Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Christiane Amanpour Declares Iraq War a Bad Hair War for Reporters

Christiane Amanpour Declares Iraq War a Bad Hair War for Reporters

Despicable, leftist, unattractive, female CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour threw a hissy-fit yesterday, declaring that the Iraq War has been a “disaster” – apparently because some reporters covering it are getting killed or captured.

Your logic is impeccable, Christine!  It is after all, ALL ABOUT THE REPORTERS, isn’t it?  And if you guys are tired of covering it – especially if you have to leave your cushy Baghdad hotels to face the same dangers our soldiers face every day to cover this war, then it is clearly a BAD WAR!

Note to the rest of the world:  The worldwide war between the West and the Islamofascists has barely even gotten started, yet.

MANY, MANY MORE Islamofascists will first have to be ruthlessly killed before we can even begin to think of “calling off the war.”
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Bill Handel Has BIG Cojones

Bill Handel Has BIG Cojones

I have heard Bill Handel on the radio.  Bill Handel is too liberal for me.  Bill Handel is too Los Angeles for me.  Bill Handel is too morally loose for me.  I used to get furious at Bill Handel when I listened to him on KFI years ago.

I love Bill Handel now though!  (And I don’t even listen to him anymore.)

Why, you ask?  Have I gone Liberal in my old age?  

Hardly!

Bill Handle has shown that he has bigger cojones than the entire male contingent of the US State Department combined.

How is that?  Because Bill Handel has refused to bend over and spread his cheeks for the bullies at CAIR.

Now, if we could just find a few folks in Washington to show this kind of clear-headed thinking about Islam, Islamofascists, and apologists for Islam and Islamofascists.

lgf has a good thread going on this development.

To view Mr. Handel’s comments on the KFI Web site, click here.  (Hat tip: lgf poster Rayra.)

If you would like to email Mr. Handel, please click here.  I am sure that Bill would love to hear that you are behind him in his gutsy stand against the CAIR bullies.  (Hat tip: lgf poster My 2 Cents.)

If you are interested in some gear that supports the sentiments expressed by Mr. Handel, aaron of aarons cc has some great merchandise for sale.
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President Bush Tramples on the Truth by (Inexplicably and Gratuitously) Sucking up to Bill Clinton

President Bush Tramples on the Truth by (Inexplicably and Gratuitously) Sucking up to Bill Clinton

If you missed the Michael Savage talk radio show, you missed Savage’s most impressive, devastating, and shocking litany of evils committed by President Clinton and his Administration.  I was amazed at how many scandals I had already FORGOTTEN about.

No wonder the liberal press constantly smears President Bush – it is a way to distract us from remembering just how much evil personified the Clinton Administration.

President Bush very likely thought he was being “Christian” by whitewashing his evil (and impeached, for God’s sake!) predecessor today.

However, if that is what the President thought, he was proving that he believes some sort of parody of the Gospel.

There is all kind of room at the cross for the REPENTANT sinner – no matter how wicked, as Christ’s promise of Salvation to the (repentant) thief on the cross illustrates.

However, to the unrepentant – to the Herods, the Pilates, and the Judas Iscariots – the Bible offers neither forgiveness nor friendship with God – nor a hearty “good-ole-boy” slap on the back.

Or – to be more graphic – nowhere in the Scriptures does the LORD Jesus ever call Satan his “brother.”  (Even to suggest such a thought is blasphemous on my part.)

Now, whom do you suppose Bill Clinton more resembles in his response to his misdeeds – the repentant thief on the cross or Herod?  (WHAT misdeeds, we can almost hear Mr. Clinton protesting.)

President Bush trampled on the truth and showed himself contemptuous of those who voted for him out of an earnest desire to move AWAY from the corruption and treason that flowed in rivers from the Clinton White House – corruption and treason that President Bush, by his failure to rebuke it, has by default blessed with his stamp of approval.

Oh, did I mention that I am not very happy with the President for this latest (despicable) stunt?
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Sunday, January 29, 2006

Navarette Expatiates on Mexican Politics, etc.

Navarette Expatiates on Mexican Politics, etc.

I agree with Ruben Navarette about half the time.  (Mr. Navarette and I will likely never see eye-to-eye on illegal immigration, but the gentleman is no LULAC clone, either.)

However, I have no doubt that he is a decent and patriotic American who does not seem to try to follow anyone’s talking points (except his own).  A graduate of Harvard, Navarette is no one’s dummy.

Here is his latest take on Mexico, America, Mexicans, Americans, Mexican-Americans, and . . . , well you just ought to read this (very interesting) column.

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Mr. President: PLEASE Pull This Man’s Passport (Former President Carter)!

Mr. President: PLEASE Pull This Man’s Passport (Former President Carter)!

President Carter makes my blood boil.  Having years ago marketed himself to the MSM as an evangelical “Christian” (with virtually impeccable Liberal political credentials), Mr. Carter has made a virtual cottage industry of gripping and grinning with and/or shilling for tyrants, oppressors, and dictators the world over.

His specialty:  “Certifying” as “fair” elections that bring thugs to power.  In short: He is everyone’s dupe (except America’s).

Cox and Forkum beautifully capture the latest Jimmy Carter moment (vis-à-vis the recent Hamas electoral win).  (Hat tip. lgf.)
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President Bush: PLEASE Fire This Woman (SECSTATE Condi Rice)!

President Bush: PLEASE Fire This Woman (SECSTATE Condi Rice)!

It does not seem possible, but the same Bush Administration that has shown a dogged refusal to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan despite a virtually non-stop torrent of abuse from the MSM, the domestic political Left, and the international coalition of Leftists-Islamofascists-America-haters, is the SAME Bush Administration that has pig-headedly refused to treat Palestinian Islamofascism the same way that it treats Iraqi or Afghan or Iranian Islamofascism – as unacceptable philosophy whose adherents are our enemies.

But, NOOOO!  The Bush Administration continues to rein in Israel regarding its attacks on its hostile Palestinian “neighbors,” to pressure Israel to give up yet MORE “land for peace” (can they throw in the Brooklyn Bridge?), and to – get this – funnel some $300 million in aid a year to the Palestinian Authority, either directly or via the UN.

Mr. President, there is NO good Islamofascism.

Somehow, down deep, I believe that President Bush might agree with me.  However, rather than following his gut, he is going with the (look out!) experts at Foggy Bottom, with the feckless Ms. Rice at the helm.

The Middle East Desk at the State Department has for years been known to be dominated by “Arabists,” hacks that tend to have a kneejerk preference for the Arabs over the Israelis, regardless of the issue under discussion.

However, Ms. Rice and the State Department have, regarding the issue of the “Palestinians,” carved for themselves a niche in history’s laughingstock department.

Both Michael Savage (on his talk radio show) and blogger aaron (of aaron’s cc) have to my knowledge been the first to point out with breathtaking clarity Ms. Rice’s utter lack of moxie for the (admittedly weighty) responsibilities of her position vis-à-vis the Israelis and their “Palestinian” neighbors.

In aaron’s cc post linked to, aaron plainly shows that Condi Rice ranks up their with Neville Chamberlain in terms of her willingness to shill for terrorists.  Indeed this Rice quote regarding the recently-completed “Palestinian” elections that brought Hamas to a position of parliamentary dominance in the Palestinian Authority is beyond the pale:

The Palestinian people have apparently voted for change, but we believe that their aspirations for peace and a peaceful life remain unchanged.

Care for some thorzine for that recurring psychotic delusion from which you seem to be suffering, Ms. Rice?
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Canada and Hamasistan: A Tale of Two Democracies

Canada and Hamasistan: A Tale of Two Democracies

Here is a GREAT column by David Warren of the Ottawa Citizen that most graphically illustrates the difference between democracy – as it is practiced in a Western nation (with, incidentally, a largely Christian heritage) – and “democracy” as it is practiced in that stinkhole officially known as the “Palestinian Authority,” but now being unofficially referred to as “Hamasistan.

Also, Mark Steyn explains the significance of the Canadian election returns for us – very interesting.  (Hat tip: realclearpolitics.)

Meanwhile, conservative columnist Patrick Buchanan is counseling the United States to NEGOTIATE with the Hamas thugs now in charge in Israel’s backyard.

Hmmmm.  You feeling okay, Pat?

However, in another piece, Mark Steyn puts it in perspective, saying that at least it is now really all ON THE TABLE: The Palestinians as a whole really and truly want Israel destroyed – something everybody with a brain (and living outside the Washington Beltway) has realized for decades.  (Hat tip: realclearpolitics.)

Ideally, this new openness about where things REALLY stand will make it harder for the State Department types to talk so blithely about the “Mid-East Peace Process,” although, unfortunately, I did hear White House Spokesman Scott McClellan on the radio last week stumbling around about how the “Road Map to Peace” was the way to go.  

Riiiiiiiight, Scott!  Let’s seeeeee:  Sharon’s in a coma, Arafat’s in his grave, and Hamas is shooting up Gaza.  I am not sure I want to go down THAT road!

Meanwhile, the aging sage, William F. Buckley, speculates that the responsibilities of power might cause Hamas to moderate somewhat.  

Wishful thinking on Buckley’s part?
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Saturday, January 28, 2006

If They Habla Like a Duck . . . .

If They Habla Like a Duck . . . .

From the El Paso Times: Border chief: Mexican army likely involved.  (Hat tip: WND.)

Jeeez!  Ya think?
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Bill Gates Advocates for Corporate Appeasement of Red Chinese Tyrants (for This He Won 1/3-Man-of-the-Year from Time?)

Bill Gates Advocates for Corporate Appeasement of Red Chinese Tyrants (for This He Won 1/3-Man-of-the-Year from Time?)    

From the cushy surroundings of Davos, playground of the super-rich, Bill Gates made a sickening apologia for continued corporate appeasement of the tyrants who run Red China – you know the kind of appeasement that has permitted the likes of Cisco, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google to make their billions while obeying the wishes of the PRC slavemasters to maintain “the great firewall of China,” and so forth.

Not only that, Gates made excuses for the Chinese Government’s notorious contempt for copyright laws – something that has likely cost him billions.  If he had any cojones, he would have called them to task.

My advice to Mr. Gates: Please go live in China, if you like their rulers so much!  

Thanks to Stop the ACLU!

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Michelle Malkin shows some of the results of Bill-Gates-style collaboration: Try doing a search for jesus christ on google.cn.
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Which Is More Important: Mission Accomplishment – Or the Feelings of a (Female) JAG Officer? (Why, the Latter, of Course!)

Which Is More Important:  Mission Accomplishment – Or the Feelings of a (Female) JAG Officer? (Why, the Latter, of Course!)

Here is another one of those stories that makes you want to throw up your hands and scream!  

Sgt. Arthur J. Hushen of the 4th Infantry Division, a US Army sniper in Iraq, was incorrectly advised by a (female) Army JAG officer that the ammo he was using in the course of his sniper duties was illegal.

Sgt Hushen, who knows his sniper job better than any JAG, knew that the JAG was incorrect in her assessment.

What is worse, Sgt Hushen did the unthinkable!  He actually went online and found the documentation to prove the correctness of his position regarding the allegedly “illegal” ammunition.

Of course, that sort of sticking up for mission-effectiveness is not appreciated by much of the leadership in today’s feminized, politically-correct military.

The result?  Sgt Hushen has been relieved of both his sniper and team leader duties in his platoon and forced to move to a new tent for “outcasts.”

How can we EVER win ANYTHING in ANY conflict, with military leadership of this petty, clueless caliber?

I am calling for an immediate investigation into the disproportionate authority given to the JAG corps in all branches of the military.

These JAG officers, a number of whom are Reservists taking breaks from their jobs with some no-doubt very-liberal law firms, are often the products of very liberal and anti-military law schools, and they are being permitted to infect the military leadership with their toxic ACLU-style biases.

Too many good soldiers are being charged with “detainee abuse,” and other frivolous charges that not only ruin perfectly good military careers, but that also hinder mission accomplishment.

Once again: I am forced to call for the resignation of the clueless one in charge of DoD, Secretary Dumbsfeld.

He is the one under whose watch this nonsense has not only been permitted to exist, but to flourish unchecked.

In the meantime, I say: Restore Sgt Hushen to his sniper and team leader duties!

Time for a new “corporate culture” in the military.  How about a very masculine “warrior culture?”  A radical thought, in this day and age.

Thanks to NIF.
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Just Confirmation to Those of Us Who Suspected It All Along: Ken Starr Is an Asshat

Just Confirmation to Those of Us Who Suspected It All Along:  Ken Starr Is an Asshat

For those of us old enough to remember vividly the topsy-turvy days of the Clinton Impeachment, there remain many questions.  For instance, why did Ken Starr choose to make a semen-stained dress the centerpiece of his prosecution, rather than, say, the wholesale giveaway of American military technology to the Chinese on the part of Bill Clinton?

Despite the constant stream of vituperative that the Clinton Administration unleashed virtually daily on Mr. Starr, there have long been reports that Clinton knew all along that Starr was nothing but a lapdog prosecutor.

Now, we have proof that Starr is a liberal asshat:  Mr. Starr is whining appealing to California Governor Schwarzeneggar for clemency for a man (named Michael Morales) who raped and killed a teenaged girl in 1981.  Worse, get this, he is appealing on the grounds that the rapist/killer has “repeatedly expressed remorse for what he did” in the drug-abusing of “his youth.”  

Note to Mr. Starr:  If Mr. Morales was 20 or 21 when he committed the crimes in question, then he was a bit more than “a youth” at the time to most normal people’s way of thinking.

So, a clue to all would-be killers, rapists, and so on: You can go ahead and commit your crimes, just so long as you do one of two things afterwards:  Claim insanity or claim post-crime “sorrow” and “responsibility” for what you have done.  (To hell with the victims and their families and what they have suffered.)

Then, everyone from Katie Couric to the ACLU to Ken Starr will rush to you defense to make sure that you don’t have to face the consequences of your actions.

Where do I get off being so hardnosed, you ask?  Easy!  I make every effort to identify with the late victim (robbed of her life at age 17) and her bereaved family.  

This is something that I have learned to do more resolutely after listening to Michael Savage, who always seems to look at these situations from the vantage-point of the crime victims and their families.

Oh, and Mr. Starr?  You can kiss a certain part of my anatomy, as well.  (Just like Uncle Walter.)

Now, we will have to wait and see if the hugely popular “conservative” talk-show host Hugh Hewitt comes to his friend, Starr’s, defense on this issue or if he has the cojones rightly to take him to task for his misguided defense of the killer Morales.

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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Ilana Mercer Nails It: US Education Is Anti-Male

Ilana Mercer Nails It: US Education Is Anti-Male

It is now an open secret the male of the species is at present endangered as far as the American educational scene is concerned – only the EPA has not called for his protection.

The primary source of the threatened extinction?  Liberalism – and Feminism in particular, as Ilana Mercer eloquently and explosively lays out in her latest column in WND.

MUST READING!

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Which brings me to my favorite modern-day heresy (in which I firmly believe):  Time to rid the formerly all-male military academies of women – once and for all!  

Thanks to PointFiveBlog.
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Google: Dont Be Evil (Be Really, REALLY eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevilllllll!)

Google: Dont Be Evil (Be Really, REALLY eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevilllllll!)

First, let’s trace a little background on the “US-Internet-giants-bending-over-and-spreading-cheeks’-service- to-the-Communist-gangsters-who-run-China” story.

In the past, this blog has (rightfully) criticized Yahoo in the past for turning in a list of names of users at the request of the Chinese Government.  Result: One freedom-loving Chinese jailed.  Yahoo’s Jerry Yang’s response?  “Hey, ve vere chust followink ohders!”

Then, more recently (and, as yet, unposted upon in this blog), we learned that the company started by Time Magazine’s most recent 1/3-man-of-the-year, Bill Gates . . .  That’s right: Microsoft – via its MSN Spaces entity – has been doing the bidding of the Chinese Government by SHUTTING DOWN Chinese-language blogs that the Chinese Government might find offensive!  I mean, hey, human liberties are great, but we already enjoy them here in the US, so we want to make a buck suppressing them in China, ok?

Well, now, it has REALLY hit the fan this week, now that Google – an American-based and allegedly freedom-loving corporation – has agreed to SELF-CENSORSHIP for the thugs in charge in China – you know, the ones who brought us “Tianenman Square,” where hundreds died for daring to express an opinion not dictated to them by their Communist overlords.

Google – whose company motto is used to be “don’t be evil” – saw fit to make a deal with the Chinese-Communist Devil himself in order to make a buck.  Apparently, the new, Chinese-Government-approved monstrosity will be called “Google.cn.”  

Hey, SO WHAT if the Chinese people will not be able to find such “dangerous” sites as Wikipedia.com by searching on their Google.cn search engines by typing in “wikipedia” (although typing in “wikipedia.com” apparently works), Google.com will be making big bucks – and that is all that matters, right?  I am sure that “morally flexible” folks at Google would also be able to accommodate themselves to Stalin’s demands, as well, were he still alive today!  

Can you spell:  appeasers?  How about collaborators?

My advice: DUMP ALL GOOGLE SHARES YOU MAY OWN NOW!!!!! (Remember: These empty suits and skirts have shown that they worship money.  These creeps will whore for money!  Dumping your shares will hit them in their pocketbooks!  (They have no hearts to which to appeal, after all!)

Somehow, in all these goings-on, Cisco has escaped scrutiny in this blog regarding the same kinds of perfidy against the people of China:  While Microsoft provides the software and some of the Web services, alongside fellow Web giants Yahoo and Google, Cisco apparently provides much of the HARDWARE on which the “great firewall of China” is configured.  

Perhaps someday soon we can visit Cisco’s alleged role in betraying the oppressed people of China, as well.

One after-the-original-post link:  lgf compares the results for the search “tiananmen square” as found in Google v. Google.cn.

The Political Teen has more.

Must-see link to piece on Michelle Malkin.

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Apologies to readers: Links in above piece not yet in place; check back tomorrow for those.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Curious Inaccessibility of AP (and Reuters, et. al.) Writers

Curious Inaccessibility of AP (and Reuters, et. al.) Writers

I am writing about something that is hardly original.  And yet, not enough is made of the curious inaccessibility of ‘writers’ (scare quotes intended – to indicate that these characters are very often simply wannabe-editorialists with an overseas dateline) for the ‘wire agencies,’ such as AP, UPI, Reuters, AFP, and so on.

I say “curious” inaccessibility, because – in a day when everyone who works for a media outlet has an email address (and when that email address can easily be provided via a link accessibly by a mere mouse-click on the writer’s name, as with many writers who do pieces for, say, realclearpolitics – e.g., as with Tom Bevan, here; or for washingtonpost.com, as with Ruth Marcus, here, or for MSNBC/Newsweek, as with Christopher Dickey, here) – it is not only frustrating, but also strange that a reader finds it virtually impossible to give any kind of direct (and immediate) feedback to a Karin Laub or a Hasan Jamali or an Ali Daraghmeh or a Robert Burns or – ESPECIALLY to the ever-insufferable Pete Yost.

This sort of “one-way” communication is rather foreign to the Internet culture.  For instance, the big blogs – e.g., Hugh Hewitt or littlegreenfootballs – provide easy access to email replies.  Major Web-based news sites, such as Drudge, WorldNetDaily or NewsMax.com – though a bit more than a single mouse-click is normally required in the latter two cases) also provide means of contacting either their editorial staffs or their contributors.  

Say what I will about him (and I have) Kevin Sites’ pieces on Yahoo provide for easy feedback – at least to all registered Yahoo users.  And even a major media news outlet such as Fox News makes it reasonably easy to provide electronic comment.

But . . . NOT SO with AP.  Or Reuters.  Or AFP.  One has to wonder: “And why not?”  Could it perhaps be that AP, UPI, AFP, al-Reuters, etc, just might think that they are “above it all” when it comes to two-way electronic communication with their consumers of their putative “news”– or when it comes to accountability?

I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed forcefully in the blogosphere – especially since AP writers have a pronounced tendency to insert anti-Bush, anti-American, anti-Iraq-War, and/or anti-Republican editorial comments in their “news” pieces.  I often find myself wanting to provide a quick reply to a particular “AP writer” only to find that AP very curiously makes it EXCEEDINGLY hard – if not impossible –  to do so.

I also think a bigger issue should be made of it by such organizations as the Washington Times, WorldNetDaily, NewsMax.com, and so forth.  They could put pressure on AP, saying: If you want us to use your news releases, please provide our readers with a means of providing electronic feedback to your writers.

Not that every piece of email received by these writers could possibly be answered – or even read – but, at least, these writers should not be completely  shielded from the responses (both positive and negative) that they are generating in among Internet news consumers.

It ain’t right, I tell you!
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Mr President: Are You AFRAID of Mexico? - Part2

Mr President:  Are You AFRAID of Mexico? - Part2

We recently posted of the egregiously high number of incursions of the Sovereign US Southern Border by either Mexican soldiers or Mexican-Soldier look-alikes (apparently including accompanying authentic G.I. José equipment, such as weapons and Humvees) – and of the corresponding indolence (or, is it FEAR) on the part of the US Government.

Of course the response of the Bush Administration and its Keystone Department of Homeland Security to this bombshell report has – as far as I know – been . . . (crickets).

Now, we get new reports of yet ANOTHER “Mexican standoff” on American soil just north of our Southern Border.  Here, we see Texas DPS (in Texas we call our “state troopers” DPS) FACED DOWN by the superior firepower of the Mexican military intruders (again ON AMERICAN SOIL).  (Hat tip: Drudge.)

Also, the same story is reported by WND.

Michelle Malkin has much on this incident – including a video link.

Now, I live in Texas and I can tell you that the DPS are some VERY tough hombres who would gladly shoot your eyes out in a minute if you were so foolish as to pull a weapon on them.  If THEY were outgunned (even after having called in reinforcements), then what we have is a de facto ACT OF WAR being committed on US soil by Mexican Soldiers (or amazing Mexican-Soldier look-alikes, complete with machine guns).

Once again, the “Inside-the-Washington-Beltway” crowd seems to be pulling its usual “three-monkeys routine” (hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil).

Funny, with the phony “NSA Wiretapping Scandal” in the background (and by the way I support wiretapping those who call al-Qaeda on the phone), it seems that the message from the Bush Administration is: “Call al-Qaeda on the phone, go to jail!  Drive a cattlecar full of terrorists across the Southern Border escorted by Mexican Soldiers – No problemo, Amigo!”

Perhaps someone can post a comment telling me that they, too, see the Bush Administration as schizophrenic on the twin issues of Fighting Terror and Border Security?

At the very least, we should expect the wimps at the State Department to file what is called a “strong protest” with the Mexican Government.

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Other related posts on this blog:

Resolved:  Mexico is a Cesspool  

Resolved: Mexico Is a Cesspool – Part 2
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Monday, January 23, 2006

Lest Someone Somewhere Might Nurse a Small Caffeine Addiction

Lest Someone Somewhere Might Nurse a Small Caffeine Addiction

Vox Day shows us the next front for female politicians.  Stopping abortion, you ask?  

No, silly!  Stopping caffeine addiction everywhere!  

“Please put that axe down, Ma’am!  Honest, Ma’am!  I REALLY AM drinking DE-CAF, okay?”  

(Okay. So I lied!)
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And People Get Upset When California and Texas Execute Murderers!

And People Get Upset When California and Texas Execute Murderers!

We all know abortion goes on in America.

We don’t all know to what extent!  As this piece in BP News points out, in 2005, the number of abortions (read: the number of innocent babies murdered) in the US surpassed the 47-million mark (that is, when all US abortions performed in the 30-plus years since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision are totaled together)!  (Hat tip:  WND.)  

To borrow from (and alter a bit) a famous phrase coined by the late Senator Everett Dirksen (R-IL) regarding another subject altogether: “Ten million slaughtered babies here and ten million slaughtered babies there, and pretty soon you have a real bloodbath.”

And the MSM meatheads whine and scream because Schwarzeneggar had the cojones to execute a couple of old murderers in the past month or two!

In the Bible (Old Testament), the LORD was exceedingly harsh in his judgments on Israel and Judah for sacrificing (read: burning alive) their children to pagan gods.  (See Ezekiel 23:36-39.)

How will God then look with favor upon a nation that ritually slaughters 47-million-plus babies to the false gods of sexual pleasure and financial convenience?

Duh.  No-brainer time.
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Sorry! I Have Been Out Sick; Will Return As Able

Sorry! I Have Been Out Sick; Will Return As Able

To all readers: My sincere apologies.

I have not been on the Internet since Friday morning – until Monday evening.  I have not been at the top of my game (health-wise).

I will attempt to get back into the swing of things, as I am able.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

STOP! Does the Company You Are Patronizing Spit on Your Beliefs?

STOP! Does the Company You Are Patronizing Spit on Your Beliefs?

Perhaps you think (as I do) that homosexuality is a sin and don’t wish to live in a culture that celebrates it as the noblest of all human tendencies.  

Or, perhaps, you simply don’t care for the radical gay agenda that wants to “gay-ify” the entire American popular culture.

Well, then, perhaps you might want to reconsider where you do your business.

Here is a list of the 100 Corporations rated late last year as “perfect” in their policies regarding homosexuals.

Remember:  These companies, in effect, are saying: To hell with our straight employees and customers.  We are tailoring our corporate ethics to comport with the demands of the “purple mafia.”

If you read this list, it just might affect where you buy your next car or computer.

What a shame: Some of these companies have such good products.  Too bad some of us may buy elsewhere now.

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May They Rest in Pieces

May They Rest in Pieces

Well, well, well, . . .   What do you know?  That “botched” Predator missile strike on that peace-loving remote Pakistani village may not have been such a disaster after all!

That’s right: Apparently, Pakistani officials have named three Al-Qaeda bigs who were likely taken out in the strike.  (Hat tip:  Drudge.)

Abc.news.  (Hat tip: lgf.)

Cbsnews.  (Hat tip: realclearpolitics.)

Really, I am truly heartbroken over the loss of these fine men who lived to teach others to hate and kill in the name of “jihad!”  

I mean: Who will now  teach young jihadists how to blow up innocent women and children?

It is enough to get a Democrat mad at George Bush all over again!

(Okay: So I am NOT a Democrat.)
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Sunday, January 15, 2006

Walter Cronkite Can Kiss a Certain Part of My Anatomy

Walter Cronkite Can Kiss a Certain Part of My Anatomy

Walter Cronkite, CBS News has-been, has made news – BIG news – by assuring Americans that it is our duty to desert our current mission in Iraq.

I despise this guy in a very big way.

Hey, did Mr. Cronkite steal Congressman Murtha’s notes?

My response: Dear Walter: Get thee behind me, Satan!

Yahoo.  (Hat tip: lgf.)

Breitbart.  (Hat tip: Drudge)

Newsmax.


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Mr. President: Are You AFRAID of Mexico?

Mr. President:  Are You AFRAID of Mexico?

This latest piece of information (courtesy of WND) on the serial, chronic, repeated, belligerent violations of the Sovereign border of the United States by the Government of Mexico strains one’s credulity.

The only thing MORE outrageous than the Mexican Government’s arrogance is the cringing cowardice of that of the United States.

That’s right, “the world’s one remaining super-power”(sic) is apparently trembling at the knees with fear lest it “upset” the might Mexican Government.

And here we keep hearing that all these illegal Mexicans were GOOD for America?  Good for what?  They have turned us into cowards.

The Mexican Army has violated the US border 216 times in the past nine years – and the “mighty” Superpower to the North has done …. NOTHING about it!

Oh, sorry: We are now “in ongoing discussions” with the Mexican Government.  Perhaps some State Department weenie is saying: “Oh, please, please, Mr. Fox!  Please NO more border incursions by your big, strong soldiers, okay?”

As Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) says: Time to get the military to the border: “Pronto!”  (That’s “right away,” for you Gringos out there!)

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Sexually-Oriented Businesses (SOBs) Harmless? Hardly, Reisman Shows

Sexually-Oriented Businesses (SOBs) Harmless?  Hardly, Reisman Shows

This blog has recently posted a piece highlighting the efforts of Actor Stephen Baldwin to shut down a pornography outlet located near his Nyack, New York, home.

In a topically-related WND piece, researcher Judith Reisman shows how sexually-oriented businesses (SOBs) are far from harmless – contributing both to sex-based crime, as well as to political corruption in many cases.

While Reisman’s piece cites a number of facts and statistics, here is just ONE sentence in that piece that grabbed my attention:

Sex trafficking is ranked as the most profitable industry after gun running and drugs, aiding and abetting the swelling rates of new and old STDs as well as the 993 percent increase in reported violent crime, 70 percent increase in murder and 416 percent increase in forcible rape (excluding children under 12) from 1976 to 1999.

This kind of data should give all Americans pause.  Perhaps we need to review and confirm in our minds the difference in content between these two terms – liberty and licentiousness.

As talk-show host Michael Savage points out – as much as he opposes Islamofascism, and as much as he advocates destroying the Islamofascists – he does recognize that the Islamofascists DO have a point when they criticize America and the West for its vast outpouring of moral sewage (via pornography and lose morals) into the rest of the world (including the Muslim world).

Perhaps what this means is that, while we, of course, need to continue fighting the Islamofascist threat, we ALSO need to tend to some house-cleaning at home, as well.
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Actor Stephen Baldwin Puts His Christian Faith on the Line – Fighting Porn in His Town

Actor Stephen Baldwin Puts His Christian Faith on the Line – Fighting Porn in His Town

Here is a refreshing story, courtesy of WND.  Actor Stephen Baldwin, representing a profession that too often PRODUCES pornography, is out in the streets protesting a new pornography outlet in the actor’s own Nyack, New York, neighborhood.

If more ordinary Christians (myself included) – let alone Christians in Hollywood – acted as boldly and courageously as Baldwin against pornography (or abortion, or . . . – you name it) – our society would be a much more pleasant place in which to live and raise children.

A salute to Stephen Baldwin for a truly bold PUBLIC Christian testimony – the kind that encourages friends of righteousness and infuriates Christ’s enemies!

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In a topically-related piece, this blog discusses another WND piece – one by Judith Reisman – showing the negative societal side-effects of Sexually-Oriented Businesses (SOBs).
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Justice Iranian Mullah Style: Punish the Female Victim of Male Criminals!

Justice Iranian Mullah Style: Punish the Female Victim of Male Criminals!

From a story that does many things – including confirm for us that Iran is run by “religious” leaders who work for Satan – we see that ANY woman in a NON-MUSLIM country who VOLUNTARILY “reverts” to Islam by an act of her own free simply is bringing harm upon herself.  (Hat tip: lgf.)

In this case, the female victim is being punished for trying to escape and defend herself in the midst of a male-perpetrated crime on her and on her companion.

Notice that the worthless boyfriend deserted their “damsels in distress,” and escaped – leaving their girl friends to the tender mercies of their assailants.

Not a pretty picture all around.

Therefore, we can almost guarantee three results from this story:
-An approving tone by AP and Reuters – or at least an absence of overt criticism from these MSM sources,
-Silence on the part of NOW, NARAL, and other putatively “women’s rights” groups, and
-A combative defense of the Iranian religious-thug rulers by the likes of CAIR and other “Muslim advocacy” groups in the West.
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Scotland’s Cardinal States the Obvious: Muslim Leader Offended

Scotland’s Cardinal States the Obvious: Muslim Leader Offended

Recently, Scotland’s Roman Catholic Cardinal, Keith O’Brien, asserted an obvious and undeniable historical truth:  Namely, that Scotland is a Christian country.

Of course, leave it to the local Hindu and Muslim leaders to be offended.  

"Mr. O'Brien should be addressing his comments to Christians," said Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain. "I think Muslims are surprised that many Christians don't take their faith so seriously."

Okay.  Let’s see …..  In India, there are millions Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, and so on.  Yet, does ANYONE object when one classifies India as “Hindu country?”

Or, in Malaysia, there are Buddhists, Hindus, and Christians by the hundreds of thousands.  Yet, does anyone protest when Malaysia is termed a “Muslim country?”

Of course not!  But don’t let anyone DARE classify Scotland as a “Christian country.”

Why . . .  we might OFFEND someone. And, as Michael Savage is wont to say, we need to be “Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeensitive!”

I just regret that, in the land that produced such Protestant greats as John Knox, it took a Catholic prelate to speak the truth on this issue!

Where ARE Scotland’s Protestants, anyway?
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SECDEF Dummy Defends Despicable Pentagon Scapegoating of Our Military Personnel

SECDEF Dummy Defends Despicable Pentagon Scapegoating of Our Military Personnel

Mr Ronald Dumbsfeld, President Bush’s SECDEF, once again tried to justify himself and his Perfumed Princes by saying that they had punished instances of prisoner abuse among the military.  

Without seeking to justify cruelty per se, I think that the aging Secretary sadly forgot his role of leading and DEFENDING his troops with regard to the largely media-manufactured “prisoner abuse” issue.  

Let the military prosecutors prosecute; the SECDEF needs to be in his troops’ corner when they are set upon by tmedia piranhas.  My concern is: How many soldiers have been improperly prosecuted or have received overly harsh punishments for their “crimes” – both real and imagined?

MEMO TO THE SECDEF:

The problem, Mr. Secretary, is NOT that you have failed to prosecute our troops too little.  The real problem, rather, is how you and your vermicelli-spined generals/admirals cravenly cowered before loathsome cads like Senator Kennedy and AP and NYT reporters who were out to attack our military and to render aid and comfort to the ENEMY.

Sir, you were SO quick to justify the brass that you scapegoated your own troops.  Why did you not, instead, defend your troops tooth-and-nail – even offering to go down with them, if necessary?

Do you think that President Roosevelt’s Secretary of War was protesting to the media of his day about how he had prosecuted military members for abusing German and Japanese POWs?

Mr. Dumbsfeld, you should have looked Kennedy in the eye and scorned him for the seditionist he is  . . . .   You should have excoriated the asshat reporters who baited you with questions about “prisoner abuse.”  

.. . . .But, you chose appeasement instead.

And what did it buy you?  Your troops now know they cannot trust you in a pinch.  I call for your resignation constantly.  And Kennedy, AP, and the NYT STILL hate you!

Worst of all, if enemy prisoners now walk with a strut and wear a smirk on their faces in places like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, it will have been – in large measure – YOUR fault.
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Monday, January 09, 2006

Hey, Mr. President, How about KILLING the Enemy in EARNEST? (Or: Fire the “Dummy” in Charge)

Hey, Mr. President, How about KILLING the Enemy in EARNEST?  (Or: Fire the “Dummy” in Charge)

As the number of American fighting men killed in Iraq rises relentlessly, it becomes ever more obvious that the Bush Administration has – in terms of doctrine and strategy, at least, if not in terms of men and materiel – “brought a knife to a gunfight” in Iraq.

As radio talk-show titan Michael Savage points out, we are fighting a ruthless, psychotic enemy who KNOWS NO RULES.

And, yet, we have a Defense Department run by SECDEF Dummy and his Perfumed Prince generals and admirals who are NOTHING if NOT rule-bound in their oversight of the US bloodbath in Iraq.

When our troops “detain” “detainees,” they are forbidden to pull sidearms on them in many situations.

I call for the Pentagon to release – and to CLEAR – the names of ALL soldiers who have been questioned, suspended from assigned duties, or otherwise harassed by the ACLU-friendly JAG officers of the US military in Iraq for simply doing their job of catching the bad guys.  Senator Kennedy, Senator McCain, and all the other enemy sympathizers BE DAMNED!

Oh, but it is not simply a matter of catching the enemy!  Nooooo!  We have to treat them with proper dignity and respect and seemingly show them all the rights accorded the accused under the US Constitution, etc, etc.  Hey, you clueless JAGs – this is WAR!  (And a War without rules, at that – in case you hadn’t taken time out from reading your law school tomes to notice, yet!)

Drawing a weapon in the presence of an unarmed detainee (Note: I did NOT say training the weapon ON the detainee, but simply unholstering it in his presence) is one of the great sins which our men – who are blown up almost daily by these monsters – are forbidden to commit.  (Oh, but wouldn’t that seem threatening?  Why, yes!  That is the whole idea, asshat!)

I say: Time to clean house in the Pentagon, Mr. President – starting with the out-of-touch technocrat at the top (you know, your Dad’s friend, Dummy), followed by a good portion of the “brass” who sometimes seem more concerned about doing a “seven-day” tour in Iraq in order to get “tax-free” status for one month of their six-figure salaries than they are about killing the enemy.

Here is the deal: We need to make it our policy to tell a Sunni village after two roadside bombs go off in its neighborhood:  That is two strikes.  Strike three and you are out: Jets will pulverize your village from one end to the other if ONE MORE IED goes off in your neighborhood.  You are not responsible, you say?  Fine.  Then catch and stop or turn in the bastards who are.  No more of our men are not going to die patrolling in your neighborhood without YOUR paying a price!  Get it, Mr. Village Sheikh?

We are being too nice to the enemy – and the enemy is thanking us by filling our C-5s, C-17s, and C-141s with coffins.  

SECDEF Dummy has made it clear that he will never learn.  How about you, Mr. President?

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Saturday, January 07, 2006

President Bush: Please Fire This Man (VADM Rodney P. Rempt)!

President Bush: Please Fire This Man (VADM Rodney P. Rempt)!

There is no way that we can fight or win wars under current Pentagon leadership.  We are defeating ourselves.

Nowhere in the Defense Establishment is this truer than among the sissified, girlieman Administrators who run the storied US Naval Academy (USNA).

The latest, most egregiously glaring example of insane, Politically Correct idiocy in the military is the current pogrom being run at Annapolis to change human nature.

Oh, the campaign to change human nature (you know: the part about how keeping members of the two opposite sexes in close proximity for extended periods of times never fails to cause “things” to happen) is called a “zero-tolerance” campaign to rid the Naval Academy campus of “sexual harassment.”  

(Keep in mind, of course, that sexual harassment is defined to mean whatever a female midshipman happens to find “offensive” on any given day – meaning that “You look hot!” from the captain of the football team on a “good-hair day” might be acceptable, whereas “Wow!” from Midshipman Supergeek on a PMS day might be prosecutable!)

Of course, the Navy is NOT taking the obvious course and doing what the Academy did for over a century prior to the 1970s (which is what militaries have been doing for over 5000 years) and RIDDING the campus of female midshipmen.

No!  Instead, the ZTG (Zero Tolerance Gestapo) are going about attempting to eradicate every instance of impure speech or thought!  Hey: Why not call it what it is – thought-control and psychological reprogramming of the normal human sexual response (in an era of increasingly open sexual immorality, no less!).  Oh, and “Good luck!”

Now, of course, the secular religious ZTG zealots – led at Annapolis by Superintendent, VADM Rodney P. Rempt – need a sacrifice to offer to their secular, unisex (or, was that transgendered?), never-prayed-to-in-Jesus’-Name deity.

They now have found their sacrifice (they hope) in dismissed USNA oceanography instructor LT Bryan D. Black, who said something naughty on board a ship to a female midshipmen MONTHS ago.

Too bad for ZTG High Priest Rempt, the victim is not going to go willingly.

In fact, LT Black has hired the foremost name in legal defense of military members being mowed over by the Zero Tolerance (of anything they decide not to tolerate) Gestapo – Mr. Charles Gittins.

Here is wishing Mr. Gittins and Mr Black. all the success in the world in winning LT Black’s job back.

Furthermore, I wish someone in Congress would bite the bullet and tell the truth that women do NOT belong in the halls of our nation’s military academies, on our combat ships, on our combat aircraft, and so on.

I mean, they should do this (get women out of combat ops) ONLY if they care about actually WINNING wars against the likes of the Iranians, the North Koreans, Jihadist Arabs, and/or the Chinese!  

(Hint: The US has not WON outright a true WAR since 1945.  Does that not bother ANYONE in Washington?)

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A salute to Mudville Open Post.

A salute to Stop the ACLU.

A salute to The Political Teen.
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Wis Gov: Let’s NOT Deal in the Truth about Abortion, PLEASE!

Wis Gov: Let’s NOT Deal in the Truth about Abortion, PLEASE!

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has vetoed a bill that would have required doctors to tell prospective abortion patients the truth – that the abortion might cause pain to the unborn baby.

How odd: Taking a knife and dismembering the unborn baby might actually hurt the child?  

But abortion advocates are in denial:  If we don’t think about it, it might go away!

What might go away?  The guilt of knowing you are snuffing out a young life?

As Michael Savage said on his talk radio show yesterday: Abortion is an act of societal suicide.

The population – outside of immigrants – simply is not growing in this country – thanks, in large part, to political creeps like Wisconsin’s Governor Doyle.

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A salute to Point Five Blog.

A salute to Choose Life.
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Friday, January 06, 2006

Chaplain Wins Reprieve – If Not Total Victory

Chaplain Wins Reprieve – If Not Total Victory

I have posted twice (here and here) in recent days on US Navy Chaplain Klingenschmitt’s seemingly quixotic one-man battle against the Pentagon behemoth over his right to pray according to his conscience as a Christian man of God, rather than praying in a “politically correct” manner on cue as a kept religious whore – as at least some US military chaplains seem to be content to do.

In an issue that seems to be boring and/or unimportant to most observers, Klingenschmitt clearly – and rightly – sees to the heart of the matter regarding recent Navy guidance purporting to prescribe how Navy chaplains may and/or may not pray in public settings.

Note: Said guidance calling for Navy chaplains to pray in such-and-such a way blatantly contradicts Pentagon propaganda that chaplains are recruited and maintained to represent their OWN denomination’s beliefs.  Which is it, SECDEF Dummy?  You simply cannot have it both ways.  

Either you will provide the military with principled chaplains with backbone who will pray according to the precepts of the denominations they are ordained to represent, or you will stack the billets with unprincipled preachers who are willing to “change their stripes” in different settings as so many theological chameleons in order to please their spineless superiors.  

The former is the genuine article, the latter is an ersatz, “generic” substitute with no true convictions other than “promote me and give me my paycheck.”  And don’t think the men in the trenches cannot tell the difference between the two – particularly when they are asking for prayer before going off on a dangerous mission.

At any rate, the good Chaplain Klingenschmitt declared a complete fast of water only until such time as President Bush agrees to sign an executive order explicitly stating that US military chaplains may pray according to conscience – regardless of setting.

Well, as so often happens in life, while Klingenschmitt did not win the Executive Order he sought, his superior strength of convictions won out over the theological and moral chameleons in the Pentagon, and he was granted permission both to wear his uniform and pray in Jesus’ Name in public settings.

Chaplain K. is a remarkable man in my view – and I have never even met him.

This fine officer and man of God has more guts than all the rest of the manpower of the Army, Navy, and Air Force chaplain corps combined!  Hats off to you, my brother!

May the LORD bless our troops, I pray – IN JESUS’ NAME!  

Wow!  I SURELY hope that I didn’t OFFEND anyone by praying Jesus’ Name in this PUBLIC forum!

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A salute to Mudville Open Post.

A salute to basilsblog.
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Loathesome Rich Americans Enjoy Playing Toady to Chinese Government (in Return for $)

Loathesome Rich Americans Enjoy Playing Toady to Chinese Government (in Return for $)

I have posted previously of my contempt for Taiwan-born Jerry Yang’s obsequious willingness to supply the Chinese Government – upon request – of lists of users of Yahoo in China, so that the Chinese Government may proceed to clamp down on and/or prosecute said users.

Thanks, Jerry!  Really gutsy policy you have!

To be fair, Yang is not alone among successful American IT gurus who have sold out for filthy lucre any human rights principles they may have once held in order to remain in the good graces of the oppressive, Communist Government.

Others concerns that have shown a willingness to so cooperate with the Chinese Government’s policy of clamping down on and controlling Internet users are Cisco, Google, and Microsoft.

The most recent episode involves Bill Gates’ Microsoft’s willingness to shut down – at the request of the serpentine Chinese Government – a controversial blog. (Hat tip: lgf.)

Here is what is so disgusting: These whiz kids (Gates, the Gooooogle twins, and Jerry Yang) have taken full advantage of the liberties this great country offers to build fabulous wealth that they can freely enjoy in this country.  Yet, they are so callow as to have NO qualms about cooperating with a despotic Chinese Government’s efforts to suppress its own people’s liberties.

The justification for this despicable behavior?  Money, money, MONEY!

Yes, there is something rotten in Denmark Seattle (and Mountain View)!
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Navy Chaplain Corps Splits Theological Hairs to Muzzle Klingenschmitt

Navy Chaplain Corps Splits Theological Hairs to Muzzle Klingenschmitt

We have recently posted about the ongoing religio-political struggles of one gutsy Navy Chaplain named Gordon Klingenschmitt.

While the particulars of his beef with the Navy may seem a bit obscure to the casual passer-by, they are of critical importance to the First Amendment issues of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

Essentially, the Navy (or, the Air Force) does not want any Christian chaplain to pray in Jesus’ Name outside the confines of a chapel service – and yet still wants to be able to call on these same chaplains to pray “inclusively” in non-worship settings.

Now the Navy has trotted out a couple of Protestant chaplain lackeys to dun Klingenschmitt and to brag how their “personal convictions” (amazingly) “just happen” to line up with current Navy policy of: “Now you see him praying in Jesus’ Name – and now you don’t!”

The absurdity of the arguments is as risible as it is childish.  First, how – in a general setting can ANY Christian chaplain pray ANY prayer that is “inclusive” enough to make even atheists and Satanists feel “included?”

So, is the Navy saying that it is okay to offend atheists and Satanists with generic prayer, but that it is NOT permissible to offend religious Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, etc, by praying Jesus’ Name?

Too bad the President’s spokesman, Scott McLellan, did not have a more articulate answer regarding this issue at a recent press conference.
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Thursday, January 05, 2006

Bush Administration Loses Its Israeli Dancing Monkey

Bush Administration Loses Its Israeli Dancing Monkey

Well, well, well . . . .  Having put all its eggs in the recently stroke-afflicted Ariel-Sharon basket in Israel, the Bush Administration has apparently just lost the services of its prize Israeli “dancing monkey.”

Why do I say that Sharon was the Bush Administration’s “dancing monkey?”  Because Sharon too often did on cue what the obtuse-on-matters-Israeli Bush Administration viewed as “good for America.”

What were some of those things?  Oh, let’s see . . . .   Well, withdrawal from Gaza, for instance.  And relinquishing control of the border between the newly “Palestinian”-controlled Gaza Strip and Egypt – a development that the VERY clueless (on matters Israeli) SECSTATE Condi Rice hailed as some sort of diplomatic breakthrough.  (Click here to see what disaster Ms. Rice has wrought.  I wonder if she is proud that her diplomatic ‘breakthrough’ has already cost two Egyptian soldiers their lives?)  (Hat tip: lgf.)

Having belittled Ariel Sharon the politician, permit me to follow in the footsteps of talk show host Michael Savage and distinguish between Sharon the former Israeli general and Sharon the late Israeli politician.

As a general, Sharon perhaps has known no equal (barring, perhaps, North Vietnam’s General Giap) in the post-WWII era, with regard to skill, wisdom, and insight.  Much loathed by the “Palestinians” and other Israel-haters for his generalship, Sharon the soldier well-deserves his own museum, his own Hollywood movie, and his place in the history books.

On the other hand, Sharon the politician deserves whatever obloquy that he will receive from the American Christian right and the Israeli political right – for having giving away (and planning to do so again in the future) part of the land that the God of Israel has clearly designated as being the heritage of the Nation of Israel in perpetuity.

People are having a field day ridiculing American TV preacher Pat Robertson’s declaration that Sharon’s recent illness may be a sign of displeasure at the hand of the God of Israel – for Sharon’s troubling and cavalier willingness to give up portions of the Holy Land in return for empty promises of peace (translation: in return for more opportunities to give up even MORE Israeli land).

Well, I am not a prophet, and I certainly have no direct line to the Heavenly Throne, but who among us is able to say with certitude that Sharon’s illness is NOT a sign of Divine displeasure?  

After all the Scriptures do declare that God’s anger at sinners is not an infrequent reality.  Moreover, during his day, Our LORD Jesus Christ intimated clearly that deaths and illnesses (of a nonsupernatural nature) can be reflections of Divine displeasure.

Hal Lindsey, of Late Great Planet fame, weighs in, as well.

Methinks the pundit-lady doth protest too much in the case of Pat Robertson.  I wonder, for example, why the allegedly “evangelical” Hugh Hewitt is so quick to distance himself from Pat Roberston, while incessantly showing himself “lickspittle” friendly to seemingly any Roman Catholic prelate, pontiff, or spokesman who ever opens his mouth on just about anything.  

However, keeping things in proper perspective, Mr. Hewitt is, nonetheless, a breath of wonderfully fresh air compared to Mr. Almondhead, the putative “leader” of Iran – who, in truth is a dancing monkey in his own right (though he obviously dances for different keepers, keepers who wear rag turbans on their heads).  

Almondhead seems to be dancing very hard these days . . . , but, then, so would you, if you had to worry about being stoned to death for being a bad little boy monkey!
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Mr. President: Let My People Pray (In Jesus’ Name)!

Mr. President:  Let My People Pray (In Jesus’ Name)!

For God’s sake, Mr. President!  It’s a no-brainer!  

Does a Christian Navy chaplain have to STARVE himself to death before some semblance of religious freedom is restored to our military (both chaplains and troops)?  Please sign an executive order stating that American military chaplains may pray according to their conscience!  

In one of the most asinine moves in recent years, Pentagon officials – no doubt following the advice of LAWYERS (wanting to avoid inconvenient ACLU lawsuits) rather than theologians who have a clue – have moved to restrict both Air Force and Navy chaplains from praying in Jesus’ Name (outside of their own homes or outside the four walls of military chapel during an official Christian worship service).

This policy is wrong on so many counts, it is hard to know where to begin:

  • The Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of speech and religion.  (Duh!  That is WHY we have chaplains in the military in the first place – and that is how the military has defended the chaplaincy in the past from lawsuits challenging the legality of the military chaplaincy.)

  • It is not the Pentagon’s place to instruct chaplains how to pray any more than it is a chaplain’s place to determine the content of Navy pilot training classes.

  • There is a 200-plus year tradition of chaplains praying in Jesus’ Name (if they want to – though no chaplains are required to)

  • Many of our troops are Christians and they WANT (indeed are entitled to) hear their chaplains pray in Jesus’ Name.

  • This entire policy smacks of the most pungent tasting “politically correct” thinking imaginable.

  • The policy subtly sets up a “civic god” as the preferred deity (which is idolatry).

  • The policy slaps God in the face: We are in a war.  We want to win.  We seek His help.  It makes no sense to “dis” His Son.  (Okay: This argument is only true from a Christian’s perspective, but last time I checked, Christianity is single most followed religion in the ranks of the US military.)

  • While the assertion never fails to elicit howls of protest, it cannot be gainsaid that America “is a Christian country” in the same way that Israel is a Jewish country, Malaysia is a Muslim country, and India is a Hindu country.  None of these countries is 100% any religion, yet no one can challenge which religion is the most influential in each case, and in America’s it is Christianity.

Please call the White House using the contact information shown below and express your support for Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt and appeal to President Bush to sign immediately an executive order granting military chaplains the freedom to pray according to their consciences!

Contacting the White House
Mailing Address The White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20500
Phone Numbers Comments:   202-456-1111Switchboard: 202-456-1414 FAX:             202-456-2461
TTY/TDD Comments:      202-456-6213Visitors Office: 202-456-2121
Please send your comments to comments@whitehouse.gov. Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House cannot respond to every message. For further up-to-date information on Presidential initiatives, current events, and topics of interest to you, please continue to use the White House website. Vice President Richard Cheney: vice_president@whitehouse.gov
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Monday, January 02, 2006

MSM Asshat: Kevin Sites – Part 2

MSM Asshat: Kevin Sites – Part 2

We all should remember Kevin Sites: He is the freelance reporter, who -- working for NBC at the time -- filmed a Marine killing a terrorist on the ground inside a mosque in Fallujah, thereby igniting a global anti-American, anti-military, anti-Bush media firestorm.  This guy is a weapon for the OTHER side in the war.  He should either be arrested or deported until war's end.  I have discussed him in this blog previously.

Mr. Sites is now being given a "bully pulpit" by Yahoo to present a globe-trotting series called "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone," where Mr. Sites specializes in presenting his seditious, pro-jihadist spin on various conflicts throughout the world (although he cleverly attempts to disguise his anti-American bias by attempting to be "neutral" in his coverage).

Question:  How can you be NEUTRAL in a fight for your civilization's survival?  If you are moral and if you have a spine, you cannot.  I will leave it to you to draw your own conclusions as to the reality of Mr. Sites' moral convictions and the relative strength of his spine.

The latest offering by Mr. Sites, is nothing less than a "puff piece" for one of the most vicious terrorist organizations on the face of the globe: "Hezbollah." But, leave it to Mr. Sites to give Hezbollah a much-needed "face lift" for Yahoo's reading public -- a facelift, which (to read from the comments posted on the site) seems to have been swallowed hook, line, and sinker by many uninformed and gullible readers around the world.  (Not all those posting comments are fooled, however.)

This piece is not "reporting:"  It is nothing less than Islamofascist agitprop.  The first sentence and a half gives away Mr. Sites' unrepentant and unhinged jihadist-appeasing approach to the ongoing worldwide War against Islamofascists.  We read: "BEIRUT -- Lebanon's militant political group Hezbollah (Party of God) has become a global brand name. But . . . ."  

There is no "But," Mr. Sites: Hizbollah are NOTHING if not ruthless killers -- killers who HATE America (and, yes, Israel). Of course they get votes.  Saddam Hussein used to get votes, too.  So did the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. It's amazing what people will do to stay alive and keep their families from harm -- even vote for the killers in their midst (even vicious Hezbollah killers funded by Iran and Syria).

It is instructive that Mr. Sites cleverly uses this piece to provide an unchallenged platform for Hezbollah's Director of Foreign Media Hussein Naboulsi to spew his Iran-approved, Israeli-hating, dogma.

Yahoo should terminate this series and fire Mr. Sites, but we all know that Mr. Yang is an appeaser of tyrants, as well.  On second thought, Mr. Sites, please stay abroad. May you  never return to this country again: You don't deserve to enjoy the freedoms that you so willingly undermine via your "journalism."  Make your home with the terrorists for whom you incessantly shill.
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Resolved: Mexico Is a Cesspool – Part 2

Resolved: Mexico Is a Cesspool – Part 2

I recently posted how Mexico is – politically and economically speaking – a cesspool.  In that post, I suggested that no one in authority is willing to tell it like it is on the point of Mexico’s utter political and economic corruption.

Well, I must now say that Victor Davis Hanson has finally told it like it is – on the editorial pages of the snooty, and pro-Illegal-immigration-cuz-it-helps-big-business-and- doesn’t-hurt-the-nice-neighborhoods-in-Stamford-Connecticut WSJ – regarding the true state of affairs that currently obtain in Mexico.  (Hat tip: realclearpolitics.)  Hanson is not in the Government, but he is widely read.

Perhaps someone will tell George W. about this piece?

Let us pray so.

Kudos to Mr. Hanson for showing some moral courage on a tough issue – in an age where moral courage is in frightfully short supply!

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To illustrate WHY I said what I said above regarding the WSJ’s attitude toward the illegal immigration issue, I am linking to ANOTHER WSJ opinion piece (again, hat tip to realclearpolitics) pooh-poohing the need for a border fence to protect our exposed underbelly.  (Again, from the WSJ’s perspective, presumably nothing meaningful needs to be done to stop the flood of illegal immigrants, since well-heeled homeowners in Stamford, CT, unlike ranchers in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California, don’t have to pick up the dirty clothes, dirty diapers, and garbage left behind on their property by transiting illegals).
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The Three Monkeys in Charge Can See, Hear, Nor Speak Evil

The Three Monkeys in Charge Can See, Hear, Nor Speak Evil

Joseph Farah is a realist.  He is an American.  He is a Christian.  He is a patriot.  He is of Arab descent.  He loves America.  He speaks up on behalf of Israel.  He speaks out against terrorism.  He is unafraid to criticize those in positions of authority.  He is NO BUSHBOT.

Farah raises the BS flag on the media’s and Government’s continued, absurd refusal to see terrorism in any suspicious event that occurs that looks very much like … well: Terrorism.

“Nothing to see here; now move along,” seems to be their motto.

Their modus operandi: Make like the three Indian monkeys:  See no evil; hear no evil; and speak no evil.

They are acting like monkeys all right.

There are none so blind as they who will not see.

For the record, why was this terrorizer allowed to WALK out of that Home Depot?  Were there no employees around willing to tackle and subdue a criminal who had just driven in and deliberately set a fire causing some $1 million dollars of damage?

Remember, also, that it was the passengers’ and crews’ “passive” approach to the hijackers that led to the destruction of the World Trade Center.

It is time for CITIZEN RESPONSE:  If you observe a terrorist action being committed, make every effort to stop the terrorist(s) committing the terrorist act.  Do NOT rely on “the authorities” to “protect” you – unless you want to die.  

Every terrorist act met with a passive hand will engender a hundred more such acts – each increasing in the level of horror inflicted.
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