Fjordman Strikes Again

Writing in Gates of Vienna, Fjordman muses on the roots of non-discrimination - liberalism or marxism?

In general, Leftists hate Judeo-Christian values far more than they like Islam. Perhaps they think they can control Islam, or perhaps they are attracted to its totalitarian mindset. Either way, it is a fact that many of them are more aggressive against Christianity than against Islam.Maybe I have a conspiratorial mindset, but the way left-wingers condemn Christianity and praise Islam is so consistent and aggressive that I cannot help but ask whether some of them have deliberately set out to uproot the plague of Christianity from our culture once and for all. They ridicule it at any given opportunity and destroy the values of the native culture, and at the same time they import a rival religion and groom it to replace the traditional one. When the day comes that people get sufficiently tired of nihilism, Christianity will have become so discredited as to have been eliminated as a viable alternative, and people are left with Islam.In Sweden, the natives have been subject to ridicule of Western culture -- and Christianity in particular -- for generations. They are supposed to abase themselves in front of immigrants and tell them how worthless their culture is, or alternatively how much they lament the fact that they don’t have a culture. Swedish girls are told to be sexually liberated and end up getting raped and called “ infidel whores“ by Muslim immigrants. Meanwhile, Swedish boys are taught to be as “gender neutral” as possible.

The left are obsessed with non-discrimination to the point of lunacy. Unless the victim of discrimination is a heterosexual protestant christian man of northern European descent. Then it's perfectly OK.

Proof that Google is the AntiChrist

Here is the quote I just got for Google common stock off wsj.com


GOOG
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666.00

Moon of the Week: Deimos

Smaller of the two moons of Mars

Declining Numbers of Hunters Hurt Environmental Conservation Efforts

In USA Today we hear conservationalists lament the declining number of hunters

States that rely on tens of millions of dollars in hunting license fees annually to pay for environmental conservation are trying to boost a population they had never thought of protecting: the endangered American hunter.
The number of hunters has slid from a peak of 19.1 million in 1975 to 12.5 million last year, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
With that drop has come worries that states won't be able to pay for the rising costs of conservation efforts and acquisition of open space.
States generated $724 million last year through hunting licenses and fees for wildlife management and conservation; taxes on guns and ammunition added another $267 million, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
"Sportsmen pay the bills, especially east of the Mississippi," says Rob Sexton, vice president for government affairs at the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, a hunters advocacy group in Columbus, Ohio. "A vast majority of the public land where people go for walks, wildlife viewing or mountain biking, the vast majority is bought by sportsmen."

Now why would this be? Perhaps because many law-abiding hunters get treated like criminals by law enforcement? When I lived in Florida, I was repeatedly harassed by game wardens of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, and by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. On numerous occasions they tried everything they could to find some reason to issue me a citation, but they never could, because I am a law-abiding hunter.

One day I was hunting at the Corbett Wildlife Management Area in Palm Beach County. I was stopped by a state game warden. He checked my licenses, checked my gun, everything he could possibly check and then left. Ten minutes later he came back and said that the tag on my truck did not match the records at the state bureau of motor vehicles. He demanded to know where I had gotten the tag and I told him at the court house. He began getting insanely angry and was screaming at me, demanding to know where I had gotten the tag. I answered him again. He demanded to see my registration and I gave it to him. Then he told me to sit down on the road next to my truck. I complied and he radioed the state BMV again. The woman he was talking to said she made an error when she entered my tag number. He gave my registration back to me and drove off, never apologizing or expressing any regret for having ruined my hunt.

That dork is supposed to be enforcing the game laws. Why was he worried about my truck tag? I have had hunts on public WMAs where I was checked by wardens three or four times.

One year three of us were hunting at the Lake Harbour Waterfowl Magement Area, just south of Lake Okeechobee. This was during early teal season in September. As we were packing up to leave, we saw a man in waders walking up to us in the marsh. He said he was a warden of the US Fish and Wildlife Service and accused us of shooting a Florida Mottled duck. He claimed that he had the duck stuffed into his waders. (That's an old trick that cops use. Claim they have evidence that doesn't exist in order to provoke a confession). We denied shooting any Mottled ducks. He took our licenses and then checked our guns for plugs and checked every single one of our shells. He then gave our licenses back and let us go. We could tell he was *PISSED* at not being able to give us a citation.

Often the fees and permits required to hunt are ridiculous. In most states, just to hunt ducks or geese you have to have (1) hunting license, (2) Federal waterfowl permit, (3) State waterfowl permit, and (4) HIP permit. You have to pay all those fees in order to pay the salaries of those assholes who spend all their time harassing law-abiding hunters.

There are many people who try to make it impossible to hunt. Hunters and gun owners are constantly being demonized. The above article has a quote from a loser at the Humane Society of the United State:

Some say the focus on hunter retention is not the way to go.
"The number of people who hunt has declined in recent decades, and the number of people who enjoy wildlife in other ways, like wildlife watching or bird-watching, continues to expand," says Michael Markarian, executive vice president of the Humane Society of the United States. "Efforts to reverse these trends are futile."

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) does not run any animal shelters, nor does it have any connection with the local Humane Societies or SPCAs. It is solely a political organization whose goal is to ban hunting and also ban all private possession of firearms. Many of the officers and members of the HSUS have connections with terrorist organizations like PETA and ALF.

Code Pink Thugs Assault Patriots in Berkeley

Anyone naive enough to believe that anti-war protestors are peaceful should read about the recent activities of Code Pink, a socialist anti-American group, in Berkeley, California:

A showdown between anti-war activists who last month defaced a Marine recruiting office and flag-carrying patriots took over a street in Berkeley on Wednesday with noise levels that reached a half-mile away at the University of California in town.
Berkeley police officers kept the Code Pink contingent of about 150 separated from the group of about 500 led by Move America Forward, the nation’s largest pro-troop organization. The incidents of abhorrent behavior were rare, but included an anti-war demonstrator trying to knife a pro-troop supporter and two code Pink followers burning flags.
A group of Code Pink protesters surrounded a woman and pushed her around after she said that her brother and other family members were protecting the United States in Iraq. The young woman shook with fear and wept.

Code Pink are nothing but thugs. They hate democracy and free enterprise. Any foreign dictator is their friend.

Poor Knife-Honk Forced to Pay for His Own Defense

Mikey Knife-Honk, disgraced former purveyor of false prosecutions, has asked the state of North Carolina to pay for his legal defense for the lawsuit that the three innocent lacrosse players have brought against him, the city of Durham, and numerous officers in the Durham police department.

The state attorney general's office denied his request:

The state must refuse to provide for such representation if the Attorney General determines that the actions or omissions were not within the scope of the employee's official duties; the acts or omissions involved fraud, corruption, or malice; defense of the actions would create a conflict of interest; or, defense of the actions would not be in the best interest of the state.

And remember, Mikey, your quest for legal representation is evidence of your guilt. That's what you said about the three lacrosse players.

Update: Mikey reportedly said to his attorney today: "I don't know why I continue to expect people to do the right thing". I am trying to think of an appropriate response to that statement, but words fail me.

Moon of the Week: Phobos

Largest satellite of Mars.

Rumor has it, Trump is planning high-rise luxury apartments, 36 hole championship golf course, and a casino.

Democrat Congressional Staffer Insults NASCAR Fans

You can often learn much about how someone feels about certain people or groups of people by observing how they act or react in some irrelevant situation. For example, Democrat James Carville's statement "Drag a 100 dollar bill through a trailer park...." concerning Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton revealed how he feels about people with lower incomes.

Now we have a Democrat staffer for Rep Bennie Thompson (D - Miss) recommending that political operatives who visit NASCAR events need vaccinations:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- It got the GOP's engines revving -- a Democratic official suggesting staffers get immunized for several diseases before heading south from Washington and into the Red State wilds of NASCAR country to conduct research at a pair of races.
The reaction on both sides illustrates just how valuable candidates for elected office consider the votes of NASCAR fans who pack grandstands by the thousands every weekend and the donations of business leaders who spend millions to sponsor the sport.

It started last month, when an official with the House Committee on Homeland Security suggested that staff aides get immunizations before visiting health facilities at Alabama's Talladega Superspeedway and North Carolina's Lowe's Motor Speedway, where the Bank of America 500 was run Saturday.
In an e-mail, a staffer who works for committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., noted an "unusual need for whomever attending to be vaccinated against hepatitis A and B," as well as "the more normal things -- tetanus, diphtheria, and of course, seasonal influenza."

The sheer contempt that the left have for people in the red states is amazing. They believe we are all a bunch of inbred hillbillies. And then the idiots can't understand why we don't vote for them!

Brave Scotsman Stands Up to Donald Trump

Donald Trump is trying to build a golf resort on the east coast of Scotland, but Mike Forbes, a local fisherman, doesn't want to sell his land!

"I think maybe he thought we were all a load of cabbages up here and he could just sweep through and clear up," says Mike Forbes, 55, from his favourite easy chair by the gleaming window.

It all started when "The Donald" — as Trump's ex-wife, Ivana, liked to call him — bought a 1,400- acre plot by the beach in Belmedie, 11 miles north of Aberdeen, and announced plans to build Trump International Golf Links on it — along with a 450-bedroom hotel, 950 holiday homes, 36 luxury golf villas, 500 private residences, an elite golf academy, driving range and accommodation block for construction workers.
"That's where the golf course will be," Mike gestures from his chair, left arm bandaged up from a recent operation on his thumb.
"Fifty yards away on that side, and 50 yards away on the other."
For the problem is that Mike, Molly and Mike's 60-year-old wife, Sheila — currently hard at work in the fish factory down the road — live slap bang in the middle of Trump's site.
And they won't budge.
"To me, you can't put a price on it. I won't sell and he knows that," says Mike.

So what is the Donald doing about it?

"Put it this way, in the last few months I've had visits from animal cruelty, the RSPCA, environmental health and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.
Oh, and a couple of weeks ago I had the police round saying I had a shotgun with no licence. I don't even have a shotgun.
It all seems a bit coincidental, don't you think?
"He's also withdrawn access rights from my land down to the beach — I need a tractor to drag the nets, so without it, I can't fish."
He has also had lawyers' letters accusing him of damaging Mr Trump's property, which he denies.

Trump, you are a dirtbag. You and those government officials who have been harassing Forbes should be prosecuted for this.

Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

It's official. The Prize is now absolutely meaningless. They might as well award the next one to Tookie Williams posthumously.

Fjordman: The Age of White Masochism

Fjordman, at Gates of Vienna has some interesting thoughts on the issues of multicuturalism and white guilt that are causing North America and Europe to self-destruct:

Western nations have accepted more immigration from alien cultures in a shorter period of time than any other civilization has done peacefully in history. We have reached our limits and we need a break from mass immigration before our entire political and economic system breaks down.The idea that every white person who desires self-determination and self-preservation is a racist, a white supremacist and a Nazi is nonsense and should flatly be rejected. The vast majority of racist violence in Western nations is by non-whites attacking whites. Consequently, if we limit immigration this is anti-racism, since we are protecting our children against racist violence. It is not about white supremacy, either, it is about equality. Whites are currently the only racial group specifically denied the opportunity to defend their countries and heritage. If we assert our right to do so we are thus fighting for equality, not supremacy.

I can just picture some lefty reading this and saying "Oh, you racist, sexist, homophobe! You probably drive around in a U-Haul loaded with fertilizer and fuel oil"

I can't believe it

The Cowboys must be for real. They played about as terrible as they possibly could, and they still won.

Five interceptions? No way.

Michael Reagan Scores a Direct Hit

Michael Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan, explains why the left are so fearful of talk radio and the blogosphere:

Nothing frightens those who peddle lies than the cold hard light of truth. They react to exposure of their deceits the way vampires react to a having a crucifix held up in front of them. Ever since the birth of conservative talk radio and the internet ended the liberals’ total monopoly over the news, the left has been simmering with impotence -- over the loss of their absolute control over what the Americans are allowed to see and hear, and their inability to do anything about it.

The same can be said about Fox News Channel. I derive great pleasure watching the socialists get all bent out of shape over Fox.

Actress of the Week: Jenny Agutter

Check her out in Walkabout or Logan's Run. Ooh - la- la !!!

A Critic Toots His Horn

Anonymous said...
Hey it's the Lesser Professor! What a dildo. Why don't you give up the ghost on tenure and get a real job, Bozo!
6:26 PM

I don't have tenure. Most college professors have political views similar to the ones I am criticizing in the blog.

Why are the left so stupid?

The main purpose of this blog is to lay bare the dishonesty and stupidity of the scum on the left. I hope they will be aggravated by my words as much as possible. So, I am beginning a series of essays detailing their stupidity.

Why are the left so stupid? Here are just a few reasons:

(1) “Affirmative Action” – misguided policies based upon the notion that two wrongs can somehow make a right. Ethnic minorities and sometimes also women are given priority over white men for college admissions, hiring, promotions, tenure decisions for college faculty, government contracts, and much more.

These racist policies are allegedly put into practice in order to compensate for past injustices. However, most of the people who perpetrated the past “injustices” are long gone, and the burden of the policies falls primarily on young people who had nothing whatsoever to do with the “injustices”. And the benefits of the policies are granted to many people who have never experienced an injustice.

Not all white men come from privileged backgrounds. Not all minorities or women come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Often the minorities who are given preference come from highly influential families, such as the daughters of U.S. Congressman William Jefferson, who when he was indicted for bribery bragged that they had graduated from Harvard Law School. Would they have been accepted to Harvard with the same grades and LSAT scores if they were white men from a middle class household?

Furthermore, if the condition of blacks and Hispanics is so awful in the USA, then why are so many of them desperately trying to come here? They enter the country, often illegally, and push whites further and further back to the end of a longer and longer line.

“Affirmative Action” is nothing but bald-faced racism and sexism disguised with a nice sounding phrase.

(2) Support for Dictatorships in Foreign Countries – the idiots on the left like having their vote count in the USA. But they don’t want to allow people in other countries the same luxury. Many of them praised the Soviet Union during its reign of terror and murder. They have also praised Mao Tse-Tung, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Daniel Ortega, and Hugo Chavez. Somehow the left feel that just because some dictator opposes the USA, then that makes it acceptable for them to abuse their own people, deny them the write to vote in free and fair elections, and deny them their basic liberties.

(3) Suppression of Freedom in the USA - many of the left seek to deny basic freedoms to American citizens. The “hate-crimes” laws and campus “speech codes” are all attempts to deny basic freedom of thought and expression. Some of the left have even advocated that anyone like myself who speaks out against “affirmative action” should be arrested and imprisoned.

When Bill Clinton was president, he had two people arrested, on his explicit orders, for yelling “you suck” during one of his speeches. He had White House travel director Billy Dale prosecuted on false charges in order to hand the travel business over to his friend.

(4) Suppression of Voting Rights in the USA - The hypocrisy of the left reached an all-time high during the Florida recount fiasco following the 2000 presidential election. Al Gore repeatedly claimed that he wanted “all the votes counted” and at the same time he sent hordes of attorneys to Florida to challenge each and every absentee ballot sent in by a member of the military.

During the 2004 election, Ralph Nader ran for president as an independent. But attorneys for the Democrats pressed legal challenges in every state that he tried to get on the ballot, fearful that he would split the leftwing vote. Nader is every bit as bad as any Democrat, but the leaders on the left don’t want people to be able to make a choice. If they had some way of keeping Republicans and Libertarians off the ballot, they would do so.

(5) Support for High Taxes – the left are constantly trying to raise taxes on U.S. citizens and corporations. In spite of the overwhelming empirical evidence that low tax rates result in higher growth rates of the economy, the left want to increase personal income taxes, corporate income taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, oil and gas extraction taxes, and estate taxes. Their justification is based on their belief that everything and everyone are the property of the state, and that they might be generous and allow us to keep a little bit of it. Taxes are ridiculously high in the USA and most people receive little or no benefits or government services in return.

To be continued...

Quote of the Week

Why didn't I think of this? From THIRDWAVEDAVE:

"Carter's a bitter ex-president who has never gotten over the boot print Reagan left on his ass."

Yeah, Jimmah. When are you gonna get over that boot print? It looks better than the tattoo that Rosalyn has got on her ass.

Quote of the Week

"I would have to be a dictator with nuclear weapons to get invited to Columbia" - U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas

Massacre in Burma

According to a Burmese army officer who has defected to Thailand, thousands are dead in Burma following the riots

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.
The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."
Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.

This is a typical socialist government. They have no respect for human freedoms nor human lives.

The 42-year-old chief of military intelligence in Rangoon's northern region, added: "I decided to desert when I was ordered to raid two monasteries and force several hundred monks onto trucks.
"They were to be killed and their bodies dumped deep inside the jungle. I refused to participate in this."
With his teenage son, he made his escape from Rangoon, leaving behind his wife and two other sons.

How long will it take for the jackasses on the left to blame this on Bush? I can just picture Michael Moore and Al Franken thinking of how to spin this tragedy to their advantage.

Are the Cowboys for Real?

They sure are playing like it. It has been so long since their glory days that I don't know what to think. Subconsciously I half expect Michael Irvin or Charles Haley to appear on the field.

I guess the best thing to do is to sit back and enjoy.

Dukkke President Brodhead 'Apologizes' to Falsely Accused Lacrosse Players

As you may recall, in spite of significant evidence that the three falsely-charged students at Duke were innocent, Richard Brodhead, the president of Duke during this scandal, went ahead and suspended two of the three students, canceled the team's season, and fired the coach. He repeated the ludicrous false accusations of Mike Nifong and the Dukkke 88 who slandered the innocent men. And now, he says he's sorry:

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University President Richard Brodhead apologized Saturday for not better supporting the men's lacrosse players falsely accused in last year's highly publicized rape scandal. Brodhead, speaking at the university's law school, said he regretted Duke's "failure to reach out" in a "time of extraordinary peril" after a woman accused three players of raping her at a March 2006 party thrown by the team.
"Given the complexities of this case, getting the communication right would never have been easy," Brodhead said. "But the fact is that we did not get it right, causing the families to feel abandoned when they were most in need of support. This was a mistake. I take responsibility for it and I apologize for it."

What Brodhead did was typical of university administrators. They will do anything to pay obeisance to the PC goddess. This apology is too little too late and he deserves to be fired.

U.S. missile defense test successful

Will wonders never cease? Our beloved federal government actually can do a few things right:

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A ground-based missile successfully intercepted a target missile Friday in a test of the nation's defense system, the Missile Defense Agency said. An intercontinental ballistic missile interceptor blasted out of an underground silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base shortly after 1:15 p.m., and tracked a target missile that had lifted off from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska, the Boeing Co. said in a statement.
The Missile Defense Agency said initial results show the interceptor's rocket motor system and kill vehicle performed as planned. Boeing said the warhead was tracked, intercepted and destroyed

How can this be? The wise sages of the left have been telling us smugly for years that "Star Wars" was an impossible pipe dream. (All the while ignoring the fact that the Soviets seemed very perturbed by the fact that we might develop a viable missile defense system).

And I recall the Clinton administration canceled all research on Star Wars. At the same time, North Korea and Iran were developing better and better offensive ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons to put on them.

The article goes on to mention that we now have operational interceptor missiles at Vandenburg AFB and at Fort Greely, Alaska. We can thank Bush for this, not Clinton. If Hillary is elected will she continue the development and deployment of missile defense? I doubt it.

New York Governor Spitzer Can't Take the Heat

Elliott Spitzer, who recently announced a policy change that would provide driver's licenses to illegal aliens, enticing more of them to come over the border, got his panties in a twist when he discovered that some other people didn't like his idea:

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Gov. Eliot Spitzer tore into New York City's mayor for lambasting the state's new driver's license policy for illegal aliens, calling it "legally wrong, morally wrong" for critics to say it will weaken national security and make it tougher for New Yorkers to fly.

The governor struck back at Bloomberg during a visit to an elementary school in Rochester. "He is wrong at every level _ dead wrong, factually wrong, legally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong," he said.

Elliott, didn't you take an oath to uphold the laws? If someone shows up at the state driver's license office who has entered the country illegally, why don't you call the Border Patrol and have that person arrested and deported?

The Perils of 'Diversity' Hiring

Here is a subject with which I am intimately acquainted. Jennifer Delton in the Chronicle of Higher Education, writes "Why Diversity for Diversity's Sake Won't Work"

The goal of diversifying college faculties may be a worthy one, but academic circles have largely ignored problems inherent in the practice of "diversity hiring." Such hiring practices are not only legally questionable, but they also go against everything a half-century of antiracist educational activism has taught us about the meaninglessness of visible racial characteristics. Despite diversity advocates' insistence that color matters, the meaninglessness of physical racial characteristics continues to be a key theme of antiracist education. Moreover, that presumption — the meaninglessness of racial characteristics — underlies current antidiscrimination laws as well as the rules of social etiquette. To infer anything about a person's interests, character, or sensibility on the basis of physical racial characteristics is legally suspect and socially déclassé. Yet that is what "diversity hiring" practices require us to do.

Try pursuing a career in academia, especially in a field like economics that is already overcrowded. If you are a white man, like me, the diversity/multicultural zealots will make it clear that you are not welcome.

Irish Terrorist/ Illegal Alien Seeks Sanctuary in the USA

Here is terrorist Malachy McAllister posing with our favorite feminazi. McAllister spent three years in prison for his role in attacking a policeman in Northern Ireland. He fled Ireland in 1988 after masked gunmen fired 26 shots into his Belfast home. (What goes around comes around, doesn't it Malachy?) He came to the USA in 1996 and has been living here illegally ever since. Don't believe the crap that he is living here peacefully. Last year he attended a 25th anniversary celebration that honored other IRA murderers.

He is currently campaigning to be allowed sanctuary in the USA. Is this who we want in our country? I don't.

Please write your U.S. Senators and Representatives and ask them NOT to give this scumbag asylum. Boot his murdering ass out of here.

Man jailed in Denver made boots for Bush

Rocky Horror! Sara Burnett of the Rocky Mountain News reports that a bootmaker who once made a pair of boots that were given as a gift to President Bush has been arrested!

One of the men arrested in Denver this month for trading in protected animal skins, conspiracy and money laundering was a bootmaker to world leaders, including President Bush and former Mexican President -Vicente Fox.

The left, and their lackeys in the lamestream media, are so desperate to find anything, ANYTHING, to smear Bush. I can just picture the next headline "Woman Arrested for Shoplifting Has Third Cousin Once-Removed Who Served in the Marine Corps Under Bush Administration"

Why Do the Left Favor Mass Immigration?

To their credit, some of them don't. They understand the problems that can result from excessive immigration, especially illegal immigration. But many do, such as Ted Kennedy. Hibernia Girl, a new blog from an Irish Lass, quotes Fredo Arias - King on why mass immigration is favored:

Here's Fredo Arias-King on why the Left favors mass immigration (Arias-King heard first-hand from many U.S. Congressmen and officials why they favor mass immigration while handling foreign relations during Mexico's Vicente Fox 1999-2000 presidential campaign):
The American Left, as the Left everywhere, also has a penchant for social experimentation, even social engineering. Many leftist intellectuals and scholars often devise schemes and solutions to society’s problems, with a certain contempt for traditional ways of life. Immigration is also favorably seen by them as a way of “redistributing the world’s income” or “increasing understanding with other societies” [15] or “addressing previous injustices” or “creating better people,” etc. Some of the arguments of this group of congressmen were not too different from the logic behind the homo sovieticus, the “new Soviet man” that the communists believed they were constructing in the 1920s and 30s. Some of these congressmen used adjectives such as “happier,” “healthier,” and “harder working” to describe what their vision of the new American will be. They felt comfortable in the role of potential providers to needy groups in exchange for acquiescence in the expansion of government programs and power. They would talk to us about their plans to “guarantee health care” or “fund more services” or “give more scholarships” to the immigrants. One former U.S. cabinet member present in one of the party conventions mentioned approvingly, “What do Hispanics want? Fully-funded government programs!”Citing the negative consequences of immigration to this group is likely to backfire, as the evidence that new waves of immigrants do not perform the same as previous waves is relative good news to them. Immigration is a source of power for the étatist Left not so much because immigrants tend to vote for the party most associated with them, but because the consequences of immigration from poor countries fundamentally reinforces their argument for state intervention.I think there's also an element of divide et impera [divide and conquer] to all of this -- both in Europe and the U.S. I mean, what better way to maintain one's power than to keep the masses busy battling each other for resources and rights?

Not surprising, given the left's penchant for social engineering. With the inevitable disastrous consequences.

A Difficult Choice to Make


Do we want our women to look like this:
















Or like this?

















What amazes me is that we even have to ask. Why do the islamofascists think we would even consider adopting their religion?

Arlington County Board Supports Illegal Aliens

In the city and county where I was born, the elected officials are openly supporting those who break our laws and violate the sovereignty of the USA:

The Arlington County Board yesterday strongly rebuked elected officials elsewhere in Northern Virginia who are clamping down on illegal immigrants, saying such efforts are "politically inspired," "irresponsible" and "punitive."
The five board members, all Democrats, unanimously backed a resolution calling on elected officials elsewhere to "promote the integration of immigrants" instead of enacting rules they said would be divisive.

And from them we get the ultimate in leftist arrogance. Forcing law-abiding taxpayers to pay for education, health-care, and job placement for people who have entered the USA illegally:

They also said the county will not cut public health services for immigrants, which officials said could cause disease to spread. They said they will not restrict education programs because children of illegal immigrants are likely to remain in the United States and it therefore makes better sense to help them be able to earn a good living.

The regionwide debate over illegal immigration came to Arlington early this month. At a Saturday board meeting, local Republican officials posed pointed questions to the board about the extent of crime being committed by illegal immigrants and whether officials were requiring the police to report such crime to federal immigration officials. They also questioned whether it is appropriate for Arlington's day-laborer center to serve workers who are in the country illegally.

Federal Reserve Open Market Committee Cuts Target Fed Funds Rate to 4.75%

As you have undoubtedly heard by now, the Open Market Committee cut their target Fed Funds rate from 5.25% to 4.75%. This is a wise move, given the recent troubles in the credit markets.

But I am concerned that the Fed governors have lost sight of their goal of transparency. They had effectively abandoned their former 5.25% target some weeks ago, as can be seen from the effective Fed Funds rates that banks have been charging each other for the last few weeks (source: Board of Governors website):

08/07/2007, 5.26

08/08/2007, 5.27

08/09/2007, 5.41

08/10/2007, 4.68

08/13/2007, 4.81

08/14/2007, 4.54

08/15/2007, 4.71

08/16/2007, 4.97

08/17/2007, 4.91

08/20/2007, 5.03

08/21/2007, 4.89

08/22/2007, 4.77

08/23/2007, 4.88

08/24/2007, 5.11

08/27/2007, 5.27

08/28/2007, 5.30

08/29/2007, 5.00

08/30/2007, 5.00

08/31/2007, 4.96

09/03/2007, ND

09/04/2007, 5.22

09/05/2007, 5.18

09/06/2007, 4.98

09/07/2007, 4.86

09/10/2007, 5.07

09/11/2007, 5.06

09/12/2007, 5.18

09/13/2007, 5.09

09/14/2007, 5.25

Banks have been borrowing and lending to each other at much lower rates than the target for most of the last five weeks. It wasn't until last friday, September 14 that they got back to the target.

Separated at Birth?

What do Osama bin Laden and Gerry Adams have in common? Ruth Edwards has some ideas:

apart from their beards and their involvement in terrorism, what Osama and Gerry have in common is that they're obsessed with self-justification, they're losers who have to rewrite the past to fit in with present fantasies, they struggle to be thought modish and neither has the gift of the gab.
Of the two, Bin Laden was more interesting. First, there's the matter of his beard, which has gone from grey to black, thus causing the international intelligence community to indulge in orgies of speculation. Is it dyed? Is it false? Is it Bin Laden at all, at all? Personally, I go with the proponents of the Grecian 2000 view. Look, the guy was 50 six months ago, he's hiding in a cave Allah knows where and apart from the London bom bings in 2005, his operatives are failing to deliver spectaculars in Europe. How could he not be having a bit of a mid-life crisis?
It's similar for Adams. Since his humiliation in the Irish General Election, the invitations to exciting places have dried up. It's Martin McGuinness that gets to go to the sexy spots like Finland: Adams is reduced to hanging around with his dwindling band of admirers in West Belfast.

But each of them have memories to dwell on:

Still, there's some pleasure to be had for him on Memory Lane. Like Bin Laden, who did some predictable gloating about the great achievements of the 19 young murderers of 9/11, Gerry had a nostalgic moment about some of his, though because of his present peace-loving persona, he had to do a lot of equivocating.
The IRA (with which, it was implied, he had nothing to do) were justified in their campaign -- even if he completely failed to explain what they had achieved -- but he couldn't agree with some of their more embarrassing actions. Asked why he had described the Balcolmbe Street bombers as "our Nelson Mandelas", he explained that it was because they spent 24 years in jail. He admired them "as freedom fighters", while having a bit of awkwardness about their having murdered 16 people in London and Guildford with guns and bombs.

A terrorist is a terrorist.

Consensus or Hoax?

How many times have you heard that there is some sort of 'Scientific Consensus' in favor of the nonsense that human CO2 emissions are causing global warming? Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute has done a survey of research of 500 scientists:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours since the last Ice Age and/or that 2) our Modern Warming is linked strongly to variations in the sun's irradiance. "This data and the list of scientists make a mockery of recent claims that a scientific consensus blames humans as the primary cause of global temperature increases since 1850," said Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Dennis Avery.
Other researchers found evidence that 3) sea levels are failing to rise importantly; 4) that our storms and droughts are becoming fewer and milder with this warming as they did during previous global warmings; 5) that human deaths will be reduced with warming because cold kills twice as many people as heat; and 6) that corals, trees, birds, mammals, and butterflies are adapting well to the routine reality of changing climate.

And were the warm periods really so bad?

"Two thousand years of published human histories say that the warm periods were good for people," says Avery. "It was the harsh, unstable Dark Ages and Little Ice Age that brought bigger storms, untimely frost, widespread famine and plagues of disease." "There may have been a consensus of guesses among climate model-builders," says Singer. "However, the models only reflect the warming, not its cause." He noted that about 70 percent of the earth's post-1850 warming came before 1940, and thus was probably not caused by human-emitted greenhouse gases. The net post-1940 warming totals only a tiny 0.2 degrees C.

What really tips me off is how the global warming zealots are really the same gullible group who so eagerly believed the lies of Mike Nifong.

Hillary Can't Explain?

According to Clinton campaign advisor Harold Wolfson, they have no explanation why warnings about fugitive felon Norman Hsu were ignored

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton's campaign couldn't explain yesterday why it blew off warnings about felon-turned-fund-raiser Norman Hsu - and the Daily News learned FBI agents are collecting e-mail evidence in the widening scandal.
Clinton was forced Monday to give back a whopping $850,000 raised by convicted scam artist Hsu after learning his investment ventures were being probed by the FBI as a potential Ponzi scheme.

They were warned by California businessman Jack Cassidy that Hsu was up to no good, and how did they respond?

Cassidy raised a red flag after a friend came to him with a tale of being offered 64% annual returns by Hsu.
"It was either predatory lending or a Ponzi scheme," the source said, adding that the FBI had interviewed Cassidy and took as evidence numerous e-mails he sent to political officials about Hsu.
Camp Clinton never responded to Cassidy, but dealt with the worried California party members. According to the Los Angeles Times, Clinton's Western finance director, Samantha Wolf, e-mailed, "I can tell you with 100% certainty that Norman Hsu is NOT involved in a Ponzi scheme," adding, "He is COMPLETELY legit."

They still can't explain why they ignored the warnings? I can. They wanted more money from Hsu. Hillary and her husband would sell the USA down the river for a campaign contribution.

EU Throws a Bone to the Brits

I can't believe this. No, actually I am shocked, SHOCKED! I tell you. The compassion and forgiveness of the divine angels who run the European Union knows no limits. They are actually going to allow the Brits and Irish to keep units like the pint and miles.

Brussels - In what was portrayed in Brussels as a victory for British Isles traditionalists, the European Union on Tuesday dropped its plans to force Britain and Ireland to go metric by 2009.
'The United Kingdom and Ireland will be allowed to keep units like the pint of beer and milk - and miles, yard and feet and inches on roads,' a European Commission (EC) statement said.
While the EC had wanted to standardize measurement systems across the bloc as a way of eliminating barriers to trade within the internal market, it had granted Britain and Ireland an exception and allowed the two countries to stick to the imperial system until 2009 at the latest.

So what's next? Will the EU allow Brits to go to the toilet without written permission from an EU official?

Smith and Wesson Posts a Healthy Profit

I just read that Smith and Wesson's profits have increased. This is good to hear, because just a few years ago the gun haters were trying to sue the gun manufacturing industry out of existence.

On a day when most stocks nose-dived, gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson (nasdaq: SWHC - news - people ) shot up 5.09%, or $1.02, to $21.06 on Friday.
On Thursday, the company reported record earnings of $74.4 million for the quarter ending July 31, and raised its guidance for the remainder of the 2007 fiscal year. Analysts attributed the gun maker's recent success to its product line expansion.
“Smith & Wesson has done a phenomenal job moving beyond the handgun market to include long guns like rifles,” said Eric Wold of Merriman Curhan Ford & Co.
It gained traction in the market through its January purchase of Thomson/Center Arms, a New Hampshire-based hunting rifle company. According to James Maher of ThinkEquity Partners, sales of Thompson/Center products have increased 22% in each of the two quarters since the acquisition was completed. Prior to its purchase by Smith & Wesson, Thomson/Center Arms’ sales were rising quarterly in the single digit percentages. “The union of Smith & Wesson and Thomson/Center Arms was mutually beneficial,” said Maher. “The company is performing extremely well with both revenue and earnings exceeding expectations.”

I didn't know that S&W had purchased Thompson/Center. That was definitely a smart move. I have been wanting to purchase one of TC's .410 handguns.

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Separated at Birth?

Hillary and one of her faithfull supporters. Are you sure you got rid of ALL the money he gave you, Ms. PIAPS?

Isn't Socialism Great?

We are constantly hearing Her Thighness and Her sycophants on the left tell us about how we need "universal" health care, by which they mean some national socialist system run by the federal government. From Canada, we read an example of what to expect when the PIAPS gets Her way:

Two Ontario patients who had brain tumours removed in the United States because they say they couldn't get quick treatment here are suing the provincial government over what they claim are unjustly long wait times for medical care.
Lindsay McCreith, 66, of Newmarket and Shona Holmes, 43, of Waterdown filed a joint statement of claim yesterday against the province of Ontario. Both say their health suffered because they are denied the right to access care outside of Ontario's "government-run monopolistic" health-care system. They want to be able to buy private health insurance.

Not only were they unable to get proper treatment, they found it necessary to be diagnosed here in the cold-hearted US capitalist system:

Holmes began losing her vision in March 2005, she told a press conference at Queen's Park yesterday. An MRI in May 2005 revealed a tumour in her brain. Her family doctor couldn't expedite appointments booked with specialists for July 19 and Sept. 19, 2005. As the tumour pressed on her optic nerves, her vision deteriorated. Afraid to wait any longer, she went to the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Within a week she met three specialists and was told she had a fluid-filled sac growing near her pituitary gland at the base of her brain. They urged her to have it taken out immediately. She went home with the hopes of quickly removing what is known as a Rathke's cleft cyst.
Unable to get surgery fast, she returned to Arizona and had the mass removed on Aug. 1, 2005. Her vision was restored in 10 days. The Holmes family is now in debt $95,000 because of medical costs.

And now get a load of what Lindsay McCreith, also of Ontario, had to go through:

Holmes' experience was similar to that of Lindsay McCreith, a retired auto collision repair shop owner. According to the statement of claim, McCreith suddenly experienced seizures on Jan. 2, 2006. After waiting seven hours in a Newmarket emergency ward, he was examined by an internist. A computed tomography or CT scan showed a large wedge-shaped brain tumour. He was discharged from hospital four days later with a diagnosis of stroke and a prescription for anti-seizure medication.
Worried the tumour might be cancerous, McCreith and his family wanted an MRI. He was given an appointment date four months later. McCreith went to the U.S. and paid $494.67 (U.S.) for an MRI. Armed with the scan, he saw his Ontario family doctor, who referred McCreith to a neurologist. He was examined on Feb. 8, 2006. He was referred to a neurosurgeon but would have to wait three months.
Unhappy with this, he returned to Buffalo. In early March, during a biopsy, the tumour was found to be malignant and surgically removed. He paid $27,650 for his consultation, biopsy and surgery in Buffalo and OHIP has refused to reimburse him because he failed to seek pre-approval for the expense, the claim notes.

If the Oinkubus gets Her way, things will be much, much worse here in the USA. We won't have a next door neighbor to go to for help. And those with political connections will have priority in the socialist system, that much we know for sure from past experience with the Clintons.

Yet Another Climatologist Speaks Out Against the 'Global Warming' Hoax

Here is what Fred Singer, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia has to say:

In identifying the burning of fossil fuels as the chief cause of warming today, many politicians and environmental activists simply appeal to a so-called “scientific consensus.” There are two things wrong with this. First, there is no such consensus: An increasing number of climate scientists are raising serious questions about the political rush to judgment on this issue. For example, the widely touted “consensus” of 2,500 scientists on the United Nations Intergov-ernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an illusion: Most of the panelists have no scien-tific qualifications, and many of the others object to some part of the IPCC’s report. The As-sociated Press reported recently that only 52 climate scientists contributed to the report’s “Summary for Policymakers.”
Likewise, only about a dozen members of the governing board voted on the “consensus statement” on climate change by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Rank and file AMS scientists never had a say, which is why so many of them are now openly rebelling. Estimates of skepticism within the AMS regarding man-made global warming are well over 50 percent.

So much for the 'scientific consensus' we are constantly hearing about from the yardapes on the left.

Mountain of the Week: Cobb Peak in Idaho