Tuesday, May 31, 2005
The definition of 'Honor'
still working to wrap my mind around the warp
Horrifyingly childish in its calm descriptions of sociopathic behaviors lauded as “service to God,” this piece triggers my mental-Penn-voice to scream ‘Bullsh!t!” But, maybe no. Given reports from the EU about families willing to sacrifice one child to kill another in service of their “honor,” perhaps the stories of luring young gullible Christian women into conversion then tossing them into the street for ‘innate disloyalty’ aren’t so far fetched.
On top of which, the “kind” German authorities look on the murderous man-children as “victims.”
Rejecting this practice, and the ‘justifications’ given for it is not “racist.” The practice would need to be addressed with equal ferocity of it were carried out by squeaky-blond Aryians or Swedes. What needs addressing is a behavior. The beliefs behind it are equally corrosive and vile, but Thought Police has never worked—not in Western civilization.
The German weekly Die Zeit reports that the percent of schoolgirls wearing headscarves in the Berlin district where one Muslim woman—Hatin Surucu, mother of a 5 year old—was killed has gone from virtually none to about 40 percent in the past three years.
Hatin Surucu
Effective, that terrorism.
Nonstory of the Century
not true but oughta be. but not. ‘cept we want it to be. but it’s not. sorta.
Exhibit A
AP A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who complained that a military guard threw a Quran holy book in the toilet has since recanted the story, senior Pentagon officials said Thursday.
Exhibit B
Virtually every major news agency in the world has reported without verification that between 15 and 18 Afghanis were killed in the riots. ...Not a single name of even one victim has been released. No details of the circumstances of the riots were released from any official sources – either U.S. or Afghan. [emph mine e-C]
Exhibit C
JERUSALEM – Muslim protests throughout the Middle East regarding a now-retracted Newsweek report that claimed U.S. Army interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Quran down the toilet are being organized by anti-Western jihadists and were planned several months ago with the magazine article serving as a convenient trigger, a senior Israeli security source told WND.
He warned that if not quelled, the gatherings can turn into violent mass anti-American revolts.
So, naturally Deep Throat is back in the headlines.
*sigh*
Unclear
Social class, once so easily assessed by the car in the driveway or the purse on the arm, has become harder to see in the things Americans buy. Rising incomes, flattening prices and easily available credit have given so many Americans access to such a wide array of high-end goods that traditional markers of status have lost much of their meaning. ...
Everyone, meanwhile, appears to be blending into a classless crowd, shedding the showiest kinds of high-status clothes in favor of a jeans-and-sweatsuit informality.
No, honey, you’re mistaken. “Class”, if one would actually use that term, has never been determined by bank balances, brand names or price tags. That indefinable quality of quality people is in their behavior. One can take a gentleman or a lady anywhere and they will make others feel at ease.
Quality people take care of their families, their possessions and of business; they look to the long term. People of quality value standards and respect others who demonstrate consistent standards of their own. They value education, history and a broad understanding of the world, and are not swayed by fads, trends or panic mongers.
People of quality value depth and eschew status symbols for genuine status, acquired by consistent behavior grounded in Values.
Now stop attempting to incite this silly class-war and go do something useful.
Delighted, I'm Sure....
Here’s the Inside Scoop!
...and *drumroll*
All Girl blogging, All the time! Keep up with Michelle Malkin, NRO and CNN’s Inside Politics—get clickin’!
I'm glad someone finally said it out loud
In a 45-minute speech Sunday, [Minuteman Project founder Jim ] Gilchrist said a declaration of war is committed every time a Mexican flag is planted on American soil.
“If this isn’t a declaration of war, I don’t know what is,” ...
Catching Up
++ Oliver, Stoned? *snork*
++ Two months until the “Trial of the Centruy™”
++ ‘Bout freakin’ time: Berkeley CA will become the third city in the US to require companies that fill their potholes or do their data entry to reveal any and all financial ties with slavery. And of course both the city and individuals would be able to file lawsuits to enforce the ordinance. And, no—they’re not looking to international companies who may today have branches in markets where slavery is currently being practiced; their law is designed to provide access to records for “African Americans” to one day seek compensation. [”...and what part of Africa are you from? ok, name any African country that existed in 1830."]
++ Berkeley council members also want to retain their bike-messenger service that delivers inter-office letters… even though they have all recently moved into the same building.
++ Paris Hilton is gonna marry Paris Latsis and will become Paris 2 Whatsis. ...and, might I add, eww2.
++ Jocko Chirakko got a nasty surprise/Reality Check. He plans a Tuesday TV appearance when sources expect him to declare, “Let them vote for cake! *ptui*”
++ *FLASH* Breaking News *FLASH*—New book reveals Clintons acted like PWT in the WH.—*FLASH* Breaking News *FLASH*
*eye roll*
++ The brain trust that is Rock ‘Musicians’ considers the Spice Girls ’too trivial‘ to fight World Poverty but Emminemm is juuuuuust right. This pile of millionaires plans to play rock music until governments give in and “banish Third World debt,” which will instantly solve all their problems and bring them into the 21st 17th century.
++ And in the “awwww, cuuuuutesy” Dept: Girl reporter sent to cover cuuuuuuuuute story about a kitty raising an orphaned squirrel. She starts her filming, the squirrel runs over, attaches itself to her leg and starts to gnaw, reporter begins to dance and scream, squirrel drops off, dancing reporter’s heel comes down and . . . well, end of cuuuuuute.
So, all in all, I didn’t miss much, eh?
Monday, May 30, 2005
So..........
I guess this means *someone* is running for Prez?
[izzit creepy or izzit Just Me©?]
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Obsessive Much?
who? me?!?
Just in case anyone is wondering whereinhell I am, I’ve caught the yearly gardening bug. I’ve just about covered all available surfaces with bountiful, bee-yoo-de-ful flowers. ...and some fruits ...and a coupla veggies, too. Which is some accomplishment since some of these new flower beds I’ve had to dig with a back hoe. [I do love my little tra-tra...]
To those who have so kindly and generously emailed with insightful, pertinent and amusing things; Holdjer horses, fellers—lack of timely response does Not indicate lack of appreciation. I will be getting to email/blogging Real Soon, Now. This broad’s pooped!
For now, back to the finishing touches on the new gardens—and a little picnicking. ...some bbq… and a whole lotta strawberry short cake. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Hey, Dubya -- Don't Feed the Moonbats!
they’ll just poop on yer head
UNITED NATIONS - Amnesty International singled out America yesterday for human rights violations and accused it of creating an environment that “grants license” to other nations to abuse rights.
Of course—being Team America Parents of the World [POTW], it is always OUR fault when those little brown people act out. Everyone knows little brown people are completely incapable of distinguishing right from wrong on their own and will follow any example America, King of the Universe, sets.
In a scathing annual report released yesterday, Amnesty specifically highlighted the abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib ..."The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has become the gulag of our times, ..."
Do you actually know what a gulag is? Here is a clue: a gulag is NOT where guards wear protective gloves to handle an inmates “holy” book. Or where The Supremes, on a 7-2 vote, threw out the [murder] conviction of Carman Deck, because he was shackled in leg irons and handcuffed to a chain around his belly when he faced the same jury that put him on death row. G’head—reconcile that. Mebbe your head will explode; mine did.
...the Bush administration “has gone to great lengths to restrict the application of the Geneva Conventions and to redefine torture,"
And, apparently, you’ve never read the Geneva Conventions—to which none of these countries is a signatory—or you would know that none of these “Freedom Fighters” qualifies. Period. In any way.
The Amnesty report surveyed human rights violations worldwide and even included criticism of the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
Ya mean the blue-helmeted kiddie-rapers? Oooooh—gettin’ brave, ain’tcha?
But by highlighting American wrongdoing over other violators, it joined a growing chorus of critics of the Bush administration.
Which is really the point, iddnit?
"Respect for human rights is the best antidote for ‘terrorism,’ “ Ms. Kahn writes.
Yes, those are sneer quotes around terrorism, in perhaps the most naive and just-dam-dumbest sentence ever written. Indicating that if we were to toss a book in a toilet, we are the very embodiment of Eeeeevil; when sheet-headed barbarians screeching about their gods use a rusty knife to hack off heads—that’s, whaaa?, respectful of human rights”? Following the Geneva Convention?
I heard a rep. of “Human Rights Watch” on the raadio yesterday. He out and out said that they hold the US to a “higher standard” than they do “people with less developed armies.” Talk about Racist.... He might as well have come out with it: “Those little brown people just aren’t as capable as you taller, whiter, more technologically advanced people. We expect so little of them and so much of you.”
The same “Human Rights Watch” whose basis for condemning the main opposition faction to the Mad Mullahs was twelve [12] phone calls.
The blind credulity of these infantile dopes is beyond comprehension. Whyinhell would the White House even deign to respond to them?!?
When Projections Attack!
como se dice, “merdo de vaca"
LAT - lead graf:
LATimes: Three people were injured and at least eight arrested Wednesday in Garden Grove after a motorist drove into a crowd of 300 demonstrators protesting a speech by the founder of the Minuteman Project, authorities said.
The LAT, 5th graf:
LAT: The motorist had attended Gilchrist’s speech and was leaving when protesters began hitting his van with placards and other objects, said Garden Grove Police Lt. David Kivler. The driver, who was not identified but spoke to a KCAL-TV Channel 9 reporter, said he gunned his car engine to get away from the crowd. The man was arrested.
Authorities said the incident occurred when 100 listeners attempted to leave through the crowd of demonstrators. Kivler said protesters gathered around one of their cars.
“They surrounded it and started beating on it,” Kivler said. Then, a second car tried to get through the crowd as well.
“As he was doing so he hit at least three people,” Kivler said. All three were transported to a local hospital. None had major injuries, he said.
oooh. Well, that’s a little different. Odd lead graf, that…
The tiny little totally local paper, OCRegister was able to ID the driver…
Orange County Register: Protesters were blocking a driveway when Netkin tried to drive through and knocked two demonstrators to the ground, Deputy Police Chief K.J. Raney said. ...The driver was Hal Netkin of Van Nuys, said Barbara Coe, chairwoman of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform. ..."Knowing (Netkin), he panicked,” Coe said.
Which paper also included this unfortunate choice of words from Gilchrist:
"I’m damned proud to be a vigilante,” Gilchrist told the 150 people assembled at the Garden Grove Women’s Club. “How about you?"
Nice. Didja not know that would be quoted?
Falling back on the al Qaeda Moonbat Playbook©, protesters are intentionally missing the point and crying “Racism!” [are we really sure that Mexicans are actually a different race? It never struck me that way, but, then again I am from Cahleefohrneeiah.... whatever.]
One sign read, “Beat Back the Racist Attack.”
“Their racist acts are being masked by patriotism,” said Obed Sanchez of Garden Grove. “To say illegal immigrants are coming over here and ruining our lives is ridiculous. We need immigrants like a tree needs water. Even President Bush recognizes that."
Way to miss the point, there, Obed.
Ok—let’s toddle off the the ol’ email-bag, shall we. Soprize, sporize! What do we find festering therein? A little missive from La Voz de Aztlan:
If you were unable to drive to Southern Arizona and protest the Minutemen vigilantes and their racist and violent attacks towards Mexicans, Indians, and Central/South Americans along the US/Mexico Border, then here is YOUR CHANCE to send them a message of opposition.
....er, I missed those “violent attacks.”
We have spoken to the chairwoman of the Woman’s Civic Club and she states that they are well aware of the Minutemen and are prepared to face protestors. We informed her specifically that by hosting this event that it brings pain to the surrounding communities, and she stated that they had no control over that. The Chairwoman of the Woman’s Club has no sympathy for the pain that her club brings into our community. Please call the Woman’s Civic Club(714) 539-3134 and leave them a message of your discontent of tomorrow’s event and come to the protest.
Yes Sí, they cried, “you‘re forcing us to be uncooooomfortable...” Replied the Chairwoman, “and you.re telling me this, why?”
I included the number in case anyone wants to call ‘em and tell her how much you enjoyed her response.
Hasta La Victoria, La Alianza Indigena
Yeah… Hasta la Backomyhand, bayyyybee.
From the website:
James W. Gilchrist is the founder of the terrorist organization known as the “Minuteman Project.” Gilchrist uses his Aliso Jiejo home as the home base for his miulitia. His band of nearly 1,000 vigilantes, many of whom will be armed, plan to occupy and militarize the Arizona/Mexico border. This group of vigilantes is taking the law into their own hands in order to terrorize immigrants and citizens alike.blablabla ...Gilchrist’s anti-human rights and violent agenda.
Then they post his address and phone #. Brave man, Gilchrist.
Further word from Aztlan:
Upon re-establishing his government in Mexico City after the defeat of French forces at Puebla on Cinco de Mayo, Benito Juarez said, “Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz” . For our English only readership his statement translates as, “Between individuals, as between nations, the RESPECT for the rights of others leads to PEACE ”.
uhm.... yeah.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Gooze Blogging
Pretty Goozes All in a Row
Waiting for Lunch
A week later, Goozes coming to lunch
Lunch! Where’d it gooooo?!?!?
Wattagu and Seeker visit their friends
Wozes Are Pink 'n' Orange 'n' Cream
This is the first rose I ever bought; it’s called Betty Boop and it smells heavenly!
Summer Day
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Speech of Janice Rogers Brown
AssociateJustice, California Supreme Court
The Federalist Society
University of Chicago LawSchool
...we are living in a world where words have lost their meaning. Suffice it to say that this phenomenon accounts for much of the near hysterical tone of current political discourse. Our problems, however, seem to go even deeper. It is not simply that the same words don’t have the same meanings; in our lifetime, words are ceasing to have any meaning. The culture of the word is being extinguished by the culture of the camera.
...It is my thesis today that the sheer tenacity of the collectivist impulse — whether you call it socialism or communism or altruism — has changed not only the meaning of our words, but the meaning of the Constitution, and the character of our people.
..."The Framers understood that the self-interest which in the private sphere contributes to welfare of society — both in the sense of material well-being and in the social unity engendered by commerce — makes man a knave in the public sphere, the sphere of politics and group action. It is self-interest that leads individuals to form factions to try to expropriate the wealth of others through government and that constantly threatens social harmony.”
...Collectivism sought to answer a different question: how to achieve cosmic justice — sometimes referred to as social justice — a world of social and economic equality. Such an ambitious proposal sees no limit to man’s capacity to reason. It presupposes a community can consciously design not only improved political, economic, and social systems but new and improved human beings as well.
The great innovation of this millennium was equality before the law. The greatest fiasco — the attempt to guarantee equal outcomes for all people.
...In between, came the reign of socialism. “Starting with the formation of the Fabian Society and ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall, its ambitious project was the reformation of human nature. Intellectuals visualized a planned life without private property, mediated by the New Man.” He never arrived. As John McGinnis persuasively argues: “There is simply a mismatch between collectivism on any large and enduring scale and our evolved nature. As Edward O. Wilson, the world’s foremost expert on ants, remarked about Marxism, ‘Wonderful theory. Wrong species.’” ...switching from slavery to a tribal chieftain into slavery to the tribe.
...Instead of celebrating capitalism’s virtues, we offer it grudging acceptance, contemptuous tolerance but only for its capacity to feed the insatiable maw of socialism. We do not conclude that socialism suffers from a fundamental and profound flaw. We conclude instead that its ends are worthy of any sacrifice — including our freedom.
...Revel warns: “The totalitarian mind can reappear in some new and unexpected and seemingly innocuous and indeed virtuous form. [I]t ... will [probably] put itself forward under the cover of a generous doctrine, humanitarian, inspired by a concern for giving the disadvantaged their fair share, against corruption, and pollution, and ‘exclusion.’” ...What started in the 1920’s; became manifest in 1937; was consolidated in the 1960’s; is now either building to a crescendo or getting ready to end with a whimper.
...At this moment, it seems likely leviathan will continue to lumber along, picking up ballast and momentum, crushing everything in its path. Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates, and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
...I have argued that collectivism was (and is) fundamentally incompatible with the vision that undergirded this country’s founding.
...Politically, the belief in human perfectibility is another way of asserting that differences between the few and the many can, over time, be erased. That creed is a critical philosophical proposition underlying the New Deal. What is extraordinary is the way that thesis infiltrated and effected American constitutionalism over the next three-quarters of a century. Its effect was not simply to repudiate, both philosophically and in legal doctrine, the framers’ conception of humanity, but to cut away the very ground on which the Constitution rests. Because the only way to come to terms with an enduring Constitution is to believe that the human condition is itself enduring.
..."From the Progressive era to the New Deal, property was by degrees ostracized from the company of rights. Something new, called economic rights, began to supplant the old property rights. This change, which occurred with remarkably little fanfare, was staggeringly significant. With the advent of “economic rights,” the original meaning of rights was effectively destroyed. These new “rights” imposed obligations, not limits, on the state.
...It thus became government’s job not to protect property but, rather, to regulate and redistribute it. And, the epic proportions of the disaster which has befallen millions of people during the ensuing decades has not altered our fervent commitment to statism. The words of Judge Alex Kozinski, written in 1991, are not very encouraging.” ‘What we have learned from the experience of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union ... is that you need capitalism to make socialism work.’ In other words, capitalism must produce what socialism is to distribute.”
>>>>>>>>>Lionel Tiger, in a provocative new book called The Decline of Males, posits a brilliant and disturbing new paradigm. He notes we used to think of a family as a man, a woman, and a child. Now, a remarkable new family pattern has emerged which he labels “bureaugamy.” A new trinity: a woman, a child, and a bureaucrat.” Professor Tiger contends that most, if not all, of the gender gap that elected Bill Clinton to a second term in 1996 is explained by this phenomenon. According to Tiger, women moved in overwhelming numbers to the Democratic party as the party most likely to implement policies and programs which will support these new reproductive strategies.
Professor Tiger is not critical of these strategies. He views this trend as the triumph of reproduction over production; the triumph of Darwinism over Marxism; and he advocates broad political changes to accommodate it. <<<<<<<<<<<<
..."when people accept futility and the absurd as normal[,] the culture is decadent."
...We find ourselves… in a situation that is hopeless but not yet desperate. The arcs of history, culture, philosophy, and science all seem to be converging on this temporal instant. Familiar arrangements are coming apart; valuable things are torn from our hands, snatched away by the decompression of our fragile ark of culture. But, it is too soon to despair. The collapse of the old system may be the crucible of a new vision. We must get a grip on what we can and hold on. Hold on with all the energy and imagination and ferocity we possess. Hold on even while we accept the darkness. We know not what miracles may happen; what heroic possibilities exist. We may be only moments away from a new dawn.
.
President Franklin Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” of speech, religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Exhibit ‘A’
John D Podesta, Center for American Progress; “progressive ideas for a strong, just and ...what’s that other word… “fried?” “faddish?” oh, yeah, free America": But this [filibuster kerfluffle] victory comes at a heavy price: the near-certain confirmation of at least three nominees whose contempt for constitutional liberties and disregard of precedent make them manifestly unworthy of judicial office.
...Only [[if] the president will take to heart the advice he has been given by these senators: “to consult with members of the Senate, both Democratic and Republican, prior to submitting a judicial nomination to the Senate for consideration ,"] can the Senate perform its proper role of ensuring that nominees will uphold the Constitution and the rule of law.
/dripping irony
Plus que ca change, plus que c'est la meme chose.
or: How I Gave Up Being a Patsy and Learned to Hit First
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Tuesday refused to rule out a pre-emptive attack, even amid signs it may be willing to return to the nuclear bargaining table.
..."The United States should be aware that the choice of a pre-emptive attack is not only theirs,’’ the North’s official news agency quoted the state-run newspaper Minju Joson as saying. “To stand against force with force is our unswerving method of response.’’
yeeaaah. Say, Kimmy, ol’ boy—hey, stand up when I talk to you. You are? oh. nevermind.
At any rate, see that city there, Pee-on-yon-wang or whatever ya call it? See it? Two words: Mushroom. Cloud.
Ok - now look at the rest of your leeeedle country. What? No, I didn’t mean it that way, but now that you mention it… At any rate: see the rest of your leedle, dinky, short, tiny country? Think: glass. Nice, shiny glass.
M’kay?
And in a similar sityation, PM Sharon put it succinctly
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: “Without offending the Arab world, it must be said that their agreements, declarations and speeches are not worth the paper they’re written on,"
Welcome back to Our Consensual Reality, General Sharon. Now, about that pullout of the Gaza Strip nonsense.....
That “without offending” bit—priceless!
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