Bush's Plan is Working!

Seems Global George's rhetoric about the need for women's rights in the New Iraq are already begining to come to pass:

A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside an Iraqi army recruiting center in a northern town Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 30 in the first known attack by a female suicide bomber in the country's bloody insurgency.
The woman, disguised as a man in traditional robes, was standing in line with applicants to join the Iraqi army at the first of three checkpoints outside the center when she detonated explosives hidden under her clothes and packed with metal balls, said Maj. Jamil Mohammed Sadr in Tal Afar.

Equal opportunity AND cross-dressing, all in one swoop!!
Ain't democracy grand?

Nothing Like a Good Conspiracy Theory!

Being inquisitive by nature, and just a wee-bit suspicious, there's nothing like a good conspiriacy theory to get my synapses firing!
Here's a dandy:

A Pocatello weatherman who gained attention for an unusual theory that Hurricane Katrina was caused by the Japanese mafia using a Russian electromagnetic generator has quit the television station. Stevens believes a little-known oversight in physical laws makes it possible to create and control storms using a Cold War-era weapon allegedly made by the Russians in 1976.

Weather Control is not a new idea. Many have written about it for years.
In fact, I have considered the prospect of human creation of hurricanes myself. After all, have you ever noticed that they seem to eminate from the SAME place along the African coast time after time?
Just seems unusual.

Earlier this week, scientists told the Idaho Falls Post Register the theory was bogus.
"It's laughable to think it (Hurricane Katrina) could have been manmade," said Rob Young, a hurricane expert at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C.

A blanket denial by a scientist with no investigation? Isn't science all about investigation? This is reason enough to give the theory some credence.

Anyway, visit Scott at his web site and get those neurons firing!

WaMi's Crystal Ball

Just heard a blurb on the radio that Global George is taking steps to prepare for federal disaster relief in Texas, by moving search and rescue teams closer, having FEMA set up Command Centers in the area, etc.

GUARANTEED, the Left-Liberal response will be, "The only reason he's doing it is because he's from Texas!"

Let's see just how predictable the Left actually is.

They Second the Motion

A few days ago, I briefly commented on Global George's public abandonment of conservatism in his speech before the UN.

That speech, combined with his address to the nation regarding Hurricane relief, has caused others to chime in along the same line of discussion.

Vox Day, in his weekly WND column, foresees the collapse of the Republicans as the party of conservatives.

President Bush's recent speech on his administration's planned long-term response to Hurricane Katrina marked an interesting point in the continued devolution of American conservatism. Whereas his first five years had previously been a strange combination of strategic Wilsonian foreign policy and tactical Keynesian domestic policy, the president managed to make it abundantly clear that in domestic terms, his presidential guiding light is Lyndon Baines Johnson, not Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Real conservatives now understand they have been betrayed – badly – by this fraudulent man. Compassionate conservatism, as it turns out, is simply another name for Great Society liberalism, and not even the Texas swagger is original. Genuinely conservative Republicans are dismayed by the president's unveiling of his core liberalism and rightly fear for the future of a party which has likely seen its high-water mark already.

Pat Buchanan asks the question: "Is George Bush a conservative at all?"

At the United Nations, writes the Washington Post's Colum Lynch, Bush "linked his campaign against terrorism to the anti-poverty agenda advanced by other nations, although he shied away from adopting some of the specific commitments sought by allies."
For one of those commitments, agreed to at the Millennium Summit in Monterey, Mexico, in 2000, was that America should commit 0.7 percent of its GNP to foreign aid.

That would be $100 billion each year from Uncle Sam, sent to Third World regimes, the United Nations and the international aid agencies.
Yet, Bush clearly believes poverty and terror are inextricably tied. "We must help raise up the failing states that provide fertile ground for the terrorists," said Bush, and "change the conditions that allow terrorists to flourish."

But where is the hard historical evidence that people turn to terror because of poverty? Almost all of today's terrorists are young men who could easily make their way in the world. When has any of them blown himself up to demand an increase in foreign aid or to protest the plight of the African poor?

At the United Nations, Bush repeated another of his unproven assumptions. "Bush used his speech," writes the Post's Glenn Kessler, "to explain why ... democracy thwarts the growth of terrorism."

But if democracy thwarts terror, why did terrorists strike Britain, Spain, Russia and the United States? If democracy is the antidote to terror, why was there not one terror attack inside Iraq under the dictator Saddam? Yet, with Iraq free, we can get a dozen terror attacks in Baghdad in a day.

Its a beautiful thing when WaMi, Day and Buchanan write and agree on the same subject.
Take the time to read them both.

Grab Some Reality

On Wednesday, in a speech before the Heritage Foundation, Mass. Govenor Mitt Romney suggested the possibility of wiretapping mosques and monitoring foreign students.

As expected, Muslim groups and the Commies of the Left got their panties in a wad.

Muslim groups and civil libertarians demanded an apology from Gov. Mitt Romney on Friday for his comments about wiretapping mosques and monitoring foreign students. But the governor refused, saying he was only advocating for improved homeland security.
The groups delivered a letter to Romney that said "your desire to wiretap mosques is an affront to the values and principles that make America a great country." The groups include the American Civil Liberties Union and various mosques and Islamic organizations.

Here we have a group of people dedicated to the destruction of non-Islamic life and property. We know that suicide bombers are recruited through radical mosques. Yet we are just supposed to let them be and ignore what's going on. After all, Global George assures us that "Islam is a religion of peace."

However, let a minister of a Christian church DISCUSS politics from the pulpit, and armed IRS agents will be there the next day to close them down.

Anybody detect a problem here?

After the letter was delivered, spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said the governor would not apologize or retract his comments.

Good for you, Gov. We need to stamp out this cancer of politically-correct speech and get back to the truth.

Global George Is At It Again

Earlier today, President of the United States, Global George, addressed the UN General Assembly.
(A transcript of his speech may be found here.)

Mr. Secretary General, Mr. President, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the privilege of being here for the 60th anniversary of the United Nations. Thank you for your dedication to the vital work and great ideals of this institution.

That opening should eliminate ANY remaining vapor of hope that George is a conservative.

To spread the vision of hope the United States is determined to help nations that are struggling with poverty.

We are committed to the Millennium Development goals. This is an ambitious agenda that includes cutting poverty and hunger in half, ensuring that every boy and girl in the world has access to primary education, and halting the spread of AIDS, all by 2015.
My own country has sought to implement the Monterrey consensus by establishing the new Millennium Challenge Account. This account is increasing U.S. aid for countries that govern justly, invest in their people and promote economic freedom.

Kiss more of your tax money goodbye as Global George buys into more global socialist schemes.

We will fight to lift the burden of poverty from places of suffering, not just for the moment, but permanently. And the surest path to greater wealth is greater trade.

Silly me...all this time I thought the surest path to greater wealth was economic freedom via a free market economy.

The elimination of trade barriers could lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty over the next 15 years.

Kindly explain how this one works. If your country is a hell-hole, you manufacture nothing because your country is engulfed in civil war and you can't grow crops because you live in the friggin desert, how do the absence of trade barriers help you?

By expanding trade, we spread hope and opportunity to the corners of the world and we strike a blow against the terrorists who feed on anger and resentment.

WHAT?? Terrorists are killing people for RELIGIOUS reasons and this goofball thinks lower priced corn will cause them to put down their weapons.

Democracy takes different forms in different cultures, yet all free societies have certain things in common.
Democratic nations uphold the rule of law and impose limits on the power of the state...

If this wasn't so sad, it would be hillarious! As George daily expands the power of the state, he's telling others that freedom limits government. By his own words, I guess that means we are no longer free.

Democratic nations protect private property...

Anybody hear anything about an Eminent Domain controversy lately?

These are just the highlights I found while scanning the transcripts. Go and read the entire speach. If you have ANY understanding of the original intent of our Founders, Global George's global socialism should scare the spit out of you.

Head It Off at the Pass

Let's deal with this one before it becomes the main topic of discussion an the evening news (though its probably been bandied about some already).

Utilizing the classic "Broken Window Fallacy", Dr. Walter Williams proves why Hurricane Katrina (or any other disaster or mishap) is NOT a boon to the economy.

Bastiat wrote a parable about this which has become known as the "Broken Window Fallacy." A shopkeeper's window is broken by a vandal. A crowd formed sympathizing with the man. After a while, someone in the crowd suggested that the boy wasn't guilty of vandalism; instead, he was a public benefactor, creating economic benefits for everyone in town. After all, fixing the broken window creates employment for the glazier, who will then buy bread and benefit the baker, who will then buy shoes and benefit the cobbler, and so forth.
Those are the seen effects of repairing the broken window. What's unseen is what the shopkeeper would have done with the money had the vandal not broken his window. He might have employed the tailor by purchasing a suit. The vandal's breaking his window produced at least two unseen effects. First, it shifted unemployment from the glazier who now has a job to the tailor who doesn't. Second, it reduced the shopkeeper's wealth. Had it not been for the vandalism, the shopkeeper would have had a window and a suit; now he has just a window.

This doesn't even take into account the fact that most of this spending will come from taxes (thats what Federal relief is folks, YOUR money).
This way the misery gets spread around to all.

Parasites of New Orleans

Over at The Intellectual Activist, Robert Tracinski provides an interesting and insightful analysis of the recent events in New Orleans.

What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the government hasn't taken care of them. And they don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.

But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them.

This dovetails perfectly with my post of 03Sept2005.
Government is breeding a culture of sub-humans and it needs to be stopped.

Random Thoughts About New Orleans

Preparedness experts have always touted gold as the currency of choice in preparation for disasters or civil unrest. Seems they were mistakenly considering us to be a civilized society. Events in NO have changed that:

Hurricane Katrina has taken the local economy back in time.
Cigarettes and beer will get you far in the barter system ruling these debris-strewn streets. Gasoline is gold, the coveted item that can bring you anything you want.
''This right here can get us the hell out of Dodge,'' said Barbara Winch, holding up about 10 packs of cigarettes. Transportation is also a hot commodity in Waveland’s new economy.

Might want to reconsider what you have in your survival pack.

As Winch sat in front of her printing business Thursday evening just before sundown, the barter economy showed an ability to diversify.

A woman came up with a little bit of food. In return, she would be able to watch television on a set that Winch and her friend had rigged up.

''It’s food and cigarettes for television,'' Winch said. ''Money ain’t no good.''

Imagine being in a disaster and trading FOOD for the opportunity to watch TV!!
Flooding must cause brain damage.

When you depend on government to solve your problems, you get what you deserve: too little, too late, at much too high a price. They had three days warning that this storm was coming and increasing in strength; yet people elected to do nothing and wait for government to take care of them. It is beyond my comprehension how a person can sit and do nothing in the face of impending disaster. If all else fails, walk. And by the looks of the people they showed on the news squawking about the lack of intervention, they could have used the exercise.

Why didn't someone mobilize the thousands of school buses sitting in New Orleans?

Send the refugees to some of those closed military bases. If they were good enough for our soldiers, they're good enough for refugees.

If this is how government reacts to an event of which they have foreknowledge, it just sends shudders of encouragement through the essence of my being thinking of how they will react to completely unforeseen events (like another terrorist attack).

Next time some LeftLiberalSocialistCommie comes up with another gun control plan, remember New Orleans. The bad guys had plenty of firepower and they didn't have to buy it...they just stole it, and without the waiting period with which law-abiding citizens are encumbered.