Monthly Archives: March 2007

China Watch

ChiCom Continues to Build Military Capability Against US

China has gained and tested array of space weapons

Bill Gertz at the Washington Times is a national treasure…his reporting on the ChiComs is unmatched anywhere…although at times the Chief

China is developing an “impressive” array of space weapons, including missiles and jammers, and is moving toward placing nuclear weapons in space to attack U.S. satellites, the commander of U.S. strategic forces told the Senate yesterday.

There’s a lot more in this piece…well worth the look, but not something to give one peace of mind.

Culture Wars, Uncategorized

The Constancy of Verbal Diarrhea

Rosie Rants On

Rosie O’Donnell is just about uninteresting any more, but sometimes is just so far out in left field that the Chief can’t resist an easy shot.

In this case, whe’s accused the US and UKof fomenting the Persian Gulf hostage taking to gain a casus belli with Iran. Uh, Rosie, we already HAVE that (if only we would use it!) in the Iranian manufacture of explosive devices & weapons exported to undermine Iraq, and the capture of Iranian officers and officials inside Irag training and aiding Islamoterrs inside Iraq.

Just to keep it up, and move into the realm of aluminum foil beanie-wearing, she alos recently jumped on the 9-11 conspiracy bandwagon, based on the usual assortment of lies, half-truths, and just dumb old ignorance of engineering. Watch her comments in the above link, and then check out this and this from Popular Mechanics, that thoroughly and clearly refutes the moonbat theorists. Sorry folks, reality’s capable of out-bitching Rosie, et al anytime.

Culture Wars

More Moonbattery in Seattle (Where else?)

Banning Legos

And building a world where “all structures will be standard sizes.”

Every so often the Chief runs across an example of moonbats coming up with something so bizarre that it takes ones breath away. These gals up in latte-land have gone so far into left field that they’re no longer in the stadium.

Perhaps you’ve heard about the schools that have banned tag. Or dodgeball. Or stories about pigs. If so, you won’t be surprised to hear that the Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle has banned Legos.

A pair of teachers at the center, which provides afterschool activities for elementary-school kids, recently described their policy in a Rethinking Schools cover story called “Why We Banned Legos.”

It has something to do with “social justice learning.”

In other words, communist indoctrination. This is NOT an exaggeration! It is a simple, factual description.

At Hilltop, however, the teachers strive to make them different. “We recognized that children are political beings, actively shaping their social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity,” write Pelo and Pelojoaquin. “We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children’s understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the Legos out of the classroom.”

The root cause of Hilltop’s Lego problem was that, well, the kids were being kids: There were disputes over “cool pieces,” instances of bigger kids bossing around little ones, and so on. An ordinary person might recognize this as child’s play. But the social theorists at Hilltop saw something else: “The children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys – assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society – a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.”

Wait…there’s more:

The root cause of Hilltop’s Lego problem was that, well, the kids were being kids: There were disputes over “cool pieces,” instances of bigger kids bossing around little ones, and so on. An ordinary person might recognize this as child’s play.

But the social theorists at Hilltop saw something else: “The children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys – assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society – a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive. Pelo and Pelojoaquin continue: “As we watched the children build, we became increasingly concerned.”

So they banned the Legos and began their program of re-education. “Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation,” they write.

Instead of practicing phonics or memorizing multiplication tables, the children played a special game: “In the game, the children could experience what they’d not been able to acknowledge in Legotown: When people are shut out of participation in the power structure, they are disenfranchised – and angry, discouraged, and hurt. … The rules of the game – which mirrored the rules of our capitalist meritocracy – were a setup for winning and losing. … Our analysis of the game, as teachers, guided our planning for the rest of the investigation into the issues of power, privilege, and authority that spanned the rest of the year.”

The one redeeming feature of this is that this at least is not a government school running on tax dollars. The chilling part is to think that there are parents out there who are either willing to pay for this sort of indoctrination, or, are willing to dump their kids into this with no concern for what is actually happening to them.

The Chief’s not sure which is worse.

Looking on the website of this school indoctrination center the perpetrators of this make no bones about where they’re coming from.

WARNING! NAUSEATING CONTENT!
DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A STRONG STOMACH!
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National Insecurity

Donks’ Surrender Plan faces Veto

Democrats’ timetable clears Senate

Senate Democrats yesterday thwarted a Republican effort to strip a troop withdrawal timetable from the Iraq war funding bill — speeding Congress toward a veto showdown with President Bush.

“We are not going to back down from the essential language in this bill,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said of the mandate that a troop pullout start almost immediately with the goal of a complete exit by next March.

OK. Can ANYONE seriously doubt that Reid, and the rest of the Donks pushing this are working to engineer the Munich (1938 appeasement agreement with Hitler) of the 21st century? This would firmly crown the Donks as the surrender party of all time, after what they did in Viet-nam, and now this.

FDR, Truman, and Sen. “Scoop” Jackson must be restless in their graves.

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Foot stomping to come next?

Blair warns Tehran of next ‘phase’ in standoff

British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Iran yesterday of a “different phase” in the standoff over 15 detained British sailors and marines, while a former Iranian ambassador with close ties to the regime said Iran wants the release of at least seven of its officials.

OOOOOOOHHH! Those guys had better look out! Someone is getting upset!

Mr. Blair told GMTV in an interview that Britain is attempting to free its service members, including one woman, through “diplomatic channels.”

That’s worked great so far with the nuclear issues, hasn’t it? Oh. Maybe not. So what’s next?

“If not, then this will move into a different phase,” Mr. Blair said.

Foot stomping? Tony holding his breath until he starts to turn red…uh…redder? (Since he’s already a red.)

Iran signaled that it is eyeing a prisoner exchange.

The plot thickens: remember the series of Iranian “diplomatic” and military people arrested in Iraq coordinating with the terrs there? A swap deal here would not only get Iran its people back, but it would give equal legitimacy to the Royal Navy operating in Iraqi waters to Iranian operatives active INSIDE OF IRAQ.

Stay tuned…anyone willing to bet that Blair won’t end up being the rope-a-dope here? Not the Chief.

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Bruce Sterling gives blogs 10 years to live

Science fiction writer and professional pundit Bruce Sterling has cracked bloggers with the extinction stick, saying the plebs will crawl back into their ooze by 2017.

“There are 55 million blogs and some of them have got to be good,” Sterling said, during a speech here at the SXSW conference in reference to the slogan on blog search site technorati.com. “Well, no, actually. They don’t….I don’t think there will be that many of them around in 10 years. I think they are a passing thing.”

The Chief has enjoyed some of Sterling’s books…and some of his reported comments make sense…but others…? Yeah, right. Whatever.

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High Strangeness

Woman Has Crocodiles Strapped to Body

A woman with three crocodiles strapped to her waist was stopped at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after guards noticed that she looked “strangely fat,” officials said Monday.

The woman’s shape raised suspicions at the Rafah terminal in southern Gaza, and a body search by a female border guard turned up the animals, each about 20 inches long, concealed underneath her loose robe, according to Maria Telleria, spokeswoman for the European observers who run the crossing.

Somehow, this deserves some comment, but the Chief is not entirely sure what it should be.

It seems like something from a Monty Python sketch…one has to say that is IS an improvement from having an explosive vest…I think.

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A Modest Proposal:

A lesson plan to teach kids about American Indians

Although the Chief is a science educator (teaching at a Native American school), he is also certified for teaching history and government. These suggestions for Gov. Rounds’ iniative for promoting education seem to hit the spot…unfortunately, probably TOO much to be actually implemented…but it’s nice to dream:

Teach our kids what government did to the American Indians. Under the guise of caring for them, they herded them on to the least-productive parcels of land in the country and packed their children off to boarding schools, where they were forbidden to practice their traditional religion, speak their native language, and were routinely beaten and abused. The lesson: the power of the government to do evil is infinitely greater than its power to do good.

Teach our kids that there was once a scientific and intellectual consensus that American Indians were sub-human. The lesson: Awful things happen when we give people the power to decide what categories of human life are disposable for the sake of convenience.

Teach our kids that the white invasion brought disease, massacre, starvation and alcoholism, but it also brought medicine, literacy, political equality for women, air conditioning and the Bill of Rights. The lesson: The white man brought both blessings and curses to American Indians.

Teach our kids that the Lakota were only here a couple of hundred years before white settlement. Just as we displaced the Lakota, they displaced other American Indian nations which were here 300 to 400 years ago. The lessons: Control illegal immigration and maintain a strong military.

Teach our children about our government’s broken treaties with the American Indians. The lessons: Don’t count on Social Security, and beware of people who speak of “living” or “evolving” historical documents.

Teach our kids to be proud of how the Plains Indians survived in a land with such wild swings in temperature and precipitation. Teach them how American Indians organized their society without lawsuits, Social Security, Oprah, and Anna Nicole Smith. The lesson: Our material abundance has made us soft, selfish and shallow.

Teach our kids about the heroic lives our white ancestors lived. They took incredible risks and sacrificed immensely to build schools, churches, ranches, towns, governments and roads. They gave their time and treasure to benefit generations they’d never meet. Shame on us for scolding them for being racist or imperialist. Shame on us if we don’t teach our children to respect them.

Now THAT is the framework for a course that the Chief would have fun teaching!

SD Politics

Here’s the New Donk, Same as the old Donk!

Herseth is a mainstream Democrat

Please, no more talk about how independent Stephanie Herseth is. You Democrat operatives can keep up the spiel about how hard she works, what a good listener she is, how good she is at bringing home pork, and how much common sense she has, but please, quit pounding on the “she’s an independent voice for South Dakota” theme.

Last week’s vote on the Iraq resolution revealed Herseth for what she is: a garden-variety, toe-the-line, mainstream Democrat.

The Chief whole-heartedly concurs with Alan Aker writing in the RC Journal on this one!

National Insecurity

UN Sanctions (An oxymoron?)

U.N. stiffens sanctions on defiant Tehran

Ooooooh! I’ll bet they’re really scared now!

The U.N. Security Council yesterday imposed additional sanctions on Iran, targeting banks and high-ranking officials in the Revolutionary Guards in an escalating face-off with the Islamic republic that continues to develop its own nuclear industry.

The Chief is from Missouri: Show me! Otherwise, all that this is worth is like previous UN sanctions – if you put 75 cents with it you can get a can of Coke.

SD Politics

Basic Government

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Just a reflection on recently attending the annual township meeting for Moody County’s Fremont Township

A lot of people in Political Science in academia and elsewhere, have a tendency to praise the New England Town Meeting as being an example of the most fundamental form of democracy.

I haven’t noticed much comment on the township system and meeting that we have here…which are almost exactly the same thing, but which all too many seem to ignore.

It’s really rather awesome the relative amount of power that one has just by showing up and participating in these meetings…multiplied all the more by what all too often is low participation. The Chief has heard about township meetings attended by the board, and just a few other people. Guess who makes the decisions in those cases? One person present, one vote!

It’s the same thing with the county Republican and Democratic committees. I know SOME counties have a good turnout…others not. If not the default for organizing and directing the party organizations is up to whoever has enough gumption to get out of the Lazy-boy and go to the meetings.

And then we all too often complain about political outcomes that we don’t like.

These opportunities are just as important, and in many cases even more effective in an immediate way than is voting in general elections. In our, and other townships, the matters discussed directly and literally deal with what happens where the rubber meets the road – as snow is plowed, roads graveled, and then graded for maintenance.

It’s well worth a bit of time to participate, and the whole process is better for it, especially if as is claimed, all politics is local.

’nuff said.

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Iranian Act of War

Iran seizes 15 Royal Navy personnel

A major diplomatic crisis between London and Teheran erupted yesterday after 15 British sailors and Royal Marines carrying out a routine search of a cargo ship in the Gulf were seized at gunpoint by Iranian forces.

It’s past high time to slam the Iranian Islamofascists so hard that even they won’t mistake the situation.

Alas, given the fact of Tony Blair’s ENGSOC regime, no such thing is likely.

National Insecurity, SD Politics

Herseth’s Blue Dog Credentials Fading Towards Pink

Here comes the new boss…just like the old boss…don’t get fooled again!

This posting isn’t based on any one thing…but is inspired by several recent events concerning our own Donk Cong. Herseth, which tend to indicate that her dog may be more redish than blue any more.

Firstly…

Noted (with ref links) at SDWC is the Donk Cong’s support for the union check card system – removing the worker’s right to a private vote on matters of union affiliation. (The Soviets would have been right at home with this one!) We don’t need no pesky secret ballots!

Next, Herseth voted in support of the Donk iteration of a cut and run from Iraq bill:

Divided U.S. House approves Iraq withdrawal plan

Democrats today successfully pushed through the U.S. House a hard-line war spending bill that would pay for the current wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan but require combat troops to leave war-torn Iraq by August 2008, if not sooner, a direct challenge to President Bush’s Iraq policy.

So, where’s our own Donk Cong?

On a mostly party-line 218-212 vote, Rep. Stephanie Herseth, D-S.D., and a majority of her House colleagues passed a $124 billion spending bill that carries a list of benchmarks that Iraqis would have to meet, including bolstering their own security forces.

If unmet, the bill would require U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by December 2007. If the Iraqi government is able to step up control of its the country, the bill requires forces to withdraw from Iraq by March 1, 2008, finishing by the end of August 2008.

This is really a weasel act. In case no one noticed, (and the Donks apparently haven’t) our policy already IS to train the Iraqi’s and move towards an eventual withdrawal. The problem with setting any type of date certain is that the enemy just has to pull in their horns and wait out the deadline, before coming back out to pick up the pieces.

In other words, this is a GUARANTEED formula for defeat…not exactly what a so-called Blue Dog Donk would support.

So much for supporting the work and sacrifice of those from South Dakota and elsewhere who are out on the sharp end in the War on Islamofascism.

The previous noted attempt of the Donk Congs to get the vote for DC is another opportunity for Herseth to show her colors…and the Chief has no doubt she will do so…but that they will show affinity with the national Donk agenda, rather than being representative of South Dakota values and interests.

We need to remember in November!

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House GOPers Feeling their Oats!

D.C. voting rights stall in House

This one is sort of fun to look at, for several reasons.

House Republicans derailed efforts yesterday to give the District congressional representation when they injected the city’s gun ban into the debate and turned an expected vote into a tumult.

Firstly, it’s always heartwarming to the Chief when the GOP jabs a finger in the eye of Queen Nancy’s supposed private fiefdom. Secondly, the Donk’s are ALSO discomfited over another topic – gun control. Finally, there’s an interesting political and historical parallel present that could be considered as indicative of a deep breach between the parties. Let the tears begin:

“They are into gamesmanship, and they have been successful with some of the games they are playing,” said Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who is the District’s nonvoting congressional representative and a co-sponsor of the bill.

….but…but…but…according to the view of Pelosi et al, only the Donks are supposed to do stuff like this.

The measure was expected to pass in the Democratic-controlled Congress. However, Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, introduced a motion to add language to the bill to repeal much of the District’s gun ban. The ban was struck down by a federal appeals court earlier this month but remains in effect for now.

“My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have suggested today that District of Columbia citizens have the ‘right’ to a vote in Congress,” Mr. Smith said. “If that’s the case, then they must also agree that the citizens of the District should have the constitutionally guaranteed right to possess firearms and protect themselves.”

Dang! There’s pesky logic again! What’s a Donk to do?

Mr. Smith’s maneuver put conservative, pro-gun Democrats in the sticky situation of either voting for the motion, which would effectively kill the bill upon it being sent back to committee, or voting against the motion, which would have been perceived as being in favor of strict gun control.

…yet more weeping and wailing:

Rep. John Conyers Jr., Michigan Democrat, called Mr. Smith’s motion “the most startling hypocrisy I have ever heard of on a bill of this magnitude.”

Hey Donk Cong Conyers – learn what “hypocrisy” means: Espousing a set of values, and then acting contrary to them. Republicans might be expected to actually oppose what the Donks are trying to do here…so effectively acting to oppose the DOnks scarcely constitutes hypocrisy…although using that description DOES lend itself to the bloviating self-righteousness that Conyers is devoted to.

Another interesting provision of the bill is this:

The voting rights bill would grant the predominately Democratic District a seat in the House. In a bipartisan compromise, it also would create an additional at-large seat in the House for Utah, a state that leans Republican.

This sort of tit-for-tat vote Congressional vote swapping was characteristic of an earlier period in American history…when the opposing sides were also in a state of uncompromising mutual opposition: the pre-Civil War period of the slavery debates.

It’s also interesting that this situation did not occur in a vacuum – the GOP has apparently been carefully engineering this situation for some period of time:

GOP claims House victories in parliamentary power plays</strong>

This sort of thing is routine for the Senate, with its stricter limits to majority power…but the GOP has demonstrated that it works there too.

House Republicans are wielding the power of parliamentary procedure to score floor victories unlikely for a minority party. The Republicans have employed a tactic to alter a handful of bills in the Democratic-controlled chamber, and yesterday their patience paid off when they caught the new majority in a pickle and blocked a vote on D.C. voting rights. Republicans said it’s the culmination of a parliamentary strategy they’ve been plotting for weeks.

Read the rest of the article for the gory details.

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A Breath of Fresh Air!

Muslims offer to help ‘John Does’ sued by imams

Lawyers and a Muslim group say they will defend at no cost airline passengers caught up in a lawsuit between a group of imams and U.S. Airways if the passengers are named as “John Does” and sued for reporting suspicious behavior that got the Muslim clerics booted from a November flight.

Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Phoenix-area physician and director of American Islamic Forum for Democracy — a group founded in 2003 to promote moderate Muslim ideas through its Web site (www.aifdemocracy.org) — told The Washington Times his group will raise money for legal fees for passengers if they are sued by the imams. “It’s so important that America know there are Muslims who understand who the victims are in air travel,” said Dr. Jasser. “But I hope it doesn’t get to that point because the backlash will be even greater when Americans see Islamists trying to punish innocent passengers reporting fears.”

The Chief has checked out this groups website (linked above). These guys are a refreshing change to CAIR and others of their ilk that seem to dominate the MSM.

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News from the Balkan Front

Serbian police break up hardline Muslim sect on finding terrorists’ training camp

Remember Bosnia and Serbia? How NATO forced an end to Serb efforts to forcefully deal with local Islamofascism?

FOUR members of an ultraconservative Muslim sect have been arrested following a raid on a mountain terrorist training camp in Serbia. A large cache of weapons, ammunition, hand grenades, face-masks and plastic explosive with detonators was also discovered at a cave near Novi Pazar.

A judge ordered the four Serbian nationals to be detained for 30 days to allow police and intelligence officials to investigate their alleged activities at the training site. Dragan Jocic, the Serbian police minister, said: “We are determined to prevent any form of violence and terrorism. We are continuing to comb the terrain and search for other members of the group.”

Apparently the Wahabi termites have moved back into the walls of Serbia.

National Insecurity

Hog Farm Alive and Well on the Hill

Funding more than war

Nearly half of the $21 billion that House Democrats added to President Bush’s request for emergency war funding would go to nonmilitary spending and to pork projects.

The supplemental spending bill includes more than $3.7 billion in farm subsidies, $2.9 billion in additional Gulf Coast hurricane relief and $2.4 billion for social programs such as money for rural Northwest school districts, health insurance for poor children, energy assistance for poor families and others.

Why do legislooters do this? Because they can.

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BlogNote

FIRST Robotics KC Regional

This past week the Chief had to prepare and then travel to Kansas City for a F.I.R.S.T. (see above link!) Robotics competition as coach of the robotics team at the Flandreau Indian School.

There were 42 teams at the event, and while our outcome in the competition standings wasn’t high, the efforts of the 4 female students of the team was recognized in the form of the Judge’s Award – designed to recognize what was considered to be an extraordinary effort and circumstance of a team that needed to be noted, but didn’t fall under any of the other categories of awards.

It’s a credit to the students, and their efforts during the robot build period, and in the competition event itself.

With this season completed, blogging will be more regular than it’s been since the robot build “season”, etc. over.

THe next blog project is to shift from MovableType to a WordPress server. That should be a big improvement – once it takes place.

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Minnesota Moonbats Get Mugged by Climate Reality

Frostbite ends Bancroft-Arnesen trek

A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.

Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures. “They were experiencing temperatures that weren’t expected with global warming,” Atwood said.

Being True Believers in the Great Green Church of Glow-bull Warming, a minor consideration like a contrary evidence is a trivial matter to deal with:

“But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability.”

Let’s see…”We can’t predict the effects that SHOULD be there as a part of glow-bull warming, so that lack of evidence itself supports our case.” Ohhhh-kay. Whatever.

Culture Wars

ChiComs: Iran Doesn’t like “300” movie

Iranian official lashes out at Hollywood movie “300” for insulting Persian civilization

This is a curious report for a number of reasons. Firstly, Shiite Moslem Iran is feeling defensive about the depiction of the Zoroastrian ancient Persians in the cinematic cartoon film 300, which centers on the battles of Themopylae in 480 BC.

OK. We DO have Irans President AhmadiNejad Ahm-mad-on-a-jihad we’re dealing with here, so I guess that anything goes in THAT department.

THe other curious thing is that the only place this is being reported is by the ChiCom Xinhua agency reporting through People’s Daily Online of all places.

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Environmental Inquisition Noted in UK TV Special

Scientists threatened for ‘climate denial’

Scientists who questioned mankind’s impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community. They say the debate on global warming has been “hijacked” by a powerful alliance of politicians, scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all questioning about the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions.

This piece goes on to note some of those scientists with first-rate credentials (M.I.T. and Oxford good enough?) who are at LEAST global warming skeptics.

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FLASH! Terrorist Org. Still…Terrorist

Hamas says still seeks Israel’s destruction

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas rejected on Monday criticism by al Qaeda’s second-in-command and said it was still committed to Israel’s destruction despite a power-sharing deal with the Fatah faction.

“We will not betray promises we made to God to continue the path of Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine,” Hamas said in a statement, in a clear reference to Israel as well as to the occupied West Bank.

Why is this news? Ham-ass is…Ham-ass. Nobody except one of the State Department’s Foggy Bottom Boy wonks, or the moveon.org type moonbats could be under the delusion that Ham-ass will be anything other than what they are…a bunch of bloody-minded Islamofascist terrorists.

Culture Wars, SD Politics

A Blow Against the Nanny State!

Rounds vetoes booster seat law

Gov. Mike Rounds vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have required some older children to be in booster seats while riding in vehicles. Rounds said the bill “proposes to criminalize the failure to place children between 5 and 8 weighing less than 80 pounds in a booster seat.”

He said compliance with the law might be nearly impossible in some instances. “Parents with large families and neighbors dropping children off at school come immediately to mind,” Rounds wrote. “I will not force South Dakota citizens to weigh their passengers before deciding whether to transport them to the movies. How can a law enforcement officer enforce this law? Are we going to provide scales to law enforcement to weigh each child before writing a warning ticket? Are we going to require children to carry identification or a birth certificate to prove their age?”

Good for the Gov!

Culture Wars

Global Whatever

Global warming: the bogus religion of our age

This article is a direct response to a major paper that Blair’s Engsoc government spewed forth last fall. Dr. Lindzen (Meteorology, MIT) is NOT impressed with the efforts of Blairs well-trained lackeys who, after reaffirming The Gospel of Gore, went on to recommend (inevitably) ever increasing levels of taxation, regulations, and economic dictatorship in a report under the imprimitur of one Sir Nicholas Stern:

The world is heading for environmental catastrophe – or so we are constantly being told by the politicians and self-appointed experts. They warn us that unless we take drastic action, the earth will soon be devastated by climate change and global warming. Entire species will be lost, crops will be obliterated, floods and famine will sweep across the planet, and western economies will slide into depression.

Not only that—but the sky is falling!

‘The disaster is not set to happen in some science fiction future, but in our lifetimes,’ said Blair, who went on to claim that the ‘the world faces nothing more serious, more urgent and more demanding of its leadership than climate change.’ All this has helped put the Stern report at the very forefront of the debate. The central theme of it is that there is a near universal consensus of opinion within the scientific community about the dangers of climate change. But this is not true. There is no such unanimity among scientists.

Oooops! You mean, like, the Emperor Gore has no clothes?

The Chief particularly likes Lindzen’s wrap of all this:

Like a religion, environmentalism is suffused with hatred for the material world and again, like religion, it requires devotion rather than intellectual rigour from its adherents.

It is intolerant of dissent; those who question the message of doom are regarded as heretics, or ‘climate change deniers’, to use green parlance. And, just as in many religions, the route to personal salvation lies in the performance of superstitious rituals, such as changing a lightbulb or arranging for a tree to be planted after every plane journey.

Although no one ever expects it, can the Spanish Inquisition be far behind?

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Spain Learns Result of Appeasing Islamoterrs: New Attacks Planned!

Spain fears Islamists reclaiming “al-Andalus”

Hmmm. Spain threw out a government in response to Islamofascist attacks in Madrid. The new gov’t then cut and run on its support for the war in Iraq – don’t you know – to help reconcile with the Dar al Islam. Did things improve: the Chief reports (well, repeats a report anyway) – you decide:

While the international spotlight is on 29 suspects on trial for the 2004 Madrid train bombings, Spanish police are working behind the scenes to counter a growing threat of new attacks. Radicals inspired by al-Qaeda have stepped up propaganda and recruitment activities in Spain, a country they claim as a part of the Islamic world because of its Muslim past, according to police experts.

After recounting more detail about the current legal and tactical situations, this piece shows how the Spanish assumption of the position to please Islamists has softened their approach – not:

Islamist websites have also long called for a reconquest of al-Andalus, a Moorish name for Spain, parts of which were ruled by
Muslims for nearly eight centuries until 1492.

So much for appeasement.

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Oh yeah?

Mexican president promises to keep Mexicans at home

IF he follows up on this, it will be a welcome trend. One can believe as much of THIS as you want to.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon won’t be fighting for migration reform when he meets with President Bush next week. Instead, he will be be spelling out what he intends to do to keep Mexicans at home. Calderon, who was inaugurated on Dec. 1, has pledged to take 100 actions in his first 100 days in office, many of which represent the first steps toward “curing” Mexico’s long tradition of illegal migration to the U.S.

Time will tell.

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Another Modest Proposal

George Carlin’s Solution to Save Gasoline

This was received via e-mail. I haven’t verified it at Snopes.com or anywhere else, and there is no specific citation listed with it…BUT…I really like the idea anyway:

Bush wants us to cut the amount of gas we use. The best way to stop using so much gas is to deport 11 million illegal immigrants! That would be 11 million less people using our gas. The price of gas would come down.

Bring our troops home from Iraq to guard the border. When they catch an illegal immigrant crossing the border, hand him a canteen, rifle and some ammo and ship him to Iraq . Tell him if he wants to come to America then he must serve a tour in the military. Give him a soldier’s pay while he’s there and tax him on it. After his tour, he will be allowed to become a citizen since he defended this country. He will also be registered to be taxed and be a legal patriot.

This option will probably deter illegal immigration and provide a solution for the troops in Iraq and the aliens trying to make a better life for themselves. If they refuse to serve, ship them to Iraq anyway, without the canteen, rifle or ammo. Problem solved.

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Criminalization of Politics

Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak Trial

Once the closest adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing a leak investigation that shook the top levels of the Bush administration.

Four guilty verdicts ended a seven-week CIA leak trial that focused new attention on the Bush administration’s much-criticized handling of intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war.

The Donks HAD to get someone, anyone, convicted…of anything they could come up with. Scooter Libby was the victim of a set-up artificial situation, generated by Prosecutor Fitzgerald.

This represents the criminalization of political opposition to the liberal politico-media complex. This is perfectly rational to a certain type of ideological viewpoint, and the process is detailed thoroughly in Solzhenitsyn’s GULAG Archipelago.

It’s one more example of one of Claire Wolfe’s statements:

“AMERICA IS AT THAT AWKWARD STAGE. IT’S TOO LATE TO WORK WITHIN THE SYSTEM, BUT TOO EARLY TO START SHOOTING THE BASTARDS”