This Is So Uncool

Hugh Hefner donates $2300 to Hillary's presidential primary campaign.

That isn't just uncool. It is irrational and utterly antihuman.

But then the word "playboy" used to be a term of contempt.

I would boycott PLAYBOY magazine, but I already refuse to waste money on a publication that promenently displays women who are so artificial in appearance as to be disgusting.

YUCK!
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This Is Cool

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Something I Found

While digging around for some old files I found some stuff I wrote years ago for a defunct publication under the title of HORROR QUOTES:



Trying to be right is unhealthy.

– Diane Hahn, HealthEast Human Services Apparatchik, April 8, 2002

Okay dear readers, what’s wrong with the above quote?

To be unhealthy is have something wrong with one physically, or the context of the interview, to have a psychological disorder. In effect, attempting to be correct on an issue, such as the conflict I had with the brain-dead thug of a site supervisor over a payroll issue, is somehow wrong. I ended up leaving HealthEast and as of this writing (2002) I’m between jobs.

(If you are new to reading this blog I have been delivering pizza for a bit over three years now.)


TEN THOUSAND LAKES AND GOD ONLY KNOWS HOW MANY LOONS.

The actual count of lakes in Minnesota is closer to twelve thousand and the loon is our official state bird. When I was in the United States Army my usual response to any inquiry as to my state of origin was, “the Soviet Socialist Republic of Minnesota, sir!”

The Ventura administration riled media organizations Tuesday by issuing credentials to state Capitol reporters that feature Gov. Jesse Ventura's photo and identify the wearer as an ``official jackal.''

The large, colorful credentials were delivered to about 30 radio, television and newspaper reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday morning, along with a press release citing ``security issues and accountability of who attends official Governor's Office events.''

– Lynda McDonnell, St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 21, 2001

David Pyle, Minnesota bureau chief for the Associated Press, directed AP reporters not to wear the new credentials.

``While this may have been intended as joke,'' he said, ``we take the matter seriously and will not subject AP staffers to wearing something that may be intended to demean them and their profession.''

– Ibid.

So “Jesse the Brain” is hitting a little too close to home, eh, Tovarich Pyle?

Meanwhile, over on the Left Coast:

I’m outraged by what happened ... They’re trying to take away my freedom forever and destroy me and destroy my family ... I didn’t want to have a political case ... But it was politicized by the Los Angles Police Department and the district attorney.

– Kathleen Soliah a.k.a. Sara Jane Olson. St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 24, 2001.

One of the problems with doing this column is that I am at times compelled to repeat myself. Kathleen Soliah was a communist agitator who joined a self-appointed manifestation of the Tcheka. When the bulk of this left-wing death squad were properly hunted down and killed, Soliah posed as an ordinary liberal, got married, and became an active member of the Minnesota branch of what we at The Resister call the Bolshevik party. Soliah, like all self-styled progressives, is a barbarian who won’t admit it.

Don’t let them turn this trial into a circus. Don’t let them try the SLA ideology ... We’re not here to defend the ideology or political strategy or activities of the SLA.

– J. Tony Serra, Attorney for Kathleen Soliah. St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 24, 2001.

Gee, why not?

That is what they do in such “Progressive” states as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China.

Civilized society cannot tolerate predatory and destructive behavior by groups and individuals within it. The ranting and raving of ideologists notwithstanding, there can be no possible excuse for robbery, murder, or any other form of predatory behavior.


BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

Banking heiress and art patron Agnes Gund irritated some of her wealthy friends last week by going public with her opposition to President George W. Bush’s plan to repeal the estate tax.

– Keith Naughton, Newsweek, February 26, 2001.

In a more civilized and morally correct time, robbing the dead (or anyone unable to defend themselves such as widows and orphans) was identified and dealt with as an utterly reprehensible act. It was not unusual in the wake of disasters – such as the San Francisco earthquake – for those caught in the act of looting the deceased to be shot dead on the spot.

But Gund is part of a group of nearly 100 millionaires and billionaires who believe abolishing the tax have a devastating effect on America by shifting the tax burden from the nation’s richest 2 percent onto the poor and the middle class.

– Ibid.

First, this is pure nonsense, those of us who actually work for a living are already carrying the major portion of the tax burden.

Secondly, the take from this form of legalized grave robbing is estimated to be about 285 billion dollars over the next ten years. This is pocket change -- less than the amount allocated annually to “national defense” -- compared to the total federal budget, most of which is already wasted on various schemes for buying votes from a corrupted electorate.

Gund and her allies, including investor George Soros and actor Paul Newman, are part of a gold-plated petition drive by rich Americans who advocate that the government continue taxing their estates by up to 55 percent. The campaign is being organized by Responsible Wealth, a group that includes the Rockefellers.

– Ibid.

In other words, this petition is being pushed by the ususal gang of material and spiritual looters. The politically connected jackals and maggots who are presently feeding off of the remains of the American republic and of Western Civilization in general.

The petitioners argue that the estate tax makes America a meritocracy, not an aristocracy.

– Ibid.

Pay no attention to the Old Money Bastard behind the curtain.

A proper aristocrat -- as opposed to a Kennedy or a Rockefeller or other such vermin -- might believe that he has a patriotic or moral obligation to use part of his inheritance to buy mortars and TOW missile launchers for the heavy weapons company of the local militia unit, or perhaps purchase land for a training area.

We can’t have that in the New World Order, can we?

“I myself don’t think it is healthy to give huge amounts of money to one’s children,” says Steven C. Rockefeller, scion of one of the oldest-money families in America.

– Ibid.

Well boys and girls, can you say “hypocrite”?

By what right can anyone other than yourself determine how the product of your entire life’s work be ultimately disposed?


DON’T DREAM IT, BE IT!

The Boy Scout uniform has become almost a cherished national symbol. But at a time when same-sex benefits, diversity training and non-discrimination policies have become routine, organisations say the Scouts' refusal to admit gays has come to seem almost un-American.

– Sydney Morning Herald, August 30, 2000

Oh, really? Since when?

Without digging into whatever edition of the Holy Bible we happen to have at hand, it is clearly evident to the objective observer that homosexual sodomy (even prior to the appearance of HIV virus outside of Africa) is a form of self-destructive and irrational behavior, a moral code that did not condemn it would be a contradiction in terms. From the rational Darwinian perspective, homosexuals are simply rendering themselves unfit to live. No rational parent would knowingly leave their sons in the charge of such willfully depraved individuals. The policy of the Boy Scouts of America prohibiting homosexuals as scoutmasters is absolutely morally correct.

So-called laws prohibiting “discrimination” against willfully self-destructive and predatory individuals are nothing more than a ban on moral judgement and any other necessary actions in defense of human life. In this case, you the parent, are “legally” prohibited from choosing the good of your child over the depraved desires of a pervert.

The political use of force to compel children to associate with homosexuals (and thus be abused by them) should be seen and treated as nothing less than an willfully depraved act of attempted murder. Public officials (elected or appointed) who engage in such abuses of power (which are in effect a form of Human Sacrifice) in order to suck-up to the homosexual collective are engaged in the deliberate and malevolent abuse of political authority and must be removed from their office by any means necessary.


MEANWHILE, INSIDE THE BELTWAY...

There are 12 safety standards for every toy, but there is not one safety standard for a gun lock, even though people are depending on these to keep their kids away from guns.

– Ann Brown, Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairwoman. St. Paul Pioneer Press,
February 7, 2001.

Apparently all but one of thirty-two models of gun locks could be opened without the key. Comrade Brown apparently found this frightening. Even though there were no reports of shootings resulting from a gun lock failure. Not that I personally care, the gun lock I received with the last pistol I purchased (a Glock 36 in .45 ACP) went straight into the trash can.

Could it be that contrary to the paranoid fantasies of the anti-gun collective that most gun owning parents actually succeed in teaching their children that firearms are not toys?


I’M SORRY ED, WE CANNOT DO THAT.

When we start to seriously do deep space exploration, I think “Earth” should do it. There is utterly no sense in doing it other than as a planetary civilization. It is insane, in my opinion, to be out in space and look back at this tiny little planet that is no bigger than a pinhead at a distance and say: “I come from the United States.” You come from Earth, if you came from anywhere! Exploring the cosmos in a planetary issue, not a national issue. Sure, we got started in our nationalistic period, but sooner or later, if we want to do this seriously, it has to be done as a planetary civilization.

– Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Interviewed in Artemis, Issue #4, Winter 2001.

We are still a type “0" civilization, just emerging from the trees. When we get ourselves together and know how to utilize cooperatively all the energy available on our planet, we can become a type “1" civilization. At that point, we can begin to colonize outer space.

– Ibid.

Imagine for a moment what the state of humanity would be if the ancestors of the Europeans and the Asians could not leave Africa until the inhabitants of that miserable continent were organized into a single continental civilization. (Better yet dear reader, don’t.)

Humans in general did not wait until they were organized as a single continental civilization before going out to explore, conquer, and colonize the rest of the world.

Another point to consider is that people who were happy with life in their homelands did not seek new lives for themselves and their families here in the New World. And the supposedly “happy” (read brainwashed) inhabitants of a so-called “type one” planetary civilization are not going to pack up and leave to settle another planet, such as Mars, let alone embark on a multi-generational voyage across interstellar space.

The Universe as a whole is ours if we want it. We only have to shove the power tripping vermin out of the way.


DON’T WORRY, ALLAH LOVES YOU, REALLY ...

If Atta had followed his own instructions that morning, carefully written out in a document entitled “The Last Night,” he had shaved excess hair from his body, dabbed on cologne, and sharpened his knife. He was instructed to pray, continuously, in the cab, in the airport, on the flight to Boston and as he took his seat in the first-class cabin on Flight 11. “Be happy,” he had written himself, “optimistic, calm, because you are heading for a deed God loves and will accept. It will be the day, God willing, you spend with the women of paradise.”

– “The Day That Changed America,” Newsweek, December 31, 2001.

Whereas the goal of the adherents of the Western Monotheist Tradition (if I understand it correctly) is permanent communion with God, the most consistent followers of the so-called prophet of the false god Allah are apparently motivated by the promise of eternal gratification of their animalistic desires.

But then what can one say about a false religion founded by an individual who combines and magnifies the worst attributes of William Jefferson Clinton, Lafayette Ron Hubbard, and Charles Manson? (Along with a bit of Woody Allen, or Roman Polanski for those readers living on the other left coast.)

Remember what Orwell said about the function of political ideology? The false theology of Islam serves this function, to create the illusion of legitimacy for actions which were and continue to be morally intolerable in civilized societies. Islam is a criminal conspiracy masquerading as a religion.

The self-styled prophet Mohammed (cursed be thy name) was a traitor, a robber, a murderer, a rapist, and a pedophile. Those who refused to submit to his whims (which he declared to be “the will of Allah”) were routinely robbed and murdered, and their wives and daughters raped. Anyone who spoke out against this vile creature were brutally butchered along with their entire families. The self-styled prophet’s last “wife” was only six years old (or nine, some accounts very) when he “married” her. A case could also be made in the context of Arabian society at the time for the charges of blasphemy and sacrilege.

In every respect this vile creature has earned the title ENEMY OF MANKIND.

(For a more complete picture of the origins and practice of Islam you should check out the following website: http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/islam.htm)

History

On this date in 1865 a sitting Republican President was shot to death by a member of the Thespian Community.

I understand that some thespians still hate us Republicans today.
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Quote of the Day

From somewhere in Wisconsin:

You see pint of Guinness? This is why nobody will ever love you as much as I do...

-- Attributed to Wil Wheaton.

Hmmm...Guinness...
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Someone Else's Thoughts For The Day

Mark Whittington has some interesting things to say about Hillary:

After an undistinguished term as Senator from New York, Hillary is now running for President (or Goddess Empress.) She may be a good enough politician to pull it off, especially if the Republicans nominate a loser to oppose her. (Of course the Democrats may throw her over for Obama, on the theory that she's yesterday's woman and Barak is a fresh, new, exciting face,) But one thing is for certain. She would be a horrible President, the sort of President that wrecks economies and loses wars. And that's a risk that cannot be taken.

And he has some ideas about what one of my favorite fictional politicians would do about the Iranians and the real world since September 11, 2001.

I must confess that the suggested solution to the Hillary problem is rather interesting. Bill should really watch his back.

"Extraordinary," Francis Urquhart said, reading through the Times. He had taken to doing his morning news reading on the computer, which was in itself extraordinary. "''Mr. Clinton has been arraigned for the murder of Mai Lim, a Chinese national. A statement issued by a Clinton spokesperson denies the charge and promises a vigorous defense in the courts. However an informed source with local law enforcement suggests that the former President was found in bed with the dead, bleeding corpse of Ms. Lim, a straight razor nearby with his fingerprints on it, and a large amount of cocaine in his bloodstream.'" He looked up at his security chief. "How did they manage that, I wonder?"

"I can make inquiries, Prime Minister."

"Please do. I am curious." He looked back at the computer screen. "'Senator Clinton has no comment on the matter and is in seclusion. There is already speculation that her hitherto near certain reelection as Senator from New York has become somewhat less certain.' Well, one less problem to have to worry about."

"Yes, Prime Minister."

Do I think Bill and Hill deserve such a fate?

You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

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So Anyway

Fred Thompson needs to work on his vanity.

Okay, I'm just kidding.

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Brownshirts on bicycles!


I had something to say on the subject of these assholes.

(HT: Hot Air and The New Editor.)
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Some folks wonder why I hate peace activists to the point of wishing them dead.

Mark Noonan gives a good list of reasons here.

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Quote of the Day

Well, you can't really run a cult without surrounding yourself with young girls now, can you?

-- Jason Gracey

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Thought for the Day

The difference between being evil and being stupid is basically a matter of style.

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Found This In My Mail

I'm a subscriber to a mailing list that covers the subject of old Soviet movie cameras. This morning I found this message from that list in my mailbox:

Twenty years ago the same people who are now crying global warming got cover stories on the same magazines with gobal cooling-- simply because their time sample is too short. What they are doing amounts to prediciting the entire year's weather based on what things were like for the last two weeks.

I'm sorry you feel you are being "bullied," but having been trained in and working with structural demolition for the US military when I was younger, and having an engineering background, I well understand what is written and called "scientific evidence" about the buildings in 9/11 well enough to know it isn't either scientific or evidence.

Pose wild questions if you want, but having blown up a few buildings, under controlled circumstances, while filming them, I know the kinds, types, and amounts of explosives needed to drop a steel structure, and the time and prep needed. That's why the structural engineers and demolitions people admit that what happened is outside their experience, but that they know it was not imploded by plan.

"What you see" on a video may not really reflect what is happening, and much of demolitions is based on testing, trial and error, because things happen that do not seem logical, and even when filmed don't seem to match what we know we set up, what we did, and the amounts of material used.

I've supervised a crew shooting 2000fps+ of explosive tests on steel beams, and at the same time the event was also shot at 24fps-- I know it was the same event, but things happened and went away between frames on the 24fps that were vital to understanding what happened, and that were only recorded in part at 2000fps.

This forum should stick to a broad base of motion picture, and more narrowly to ex-Soviet cameras, but I can't let the global warming and we blew it up bit pass without calling it what it is.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Elsewhere

I've posted a new piece over at My Own Private Universe:

A Personal Vision.
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So Anyway

I'm watching ALL THAT JAZZ on the Fox Movie Channel and all I can say is the character of Joe Gideon is a fucking idiot.
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In Other News

Today is the 76th birthday of William Shatner.

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Quote of the Day

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?

-- Charles de Gaulle

It depends on what kind of sandwich you put the cheese on.
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Today in Pizzaland

On this day in 44 BC, a well known Roman politician had a run in with some pissed off members of the Senate.

Tyrannicide sucks, doesn't it JC?

As for me, the driver side door on my car had prematurely closed, banging my head and causing the frames of my glasses to gauge open a cut under the left eyebrow.

And there is now a visible bulge in the sidewall of the right-side front tire.

Other than that I had a good day at work.
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Quote of the Day

I'm the captain of a spaceship! I deserve to be higher on the food chain!

-- Sam Starfall

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Quote of the Day

Look, I hate to be a bad hostess but could you not bleed on my floor?

-- Aubrey Chorde

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So Anyway

The drive machanism for the mini-cassette recorder on my ancient Sony answering machine died today.

My brother was surprised that I was still using such an old clunker.
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Quote of the Day

Politician stumping in Hyde Park: "This nonsense of reincarnation is a dire affliction on society."

Heckler: "Come on, you said that in your last life."

-- Joseph T. Major

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Solution

I do my part to save the Earth by shutting off my television set whenever Al Gore or some other environmentalist wacko comes on.
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So Anyway

My car broke down.

I can't do deliveries today.

Shit.
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Thought for the Day

This is a very quick reply to an insane rant by a leftist on another blog:

One simply cannot argue with a raving lunatic.

There's no point in debating a leftist on individual issues because their overall epistomological methodology for all effects and purposes reverses the relationship between reality and fantasy. This leads to their well documented habit of systematically reversing good and evil.

And while there are many grounds for complaint on the part of the Right (the refusal to prosecute the participants in the Waco Massacre), we could hardly call the Bush Administration a failure.

And it is no suprise that a leftist would openly label someone who opposed them as "sub-human."

Members of the Left, like many pre-literate barbarians before them, are essentially moral and material parasites. They must reject the society of consent and seek power over those who can perform the work that sustains their lives. This drives them to see other persons as either tools they can use to further their own goals, or as organic waste to be disposed of.

So when a leftist declares someone to be "sub-human", that is in practice a precursor to the murder of that person.

The mass graves that are constantly being dug up in nations where the Left has obtained unrestrained power serve as the unrefutable proof of this fact.

So when I see a leftist bumper sticker on a car, the first thought that comes to my mind is "murderer."

If I have a complaint about the Right it is that we have shown infinite GOD-LIKE patience with the behavior of the Left.

Leftists can publically assault those who won't submit to them. Destroy property. And even call for the mutilation ("Lobotomies for Republicans") of opponents, and the murder of elected officials who are carrying out their constitutionally mandated duties, and we will not lift one finger to hurt a single hair on the otherwise useless head of a leftist.

I once told an editor that I worked for that we need not retorically dehumanise our opponents, all we have to do is accurrately describe their ideology and behavior because they have by their own choice dehumanised themselves.

I have to go to work now.
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Thought for the Day

I just posted this over at Political Yen/Yang:

I take a Democrat candidate seriously for the same reason that I pay attention to the any individual or group of menacing strangers when I make a pizza delivery in a bad neighborhood. It is the reasonable expectation that they may harm me.

Over the last three decades that I have observed the Democrats I have noticed that not only do they persistently take a wrong position on an issue, they will often do so as a simple mindless negation of the Republican position.

Violent Crime: Don't accept as a fact of reality that it is an act of will on the part of the criminal. Don't apprehend, prosecute, imprison, or where warranted execute the criminal. Instead attack innocent people, disarm them, and leave them helpless in the face of a growing population of violent criminals.

That's just one example. I could go on about insanity of their positions on National Defense, Energy Policy, Taxation, etc. But I really don't have time to do so. (Unlike some folks on the Left I have to go to work.)

The Democrats are not just a party that has to be opposed on individual issues. They are demonstrating that (they) are following a mental methodology that consistently places them in opposition to reality. And reality is real, opposing it will hurt you.

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

I had a nightmare tonight that I was trapped in a building that was under attack with bombs and guns by muslims.

I'll try to go back to sleep now.

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A Comment On Leftist Hypocracy

From a glamdroid watch website:

So I'm supposed to live like a raccoon while this tubby f*ck drives a go-cart from room to room on his fabulous estate. These dirty god-damn hippies all tell me how awful America is and how great everyone else is, and we should all roll around in the mud like these third world nightmares whose number one export is alien like diseases, meanwhile he's flying back and forth to Caligula-like parties in Beverly Hills on his 20 million-dollar Gulfstream jet. I'm supposed to power my shower with a treadmill, but according to this editorial in the USA Today, Gore can't even be bothered to sign up for "earth friendly" power sources like wind energy, even though the utility companies that service his homes (he has three) in Tennessee and Washington DC offer it as an alternative.

They don't care if you suffer while alive or die as long as you submit to their will.

For them power over others is the source of their sustainance. The state of Liberty, where we deal with each other on the basis of consent, is toxic to them.

For them: Power is life. Freedom is death.

Barbarians (paleo or neo) are funny that way.
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Thought for the Day

Why do I feel like I'm tied up and gagged in the back seat of a car driven by someone who insists on driving on the wrong side of the road and who responds to the appearance of oncoming traffic by denying that it exists and stomping on the accelerator pedal?
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

I strongly recommend that you read this.

You need to remember this, to the parasite mentality, POWER IS LIFE, LIBERTY IS DEATH.

In the state of Liberty, without power over the productive, the parasite must either learn to be a productive individual (in short, get a job) or it will die.

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Thought for the Day

Carol Cleveland in the Travel Agent Sketch.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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John Bergstrom Still Doesn't Play Well With Others

Forgot to post this one too.

And only a moron can tell you how evil freedom is.

We again return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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John Bergstrom Doesn't Play Well With Others

One of these things is not like the other


From the Book of Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses Nine through Twenty-one:

And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu--...

And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'

Of course one of the problems with the real Christian Holy Bible is that it really doesn't have a Book of Armaments.

Dealing with Islam would be a lot easier if it did.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Somebody Had To Say It

From the Strategy Page:

One look at the quantities involved really answers the question as to whether or not the Algerian build-up is a threat to France. The short answer is that it isn't. The Algerians would be outnumbered, and facing fighters at least as good as their new MiG-29s and Su-30s, if not better in some respects. This is before the French advantages in areas like airborne early-warning aircraft (France uses variations of the E-3 and E-2) and aerial refueling come into play. In short, a modern Franco-Algerian war is one that Algeria would lose in the air, even though they would be fighting the French.

Emphasis mine.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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A Bit Of Fun

Coming soon from the BBC, a nature documentary on the new Iraq:

(Narration in italics)

Another intruder in the Iraqui ecosystem is the M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank. Here we see an Abrams Tank as it stalks its prey, an Iraqui insurgent.

We see an Abrams Tank hiding behind some tall grass. It then leaps out and chases down the insurgent.

The Abrams Tank uses its superior speed to run down and kill the insurgent.

The Abrams Tank runs over and then goes through the motions of devouring its kill.

The Abrams Tank can comsume up to ten times its body weight in the course of a year.

The Abrams Tank is suddenly surrounded by a half-dozen Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles. The Abrams Tank rotates its turret with the main gun level and honks its horn as a warning.

The infantry carriers will have to wait their turn...

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

Why do I have the awlful feeling that J.A. Steel is going to be the Ed Wood of the Twenty-First Century?

Could it be the passion that she brings to her work?

Could it be the sexual identity issues she could have?

Could it be the appearance of ineptitude in her style of directing and editing?

See the trailer for SALVATION.
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Thought for the Day

The present-day liberal, as with any other barbarian, does not care about the height of the pile of human skulls as long as he (or in the case of Hillary, she) is firmly seated upon it.

And Hillary is still a Miserable Failure.
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Sad News

Actor Ian Richardson dead at 72

Laconic actor Ian Richardson, famed for his role as the arch manipulator in the BBC political drama House of Cards, has died suddenly at the age of 72, his agent said on Friday...

"House of Cards was just so much his own," Diamond said, reflecting on Richardson's role as the epitome of elegant evil in the BBC parliamentary trilogy.

His oleaginous aside as a Machiavellian politician - "You might say that, I couldn't possibly comment" - has entered the language as a perfect catchphrase for devious evasiveness.

I first taped HOUSE OF CARDS off the air when it was broadcast on our local PBS station and then bought the VHS set from the BBC when it became available. There are differences between the PBS and BBC edits of the series.


Link to the ITV story.

Someone on an alternate history site is writing a fanfic about how the character of Francis Urquhart would have handled 9/11 and the events of the real year 2001.
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And Then...

Les wakes up, reads Little Green Footballs, notices that Arabs hate Bush, and says:

(Roll 1d6)

1-3. So what else is new?

4-5. Really? Kate Bush can't suck that badly.

6. Something involving an obscure anatomical reference that he cannot repeat in a public forum. (Checks to see that he spelled "public" correctly.)

Les goes back to bed.
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Think Of It As Insanity In Action

I found the following story from the Toronto Star on FARK dot com:

There is something endearing about the 65 believers gathered in Canada's capital of capitalism this weekend for a convention on communism.

There are a number of terms I would use for such a gathering, endearing is not one of them.

First off, it takes chutzpah to call 65 people a convention. Then there are the facts: The collapse of the USSR and the Soviet bloc, Fidel Castro's fragile health, and the triumphs of Microsoft and Google and Wal-Mart. Doesn't phase them.

"The first airplanes didn't work, the pilots died, but the principles of the first flying machines were excellent." says delegate Antonio Artuso, 61, by way of explaining communism's failure to thrive in the 20th Century, and his continuing belief that it will one day triumph.

"It takes time for systems to work," he adds.

The science of aviation works because those who practice it actually made the effort to discover and apply the relevant facts of reality to their endeavor. The aviation mishaps that do occur are usually the result of someone not paying attention to the relevant facts.

The theory of Communism was invented by a group of professional parasites in order to give the appearance of modernity and moral legitimacy to the stone-age practice of beating-up and killing productive people and taking their stuff.

Of course that is about the nicest description I could give to it. Normally I think of the practice of Communism as being the behavior of those who chose to act as sub-human predatory animals. And as with any other predatory animal that attacks human beings I believe that they should be hunted down and killed.

Of course Comrade Artuso isn't the only one to not get it. Comrade Figueroa is optimistic about the future of Communism.

Mistakes have been made, he points out.

The first wave of socialism contained "distortions and perversions."

"I continue to be confident that the next wave of socialism will be qualitatively different, qualitatively better, because we've learned a lot of lessons from the past."

Because a 110 million innocent human lives snuffed out in the pursuit of an invalid ideology is just not enough.

Would they stop after killing 200 million or 300 million?

Of course not.

Parasite mentalities as a general rule see themselves as superior beings and other people, the productive population, exist solely as either tools that they can use to pursue their goals or as trash to be disposed of. Killing those who rightfully refuse to be the slaves of the self-appointed superior beings is not an act of murder, in their minds is it simply the disposal of hominid garbage.

I practical terms, a Communist is a mortal enemy of human kind. And killing a Communist can be no more wrongful than putting down a rabid animal or destroying any other active hazard to human life.
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So What Else Is New?

Once again the assholes on the Left are attempting to rewrite history to suit their own ends.

In this case they are attempting to deny the fact that leftist trash were spitting on uniformed members of the armed forces in the period during and subsequent to the Vietnam War. That and the screaming "babykiller" thing.

One should think that with a minimum estimated bodycount of 110 million persons of all ages and genders by various Marxist regimes that the label of "babykillers" would be more accurately applied to the Left.

We should also remember that the act of spitting on a member of the armed forces is also the repudiation of the idea of the right to Life and Liberty of every citizen and legal resident of the nation that service member has sworn to defend.

When a walking piece of leftist trash spits on a uniformed member of the armed services its message to all citizens and legal residents is simply "die motherf***er."

And as a citizen and former soldier of the United States I would have to interpret that message in a very personal manner.


HT: Instapundit
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I Like This

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Quote of the Day

The gates of Auschwitz were not opened with peace talks. Holland was not liberated by peacekeepers and fascism was not defeated with a deft pen.

-- Rick Mercer

Hat tip to George Moneo at Babalu.
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John Bergstrom Doesn't Play Well With Others

Varmit, aka John Bergstrom, went out to play with the barking moonbat's at one of their gatherings:

I went to the protest Saturday. Meant to do a little photo essay. It's a lot harder than Zombietime makes it look. The hippies just wouldn't hold still. Didn't see anything that insane. This is Los Angeles, not Berkeley. And there were cops everywhere. But I got a few interesting shots.

I call this guy "Chinpubes". His t-shirt has a "No War" slogan over a picture of Marxist murderer Che Gueverra. I wonder if he was born without the ability to perceive irony, or if he lost it in some sort of accident. It's also an example of what I call "GAY for Che". I swear all these wankers have man crushes on the revolutionary thug. They fall asleep dreaming of his beard tickling the back of their necks. Well, you get the idea.

Actually, that's an idea that I would rather not get.

Nothing says "look at me, I'm a superior being" like a Che shirt and "don't hire me" facial hair.

Every day I am compelled to wonder how these mentally inverted bozoids manage to get out of bed in the morning (or early afternoon) without severely injuring themselves. Folks who feel that regimes that routinely practice mass slavery and mass murder are morally superior to civil societies that are based on the principle of consent are bound to have severe difficulty with systems that are more mechanically complicated than floors, walls, and nonpowered doors.

This fellow is going to have severe difficulty in finding a job without either a shave or the ability to do the monica. Imagine the mess that will make. Or better yet, don't!

Actually, there nothing wrong with that fellow that couldn't be fixed by confinement to a padded room and a lifetime supply of happy pills. That or one round in the back of the head in the old Soviet style.

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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

I think the legal system is a giant Turing Test. Something only humans can understand.

-- Florence Ambrose, Freefall, January 29, 2007

Actually, around here it's an anti-Turing test.
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Question

What part of "there can be only one" do they persist in not understanding?

Of course I wouldn't mind knowing the origin of the Immortals anyway. Guess I'll have to see it.

The official site for HIGHLANDER: THE SOURCE.
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Something Else

A fake advert for a fictional General Motors dealership.

Warning: This advert makes extensive use of obscene language!

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Today in Pizzaland

I nearly ran over someone on my next to last delivery run today.

She just ran out into the street ahead of me without looking for oncoming traffic. And then she reacted as if I was the idiot at fault. Fortunately, my brakes worked.

I did not stop to ask her if she was a Democrat.
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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

Jimmy Carter is still a bleeping idiot.

ATHENS, Ga. - With the zeal of a Baptist Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter ended a conference on his presidency Sunday morning by telling Americans they should not fear and they should not hate.

On a weekend in which Carter celebrated the 30th anniversary of his inauguration and the 25th year since its abrupt conclusion, it was left to the former president to update his peace efforts in the Middle East to today's world by talking about terrorism and about harsh feelings against people of other faiths.

"We are developing an ingrained hatred for people who aren't Christians," said Carter, a Sunday School teacher since he was 18 years old.

Unwarranted fear of terrorism is behind these feelings, he said.

"The distortion that we are about to be destroyed makes us suspicious of those who don't worship the way we do," he said. "And our country has no reason to be afraid."

As an atheist I really don't have a problem when other people have faith in God. I just hold reason to be superior to faith.

What I have a problem with are the all too numerous assholes who commits acts of violence against my country and other civilized nations because we will not practice an untterly false religion that elevates the unholy as holy. A false religion invented by a false prophet of a false god. A religion that treats as holy an individual who committed multiple capital crimes. If the false prophet Mohammad were to appear in the United States today and behave as depicted in the Islamic records he would either be sedated and locked in padded room, locked in a maximum security prison, or given the needle. Except in the state of Utah where he would be taken out and shot.

Being afraid of insanely violent people is perfectly normal. So is doing something to permanently stop insanely violent people.

Of course this sort of idiocy is nothing new to Mr. Carter. There are a number of words I would use for the fear of the ideology of Communism, whose practitioners have by direct violence or deliberate starvation caused the deaths over a hundred million people. "Inordinate" is not one of those words.

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Meanwhile in Cheeseland

A self-appointed superior being is knocked off it's pedestal.

An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground.

What he got, instead, was a swift kick from the company's Web site, which not only refused the request but added insult to injury with the admonition, "If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq."

Army Sgt. Jason Hess, stationed in Taji, Iraq, with the 1st Cavalry Division, said he emailed his request to Discount-mats.com because he and his fellow soldiers sleep on the cold ground, which contains sand mites, sand flies and other disease carriers.

In his email, dated Jan. 16, 2007, he asked the Web-based company, registered to Faisal Khetani, an American Muslim of Pakistani descent:

"Do you ship to APO (military) addresses? I'm in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for ships to APO first."

On the same day, Hess received this reply:

"SGT Hess,

We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.

Bargain Suppliers
Discount-Mats.com"

Khetani on Monday told FOX News that the person responsible for the email reply had been fired. The Web site, meanwhile, has been temporarily taken down.

Hess emailed that he has since found two mat suppliers willing to ship to an APO address in Iraq.

I'm not a fan of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but back during his administration anyone who behaved as the self-appointed superior being did would not have to look for a new job in the middle of winter. Employment would be provided for them at the nearest convenient location of what we now call Club Fed. The Federal Prison System.

Would the present Republican administration please show some spine when dealing with the domestic enemies?
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Some Questions

This is what happens when those who try to seize power by force are not put to death (that and the Third Reich):

President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to "Go to hell, gringos!"

Never mind the fact that he persistently postures and makes hostile statements and has public meetings with numerous American traitors.

He also has a problem with the practice of tyrannicide.

"They took out Saddam Hussein and they hung him, for good or worse. It's not up to me to judge any government, but that gentleman was the president of that country."

Gosh, what a surprise! Could it be that he objects to tyrannicide because he is a dictator? Does he expect the United States to liberate his country and hang his smelly carcass?

It is a question now of when, not if.

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Quote of the Day

Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.

-- Florence Ambrose, Freefall, January 22, 2007.

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Quote of the Day

Over on Fark.com I read this posting by farker Khazar-Khum:

I worked, briefly, with an Honors student named Doqueishia. I asked her what it meant. She said, "It means my mother is an idiot."

Okayyyyy...
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Stating the obvious is a poor substitute for flattery.

-- Davan MacIntire, Something Positive, January 15, 2006

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So Anyway...

I'm watching the second hour of 24.

Some dumbfuck civilian decides to beat up a Muslim (little does anyone realize that said Muslim is part of the terrorist problem...) and the Muslim pulls out a pistol and kneecaps the dumbfuck civilian. Said dumbfuck civilian then begs for mercy with the predictable result.

If you are going to follow the path of violence then you had better be prepared to go all the way. And don't apologise or beg for mercy.

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Wrong, As Usual

On this day in 1920, an editorial in the New York Times declared that rocket-powered spaceflight was impossible.

The sensationalism and merciless attack by the New York Times and other newspapers left a profound impression on Robert Goddard who became secretive about his work (to detriment of development of rocketry in the United States) and shied publicity.

(Ephasis mine.)

Gee, thanks comrades!

The NYT did eventually print a retraction of their trashing of Dr. Goddard, on July 17, 1969, after the launch of the Apollo 11 mission:

A Correction. On Jan. 13, 1920, "Topics of the Times," and editorial-page feature of the The New York Times, dismissed the notion that a rocket could function in vacuum and commented on the ideas of Robert H. Goddard, the rocket pioneer, as follows:

"That Professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react - to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."

Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th Century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error.

It would be nice if they would, you know, retract a few more things they printed about the Soviets and other Marxist trash...
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Meanwhile in the MnSSR

The Minneapolis Star-Pravda just failed a fact check:

The contract will be substantial because the precision guidance kits will be made to fit into all existing 155-millimeter artillery shells used by the United States and NATO. The artillery rounds -- 3 feet tall and 10 inches wide -- would receive new screw-on tips, which are actually precision guidance kits that provide new satellite-guidance capability, wings that deploy mid-flight and mini brakes that can help steer the shells in the desired direction. The idea is precision targeting, even though the target may be 20 miles away.

I didn't know that the Army ever had a ten-inch bore cannon.

We had some twelve-inch railroad car mounted cannon back in World War Two, "Atomic Annie" was an eleven-inch cannon. And the self-propelled eight-inch guns were recently retired. The largest bore artillery piece in present service is the 155-mm cannon, which is slightly over six-inches.

So someone at the Star-Pravda didn't do their homework. Hell, it looks like they can't even do basic math.

(10 inches times 25.4 millimeters equals 254 millimeters, not 155 millimeters. I shouldn't even have to do that!)

Par for the course for our local commie-traitor rag.

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Photo of the Day

A mothballed British Aircraft Carrier at Portsmouth.

As one wag has put it, the Royal Navy's worst enemy is the Ministry of Defence.

Think of it as socialism in action.
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Brownshirt Alert

Yale barbershop singers recovering after ambush

NEW YORK (AFP) - Members of a close-harmony group from Yale University are recovering after being ambushed and beaten up while on tour in California.

Members of the a cappella Baker's Dozen were performing at a party in San Francisco at the new year when their rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner" apparently sparked taunts and threats from fellow partygoers.

As the group left the house, they were attacked by dozens of assailants, suffering scrapes, black eyes and concussions, said Connecticut's News Channel 8.

"Besides any bruising or scrapes to the face, the main injury I suffered was I broke my jaw in two places," one of the singers, 18-year-old Sharyar Aziz, was quoted as saying.

We must remember that to the Left, Power is Life, Liberty is Death.
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Thought for the Day

Any person or organization that objects to the establishment of a system of accountability may not be doing something that they don't want to be held accountable for, but that is certainly the way to bet.
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Thought for the Day

"I find your lack of pants disturbing."

Okay...
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Thought for the Day

Some assholes should be shot on sight.

For example, the character of Coppertop from Something Positive.

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Thought for the Day

The intention to play god with the lives of other people is never good.
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Thought for the Day

It was a time of villains and a time of heroes, and most folks hadn't a clue which was which. Not that I didn't try...

-- Frank Riley, Reporter, 1935


Mister Riley, do you know what a socialist is? A socialist is a barbarian in Sunday clothes.

-- The Banker, (I haven't named the character yet.) 1935 (A screenplay that I haven't written yet.).

I was reading online about the gangsters of the Depression and I started visualizing a new movie set in that era. 1935 is my working title at the moment.

Something else to work on...

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Thought for the Day

Anyone who believes that tyrannicide is murder may not be part of the problem of tyranny, but that is certainly the way to bet.
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Thought for the Day

Of course the tyrannophiles, otherwise known as the Left, are having a fit over the permanent disposal of Saddam Hussein.

I once wrote this about the relationship between the Left and their beloved tyrants:

Socialists are inherently parasitic and thus cannot take "no" for an answer to their demands for obedience and the material goods they need to exist. If they did so they would wither away and die.

A dictator, on the other hand, does not have to take "no" for answer. Thus socialists are by necessity inclined to favor dictatorships over citizen-ruled republics.

When they see a dictator in the dock, they see their own hopes and desires go with him.

And when they see a dictator doing a dance at the end of a rope they see themselves perishing with him.

Do I really need to say more?

No, I really don't think so.
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Update at 0740 CST:

Apparently I do have something more to say.

The frothing of the Left continues. Their hatred of President Bush the Tyrannicide will intensify because they will see him as an active hazard to their own lives. So we should expect to see them become more explicit in their desire to see President Bush die.

We should watch for the first "Kill Bush" bumper stickers.
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Update at 0940 CST:

Eon over at LGF had this to say on the subject:

Also, to a great extent, the attitude of these individuals toward the likes of Saddam is that of envy. They see someone they would like to emulate, and whom they believe they are entitled to emulate, as follows;

1. I am a progressive. I am therefore on a higher moral plane than anyone else.

2. (1) proves that I am innately superior to all others. I am therefore the one best suited to rule, and gain the rewards of doing so.

3. (1) and (2) together should be obvious to all others, so they should therefore recognize my inherent specialness and general wonderfulness and obey me as I manage their lives for them- to my benefit, as I am far more important than they are.

4. Anyone who does not acknowledge the truth of (1), (2), and (3) is both stupid and evil, and must be destroyed.

You or I can see that this entire argument is built on a false premise- namely, that those who style themselves as "progressive" are somehow different or inherently better than the rest of the human race. But the ones who claim this label are convinced that it is not merely true, but an immutable law of nature.

Or in other words, they believe in a cult of self-worship.

This probably explains most of the posters on DailyKos, HuffPo, and DU. As well as anyone who ever thought that all answers to any problem could be found in the works of Marx, Engels, or Marcuse. Or Nietsche, for that matter.

Just an observation.

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Today in Pizzaland

I had a large pizza order today from a group having a meeting at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul today. The male person that I talked to was unable to tell me which specific building on campus they were in. I asked him several times and all he would tell me was that he was on the campus. To show how stupid he was I must point out that all buildings on the campus have the name of the building on a sign at the building entrance. I strongly suspect that the individual may have been a peace activist. But I didn't ask.
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Let's Do this!

The U.S.S. Robert A. Heinlein

What better way to commemorate Robert Heinlein's birth centennial than naming a major new US Navy ship after him? The ultra-sophisticated DDG destroyers (Zumwalt class) are something straight out of science fiction themselves, and there's never been a better ship to name after an sf writer, futurist and proud Navy man.

We'll have more here soon about the USS Heinlein campaign and how to make it happen, but for now, here's the scoop from our event coordinator, Tim Kyger:

The U.S.S. Robert A. Heinlein Campaign

For all but a very brief period at the beginning of our history, the word ship will mean space ship. [1] Many will be named “Robert A. Heinlein.”

Only one will ever be the first.

We have the chance to name that very first one. [2]

This coming July 7, 2007 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert A. Heinlein. That day would be a perfect opportunity for the Secretary of the Navy to announce that ship DDG-1001 (or another early hull number) would be named the U.S.S. Robert A. Heinlein.

How do we make it happen? We write the Secretary of the Navy and ask him to! The Secretary of the Navy has the authority to name the ships of the U.S. Navy (he is the only one who can).

Thought for the Day

If history has taught us anything, it is that peace has never been the result of yielding to the will of one's enemies. Peace can only come as the result of totally and unconditionally defeating those who seek to bend you to their will.

In other words, give us Liberty or we will give you Death.
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Update at 0900 hrs CST, 29 December, 2009:

Rabbi Eliyahu Shalem of Jerusalem has some more to say on the subject:

As a proposition war should be avoided but not at all costs for it thus serves to appease the evil bent on their own agendas. Even containment can be misused and only aid and abet the evil.
Adam's regime was evil and had to be removed. Ahmedinajad's call to annihilate genocidely the Jewish people is a blatant evil and must be removed before it is too late.
Bush was correct and the American people at the time after 9/11 were again correct. War is justified in these circumstances. Save the moralizing for Sunday morning.

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Good News!

Saddam Hussein is to hanged by Sunday.

Actor Jerry Haleva to be out of work.

Leftist tyrranophiles are expected to blame President Bush.

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Update at 2000 hrs CST:

And now for something completely different, a song!

Hang the bastard, hang him high.
Hoist his body to the sky.
It's as nice as a day can be.
Won't you come to the hanging with me?

Hang the bastard, hang him high.
Hoist his body to the sky.
It's as nice as a day can be.
Won't you come to the hanging with me?

Hang the bastard, hang him well.
Send his sorry soul to hell.
When his neckbone snaps we'll know.
When the (dic-tat-or) won't be killing anymore.

His face will turn red,
Then purple, then blue.
We'll watch from up here
To get a good view.
And when his eyes bug out we'll know,
It's the end of him
And the end of the show!

So hang the bastard, hang him with cheer.
We'll make some hot dogs
And drink a few beers.
And when his tongue rolls out we'll know,
It's the end of the show
And we all can go home!

But not till we hang the bastard, hang him here.
The most exciting thing this town has seen in years.
When his body stops jerking we'll know,
It's the end of him, it's the end of him,
It's the end of him,
And the end of the show.

[Cowbell solo]

So hang the bastard, hang him high.
Kiss his guilty butt goodbye.
It's as nice as a day can be.
Won't you come to the hanging with me?

His veins will pop out all over his head.
We'll tickle his armpits to make sure he's dead.
And when his tongue rolls out we'll know,
It's the end of him and we all can go home!

But not till we
Hang the bastard, hang him high.

Hoist his body to the sky.
When his body stops jerking we'll know,
It's the end of him, it's the end of him,
It's the end of him!
Let's get on with the show!

Hooray!

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Quote of the Day

"If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."

-- President Gerald R. Ford, 1913-2006

Rest in peace, Sir.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Apparently the Left doesn't really think anymore.

And they're afraid of those who do.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

The Left lied, millions died.

The Worst Day of the Year

Contributed by George Mellinger

Monday will be a day for contemplating all that is best, most noble and perfect in our world. But today is the day to contemplate all that is ugly, criminal and thoroughly demonic. It behooves us to remember from time to time all the worst of which we are capable, and today is the most fitting day of all. On December 22, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Stalin.

I would also say that killing a Marxist is no more a wrongful act than is putting down a rabid dog.
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So Anyway

So I stopped over at The People's Cube to see what they're up to today. Apparently it was Volume II, Chapter I of the the autobiography of a certain famous socialist. Which they quoted:

- We demand that the State shall make it its primary duty to provide a livelihood for its citizens.
- The abolition of incomes unearned by work.
- The breaking of the slavery of interest
- Personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand therefore the ruthless confiscation of all war profits.
- We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
- We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
- We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.
- We demand the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation
- The State must consider a thorough reconstruction of our national system of education. The aim of the school must be to give the pupil, beginning with the first sign of intelligence, a grasp of the nation of the State (through the study of civic affairs).
- The State must ensure that the nation's health standards are raised by protecting mothers and infants, by prohibiting child labor.
- We demand the abolition of the mercenary army and the foundation of a people's army.
- The publishing of papers which are not conducive to the national welfare must be forbidden.
- Our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.
- To put the whole of this program into effect, we demand the creation of a strong central state power

Guess which well known socialist party had all that in its platform?

"We demand the abolition of the mercenary army and the foundation of a people's army." That sounds like something Charles Rangel would agree with given all of his efforts to replace our Volunteer Army with a mob of draftees.

I want to watch the DUmmies, the KOSsacks, and the Huffpuffers pop arteries when they find out who really wrote it. (Tee hee hee.)

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Thought for the Day

Expecting a Leftist to speak the truth is like expecting that Bill Clinton will not have a zipper failure.

Okay, they can't all be profound.
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In Other News

Here's something that the mainstream media will never publish about Fidel Castro:

According to the Harvard-published "Black Book of Communism," he executed 14,000 subjects by firing squad. These ranged in age from 16 to 68 and included several women, at least one of them pregnant.

According to the scholar/researchers at the Cuba Archive, his regime's total death toll from torture, prison beatings, machine gunning of escapees, drownings of same, etc. comes to 112,000 and counting.

There is a reason I no longer buy newspapers and switch on the network news programs.

Their reporting on political and ethical issues simply cannot be trusted.

There are days that I wish that this branch of our own national fifth column could be held accountable for their ongoing support of slavers and murderers. But would require the creation of the government bureau whose function is to determine what the truth is and to punish those publish contradictions of it. And THAT is a power I don't want to fall into the hands of socialist trash like Comrade Hillary, et al.

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Thought for the Day

In my opinion I think the whole doctrine or practice of Leftism, and thugism in general, can be reduced down to eight words:

"BEHOLD ME! ADORE ME! OBEY ME! OR ELSE!"

Well, that's my theory.

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A Message...

...to the Iraq Surrender Group, to the Democrats, and to the other willing servants of the Enemies of Mankind:

“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”

-- Samuel Adams, Brewer and Patriot.

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John Bergstrom Gets It

The latest Attack Cartoon:


Still, we must ask, what about the giant monster tracks around Tokyo?
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A Blast From The Past

My feelings toward the Japs could be described as a cold fury. I not only want them to be defeated. I want them to be smashed. I want them to be punished at least a hundredfold, their cities burned, their industries smashed, their fleet destroyed, and finally, their sovereignty taken away from them. We have been forced into a course of imperialism. So let it be. Germany and Japan are not safe to have around; we are bigger and tougher then they are, I sincerely believe. Let’s rule them. We did not want it that way–but if somebody has to be the boss, I want it to be us. Disarm them and don’t turn them loose. We can treat the individual persons decently in an economic sense, but take away their sovereignty.

– Robert A. Heinlein, Letter to John W. Campbell, December 9, 1941.

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

Meanwhile Bomb #20 has started it's own theology, any time a fusion device sayeth, "Let there be light." bad things happen.

-- Andrew Borntreger, Review of DARK STAR

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OH NO!

New American atrocities in Iraq!

WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGES!
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Meanwhile...at Che Mart ("We Smell For Less!")

They have a new t-shirt for sale:



Just how long does it take for a mass murdering motherfucker to die?

Didn't Stalin just pop a blood vessel and die overnight?
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Someone Asked A Dumb Question

Some piece of Leftist trash is whining:

Is there any way to ban Limbaugh, O'Reilly and their ilk from the airwaves?

This question touches on the first amendment freedom of speech. But what about speech that provides only hatred, propaganda and divisiveness?

The piece of Leftist trash quoted by P.J. Comix is simply being stupid as usual.

As Ayn Rand used to say, a gun is not a substitute for an argument.

Once force is openly used against those who speak out against the Left then the gloves will come off and force WILL be openly used against the Left. Once the Left openly repudiates the rules for living in a civil society then their victims will no longer see themselves as subject to those same rules.

Or to put it another way to the Left, break the rules of civil society and you will have left us no choice but to break you.

It's called a civil war. And cars with bumper stickers, tee-shirts, and other examples of open posturing will make target identification very easy.

What part of "Liberty or Death" do they persist in not understanding?

It is generally considered to be bad form to advocate violence against someone simply because of their political views. But if some Leftist thug finds himself staring at the muzzle of my favorite rifle it is because the stupid individual put himself there.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

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Meanwhile...Across The Ocean

In the land of the Rising Sun:

TOKYO - Japan has the technological know-how to produce a nuclear weapon but has no immediate plans to do so, the foreign minister said Thursday, several weeks after communist North Korea carried out a nuclear test.

Foreign Minister Taro Aso, who has called for discussion of Japan's non-nuclear policy, also asserted that the pacifist constitution does not forbid possession of the bomb

Imagine for a moment that Hillary Rodham Clinton, someone who could be reasonably expected to be Beijing's bitch, were elected in 2008.

Would it be safe to assume that any democratic nation on the Pacific Rim would remain safe under a nuclear umbrella controlled by an American President whose party is known to have taken money from the masters of Communist China?

No. Of course not.

If Hillary, or any other Donk, wins the White House in 2008 we can be certain that there will very shortly be new members of the Nuclear Club.

Say hello to a nuclear armed Japan.

Say hello to a nuclear armed South Korea.

Say hello to a nuclear armed Taiwan.

Say hello to a nuclear armed Australia.

Who knows, perhaps the folks governing New Zealand may even pull their collective heads out of their collective asses on matters of national defense.

And all this will happen because all of these nations will have no other choice.

Any American citizen who is truly concerned about the proliferation of nuclear weapons can only follow one logical course of action. Vote Republican in 2008.

(Unless McCain gets the nomination. Who really knows what he will do?)

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And Now For Something Completely Different

The adventures of Mr. Welch in the theatre!

So after that and brief stint in theatre of the absurd (in which I played a serial killing bird enthuasiast) I got a casting call from the Kingwood Community Theatre, version 3. Oedipus Rex, the tragedy. I get there and start reading lines and the director isn't listening. He's already cast the play with his friends. The casting call was required because the theatre demanded all plays be open calls, no troupes. He didn't care. He was some little rich kid who liked to play with daddy's money. Still, he offered me a job as a hand and being not rich, I took it.

To say this kid was overreaching was an understatement. He gave me and the other hands (seven all together) plans for a grandiose two tiered temple platform with moving parts and room for two dozen strippers. Yes strippers. He hired a bunch of strippers for the chorus. If strippers could act they'd be in porn but he had a thing for the girls at the local joint he attended and hired as many as he could. Mainly they just got in the way or tried to get us to see them. Back to the two tiered temple platform with moving parts though. We get bids from the local hardware and lumber stores on building this thing. A grand easy. The stage manager presented the director with the bill and the director scoffs. Seems he spent most of the money on hiring strippers. I'm probably exaggerating that, but not by much.

To make a long story short, the production failed.

Gosh. What a surprise.

The reason that this little misadventure had piqued my interest is that I've borrowed a bit of Oedipus Rex for my screenplay project. (The following has yet to be formally written into the script and is subject to revision.)

LISA

The Captain seemed to believe that you had become a central character from an ancient Hellenic tragedy. You know, the one where the character kills his father and rapes his mother.

DENNIS

Oh. I would never do that to Mom.

Or something like that...

Yes, Dennis killed his own father. This is going to have an impact on his long lost twin brother when he finds out...heeheehee...
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Quote of the Day

"“I still can'’t act my way out of a wet paper bag...but I'’m really good at getting even with the bad guys."”

-- J.A. Steel, aka Jacquelyn Ruffner. Bad actress and bad movie director.

Most folks who speak or write adversely about her first film, THE THIRD SOCIETY, are usually worried about her unarmed combat skills. I'm not, that's what bayonets are for. As a former grunt I'm more concerned about her marksmanship medals.


Imperial Navy Lieutenant Commander Dennis Sterling is shot after doing something stupid in THE BOUNDARY.

But, according to her self-written press release, she is going to act in and direct her second film. As someone who is only about a third of the way through writing his first screenplay I can only wish her well in this endeavor.


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Today in Pizzaland

"Topping" is not the correct answer when the customer service representative, in this case the driver who answered the phone, asks you what you want on top of your last pizza in a three pizza special deal.

Topping is not a topping. Topping is a concept. We cannot put a concept on top of a pizza.

I hope this clears things up.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Barbarism In Action

When I returned home from work tonight the intersection at the west end of the block where I presently live had been taped off by the Minneapolis Police. According to my Mom, who is staying here for Thanksgiving, two men were shot, one fatally.

Nordeast Minneapolis used to be such a nice place to live.
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So Anyway

I just ordered a copy of the DVD of VOLS BLANCS. Basically a bunch of videos of the Swiss Air Force flying around set to music.

Parts of which have been posted on You Tube.

That is all.

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Today In Socialism

Today is the anniversary of the Murder of Congressman Leo Ryan the other deaths in what became known as the Jonestown Massacre.

Of course in order to create Jonestown the Rev. Jim Jones, as a self-styled Apostolic Socialist, had to totally ignore the historic one-hundred percent failure rate of voluntary socialist communities.

There are limits to what one can do in good faith.
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Update at 0345 CST:

I forgot to mention the fact that Jim Jones and his crew were virtually in bed with the Democratic Party machine of San Francisco.

Well boys and girls, can you say election fraud?

I knew you could.
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Thought for the Day

That which does not kill you isn't trying hard enough.
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And Now...

The number of things that Mr. Welch cannot do has increased from 800 to 825:

803. If my personal carried firepower exceeds that of the Battleship Texas, there's a problem.

808. Covering fire does not include nuclear weapons.

813. Taking the orc warlord's skull as a trophy is acceptable. Not as a hand puppet.

816. The adventure wrap up is the epilogue. Not Miller Time.

822. If everybody in the room is in black leather, we're in the thieves' guild. Not a fetish club.

Um, okay...

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Thought for the Day

Normally I would be loathe to agree with any communist, but...



Comrade Khrushchev had a very valid point about tail fins on automobiles.

Something I Found

Some people wonder why I will have nothing to do with the Democratic Party.

From today's New York Sun:

In Cambodia, Phnom Penh fell in mid-April. Saigon fell at the month's end. The frantic efforts to negotiate a peaceful transition went for naught. On May 1, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal published Peter Kann's famous "Obituary for South Vietnam," which was one of the few pieces extolling the heroism of South Vietnam's often-mocked army. It was "not an army of bumblers and cowards," he wrote. "It was an army that stood and fought with great courage and competence on a few occasions you may remember, like the siege of An Loc. …

"It was an army that for years watched the Americans try to combat the Communists with every wonder of modern weaponry and which then, all too suddenly, was left to face the Communists with American-style tactics but without American-style resources. …" He conceded that the North Vietnamese were stronger. "But the stronger side is not necessarily the better side. ‘Better' becomes a question of values and much as I may respect Communist strength and stamina I cannot accept that the Spartan Communist society of North Vietnam is better than the very imperfect South Veitnamese society that I knew."

It was one of the few eulogies the free Vietnamese ever got. And then a region with a population as large as eastern Europe was thrown into the decades of a still-dark night of communist tyranny. Hundreds of thousands were thrown into re-education camps. Millions died in the killing fields of Cambodia. The outpouring of boat-people from Vietnam astonished the world. In 1979, the summit of industrialized countries meeting at Tokyo was forced to set aside its agenda to deal with the crisis of the millions seeking to escape the communism to which they'd been abandoned

The Democrats have a lot to answer for.


Hat Tip to Lawhawk at LGF
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And Now For Something Completely Different

The Progressives are coming!



They're moving in this direction too!

Let's celebrate with a Progressive song!

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Something Else

Today is the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.

Kind of fitting given that the doctrine of the so-called Democratic Party is basically National Socialism without the Aryan frills. (Although anti-semitism seems to be making a comeback.)
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Thought for the Day

Speaking for myself only I would like to say OH SHITTTT!!!!!

This is what happens when Congress spends like there is no tomorrow. Guess what? Tomorrow is here, now.

This is what happens when the federal government can't be bothered to properly fortify our southern border. How many citizens were disgusted? How many illegal immigrants illegally voted in this election?

This is what happens when the act of treason is not prosecuted. Congratulations assholes! The Party of Treason now owns the Congress.

The Republican Party is just too fucking nice to effectively govern.

Now the Lenin-wanna-bees are taking over on the anniversary of Lenin's coup.

Gee. Thanks for nothing guys!

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Falsehood of the Day

Nancy Pelosi at the Huffington Post promises:

If you honor Democratic candidates with your vote today, in the first hundred hours of a Democratic Congress: We will restore civility, integrity, and fiscal responsibility to the House of Representatives.

Which sounds about as credible as Hitler proclaiming:

If you honor National Socialist candidates with your vote today, in the first hundred hours of a National Socialist Reichstag: We will restore civility, integrity, and racial tolerance in the Reichstag.

And if you can believe that then I can get you a great deal on the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Thought for the Day

Today is the anniversary of Lenin's coup d'etat in Saint Petersburg.

Let's not let the Lenin-wanna-bees do it to us here today.
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Depravity of the Day.

I'll start with a couple of definitions from the New Devil's Dictionary:

Liberal, Classical: Someone who believes that the rest of Mankind has something better to do. Believes that the helpless and innocent should be protected and deeply cares about the condition of Western Civilization.

Liberal, Modern: Someone who believes the the rest of Mankind has nothing better to do. Believes that the helpless and innocent should be attacked and deeply hates Western Civilization.

The reason I brought them up is that Leo Pusateri over at Blogs For Bush has brought up a rather unpleasant subject:

Doctors are urging health regulators to consider allowing the "active euthanasia" of severely disabled newborn babies.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology has put forward the option of permitting mercy killings of the sickest infants to a review of medical ethics.

It says "active euthanasia" should be considered for the overall benefit of families who would otherwise suffer years of emotional and financial suffering.

Deliberate action to end infants' lives may also reduce the number of late abortions, since it would allow women the chance to decide whether their disabled child should live.

"A very disabled child can mean a disabled family. If life-shortening and deliberate interventions to kill infants were available, they might have an impact on obstetric decision-making," the college writes in a submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

In other words, these so-called doctors are calling for the murder of helpless infants.

It's kind of hard to stand up for the freedom of speech when that freedom is abused in order to call for the murder of the innocent.

We should also note the use of a qualifier as means of nullifying the meaning of a word. Thus the prefix "bio" is used to convert the field of ethics from a set of rules for living the Human mode of life into a set of excuses to destroy Human life.

I have to wonder if these so-called doctors are fully paid-up on their NSDAP dues.

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