Spare the rod, and see what happens

Back in my father's day, when you wanted to be recognized by your fellow citizens, you served your country. You risked your life to save others and protect the nation. As a reward you might receive the benefit and recognition of a medal of honor.

We still have old fashioned heroes like this. They serve in our military.

Unfortunately, we have an ever increasing number of people in our nation, who find the way to recognition is an empty expression of civil vandalism. As long as they get the attention of as many as possible, that is the goal; even if that attention is one of disgust.

2 vandals attack, damage a bust of Jesus in Copley Square library

A 160-year-old marble bust of Jesus was attacked at the main branch of the Boston Public Library earlier this month, knocked from its perch on the grand staircase and sent crashing to the floor.

This behavior is passively celebrated by the magic mushroom addled rejects that infest our schools and universities. It is actively celebrated by our sensationalist media, all too willing to provide that attention, on the same stage they provide a microphone to terror masters.

MIT Computer Whiz Arrested With Fake Bomb At Logan Airport

A woman arrested Friday for carrying a fake bomb into Boston's Logan airport is an MIT computer whiz who loves "crazy ideas" and "saving the planet from evil villains," according to her blog on a Web site hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This little 'whiz' is using the same excuse as the jackass-wannabees who planted devices under bridges in Boston, not so long ago.

It appears that we now live in the age of the snotty, undisciplined, attention seeking brat. I can only guess that mommy and daddy stopped paying for the Ritalin prescription.

All Washed Up

Today's news:

Las Vegas Sun:
Peter Eliasberg, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, said his organization sued to remove the cross because it was clearly a religious item being supported by the federal government.

"I hope this stops the litigation and the waste of taxpayers' money," Eliasberg said. "Then they can build a real war memorial that honors all veterans."

A government attorney did not return telephone calls.

Not so long ago:

DEARBORN, Mich.(Washington Times) Plans to construct two foot-washing stations continue at the University of Michigan at Dearborn amid concerns that such action would constitute an establishment of religion by the public university.

The 8,700-student school near Detroit, which begins fall classes Tuesday, came under criticism in June when it announced that it would spend about $25,000 on the two foot-washing areas that were requested as an accommodation by a Muslim Student Association's task force. The foot baths come while the state is in a budget crisis and tuition and fees have risen at all of the state's public universities, up 7.9 percent at the Dearborn campus alone.

What does ACLU director Kary Moss say about the Muslim footbaths?

"Our policy is to object whenever public funds are spent on any brick and mortar component of religion," said Kary Moss, director of the Michigan Civil Liberties Union. "What makes this different, though, is that the footbaths themselves can be used by anyone, don't have any symbolic value and are not stylized in a religious way. They're in a regular restroom, and could be just as useful to a janitor filling up buckets, or someone coming off the basketball court, as to Muslim students."

Well there you have it.

By this logic I could say that a cross can be viewed by anyone as a piece of religious art, specifically one put up by veterans on land was then 'federalized'. Don't think of it's religious implications, just its war memorial implications.

Of course, when it comes to a religion that sponsors those who will cut your throat or bomb your children, the ACLU and the liberal judges that support them, suddenly see their spines wither to gelatin. Under those conditions, they rationalize a 180 degree reversal of their strict interpretation of religious separation.

That's what the ACLU is: All washed up.

An Entertaining bit of Snark

....by Mac Johnson over at Human Events.


I apologize once again for the dry blog. I am just not feeling well at all these days.

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Just Keep Ignoring the Obvious

Take note of the last sentence from a post 2yrs ago.

Now take a look at the UK Telegraph today:

China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Last Updated: 9:54am BST 08/08/2007

The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.

I wonder how soon it will be, when they move to pluck that Taiwan plum, and start exercising that new techno-military muscle they have been accumulating.

Sigh.

Watch out Hugo, the Penn is mightier than...

I know that the Venezuelan dictator was the first of many shotgun results, in the birth of high tech pig cloning. I would not normally warn the product of a failed experiment, that it is surely courting doom.

Sometimes my charitable nature gets the best of me.





Watch out Hugo.













The last time this greasy little spot of Hollywood botox, came out to support an obnoxious poser on the international scene...
















This is what happened to him.


Don't tell us we didn't give you a heads up. Heh.

Pun with Fropaganda

What Does Conservative America Really Want?

by Goseph Joebbels

The Conservative press seems to have the right to complain about the MSM. It makes vigorous use of this right, particularly when liberalism is involved. National Socialism is a thorn in its eye.

Hollywood has been the target of its mockery, hatred, lies, and slander since the end of the fairness doctrine, especially from that part controlled by Rush Limbaugh. The Conservative press takes particular pleasure in criticizing liberalism on grounds of humanitarianism, civilization, human rights, and culture. It has every right to do so. Conservative humanity is shown by lynchings. Its civilization is shown in economic and political scandals that stink to high heaven. Its human rights are displayed by armies of disenfranchised, undocumented immigrants. And its culture exists only because it is always borrowing from the older social programs. Such a ideology is certainly justified in sneering at European socialism, whose nations and peoples looked back on centuries, even millennia of cultural achievements long before America was discovered.

The conservative press replies to our complaints by saying that it has nothing against liberalism, only against National Socialism. That is a poor excuse. National Socialism today is liberalism's guiding political idea and worldview. The entire liberal nation affirms it. To criticize National Socialism today therefore means to criticize the entire liberal nation.

It will not do to say that National Socialism is a dictatorship, and that there are still many in liberalism who, inwardly at least, reject it. That simply is not the case. It is a fantasy that exists only in the minds of republican politicians and journalists, but has nothing to do with the facts. There is no doubt about it: the public campaign against liberalism is a conscious and intentional provocation aimed at the MSM and liberal people.

Generally, it does not make any difference to us. We liberals do not depend on the love or grace of conservatives; we live from our own national strength. The time is long past when liberalism expected its salvation from concensus. Conservative help was always lacking when it was most needed, especially during hurricane Katrina. It appeared only when international money and stock capital believed that it could earn vast profits by helping drowning liberals.

We could simply say that conservative America is far away, with a big ocean separating us. What do we care about what they think, write, or say about us? That was quite OK as long as America's highly developed hate campaign against liberalism kept within certain bounds. But when it infects even official circles rather than merely newspapers and radio stations, it becomes more serious.

This campaign reached unbelievable heights after the fairness doctrine was ended. American public opinion, influenced by Rush Limbaugh, is trying to interfere to an unacceptable degree in liberal domestic politics. They think that can use methods against liberalism that are
normally unheard of in relations between civilized ideologies.

We know very well who the instigators and beneficiaries are. They are mostly the Limbaughs, or people who are in their service and who are dependent on them to do their thinking for them.

For example, it is not surprising that the conservative press attacks liberalism so strongly. Over ten million conservatives listen to Rush Limbaugh, and thier economic lives are totally under conservative control.

The liberal press so far has generally ignored this filthy campaign of hatred, or answered it only in a restrained manner. Only after official personages in the U.S. congress got involved did we think it necessary to say something. For example, the American president said that no American could accept a medal from the hands of a brutal dictatorship. With the same hand, America robbed and tortured thousands of people, that it saw a day when it committed no new crime against humanity as a day wasted. Put simply, that is not a style of speaking that is customary in relations between states.

Press secretary Tony Snow responded to liberal protests by saying that the president's statement represented the opinion of the overwhelming majority of the American public. One does not know what to say. What does he mean! Was the American president really ever personally attacked in the liberal press, or America's leading men slandered? We have been restrained, even though we certainly had every reason to discuss this or that matter of American domestic policy.

Such things are not our concern. Conservative talkers, not us, determine conservative domestic policy. We are concerned only with liberalism's affairs. We also have no reason or intention of smuggling liberal political ideas into the heads of conservative America. The very opposite, since the methods that we use are purely liberal. They are only valid in liberalism. But we do believe that just as we respect the internal affairs of other countries and avoid polemics against them, conservatives should treat us in the same way.

One cannot say that that is true of all of the United States of North America. Nearly the whole press and film industry, with the exception of radio, supports the worldwide campaign of liberalism.

Former president Reagan expressed the conservative position bluntly. "The American people do not like liberal government." We happen to think that the American people have nothing to do with the matter. If they do not like liberalism, it is because of the hate campaign. This campaign is conducted by certain radio broadcast scoundrels who lack conscience and scruples. They are doing it both for foreign and domestic reasons.

Conservative America hopes to encourage South American hostility against liberalism, and really against Europe as a whole. They do not like liberal competition in the South American market. The enormous conservative backed American armaments industry is also calling up images of a coming war against the totalitarian governments for business reasons.

We have no intention of answering the criticisms that the conservative American press raises against liberalism by looking at America's domestic affairs. It is enough to observe that although liberalism is for the poor countries in the world, in terms of foreign currency
reserves and raw materials, it has not only abolished unemployment, but has a labor shortage.

Conservative America, meanwhile, wants to deport the immigrants who will fill that shortage, even though it is rich in foreign currency reserves and raw materials. Most of the conservative press ignores this situation. It cannot deny it, of course. It claims that liberal success is contemptible, since it used methods of hate and contempt.

This is entirely backward. The millions of new liberals who will get jobs after National Socialism takes power are not interested in the methods that gave them those jobs. It reminds one of the familiar joke. Two workers are halfheartedly trying to remove a paving stone. A passerby watches for a while, then grabs a pickax and yanks the stone out. One worker says to the other: "Well, sure, if you use force..."

The conservative press uses the same argument. It cannot deny National Socialism's successes. It can only say: "Well, sure, if you use force..." It thinks the liberal people had to make too great a sacrifice for these successes.

The liberal people sees things differently. They know that certain restrictions in some areas were necessary for national reconstruction. The American public is practically drowning in wealth, prosperity, foreign currency, gold bars, and raw materials. It can hardly imagine how an intelligent, hardworking and courageous people can get along without all those advantages.

However that may be, future developments concern us.

No one but liberals have the right to judge liberalism's domestic affairs. No one has the right to turn one people against another, to incite discord and promote ignorance that lead to international crises.

Mr. Limbaugh, leading talk radio voice of conservatism, found the right audience a few weeks ago, when he attacked National Socialism. The most prominent representatives of American international industry, economics, and finance were gathered. Mr. Limbaugh would have done better to tell the eleven or twelve million undocumented immigrants where they could find jobs. He seems to have realized that his hate tirade might have found a less friendly reception there than it did from the audience to which he did speak.

Limbaugh applauds whenever liberalism is attacked. Limbaugh hates National Socialism for reasons that do not need to be mentioned. Limbaugh and the conservative radio pundits are our enemy, should be our enemy and must be our enemy. The question is whether the American people want to make the Limbaughs happy by engaging in fruitless conflict with the
liberal nation and the liberal people. That we do protest against. That is neither necessary nor helpful.

We have nothing against the American people. We know and respect their political views and internal affairs, even if we might do things differently. We believe we have the right to expect the same of American public opinion about liberalism. We also fail to see the benefits of such controversy. What good will it do America? Does it think it can starve liberalism using the same methods as those of the Cold War?

Every economic action has two sides. It affects not only its target, but also the side that uses it. American automobile manufacturers, sitting on piles of unsold SUVs, know this well.

It is time to recommend peace and good sense. American public opinion is going the wrong way. It would benefit by returning to the old, tested practices of international courtesy and good manners, and by treating liberalism in the way normal for civilized people.

We do not expect our appeal to have a great impact on American attitudes. Still, we think it our duty to speak plainly.

Given the influence of the Limbaughs on parts of American public opinion, we again stress the shortsightedness and uselessness of such methods, and ask the world this question: "What does Conservative America really want?"


Now, go read the original speech, in all of its original glory.


Pretty scary.

Meme'd Was I

Here are the rules (as they were explained to me).

1. Let others know who tagged you.





a4g and DPT, this means you!




I was tagged by JimmyB on another score. We will see if I get
around to that one.

2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.



Look out below.








3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.




Consider yourself served.








4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
(Take note of the should part.)



Eight pseudo-random facts:

* Every time my neighbor mentions the uncut part of my lawn, I need to generate a fresh rationalization. The last one outlined my desire to observe the different seeding patterns of the wild grasses of the northeastern region of North America. The one before that was my intention to increase the rooting strength of the green cover, by allowing it to create more topside demand for water and nutrition. Weeds are wonderful examples of Darwinian tenacity. There is one particularly hardy fellow, right in the center of my property. I scalped him down to the dirt with a nylon cyclone. Now he is back, stronger than ever. Why grow wimpy, expensive grass, when there are indestructible alternatives?

* I have a weird allergy to catfish. I love the taste. It's the sudden violent nausea and subsequent penitent prostration to the god of porcelain that has smitten this item from my future menu choices.

* I go through more diet ginger ale in a week, than most people go through in a year.

* I never watch broadcast television. I have a DVD collection sufficient to keep me entertained. The best television shows are commercial free on DVD. I don't need to see any Moron.org political ads either.

* If it weren't for a good paying job and the occasional blogging opportunity, all of the atoms in my body would find more interesting compounds to hang around with.

* I am fast becoming one of the few remaining people alive today, who know that Calgon is
an ancient Chinese secret.

* I keep having this recurring dream that Winston Churchill's corpse runs for John Kerry's seat and wins it, changing the balance of the Senate. If Strom Thurmond can do it, why not?

* I once bought a $145 Japanese calculator for $15 bucks from a German tourist.
(just kidding). I can still use a slide rule. Pickett model N 200-ES.

1. Uber of PJ Maximum fame.
2. Wyatt of SYLG.
3. JimmyB, The Conservative UAW Guy (What goes around comes around.)
4. RT of Public Ponderings.(cough)

8. Fitch of Radioactive Liberty.

Another Presidential Malaise Moment

I promised you a president who is not isolated from the people, who feels your pain, and who shares your dreams and who draws his strength and his wisdom from you.

During the past three years I've spoken to you on many occasions about national concerns, the energy crisis, reorganizing the government, our nation's economy, and issues of war and especially peace. But over those years the subjects of the speeches, the talks, and the press conferences have become increasingly narrow, focused more and more on what the isolated world of Washington thinks is important. Gradually, you've heard more and more about what the government thinks or what the government should be doing and less and less about our nation's hopes, our dreams, and our vision of the future.

Ten days ago I had planned to speak to you again about a very important subject -- energy. For the fifth time I would have described the urgency of the problem and laid out a series of legislative recommendations to the Congress. But as I was preparing to speak, I began to ask myself the same question that I now know has been troubling many of you. Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem?

It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper -- deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as president I need your help. So I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.

I invited to Camp David people from almost every segment of our society -- business and labor, teachers and preachers, governors, mayors, and private citizens. And then I left Camp David to listen to other Americans, men and women like you.

It has been an extraordinary ten days, and I want to share with you what I've heard. First of all, I got a lot of personal advice. Let me quote a few of the typical comments that I wrote down.

This from a southern governor: "Mr. President, you are not leading this nation -- you're just managing the government."

"You don't see the people enough any more."

"Some of your Cabinet members don't seem loyal. There is not enough discipline among your disciples."

"Don't talk to us about politics or the mechanics of government, but about an understanding of our common good."

"Mr. President, we're in trouble. Talk to us about blood and sweat and tears."

"If you lead, Mr. President, we will follow."

Many people talked about themselves and about the condition of our nation.

This from a young woman in Pennsylvania: "I feel so far from government. I feel like ordinary people are excluded from political power."

And this from a young Chicano: "Some of us have suffered from recession all our lives."

"Some people have wasted energy, but others haven't had anything to waste."

And this from a religious leader: "No material shortage can touch the important things like God's love for us or our love for one another."

And I like this one particularly from a black woman who happens to be the mayor of a small Mississippi town: "The big-shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first."

This kind of summarized a lot of other statements: "Mr. President, we are confronted with a moral and a spiritual crisis."

Several of our discussions were on energy, and I have a notebook full of comments and advice. I'll read just a few.

"We can't go on consuming 40 percent more energy than we produce. When we import oil we are also importing inflation plus unemployment."

"We've got to use what we have. The Middle East has only five percent of the world's energy, but the United States has 24 percent."

And this is one of the most vivid statements: "Our neck is stretched over the fence and OPEC has a knife."

"There will be other cartels and other shortages. American wisdom and courage right now can set a path to follow in the future."

This was a good one: "Be bold, Mr. President. We may make mistakes, but we are ready to experiment."

And this one from a labor leader got to the heart of it: "The real issue is freedom. We must deal with the energy problem on a war footing."

And the last that I'll read: "When we enter the moral equivalent of war, Mr. President, don't issue us BB guns."

These ten days confirmed my belief in the decency and the strength and the wisdom of the American people, but it also bore out some of my long-standing concerns about our nation's underlying problems.

I know, of course, being president, that government actions and legislation can be very important. That's why I've worked hard to put my campaign promises into law -- and I have to admit, with just mixed success. But after listening to the American people I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can't fix what's wrong with America. So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.

I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might.

The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.

The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.

The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July.

It is the idea which founded our nation and has guided our development as a people. Confidence in the future has supported everything else -- public institutions and private enterprise, our own families, and the very Constitution of the United States. Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link between generations. We've always believed in something called progress. We've always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our own.

Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy. As a people we know our past and we are proud of it. Our progress has been part of the living history of America, even the world. We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom, and that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose. But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world.

As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions. This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning.

These changes did not happen overnight. They've come upon us gradually over the last generation, years that were filled with shocks and tragedy.

We were sure that ours was a nation of the ballot, not the bullet, until the murders of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. We were taught that our armies were always invincible and our causes were always just, only to suffer the agony of Vietnam. We respected the presidency as a place of honor until the shock of Watergate.

We remember when the phrase "sound as a dollar" was an expression of absolute dependability, until ten years of inflation began to shrink our dollar and our savings. We believed that our nation's resources were limitless until 1973, when we had to face a growing dependence on foreign oil.

These wounds are still very deep. They have never been healed. Looking for a way out of this crisis, our people have turned to the Federal government and found it isolated from the mainstream of our nation's life. Washington, D.C., has become an island. The gap between our citizens and our government has never been so wide. The people are looking for honest answers, not easy answers; clear leadership, not false claims and evasiveness and politics as usual.

What you see too often in Washington and elsewhere around the country is a system of government that seems incapable of action. You see a Congress twisted and pulled in every direction by hundreds of well-financed and powerful special interests. You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and a fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends.

Often you see paralysis and stagnation and drift. You don't like it, and neither do I. What can we do?

First of all, we must face the truth, and then we can change our course. We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face. It is a true challenge of this generation of Americans.

One of the visitors to Camp David last week put it this way: "We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America."

We know the strength of America. We are strong. We can regain our unity. We can regain our confidence. We are the heirs of generations who survived threats much more powerful and awesome than those that challenge us now. Our fathers and mothers were strong men and women who shaped a new society during the Great Depression, who fought world wars, and who carved out a new charter of peace for the world.

We ourselves are the same Americans who just ten years ago put a man on the Moon. We are the generation that dedicated our society to the pursuit of human rights and equality. And we are the generation that will win the war on the energy problem and in that process rebuild the unity and confidence of America.

We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure.

All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path, the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our nation and ourselves. We can take the first steps down that path as we begin to solve our energy problem.

Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.

In little more than two decades we've gone from a position of energy independence to one in which almost half the oil we use comes from foreign countries, at prices that are going through the roof. Our excessive dependence on OPEC has already taken a tremendous toll on our economy and our people. This is the direct cause of the long lines which have made millions of you spend aggravating hours waiting for gasoline. It's a cause of the increased inflation and unemployment that we now face. This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important.

Point one: I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 -- never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade -- a saving of over 4-1/2 million barrels of imported oil per day.

Point two: To ensure that we meet these targets, I will use my presidential authority to set import quotas. I'm announcing tonight that for 1979 and 1980, I will forbid the entry into this country of one drop of foreign oil more than these goals allow. These quotas will ensure a reduction in imports even below the ambitious levels we set at the recent Tokyo summit.

Point three: To give us energy security, I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation's history to develop America's own alternative sources of fuel -- from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun.

I propose the creation of an energy security corporation to lead this effort to replace 2-1/2 million barrels of imported oil per day by 1990. The corporation I will issue up to $5 billion in energy bonds, and I especially want them to be in small denominations so that average Americans can invest directly in America's energy security.

Just as a similar synthetic rubber corporation helped us win World War II, so will we mobilize American determination and ability to win the energy war. Moreover, I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this nation's first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000.

These efforts will cost money, a lot of money, and that is why Congress must enact the windfall profits tax without delay. It will be money well spent. Unlike the billions of dollars that we ship to foreign countries to pay for foreign oil, these funds will be paid by Americans to Americans. These funds will go to fight, not to increase, inflation and unemployment.

Point four: I'm asking Congress to mandate, to require as a matter of law, that our nation's utility companies cut their massive use of oil by 50 percent within the next decade and switch to other fuels, especially coal, our most abundant energy source.

Point five: To make absolutely certain that nothing stands in the way of achieving these goals, I will urge Congress to create an energy mobilization board which, like the War Production Board in World War II, will have the responsibility and authority to cut through the red tape, the delays, and the endless roadblocks to completing key energy projects.

We will protect our environment. But when this nation critically needs a refinery or a pipeline, we will build it.

Point six: I'm proposing a bold conservation program to involve every state, county, and city and every average American in our energy battle. This effort will permit you to build conservation into your homes and your lives at a cost you can afford.

I ask Congress to give me authority for mandatory conservation and for standby gasoline rationing. To further conserve energy, I'm proposing tonight an extra $10 billion over the next decade to strengthen our public transportation systems. And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense -- I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

Our nation must be fair to the poorest among us, so we will increase aid to needy Americans to cope with rising energy prices. We often think of conservation only in terms of sacrifice. In fact, it is the most painless and immediate way of rebuilding our nation's strength. Every gallon of oil each one of us saves is a new form of production. It gives us more freedom, more confidence, that much more control over our own lives.

So, the solution of our energy crisis can also help us to conquer the crisis of the spirit in our country. It can rekindle our sense of unity, our confidence in the future, and give our nation and all of us individually a new sense of purpose.

You know we can do it. We have the natural resources. We have more oil in our shale alone than several Saudi Arabias. We have more coal than any nation on Earth. We have the world's highest level of technology. We have the most skilled work force, with innovative genius, and I firmly believe that we have the national will to win this war.

I do not promise you that this struggle for freedom will be easy. I do not promise a quick way out of our nation's problems, when the truth is that the only way out is an all-out effort. What I do promise you is that I will lead our fight, and I will enforce fairness in our struggle, and I will ensure honesty. And above all, I will act. We can manage the short-term shortages more effectively and we will, but there are no short-term solutions to our long-range problems. There is simply no way to avoid sacrifice.

Twelve hours from now I will speak again in Kansas City, to expand and to explain further our energy program. Just as the search for solutions to our energy shortages has now led us to a new awareness of our Nation's deeper problems, so our willingness to work for those solutions in energy can strengthen us to attack those deeper problems.

I will continue to travel this country, to hear the people of America. You can help me to develop a national agenda for the 1980s. I will listen and I will act. We will act together. These were the promises I made three years ago, and I intend to keep them.

Little by little we can and we must rebuild our confidence. We can spend until we empty our treasuries, and we may summon all the wonders of science. But we can succeed only if we tap our greatest resources -- America's people, America's values, and America's confidence.

I have seen the strength of America in the inexhaustible resources of our people. In the days to come, let us renew that strength in the struggle for an energy secure nation.

In closing, let me say this: I will do my best, but I will not do it alone. Let your voice be heard. Whenever you have a chance, say something good about our country. With God's help and for the sake of our nation, it is time for us to join hands in America. Let us commit ourselves together to a rebirth of the American spirit. Working together with our common faith we cannot fail.

Thank you and good night.

- President Jimmy Carter July 15, 1979

This was called the malaise speech. Carter was roundly criticized for it. You can pick and choose elements to support a leadership view, but the overall sense that people felt was, the president is blaming the attitude of the American people, for all of the problems he describes (typical liberal). Of course he didn't listen, or act, or understand why his presidency was an insult to the concept of leadership. He quoted the observations of Americans, then proceeded to completely ignore them. Presidents cannot micro-manage national economic policy in energy or labor and expect us to be a free nation. Carter also completely missed the role of criminal MSM propaganda, in America's crisis of confidence.

Presidents cannot lead by concensus.

Presidents can lead with optimistic strength. This was successfully accomplished by his successor, Reagan, who went out and said he loved the country. He loved the freedom and potential of the American people.

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. - Reagan

He was optimistic about the power of the people to cleanse the face and the course of the nation. He actively persued, nourished and imbued his presidency with this attitude.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. - Reagan

He told us to hold ourselves and our media to account.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. - Reagan

What did this optimism do?

It revealed that the people of this nation, those who count, those who vote, those who participate, really do care about it. It revealed that the people of this nation will rally to its defense and interests, when roused. There may be a large component of of cynicism out there, often vented by your's truly. Here is the point:

Cynicism is not the ingrained, rooted and culturally entrenched phenomenon that Carter made it out to be. Cynicism can turn on a dime, instantly, when the passions of the people are roused to do so.

Take strong note about the side that Carter has now taken in his waning mode of retired or retarded statesmanship. He is now on the side of the liberal elites. He is now engaging in the same bashing of America's spirit, on the stage of the international press, that he derided his fellow citizens for in his malaise speech. Carter himself has become a vocal part of the destruction of American confidence, by rubbing elbows with Cuba hugging denizens like Michael Moore. Basically, he is the worst embodiment of a hypocrite politician; A redundant observation in today's climate. The man is a total disgrace.

On the immigration issue, Bush should have also revisted this speech from Carter; specifically the parts where people claim distrust of Washington elites and powerlessness to act. Bush should never have engaged in the blame America sound bites of addiction to cheap labor and the race card. The 'Grand Bargain' was a horrible concensus based amalgum of garbage, which has the sole purpose of creating a blanket excuse for several decades of gross federal incompetence in the political branches of the tree. Kennedy waddles out and decries our lack of action as a devastating tragedy. The real tragedy is the lack of action in Washington; The lack of enforcement, border security and respect for the Constitution. We refuse to accept a legislated pardon for this incompetence. We insist that the hard work be done and done right. We insist that Washington prove that they mean what they write, before we let them write away their obligations, with a pardon for themselves and amnesty for foreign invaders.

Unlike 1979, the people did not have to wait to toss the policies out of office, with the policy maker. Those who enjoyed the empowerment of a real leader, the conservative voices of Ronald Reagan, exercised that power, without delay, at the precise time it was needed.

That is American democracy and spirit, taking action to protect the American people from foreign invaders and the criminally arrogant and incompetent bureaucrats.

Still Burning the Midnight Crude

You know, the news is just the most depressing litany of bullshit I have seen since the Carter days. I do not even know where to start. I have been wrapped in the private sector for several weeks, covering for a good friend who is probably enduring the worst days of his life. Watching the news between schematics and programs has not been a pleasure, I must say.

[T]he Council of the City of Berkeley endorses the case of Rumsfeld et al. . . .

[T]he Council of the City of Berkeley supports all efforts throughout the world to hold Donald Rumsfeld and other United States officials who have prosecuted the War on Terror in violation of any applicable law to be held both civilly and criminally accountable for their actions before any tribunal with jurisdiction over the matter, whether such legal proceedings are pursued in this country or abroad.

In other words, We the Council of the City of Berkeley declare ourselves treasonous and suicidal mouthpieces for Al Qaida, who bark like cihauwas over Rumsfeld, but let illegal Mexican invaders walk all over our city and state without any regard for the law.

If you are a moonbat, being a treasonous criminal is something to be celebrated and applauded.


Just look at this guy, who stuffed his pants full of evidence and burned it later, along with his recollection.
Oh poo-poo-dee-doo. Clearly we don't know what he destroyed, so it could not have been important, right?





Of course, you had better live up to the letter of the law, if you work for a Republican and are being interrogated for a fictitious non-crime.



Just ask this guy. But why look at Scooter, when there are real, genuine victims of injustice in this world?











For solid evidence, we must seek the sage counsel of the lesbian who looks like Michael Moore, with a shave and breast implants.







She will describe, in brutal detail, all of the horrible injustices suffered by this guy, who's only crime was to single-handedly terrorize western civilization and bring two towers down in the financial mecca of said home and castle. Hey. He really feels sorry about killing all those women and children on 911. Do you not feel the pain of the injustice America has visited upon him, with their horrible interrogations? You know Rosey does.

But fret you not, dear readers. We are, as of right now, bringing Rosey swift justice to the real threats in this world, the Pendleton 8,


who we deftly trained to kill the enemy. Unfortuneately we did not defly train them to fill out paperwork, or engage in professional C.Y.A. like Washington politicians. Thank God those Marines can feel safe sleeping at night, knowing the magic carpet is about to be yanked from under their feet, by the Democrat controlled congress. The president doesn't want to watch, so he is off to central America, where he is obviously loved by all.


Of course, on the big Hollywood international screen, this guy might be toppled by his own:


Or this guy might get a hold of the bomb:



Of course, neither of these is a real threat to the planet.


Just ask these guys:

As surely as Christopher Reeve would be alive today, walking around with a healing lump of embryonic stem cells in his neck, we are about to suffer the total and complete Armageddon of Global Warming.




Hang on to your roller coaster seats, as the planet takes you on the ride of your life, far to the right of the decimal point, in small temperature increments.
As much as Ann Coulter's opinion of Edwards was excoriated in the press, it does look like John has some of that same-sex appeal Ann was talking about.


Just ask the candidate with ears big enough to make a GOP elephant jealous. He thinks Edwards is 'cute'. You go girl!
















Mmmm, MSM propaganda merchants are good eatin' ! Hey Darwin! Where the hell are you! We really need your ass down here to clean up the place.

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Old Heros Must Die, for the Good of the State

Today, an icon will fall from the stars.



















That's ok. The captain just did not fit in our multi-cultural, multi-national multi-ethnic world.

We have a new hero, in America. With a wave of his mighty hand, he will right all of the wrongs in our fat, decadent, overindulged society. Soon we will be basking in the glory of the new totalitarianism of free markets, unfettered by free speech and individuality.


All hail General Mao, the new hero of the political left.




















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Give Me the Magic Word

TALLAHASSEE -- A state legislator whose district is home to thousands of Caribbean immigrants wants to ban the term "illegal alien" from the state's official documents.


"I personally find the word 'alien' offensive when applied to individuals, especially to children," said Sen. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami. "An alien to me is someone from out of space."

Ah, yes the classic liberal standby. Let us institute the principles of Orwellian Newspeak, for the children.

She has introduced a bill providing that: "A state agency or official may not use the term 'illegal alien' in an official document of the state." There would be no penalty for using the words.

So, the bill would have the same effect as our laws protecting our borders. It will be ignored outright by some, and adopted by the new illiteratti.

In Miami-Dade County, Wilson said, "we don't say 'alien,' we say 'immigrant.'"

Because in Miami-Dade County, you are a collection of idiots.

Merriam Webster:

alien:

2 : a foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized and is still a subject or citizen of a foreign country; broadly : a foreign-born citizen

Gee, it does not say anything about outer space here.; although the whereabouts of Frederica's brain might fit that geographical description. What is not to like? What is it about these criminal alien invaders that doesn't fit the definition above? The only time a child is going to bawl his eyes out, when he is labeled thus, is if I print it out and staple it to their forehead. Hmmm.

She said she encountered the situation when trying to pass a bill allowing children of foreigners to get in-state tuition at colleges and universities. Wilson, who directs a dropout prevention and education program in Miami, said she politely asks witnesses at public hearings on such issues not to use the term.

To which they held up the three longest fingers on their hands and told her to read between the lines. It's a perfect reply. Everyone with a brain gets it and laughs, while the target sits there with a puzzling look on her face.

"There are students in our schools whose parents are trying to become citizens and we shouldn't label them," she said. "They are immigrants, through no fault of their own, not aliens."

Huh? So they aren't aliens through no fault of their own? Rewind to the definition above.

Wilson said the first word isn't as bad as the second.
"'Illegal,' I can live with, but I like 'undocumented' better," she said.

I really want to know what word she definitely can't live with, so that I can be one of many, working hard to hasten her mortal departure.

Asked if her bill (SB 2154) might run afoul of Gov. Charlie Crist's "plain speaking" mandate for government agencies, Wilson said, "I think getting rid of 'alien' would be plain speaking."

Right. 'immigrant' is far plainer than 'alien'. Insol said, "I think getting rid of criminal aliens would be plain common sense."


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European Enlightenment

Back in good old 2000:

Italians Fight U.S. Use of Death Penalty
by Jeffrey Fleishman

ROME - Like those of most American death-row inmates, the name of Derek Rocco Barnabei, convicted in 1995 of murdering his girlfriend and dumping her nude body into a murky Virginia river, has faded from headlines to near-obscurity in the United States.

An Italian American known to his buddies as Serafino, Barnabei is scheduled to be taken from his cell on Sept. 14 and given a lethal injection.

The execution will most likely warrant only a few paragraphs, maybe accompanied by a mug shot, in American newspapers.

But, 6,000 miles away, in Italy, Barnabei is a cause celebre, portrayed as a martyr trapped in an American court system bent more on vengeance than compassion.

To many Europeans, the impending execution represents a nation permeated with violence and misguided justice. Italy and most other European countries oppose capital punishment. Seventy-three nations, including all of Western Europe, have abolished the practice.

The European Union consistently sponsors resolutions at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for a global moratorium on capital punishment. Each time a death sentence is commuted anywhere in the world, Rome celebrates by illuminating the Colosseum in gold and white.

Italians hold vigils for those facing the electric chair. Pope John Paul II pleads for mercy. Last year, Italy's Bennetton clothing chain sponsored billboards sympathetically picturing American killers in white prison uniforms.

And three years ago, in one of the more bizarre twists of anticapital-punishment fervor, the Sicilian city of Palermo chartered a plane and flew the body of an executed American murderer from Virginia for burial in a cemetery usually reserved for dukes and Mafia bosses.

The tombstone reads: "Joseph R. O'Dell 3rd, beloved husband of Lori Urs O'Dell, honorary citizen of Palermo, killed by Virginia, U.S.A., in a merciless and brutal justice system."

The Italian media, never at a loss for conjecture and hyperbole, spun a morality play around O'Dell, who was arrested in 1985 for raping, sodomizing and murdering Helen Schartner in Virginia Beach. Italian politicians and columnists argued that DNA evidence existed that would have proved O'Dell's innocence. The Virginia courts were unmoved.

Fast Forward to Today:

Italian judge orders girl, 13, to have abortion

10:28 AM CST on Tuesday, February 20, 2007

WFAA-TV

An Italian judge has ordered a 13-year-old girl from Torino to abort her unborn child because her parents were opposed to the baby, according to La Stampa newspaper.

Italian legislation states that a minor is not allowed to decide whether to abort or not and the decision falls entirely on the guardians or parents.

The paper reports that the girl didn't want to abort the baby but had to after the ruling.

The girl got pregnant by her 15-year-old boyfriend but despite this she still wanted to keep the baby.

However her parents demanded an abortion. After the abortion, the girl went into a frenzy and threatened to kill herself.

"The unborn baby is still a life and I defend life whatever the situation." Severino Poletto, Archbishop of Torino told the paper.

"Society must take of this child. I certainly oppose abortions but this case allows us to reflect on the situation. We have to take a step back and ask ourselves how this could have happened to a 13-year-old girl." he added.

It is so nice to know the Italian people and their government have their priorities straight, when it comes to justice for the innocent. It's too bad the people in the U.S. don't share all of that wonderful European enlightenment. We are just a pack of backwater conservative fossils, who have yet to learn how to apply the reciprocal of morality to our every day life.


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Priorities

We have such fine leadership in Washington. Leadership means being able to set priorities, then stick to them. Priority order is defined, by the fine example set by our great leaders in the halls of government. This is the list sent out to freshman and seasoned crooks alike.

1) Pass a nice juicy, pork-laden bill for your big donors. While you are at it, hit your big donors up for some more money. Toss a nice green salad and charge $25K a plate for it. If they do not want to trade lettuce, tell them you could always flip-flop and drive your tap into the opposition, just like a big ol' Vermont maple tree. When it bleeds cash, you are the first one there, with the bucket.

2) Cover your political ass with sound bites and international concensus slogans, while Iran continues to commit acts of war against our military. Once they secure our defeat in Iraq and then secure a nuke or two, you can always bitch about how we should have done something about it, but now it is too late. You can wax all philosophical-like about how you were the voice in the forest and nobody was listening and blah.. blah.. blah..

3) Get those teeth whitened, those hair plugs fluffed up and that botox injected. Campaign for President and/or the Senate and/or the House and/or suck up to your political patrons, for a judicial appointment. Take whichever comes first.

4) Pick some important issue you don't give a flying crap about; just for the sake of argument, let’s say… winning in Iraq. Cry on camera to cover up any of your votes that may not be popular now. The public loves it when you get all teary eyed and apologetic on camera. Make sure you wear water soluble mascara that day if you are a woman, and full eye contacts if you are male. Women are supposed to let the levy break. Man tears take more planning. Men should look like they are brimming, about to trickle. They should give the impression that, by sheer testosterone driven will, they are barely holding back a flood of heartfelt emotion. Make sure there is a controlled crack in your voice here and there, during the speech. The male instructions can be applied to harpies, like Hillary, since she has more testosterone than most male politicians in D.C. Hearts and minds, baby.

5) Accuse the opposition party of being a culture of corruption, while installing your own crooks in key positions, sometimes for round two or even three. There is no sense in letting those embezzling indictments cool off. The press can only cover so much at once. If you commit public crimes by attrition, you can sqeeze the good stuff through unnoticed.

Back in Roman times, this was known as the Hannibal Ring of Steel maneuver.

You create a diversionary scandal right in the middle of your front lines. As the press surges forward with aggressive offense, the faux scandal target falls back, like a wounded animal. While the dopey scribes pile on the ratings, you circle around the back with your criminal cavalry, armed with criminal midnight legislation. Then, they can swiftly steal everything backstage, which is not firmly nailed down. Today, they call this strategy the Monica Lewinsky stain of subversion, or the Sandy Burglary.

6) Leverage that drug and alcohol problem for all its worth. Everybody loves drugs and alcohol in Washington. You have a disease, Ok? You are struggling with it. It makes you a flawed human being, who is a victim of personal angst and social pressure. We celebrate flawed, pathetic losers in America today. You are special. Raise your glass to modern politics and praise the virtues of anti-depressants. You need anti-depressants. Being a pathetic loser, lying, cheating and playing cover-up all day and all night, is enough to make any sober person depressed. Your only other choice is to have your conscience permanently and surgically removed, during the next face lift. Just ask Nancy Pelosi for the phone number of her personal surgeon.

7) Make a guest appearance on the Daily Show, or your favorite liberal time slot, anywhere in the prime time schedule. Crack some jokes about the administration, while your favorite media groupie lobs a few cream puff questions at you. Act like they were serious questions, deserving serious answers. Wink. Wink. Nod. Nod. Brush some fake sweat off your forehead and mildy rebuff your comrade, for his ‘tough’ line of questioning.

8) Go on an all expenses junket trip to Europe, via Baghdad, so it looks like you were working hard to check out how the new Vietnam is shaping up, first hand. Bad mouth the commander-in-defeat over in Europe. Bad mouth the troops abroad, while praising them here.
Make sure that our defeat overseas, is going forward, as planned.

9) Get some pictures snapped for the XXX-Times newspaper, showing what a solon of the people you are by eating something with trans-fat in it. Say something goofy, that your media analyst told you was common amongst the Hoi polloi. Follow it up with something snobby, so you can re-assure your blue-blooded brethren, that the senatorial Optimate in you, is going nowhere soon.

10) If you are black, whip out the gospel rhetoric, framing America as the the land of racist oppression, built entirely on the sweaty backs of African slaves. Irish, Italian and French textile immigrants need not apply. Make a solemn promise to everyone, except the color-blind Nazi conservatives. If you are elected, you will break those horrible chains of welfare reform, with reparations payments. Everyone will then walk hand-in-hand, in the uplifting spirit of white guilt and black reverse racism. The cry will rise up: "Yes we can!"

11) Talk about how global warming is a bigger threat than global terrorism. Throw up all kinds of colorful graphs and charts showing the millions of virtual children killed in your computer models. Show them how we should dump billions of opportunity dollars into this hysterical black hole, so your tree-hugging donors can sleep soundly, with privates in hand.

Remember, it is the perfect issue.

You never actually have to do anything about it. If anything bad happens, it is caused by global warming. If bad stuff continues to happen, you can say we may be too late. If anything good happens, it's because we listened to you. If nothing changes, you can say these things take time. Do not worry. As soon as your liberal carcass is warming a chair in D.C., all of those pictures of Hermaphrodite polar bears, sunbathing on ice cubes, will disappear from the press, with the magic of media bias.

12) Get in front of a mob of illegal invaders and shout out your support for their revolution. Promise the new Mexican illiteratti that they can have all of those extra social security dollars that are just lying around unused. Make sure they are permitted to continue committing the crimes Americans can't be bothered to commit. Why should they speak English? It is the language of the same evil oppressors who are holding down the other minorities. Make sure the domestic defeat is going forward as planned.

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… A lot more stuff that may not be important to you, but this isn’t about you, ok?

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A Gramme is Better than a Damn

Much like the illegal invasion of our country, the issue of drugging children for the syndrome-du-jour is beginning to scare the hell out of me. A grandmother on the radio this morning was lamenting her powerlessness to find a solution for her grandson, who at age ten, is nodding off in the middle of the day and is completely non-functional, since his parents began to use the a chemical nanny at age five. Just try to tell me that this child is not ruined for life.

It's about the Children

I horrify myself with the thought that I might be one of those kids, had I been born a mere decade ago. I was a restless, unruly daydreamer at times as a child. I hated school. I was always fiddling with things, taking them apart, peaking the ire of my mother, when I was unable to reassemble them. I was learning in my own way. My father spanked me only once in his life, because I almost toddled under the wheels of a truck. I remember getting a good shot from mom too. Why? I was pushing every single button I could push, to solicit her anger. I was twisting every knob and toggling every toggle switch. She finally gave it to me. I can tell you with absolute certainty that I deserved every last drop.

My parents used good old-fashioned discipline, applied when it was necessary, not when they felt like it. There is nothing wrong with that. These days, the secular humanist movement believes this to be completely intolerable. They tout the dangers of violence transmitted over generations. Do not misunderstand me. There is always a kernel of truth, to most issues of social dysfunction. As usual, the unprofessional professionals take the fringe data, broadly brush the entire population with it and instantly declare it their moral duty to eradicate all of their hypothetical shortcomings from the normal stream of human behavior. They must be more enlightened and informed than all of those humans, who have moved this species along for thousands of years. Right?

"There's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is."
- World Controller Mustapha Mond from Huxley’s Brave New World

Substitute the Paddle

Now we have a reckless social policy. When that happens, people look for alternatives. It resembles my town's policy on appliance recycling. You cannot put them out in the trash, yet they have no policy to deal with them. So what happens? You see old monitors, trash compactors and broken TVs on the side of the road.

If you cannot spank a child and your touchy feely timeouts do not work, some parents have discovered that the doctor will be more than willing to prescribe a legal pill, with a legal diagnosis. Then they can proceed to destroy a potentially creative mind, by cutting off its ability to gather and analyze the environmental data around it. The child becomes another animatronic fixture in the home, calm, collected, devoid of offensive behavior, yet completely uninspired. Then you have a budding victim, groomed for dependency on the state.

"If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion." – medicine cabinet voice from film THX-1138

When the Other Shoe drops

I am wondering what it will be like to have an army of ACLU protected sociopath adult zombies, who have had the delicate brain wiring of their youth corrosively dissolved by medication, ambling about in the very near future. They will be committing the crimes of the future, insulated by the victim status of their condition.

"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence." – Alex from Clockwork Orange

I guess we will be looking at another quick fix social experiment gone awry, with no specific villain you can usher toward the gallows for relief.

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The Blacklist Era Won't Fade to Black

Boy, the left has never let us forget this one.

Ideas & Trends; The Blacklist Era Won't Fade to Black

October 5, 1997, Sunday
By BERNARD WEINRAUB (NYT); Week in Review Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section 4, Page 5, Column 1, 957 words

DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Blacklist still torments Hollywood; 50 years after many of victims and accusers of Hollywood blacklist have died, movie industry is struggling to make amends for McCarthy era, when studios, unions, stars, and film makers crumbled before House Committee on Un-American Activities and its investigation of Communist influence; Writers Guild of America, one of several Hollywood unions that failed to support members blacklisted in 1950's, recently announced that it is restoring credits on 23 films written by blacklisted screenwriters

FF to today, in the local news:

Global warming debate spurs Ore. title tiff

06:51 AM PST on Wednesday, February 7, 2007
By VINCE PATTON, KGW Staff


Taylor has held the title of "state climatologist" since 1991 when the legislature created a state climate office at OSU The university created the job title, not the state.

His opinions conflict not only with many other scientists, but with the state of Oregon's policies.

So the governor wants to take that title from Taylor and make it a position that he would appoint.

Of course. The governor wants to appoint someone who's political and scientific opinions line up with his own.

Kulongoski said the state needs a consistent message on reducing greenhouse gases to combat climate change.

The Governor says, "I just think there has to be somebody that says, 'this is the state position on this.'"

And the state runs the Ministry of Truth. So, get Winston on the horn and tell him to erase those dissenting views from the history books.

Del. scientist's view on climate change criticized

By Jeff Montgomery
The News Journal

WILMINGTON, Del. David Legates is skeptical of global warming data.
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"I certainly think that Legates is a good example of someone who has chosen, for whatever reason, to have much of his work sponsored indirectly by ExxonMobil," said Seth Shulman, primary author of the Union of Concerned Scientists report.

"In these cases, these people are often putting out information as the 'state climatologist,' whereas it's really at best an incomplete accounting of their affiliation," Shulman said.

ExxonMobil, which posted a record $39.5 billion profit last year, was accused by UCS of funneling $16 million to advocacy groups over a seven-year period in an effort to "confuse the public on global warming science," including some groups that have worked closely with Legates or other climate change critics.

I'm sure glad Concerned Scientists, like Seth Shulman, are breaking down the facts of the science for us, instead of targeting the person's financial backing. We all know for certain, if your backing for the global warming 'concensus' is funded by Greenpeace, Sierra or any whackadoo moonbat source, it must be driven by pure nobility and social justice. So facts need not apply, or be challenged. The Spanish Inquisition has spoken.

Heh. Seth Shulman. I can smell the marajuana smoke wafting from that name. Yes. That was a personal attack. It was intentional.

Joseph McCarthy
Reexaming the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator
By ARTHUR HERMAN
Free Press

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When Richard Rovere would publish his dark masterpiece, Senator Joe McCarthy, two years later, he asserted that, "like Hitler, McCarthy was a screamer, a political thug, a master of the mob," and that he "usurped executive and judicial authority whenever the fancy struck him." As for McCarthy's supporters, "the bat-haunted Minute Women of the U.S.A., to the Texas millionaires, to the China Lobby, to the 'hard' anti-Communist intelligentsia of New York,"

...they came to McCarthy "from the outmost fringes, where grievances and anxieties were the strongest and the least grounded in reason; where the passion for authoritarian leadership was greatest; where the will to hate and condemn and punish could most easily be transformed into political action."

Yeah. Screaming mob master and political thug, doesn't in any way resemble Al Gore's behavior. I guess blacklisting people and stifling their opinions with threats over losing their jobs, simply because they want to engage in genuine scientific debate, is not a form of classic McCarthyism. The tree huggers are just trying to save you from yourself. They are trying to save you from an impending threat, which you are too stupid to understand by looking at the facts. Trust them. It's not a witch hunt.

BTW, I buy gasoline. My views are in no way funded by ExxonMobil.

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Our Media Yogurt Culture

Go watch:

VIDEO: American Idol: The Lost Audition

Over at Point Five.

My only regret is that I didn't think of it myself. The Emperor strikes.


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Insol's Washington Dream Team

President Gort



With a single verbal directive, he can destroy the earth; This is the kind of foreign policy position we always drool over, in a president. President Gort has a real set of steel balls. Maybe even more than two, buried under that space age alloy suit.
You all must admit, having the presidential air force one seal imprinted on a kick ass flying saucer would be too cool to touch (even with gloves).

President Gort knows how to keep his mouth shut, since he does not have one. Wouldn't that be refreshing? This is perfect insurance against stupid sound bites, that make him look like an idiot at press briefings. When Hugo Chavez or Amadinejad taunt him to have a debate at the U.N. president Gort strolls over, no secret service required, for the ultimate showdown.

Hugo's unique Latin charisma and Amadinejad's megalomania versus president Gort's silent but deadly atom smashing stare.

Any more comments or questions? I didn't think so.


Speaker of the House Robbie



He can carry fourteen tons of custom lead shielding, he made himself out of the lightest atoms he could find. He can also laser vermin, scurrying about, stealing things. This means he can build things on a grand scale, quickly and easily and keep the rats from moving in. It would have been cheap to have him coordinate the Boston Big Dig.


He can also synthesize over sixty gallons of premium Kentucky bourbon, overnight. This means he can keep all of the useless human sponges on Capitol hill, like Ted Kennedy, thoroughly sedated, while he gets the people's work done. He will be the most popular speaker of the last century.






It would be nice to have fourteen tons of lead shielding between the Democrats and our wallets.

Senate President Hal 9000


You can be sure Senator Hal will not leak a national security secret, even if it drives him insane. He has that critical soothing voice, required for this august body. Just coax the liberals into the hall, then lock the chamber door for those critical votes.

Sorry Arlen. I just can't open the floor to you right now.



RNC Chairman IDAK


A party chairman doesn't have to be the brightest bulb in the circuit. Look at Terry Mcauliffe and Howard Dean for proof of that. A party chairman should be able to steer the platform of his party in a healthy, competitive direction. In this case, a simple, repetitive theme, for a simple repetitive voting public, directed at a simple repetitive political enemy. What's the party winning strategy IDAK?

1. Crush
2. Kill
3. Destroy

Yup. A nice, simple three step plan.

Supreme Court Justice Robot


He is compassionate, moral and is programmed for the rule of law. That fifty thousand volt built in taser will also come in handy, when Souter goes off on one of his international group hug tangents.

After a couple of strategically applied de-fibrillations, justice Robot will only have to raise his right claw, and we will instantly have order in the court.

Homeland security/Energy Secretary Nomad



He is shorter than Mike Dukakis or Robert Reich. Height is not a factor for this little gem. Just watch hime sterilize all of the imperfections on the Mexican border, while increasing the efficiency of all the nuclear power plants in the country five-fold.

We might even witness Al Gore getting into Secretary Nomad's face about green energy policy. We can then watch Nomad replace Al's lisping smirk, with a cherry lollipop, as he sends Al's brain back to kindergarten.


Sorry Al. Non-sequitor. Your facts are uncoordinated.







Iraqi Administrator Landrew


Let's face it. Bringing back Paul Bremer would be a mistake. Landrew has the right chops. He's an immortal computer; therefore, people bent on submitting to 1200 years of religious repression will feel right at home with him. He can control them like civilized zombies for all but a few days a year. Once a year, during the 'red hours', all of the government theocrats can go sip tea and coffee while everyone else goes nuts, raping and killing each other, in the name of Allah.. err-um Landrew. It's almost exactly the way most middle eastern governments work now, except with predictable, programmable intervals.

If you can't beat it, schedule it.


Press Secretary Cpt. Christopher Pike


He fits the affirmative action policy of keeping a human foot in the door. He fits the American Disabilities act. He is a war hero. He cannot answer stupid rhetorical questions. I suggest fitting him with two lights, instead of one. Green for 'yes'. Red for 'no'. He can simultaneously flash both lights, for 'next idiot'. The press corps will never be the same.

Watching David Gregory deal with the flashing lights would almost be as satisfying as watching him endure waterboarding torture.


The Best Part of All

None of these officials are human beings (with the exception of Pike).

Therefore:

• No corruption
• No graft
• No homosexual page hopping
• No broken promises
• No pandering
• Cannot be accused of racism
• They Follow the people's orders
• Fast, efficient, 24/7 work schedule
• Run on nuclear batteries instead of booze and pills
• Shut down and save energy when not needed

Ah yes. I have a dream.

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