NASA's global warming argument

Responses to Cindy Sheehan's retirement

Go and read some of the comments to Cindy Sheehan's good-bye speech at Daily Kos. It's good humor. Here are a few, with my comments in italics:

Cindy, you walk with Thoreau, Gandhi, King

You will always be a heroine to me, because you were a normal person who did so much for peace.

I tend to keep my feelings up my sleeve but tears swelled up in my eyes when I read your very touching post. [Do tears 'swell'?.] Please don't ever have the thought that what you have sacrificed for our wounded country is for naught. You have left an indelible impact on all of us who are striving to return our country back to where it should be.

God bless angry, furious and righteous women! [And may "God" deliver a backhand to the same.]

Go home. Get well. Get in touch with you and your feelings. Allow your grief to heal you and let go of the fight to change the war machine. [Are they all drugged-out hippies?]

No, Casey did not die in vain. His death has made many of us to be better Americans. [But not better writers.]

I pray you'll stay in touch regardless and I hope that perhaps a little Translucence brings you a bit of your own, personal peace. [You can buy 'Translucence' in bulk at Walmart.]

I will mourn America's loss of you as such an amazing presence and voice.

To be called a radical is a good thing, because a radical literally means one who gets to the root of the problem. [...eyes rolling...]

Dear Cindy - you are the powerful woman who inspired my husband to stand a 108-night peace vigil on a public corner, lighting candles each night and praying for peace. [She married the village idiot, and is brimming with pride.]

Cindy, You are a wonder to behold and you need to know that for every person who abuses you and your work, there are 60 who honor you and whose lives are better for your role in it. Many of these people, like me, love you and your heart even though we have never met you.

Work in the garden of your heart. and when you've rediscovered some of what home truly means -- we'll have tea and toast&jam together and grin happily at the dancing girls twirling past... [Bong Alert™]

God's greatest saints are those who sacrifice themselves to, or help expose evil (such as our government). Goodness is thereby allowed to shine, like a beacon in the darkness.

You've been a hero to us, Cindy. While the industrial-military complex is more powerful than any of us, and controls the Democratic Party as well as the Repub, you did more than anyone toward exposing the lies of these goons, and turning the tide of public opinion. [This hippie reversed the old socialist slogan, "military industrial complex".]

But one woman cannot be expected to take on the military industrial complex, the MSM, the corruption of the republicans and the cowardice of the democrats. [This one gets a gold star.]

Very, very, very few citizens today are actively involved in party politics. In this vacuum, corporate money (the military-industrial-congressional complex)has taken over. [Socialist creativity.]

You showed us how to stand up to power, and now you are showing us how to stand up to the truth about ourselves. [New twist on their coveted, "speak truth to power".]

Last night I had the idea that our ilk should resort to donning blackarmbands that say IMPEACH 24/7. THAT would be the kind of statement that couldn't be ignored if enough people did it. The logistics of millions of people marching is always what keeps it from having any effect since most people don't have the luxury of being able to walk away from jobs and kids. [You do that, dunce.]

You dared to stand up to monsters. You took on these minions of evil. [Is he talking about Frodo Baggins?]

As the basics become ever-more expensive--health care equals big profit, home ownership a get-rich scheme, and the dominant culture extolls mindless consumerism, people are bogged down in more debt and have less time to ferret out any truths and to participate in our government. [Marx could not have said it better.]

The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. [Wow.]

Everyone in the country owes you a debt of gratitude. [Speak for yourselves, nutjobs.]

Political activity is a wall against which we are all invited to fling ourselves and destroy ourselves in acts of futile soul killing anger and frustration, but my observation of the American system is simply that the fix is in, and change is not possible anymore from within. [Bong Alert™]

Michael Moore hides the truth

The Fat One wants us to believe healthcare is free in Britain. He doesn't want gullible (liberal) viewers to know that somebody pays for the services.

Daytona newspaper editors smoking crack

It has been a long time since I've read anything as idiotic as a recent editorial at the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Get a load of this:

When even leading media automatically veil Islam in implications of belligerence, is it any wonder Muslims perceive themselves under a siege of suspicion? American Muslims have a message for those who'd eye them so suspiciously: Leave us out of it.

What the hell is this crap? All of the biggest media in the country - ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CNN - give Muslims a pass. This list makes it very clear. I don't know what these editors are thinking. Look at CNN's report on the Hamas Hate Mouse. Mainstream media routinely hides bad news about Muslims and often deliberately distorts the truth just to make them look better.

The stereotypes were in evidence again, however, when the Pew study was published this week. Headlines focused on one inflammatory detail in the survey: Among Muslims between the ages of 18 and 29, 26 percent thought suicide bombings could be justified.

Of course headlines focused on that one detail -- it's alarming and something needs to be done about it.

In any case, how is a survey showing even marginal public support for conventional American bombing campaigns in Iraq less disquieting?

Ahhh, well, because our bombing campaigns target supporters of Saddam Hussein and bloodthirsty terrorist scum, while Muslim suicide bombings usually target innocent people, including women and little children, as they go about their daily lives. Are the liberals at the Daytona Beach News-Journal unable to make this distinction? Unwilling? What is wrong with them?

Star Wars turns 30

Michael Moore shot and killed at Cannes

Three catering companies filed for bankruptcy following the shooting.

Union-Tribune confused

The San Diego Union-Tribune should get an award for High Idiocy.

A woman was run over with her own SUV outside a convenience store in Pacific Beach Thursday afternoon because of a defective parking brake, police said.

The woman had just gotten out of her 2005 Lexus vehicle in a 7-Eleven parking lot on Grand Avenue and Lamont Street when it started to roll backward about 1:30 p.m.

Police said she had set the parking brake before she got out, but had left the vehicle in neutral.

Whoops, I guess they forgot to mention the neutral situation up front. It got crowded out by the resounding condemnation of the alleged failed parking brake. Seriously, did she get run over because the parking brake failed, which has not been verified, or because she failed to place the transmission in Park? Why will this society not take responsibility for itself? Fuck. This is so tiresome.

Let's review: If you park a car on a hill and fail to put the vehicle in a low gear (manual transmission) or park, and then get out, you are a fucking idiot. It doesn't matter what happens with the parking brake. The chances of a parking brake failing, or failing to prevent a vehicle from rolling, are very, very high. The chances of a vehicle rolling after placed in Park are very, very low. Got it?

Teen arrested for thought crime

From AP:

A teenager is being held on hate crime charges for allegedly removing a Sikh student's turban and forcibly cutting off his hair in a school bathroom, authorities said Friday.

Umair Ahmed, 17, was charged with unlawful imprisonment, menacing and aggravated harassment, said Kevin Ryan, spokesman for the Queens district attorney. Ahmed was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

The Sikh religious faith calls for men to wear their hair long, and many wear turbans.

Sikh children are allowed to bring weapons to school in Canada.

Rosie "Pig" O'Donnell fired

MSM is reporting that Rosie decided to quit "The View" early. That's a lie. She was fired, and everyone knows it. Reuters:

Combative U.S. talk show host Rosie O'Donnell has decided to leave ABC's "The View" early after an on-air spat with Elisabeth Hasselbeck over the Iraq war that aired repeatedly on cable TV, the network said on Friday.

"Combative" is a very generous way to describe a fat bitch with a mouth even bigger than her girth.

25% of young U.S. Muslims say suicide bombing OK sometimes

This must be the "tiny minority of extremists". Al-AP:

WASHINGTON -- One in four younger U.S. Muslims said in a poll that suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances, though most Muslim Americans overwhelmingly reject the tactic and are critical of Islamic extremism and al-Qaida.

The survey by the Pew Research Center, one of the most exhaustive ever of the country's Muslims, revealed a community that in many ways blends comfortably into society. Its largely mainstream members express nearly as much happiness with their lives and communities as the general public does, show a broad willingness to adopt American customs, and have income and education levels similar to others in the U.S.

Even so, the survey revealed noteworthy pockets of discontent.

While nearly 80 percent of U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings of civilians to defend Islam can not be justified, 13 percent say they can be, at least rarely.

That sentiment is strongest among those younger than 30. Two percent of them say it can often be justified, 13 percent say sometimes and 11 percent say rarely.

The insolence of Jimmy Carter, the honor of Sandra Day O'Connor

Compare Jimmy Carter, who travels the world bashing Bush, to Sandra Day O'Connor, retired Supreme Court justice:



A Ronald Reagan appointee, O'Connor was an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1981 until her retirement in 2006.

Jimmuh Cahtuh, idiot

From al-AP, via Drudge:

Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.

The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding.

Of course Carter is against Bush's foreign policies. Jimmy is a coward, and Bush's policies aren't cowardly. There's really no mystery about it.

Illegal alien amnesty

'Devil Sheep'

Watch this YouTube video

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Britain misses a huge opportunity

When Britain decided not to send Prince Harry to Iraq, they missed out on something great. They could have sent a stand-in for the purpose of attracting the maggots. Sort of a roach motel. We could have killed dozens of scumbags. That's why British and U.S. forces remain in the country, after all.

BBC:

Prince Harry will not be sent to Iraq because of the "unacceptable risks", the head of the British army has said.

General Sir Richard Dannatt said the prince's deployment would pose a threat to him and those serving alongside him.

The announcement, which represents a U-turn on an earlier decision, was made amid reports militant groups in Iraq planned to kill or kidnap the prince.

Clarence House said Prince Harry was "very disappointed" but would not be leaving the Army as a result.

McCain and Huckabee at Republican debate

Fred Thompson responds to Michael Moore

Socialist crackpot Michael Moore has challenged Fred Thompson to a debate. Here's Thompson's video response.

The Shaved Ape is taking names

NBC "Law & Order" pushes anti-war message

The "Law & Order" episode that aired Friday, May 11, 2007 covered a fictional crime related to the deplorable conditions found at some VA hospitals. One portion of the show was an obvious message to the American public, "The war in Iraq is bad":



NYPD Lieutenant:

"Tell me what he was like."

"Just like that."

I watch drama shows to be entertained, not to have a leftist political agenda rammed down my throat.

The use of this video clip is considered "Fair use" by the "Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, 'Circular 92'."

Chapter 1, Section 107 states that material such as this clip may be used (with emphasis added), "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research."

Spectacular Geico commercial

I grabbed this from the NASCAR Busch series race last night on ESPN2. This is the Wallace family, famous in American racing, pitching Geico car insurance. Who says DVR owners don't watch commercials? If they're good, I watch them again and again.

Another skewed leftie "report"

There has been yet another agenda-driven "report" from the unhinged left. Even half-wits can read a report and its methodology and realize whether it's objective or not. The problem is that most Americans are not as smart as half-wits.

LA Times:

Brooks also failed to tell Times readers that the researchers admit they had to make several changes to their "coding instrument" because the first attempts generated "unacceptably low scores." That's code for: they tried and tried until the results fit the preconceived notion of name-calling on the Factor.

It's a lot like the Lancet Report.

CNN downplays hateful use of Palestinian Mickey Mouse

I recorded this clip on CNN this morning. It may be the worst thing I've ever seen from them. I recorded, uploaded, and am using the clip lawfully, in accordance with federal Fair Use guidelines.



CNN pulled out all the stops in their effort to discredit the infamous Palestinian TV show using Mickey Mouse to teach hatred to children. They even turned the tables on Israel by allowing a Palestinian guest to bash the country.

• Clip is being publicized by "privately funded, pro-Israeli groups".


• Palestinian Minister of Information was alarmed; he called the TV station and the video has been stopped.


• Translation of "We will annihilate the Jews" could be wrong. It might actually say "The Jews are killing us."


• Info Minister says Israel has imposed "a situation of imprisonment, for years" and says the "apartheid situation" makes people crazy.

UPDATE 5/14/2007

Blogs that link to the video:

Atlas Shrugs
Winds of Jihad

Bill Clinton's NYT crossword puzzle

According to Reuters, Bubba has created a crossword puzzle for The New York Times. Here's a sneak peek:

Hippie roundup

The Shaved Ape goes into the Hippie Wasteland so you don't have to

I hope you enjoy this collection of funny nonsense from the hippie blogs...

DailyKos

Restoring habeas corpus has tickled somebody at Kos:

Congressional Democrats now have the opportunity to undo the most egregious damage they've done to the Constitution with the Military Commissions Act. While the ACLU and other organizations are working to have the entire Act repealed, at the very least restoring habeas is a critical start.

I guess Lincoln can do it for the entire country, but Bush can't do it for some bloodthirsty cockroaches who can't be classified as civilians or prisoners of war. This is cognitive dissonance at its finest -- and good ole stupidity.

In another piece of faux outrage, a Kos Koolaid drinker has found the needle in a haystack -- a mainstream media story that doesn't suck Democrat cock. Here's their reaction:

OK, you have just read -- in order -- the first, second, third and fourth paragraphs of the AP's story. The last one I showed you was Rep. Jeb Hensarling -- who was also responsible, by the way, for hawking the ridiculous attacks about the Sergeant at Arms' request that the Speaker utilize a larger plane -- saying, "I don't have any facts."

I have to give kudos to the KosKreeps. They found such a rare thing as an AP story critical of their precious Regressive bowel-movement. They seem cheered. Good for them!

Bong Alert™ for a writer called "devilstower":

Imagine a land that has, on both the east and the west, large Democratic-leaning cities with diverse populations. Between these densely populated regions the more rural areas tend toward the red end of purple, particularly in parts of the south, where the election map practically glows crimson. Imagine that this place is led by an imbecilic executive whose popularity ratings are lower than any measured in decades, and that the 2006 elections saw an election where Democrats gained at every level. Have that place well in mind?

There's plenty more:

Though Missourians elected Claire McCaskill as our senator in 2006, to replace the weasely Jim Talent, and gains were made at the local level, Republicans managed to hold onto a 21 vote edge in the state house, and a 21-13 edge in the state senate. And to top if off, Matt Blunt -- idiot son of the already none-too-swift Republican Whip, the man who never met a French joke he didn't like -- remains on his throne.

Witty writing, paranoia, clutching tightly at victim status -- this bit from "devilstower" has something for every hippie. I wonder if he has made any replicas of Devil's Tower in his mashed potatoes? I'm guessing affirmative.

White Noise Insanity

This is probably the worst hippie blog I've seen on the web. It's so far off the deep end, it's kind of funny. I feel sad for it's owner. Here she's using the FBI bust of the cockroaches planning to attack Fort Dix as a way to -- wait for it, guess now, be patient -- attack Bush!

How come we have Islamic militants who are devoted to Osama bin Laden in our country and conspiring to kill American soldiers????? Huh, Bush? I thought you said we’re killing the terrorists in Iraq, so they don’t hop on a boat and row across the Atlantic to kill us!!!! Oh that’s right. While George W. Bush has been killing Iraqi children in Iraq and while there’s a civil war going on in the middle of his illegal occupation, he’s pissed off the terrorists to the point that they’ve grown in number and are now in our country.

Not only is this stuff dull and pointless, it's childish. Like most of these hippie blogs, the wench in charge of this one seems to go further down the rabbit hole as she goes along. Here she's blaming Bush for a slow response in Kansas after the storms:

Heckava job, Georgie Bush! Your fake war in Iraq has caused America the inability to protect herself! Happy now? I bet you are. You and your neo-Mafia want nothing more than for America to burn while you build your own nation in Iraq, so you can be king of it someday and so your corporate whores will have another place to pilfer and plunder for eternity and all of it is being done under the protection of US soldiers! You’re sick in the head, Georgie. You don’t deserve a 28% approval rating at this point. A 2.8% seems to be a better reflection. Yep, you lost two towns under your leadership, Georgie. Pathetic.

The woman behind White Noise Insanity calls herself "Kay", and I feel embarrassed for her. Remember when the hippies tried to blame Bush for a slow response to the Katrina disaster? They said all the National Guard troops were in Iraq, when each of the affected states had between 10,000 and 18,000 available troops. Hippies had a good opportunity to learn something then, but promptly forgot how this stuff works when the tornado struck the Kansas town. Who will give me odds they won't blame Bush for the next natural disaster?

Crooks and Liars

One of the little contributors to this blog parrots the tired old line that being against those who blow up planes, trains, and themselves in the pursuit of 72 virgins in the afterlife, is a product of "fear, hatred and ignorance":

Air America Radio talk show host Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks joined Crystal McCrary Anthony and Niger Innis on tonight's "Paula Zahn Now" to discuss the hysteria surrounding a lawsuit being filed by Pastor O'Neal Dozier and others to keep a mosque from being built in a predominately black neighborhood in Pompano Beach, Florida. Cenk points out the absurdity of the lawsuit and how it is driven by fear, hatred and ignorance.

And another one is blaming the Iraq war for the problems in Kansas. I get the feeling that liberal bloggers all have the same sticky note attached to the side of their monitors.

The governor is not to blame here. She didn't start the war, and she didn't decide to send to send the National Guard equipment to Iraq. And despite her constant efforts to get that equipment back in order to deal with disasters like last weekend's tornado, it's still her fault. Have they no shame? (Another rhetorical question.)

I would have been confused without the parenthetical explanation.

Democratic Underground

There's a post supporting hate crimes legislation. I'm not fully decided on this issue, but one thing is certain: a hate crime is a thought crime. George Orwell, anyone?

I hope you realize that by railing against hate-crime laws, you're on quite a slippery slope. If you believe that there should be no protections in place for minorities against crimes committed on the sole basis of who we are, then be prepared to explain why we shouldn't eliminate all "special rights" laws, such as protection in housing and employment.

All thought crimes can be dealt with under existing law. For instance, if somebody beats up a minority, there are plenty of ways to put them in prison. No thought crimes are needed. I wouldn't expect a hippie to understand that.

Firedoglake

The first post I found on this hippie rag acknowledged there are jihadis, and more amazingly, that some want to kill us. There were strings attached, of course.

Well, after weeks of trying to pin every car-backfire, school massacre, and kid with a cherry bomb on phony cabals of Muslim Fanatic Terrorists, Righty Blogistan and the Em Ess Em have finally got themselves a group of real live jihadi.

Bong Alert™:

Great Merciful Ashurbanipal on toast points. James Lileks, Mister Whiny Right-Wing Entitlement Boy, is having a hissy fit because his home perch and sugar tit, the Minneapolis StarTribune, is taking him off the right-wing blowhard beat and forcing him to — quel horreur — Do. Actual. Journalism, something he readily admits he doesn't do, has never done, and probably can't do.

I defy anyone to write in such a manner without being under the influence of strong drugs. Hunter S. Thompson couldn't do it, and neither can the Firedoglake moron.

Wow, I haven't seen any Lieberman Loathing™ in a very long time. Leave it to Firedoglake to revert to an old talking point:

Proponents of keeping Lieberman in his position of seniority argue that he would switch parties if it was taken away. If the Democrats take one more seat in 2008, I wonder what they will say. A lot of things that should be happening aren't because Lieberman is chairman of a very important committee and he is keeping them from looking into GOP corruption on a variety of fronts.

Rising Hegemon

Here's hippiedom in all its glory. Bill O'Reilly follows the Soros money train, particularly how he is trying to buy U.S. leftist politics, and the hippies rush to his defense:

It's disgusting, and no person with an ounce of integrity would peddle, or be allowed to peddle on the public airwaves, such bigoted garbage.

He (it?) calls O'Reilly's outing of Soros a "pathetic conspiratorial smearing." Oh, my. Somebody's agitated.

And here he is lamenting the Sarkozy victory in France:

I have to cop to not following your elections too closely. But now I read this article and wonder if you learned anything from our experience these last few years. Bush and Newt Gingrich like Sarkozy. That's right: Bush and Newt Gingrich. Easily two of the most loathed men in America like your president. That should have told you to run from this guy faster than Bush ran from New Orleans after his post-Katrina photo op.

I believe the French have learned a lot from the American experience. Muslims are attacking everywhere in the world, including places like Paris, Lyons, and Marseilles. The media -- at least here -- likes to call them "youths", but the French know who they are. During the first round of rioting, which the cockroaches brought on themselves, Sarkozy called them "scum". And he won the presidency with relative ease. The French know exactly what they're getting: a president who won't cave in to criminals. And good for them.

TalkLeft

Here's yet another one who is very quick, too quick perhaps, to point out there is no connection between Al-Qaeda and the Fort Dix six. Any connection, the hippies believe, would make Bush look right, and the hippies can't tolerate that. He's wrong about everything, and causes most of the hurricanes and tornadoes in the world. He is the cause of terrorism, too, in the rare instances hippies choose to acknowledge terrorism.

Yesterday I wrote about the FBI's acknowledgment that there was no known connection between those charged in the Fort Dix case and al-Qaida.

After all, they trained not in Afghanistan but in the Poconos.

Let me see if I've got this. Because the jihadi scum trained in the Poconos, Bush is still bad. Okay, whatever. This is truly pointless. I'll say what I assume is on everyone's mind: Who gives a flying fuck where they trained? They're Muslims who were preparing to kill en masse in the name of Allah. There is no other way to spin this, you dumb hippies! Pointing out that they didn't train in Afghanistan means nothing, to anyone.

My DDs

Here's a far-left blog dedicated to the creator's own tits, apparently. Gotta love that. Front and center we find a celebration of cut-n-run and some bashing of anyone who believes the United States should actually win a war.

Congressional Republicans have received fairly strong coverage over indications that their currently unwavering support for President Bush's neverending war in Iraq could wane come September should noticeable improvements not be made. But though it's quite apparent to many in the Netroots that this is merely another stall tactic by Republicans to keep the war going in perpetuity, perhaps nothing can make this fact more clear to the American public than reports today that the administration is intent on sending another 35,000 American troops to Iraq in August.

There's much more cut-n-run love at the DD blog:

One of the things I like about this plan is that it has a great name: "the short leash." That is certainly an improvement over earlier frames for Democratic Iraq plans, such as "slow bleed" for the original Murtha plan. It also has the advantage of forcing Republicans and the Bush administration to keep justifying the war through several votes and public hearings in the coming months.

I could have saved the writer a lot of hunting and pecking: the Democrats have no plan for Iraq except to run away like yellow bastards. What that "plan" is called makes no difference. Only hippie bloggers are fooled by the nomenclature of cowardice.

What would a hippie be if he wasn't constantly vigilant for racist conspiracies?

This is something I've had a number of conversations about with black consultants and operatives in the Democratic Party. There's a pervasive feeling that the plum jobs tend to go to white people who have been around for a long time and are in the club. This clubbiness is why elites don't accept genuine populist progressives as legitimate actors in the process, and it has a racial element highlighted by this article.

Every time I hear about something like this, I think of what Jesse Jackson said after touring the Katrina devastation in New Orleans. How could I forget? I laughed so hard I spit out my 7-up all over my monitor. "This place looks like the hull of a slave ship." Guffaw!

Liberal Values

This is a strange name for a blog, since liberal values are questionable at best. Like the value of turning criminals into victims and giving them light sentences, while advocating disarming the law-abiding segment of the public. Ted Nugent calls this the "braindead celebration of unarmed helplessness." Ted's a good man.

A hippie calling himself "Ron Chusid" believes that the case of the Fort Dix jihadis "is more proof that John Kerry was right." Give me a second. It will take both hands to lift my jaw up off the floor. John Kerry ("Is this where I get me a huntin' license") wasn't right about anything. I read parts of every speech the idiot gave leading up to his embarrassing defeat, and every single one of them mentioned the need to make our friends and allies like us. It was the central theme to his candidacy.

As a discussion forum linking here already noted today, the arrest of six men in a plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, is more proof that Kerry was right on fighting terrorism. During the 2004 campaign, Kerry argued that fighting terrorism was “far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering law enforcement operation. Republicans attacked him, but Kerry has repeatedly been proven right. The major successful actions against terrorism have been the results of police and intelligence action–not even requiring illegal wiretaps or torture.

In this next bit, I found at least some common ground with "Ron". When Mr. Huntin' License was defeated, he blamed it on the inability to get out the message, not the message itself. It never occurred to Kerry that a majority of people felt his message was nonsense. Here's what Ron says:

TechRepublican.com discusses the down turn in support for Republicans and blames it on the Republicans failing to utilize the internet as effectively as Democrats. If I might give them a bit of advice: a bad message will fail regardless of how well you use the internet to promote it.

I usually use the argument against hippies, but I will give credit where credit is due. When you get beat, you get beat. Suck it up and move on.

Here's a bit about the children of Republicans becoming Democrats. I don't know if there's any truth to that, and I don't care. There is something in this that interested me, though:

Last year there were stories on the fertility gap, warning that conservatives would outnumber liberals in the future since conservatives typically have more children than liberals. Despite the data supporting this data, I had little fear, feeling confident that humanity would move forward as historically “the overall trend has been for liberty to win out over tyranny and reason to be victorious over superstition.”

This hippie logic always escapes me, or, more likely, it's deeply flawed and that's why it makes no sense. When one challenges and defeats a tyrant, how does that make one a tyrant? And, when Bill Clinton used the NSA to wiretap phone lines, liberals didn't mind, but when Bush does it for the purpose of finding international Muslim terrorists bent on mass murder, they say the sky is falling. I'd like to send the hippies to a deprogramming camp. Nothing too strenuous. Just a weekend boot camp or something.

Jihadi scum prevented from committing mass murder

Islamofascists were prevented from attacking Fort Dix. I wonder where a pizza delivery guy in America would get such violent ideas. Could it be his religion? Did he learn it in a mosque? Hmmm. It's a big mystery, isn't it, liberals?

AP:

One defendant, Eljvir Duka, was recorded as saying: "In the end, when it comes to defending your religion, when someone ... attacks your religion, your way of life, then you go jihad."

"It doesn't matter to me whether I get locked up, arrested or get taken away, " another defendant, Serdar Tatar, was alleged to have said. "Or I die, it doesn't matter. I'm doing it in the name of Allah."

They appeared in federal court Tuesday in Camden and were ordered held without bail for a hearing Friday. Five were charged with conspiracy to kill U.S. military personnel; the sixth was charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigrants in obtaining weapons.

BBC on the Palestinian murderous Mickey

You've got to hand it to the BBC. They're far-left and don't even try to hide it. After watching clips of Mickey Mouse teaching kids to kill and murder on Palestinian TV, the BBC tells us it's a "political message".

A TV station run by Palestinian militant group Hamas is using a cartoon rodent in the image of Disney's Mickey Mouse to carry its political message.

The black-and-white character called Farfur appears on the children's show Tomorrow's Pioneers on al-Aqsa TV.

Brainwashing little kids to want to commit murder is not a political message! It's a subhuman disease that should be exterminated. What is wrong with these people?

UPDATE: LGF reveals the same problem at the Associated Press. Something happened at the AP, and I'm guessing either they were threatened by Muslims, or their inner desire to paint bloodthirsty terrorists as something less vile came through a little late. The apologists and appeasers of these people are almost, but not quite, as bad as the cockroaches themselves.

Jimmie Johnson wins in Virginia

Johnson won the NASCAR Nextel Cup race in Virginia yesterday, moving himself into second place in the driver championship. An article at The New York Times, written by Viv Bernstein, covers the Hendrick dominance. No offense intended, but can anybody with a name like "Viv Bernstein" know much about a southern, redneck sport?

Nascar officials hoped to improve competition this year when they rolled out the Car of Tomorrow in the Nextel Cup series. So far, it has done wonders for the battle among Hendrick Motorsports drivers.

But the rest of the field is being left behind.

For the fourth time in four Car of Tomorrow races this season, a Hendrick driver ended up celebrating in victory lane. This time it was Jimmie Johnson, who outraced his Hendrick teammate Kyle Busch to the checkered flag in the rain-delayed Jim Stewart 400 at Richmond International Raceway on Sunday afternoon.

Sarkozy wins

Sarkozy's win should be good for France. BBC:

Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy has won the hotly-contested French presidential election, according to early results.

The final count gave Mr Sarkozy 53.06%, compared with 46.94% for socialist Segolene Royal, with turnout at 85%.

Mr Sarkozy, 52, the son of a Hungarian immigrant, takes over from the 74-year-old Jacques Chirac.

Right on cue, leftists turned violent. Lefties (socialists, commies, liberals, cowards) are the same everywhere -- they're sore losers. As near as anyone can tell, the "youths" who are burning cars and attacking Paris police are protesting the eminent loss of their medieval economy. News.com.au:

RIOT police fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters gathered in central Paris today to demonstrate against the presidential election victory of right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy.

The clashes took place on the Place de la Bastille where about 5000 supporters of the defeated Socialist candidate Segolene Royal had gone to await the election results, an AFP journalist said.

Up to 300 rioters, some of whom were masked, made running attacks on riot police who took up positions at the entrance to boulevards leading onto the square.

France passed one test by choosing a president who stands for modernity. The next test will be whether they arrest the criminals who are rioting, or open a line of cowardly dialog.

Sarkozy's main problem will mirror Bush's: his country's press is hardline left, just like ours. So, regardless of what he does, the press will use gentle platitudes to make him appear as the devil incarnate.

French socialist tries to win through intimidation and fear

I never thought I would see the day when a dedicated socialist would use fear of violence to attack a right-wing political opponent. Segolene Royal has warned France that electing Nicolas Sarkozy would result in violence.

She's actually trying to scare the country, and seemingly expects them to vote for her because they are afraid to stand up to violent criminals. I have little doubt that a socialist like Royal is deathly afraid of offending anyone and the potential violence that may follow. Lefties are cowards and appeasement monkeys (see Spain after their 3/11 massacre, when Al Qaeda cowed them).

Reuters:

"Choosing Nicolas Sarkozy would be a dangerous choice," Royal told RTL radio.

"It is my responsibility today to alert people to the risk of (his) candidature with regards to the violence and brutality that would be unleashed in the country (if he won)," she said.

For the first time in decades France has an opportunity to crawl from under the oppressive rock of socialism -- with a Sarkozy victory. I hope, for the sake of the frogs, that the French don't fall for Royal's call for appeasement.

After all, if the "youths" (lefty euphemism for Muslims) go out of control after Sarkozy becomes the leader, the "scum" will be dealt with properly this time.

Since the Iraq war, socialists and similar cowards have been dumbfounded to see that the world doesn't view reality as they do:

Koizumi re-elected in Japan

Howard re-elected in Australia

Bush re-elected in the United States

Blair re-elected in Britain

Canada elected a right-wing prime minister

Will France follow suit and do the right thing?

Knife shows

If you've never seen the late night knife shows on the shopping channels, you're missing out. Here's one that went awry:

Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq offed

We nailed the current cockroach-in-chief in Iraq. Break out the champagne. Iraq has become a kind of fly paper for catching and killing these diseased subhumans. I can't believe anyone in America wants our troops to leave. BBC:

The interior ministry in Iraq says it has received intelligence that the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been killed.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri, believed to be an Egyptian, has led the group since June 2006 when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a US air strike.

Are the liberals in mourning?

Focus stealing

Who knows how to prevent applications from stealing focus in Windows XP? Before responding, please note the following:

I use Windows XP Home and Professional, and have no malware on my systems.

Here's a fairly good description of the problem:

When an application needs your attention—or when it simply wants to annoy you—it steals the focus from the application in which you're currently working. This leads to frustration as you flip back and forth between windows. The settings in the Focus category prevent that scenario by causing applications to flash their taskbar buttons to get your attention rather than stealing focus from the application in the foreground.

The following "fixes" do not work:

1. Edit the ForegroundLockTimeout key in the registry. If focus is being stolen, the value for this key is probably set to zero. Changing it to 30d40 (in hex) is supposed to fix the problem. It doesn't, because after a half hour of using the computer, the focus stealing starts up again. When I check the registry, I find that the value has been changed back to zero. Something (i.e. an application) is changing it back. Now why would Microsoft allow applications to do this? Also, the stealing occurs even when the value is correct.


2. Use a Microsoft utility called TweakUI. This applet has a focus section, where applications bent on stealing focus can be thwarted. As it turns out, this is a simple way to change the ForegroundLockTimeout key. As with manually changing the key value, the TweakUI setting mysteriously changes to allow focus stealing to continue.


3. Tell Firefox not to steal focus. To access Firefox's "secret" configuration area, type about:config into the URL field and press ENTER. Double-click browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to change the value from false to true. Hailed as a magic cure for stopping Firefox from robbing me of my precious time, it does nothing.

4. Adjust Firefox's Javascript settings. In Firefox, go to Tools, Options, Content, Advanced Javascript. De-select "Raise or lower windows." This doesn't work, either.