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...according to people like this, Sarah Palin is "trashy" and McCain supporters are the angry ones. (Via.)
Gee, Frankie Schaeffer, when is Obama going to denounce stuff like that, you backstabbing hypocrite! (Via.)
BTW, hello to everyone visiting via Ed Driscoll, whose post linking me was linked by InstaPundit.
The lefties over at the Daily Kooks think 9/11 is just a big ol' joke. Reading the Ace of Spades comments is cathartic for me, otherwise I'd be thisclose to breaking out in a stream of profanity that would make my late father -- who could cuss the paint off a battleship -- blush. Since I won't use profanity, I'll just admit that, yes, I hate the Kos Kooks...they have earned it.
The completely insane, unwarranted hatred directed against Sarah Palin has been freaking me out. These people actually scare me. I know that even if McCain/Palin win in a landslide (and if the left and the media keep it up, they will) we will have to listen to a bunch of conspiratards braying, "They stole the election, again!" I also predict that if McCain/Palin win, there will probably be rioting in "blue" cities and college campuses. (Yes, I'm serious...if it happens, remember that I told you so.) Perhaps we will finally see that mass exodus of Hollywood idiots from the US that they always promise but never deliver.
Speaking of which, I've been laughing and sneering at the Hollywood idiots and their comments about Palin. The most amusing was the comment by PETArd and diseased skank Pamela Anderson. Because Sarah Palin hunts and stuff, this wondrous example of enlightened, educated, progressive womanhood (unlike those of us who support Sarah Palin) said, "I can't stand her. She can suck it!" Well, if there is anyone who knows about "sucking it", it's Pam Anderson...
One more thing. "The world" wants us to elect Obama so they can like us again. You see, they can only like us if we are weak, and they know Obama will make us weak. So, to hell with what "the world" wants.
Daily Mail - '9/11 attacks made up, ' says French best actress Oscar-winner
I'll just quote the dumbness, because I really can't add anything:
Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks.[...]Referring to the two passenger jets being flown into the Twin Towers, Cotillard said:
"We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."
She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated "money-sucker" that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.
She said: "It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them."
But after her outburst, in which she also queried the 1969 Moon landings, a successful future in Hollywood appears to be in jeopardy.She said: "Did a man really walk on the Moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don't believe all they tell me, that's for sure."
Somebody's been reading some conspiratard websites. Oh, and here's the cherry on top the pile o' crap:
Denying that she had any kind of "Anglo-Saxon ambition", she said she prefers to "choose roles which suit me".Despite her low-key image, Cotillard is an environmental activist who once worked as a spokesman for Greenpeace.
Perhaps an Oscar doesn't suit her, then. Perhaps she should give it back and get the hell out of this country.
(Via WeSmirch.)
Last night, I was perusing a gossip blog* where a lot of lefties hang out. Many of them are Rawn Pawl supporters. (They are also overtly pro-abortion and are hostile to Christianity.) Here is the sig on one of the posts from a Pawl supporter:
Fascism will come to America wrapped in an American flag and carrying a cross.
This is hilarious because the biggest theocrats in the blogosphere support Rawn Pawl. In fact, they get downright moony-eyed over him. They think he is the only true Christian and pro-lifer in the running.
The only way I can explain such disparate supporters is the moronic convergence of the very far left and the very far right. Theocrats, potheads and conspiracy freaks...they all come together to support Rawn Pawl.
You can't buy laughs like these...
*I know, I know...I shouldn't be reading gossip blogs. But laughing at dumb celebrities can be pretty entertaining.
Fred Phelps and his fake church finally get owned!
The father of a fallen Marine was awarded nearly $11 million Wednesday in damages by a jury that found leaders of a fundamentalist church had invaded the family's privacy and inflicted emotional distress when they picketed the Marine's funeral.[...]In his closing arguments during the punitive damages phase, plaintiff attorney Craig Trebilcock described church members as bullies who "seek out those among us who are at the weakest point in our lives."
"That's why they've gotten away with it until this point," the attorney said, adding that grieving families were too weak to fight back "until this man."
Like Kathy Shaidle, I'm also sick of seeing these jerks trotted out by the left and used to slander all Christians. Phelps' "church" mostly (if not entirely) consists of his family members (children, grandchildren, etc.). The Phelps family is no more Christian than Osama bin Laden is.
In his rebuttal, Trebilcock said it was up to jurors to decide the truthfulness of the financial documents, noting the documents show Rebecca Phelps-Davis has $306 in the bank.Trebilcock noted Phelps-Davis is a practicing attorney and pointed to testimony by the defendants showing how much they traveled to spread their message.
"Rebecca Phelps has $306? She must be using Priceline.com. It doesn't make any sense."
I bet these people hide all their money in their mattresses and in the walls of their houses.
More interesting reading: Addicted to Hate -- an expose on Phelps and his "church".
I mean, they're so smart and stuff. They can tell us how to get by with only using "two or three" squares of toilet paper. They tell us amazing facts about 9/11, revealing that fire can't melt steel. They can get out of serving time in jail because they're just really stressed out. They can teach us to be a size zero by a combination of cocaine, cigarettes and ipecacs. They teach us that underwear and hygiene are purely optional. And now a supermodel, with her expansive knowledge and intellect, challenges the dumb old Pope and his outdated ideas about sexual morality.
When Gisele Bundchen says that "no one is a virgin" and "no one waits until they're married", by God, she must be right. After all, she doesn't know any virgins and she doesn't know anybody who would be so square as to wait until marriage, so she must be right and Pope Benedict must be wrong. I haven't seen such brilliant insight since the time Marie Antoinette was told the peasants had no bread to eat, so she pointed out that surely they must have some cake around to eat instead.* Gisele even challenged the Pope to "show [her] someone who's a virgin on their wedding night." I'll tell you, she has him backed into a corner now!
The Church Fathers, The Theology of the Body, Pope Benedict XVI, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton...all of these men and ideas crumble at the well-pedicured feet of the great moral theologian Gisele Bundchen.
*Yes, I know that that Marie Antoinette story is probably a myth. Actually, Marie Antoinette probably had more sense and a better moral compass than Gisele Bundchen.
The same celebrities that screech about "getting the government out of our bedrooms" now want the government in our bathrooms:
Singer Sheryl Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be introduced to help the environment.Crow has suggested using "only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required". [...]
"I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting."
I propose that Ms. Crow shove it. Sideways.
Crow has also commented on her website about how she thinks paper napkins "represent the height of wastefulness".She has designed a clothing line with what she calls a "dining sleeve".
The sleeve is detachable and can be replaced with another "dining sleeve" after the diner has used it to wipe his or her mouth.
Oh, ick! Between that and using "two or three" sheets at most for butt wiping, I feel sorry for the poor sap who has to do Ms. Crow's laundry. They deserve combat pay.
This isn't the first time I've commented on Ms. Crow's idiocy.
And her music sucks, too.
Update: A few more things...Ms. Crow should quit touring if she wants to be kind to Mother Earth. After all, is her music really more important than the good of the planet? Also, she should cut down on the booze...booze makes you pee and each time you pee, that's more toilet paper damaging the planet!
I can't even bring myself to watch this considering how volatile my emotions are right now. I never liked Rosie O'Donnell in the first place, but she is now a full-blown conspiratard lunatic spouting 9/11 "truther" nonsense on national television, getting applause for it, and -- on her blog -- taking the side of Iran in the current hostage crisis involving British soldiers.
If somebody had told me on 9/12/01 that things would come to this, I don't think I would have wanted to live to see it. This disgusting woman -- ugly inside and out -- crapping on the graves of those who died on 9/11 and getting applauded by the studio audience! There is supposedly a conservative panelist on The View (which I don't watch), but apparently she is an ineffectual wimp. (After all, you don't think a show like The View would actually allow a bold, competent conservative voice, do you?) Shame on you, Barbara Walters, for allowing such a disgusting display on the national airwaves.
Pretty soon, a sizable percentage of the idiots in this country will believe this crap. People are so celebrity-crazed that when a pea-brained celebrity like O'Donnell belches forth this crap on national television, they actually see it as legitimate. It scares the hell out of me that this woman was applauded, rather than booed off the stage.
If only we could trade Rosie for those British hostages. Drop her off in Tehran and let them throw a bag over her so we never have to see or hear her ugliness again. Let her see how "benevolent" an Islamic theocracy really is.
...of Fairfield Drive and Mobile Highway:
As I was turning left onto Mobile Hwy. this afternoon, I saw you holding up two signs. One said, "Bush Is a Pig". The other said, "The USA Is Not Free". Do you realize that if the latter sign was true at all, you would not have the freedom to stand on a street corner holding up either of your signs? Probably not. Nevertheless, I really wanted to flip you off and I almost did, but I decided to concentrate on my driving instead. What can I say...I have a new car and I'm being extra cautious. Anyway, since I didn't get to flip you off, this is for you:
Sincerely,
Susan B.
This evening, somebody (calling himself "Enlightenment", natch) posted a long screed in the comments to the previous post that hit on every single 9/11 "truther" talking point imaginable. It was in one long chunk of text, rather than being split up into paragraphs, which just added to the craziness.
Let me reiterate...this crap is not allowed on my blog. The main reason is it's disrespectful of everyone who died in the 9/11 attacks and their families. The other reason is that it's stupid, ridiculous nonsense. Anyone who posts this crap in my comments will be banned and will have their comment removed.
As Andrea once said, the short bus is not allowed to stop here.
Not.
Wife of Norman Lear and limousine liberal Lyn Davis Lear has an unintentionally hilarious piece at the Huffy Puffy blog*. After some name-dropping and laughable conspiracy theorizing, she threatens that liberals will "take to the streets" if they don't get their way on election day.
Poor Lyn...she's so provincial. She doesn't realize there's a whole big country apart from her pampered, la-di-da existence. She really doesn't understand that there are a lot of voters who don't agree with her and her ilk. And our votes count just as much as hers, even if she does think we are just a bunch of rubes. No, if the election doesn't go the way Beverly Hills liberals want it to, it must be election fraud. Take to the streets? And do what? If this is some sort of threat, Mrs. Lear should remember that we are the ones who are armed, despite her husband's best efforts. (Every 1970s TV show that Norman Lear produced had at least one obligatory anti-gun episode.)
If the intention is just to throw a big tantrum, all that will do is anger mainstream America even further. After all, we have grown quite tired of arrogant actors, rock stars and other celebrities trying to tell us how to vote.
* I vowed to never link to that silly pesthole, but this is too pompous and funny to pass up.
(Via Sister Toldjah.)
An absolutely hideous situation: well-known conservative blogger Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom had to endure vile threats against his child by some lefty nutcase named Deborah Frisch. (No, I will not directly link to this monster's blog.) This particular nutcase also happens to be a professor at a university and has written articles defending Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill.
Mr. Goldstein's blog is still unavailable at this time because his site is being subjected to DDoS attacks. Apparently, this Frisch creature must have many sympathizers and allies among the "reality"-based community.
Situations like this is why I blog anonymously and why I have a gun.
(Via Beth, who has more about this nutcase here.)
Update: Ms. Frisch must have had a moment of sanity and realized that she was in a world of you-know-what. She has posted an apology on her blog.
Update 2: A few more things...this whole situation brings me back to the subject of this post. I have also noticed that there seem to be very few lefties who are condemning this behavior. Most seem to be ignoring it. Perhaps their strange hatred of Mr. Goldstein outweighs any outrage they would feel at threatening a child. (And yes, saying something like the following is a veiled threat: "You live in Colorado, I see. Hope no one Jon-Benets your baby.") Some are defending it or making a case that it's no big deal. (Like the fellow in the comments to this post.) And others say things like, "Yes, what she said is bad, but Ann Coulter's a meanie too!" Yeah, whatever...
Just remember the line from one of Ms. Frisch's rants that the Anchoress points out: "You aren’t 'human' to me."
Update 3: Via Beth...a bunch of lefties are yukking it up right here and are wondering what the big deal is. Unbelievable. Fortunately, there are some on the left, like Jeralyn Merritt, who still have a sense of decency (although the same can't be said of many of her commenters).
...but there's no other way to put it.
This article made me throw up a little in my mouth. While I have many disagreements with the emerging church movement, I have far more of a problem with people like this Proctor guy.
And you've gotta love the part of the article where he takes a small excerpt from Rev. Kyle Lake's last sermon and concludes that the pastor is trying to tell people to worship the world. No, it sounds like he was just telling people to enjoy the life that God gave them and enjoy His creation. I guess Rev. Lake didn't get the memo that Christians aren't supposed to enjoy anything. People similar to Proctor have given me that memo, but I put it in the circular file.
(Via the Thinklings.)
Update: Coincidentally, MVRWC has a nice post about this pastor, who was a man with a family, not some joke or symbol. Whether it's a bunch of Christian-haters making "Darwin Award" jokes or people who are supposed to be Christians saying that God struck the pastor down for being part of the emergent church movement, we are talking about the tragic death of a man who had family and loved ones.
Really, this bigoted fool should infuriate me more, but for some reason, I am mostly just amused by him. I mean, he actually writes drivel like this with a straight face:
Perhaps the point is this: Why does this sort of bizarre hyperbreeding only seem to afflict antiseptic megareligious families from the Midwest? In other words -- assuming Michelle and Jim Bob and their massive brood of cookie-cutter Christian kidbots will all be, as the charming photo suggests, never allowed near a decent pair of designer jeans or a tolerable haircut from a recent decade, and assuming that they will all be tragically encoded with the values of the homophobic asexual Christian right -- where are the forces that shall help neutralize their effect on the culture? Where is the counterbalance, to offset the damage?Where is, in other words, the funky tattooed intellectual poetess who, along with her genius anarchist husband, is popping out 16 funky progressive intellectually curious fashion-forward pagan offspring to answer the Duggar's squad of über-white future Wal-Mart shoppers? Where is the liberal, spiritualized, pro-sex flip side? Verily I say unto thee, it ain't lookin' good.
This guy actually gets paid to write this crap!
Okay, so this family has sixteen kids. As long as they love the kids and provide for them and don't abuse them or anything, what business is it of yours, mine or Mr. Morford's? What happened to "reproductive choice" and all that? And if Mofo Morford wrote the same bigoted crap about other religions instead of Christianity, he'd probably be charged with hate crimes there in San Francisco.
Yes, Morford is deeper and more spiritual than the Duggar family, which is why he laments the haircuts and lack of designer jeans worn by the Duggar kids and obsesses on the alleged state of Mrs. Duggar's...erm...plumbing.
I was going to say I find Morford scary rather than the Duggar family, but really, how can you be scared of someone that silly and superficial? He's too much of a buffoon to be scary.
(Via the sometimes infuriating Mark Shea.)
Okay...that's it, I'm going back on semi-hiatus. Yes, the blame-Bush idiots have been getting to me. Yes moronic celebrities, whether they be gangsta-rappers or anorexic Canadian singers, get to me. (Although some celebrities provide some unintended laughs.) Yes, I know some celebrities give large sums of money...well, good for them. What do they want, a cookie? (Well in Celine's case, she probably wouldn't keep it down anyway, lest she gain an entire ounce.) There are plenty of non-famous people with a lot less giving and doing more, and they manage to do it without accusing the President of racism or spouting simple-minded pacifist platitudes.
But this story, found via Relapsed Catholic, was the last straw. Yes, I know it's WorldNetDaily*, but still this is according to what British tourists told BBC News. And to be honest, it doesn't surprise me -- people are mostly rotten to the core and we live in a disgusting pornographic culture. Thank you feminists and Hugh Hefner for your sexual revolution...I hope you die soon and burn in Hell for what you've done to our culture! (I apologize for wishing death and Hell on people. I didn't sleep well last night, I had a trying weekend and I was very frustrated and angry when I wrote that. However, I do believe that these people corrupted our culture to the point that rescuers would actually try to get girls to flash themselves as a condition for helping them. This appalls and disgusts me.)
So, I've had it...that's the last straw. Now, with the exception of posts about Katrina relief, I'm back to posting infrequently about lighter topics again.
Whew...that was cathartic...I feel better now...
*WorldNetDaily lost a lot of credibility with me back when they hyped all the Y2K hysteria while at the same time carrying ads selling "Y2K survival" stuff.
Update: And one more thing...I want whoever runs this list to GET ME OFF OF IT! I am a woman but I am NOT "progressive" -- I'm conservative and pro-life. Why the hell I'm on this "progressive" blogroll, I don't know. I'm not the only conservative or pro-life woman that's included. I'm sure whoever comes here from that blogroll expecting to read a blog by a so-called "progressive" woman is sorely disappointed when they come here. That's one reason I never said anything before now...I kind of enjoyed the idea of annoying these people. Now I just want off the list.
...but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an ass. He manages to politicize the hurricane while at the same time gloating over the misery of the people in Mississippi affected by the hurricane.
Of course, as Bryan Preston points out, actual climatologists are saying these hurricanes are part of a natural cycle.
One more thing...the Kennedys and other rich environmentalists are hypocrites. (Via an LGF commenter.)
July must be "National Obnoxious Sanctimonious Troll Month". As you probably have noticed I've been getting hassled by a troll in my snake post, but this comment posted by some idiot woman named "Calli" on An American Housewife's blog is probably the lowest, nastiest thing I've ever seen. Pardon the language, but what a complete ass.
(Via Ilyka Damen, who says my troll is also a contender for the Troll Hall of Fame.)
The Register interviews one of the people responsible for posting spam in blog comments:
Sam's code gets hundreds of open proxies to obediently spam blogs and other sites with the messages he wants posted. They usually target comments to old posts, so they won't show up to people reading the latest ones, though search engine spiders will spot them and index them. And here's the surprising thing: link spamming is not outsourced. These people do it on their own behalf. (Does this mean it's an immature business? Reg readers please advise.)Here's why. When Sam spams tons of blogs and sites with links to his sites - which are affiliates of bigger PPC sites - people see the links and, seeking some porn, pills or casino action, click through to his site, and from there to the parent site, which pays Sam for each person landing there. The PPC sites can see revenues of £100,000 to £200,000 per month, says Sam. He gets a slice of that - and he wants it to stay that way.
Of course, now it's not just comments that are targeted -- it's trackbacks, too. (Incidentally, I don't recall ever getting any trackback spam attempts until today. MT-Blacklist blocked over 200 of them today alone.)
Will the initiative by Google, Yahoo and MSN, to honour "don't follow" links defeat Sam and his ilk? "I don't think it'll have much effect in the short, medium or long term. The search engines caused the problem" - we didn't quite follow this bit of logic, but Sam continued - "and they're doing this to placate the community. It won't work because most blogs and forms are set up with the best intentions, but when people find hard graft has to go into it they're left to rot. To use this, they'll all have to be updated. The majority won't be. And there'll just be trackback spamming."By this Sam means spammers setting up their own blogs, and referencing posts on zillions of blogs, which will then incestuously point back to the spammer, whose profile is thus raised.
Is there anything that can stop the spammers (or at least make their work harder)?
So what does put a link spammer off? It's those trusty friends, captchas - test humans are meant to be able to do but computers can't, like reading distorted images of letters. "Even user authentication can be automated." (Unix's curl command is so wonderfully flexible.)"The hardest form to spam is that which requires manual authentication such as captchas. Or those where you have to reply to an email, click on a link in it; though that can be automated too. Those where you have to register and click on links, they're hard as well. And if you change the folder names where things usually reside, that's a challenge, because you just gather lists of installations' folder names."
This guy makes a lot of money doing this and thinks it's fun. It's perfectly legal and he has no moral qualms about using what amounts to other people's property to advertise junk.
(Via Bene Diction.)
...to the election aftermath. This time inspired by Plan 9 from Outer Space:
"You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!"
Let me warn you, the linked article is just dripping with smug. Here's just a sample:
I suppose the good news is that 55 million Americans have evaded the ignorance-inducing machine. But 58 million have not. (Well, almost 58 million—my relatives are not ignorant, they are just greedy and full of classic Republican feelings of superiority.)
I'm sure your family loves you too, dear. And even though you're not a Republican, you've obviously taken after your relatives in some respects -- you've got that "feelings of superiority" thing down pat.
Unteachable ignorance? How about unteachable arrogance? You're soaking in it, Ms. Smiley.
Via Mark Shea, who also absolutely nails it with this post about intellectual pride.
While Senator Kerry is being a gracious loser, the same cannot be said of some of his supporters. Various bloggers, like Discoshaman, have ventured into the lefty pestholes of the web and found all kinds of craziness from disappointed Kerry supporters. (Well, I don't think a lot of these people really supported Kerry...they just voted for him because they hate Bush.) LGF also has a running thread of "moonbat quotes".
Many of these folks have expressed a desire to move to Canada. That's fine with me...as saying goes, "don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya". However, they should keep in mind that they're in for a long wait.
Finally, via MCJ, we find out what's next for George Soros:
When asked what he planned to do if Kerry lost the election, Soros said that he plans to enter a monastery for a time because he will need to contemplate what is wrong with the people of this country.
Way to be humble there, George.
*What can I say? I watched the MST3K version of this movie recently and I thought the title was fitting.
Update: More lefty nuttiness abounds: here, here, here (Warning: bad language) and here. (Third link via this post on Dean's World.)
Update 2: November 3, 2004 worse than Septemper 11, 2001? Good Lord! This is not even funny anymore...
This anti-Bush site apparently has the vapors because President Bush, when he was Governor of Texas, once used a naughty gesture. Actually, that gesture pretty much sums up my own feelings towards about half this country these days.
Oh, and the site is looking for videos of "disturbances outside polling locations". Well, I've already heard of some disturbances, but I doubt these clowns would be interested in videos of them.
(First link via Andrea Harris.)
Update: LOL! (Via INDC Journal.)
I have to admit, it's been amusing to see Teresa Heinz Kerry keep stepping in one pile after another. One consolation if Kerry wins is that THK is sure to provide an entertaining four years. It would be the same kind of entertainment you get from watching really bad, campy movies.
The other day, Drudge linked this article which I found both amusing and annoying:
Washington Times: Polite society anticipates Teresa's pizazz
I'm sure other bloggers have already picked this apart, but I'm behind on my blog reading, so forgive me if this has been played out elsewhere.
The Bushes have been virtually incognito for the last four years. Harpers Bazaar recently referred to the first lady's style as "Marian the Librarian."
Gee, Laura Bush isn't a social butterfly? Just imagine somebody wanting time to themselves or with their family instead of hanging with a bunch of chattering, shallow, gossiping socialites.
"Nobody's been to The White House," added Mrs. Pincus. "You don't know about them. There's no buzz." The president is a teetotaler and Laura Bush "doesn't even do lunches. It's like, 'Hello, is this 1958?'"
Horror of horrors...could the Bushes be a bit...introverted? And isn't it just awful that a man who had a drinking problem when he was younger is abstaining from alcohol? (Hey, liberals -- make up your minds. Either condemn him for once having a drinking problem or for being a teetotaler, but not for both.) And Laura Bush doesn't "do lunches". How quaint, old-fashioned and rude of her to have better things to do than have lunch with people who probably hate her anyway.
"I think Washington will be more active" with Mrs. Kerry in the White House, said Democratic stalwart Esther Coopersmith. "I don't think John Kerry and Teresa will go to bed at 9 o'clock."Described as "with it" by people she knows, Mrs. Kerry's sophisticated social circle is in stark contrast to Mrs. Bush's down-home Texas ways. [...]
Washington socialites speculate what a Kerry administration would bring. "I don't think they're going to serve grits in the White House," said Smith Bagley, whose wife Elizabeth was ambassador to Portugal during the Clinton administration.
Yep, the Democrats...the party of the downtrodden and the common man...
Mrs. Wallop points out that the Bushes have only hosted "what, four or five state dinners in four years? These people don't understand that to get things done you have to have these stupid dinners."
Why would you have to have state dinners to get things done? Get what things done? Again, maybe the Bushes have better things to do.
It sounds like a bunch of vain, spoiled Washington society people are upset at the Bushes for not paying enough attention to them. Since THK is one of them, naturally they are looking forward to being catered to again.
I don't blame the Bushes for not wanting to hang with these jerks.
I find this both hilarious and pathetic at the same time. Here's part of a caption that I found particularly amusing:
Our rich environmental resources made us wealthy as a nation; they need to be protected. We also need cancer-free water and air. Environmental pollutants are changing us as a species, especially the brains of developing children (maybe that's what happened to George W.)
Gee, I didn't know water and air could get cancer. Oh, and there's a "Bush is a dummy" remark -- that's new!
And did you know John Kerry is a "deep thinker", is "worldy and well read" and can speak French?
(Found via a comment on LGF.)
Update: Looks like the site has been taken down.
Tony Woodlief lists sixteen things that deserve a good slap.
If I may add a few:
Idiot neighbors who have band practice on their back porch while you are trying to take a nap.
Idiot neighbors who let their dog run around in the street and then stand in their front yard and gawk slack-jawed while cars are desperately trying to keep from hitting the dog.
People who check out at the prescription area of Eckerds with a full shopping cart, making you have to wait even longer to pick up your prescription. Usually, these same people, sales circular in hand, will haggle with the clerk over the price of the items they are buying. (I think Steve H. once wrote about this particular breed of jerk.)
I may add more later...
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." -- Voltaire
(Via Boortz.)
Everybody has been talking about Michael Moore's new agitprop film Fahrenheit 911*. I have to say that I truly despise Michael Moore. He is a liar. In his faux documentaries, he presents a sick caricature of America. His portrayal has nothing to do with reality. However, his cartoon version of America is mindlessly lapped up by his fans here and abroad. People believe this distortion and think it's the truth. This infuriates me.
Here's a news flash for you non-American Moore worshippers: Moore's portrayal of America is no more based in reality than an episode of Dallas or Dynasty. Sorry to disappoint you.
As Dean Esmay says, Moore is the left's version of Leni Riefenstahl.
Of course the Hollywood crowd, being utterly insulated from reality, just loves Moore. And apparently the increasingly whacked-out Democratic Party loves him too. Hezbollah also loves Moore's new movie. How surprising...not.
Andrea Harris has the ultimate rant** on Moore and his new movie. I agree with every word.
According to Andrea's post, one of the things in F911 that some are making a big deal over is that Bush took seven minutes to "respond" to the 9/11 attack. The man was obviously distressed and held it together somehow in front of those little kids. What was he supposed to do? Run storming out, screaming that America was under attack? The principal at the school Bush was visiting had no problem with the President's response. Why should Moore?
I'll tell you why. Because there was no response that Bush could have made that would have pleased Moore and his groupies and fanboys. Bush would have been condemned no matter what he did.
And one more thing...Some filmmakers are answering Moore's propaganda. One such film is the forthcoming Michael Moore Hates America. From the website:
Contrary to its title, Michael Moore Hates America isn’t a hatchet job on the filmmaker. It’s a journey across the nation where we meet celebrities, scholars and average folks alike, and we find out whether the American Dream is still alive! In the process, we’ll look at Michael Moore’s claims about the country, its people, and our way of life.
Also, libertarian talk show host Larry Elder has an upcoming film called Michael & Me.
*As for the title, Ray Bradbury is not happy about it at all. Moore has said that 911 is the temperature "at which freedom burns". Moore wouldn't know freedom if it bit him on the butt!
**Andrea's rant may not be safe for work, depending on your situation.
I would like to duly note that Frank Rich is a maroon. In a desperate attempt to keep pr0n from being blamed for the abuses at Abu Ghraib, Rich decides to instead blame...you guessed it...The Passion of the Christ:
The hypocrisy of those pushing this line knows few bounds. They choose to ignore the reality that the most popular images of sadomasochism in American pop culture this year have been those in "The Passion of the Christ," an R-rated "religious" movie that many Americans took their children to see, at times with clerical blessings. Mel Gibson's relentlessly violent, distinctly American take on Jesus' martyrdom is a more exact fit for what's been acted out in Abu Ghraib than the flouncings of any cheesy porn-video dominatrix.
I haven't seen a single paragraph that contains so much profound stupidity in a long time.
(Via Relapsed Catholic.)
...a new National Bimbo™.
I wasn't going to post about this nasty bit of business, but the following column is simply too good to pass up:
Michelle Malkin - The skanks on Capitol Hill:
Cutler, who aspired to be a journalist, spouted: "I'm sure I am not the only one who makes money on the side this way: How can anybody live on $25K/year??" When I was 24 and making less than that, I did it by eating Spaghetti-O's, Ramen noodles and Swanson pot pies for dinner; driving a Toyota Tercel with no air conditioning; and sleeping on a $30 futon. I did it the way most parents teach their daughters to succeed: through hard work, thrift, faith and perseverance.
(Via The Ben File.)
While over at Church of the Masses, I caught this nice smackdown of the sanctimonious breed of Christians who think they're better than you because they refuse to see The Passion. I think Barbara's post could also apply to Christians who saw TPOTC, hated it (for whatever reason), and look down on anyone who didn't hate it.
I have to comment on this little excerpt from Lileks today. Why? Because a similar thing happened to me recently:
Today I was trying to sign on to a newspaper that required registration; it wouldn’t take my password. Odd. I have a format for passwords that allows me to use different ones everywhere but instantly remember what they are, based on – well, never mind. So I clicked the “send me my password” button and checked my mail for the response. Turns out I hadn’t signed up under that email account – but someone else had. Said the newspaper website robot:Username: Hate Your Guts
Password: Hate Your GutsWow. So someone planted a registration bomb lord knows when, and got all hot & fancy imagining the look on my face when I discovered what he’d done.
How pathetic is that?
Pretty pathetic! Here's my story...
A while back, and I'm not sure how long ago, I started getting email updates from some left-leaning website. I won't identify the website, because I don't think they are the ones responsible for this incident.
Anyway, these updates came to my blog email address that you see there on the sidebar. The email address is obfuscated to hide it from spambots, so someone would have to either click it or enter it by hand to send email to it.
The email updates from the lefty site became part of the ambient noise of spam in my inbox that I put up with for quite some time. (Most spam I get is sent to one of my ISP email addresses; very rarely do I get it on my other addresses.) The obvious spam would get deleted unread. The email update from the lefty site would get a quick look, I might think, "Why the heck am I getting this?" or "How lame -- spamming to get people to read their site!", and then I would delete it.
Recently, I've decided to take steps to reduce the noise in my inbox. The emails from this site had instructions for unsubscribing from their update list. Since I had never subscribed in the first place, I was reluctant to do this. After all, you should never respond to spam.
I took a closer look at one of these email updates and it mentioned that I could access my account by going to such-and-such link. Account? I've never signed up for an account at this site. So I clicked on the link. It wanted a password. I didn't know it, of course, so I clicked the "email my password" link.
Guess what the password was?
rightwingcretin
Right-wing cretin? Sure I'm right-wing, I'll admit that. But cretin? That's a bit harsh, don't you think?
Now I get it...somebody signed my blog email address up with this site. It was not the site spamming me like I thought. So I unsubscribed from their list. And I changed the password and email address on the account. I couldn't find a way to delete the account, or I would have done it. Instead, I will leave that account to gather dust.
So what did the person who did this accomplish? Not much, really. Just a little irritation at getting what I considered spam, and a little amusement at the revelation of the password. And I got a blog post out of it.
Everybody is talking about Micah Wright, an anti-war lefty who backed up his pacifist credentials by saying he was a former Army Ranger who saw the error of his ways. This turns out to be a lie, but like many in his position, he seems sorrier that he got caught than that he lied in the first place.
After reading this account from someone who knew him well enough to easily debunk his lies, I am reminded of the pathetic story of Mike Warnke, the Christian comedian who claimed he was once a "satanic high priest".
Hey, Planned Parenthood...you're not funny! (Via Ben Domenech.)
And also from the Ben File...behold the love and compassion of the left.
How evil do you have to be to hold up a sign like this? Is the anti-war crowd really this far gone? (I won't call them "peace" protesters, because they aren't.) Are this many of them mindlessly anti-American and pro-terrorist? Do they sincerely believe preposterous things like Bush = Hitler?
I mean, you can make reasonable objections to the Iraq war. You can be an extreme pacifist and be against war for any reason, even for self-defense and the defense of others. While I may disagree with you and think your position is untenable, I don't see you as being anything like the scumbags in the pictures linked above. But, like it or not, that is the public face of your cause.
Update: As usual, Lileks says it best. And one more thing: compassionate, loving, peaceful peace activists deliberately and gleefully trample an old lady.
Via Mark Shea comes this:
Comedian Thinks Roadside Memorials Are Funny - Victim's Mother Doesn't Get Joke
Sheila Dyer didn't find Curless' site funny. She found a picture of her dead son's roadside memorial on the site, with the comedian smiling and waving next to it. She said it "took the wind" out of her.Dozens of similar pictures are posted on Curless' site. The standup comic travels across the area, posing at the shrines and posting the pictures online. Curless apparently considers them to be tasteless tributes, often writing mock obituaries that lambast the way in which the victims died.
Pardon my language, but what an ass! Does he also entertain himself by going to cemeteries and chortling at grave markers? Does he also heckle funerals and flip off people in funeral processions?
Once, I was on my way to work after getting my car serviced earlier in the morning. I passed an accident on the way. One of the cars was covered with a blue tarp. Although I tried to think of other explanations, I knew the reason for the tarp...somebody was dead in that car.
I later found out that the woman killed in the accident was a young wife and mother on her way to her waitressing job. Apparently, she was killed when someone turned in front of her and she couldn't stop in time. This is something that could happen to any one of us. If I remember correctly, this happened just a couple of weeks before Christmas that year.
I think of the car with the blue tarp, and that young mother, every time I pass by that section of the highway. And yes, the last time I noticed, there was one of those memorials, or at least there was a bouquet of artificial flowers. When I pass by, I think of children growing up without their mother. I think of a husband who lost his wife.
There is also a memorial close to where I live. I know the man's name from seeing it on the memorial. It's a pretty dangerous place to try and make a left turn. There's a curve and the cars are usually coming pretty fast. I always go around another way, rather than try to make a left there. I always wonder if the man who died there was trying to make a left turn. Or if someone made a left turn in front of him.
Apparently, this "comedian" doesn't look at the people these memorials represent and think, "there but for the grace of God go I". His thought is to make fun of not only the memorials but the people who died.
Like Mark Shea, I'm not going to bother looking at the guy's site. (In fact, if anyone posts a link to it here, I will remove it, so don't even bother.) I'm not surprised that such casual cruelty exists, but it never fails to appall me.
I'm seriously considering blocking all search engines from this site. I'm sick of seeing referrals for people coming here looking for "gr4nny s3x"*. I've also gotten people coming here looking for "n4ked f4t w0men eating"* and "fr33 1ncest sight archive"*. The past two days, I've gotten referrals from some "adult" search sites (one with a very disgusting URL). I'm going to make sure anyone coming here from those sites ends up here instead.
So, to anyone who has gotten here via those kinds of searches...please go away. There is nothing for you here.
*I'm obfuscating the search terms so as not to make things worse.
Rev. Mike responds to a sanctimonious little screed (no links from me) with a lot more patience and charity than I can possibly muster.
Rev. Mike dispatches the lefty* Christians better than I could. Andrea Harris also pegs those who are oh-so-concerned about Saddam's "dignity".
*Yes, I know how much you lefty Christians hate to be labeled. That's exactly why I'm labeling you.
Just about everybody has linked to this story about Michael Newdow, the kooky atheist guy who wants to get "under God" taken out of the Pledge of Allegiance.
For one thing, he's a real jerk who really didn't want anything to do with his daughter until this Pledge case. Then there's this item:
The Rev. Dr. Michael A. Newdow, Esq. -- physician, lawyer and founder of the First Amendmist Church of True Science -- has a restless, uncompromising mind, a mind that dissents radically from many widely accepted aspects of American life, from the pledge to family law to gender-specific pronouns in the English language. In his own writing, Newdow uses "ree" instead of "he" or "she," and "rees" instead of "his" or "her."
Somebody in the comments box on Mark Shea's post about this really cracked me up when he said that Newdow "must write and talk like Scooby-Doo". Then I got an idea:
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Yes, my first lame attempt at a Photoshopping. (Well, actually Paint Shop Proing, but that doesn't have the same ring to it.) I slapped it together in about ten minutes. It was kinda fun, though...
Here we go again...arrogant celebrities look down on the "little people" who made them rich:
But what about this Michael Moore screed about Americans in the London Mirror earlier this month? “They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet. ...We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.”Until Michael Moore pointed it out, you probably didn’t know how embarrassingly stupid you are. In fact, you probably have so little intelligence you didn’t know that Moore isn’t the only celebrity who thinks you’re dumb. Indeed, Moore has colleagues in the celebrity kingdom who think the same thing.
The article goes on to tell us what great intellects like Martin Sheen, Cher and Rob Reiner think of President Bush. Of course, they all say Bush is a dummy. How original...
But yet, according to Michelle Malkin, Hollywood loves dummies who are pretty and blonde:
The same "progressive" Hollywood celebrities who sneer at President Bush's mediocre college grades work in an industry that has long prided itself on, and profited from, popularizing anti-intellectualism. From Marilyn Monroe to Suzanne Somers to Anna Nicole Smith, the deification of the ditz has been a staple of the entertainment world.
I guess those dummies are okay if they know their place...
(First link via LGF, second via Boortz.)
A lot of blogs have been mentioning the latest disgusting stunts pulled by Fred Phelps and his "church". Lee Anne Millinger linked to this post by Gary Petersen, who condemns Phelps' hate-filled actions and message. Today, blogs4God mentions Westboro Baptist Church in this piece about how not to present the Gospel to people. Dean Esmay recently posted about Phelps, and wondered if people might be giving him exactly what he wants -- attention.
Yes, Phelps does know how to get attention. And the media is all too willing to give it to him and his "church", which is really a hate group. At the risk of giving Phelps more attention, I think it's important for Christians to speak out against this man's evil. Unfortunately, there are those who want to believe that Phelps is representative of what Christians think and believe.
As pointed out in this post by Bene Diction, in the comments to Lee Anne's post I mentioned this unauthorized biography of Phelps: Addicted to Hate. It makes for deeply disturbing reading. His congregation is made up almost entirely of his children and grandchildren. Addicted to Hate explains why this is the case, and why these family members continue to follow him.
Is Randall Terry the Jesse Jackson of social conservatism? If this Razormouth article is any indication, yes.
Via Boycott Hollywood comes this article: WND: "Ed Asner: 'Hannity's next ... just like we went after Limbaugh'". Asner's remarks about Hannity may have been tongue-in-cheek. But if someone is an admirer of Joseph Stalin and thinks Stalin is "misunderstood", I have to wonder if he really wishes he could send those conservative talk show hosts to the gulag.
Update: The guy who originally wrote the WND piece has partially retracted it.
A few minutes ago, I just got a bunch of email messages "from" one of my email addresses (not my blog address, but my one of my ISP addresses) that bounced back as being undeliverable. The only thing is, I never sent the messages, and the email was some sort of spam advertising cable box unscramblers. I get spam on the same address occasionally, so I know it's on some spam lists. Apparently, there is someone out there spoofing my address to send out spam. I can't tell you how angry this makes me!
Well, I can get some revenge on these clowns. Supposedly, linking to this site will cause spambots to load up lots and lots of invalid email addresses. Serves them right! (Link via Sasha Castel.)
I don't know whether to find this site hilarious or sad. Actually, it's a little of both. The site is dedicated to bashing various Christian artists for Crimes Against Uprightness™. Sixpence None the Richer actually (**gasp**) have lyrics about spiritual struggle! Don't they know that a real Christian is happy, happy, HAPPY 24-7 and never, ever has a single doubt?
Rich Mullins may have been drawn to...Catholicism! **swoon**
And look at what they have to say about the previously mentioned Steve Taylor. "Guilty by Association" indeed...
(Via Mark Shea.)
Update: By the way, they hate C.S. Lewis too...he's "devilish"!
You would think that, on 9/11, jerks could just quit being jerks for one day. That they could restrain their jerkiness for just 24 hours. But noooo...
Update on the first item: She's been fired! How cool is that? (And a small correction...it looks like this incident originally happened on TV.)
Because of crap like the incident described here.
Well, if this is true, it reveals someone who is vile, arrogant and inconsiderate. Someone who has no regard for any inconvenience and harm she may have caused to the other passengers. Missed connections, missed time with family, lost business opportunities, ruined vacations -- it doesn't matter to her. And to think there are people who would like to give this woman more power...
Just when I think I cannot be shocked anymore by the depravity to which people can sink, I read about things like this. Some people are absolutely rotten to the core.
(Via LGF.)
Update: Both Michele at A Small Victory and Andrea Harris have posts about this that are well worth reading.
Hollywood liberals have whined incessantly that disagreeing with them and boycotting them were violations of their right to free speech. Now, it seems Hollywood is shutting down Boycott Hollywood, a website that dared question the latest brain droppings by the Hollywood left. That's right folks, refusing to see a movie because you disagree with an actor's politics is suppressing free speech, but shutting down a website that criticizes the actor's political views isn't. Bah!
Update: Boycott Hollywood lives! They are apparently moving their site and they may end up with a new URL. But the enemies of free speech have failed to silence them and for this I'm glad.
I've seen this linked at various places, including Andrew Sullivan. I haven't had a chance to listen to it until now. It's pretty powerful...download it and give it a listen:
From KVI-AM (Seattle, WA) -- Iraqi Exile Takes On a "Peace" Activist
Update: Here's the page on the radio station's website that the above audio link comes from. (Via Dumb Celebs.)
Like I've said before, usually I try to separate the art from the artist. But there's a certain line of obnoxiousness an artist can cross that makes me no longer able to do that.
Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders has crossed that line.
This story is making the rounds on the blogs today:
Newsmax: Anti-War Activist Sheryl Crow Entertained Troops in Bosnia
I mentioned this in a post over a month ago.
Advantage: LilacRose.
(Always wanted to say that...)
What can I say, I'm in a snickering mood tonight...
Check out these protester signs on Croooow Blog and King's Kid. (Scroll down a few posts; Blogger permalinks not working.)
Susanna Cornett uses the the brayings of another Hollywood idiot as a springboard for examining what true evil really is.
This Clennon person (who I've never even heard of) brings to mind this quote that has been attributed to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I think it ties in nicely with the point of Susanna's post:
Folly is a more dangerous enemy to the good than evil. One can protest against evil; it can be unmasked and, if need be, prevented by force. Evil always carries the seeds of its own destruction... Against folly we have no such defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it; reasoning is no use...So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel. . .
The power of some needs the folly of others . . . One feels in fact, when talking [to the fool] that one is dealing, not with a man himself, but with slogans, catch words, and alike, which are taken hold him. He is under a spell, he is blinded, his very nature is being misused in exploited. Having thus become a passive instrument, the fool is capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. Here lies the danger of a diabolical exploitation that can do irreparable damage to human beings.
...in more ways than one:
From the Belligerent Bunny Blog, which has extensive coverage of the D.C. "peace" protests.
(Via Too Much to Dream.)
There seems to be a lot of sanctimonious celebrity bloviations lately. Here's my take...
Sheryl Crow's recent idiotic statements have gotten the treatment they deserve from all corners of blogdom. Here's a few of my own observations.
Crow says, "The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies." Does she have any enemies? I find it hard to believe that someone could become successful in the music industry without making a few enemies. Either through stomping on others to get to the top, or through others being jealous of you, you are going to have enemies. She also says, "War is not the answer." Funny, but when she was involved in a 1996 USO tour (traveling with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton) and entertained our troops in Bosnia, she didn't seem to have a problem with the use of military force. Could it be that her objections come not from pacifism, but rather from disapproval of the current President?
(I have another observation that has nothing to do with war but with one of her songs. I heard a song by her on the radio one time with these lines: "I took the I-95 down to Pensacola / All I found was a bunch of holyrollers / They don't know nothing 'bout saving me." Only problem is, I-95 comes nowhere near Pensacola. I-10 is the interstate that runs through Pensacola. I always thought this was funny, being from Pensacola and all. You would think that Crow could consult a map or something, but why let facts get in the way of a good slam against Pensacola and Christians.)
Also, I've been hearing a lot about celebrities and flighty pundits complaining that the great unwashed drive SUVs way too much. Of course, these celebrities are complete hypocrites.
Here's a roundup of recent posts about left-wing propagandist Michael Moore.
Andrea Harris links to this bizarre essay by someone who doesn't want the Navy's Blue Angels to perform in San Francisco. Apparently, this person is serious. Here's an excerpt:
We can achieve the goal of ending the terrorist Navy's Blue Death flights as we will have a very broad ideological spectrum of support, with the support being heaviest among the voting population, namely the over age 40 population and the better-educated young people. Our public sentiment petition circulated in 1999 was strongly supported by the old of all political outlooks, and they are all voters. We turned in thousands of signatures to the Board of Supervisors.Thus, the Declaration of Public Policy could read something like this:
The people of San Francisco oppose the air show of the Navy's Blue Angels over the City and County of San Francisco and demand that they never be invited to conduct an air show over the City and County of San Francisco again.
I have just one thing to say to the person who wrote this: BOO!
I don't know why I bother with reading letters to the editor in my local paper. There is always something that makes my grumpy mornings grumpier. Here's an example, which appeared in today's paper:
Get over itHow long is America going to milk the 9/11 cow? Give it a rest. For years, New York has boasted of being the toughest, baddest, hardest city in the world, yet as soon as it gets its nose bloodied it is whining and crying for sympathy. Well, boo hoo hoo!
I don't recall NYC showing much sympathy, support or financial aid for Homestead after Hurricane Andrew or San Fransico after the earthquake or the small western towns threatened or destroyed by forest fires or North Carolina towns destroyed by floods. NYC is raking in millions by playing the patriot card and people are falling for it hook, line and sinker. How pathetic.
Had the planes on 9/11 hit buildings in Dallas, Atlanta or Los Angeles I am sure the response from NYC would have been "Yo, it's a building, get over it". Hey NYC, if you want to have an attitude, that's fine, just quit the whining and "get over it."
And for those of you that think that 9/11 was the biggest event in your life, get a life! - Robert Collins, Pensacola
Where do I begin? First of all, 9/11 was not just something that affected New Yorkers. He seems to have forgotten about the Pentagon and the people on the planes. Also, the people killed in those buildings and on those planes had family and loved ones all over the country and all over the world.
Second, there is a monster difference between people being tragically killed in a hurricane, earthquake, other act of God, or even a terrible accident, and people being deliberately slaughtered by enemies of our country. This is why most American’s can’t just “get over” 9/11, even if they didn’t lose anyone they knew or loved. It was an act of war. It affects all of us, whether we like it or not.
As for Mr. Collins urging those of us who believe this way to “get a life”, I suggest that he get a clue, get some decency, and get a soul.
In the same vein, here are some soul[less]mates for Mr. Collins: Jill Stewart, writer of this column (via “Jane Galt”) and the thinkers of “Forbidden Thoughts” (via Damian Penny).