:13 PM | Comments (4)
BBC Fumbles Toward an Accurate Thought
Amazing. Buried in with the typical condescending obtuseness and anti-gun hysteria, a BBC piece on guns in America includes this:
Wait till you get to London Texas, or Glasgow Montana, or Oxford Mississippi or Virgin Utah, for that matter, where every household is required by local ordinance to possess a gun.
Folks will have guns in all of these places and if you break into their homes they will probably kill you.
They will occasionally kill each other in anger or by mistake, but you never feel as unsafe as you can feel in south London.
It is a paradox. Along with the guns there is a tranquillity and civility about American life of which most British people can only dream.
One day the Beeb might even come to understand that it isn't a paradox.
On a tip from Sean M.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:00 PM | Comments (12)
Government Confiscates Child over Lemonade Mix-up
One of the most frightening powers of the Nanny State is its ability to confiscate children on a whim.
Christopher Ratte doesn't watch much TV. When he ordered lemonade for his 7-year-old son Leo at a Detroit Tigers game, he didn't realize the Mike's Hard Lemonade he received was 5% alcohol. No problem: according to a blood test, Leo didn't drink any anyway.
But why was there a blood test? Because the authorities kidnapped Leo over the incident, rushing him to the hospital in an ambulance. After two days they gave him back to his mother — on the condition that Ratte move out of the house. It was a week before Ratte was allowed back in his own home.
Don Duquette, a U-M law professor who directs the university's Child Advocacy Law Clinic, represented Ratte and his wife. He notes sardonically that the most remarkable thing about the couple's case may be the relative speed with which they were reunited with Leo.
Meanwhile the media screams that we need more government, and presidential candidates ominously promise to deliver it.
On a tip from Lyle.
Posted by Van Helsing at 4:06 PM | Comments (5)
Even "Free Tibet" Flags Are Made in China
There isn't much left that isn't made by the Chicoms — including flags of the Tibetan government in exile.
China being a police state, the Guangdong factory producing the flags was forced to desist. But some flags may already have been shipped overseas, where they're sure to show up at anti-Chinese demonstrations.
Posturing shamelessly, Shrillary has demanded that W boycott the Olympics. It's a good thing she doesn't call for a less meaningless gesture, like boycotting Chinese goods.
On a tip from Nelson.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:49 PM | Comments (5)
Global Warming Causes AIDS
Did you think AIDS is spread by homosexual depravity and intravenous drug fiends? Wrong! It's spread by global warming:
A leading professor of health and human rights, Daniel Tarantola, has cautioned that global warming will indirectly make citizens of developing countries even more vulnerable to death and severe ill health from HIV/AIDS.
"It was clear soon after the emergence of the HIV epidemic that discrimination, gender inequality and lack of access to essential services have made some populations more vulnerable than others,'' said Prof Tarantola, of the University of NSW.
Those problems had not gone away, he said, and today extra threats were lurking on the horizon "as the global economic situation deteriorates, food scarcity worsens and climate change begins to affect those who were already dependent on survival economies''.
"Climate change will trigger a chain of events which is likely to increase the stress on society and result in higher vulnerability to diseases including HIV,'' said Prof Tarantola[…]
You can throw your toothbrush away. They'll soon find that global warming is also responsible for halitosis and tooth decay.
Hat tips: JammieWearingFool, Ace of Spades HQ; on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:11 PM | Comments (6)
Nanny State Tax Fiends Go After Soda
As no one will be surprised to hear, punitive taxes on cigarettes were only the beginning:
Back when cigarette tax increases were justified by politicians on the grounds of paternalism (even though they really just wanted more money), critics argued that the same argument could be applied to other unhealthy activities and products like candy bars or soft drinks. But such criticisms were dismissed as being scare tactics and unrealistic. But now the nannies at groups like the totalitarian Center for the Science in the Public Interest are having their voices heard in the push towards even more state control over our lives (largely through tax policy), much like the American Cancer Society has done over the past two decades on cigarette taxes. Of course, all of this is in the name of public health. (You as an adult aren't smart enough to make up your own mind about what to drink.)
Policymakers in Maine are the latest to succumb to this pressure of raising money by targeting specific products. This time it goes beyond the usual suspects of cigarettes and alcohol. If you drink soda, you're now going to pay as much as 22 cents more for a 2-liter bottle. Yes, 22 cents more on that 2-liter bottle of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, or even generic Sam's Choice Cola (assuming Wal-Marts are allowed in Maine).
At least it's good news for store owners in neighboring New Hampshire, who will be seeing a sharp rise in out-of-state business.
On a tip from Jim M.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:06 PM | Comments (2)
Ban Ki-Moonbat Isn't Letting Up on Global Warming Hoax
Just because Ban Ki-Moonbat has moved on to demanding money to solve the hunger crisis caused by bureaucrats trying to solve the imaginary climate change crisis doesn't mean he's through milking the global warming hoax.
Wanky Moonbat says that in addition to the $755 million he wants to close this year's funding gap for the U.N.'s World Food Program,
But also in the long term we need to address the challenges caused by climate change.
Unless he means challenges like putting an end to the biofuels boondoggle before it produces widespread famine, the world can look forward to more disastrous solutions to the nonexistent global warming menace.
On a tip from Matt B.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:19 PM | Comments (2)
A Multicultural Celebration of Different Social Norms on the Streets of Britainistan
David Proctor, 16, made the mistake of asking a young "Asian" for directions in Bradford, England. The Pakistani colonist whistled over two friends and together they stripped David naked, beat him to a pulp, sicced dogs on him, stole his clothes and belongings, and left him bleeding and naked.
The kid already suffered from asthma. Now he has a broken nose, fractured cheekbone, broken teeth, and bitten ear.
A nurse attending to him confirmed that such incidents occur often in the area. But police are responding by trying to convince everyone that the crime was highly unusual. No doubt drawing attention to these occurrences is racist.
Hat tip: The Opinionator; on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:42 PM | Comments (11)
San Francisco Bureaucrats Throw Greed into Overdrive
It takes serious money to fund all those gay pride parades and Fulsome Street public sex exhibits. Fortunately for San Francisco, taxpayers have lots of it. The latest confiscatory scheme: exorbitant fines if one of your recycling bins is visible from the street.
Due to the pointless recycling craze, every home gets three 32-gallon cans. If they are not kept completely out of sight, Mayor Newsom will hit you up for $100. If you have nowhere to put the cans, so much the better when it comes to raising revenue. Also, you have to have the cans off the street by 6 p.m. on collection day. If you're not home from work by 6, that's great — because you'll need to work hard to pay the fines.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:43 PM | Comments (8)
DNC Airs Jihadist Propaganda
Where do you suppose the DNC got the footage of American troops getting blown up by an IED for this ad, which is currently on the front page at Democrats.org:
Newsmax explores one likely possibility:
The footage appears similar to film taken by jihadists who videotape IED explosions that kill American combat troops. The jihadists place the video on the internet to tout their "kill Americans" campaign success. The Army estimates that more than 6,500 jihadist Web sites promote violence against America and American troops.
Many U.S. media outlets have refused to air excerpts from such videos for several reasons — including out of respect of the servicemen and women depicted in the videos. The DNC apparently does not agree.
As Michelle Malkin suggests, maybe they got the video from their friends at CNN.
Evidence accrues that a vote for Democrats is effectively a vote for al Qaeda. No wonder they're running an otherwise unqualified candidate whose name liberals can't tell apart from Osama bin Laden.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:53 AM | Comments (11)
Smoking Bans Blamed for Global Warming
How's this for a double bind: Moonbat-imposed indoor smoking bans are said to exacerbate moonbats' beloved global warming farce.
Fewer cigarettes get lit indoors in bars and restaurants because of smoking bans from California to Ireland but something else is going up in smoke from a sidewalk in central Oslo — about $100,000 a year in extra outdoor heating bills.
The heated pavement, installed at a cost of about $400,000, may be the most extreme example of an environmental side-effect of smoking bans: rocketing power use. […T]hink of all the thousands of extra gas and electricity heaters outdoors spurred by the smoking bans around the world…
If only global warming were real, soon we wouldn't need outdoor heaters. Unfortunately higher power bills are real enough. Once again we see that for every heavy-handed moonbat action, there is a reaction of unintended consequences that leaves the world worse off.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:14 AM | Comments (6)
William Gray Targeted for Siding with Science against Global Warming Hoax
Let this be a lesson to members of the scientific community who think truth and integrity are more important than the research grants scared up by the global warming hoax:
By pioneering the science of seasonal hurricane forecasting and teaching 70 graduate students who now populate the National Hurricane Center and other research outposts, William Gray turned a city far from the stormy seas into a hurricane research mecca.
But now the institution in Fort Collins, Colo., where he has worked for nearly half a century, has told Gray it may end its support of his seasonal forecasting.
As he enters his 25th year of predicting hurricane season activity, Colorado State University officials say handling media inquiries related to Gray's forecasting requires too much time and detracts from efforts to promote other professors' work.
But Gray, a highly visible and sometimes acerbic skeptic of climate change, says that's a "flimsy excuse" for the real motivation — a desire to push him aside because of his global warming criticism.
Among other comments, Gray has said global warming scientists are "brainwashing our children."
Other than his unwillingness to pretend he can see Emperor Gore's new clothes, there's no reason to pull the plug on Gray:
A professor of public relations at Boston University, Donald Wright, questioned why the university would want to pull back its support for Gray now, after he has published his forecasts for a quarter-century.
"It's seems peculiar that this is happening now," Wright said. "Given the national reputation that these reports have, you would think the university would want to continue to promote these forecasts."
Gray, he said, seems to deliver a lot of publicity bang for the buck. The seasonal forecasts are printed in newspapers around the country and splashed across the World Wide Web.
However, Gray's science-based hurricane predictions cannot complete with hoaxers' fantasy-based global warming predictions when it comes to extracting massive taxpayer-financed grants from the government. If he won't play along, he'll have to move along.
On tips from OT and Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:56 AM | Comments (3)
Ban Ki-Moonbat Demands $755 Million
It's a textbook example of how the moonbat establishment works. First, they create a phony crisis out of thin air: global warming. Then they impose an extravagantly expensive solution to the imaginary problem, financed with our money: biofuels. As always, their solution causes a real problem: starvation.
Now that there's a real problem, we really need the authorities to fix it using our money. So the U.N.'s moonbat in chief has his hand out:
The immediate priority is to feed the hungry, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, calling on the international community to provide the WFP [World Food Program] all of the $755 million in emergency funds it needs for the crisis.
What will happen to local farmers after $755 million in free food is dumped on the market? Probably they'll go out of business, creating an even greater crisis, requiring still more of our money to fix.
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:21 AM | Comments (2)
Outbreak of Honesty in Moonbatland
Some moonbats have dropped the charade of pretending they "support the troops." Brace yourself for what they really think, without the sugary coating of polite lies. Here's the beginning of a piece by Ian Murphy:
So, 4000 rubes are dead. Cry me the Tigris. Another 30,000 have been seriously wounded. Boo fucking hoo. They got what they asked for — and cool robotic limbs, too.
Likely, just reading the above paragraph made you uncomfortable. But why?
The benevolence of America's "troops" is sacrosanct. Questioning their rectitude simply isn't done. It's the forbidden zone. We may rail against this tragic war, but our soldiers are lauded by all as saints. Why? They volunteered to partake in this savage idiocy, and for this they deserve our utmost respect? I think not.
The nearly two-thirds of us who know this war is bullshit need to stop sucking off the troops. They get enough action raping female soldiers and sodomizing Iraqi detainees.
Now if Obama could just follow Murphy's lead and take up honesty by joining his mentor Reverend Wright in a rousing rendition of God Damn America, we could all stop playing games and stand for what we stand for.
Hat tip: Pat Dollard; on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:54 AM | Comments (9)
ABC Reports That Men Will Become Extinct
Just as envirokooks envision a world without humans and Obama et al. envision a world without white people, feminazis like to fantasize about a world without men. Genetics professor Bryan Sykes, who encourages these morbid fantasies, has managed to draw attention to himself by declaring:
The Y chromosome is deteriorating and will, in my belief, disappear.
It's the Y chromosome that makes babies male. According to Sykes, 1% of men will have a mutation that reduces their fertility by 10% each generation. The Y chromosome cannot repair itself, so in about 125,000 years there won't be any more men.
Fortunately by then Shrillary and Janet Reno should be able to conceive, if only they keep trying.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:17 AM | Comments (7)
April 28, 2008
Reverend Wrong Just Keeps Getting Scarier
One of several scary quotes from Barack Obama's spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright's love fest with his fellow moonbats in the MSM today:
I do not in any way disagree with Dr. Cone, nor do I in any way diminish the inimitable and incomparable contributions that he has made and that he continues to make to the field of theology. Jim, incidentally, is a personal friend of mine.
Now a quote from this James Cone nut, founding father of Barack Obama's religion, black liberation theology:
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal.
These people could be running the country within a year.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:17 PM | Comments (17)
Even Condi Admits That Biofuels Cause Food Prices to Soar
Taking a break from her evenhanded efforts to feed Israel to the Islamic crocodile, Condi Rice admits the obvious: the disastrous biofuel boondoggle is driving food prices through the stratosphere:
Setting aside farmland to produce biofuels like ethanol may be partly to blame for driving up world food prices, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.
"There has been apparently some effect, unintended consequence from the alternative fuels effort," Rice told a meeting in Washington when asked for the US government's view on skyrocketing food prices.
"Although we believe that while biofuels continue to be an extremely important piece of the alternative energy picture, obviously we want to make sure that it is not having an adverse affect," she said.
This from an administration that has gone out of its way to prop up biofuels, with the help of $billions looted from taxpayers.
How much misery will the next solution to the imaginary climate change crisis cause?
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:02 PM | Comments (8)
Carbon Reductio ad Absurdum
Both Shrillary and O'Bigot have endorsed the "80 by 50" target — that is, we should be forced to reduce our emissions of harmless CO2 by 80% by 2050. Lettuce McLame is less ambitious; he only wants a 65% reduction. Why not call for a 102% reduction by last Wednesday? Unless they really intend to make us easier to rule by destroying the country, it's all pie in the sky anyway.
Steven Hayward points out that a 80% reduction would mean limiting U.S. emissions to 1 billion metric tons. They haven't been that low since 1910, when the population was 92 million and the per capita income in current dollars was $6,000. In 2050, the population will be about 420 million, requiring per capita emissions of 2.5 tons. They weren't that low even in colonial days. The only countries that manage it are basket case hellholes like Haiti and Somalia.
As for alternative energy, France gets most of its electricity from nuclear energy, and still comes in at 6.5 metric tons. Renewable energy is about as likely as pixie dust to ever meet more than 20% of our energy needs.
Hopefully our presidential candidates are just lying through their teeth when they talk about reducing carbon emissions. Otherwise, the results will be horrific.
Despite the MSM's relentless envirowacko propaganda barrage, people would still object if bureaucrats tried to impose a Haitian standard of living on the USA overnight. That's why the targets are set a few decades in the future, so they can kill our economy gradually, raising taxes here, increasing regulation there, until bit by bit the Lilliputians are able drag down Gulliver and tie him to the ground.
On a tip from the MaryHunter.
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:49 PM | Comments (7)
Jesse Jackson Goes to Haiti
Nowadays Al Sharpton gets to do all the fun stuff, like threatening to shut down New York City. Meanwhile, our #2 race baiter may be forced to resort to constructive activity.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and several leaders of Florida's Haitian community arrived in Haiti Sunday to study the country's food crisis, Haitian radio reported.
Jackson and others are expected to discuss food-price inflation with Haitian leaders, according to officials of his Rainbow Push Coalition.
Protests over spiking food prices left at least seven people dead this month and prompted lawmakers to oust Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis.
If he really wants to do some good, Jackson might try meeting with the politicians here at home who are taking food out of people's mouths in the name of the global warming hoax through the biofuels boondoggle.
On a tip from Bill V.
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:03 PM | Comments (9)
Iraq War Increases American Stature in Asia
Despite all the ankle-biting from moonbats who claim the world hates us for picking on poor little terror-supporting genocidal dictator Saddam Hussein, America's resolve in Iraq has increased our stature in Asia:
The US war in Iraq has strengthened its strategic position, especially in terms of key alliances, and the only way this could be reversed would be if it lost the will to continue the struggle and abandoned Iraq in defeat and disarray.
Surely the author of this sentence is on the ganja, you might say. Something a little weird in the coffee? It goes against every aspect of conventional wisdom.
But the author of this thesis, stated only marginally less boldly, is one of the US's most brilliant strategic analysts. Mike Green holds the Japan chair at Washington's Centre for Strategic and International Studies and was for several years the Asia director at the National Security Council. He is also one of America's foremost experts on Japan and northeast Asia generally.
Regardless of whether going into Iraq was wise given hindsight, it demonstrated resolve, courage, and the will to follow through on commitments — traits that are still respected in some corners of the world.
It's easier to lose respect than it is to earn it. If someone irresponsible enough to turn tail and run from Iraq ends up in the White House, we really will be in for some disdain.
Hat tip: Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:47 PM | Comments (5)
Boston Herald Editor Displays Portrait of Communist Executioner
As any newspaper editor would presumably be educated enough to know, Che Guevara was among the most wicked of the many evil characters who have exploited communism as an opportunity to murder the innocent. He was Fidel Castro's chief executioner, and enjoyed doing the work himself close up with a pistol. His victims included children. Yet his portrait hangs on the office wall of Boston Herald Editor Kevin Convey:
Once he collects portraits of Heinrich Himmler, Felix Dzerzhinsky, and Honcho Nuon Chea, Convey will have the complete set.
I wonder why the Herald's circulation is shrinking. Could it be for the same reason the New York Times is swirling down the drain?
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:56 AM | Comments (5)
Obese Murderer Sues for More Food
Today's lawsuit of the day:
Broderick Lloyd Laswell says he isn't happy that he's down to 308 pounds after eight months in the Benton County [Arkansas] jail. He has filed a federal lawsuit complaining the jail doesn't provide inmates with enough food.
According to the suit, Laswell weighed 413 pounds when he was jailed in September. Police say he and a co-defendant fatally beat and stabbed a man, then set his home on fire.
A typical Western diet is 2,000–3,000 calories a day. Laswell is getting 3,000. He also demands that meals be served hot.
There was a time when murderers were promptly hanged. But Laswell can look forward to a long career of whining and glutting himself on the taxpayer's dime.
On tips from conservativeteen and Lyle.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:27 AM | Comments (12)
Obama's Spiritual Mentor Compares U.S. Marines to Romans Who Persecuted Jesus
It turns out our troops are as evil as those nasty Italians Reverend Wrong hates so much for crucifying the black liberation version of Jesus:
No doubt this counts as mainstream Christianity according to the MSM.
Via NewsMax.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:14 AM | Comments (8)
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Posted by Van Helsing at 10:29 AM | Comments (3)
Communist Ghouls Steal Girl's Brain
There isn't much communists won't steal. From The Real Cuba:
The family of Beatriz Porco Calle, a young Bolivian girl who died from a rare illness while she was studying in Cuba, denounced that the Cuban government removed her brain and several internal organs before shipping the body back to Bolivia.
Local authorities told Bolivian newspaper Los Tiempos that they are investigating the case.
Sofia Porco Calle, a sister of the victim, told Los Tiempos that the Cuban Embassy in Bolivia notified the relatives that the girl had died, and told them that her body was going to be shipped back to Bolivia.
Sofia held a news conference where she said that all the other Bolivian students who were part of her sister's group, returned on the same flight that carried her sister's body back to her native country.
"I felt very bad, all the students were embracing their relatives but I received a coffin with my sister in it," she said.
The woman told the newspaper that several Cuban officials who came on the same flight wanted to take the body of her sister to another city to conduct an autopsy, but the family intervened and didn't allow the body to be moved.
"The autopsy was performed at the Hospital de Clinicas. My little sister's body didn't have any organs, teeth, eyes, it was without her tongue. There was a sponge in place of her brain and more sponges in her stomach," the woman said during the press conference.
The most incredible part of the story is that Cuban officials told the relatives of the dead student, that the deal that they signed with the Bolivian government says that those students who die while in Cuba will be sent back without their organs.
Is the Cuban regime selling human organs, or don't they want to tell the cause of death of the young girl? You decide.
From each corpse according to its ability, to each apparatchik according to his greed. This could be Bolivia's reward for letting leftist thug Evil Morales drag it into bed with wicked communist regimes.
Hat tip: Babalu Blog; on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:37 AM | Comments (1)
Boston Machete Ban
Amazingly enough, Boston is still finding new things to ban:
In the aftermath of an eruption of machete attacks across the Bay State, a Boston city councilor is proposing a ban on carrying the weapons in the Hub. […] Boston has an ordinance that prohibits people from carrying a blade longer than 2 inches. [Councilor Chuck] Turner's proposal, to be presented Wednesday, will update that ordinance to include machetes.
At first I was surprised that in Massachusetts, machetes have blades less than two inches long. Then I remembered that John "Botched Joke" Kerry and Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy pass for Senators there.
On a tip from teqjack.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:48 AM | Comments (2)
New Bumper Sticker at CarbonCreditKillers.com
No Hummer or Escalade is complete without one of these new bumper stickers from CarbonCreditKillers.com:
If you'd like to do your part to undermine the carbon credits swindle, take advantage of one of their carbon debit packages, starting at only $19.95 and ranging all the way up to the Premier Carbon Debit Vacation Package (described earlier), which allows you to spend a whole day clearing trees with one of these beauties:
On a tip from CharlieDontSurf.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:33 AM
U.N. Caught Dealing Arms, Smuggling
If it's the wrong thing to do, you can count on the righteous globalists at the United Nations to do it. The latest:
The UN has covered up claims that its troops in Democratic Republic of Congo gave arms to militias and smuggled gold and ivory, the BBC has learned.
The U.N. is supposedly there to disarm warring factions, not to sell them guns. But any activity that keeps the blue helmet brigade too busy to rape children ought to be encouraged.
On a tip from conservativeteen.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:17 AM
Classic Ride for Limousine Liberals
Via The People's Cube, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:09 AM | Comments (3)
April 27, 2008
Having Lice Is Now Art
Now all moonbats can be artists — all they need is their characteristic lousy hygiene:
Seven young artists from Berlin are trying to stretch the boundaries of art by living in an Israeli museum for three weeks with lice in their hair.
During the Holocaust, German propaganda referred to Jews as parasites. But lest you think this "artwork" is in bad taste, artist Vincent Grunwald explains its true meaning:
The idea is that we live in the museum as their guests, and at the same time we are hosting lice on our heads.
Deep stuff, huh? You probably need a degree in art appreciation to grasp the full import in all its profundity.
The next exhibit will probably feature Sheryl Crow after she's gone awhile without using more than one square of toilet paper. Bring a clothespin for your nose.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:05 PM | Comments (14)
Handgun Ban Does Nothing to Lessen Violence in Chicago
It turns out suspending the Second Amendment hasn't turned out too well in Chicago:
Chicago outlawed handgun sales in 1981. In the past week, there have been 40 shootings.
Unfortunately Barack Obama — a product of the Chicago's leftist political milieu — is unlikely to learn much from this. He wouldn't want any bitter, law-abiding citizens clinging to their guns when only criminals are supposed to have them.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:41 PM | Comments (4)
Fallujah per Wikipedia
In case you're ever tempted to rely on Wikipedia for information, this is what it has to say about American forces clearing terrorists out of Fallujah:
During the Second Battle of Fallujah, US forces cut off water and electricity to the city of 600,000 people. US forces used Chemical weapons against people of Fallujah. US air strikes have destroyed hospitals and medical centres. The US took over the Fallujah General Hospital and converted to a military hospital, thus denying the citizens of Fallujah any health care service. On 09 November 2004, US warplanes attacked the Nazzal Emergency Hospital in the centre of the city and completely destroyed it. Thirty-five patients were killed, including five children under the ages of 10 years. According to Amnesty International, "20 Iraqi medical staff [doctors and nurses] and dozens of other civilians were killed when a missile hit a Fallujah clinic on 09 November 2004". The air strike also destroyed the hospital medical supplies warehouse.
As of today, the exact number of civilians killed by the US assault on Fallujah is not known. According to the Allawi's government, more than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed and over 200,000 wounded and 200,000 were fled from the city. US forces used internationally banned weapons such as napalm and poison gas, phosphorous weapons and jet fuel, which makes the human body melt, to attack the city, given the high rate of civilian casualties.
Napalm and other chemical weapons were used heavily in the Jolan district of Fallujah. a district inhabited by half the inhabiters of the city.
The Iraqi Red Crescent Society was prevented by US forces from entering the city to provide supplies to the wounded civilians, and called the health conditions in and around Fallujah "catastrophic". Eyewitnesses say most of the victims are civilians, including, women, children, and unarmed men between the ages of 14-60 years old, who were prevented from leaving the city before the US onslaught. Furthermore, many children have died as a result of starvation, dehydration and outbreaks of diarrhoeal infections.
It could not be determined whether John Kerry was the author.
Rather than waste time disputing this lunacy point by point, I'll just limit my response to: Yeah, right.
On a tip from heckrulz.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:21 PM | Comments (13)
Trudie Styler Sting Stinks of Eco-Hypocrisy
Trudie Styler, wife of the bland pop star who calls himself Sting, is famous for two things: 1) her self-righteous environmental preachiness and 2) her massive carbon footprint.
Trudie blames it on her hubby:
"He has a 750-person crew to bring around the world and it is a difficult challenge.
"I would like to think that we both work pretty hard for the rights of indigenous people and for the rights of conservation of the Amazon rainforest, but we do need to get around. It's a difficult one."
Environmental experts labelled Sting's band, The Police, the dirtiest in the world because of the amount of pollution created during last year's reunion tour of the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Germany, the UK, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan.
Miss Styler failed to mention in Thursday's interview that she and their family joined him on much of it.
She also forgot to add that a cavalcade of horseboxes has been known to travel between their Wiltshire pile, The Lake House, and their Tuscan estate twice a year when the family decamps for the summer.
Or indeed, the fact that the organic food she grows on the Italian-estate has to be transported to London for sale in Selfridges.
She was also accused in a recent tribunal of forcing her chef to travel 100 miles to prepare a bowl of pasta.
But she makes it all up to Gaia by denouncing American food for being "genetically modified."
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:02 PM | Comments (16)
Consumers Getting Wise to Green Swindle
The liberal establishment has been hyping environmental mania so as to use it as a vehicle for its leftist agenda. The business community has played along, hoping to exploit it for profit. But here's an encouraging indication that the whole swindle may be running out of steam:
While many companies are now rushing to "go green," recent surveys show American consumers are getting turned off by the organic hype for three reasons: price, skepticism and confusion.
The confusion is over what exactly is meant by a product being "organic," "natural," "green," "eco-friendly," or whatever — other than that it will cost twice as much.
The percentage of consumers who believe organic products are good for them is down to 45%, while those who believe they're good for the environment has fallen to 48%, according to the latest survey from consulting firm WSL Strategic Retail. Both measures stood at a 54% approval rating two years ago.
There's a reason con men tend to take their loot and then move along to another town. Soon or later, people will figure out they're getting swindled.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:41 AM | Comments (4)
Africans to Be Paid Not to Contract STDs
File this one under Your Tax Dollar at Work:
Thousands of people in Africa will be paid to avoid unsafe sex, under a groundbreaking World Bank-backed experiment aimed at halting the spread of Aids.
The $1.8m trial — to be launched this year — will counsel 3,000 men and women aged 15-30 in southern rural Tanzania over three years, paying them on condition that periodic laboratory test results prove they have not contracted sexually transmitted infections.
The payments will amount to three months' wages for some participants.
You would think not contracting AIDS would be its own reward. Next we'll be paying Africans not to step on nails.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:20 AM | Comments (1)
April 26, 2008
A Slavic American Response to Obama's Snobbery
Mary Grabar presents possibly the best response yet to Obama's San Francisco denunciation of rural working class whites, and to the black privilege he personifies. Highlights from a very powerful piece:
We know who you're talking about, Barack Obama, when you talk about Pennsylvania and the Midwest, about small towns where the jobs have left. We know who you're talking about when you talk about those who "get bitter" and "cling to guns or religion."
You're talking about "those people."
You're talking about white people who have neither the family connections nor the racial credentials to gain entrance to the world that you inhabit. Many of the people you're talking about are those whose parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe who came to these places to work in steel mills, coal mines, and factories. We know the code words.
You're talking about people whose culture is little known. We have been pretty quiet. We never tried to impose our culture on everyone. We never insisted on putting pictures of ourselves in our native dress into schoolbooks or mandating that our stories and songs be part of the curriculums.
We tried to maintain our culture without government aid, by forming our own churches and groups, and building Polish, Ukrainian, and Slovenian halls.
We never wore buttons declaring "Slav Power" or grouped together for purposes of intimidation or violence.
The power we asked for was the power of the paycheck which we earned in factories, steel mills, coal mines, or by cleaning houses. Yet, we were taken aside and told that because of affirmative action it was no use trying to advance off the assembly line; we were told in "diversity workshops" that people of color had to be promoted over more qualified white people. […]
We paid cash for our houses and kept impeccable yards, yet saw the value of our homes plummet after marauding hoodlums came into our neighborhoods in riots that were celebrated by the intelligentsia in Manhattan penthouses, who saw such violence as justified expressions of outrage over past discrimination.
We went to public schools in those same neighborhoods only to be accosted for our skin color and the presumed "privilege" that teachers said we had. Rather than teach us what was good and beautiful about Western Civilization and the country to which our parents had fled, teachers gave us Marxist nonsense, if they bothered to teach at all. […]
Your white friends in San Francisco, Barack, probably had cleaning women like my mother (and me when I accompanied her and then had my own cleaning jobs from age 12). As white people from a certain class and with certain connections, your donors knew that their futures would be secure because of their inheritances and the connections they could make in the media, politics, and business. In fact, it would benefit them in the world of "radical chic" to hang around those like you and support your policies. […]
In fact, you and those wealthy donors sneer at white people who have had to do manual labor and who have paid for tuition at community colleges with the money earned that way, while our classmates received special scholarships and government grants — from our taxes.
You sneer at those like us who put our faith in God and not in those like you who would presume to know what's good for us and tell us what to do with our money and our children, and leave us with no ability to defend ourselves.
Well, Barack, coming from your Ivy League world, you would not know much about us. You would not have learned that because we come from people who, rather than letting their communist benefactors redistribute the food, burned the crops in their little fields before they were forcibly "collectivized." In Slovenia, they fought Tito's Partisans from the woods and held mass at night when the Communists banned church services. They remember what it's like to be hungry, ill, and living in little more than huts, while Marshall Tito and his communist cronies lived in villas. Now you live in a Chicago mansion and sneer at those like us who simply want to keep and defend our little three-bedroom ranches. You don't know what it's like to have family members die for the right to attend mass. […]
See, Barack, we know the system: Some are more "equal" than others.
And we know how you really feel about the "proletariat." We know this from our experience either directly or as an inheritance from our parents and grandparents. And that is why we came to America.
America as we know and love it will only survive as long as we have enough Mary Grabars standing up to elitist moonbattery.
Hat tip: American Thinker; on a tip from mandy.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:50 AM | Comments (18)
Countermoonbattery from Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore
The two most salient facts of the supposed climate change crisis are: 1) there is no proof that human activity causes global warming; and 2) if carbon emissions really were causing a problem, the only effective solution would be nuclear power.
These facts have been resolutely ignored by an establishment that does not actually believe in global warming, but is only exploiting the hoax for its nefarious socialistic ends. But in the fever swamps of the environmental movement, you can find a few people who really do care about the environment, not all of whom are too flaky to draw rational conclusions:
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power[…]
"It's like buying fire insurance," Moore said. "We all own fire insurance even though there is a low risk we are going to get into an accident."
The only viable solution is to build hundreds of nuclear power plants over the next century, Moore told the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. There isn't enough potential for wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal or other renewable energy sources, he said.
Moore began his career fighting nuclear testing. Somehow he managed to resist ideological ossification, so that he was able to live and learn.
Unfortunately many others in the environmental movement are reflexively antihuman, and will resist any modern technology that allows civilization to flourish.
On tips from Oiao and mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:06 AM | Comments (6)