Jane Fonda, the actress and ardent anti-Vietnam war advocate who visited North Vietnam during those hostilities, has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.
The only surprise would be if anyone is surprised by this.
Tag Archives: Asst’d Moonbattery
A Counter-example for monarchy
Prince: Global effort needed to counter climate change
Prince Charles continues to demonstrate how big a dolt he is.
Bad enough he dumped Di for Camilla (come on, definitely a downward step), he continues to spout off on stuff like this.
Sheer madness. That’s how Prince Charles described skeptics who view calls for rapid action to counter climate change as overstated or completely invented.
This judgement is no doubt based on the Prince’s extensive and in-depth scientific background and expertise.
What’s that? He has no scientific background? Oh. Yeah. Well, never mind…there’s always the other explanation about being a natural dolt. (Hey!? Anyone else notice that his ears are like those of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman?)
The Gospel According to B.O.
Obama: Sermon on Mount Justifies Same-Sex Unions
The Chief has always been amazed at allegedly Republican people being attracted to B.H.O. given his rabid liberalism, which couldn’t be highlighted any brighter than it is with this.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him “less Christian.”
“I don’t think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state,” said Obama. “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.” ((Hear audio from WTAP-TV)) St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans condemns homosexual acts as unnatural and sinful.
I don’t think that even Hill and Bill would have said this…although they may well THINK it.
B.O. then goes on, predictably enough to misunderstand one of the biblical scriptures that is incorrectly used by liberals trying to justify their radical relativism:
Obama’s mention of the Sermon on the Mount in justifying legal recognition of same-sex unions may have been a reference to the Golden Rule: “Do to others what you would have them do to you.” Or it may have been a reference to another famous line: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.”
To put this into some context: (from the KJV, Matthew 7):
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
It does NOT say “judge not”. It DOES warn one to be sure that their judgements are correct, for one will be held to the standard that they use in judging the the actions of others.
B.O. really has this wrong…this will be grist for the campaign mill for sure.
Archbishop Lost in Space
Britain must reject craven counsel of despair
The previous post notes the Iranian application of sharia to the circumstances of those who “opt out” of Islam.
Meanwhile, the alleged Archbishop of Canterbury has spouted off on the desirability of having sharia as a part of some sort of dual legalism in the UK. Would you believe “poor situational awareness” on the part of the not-so-Reverend Dr. Rowan Williams?
In an interview with The World at One on Radio 4…, Dr Williams made his case more accessibly, claiming that the adoption of certain aspects of sharia law “seems unavoidable”. As things stand, he said, “there’s one law for everybody and that’s all there is to be said, and anything else that commands your loyalty or allegiance is completely irrelevant in the processes of the courts – I think that’s a bit of a danger.” Hence, the Archbishop’s enthusiasm “for finding what would be a constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law”.
The problem arises here:
Equality before the law is, in practice, the most meaningful form of equality that we have. The universal franchise is exercised only sporadically. But the presumption of legal equality – the blindness of the goddess Justitia – is our best guarantee that ethnic minorities and religious groups have of fair treatment.
Far from encouraging such groups to insist on special treatment, or juridical devolution, moral leaders such as the Archbishop should be doing precisely the opposite: identifying, defending and celebrating the legal common ground on which all citizens can and should gather. It is astonishing that a man of Dr Williams’s notional intelligence should end up on the side of legal apartheid and moral cantonisation, even in the euphemistic guise of “plural jurisdiction” or “transformative accommodation”.
The Telegraph has more of this which is about as thorough a treatment of this absurdity as the Chief has seen anywhere. Check it out.
Freezing Out Glowbull Warming?
As a HAM radio shortwave aficionado, the Chief has been very interested in the sunspot cycle, and its behavior for years, since among other things, the sunspot cycle greatly affects the behavior of shortwave radio wave propagation.
Guess what? Among the aforementioned “other things” is the planetary climate. Who’d a thunk it!
Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles. To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better “eyes” with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth’s climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.
And they’re worried about global cooling, not warming.
Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada’s National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity. Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.
An the point is?…
Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle. This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.
Tapping reports no change in the sun’s magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.
Somehow the Chief can really relate to this as he listens to the poor shortwave conditions on his radio, during a 15 deg F below zero evening on the Northern Plains. (But hey, it DOES help to keep the riff-raff out!)
R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada’s Carleton University, says that “CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet’s climate on long, medium and even short time scales….Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth….Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again,” Patterson says. “If we were to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than ‘global warming’ would have had.”
These guys are not alone, either:
In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov made some waves  and not a few enemies in the global warming “community”  by predicting that the sun would reach a peak of activity about three years from now, to be accompanied by “dramatic changes” in temperatures.
…and this:
A Hoover Institution Study a few years back examined historical data and came to a similar conclusion.
“The effects of solar activity and volcanoes are impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by chance were one in 100,” according to Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz. The study says that “try as we might, we simply could not find any relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption and changes in global temperatures.”
Now THERE’S the real inconvenient truth to AlGor and his moonbat devotees.
Obama Lost in Space.com
The Chief noticed ads for B. Hussein Obama’s campaign over on Space.com.
This particular bit of ad placement seems akin to say…David Duke running a campaign spot on Black Entertainment Television.
Based on Obama’s stated priorities, one has to wonder: how much investment he would be willing to commit to any serious space efforts, given the Euro/Ingsoc direction of most of his campaign rhetoric?
The best bet is not much! Hopefully most of the readers there, who presumably have some interest in space development, realize this – and that B.H.O.’s ad placement there is little more than a money sink, and a true act of moonbattery bereft of situational awareness.
California: Big Brother Alive and Well!
State proposes to take control of home temps
The California NAZI’s are at it again!
California utilities would control the temperature of new homes and commercial buildings in emergencies with a radio-controlled thermostat, under a proposed state update to building energy efficiency standards.
Customers could not override the thermostats during “emergency events,” according to the proposal, part of a 236-page revision to building standards. The document is scheduled to be considered by the California Energy Commission, a state agency, on Jan. 30.
The description does not provide any exception for health or safety concerns. It also does not define what are “emergency events.”
They go on to make the point, that although all the details are not spelled out in the proposal, that based on their experience they can be relied on to make the right decisions.
Yeah, right! (“Trust me. I’m from the government. I’m here to help you.”)
Homeland Security? WHAT Homeland Security?
Iraqi officers go missing in U.S.
Here’s another heartwarming tale from cloud-cuckoo land:
Numerous Iraqi military and law-enforcement officials brought to the U.S. as part of special intelligence and training programs have run away and are seeking asylum in this country or disappeared altogether, The Washington Times has learned.
Huh?
Army officials yesterday confirmed that five Iraqi military personnel whom the Army had been training disappeared between 2005 and 2007. They did not know how many other Iraqis sponsored by the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy may have done the same.
“Nothing that this command is aware of would suggest that any of those students who departed from their training or returned back to Iraq pose any threat to the United States,” said Harvey Perritt, civilian spokesman for U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), which oversees all the schools the Army has in the continental U.S.
OK. So there is nothing “that would suggest that any of those…pose any threat to the US.”
Reassured? Don’t be!
“We don”t know the reasons why they elected not to return to Iraq,” he [Perritt] said.
Uh…Mr. Perritt (or is he really Parrot?)…point of order here: if you don’t know their reasons for taking it on the lam, then how can you say there’s no threat? (Darned ole pesky logic raising it’s ugly head again out of turn!)
On the other hand…maybe his assumption is that they can read a newspaper…and it it works for the Mexicans…why not for them, so what’s the big deal? A valid point? Are YOU willing to bet on it? The Chief isn’t.
Extension of Corporate Ability to Sell-out US Sought by Admin.
Justice, DHS ‘still object’ to CFIUS order
National security and trade officials are deadlocked over provisions of a draft White House order aimed at bolstering the security aspects of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, The Washington Times has learned.
The interagency dispute over a draft executive order on the Treasury Department-led committee, known as CFIUS, took place during several interagency meetings over the past two months, but differences on the wording and authority remain unresolved, according to officials close to the debate who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
So what’s the argument about, really?
However, the official said that the National Security Council staff are ready to push ahead with the current order despite the objections from security officials and members of Congress from both parties.
Additionally, several members of Congress have asked for briefings on the executive order but have been put off by the White House, the officials said.
At issue are the law’s implementing regulations, which critics in the administration say will limit the authority that national security agencies had to order “mitigation agreements” designed to curtail national-security threats from proposed foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies. Under the draft order, the Treasury secretary will have more power to resolve disputes when before the committee, while the White House National Security Council staff gets more authority in the appeals process.
In other words, these administration moonbat internationalist corporate lackeys want to smooth the path for a continuing program of literally and figuratively sellling out the US to the ChiComs, with minimal regard to the US’s own national security.
What’s the solution?
Rope. Tree. Traitors. Some assembly required.
British Buffoonery
Guards to go soft on prisoners
This piece is not very lengthy, but it’s proof-positive that moonbattery is alive and well in EngSoc’s Airstrip One just as it is over here.
PRISON guards have to call lags by their first name and ask permission to search their cells under new rules. A Government report into boosting prisoners’ “quality of life†at HMP Winson Green, Birmingham, made the recommendations after finding inmates did not live in a “good environmentâ€Â.
HUH? Prison is not a “good environment”? Isn’t that the general idea? That’s why they call it…PRISON! It’s NOT a Sandal’s Resort Hotel.
As Isaac Asimov wrote once: “Such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.”
IslamoDonkCong Against Voting Integrity
Ellison wants to ban photo ID as requirement for voting
This Minnesnowta Donk Cong has recruited LeftLib fellow Donk John Conyers to back his half-brained no brained scheme to ban any requirement for showing an ID in order to vote.
This is allegedly due to concern that it might prove to be an onerous burden to expect someone to have a photo ID – thus “discriminating” against the poor.
As far as the Chief is concerned, the main result of this is to allow voting by illegal aliens. Who else would REALLY be excluded by the need for some ID.
Every Picture Tells a Story…
Big names no draw for anti-war films
Q: How does this support the widely bruited about Donk assertion of a massive groundswell of opposition to the war?
A: It doesn’t!
It doesn’t matter how many Oscar winners are in front of or behind the camera  audiences are proving to be conscientious objectors when it comes to this fall’s surge of anti-war and anti-Bush films. Both “In the Valley of Elah” and, more recently, “Rendition” drew miniscule crowds upon their release, which doesn’t bode well for the ongoing stream of films critical of the Iraq War and the Bush administration’s wider war on terror.
The moonbats are going to take a bath in terms of their investment. Like they say in Russia: “Toughski shitski” Couldn’t happen to a more deserving crew.
Brandon Gray, President and Publisher of www.boxofficemojo.com, says we seek out movies for inspiration, for laughter and to be moved. “Many of these recent dramas fail on all those fronts,” Mr. Gray says. “They’re too heavy handed in their presentation.”
So given the perpetrators, what else would you expect?
What Obama DOESN’T Say
Obama: GOP doesn’t own faith issue
B. Hussein Obama is feeling his oats again, but what strikes the Cheif is what he DOESN’T say in his latest appeals to some form of religious sentiment.
Republicans no longer have a firm grip on religion in political discourse, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama told Sunday worshippers. Sen. Barack Obama spoke Sunday at Redemption World Outreach Center in South Carolina.
The senator from Illinois delivered his campaign message to a multiracial evangelical congregation in traditionally conservative Greenville, South Carolina. “I think it’s important, particularly for those of us in the Democratic Party, to not cede values and faith to any one party,” Obama told reporters outside the Redemption World Outreach Center where he attended services.
OK. He can have his opinion…everybody’s gont one. So what. This idea is what’s curious:
He finished his brief remarks by saying, “We’re going to keep on praising together. I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
There are MANY precedents and prior examples of kingdoms, both literally and figuratively, “right here on Earth”/ The only question is what KIND of kingdom is being referred to. Historically, most of them (understatement alert!) leave something to be desired.
What B. Hussein Obama DOESN’T claim, is that his kingdom is a heavenly one. If it isn’t, they do YOU want the alternative version? Also, remember – a Kingdom doesn’t have much to do with a constitutional republic.
The Chief would hearken back to the old Revolutionary War slogan: “No king but King Jesus.”
Ahmadinejad….
Ahmadinejad Arrives for New York Visit
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, facing protests and tabloid headlines calling him “evil” and a “madman,” stirred debate Monday about free speech ahead of his appearance at Columbia University.
Another reason to get reid of the UN: it requires putting up with stuff like this. Pack it up, and ship it off to Geneva, and good riddence to bad rubbish.
Columbia President Lee Bollinger has promised to grill Ahmadinejad on subjects such as human rights, the Holocaust and Iran’s disputed nuclear program. The Iranian leader previously has called the Holocaust “a myth” and called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.” Bollinger said Monday it was a question of free speech and academic freedom.
As far as Columbia University…their University President just couldn’t pass up the chance to tweak the administration in any possible way. As far as free speech is concerned, the RIGHT to speak has no guarantee of a provided venue to speak from, nor, does it mandate any requirement to listen.
Overall summary:
• Ahmadinejad (Ahm-mad-on-a-jihad) is an Islamofascist buffoon…a dangerous buffoon, but a buffoon nonetheless.
• Columbia University is an embarrassment to itself…especially after it’s standards of academic freedom and free speech don’t extend to the United States ROTC.
Columbia’s reasoning about the ROTC ban is in protest against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy which they say is anti-gay. Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad’s Islamofascist regime kills gays. Go figure.
Former Senator SD’s Terror Connection?
The Chief was catching up with some stuff and found this at MEMRI.
Abourezk on Hizbullah TV: The Arabs Involved in 9/11 Were Cooperating with the Zionists
Kind of breath-taking to find a noted if not notorious South Dakotan with unabashed sympathy for Islamoterr organizations and their agitprop memes. I suppose the former Senator felt like he just had to keep up with Kucinich on the TV.
You don’t have to take my word for this stuff…the video is also at MEMRI…so you can see this venting of anti-semetic and pro-Hezbollah propaganda for yourself.
The following are excerpts from an interview with former U.S. senator James Abourezk (D-SD), which aired on Al-Manar TV on August 30, 2007. To view this clip, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1551.htm.
To start with:
Interviewer: “Mr. Abourezk, welcome to Al-Manar TV.”
James Abourezk: “Thank you very much.”
Interviewer: “It’s good to have you.”
James Abourezk: “Yes, I watch Al-Manar on one of the cable channels in America.”
Chief’s note: Al-Manar is the TV service of the Damascus-based, Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization. Supposedly Hezbollah is not supposed to have access to US cable access, and although this apparently is NOT enforced it doesn’t stop Abourezk from complaining about the non-enforced policy anyway. (Hmmmm. with Abourezk’s office in Rapid City, is the cable outfit there carrying this, or is Abourezk hanging our these days in D.C., or somewhere else?)
Interviewer: “Good, that’s excellent. Especially [considering] the fact that Al-Manar TV was banned in the U.S. Does that really show something which is like shooting the freedom of expression?”
James Abourezk: “Well, freedom of expression is free for those whom the government likes. If they don’t like them, freedom of expression goes out the window, apparently.”
Right, Senator…that’s why you have been arrested for seditious (if not treasonable) activity! NOTE: The constitutional definition of treason against the United States includes “…adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort…”.
Hezbollah is definitely an enemy of the United States. One can quibble about an enemy not existing without a formally stated declaration of war…but the Chief, in his simplicity, uses a simple reality check: “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. Again. Hezbollah is an enemy force in the world.
After calling Harvard Law School’s Alan Dershowitz “a real snake” for fefusing to support an Islamofascist agenda, he moves on to another topic: Hezbollah terrorists are “resistance fighters”.
Interviewer: “You also called Hizbullah and Hamas ‘resistance fighters.'”
James Abourezk: “They are.”
Interviewer: “While the U.S. administration brands them as ‘terrorist organizations’…”
Maybe because they are noted for committing acts of terrorism.
James Abourezk: “That was done at the request of Israel. That name was done at the request of Israel – that the United States calls them terrorist organizations.”
Now we get down to it: the whole misunderstanding of the “resistance fighters” is due to the influence of the evil Jews. (All together now: Seig Heil!) After some further discussion of how the REAL terrorists of the world are Israel, it’s time to get back to one of the the current fave raves of the (Daily)Kos gang: 9-11 Conspiracy!
Interviewer: “Here I need to ask you something, which is growing and escalating in the Western world, and particularly in the U.S., which is this immense wave of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim sentiment, lumping all Arabs together as ‘terrorists.’ This was clearly manifested in movies and TV series, like 24. Why? Why now? Is it just after 9/11?”
James Abourezk: “No, it’s after the Soviet Union collapsed. The Zionists were looking around for another enemy to have, because to them the Soviet Union was an enemy because they wouldn’t allow Jewish emigration. So they used that as an organizing tool, basically, and when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was no more organizing about the Soviet Union. So they looked around, and they said: Well, the Muslims. Let’s find the Arabs and the Muslims, and make them the boogeyman. And that’s what they did.”
Interviewer: “But why did this sentiment of hatred increase after 9/11?”
James Abourezk: “Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs. It’s a racist sort of thing, really racist – you know, picking out these 19 or 20 terrorists – they were terrorists – and saying all the Arabs are like them. So, you know, people in America don’t really look at it that deeply, and they accept what the government and the press are saying.”
Of course the fact that approximately 3000 Americans were murdered by Islamoterrorists in the United States couldn’t have anything to do with it, could it? (Nooooo. It’s all a Jewish-Bushitlerian plot!)
With some discussion of US policies vis-avis Syria (Bad USA, good Syria!), he ends this with slavering adoration for the Hezbollah war on Israel.
Interviewer: “Sir, in 2001, you came all the way from the U.S. to Lebanon to congratulate Lebanon, the Lebanese, and the resistance for the Israeli withdrawal from Southern Lebanon. Now what do you say during this time, which is in remembrance a year of the Israeli aggression against Lebanon and the earthshaking victory of the resistance, supported by the people of Lebanon. What do you say to them?”
James Abourezk: “That was quite an extraordinary thing, I thought. I actually marveled at the Hizbullah resistance to Israel, how they did it. It was a marvel of organization, of courage and bravery. I thought it was quite something.”
Interviewer: “Do you think it’s only the courage and organization that made them do this?”
James Abourezk: “Yes, absolutely. They were highly organized, the resistance, and they were very brave. They didn’t turn and run, like some Arabs armies have done. They were defeated because of that. But this is something new for the Arab world. I said at the time: The Lebanese army should ask Hizbullah to come and organize it, to train them, you know. And all the Arab armies should have the Hizbullah come and do that.”
OK. So Hezbollah is the model for the whole Arab world. Ponder that one! ’nuff said.
Fortunately this interview came to an end before I became TOTALLY nauseous. F.E.T.E.
Freudian Slip is Showing!
Intense Sean Penn refrains from smoking, chastises media for interrupting
Ho’wood lefty moonbat Sean Penn has accidentally uttered a profound truth:
“You can stop taking pictures because I can’t think,” Penn told photographers
Yep! That just about says it all!
Donk Candidate a Pakistan Warhawk?!
Obama warns Pakistan on terror
HUH?
Sen. Barack Obama yesterday said he would send U.S. troops into Pakistan if President Pervez Musharraf fails to more aggressively hunt down and eliminate al Qaeda strongholds and terrorist training camps there.
“Pakistan must make substantial progress in closing down the training camps, evicting foreign fighters, and preventing the Taliban from using Pakistan as a staging area for attacks in Afghanistan,” said Mr. Obama, setting benchmarks on millions of dollars in future military aid to Pakistan.
Let’s see now? B. Hussein Obama expresses repeated statements of total opposition to the war in Iraq. given the situation in northwestern Pakistan’s tribal areas, a large US intervention would make Iraq look like a cakewalk.
The Illinois Democrat acknowledged the military and political difficulties of such an effort in the “wind-swept deserts and cave-dotted mountains.” He said it would be difficult to convince nomadic tribes living there with few ties to the Musharraf regime or any government that the U.S. is not there to occupy their lands. “It’s a tough place. But that is no excuse,” Mr. Obama said.
Uh…what’s so magical about the need to do this in Pakistan that doesn’t apply in Iraq, or for that matter, Syria, and Iran?
B. Hussein Obama is apparently untroubled by the presence of logical consistency in his consciousness.
New Source of Democrat Activists?
Scientists breed world’s first mentally ill mouse
Scientists have created the world’s first schizophrenic mice in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the illness.
It is believed to be the first time an animal has been genetically engineered to have a mental illness. Until now they have been bred only for research into physical conditions such as heart disease. It will allow researchers to study the disease and develop treatments using a limitless supply of laboratory animals.
Of course, there is the obligatory “viewing with alarm”:
Animal rights campaigners have condemned the research, saying that it is morally repugnant to create an animal doomed to mental suffering.
Why then is there no objection to liberalism?
Donk Debate Notes
The Highlights From The Democratic Debate
This is a dirty business, worse even than the cable TV show that features the world’s dirtiest jobs. We can all be grateful to Right Wing News for manageing to sit through the Donk debates, and add appropriate commentary. The Chief had other things to do than watch this, but was able to get all he wanted of it from this posting.
Even with the antidote of the commentary, the Donk candidates’ efforts are still almost more than a rational person can stand.
Check it out if you’re in the mood for some self-inflicted nausea resulting from a high dosage of unalloyed liberal demagoguery strainght from the horses’ mouth end of the Donkey opposite to the mouth.
Donks Seek Terr Whistleblower Liability
Democrats cut ‘John Doe’ provision
Congressional Democrats today failed to include a provision in homeland security legislation that would protect the public from being sued for reporting suspicious behavior that may lead to a terrorist attack, according to House Republican leaders.
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THESE DONKS?!
“This is a slap in the face of good citizens who do their patriotic duty and come forward, and it caves in to radical Islamists,” said Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Couldn’t have said it any better myself.
Enviro AlGore Dines on Endangered Fish
ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore’s green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter’s wedding in Beverly Hills.
Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass – arguably one of the world’s most threatened fish species. Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks.
How this moonbat has ANY credibility is one that exceeds the ability of the Chief to figure out.
MN Donk Cong Struck by Verbal Dysentery
Bush like Hitler, says first Muslim in Congress
This Minnesota Donk Cong allegedly is a fine representative of his district, and of the religion of pisspeace.
America’s first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks.
Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler’s later seizure of emergency powers….
To applause from his audience of 300 members of Atheists for Human Rights, Mr Ellison said he would not accuse the Bush administration of planning 9/11 because “you know, that’s how they put you in the nut-ball box – dismiss you”.
…uh, “Athiests for Human Rights”? Sounds like moonbats from hell. Every time the Chief is tempted to think that Minnesota isn’t all that different from South Dakota, something like this acts as a cluebat to remind that, yes, it really IS different over there, at least in some areas.
The Donk Cong Ellison need have no fears about the Bush administration putting him “in the nut-ball box”. He’s already accomplished that all by himself!
Enough is Apparently Enough in UK Ed “Reform”
It looks like educational “reformers” in the UK have bitten off more than they can chew, or that most of Her Majesties Subjects are willing to accept as reasonable.
Fury erupted last night after Sir Winston Churchill was axed from school history lessons.
Sort of brings to mind some old Kinks’ lyrics from Living on a Thin Line:
All the stories have been told
Of kings and days of old,
But there’s no England now.
All the wars that were won and lost
Somehow don’t seem to matter very much anymore.
Britain’s cigar-chomping World War Two PM  famed for his two-finger victory salute  was removed from a list of figures secondary school children must learn about. Instead they will be taught about “relevant†issues such as global warming and drug dangers. Churchill’s grandson, Tory MP Nicholas Soames, branded the move “total madness.â€Â
The decision to axe Churchill is part of a major shake-up aimed at dragging the national curriculum into the 21st century, it was claimed last night. But the plan  hatched by advisers  angered schools secretary Ed Balls, who vowed to probe ALL the changes to the curriculum.
The proposals will see traditional timetables torn up, with pupils focusing on modern “relevant†topics such as drug and booze abuse, climate change and GM foods.
Churchill  voted the greatest ever Briton  goes off the required lessons list, along with Hitler, Gandhi, Stalin and Martin Luther King. There will also be no need to mention the Wars of the Roses, Elizabeth I or Henry VIII.
What’s the connection to us? DUH! When polls and surveys regularly show that many Americans have only (to be generous) a rudimentary knowledge of history and the principles of our constitutional republic, it’s plainly evident that we have similar processes underway here.
At least in the UK, the Schools Secretary has gotten fired up. One continues to hope for similar signs of life in the Bush cabinet…thus far in vain.
“Live Earth” Dead on Arrival
AlGor’s concert and media extravaganza has resulted in what has to be described as a less than stellar response, both in the US and UK.
Firstly, Rasmussen polling, which has a pretty good track record, shows that the US largely ignored the hype, and the concert.
Skeptical of Performers’ Motives, Public Tunes Out Live Earth Event
The Live Earth concert promoted by former Vice President Al Gore received plenty of media coverage and hype, but most Americans tuned out. Just 22% said they followed news stories about the concert Somewhat or Very Closely. Seventy-five percent (75%) did not follow coverage of the event.
By way of comparison, eight-in-ten voters routinely said they were following news coverage of the recent Senate debate over immigration. Fifty-four percent (54%) said they followed news coverage of the President’s decision to commute Scooter Libby’s sentence.
The Chief knows that HE wasn’t on the edge of his seat about this one.
One of the best zingers that was spot on about the event came from an apparently skeptical participant: “Matt Bellamy of the band Muse. Earlier in the week, he jokingly referred to Live Earth as ‘private jets for climate change.’ ”
The whole thing was a joke, all right!
Meanwhile, over in Airstrip One, sometimes still referred to as the UK, then responses were similarly unenthusiastic and viewers strayed away in droves:
Live Earth branded a foul-mouthed flop
Live Earth has been branded a foul-mouthed flop.
Organisers of the global music concert – punctuated by swearing from presenters and performers – had predicted massive viewing figures, but BBC’s live afternoon television coverage attracted an average British audience of just 900,000. In the evening, when coverage switched from BBC2 to BBC1, the figure rose to just 2.7million.
And the peak audience, which came when Madonna sang at Wembley, was a dismal 4.5million. Three times as many viewers saw the Princess Diana tribute on the same channel six days before. Two years ago, Live 8 drew a peak television audience of 9.6million while Live Aid notched 10million in 1985.
This presumably will take some wind from the sails of the enviro moonbats hoping to use the event to catapult a “Draft Gore” movement into high gear. Too bad…that would have been just TOO easy (and fun) to take on.
Bureaucrats Gone Wild
Proposed OSHA Regulation Threatens Firearm and Ammunition Industry
YIKES! Coming back from camping with Scouts and finding THIS was a rude re-awakening to the reality of contemporary bureaucracy at its worst.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the government agency charged with assuring the safety and health of America’s workers, is proposing a regulatory rule affecting the manufacturing, transportation and storage of small arms ammunition, primers and smokeless propellants.
Warning – If you go to look at the proposed rulemaking, be prepared for a masochistic immersion in bureaucratic legalese at its worst.)
As written, the proposed rule would force the closure of nearly all ammunition manufacturers and force the cost of small arms ammunition to skyrocket beyond what the market could bearâ€â€essentially collapsing our industry. This is not an exaggeration. The cost to comply with the proposed rule for the ammunition industry, including manufacturer, wholesale distributors and retailers, will be massive and easily exceed $100 million. For example, ammunition and smokeless propellant manufacturers would have to shut down and evacuate a factory when a thunderstorm approached and customers would not be allowed within 50 feet of any ammunition (displayed or otherwise stored) without first being searched for matches or lighters.
This is just nuts! Imagine too, if they are doing this with a semi-Rebublican in the White House, what will they be going for if a Donk were there? (Shudder!)
Huh? Christian Islam?
“I am both Muslim and Christian”
It is a fundamental to the Chief, that anyone can is entitled to worship who, what, and how they choose, regardless. However, this surely merits some note.
Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding ties on a black headscarf, preparing to pray with her Muslim group on First Hill. On Sunday mornings, Redding puts on the white collar of an Episcopal priest.She does both, she says, because she’s Christian and Muslim.
One would expect that an ordained practicing minister of a CHRISTIAN church, would have some understanding of a concept of the central role of Jesus Christ, and his atonenemt as a part of their belief.
Claiming this, while SIMULTANEOUSLY claiming to adhere to Islam, can only be described as a strange case of true Orwellian “doublethink”.
Carter Losing His Mind!
Carter: Stop favoring Fatah over Hamas
What’s wrong with this picture?
The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.
Huh? At least Fatah, as bad as it is, has conceded the right of Israel to exist as a nation. Hamas has never done so. Apparantly they, along with Jimmy Peanut the Georgia Cracker are in support for a Final Solution to the Jewish Problem v.2.
Carter said Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate that should have entitled it to lead the Palestinian government, had proven itself to be far more organized in its political and military showdowns with the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Sheeesh! By that standard then in the late 1930’s Carter would have supported Das Reich, since Hitler had been elected, and it’s dominance in being able to bring off the annexation or conquest of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland would have clearly demonstrated that it was “…far more organized in ITS political and military showdowns…”, eh?
Carter said the American-Israeli-European consensus to reopen direct aid to the new government in the West Bank, but to deny the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, represented an “effort to divide Palestinians into two peoples.”
Hey Peanut head: can you consider the chance that the US and (even) the Euros have a problem with directly aiding a terrorist group?
Unfortunately there is even more evidence of moonbattery from the Georgia Peanut on this issue. This so far out in left field that it is a classic textbook illustration of Michael Savage’s assertion that “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder“. Based on this, the Chief definitely concurs.
Hillary’s Manifesto
We Are All in it Together, Clinton Says
This header sounds innocuous, but as is often the case when dealing with Clintons, the devil is in the details.
Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it’s time to replace an “on your own” society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.
All of this will be possible when we are able to produce “the New Soviet Man”.
The Democratic senator said what the Bush administration touts as an ownership society really is an “on your own” society that has widened the gap between rich and poor.
Fron each according to their ability, to each according to their need.
“I prefer a ‘we’re all in it together’ society,” she said. “I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none.”
Huh? Government that is “working for all Americans” and promoting “opportunity for all” to sign up and get on the gravy train…and “special privileges for none” – no more of that “special privilige” to work, build a business, and maybe even to become wealthy.
Unfortunately there’s even more. Read it and weep.
Food Nazi in Action!
Boycotting motivational programs, demonizing Girl Scouts, and banning birthday cupcakes are just part of a day’s work for “executive publicist/advocate for brain, body, libido” MeMe Roth. Roth is the founder of National Action Against Obesity (NAAO). Yesterday the Philadelphia Spring Valley YMCA had to call the cops on the publicist-turned-food-cop when she tried to vandalize a table of toppings for ice cream sundaes.
This gal is so far out that it virtually defies comment, other than to identify as a definite moonbat. I mean come on, calling herself Me-Me sort of says it all.
Sioux Falls Moonbats out for Spring Airing Today
South Dakota Peace & Justice Center plans rally in Sioux Falls
The South Dakota Peace & Justice Center plans a rally in Sioux Falls for later today. The 11:30 a.m. event is part of a national campaign organized by the Peace Alliance to create a Department of Peace within the U.S. Government.
“The Department of Peace is not only about international peace, but it also has a domestic component that we need now more than ever. It’s time we take the focus off non-violent solutions and vengeful retributions,†according to a statement from the South Dakota Peace & Justice Center.
Ingenuity in inventing ways to waste perfectly good time and money is a wondrous and never-ending phenomenon.
Department of Peace? [gasp! choke! gag! retch! vomit!] Phew! That feels better now! Got to get out of this post before it happens again!
F.E.T.E.