You can Bleed or you can Lead

"..Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.' And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night."
-Aaron F. Broussard





"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "
-Sir Winston Churchill (Honorary American)













"Mayor Nagin and most mayors in this country have a hard time getting
their people to work on a sunny day, let alone getting them out of the
city in front of a hurricane."
-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)









"It's no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
-Sir Winston Churchill (Honorary American)













"Certainly, there was nobody in charge at the federal government and there was nobody willing to take responsibility to work with state and local officials"
-Sen. Hillary Clinton





"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt


"If one person criticizes [the local authorities relief efforts] or says one more thing, including the president of the United States, he will hear from me. One more word about it after this show airs, and I might likely have to punch him, literally."
She burst into tears as she looked at a broken levee. "The President could have funded it," she said. "He cut it out of the budget. Is that the most pitiful sight you have ever seen in your life? One little crane."
-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)






"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
-General George S. Patton









"One of the briefings we had they were talking about getting, you know, public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out of here."
-Mayor Ray Nagin

Nagin waited while his perfectly adequate school buses were disabled by floodwaters.




"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan
executed next week."
-General George S. Patton






"You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals...many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold."
-Wolf Blitzer




"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."
-General Douglas MacArthur








"You can't have an emergency plan that works if it only affects middle-class people up."
-Bill Clinton



"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many
rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
-Ronald Reagan






"One thing that truly troubled me about my visit to Louisiana was the level of the military presence there. I imagined before that if the military had to be used in a CONUS (Continental US) operations that they would be there to help the citizens: Clothe them, feed them, shelter them, and protect them. But what I saw was a city that is occupied."
-Cindy Sheehan (Professional Idiot)





"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."
-Sir Winston Churchill (Honorary American)

NeoCon Corporate Quiche

During an e-mail exchange with one of my favorite Noam Chomsky wannabes, He hit me with the hundredth incarnation of an old liberal favorite. I was accused of marching in lock step with the rest of the Republican Limbaugh dittoheads (sigh).

Now, to be honest, after posting Bob Hope's timeless Ghost Breakers zombie parable on democrats and my recent kool-aide comment, I felt personally guilty about potentially berating him on this score. I was arguing the facts, however, against a wall of useless statistics that would make Gleeson's Autorantic Moonbat look like Ralph Waldo Emerson.

When exhausted, it is always entertaining and fun to just admit your guilt as a willing cog in the vast cruel right wing machine, with as much sarcastic zeal as you can muster.

I sent him a prototype of my new favorite VWRC recipe for mayhem. Here is the final product.

NeoCon Corporate Quiche

1. Line a large disposable roasting pan with a thick layer of cheap pastry crust from WalMart. Make sure the crust is full of preservatives, hydrogenated fat, is past it's expiration date, uses only genetically modified wheat flour and has been fouled by rodents who left genetically modified droppings.
2. Blend enough cute baby animals of every endangered variety in a 12qt gourmet Cuisineart, to fill the pan (Thanks Glenn).
3. Season the endangered puree with a copious dose of MSG.
4. Stoke your vast brick oven of evil, by shoveling in a generous portion of flaming social security checks, welfare checks, elderly medication, inner city schoolbooks and food stamps.
5. Gently slide the pastry in the tempest for baking.
6. While your vast right wing delicacy is bubbling away, carefully remove the tin-foil hat you used to receive your last satellite download from Limbaugh and Rove. You can always fashion a fresh one from the rest of the roll.
7. Wrap the pie up with the foil, while being careful not to remove any of those conservative cooties. They will be given instructions for subsequent infiltration.
8. Label your magnum opus as 'organic, vegetarian quiche'. Nobody will be able to tell, since it will taste like crap; just like real organic vegetarian quiche from the neighborhood natural health food coop.

Slip your completed product into a plane shipment of food relief for hurricane victims, along with Sen. John Kerry. Gleefully feast on tender filet mignon, caviar, juicy mouthwatering shrimp and various other guilt ridden morsels. Watch C-SPAN coverage of Kerry passing your gift out. Laugh as he takes credit for the whole thing.

I like to borrow a theme from HR Hadden of the movie Contact (modified for my own evil purposes of course):

In order to understand an evil conservative, you have to think like an evil conservative. An evil conservative intelligence is going to be more advanced. That means pure conservative evil operating at multiple levels, in multiple dimensions.

It always feels good to confess.

P.S. Silently give Bush credit for the whole plan.

Let's not Beat a dead Cat

Today is the last day for the Katrina Kat. I need to bring the check in tommorow. So thanks to those who left real and celebrity charity spoof comments.

Playing a Straight Flush with the Race Cards

This is an Insolublog link love letter on recent events. My sidebar readers can look for their links within the content. If I didn't include you, it wasn't personal. (Katey you need permalink capability.) I was looking for recent posts which fit the theme. The theme concerns all of the absurd accusations of racism in the Katrina disaster.

If we had MLK's dream in mind, it would be illegal to ask a persons race on a job application. Gathering racial statistics is never used for its quoted intention, to keep a level playing field. It's used and abused like a blunt force weapon, in race based extortion and promotion. The population race statistics are being used in the same way, by all of the usual Professional Victims.

The only white racists are the ones who shackled poor minorities, in the chains of government entitlement programs.

The only white racists are the ones who told them they don't need to achieve, because the government will take care of them.

The LBJ war on poverty produced projects, not progress; There are genuine statistics to prove that assertion and its failure to produce any self sufficient results, like no reduction of poverty. A self sufficient person becomes a wealth producer in society. They do not become the recipient of another producer's wealth.

Here are the gifts of the LBJ and Robert Byrd style democrat:

• No property ownership.
• No social status.
• No paternal family accountability.
• No choice in education, other than the incompetent government bureaucratic one.
• No useful, merit based training in economic responsibility. (Which is why they go off buying $800 purses with food money)
• No dignity.
• No long term hope of stability.
• No concept of American opportunities. Only a head full of resentment and a stagnant pessimistic heart.
  

What they get is a hand to mouth check from the government. How can the poor ever be anything but poor, under these physical and psychological conditions? Opportunity means hard work, not handouts. But when you are free to have it and it lies before you, you are responsible to make the future you want. This means taking risks. This means working hard. This means you might fail, and it might be hard to get up!

The real white racists just give the poor minorities a meager stipend, a pat on the head, instructions on who to vote for and a smelly bus ride to the polls.

So what type of government do you get, when this vote is given form and function? It wasn't conservative white politicians who dropped the ball here. I would remind our friends from the left that poor african Americans are not minorities in the city of NO, because they are in the majority!

• Was the mayor of NO white?
  
• Was the governor of LA a member of the conservative blogosphere?
  
• Are the looters we see in most of the pictures, like Dr. Phat Tony's post, white?
• Was William Jefferson, who diverted National Guard rescue resources, to pick up luggage at his home, a white congressman?
• Are those all white officials and community 'leaders' pushing their faces in the cameras and hurling racial epithets?

Where are the re-builders in this list?
Where is the leadership?
Where is the shared accountability and multicultural unity they like to lecture us about?
Who was stepping up to be a source of positive action before, during and after Katrina?

This is the government freely chosen , through the democratic voting process, by the same souls supposedly empowered by liberal social programs. Is this is what the taxpayers want and expect for their entitlement dollar? As soon as the government checks are interrupted, the hand is bitten. The hand is then stitched back up and stuck right back in the jaws of the Pitt Bull's mouth. We are then told that we are duty compelled to feel sorry for the Pitt Bull, since we made him the vicious dog that he is. You know what? We didn't make him that way, the liberals did.

What about Ivan? What about Charlie? What about the Mississippi floods? Those poor, underprivileged Americans picked themselves up and moved on with their lives. They were given no more consideration by the federal government than any other red blooded American hit by a natural disaster.

It looks like the only government official taking verifiable large scale corrective action to fix the NOLA problem is a compassionate conservative white guy named George Bush!

But that's what the liberal argument is about, isn't it? It is about hating Bush, with a hate that blinds them and delights us. I hope they keep kissing the posteriors of Michael Moore and Howard Dean.

Show me any of the Solons, over in that aisle, lifting a real genuine finger, to help these people, instead of churning them through the media hate machine. No, they throw scraps at them for a camera shot, all the way from DC to Hollywood. Bush is the only man pushing for increased home ownership in the rebuilding process.

It is scaring the hell out of the American left. Oh No! Their base might actually walk off their government emotional debt slavery plantation. I would cite Uber's post on the recent ABC segment immediately following Bush's speech, as proof of a new sun rising on the horizon. Thank God the decades of pimping poverty for politics, are ending in this country.

The Living Dead

Check out this hilarious movie gem from Bob Hope and company in The Ghost Breakers. GunnNut reminded me she posted a transcript back in mid July in her Hollywoods Good Old Days post . I give credit where it's due.





Insolutip: try autostart=0 instead of autostart='false' to get Firefox to play nice.

Ever Feel Like This?

Some things are just too funny on their own.


A friend e-mailed this. I wish I could credit the author.

Driving Miss Crazy

The current news cycle, the constant Bush bashing and my general life, as a Massachusetts conservative, have brought the specter of depression to my doorstep.

I recently attended a party of an acquaintance who is an avowed Michael Moore worshiper and John Kerry campaign supporter. Being a charitable conservative optimist, I try to see the opportunity in a situation. I decided to bring my covert Olympus digital voice recorder along. I can personally testify that the rumors of wild conspiracy theories are true. Cultural decay, moral relativism and race baiting are legion. Self-flagellating apologetic America hating internationalist tree-hugging mental gymnasts drape the UN flag with pride, over all things liberal. These people don't just drink watered down Howard Dean kool-aide. They roll welfare checks into paper tubes and snort the stuff in straight powder form. When you have lemons, make lemonade; then put booze in it. I don't drink, but it makes a good metaphor.

Names and relationships have and will be changed, to shield my guilt.

Massachusetts can be depressing when tax time and elections roll by. When social occasions erupt, however, so does the entertainment. I felt as giddy as my second amendment readers would feel, given a dump truck of rock salt, an A-10 Warthog and five unrestrained minutes at an outdoor Barbara Streisand concert.

InsoluTip:

Gather data. Never rush into an emotional argument with a dedicated entitlement parasite. They are masters of emotion. Always ask the questions. Moonbats love superficial intellectual bragging. If you rip the tick away with a violent motion, you will leave an angry wriggling head, to masticate your flesh. Slowly build a fire on its gluteus maximus. It will back out by itself. You may then squash it in a matchbook cover.

Little perky Babs bubbled up and anointed me with a rude introduction unblemished by social decorum or courtesy.

Your Eddie's Bush loving buddy aren't you?

Her lemon squeezing expression reminded me of the steady product produced by the Massachusetts political education factory.

Absolutely. But only when I can get it and only if it's fresh.
(Extended pause) Head cock, slowly followed by lemon pucker smirk.

Heh heh... That wasn't funny, you know. You know that idiot has destroyed our reputation around the world.

That's not the kind of 'fresh' I meant.

What?

Never mind. What do you mean by 'our' reputation?

The kind of goodwill Kerry would have preserved.

There was goodwill for Kerry to preserve?

Yes. We were respected around the world before Bush came along with his illegal war.

Bush was in office for four years before Kerry.

Yes! And he destroyed our reputation.

But I thought you said there was still a reputation for Kerry to preserve.
Whatever was left after four years of Bush hell.

But Bush beat Kerry. I thought you said he was an idiot, who destroyed our reputation.

He is an idiot! Rove and Cheney were the ones pulling his strings.

So Rove and Cheney are smart enough to beat Kerry?

I didn't say that.

Then how did they beat Kerry?

At this point Melissa entered the conversation with the same abrupt lack of introduction. Melissa was sporting an unnatural hair color and a fastener catalogue attached to her face.

They used dirty tactics, like the swift boat vets.

And you are?

Melissa. I'm one of Eddies friends.

I never would have guessed. Should I call you just Melissa, or Melissa-of-Borg?

Huh?

Never mind. How did the swift boat vets defeat Kerry?
They made up gross lies about his service.
Like Dan Rather lied about Bush's service?

That was never really proven to be a lie.
Was the swift boat lie proven?

No!

Exactly.

That's not what I meant!

What did you mean?

They lied!

How do you know?

Look. Kerry's service is on record.

Were we able to see it?
Of course. He released it.

No he didn't.

Yes he did! Don't you watch the news!?

Are we still talking about before the election?

(pause)
pssh. Look. Everyone knows Kerry is way smarter than Bush.

But he's not smart enough to outwit Rove or Cheney?
They are not the presidential candidate.

That's Right.

So What are you saying?

(Chuckle)
I'm not the one saying anything.

-- Intermission for more rambling and circular logic --
Please visit our refreshment stand for a delicious hot dog. Pour yourself a frosty Coca-Cola. Why not buy some swag over at Dr. Phat Tony's?

Insolublog pulls his keys from his pocket.

Hey Melissa, I need a couple of copies of this key. Do you think you could fix me up?
What are you talking about?

Don't you have some blanks in your selection?
What!? Are you making fun of my appearance?
Remember how much I despise Professional Victim Syndrome (PVS).

Yeah, that sums it up.

You know, some people are sensitive about those things!

So you make a public statement, with your appearance, saying look at me! I'm different than you! You are all plain Jane nobodies, unlike me. You're right. I am sensitive about those things. You made a billboard out of your face, not me.
I almost expected her to cry, but she stayed the course.

It doesn't sound like you care. I'm not surprised, given your political opinions.
You want me to treat you like you have a visible birth defect, instead of a lifestyle choice? You sound like many AIDS 'victims' who refused to use protection.
-- Intermission while moonbats explode over this revelation --
Please visit our refreshment stand for a delicious hot dog. Pour yourself a frosty Coca-Cola. Why not buy some swag over at Dr. Phat Tony's?

Deep Breath....

InsoluPartyFavor:

While twirling the ice in your secular, non-denominational liquid refreshment, wrinkle your nose, and say

"Where the hell is that smell coming from? Is that marajuana?"

Watch with amusement at the guests who begin to sniff their own fingers and clothes.
Oh well. I have bored you enough. The girls wandered off to spread the love and diversity of yours truly. Like moths to a flame.

Our Exit Strategy

Many of the good people on my sidebar have posted anniversary images of 9/11.

Visit their sites for memorial pictures and commentary.

Unfortunately, a liberal neighbor had the audacity to whine about our 'exit strategy' on this day of morbid reflection. I hunted far and wide for that exit strategy.



I would have almost missed it, at that speed.

The Real Peel

Check out this image of the original Flight 93 nose dive impact crater, courtesy Google images and MSNBC. I think the triangular impressions were the wings. The center crater was the fuselage, containing all the passengers. Look at the shape and ridges of that center crater.


Gosh that looks awfully familiar. In fact, it looks like a crescent, embracing the impact point.




I did not do any esoteric analysis of the orientation and relationships to Mecca.
Linked at Michelle Malkin's site.
Linked at Sisu.

Still some Edible Apples

The rotten barrel of apples, which passes for our judiciary, still has a few pieces of unbruised fruit. It looks like President Bush's executive authority to protect the country is still intact, when it comes to detentions.

Here's the AP story, Court: 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect Can Be Held

My Gut tells me otherwise

This is interesting. I read Michelle Malkin's comment regarding this new memorial design.

FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL: CONTROVERSY

I identified it at once, without reading the comments, as the red crescent of Islam. I instantly thought it was a stunning visual indictment of those responsible for the deaths of flight 93.

I expected cheers from the readers and cries of defamation from CAIR.
Instead, people are venting outrage over what they think is pandering to political correctness.

Was my gut reaction wrong? Since it was a gut reaction, maybe it was the intended result.

Update:

Well. It looks like I may be standing alone in thinking that this memorial is (was if we look from the future) symbolizing a main stream religion, embracing the death of innocent people.

I guess it really was just another overt insult to the American people by an insensitive Mapplethorpe wannabe. It looks like we have just another jerk, who feels that insulting fallen heros for fifteen minutes of national fame is cool.

Maybe my occasional random neuron firing is giving more credit to the creators, than they are due. Where the hell is that Ritalin prescription?

Further Update:

I apologize with burdening my readers with further commentary on this
issue, but It fascinates me.

Read Paula Reed's piece over at the Pittsburg Post-Gazette:

5 designs shine for Flight 93 memorial

Look at the Finalist image for this project. This does not look like
the crescent despicted in the picture on Malkin's site.


Next we move on to the final pick, again at the Post-Gazette:

Flight 93 marker design picked

Which has this familiar image


This comment by designer Murdoch, completely debunks my original
reaction.

"It will be open and evolving as long as it's there," he said. "Our
memorial is not about offering explanation for what happened, but to
allow people to come to terms with it."

Perhaps his motive had nothing to do with a religious statement, but
the use of the curvature as a parabolic focus to the crash site. The
latter is the view I get from the first image above.

From the beginning, said Milena Murdoch, 46, the focus for them was on the crash site, which many refer to as sacred ground.

So either he was completely ignorant of the religious tie-in, or it was intentional and he is lying. This is still a difficult question, since a crescent, is a simple geometric shape, unlike a swastika, which cannot be mistaken for anything else. I could just as easily say this is the arc of the communist sickle, without the hammer, as well as the the crescent moon of Islam, without the star. It could be a bloody toenail clipping for God's sake.

I keep asking myself how this design, made it through the gauntlet of over a thousand entries, without someone in that process seeing what we all saw on the picture at Malkin's site. I saw it right away. Everybody in the conservative blogosphere saw it right away. But somehow, even families of the flight victims didn't see it.

Having a not so Gay Old Time

Check out this Boston article from the AP.

Gay advocates plan to post names of anti-gay marriage petition signers

Here's a chilling excerpt:

"Everyone's scrambling to know who in their town would sign this," Lang told the Boston Herald. "And this Web site will give gay people the tools to know, to defend themselves and their families, to let them go neighbor-to-neighbor and say, 'I don't appreciate your signing this.'"

Yeah, they just want to 'defend' themselves. This argument sounds sanguine, until you see what else happened in Massachusetts today:

Angry Pro-Gay Demonstators Swarm Over Parental Rights Rally

David Parker was the Lexington parent who made national news because he did not want his children exposed to Gay Lesbian Transgender propaganda materials through the Lexington public schools.

Here's a gem:

As the Parker supporters lined the other side of Bedford street and held their signs, it seemed that the anger of the pro-gay activists increased considerably. One Parker sign-holder was spat on as he walked past a 12-year-old girl. Insults were hurled.

This makes me wonder why Lang really wants to publish those names. So much for all that liberal tolerance and respect for free speech.

Insolublog!

Mother Katrina

The MSM shapes it's new hurricane spin strategy.


We should call her "Mother Katrina". We should never call her just Katrina; I don't know her. "Mother Katrina" is her title, and expresses her ceremonial status as a bereaved mother, calling forth over the dead bodies of Bush's victims. She is not just a weather catastrophe now, she is a mother, which is not an expression of her individuality, but rather the expression of her eternal character: the mother, the bringer of political gotchas, who has been wronged by state power. ...We should not use the name of her looters and holdouts. Her looters and holdouts are a symbol of all victims who have been sacrificed for this useless and criminal Bush rescue operation.

(Don't forget to make up a celebrity comment for the cat.)

Commission Impossible

Michelle Malkin is right on the money with her
post, NOT ANOTHER DAMNED COMMISSION.

We are going to endure yet another tedious fact squashing festival of
Bush bashing at taxpayer expense. I wonder if we will get another
round of Washington toilet paper printed from the 'Katrina Commission' report?

Why don't they spend this money on victim relief? It would relieve ALL
of us from suffering through another round of fruitless mud slapping
demagoguery, MSM cesspool butter churning and (Ugh) Joe Biden C-SPAN
camera sex.

Does anyone believe that anyone from Washington will pay any price for any infraction? Don't raise all your hands at once.

FMRagtops is Back

And he looks like he's ok. Go check him out.

Grow Another Cat for Katrina

I followed the US out of the UN Blogroll (Thanks Pirate Steve) to Harvey at Bad Example to RomeoCat at CatHouse Chat's entry in the Carnival of Recipes.

This is the part where I steal RomeoCat's idea. When it comes to charity, plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery. If you haven't visited her post, go there, publish a comment for $$$, put some soup on the stove, then come back here.

RomeoCat has whispered into the little devil kitty's ear about her other comment-for-charity post, which is for Soldiers' Angels Hurricane Relief. Imagine a family worried about their soldier, then the soldier worried about his or her family. Double the worry, double your donation.

So let's grow another Cat. (Picture of kitty courtesy of Hallmark Cards)


The tastefully philanthropic company I work for, offered to match any employee donation, from their personal funds, for Katrina relief, suspending the standard cap for this occasion.

So that being said, for tasteful, unique non-spam comments to this post, I will pony up five bucks apiece. For tasteful unique non-spam trackbacks, from your post, which reference this post, I will pony up ten dollars per track.

Feel free to masquerade as a frustrated moonbat or wingnut bursting with pride. No Hollywood potty mouths please. Any resemblance of the comment posters to actual public figures is a pure fabrication of unrestrained naughtiness.

This time, the Charity is the American Red Cross (Company choice).
My ceiling is $350.
Yippee! The company extended the deadline to Sep. 23rd.

So, this is a potential $700 for victim relief. Hit me!


Please donate your time, money or whatever you can, to Katrina victim relief:
Red Cross
Salvation Army
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Spice up your soup with Basil.

Project Ownership

One of the things I fear, over the Katrina disaster, is the creation of a plethora of LBJ style welfare projects. This would be a cultural disaster. This would be a horrifying reversal of the healing march, toward the destruction of the welfare state.

We now have a property vacuum created by a natural disaster. That vacuum will be filled, one way, or another. The last thing we need is to create another army of government dependents; An army replete with a liberal voting bias. Sheltered citizens must be educated to embrace the concept of self reliance. The Professional Victim advocates will be working feverishly against this goal. There will be a power struggle over hearts and minds. Compassionate conservatives must win this struggle. Welfare projects destroy families and encourage the abrogation of personal responsibility. They plant the seeds of urban blight and suffering.

The most compelling element of President Bush's speech at the RNC convention was the concept of the ownership society. America is stronger, with people owning their own homes. Homeowners guard their own neighborhoods and watch each others children. Homeowners protect their own homes. They work in concert with police, instead of betraying their trust and aide. They are more likely than not, to hold honest jobs, live honest lives and participate in a healthy economy. All of these conditions raise the standard of living in neighborhoods and nurture the health of families. The most powerful nation on earth, was built on this foundation. The welfare state has brought nothing but an ideological plague of rot and termites to attack the foundation, in the guise of liberal compassion.


Please donate your time, money or whatever you can, to Katrina victim relief:
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Technorati flood aid,hurricane katrina

Renquist Dies

If Matt Drudge's latest news is to be believed, we are about to witness a SCOTUS power struggle of epic proportions. My condolences to the Rehnquist family.

The Third Wave

The people of New Orleans have been the victims of three tragic waves.

The First Wave

Both the government of Louisiana, and the main stream media are complicit in this wave.

Many decades of stifling, corrupt and impotent government bureaucracy have left the state without the conditions, logistics and infrastructure to deal with an event, which they have been warned about for as long as I have lived. I don't remember a severe hurricane season passing, without hearing the meat puppets in the media doing a what-if? analysis of all the possible tragedies. New Orleans was always on that list.

The second major factor is a sensationalist main stream media. They have desensitized the public towards the danger of powerful hurricanes by sensationalizing every puff of air that wafts over the Gulf. Many people, who should have heeded mandatory evacuation, thought Chicken Little was back. They ignored their duty to keep themselves safe, and put themselves in harm's way.

The Second Wave

Hurricane Katrina came in and devastated the region.

The Third Wave

The same government officials responsible for years of Solon looting and functional recalcitrance, are now exercising their first priority, which is fixing blame, in every direction but the mirror.

The main stream media is now amplifying the tragedy; A tragedy they helped to create in the first wave. They have cranked the volume control on their political amplifier, until the knob has broken off. They are giving the microphone to race baiting politicians. They are giving the camera to gun toting looters. They are vocalizing their own Anti-American brand of analytical invective. They are wringing hands over the junk science of global warming. They are positing ridiculous assertions, that our culture is somehow more lawless and violent, than the victims of the recent tsunami. They are inciting hysteria and heaping criticism on the administration and relief agencies, mere days after the tragedy. They are whipping all this up into a lofty froth, all without any effort to gather real statistics.

All of this despicable behavior is hampering relief. All of the supply speculation hysteria is driving oil futures and gas prices up, for everyone in the country.

The Invisible Army

The Americans, who whine about the government, are only standing in the way of the relief. When you want to find out who has the answers, look to those taking action, not those who are fixing blame. Wasting the national bandwidth on this dreadful haze of malaise only masks the heroic efforts of private citizens and organizations.

Patriotic Americans are people who roll their sleeves up financially, physically or both. Patriotic Americans identify priorities, take action and move toward progress. Patriotic Americans heal their broken brethren, with optimism and the spirit of brotherhood. They are the builders, not wasting valuable energy wallowing in pessimism and self pity. An optimist sees the shiny new opportunities here. New homes, new telecommunications and utility infrastructure, new industry, commerce and jobs will all come from the efforts of optimistic citizens. Americans have always turned tragedy into wealth and opportunity; Always.

We should keep healing and building, with national pride and charity in our hearts. The media, the left and the criminals on the ground are only dangerous, expensive distractions. We need to expunge the mentality of government dependency and restore the mentality of self reliance and pride. All it takes is the right frame of mind, not the left.

Please donate your time, money or whatever you can, to Katrina victim relief:
Red Cross
Salvation Army
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Linked over at PointFive

A real Victim of PVS and Political Correctness

PebblePie has been ordered to moderate the blunt truth she usually regales us with. Apparently, it has annoyed the digestion of the spineless, anisotropic politically correct jellyfish over at MSN spaces.

Please welcome her to Blogger.

I hope she joins the Alliance of free blogs.

And to Vanessa and Ron over at MSN spaces Customer Support; So nice of you to support your customer. Feel free to engage in regressive copulation with your little PVS troll and your friends over at CAIR and the ACLU.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

Administration Spin of the Weather crisis

Protesters gather in Times square to protest the most recent atrocity commited by the Bush administration.


The consensus of the street agrees that dark Rovian black helicopter minions have been working feverishly over the weekend, to use their new sattellite guided global warming technology. They have successfully guided hurricane Katrina through critical oil resources, in the Gulf of Mexico. Cheney's Halliburton buddies stand to make huge profits from the impending rise in oil futures. Meanwhile, Mr. Bush's storm has been diverting critical media attention away from mother Sheehan, and her meteoric rise to international fame. Cindy's supporters claim the news will not hamper their efforts to expose the administration.

But seriously folks, all satire aside, please donate your time, money or whatever you can, to Katrina victim relief:
Red Cross
Salvation Army

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More on the Katrina relief Offend-A-Thon and mother Sheehan over at PointFive.
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More on our Unwanted Guests

No I am not talking about the Mexican border. I am talking about the electronic border between our national security and the Chinese government. These are not uneducated migrants looking for work. They are highly intelligent, highly disciplined ruthless computer spies looking for nuclear secrets.

The followine Time Article by Nathan Thornburg provides further details on the attack I talked about in my previous post.

The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies (And the Man Who Tried to Stop Them)

If our most secure computers are this vulnerable to attack, what about our financial infrastructure? Credit cards, mutual funds, inter bank commerce could all be war targets to an enemy with intellectual horsepower, and a coordinated will.

Professional Victim Syndrome

I am so sick of PVS (Professional Victim Syndrome) that it is time for an Insolurant. If you don't think the PC thought police are here, right now, crushing every vertebrae of our Bill of Rights, then read on.

Definition

PVS (Professional Victim Syndrome) - A false condition portraying an individual or organization as a victim. Indicated by strong collaboration or association with the liberal courts, the main stream media, or both. Using resources skilled in the art of propaganda or litigation, a PVS compromised entity will use this system as a weapon of personal attack, extortion, political leverage or any combination thereof.

Abbreviated list of Examples

CAIR attack on Michael Graham

CAIR feigns grievous insult by the talk show host, while waltzing with proven terrorists. So we revile and dismiss those who expose terrorism, while organizations like CNN, cover it up to maintain news access, as they did in pre-war Iraq. How many CNN employees got fired over that one?

The Southern Poverty Law Center

In a co-conspiracy with government officials and judges, they seize the land of an American defending himself from foreign invasion. They used his own government against him, to defend criminal wetback 'victims'. Every one of those government officials violated their Constitutional oath of office.

Jesse Jackson's extortion campaign against Toyota

Jackson shakes down Toyota with boycott threats over false accusations of racial preferences.

John Edward's callous exploitation of crippled children

Edwards uses his own sick brand of courtroom theatre to trump any rational scientific view of crippled children. The real victims were the doctors that treated them, and the families that were dragged along as emotional cannon fodder.

Jesse Jackson accuses NASCAR of being a 'Bastion of White Supremacy'

NASCAR was a platinum sponsor of Jackson's 2002 Rainbow/PUSH conference. I guess the six figures of support from NASCAR wasn't enough tribute.

Jesse Jackson's Wall Street Extortion Project

NYSE finally secures some wisdom, by finally taking its hand away from the hot stove. They discovered that providing their own minority outreach effort was far more efficient.

Rush Limbaugh attacked at ESPN, accused of racism

Rush pointed out the NFL was engaging in affirmative racism instead of affirmative action. Jesse Jackson, Democratic presidential candidates Wesley Clark, Howard Dean and Joseph Lieberman all joined the sharks in the water.

NAACP Targeting private business for reparations

Say hello to unbridled extortion, with the score kept by annual business diversity report cards. The NAACP believes in forcing people who never had slaves, to surrender their hard earned wages to people who never were slaves. My grandparents were child poverty slaves in the textile mills. Can I get some reparations too?

Congressional Black Caucus conspires to destroy Trent Lott

"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it," Lott said. "And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.

That was all Trent Lott said.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis, saying it was "a lame attempt at humor." Unlike Trent, we all know her heart was in the right place. Yeah right.

Tawana Brawley destroys careers with outrageous fraud scheme

Smear feces on yourself, form it into racial slurs, fake your own abduction, ruin the careers of public servants and you too can still walk away. We are all still waiting for Al Sharpton's public apology for using the case as political capital. Don't hold your breath.

OJ Simpson skates off on race card

Everybody who thinks OJ was a victim of LAPD racism, raise your hands. What more can I say?

NAACP links Gov. Bush to James Byrd dragging death

The non-profit used donor money to put together a political ad that put together Gov. Bush and a monstrous hate crime. I'm so glad they are a non-partisan, non-political group righteously dedicated to their tax-exempt status.

Alan Keyes attacked by GLAAD

Alan Keys correctly points out that the majority of the Catholic priests accused of child rape, were raping young boys. I guess that makes him a homophobe.

Dick Durbin portrays terrorists as victims of Nazi oppression

Once again we see the insane transposition of good and evil.

NOW Attacks Bush on the strict Abortion front

Bush has liberated millions of Women from ritual beatings, stoning, female infanticide, female genital mutilation and general treatment not suitable for animals, in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq. He has given them the freedom to vote in Afghanistan, Kuwait and Iraq. N.O.W. still feels it is a top priority to warn us all, that they might lose their precious right to terminate infants at will. They sure look like victims of impending oppression to me.

Synopsis of NOW's position:

No criticism is to be levied at Bill Clinton for demeaning women with sexual harrasment, on the job.

No credit is to be afforded to Bush for what he has done for Women's rights.

However, zealous criticism must be heaped on Bush for something he hasn't actually done to women's rights.

It goes on and on and on...

Primary Contraindications

Never issue a public apology to a purveyor of PVS. They are schooled in the James Carville war room mentality. They will never accept apology at its face value. If it is given, it will be used as a signed confession, in public discourse or in the courtroom. These people and organizations are an opportunistic enemy, not a victim of your insensitivity.

Never pay hush tribute to a purveyor of PVS. Payments are considered an admission of guilt. The first payment becomes the first installment in a blackmail campaign.

PVS is not a disease requiring sympathy. It is a crime requiring punishment and public excoriation.

Remember those responsible for hate crimes legislation. Remember the thought police responsible for hate speech legislation. Pay careful attention to how these laws are being misused and abused.

Michael Yon's Dramatic Gates of Fire post

Go check it out here at his 'Gates of Fire' post. Thanks to PebblePie for providing the information here at her 'Michael in Combat' post.

Here's a really disturbing part of the piece.

... The terrorist turned out to be one Khalid Jasim Nohe, who had first been captured by US forces (2-8 FA) on 21 December, the same day a large bomb exploded in the dining facility on this base and killed 22 people...

That was in December.

...About two weeks ago, word came that Nohe's case had been dismissed by a judge on 7 August. The Coalition was livid. According to American officers, solid cases are continually dismissed without apparent cause. Whatever the reason, the result was that less than two weeks after his release from Abu Ghraib, Nohe was back in Mosul shooting at American soldiers.

It looks like Iraq is suffering the same PC garbage we see in our courts. Maybe democracy has arrived!

You Asked for it Dr. Phat Tony

Linked over at Dr. Phat Tony's.

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Remember all of those articles from the 1990's, regarding the Clinton administration transferring US computer technology to China? Articles like 'Webb Hubbell and the NSA'.

Remember this letter to Bill Clinton by US Defense CEOs? Article at NewsMax.

May 3, 1996 letter signed by the CEOs of Hughes, Lockheed and Loral, the three executives expressed their thanks directly to Bill Clinton.

"In October of last year we wrote to you asking you to complete the transfer of responsibility for commercial satellite export licensing to the Department of Commerce. Your administration recently announced its intention to do just that."

"We greatly appreciate this action which demonstrates again your strong commitment to reforming the U.S. export control system," states a letter signed by Hughes CEO Armstrong, Lockheed CEO Norman Augustine and Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz.

It gets worse...

In the end Hughes was charged with 123 counts of violating national security. All of the violations took place during Armstrong's term as head of Hughes. Hughes pleaded no contest to the 123 charges filed by the U.S. State Department and has since paid a record fine.

Fast Forward to Today...

When I see articles like Hackers Attack Via Chinese Web Sites, which outlines the overwhelming efforts of Chinese hackers to burrow into our defenses, I am so glad we are actively engaged in all that wonderful business over there.

It really makes you feel warm and fuzzy, doesn't it?

Lunch over at Basil's blog.

Heart Warming Story of Mending

Thanks to Tulane University and Hospital Clinic for donating the surgery to
correct a congenital heart defect in an Iraqi Boy.

See the original story over at Centcom.

Kill the Wabbit

Commander: Taliban Recruiting at Schools

This must be stopped immediately. The last thing we need is another generational round of impressionable human ordinance.

Junkyard Smog

I am usually leary about NYT articles, but this one seemed somewhat benign in the left wing spin factor.

A scientist who has long disagreed with the dominant view that global warming stems mainly from human activity has resigned from a panel that is completing a report for the Bush administration on temperature trends in the atmosphere.
The scientist, Roger A. Pielke Sr., a climatologist at Colorado State University, said most of the other scientists working on the report were too deeply wedded to particular views and were discounting minority opinions on the quality of climate records and possible causes of warming.

Wedded to particular views is a fancy phrase for groupthink. I guess Roger A. Pielke is someone interested in real science, which means objective critical thinking, not desperation to fit a round peg into a square hypothesis.

"When you appoint people to a committee who are experts in an area but evaluating their own work," he said in an interview, "it's very difficult for them to think outside the box of their research."

Science is replete with examples of doom sayers, nay sayers and kill joys who love building careers out of criticizing people who don't think in the mainstream. Most of these people are a roadblock to innovation, not a source. The problem is, you can get quite a bit of useful data from these people, along with sloppy analysis and conclusions. Accept the former. Discard the latter.

Administration officials said the resignation would not affect the quality or credibility of the report, a draft of which is being finished in the next few weeks.

The report, the first product of President Bush's 10-year climate change research program, is likely to be closely scrutinized by climate scientists and environmental and industry groups for any sign of bias or distortion.

Oh God. This is beginning to reek of another Bush rollover. All the suspicious tags are in place. You have benign treatment by the Times, Strong dissent on one side of the issue and hand wringing over how the report will look. Recent environmental visits by Senators. Go out and buy that Glade plug-in today.

Dr. Pielke contends that changes in landscapes like the spread of agriculture and cities could explain many of the surface climate trends, while most climate experts now see a clear link to accumulating emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide.

Over the last 130 thousand years the climate went from warm, to ice all over everything, back to warm again. We didn't melt those glaciers with our SUV emissions. The trends these guys are talking about look like noise on the geological charts.

James R. Mahoney, an assistant secretary of commerce and the director of the federal climate research program, said the scientists involved in generating the report were "representative of the broad views" on the questions.

This is another bad sign. Be prepared to be bent over like Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction. Bring an extra pillow for the saw horse and a good book.

Dr. Pielke said he decided to resign after three papers on the troposphere trends were published online on Aug. 11 by the journal Science. The papers said errors in satellite and balloon studies in the tropics explained why earlier analyses failed to find warming in the troposphere.

It looks like the data didn't fit their desired conclusions, so they decided to discredit the data.

Several authors of those papers, who are also authors of the coming government report, said at the time that the new findings would be discussed in the report.
Dr. Pielke said those statements were an effort to influence the shape of the final report.
Several authors of those papers denied this, saying the process of creating the reports is intended to be public, while the contents remain confidential for now.

So the guy, who doesn't fall in line with the moonbat theory of global warming, quits over what looks like the looming equivalent of a scientific gay pride parade. We have the report data, being worked over in a massage parlor. We have recent visits by McCain, Hillary and company, fawning over grave conditions in Alaska. Put it all together.

John R. Christy, another author of the coming report who like Dr. Pielke doubts that human-caused warming poses a serious threat, said that while disagreements were normal, the effort to generate the report was improving understanding.

We will see. I'm expecting an effort to garner public hysteria.

"This process is the worst way to generate scientific information," said Dr. Christy, who teaches at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. "Except for all the others."

Visit Panelist Who Dissents on Climate Change Quits in the NYT for the original article by ANDREW C. REVKIN

Visit JunkScience.com

Robertson issues Fatwa on Chavez

It's about damn time a Christian got into the act. He couldn't have picked a better target. Hugo Chavez would be a sweet score.

Thanks to Matt Drudge and AP for the article Televangelist Calls for Chavez' Death

A Fortune for Chairman Dean and Company

Go read 'The Fatalistic Four' at Brainster's blog for a good laugh.

Saddam Demands Meeting With Dan Rather

This is a totally ficticious, fabricated insolublog dialogue. See if you can guess who's quotes were the source for the Saddam character and the Baghdad Bob character. It might be tough, at first.

Even though Saddam had met with Dan Rather once before, he has told his US captors that he would throw a temper tantrum, then urinate and defecate all over his cell, if he didn't get another interview. Dan Rather, being a completely unbiased, open and amiable fellow, came out of retirement to serve the interests of Saddam and the world community.

If you could Saddam, please give us a brief idea of what brought you here in the first place.




When I was growing up, it was Communists'. Now it's Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so I built a big war machine with bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.



Weren't you worried that America would react to your aggressive weapons build-up?



America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. I would urge Americans that their country is not worth dying for.



Do you feel that your sons Uday and Qusay had any chance at all, against the evil American occupiers?




Am I stupid? No, I know full-well that my sons, my family, this nation, and this world were attacked by a George Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11.



President Bush says the the Iraqi people will now be free to govern themselves. If he were here, what would you say to President Bush?





First I'm gonna say, "And you tell me, what the noble cause is that my people died for." And if he even starts to say freedom and democracy' I'm gonna say, bullsh*t. You tell me the truth. You tell me that my people died for oil. You tell me that my people died to make your friends rich. You tell me my people died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East. You tell me that, you don't tell me my people died for freedom and democracy.'"


Some of the former government officials have agreed with the American actions against the insurgents and have joined the new Iraqi government in condemning your regime. They intend to give testimony at your trial. What do you say to that?



...my ex-generals sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew me. We have always been on separate sides of the fence politically and I have not spoken to them since the election, when they supported the puppets installed by the man who is responsible for Uday and Qusay's death. When I return to power. I will have them all killed like the traiterous dogs they are.


Do you have any last words on President Bushs' assertion that Iraq is one of many theaters in the global war on terror?




Bush is not waging a war on terror. He's waging a war of terror.
THE BIGGEST TERRORIST IN THE WORLD IS GEORGE W. BUSH!




Prison visiting hours ended, before we could interview Saddam any further. However, outside the prison, we found one dynamic individual, willing to give Saddam the praise he deserves. Sir, what do you think of the interview with Saddam?



We should call him "Father Saddam". We should never call him Saddam; I don't know him. "Father Saddam" is his title, and expresses his ceremonial status as a bereaved father, calling forth over the dead bodies of his sons. He is not a person now, he is a father, which is not an expression of his individuality, but rather the expression of his eternal character: the father, the bringer of life who has been wronged by state power. ...We should not use the name of his sons. His sons are a symbol of all sons who have been sacrificed for this useless and criminal war.

Check out all the Al-Jazeera support over at Pardon My English.
More over at Free Republic. I think some of the unparodied quotes are worse than the dialogue above.

The Tyranny of the Attorney

I am firmly convinced that lawyers, of the John Edward style aggressive parasite type, are feverishly working, with unrestrained glee, at deconstructing our national security, freedom, economy and standard of living. They do this with the pure intent to make money and garner power.

The Landscape

Lawyers exploit the laws. Lawyers run for office, to make the laws. Lawyers appoint their own kind to the judiciary, so they can interpret the laws.

What is wrong with this picture?

There are no checks and balances. The only thing protecting us, is our precious Constitution. That document is currently under attack, as is evidenced by so many recent SCOTUS decisions.

The Jury

Lawyers largely pick the idiots on juries that issue ridiculous awards. These people have no clue that these punitive damages are paid by their own insurance, high prescription prices, and investors who need to be wooed with ever increasing and insane promises for profit, based on the increased risk of investing.

The lion's share of most proceeds do not go to the victim; they go to the lawyers.

The Judges

What can I say. You have more lawyers here. There are so many stories these days about the liberal judiciary and its propensity to judging our culture and economy in a destructive way.

The Federal ninth circuit is overturned at an embarrassing rate.

Judges are the number one reason referendum votes by the American people are overturned. In this way, the judiciary short circuits and destroys the will of the people.

The liberal five SCOTUS justices decided our right to property is really not protected from government seizure, under the Constitution. They are wrong, but they don't care.

The Bleeding Heart

The main argument made by the lawyers, lawgivers and the judiciary, is they are there to protect the victimized.

We can all agree the intent of law is to protect us as citizens. We therefore, must assume, that the healthy application of the law should actually protect us. We should be able to see this process working.

So, why isn't the law working, by reducing the abuse with the punitive measures?

Answer: The system is not really the problem. The damages are really legal windfalls.

If outrageous punitive damages were really there to provide punishment, then why do we see a system under constant punishment, with ever increasing jury awards?

Let's follow the money.

The biggest paying customer in our medical system is the government and insurance.

So many people look at outrageous bills and discard them with a shrug. If the government is footing the bill, then so be it. The lawyers have turned this open loop system into an open expense account. They have driven malpractice insurance, hospital insurance, insurance on medical equipment and drug manufacturers through the roof.

They have attached themselves like thirsty slugs, to the taxpayer driven soaker hose. The ooze these slugs leave in their wake manifests itself as process choking paperwork, choking legal processes, and higher risk for weary investors. All of this drives up cost. So much money is taken away from the care of patients and put in the hands of the slugs. Who is there to turn up the pressure on the soaker hose, increasing the money flow? More lawyers of course! All sitting in congressional seats.

Lawyers in the insurance companies advise them to settle, in order to reduce cost of litigation. This actually increases the cost to society for litigation, by encouraging more law suits and higher insurance rates.

Companies, which have provided crucial services have been so harassed by high insurance, lawsuits, and government regulation, do business elsewhere. The shortage of flu vaccine last year is a perfect example. They could barely make a modest profit, till the government put a cap on the amount spent on vaccine. The number of companies went from over twenty to just a few, operating outside the US. They just had it.

Medical research will never be perfect. It will never have zero risk. If we don't realize this fact of science, we soon will have no medical research. This highly profitable technology, one of the few left in America these days, will be pushed into China or India. We will then have to beg them, with hat in hand, for treatment. We will have to pay their prices. The lawyers could care less.

The Bleeding Border

Criminal aliens are spilling over the borders, effecting a foreign invasion on our soil. Lawyers are suing and seizing the property of American citizens, and giving it to illegal wetbacks. So, the lawyers are ignoring the laws regarding illegal invasion, and upholding the laws punishing a US citizen, for violating the invaders 'rights'.

Lawyers are suing hospitals for not providing care to criminal aliens. So, the lawyers are ignoring the laws regarding illegal invasion, and upholding the laws punishing a US hospital , for violating the invaders 'rights'.

These are clear violations of equal protection. They are clear violations of US sovereignty. There would have been no violation of an illegal wetback's rights, if that person were not there by an act of breaking the law in the first place!

So the lawyers on the ground, the lawyers in Washington, the lawyers in the states and the lawyers sitting on the bench are all engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the rights of the US citizen.

The Politically Correct

We have US servicemen already tried, convicted and imprisoned for abuse of prisoners under the watchful eyeballs of US lawyers.

We have ACLU lawyers swarming all over Gitmo, advising head chopping scum-bags of their precious Miranda rights.

We have ACLU lawyers swarming all over the Boy Scouts, because they are such a threat to our society.

Meanwhile, The biggest butcher of our modern century, Saddam Hussein, has still not met the justice he deserves. But that's Ok. He's got a lawyer, working hard to defend him.

The Process

Why does the US have the largest number of lawyers per capita in the world?

Answer: It's a very profitable business, in a country which has broken the lock on its treasury and allowed the government to throw the money up in an orgasmic cloud of unbridled, destructive greed.

These parasites produce nothing but paper and misery. They set up computer driven shops in states like Texas and Florida, which file injury suits in multiple counties, simultaneously, looking for a good score. It's not hard to find a Judge willing to play the game.

Many of the class action suits wind up sending coupons to the victims, higher rates to the sick, higher prices to the consumers, higher taxes to the taxpayers and millions of dollars to the lawyers.

The only way out

The only way to mitigate this problem is to rotate out the crowd in Washington. The Democrats, the RINOs and all responsible for organizations like the ACLU. Any incumbent pushing for opening the borders must go. Any incumbent standing in the way of tort reform must go. Any incumbent failing their sworn Constitutional duty, including SCOTUS justices, must go.

Shredded Chicken Salad in a PETA

PETA Protest Draws Extra Customers To KFC In Logan

There is some justice. Why can't these people find better things to protect like victims of crime, property rights, US borders and unborn children ?

Thanks to PETA, I now know at least one of Colonel Sanders' seven magic herbs and spices.

Who would have thought that brutal mechanized torture could produce such crisp, juicy, finger-licking delicious chicken? No wonder the crowds lined up.

I wonder what the other six magic spices are?

UPDATE:
If God didn't intend that we eat animals, why did he make them out of delicious meat?

Bladdery Powered Devices

Visit the MSNBC article Scientists develop pee-powered battery by Bjorn Carey.

Scientists have developed a way to turn pee into electricity. And there's plenty where that came from, they point out.

Do they really need to tell us there is no shortage of pee in this world?

Cheap, disposable, and renewable, urine-powered batteries may be the perfect power source for disposable healthcare test kits called biochips, the researchers say.
"We are striving to develop cheap, disposable credit card-sized biochips for disease detection," said battery developer Ki Bang Lee. "Our battery can be easily integrated into such devices, supplying electricity upon contact with biofluids such as urine.

Please God, don't let them invent urine powered scratch tickets. The parking lot smells bad enough already. However, if they could make electricity from the biofluid that oozes from the corner of Chris Matthew's mouth, while he is having one of his moonbat seizures, I project tremendous energy potential there.

To make the battery, Lee and his team soaked a piece of paper in copper chloride and then sandwiched it between strips of magnesium and copper. Then they laminated the credit card-sized unit between transparent plastic films. When a drop of urine is added to the copper chloride paper, a chemical reaction takes place and produces electricity, which is harnessed by the battery.

Mmmm. Magnesium, copper and urine sandwich. It's the drop of urine that adds just that right touch of spice.

A few drops will generate about 1.5 volts, the same as a AA battery. The battery needs to be developed further to make it commercially viable. "Our urine-activated battery would be integrated into biochip systems for healthcare diagnostic applications," Lee said.

Wow. If they integrated an array of these things in a Bum's pants, they would have an alcohol powered battery.

Lee and his team also found that they could alter the battery's performance, voltage, power, or duration by adjusting the design or materials.

I wonder if Lee needs a special research team to help map out that optimal combination of happy hour consumables vs. Voltage and power?

Lee predicts that one day people will be able to monitor their own health at home using biochips powered by this type of battery. "These fully-integrated biochip systems have a huge market potential," Lee said.

All humor aside, this is an interesting idea. It's not really rocket science, since battery technology is one of the oldest technologies around. They will need some sort of special partitioning scheme to separate the battery contaminated urine, from the sample being tested. I would think adding copper chloride and an electrical current to the sample would make its analysis difficult.

Howard the Coward

"It looks like today, and this could change, as of today it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq."







Did you mean this woman Howard?






Maybe you really meant this woman.


Maybe you meant the mothers of the other hundreds of thousands of tortured and murdered people in mass graves.



Maybe you meant those Kurdish mothers of children killed by nerve gas.







Maybe you meant the young girls raped and butchered by Saddam's devil spawn.

And Mr. Dean, just in case you thought I misunderstood your words; None of these women lost loved ones, while battling for freedom against a tyrant and foreign terrorists. They lost them to oppression and the bloodthirsty pleasure of murder.

So, that is quite the mouth you have there Mr. Chairman. You should consider having it surgically removed.

Behind a Shed in Crawford

Go visit PointFive for some equally relevant satire here and here.

Fortunes not won, but made

I always wondered what ever happened to Tony Robbins. It looks like he's found a new line of work.




Sigh. Fortune cookies are not what they used to be.


At least they are making sure we don't get caught with one of these, without the crucial instructions on how to use it. There's even an emergency number, in case you get confused.

It may be the right time

... to consider slapping serious oil sanctions on Iran. It seems counter intuitive, given the shaky state of the oil market and the high prices. There are several important reasons for this.

• Iran would not expect it, since they are threatening to limit oil exports if the UN put nuclear sanctions on them. This would further weaken the control of the mullahs.
  
• Sanctions would cut off a large source of income, right when it's producing large returns. They have been using this income to finance the terror and weapons used against our troops.
• Increased output and pricing will increase the rebuilding profits for Iraq, and increase the financial pressure to accelerate the Iraqi oil production efficiency.

IMHO


Iraq's Oil Exports Rise in July

The Change of Heart was Right

Wander over to PebblePie's site...

Read her post "I was Wrong". If this does not convince you of the massive crime of omission, being committed by the MSM every day, I don't know what will. Be sure to read the pre-war link to Rev. Ken Joseph, Jr.'ss UPI piece.