Keeping It Clean

... at the U.S. Air Force Academy:



Have I ever said that political correctness sucks?
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Thought for the Day

Liberals appear to lack the ability to learn from mistakes, especially their own.
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Coolness

The local Burger King at 46th Street and Hiawatha Avenue in Minneapolis has two hand lettered signs proclaiming a twenty percent discount for military personnel.

Yayyyy!!!!
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Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer have some things to say about Jane Fonda:

For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort. With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance.

And there's more:

Aid and Comfort": Jane Fonda In North Vietnam was a time-consuming book to write. It required thoroughly researched facts, complex legal and constitutional analysis, hundreds of supporting and elaborating footnotes, and an appendix setting forth every one of Fonda’s broadcasts. We have often been asked why, given other writing projects and more pressing interests, we chose to do it.

Our answer is threefold.

First, Fonda was the most prominent American citizen to give the North Vietnamese invaluable antiwar, anti-United States, pro-Communist propaganda, which cost many American lives. She is a symbol of the willingness of members of the American left to oppose their country in war and give aid and comfort to the enemy camp – even when that enemy is a ruthless totalitarian aggressor. Because she got away with it, it was all the more important that we set the historical record straight by proving that she was indictable and convictable for treason.

Second, we felt strongly that a moral reckoning for Fonda’s conduct in Hanoi was long overdue, one that we hope will follow her to her grave—as it should.

Third, we believed then—we continue to believe—that what we think of as "Fonda-ism" must be fought whenever it appears. Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language defines "ism" as "a doctrine, theory, system, etc." By "Fonda-ism," we mean the belief that American citizens can with impunity interfere with their country’s foreign policy by making common cause with enemies bent on its destruction.

By herself, Jane Fonda is unimportant—confused, defensive, narcissistic, empty—a woman who admits in her autobiography that "Maybe I simply become whatever the man I am with wants me to be: ‘sex kitten’ [Roger Vadim], ‘controversial activist’ [Tom Hayden], ‘ladylike wife on the arm of corporate mogul’ [Ted Turner]."

But Fonda-ism is important because Americans who give aid and comfort to our enemies – Communists then, jihadists now -- put at risk, not only our cherished institutions, but—in today’s world—our very existence.

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Wishful Thinking

Bill Hobbs catches some guerilla filmmakers in action.

Wish I could afford to make a low budget movie.
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What Revenge Of The Sith Character Are You?

You scored as Darth Vader. Darth Vader 64% R2-D2 56% Anakin Skywalker 53% Emperor Palpatine 53% Mace Windu 50% Obi Wan Kenobi 50% General Grievous 44% C-3PO 44% Clone Trooper 44% Chewbacca 42% Yoda 33% Padme Amidala 22% Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

Seriously, if it weren't for the mass murder and powertripping thing I'd rather be a Sith than a Jedi.
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Today in Pizzaland

Today I got a bit sarcastic with a customer who was a persistent stiffer.

On a $22.92 transaction she gave me $23.00 and told me to keep the change. Since I fully expected to be stiffed by this customer I had the eight cents ready for making change. I gave the eight cents to her and said, "here, you keep this, you obviously need it more than I do."

She thanked me for the change.

She apparently didn't get it. She's probably a Democrat.
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R.I.P.

Actors Ed Bishop and Michael Billington of UFO have passed away.
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Quote of the Day

Dr. John J. Ray has something to say about Leftism:

At its deepest level, Leftism appears to be psychopathic -- with the psychopathic disregard for all norms, morals, standards and ethics in the ruthless quest for personal praise and satisfaction.

And they seem rather prone to stiffing the pizza delivery driver. But that's just a subjective observation.
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The Bottom line...

With all the dems reliving their glory days of Watergate, it's important to remember some facts about the Clinton Impeachment.
Mary Mostert cuts to the chase and delivers the raw truth.

"The truth is that the impeachment process grew out of actions by the President's own Attorney General who determined there was sufficient evidence to proceed with an investigation into whether had had attempted to interfere with a witness. That investigation revealed overwhelming evidence that the President had committed felonies. In the process, he encouraged others to break the law. Based on these actions, the Constitution prescribed the impeachment process as the only political actiuon the American people could take to address the President's crimes and enable him to stand before a court of law after removal from office.

"The truth is the House managers were not following a political vendetta, as many have proposed, but were filling an obligation mandated by the Constitution and required by their oath of office. These individuals made significant personal and political sacrifices to do their duty and are still facing opposition well after the trial has concluded.

"The truth is that even though most Americans seemed unaware of it, on this President's watch, our country's security has been tragically compromised and undermined by a presidency more concerned with raising campaign money than protecting our national interests. But these were serious issues that kept slipping out of sight.

Another sad truth is that Clinton's AG, Janet Reno, when put under pressure by the Whitehouse to stop appointing Special Prosecutors to investigate her bosses, she did what former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste calls "shut up and salute." Leaving uninvestigated the larger sins of the Clinton Administration, including widespread campaign finance violations and the sale of classified technology to the Communist Chinese government.

Quote of the Day

From the Strategy Page:

"'Leaning forward' is really just the first phase of 'falling on your face.'"

--Col (MARFOREUR)

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Um...Okay...

Absolut Sith at Dork Tower.

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Is it politcal bias?

I had a Liberal argue that Felt couldn't have gone to Congress with the raw, classified FBI data he was illegally leaking to the Washington Post because the Nixon Whitehouse defied and ignored Congress until there so much evidence he couldn't.
Hmmm...where have I heard that before? I'll bet this guy thinks that the Clintons stonewalling congress (including defying a congressional subpoena for over two years and then "finding" the documents in question the day after the statue of limitations ran out for prosecuting lawyers involved in S&L crimes) was "saving the constitution."

Somebody Is Seeing The Fnords

For some reason, mainly a distrust of common conceptions of coolness, I skipped seeing both parts of Tarantino's film KILL BILL.

Michael K. Crowley at 24 Lies A Second wrote an article that examines the idea that KILL BILL is an allegorical illustration of a number of Buddist doctrines.

Gosh, I may have to see it now...
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Thought for the Day

Actress Patricia Quinn as Doctor Nation Mckinley in a white teddy in the "Night, Night" scene in Shock Treatment.

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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Don Lloyd has an interesting definition of crime:

Crime is anything that a prosecutor believes will advance his dream of becoming State AG and then Governor.

And then there is the socialist definition of crime: That which impedes the creation of and limits the power of the socialist state.

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It's time the UN got behind this...

Glenn Reynolds wrote about the next International Right

in the face of evidence that an armed populace prevents genocide, the human rights community has largely gotten behind a campaign to ensure that there will be no armed populaces anywhere in the world.

It seems to me that the human rights community has things exactly backward. Given that the efforts of the international community to prevent and punish genocide over the past several decades have been, to put it politely, a dismal failure, perhaps it is time to try a new approach. International human rights law is supposed to be a "living" body of law that changes with the needs of the times in order to secure important goals -- chief among which is the prevention of genocide. Given that the traditional approaches of conventions and tribunals have failed miserably, the human rights community should be prepared to endorse a new international human right: the right of law-abiding citizens to be armed.

Read the whole thing. It's from October of 2002.
A lot of lives could have been saved if it was adopted then.

And Then...

One of my current projects in writing a screenplay set in the Official Traveller Universe. I'm presently up to page 23 where Lisa's ability to see things that occur in the future first manefests itself.

Tonight I started playing with a site for THE PLOT-OMATIC. One of the things I ended up with was this:

The Boundary

an original screenplay concept by Someone who can't follow simple instructions.

I apparently forgot to enter a screenwriter's name

Science Fiction: A war hardened soldier teams up with a well-built female cyborg to save the earth from aliens. In the process they have mad passionate sex with a nun. By the end of the movie they blow up 1762 cars and end up winning the admiration of their co-workers, living happily ever after.

Think Clerks meets Red Dawn.

Needless to say the concept needs work.
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Another Opinion

Ben Stein on Deep Throat and the fall of President Nixon:

Can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible? He ended the war in Vietnam, brought home the POW's, ended the war in the Mideast, opened relations with China, started the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty, saved Eretz Israel's life, started the Environmental Protection Administration. Does anyone remember what he did that was bad?

President Nixon worked to prevent the worldwide victory of the Communist movement. Never mind that the victory of Communism over civilization would have brought about a dark age that humanity would likely never recover from, thus for all practical purposes condemning the Human Race to extinction.

One of the problems with being an atheist is that one cannot believe in the existence of such a place as Hell. Even though it would be a fitting final destination for the souls of certain folks on the left:

When his enemies brought him down, and they had been laying for him since he proved that Alger Hiss was a traitor, since Alger Hiss was their fair-haired boy, this is what they bought for themselves in the Kharma Supermarket that is life:

1.) The defeat of the South Vietnamese government with decades of death and hardship for the people of Vietnam.

2.) The assumption of power in Cambodia by the bloodiest government of all time, the Khmer Rouge, who killed a third of their own people, often by making children beat their own parents to death. No one doubts RN would never have let this happen.

So, this is the great boast of the enemies of Richard Nixon, including Mark Felt: they made the conditions necessary for the Cambodian genocide. If there is such a thing as kharma, if there is such a thing as justice in this life of the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide. I hope they are happy now -- because their future looks pretty bleak to me.

But then it is not unusual for a leftist to sacrifice the lives of the innocent in order to enjoy the warm and fuzzy feelings that come from the false posture of virtue.

Burn in Hell motherfuckers.
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Quotes of the Day

Lowell Ponte in Discover the Networks wrote:

FBI Deputy Director W. Mark Felt, passed over by President Nixon for promotion to succeed the late J. Edgar Hoover as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, violated professional ethics and his oath of secrecy in an apparent fit of anger, vengeance and a desire to win favors from the liberal press and perhaps a future Democratic President. Felt became the secret support on which Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein constructed the gallows with which the media and Democrats in control of Congress and the courts were able to lynch Mr. Nixon for crimes no greater than those committed by recent Democratic presidents.

And.

The coup that overthrew President Nixon was largely orchestrated by Senator Edward Kennedy to reverse the left-repudiating 1972 election and serve Kennedy's presidential ambitions. This coup led to Communist victory in Vietnam, toppling dominoes in Southeast Asia, and encouragement to left revolutionary movements worldwide. It also allowed Kennedy and his liberal media allies to identify the tragic Vietnam War not with President John F. Kennedy, who committed the first 17,000 armed troops there, but with Republican President Nixon.

But this coup also had unexpected consequences. It led to the election of Democratic President Jimmy Carter in 1976. Carter withdrew support from America's key ally the Shah of Iran, which led to a medieval Islamist dictatorship in Iran, the 500,000+ deaths of the Iran-Iraq War, the militarization of Saddam Hussein, the destabilization of the Middle East and Islamic world, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the creation of Al Qaeda under terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, and bin Laden's eventual attacks of 9-11 on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. All this and more has come from the media coup that removed an overwhelmingly-reelected President Nixon.

Ayn Rand in her works of fiction and non-fiction drew a line between rational self-interest, the achievement of goals without imposing costs on others, versus what we now call malignant narcissism, the pursuit of desires through the sacrifices imposed on other people.

How many millions of people died at the hands of the communists in Cambodia and Vietnam so that malignant narcissists like Edward Kennedy and W. Mark Felt could pursue their own career ambitions?

What can I say to such individuals?

Thanks a lot assholes!

And I have another question.

Is it too late to hang the bloodsoaked motherfuckers?
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And Now...

The Ten Most Evil Books In The World.

And I always thought that John Dewey was just another fucking socialist.
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Now There's An Idea!

R.K. Milholland at Something Positive brings us the concept of the Idiot Containment Room.
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Now that would be a Horror Film!

Revenge of the Bitch!

Thought for the Day

Never underestimate the ability of the committed liberal to willfully ignore the most obvious piece of verifiable evidence.
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Are We Not Sith?

Emperor Darth Misha I has his own theory as to who the real good guys and evil bastards are in the Star Wars series.

We Are Sith, Part I

We Are Sith, Part II

Perhaps we should be...

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Three-Year Old News

CANADIAN WARSHIP SEIZES TANKER IN... WAIT... CANADA HAS A WARSHIP?

Arabian Sea (SatireWire.com) — Canadian television reported Friday that a Canadian warship in the Arabian Sea had seized a tanker suspected of smuggling oil from Iraq, leading many to suspect that the report was a hoax.

"You're kidding, right? Canada has a warship?" asked U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Like for war?

"Does Canada know?" he added.

Seriously, can they even afford to have a warship with all their welfare spending?

According to Canadian defense officials, the Vancouver is one of four frigates deployed in the region to assist in the U.S.-led Afghanistan conflict. The tanker was stopped, officials said, because its cargo of crude oil violated United Nations sanctions, which prohibit Iraq from selling oil unless in exchange for food and medicine.

The U.N. said the incident is already under investigation, and promised swift action against those found responsible for giving the Canadians guns. Initial findings indicate that the Vancouver crew may have been watching too many American television shows.

Too bad they aren't updating the SatireWire site anymore.
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Leslie, you may turn out to be a Prophet yet...

Check out this article by Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder on the possible beatification of HRC.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, I point you toward Leslie's story Homecoming.

Dammit!

I now regret not going to law school.

An interesting help wanted advert brought to us by the Heartless Libertarian.
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Photo of the Day

Murderer on a slab.

Thanks to Tex at Whacking Day.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Orson Scott Card takes a look at Revenge of the Sith:

He wanted to make his epic dream come to life on the screen, in all its majesty and power -- and humor, and love, and heroism, and sacrifice ...

He labored over the special effects to make it all seem real, and he succeeded. The dream of his childhood was there on the screen.

Too bad his inner child never learned how to write.

Granted, I can't say that I'm always happy with what I write.

Of course a good tale should carry some truths with it:

That people rarely embrace evil for its own sake, but rather because they think they can accomplish something good.

That once you cross certain moral lines, it becomes almost trivial to cross others.

Of course, I cannot for the life of me figure out what possible good could be accomplished with an ideology that so obviously reduces productive human beings to the status of sub-sentient cattle at the very outset.

Perhaps we should consider ourselves fortunate that most modern liberals in America are happy with only empty posturing instead of actual results.
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Oh, By The Way...

The Sith gets results!

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Monday Night Confession

I once actually paid money to see a Jane Fonda movie.

The movie was BARBARELLA. It was playing at the Uptown theatre, which at the time was a revival house*. I believed at the time that because it predated the trip to Hanoi that it would be ethically okay for me to see it.

What can I say? BARBARELLA sucked.

By some accounts, Jane Fonda movies still suck.

I'll just have to take their word for it.



* A practice that basically died as a result of the mass distribution of VCR's. Dammit! Some movies, such as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, can only be truly appreciated when shown on the big theatre screen.
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Quotes of the Day

Joel at Little Green Footballs puts something into perspective:

For all their talk about Abu Ghraib, it is obvious to me that the MSM knows very little history. Let's for example say for arguemnts sake that everything they allege to have happened at Abu Ghraib is true (I for one think that the Abu Ghraib story is exaggerated. Does that mean that the US mission is a bad one? In World War II, 96 American servicemen were executed, one was Eddie Slovik for desertion, and 95 were for the felonies of murder (firing squad) or rape (hanging). That some American soldiers committed rape and murder mean that we were on par with the S.S. and Gestapo and therefore that the American mission (Eisenhower referred to it as a "Crusade in Europe" in his book)was morally negated? Of course not!

As long as the MP's at Abu Ghraib don't start playing the auditory works of Yoko Ono we should be okay.

And then on the same thread Goat Guy lays out the differences between how Muslims deal with the Koran and how Christians see the Bible:

This is one of so many "things" that I have come to appreciate about modern Christianity. It does not venerate a book. But it does The Word. Strictly, it doesn't venerate a building, but the Temple in the Heart. It doesn't propose a spreadsheet of cans, can'ts, of do-this-and-it-negates-that crap. It demands only that one take responsibility for their actions, that they think of others, that they try as hard as possible to retire the primitive notions of 'honor', and 'vindication', of collective judgement and retribution. Nothing - nothing! - is authorized as action the believer must take to countenance the besmirched honor of the God of the Word. Nothing.

And that is something that separates us from the Muslims - in the biggest way. We simply put do not have (either Judaisim or Christianity) a sense of object-honor. Its all philosophy. And it is brilliantly non-judgemental, so long as the follower of the faith tries to improve.

Basically, I think of the Koran as merely the written record of the rantings and ravings of an illiterate paedophile-rapist, robber, and murderer.

But what do I know? I only read history as it actually happened.

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Hmmm...

My landlady said the she has played the Zero Wing Raspsody about fifty times today.

I'm sure that Beelzebub has set a devil aside for me for introducing the landlady to ZWR.
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So Anyway

I saw Revenge of the Sith.

What can I say, Anakin Skywalker is a shmuck.

Of course there are some who wish to see this film as an indictment of the present government. Particularily with this quote:

This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

-- Senator Padme Amidala

Of course, apart from a National Socialist rally at Nuremburg, you can't beat a Soviet Communist Party congress for thunderous applause. Especially back in Comrade Stalin's day.

There will of course be thunderous applause when Comrade Hillary receives the nomination at the next Democratic National Convention. And I don't doubt that there will be thunderous applause should Comrade Hillary actually be elected.

And I simply can't imagine there not being thunderous applause when the long knives finally come out and the opponents of socialism, such as Mark and myself, are lined up along a ditch and shot.

But what do I know? I only read history as it actually happened.
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Hardly surprising...

The left gets it backwards. Law Professor Ann Althouse points out that Constitutional framers considered requiring a supermajority vote in the Senate to reject the President's judicial nominees.

A Plan...

I've read a number of positive reviews of SW3: Revenge of the Sith, and the local weather channel is predicting a sunny day tomorrow. I the pizza business good weather means sucky business, which means I should get off work early tomorrow. I will probably see Episode Three at the Mall of America 14 tommorow night.

Quote of the Day

Walid Phares in Frontpage Magazine on the NEWSPEAK NEWSWEEK riots:

One element lost in all the coverage of the jihadist-inspired riots is the rioters' utter hypocrisy. Their concerns for the Muslim holy book did not manifest when they burned mosques to the ground in Pakistan over the past few months. Nor did they launch demonstrations after they destroyed mosques in Iraq throughout the year. There were certainly hundreds of Korans burned into ashes. (It didn't hurt that the owners of these mosques were Shi'ites.) A couple of decades earlier, Hafez Assad's brutal brigades leveled off the mosques of the city of Hama. Thousands of Korans were destroyed (along with 20,000 Sunnis). Yet, the Arab and Islamic world didn't raise a ruckus. The selective outrage over the destroyed Korans is not theological but political. It is only when the Islamists want to wage a jihad for their holy book that infractions begin to make any difference to them. When Arab militias raids black Muslim villages in Darfur, and destroy them, along with their holy books, that is acceptable, but one sentence in an article published in a U.S. magazine deserves a whole holy war? Who are we kidding here?

Read the whole thing here.
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Suggestion

Take a trip on the Darth Side.

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Another Quote

From Frontpage Magazine:

Che excelled in one thing: mass murder of defenseless men. He was a Stalinist to the core, a plodding bureaucrat and a calm, cold-blooded – but again, never in actual battle – killer.

-- Humberto Fontova, Author of Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant.

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Quotes of the Day

From Frontpage Magazine:

"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."

"These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate."

-- Che Guevara, Socialist and Mass Murderer

Read the entire interview with Humberto Fontova, the author of Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant.

There Are Things I Would Never Do To A Bird

LIKE THIS (CLICK ON LINK)

HT: Princess Kimberley

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Thought for the Day

I posted the following as a comment to something Mark posted on his blog:

The Left believes that socialist dictatorship is the only true (or perfect) form of government. What "Chimpy McBushitler" is doing is replacing proper states where the collective will is embodied in the person of the dictator with self-governing republics where the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are separated and holders of public office are, at least in theory, accountable to the citizen body.

What's worse in the minds (and we're assuming that they have minds here) of the Left is that the socialist systems of economic command based on compulsion where the leftist self-styled intelligentsia gets a free ride is being replaced by a market economy based on consent and contract where even intellectuals are expected to do or at least write something useful.

As to the charge of empire-building, Bush is operating with a voluntary coalition of free states. But in the "superior" intellectual methodology of the Left opposites are identical, thus War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Coalitions are Empires, and the reality that we see is unreal.

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And Now...A Link!

Take a look at The Real Cuba!

See the achitectural wonders of Socialist Havana!

Wonder how any human being could still live there!

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Another Blast From The Past

Let's have some violence that makes sense:

Don't Sing In The Office...

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Blasts From The Past

In honor of the last [expletive] Star Wars film I bring forth a link to a comment I made about the Hollywood process: The Audience Is Paying Attention.

To make a long rant short (too late) I think that any Second Hand mentality who mindlessly copies the elements that others have used in their films really deserves to receive a financial kick in the face.

Not that the dumb bastards would learn from it.

Oh, I also had something to say about Hollywood cosmetology:

Seriously people, even Tammy Faye Bakker has not had her lips inflated. That should tell us something.

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Quote of the Day

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

-- Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria"), Spanish Communist

We on the Right tolerate the long and drawn out appeals process for death penalty cases, as frustrating as it is, because in we want to be certain that we will not put an innocent person to death. The Left, when it is in absolute power, simply doesn't care.

We on the Right believe in justice. The Left on the other hand, doesn't care how high the pile of human corpses is as long as they are firmly seated on top.
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Thought for the Day

It is simply not possible for us to peacefully co-exist with someone, be it a socialist or a theocrat, who claims the status of mastership over us. Such beings have surrendered any and all moral claim to the status of Human Being and can only dealt with by violent force. To be physically isolated, driven off, or simply exterminated.
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Quote of the Day

"Since I came from a country [the USSR] guilty of the worst tyranny on earth, I am particularly able to appreciate the meaning, the greatness and the supreme value of that which you are defending. So, in my own name and in the name of many people who think as I do, I want to say, to all the men of West Point, past, present and future: Thank you." -- Ayn Rand, Speech At West Point, 1974

My Horoscope

From The Onion of May 11, 2005:

Sagittarius: (Nov. 22—Dec. 21)

You believed being stranded on that desert island put an end to your run of lousy luck, but the natives will soon become strangely inspired and fashion a crude bus to hit you with.

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Two Items

During today's sleep period (I crashed at about 0230 and had the alarm set for 0930) I had a weird-assed dream. Someone had published in my name a play titled "Waiting For Kafka." I could not find an actual copy of the play, which was only performed by shitty little leftist theatre groups.

I was reading Mark's own blog (And if you're not reading it, why not?) when a thought popped into my head.

The Democratic Party's nomenklatura, being essentially a bunch of parasites, feel that they are entitled to rule over us. How else does one explain the utter contempt of the nomenklatura for "the democratic process", and their ongoing desire to disarm us. They feel threatened by the expression of the common citizen's rejection of the will of the nomenklatura and the presence of the citizen body's mean's of enforcing that rejection.

To a parasite, rejection is death.
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Word of the Day

FNORD!

I'm spending waaaaaay too much time surfing the net today.
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Quote of the Day

"During my trip from being anti-gun to pro-gun, I found that pro-gun folks and sites always were able to answer questions directly. Anti-gun folks and sites always sidestepped questions. That's how I chose sides." -- Ken Yee

This Qualifies As Surreal

All Your Bohemian Rhapsody Are Belong To Us.

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Thought for the Day

Um...yes...yes...

Um...the Travel Office sketch in Live from the Hollywood Bowl readily comes to mind...so to speak...
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Quote of the Day

Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped, and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

Quote of the Day

Gary North on Karl Marx:

"Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao’s tyranny. We will probably never know."

Here's an idea: Given that socialism is toxic to human life, let's start treating the public advocacy of socialism as a form of the incitement to commit murder.

For all practical purposes, Marxism in practice is murder en masse.

Hat tip to Dr. Ray.
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Quote of the Day

"Whether you like it or not, gun rights are civil rights. If you are against gun rights, then you are in the same pack as the Klan and the communists, and are as likely to vote to shut down churches and newspapers as you are to license and register guns." -- Guy Smith

Bad News

Osama Bin Ladin is not dead.

The obvious reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail immediately comes to mind.

One day about a year ago I was driving over a section of highway that was laid over a swamp when I suddenly had the vision of Michael Palin as the Lord of Swamp Castle in command of space station Babylon Five:

"Everyone thought I was daft to build a space station in the Epsilon System..."

"Don't like her? She's got huge...Influence on the Gray Council!"

"You're marrying Satai Lucky, so you better get used to it!"

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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

Moveon members demonstrate their superior knowledge of history and spelling at a protest in Minneapolis:


(Hat tip to the Minnesota Democrat Exposer and thanks to When Angry Democrats Attack.)

Thought for the Day

There is no shortage of assholes and idiots.

The good news is that there is some overlap.
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Why I Don't Live In Wisconsin

First Ed Gein, now this chap. What is it with momma's boys from Wisconsin?

TOWN OF CAMPBELL, Wis. - A loner who told authorities he kept his dead mother in a freezer for years played make-believe with her into junior high and endured teasing because she walked him to high school.

Philip Schuth and his mother, Edith, had only each other, neighbors and acquaintances said Tuesday as they tried to make sense of a police standoff at Schuth's home that ended with Schuth in jail and investigators carting a massive chest-freezer out of his basement. Inside was a body Schuth claims is his mother.

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And Now For Something Completely Different

A message for gangbangers (and gangbanger wannabes) from Doc Russia:

Note to boyfriends: Do not think for a moment that your ghettolicious street fabulous bulllshit is going to get you anything besides snide derision from me. I will go over, I will look at your road pizza girlfriend. I will stand there and pick my nose for a loooong minute. Then say something along the lines of "yeah, she looks pretty fu*ked up, you better get someone to look at that" and stroll out. I am neither impressed nor intimidated by your bullshit gang sign throwing, psuedomasculine, pissant posing. If you want to impress me, put a damned shirt on, speak english, or better yet, pipe down and wait your freaking turn. This is not Burger King. We do not make it your way. This is an emergency center, and believe it or not, we are professional grade. Unless you have an MD, PA, or RN behind your name, I do not give a rat's ass what you think the course of treatment should be. I do not care how bad it looks; we are not going to stitch those pit bull bites. I don't care how uncomfortable you are, we are not going to take off that C-collar until we know that that 2mm C2 anterior displacement and subluxation is just positional artifact.

And no amount of trying to flex your muscles, or giving me the evil eye, or curling your lip is going to make me shudder. First off; I am a lot bigger than you. Second off, I have fought and won fights with Marines bigger than you. Third; that sheriff sitting over there is former army, carries a .44 magnum S&W, and owes me for spotting him for lunch.

Did I mention that gangbangers (and wannabes) tip like shit?

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Um...Okay...

Ireland On-Line explains why the next Star Wars movie is going to suck:

Hollywood mogul George Lucas struggled so much with writing the screenplay for final Star Wars installment Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, he had to force himself to stick to a rigid working day as he sought inspiration.

The hugely successful movie-maker, 60, took on the persona of a normal office worker as he sat at his desk for nine hours a day, five days a week - and he still only managed to produce five pages everyday.

He says: "I am very diligent about writing. I go to work at 8.30am and leave at 6pm. I sit there with that page in front of me but I still can't write it.

"I do get it done, I actually write five pages a day. But I force myself - otherwise I would probably write a page a day."

I think I'm doing good if I get a page a day.

And I don't force myself, either.
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This Is Interesting

From the trailer for SERENITY:

"This is going to get pretty interesting."

"Define 'interesting'".

"Oh God! Oh God! We're all going to die!"

And:

"I want to resolve this like civilized men. I not treatening you. I'm unarmed..."

"Good!" BANG!

I still have to watch my copy of the collected episodes of FIREFLY on DVD.

(Les raps own knucles with his stainless steel ruler)

Ouch!
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I Didn't See This One Coming...

I am: Isaac Asimov One of the most prolific writers in history, on any imaginable subject. Cared little for art but created lasting and memorable tales.

Which science fiction writer are you?

This may explain my obsession with creating my own private Traveller universe.
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This Is Pathetic

Doc Russia had something to say about one of his patients:

Two patients I had to deal with today were real works of art.

Although one was male and one was female, they both were 14 years old and each of them weighed more than my 6"1' large-and-in-charge overweight ass.

Mostly it was the guy who bothered me. In certain cultures, no matter his age, boys are considered superior to girls. Even if a boy is 4 years old and hasn't quite mastered toilet training yet, without the dad around, he is the master of the house, lording over even his own mother.

What this means is that mom caters to his every desire, and about the time he turns 14, he has been enabled into helplessness. He has been getting along so long on the industry of others that he no longer knows how to do things without them. He ends up turning into a blubbering mass of chewed bubble gum every time someone puts any sort of tasks upon him. Tell him to sit in a chair as opposed to lying in bed, and he starts crying and screaming "I caaaaaaaan't."

When I was the same age as that grossly over-spoiled brat I was delivering the afternoon edition of the local socialist rag after school hours. And if I regret anything about my attendance at the Benning School for Boys it's that I didn't do it sooner.

While I'm in sympathy with the good doctor's concept of "Gunny Therapy" I would never physically bat anyone about the head, even though I have raised my voice to idiots in the manner of an army infantry drill sergeant. I was fired from a hospital security position for that once.

One of "interesting" parts of the job of pizza delivery driver is trying to not go off in the drill sergeant mode on every idiot who doesn't offer a tip. Especially when the outdoor environmental conditions are especially crappy. Apart from hardcore liberals, the worst offenders on average (there are exceptions) in this area appear to be "African-American" women. The personal check made out in the exact amount being the preferred weapon of choice in this reprehensible practice.

(HT: Heartless Libertarian)

Quote of the Day

From The Onion, April 27, 2005:

"Look, governments are supposed to kill people, not encourage them to be healthier."

-- Eduardo York, Broadcast Technician

I wasn't really thrilled with this week's horoscope. I mean its not like I actually went around tossing Molotov cocktails...
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Thought for the Day

Someone who is offended by a statement of truth may not actually be in the wrong, but that is certainly the way to bet.
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This Is Sick

I'm an atheist and I think this is sick.

SORE THUMBS on the new Pope.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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An Addition, A Subtraction

LASunsett had something interresting to say about the situation in Iran:

Iran is struggling to come to a boil. This summer could prove to be a pivotal moment in the underground struggle to oust the mullahs.

When the Shah was ousted it simmered like this for a while, before coming into a full roiling boil. There is a whole generation of Iranians that do not remember the Shah. They only know the mullah's form of tyranny. Older adults have had a chance to see that they traded one form of tyranny for a worse one.

Despite his despotic characteristics, the Shah was able to westernize a major Islamic country. There are many today that long for that re-westernization, without the Shah, under a freely elected government. The vote in Iraq was highly instrumental, kind of like lighting the pilot light.

So I've added his blog to the roll of blogs.

The Baby Seal Seal Club has apparently been hacked and is no longer a source of insightful commentary. I've removed the link. (Dude, if you're still blogging elsewhere, let me know. Okay?)
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Meanwhile...Across The Ocean

Iran executes teenage demonstrators in Ahwaz:

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards executed a number of teenage demonstrators in the streets of Ahwaz, southern Iran, according to eye-witnesses.

Residents reported that Revolutionary Guards arrested demonstrators in the city streets and gunned them down to terrorise the local people and end a weeklong anti-government uprising that has spread throughout the oil-rich Khuzestan Province.

Helicopters were also seen opening fire on demonstrators.

A 5-year-old boy was killed when he was run over by a Revolutionary Guards’ armoured personnel carrier, eye-witnesses said.

Expecting leftist demonstrations against the mullahcrats in five...four...three...
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(Dammit! Forgot to HT Dr. Ray!)

This Is Civilization In Action

A thought just occured to me regarding yesterday's post about the mass-murderer Che Guevara:

We accepted Fidel Castro's daughter and granddaughter as refugees from Cuban Socialism, and we didn't shoot them.

Think of it as civilization in action.
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This Is Socialism In Action

Dr. John Ray provided the link to this:

"One morning the horrible sound of that rusty steel door swinging open startled us awake and Che's guards shoved a new prisoner into our cell. His face was bruised and smeared with blood. We could only gape. He was a boy, couldn't have been much older than 12, maybe 14.

"'What did you do?' We asked horrified. 'I tried to defend my papa,' gasped the bloodied boy. 'I tried to keep these Communist sons of b**tches form murdering him! But they sent him to the firing squad.'"

Soon Che's goons came back, the rusty steel door opened and they yanked the valiant boy out of the cell. "We all rushed to the cell's window that faced the execution pit," recalls Mr. San Martin. "We simply couldn't believe they'd murder him! Then we spotted him, strutting around the blood-drenched execution yard with his hands on his waist and barking orders – the gallant Che Guevara."

Here Che was, finally in his element. In battle he was a sad joke, a bumbler of epic proportions (for details see "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant"), but up against disarmed and bloodied boys he was a snarling tiger.

Read the whole article and remember it the next time you see someone wearing a "Che" shirt.
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The Doctor Is In

Dr. Michael Hurd writes:

If you don't like the behavior you're seeing, then stop subsidizing it. Stop giving money to people who do things you dislike. Stop endorsing and praising them. Stop implying approval when you really disagree and disapprove of what they're doing. Stop smiling when you could frown instead, or merely remain blank.

When you subsidize something, you'll tend to get more of it. When you stop subsidizing, you’ll tend to get less of it. This applies to all kinds of relationships, including family and friends--especially family and friends. You have more influence than you think.

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Some Questions

Would you wear a Charlie Manson tee-shirt to the Tate Family reunion?

Would you wear a Adolf Hitler shirt in a synagague?

Keith Urbahn of the Yale Daily News thinks that communist-chic attire (the Che shirt, etc.) is defintely not cool (HT to Mark Urbin):

Marxism was a dark -- perhaps the darkest -- chapter in human history. Those who still admire the ideology are sullied by the black stain of 85 million deaths. Those who -- ignorant of the story behind their beloved leftist icons -- sport Che or vintage Communist Party shirts are likewise tainted by tacit approval of unprecedented crimes against humanity.

Displaying a swastika or a poster of the KKK's Grand Dragon on a dorm wall is considered unacceptable by the standards of modern society, yet somehow, symbols identified with communist mass murder pass the test of political correctness -- they're even "cute" or "kitschy." But "radical chic" isn't "cool"; it's a disgraceful endorsement of humanity's most appalling atrocities.

And we still have May Day coming up soon. Anyone in favor of candlelight vigil to remember the victims of Communism?
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This Week

This week is the aniversary of the Waco Massacre.

Tom Knapp writes:

The Israeli government took sixteen years to track down Adolph Eichman at the little house in Buenos Aires where he had retired from a long and productive career of burning, gassing and machine-gunning Jews. How long will it take us to put U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno behind bars where she belongs?

(Hat Tip to Dr. John Ray.)
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Quote of the Day

From Schlock Mercenary, April 20, 2005:

If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, I've got a room full of violence-prone semi-sociopaths who care.

-- Commander Kevyn Andreyasn

And Now...

...Moxie is having a little fun with British royalty.

If a nominal monarch cannot exercise proper political authority, at least he should have more moral authority than the average inhabitant of a trailer park.
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Oh, Good One...

Air Strike You preferred a weapon with 56% power over speed and 85% range over melee.

You use Air Strikes. Fighting? Fighting is for idiots! All you have to do is make a quick walkie-talkie call and have the ground ahead of you carpeted with explosive charges. Your enemies will be searching frantically for refuge as you chuckle from afar.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 61% on power You scored higher than 99% on range

Link: The What's Your Signature Weapon Test written by inurashii on Ok Cupid

Today in Pizzaland

I had an interesting delivery run today.

There were two customers on the run. The first delivery was to someone with multiple Gay activism stickers plastered all over the front screendoor in such a way as to scream: LOOK AT ME, I'M SO [EXPLETIVE] WONDERFUL!

They paid for their order with a check for the exact amount.

The second delivery was to a working mother with a young son. She paid for her order with a check with a two-dollar tip written in.

If anything, fifteen months of delivering pizza for a living has caused my previous loathing of the Left to become deeper and more visceral. After all, why should any leftist go through the effort of doing something that is objectively positive, such as tipping the delivery driver, when they can merely strike a pose and feel good about themselves afterwards?

Why indeed?

Seriously, I generally received better tips from Mexican immigrants, who are working their butts off to support their families and are barely getting by, than I do from hardcore liberals. (The continued display of Kerry/Edwards and Wellstone yard signs or other indicators of political alignment are usually a dead giveaway.)

And Then She...

So anyway, I was checking Mark's Ann Coulter sig-quote page when I read this beauty:

"Why is it that the same people who have the least confidence in the police and the military are the most willing to allow only the police and the military to have guns?"

-- Ann Coulter

I think (and I'm still in the process of waking up here as I type this) that the answer has something to do with who's giving what orders and degree to which said orders could be reasonably expected to be followed.

I would think if a local socialist politician who gets in touch with his/her inner Stalin (or the stooge in the police chief's office who gets in touch with his inner Beria) were to command me to walk to the ditch outside of town and blow my brains out, the most likely response, at least verbally, is something to the effect of "go to Hell."

(And if Hillary is elected in '08, things could get really interesting really fast.)

This may also explain why some socialists are sympathetic to the idea of bringing convicted felons and conscripts into the armed forces. Where a citizen soldier may be reasonably expected to apply a buttstroke to the head of someone who orders the commission of an atrocity, a conscript has already demonstrated a capacity of obedience and the felon doesn't care.

I have to get dressed to go to work now...
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Oh, Good One...

Over at Mark's...

In Other News

If you haven't read or heard by now, Ann Coulter will be on the cover of SLIME TIME Magazine.

I like Ann, but she is a tall and thin Christian and I'm a short and fat atheist. It would never work.

Darn.
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Quotes of the Day

A dumbass Democrat senator (yes, I know its a redundancy) had this to say about President Bush's plan to reform Social Security:

"U.S. Treasury securities have the ability to be paid under any circumstances based on the ability of the government to print money."

In other words, let them eat paper!

Here's what Dr. Ray had to say about this:

Inflating the currency is a dreadful idea that has landed much of Latin America in massive trouble. Like a latter-day Evita Peron, Corzine smiles upon the Argentine economic model: skyrocketing prices, a currency as disposable as Kleenex, and rising social chaos. Democrats have said many silly things in their crusade to scuttle President Bush's personal retirement accounts, but this must be the stupidest.

To vote for a change, even though reality requires it, is for the Donks an admission that they were in some respect wrong.

I wouldn't expect them to do it.
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And Then...

Dr. John Ray has linked to an old rant of mine.

The Left, being dependent upon others for their sustenance, must stand in opposition to the society of rational consent and openly support systems of compulsion, be it various species of Socialism or the witch-doctor rule of Islam, because to do otherwise is to condemn themselves to death.

Of course, in my view, if the Left would just die it would be nice.

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Thought for the Day

To apologize to evil is to submit to it.
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Thought for the Day

Someday, a tourist from another planet will inquire about the location of the Terran city of Cheeseburg, the birthplace of the cheeseburger.
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Groan!

Walter Williams on stupid airport security (Part II):

One person wrote that he, his wife and son were stopped, questioned and searched at length by TSA and FBI officials. It turned out there was a terror alert for a person named Harry Smith (not the true name). The couple's 5-year-old son's name was also Harry Smith. How much brains do you think it requires for the FBI and TSA to immediately realize that their 5-year-old son was the wrong Harry Smith?

And here is his first piece on the subject of stupid airport security.
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Quote of the Day

Glenn M. Goffin wrote on the Traveller Mailing List:

The father of a friend was a US Army veteran of the Pacific war. He said that there was usually an informal agreement with the Japanese Imperial Marines not to take any prisoners: "It was just easier all around that way."

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

The Gang of One said:

If it were not for falsehoods, distortions, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, and more lies, the left would have nothing to say.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Question

Does anyone remember the Narn Bat Squad?

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Thought for the Day

I'm glad that I'm not a parent.

(HT: Donald Sensing)

Somewhere In Pizzaland

On Friday afternoon I had to give a point by point instruction to a Somali immigrant on how to write a check in order to pay for her veggie pizza.

One thing that I noticed is that hardcore leftist activists are extremely parsimonious when it comes to tipping. One even laughed in my face when I suggested that he could write in a tip on the credit card slip.

Shows how much they really love the real workers.

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Quote of the Day

"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."

-- Che Guevara

Fun Fact

When I talk to myself I usually use the first person plural.

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A Question

What are you doing on May 1st?

Bruce Walker writes in the American Daily:

America must begin to remember the Other Holocaust. Communism, unlike Nazism, is not dead. Putin today dips his toe into the water to see if the Cold War against communism is still cold. The Korean Hitler has created a Treblinka that dwarfs Treblinka. China ponders Tiananmen Square wonders whether the genocide of Tibet, much more recent than HaShoah, is still treated as nothing.

The ghost of Hitler is dead, but the ghost of Stalin is not. What better time for Americans and their government to recall these than when we remember their dead brothers and sisters in Nazi death camps? If we do not begin to remember the Gulag and the Killing Fields and Tibet and the vast apparatus of communist democide, then it is inevitable that we can and we will forget HaShoah.

How about a memorial for the victims of Communism?

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Idiot Saving Time

John J. Miller at National Review Online explains the true origins of Daylight Savings Time and why it should be repealed.

In Other News

NASA has found water on Mars.

Wiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Cox and Forkum has given us cause for thought, if not cause for concern:



There's also an ongoing discussion of the meaning of this cartoon.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled April Fool's Day.

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