Monday, December 31, 2007


Some straight talk from Fred Thompson at the end of 2007... worth watching because he assumes you, the voting public, are capable of thinking about ideas. What a concept!

Sunday, December 30, 2007






1. The "Not Insane" To Do List--everyone needs one for the New Year

2. A terrifying video from a previously unknown terror group! Nevertheless, Western civilization seems doomed.

3. Somehow I wouldn't feel safe with their kind of "protection". Having failed with every other proposal, perhaps raw sex will help Mideast Peace? Or is legal defeatism all there is?

4. Progress in Iraq...gays hardest hit. A grim milestone in Iraq you won't hear about. Someone should give a clue to the guy in the cave...cause he's too busy reading the NY Times to know what's really going on.

5. The 800 lb gorilla at the Holiday dinner!

6. Meanwhile, Iran is well and truly pwned!

7. A comic extravaganza. For real comic relief, go here and follow instructions.

8. Levels of stupid. This is definitely weapons-grade stupid.

9. Don't ask and she won't tell....

10. Hillary's Christmas promises...a way of storing up virtue in heaven? Yes...the only sensible way is to spend other people's money! Otherwise known as Tax, Tax, Tax! Well, it all depends on what your definition of "creative" is, doesn't it?

11. Don't be optimistic about it; it's not fashionable. Damn capitalism.

12. Are you man enough for this? Fathers should weep. He's man enough for PETA.

13. How about a bottomless male to lure the female perverts? A Tit Offensive?

14. When the Anglo-Saxons are thoroughly disoriented and freaked out, then the fingerlickin’ begins!

15. Sehr traurig, indeed.

16. Why not combine curling and skeleton for the next Winter Olympics?

17. Personally I think it is the lunacy induced by crowds.

18. You've got plenty to be thankful have a




Heard the Word of Blog?

Saturday, December 29, 2007











    What planet do these people live on?


    Friday, December 28, 2007


    ...or rather, from reality:
    The past three months have seen an odd turn in the presidential primary process in both parties — a turn away from the key issues confronting the United States and toward emotional and social vapor. The success of the surge in Iraq, coupled with the bizarre “we’re safe” reading of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, drained some of the passion from the anti-war fervor in the Democratic primary electorate and from the hawkish fervor of the Republican primary electorate....

    The horrifying assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan this morning comes only one week before the Iowa caucuses and 12 days before New Hampshire. It is a sobering and frightening reminder of the challenges and threats and dangers posed to the United States by radical Islam, the nature of the struggle being waged against the effort to extend democratic freedoms in the Muslim world, and the awful possibility of a nuclear Pakistan overrun by Islamofascists. This is what the next president will be compelled by circumstance to spend a plurality of his or her time on. This is what really matters, not the cross Mike Huckabee lit up behind his head in his Christmas ad.


    The question becomes, how much more psychological denial can the various segments of our society indulge in? How much longer can they blind themselves to the sobering reality that threatens us and which has been obvious since 2001?

    There is plenty of psychological denial to go around these days, and it exists at varying levels and different degrees of severity. I'm sure you've heard the many perpetual whiners of the left complain loudly about how hyped the Islamist threat is and how it is distracting us from the "real" enemy,Bush, who stands in the way of leftist truth, social justice and the progressive marxist agenda.

    As an example, consider this run of the mill, ideological hack from the lefty blogsphere, who isjust one of the many leftists in denial about terrorism-- Glenn Greenwald routinely claims that "fear of terrorism" has been "inflamed and exploited" by the Bush Administration for the purpose of gaining power:


    This great leftist intellect is essentially arguing that--instead of facing the undeniable reality of Islamic fanaticism that clearly and unambiguously state their intentions to kill or enlave us--we should first close our eyes and pretend it doesn't exist; and then simply chant repeatedly the soothing and calming leftist mantra the only thing to fear, the only threat to this country and the world is...President Bush. Everything bad that happens in the world is because he either did something or he did nothing--take your pick. Even Bhutto's assassination can be blamed on him.

    As I have written many times, this clever psychological maneuver is a common defense mechanism caled displacement . Just yesterday I was called out for daring to use the term "BDS" for a very specific, ongoing and pervasive psychological displacement utilized by a vast majority of the political left, by "Tbogg", one of a group of shallow and juvenile leftist bloggers who think its clever to accuse me of penis envy, since that's the only area of Freudian psychology they are familiar with; having picked up the term in their youth, one supposes, because the word "penis" aroused a few of their sluggish synapses for a brief time.

    Just for the record, there are quite a number penises I not only do not envy, but for which I feel complete contempt.

    Returning to the excellent example of denial and displacement that Greenwald provides for this discussion, there is almost always a strong element of paranoia that is present; as well as a noticeable touch of projection and frequent hysteria--though he believes he is being "logical" and "rational" (and don't forget "progressive"!) ; and that such rhetoric can be used to describe relatively normal people justifiably afraid of irrational fanatics not amenable to reason. The implication is that the only purpose such "fears" (deemed "inappropriate" by Greenwald) are being manipulated must be to "justify illegal actions."

    The basic tenor of Greenwald's fear of Bush is easy to deduce: while we are fighting this illusory enemy, The Bushitler and his even more evil sidekick Cheney, have been amassing power and will soon set themselves up as a dictators and destroy our freedom as they amass oil weath. I will let you decide who we have to fear more--the President of the United States or the religious fanatics of Islam who want to obtain nuclear weapons and have issued a religious fatwa justifying using them? Who do we have to fear more: those who are trying to prevent another 9/11,... or those who would like nothing better than to do something even worse in our country? Who do we have to fear more: George W. Bush, who will without much fuss (or even regret, I imagine) pass the incredible power of the American Presidency to whomever is chosen by the laws of this land in 2008,... or those who routinely contest elections via suicide bombs and mass killings? As Cliff May points out, "Why bother with opeds, TV commercials, high-priced campaign strategists, spin doctors and pollsters when with one suicide bomber you can eliminate your opponent entirely?"

    In any event, as pleasant as the fantasy is, we cannot take a vacation from history; nor---if we value our lives and our freedoms-- can we close our eyes and take a holiday from the reality that exists, whether we want it to or not.

    Thursday, December 27, 2007


    Much is being written and said about Benazir Bhutto's assasination and the mythology and reality of her life. I think the most important issue that needs to be remembered by the West comes from Cliff May at The Corner:
    Pakistan Lessons




    Hard to argue with the logic.

    You begin to understand why concepts such as freedom or democracy have very little meaning to the primitive barbarians we are fighting around the globe.


    The holidays are over and, sadly, it's back to politics as usual.

    You might say every Iowan is a "fiddler on the roof" trying to pick out a pleasant, simple presidential tune that the rest of the country will be able to sing along, without falling off and breaking their collective neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do they insist on being the first state to vote in the presidential primaries if it's so dangerous?' Well, they think it makes them special and gives them political clout. So, how do they keep their balance? That I can tell you in two words: they don't!

    They think that, like the proverbial matchmaker, they will find America the perfect match....


    Well somebody else should pick the candidates,
    Ordinary Americans can't decide these things themselves.

    They might choose someone wonderful----
    Someone qualified----

    And sensitive----

    And honest---

    Iowa, Iowa,
    Pick me a prez,
    Watch his behavior,
    Ignore what he says
    Iowa, Iowa
    Look at them all,
    And then simply make your call!

    Iowa, Iowa,
    Next year we'll vote,
    On your nominee,
    Who will it be?
    Pick me a candidate I can adore,
    There's nothing that I want more.

    For us righties:
    Make him a Reagan!

    For Lefties:
    A Hugo Chavez!

    [For me, well,
    I'd like the former;
    A clown won't make a good prez.]

    Iowa, Iowa,
    Pick us a prez,
    Watch her behavior,
    Ignore what she says....

    Day after day we read all the blogs
    So find us a prince
    In these frogs.


    Leftists, Dear Leftists,
    Have I got a pick for you!
    She's female and young!
    All right, she's 62.
    But she's a nice girl, a good wife, true?

    I promise you'll be happy,
    And even if you're not,
    There's more to life than pursuing happiness---
    Don't ask me what.

    Dear Neocons, I found him!
    You're lucky that I did!
    He's handsome, he's glib,
    And only rarely tells a fib.
    But he's a nice man, a saintly man, right?

    You heard he's got religion.
    You're just not sure which one,
    But he stands for family values (you hope)
    When all is said and done.

    Did you think you'd find a prince?
    When you kissed a frog or two?
    This is politics, not fantasy
    You'll have to make do!

    Iowa, Iowa,
    You're just the first
    There's still lots of time,
    So please, do your worst.

    Until this minute,
    We hid all our fears,
    But we could get stuck for four years!

    Dear Iowans,
    Make sure he/she's real
    You must live with the deal...
    This whole big endless campaign
    Is getting insane
    And completely surreal!

    Iowa, Iowa,
    Give them all a defeat;
    I'm in no rush;
    I'm getting cold feet.
    The truth is never a sin
    And among all these losers
    Someone's sure to win....!

    Please go away
    And leave me alone
    Pick me no prez
    There's not much of Reagan
    And too much Chavez;
    They all make me nervous
    I can't hide my dread,
    No matter what he--or she--says.

    Wednesday, December 26, 2007


    Consider the results of the latest Gallup Poll.

    On the one hand, Hillary nudged out Oprah for "Most Admired Woman". On the other hand, President Bush is still the "Most Admired Man".

    Most BDS sufferers will probably suffer a debilitating relapse when they read the above; and probably be unable to get any relief from their incapacitating symptoms from the fact that Bill Clinton came in a very close second (knowing Bill, it's even likely he would have come in 2nd in the first category--if only his name had been on the list of choices--and likewise for "Most Admired Black Person").

    In fact, our 42nd President comes to mind frequently these days.

    [More Cartoons by Gary McCoy]




























    As Charles Krauthammer recently noted in a column:

    But the serious voices will prevail.




    [More Cartoons by Michael Ramirez]

    Monday, December 24, 2007


    I'm not at all sure yet who I support for President, but I like this ad and can't think of a better sentiment to express this Holiday.

    Thank you for your service to our country and for making the sacrifice to protect me and my family. May you soon be reunited with your loved ones. My family and I wish you a very Merry Christmas!

    Sunday, December 23, 2007







    2. They make it their business never to forget.








    10. The 12 [Crazy] Days of Christmas!






    16. Move Christmas to June??

    17. Bad Santa's.

    18. God is your co-pilot.






    Heard the Word of Blog?

    Friday, December 21, 2007


    I will be pretty much taking off from blogging until after Christmas.

    A ***Special Christmas Edition*** of the Carnival of the Insanities will be posted this Sunday morning; and I should be back later in the week.

    I wish you and yours a very Joyous Christmas!

    Wednesday, December 19, 2007


    From a recent news article:





    The fantasy that the Annapolis talks have "launched" some sort of peace process in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinians is just that, a fantasy.

    The truth of that conflict is somewhat different than many would like to pretend.

    Gagdad Bob once wisely pointed out at One Cosmos that:



    Therapists more than many, appreciate the fact that people engage in all sorts of self-deception all the time. Psychiatry and psychotherapy is essentially a search for the truth; which is sometimes hidden beneath layers and layers of self-deception and cleverly deployed psychological defenses that protect and insulate the individual from confronting something painful and devastating to their world.

    It is for this reason that psychotherapy can take a great deal of courage on the part of the patient; and a great deal of persistant probing on the part of the therapist. Simply put, psychological health and the ability to function optimally in life absolutely depends on being able to recognize reality effectively deal with it. Self-deception is fundamentally dysfunctional, and over the long-term potentially lethal.

    Psychological defense mechanisms are unconscious strategies that are automatically enlisted by the psyche when reality threatens to overwhelm the individual. When an immature defense is put up to block the pain--such as denial or projection-- it may be extremely effective in the short-term, but it sets in motion a cascade of psychological consequences that inevitably result in long-term misery for the individual. An analogy would be the clinical use of methadone--itself a highly and extremely addictive opiate, but with less painful and agonizing withdrawal symptoms--to help a person detox from heroin. The individual however, becomes addicted to the methadone and it must then be maintained for life.

    In the example above that Bob uses, the child is able to retain his love for the abusive parent, but instead concludes that something is wrong with him. This incorrect conclusion, born of faulty psychological logic, will impact his life in all areas: relationships, work and will impede any chances he has to achieve success, personal fulfillment and happiness, or genuine intimacy.

    It is not my intention to suggest that the only way to cope with stress is to use psychological defenses. On the contrary, there are many factors that come into play, such as the individual's temperment and inborn biological/physiological protections; the presence or absence of social or environmental supports, hope and faith and even luck or serendipity may play a role in helping someone get through difficult times.

    In fact, all these factors--biological, social, cultural, religious--all interact together and, in times of stress, have a considerable impact on which psychological defense is ultimately erected to protect the individual.

    And it is all these factors that come into play when trying to understand why a supposedly mature person uses immature psychological defenses.

    If a person experiences an overwhelming number of environmental insults without sufficient biological resiliency, he will fail; if he has enough of the protective environmental factors (e.g., love, health, education) he is relatively invincible to the vissictitudes of life. If he or she is born with normal resilience, but the culture is severely pathological and thus the environment is not conducive to the development of psychological maturity, then the individual will go down with the culture, unless he is able to escape from its influence.

    Let us for the moment say that all biological factors being equal (and, of course, they are not) then the primary determinants will be the degree to which those environmental factors control the life and activities of the person.

    While it is true that even healthy people may transiently use the immature psychological defenses, they do so only as a temporary measure; until they psychologically prepare themselves to deal with the threat. An example is the reflexive denial when suddenly hearing about a loved one's death. The mind is simply not able to handle the catastrophe immediately and it uses simple denial to briefly cope with an unacceptable truth.

    But within a brief time, reality will set in; and, if the confluence of factors in their life has led them to psychological maturity, the ego is able to handle the painful reality--they will suffer, they will grieve, they will grow; and then they are able to move on.

    This process does not happen in some cultures or societies.

    Environmental and cultural factors can encourge individuals to deploy mature defenses; or they may encourage the deployment of the immature and primitive defenses. The immature defenses are infectious. They can spread like an epidemic through a population--particularly if they are culturally or religiously sanctioned. This is because they offer the simplest and most gratifying explanation for an individual's or a society's problems ("It's all the Jews fault!", "If it weren't for those Blacks!", "Republicans hate the poor!" and so on).

    From The Wisdom of the Ego:
    The capacity to use social supports involves the ability to metabolize, as it were, other people once they are found. This capacity is inextricably bound to potential for psychosocial maturation....

    In order to treat the experience of being loved as if it were a gift and neither a danger nor a right, we need the ego capacity of being able to absorb those who love us. If we marry someone much richer than ourselves, shall we feel grateful or envious? If our tennis partner always beats us, doues our game improve or does our self-esteem plummet? If our father is in some was a disaster, are we determined to avenge ourselves by becoming really good fathers, or do we do unto other as was done to us?
    ...the process of metabolizing social supports is far more subtle. We can teach people ideas. We can teach someone to view a glass as half full rather than half empty; we can teach people to have positive attributions. But how to teach people to treat an onrush of love as a gift and not a threat is a more daunting task, one that requires grace or at least consummate skill.

    Ego maturity, and the ability to deploy the healthier, more mature defenses comes about as a result of one's experience with the problems of life and the increasing ability to tolerate paradox. Vaillant recounts this brief story, which is very telling:
    ...a College man who was both a model for mature defenses and a distinguished career diplomat to the Arab world told me that he was on his way to address a B'nai B'rith group. I asked him what he planned to say about the dilemma of Palestine. He replied that he would quote the wise man who observed, "When in a conflict both parties have the moral right on their side, that is the meaning of tragedy." A paradox. Yet Eugene O'Neill suggested that the tragic alone has that significant beauty which is truth. A second paradox. But where does the capacity to tolerate such paradox come from?"

    Let us look for a moment at the tragedy that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One side of that conflict has attempted to come to terms with this paradox multiple times; and has acknowledged that there is moral right on both sides of the conflict. That side has repeatedly and earnestly tried to make peace by giving the other side what it says it wants. That side is Israel, who has given the Palestinians everything they need to create their own state and to make a life for themselves and their people.

    It is the completely dysfunctional Palestinians, whose envy and hate (societally, culturally and religiously inflamed) have led them to repeatedly refuse the gift given freely by the Israelis. Instead, they cling to their denial of the reality of Israel; they resort to a barbaric and primitive paranoia and projection blaming the Israelis and the Jews for their own squandering of billions of dollars, their own choice to spend that money on weapons and arms instead of schools and institutions that might make the future brighter. Indeed, the homicidal and suicidal rage encouraged by the culture is the only behavioral choice that allows them as a culture to keep their distorted grasp of reality intact.

    The social, cultural and religious supports for the individual Palestinians have abjectly failed them and cannot facilitate emotional maturity. And the external social/environmental supports (such as they are) for the entire culture continue to enable the culture's dysfunctional behavior by never permitting them to suffer the consequences of their actions (the enabling by the intellectuals of the West); and by maliciously using their plight for the purpose of oppressing and controlling other middle east populations (their so-called "brothers" and fellow Muslims of the Islamic world).

    Thus, the Palestinians are trapped forever in the grip of an immature, barbaric, and primitive cultural ego; their plight cynically manipulated by their "friends" and fellow muslims; and their dysfunctional behavior rewarded monetarily and excused by the "superior" intellectuals of the West. Homicide and suicide are the lifestyle of choice. [Note: that is why it is especially sickening that the enabling selfless psychopaths in the West, who see themselves as "antiwar" and "peace" activists have chosen to use the headscarf of the Palestinian people as some sort of a fashionable peace symbol. It is indeed a symbol, but not of what they imagine.]

    Here is an interesting reality:
    Dershowitz recounts a telling incident at the University of California, Irvine which is a "hotbed" of anti-Israeli agitation:
    He [Dershowitz ] spoke to a large crowd, and first asked those who considered themselves pro-Israel to raise their hands. About 250 hands were raised. He then asked them if they would accept a Palestinian state, side by side, living in peace with Israel. Every hand went up.

    Then he asked how many considered themselves pro-Palestinian. About 150 hands were raised. Finally, he asked this group whether they would accept a Jewish state of Israel, living side by side in peace with a new Palestinian state. Not a single hand went up.

    In the sick and pathological environment of the dysfunctional Palestinians-- carefully cultured by their fellow Muslims and nurtured by their admirers and supporters in the West--Palestinian children have practically no chance whatsoever of growing up to achieve any degree of emotional or psychological maturity. The environment is far too toxic to support ego maturation. And when they are physically mature, they will pass the psychological toxicity onto their own offspring. Hence, generation after generation will miss the opportunity to break out of the cycle of violence and death to make a better life for themselves and their children.

    This is what happens when the environment encourages the development of seriously immature psychological defenses.

    Meanwhile, the Israelis quietly go on; growing economically, building universities and engaging in civilized behavior, using their psychological and spiritual wisdom as a motivation to keep trying. Surrounded by those who want only to exterminate them, the Israelis have, time and again, refrained for the most part, from giving back what they are receiving. As a society, culture, and a religion, they have achieved a degree of maturity and wisdom that allows them to be dispassionate as well as compassionate, and not indulge in the kind of mass hysteria and dysfunction that is seen daily in their fanatical enemies. As a people they keep on trying and hoping for a breakthrough; because fundamentally, they want to bring about a better life for their children--a simple goal that Jews have always and in all places desired.

    SC&A touched on these issues here and here and rightly points out:
    Now, let’s think about that for a minute. Does anyone seriously believe that there are any Jews, anywhere, that are fixated (read: obsessed) on the Arab world? Does anyone really believe that the vast majority of Jews wake up every morning and ask themselves, ‘What can I do to screw an Arab today?’

    Does anyone really believe that Jews- like everybody else- put aside concern for their family, jobs, community and whatever needs they might have, just so they might focus on undermining the Arabs and Arab world?

    What could Jews- or anyone else, for that matter, anywhere, do to Arabs what their own dysfunctional political and ‘religious’ leadership haven’t already done to insure the failure of Arab society? As it is, according to the UN Human Development report, the Arab world already has just about the lowest levels of education in the world, save for sub Saharan Africa

    Further, when it comes to those who encourage and enable Palestinian dysfunction:
    A rational and civilized person would see the situation for what it is. A desperate bigot would will rationalize and attempt to divert attention away from the obvious- because in acknowledging obvious realities, they have to acknowledge their own failures. To a bigot or anyone with with clear psychopathies, that is intolerable. To see that the emperor they worship has no clothes is for them, catastrophic, because they cannot tolerate the truths that expose them. For example, supposedly ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ ideologies are ferociously adamant in their support of the Palestinian and Arab causes, notwithstanding the openly misogynistic, anti gay and racist ideologies they espouse. They cannot repudiate those agendas, because to do so would be to admit that their supposed ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ ideologies are a facade. Their primary interests lie in their own gratification and self aggrandizement. Violence against gays, women and minorities is acceptable as long as it takes place far away. The moment someone speaks in away they don’t like, they work themselves into a frenzy. To attack an unknown in a faraway place is acceptable- to attack their ideas is to unleash an irrational and even violent fury.

    What do the Palestinians want? They encourage their children to blow themselves up and die so that the adults can maintain their "honor" and continue on the path of destruction and death. This is not behavior compatible with either individual or cultural health. In fact, it is a culture that is inexorably pursuing suicide with a breathtaking single-mindedness.

    In order to grow psychologically and develop the ego strength to live in a civilized world, the children of Palestine requre a different environment. If some Pied Piper could lead them away from the broken and severely impaired adults; or if someone called those adults to account for the irrational, culturally sanctined malignant narcissism that is cloaked in religious sanctimony--then there might one day be a resolution to the tragedy and a future for today's Palestinian children.

    A healthy environment--one that encourages healthy relationships between men and women; and between all individuals--is essential so that children can learn to deal appropriately with loss, sorrow and all the unbearable unfairness of life that characterizes the human condition. In such environments, the individual thrives, matures, and gains the wisdom necessary to change what is able to be changed. In such environments, there is no need to encourage denial, paranoia or projection, because the resultant psychological maturity permits access to the mature emotional defenses that give meaning and bring satisfaction to life.

    Each of the mature defenses which help the mature adult resolve the ambiguities and paradoxes of his or her life, has an inherent paradox associated with it (see the Table below).

    Civilized societies and cultures encourage and support the individual in the pursuit of his or her own life, happiness and psychological growth. These societies do not lay claim to an individual's life for the glory of the state; and in turn all members of the societey benefit as the culture's productivity, wealth and benevolence increases.

    In other words, paradoxically, those political, economic, cultural and religious factors that encourage what is best for the individual's growth and maturity, are exactly what encourage the positive evolution and maturation of societies and cultures.

    Psychological maturity makes all the difference in the world between war and peace. Mature psychological defenses enable creative solutions to conflicts in ways that are positive for both the individual and society. They also permit the use of force for self-defense when necessary, without all the useless hand-wringing and vapid moralizing about "peace" and "brotherhood" --which is essentially a manifestation of psychological denial and represents an aggressive attempt to avoid dealing with reality.

    The immature defenses--such as denial, projection, paranoia--are not amenable to reason; and those who use them cannot be negotiated with. On the contrary, the use of such defenses by any nation or a culture or group inexorably whittles away at civilized behavior, eventually causing the individuals within the culture to abandon it completely. When a culture reaches that psychological dead-end, it has no future because the suicidal/homicidal rage will cause it to implode.

    Any peace process that depends on rationality or a desire for peace on the part of the Palestinian and wider Islamic culture of the Middle East is likewise doomed to implode. Hamas will never recognize Israel, nor will they bother to recognize reality, truth, reason, or peace. Until they do, their death worship will continue unabated, aided and abetted by the denialists of the West.

    Tuesday, December 18, 2007


    The Iranians have found a creative use for their Mercedes trucks.

    [Photo by Amir Hesami nejad at]

    I'll bet Mercedes doesn't really care for the free advertising it gets in this photo, however. Do you suppose there will be an outraged leftist surge to boycott corporate evil? Probably not. There's never been any call to boycott computers (or cell phones for that matter) used by terrorists and their apologists.

    Or, radio contests either.

    Meanwhile, in a related story:
    Report: Germany Expelled Iranian Diplomat Over Fuel Enrichment

    Germany expelled an Iranian diplomat in July after he tried to purchase equipment for his country's controversial nuclear program, a German news magazine reported on Saturday, Dec. 15.

    The report, which the German weekly Der Spiegel released in advance of its publication on Monday, said the man was ordered to leave the country in July, but the case had not been disclosed until now.

    The German Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the report.

    UPDATE: Will wonders never cease?


    In this article we have a perfect example of how the "reality-based" among us have managed to project their own perverse dark side onto the innocent...
    A word to anybody planning on visiting Oldham in northern England. All persons in municipal parks are assumed to be perverts, just to be on the safe side:

    Steve Brook and partner Mandy Smith were having a family day out with 11-month-old Rebecca when the council worker swooped.

    "It beggars belief," said Steve, 35. "The fact that a mummy and daddy can't take a picture of their own daughter is ridiculous... I asked him why and he said it was illegal to take pictures of children in the park. I explained it was my own daughter but he still said it wasn't allowed."


    ...even as they cheerfully exonerate and protect the guilty, and make sure the guilty are not judged-- or made to feel excluded in any way.

    As Steyn notes, it's a sign of the times--or, rather a state of the delusion of the times--that in trying to be so "safe and welcoming for all" we have slipped the fragile bonds of reality and common sense, all for the sake of political correctness and deluding ourselves about wonders of inclusiveness and diversity.

    We are all perverts now.

    Except, of course, for the real perverts of our times, who are given a free pass-- as this article demonstrates:
    It's the episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie that I missed. The one where the father is so angry with his teenage daughter for not wearing the hijab that he strangles her to death. Perhaps it will be in the special features section of the DVD version, released just in time for the holiday that used to be known as Christmas, but not any longer because the word might hurt someone's feelings.

    Not that we know why, or even if Muhammad Parvez killed his 16-year-old daughter Aqsa last week in Mississauga, Ont. But we do know that he has been charged with the crime and that friends told reporters there had been terrible arguments about Aqsa's refusal to wear Islamic head covering and that she wanted a different path from that of her family.

    Most Canadian Muslim leaders immediately condemned what had happened but it didn't take very long for the usual suspects to explain on radio and television that the tragedy had nothing to do with the Muslim faith and that all religions contain extremism. Islam, we were told, is a religion of peace.



    And so on, and so on, and so case after nauseating case.

    In this sorry state of delusion, the only real discussion amounts to, who is more perverted? The misogynistic and sadistic Islamists? Or their politically correct leftist enablers?

    Or, as someone has said in a related context, "Something this unprecedented goes beyond religious toleration."

    Very true. Beyond tolerance--religious or otherwise--and straight to self-delusion.

    UPDATE: Join Siggy, ShrinkWrapped, Neo, and me on our latest podcast as we discuss the religious murder of Aqsa Parvez by her father--and its psychological ramifications.

    Click below to listen:

    Monday, December 17, 2007


    Tonight's topics will include the recent murder of a teen age girl in Canada by her religious Father, who was upset because she wouldn't wear a hijab; and the reaction of Islamic groups to her killing. If there's time, we'll switch topics to the national political scene and talk about Lieberman's endorsement of McCain, Huckabee's rise and Hillary's descent.

    Join Siggy, ShrinkWrapped, Neo, and me for some psychological and political analysis that's sure to be provocative and, hopefully, annoying.

    Click below to listen live at 8 PM tonight:

    CALL-IN Number during show is (646) 716-9116


    David Freddoso make a very good point in a post at The Corner about godless ideologies and Europe:
    Communism and National Socialism (both of which are godless, or at least an explicit rejection of Christianity) wholeheartedly embraced the notion that violence, murder, and the deliberate degradation of human dignity (genocide, abolition of property rights and of the human family) are legitimate means to acheiving their ends. Nothing can be further from a Christian worldview than the assertion that "the end justifies the means." The Communists and Nazis directly responsible for murdering more than 100 million people in the 20th Century were being strictly obedient to their ideologies — they were good Communists and Nazis, embracing the notion that human life can be treated as valueless if such treatment advances the proper ends.

    We have been passing through an age of secular utopianism, in which some thinkers decided that it is acceptable to sacrifice individuals for what they perceive to be the common good. Their followers have done the rest.

    I never meant to assert that Europe was all happy ponies before it lost its faith. In earlier centuries, kings and princes — and yes, popes — abused Christianity for political ends with horrible consequences (note that they are viewed as bad Christians).

    Freddoso and others at The Corner were discussing a recent op-ed piece by Charles Krauthammer, "An Overdose of Public Piety", in which he discusses two arguments about the role of religion in politics:






    The philosophical premises that deconstruct that tradition are only a few centuries old, but already they have managed to generate more human misery, suffering, and death from the various utopian ideologies which they unleashed than in all the centuries that preceeded. It can be argued and has been, that this catastrophe is a direct result of the "death of God" in human affairs.

    You see, "good" communists, as Freddoso argues, not only don't believe in a god, they have also abandoned the rational metaphysics and epistemology that is required for an ethics that prioritizes human life as basis for what is good. In an existence where objective reality doesn't exist; and where the human mind is disconnected from it, anything goes. This is postmodernism at its finest and in its ultimate manifestation. And it is from the darkness of that manifestation that communism, socialism and fascism --and their 21st century iterations: radical Islam and radical environmentalism (see here for a more complete discussion of this)-- have erupted into history, all of them variations on the same totalitarian theme in the the postmodern philosophical songbook.


    The radical Islamists, far from being an example of a "good" religion are the living, breathing examples of everything that "bad" religion could possibly be--in essence, they are an "anti-religion" religion in the same way that radical environmentalism has become the left's bad secular religion. The epidemic of "religiously" motivated murder has been taken to new extremes by the fanatics of Islam, who regularly make us aware of their lack of a good ethical Ideal (see "Union With An Evil God").

    And, Mark Steyn ( "The earth is your fuhrer") demonstrates the logical extreme of today's enviromental-fascists, whose ethical "Ideal" is the indifferent physical planet whom they worship as Gaia/God in much the same way their primitive ancestors worshipped the sun or moon--they are even now planning the sacrifices necessary to placate the whim of those destructive gods:
    Here's one for Jonah's Liberal Fascism files. Bigshot eco-panjandrum lays down the law:


    When religion is rooted in human freedom, as it is in the Judeo-Christian tradition, then it is able to enhance human life and give meaning and purpose to that life. When it is perverted and used for secular political ends--by either the political left or right who want to impose or mandate some social policy or another on others, then it inevitably leads to oppression and cheapens or devalues human life.

    Even on his best day, a "good" communist, socialist, fascist etc. will never be any better than a really "bad" Christian.

    Sunday, December 16, 2007


    In light of Hillary's precipitous drop in the polls lately, it is clear that this drug is her only hope and needs to be disseminated immediately!





    ***Submissions with a holiday theme may be saved for the Christmas/Holiday Carnival!**


    1. A National Intelligence Estimate you won't see! Oh dear! Goodbye, cruel world.... Hoodwinked!

    2. The mullahs are punked; Hamas is its usual paranoid psychotic self; and the CIC makes excuses for a murderer and blames the victim. All in a day's work for the religion of peace! But then they can always count on the Dhimmicrats.

    3. Which reminds me...what's the big deal about this? We've already got lots of grown men and women who are unafraid of [Islamic] predators. This would be a much more practical mutation!

    4. Conventionally ignorant? Poof! The vanishing war. Meanwhile, in Michigan they line up to take jobs in....Iraq.

    5. The Pope lashes out at religious fundamentalists ! And there are some icy roadblocks that impede true belief.

    6. Twas the week before Chanukah...and in Turtle Bay... they won't wipe Israel off the map, but these children may...

    7. Ix-nay on the Ihad-Jay

    8. Black like him?

    9.Facebook? No. THIS is my preferred social network!

    10. Immanuel Kant for President?. And running against Nietzche?

    11. You call those insane taxes? These are insane taxes! Tax babies to save the planet.

    12. Hugo turns back the clock on progress. Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

    13. Victimhood poker world series! One of the many protected poor little contestants. But you can win the hand life deals you without having/being a straight! Vagino-Americans and least it's upfront.

    14. A mild case of Ebola? It's like a mild case of envirofanaticism.

    15. There's certainly no joy in Mudville....Maybe the solution is to force everyone to take steroids?

    16. Saliva control is a must.

    17. Sooner or later they're gonna get ya.

    18. Blogs R Sisu!



    Heard the Word of Blog?

    Saturday, December 15, 2007


    [More Cartoons by Eric Allie ]

    [More Cartoons by Michael Ramirez]

    A word of warning to the Democrats: "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"

    Friday, December 14, 2007


    The dustbin of history eagerly awaits the apparatchiks from Hugo's little revolutionary Cuban-wannabe hell-hole:



    Workers of the world, unite! Rise up! You have nothing to lose but those oppressive marxist thugs who promise you everything, but only manage to suck away all your liberty, your wealth, and your pride. Get rid of all the stupid and hypocritical oppressors who are working so hard to bring you poverty and misery even as they line their own pockets and live the high life.

    Viva La Revolucion!

    Thursday, December 13, 2007



    1-No Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
    2-The 2003 Invasion was Illegal.
    3-Sanctions were working.
    4-Overthrowing Saddam Only Helped Iran.
    5-The Invasion Was a Failure.
    6-The Invasion Helped Al Qaeda.
    7-Iraq Is In A State of Civil War.
    8-Iraqis Were Better Off Under Saddam.
    10- The War in Iraq is Lost.








































