A Voice of a Survivor

Arthur Chrenkoff writes:

Marek Edelman is the last surviving military leader of the heroic Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. He recently spoke to a Polish television channel TVN24, and the interview has been re-published in a Polish weekly "Przekroj". It's not available anywhere else in English (or for that matter electronically), so I take this opportunity to translate and publish extensive excerpts from the interview. Edelman experienced evil many times in his long and distinguished life; he has also faced it and fought it bravely. What he has to say bears listening to.

Interviewer: Many people do understand that, but they don't understand why the Americans have to go to the other side of the world and fight over Iraq now.

Edelman: And why did they go to Europe then? Who defeated Hitler and saved Europe from fascism? The French? No, the Americans did. We thanked them then because they saved us. Today we criticise them because they're saving somebody else.

Interviewer: Returning to the question about having Polish soldier on the ground in Iraq. Many Poles don't want them there.

Edelman: If they don't want them there, let's just keep waiting and then let's see from which direction the rockets and the bombs will come from - will we in the end be lorded over by Saddam's viceroys or Bin Laden's, just as we were once lorded over by Hitler's viceroys.

Interviewer: Do you really believe in such a scenario?

Edelman: It's possible. If we will keep closing our eyes to evil, then that evil will defeat us tomorrow. Unfortunately there's more hatred in men than love. Those who murder understand only force and nothing else. And the only force that is able to stand against them is the American democracy.

Read the entire interview here.

Look! Its The Enemies Of Mankind!

The Green Left Weekly whines about "The Nightmare of Food."

Who suffers most? “Poverty. Class. Income. Over and over, these emerge as the key determinants of obesity and weight-related disease,” Critser says. He is no socialist though, and Marx doesn’t get so much as a mention in the book (Critser actually has a swipe at what he calls the “self-proclaimed ‘progressive left’”). His final chapter, on combating the epidemic, is the weakest in the book, and doesn’t go far beyond advocating better education and stronger parental control over diet and exercise. Still, despite its limitations, Critser’s book could very usefully be read by all socialists and all parents: he does us a great service in painting a vivid picture of the lurid world of McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Coca Cola, and their partners in corporate crimes against human well-being.

I work for Pizza Hut. And as an Objectivist I will look upon any attempt to forcibly shut down my employer as an attempt to murder myself and my fellow Pizza Hut employees.

The followers of Ayn Rand as a rule look upon the threat of being fired as being a form of a death threat.

If someone, in the time before the birth of Karl Marx, stood up on an old crate at a street corner in London, Paris, or Berlin, and tried to describe a world where food was plentiful and affordable to the working classes as "a nightmare" or in any other was as evil, he would dragged away to an insane asylum if he was lucky.

The Left, whenever it has gained unrestrained power as in Soviet Russia, Red China, North Korea, and Rouge Kampuchea, has enforced poverty and starvation and in some cases has seized or destroyed local food supplies as a means of killing off resisting populations.

Hitler is not Bush

When I first heard that President Bush had flown into Baghdad on Thanksgiving to have dinner with the soldiers there my thought was, "that is cool beyond belief."

President Bush has also visited wounded servicemen in our military hospitals.

The reason I brought this up is that in The Mask Of Command, John Keegan recounts an incident where Adolf Hitler was having dinner served to him in the dining car of his private train when it stopped at a station when another train, loaded with wounded soldiers returning from the Eastern Front, stops beside Hitler's private train.

Hitler had the stewards in the dining car pull down the shades so he wouldn't have to see the other train and its passengers.

Another point to keep in mind for those who have made a big deal out of Komrade Kerry's service in Vietnam is that Adolf Hitler was never drafted, he volunteered to be one of the frontsoldaten.

If I recall correctly Hitler made a big deal about that too.

Honoring Virtue on Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a solemn and sad occasion honoring the American soldiers who lost their lives in war. But it is also a hallowed day--because the values those men fought to defend form the essence of our country: freedom and the rights of the individual.

-- Andrew Bernstein

Read the whole thing here.

Something I Should Have Published Sooner

I got a bit tired of seeing all the continued bumper-sticker manifestations of the Wellstone personality cult (HE'S DEAD, GET OVER IT), found an existing transcript of the Dead Parrot Sketch, and did things to it:



Dead Senator Sketch


The cast:

MRS. CLINTON
Hillary Clinton

SHOP OWNER
Michael Palin (?)

The sketch:

A customer enters a pet shop pushing a large leather chair with a dead Paul Wellstone in it.

Mrs. Clinton: Hello, I wish to register a complaint.

(The owner does not respond.)

Mrs. Clinton: Hello, Miss?

Owner: What do you mean "miss"?

Mrs. Clinton: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!

Owner: We're closing for lunch.

Mrs. Clinton: Never mind that, sir. I wish to complain about this senator which I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.

Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, the Minnesota Swede...What's, uh...What's wrong with him?

Mrs. Clinton: I'll tell you what's wrong with him, sir. He's dead, that's what's wrong with him!

Owner: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.

Mrs. Clinton: Look, sir, I know a dead senator when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

Owner: No, no, he's not dead, he's, he's resting! Remarkable senator, the Minnesota Swede, isn't, it? Beautiful haircut!

Mrs. Clinton: He doesn’t look the slightest bit Swedish. He's stone dead.

Owner: Nononono, no, no! He's resting!

Mrs. Clinton: All right then, if he's resting, I'll wake him up! (shouting at the chair) 'Hello, Senator Wellstone! I've got a lovely fresh National Health Care Plan for you to vote on if you show...

(owner hits the chair)

Owner: There, he moved!

Mrs. Clinton: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the chair!

Owner: I never!!

Mrs. Clinton: Yes, you did!

Owner: I never, never did anything...

Mrs. Clinton: (yelling and hitting the chair repeatedly) HELLO PAULLY!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!

(Takes Wellstone out of the chair and thumps his head on the counter. Stands him up and watches him fall to the floor.)

Mrs. Clinton: Now that's what I call a dead senator.

Owner: No, no.....No, he's stunned!

Mrs. Clinton: STUNNED?!?

Owner: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was waking up! Minnesota Swedes stun easily, ma’am.

Mrs. Clinton: Um...now look...now look, sir, I've definitely had enough of this. That senator is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not half an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out following a prolonged speech.

Owner: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the north woods.

Mrs. Clinton: PINING for the NORTH WOODS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got him home?

Owner: The Minnesota Swede prefers keeping on it's back! Remarkable senator, isn’t he, ma’am? Lovely haircut!

Mrs. Clinton: Look, I took the liberty of examining that senator when I got him home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting in his chair in the first place was that he had been NAILED there.

(pause)

Owner: Well, of course he was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed him down, he would have stood up and gone VOOM! Feeweeweewee!

Mrs. Clinton: "VOOM"?!? Sir, this man wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through him! He's bleeding demised!

Owner: No, no! He's pining!

Mrs. Clinton: He's not pining! He’s passed on! This senator is no more! He has ceased to be! He’s expired and gone to meet his maker! He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the chair he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He’s off the twig! He’s kicked the bucket, He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-SENATOR!!

(pause)

Owner: Well, I'd better replace him, then. (he takes a quick peek behind the counter) Sorry ma’am, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of senators.

Mrs. Clinton: I see. I see, I get the picture.

Owner: I got a slug.

(pause)

Mrs. Clinton: Pray, does it talk?

Owner: Nnnnot really.

Mrs. Clinton: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT, IS IT?!!???!!?

Owner: N-no, I guess not. (gets ashamed, looks at his feet)

Mrs. Clinton: Well?

Owner: It leaves a trail of slime.

Mrs. Clinton: Yeah, all right.

Blast From The Past

It is time that those of us who can still honestly call ourselves free men face up to one very basic fact: Those who advocate, enact and enforce the form of predation known as "gun control" are nothing more than murderers, and must eventually be dealt with as such.

-- R. Hemmerding in a letter to The Resister

No. I don't know who R. Hemmerding is.

Honest...

Don't Drink And Legislate

A local Twin Cites television station reports:

Late at night, in the closing days of the legislative session, lobbyists, state workers and even some lawmakers gathered in offices at the State Capitol to drink beer, wine and liquor, KMSP-TV reported Wednesday night.

The station showed trash cans full of beer, wine and liquor bottles and suggested that at least some the alcohol of might have been provided by lobbyists. Lobbyists are not allowed to give gifts to legislators.

The station taped someone carrying a cooler into the office of Senate Majority Whip Linda Higgins. The Minneapolis DFLer was on the Senate floor at the time, in the final hours before adjournment, but several people were in her office drinking. KMSP said most of them were lobbyists. One lobbyist was sitting behind her desk, drinking a beer.

Gosh, what a surprise...

Dealing With Wolves

I’ll start with a parable.

A small town was once attacked by a pack of wolves. Some of the inhabitants - - men, women, and children - - were maimed and killed by the wolves.

The men of the town armed themselves and tracked the wolf pack back to its lair and proceeded to kill every member of the pack. And when the guns fell silent the only sound was a wimper emanating from a hollow beneath a tree stump.

In the hollow was a newborn wolf cub. One of the men, a bald fellow who wore glasses and a old black field jacket, shot the wolf cub with his rifle.

Another man asked the bald guy, “it didn’t harm anyone, why did you kill it?”

“It’s a fucking wolf,” the bald guy replied.


A bit over eleven years ago a small community in Texas was attacked by two packs of predatory animals.

The first pack was a federal agency whose functions were in part a deliberate and explicit violation of the charter and supreme law under which the Federal Government was established.

Even under regulations in effect at the time, the BATF could have sent a couple of agents in coats and ties in a plain government issue sedan to the Branch Davidian residence and asked the federally licenced firearms dealer living there to open his place of business and records to examination. Or if they needed to place the leader of the congregation under arrest they could have taken him into custody while he was out on his morning run. Given Mr. Koresh’s past history of cooperation with local law enforcement they could have simply asked him to come down to the local sheriff’s station.

The BATF did none of the above.

Instead the BATF attempted to stage a military-style assault, code-named Operation
Showtime, in order to impart a positive impression of the agency upon the socialist filth that had just moved into the White House. Never mind all the innocent women and children who could have been maimed or killed during the raid.

After the BATF goons were driven off another pack of predators, the so-called Hostage Rescue Team of the FBI, descended upon the Branch Davidians.

If it had been necessary to take the Branch Davidian residence by force a trainee platoon from the Benning School for Boys could, in accordance to their training, have entered the building and taken down any armed individuals without deliberately harming the non-combatants. Instead, the HRT, the alleged experts in hostage rescue, proceeded to terrorize the people within the residence. And when the Branch Davidians refused to surrender, they were exterminated by the HRT.

The HRT used some armored vehicles to destroy the exits from the building and to allow the ambient wind to blow through the structure while other armored vehicles injected CS gas, known to be inflammable and toxic to children and elderly persons, into the wooden structure.

And then the HRT fired incendiary devices into the building.

While the Branch Davidian residence burned to the ground on live television, HRT gunmen
stationed behind the building out of sight of the TV cameras shot anyone who attempted to escape the fire from the rear of the building.

The Democrat majority in both houses of Congress were not the slightest bit appalled by the atrocity, instead of condemning the president for his actions and initiating the process of impeaching and removing President Clinton, they chose instead to condemn the victims and those who dared to speak up for them.

Given the choice of obeying the supreme law or violating the law, they chose to violate the law.

Given the choice of preserving innocent life or destroying it, they chose to destroy innocent life.

President Clinton and the Democratic Party could have obeyed the Constitution, the Supreme Law to which the President, the Congress, and the Federal Government in general were subject and stopped the terrorization and murder of the Branch Davidians, but instead chose to violate the Supreme Law.

And like a number of illiterate barbarian chieftains before him, President Clinton and his party used the murder of the Branch Davidians to demonstrate to the rest of us what would happen to anyone who refused to submit to their will. Instead of standing up for the rights and lives of Americans they chose instead to terrorize and murder Americans.

Since then the name “democrat” has become in my mind synonymous with the concept
“murderer.” If there is one complaint I have about President Bush it is that he has done nothing to bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to justice.

Nothing. At. All.


A few days ago I published a moral condemnation of someone who chose to stand for election to Congress as a member of that gang of traitors and murderers.

Patty Wetterling is very obviously a socialist, someone who believes in using force against the rational and productive for the benefit of the lazy and stupid, and who is apparently not the slightest bit concerned that she has joined a gang that in one hour incinerated more children than she could have physically carried to term in a lifetime.

How could I have not morally condemned her?

Remember the wolf cub? That little animal is genetically wired to be a predator.

Patty Wetterling had a choice, she chose to join and attempt to re-empower a pack of predators and to become a mortal hazard to me, my family, and my nation. And we have no choice but to identify and deal with her as such.

And after I publically identified the bitch in question as an enemy of the Republic and of Mankind in General, someone or something, obviously a active adherent of the Party of Death, wandered in to the website, pointed the index finger of it’s blood drenched hand at me and screamed:

This whole post is tongue in cheek, right? This must be some kind of sad parody of conservative trolls. Can you seriously be calling for the murder ("shot in the back of the head Soviet style") of Patty Wetterling for the heinous crime of running for public office as a democrat?

If this post is for real then you are among the most sick, depraved creature God has put on this earth. You embody all of the evil in the world wrapped into one person. You are why we have to lock our doors at night. Look in the mirror. You are why we look at strangers with suspicion. Patti Wetterling has encountered someone like you before, it was the vermin who abducted and presumably murdered her son. You need professional help now so that you don't hurt anyone. I pray that you get it soon.

What is it like to not have a human soul?

What is like to be told that there is an evil that is orders of magnitude greater than the kidnaping and murder of one child, an evil that cannot be stopped by a locked door, an evil that can only be stopped by the exercise of deadly force against its perpetrators, and to declare that those who would act to defend themselves, their own families, and their own nation against such an evil are nothing more than vermin?

What is it like to declare that those who oppose the greater evil must be kidnaped and have their souls destroyed and every shred of conscience ripped away with drugs and electric torture?

What is it like to just be another fucking predatory animal?

Some Klingon Thoughts for the Day

Found this in a thread on Little Green Footballs:

Top sayings of Klingon programmers

* Perhaps today is a good day to die... I say we ship it."

* Specifications are for the weak and timid!!

* This machine is a piece of GAGH! I need dual Pentium (!) processors if I am to do battle with this code.

* You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless you've read it in the original Klingon.

* Indentation?! I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!

* What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software escapes, leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake!

* Klingon function calls do not have "parameters" - they have "arguments"- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.

* Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.

* I have challenged the entire Quality Assurance team to a Bat-Leh contest! They will not concern us again.

* A TRUE Klingon warrior does not comment his code.

* By filing this bug report you have challenged the honor of my family. Prepare to die!

* You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!

* Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!

[Demonic cackling]

My Horoscope from The Onion

Sagittarius: (Nov. 22—Dec. 21)

You should explore new conversational tactics. Trapping people in a pincer formation of battle tanks is proving socially awkward.

Thought for the Day

A wolf cub always grows up to be a wolf.

A human becomes a predator by choice.

What Would Mao Say?

He'd probably say that this girl is too old for him.

A Contest!

CBS (a.k.a. the Commie Broadcast System) is taking entries for "Top Ten Least-Exciting Drudge Report Headlines."
My entry is:

Rats found in Hillary's basement, cause of death ruled suicide.

It probably won't win.

And Now For Something Completely Different

The Robert Beltran Gripe Generator.

Too bad there won't be a sequel to Eating Raoul.

Oh ... yeah ... I forgot ...

Thought for the Day

Scroll down to the frame at the bottom of the page.

This thought had never occurred to me.

Tragic Loss

Actor Richard Biggs has died.

Thought for the Day

The path to Liberty will always take us over the dead bodies of thugs and tyrants.

Oh, That Mother

Meanwhile at the state convention of the Despotic Party:

DULUTH, Minn. — Until this month, Patty Wetterling was best known as Jacob's mother.

A masked gunman abducted the 11-year-old in 1989. Since then, the St. Joseph woman has become a well-known and much-respected advocate for missing children and their families.

But on Friday night, she officially became the Democratic-Farmer-Labor-endorsed candidate in the race for the 6th Congressional District.

"I am not a professional politician. I am a mother, a math teacher by training and an advocate for missing and exploited children by necessity," said Wetterling, who wore a button with her missing son's name and photo Friday.

The 6th District delegates unanimously endorsed her to run against Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy.

Well isn't that special?

We're supposed to allow whatever sympathy we ever had for the woman obscure the fact that she has just joined the biggest gang of child-murderers in the United States.

Well Madame Wetterling, you have just pissed away any and all sympathy that we even had for you. You have joined the party that is responsible for the murders of the Branch Davidians and the seventeen minor children who died from toxic gas attack and incineration. Their blood is now on your hands Bitch.

You have Madame, joined the party of traitors, thieves, and murderers. A party that, like their ideological Grand Uncle Lenin, regard themselves exempt from moral rules and from the supreme law, The Constitution, to which they are subject. Like their Grand Uncle Lenin, they will stop at nothing, no pile of innocent bodies is too big, in their quest for absolute power.

The fact is Madame, is that you do not deserve our sympathy and you certainly do not deserve our vote.

What you do deserve Madame is to taken to the nearest sanitary landfill, to be shot in the back of the head in the Soviet style, and to be dropped in the hole with the rest of the garbage.

Blast From The Past

"There was once, O men of Athens, something in the minds of the people that is no longer there --something that defeated the might and wealth of Persia, that vindicated the liberty of Greece, the was never conquered on land or sea, and that is now gone, leaving all Greece in turmoil and dismay.

"And what was that? Nothing elaborate or abstruse, but the simple fact all men hated those who took bribes from the seekers of power and the agents of subversion. That was accounted the greatest of crimes, so that he who was convicted of having been corrupted of bribes or by favors was condemned to the ultimate penalty, with no room for excuse and no hope for pardon.

... But now everything is for sale ... For what are now the consequnces of treason? Envy, for those who have profited; laughter for those who confess; pardon for those who are convicted; and hatred--hatred is now reserved for the man who speaks harshly of treason."

-- Demosthenes, 341 B.C. (written three years before Athens lost her independence) ,

Nuke Cannes!

First there is the showing of the Marxist millionaire's piece of cinematic filth:

MOORE BRINGS DOWN HOUSE: LONGEST STANDING OVATION 'IN HISTORY OF CANNES' FOR BUSH BASH FILM

Then there is this:

Adding to the strong political current running through this year's festival, from U.S. director Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" to striking workers in the streets, 28-year-old director Hans Weingartner brings "The Edukators."

The first German film to compete in Cannes in 11 years, it tells the story of three idealistic youths who break into rich people's villas and move around their furniture, leaving behind notes with messages such as: "You have too much money."

Their aim is not to steal from the rich to give to the poor, but to make their targets question their privileges. When they are surprised by one of the homeowners, they kidnap him and are forced to put their ideals into practice.

"I'm really happy to present this film in the country where the word revolution was invented," Weingartner told a news conference in this French Riviera resort.

What? A hundred million dead and enforced poverty for the survivors isn't enough for you fucking vermin?

I'd say more but unlike the aforementioned vermin I have to go to work now.

Meanwhile in the Real World

"The Iraq Survey Group has confirmed today that a 155 (mm) artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found. The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) that was discovered by a U.S. force convoy,"

-- Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt

Meanwhile, across the planet, a pacifist speaks:

Bush lied about ... [cough] ... WMD's ... [cough, cough] ... people ... [croak] **THUD**

Meanwhile in LA LA Land

A 14 year-old student asks:

"You can watch things about the Holocaust. Why can't you watch this?"

What the student was not supposed to see was any still photos, or audio and video recordings of the murder (I won't call it an execution) of Nick Berg.

Now why would the Marxist filth that controls the public schools in California have a problem with that?

Because it would arouse anger at the inhuman creatures who are responsible for the death of Mr. Berg, it would cause some students to independently examine the beliefs of the perpetrators in particular and the doctrine of Islam in general, and it would cause some students to question the supposedly superior wisdom of the so-called educators in general.

Some students would weigh all of the above and find them all wanting.

You know the Lefties simply can't allow that.

Klingons Take Cannes

French surrender as usual.

Have I Accepted George W. Bush As My Personal Savior?

Or what Moxie said she did this weekend.

Sad News

From zpenergy.com site:

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Gene Mallove, who was killed on May 14, 2004 apparently due to some sort of involvement with a property dispute. It is considered by the police to be a homicide and an investigation is underway.

Gene is survived by his wife Joanne, son Ethan and daughter Kim. No funeral arrangements are known at this time.

Gene Mallove, who, in his 1991 book "Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth behind the Cold Fusion Furor," was the first to courageously and boldly express the truth behind cold fusion, long before any science journalist even dared to ask questions that challenged the prevailing view. For 15 years, Gene maintained the cold fusion "torch" at great personal sacrifice, which initially drew many to learn the truth behind cold fusion.

I used to subscribe to his magazine back when I had reaaly well paying job.

A Capital Idea!

The Curmudgeon on Little Green Footballs has a good idea:

The West --including the Vatican-- needs to revive the classic English Common Law concept of the Outlaw, i.e., those who become a law unto themselves, defy all civilized societies, and commit murder and mayhem against the rest of us:

"Outlaws" under the English Common Law automatically lost all civil rights and protections by placing themselves OUTSIDE the law, hence the label. Those declared as "Outlaws" --a civil "death sentence"-- could be hunted down with impunity by anyone at any time.

Oh, The Poor Babies!

The Arab News published in Saudi Arabia is whining about American hostility towards arabs and Islam.

One complaint of note is that:

The practice of anti-Islam in the US needs to be addressed.

Anti-Islam? What would that be?

Would it be the refusal to treat the collected rantings and raving of an illiterate pedophile-rapist-robber-murderer and Enemy of Mankind in General as the inerrant and divinely dictated word of God?

Would to be the refusal to degrade one's self by banging one's own head on the ground in prayer to a false deity?

Would to also be the refusal to violently violate my neighbor's rights of Life, Liberty, Property, and Faith, as well as keeping my hands off my neighbor's pre-pubescent daughter?

If being a rational and decent person is anti-Islamic then what is the problem?

We thank our Lizardroid Masters for the link.

Quote of the Day

"There is No Fun in Islam."

-- Ayatollah Khomeini

No Kidding?

We May Lose This War

We may very well lose the present war on Islamic terrorism because of a stupid white-trash c*nt.

Or to put it more accurately, the socialist filth in our Congress who have been trying to sell us out to any convenient foreign power, especially Soviet Russia and Red China, will use the Animal House: The Next Generation pranks carried out in the Abu Gharib prison as excuse to stab President Bush and our armed forces in the back.

Needless to say this will have interesting repreocussions in the future that I will have to write about later. (My lack of God, I'm starting to write like Ed Wood!)

Hog On Ice has more to say on the subject.

A Marine Who Is Attending Med School Has Something To Say

"Doc Russia" wrote:

You leftist pieces of shit better understand this:

We. Are. At. War.

Our outcome is either victory or death. There is no third option, for our enemy will allow none. Your perverse tactics of selling us out for power are really starting to piss us off. Allying yourselves with a foreign enemy is making us angry, and you will not like us when we get angry. Every goddamned stunt you pull in pursuance of power is dragging this whole country further and further to the edge. If you don't quit your bullshit, we are all going over, and the only thing to settle is who will land on top. It is time to take sides. It is actually way fucking past time to take sides. Either you intend to destroy Wahabbiism, or you don't. We do, and we will whether we have to go over you or through you.

I'm sorry to say that there is a friend of mine, one I have actually given a semi-auto rifle to, who doesn't believe that we were justified in liberating Iraq and is so concerned about certain false rights that were granted by the Left that "she" will be voting for Comrade Kerry or whoever the candidate of the Despotic Party is on the ballot.

I'm sorry to say I that I may have to drop the hammer on "her" someday.

A Reasonable Expectation

Given the inherently predatory nature of Islam and its most consistent adherents I would expect that someone, some day, will drop a high-yield nuke on the Grand Mosque and burn that abomination from the face of the Earth.

I don't see it as a possibility, I see it as a certainty.

Sir Banagor gives as some explanations as to why.

And the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound says...

...I feel so...tacky.

A Dark Night of the Soul

B. Preston at Junkyard Blog is a bit disturbed at the moment, and I don't blame him.

So I'm worried. I'm not panicked by any means, but I'm a pessimist now. I think we have taken a very strong hand and played it extremely poorly, thanks mostly to internal bickering, recrimination and anti-Americanism on the left and in the press. I'd love to be wrong, but I don't think I am. If we stay on the path we're on, no matter who wins in November, we will lose this war. Due to the war's increasing unpopularity we will pull out of Iraq prematurely, it will descend into chaos as the Iranians and al Qaeda and Syria vie for control from without while the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds battle within. We will have painted ourselves into a corner from which we will be unable, for political reasons, to use force. We will repeal the Patriot Act, which has probably been the single biggest reason we haven't had a major attack on our soil since 9-11. We will sit back on our heels while Iran and North Korea continue their nuclear programs, and we will pay dearly for it.

Imagine, for a second, the terrorists on that Islamicist snuff film--the ones who sawed Nicholas Berg's head off while he screamed in agony--armed with a nuclear device. Do you doubt for a second that they would use it to destroy an American city? If you do, you're a fool. But as I've been repeating lately, experience is a dear teacher, and a fool will learn by no other.

I pray that we don't have to learn via that experience or something similar. But I'm not optimistic anymore. We're about to let the fools run the show, and we'll pay for it.

It may be worse than that.

If the our own Party of and for the Despots wins the coming election, not only the Presidency but also one or both houses of Congress, I would expect them to take every measure to see that they don't ever lose power again. Especially if Hillary, whose tendencies toward powerlust and vindictiveness are rather well documented, becomes the actual candidate of that party.

We should expect terror attacks not only from our external enemies, especially after a withdrawal from Iraq, but also a full Leninist reign of terror against anyone that they perceive to be an opponent. Like Lenin, who saw himself and his followers to not be subject to any law or other moral restraint, they will not only violate but may very well openly disavow the Constitution and use any means to cement their power over us. No act will be too heinous to them. We will see mass arrests and imprisonments based on fraudulent grounds. They will command us to disarm ourselves, and when we rightfully refuse they will deliberately commit atrocities against us in order to break our will. They may even perpetrate one or more horrors like the Waco Massacre.

And because submission to their will has never been and never will be an option, we will have no choice but to fight back with every means at our disposal.

As the Despotic Party have wrongfully feared of President Bush, we will have no alternative but to hunt them down and kill every last one of them no matter the cost in lives and treasure to us. And to insure that our children and grandchildren will not have to face the horrors that we faced we may very well believe it necessary to hunt down and kill the children and grandchildren of the Despotists as well.

And they will have no one blame for their ultimate demise but themselves.

A Few Words from the Emperor

His Majesty, Darth Misha I, has something to say about the inhabitants of the Dar el Islam:

We didn't start this war, it was forced upon us. We didn't want this to be a clash of cultures, they forced that upon us as well. The perpetrators by their deeds, their co-religionists by their passivity or outright glee in face of those atrocities.

Well, let's bring it to them. Let's give them what they want. Let us show them that when it comes to ruthlessness, they are as out of their league as they are in every other respect, those pitiful, sniveling ants about to be crushed under our feet.

Since the only book they read is the Koran, it's more than likely that they have no knowledge of Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Let's give them a refresher course.

Let us remind them that, in Americans, you will find no better friend and no worse enemy. Let us remind them that they have managed to stay alive up until now only at our pleasure and that they have used it all up.

Sir Banagor also has something to say on the subject:

Barbarism! Is that not even too light a word for these foul cretinous scum from a fetid and turgid culture of slime? Lord how the rage is absolute in me. Were I in command, I would have taken Fallujah with mortar shells and daisy cutters, and not with negotiation and diplomacy! Which have they respected more in their history? They, those Arabists and their Islamist ilk, warn us of understanding their history, well I do full well know exactly what wins over their hearts and minds! It is power! Power to do unto others as you would whenever you wish, and that is what won us World War II. I pray for the day that Donald Rumsfeld is allowed to become a Stonewall Jackson. I pray for the day when Patton is reincarnated, as he believed he would be, and allowed to lead our forces into this battle!

Islam, and its so-called legal code, Sharia, were the inventions of an individual who commited acts of rape, robbery, and murder in order to give the appearance of divine sanction to the depraved acts of someone who is properly called an Enemy of Mankind. From what I have independently read of the life and behavior of this false prophet of a false god I think I would feel safer living next door to Charlie Manson and his family than to the self-styled messenger of Allah. (Not that I would actually want to live next door to the Manson Family.)

So what do we call those who willfully obey the dictates of an Enemy of Mankind?

And we should all know how to deal with the Enemies and Mankind, right?

A Suggestion

When our guys catch the MF's who murdered Mr. Berg the MF's should be put to death by decapitation with a Katana.

One stroke. Relatively quick and clean.

Borrow one or more from the Japanese force if you have to.

Catching My Breath

I could go on and on about how the Islamists are barbarians and about how the Left are a pack of traitors until I'm literally blue in the face.

Jim from Smoke on the Water has done a rather elegant rant on the same basic subject.

Thanks Dude!

Snuff Film

Internet Haganah has the video of five masked Muslims committing the murder of a tied up American.

This video is not safe for work or children.

Here's a suggestion, those who behave like rabid animals should be identified and dealt with as such.

Hunt them down and kill them.

All of them.


Update at 2325 CDT:

Here are the three mirror sites for the video:

Mirror One

Mirror Two

Mirror Three

Wishful Thinking

Back in October I wrote about Spanish assertiveness on the world stage.

I turned out to be wrong.

I'm sorry.

Outstanding!

Here's a Marine you won't read about in Slime or Newspeak:

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.(May 6, 2004) -- Marine Capt. Brian R. Chontosh received the Navy Cross Medal from the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, Gen. Michael W. Hagee, during an awards ceremony Thursday at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Training Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Three other Marines received medals for valor at the same ceremony.

Chontosh, 29, from Rochester, N.Y. , received the naval service's second highest award for extraordinary heroism while serving as Combined Anti-Armor Platoon Commander, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom March 25, 2003.

Blackfive provides a rather graphic account of Captain Chontosh's actions.

But will our major media report it?

No.

The freedom of speech and of the press that is identified and guaranteed in the First Amendment to our Constitution is the freedom to speak and publish the truth. But instead of publishing the truth, that we are winning, the established major media are as they did during the Vietnam war proclaiming that we are losing and that ALL of our soldiers are a mob of brutal thugs.

Who needs a National Socialist Reichsministry of Propaganda and Culture to control what we see and hear when we have CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and the New York Times?

And who needs a traitor like Lord Haw Haw to broadcast lies to us when we have such stalwart fellows like Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings?

Even Fox News, in an effort to appear "fair and balanced", gives airtime to the enemies of our republic. But just as their is no balance between food and poison there is also no balance between truth and falsehood.

So am I now calling for government control of the press?

No. Do I look like a fucking piece of socialist filth?

But I do see a definite distinction between reporting that, "the enemy claims that they are right and that they are winning", versus saying that, "the enemy is right and they are winning."

In the context of the present struggle between Western Civilization and Islamic Barbarism, the former is called telling the truth, the latter is called something else. What that something else is labled and defined as follows:

Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

And that doesn't mean that they're fluffing up Saddam's pillows now, does it?

The nice man at Dustbury makes a damn good observation:

Of course, Islamic fundamentalists get not one but two free passes from the American left: after all, your friendly neighborhood jihadi is not only nonwhite (and therefore oppressed), but non-Christian (and therefore not likely to picket an abortion clinic). At worst, they're the Dr Pepper of religious movements: so misunderstood. All that money they raise to support suicide bombers and other terrorists — why, that's charity, and how much did you give last year?

Read the whole post and the links there.

But Their Politicians Still Suck

HAMBURG - Most men in Germany would rather spend a weekend with a flashy car than with a sexy female celebrity, according to a new survey released Monday.

Given the choice between having their hands on a Ferrari Enzo or on Pamela Anderson, 86 percent of German males in the survey chose the car, said the survey for Men's Car magazine.

-- Expatica, May 10, 2004

Interesting choice. A Ferrari or a walking brain-death case with fake breasts, fake hair, pretty much fake everything.

What were the other 14% thinking?

Cartoon of the Day

Ohhh, A really neat Non_Sequitur

Did I mention that I also hate skateboarders?

Why Isn't This Being Officially Investigated?

Richard Poe in Frontpagemag said:

During the Clinton years, journalists who probed too deeply into Clinton scandals ran terrible risks. Journalists were beaten, wiretapped, framed on criminal charges, fired and blacklisted. They experienced burglaries, IRS audits, smear campaigns and White-House-orchestrated lawsuits.

Some may have paid the ultimate price. In February, 1998, just as the Clinton impeachment was gathering steam, Sandy Hume, the 28-year-old son of Fox News anchorman Brit Hume, suddenly turned up dead of a gunshot to the head. He was covering the U.S. Congress for the magazine The Hill, and was known for his excellent sources among Republican insiders. Sandy Hume supposedly committed suicide, but friends and associates have questioned the official story

Can you say "arkancide" boys and girls?

I knew you could.

Is it too much to say that socialists are toxic to human life?

Why is Jimmy Carter not locked in a padded room?

Steven Hayward on why Jimmy Carter is our worst ex-president:

Carter is a mixture of neo-Kantianism—that is, the philosophical view that your good intentions outweigh the practical consequences of your actions and words—and left-wing Christian pacifism that believes the use of force is always wrong. Although Carter, like most liberals, says that the use of force is always to be available as "the last resort," in practice Carter would never reach "the last resort." There is always one more negotiation to be held, one more appeal to the United Nations, etc. In one sentence, you might say that while Ronald Reagan believed in "peace through strength," Carter and other liberals like Kerry believe in "peace through talk." You'd think they'd have learned from history by now, but no.

Okay boys and girls, what do we call someone who insists on sacrificing innocent lives on the altar of peace?

Can you say DEPRAVED?

I knew you could.

The Big Rant of the Day

Andrew Sullivan continues to show his kindness in passing along another quote from Ted Rall:

"My theory is that essentially, people don’t like to think they're living in a country that’s led by an evil, dictatorial madman. But they are, they are living in Nazi Germany, in Stalinist Russia."

Let's see...if we on the Right were to treat the Left the way that Great Comrade Stalin treated anyone he suspected of being an opponent, let alone someone who was an actual opponent, would Comrade Rall still be breathing, let alone continuing to rant like a mentally disconnected lunatic who's off his meds?

I wouldn't think so.

If Conservatives dealt with the adherents of Libéralisme Moderne the way the Left has dealt with humans in general whenever the Left has obtained unrestrained power, there wouldn't be any Liberals left standing. Of the universities and the urban centers of Liberalism there would be nothing left but smoking ruins, and there would mass graves from coast to coast. (Personally, if I were in charge of a political cleansing program, I would just dump the remains in the public landfills with the rest of the garbage.)

In my own view the present day Left, like the unschooled barbarians who plagued civilization before them, are essentially parasites. If the Hun or the Mongol were to take "no" for an answer to their demands for food and other material goods they would die very quickly. Compulsion, taking things and persons by force, is inherently necessary to the parasite manner of existence. Those who resisted had to be killed as an object lesson for others.

The Left, the present-day literate post-marxian barbarians, not only need material support they also need spiritual support as well. Barbarian chieftains and tribal witch-doctors demanded degrading and often dangerous acts of worship from their subjects, up to and including human sacrifice, in order to assure themselves that they would still have a roof (or a tent) over their heads and food to eat the next day. Those refused to obey were worked over by the goon squad or simply killed.

In the classrooms and editorial offices of the Left the demand is for unquestioned agreement without regard to the actual facts of reality. The self-styled intellectuals of the Left are the first to demand “speech codes” and other forms of censorship lest they be identified as frauds and poseurs and subsequently bounced out of their comfortable ivory towers, no longer insulated from a real world that demands real thought and real labor.

Faced with the refusal of Russian farmers to comply with his sacrificial demands, Lenin laid a curse upon the farmers and in the name of his false god, “the toilers”, ordered:

Merciless war against these kulaks! Death to them!

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

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

A Blast From The Present

Andrew Sullivan has been kind enough to quote Ted Rall, the nihilist-leftist cartoonist:

"The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief."

The present day Left, like all barbarian brigands before them, depends on the predatory use of force in order to obtain the material goods necessary to sustain physical life, and in the case of the Left to create and maintain their personal delusion of their own fitness to live. The worst thing that could happen to a barbarian brigand and those who collaborate with them is for their victims to take up arms and effectively resist, to rise up and kill the those who had sought to conquer and plunder. Or in the case of the Taliban, for a third party such as the United States to come in and overthrow them.

To those who see unrestrained power as the greatest good for themselves the greatest evil is the man who willingly stands up in defense of the helpless victims of power.

I strongly suspect that to the Left, and their de-facto allies, the would-be Islamist conquerors of the world the following words must read like a death sentence:

WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that amoung these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness...

I Would Like To See Mister Townsend Explain This

Talking about their generation again:

Forty years on, the two surviving members of the British band that embodied youthful revolution have changed their tune.

"Why can't rock music be about growing old?," 60-year-old singer Roger Daltrey told the Times newspaper.

The Who -- considered one of the most acclaimed, most influential and loudest rock groups ever -- issued a compilation of their classic singles on Tuesday, including two new songs, the first they have released for more than 20 years.

I say, weren't you guys supposed to die before you got old?

Roger Simon reports that Kofi Annan is stonewalling on the oil-for-food investigation. "Maybe it's just me, but I find unbelievably contemptible the actions and pretences of a man who did little or nothing to save hundreds of thousands from genocide in Rwanda, yet fights tooth-and-nail to hide the most hideous de facto pro-fascist corruption in his own organization." -- via Instapundit

Unfit to be Commander in Chief

Another Weird Dream

I just woke up from a dream in which I seemed to be watching a movie, which from the casting, art direction, and costuming, appeared to have been made in the mid-seventies. Peter Sellers was playing the role of the founder of a eugenic breeding program and in one scene where he and his staff were wandering around a large internal multilevel space inhabited by the first generation product of the project while the staff pukes were giving the boss a verbal status report on the project. And of the department or section names were suffixed with the word "dale" as in thisdale or thatdale. All was not going well.

Sellers: What about viewdale?

Flunky: We had to close that, we didn't want people looking in at what we're doing here.

Or something like that.

(The original three primary shopping malls in Minneapolis/St. Paul area Southdale, Brookdale, and Rosedale.)

Blast From The Past

The scientific concept, dictatorship, means neither more or less than unlimited power resting directly on force, not limited by anything, not restrained by any laws or any absolute rules. Nothing else but that.

-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Without the restraints of human legislation or of natural and permanent moral laws we are left with one thing, the law of the jungle, to kill or to be killed.

It is simply not possible to reason with, negotiate with, or otherwise peacefully coexist with any person, any group, or any nation, that believes that it has the right to control you or to take things from you by force. Such persons or entities can only be physically isolated from you or ultimately destroyed.

Peace is the absence of enemies but it is not, as some wish to believe, priceless.

As long as there is one communist who lives there will be no peace.

The Bodycount

May 1st should henceforth be a day of remembrance for all the lives lost to Communism.

100 million may be a conservative estimate of the bodycount. This works out to be a bit over an average of 3000 deaths a day since Lenin's coup d'etat in November of 1917.

In my own view killing a communist is no more wrongful than killing a rabid animal.

These Dreams

A point of disagreement I have with Ayn Rand is that she flatly denies the existence of psychic phenemena. I have had direct experience of some things that qualify as psychic events and thus under the epistomological rules of Objectivism I am required to believe in them.

I have had premonitional dreams related to aspects of the 9/11 attack and liberation of Iraq.

Last night I had a dream about a small scale nuclear missile attack on the United States.

Needless to say this bothers me.

If any of you have had a dream about an upcoming attack on the United States then feel free to e-mail me and tell me about it.

Peter Hitchens on British Gun Laws

We in Britain believe guns are so dangerous that only criminals should be allowed to have them. If you think this sounds unhinged, you are quite right. But, crazed as it is, such is the thinking behind this country's current law on firearms.

It is almost impossible for a law-abiding person to obtain or keep a gun, thanks to severe laws diligently enforced by a stern police force. Yet criminals, who care nothing for laws, can and do easily obtain guns and ammunition - which they use with increasing frequency.

There are some [expletive deleted] individuals who want to repeal the recently passed concealed carry law here in Minnesota. Unfortunately, when I see one of their bumper stickers I'm usually doing a pizza delivery and thus unable to perform the appropriate visual gestures.

Our first question to these persons, or anyone else who is attempting to enact legislation to disarm us should be, "are you planning to mug someone?" Or alternately, "are you planning to murder someone?"

If they object to this form of response to their irrational beliefs, point out to them that they are the ones who are calling for violence against innocent people and that they are the ones who are attempting to use the power of government against the very people whose rights it was established to uphold and protect.

And if they call you, or gun owners in general, nazis, then feel free to introduce them to some fellows from Milwaukee who will be happy to disabuse them of that notion.

RECITATION OF THE BATTLE OF CAMERONE

Thought for the Day

The public burning of the flag of our republic is act of symbolic magic, or to use a more common term, a voodoo ceremony.

The burning a symbol of our republic represents what the nihilist performing the act and his confederates would do to us if they had the power and the opportunity. Which is to destroy us and everything we have achieved, to kill us and to reduce our homeland to ashes.

Given the means and opportunity they would murder us and our children as ideological relatives have done in such hellholes as Soviet Russia, Red China, and Rouge Kampuchea.

Unfortunately, for the time being, they are sheltered by the very laws whose validity they deny by their actions.

No, I Don't Think So.

My current horoscope as published in THE ONION:

Sagittarius: (Nov. 22—Dec. 21)

A bizarre misunderstanding on your part will result in your going to church every Sunday and speaking sincerely to invisible entities with the belief that it might do you some sort of good.

Not bloody likely.

I got my ass irredeemably damned to Hell about three decades ago.

Old Fashioned Nihilism

Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, a member of the Moon God murder cult, said:

"We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity."

Well boys and girls, can you say, "fucking murderer?" Can you also say, "Enemy of Mankind in General?"

I knew you could.

When someone insists on behaving as though he were a rabid animal he leaves the rest of no choice but to identify and deal with him as such. Nothing can be achieved by pretending otherwise except the destruction of one's self and other innocent people.

And this damned fool of a witch doctor is also bringing us closer to the day when we will stop trying sort out the killers from the poor fools who just bang their heads on the ground. We may at some point simply leave the task of sorting them out to God.

A Study In Contrasts

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said at a DoD operation briefing yesterday:

To get a sense of the stark contrast between the good that coalition forces are doing in Iraq and the tactics that the enemy has used consistently, if one thinks back, they used hospitals, they used mosques, they used schools as weapons locations and fortresses to fight from throughout the time of the invasion. The photo of terrorists using a mosque in Najaf as a base for attacks against our forces is an example of what we're finding. There have been additional attacks taken from mosques in Fallujah, and I believe there have been embedded reporters who have been able to -- as well as combat camera -- able to make some of that available to the American people.

There are two ways, I suppose, one could inform readers of the Geneva Convention stipulation against using places of worship to conduct military attacks. One might be to headline saying that Terrorists Attack Coalition Forces From Mosques. That would be one way to present the information.

Another might be to say: Mosques Targeted in Fallujah. That was the Los Angeles Times headline this morning.

Imagine for a moment the following headline published of April 20, 1993, in the Los Angeles Times or any other major newspaper:

SOCIALIST DEATH SQUAD ATTACKS PLACE OF WORSHIP

One can only imagine it of course because instead of publishing the truth the newspapers and other major media have consistently taken the side of the socialists and other anti-human barbarians at every opportunity.

If the established media had consistently published the truth the Democratic Party leadership and most of their legislative delegations on the state and federal levels would be out of office and in prison. The worst of them would be dead or awaiting execution for their crimes against the citizens and constitution of our republic.

And Bill Clinton would be giving blow-jobs instead of receiving them.

Sometimes one can only wish.

Rabid Animal Alert

If you will pardon me for quoting the New York Times:

In this former industrial town north of London, a small group of young Britons whose parents emigrated from Pakistan after World War II have turned against their families' new home. They say they would like to see Prime Minister Tony Blair dead or deposed and an Islamic flag hanging outside No. 10 Downing Street.

They swear allegiance to Osama bin Laden and his goal of toppling Western democracies to establish an Islamic superstate under Shariah law, like Afghanistan under the Taliban. They call the Sept. 11 hijackers the "Magnificent 19" and regard the Madrid train bombings as a clever way to drive a wedge into Europe.

First: Anyone who wants to see Britain subjugated under an alien and anti-human ideology is properly called a traitor. Although in this case there is something to be said for the term "vermin."

"All Muslims of the West will be obliged," he said, to "become his sword" in a new battle. Europeans take heed, he added, saying, "It is foolish to fight people who want death — that is what they are looking for."

I on the other hand want to live.

I want to live what Ayn Rand characteristically called The Life Proper to Man.

And I will accept no substitute.

What we should call Humanity is not merely a physical state but is also a state of mind. Or what may also be called a spiritual state.

To be properly Human is to live one's own life by own rational judgement and to recognize the right of others to do the same. To be properly Human is also to deal with other persons on the basis of consent, not deal with others as though they were mere animals.

But adherents of Islam, and their de facto allies in the west the socialists, indulge in the fantasy that we are nothing more than hominid livestock and that they are entitled by the will of their false god, Allah or the Collective, to treat us as such. No amount of evidence will dissuade them from these beliefs.

But then who can pay attention to reality when one's nose is firmly jammed into a copy of the Koran or the Communist Manifesto?

They willfully ignore the fact that it was an American (who due to a legal technicality at the time was still an Englishman) who said, "Give me Liberty or give me death!"

And Ayn Rand, a former subject of a communist state, when asked if one was better off being Red or dead replied, "Better see the Reds dead!"

As for myself, I will die before I degrade myself before the false priests and followers of a false god.

The fight for Liberty is a fight to the death.

Bring them on.

Les Puts On His Black Pointy Anarchist Hat

My friend Mark Urbin has asked me to plant a google-bomb. In this case, link the word "unelectable" to Comrade Kerry's campaign site.

Yes folks, John "I-married-for-money" Kerry is unelectable!

No Wonder MALLRATS Sucked

The shopping mall was invented by a socialist:

Austrian architect Victor Gruen brought the mall concept to this country and designed the first enclosed American mall, drawing on ideas from socialist theory. He saw malls as the new source of American community, though later in his life he became more skeptical.

It's also no wonder that I usually feel uncomfortable when I'm in a shopping mall.

Of course like all socialist schemes, the shopping mall didn't work out as planned:

The shopping centers were even supposed to contain sprawl by rounding up all the strip development and corralling it into a single planned environment. But of course they had the opposite effect, hastening the demise of old-fashioned urban neighborhoods, increasing dependence on the car and, in the ultimate indignity, fostering even more strip development, like dreadnoughts drawing barnacles.

For Gruen, as for any other socialist attempting to treat human society as an engineering problem, the actual results are usually the opposite of the goals.

Gruen's life appears to be as interesting--and paradoxical--as his work. A tireless self-promoter and pamphleteer, he started out as a simple store designer and managed, over the course of his career, to repackage himself as the guru of urban salvation. In theory he embraced the automobile as fervently as most Americans did, yet personally he hated driving, hated the suburbs and eventually, it seems, hated even the vulgar, sprawling, profitable nation whose landscape he helped to shape. Among his many bad ideas was saving downtowns by banning automobiles from key streets and building giant malls and parking structures at city centers--in effect making them more like suburbia. He also ran through four wives.

When I was growing up Downtown Minneapolis had an interesting (not always nice) collection of shops, restaurants, and cinemas. I had an afterschool job cleaning two Fanny Farmer candy shops. I bought a large part of my early collection of Science Fiction novels, along with magazines such as ANALOG, STARLOG, CINEFANTASTIQUE, and CINEMAGIC at Shinder's on Seventh. Thanks to Comrade Gruen and like minded drones in the city government all of the neat parts of Downtown Minneapolis have been replaced, through the abuse of eminent domain, by a collection of dull and souless structures whose primary function is to generate property tax revenues.

Feh!

Another Thought for the Day

This is a message for the Left:

If we on the Right were as you have imagined us, a bunch of NAZIS, then you on the Left would already be dead.

If I have a complaint about the Right, it is that may they be a bit too nice under the present circumstances.

Of course in reality the National Socialist German Worker's Party was a bunch of Lefties with spiffy uniforms and a leather fetish. In the context of the politics of the Weimar Republic they were the moderates as compared to the German Communist Party who, unlike the National Socialists, apparently went in for an early version of the "grunge" style of attire.

Or at least Bertholt Brecht did.

Thought for the Day

I am sometimes amazed and disgusted at my own sloppy copyediting.

"The persistence of the Left in believing, or attempting to get us to believe, that a certain fighter pilot with a Masters degree in Businesss Administration from Harvard is an idiot, continues to both disgust and astound me. "

That's three "s", not four.

Duh!

The Established Media In Action

How to present a biased view as though it were a fact.

The persistence of the Left in believing, or attempting to get us to believe, that a certain fighter pilot with a Masters degree in Businesss Administration from Harvard is an idiot, continues to both disgust and astound me.

Seriously, if you haven't already, take a demonstration flight from any local flight school, and then imaging trying to control a much larger aircraft that flies TEN TIMES FASTER than a Cessna or Piper trainer and is armed with automatic cannons and guided missiles.

And then try to call a man who clearly demonstrated that he could do that an idiot.

Another complaint that is often voiced by the Established Media and various other self-styled intellectuals is that President Bush sees things in "black and white", in other words, he has a moral standard.

Here's an Objectivist Joke. What do you call a totally amoral man? A totally dead man.

In moral issues, and by extension political issues, the difference between right and wrong is the difference between joy and suffering, and the difference between life and death. There is simply no way to compromise between the two.

As Ayn Rand once pointed out, any attempt to compromise food with poison will only result in a poisoning.

Anyone who demands that we do is trying to con us into killing ourselves.

Yay John!

CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST FILMMAKER JOHN FUCILE

Check out his site at SmackDabMedia.com

Someone Else's Thought for the Day

Baldilocks Wrote on April 19, 2004:

Bowing our heads in sorrow and remembering the innocent Fallen is noble and necessary, but if—after we raise our heads and dry our tears--we don’t do something to stop the purveyors of evil, then what the flock is the point?

Oppose evil or at least get out of the way of those who are doing so. Is that too much to ask?

Actually, for the Left, it is.

According to many on the left, the people of a nation need a leader to think for them and to collectively direct their lives. In the view of the Left the Russians needed a big brother or father figure such as Stalin, the Chinese needed a Mao, the Koreans (all of them, not just the northerners) needed the father and son team of the Kim Dynasty (any sympathies the Left ever had for fellow socialists like the Austrian Corporal or the Loud Mouthed Italian fellow have been quietly dropped down the memory hole) and that we Americans now need a Kerry (Or in 2008 a Hillary) to guide and comfort us.

In the view of the Left the people of Iraq were grievously harmed when we removed their local version of Big Brother from power. Never mind the death and terror that their so-called leader, his sons, and their political apparatus rained down upon them. The people of Iraq, like all other ordinary people in the view of the Left, are hominid livestock who can’t live without the guidance of a shepherd.

This is, of course, a total fantasy.

The Shepherd Fantasy, as I am presently calling it, appears to be a psychological device that members of the left use to evade knowledge of, to mentally blank out, the fact that they are not really productive or otherwise useful members of a human society but are truly nothing more than a bunch of parasites and outright predators who are feeding off their betters.

As Ayn Rand once pointed out, they need us. We on the other hand, have absolutely no use for them.

So why won’t the Left get out of the way of those of us who fight evil in this world?

Because they know that sooner or later, we will properly identify them for what they are, and that we will eventually turn our guns upon them.

Interesting Letter

Andrew Sullivan posted a letter from a chaplain working in the Fallujah area:

B) Saddam could not and did not control Faluja. He bought off those he could, killed those he couldn't and played all leaders against one another. It was and is a 'difficult' town. Nothing new about that. What is new is that outside people have come in to stir up unrest. How many are there is classified, but let me tell you this: there are more people in the northeast Minneapolis gangs than there are causing havoc in Faluja. Surprised?

Actually, I am surprised.

I grew up in Northeast Minneapolis, I didn't know that there are organized gangs operating there. In fact I now routinely deliver pizzas to areas of Minneapolis that are far worse than "Nordeast".

So why are our guys getting shot at in Iraq?

1) This country became a welfare state under Saddam. If you cared about your well-fare, you towed the line or died. The state did your thinking and your bidding. Want a job? Pledge allegiance to the Ba’ath party. Want an apartment, a car, etc? Show loyalty. Electricity, water, sewage, etc. was paid by the state. Go with the flow: life is good. Don't and you're dead. Now, what does that do to initiative? drive? industry?

So, we come along and lock up sugar daddy and give these people the toughest challenge in the world, FREEDOM. You want a job? Earn it! A house? Buy it or build it! Security? Build a police force, army and militia and give it to yourself. Risk your lives and earn freedom. The good news is that millions of Iraqis are doing just that, and some pay with their lives. But many, many are struggling with freedom (just like East Germans, Russians, Czechs, etc.) and they want a sugar daddy, the U.S.A., to do it all. We refuse. We don't want to be plantation owners. We make it clear we are here to help, not own or stay. They get mad about that, sometimes.

It no surprise to hear that some of the adherents of the "sugar daddy" party are talking about staging an armed uprising if Comrade Kerry doesn't win or otherwise obtain victory in the next election.

Bring it on. I have over 4000 rounds of NATO (mostly British) surplus .308 that are waiting to be put to good use.

And just to put some things in perspective:

Hey, America, don't go weak kneed on us: 585 dead American's made an investment here. That's a whole lot less than were killed on American highways last month. Their lives are honored when we stay the course and do the job we came to do; namely, set the conditions for a new government and empower these people to be the great nation they are capable of being.

Whether we win or lose in this struggle depends on the folks at home. If we don't allow our guys to win in Iraq then we will be shooting it out Islamic terror gangs here at home.

Defeat in Iraq is not an option.

Interesting Interview

Excerpt from BBSpot's interview with Wil Wheaton:

BBspot (5): Did you feel like your character suffered from an Oedipus complex in Star Trek:The Next Generation? I mean, your mom was really hot, and your dad died under cloudy circumstances.

Wil: When Wesley's dad died, Wesley was so traumatized, he had to spend many, many nights sleeping in Dr. Crusher's quarters...and the therapeutic sponge baths really helped with the grieving process. Oh, and the oral sex.

Maybe I'm a bit of a prude, but I've always felt that performing or receiving oral sex was a bit like perfoming an assisted masturbation.

BBspot (11): Tell us why you're doing WilWheaton.net and about future plans for you and the site?

Wil: It's all part of my Bavarian Illuminatti-driven plot to rule the world. Now that you've read that, we're coming for you with our Orbital Mind Control Lasers.

I for one welcome our new trekian mast ... oh ... it's only Wesley.

Feh!

News of the Past

Triumph of the Will Sweeps 1943 Cannes Film Festival

How Bush Caused 9/11, an essay by Orson Scott Card
Here is the money quote, but read the whole thing:

The only people to blame for terrorism are the terrorists.

The only people to blame for the recent atrocities in Iraq are those who mobbed, murdered, and mutilated Americans who had come to bring peace and freedom to the vast majority of Iraqis who want those things.

And the only way to put a stop to this evil being done in the name of Islam is to make it clear that America will relentlessly pursue any and all terrorist-sponsoring governments.

That's a decision that's up to the Bush administration only as long as they're in office and have the support of Congress.

Guess who decides whether they'll stay in office, and have Congressmen and Senators who support them?

So if we believe these hacks who are exploiting the victims of 9/11 to gain political advantage, then we can vote for Kerry.

Thus we'll prove Osama was right to promise his people that Americans are weak and always lose courage if you bloody them enough.

The Russians on the Kyoto Treaty:

Kyoto is a "death treaty" that will "stifle economic growth" and bring "many negative implications" because it will limit Russian carbon emission growth, Mr Illarionov said in comments reported by news agency Interfax on Wednesday.

The global agreement was worse than the Gosplan committee responsible for the famous communist five-year plans, he said. Even Stalinist era prison camps had better conditions, he added: "In a gulag, people were at least given the same rations ... from one day to the next, but the Kyoto protocol proposes decreasing rations day by day."

Tim Russert and liberal democrat Senator John Kerry do their best to imitate the "Who's on First?" bit on the last Meet the Press:

MR. RUSSERT: You do not believe the war on terror is primarily a military operation, not a law enfor...

SEN. KERRY: No...

MR. RUSSERT: You don't.

SEN. KERRY: ...not primarily.

MR. RUSSERT: You don't.

SEN. KERRY: Not primarily.

MR. RUSSERT: You do not.

SEN. KERRY: Not primarily.

Or you could say that the Senator is trying to be a hawk and dove at the same time.
Odds are this course of action will just annoy the hawks and drive dove votes to Ralph Nader.
Read more of the exchange.

And Then...

...I'll be off to Mom's for a couple of days.

In the meantime you can get a peek at the poster for the new Michael Moore film.

Thought for the Day

Today is the Two Hundred Twenty Ninth anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord.

Today is the Eleventh anniversary of the Waco Massacre.

Today is the Ninth anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.

If the Established Liberal Media do make note of this day they will in their infinite pretense of
wisdom speak only of Mr. McVeigh's actions without any mention of his intent to retaliate for
deaths inflicted upon the innocent two years prior to the bombing.

Mr. McVeigh has accepted the ultimate penalty for his actions. The perpetrators of the murders
of the Branch Davidians still walk the streets of our country as free men.

Need I ask what's wrong with this?

Uh Huh Department

Brought to you by the Dork Tower website.

No, it's not porn.

So Now We Know...

...why most French movies suck.

Quote of the Day

"You do not understand what martyrdom means."

-- Ayatollah Muqtada al-Sadr

It means that you're really and lethally fucking dumb.

Right?

Meanwhile, In La La Land...

The modern liberal talk radio network Air America (or as they used to spell it in the former Soviet Union, Air Amerika) has obtained a court order to compel a Chicago radio station to put their programming on the air.

Neal Boorz had this to say on the subject:

Doesn't this sound a bit familiar somehow? Walk through the sequence. Here we have a left wing effort that apparently fails in the private market place. Do you fall back, regroup, tweak your product, improve your business practices and give it another shot? Why no! You're a liberal You do what liberals have been doing for decades when their initiatives fail in the marketplace. You go to court! Of course! You go to court to see if you can get a judge to do for you what you weren't able to do for yourself in the free marketplace. Liberals have a long and very rich history of resorting to implementing their agenda through court action. It looks like they're sticking to the same playbook here.

It's a very old playbook indeed.

"If they won't give you what you want, take it by force."

Man is a being of both mind and body. When our ancestors began to create tools and use them to alter the environment for their own benefit the emphasis of the evolutionary process shifted from the strength of the physical body to the strength of the mind. Our numbers began to grow as we learned to harness and control natural processes such life cycles of plants and animals.

But some so-called men, whom we should call savages or barbarians, chose a different path. Instead of harnessing and controlling nature they chose to harness and control other men.

They took the tools that were created to improve human life and used them as instruments of subjugation and destruction. The first of the barbarians took the spear that was invented to hunt animals for food and used it to murder and enslave other men. Some of the present day barbarians took some commercial airliners and used them to snuff out thousands of lives as a sacrifice to a false god.

Comrades Franken, Garafalo, et al, are using a judicial system that was created for the purpose of protecting the rights of Americans as a means of violating rights of a radio station owner.

And then they have the bloody nerve to call themselves progressives.

At least Attila the Hun and the Great Khans were men enough to wield their own swords.

In Other News

I've updated four of the existing definitions in my New Devil's Dictionary.

Here are two of the definitions:

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.

Campus Commies Starve Selves

Unfortunately the next generation of communist agitators will not starve themselves to death.

(TV5) Mount Pleasant--You usually find college students hanging out at the Taco Bell, not protesting it. But that's what's happening in Mount Pleasant. A group of students from Central Michigan University are participating in a hunger strike to protest low wages and poor working conditions of South Florida farmers who grow tomatoes for the Taco Bell fast food chain.

The students are members of the Student- Farmworker Alliance. They plan to take three day shifts, forgoing meals, and have set up a tent city on a campus lawn.

One of the nice things about working for Border Foods is that every paycheck comes with a twenty-percent off coupon for meals at any Border Foods restaurant including their Taco Bell franchises.

I'll have to drop in for a bite soon.

Of course we could also ask a question of the caring and compassionate champions of the peasants and livestock, did the thought ever cross whatever passes for your mind that the alternative to a crappy job with crappy wages is NO JOB AND NO WAGES AT ALL?

No. The thought never does, but the campus Marxoids will continue to strike their feel-good poses at the expense of real productive people.

Thought for the Day

The act of appeasement hands to the enemy, barbarians such as Hitler and the NSDAP, a victory that they would never have obtained by their own power.

Some people have yet to grasp this simple fact.

Oh Really?

Stephen Erwin of Hour Eleven writes:

BATF statistics also show that the percent of assault weapons recovered in crimes dropped from 3.6% in 1995 to 1.2% in 2002. No statistics were available for earlier years. It would be interesting to see if this number also peaked in 1995.That was the year that the national news stopped trying to convince gang members and drug dealers that assault weapons were their “weapon of choice.” Since then criminals seem to have returned to using more practical firearms.

So now go out and spread the truth about assault weapons. It will drive the liberal anti-gunners crazy.

Seriously, do you folks have any idea how hard it is to stuff an AK-47 down one's pant's?

Try it some time.

A Question For The Day

Ann Coulter writes:

After Saddam Hussein's forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, torturing men and raping women, Rep. Nancy Pelosi took to the floor of the House to say, "I hope the point will be made that we take very seriously the environmental consequences of our actions." Rep. Dick Gephardt said: "History shows that even brutal dictators have been toppled and defeated by sanctions." And so it was again after 9-11. Sixteen months after the attack, John Kerry gave a speech saying, "Mr. President, do not rush to war."

So what is the difference between a Democratic Party office holder and an Enemy of Mankind?

Meanwhile, In The Holy Socialist Motherland...

The Russian military plans to launch a television channel.

However, when asked what programs the channel would air, Yuri Belov, the head of the Defense Ministry’s broadcasting studio, told MosNews that this information was under military classification. “This is a military secret. I would go to prison for seven years if I told you,” he said.

Uh, huh.

What A Difference!

According to the Zub Report the State of Israel has with less than 1/1000th of the world's population produced:

The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.

Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.

The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel.

The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel.

Voice mail technology was developed in Israel. Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.

The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.

The Palestinians -- in compliance with the depraved rantings and ravings of a long deceased pedophile rapist, robber, and murderer -- have produced the death and destruction of both themselves and hundreds of Israeli men, women, and children.

And the collected intellectuals of the left have in their infinite wisdom declared the Palestinians to be the morally superior people.

Or as they used to zay int ze olt kountry, der Volk!

The Amazing Things You Can Read On A Film Review Page

Pete Vonder Haar writes in Film Threat:

An experiment conducted by me and a friend on a 22-hour drive from our nation’s capitol to Texas proved conclusively that CB radios are used primarily for one thing: sharing information about prostitutes. There’s no grizzled philosophy of the road to be gleaned from listening to truckers on a CB, but rather where the hookers are, how the hookers look, and how much the hookers cost. To be fair, they also occasionally discussed the location of police, but only because police know where to find the best hookers.

All the times I've driven across the country I could not find one hooker at any truck stop anywhere.

Clinton Blew Best Chance to Get Bin Laden. No surprise there...

Twenty Questions for Richard Clarke

No, I Wasn't Planning To See It, Why Do You Ask?

I came across a review of The Exorcist II on one of my net surfing safaris:

The major theme of Exorcist II is that Linda Blair has developed breasts. Her acting on the other hand remains much the same as in the original Exorcist -- in which she was twelve. Her dialogue is riddled with grammatical error and slang and is delivered with a certain lascivious stupidity. My rental copy is not even in lip-synch. It's like I'm watching an old kung fu movie, combined with the overall cheap aura of bad porn. I kept waiting for Peter North to step out at any moment and begin undressing her.

The premise is that the Church decides to send a priest (Richard Burton) to investigate the death of Father Merrin who was killed during the exorcism in the original film. Making perfect sense, this investigation kicks off some SIX YEARS after his mysterious death, as evidenced by Regan now being eighteen. Burton catches up with Regan at her psychiatrist's office where he discovers that the demon may still have a fingerhold on her, and that she now has breasts.

I think I'll put on my copy of ZARDOZ instead.

What Planet Am I On Again?

Senator Barbara Boxer, a noted political hoplophobe, threatens to cut off funding for the Transportation Security Administration if they don't arm airline pilots sooner.

Huh?

Lileks says:

We stopped pretending we would ratify Kyoto. We only spent $15 billion on AIDS in Africa. We did not take dictation from Paris. If we had done these things, it would minimize the world’s anger.

Is the world angry at Russia, which spends nothing on AIDS and rebuffed Kyoto? Is the world angry at China, which got a pass on Kyoto and spends nothing on AIDS for other countries?

Is the world angry at North Korea for killings its people? Angry at Iran for smothering that vibrant nation with corrupt and thuggish mullocracy? Angry at Syria for occupying Lebanon? Angry at Saudi Arabia for its denial of women’s rights? Angry at Russia for corrupt elections? Is the world angry at China for threatening Taiwan, or angry at France for joining the Chinese in joint military exercises that threatened the island on the eve of an election? Is the world angry at Zimbabwe for stealing land and starving people? Is the world angry at Pakistan for selling nuclear secrets? Is the world angry at Libya for having an NBC program?

Is the world angry at the thugs of Fallujah?

Is the world angry at anyone besides America and Israel?

I Want To See This Cartoon

John, as you all know, is an excellent caricaturist. Occasionally, for a little extra money, John works caricature gigs at conventions, parties, Bar Mitzvahs, etc. Last night John was drawing at a birthday party for a local college student. Her parents were throwing the bash at their home in a wealthy area of Atlanta called Buckhead. Swimming pool. Live band. Catering. Open bar. Normally the latter is not a problem. John is a seasoned professional. But, for reasons that remain sketchy, John decided to cut loose.

The problem apparently started (I got all this second-hand) when John drew a caricature of a Russian foreign-exchange student who was wearing a shirt that said "Bush Lied, People Died." Now, John has been working these gigs for decades. He knows how to read a subject, how far to push exaggerations like big noses and pot bellies, and how to play on-lookers for laughs. But, for some reason, perhaps the Scotch, John went for the throat. Even the band stopped playing when John screamed "TAH-DAH!" and presented a cartoon of Stalin wearing a t-shirt that said "Socialist Lie, Millions Die."

-- Allen Forkum

So Anyway...

I bought a Krasnogorsk-3 movie camera from an auction on e-bay.

Dana the landlady thinks that I am insane for doing so. She has compared my objective of making a feature length Traveller movie on film to my declaring that I will make a transcontinental journey in a 1913 Hupmobile.

I was going to buy an external lightmeter anyway.