People of public transit (it might pay to walk)

Yeah, they’re on the subway and busses–and sometimes you’re sitting next to one.

–pic from People of Public Transit

(Also check out People of Wal-Mart)

With generals like this who needs extremists?

Army chief of staff and resident sick puppy General George Casey

“As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.” –General George Custer Casey

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Please, do yourself a favor…if you’re considering joining the Army don’t; you might find yourself in a Diversity regiment full of  al Quida recruits.

Health care partygoers

Liberals may be celebrating (for now) but should we trust a bill that’s longer (1900 pages) than Dostovesky’s War and Peace?

Should Pelosi & Gang really be celebrating?

Most rational people are in favor of a general health care bill to cover those that can’t afford regular and specialized care, but at nearly 2000 (btw, W&P has about 1200 I think) pages written by a committee could the whole thing be ridiculous?

Gotta love depressing links…

* Barricade your doors now:  a world-wide Gallup poll reveals “… more than 165 million adults worldwide, name the United States as their desired future residence. With an additional estimated 45 million saying they would like to move to Canada…”

* Evidently our military leaders are not averse to tripping on acid: “General George Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff, said on Sunday that he was concerned that speculation about the religious beliefs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused of killing 12 fellow soldiers and one civilian and wounding dozens of others in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, could “cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers…”  In other words, man, according to the general as far as the soldiers Hasan killed are concerned: Turn on, tune in, drop out

* The fair and balanced new Hollywood: “Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization, advising a Hollywood producer on a film about Mohammed as a ‘messenger of peace’… The influential jihadist sheik enforces homicide attacks against Jews and infidels…” ((Here)

*Britain’s illiterate leader Gordon Brown ” forced to apologise to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan after he spelt her son’s name wrong in a letter of condolence.”

* Battle of Britain: “One in six children in Britain believe Auschwitz is a World War Two theme park, and one in four think the atom bomb was dropped on Pearl Harbor…”

*Now for the important stuff (and of course the most depressing): The Guy that brought you the whole universe and all that dark matter and energy and stuff and gave his only Birth Child, God Almighty Himself, is now punishing actress and shopper Lindsay Lohan.

Headline NY Times decided not to run

After much debate the Times decided not to run this headline.

The real jobless number: 17.5%

Even the NY Times gets this one right (they do occasionally)”…With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked by the Labor Department has reached its highest level in decades. If statistics went back so far, the measure would almost certainly be at its highest level since the Great Depression. In all, more than one out of every six workers — 17.5 percent — were unemployed or underemployed in October. The previous recorded high was 17.1 percent, in December 1982. This includes the officially unemployed, who have looked for work in the last four weeks. It also includes discouraged workers, who have looked in the past year, as well as millions of part-time workers who want to be working full time…” from The NY Times.

So do we really need a million immigrants each year (not to mention the hundreds of thousands of illegals that pour in during the same period)? Yeah, but the Multiculturalist Ideologues have their agenda (the link refers to the Brit government’s agenda but this same mindset applies to America just as much).

Russians take to the streets…

While America descends to third worldism and is about to pass a health care bill that would tax Americans for the medical care of  millions of illegal immigrants (as well as over a million legal immigrants each year) we could stand to take a lesson from the Russians. Hundreds of thousands of Russians march against illegal immigration in their own country:

Irony beginning to shake its tousled head…

Yes, Fort Hood shoothout producing a couple of ironies…

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday’s massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama’s transition into the White House…

Female traffic cop stops gender-apartheid guy’s shooting rampage

Addendum (from The Washington Post):  The petite officer dropped to the ground for protection and fired back. Bullets struck Munley, 35, in both thighs and one wrist. At least one of Munley’s rounds hit Hasan in the chest, knocking him to the ground, witnesses said, although the details of what happened are still unclear. “She moved to the threat and eliminated it,” said Chuck Medley, director of emergency services at Fort Hood, Tex. As she fired off her rounds, a few other officers also closed in on Hasan, who lay bloody and unconscious. The police officer’s heroics ended a horrific rampage for Fort Hood soldiers,

Political correctness in the army? (Yeap)

Looks like the American military/government was on to this Muslim terrorist, Nidal Malik Hasan,  6 months before because of his pro Muslim suicide bombing rationalization which were posted on Islamic blog sites. Very scary, not only because this Muslim terrorist was promoted even after poor test evaluations but because we have a government that would risk soldiers and families for what looks like purely multicultural reasons.

Terrorist quote of the day: Nidal Malik Hasan says, “If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland…” (This is a quote among many the American government knew about at least six months before this killing spree but did nothing.)

Killer a devout Muslim (Atlas Shrugs)

Fort Hood Muslim attack (Daily Mail)

Army Muslim major kills 12 (NY Post)

As usual the very PC NY Times, ignoring the facts of the story, puts its ’stress’ spin on the story; this is scary in itself (however, they are certainly not alone in the media).

More opinions on this terror plot:

The Muslim Brotherhood and Fr Hood

Jihad at Ft Hood

America is brain dead (all agree say aye (aye…aye…aye.…….)

Media downplay terrorism angle (figures)…

I can see it now. This horrendous muslim jihad attack at Ft Hood (no, media , it wasn’t stress) will be a catalyst for calls for us to–what? Yes, to better understand the religion of peace and why we need tons more multiculturalism. The lovefest is on. Leftists all over the airwaves are already puckering their lips…

Regarding this Islamic horror show here are a few  good posts:

Muslim terror attack This fast-paced emotional post at Atlas Shrugs is in itself full of links.

Obama’s reaction The initial Obama reaction is quite telling–at NewsReal

Muslim triggerman–an army psychiatrist (this is from Worldnet Daily, a Christian site but which has some great takes on the news.

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters tells O’reilly how it is.

“Kissing camels” and other bizarre notions

This has to be one of the most bizarre creepy anti-semitic videos I’ve ever seen. It calls into question the speaker’s sanity; I mean, come on, is he narrating from a rubber room somewhere in the desert?

On that kissing camel part– I think there was some tongue involved. Yes, by god, there was definitely some tongue.

The terrible racial divide–in South Korea

“…Bonogit Hussain, a 29-year-old Indian man, and Hahn Ji-seon, a female Korean friend, were riding a bus near Seoul when a man in the back began hurling racial … slurs at them. The situation would be a familiar one to many Korean women who have dated or even — as in Ms. Hahn’s case — simply traveled in the company of a foreign man…” Here.

Speaking of racism how about this–The terrible racial divide–in Mexico.

A movie, vomit and some solitary confinement

“…In their videos, female performers (and the occasional male one) were slapped, spat on, and verbally degraded. Rapes and murders were depicted. Vomit was vomited, then consumed again along with other bodily fluids. And of course there was explicit hardcore sex. Had Zicari and Romano stuck to just rape and murder, with some R-rated nudity to complement artful scenes of mutilation and dismemberment, as Hollywood does in movies like Hostel and House of 1000 Corpses, they could’ve avoided a lot of trouble. Likewise, had they focused on hardcore sex and kept the violence and puke out of it…” Here.

Gangbanger Tuesday

Another election day (Tuesday) in the Grand Banana Republic

People of Walmart: we salute you

See a large assortment of your fellow citizens at People of Walmart (be forewarned, it ain’t pretty).

One out of several varieties of the loner experience

“…One morning, leaving the apartment, he passed his roommate slumped over the kitchen table. He did not pause to check on the man. He spent his day as usual. When he returned that evening, his roommate was still slumped over the table. If he had not been dead earlier, he was now…” Here.

Growing up in a hooker house

“The men didn’t frighten us, but my mother was very protective. The girls had a pimp, and I always felt he would intervene. He was very controlling, and at night he would keep vigil in the bathroom…And there were terrifying police raids in the night that woke us up with loud banging on the door. My mother would soothe us with hot milk and a biscuit. Her policy was never to tell us what was really going on — she covered up the police raids as if they were a treat. She never showed her emotions — I guess she buried most of the pain — but had the meanest temper, so we didn’t dare ask her anything.” Here.

Why you should drink at this bar (even if you don’t drink)

This is Breslins in NYC and if you’re in the city and even if you don’t drink you might want to stop in and shake the owner’s hand.

It goes something like this, quoting now: “I laughed. And the guy [representing the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque] said, “Oh, you think that’s funny?” And I said, “Yeah, that is funny, that is really funny, because we’re not going to move the bar just because you discovered we’re serving booze.” Can you name one restaurant in New York that doesn’t serve booze? I said, “This is the United States of America and we’ll do whatever the fuck we want.” He said the mosque had suggested it couldn’t control the behavior of “a few bad eggs”; i.e., we could get a brick through our window.”

Of course this threat against the bar isn’t nearly as arrogant as what this group of Muslims is demanding–that Buckingham palace be converted into a mosque.

Halloween today (hooooorayyyyy)

We love Halloween, but it’s under attack by the forces of the Sky People. “Cease now oh children of devil spawn, rise up and speak no more of this night of horror–and remove those masks of the evil underworld.”

Catholic Church–you probably remember them from the Spanish Inquisition (among other horrors) says Halloween is the Devil’s work.

PC Brigade comes after scary masks

Pope says Halloween is dangerous

Islam says…”… not a religious holiday at all. It glorifies evil. It’s a Pagan holiday, and it glorifies devil worship.“

PS: I’m waiting for the PC Brigade to start calling Halloween RACIST (including being Islamophobic), or have they done that already?

Multiculturalism in Sweden (it’s not a pretty sight)

I am NOT a fan of Pat Robertson, but I saw this video and I thought it was very accurate (obviously the video speaks for itself), based upon what I’ve read about Sweden over the last couple of years, especially about the city Malmo, the country’s third largest.This sort of ongoing problem of rioting and demands for Islamic law are driving many in France to have second thoughts about thier own multiculturalism.

Hillary Clinton hits a homer

The pro gender-apartheid crowd (C.A.I.R, NOW,  multiculturalists…) won’t like this one.

‘ Hillary Clinton has come out strongly against laws around the world that make religious defamation a crime, saying freedom of speech and religion should be equally upheld.

“Some claim that the best way to protect the freedom of religion is to implement so-called ‘anti-defamation’ policies that would restrict freedom of expression and the freedom of religion,” she said on presenting a department report on religious freedom.

“I strongly disagree. The United States will always … stand against discrimination and persecution … But an individual’s ability to practice his or her religion has no bearing on others’ freedom of speech,” Clinton said.

“The protection of speech about religion is particularly important since persons of different faith will inevitably hold divergent views on religious questions. These differences should be met with tolerance, not with the suppression of discourse,” she added. ‘ Article here.

American journalism 101

The truth is out there and here it is.

Taco RACISM hits ESPN

FLASH… ESPN suspends sportcaster Bob Griese. What happened?  Well I’ll tell you. Turns out Bob is a Nazi taco RACIST. “During ESPN’s broadcast of the Minnesota-Ohio State game Saturday, a graphic was shown listing the top five drivers in NASCAR’s points race. Fellow analyst Chris Spielman asked where was Montoya, who is Colombian. Griese replied he was “out having a taco.” Holy shit. Out having a taco? What is it Martin Luter King Rodney King said?…Can’t we all get along? Obviously not with taco Nazi mass killer screaming poison punker taco RACISTS like Griese spewing out his RACISM and Nazism and filthy RACIST Nazi punkism on national TV. Read the RACIST taco story here.

Note: please boycott Taco Bell; they make the tacos used by RACISTS.

Personal note: I want to inject this personal note if I may. It’s been playing on my mind for some time now (and they say confession is good for the soul). One of my aunts is Spanish and once when she was visiting us my mother asked where Aunt Lucinda [not her real name; the name has been changed to protect the innocent] was. I told my mother she, Aunt Lucinda (again not her real name], was probably at the Mexican restaurant in town eating a taco. I confess and regret to say that at the time I did not know this was a Nazi phrase probably used many times by Hitler and Eichmann and Dr. Mengele. I am happy to state that I do not use this horrendous RACIST phrase anymore.

Multiculturalists reach certifiably Mad Magazine stage

Yeah, if you’ve had any doubts that Western multiculturalist ideology had any at least token cells of rationality left in their collective mind please think again.

Fresh from the Brit papers: “…A militant Islamic group was given more than £113,000 of taxpayers money to run a nursery and two primary schools. Members of Hizb ut-Tahrir used the cash to teach children as young as five about their beliefs. The group – which Tony Blair promised to ban after the 7/7 attacks on London – were given £113,411 to provide the three educational centres in Tottenham and Slough…” (If you follow the bizarre state of leftist agenda in the mother country this will probably not be a surprise to you.)

Don’t forget to read this bit of crazy stuff ; it’s an example of how democracy is going the way of the dinosaur–it’s becoming a mere two pound Tyrannosaurus.

Head West, young man (or East, North or South)

Anyplace but here.

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Just remember, not all bananas are bad:

Children of the Grand Banana Republic

“…Over the past two years, government officials and experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the streets, including many under 13. Foreclosures, layoffs, rising food and fuel prices and inadequate supplies of low-cost housing have stretched families to the extreme, and those pressures have trickled down to teenagers and preteens…” Recession Drives Surge in Youth Runaways

Here and there

*According to Olivia the witches ordered her to bring her mother down to the camp to be slaughtered for one of their numerous feasts “since I had been feasting on other witches’ meat and had never brought any meat to the camp for a feast.” And no, they couldn’t forget ol’ sis: “I turned my left hand into a knife spiritually, opened her womb and placed a goat’s horn in there to prevent her seeds from growing. It has been in there for the last 10 years during which my sister has gone all lengths to find a solution to her barrenness without success wasting a lot of time and money in the processes.”

*Another outrageous Zombie assault.

*Holy shit! …Four-year old girl says “Brown people drive old cars.” What’s a mom to do?

*Terrorized by three-year olds? True. True story.

*”All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in the halls. Take your seat before the bell rings. Raise your hand to ask a question. And oh, yes: Salute every passing car on your way to and from school.”

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Go, blondie. go; vomit me a river.

“It takes a thief”

FLASH. HOLLYWOOD…“Burglary suspect Nick Prugo was so giddy after getting a hold of hot celebrity goods that he slipped his dainty feet into Paris Hilton’s stolen shoes and did a little victory dance…” And why the hell not. Victory is victory. Nick Prugo, you’re a hero in my book, brother. Remember, war is hell, and so is Hollywood (didn’t the Flintstones call it Hollyrock?). Nick, please please tell us you took Hilton’s under garment thong and put it over your head (you know, just for kicks–photos/Youtube link please.) …UNFLASH. UNHOLLYWOOD

Airport Security on the ball: back room interrogation

ATTENTION ATTENTION: Following the anal cavity and vagina search all women will secrete breast milk for liquid explosives testing.

TSA (Transporation Safety Administration).

The government’s real reason for allowing so much immigration

Like probably most Americans I think moderate immigration is a good thing for the country. But have you ever wondered why, even in a time of high unemployment and social tension in America, the government still allows in a couple of  million people a year, both legal and illegal? It has to do with implementing multiculturalism. That is the sole reason. Read this article about immigration in Britain under the left wing Labour Party. It’s exactly what’s happening here in the States.

“…Huge increases in immigration over the past decade were a deliberate attempt to engineer a more multicultural Britain, a former Government adviser said yesterday. Andrew Neather, a speechwriter who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, said Labour’s relaxation of controls was a plan to ‘open up the UK to mass migration’. As well as bringing in hundreds of thousands to plug labour market gaps, there was also a ‘driving political purpose’ behind immigration policy…” Article here. Here’s another article on this story.

“Mister”

Move over Kafka (as in The Trial) …Quoting from Mister:

“Never would he have imaged that he would one day find himself in such a situation. There he was, a respectable businessman and law-abiding citizen, an intelligent person with a post-graduate education and the subject of articles in the most prestigious scientific and business journals, lying on the floor of a holding cell, in the dark, on remand, suspected of vile crimes and dubious associations, forming part of a sudorous human carpet alongside all manner of tattoed thugs, drug addicts, and common criminals. The overcrowding inside the cell made it impossible to see the floor: chests were pressed against backs, groins against glutei, and shoes against faces; detainees slept on their sides, using each other’s heads or feet as pillows. He had chosen the latter, the kinky hair of black men appearing at best too prickly for him. The temperature exceeded what old-fashioned thermometers were able to register; the walls and ceiling perspired with condensation; there was a constant murmur of breathing and snoring, sniped at every second by coughing, sneezing, and throat-clearing. The air was thicker than lentil soup, and pungent with the stench of perspiration, flatulence, and tooth decay. He was very concerned with keeping his Saville Row suit in good state of repair. Appearances mattered.

Men who stare at goats: psychic or psycho?

I’ve read the book (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and now it’s coming out as a movie (demonstrates the power of my psychic make-it-happen ability).

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Speaking of  the delusional this is great–How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World.

Back to the bus?

“…Though the practice of nodding off midflight in the cockpit is prohibited by the FAA, U.S. airlines and pilot unions say there is a growing body of research supporting the notion that so-called controlled napping by part of a cockpit crew can enhance safety by making crews more alert during critical, often hectic descents and landings…” Here.

So back to the bus? Yeah, sure, in a bus you’re sitting next to people who smell like piss, drink out of a brown paper bag and speak a non Earth language but it comes down to a question of whether or not you want to take your chances with a driver falling asleep at seventy mph or a plane traveling at 500 straight down. We report, you decide.

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A few relevant past posts:

Dodo bird effect

Age of the flying bus

American Eagle flight

The art of lying

Lying  through inference. In this article/interview, replete with many examples, Errol Morris tells us about Seven Lies About Lying. …You see, he says, taking an example from the Bible, “They take his coat, rip it, smear it with blood, and show it to Jacob. They don’t tell Jacob that Joseph was eaten by a wild beast; Jacob makes the false inference himself. My theory is that deceit does not require language. To lie, you have to make a statement. You have to say something in words for it to be a lie. But deceit only requires misdirection. All it requires is the intent to have someone think something that is different from what you believe…”

Is the future Mandarin?

As English was for the 19th and 20th centuries will Mandarin be the language of choice for the 21st? With the decline of the U.S. and the rise of China, Chinese-Americans have a good idea where their future loyalty lies and are making it a priority to teach their children Mandarin. It’s a choice between that, or learning Cantonese. Here.

“Case of the inappropriate alarm clock”

It sounds like the title of a Perry Mason episode, but it’s really just another account of the continuing saga of that dreaded human invention–manipulation: “…It was the 1936 presidential election. The issues would be familiar to today’s voters. Roosevelt, the eastern Democrat, arguing for the intervention of government in the economy, and Alf Landon, the midwestern Republican, arguing for a laissez-faire approach free of government controls and intervention. Roosevelt, campaigning for a second term, was on a train (“the Dustbowl Special”) headed towards the Dakota badlands. Everything was in place for a series of photo opportunities and news stories that would cast his efforts to fight the drought in the best possible light. But, unknown to F.D.R., a controversy was brewing, a controversy involving photography…” from a N.Y. Times’ seven part series here.

“The white city”

From New Geography “…Among the media, academia and within planning circles, there’s a generally standing answer to the question of what cities are the best, the most progressive and best role models for small and mid-sized cities. The standard list includes Portland, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis, and Denver. In particular, Portland is held up as a paradigm, with its urban growth boundary, extensive transit system, excellent cycling culture, and a pro-density policy. These cities are frequently contrasted with those of the Rust Belt and South, which are found wanting, often even by locals, as “cool” urban places. But look closely at these exemplars and a curious fact emerges. If you take away the dominant Tier One cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles you will find that the “progressive” cities aren’t red or blue, but another color entirely: white…”

The Taliban, Spiderman and Hannah Montana

A NY Times journalist in the hands of the Taliban: “…He spoke a smattering of English, and my own beliefs seemed to interest and amaze him. During our six weeks together, he asked me a series of questions. Was it true, he asked, that a necktie was a secret symbol of Christianity? Was it true that Christians wanted to live 1,000 years? As the weeks passed, our captivity became increasingly surreal. My Taliban guards slept beneath bedspreads manufactured by a Pakistani textile company and emblazoned with characters from the American television show “Hannah Montana” and the movie “Spider-Man.” My blanket was a pink Barbie comforter…First hand NY Tines article here.

South Africa imploding

While the rest of Africa is mired in grotesque corruption and tribal-ethnic warfare, starvation, AIDS and absurd ritual beliefs SA is completely imploding; the once bright hopes for a flourishing multicultural/multiracial state are quickly evaporating, which is the main reason you don’t hear much about it in the once beaming media. (I should point out, whites are not the only ones being murdered; blacks comprise the majority of rapes and deaths.)

Warning: These videos contain some grisly scenes.

Jeeves, I’ve failed miserably at banking, so is my private jet waiting to take me to my perks?

Scumbag bank executive scumbags keep rolling in scumbag money… Evidently it pays to be a failed scumbag banker…Scumbag perks for scumbag bankers (from scumbag banks) keep rolling in

Drowning puppies and kittens, oh my…

Global warming adverts aim at storytelling, as in…and a pre-warming rabbit weeps real tears as drought sweeps the earth, as the father reads to the daughter. Why o why o daddy dear? Because daughter dear, ” ’strange weather’ is being caused ‘by too much CO2, which went up into the sky when the grown ups used too much energy’ “… Here.

Varieties of full metal…

There’s an informative article here (by Alex Kurtagic) about the varieties of Metal music. Called White Noise, it could perhaps be also called music of the ice people, and asks the question What would the [music] world “look like today had North American settlers snubbed the African slave traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. We can let our imaginations run wild with speculation, but one thing is certain: had the slave markets in Africa been starved of custom, our Pop music charts would look nothing like they do today…” Today we know of Germany’s Heavy Metal group Rammstein, of course, but were you aware of Viking Metal? How about Black Metal? Folk Metal? Martial-Industrial? Metal? Anyway, here’s some examples taken from the article at Taki’s Mag:

Still Miami…

I am just back from Miami and you’ll be happy to know that it is still Miami (whatever that means).

Notice in the beginning of the video the giant mounds of cocaine; some people have mistaken this for sand.

Here and there

*It’s OK. Really. It’s not just one meal: “…average individual Germans consume four cows, four calves, four sheep, 46 pigs, 37 ducks and 46 turkeys as well as 12 geese and 945 chickens.” Adds up to 1000 animals altogether. By the way, this adds up to almost as many calories contained in a Big Mac.

*Goldman-Sachs getting really rich–off that old black magic: corporate welfare:

1. 10 Billion in TARP
2. 11 Billion from the Fed
3. 30 Billion from the FDIC
4. 13 Billion from AIG

*From World Net Daily: “While mocking an explosive new book that presents internal documents showing it is a U.S. front for global jihad, the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR]  is trumpeting a keynote speaker at its 15th annual banquet next week who was an uninidicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing investigation and who told New Jersey Muslims the U.S. government would one day be taken over by an Islamic caliphate…” Are we headed up this alley? Why are we taking in these radical immigrants? Are current immigration policies insane? Wait, don’t answer that.

*Stanley Crouch speaks of Tawana Brawley and  “why caution and skepticism should guide the reactions of all in authority whenever a potentially volatile charge of racism is made.”

*”Forget tipping and focus on the waiters. Especially those having sex in the broom cupboard…” It’s all in a day’s work in “the daily opera of madness.” (Note: I just hope they wash their hands afterwards.)

*So-called Princeton scholars say the Amazon Kindle shits, though not in so many words. I personally think it’s pretty cool, though it ties you to Amazon. Yeah, it’s like everything you do you do on the plantation; you can’t ever leave the damn plantation. Everything you read must come from the master.

*Now this is rich. Mexicans in Mexico are fed up with illegal aliens from Central America: “The numbers are over the top…They have invaded neighborhoods. They steal, they kidnap, they rape.”

*Looks like this whole episode with the kid in the runaway balloon was a lousy hoax by the family. What the authorities are going to have to do is get the truth out of this little kid. He’s going to have to be waterboarded.

*Somalian Islamist group al Shabaab publicly whips women for wearing bras; wearing bras violates Islam by constituting a deception. Some big questions for Islamic theologists:  How did they know they weren’t wearing bras? Does wearing a push-up bra mean more lashes from the whip?  How do Islamists contend with loose non-braed jiggling breasts when women are running from lecherous imams?

*I love the Fall Halloween season. But are  there such things as inappropriate Halloween costumes? I’m an extraordinarily open-minded guy but I think  these , for the most part, would certainly fit the inappropriate category.

*MSNBC’s Keith Oldermann (or Oldmanderbin or Oldderman or whatever) says Michelle Malkin is “the worst person in the world [at least for this week]…her total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.” I can’t stand Michelle Malkin but a mashed up piece of meat with…gives hyperbole a bad name.

*Prisoner of the Taliban fanatics. “Living side by side with the Haqqanis’ followers, I learned that the goal of the hard-line Taliban was far more ambitious. Contact with foreign militants in the tribal areas appeared to have deeply affected many young Taliban fighters. They wanted to create a fundamentalist Islamic emirate with Al Qaeda that spanned the Muslim world…”

Another American history lesson…

Know your country’s history week. Of course everyone’s familiar with the Columbine and Virginia Tech killings but did you know there was a school massacre that had more deaths than Columbine and Virginia Tech combined?

Three hints:

1/ It took place in the 1920s…

2/ Some onlookers collected bowel residue for sourvinirs…

3/ “Mayday”

Bonus hint: Bath

Mao in the House?

I don’t always agree with Glenn Beck. He’s too dramatic for me (that crying game has to stop) and the fact that he takes solace with the Bible, for example, leaves me non-plussed. But when he unearths some zingers about the opposition he’s right on target and is one of the few on Big TV that’s not afraid to speak his mind.

If you’re interested in reading about Mao start off with Mao: The Unknown Story. Mao was a sadist and torturer, and a murderer worse than Stalin or even Pol Pot (well, maybe not as bad as good ol’ Pol). Beck is right. Praising Mao is no better than praising  Hitler. Both had political philosphies that led to mass extermination. The crux of that philosophy was this–end justifies means.

(Note: I believe other politicians have quoted Mao for one reason or another–but not as one of their favorite political philosophers (which, after all, is the key point; by all means correct me if I’m wrong.)

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The mass killers of our time:

L to R: Mr. Adolf Hitler, Mr. Joseph Stalin, Mr. Mao Tse Tung, Mr. Pol Pot

The Peter Principle: alive and well

In short the Peter Principle is this: that someone who is in a high position, whether through assignment or promotion, is not qualified to hold that position, either because of temperment, lack of knowledge of what’s required for handling the demands of that job, election or, well…etc., etc… We can see this played out daily in the heads of our banking system, especially in the leadership of the Federal Reserve. We see it in our government officials. The Peter Principle is everyswhere on display–just below the surface. Officially it is the principle that “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence”, a proposition  formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull back in 1969 (The Peter Principle).

So widespread is this phenomenon now that the term is coming into prominent use again, but with a less polite rendering: Peter Principle is now simply Fakery. Times Online, for example, offers this:

“When it comes, it will be a gentle tap on the shoulder. A low, kind voice. “C’mon, Senior. Vacate the chair. The real columnist is back, and wants her space. Get your coat.” And off I will shuffle, unmasked as a fake, back to writing nuggets of news in brief. Imposter phenomenon. The unremitting conviction that you are employed on a fraudulent basis, that your talents are inadequate, and only quirks of fate and circumstance mean that you are sitting in the chair doing your job, rather than the countless others who are better qualified to do it. Faking it…”

BTW, here’s a good introduction to The Peter Principle.

Live CNN coverage: Balloon boy spotted over Egyptian pyramids…

You’ve no doubt all seen that story about the balloon where authroities thought a six year old boy was trapped inside the wayward flying saucer-shaped craft…well here are what some Brits said about it in the comments section of an across-the-pond story of the incident. Evidently a lot of them don’t think too highly of the States.

*ONE BIG CON – ANOTHER YANKY STUNT – TUT……SAME AS THE MOON LANDING….HUH – YOUR ALL FAKE, Nottingham, 16/10/2009 5:22

*A TOTAL overeaction by the US media as usual. – Anne, West Midlands, 16/10/2009 7:20

*Only in America would there be 200 orders of T shirts relating to the event with ‘Go, Falcon, Go’ (when the boy was believed afloat) to ‘I Believe’ (when he was reported missing). Please God, don’t let us Brits go down that cheesy, vomit-inducing road!!! I couldn’t bear it. – Lesley, Cardiff, 16/10/2009 6:45

*Now what IS funny is all those poor Americans gasping and wringing their hands with worry watching the whole ‘publicity stunt’ unfolding live on their television screens.  – patricia, edinburgh, 16/10/2009 3:36

Yeap, I think they have our number all right.

American racial PC (political correctness)?

Certainly seems that way: American racial PC:You probably haven’t read much about this crime on the national level over the last couple of years (it happened in ‘07). It had been nicely hushed up except for some local coverage, but now at least some main British media are bringing it to the attention of the  general public. You haven’t seen racebaiters Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, or even Obama getting involved with this one. There won’t be a beer summit.  I’ve heard this expression before–hush crime. It’s especially employed for black on white crimes.

Hispanic version of Scare Tactics?

Now is it just me or is this Hispanic TV episode’s “practical joke” downright cruel? I think what they put this girl through is way over the top. She is not what we’d call a happy camper.

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I have to admit though, the Japanese aren’t too far behind in being over the top:

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Then of course there is cable’s “Scare Tactics”

Lou Albino hits the big mat in the sky

Wrestler/manager Lou Albino dead. I don’t know what he died of exactly–I didn’t bother reading the article– but a couple of years ago I was at Monster Mania  (or maybe it was Chiller theater) here in New Jersey and while visiting the mens’ room I saw Lou Albino, one of the guests at the convention,  entering the stall. He was making some strange sounds in there. It lasted for about five or six seconds but it was enough for me to leave the urinal before I was adequately–bladderwise– done. Later on I saw him signing autographs at the table with other famous wrestlers; he seemed fine and garrulous, though a little red-faced. I didn’t get an autograph (I didn’t know if he had washed his hands after the stall visit) but I did wonder what strange mixture of gases and fluids had been churning in his huge belly.