November 29, 2008 • 9:55 pm 0
Indiana woman dies at 115 as world’s oldest person
Edna Parker holds a rose that she was given during a birthday party for her in Shelbyville, Ind., in this Friday, April 18, 2008 file photo. Parker passed away Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008 at a nursing home in Shelbyville, Ind., UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles said. Parker was born April 20, 1893 and was 115 years, 120 days old.(AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Filed under: Everything Else , Edna Parker, oldest person
• 1:49 pm 0
Mumbai terror rage ends after 60 hours, 195 dead By JENNY BARCHFIELD and RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM
Officials said they believe just 10 well-prepared gunmen were behind the attacks that brought the city of 18 million to its knees for three days.
“Nine were killed and one was captured,” Maharshta state Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh told reporters. “We are interrogating him.” Another official said the captured attacker is Pakistani and the gunmen were constantly in touch with a foreign country.
Filed under: The War on Terror , al Qaida, Deccan Mujahideen, India, Mumbai, Pakistan, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, Rivkah Holtzberg, terrorism
November 28, 2008 • 12:21 pm 0
NOW he tells us!
Al-Qaida No. 2 to US: Overcome meltdown with Islam
Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader appeared in a new video posted Friday calling on Americans to embrace Islam to overcome the financial meltdown, which he said was a consequence of the Sept. 11 attacks and militant strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ayman al-Zawahri, whose 80-minute recording touched on a number of subjects, also lashed out at Afghanistan’s government and said any U.S. gains in Iraq will be temporary.
Zawahri’s new recording came in the form of a question-and-answer session with an off-camera interviewer.
Appearing in a white turban and robe, Zawahri discussed the roots of the U.S. economic crisis. He said it was a repercussion of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, and that the crisis would continue “as long as the foolish American policy of wading in Muslim blood continues.”
“The American economy was afflicted by a downturn and loss of investor confidence in the market following the events of Sept. 11,” he said.
Actually, our economy recovered. The current crisis is unrelated to September 11th and due to the interference in our economy thanks to the Democrat Party.
“The modern economy has been destroyed by the strikes of the mujahedeen (in Iraq and Afghanistan) and usury,” he said, using the Arabic term for holy warriors.
Under Islamic Sharia law, usury, like drinking alcohol, is among the grand sins.
And then you wonder why Islamic countries are stuck in a time warp?
Murdering innocent people, on the other hand, is encouraged.
Zawahri then called on the American people to “embrace Islam to live a life free of greed, exploitation and forbidden wealth.”
Boy, someone has been reading Karl Marx. As for Islam, fuck you. I am not interested in converting people by force or murdering them.
Filed under: The Religion of Peace Files , arrogance, Ayman al-Zawahri, economic crisis, Government engineered mortgage crisis, Islam, Muslim
November 27, 2008 • 5:44 pm 0
Iraq Approves Long-Debated U.S. Security Pact By RANIA ABOUZEID
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday finally got the broad consensus he sought on the Status of Forces Agreement with the U.S. – 149 of the 198 lawmakers present in the 275-member National Assembly gave their support to a deal that allows American forces to remain in Iraq until the end of 2011.
Filed under: The War on Terror , Iraq, military, National Assembly, Nouri al-Maliki, Parliament, Prime Minister
• 4:00 pm 0
Townhall: Big Lies that Poison Thanksgiving and Subvert Our Sense of Honor by Michael Medved
For some of Barack Obama’s most ardent supporters, his resounding victory represented the first sign of redemption for a wretched, guilty nation with a 400-year history of oppression.
Filmmaker Michael Moore, for instance, considered election night “a stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity.”
Actually, Mr. Moore’s summary of America’s origins is a wholly expected distortion, shocking in its mendacity.
Like so many other revered figures in the worlds of entertainment and academia, the portly provocateur thoughtlessly recycles the darkest assumptions about the generous nation that provides his privileged, prosperous life.
[...]
Big Lie No. 1, for instance, concerns the ubiquitous notion that the nation’s founders and builders followed a policy of “genocide” toward Native Americans.
In truth, disease caused 95% of the deaths that ravaged native populations of North America following European contact. Despite lurid (but historically baseless) claims of massive infection brought about by “smallpox blankets,” even the deadliest germs displayed no consciously hostile agenda.
In fact, intermarriage (including frequent intermarriage with African-Americans, slaves and free) and assimilation caused more Indian “losses” than all occasional massacres by governmental and irregular forces — incidents invariably condemned by federal authorities, never sponsored by them.
Lie No. 2 precisely anticipates Moore’s claim that America was “built on the backs of slaves,” suggesting that our wealth and prosperity came chiefly through the stolen labor of kidnapped Africans.
While slavery represented an undeniable horror in our nation’s early history, the slave population never exceeded 20% of the national total (amounting to 12% at the time of the Civil War). This means that at least 80% of the work force remained free laborers.
The claim that our forefathers built America “on the backs of slaves” rests on the idiotic idea that involuntary servitude proved vastly more productive than free labor. In fact, the states dominated by the slave economy counted as the poorest, least developed in the union — providing the North with crushing economic superiority that brought victory in the War Between the States.
Of more than 20 million Africans taken from their homes in chains, at most 3% ever made their way to the territory of the United States (or the British colonies preceding our nation). Americans played no part in establishing the once-universal institution of slavery but played a leading, outsize role in bringing about its abolition.
Filed under: Crazy liberals , Africans, Crazy liberals, dishonest filmmakers, genocide, Indians, Michael Moore, Native Americans, North, slavery, South, stupid fat white men, Thanksgiving
November 26, 2008 • 4:47 pm 0
The Religion of Peace strikes again.
Gunmen kill at least 78 in attacks across Mumbai By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM
Teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India’s financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 78 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. A group of suspected Muslim militants claimed responsibility. An explosion followed by a raging fire struck one of the hotels, the landmark Taj Mahal, early Thursday.
Screams could be heard and enormous clouds of black smoke rose from the at the century-old edifice on Mumbai’s waterfront. Firefighters were spraying water at the blaze.
The attackers specifically targeted Britons and Americans, witnesses said. Fires burned and gunfire was heard for hours. Officials said at least 200 people were wounded.
[...]
An Indian media report said a previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen had claimed responsibility for the attacks in e-mails to several media outlets. There was no way to verify the claim.
Mumbai Massacre: ‘Put your hands up if you are British,’ gunmen tell terrified travellers by Andrew Buncombe
125 dead, more than 300 wounded in Mumbai terror attacks
US closely follows Mumbai crisis, offers help to India
President-elect Obama, through his spokeschick, released the following pussified statement:
“These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism. The United States must continue to strengthen our partnerships with India and nations around the world to root out and destroy terrorist networks,” Obama’s chief national security spokesperson, Brooke Anderson, said in a statement.
Wow, what leadership, Barack. Oprah would be proud.
Filed under: The Religion of Peace Files , Deccan Mujahideen, Islam, Mumbai, Muslims, Religion of Peace, Taj Majal
• 1:37 pm 4
According to the NY Post , tactless columnist and author Ann Coulter recently broke her jaw. Her jaw is subsequently wired closed.
True to form, liberals are openly celebrating, which is typical. Every time a conservative experiences personal problems or tragedy, liberals celebrate like cannibalistic savages. Such behavior merely underscores the fact that they do not believe what they claim to believe. They are not tolerant; they’re not compassionate; they’re not progressive. They care solely for power, and anyone in the way of that quest must be destroyed as soon as possible. Period.
Stalin would be proud.
Filed under: Crazy liberals , Ann Coulter, ignorance, jaw, liberals
November 25, 2008 • 10:50 pm 0
Reuters: Mr Co-President? Obama upstages Bush on economy By Jeff Mason
There may be only one U.S. president at a time, but you wouldn’t know it by watching Barack Obama this week.
The Democratic president-elect, who kept a low profile for three weeks after his White House win, has swung into action with a series of economic pronouncements and cabinet selections that have overshadowed President George W. Bush.
If financial markets are clamoring for more leadership, Obama got the message.
“There is a leadership vacuum. If Obama doesn’t fill it, more panic will result in (the) short run, and the problem will become greater by the time he officially takes office,” said Stephen Wayne, professor of government at Georgetown University.
“It is still Bush’s power to act now, but Obama’s obligation to tell jittery Americans what he plans to do.”
Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , attention whore, Barack Obama, egomania, egotist, elitist, narcissism, self-centered
• 12:48 pm 1
November 24, 2008 • 8:21 pm 0
Perhaps it has something to do with the — ahem – album title?
Forbes: Guns N’ Roses Puts Chinese Communists Its Sights — The rock band’s long-delayed album ‘Chinese Democracy’ targets the party, and Beijing is finding the harsh light bad for its complexion by Tina Wang
Telegraph: Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy ‘banned’ in China — Guns N’ Roses’ new album “Chinese Democracy” has apparently been banned by Beijing censors because of its name By Malcolm Moore
Filed under: Everything Else , Chinese Democracy, Communists, Guns n Roses
• 3:58 pm 0
“What liberal media?” — Eric Alterman
Blatant Anti-Palin Bias in the Liberal Media: A Collection (140 Cases) by Scott Thong
Filed under: Crazy liberals, John McCain/Sarah Palin, What Liberal Media? , Sarah Palin, Scott Thong, What Liberal Media?
• 10:15 am 0
Mukasey feeling better, checks out of hospital By LARA JAKES JORDAN and CHRISTINE SIMMONS
Filed under: Everything Else , Attorney General Michael Mukasey, George Washington University Hospital, hospital
• 10:13 am 0
Heritage Foundation: Auto Bailout Ignores Excessive Labor Costs by James Sherk
Filed under: Everything Else
November 23, 2008 • 8:20 pm 2
The Province (Canada): Disabled, obese allowed free extra plane seat — Top court refuses airlines’ appeal of ‘one-person, one-fare’ ruling
Canada’s two largest airlines must give disabled and morbidly obese passengers an extra free seat on domestic flights, beginning in January, after the Supreme Court refused yesterday to consider the carriers’ appeal of a federal order.
The Supreme Court, by convention, gave no reason for declining to intervene in the case.
The decision ended a six-year battle by disabled travellers to secure two seats for the price of one if they need inflight attendants. Obese people can also qualify if they are too large to fit in a single seat.
Air Canada and WestJet failed in their pitch for the court to consider a January 2008 decision from the Canadian Transportation Agency that gave them one year to implement new policies in the absence of being able to show that a “one-person, one-fare” structure would cause undue hardship.
“This means I’m equal now,” said Joanne Neubauer, a Victoria woman whose severe rheumatoid arthritis requires her to use a wheelchair. “I’m just so excited and happy that justice prevailed.”
Ah, the irony.
Joanne, not only are you unequal by virtue of this ruling, but you’re tone deaf as fuck too.
Filed under: Crazy liberals , airlines, Canada, Crazy liberals, Joanne Neubauer
• 1:04 pm 0
Liberals are transparency personified.
Recall that Oprah Winfrey would only invite Sarah Palin on her overrated talk show after November 4th (“I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.”) . Her Oprahness invited Barack Obama on her show not once, however, but twice.
Now that her ObaMessiah is safely in the White House (almost), guess who Oprah would now love to have as a guest on her overrated talk show?
Hopefully, Palin will tell Oprah to kcuf herself.
Oprah, Leno, Letterman: What’s Palin to do next? by MICHAEL R. BLOOD
Communist News Network: Palin’s star burns brightly as Oprah calls
Filed under: Crazy liberals, John McCain/Sarah Palin , Crazy liberals, David Letterman, frauds, hypocrites, Jay Leno, Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Palin, two-faced
• 12:05 pm 0
ABC spent broadcast time recently attempting to prove that the economic situation is leading some women to turn to prostitution in Nevada. (Text of story here.)
We are introduced to a young woman named “Kimberly.” Poor Kimberly searched and searched for jobs. And she searched high and she searched low. North and South. East and West. Would you believe that she filled out “20-30 applications”? (And it was probably a fraction of that.) Wow, what a strenuous fuckin’ effort, Kimberly!
With all that job hunting yielding zero results, Kimberly settled on the next logical option: become a whore in Nevada (i.e., “independent contractor” according to the ugly-ass madam). Before the turning of tricks may commence, however, first things first: Kimberly was required to get STD tests from a woman who asked “have you ever worked in a brothel before?” Predictably, the nervous ABC reporter made sure not to question Kimberly’s decision. You know, one man’s brothel is another man’s McDonald’s.
Meanwhile, ABC wanted its audience to think that it is the economy which led Kimberly and other would-be whores to turn to whoredom. (You know, as opposed to a total lack of scruples and morals, and a total lack of a supportive family and/or friends.)
Now for some logic 101: IF it’s true that the economy is so bad, women are forced to turn to prostitution for cash, would it not also follow that the customers of the brothels also have less money to spend on whores? And if those customers have less money to spend on whores, the customer pool for brothels would be shrinking. But if there are less pathetic men paying hos, why are more women being hired as hos?
Something does not add up. Don’t expect ABC to clarify anything, however.
To conclude this tangle of a story, the brothel madam in the ABC story had the audacity to do some moralizing. She claimed that in economic times, “women are the stronger of the group.” Well, certainly not in terms of morals.
Filed under: Crazy liberals , causation, correlation, economic illiteracy, economy, Kimberly, pathetic people, stupid men, stupid women, whores
• 9:46 am 0
I guess this is not as bad as condemning your child with the name “Apple.”
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz delivers baby boy
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and her rock-star husband Pete Wentz have become parents for the first time, People magazine reported on Friday.
Simpson-Wentz, 24, delivered a boy, named Bronx Mowgli Wentz, on Thursday, and all are doing well, People quoted a spokesperson as saying.
*sigh*
Filed under: Crazy liberals , Ashlee Simpson, Bronx Mowgli Wentz, Pete Wentz, stupid celebrities, years of therapy
• 9:44 am 0
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” — C. S. Lewis
Whatever backbone George W. Bush had, it is gone.
Townhall: Bush’s Legacy: European Socialism by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
The European Union achieved this massive subrogation of American sovereignty the way it usually does, by negotiation, gradual bureaucratic encroachment, and without asking the voters if they approve. What’s more, Bush appears to have gone down without a fight. [...] Will Obama govern from the left? He doesn’t have to. George W. Bush has done all the heavy lifting for him.
In the nearly eight years he has been in the White House, Bush never learned that friendliness toward political enemies actually makes them hate you more.
Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , betrayal, bureaucracy, cowardice, European Union, G-20 economic summit, George W. Bush, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Securities and Exchange Commission, sovereignty, voters
• 8:29 am 0
Public schools dominated by liberals either find America worthy of contempt or ignore her history altogether.
As for our students, how can you defend what you don’t know?
Third Intercollegiate Studies Institute Report on Civic Literacy Suggests There is an Epidemic of Historical, Political and Economic Ignorance in America; Colleges Must be Main Part of Cure
Washington, D.C., November 20, 2008 – Are most people, including college graduates, civically illiterate? Do elected officials know even less than most citizens about civic topics such as history, government, and economics? The answer is yes on both counts according to a new study by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). More than 2,500 randomly selected Americans took ISI’s basic 33question test on civic literacy and more than 1,700 people failed, with the average score 49 percent, or an “F.” Elected officials scored even lower than the general public with an average score of 44 percent and only 0.8 percent (or 21) of all surveyed earned an “A.” Even more startling is the fact that over twice as many people know Paula Abdul was a judge on American Idol than know that the phrase “government of the
people, by the people, for the people” comes from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.Complete results from ISI’s third study on American civic literacy are being released
USA Today: Americans don’t know civics
Filed under: Education or Lack Thereof , America, civics, history, ignorance, pathetic, public schools
• 8:13 am 0
WSJ: A Distressing Evening — The attorney general is fine. Whew! By JAMES TARANTO
Filed under: Everything Else , Attorney General, Federalist Society, George Washington University Hospital, Michael Mukasey, seizure, speech, stroke
• 6:34 am 0
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