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.