White "Genocide" Against Native Americans
...none of the warfare (including an Indian attack in 1675 that succeeded in butchering a full one-fourth of the white population of Connecticut, and claimed additional thousands of casualties throughout New England) on either side amounted to genocide. Colonial and, later, the American government, never endorsed or practiced a policy of Indian extermination; rather, the official leaders of white society tried to restrain some of their settlers and militias and paramilitary groups from unnecessary conflict and brutality.
More on 'genocide' here
Friday, September 21, 2007
George Soros
Through networks of nongovernmental organizations, Soros intends to ruin the presidency of George W. Bush "by any legal means necessary" and knock America off its global pedestal. "His view of America is so negative," says Sen. Joe Lieberman, who, like Gen. David Petraeus, has been a target of Soros’ electoral "philanthropy." "The places he’s put his money are . . . so destructive that it unsettles me." Soros’ aim seems to be to make the U.S. just another client state easily controlled by the United Nations and other one-world groups where he has lots of friends.
Source
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Oh, Canada!
Liberal MP Belinda Stronach, who is battling breast cancer, travelled to California last June for an operation that was recommended as part of her treatment, says a report.
- socialized medicine isn’t good enough for her, it's just for the little people -
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Why the Left hates Israel
When Israel was founded in 1948, that nation was the darling of the left. Many of that country’s founders were communists and socialists (that is why the first nation to cast an affirmative ballot in the UN vote for the partition of Palestine was the Soviet Union. They fully expected that Israel would be an important Soviet asset in the Middle East). When the rubber met the road however, the Israelis proved that once given a choice, people will always choose freedom over tyranny. The left was stung and hasn’t gotten over their bitter disappointment. Leftist support for Israel eroded and became real hate for the Jewish state that dared embrace real democratic values. This lesson hasn’t been lost by the Palestinians. Were they to adopt a truly democratic and pluralistic ideology, the left would drop them in a minute.
Source
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Karl Rove
CBS White House correspondent John Roberts told me of his belief that the forged documents came from Karl Rove, that essentially Bush’s political advisor baited the network into launching a political attack against his own candidate in order to discredit the story and the news organization.
More of the story here
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Most Corrupt Members of Congress
Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released its third annual report on the most corrupt members of Congress entitled Beyond DeLay: The 22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and two to watch). This encyclopedic report on corruption in the 110th Congress documents the egregious, unethical and possibly illegal activities of the most tainted members of Congress. CREW has compiled the members’ transgressions and analyzed them in light of federal laws and congressional rules.
Source
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Home Runs and Steroids
Steroid use by a Major League Baseball slugger may produce only modest increases in muscle mass and bat and ball speed but still boost home run production by 50 percent or more, according to a new study by Tufts University physicist Roger Tobin.
- where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? -
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Snarky Quote
After teachers and welfare recipients, the Democrats’ most prized constituency is trial lawyers. The ultimate Democrat constituent would be a public schoolteacher on welfare who needed an abortion and was suing her doctor.
- Ann Coulter
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Don’t tase me, Bro
Send that clown to Guantanamo for a little bit of attitude adjustment.
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Breast Enlargements
The Royal Australian Navy is under pressure to explain why it has spent tens of thousands of pounds paying for female sailors to have breast enlargements.
- I wonder if men can get penis enlargements? -
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Love of Life
The West is dying because it has lost its love for life, and it is still struggling to dismantle many of the ancient rules that kept its behavior consistent with its continued survival, such as abortion, no-fault divorce, gay marriage, and euthanasia. But at least our enemies hate life even more than we do, so there will be no worldwide caliphate. The jihadis are full of ideas on how to destroy civilizations, but they have only a vague idea of how to build new ones.
This puts them ahead of our homegrown leftists, though. With the collapse of Communism, our leftists don’t even have a vague idea of how or why Utopia will spring forth from the ground once they’ve smashed evil capitalism. Their forebears at least had nice fairy tales about sharing everything equally, universal brotherhood of man, and scientific socialism. But with the modern leftists, I can’t even tell what fairy tale they claim to be fighting for.
The good news is that life’s requirements cannot be changed, not by any act of Congress, shift in public opinion, or act of mass destruction. Perhaps the world will burn, the streets will flow with blood, and millions will die. Perhaps. But none of it will last, because there’s no future in destruction. The future belongs to those who want to live, and who are willing to do what life requires.
Source
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Did you know?
Federal judge Marcelo Bernal ruled in favor of a demand by the Brazilian state of Tocantins’ Consejo Regional de Medicina (Regional Council on Medicine) that Cuban doctors be prohibited from practicing in their state. Based on the results they’d achieved with Tocantins’ residents, the judge referred to the Cuban doctors as ‘Witch Doctors’ and ‘Shamans.’
- Agence France-Presse, 2005
- Attention, Michael Moore! -
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British leave Basra, Taliban takes over
"No! No to unveiled women."
That message joins the chorus of ultraconservative voices and radical militias that are transforming this once liberal port city that boasted some of Iraq’s most lively nightclubs into a bastion for hard-line Shiite Islamists since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Now, as the British prepare to exit Basra Province altogether after pulling out from this provincial capital last week, they leave behind what has been described by many here as an emerging "Shiite Taliban state," a reference to Sunni extremists in Afghanistan.
- is this what Bush envisioned? Five years of war for this? -
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S.L.U.T.
Officially, it’s the South Lake Union Streetcar. But in the neighborhood where the new line runs, it’s called the South Lake Union Trolley — or, the SLUT.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
False Prophets
Rachel Carson, who had once been trained in zoology, led the way in this arena of ill-founded conclusions regarding subjects about which she had no expertise. (i.e., DDT)
Butterfly expert Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book The Population Bomb foisted him into public view with his utterly false predictions that the battle to feed humanity was over and that 10 million children would starve annually by the end of the 1970s.
Dr. Ernest Sternglass predicted in 1969 that all children in the United States would perish from the fallout of our nuclear tests.
Carl Sagan predicted a nuclear winter and that the early 1990s Kuwait oil fires would have a permanent affect on world climate.
Barry Commoner predicted the "virtual death of marine life" in rivers by 1980 due to zero oxygen levels caused by pollution from fertilizers.
Samuel Epstein alleged a prominent herbicide caused cancer and industrial pollution was creating an epidemic of cancer. These allegations were rejected by real science, but in the interim they made Epstein very famous.
Irving Selikoff, whose opinions served as a basis for Environmental Protection Agency standards on asbestos, predicted 40,000 deaths per year from asbestos from 1967 to 1977. The actual number was 522 worldwide.
In 1976 Stephen Schneider supported the view that the Earth was entering a little ice age. Now he is a leading proponent of the theory of global warming.
Even the revered oceanographer Jacques Cousteau was not above exaggerating. After a speech to UCLA students, a young reporter by the name of Dana Rohrabacher, who happened to be a scuba diver, asked Cousteau if he wasn’t being too pessimistic about the difficulty of obtaining fish, clams, oysters, and lobsters from the oceans in the future. Cousteau came up to his face and said, "Did you not hear me? Within 10 years the oceans will be black goo, totally dead, destroyed. The oceans will be lifeless."
Source
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1984
"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."
2007
"Illegal Immigration is beneficial." (with apologies to George Orwell)
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Little Green Footballs
If you are a fan of Little Green Footballs, you’ll love this website which consolidates all the new words and expressions that have been coined by the lizards that inhabit LGF.
See here
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Unhinged Kingdom
More insanity from the politically correct unhinged kingdom, formerly known as Great Britain. The inmates are running the asylum.
- political correctness is an accepted form of suicide -
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Anal Bleach?
This story proves that I must be getting old and irrelevant. I’m not sure exactly what an anal bleach is but perhaps you do?
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Homeschooling in Germany
It is illegal in Germany to homeschool children. It has been illegal since Hitler banned it back in the 1930’s. Here are some facts about a 16 year old girl named Melissa....
Most disturbing item: Parents may be forced into psychological evaluation.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
$150 a Barrel
Former Shell chairman says that diminishing resources could push price of crude to $150 a barrel
Lord Oxburgh, the former chairman of Shell, has issued a stark warning that the price of oil could hit $150 per barrel, with oil production peaking within the next 20 years.
He accused the industry of having its head "in the sand" about the depletion of supplies, and warned: "We may be sleepwalking into a problem which is actually going to be very serious and it may be too late to do anything about it by the time we are fully aware."
Source
- meanwhile the Liberals forbid drilling for oil in Alaska and off the coasts of California and Florida -
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John Kerry’s Yacht
If you thought Scaramouche was a pretentious name for Sen. John Forbes Kerry to give his 42-foot Nantucket gigolo boat, he’s gone and topped himself.
Liveshot has scuttled the name Scaramouche and rechristened it . . . Let It Be.
Find out what ‘Scaramouche’ means here
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Female Suicide Bombers
The ‘Islamic State of Iraq’, a monicker used by a group purporting to be al-Qaeda’s branch in the country, has announced it has created a ‘brigade’ of women suicide bombers, a London-based Arab news agency reported Tuesday.
The militant group announced the unit’s creation through pamphlets distributed in several Sunni Muslim mosques and neighbourhoods of Baghdad, Quds Press reported.
"Verily a group of faithful women, consisting of mothers, wives and daughters of martyrs who were members of the Islamic State of Iraq, have formed the suicide bomber brigade al-Khansa" the message contained in the pamphlets said.
Source
- and their reward in Paradise? 72 Chippendales, of course -
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Port Arthur Massacre
The Port Arthur massacre of 28 April 1996 was a killing spree which claimed the lives of 35 people and wounded 37 others mainly at the historic Port Arthur prison colony, a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old from New Town, eventually pleaded guilty to the crimes and was given 35 life sentences without possibility of parole.
Rest of the story
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Global warming ‘is good and is not our fault’
Global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon and its effects can even be beneficial, according to two leading researchers.
Recent climate change is not caused by man-made pollution, but is instead part of a 1,500-year cycle of warming and cooling that has happened for the last million years, say the authors of a controversial study.
Dennis Avery, an environmental economist, and Professor Fred Singer, a physicist, have looked at the work of more than 500 scientists and concluded that it is very doubtful that man-made global warming exists.
They also say that temperature increase is actually a good thing as in the past sudden cool periods have killed twice as many people as warm spells.
Source
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Did you know?
Thirty-seven percent of the entire world's population live in China and India.
Source: United Nations Population Fund
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Impeach Hillary!
Let me be the first to call for her impeachment....just in case she gets elected. God forbid!
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Illegals at Los Alamos
Three Mexican nationals made their initial appearance in federal court here Thursday after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Investigations special agents arrested them for trying to use fraudulent identity cards to gain access to a secure area inside the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
What could go wrong?
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Feminists Fall Silent
Phyllis Chesler, an American therapist and psychologist who often writes on women’s issues, argues that attitudes grounded in thoughtless cultural "sensitivity" inhibit what should be the natural response of women. The result is that "instead of telling the truth about Islam and demanding that the Muslim world observe certain standards, you have Westerners beating their breasts and saying, ‘We can’t judge you, we can’t expose you, we can’t challenge you.’" This reaches the level of absurdity when gay and lesbian activists support Palestinians "who, meanwhile, are very busy persecuting homosexuals, who in turn are fleeing to Israel for political asylum." The gay community in Tel Aviv contains a remarkable number of refugees from Palestinian homophobia.
Source
- how do you spell h y p o c r i s y ? -
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Trash on the Border
Illegals are not very environmentally aware.
See here for Trash in Arizona
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War in Iraq for Oil
America’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.
Story here
- I think Greenspan is going senile. If the war is all about oil then why is the price of oil at about $80 right now? -
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Keith Olbermann is a Moron
"Fox news is worse than Al Qaeda — worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was."
Read more here if you dare
- He should try another line of work, like reporting on sports -
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Global Warming Slideshow
If you buy into rising sea level caused by global warming, check out these maps that "explain how U.S. coastal cities would be affected by inevitable sea level rise if nothing is done to curb the effects of global warming."
See slideshow here
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Leftist Logic
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin
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O.J.
He's back in the news again. As if this double murderer should be anywhere but in a cell somewhere surrounded by concrete and barbed wire. He was found not guilty by a minority, racist jury. A jury that could not convict one of their own. A jury that later "had second thoughts" about the evidence. Duh.
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How To Hate The Non-Existent
Perhaps one of the reasons that contemporary secularists do not simply reject religion but hate it is that they know that, while they can easily rise to the levels of hatred that religion has sometimes encouraged, they will always find it difficult to rise to the levels of love that it has sometimes encouraged.
Source
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War on Poverty
The official poverty rate is stuck at about 12 or 13 percent. Since the beginning of the War on Poverty back in the 60's we have now spent over 11 trillion dollars.
That’s 11 trillion.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Conservatives
Conservatives in America are not loyal to the nation state. They are loyal to the PRINCIPLES of the United States Constitution. That’s the difference. They prefer tradition to fashion; they prefer social stability and slow, deliberate change to sudden, mindless revolution. Conservatives prefer small government to Big Brother. Conservatives believe in citizen participation in civic duties and organizations.
Conservatives believe in a free and decent society with informed, responsible citizens who have inalienable rights that cannot be trampled on by any persons, the government or any foreign entity. Conservatives are suspicious of government and demand transparency in government’s actions.
Fascism is the logical conclusion of Liberalism. TS Eliot, who I quoted elsewhere, gives a marvelous and incisive definition of Liberalism:
"By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified, by fostering a notion of getting on to which the alternative is a hopeless apathy, Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or brutalized control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos ... Out of Liberalism itself come philosophies which deny it."
Source
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Japan Sweats for Global Warming
Japanese office workers are being forced to sweat in the name of global warming. But before Americans consume too much "Green" Kool-Aid and suffer a similar fate, they may want to consider this week’s global warming developments.The Wall Street Journal reported in a front-page story (Sep. 11) that Japanese offices are keeping summertime office temperatures at a "steamy 82 degrees Fahrenheit" to help Japan use less energy and reduce its carbon dioxide emissions.
Source
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Sin
"It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake."
- H.L.Mencken
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Men and Abortion Rights
A man who doesn’t want to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend’s baby is taking his case to a federal appeals court today. The man filing the suit says men should have the same rights as women do under Roe v. Wade to exempt themselves from responsibilities for a child they don’t want.
Read the rest here
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September 11 in History
The most startling discovery was a book written in 1981, 20 years prior to the 2001 attacks, called "TheBirth of Christ Recalculated". The author, Dr. Ernest L. Martin, claims to have calculated the exact date of JesusChrist’s birth based on the celestial charts for that era. The date of Christ’s birth, based on the famous Star ofBethlehem, is calculated to be September 11, 3 B.C.. Dr. Martin’s findings have been accepted by manyscholars, theologians, historians, and astronomers. We also note that Jesus Christ has 11 letters. The crossesfound standing in the ruins of the WTC, and the dominance of the number 11 in the 9-11 events,make this combination even more mysterious. More of the story here
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Leftism
The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin’s Communism. The very word "Nazi" is a German abbreviation for "National Socialist" (Nationalsozialistisch) and the full name of Hitler’s political party (translated) was "The National Socialist German Workers’ Party".
Source
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Islam and the nation-state
The nation-state is meaningless to a good Muslim, to the precise extent that he takes his Islam seriously. It exists; he needs its passport. He wants, in the case of the Infidel nation-state, to enjoy all the fruits of that state — the fruits that are produced because it is the creation of Infidels, and is well-run, productive, and has stability and the rule of law. The "refugee," or rather immigrant, generally comes from one of an assortment of badly-run Muslim countries where despots are the natural order, given how Islam inculcates the notion that political legitimacy is to be located elsewhere than in "will of the people."
Listen carefully to Muslim rhetoric in this country. It is always not-quite-what-it-seems-to-be: we hear, for example, the phrase "we are here to stay." What does that mean? Is that a rousing sign of loyalty to the American political and legal system? Or is it, rather, an aggressive and defiant expression — we’re here, we’re not going anywhere, and we will do exactly as we please, in putting relentless pressure on the American legal and political system, on its educational system, on its social understandings, and will never give up, and don’t think about trying to stop us — because "we’re here to stay."
Source
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The 8 Most Common Sci-Fi Visions of the Future
...And Why They’ll Never Happen
The future promises to be so wonderous and terrifying that it will exceed even the furthest reaches of the human imagination. Though this is not saying much, as the human imagination has really only been able to think up eight possible futures...
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Bras and Bouncing Breasts
The bouncing, in some cases with breasts weighing 20 pounds or more, can prove painful and damaging to the limited natural support system.
More info here...
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Global Warming
A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours since the last Ice Age and/or that 2) our Modern Warming is linked strongly to variations in the sun’s irradiance.
Source
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Islamic Tolerance
"At the beginning, we will try to convince Madonna and Britney Spears to follow Allah’s way. But I honestly don’t think they will follow. If they persist with their whoring music, we will prevent them by force. I don’t think that I can be in the same place with these singers. They might be killed if they do not respect our laws."
- Abu Abdullah, a senior member of Hamas’ military wing, speaking of what he’d do if Islam ruled America
"If these two prostitutes [Madonna and Spears] keep doing what they are doing, we of course will punish them. First we will call them to join Islam. But if they keep what they are doing ... we can stone them or even we can kill them if they keep ... tempting men in order to put them far from Islam. ... A prostitute woman must be stoned or must be eighty times hit with a belt."
- Abdel El
Source
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Rosie admits she’s crazy
Rosie O’Donnell used to break her own limbs with either a baseball bat or a wooden hanger when she was a child.
This revelation, as well as many about her experiences on "The View" last year, is contained in a new book she’s written due shortly called "Celebrity Detox."
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American Poverty
The true poverty of America’s poor is not their economic plight, but their lack of knowledge that those who would free them are really those who seek to keep them in chains.
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Dome of the Rock
See what all the fuss is about in Jerusalem. Video here
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Did you know?
Foreigners in Mexico are strictly forbidden by law to meddle in Mexican politics...and that includes marching in any kind of protest demonstration.
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Who’s your Daddy?
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
- Mark Twain
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Female Sexual Predators
The decade-long wave of sexual offenses committed by women — teachers in particular have exposed a cultural double standard: The public is more willing to accept the female abuser’s claim that she had a "relationship" with the victim. And in cases in which the male is a teenager, the sexual abuse is more likely to be dismissed as a rite of passage. The questionable, yet overriding assumption, is that women predators are somehow different from men.
"Men are demonized, women are diagnosed. Men are beasts, but women are troubled or mentally ill," said media scholar Matthew Felling in an interview with Fox News. In fact, accounts of women sexual offenders are often more titillating than harsh. Felling calls the news coverage of young, attractive teachers involved with their students "part crime drama, part Penthouse letter."
More here
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"We Stand by You"
A tribute by the German Navy a few days after 9/11.
Danke, Deutschland
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Bumper Sticker
"Jesus saves. Moses invests. Mohammed plunders"
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Dead Sea Scrolls
That there is a definite relationship between the Essene cult and the teachings found in the New Testament gospels, especially that of Luke; and that both the Jewish authorities and the present Christian denominations seem determined to negate and deny any such relationship, and if possible, to prevent the publication of the Scrolls.
Ever wonder why the Dead Sea Scrolls are unpublished?
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12 Torture Devices from History
If you think the prisoners at Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib were tortured, you haven’t seen what real torture was like in the past.
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Brain Trust
It’s amazing to me that the angry left is so hysterical about President Bush using his constitutionally valid war powers in a time of war, when FDR explicitly usurped those powers in peace time, greatly expanding the powers of the executive and the size and intrusiveness of the federal government. And once liberals gain power, they never give it back. Of course, the faces have changed, but 75 years later we’re still having to deal with many of the boneheaded ideas and policies put into place by FDR and his "brain trust." Naturally, not all of the ideas were bad, but that is purely accidental, since no one gave a thought to the long term consequences of FDR’s radical experimentation with the economy.
Speaking of which, this was also the first time professional "intellectuals" played a dominant role in a president’s policy making, to the detriment of us all. In science or business, bad ideas are quickly eliminated, but in government, the beloved abstraction of some academic pinhead can live on forever — for example, price supports for farmers, i.e., paying them to grow fewer crops in order to keep prices artificially high. That’s just one of hundreds of New Deal ideas that seems impossible to eradicate.
- Robert Godwin
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Monday, September 10, 2007
The Islamic Mind
I went to live and work in Saudi Arabia in 1998, and I "made my year" as expats there put it. That phrase means that I actually stuck out the whole year, instead of "running" from my contract, an occurrence so common that you only have to say "he did a runner" to explain why someone isn’t showing up for work anymore.
In Eastern Europe and the South Balkans, whenever I have gone to live in a place about which I had formed opinions, the actual experience of living there always radically changed those opinions, sometimes into completely contradictory ones. Most often, my academic research led me to form a beautifully coherent model, which experience turned into a semi-coherent collection of observations and tentative conclusions.
In the case of the Kingdom, I went there with a certain sympathy for Arab grievances, a belief that America had earned a lot of hostility from "blowback" from our ham-handed interventionist foreign policy and support for Israel etc.
I came back with the gloomy opinion that over the long run we are going to have to hammer these people hard to get them to quit messing with Western Civilization. And by the way, among "rational, fair-minded" non-interventionist libertarians, not a damn one of them has asked me, "What in your experience caused you to change your mind?" Instead what I get are gratuitous insults followed by insufferably condescending lectures about how wrong I am.
More here
Meanwhile in Iran, they are confiscating satellite dishes
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Spider-like Boat
Wave of the Future? Very unusual looking boat. Story and photo here
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Untold Story of Delta Flight 1824
The passengers aboard Delta Airlines Flight 1824 flying out of Orlando International Airport last Thursday at 7:15 a.m. heard the following statement over the intercom as they were preparing to taxi onto the runway on their way to Atlanta, Georgia:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have been informed that there is "a credible security risk with this aircraft" and we are returning to the terminal.
Rest of the story here
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Korean Protesters
Whatever in the world are they protesting? Just about anything....
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Sunday, September 9, 2007
Fake Journalism
Here's more than you ever wanted to know about fake journalism. There's plagiarism, photo manipulation, lying, and outright fraud.
Here’s the list.
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Hillary, the Capitalist
Hillary Clinton caused a stir in the early 1990s, when it was revealed that the first lady, in 1978, had turned $1,000 into $100,000 in 10 months by trading cattle futures as the wife of Arkansas’ attorney general.
These days, that gain would barely register in her portfolio, which has grown as large as $50 million, according to a campaign-disclosure filing with the Federal Election Commission.
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I’d Rather Return to Guantanamo
When two Tunisian men were sent home after five years in Guantanamo, they thought they would be free. Instead, they faced imprisonment, abuse, threats and solitary confinement. Now they say things were better back in the U.S. prison camp.
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Seven Years for Child Porn
...and he’s an ACLU puke. No wonder these guys support all the deviants and perverts. Disgusting.
- You definitely won’t hear about this story on the nightly news, they're all twisting their panties over the Senator Craig story -
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
Post-Birth Abortion
The greatest thing about liberals is that they are chock full of surprises. Just when you think that you actually share a little common ground with them, they will surprise the heck out of you with an absolutely outrageous new policy proposal.
What will the liberals think of next?
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Hardline Takeover of British Mosques
Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to "shed blood" for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.
Riyadh ul Haq, who supports armed jihad and preaches contempt for Jews, Christians and Hindus, is in line to become the spiritual leader of the Deobandi sect in Britain. The ultra-conservative movement, which gave birth to the Taleban in Afghanistan, now runs more than 600 of Britain’s 1,350 mosques, according to a police report seen by The Times.
- Jeez, I wonder what could go wrong? -
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11 N.J. Officials Arrested on Corruption
FBI agents arrested 11 public officials in towns across New Jersey Thursday on charges of taking bribes in exchange for influencing the awarding of public contracts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Two of those arrested are state lawmakers, two are mayors, three are city councilmen, and several served on the school board in Pleasantville, where the scandal began.
- Do you wonder why the nightly news passed on this story? Maybe because all of them are Democrats and minorities -
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Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
This is a subject I find endlessly fascinating, but then again I love history.
The phrase Ten Lost Tribes of Israel refers to the ancient Tribes of Israel that disappeared from the Biblical account after the Kingdom of Israel was totally destroyed, enslaved and exiled by ancient Assyria. Many groups of Jews have doctrines concerning the continued hidden existence or future public return of these tribes.
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Toilet Humor
On a toilet wall at London’s Paddington Station - "I am 9 inches long and two inches thick. Interested?" Someone responded, "Fascinated, dear, but how big is your dick?"
Elsewhere in England, a certain toilet had such seedy activity within its confines that one wag said, "If someone comes in there for a good honest shit, it’s like a breath of fresh air."
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Friday, September 7, 2007
Top Ten Most Wanted in L.A.
The FBI has it's Top Ten Most Wanted list and so does the Los Angeles Police Department. Check it out.
And they also have their Most Wanted Recent Additions
- isn't diversity wonderful? -
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Questions for Leftists
How is it possible to reason with a portion of people who believe the vitriol that emanates from their imams, or a joke of a media outlet (Al Jazeera)?
For those of you on the Left that castigate and ridicule all things Christian, how do you side with a group of people more religious and fanatical in their fervor? Why do you treat this religion with kid gloves, when this group of people loathe you for your godless ways, your tolerance of homosexuality, women’s rights, pornography, etc.?
Source
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Vision
Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
—Thomas Sowell
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Ten Mysteries of History
It is clear from many fragments of evidence, traditions and lore that we have an incomplete picture of the earliest days of human civilization. It’s possible that whole civilizations, some with advanced technology, have come and gone. At the very least, human culture reaches much further back in time than conventional history admits. There are many mysteries in our ancient past, but there may be clues to that past around the world in the form of sunken cities, ancient structures, cryptic hieroglyphics, artwork and more.
Story here
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More Dog and Pony show...
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff yesterday told a House panel that his agency will not tolerate interference by so-called "sanctuary cities" when it comes to hiring illegal aliens.
Mr. Chertoff said his agency will enforce the Basic Pilot Program that requires businesses to check the legal status of new employees by matching Social Security numbers and information in Homeland Security Department databases. Story here
- does anybody believe that this clown, Chertoff, is serious? I don’t -
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
The Government’s practice of stealing from the rich to give to the poor is....
Conservative answer - a crime.
Liberal answer - a brave, generous and heroic deed.
Libertarian answer - a foolish, misguided attempt at social engineering.
Communist answer - an inspiration to us all.
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Torture
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
- Henrik Ibsen
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Worthless diplomas in France
Even the French are beginning to realize that what passes for education today is a joke. The Liberals screw up everything they touch, no matter which country they inhabit.
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Lost in Mexico
In violence-torn Nuevo Laredo, 71 U.S. citizens have been reported kidnapped since mid-2004. Forty-two were returned alive, two are dead and 27 remain missing, according to the FBI.
- coming soon to your hometown -
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New Ice Age?
Mount Shasta, at 14,162 feet seems to have a mind of its own these days. Shasta has seven glaciers. The biggest is the one on the middle, Whitney Glacier. What has surprised scientists about the glacier is that if the theories about global warming are true, the glacier ought to be shrinking, but it’s not."Unlike most areas around the world, these glaciers are advancing, they are growing. Thirty percent in the last fifty years."
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Poverty in America
"...over the past 35 years, the left has done everything possible to trivialize and disincentivize marriage. In fact, it is in their interest to undermine marriage, because the disaster that results benefits them politically. Much of the Democrat base is composed of the victims they help create, such as single mothers and "helpless" blacks. "Although work and marriage are reliable ladders out of poverty, the welfare system perversely remains hostile to both. Major programs such as food stamps, public housing, and Medicaid continue to reward idleness and penalize marriage. If welfare could be turned around to encourage work and marriage, the nation’s remaining poverty could be reduced."
Source
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Islam...just another day in paradise
No music or films
No obscene photos in trucks
No trousers for women
No barbers
No ultrasound tests for pregnant women
No women allowed in markets
Story here
Also, a Christian truck driver forced to convert to Islam
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Scandals
Rolling Stones scandal, 1967:
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of rock band the Rolling Stones have appeared before magistrates in Chichester, West Sussex, charged with drug offences.
Rolling Stones scandal, 2007:
A live UK music venue today dodged a fine after members of the Rolling Stones lit up cigarettes on stage in defiance of the smoking ban.
Source
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Miss Teen South Carolina
Rush Limbaugh on the young lady whose education is sadly lacking....
I think that this is a perfect answer for a kid totally educated in government-run schools run by a bunch of liberals. This is the stuff that’s been taught to her. When talking about a question about maps, why does she come up with South Africa? Why does she come up with "the Iraq"? I guarantee you that those things came to her mind because something’s being taught to her about those countries, and so what happens when she hears the question involving the word "map"? Forget "the United States." The question is: "How come only a fifth of Americans can recognize their own country on a map?" She hears the word "map," and she launches in and makes associations with what she’s been taught in geography with maps, and that’s Iraq and South Africa — and look at her answer. "Well, I think we need to increase our education in places like South Africa and the Iraq, our education over here, to help the Iraq and the Asian countries..." Obviously this woman’s being taught that we’re being mean to the Iraqis and to South Africans.
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Princess Diana
Pea-sized Legacy
Is the legacy of the self-obsessed Princess Diana really that important?
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Should Women Fight?
Well of course women CAN fight. In Iraq, US military women have fought and still do fight bravely and selflessly. These armed daughters, sisters, wives and mothers can also become wounded, maimed, captured, abused and killed.
Read the rest here
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Islamic Quote
"If he is intoxicated, flog him; again if he is intoxicated, flog him; again if he is intoxicated, flog him; if he does it again a fourth time, kill him."
- Qur’an: Sura 4
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Demon Spirits?
Many a Web site advocates the position that UFOs are nothing more than demon spirits, part of Satan’s army, released in the "last days" to delude earthlings and provide a convenient explanation for the antichrist to explain the Rapture of the saints just before the seven-year Tribulation unfolds.
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Gandhi was a Moonbat
"This manslaughter must be stopped. You are losing; if you persist, it will only result in greater bloodshed. Hitler is not a bad man...."
- Mohandas Gandhi, in letter to Viceroy of India as British troops were evacuating Dunkirk in 1940
"Let them take possession of your beautiful island with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds" and "to surrender and accept whatever fate Hitler had prepared for them."
- Mohandas Gandhi, in an open letter to the British people
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Another story the nightly news missed
Soldiers scrambled to evacuate babies from a day care center in rocket-scarred Sderot today after a projectile fired by Palestinian militants thudded into the courtyard.
None of the 15 babies at the center was hurt. But frantic parents across the city - already furious over the government’s failure to protect them and their children from the near-daily rocket fire - pulled their children out of schools on the second day of the academic year.
- the left-leaning mainstream media sees Palestinians as victims and Israelis as oppressors. This story does not fit into their narrative and is therefore mostly ignored -
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Winds of War
A large portion of modern wars erupted because aggressive tyrannies believed that their democratic opponents were soft and weak. Often democracies have fed such beliefs by their own flaccid behavior. Hitler’s contempt for America, stoked by the policy of appeasement, is a familiar story. But there are many others. North Korea invaded South Korea after Secretary of State Dean Acheson declared that Korea lay beyond our "defense perimeter." Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait after our ambassador assured him that America does not intervene in quarrels among Arabs. Imperial Germany launched World War I, encouraged by Great Britain’s open reluctance to get involved. Nasser brought on the 1967 Six Day War, thinking that he could extort some concessions from Israel by rattling his sword.
Democracies, it is now well established, do not go to war with each other. But they often get into wars with non-democracies. Overwhelmingly the non-democracy starts the war; nonetheless, in the vast majority of cases, it is the democratic side that wins. In other words, dictators consistently underestimate the strength of democracies, and democracies provoke war through their love of peace, which the dictators mistake for weakness.
Source
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Monday, September 3, 2007
Top Ten Reasons to Stop the ACLU
Yeah, yeah, the ACLU is a wonderful organization. But they have a dark side, a very dark side.
Here is the Top Ten Reasons why the ACLU should be reined in from its ultra-liberal agenda.
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Terrorism in Toronto
Neighbors are shocked and stunned. Oh, Canada!
Story and photos
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Attention New Orleans!
If you must insist in living below sea level in a sinking city, you might at least build your houses and schools and hospitals like the Dutch do in their country....
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Good News
...if you are a user of "recreational" drugs
"Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand Province, according to a new United Nations survey to be released Monday."
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State of the Union....Mexican style
President Felipe Calderon blasted U.S. immigration policies on Sunday and promised to fight harder to protect the rights of Mexicans in the U.S., saying "Mexico does not end at its borders" and "Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."
Story here
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Mummies of Mammoth Cave
Deep in the forested heart of Southern Kentucky hides the several entrances to the largest discovered cave system in the world. That the Mammoth Cave was discovered many millennia ago comes as no surprise when you study any of the seven mummies that have so far been found interred in its echoing halls.
More info on Mammoth Cave
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Sunday, September 2, 2007
The Thailand Jihad
Link found at Little Green Footballs.
See photos here from the "restive" Muslim-majority south area of Thailand.
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Saturday, September 1, 2007
Cabalists
"Cabalists believe Lucifer is the true God. They care nothing for their own nations. Their whole aim in life is to humiliate and degrade mankind, and prove to God that the human experiment is an abject failure. They are gradually achieving this goal through their control of education, the media and government."
- David Livingstone, author of "Terrorism and the Illuminati- A Three Thousand Year History"
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American Women
"Many, many contemporary American women are emotional messes. They are pathologically vain, materialistic as clearly demonstrated by their overly decorated, sterile homes, and landscaped yards; are grossly self-involved, horrible and mean-spirited mothers and wives, and they are constantly, incessantly, angry and neurotic. American women are shallow...."
- Nancy Levant
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Senator Craig
He has resigned today after Republicans pressured him into leaving. Meanwhile in Louisiana, Representative William Jefferson (D-La) is still in office even though he was found to have $90,000 in his freezer. The money is believed to have been bribes paid to him by African business interests.
- Guess which party accuses the other of supporting a Culture of Corruption? -
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English
Hundreds of students in Arizona are trying to learn English from teachers who don’t know the language, state officials say.
The kids are taught by teachers who don’t know English grammar and can’t pronounce English words correctly. Last year, for example, a Mesa teacher stood in front of a class of language learners and announced, "Sometimes, you are not gonna know some." A teacher in Phoenix’s Creighton Elementary District asked her kids, "If you have problems, to who are you going to ask?" A Casa Grande Elementary District teacher asked her kids to "read me first how it was before."
Source
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