Whither Logic

Truthiness

2012-02-13T20:34:00.000-05:00

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/obama-campaign-launches-truth-teams/

Really?

Fascism

2012-02-12T12:18:00.000-05:00

Know what it is.

Wake Up!

2012-02-12T12:07:00.001-05:00

"To start off let’s make one thing perfectly clear; people who demand more money from the government are the farthest thing from anarchists one could imagine."

Words have meanings....or did...maybe.

"Boomers - Winter is Coming" by James Quinn. FSO Editorial 07/13/2009

2009-07-17T09:17:00.000-04:00

"Boomers - Winter is Coming" by James Quinn. FSO Editorial 07/13/2009: "'We should basically be going back to creating a village economy, so that we really reduce the energy intensity of how we live,' he says. 'We need big time conservation, not feel-good conservation. Make things where they're used. You'll end long-distance commuting, and we have the tools to do that now with webcams. Grow food locally. Grow food in your backyard. If they're not commuting, people will have time to do that.'"

Hmmmm. If I weren't commuting.

Gary Lamb

2009-06-12T14:57:00.000-04:00

Word to this!

Pajama Pages: "No other pastors will reassign their personal assistants. Where did this job title come from anyway? Hollywood? Affairs with secretaries are a staple of business life, but at least there’s some official separation between the boss and a secretary or administrative assistant; both are working for the same entity. Labeling someone a personal assistant changes the relationship and makes the person the vassal of the boss, someone who works primarily for the man rather than for the organization. Administrative assistants are people who help the boss do his job; personal assistants are more likely to be seen as someone to be used by the boss for whatever he wants. Note how Lamb just thought Elena was his for the taking. That thinking coincided almost exactly with the beginning of the affair. Perhaps it’s time for these show-time pastors to rethink that relationship."

I am personally quite tired of rock-star "pastors". I've said for a long time that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people; what passes for the Evangelical Church these days is Hollywood for wolves.....fat, loud, worldly, self-aggrandizing wolves in untucked t-shirts ripping bits of scripture from context. Who really needs another serminar?

Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : Easthampton Burning?

2009-01-05T00:53:00.000-05:00

Jim Kunstler : Easthampton Burning?: "In the typhoon of commentary that's blown around the world a step behind the financial tsunami that's wrecking everything, two little words have been curiously absent: 'fraud' and 'swindle.' But aren't they really at the core of what has happened? Wall Street took the whole world 'for a ride' and now a handful of Wall Street's erstwhile princelings have shifted ceremoniously into US Government service to 'fix' the problem with a 'toolbox' containing a notional two trillion dollars. This strange exercise in financial kabuki theater will shut down sometime between the election and inauguration day, when the inaugurate finds himself president of the Economic Smoking Wreckage of the United States. What will happen"

???

I like the comparison to kabuki: Think about the Zombification of Japan's banks and culture. Are we headed towards a broken society of cyber losers and the pornification of cartoons in lieu of reality? My history books tell me that Japan was a nation of discipline and sobriety; my history books tell me the same of the United States.

Obama left with little time to curb global warming

2008-12-15T11:56:00.000-05:00

My Way News - Obama left with little time to curb global warming: "Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government's machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it's thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming."

Really.....Cooling, warming, it doesn't matter. It's all coming apart at the seals.

More News from the Fiat Front

2008-12-15T09:33:00.000-05:00

The Silver Bear Cafe: "As much as the French of the 1790s, we too wished to be 'delivered by this grand means from all uncertainty and from all ruinous results of the credit system' (p. 8), and now, also like the 1790s French, we have discovered that where 'commerce was dead; betting took its place' (p. 27). We too sat at dinner parties and prattled on about how our hedge fund - the one we told you all to invest in - is up 46% year to date; and now we find ourselves staring at an empty 401(k) with the same dumbfounded 'what happened?' look on our face."

Greek fighting: the eurozone's weakest link starts to crack :: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

2008-12-10T13:36:00.000-05:00

Greek fighting: the eurozone's weakest link starts to crack :: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Peak Oil.....

2008-07-22T13:50:00.000-04:00

The Silver Bear Cafe: "This problem of 'peak oil' was first outlined by Shell Oil's research director M. King Hubbert during the 1950s. He was ridiculed when he predicted in 1956 that the United States, then the world's biggest source of oil, would experience a production peak between 1966 and 1972, followed by decline.

But Hubbert was proved right when oil production in the lower 48 states peaked in 1970 and then started to drop, despite increased drilling, Richard Heinberg wrote in The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies."

End of the Internet?

2008-07-22T13:39:00.000-04:00

The Silver Bear Cafe

In the upcoming weeks watch for a report in Time Magazine that will attempt to smooth over the rough edges of a diabolical plot by Bell Canada and Telus, to begin charging per site fees on most Internet sites. The plan is to convert the Internet into a cable-like system, where customers sign up for specific web sites, and then pay to visit sites beyond a cutoff point.

From my browsing (on the currently free Internet) I have discovered that the 'demise' of the free Internet is slated for 2010 in Canada, and two years later around the world. Canada is seen a good choice to implement such shameful and sinister changes, since Canadians are viewed as being laissez fair, politically uninformed and an easy target.

The corporate marauders will iron out the wrinkles in Canada and then spring the new, castrated version of the Internet on the rest of the world, probably with little fanfare, except for some dire warnings about the 'evil' of the Internet (free) and the CEO's spouting about 'safety and security'. These buzzwords usually work pretty well.

What will the Internet look like in Canada in 2010? I suspect that the ISP's will provide a "package" program as companies like Cogeco currently do. Customers will pay for a series of websites as they do now for their television stations. Television stations will be available on-line as part of these packages, which will make the networks happy since they have lost much of the younger market which are surfing and chatting on their computers in the evening. However, as is the case with cable television now, if you choose something that is not part of the package, you know what happens. You pay extra.

And this is where the Internet (free) as we know it will suffer almost immediate, economic strangulation. Thousands and thousands of Internet sites will not be part of the package so users will have to pay extra to visit those sites! In just an hour or two it is possible to easily visit 20-30 sites or more while looking for information. Just imagine how high these costs will be.

At present, the world condemns China because that country restricts certain websites. "They are undemocratic; they are removing people's freedom; they don't respect individual rights; they are censoring information, are some of the comments we hear. But what Bell Canada and Telus have planned for Canadians is much worse than that. They are planning the death of the Internet (free) as we know it, and I expect they'll be hardly a whimper from Canadians.

Google Search: Is Astrology Bullshit?

2007-08-04T17:36:00.000-04:00

Creative energy? What the hell is creative energy? Also, notice how the tone is set by the use of "...dear Leo," as if some ancient sage (aka, fat "Lord of the Rings" nerd) was addressing a dear old friend (that would be you, the lonely house wife), at which point you would feel vindicated in spending $19.95 on your newly acquired Brazilian power crystal, just as an executive from a psychic hotline does a line of coke off a hooker's ass with the millions he's raked in from morons like you."

The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care by David Gratzer, City Journal Summer 2007

2007-08-04T09:02:00.000-04:00

The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care by David Gratzer, City Journal Summer 2007: "My health-care prejudices crumbled not in the classroom but on the way to one. On a subzero Winnipeg morning in 1997, I cut across the hospital emergency room to shave a few minutes off my frigid commute. Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank with sweat and urine. Right then, I began to reconsider everything that I thought I knew about Canadian health care. I soon discovered that the problems went well beyond overcrowded ERs. Patients had to wait for practically any diagnostic test or procedure, such as the man with persistent pain from a hernia operation whom we referred to a pain clinic—with a three-year wait list; or the woman needing a sleep study to diagnose what seemed like sleep apnea, who faced a two-year delay; or the woman with breast cancer who needed to wait four months for radiation therapy, when the standard of care was four weeks."

City Journal....mmmmmmm, that's good journalism.

Reason Magazine - The Politics of Prohibition

2007-08-04T08:54:00.000-04:00

Reason Magazine - The Politics of Prohibition: "So, if the history of alcohol prohibition is a guide, drug prohibition will not end merely because there are many sound, sensible and humane reasons to end it. Instead, it will end only if and when Congress gets desperate for another revenue source."

Sounds about right. Screw the Constitution; let's keep on legislating for CA$H.

The Forgotten Man

2007-07-26T06:32:00.000-04:00

The Forgotten Man: "FP: John Updike in the New Yorker and the Economist magazine were the two big negative reviews of The Forgotten Man. Why do you think they were negative?

Shlaes: I'm grateful first of all that the New Yorker and John Updike devoted so much space to the book. I don't think Updike's review is really negative. He just concludes differently, saying -- forgive the paraphrase -- that moot mathematics don't count and our heartfelt relationship with FDR is what mattered. I disagree. Two in ten unemployed, the rate that obtained even, at points, in the late 1930s, five or six years into FDR's tenure, do matter."

Yeah, who cares about reality, it's all about feelings man! I feel like crap today BTW.

Breaking News from the 17th Century

2007-07-26T06:29:00.000-04:00

Celebrating Income Inequality: "Consider how the wealthiest individuals in any free economy, businessmen, make their money. The job of a businessman is to orchestrate productive enterprises that efficiently coordinate people, resources, and tools to create valuable products. Businessmen profit when they bring out valuable products at desirable prices; thus, they are continually making more, better, and cheaper products for everyone to purchase. Businessmen profit when they make others more productive; thus, they are continually seeking to create new jobs that can add to their bottom line, and providing their workers with as many productivity-enhancing tools and technologies as they can. Businessmen's pursuit of profit has been the driving force behind the incalculable increase in our standard of living over the last 150 years--and economic history shows that the freer they are left to make money, the greater the increase in productivity and wages at all levels."

Just in case you forgot to read Adam Smith, or use your brain since it was issued.

Annie

2007-07-26T06:26:00.000-04:00

Obama Hails a Unicorn: "Overall, Hillary appeared to be the only Democrat even dimly aware that there will eventually be a general election. But she too played to her audience with wacky conspiracy theories. Oops, I mean she 'discussed the Democratic platform in detail.' No need for me to get judgmental.

Hillary raised the Bush-stole-the-2000-election fairy tale, saying: 'I think it is a problem that Bush was elected in 2000. I actually thought somebody else was elected in that election, but ...' (Applause.)

On Nov. 12, 2001, the New York Times ran a front page article that began: 'A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year's presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward.'

Another Times article that day by Richard L. Berke said that the 'comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots solidifies George W. Bush's legal claim on the White House because it concludes that he would have won under the ground rules prescribed by the Democrats.'

On Nov. 18, 2001, notorious pro-abortion zealot Linda Greenhouse wrote in the Times that the media consortium's count of all the disputed Florida ballots – in which the Times participated – concluded 'that George W. "

I thought the lefties read this rag? At this point, it seems rather moot and Bush has done such a piss poor job of presiding that one would think a look to his dismal record would resonate more strongly that continuing to complain about the election stolen from Owl Gore.

Castro’s Doctors Plot

2007-07-26T06:20:00.000-04:00

Castro’s Doctors Plot: "It's easy to see why Party apparatchiks should be so taken with the filmmaker. In Sicko, Moore paid the Cuban regime the ultimate compliment. Taking at face value its claim to provide superior medical service to Cubans and breathing fresh life into official propaganda that health care is one of the great achievements of the Cuban revolution, Moore cut a generous advertisement for Castro's one-party state. Such was the success of the Cuban system, Moore enthused, that the country even dispatched doctors abroad to treat the sick of needy nations."

Just yesterday on NPR, I heard an expose on some American girls who had just returned from her medical training in Cuba. She was enthused and said something to the effect that "Cuba has some of the best medical care in the world!" She is now a "doctor" and is planning on serving in underprivileged areas. On its face, that sounds great; that she went to school on the commies' (or rather their slave's) dime and will now repay the American poor with her ability to serve in low paying areas due to her complete lack of student loans.

After her interview, a doctor from GW came on and seemed pretty un-biased about the whole thing but he did make it clear that Cuba's medical system, while considered one of the "best in the world," was pretty low-tech and primitive. So, basically this dumb-ass chick from America goes to Cuba and gets "free" medical school while Cubans are living on rice and starving for a piece of damned meat. Then, after what, four years or more, she's still too stupid to put two and two together and parrots the "best in the world" mantra. God forbid I ever find myself injured in whatever small town she decides to practice. I'll treat myself thank you.

White House Had Drug Officials Appear With GOP Candidates - washingtonpost.com

2007-07-19T10:40:00.000-04:00

White House Had Drug Officials Appear With GOP Candidates - washingtonpost.com: "White House Had Drug Officials Appear With GOP Candidates"

If this helps re-elect Republicans then the base being pandered to is dead. God, we need a third party and sadly, I'm afraid it's not off of the white board yet.

Drug Policy Alliance: Myths and Facts About Marijuana

2007-07-08T20:42:00.000-04:00

Drug Policy Alliance: Myths and Facts About Marijuana: "Myth: Marijuana is a Gateway Drug. Even if marijuana itself causes minimal harm, it is a dangerous substance because it leads to the use of 'harder drugs' like heroin, LSD, and cocaine.

Fact: Marijuana does not cause people to use hard drugs. What the gateway theory presents as a causal explanation is a statistic association between common and uncommon drugs, an association that changes over time as different drugs increase and decrease in prevalence. Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the United States today. Therefore, people who have used less popular drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and LSD, are likely to have also used marijuana. Most marijuana users never use any other illegal drug. Indeed, for the large majority of people, marijuana is a terminus rather than a gateway drug."

Actually, the real "gateway drug" is tobacco. That and that spinning thing kids do until they fall down dizzy. We live in a strange world where I ca legally get hammered on vodka nightly and smoke a pack of cigs per day but the possession of one joint can provide me with a criminal record.

'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case limits student rights - CNN.com

2007-07-08T20:36:00.000-04:00

'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' case limits student rights - CNN.com: "Morse, who attended arguments in March, told CNN at the time: 'I was empowered to enforce the school board's written policies at that time aimed at keeping illegal substances out of the school environment.'"

Signs promoting the inhalation of Mary Jane are NOT an illegal substance. They are merely a form of free speech, which until recently, was protected by the First A. Next, a banner in support for carry permits for DC residents will be labeled as illegal guns? Sophistry at its worst and bad jurisprudence.

Reason Magazine

2007-07-08T20:33:00.000-04:00

"Schools may take steps to safeguard those entrusted to their care from speech that can reasonably be regarded as encouraging illegal drug use," the majority said. In contrast with, say, a general rule against banners at school events, this topic-specific, viewpoint-based ban encourages suppression of dissenting opinions.

While students in school do not have the same First Amendment rights as adults, the Supreme Court has emphasized that they do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." That's why two of the justices who ruled against Frederick said in a concurring opinion that the Court's new rationale for censorship should apply only to pro-drug speech, as opposed to political or social commentary.

So, I ask, how does pro-legalization speech differ from the political or social. Drug policy in this country is inherently political in that it is the politicians who enact such policies and the social ramifications of the "War on Drugs," i.e mass incarceration and disparate and arbitrary sentencing, is both seemingly a quintessential question of both political expediency and social policy. Many drugs are currently illegal, and at one time, it was illegal to intermarry between races, educate blacks, and allow women to vote. So is the Court saying that free speech only applies to subjects, the content of which, are currently legal? This flies in the face of the very foundation of the 1st A. Petitioning and speech against the status quo is, or was, once enshrined as the first step in changing public opinion. What's next? No speech aimed at ANYTHING currently illegal. TJ and the other Framers are definitely rolling over, bones and all. More to come.

Best Article Ever. Kinda

2007-07-05T23:17:00.000-04:00

Arctic Monkeys shiver at Live Earth 'hypocrisy'

Rock group Arctic Monkeys have become the latest music industry stars to question whether the performers taking part in Live Earth on Saturday are suitable climate change activists.

"It's a bit patronising for us 21 year olds to try to start to change the world," said Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders, explaining why the group is not on the bill at any of Al Gore's charity concerts.

"Especially when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for (stage) lighting. It'd be a bit hypocritical," he told AFP in an interview before a concert in Paris.

We're in Trouble

2007-07-04T06:47:00.000-04:00

Nation & World | Britons approve of Brown's low-key approach | Seattle Times Newspaper: "And Brown's popularity ratings are soaring. A Times of London poll published Monday found that 77 percent of Britons think Brown is a strong leader, up 14 points from a month ago. Analysts in London said Brown, in addition to enjoying a predictable honeymoon period with Britain's carnivorous media, is proving to be a far more formidable politician and reassuring leader than many people expected."

Looks like approximately 77% of Britons have become huge Vaginae; not just PM Brown.

Gordon seems like a Huge Pussy

2007-07-04T06:44:00.000-04:00

Daily Express: The World's Greatest Newspaper :: News / Showbiz :: Brown: Don't say terrorists are Muslims: "Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word “Muslim” in connection with the terrorism crisis."

God damn it!

2007-06-30T00:35:00.000-04:00

Bowling With Our Own by John Leo

Read NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

Stupid f'ing "proggies".

Most Canadians would fail own citizenship test - Yahoo! News

2007-06-30T00:31:00.000-04:00

Most Canadians would fail own citizenship test - Yahoo! News

I think that most natives of any country would fail a similar test. Muticulturalism Marches forward. F'ing BS.

Right-Thinking from the Left Coast

2007-04-21T08:50:00.000-04:00

"Why is it that bloodbaths and massacres only ever take place in gun-free zones?"

from Lee. Well said, very well said.

Snow won't dampen global-warming rallies

2007-04-14T20:27:00.000-04:00

Snow won't dampen global-warming rallies: "Scientists and environmentalists warn that global warming could change the character of Michigan: lowering water levels and raising water temperatures, altering the kinds of crops that will grow and leading to new invasive species."

As if the "character" of Michigan has ever been in a static state. "Change is a constant." I know, that statement seems logically implausible but it is the truth, especially considering what we know about the history of our global climate.

I like the title of the article...it should continue "nor will evidence to the contrary." Also, I thought we now called it Global Climate Change? Whatever.

Diabetics cured in stem-cell treatment advance-Life & Style-Health-TimesOnline

2007-04-12T21:57:00.000-04:00

Diabetics cured in stem-cell treatment advance-Life & Style-Health-TimesOnline

Neat article but check out the slant. It takes awhile to get to the part where you learn that the president's evil role in halting research on embryonic stems cells, while interesting, has nothing to do with the procedure featured in the article. Interesting placement.

Diversity

2007-04-04T19:18:00.000-04:00

Townhall.com - Dr. Williams: "Until parents, donors and taxpayers shed their unwillingness to investigate what's sold to them as higher education, what we see today will continue and get worse. Just as important is the recognition of the fact that boards of trustees at our colleges and universities bear the ultimate responsibility, and it is they who've been grossly derelict in their duty."

Sounds like 1930's England.

2007-04-01T18:15:00.000-04:00

Ministers seek deal with Iran for captives | International News | News | Telegraph: "Ministers are preparing a compromise deal to allow Iran to save face and release its 15 British military captives by promising that the Royal Navy will never knowingly enter Iranian waters without permission.

The Sunday Telegraph has learnt of plans to send a Royal Navy captain or commodore to Teheran, as a special envoy of the Government, to deliver a public assurance that officials hope will end the diplomatic standoff."

Pope: Europe Losing Faith in Its Future

2007-03-25T10:12:00.000-04:00

Pope: Europe Losing Faith in Its Future: "Spain also has a low fertility rate, while France, with family friendly policies such as cheap day care and generous parental leave, has experienced a baby boom."

How many of those new Frogs will wear the veil or will enforce its use?

Even 11 year olds get it?!

2007-03-23T22:52:00.000-04:00

LongmontFYI - Global warming on trial: "“You don’t understand someone’s position until you can argue it to their satisfaction,” Poppe said, quoting a famous physicist. “I don’t believe in Darwinism either, but I can argue it as well as any Darwinist.”"

Did you think Scientology was the newest religion? More accurately the newest additions to the list of religions would be Darwinism and Global Warming (i.e. Global Climate Change), previously, circa 1974, "Global Cooling." Whilst Darwin wrote some 150 years ago, it has taken some time for the tenets of the theory to garner the same level of religiosity that all things "Global," from Malthus to Gore have done in short order.

Just 'Cause I said it.

2007-03-15T15:09:00.000-04:00

Al Gore will be the Democratic Nominee for 2008.

There!

Hazardous Safety Regulation

2007-03-15T09:55:00.000-04:00

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Hazardous Safety Regulation

And even if and when the rules are proven to have a correlative effect to the harms the institution of the law has caused, the enforcing bureau will NEVER reverse its position nor reduce the workforce associated with the enforcement of the regulation.

Yes, most isms are akin to religion

2007-03-10T11:27:00.000-05:00

United Press International - International Intelligence - Czech Pres: Environmentalism is a religion: "'Environmentalism should belong in the social sciences,' much like the idea of communism or other '-isms' such as feminism, Klaus said, adding that 'environmentalism is a religion' that seeks to reorganize the world order as well as social behavior and value systems worldwide."

Whenever faith is necessary to support your idea or platform, such becomes a form of faith i.e. religion.

Bitch?

2007-03-07T09:52:00.000-05:00

Boston woman sues for child-rearing costs after failed abortion - Boston.com

Why not give the child up for adoption? WTF?

More reporters embrace an advocacy role - USATODAY.com

2007-03-07T07:30:00.000-05:00

More reporters embrace an advocacy role - USATODAY.com: "But Brian Ross, who runs the investigative unit at ABC News, worries about the growth of this 'agenda' reporting."

Duranty anyone?

Dumb Asses

2007-03-06T17:33:00.000-05:00

I forgot who the original environmentalists were......oh yeah, it was the hunters and the fishers and the people who actually know something about the environment. Okay PETA, have fun theorizing about the environment from the coffee bar. PETA TO AL GORE: YOU CAN’T BE A MEAT-EATING ENVIRONMENTALIST Tue Mar 06 2007 17:08:05 ET The Most ‘Inconvenient Truth’: According to U.N., Animals Raised for Food Generate More Greenhouse Gases Than All Cars and Trucks Combined Norfolk, Va. — This morning, PETA sent a letter to former vice president Al Gore explaining to him that the best way to fight global warming is to go vegetarian and offering to cook him faux “fried chicken” as an introduction to meat-free meals. In its letter, PETA points out that Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth—which starkly outlines the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming and just won the Academy Award for “Best Documentary”—has failed to address the fact that the meat industry is the largest contributor to greenhouse-gas emissions. In the letter, PETA points out the following: · The effect that our meat addiction is having on the climate is truly staggering. In fact, in its recent report “Livestock’s Long Shadow—Environmental Issues and Options,” the United Nations determined that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined. · Researchers at the University of Chicago have determined that switching to a vegan diet is more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard American car to a Toyota Prius. PETA also reminds Gore that his critics love to question whether he practices what he preaches and suggests that by going vegetarian, he could cut down on his contribution to global warming and silence his critics at the same time. “The single best thing that any of us can do to for our health, for animals, and for the environment is to go vegetarian,” says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. “The best and easiest way for Mr. Gore to show his critics that he’s truly committed to fighting global warming is to kick his meat habit immediately.”

Greenhouse effect is a myth, say scientists | the Daily Mail

2007-03-05T12:04:00.000-05:00

Greenhouse effect is a myth, say scientists | the Daily Mail: "Research said to prove that greenhouse gases cause climate change has been condemned as a sham by scientists."

Wow, I'm not even a scientist and I knew this fifteen years ago. If it looks like religion, smells like religion, and acts like a religion, then it most probably IS a religion. Global warming is the updated, politically correct, non-addictive, opiate of the masses.

WOW!

2007-01-31T12:02:00.000-05:00

NYO - News Story 1 - Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards: "Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”"

This, my friends, is the left's conception of the black man. To them, he is but a brainless pawn.

WorldNetDaily: The big list: Female teachers with students

2007-01-24T19:24:00.000-05:00

WorldNetDaily: The big list: Female teachers with students

Some of these fine ladies are kind of buggly but hell, when I was 15, .......

Marijuana Cigarettes........Reefers!

2007-01-16T18:10:00.000-05:00

Modern Mechanix » MARIJUANA: SEX-CRAZING DRUG MENACE!

Ole Abe could really write.

2007-01-11T09:41:00.000-05:00

Townhall.com::Dems to tackle "income inequality"::By Larry Elder: "'[T]here is not, of necessity, any such thing as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. . . . The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account for awhile, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is . . . the just, and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all -- gives hope to all, and . . . improvement of conditions to all. If any continue through life in the condition of the hired laborer, it is not the fault of the system, but because of either a dependent nature which prefers it, or improvidence, folly, or singular misfortune.'"

Pat Conroy

2006-12-19T10:02:00.000-05:00

FrontPage magazine.com :: An Honest Confession by an American Coward by Pat Conroy

Why do so many liberals turn conservative in their dotage? IF only they had spent their youth in thoughtful service to their country and its ideals.

Fun!

2006-12-19T09:36:00.000-05:00

Townhall.com - Printer Friendly: "Dear (name deleted):

I received your message indicating surprise and disappointment with your final grade this semester. In your message, you said “I did miss several days in your class. I did not mean to miss but I was just going through so much this semester with a death in my family, my house got robbed, fired from my job for being 10 minutes late and my good friend died so i [sic] am sorry for that.”

I am sorry, too. I am particularly sorry that I was hog hunting in South Carolina and was, therefore, unable to respond immediately to your rather pathetic little missive. But before I get to the solution to your problem, let me share with you some of the details of my hunt. After you hear those details, you may decide that you are interested in an extra credit assignment designed especially for you, your special needs, and your fragile feminine feelings."

No Shit, Sherlock!

2006-12-19T09:29:00.000-05:00

Aside from the health debate over legalizing marijuana, Garrison Courtney, spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Agency, says groups that advocate its taxation sometimes paint too rosy a picture.

"It's still a drug," Courtney says. "Just because it's a good cash crop doesn't mean you should legalize and tax it."

"It's not these cute mom-and-pop bong shops anymore," Courtney continued. "It's violent drug-trafficking groups that are doing all these grows."

It ain't the Mom and Pop shops because it's illegal. Get it? Make something illegal and guess what?....violent elements, even criminal elements, will be attracted to the profits fostered by the artificially high prices prohibition places on the illegal substance.

DEA= Dumb Blank Asshats. Anyone got a good acrony? a

Know thy Enemy

2006-12-13T09:56:00.000-05:00

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Failing to Know the Enemy, And Ourselves: "The pressing business of Congressmen (raising money for their re-election campaigns and stuffing earmarks into appropriations bills) takes up a lot of time. But is it too much to ask that members of the intelligence committee -- especially the chairman of the intelligence committee -- know the basic facts about the enemy who attacked us on 9/11?"

How many of the 535 could actually answer the questions posed to Rep. Reyes? Scary indeed.

Sharks: What are they good for?

2006-12-03T10:35:00.000-05:00

icWales - Shark rips off teenager's leg

Absolutely nothing! I'm reminded of a few years back when, I believe it was the WHO, claimed to have eradicated the smallpx virus from the world (except for the samples in storage). There was a debate in the scientific comunity as to whether the samples should be destroyed as a "species" or subset thereof. Screw smallpox and screw sharks. I have no ilusions that the shark bite is the rarity and we probably coudn't kill them all but don't they compete with us, humans, for ocean goodies and on top of that, they bite us! What fun it would be to go out and kill sharks and then leave them for the lobsters to clean up. Yummy crabs and lobsters on the tale fattened on the corpses of man hunting sharks. Yum

Do as I say, Not as I do!

2006-11-28T08:01:00.000-05:00

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Who Really Cares?: "Those on the left proclaimed their moral superiority in the 18th century and they continue to proclaim it in the 21st century. What is remarkable is how long it took for anyone to put that belief to the test -- and how completely it failed that test.

The two visions are different in another way. The vision of the left exalts the young especially as idealists while the more conservative vision warns against the narrowness and shallowness of the inexperienced. This study found young liberals to make the least charitable contributions of all, whether in money, time or blood. Idealism in words is not idealism in deeds."

Best Sentence of the Week!

2006-11-15T15:45:00.000-05:00

The Gift of Language by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2006: "The contrast between a felt and lived reality—in this case, Pinker’s need to speak and write standard English because of its superior ability to express complex ideas—and the denial of it, perhaps in order to assert something original and striking, is characteristic of an intellectual climate in which the destruction of moral and social distinctions is proof of the very best intentions."

School Sucks

2006-11-15T15:35:00.000-05:00

The Gift of Language by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2006: "For the most part, though, I was struck not by the verbal felicity and invention of my patients and those around them but by their inability to express themselves with anything like facility: and this after 11 years of compulsory education, or (more accurately) attendance at school."

It doesn't suck in the traditional sense of one's dislike of mandatory attendance and performance but rather the modern sense where one is required to attend school and not required to perform. It's like 12 years of detention. Following which, in order to be marketable, you must then PAY for an additional four years of detention.

RealClearPolitics - Articles - White Guilt Doesn't Help Blacks

2006-11-15T12:00:00.000-05:00

RealClearPolitics - Articles - White Guilt Doesn't Help Blacks: "Whites' preoccupation with guilt and compensation such as affirmative action is actually a subtle form of racism, Steele says. 'One of the things that is clear about white privilege, and so many of the arguments for diversity that pretend to be compensatory, is that they advantage whites. They make the argument that whites can solve [black people's] problems. ... The problem with that is ... you reinforce white supremacy all over again. And black dependency.'"

Slouching towards Gomorrah?

2006-11-14T05:45:00.000-05:00

Outrage as Church backs calls for severely disabled babies to be killed at birth | the Daily Mail: "The Church of England has broken with tradition dogma by calling for doctors to be allowed to let sick newborn babies die.

Christians have long argued that life should preserved at all costs - but a bishop representing the national church has now sparked controversy by arguing that there are occasions when it is compassionate to leave a severely disabled child to die."

We're in an all out sprint. God have Mercy, for we know not what we do.

Right-Thinking from the Left Coast

2006-11-13T06:26:00.000-05:00

"The wars are obviously not the same. However, unlike in WWII there was never a shred of doubt as to whether or not we would be victorious over Saddam’s army. He might have been able to fight a few battles, but ultimately victory was guaranteed. Where the administration failed was in recognizing that, while we would in the short term be seen as liberators by much of the country, we would soon be seen as occupiers, and we would need a good counterinsurgency strategy in place, because the best time to fight an insurgency is before one begins. We had nothing of the sort, because the administration had been assured by Chalabi that citizens would be throwing flowers at their feet. Because of this we didn’t send in enough troops to control the country. We didn’t start monitoring the borders until over a year post-invasion. As the insurgency grew, the administration did not change tactics, and instead got on TV to assure everyone that this was just a few “dead-enders,” remnants of the old regime who would soon be put in their place. As it did before the invasion, ideology trumped reality once again. Bremer dismissed the Iraqi Army, and then unilaterally banned anyone with an association with the Ba’ath Party from having anything to do with the new government. All of these people, with resentment to the US and no job an"

COuldn't have said it better although Lee forgets that the reason that their was no questions as to ourt success was partly in due to the support of the US citizenry, which, in the present case, was most certainly undermoined by the press at large. I'm a free speech advocate but at come point the freedom allows a select few the ability to shape policy, which I had always assumed was the province of the electorate?

Hospital admits to burning aborted babies in waste incinerator | the Daily Mail

2006-10-24T18:50:00.000-04:00

Hospital admits to burning aborted babies in waste incinerator | the Daily Mail: "She said: 'I am furious and very hurt. Imagine my horror when I discovered that my baby was incinerated in the same furnace as the hospital rubbish.'"

So you decide to kill your baby and then you're upset that the corpse was burned. WTF? You killed the baby, call it a baby, and then are distraught that the hospital disposed of the corpse? Moron.

WTF???????

2006-10-24T10:30:00.000-04:00

Fish Out of Water: "Can you comment on this hypocrisy?

Nye: In terms of the professors who engage in this behavior are, first and foremost, chicken. They know that Christians are a safe target. By and large, we take that 'love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you (Matt 5:44)' seriously. On the other hand, they know Muslims offer a quite different response.

In terms of the hypocrisy, it doesn't make sense to me. They don't even try to hide it. For example, all students at Butler were required to take a course on Islam. We were required to purchase the Koran and handle it with respect. If we were carrying a stack of books the Koran had to be on top. "

I may just drown my kids instead of subjecting them to this world. Where is my war? The Ivory of the towers is soft...people forget that; I guess they're blinded by the shiny robes and 10cent words.

More U.S. Officials Taking Bribes at Border

2006-10-24T10:22:00.000-04:00

More U.S. Officials Taking Bribes at Border

Treason: Plain and simple. Shoot them after they recieve their proper process.

Dewey Beats Truman!

2006-10-24T10:20:00.001-04:00

Polls: Democrats closer to taking Senate control - Politics - MSNBC.com

Why do we give a rats ass about polls? My prediction is as follows: Sadley, the Reps. will retain control of both the House and the Senate. The Dems may pick up a few "<5" seats but the end result will be an unchastised Republican party and a more polarized and rediculous left. I don;t want the Dems to win on a protest vote but if only they could perform their duty as a "loyal opposition" must, I would feel much safer.

Dewey Beats Truman!

2006-10-24T10:20:00.000-04:00

Maybe his gun jammed?

2006-10-09T10:44:00.000-04:00

FrontPage magazine.com :: Che Guevara: 39 Years of Idolatry by Humberto Fontova: "One day before his death in Bolivia, Che Guevara--for the first time in his life--finally faced something properly describable as combat. So he ordered his guerrilla charges to give no quarter, to fight to their last breaths, and to their last bullet. A few hours later his 'untamable defiance,' lack of hypocrisy and 'walking of the walk ' all manifested themselves. With his men doing just what he ordered ( fighting and dying to the last bullet) a slightly wounded Che snuck away from the firefight and surrendered with a full clip in his pistol while whimpering to his captors: 'Don't Shoot! I'm Che I'm worth more to you alive than dead!'"

Great article. A must read; more lefty bullshit exposed, opened to the light, whatever.

It's about Fucking TIme!

2006-10-04T11:45:00.000-04:00

Townhall.com::Hooray for DDT's life-saving comeback::By John Stossel: "Junk-science debunker Steven Milloy, an adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wonders why the environmentalists took so long to change their minds.

'There are no new facts on DDT -- all the relevant science about DDT safety has been available since the 1960s,' Milloy says.

Milloy adds: 'It might be easy for some to dismiss the past 43 years of eco-hysteria over DDT with a simple 'never mind,' except for the blood of millions of people dripping from the hands of the WWF [World Wildlife Fund], Greenpeace, Rachel Carson, Environmental Defense Fund, and other junk science-fueled opponents of DDT.'"

Check one off of my plans to ignore the law and go on a rampage spraying DDT throughout striken Africa!

U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

2006-10-04T11:40:00.000-04:00

U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

It's about time. I've been skeptical of this if not downright dismissive since Global Warming "hit the scene" a decade or so again. What a crock of shit and moreso the $ spent on researching it. Yet another extention of the government tit to the private sector scientists. Do we all work for Uncle Sam?

Wow!!!!!!!!

2006-09-28T10:50:00.000-04:00

Polishing An Image - Islamic-Style: "For leftist artist-provocateurs, times have also changed. While making fun of religion in the past was easy, fun and fashionable in their world, nowadays, with Islam such a potent force in Europe , such a transgression could speedily result in a death sentence, as it did for Theo van Gogh."

Scary shit. Bunch a pussies.

Western Guilt

2006-09-28T09:31:00.000-04:00

RealClearPolitics - Articles - The New Anti-Semitism: "In addition, Israel is no longer weak but proud and ready to defend itself. So when its terrorist enemies like Hezbollah and Hamas brilliantly married their own fascist creed with popular leftwing multiculturalism in the West, there was an eerie union: yet another supposed third-world victim of a Western oppressor thinking it could earn a pass for its murderous agenda."

Maybe what is referred to as the secular left has modeled its "religion" after the christian church and incorporated guilt as a powerful motivatator.

Bluntly

2006-09-19T09:28:00.000-04:00

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Suicidal Hand-Wringing: "The argument is made that we must respect the Geneva convention because, otherwise, our own soldiers will be at risk of mistreatment when they become prisoners of war.

Does any sane adult believe that the cutthroats we are dealing with will respect the Geneva convention? Or that our extension of Geneva convention rights to them will be seen as anything other than another sign of weakness and confusion that will encourage them in their terrorism?"

Sowell has it right. This arguement is illustrative of the protected thinking of the ivory towers and the beltway. Amazing. I'm sure that the average fly-over Joe could see through this red herring as easily as Mr. Sowell does. What does that say about our policy makers and our punditry who argue otherwise.

Muslim cleric tells pope to apologize - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

2006-09-15T09:57:00.000-04:00

Muslim cleric tells pope to apologize - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

Pope: Fuck you and god bless.

Interesting

2006-09-12T09:29:00.000-04:00

Islamists=Bible Heroes?: "“Blind Samson, his hairy growth returning, commits an act of suicidal terrorism as he destroys the pillars of the pagan temple,” Chaplain Gray wrote of the Old Testament hero, drawing a parallel between the ancient Jewish warrior and modern Islamists."

Fun analogy in that Sampson's blindness is juxtaposed with the "blindness" of the philistines if failing to recognize the growing threat of his growing locks. I think that the plurality of Islamo-murderbombers are "blind." But, are we equally blind to the threat posed by their myopic view?

The sad state of American Education

2006-09-12T09:14:00.000-04:00

Townhall.com::Cheap shot journalism::By Thomas Sowell: "Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence.

The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far beyond Wal-Mart or think tanks. It is in fact the Achilles heel of this generation of our society and of Western civilization."

The Unpopular Truth about College

2006-09-11T09:04:00.000-04:00

The Unpopular Truth about College

Been saying it for years. My solution is that everyone should go not only to College, but also get an M.D., a J.D. and a Ph.D. Then we'll all be rich, rich, rich!

How about a minimum raise increase to $50,000 per hour as well.

Scary Interplay

2006-09-08T11:20:00.000-04:00

Reason: From Republic to Empire? When in America, don't do as the Romans did: "By the middle of the first century BCE the Roman Republic had vastly expanded its authority throughout the Mediterranean. As Rome exercised political and military control over more and more territory, political rivalries began to tear at the constitutional fabric of the Roman Republic, and eventually civil wars broke out, leading to cries for a more powerful central government.

In 49 BCE, the Roman Senate revived the office of dictator. In previous centuries, the Senate elected a dictator in times of emergency, granting him unchecked power and complete impunity. The one restriction was that a dictator could hold power for only six months. An intimidated Roman Senate made Julius Caesar dictator, giving him the authority to subdue his political rival Pompey. In 44 BCE the Roman Senate named the victorious Caesar 'dictator perpetuus'—dictator for life."

I've long contended that America is a quasi-fascist state. I also have no problem with the political theory as I mosty agree that a sort of facism is well suited to proper governance and nation building. More to come...

The Radical Jewish Right?

2006-09-05T09:20:00.000-04:00

Does Religion Make People Better or Worse?: "One major benefit of Judaism's being law-based is that it can provide an individual with a way to regularly ascertain right from wrong, to provide ethical rules on a daily basis. It can move him to visit the sick when he would rather be at home watching television, to resist gossiping, to give more charity than he otherwise would, to show honor to parents who may not deserve it, and so much more. But it can also lead him to judge fellow Jews by their level of ritual observance, to substitute law worship for God worship, and can lead a Jew to retreat from almost any social interaction with the non-Jewish world."

I wonder if this guy votes Dem or Elephant? That is the $64,000 question.

Moving On to Anti-Semitism

2006-09-05T09:16:00.000-04:00

Moving On to Anti-Semitism

WTF? I still don't get antiSemitism. Can someone please explain this ancient and horrid point of view.

Townhall.com::Dennis the First Amendment Menace::By Mike S. Adams

2006-09-05T09:11:00.000-04:00

Townhall.com::Dennis the First Amendment Menace::By Mike S. Adams

Typical. Fuck acedemia, let it rot.

Bring it on!

2006-09-03T11:52:00.000-04:00

YouTube - Hezbollah: Coming Soon To Your Hometown

Wow, and we can't even force our kids to say the pledge or speak English. Loony shit.

Self-Defense Anyone?

2006-09-03T11:46:00.000-04:00

The Claremont Institute: The Remedy

What fucking planet am I living on or rather, what country am I living in?

Read it!

2006-08-29T08:07:00.000-04:00

City Journal

Pretty Obvous

2006-08-29T08:02:00.000-04:00

This article need not be so long but it does well to personify the problem in the case of Mr. Ayer. What a scary guy.

The Ed Schools’ Latest—and Worst—Humbug by Sol Stern, City Journal Summer 2006

Impeach her!

2006-08-29T07:55:00.000-04:00

Reason: Judge Taylor's Tapped-Out Argument: Federal domestic spying program nicked, not nixed: "'There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution,' Taylor wrote in her decision, a much-needed attempt at some executive-bashing rhetoric. It sounds to these ears like a conscious callback to the debates on the Constitution itself, when the fear of an untamed despot was palpable. But as part of a legal opinion?"

The World’s Worst Organization

2006-08-29T07:50:00.000-04:00

The World’s Worst Organization: "The finances of the United Nations are the only concrete application of Karl Marx’s description of communist Utopia: 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Thus, the United States foots 22 percent of the UN bill, Japan 19.63 percent, Germany 9.82 percent, France 6.50 percent, the United Kingdom 5.57 percent, Italy 5.09 percent, Canada 2.57 percent, Spain 2.53 percent, and Brazil 2.39 percent—which is to say that 9 countries, constituting 4.7 percent of total membership, pay 76 percent of the UN budget. The U.S and Japan (the latter not even a permanent member of the Security Council) pay over 40 percent of the costs. (If you are a New Yorker, the people who work at the UN owe the city nineteen millions in parking fines.) China and Russia, incidentally, pay 2.053 percent and 1.1 percent, respectively. Ultimately, the entire UN financing system is nothing but a global form of wealth redistribution that entails, as one observer said, taking money from the poor in the richest countries to give it to the richest in poor countries. "

The Title says it all.

The Dems really can't seem to find their stride.

2006-08-17T10:17:00.000-04:00

DNC doesn’t know how to choose presidential nominees: "In 2004, Howard Dean’s front-running presidential campaign began to self-destruct about a month before the Iowa caucuses, narrowly saving the Democratic Party from a disastrous drubbing in November. Such an experience should have taught Democratic leaders a lesson about the dangers of a front-loaded nomination process. The latest DNC recommendation suggests that Democrats are not yet serious about winning presidential elections."

If I didn't think that their policies are frightening and potentially dangerous to the fate of the United States, I;d send them some advisory letters. If anyone needs to be reminded of the old adage "Those who forget their history are bound to repeat it," it's the Dems. More to come

So much for tolerance

2006-08-17T10:05:00.000-04:00

Welcome to AJC! | ajc.com: "Someone stuffed her campus mailbox with Twinkies snack cakes --- implying that she was yellow on the outside (Malhotra is Indian) but white on the inside."

I'm so tired of this and the hypocracy it involves. Free speech for everyone except for those with whom we disagree. It's creepy in an Orwellian sense.

I wonder what ever happened to that chick from Boston who, back in 1992, berated me for not being politically correct. She actually used the terminology "politically correct" and labelled me as an uncultured ass for not subscribing to the idiocy of the idea.

Nihlism

2006-07-14T14:44:00.000-04:00

What is the point?

Ex-Clinton Aide Charges Republicans 'Want to Kill Us' -- 07/15/2005

2005-07-18T09:33:00.000-04:00

Ex-Clinton Aide Charges Republicans 'Want to Kill Us' -- 07/15/2005:

'I was driving past the Pentagon when that plane hit' on Sept. 11, 2001. 'I had friends on that plane; this is deadly serious to me,' Begala said.

'They want to kill me and my children if they can. But if they just kill me and not my children, they want my children to be comforted -- that while they didn't protect me because they cut my taxes, my children won't have to pay any money on the money they inherit,' Begala said. 'That is bulls*** national defense, and we should say that.'

The Democrats had better get a grip immediately. Who is the base to which these remarks are meant to rile? College students? Give me a break, college students are the most unprepared group of the entire corpus of our society to engage in rational thought and politics: reference the beautiful Islamic revolution "led and supported" by the college students.....now they can;t read any Huck Finn. Stupid little brats.

The Democratic party is dead. It will be replaced by another and it is a strange irony that from the ashes of the party of Ted Kennedy, will rise a new phoenix of normalicy, restraint, and wisdom. Let's get on with it.

Neal's Addendum

2005-07-15T09:16:00.000-04:00

Nealz Nuze Today's Nuze 7/15/05: 'The undersigned sponsors of the foregoing legislation do hereby state and affirm their belief that it is more important for the federal government to spend the funds necessary for the implementation of this legislation than it would be for the taxpayer who actually worked for and earned these funds to retain them for use in caring for and investing in the future of their own families.'

Where is our conviction?

2005-07-13T09:52:00.000-04:00

Suspect in Dutch filmmaker's murder makes dramatic court room confession

Useful Idiots

2005-07-12T09:44:00.000-04:00

A second example is the oft-repeated line, found on liberal bumper stickers, "War is not the answer." Aside from the idiocy of this claim -- war has solved slavery, ended the Holocaust, destroyed Japanese Fascism, preserved half the Korean peninsula from near-genocide, and saved Israel from extinction, among other noble achievements -- the claim offers no support to those who do engage in war.:

"But most of the Left does not want the troops to win in Iraq. The Left's message is this: 'You troops may think you are winning; you may think you are doing good and moral things in Iraq; you may believe you are fighting the worst human beings of our age and protecting us against the scourge of Islamic terror. But we on the Left believe none of that. We believe this war is being fought for oil and for Halliburton and other corporations; we believe you are waging a war that is both illegal and immoral; we believe you have invaded a country for no good reason and have killed a hundred thousand Iraqis [the Left's generally mentioned number] for no good reason; but, hey, we sure do support you.'

Honest people on the Left need to understand that the two positions are not reconcilable. A German citizen during World War II could not have argued: 'The Nazi regime's army is engaged in an evil war of aggression and is slaughtering millions of innocent people, and I therefore completely oppose this war, but I sure do support the Nazi troops.'"

The Decline of Europe

2005-07-12T09:42:00.000-04:00

"In a June 23 speech before the E.U. Parliament, British Prime Minister Tony Blair delivered a stinging rebuke to European critics who charged him with wanting to abandon Europe's social model.'

What type of social model is it, Blair pointedly asked, that has 20 [million] unemployed in Europe, productivity rates falling behind those of the USA; that is allowing more science graduates to be produced by India than by Europe; and that, on any relative index of a modern economy - skills, R&D, patents, IT, is going down not up... Of the top 20 universities in the world today, only two are now in Europe.

Blair had it quite right. The Western European welfare states are very much in need of political reforms. Our economies are stagnating, our citizens have stopped working, and our big governments are as bureaucratic and inefficient as ever. Indeed, if the prime minister can be properly accused of anything, it is indulging in understatement: Unemployment in the European welfare states is actually higher than Blair indicates in his speech.

Rather than tackling unemployment, however, European governments have learned to hide it. For instance, in Sweden, state officials claim that the unemployment rate stands at 5.5 percent. But a recent report by an economist working for Swedens largest labor union gives this rosy prognosis, showing that the real unemployment rate is between 20 and 25 percent. Things are little in better in the big powers of Western Europe'Germany and France where official statistics have for many years showed double digit unemployment rates.

Why unemployment rates are so high in Western Europe poses no mystery. Our governments pay citizens when they dont work and tax ":

by Nima Sanandaji

Dumb-Ass and a Picture too

2005-07-11T09:14:00.000-04:00

London bombings should serve as a mirror to Iraq

The London Bombings

2005-07-11T08:53:00.000-04:00

"Saddam and the terrorists have killed a hundred times more Muslims than American forces. Moreover, American forces have saved millions of Muslim lives in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Afghanistan and, yes, in Iraq. This is not a war about Americas treatment of Muslims and never was.": '

Yes, please just shut the fuck up about the west's oppression of the arabs. Shit, the British mandate gave then their damned countries. They sure as hell never fought for any territorial rights....at least not since the 1500's.

Michelle Malkin: Namby-pamby nation

2005-06-29T10:27:00.000-04:00

"American children badly need moral clarity. But our education establishment is too uneasy about the idea of moral judgment to meet this elementary need. Feelings of helplessness and disorientation are thoroughly, even compulsively, canvassed, elicited, discussed, and promoted; by contrast, feelings of moral indignation and condemnation are deflected and downplayed. This leaves children defenseless, clueless and unprepared to meet real and grave threats to their own and the nation's future.":

No shit we need moral clarity:

1) Islamic Sharia based society: Bad
2) Western Judeo-Christian based society: Good
3) People who would attempt to erase America's, and Western Europe's Judeo-Christian foundation: Bad
4) Democrat "platforms" : Bad, racist, pompous, evil?
5) Turning the other cheek: Sorry Jesus, You didn't make me that way so : Bad and and sends the wrong message in my humble earthly opinion.
6) Teaching your sons and daughters to be humble: Good
7) Teaching your sons and daughters to defend themselves with extreme and unrepentant violence against those who would attacke them: Very good.
8) Protecting soft, lazy and inept people from bullies: Good, but it kinda sucks to get your nose broken defending some asshole who thinks fighting is wrong regardless.
9) Pretty girls: good, hell, most women are lovely
10) Men who are unruly, drink too much, fight, and cuss BUT love God, Family and Country: Good

Voilà. Moral Clarity.

Walter E. Williams: Confiscating property

2005-06-29T10:14:00.000-04:00

"I think the socialist attack on judicial nominees who'd use framer-intent in their interpretation of the Constitution might also explain their attack on our Second Amendment 'right of the people to keep and bear Arms.' Why? Because when they come to take our property, they don't want to risk buckshot in their butts.":

Since I've yet to hear it or read it, I'll interpret the message that SCOTUS has been sending loud and clear to the people (the would be the voters) or our great nation. In upholding the BLATANTLY unconstitutional restrictions on speech codified by the McCain-Feingold law (AKA The 100% incumbent reelection law), the Court made the following arguement: We, the President and the COngress have all sworn to uphold the Constitution. The President (who signed the law) and the Congress are duly elected by You (the people), ergo, You, by electing these bozos have stamped the law with at minimum, the imprimateur of constitutionality. It's a bad arguement and a major change from Warren style activism, yet SCOTUS dropped the hint....Loudly.

Next came Kelo. The message, again, is that the condemners in Nwe London were duly elected. There was no question as to the legitimacy of the town council's election and therefore, they werer duly appointed to exercise the duties and rights of their posts, one of which is to exercise emminent domain. (Yes, I know damned well that the "public use" has been stretched). However, the fact remains that the New London city Council only exercised a right granted to it by You. IF You don't like it, vote them out, stage a referendum and recall them. The Court is not the proper venue for discussions and arguements about politics and we have all fallen into the trap of thinking, like the left, that the electorial process can be circumvented through the judicial process.

Shame on You and me. We voted for these tax dollar hungry, speech restricting idiots and guess what.........we keep voting for them. Year after Year.

I agreee with Boortz: Definately a fair deduction.

2005-06-29T09:47:00.000-04:00

Nuze 6-29-05:

"I think it's fair to say that any person who states that we should set a date for our withdrawal from Iraq is either (a) as dumb as a load of bricks; or, (b) actually desirous of seeing the U.S. suffer a defeat in Iraq."

OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today 6-27-05

2005-06-27T17:12:00.000-04:00

Has there ever been a more depraved culture?:

"Fundamentalist Muslim mythology has it that terrorist 'martyrs' are greeted in heaven by 72 virgins. With Palestinian Arabs increasingly making use of female suicide bombers, we've often wondered what they get in heaven. Now we have the answer, thanks to a report in London's Sunday Telegraph from an Israeli prison:
One of the inmates, Ayat Allah Kamil, 20, from Kabatya, told me why she had wanted to become a martyr: 'Because of my religion. I'm very religious. For the holy war [jihad] there's no difference between men and women shaid [martyrs].'

According to the Koran, male martyrs are welcomed to Paradise by 72 beautiful virgins. Ayat, as with many of the women she is incarcerated with, believes that a woman martyr 'will be the chief of the 72 virgins, the fairest of the fair.'

That is to say, the highest aspiration for a fundamentalist Palestinian girl is murder, suicide and prostitution."

Satan.

nbc4.com - News - High Court Gives Split Decisions On Ten Commandments

2005-06-27T11:42:00.000-04:00

ANd Buying Qurans for Gitmo detanees dopesn't violate the 1st?!

The jurisprudence coming from this court, this year, is increadible. It really merits serious consideration as to why there is such a multi-pronged attack on the judeo-Christian foundations of our contry. Yes, it's true, the ONLY reason America is what it is today stemms form the detribalization and ethical mores promulgated and mandated by Christianity. Old Europe owes its glorious past to the same. Today is a sad day, a very sad day.

I'm buying a 9mm, two additional shot-guns and hoarding ammo; starting today. The war, while not quite declared is inevitable and I shall, to my dying day, protect my country, its history, its future, and my property. I dare any state or federal organ to attempt to execute a search warrant at my place of residence. The recent string of supreme court cases, and congressional action restricting speech (see McCain-Feingold) has proven to me that the citizenry is lost and our elected leaders are power hungry and unbalanced.

Jesus, I've really got to get motivated to get my neighbors pissed off and scared of the reality I see. OR.......maybe I'm crazy.

Perfect

2005-06-23T13:53:00.000-04:00

This is one of the most brilliantly accurate thumbnail descriptions of Marxism’s appeal that I’ve ever read.

AAAAAGHHHHHH!

2005-06-20T10:30:00.000-04:00

"The National Education Association, which represents public school teachers, has a section for sex education on its website and included is a link to the Planned Parenthood site. So much for value neutral education.":

Star Parker: School choice threatened

2005-06-20T10:28:00.000-04:00

Star Parker: School choice threatened: "We need more general appreciation that the public school system does not provide insulation from values. By definition, education reflects values. What other than values determines what you chose to teach a child, what books you assign to read, and indeed your very sense of why you are educating the child?"

This is why we MUST get our kids out of public schools. There shouldn't be one left within 5 years of today. ALL education should be private, chosen by the parents or competent guardian, and continued to be financed from the public treasury. Invest in children, not the education lobby. Yes, pay the teachers, yes pay them well (as if we're not already), but STOP paying anyone for this mediocre shit we call education. It's indoctrination and indoctrination is fine as long as its not encouraginf dependence on Big Gov as it is today.

Atrocious analogy -- The Washington Times

2005-06-20T10:17:00.000-04:00

"Just for the record, some 15 million to 30 million Soviets died in the gulag; some 6 million Jews died in the Nazi camps; some 2 million Cambodians -- one-third of the country's population -- died in the killing fields. Nobody's died in Gitmo, not even from having Christina Aguilera played to them excessively loudly. The comparison is deranged, and deeply insulting not just to the U.S. military but to the millions of relatives of those dead Russians, Jews and Cambodians, who, unlike Mr. Durbin, know what real atrocities are.
Had Mr. Durbin said, 'Why, these atrocities are so terrible you would almost believe it was an account of the activities of my distinguished colleague Robert C. Byrd's fellow Klansmen,' that would have been a little closer to the ballpark but still way out. ":