Meanwhile...On The Left Coast

Naked treehuggers prevent necessary construction at Ber-zerk-lee.

THE dreaded Hayward fault slices right through the football stadium of the University of California, Berkeley, leaving visible cracks in its walls. So the university needs to retrofit the entire thing and build a new fitness centre for the 400 athletes who practise there every day. The oak grove next door seemed the obvious place.

But. (Pun intended.)

The grove must be saved, says Doug Buckwald, who founded the group Save the Oaks at the Stadium, because it is a “magical place” and soaks up carbon. In it is one redwood tree and lots of coast live oaks, a species protected under local law, although the university has an exemption.

And if that wasn't loony enough.

Mr Running Wolf offers another rationale. There are “thousands of bodies underneath us” of the Ohlone tribe, he says, and construction on this sacred burial ground amounts to “a hate crime; we call it Guantánamo Berkeley”. The secret truth, he explains, is that the Illuminati and Masons are behind the idea to build on the site, because the grove is at the intersection of compass lines connecting the Haas School of Business (money) with Alcatraz (state violence) and the Lawrence Berkeley lab that gave America nukes.

But...(Pun again)...according the the adults:

Dan Mogulof, a university spokesman, says that the allegedly ancient oaks were planted in a 1923 “landscaping project” and that “for every tree we cut down we will plant three new ones.” The redwood will be transplanted. Archaeologists have found “no evidence” that the grove is a burial ground but will carefully monitor all excavations, he says.

A couple of guys with scoped rifles could resolve this problem in about a minute, but that would be suggesting violence.

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An Update

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Meanwhile in New Mexico

From Powerline:

Barack Obama must be the most gaffe-prone politician in memory. Today, he delivered a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico. After greeting the local Democratic Party dignitaries, he began:

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

Memorial Day honors those who have died in our nation's military service. Is it possible that Obama does not know this? Sometimes the things that come out of his mouth defy understanding.

Seriously. Barack Hussein Obama has to be dumber than Dan Quayle.
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Trivia

From the Strategy Page:

To ease his boredom during his long exile in the Netherlands following World War I, former Kaiser Wilhelm II dabbled in gardening and mysticism, in 1934 publishing a book on Eastern religious symbology in which he pointedly noted that the version of the swastika used by Hitler and his Nazis stood for darkness, misfortune, and death.

Of course after losing the First World War the Germans may not have been willing to listen to Kaiser Willie.
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This Is Truly Sick

Some Marxist piece of excrement posted this on an Alternate History forum:

Challenge: Cannibalism as a pursuit of the rich

With a [point of departure] between 1400 and 1900, cause a scenario where the rich and the powerful feast (literally) on the poor in a show of dominance. Cannibalism is a pursuit of the leisure class, like golf, polo, or African safaris....

The reality is that cannibalism is what some people have to do in order to survive under Communist rule. The rulers. of course, are never short on food.

It is the normal practice of totalitarians to defame their victims, creating the illusion of legitimacy, before murdering them. In dehumanizing the victims they are in fact dehumanizing themselves. With a death toll of well over 100 million the Communists have throughly demonstrated that they are Enemies of Human Kind in General. Fit only for extermination.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thoughts for the Day

First:

POWER IS LIFE for the Democratic Party. The Democrats and their supporters are dependent on us for their survival and well being. Like all parasites they need to know that they will have a full belly and a roof over their heads so they are constantly micromanaging and oppressing us so that they can feel secure in their chosen mode of existence.

Parasites have a constant need to feel secure so they continually impose tasks and rituals of obedience on their victims in order to maintain that feeling. This is why the false prophet Mohammad commanded his followers to pray five times a day. He needed the constant reassurance that his followers would continue to obey him.

As parasites the Democrats feel no less insecure. Thus their need to constantly impose their will on us.

Second:



Virgina Madsen.

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Thoughts for the Day

First: Being highly educated really means being highly indoctrinated. A college degree in the era when academia is dominated by Marxists in most cases is not worth the cost of the paper that it is printed on.

A member of our Foreign Service also has something to say about the true value of a college degree.

Second:



Gillian Anderson.
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Thoughts for the Day

First: In war as in all adversarial endeavors the other side always shows up. If you don't show up you lose. Only the pacifist believes that one could win by not participating.

Thus pacifists are insane.

Second:



Charlotte Rampling.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

I wrote this in response to a posting on Little Green Footballs.

The Citizen Soldier of a free nation is living proof that the ideology and worldview of the Leftist is wrong. The Leftist wants to believe that a soldier is an essentially mindless thug who robotically obeys their political masters regardless of the consequences. In fact it is the mindless thug that the Leftists (and parasites in general) needs in order to inflict their will upon their productive subjects.

The Soldier on the other hand must be actively conscious in order to survive on the battlefield and carry out his mission. Every one of them, from the individual rifleman to the commanding general must constantly perform the Boyd Cycle, the Observe-Orient-Decide-Act loop, as quickly as possible in the course of the conflict.

The Soldier, being mentally active as a virtue, can see through the reams of nonsense emitted by the Leftist demagogue. And is thus feared and hated by the Left in general.

The Thug on the other hand may be useful to the Leftist ruler but is utterly useless on the battlefield.

(BTW, I happen to agree with Dr. John Ray that Leftists and Fascists are essentially two versions of the same thing.)

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

This thought just occurred to me:

McCain: I've been through shit you people wouldn't believe.

Obama: Our peace loving socialist brothers would never...blah...blah...blah...

McCain: Told you so.
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This Is Sick

From an interview of L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. in Penthouse magazine:

Penthouse: And what about this Labor Party official?


Hubbard: He was a double agent for the KGB and for the British intelligence agency. He was also a raging homosexual. He wanted my father to use his black-magic, soul-cracking, brainwashing techniques on young boys. He wanted these boys as his own sexual slaves. He wanted to use my father's techniques to crack people's heads open because he was very influential in and around the British government --plus he was selling information to the Russians. And so was my father.


Penthouse: Your father was selling information to the Soviets?


Hubbard: Yes. That's where my father got the money to buy St. Hill Manor in East Grinstead, Sussex, which is the English headquarters of Scientology today.


Penthouse: What information did your father have to sell the Soviet government?

Hubbard: He didn't do any spying himself. What he normally did was allow these strange little people to go into the offices and into his home at odd hours of the night. He told me that he was allowing the KGB to go through our files, and that he was charging £40,000 for it. This was the money he used for the purchase of St. Hill Manor.


Penthouse: Do you know any specific information that the KGB got from your father that might have been harmful to security?


Hubbard: The plans for an infrared heat-seeking missile in the early fifties. They obtained the information by extensive auditing of the guy who was one of the head engineers. There were great infiltrations clear to this day. There has always been an inordinate interest on the part of Scientology in military and government personnel. There's no way for me to prove it sitting here, but I believe that the KGB trained East German agents who came via Denmark to London to the United States who were, supposedly, Scientologists. They made very good Scientologists. They were very well trained.


Penthouse: Did your father do this just for money?


Hubbard: Yes. The more he made, the more he wanted. He became greedy. He was really just interested in the use of money and power, wherever it was or whosoever's it was. Morality and politics made no difference to him at all.

As all you loyal readers know I also hate traitors.

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Update at 00015 CDT:

Here's another excerpt from the LRH, Jr. Interview:

Penthouse: What was the first example you can remember of your father's espionage activity?


Hubbard: I remember one day in 1944 when he came nome from the naval base where he was stationed in Oregon with a big, gray metal box under his arm. He put in our little attached garage and put a tarp over it. That weekend a couple of funny little guys came over to the house. I remember it was summer and they were wearing heavy woollen overcoats --dark brown overcoats. It stuck in my mind: what are they doing wearing overcoats when it's hotter than hell? I was only about ten at the time. Anyway, these big, sweating guys take the box and put in in their car and drive off. But before they'd come, I'd snuck a look in the box. It had this strange-looking object in it. I didn't know what the hell it was. Later on, in the fifties, I was walking through a war surplus store and I suddenly saw an object that was just like the one I'd seen in the box. It was the heart of the radar. During the war --when those men took it from our garage --it was super-secret, super-valuable, worth thousands of dollars. I remember that people were told to commit suicide if it ever got captured in order to blow it up.

Then, in 1955, I went to work in the Scientology office in London. I noticed a woman in the office doing strange things with strange people in the office, so I investigated her. I found out she was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. I got very angry at her and broke into her apartment, where I found dozens of little code pads. They looked like little milk pads with a whole mess of letters and numbers on them. I had people follow her to the Russian Embassy. I finally wrote a long report to my father about her. He was furious. He told me not to investigate anymore, not to write anymore, not to tell anyone what I had found out, to destroy all my evidence. I yelled at him, "The goddamn Russians are running around the office and doing God knows what." He yelled back. "I want'em there!" He told me that she was placed there by the KGB with his knowledge and consent. This really bothered me. My grandfather, who was a lieutenant commander in the navy, had impressed me with his red-white-and-blue honor and integrity. He was an officer of the old school. 180 degrees different from my father, in fact, I credit him a great deal with my ability to get rid of Scientology and get my head straightened out, because his patriotism had gotten through to me and made me sour on what my father was doing in dealing with the Russians.

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A Video For Today

As most readers of this blog know I hate totalitarians of all stripes.

No exceptions.

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Oh Really?

From the state of Kentucky:

"When I mention that Democrats are problem solvers, I can think of only one Republican who can be a problem solver -- that is Vice President Dick Cheney if he would just take George on a hunting trip,"

-- Governor Steve Beshear, Democrat

The only way an elected Democrat could solve a problem is to resign or drop dead.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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I Should Have Mentioned This Earlier

The Heights Theater is running the 70 mm print of 2001 : A Space Odyssey this week.

The program for the 7:10 pm showing on Saturday started with three minutes of a filmed interview Keir Dullea gave to a local television personality in 1965 (Mel Jass of WTCN-11). It was a bit silly.

After the feature they showed a print of the sequel, 2010. A definite relic of the Cold War. Helen Mirren did not take her clothes off.

They also have free refills on soda pop.

All in all it was a good night.
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Barbarism In Action

Looks like there's going to be another million dead because of a Socialist regime. In Burma this time.

The average daily death toll inflicted on Human Beings since Lenin's coup d'etat in November of 1917 is a bit over 3000 a day. In contrast the military administration of Chile under General Pinochet killed fewer than 3000 Marxists altogether.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thoughts for the Day

First: The pen and sword have always been together through the course of Western Civilization and cannot be practically separated.

Second:



Linda Hamilton.

Any questions?

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This Is Sick

In the state of Idaho:

It's an unbelievable story that has an entire community in shock.

Several sources confirm a 10-year-old girl from St. Anthony gave birth to a little girl on Saturday at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg.

The girl was allegedly raped by 37-year-old Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez. Gutierrez-Juaraz is an illegal immigrant who is in the Fremont County Jail on rape charges.

Gutierrez-Juarez was arrested April 29th after medical personnel alerted police that a pregnant child had come in for treatment. That child is now one of the youngest mothers in Idaho.

The hat tip goes to Dirty Harry who also points out:

Idaho lawmakers have killed a measure for the second time this year that would crack down on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

If we had the system of government depicted in Heinlein's STARSHIP TROOPERS the walking piece of excrement responsible for this act would have been hanged for kidnapping and rape.

Unfortunately the system of government seen in that novel was established after the total collapse of civil society.

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Wil Wheaton Is A Fucking Idiot

Wil Wheaton supports Barack Obama.

Gosh, what a surprise.

He is also whining about Hillary's continued pursuit of the position of Goddess-Queen.

Actually, I'm dead certain that he has no clue as to the true nature of any aspect of reality. But him being the usual leftist-indoctrinated California actor drone, that should come as no surprise.
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More things Mr. Welch is required or not allowed to do in a role playing game

1076. When told to dress like a Goth I will make sure with no uncertainty whether they mean black clothes and eyeliner or chainmail and shield.

1077. There is no such thing as a weresaxophonist.

1078. If 48 straight hours of pistol whipping doesn’t convince the terrorist to spill his guts, another 48 hours probably won’t either.

1082. There is no such thing as a brothel crawl.

1085. “Everybody Wang Chung tonight” is not an acceptable use of the Mass Suggestion spell.

1091. In the middle of a Black Ops, if a character dies I will not disavow knowledge of him until after the mission is over.

1092. If the battle goes for 20 rounds, we don’t have to stop and wait for the zamboni guy to clean up the battlefield.

1093. I will not tell the rookies they can roll down their Y-Wing’s windows.

1099. After a successful Black Ops, before I’m paid I will not immediately adopt a dozen children for the tax breaks.

1100. I cannot wish that someone else was an Oscar Meyer weiner.

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Thoughts for the Day

First: Those legislators who prefer to feel that they are on the side of progress (but who in fact haven't had an original idea since the Stone Age) are invariably envious of the profits made by major corporations. So much so that at every opportunity these self-styled guardians of the common worker will levy a new tax on corporate profits to the thunderous applause of the ignorant masses.

The dirty little secret that Lords of the Left and their sycophants in the mass media refuse to tell their victims is that each new tax levied on a major corporation has absolutely zero impact on corporate profits.

The fact of the matter is that taxes levied on business are part of the cost of doing business and are passed on to the consumers of goods and services created by that business. A tax on a corporate profit is in fact a tax on you.

Second:



Jenny Agutter.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.

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Thoughts for the Day

First: One of the absurdities one often hears from The Left is that there is such a thing as excess profits or surplus capital. In effect, that someone (other than the whiny Leftist) has too much money and that they have stashed it away somewhere it is not being used.

But in the real world all profits are either used to purchase goods and services created by other people or they are invested in a productive enterprise with the reasonable expectation of a further profit. In either case one man's profit provides gainful employment for other people. But to the whiny Leftist this is evil because it doesn't allow him or her to exist parasitically off of other people.


Second:



Wanda Ventham

Need I say anything more?
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Thoughts for the Day

First: Anyone who believes that they are infallible will believe anything. Unfortunately they will also do anything.

Second:



Jacqueline Bisset
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Thoughts for the Day

First: There are two basic ways that human beings interact with each other, consent or coercion. The former leads to peace and prosperity. The latter leads to terror and poverty.

Anyone who rejects the Society of Consent is an enemy. Identify and deal with him or her as such.

Second:



Helen Mirren.

What are you questions on this block of instruction?
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Thoughts for the Day

First: Without profit there is no commerce, without commerce there is no life for human beings outside of the cave. When someone declares that profit is evil he is really saying that YOU and the way you live are evil.

Such individuals are properly called enemies, you should identify and treat them as such.

Second:



Carol Cleveland in a low cut red dress.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.

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Remember This

Today is May Day.

There are those who still seek to establish a Communist state in America (with themselves holding the whip, of course) even though Communism has been proven to be toxic to human life.

Let us remember the victims of Communism and work to prevent any further destruction of lives and civilization.
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Update, 1300 Hours CDT:

Welcome to the Worker's Paradise Comrade!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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