Marriage is biologically defined

Today a judge heard arguments by lawyers representing the City of San Francisco and gay advocacy group who seek to have California's one-man, one-woman matrimony law declared unconstitutional. Well this is complete folly and if I lived in SF I would be pretty ticked off that the city was spending money on this. Make no mistake, I'm completely against changing the definition of marriage, which by the way has its roots in religious doctrine pre-dating our laws by thousands of years. Personally I don't even care what our federal or state laws are based on, I don't want the definition of marriage to be changed from one-man and one-women on the grounds that biology doesn't work in a same sex definition.

But before I go into biology this is of course also rooted in religion and the bible. What bible you ask....well I use Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary which is available online on numerous websites. The online database provides definitions from the most comprehensive source of biblical data. Just a brief sample; Authorized, King James, Darby, Martin Luther 1545, Louis Segond, Riveduta Luzzi, Alexandrian, etc., and so on and...... So, the common thread from these is that this is a union between a man and a women, and there is also the element that procreation was something that was to only happen within the marriage.

Ok, now to biology...so while I'm not a bible thumper I like the existing definition because of a combination of the religious definition and how it relates to procreation of the human species. You can call me what you like, but I believe to be homosexual is to not be normal. I don't care if someone is born that way. I don't hate you if you are. You don't scare me. You don't have a better or less of a chance of being my friend. However, members of a species that either can't procreate, or won't, are not normal. So its a defect to the species. If defective members of species do procreate the question is do they increase the defect in the population. At some point either the species dies out or procreation becomes purely a survival exercise. And one could argue if it's the later it may also die since without the absolute bond of the family unit taking the offspring from birth to procreating the lineage is weakened. Ok, I'm waxing like we are talking about and ampeba but I believe this relates to human existence.

I could go on and on...digging a hole in some areas and a bridge in others...but just for a minute convert the idea of same sex relations to a non human species and what would it mean to the survival of that species.

Back to these legal action...I always love when someone uses completely illogical jumps to argue their case....take for example: "The assertion that marriage is inherently heterosexual can no longer be maintained now that there are a number of jurisdictions that allow same-sex couples to marry," Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said in a packed courtroom. That's almost funny considering how many judgments by a jurisdiction right here in my backyard, the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court, which is the most reversed court in the nation. Ms. Minter also thinks her argument was strengthened by mentioning that guy marriage is legal in Massachusetts, Canada, Belgium and South Africa. Oh, gee...enough said!

It's interesting that the plaintiffs admit that same sex unions are getting the same rights (for the most part) as those of a married couple...but they want the label as well! WHY? You might ask...because they want to slowly but surely be considered normal and not a defect. They don't use these words but that's the end goal.

Signatures be damned

Hindrocket of PowerlineBlog has a post with a great letter from the father of a marine serving in Iraq and it puts the recent SecDef "autopen" controversy in perspective. I reprinted the letter on Powerline in it's entirety and of special note is yet another example of Dubya's compassion that goes unreported by the media.

"If [our son] had been killed, we would have been first informed by a visit - in dress blues - from a condolence team typically consisting of two Marines and one Navy Chaplain. We know many families who've received that knock on the door. No letter is required. No words are required. A simple peek thru the view hole in the door and the sight of dress blue blouses, white covers and white gloves tells you all you ever need to know. A letter of condolence from the SecDef is, honestly, not even worth opening. Families are much more interested in hearing from the men who served with their son and from their families. We share the constant knowledge and fear that it could be our door bell being rung. Sec. Rumsfeld doesn't know our son. He's a Lance Corporal. He directs a machine gun team. He is a vital link in the line that protects our way of life. He doesn't fight for his country, he doesn't fight for the SecDef, he doesn't even fight for his mom and dad. He fights for the guys on either side of him and for his team. He fights to secure his objective of the moment, which he may or may not understand or agree with. Sec Rumsfeld doesn't need to take time from his day to sign a form letter of condolence and he certainly doesn't need to take time to figure out what the LCpl was doing when he was killed or what kind of a man he was. His job is to make sure the LCpl didn't die in vain and that only as few LCpl's as possible will have to die to end this war in a successful manner.

Don't get me wrong, we would appreciate the condolence letter from the SecDef, as well as one from the White House and from our Senator and Representative, from the Mayor and Governor. But none would bring back our son. And they are all form letters, signatures be damned. A letter from his 1stSgt, from the men we know in his unit would be a treasure and a comfort.
I don't know what happens in other branches, or even other units. But in 2/4, I know the 1stSgt's personally contact the surviving family with letters, emails and phone calls of condolence.

By the way, we know families of fallen Marines who've been flown to sites where President Bush was speaking. He met with them privately after his event, never any press coverage, and the families have said that - after being given an agenda for their time with the President and being told that he's on a very tight schedule - Mr. Bush talked to every family member as long as they wanted to talk, never hurried anyone, cried with family, hugged everyone and they all felt like he had nothing else to do for the rest of the day but bring comfort to them. For that, George W. Bush has my eternal respect and gratitude. And there was NEVER one word of publicity surrounding any of these meetings with families. (I have pictures to dissuade doubters.)

Bottom line, we support Sec Rumsfeld. The people who are making a big deal about this have their heads up their collective a****. They need to have a serious priority check on what people in positions of responsibility should be doing with their time. They should also chat with some military families if they could figure out how to contact them."

Another BAD message for minorities

The Washington Post has been running a series on "the changes in the middle of the U.S. workforce" with the latest installment called A Tenuous Hold on the Middle Class. This dribble is a travesty! The minorities in this country who continue to listen to a message of "whatever your situation is it isn't your fault" is going to keep them in that situation. This article is full of glass half empty attitude and includes statistics that show economic progress for blacks (used in this article along with the african american label for you PC a-holes) but the article dismisses these each time. It takes an example of one black family where their combined income of $60k (and with her being a college grad) has them barely making it. They live in a dangerous neighborhood that the author calls a "concrete complex", as if the "man" makes the poor folks apartment buildings out of concrete and the rich white folks apartment buildings out of nice squishy stuff. The author points out all things that are so tough for this family without questioning whether any of the choices this couple made contribute. They have $80k in debt that includes a student loan, auto loan and credit cards. The student loan is noble enough, but did they buy more car than they should have? Is a struggling family making a wise choice to run up credit card debt? The author points out the husband has no degree and the couple has two kids. Well, did they have kids prior to making their education and a job a first priority? Did they think about how they would support a family before having a family? Does someone have them chained to these particular jobs and apartment in Florida? I could list 100 questions that might expose a poor choice that leads to their situation.

I could find a family of any race that has a similar or more unfair sounding story. A couple both with english lit Phd's with 4 kids and low paying hourly jobs...gosh shouldn't a Phd guarantee a middle or upper middle class lifestyle? This is the problem....this is not a hand out country...you earn your way and the better choices you make the better off you will be. Until the black, and other minority groups, start thinking like Bill Cosby they will forever be stuck in a barely getting by state. Personal responsibility and knowing that your future is yours to make and not provided for you is the key to economic success...and the same values extend to family and social choices, and structure, that make for a happy and healthy home which is key for raising kids that will propagate the same success.

Celebrity Pundit Intellect, an Oxymoron!

Chevy Chase, Woopy Goldberg, Sean Penn, Bono, Barbara Streisand........all so well spoken, so enlightened, so above the common man and all so completely F'ING stupid. It's interesting how fame and money is, for some, like smoking pot. Right about the time the munchies kick in you also start blathering about atomic structure, or a wireless battery, or some other great product idea all of which is of course total nonsense. (Pop, I only know this from reading about it in my youth!). It's interesting that the fame part seems to be the final ingredient that sends these Celundits (my new word) into the delusional state of suddenly believing that you're not only an expert on numerous subjects you know nothing about, but also that people need to know what you think you know. It must be the fame part since I have plenty of business associates far wealthier than all but the richest celebrities and they don't suffer this affliction. You also won't see many wealthy company executives holding press conferences or turning their latest speech into a political lecture. This affliction, while extending to the music world and a lesser extent to the professional athlete maybe has another component. I will speculate that many (NOT ALL, so don't get in a hissy) actors really don't struggle or work all that hard at what they do. When they do finally make it to the double digit millions per film lets face it the several months spent making a movie is an experience many would pay money for. So maybe its also coupled to a subconscious guilt that you know your being paid an insane amount of money for really a silly endeavor.

Chevy Chase is the latest to go off the deep end....although his celebrity and net worth these days is probably on the extreme low end of this affliction....maybe he thinks he is still a super star and wealthy so one delusion feeds the other. On Tuesday Chase gave an F bomb tirade about our president at an awards ceremony staged by People for the American Way. Apparently many in attendance were taken aback by this and thought it inappropriate. That's interesting since the "People for the American Way" should really be called "People for changing the American Way to Something Not American" You only need to know that during the event Susan Sarandon and Alec Baldwin were given Defender of Democracy awards. Ah, are you people smoking crack? Anyway a way funny parody interview with Chevy Chase inspired by his very intellectual tirade.

SF Communist City Council

As a local radio host calls them the SF Board of Stupidvisors is trying to put a city law in place that would ban ownership of handguns in city limits. The logic behind this is so completed flawed that if you can't see it you obviously believe government should more control to the point of being able to hold the citizenry hostage. The 2nd Amendment's intent is to prevent that and also to have a citizen militia always at the ready. Now you could argue that the later is a dated concept but the communist tendencies of so many politicians makes the former a real concern. You can call me a nut but better than half the country I KNOW agree with me..and maybe more. Gun ownership is also a part of history and those who completely abhor it for any reason don't believe in personal responsibility. They believe we shouldn't have a choice...they believe we can't deter or fix those who would do wrong and instead must remove every burr that might catch your shirt sleeve as you walk by, every curb, stair and door must accommodate any imaginable handicap, and so on. It won't end there you know....once you buy into the gun and not the person kills, then you better take my kitchen knives, my chain saw, my hammer, my baseball bat and for sure my vehicle. Because if I have no deterrent (or I'm just insane) I don't need a gun to kill you or 30 people standing in a movie line...my F-150 could take out plenty.

These idiots in SF think this will make SF safer...The reality is it will attract criminals to SF. It's a well know fact in criminology that criminals are mortified of robbing a home or person who they think could be armed. Yes there are the crazies who have no regard for danger, but that's not the norm. SF has made it easy to be gay in their city so guess what the gay population is like? SF has made it easy to be homeless, pan handle and be a street bum so guess what that population is like there? And now they will advertise that every law abiding citizen who lives in the city limits will turn in and their guns. With no fear for criminals and no protection for the homeowner guess what population will increase in SF?

Where's that armor!

I occasionally read the weblog Lance in Iraq by Lance Frizzell, a 2nd Lt Medical Platoon Leader with the Tennessee National Guard 287th Regimental Combat Team, currently serving in Northern Iraq. Today I linked to a piece he wrote on the hypocrisy of liberals and, as he puts it, the lefty media with respect to criticism of Rumsfeld. The treatment is certainly partisan but then again the biggest example of this was the number of media types that gave Clinton a pass on his many transgressions that a GOP pres would have been crucified for. Lance also has several other good posts today as well.

YOU STILL don't get it!

People just don't get it......the separation of church and state that the founding fathers had in mind didn't mean that as part of the states business you can't, or shouldn't, mention or acknowledge the existence of a god! If that was the case they wouldn't have mentioned the big guy so much in our framing documents. The pledge of allegiance while not a creation of the founding fathers (and in fact was modified to include "under god" in 1954 by Congress) was understood to be a patriotic oath and a public prayer. It is a part of our history, our tradition and it has been a ritual at the start of so many grade school classes and meetings at all levels of government without controversy over "god" for 50 years . And so today we see an example of snubbing the pledge with the old over used and nearly never correctly applied separation of church and state BS!

So why now? Because we have so many F'ing idiot politically correct liberal morons who are willing to throw American traditions out the window while they will embrace traditions not originating here. You will note that every time we have a story like this the F'ing idiot will say to the reporter they consider themselves a patriot....ya well you're not...usually when you meet someone who tells you they're a good golfer you can be sure they can't break 100....same for leftists who feel they need to say they're patriots!

Let's stir it up a bit!

I came to the conclusion long ago that the supposed black (yes black, since the Congressional Black Caucus still uses that label so I will too) leaders don't work for equality but in fact promote separatism. Many of these leaders cry racism in cases where it doesn't exist, they lobby for special treatment based on skin color and create groups, events and holidays that promote nose thumbing and not acceptance and extort large corporations in the name equal rights. Minorities who seek acceptance and equal treatment from whomever the majority is must insist on a level playing field and not one stacked in their favor. Quotas, affirmative action and the like are misguided deck stacking that makes most people still see color. These leaders don't want a colorblind society since their power and celebrity comes from the opposite.

The Christmas season brings out an example of what I'm sure many blacks consider a celebration of their culture, but Kwanzza and the "black nativity" are shams. A puff piece in the SFGate misses the sad separatist attitude of those in the story (and for those of you who deplore that I use the word "black", note it's use in the SFGate story). Rewriting history to change skin color isn't celebrating diversity....it promotes it. Children, I believe, are born color blind...their parents and environment form their colored view of the world. Black children don't have an identity problem because they see a white Santa or Jesus.

As for Kwanzza....it's amazing that so many blacks embrace this as their holiday (and reject others) especially considering its origin. I found an interesting website of black writers and artists with a Less Than Complimentary View of Kwanzza and its inventor!

Where's the media frenzy?

Clinton pardon recipient and democratic money man Marc Rich appears to be a central figure in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal....so where is the media frenzy? If a Bush had pardoned Rich this would be page one, story one everywhere....this story is going to get more and more interesting as more participants are identified.

Internet Causes Media Retirements!

The latest dinosaur media talking head to retire is Bill Moyers.....his recent remarks show his obvious bias and that he like most in the media think they report facts without spin or leaning. I could write a thousand words on examples of spin reporting by any of the big and old guard media elite. Moyers and others use sound bites like "the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee" as if some giant conservative media machine was suddenly planted on the planet by the RNC...there is just Foxnews and half a dozen syndicated talk radio hosts along with many local talk radio right wingers that make up the conservative media. They all started not so many years ago with no noise or fanfare and slowly got discovered by those o f us disgusted by the crap big media flung at us. Aside from how absurd this conspiratorial BS about being a propaganda arm is, did the RNC also force all the millions across the country to tune in? Of course not you bozos! The message, the topics and how they were talked about appealed to millions and the ratings started moving to Fox and the conservative talk radio stations. But Moyers and those like him won't acknowledge that their message lines up with a big audience. Instead they imply that if you listen and are influenced your stupid since a propaganda label implies illegitimate content.

But besides a conservative message that resonates with better than half the country diminishing the power of the old guard media elites was the impact of the Internet. The blogsphere plays a huge role for sure...but the ability to research a topic and find endless information on even the most obscure topics in seconds was huge. Everyone with a connection to the web can do their own fact checking of a story they hear on the news. The result? You look up the facts yourself...often finding not just both sides but in many cases a source with no axe to grind and little to no bias....and as you compare the real story to big media's version you realize just how misleading and biased they are.

Call it want you want Billy, but your glory days are over, good riddance.

Academia's Xerox Club

It's interesting that the country is roughly split down the middle on the major issues that really separate liberals and conservatives given our educational institutions from kindergarten thru graduate schools are dominated by left of center liberals. This is encouraging in that as our young people exit The People's Republic of and experience the real world roughly half make their way to a conservative stance. Sure some kids may start conservative and manage to stay that way, but looking at level of worldly understanding of your average high school graduate I would say most are easily brainwashed by their carbon copy (Xerox) prof's during their 4 or more years at commi-U. I suspect as these neophyte adults get a job and start to take on responsibilities (financial and otherwise) and also see for the first time how fellow workers may abuse the workplace system (coast on the job, fake a workers comp claim, bad mouth the company, etc.) their perspective changes. Surely many make a transition once they buy their first home and have their first child....that changes everything.

This topic comes to mind because of two recent stories, first about liberal turncoat (god love him) Zell Miller who upon retiring was going to move to his home town of Young Harris, Georgia where he also had previously taught at the local college. Miller apparently had a teaching position waiting for him there but he declined it after a history prof there (whose wife is academic dean) wrote him a vitriolic letter which then got published in local papers. The duplicity displayed by so many academics is amazing. Diversity of thought and debate is hardly alive and well at most of our educational institutions.

A similar situation at Harvard has occurred with another Bush supporter. Thank god most of the staff at Harvard says the attitude towards new Prof Jack Goldsmith (former Assistant Attorney General) is wrong. But some of the faculty think a memo Goldsmith wrote arguing that CIA officials could transfer Iraqi detainees out of their native country for interrogation without violating the Geneva Convention in fact condoned torture (nice leap) and so he shouldn't be on the staff. I love how the anti-war (and for many anti-war-ever) left want kid glove treatment of captured enemy solders and then in a second breath will say more troops, guns and ammo are needed to fight. You guys are screwing up not having more fire power to kill the enemy, but if you happen to capture him don't scratch his head, don't even hurt his feelings. Ah yes duplicity once again.

Groups against success and wealth

It seems to me that there are more communists living among us than anyone would suspect. I'm not talking about the card carrying kind, I'm talking about the kind who dont' go by that monicker and are bothered by the success and wealth of others . They constantly promote wealth re-distribution and think someone who makes $10m a year somehow uses more of our countries infrastructure than someone making $50k. Today this money hating crowd comes to mind with the CEO (Jamie Court) of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights complaining that our Governor (the Terminator) isn't releasing the details of his income and instead only how much he paid in taxes and charitable contributions. Both numbers suggest he made a lot and gave a lot.

So what's Court's concern? That "If you don't know how much he makes, you don't know what loopholes he's benefiting from, and you don't know what tax policies he adopts that are good for him or bad for him." What a f'ing moron. Unless Arnold gets the entire state legislature to either pass a tax break specifically for a) someone named Arnold Schwarzenegger or b) whomever is the governor of California any tax policies he pushes that benefit him will also benefit me! But people like this don't believe in trickle down. They think when we buy expensive things (cars, homes, planes, etc) or invest in start-ups, or a REIT, or a hedge fund, or play the options market, or buy income properties, blah, blah, blah....that somehow all of these transactions only see money going into the hands of other rich folks. Somehow all this spending, investing and putting money to work magically bypasses everyone at the lowest income levels entirely...pretty neat trick isn't it?

We have been surrounded by these nouveau communists for a long time....in fact I think most are indoctrinated by being in a profession that requires they join a union. The union mentality is akin to the Borg of Star Trek. There is no reason for individuality in philosophy or excelling at ones job since it isn't appreciated or rewarded. And the "entitlement" attitude also runs rampant in this group. Over 7 years ago I wrote a letter to a local paper in response to similar dribble they published...my response (Economic success is up to individuals) was also published and still appears on their site.

You Don't Get It

Some accused me of lumping all gays together in a previous post, but I defend using generalizations when the majority of the group fits the position. Media liberal elites still don't get it! Check out The Nascar Nightly News: Anchorman Get Your Gun by Frank Rich in the NYTimes. I believe people like Rich are actually promoting a bigger divide than we already have. I may joke and pick on liberals but I only believe a problem lies in the politicians and those in, or with access to, the media who are hard left. Most of my employees are liberal and they line up with me on some positions and aren't far off on others. I believe that's probably the case for the majority of the country. But people like Rich think they are making some scary point by suggesting there is something wrong with people who like guns, fishing and Nascar. This guy (and I think many like him) really want, believe and promote that those with polar opposite views to his must be socially, economically, intellectually different from himself. I think that this shows a lack of confidence in your positions. If you were supremely confident in your positions you wouldn't be so eager to suggest that those in opposition of them have some kind of defect or are stupid. For Rich he says they like things he thinks are dumb, therefore they are themselves dumb, and that explains it. That's really the definition of elitism to me.

Wonderful Gays!

Thanks to the gay activists and the no spine management at Target the Salvation Army will have a mighty big shortfall this Christmas season. The hypocrisy of groups that claim to only want equal treatment is laughable. Way to go Sitzplinkers!

Thanks Pop for pointing this out to me.

Natural Selection

Being a man of science I believe in natural selection even as it relates to the survival of man (well at least some men). Apparently some liberals have invented a mental disorder (I know that wild man Michael Savage calls liberalism a brain disorder, I guess this is a sub-species) called Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST). This is just too funny.....while Taranto of the WSJ called this the The Gift That Keeps on Giving, I like to call it another example of natural selection. Some choice excerpts from the story:

"It's no joke. People with PEST were traumatized by the election. If you even mention religion, their faces turn blister-red as they shout at Bush."

"I'm scared," said one man. "Democracy is at stake and nobody is rising to protest this president."

"The media outlets, especially Rush Limbaugh and his ilk on talk radio, scare our patients to death," said Gordon, facilitator for the meetings. "More than anything else, people with PEST tremble physically.”"

Brain disorders continue in wake of Bush re-election

I guess some people think war is never justified, even while your enemy fires a bullet into your skull. I guess some people think Bush alone knew the WMD stockpiles wouldn't be found in spite of pre-war intelligence of our own and from numerous allies. I guess some people think a president should never rally the troops and citizenry when we are at war. I guess some people think Bush is the anti-christ (oh wait, that would presume they're somewhat religious, never mind). But I don't guess, I know, that some are still bitter and continue to put out completely skewed and illogical vitriolic crap because they are blinded by their hatred of Bush.

Take for example this conspiracy theory evil Bush piece by Mark Morford in SFGate (ok, well maybe this being a San Fran based operation explains it..but).

I looked at those pics....sure some are nasty, sad and awful....ok, so I suppose you think if you could even walk around with a camera pre-Saddam removal you would find smiling faces, flowers, a thriving economy, excellent education and healthcare and so on? I suppose you think the military allowing basically anybody who wants to show up in Iraq (press, celebs, etc.) and all the embedded reporters is masterfully run is like the fake landing on the moon? This is the most open and information heavy military action ever in history.....if the military wanted to (and I would be for it) they could have never allowed a single press person into Iraq.

Give me a break...if you assembled pics of the murders, assaults and generally crime of one individual causing harm every day in the US and just for one day it would look just as bad. So what! To say that anybody thinks this war, or any war, is a well oil and executed operation is pretending there is someone out there to disagree with. The republican base and those who voted for Bush don't think that....they don't all even like that we did it...but we did, so first do it right and finish the job...second find the positives that can come from it.

My buddy Mike shot this article to me and found some quotes that Morford made in various interviews....I think this one shows his colors....the standard elite leftist mantra that to disagree with his views and have supported Bush you must be a knuckle dragging dolt homophobe racist.

A particularly pointed anti-Bush anti-war column will get me gobs of sneering hate mail, mostly from the delirious, hardcore psychopatriots at freerepublic.com or lucianne.com or andrewsullivan.com, et al, where they post chunks of my column in their discussion forums, along with my e-mail address, and encourage each other to flame me, usually in the cutest sort of monosyllabic, ragingly homophobic, horribly syntaxed, misspelled sort of way. Makes me proud to be an American. My girlfriend loves the anti-SF gay-bashing they aim my way, I might add

Tiny's Readers, Help me understand!

I did my first post yesterday that included AIDS and gays in the topic...wow, a flood of comments? So what's up with that? Clearly I have some readers that are to the left of me on some topics and yet nobody felt strongly about "And Yet More Insanity"? Those of you who worry about home land security efforts and how it could affect civil liberties, our treatment of prisoners of war, or profiling in law enforcement, blah, blah....but are you fine with our education system rewriting or suppressing our very own history? What the &*#$ gives?

Negotiations or Military Action in Iran?

Iran is heating up....supposedly working on delivery mechanisms that could reach EU.....Suicide commando units forming that pledge suicide bomb attacks on Americans and Israelis. It will be interesting to see what response we see from our UN Oil For Food conspirators in Europe on this! If this goes military we HAVE to have a coalition that isn't so US heavy as we are already stretched thin.....lets hope this fizzles.

CNN's allegiance lies where?

You may have seen the story yesterday that originated in the LA Times about how the military purposely gave false information to a reporter about when the action in Falujja started. The supposed purpose was to gauge and understand the reaction on the ground by the enemy and CNN was happy to use its signal to inform the terrorist insurgents that they should run and hide, or load their weapons for American troops were on there way. Interesting that CNN (or anyone) seems to think that essentially warning the enemy was ok, but if that warning was false their having been duped by the US Military in an effort against an enemy is questioned. You have to wonder how things would be in America if the US media didn't participate in the disinformation broadcast during WWII?

Gays Get AIDS On Purpose

The title of this post might get me some flaming, but I don't care. A federal study released today shows AIDS cases rising among gay and bisexual men. It also says that these men account for the majority of the approximately 900,000 Americans with reported cases of AIDS. But the main point I want to make here is the rise in cases among this group. I thought the gay community wanted us to believe they are just like me...caring, loving people with family values and in monogamous relationships...just with the same sex. Well Bullshit! Its clear that the gay sex orgies, bath houses and just plain promiscuous lifestyle of the gay community that they claim is an invalid stereotype is alive and well. These people know the risks, but clearly they choose to ignore it...for all I know there's a unspoken badge of honor in the gay community when your infected. The total disregard for many things good, decent and normal is appalling.

It's also interesting that the study found that since 1990 blacks who only represent 13% of the population for this period make up 51.3% of all HIV and AIDS cases diagnosed in the same period. I'm not sure what that tells us....would be curious to see what people suggest is the reason for this BIG TIME anomaly!

UDPATE 1: My buddy Kurt just shot me a link to a Rolling Stone article that validates my hunch on the badge of honor. Get ready to learn about Bug Chasers....sick bastards!

UPDATE 2: Kurt comes thru again with a story that may be one of the reasons for the numbers in the black community.

And yet more insanity!

First, its common knowledge that the California public school system is dominated by leftist and there are few if any arguments that those in the media are not of the same color. Case in point, the Cupertino California 5th grade school teacher who has been barred from using all of, or portions of, our very own Declaration of Independence because the word (you guessed it) "god" appears in the document. Now, I could go off for a thousand words at the complete lunacy behind this.....but my head hurts so lets just ask a few questions. So how do you teach US history without looking at, reading and talking about this document? How can you possibly justify not? Why would a historical document and HISTORY ITSELF somehow offend anyone or cross a church and state line? When you were in grade or high school do you even remember the context of the word "god" in early American historical documents or writings of the time? Of course not, they didn't preach or sway...they just reflected the beliefs of those involved in creating our history.

Then there is the lack of media coverage of this insanity. The number of Google hits on this story is paltry. It should be huge news and cause at a minimum every Bush voter outrage. I think it also proves (at least to me) that those who are terrified of the word "god" especially in this context and agree with the action taken against the teacher are just down right America hatters and something akin to communists. I also lump in the media...look at the San Jose Mercury News story title from the link above....wouldn't YOU write the headline as "Public School Bars Use of Declaration of Independence in class" Isn't that the story? But while all of these MF'rs are in fact America hatters they think they are patriots in supposedly not offending anyone and in their sick minds acting as the protectors of the church and state boundary the original framers had in mind.....these folks need to not be teaching or infecting our youth!

More Christmas without the word!

While watching the news this morning before heading to work I saw a Jack In The Box commercial which is set in what I guess is suppose to be their headquarters. People are all walking around the office with hats that all have to do with Christmas (santa hats, hats with antlers, etc.) as each person greets another they all say "hey Good Holiday Spirit"...you see Jack on some hat and then the commercial ends with the usual take out bag dropping onto a table and its what they call a reindeer ball on the bag instead of their logo. No balls in corporate America anymore...but really, do those who don't believe Jesus was the son of God automatically feel like their being given a religious message if you use the word Christmas but they don't even with all the decorations that are synonymous with Christmas but you avoid the word? I don't think so...IDIOTS!

Christmas is not PC?????

Ok, now I'm ticked off.....on the radio while driving to work I heard a local talk show host say that what was in the past called a Christmas Tree Lighting in the city of Folsom CA is called a Holiday Tree Lighting this year. While it bothered me that any city would bow to this obviously politically correct move I thought well it's just Folsom (famous for pretty much a nasty prison). Then I decided to do a Google search on "holiday tree lighting"....GOOD GOD (yes God)....now I didn't check all 1.5m hits the search returns but you can just page thru city after city across the country who think a tree with lights on it is not JUST ABOUT CHRISTMAS. That's right...you know the Christian feast commemorating the birth of Jesus!!

I can see the leftist politically correct couple taking their kids to the Holiday Tree Lighting at the town square; child: gee dad what's this holiday tree about? dad: well son, ah um, you see its sort of a time to rejoice and be thankful.... child: that's sounds like Thanks Giving dad...the only holiday I have heard of that decorates and puts lights on a tree and has something to do with Dec 25th is CHRISTMAS...dad!!!!!

This is just insane.......do people who are going to the fricken Christmas (because it's not a holiday or festivus tree for that matter) tree lightings think they are celebrating a Muslim event? A Buddhist one? Go get your own holiday you idiots...and I expect your asses at work on 12/25.

The NBA, Precursor to Incarceration

Starting around 4 years ago I pretty much stopped watching, or paying attention to, all professional sports (well, except golf). The NFL, MLB and NBA have become a joke with the leadership and team owners essentially dropping all measure of human decency in favor of W's. The NBA is really the biggest villian here with scouts and sports/shoe company sponsored schools tarketing poor black communities trying to find the next Michael Jordan with only lip service to anything other than b-ball skills. The black community leaders (who exactly are they) should be outraged at the complete lack of values (decency, family, education, good will, etc.) that the music and sports world directly promotes, or indirectly does by not fiercly denouncing or punishing inappropriate conduct.

Case in point....yesterday's Pacers-Pistons NBA game had at first a player only brawl turn into a player spectator brawl supposedly spawned by a fan throwing a paper soda cup at a player. Later two fans having words with a player got the player to throw a bunch to the face of a fan taking him down, and so on. While we can only hope any criminal acts in this milay will be prospecuted (player or fan) the frequency of player loss of control at taunting from fans and even flying cups is COMPLETELY asinine.

This is a total lack of control and a disconnect from decency. The complicity by the NBA leadership with this constant behaivor makes it worse....an NBA spokesman couldn't comment until it "can review the incident". This is a total chicken shit protect the obviously wrong party stuff. You need to review it before you can say that punch throwing fights among players is wrong, and worse players engaging in fisticuffs with fans other than for self defence is unacceptable and should be criminally prosecuted? You can always cover the rush to judgement by saying what action the NBA will take will be decided on review of the incident. However, the review should take about 5 minutes of video watching. Why do you need to interview anybody? There is no excuse regardless of what anybody said or that a cup was thrown...doesn't matter one bit. If the NBA doesn't start suspending for 1 year a player who strikes a player to the head with a close fist, and for life for the same to a fan, then they are complicit and I'll help with their demise.

Hitler & Aunt Jemima

Idiot and racist are two words often used by the left to describe what they says is the typical Bush voter....funny how every day there are dozens of stories about liberal elite politicians, celebs or media who demonstrate that in fact they are the racist idiots. Case in point, another celeb foreign policy and war strategy expert and fat beatch Linda Ronstadt weighs in (pun intended) on Iraq and Bush: "People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves," and this perl: "Now we've got a new bunch of Hitlers".

And the racist comments about Condi Rice keep coming, the lastest is some obscure Milwaukee radio talk show host who called Rice "Aunt Jemima" and was planning on today's show to give away Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup. He apparently has also refered to Colin Powell as an "Uncle Tom". The local mayor denounced the comments, but the local NAACP spokes person couldn't comment until she heard the remarks in their entirety. OH, SO I CAN CALL A BLACK AND UNCLE TOM OR AUNT JEMIMA IN A CERTAIN CONTEXT????? What the F....it's apparently only racist if you're referring to a liberal!

More War and Close Combat Experts Emerge

Along with celebrity war/combat experts Madonna and Sean Penn we now have other obviously credible and combat experienced individuals and groups who are unquestionably unbiased (ya right) weighing in on the shooting in a mosque in Falluja the other day. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International along with top U.N. human rights officials (who have the utmost credibility, see here, here, here) are calling for an investigation. The folks at Amnesty international who I'm sure are ex-military combat fighters with tons of combat and close fighting experience including booby trapped bodies and fake surrender tactics had this to say: "The deliberate shooting of unarmed and wounded fighters who pose no immediate threat is a war crime under international law and there is therefore an obligation on the U.S. authorities to investigate all such reports and to hold perpetrators of such crimes accountable before the law"

And you expect no less from Al-Jazeera who apparently has been playing the shooting of this person in Falluja over and over and they are others in the region call it an "execution". Oh, SO THEY ARE AGAINST EXECUTIONS????? Man we should be using more MOAB's over there!!!!! FYI, now Al-Jazeera says it has a video tape of a women being shot in the head which is assumed to be Margaret Hassan the CARE director in Iraq who was abducted.

Care to guess how many of groups and individuals who are so outspoken about this most likely justified shooting in the mosque in Falluja will have something negative to say about the killing of Margaret Hassan?

The Father of Modern Terrorism

Andrew McCarthy of NRO has a comprehensive piece on Arafat's life and as you read it you will certainly agree that "the father of modern terrorism" is an appropriate epitaph. So why then does nearly all the media not label Arafat for what he is? Why did so many leaders show up to the make shift funeral in Egypt? Why does a man with this a terror inventors history not get labeled with a single negative descriptor?

I have never understood deep antisemitic feelings many all over the world have....is this root cause of this pass the media and others give Arafat? I have no other explanation? It's also interesting that Israel is most often portrayed as evil. Yet the suicide bombers are almost always aimed at Israeli civilians while Israel's military actions are almost uniformly surgical in nature trying to avoid collateral damage. In fact I think given that Israel is surrounded by unfriendly's I'm amazed at the restraint they have shown in not unleashing their rather impressive military might on those who would kill them at any opportunity.

Thursday Roundup

Don't Forget


It's Veterans Day...don't forget what this means, if you can't thank a vet in person give thanks in your own way for the men and women who have sacrificed throughout our history so that we can live free in the most prosperous land in the world. The American Dream is alive and well and your share in that dream is only governed by your own desire and drive. A land where the vast majority are down right good loving people who will help their fellow man, come to a strangers rescue and look you in the eye and say hello. I'll steal the final words of Mr. Owens whose NRO article today ends with: So pray for our servicemen in Fallujah today and for the souls of those who have given the last full measure. May they rest in peace. Happy birthday, Marines. Semper fi. And to all veterans, God bless you and thank you for your service. And may you live long, sweet lives.

Arafat finally in a box!
Amid the inappropriate stories on Arafat's death that offer praise, or sole saving, we find an occasional sane response...here's one: Arafat the Monster. And of course Jimmy Carter continues his journey with senility describing him as a "powerful human symbol" but leaves out what he thinks the symbol represents...how about terrorism and death to jews!

Bummer Dude!
I don't much like Bill Maher, right now he's not liking the Internet since it's front page on the Drudgereport that he's been hit with a palimony suit!

Trojan Horse
Some on the left are trying to calm the post election hysterical elements in their party....the new strategy that you already see forming is a trojan horse! The liberals I know have brain wiring different from me....there's no way that they will over the next 4 years line up with me on pivotal issues or even get close for that matter. I fully believe, like Kerry, that those who will lobby for the nomination for the Dems in 2008 will say anything to try and appear more centrist...but that's just a book cover....the book won't change. While Billary Clinton thinks she's being sneaky by suddenly throwing out religious references here and there, some are talking about it openly. Not about changing their core beliefs, but about how to make others think you are, case in point: More Muscle, More God, Less Shrum

Normal
Peggy Noonan's piece in today's WSJ had a description of Bush I like and believe....Kerry tried to slide into some of those descriptions but with no credibility.

I think Mr. Bush, the better man in terms of character, was also the more normal man. And we like normal. He loves sports and business and politics, and speaks their language. Normal. His wife is important to him, and his kids seem a bit of a mystery to him, and perhaps even to some degree intimidating. Normal. He thinks if bad guys attack New York City and the Pentagon, we go after them and kill them--normal. He thinks marriage is between a man and a woman--normal. He thinks if Baptist preachers in a suburb of Louisville have an after-school plan that has an excellent record of turning kids from juvenile delinquency to thinking about college, those Baptist preachers should be helped and encouraged every way we can, and it has nothing to do with "church and state." Normal. He thinks if there's an old plaque bearing the Ten Commandments on the wall of the courthouse you should leave it alone--it can't hurt, and it might help. Normal.

Arrogant Peloci

Amazing what this pompous beatch gets away with say...from Tarranto WSJ blog:

The Washington Post reports on a particularly rich comment from Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader:

Pelosi, addressing reporters after lunching with about 100 House Democrats, said her party will speak out when it believes Bush and the GOP-controlled Congress are mismanaging Iraq, tax policies or the deficit. "The president won't be able to blame anyone, because the Republicans have full control," Pelosi said. Although Republicans have controlled the White House, Senate and House for two years, she said, "the American people did not know that. And now they do."

If "the American people did not know" that the GOP held the White House and majorities in both houses of Congress in 2003 and 2004, what makes her think we've caught on now?

Kofi Inane

My pal Mike shot me this short WSJ article on interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi response to Kofi Annan's inane letter suggesting increase offensives on a group Annan left nameless in his letter would increase violence and disrupt elections. An appropriate reply from Allawi said:

At the moment, we have parts of the country in which the civilian population has been hijacked by the terrorists and insurgents. That is unacceptable. Worse still is that the terrorists and insurgents operating from places like Fallujah are exporting their violence to other parts of the country, terrorizing and killing innocent Iraqis and those seeking to protect them. I cannot allow these terrorists to continue to murder with impunity.

I was a little surprised by the lack of any mention in your letter of the atrocities which these groups have committed. I believe that the blame for the violence and difficulties in Iraq at the moment should be laid squarely at their door. The same group who murdered so many of your staff in the bombing of the U.N. headquarters last year, has since murdered hundreds of innocent Iraqis and committed countless other atrocities. We have overwhelming evidence that they have used and continue to use Fallujah as a base of operations.

I Rest My Case!

From celebrity terrorism expert Madonna!

Global terror is everywhere. Global terror is down the street, around the block. Global terror is in California. There's global terror everywhere and it's absurd to think you can get it by going to one country and dropping tons of bombs on innocent people.

Hollywood's FU to Mainstream America

Great piece in today's WSJ by movie reviewer Michael Medved (Bad News For Democrats) who obviously puts his "right" thinking ahead of what the celebrity political intelligencia whose movies he reviews will think of him for it.

Despite their popularity as entertainers, these performers maintain at best a love-hate relationship with the general public (and feed innumerable tabloids with lurid tales of their personal problems), so their endorsements of candidates mean almost nothing. Moreover, movies long ago ceased functioning as a unifying celebration of populist values and now serve a primarily youthful niche market. Even box-office blockbusters typically draw only seven million or eight million people on their opening weekends--less than half the number who listen to Rush Limbaugh in any given week.

Problem, Absent Fathers or Procreation?

For sometime now we have heard about the problem of inner city black children who have no father in their lives. Of course it's probably a good thing those particular absent fathers aren't in these kids lives, but I shouldn't infer that all are bad. Kay Hymowitz's piece Dad's in the 'Hood in the urban-policy magazine City Journal is an interesting update on this topic. However, I think the root of the problem is the seminal event itself not being considered fateful by both the male and female participants. This is of course not just an inner city black problem but the numbers there do speak for themselves. In thinking about my own upbringing I don't recall even a single lecture (pop, correct me if I'm wrong) on the seriousness of procreation and the ultimate responsibility of it success. So why did I understand that producing a child would be a lifelong responsibility that nothing short of death could break? Was it that I had two parents that loved their children? Was it that we weren't dirt poor? Was it that I went to school? Was it that we were taught daily about right and wrong and the value of hard work. Or maybe all of the above.

I fully believe that people like Jesse Jackson, Kweisi Mfume, Julian Bond and most of the Congressional Black Caucus don't want this situation to improve! Their hateful and racist propaganda serves to keep the myth that a racist white population and government are the cause of all that ails the black population. After all if that weren't true many of these so called black leaders would be out of a job or even less significant on the national scene than they already are. I like a quote from Hymowitz's piece by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates :

"Are white racists forcing black teenagers to drop out of school or have babies?"

While my own childhood didn't include hyper focus on education (high school and college) I think that it is the key to reversing some of the damage for those already under the inner city fatherless handicap. For each child we rescue we hopefully create a desire not to just gratify primal sexual urges but to create a life out of love, to experience the joy of guiding your own flesh and blood to be and do better than oneself. That's a feeling that is, I'm sure, completely void from the mind of the bastard creating men and women of the inner city.

Sore Losers

Jonah Goldberg of the National Review Online wrote a wondrous and funny piece yesterday called The Sore-Loser Party in which he nicely dices Smiley, Dowd, Raines, Krugman, Sarandon and P. Diddy! It's really amazing to me the hypocricy and pomposity displayed by the now sullen left. Take for example this sound bite from Smiley:

The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry

And Goldberg on Smiley:

A woman who couldn't catch a clue if you used one as a pestle and her brain pan as the mortar

I also love how Goldberg describes the liberal defective Maureen Dowd & Paul Krugman:

As we all know, one's a whining self-parody of a hysterical liberal who lets feminine emotion and fear defeat reason and fact in almost every column. The other used to date Michael Douglas.

Read all of Goldberg's NRO piece....great stuff!

Liberal Tolerance

Excellent post election thoughts that I found on AtlanticBlog (post: After the election which references yet another insightful blogger Mark Kleiman). AtlanticBlog is by an American economist living and working in Ireland named William Sjostrom...worth checking out. A snippet of Mark's words that William, and now I, posted...but read Mark's entire post.

Liberals are more willing than conservatives to make the majority suffer to protect the minorities. And the fact that the liberal leadership is profoundly secular in its orientation makes it easy to interpret this as hostility to religion, or to religiosity, generally. We claim that we are merely carrying out the Enlightenment program of getting the heavy hand of the state off religion, but that's not really a very convincing claim given our own actual beliefs and practices, and given the sheer hatred and contempt the usual liberal commentator can pack into the word "fundamentalist." Where, one might reasonably ask, is liberal tolerance when the chips are down?

Heeeeeeeeyaaaaaa

I had to grin when I heard today that Howard Dean is considering a run at being the chair of the DNC....if it happened it would only shift the DNC more left and away from mainstream America than it already is. For old times sake and a laugh, hear Dean's out of control speach which included the now famous "heeeeeeyaaaaaa" yell in mp3!

Liberal Reassurance

It's not often that the NYT has anything in that I agree with, interesting post election analysis of the liberal reaction to the results. Here's a few snippets of The Vaues-Vote Myth by David Brooks:

Every election year, we in the commentariat come up with a story line to explain the result, and the story line has to have two features. First, it has to be completely wrong. Second, it has to reassure liberals that they are morally superior to the people who just defeated them.

In past years, the story line has involved Angry White Males, or Willie Horton-bashing racists. This year, the official story is that throngs of homophobic, Red America values-voters surged to the polls to put George Bush over the top. This theory certainly flatters liberals, and it is certainly wrong.

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But the same insularity that caused many liberals to lose touch with the rest of the country now causes them to simplify, misunderstand and condescend to the people who voted for Bush. If you want to understand why Democrats keep losing elections, just listen to some coastal and university town liberals talk about how conformist and intolerant people in Red America are. It makes you wonder: why is it that people who are completely closed-minded talk endlessly about how open-minded they are?

More humor

Check this site where morons post their apology to the world (so they presume) that Dubya got re-elected....gee, the huge list of apologists who have posted so far sure look like successful, productive, upstanding, business/home owner, job holder, tax paying folks with lots of life experience and responsibilities don't they! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sorry Everybody

Why Canada...look further away you idiots!

I knew I would be happy if Bush won re-election but I didn't think it would generate so much humor! Today the Drudge Report has a headline Americans flock to Canada's immigration website. This is just too funny...but it should probably say Disgruntled Democrat's to chicken to move to far from US. We can only hope many of the wacko liberal Ted Rall followers actualy leave our great land. But alas, almost none will...and those that do may go to Canada so that they can make short trips into the best f'ing country on the planet to enjoy all it offers. Well, if you had any cojones and actually believed your anti-american vitriol you would move to France or maybe some nice place in the middle of Africa.

UPDATE: too funny....conservative radio host Glenn Beck got thousands of people to pledge a few bucks each to buy 2 first class tickets one way from UT to Ireland for Robert Redford who apparantly told some reporter he would move to Ireland if Bush was elected. Beck couldn't figure out how to send the tickets directly to Redford so now they are raising funds to take out a full page ad in the paper where Redford lives!

I would love to find the audio, video and print from all the celebrity pundits who so flippantly made similar hollow threats of leaving the country in a Bush victory. Build a website and show them all....raise money to charter a 747 that will take the entire "enlightened" bunch all at once from LAX (most are there anyway) to Charles De Gualle Airport!

Blind Elitism

Everyday we see hundreds of examples of liberal elitism. I have several theories on this. Being a liberal elite means you believe your intellect is superior to most. As this election cycle demonstrated you long for approval from those outside of our country who you think are enlightened like you. Believing this you can't imagine that your stance on the issues of an election are wrong....so therefore those who chose the opposite view must be ignorant, racist, greedy, blah, blah. So theory number 1 is that liberals can't accept that they are ever wrong or that a contrarian view might also be just as valid.

This pseudo intellectualism and vanity they liberal elite have does not allow them to have a stable moral core. They believe in some sort of utopia where everyone loves everyone and that there is no higher being governing a higher moral code (while I'm a wait and see catholic I still believe in following a moral code completely in line with Jewdeo Christian beliefs). All actions, all ways of living life are valid in their view because you must feel that way in order to love each and every person or thing and insure that love comes back. They do not believe in a true evil and that any demonstration of evil is not the fault of the evil doer! They put propositions on the ballet to let criminals out of jail. They want to talk when shooting is justified. They scorn our police and military for not treating criminals and the enemy with kid gloves.

I believe they fear taking a stand in direct opposition to these anomalous ideas and beliefs they embrace. Just like communism would distribute wealth equally to the people they would distribute their morality and beliefs to the people equally. It's completely diametrically opposed to our type of democracy formed by our founding fathers who were not shy about connecting a moral code and our freedoms to a god. It's not that you need to believe in a god, but we are flawed and so a belief in a common good and the idea of ultimate authority can keep us in line.

More examples of this blind elitism from slate.com The unteachable ignorance of the red states.

Out Of Touch, Denial & Treason

It's amazing and also admittedly enjoyable (schadenfreude=pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others) to read all the stories and blogs by stunned democrats. The map showing a mostly red geography for Bush when granularity is on a county scale shows just how out of touch the liberals really are. Their complete denial, much like that of the biased media talking heads is truly incomprehensible to me. Check these articles for comments from defeated liberals:

San Jose Mercury News
Chicago Tribune

Then there are the angry left which are easy to find in blogger land....amazing that these ingrates think they are intellectually superior and also more tolerant than the majority (Bush supporters) when their rhetoric is diametrically opposed to that notion and down right treasonous. To wish for the killing or suffering of fellow Americans or anyone for that matter is vile. For just one example check this poor excuse for a human being...kos and also his agreeable commenters!

Divided Nation or some out of touch?

Deacon of PowerLine says it best:

Kerry is said to have told the president that the country is too divided and
that "we really have to do something about it." The country is divided, but the
division is in favor of President Bush and his party. If the goal is to decrease
division in the context of a democratic society, the Democrats will have to
accept this voter-imposed reality to a much greater degree than they have shown
any past willingness to do. I'm not expecting much from Kerry in this regard.

HUGE VICTORY

Largest vote for a president in history.

First time in 16 years the winner got more than 50% of the vote.

House and Senate both have improved control by Republicans.

Tom Daschle is gone.

California voted almost perfectly on propositions.....the stem cell initiative passed and that's BS....while I don't care to debate fetal stem cells versus stem cells from babies thru adults the real BS of that initiative is that California tax payers are going to fund research to benefit the entire world. While that sounds noble, it would be nice if everyone paid their fair share.

Ock...FU and I know who you are!

Try your global test on this!

Scary stuff I assume from a bad Iranian with enough power to cause problems....found on InDCJournal where you can read more.

Who would you rather deal with this?

Stuff that won't get the press it should

A German paper with the widest circulation in Europe endorses Bush!

The latest terrorist video...at least these terrorists would rather see Kerry in office

Kerry snubs black student, Dems try to hush them

Sox pitcher Schilling an example of blind Dem/Lib hypocrisy

YOU TELL ME, WHO IS TRYING TO STEAL THE ELECTION?

Dem lawyers already filed 9 suits in Florida

According to Powerline, Dems have so far filed 35 suits in 17 states....Dems have 2000 lawyers in Florida

Stem cell activists steal Bush signs

Crazy Floridian tries to run over Katherine Harris

ABC News sits on terror tape that would without question benefit Bush

Illegal alien is deputy registrar and registers people who tell her they're illegals!!!!!

The evidence of corruption, law breaking, lying, anything goes tactics isn't exclusive to the Dems but officially organized Dems are for more active and ALL the loons acting on their own are liberals...of course that's no surprise.

Kerry's rhetoric; aid & comfort

"Kerry's rhetoric is giving the bad guys a thread to hang on," he wrote. "They're hoping we lose our nerve. They're more concerned with the U.S. elections than with the Iraqi ones."

So, who is really to blame?

While this is just a trumped up story in an attempt to sway the moronic as yet undecided voters the missing Iraq explosives story is about 380 tons of an estimated 1 million tons of explosives currently estimated to exist in Iraq. That's 0.03% of the estimated total! The New York Sun today has a story that puts the blame mostly on the UN's atomic watchdog (the IAEA) who failed to act on a warning in 1995 by inspectors about the explosives in question.. Apparently the Iraqi's successfully argued with the watchdogs and all other failed diplomatic groups that they need these explosives for construction and mining...uh huh!

Bush Responds, Finally!

Bush at rally in Pennsylvania:

“After repeatedly calling Iraq the wrong war, and a diversion, Senator Kerry this week seemed shocked to learn that Iraq is a dangerous place, full of dangerous weapons…”“If Senator Kerry had his way…Saddam Hussein would still be in power. He would control those all of those weapons and explosives and could share them with his terrorist friends. Now the senator is making wild charges about missing explosives, when his top foreign policy adviser admits, quote, 'We do not know the facts.' Think about that: The senator is denigrating the actions of our troops and commanders in the field without knowing the facts…..”

“Our military is now investigating a number of possible scenarios, including that the explosives may have been moved before our troops even arrived at the site. This investigation is important and it's ongoing. And a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief."

Conservatives playing the game as well?

I don't know if this is legit (Comrade Kerry)...but the timing sure makes it dubious...of course since it's potentially negative towards Kerry no mainstream media picks this up versus the several bogus Bush screwed up stories that were born in the last 24 hours.

The media is trying to influence the election

Gee new Bush National Guard papers came to light today? Are you kidding me? I don't see any details on any paper literally just unearthed today? So is this just like the 380 tons of explosives bullshit trying to sound like something current, new and bad? I assume this will be a daily event for the opinion (not news) media.

More of The Liar

Blogger travino of redstate.org has a nice up to date list of Kerry's lies with documentation!

Kerry's speaks the truth?

Kerry is fond of saying he will always tell the truth to the American people, implying that Bush and his team don't. I could give dozens of examples of Kerry lying but the latest is so brazen it defies what I would assume to be the collective intelligence of the Democratic campaign strategists. An old story by an embedded NBC News crew from April 2003 where they accompanied troops into an Iraqi weapons storage facility(drudge) expecting to find hundreds of tons of two particular explosives known to be there but they were not found. You can also see a CNN story on the timing of the actual event. and the actual NBC news footage here Mind you this happened and was reported one day after the liberation of Iraq.

Fast forward to today...Kerry has been on the stump in the last few days talking about the incompetence of Bush for loosing these weapons. Not only were the weapons gone before we got there but the implication is also that this was recently discovered. Kerry also claims Bush failed to secure the 380 tons of explosive and we are less secure because of it. The Dems couldn't figure out this was old news and that the stuff was gone when we got there? Or they knew but decided this was a good lie? Or Kerry is suggesting we should have, or he would have, gone into Iraq earlier and thus that stockpile would have still been there? OK you dems explain this one to me....explain the honesty of you long face Kerry! CBS is also a turd in that they were going to run a 60 minutes piece on this just before the election as if reporting it this way was factual. The liberal power brokers are the most dishonest lying cheating bastards around!

Armchair Quarterback

A nice WSJ piece today on Kerry's new mantra of the Bush administration incompetence and that he would execute a more competent war. This is along the lines of my post on Kerry says not a single thing is going right....and he is the king of hindsight, nothing that he claims is bad would be if he owned it. I would love to ask Kerry: "You claim Bush himself is at fault for the hundreds of things you have said are messed up...how long after you take office can we place their blame on you?" I think that's a great, but loaded, question...it's easy to say what you would do after the fact, but you inherit a world that has a lot of moving parts you have no control over so it's more about how you react to the hard sudden situation. The journal sums it up with:

But in order to win a war, you have to have the vision and determination to
fight it despite setbacks and political difficulties. Americans should be wary
of politicians who promise more "competent" leadership in a war that those same
politicians say they'd rather not fight.

No media bias here

I guess a few days ago some second cousins (6 of them) who have never met or know Dubya personally launched a website supporting Kerry. If you do a google search on "bush relatives" you will find thousands of media picking up this story along with thousands of website's deciding it's newsworthy. Now, go read what the distant relatives wrote...wow, well informed group with studious analysis of why to vote for Kerry isn't it!

Glass Empty

I can barely stand it anymore.....while it would probably help Bush's cause to admit more often that some things could have been done differently in his nearly 4 yrs and that Iraq has been tougher than he thought, the other side sees an empty glass. Is every aspect of your life that the government can have an affect on screwed up? Employment, economy, housing, healthcare, security, infrastructure, etc....is your personal (not what you think it is for the poorest down trodden sole in your city) scorecard on these items an F? On any of them? I think for the majority its like good to better on all counts. Yet when you listen to Kedwards or any dem talking head EVERYTHING is completely hosed. There isn't one thing in this country that is going ok or right. Just try and find anything to the contrary from this crowd. And yet, today Clinton (the one who likes interns) says the republicans are trying to scare people to vote for Bush?

Kerry says he is big on telling the truth and he has a plan....but he has a plan for fixing so many things even beyond his control it's not only ludicrous it's political snake oil or lies. Things that would have been or will be different according to Kedwards if he/they had been or becomes president.

1. Osama would be dead
2. Iraq, Iran, N. Korea or any other rogue nation wanting WMDs or nukes would acquiesce simply from UN pressure
3. The economy (already better) would rain money
4. Housing (already better) would had by all
5. Christopher Reeves would alive and walk
6. Every citizen could get elective surgery
7. Corporations would pay a lot more tax and magically they could without laying people off
8. The French, Germans, Spain, etc. would all hold hands with us on the battlefield
9. The UN would be the new world super power
10. All children would get private school quality education at public schools
11. Every city would have more fire fighters and police
12. The border would be more secure, every container, parcel or letter would be inspected
13. Every person with a terrorist plot would be identified by the Minority Report triplets
14. The people paying nearly all taxes now would pay even more
15. Drugs would be free, new drugs would spring up like Starbucks coffee houses because you would be allowed to use the remnants from abortion clinics and childbirth free from scrutiny
16. All parents with gay children would be identified publicly.
17. All profiling, for any purpose would be banned....except for college entrance, employment and government grants!

Too many more to list....seems like an easy choice.

University Sheep!

A very eloquent and boldly critical op/ed piece in today's WSJ by professor Ruth Wisse of Harvard. Ms. Wisse put aside likely backlash to write this piece which speaks to the fear university staff have to not go along with the sheep but also the "scandalous uniformity in a university community that advertises its diversity". What a shame for our children, when their minds should be opened up to all the possibilities they are instead handed blinders. The best line in Ruth's piece was in reference to Harvard's president kowtowing to the liberal bias so prevalent in our universities and describes that environment as "regnant culture of pusillanimity" (I admit I had to look up two of the 4 words! :))

Polls, how accurate? Bias?

I think its pretty clear the country is close to equally divided on this election. I do however give the edge to the democrats because while both sides skirt the line the dems are far more willing to cross it (draft and social security fears, voter fraud, blah, blah). I often wondered why news outlets were so eager to quote various polls...although they pick and choose the poll and also the piece of the poll to fit the message they already decided to give! Interesting to look at this polling site and see a) the delta between polls and b) that certain polls will have numbers for separate items leaning all towards democrat or republican. Gee, why would that be? How does the AP find itself off of other polls by double digits?

Kerry's International Coalition

Is this what Kerry had in mind when he speaks of he will do a better job at building an international coalition? Brit's trying to influence US election! To bad it probably back fired into garnering more support for Bush! Stupid limey bastards! :)

Bush Hater Profile!

For a profile look here! Ok, I realize that's a silly generalization but it scary that people have become so vehemently anti Bush....to the point of thinking he's evil. Why is it so scary? Because they can vote!

Too many young people do no homework at all on important issues. They get what they think is the definitive story from MTV, musicians, actors and Rolling Stone articles. They believe that entertainment sources have some enlightened and unbiased positions on things outside of entertainment. They think Sean Penn saw the real Iraq. They think a CEO of Fortune 500 company screwed a bunch of little people to make his millions and yet the wonderful great role model millionaire NBA players or rap artists earned every dime. They believe Michael Moore disseminates facts. They believe Bush actually knew Saddam had no WMD's left in Iraq even though half a dozen foreign country intelligence agencies along with our own (and Kerry) believed he did. They believe if you can think up a conspiracy then one likely exists. They think others around the world liking us is more important than nearly anything else. They think the UN is a wonderful honest collection of altruistic people. They believe in freedom of speech unless the word "god" is involved. They have selective hearing and site and will not recognize anything that is in conflict with their beliefs.

I in fact believe the number of young people who fit these descriptions is large....and I'm sure some who are no longer young would actually fit this profile as well....it is overwhelmingly scary to have a person in power these head in the sand people would vote for.

UPDATE: I have never heard of this group, California College Republicans, but it's nice to see some college age kids that don't fit my fearful profile. The CCR has an interesting press release and protest of MTV planned because of their claim that MTV has participated in the blatant military draft lie spread to scare young adults into voting for Kerry. Also interesting that the Chairman of the CCR is a student at the Peoples Republic of Berkeley!...maybe there's hope after all!

Liberal or Conservative, who is more racist?

It's interesting that today many still think of conservatives (Republicans) as slow talking, not so smart descendents of slave owners who still wish slavery was with us. In my experience and in my observations of those aligned as liberal or conservative the former seems to have a propensity to racist behavior. It's also easy to find examples of blacks who are racist while spending a career claiming others are. You can find these examples with little effort..if you're curious study the websites of the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP. An example that caught my attention was the recent cartoon depicting Condoleezza Rice as a mammy and an editorial on this by the WSJ editorial board. Check the cartoonists defense at the end of the piece! Any bets on whether any supposed black leader or the NAACP had any issue with this cartoon?

Gee, speak of the NAACP....National Association for the Advancement of Colored People! As a white person, don't I have color? (I assume beige is a color) Does the NAACP support my advancement? Would anyone have a problem if I said my company has no problem hiring colored people? I think this falls under the bullshit hypocrite double standard of it's ok for a black to say the n word but not me. The front page of the NAACP site says:

Today we face a renewed effort as the forces of racism and retrogression in
America are again on the rise. Many of the hard-earned civil rights gains of the
past three decades are under assault.

Of course I didn't see examples of this referenced...only the link to join and donate under this statement. Of course if this evil wasn't on the rise and it was generally accepted as no longer being an issue the NAACP would have no reason to exist? Sort of a conflict for these boys isn't it?

What's wrong with public schools?

The answer comes from my brother-in-law who shot me School Says Halloween Disrespectful to Witches. This is the over the top politically correct don't hurt the feeling of a tree, insect or a, give me a f'ing break, witch kind of people who are teaching our kids. God help us all!

Media Elite Continue Bias Denial

Today in Kansas City we had Peter Jennings, the ABC News anchor, telling a local TV reporter:

"I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be
objective, and when we don't think we can be fully objective, to be
fair"

You have to be kidding me.....why can't you be objective? If you want to give your F'ing opinion then don't call it the ABC News with Peter Jennings, call it ABC's My Damn Opinion with Peter Jennings!

Is Kerry Worth Dying For?

I feel just like James Tarranto of the Wall Street Journal that Kerry's desire to have international buy-in overshadows his words that he would act unilaterally if we had to. That's just not believable. The thought of him as president is very scary...I think we can kiss goodbye the first strike don't wait until there's an imminent threat approach with Kerry in the Whitehouse. That's why I think the title of Tarranto's piece below should say Kerry instead of the UN!

Is the U.N. Worth Dying For?
From an article in today's Washington Post on John Kerry's approach to foreign policy:

Kerry's belief in working with allies runs so deep that he has maintained that
the loss of American life can be better justified if it occurs in the course of
a mission with international support. In 1994, discussing the possibility of
U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia, he said, "If you mean dying in the course of
the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American
troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the
outcome, the answer is unequivocally no."

So the U.N.--that club of dictators and anti-Semites--is worth dying for, but America isn't? This quote sharply summarizes why the thought of waking up two weeks from today to the news that Kerry is president-elect invokes in us a sense of utter dread.

For a concrete example of how this might play out, we turn to Park Sang-seek, a Korean "peace studies" academic, who writes (with apparent approval) in the Korea Herald:

Kerry is likely to rely on the United Nations in dealing with any future crises
in Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula. Take a hypothetical situation in the
Korean Peninsula: it is discovered that North Korea has experimented with
nuclear weapons or exported nuclear materials to hostile nations or terrorist
groups. Bush may make a surgical strike without consulting South Korea and the
United Nations. Kerry is likely to try to solve the issue through multilateral
forums, particularly the United Nations.

If North Korea gives nukes to terrorists and this is how a President Kerry responds, soldiers may not be the only Americans to die for the U.N.

Jonestown II

Interesting how a speech by Al Gore is more reminiscent of a Jim Jones speech to his sheep who joined in mass suicide than one of a former Vice President of United States of America! How so you ask? Well, do you see any basis in fact? Do you see any logic or historical reference to back up the rhetoric and hyperbole suggesting Bush is insane. Only non-questioning, non-thinking, blindly loyal wanabee flower children sheep would sit in open approval and adoration of such theatre. How anyone can be a proud Democrat is beyond me.

Contemptible Democrats

Blogger Stephen Green (Vodkapundit) did a great job describing exactly why he, and I, have contempt for the Democrats right now. The Democrats loyalty to our country, personal honor and integrity take a back seat to this election.

Sex, Lies, I have a "plan", Armchairs and Fear

Unbelievable that people support Kerry. But this, I believe, proves the existence of EBD (emotional brain disorder typically caused by hatred of Dubya) as it is the only way to explain that anyone with half of their cranium functioning doesn't recognize that Kerry is simply veneer!

Sex: cheap shot by Kerry...when he mentioned Cheney's lesbian daughter in the last debate it was clearly to remind the most conservative Republicans that a gay person was close to the administration. If Edwards had a gay child and Bush thru that out (especially as Kerry did with little to no connection to the topic) the mainstream press would have crucified Bush....see much on this story?

Lies: Both Kerry and Bush got facts wrong...ok call that a tie

Plan: Proof that libs have EBD....apparently if you just say "plan" a bunch of times people who have EBD will say they heard details of the plan...be careful if you ask someone afflicted with EBD to give you some details of the plan...they may experience convulsions and loose control of their bowels.

Armchair Quarterback: This didn't work in my title, but it is interesting that everyone I have watched the debates with or talked to about them after the fact had responses at various spots for each debate that would not have just been better than what the candidate said but would have annihilated the opponent. One would think both of these guys would think better on their feet. Now I realize we are just armchair quarterbacking here and that's an order of magnitude easy than real time with cameras rolling...but I sure wish Bush would have said the following at some point in any of the debates. "You know, my opponent basis his entire candidacy on the notion that not a single thing in our country is working. To believe him every single thing that effects you that the government can affect is broken. But wait, he has a plan to fix every single one of these broken things." and you can can go on and on.

Fear: If you're intellectually honest (and don't have EBD) you can easily see that the entire Democratic machine is using a fear campaign. Kerry and Edwards say everything is wrong, broken and getting worse, that we're no safer than before 9/11, etc. Official DNC efforts, or by operatives give us the bogus draft campaign, violent protestors at events along with the many RNC office attacks. The DNC handbook that tells local offices to charge voter intimidation even if none exists. The DNC talking heads are saying "just watch the republicans will try to steal the election again". Look, do some research. The effort to use fear and smear is huge on the DNC side...if you can't run on your record and detailed ideas what else can you do.

Rudy!..A Must Read

Remarks vebatim from Rudy Giuliani on Bush-Cheney compaign conference call today...I LOVE THIS GUY!

For some time, and including when I spoke at the Republican Convention, I’ve wondered exactly what John Kerry’s approach would be to terrorism and I’ve wondered whether he had the conviction, the determination, and the focus, and the correct worldview to conduct a successful war against terrorism. And his quotations in the New York Times yesterday make it clear that he lacks that kind of committed view of the world. In fact, his comments are kind of extraordinary, particularly since he thinks we used to before September 11 live in a relatively safe world. He says we have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance.

I’m wondering exactly when Senator Kerry thought they were just a nuisance. Maybe when they attacked the USS Cole? Or when they attacked the World Trade Center in 1993? Or when they slaughtered the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972? Or killed Leon Klinghoffer by throwing him overboard? Or the innumerable number of terrorist acts that they committed in the 70s, the 80s and the 90s, leading up to September 11?

This is so different from the President’s view and my own, which is in those days, when we were fooling ourselves about the danger of terrorism, we were actually in the greatest danger. When you don’t confront correctly and view realistically the danger that you face, that’s when you’re at the greatest risk. When you at least realize the danger and you begin to confront it, then you begin to become safer. And for him to say that in the good old days – I’m assuming he means the 90s and the 80s and the 70s -- they were just a nuisance, this really begins to explain a lot of his inconsistent positions on how to deal with it because he’s not defining it correctly.
As a former law enforcement person, he says ‘I know we’re never going to end prostitution. We’re never going to end illegal gambling. But we’re going to reduce it.’ This is not illegal gambling; this isn’t prostitution. Having been a former law enforcement person for a lot longer than John Kerry ever was, I don’t understand his confusion. Even when he says ‘organized crime to a level where it isn’t not on the rise,’ it was not the goal of the Justice Department to just reduce organized crime. It was the goal of the Justice Department to eliminate organized crime. Was there some acceptable level of organized crime: two families, instead of five, or they can control one union but not the other?

The idea that you can have an acceptable level of terrorism is frightening. How do you explain that to the people who are beheaded or the innocent people that are killed, that we’re going to tolerate a certain acceptable [level] of terrorism, and that acceptable level will exist and then we’ll stop thinking about it? This is an extraordinary statement. I think it is not a statement that in any way is ancillary. I think this is the core of John Kerry’s thinking. This does create some consistency in his thinking.
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t is consistent with his views on Vietnam: that we should have left and abandoned Vietnam. It is consistent with his view of Nicaragua and the Sandinistas. It is consistent with his view of opposing Ronald Reagan at every step of the way in the arms buildup that was necessary to destroy communism. It is consistent with his view of not supporting the Persian Gulf War, which was another extraordinary step. Whatever John Kerry’s global test is, the Persian Gulf War certainly would pass anyone’s global test. If it were up to John Kerry, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, but he’d still be controlling Kuwait.

Finally, what he did after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, where I guess at that point terrorism was still just a nuisance. He must have thought that because that’s why he proposed seriously reducing our intelligence budget, when you would think someone who was really sensitive to the problem of terrorism would have done just the opposite. I think that rather than being some aberrational comment, it is the core of the John Kerry philosophy: that terrorism is no different than domestic law enforcement problems, and that the best we’re ever going to be able to do is reduce it, so why not follow the more European approach of compromising with it the way Europeans did in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s?

This is so totally different than what I think was the major advance that President Bush made – significant advance that he made in the Bush Doctrine on September 20, 2001, when he said we’re going to face up to terrorism and we’re going to do everything we can to defeat it, completely. There’s no reason why we have to tolerate global terrorism, just like there’s no reason to tolerate organized crime.

So I think this is a seminal issue, this is one that explains or ties together a lot of things that we’ve talked about. Even this notion that the Kerry campaign was so upset that the Vice President and others were saying that he doesn’t understand the threat of terrorism; that he thinks it’s just a law enforcement action. It turns out the Vice President was right. He does and maybe this is a difference, maybe this is an honest difference that we really should debate straight out. He thinks that the threat is not as great as at least the President does, and I do, and the Vice President does.