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Republican Root Beer.



Is it still being brewed?

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Paris In 1978

Do not do this at home.
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Thought for the Day

Someone who declares that hatred of evil is evil may not be an evil being himself, but that is certainly the way to bet.
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So Anyway...

... I go offline for the better part of two weeks and the Zarkman gets nailed by "Team Satan." (Not that I mind of course, being a former team member myself.)

I do note that Denial also appears to be a river in Hell.
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Announcement

I'm back.

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Logic and Liberals don't often mix...

Take a look at two responses to a post on my blog concerning Islamofacist terrorist Al-Zarqawi shuffling off this mortal coil by way of a pair of US 500 pound bombs.

The first response, predictably one of the standard leftist talking points:

I cheered this news; hope it means we can leave Iraq sooner instead of later.

The same poster later makes the following comment (again, right from the far left list of talking points):

...he was only responsible for about 6 percent of the attacks (defense department figures) and some other piece of shit will take his place soon

Which is it? Either Al-Zarqawi is a major terrorist bad-ass and his death with bring Islamofacist activity in Iraq to a much lower level, thus allowing a sooner withdrawal of US troops or he's minor player only "responsible for about 6 percent of the attacks."

You can't have it both ways and claim to be using rational thought.

The MSM/DNC view

Pretty much one in the same, as Hugh Hewitt points out, using MSM coverage of the death of Zarqawi as an example:

It isn't sad. It is predictable.

MSM has been trained by Democratic Party cues to view every development in the war through the lens of the political war on the Bush Adminsitration.

News is never "good," but "long overdue." Excellent political developments are mere flip-turns en route to another length of anti-Bush diatribe.

Here's the key analysis you won't here on MSM today: Had we not invaded Iraq, Zarqawi would not be dead today, but rather ensconced in some Baghdad safe house or larger encampment plotting more savagery. Had we not invaded Iraq, Saddam's decision menu today would be how much or little assistance to give Zarqawi, followed by the allocation of bribes to his various U.N. oil-for-food stooges, followed by succession planning with his mad-as-hatter sons.

HT to Ed Driscoll

Inside the mind of the Barking Moonbat...

I know it is a scary place, but James Lileks takes us there.

You're an enlightened world citizen. Your T-shirt says "9/11 was an inside job." You're pretty sure we're living in a fascist state, that President Bush taps the Dixie Chicks' phones, Christian abortion clinic bombers outnumber jihadis, and the war on "terror" is a distraction from the real threats: carbon emissions and Pat Robertson. Then you learn that 17 people were arrested in a terrorist bomb plot. How do you process the information? Let's take it step by step.

Gosh, that's horrible, you think. But no -- that's what they WANT you to feel. Recall the prime directive: Question Authority (unless he's a college professor). The plotters must have been impoverished olive farmers radicalized by the removal of Saddam Hussein. Why, if someone came in and toppled your president, you'd go to their country and ... well, you'd thank them. Unless they did it for the wrong reasons! Then you'd blow something up. Like an SUV dealership. At night. Anyway, you understand; you care a lot about Iraqis these days. You think about Iraq more than China, to be honest, but it's not as if you'll scrape off your "Free Tibet" bumper sticker -- unless it's to make room for "Free Darfur." Or "Hands Off Darfur," depending.

Wait a minute: The "terrorists" were Canadian? You can understand someone blowing up trains in Spain and London. They sent troops to an illegal war cooked up by neocons who want to kill brown people for Exxon and Jesus, or something. You can understand, reluctantly, blowing up teens in an Israeli pizza parlor, because the Jews took the West Bank from the sovereign, ancient nation of Palestine. (How can a liberal socialist country behave so poorly? The world is full of mysteries.) But Canada? Isn't Michael Moore from Canada? You can get medical marijuana from married gay doctors in Canada, and no one has guns. You console yourself: Maybe they were really planning to attack the U.S.
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You worry this will push Haditha off the front page. It's very important that everyone concentrate on the atrocities committed by U.S. troops every day. (It's such a relief not to have to pretend to support the troops anymore.) Anyway, nothing happened. Nothing blew up. If the suspects were planning something, they didn't do it, and this proves we can handle this as a law enforcement matter. Even though the police are racists.

Your head hurts.

You have a friend in Toronto. She's cool. It would kill her if these arrests were made possible by NSA eavesdropping.

Read the whole thing.

California Election News

In was a key race in the democrats plan to paint the Republicans as the "Party of Corruption", Republican Brian Bilbray defeated democrat Francine Busby.

This was a congressional race to replace former Rep. Cunningham, a Republican who is going to due time for taking bribes.

Voters in San Diego decided that they were not going to buy the DNC spin.
Perhaps they remembered that the democrats are just as, and probably more corrupt than the Republicans.

Responding the to spin machine...

The NY Times is back to running puff pieces on John Kerry, the absentee Senator from the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts. Blackfive points out that this attempt to fix Kerry's miliary record is in preparation for another run at the Presidency.

Thomas Lipscomb responds to the puff piece with common sense and actual facts.
Here are some highlights:

Kate Zernike's story on the front page of the Memorial Day Sunday New York Times, "Kerry Pressing Swift Boat Case Long After Loss," is an unfortunate reminder of the Times's embarrassingly poor coverage of Kerry in the face of the Swift Boat Veterans' for Truth charges in the 2004 election. Now as then, the Times acts as if the issues involved were between Kerry's latest representations of his record and the "unsubstantiated" charges of the Swift Boat group. The Times used the term "unsubstantiated" more than twenty times during its election coverage and continues to make no discernable effort to examine any of the charges in detail.

But there was plenty of evidence in the work of other news organizations that some of the charges, and the Kerry military records themselves, were worth examining seriously. I found numerous problems with Kerry's records on his website in my own reporting for the Chicago Sun-Times: a Silver Star with a V for valor listed that the Navy stated it had never awarded in the history of the US Navy, three separate medal citations with some heavy revisions in Kerry's favor signed by former Navy Secretary John Lehman who denied ever signing them, to name two.
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But the facts on this are already on the record and no matter what Kerry "researchers" may come up with they should be addressed by any reporter attempting a review of the dispute. Admiral Roy Hoffman may have been head of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but he was also in command of all the Swift Boat operations in Vietnam, directly under the commander of all sea operations in Vietnam, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt.

Any tasking for insertions of special operations troops across borders by sea, whether Seals, CIA, Army Special Forces or Vietnamese troops like CIDG had to come through his command. Hoffman stated he was never asked to handle missions for the CIA. "They had their own teams for that. And none of my Coastal Commands ever inserted any troops of this kind into Cambodia. We had some operations we ran north that I am not at liberty to discuss."
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Tedd Peck, accompanied Kerry's PCF 44 on his PCF 57 from Cam Ranh down to their new assignment at An Thoi where they arrived on December 8, 1968. Peck served there with Kerry until he was wounded and med-evaced out on January 29, 1969. Douglas Brinkley states that "Kerry liked Peck." So what does Peck have to say about secret missions out of An Thoi to Cambodia? "There never was one. And I never saw a Navy Seal at An Thoi the whole time I served there with Kerry"

What does it take to wake up a good reporter that there are some issues here besides one junior lieutenant's latest assertions on the basis, once again, of totally undisclosed records? It isn't simply a matter of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "lies." The facts recited by Kerry make no military sense, fly in direct opposition to authoritative testimony, and are yet to be backed by any records anyone has seen. And Kerry keeps changing his story.
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Zernike makes much of the support of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "backed by Republican donors and consultants," which indeed it was. But she shows no interest in who is backing "the Patriot Project" challenging the Swift Vets claims "formed by Kerry supporters" since February 2005 that is the occasion for her story.
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In any case, it is time for some tough reporting to evaluate the Kerry's claims as listed in Zernike's article. I will be following up with several other key incidents which appear to be widely at variance with these claims. These will include what appears to be the current state of the evidence about the "skimmer" operation Kerry has decided to put in play again and the greatest newspaper coverup in modern history.

Thought for the Day

During the Clinton administration the established media treated patriotism as treason. Now during the Bush administration treason is now treated as being patriotic.

Think of it as doublethink in action.
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And Then...

Right after I parked out at the airport yesterday for a spot of lunch, a F-5E in aggressor squadron colors did a take-off on full afterburners right in front of me.

Wow.
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Fake Socialist anti-war video update

Ace has a link to liar Jessie MacBeths MySpace page with MacBeth's "discharge paper" and points out how it is most likely a forgery.

Once again, he displays his complete cluelessness by failing to even concoct a passable forgery. He fails to include key entries which should be present were he actually a Ranger.

His forgery says he's "Ranger qualifiyd" (sic). This kid is so stupid he gives you morons a bad name. He's doing a forgery, and he can't even be bothered to look up the correct spelling of "qualified."

Q&O has the truth:

He was a boot-camp washout, and spent exactly one month and thirteen days in basic training before being kicked out for failure to adapt.

Read the whole thing.

Bush hatred still going strong amoung the leftists.

Celestial Junk has a good posting on the subject. Here are some highlights:

I’ve often said on these pages that Bush-hate has reached the level of a mental illness. I was reminded of it a while back while sharing drinks with a group of successful business people. It was a post trade-show relax session, and the bubbly had loosened some tongues.

“That Bush is real scary… did you see him the other day in the news?” Betty stated.

“Yeh!” replied Ted, “I don’t know how they could’ve voted him!”

“My son says that Bush would invade Canada if he could… it’s our oil they want… he even looks like a dictator… the way he walks!” Betty continued to murmurs of agreement all around, “and, did you see his face… no wonder they call him Chimp; he looks like a monkey… I can’t stand that man!”

I sat there and held my tongue… I’ve learned long ago to pick my battles, and this one, with alcohol fueling the debate, would have been a dead-ender. But, I did take a careful summary of who approved of the remarks, and most did. A few like me had that, “these people are too dumb to even bother with,” look on their faces, and one or two effectively changed the topic.

My point for sharing this with you is to demonstrate how pathologic Bush-hatred has become.

He goes on to quote a Pasadena Star article that "makes a strong argument that Bush-hate has now gone far enough to actually endanger American national security."

Would newspapers in the midst of World War II have printed the fact that the United States had broken German and Japanese codes, enabling the enemy to secure its communications? Or revealed how and where Nazi spies were being interrogated? Nowadays, newspapers win Pulitzer Prizes for such disclosures. In Congress and in much of the media, the immediate reaction to news that the National Security Agency was intercepting international terrorist communications was not to say, "Good work - and how can we help?" Rather, it was to scream about a "domestic spying" scandal, as though Richard Nixon were back in the White House and tapping the telephone of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.

Charles Krauthammer has a column on Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS)

The democrats plan for dealing with illegal aliens

Ok,so it's more of a plan to deal with the Republicans. It seems that the democrat long term plan for illegals is to get them voting as soon as possible so the leftists can continue to raise taxes and drive forward a socialist welfare state.

In Other News

I had an accident with my pickup truck on Friday night and was just discharged from the hospital today.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

READ THIS!

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So Anyway

While driving to Mom's house for the weekend I saw that MI:3 was already showing at a second run/weekends-only theatre in Staples, Minnesota.

Is this desperate or what?
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

A letter from Morpheus:

You have a choice, Mahmoud: the red pill or the blue pill. You take the red pill - and you wake up and learn to live in the 21st century as a decent, productive human being and an equal partner to other decent, productive human beings. It will be hard at first but you can do it. You take the blue pill - and you go back to your Koranic pipe dream, only this time don't count on life support from the West. Try fending for yourself with the Koran against the forces of nature. We're pulling the plug.

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Thought For The Day...

If Neil Young actually cared about anything other than separate moonbats from their money, he would become citizen of the country he has lived in for decades and vote.
If he cared about truth and honesty, his CDs would have a disclaimer pointing that he is a citizen of Canada.

Grrrrr...

Still having a bitch of a time getting to sleep.

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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

The Left is angry with us.

How dare we not submit to their will and help them pretend that they are Superior Beings(TM)!

As if we didn't have something better to do.
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Link of the Day

Top 11 Ways Rochester is Preparing for Patrick Kennedy’s Rehab Stint At the Mayo Clinic.
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Thought for the Day

If I was riding in the back seat of a Cadillac convertable with Ann-Margaret wrapped around me I would grin like an idiot too.

(It was a scene in a Ken Russell film.)
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Still At It

Still having a bitch of a time gettng to sleep.
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Problem

I'm having very severe difficulty getting any amount of sleep.

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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Jeff Jacoby on current fashion:

"Communist chic?" The blood of 100 million victims cries out from the ground. To wear the symbols of their killers is no fashion statement, but the ultimate in bad taste.

It also makes target identification much easier for us when the revolution comes.
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Something I Found

This is interesting.
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And Now...

A message from Laika the Space Dog!
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Remember This

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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So Anyway

The last weekend sucked.

Dana is back from her sojurn in the Seattle area. This of course has nothing to do with my weekend sucking.



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Continuing the Thought

Thought for the Day

Now with photos!


Patricia Quinn in the white teddy during the Night, Night number in SHOCK TREATMENT:

Thought for the Day

You cannot argue or negotiate with your self-anointed master, all you can do with it is to kill it.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Bilious Young Fogey has some things to say about V FOR VENDETTA, last of which was:

The crowning evil about this movie is its valorisation of terrorism. The film is French-Maoist in its arrogant, elitist espousal of the frisson of the act of violence. It is fitting that the last scene is of a new uniformed army, the followers of V, watching the destruction of the Houses of Parliament.

This film is decadent and offensive.

HT: Tim Blair.

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Thought for the Day

There was a time when I was a young lad that I wanted to take up the profession of journalism. I ultimately decided not to pursue that line of work.

For the most part I don't regret that decision.

Really, I don't regret that decision at all.
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Today in Pizzaland

I saw a rainbow on one of my delivery runs.
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Musing

Heaven is where the door to the Nuclear Club is guarded by an American.

Hell is where the door to the Nuclear Club is guarded by a Frenchman.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

In 1913, Ambrose Bierce disappeared and was never seen by anyone again.

Lucky bastard.

-- R.K. Milholland.

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So Anyway

While I was doing my nightly cross country drive I was pulled over by a member of the North St. Paul police. During the conversation he mentioned that there were guys coming up from Minneapolis to a house of ill repute, and that said house was under surveillance.

I of course would never pay for that sort of thing.

My ego is very strict that way.
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Bad Vibes

Katheryn Jean Lopez at NRO's The Corner writes:

It was April 14 and Good Friday when John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in 1865.

Which may explain part of the animosity between Republicans and the theatre/cinema crowd.
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Meanwhile in the Total Perspective Vortex

Professor R.J. Rummel puts things into perspective:

What is astonishing is that this "currency" of death by Marxism is not thousands or even hundreds of thousands, but millions of deaths. This is almost incomprehensible – it is as though the whole population of the American New England and Middle Atlantic States, or California and Texas, had been wiped out. And that around 35 million people escaped Marxist countries as refugees was an unequaled vote against Marxist utopian pretensions. Its equivalent would be everyone fleeing California, emptying it of all human beings.

And someone once called me a zombie because I wouldn't waste time on marxist propaganda.
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AUGH!!!!

I just blew a third alternator on my truck.
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Quote of the Day

I'm allergic to freight locomotives, they're always running into you.

-- L. Ron Hubbard

Um... okay.
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Um...Okay...

Here we see a honest used car salesman. Perhap he's a bit too honest.

WARNING, THIS VIDEO IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR A FAMILY ENVIRONMENT!

We not return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

Mary Mapes still doesn't get it:

In Mapes’ alternative reality, everybody but her is to blame. From money-grubbing network executives to misogynistic scape-goaters to conservative witch-hunters it’s Mary versus the world.

Mapes still refuses to own up to developing and running a story that was factually errant and for which she failed to conduct due diligence in authenticating. As to whether her judgment was clouded because of her antithesis toward President Bush – well, we won’t even bother going there because it ultimately is beside the point and we all know the answer.

Without credibility a reporter is simply another source of noise to be tuned out.

Any further questions?
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Meanwhile...Across The Ocean

A good working knowledge of the German language* may be a good thing when travelling in France:

Driver ploughs into Paris protesters


TEN STUDENT protesters were injured yesterday after a Paris motorist, angry that they had blocked a road, drove his car into them.

The driver only escaped following police intervention after his car was overturned and he was dragged out by the demonstrators.

The incident near the Sorbonne University laid bare some of the frustration surrounding the government's new plan for getting more young people working and the opposition of students and unions to the scheme.

On Paris's Left Bank, protesters disrupted traffic by picnicking on a busy boulevard. They were heading away when a frustrated motorist tried to burst through the crowd.

Several dozen youths turned the car over, tried to kick out its windows and began dragging the driver out before police and onlookers intervened.

*Hey, it worked in 1940!

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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

These young gang-bangers are certainly not graduates of the Benning School for Boys:

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three gang members tried to ambush a suspected rival but ended up killing one of their own, police said.

The incident occurred Wednesday evening when Carlos Cortez, 18, Marcus King, 16, and a 16-year-old boy saw a light colored SUV they thought belonged to a rival gang, Los Angeles police Lt. Paul Vernon said. Cortez placed himself on the opposite side of the street from the other two and fired several shots at the vehicle when it passed by a second time, he said.

Cortez's shots struck King in the stomach and he died later that night at a local hospital, Vernon said.

Definately a nominee for a Darwin Award.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Apparently the local socialist rag, the Minneapolis STAR-TRIBUNE, has chosen to downplay the seriousness of a certain recent assault on a police officer.

Corey Miltimore has wondered how the STAR-TRIBUNE would have reported certain other events in history:

It got me to thinking what headlines the current Star Tribune editors would have chosen had they applied the same standards to various historical events. Here are some that came to mind:

• October 24, 1929 – “Stocks dip”
• September 1, 1939 – “Germany expresses frustration with Poland”
• December 7, 1941 – “Japanese visit Honolulu”
• November 22, 1963 – “President Kennedy takes ill in Dallas”
• July 16, 1969 – “Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins take trip”

I won't even bother to cruise through the STAR-TRIBUNE's website let alone actually buy a copy anymore.
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Thought for the Day

Cynthia McKinney, a member of the House of Representatives from the party of treason, is whining about being touched inappropriately after she deliberately violated the security regulations at the U.S. Capitol building.

What would be an appropriate manner of touching? A whack on the head with a four-cell maglight?
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Weirdness for Today

Princess Diana showed up in a dream last night. She hasn't done that in a long time.

The current issue of PEOPLE magazine, which I haven't read, is featuring a story about how the government investigation into Diana's death is still not closed.

Would it be too simple to say that a bunch of folks, including agencies of government at both the national and municipal level, were being really and truly stupid? Of course expecting the French government, particularly with its institutional obsession with methodological differentiation from Anglo-Saxon states like the United States and the United Kingdom, to do anything with a reasonable degree of efficiency is like expecting a large rock to shatter simply by screaming the killing word at it.

Of course if Diana were still around at the age of 44, she would still be far more interesting than the urban uberskanks that usually defile the cover of PEOPLE magazine.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Hooray!!!!

The First Church of Xenu is open for business!

Praise "Bob" Hail Xenu!

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In Other News

A bunch of traitors whine about a scheduled non-nuclear explosive test:

Plans for a Pentagon-led experiment that involves detonating 700 tons of explosives in the desert drew criticism from state leaders and a disarmament activist.

The explosion scheduled for June 2 at the Nevada Test Site is part of an effort to design a weapon that can penetrate solid rock formations in which a country might store nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.

"I am concerned that tests of this magnitude have been planned without providing Nevadans with any information about the possible impact on their health or safety," said Demcratic Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid in a statement Thursday.

Never mind that the test detonation of 700 tons of conventional explosives has already been cleared with the state government.

Disarmament activist Pete Litster said tests at the site violate international law. Litster, executive director of the Shundahai Network, said the site belongs to the Western Shoshone Indian tribe.

No. The test site belongs to the United States Government.

Not that this or any other fact of reality would ever cross the self-mangled remnant of the mind of a willing servant of the enemies of Mankind.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.


UPDATE AT 1040 HRS CST:

May I also say that a test detonation of 700 tons of conventional explosives would also be pretty damned cool?

Of course I will.

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So Anyway

I stopped over at The People's Progressive Truth Generator and got this message:

Leslie Bates, you are a hateful caveman because you think that property has to be earned!

So, how is your day going?
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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

The NEW YORK TIMES, a corporation, complains about the evils of capitalism:

Apparently some folks believe that its evil for a private firm to fire those employees who are no longer needed, but that its perfectly right for the communist state to kill someone it doesn't have any use for.

Surreal, isn't it?
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Question

The British Royal Navy buys its torpedoes from a firm that is named for Marconi, the Italian who invented the Radio, and the Italian Navy buys its torpedoes from a firm that is named for Whitehead, the Englishman who invented the self-propelled torpedo.

I wonder if Paul Harvey knows about this?
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Useful Information

The Church of Scamitology teaches us how to overcome the barriers to money laundering.

Of course I just leave cash in my poockets when I do the laundry. It works for me.
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And Now...

A word from The Guru:

It is a continual annoyance to see the press is unable to separate the pistol from its cartridge. I suppose it is unreasonable to expect a journalist to know very much about his subject, but it does seem that any time a reporter works into a technical field (such as, for instance, skiing, self-propelled vehicles or smallarms), he might be expected to look into the subject.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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So Anyway

Apparently William Shatner turned 75 today.

Out of curiosity I bought a copy of his latest CD, HAS BEEN. (Almost wrote "album" which would indicate how old I am.)

I started playing the first track on the CD after it arrived and one of the co-owners of the house that I was living in came storming downstairs, apparently upset that I was subjecting her to the sound of Shatner's voice. Well, Shatner does have that reputation.

On my PC's hard drive I tend to separate MP3 files either according to the originating artist or according to an applicable concept, such as Comedy, Celtic Modern, or masturbation (three songs in that one).

I decided to play my MP3 of COMMON PEOPLE and discovered that instead of classifying William Shatner as an artist I had instead pegged him as a concept.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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A Disturbance.

I just had a dream where I saw several multistage solid fuel rockets being launched to west of me.

Minuteman III ICBM's from silos in the Dakotas?

Please pardon me if I seem to be a bit freaked out at the moment.
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Playing With Photoshop.

I can't sleep and I'm being a naughty boy.



We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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In Other News

A message from the creators of SOUTH PARK:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!

-Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu

Where do I join? What?

I also just saw the trailer for the third season of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.


Really guys, surrender is never an option.

I'm not sure if I want to resume cable or satellite TV service.
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Once Again It's Friday

Vasko Kohlmayer at The American Thinker has some thoughts on what I call the Mental Inversion Syndrome or what he calls The Chomsky Paradox:

I would hereby like to coin the term “Chomsky Paradox.” The Chomsky Paradox is a singular phenomenon which takes place in the brain of a western leftist when he looks at an oppressed people and thinks they are free.

I am aware that it is nearly impossible to conceive how anyone could see the world in this way, but apparently there are such people and Mr. Chomsky is one of them. Long, indeed, is the stretch from un-free to free as the two are diametrical opposites. Logic, reason and language fail us when we try to understand the thought process which led Mr. Chomsky to arrive at his conclusion, but now we at least have a term by which to call it.

As someone who lived under communism I can tell Mr. Chomsky that oppressed is in fact not free. I am also eternally grateful that not all Americans belabor under the sway of the Chomsky Paradox. If they did, there would have been no Cold War and no Ronald Reagan. There also would have been no freedom for the hundreds of millions liberated from the yoke of communist tyranny by the United States.

If we follow Mr. Chomsky's alleged logic to its ultimate conclusion we must see that the most free man in the world is someone falling face first into a ditch after receiving a ballistic lobotomy from a marxist thug.

In reality Chomsky and those who treat him as an authority are a hazard to themselves and to Humanity in general.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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On Visiting Red States

Wicked Thoughts on what to do when visiting states in the American Midwest, this also applies to Minnesota and Wisconsin:

If You Come to the Midwest, Know This:

Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when Easterners and Californians cross into states such as Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, the Tourism Councils in those states have adopted a new policy. In an effort to help outsiders understand the rural Midwesterner's mind, the following list will be handed to each person as they enter the states.

1. That slope-shouldered farm body did more work before breakfast than you do all week at the gym.

2. It's called a "gravel road". No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Navigator. I have a four wheel drive because I need it. Drive it or get it out of the way.

3. We all started hunting and fishing when we were seven years old. Yeah, we shot Bambi, we got over it.

4. Any references to "corn fed" when talking about our women will get you whipped...by our women.

5. Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis Fly Rod. Don't cry to us when a flathead breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those little 13 inch trout you fish for - "bait".

6. Pull your pants up. You look like an Idiot.

7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards are making their final approach, we will shoot it. You might hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.

8. That's right, whiskey is only two bucks. We can buy a fifth for what you paid in the airport for one drink.

9. No, there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order steak. Order it rare. Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey. Yeah, we have sweet tea. It comes in a glass with two packets of sugar and a long spoon.

10. You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice.

11. So, you have a sixty thousand dollar car. We're real impressed. We have quarter of a million dollar combines that we use four weeks a year.

12. Let's get it straight. We have one stop light in town. We stop when it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow.

13. Our women hunt, fish, and drive trucks - because they want to. So, you're a feminist. Isn't that cute.

14. Yeah, we eat catfish, carp too - and turtle. Your really want sushi and caviar? It's available at the bait shop.

15. They are pigs. That's what they smell like. Get over it. Don't like it? Interstate 69 goes two ways. State Road 24 goes the other two. Pick one and use it accordingly.

16. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday. You can get breakfast at the church.

17. So every person in every pickup waves. It's called being friendly. Understand the concept?

18. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazards. It spooks the fish.

19. That Officer, be it Conservation Officer, sheriff deputy, city police, or highway patrol that just pulled you over for driving like an idiot - his name is "Sir".

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Murray at Silent Running said:

2,049 years ago one man thought lots of power wasn’t enough and went for total power. Some of his closest friends didn’t go for the plan and did a drive by on his ass.

After that it got messy.

Power corrupts, absolute power attracts attention.

Adverse attention at that.

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It's Monday!

There was a power outage while I was sleeping and it still blowing and snowing outside.

The doggy fence between the back door and my truck is just caked over with snow.

And I would not be surprised if both Minneapolis and Saint Paul schools were both closed for the day. This will of course mean that there will be a surge in orders for delivered pizza on a day when street conditions are too dangerous for anything other than emergency travel.

What can I say, many people are simply stupid.
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Announcement

Off to Mom's for the weekend.

Back on Sunday Night.
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It's Friday!

Feh!

I'm also really getting more than a bit tired of seeing lefties trying to show us how intellectually and morally superior they are to us mere humans when in fact they simply do not possess a decent fraction of a clue.

The bumper sticker is one of their usual weapons of choice in efforts at posturing. The stupidity of President Bush, and by extension those who voted for him, is the usual message.

Here's a question. Who is dumber, the fighter pilot with a MBA from Harvard, or the bozoid who feels that the fighter pilot with a MBA from Harvard is an idiot?

I practically answered my own question in asking it.

If I were to stoop to posturing with a bumper sticker it would read: PROSECUTE TRAITORS NOW!

While suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome is in itself not treasonous, it does appear to be a precursor to treasonous behavior.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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This Is Cool

A reminder of total coolness brought to us by Ed Driscoll:

Let's flashback even further to about 1966. Compare the apathy and arrogance of today's celebrities with this photo of Stewart, a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve, at about age 58, looking like God in a flight suit, walking away from a B-52F, after a mission over North Vietnam.

I have no idea how many flights Stewart made over Nam--but even if it was just one for this photo-op, think of what he had to go through: the 5000 mile flight from Los Angeles to at least Guam, where most of the B-52s flew out of during the Vietnam war, the risk of getting shot out of the sky by crack North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gunners and killed or captured, plus the timeout from his career, when by the 1960s, he was earning at a minimum, in the very high six-figures per movie. I'm sure that when the call came, if Stewart or his handlers quietly said, "err, no thanks", the Air Force wouldn't have pressed the issue. But, just as he did in WWII, Stewart served his country.

(Les is picking his jaw off the floor right now. He'll be back after the reattachment procedure is completed.)
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Meanwhile...On The Left Coast

Barbara Streisand redefines the standard for idiocy.

Barbra Streisand has launched a new spelling error-ridden dispatch on the Internet -- a dispatch that mocks President Bush for being a "C student!"

In her February 28th, 2006 essay, Streisand flubs 11 words, a personal record.

I would bet that Ms. Streisand simply dictated her rant to a product of the California public schools. But then the actual purpose of the public school systems since the time of John Dewey has been indoctrination in the dogma of Socialism. Thus it is no surprise that skills that are useful for living in the real world are given a lower priority.

I will confess that English was my worst subject in school but I do routinely use a spell checker and I do care when I find a mistake in one of my own rants. Usually this is a skipped or misplaced word. (I just caught and corrected one in the previous sentence.)

Of course the posturing of mentally and morally deficient individuals can be quite amusing as long as it is temporally brief. I once tried to view a stolen (by a friend from a local neo-nazi) copy of TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and that four hour cinematic spectacle of moral posturing had literally put me to sleep.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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A Reminder

It's nine more days until The Patchouli Putsch.

Please have your gas masks ready. They are going to raise a stink for sure.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

James Ozark on the leading moral black hole* of the Twentieth Century:

On this day (March 5th), in 1953, the globe released its collective breath, as the Bringer of Light finally claimed his own ... Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili may you rot in hell.

*According to Jerry Pournelle, Russians apparently prefer to use the term "frozen stars" for this kind of astronomical phenomena as that the literal translation of the term "black hole" is used as a label for a particular bit of human anatomy.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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And Now...

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN in thirty seconds.

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Wicked Thoughts on aircraft landings:

After a real crusher of a landing in Sydney, the flight attendant came on with, "Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Capt.Crash and the crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we'll open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal."

I've made some rather hard landings while taking flying lessons. In one case actually taking some very visible chunks out of the tires. ("Oh, you guys better replace those tires...")

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A Reminder

PILLAGE THEN BURN!

And can we get an "Arrrrr"?

This message brought to you by SLUGGY FREELANCE.
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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

A bunch of leftist morons (yes, I know that's redundant) want to occupy the White House on March 15th.

The Administration is Criminal and if they will not step down, we must storm in, show them how many of us do not accept a criminal government. How can we stand by and watch them kill our brothers, sisters, journalists and friends for their dollars?

We are calling on all Member Nations of the U.N., All Representatives and Justices in the World Court and International Criminal Courts, all soldiers and CIA agents and government officials who have been blackmailed by the dictators to incarcerate Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. The Political Cooperative will put a new government in place that is comprised of people from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and all the organizations that have finally made us aware of the truth of the savage practices and illegal policies of our government in assassinating our own officials as well as people throughout the world who oppose their criminal activity.

My (lack of) God, what a bunch of freaking morons! Never mind the fact that it is their fellow leftists who have run up the hundred million person bodycount.

These bozoids apparently believe in magic. Like the idiots who burn flags, threw "frisbees for peace" during the Cold War, or banged on the bongo drums to effect the outcome of last election.

They apparently believe that physical possession of the magic object will somehow confer special powers to them. But in fact the White House is not a sacred shrine that confers political authority to those who possess it, it is simply the residence and workplace of the President of the United States.

The fact of the matter is that President Bush, or his constitutionally lawful successor Vice President Cheney, could conduct the business of government from a card table in a tent set up in a Kansas wheatfield.

But these Lenin-wannabes also want to repudiate our Constitution.

Those of us who served in the armed forces and have sworn to defend the Constitution have a special name for such morons: TARGETS.


A tip of the hat to Charles, our Lizardroid Master.
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As Long As They Don't Do It In The Original German!

The Authors of PENNY ARCADE could be in on the joke.

"Just so you know brought this on yourself."

-- Tycho

Or it could just be a Michael Jackson reference.
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Thought for the Day

I would not want to go for a drive with Teddy Kennedy.

Even if I was at the wheel myself.
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Returning Fire

More muslims become good muslims in Nigeria:

ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Christian youths burned the corpses of Muslims on Thursday on the streets of Onitsha in southeastern Nigeria, the city worst hit by religious riots that have killed at least 146 people across the country in five days.

Christian mobs, seeking revenge for the killings of Christians in the north, attacked Muslims with machetes, set fire to them, destroyed their houses and torched mosques in two days of violence in Onitsha, where 93 people died.

"We are very happy that this thing is happening so that the north will learn their lesson," said Anthony Umai, a motorcycle taxi rider, standing close to where Christian youths had piled up the corpses of 10 Muslims and were burning them.

Hat Tip to Dr. John Ray.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Dr. John Ray on the historic appeal of National Socialism:

So why did they welcome it? It is simple. Socialism and nationalism have long been and long will be the two political ideas which have most emotional appeal to people. And Hitler offered both in one package. That package would be powerfully appealing to this day except for the way Hitler's follies discredited it.

Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Worker's Party are the crazy relatives that the present day Left goes to great effort to avoid talking about.

The pragmatic brand of socialist (as opposed to the doctrinaire Marxist) will strike the pose that will have the most appeal in the target audience's minds. Thus in Germany, where the army was traditionally held in the highest esteem, the NSDAP assumed in public the form of a substitute army (ersatzarmee) with a mass of clean-cut men in spiffy uniforms marching about in disciplined formations. In the United States, where the standing military was traditionally looked upon with suspicion if not ridicule, the Left rejected the militarist paradigm. Unfortunately (for them, not necessarily for us), they assumed the form of what decent people came to call dirty-stinking hippies, a mob of unwashed savages attired in cast-off or otherwise ridiculous clothing who moved about in a sloppy mass.

The American Left in its manifestation as the Anti-war Movement had in effect taken on the modern form of a barbarian horde. But given that Socialism is essentially barbarian brigandage in modernistic makeup, why should we be surprised?

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Meanwhile...Across The Ocean

Somebody is fighting back:

February 22, 2006: Nigerian Christians are fighting back, in response to Moslem attacks over the Danish cartoons (that depicted the Prophet Mohammed in unflattering situations). In this case, Christian mobs went after Moslems and mosques, killing over a dozen Moslems and destroying over half a dozen mosques. Nigerian Christians have found that the only way to stop Moslem attacks, is to fight back. This usually works.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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And Now...

Minneapolis is being considered as a site for the Republican National Convention in 2008.

This will no doubt twist the collective panties of the local Klegles and Grand Dragons of the Kampus Kommie Klan.

(Tee Hee Hee...)
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And Now For Something Completely Different

The skydiving version of a navy reenlistment.

San Diego (Dec. 14, 2005) – Aviation Structural Mechanic 1st Class Josh Leasure is reenlisted by Lt. Geoff Reeves as other members of the “Leap Frogs” Navy parachute team look on high above San Diego. The “Leap Frogs” are comprised entirely of U.S. Navy SEAL and Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman (SWCC) personnel. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer J.C. Ledbetter

There's a reason why army guys like me tell jokes about navy guys.

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OH NO! Not Sade!

(Pronounced Shaa-day)

Here's a couple of fun cartoons about invented religions. Warning, they are not safe for work.

YAAFM: Scientology.

If after watching this cartoon a Scientologist invites you in for auditing procedure R2-45, do decline the invitation:

"R2-45 - an enormously effective process for exteriorization, but its use is frowned upon by this society at this time."

-- L. Ron Hubbard, The Creation of Human Ability - A Handbook of Scientology

In Scientology to exteriorize is to die.


And of course we also have YAAFM: Muslims.

And we all know how Muslims are.

I have to go to work now, bye.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Mark Urbin wrote on his political e-mail list:

The shot that poor bastard got in the face from VP Cheney in a hunting accident will probably be less politically damaging than the shot Monica Lewinski got in the face from Bill Clinton.

It will make for some interesting ROCKY HORROR callbacks, though.

As an obviously injured Rocky stands up in the tank after being chased by the dogs:

"Ladies and Gentleman, this is what hunting with Dick Cheney can do to you!"

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And Now...

Cheers Greet Cheney at Appearance in Wyo.

"It's a wonderful experience to be greeted by such warmth by the leaders of our great state. It's especially true when you've had a very long week," Cheney told lawmakers in Cheyenne.

"Thankfully, Harry Whittington is on the mend and doing very well."

But now William F. Buckley, Jr. has something to say on the subject:

We all know what then happened. But the only thing that then happened that seemed to catch national attention was that the party drove not to the nearest newspaper, but to the hospital.

An account was filed with a local newspaper, and the doleful news came from the hospital that one pellet had entered the heart of the victim. There is little doubt but that he will survive. Mr. Cheney has said that what blame there is, is Cheney's. That detail, by the way is also not fully explored -- conceivably the victim had failed to identify his position when moving forward from the firing line established by hunters moving in parallel.

We can't celebrate a backlash until Mr. W. is back home and well. But here is one observer who predicts that Mr. W. will chuckle over the misadventure, unless, after years of friendship with Mr. Cheney, he only now discovers that he is arrogant, defiant, and that he uses vulgar language.

And what are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Something I Found

Disturbing information about THE MATRIX:

The Matrix is based on the 1968 East German play Wirklichkeit ist eine Illusion, also lassen Sie uns sprechen Rätsel, Eintragfaden-Polizei und Tanzkampf ("Reality is an Illusion, so Let Us Speak Riddles, Shoot Police and Dancefight"). The original live production ended with a stunning dance sequence (set to Wagner's Nightsong of the Gun Mechs) which the Wachowski brothers have set side in favor of a silly RoboCopesque sky-shooting fireworks display that resembles an inner-city New Year's Eve celebration from the year 2214.

Dammit! I try to avoid East German plays!

Something most folks don't realize is that the "grunge" look that was popular about a decade ago was actually invented by the German Communist playwright Bertholt Brecht. This comrade had a West German publisher, an Austrian passport, a Swiss bank account, and an East German theatre company with hot and cold running actresses.

Nice work if you can get it, I suppose.

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Quote of the Day

Ann Coulter on the response to the Cartoons of Doom:

But Muslims think they can issue decrees about what images can appear in newspaper cartoons. Who do they think they are, liberals?

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Another episode of Mallard Fillmore's Liberals, The Early Years:

For the last time... I'm a mammal!! It's okay that I'm wearing fur!!

Yesterday I saw a car with a Kerry-Edwards sticker go the wrong way in a traffic circle.

My lack of God! Liberals are so fucking dumb.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Matt Margolis points something out:

Cheney has done something that Democrats never do: taken responsibility for his actions. Democrats point fingers and blame everyone but themselves for their problems.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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So Anyway

While doing my morning net-surf I found this in a cinematography forum:

My father used to shoot Marxist Chinese propaganga, and I was shocked to see Farenheit 9/11 packed with the most basic techniques of Eisenstein and Griffith.

Being a Marxist for 25 years, I developed quite an appreciation for Soviet cinema. Tarkovsky is probably the best of the non-propaganda auters. Eisenstein was the best Marxist propagandist, while, all the way over in the U.S, D.W Griffith did a hell of a job for the anti-black, anti-semitic Klansmen propaganda with Birth of a Nation.

Propaganda probably alienates people, so i'll knock that off, but, short of going to Yale University, I have yet to see a good Propaganda course taught. I mention the science of propaganda because it is practically inseperable from Soviet film.

It's the second post in a discussion thread on Soviet and Russian films.


Personal note:

During the bi-weekly performance of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW at the Riverview Theatre someone will raise the question, "how long does it take to read five fucking words?"

The normal callback for this question is, "five fucking minutes!"

I've taken to saying, "five fucking hours in the Soviet version!"
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Robert Spencer on birds of a feather:

Both the Left and the mujahedin envision a totalitarian state that cleanses the world of evil by force, establishing a just society at the price of an unspecified number of dead. Both are advocates of a supremacist ideology that is immune to self-criticism and unable to tolerate criticism from others.

Is this really a surprise?

Both Islam and Marxism were concocted by the uberparasites of their times, Karl the First Trustifarian and the Big Moh'. Both doctrines must deny the Right to Life -- and thus the subsidiary Rights of Liberty, Property, Free Speech, Et Cetera -- of all persons. Both ideologies must do so in order to establish and maintain the reign of terror and death, in order to control and exploit the productive population, that their parasitic adherents need to sustain their otherwise useless lives. To accept the concept of the Right to Life that underlies the society of consent is for the Marxist and the Mullah the first step in an act of suicide.

(Note to the Anti-abortion activists: Look past the posture of the "Pro-choice" crowd. Why does the Left allow one so-called right when they deny all other rights? I suspect that in denying the start of the Right to Life at conception they are not only targeting the unborn child, they are also targeting YOU.)

So it should be no surprise that the Left is coming out in favor of silencing the critics of Islam. The enemy of their enemy is their friend.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

Someone over at the Huffington Post is having a paranoid fantasy:

The inscription noting the duration of Bush's presidential term doesn't read "2001-2009." It reads "2001-BLANK." In other words, the statue says he's going to be president from 2001 through infinity! Everyone knows that Bush is supposed to leave office in January of 2009. No mystery. No uncertainty. The 22nd Amendment makes it so. It's the law. No gray area.

Or is there?

I knew this would slip out somehow, but I never thought the leak would come from a statue. Is someone at the National Guard trying to warn us? Does President Bush plan to use his Executive authority under his wartime powers to cancel the 2008 election because a change in leadership here might embolden the terrorists? The statue says 'yes.'

And then he adds:

UPDATE: From the comments. This will make you lose sleep: Joint Resolution 24. Thanks to commenters Agape and Strangerina. I just wrote the sentence: "Thanks to commenters Agape and Strangerina." Blogging, I adore thee.

Or: "hey guys, lets repeal the 22nd Amendment!"

For those of you who are ignorant of history, which is to say most Democrats, the 22nd Amendment was a Republican response to FDR's violation of the custom established by President George Washington of the president serving only two terms.

Of course if it prevents Hillary Stalinova Clinton from ever being elected to the office of president then President Bush serving a third term would certainly be a good thing.

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Thought for the Day

As to those who proclaim themselves to be our masters:

Fuck them.
Fuck them.
Fuck them.

And fuck those who willingly serve them.
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Well, Duh!

You are an Atheist

When it comes to religion, you're a non-believer (simple as that). You prefer to think about what's known and proven. You don't need religion to solve life's problems. Instead, you tend to work things out with logic and philosophy.

What's Your Religious Philosophy?

So Anyway

While searching the local purveyor of alcoholic spirits for a six-pack of Carlsberg (In support of the Danes, of course) I noticed that the beer cooler in the establishment also contained a six-pack of ZIMA.

For Gods sake, why?

Do I have to call in Narn Bat Squad?

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This Is Sick

This is part of an e-mail that I received from a 419 scammer:

Dear Friend,
I am Barrister Johnson E. Thompson , an attorney at law in London.A deceased client of mine, by name Mr.Wilson died in New Orleans with his wife and two children as a result of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

I am contacting you to help assist me in ensuring that the funds lodged by my client with a Bank in Europe, the Bank did not decleared unclaimed hence my reason for this contact to you.

The Bank management has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin, or the funds will be confiscated.

Because the message included a business address and phone numbers in the United Kingdom I took the liberty of forwarding the message to the Metropolitan Police in London.

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The Face Of Islam

We would show it to you, but as you can see its not really visible.



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In Medical News

At The People's Cube:

Republicanism Caused By Brain Disorder, Mutation

In a deformed Republican (capitalist) brain, areas that normally control life-sustaining processes (the Guilt Gland, the Envy Center, or the Everything for Free Lobe, etc.) are miniaturized - while other regions become bloated out of proportions (the Personal Responsibility Lobe, the Self-Interest Cluster, or the overdeveloped and inflexible Spinal Cord that is connected to the Absolute Morality Lobe).

Symptoms of a Republican brain mutation include delusional ideas that democracy is the best known form of government, that capitalism creates wealth, that American culture stems from Judeo-Christian tradition, that people all over the world desire liberty and prosperity, that Third World countries should be self-reliant, that moral standards are absolute and objective, that the individual supersedes the collective, that parents should teach children values and have a wide choice of schools, and similar incoherent ramblings that mimic the speech of the insane. Everyone knows that the complete opposite is true.

As of yet, there is no cure for this disorder, which transforms the entire brain into a regressive biological structure. Fearing that this ailment can be contagious, doctors recommend quarantine and a warning for the public.

Of course we all know the cure for Republicanism, the Lubyanka Breakfast*, right comrades?

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* A cigarette and one round in the head.
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So Anyway

I've noticed lately that some bus passenger shelters in the Twin Cities area have posters for the Air America Minnesota, which is the local affiliate of Air Pravda. They are promising to broadcast "talk radio without the lies."

What are they going to do, transmit dead silence?

To be a leftist requires a gross and consistent level of dishonesty. That a leftist will lie is now as metaphysically certain as the rising of the sun in the morning.

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