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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

"The Swiss pocket knife of conservative thought on the web..." - Eli Kardrakian

"Bookmark Max and dump your subscription to the newspaper; if you don't have a birdcage you really don't need it anyway..." - Shirley St. James

:: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 ::

Psst: HezboLiberal, pass the word.

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Hollywood's hypocritical elite embrace eco-nightmare hyper-hummer:

"The Gurkha can go more than 150 kilometres per hour - plenty fast for a military vehicle - and is the highest level of protection you can get next to sitting in a tank, Whyte says. It certainly looks fierce enough.

"The squat 8,620 kilogram vehicle looks every bit the ticked-off hedgehog, bristling with testosterone and armour plating.

"Whyte says the first 40 have been built this year for delivery to the Canadian and the American military in the Middle East. The first civilian delivery is for a "well-known personality" in California that will take place next month, Whyte says. The customer, who is a friend of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, intends to use it as daily transport, Whyte says. "It's a very California mentality to have the biggest and the best."

"It's also in the spirit of one-upmanship. Schwarzenegger was the first civilian to take ownership of a Hummer military vehicle - which most famously kick-started sales of the armoured car." [emphasis mine, ed.]

Via Tim Blair

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MSM empty suits, like the geriatric gang over at 60 Minutes, are way too squeemish - cowardly really - to "investigate" stuff like this. I guess that's why God invented LGF. Shame on western media for washing their hands of the truth of Shariah Law, institutionalized misogyny, and the cultural blight of Islamofascism. As an added bonus, this documentary exposes the NOW gang and all their various global feminist incarnations as the phonies they really are. Leftists have never, ever addressed this kind of ignorance; they're cowards. Liberalism really is a mental disease.

:: Max 11:58 PM [+] ::
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New Sisyfus transcribes a Mark Steyn speech, and of course, it's a must read.

:: Max 3:43 PM [+] ::
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Sunday quickies:

Take a ride on the new Orient Express.

What's an "Auswanderer" and what's he doing in Texas?

EU "more like a mafia than a government"?

British neocons publish "manifesto"(!?)

Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet has a message for all you Che T-Shirt wearing slackers.

:: Max 11:42 AM [+] ::
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Are you watching main-stream-media or...

...a slow-motion extinction event?

You decide:

I really don't watch much TV any more and I pick up the local paper only once - on Thursday (and free if I can get it) for the Preview section that lists movies, concerts, etc. Why?

MSM's journalistic methodology has jumped-the-shark from being merely sloppy, boring and grossly agendized into abject propaganda. Pathetic really, like watching the last Stegosaurus die.

[Hey, Kenneth; what is the frequency?]

:: Max 8:57 PM [+] ::
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Psst. Wanna buy a T-shirt?

:: Max 3:36 PM [+] ::
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Ahmedinejad is having his religious thugs smash all the satellite dishes in Iran. If anything would ignite a revolution, an act like this might do it. People get real restless when big-brother cuts their lines of communication. [hey, Ali, there's something wrong with the satellite dish again. Go up on the roof and see if there is a bird's nest on the feedhorn; it's almost time for Gilligan's Island.]

:: Max 1:08 PM [+] ::
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Another inconvenient truth:

Global warming is responsible for the a) Growth of Bananas; b)Destuction of Bananas or c) Both a & b above.

[ooh, I know the answer, pick c, pick c!]

:: Max 1:00 PM [+] ::
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Lou Minatti found a humiliating video that a certain famous someone probably doesn't want you to see. So what are you waiting for? Go for it.

:: Max 9:20 PM [+] ::
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Re: Court Strikes Down NSA's Intercept Program; Powerline weighs-in:

"John, who is on vacation, has delegated to Scott and me the task of 'dissecting' the district court opinion that strikes down the NSA's intercept program as unconstitutional. In a sense, however, there isn't much to dissect. The opinion is almost devoid of analysis on the key constitutional provisions it relies upon (the court more or less ducks the issue of whether the intercept program is consistent with FISA and completely dodges the issue of whether the president has the inherent power to authorize the intercepts; it reasons that the Constitution trumps the statute (page 39) and that the president lacks the inherent power to violate specific constitutional provisions (pages 40-41)). It is part of my job as a litigator (and has been for more than 30 years) to read and understand judicial opinions. Off hand, I cannot recall reading an opinion as conclusory and content free as the key portions of this opinion. [emphasis mine, ed.]"

It's truly frightening that Jurists of this low caliber have infected the Federal bench. Thanks again, Jimmy Carter; your mediochre, lackluster legacy lives on.

More: Jeff Goldstein has a terrific post commenting on Mark Levin's assesment.

:: Max 4:40 PM [+] ::
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Via, Reuters:

"A group of Indian television journalists gave a man matches and diesel to help him commit suicide in order to get dramatic footage which was later broadcast on the news, police said."

Tim Blair has it [>]

:: Max 7:43 AM [+] ::
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"It's also true that much regular text reporting is often faux, as we know (naux?). And we have learned that the vast percentage of war video footage comes from the same source and is therefore tilted it the same direction. What are we to make of all this? Are we all living in a false reality? Pretty much, apparently, and it's not just the normal solipsism we discover as adolescents. One of the few good things to come out of the Israel-Hezbollah War was further acknowledgment of this deception. The nature of news is changing. Few people believe in news organizations as "authorities" any more. The New York Times, as we knew it, is dead. So, to a greater or lesser degree, are its cohorts. We may be moving toward an era in which the most respected news sources are the ones that most honestly admit their biases and make no pretense whatsoever of complete objectivity."

Roger L. Simon

Simon is right but there is good news too. So long as the blogosphere exists the likes of CBS, NYT and Reuters will be outed as the fauxnies they are. The truth will out not by simply embarrasing MSM [they're shameless] but by default. MSM is undergoing an extinction event as notable and meaningful as that of the Stegosauras and it couldn't happen to a more worthy culture of dinosaurs.

:: Max 11:56 PM [+] ::
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Follow the link from this astonishing post by Tim Blair and ask yourself what it really means.

Words fail me.

The only upside is that the left - having abandoned reality entirely - is becoming a bizarre parody of itself that no thinking human takes seriously. At least I hope so. Otherwise, we're doomed.

:: Max 11:30 PM [+] ::
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AP shills attempt to sanitize "Green Helmut Guy"

:: Max 1:52 AM [+] ::
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"Rice calls Lebanese PM to warn him that if the UN Lebanon resolution is not implemented, 'We will not be responsible for the consequences'

:: Max 1:46 AM [+] ::
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Multiple Choice Rhetorical Questionaire

With terrorist-related security threats inconveniencing air-travelers around the Globe, French airport security personel decide to:

a) Ratchet up security screening at Airport checkpoints
b) Re-Screen all Airport personel who possess security clearances
c) Go on strike

[oooh, ooooh, ooooh, I know the answer! it's C! I know it's C!, pick C!, pick C!]

:: Max 1:07 AM [+] ::
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Jeff Jarvis to indignant Muslims: "tough shit"

"Reuters reports that Muslims are 'bristling' at the term Islamic fascists. Well, tough shit. I am bristling at the refusal of the Islamic world to condemn the murder and mayhem being rained down around the world by the extremist fascists among them. Rather than attacking the language in press releases, why not hold a press conference attacking the attackers?"

I'm not waiting for condemnation of terrorism from Muslims because, well, they don't condemn terrorism. They don't and that's a big problem the civilized world will have to suffer pending a reformation of their, er, religion [and it ain't gonna happen anytime soon].

This whole pathetic situation is what happens when you infect generations of innocent children with racism, bigotry irrational hatred and a primitive religious zealotry.

:: Max 9:36 PM [+] ::
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Roger L. Simon is keeping a watchful eye on the war in Lebanon. Don't miss his Skyped/Podcast interviews with Michael Totten reporting from the Rooftop of the Alaska Hotel in Metulla, Israel. Hanging with these two bloggers insures you'll a.) get the truth and b.) spend far less time with "bleeding-heart ignoramouses".

[Dang; I just used hypertext markup language to hyperlink a blogger's Skyped-in podcasts via Pajamas Media from Starbucks with my Laptop. No, Mom, really. I did.]

:: Max 11:47 AM [+] ::
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Donald Luskin wonders if the Fed acted too late to curb inflation and whether Bernanke either "doesn't grasp or won't admit the role of inflation in today's high eneregy prices".

:: Max 12:16 AM [+] ::
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"Hey! Big Stupid Satan, Go To The Movies" and "Wake-up Call, Big Stupid Satan" courtesy Enough!

:: Max 7:05 PM [+] ::
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"Before the Israeli attack, Lebanon no longer existed, it was no more than a hologram. At Beirut innocent citizens like myself were forbidden access to certain areas of their own capital. But our police, our army and our judges were also excluded. That was the case, for example, of Hezbollah's and the Syrians' command zone in the Haret Hreik quarter (in red on the satellite map). A square measuring a kilometer wide, a capital within the capital, permanently guarded by a Horla army [1], possessing its own institutions, its schools, its creches, its tribunals, its radio, its television and, above all… its government. A "government" that, alone decided, in the place of the figureheads of the Lebanese government – in which Hezbollah also had its ministers! – to attack a neighboring state, with which we had no substantial or grounded quarrel, and to plunge US into a bloody conflict."

Joe Noory at No Pasaran has more [>]

:: Max 6:53 PM [+] ::
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Wow. Why did this take so long. Sheesh, as a blogger, I'm kinda embarrassed; this shoulda happened hours ago.

:: Max 9:36 PM [+] ::
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"The problem with Lamont and his ilk is that they are unable to wrap their minds around the fact that Islamic Fascsim is a deeply real and pervasive phenomenon with hundreds of millions of adherents and fellow travelers. Surely, these soi-disant liberals think, these people can be reasoned with. But it couldn't be more obvious that they can't . They are imbued with a fanatical religious culture vastly different from and in complete opposition to ours. However, for these "liberals" to face this uncomfortable reality would vastly disrupt their weltanschauung and cost them power, money, position, prestige, etc. It might even cause personality disintegration. This is the Culture of Narcissism gone berserk."

-Roger L. Simon

My take is that guys like "Lamont and his ilk" know their naive followers have fully secumbed to Bush Derangement Syndrome and they're an easily leveraged mob. It doesn't take a particularly intellectual argument or refined policy statement to whip-up these "soi-disant" liberals. Just bare your teeth and utter the latest anti-Bush rant and you have starry-eyed followers going door-to-door with your yard signs. I find it hard to believe Mr. Lamont is as stupid and uninformed as his followers appear to be but I suppose I could be wrong. Maybe he truly does believe that if you simply "dump Bush" and his BushCo neoconservative posse, Osama bin Laden and his Islamofascist bretheren will cease blowing up jetliners, put down their RPGs and return quietly to tend their olive groves. Were it so.

:: Max 3:35 PM [+] ::
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tic

"TOCK, baby! The new word is TOCK! 'Tic' is through. 'Tic' represents capitulation to the Man's predominant narrative. Whereas TOCK is the advent, brothers and sisters -the dawning of a new age of progressive political and social awakening that begins and ends with the power of the people powered people's peopling and as such cannot be contained, constrained, or compartmentalized. It just is. Yes, TOCK is here to stay! And those who refuse to heed TOCK will soon be relegated to the ash heap of --"

tic

heed TOCK!

:: Max 8:32 PM [+] ::
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Lou Minatti has been keeping an eye on the over-heated real estate market and he's found some, er, motivated sellers in Pheonix.

Bonus!: Lou Minatti reads the Houston Chronical Home Section.

:: Max 3:12 PM [+] ::
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Scott Burgess examines a moonbat training-camp for the young and impressionable: UK Taxpayers Help Marxist "Queers" Change the World - 5,000 Children at a Time

:: Max 3:06 PM [+] ::
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How, er, civilized...

"Shepherds in the rural western Baghdad neighborhood of Gazalea have recently been murdered, according to locals, for failing to diaper their goats...."

...because, as the NPR audio report says, the exposed genitals of goats may cause impure thoughts in locals who come in contact with them.

Ace of Spades is having a pledge drive. If you want more reporting like this, go drop a buck in his tip jar.

Via Hugh Hewitt

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Ben Stein gives us A Few More Little Facts:

"When the Israelis capture Arabs in their wars, the captured Arabs are well fed, well housed, and eventually returned to their homes. When the Arabs (specifically the Syrians) have captured Israelis, they castrate them, cut off their male organs, decapitate the Israelis, and stuff their male organs in their mouths and leave the bodies on the field. Sometimes they also defecate on the bodies."

This from the cradle of civilization.

:: Max 2:13 PM [+] ::
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Quick tip: For updates on events in Cuba, keep your eye on Babalu Blog.

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"'If Mr. Lieberman goes down, the thought-enforcers of the left will target other centrists as if the center was the locus of a terrible heresy, an emphasis on national strength...The Lamont ascendancy, if that is what it is, means nothing other than that the left is trying, and in places succeeding, to take back the Democratic Party.' Concurring opinions, usually thoughtfully expressed, have seemingly come from every citizen of the mainstream, be they Republican or Democrat, with access to a TV camera or modem.

"But they're all wrong. The Democratic Party jumped the shark years ago. There's nothing that will happen tomorrow, be it a Lamont rout or a Lieberman shocker, that will bring the party back to its senses. Similarly, there's nothing that will happen tomorrow that will make the party any more insane, more angry or more destructive."

-Hugh Hewitt, Tomarrow Changes Nothing

:: Max 5:27 PM [+] ::
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Hey all you aspiring photojournalists: here's a free, easy, step-by-step tutorial on doctoring photos for the AP, Reuters or Al Jazeera that'll increase your chance of having a big-time, MSM-type photo-editor pick your work for global dissemination. Have at it!

:: Max 9:54 AM [+] ::
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In the post below is a photo I actually took of George Soros driving a Chinese Chery car. As you can see in the photo [that I took myself], Mr. Soros looks perfectly natural and although he was somewhat reluctant to do so waved to the camera when I asked him to "wave at the camera George!". As anyone with half a brain can see, this is a genuine photo of George Soros [I took myself] driving the Chinese Chery car. So anyway, if you want to see some more genuine photos from the war zone in Lebanon, [taken by actual Hizballah "freedom fighters" and published by professional Reuters photo editors! [Ooooo!]] head over to LGF. You'll see some really convincing photos [offered by the esteemed news service Reuters!] showing the devestation of Lebanon and NO, THESE PHOTOS ARE NOT PHOTOSHOPPED EITHER.

[Hizballah/Reuters is performing a great public service by providing the civilized world with high-comic relief in a truly tragic time. I'm still shaking my head at how goofy and amateurish this Reuters/Hizballah PR scheme is; better than watching Nasrallah step over a banana peel and into an open manhole. Way to go Charles, and congratulations! Got 'em cold again. Hey Dan; paying attention yet?]

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In an apparent sleazy scheme to undermine GM, Ford, Chrysler, Lefty sugar-daddy George Soros teams with ex UN Oil-For-Food crook Maurice Strong to flood States with "cheap" Chinese automobiles.

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