No To Cosimo; Nix To Cheese Wiz's Crucifix

"One of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever," will not be going on display. The controversial "artwork" of Cosimo Cavallero will not be going on display in the window of the Lab Gallery in New York during Holy Week.
Cosimo of course denounced the "strong-arming from people who haven't seen the show" and I patiently await Rosie O'Donnell's outpouring of sympathy.

Cheese Wiz Creates Jesus Sculpture

UPDATE
Latest on the latest New York "art" controversy.
A little bit of background on the My Sweet Lord ie. chocolate Jesus sculptor Cosimo Cavarello. It seems his preferred medium up until now has been.........cheese.

He also likes ham.

Ham, cheese, and now chocolate....mmmmm.....

I am still waiting for the Kaaba made of Spam however.

No Deploring. We're The UN

What ?! You mean the UN Security council didn't solve the problem !
At least their gravely concerned.
And the Iranians say that is too much.


On a more depressing thought doesn't everybody realize that when the sailors are released that Faye Turney is sure to wind up on The View.

A Funeral in Bosnia

Some more information on the Utah shootings of almost a month ago, and the Bosnian youth, Sulejman Talovic, who carried them out. Including his rather large funeral back in Tuzla.
And an interesting take from the Gray Falcon.

Friday Follow Up International

From the Sanjak (Sandzak) of Novi Pazar: Fear of the Wahabbis and a split amidst the Islamic community in Serbia.

From Bahrain: Fear of the madrasas.

From Yemen: Rising violence in the religious war and the strange deaths of some foreign students.

Religious Conflict Brews In Southern Ethiopia

An Evangelist has been killed by Muslim extremists in Jimma in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, an area that has been torn by religious strife of late. The strife is not just between Christians and Muslims according to this post.
Has the growth of Evangelical Christianity along with the growing assertiveness of the Muslims of the area set up a powder keg ?

"Your Old Woman, Who Are always Preaching And Proclaiming Peace, Are Sure To Draw On By Their Imbecility The Necessities Of War"

Nineteenth Century advice for the British government during the Royal Navy Hostage Crisis...

God's Most Lordly Gift To Man is Decency Of Mind-Aeschylus

Why does the Internet seem to bring out the worst in the gibbering hordes of Liberals?
I'm speaking of the now infamous Cathy Seipp-Troll Dolls episode, Tony Snow's cancer and the Washington Post, as well as this. They really do not seem to have any internal mechanism that governs public behavior, at least when dealing with anybody or anything on the Right.

"My Sweet Lord":and it's not George Harrison

Just in time for the Easter the sophisticates of New York give us "My Sweet Lord"...

NEW YORK (March, 2007) -- World renowned artist Cosimo Cavallaro unveils his latest and most striking installation at the Lab Gallery (at the Roger Smith Hotel, 47th and Lexington avenue) in the early morning hours of April 1st. Cavallaro’s work, entitled “My Sweet Lord” is a 6 foot tall, anatomically correct sculpture of Jesus Christ in milk chocolate.

And James Panero wonders why "have I yet to see a custard Mohammed?"

Jamestown: "You can't celebrate an invasion" ?

A disturbing article from the Telegraph on this year's Jamestown Celebrations and how they are becoming nothing more than a DWEM (that's Dead White European Male) guilt wallow...

An exhibition by the US National Park Service, which manages the land on which the original settlement was built, plays down the achievements of the first 107 settlers, who brought with them the English language and the traditions of English justice and common law that still underpin modern America.
(SNIP)
Edward Rothstein warned that the "overall impact" of the exhibition was "only to diminish a visitor's sense of English culture".

Organisers of the Jamestown 2007 events justify their decision to ban the word "celebration" by saying: "Many facets of Jamestown's history were not cause for celebration." Galleries at the exhibition place heavy emphasis on the local Indians, who are described as being "in harmony with the life that surrounds them" and living in an "advanced complex society".

Maybe we should just get on our tiny boats and leave ?

And is any mention of Christianity allowed at Jamestown or not ?

The Left and Tony Snow's Cancer

Not that you can expect much of Liberals/Marxists in general but sometimes they can really surprise you with how little they have in common with the rest of the human race.

Example: Tony Snow's cancer announcement and the croaking toads over at Wonkette. Though there are apparently a few decent folks in the comments the rest just make you blanch.
A selection...

Dear Tony,

I hate you.

-God

Or...

I'm impressed by all the sympathy for a guy who sells out our nation 24/7. You people are stronger than I am.

Or...

Under the heading of 'What goes around comes around', the cancer in Tony Snow is removing the cancer of Tony Snow from the national scene.
Or...
OMG, could there be a god?

Or..

Cancer sucks and this is terrible for Tony Snow, but all I could think of was this:
"You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault."

Or...

I sincerely regret that Tony Snow has cancer.

The thing that surprises me is that the cancer can survive in there.

Ah, the joys of laughing at your opponents cancer, but you see if the "Right" doesn't get it it's their own fault...

The Right's inability to understand snark -- that it is entirely separate from sympthy for the plight of a cancer-stricken man and his family -- is why Malkin and Drudge and all the rest will never "get it."

It's A Shame...

....and not just for Tony Snow and his family but also for an administration that has managed to pick so few competent people...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential spokesman Tony Snow's surgery to remove a small growth showed that his cancer has returned, the White House said Tuesday.

Go To Guantamino.....

.....and come out as Ozzy......from the ever continuing adventures of David Hicks aka Abu Muslim al-Aussie...or something like that....

Overweight, clean-shaven, smiling and with a straggly mop of dark brown hair dangling down to his chest, Hicks at times resembled more an overfed member of a heavy metal band than a suspected terrorist.

Hicks's lawyers had described him as having dark, sunken eyes, but he did not appear like that today.

Rather than being pale from long stints locked inside the maximum security prison, Hicks's skin looked as tanned as that of his American military lawyer Major Michael Mori, sitting beside him in court.

300: A Rorshach For Our Times

What week would be complete without some drooling inanity from the Guardian. This time it's a movie review sorta' of 300. A movie so terrible that...

The release of the box office hit 300 has already been accompanied in the US by indignation, outrage, an online petition and a Google-bombing campaign by the American Iranian community.

All apparently happening at a theater not near me.

The Spartans behave as the archetypal id of the neo-conservative regime changers' ego - uncompromising and unforgiving. This is the language of the "surge" rather than Baker-Hamilton recommendations. King Leonidis is cynical about diplomatic niceties, slaughtering Persian emissaries against all convention. This is the cartoon version of the way John Bolton behaved at the UN, making it clear that he had nothing but disdain for what he considered to be the double-talking, wheeling and dealing that diplomacy usually is all about.

John Bolton.
hmmm
I think that would be a good look for him. All red cloak and big Lambda on a shield, but I just can't picture someone doing his hair before a battle.

Madrid Chutzpah

Now this, this is a woman...

MADRID (Reuters) - A woman who lost her husband in the 2004 Madrid train bombings displayed an infamous cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad on her T-shirt in front of 29, mostly Muslim, suspects on trial for the attacks on Monday.
(SNIP)
The woman sat in the front row of the court wearing the T-shirt for around half-an-hour before getting up, walking up to the glass cage containing the defendants and finally walking out of the court, judicial sources said.

This Is Your Brain On Saltwater...

Britain's former First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Alan West, has from the evidence of this interview with the BBC fallen on his head and damaged some very important brain doodads that might be of use to an Admiral.
Discussing the kidnapping of 15 British sailors by the Iranians....

BBC: What are the rules of engagement in this type of situation?

Admiral West: The rules are very much de-escalatory, because we don't want wars starting. The reason we are there is to be a force for good, to make the whole area safe, to look after the Iraqi big oil platforms and also to stop smuggling and terrorism there.

"A force for good." Does Admiral West have a secret identity? Is it Clark Kent?

So we try to downplay things. Rather then roaring into action and sinking everything in sight we try to step back and that, of course, is why our chaps were effectively able to be captured and taken away.

Rather than just "sinking everything in sight", how about just sinking those vessels attacking you ?
And doesn't it seem that he's almost bragging about how good British policy is at getting its men captured ?

If we find this is going to be a standard practice we need to think very carefully about what rules of engagement we want and how we operate. One can't allow as a standard practice nations to capture a nation's servicemen. That is clearly wrong.

"One can't allow as a standard practice nations to capture a nation's servicemen."
Yes you would think they would have stressed that point at Admiral school.

Gonzales is a genius next to this one.

The Shame of Portland

Now we have video of future local heads of the Oregon ACLU exercising their constitutional rights to burn an American soldier in effigy, burn an American flag, and sing charming little ditties like...

Fry, Fry GI
In Iraq You're Gonna' Die

.....all disguised of course so as not to hinder their higher education.
Where's a gang of skinheads when you need them ?


Remember they're not anti-war they're anti-US

Seperated at...

Is it just me or is Fidel Castro's illness starting to turn him into Dr. Gene Scott ?
The late Dr. Gene Scott.

Saturday Grab Bag II

Conservative Propaganda (direct name, I like it) has pictures of the charmer at last weekend's Washington protests who stole an American flag from one of the Pro-American protesters, tore it in half and showed it off to his friends. No doubt it was the talk of the vegetarian juice-bar/co-op.

Soooo......do you recognize this Jack the Ripper?

Saturday Grab Bag

EU Referendum has a picture of British Naval Personal carrying out ship inspections like the one that resulted in the kidnapping of the 15 British sailors Friday (Iraq time) by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Tehran Takes British Tars

Can we get Ahmadinejad's visa back now ? Or is it still in the mail ?

Not Dead Yet

Knut goes public.


...and no this not a business article.

David Obey D-Wi, Needs Some Valium.........SOON!

During their morning caucus meeting, Obey, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, was introduced to loud cheering. "I don't want your applause, I want your g**damn votes," Obey was overheard telling fellow Democrats.

Oh and by the way all you service people in Iraq you're just baby-sitters...

A few minutes later on the House floor, Wisconsin Democrat David Obey opened the debate with an impassioned speech.

He said the legislation would send a message to Iraq "that we're going to end the permanent, long-term, dead-end baby-sitting service. That's what we are trying to do."

Where do they get these clowns.......?

Hmmm......

Things that make you go hmmm.....

Following what appears to be a trend in cities nationwide, religious leaders in Pittsburgh say there has been a rise in black conversions to Sunni Islam since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Pelosi Cheek

12:17 Live on MSNBC

Just moments ago during her speech on the Iraq "Funding" Bill Nancy Pelosi said that our "troops are not being honored when they returned home" from Iraq.

Oh, she's talking about Walter Reed...I thought she was talking about her supporters.

Silly Me.

Heinlein Pic Portends

Interesting word on one of my favorite novels...

Genre TV producer Tim Minear (Angel, Wonderfalls) told SCI FI Wire that he has been hired to write a screenplay adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 SF novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. The novel deals with a 2076 rebellion on a former penal colony on the moon and has been read as an allegory about libertarianism and its costs.

It sounds promising But...

I hope that Heinlein's work is not suddenly going to be dissected for its IRQ (Iraq Relevance Quotiant)

UPDATE:
Seems like somebody has already been discussing that.

Al Gore You're No Clarence Darrow; You're Not Even Spenser Tracy

Al Gore, star of an Academy Award-winning film, was in town for a double feature on Capitol Hill yesterday. But instead of giving another screening of "An Inconvenient Truth," the former vice president found himself playing the Clarence Darrow character in "Inherit the Wind."

....It was, in many ways, a 21st-century version of the Scopes trial. Only this time, Gore, like William Jennings Bryan a failed Democratic presidential nominee, was playing Darrow, champion of scientific thought. Inhofe was playing the Bryan character, defending his beliefs against the encroachments of foes such as the National Academy of Sciences, the United Nations and the Oscar-hoisting former vice president.

If Dana Milbank is going to wax both theatrical and historical by comparing Al Gore to " Darrow" and James Inhofe to "William Jennings Bryan" in Inherit the Wind then maybe he should check out this website that explains how loosely the play/movie is based on the famous Scopes trial.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan walks down the dark, fog lit (can something be fog lit?) streets of London, when a passing newsboy yells out, "John Edwards to drop out of Campaign. Wife's cancer reappears."
Sullivan pauses and says....

It is of a piece with his character to do this; and a simple testament that he has the right priorities and values to be a president of the United States.Sorry, Ms Coulter. But this man will be remembered for a character you do not even want to possess.

As another newsboy runs up suddenly the secret formula begins to kick in. A sudden change appears in looks and.....demeanor...

So, despite earlier reports, Edwards will not suspend his campaign. Good for him.
In this, John Edwards is doing a public service. He was admirably candid about his wife's cancer being treatable, if not curable. That paradigm is increasingly common - and it's affirming to see someone in public life live through it so positively, so admirably and so passionately.

OK, cancer isn't funny.

But Andrew Sullivan is.

Proud Prius Pratfalls Per Poor Performance

The Prius and how it's about as good for the environment as that aluminum smelting house of the Gores.

Creeping Islamisation of the Balkans?

On the slopes of Velika Ninaja in the old Sanjak of Novi Pazar Serbian authorities say they have busted up a Wahhabi terrorist training camp...

Trifunovic [terrorism expert Darko Trifunovic] said the Wahabis were covertly financed by Saudi "humanitarian organisations" and were training their members for suicide attacks against selective targets in Europe. Like Bosnia and Serbia’s breakaway Muslim majority Kosovo province, Sandzak - whose population is 50 percent Muslim - has provided fertile ground for Wahabi extremism, Trifunovic told Serbian media.

Here's a snippet of a Janes article on the growth of the islamists in the area.
And here is an interesting PDF from the International Crisis Group.

Hey I'm Not Kosher in China

OK not "not kosher", just whatever the Chinese equivalent of not kosher is.
How about Banned in Beijing ? Snappy.
From the folks at http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/#

More from the Portland Effigy Burners

Marxist Moms teach their kids the value of vandalism.
But she forgot their hijabs.
From of course Portland where we can get lots of pics of the Anti-War crowd in action

The Left Says; Burn an Effigy....Big Deal

The KOS tinfoil hat brigade thinks the whole Portland Effigy burning is a setup by......wait for it.... the Evil Karl Rove...

*
could he be a moron on (1+ / 0-)

Recommended by:
metal prophet

a RWNM payroll?

Or when investigations go far enough up the pipeline, i.e. examining Karl Rove's expenditure records, maybe it'll be discovered that we as taxpayers are paying him.



by alizard on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 01:51:33 AM PDT

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That would not surprise me in the least (0 / 0)

Rove knows damn well the value of dirty politics. Remember, this is a guy who got his start by paying homeless people to crash Democratic events and cause trouble.

by metal prophet on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 03:33:50 AM PDT

Or this guy..

Infiltration (0 / 0)

Just like the 60's - divide and conquer. It is Rove twisted disinformation. Pay people to make the anti-war people look bad. Probably this rally, as well as fake Code Pink at the Plame hearing. They are very afraid of the old and middle class protestors, this really bothers them.

by chigh on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 01:37:17 PM PDT

Or the Green Day fans...

The story here in this diary (7+ / 0-)

Is disinformation and right-wing talking points.

If this were true, who gives a f**k? Why would we let one act overshadow the turnout of thousands of Portlanders to demand peace?

I'm not part of a redneck agenda - Green Day

by eugene on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 10:30:29 PM PDT

Maybe we could build Al Gore a statue out of zinc.

Al Gore says in his Congressional testimony about Global Warming, "This is our Thermopylae."

Topical yes, but didn't they all die at Thermopylae ?

But it does put a new spin on...

Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

Silent, Smelly Puppets Unite !!

Republican congressman Mike Roger's office in Lansing, Michigan is vandalized and...

The FBI, US Capitol Police and Lansing Police are trying to figure out who vandalized Congressman Mike Rogers' Lansing office.

Yes looking at the picture I wonder who could have done it....Hmmm who could ha' dun' it?

UPDATE:
Now they're protesting at the same office...

K******* P****** stood in front of Mike Rogers' Lansing office Tuesday afternoon flanked by an oversized and demonic-looking puppet meant to represent the Republican congressman.

"It's time that Rogers and others step up and speak against the war," she shouted through a bullhorn.

"Speak up for Michigan, stand up for our community and prove to us once and for all that he is not a silent, smelly puppet."

Animal Rights Activists Want This Bear Dead

Knut the German Polar Bear must die say Leftist drivelers....

Animal rights activists argue that he should be given a lethal injection rather than brought up suffering the humiliation of being treated as a domestic pet.

But I thought Liberals liked the welfare state ?

Failed State Syndrome in Thailand ?

As the coup installed government of Thailand stumbles on dealing with the Muslim Insurgency in the Pattani region locals are reduced to forming militias to defend themselves.
It seems the carrot and carrot tactics of the government are not working.

Immediately after the September coup the military-appointed government said tackling the problems of the south would be a priority. With several high-ranking Muslim members in the junta and government— including the top general and the interior minister — analysts were hopeful the violence would subside.
( SNIP )
But the immediate response from the insurgents was far from conciliatory. The day after Surayud issued his apology, 46 violent incidents were recorded, compared with a daily average of 9 the previous month, according to the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based organization that has been monitoring the situation in southern Thailand.

What has stirred the most anger against the insurgents — and has increased frustration toward the government — is the broadening of the daily killings to include apparently randomly selected civilians, everyone from monks to farmers and schoolchildren.

Portland Antiwar Protesters Burn American Soldier in Effigy

But remember, don't say their not patriotic...

UPDATE: 3-21-2007
since LGF seems to be down today here is a link at Freerepublic

Those Colorful Leftists...

An interesting post from Indepundit on the alphabet soup of Marxist organizations that were behind Saturday's anti-war protests in Washington. It's not just Code-Pink and ANSWER it's also the PSL, the RCP USA, and the newly revived SDS.
It's more confusing then the Spanish Civil War.

Well Just Be Happy They Didn't Try to Swim II

When a liberal is confronted by the dissonance between his views and reality he knows which one to go with...

As the world’s warmest winter on record drew to an end with a weekend snow storm, a group of religious leaders started walking across the state Friday to bring attention to global warming.

Who does this remind you of...

Bullitt-Johns said the walkers kept their spirits strong by singing “Keep on walking forward, never turning back,” a hymn they had chanted in prayer services before the march to Boston.

Maybe this ?

The Gulags of Nebraska...

Heather Mallick from the CBC explains to us how everything is Bush's fault.........even bad game shows like Are You Smarter Than a 5^th Grader?.......

It's a circle of government and industry working in tandem: the Bush Administration guts the American education system, which makes Fox programming attractive to larger numbers of people, who are then ridiculed by people like me, but now also by Fox itself.

But aren't the 5th graders the ones who are actually being educated during the Bush Administration ? I hate to be to logical. It might confuse the Canadians out there.

And it's particularly wrong for an American audience to laugh at this guy because he's so clearly the type of person the U.S. employs in the army and at border crossings. All that Homeland/Heartland nonsense spewed out by Fox and the U.S. government doesn't disguise the fact that they despise these people even as they hunt their votes to sustain a tiny class of rich men with pale faces and scary glasses. I give you Dick Cheney, Roger Ailes, Kyle Sampson, Karl Rove…

Yes Dick Cheney... when he's not working on that Death Star...

On that same day I saw this, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the man in charge of the Stalin-style purges of federal attorneys deemed to be "disloyal" to the Republican party, essentially pleaded for his job on the grounds that he was poor once and Hispanic to boot. So he had clawed his way out of poverty to a job where he essentially runs the American secret police, and asks that he be allowed to stay on by virtue of once having been the kind of person he'd stomp on now.

"Stalin-style purges of federal attorneys." !!!!

Well I hope we get at least one good show trial out of it.


Is this what passes for analysis in Canada ?

Ungdomshuset Undone

Tearful (ie smelly) anarchists in Copenhagen lament (ie riot) over the loss of their Youth House (ie a pretentious squat) when it is destroyed by the man (ie the Danish government) after it is purchased by a "rightwing Christian sect"( ie a church).
Other activists (ie spoiled ,bored youths in black) gather (ie scuffle with police) in protest.

Sacred Coca ?

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Always Coca-Cola? Not if Bolivia's coca growers have their way. The farmers want the word ''Coca'' dropped by the U.S. soft drink company, arguing that the potent shrub belongs to the cultural heritage of this Andean nation, where the coca leaf infuses everyday life and is sacred to many.

OK, I know coca is different then cocoa but I still like the image.

Cool Fridays

Update:

Sinbad Alive

Captain America still dead
(and Bush did it ...according to the Argentines !!)

The British War on Religion

Is this the end of private religious schools in the British Isles ?
It will be according to the Lords-Commons Joint Report on Human Rights which interprets how the new Sexual Orientation Regulations (aka The Equality Act) will be implemented.
The right of religious institutions to teach that their beliefs about homosexuality are "true" has just been jettisoned by order of the state.
Directly from the report we have the all important sections 63, 65, 66, and 67...bold texting by yours truly...

63. There appears to be considerable uncertainty of views as to whether the Northern Ireland Regulations apply to the curriculum taught in schools.
In a written answer to Lord Lester, Lord Rooker said that “the regulations are not concerned with what is taught in schools.

That is rightly a matter for the Department of Education.”55 Lord Rooker repeated
this in the debate on the Northern Ireland Regulations in the House of Lords:56 he said that the Northern Ireland Regulations are not concerned with what is taught in schools but in ensuring fair and equal access to education and the facilities and services associated with it.

He said it is not the Government’s intention to attack religious ethos, teaching or practice,and that the Regulations contain an exception intended to “protect the doctrinal nature of religious observance.”

64. Others, however, regard the curriculum as being covered by the Regulations. The Fair Employment and Treatment Order 1998, which prohibits discrimination on the grounds of religion in the provision of goods and services, provides broad exemptions for schools which would cover the curriculum.

The NI Sexual Orientation Regulations, however,contain no specific exemption for the curriculum. In the absence of such an exemption,
they argue, the breadth of the general duty not to discriminate is such that the curriculum would be covered by the prohibition.

Faith schools in particular are concerned that if the Regulations apply to the curriculum, they will not be free to decide what is taught and how it is taught in line with the faith basis of the school.

66. We are concerned, however, by the Government’s position in relation to the Northern Ireland Regulations that the prohibition on sexual orientation discrimination does not apply to the curriculum, that is, the substance of what is taught in schools.

The Government appears to believe that if a faith school were not free to teach its doctrinal beliefs about sexual orientation as part of its curriculum, this would amount to an attack on the “ethos” of the school.

It appears to regard Article 9 ECHR as requiring the curriculum
to be exempted from the prohibitions contained in the regulations.

67. We do not consider that the right to freedom of conscience and religion requires the school curriculum to be exempted from the scope of the sexual orientation regulations.

In our view the Regulations prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination should
clearly apply to the curriculum, so that homosexual pupils are not subjected to
teaching, as part of the religious education or other curriculum, that their sexual
orientation is sinful or morally wrong. Applying the Regulations to the curriculum
would not prevent pupils from being taught as part of their religious education the fact that certain religions view homosexuality as sinful. In our view there is an important difference between this factual information being imparted in a descriptive way as part of a wide-ranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion’s doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively true.


The latter is likely to lead to unjustifiable discrimination against homosexual pupils. We recommend that the Regulations for Great Britain make clear that the prohibition on discrimination applies to the curriculum and thereby avoid the considerable uncertainty to which the Northern Ireland Regulations have given rise on this question.

We further recommend that the Government clarifies its understanding of the Northern Ireland Regulations
on this matter.

The full text of the Sexual Orientations oops, sorry Equality Act.

Commandante Dean Plans His Coup

Have no fear for Jimmy Carter's advancing years or failing health, a new and improved Carter is waiting in the wings to continue the legacy of back room deals with the most repellent leaders in the world...

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean has been meeting with world leaders to repair "the extraordinary damage" that the Bush administration has done to America's image and to prepare the way for a new Democratic president.

"I am trying to build relationships with other governments in preparation for a Democratic takeover," Dean told me. "I want to make clear that there is an opposition in America and that we are ready to take power and that when we do, we are going to have much better relationships with them."

Appeasement: Think Globally, Act Locally

Alice Miles (of previously mentioned Trident opinion) apparently has a twin here in the United States...

If you’re already getting burglarized, do you really want to add to your problems by confronting a desperate criminal with your own loaded weapon? That’s as dumb as trying to fight a mugger for your wallet.

From This Modern World via Tim Blair.

The Nit-Witicism of Andy Ronney

Doddering columnist Andy Rooney does a Homer Simpson on the American armed forces...

ANDY ROONEY: Well, I think a draft produces a better army than the one we would have with all volunteers. Because I think you get average Americans if you, if you have a draft. And if it’s an all volunteer army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don’t have anything else to do, they don’t have a job, or they can’t find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn’t produce the best army.

Remember, don't you dare say he doesn't support the troops you evil right-wing conspirators.

The 100 Million Gallon Bribe

Is anyone else sick of those ubiquitous Citgo commercials where we hear how the people of Venezuela are the only ones who care if the poor of America freeze.
The people of Venezuela and of course their Jefe Supremo Hugo Chavez...

"It's a good thing to provide concessionary oil to the people in the United States," said Bernard Aronson, former assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs. "But if the price of that is to rationalize the loss of political liberty for the people in Venezuela, that's not a fair price and it's a betrayal of the people of Venezuela."

British Lamb to Lie Down With Osama the Lion

The stupidest argument your ever likely to hear on why Great Britain should not modernize its ballistics submarine defense (the so called Trident debate). Not to say there aren't some good arguments on Britain rethinking its overall nuclear strategy... but the pacifist argument isn't one. And it's not from the Guardian it's from Alice Miles at the Times.

I would never, ever, ever want a British leader to fire a nuclear weapon. Ever. In any circumstances. Even if someone fired one at us. Even if a country fired more than one at us.

But of course if wasn't for the mean, nasty Americans there wouldn't be any need for anyone to have nuclear weapons. Or maybe any weapons.

I can think of trying to engage with the Muslim world instead of using the bully-boy tactics of bombing and threatening it. I can think of unlinking our foreign policy from that of the United States to enable us to take some — some — defence decisions alone. I can think of leading by example and reducing our nuclear firepower as a step towards complete disarmament, to encourage other states not to develop theirs. I can think of using our fabled influence with the US to press for disarmament, not rearmament.

Polar Bears Eating Themselves Out Of House and Home?

For those who are willing to do their own thinking rather then let others do their thinking for them.
Since Polar Bears are in the news what with their imminent demise and the "infamous" gag order, here are some interesting information from the polar bear front.


First the Scareology from Bloomberg...

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Polar bears are starving near the Arctic Circle. The unfolding tragedy may help highlight one of the planet's gravest threats, global climate change.
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With ice breaking up sooner each spring and freezing over later each autumn, bears have less space and time in which to hunt and they must swim farther to find food. In the western Hudson Bay in Canada, the southernmost range of polar bears, their numbers have dropped by 22 percent since the early 1980s.
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Bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea off Alaska are showing signs of malnutrition: smaller bodies in adult males and lower survival rates of cubs. Some animals are stranded on land, far from their food source, while others drown in the attempt to cross long stretches of open sea. There have even been instances of bear cannibalism in recent years, a phenomenon never before observed.

Notice the fact that it is only the "southernmost range of polar bears" that seem to be in decline and how we find that if we read to the end of the article that...

Polar bears roam the circumpolar Arctic, traipsing through Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. The worldwide population is estimated to be between 20,000 and 25,000, up from around 10,000 in the 1960s, when unregulated hunting threatened to wipe out the great carnivore.

Now I'm no scientist (not like Al Gore) but couldn't a 100% to 150% increase in the population of a keystone species over 40 years in an area of such extreme conditions cause low weights, malnutrition, and die offs in isolated areas?
Just curious.

Have They No Shame

The source of that change hews closely to Hollywood convention: the exploiter is often a big corporation wreaking havoc by its greed. In “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” the remake that may be shot by Universal Pictures later this year, the murderous fish-man of the Amazon is spawned by the sins of a pharmaceutical giant. “It’s about the rain forest being exploited for profit,” explained Gary Ross, a writer and producer of the film, whose previous movies include “Seabiscuit.”

From Libertas

Well Just Be Happy They Didn't Try to Swim

Most ironic story of the year and it's only March...

An expedition designed to show how global warming is heating the Arctic had to be called off after one of the explorers got frostbite, thanks to incredibly frigid temperatures that got as low as 100 degrees below zero.

But hope springs eternal...

Atwood admitted there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming had to be called off in part by extreme cold temperatures.

"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."

Schumer the "Relentless"

Chuck Schumer (Rat-NY) admits the bloody fingerprints all over the knife about to be plunged into the American serviceman's back are his. Sadder still the fool thinks it's something to brag about.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats would be "relentless."

"There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment . . . just like in the days of Vietnam," Schumer said. "The pressure will mount, the president will find he has no strategy, he will have to change his strategy and the vast majority of our troops will be taken out of harm's way and come home."

Ah yes, the halcyon days of the Vietnam era, how Democrats yearn for them. First Nicaragua, then El Salvador, Lebanon, Granada, Panama, and then Afghanistan; all were places the Democrats ached to be Vietnam.

Read here Imus's evisceration of Schumer over the Walter Reed issue.

Ba Ram Eewwwee...

James Cromwell is apparently off his lithium...

'I can’t handle living in the United States of America’

The article is from the Telegraph, so instead of fawning at the actor's "wisdom" phrases like "liberal boilerplate" pop up now and again.

I think I'll go watch LA Confidential.

Hat tip to Libertas.

Blowing My Own Horn

Today at the OReilly Quiz I pulled off an 8.

Bush in Latin America

From Bush's trip to Latin America

What No Oscars?

How the left really feels about open scientific inquiry...

Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.

Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change.

One of the emails warned that, if he continued to speak out, he would not live to see further global warming.

"Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened," said the professor.

I thought it was the Republican War on Science.

Bush Makes Everyone Meaner

A Democratic Represenative, David Obey of Wisconsin (Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee), berates a liberal anti-war mom...


And it's George Bush's fault...

Monday, a group of people, not my constituents, approached me as I was rushing to a meeting on Iraq and we wound up having an argument.

I am sorry that I yelled at them. I respect their passion on the issue, I wish they would respect mine. We are both frustrated, and that led us to have an argument that we never should have had because we both want to see an end to U.S. involvement in that war. What divided us was the question of how.

When they were arguing that I should vote against the legislation that I am sponsoring, they did not know that the proposal would in fact give the House its first opportunity in the four years of this misguided war to vote on a timeline for bringing it to a close.

I would hope that the president's announced intention to veto that legislation because of the timeline would convince these folks to reconsider their opposition to it.

This is just another example of how Americans have become needlessly and painfully divided on a war that I have opposed from the beginning and that the President should never have misled us into.

I intend to continue to press forward to pass this legislation because it is the best chance we have to bring our involvement in that civil war to a conclusion.

Cuban Dreams of Agee

Turncoat......traitor......rat......which term describes Philip Agee best. The former CIA agent who for more than 30 years has made a career out of being a point man in the Left Wing anti-American crusade, now acts as a glorified tourist agent for the glorious Marxist regime in Cuba, drawing people to the Caribbean utopia with a website called Cubalinda.com. He apparently also scribbles occasionally for the press, an example appearing recently in the Guardian.
Even for a fellow traveler like the Guardian the piece strays far, far into fantasy land.

There is a wave of progressive change sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean after the many lonely years in which Cuba held high the torch, with free universal healthcare and education, and world-class cultural, sports and scientific achievements. Although you won't find a Cuban today who says things are perfect - far from it - probably all would agree that compared with pre-revolutionary Cuba, there is a world of improvement.
(SNIP)
More than 30,000 Cuban doctors and health workers are saving lives in 69 countries, many in difficult areas. Meanwhile 30,000 young people from dozens of countries are studying medicine in Cuba on full scholarships. All come from areas lacking doctors.

Cuba's literacy programme, known as "Yes I can", has been adopted in nearly 30 countries, with thousands of Cuban volunteers teaching. The scheme, conducted in Spanish, Portuguese, English, Creole, Quechua and Aymara, has helped some 2 million people to read and write, most of whom continue their education afterwards.

Isn't strange that the Left is so strident in reminding us that liberty cannot be traded for security, but to trade it for free health care and literacy programs strikes them as a fair deal.

Cool (Sad) Friday

Even though the evil, demonic, fiends at Marvel claim to have killed Captain America (to near universal revulsion), here's just a little reminder of who they're dealing with...

The Occupation of Latveria

I think Michael John McCrae puts it best...

Insurgency in Thailand

From Pajamas Media a good long post on the continuing violence in Thailand.
Pay attention to their take on the state of denial the government is in over who they are actually fighting.

Thailand’s army-appointed government admitted it had no idea who in particular was behind a wave of bombs and shootings in which eight people were killed in the Muslim-majority far south as the Lunar New Year began. The attacks hit a variety of targets. Shortly before a special security meeting in Bangkok, an army major was killed outside his house in Yala, one of the four southern provinces hit by around 30 bombs on Sunday night, after he picked up a bag containing a bomb, police said. … "The problem now is that we don’t know who’s responsible and where they are," army chief of staff General Montri Sangkhasap told reporters after Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont met security chiefs to discuss the violence.

Turmoil in South America

While President Bush and Hugo "Boo" Chavez engage in their dueling tours across South America a serious situation is developing in Ecuador as the country's constitutional order is thrown into question.

AP
QUITO, ECUADOR — Police surrounded Ecuador's Congress on Thursday to keep out dozens of lawmakers who were fired a day earlier by four electoral judges whom the lawmakers had sought to impeach in the latest constitutional crisis for the small Andean nation. The fired legislators were also attacked by protesters.
The four judges of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal accused the 57 legislators of interfering with a referendum on whether to rewrite the constitution.

Ecuador's new leftist President Rafael Correa, an admirer of Venezuela's firebrand leader Hugo Chavez, sided with the court and was pressing ahead with the referendum, a step the congressmen have called illegal.

The court ruling was part of a clash over a constitutional assembly sought by Correa, who wants to limit the power of a political class he blames for the country's problems.

The tribunal's action came after the 57 members of the 100-seat unicameral Congress signed a petition to start impeachment proceedings against the four judges who approved the referendum. The tribunal has seven members.

The Shia of Bahrain...

Shia on the Arabian peninsula push back against their governments and hardly anyone considers it newsworthy.
In Yemen...
And to the north in Bahrain...

Sitra, Bahrain - Several Shiite villages in Bahrain witnessed heavy clashes between protesters and anti-riot police on overnight Friday, leading to the arrest of at least 10 people.

The most serious of the clashes took place in Sitra, south of the capital Manama, where more than a 100 protesters blocked village roads and set

The new wave of clashes began in the Shiite village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama, on Saturday February 17 after police arrested village resident Radhi Ali Radhi and a second man for their alleged role in February 15 riots in which police came under Molotov cocktail attack.

The Shia of Yemen...

Shia on the Arabian peninsula push back against their governments and hardly anyone considers it newsworthy.

In Yemen...

SANA’A - At least 160 Shia rebel fighters were killed in two weeks of fierce fighting with army forces in the northern Yemeni province of Saada, a military official said Wednesday.

The official, whose name was not published, said in a statement that “commanding elements” in the outlawed Believing Youth armed group were among those killed in the battles.

The statement, posted on a website run by the defence ministry, did not give the death toll among the army forces.

Saada, some 230 kilometres north of Sana’a, has been the scene of fierce battles between the army and Shia rebels for more than two months.

Take a look if you want to know more about the Believing Youth and the recent conflict in Yemen.

John Edwards, "I Never Thought Of It Quite That Way."

Talk about trying to eat your cake and have it to.
John Edwards at Beliefnet ( which I actually lifted from relapsedcatholic)

Do you think that America is a Christian nation?

That's a good question. I never thought of it quite that way. There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation. I guess the word "Christian" is what bothers me, even though I'm a Christian. I think that America is a nation of faith. I do believe that. Certainly by way of heritage--there's a powerful Christian thread through all of American history.

Europe and Its Jews; France and its Crimes

Old habits die hard for some Frenchmen...

Former French Prime Minister Raymon Barre has sparked an uproar within the Jewish community after accusing “the Jewish lobby” of making “a scapegoat” of Maurice Papon, a French senior official who signed deportation orders for hundreds of Jews in the Bordeaux region during WWII.

In an interview last week with France Culture, a state-run radio station, Barre also said that “opposing the deportation of Jews had not been a matter of “major national interest.”

It seems everything old and new must be swept under the rug...

The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.

The Dark Nights of the Kremlin Critics

Being a critic of Russian Tsar ,oops I mean President Vladimer Putin is rapidly becoming as dangerous an occupation as being a police recruit in Baghdad.
Today Russian military correspondent Ivan Safronov in moment fell from the window of five-story building in Moscow. Colleagues say he had been working on a story detailing sales of high technology weapons to rogue regimes in the Middle East. Last week Paul Joyal, a critic or the Putin Government, was shot outside his home in Maryland. When one adds this to the case of the radioactive man Alexander Litivinenko and a host of lesser known names such as Yuri Shchekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya and Vladimir Sukhomlin the body count is fast approaching alarming proportions.
It seems now that the strong arm tactics are spreading out from print and television to the internet as well. Here's the story from Publius Pundit.

The Continuing Adventures of Baldrick

While celebrity gossip is not my cup of tea I have written about Tony Robinson before, and I suppose I can justify this since he is one of the more politically active actors in the British Isles.
So...

Take one (much) younger lover. Move her in. Oh, and let your ex-girlfriend share your home too. As Baldrick (aka Tony Robinson) would say, it's a cunning plan

Tussle in Tallinn Over Red Statue

Yet more wit and wisdom from the Guardian .
Here we have Konstantin Kosachev denouncing the plans of the Estonian government to remove a monument in central Tallinn to the Soviet soldiers who "liberated" Estonia from the Nazis. Many Estonians consider their relationship with the Red Army not the most fortunate event in their history and there have been violent clashes at the site between Russian and Estonian speakers.
Kosachev gives his own take on that bit of Baltic history (italics added)...

Estonians argue that the liberation of their country by Soviet soldiers was in fact the beginning of a new occupation. But a distinction must be made between the political realities of the day and the ordinary people who fought in the war. The Stalinist, communist state that according to Estonian radicals occupied Estonia also brought political repression for millions in the rest of the Soviet Union. The secret protocols of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, which assigned the Baltic states to the Soviet sphere of influence, were condemned by the Soviet parliament as long ago as 1989, and declared null and void.

Moreover, the men and women who fought in the Red Army believed they were ridding the world of fascism - and that is what they did. They and their children can't be held responsible for crimes committed later. It is unforgivable to equate liberators with occupiers.

So when actually does he think the crimes of Stalin took place ?
Does he think the Estonians are worked up over the way they were treated in the 1970's


By the way is it me or does the statue look like it was designed by Jack Kirby?

Cowboy Take Them Away

The people who actually listen to country music seem to be less then impressed with the Dixie Chicks lastest effort.
I am sure Keith Olberman will be scandalized.

Vice Preidential Rumours

So if Cheney is forced to step down due to his health problems, who would Bush tap to replace him?
Will he display yet more of his faith in time servers, or will he do something daring and pick lets say......Guliani ?
Now that would throw a monkey wrench in everyone's presidential plans.

John Edwards Discovers Sermon on the Mount. Cuts Top Off Mount, Builds House There.

It seems that John Edwards has left off channeling dead babies in court cases and now has decided to channel the Saviour on the internet.
I will not stoop to mention the impropriety of a man who has a 28,200 square-foot home complete with a squash court lecturing people on how Jesus would be appalled at the "selfishness of Americans."

Fumento on Merck and HPV

More on Merck and the HPV vaccine scandal (OK, it should be a scandal) from Michael Fumento. You would think Conservatives would be up in arms over this topic since it concerns their daughters' health.
But I suppose their to busy inserting their shivs into Ann Coulter.

Below is the actual text of the Virginia HPV Vaccine law...

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 32.1-46 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 32.1-46. Immunization of patients against certain diseases.

A. The parent, guardian or person standing in loco parentis of each child within this Commonwealth shall cause such child to be immunized in accordance with the Immunization Schedule developed and published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The required immunizations for attendance at a public or private elementary, middle or secondary school, child care center, nursery school, family day care home or developmental center shall be those set forth in the State Board of Health Regulations for the Immunization of School Children. The Board's regulations shall at a minimum require:

1. A minimum of three properly spaced doses of hepatitis B vaccine (HepB).

2. A minimum of three or more properly spaced doses of diphtheria toxoid. One dose shall be administered on or after the fourth birthday. A booster dose shall be administered prior to entering the sixth grade if at least five years have passed since the last dose of diphtheria toxoid.

3. A minimum of three or more properly spaced doses of tetanus toxoid. One dose shall be administered on or after the fourth birthday. A booster dose of Tdap vaccine shall be administered prior to entering the sixth grade if at least five years have passed since the last dose of tetanus toxoid.

4. A minimum of three or more properly spaced doses of acellular pertussis vaccine. One dose shall be administered on or after the fourth birthday. A booster dose shall be administered prior to entry into the sixth grade if at least five years have passed since the last dose of pertussis vaccine.

5. Two or three primary doses of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine, depending on the manufacturer, for children up to 60 months of age.

6. Two properly spaced doses of live attenuated measles (rubeola) vaccine. The first dose shall be administered at age 12 months or older.

7. One dose of live attenuated rubella vaccine shall be administered at age 12 months or older.

8. One dose of live attenuated mumps vaccine shall be administered at age 12 months or older.

9. All susceptible children born on and after January 1, 1997, shall be required to have one dose of varicella vaccine on or after 12 months.

10. Three or more properly spaced doses of oral polio vaccine (OPV) or inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). One dose shall be administered on or after the fourth birthday. A fourth dose shall be required if the three dose primary series consisted of a combination of OPV and IPV.

11. Two to four doses, dependent on age at first dose, of properly spaced pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate (PVC) vaccine for children less than two years of age.

12. Three doses of properly spaced human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for females. The first dose shall be administered before the child enters the sixth grade.

The parent, guardian or person standing in loco parentis may have such child immunized by a physician or registered nurse or may present the child to the appropriate local health department, which shall administer the vaccines required by the State Board of Health Regulations for the Immunization of School Children without charge.

B. A physician, registered nurse or local health department administering a vaccine required by this section shall provide to the person who presents the child for immunizations a certificate that shall state the diseases for which the child has been immunized, the numbers of doses given, the dates when administered and any further immunizations indicated.

C. The vaccines required by this section shall meet the standards prescribed in, and be administered in accordance with, regulations of the Board.

D. The provisions of this section shall not apply if:

1. The parent or guardian of the child objects thereto on the grounds that the administration of immunizing agents conflicts with his religious tenets or practices, unless an emergency or epidemic of disease has been declared by the Board, or

2. The parent or guardian presents a statement from a physician licensed to practice medicine in Virginia, or a licensed nurse practitioner, that states that the physical condition of the child is such that the administration of one or more of the required immunizing agents would be detrimental to the health of the child.; or

3. After having reviewed materials describing the link between the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer approved for such use by the Board, a parent or guardian may elect, on an appropriate form prescribed by the Board, for his child not to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine.

E. For the purpose of protecting the public health by ensuring that each child receives age-appropriate immunizations, any physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, licensed institutional health care provider, local or district health department, the Virginia Immunization Information System, and the Department of Health may share immunization and patient locator information without parental authorization, including, but not limited to, the month, day, and year of each administered immunization; the patient's name, address, telephone number, birth date, and social security number; and the parents' names. The immunization information; the patient's name, address, telephone number, birth date, and social security number; and the parents' names shall be confidential and shall only be shared for the purposes set out in this subsection.

F. The State Board of Health shall review this section annually and make recommendations for revision by September 1 to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the Joint Commission on Health Care.

2. That the provisions of this act shall become effective on October 1, 2008.

Legislative Information System

Coulter Continuation

Google News gives us some perspective on the hypocritical outrage factor in the Ann Coulter mock controversy.

Google News results at 11:00 AM 3/5/2007 for.... Coulter Edwards....398

Google News results at 11:20 AM 3/5/2007 for.....Maher Cheney........29

I am still patiently waiting for all the calls for Obama, Hillary, et al to denounce Bill Maher.

At least some people get it, though they still throw in the requisite Ann bashing

Six Months of Posting

Coulter Shock: A History

This isn't the first time that Coulter has been used as a dodge by the Media to avoid criticizing Democrats; and used by the "kiss up" Right to show how "mainstream" they really are. There were the controversial comments by New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi whose joke about Sen. Schumer "putting a bullet between the president's eyes" while at a school commencement ceremony was only worth about 36 hours of the news cycle. The ethically challenged Hevesi's mea culpa was immediately accepted as ending the controversy. Then Ann Coulter made her comment about the Jersey Girls enjoying their widowhood and that became one of the major tsk-tsk moment of the year.

Coulter Shock

Bill Maher regrets the Taliban's lack of assassination skill... and the media has a collective yawn.

Ann Coulter use the "F" word to refer to John Edwards (not that "F"word, that's only for prospective Edwards' bloggers) and the wails and gnashing of teeth from the Left and the "kiss up" Right could deafen a man.

I think that someone should come up with a word for this use of an Ann Coulter or a Dinesh D'Souza as convenient straw men of the Right who can be periodically beaten to show the Media, "See we're the good conservatives, please, please, invite us to your dinner parties."

Why don't we call it a "McCaining"

Ponzi Scheme Environmentalism

The current crop of Democratic candidates for the top of the greasy pole have the beautiful ability to keep any self respecting blogger in topics......well, indefinitely. And if you ever think that well is starting to dry up there are always candidates of days past such as the mysterious aluminum smelter known as Al Gore. Al Gore, who from the looks of things shouldn't be making documentaries (or should I call them docudramas?) but should instead be starring in remakes of Elmer Gantry.
Read BillHobbs.com below dear readers and weep for crying...

In its original story, The Tennessean reported that Gore buys "carbon offsets" to compensate for his home's use of energy from carbon-based fuels. As Wikipedia explains, a carbon offset "is a service that tries to reduce the net carbon emissions of individuals or organizations indirectly, through proxies who reduce their emissions and/or increase their absorption of greenhouse gases."
(SNIP)
So far, so good. But how Gore buys his "carbon offsets," as revealed by The Tennessean raises serious questions. According to the newspaper's report, Gore buys his carbon offsets through Generation Investment Management:

Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets. The firm invests the money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe...

Gore is chairman of the firm and, presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he "buys" his "carbon offsets" from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy "carbon offsets" through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.

Home Schooling in Germany

More from the Brussels Journal on the sad fate (so far) of a homeschooled German girl taken away from her parents by a state that has shown itself incredibly hostile to the idea that children do not belong to the state. They seem to be taking psychiatry lessons from the Soviets.

Melissa Busekros was examined by us. She has a childhood emotional disorder, severe school phobia and an oppositional denial-syndrome. Melissa lacks insight into her illness and the need for treatment, and considers herself healthy and her behaviour fully normal. M. needs urgent help in a closed setting if need be, and subsequent special education treatment to ensure schooling.

Imagine being afraid of being place in an institution run by German bureaucrats.

Yoda Says "Green You Shall Be"

More on the Canadian military. Or at least its political leaders.

OTTAWA (AFP) - A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday.
"I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation ... that could be a way to save our planet," Paul Hellyer, 83, told the Ottawa Citizen.

Alien spacecrafts would have traveled vast distances to reach Earth, and so must be equipped with advanced propulsion systems or used exceptional fuels, he told the newspaper.

Such alien technologies could offer humanity alternatives to fossil fuels, he said, pointing to the enigmatic 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico -- which has become a shrine for UFO believers -- as an example of alien contact.
"We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if applied quickly enough," he said.

Hellyer became defense minister in former prime minister Lester Pearson's cabinet in 1963, and oversaw the controversial integration and unification of Canada's army, air force and navy into the Canadian Forces.

He's right of course. Imagine how small Al Gore's carbon footprint would be if he could use a Stargate.
Can you use a Dilithium Crystal to heat a house?