Jun

29

2005

Arrest Ward Churchill Hold Him At Gitmo

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Is there anything Anti-American which that idiot will not say? Now Churchill suggests attacks on our military officers, by our soldiers!

You cannot maintain a military projection of force in the field when your own troops are taking out the line officers who are directing them in combat. It is as simple as that. Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.

That traitor needs to be arrested, immediately.

I think Gitmo is actually too good for him, as the recent Congressional visit showed, it is a very nice place, as prisons go. (Too nice for those bastards they have there already, but I deviate). I wonder, do the Geneva Conventions apply to enemy combatants who are also citizens of the attacked nation? A loud dose of teen queen pop music blaring at him 24/7/365 for say the next forty years should have the appropriate effect on his sick mind. And, it would have the additional benefit of drowning out his voice.

Over at It Comes In Pints it has been proposed that college professors should be fragged. And, while I can not support that notion, (and neither do they), I also find myself wishing I had thought of it first. j/k

Churchill will no doubt be left alone by the law on First Amendment grounds. At least until one of his followers actually kills an officer. Then, of course, it will be too late for the officer killed.

Jun

28

2005

Germans To Destroy Monument To1000 Killed Seeking Freedom: Demo Set For July 4th

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Stranger than fiction.

TTLB

Jun

28

2005

Biden Provides DNC, Moveon.Org Response to GWB’s Speech

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First let me say this; I have not believed the polls. Polls have gone the way of statistics; polls lie, and liars poll. Secondly, I confess, this post will not represent, analyze, or even reference, anything the liberals have to say about President Bush’s speech. I did not listen to Joe Biden, I chose his name because he was the first of the liberal Democrats I saw reacting to the President’s speech, and he was negative so he wins the liberal standard-bearer label on this day.

I feel that most Americans feel as I do. I feel that we are doing the right thing in Iraq. I feel we are doing the right thing in defeating the terrorists across the globe. I feel that our efforts are done in a fashion which we can feel proud about. We fight hard, we are the fairest of all, even in battle, even with captured combatants who will kill each of us if allowed. We, the Americans, are the epitome of civilization thus far in all of human history. We have done nothing to diminish that status.

For me, and I believe, because I feel it, for most of America; President Bush’s speech tonight was not necessary. We understand that the battle against terrorism is inherent in the work our people are doing in Iraq. We understand that the criticism this administration and our soldiers have recently received is bogus. We understand that Karl Rove was right about the liberals, they would not support the things which will produce a lasting peace. The liberals want what they want, regardless of the lack of a practical plan to achieve their goal. They want some pie in the sky visions realized. They want something our enemies will never allow, even if it was workable in the real world. And, they, the liberals, believe the way to achieve the unachievable is to destroy their fellow Americans, starting with our current President, and including the soldiers fighting to preserve our liberty.

I did not need to hear President Bush tonight, in fact, meaning no disrespect, I did not listen that closely because he was saying what I already knew.

“It demands the perseverance of our citizens”- GWB 6/28/05

This fight, against terorism, is going to last for a long time. I will not lose my nerve in this fight. I want us to finish the mission. I want the world to understand that all people on this planet have no greater friend than the USA, or they can choose, their choice, to have no greater enemy than the USA. And, I, especially, want our own citizens to repel the insurgency within, to denounce and isolate those who do not understand the larger picture. Politically disenfranchise those who can not be a part of the solution. Condemn to the ash heap of history those who are willing to diminish the USA’s reputation.

Those who are willing to give our enemies fuel for their propaganda are not patriotic. Those people are not worthy of being Americans.

Jun

28

2005

“Kelo vs. City of New London” comes home to Souter

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This is just too precious for words. It seems, as James Taranto would put it, life often does imitate the parody and sarcasm of Scrappleface or the Onion – or specifically in this case, The Therapist.

Jun

27

2005

Democrats: An Obama-nation

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Steve asked me the other day why I haven’t been posting. The best answer I could come up with was, “Same old, same old.” We are cursed by living in interesting times – so interesting, that I’ve lost interest. A confirmation battle or three may be looming over the Supreme Court – and where I have little confidence Originalism will win out. The media is obsessed with lost children, missing floozies, and manufactured scandals. And through it all, the Democratic Party manages to sustain a majority mindset from out of the jaws of minority election results.

And what do they do with this obscene Frankenstein-like majority of Democrats and weak-kneed Republicans? Why, they demoralize American troops in the midst of battle, of course.

President Bush plans to speak about Iraq tomorrow, and we hope he points out that this Beltway panic is hurting the war effort. General John Abizaid of the U.S. Central Command stressed this point last week. Troop morale, he said, has never been better. But “when I look back here at what I see is happening in Washington, within the Beltway, I’ve never seen the lack of confidence greater.”

He added that, “When my soldiers say to me and ask me the question whether or not they’ve got support from the American people or not, that worries me. And they’re starting to do that.” Mr. Bush will no doubt remind Americans of the stakes in Iraq, but he also needs to point out that defeatism can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So it was with a bit of surprise that I read something today that inspired me to write. What did we say about mentioning Abraham Lincoln?
For when the time came to confront the greatest moral challenge this nation has ever faced, this all too human man did not pass the challenge on to future generations. He neither demonized the fathers and sons who did battle on the other side nor sought to diminish the terrible costs of his war. In the midst of slavery’s dark storm and the complexities of governing a house divided, he somehow kept his moral compass pointed firm and true.
The author, who goes on to cite the irony of winning the seat Lincoln lost to Stephen Douglas, is none other than Senator Barack Obama. What is even more ironic, is how little this particular quote resembles the good Senator’s own political party. And if that isn’t irony enough in itself, read the whole column to find that there isn’t one remark in the whole piece that ties this wonderful essay to the events of today. It’s not even clear why Sen. Obama was asked to write the piece for TIME in the first place. The only thing I can think of is that Obama is trying to sound statesmanlike in order to balance out the negative drone coming from the likes of Dick Durbin and Teddy Kennedy.

I guess Republican ideals are only worthwhile when the Republicans are dead, co-opted by Democrats, and totally irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

Jun

21

2005

Take Back The Memorial

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There is a rally today at the Corner of Church and Liberty in in New York City. The group Take Back The Memorial is holding a press conference and rally at Ground Zero. But if you’re like me, regardless how much you may want to attend and lend support to their cause to keep the Political Correct blame America crowd from spoiling the WTC memorial site, you live too far away or have too many other obligations to attend (not a work obligation though – cause we know that us white Christians have never made an honest living in our lives!). But there is something that those of us who live in the rest of the country can do to contribute to the cause – sign the petition! We cannot let the people who hate what America stands for change the focus of the WTC 9/11 memorial, or rewrite history.

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” – Edmund Burke

Cox and Forkum

Jun

19

2005

On Science And When Life Begins

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Science has given us many new understandings of this world. And I generally believe that the rest of the answers are there for our finding. Though from what I have been told of quarks, whose very existence is only known via an educated supposition, (the very act of looking at these most tiny of particles changes them), some things may not be knowable using the five senses. Some things may have to be taken on faith, an intelligent supposition not directly sensed by taste, touch, smell, sight or sound.

At some point, from what I’ve learned of the science around reproduction, I came to the conclusion that a new human life begins when the sperm unties with the egg. That event creates a unique set of DNA molecule which divides; creating an exact duplicate of the original, more cells form the same way, and then are formed pluripotent stem cells, those cells form specific parts of the human anatomy, this intelligent design continues and a being is built, this initial process of cell division continues until, not birth, but death occurs, (after birth the being continues to grow and change right up to the moment when life ends, at whatever age that may be).

Now, I am certain to have left out a step along the way. But, that isn’t important. That first meeting is what is important. For, in a fundamental way what occurs, from the union of the DNA carried by the sperm, and the DNA carried by the egg, goes on uninterrupted except by death. It can thus be argued, scientifically, that life begins at conception.

But, that really is not the question that consumes our society. What we find ourselves arguing about is, when do we care about that life enough to protect it from termination?

That is the question at the heart of the abortion debate.

And science can not answer that question, it is a moral choice. Science can describe the world and its working; it can not answer questions of right and wrong.

All of this came to mind from reading a post at Begging To Differ concerning the prospect that science can develop a consciometer; a device which detects whether an entity is conscious. The function of which would be to determine when a fetus is conscious so that an exact point of development can be set for when the fetus is aware/thinking/feeling/etc. The use of that information? Well, that is not the province of science, it is a moral decision. The choice: do we allow people to end life if it happens before that lifeform can taste, touch, smell, see, or hear a quark; or do we accept that that lifeform already knows as much about the great mysteries as we will ever know and forbid its harm.

A question which science can not answer for us.

Jun

17

2005

Omelettes anyone?

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(We were alerted to this great cartoon, and a pretty good blog, thanks to a comment from frequent visitor. Thanks Karen!)

Jun

17

2005

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it, or maybe just doomed period!

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This is why we evoke the name of Lincoln every chance we get, support originalism, and rage against the revisionism (there were so many examples to choose from) of the left.

There is an ongoing culture war between Americans who are ashamed of this nation’s history and those who acknowledge with sorrow its many sins and are fiercely proud of it anyway. Proud of the 17th century settlers who threw their entire lives overboard and set sail for religious freedom in their rickety little ships. Proud of the new nation that taught democracy to the world. Proud of its ferocious fight to free the slaves, save the Union and drag (lug, shove, sweat, bleed) America a few inches closer to its own sublime ideals. Proud of its victories in two world wars and the Cold War, proud of the fight it is waging this very day for freedom in Iraq and the whole Middle East.

If you are proud of this country and don’t want its identity to vanish, you must teach U.S. history to your children. They won’t learn it in school. This nation’s memory will go blank unless you act.

Parents, this is a call to arms, for your children are in harms way…
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war…

Jun

17

2005

Hypocrisy

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Jun

16

2005

Fake Headline Of The Day: June 16, 2005

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Nancy Reagan Falls, Son Ron Jr. Blames Slow Stem Cell Research

Seriously now, we hope that she is not hurt, as it appears she is not.

I simply can not resist a dig at those, like Ron Jr., who exagerated the potential of stem cell research if only the Federal government would fund it.

Jun

16

2005

Reality Check: Limbaugh Nails Gitmo Waco Comparison

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I need add nothing, just read what the great one had to say about the siege tactics of Janet Reno and the so-called torture at Guantanamo.

Didn’t Janet Reno Use Torture, Heat at Waco?

Now, that’s a reality check!

Addendum: Cap’t Ed has a story about the Cook County jail, in Dhurbin’s home state.

Let’s see if we can guess where the following abuses took place — Gitmo or Cook County:

In one incident, an elite squad of 40 guards took over a maximum-security [unit] … for the sole purpose of beating and terrorizing the prisoners. A jail investigator determined that the guards’ misconduct was covered up by … medical personnel, who filed false reports and refused or delayed treatment to the prisoners, and by the … inspector general, who refused to cooperate with the investigation. In the other incident, five inmates in a special incarceration unit … alleged that they were beaten by 20 or more … as they lay cuffed and shackled on the floor.

And, brought to my attention by a commenter to the CQ post, read the Durbin correspondence. And smile.:)

Jun

15

2005

The Closer, A PC Loser

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I worked hard again Tuesday, a real days work, and while I had planned to continue reading We Are Lincoln Men, by David Herbert Donald, I instead decided to veg out in front of the television. Channel surfing brought me to, near the beginning of, the new Kyra Sedgewick series, The Closer.

I have always had a curiosity about Kyra, she is visually very interesting, in spite of her abnormally oversized lips. But, more than that, she usually plays interesting roles, in interesting vehicles. And I hoped this would prove to be another example.

What a disappoinment. This show is a cartoon using real actors. An absolute turn of the tables on the current actors doing cartoon voices for animated movies trend. This show skips the animation and simply puts real people into caricatures of stereotypes. All the while giving lessons on political correctness.

The thrust of the premier episode seemed to be to establish that the murder suspect is a sexually frustrated Catholic woman who is still living with her Mother as she approaches thirty. And, then, when it is revealed that the murder victim was a lesbian cross-dressing homicidal computer genius aids activist identity thief; then the important matter at hand for the writers was to insinuate that the killer, the sexually repressed Catholic virgin, was actually a lesbian as well. They accomplish portraying the killer as a lesbian by having her repeat time and time and time again that she isn’t a lesbian. Thereby, employing a situation which Shakespeare coined as protesting too much, in order to paint her as exactly that which she declares, repeatedly, against being. And, this was not the only way in which the writers revealed their obcession with lesbianism.

The one character, surrounding Sedgewick’s ball-busting slut who slept her way to the top and isn’t done spreading it around persona, who is even remotely fleshed out is the Archie Bunkerish investigator who calls the deceased a “lesbo”. The term, “lesbo”, sets off Sedgewick who castrates castigates him for using “lesbo” as an abbreviation for lesbian, when she asserts it is not any such thing. Which is wrong, of course, though it may be a disparaging abbreviation for lesbian, lesbo is an abbreviation for lesbian as surely as homo was a common abbreviation for homosexual in the olden days. The writers attempt a political correctness insurgency with this one. Insurgency repelled.

The solution to the crime is provided when Sedgewick orders an underling to take the bullet recovered from the body to ballistics. What a genius idea, test the bullet, why haven’t the police thought of this before (I ask sarcastically)? Sedgewick tells her brood that testing the bullet may tie it to a previous crime which may bring them to the present criminal. Voila! The deceased had shot dead a law enforcement type person decades ago, and in spite of being a computer genius who ran a major company in the industry, she did not have the common sense to dispose of the gun she had used.

Since her flight, after murdering the man, she had assumed the identity of a man, plundered ATMs for cash until she had enough to open a corporation rivaling Microsoft, and lived an affected life as an incubated eccentric man. And, from the tone of this show, her one mistake was to become involved with a Catholic, repressed lesbian, woman, and then revealing her true identity which angered and humiliated the virgin leading to homicide.

Naturally, (heavy sarcasm) the virgin had to use the gun from the old murder to kill the phony man/lesbowhackjob, (what other choice did she have?) and, thus Sedgewick had all she needed to draw out a confession to the murder, and to the woman’s implied sexual preference. That is the whole story, I left out nothing.

So, to review, (according to thie writers of The Closer) being a Catholic virgin who is fooled into falling in love with a cross-dressing lesbian crook murderer proves that those who practice abstinace are lesbos.

Are they really going to have a week two for this loser show?

Jun

15

2005

MSM Says Schiavo Autopsy Proves Dinosaurs Were Blue

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The Schiavo autopsy report is in, and every effort has been made in the Press to paint the results as proof that her condition was the equivalent of non-existance.

Prediction:- Time will bear out that the impressions the MSM is currently bombarding upon us are not factually consistent with the tenor and conclusions of the doctors who wrote the report.

I spoke before about the inadequacies of an autopsy versus testing on a live person. And, be certain, when the actual report is read it will say that the doctors can not speak to the actual level of brain activity, but can speak to the size, weight, percentage, and distribution of her brain matter. But, not her actual capacity of function.

Again, ascertaining the actual brain function and consciousness of a dead person is as imprecise as ascertaining the color of dinosaurs by looking at their fossils. It can not be done.

And, beyond her level of awareness, there remains the issue of how she was killed. We now know that Terri is dead, even the support of loved ones could not stay that sentence, is compassion dead as well.

“There are those who will use this autopsy report to claim that the death by dehydration imposed on Terri Schiavo was compassionate or merciful,” said Brown. “Others would say such a life is not worth living. Such thinking is misguided and absolutely wrong. Those decisions are not ours to make.”

Jun

15

2005

Why are we not getting the schools we

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I read this Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools by Tom McClintock (Don’t recognize the name? He ran against Arnold for Governor of California) and my jaw about hit the floor. As Chris mentioned to me after he read it, these facts have always been assumed but no one ever took the time to actually quantify them. I knew it was bad, but I had no idea it was this bad!

As you read the proposal, notice how Mr. McClintock goes over and above in every single aspect of funding – often to the point of ridiculousness:

I also propose setting aside $3 billion to pay an additional 30,000 school bureaucrats $100,000-per-year (roughly the population of Monterey) with the proviso that they stay away from the classroom and pay their own hotel bills at conferences.
The question this proposal has to raise is: Into which sinkhole is all the money currently dissappearing?

Kudos to Mr. McClintock for framing this debate as it should be, and in a manner that is crystal clear (even to those from Rio Linda) and absolutly brilliant. While you read over his proposal just remember, the Washington DC schools spent $11,847 per student last year.

Andy, via these comments to a very good La Shawn Barber rant.

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