Election approach question...

I've been getting a lot of election telephone calls, computer ones and live too. I saw on a lefty web site the other day a suggestion that when a call comes from a "Rethuglican", to not hang up but to spin out the call as long as possible, thus decreasing the enemy's contact time with voters.

This sort of tactic is, to my mind, right up there with stealing yard signs. But my question is, how do others handle these election calls? I've already voted, so I just hang up.

The German pastor is not the first...

person to self immolate over the religion of peace.

"Dr. Darabi practiced for two years in Bahmanier, a village in northern Iran. In 1968 she passed the Education Council Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) examination and came to the United States to further her education in Pediatrics. She later specialized in Psychiatry and then in child-psychiatry and was licensed to practice medicine in the States of New Jersey, New York and California. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in mid 1970's...

When a 16 year old girl was shot to death in Northern Tehran for wearing lipstick about a month prior to her death, Dr. Darabi could no longer handle the guilt she felt about her favorable involvement in the Iranian Revolution, and the way women were being treated in Iran, she finally decided to protest the oppression of women by setting herself on fire in a crowded square in northern Tehran, on February 21, 1994. Her last cry was
Death to Tyranny
Long Live Liberty
Long Live Iran. "

I have never understood this sort of self destruction, and believe it is madness not self sacrifice. I suppose he despaired, but is not as though no one knows about the problem. Find another way to help.

The box of joy...

I am remembering a time a couple of years back in England. I was at Greenwich, which is one of my very favorite places. It's so gorgeous and peaceful. Anyway, the old Royal Naval College, a fantastic beautiful work of art, is now

Trinity College of Music

. I was walking in the courtyard between two of the wings, each 3 stories tall. It was a warm autumn day, and all the windows were open. From each window came the sound of a beautifully played instrument or an amazing singing voice. Each different, each playing a different melody. Each student was practicing (as he or she thought) alone. But for their secret auditor, it was like being in a giant reverberating stone box of joy, roofed with a bluer than possible sky.

The world can hold such unexpected brilliance.

Pastor sets himself on fire as a warning...

There's no other word but Christ, is there?

"In a farewell letter to his wife the vicar wrote that he was setting himself on fire to warn against the danger of the Islamization of Europe."

Of course, "Bishop Noack emphasized that the motive for the suicide complicates matters. He said he hopes that the affair and the question of how Christians should relate to Muslims will not lead to unrest."

Because there isn't any unrest already. Oh no, pay no attention to those youths behind the banlieu, the great and powerful PC has spoken!

A great new holiday...

Top of the blog roll!

"There should be a day, every year-- a new holiday: Tell Them Day. A day when we all, together, gather Braveness in our hands and Run to those we love silently, and Sing."

"Maybe there should be a day when we actually come out and tell someone we don't love them too. Maybe it could be the same day. I think that part would be even harder."

If Kerry were a man, or an American,

This is what he'd say:

"There is no excuse or explanation for my comment. I am so ashamed of my insult to the millions, living and dead, who have served and saved our liberty as enlisted service members that I am today resigning from the senate and retiring from public life. Any pension to which I am entitled will go to (name of charity serving enlisted service people). That is all I can do to demonstrate my shame. Thank you, and once again I apologise for what I said, and more for the fact that I thought it.

ACTUAL MODERATE MOSLEMS!!!!!!

No, seriously!

(I despise that term, "moderate Moslems". What, they believe in Allah, but not too strongly? That's an insult. What is meant is "decent" or "law abiding" Moslems.)

The dhimmi Manchester Police Department commanded its officers to avoid arresting ROP members during Ramadan as a matter of "sensitivity".

"Police shouldn't hesitate to arrest any Muslims they had planned to during Ramadan. We must all be equal under the law. If people think Muslims are immune from the law, it will only stir up tensions within the community."

That's not me, or some BNP "Racist", but Mohammed Shafiq, from the Ramadhan Foundation! PRAISE BE UPON HIM. When the fatwas come, he's welcome at my house.

And more!

"Boxer Amir Khan is supporting a police campaign to keep the festival of Eid trouble-free in Greater Manchester."

Even more!

"Let not hatred of any people seduce you into being unjust. Be just, that is nearer to piety (al-Ma’idah 5:8). In this context we must state that the murder on September 17th of an innocent Catholic nun in Somalia—and any other similar acts of wanton individual violence—‘in reaction to’ your lecture at the University of Regensburg, is completely un-Islamic, and we totally condemn such acts."

Thans to PC Bloggs and the Dinocrat for the tips.

School shooting solution...

Well, termination anyway.

Of course, the usual suspects have the usual response to the providing of self defense information- doubleplusungoodthink!

"Five or six seventh-grade kids and a 95-pound art teacher can basically challenge, bring down and immobilize a 200-pound man with a gun."

Servant problems...

I may have blogged this First Post series before, but these are some fine honest stories. I'd be intrigued and moved even if I were not a former servant.

I was once accused of the cold, coldness in the heart.

For three months all I hear was "You are stupid"...

Infidel harlot in France stoned for eating a sandwich...

Sorry to steal the

infidelharlot

's name, but really- this 14 year old girl was eating a sandwich in Lyon when some Moslems decided to enforce ramadan.

Do you notice that these characters never go one on one with big strong men? The religion of bullies, too.

The original report is in French.

This is the Babelfish translation. (In France a College is what Americans would call a high school.)

Attacked because she lunched during the Ramadan

The incidents took place in the playground of the Jean-Mermoz college

Four minors were put in examination Tuesday to have thrown stones with a girl who ate a sandwich in a college, in Lyon.

Amélie GAUTIER - 10/10/2006 - 16h49


The headmaster speaks about a "phenomenon of violence in a small college of ZEP", a source of the newspaper the Progress, which reveals information, speaks about teenager attacked "under pretext which it did not observe by the fast of the Ramadan". A pupil of third to the Jean-Mermoz college located in the eighth district of Lyon was slightly wounded Thursday after having received stones thrown by four old boys from 12 to 16 years, according to sources'. The latter reproached him for eating a sandwich during the Ramadan. The facts occurred in the morning in the course of recreation. The supervisors quickly intervened, the 14 year old teenager examined by a doctor was slightly wounded with the face and "very shocked". She did not have a ITT.

"It is a school incident of life which occurs in a a little difficult district", the director of the establishment Philippe Vanzetti in station estimates since September in this small college located at 500 meters of the Large mosque of Lyon. Side of the vice-chancellorship, one refused Monday to evoke the non-observance of the religion as reason for the aggression of the teenager "It is necessary to take time to analyze the facts. However, being in in full period of Ramadan, one can put the question. " According to Progress's, "the thesis of an act related to the non-observance of the Ramadan is however confirmed by the court of Lyon on the faith of the first elements of the investigation". In addition, two minors recognized the facts.

The following day of the aggression, the headmaster joined together all the college "to make a recall with the law". "Each teacher also took time at the beginning of his course to speak about violence at the school with the pupils", specifies Philippe Vanzetti in LCI.fr. And to set up this week of the publicity campaigns at the compliance with the rules "It is necessary really that the pupils understand that violences must remain with the doors of the college", hammers the headmaster. The family of the teenager carried felt sorry for Friday. Six people were heard with the police station of the 8th district. Presented at the court Tuesday, four minors were put in examination.

I am stolen from...

I hired well reccommended roofers to repair my roof. I was clear and direct about how the work was to be done, the roofer boss repeated the job details to me.

I came home unexpectedly, to find the job being short cut. I remonstrated, and the roofer boss was surly but ended up doing the job right.

When I came home the next day to pay him and his crew off. I noticed that my recently filled 5 gallon gasoline can was not in its correct place on the porch. After I paid him, he drove away in his shiny new looking pickup truck. And when he had cleared the driveway, I saw the gasoline can sitting beside where the truck had been parked.

Yes, only about a half gallon left. He'd obviouslt poured 4 1/2 gallons into his truck.

Although the can says gasoline, I had just filled it with DIESEL FUEL.

I love it when the crime choice process fails dramatically.

Veil nonsense...

Can you explain the difference? Because I can't. Other than, "My invisible friend told me to".








It is an offence here to go masked on the public streets. It should be everywhere, if you're hiding your face you're up to no good.

And I'd be ashamed to belong to an organisation which required, or even permitted, such a filthy and disgusting practice.

The Turks prohibited the veil 80 years ago, and most of them are still Moslems.

Diversity nonsense increases racial anger...

and more importantly, decreases everyone's liberty.

"While diversity policies are supposedly introduced in the name of protecting ordinary people they inevitably result in policing and managing them, making race relations worse. "

Me on a date...

On the right...

Christmas at Auschwitz...

Or maybe "Last train to Dachau".

Is it just me who thinks this Christmas plate is not as festive as it might be?

Knoxville blogdezvous...

Thanks to Rick's kindness, the "Rocky Top Brigade" held a blogdezvous in Knoxville. I snuck across the state line to attend. It was fun indeed- laughs, dog stories, politics, religion, husbands, wives, sweethearts, you name it. It has been a few years since I was in Knoxville's "old city", which is a gaggle of turn of the last century stores and warehouses whose owners are trying to make into an urban hot spot. All I can say is, if I were spending a half million dollars for a place to live, it wouldn't be a loft in an old warehouse in Knoxville, Tennessee. That's a Somerset house price!

These were the bloggers who showed- Rep. Campfield and Tam had more important things to do.

Shots Across The Bow
No Silence Here
Juliepatchouli
Frank Murphy
Swap Blog
Staghounds
Domestic Psychology
Knoxviews
TN Girl
jonathan hickman
katieallisongranju
Cafkia
Tennessee's Progressive Report

Average Gay Joe...

"How can I NOT blog roll such a great title?"

Kudzu-Eating Goat Died Of Natural Causes...

"...two guard donkeys were being brought to the site today..."

THIS is an immigration procedure...

More Swiss goodness.

Lefties HATE democracy. When the dumb old people make the wrong choice, the answer is to take the people's authority away.

" “The Milovanovics have met all the legal requirements for citizenship: They have paid 1,000 francs for their application to be considered, they have been interviewed by the local council, they have passed German tests, and demonstrated their understanding of the Swiss way of life. But now they have to convince Emmen's 10,000 voters. "

Have to fisk this one, my cracks are italic.

But all this is not enough: The local political parties in Emmen have been holding meetings so that voters can ask the applicants questions.

The Milovanovics answer everything patiently, meekly, with great courtesy.

As I would be happy to do, if I were asking to be given the priviledge of citizenship.

But why submit to such a humiliating public examination?

Um, because they want to be citizens and are happy to show themselves to their new neighbors?

"Well, if it has to be, it has to be,'" she says. "We'll just put up with it." Where is the outrage?!?! Doesn't she understand that she is a VICTIM with a GRIEVANCE?!?!

Locals' whims

This is the lefty world view in two words. When it's a decision we agree with, it's the sovereign majesty of the people's will expressed through the sole legitimate test of democracy. When we disagree, they are "locals" with "whims".

There is good reason for her stoicism; last year when Emmen voted on applications for nationality, 48 out of a total of 56 were rejected. Not a single person from the Balkans was accepted.

Well, Ms. Foulkes, let them come live in your house.


It is democracy gone sour, a way to express prejudice, and punish innocent people.

No, it's democracy with a result you don't like. I don't suspect that you thought the British pistol ban was democracy gone sour or a way to punish innocent people.

After watching the goings on in Emmen with increasing unease, I asked a Swiss friend whether it would not be better to take the whole nationality issue away from the local communities and make the decision anonymously at federal level. He too is repelled by the prejudices expressed in Emmen, but he looks at me in surprise.

"That could never happen in Switzerland. The people always have the final say," he said.

If only everyone reacted with surprise to the idea of surrendering his sovreiginty to a faceless, uncontrolled bureaucrat. THAT IS A FREE MAN SPEAKING, Ms. Foulkes.

But because in theory it is democracy, no one, it seems, wants to challenge it.

No, this is GENUINE PRACTICAL democracy. Where is the theory part?

"People would vote the same way in your country if they could," said one Swiss friend.

I am sure many would, but they do not have the right to, and quite frankly after watching the ordeal of the Milovanovics I think I prefer a more limited democracy.

That is to say, not democracy.

The irony of the whole miserable Emmen episode is that if the Milovanovic family's application for citizenship is rejected, they will still live permanently in Switzerland, doing the same jobs, going to the same schools and visiting the same shops.

They seem just fine with that deal. I certainly would be.

But they will be doing it all in the knowledge that for some reason their neighbours did not think they were good enough to be Swiss, and worthy enough to vote alongside them.

An important supplement to the lefty creed. I live in the smallest pokiest house in the best neighbourhood in town. I have never been invited into most of those fine houses. I don't demand or care to be, and that doesn't bother me. They don't have to have a reason, as I don't have to justify whom I have visit me. But that won't do for the lefty. Look at the big house, look at the little house. RESENT.

Swiss Bicycle ANTI TANK UNIT...

I'm all Helvetophilic today. But there are some serious philosophical points in this article.

"We can be sitting in a room and if the call comes for action we can get to anything within 50 km before the tank boys have even got their vehicles ready,"

But year after year, as they wait for this action, the same thing happens, and it is beginning to sap the strength of even the hardiest of them - nobody invades Switzerland.

If nobody invades you, you won.

It is a pattern seen right across Swiss society, a dissatisfaction building up with neutrality and isolationism - both of which seemed wise in the past but do not meet the needs of modern life.

Nobody complained about isolationism and neutrality in, say, 1942. Or 1917.

But it also comes from soldiers who want to practise their craft keeping the peace in the world's hotspots, not sit around at home peering over the mountains in mock fear of the threat they know does not exist.

1. Experts like to work, that's where the ego points are. KEEP THE GENERALS ON A SHORT LEAD. When your tool is a hammer...

2. The threat exists. Just because the old bear died doesn't mean there will never be another bear. See lack of threat in 1872, 1919, 1945...

The soldiers - part of a militia army designed purely to defend Swiss doorsteps - feel particularly excluded from global opportunities and challenges.

Five centuries ago the Swiss were the terror of Europe. There's a reason those long ago warriors passed on the empire opportunity. If it works, don't fix it!

Soon perhaps the Swiss will be in the UN and the EU and their bicycle troops will be reduced to ceremonial duties.

I hope not, Brussels is fouling up enough places!

All penis restaurant...

Aren't you glad you don't work at a place where you have to say to a reporter,

"Women don't come here so often, and they shouldn't eat testicles"?

The Torygraph is direct-

In China, you are what you eat.

Whereas Al-Beeb is informative.

"Snake. Very potent. They have two penises each."

I did not know that.

Terrorism has no religion adverts...

"To reveal the true and ample doctrines of Islam, and expose the contempt these terrorists hold for the spiritual essence of our religion. These terrorists and their ungodly way are the ones responsible for making Islam an easily marked target in the eyes of the world, as well as causing Muslims to be the subject of criticism before the world community."

I don't know how to "embed", so click on the links to see the adverts.

http://www.noterror.info/STL-High.wmv

http://www.noterror.info/Routine-45sec-High.wmv

Click here for the campaign web site. There are also links to the adverts in smaller form, if you can't play the larger ones I've linked.

Thanks to my littermate, living in a sandy place.

An interesting Libertarian take on the burka...

And not just because it describes my attire!

" “Whereas your clothes will never go out of fashion; they'll just look dreadful year after year,” came the cutting reply."

A GREAT new word - DIVERSOMETER...

This is a perfect neologism, courtesy of Discriminations.org:

"Also note that neither Muslims nor Arabs were even mentioned. Presumably there are none in Rochester, or if there are for some reason they don’t register on the diversometer."

A brave and clever English lady...

So this young lady carried an Israeli flag around Oxford to see what happened.

"“If Galileo gave in, why shouldn't I?” Sharansky thought.

No. It was precisely because of Galileo that Sharansky did not give in. Because of Galileo, the world stayed in the state of having bad science for a lot longer than needed. Because of Galileo, people in similar situations ever since have thought “If he gave in, why shouldn't I?” Sharansky did not want people to think the same thing with him. In the end, after his years of imprisonment and mistreatment, Sharansky was freed. He had not once given in.

I don't want to be like Galileo. I want people to think, “If Lulie stood up for what she believes in, so should I!”, just as Sharansky did."

Hurrah for Lulie. Not because it's an Israeli flag, but for putting the principle into practice.

Maybe next she'll try an American flag, or a Turkish one.

Since we aren't serious...

I have been beating the drum about the risk of disturbing the Western bees too much

for some time

The problem is that there is currently no way to transmit general public anger to the missiles. They are controlled by politicians, who are the craven tools of media and their polls. Those media do not want us to respond effectively, and will treat anyone advocating effective response with blackout and then the harshest criticism.

The only effective response other than genocide is direct attack on the persons of those who encourage and subsidise jihad. That means impoverishing and killing very powerful men who have no direct- in the sense of provable criminal liability- connection with the actual murderers. It means seizing assets, including the oil weapon, from countries who will mouth anti-terrorism platitudes. Mistakes will be made.

And the very WORST thing it will require is that discretion be used without endless public debate, scrutiny, and second guessing. If we kill the wrong tyrant, our response should be "He should have been a better friend", not gallons of tears. Killing a counter insurgency means forcing open choice on others. Killing a religious war means killing the idea.

(Hold up, I'm having a thought.)

Really, it's not a world wide counter insurgency, it's a world wide religious civil war. The jihadis are quite as much citizens of our world as my Confederate ancestors were of the United States. Western liberty of thought is no more historically inevitable than abolition was. We and the jihadis share competing life templates is all. Theirs- narrow codes of personal behaviour, subjection of women, tightly limited expression, criminalisation of homosexuality- are pretty much the historic human state, and do not differ much from the European template of four centuries ago. Or four minutes ago if you ask Pat Robertson about buggers.

My point is that since it IS a civil war, we really do have to STAMP OUT the very idea of "Islamism", which I define as using the power of the state to enforce, or recognise, the behaviour requirements of the Moslem faith. That means Ataturkism at home. No hijab on the street. No time off to pray or for Ramadan for government employees. Islam and its adherents get no more recognition than Catholics or Amish.

And it means fighting our enemies abroad, and our enemies are EVERY ADVOCATE OF ISLAMISM. Every one of them. Every Emir, every Madrassa, every newspaper. Every riyal spent on encouraging murder. Every cell tower and lap top that calls for jihad. You might think it, but if you express it, we'll be after you like white on rice. And we have really big ears, and our aim might be poor.

Which is the third point of the trident, we have to force people to decide which side they are on, and act on it. Only when the populations of Moslem countries are as upset about bombings as they are about bacon will we turn the corner.

We have to be overt about it. We can't just be against airplanes blowing up. "Please don't kill us" is not an aim. And it's defeat, because it's really "please kill us after you reduce the rest of the earth, and us, to the point of submission that killing us is the only thing left."

We have to say NO. We have to make support for sharia as inexpressible as is support for another great Moslem institution, slavery. We have to make it clear that Islam may only be a private matter, not a public institution. Once we accept that responsibility our course will become much easier.

The problem is, who will say these things? They are unsayable in public because they will always be designated as racism, intolerance, paranoia, or some other evil by any media or educational outlet.

Don't think that mushroom clouds over Paris or London or New York will make a difference, they won't. Do you really believe that a few hundred thousand dead westerners will make the New York Times editorial board say "We were WRONG. Kill millions. We won't complain."

Hell, we won't even dispose of Terry Nichols.

Which leaves us with three concieveable futures.

1. More of the same bombing outrage/tough talk/appease/repeat cycle. Eventually we will allow the world to become so chaotic that China steps in to restore order.

2. Public anger so pervasive and powerful that it installs serious people in authority. These serious people will come from no current large political machine, by definition they are not serious. Dark horses, third parties, or revolution. Don't look for much proportion or moderation from them.

3. The jihadis finally DO fuck with the wrong people. They blow up a school in the Ukraine, an airport in India, or a train station with a French nuclear submarine captain's family inside it, and a serious leader does what we aren't tough enough to do. What harm would befall Belarus or Esthonia, or Capitaine de Vaisseau D'X, if one of them puts a few megatons on Mecca or Riyadh?

Welcome to a new police blogger!

Courtesy of PC Copperfield. She's accurate and funny!

"For the first time, not all female police officers are lesbians, so that makes for a much happier atmosphere of flirting and inter-colleague affairs, rather than all the nasty insults about "dykes", which are now just reserved for those women officers with short hair."

A perfect jihad victory!

Attention jihadis!

Every time you fly, carry a cellular telephone. Be sure it can't be traced to you- steal one, or just get a broken one at a junk shop. When you fly, take it with you. When you arrive at your destination, leave it between the seat cushions. Eventually the infidels will find it. They will panic- I wonder how many tens, or hundreds, of thousands of pounds are sucked out of their economy by turning around a trans atlantic flight? Plus it reinforces the whole point of the jihad- the kuffar are craven weaklings.

Their fear makes them stupid, too- no one thought to eject the thing from the airplane, take the batteries out, or just stamp it to bits?

Allah is truly great.

" LONDON - A British Airways flight to New York was turned back to London’s Heathrow airport on Sunday because of a security scare over a mobile phone that did not belong to any of the passengers, officials said."

Suppose we hadn't "foiled" the latest bomb plot...

It's a shame if the "liquid bomb" plot people actually went to the trouble of buying the chemicals, since they got 110% of their goal- demonstrating their mastery of us by fear- just by talking.

But assuming they had succeeded, and on one day 10 airplanes had made unscheduled mid ocean landings, what would we do?

I know, panic and cower, just like we have done. And our leaders would go obediently to mosques, to apologise for anger against Moslems that no one has or acts upon, and to explain that as long as one merely sympathises with murderers, one has a free ride. And there would be lots of appeals, weepy services, and the families of the dead would be sad and/or richer.

But I mean, what would we do against the enemy?

The actual plotters would be dead. Assuming we ever found out who on the missing airplanes blew them up- fat chance, unless someone talked- they are British. Their encouragers are British. There is no "proof" that there is any participant in, or financier of, the outrage who is not British.

What do we do? Aside from just take it?

Until we get aggressive with those who encourage murder, that's what we'll have to do. Get used to the idea, presidents and prime ministers. Now and then, you'll have to execute the sad announcement/grovel at mosque/memorial tribute/we are resolved speech/ wait for the next one gavotte. Your masters in Bradford and Dearborn will be in touch.

Don't feel badly about being the puppet of random criminals. I'm sure that Washington and Pitt and Lincoln and Curchill would do exactly the same thing in your place.

"Islamic Fascism" is a term for the ignorant...

This “Islamic Fascism” is a stupidly ahistorical phrase. The people engaged on the other side aren’t fascists, they have no political or economic ideology at all, fascist or otherwise. People just say “fascists” because that’s the leftover Soviet term of abuse, and it sounds bad.

May as well call them “Islamic Klansmen” or "Islamic paedophiles" or "Islamic wearers of checks with stripes" for all the sense it makes.

They are Moslems. Fanatical, extreme, fundamentalist, or just true believers, but their religion IS their ideology and war aim. It’s like saying the Crusaders were "Catholic Nazis" or those of Gustavus Adolphus “Protestant White Supremacists”.

It still beats broad strata, though.

Quoted on the Belmont Club!

I'm famous, uncredited but even so.

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2006/08/always-look-on-bright-side-of-life.html

Unintentionally hilarious OFFICIAL police blog...

Thanks to P. C. Copperfield!

" IKrishna @ Babu R/o Mudadi house Batwal Taluk abused one Vishwanatha Poojary (43) R/o Mithakodi house Mudadi Bantwal Taluk in filthy language and assaulted by hand and also gave life threat owing to a trivial issue. "

Isn't it always a trivial issue?

Franklin Roosevelt would FIRE CHERTOFF!

"Look at CNN, Mumtaz! The brothers made the Jew Chertoff piss himself with fear! Over some bottles of peroxide!! Truly Allah is mighty."

If he is "rattled", he is in the wrong place. If he can't keep it to himself, he is in the wrong place. The chatterboxes who talked to the media about this are in the wrong place.

SHUT THE FUCK UP, idiots! Knowledge is power, but only if you keep it to yourself. The answer to "How was the terror plot foiled?" should be:

"Infidel magic. Next question."

""Wednesday night was a long and troubling one for Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. A bubbling plot by British citizens to blow up airplanes had come to a boil in the past three days, and as British authorities arrested dozens of suspects around London, it was Chertoff's job to coordinate the U.S. defenses. Scary intelligence reports pop up all the time, but this particular terror operation got close enough to being carried out that it rattled even the normally sedate Chertoff. "Very seldom do things get to me," he told Rep. Peter King, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, in a phone call late Wednesday night. "This one has really gotten to me." "

Another Moslem victory, with not a single casualty...

“Did you see the news today, Ahmad? All the brothers had to do was TALK ABOUT carrying bombs onto airplanes, and now they quake in fear of every gym bag! Until the end of time, no Infidel will carry a Godless bottle of water or satanic book onto an airplane! Millions of money and thousands of hours of aggravation, just from talk!

Allah is truly mighty, that the west cowers from the very thought of martyrdom operations!”

Next year, look for a terrorist plot involving exploding underwear. Then we'll have to fly naked.

If we overreact to the point where millions of passengers can't carry a laptop onto an airplane, then they have beaten us. We're just waiting for the next command. When there's a conspiracy about bombs in ships, look for multi billion dollar ship precautions and follow on delay and expense. Train bombs? Inspect every boxcar with the new Federal Department of Every Box Car Inspection.

What strikes me is that they are winning huge economic victories without taking a single casualty. They just have to find some jihadis who are willing to "conspire", get caught, spend a few years in a safe western prison, and come out as heroes. We- as we permit our masters to direct us- deserve to lose.

The proper reaction is this:

"Today, we discovered a plot to bomb airplanes. We know that the oil revenues of Saudi Arabia are used to finance the men who encourage and plan similar conspiracies- maybe this one, maybe not. I have today ordered the sequestration of every bank account and financial instrument owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ten per cent of each account or instrument will be deducted to pay for investigation, infiltration, and destruction of jihad encouragers. To help prevent conspiracy, every cellular telephone tower in Saudi Arabia has been disabled. To promote air safety, no airplane may fly to, from, or over Saudi Arabia. These measures will continue for at least the next 180 days. Since no one was injured in this jihad attempt, we have not killed the hundred most senior government officials of Saudi Arabia, nor have we confiscated that country's oil infrastructure. We hope this encourages the government of Saudi Arabia to bend its efforts to discourage murderers rather than to incite them. To other governments, Saudi Arabia was a random choice among jihad encouragers. Next time it could be you. To our own citizens who side with our enemies, think again. To those who call this disproportionate, if you were on those airplanes you would think differently. No reaction to threats against Americans is disproportionate or beyond imposition. I will not go to another funeral caused by our weakness."

"The carrots have failed. I will fight the war they want. I will over react. I will profile. I will punish disproportionately. I will put cruise missiles and SEAL / SAS teams on the kings and prime ministers who finance this. We will ATTACK our enemies. THEY will never know where the next blow will strike. THEY will wonder what form it will take. THEY will fear US. That is all."

No one walks around Germany with a swastika on. Why not? It's not sensitivity or guilt, it's because the last time that happened, Germany was turned into a smoking ash heap.

SOME political leader is missing a real chance.

"gold- toothed knuckleheads and mindless hussies..."

Stanley Crouch again...

" It was as if these dregs had the same heroic position in our time as the largely uneducated Southern black poor of the civil rights movement. Those Southern black people, like the marvelous Fannie Lou Hamer, proved to this nation and to the world that they not only deserved their constitutional rights, but had something both noble and soulful to add to our American understanding of the richness of the human spirit. We are a much greater nation because of the success of the civil rights movement. As they emerged from beneath the bloody rock of segregation, those Southern black people brought to our national identity a compassion and a bravery of immeasurable value.. "

BEST newspaper motto EVER...

" If you don't want it printed, don't let it happen. "

Negroes only vacancy for Supreme Court...

"Darkies only for this new Supreme Court vacancy. "

Quote for the day...

Means more with the picture.



Courtesy of http://www.lileks.com/patriotica/CivilDefence/YouAndTheWar/2.html

This may be the last time I vote...

I went to vote the other morning. In addition to primaries for November, there were about 40 state races, mostly appellate court judge retentions. I studied up, even on the ones from far away so I wouldn't be voting uninformed.

As I left the poll, the next voter was a big fat man wearing a FAR TOO tightly stretched tee shirt. It was dirty, but still proudly emblazoned:

BOOTY PATROL

Universal suffrage is silly.

Airbus as work of art...

Is it poetry, or romance? I love this sort of connection between our hearts and our tools.

"I reached up and tentatively curled my fingers over the metal. "Now pull down," he said.

The A380 wing is one of the mightiest structures ever created—9,100 square feet of ribs, spars, and skin able to thrust itself out 147 feet into nothingness and give lift to its half of 1.235 million pounds. I pulled, and this great formation bowed to my eye level, supple as a living thing.

With the whole wing flexing at my light grasp, all the poetic, fanciful wonder of living in 2005 came back to me. I'd outdone Keats and Shelley in matters of the sublime. It touched them. I touched it. "

Oikophobia is your new word for the day...

Tears of the white man is rather unwieldy, so Mr. Scruton's new creation is welcome.

" National history is taught as a tale of shame and degradation. The art, literature and religion of our nation have been more or less excised from the curriculum, and folkways, local traditions and national ceremonies are routinely rubbished.
This repudiation of the national idea is the result of a peculiar frame of mind that has arisen throughout the Western world since the Second World War, and which is particularly prevalent among the intellectual and political elites. No adequate word exists for this attitude, though its symptoms are instantly recognized: namely, the disposition, in any conflict, to side with ‘them’ against ‘us’, and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably ‘ours’. I call the attitude oikophobia – the aversion to home – by way of emphasizing its deep relation to xenophobia, of which it is the mirror image. Oikophobia is a stage through which the adolescent mind normally passes. But it is a stage in which intellectuals tend to become arrested."

"And one of the weapons that the élite has used, in order to ensure that it is never troubled by the truths that it denies, is to accuse those who wish to discuss the problem of ‘racism and xenophobia’. People of my generation have been brought up in fear of this charge, just as the people of Salem were brought up in the fear of being denounced as witches. "

" "All whites are racist, whether or not knowingly’. There you have it, endorsed by a prestigious academic and professional body: all whites are racist, whether or not knowingly.That, to my mind, is a racist remark of the lowest kind, one that attributes to people of a certain skin-colour an enormous moral fault, and one which they can do nothing to overcome, since they possess it unknowingly. "

Now THIS is a case report...

My new colleague is the BEST. I asked how a case went, and I got this report.

Wee Willie Something
Went for a ride.
As it turned out,he
should have stayed inside.

It was Wee Willie's cousin
who led him astray,
He said, " I will steal me
a nice car today."

And wouldn't you know it
there sat the Crown Vic,
keys in it, still running,
just ripe to be picked.

So in it they jumped
and took off down the screet.
If the man hadn't seen them
it would have been sweet.

Then Wee Willie's cousin
let Wee Willie out.
And there stood the owner,
who said with a shout,

"Who is that sitting
behind my Vic's wheel?"
But loyal Wee Willie
wouldn't dare squeal.

That's how Willie wound up
under arrest.
He'd have been better off
If he had just confessed.

When the police came to get him
they sure didn't smile.
Wee Willie's seventeen,
a mere juvenile.

Will dealt with his charge
in the very worst way.
He said,
"I just won't go to court today!"

Wee Willie's eighteen now-
when they see him around
the cops will arrest him
and take him DOWNTOWN.

With Wee Willie's luck
they will add to the docket
a charge for the drugs
that he'll have in his pocket.

Watch out, Judge Kosinski!

Where is God?

I know strong faith should prevent asking the question, but mine is weak and I struggle with reason. This is not for the faint of heart.

Click here to see the Fusco Chernobyl slide show.

Another vast slum renovation...

$39 million to tear down and replace a "housing project" concentration camp in Nashville. 498 "units". That's $78,000 per "unit". As usual, far more than it would cost to buy a modest house for each family. Definitely more than it would cost to build 498 modest houses commercially. Can't do that, though. Then they might get off the plantation, lots of house owners vote... Republican.

We are a sad joke..

A cry of the heart in the form of buggery...

First, read this silliness...

"Shortbus," an explicit, largely improvised arthouse flick that includes a rendition of the American national anthem during a gay sex scene, is a direct provocation, director John Cameron Mitchell admitted.

"It's a little bit of a cri de coeur to us, a little bit of a call to arms" against the prevailing conservatism, he told a media conference, adding that his country was living in "the era of Bush, which is about clamping down, being scared."

The 43-year-old, whose previous work was "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," about a transsexual rock singer, said the film was his own small act of defiance against Bush.

"If you can't do elections you might as well do erections," he said.

Although the first half of the film is filled with sex, including orgies and masturbation, the act itself is not meant to be erotic but rather to challenge the audience and make it confront issues such as loneliness, the illusion of self-sufficiency and other seemingly unrelated problems, Mitchell said.

One scene likely to create controversy in the United States and some other countries shows a gay threesome in which one participant joyfully bellows "The Star Spangled Banner."

I'm sorry, but, WHAT? How twisted up a mind does one have to have to think that a picture of catamites doing what they do while singing the national anthem means anything at all? If this is the cry of your heart, you are profoundly poor of spirit.

"Hmm, here I have a couple of million euros. What movie can I make that will be meaningful, that will advance the human condition, that will show my heart?

I KNOW!!!"

Every decent homosexual I've ever known just wanted his or her sexuality to be irrelevant, as it should usually be. Why do some people think that I, and straight people generally, give a rat's scabby ass about some stranger's sexual tastes? Here's a clue- WE DON"T. Unless I am or might become involved, I would rather that EVERYONE'S sexual tastes and activities remain private. It's NOT MY BUSINESS. Just as mine is not theirs.

But that's not enough for this character. He has to put it in the spotlight, "Look at me!"

Don't even get me started with making homosexuals a legally protected class. If we're going to start protecting people based on whom they like to fuck, sign me up for some affirmative action because I like women to wear heels and stockings. That's a sexual taste, just like Mr. Mitchell's is.

And if it's exterme sexual tastes only, then we should start out protecting furries.

News flash, artboy- you can't "defy" someone who is not trying to assert control over you. And where is this "clamping down"?

I'll tell you where it is. It's in the places where they HANG sodomites. Why don't you try to "directly provoke" the people who would legally and proudly KILL YOU? Sing the IRANIAN anthem, or the SAUDI.

Then you WOULD be standing up for homosexuals who ARE persecuted.

Lightweight.

Official English language law...

that actually does something. Here's a draft for Congress:

“English is the official language of the United States.

Not withstanding any other provision of law, all documents, regulations, statutes, reports, and records of the United States shall be created, made, and printed in English only. Not withstanding any other provision of law, no document, regulation, statute, report, or record of the United States shall be translated into, distributed, or printed in any foreign language at public expense.

The only exceptions to this section are:

(a) The translation or transcription of evidence and proceedings in which a party or witness is unable to understand or communicate in English, to the extent necessary to make the proceedings or testimony comprehensible to the party or witness. In all such proceedings, the English version of the record shall be the official record.

(b) Communications on behalf of the United States which are prepared for transmission, or actually transmitted, solely to foreign countries.

(c) Reports or transcripts of communications originally generated in a language other than English, when such reports or transcripts are made to an officer or employee of the United States in the course and scope of his duties.

Inability of any person under the jurisdiction of the United States to understand or communicate in English will not impair any right due such person under the laws of the United States.

Inability of any person to understand or communicate in English sufficiently to perform his duties shall disqualify all such persons from holding office or employment of the United States.

No form or application procedure for any benefit requested from the United States under any educational, welfare, grant, or other such program will be prepared, conducted,or accepted for review in any language other than English.

Inability to understand a proceeding conducted in English shall disqualify any person from acting as a trier of fact or law in that proceeding.

Inability of any person under the jurisdiction of the United States to understand or communicate in English will not relieve such person of any duty imposed by the laws of the United States.

Inability of any person under the jurisdiction of the United States to understand or communicate in English may not be considered in any way as a defense, or as a mitigating factor, in any proceeding where such a person is accused of a crime or otherwise a party in any action before any adjudicatory proceeding of the United States. Evidence of such inability shall not be admitted in any proceeding for such purpose.”

How’s that?

A reaction to my Hirsi welcome!

The author of

www.militantislammonitor.org

, a quite useful news collector whom I'll blogroll, tells me

"The US deserves Magan/Ali whatever her name is", and cites us to an article which rightly reminds us that Theo Van Gogh was slaughtered and should be remembered for his work and death. He's right about that and I agree. The article goes on to review Ms. Hirsi's financial success from self promotion, and I suppose that's true enough, Jane Ordinary Somali wouldn't be on a lecture tour but J. O. S. didn't write "Submission" either. The article continues,

" Her deragatory remarks about Islam and Muslims, as a member of parliament have rendered her ineffectual when it comes to having an influence on Muslims,and carrying out her stated mission to liberate Muslim women. As a result she made her name 'preaching to the converted',and has announced that she is working on a book with the preticious title "The Path to Enlightenment".Besides the fact that Ali is no theologian, it is obvious that no Muslim would care to be enlightened by someone who has publicly renounced their religion and is considerd an apostate."

EXACTLY. We are not trying to "enlighten" Moslems within their religion. Our liberties are inconsistent with Moslem theology. Sharia is inconsistent with the U. S. Constitution. A "true believing Moslem" can't live his faith, as currently defined by our enemies, in our world. Not any more than he could dine at

Waycrazy's

, or permit his daughter to dance in the ballet.

If you are a Moslem, and you believe that your society should have civil religious liberty, you ARE an apostate.
If you are a Moslem and believe that women who want to should be free to show their hair or vote, you ARE an apostate.
If you are a Moslem, and believe that your society should contain stores where bacon or Bibles are freely sold, you ARE an apostate. Our enemies are as pure as Loyola- there are only believers and the damned.

And an essential, organic part of their belief is that there should be NO SUCH THING AS CIVIL SOCIETY. They believe that all life should be guided by Allah's will, and that will includes no freedom for non believers. Dhimmi or dead.

And we can fight them by example or choose to continue not to.

No, she's not perfect. But I believe her message is better than the one from the Taliban's press secretary. And her message- that Islam, as believed, preached, and practiced by our enemies- is slavery and violence for women- should be shouted loudly and regularly. Our red "feminists" are M.I.A. about it, their eyes closed by tears of the white man.

Anything that helps draw the lines more clearly is a good thing. If our enemies hate her, if they see her as their enemy, then she belongs here. Her presence is a giant signal "WE ARE YOUR ENEMY. WE SHELTER AND PRAISE THE APOSTATE. WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE HER HERE. LOOK, HERE SHE CAN SAY WHAT SHE WANTS. ". Face it- Europe won't, can't resist effectively. We, the U. S., are the real foe of slavery, the place they can't leave alone. Our culture is killing theirs.

So again, welcome.

Ayaan Ali Hirsi- WELCOME!!!

The web is full of rumours that Ms. Hirsi is moving to the U. S.

Their loss, our gain, she stands as a refutation and thorn to the enemies of freedom.

I hope her first act is to do something she can't do in Holland- buy a pistol.

No, wait, she won't be able to do that in N. Y. or D. C., either. Oh well.

If she wants a sponsor, sign me up!

Absolutely hilarious dance routine...

I know, it's all over the web, but Judson Laipply's "Evolution of Dance" is hilarious. I'm green with envy.

Love that YouTube.

"Click here to watch it."

The unsaid thing about Moussaoui...

If, on September 5, 2001, Zacarias Moussaoui had called the F. B. I. and told what he knew, he'd now be 4 years into a life of freedom, with an annuity and a new identity.

And if one of the 19 had, he'd also be rich, renamed, and not just vapour.

Future conspirators should always remember that there is a really good escape hatch. We WILL make it worth your while to save your own life and the lives of innocents.

No one has said this as far as I know. and it should have been trumpeted loudly.