Defending the Realm

"There wasn't any choice but to fight..."

2011-06-05T00:12:00.000-05:00

He bad.

Games people play

2010-09-09T22:54:00.000-05:00

Don't read this if you're afraid to laugh.

Victor Davis Hanson defines the cultural elite

2010-07-20T20:14:00.000-05:00

Excellent article. Also quite long.

Independence Day dunces

2010-07-04T00:10:00.006-05:00

ZZ Top with Chris Farley on drums

2010-06-03T18:23:00.000-05:00

Al Gore has never not been the most boring person in the room

2010-05-18T23:42:00.000-05:00

Right-wing rally vs Left-wing rally, photographic comparison

2010-03-30T10:11:00.000-05:00

All you really need to know about someone is which rally they would attend if they had to pick.

Still waiting for a good Leftist idea

2010-03-25T23:13:00.007-05:00

If Obamacare stands the pain it will cause won't just be economic, but we can't cover everything at once so read this article by Charles Krauthammer.

Dancing on the graves of his betters

2010-03-22T22:34:00.003-05:00

I think this Brit gets it about right.

That's gonna leave a mark

2010-02-04T16:20:00.000-06:00

Dude

Leftist darling dies

2010-01-30T23:27:00.003-06:00

Celebrated America hating historian, Howard Zinn, who spent his life poisoning the skulls of the young and ignorant, died this week. For most of us death is the end of it, but Zinn's malignant influence will live on in the hearts and minds of the Left. I don't want to despise him alone, so I encourage you to read this brief alternative obituary.

High strung man shoots his way out of sinking vehicle

2010-01-18T23:43:00.000-06:00

If the sound of a ringing phone is all it takes to unleash your inner spastic, maybe you shouldn't carry a gun. Just sayin'.

Jiverly Wong explains

2010-01-12T10:10:00.002-06:00

In April of 2009 Jiverly Wong walked into an immigration center in Binghamton, NY and murdered 13 people and then killed himself. Before doing so he sent a letter of explanation to a local TV station. The letter is funny in an " I no speak English" sort of way, but the crazy in it will cause you to poke your brain with an ice pick.

DATE: MARCH - 18 - 2009

DEAR: NEW TEN NOW

I AM JiVERLY WONG SHOOTING THE PEOPLE
THE FiRST I WANT TO SAY SORRY I KNOW A LiTTLE ENGLiSH I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND ALL OF THiS. OF COURSE YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY I SHOOTING? BECAUSE UNDERCOVER COP GAVE ME A LOT OF ASS DURiNG EiGHTEEN YEARS. I GOT SEVEN YEARS AND EiGHT MONTH DELiVERY TO GROCERY IN THE CALiFORNiA. CAME BACK NEW YORK ON THE AUGUST - 2007. LET TALK ABOUT WHEN I LiVE IN CALiFORNiA. SUCH AS. . .COP USED 24 HOURS THE TECHNiQUE OF ULTRAMODERN AND CAMERA FOR BURN THE CHEMiCAL IN MY HOUSE. FOR SWiTCH THE CHANNEL Ti.Vi. FOR ADJUST THE FAN. FOR MADE ME UNBREATHBLE. FOR MADE ME VOMiT. FOR CONNECT THE MUSiC INTO MY EAR.

UNDERCOVER COP USUAL COiNED SOME NASTY WAS NOT TRUE ABOUT ME AND SPREAD A RUMOUR TO THE RECEiVER AND SOME PEOPLE KNOW ME CONDUCE TOWARD MANY PEOPLE PREJUDiCED AND SELFiSH TO ME . . . COP MADE ME LOST MY JOB . . . COP PUT ME BECAME POOR.

LET TALK ABOUT WHEN I LiVE AT THE 28.BAKER . ST. 2ND FLOOR. JOHNSON CiTY. NEW YORK 13790. IT TERRiBLE WHEN I LiVE THERE SUCH AS. . COP WAiT UNTiL MiDNiGHT WHEN I OFF THE LiGHT AND WENT TO THE BED. COP UNLOCK MY DOOR AND CAME IN TAKE A SiT IN MY ROOM <> ON THE THiRTEEN TiME HAD THREE TiME TOUCH ME WHEN I SLEEPiNG. ONE TiME STOLEN 20 DOLLAR IN MY WALLET ONE TiME USED ELECTRiC GUN SHOOT AT THE BEHiND MY NECK. (THAT TiME I DiD NOT KNOW ENGLiSH)

PLEASE CONTiNUE SECOND PAGE THANK YOU.

(Page 2)

FROM 1990 TO 1995 NEW YORK UNDERCOVER COP TRY TO GET A CAR ACCiDENT WiTH ME. SUCH AS WHEN I DRiViNG ON THE HiGHWAY AND ON THE STREET UNDERCOVER COP SUNDDENLY BRAKE THE CAR STOP IMMEDiATELY AT THE OF FRONT MY CAR . . . COP DiD IT 32 TiME LiKE THAT DURiNG 1990 TO 1995 BUT I NEVER HiT THE CAR.

MANY TiME FROM 1990 TO 1997 AT THE DAY TiME . . . COP EXPLOiT UNKNON ENGLiSH AND WENT TO MY HOUSE KNOCK THE DOOR FOR HARASS AND DOMiNEER. OF COURSE DURiNG THAT TiME COP COiNED SOMETHiNG WAS NOT TRUE ABOUT ME AND SPREAD A RUMOUR NASTY LiKE THE CALiFORNiA COP.

FROM AUGUST - 2007 UNTiL NOW COP GAVE ME NOT TO MUCH ASS ONLY ONE TiME COP LEAVE A MASSAGE IN MY VOiCE MAiL AND SAiD << COME BACK YOUR COUNTRY >> AFTER FIVE MiNUTE I SEND A TEXT MASSAGE TO THEM I SAiD I WILL CALL THE POLiCE AND THEY SEND IT BACK TO ME THEY SAiD THEY ARE THE POLiCE

DEAR. NEW TEN NOW. RiGHT NOW I STiLL GET UNEMPLOMENT BENEFiT OF THE COMPANY SHOP VAC ENDiCOTT. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WAS CHEAT AND UNPAiD FROM DECEMBER – 1st - 2008 TO DECEMBER – 28th – 2008. I ALREADY CLAiM WEEKLY BENEFiT FROM THAT DATE. ANY WAY I CAN NOT ACCEPTED MY POOR LiFE. BEFORE I CUT MY POOR LiFE I MUST ONESELF GET A JUDGE JOB FOR MAKE AN IMPARTiAL WiTH UNDERCOVER COP BY AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE WiTH ME GO TO RETURN TO THE DUST OF EARTH.

ALREADY IMPARTiAL NOW. . .COP BRiNG ABOUT THiS SHOOTiNG COP MUST RESPONSiBLE.

AND YOU HAVE A NiCE DAY.

On target

2009-12-30T22:47:00.000-06:00

Drew Brees is the most accurate passer ever.

Al Gore: unintentional comedian

2009-12-17T23:11:00.001-06:00

Al Gore reads his poem to Harry Smith. They are both very impressed with Al Gore. vomit

2009-12-16T23:19:00.001-06:00

Climategate song - "Hide the Decline"

2009-11-25T15:50:00.002-06:00

For those who aren't up to speed on this, the song title comes from one of the hacked (or leaked) emails of Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit, which according to Iain Murray at Pajamas Media is the Pentagon of global warming science. Mr. Jones wrote to fellow climate liar Michael Mann that he had fudged data in order to hide the decline in recent temps. (shocking) Anyway, the name of the tune escapes me but you'll recognize it.

For those who want more...

Iain Murray says there are three things you absolutely must know about climategate.

1. The scientists discuss manipulating data to get their preferred results.

2. Scientists on several occasions discussed methods of subverting the scientific peer review process to ensure that skeptical papers had no access to publication.

3. The scientists worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information process of the United Kingdom.

Full article

D'oh!

2009-11-21T15:39:00.000-06:00

This guy may have a future on the Simpsons.

Global warming scientists cook the books

2009-11-20T15:37:00.001-06:00

It's in a British newspaper so it must be true.

Bonus: Scientists can't figure out why the earth isn't warming.

Fred Thompson says the Afghan war is lost...

2009-11-19T16:21:00.000-06:00

...because Obama doesn't have the guts for the fight.

Krauthammer Q & A with Der Spiegel

2009-10-28T00:04:00.006-05:00

If you like words and stuff you will probably enjoy Der Spiegel's interview with Charles Krauthammer.

Presidential Priorities

2009-10-22T19:03:00.000-05:00

Laughing babies

2009-10-10T19:29:00.000-05:00

Bullet impact

2009-10-08T23:44:00.000-05:00

I found this video at hellinahandbasket. If you're interested in guns, shooting, physics or cool stuff you will like this. Be warned, the video is a little like Hotel California - you can check (it) out any time you like but you can never leave.

World air traffic over 24 hours - cool

2009-10-05T00:03:00.002-05:00

Is conservatism brain-dead?

2009-10-02T00:48:00.003-05:00

An interesting take on the current state of conservatism.

One-upmanship

2009-10-01T20:28:00.006-05:00

If you don't want the answer don't ask the question.

Dying stupid

2009-09-28T23:19:00.004-05:00

To the last sentence I say, duh

Obama's smiley face

2009-09-26T23:53:00.002-05:00

Last week the Obamas posed for 130 photographs with foreign bigwigs who were in town for the U.N. meeting. As you can see in this 20 second video the President's smile is identical photo after photo. I know he's a highly practiced politician, but still...

It will be less creepy if it turns out there is some photoshopping involved. For those who must see each photo click right about here to go the State Department's flickr page.

Political correctness kills soldiers and marines

2009-09-25T23:23:00.007-05:00

All U.S. fighting men should go on strike until this kind of bullshit is stopped. If you're not sufficiently pissed when you're done, click the "harrowing account" link in the article.

Silver and Gold

2009-09-25T15:46:00.006-05:00

You may not be interested in finding a huge cache of ancient treasure, but if you are buy a metal detector and move to England.

Update: The Hoard

Defining Obama

2009-09-24T23:57:00.000-05:00

Victor Davis Hanson writes that President Obama is an idiot because he spent too much time in school.

Arctic ice won't behave

2009-09-23T15:15:00.008-05:00

National Geographic last summer: Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer, report scientists studying the effects of climate change in the field.

National Geographic this week: This year's cooler-than-expected summer means the Arctic probably won't experience ice-free summers until 2030 or 2040, scientists say.

Sgt. Joe Friday keepin' it real

2009-09-14T23:52:00.000-05:00

Rocks and Hard Places

2009-07-19T12:58:00.003-05:00

The Final Son got married on June 27 and shortly thereafter the Final Daughter, the Archdutchess and myself, helped him and his new bride move to their new home in the middle of the Mojave Desert. The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center is the world's largest Marine base and is located outside the town of Twenty-Nine Palms, California. The above photographs give a glimpse but they don't do justice to the steep, rocky terrain and the hot, relentless sun. If the USMC was trying to find the most inhospitable place in the lower 48 to let good guys practice killing bad guys, I think they succeeded. It is truly a hard place, but I guess that's what you need when your goal is to produce hard men.

Fly-by fright

2009-07-14T09:48:00.003-05:00

This F18 was flying low and close as part of a tactical demonstration in Detroit. If I was that guy on the balcony I would be demonstrating how to curl up in the fetal position and sob uncontrollably.

Bird brain

2009-07-08T15:29:00.003-05:00

Watch this crow bend a wire into a hook in order to retrieve a small bucket of food from a narrow tube. Too bad Nancy Pelosi isn't this smart.

Korea after dark

2009-07-08T00:42:00.006-05:00

The largest blob of light up there is the South Korean capital city of Seoul. It's an active metropolitan area of over 10 million souls who do pretty much what free people everywhere do. They go to movies, eat out, waste time on the internet, and so on. For contrast check out Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. It's not hard to find but if you have trouble start at the little communist dictator's forehead and go due left until you reach the only speck of light in the country. People there pretty much do what oppressed people everywhere do...what they're told.

The next time the little commie leader threatens to destroy America you can think of this photo and laugh. And if you're ever in the presence of some stupid lefty who's screeching that war is not the answer, tell them to look at this photo and then ask themselves if they think the Koreans on either side of the 38th parallel feel the same.

Photoshop fun

2009-07-07T23:51:00.000-05:00

Obama, bad for what ails you

2009-07-06T23:58:00.016-05:00

Victor Davis Hanson does a pretty good job of sizing up the Obama method.

Obama has surrounded himself with legions of ‘fixers.’ Bright men and women who have Ivy League law degrees, business school credentials, PhDs in the social sciences, and academic pedigrees in science, humanities, and engineering. Quite impressive, these Platonic Guardians of the soon to be perfect state. But most of their careers in finance, government, business, and academia have been well-paid jobs critiquing, administering, regulating, nuancing, writing about, and hectoring those who create things–builders, developers, industrialists, farmers, truckers, transportation execs, retailers, lenders and investors.

We are being run now by film critics, not directors, book reviewers not writers, music columnists, not musicians. And it is far easier to fault than to birth, nuance rather than build. The irony is that the muscular classes carry the regulating and talking classes on their backs. They don’t mind being whipped occasionally and even bridled, but like any good mule will suddenly stop and no longer move when they feel the rider either does not know where he is going, or is going to kill the mule with his switch, spurs, and yanking on the bit.

Independence Day blast from the past

2009-07-04T14:45:00.010-05:00

In 1973 the United States was in the process of giving up on a unpopular war, our economy was in trouble and, just like today, countries big and small were reaching out for our money, material and protection with one hand, and flipping us off with the other. Canadian radio broadcaster Gordon Sinclair was fed up with an ungrateful world and was compelled to speak out in an editorial entitled, The Americans.

Since 9/11 an updated internet version of Sinclair's rant has been making the rounds, but this is the original.

June 5, 1973
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.
I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 107? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or women on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times ... and safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
When the Americans get out of this bind ... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over… has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped.

Atheists are haters

2009-07-02T22:20:00.007-05:00

Read this article only if you believe in God, or not. Hat tip to Wonder Woman at Lasso of Truth.

U.S. soldier captured by Taliban

2009-07-02T16:13:00.002-05:00

This ain't good. The best we can hope for is that his captors won't treat him as harshly as we do the Gitmo prisoners.

King Selfish and the Vicar stop in for a burger at Wheeler's restaurant in Kiowa, Ok - tasty

2009-07-02T16:01:00.000-05:00

Monkey business

2009-06-30T00:11:00.001-05:00

Pat Buchanan takes on Darwinism.

A Duke rape case the Left isn't concerned about

2009-06-29T14:08:00.011-05:00

That silence you hear is the mainstream media and the rest of the self-righteous and hypocritical left. There are new rape allegations involving someone connected with Duke University but this time it's all quiet on the leftist front. Frank Lombard is the director of the university's Center for Health Policy and he's been charged with a very heinous crime, but for some reason this case isn't big news. Hmmm, I wonder why.

You may recall that back in 2006 a black female stripper accused several white lacrosse players of rape and other sexual misconduct. The charges were entirely false, the young men were acquitted, and the prosecuting attorney was disbarred because of his misconduct. But not before the innocent students were subjected to slanderous hell from the left, blacks, the media, and even 88 members of the Duke faculty. But hey, that's the way it goes. When a white male is accused of a crime against any member of a liberal protected class, he's guilty.

So, why aren't all the usual suspects on the left crying out for "justice" in this case, even though the FBI feels sure they've got their man? If your answer is because the victim in this case is white, give yourself an incomplete. That's too easy, everyone knows that white victims get no love from the left. If your answer is that this case isn't raising a big liberal stink because the accused is gay and the victim is his 5 year old adopted white son, who he allegedly offered to share with other pervs, give yourself an A.

Glock gun business

2009-06-28T23:49:00.006-05:00

Inside the secret and violent world of Gaston Glock, maker of the most popular firearm in U.S. law enforcement.

He is the man behind the gun. You don't mess with Gaston Glock. His most trusted associate tried. Lured into a dimly lit garage in Luxembourg by his colleague Charles Ewert, the Austrian Glock stopped to look at a sports car at Ewert's suggestion. Suddenly, a massive masked man leaped from behind and smashed a rubber mallet into Glock's skull.

( The excerpt above is from a 2003 Forbes business magazine article. It's basically just your average CEO profile, with a little betrayal, embezzlement, and attempted murder thrown in. If interested, glock here now.)

Obama lies, but not always

2009-06-27T12:42:00.003-05:00

Yesterday the House of Representatives passed Obama's Climate Change-Energy bill. It will soon be taken up by the Senate. If you pay attention you will hear a bunch of lies from democrats about how this will create jobs and save the planet. What you won't hear is what Obama himself said about this bill back during the presidential campaign. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle he said, "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."

He also said that his plan would bankrupt the coal industry, from which around 50% of our electricity is generated. What he didn't say and what is true, is that virtually everything that costs you money now will cost you more if this bill is passed.

Michael Jackson is dead, little boys now safe

2009-06-26T23:55:00.007-05:00

The following article will not be a waste of your time.

Sorry Neda, We Have a Pedophile to Worship

By Joy Tiz - Canada Free Press
For previous generations, the question: “Where were you when Kennedy was shot” has served as a conversation starter as well as a catalyst for exploration of a shared history. It would seem that the quintessential question will soon be: “where were you when you found out Michael Jackson was dead?”?

For the record, I was at the gym. Credulous, I trusted that the Jackson story would get a few minutes of coverage before Bret Baier returned. My jejune confidence that Charles Krauthammer would momentarily be providing commentary about actual news was hastily crushed. Abstrusely, Fox News brought Shepard Smith in to cover this astounding turn of events.
You know what would be really shocking? Michael Jackson dying at the age of 87. That would have been a real stunner, well deserving of the nauseating nonstop narration that should be reserved for heads of state.
Time really stands still on the treadmill when you are listening to a fervid Geraldo lamenting Anna Nicole Jackson’s “shocking” death.
All other news of the day having been declared inconsequential, Fox proceeded to indulge in unnecessary and disproportionate keening about the calamitous death of the world’s most famous pedophile.
The same Michael Jackson who once told a reporter it was “sweet” and “charming” to sleep with little boys and ply them with “Jesus Juice” (known to lucid people as “wine”) has been deified. Jackson, who dangled one of his babies off of a hotel balcony also obtained those children via a bizarre and labyrinthine arrangement, named one of them Blanket and made them wear burkas.
Jackson is exceedingly popular in the United Kingdom, confirming Mark Steyn’s reflection that the United Kingdom is further along than the United States in the march toward complete social and economic collapse. But not to worry, we won’t quit until we’re Number One.
Michael Jackson recently converted to Islam. Michael’s brother, Jermaine, converted to Islam in 1989. Even the Religion of Peace failed to deliver true bliss.
Americans know far more about Michael Jackson than they do about the history of Iran and its relationship to the United States. Most of what America knows is wrong, having been subjected to pertinacious propaganda in Ayers’ based public education.
Which is why the interest in the life and death of Neda Agah-Soltan was so facilely dwarfed by the opulent freak show that surrounds Michael Jackson.
Neda was the beautiful young Iranian woman who was gunned down in the streets of Tehran for the crime of showing up. She showed up to take a stand for freedom and took a bullet in the neck for her aspirations. A relative in the United States had cautioned Neda not to attend any demonstrations, telling her “They’re killing people.” To which the lionhearted and prescient Neda replied: “Don’t worry, it’s just one bullet and its over.”
For just a flicker in time, Neda became an icon, a symbol of the young Iranians’ longing for the most elemental liberties. It was easy for Americans to be incensed at the barbarous slaughter of a young woman so lovely and earnest. Young Iran has caught a glimpse of freedom, the inescapable byproduct of advancing technology. The noteworthiness of Neda is in no small measure due to the ease with which young Americans can appreciate her as not so unlike themselves.
Part of the delusive indoctrination that goes on in public schools includes the rewriting of Iranian history in a way that abets the left.
In actuality, before the Jimmy Carter regime, the United States and Iran were on friendly terms. The Shah of Iran was the least backward of all Muslim leaders. The shah, who is erroneously characterized as a villain, was responsible for giving women the right to vote. In other Arab states, they still don’t have the right to leave the house without a husband or other male relative.
Unimaginable though it may be post-Carter, Iran and Israel were not always bitter enemies. The current government of Iran is as much an enemy of the Iranian people as it is of Israel.
Iranians are understandably horrified by the new American president who has referred to the Ayatollah as Supreme Leader, a show of respect for the legitimacy of the barbaric regime. Barack Obama went so far as to send a letter to the Ayatollah Khomeini weeks before Iran’s June 12th election. Obama was pandering to the brutal, backwards and oppressive Iranian leadership.
Back when the news still took the trouble to cover the bloodbath in Iran, the world saw young Iranians holding signs in English. Urgent pleas were coming through computers worldwide begging the leader of the free world to help the Iranian people. Many Americans would be amazed to learn how many Iranians were educated via petrodollars in the United Kingdom or the United States. Some Iranian young people speak far better English than your local high school kids.
The late shah’s son reached out to Obama for support:
“I would like to take this opportunity and tell the President this is a crucial moment - on behalf of my compatriots and millions who have been turning to the outside world, particularly to this President - to say: don’t let us down.”
While Barack Obama was eating ice cream, Neda’s parents were forced from their home by government agents. Public displays of mourning were shut down. Nineteen year old Kaveh Alipour was gunned down by government barbarians. After frantically searching for news about his missing son at hospitals and eventually the morgue, Alipour’s father was told he would be required to pay a $3000 “bullet fee” to reimburse the government for the ammo expended in executing his child.
Barack Obama did eventually deliver the obligatory “we are outraged” statement. He held off as long as he could, until public opinion became too clamorous to overlook. While he gabbled, the violence in Iran escalated. Iranian citizens were being massacred in the streets with axes and machetes. Students were being routed from their beds in their dorm rooms.
Ronald Reagan responded to a similar cry for help from the people of Poland who were then enslaved by the Soviet Union. Reagan minced no words in decrying the Soviet Union as an “Evil Empire”. He never expelled gibberish about how the United States shouldn’t “meddle” as innocent citizens suffer.
Then, as today, pantywaist liberals were caterwauling about toning down the rhetoric so as not to pique oppressive dictators. Thankfully, Reagan ignored such nattering. The Poles were doing what the Iranians are today: insisting on the most basic of human liberties. Ronald Reagan had no intention of sitting on the sidelines waiting to see how this thing played out:
“In a stiff note to Soviet boss Leonid Brezhnev; Reagan said that if the Russians kept up their thuggish response to Poland they ‘could forget any new nuclear arms agreement.’ Gone too would be better trade relations, and in their place would be the ‘harshest possible economic sanctions’ if they even thought of invading Poland as they had done with Czechoslovakia in 1968 or Hungary in 1956.”
The Soviets responded by declaring martial law and shutting down the Polish borders, as well as squelching communications with the outside world.
Reagan was unflinching. He wrote in his diary:

“I took a stand that this may be the last chance in our lifetime to see a change in the Soviet Empire’s colonial policy re Eastern Europe. We should take a stand and tell them unless and until martial law is lifted in Poland, the prisoners were released and negotiations resumed between Walesa and the Polish government, we would quarantine the Soviets and Poland with no trade or communications across their borders. Also tell our NATO allies and others to join us in such sanctions or risk an estrangement from us. A TV speech is in the works. “

Reagan helped spirit the defecting Polish Ambassador out of the country and to the United States. Leonid Brezhnev was livid. Reagan was delighted; Brezhnev’s outrage confirmed to Reagan that he was on the right track. Ronald Reagan went on to use every tool at his disposal to topple Brezhnev’s regime and replace him with Lech Walesa.
Ronald Reagan won the battle to liberate the Polish people. They have not forgotten. He is considered, in the words of the Polish president, the ”architect of democracy.”
Barack Obama is certainly no Ronald Reagan. The entire world, including the United States would be better off and more secure if the Ayatollah’s government toppled. The death of a pedophile has created a distraction from having to deal with the knotty problem of full scale slaughter in the streets of Iran.

Boxer is a bitch, explained

2009-06-24T23:55:00.001-05:00

Dennis Prager explains why Barbara Boxer is a bitch and why white Christian males are better than everyone else.

Don't wait, get sick now

2009-06-19T12:52:00.006-05:00

Boxer is a bitch

2009-06-18T15:17:00.003-05:00

Ma'am Boxer can't conceal her contempt for the military. Notice that when the stupid bitch chastises the general she doesn't address him by his title. Instead he is interrupted with a condescending, "you know".

What Liberal Media?

2009-06-02T10:57:00.003-05:00

The following was published this morning at American Thinker...

A little food for thought from Newsbusters:

At the time of this writing, there are nearly 7,000 references to “George Tiller” in Google News.
There are under 500 for “William Long.”

George Tiller, of course, was the Kansas abortion doctor murdered Sunday morning by a man who allegedly had political and religious motives.

William Long was the 23-year-old military recruiter murdered Monday morning by a man who allegedly had political and religious motives.

George Tiller dedicated his life to killing fetuses.

William Long dedicated his to killing terrorists.

One story still has ‘legs,’ the other is yesterday’s news. Nice priorities you’ve got there, MSM.

Someone has already commented on Twitter saying Tiller was a public figure, while the soldier was not. Granted, but how often are US soldiers murdered on US soil by a terror suspect?

Update - With this, I’m not trying to condemn one killer while praising another. Scott Roeder is a criminal and nothing justifies the murder of Dr. Tiller.

What bothers me is the willingness of the media to smear the entire pro-life movement based on Roeder’s actions while devoting very little airtime or newspaper space to the national security implications of William Long’s murder.

Update II - Ace of Spades HQ blogger DrewM makes an interesting point on Twitter. When Dr. Tiller was murdered, the White House released a statement on Sunday afternoon. As of 11:15 a.m. EST, the Commander in Chief has yet to release a statement condemning the murder of a member of the armed forces by a suspected terrorist.

A happy day for Al Gore

2009-05-26T23:56:00.003-05:00

Scientists at MIT now say that the earth is going to get much hotter, much faster, with much more dire consequences than previously thought. Frankly, I think it's all a bit much. On the bright side, if the planet does become a flaming deathtrap we will never again have to look at Al's sanctimonious mug. The article is a waste of time so take my advice and don't click the link. If you just have to click something, try this.

Memorial Day

2009-05-25T10:09:00.004-05:00

Don't forget to take a minute today to remember the tens of thousands of young men who died fighting our enemies. Without their sacrifice we would undoubtedly celebrate different holidays in a different language. Everything we have, as a nation, we have because Americans are now, and have always been, willing to pick up a rifle and go wherever necessary to fight the bad guys. Today is about the ones that didn't come home. The least we can do is remember.

Move Over Nancy-Boys

2009-05-21T10:21:00.002-05:00

This woman is a genius.

The 4 stages of a man's life

2009-05-13T20:17:00.002-05:00

College student 1 - Home invader 0

2009-05-06T09:24:00.003-05:00

Feel good story of the day.

Internet upgrade?

2009-05-03T23:33:00.004-05:00

If you can read this you will want to read this.

More Ballistic BS

2009-04-19T11:35:00.002-05:00

I recently read an article at strategypage.com that stated that the U.S. Army is going to re-barrell their 7.62NATO M-24 sniper rifles to fire the .300 Winchester Magnum cartridge. According to the geniuses who came up with this idea, this will provide 50% greater effective range. Upon reading that statement, my bullshit detector not only went off, it almost exploded. This is a typical example of a "fact" pulled directly from someone's ass and then waved around and defended as a scientific certitude.

Just so everyone is on the same page the 7.62NATO/.308 Winchester and the .300 Winchester Magnum are both .30 caliber(.308) cartridges. This means that they fire the exact same projectiles, any bullet that can be loaded into one can be loaded in the other. The only ballistic difference is that the .300 WM propels it's bullet slightly faster. Assuming the same bullet weight and type the .300WM pushes it out 400fps faster than the 7.62NATO/.308. This velocity difference remains the same no matter what weight or type of bullet is used. By the way, all of the ballistic facts I'm using were extracted from my Sierra reloading manual, NOT a lower body orifice.

For comparison purposes I used the .30 caliber 180 grain boattail spitzer point bullet. According to my well worn Sierra manual, this bullet fired from the .308 Win. , leaves the muzzle at 2600fps (maximum load) and fired from the .300 Win. Mag, leaves the muzzle at 3000fps(maximum load). Remember now, according to the Army "experts", this extra 400fps in velocity equals 50% greater effective range.

What does "effective range" mean? Glad you asked. It means the range where the bullet no longer has enough velocity to deliver a lethal blow to a man. What is the minimun velocity required to deliver such a blow? Glad you asked. Some experts say 400fps others say 600fps and still others say something in between. For our purposes it doesn't matter, we are concerned with the DIFFERENCE between the two cartridges which stays the same no matter which minimum velocity is used. I used 600fps in order to save myself some calculating. Using the Sierra ballistic table I tracked the velocity loss for both cartridges down to the lowest number above 600fps. Here is what I found.

At 1800 yards the bullet fired from the 7.62/.308 Win. is moving at 628fps, if I took it to 1900 yards the velocity fell below the magic 600fps. Because I'm lazy I figured everything in increments of 100 yards, this makes the maximum effective range of this cartridge 1800 yards. If the Army "experts" are correct, the .300 WM will be effective at 2700 yards. Not quite. According to Sierra's ballistic data the "SUPER DUPER BAD GUY FLATTENING .300WM is effective out to a whopping, wait for it, 1900yards. Keep in mind folks, that this difference in effectiveness only comes into play at ranges past 1800 yards. At any distance under that, where 99% of sniper shots are taken, there is 0% difference in the effectiveness of these two cartridges.

Why do I care? Glad you asked. I'm weird in that I prefer that my "experts" actually know stuff. Oh yes, and there is the $4000 per rifle that the Army is going to spend to make this "improvement". The bad news for the Army sniper is that he's going to get a rifle with significantly increased recoil and noise, and negligibly increased perfomance. The good news is, due to the bulkiness of his new ammo he won't be able to carry as much of it.

Note to those who want to get REALLY technical: Yes the faster bullet has a slightly shortened flight time thereby VERY slightly reducing the effect of a crosswind. I maintain that this minor advantage is offset by the loss of the 7.62NATO/.308 Winchester's inherent accuracy.

Damned Lies

2009-04-17T09:44:00.002-05:00

For the record, there is absolutely no truth to the malicious rumor that all the Archduke and I do is drink beer and shoot guns. Sometimes we dance.

Here's looking at you

2009-03-11T22:08:00.004-05:00

If you gaze upon this photo for 5 seconds you will know the feeling I get when I think of the current administration.

Simple, Handy, And Under The Radar

2009-02-26T12:40:00.005-06:00

Recently, while scouring the local pawn shops for bargains, I aquired an old "Springfield Arms" side by side 12 gauge.(not the one pictured above) The old girl was actually made by the Crescent Arms Company sometime in the 1940's. Back then Crescent Arms made a lot of utilitarian "farmer guns" under a variety of names and mine is one of them. The previous owner had allowed the stock to get loose and quite a bit of filth and some rust to accumulate. This same genius had removed about 2 inches of both tubes. I assume he used a hacksaw but from the look of the wound it could very well have been done by a grizzly bear with steel teeth. Anyway, I tightened the stock, cleaned it up, and had a gunsmith trim the tubes to 21 inches and install a brass bead. While she still isn't much to look at she does have some nice wood and everything works fine.

Now to the interesting part, this handy little shotgun with twin cylinder bore barrells will put 6 of 9 00buck pellets in a man size target at 25yds and if that doesn't impress you, it will put 3 of 9 in the same target at 50yds. That's right 50 yds! Kingselfish and I were also able to quickly and easily hit a man sized target in the vitals with a slug at 50yds using only the bead sight. After our shooting session I think I can safely say that bad guys should stay at least 51yds away from anyone armed with this type of weapon.

Now my question. Why don't more homes have one of these? For the guy who isn't interested in guns but sees the value in protecting his home, this gun is perfect. It is handy, as simple as they get, devastatingly powerful, and legal to own in all 50 states. They have the added benefit of looking "old timey" and don't seem to cause the gun haters to soil themselves like handguns and the black guns do.

If you've got 300ish dollars, and a need for a Spartan no frills weapon that will allow you to repel the huns when they come to sack your castle, something like this could be just what you need.

Love, Sharia style

2009-02-14T22:07:00.020-06:00

Muzzammil Hassan and his wife Aasiya are a Muslim-American success story. They came here from Pakistan 25 years ago and settled in Orchard Park, Ny, a suburb of Buffalo. They soon became influential members in the thriving Muslim community of Buffalo. Mr. Hassan was a successful banker until 2004, when at the behest of his wife he started a television station designed to combat the negative perceptions some Americans have of Muslims. The tv station has been a relative success and things have been going well for the couple, at least professionally. Unfortunately, their perfect romance would not last forever. Mrs. Hassan eventually came to realize she no longer loved her husband and recently made the painful decision to file for divorce. Then, predictably, things got all beheady.

This Week in Islam

2009-02-12T15:00:00.017-06:00

It seems things may be on the upswing in the Muslim world. A 23 year old Saudi woman was recently-gang raped by 5 dudes who probably look a lot like this pig. The good news is that instead of being stoned to death for adultery she was sentenced to a year in jail and 100 lashes. It's a start.

A publisher and editor of a newspaper in Calcutta have been arrested for hurting the feelings of Muslims. Seriously.

Remember Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician and film-maker who was charged with hate crimes in Amsterdam for his Islam documentary? Well, the British House of Lords invited him to England to show his film, then a British Muslim in Parliament threatened to have 10,000 frothing Muslims riot in the streets, then the House of Lords told Wilders to forget the whole deal, then he said screw you I'm coming anyway, then he went to England where he was met by customs officers at Heathrow airport, then he had his passport confiscated and was told to go home, then he said the Brits were a bunch of girls.

And that ends this week's This Week in Islam.

No kidding

2009-02-11T23:18:00.009-06:00

Trust me on this, Mexico City is the kidnapping capital of the world. World, I say! In 2007 the official number was 789, although Mexican authorities say most cases go unreported. And in the first 4 months of 2008 that number increased 76 percent. Kids, tourists, businessmen, and rival gang members seem to be the ransom bait of choice for the discriminating Mexican kidnapper. Fingers, toes and hands are systematically chopped off until the victim's family pays up. And I don't need to tell you what happens when the ransom isn't paid. But I'm sure none of this surprises you. Everyone knows that Mexico is a cesspool so let's move on to something more interesting, like second place.

Alright smarty pants, which city comes in number 2 on the list? Think carefully. South America is a big, bad place. Russia and parts of Eastern Europe are no strangers to all manner of foul play. Virtually the entire African continent is corrupt. And don't forget the vile pit known as the Middle East. Oh, hell, let's just get this over with, it's Phoenix, Arizona. The Phoenix, Arizona. In America. The Mexicans are playing their game on our field. Dang.

It's about time we had some Koala cuteness on this blog

2009-02-10T23:50:00.006-06:00

This young Koala was abandoned by its mother during a recent heatwave in Australia. Fortunately it was rescued by a family who provided sweet, refreshing water which the baby bear first tested...
then drank...
and finally...

Elections have consequences

2009-02-10T18:21:00.005-06:00

Back in the soon to be good old days of W, the collective Left never missed a chance to ridicule the president. The hate crazies never failed to seize upon even the most trivial George Bush faux pas, using each one as a means to undermine, make fun of, and otherwise prove his unfitness for office. But my how things have changed. In his first few weeks in office, His Awesomeness has confused a window for a door, bumped his head while boarding Marine One, and made a really stupid face at an elementary school. Meanwhile the Left averted it's gaze, weakly cleared it's throat, and pretended not to notice.

Lone Ranger

2009-02-08T21:31:00.004-06:00

America has an all volunteer military. Correction, America has an all but one volunteer military.

By their fruits ye shall know them

2009-02-07T14:09:00.009-06:00

Over the past few weeks I have heard several intelligent political insiders say that after being out of power for the last eight years the Democrats plan to do whatever it takes to never lose control again. They say that amnesty for illegals and creating an even larger dependent class with the help of the criminal stimulus bill are two of the methods by which the Democrats intend to create a one party state. The article below explains another.

Little noted move on census by Obama could spell GOP disaster

by Rick Moran

There's a reason the Census Bureau is a quaisi-independent agency that reports directly to the Commerce secretary.

Once every ten years, numbers from the census are used to draw the lines for Congressional districts. What makes the Census Bureau such a pivotal player, especially today, is that it is generally recognized that the districts which contain high concentrations of minorities and illegal aliens are undercounted. This is not the fault of the Census Bureau who rely on thousands of local residents to help them in carrying out the door to door counting of people but rather the general mistrust of government that keeps people from applying for the temporary jobs offered as well as the relative safety of the canvassers in many neighborhoods where the undercounts are alleged.

The census has been taken since the very early days of the republic and always in as non-partisan a manner as possible. Until now.

The Capitol Hill publication Congressional Quarterly yesterday reported that the White House, responding to minority groups' concerns about Gregg's commitment to funding the census, has decided to have the director of the Census Bureau report directly to the White House.
Minorities are traditionally concerned about an accurate count because the census numbers are used to apportion political power, through redistricting, and federal funding, reflecting demographic changes over the past decade.
The White House move angered some House Republicans, who called it a power grab directed by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Last, Congressional Quarterly updated the story, noting, "The White House took a small step back from what the senior official told CQ, releasing a statement late Thursday that couched the relationship between the Census Bureau director and the West Wing as one in which the director would work with the high-level officials rather than report directly to them."

Trying to game the census for political purposes is just about what we'd expect from this crew. They have talked so long about building a permanent majority, manipulating numbers to perhaps overcount their core constituencies should not be put past them.

If Bush/Rove had dared to do something like this it would have been headline news nationally. As it is, we hear barely a peep from the media and are not likely to in the future.

Update

2009-02-02T23:34:00.000-06:00

Yesterday I linked to an article from Fox News which stated that President Obama had asked for an 11 percent cut in the defense budget. Congressional Quarterly says Fox is wrong and that instead of a cut the Joint Chiefs have been given the green light for an 8 percent increase. Hell if I know. The stimulus bill is still criminal.

The stimulus package is criminal

2009-02-01T13:41:00.002-06:00

The Wall Street Journal calls the $825 billion stimulus package "a political wonder that manages to spend money on just about every pent-up Democratic proposal of the last 40 years". Believe it. I'm not smart enough to know if we even need a stimulus bill, but I am smart enough to know that we certainly don't need one in which only 12 cents of every $1 has any chance of spurring economic growth. And so are the Democrats. Of course, what's good for the country seldom coincides with Democrat desires.

Below is $314 billion of fat that the Democrats have included in the stimulus, every penny of it some form of welfare designed to buy votes. And while you're choking on the numbers, remember that Obama has just instructed the Joint Chiefs to cut the defense budget by almost 11% - $55 billion. Priorities.

• $83 billion in welfare payments (the earned income credit for people who don't pay income tax)
• $81 billion for Medicaid
• $66 billion on "education", more than the entire Department of Education required just ten years ago
• $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
• $20 billion for food stamps
• $8 billion on "renewable energy" projects, which have a low or negative return
• $7 billion for "modernizing federal buildings and facilities"
• $6 billion on urban transit systems, dominated by unions and which, almost universally, lose money
• $2.4 billion for "carbon-capture demonstration projects"
• $2 billion for child-care subsidies
• $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a profit in 40 years
• $650 million for "digital TV conversion coupons" (on top of billions already spent)
• $600 million on new cars for government (added to the $3 billion already spent each year)
• $400 million for "global-warming research"
• $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts

The Clueless Left

2009-02-01T09:50:00.002-06:00

It is hard not to feel a twinge of pity for our homegrown America haters when the very people they try desperately to cozy up to spit in their faces. Watching the smelly little iranian prophet monkey call the Obama administration weak for agreeing to talk reminds me of one of those teen movies where the fat girl with braces and acne can't make a friend no matter how hard she tries.

Conservatives learn from history so we know that the muslims want us subjugated or dead. We know that the only reason the enemies of America prefer leaders like Obama is that such leaders make us that much easier to defeat. Leftists don't appear to learn at all. Since they hate America AND our foriegn enemies hate America, the homegrown leftist can't understand why all of that hating doesn't lead to a big hatred hugfest. Hello, you are still Americans and they will always hate you! It is sad and scary that they are too stupid to see this but still smart enough to win an election.

Radical islam and hardcore communist hate Jane Fonda and Jeremiah Wright as much as they hate Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, but they can't dupe the latter into helping them harm America. It is a fact that traitors are almost always despised, not only by the people they betray but by the benefactors of that betrayal as well. George W. tried hard to appease the left wing in this country and look where that got him and us. If President Obama uses the same tactics to deal with our external enemies, he and we, will suffer.

Religion of peace - coming to a neighborhood near you

2009-01-26T23:28:00.003-06:00

What happens when British police meet a bunch of angry Muslims? If this 10 minute video is any indication, the British police resist the urge to run for about 20 seconds then flee in humiliation to chants of "Allahu Akhbar!"

Western civilization won't start getting well until it hits rock bottom. Fortunately, the primitives have the momentum.

There's no need to watch the video, but if you do don't say I didn't give you a language warning.

Terror in the Sky

2009-01-21T23:06:00.005-06:00

This photo gives me the heebie jeebies. It's from 1932 and it shows 11 New York City construction workers casually sitting on a crossbeam at the future sight of the 69th floor of the not quite finished GE building. Scary.

Europe continues to crumble

2009-01-21T15:50:00.012-06:00

An Amsterdam court has charged Dutch politician and film-maker Geert Wilders with inciting hate and discrimination because his documentary movie, Fitna, warns that if something isn't done the Islamists will devour Europe.

In Amsterdam you can legally purchase a prostitute and heroin, and with total immunity publicly partake of both before passing out in a lumpy puddle of your own vomit as kids play nearby. But equate Islamists with Nazis and it's your ass.

More courage and clear thinking from the Left.

Yes We Can

2009-01-20T23:25:00.002-06:00

It's official. Barack Obama is the President of the United States. For the first time ever the highest office in the land is held by a man who is half white. Go us.

Career Choice

2009-01-13T11:57:00.002-06:00

Hiba Qassir, 18, will soon graduate from Hezbollah High. She hopes her knowledge of video and sound editing will help her find a place in Lebanon's bustling movie business. However, if that doesn't work out she's always got plan B, suicide bomber.

Pretender-in-Chief

2008-12-26T20:22:00.004-06:00

My plan was to wait until Obama was sworn in and started harming the country before giving him a hard time. But that was before He got the silent treatment from the Marines. I like. I suppose it's possible that they were stunned by His awesomeness.

2008-12-20T23:59:00.000-06:00

Random Observations

2008-12-16T12:03:00.003-06:00

While I am all for scaring older children ( there are few things more hilarious than convincing a couple of 13 year old boys that there really is a boogeyman) there is a lower age limit. What I am about to say, I say with full conviction and not even a hint of qualification. If you think that photographs of terrified babies sitting on Santa Claus' lap are funny then you are a weirdo. Period. Parents who do this deliberately should be held down and made to cry and beg for their lives while someone takes pictures that we can all laugh about later.

Early on many people said that B. Hussein was the second coming of Jimmy Carter, lately it appears like he might be the second coming of Slick Willy. "I did not have sex with that woman."- Bill Clinton. "I did not have contact with that governor." B. Hussein. For these people the truth is always the fifth or sixth choice, and while they may eventually tell it, a certain amount of time always elapses while they sift through their other options.

As I've said before and will say again the issue of unilateral personal disarmament is not dead. Some time in the next four years it will be back with a vengeance. Washington D.C. is now controlled by people whose policies are not the product of rational thought but of glandular secretions and they FEEL strongly that Americans should be disarmed.

Finally, President Bush is a cool guy, and pretty damn quick too! The video of him dodging well aimed footwear and still smirking at the rag head throwing it is priceless. I really enjoyed the very end of the video when a Secret Service guy FINALLY approaches the President and gets dismissed with the back of his hand as if to say "Relax, it's just a moron throwing shoes". Nicely done, Mr. President.

Read this, then punch a whiner

2008-12-09T23:57:00.001-06:00

"Please pray for him not to suffer from this accident..."

Not to start one of those Mega arguments but I couldn't help myself

2008-12-05T16:48:00.004-06:00

BCS DECLARES GERMANY WINNER OF WORLD WAR II
US Ranked 4th

After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.

"Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing on into conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses came against the US and Russia; however considering their entire body of work--including an incredibly tough Strength of Schedule--our computers deemed them worthy of the #1 ranking."

Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States the BCS commissioner stated "The US only had two major victories-- Japan and Germany . The computer models, unlike humans, aren't influenced by head-to-head contests--they consider each contest to be only a single, equally-weighted event."

German Chancellor Adolph Hiter said "Yes, we lost to the US ; but we defeated #2 ranked France in only 6 weeks." Herr Hitler has been criticized for seeking dramatic victories to earn 'style points' to enhance Germany 's rankings. Hitler protested "Our contest with Poland was in doubt until the final day and the conditions in Norway were incredibly challenging and demanded the application of additional forces."

The French ranking has also come under scrutiny. The BCS commented " France had a single loss against Germany and following a preseason #1 ranking they only fell to #2."

Japan was ranked #3 with victories including Manchuria, Borneo and the Philippines.

P.S. I obviously copied and pasted this. I am not nearly smart enough to create it.

Broke down

2008-12-02T08:59:00.000-06:00

If you read Pat Buchanan's article about the death of the U.S. auto industry, you will learn something.

An eye for an eye

2008-11-28T00:34:00.001-06:00

The sick freaks finally got one right.

Prelude to a Thanksgiving

2008-11-27T00:13:00.002-06:00

On March 16, 1621, 8 months before the first Thanksgiving, the pilgrims of Plymouth met their first Indian. His name was Samoset and all he really wanted was to get his drink on. Plymouth governor William Bradford wrote about the encounter in his book, Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims in Plymouth, first published in London in 1622. Lucky for us someone has modernized the spelling.

Friday, the 16th, a fair warm day towards; this morning we determined to conclude of the military orders, which we had begun to consider of before but were interrupted by the savages, as we mentioned formerly. And whilst we were busied hereabout, we were interrupted again, for there presented himself a savage, which caused an alarm. He very boldly came all alone and along the houses straight to the rendezvous, where we intercepted him, not suffering him to go in, as undoubtedly he would, out of his boldness. He saluted us in England, and bade us welcome, for he had learned some broken English among the Englishmen that came to fish at Monchiggon, and knew by name the most of the captains, commanders, and masters that usually came. He was a man free in speech, so far as he could express his mind, and of a seemly carriage. We questioned him of many things; he was the fist savage we could meet withal. He said he was not of these parts, but of Morattiggon, and one of the sagamores or lords thereof, and had been eight months in these parts, it lying hence a day's sail with a great wind, and five days by land. He discoursed of the whole country, and of every province, and of their sagamores, and their number of men, and strength. The wind being to rise a little, we cast a horseman's coat about him, for he was stark naked, only a leather about his waist, with a fringe about a span long, or little more; he had a bow and two arrows, the one headed, and the other unheaded. He was a tall straight man, the hair of his head black, long behind, only short before, none on his face at all; he asked some beer, but we gave him strong water and biscuit, and butter, and cheese, and pudding, and a piece of mallard, all which he liked well, and had been acquainted with such amongst the English. He told us the place where we now live is called Patuxet, and that about four years ago all the inhabitants died of an extraordinary plague, and there is neither man, woman, nor child remaining, as indeed we have found none, so as there is none to hinder our possession, or to lay claim unto it. All the afternoon we spent in communication with him; we would gladly have been rid of him at night, but he was not willing to go this night. Then we thought to carry him on shipboard, wherewith he was well content, and went into the shallop, but the wind was high and the water scant, that it could not return back. We lodged him that night at Stephen Hopkin's house, and watched him.

The Final Daughter Speaks

2008-11-24T21:04:00.002-06:00

The Final Daughter has just turned 13 and now feels that her views on race in America should be heard. The following is them.

As The Hood Turns

Many blacks in America don't seem to appreciate the advantages they enjoy simply for being black. For instance, backs can call whites whatever they want "whitey", "cracker" etc. but whites have to call them "African American". For me the term "African American" should be used only for those who were born in Africa, and not for people who feel the title pertains to them because their ancestors from long ago were African, if that is the case then I insist upon being referred to as "European American". Everyone in America is forced to endure "Black History Month", which is a bit presumptuous on their account, seeing as how we have yet to establish an "Everybody History Month". My understanding is that Martin Luther King Jr. argued for equal rights for blacks not special rights for blacks. Another advantage is the United Negro College Fund, I myself am still waiting to hear from the United Caucasian College Fund. The special treatment doesn't end there, we have "Black Entertainment TV" but not White Entertainment TV. It was recently brought to my attenyion that there is a Miss Black America pageant, I find this beyond ridiculous because there is no Miss White America, Miss Hispanic America, nor a Miss Asian America. How much special treatment is enough? Apparantly decades of lowered expectations delivered on a silver platter isn't enough to stop the whining.

The Final Daughter

The shackles are broken

2008-11-24T19:16:00.002-06:00

Not new news but just want to say in the famous words of The Who "I'm Free!" Or even our hero MLK jr. Whose unplagiarized quote was something like "free at last!" No more keeping America on wheels for me. I don't know how the industry will survive but I fled the coop. So does this mean that my biggus excusus has been taken away when it comes to my dearth in writing? I don't know, maybe. Apathus who caresus may rule but hey what else is new. Oh what's the point? I'm Baaaaack.

Speaking of Conspiracy Theories

2008-11-20T09:56:00.003-06:00

According to this article if you doubt the existence of "Apocolyptic Man-Made Global Warming or Cooling or Raining a Lot or Not Raining Enough Etc." then you are in the same league with 911 truthers, those who think little green men crashed at Roswell, and believers in the Bush/Cheney hurricane machine(it's in Alaska, no really it is). If this leftist attempt at reality inversion is successful then we can expect a future where Patriotism is equated with belief in the tooth fairy. Oh, wait, that's already happened. Never mind.

Let the conspiracy theories begin

2008-11-12T19:40:00.005-06:00

Wanna guess what the winning numbers were in the Pick 3 lottery in Obama's home state on Nov. 5th, the day after he won the election? Did I hear someone say...6-6-6? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Veterans Day Photo

2008-11-11T18:39:00.008-06:00

If I were any less mannish this photo from the Stephen Ambrose book, Citizen Soldiers, could make me get all misty-eyed. The caption reads;

Normandy suffered terribly. Cerisy-la-Salle, July 25, 1944. The girl was the only person in the village. Sgt. David Weiss appears to be telling her that everything will be okay.

See what I mean? A little 4 or 5 year old girl all alone in a bad place, saved by the good guys. Lucky for her. By the time this photo was taken the Germans had murdered God only knows how many children her age. Tough luck being Jewish back in the day.

To put a more modern edge on it, if these two G.I.'s were instead a couple of the Muslim zealots we're fighting today, one of them would be wanting to chop her head off and the other would want to marry her.

I'll take my team.

Open letter to Barack Obama

2008-11-09T00:36:00.008-06:00

Dear President-Elect Obama,

Congratulations on your great political achievement. In one fell swoop you became President of the United States and the first black person ever elected to the highest office of a majority white country. Well done. I guess that old saying really is true, only in America.

Your win proves what we conservatives have been saying for years, racism in America isn't near the hindrance to minority success that your party's race peddling demagogues would like us to believe. That's not to say some racism doesn't exist, of course it does. But America is the least racist country in the world and has achieved a level of national decency where about the only thing that limits us, any of us, is our own talent and determination. Now if you will use your considerable influence to explain that to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and their ilk, that would be awesome. In fact, it would be change I could believe in.

As you may have surmised, I voted against you. I did so for the same reason millions of other typical white people did, you're a liberal. I would have voted against you even if I had never heard of your terrorist friend, your America hating, racist preacher or any number of your unsavory associations. That you held these people close says something about you, I just don't know if it's that you are a radical leftist ideologue or simply a calculating pragmatist. I hope it's the latter. But either way you're a man of the left and the ideas of the left are harmful or fatal if swallowed.

I'm pretty sure you already know, but just in case I would like to remind you of some of the harmful things modern American liberalism has given us. The way I see it, those who voted for you support;

Punishing success through higher taxes in order to spread the wealth around.

The welfare state which has addicted millions to the drug of government.

The soft bigotry of low expectations through affirmative action and racial preferences.

Killing unborn babies.

Babying killers.

Equality of outcome over equality of opportunity.

Violating the 2nd amendment through restrictive gun control.

The religious belief that is the myth of man-made global warming.

Junk-science that conjured up make believe dangers about DDT resulting in it being banned in the use against malaria, which has caused over 30 million third world deaths--and counting.

Political correctness, for God's sake! When you hear of a little league baseball game where no score is kept for fear of someone's snowflake getting his feelings hurt, that's the left. When a 1st grader is expelled for drawing a picture of a knife, that's the left. When a 76 year old grandmother is the subject of a random airport search instead of the swarthy man standing in line behind her, that's the left.

Etc. etc.

One final thought before you get on with governing. Many of your fellow liberals suffer from a condition known as Bush Derangement Syndrome, an affliction of the left manifested by an irrational hatred of President Bush. It's quite unattractive. I can't speak for every conservative, but now that the race is over I intend to hit the reset button and base my judgment of you on your performance in office. When I think you're right I'll give you credit, when I don't I won't. We'll see how it goes.

Time to go. Good luck. May you live and be well because daughters need their fathers and because your Vice President is a buffoon.

Citizen King Selfish

A Quick Note To All You Future Victims Of Wealth Redistribution

2008-11-05T14:43:00.002-06:00

As an American who makes less than $250,000 I mean $200,000 I mean $150,000 per year, there is a good chance that I'll be recieving some of your hard earned money, via the government, in the near future. I want you to know that I voted against this, as did both of my fellow bloggers. We voted against our own financial interests for the good of our country because we understand that without OUR country we have NO interests, financial or otherwise.

There is little doubt that most of the redistributed wealth will be spent paying the exceedingly high price of all the silly-assed global warming cures that loom just ahead. But if it's any consolation, Mr. and Mrs. Wealthy American, I will be setting aside a little bit of your hard earned money to donate to the campaigns of the CONSERVATIVE politicians of the future. The rest I'll probably spend on ammunition, because every time the left wing nutsacks take over I get nervous and nothing soothes my nerves like big piles of ammo.

A small sample of those hoping for an Obama victory

2008-11-04T14:58:00.018-06:00

2008 Presidential election

2008-11-04T00:36:00.005-06:00

Every poll and pundit says Obama will win. I'll believe it when I see it.

I voted early. Against Obama. It felt good.

Win or lose, Obama's first post-election act will be to call on those rioting in His name to simmer down.

Approximately 60 million people will vote for Obama.

Civil War if Obama Loses

2008-10-31T21:52:00.003-05:00

According to dried up old feminists like Erica Jong, if "The One" loses the election, civil war will break out and "blood will run in the streets". Let's see now, hippies, homies, and faggy actors VS real Americans. If it's true it would be the shortest war in history because the good guys have the hardware.

While some faggy actors own guns they usually hire regular people to carry them, so they are screwed. Note to hippies, BODY ODOR WON'T STOP BULLETS! While the homies do have "they nines" it's hard to be very effective when your only tactic is to run away holding your pants up with one hand and firing wildly behind you with a cheap pistol.

Even if Ms. Jong is right I predict that we decent Americans will be home from the "second civil war" in time for supper.

Liberalism Kills

2008-10-26T23:57:00.001-05:00

The best thing about blogging is that if you wait long enough someone will come along and do your work for you. For a while now I've been thinking about doing a post on the harm caused by liberal policies. Not only has someone done the work for me, they came up with a cool name-Democide.

It's Not About Race, Really It's Not

2008-10-19T13:43:00.002-05:00

Up until "THE ONE" arrived on the scene, Colin Powell was a self proclaimed Republican, and it's not hard to see why. He was moved up through the ranks of the Army on his own merits AND the recommendations of many Conservative Republican superiors. He was made a National Security Advisor by the most Conservative Republican President since Theodore Roosevelt. He was appointed the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with the full blessing of another Conservative Republican President and finally appointed as the first black Secretary of State by yet another Conservative Republican President. In spite of the love, respect, and historic success he has recieved from the Republican party he now chooses to betray them by supporting socialist Barack Obama for President. But it's okay, because he says, "It's not about race." Right. Mr Powell's willingness to turn his back on the party that made him and the men who served with and under him is sickening. There is a lesson in all this for Conservatives but I doubt they'll learn it. This type of overnight 180 degree philosophical turn around is beyond my ability to comprehend. It must be a black thang.

Friends and Associates

2008-10-14T09:35:00.003-05:00

Colonel George Day is a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions while a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He is also a friend and supporter of John McCain. William Ayers is a domestic terrorist and admitted bomber of several federal buildings. He is also a friend and supporter of Barack Obama. John McCain is not a hero, but Colonel Day is, and they are friends. Barack Obama is not a terrorist, but William Ayers is, and they are friends. There is no middle ground here folks, you either love the America that you grew up in or you don't. Colonel Day does, and he wants President McCain, William Ayers doesn't, and he wants President Obama. The choice is black and white. What is there to be undecided about?

The Left doesn't like you if you don't like communists

2008-10-10T23:35:00.001-05:00

If you've ever wondered why few people seem concerned about Obama's communist connections, this man's take might interest you.