Quote of the Day

"No case is necessarily definitive when you're looking at specific language,"

says Law professor Deborah Denno of Fordham University to the AP.

Wikipedia Refuses to Acknowledge Death Threat on 9-11 Activist Mark Dice

Talk show host Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan's son, thought it was reprehensible for Mark Dice to mail 9-11 material to troops in Iraq, so he said the following:

We ought to find the people who are doing this, take them out and shoot them. Really. You take them out, they are traitors to this country, and shoot them. You have a problem with that? Deal with it. You shoot them. You call them traitors, that’s what they are, and you shoot them dead. I’ll pay for the bullets.

How about you take Mark Dice out and put him in the middle of a firing range. Tie him to a post, don’t blindfold him, let it rip and have some fun with Mark Dice.

Not only was Reagan not fired or reprimanded by management, but Wikipedia has refused to allow this quote - or even mention of the death threat - to be placed on its "democratic" website.

British Council Bans 'Brainstorming'

Replace it with 'thought showers,' as "brainstorming might offend mentally ill people and those with epilepsy." Even epileptics think it is a stupid idea here.

"Russert Revisionism"

Justin Raimondo on Russert's complicity in promoting the run up to the war on Iraq and his attacks on Ron Paul here.

Johnny Kramer of LewRockwell.com on Russert's poor treatment of 2000 Libertarian candidate Harry Browne here.

As is fairly clear from these articles, Russert was interested in asking tough (i.e., unfair) questions only of people who challenged the status quo.

Al Gore Consumes More Electricity in a Month Than The Average American Household Consumes In A Year

Ironically, he is now consuming more electricity after he made "environmentally friendly" modifications to his home - modifications which I am sure include the use of toxic, mercury-filled lightbulbs. Details from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research here.

Tim Russert, Pro-Torture Crossdresser?

It appears that everyone is fawning over the life of Tim Russert - everyone, that is, without an ounce of sense. According to the wesite TVNewsLies, Chris Mathews has claimed that Russert had a sort of omniscience about 9-11 - an omniscience that, by the way, defies physics as well as fact. Even discredited global warming alarmist Al Gore has claimed that Russert was "a great journalist, interviewer and author." In response to this kind of lavish praise, Lew Rockwell said the following:

We are also told that Russert asked tough questions of politicians. What a joke. He acted like their butler or valet--with one exception. When Russert interviewed Ron Paul, he was incredibly hostile, made lying insinuations, gave Ron almost no time to answer, and, in general, acted like a member of the Capitol Hill-neocon thugbund.

Rockwell goes on to say that Russert "did much good in his private life." Perhaps, but perhaps not. The Washington Post, in discussing a press/politician dinner in 2006, claims the following:

Tim Russert, making his first appearance as a new member, decked out in a blue dress and a shiny blond wig as one of the cable news bunnies. But there were also some true clunkers. Singing about torture, subbing "rendition" for "tradition" and borrowing the "Fiddler on the Roof" song was not funny at all. The chumminess of the politicos and the press corps can be cloying.

Was Russert the one who was singing about torture? Or was he just having a good laugh at the rendition flights? A good man, in drag or otherwise, would have got up and left the table.

By the way, Obama was also at this event, where he cracked jokes at Cheney for having shot his "friend" while intoxicated. Ha, ha! It is hilarious that our vice president was likely drunk during the incident and prevented local police from interviewing him while he sobered up. Gee, I can't tell which of Obama's jokes is funnier, that politicians are above the law or that he himself is going to bring change to the Whitehouse.

Ron Paul on Obama's "Change"

Ron Paul, sadly, has announced the end of his campaign for president. You missed your chance America, so welcome back to the status quo. Here is Dr. Paul on Obama's message of "change":

Coming Trend? Arresting Those Who Cheer at Graduations

Abridged from AOL News:

ROCK HILL, S.C. (June 10) - When school officials in Rock Hill, South Carolina, tell graduation ceremony crowds to hold their applause until the end, they mean it -- Police arrested seven people after they were accused of loud cheering during the ceremonies.

All the cases, except for one that includes a resisting arrest charge, will be handled in city court and are punishable by a maximum of 30 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Orr [who was arrested] said he thinks people should be allowed to cheer.

"For some people, it might be the only member of their family to graduate high school, and it was like a funeral in there," Orr said.

William Massey, 19, was arrested but said he plans to fight the charge. He said he simply "clapped and gave a little whoop" when his fiancee's name was called.

Last year in Galesburg, Illinois, five students were denied diplomas from the city's lone public high school after enthusiastic friends or family members cheered for them during commencement. Students could get their diplomas after completing eight hours of public service for the school district.

Those "Ungrateful" Irish

This article on the Irish referendum on the EU really deserves to be read in full. An abridged version follows:

How can the Irish be so ungrateful? That is the question being asked by EU officials (in private) and by EU supporters (in public) as the Irish go to the polls this Thursday to vote on whether to accept the Lisbon Treaty on the expansion of European Union institutions. The fact that the ‘No’ lobby seems to be gaining ground – in a country that has benefited enormously from EU subsidies! – has led to an orgy of bile-ridden attacks on truculent, thick and thankless Irish voters.

The message is clear: the Irish should know their place in the European set-up and slavishly bow and scrape before their paymasters in Brussels. Anything else would be ‘extraordinarily ungrateful’, according to one commentator (1). Welcome to the ‘democratic’ EU – where most countries are bypassing their electorates and simply ratifying the Lisbon Treaty, and where the one country that is holding a referendum – Ireland – has been subjected to the kind of financial, political and emotional blackmail that would make even Imelda Marcos squirm.

In order for the Lisbon Treaty on EU enlargement to come into effect on 1 January 2009, all 27 member states must ratify it. So far, 15 countries have forced it through their parliaments, and another 11 are in the process of doing so. But Ireland – population: 4.3million – is the only EU member state constitutionally bound to hold a referendum and put the Treaty to the will of the people. EU officials and supporters are sweating and fretting over the possibility that Irish voters – ‘any clown with a pen’, as one writer charmingly referred to them – will torpedo the Treaty (2).

This echoes the attacks on Irish voters when they rejected the EU’s Nice Treaty in a referendum in June 2001. Back then, 54 per cent of voters said ‘No thanks’. ‘The best pupils of the European class have spat in the soup’, spat the French newspaper Liberation in 2001: ‘The blow is all the more treacherous in that it comes from a country that owes its new wealth to Europe.’ (7) ‘Those ungrateful Irish’, said a headline in The Economist, reminding truculent anti-Nice voters that ‘when Ireland joined the European Economic Community in 1973, the country’s income per head was about 60 per cent of the community’s average; it is now around 120 per cent’ (8).

In 2002, under extreme pressure from the EU, the Irish state found a neat way to get around the inconvenient fact of a ‘No’ vote to the Nice Treaty – it simply held a second referendum (in a shameless act of political Double Jeopardy) and devoted its not-inconsiderable political and media machinery to demanding that voters make the ‘right decision’ this time (9). Pro-Nice posters reminded the ungrateful Irish about everything they had received from the EU. ‘Thirty billion Euros since 1973’, the posters said, while Irish ministers warned ominously that a second rejection of Nice could ‘return Ireland to poverty’ (10). This time, the ‘Yes’ lobby won: in October 2002, 62.89 per cent of voters supported Nice.

The attacks on Irish voters for being ‘extraordinarily ungrateful’ – both for initially rejecting Nice in 2001 and for even thinking about saying ‘No’ to Lisbon this week – reveal a great deal about ‘democracy’ in the EU. The EU’s bureaucrats and backers seem dumbfounded that they cannot buy Irish people’s support; they find it ‘hard to fathom’ that a people who have received subsidies worth billions of Euros are not falling in line behind their rulers. It is the mark of corrupt, degenerate and anti-democratic elitism to believe that you can buy people’s votes. Indeed, in many civilised, democratic countries it is illegal for political parties to offer voters financial reward for their ballots. Yet, Mafioso-style, EU backers are telling the Irish: ‘You’ve received your monies – now do as we say.’

Viewpoint: Israel Shamir's "In Defence of Prejudice"

Israel Shamir, born a Jew in Russia, has now converted to Christianity and lives in Israel. In the following provocative article, he defends the idea of prejudice (but not hate).

Psychologist: Having an Affair is Good for Your Marriage!

Abridged from the Telegraph:

Mira Kirshenbaum, who has over 30 years' experience as a marriage therapist, says the 'right kind' of affair can be a positive thing, acting to "jolt people from their inertia".

The author of When Good People Have Affairs, published this week, argues that because society has so far failed to have a sympathetic discussion of infidelity, the positive sides of cheating have been ignored.

Mira Kirshenbaum, who has over 30 years' experience as a marriage therapist, says the 'right kind' of affair can be a positive thing, acting to "jolt people from their inertia".

The author of When Good People Have Affairs, published this week, argues that because society has so far failed to have a sympathetic discussion of infidelity, the positive sides of cheating have been ignored.

"If handled right, an affair can be therapeutic, give clarity and jolt people from their inertia," she said.

"You could think of it as a radical but necessary medical procedure. If your marriage is in cardiac arrest, an affair can be a defibrillator."

More Global Warming Propaganda: Violent Children's Cartoon Quiz Suggests When Child Should Die

The quiz was put out by the state-sponsored Australian broadcasting channel and lets you calculate when you have "used more than your fair share of Earth's resources", at which point, it suggests, you should die.

Two observations:

One, it would seem obvious that such global warming alarmists as Al Gore, John Travolta, and Mariah Carey should have "died" by now, according to the calculator. Scroll towards the bottom of this article.

Two, there are actually less grazing animals on the planet than before America was fully colonized. (Think, for instance, of the number of buffalo killed.) To blame global warming on meat consumption, as does the quiz, is nonsense. Even if grazing animals were to contribute to global warming, they would be contributing less now than they had before the conquest of America. By this reasoning, "environmentalists" should be praising the past slaughter of the buffalo.