Just the latest sign that we're well and truly fucked...

Thanks to Paulie Cee for directing attention to this picture elsewhere...and the big white circle was probably unnecessary, but sometimes you see something so unbelievable you want to make sure everyone else can see it and not believe it too.

Honestly, can you believe that someone could seriously be proposing this?

The War To End All Wars

The one thing you can count on from the 'huggers is their penchant for hysterics. Since the imminent demise of Mother Earth hasn't brought the majority of rational thinking people to their side, they need to pump up the volume. Now according to Australian "climate change" whackjob Tim Flannery, we're heading toward war over global climate change.

IF the world fails to reach agreement on tackling climate change soon then it could end in war, climate scientist Tim Flannery has warned.

Like many others, he is concerned at a lack of progress ahead of a crucial UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December.

If there is no deal some time in the next year then there is a risk of momentum fading and the problem getting beyond the reach of world leaders, said Prof Flannery, who is in New York for climate talks.

"My greatest fear is that once people stop negotiating, once diplomacy fails, that's potentially a prelude for war."

That could mean conflict over carbon tariffs, over the mass migration of climate-affected people or over serious water shortages, Prof Flannery said.

It might not happen for decades but it was a real threat if Copenhagen failed. "The triggers are there for conflict," the former Australian of the year said.

I'm anxious to see what they're going to threaten the world with next...maybe one of those "if we can't take care of the planet, aliens from outer space will invade and take it away from us because we don't deserve it" movie plots or something.

Of course, this is the same guy who advocates pumping sulphur gas into the atmosphere to combat global warming.

Since the 1990's we've been receiving dire warnings of impending doom due to global warming/climate change...we're fast approaching 20 years on the subject. All I want to know is when some of it is going to start coming true? When can we start dismissing this b.s. out of common sense? I mean, those of us who haven't already been doing that for the past 20 years...

Thus Ever To Hippies

Why on Earth would someone think they could get away with taking down & burning a VFW flag...especially one that had been flown in Iraq? The method of justice enacted (and that's exactly what it was) will make you smile.

VFW Flag Burner Pilloried

VALLEY FALLS -- The young man was given three choices: get turned over to the police, go one-on-one in a fight with a seasoned war veteran, or be duct-taped to a flagpole for six hours with a sign around his neck identifying his alleged crime: flag burning.

It was the third option that would still have the small town buzzing a week after a 21-year-old was hunted down and forced to endure a public humiliation with its roots dating to the Middle Ages. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1938 were incensed enough to tie up the man last Sunday after they accused him of setting the flag in front of their building on fire.

Post Commander Nick Normile, a Vietnam War veteran, said the man came into the post's bar Sept. 18 on Poplar Avenue and was eventually turned away for not having a proper ID.

Apparently angered, the young man, who Normile did not want to name, cut the rope of the American flag flying overhead and used a cigarette lighter to set it on fire, Normile and others said.

The man sat pilloried as the village had its fall youth soccer picnic with a long parade of children passing in front of him.

"He'll never disrespect the flag again, I can tell you that," Normile said.

Normile said the flag had at one point flown over U.S. troops in Iraq had special significance.

Veterans, both local and nationwide, responded to the event as accountings were posted online to the official VFW Facebook page and national Web site. Comments posted supported the act and added ideas for further punishment.

Other nearby business owners said they knew of the event but refused to give an accounting. Unconfirmed reports by citizens said the alleged flag-burner was a relative of a previous commander of the post.

Calls made to the alleged flag burner and a spokesman for the national VFW organization for comments were not returned. The Rensselaer County Sheriffs office confirmed knowledge of the event, but said they were not involved. State Police in Brunswick were contacted, but a trooper said no record of the event could be found.

The flag will be disposed of at a formal ceremony, Normile said.

Before the defenders of hippydom rally around this dumbass and defend his "First Amendment rights", please note that he cut down the VFW's flag and burned it, not his own. If he'd brought his own flag and burned it on the VFW's property, he'd only be guilty of complete lunacy and not vandalism, which is why the threat was made to call the police.

What were the guy's motives in burning the flag? Was he making a protest, just plain pissed off, ? No one knows at this point...but it's not surprising that when given a choice between an arrest, a sound thrashing or public humiliation, a coward will take the third one every time.

They Call Her 'Senator'

Well, some do. Some are probably referring to her as "Her Highness, the Royal Stuck-Up Bitch" now.

Courtesy of Politico.com, complete with video and everything.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) didn't like a Brigadier General calling her "ma'am" at an EPW hearing yesterday.

"Do me a favor," she said, "could say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am?' It's just a thing, I worked so hard to get that title, so I'd appreciate it, yes, thank you."

"I worked so hard to get that title"...no recognition of the fact that it's common military courtesy to use "sir" and "ma'am" in these sorts of situations, and no cognizance of the fact that using a title of office to address someone should be in deference and respect to the office and not the individual. Nah, just "I worked so hard to get that title." I'm sure you did, Barb...I'm sure you did.

NoKos To Lob Missile Toward Hawaii?

Via MSNBC.com:

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese newspaper reported Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.

The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles, would be launched from North Korea's Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast, said the Yomiuri daily, Japan's top-selling newspaper. It cited an analysis by the Japanese Defense Ministry and intelligence gathered by U.S. reconnaissance satellites.

The missile launch could come between July 4 and 8, the paper said.

Last week, it was the threat of "nuclear war" on the Korean Peninsula, despite the glaringly obvious facts that a) the U.S. doesn't have "thousands" of nuke warheads in South Korea as the North claimed, and b) two barely credible nuke tests in the single kiloton output range do not a nuclear arsenal make. Despite all this, the sawed off star of Team America: World Police continues to press on with the "look at me Look At Me LOOK AT ME!!!" campaign.

Next comes this blurb from Foxnews.com:

The U.S. military is tracking a flagged North Korean ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned.

The ship, Kang Nam, left a port in North Korea Wednesday and appears to be heading toward Singapore, according to a senior U.S. military source. The vessel, which the military has been tracking since its departure, could be carrying weaponry, missile parts or nuclear materials.

"It is believed to be 'of interest,'" a senior U.S. official told FOX News.

This is the first suspected "proliferator" that the U.S. and its allies have tracked from North Korea since the United Nations authorized the world's navies to enforce compliance with a variety of U.N. sanctions aimed at punishing North Korea for its recent nuclear test.

The ship is currently along the coast of China and being monitored around-the-clock by air.

The apparent violation raises the question of how the United States and its allies will respond, particularly since the U.N. resolution does not have a lot of teeth to it.

Aye, there's the rub, my friends...one wonders what could be done about that.

The Good News Media is Ramping Up

After eight years of non-stop Bush bad, economy bad, foreign policy bad, world bad, country bad, I've been waiting with eager anticipation for the Good News Media to kick into high gear. It's been coming slowly over the first few months of the Obama presidency, but now six months in, we're starting to get some real big doses of it.

Here's a selection of headlines from MSNBC today. Mind you, unemployment and jobless claims are the worst they've been in decades, consumers aren't spending, energy prices are going up, up, up and the government is spending and printing us into oblivion. Here's how your Good News Media reports the economic carnage:



Ahhhh... "fresh highs". Nothing quite like one of those, huh MSNBC? Too bad we're talking about gas prices that are probably going to eclipse $3.00 in short order and $4.00 soon after. Real boon to prosperity that one is. It did wonders last summer.

I wonder what these headlines would be had McCain been in office. Let's see...

New Jobless Claims Drop More Than Expected
Decline Shows that Nation's Unemployment Woes May Be Easing

becomes

Continuing Jobless Claims Drag Economy Down For 19th Straight Week
McCain Does Nothing About It as Nuclear Kim Jong Threatens World


Oil Near $72 on Economic Recovery Hopes
Investor Optimism Pushing Crude to Fresh Highs For the Year

becomes

Oil Prices Head to Yearly High, Cost At Pump To Follow
Good luck trying to find a job now, dirtbag

Shooting At Holocaust Museum In D.C.

Now breaking. Gunman walked in and opened fire on two or three people.

Media deciding whether to ignore this story, pending release of shooter's name.

Update: He opened fire on guards before he got to the metal detector and security. Guards fired back.

Update 2: Shooter gravely injured. Awwwh.

Still waiting to see how important this story is.

Update 3: Jake Tapper reports via Twitter that the shooter is 89 years old.

Update 4: Why am I doing updates on a blog with five readers?

Update 5: Because I care.

Update 6: MSNBC is reporting that the 89 year old suspect is connected to "anti-government and white supremacy groups".

The verdict is in: It's a HUGE story.

Update 7: Yep. Huge. Another same-day press release from our president, who is shocked and saddened by today's shooting. Same day on Dr. Tiller, too. But it took him several days to comment on the murder of William Long and wounding of Quinton Ezeagwula by a home grown Islamist.

Update 8: And today, the good reverend Jeremiah Wright reminds us that "them Jews" are keeping Barack Obama away from him. Timely!

A Tale of Two Tributes

June 6, 2009. The 65th anniversary of D-Day, the day the West stormed the beaches at Normandy against incredible odds in an effort to face evil and take it down. This was the beginning of the march across Europe that would see Hitler defeated and the world free of its greatest tyrant.

Microsoft's new "Bing" search engine, which for me, doesn't win a lot of points for originality in its mission... it's basically Microsoft Google... provides similar search results and even a similar pattern of colors for its results to the search behemoth. But one way in which they strongly differ from Google is their tribute to D-Day. Seen below is their home page on June 6. A gorgeous and movingly peaceful picture of the French beach, along with interactive clickable links to find out more about D-Day.

On its own home page, Google has honored everything from Pavarotti to the newest supposed "missing link" to its own birthday, with clever artistic alterations to its iconic four color logo. Every year since 2001, however, their artists have ignored September 11th. And in every year of their existence, their artists ignore Memorial Day. This year, they did have a small yellow ribbon tacked on to their page for Memorial Day. I'm sure it took a lot of strength and effort to include the 25 pixel icon as a tribute to the valiant men and women who gave their lives to preserve our freedom and the freedom of so many others.

Today, on the 65th anniversary of D-Day, Google has artistically altered their logo once again. To honor 25 years of the video game, Tetris. Tetris, incidentally, made lots of money for the Soviet government, who owned the rights to the masterpiece that one of their citizens created. The Soviets understood that the government could do a lot better for the common good than any so-called "private" enterprise. In this, the age of unprecedented U.S. government expansion into the private sector, it's nice to see where Google's priorities are.

Bunch of blockheads.

Obama's Historic Speech

I sat mesmerized yesterday as I watched Obama deliver his historic speech on race. The way he talked about putting our petty differences aside and coming together as one. The way he discussed the different races and how they have each contributed to current discord. The way he assigned blame to different factions of people for certain historic events that he himself had nothing to do with, and said that it was time to see if we can just forget our own side's grievances and find common ground under his brand new kind of leadership. Leadership which says it doesn't matter what race you are, we're all people and we all just need to understand each other. No one race is more right than the other.

What a speech. I mean, if there's anyone that can talk about race, it's him. He's got lots of races inside of him, so he knows what he's talking about. He understands.

What a speech on race. I think people will be talking about it for a long time.

What? You mean that wasn't a speech on race? Oh, what was it about? Oh, this one was about religion. Oh, ok. I gotcha.

I sat mesmerized yesterday as I watched Obama deliver his historic speech on religion. The way he talked about putting our petty differences aside and coming together as one. The way he discussed the different religions and how they have each contributed to current discord. The way he assigned blame to different factions of people for certain historic events that he himself had nothing to do with, and said that it was time to see if we can just forget our own side's grievances and find common ground under his leadership. Leadership which says it doesn't matter what religion you are, we're all people and we all just need to understand each other. No one religion is more right than the other.

What a speech. I mean, if there's anyone that can talk about religion, it's him. He's got lots of religions inside of him, so he knows what he's talking about. He understands.

What a speech on religion. I think people will be talking about it for a long time.

American Jihadist: Just Another Victim

If the sarcasm dripping off that title isn't enough for you, you should read the CNN piece on the statements made by Muhammad Abdulhakim's lawyer. You'll be happy to know that his client was "brainwashed" and tortured in Yemen while incarcerated during an immigration problem, and that everyone else in the world besides Abdulhakim is responsible for his shooting attack outside an Army recruiting station.

"My client is a young man, I think, brainwashed," attorney Jim Hensley told CNN. "What else could be explained for a young man who's a true American, plays football, helps his grandmother and mows the lawns of his neighbors? Comes back and then finds himself in this situation? That is not a normal situation in my book."

Just a red blooded American lad...

In September 2007, Muhammad left Tennessee State University in Nashville, where he was studying business, and traveled to Yemen to teach English to children and to learn Arabic.

There, "he felt at peace with these people," even marrying a Yemeni, Hensley said.

But things began to change when his client was detained for a minor visa violation in Yemen and sent to prison, where he was housed with radical Islamic fundamentalists, Hensley said.

...who just happened to fall in with a bad crowd...

There is disagreement about the time he was incarcerated. The lawyer said Muhammad told him he had served four months in prison.

Hensley said Muhammad told him that, during the last two weeks he was held, he was deprived of sleep and food and "was slapped around a little bit," enduring beatings on the backs of his legs.

During Muhammad's time in the prison, an FBI agent visited him not as an ally but as an interrogator, Hensley said.

...brutalized by his American puppet captors and abandoned by his government...

The FBI agent "believed that Carlos was some kind of hardened terrorist hellbent on doing violence to America," Hensley said.

...profiled...

After he was released in January, Muhammad returned to Nashville, Tennessee, where his parents noticed their son was "fidgety, frustrated, can't sit still," Hensley said.

The same FBI agent approached him and threatened to put him under surveillance, "to do everything we can to cause you trouble," Hensley said.

...harrassed by law enforcement...

Hensley added that Muhammad's parents told him that, once he returned to Nashville, "he was a different human," one who blamed the United States for the war wounds suffered by some of the children whom he had taught, children without arms or legs.

...haunted by visions of the victims of American imperialism...

He also blamed U.S. immigration policy for his inability to bring his bride back to the United States with him, Hensley said.

...denied the love and understanding of the love of his life by blatantly racist immigration policy...

"A first-year psychology student would be able to see that this young man needed some help, and that wasn't offered him by anyone," Hensley said.

...denied the help he needs by The System...

Federal agents said Wednesday that they were looking into whether Internet searches of various locations in several other U.S. cities were a sign that Muhammad was seeking "additional targets." The cities investigators included Atlanta, Georgia; Louisville, Kentucky; New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Memphis, Tennessee, where Muhammad grew up.

Hensley told CNN that his client was not the only person who was using the computer.

...and, in the end, wrongfully accused and a patsy in a larger, obvious conspiracy.

Where did they find this lawyer, advertising on late night t.v. during an all night kung fu movie marathon? Is there a race, culture or sympathy card out there that this guy missed playing? Every statement from the guy sounds like something you'd expect out of a bad parody movie.

It seems that this is destined to be turned into a circus by this dirtbag's lawyer, who pled "not guilty" on behalf of his client after his client already admitted to the shootings to police afterwards. Pvt. Long and Pvt. Ezeagwula deserve better than a media circus; they deserve justice.