Indoctrinate-U

Rather than typing some long winded description, just watch the videos and let them describe themselves.

Another Notable Quote

... "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

-Barack Hussein Obama

Let me make this clear you elitist communist pustule... I am gainfully employed. I don't cling to guns because I'm some bitter, hopeless, down and out small town hick. I cling to my guns because people like you think you know better how I should lead my life, raise my kids and spend my hard earned cash and you're perfectly willing to impose your deranged will on me... I cling to them because you hate the idea that free Americans have a god-given right to defend themselves not only from the acts of criminals, but also from elitist, fascist machinations by means of armed insurrection if needs be. You have forgotten the assertion by our founding fathers that a government rules only by the consent of the people.

Of course now you are back peddling like Lance Armstrong on a yellow jersey hunt from these snotty comments. You're trying to change what you said to mean something else. I don't buy it and neither should voters in Pennsylvania (or anywhere else for that matter). You were in San Francisco making private comments to your elitist supporters on the left coast. You didn't expect those words to be heard by the rank and file on the right coast. You are nothing more than a political chameleon that says one thing to one group of people and other things to other groups... whatever happens to be expedient at the moment. You were calling these people gun toting, superstitious, bigoted hicks and you know it! You however are the bigot for not only uttering, but also holding such views as these. Did you learn this hatred from your reverend Wright perhaps?

A Notable Quote

"Posterity will not remember us for how quickly we left Iraq, but for how Iraq was left."
Sen. Lindsey Graham

A Gun in the Hand....

...Is worth far more than an entire police department on the other end of the phone. Click the title of this post to see the article that spawned this post. Read it and then come back. So gun control-aholics... Explain to me again how it is that we should all surrender our right to self defense and allow 911 to replace that pistol in the nightstand... What was it that calling 911 did to prevent that woman's murder?

The woman told the dispatcher someone was trying to break into her home in
upscale West Covina, Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Dan Rosenberg said.
"Deputies heard gunshots followed by silence and an open phone line," he
said.

Deputies arrived at the house, 20 miles east of Los Angeles, a few
minutes after Wednesday's late morning call.

The woman, whose name was not released by police, had been shot several times. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.

California has received the highest rating of all 50 states from the Brady Campaign against gun violence. Please explain to me how all of those laws made this woman any safer.

Allow me to introduce you to a little common sense.

Oklahoma and Kentucky are tied for the worst rating from the Brady Campaign. California however had 6.8 murders per 100,000 citizens in 2006. Kentucky had 4 per 100,000 and Oklahoma had 5.8 per 100,000. Somehow all of that gun control doesn't seem to equate to fewer murders. In fact if you think about it, why would a criminal care about gun laws? If they are going to disregard laws prohibiting breaking and entering, rape, theft or murder why would they abide by laws regarding the possession of firearms?

Sometime ago a family member of mine, my sister, came to this blog and tried to equate my teaching my son marksmanship to this. Her reaction was not unlike other reactions I've received from other liberals to the image of my adorable son holding a tool that could save his life. So if this woman had taken up a firearm and defended herself, preventing her murder; would she be the same as those terrorist children?

Let's make this absolutely clear. Guns do not cause crime... liberalism does. As time has gone by, our nation has moved more and more to the left. What has that move brought us? When I was a child we could (and did) pray in school. Luckily, that's been eliminated and instead our children are fed a constant diet of agitprop. Our crime rates are drastically higher than back then, but thank goodness our children can't pray in school. When I was a kid I got a spanking when I misbehaved. Thank goodness that's being eliminated. I mean violence among inner city youth is spiraling out of control, but it's good that parents soon will not be able to correct their children in any meaningful way. When I was a kid it was almost unheard of for children to be born out of wedlock and the majority of people went to church regularly. Luckily both of those heinous things are also on the decline, our prison population is the highest it's ever been as a percentage of the population at large, but luckily little girls can hatch one unwanted kid after another out of wedlock and membership in those hateful churches is on the decline. Naturally none of those things are related.

Liberals have mangled our society. They've tried to engineer it into some Utopian fantasy by enacting their stupid laws and when those laws are found inadequate, rather than repealing them as failed concepts, they simply enact more laws to patch the holes and further constrict or abridge our freedoms. Liberalism is the cause of crime. It is the liberals that decry punishment for criminals and prefer "rehabilitation". We all know that the criminal isn't to blame for his or her behavior right? Life should not have any consequences of course.

It is liberals that enjoy and strive to disarm the law abiding, leaving them defenseless like the woman in the linked article and it is they who are to blame for their deaths.

Hopefully the SCOTUS will interject some common sense in this insanity, but even if they come out completely on the correct side of the issue and abolish every infringement of our right to keep and bear arms it will still do nothing to eliminate the underlying mental illness that spawned those infringements in the first place... liberalism.

On the Trail of Homo Floresiensis

Some time ago fossils of an early hominid were discovered on the South Pacific Island of Flores. Because of the individual's small size they were dubbed "hobbits" by the news media and given the scientific designation Homo Floresiensis, which indicates the discovers' belief that they represented a new species.

Almost immediately there were detractors who claimed that these diminuitive people were not a new species and that they simply were ordinary homo sapiens that suffered from microcephaly.

That contention however was itself disproved by the fact that microcephalic individuals are profoundly metally retarded... To the point of being incapable of caring for themselves. These individuals however were found with appropriately sized stone tools, clearly not something that could have been accomplished by someone suffering from microcephaly.

Well now added to this debate is the fact that American and South African acheaological teams have discovered fossilized remains of these short-statured humans on another island in the area. The fact that these individuals also existed on Palau is interesting and indicates that they were more wide spread than initially thought.

Almost at the same time as the announcement of this discovery, another group of anthropologists have fired another round into the fray claiming that these individuals were suffering from dwarf cretinism. This disorder is brought about by a severe iodine deficiency during pregnancy. While dwarf cretinism also involves mental imparement, it is not usually quite as profound as those suffering from microcephaly.

The Second Amendment gets its day in court

The Supreme Court began its hearing of the evidence in the case of DC v. Heller yesterday. Initial reports seemed to indicate that the justicces support the "individual right" reading of the second amendment. They did not however seem to shy from the idea of government infringement (aka regulation) of that right.

...a decision in favor of the individual-rights interpretation seems
likely. The court's four "conservatives" seemed to signal their support of it,
while the "liberals" clung to the collective-rights position. Justice Anthony
Kennedy, the usual swing vote, strongly suggested that the "right of the people"
clause is the "operational" clause and the founders meant to protect the right
to self-defense with appropriate tools. (source)

Justice Kennedy put forth an interesting reading of the second amendment (and Scalia seemed to concur) that I hadn't considered before. He contended that the odd phrasing, the "well regulated militia" part was a reiteration of the states right to maintain a militia, but that the second amendment expands upon the provisions of Article I and II to enshrine an additional individual right. He said:

The first clause I submit can be read consistently with the purpose I've
indicated of simply reaffirming the existence and the importance of the militia
clause. Those were very important clauses. As you've indicated, they're in
Article I and Article II. And so in effect the amendment says we reaffirm the
right to have a militia, we've established it, but in addition, there is a right
to bear arms.

In essence what Kennedy is saying is that the second amendment should be read something like, "While we'd like to reiterate that the states have a right to maintain a militia we'd also like to certify that individuals have the right to keep and bear arms".

For those interested, here is the complete transcript of testimony and here are all of the briefs filed in reference to this case.

Many have proposed that this case is the panacea of gun rights preservation. I would submit that the Supreme Court exists in the same culture that we do. The court is likely to rule that the second amendment affirms an individual right to arms, but that the right is subject to reasonable regulation like all of the other rights are. How they define "reasonable" will be the crux of the issue..

Liberal Tactics

Some cowardly liberal tried their hand at frightening the U.S. Army today. At 3:45AM they detonated an under powered explosive device in front of the Army recruiting station In Times Square in New York City, injuring no one. The explosion damaged a window and door.

Later it was discovered that they informed several democrat congress members by mail. Sending them a post card stating "We did it!" and some loony agitprop.

So let me get this straight, to protest the US involvement in the Iraq war, some pacifist moonbat summoned up enough balls to construct an anemic IED and then used it to attack an unoccupied US Army installation in the dark of night. That's an awful lot of courage for a liberal, but you better return Hillary's balls, "she's" liable to want them back.

Some people's kids... I can only shake my head.

Another Detractor of Global Warming

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel is calling global warming a scam. In fact, he's calling it the "greatest scam in history". he says that this scam was propagated by "dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives". When asked how he arrived at this conclusion Coleman said that he, "read dozens of the scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct when I assure you there is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril."

Interestingly the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has released ambient average air temperature measurements for the year just concluded that show that temperatures have fallen and did not conform to any predictions of temperature increase.

Geekdom Mourns Today

Gary Gygax, creator the game Dungeons and Dragons died today at his home in Lake Geneva at the age of 69. His wife reports his health had been poor for some time.

I for one am not too proud to admit that I have spent many hours and derived much enjoyment from playing Gary's game. I actually met Gary once in 1986. My impression was that he was a very nice man. He listened intently to the fans of his game and if you look at it the progression of the game, you'll find that he actually took his fans' suggestions to heart and incorporated them into the newer versions of his game.

His wife reports that he hosted his last game at his home sometime in January.

Gary's new game started the craze of role playing games that still sweeps the world to this day.

Unfortunately Gary has expended his hit points and there are no potions of resurrection to be found. Rest well Gary!

Cthulhu for President in '08!

Lacking a more favorable candidate for president this go-round, I've decided to cast my vote for Cthulhu!

The muslims aren't out to get us!

Click the title to see the article that makes this claim.

This is pretty standard liberal tactics. Let me point the problem area out for you:

The survey, conducted by the Gallup polling agency over six years and
three continents, seeks to dispel the belief held by some in the West that Islam
itself is the driving force of radicalism.

Do you see it? A true poll does not seek to dispel anything. A poll's only purpose should be to establish the sentiments of those polled. If one engineers a poll with a mind to "dispel" something then you should not be surprised that they succeed.

Allow me to say that it does not surprise me that the vast majority of muslims are not radicals. What does surprise me is that they are not more vocal and active against those who are. Where are their voices raised in opposition to their religions leaders' calls in Mecca for death to the USA? I couldn't give a rat's ass what these people say on an anonymous poll. That doesn't count for a hill of beans. What counts, is the way these people guide their religion and religious leaders by consensus to moderation. So far, they have failed and are therefore irrelevant. What counts is how they guide their children to become contributing members of global society. On both of these counts the moderate muslims fail.

I am not saying that the majority of muslims are terrorists. What I am saying is that the majority of muslims are too cowardly to speak out and retake their religion. So the terrorists may not be the majority, but they hold the reins and the rest allow that to occur and that makes this stupid poll absolutely meaningless.

Civil War Part Deux?

If you click the title link, you will find an article detailing the Montana secretary of state's claims that if the Supreme Court finds against an individual right interpretation of the Second Amendment in Heller vs DC that such a descision would negate the state's contract with the union. In light of that, in his view Montana would be forced to secede from the union due to that breach of contract. This is interesting indeed.

Dry Spell

I've not been posting much lately for several reasons. First off, I've been rather disheartened by the way the election has been going. It doesn't matter who gets selected by either party at this point, because we will have a liberal in the White House regardless which party wins. We can only hope that McCain selects a good solid conservative veep to help him with his street cred. The more I look at the situation, the more convinced I become to write in Rusty Shackleford for president.

Beyond being politcally frustrated (which I assure you will eventually pass) I'm also deeply involved in a side project that is consuming vast quatities of my time.

So be patient with me, I'm sure I will see some news article in the near future that will demand that I comment on it...

Wrapping up a few loose ends

There have been a number of articles that have caught my attention of the past several days that I've been intending to blog about. Well you know how life ends up keeping you from doing everything you intend... So I've resolved to deal with all of them here and clear them from my plate.

First there's this article. German scientists employing a sophisticated computer model have shown that the temperature at the bottom of cracks in the ice on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus would be at a temperature of 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit. This explains the image above where plumes of liquid water are seen sublimating into space in the back-lit image of Enceladus. It also goes a long way to proving that liquid water does indeed exist on the tiny world's surface. Scientists believe that the existence of liquid water is a necessary precursor for the development of life. At any rate, the article was pretty interesting....


Second there's this article. On January 14th NASA's MESSENGER probe shot past Mercury, collecting data as it flew by. It imaged a previously spotted surface feature, "The Spider" in greater detail than it's ever been seen, raising some new questions about the feature's formation. Mercury is one of the least known planets of our solar system. the MESSENGER space craft will make the next of several scheduled visits the relatively unknown planet next in October.



Finally, there's this article. The image above is a newly discovered, never before published image of Ernie Pyle's body. Ernie Pyle was the most celebrated war correspondent of the second world war. This man placed his life on the line in order to create news stories that did justice to the life and death struggles of the rank and file grunt. Ernie Pyle died in that pursuit on the morning of April 18th 1945 when a round from a Japanese machinegun pierced his right temple killing him instantly.

Compare the gallant actions of this man, a noble reporter that valued telling the story more than his own personal safety with the "correspondents" cowering in Green Zone hotels in Baghdad pumping out nothing but doom and gloom, if it bleeds it leads enemy propaganda.

Ernie Pyle was a man whose noble pursuit of his ideals superseded his own personal safety. I can assure you that this man did not have a death wish, but he did value the integrity of pure journalism. Our news persons today could learn a few things from this man's life and death.

Brain Fart

The Republican party of the United States has suffered the greatest collective brain fart ever experienced. We've been bamboozled folks... Observe if you will the following image:


Can you point out the conservative candidate? Of course you can't because it was a trick question. There are no conservative candidates in the picture. The only true conservatives in this race are/were Tancredo and Thompson. We must spring into action, all of us together. We must prevent the unraveling of the Republican party. We have until "Super Tuesday" to make enough noise to ensure that this man does not emerge as the Republican nominee.

For decades now the liberals have been pulling this nation further and further to the left. Inching us ever further toward socialism & communism. Being peace seekers at heart, us conservatives have made one concession after another, believing that the liberals would in titt-for-tatt fashion concede on some of our issues. Of course they haven't because honesty is not a liberal virtue and as a result the "center" has migrated further and further to the left.

This man however...
(What you don't see in this photo is that Kennedy's hand is up McCain's ass and every time McCain utters a word, Kennedy's mouth moves)

Is no Republican. If he were to ascend to become the Republican Presidential candidate, he would be the first openly Democrat, Republican candidate in the history of the party. Time after time this man has sided with Democrats against reasonable conservative stances. He's opposed tax relief, true immigration reform, freedom of speech and placing conservative judges on the bench. It is time to start wondering if his time in that North Vietnamese POW camp has not set him up to be the perfect Manchurian candidate. Do not get me wrong, I have the greatest respect for the things that John McCain endured in the service of his nation. It is the things he's done since then that's given me cause to pause.

As Republicans it is time now for us to close ranks and refuse the liberals an assured victory in this coming presidential election. We need to speak now with one loud, resolved voice and say "No!" to a presidential race with two Democrat candidates. Our field of choices has narrowed significantly! None of those who remain are our best choice. Some time ago I made a post where I asked you, my readers to convince me which candidate to support. None of you could muster enough enthusiasm to come here and make an argument for any of the other candidates. I didn't even have a single one of the Ronpaulian horde drop by to tell me that their "candidate" is the best.

Therefore, I am resolved to support anyone but this farce of a candidate! I am not alone in that sentiment... Even Ann Coulter (not that you'd know she's a conservative) has come out and said if John McCain gets the nomination, she will campaign for Clinton!

Blogger after blogger has emerged to speak out against John McCain's candidacy... Here are just a few:

• Defiant Infidel
• Heidi Anne at Big Girl Pants
• Thomas Sowell
• David Limbaugh
• Mike Reagan

These are just a few that I've found. I'm sure if you look, you'll find many more! Other Republican notables including Mark Levin, Pat Toomey and Rush Limbaugh have spoken out against McCain.

As my friend over at the Defiant Infidel blog has pointed out, we, the conservative bloggers have risen up to great effect in the past. We stymied CBS' use of forged documents to fix the elections in 2004. We shot John McCain's "comprehensive immigration reform" (bullshit) out of the water. We can and do have a voice loud enough to ensure that this does not happen, if we all rise up as one and speak the heart of the Republican party. We must be loud enough to be heard over the incessant din of the mainstream media campaign fixers. He is their darling, not ours! We allowed them to shoot down the candidacy of Fred Thompson. We stood idly by and got ourselves into this predicament so now the time has come to cut bait or fish. What are you going to do? Are you going to speak or not?