Dan Rather ... the Clown is back in town

Hilarious!

clipped from author.nationalreview.com Rather used to compare his job to “a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.” Three years ago, he went splat in the bull’s-eye of the center ring. Now, with the circus long since out of town, he all of a sudden wants a net rolled out. But you know what? I say, “You go, Dan!” Frankly, we need this. And by “we,” I mean a grand coalition of people who delight in watching one of the 20th century’s most pompous gasbags fall from the top of the laughingstock tree and hit every branch on the way down. These are dour times, and if Gunga Dan and Hurricane Dan and What’s-The-Frequency-Kenneth Dan want to trade their Afghan robes, yellow windbreakers and enormous tinfoil hats for some baggy pants, bright-orange wigs and floppy shoes, I say let them. I just hope all of the Dans show up at the courthouse in a teensy-weensy clown car.

Moron at MIT

This idiot is indeed lucky not to be in the morgue ... the security staff too, who would no doubt have been sued.

clipped from wbztv.com (WBZ) BOSTON An MIT student with a fake bomb strapped to her chest was arrested at gunpoint Friday at Logan International Airport and later claimed it was artwork, officials said.

McDonald's idiocy

They offered to pay for half his medical bill? How stupid can they get?

They may not have been inclined to sue before that ridiculous offer (although I'm sure that was their first impulse), but that certainly would have pushed them over the edge.

Offering to pay half. Idiots.

clipped from www.dailymail.com A Morgantown man, his mother and his friend are suing McDonald's for $10 million. The man says he bit into a hamburger and had a severe allergic reaction to the cheese melted on it.

The Unsung Victims of the War on CO2

Join us in remembering the 100,000th silent victim of the Global War on Carbon Dioxide. Today, a young spruce in the Western Himalayas became the 100,000th tree to die of suffocation from falling levels of CO2 due to the hysterical rush to cut emissions of this vital gas.

Please pledge to do your part to put an end to this horrible vege-holocaust!

How to Win the War on Terror

This suggests that a long-term strategy for winning is simply to entice these women over to the West ... and marry them! Certainly they will be appreciated more here. And the radical Islamist world will begin to depopulate.

clipped from powerandcontrol.blogspot.com Reporter: Behind closed doors and far from any supervising eyes, they remove their shame and turn their backs on all customs and traditions. Girls display their bodies in chat rooms on the Internet, in most cases, free of charge. As soon as one of these girls places the camera in front of her, she begins to strip, displaying her seductive charms to more than 300 young men of different ages. Some believe that the phenomenon of stripping over the Internet may be understood within the framework of social hypocrisy, especially since they believe that our religious and educational discourse does not attribute importance to the strengthening of self-restraint, and prefers the appearance over the essence. This drives some people to play several roles and wear several masks.

A particularly revealing case of media bias (or incompetence) - Wolfowitz

Is the media biased ... or just incompetent and lazy? You decide.

clipped from opinionjournal.com Needless to say, none of this context has appeared in the media smears suggesting that Mr. Wolfowitz pulled a fast one to pad the pay of Ms. Riza. Yet the record clearly shows he acted only after he had tried to recuse himself but then wasn't allowed to do so by the ethics committee. And he acted only after that same committee advised him to compensate Ms. Riza for the damage to her career from a "conflict of interest" that was no fault of her own. Based on this paper trail, Mr. Wolfowitz's only real mistake was in assuming that everyone else was acting in good faith. Yet when some of these details leaked to the media, nearly everyone else at the bank dodged responsibility and let Mr. Wolfowitz twist in the wind. Mr. Melkert, a Dutch politician now at the U.N., seems to have played an especially cowardly role.

Global Warming - follow the money indeed

How "scientific consensus" is obtained - cut off funding for inconvenient views.

clipped from www.businessandmedia.org      Something of a renegade indeed. According to the March 28, 2006, Washington Post, Gray’s view of global warming is almost heresy compared to what the networks preach. “I am of the opinion that this is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people,” the paper quoted Gray.      The Post even described him as “often called the World’s Most Famous Hurricane Expert.” Daring to disagree with the mainstream media and Al Gore supporters has meant losing “most of his government funding,” and he has had to put up more than $100,000 of his own money to continue his research.      In fact, the Post reported that Gray thinks “in just three, five, maybe eight years, he says, the world will begin to cool again.”

I don't question their patriotism

On libs:

I don't question their patriotism. But I do question which country they think they're living in.

How Stupid is the Iranian Government?

I mean, really. Do they really - in their wildest dreams - expect anyone with even half a brain to believe that this letter was written without a gun to someone's head? Why do they even waste the time to do this?

Idiots.

And why are there so many reporters who actually see this as an admission of guilt of any sort?

Idiots.

clipped from news.sky.com "This blatant attempt to use Leading Seaman Turney for propaganda purposes is outrageous and cruel." "It is cruel and callous to do this to someone in this position, and to play games like this is a disgrace," Downing Street added. The latest letter The letter, purportedly from Leading Seaman Faye Turney, also asks the British Government why it allowed 15 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines currently in custody to stray into Iranian waters. Analysts immediately doubted the validity of the letter, saying the wording was not likely to have been thought up by the 26-year-old sailor. The letter coincided with the release of new footage of the sailors and marines being seized by Iranian gunboats in the Gulf.

Irwin Cartoon Outrage

So ... it's OK for CNN to show a terrorist sniping and maybe killing American soldiers - surely you're aware of that video - but it's in REPREHENSIBLY BAD TASTE for South Park to do a cartoon like this ...?

Something's gone very wrong with our sense of outrage, don't you think?

Hypocrisy, anyone?

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The Tet Offensive All Over Again

CNN "Journalist" and Source

Good to see you again, my friend!

Yeah, yeah. You know, you guys are in big trouble.

Temporary setbacks. And with your help, it will be really temporary.

What do you mean? I've already done all I can, portraying you as hardened, determined heroes ...

And don't think it's not appreciated. No, we have something really good for you this time. Look ...

(Watches, eyes widening) ... This is fantastic! But ... they'll never let me air it.

Why not? Don't your masters also hate Bush?

Yeah, but ... this is over the line. I mean ... showing the killing of a soldier on TV ... it's very well done, especially that crap about civilians nearby, but ... there'll be backlash. It's treason, actually ...

Oh come on. This administration will never call you a traitor. You know that. That stupid lawyer got only 28 months for helping us, and she was caught red-handed.

True, true ...

Come on, my friend. This will break the will of the American people. This will demoralize the Great Satan's troops. This will greatly encourage our jihadists. This will make you a journalistic hero. If you're fired, you'll be a victim of Bush's oppression. It's win-win.

Win-win.

You can be our Walter Cronkite, the American trait - er, the great journalist who made the American people think you were losing, right after the Viet Cong's greatest defeat ... you can help us that much. Pull us from the brink of disaster. The Iraqis hate us. They're turning us in when they can. We need your help, brother!

Hmmm ... I suppose if it'll embarrass Bush ... and end the war before the USA succeeds ...

That's the spirit! See, we're brothers, yes? We're on the same side. Here you go.

Next time, can I go with you guys? A ride-along?

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North Korean Suicide Wish

"No matter how the U.S. imperialists try to stifle and isolate our republic ... victory will be on the side of justice," said Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency's Korean-language report.

Er ... if victory will be on the side of justice, how will that be a good thing for North Korea's leadership?

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Mark Foley's Excuse

Mark Foley is now claiming he was abused by a clergyman when he was a lad ...

So ... something really horrible happened to him that ... makes him want to do the same to other kids?

Not a great excuse.

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The Proposition

Darwinists are strange. They pop up everywhere, without warning, preaching and defending their faith.

My latest weird encounter was while watching The Proposition. In this somewhat violent and brutal movie, John Hurt's bounty hunter character starts talking about Darwinism, and how it implies that "the darkies" and whites are related, by a common ancestor. The message is that Darwinism somehow militates against racism.

However, that thought is the exact opposite of what Darwinism did do in Australia - justify the view that "darkies" were inferior, less evolved "animals." Darwinism was the "science" behind the official racism of Australia, which led to the killing of aborigines for the purpose of providing "specimens" of the "missing link."

That someone writing a movie script today must try to defend Darwin in this sordid affair is indicative of the sorry state of moral vacuity bequeathed us by this charlatan.

Why Honda?

So why, all those years ago (well, in 2001) did I get an Accord instead of a Camry? I mean, I loved the power seat adjustment doohickey, even though it cost a grand more than the Accord.

Well, the Camry gearbox looked terrible, like cheap, badly-fitted plastic. The sunglass hatch was hard to open. The quality of finish and design in the Accord was so much better, more refined.

And that was that.

Although I think Ourisman Honda screwed me over by selling me the rustproofing package ... they claimed that without it the car "had no rustproofing whatsoever" ... I think they lied ...

JihadBusters

All the shrieks about the war in Iraq "creating more terrorists" just shows how clueless the shriekers are. The war is bringing more Islamofascists out of the woodwork, sure, but it's only an acceleration of the final showdown, of the efforts to bring death and destruction to infidels. There are no recruiting stations; all it takes is subsciption to an idea. As such, there's no way to bring "recruitment" to a halt. All it takes is a response at a web site, or to an email.

Seems one way for moderate Muslims (and supposedly friendly Muslim governments) to help stop the spread of loony jihadism is to agree to the following: agree that Islamofascists are not true Muslims, and will not be given Muslim burials; that, in fact, their bodies will be desecrated in such a way (sprayed with Spam?) as to deny them entrance to their pornographic paradise.

Why should true, moderate Muslims who hate terror and agree that the methods and beliefs of Islamofascists do not reflect Islam have a problem with that? If they DO have a problem with that, aren't they admitting that they DO consider these terrorists to be true Muslims?

Just seems like a good idea. Could be wrong.

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"Asian" terrorism?

In response to some comments on this story:

Passengers noticed that, despite the heat, the pair were wearing leather jackets and thick jumpers and were regularly checking their watches.

Some comments:

What knee-jerk ignorance!

- Bernie, Canada

What a disgrace.


- Tom, London

What next? Not letting Asian people board buses or even worse segregating them just like in America until recently. We must tackle the root causes of ignorance and not judge a book by its cover. As a British Muslim I feel less and less part of Britain because of the media and government campaign that lumps the trouble makers and law abiding Muslims in one basket

- Malik, London

Yes, what knee-jerk ignorance! Any objective reader would have understood that - from the article - what worried the passengers was not just their skin color but what they thought - rightly or not - was their suspicious behavior and attire. It is knee-jerk ignorance to impute their worries to skin color alone. And extremely offensive to Koreans, Chinese, etc. to call these people "Asians" to avoid calling them Indians or Indonesians. Suddenly any "Asian" is tarred with the same brush. This is political correctness gone wild.

And I would guess that not many British Muslims have ever actually felt "a part of Britain", having wilfully segregated yourselves from Britain since you arrived. Otherwise you would be troubled by the hate speech regularly preached by some imams.

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Political Objectives? Tippytoeing around the truth

From the AP:

Bush didn't repeat the reference to "Islamic fascists" at the State Department today, referring instead to "individuals that would like to kill innocent Americans to achieve political objectives."

To whom is Bush referring? These people want to kill innocents for religious objectives. (Oops, he can't say that out loud.)

Although ... their religion encompasses the political as well ... so perhaps he's accurate, in a roundabout way.

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Foiled Plot

The AP writes:

While al-Qaida's call for global jihad clearly acted as inspiration, there has been no direct evidence that bin Laden or his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, had advance knowledge of those attacks, that they helped plan them, or that they provided financial or logistical help to those who carried them out.

Question: do we care if it's "genuine al-Qaida"? Why this obsession over confirming this? Because we can't face reality?

The reality is this: there are thousands (optimistically) of people who are trying to kill us because of their belief system, not because of an al-Qaida membership. That's all. No ties to terrorist groups are needed - just, for example, a lone gunman who has bought into a religious system. (Whether it's a distorted one or not can be debated at www.answering-islam.org.)

Second, why this tippytoeing about those religious beliefs?

Sky News' Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said those under arrest are mainly young, British-born men of Asian origin.

As a Chinese, I find this extremely offensive. Journalists are so afraid of offending Muslims that they are willing to cast all Asians in the role of potential terrorist. But why the kid gloves? Doesn't anyone with at least half a brain already know the religious beliefs of anyone wanting to blow up anything with innocent people inside? Do they seriously think they can prevent any sort of backlash against Muslims by describing the terrorists as British-born men of Asian origin?

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The Final Solution

Sigh. Those who cannot learn the lessons of life from Ben Hur, will never learn. Hezbollah (and Islamist terrorism) is based on an idea, the idea that their actions will earn them eternal pleasures.

How do we fight an idea? "With another idea."

Solution: videotape the IDF (or someone to whom the handling of the substance suggested is not taboo) spraying Hezbollah bodies with pig fat, denying them entrance into their paradise filled with "young boys." (For some reason we keep forgetting that part of the verse. Are we just not inclusive enough?)

After the initial uproar from both the peaceful and non-peaceful Muslim (?) communities, they'll get the message.

Why the peaceful Muslims would get upset is another question altogether.