Return to Sender

{link » Nasty Surprise for a Hamas Terrorist Firing Mortars at Israel}
 h/t Melissa

Elvis Presley - Return To Sender Lyrics

Post #600 Return to Sender

Double Indemnity

{link » Pelosi On Stimulus STD Ed ... What?}
 h/t Craig Newmark

After JFK's assassination, a black stand-up comedian (I think it was Dick Gregory) had a memorable self-deprecating joke, to the effect that: if the American President chose a black man as Vice President, it would provide him a perfect life insurance policy!

Now, almost a half-century on, we have the beautiful irony that our first African-American President has the perfect double-indemnity policy, provided by his stupid white-man Vice President, and the f*cking-idiot white-woman Speaker of the House.
 h/t Theo
She advocates pulling out of Iraq, but her father should have pulled out sooner.

Some of My Best Friends Are Juice

{link » Southern hatred}

“The simple answer is that you the Jews are real motherf----- bastards,” he wrote in an email to Richard Benkin, a human rights activist based in Chicago.

“You guys are simply assholes ... Stop playing the bloody victim games.”

Asked about the emails, Mr Maqsood initially defended his right to a private argument. “Is it anything wrong to have a private conversation? That is not my public view ... I am not an anti-Semite at all. I have many Jewish friends.”

But late yesterday Mr Maqsood apologised and withdrew the remarks. “I am ashamed to say they were made at a time when I was intoxicated and angry,” he said. “Of course, there is no excuse for such remarks.”
 — h/t Norman Geras

Yes, of course, no excuse whatsoever, except for the usual one — to follow in the footsteps of high-profile bigots, right down to the well-worn talking points: "private conversation"; "not my public view"; and the classic, "I have many Jewish friends". I seem to recall similar crap oozing from the hung-over anti-Semite Mel Gibson.

I wonder, though, if his "I am not an anti-Semite at all" is that asshole's "public view" or the view he shares with his fellow motherf*ckers.

It's the weird generations, stupid!

{link » The Hysterical Style}

“Ditto the Stalag-Gulag Guantanamo that, by January 19, had ruined the Constitution, shredded the Bill of Rights, and forever tarnished our reputation. Yet, on the 20th, it was suddenly complex and problematic, and required a ‘task force’ to do a year-long inquiry into the bad and worse choices confronting us.

At some point in all this serial hysteria, we are beginning to see the problem is not in the stars of the economy or of the war, but in ourselves — a weird generation that, when it finally came of age, proved to be just about what we could expect of it from what we saw in its youth.”
 — Victor Davis Hanson

I saw the hippies up-close and much too personal in their youth. I realized then they would ultimately be f*cked. What I didn't anticipate, although in retrospect it should have been obvious, was that they would embroil the entire country in their irresponsibility, because of the sheer magnitude of their boomer demographic.

What's even more depressing, however, is that their offspring are gearing up to outdo their lunatic parents.

Aussie Appreciation of Art

{link » Chopper Reid auctioneer - Ronnie Johns}
 h/t Theo
CAUTION: Language (same color as video border)

Marshal Koniev Macht Frei — January 27, 1945

{link » Auschwitz-Birkenau: History of a Man-made Hell}

“The Auschwitz main camp, the Birkenau death camp, and the Monowitz labor camp were liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Union in the First Army of the Ukrainian Front, under the command of Marshal Koniev, on January 27, 1945.”

American Broadcasting with a View

The last time I checked, Illinois was listed as one of the 50 states of the United States of America. Assuming that hasn't changed while I wasn't looking, the presumption must be that the Governor of Illinois is subject to the State Constitution, which, and I go out on a limb here, I am guessing is modeled on the Constitution of the United States.

If the above is in fact true, the Illinois Constitution specifies how the impeachment of a Governor is supposed to proceed, namely (if patterned on the U. S. Constitution) the State's lower Legislative body votes for impeachment, which is analogous to an arraignment, and the upper Legislative body (the State Senate) serves as the trial by jury (the Senators comprising the jury). Furthermore, if Illinois actually has a State Supreme Court, I presume its Chief Justice presides over the trial in the Senate.

If the above is in fact true, what on earth is all this public speculation about the fairness or lack thereof concerning Blago's trial in the Senate? It is either in accordance with the State Constitution or it is not. Must we be subjected to a "media circus", and this much abused cliche was coined explicitly for this kind of nonsense, that makes America look like the Democrat Party on steroids?

This crooked politician is "using" the MSM, they actually love being used, to generate some sort of street cred for whatever criminal activity he is contemplating after he serves his time for his likely conviction on Federal charges, after he is booted out of the Governor's office. Do we not have more important issues to consider, like, for instance, the clownish race for U. S. Senator from Minnesota? Or have we moved on to fresher fish by now? There are so many to choose from.

You can put lipstick on a lib-turd, but ...

... it's still just a piece of shit.

So Full of Themselves

What he said!

{link » Retirement}

My Wife asked, “Whatcha doin' today?”

I said, “Nothing.”

She said, “You did that yesterday.”

I said, “I didn't finish.”

§ One of These Things Is Not Like The Others: Fingers

{Post #4 « Post #5 » Post #6}
§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts.

Fingers

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The "War" and "Terror" Synonyms

{link » FKATWOT}

‘ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism’

“It's that struggle formerly known as the ‘war on terror’.”
 — Norman Geras

AKA TWATS

"We not rich like y'all ..."

{link » Go Ahead and Repo My Car, "We Got Barack Obama"}
 h/t Theo

"We not rich like y'all. We out of verbs."

Milli Vanilli

{link » Quartet pre-recorded Obama music}

“‘This isn't a matter of Milli Vanilli’, [a spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies] added, referring to a pop band that was stripped of a Grammy music award in 1989 because the duo did not sing on their album and lip-synched in concerts.

Violinist Itzhak Perlman said ‘It would have been a disaster if we had done it any other way’.

Yo-Yo Ma added: ‘A broken string was not an option. It was wicked cold’.

All the other musical performances during the ceremony were live, although Aretha Franklin was accompanied by taped music and additional voices.”

The additional voices were provided by Milli Vanilli, comfortably warm inside Ms. Franklin's hat.

Honor — Mourning — Remembrance

{link » GOC Southern Command Daily Orders, 23 Jan 2009, 11:11 IST}

“Fighters and Commanders of the IDF in the Southern Front:

[...]

After years of continuous intentional terror attacks on Israeli civilians in southern Israel, the operation brought forth a new security situation, making clear that Israel will not allow its existence in this region to be doubted or questioned.

[...]

The defense of our right to a safe and peaceful life in Israel had once again come at a high cost. 13 of Israel’s finest - fighters, commanders and civilians - were lost in the campaign for the security of Israel’s south. We lower our heads and our flag in honor of their memory, and mourn with their families. We extend a wish of full recovery to the wounded, and once more emphasize that we will do our utmost to return the kidnapped soldier, Gilad Shalit, to the warmth of his family.

[...]

The Southern Command expresses its appreciation to the corps of the IDF for defending Israel and its people.”
 — Yoav Galant, Major General GOC Southern Command

Dereliction of Duty Reclaimed

{link » President Obama retakes the Oath of Office}

Chief Justice John G. Roberts was ushered into the Map Room of the White House on Wednesday night to re-administer the oath of office to President Barack Obama because the original oath on Tuesday had a word out of sequence [the word "faithfully"].

White House counsel Greg Craig said the move was made out of “an abundance of caution.” Obama’s second swearing-in, devoid of the pomp of the initial event, took place at 7:35 p.m. in the presence of a few aides and reporters. The chief justice was wearing a court robe [and, presumably, a sheepish grin]. “Are you ready to take the oath?” Roberts said. “I am,” Obama said, “And we’re going to do it very slowly.”

As I pointed out in my earlier post "Dereliction of Duty", the Chief Justice screwed up his prompting of the President during the Oath of Office on Inauguration Day. This prompted the White House counsel to advise the President to ask the Chief Justice for a do-over Oath.

The talking heads will debate the necessity of this prudent action ad nauseam, but let us not forget that we live in a litigious society; and more often than not, an insufferably argumentative one.

Iowahomer's Odysseus

{link » The Idiossey: The Not-Really-That-Epic Poem of Obamacles (with Apologies to Homer)}

Book the Ninth: Obamacles Ascends to Olympus

Now behold him, brave Obamacles,
Who strides triumphant down Pennsylvania Avenue,
With Victimia at his side in a gown of golden brocade,
Hewn from the finest hotel draperies.
Behold his ascent to the marble dais to swear his oath,
Which Justice Roberts flubs; so dazzled is he
by our hero's pure magnificence.

And behold the crowd whose number has grown to a million,
Mocking limping Chimpos as he flees to Brazos exile,
Tossing their sandals at his edifice, only to stop to hail the conquering hero.

“All hail Obamacles!” they cry, “Master of Bullshit,
Vicelord of the Chicagomon, Slayer of Hildusa,
Vanquisher of Palina. You are our new and shiny hope,
a true god amongst mortals.”
 — iowahawk

Read the entire entertepic if you're into Homer, so to speak. It towers over the crap churned out by the libturds at comedy central.

Dereliction of Duty

{link » Oath of office of the President of the United States}

“I [Barack Hussein Obama] do solemnly swear (or affirm)
[pause #1]
that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,
[pause #2]
and will to the best of my Ability,
[pause #3]
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

No, it was not the President-elect who screwed up the Oath of Office. It was the Chief Justice who blew the prompting. Arguably his most important ceremonial duty, he is too full of himself to learn how to administer the Oath properly so as not to embarrass the President-elect and make an ass of himself. Here is how it was mis-administered (listen to the video, below):

Roberts (prompt #1): I Barack Hussein Obama [brief pause]
Obama: I Bar ... [halt #1; Obama realizes Roberts' brief pause was not the end of prompt #1]
Roberts (prompt #1, continued): do solemnly swear [pause; end of prompt #1]
Obama: I Barack Hussein Obama do solemnly swear [pause; end of response #1]
Roberts (prompt #2): that I will execute the Office of President to the United States faithfully [pause; note the "to" instead of an "of", and the mispositioned "faithfully"]
Obama: that I will execute ... [halt #2; Obama realizes that Roberts is a stupid fuck; he waits (with a pained smile) for Roberts to correct his prompt.]

Truly an impeachable dereliction of duty on the part of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Too arrogant (or too stupid) to have a cheat sheet in his hand in case of a senior moment.

Barack Obama's Oath of Office

God Bless America

{link » President Barack Obama's 2009 Inaugural Address}

My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

[...]

We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

[...]

So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America’s birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our Revolution was most in doubt, the Father of our Nation ordered these words be read to the people:

“Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive ... that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.”

America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of Freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
 — President Barack Obama

Amen to that, Mr. President. God speed. And God bless the United States of America.

God Bless America
Words and music
by Irving Berlin
God Bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home.


God Bless America sung by Martina McBride

Gag me with a fork ...

{link » The Holyshitwood Pledge}


I pledge to stick needles in my eye because I love the Holyshitwood love.

I pledge to sit in traffic eating glass.

For those unfamiliar with vidiot-speak, see Iowahawk's "transcript" of it.

The Dumbing Down of America #7,349

In the interest of "fair and balanced" commentary, I wish to register my dismay at some of the nauseating BS that Fox News, along with all the usual leftist suspects, are foisting on their viewers.

As is my wont, I was tuned to Fox while doing my daily treadmill workout today. Of course, "The Obamitude Love-in" was in full swing, not that there is anything wrong with that, I hasten to add. This is indeed a historic Inauguration, as we have been reminded 24/7 for ... like ... ever, or so it seems. Anyway, I repeat, I have no problem with the Love-in. I also wish the President-elect all the best — he is, after all, my next President too.

Here's the problem, as I see it. What this country needs is not more dumbing down. So when the MSM, in its desperation to keep the Love-in going non-stop until it mercifully ends after tomorrow, God willing, they feel it necessary to put every damn triviality into "historical perspective". That in itself, however, is not a problem because I believe there is a dearth of knowledge and understanding of a great many civics issues.

But, when the talking heads or their managers feel it necessary to have a "specialist" on-board to enlighten the viewers about factoids that I was interested in (and, therefore, researched myself) as a 5th grader, that I submit to you, dear reader, is an insult to even a high-school dropout.

The suggestion that it is necessary to draw on the "special knowledge" of an "expert" in order to repeat little tidbits like, "President Harrison (the grandfather) died a month after his inauguration because he should have worn an overcoat when giving his lengthy Inauguration Address in very inclement weather ...", well, that sort of notion for "expertise" is simply asinine.

Road Map for Peace

{link » IDF Maps Reveal Hamas Exploitation of Gazan Residents, 19 Jan 2009, 18:56 IST}

“Hamas exploits the civilians of the Gaza strip as human shields. Here is an aerial photograph which illustrates how Hamas deploys rocket launchers within densely populated areas in the Gaza strip, adjacent to schools, mosques and medical facilities. Residential buildings are used as arms depots and rigged with explosive charges, without any consideration given to potential civilian casualties.”
 — IDF Spokesperson

 In the aftermath of a nuclear provocation:

§ One of These Things Is Not Like The Others: String Virtuosos

{Post #3 « Post #4 » Post #5}
§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts.

String Virtuosos

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Hint #1: It's hard to play with one.

Hint #2: It's hard to play a cello with one.

The best-laid plans ...

{link » Amp'd Mobile "Pole" Commercial}
 h/t Theo

The recurring endgame begins ...

{link » IDF Implementing Ceasefire, 18 Jan 2009, 00:56 IST}

“The IDF emphasizes that its forces will respond to any attack against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers, and that any such attack will be met with a harsh response. The IDF stresses that the current Home Front Command safety instructions to residents of southern Israel remain in effect in light of the possibility that the rocket fire will continue as Hamas cynically seeks to ‘have the last word.’”
 — IDF Spokesperson

What will Hamas do? Hard to tell. Figure out what sanity dictates. Probably not that ...

You Juice? You no look Juice!

The current international longing for a life-like re-enactment of the Holocaust persuades me to clarify an important issue: Who are those Juice? Well, I have it on good authority that they are not O. J. Simpson fans (I did the survey myself). It is altogether fitting and proper for us to clarify this issue for all those anti-Semites who may be scrupulous about their hatred, and for all those people who may not qualify as bona fide targets of such hatred.

If you Google "who is a Jew" (to use the more traditional spelling) you will easily find the conventional wisdom that only the child of a Jewish mother is a Jew. Such a view, however, leads to the following conundrum: Who could qualify as the first Jew? Does "chicken or egg" ring a bell?

We know from Old Testament stories of the Patriarchs that Jacob the son of Isaac and the grandson of Abraham was the first Jew. Jacob's older twin-brother Esau, for example, was not a Jew. And it was Jacob's 12 sons (from two wives) who became the progenitors of the 12 tribes of Israel (13 tribes if you count Joseph's two sons' half-tribes).

Now, Jacob's mother, who was also Esau's mother, could not have been Jewish, if Jacob was the first Jew! Therein the conundrum, which the astute reader realizes was where I was headed in all this genealogy. Of course, I could have reached this point of my discussion by making the observation that since "first" is the first ordinal number (i.e., there is no zeroth ordinal) and since Mitochondrial Eve could not have been Jewish because by all accounts she predated the invention of Judaism, the first Jew could not have had a Jewish mother.

Furthermore, where the heck did the tribal progenitors get Jewish brides? I am not sure how many daughters Jacob had, but, in any case, Jewish law prohibits the marriage of siblings.

I am sure the Talmudic scholars have figured all this out, but I haven't had time to get to the bottom of all this. So I caution all you anti-Semites out there looking for Juice to murder — be careful; you may be one of those Juice yourself.

Hamas et al.

{link » Tender Moments at Hamas HQ}

“Could somebody tell these people that there are ways to resolve a bad relationship that do not involve blowing up buses full of schoolchildren?”
 — David Frum

I know it's rhetorical, David, but the short answer is "no".

Holy Effing Sh*t!!

 h/t Theo

These guys are sick, dude!

Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right (Necessarily)

{link » Two wrongs don't make a right}

Simple logic dictates that "two wrongs make a right" is a fallacy, which occurs when it is assumed that if one wrong is committed, another wrong will cancel it out. Nevertheless, even the most judicious discourse as well as the most well-intentioned human actions are frequently governed by emotional disregard of this logical fallacy.

In the ivy-entwined ivory towers where mental masturbation is the principal activity, such a logical fallacy is seldom transgressed. But in the real world of death, destruction, and willful ignorance this logical fallacy has been transmogrified into its visceral twin — vengeance. In the real world, vengeance trumps logic.

And yet, a few brave souls can always be counted on to persevere in the hope that man's baser instincts can be finessed by a compromise, namely: Two wrongs don't make a right, necessarily. And, for all I know, this departure from the absolute proscription may be close enough to the absolute truth to be worthy of consideration. But one thing I do know with mathematical certainty: Two wrongs always make two wrongs. You can quote me on that.

I have had a discussion with a friend concerning a current topic of major concern. He is of the opinion that making a sympathetic statement about non-combatants on one side of a conflict does not cancel his sympathetic stance on the other side's right of self defense. He is, of course, absolutely correct. What I was not able to make him understand, however, was that I wasn't trying to refute his stated position.

The point I was trying to make, unsuccessfully, is that both his sympathetic statement concerning non-combatants of one side, and his sympathetic stance in support of the other side's right of self defense are by nature not only humanistic but also political. And consequently, not only do both his humanistic sympathies survive critical scrutiny, so do both of the political implications.

It is not valid to claim both that: (a) neither humanistic position cancels the other (true); and (b) one political implication is nullified by the other (false). Ethical readers will most likely agree with both humanistic sympathies. Political readers, however, will agree with the political implication they favor and repudiate the one they don't.

Forever is, like, a long time, dude!

{link » Ron White - Stupid is forever}

 h/t Theo

So you think you know what's going on?

{link » The Gaza War: A Small Part of The Nationalist Islamist Conflict}

“Inasmuch as the West rescues Hamas from its own mistakes, the result will be strengthening radical forces throughout the region, demoralizing moderates, and ensuring even more violence and suffering in future. Vladimir Lenin, leader of the previous big revolutionary movement, Communism, predicted that democratic states would sell their enemies the rope that would be used to hang themselves. Radical Islamists are counting on it. Relatively moderate Arab nationalists fear it. Israel is fighting to prevent it.”
 — Barry Rubin

Sometimes it's more fun to party than to think. For most people that is almost always the preferred choice. Thinking, you know, is, like, hard, dude. I'd much rather get my headache from drinking.

Today's protest rally is what we called a panty raid when I was in college (yes, I know, back in the stone age). Everybody is milling around, whooping it up, yelling and screaming obscenities, and having a grand old time. Then the media blows all of it up into crisis mode and everybody is happy. Ignorance is bliss.

As a result, we establish a virtual reality for the masses to keep them busy, ignorant, and drunk, while the grownups (i.e., those who think) try to keep the ship of state on an even keel, with varying results. After all, even the grownups' mileage varies. Witness the witless Congressional "leadership". But I digress ...

Panty on, dude.

The Moral High Ground

The moral high ground, in ethical or political parlance, refers to the status of being respected for remaining moral, and adhering to and upholding a universally recognized standard of justice or goodness. The only known instances of such ground may be found in various amusement parks that feature a Fantasyland.

In the real world such a status is highly problematic and most likely impossible. Consider the implication of the words and concepts by which the status is defined:

Conceptualization of Moral High Ground
1. ethics
2. politics
3. respect
4. steadfastness
5. morality
6. universality
7. recognition
8. standards
9. justice
10. goodness

These 10 concepts are indistinguishable from a list of principles that have either vanished from common usage or have become contradictions in terms. Any attempt at implementing a semblance of such a code of conduct in war is not only laughable but dangerously self defeating. In the life and death struggle for survival, there is little to be gained from trying to impress a cynical and hypocritical world. Ivan Konev understood.

A favorite of Stalin, Konev was widely renowned for brutality in combat. In one case, his forces had pursued a German division which took refuge in a small Soviet town. Konev had the town surrounded, and then called in incendiary strikes from Il-2 aircraft, which turned the town into an inferno. German troops who had survived the bombardment fled into the Russian winter, only to be met by T-34 tanks which crushed them under their tracks, as well as cutting them down with machine gun fire. The survivors were then finished off with Cavalry units, who butchered the Germans with swords, with some accounts even claiming that those who raised their arms in surrender were also killed. This incident soon secured Konev's reputation as a cold and ruthless commander on all sides, most of all the Germans.

Mr. Nice Guy? Depends on whom you ask. Marshal of the Soviet Union, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, holder of the Order of Victory, Ivan Stepanovich Konev was buried in the Kremlin Wall with the greatest heroes of the USSR, and can still be visited today.

I wonder what Marshal Konev would have thought of the extraordinary measures taken by Israeli Defense Forces to minimize collateral damage in Gaza. My guess is he would not have understood.

Evil-challenged Machiavellian Secularists

{link » Behold! Christians Don’t Hate Jews!}

“I wouldn’t want to be a Jew in the UK or Europe today. Certainly, I wouldn’t want to be a Jew in Paris or Denmark right now. But the threat isn’t coming from the Christians. The threat is coming from the P.C. crowd who won’t condemn violent followers of an unreformed religion: Islam. Please read that sentence again. The threat isn’t even the violent Muslims. Not yet. They still need more numbers. And, as Mark Steyn says, time is on the Muslim’s side. The threat to Jews are those Machiavellian secularists who refuse to name evil when they see it.

The threat is the corrupt leaders appeasing terrorists and condemning Israel.”
 — Dr. Melissa Clouthier

In America such Machiavellian secularists who are persuaded to turn every civilized concept inside-out comprise a modern "Know Nothing" political movement. But instead of making an honest effort at organizing themselves into a political party based on their platform of willful ignorance, they usurped and cannibalized the once-grand Democratic Party into the caricature of its old self that it has become, complete with clowns like the newly-elected Senator from Minnesota.

Willful Ignorance

{link » Say They Aren’t So}

Ironies of 2008

“Once one decides to unite the oppressed people of the universe and save the planet, a number of ironies arise in such megalomaniac responsibilities. Here are five that bothered me this past year.”

2. Islam

“I confess this war on terror business is coming down to fear or no fear. A film maker, a novelist, or a comedian dreams publicly of killing George Bush—and he wins a big book contract or an arts award. A cartoonist does a sketch of a Mohammed and he faces death threats. Liberal contrarians honor the former and abandon the latter.

We are told terrorism bad, democracy good. Really? Every terrorist Hamas rocket is aimed at a Democratic civilian; every Democratic IDF air -to -ground missile is aimed at a terrorist.

The common denominator in all this? George Bush or an IDF colonel is not going to show up at your editorial office in New York or Madrid or Paris with a suicide vest on. Write a novel about Bush deserving to die, as did Nicholson Baker, and you win a Knopf contract; write one about the Prophet as did Salman Rushdie and you go into hiding for a decade.

Fear is about all I can come up with. (And easy guilt as well.)”
 — Victor Davis Hanson

The other of Hanson's five ironies are equally engaging. The maddening willful ignorance of the liberal fascists is the biggest threat to everything that traditional American common sense holds dear.

Anti-Juice Rear Their Creepiness in Florida

{link » Pro-Hamas Demonstration - Fort Lauderdale FL}

“Your mother's a whore!”

“Yea, fuck yourself!”

“Nuke, nuke Israel!”

“Go back to oven!”

“You need a big oven, that's what you need!”
 — A woman wearing a hijab yelling at Juice.

 h/t Watch Obsession Campaign

The creeps creep onward ...

The Creepy Slope

{link » A Lose-Lose World}

Creepy times

“There is something especially nauseating about the latest Middle East war — scenes of worldwide Islamic protests with photos of Jews as apes, protesters (in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida of all places!) screaming about nuking Israel and putting Jews in ovens, parades of children dressed up with suicide vests and fake rockets, near constant anti-Semitic vicious sloganeering, Gaza mosques stuffed with rockets to be used against civilians — all to be collated with creepy Hamas rhetoric about the annihilation of Israel. This is the world in which we now live.”
 — ©2009 Victor Davis Hanson

“At first they came for the smokers but I did not speak out as I did not smoke. Then they came for the binge drinkers but I said nothing as I did not binge. Now they have an obesity strategy.”
 — Fat Man on a Keyboard

At first they came for the juice, but I did not speak out as I preferred milk. Then they came for the Juice in Israel, but I did not speak out as I was safe in America. Then they came for the Juice in Europe, but I did not speak out as I knew that's how it's always been in Europe. Then they came for the Juice in America, but I did not speak out as I felt confident that America wouldn't allow what Europe was only too happy to accommodate.

Then they intensified their efforts in America, but I didn't speak out as I believed I could pass for Christian, since my wife is Christian and she would claim that I was Christian by injection. Then they made all Juice wear a yellow Star-of-David patch to simplify identification. Now they had me worried. Then the Liberal Left piled on the Juice because, you know, they wanted to ingratiate themselves to the trend setters in case their own demographic was targeted next.

After they began to build deep-sleep-away camps with special ovens that accommodate thousands at a time, all those who thought they might present an undesirably-high profile started clamoring for membership with the trend setters, but to no avail, because the trend setters wanted to keep their creepy club pure. And the creepiness creep crept onward ...

Postmodern Protocols

{link » The Gaza Rules}

“Fifth and finally, victimization is crucial. Hamas daily sends barrages into Israel, as its hooded thugs thump their chests and brag of their radical Islamic militancy. But when the payback comes, suddenly warriors are transmogrified into weeping victims, posing teary-eyed for the news camera as they deplore ‘genocide’ and ‘the Palestinian Holocaust’. At least the Japanese militarists did not cry out to the League of Nations for help once mean Marines landed on Iwo Jima.

By now, these Gaza asymmetrical rules are old hat. We know why they persist — worldwide fear of Islamic terrorism, easy anti-Westernism, the old anti-Semitism, and global strategic calculations about Middle East oil — but it still doesn't make them right.”
 — ©2009 Victor Davis Hanson

Mr. Hanson omitted one important factor from his "persistence" summation, although he did address it in the full article, which I recommend to the interested reader — "politically correct, zero-tolerance policies" run amok.

I'm beginning to like this guy ...

{link » Obama's Intel}

“With his nominations of Dennis Blair and Leon Panetta, President-elect Obama has drawn a clear line. Blair (a former commander in chief of the Navy's Pacific Command, a former associate director of central intelligence, and a former president of the Institute for Defense Analysis) will run the US intelligence establishment.

Leon Panetta, a former budget director and White House Chief of Staff whose main connection to the world of intelligence was to write a letter denouncing the Bush administration's detainee policies, is there to appease the Democratic left.

It does not get any neater than that.”
 — David Frum

Let me be perfectly clear. I have liked David Frum all along. The subject of this post refers to the President-elect.

The dog ate my homework!

{link » Clown Show}

“‘What went wrong?’ is the question with which the eminent scholar Bernard Lewis titles his book about the intellectual history of the Muslim Middle East. How had the once-wealthy and all-conquering Muslim world been overtaken by the despised Christian West? Al Franken's Lies can be read as one Democrat's attempt to grapple with an analogous problem. Unfortunately, like the enraged Muslims whom we meet in Lewis's book, Franken repudiates both self-examination and self criticism. It is all somebody else's fault. The faithful have nothing to learn from anybody. The solution to their problems is not reform, and it is certainly not self-criticism. It is a return to the fundamentals of the faith—and war against the unbelievers.”
 — David Frum, from his review of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"

The appropriateness of Mr. Frum's remarks vis a vis the freshly-certified clownish Senator from Minnesota does not preclude the observation that the irrationality personified by this clown from Minnesota is, to a lesser or even greater extent, ubiquitous — repudiation of personal accountability.

§ One of These Things Is Not Like The Others: State Songs

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State Songs

(1) New York I Love New York	(2) Georgia Georgia on My Mind
(3) Oklahoma Oklahoma	(4) Minnesota Send in the Clowns

§ One of These Things Is Not Like The Others: Man's Best Friend

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Man's Best Friend

(1) Loving your pet dog.	(2) Voting for a yellow dog.
(3) Rooting for an underdog.	(4) Encouraging a mad dog.

§ One of These Things Is Not Like The Others: Protest

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Protest

(1) Participating in a protest rally.	(2) Refusing to own a German car.
(3) Avoiding the purchase, albeit not the drinking, of French wine.	(4) Strapping on a vest of explosives and blowing up an Israeli bus full of people.

§ One of These Things Is Not Like The Others

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What's Wrong With These Pictures?

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
 — from “Sesame Street”, by Joe Raposo and Jon Stone

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Protest
2. Man's Best Friend
3. State Songs
4. String Virtuosos
5. Fingers
6. Renoir
7. Some Women
8. Dipshitlomacy
9. Oh, the humanity!

Yet More Juice

{link » On the Ground in Gaza}

“No one should have any illusions that this conflict is going to go away. The peace process era, 1993-2000, taught us that Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hizballah, and radical Islamist groups meant what they said. They will never accept peace with Israel. Israel will be involved in a struggle with these extremist groups for decades.

Yet that does not mean Israel cannot--and does not--prevail. It prevails by maintaining good lives for its citizens, developing its economy, and raising living standards, progressing in technology and science and medicine.

In this context, Israel will not listen to those many who counsel it to commit suicide, but it also has no illusions of a victory, of a war that will end all wars. And in a real sense that is Israel's true strength: it is not naïve about either concessions or force. If you have realistic expectations, if you aren't disappointed, then you never give up.

Often, nowadays, it seems as if all history is being rewritten when it comes to Israel. In World War Two, allied air forces carpet-bombed cities even though there were no military bases in civilian areas. In France alone, tens of thousands of civilians were killed by allied bombs that fell on their intended targets.

Even the Nazis didn't put ammunition dumps in houses and use human shields. And up until now the blame for doing so would fall on those who deliberately and cynically sought to create civilian casualties in order to gain support for themselves

Up until now, a country whose neighbor fired across the border at its people and even staged cross-border raids had the right of self-defense.

Up until now, there has been a capability of understanding which group is inciting hatred, trying to turn children into robotic terrorists, calling for the extermination of another people, and committing aggression.

Many people, many journalists, many governments, and even many intellectuals still understand the most basic principles of right and wrong as well as of the real world. Unfortunately, too many don't or at least don't when Israel is the target.

Finally, it is of the greatest importance to understand that this is not an issue of Gaza or of Israel alone. The great issue of our era, of our remaining lifetimes, is the battle between radical Islamism--whether using the tactic of terrorism or not--and the rest of the world. To isolate this question as merely something about Israel is to misunderstand everything important about the world today.”
 — Barry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal.

I recommend the entire article to the interested reader. Ignorance is false bliss. Willful ignorance is pernicious stupidity.

More Juice

h/t Secular Apostate

In the beginning, there was no juice, only chaos and death. The people had nothing to look forward to, except more toil and death. A very few had milk and honey and luxury, such as free time to have parties and enjoy life. These were the leaders who made everyone else's lives miserable.

Then a few individuals discovered juice. And they realized that juice was good for you despite its tart taste. People who adopted juice discovered that the brain is your friend, and they began to learn ethics and math and science. And a wise man of the juicy persuasion brought forth laws that codified civilized behavior, including prohibitions of murder, of all sorts of coveting, and of working on the weekend. The latter was a great boon to the people because now, even the lowliest could look forward to some leisure time, which essentially broke the endless cycle of work and death, and enabled the concept of a brighter future for the children.

But there were those who weren't happy with juice. They didn't want the people to look forward to a brighter future. They didn't want to share that blessing with the people because they believed it was a zero-sum game to do so. They wanted to monopolize leisure time and a better life for the children. So they restricted juice. Only the people who were clever with numbers were allowed juice, because much as they were despised, everyone knew you had to have bankers and accountants in order to have a working economy.

And so it came to pass that juice became the perfect scapegoat. Whatever ills befell the people, and there were many, they could blame it on juice and avoid assuming personal accountability. And anti-juicism was born, and those of the juicy persuasion became both indispensable to society and universally hated. And many were murdered.

But a few survived and they were allowed to live in a small parcel of arid land where the benefits of juice were first discovered. And they prospered beyond anyone's wildest dreams, because the juicy people were resourceful and devoted themselves to learning ways in which to overcome the obstacles they faced.

And, once again, the universal hatred came to the fore. Even those who claimed juice as one of their favorite drinks condemned the juicy people, because they still required a means for avoiding personal accountability. And for that they needed their traditional juicy scapegoats.

So the juicy people continued to fight for survival and for ensuring a better future for the children. And, God willing, they will continue to prevail.