Maw and the boys

I’d hate to engage in stereotypes (ok, no I don’t) but when you first heard that six West Virginians brutally assaulted a young woman in a trailer, isn’t this EXACTLY how you pictured them?

It’s straight out of central casting…

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Away for a few days and, as the six goons above would say, posts’ll be rare as hens teeth. (Although I’d wager that hens have significantly more teeth than the lady in the lower right hand corner)

 

Why won’t anyone just say it?

Ok, then, I’ll say it.

Larry Craig is a disgusting little pervert who has forfeited his right to hold high office.

There.

Anyone who trolls filthy public restrooms for anonymous sexual encounters with strangers deserves a bed in a mental institution – not a seat in the United States Senate.

I know it’s unfashionable to speak of homosexual behavior as a psychological issue but if sex in a filth ridden public mens’ room – with all of the attendant sights and smells — gets you off then you need professional help now. (My advice would be to seek out spiritual counseling with an exorcist but, hey, I’d even be happy if you saw a shrink.)

Here’s bathroom sex apologist , Andrew Sullivan, on Larry C:

Yes, he deserves criticism for poor judgment, for trying to use his position to get out of a sticky situation, for opposing gay equality and dignity, while being gay himself. But this was a victimless incident, in which no one tried to harm anyone else; and he also needs support and help and compassion.

To Mr Sullivan this is, disturbingly, a victimless incident. It’s an indication of how far this country has fallen when a gay activist describes the public betrayal of a wife of four decades as a victimless incident.

And what of Craig’s children and family who have been thoroughly humiliated by a 63 year old man with the maturity of a grapefruit and the sexual proclivities of an alley cat? Are they victims?

Larry Craig’s family deserves — in Sullivan’s words — our support and help and compassion. Larry Craig deserves intensive inpatient care at his friendly neighborhood psych ward…

 

Mariya Aman is a name you should know

In 2006, five year old Mariya was unfortunate enough to be in a nearby vehicle when the Israelis launched a missile attack on the car of an Islamic Jihad activist.

Mariya was left paralyzed from the neck down and her mother, brother, grandmother, and uncle were killed instantly.

Since sustaining her injuries, the Israeli Ministry of Defense has paid for her care in a Jerusalem hospital (Bravo!) but now they’ve decided to end her care and ship her off to a pathetically inadequate West Bank hospital that lacks the ability to address her intensive needs (not so bravo).

Her father, Hamdi Aman, has brought an action in the Israeli Supreme Court asking that her care be continued in the specialized childrens’ hospital in Jerusalem. Said Mr. Haman, “I’m not asking for compensation for my dead son – I’m asking that my daughter be kept alive.”

Very moving sentiment but it can’t hold a candle to this:

She has also learned to chatter away in fluent Hebrew to her dedicated Israeli therapists. “I have always avoided telling Mariya who aimed that missile at us,” says Aman. “How can I explain that the people who hurt us are the same people who are helping us now?”

Israeli law holds the state immune from responsibility in these situations and, as a matter of law, I’m willing to stipulate that the Ministry of Defense has no obligation to continue caring for this poor child. As a moral matter, however, they have every responsibility to provide the best possible care for this broken little girl who lost her mother and brother in the same attack that left her paralyzed. The glory of Judaism is its emphasis on justice and I hope the Supreme Court acts accordingly.

Should the court rule against Mr. Hamdi, I say we bring the family to America. (Maybe we can deduct the cost of her care from the fat check that we send to the Israeli Ministry of Defense) After all, our tax dollars supplied the weapons used in the attack and, as such, we bear some moral culpability in this tragic episode. (The real reason that they hate us)

If you’re one of those bible toting, venom spewing people who worship the Prince of Peace while simultaneously advocating endless war, you don’t have to look at this as an act of mercy for a five year old Muslim child. Think of it instead as a good PR move for the USA (a.k.a. Zion, the Promised Land, the New Jerusalem, or whatever the hell you call America on Sunday mornings) and a stroke of political genius for the GOP.

Our magnanimity in helping a little terrorissss will earn us kudos from abroad while the Bush Administration brings democracy to the Middle East one family at a time…

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Read the entire article in the current issue of Newsweek

 

When you blog about Richard Viguerie

You get eMail from Richard Viguerie

When you’re the dean of conservative fund raisers you know how to get it done…

 

For the record

Yankee fans kill dogs.

Here’s soon-to-be former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, his death hat, and his main squeeze.

Vick’s lawyer has announced that his client is prepared to plead guilty to federal dogfighting conspiracy charges. (Which carry a max $250,000 fine and up to five years in prison.)

Pleading guilty to this kind of unspeakable cruelty [NB: very graphic image] means his career is over and the whole world learns just what kind of people support the New York Yankees…

 

More on the feds, the clergy, and martial law

To follow up on an earlier post, here’s the original news clip from KSLA-12 (Shreveport, LA) on the Homeland Security Department’s Clergy Response Team [Making America safe for fascism]

If the guhmint’ imposes martial law to keep you safe (© GOP) from terrorisssss (© GWB), the Feds have clergymen trained and ready to go to help assure the masses that Jesus established civil authority and that the government response is in keeping with His holy will:

Remember when the Dems promised us that they’d rein in the Bush Administration if we trusted them with control of the Congress? What do you think happened?

 

Feds co-opting clergymen

To dampen resistance to martial law…

This one really left me speechless. Something I’d better get used to because they’ve gone from Compassionate Conservatives (sic) to reckless fascist bastards:

KSLA-12 (CBS affiliate in Shreveport, LA) reports:

Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared

If martial law were enacted here at home, like depicted in the movie “The Siege”, easing public fears and quelling dissent would be critical. And that’s exactly what the ‘Clergy Response Team’ helped accomplish in the wake of Katrina.
Dr. Durell Tuberville serves as chaplain for the Shreveport Fire Department and the Caddo Sheriff’s Office. Tuberville said of the clergy team’s mission, “the primary thing that we say to anybody is, ‘let’s cooperate and get this thing over with and then we’ll settle the differences once the crisis is over.’”
Such clergy response teams would walk a tight-rope during martial law between the demands of the government on the one side, versus the wishes of the public on the other. “In a lot of cases, these clergy would already be known in the neighborhoods in which they’re helping to diffuse that situation,” assured Sandy Davis. He serves as the director of the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
For the clergy team, one of the biggest tools that they will have in helping calm the public down or to obey the law is the bible itself, specifically Romans 13. Dr. Tuberville elaborated, “because the government’s established by the Lord, you know. And, that’s what we believe in the Christian faith. That’s what’s stated in the scripture.”

For the record, Romans 13 reads (in part):

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Let every person be subordinate to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been established by God.

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Therefore, whoever resists authority opposes what God has appointed, and those who oppose it will bring judgment upon themselves.

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For rulers are not a cause of fear to good conduct, but to evil. Do you wish to have no fear of authority? Then do what is good and you will receive approval from it,

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for it is a servant of God for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword without purpose; it is the servant of God to inflict wrath on the evildoer.

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Therefore, it is necessary to be subject not only because of the wrath but also because of conscience.

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This is why you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.

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Pay to all their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, toll to whom toll is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

 

A nation of morons

I like money, I like Thomas Jefferson, and I readily stipulate that the minting of currency is a legitimate role of government.

The new Jefferson Dollar will be happily received by this blogger – even if, like every other dollar coin, it will be rejected by the American people until paper greenbacks are finally removed from circulation.

But here’s my problem:

WASHINGTON – Most folks can correctly name George Washington as the nation’s first president. After that, things get tricky.

The U.S. Mint is hoping its new dollar coin series will help refresh some hazy memories of Adams, Jefferson and all the rest.

That could be a tall order, however, given the results of a poll the Mint commissioned to find out just how much knowledge Americans have about their presidents.

According to the telephone poll, conducted by the Gallup Organization last month, nearly all those questioned knew that Washington was the first president. However, only 30 percent could name Thomas Jefferson as the nation’s third president, and memories of the other presidents and where they fit in was even more limited.

Where to begin…

I have a problem with the whole currency as learning aid approach but, let’s face it, it won’t work anyway. The idea that some idiot who can’t name the first three presidents will pick up a new coin and say, “Hey, teach me about this dude” is just, well, ridiculous.

The bigger issue here is that the American education system (a wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers’ unions) would give a high school diploma to someone who can’t name the first ten presidents.

The US government tells us:

The United States leads the industrial nations in the proportion of its young people who receive higher education.

It doesn’t tell us that most of those of those degrees were awarded by diploma mills and they aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on if fully 7 in 10 college graduates are unable to identify THOMAS JEFFERSON as the third president! We’re not talking about James K. Polk here, folks, we’re talking about the intellectual light behind the revolution – the author of the Declaration of Independence – THOMAS JEFFERSON!

A nation of morons…

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UPDATE: I know that at least one reader of this blog is an educator so I’d like to try a little experiment.

If you’re a teacher, consider giving your students a very brief pop quiz on American history at the beginning of the upcoming semester. Try these questions:

1. List the first five presidents
2. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
3. What was the name of the Colonial Assembly during the Revolution?
4. In which city did that assembly meet?
5. What year did the American Revolution end?
6. What was the name of the opposing General who surrendered to George Washington after the final battle of the Revolution?
7. Where was that final battle fought?
8. Who said, “Give me liberty or give me death!”?
9. How many colonies were there at the end of the Revolution?
10. Against which nation was the Revolution fought?

I wonder how many high school teachers, let alone students, could answer these very basic questions.

If you want to take a crack at this yourself, I’ve created a multiple choice online version here

 

With apologies to Massachusetts

It really wasn’t my intention to Mass-bash today — God knows the great respect I have for the venerable old commonwealth — but sometimes they just make it too easy for me to resist. Such is the case when a story involves two of my great passions: Great White Sharks and hapless libs.

The Cape Cod Times (August 10, 2007) informs us that:

[...] Chatham [Mass] harbor master Stuart Smith said that while his office has fielded plenty of reports over the last two or three years about Great White sightings, there has been no photo or video documentation.

Well, ok, but what about the 15 foot, one ton Great White shark that Massachusetts officials actually TAGGED in Cape Cod three years ago?

Does that count?

 

What if it’s an ankle instead of an ovary?

Would you still be empowered to make your own health care choices?

James L. Payne turns the Lib abortion mantra back on them in his essay My Body, My Choice taking on Massachusetts’ mandatory health insurance law. (As of July 1, residents of Massachusetts are required by law to purchase health insurance)

Looks like reproductive health (sic) is the only domain where choice applies in the Bay State.