Grand Royal Fit

Email Christmas Cards from Business Colleagues

2004-12-21T11:39:00.000-08:00

I hate them. Don't bother sending them.

Business "holiday cards" are silly enough, but I'm used to it.

But emailed cards? Cold. Counter-productive. Leave me off the list.

Send me booze, like I do to over 100 people. Little airline bottles, if you haven't got the bread.

Bah....humbug.

The Baghdad Emperor Has Dandy Clothes

2004-12-13T07:54:00.000-08:00

Regarding the US blitzkreig into Baghdad, March-April 2003:

Never mind that it ranks in the Top 10 (if not Top One) textbook routs by an army. Tsk tsk for you thinking it was anything but dumb luck. Stupid lucky hubris.

The leftist media - The New York Times - continues its unending campaign to establish that the US - somehow - messed up. And anyone who might point out the lopsided US victory, in the face of naysayer "quagmire" predictions, "just doesn't get it. " US overconfidence is already "well catalogued," so don't you dare challenge the dogma:

"American overconfidence on the road to Baghdad has been well catalogued, but it is worth remembering that the United States hardly monopolizes military hubris."

Might I ask, exactly where is this overconfidence "catalogued?" And since when does planning and executing a battle, stunningly, constitute military hubris?

Those are dandy clothes, Mr. Emperor. Just like Petain. While we on the subject of the French military, why not Google that phrase "French Military Victories" ?

some cousins moved in

2004-12-11T13:46:00.000-08:00

I moved some posts to here, from a sister site. That other site might be getting a lot of hits if and when the CBS Report comes out, and I don't want my crazed rants to detract from the legal analysis there....

Gallup Uncovers the Lost Tribe of Cretins

2004-12-11T13:44:00.000-08:00

Amazing when an audience upstages the President and a US Senator.
Log your comments - what audience members stood out?

-Was it the 400 pound Jabba slumped in the front row because he wasn't allowed to snack for 90 minutes?

-Perhaps the front row transvestite?

-How about the freak bag lady in the back row who picked her teeth throughout Bush's closing? (The camera did not, however, capture her in any Spaulding Smails moments. )

Or.....

Team America: F**k Yeah

2004-12-11T13:41:00.000-08:00

[UPDATE: YOU MUST SEE THIS; there are no words for how perfect it is. Kudos to INDCJOURNAL.]

You heard it here first: The film Team America: World Police is going to upstage the election.
I just came from the premiere at Grumman's Chinese. Stunning.
It's funny. A Hollywood crowd guffawed throughout.
But more importantly, the film defangs the Anti-War Hollywood Left at an important time; not only will that faction be powerless to sway any more undecided voters in a certain 18-25 age band, but Kerry may actually lose votes, via guilt by association.
Stop reading now, unless you don't mind being told a few details from the film.
Sean Penn, who a few days ago went into a Falcon/Snowman hissy fit condemning the South Park guys for a Rolling Stone interview, is killed by the puppet American commandos in the film, for joining the terrorist squad organized by North Korean short-man Kim Jong-Il.
A who's-who of antiwar actors are portratyed in the film - as puppets, against their will - each being part of an egotistical new world council, the Film Actors Guild. FAG. Again and again, the film identifies the members as being part of this group. It's FAG against Team America.
Tim Robbins gets killed, as a terrorist sympathizer. So does Susan Sarandon. And Liv Tyler. And Janeane Garafalo. Helen Hunt is sawn in half. Martin Sheen buys the farm. George Clooney gets a bullet. The Matt Damon puppet is a terror 'tard, and is terminated with prejudice.
Alec Baldwin is shot by Kim Jong-Il, for being an ineffective terror supporter. Hans Blix is also killed by Kim. Eaten alive by sharks.
Michael Moore is portrayed as a fat socialist double-fisting some hot dogs, with ketchup and mustard running down his face. Of course, he dies. Suicide bomber.
There is projectile vomiting, puppet sex and ample islamo-fascist death and taunting.
All of this, to the stated theme that Americans may be dicks, but liberals are pussies, and terrorists are assholes. It goes from there...an entire scato-sexual weltpolitic is built from that playground humor.
And...Spotteswoode. WTFIT?
Why does it upstage the election? Because the Hollywood Left are portrayed as morons. In a pop culture language that will resonate with young teens through adults.
The fireworks should begin in a few days, when at least one actor/actress portrayed as a FAG (or, a felllow traveler therewith) will simply not be able to contain himself. He will take the bait and pick a fight with the South Park creators, and the movie. Very publicly. Good for the Box Office...hmmmm, interesting Fahrenheit tactic.....
And that silly complaining actor will find himself being laughed at, not laughed with. Why? Because he's arguing against....puppets.
His political position? Laughed at; guilt by association.
A stunning evening. The Center/CenterRight has its own untouchable Hollywood oracle. How strange is that?[update: clueless wonder-reviewer at WaPo - yes, the political capital of the nation - cannot see through his left goggles:
Stunned by all the fun, I am almost moved to salute Parker and Stone for their nuanced and careful takedown of American jingoism and the seemingly disastrous foreign policy that Team America stands for.
Only that isn't quite how it played to an audience on Tuesday night, at one of those free-ticket radio station giveaway previews [code: an audience of morons, who don't have a Masters in French literarture, like me] in a packed cineplex in Northwest Washington. The biggest laughs came when "Team America" assaulted any and all concepts of ethnicity, or when the joke was on gays, Michael Moore or a vast left-wing idiocy. The movie feels like an elaborate inside joke [known only to me] on the very Americans laughing hardest at its easiest gags, oblivious to the sly, allegorical digs at a USA brand of bravado. [Yes, those laughing folks just don't understand that they are being mocked...] What I took as a lampoon of Bushworld seemed to be received, in the seats around me, as a triumph of Bushworld. Pollsters and campaign workers, take note: "Team America" will only further confound your election-year data.

Debate Tit-for-Tat: Lesbos et La Vache

2004-12-11T13:36:00.000-08:00

I am still a bit struck over Kerry's outting of Cheney's daughter.

Lynne Cheney is correct to stick it to Kerry for that cheap shot.

What if Bush had used similar tactics? How would the MSM respond? Let's surmise. (Yes, this is a petty response to a serious issue, but...):

SCHIEFFER: Both of you are opposed to gay marriage. But to understand how you have come to that conclusion, I want to ask you a more basic question. Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?

KERRY: We're all God's children, Bob. And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as. I think if you talk to anybody, it's not choice. I've met people who struggled with this for years, people who were in a marriage because they were living a sort of convention, and they struggled with it.

***

SCHIEFFER: Both of you are married. But to understand how you have come to
that conclusion, I want to ask you a more basic question. Do you believe that
procreation is the reason for marriage?

BUSH: We're all God's children, Bob. And I think if you were to talk to
John Kerry’s daughters, who are homely, they’d tell you that they’re happy to
have been brought into this world, even though they hit every branch on the way
down, when they fell out of the ugly tree. I'm comparatively blessed with my two
beautiful, spunky daughters.
I think if you talk to anybody, procreation is not always the man’s choice. Look at Kerry's second wife, Ter-eeza, who is not what we call a "hottie" down in Texas, who has selfishly refused to provide him with a child. However, she has a lot of money, and thus my opponent married her anyway, so that he can jet-set around the world, and party with supermodels when the cow isn’t around. I've met people who struggled with this for years, people who were in a marriage because they were living a sort of convention, and they struggled with it.

Math Facts vs. Mouth Foam

2004-12-11T13:30:00.000-08:00

I sometimes worry that I just don’t “get it.”

Why have so many critics gone so far past the boiling point on hating this Bush guy? I didn’t vote for him, but he doesn’t send me off the deep end. And I like his plan to kill as many islamo-fascists as possible.

Today comes a subtle reminder, via Paul Krugman of the NYTimes, that NO, it’s not a matter of my “not getting it.” That’s a phrase equivalent to someone saying, “Hey, I’m your family member, please don’t testify at my felony trial, because, y’know…the DA just doesn't get it.”

No, I get it, alright.

When the far left can’t, or won’t, show their math, you know that there is no secret truth that eludes you.

Anti-Bush mouth-foamer Paul Krugman distinguishes herself today, in claiming that the polls show that Kerry is ahead, and thus any Bush victory will be the result of nefarious vote tampering.

The Krugman spittle:

"If the election were held today and the votes were counted fairly, Senator John Kerry would probably win. But the votes won't be counted fairly, and the disenfranchisement of minority voters may determine the outcome."

The Actual Math:

Bush + 2
Bush + 1
Bush + 6
Bush + 1
Bush + 7
Bush + 5
Bush + 2
Bush + 8
Bush + 1
Bush + 6
TIE
TIE
Kerry + 3

Via 13 polls, the real math shows Bush up by an average 2.8% over Kerry (albeit, a close race, at or within the sampling error.) Kerry leads in only one of 13 polls.

Bush up 2.8%, vs. the Krugman math: “If the election were held today and the votes were counted fairly, Senator John Kerry would probably win.”

Look, I know that mouth foam is the money shot, and Krugman's fans like a good money shot, and Krugman does good mouth foam. But her polling math is as inaccurate as her vote-tampering calculus.

It's just mouth foam. I get it.

Republicans Stealing the Election !!...Preventing Black Vote

2004-12-11T13:25:00.000-08:00

60,000 Absentee Ballots in Broward County, Florida.....Missing.

Clearly, a George Bush/Jeb Bush/Republican exercise in stealing the election in Florida...again....
The Broward County Supervisor of Elections is actively preventing urban Kerry voters from.....
.....wait a minute, the Broward County Supervisor of Elections is Brenda Snipes, a Democrat. And she is an African American.

But...but.....I read the MSM headlines about urban voter disenfranchisement and......
I am so confused.

Maybe that's the intention.....

Why Is the Liberal Main Stream Media So Bumbling This Year?

2004-12-11T13:24:00.000-08:00

Why Is the Liberal Main Stream Media So Bumbling This Year?

Easy.

For 40 years, they had no rebuttal. They only had to be barely competent at their game, and they won their bracket with a "bye." Now, without the institutional rigor needed to engage in actual debate and argument, the MSM has been blindsided this election year by a four-pronged foe: The Internet; AM Radio; Fox News; and, frankly, agenda-setter Drudge.

The MSM used to get to set the lunch and water cooler agenda, and filter all the facts. Now, simply put, at least one person at lunch or at the cooler has the other side. And, the medium that delivers that message is more comprehensive than TV.

The Left MSM has never had to engage in actual, non-gamed competitions. So they are rusty. And when they resort to the tricks that have worked so well for 40 years, they do not take into consideration that there will be a resounding rebuttal. And their inability to foresee those rebuttals, or to deal with them at an appropriate level, is what makes the liberal MSM seem so damned bumbling this cycle.

Single Issue Voting

2004-12-11T13:21:00.000-08:00

For about a week following the Dem Convention, I was gonna vote Kerry. Annoyed at these pesky Swift Boat guys, I read the book in order to rebut them. Reading the book caused me to stumble on some things. Result: however flawed, I am voting Bush.

"Why?," you scream at BummerDietz.

Because I am a single issue voter. Kill islamo-fascists.

I know Bush will continue to kill fascists. Kerry has put on a good show. But rather than debate, here is a Kerry transcript - one week before the election.
If Kerry doesn't have his warhawk soundbites memorized this late in the game, forget it...he won't be killing any fascists; he will pull out at the worst possible time - in the darkness just before dawn:

(Yes, I Fisked it.)

John Kerry - Tom Brokaw:

Brokaw: This week you've been very critical of the president because of the missing explosives in Iraq.The fact is, senator, we still don't know what happened to those explosives. How many for sure that were there. Who might have gotten away with them? Is it unfair to the president, just as you believe he's been unfair to you, to blame him for that?
Kerry: No. It's not unfair. Because what we do know, from the commanders on the ground, is that they went there, as they marched to Baghdad. We even read stories today that they broke locks off of the doors, took photographs of materials in there. There were materials. And they left
Brokaw: The flip side of that is that if you had been president, Saddam Hussein would still be in power. Because you...
Kerry: Not necessarily at all. .

It is one week before the election. One of the three most powerful network anchors asks you point blank about the war and Saddam being in power, and you answer, "Not necessarily [insert word, "true" - ?] at all.." That's Kerry, the war hawk?

Brokaw: But you have said you wouldn't go to war against him...
Kerry: That's not true. Because under the inspection process, Saddam Hussein was required to destroy those kinds of materials and weapons.
Brokaw: But he wasn't destroying them...
Kerry: But that's what you have inspectors for.

We have inspectors - for what? To destroy weapons? To force Saddam to destroy them? To issue a report to the UN that an 18th resolution is needed?

Kerry: And that's why I voted for the threat of force. Because he only does things when you have a legitimate threat of force. It's absolutely impossible and irresponsible to suggest that if I were president, he wouldn't necessarily be gone. He might be gone.

I will give $100,000 to anyone who can lay out a logical syllogism of Kerry's answers.* Because you cannot. He is not intellectual; he is just confused.

Kerry: Because if he hadn't complied, we might have had to go to war. And we might have gone to war. ut if we did, I'll tell you this, Tom. We'd have gone to war with allies in a way that the American people weren't carrying the burden. And the entire world would have understood why we were doing it.

One week to go, and this guy has no clue.
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*- To wit: In response to the proposition that Kerry would not have removed Saddam, Kerry insists that he might have, and might not have, removed Saddam. He then states that it is impossible and irresponsible to suggest that he would not have removed Saddam....even though Kerry, 4 seconds earlier, himself claimed that that he might not have removed Saddam.

bin Laden Annoints a Spokesmodel

2004-12-11T13:18:00.000-08:00

bin Laden released a tape just prior the US election. He annointed several western journalists as having a special understanding of al qaeda's cause. He included a special plea for western TV to broadcast reports by socialist-fascist apologist Robert Fisk. Indeed, Fisk won a special al qaeda merit badge:

"This is the message that we have tried to convey to you... Observe it, if you will...in the deeds of Nairobi and Tanzania and Aden, and observe it in ... interviews with Robert Fisk.... I consider him [Fisk] to be unbiased. Would ...the TV stations ... conduct an interview with him [Robert Fisk] so that he might convey to the American people what he has understood from us concerning the causes of our fight against you? ... As for [the fight's ] results, they are very positive, with Allah's grace."

And the far left media goes merrily on its way, free of any sense of their useful idiocy.

A Taste of Bias

2004-12-11T13:15:00.000-08:00

A liberal friend and co-worker was very distraught that his early expectation of a Kerry victory was dashed later that evening.
With the election over, I pointed out to him an example of what center and center-right thinkers have lived with all their lives, 24/7, via the media. Mass media sets the agenda, and people get their data and form their opinions and move on to the next hour of their life. But, my friend disputes that, and that there is any effect of the liberal MSM.
So...I pulled out his email of mid-afternoon election day, and showed it to him. "Let's talk about 'reliable sources.' Anyone right-of-center gets to deal with their own version of your incorrect email, day after day after day."
For a moment, I think he actually understood what I was saying......

-----Original Message-----
From: [Liberal Democrat]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:54 PM
To: [Company Group]Subject: RE: Exit Polls

I just heard from reliable sources, Kerry in a landslide....

Kerry Won the 2004 Election

2004-12-04T10:41:00.000-08:00

I wish that you right wingers would just admit that Kerry won the election.

Just because Kerry's supporters voted for Bush, doesn't mean Kerry didn't win, in reality.

And that 9/11 thing, can we just, like, Move On. Like, get over it. Like, Whatever.

Purple Heart

2004-11-29T21:33:00.000-08:00

The Marine in Fallujah, currently under "investigation", had his buddy's body parts sprayed over his body 24 hours earlier, and was hit by shrapnel in the face, from a terrorist "playing dead."

He returned to duty, immediately.

John Kerry, 35 years ago, applied for a purple heart for a less serious wound.

Let the Dollar Fall

2004-11-24T13:16:00.000-08:00

Letting the dollar fall as good policy: A quick study of monetary, tax and fiscal policy all working together.

Faced with a recession and then 9/11, the US Fed dropped interest rates and cut taxes. Guess what? It worked. Short recession.

Now the Fed is raising interest rates, which brings about a whole new set of challenges to prevent the economy from stalling.

One important way is to weaken the dollar. This a) increases foreign demand for US goods and b) reduces the trade deficit by reducing US demand for foreign goods. Its a shot into the arm of the US economy.

It's also designed to strike hard at a recalcitrant China. China has maintained an artificially low currency vs. the dollar. That's what fuels Chinese factories, at the expense of US production. The administration's theory is that by dropping the value of the dollar, it will become truly painful for the Chinese to continue to chase the US dollar downward. They will relent and float their currency...and then Chinese goods will rise in price by 50%.

And that helps the US.

Why Not Just Call Her a Ngger Btch?

2004-11-16T16:45:00.000-08:00

Of course, if a Democrat had appointed a black woman as Secretary of State, the headlines would scream: "Democrats Lift African American Woman Through The Glass Ceiling at Foggy Bottom!"

But wait, the administration and the woman are not left wing? Time for the MSM to damn Condi Rice:

Bush Names Hawkish Rice Top U.S. Diplomat

By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer

Nowhere in the article is there any substance or support for labelling Rice as a "Hawk." But the liberal MSM must begin to undermine her. It starts with the headline. They cannot help themselves.

The A.P. tries to destroy her rags-to-power personal story. She has no street or racial or socioeconomic creds, per the A.P.:

Rice... was somewhat sheltered as a youngster in Alabama from the racial conflicts and segregation of the South... when she was 9, a bomb exploded at a Baptist church a few miles away, killing four black girls, one of them a schoolmate.

Left Rant from the Hollywood Email Circuit

2004-11-15T17:04:00.000-08:00

I removed the author's identities, although you'll likely get this via chain email in the next couple of days.

The rant below is from an entertainment industry left winger, NOT yours truly BummerDietz:

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The REAL America

Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, THOSE are states we want to keep.

And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?

Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?

No, No. Get the fuck out. We're not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don't get all uppity about how real you are, you Johnny-come-lately "Oooooh I've been a state for almost a hundred years " dickheads. Fuck off.

Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What's more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don't think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn't be so fucking arrogant if I wasn't paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.

All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you're the ones who built on a fucking swamp. "Let the Spanish keep it, it's a shithole," we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.

The next dickwad who says, "It's your money, not the government's money" is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That's right, motherfucker, they're red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It's too easy, asshole, they're blue states. It's not your money, assholes, it's fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.

Let's talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It's fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, that's right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the fucking nation. Think that's just some aberration ? How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are fucking blue states, asshole, and most are in the Northeast, where our values suck so bad. And where are the highest divorce rates? Care to fucking guess? 10 of the top 10 are fucking red-ass we're-so-fucking-moral states. And while Nevada is the worst, the Bible Belt is doing its fucking part.

But two guys making out is going to fucking ruin marriage for you? Yeah? Seems like you're ruining it pretty well on your own, you little bastards. Oh, but that's ok, because you go to church, right? I mean you do, right? Cause we fucking get to hear about it every goddamn year at election time. Yes, we're fascinated by how you get up every Sunday morning and sing, and then you're fucking towers of moral superiority. Yeah, that's a workable formula. Maybe us fucking Northerners don't talk about religion as much as you because we're not so busy sinning, hmmm? Ever think of that , you self-righteous assholes? No, you're too busy erecting giant stone tablets of the Ten Commandments in buildings paid for by the fucking Northeast Liberal Elite. And who has the highest murder rates in the nation? It ain't us up here in the North, assholes.

Well, this gravy train is fucking over . Take your liberal-bashing, federal-tax-leaching, confederate-flag-waving, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bullshit and shove it up your ass.

And no, you can't have your fucking convention in New York next time. Fuck off.

I Want Body Count

2004-11-10T07:20:00.000-08:00

Now come the MSM reports of the "Battle of Falluja."

It has been a cakewalk.

Left wingers in the MSM, perhaps stunned by Bush's re-election and the scorn with which their words are now treated, were remarkably muted with their typical dire predictions of "quagmire" and "negligent military campaign." Al Jazeera will have to pick up the slack for a week.

I want body counts of dead islamo-fascists.

I want the world to have access to a US Military website with a running body count, theater by theater, town by town, perhaps delayed 15 minutes like a NASDAQ quote. CNN can run it, if they'd like. Might help their ratings.

I want to see the real-time beheading of the islamo-fascist movement, the fear of which has frozen all politics for 36 months.

I want the images broadcast across the Mideast. The jihadists have brainwashed their youth into thinking that they have a chance of winning, and intimidated citizens that there will be revenge after they win.

In fact, the islamo-fascist jihadists have no chance of even surviving a particular battle. The harsh truth - the body count - will help spread that truth, just as the photos of the dead Hussein kiddies helped.

It is unfortunate, but it is necessary.

I want body count. Because it is effective.

If we are not willing to fight an effective war, then let's not bother to fight the war.

UPDATE: Thank you for the body count. I am glad it numbers in the 4-figures.

The Left Wing Makes This So Easy....

2004-11-03T09:15:00.000-08:00

My only post-election lecture:

News item: "Gay rights activists received a rebuke from the Deep South to North Dakota as voters in 11 states approved constitutional amendments to ban same-sex marriage in a clean sweep for proponents of traditional one-man, one-woman unions."

****

When the left wing of the democratic party does stuff, disasters happen.

The Massachusetts court jammed the gay marriage ssue on a liberal (but not left wing) state legislature, and the SF mayor did the same thing by issuing gay marriage licenses. These disciples of the Left were blind - ridiculously blind - to the reaction that was sure to follow. Outside of the left wing echo chamber, the reaction was 100% predictable.

Since that jamming of the gay marriage "issue," 13 state constitutions have been amended by overwhelming margins. And...a Republican administration was handed its wedge issue on a golden platter

Cf: The Brown vs. Board of Education court, in 1954, who were wise enough to realize that they did not have public opinion behind them for desegregation, and realized that generational change was needed, and did not try to jam their edict. They adopted an approach (them remanded the issue to district courts, to figure out exactly what to do over the next 20 years) that would take a generation to implement; let society adjust, slowly. Let the opposition die out (literally).

Don't jam it.

Those were wise folks. The left wing of the Dem party, today, are hacks, in comparison. Don't believe me - just look at this Gay Marriage case study. I cannot script a bigger backfire/disaster scenario.

And all of it, completely predictable. That is, if you live outside of certain neighborhoods of SF, West Los Angeles and Manhattan.

And, I think - directly or indirectly - it is the reason why Bush carried Ohio and maybe a few other states.

A couple Left Wing members of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and the SF mayor - set back the "gay rights cause" for a generation. By arrogance and negligence. And...maybe elected Bush.

When a group insists on acting on the insular views of their own echo chamber, disasters happen. These may have been "unintended consequences" - but they were "predicatable consequences." Arrogance and negligence are to blame.

I Wonder If He Spoke of These Things.....?

2004-10-29T17:56:00.000-07:00

I wonder if he spoke about how many of his close al qaeda comrades we have slain, or if he spoke about the thousands of fascists that we will kill in the near future?

I wonder if he spoke about that Jew, Paul Wolfowitz, and that Christian, George Bush, and that African American, Condi Rice - the infidels who crushed his plans for a fundmentalist islamo-fascist regime with some oil spigots underneath; did he speak of the irony that a Jew, a Christian and an African American defeated his one muslim 14th century caliphate-in-waiting, to be built on a billion serfs who were ripe for his recruiting, had he worked it for another decade.

I wonder if he spoke about how we have hobbled the international islamo fascist financial system; or how we took Pakistan away; or how we took Afghanistan away; or how we took Iraq away; or how we counted with efficiency how we eliminated his key people; how our culture vanquished his terror state in hours, and forever took from him his cached weapons of war.

Or if he spoke about how cold and damp that cave is, where he lives; or if he spoke about the similarities between his cave and Saddam's spider hole.

I wonder if he spoke about the massive manpower he is expending trying to stop our rapid dismantling of his fascist school rooms. I wonder if he spoke of his fear over our curbing his supply of stupid brainwashed oxen children soldiers. I wonder if he spoke of his angst over having to kill young teachers, knowing it is done for pleasure and spite, although he has to pretend it is about an obligation to a fatwa.

I wonder if he spoke about he has brought about a generation of silent discriminaton in the west against any middle-eastern looking male, and how that will set back the arab peoples for generations.

I wonder if he spoke of how he feels about the fact that I now chuckle at his backyard videos tapes. I wonder if he spoke of how children now wear rubber masks of his likeness, mocking him like a clown or a cereal box character.

I wonder if he spoke of his legacy with children in Palestine, who now have nothing but to climb all over burnt-out terrorist cars as if they were jungle gyms, and who fish for charred body parts to parade with, instead of a kite with a long tail. I wonder if he spoke of the backlash against his cult that will occur, then these children come of age and realize what macabre scraps of a life were left for them, and that he had looted their culture - and their personal futures - of anything noble.

I wonder if he spoke of his regret at how close he was - 10 years - to establishing an islamo-fascist dynasty that would have lasted 100 years, and how his strategic miscalculation caused it all to go away.

I wonder if he spoke about the irony that the West had no plans for a Crusade, it was unthinkable; that we were fat-and-happy geese; and of his sense of irony and tragedy that it was his error - his error alone - in launching the 911 attacks, that transformed the Western geese into Crusaders; and that yes, the elimination from the earth of his brand of islamo-fascism is exactly the Crusaders' intent, and that we are just a few months from total victory...all thanks to him, and him alone. He is the West's greatest friend; he was the smoke alarm in the burning house that awoke us to a noxious fire. Without him, we were geese for slaughter; thanks to him, we became Crusaders, just in the nick of time. Did he speak of our gratitude to him, for being our smoke alarm, for which the West will forever give thanks to him.

Most of all, I wonder if he spoke about the fate of millions of Islamic women who will be educated and live free lives, and who will walk and talk and get elected to office and rule over many men, and of the thousands of Islamic women who will come to the West to college and will have sex with Christians and Jews and produce Christian/Islamic/Jewish babies, many of whom will return to the middle east and rise to power as the ruling class in a democratic society.

I wonder if he spoke of his emotions in realizing the inevitability that the men of the West now get to have sex with his women - and his women get to have sex with the West... and with that, he has become powerless, and his philosophy has been vanquished from this earth.

I wonder if he spoke about what he shares with Adolph Hitler in the bunker -- the realization of powerlessness to stop his Eden from slipping through his fingers -- and the looming dark night of insanity rapidly cloaking his brain, unable to accept that he was that close to having become ruler of half the world. Hitler chose death over insanity.

I wonder if he spoke about these things?

***

Well, no matter. Dead or crazy, soon.

Die, Arafat. Good Riddance.

2004-10-27T17:26:00.000-07:00

Die, Arafat. There is something good about bad people going away. Good riddance. Sure, a vacuum may result, but that logic justifies any and every despot and terrorist. The coming Bush victory, and the anti-gay marriage movement in the US, were too much for Arafat to handle. No palestinian state, no boyfriend wife in the US, and humilitation for all you stand for.

Arafat Collapses As His Health Worsens

Associated Press

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yasser Arafat collapsed Wednesday night, was unconscious for about 10 minutes and remained in a "very difficult situation," Palestinian officials said. A team of Jordanian doctors was urgently summoned to treat the ailing Palestinian leader.

UPDATE:

Arafat Reported Clinically Dead

Nov 4, 11:39 AM (ET)
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was declared clinically dead on Thursday in a French hospital, Israeli television said citing French sources.

UPDATE:

Suhat Arafat is a nutcase. Messed up French fat girl married the gay AIDS-stricken terrorist for money.

Suhat...too bad he didn't give you the Swiss bank account codes. You will be destitute within weeks. Maierle grande. Bitch and moan; but they won't give you the money.

We will not shed any tears when you die, pigwoman.

UPDATE:

So, Too Fat Suhat Arafat, you negotiated a $20M per year stipend. Well, that beats Imelda Marcos' deal. However, the PLO will kill you shortly, in order to terminate the expenditure. Live by terror, lavish by terror, die by terror. Good riddance, terror geisha.

The Double Super Secret Summit

2004-10-25T11:18:00.000-07:00

I realize that it is Politically Incorrect to ever use the words, "Kerry Lied," together. And Steely Dan pretty much monopolized the aliterative elements.

And this new story, from the Washington Times, about Kerry fibbing about being James Bond or Jason Bourne, seemed a bit trite, at first:

At the second presidential debate earlier this month, Mr. Kerry said he was more attuned to international concerns on Iraq than President Bush, citing his meeting with the entire Security Council. "This president hasn't listened. I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them, to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable," Mr. Kerry said of the Iraqi dictator. Speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in December 2003, Mr. Kerry explained that he understood the "real readiness" of the United Nations to "take this seriously" because he met "with the entire Security Council, and we spent a couple of hours talking about what they saw as the path to a united front in order to be able to deal with Saddam Hussein." But of the five ambassadors on the Security Council in 2002 who were reached directly for comment, four said they had never met Mr. Kerry. The four also said that no one who worked for their countries' U.N. missions had met with Mr. Kerry either.

Worse, Kerry has invented details of the meeting in a Boston Globe interview, to bolster the credibility of the tale:

I went up to the United Nations at the request of some friends. And I met with the entire Security Council in a room just like this at a table ike this. I spent two hours with them, ust me and the Security Council, asking them questions.... I went through that with all of them. ... I left there convinced that the U.N. was prepared to be deadly serious about this.

Senator Kerry has put forward two main themes of his candidacy:

1. "Vietnam War Hero," and
2. Kerry “Will Be More Effective With Allies” in the War on Terror.

But, troubling patterns:

Vietnam War Hero. Launched with the Steven Spielberg-produced film used that the DNC Convention, there is mounting evidence that Kerry was dishonorably discharged from the military. His record, which he will not release, was scrubbed by proceedings under Carter’s Vietnam Amnesty program. Who would utilize such a “hero” theme in fact of a dishonorable discharge? (Bush, to the contrary, has no golden military record either, but he didn’t make it his campaign centerpiece.) Borderline pathological - inventing things out of whole cloth, with meglomania assumptions that no one will ever find out.

Kerry Will Be More Effective With Allies. This late-in-the-game claim is made, despite an objectively dismal performance record on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a whitewashed episode from the early 70’s of his secretly (as in, illegal) meeting with several governmental and military factions of our enemy, the North Vietnamese.

In the recent debate, and elsewhere, Kerry has (as a campaign device) simply manufactured a secret summit meeting with the UN Security Counsel – “the entire Security Council in a room just like this at a table like this. I spent two hours with them.., just me and the Security Council, asking them questions.”

But…IT NEVER HAPPENED.

Invented out of whole cloth, with the assumption that no one will findout.

Pathological.

Entertainment and stuff

2004-10-19T18:16:00.000-07:00

The candidates are no longer trying to sway undecided voters.

The race is now about turnout.

Each side will say scary things about the other side, trying to drive people to the polls out of fear of the other guy winning by a narrow vote.

Relax, it should be entertaining.

Some good fun over at Scylla, by the way. Check it out.

A Rare Paragraph of Clarity

2004-10-15T09:48:00.000-07:00

I'm green that I didn't pen it; but those are the breaks:

"The artists, musicians, and entertainers have also railed against the war. In the therapeutic mindset, the refinement and talent of a Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Bruce Springsteen, or John Fogerty earn respect when they weigh in on matters of state policy. But in the tragic view, they can be little more than puppets of inspiration. Their natural gifts are not necessarily enriched by real education or learning. Indeed, they are just as likely to be high-school or college dropouts and near illiterates, albeit with good memories, voices, and looks. The present antics of these influential millionaire entertainers should remind us why Plato banished them — worried that we might confuse the inspired creative frenzies of the artisans with some sort of empirical knowledge. But you can no more sing, or write, or act al Qaeda away than the equally sensitive novelists and intellectuals of the 1930s or 1940s could rehabilitate Stalin." --Victor Hanson

Blueprint Variation: Liberal vs. Conservative Brains

2004-10-14T11:49:00.000-07:00

Liberals: More connected to immediate person-to-person things. More connected to the emotion of the moment. People-centric, not thing-centric. This brain wiring is common in people drawn into the creative arts, like actors and musicians.

Conservatives: Connected to thoughts, syllogisms and paradigms. More connected to the emotion of an ideal. Less emotional and people-centric. This brain wiring is common in people drawn into engineering and building fields, including the military command.

Hence: Liberal political thought is more about trying to make individual people happy, today. Conservative political thought is more about creating a system that allows the maximum number of people to be happy, albeit there may be no immediate result today.

Liberal brains are more attuned to immediate wants and needs, and less able to accurately give weight to the long term systemic consequences of their political actions. They will feed a cute pigeon, and flocks of pigeons arrive seconds later and spoil the pavement.

Conservatives are less attuned to immediate wants and needs, and more able to accurately give weight to the long term systemic consequences of their political actions. They will refrain from feeding a cute pigeon, knowing that it will cuase locks of pigeons to arrive seconds later and spoil the pavement.

Liberals think conservatives are cold, heartless and greedy, for ignoring the hungry pigeon. Conservatives think liberals have a low IQ, for failing to see the obvious negative impact of feeding the pigeon.

Liberals see war and focus on the deaths that will ensue. Conservatives see war and focus on the deaths that will be prevented.

Liberals think conservatives are evil, for going to war whereby civilians and soldiers die. Conservatives think liberals are naive and have a low IQ, for failing to see war as the effective way to prevent even more death.

Liberals see a war corpse and focus on the family left behind, and the horror of war. Conservatives see a war corpse as a predicted, statistical casualty.

Illegal Immigration. The Greatest Prole F***Over, Ever

2004-10-12T20:53:00.000-07:00

Imagine every day your boss pulls into the parking lot, and there are several hundred people along the driveway with signs begging the boss to fire you and hire one of them, for half the cost. And longer hours. No benefits, either.

And every person in that line is breaking the law, just by being there.

If you were subjected to that scenario, you would soon go postal, or threaten your government to do something. Or, get fired.

Welcome to the average work day of blue collar workers in Southern California.

But, you've paid union dues; so did your father. Your union is fighting for you, right?

Let's see what the AFL-CIO says about all these illegal aliens who want your job. First of all, they've got a name. "Immigrant workers."

Second, the AFL-CIO thinks that your boss should try to pay benefits to your replacement, when you are fired. Really; read the website.

AMF-YOYO.*

The Teamsters' website doesn't even bother to inform the membership about its position regarding the influx of illegal alien jobs seekers. But, they do have a ballin' Teamsters screensaver you can download.

***

You're making $11 per hour, and you really need $15 per hour, plus benefits. The dozens of illegal immigrants waving the placards at your boss each morning - drawn from an army of millions - will take $5, without benefits.

So what do you think your chances of getting that wage increase are? Or, avoiding health benefit cutbacks? Zero. Ask the grocery clerks. Or the hotel workers.

"We'll strike," you are assured. "We shall prevail." Again, ask the grocery clerks how that worked out for them.

What are your chances of having your job in 4 years? Pretty good, if $5 an hour works for you. If you learn Spanish and can act as a crew chief, maybe you can pull $8 an hour.

What on Earth are the unions thinking? Why are the unions in favor of flooding the lower end of the labor market? Some sort of long-term plan to re-populate the rolls of the blue collar crowds, desparate and willing to accept 1950's-style union corruption?

Do the members have any clue what is going on?

Unions workers have a tough enough time; their trustees actually assisting the inflow of millions of illegal workers, willing to take 30 cents on the dollar, is suicide.

What is going on? What am I missing?

___
*-Adios, muthafucka, you're on your own.

My Secret Understanding of Left's "Tantalus Field" Delusion on Military Matters

2004-10-10T16:00:00.000-07:00

I used to get mad at otherwise smart liberal friends, over their dissonance in applying simple game theory to military situations. For 30 years, I suffered through countless new excuses as to why the US is morally repugnant on any military issue.

Then, I had a lightbulb moment with one very liberal friend pre-Iraq invasion, so I drilled in with others.

Bottom line: In their better moments, most Left friends claimed to be in favor of "special operations" or "black ops" to take out Saddam. I pressed them on it. They all were somewhat enthusiastic in their newfound, patriotic warmonger mode. To send in an Apache, that is.

You see, to the Left, war is justified only when it is a silver bullet. As in a Hollywood movie. When there are no civilian casualties. Only a couple of real bad guys die. There are no US casualties. Costs are low. And no third world grumbling will be heard over the military event.

They are deluded. The reason it is called, "War," is because.....well, you get it. It's hell. Innocents die; things are ruined; and one side imposes its will on another.

Liberals think that a just "war" can be none of those things. A liberal war is Day of the Jackal.

I know where that Liberal delusion comes from, in middle-aged lefties. They watched too much Star Trek. In particular, their minds were abducted by the Mirror Mirror episode.

That's the episode where Kirk and Co. find themselves in an alternate, warlike universe. Kirk has a concubine who shows him a secret device in his quarters, from the plundered laboratory of an alien scientist. It's called the "Tantalus Field". It has two powers -- a monitoring capability so one can keep an eye on one's enemies; and a white button which, if pressed, disappears the chosen enemy. He just magically disappears. Poof.

That perfectly encapsulates the military view of the Left. Only the Tantalus Field is acceptable.

Bush should have just adjourned to his quarters, and pushed the white button to make Saddam disappear.

Bush 1 should have done the same thing, to get Iraq out of Kuwait.

Johnson should have done it to Ho Chi Min.

Eisenhower should have done it to Hitler.

***

Of course, the Tantalus Field is make believe. It's an adult adaptation of the childhood wish to be God.

But the Left cannot make that connection. Their cognitive dissonance prevents them from seeing that their being in favor of "black ops" is really just a childhood wish for the Tantalus Field.

The Left never really gets itself out of this box, and more importantly, cannot even recognize that the box exists.

***

Witness Kerry's plan to get Eurupe to step up in Iraq. Typical left wishful thinking.

Stellar Choice by the Nobel Brain Trust

2004-10-10T09:10:00.000-07:00

Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, claimed in her Nobel press conference that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent, intended to wipe out Black Africa.

"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial.... Us black people are dying more than any other people in this planet...In fact it (the HIV virus) is created by
a scientist for biological warfare...Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious."

Nobelette Maathai was quoted in August by the East Africa Standard newspaper as saying that HIV/AIDS was created by scientists for the purpose of mass extermination.

The Standard also noted that Maathai’s main AIDS concern is that with every AIDS death, another tree will have to be cut to make a coffin.

Tragedy of the Commons

2004-10-04T17:20:00.000-07:00

Garrett Hardin died recently. He was a pioneer who did not fit nicely into either world of either the Left or the Right. Alas, his writings were lucid and, frankly, irrebutable.

Hardin popularized the term “Tragedy of the Commons,” shorthand for the phenomenon that, left unchecked, individuals’ uses of public places or “commons” leads to the destruction of the commons. In some ways, there is a yin-yang relationship between the Invisible Hand the tragedy of the commons.

By “commons,” Hardin meant common places whose use (and abuse) is free to all. Tragedy was used to mean "the solemnity of the remorseless working of things." Other economists might explain Hardin's concepts as addressing whether the true costs of the usage are not reflected in the free price - the "externalities chapter in MacroEconomics that you didn't read.

As a result, companies find it beneficial to dump wastes into rivers and oceans, because from the company’s viewpoint, it is rational to clean up the company’s factory by slightly polluting the oceans, instead of spoiling the company factory by retaining the waste.

Similarly, public lands get over-grazed and become useless. Hardin described pictures of northern Africa showed an irregular dark patch, 390 square miles in area. Ground-level investigation revealed a fenced area inside of which there was plenty of grass. Outside, the ground cover had been devastated. The fenced area was private property, and each year the private owners moved their animals to a new section. (The fallow periods gave the sections time to recover from the grazing) They did so because the owners had an incentive to take care of their land. But outside the ranch, no one owned the land - it was open to nomads and their herds, to use for free. Uncontrolled, the free users grew in number, and ultimately the herds exceeded the natural "carrying capacity" of their environment. The soil of the commons was compacted and eroded, and "weedy" plants, unfit for cattle consumption, replaced good plants. Many cattle died, and so did humans. This is, literally, the “tragedy of the commons.”

Hardin and other commentators focused on things environmental: Over-fishing of oceans; hunting carrier pigeons and buffalo to extinction; and pollution of the air. All these are clear examples of private decisions, left unchecked, resulting in ruination for all.

Even public highway congestion (as opposed to private toll roads) was described by Hardin as inevitable over-use due to the lack of any user fee.

At first blush, you would think that large industrial corporations would tend to be hostile to the Tragedy of the Commons lessons, as anti-pollution laws, forestry logging restrictions and the like are the result. And history is replete with just such opposition.

Greatly simplifying, then, the interests of industrialists would seem to be against Hardin’s theories, as they frustrate Big Industry. If we assume Big Industry is synonymous with the “Right” wing of the political spectrum, then the Right Wing is against Hardin. Similarly, to the extent that the “Right” is deemed to be the partisans who want above all individual liberties, many of such liberties contradict the stewardship ideas inherent in Tragedy thinking.

Again greatly simplifying, the dogma of the “Left Wing” of the political spectrum at its core desires “to each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities” and pursues greater public ownership of things. Yet the Tragedy of the Commons is no friend of the Left Wing. The theories of Hardin focus on managing the commons by private ownership, where stewardship is at its most rational. Rationing the goods of the Earth via private property and user fees is antithetical to many on the Left, as somehow elitist and discriminatory.

Perhaps it is the Caspar Milquetoast in me, but any pair of glasses for viewing the world of politics which offends both the Right Wing and the Left Wing, is worth further review.

WW 4

2004-10-04T17:15:00.000-07:00

WW 4
By Average Joe
11.06.01

Start exercising your brain the way your Grandfather did. The Cult of the Gray wants to censor you from a critical historical analysis.

WWI: 1914-1918
WWII: 1939-1945
WWIII: The Cold War: 1947 – 1989
WW IV: The Islamo Fascist War 2001 - ?

Don’t submit to the historical censors.

The Japanese Fascist/Nazi.

The Japanese military took over the Japanese government in the decades prior to WWII. The militarized regime indoctrinated a generation of Japanese with militarized schooling as to the need of Japanese youth the give their lives for their god-on-earth Emperor. They were brainwashed in a false perversion of vague Samarai code, that death in service of the god-emperor ensured honor to family. Martyrdom, as a religion. Genocide as an objective.

The brainwashing centered on the teaching that the Japanese were the superior race, and that other races were inferior. The Japanese military warlords sought the twin objectives of building a military empire, and controlling raw materials. The Japanese invaded and overran various countries in Southeast Asia. After invading, the Japanese killed millions in a war of genocide – the systematic mass murder of others because they are not of your race or religion or tribe. Distinctions between civilians and military were only in the mind of western apologists. Atrocities were numbing; soldiers’ wagers on the sex of fetuses hacked out of pregnant women, etc. The Japanese used what fledgling bioterrorism was available, such as breeding and spreading diseased rats in order to cause a pandemic. The Chinese city of Nanking was one target. A few months after invading, the Japanese had exterminated 350,000 civilians in that city, alone. Any living being not Japanese was worthy of slaughter, somehow in the name of the Emperor god, and the purity of a Japanese military empire.

The Japanese sought to control their entire side of the globe, as a vast empire to further their race and control raw materials – oil and other necessities.

The Japanese were taught that Westerners were weak and immoral and stood for nothing.

WWII Japanese soldiers were trained to ignore any semblance of “just war” theory or treaties, including the slaughter of prisoners of war. Battlefield medics were particularly targeted by Japanese snipers. Allied medical workers did not wear the “Red Cross”, as it simply ensured special targeting by snipers. (Even the Nazis gave lip service to respect of the Red Cross….).

The Japanese commenced WWII with a peacetime Sunday morning sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. 2400 were killed.

A few years later, the Japanese military concluded that they could not win the war with the U.S. They decided that inflicting massive casualties on the U.S. – military or civilian – during the eventual U.S. push to counterattack Japan, was needed in order to cause the U.S. public to withdraw support for attacking Japan. Thus, a peace treaty could be arranged without Japan bearing retaliation.

A year later, U.S. carpet bombing and firebombing of 60 Japanese cities, in which ½ to 2/3 of the cities were destroyed, did not cause either the Japanese military to capitulate, nor did the Japanese population rise up to stop the war.

The U.S. issued an ultimatum, which was ignored by the Japanese, and then the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. Then another. At that point, the Japanese surrendered. Perhaps the only way the fascist military dictatorship would surrender was to witness the ruthless resolve needed to drop an atomic bomb.

The Japanese people suffered their military overlords, U.S. firebombing and U.S. atomic strikes.

Yet a generation after the atomic bombings, the two countries and its peoples, despite racial, cultural and religious dissimilarity, are close economic partners who interact freely with each other and interlink their cultures and peoples by wholesale adoption of ideas and customs from the other. They have a lasting peace, and a lasting interdependent linkage of the two groups.

The Islamo Fascist

Since the success of the radical takeover in Iran in 1979, other militant racist islamo-fascist cults have been trying to take over Middle East and Muslim countries. Coming out of a Soviet war and civil war, the Taliban cult, sponsored by a Pakistani fundamentalist regime and Saudi money, took over Afghanistan. The Taliban and its islamo-fascist allies are indoctrinating a generation or Muslims with militarized schooling as to the need of Muslim youth to strike the Great Satan (currently the U.S.) and give their lives for their cult religion. The brainwashing includes that the Muslim religion dictates a radical authoritarian racist regime ruthlessly suppressing the population, as necessary to support the dogma that radical Islam is the superior race/religion, and that other races and religions, particularly Jews and Christians, are inferior and need to be exterminated.

The islamo-fascists teach and dictate that a war of genocide – the systematic mass murder of infidel Jews and Christians and others – is one’s duty. Any living being not of the radical islamo-fascist cult is worthy only of slaughter, somehow in the name of the religion and the purity of a radical cult regime. The islamo-fascists seek the twin objectives of building a fascist Islamist empire of the Mideast, and controlling all Mideast raw materials --oil. Various Islamist factions continue to attack Mideast countries under various names – Hamas, Jihad, Martyr’s Brigade, PLO, Taliban, etc. The islamo-fascists in particular target the killing of civilians in a war of terror. The islamo-fascists and their supporters actively seek biological and nuclear weaponry.

The radical islamo-fascists teach that Westerners are weak and immoral and stand for nothing.

Islamist “jihad” warriors, or terrorists, are trained to ignore any semblance of “just war” theory or treaties. They are brainwashed that a heaven is waiting to reward their martyrdom, complete with scores of virgins there for their pleasure. Martrydom is the cost of entry. When such is accepted, it then a small matter to accept slaughter of civilians. Suicide bombings of school buses and retail stores is of particular interest to them.

The islamo-fascists commenced the war in America with a peacetime morning sneak attack on civilians in New York and Washington. Over 3000 civilians were killed.

The islamo-fascists, in their quest for a Mideast empire and control of oil, know that they cannot win any conventional war with the U.S., or any other nation state. Instead, their strategy is to inflict massive civilian terror casualties on the U.S., in order to cause the U.S. public to withdraw support for a) preventing Islamist dictatorial hi-jacking of Mideast countries in order to turn them into cultist death camp regimes, like Afghanistan, and b) any US resistance to the islamo-fascists blitzkrieg, since the US is the only remaining international policeman.

In the near future, after U.S. carpet bombing and firebombing of Taliban strongholds and perhaps other terrorist camps, cities, countries, etc., it is unlikely that all the islamo-fascists will be eradicated, and unlikely that the islamo-fascists will call off their genocide jihad. It is also unlikely that the vast moderate yet brainwashed populations of the Mideast countries will rise in anger to stop the islamo-fascists.

The Average Joe in the U.S., just like the Average Joe in 1945, needs to jolt himself from the decade of Pax Americana and begin to address in his own mind that there is a war going on, not a “police action”, but a war. Jihad soldiers across the planet would without hesitation drop genocidal biochemical or nuclear weapons on any America city at the first opportunity. Our words or ultimatum will likely be ignored.

Tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of civilians will eventually die in this US – islamo-fascist war. Just as the Japanese suffered under their warlords 5 decades ago.

Yet a generation later, despite racial, cultural and religious dissimilarity, history shows that a lasting peace, and a lasting interdependent linkage, can nonetheless follow between the US and the Muslim side of the globe.

A Memo Written 9.12.01

2004-10-04T17:13:00.000-07:00

Memo

To: The Ordinary People of the Developing World
From: An Ordinary Joe in America
Date: September 12, 2001

Yesterday I woke up to the real time viewing of about 10,000 [ed: turned out to be 3000+] American civilians in various stages of their fiery deaths, incinerated in terrorist sneak attacks upon the most populated buildings in our most populated city.

Just ordinary Joes and Janes.

A government building and an American mass transit bus, known as a jetliner, also served fiery deaths to hundreds more in the attacks.

The life of ordinary people living in the developing countries of the Islamic world just changed.

I want to express my regret to the ordinary people of the Islamic world, for the unlucky card they were dealt in life. In the coming years, there will not be much regret expressed for the Islamic poor by the ordinary Joes or Joses. And the wrath of an awakened giant will end up destroying much of what the Islamic poor have in their daily lives. So here it is: “I regret what cards you have been dealt.”

But there is nothing I can – or will – do about it. But I will tell you a bit about it, so you understand my regret.

Like most of the 6 billion on Earth, you live your life more or less trying to get shelter, get food, battle disease and salvage a little happiness for you and your family. Unfortunately, the genetic lottery put you in a place on Earth where dictators and thugs still rule, or fight to rule.

You are less than a mule to them. Less than a barrel of oil. To them, you are a mere tool that is best kept dull and under control. The dictators who are your masters, under the excuse of some religious nonsense, know that you feel powerless and desperate. The dictators also know that they are the cause of your desperate straits.

So by striking “America,” portrayed to you as the Devil Incarnate, you feel a momentary power, a belonging, a virility. You are somehow connected to the images on CNN. You have power in the world. You must now be respected.

And your dictator is the one who brought you that feeling. Like an opiate. In the bleakness of your ordinary existence, this was something new.

Thugs have ruled the Earth since recorded time. Beginning about ½ way through the last millennium, that began to change, slowly, in a few parts of the world. About 200 years ago, rule-by-despot was done away with, on paper, in the New World, although the struggle is never over. Others followed. 50 years ago, dictators were again eradicated from more of the Western world, and 10 years ago, even more dictators fell.

This delivery from serfdom has been a 200, perhaps even a 600 year struggle, for the European and American peoples.

You are not so lucky. You and your friends live in the chains of a serf, and your master is a small group of men who rule you with an iron fist. Like a donkey. You are useful to them only to the extent that you keep them in power.

They use the same old story. Religious purity. Or racial purity. Or political/thought purity.

They use tried-and-true versions of the opiates to keep you dull. You are brainwashed that life on Earth is a burden to be endured, and that your god is waiting to reward you when you finish your horrible tasks on earth. Some of you are even brainwashed to believe that fields of luscious virgins await to pleasure you in heaven, if and only if you exit this paltry earth as a martyr.

None of this brainwashing is true, but my purpose here is to express regret, not to argue spiritual matters. In the West, we have fought, and many have died horrible deaths, to create a society where you can think and believe whatever thoughts you desire, and you don’t need anyone’s permission to do that.

Rather, brainwashing is used by your master for good reason - to maintain you as poor, uneducated proletariat (the dull tool), conditioned to equate the ruling dictator with god, or god’s agent, and therefore to be obeyed. The dictator also needs to be able to whip you into a frenzy, when needed, to defend the dictator from internal or external challenge.

During our hundreds of years of struggles, some succumbed to the same brainwashing forces. For example, every few years we have a mass murder episode perpetrated by some “religious cult,” typically made up of people who have fallen to, or below, the lower rungs of our society. They kill, or die, while brainwashed to believe that they are leaving their burdens of this earth to a better place. Maybe even one with beautiful luscious virgins waiting to attend to them.

We even had a whole group of dictators mid-century, one in particular, who was quite literally insane, brainwash entire cities and countries into believing that a small northern European race was the group chosen by god to rule over a third coming. Anyone not in that little group was a mule, or worse. A couple million people died in the resulting battle. Some were even baked in ovens, like mule-pot-pie. That was good vs. evil. Luckily, and way too close for comfort, Good won. The race killers were basically made extinct, except for a few little groups that survive today, sort of like a human zoo.

Most of the people who were around for that stuff are dead now. Most – yes most – of the new generations of Ordinary Joes don’t know what their grandparents lived through. Cannot identify what Kristallnacht or Nanking was. So they got a bit mushy. No need to pay attention to old stuff.

Anyway, the West has become a place of freedom. Life, liberty, and freedom from fear and destruction. You are not so lucky. Instead, probably through little or no fault of your own, you are a slave to (meaning, you are ruled by) the Taliban, or the Hussein posse, or any of the other Islamic fundamentalist dictators who constantly bombard you, since your youth, with messages that:

a) your fundamentalist leader is an agent of god,
b) everyone else must yield to your leader, or they are an instrument of the devil,
c) your life on earth was meant to be horrific due to some flaw beyond your control, and
d) if you act as a soldier for the leader, you will be delivered to heaven (and its luscious waiting virgins), special delivery.

I regret that, given the events of yesterday, your slavery to your dictators is going to become so hard on you and your family in the coming years.

Why are you not lucky? Because before yesterday, Americans (and other Western and democratic peoples) pretty much knew that you got born into an unlucky situation, dealt a bad hand in life, and that is wasn’t really your fault. Thus, we were willing to suffer minor, and major, detriment in order to protect you from the crazed actions of your master. Your master doesn’t care about you – you are just his mules – but Americans actually did care, at least a bit. Meaning, Americans were against your death or injury or deprivation, simply because you are the slave of a dictator.

So Americans, and their leaders, really did believe in things like “surgical strikes”, which are very expensive and result in Americans spending money on surgical strike tools rather than health care and the like, all in order to try – or at least, try a little – to spare you from the crazed actions of the dictators who rule you, and brainwash you so that you don’t know any better.

But that pretty much changed yesterday.

I still know that you are not at fault, or not much at fault, but that has moved way down the list of priorities for me. Way, way down the list. Many, many agree with this, I think.

Rather, my New Priority is to accept that the terrorist dictators, and their soldiers, and their suppliers and backers, simply have to be killed.

And the tools that assist them, destroyed.

And the nests where they breed, eradicated.

For years and years to come. Like the Cold War, which we fought for 40 years before victory arrived.

That is New Priority #1.

And I know that your terrorist dictators and their soldiers will use you as cover, or as tools, or as nests.

And due to brainwashing they have conducted on you, you are helpless to do anything about it.

So as the terrorist dictators are hunted and killed, they will use you and your families as a shield, and thus you shall also die or be injured or suffer.

As their tools are searched and destroyed, you will be in harm’s way, since unwittingly you are one of their tools. And as their nests are eradicated, you will become victims and refugees, since the dictators will sacrifice you first, before them.

I regret that these things will be brought to bear on you and your loved ones. But you are no longer my priority.