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May 17, 2008
Fat People Cause Global Warming
If you're packing extra pounds, I hope you're pleased with yourself for what you've done to the flourishing but officially threatened polar bears. British scientists have managed to link what moonbats regard as the two greatest crises facing their country: the global warming farce and the fact that not everyone's weight conforms to official expectations.
Overweight people use up more fuel for transport and consume more food, thereby producing more dreaded carbon emissions. They also contribute to the food shortage (caused largely by biofuels) and the oil shortage (caused largely by drilling restrictions).
The researchers used models to discover that 40% of the global population is obese. Anything is possible with scientific models, which also predict chaos and destruction as a result of the imaginary global warming crisis.
We had better put the U.N. in charge of each human being's daily calorie intake, before obese people reach 101% of the population, and scientific models predict the Earth's crust collapsing beneath their weight.
On a tip from Ian from the EUSSR. Cross-posted at Right Wing News.
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Dutch Dhimmis Imprison Cartoonist
Formerly tolerant Holland is well on its way to becoming a police state, at the behest of its Islamic conquerors. From yesterday's Brussels Journal:
The Dutch authorities have arrested the cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot (a pseudonym. Nekschot means deathblow, litt: "shot in the back of the neck" [An interview with Nekschot here]). The judicial authorities in Amsterdam said yesterday that the cartoonist was arrested as a suspect for the criminal offense of "publishing cartoons which are discriminating for Muslims and people with dark skin."
The cartoonist was arrested on Tuesday, while the police searched his house for "discriminating evidence." His computer, backups, usb sticks, mobile phone and a number of drawings were confiscated. Nekschot was released two days later but it is possible that he will be charged following a complaint in 2005 by the Dutch imam Abdul Jabbar van de Ven, an indigenous Dutchman who converted to Islam.
Nekschot has been going by a pseudonym so as not to end up like his friend Theo Van Gogh. But as authorities were evidently pleased to inform him, he has lost his anonymity. This means that any prison term is a death sentence, as the peace-loving Muslims who are taking over Holland will kill him at the first opportunity for not embracing dhimmitude like the country's quisling leaders.
Holland wasn't any worse off under the Nazis than where it seems to be headed. Jews and other infidels are advised to get out while they can.
On a tip from Antara.
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May 16, 2008
And for the Other Side of the Bumper…
This will be of interest to moonbats who don't want their Obamafish to get lonely:
Via Blogtopus.
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No Moonbatmobile Is Complete Without One
Coming soon to every Prius and Volvo in the parking lot:
Via Exurban League and Ace of Spades HQ; on a tip from V the K.
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Obama Repackages Himself as Christian for Kentucky
Despite downplaying expectations regarding the May 20 primary, Obama is making a big push for Kentucky. Here's how he's marketing himself to the locals, who are evidently suspected of clinging to their Bibles like they do in rural Pennsylvania:
Apparently they couldn't think of a way to work a gun into the picture — or to get the arrogant sneer off Obama's face.
Passing off the abortion-friendly Obama as a Christian candidate is particularly risible in light of his religious background. Raised a Muslim, he was converted to Black Liberation Theology by Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright.
Although Black Liberation Theology adherents may call themselves Christians, their pernicious cult is distinguishable from Nation of Islam mainly by its emphasis on leftist economics. They worship not Christ, but Marxism and their hatred of white people. To quote Wright's hero James Cone:
What we need is the destruction of whiteness, which is the source of human misery in the world.
They work in Jesus by blaming Caucasian Romans for the Crucifixion. I doubt many churchgoers in Kentucky would recognize Obama's black supremacist Christ.
On a tip from Lyle.
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Horseplay Redefined for a New Age
It's a good thing we have our massive and explosively growing Government to protect the oppressed, because racist tweens have been running wild:
Four white students at Central York Middle School were charged with harassing and using racial slurs against a black student on a school bus Friday. The 13-year-old boys were charged Wednesday with harassment, ethnic intimidation and disorderly conduct by Springettsbury Township Police.
One of the boys was also charged with terroristic threats and open lewdness, police said. The boy simulated an inappropriate gesture involving his genitals and made vulgar comments, Lt. Scott Laird said. […]
The boys face fines, community service and time at the juvenile detention center, police said. The students were also disciplined by the school, according to school officials.
When I was 13, events like this were resolved by the bus driver shouting, "Hey you kids, pipe down." The next day all the kids involved would be out playing ball together. But that was before we learned how to create racial grievances.
The black kid will go away believing he's been discriminated against, and the white kids will know they really have been discriminated against, since when the racial roles are reversed, no one gets in trouble. Social harmony will not be enhanced. But of course, the objective of political correctness is to pit us against each other, not to create social harmony.
On tips from Cheetah and Chris.
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Obama's Feathers Ruffled by Reference to Terrorist Appeasers
Despite the many disappointments of his administration, W does deliver some fine speeches. Here he is in front of Israel's Knesset:
Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided." We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.
Possibly because his media adulators have him convinced that he's the center of the universe, Barack Hussein Obama assumed Bush was talking about him:
It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.
Easy now, BHO. Bush was talking about all idiot appeasers, from Neville Chamberlain to Jimmy Carter — not just you.
Meanwhile, Palestinians in Hamas-controlled territory run phone banks to convince Americans to vote for Obama.
On a tip from Burning Hot.
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Death by Moonbat Economics
The laws of supply and demand are so simple, you would think even moonbats could grasp them. Yet they think that by the magic of government coercion, they can set the price of healthcare — a limited resource for which there is infinite demand — to free.
The inevitable result is rationing. Since healthcare can no longer go to those who have earned the money to pay for it, Britain has been doling it out by postcode lottery.
If you're dying of cancer, you might be saved by new drugs like Sutent. But only if you're a lucky winner — or if government bureauweenies decide your impending death counts as "exceptional circumstances."
You can't pay for these drugs with your own money, or the government will withdraw all healthcare — even after you've paid for it your whole life through exorbitant taxation.
Don't bother to work, to invest, to save. Life is free if you happen to win the lottery or find official favor. If you don't, you die. Liberals apparently regard this as fair.
The irresponsible demagogues that make up our Democrat Party have been attempting to apply similar principles to our oil supply. If they manage to have their way with Big Oil, we may soon have postcode lotteries over here, to see who gets to put gas in their car.
On a tip from Lyle.
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Eurocrats Go After Car Ads
While their chauffeurs sit out front in oversized limos with the engines running so they can keep the heat going in the winter and the AC in the summer, Brussels Eurocrats have been dreaming up ways to prevent commoners from soiling Gaia by driving the wrong automobiles.
Soon all car ads in Europe will have to highlight gas mileage and allegedly harmful CO2 emission in large type. References to sportiness are to be "frowned up." With typical grandiose arrogance, Euroweenies announce they will be "rebuilding society" and "changing habits in consumption and production" by dictating the content of car ads.
As usual when it comes to bureaucratic moonbattery, the French come out on top, as they tend to make wobbly little death traps with high mileage and low sportiness. German manufacturers, which produce cars that people actually want to drive, are getting the short end.
Even the libs at Der Spiegel are fed up:
From breakfast cereal to Coca-Cola, everything is being classified as being either good or bad for citizens, who apparently have lost the ability to make that judgment on their own. Brussels, says advertising executive [Volker] Nickel, is staging "a gigantic reeducation program for consumers and producers."
Last summer, for example, complex rules were introduced to regulate the way food producers advertise their products. A central register with officially-sanctioned phrases is even in development for language that includes health claims, such as "Builds Immunity" or "Keeps you in Good Shape." Once the register is complete, alternative expressions will no longer be allowed.
Wernhard Möschel, a law professor at the University of Tübingen in southwest Germany, is incensed over the way the EU's producers of rules and regulations treat the consumer "as a pathological idiot in need of supervision, as someone who can't tell the difference between red and white wine."
Get used to it, Herr Möschel. The forced infantilization of Europe is well underway.
On a tip from Oiao.
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May 15, 2008
California Goes over the Edge
To no one's surprise, the militant moonbats running the courts in the Land of Fruits and Nuts have declared that homosexuals can become legally married.
Liberals have been laboring mightily to destroy the family, the foundation of human civilization. This should be a major victory for them. However, by attempting to make a mockery of marriage, Californian kooks may be holding only themselves up for derision.
If decent people still constitute a majority in the state, a constitutional amendment will put an end to this travesty. If not, California has officially jumped the shark. A state clearly sinking into self-induced decline won't be setting the trends forever.
"It's about human dignity," bleats a triumphant Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco. It sure is. Our innate dignity will prevent us from following California over the edge and into an abyss of moonbatty degeneracy.
On tips from Wiggins, Cheetah, hiram13pm, and mega.
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British Convicts Live Better on the Inside
A few people actually benefit from moonbattery. For example, as a consequence of liberalism gone wild, British convicts live better in prison than on the outside.
Wesley Crawford was sentenced to 12 years for robbery. After escaping from Sudbury "open prison" in Derbyshire, he came back and pleaded to be let back in, so he could continue to enjoy unlocked doors, a TV, a wide choice of food, a gym, snooker and ping-pong facilities, etc.
According to a Sudbury prison source:
He basically said that it was much more cushy being inside prison than it was on the outside. And he still believes that — even though he has now been sent to a closed prison.
No wonder the number of prisoners absconding is at its lowest level in 10 years, even as the prison population increases.
On a tip from Oiao.
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Eco-Friendly Underwear
There isn't much that hasn't been greenwashed in an attempt to capitalize on the enviromoonbattery craze — including underwear.
Triump International Japan has unveiled an environmentally friendly "Solar Power Bra" that allegedly generates enough electricity to charge a mobile phone or iPod. Unfortunately it requires direct sunlight, and women tend to wear clothes over their bras. But as with all things environmental, it's the gesture that counts, not actual effectiveness.
Testifies model Yuko Ishida:
It is very comfortable and I can really feel involved in eco-friendly efforts as well.
The company also markets a bra that serves Gaia by converting into a reusable shopping bag.
On tips from Wiggins and Burning Hot.
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Ruben Navarette Explains Why You're a Racist if You Don't Vote for Obama
While confirming that we are politically obligated to vote for Barack Obama because he is a mulatto, moonbat columnist Ruben Navarette Jr. helpfully explains why it isn't racism that virtually all blacks vote for the absurdly under-qualified black guy, but it is racism if most white people don't:
The answer has to do with history. Over the decades, black Americans have had plenty of opportunities to vote for white people for president. And they have done so. But this is the first time that white Americans have a chance to vote for an African-American with a shot at the presidency.
In today's political climate, a cretin like Navarette passes for an intellectual. Like Obama, he does have ethnic credentials, and that's the important thing.
Hat tip: LGF; on a tip from Burning Hot.
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May 14, 2008
Government Moves toward Total Control with Phony Polar Bear Listing
They are actually doing it: listing polar bears as a "threatened" species.
Polar bears are not the least threatened. Alarmingly, the numbers of these human-hunting monsters have been on the rise. Their population has more than doubled since 1960.
But according to global warming doctrine, even as their numbers swell, polar bears qualify as oppressed, because if all the polar ice were to melt, it would interfere with their seal-hunting methods.
The ice is not going to melt any time soon. The slight warming trend profiteers like Al Gore are exploiting ended ten years ago. Even if it did melt, polar bears have survived interglacial periods before.
But facts like these apply only to reality, not to the 2+2=5 world of hard left politics.
In the unholy alliance between government bureaucrats and leftist environmental groups, both have their own objectives. The bureaucrats want absolute control: a level of totalitarianism undreamt of by Hitler and Stalin. Leftist environmentalists want to strangle capitalism and radically curtail the human race.
Now that the government has officially endorsed the preposterous notion that CO2 emitted anywhere in the world is harmful to sacred polar bears, there is no constructive activity — literally including breathing — that is not vulnerable to increasingly repressive regulation and lawsuits.
In the future, we will live in a grim, socialist world, where personal initiative will be not only senseless but illegal. Individual liberty will not exist, less someone emit more than their allotted share of harmless CO2. Our standard of living will collapse. Humans will be forced to live like animals in a zoo, every aspect of our lives under strict control.
Polar bears will not benefit from this in any way, as if it would matter if they did. But the John McCains and Robert Kennedy Juniors of the world will be riding high.
On tips from mega, matterhorn, and Oiao.
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Senate Dems Stand Firm: No Relief from High Gas Prices
Want gas prices lowered? Want to stop pouring $billions into terror-supporting Islamic regimes? Then vote to throw out the moonbat Democrats running the Senate:
[T]he Senate rejected, 56-42, a broader Republican energy plan that called for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and some offshore waters that are now off limits to oil development.
Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said more domestic oil production is needed to keep prices in check and to reduce U.S. dependence on oil imports. But opponents said the Alaska wildlife refuge and coastal waters that have been off limits to drilling for 25 years ought to remain out of bounds to oil companies.
"We can't drill our way to lower prices," said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
Turban — the same liberal jackass who compared our army to Pol Pot's thugs — didn't explain how else we would lower prices, increasing supply being out of the question so long as Democrats and their RINO accomplices run Washington.
Hat tip: Free Republic; on a tip from Cheetah.
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San Franfreakshow Introduces Parking Meters for Bums
As if concerned that even a quarter dropped in a derelict's coffee cup might challenge bureaucratic hegemony, San Francisco is taking control of micro charity with parking meters for homeless people.
Instead of giving your change to a person, you put it in a machine, so the bureaucracy can dole out the right amounts to the right constituencies.
SF's "homelessness czar," Dariush Kayhna, modestly admits:
This is not going to solve poverty. But it is another strategy to see if we can save lives out there.
Homeless advocates upped the absurdity ante by whining about stereotypes. Who says bums blow all their free change on drugs and alcohol? Wails Sister Bernie Galvin of Religious Witness with Homeless People:
Forget the children, forget the mothers who are struggling to raise their family homeless or in inadequate housing. Will the city never give up on trying to find ways to make the lives of homeless people harder?
In counterpoint to Sister Bernie's bleeding-heart rhetoric, San Francisco's moonbatty policies have attracted bums from all over the world, causing the city to be so overrun with them that even liberal bureaucrats, who exploit derelicts as justification for socialist policies, want to lower their numbers.
On a tip from V the K.
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British Bureaucracy Puts the Screws to Elderly Vet over Ketchup Bottle
Growing ever more arrogant and intolerant as they expand their power under cover of the enviromoonbattery craze, for two weeks British bureaucreeps refused to pick up the trash of Lenny Woodward, a former Desert Rat, because the nearly blind 95-year-old vet accidentally put a ketchup bottle and a coffee jar in the wrong bin.
Comrades are to use the blue wheelie bin for cans and cardboard, a green box for glass, and a black wheelie bin for everything else. The lawless Mr. Woodward put his ketchup bottle and coffee jar in the blue bin, heedless of the disastrous impact this could have on the biosphere.
Actually, recycling is an ineffective waste of time except in the case of aluminum cans. But obeying the government is its own reward.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin; on tips from wz, Burning Hot, Cheetah, and essemess.
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May 13, 2008
The Obamessiah and His Cheesy White Steed
As I was just saying about the Obama phenomenon going beyond parody…
This picture, evidently with no sarcasm intended, accompanied an endorsement of B.O. by the Oregon newspaper Willamette Week:
Just try exaggerating the absurdity of Barack O'Bigot and his moonbat supporters. It cannot be done.
Via The Stranger, Ace of Spades HQ, and Caption This!
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Palestinians Running Phone Banks for Obama
The notion of Barack Obama becoming President is so preposterous, it cannot be parodied. This al-Jazeera report about Palestinians in Gaza — the folks who elected the terror group Hamas to run the government — appears to be completely on the level. The same folks who passed out candy in celebration on 9/11 are running phone banks in support of their hero Obama.
Via The Campaign Spot; on a tip from Oiao.
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Islamic Horde Runs Rampant in Britainistan
It used to be that the sun never set on the British Empire. But with terrifying speed, moonbattery has reduced it to a tragic remnant of its former glory — a sickly, dying nation that can no longer keep out foreign enemies or even maintain order on its streets.
Via Glen Jenvey, on a tip from AC.
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Envirokook Paul McCartney's Hybrid Limo Delivered by Jet
Like many tired old pop stars with nothing better to do, Paul McCartney has ostentatiously embraced the phony environmentalism craze. Like the rest of them, his "carbon footprint" remains many times larger than those of us peasants, especially after his new $164,000 hybrid Lexus limousine was delivered by jet, creating 100 times more of the carbon emissions moonbats fret about than if it had been shipped.
The point of the car is that it will supposedly reduce these same harmless emissions. How emblematic of the entire pointless fad.
McCartney is said to be furious. But if he wants to make it up to Gaia, all he has to do is stop living like a Czar for a few days.
On tips from HoosierArmyMom, mega, and Wiggins.
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Kudos from Count Dracula to Count Baracula
You have to hand to Barack O'Bigot: it can't be easy, especially following his denunciation of flag pins, to actually put one in his lapel in hopes of duping idiots into believing that, unlike everyone he's surrounded himself with since he was a small child, he doesn't hate this country. Even Count Dracula acknowledges the will-power it must take:
Compliments of Burning Hot.
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Britain's Pagan Prisoners Must Be Allowed Magic Wands
It isn't just Muslims who qualify as special in British prisons. Pagan inmates must be allowed to keep twigs in their cells to use as magic wands:
Officers have been told to allow prisoners to collect and decorate the twigs which they need for their rituals.
No one seems to have thought of the havoc that will ensue if the pagans wave their magic wands and make all the doors come unlocked — or the more likely scenario of a magic wand ending up in a guard's eye.
Hat tip: Ghost of a flea; on a tip from V the K.
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Post-Gazette Applies the "Assimilate or Be Called a Racist" Strategy
Obama Nation's strategy of caricaturing any opposition as "racist" is on ignoble display in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which throws an unseemly tantrum over O'Bigot's expected drubbing in West Virginia.
Shrillary's undisputable observation that working class white people aren't going to be enthused about voting for an arugula-munching black supremacist are depicted as an attempt to pander to alleged Dixieland racism, as if West Virginia were part of the Confederacy, and not a state explicitly created to split off from the South. Comparisons to Jesse Jackson are "coded speech." The childish looks of horror that contort Chris Matthews' huge yellow head whenever someone fails to kneel at the altar of Obamamania are confirmation of the racist iniquity of those who would resist assimilation.
Sneers the PG:
So, tonight the polls will close and Mrs. Clinton will have easily collected 99 percent of the white vote in West Virginia. She will crow about her electability in a smug but meaningless victory speech on a stage featuring dozens of "hard-working Americans, white Americans" standing behind her waving flags. […] While no Confederate battle flags will be visible, they will feel it in the air. Mrs. Clinton's greatest victory will be a triumph of the kind of identity politics that makes a nation smaller.
No mention is made of the 99.9999% or so of blacks who support Obama. Remember, supporting him because he's a mulatto is transcending race.
On a tip from General Jack D. Ripper.
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Undercover Agents Protect America from Unlicensed Taxi Menace
When 78-year-old Rosco O'Neil walked into a Winn-Dixie in Miami Gardens, Florida, he was accosted by a woman who asked if he was running a car service. He told her no, but after she persisted that she needed help getting her groceries home, agreed to give her a ride when she was finished shopping. He never brought up payment, but the woman insisted on a price.
It was a clever sting operation. After he dropped her off, police closed in, issuing him two citations and impounding his minivan, which it cost him $400 to recover, on top of $2,000 in fines.
There were no prior complaints of O'Neil providing taxi service without shelling out for official government accreditation. But these things have to be nipped in the bud, before free enterprise starts breaking out all over the place.
Let this be a lesson to Good Samaritans. No good deed not imposed by government bureauweenies goes unpunished.
Hat tip: Coyote Blog; on a tip from Burning Hot.
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General Patton Returns
A few inspiring words from the ultimate countermoonbat:
On a tip from hiram13pm.
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Obama's 57 States Notion Explained
My apologies: I goofed when I ridiculed Barack Obama for claiming he had campaigned in 57 states. I thought he was referring to American states — which in Obama's case was a truly foolish assumption. I should have realized that the Organisation of the Islamic Conference is made up of 57 states.
Speaking of Obama's Islamic background, his cheerleaders at the New York Times have surprisingly acknowledged that he is a Muslim apostate, which is punishable by death according to the Religion of Peace. This could become awkward when he tries to implement his "talk to the terrorists" foreign policy agenda.
But is he really an apostate? Islam as practiced in America is generally based on hatred of white people, just like the Black Liberation Theology "church" into which Jeremiah Wright recruited Obama. Reverend Wrong even awarded Whitey-Hater-in-Chief Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam with the highest honor he could, the Lifetime Achievement "Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Trumpet" Award. This suggests that Obama's race-based perversion of Christianity does not represent any apostasy at all.
Hat tips: Jawa Report, LGF; on tips from Oiao.
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Those Who Won't Join the Obamaborg Are Racist
Get used to this, because we will be fed a relentless diet of it from now until November. Voting for Obama because he's black means you have transcended race. Not voting for him for any reason makes you a racist.
Obama Mania campaign worker Danielle Ross whines that Obama's message that America stinks and needs to changed into some different country didn't resonate in the Indiana Heartland:
"The first person I encountered was like, 'I'll never vote for a black person,' "recalled Ross, who is white and just turned 20. "People just weren't receptive."
Sure. Someone walked up to her and said, "I'd vote for Obama. Except he's a mulatto, and I'm a racist."
Another campaign worker claims someone said of Obama, "Hang that darky from a tree!"
The Washington Post seems to believe it. Anyone who opposes having an unqualified, ultra-Left jackass run the country is a racist, if said jackass is part African. After having the media drill this message through your head for the next six months, maybe you'll believe it too.
Interestingly, WaPo reports that vandals spray-painted "Hamas votes BHO" and "We don't cling to guns or religion. Goddamn Wright," spinning this as racism having escalated into violence. In other words, objecting to a president who would likely side with Islamic terrorists against the West is racist. Objecting to being insulted by a condescending bigot like Obama is racist. Not liking Reverend "God damn America" Wright is racist. In short, not supporting Obama is racist.
Hat tip: Free Republic; on a tip from Cheetah.
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May 12, 2008
Dhimmitude in Minnesota
When the rights of the disabled come up against the intolerant dictates of Islam, which do you suppose will come out on top in Minnesota, land of our first Muslim Congressman? Tyler Hurd found out when he was forced to leave a teacher-training program at Technical High School in Saint Cloud after a Muslim from Somalia threatened to kill his service dog.
Dogs are on the extremely long list of things Muslims don't like. Therefore people who need dogs to assist them with medical conditions will have to make themselves scarce. After all, we need to accommodate the nice Muslims. They'd do the same for us, right?
On a tip from V the K.
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Stupid Media Question of the Day
A pair of Mexicans in a car accident in Illinois ran off, leaving dead and critically injured children behind. A puzzled Daily Herald wants to know:
How could they flee when five others in their car were lying on the ground so seriously hurt?
Could it be they're in the country illegally, and don't want all the trouble of having to sneak back in again after they're deported? Might they have figured that it would be most convenient to let American taxpayers deal with their dead and injured children, as with all their other healthcare issues?
Nah. They must have been worried the racist cops would profile and oppress them.
On a tip from CWKing.
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California Bureauquislings Nix Minutemen Adopt-a-Highway
The praiseworthy Minutemen, volunteers devoted to drawing attention to our disastrous invasion and colonization by Mexico's dregs, showed their civic spirit by sponsoring litter cleanup on San Diego roads. Appropriately, they were given an Adopt-a-Highway stretch near a Border Patrol checkpoint on I5, the main artery for shipping illegal aliens into California.
But then the quisling bureaucrats in California's legislature found out. The sponsorship has been rescinded, and the sign above removed. The excuse was that Reconquistadors might become angered by the sign and create safety hazards. We certainly wouldn't want illegal aliens — famous for killing people as they drive blind drunk on our roads — to create safety hazards.
Ironically, illegal aliens are also famous for strewing massive amounts of the trash the Minutemen are trying to clean up.
On tips from Oiao and Matt L.
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Barack Obama Lapel Pin
Now at last there's a lapel flag that even Barack Obama might wear, with a star for each of the 57 states he's campaigned in:
I hope his friend and enabler Bill Ayers doesn't stomp on him if he wears it.
Via The Corner; on a tip from V the K.
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Mississippi Gets the Better of Looting Lawyers
Mississippi has been the canary in the coalmine of runaway lawsuit moonbattery. As the WSJ notes:
For most of the past 30 years, Mississippi has ranked as one of the poorest as well as one of the most litigious states. The two statistics are related.
Due to a legal climate easily exploited by pathologically greedy John Edwards types, businesses have given Mississippi a wide birth — as have doctors, whose malpractice premiums were going up by 25% a year.
One of the worst places, in term of frivolous lawsuits, was Jefferson County. It became renowned as the lawsuit capital of the country, with more plaintiffs than residents. This is the infamous county where one pharmacist was named in more than 1,000 lawsuits. In one legendary case against a pharmaceutical company that sold the diet pill Pondimin (part of the weight-loss combination known as fen-phen, which was later banned), a Jefferson County jury awarded $1 billion to the family of a woman who had taken the drug.
Wonderful as the notion of free fortunes may sound to some, given a choice between lawyers on one hand or employers and doctors on the other, sooner or later anyone in his right mind will turn away from the former. Mississippi wised up and "transformed itself from judicial hell hole to job magnet":
The law that eventually passed was every trial lawyers' worst nightmare. It capped awards for noneconomic damages, and prevented the popular practice whereby a plaintiff attorney seeking to bring a class-action shops around for a court where he'll be likely to get a favorable ruling or judgment.
Almost overnight, the flow of lawsuits began to dry up and businesses started to trickle in. Federal Express invested $1 billion in a new facility in the state. Toyota chose Mississippi over about a dozen other states for a new $1.2 billion, 2,000-worker auto plant. The auto maker has stipulated that the company would pull up stakes if the tort reforms were overturned by the legislature or activist judges.
A drastic drop in lawsuits has cut medical malpractice insurance costs by 30–40%, stemming the flow of doctors out of the state and making healthcare more affordable for everyone.
There's even better news:
Fewer Mississippians are heading to law school and more are looking at business school as the best way to get rich. Many in the younger generation are pursuing a career path that will make them wealth creators, not wealth redistributors.
Unfortunately the country as a whole may not learn from Mississippi's lesson. Democrat gains in state legislatures could spell the repeal of the modest tort reform laws Republicans have managed to get through. Again we see how crucial it is to vote, even for those who can't bring themselves to pull the lever for Lettuce McCain.
On a tip from Oiao.
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Connecticut Strikes a Righteous Blow against Hate
Apparently inspired by the belief among moonbats that only black people have been subjected to hanging, Connecticut has passed "An Act Concerning Hate Crimes" making it illegal to display nooses.
Next up for a ban: white sheets.
On a tip from Wiggins.
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Duke's 88 Moonbats Continue to Make Fools of Themselves
Remember the Group of 88, the collection of grossly irresponsible Duke University professors who assumed the lacrosse players had to be guilty in the Crystal Mangum rape hoax, and who signed a petition denouncing the innocent athletes and the political incorrectness they were made to personify? The public has now been called to account for daring to question the wisdom of these noble scholars.
The true victims of the drunken stripper's little hoax were not the lacrosse players, who as Terry Moron could tell you, deserved what they got just for being white. Here some of the Group of 88 explain the far worse indignities they were made to suffer:
[T]he most extreme marginalization was reserved for the faculty whose professional expertise made them most competent to engage the discourses on race and gender unleashed by the inaugurating incident — scholars of African American and women's studies. Instead, administrators, like the bloggers themselves, operated under the assumption that everyone was an expert on matters of race and gender, while actually existing academic expertise was recast as either bias or a commitment to preconceived notions about the legal case.
The impertinence of little people claiming a right to have opinions on matters of race and gender! Only the cognoscenti are capable of discerning innocence and guilt, which the unwashed public is unenlightened enough to cast in bourgeois terms of evidence and factual reality.
The authors also whine about being called communists, though one of them (literature professor Michael Hardt) evidently describes himself as a "joyful communist" and demands an end to the capitalist "empire."
Here I was thinking of Crystal Magnum and Mike Nifong as the scum at the bottom of the barrel. But Duke's liberal studies professors prove that if you scrape a little, you can always find something lower down still.
Hat tip: Coyote Blog; on a tip from Burning Hot.
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Harvard Discovers Downside of Taxation
Isolated as they may be in their bubble of elitist moonbattery, even the educrats running Harvard are capable of grasping some of the basic facts of the world the rest of us live in. For example, now that Massachusetts might levy a 2.5% tax on colleges with endowments over $1 billion, Harvard's associate vice president for government, community, and public affairs Kevin Casey gasps:
You can't do that. You'd be taxing success.
No kidding. When you tax something, you get less of it. Success is to be reined in, because it creates challenges to government power. Punishing success is one of the purposes of our progressive taxation system. Harvard types would normally describe this as "social justice" — except when they're the ones getting looted.
On a tip from V the K.
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May 11, 2008
U.N. Tries to Squash a Bridge in Dresden
Germany's sovereignty survived the loss of two world wars. Let's hope it can endure the U.N.'s endless grasping for control.
With the approval of its residents, Dresden is building a bridge across the Elbe to ease traffic congestion. Bureauweenie Francesco Bandarin of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization is enraged.
Earlier this year, UNESCO rejected a revised bridge design presented by Dresden, arguing that any bridge in the city’s famed Elbe River Valley would destroy the landscape and ruin the views of Dresden's famous landmarks. UNESCO says the only acceptable solution is for Dresden to build a tunnel under the river.
Bandarin said unless Dresden immediately halted work on the bridge, it was impossible to seek any compromises. Bandarin also urged politicians in Dresden and the state of Saxony to hold a second referendum on the issue, even if it took two years to realize it.
If it doesn't stop being impertinent and obey the will of the world community as decreed by U.N. chair-warmers, Dresden will lose its allegedly precious World Heritage status.
Worse things have happened to the city.
On a tip from Matthew B.
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Obama Advisor Robert Malley Was in Regular Contact with Hamas
Who would have thought that less than seven years after 9/11, we would consider electing a president with a Muslim background and ties to Islamic terrorists?
The latest hint of what America would be in for under an Obama regime came when his Middle East policy adviser Robert Malley let it slip that he has been in regular contact with the bloodthirsty terrorist group Hamas.
O'Bigot learned something from the Reverend Wrong scandal — instead of waffling, he threw Malley under the bus immediately. Yet nothing Malley did is inconsistent with Obama's "talk to the terrorists" mentality. Nor is this the only tie between Obama and terrorists: his friendships with Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and the PLO's Rashid Khalidi come immediately to mind.
Other Obama advisors have included Samantha Power, who equated waterboarding terrorists with genocide; Jeremiah Wright, who used his church newsletter to publish Hamas propaganda and considers it a "great honor" to be designated a terrorist state by the USA; and Merrill McPeak, who thinks Iran would be our friend except George Bush hurt its feelings.
Anyone who thinks Obama would take the side of Western Civilization against Hamas and other Muslim terror groups has not been paying attention. His election would be more or less the equivalent of America being conquered by a hostile foreign power.
Hat tip: Free Republic; on a tip from Cheetah.
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Obamamania Hits Dilworth, Minnesota
Fourteen-year-old Bishop Edens was suspended from school Friday because he wouldn't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, but he was quickly invited back once his principal learned that rule might be unconstitutional.
Bishop's bold stand against patriotism came in response to three other students at the school being disciplined for not standing during the pledge. I think I know who his parents will be voting for.
On a tip from Wiggins.
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May 10, 2008
Al Sharpton Is $1.5 Million Behind in His Taxes
Professional racist Al Sharpton ruined careers with the Tawana Brawley hoax, got Yankel Rosenbaum killed by inciting riots in Crown Heights, and provoked the murder of seven people at a "white interloper's" store in Harlem. Just this week, he shut down New York City's bridges and tunnels with yet another of his self-serving publicity stunts. Rather than the contempt and derision he deserves, Sharpton has been rewarded with a position of great prominence in the Democrat Party, and treated with absurdly inappropriate respect by the media.
But there may be one sin for which he will be called to account: he's $1.5 million behind in his taxes.
Naturally Sharpton is spinning expectations that he pay his taxes like everyone else as another example of the white man's oppression. We'll see if this strategy also works with his National Action Network's failure to properly maintain workers compensation and unemployment insurance.
An incorrigible lowlife, Sharpton has been sued for not paying his bills many times before. But now he's under federal investigation by the FBI and IRS, and ten of his associates have received grand jury subpoenas. However, Sharpton has managed to beat the rap for tax fraud in the past by pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges.
At least this might be enough to derail a Supreme Court nomination if by some tragedy the MSM is able to install his identity politics colleague Barack Obama in the White House.
On tips from Wiggins and conservativeteen. Cross-posted at Right Wing News.
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Dems' Affirmative Action Candidate Thinks There Are 60 States
Who says Barack Obama doesn't like America? He's so fond of it, he's visited 57 of the 60 states:
No wonder he refuses to wear a flag pin; he can't find one with all 60 stars.
Actually it's not too surprising that he wouldn't know how many states there are, considering that he seems to have learned all he knows about America from a guy who spells "USA" with three K's.
On tips from AC and Burning Hot.
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May 9, 2008
Global Warming Inflicted Cool April
Uh oh: It looks like global warming is causing global cooling, just as we were warned. From the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration:
The average temperature in April 2008 was 51.0 F. This was -1.0 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 29th coolest April in 114 years.
If it gets any hotter, we'll all freeze. I suggest giving the United Nations absolute authority to dictate the weather before it's too late.
On a tip from Bill V.
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Even Homeless Will Have to Lower Their Standard of Living
In honor of the global warming farce, both O'Bigot and Shrillary have declared we must lower America's harmless carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. To get an idea of how large an effect this would have on our standard of living, consider that the average American could produce no more than 2.5 tons. Right now, derelicts who eat in soup kitchens and sleep in homeless shelters emit 8.5 tons.
They'll have to cut back their sumptuous lifestyle considerably. Fortunately by 2050 our increasingly powerful government will be in a position to make sure they tread lightly upon the Earth, because otherwise some might be too selfish to give up their luxuries for Gaia.
Hat tip: The Corner; on a tip from V the K.
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Chef Gordon Ramsay Calls for Gastronomic Totalitarianism
There isn't much that moonbats wouldn't place under the control of the State — including which fruits and vegetables we eat:
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay says British restaurants should be fined if they serve fruit and vegetables which are not in season. He told the BBC that fruit and vegetables should be locally-sourced and only on menus when in season. Mr Ramsay said he had already spoken to Prime Minister Gordon Brown about outlawing out-of-season produce.
Regulating when we can eat which fruits and vegetables would allegedly reduce harmless carbon emissions, which is the justification-du-jour for most every pointless encroachment on individual liberty.
Dictates Ramsay:
I don't want to see asparagus on in the middle of December. I don't want to see strawberries from Kenya in the middle of March. I want to see it home grown.
Tough luck for Kenyan farmers. But then, if moonbats could care less what happens to Africans, they wouldn't restrict DDT, which used to save millions of them from death by malaria.
As he shoves his way toward the front of the fashionable envirofascism train, Ramsay bemoans that Britain follows trends and fads when it comes to food. Carried away by his stylish rhetoric, he gasps:
There should be stringent laws, licensing laws, to make sure produce is only used in season and season only. If we don't restrict our movements within this industry of seasonal-produce only, then the whole thing will spiral out of control.
Clearly we'll need to impose martial law if people don't stop desecrating Gaia with those Kenyan strawberries.
On a tip from Ian from the EUSSR.
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Marine Recruiting Office to Be Besieged by Witches
Attention skanky, middle-aged moonbats with nothing better to do than relive your spoilt childhoods! The following call has been issued by the Bay Area chapter of Code Pink, which continues its siege of the Marines recruiting office in Berkeley:
Witches, Crones, Sirens come to the MRS [Marines recruiting station] today to cast spells, weave magic, invoke the foremothers, share wisdom, lead rituals to banish war and violence and to bring peace to the MRS, to protect our youth from the powerful spells of pro-war forces, to lead the men of the marine recruiting station off into the oceans of peace! Some witches, crones and sirens are willing to risk arrest, others are not. We call on all crones, witches and sirens to come to the MRS, to bring your energy, your wisdom, your fierce determination to end war now and bring peace to our world. Contact Kali at sylviasoven@yahoo.com or Marie at keeptahoepink@yahoo.com
Code Stink stunts have been poorly attended lately. Calls for us to surrender a war we're winning don't seem to resonate. But today's crowd may be a little more impressive, because Move America Forward will be joining in with an event of its own:
We're calling it a "Witch-Hunt" and we ask you to join us this FRIDAY, May 9th at the Berkeley Marine Recruiting Center. We'll be out there from 8:00 AM - 12:00 Noon and ask you to come and join us for part of the time,