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September 30, 2008
Global Warming Hoaxers Call for Food Rationing
The headlines at the moonbat-infested Guardian are so terrifying, you hardly dare to read further:
MEAT MUST BE RATIONED TO FOUR PORTIONS A WEEK, SAYS REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
It's not a joke. Hoaxers are actually using the "climate change" farce — which took over from global warming when people started to figure out that it's not getting any warmer — to justify the ultimate form of control, food rationing.
People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid run-away climate change, a major new report warns.
The report, by the Food Climate Research Network, based at the University of Surrey, also says total food consumption should be reduced, especially "low nutritional value" treats such as alcohol, sweets and chocolates.
Outside of university faculties and psychiatric wards, few really believe their diet influences the weather. But of course what this is really about is advancing the sacred liberal cause of totalitarianism as an end in itself.
Tara Garnett, the report's author, warned that campaigns encouraging people to change their habits voluntarily were doomed to fail and urged the government to use caps on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon pricing to ensure changes were made.
As pioneering progressive Benito Mussolini put it, "All within the state, nothing outside the state." Not even what you have for dinner should escape regulation.
This is why liberals don't want citizens to own guns. Sooner or later, if we're still human, we'll rebel.
On a tip from James C.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:40 PM | Comments (18)
Eurosnob: America Is Too Provincial for Nobel Lit Prize
American moonbattery is sufficiently fulsome to produce Nobel Peace Prize winners like Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, but when it comes to Literature, our prize-winning days appear to be behind us for now. Sniffs Horace Engdahl of the Swedish Academy:
The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining.
Obscenity-laced doggerel comparing the USA to Nazi Germany might win you a Nobel Prize if you're Harold Pinter, but not if you're a measly American.
On the bright side, if Barack Obama is elected, Europeans will like us more. Unfortunately, we'll like ourselves a lot less.
On a tip from Adrian.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:08 PM | Comments (8)
World's Smallest Book
The title reads, "My Fundamental Rights in the European Union."
Via The Dissident Frogman, on a tip from KHarn.
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Obama, the Mortgage Mess, and the Cloward-Piven Strategy
The Nutroots aren't the only ones who see in the financial crisis an opportunity for totalitarians to give the country a hard shove toward communism. James Simpson even suggests that this was the whole point of the demented policies that brought it about.
Granting mortgages by the $billions to people unlikely to make the payments may not have been just about providing "affordable housing" to allegedly oppressed minorities, but about deliberately overburdening the capitalist system, in accordance with the Cloward-Piven Strategy, much beloved by the sort of ultra-leftists who move in Barack Obama's circles.
See American Thinker for a rundown of Obama's many ties to the radical Left as they pertain to both the mortgage mess and the Cloward-Piven Strategy. If Obama gets elected, no one is going to believe that this information was publicly available beforehand.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 11:34 AM | Comments (17)
Nutroots Call for Exploiting Mortgage Crisis to Justify Radical Measures
Ominous words from the moonbats at the eponymously named Crooks and Liars:
In the end, I'm hoping for a more liberal version of the Shock Doctrine. If crises are used to force citizens to accept policies we normally wouldn't, what is stopping us from using this crisis to move the country towards a more progressive future?
The Shock Doctrine is a book by Naomi Klein. From the Amazon.com review:
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn't just some relic from the bad old days. It's alive and well in contemporary society, and coming soon to a disaster area near you.
The C&L folks opposed yesterday's bailout, but only because handing $700 billion of our money to the government to flush down the drain wasn't "progressive" enough. They've got a point: a complete ban on private property would make the whole mortgage issue moot.
Soon these radicals could have one of their own in the White House.
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Thomas Sowell Makes the Mortgage Mess Simple
Genius is the ability to make the complex comprehensible. When things get confusing, I turn to Thomas Sowell. Here's how he sums up the financial crisis, and the lessons we should learn from it:
Since risky investments usually pay more than safer investments, the incentive is for a government-supported enterprise to take bigger risks, since they get more profit if the risks pay off and the taxpayers get stuck with the losses if not.
The government does not guarantee Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, but the widespread assumption has been that the government would step in with a bailout to prevent chaos in financial markets.
There you have it: why the mortgage industry must not be nationalized, as a massive bail-out would accomplish, or quasi-nationalized, which is what led to this mess.
If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were free market institutions they could not have gotten away with their risky financial practices because no one would have bought their securities without the implicit assumption that the politicians would bail them out.
Just as "comprehensive immigration reform" will make a complete joke of America's territorial sovereignty by confirming that there will always be another amnesty, a bailout will make it clear that so long as the right bureaucrats have been paid off, only taxpayers are on the hook for bad loans.
Needless to say, Pelosi et al. have been trying to spin the exact opposite lesson, screeching that the solution to this latest government-induced disaster is still more State control.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 10:32 AM | Comments (5)
Moonbats Call for Convenience Store Lights to Go Out in Japan
The ultimate goal of the environmental movement can be summed up with a photograph of North Korea at night:
In short, moonbats want the lights to go out. Britain has moved toward this highly symbolic objective by killing street lights at night, accepting higher crime rates in exchange for an insignificant reduction in harmless carbon emissions, effectively retreating so that the darkness might reassert its hegemony.
Now Japan is doing its part for the polar bears by calling for convenience stores to close at night, which would supposedly help avert global warming by reducing carbon emissions.
A spokesman for the Japan Franchise Association inappropriately attempted to inject sanity into the climate change issue:
Suppose we open at 7 a.m. and close at 11 p.m. — 16 hours instead of 24. A store couldn't shut down its refrigerators and freezers for just the 8 hours, and they'd have to have staff on hand an hour before and after closing. It would mean losing 20% of our business for an energy saving of 4%.
Clearly he's missing the point. Since global warming isn't real anyway, it doesn't matter if energy savings are significant, only that people be required to make gestures of obeisance.
The JFA points out that all-night convenience stores serve as valuable refuges for crime victims, lost children, stalked women, and others in need of help in the night. But they haven't done a thing for the polar bears allegedly menaced by global warming.
Hat tip: Watts Up With That? On a tip from Lou.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:00 AM | Comments (10)
First It Took Over the Children
If you thought Village of the Damned was scary…
On a tip from Wiggins.
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Open Thread
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Tinseltown Trotskyites Glorify Seattle Riots
Always digging for new lows, the caviar-munching radicals infesting Hollyweird are currently inflicting Battle in Seattle, a movie devoted to eulogizing the infantile thugs who rioted at the WTO conference in 1999 in protest against free trade, capitalism, their parents, and civilization in general.
This disgraceful episode in our nation's history is a cause for celebration for limousine leftists like director Stuart Townsend, who eggs on his fellow trendoids to further antisocial behavior on behalf of The People, while screeching for an end to private control of the already left-leaning media.
While Tinseltown phonies help smelly trustafarians celebrate the righteous blow they struck against America by behaving like a herd of wild savages, Seattle businesses suffered a loss of up to $18 million in sales and $3 million in property damage. But presumably only capitalists were affected.
As LT Nixon remarks:
If these people are so upset with the horrors of capitalism, feel free to move to North Korea…I'll even pay for the ticket! As far as the "real" heroes of modern protests, it has to be the small business owner and his employees who have to clean up the feces and broken glass left behind by these wretched protestors. Of course no one in Hollywood is making a movie about those poor guys, because business is evil…unless you're mass-marketing a multi-million dollar movie.
Next Hollywood might want to make a video tribute to the animals who attacked people for being white during the Rodney King riots. Good thing folks like Townsend tend to have very high walls around their mansions.
At least the movie's release this month is timely. If America refrains from slitting its own wrists in November, look for rioting to become trendier than ever. At least the practice makes clear how the battle lines are drawn. On one side: civilization; on the other: its enemies.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:48 AM | Comments (17)
Still More Documentation on the Roots of the Mortgage Crisis
Just to keep it out there as long as possible before it goes down the memory hole, here is more video documentation regarding who tried to prevent the mortgage crisis and who prevented them from preventing it:
If the lefties running the media are able to spin this crisis to benefit the Democrats who caused it, we will know that the Fourth Estate is the most powerful branch of our government — even before installing its puppet in the White House.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 7:46 AM | Comments (2)
Mince a Mile in Your Wife's Shoes
No one likes rape, sexual assault, or even "gender violence." So why turn disapproval of them into a farce?
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® is an "international men's march" to protest aggression against the feminine. Apparently on the level, it features men walking down the street in women's shoes. Over a hundred walks have been scheduled for 2008. There go some of the marchers now:
Maybe next they'll protest violence against eccentrics with a Ministry of Silly Walks Walkathon.
On a tip from AWOL Civilization.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:17 AM | Comments (11)
September 29, 2008
The Fate of Useful Idiots
Even after the fall of the Soviet Union, this interview with former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov hasn't lost relevance, because the enemy within is stronger than ever:
Lucky thing for Obama's mentor and Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis that his goal of overthrowing the American government in favor of a communist regime wasn't realized in his time. He would have been among the first to be shot.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 10:26 AM | Comments (29)
Defective Brains Make the Elderly Too Racist to Vote for Obama
How is a moonbat propagandist to explain why older Americans — who have been around the block enough times not to fall for empty hype, having seen dangerous demagogues come and go before — tend not to support the Obamessiah? By denouncing them as racists, of course. But it's not their fault; they have defective brains:
Older white voters heavily favored Sen. Hillary Clinton over Sen. Barack Obama during the Democratic primary season, and national polls indicate that group now leans toward Sen. John McCain by 10 percentage points or more.
Pollsters and political scientists cannot pinpoint how much of that anti-Obama sentiment may be related to racial prejudice. But sociologists say their research indicates that implicit racial biases influence the voting decisions of many Americans of all ages — and that, for very basic physiological reasons related to the aging of their brains, many older citizens may be unable to suppress their prejudicial impulses, whether at the family dinner table or in the privacy of a voting booth.
According to an Australian professor named William Von Hippel, "as the brain's frontal lobe begins to atrophy with age, elderly adults exhibit greater social inappropriateness and increased stereotyping and prejudice."
How else to explain why our wise elders don't want to turn the country over to an unqualified left-wing radical who quite obviously does not wish it well?
Further medical breakthroughs will no doubt explain how any resistance to Obamania can be traced to brain malfunctions, even among the young. The government will soon be huge enough to offer full-time treatment for all who require it.
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:05 AM | Comments (24)
Confessions of a Palin Hater
The psychiatric community should devote more attention to Palin Derangement Syndrome, an intellectually debilitating disease. A moonbat writes to Salon's Cary Tennis confessing that his reaction to Sarah Palin
was immediate, visceral, and indeed, vicious. I have crossed every line I believed should never be crossed in public discourse — I have criticized not only her policies and her record, but her hair, her personal style, her accent, her abilities as a mother, etc. I've also begun to suffer personally and professionally. I bore my friends with my constant tirades against her, and am constantly distracted from my work by my need to continually update myself on the latest criticism, and indeed, ridicule, of her. In my hatred for her, I have begun to hate myself.
The moonbat pleads for help, but all Tennis can do is shovel out paragraph after paragraph of pretentious pseudo-psychological nuance apparently meant to explain how he managed to convince himself that Palin is his intellectual inferior. Tragically, the PDS bug has bit him too. Both are clearly in need of professional help.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:44 AM | Comments (16)
Barry Has a Bracelet Too
Obama may as well dispense with the charade of pretending to give a hoot about the welfare of our troops, which he has already proven willing to sacrifice for his self-oriented political purposes. Here he is in the first debate, trying to remember the name of fallen Army Sergeant Ryan D. Jopek, which he had to read from his bracelet prop since no one was considerate enough to run it across a teleprompter:
Fortunately for Obama, he has the media on his side. If Sarah Palin pulled a gaffe like this, it would have been headline news for a week. But since it was the Obamessiah, Reuters, the Guardian, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times all managed not to notice it, as noted by NewsBusters.
Who cares about those bitter gun-clingers who fail to study hard and get stuck in Iraq? Not many in the Democrat camp.
Hat tip Michelle Malkin, on tips from Cheetah and Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:05 AM | Comments (10)
Moonbat Energy Fail
Maybe we should keep our emphasis on energy technology that actually works.
Oh no… is that CARBON coming out of that windmill? We're all gonna cook!
On tips from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:57 AM | Comments (18)
More Documentation on the True Story of the Mortgage Crisis
More documentation that Republicans foresaw the mortgage crisis and tried to prevent it, but were stopped by corrupt Democrats:
If the Dems are able to skate away leaving Republicans holding the bag for this, it will be the greatest triumph yet for the mainstream media over reality.
On a tip from Al C.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:48 AM | Comments (8)
Where Obamaphiles Finds Their Inspiration
Joseph Stalin isn't the only great thinker to provide inspiration to Obamatrons. The official Obamessiah website allows acolytes to post their favorite quotations from moonbats through the ages. You probably won't see George Washington or Winston Churchill, but you will find these lefty luminaries:
• Karl Marx
• Ho Chi Minh
• Mao Tse-Tung
• Vladimir Lenin
• Leon Trotsky
• Fidel Castro
• Subcomandate Marcos
—and of course, Uncle Joe, though it looks like this one got scrubbed. Apparently there's nothing from Hitler; the Left has disowned him, presumably because he lost the war.
Future collections of great progressive quotations will include the wise words of the Obamessiah himself, such as these favorites:
• I won't wear that pin on my chest.
• …this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…
• I don't want them punished with a baby.
• …they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion…
• Why can't I just eat my waffle?
He's only held public office a few years and already the Obamessiah's aphorisms and prophesies could fill a Little Red Book.
On a tip from matterhorn.
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September 28, 2008
Open Thread
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September 27, 2008
Joseph Stalin, Guiding Light of the Modern Liberal
In an effort to make Moonbattery more hospitable to trolls, here's an inspirational quote from the history books:
America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.
Joseph Stalin is to be commended on his foresight. At least he didn't live to see liberals bring this strategy to fruition, as the horrifying Obama candidacy makes clear is happening.
Here's another Stalin quote that must be dear to the heart of Obama's close, longtime associate Bill Ayers, who went from bombing government buildings and advising us to kill our parents to helping steer the course of our education system:
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
When Obama the "Community Organizer" was training ACORN radicals, who are best known for voter fraud operations, he must have drawn some inspiration from this one — as did Al Gore:
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
This one offers the deepest insight into the socialist mentality:
One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic.
They will inevitably apply this insight in America, just as they did in Germany, Russia, China, and Cambodia, unless we are able to prevent them.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 12:46 PM | Comments (19)
Obama "Truth Squads"
The Show Me state shows us a glimpse of our totalitarian future: "Truth Squads" are clamping down on people who say things Obamunists don't want to hear. Local law enforcement officials are involved throughout Missouri.
Citizens are obliged to believe that Obama is a Christian who wants to cut taxes. Failure to agree with these dubious assertions is regarded as "divisive" — i.e., verboten.
If you're not scared yet, you should be.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 11:32 AM | Comments (32)
September 26, 2008
Arrangement of London Toilets Dictated by Islam
Dhimmitude, like other forms of political correctness, takes totalitarianism to extremes Hitler and Stalin never imagined. Even toilets must be forced to conform:
Toilets at London's Olympic Park will not face Mecca in a bid by designers to avoid offending Muslims.
Muslims get pretty wacky, but I find it hard to believe that many consult a compass before they use the bathroom to make sure they aren't facing their magic meteor in Arabia. The point as always is for liberals to abase themselves on behalf of Western Civilization.
The park will also include "special washing facilities linked to prayer rooms." Needless to say, you won't find many Christians washing their feet in them.
At least the Olympic toilets don't have to be torn up and moved to be oriented Islamically correctly — unlike the toilets in British prisons.
On a tip from Refuter of Liberal Vermin.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:52 AM | Comments (25)
Top Obama Fundraiser Met With Ahmadinejad
There's one campaign promise Obama has nearly managed to uphold already: meeting with terrorist dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions. Barry must have been too busy cramming for the debate to glad-hand Mad Mahmoud himself, but one of his top fundraisers was on hand to schmooze with the maniac. From Wednesday night:
A founding member of the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois met in New York City tonight with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Jodie Evans, who co-hosted Obama's first major fundraiser in Hollywood in February 2007 just after Obama announced his candidacy and is a top fundraiser and donor to Obama's campaign, led a delegation of leftist anti-American groups that held a private meeting near the United Nations. The stated purpose of the meeting was to "serve as an opening for diplomatic resolution" to prevent war between Iran and the United States.
A little background on BHO's friend Jodie:
Evans is co-founder of the pro-terrorist group Code Pink and works with state sponsors of terrorism to undermine America in the war on terror. She also has publicly announced her support for the terrorists in Iraq, her sympathy for Osama bin Laden and her "love" of Hugo Chavez.
Given Evans' closeness to [and] regular contacts with Obama and his campaign, it is fair to ask if she is acting as an intermediary for Obama.
After co-founding Code Pink, Evans's main claims to fame are raising $600,000 for terrorists trying to kill our troops in Fallujah, and more recently, attempting to storm the stage during Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican convention.
Whether or not Evans really was meeting with Ahmadinejad at Obama's behest, the meeting does help clarify who's on which side.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:58 AM | Comments (10)
More Background on the Mortgage Crisis
More on how Bush and McCain tried to avert the mortgage crisis, but Congressional Dems prevented them:
As the entirely foreseeable mortgage train wreck confirms, nothing good is likely to come of putting creatures like Barney Frank and Chuckie Schumer in positions of authority. Now we're relying on these same clowns to clean up the mess they made.
Via Right Wing News.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:26 AM | Comments (3)
Open Thread
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Saracuda vs. "Feminist" Piranhas
Bruce Walker explains the difference between the personification of true feminism, Sarah Palin, and the rabid moonbat "feminists" who denounce her with such hatred:
What we have been taught to call "feminism" today has nothing to do with original feminism. The pseudo-feminism of NOW is simply the Ladies Auxiliary of modern Leftism. When Clinton brutally raped a woman, where were these feminists? No where. When radical Moslems right now treat women in ways that would have horrified Americans two centuries ago, where is the support for American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? Again, no where. When a woman, lovingly supported by her husband, builds a career as a reformer against a corrupt political machine, where are the pseudo-feminist cheer leaders of the Democrat Party? Cheer leading for Obama, the product of a corrupt political machine.
What the original feminists had and what Sarah Palin has is what the pseudo-feminist party hacks lack: Principles. Feminism was based not upon the proposition of advancing "women's issues," but upon [advancing] principles of individual equality. The platform for these principles was not the Democrat Party Platform but the Judeo-Christian moral tradition of divinely created human souls. Feminism was concerned above all with the process of fairness, not the equivalence of result.
Like the civil rights movement in general, feminism has been corrupted into something its founders would not have wanted any part of.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:04 AM | Comments (5)
Jack Murtha Sued by Marine He Slandered
At last, a lawsuit that deserves to succeed:
Former Marine Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, 24, of Canonsburg [Pennsylvania], will file a civil lawsuit against U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Johnstown, who was widely quoted two years ago saying that eight Marines carried out a cold-blooded killing of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town on Nov. 19, 2005.
Charges were later dropped against all but one of the Marines, with a military prosecutor calling allegations against Mr. Sharratt "incredible."
Incredible as they were, Murtha noisily and repeatedly proclaimed them to be fact — for his own overtly nefarious purposes. Newsweek's conception of a "rock-solid patriot" is any normal person's idea of a back-stabbing traitor. May this corrupt and treasonous toad finally be pried out of his seat in November.
On a tip from General Jack D. Ripper.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:31 AM | Comments (8)
Why Larry King Should Be Publicly Flogged
See for yourself, from his recent interview with soon-to-be-nuclear Mad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
King:
You don't look old enough to have married children.
How do those terrorist toes taste, Larry?
On a tip from Burning Hot. Hat tip: Atlas Shrugs.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:05 AM | Comments (5)
Dems Redirect Bailout Money to Radical Left-Wing Groups
There is no end to the arrogance of thieves when the media is there to cover their backs. From NewsBusters:
Bush told the country that we are in an economic crisis and his Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, came up with an idea that would, it is claimed, end up actually making money for the U.S. Treasury in the long run. That's all well and good, but the Democrats already have a plan to siphon off any repayment of the people's money back to the treasury by adding one little line to the agreement that would end up stealing money from any repayments and giving it to left-wing political advocacy groups like ACORN, the National Urban League and the Hispanic group La Raza. Instead of trying to help the economy, the Democrats just want more money for their left-wing political constituents. It's business as usual for the Democrats, of course, but a bigger question is will the media let them get away with it?
What do you think? If the media were reporting on the mortgage crisis accurately, every last Democrat in Washington would be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
No one should be surprised the government plans to redirect profits that come from reselling the bad mortgages they are buying up with our money to ultra-left activist groups. No matter what bills get passed, the outcome is the same: moonbat bureaucrats steal our money and give it to their friends.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:47 AM | Comments (5)
The History of the Economic Meltdown
It's no wonder we get vague, convoluted hogwash from the media instead of an accurate description of how the economic crisis came about. The true story isn't all that complicated, but if it were known, the Democrat Party would be finished for a generation.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 7:20 AM | Comments (8)
September 25, 2008
Science Confirms Enviromoonbat Hypocrisy
If you need any evidence that environmentalism is a shallow fad indulged in by liberal elite phonies who are only interested in token gestures for themselves even while they demand draconian sacrifices for everyone else, the Left's own Guardian thoughtfully provides it. According to Stewart Barr of Exeter University:
Green living is largely something of a myth. There is this middle class environmentalism where being green is part of the desired image. But another part of the desired image is to fly off skiing twice a year. And the carbon savings they make by not driving their kids to school will be obliterated by the pollution from their flights.
Barr and his fellow researchers found that "the longest and the most frequent flights were taken by those who were most aware of environmental issues." Sanctimonious moonbats often go on trips to reward themselves for using pricey curlicue light bulbs or for tossing their champagne bottles in the recycling bin. Higher income was associated both with more trips and with more enviromoonbattery.
As Barr puts it:
The findings indicate that even those people who appear to be very committed to environmental action find it difficult to transfer these behaviors into more problematic contexts.
In other words, they're hypocrites. But in their defense, there is no need to actually sacrifice their own pleasures, since CO2 is not actually a threat to anyone. It's gestures that count — like voting for liberals who will cripple the economy on behalf of the polar bears.
On tips from mega and Charles O.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:51 AM | Comments (22)
British Dhimmitude for Corpses
In Britainistan, even corpses get discriminated against for not being Muslim:
The family of a 75-year-old man have been refused permission to bury him on a Saturday because he is not a Muslim.
Harold Lemaire died last week and his family wanted the service to be held this Saturday to make it easier for far-flung relatives to attend.
But their plans were scuppered after the council said only Muslim and Jewish funerals are allowed on weekends and bank holidays.
The reasoning is that Muslim and Jewish traditions require corpses to be buried right away, whereas the rest of us can be left around to rot for awhile. Odd that Jews get privileged treatment too…
But as Jews cannot bury their dead on the Sabbath — from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday — it means that effectively only Muslims can use the service.
Lemaire' stepdaughter Jean Maltby complained that this is yet "another case of political correctness gone mad." Then she proved her point by feeling obligated to assure the public she's "not a racist."
On tips from Refuter of Liberal Vermin and Burning Hot; hat tip: Report on Arrakis.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:20 AM | Comments (7)
Ecuador to Grant Human Rights to Nature
Ecuador is on the verge of granting human rights to nature.
People will be asked to vote on Sunday on a new constitution that would give Ecuador's tropical forests, islands, rivers and air similar legal rights to those normally granted to humans. If they vote yes — and polls show that 56% are for and only 23% are against — then an already approved bill of rights for nature will be introduced, and new laws will change the legal status of nature from being simply property to being a right-bearing entity.
From the bill:
Natural communities and ecosystems possess the unalienable right to exist, flourish and evolve within Ecuador. Those rights shall be self-executing, and it shall be the duty and right of all Ecuadorian governments, communities, and individuals to enforce those rights.
According to Thomas Linzey, an American lawyer who helped cook up this lunacy, the bill will "grant people the right to sue on behalf of an ecosystem." In practical terms, this means that any and all human activity will be subject to lawsuits — including breathing, which releases CO2, alleged by moonbats to be hurtful to polar bears. Theoretically, stepping on a cockroach would qualify as murder.
A primary goal is to loot, then drive out multinational companies that provide economic opportunity in Ecuador. The inevitable result will be extreme but no doubt picturesque poverty.
Again we see there is no limit to how far liberals will push their depraved, antihuman agenda. Given a government run by irresponsible progressives like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama, a similar bill is not unimaginable here.
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Sign of Fervor
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Election Test
Can you proudly assert that you disagree with Obama on virtually everything? Take this test and find out.
On a tip from Matthew D.
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Open Thread
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Gore Rallies Thugs to Attack Civilization
Apparently the Obamessiah and Shrillary aren't the only ones to have been heavily influenced by the socialist radical Saul Alinsky. Al Gore, possibly driven to desperation by cooling temperatures, is calling for Alinskyesque tactics to be used against those who inflict electric power on our homes.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.
The former U.S. vice president, whose climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award, told a philanthropic meeting in New York City that "the world has lost ground to the climate crisis."
"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration," Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause.
In case rallying angry mobs of black-clad moonbats with bandanas on their faces to vandalize power plants doesn't work, Gore also invited state attorney generals to sue the plants out of existence.
As Thomas Lifson notes with appropriate horror, this unhinged thug was almost elected President of the United States.
As for storing the carbon, this has not been proven to be either necessary or effective, and would increase upfront costs by at least 50%.
On tips from Refuter of Liberal Vermin, Wiggins, and Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:46 AM | Comments (17)
How Affirmative Action Caused the Financial Crisis
The mortgage mess became so huge as to threaten our entire financial system because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fat cats paid off liberal Senators, most prominently Chris Dodd, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, to block reform attempts by responsible grownups like George Bush and John McCain. But how did these quasi-socialist mortgage giants get into trouble in the first place? As Ann Coulter observes, it was largely a matter of granting mortgages on the basis of Affirmative Action:
Under Clinton, the entire federal government put massive pressure on banks to grant more mortgages to the poor and minorities. Clinton's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, investigated Fannie Mae for racial discrimination and proposed that 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low- to moderate-income borrowers by the year 2001. […]
Threatening lawsuits, Clinton's Federal Reserve demanded that banks treat welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources to qualify for a mortgage. That isn't a joke — it's a fact.
When Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches, political correctness was given a veto over sound business practices.
In 1999, liberals were bragging about extending affirmative action to the financial sector. Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein hailed the Clinton administration's affirmative action lending policies as one of the "hidden success stories" of the Clinton administration, saying that "black and Latino homeownership has surged to the highest level ever recorded."
Meanwhile, economists were screaming from the rooftops that the Democrats were forcing mortgage lenders to issue loans that would fail the moment the housing market slowed and deadbeat borrowers couldn't get out of their loans by selling their houses.
A decade later, the housing bubble burst and, as predicted, food-stamp-backed mortgages collapsed. Democrats set an affirmative action time-bomb and now it's gone off.
Imagine what would happen if we applied Affirmative Action principles to choosing the next president.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 6:58 AM | Comments (9)
September 24, 2008
Alcee Hastings Explains Why Jews Should Vote for Obama
Alcee Hastings used to be a federal judge, but he was impeached for perjury and bribery. But he's still clean enough to serve in the House, and more than clean enough to have been appointed co-chair of Shrillary's presidential campaign. Nancy Pelosi even wanted him to chair the House Intelligence committee, but had to back down in light of having voted herself for his impeachment. Now he's back in the news, explaining why Jews ought to vote for Hamas's favorite candidate, Obama. He reveals that Sarah Palin is much more of a threat to Jewish interests because:
Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.
Meanwhile, Palin wanted to speak out at a rally in defense of Israel and against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's plans to nuke it off the map. But Democrats managed to intimidate the Jewish groups sponsoring the rally into revoking her invitation.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:23 PM | Comments (15)
Obama Salute Goes Back Further Than We Knew
It turns out the lineage of the official Obamunist salute goes back further than the astro-hippies on Star Trek.
Here's the Obamaniac "Sign of Progress":
…and here's a photo from the history books…
The German Propaganda Archive provides this caption:
The hands of the Führer organize his speech. This picture captures Hitler's hands as he speaks of the unity of the National Socialist and socialist ideas.
I thought the idea of the salute was to make a zero, summing up the emptiness of the Obamania phenomenon. But maybe it represents the circle that race-obsessed, socialist progressives go round and round in, decade after decade, without making any progress.
Hat tip: IOpian View; on a tip from nanc.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:41 AM | Comments (33)
Corpse Sits for Hours in Canadian Waiting Room
There's no need to wait until Democrats take over the White House to see how socialized medicine will pan out. Just look north of the border:
Health officials are still investigating how a man found dead at the Health Sciences Centre ER waiting area escaped the attention of medical staff for 34 hours.
"Staff weren't aware he was waiting for care," said Dr. Brock Wright, chief operating officer for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, at a news conference this morning. "They didn't know he was in the queue waiting to be seen."
Wright said the man had been dead "for a number of hours" before he was brought to the attention of medical staff early Sunday morning.
For the sake of efficiency, maybe bureaucrats could pass a new regulation requiring the really sick patients to wait in the morgue.
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PETA Demands Ice Cream Be Made From Human Milk
Not even Obamunist-owned Ben & Jerry's is moonbatty enough for PETA, which is demanding that they make their ice cream out of human milk.
PETA believes this would "lessen the suffering of dairy cows." It hasn't occurred to animal rights kooks that if we didn't raise cows for milk, meat, and leather, very few of them would exist.
In keeping with the liberal practice of thinking in catchy but meaningless bumper sticker slogans, PETA Executive VP Tracy Reiman asserts that everyone knows "breast is best."
The principle might also be applied to artificial products like nondairy creamer, if prominent PETA spokesmoonbat Pamela Anderson is willing to put her synthetic assets to use.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 9:21 AM | Comments (41)
Bloomberg Explains How Corrupt Democrats Caused Financial Crisis
Bloomberg.com, hardly known for its right-wing point of view, lays out in simple terms what — and who — caused the current financial meltdown:
The economic history books will describe this episode in simple and understandable terms: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exploded, and many bystanders were injured in the blast, some fatally.
Fannie and Freddie did this by becoming a key enabler of the mortgage crisis. They fueled Wall Street's efforts to securitize subprime loans by becoming the primary customer of all AAA-rated subprime-mortgage pools. In addition, they held an enormous portfolio of mortgages themselves.
In the times that Fannie and Freddie couldn't make the market, they became the market. Over the years, it added up to an enormous obligation. As of last June, Fannie alone owned or guaranteed more than $388 billion in high-risk mortgage investments. Their large presence created an environment within which even mortgage-backed securities assembled by others could find a ready home.
The problem was that the trillions of dollars in play were only low-risk investments if real estate prices continued to rise. Once they began to fall, the entire house of cards came down with them.
There were those who saw this train wreck coming years in advance and tried to stop it, including John McCain. After Alan Greenspan warned in 2005 that the situation placed "the total financial system of the future at substantial risk,"
a serious Fannie and Freddie reform bill was passed by the Senate Banking Committee. The bill gave a regulator power to crack down, and would have required the companies to eliminate their investments in risky assets.
If that bill had become law, then the world today would be different. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, a blizzard of terrible mortgage paper fluttered out of the Fannie and Freddie clouds, burying many of our oldest and most venerable institutions. Without their checkbooks keeping the market liquid and buying up excess supply, the market would likely have not existed.
But the bill didn't become law, for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it on a party-line vote in the committee, signaling that this would be a partisan issue. Republicans, tied in knots by the tight Democratic opposition, couldn't even get the Senate to vote on the matter.
That such a reckless political stand could have been taken by the Democrats was obscene even then. [Peter] Wallison wrote at the time: "It is a classic case of socializing the risk while privatizing the profit. The Democrats and the few Republicans who oppose portfolio limitations could not possibly do so if their constituents understood what they were doing.''
Now that the collapse has occurred, the roadblock built by Senate Democrats in 2005 is unforgivable. Many who opposed the bill doubtlessly did so for honorable reasons. Fannie and Freddie provided mounds of materials defending their practices. Perhaps some found their propaganda convincing.
But we now know that many of the senators who protected Fannie and Freddie, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd, have received mind-boggling levels of financial support from them over the years.
Yet these socialists try to spin the mess they made as the fault of capitalism, and call for more socialism as its solution.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 8:41 AM | Comments (10)
Joy Behar Gets a Little Tingle
This ought to put the brakes on Slick Willie's previously unstoppable sex drive:
Channeling Chris Matthews' "thrill up my leg" remarks, "View" co-host Joy Behar described acquiring "a little tingle" when former President Bill Clinton appeared on Monday's show. On the September 22 edition of "Larry King Live" Joy Behar described the former president as "charming," "charismatic," "he touched me a little," and "I got a little tingle."
Joy Behar coming at you with "a little tingle" would be enough to counter a jar Viagra.
Behar also informed the half dozen people who still watch Larry King that it's racist to notice that the arugula-munching, Bible-clinger–denouncing Obamessiah is elitist.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 8:17 AM | Comments (7)
Obama Coins Have Been Issued
As if the Vero Possumus Pre-presidential Seal weren't presumptuous and preposterous enough, the Obamessiah's acolytes have struck a Barack Obama coin. Fittingly, the coins are produced in a foreign country:
A company in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter is making commemorative coins for American presidential hopeful Barack Obama. […] Windsor, Elizabeth & Windsor has already sold more than 300 limited edition commemorative silver coins to the Democratic Party to hand out to key members of the campaign to elect Obama. […] WEW is producing limited edition runs of gold, silver and platinum Obama coins, and plans to produce new ones in other finishes for public consumption if the demand emerges. […]
The company directors got the idea of producing the coins after seeing actress Meryl Streep talking about Barack Obama on a television programme. When they got in touch with the Democrats the party jumped at the chance. And the coins have proved such a hit that locally produced versions have already been launched to compete with the UK originals.
The coins show Senator Obama's face, along with a picture of the White House and the legend "President of the United States of America".
Not so fast, Barry. Hot Air comments:
Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his image on coins, which started his downfall. Barack Obama may be the first person in history to start striking coins in his image before taking power. Maybe he just wants to look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills, but this is starting to get … creepy.
Obamania collapsing under the weight of its own absurd excess before the moonbat messiah gets a chance to wreck our economy is the best possible outcome to the entire farce of his candidacy.
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Open Thread
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One More Biden Gaffe
Yesterday's quick roundup of recent Biden gaffes left out this gem:
Part of what a leader does is to instill confidence, is demonstrate that he or she knows what they're talking about and communicates to people, "if you listen to me and follow what I'm suggesting, we can fix this."
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about, you know, the princes of greed, he said "look, here's what happened."
When the stock market crashed, Hoover was president, and television was still in the laboratory.
More alarming even than his ignorance of American history is the way Plugs holds up Roosevelt as the gold standard of American leadership. FDR's main legacy was to use the Depression and strong-arm tactics to move the country radically toward socialism. Another president like him would leave us somewhere between France and the Soviet Union.
The money quote starts at 1:48:
Hat tip: Lone Star Times; on tips from Byron, Wiggins, and V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:47 AM | Comments (11)
September 23, 2008
Plugs the Unstoppable Gaffe Machine
The arugula-munching Marxists who make up today's Democrat Party aren't exactly known for their authenticity. Even so, Joe Biden's latest gaffe is remarkable for its over-the-top phoniness. Talking down to a bunch of bitter hicks clinging to their guns in southwestern Virginia, Plugs let loose with this:
Barack Obama ain't taking my shotguns, so don't buy that malarkey. If he tries to fool with my Beretta, he's got a problem.
If anyone took Biden seriously, they might report this threat to the Secret Service. Fortunately no one does.
Other recent gems from Plugs include proclaiming there will be "No coal plants here in America" because he and Obama are "not supporting clean coal." Actually Obama does support it, or at least pretends to for the sake of Rust Belt voters.
When McCain pointed out that this confirms the Obama/Biden ticket's hostility to generating energy, Biden's spokesman denounced the McCain campaign as "dishonorable" — the last word liberals should try to apply to a genuine war hero.
Speaking of war heroes, Biden apparently tried to top Shrillary's tall tale of weathering sniper fire in Bosnia by boasting that he was on a helicopter that was forced down in the mountains of Afghanistan. What he neglected to mention was that it was forced down by the weather, not the terrorists who have been openly rooting for the Democrats to win. Even Hanoi John Kerry — who was also on the chopper, and who is famous for milking minor nicks and scrapes for Purple Hearts — passed the incident off with a joke:
We were going to send Biden out to fight the Taliban with snowballs, but we didn't have to do it… Other than getting a little cold, it was fine.
But not everything Biden says is misleading. When he characterized one of Obama's own ads as "terrible," he was right on the mark. The ad in question ridiculed McCain for not being able to use a computer; this disability is the result of the years of torture McCain endured at the hands of communists for the sake of his country.
It's also hard to argue with Biden's suggestion earlier this month that Shrillary would have been a better choice for VP.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 8:34 PM | Comments (23)
Naomi Wolf Forgets to Take Her Meds
Fasten your tinfoil hats, moonbats — the rise of Sarah Palin means we are headed toward a police state! Just ask Naomi Wolf:
Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state. […] I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. […] I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners — this is Rove-Cheney's enthusiastic S and M […] I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman […]
Then I saw and heard more. Palin is embracing lawlessness in defying Alaskan Legislature subpoenas — this is what Rove-Cheney, and not McCain, believe in doing. She uses mafia tactics against critics […]
Reports confirmed my suspicions: Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became clear […] there are dozens of Bush and Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her every move.
What's the plan? It is this […] the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get in, this will be the last true American election. She will be working for Halliburton, KBR, Rove and Cheney into the foreseeable future … for a decade perhaps — a puppet "president" for the same people who have plundered our treasure, are now holding the US economy hostage and who murdered four thousand brave young men and women […]
Under the coming Palin-Rove police state, you will witness the plans now underway to bring Iraqi troops to patrol the streets of our nation. This is not McCain's fantasy: it is Rove's and Cheney's. Under the Palin-Rove police state, there will be no further true elections. […] Under the Palin-Rove police state, citizens will be targeted with state cyberterrorism. […] That way lies the abyss for us all. […]
Make no mistake: Sarah "Evita" Palin is Rove and Cheney's cosmetic rebranding of their fascist push: she will help to establish a true and irreversible "fear society" in this once free once proud nation. For God's sake, do not let her; do not let them.
In addition to betraying the Rove-Cheney cabal's plans to establish Sarah Palin as head of a police state, Naomi also reveals that the moonbats who wreaked havoc at the Republican convention were actually Saint Paul police officers in disguise.
This paranoid schizophrenic was paid $15,000 a month to advise Al Gore, who if it were up to Dems would be President of the USA.
Hat tip: NewsBusters; on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:52 AM | Comments (58)
Ralph Nader Talks to a Bird
Believe it or not, there is a presidential candidate arguably even more preposterous than Barack Obama. From the Nader 08 campaign:
His idea of wearing a panda suit might help him get attention, but dressing up as a sad clown would be more appropriate.
Hat tip: Neanderpundit.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:53 AM | Comments (14)
Making Sense of the Dems Shutting Off Iraqi Oil
It's not enough for Dems to do everything in their power to prevent us from using our own oil. They've also prevented us from using oil from Iraq.
Odious Democrat Senators Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, and Claire McCaskill were behind a move to prevent Iraq from doing business with American oil companies. As a result, the oil the Surge made available will be going to the communist Chinese instead.
Meanwhile, Congressional Dems are pushing "a provision to actively and permanently prevent exploration of nearly 90 percent of the Outer Continental Shelf and block energy production in the Inter-Mountain West."
What possible motive could they have? Maybe they really believe hamstringing our economy will benefit their sacred polar bears. Maybe treason is just an unthinking instinct with Kerry and colleagues. Most likely: they are deliberately laying the groundwork for a depression, which will enable a vast expansion of federal control over the economy.
This would also explain picking a presidential candidate whose election would all but ensure a collapse of the stock market. Obama wants to inflict "social justice" by jacking capital gains taxes through the ceiling. Needless to say, the period between his election and his taking office will be busy times on Wall Street, as everyone scrambles to unload their stocks before the new rates take effect.
With the stock market in ruins and our energy supply shut off within, the Dems will be in an excellent position to impose the New New Deal.
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Posted by Van Helsing at 8:35 AM | Comments (11)
Patriotism as a Dress Code Violation
It looks like educrats haven't yet managed to stamp out the last embers of patriotism in the next generation. From Dos Palos, California:
Students at Dos Palos High School protested Thursday — by wearing patriotic regalia to school — after a sophomore student was forced to remove a T-shirt depicting the American flag.
Officials at the Merced County school confirmed Thursday that Jake Shelly was forced to take off a red, white and blue tie-dyed American flag T-shirt on Tuesday. The shirt said nothing offensive, just: "United States of America, Washington, D.C."
The school's assistant principal issued Shelly a bright yellow T-shirt that read "DCV: Dress Code Violator" to wear for the rest of the day. He was given his shirt back after classes ended.
At least they didn't force him to wear a Che Guevara shirt for the rest of the day.
It isn't just patriotic shirts educrats want banned. They also don't like it when students express incorrect thoughts to the media:
Kaycee Shelly told members of the media at lunchtime that her brother was overwhelmed and did not want to do any more interviews.
Earlier in the day, he was speaking with a local news station when an unidentified teacher walked up to him, ripped off the microphone clipped to his shirt and told him he was not allowed to talk to the media.
Jake wore the shirt "as part of a hippie dress-up day." If the shirt had featured a marijuana leaf instead of an American flag, no doubt teachers would have smiled on it benevolently.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:05 AM | Comments (17)
Blessed, Not Bitter
Thankfully more than a few Americans understand the importance of the Second Amendment. Their representatives at the NRA have opened fire on the Obama campaign:
More at GunBaNObama.
Hat tip: Hot Air; on a tip from Conservigilant.
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Saracuda Wants to Murder Cuddly Bears
From an insufferably moonbatty LA Times piece that righteously denounces Sarah Palin for allegedly putting the interests of humans ahead of the polar bears that hunt down and eat them:
Gov. Sarah Palin's administration has fought federal protections announced in May for polar bears, going to court to assert that the projections for a dramatic shrinking of the bears' icy habitat are unreliable and that polar bears are already protected enough.
Since becoming the Republican vice presidential nominee this month, Palin has championed a balance between energy exploration and environmental regulation. A review of her record as governor shows that, most often, she has tilted that balance in favor of oil and gas development, mining and hunting…
Check out the picture they ran with the story:
This one might have been even better:
Or, just for variety, La Times could have tried a little realism:
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Posted by Van Helsing at 7:26 AM | Comments (10)
Teleprompter Troubles Cause Uhbama to Forget His Best Friends
Teleprompter glitches notwithstanding, you would think Obama could remember the names of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in light of this:
Barack Obama has a major Wall Street and Washington problem that the media so far is refusing to acknowledge or explore. He is in the pocket of the Wall Street firms and mortgage security companies that are at the center of the collapse of the real estate bubble. He is closely tied to at least two of the Fannie Mae principals. As Ricky Ricardo would say, "Barack, you got some splaining to do."
Let's start with the numbers. Why is a first term Senator pulling down almost $300,000 a year from Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Countrywide Financial, and Washington Mutual? He has not even completed his fourth year in the Senate and received a total of $1,093,329.00 from these eight companies and their employees. (all data from OpenSecrets.org). John McCain's numbers, according to OpenSecrets.org for the period 1990-2008 (i.e., 18 years worth of data) only collected $549,584.00. In other words, Barack is receiving $273,582.25 (and 2008 is not over) per year while McCain raised a paltry $30,532.44.
Too bad we don't have journalists in this country. This would make for an interesting lead.
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September 22, 2008
Open Thread
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Saint Pete Times Fabricated Racist Voter Quote
Obamunists don't just fabricate voters for their dime store messiah — they create imaginary enemies for him too.
In an attempt to convince the public that it's racist not to vote the way we're told, the left-wing Saint Petersburg Times quotes Sandra Cichon of Spring Hill, Florida as telling a pollster:
I can't imagine having a black president.
Cichon learned about her fictitious conversation with the pollster when she read about it in the paper, which had interviewed her for an earlier story, and apparently has been using her name for quotations of their own invention to add authenticity to their pro-Obama propaganda.
Whoever wins this election, the mainstream media will lose, by having sacrificed the last shreds of its credibility in its campaign to install an unqualified left-wing radical in the White House.
On a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:02 AM | Comments (9)
Dem Threats Prevented Palin From Appearing at Jewish Rally
Last week, Shrillary canceled an appearance at today's pro-Israel, anti-Ahmadinejad rally in New York when she found out Sarah Palin would be there. Soon afterwards, Palin was rudely disinvited. A local CBS affiliate — hardly in the tank for McCain — explains why: Dems threatened to sic the IRS on the organizers if they let Saracuda speak.
The groups sponsoring the rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN were reportedly told, "it could jeopardize their tax exempt status" if they had Palin and not Clinton or Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden on hand.
So all politicians were disinvited, most prominently, Palin.
"It's an absolute shame that this has happened," [Assemblyman Dov] Hikind [D-Brooklyn] said. "To threaten organizations … to threaten the Conference of Presidents that if you don't withdraw the invitation to Gov. Palin we're going to look into your tax exempt status … that's McCarthyism."
Another Jewish group tried to step into the breach by inviting Palin to a different protest a day earlier.
"I'm absolutely appalled at the behavior of the Democrats," said Bob Kunst of Defenders.net. "I'm a Democrat and for the first time in my life I'm going to vote Republican. I can't take it anymore."
Imagine what it will be like when they have control of the White House.
Hat tip: NewsBusters; on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:37 AM | Comments (21)
Obama Stars in Veggie Burger Hill
As the public becomes more aware that Obama has spent his life surrounded by deranged, racist, anti-American sociopaths (Frank Marshall Davis, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger, et al.) and that he is ideologically a product of this radical milieu, his political career will hopefully come crashing to the ground. But that still leaves open a second career in Hollywood, where he will never be short of admirers.
Here's Uhbama in his acting debut:
For those who, like Obama, slept through their history and geography classes, Auschwitz is in Poland. It was liberated not by Americans but by the Soviet Red Army.
Via The Nose on Your Face; on a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:10 AM | Comments (13)
ACORN Shenanigans in North Carolina
The election is still weeks away, but the cheating by Obama's old friends at ACORN is already well underway:
Republican National Committee officials on Friday blasted a group that's registering voters in Durham, calling it "a quasi-criminal, Democratic-affiliated organization" that represents a danger to the electoral process.
The move by RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross and Communications Director Danny Diaz followed a Herald-Sun report that Durham County Board of Elections Director Mike Ashe wants state officials to check about 80 voter registration forms for possible fraud.
The forms came from a group called the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The group is more commonly known by its acronym, ACORN.
North Carolina ACORN workers have been registering children and people who never filled out a registration form. There has also been a problem with duplicate registrations.
Engaging in a little election fraud on Obama's behalf is the least ACORN can do. After all, the Obamessiah worked for them for years as a "community organizer," training these militant activists in their highly dubious tactics. He also secretly funneled $800,000 to ACORN through the nonprofit front group Citizens Services Inc. to conduct what's euphemistically referred to as "campaign advance work."
As noted earlier, ACORN has been up to its unseemly tricks throughout the country, notably in Michigan and New Mexico. Appallingly, this shady outfit gets 40% of its funding from public sources.
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:45 AM | Comments (2)
Criminals for Gun Control
No wonder the Dems favor incrementally repealing the Second Amendment:
It's quite sensible for liberals to favor expanding voting rights for felons. They make up a constituency that can tip elections to Democrats.
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Charlie Rangel Calls Saracuda "Disabled"
Charlie Rangel, the socialist looter who as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is in charge of writing our confiscatory tax laws, yet who cheats on his own taxes, explains why his fellow Dems fear Sarah Palin:
You got to be kind to the disabled.
An astonished reporter asked him to confirm that he really wanted to swallow his foot in front of a microphone.
Reporter: "You got to be kind to the disabled?"
Rangel: "Yes."
Reporter: "She's disabled?"
Rangel elaborated:
There's no question about it politically. It's a nightmare to think that a person's foreign policy is based on their ability to look at Russia from where they live.
Now he's in spin mode, taking sanctimonious affront that anyone would object to his obnoxiousness:
Any inference that my words were in any connected to her son, Trig, who was born with Down syndrome, is a real stretch — and, I would have to think — a way to make political points out of my poor choice of words.
No need for Charlie to be so concerned. If his constituency doesn't object to his ties to communists, they're not going to mind this.
Hat tip: JammieWearingFool; on a tip from Burning Hot.
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Mother Busted for Daughter's Doll
One nice thing about politically correct totalitarianism is that it allows anyone to be arrested at any time for any reason. For example, a mother in Manchester was arrested and had her DNA and fingerprints recorded by the police because someone saw a golly doll in her window.
Amanda Schofield claims her daughter left it there after finding it in a box of other toys. But a neighbor turned her in on suspicion of having wicked racist designs.
Golly dolls are prized collectibles, which can sell for over £1,000. From Jane's Irish, a site that sells handmade Irish crafts and gifts:
Gollywogs, or Golly Dolls have been around for quite a while in Ireland. The Gollywog developed as a household toy after Africans started to come to Ireland from the African missions to study at universities and seminaries in Dublin and Maynooth. […] Withstanding time, Golly Dolls retain their unique place alongside Teddy bears and dolls as companions, and remain an integral part of Irish life.
However, the dolls are now seen by PC purists as symbols of racism, so if your daughter owns one, make sure she keeps it away from neighbors' prying eyes, or you might hear an unwelcome knock on the door.
On a tip from Rob Banks.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:09 AM | Comments (10)
Bureaucrats Socialize Mortgage Industry
Liberal bureaucrats are effectively nationalizing the mortgage industry, in response to a crisis largely created by their own insistence that loans be made more available to those unlikely to repay them.
William Staneski describes what's happening in an excellent essay about the cancer known as moonbattery:
Each of us must have the freedom to succeed or to fail. Western culture, culminating in the great American experiment, has been perverted. Due to these perversions, many failures have already occurred, which have then, ironically, been used to justify further perversions of the same sort as those which caused the problems to begin with.
With the government completely in charge of who gets mortgages, they will be based even less on sound financial considerations, and all the more on race and other irrelevant factors. If the homeowners can't pay, that's fine; taxpayers have plenty of money.
If only Congress had stuck with its original plan to just go home, after Harry Reid admitted, "no one knows what to do." The last time it tried to fix a financial crisis, we ended up with the malignant Sarbanes-Oxley albatross that our economy is now required to wear around its neck. As Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) observes:
The last thing you need are 535 people, not many of whom are that well-versed in financial markets, trying to do quick fixes to a market correction that's one of the more significant that we've ever seen.
One reason Congress is so awful is that legislation is driven by a negative feedback loop. The more bureauweenies interfere with the economy, the worse it gets, the more excuse they have for further intervention.
If you think Obama's financiers at the quasi-governmental Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were bad, wait until you see what's on the stove now.
On tips from Burning Hot and V the K. Hat tip: Eye on the World.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:53 AM | Comments (12)
September 21, 2008
Coming Soon: An American Carol
Moonbattery gushes out of Hollywood in an unending torrent, but an openly conservative movie is a remarkable event. An American Carol is almost too good to be true — a movie devoted to ridiculing Michael Moore and his mentality directed, cowritten, and coproduced by comedy genius David Zucker, who previously brought us Airplane! and The Naked Gun.
An encouragingly long list of stars have shown the courage to face Tinseltown's wrath by participating in this frontal assault on moonbattery, including Kevin Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Dennis Hopper, and James Woods. Also starring is Jon Voight, who has already drawn a target on his back by denouncing the Obamessiah.
An American Carol would be worth going to see just to send a message to Hollywood that there's a market out here that's been ignored. That the movie promises to be hilarious is just icing on the cake. Plus Trace Atkins is in it.
Don't miss out when it opens on October 3.