Let the (Left) Hand-Wringing Begin

AP reports that the US Army is investigating the shooting of an alleged unarmed Iraqi insurgent by US Marines.

Here we go. All the peaceniks will soon be decrying this "atrocity" and demand (yet again) our withdrawal from Iraq.

As I've said in earlier posts, I'm no fan of nation-building. However, if US troops are engaged in battle, I am willing to allow them whatever lattitude necessary, based on the circumstances, to be successful. Do not engage in second-guessing these men when you are in the comfort of your LazyBoy, 3000 miles away.

The Scotsman tells us this (which AP conveniently left out):

Military officials said a rebel tactic was to draw US soldiers in by pretending to be dead and then opening fire.

From AP:

...a Marine in the same unit had been killed just a day earlier when he tended to the booby-trapped dead body of an insurgent.

Sorry folks, but if you are going to use these tactics, you leave us no choice but to elevate to your grizzly level of combat. Lives are at stake. Its not time to "play nice".

AP also posts this picture. The caption implies that the Marine shown is in the process of killing someone on the floor. Now this is either a case of total ignorance of the subject matter, or an example of outright lying to skew the story.

Note the position of the Marine. He has just entered the room. Anyone with ANY military experience, or in fact, anyone with any exposure to TV or military computer games will immediately recognize that this is the standard position taken to enter and sweep a room.

No doubt, war is a lousy thing. But if we are engaged in it, we need to successfully execute it.
The purpose of war is to kill people and break things. Its not an exercise in politically-correct social engineering.

Hypocrit!

Joseph Farah writes today in his WND.com column about George Bush betraying those who voted for him with his proposed immigration policy.

Two points:

1) You're late. I posted about this a week ago.

2) Who the heck are you to complain? You're the moron who threw aside your principles and endorsed Bush for President! That makes you partially responsible for his election! So why don't you just shut up about anything else Bush does for the next 4 years that you don't like?

Wisdom Key for Life:
Don't Complain About What You Permit.

Outside the Asylum

Vox Day provides analysis of the Democrats' beloved exit polls.

The reality is that the modern Democratic Party can be broadly divided into four basic groups. The maleducated utopians (academics, students and media), the stone cold killers (feminists and global socialists), the cannon fodder (the mentally sub-par dependent class) and the deranged window dressing (the lavender lobby and the eco-freaks). This is a ragtag collection more suited for an asylum than the halls of power, if only to protect them from themselves.

Go read the entire article. Its interesting what their own exit polls say about them.

Body of Blonde Woman Found in Fallujah

"It is a female ... missing all four appendages, with a slashed throat and disemboweled, she has been dead for a while but only in this location for a day or two," said Benjamin Finnell, a hospital apprentice with the Navy Corps, who had inspected the body.

Sweeps of rubble-strewn neighbourhoods in Fallujah have already uncovered a grisly underworld of hostage slaughterhouses, prisons and torture chambers as well as the corpses of Iraqis who had been executed, marines say.

OK, go ahead. One more time. Tell me how Islam is a religion of peace.
Do you hear any Islamic "leaders" speaking out against this barbarism?
(entire article here)

Sucks to be You, Scott

WND (and just about everybody else) reports that Scott Peterson was found guilty of the murder of his wife and unborn son.

No big surprise here. When you cut and dye you hair, grow a goatee and head to Mexico with 10 grand in cash, something's up.

Here's where I get kinda confused though. Scott gets convicted of the murder of his unborn son (wife Laci was in her 8th month). OK, good so far. However, a doctor can suck the brains out of a 9 month old fetus and its called compassionate. Anybody besides me see a slight contradiction here?? I think there is a big opportunity here for pro-life attorneys to utilize this decision in there favor. It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few years.

The Weasel Assumes Room Temperature.

Arafat is dead.
Hooray!
The world is now a better place.

My only question is who actually got to him: Mossad, Delta Force, CIA, people within his own organization or other?

To read about his legacy and "contributions" to global diplomacy read this.

Brilliance in 9 Paragraphs

Take a look at Dr. Walter E Williams column from today, which appears each Wednesday on WND.

Its a lesson in Libertarianism in 9 paragraphs that anyone can understand.

Then, make his column a regular read.

Finally, A Democratic Plan I Can Endorse!

The Washington Times reports:

Secession, which didn't work very well when it was tried once before, is suddenly red hot in the blue states. In certain precincts, anyway.

That would probably be easier than my plan. I was hoping for an earthquake to sever the west coast and a nuclear detonation to take care of the northeast.

You have to read this to see what elitist liberals actually think about the rest of the country! Here's some examples:

The idea isn't just a joke; one top Democrat says, "The segment of the country that pays for the federal government is now being governed by the people who don't pay for the federal government." (you don't pay any taxes; only the libs do)

...to form a new country, away from the "rednecks in Oklahoma" and the "homophobic knuckle-draggers in Wyoming." (talk about hate speech!)

"We hold our noses as we fly over you. We are sickened by the way you treat people that are different from you. The rest of the world despises America, and we don't want to be lumped in with you anymore."

But Andy Nowicki, a libertarian blogger, said the blue states will never secede because "liberals don't want to leave their enemies alone. Instead, as their track record shows, they want to take over the government in order to force their enemies to endure perpetual sensitivity training for being such racist, sexist, homophobic, 'closed-minded' boors, i.e., for disagreeing with them." (LOL)

But according to Slate.com — another liberal Web site that has explored the topic of secession — there are no provisions in U.S. law for a state or states to opt out of the Union, citing such authorities as Bruce Ackerman of Yale Law School and Lawrence Tribe of Harvard Law School who say that since Appomattox "scholars have agreed that the Constitution grants no right of secession."

Since when do liberals care about the Constitution? (Only when its beneficial to them.)
How about the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution?

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

If it doesn't say the states can't, then they can!

If George Bush really wants a great legacy, this is where it lies!
I really don't expect this to go very far, but a guy can dream, can't he??

To see what this would look like, go here.
I don't like the name Jesusland, though. Must have been named by a lib. Sounds like a theme park.

How about "Jehovastan"? Sounds holy and militant at the same time.

The Betrayal Begins

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday that President Bush will place a high priority in his second term on granting legal status to millions of migrants who live illegally in the United States.

Here we go! Up to 10 million criminals are about to be pardoned by granting them legal status here in the US.
Let the flood begin. The rate of illegal influx will increase in an attempt to beat the amnesty deadline.

Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, migration reform has taken a back seat to enhancing security along the border. U.S. officials say Mexican cooperation has been exemplary in addressing U.S. concerns about terrorists using the border as a transit point for attacks on U.S. soil.

On hemispheric relations, Powell acknowledged Monday night there has been a shift to the left in several South American countries but said he is "not deeply troubled by it at all. I want to work with whoever the people elect in those countries."

This is the first step in the dilution of the United States into the globalists desire of a Free Trade Area of the Americas (the Western Hemisphere equivalent of the European Union).

Note two things in the paragraphs above:
First, the use of the word 'migration'. Makes illegal immigration sound harmless, doesn't it??
Second, the use of the phrase 'hemispheric relations'. Ever hear that one before? What the heck does a sovereign nation have to do with 'hemispheric relations'?

Take note, folks. You are being conditioned and prepared for something.

Election Reflection

1) Did you notice how Teresa Heinz Ketchup disappeared the last week or so of the campaign? Her negatives in focus groups were soooo high... (I miss her already...she provided a wealth of material!)

2) John Edwards was useless on the ticket. He couldn't even deliver his home state to Kerry, let alone the rest of the south.

3) Tom Daschel defeated??!? Who'd've thunk. Maybe there is hope.

4) Watch for some big name resignation in the administration, followed by an appointment with a grandious dog-and-pony show. This will be the annointing of Bush's alleged successor (I don't really see Dick Cheney running for President in 2008).

5) How long do you think it will take before Bush lurches back to the left with his policy-making?
5a) How long before Christians who voted for Bush have "voter's remorse"?

6) Arlen Specter should just come out of the closet and switch to the Democratic party.

"Begin Self-destruct Sequence Now"

Immediately after the election, retired Senator George Mitchell (D), suggested that the Democratic Party re-evaluate itself and its positions to better enable it to be victorious in future elections (translated as move back towards the center of the spectrum).

It seems their first step will be to select a new DNC chairman. And who is the front-runner?
Howard Dean! Guess they think the way back to the center is to lurch left (not that there is much further left remaining to go).

This may be a not-so-veiled attempt to get Dean out of the picture for 2008 so that the self-appointed savior of mankind, St. Hillary, will be unhindered.

Read the whole AP story as published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer here.

Flogging Blogging

...what I saw in the blogosphere on Nov. 2 was more reminiscent of that school paper or a "Breaker, breaker 19" gabfest on CB than anything approaching journalism.

CBSNews rolls out one of its retired dinosaurs, Eric Engberg, to write this hit piece on the world of bloggers.

Before I go any further, let me disclose my motivation here. I am not doing this (blogging) in an attempt to become the next Rush Limbaugh. I harbor no fantasy of being the next Tom Clancey. Peter Jennings' job is not appealing to me. I do this for 3 reasons: 1) to vent, 2) to organize my thoughts, and 3) to have some fun! Now, back to the article.

I won't get involved in the debate of whether the internet, and blogging will replace traditional "mainstream" (radical left) media. That remains to be seen and will be decided in the arena of the free market (its true mainstream media has been losing viewers rapidly, so my money would be on cable/internet).

There are so many small inaccuracies in this article, I really don't feel like going through them all. Just make note of the arrogant, condescending tone of the entire article: We, the annointed Mainstream Media are superior; you are dummies. Let us decide for you."

Lets cut to the chase: why all the anti-blog pieces (this CBS article is by far not the only one - just Google 'exit polls')? Simple. The blog world in general, and little green footballs, in particular, threatened the mainstream media like never before this past month. It started with the Swift Boat Vets. But there was more.

Remember the little fiasco with Dan Rather and CBS, regarding some FORGED DOCUMENTS, purported to show Bush got favored treatment while in the National Guard? Guess who was the first to realize and report that those documents were, in all likelyhood phony?
Yup. The guys over at littlegreenfootballs!
After that, it was duck and cover for CBS News for about 3 weeks.

What you are seeing, in my opinion, is the first shot in the Media Revolutionary War. Cable, satellite and most prominently, the internet, have given a voice to the common man. No longer are we subject to the mainstream media, with no outlet for dissent or rebuttal.
This is the beginning of the march around Jericho...soon the walls of the mainstream media will come crumbling down.

The Desktop of the Future is Here Today

Readers of this blog will know that I am no fan of Microsoft Windows products for a variety of reasons. I have been recommending the switch to Linux-based systems for some time. My favorite is Simply MEPIS. To get an idea of what MEPIS is all about, read this comprehensive review by DesktopLinux.com, entitled "The Best Free Desktop Linux".

The Best Show on TV

Season after season, we hear about the new shows and how horrible they are. It seems there is always a new contender for the worst show of all time. Well, instead of complaining, its time to spread the word about something positive.

Check out ABC's "Extreme Makeover Home Edition"
The concept is relatively simple: find a family in need (through no fault of their own) who have a house problem (special needs, not enough space, damage to their house, etc). Take a team of 6 designers/planners/craftsmen, add an army of workers, essentially demolish the house (or at least gut it) and rebuild it to something far beyond anything the family could ever do for themselves. And do it in 7 days.

While it falls into the category of "Reality TV", its not some hokey adventure or pursuit of greed show. Its real life, real people, doing work just to help improve someone's life. The family doesn't know they've been chosen until our host, Ty Pennington (previously of "Trading Spaces"), pulls up to the house with the design team early in the morning, and yells into his bullhorn, "Good Morning, (insert name) family!!

We are then taken on a one hour trip through the demolition/construction process, and then get to watch the family as they return to their new home for the first time. Invariably, the family is brought to tears of gratitude upon seeing what has been done for them (that in and of itself is refreshing!). In all likelihood, you too, will be brought to tears. And it may even make you appreciate your life just a little bit more.

The Spectacle About Specter

A movement is in motion to try to prevent Arlen Specter from becoming Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reports WND.

Controversial remarks by Sen. Arlen Specter, cautioning President Bush against nominating Supreme Court justices who would overturn the Roe vs. Wade abortion decision, have sparked a furious outcry from Bush's large conservative and Evangelical support base, and spawned a movement to ensure the Pennsylvania Republican does not ascend to chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee as expected.

Bush has already commented before the election that a pro-life position would not be a litmus test for his judicial nominees. Don't you people pay attention?
In addition, Bush personally campaigned for Specter in the Republican primary. Specter was in real danger of losing the primary to a real conservative Republican (sorry, his name escapes me at the moment).

Overnight, a website named NotSpecter.com emerged to help lead the charge.
the website "is dedicated to the proposition that the Republican party. ...the conservative movement and the country would all be better served without Arlen Specter as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

OK, one more time, repeat after me: "The Republican party is NOT conservative. They do not care about me as a conservative. They pay lip-service to me and instill fear so I feel obligated to vote for them."
I predict Specter will be nominated and confirmed, in yet another "in-your-face" move directed at the conservatives who voted for Bush.

Praise the LORD!

This story on News24.com is the coolest thing I've read in a long time.

Near Fallujah - With US forces massing outside Fallujah, 35 marines swayed to Christian rock music and asked Jesus Christ to protect them in what could be the biggest battle since American troops invaded Iraq last year.

Read the whole story, its amazing!

Reverand Fraud

From AP News:

NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton and his wife, Kathy Jordan Sharpton, have announced their separation after 23 years of marriage.

The Sharptons said in a statement Friday that they "will remain on the best of terms."

The pair "have extremely active careers and their separation allows them to continue pursuing their work interests," the statement said. "They will continue to work together in their civil rights work and in their other business ventures, including those in the entertainment industry."

"Together they have successfully raised two daughters, one of whom started college this year, and the other of whom will be graduating high school in June," the statement said.

And you wonder why the black community is in shambles? Partly because its people like this they call leaders.

After 23 years of marriage they are calling it quits. And why?
Adultery? No.
Drug or alcohol addiction? Nope.
Child or spouse abuse? Not even close.
Its the horror of...(dare I say it?)... of ummm.......EXTREMELY ACTIVE CAREERS!!! (get the Duck Tape, I think my head's gonna explode!)

A supposed Reverand, a moral compass in the black community, a church leader. A man who claims to adhere to the Bible (where the only justification for divorce is adultery).
But no, they've taken on too much nonsense outside themselves, to be concerned with each other.

And they will "remain on the best of terms". I'm going to puke. The best of terms is married "till death do us part", like you promised each other before GOD and man. If Big Al can't keep a vow made to his wife before GOD, why does anyone in the black community think he will do anything else he says to them?

Jesus sums up divorce in two words in Matt 19 and again in Mark 10: "hard hearts". That's it. Every case of divorce stems from a hardened heart. (That means selfishness and arrogance for you public school graduates). Marriage is not a "what can I get out of this" proposition. Its a "what can I put into it" proposition. You enter a marriage to give and to serve, not to take and be waited upon (if this is news to you, postpone your wedding until you understand it).

For more on family and relationships, Visit Dennis Rainey at Family Life Today.

Fallujah

AP reports a US assault is being prepared for Fallujah.

I hope this doesn't revert back to some politically sensitive compromise discussion, as previous assaults of strategic areas.

Is this a war or not? If so, level Fallujah. Bomb the crap out of it until the sand is turned to glass. (We could even make it a Pay-per-View event on cable and satellite...would probably pay for the war AND cover the national debt!) Then tell the terrorists that the next one to fire a shot gets the same thing. And then DO IT.

War over inside 90 days.

I'm Baaaack!

Took a few days to mentally shut down after the election and just watch the dust settle.
Now its back to business!

Are They Serious?

I would like to propose two changes to current election laws:

1) People who stand on street corners, waving signs endorsing a particular candidate or position, thinking it will influence someone's vote, should not be allowed to vote.

2) People whose votes are influenced by seeing above-mentioned people with signs, should not be allowed to vote.