Without naming the enemy, we cannot win the war.

I am not a civilized person. I don’t have a knee-jerk gut-level fear of the unknown, don’t have the bone-deep instinctive understanding of social mores that permit people to live together in relative harmony. I don’t trust my neighbors (though they’re good people and I like them), don’t trust the authorities to do their part to enforce the laws, don’t trust the laws to protect me. In fact, I am fully prepared to protect myself and my family when—not if—the laws fail.

Civilization could break down tomorrow, and I’d probably adjust without losing my mind.

That doesn’t mean I don’t understand how and why civilization works on an intellectual level. Or that I don’t understand that it’s best for the majority.

This could possibly mean that I have a greater appreciation for what we have achieved, in Western, enlightened civilizations in general; and in this country, in specific. I think it means that I have a greater than average appreciation for just how badly we’re going to lose the War that Dare Not Speak the Enemy’s Name.

In World War II, we had huge enclaves of the enemy that perpetrated one of the worst surprise attacks on American soil in history living amongst us. There were eyewitness accounts in Hawaii of Japanese taxi drivers cheering the radio reports coming in about Pearl Harbor. There are, for those who care to look, accounts of sleeper cells in our West Coast states, ready to jump to answer the call of their native Japan. Many of the agents in those sleeper cells were native born American citizens.

After Pearl Harbor, we were never again attacked on our soil by the Japanese. FDR did do a lot of things wrong during his four term tenure as president, but taking the war to the enemy and fighting to win was not one of those things.

In 2001, the second worst sneak attack perpetrated on our soil took out the World Trade Center. And part of the Pentagon. The attackers were nineteen in number, and mostly of a single nationality, and ideology, which political correctness forbids us to name. There are eyewitness accounts of they who cannot be named cheering the murder of thousands of American civilians—civilians, not officers and enlisted men in a military target, unlike the attack on Pearl Harbor, not quite sixty years earlier. Like World War II, there are huge enclaves of this enemy living amongst us, with many sleeper cells planted through the whole of the country, not just on the West Coast. Many agents are native born American citizens, about half of whom have converted to this ideology that must not be named.

We have been attacked, repeatedly, even upon our own soil, by individuals who follow this ideology that must not be named. Our leaders, immediately after the attacks, did take the fight to the enemy, but not with the will to win. Nor have our leaders—then or now—taken the necessary steps to keep us safe.

FDR was a progressivist president who, because he was one of the East Coast Brahmins who were born to wield power and control and care for the masses, did what had to be done to protect our citizens from sleeper cell terror attacks on our soil: he rounded up the enemy and isolated them from anywhere they could do damage to the United States.

BHO is also a progressivist, but I have never been less sure that he was not one of the sleeper agents who may or may not be a native born American citizen.

Yesterday, a member of this ideology which cannot be named, one who managed to insinuate himself into the United States armed forces, shot and killed thirteen people on the military base where he was posted. Between twenty-eight and thirty more were wounded.

Authorities were aware that this individual was a danger to national security, but did nothing. They failed to protect the unarmed citizens that were their responsibility. Therefore, the thirteen deaths lay as much at their feet as they do at their killer’s.

I’ve said before: I’m not civilized. I don’t have a gut-level instinct to follow the rules society lays before me. I do see the reason behind those rules—without them, no one could cooperate long enough to build the great society that’s so quietly being torn down from the inside—but, as an outsider looking in, I also see that those rules are being used by the unnamable enemy to tear down the greatest civilization in the world.

One of those rules that society has laid down is that one must not be intolerant of one’s neighbors. It doesn’t matter if said neighbors rape children or murder pregnant women, it’s not our place to judge.

I say it is our place to judge. I will name our enemy—the one who’s hiding behind the name of their god and their race and the accusation that anyone who speaks against them is a bigot. I don’t care if someone calls me “bigot” or “racist” or “ethnocentric.”

I am, have chosen to be, an American citizen. A loyal American citizen, born and raised in the greatest nation on earth. I am a member of the most tolerant, least judgmental society on the face of the planet.

I am tired of turning the other cheek. Both have been slapped, repeatedly, by the enemies living among us, smiling in our faces while plotting to plant the knife in our backs, as they’re commanded by their holy book and their false god.

Our enemies are Muslims. They are of any nationality, race, or gender, and may claim to be moderates that abhor the violent radicals. They may be fundamentalist radicals. It doesn’t matter what they claim to be—they’re ordered by their own religion to lie to the infidels. Until proven otherwise, every Muslim is the enemy of every member of Western Civilization in general, and the United States in specific.

Islam is sowing the wind, and eventually, when enough average Americans wake up and shout “enough,” they will reap the whirlwind.

I have my suspicions...

There was a shooting attack on one of the most strongly gun restricted areas (i.e., a military base) in the U.S. today. The perp--ah, I mean, suspect--a Major Malik Hasan, who just happens to be (in his cousin's words) a devout Muslim, is reported to have been afraid to be deployed to the sand box.

My suspicions are these:

1. If the U.S. military allowed carry (open or concealed) on base when not going to the range, this camel jockey wouldn't have been able to get more than one shot off before being turned into sausage--er, sorry, hamburger.

2. Religion played far more of a role than anyone is willing to admit, and this was a terrorist attack.

They won't be able to keep this quiet for long, if at all--though I have no doubt that The Messiah (peace be upon him) will likely try harder to shut Fox News up for letting this tidbit out:

"Federal law enforcement officials say Hasan had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats."

The only way shit like this can be stopped before it starts is to start profiling for Muslims. Let them all complain that they need to see a proctologist daily because of how intrusive our surveillance is. I don't give a damn if they aren't violent. Unless and until the so-called moderates make it clear to the murderers that they will not tolerate the few to give a bad name to the many (if this type of attack is indeed only dreamed of by the few), every last sand louse is responsible for each act.

Given our president's Chicago politics background, watch for Hasan to be "killed in an attempt to escape" to keep it quiet that this was religiously motivated.

Update: My initial reaction was actually a lot more violently and viciously angry than my blog post would suggest. I tend to err on the side of moderation in my outward reactions because my inward first reaction is always toward violence. Usually toward the government that disarms the victims. And my first reaction is so geared toward violence, I think I may be overreacting. So I force myself to tone it down.

Well, this time, I'm not the only one: Oleg Volk has much the same opinion.

(Oh, and Ken, Guy? You need to go look at his photo gallery. Y'all will like his nsfw pics, like the one in the post below the one I linked.)

They ought to just let the sorry S.O.B. kill himself.

The Iraqi immigrant who ran down his daughter in an honor killing on October 20th has been put on suicide watch.

The more I read on Joanne Jacobs' site, the more I think I should homeschool.

Granted, this was in Britain, but when you take into account various university "tolerance" programs, and brainless "zero tolerance" (of everything from plastic picnic knives, to over the counter painkillers, to prescription asthma inhalers, to defending themselves from bullies) policies practiced by public schools, I don't doubt that looking for racism in very small children is on its way over here.

I won't subject my children to this kind of abuse by public school officials.

No wonder Russia didn't like the anti-ballistic missile shield!

Russia's been "simulating" a nuclear attack on Poland.

So much for Obama being our one and only chance to mend relations with allies.

It's sure not a treat.

Hmm...this is odd. The CDC reports that 114 kids have died from H1N1 since this spring. The same CDC that, according to CBS (usually an Obama shill), has ordered testing to cease, and that all cases of flu-like symptoms are to be reported as Swine Flu.

Something is rotten in Denmark.

Two examples.

I got two examples in my e-mail this week alone of why university campuses need to permit concealed carry.

1. A girl who was out jogging on campus got grabbed, dragged into a nearby empty lot, and nearly raped.

2. Our campus is presenting on the A.L.I.C.E. program--Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate--for use in a possible campus shooting. The official who sent out the e-mail mentioned the "swarming" method of taking down an armed attacker, where students and professors throw stuff at the armed attacker, then group tackle him or her.

If my college's campus was not a weapons-free zone, the campus community would be safer. Criminals tend to avoid areas where potential victims might well be armed.

Silencing the opposition through legislative power instead of logic is not the American way.

In fact, the current administration's attempts to silence the opposition to mandatory Medicaid, through attempting to intimidate, and introducing legislation to silence, talk radio, Fox News, and health insurance providers directly violates the First Amendment.

A hundred years of transnational progressivists working to undermine this country's individual and sovereign freedoms is well on its way to working.

We are so fucked.

I wonder why we don't see stories like this in American news outlets?

The BBC has a story up questioning--honestly questioning--whether man-caused global warming skeptics might have a point. The article fairly covers both sides: the skeptics who believe that solar output and ocean temperatures play a greater role than man could dream of; and the humanocentric global warming activists who say that their science is solid and has accounted for natural explanations, and that humans have a greater impact than all natural explanations.

To be honest, I think that the humanocentric global warming "science" is fundamentally flawed by their sincere religious faith that humans are a nasty parasite, not part of the natural biosphere. And Al Gore and George Soros are their high priests. I think that the idea that humans have a greater impact on world-wide climate than solar output or ocean temperatures is arrogant: yes, we do have an effect, but we are not bigger than Nature.

Been a busy week.

Tuesday was my son's first birthday. We took him to both sets of grandparents' homes, as much because I can't keep my house clean enough for company with an imp underfoot as because the boy loves going to Grandma's house.

At one grandma's house, he got a big slice of homemade bread. And didn't want to let it go, even for cake. It wasn't until he'd eaten the whole thing that he was even willing to take a bite of cake (though he was very willing to just reach out and grab the cake).

At the other grandma's house, he got fries. And his own cupcake (which he demolished instead of eating). We'd stripped him to his diaper, first, and I'd planned on letting Grandma give him a bath in her sink, afterward. And boy, did he need it. He had cupcake down in his diaper with him. All the way down.

I'd planned on posting a last monkey picture, but he wouldn't lay still. This is the best I could do, but it should show just how much he's grown and changed.


This has seriously been one of the best years of my life. I don't think my other half and I have ever been as happy, or had as much fun, as we have this past year.

I couldn't believe it until I'd seen it on three different news outlets.

Wow. What an absolute load of bullshit. Even the White House thought it was a prank, at first.

Barack Hussein Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. And his presidency had only been up and running for a bit under two weeks when he was nominated.

Some critics are saying that it makes a mockery of the prize. I beg to differ, however: no one can make a mockery of this particular prize, because it's impossible to make a mockery of something that satirizes itself.

More global warming news...

A Japanese airline has asked its passengers to use the bathroom before boarding, hoping that the cumulative weight of a plane's passengers' pee will help cut their carbon footprint and stop global warming.

This policy, begun on October 1, is already showing signs of working. Some Idaho school children are having their earliest snow day in the history of their districts, and two ski resorts in Colorado are reporting their earliest season openings in their companies' histories.

Clearly, making everyone go pee before they get on their flights is having unprecedented success in making the world colder. At this rate, we'll cut enough carbon emissions to throw the world back into another ice age.

It's the women, you know.

I hope Kipling forgives me for this update of "The Young British Soldier." I think, under the circumstances, he would.

If you're wounded and left on India's plains,
'Cause the women come chop you into remains,
And then take your rifle and blow out your brains,
Just go to your hell like a terrorist.

The terrorists in the picture learned what Kipling knew and wrote: the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

We've let things go far too long to save our nation.

We are told that we, as a nation are too fat, that our children are dangerously obese because they don't play outside and exercise. Then, we hear that there are school districts that prohibit walking and/or biking to school.

We are told that it takes a village to raise a child. Then, we hear that that only applies if the whole village has a valid child-care license.

Next, we'll hear that parents don't do nearly as good a job raising and teaching their small children as licensed professionals do, so universal preschool (as well as public schooling--no more homeschooling) is absolutely mandatory in attendance.

I will fully admit that I have absolutely no social trust. Unless I was living next door to my best friend, or a family member, I would not trust my neighbor to watch my son. So long as pedophiles are released from prison once they've served their term, I wouldn't want to let my family--raving pacifists, all--to watch him in town, either.

But when the government, or a government-run agency like the public school system, legislates that societal trust is not permissible, we are beyond reigning in the fascists by non-violent means.

God help us. Our hands are tied by those who will not permit us to help ourselves.

Why do we deserve heroes?

Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
--"Tommy Atkins" by Rudyard Kipling

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell

Anyone who makes fun of a soldier crippled to keep the terrorists from attacking innocent civilians on their own soil does not deserve to be so protected.

If the yobs get what they want (i.e., every soldier drawn out of the Middle East, effective immediately), there is only one way to prevent further terrorist attacks on Western nations. Carpet bomb the entire region. Overlap the areas of effect. Wipe out the entire race and religion.

Or, we can ignore the ignorant assholes that think we can all hold hands and sing "Kum-ba-ya," and have them stop hating us because we understand. We can actually write up a declaration of war, as has not been done since we entered WWII, and we can show the enemy that we are not weak.

The only other option is for anyone who does not submit to Islam to die.

Via JayD at Kickin' and Screamin'

So. Instead of GWB instituting a military dictatorship to keep him in power, Obama's simply too weak to prevent one.

France's president basically called Obama a pussy in dealing with the world's issues. Gore Vidal, a historical fiction author that leans so far to the left that he stands at a forty-five degree angle on flat ground, posits that we'll wind up under a military dictatorship with Obama, because he won't see it coming out of the stupidity that is the American voter. Vidal thinks Obama's too educated to realize just how stupid and violent the American voter is.

That speaks volumes, both about Obama's ability to protect us from our enemies and about the contempt that the far left elitists hold for those who work to pay taxes that they live off of.

I really resent being lumped into that category of "stupid and violent." I hold a Masters in Arts degree in English (from one of the farthest left institutions in the Midwest). I am not stupid, I've just been one of the "proles" controlled by the State who's read 1984. In my opinion, that makes me less stupid than Gore Vidal (who, thankfully, didn't invite me to the wedding).

Violent, on the other hand, I may be. But only as a last resort to protect my family, my property, and my ideals.

I think Washington has a different idea of "Armageddon" than the rest of us do.

This won't bring about Armageddon. Economic meltdown would be deflation followed by hyperinflation, not a violent, worldwide conflagration.

This, on the other hand...that crazy son of a bitch is trying to trigger Armageddon, and will succeed if he isn't stopped.

Obama isn't just out of touch on economic issues. He is actively endangering us by making the United States look weak. Because the weaker we look, the more likely we are to be attacked on our own soil.

You know, Joe...

...it takes one to know one.

Can somebody shut that turkey up?

Creating a desert sounds like a stunningly good idea.

Long ago, the Mongols attacked the Middle East. Temujin, in particular, did a lot of damage when the residents at the time shaved the beards off of his ambassadors. He laid waste to an entire region, kidnapping artisans to build a city for him. Even after 1,500 years, the region still hasn't recovered. Many are familiar with the saying "He created a desert, and called it peace."

Including Tom Kratman. His novel, A Desert Called Peace raises a lot of ghosts--and a lot of questions.

The villians of the piece are familiar: radical, violent fundamentalist Muslims, and (in the shadows) the transnational progressivist movement. The kick-off incident was hauntingly familiar to those Americans who haven't forgotten why Islam is our enemy: violent radical fundamentalist rag-heads combined what happened to New York City with the Hindenburg.

Only, this time, some of the victims had someone with the money and know-how to avenge them. The main character, Patricio Carrera, who'd been living in a Panama-analogue for all of his married life, and whose wife and children (including one not yet born) and rich uncle were killed in the attack, had inherited the bulk of his own family's money, and had been formerly high up in the chain of command in his native country. And knew how to build an army.

Carrera chose to use his family money to build, equip, and train a small mercenary force to be used as a tool to help him gain his revenge--and damn, does he succeed.

I had a really hard time reading this book. It brought back a lot of memories of September 11, 2001, up to and including the sounds I could hear over the radio of those who chose to jump from the burning towers hitting the pavement. Carrera's wife chose to take her small children and jump, rather than be burned to death.

Suffice it to say, this book is not one I will re-read. Too hard.

However, along with the ghosts of September 11, this book raises a lot of questions. A lot of...suspicions.

The novel was set in the far future, on Earth's only colony world. It included flashbacks to our near future, many of which involved the transnational progressive movement tearing down society as it had worked up to that point. Indeed, Earth's own fleet and base on the colony world were run by the descendants of our modern movement.

And that's where the questions, the suspicion comes in.

The Earth forces decided that the United States-analogue country on the colony world was becoming too powerful, and would likely be a threat to their power and way of life on Earth, at some point in the future. So, they considered, and decided how they were going to nutralize that threat: they funneled money (and suggestions and building plans and security plans and flight plans) to violent radical rag-head terrorists. And, had it not been for Carrera simply not permitting the Earth ass-sucking media (who behave and believe the same way our American media does) to broadcast anything that he didn't approve, and not caring what they called him or implied about his techniques, the reprisal attacks to neutralize the threat would have faced the same difficulties and results as our own attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq--i.e., demonization of nation, intentions, and troops, and crippling ROEs being emplaced.

With all of the parallels, though, I have to admit that I wonder...how did the nineteen God-damned hijackers on September 11, 2001, figure out how to hit us, where, and with what? How did they get the idea? How did they get the money?

And who was using the ignorant shits as puppets?

Priceless!!

I'm not a revolver person...

...but this is nice. It shoots a tiny bit low, and you don't want to have an extended shooting session with it, but it's the first revolver I've actually liked.

This really made me laugh this morning.

Chuck Norris writes conservative opinion columns, now (and is actually a pretty good writer--better than he was an actor). This morning's was titled "Don't Tread on Me!"

What, do they have an invasion timetable or something?

Because, Obama is an idiot. He has decided to pull out of the missile defense shield without first warning Poland and the Ukraine* (though he denies that Russian belligerence has anything to do with that). He has decided that it's a good idea to further slash our nuclear arsenal, thereby lessening its utility as a deterrence.

And it's still not enough to make Mother Russia happy.

What, does Uncle Sam have to spread his own cheeks for Mother Russia's giant, unlubricated, black rubber strap on?

*I always thought it was rude to pull out without warning the one being screwed that things were about to splatter all over them.

You mean solar output really does have something to do with climate?!

According to these guys it really does! How about that? The sun is what controls the earth's temperatures, not Al Gore's verbal (and other) flatulence!

On the other hand...damn you, John Ringo! And double-damn you Bandit Six!

Yet another individual with giant balls.

This guy. 91 years old, and holds a would-be home invader at gun point until the police arrive.

Naked.

Broken oaths

The elected president of the United States of America is fully unfit for the job the people selected him to do. He has, himself, said that the Constitution--the one he swore to uphold and protect--was a fundamentally flawed document.

Can't argue with him, there. It did permit for the slow takeover of the federal government by enemies of the United States that talked a good line.

He has not done anything to protect us from our enemies, either foreign or domestic. In fact, I'd say he and his cronies are our biggest domestic enemies.

And now, he's decided that it's not in our best interest to set up the missile shield that we'd negotiated to base in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Ukraine. That it is, in fact, best that we not pursue long-range missile defense, and instead focus on short- and mid-range missile defense.

To put the cherry on top of this heinously bad decision (or perhaps to point up why he made it), he announced this on the seventieth anniversary of Russia's invasion of Poland.

He has set us up to be nuked by our sworn enemies in the Middle East, and for Russia to reclaim the sphere of influence that it once had. He has made this country, and every citizen in it, fundamentally less safe.

Vladimir Putin is laughing. So is Mahmoud Ahmadinajad.

Centuries ago, such oathbreaking would have been met with the people evicting the leader from power by any means necessary. That tradition, like many others, was eliminated by the French.

Sheer evil.

There can be no other words to describe a world where whether or not you or your loved ones are allowed medical treatment depends on how much it costs. As it tends to happen in countries with socialized medicine.

A particularly egregious example happened recently in Britain, where a baby born at 21 weeks 5 days' gestation--who was somehow breathing on his own, moving on his own, and managed to make it for two hours on his own--died because he was denied medical care. It's simply too expensive.

The doctors told the mother, when they refused to even look at the baby (probably would have made their hearts overrule their heads--a pic is included), that, had he been born two days later, at 23 weeks, they'd have treated him. Likely a lie: "In fact, the medical guidelines for Health Service hospitals state that babies should not be given intensive care if they are born at less than 23 weeks."

All I could think of when I read this story was my own son, born just nine weeks and two days later. And that our President, a man who is sworn to protect the citizens--all of the citizens, not just the more cost-effective ones--wants to foist this shit off on all of us sets a cold rage burning more intensely than anything but the hatred I hold for Islam.

It's funny when they can't take what they dish out.

It's even funnier when the "Bush lied, people died," crowd can't accept that their Messiah actually does lie, and ban the mention that he lies, that he's a hypocrite, or that he's been intellectually dishonest from the House floor.

Dirty big balls.

And he's got the biggest.

There's nothing else I can say about a man who kills a Taliban machine gunner in Afghanistan with a freakin' bayonet!!

Pot. Kettle.

Black.

Who are the violent nutjobs again?

It certainly doesn't seem to be those who are anti-abortion. Or those who are anti-mandatory Medicaid. Or those who don't belong to unions.

In fact, I haven't really heard much recently of violence perpetrated by the so-called "right wing terrorist militias." All of the violence I've heard about was perpetrated by left-wing thugs that can't seem to win on logic.

Chicago politics at their best.

One of Blago's main advisors was found, dead, of an aspirin overdose.

I remember.

When the first plane hit the towers in NYC, eight years ago, I knew nothing about it. I didn't even know anything about it until after the second plane had hit. I lived alone in my dorm room, had no television, and had already turned off the radio while I was getting ready for my first class.

The first I knew something really bad had happened was when I got to my first class. Everybody was uneasy, and there were rumors galore, including one that we'd been hit by a nuke. I figured that some kind of an accident had happened, and we'd find out what was going on when the instructor made it to class.

Except he was twenty minutes late. This individual had never been late in the three years I'd known him. Early, yes, but never, ever, late.

I remember thinking, when he told us that two jets had slammed into the towers, and that it looked to be purposeful, but that we were going to discuss A Midsummernight's Dream regardless, that he was one of the strongest men I'd ever known. He, after all, had family in NYC, and couldn't contact them. He did not know, at this point, whether they were alive or dead, and he was going on with class, anyway, despite the fact that no one would have blamed him for sending us all home.

That was the last class that our university held that day. I remember walking back to my dorm room, and how absolutely numb I felt.

And I remember that numbness giving way to a fine, cold, calculating rage.

I still feel that rage, despite eight years (so far) of safety. Unlike our media, I have not forgotten the way I felt that day, hearing what happened. I cannot forget the screams I heard on the radio as the victims in the tower realized that they were going to die, or the horror in the reporter's voice as he described the people beginning to leap out dozens of stories high windows to smash on the pavement below.

I still feel the rage, and it's stoked each time another one of our service men and women are killed, trying to bring freedom and basic human dignity to a people that do not want it, that hate us for having it.

I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that they will eventually attack us on our own soil again. They tried, more than once, while President Bush was in office. I have absolutely no doubt that they will succeed, because Barack Obama doesn't believe they really mean us harm.

At least, that's what he says.

Barack and Michelle Obama hate this country. They hate this country enough that I wouldn't put it past them to permit another attack--and then do nothing besides grovel in apology for being America to those who actually orchestrated the attack.

The people of the United States are complacent, for now. Our politicians have learned that the complacency that they depend on to do to us what they want done is an easily shed complacency. Should President Obama permit us to be attacked again, and have the temerity to do nothing, he will find out first hand how quickly the nation will rise up.

While he and his cronies and his shills have forgotten, we the people of the United States of America, have not forgotten. Nor have we forgiven.

I do not remember September 11, 2001, with grief. I remember it with rage.

Oh, the irony!

The Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) recently made the rest of the country an nice irony sandwich: they used a bulldozer to push over a couple of radio towers in Washington State.

Stupid. Just stupid.

Two girls in Lamar, Missouri, broke into and robbed several homes while residents slept. They were lucky. Two teenagers in Texas were killed, doing the exact same thing.

Lamar is a very small town. Robbing your neighbors in a town where everybody knows everybody else is a dumb idea on so many levels that I can't even number them all.

One thing is for sure: the sixteen year old's family is probably going to be run out of town.

These people aren't Americans.

Beyond the fact that their religion encourages them to lie to those who don't share the bloodiest religion in the world, it discourages them from integrating into any nation.

As is demonstrated by how terrified this little girl is that her own family will kill her for wanting a better life than that belief system provides for women. And if that judge tells her she must go home to her blood kin, well. He should have just put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger. He'd be just as guilty of her murder, either way.

What a twit.

Then again, what else do we expect from the MSM?

The caption on the captured pic describes a police detective holding an AK-47, which (according to the hyperbole) have been used more and more often in bloodbaths. Oh, sorry--"leaving a trail of blood at crime scenes across the country."

This picture is not of a man holding an AK-47. What he's holding is an AR-15: a civilian-legal, semi-auto only, superbly accurate "assault" rifle.

The term "assault rifle" is, in itself, an assault on gun rights. These rifles are fully civilian legal, and are often used in hunting (deer, not libtards), sport shooting, and general family fun target shooting. Calling them "assault rifles" is meant to make it seem that they're only used to murder other human beings, when 99.9% of the time, they're not.

The anti-gun lobby is only trying to make it seem like we legal gun owners are going to kill all of you in your sleep. The only ones who might be trying to kill the average American in his or her sleep are illegal gun owners (i.e., thugs), and the federal government's proposed mandatory Medicaid death panels.

If we legal gun owners are going to kill someone, it's going to be someone who's attacked us first, and we're far more likely to use a handgun.

And the MSM and anti-gun lobby would do better if they could accurately name the gun the officer is holding.

I can't really disagree with the little whore.

After all, she's right. Every woman trades sex for financial considerations. We have for centuries. Every woman who's ever gotten married has traded sexual favors for being taken care of, just as whores trade sex for money.

But the whores had more freedom in society (and more responsibility for themselves) than did wives, who were literally owned by their husbands for centuries. They were also cheaper, since the exchange of value for value was a lot more open: rather than providing for the care and upkeep of a woman for the rest of her life, the men who patronized whores handed over the cash upfront, expecting the women to provide for their own upkeep and save for when they were no longer really attractive to their patrons.

Ashley Dupree only points out that women still trade value for value. However, what Dupree (and those who judge her) has forgotten is that Elliot Spitzer didn't pay her to have sex with him--he paid her to go away after he got his rocks off.

Prejudice, my lily white ass!

Rangel says that it's "bias" and "prejudice" fueling opposition toward Obama's health-care plan, according to this story.

What Charlie doesn't seem to get is that he and the rest of Obama's supporters are the only ones mentioning race. If there is any prejudice, any bias, any racism, it's on their parts, because they're the ones injecting race into a discussion where it isn't applicable.

I will admit that there is "bias" and "prejudice" fueling my opposition toward mandatory Medicaid: I'm biased and prejudiced against any sort of government intervention into the realm of private enterprise. Government intrusion does not add competition--no private insurer can compete with a socialist government that sees nothing wrong with defrauding millions of taxpayers out of trillions of dollars every year.

Too busy to blog

I keep trying to find time to post, but coming up really short. Up until last week, I was setting up my online composition 1 class. That's done, but I came up with the brilliant idea to make my students blog. That's going to take up a lot of time to monitor.

On top of that, the baby is starting to get up on his hands and knees. He's kind of seal-flopping: getting up, moving his hands out of the way, and using his legs to propel him forward. He's going to be crawling in absolutely no time, and then I really won't have time to breathe.

From an e-mail received more than ten years ago.

I got this as an e-mail forward in 1998, while the Clintons were still president, and I was still in college. It's even more important today, because everyone seems to have forgotten what people don't have a right to.

The following was written by State Representative Mitchell Kaye from Cobb County, GA.

We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt-ridden delusional and other liberal, bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people were confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim that they require a "Bill of No Rights".

ARTICLE I:
You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.

People seem to have decided that "legally acquiring" includes having the government seize the means from those who have them to redistribute those means to those who don't. I really don't like the idea that someone else has the right to money I earn.

ARTICLE II:
You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone - not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.,but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.

This one goes out to Nancy Pelosi et. al., who are terribly offended by the realization that we don't think they know what's best for us. In fact, the community organizer in the White House is offended by communities organizing in protest of government deficit spending that's ballooned up into the trillions of dollars. Of course, communities organizing against them isn't grassroots organization, but astroturfing paid for by big business and Rush Limbaugh.

ARTICLE III:
You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful, do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.

ARTICLE IV:
You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.

ARTICLE V:
You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in health care.

Of course, the generation after generation of professional couch potatoes that believe they're entitled to freedom from responsibility for their decisions to have unprotected sex, and entitled to free health care (including free abortions paid for by those who may or may not believe in abortions used for birth control) are the ones who keep voting for the status quo, with this administration in particular. Of course, what that means is that the government believes that yes, the parasites do have the right to be free from harm, do have the right to have money sent to them for merely breathing, and do have the right to mandatory Medicaid.

ARTICLE VI:
You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.

Unless, of course, you're black. Then, you have the right to do what you want to whom you want (and most hate crimes cannot be prosecuted as such, because they're black on white, rather than the reverse), and no jury would dare convict you, much less sentence you to the death penalty, for fear of being labeled racist.

ARTICLE VII:
You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big-screen color TV or a life of leisure.

Again, if you're black, then you're not responsible for your bad behavior--the white power society that's keeping you down and poor (rather than your lack of education, your lack of ambition, and your own leaders) is responsible for you taking what you're owed. And you are now entitled to cable TV and gourmet food while you're in prison. Thanks to those same leaders that tell you that nothing you do is your fault.

ARTICLE VIII:
You don't have the right to demand that our children risk their lives in foreign wars to soothe your aching conscience. We hate oppressive governments and won't lift a finger to stop you from going to fight if you'd like. However, we do not enjoy parenting the entire world and do not want to spend so much of our time battling each and every little tyrant with a military uniform and a funny hat.

Agreed. However, when the little tyrants with the funny hats send their irregulars to attack us on OUR OWN SOIL, then by God, we want to attack them on theirs to keep them off ours. If they're too busy fighting us off at home, they won't send their people abroad to attack us.

Unfortunately, there are a whole lot of people (mostly in the current administration and their supporters) who don't comprehend that.

ARTICLE IX:
You don't have the right to a job. All of us sure want all of you to have one, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and educational training laid before you to make yourself useful.

Yeah. If you're too stupid to count out change, you don't have the right to a job. What you have the right to, that you're not getting, is education to prepare you to enter the workforce. However, your federal government and its appendages (i.e., the department of education) want you to stay stupid so that you stay dependent on them, and keep voting for them. Therefore, in their opinion, you have the right to that job, and the businesses don't have a right to insist that you have key skills before they hire you.

ARTICLE X:
You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to pursue happiness - which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an overabundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.

No one has the right to stay happy, all of the time. The attempt to is distinctly unhealthy, and fuels the ever-increasing demand for over medicating for psychological issues. I will not say that there are no cases that demand anti-depressants; however, much of the time, what people need is nothing more than something bigger than themselves to believe in, and someone to talk to. And, thanks to the ACLU's demonization of the sharing of religious beliefs in the public sphere, rather than looking for a congregation to belong to--whether that congregation is Christian church (my choice), pagan coven, synagogue, or mosque--people look for the quick fix of Prozac, which masks rather than treats the symptoms.

The saddest thing about this Bill of No Rights is not that so very many people believe they do have these rights, it's that it seems that the federal government is beginning to believe that the people should have these rights, despite the Constitution and its amendments, and the local, state, and federal laws that state otherwise.

God help us all.

A lesson in civics.

Last night, my other half and I had a friend watch the boy for us, while we went to see another friend in a local theater production of 1776.

It was spectacular.

Of course, Franklin stole the show...but he did in real life, too. The man was just a total smart ass. Neither the orchestra nor most of the players/singers were anything like professional quality--but you really didn't notice that at the time.

The thing I found interesting was simultaneously heartening and disheartening. To my immediate left sat a boy that'd just graduated high school, and his mother. He whined and complained to her before the curtain went up, and all through the intermission, about how much he didn't want to be there. How he hated it. His mother responded (rather tartly) that, had he not failed the American and state government class and test three times before he passed it, he wouldn't have been forced to come with her. (His response--that only the nerds, the stupid ones, had passed the test on the first try--struck me as a rather obvious oxymoron. I've known several stupid frat boys, and stupid jocks, and a few stupid preppies and geeks, but never a stupid nerd)

In any case, the whole musical struck me as a timely and pointed statement on current political events:

"...He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

...

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

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He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

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For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

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He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury."

These accusations, made against George III of England, are as applicable to our federal government today.

Ironic, isn't it, that the government our founding fathers worked so hard to create and limit has become no better than the tyranny that they risked everything to overthrow.

In a perfect world...

...scientists would be required to read science fiction before experimenting with things that could be disastrous if they got loose.

And they say the recession is over...

Not by this woman's assessment. Granted, her idea was stupid, but...if something's stupid, but it works, it's not that stupid.

My only question is...why in the hell is she getting any national coverage on this?

An atmosphere of fear is a good for keeping congresscritters honest.

The town hall meetings on Dear Leader's health care plan is creating an atmosphere of sheer terror among proponents of nationally socialized medicine.

Finally, some of them are remembering that they work for us. I hope more of them remember that before the bill is placed before them for a vote. If something like 86% of the population are insured (guestimated 350 million people less the touted 46 million uninsured), and more than 80% of that figure are happy with their insurance, then the majority people likely do not want to be placed on a healthcare plan where the money for medical procedures and/or doctor visits runs out by June of every year. You know, like it does on the Indian reservations.

Pelosi's landed fish impression.

I know Thoreau said "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," but this hurdles the line between a notable lack of that hobgoblin and hypocrisy.

Stupid.

It's not racial backlash that's making the nation hate Obama (though I have no doubt he's fueling racism against other blacks in the nation), it's his own national socialist leanings backed by his heavy-handed use of Chicago politics in forcing them through on us.

I'd far rather see him and his political machine crippled by severe losses in the House and Senate than see that worthless pile of shit killed.

He has children, after all, two daughters who absolutely adore their daddy. I wouldn't want to deprive them of him as they grow up.

Whew! I've lost track of time!

I've had the blog for a bit longer than a year, now. It's really been one hell of a year, between the baby coming early and spending his first five weeks in the hospital, fighting with the insurance company over whether or not premature labor counted as a complication, and learning to care for an infant and a decently full schedule of online classes (I switched to online teaching after the baby's birth).

And, in that year, the nation decided to bend over and spread for the federal government by electing a transnational progressivist socialist president and packing congress with his cronies. They're currently trying to ram socialized medicine, nationalized energy production (through cap and trade), and nationalized finances (through government seizure of several publicly-owned financial companies) up the collective, national ass. Without lubricant. With a sandpaper condom.

I'm about ready to start running for local office as a first step to running for national office. I'm about ready to try to be part of the solution.

If Obama can change definitions, I can, too.

I've decided since we can't call military actions to ensure our safety from radical, militant Islam a war on terrorism (much less the Crusade it actually is), I'm going to redefine a term, too. From now on, fun will be an acronym meaning fucked under nationalization. In other words, should one of my lefty acquaintances say something along the lines of "Come on, rationed healthcare will be fun," I'll smile and nod. I'll know what they really mean.

Good timing.

A quadriplegic has decided that he wants to commit suicide. Well, by the assessment of the United States government, he'd probably not have a choice under mandatory Medicaid. He is, after all, a non-producing member of society who's doing nothing but consuming resources that could be used to extend the producing years of an actual taxpayer.

He must have just gotten his "end of life counseling" early.

Stupid git wouldn't know an ambush if he was killed by one.

Representative Baird is terrified of his own constituents. He's determined that, rather than meet them face to face to answer for his unpopular support for an even more unpopular socialization of the medical industry, he's going to hold telephone "town hall" meetings. He calls the citizens who elected him asking questions about rationing "brownshirt tactics," and refused to hold any meeting where he might be "ambushed."

This is the kind of dipshit that would have been fragged by his own men in Vietnam, had he had the balls to serve. This retarded sack of monkey snot is completely overlooking one simple solution to avoiding the kind of mess Tampa and St. Louis saw: obey the will of the people who elected him, and do his damned job.

This is not the same country that it used to be.

When a little girl can't have a lemonade stand to make money for a family trip to Disney World without having a business license, you know there's something wrong.