"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Scientists can’t get sloth to move
Who’d-a thunk it? (Urm, people who don’t know the meaning of the word “sloth”? *heh*)
h.t. Chaos Manor
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Ann Coulter. Gotta love her.
As long as we have revived the practice of celebrating multicultural milestones (briefly suspended when Condoleezza Rice became the first black female to be secretary of state), let us pause to note that Mrs. Clinton, if elected, would be the first woman to become president after her husband had sex with an intern in the Oval Office.
A vote for Billary will be a vote for once again supplanting Congress as the Best Lil Whorehouse in D.C. with the one previously run by Bill at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Go here. Now.
Regular readers here already know I’m no fan of the way the war in Iraq has been managed to date (nor any great fan of announced plans). But. I would never embrace the Democrap alternatives (“Run away! Run away!”) which amount to nothing less than endorsing utter and complete defeat.
Hugh Hewitt and TTLB have joined forces to push a pledge:
If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.
The pledge calls “a resolution… that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq” an “encouragement to the enemy,” but let’s not mince words here. The correct phrase is “aid and comfort to the enemy.”
Of course, none dare call it treason because such “aid and comfort” to the enemies of the United States has formed the successful basis of many “career” politicians’ *spit* lives (notably including Jean Fraud Kerry *gag-spit*).
Just call me “None” would you?
Go, sign the pledge. The Iraq War is not the single most important front in the War for the Soul of the West (I’d say that place goes to the war for the soul of Americans too complacent to actually give a damn about preserving their own lives, liberties and property, but who am I to make that call, eh? :-)), but it is an extremely important front right now.
Now, if only Hugh and TTLB would come up with a pledge aimed at honest border conrol…
Thanks, Layla, for the tipoff. I seem to have missed more than I had thought during the twc power outage.
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Just a passing observation…
The administration’s stated goal in Iraq is to help the Iraqis who want to live in peace with each other do so, and thus create a strong presence for quelling Islamic terrorism in the region.
Let’s ignore for a moment the simple fact that rthe fundamental savagery and barbarism of Islam itself is the problem, and that “peaceful” Saudi Arabia is the primary source of funds and breeding ground for Wahabbist terrorism and simply focus on making one country out of a region peopled by tribes and religious factions that have been at each others’ throats for longer than there has even been Islam to divide them.
What the Administration’s goal is like, more than anything else, is making an omelet. In order to get the eggs to all play nicely together (and incorporate any non-eggish elements), ya have to break the eggs. Not just some of them; all of them. And then you must mix them together really well in order to make of the disparate eggs, ONE ingredient: “egg”.
That requires an iron chef wielding a steel whisk with no regard for the feelings and desires of the “eggs” for holding onto their generational grudges and blood feuds. (The only thing that has brought “peace” to this savage region in its long, long history: a ruler with a fist–and heel–of iron.)
And that is something we as a people are simply not ready to impose.
The most viable alternative I can see to making an omelet out of the disparate people groups making up Iraq would be to arm rthe Kurds to the teeth so they can defend their own lands and then let the factions in the rest of notional “Iraq” fight it out to settle their territorial boundaries, according to their own lights. Something along these lines:
Then we can say, in all honesty, “See? Without an adult to maintain peace there, normally savage Muslims will just keep killing each other until there are hardly any left… ”
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I had a call to complete last night and missed much of the President’s address, so I chose to simply read it this morning, absent all the silly interruptions for applause, etc. And, given that, it was much easier to skip the *cough* “analysis* newsreaders and clownish pundits placed on it afterwards, as well.
Still, gee, the guy managed to cover a laundry list, didn’t he? I imagine the Democraps and other Leftist fifth columnists for jihad and Reconquista stuck their figurative fingers in their ears and blabbed “na-na-na-na-” when Bush rehearsed the economy’s good news and the dirty lil not-so-secret earmarks graft that Democrappic congresscritters have no more genuine desire to eliminate than their Republican’t “colleagues” do. And I can easily imagine what the ear-plugging “na-na-ers” had to say in response to
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Sure, I understand that Loony Left Moonbats are entitled to their opinions (no matter how stupid), but THIS sort of thing just pi$$es me off.
“Army Sgt. Jason Hess, stationed in Taji, Iraq, with the 1st Cavalry Division…” in an email to Discountmats.com:
“Do you ship to APO (military) addresses? I’m in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for ships to APO first.”
Well, apparently not, since the reply he got was:
“SGT Hess,
We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.
Bargain Suppliers
Discount-Mats.com”
*Oh, “RCOB”? What I see when I read this sort of excrement: a red curtain of blood, descending over my eyes as I fight to prevent myself from embracing my berserker heritage…
Still in short shrift mode here @twc central, so this very important post from GTB is up a day late. Read, then call your congresscritters, the White House and just about anyone else you think might be able to positively affect the situation. Send a link to this post to everyone on your email distro lists as well. I almost never (can’t remember a time I have done so) submit guest posts to Linkfests, but this needs to be read, so it’s getting “the treatment”.
I have to give huge kudos to Shawn Christopher Phillips, of the Wry & Coy Report, for compiling some of the least known and most misreported facts surrounding the case of the two Border Patrol Agents prosecuted for shooting a drug smuggler. Shawn has raised some very troubling questions surrounding the case – questions worth asking and investigating. He has also connected the dots in a way that the media has been unable (or unwilling) to do.
Shawn’s original research material can be found at www.patgray.com here and here. I have supplemented the accounts with further information from my own research and from Pat Gray’s radio show on KSEV, since he and his co-host, Edd Hendee have been investigating the anomalies surrounding this very muddled case.
I have taken the liberty of condensing Shawn’s material from several posts to place it into a rough timeline of events as they occurred. As well, I wanted to include information about some of the major players in this case, from the drug smuggler himself all the way up to U.S. Congressmen and Senators.
The central perpetrator in this travesty of justice is the U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who has old boy Texas connections from the judge overseeing the case all the way up to President George W. Bush. These connections, though not openly disclosed, have greatly impacted the case, as highly placed government officials look the other way while testimonies, evidence, and statements are manipulated behind the scenes.
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Here’s a rough sketch from my huge pile of draft posts…
Rebellious teenagers. It’s a meme we all live with, grew up with, know well. We simply expect teenagers to be rebellious. We’re told it’s always this way and always has been this way.
It’s a lie.
I know more than a few teenagers who have grown up and passed through their adolescence who have defied the meme. Our own, now grown, children are examples of children who seemed virtually immune to the meme.
Others… never grow out of adolescence, never seem to embrace the values their parents say they hold dear, are rebellious, angry, deceptive and even dangerous to themselves and others.
Why?
Well, for one thing, many parents today are ceding the parenting of their children to others from an early age.
From birth to age five, nearly 60% of American children are cared for by persons other than their parents or family members for time periods ranging from four to nine hours a day. Only 22% of American children from birth through age 5 are cared for full time by their parents. 1
Let that sink in.
Now think further: how many of those parents who are fulltime caregivers for young children largely use the television as an in-home “babysitter” as opposed to those who “teach and care” as they go about their day being an adult?
Rabbit trail: my own mom had five children born within a space of five years. No daycare, no regular in-home babysitters. She managed the household and raised the five of us. “Play” with Mother when I was a young child consisted of “helping” her do housework. (Yeh, I was a fine help banging on pots n pans with my brother and sisters while she cooked or did dishes. *heh*) TV? She read us stories. We played in the yard or with board games (as we grew) or built things with what toys we had–no closet or roomful, just a few things we could make more of with our imaginations.
Is it any wonder more and more “adults” are simply living a life of delayed adolescence? “Grups”–people who have no idea how to be adults, because they were NOT raised but simply farmed out by parents who were just children in adult bodies.
Or the flip side: children whose every whim has been catered to from birth… remaining children for life, thinking the world owes them whatever they want. Children whose parents shuffle them from one “enriching experience”after another, scheduling their days to the nth degree, stifling any genuine creativity and creating children-for-life who are bored to tears without constant stimulation.
Robbing the cradle? Robbing society of generations of adults needed to make a representative republican democracy work. It’s no wonder Congress is filled with idiots, scoundrels and worse, considering gthe electorate that sent them there. And it’s no wonder that Mass Media Podpeople and Academia Nut Fruitcakes can lie out of both ends of their alimentary canals and have both ends’products gobbled up by a gullible public of eternal children.
Maybe there’s hope. Well, I have to hope so,because despair is perhaps the deadliest of sins…
There. Now wasn’t that a cheery thought?
While David is still “thawing out”..heh…I will do my best to entertain y’all…I know a little controversy wouldn’t ruffle David’s feathers so feel free to share your slant on this one eh? 🙂
By: Angel
A Catholic city councillor in Kamloops, British Columbia, who was himself the victim of the crime of vandalism due to his faith, has been forced to apologize and pay a homo-sexual activist couple $1000.
Canadian City Councillor Fined $1000 for Saying Homose-xuality “not Normal or Naturalâ€Â
In line with Catholic teaching on the matter, he described hom-osex-ual acts as “not normal and not natural.”
“I’m not against les-bian and gay people, but I don’t agree that I should have to endorse it.” He also said that people can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes, but, he said in reference to gay pride parades, they shouldn’t “go out and flaunt it, in front of people who don’t necessarily agree.”
In addition to paying $1,000 to Olynick and Koll, DeCicco will provide a statement saying his comments were “inappropriate and hurtful to some.”
Ah. So all of a sudden it’s acceptable for the self-proclaimed secular “authorities” to discipline free speech when it runs counter to secular teachings or dogmas.
Apparently, according to secular Libland and the ones in power, the right to freedom of expression, only applies to information or ideas that are favorably received or regarded as “inoffensive” by the Powers that Be.
They can justify the proliferation of pornography, religious denigration, or abide public exhibits and humor which may offend, shock or deeply disturb people of moral values and faith, but religious leaders may not express their spiritual views with the same impunity.
As a nation we embrace political correctness.
We thus have organized groups like the ACLU and CA-IR who are capable of imposing their unique brand of hypocrisy and we witness the domination of the most conventional and traditional thoughts and ideas that our very society was founded upon.
When the Muuuhamad cartoons erupted upon the scene, in France, Germany, Italy, Norway and Austria, newspapers and magazines republished the cartoons in an attempt to make the point that the limits of free speech must not be dictated simply “by those who might take offense.”
Right here in America. NO one published them.
Out of “sensitvity”?..Ha. 
They simply caved in to the censorship of the mob.
Some editors in other countries had to go into hiding, some were fired and others resigned over that matter. Americans just put on their knee pads instead. 
But, now, secularists can hijack the “who gets offended by it” issue for their own seedy purposes and politcal agenda.
They don’t call for restraint and responsibility on the part of pornographers, Christ or Jew haters. Why? Because those provocations don’t dangerously fuel passions and worldwide violent reprisal. That’s why.
Dissent, is no longer acceptable and has to be cloaked in ambiguity to ward off the law suits and retaliation by the self appointed secular Gods.
“In line with Catholic teaching on the matter, he described hom-osex-ual acts as “not normal and not natural.”
According to the Bible:
“You [masculine] shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22)
“If a man lies with a male as a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.” (Lev. 20:13)
Where the bible mentions homo-sex-ual behavior at all, it clearly condemns it.
Christian and all religious morality is but a way of expressing the integrity of our relationship with God. This includes divine law in the sexual realm as well.
The Lib secularists have taken it upon their self proclaimed selves to filter out what they perceive as sexism, patriarchalism, violence, and homophobia from the Bible.
They get to choose our ethics?
It is now our task to build ethics on the basis of bad science and secular indoctrination?
Last time I checked, in our democracy, no group, no matter how religious, has the right to claim an exemption from criticism or parody even. But “special interest” groups like Muzlims and homo-sexuals can?
Religious insights and ideas may be arrived at through a path that is based on Faith, not reason and is therefore not amenable to ordinary argument and debate, but it is nonetheless an insight and idea.
So, here we go again my friends.
The very same people who purport to protect free speech and the “civil liberties” of all Americans, at the moment that speech comes into conflict with their agenda or mission, they are first in line to quell those words, and most certainly not to protect that “speech.”
And to the couple who sued the Catholic city councillor:
Uh…about your understanding of tolerance, free speech and justice…well…you might just want to revisit an English dictionary.
What do ya suppose the Canadians think eh?
Crossposted at: Woman Honor Thyself
I know there are communities in Nebraska that have been without electrical power for nearly six weeks, now, because of winter storm damage, so the 9.5 days twc central was powerless (and the ongoing lack of broadband) is not a really big deal in the grand scheme of things. Nevertheless, more than a week without the usual sounds of an electrified home, cooking on a campstove, making do with flashlights, oil lamps, etc., and bundling REALLY warmly against continual freezing temps outside, dealing with downed limbs (yeh, maybe some pics will eventually follow), no phone for much of the time and all the isolation from the events of “importance” in the world do tend to give me pause to reflect…
The dogs really love (well, continue to love) the cold. It’s meant several “special times” every day inside for feeding/watering and petting. They always beg to go back out (thick coats and thick heads, no doubt *heh*), but are as ready to come back in for more attention.
The cats have been lil furbags of warmth–spreading themselves across available laps, necks, feet, whenever and wherever they could, even doing their best (and sometimes succeeding) to get the bedroom door open and join us in bed.
Early to bed, late to rise, pretty much timing our lives by the available light.
My Wonder Woman is a school librarian/media specialist, and with no school during the power outage and back coungtry road cleanup (bus drivers are out again today checking to see if their routes are navigable), she’s been home, as have I (with darned few people even able to turn computers on, there’ve been no urgent service needs–*heh*). So, we’ve spent the time doing chores around here, popping outa town to see the kids a few times, bundling up and cuddling together (nice!). Lotsa reading, talking, just enjoying each other’s presence.
With little news penetrating our lil world–we live in a “no reception” or at least very bad reception zone as far as radio, cell phone, etc., goes–we’ve not had the pressures of considering all the foolishness politicians *spit*, Mass Media Podpeople and Academia Nut Fruitcakes have undoubtedly been committing during our forced isolation.
How wonderful! A vacation from mass stupidity!
But now, even without TV (a mixed blessing: on the positive side, no chance exposure to Mass Media Podpeople; on the other hand, no Weather Channnel or Wolfgang Puck–*heh* On the gripping hand, though, no audiovisual anesthetizing agent–all-in-all, good) and broadband access–limited to a very slow, intermittently disfunctional 28.8 dialup connection–we have the world still with us, poking its nose back inside our cozy lil tent.
So, expect an eruption of third world county curmudgeonry any day now…
*sigh*
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