This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: Society

  • Shocker: PETA totally doesn’t get it

    I love PETA. I used to run into Ms Ingrid (their leader) down in VA Beach all the time. Loved to screw with her when the circus came to town. In a Foxnews article entitled Army to Shoot Live Pigs to Save Wounded Soldiers Lives:

    The Army says it’s critical to saving the lives of wounded soldiers. Animal-rights activists call the training cruel and outdated.

    Despite opposition by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Army is moving forward with its plan to shoot live pigs and treat their gunshot wounds in a medical trauma exercise Friday at Schofield Barracks for soldiers headed to Iraq.

    Maj. Derrick Cheng, spokesman for the 25th Infantry Division, said the training is being conducted under a U.S. Department of Agriculture license and the careful supervision of veterinarians and a military Animal Care and Use Committee.

    “It’s to teach Army personnel how to manage critically injured patients within the first few hours of their injury,” Cheng said.

    I always heard how they do the same thing during the Q course for SF. (Jonn?) Anyway, it seems like a good program. PETA suggests using dummies, but come on, this is far better because you have a wailing pig thrashing around etc, much closer replication. But my favorite part of this article is this:

    “There’s absolutely no reason why they have to shoot live pigs,” PETA spokeswoman Holly Beal said. The bloody exercise, she said, is difficult for soldiers because they sometimes associate the animals with their own pet dogs.

    So, it’s hard because of their pet dogs? Hey dipshit, how traumatic do you think it is treating your buddy, your brother or sister, who just got hit by some jihadi asshat? I never was a medic and never wanted to be, but I’m thinking treating a guy you lived in a B-Hut with for a year might be emotionally tougher than a pig. But, call me crazy.

    Jonn added: The medics at the Q course used to, a long, long time ago, have a place called the Goat Farm where they practiced treating gut-shot goats. But I never witnessed it myself, I only heard rumors. But I hate pigs and their stench so they probably deserve to be shot.

  • New concept; Enforce the law and criminals leave

    The Washington Post laments Price William County, VA’s enforcement of the immigration laws and the devastating effect it’s having on the community;

    The family that planted corn in the front yard of their $500,000 home is gone from Carrie Oliver’s street. So are the neighbors who drilled holes into the trees to string up a hammock.

    Oliver’s list goes on: The loud music. The beer bottles. The littered diapers. All gone. When she and her husband, Ron, went for walks in their Manassas area neighborhood, she would take a trash bag and he would carry a handgun. No more. “So much has changed,” she said in a gush of relief, standing with her husband on a warm summer evening recently outside a Costco store.

    Horrible, ain’t it?

    Hispanic immigrants are leaving Prince William. Whether their departure has improved the county’s quality of life, or pushed its already strained economy further downward, is the new topic of contention driven largely by views of whether the presence of immigrants was a good thing in the first place.

    Anecdotes of the trend outstrip hard statistical evidence, yet there are clear signs that the county’s Latino population has reversed its pace of rapid growth. County officials said there are 4,000 to 7,000 vacant homes in the county. Trustee notices fill the classified section of area newspapers, chronicling the steady, staggering forfeiture of properties by homeowners with Hispanic surnames such as Mendez, Lozano, Medina and Rodriguez.

    Last month, there were 776 foreclosure recordings in the Prince William County, Manassas, Manassas Park area, court records show, up from 244 in June 2007 and 19 in June 2006.

    So because illegal immigrants are packing up and walking away from their mortgages, that’s bad? The post tries hard to make the case that these were all just legal Hispanic immigrants who were scared off by the evil, racist white people, but that’s hardly the case.

    What did Prince William County do to scare these people off? They did two simple things – they closed their Day Labor Center and they made police check the immigration status of everyone they arrested for other crimes. How racist, huh?

    The Post would have us believe that would scare away legal immigrants. It shouldn’t even scare away illegal immigrants if they intended to not break the law.

  • Sunday link fest

    Time to give back to all of my friends out there;

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    Me, too.

    Jammie Wearing Fool catches Wesley Clark trashing McCain AGAIN.

    Zero Ponsdorf disagrees with Michael Yon – just this once.

    The American Pundit finds a politician who not only defends Obama and his posse, but he defends Mugabe in the same tone.

    Ziva at Babalu Blog gets nostalgic for pre-Castro Cuba.

    Big Dog recounts the childishness of the Democrats and Baldilocks tells them to grow a pair.

    Uncle Jimbo cuts loose on the Left at Blackfive.

    Bloodthirsty Liberal has little patience for this German revisionist.

    Doubleplusundead takes on the “Dueling Dumbasses” of the Second Amendment revisionists.

    I can’t even summarize this bit of Swedish buffoonery from Rich Horton at Blue Crab Boulevard.

    To show how bi-polar the Obamists are, Robin at Chickenhawk Express finds some hunting for people who bad-mouth B?O for his middle name and DrewM at Ace of Spades finds some changing their middle name to whatever Obama’s middle name is.

    The only guy on the internet who lists me in his blog roll as “This ain’t He**”, my buddy, Steve at Common Cents helps you find cheap gas.

    Confederate Yankee catches AP in an outright lie…once again.

    Don Surber‘s Weekend Scoreboard.

    Lisa and WL MacKenzie Redux at Dust My Broom writes about Jackboot Justice in our neighbor to the north.

    Fausta says there’s a monkey god in Obama’s future.

    Wordsmith’s Sunday Funnies on Flopping Aces.

    Gateway Pundit recounts Lieberman’s charge at Obama’s throat.

    Marooned in Marin reports that Feds are investigating the City of San Francisco for harboring an illegal alien who’s also a crack dealer.

    See-Dubya explains Obama using the McMurthy Lonesome Dove story at Michelle Malkin.

    My buddy Skye at Midnight Blue is still standing against the clowns in West Chester, PA every Saturday.

    Greyhawk at Milblogs pulls back the covers on Obama’s McPeak.

    Kate at A Colombo-Americana’s Perspective has nearly-live photos of the protests in Nicaragua.

    Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs lashes out at Olmert’s deal with the Palestinians.

    The Gentle Cricket says McCain has impressed him already.

    D. at The Dillard Doctrine has advice for the pro-mission organizations – join or die.

    Stop the ACLU reports that Think Progress has resorted to outright lies – not a first for them, though.

    Last Reporter at Red Maryland and Unfree State tells the story of Baltimore’s latest corrupt-thug mayor.

    There, that oughta hold ya’all.

  • Nader on Obama “talking white”

    Ralph Nader, the thorn in the Democrats’ side at election time, has decided that his best shot at the Presidency is to become blacker than Obama. In an interview in the Rocky Mountain News, Nader questions Obama’s blackness;

    “There’s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He’s half African-American,” Nader said. “Whether that will make any difference, I don’t know. I haven’t heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What’s keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn’t want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We’ll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.”

    Of course, Nader is just an unreconstructed 60s radical who thinks every Black person lives in the ghetto and they’re all ignorant enough to be tempted by payday loan scams. Anyone who thinks otherwise must be white.

    I’m constantly amazed that the Left accuses Republicans of being racists, yet the Left are the only people who call attention to Obama’s race. The Clinton campaign at first, now Nader is picking up the call.

    Washington Post in a companion article to the one I wrote about earlier,  is about that bunch of morons at “Stormfront” (Google it, I’m not linking to it) who claim that they’re getting an increase in traffic since Obama’s nomination;

    Sen. Barack Obama’s historic victory in the Democratic primaries, celebrated in America and across much of the world as a symbol of racial progress and cultural unity, has also sparked an increase in racist and white supremacist activity, mainly on the Internet, according to leaders of hate groups and the organizations that track them.

    The part that leaps out at me, was how the Post referred to the groups in comparison to  the Obama campaign;

    “The Obama campaign isn’t going to let dishonest smears spread across the Internet unanswered,” Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement. “We have to be proactive and fight back.”

    But on a Web site run out of a house in West Palm Beach, Fla., the other side is also fighting.

    The “other side” is Stormfront, although it sounds like it’s all of the opposition to the Obama campaign. And of course no story about Republican racists is complete without mentioning David Duke;

    “One person put it this way: Obama for president paves the way for David Duke as president,” said Duke, who ran for president in 1988, received less than 1 percent of the vote and has since spent much of his time in Europe. “This is finally going to make whites begin to realize it’s a necessity to stick up for their own heritage, and that’s going to make them turn to people like me. We’re the next logical step.”

    I think the Washington Post’s time would be better spent on ferreting out the Left’s racists than trying to exhume the corpses of long ago forgotten white supremacists.

  • Sanity on a clueless planet

    We’ve all heard how the world stood with the US on September 11th, 2001, but somehow within a few days, George W. Bush had squandered all that goodwill and the entire planet turned against us. In less than two years, the French (who were dealing with an internal Islamic problem) turned on us, the Russians (who were also fighting Islamic terrorism) turned on us, the Spanish were frightened into turning on us by Islamic terrorism.

    Of course, it turns out that the Russians, French and Germans were profiting hugely for protecting Hussein’s regime and the only western news agency in Iraq, CNN, was purposely not reporting the truth from Iraq. The news reporting hasn’t changed – no news agency, outside of Fox wants to tell the public about the oil-for-food scandal (or as Hussein’s inner circle called it, the oil-for-palaces program).

    The American Left relishes the resulting hate for Bush’s United States, because they have no policy plans that they can tell Americans about that’ll get them votes. Clinton’s “third way” New Democrats are gone according to the Wall Street Journal‘s Kimberly Strassel last Friday;

    When Mr. Clinton left, so did the most prominent New Democratic voice. Party liberals have been reasserting control ever since. Howard Dean’s 2004 consolation prize was the Democratic National Committee. Nancy Pelosi became House Speaker in 2006, and gave back committee chairs to the old 1960s liberal bulls. And now comes Mr. Obama, the party’s most liberal nominee since Hubert Humphrey.

    So how does the world feel about Obama? They’re enthusiastic, according to Fouad Ajami in today’s WSJ;

    The Pew survey tells us that some foreign precincts show a landslide victory for Barack Obama. France leads the pack; fully 84% of those following the American campaign are confident Mr. Obama will do the right thing in foreign policy, compared with 33% who say that about John McCain. There are similar results in Germany, and a closer margin in Britain. The populations of Jordan, Turkey and Pakistan have scant if any confidence in either candidate.

    84% – that’s about the same as Washington, DC’s liberal community support for Obama. Why? Because, of course, the world wants our money. Envy is at the root of almost every policy towards the United States, envy and greed for the American taxpayers’ earnings.

    Look at the list of Obama supporters in COB6’s post below – every one of them has a vested interest in seeing America fail. Why would they not support a Obama candidacy since he’s the most likely to make us a failure like Europe, Asia, the Near East and Africa and hand out our taxpayer dollars and make us more dependent on our supposed allies.

    Who cares who the Euro-wienies want to be our President? Who cares that Turks support Obama? We Americans each support our candidates based on our personal values, what makes the outside world any different? Because they want to take smiling protraits with us? No. Because they want our money and Obama is more likely to hand over sacks full of cash to them.

    Europeans and Arabs are too damn lazy to earn their own way in the world (somehow they got it in their heads that the economy is a zero-sum game – that there are losers and winners), so they all want a piece of our country – they line up outside of our consulates around the world every morning hoping for a visa to get here, and then burn our flag either here or their own country, depending on the outcome of their visa application.

    It’s becoming more and more apparent that John McCain is becoming the torch bearer for the few remaining sane people on the planet. One final question; why would any sane American want to vote for a candidate that the French support by 84% when the French are on their fifth constitution and we’re still on our first one?

  • Bitter America

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    I’m looking at these pictures of the floods in the midwest, it’s heartbreaking to see hardworking people so inconvenienced. But they’re not sitting on the roofs of their flood-ravaged homes yelling at TV cameras for George Bush to save them. It must be that they’re so bitter and clinging to their guns and religion…and too busy rebuilding their lives to blame someone else.

  • Safety vs. Civil Rights

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    Memorial Day weekend there were 9 shootings in Washington, DC’s “Trinidad” neighborhood of the Northeast quadrant of the city in the 5th District. The police solution to the problem was to cordon off the neighborhood with police barricades this last weekend. The Washington Post explains;

    D.C. police stepped up efforts last night to curb violence in the hard-pressed Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast Washington, choking off access to several streets there to force drivers to pass through the new anti-crime checkpoint, Chief Cathy L. Lanier said.

    The Montello Avenue checkpoint, where police demanded that motorists account for their presence in the neighborhood, was set up Saturday night for the first time, but some drivers circumvented it by using nearby streets to enter Trinidad, Lanier said.

    She said police were “going to be narrowing the funnel a little bit” by guiding the flow of traffic toward Montello Avenue. However, it appeared that the number of officers assigned last night was insufficient to fully implement the plan, and the strategy took on many aspects of a work in progress.

    “We’re looking at different ways to control traffic patterns,” Cmdr. Melvin Scott said.

    The police questioned people for their purpose of being in the neighborhood and turned back those who couldn’t verify their reason for entering the neighborhood;

    On Saturday, those who told police that they were going to visit a relative were turned away if they did not provide the relative’s phone number so officers could verify their claim, Hughes said.

    Leaders at the American Civil Liberties Union, who have criticized Lanier’s effort as heavy-handed, were in Trinidad on Saturday night. They questioned the statistics provided by police and said they estimated that 90 percent of cars were turned away.

    “Our analysis is different from theirs,” said Johnny Barnes, executive director of the ACLU’s Washington office. “We think most people were turned away.”

    He said it became a joke among his workers when they saw police stop an ice cream truck. It was eventually let through.

    So to what extent should we allow the government to go to protect us? Certainly they have the responsibility to control access to our international borders, but controlling travel within our own communities? The District of Columbia has been cavalier about rescinding the Second Amendment for it’s citizens so I guess they figure they can just revoke Fourth Amendment protections, too.

    On it’s face, the Metro police have overstepped their bounds, but Trinidad residents have refused to cooperate with the police investigation of the murders as well as countless property crimes in the neighborhood. Yet they demand that the police solve the crimes and prevent further crimes – but no one wants to help.

    There were even protesters at the police barricades according to the Post;

    About 15 demonstrators decried the checkpoints, saying they violate the residents’ rights. “Trinidad, yes; Baghdad, no!” they yelled. “Don’t turn Trinidad into Baghdad!”

    Well, it’s hardly Baghdad, but it’s un-American, nonetheless, on both sides. The police shouldn’t be restricting travel of citizens, but those citizens have a responsibility to police their own neighborhood instead of sitting on their behinds hoping someone else will do something to protect them. This sort of dependency on the government to protect us, without us lifting a finger to help ourselves is what got people killed in the New Orleans hurricane a few years back.

    Crossposted at Eagles Up! Talon

  • Juan Williams; time for another race speech

    This morning Juan Williams, in the Wall Street Journal, calls for another race speech from Obama, because Willaims says the last two aren’t working for him;

    This time he has to admit to sins of using race for political expediency – by knowingly buying into divisive, mean messages being delivered from the pulpit. He has to say that, as a biracial young man with no community roots, attaching himself to Rev. Wright and the Trinity congregation was a shortcut to move up the ladder in the Chicago political scene. He has to call race-baiting what it is, whether it comes from a pulpit or calls itself progressive politics. And he has to challenge his supporters, especially his black base, to be honest about real problems at the heart of today’s racial divide – including out-of-wedlock births, crime, drugs and a culture that devalues education while glorifying the gangster life.

    Mr. Obama also has to raise the bar for how political criticism is handled in his camp. Step one is to acknowledge that not every critic is a racist. His very liberal record and his limited experience, like his association with Rev. Wright, is a fact, not the work of white racists. Just as he calls for the GOP not to engage in the politics of fear over terrorism, Mr. Obama needs to declare that he will refrain from playing the racial victim, because he understands such tactics will paralyze political debate and damage race relations.

    And then Obama needs to tell his minions to have discussions about issues instead of them pointing at opponents and charging racism merely because they oppose his intellectually  vacant proposals. Is Juan Williams racist? He’s Black and he’s Panamanian, so it’d be hard to make the case that he’s racist, but we can expect the “Uncle Tom”s to start rolling out from our newest visitor’s keyboard at any moment.