Now can someone notify the conveniently-in-denial Democrat Party?
Filed under: The War on Terror , Ban Ki-Moon, Iraq, United Nations, War on Terror
• 1:17 pm 0
How Nancy Pelosi Supports Our Military
Liberals will give credit to Satan before giving any praise or credit to the U.S. military.
Spiked? Pelosi Says Iranians, Not Troops, Make Surge Success By Tim Graham
Filed under: Crazy liberals , Crazy liberals, Iran, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, troop surge, troops
• 12:04 am 0
Josef Fritzl Was Violent Toward Prostitutes
Fritzl ‘was a regular at brothel and prostitutes feared him’ By ALLAN HALL
A FORMER brothel barman has revealed how the father in the cellar incest case, Josef Fritzl, was a regular customer who instilled fear in his club’s working girls because of his dominant and violent tendencies.
Christoph Flugel worked for six years as a waiter and barman at the bordello Villa Ostende in Linz, 40 miles from Amstetten where Fritzl, 73, built the underground lair in which he raped his daughter over 24 years.
“He was a regular,” said Mr Flugel. “On the first look, there was nothing wrong with him. He was neatly dressed and courteous. But as soon as one of the girls he wanted to go upstairs approached him, his mood changed.”
He said that in conversations at the bar, he was a man who was clearly more into dominance than the pleasure of sex itself – and therefore was feared when he did go to the first floor where the girls had their room.
He went on: “Ninety-five per cent of customers are totally normal; 3 per cent are a bit weird. Fritzl belongs to the remaining 2 per cent that are definitely mentally ill.
“None of the girls wanted to spend time in a room with him. Two of them even strictly refused to and did without the earnings.”
[...]
Meanwhile, the enormity of his crime is weighing heavily on Fritzl.
His lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, said that, after he was first arrested, Fritzl watched television and ate meals with other convicts at his remand prison. Now he refuses to leave his cell for fear of being attacked by fellow prisoners, who traditionally loathe child-sex criminals.
Well, well. Isn’t that a pity?
Filed under: Everything Else , brothel, Christoph Flugel, Josef Fritzl, prostitution, Rudolf Mayer
May 30, 2008 • 11:45 pm 0
The Bravery of Tom Tancredo
While most politicians have been willing to sell the future of America down the river, Tom Tancredo has spoken against the cowardly tide, often at risk to his life.
Washington Times: Tancredo dedicated to immigration issue — Gives up House seat to join front lines by Ralph Z. Hallow
By the Columbus Day Parade in Denver three years ago, epithets were the least of [Tancredo's] worries.
He recalled a Denver plainclothes police officer saying, “Congressman, are you aware of the threats on your life here today?”
” ‘More than usual?’ “ Mr. Tancredo asked.
The officer read aloud from his notebook what people were overhead saying about “whacking” Mr. Tancredo that day. More alarming, a parade-route sweep had turned up high-powered rifle ammo taped inside a trash can.
The officer suggested that Mr. Tancredo not ride atop a float but walk the parade route surrounded by eight policemen instead. Along the route, however, he recalled seeing a young woman holding up her baby’s hand “and she has the baby flip me off.”
After that day, the Capitol Police, whose job is to protect members of Congress while in Washington, began showing up now and then at Tancredo speeches across the country.
Eventually he bought a “really good” bulletproof vest on the Internet and wears it when he thinks he needs it.
Tancredo’s “crime”? Reminding Congress and America that the law and our borders matter.
Filed under: Illegal immigration , borders, Illegal immigration, Tom Tancredo
• 3:17 pm 0
Canadian Tourists Propping Cuba, Castro
Sudbury Star (CA): Our shame in Cuba; Dictatorship propped up by support that includes 600,000 Canadian tourists By Hoy, Claire
A recent headline summed it up neatly: “Canada talks softly on Cuba, while Bush prefers big stick.”
The story that sparked the headline — just a couple of days after commemoration of the Day of Solidarity with the Cuban people — cited a comment from Canada’s then-Foreign Affairs Minister Maxine Bernier expressing the fond (and totally unrealistic) hope that the recent replacement of Fidel Castro as president by his brother Raul will lead to political and economic changes.
Fat chance.
“Canada continues to monitor developments in Cuba closely,” said Bernier, “and we are concerned about the plight of political prisoners, especially those suffering from poor health. It is our hope that recent shifts will open the way for the Cuban people to pursue a process of political and economic reform.”
The story — which cited, by way of contrast, U.S. President George Bush’s description of Cuba as a “tropical gulag” — went on to say that Bernier’s statement also acknowledged Canada’s long-standing “links” with Cuba, dating back several decades.
Actually, they date back to Pierre Trudeau’s shameless and very public catering to Castro, an unrepentant dictatorial tyrant — admired by the Canadian left because he’s so anti-American — and manifests itself in Canadians consistently leading the world in tourism to the island state.
Last year, for example, more than 600,000 Canadian tourists visited Cuba, not only attracted by the beautiful beaches — which also exist in every other Caribbean country — but by the unmatched bargains, the cost of which are borne by the virtual slave labor provided by the Cuban state on behalf of our dutiful tourists.
[...]
You can be sure if the Castros were right-wing dictators, as opposed to Communist dictators, Canada’s squishy leftists and serial liberals would be marching in the streets demanding change.
Instead, boosted by widespread anti-Americanism in this country, Canadians have been among the most complicit in propping up one of the world’s most vile regimes for several decades. Worse, we continue to celebrate that fact by blathering on about our “links” and our “solidarity” and, of course, by exploiting cheap labor imposed by the Castro regime on its own people.
This is a country that still does not allow its own people to organize, assemble and freely speak their minds; it does not allow anything close to a free press and it strictly enforces what academia can and cannot teach its students.
[...]
Just a month ago, under the “new” and “improved” dictatorship of brother Raul — while thousands of Canadian tourists were lolling on the lovely beaches — Cuban police attacked, beat up and dragged away some of the “Ladies in White,” a group that for years have been allowed to march peacefully each Sunday seeking freedom for their loved ones being held as political prisoners. Their crime? They tried to deliver a petition to the government asking for the release of political prisoners.
Apologists for the Castros in this country and elsewhere argue that the ongoing U.S. economic embargo hasn’t worked, that only a policy of engagement will change things for the better there.
Nonsense. The only reason Castro has been able to maintain his iron grip on Cuba is because his regime has been propped up by the appeasers — of which Canada, to its shame, leads the league.
Embargoes certainly ended the horrid apartheid regime in South Africa and Canada, to its credit, was a major player in organizing it.
Not so with Cuba. Instead, this country — and those 600,000 tourists who exploit Cuba — are the main reason why that country continues to oppress its own people and deny them the rights and freedoms that Canadians claim to value.
Filed under: Everything Else , Canada, Castro, Cuba, tourists
• 2:58 pm 0
Another Pointless Investigation Against Oil
The ignorance of basic economics, intentional or not, is also costly.
Telegraph: Oil prices to be probed by US regulator CFTC By James Quinn
Filed under: Everything Else
• 1:22 pm 0
Americans Demand, But Will Congress Listen?
May 29, 2008 • 2:36 pm 0
Guns Save Lives Too
May 28, 2008 • 3:30 pm 0
“Leaning” No More
BBC: Pisa’s leaning tower ’stabilised’ By Mark Duff
Italy’s famous leaning tower of Pisa has stopped moving for the first time in its 800-year history, engineers who have worked to stabilise it say.
The man in charge of the team monitoring the 26m euros (£20m; $40m) project says the tower should remain stable for at least another 200 years.
It took the team more than 10 years to stabilise the tower.
Filed under: Everything Else
May 27, 2008 • 9:58 pm 0
The Lack of Priorities Among Homosexuals in America
Recently the California Supreme Court overstepped its power (and the will of 61% of voters in Proposition 22) in finding unconstitutional laws which forbid “marriage” between gays or lesbians. ( Note that “domestic partnerships” were already recognized in California, but apparently it was not enough. Only redefining an institution which has been the foundation for human civilization, one which has lasted for thousands of years, would suffice.) Meanwhile, “Iranian human rights campaigners believe more than 4,000 gay men and lesbians have been executed since 1979.”
One would think the latter has much more significance and urgency than the former. One would think homosexuals in American would be screaming from the rooftops in addressing the hideous persecution of homosexuals in Iran and across the Muslim world.
Call me crazy.
Filed under: Everything Else , California Supreme Court, execution, homosexuals, Iran, marriage
• 10:44 am 0
You Don’t Say!
Iran may be withholding info needed in nuke probe By GEORGE JAHN
Filed under: The War on Terror , Iran, nuclear weapons
• 10:37 am 0
Major League Baseball’s (Lack of) Priorities
Major League Baseball could deal with important matters like the massive abuse of steroids among its players, but apparently Little League baseball uniforms are more important.
Filed under: Everything Else , Illinois, Little League, MLB, Tinley Park
• 9:05 am 1
Dunkin’ Donuts Responds
I e-mailed Dunkin’ Donuts regarding their ad featuring the highly flaky Rachel Ray and her Palestinian kaffiyeh. Apparently the kaffiyeh was not in fact a kaffiyeh.
Dunkin’ Donuts e-mailed me this response:
Thank you for expressing your concern regarding the Rachael Ray advertisement. In the ad that you reference, Rachael is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design that was purchased at a U.S. retail store. It was selected by the stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we will no longer use the commercial.
Thus my observation that Ray was wearing a symbol of Palestinian terrorism was incorrect. If you look at the ad, however, my assumption was a reasonable one. One would think that Ray, Dunkin’ Donuts, and her idiot stylist could have foreseen the public assuming that the nearly identical scarf was in fact Palestinian. I guess not.
In fairness, Ray was not the only one parading such a scarf whilst completely ignorant of its symbolic meaning.
Filed under: Everything Else , Dunkin Donuts, kaffiyeh, Rachel Ray
• 7:30 am 0
Fritzl Children May Relocate to England
Daily Star: CELLAR KIDS ‘MOVE’ TO UK — THE Austrian cellar family want to start a new life in Britain. By Steve Hughes
Elisabeth Fritzl and the three children believe Brits are sympathetic to them.
It is also unlikely they will choose a hot country because of their sensitive skin and eyes.
[...]
Elisabeth and the three basement kids – Kerstin, 19, Stefan, 18, and Felix, six – have been in a secure clinic as they recover from their ordeal.
The three youngsters had never seen daylight until last month and doctors say they will have to protect their pale skin and sensitive eyes for the rest of their lives.
Therapists have also revealed the children communicate using animal-like grunt noises.
But despite making good progress, the cellar family have been hounded by the Austrian media and have become “virtual prisoners” again in the clinic.
Security has been stepped up at the hospital in Amstetten following clashes involving journalists and photographers.
Their lawyer Christoph Herbert said: “They are being hunted by the media. The family cannot live a normal life in Austria, therefore they’ll probably have to move to a nearby country, close enough to go home yet far enough to not be recognised.”
The amount of damage Josef Fritzl has done is nearly incomprehensible. Does any punishment exist for him?
Filed under: Everything Else , Austria, England, Fritzl, Josef Fritzl
• 7:19 am 0
Wow, Behavior DOES Change in Response to Prices!
CNN: As gas goes up, driving goes down
Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 percent less — that’s 11 billion fewer miles, the DOT’s Federal Highway Administration said Monday, calling it “the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history.” Records have been kept since 1942.
Filed under: Everything Else , driving, gas prices
May 26, 2008 • 8:31 am 0
Legal Immigrants are “God’s Children” Too, McCain
Remember the effort toward amnesty for illegal aliens? The Senate and House were bombarded by faxes, e-mails and phone calls last year. Apparently John McCain doesn’t particularly give a kcuf what Americans think.
Shamnesty John McCain is back in full force: No, he never “got the message”
By Michelle Malkin
Filed under: John McCain/Sarah Palin
May 25, 2008 • 4:25 pm 0
The Robotic Swiss, Time, and Compulsion
Every day at exactly nine, 12 and four, the offices were all empty, and the elevators up to the staff restaurant were all full.
Why? Morning coffee, lunch and afternoon coffee it turned out. Always at the same time.
Not because the company ordered it but because the Swiss do it that way.
Filed under: Everything Else
May 24, 2008 • 11:33 pm 0
Environmentalist Energy Policy Choking the Planet
Like Your $5 Gas? by Kevin McCullough
If you want a mere glimpse of [environmentalist] hypocrisy revisit Gore v. Bush. I’m not referring to the court case, but their living arrangements. Bush lives in a solar powered home designed for maximum conservation impact in his Crawford ranch. Al Gore’s home has not been converted to solar power, and only a year ago was exposed for having toxic waste on his property that was actually polluting the local water supplies. But this simple comparison barely scratches the surface as to the left’s energy scam.
The real pinch that you feel at the pump exists for multiple reasons. Nearly all of them the fault of liberals.
Repeatedly they criticize the administration for having to work with Middle Eastern nations that sell us oil, they mock us for having to beg Saudi princes to increase production, yet they refuse to do the things that would cause the Saudi’s and other members of OPEC to lower prices naturally.
[...]
[F]inding the reserves is only part of the problem. Once the oil is in hand it must be refined, and since “crazy greenies” have prevented the construction of one single additional refinery in nearly a generation, the supply chain is unable to be processed and delivered effectively to help the prices stabilize at the pump. [...]
The Global Warming scare mongers have played their part as well. Now that more than 31,000 scientists have disputed nearly all of even the most basic claims made in Al Gore’s hysterical work of fiction, “An Inconvenient Truth,” we are starting to see up close the damage Gore’s self-enriching scam has produced. His insistence upon alternative fuels, has created horrific realities which are making the development of fuel far more expensive, and starving orphans on the African continent simultaneously. He’s also made tons of personal riches from his “carbon credits” company that has yet to prove how it is regenerating the climate.
When we realize that the amount of corn for example that has to be set aside for the minimum production of ethanol, and how that corn is no longer for food supplies there should exist outrage. When we discover the tons of corn required to make one tank of fuel, yet realize the same amount of corn could feed an African orphan who is presently dying of starvation for a full year that outrage should create a quake for justice that liberals can not escape.
Filed under: Environmentalism , Al Gore, corn, Environmentalism, ethanol, George W. Bush, Middle East, OPEC
• 11:16 pm 0
The War on Terror Fought in Wonderland
But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked.
‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ‘we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’
Author Lewis Carroll didn’t need to invent a fantasy world. Were he alive today, he could merely watch some of the things America is doing in conducting a battle against murderous terrorists. Whether it is fretting over labeling our enemies for what they are, or concern over international opinion, or having a media which trumpets the crimes of one or two soldiers while ignoring the bravery of 160,000, or the misguided Americans who care more about the comfort of murderers, Carroll would have been surprised. In the biggest battle of our time, Wonderland can be found in the United States of America.
Via Sweetness and Light, below is some evidence of just how mad things have become.
For example, the enemies in our midst and how they’ve become close to our leaders:
Accused Gitmo Spy Is Now Obama Delegate
Some liberals in America and abroad appear more concerned about the welfare of the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Surely those prisoners are falsely accused and don’t belong in prison, right?
Released Gitmo Terrorist Helped Kill 7 Iraqis
Yes, those prisoners are just Muslim angels.
Prisoners Attacked Gitmo Guards 440 Times
But even if we release Muslim prisoners who really DO belong behind bars, Muslim countries ensure that these people are in fact innocent before releasing them, right?
Saudis Often Free Returned Gitmo Detainees
This war against terror, atleast the battle in Iraq, could have been won long ago. It certainly should have been won long ago. It will not be so long as our priorities continue to be misplaced and we continue to bow to liberal pressure groups.
Filed under: The War on Terror , Guantanamo Bay, jihadists, terrorists, War on Terror
• 6:46 pm 0
The More Things Change…
“[I]n all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for “harmony with nature”—there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision—i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears . . .” — Ayn Rand, Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 277.
“The immediate goal is obvious: the destruction of the remnants of capitalism in today’s mixed economy, and the establishment of a global dictatorship. This goal does not have to be inferred—many speeches and books on the subject state explicitly that the ecological crusade is a means to that end.” — Ayn Rand, Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 280.
Filed under: Everything Else
May 23, 2008 • 9:44 pm 0
MaRxine Waters Threatens Oil Company Execs
The Democrat dog-and-pony show in Congress continues.
Below is a video of mega-Marxist Maxine Waters of (where else?) California.
It’s bad enough that this colossal ignoramus thinks she can run an oil company better than the oil companies. Her nationalization threat assumes that government is entitled to the investment, labor, and sacrifices of other human beings. When the state owns your labor, you are inches away from tyranny.
Filed under: Crazy liberals , Crazy liberals, Marxism, maxine waters, nationalize, oil industry, socialize
• 5:08 pm 0
When Corporate and Celebrity Stupidity Merge
TV personality and professional preparer of food, Rachel Ray, recently did a commercial (she needed the money I guess) for Dunkin Donuts whilst wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh.
Ray is a gregarious and insufferable extrovert who can’t seem to close her mouth for 2 minutes. Thinking girl, she is not. Little wonder that Ray would mindlessly wear a symbol of terrorism around her neck, one popularized by Yasser Arafat, on a commercial for doughnuts. Nice job.
E-mail Dunkin Donuts here.
Filed under: Everything Else , Dunkin Donuts, kaffiyeh, Rachel Ray
May 22, 2008 • 12:06 pm 0
BREAKING NEWS: Killing Terrorists Reduces Terrorism!
Iraq figures distort terrorism statistics: study by Louis Charbonneau
A study released on Wednesday reports a decline in fatal attacks of terrorism worldwide and says U.S. think-tank data showing sharp increases were distorted due to the inclusion of killings in Iraq.
“Even if the Iraq ‘terrorism’ data are included, there has still been a substantial decline in the global terrorism toll,” said the 2007 Human Security Brief, an annual report funded by the governments of Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and Britain.
For example, global terrorism fatalities declined by 40 percent between July and September 2007, driven by a 55 percent decline in the “terrorism” death toll in Iraq after the so-called surge of new U.S. troops and a cease-fire by the Shi’ite militant Mehdi Army, the brief said.
“We have concluded that the expert consensus (on terrorism) is probably misleading,” Andrew Mack, director of the Human Security Report Project, told a news conference.
What would we do without experts?
Filed under: The Religion of Peace Files, The War on Terror , fatalities, terrorism, The Religion of Peace Files, War on Terror
• 7:14 am 0
A New Contract With America
Via The Right Truth, the geniuses at The People’s Cube give us A New Contract With America
And some, er, Naked Truth:
Filed under: Everything Else
• 4:34 am 1
The NHL Gets Something Right
The best Stanley Cup commercial we’ve seen this year By Greg Wyshynski
“If you don’t love this, there’s no love in you.”
Very touching.
Filed under: Everything Else , NHL
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