Schmaltz und Grieben

09/29/05:

CAIR WATCH: Our Little "American" Buddies and their Wahhabi Lobby™ are at it again:

Congress Urged to Recognize the Beginning of Ramadan

Excerpt:

"(1) during this time of conflict, in order to demonstrate solidarity with and support for members of the community of Islam in the United States and throughout the world, the House of Representatives recognizes the Islamic faith as one of the great religions of the world; and

"(2) in observance of and out of respect for the commencement of Ramadan...the House of Representatives acknowledges the onset of Ramadan and expresses its deepest respect to Muslims in the United States and throughout the world on this significant occasion."

Ahem. Sounds like an attempt to officially sanction the beginning of dhimmitude to me. "...Expresses its deepest respect to Muslims in the United States and throughout the world," eh?

Well, I'm all for this little genuflection to our Muslim brethren, under exactly two conditions:

1) Our buddies at CAIR will co-sponsor similar legislation that substitutes the words "Christianity" and "Judaism" for "Islam," "Christians" and "Jews" for "Muslims," "Lent" and "Yom Kippur" for "Ramadan";

2) Owing up in the proposed legislation that this "time of conflict" was foisted upon the world by ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS, not Jews, not Christians, not Hindus, not Buddhists, not any one of the other world religions that has agreed to play nice with others.

Talk about chutzpah.

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RELIGION OF PEACE sez Welcome to the New Europe.

It sucks being a dhimmi, n'est-ce-pas?

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TODAY'S MUST-READ: Victor Davis Hanson's Ivory Cower: University Presidents have Lost Their Dignity. Small excerpt:

One can learn a lot about the pathologies of the contemporary university from what its presidents say—and don't say. A close look at the data suggests a different picture from the one implied by [UC-Berkeley Chancellor Robert] Birgeneau's gratuitous lamentations about the lack of diversity. Whites, for instance, are underenrolled at Berkeley: They amount to around 35% of undergraduates versus 45% of the state's population. Given this fact, why doesn't the Chancellor complain about the shortage of whites on campus? ... Remember, too, that Asians have suffered a particularly long history of discrimination in California. Despite everything from immigration quotas to forced internment during World War II, they have the highest high-school graduation rates in the state, while blacks and Hispanics suffer the lowest. What, then, could we learn from the Asian-American experience that seems to render past hurdles to achievement irrelevant to present academic performance? Don't expect Chancellor Birgeneau to take the lead in asking this question...

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HOW PATHETIC IS THAT? You keep hearing about the way Cindy Sheehan has "energized" the appeasenik pro-terrorist "antiwar" movement.

And then you think about what it means when someone as mewling, publicity-obsessed and self-aggrandizing as Sheehan has "energized" a movement.

Doesn't say much for the movement, methinks...

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09/28/05:

THROW AWAY THE KEY: I always knew that Mayor Rudy was tough... but Mayor Mike must be a total freak. Damn.

Woman Ticketed for Sitting on Park Bench with No Kids

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ONE FOR THE WOLVES. "The eventual fate of all Islamofascists: A lonely grease spot in a Godforsaken desert."

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SEEING DOUBLE: Congrats to Tyler Fox, the first woman to win our SCW award twice.

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09/27/05:

GONNA TEAR HIM A NEW ONE:

"...[T]hat's life. It happened to the Romans and the Mayans and the Sumerians and it's happening to us. In our society, as in those, the Grand Poobah gives the orders and the lackeys, minions, henchmen and stooges carry them out..." — Garrison Keillor

You blithering, soft-bellied, ostentatious fuck.

I save language like that for people as despicable as you, Mr. Prairie Populist. You're a big fat dork in clown glasses and Birkenstocks who thinks he's a combination of Mark Twain and Jean Shepard—both of whom would certainly spit in your face if they ever had the displeasure of meeting you—but who, in actuality, is the Tokyo Rose of the leisure-culture appeaseniks.

If you cared about anything more than yourself and the lucrative little dreamworld of long-dead, lutefisk-eating Scandinavian immigrants whose corpses you built a sniggering career on, you'd take a few of your millions and help the hurricane victims. Maybe they're just dying for a taste of your special brand of bucolic charm, now that they have nothing and you still have everything.

Maybe you'd even get some decent raw material for a new story.

Because God knows you need it. This Woebegone United States of America bit you've been doing for the past four years is getting old.

Also, I'm curious: Which of your pejoratives refer to our soldiers? Are they "lackeys," "minions," "henchmen," or "stooges"? I'm real, real curious to hear you tell.

And by the way: George W. Bush is not the "Grand Poobah," although you and your fellow residents of Alpaca-Sweater-w/-Moose-Motif KeillorWorld appear not to have figured that out. Either deal with the fact that he is the democratically-elected President of the United States, or shut the fuck up already.

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IT WAS JUST LIKE WOODSTOCK, MAN:

Overly-emotional, seminude peace protesters at the Cindy Sheehan Tour in Washington, DC

'Nuff said?

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IMAGE O' THE DAY: Hurricane Rita moves inland. As seen from space, auf course.

Image credit: NOAA

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