Aquatic Cadaver Dog

God Bless America

2009-09-11T15:17:00.000-07:00

I am back after a few years sniffing around at the bottom of a lake. Hard to hold my doggie breath that long, but that's what I did. After I came up for a breath, I noticed a distinct change--something actually rotten in the air. No decaying bodies this time, but something just as smelly--SOCIALISM. I also noticed that my buried treasures which I planned to enjoy in my old age--half of them were gone.

I received the most comments about my pork blog, which weren't my words at all, but those of a muslim cleric. I just added piggy pictures to accompany the cleric's words.

I like pork myself, and I do miss those retirement rib bones. I get creaky some days and I wish I wouldn't have to continue to dive into that cold water, but I suppose that's why I was made--to be of service to mankind.

This is the anniversary of a very dark day in American history and one all of us cadaver dogs will never forget. For all those who served this country in its time of greatest threat, and for all of those who died that dreadful day--God Bless You and God Bless America. And please, dear Lord, keep us from harm--from all enemies foreign and domestic.

Recent Propaganda Movies

2006-02-20T23:38:00.000-08:00

1) Brokeback Mountain--to promote ever-increasing public acceptance of homosexuality

2) Munich--to prove that nothing is ever gained by going after terrorists

3) Goodnight and Good Luck--to reiterate the destruction caused by the HUAC and McCarthyism despite the fact that McCarthy was right--there were vast numbers of communists in the highest levels of government and most of the public was supportive of McCarthy at the time

4) Syriana--evil BIG oil companies are running and ruining the world

5) Narnia--the Lion of the Tribe of Judah triumphs over Death!

Make a Choice

2006-02-18T22:13:00.000-08:00

The time is rapidly approaching when each and every individual will have to choose: God or godlessness. What will it be? Actually, as the Europeans are discovering, godlessness is no longer a choice. If Nature abhors a vacuum, so does Islam. No matter how civilized, open-minded and happy the Danes are, for the most part, they don't have God. So perhaps they will have Allah. And perhaps all of post-modernist, post-Christian Europe will have Allah. Either you are with the Christian God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) or you are against Him--there is no neutral ground.

The agnostic, or aetheistic Europeans are willing the cut the poor muslims a whole lot of slack--because haven't the Christians and Jews been an offense to the muslims for centuries? When will the Europeans say "Enough!" Not until it is too late, I'm afraid.

I sat in an Episcopal Church not too long after 9/11 and listened to a visiting priest suggest we Americans should be asking ourselves what we did to bring this catastrophe upon ourselves. Because surely we brought it on ourselves! I should have got up and walked out. But I sat there wondering why I was surprised. This is the way liberals think. So Europe will continue to look inward wondering what they could do to make the muslims feel more welcome. Maybe the individual EU governments could just issue a statement: Hey, we don't particularly like Christians or Jews either. But please don't burn any more cars or buildings. Pretty please............

21 Ways To Be A Good Liberal (Oh wait, isn't that an oxymoron?)

2006-01-30T11:37:00.000-08:00

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.

2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression, and governments create prosperity.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists (or Iranian terriorists).

4. You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's.

6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being homosexual is natural.

7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.

8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony activists, who have never been outside of San Francisco, do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money making, "The Passion Of The Christ" just for financial gain.

12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Edison.

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is totally normal and a very nice person.

17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.

18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.

19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

20. You have to believe that illegal Democrat Party funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the best interest to the United States.

21. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing conspiracy.

Paean

2005-12-10T22:49:00.000-08:00

My master’s eyes are perfect pools of spoor
Alive and murky brown with flecks of gold;
His feet smell like the rank posterior
Of some good friend, his socks like musty mold.

His morning breath is fragrant as the pail
Fresh-emptied of its treasure on trash day;
I’d rather lick his face than bite the mailman’s leg
Or watch that coward curse and run away.

My master’s voice is sweeter than the song
Of a howling mongrel chorus after dark;
I love to hear him call my name—“Hey, Nimrod!
How about a walk around the park?”

More splendid than a cornered de-clawed cat
Is pissing on the rug of a man like that!

Why is the eating of pork forbidden in Islam? A Muslim scholar answers

2004-12-09T19:11:00.000-08:00

A Muslim scholar answers the question--
Why is the eating of pork forbidden in Islam?

The fact that consumption of pork is prohibited in Islam is well known. The following points explain various aspects of this prohibition:

Pork prohibited in Qur’an
The Qur’an prohibits the consumption of pork in no less than 4 different places. It is prohibited in 2:173, 5:3, 6:145 and 16:115. "Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah." [Al-Qur’an 5:3]

The above verses of the Holy Qur’an are sufficient to satisfy a Muslim as to why pork is forbidden.

Pig is one of the filthiest animals on earth

The pig is one of the filthiest animals on earth. It lives and thrives on muck, faeces and dirt. It is the best scavenger that I know that God has produced. In the villages they don’t have modern toilets and the villagers excrete in the open air. Very often excreta is cleared by pigs.

Some may argue that in advanced countries like Australia, pigs are bred in very clean and hygienic conditions. Even in these hygienic conditions the pigs are kept together in sties. No matter how hard you try to keep them clean they are filthy by nature. They eat and enjoy their own as well as their neighbour’s excreta.

Pig is the most shameless animal

The pig is the most shameless animal on the face of the earth. It is the only animal that invites its friends to have sex with its mate. In America, most people consume pork. Many times after dance parties, they have swapping of wives; i.e. many say "you sleep with my wife and I will sleep with your wife." If you eat pigs then you behave like pigs.

A Beautiful Picture

2004-12-08T11:02:00.000-08:00

From my all-time favorite movie "Wuthering Heights"

My Favorite LA kiddieTV Programs from the 1950's

2004-12-05T11:18:00.000-08:00

Beany and Cecil

Beany, voiced by Daws Butler, was a cheery bright-eyed lad dressed in blue coveralls and wearing a cap with a propeller on top, who was forever running into precarious situations. Cecil, voiced by Stan Freberg, was a large, lovable green sea creature, a protective soul who became ill during storms, but was ever vigilant when it came to his buddy Beany. Along with Crowy the Crow, they sailed the seven seas in pursuit of adventure, exploring the universe from the undersea world to outer space.

Albert Einstein, addressing a group of Nobel prize winners in 1950, stopped abruptly at 5 pm, telling his audience he had to leave as it was "Time for Beany".

During its run the series garnered three Emmy awards and a Peabody award. The three Emmy's were won in 1949, 1950, and 1952. Stan Freberg was nominated for a best actor award (as Cecil), but did not win, in 1950. The series was nominated again for an award in 1954.

The puppet show left the air in 1955, but the characters refused to die.

RED LIGHT........ GREEN LIGHT......RED LIGHT...... GREEN LIGHT.... GREEN LIGHT......

"ENGINEER" BILL STULLA has to be our all time favorite engineer. Junior Engineers all over the Los Angeles area learned about drinking their milk via his "Red Light, Green Light" game. That was the game that reminded children they could only drink their milk on the green flashing light but never, ever on the red one, because as every good engineer knows, you never go on a red light.

The lights were all green when Mr. Stulla came up with the idea of playing an engineer for a cartoon show that needed a host. Incorporating his love (and hobby) of trains, "Cartoon Express" was born.

"Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade" and his afternoon show "Sheriff John's Cartoon Time" premiered in 1952 on KTTV and both were highly successful. The afternoon show being extremely popular, that it attracted more viewers than all the other programs during the same time period added together. The same year (1952) he won an Emmy Award for Best Children's Program and five other nominations.

Jimmy Weldon and Webster Webfoot

Webster's adventure in Hollywood started the first week in September of 1952 on KLAC-TV Channel 13. His Producer was George Tibbles who later was the sole writer for fourteen years on "My Three Sons".

Jimmy and Webster were nominated the outstanding children's show for 1952, 1953, and 1954. They also did numerous parades in the Southern California area, such as the 1953 Huntington Park Christmas Parade.

I was on this show in the early fifties!

Lileks on the role of bloggers

2004-11-29T15:02:00.000-08:00

Put it this way: there are thousands of news junkies out there doing research and analysis for free. In their spare time. For fun. It would kill us to listen? After all, if the Rathergate tale taught us anything, it’s that ordinary people could blow ten-foot holes in the Good Ship CBS simply by comparing their knowledge to the manifest ignorance of the news division’s producers. Because I’ll tell you this about "ordinary" people: they know stuff. Granted, fonts and typewriters aren’t their beat. Fonts and typewriters are their line of work.

But still. That ought to count for something. --James Lileks

As for me, I am reminded of the word amateur--someone who does something merely for the love of it.

Mom, she just followed me home.....can I keep her? Can I?

2004-11-27T15:00:00.000-08:00

I think this one is a he

Cadaver dogs relaxing at their favorite pastime

2004-11-24T10:13:00.000-08:00

I promised you high culture and here it is--Dogs Playing Poker

Why don't you take off your hats and coats and stay awhile?

Look how white their shirts are! Who does their laundry?

I believe the St. Bernard has been nipping on his brandy--he looks a little pie-eyed

Someone is cheating--but I think everyone knows. Dobie looks a bit schizoid

Zombie on LGF talks about Islam

2004-11-23T22:04:00.000-08:00

Edward Said speaks at UCLA

Said's thesis of "Orientalism" proposes that the "West" has fetishized the "East" (and he absurdly lumps the Middle East in with the Far East -- but that's another story). The West ascribed all sorts of patronizing foreign conceptual structures on the East. Out of this results colonialism, exploitation, etc. This was Said's view.

And even though he was wrong on many levels, on one point he was very right: The West came in and defined Islam as a "religion," when in fact it never was one before we came along and applied our condesceding label on something we couldn't grasp.

The very notion of there being "religions" is a Western one. Islam does not see things that way. To an observant Muslim, there is Islam as the one true mode of existence -- and everything else is blasphemous evil garbage. In Islamic belief, there is no competition between Islam and rival religions -- because everything non-Islamic is on a lower plane, to be dismissed and destroyed. Islam, in its own definition of itself, is vastly more than just a religion. It is life itself -- law, goevernment, personal behavior, military strategy, rules for intimacy, how each person on earth must spend every minute of every day, and on and on. Islam sees itself not merely as a manner of living -- it sees itself as the only possible manner of living. The other so-called "religions" are seen as threats that must be extirpated.

This "Orientalist" mis-definition of Islam as a religion -- as we Westerners understand religion -- is the root of the problem. Once we shake loose this label, and all the PC protection that comes along with it, we will finally be prepared to rid the world of Islam once and for all.

(Zombie is a pseudonym of a contributer to Little Green Footballs website. He didn't say I could use this, but I thought it was insightful.)

Happy Thanksgiving

2004-11-23T20:34:00.000-08:00

See Granny heft a 42-lb. turkey!
(I think the young bald guy is a vegetarian)
Why don't these people sit up straight!?

Talented Tyson

2004-11-23T11:48:00.000-08:00

This is my neighbor Tyson on a skateboard

Huntington Beach Pier

How do you like my outfit, hmm?

2004-11-23T11:42:00.000-08:00

Well-dressed cadaver dog

Just call me Sherlock

Why Nihilism?

2004-11-20T10:58:00.000-08:00

I never understood why the intellectual elites in this country adapted the nihilist philosophy of the French after WW2. I asked my liberal college professor friend why academics were so odds with America and he said that intellectuals feel marginalized by big business and those who run the government. So they strive for power in other ways.

Sartre, Camus, Lacan, Derrida and many other French nihilists have greatly influenced post-post-modernistic thought among academics. And "deconstruction" of the canon of western literature, philosophy and even theology has really been the attempt to marginalize, if not destroy western literature, philosophy and theology.

What's to take its place? Red Elk Speaks or how about Clotel: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States? I'm not kidding. These are the books you'll find in an American lit class these days.

Pictured above Sartre (left and below) and Camus (right)

A Gift from God

2004-11-19T03:27:00.000-08:00

I think that love of Israel is a supernatural thing--a gift from God. Conversely, hatred of Israel is also a supernatural thing--a gift from the Enemy of God.

"By their fruits you shall know them." What are the fruits of Islam? Palestinian parents still sacrificing their children (to be suicide bombers) on the altar of fire to Baal and Moloch. What motivates these people? Hatred of the people of God, the people of the Book. (Perhaps also a check for $25,000 authorized in the past by such people as Yasser Arafat or Saddam Hussein for the families of Hamas-cide bombers.)

If anything Jews must consider, it is how we Christians love the people that God first loved and that God continues to love. We Christians have been grafted on the tree. You Jews were there to begin with.

I know I do not speak for us all, but I speak for a great many of us.

2004-11-19T02:36:00.000-08:00

The New York Times
November 18, 2004
Republicans Outnumbered in Academia, Studies Find
By JOHN TIERNEY

BERKELEY, Calif. - At the birthplace of the free speech movement, campus radicals have a new target: the faculty that came of age in the 60's. They say their professors have been preaching multiculturalism and diversity while creating a political monoculture on campus.

Oh, really, now.....

Conservatism is becoming more visible at the University of California here, where students put out a feisty magazine called The California Patriot and have made the Berkeley Republicans one of the largest groups on campus. But here, as at schools nationwide, the professors seem to be moving in the other direction, as evidenced by their campaign contributions and two studies being published on Nov. 18.

The Berkeley Republicans are one of the largest groups on campus!?

One of the studies, a national survey of more than 1,000 academics, shows that Democratic professors outnumber Republicans by at least seven to one in the humanities and social sciences. That ratio is more than twice as lopsided as it was three decades ago, and it seems quite likely to keep increasing, because the younger faculty members are more consistently Democratic than the ones nearing retirement, said Daniel Klein, an associate professor of economics at Santa Clara University and a co-author of the study.

The new faculty members are even more LIBERAL than the old guard!

In a separate study of voter registration records, Professor Klein found a nine-to-one ratio of Democrats to Republicans on the faculties of Berkeley and Stanford. That study, which included professors from the hard sciences, engineering and professional schools as well as the humanities and social sciences, also found the ratio especially lopsided among the younger professors of assistant or associate rank: 183 Democrats versus 6 Republicans.

The political imbalance on faculties has inspired a campaign to have state legislatures and Congress approve an "academic bill of rights" protecting students and faculty members from discrimination for their political beliefs. The campaign is being led by Students for Academic Freedom, a group with chapters at Berkeley and more than 135 other campuses. It was founded last year by the leftist-turned-conservative David Horowitz, who helped start the 1960's antiwar movement while a graduate student at Berkeley.

"Our goal is not to have the government dictate who's hired but to take politics out of the hiring process and the classroom," said Mr. Horowitz, who called the new studies the most compelling evidence yet of hiring bias. "Right now, conservative students are discouraged from pursuing scholarly careers, because they see very clearly that their professors consider Republicans to be the enemy."

Professors consider Republicans to be the enemy? Who knew?

Academic leaders have resisted his group's legislative proposal, saying that discrimination is rare and already forbidden, and they dispute the accusations of faculty bias. Robert J. Birgeneau, the chancellor of Berkeley, said that he was not sure if the new study of his faculty accurately reflected the professors' political leanings, and that these leanings were irrelevant anyway.

"The essence of a great university is developing and sharing new knowledge as well as questioning old dogma," Dr. Birgeneau said. "We do this in an environment which prizes academic freedom and freedom of expression. These principles are respected by all of our faculty at U.C. Berkeley, no matter what their personal politics are."

Professors at Berkeley and other universities provided unprecedented financial support for the Democratic Party this election. For the first time, universities were at the top of the list of organizations ranked by their employees' contributions to a presidential candidate, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group.

In first and second place, ahead of Time Warner, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft, were the University of California system and Harvard, whose employees contributed $602,000 and $340,000, respectively, to Senator John Kerry. At both universities, employees gave about $19 to the Kerry campaign for every dollar for the Bush campaign.

One theory for the scarcity of Republican professors is that conservatives are simply not that interested in academic careers. A Democrat on the Berkeley faculty, George P. Lakoff, who teaches linguistics and is the author of "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think," said that liberals choose academic fields that fit their world views. "Unlike conservatives," he said, "they believe in working for the public good and social justice, as well as knowledge and art for their own sake, which are what the humanities and social sciences are about."

This is such bullshit I can hardly believe it. The only way most university professors define intelligence is that a student espouses liberal beliefs. And as far as public good, social justice and art and knowledge for its own sake--GIVE ME A BREAK!!

Some non-Democrats prefer to attribute the imbalance to the structure of academia, which allows hiring decisions and research agendas to be determined by small, independent groups of scholars. These fiefs, the critics say, suffer from a problem described in The Federalist Papers: an autonomous "small republic" is prone to be dominated by a cohesive faction that uses majority voting to "outnumber and oppress the rest," in Madison's words.

"Our colleges have become less marketplaces of ideas than churches in which you have to be a true believer to get a seat in the pews," said Stephen H. Balch, a Republican and the president of the National Association of Scholars. "We've drifted to a secular version of 19th-century denominational colleges, in which the university's mission is to crusade against sin and make the country a morally better place."

Dr. Balch's organization of what he calls traditional scholars is publishing the two new faculty studies in its journal, Academic Questions (online at www.nas.org). In one study, Professor Klein and Charlotta Stern, a sociologist at the Institute for Social Research in Sweden, asked the members of scholars' professional associations which party's candidates they had mostly voted for over the previous decade.

The ratio of Democratic to Republican professors ranged from 3 to 1 among economists to 30 to 1 among anthropologists. The researchers found a much higher share of Republicans among the nonacademic members of the scholars' associations, which Professor Klein said belied the notion that nonleftists were uninterested in scholarly careers.

"Screened out, expelled or self-sorted, they tend to land outside of academia because the crucial decisions - awarding tenure and promotions, choosing which papers get published - are made by colleagues hostile to their political views," said Professor Klein, who classifies himself as a libertarian.

Martin Trow, an emeritus professor of public policy at Berkeley who was chairman of the faculty senate and director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, said that professors tried not to discriminate in hiring based on politics, but that their perspective could be warped because so many colleagues shared their ideology.

"Their view comes to be seen not as a political preference but what decent, intelligent human beings believe," said Dr. Trow, who calls himself a conservative. "Debate is stifled, and conservatives either go in the closet or get to be seen as slightly kooky. So if a committee is trying to decide between three well-qualified candidates, it may exclude the conservative because he seems like someone who has poor judgment."

The students' magazine, The California Patriot, has frequently criticized Berkeley for the paucity of conservative views and for cases of what it has called discrimination against conservative students.

"I'm glad to get the liberal perspective, but it would be nice to get the other side, too," said Kelly Coyne, the editor of the magazine and a senior majoring in political science. "I'm really having a hard time finding courses my last year. I don't want to spend another semester listening to lectures about victims of American oppression."

Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

Condi, McCain, and Nicollette

2004-11-18T20:32:00.000-08:00

It's taking me a while to get over this flu. I still have congestion in my chest. But I am very encouraged about several things in the news:

1) Condi Rice have been appointed to start cleaning house at the state department. She's a brilliant woman who is used to holding her ground. Maybe she won't be part of the old boys' network, but that's for the best. I was never convinced that Colin Powell was the kind to rattle anyone's cage. (I seem to be mixing metaphors here...)

2) It looks like the CIA is also going to have its clock cleaned. John McCain has risen in my estimation for accusing the agency of being Anti-Bush. Who was it in the CIA who told GWB that the fact the Iraq had WMD's was a "slam-dunk"? What if the US got into a war with Iraq due to faulty intelligence from the CIA?

3) The Nicollette Sheridan exposure on Monday Night Football has many people fuming. What this gets down to is that the mainstream media has decided that the average American voter is a bluenose Bible-thumper, and the MSM is just telling them that if they don't want this stuff on TV, well--tough! because they're going to get it stuffed down their throat anyway. All this does is create more conservatives. I have a theory about men: They want their sex and they want their football, but their minds are compartmentalized, and they don't want to mix the two. Especially when they are watching football with their sons, age 7 and 9.

4) I ordered a book by David Horowitz, Unholy Alliance . I hoping I will learn about the connection between the left and Islam.

What Churchill had to say about Islam

2004-11-13T16:40:00.000-08:00

From The River War (1899), Winston Churchill's account of the Sudanese campaign:

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."

Can a devout Muslim be an American patriot and loyal citizen?

2004-11-13T16:31:00.000-08:00

Can a devout Muslim be an American patriot and loyal citizen?

1. Theologically, no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon god of Arabia, turned monothistic.

2. Scripturally, no. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam and the Quran.

3. Geographically, no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca to which he turns in prayer five times a day.

4. Socially, no. Because his allegiance to Islam demands that he make no friends of Christians and Jews (Q. 5:51)

5. Politically, no. Because he must submit to the mullah, who teaches annihilation of Israel and destruction of America, the great Satan.

6. Domestically, no. Because he is instructed to marry four women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Q. 4:34).

7. Religiously, no. Because no other religion is accepted by his Allah except Islam—intolerance (Q. 2:256).

8. Intellectually, no. Because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is established on Biblical principles, and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.

9. Philosophically, no. Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is dictatorial or autocratic except Turkey.

10. Spiritually, no. Because when we declare "one nation under God," the Christian’s God is a triune God, while the Muslim’s is one entity called "Allah," who is never a heavenly Father, nor is he ever called "Love" in the 99 excellent names.

By Anis Shorrosh, a former Muslim turned to Christ.

"Goaty Old Fiend Loses...Bowel Control"

2004-11-12T14:46:00.000-08:00

Gee, the news lately has been great--GWB re-elected, Arafat dead, Scott Peterson convicted of Murder One, what more can a watersoaked cadaver dog ask for? Success in Fallujah, for one. Minimal casualties on our side, maximum on theirs.
We avoided a nuclear showdown with Russia during the Reagan years by showing the USSR that our guns were bigger than her guns. I think the same thing has to happen today. Bin Laden has asked for and received permission from his spiritual leaders for a possible nuclear strike against America, according to Drudge:

Osama bin Laden now has religious approval to use a nuclear device against Americans, says the former head of the CIA unit charged with tracking down the Saudi terrorist. The former agent, Michael Scheuer, speaks to Steve Kroft in his first television interview without disguise to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Nov. 14 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Scheuer was until recently known as the "anonymous" author of two books critical of the West's response to bin Laden and al Qaeda, the most recent of which is titled Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. No one in the West knows more about the Qaeda leader than Scheuer, who has tracked him since the mid-1980s. The CIA allowed him to write the books provided he remain anonymous, but now is allowing him to reveal himself for the first time on Sunday's broadcast; he formally leaves the Agency today (12).

Even if bin Laden had a nuclear weapon, he probably wouldn't have used it for a lack of proper religious authority - authority he has now. "[Bin Laden] secured from a Saudi sheik...a rather long treatise on the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Americans," says Scheuer. "[The treatise] found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans," Scheuer tells Kroft.

What are we to make of this? We must be ever watching, ever praying. On a lighter note, James Lileks weighs in:

Our paper had this headline: “Enduring Symbol of Palestine Dies.” Personally, I’m old school. I’d go with something, oh, factual, like “ARAFAT DEAD.” Hard to argue. Hard to find bias. I don’t know what would be satisfying, really. “Goaty Old Fiend Expires, Loses Power, Fortune, Bowel Control; Fills Room with Odor of Offal and Urine” would put people off their breakfast, I suppose. I am content to know he is not in Hell. Nope. Arafat did not go to Hell. He boards the ferry, yes; he makes it halfway across the River Styx, yes. Then the ferry blows up. Ten times a day for eternity. For a start.

President Kerry

2004-11-10T22:16:00.001-08:00

One sunny day in 2005, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Kerry."

The Marine replied, "Sir, Mr. Kerry is not the president, and does not reside here." The old man said, "Okay", and walked away.

The following day, the same old man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Kerry." The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Kerry is not the president, and doesn't reside here."

The man thanked him and walked away.

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same Marine, saying, "I would like to go in and meet with President Kerry."

The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Kerry, I've told you that Mr. Kerry is not the president and doesn't reside here. Don't you understand?"

The old man answered, "Oh, I understand, I just love hearing it."

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow, Sir."

Fallujah

2004-11-09T13:34:00.000-08:00

O may thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,
fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
and win, with them the victor's crown of gold.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

O blest communion, fellowship divine!
we feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,
steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
and hearts are brave, again, and arms are strong.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

The golden evening brightens in the west;
soon, soon to faithful warriors comes their rest;
sweet is the calm of paradise the blessed.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

The Sheepdogs

2004-11-09T13:16:00.001-08:00

Most humans truly are like sheep
Wanting nothing more than peace to keep
To graze, grow fat and raise their young,
Sweet taste of clover on the tongue.
Their lives serene upon Life’s farm,
They sense no threat nor fear no harm.
On verdant meadows, they forage free
With naught to fear, with naught to flee.
They pay their sheepdogs little heed
For there is no threat; there is no need.

To the flock, sheepdog’s are mysteries,
Roaming watchful round the peripheries.
These fang-toothed creatures bark, they roar
With the fetid reek of the carnivore,
Too like the wolf of legends told,
To be amongst our docile fold.
Who needs sheepdogs? What good are they?
They have no use, not in this day.
Lock them away, out of our sight
We have no need of their fierce might.

But sudden in their midst a beast
Has come to kill, has come to feast
The wolves attack; they give no warning
Upon that calm September morning
They slash and kill with frenzied glee
Their passive helpless enemy
Who had no clue the wolves were there
Far roaming from their Eastern lair.
Then from the carnage, from the rout,
Comes the cry, “Turn the sheepdogs out!”

Thus is our nature but too our plight
To keep our dogs on leashes tight
And live a life of illusive bliss
Hearing not the beast, his growl, his hiss.
Until he has us by the throat,
We pay no heed; we take no note.
Not until he strikes us at our core
Will we unleash the Dogs of War
Only having felt the wolf pack’s wrath
Do we loose the sheepdogs on its path.

And the wolves will learn what we’ve shown before;
We love our sheep, we Dogs of War.

Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66

We Must Crush Them

2004-11-09T13:16:00.000-08:00

I have had the flu for the past 5 days, and have been a bit fuzzy-brained. But I have spent a lot of time reading about the Fallujah invasion and what is at stake there. Remember the old Saturday Evening Post cover with the couple tucking their kids safely into bed with the World War II headlines lying nearby? That's what our men are fighting for--the ability for Mom and Dad to safely tuck their kids into bed at night. Here in America in 2004.
If we do not go out and meet Mohammad on the mountain, then that mountain is going to come to us. The only thing that terrorists understand is force, and so we must crush them. They wish to be dispatched to Allah and the 72 awaiting virgins? Let us grant them their last wish.

On the Blogosphere and Conservatism

2004-11-04T13:11:00.000-08:00

The MSM will eventually topple and it will never have a clue.

Conservatives understand liberalism but liberals don't have a clue about who conservatives really are.

We know liberals because we had to endure the rants of liberal professors in academia who defined intelligence in their students according to where one stood politically. We endured the B- on our research paper when our views collided with the prof's viewpoint. We endured being shouted down by a liberal classmate when the professor would do nothing to stop it. We endured.

But now we prevail. We prevail.

We conservative lowly nerds on our computers, some of us not willing to endure any more condescension and criticism of our viewpoint from the academic or social set--we have found each other. A real pajama party.
One of those teenage "slumber" parties where everyone stayed up all night and talked and talked and talked.....

Redneck in a Blue State

2004-11-04T10:57:00.000-08:00

Well, I got my early Christmas present, GWB was re-elected. I realized I'd been holding my breath for almost a year now. What can I say about John Kerry? You seasoned democrats that let him become your candidate--what were you thinking? It would be like letting your bratty teenage kids choose your family home. What do bratty kids know? And what do eastern elitist snob liberals (like Kerry and Kennedy) know about the rest of the country? Talk about a disconnect!
So I'm proud to be a redneck in a blue state.
You liberals have got to realize one big thing: conservatives know a whole bunch more about you than you know about them. We had to survive higher education, for one thing. We had to survive liberal professors undercutting our opinions in classroom discussions. We had to survive the B- on a paper when the prof didn't agree with our views, no matter how well they were expressed. Oh well! As my mom says, water under the bridge.
Did the liberals think that Michael Moore was their ambassador of good will? Yeah, right. And Yassar(that's my baby)Arafat is the ambassador of good will for the Philistinians.
Not all democrats are liberals, I know that. And not all those who call themselves liberals really know what the hardcore liberal agenda is. You have got to hate America to be a hard-core liberal. You must want to see her subjugated and humbled in the eyes of the world. You must hate the Christians idiots who got that idiot GWB elected.

He Hears Our Prayers

2004-11-01T17:39:00.000-08:00

Just think of all the prayers our God has received from his anxious and frightened children.

Yesterday at Calvary Chapel Chuck Smith told us that the IRS forbids him or Calvary Chapel to endorse President Bush. (Now Kerry can go around to all the black churches and ask for their vote and the IRS is not going to bother those churches at all.) Chuck said "Well, I can't tell you to vote for Bush, but I can tell you not to vote for Kerry. Wild applause.

25 million Christians (according to Chuck) did not vote in the last election. Please, dear friends, take your stand and vote for a God-fearing leader.

Our God is an awesome God and his name is not Allah!

The Nicene Creed

2004-11-01T10:32:00.000-08:00

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Why are Jews Liberals?

2004-11-01T09:59:00.001-08:00

Israel has no greater friend today than the American evangelical Christian church. These people are also known as "born-agains". Whereas many of the mainline liberal churches (Presbyterian, for one) are denouncing Israel and embracing the Palestinian cause, the evangelicals truly support and pray for Israel.

It has never made sense to me that some if not most jews are liberals. Liberalism is a religion, and a failed religion at that. But what is worse, is how much the jews are hated by many liberal democrats. Anti-semitism is raising its ugly head all over Europe, and so many jews are just asking, like Rodney King, "can't we just all get along?" No, we can't just get along, because these anti-semitic people want first the jews (and then the Christians)dead.

Secular jews think that a G_d-less government works best. How wrong they are. Why is America so blessed? In the Old Testament God tells the jews that he will "bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you." George Bush knows those verses. There is also a promise in the New Testament that when the whole world has turned against tiny Israel then God will go into battle on their behalf. Hopefully at that time America will still be on Israel's side. But I rather fear they won't.

A Spooky Story

2004-10-31T14:57:00.000-08:00

Sometime during the 1960's a portal was opened. Actually, it could correspond to the arrival of the Beatles to America. But something happened in the fall of 1963. The longer I live and the more I ponder this, I am sure it is true. The molester lures the naive child with a lollypop. We were lured by "She loves you, yay, yay, yay". What happened after that was--yes, a very nasty portal was opened.
The Beatles' open endorsement of drugs and eastern religion--everyone was affected (assaulted) by it. I use the word "assault" because I that's how I experienced it. The philosophical and religious underpinnings of this country were under attack. They are still under attack.
The four mopheads never seemed very....masculine to me. Paul looked like he couldn't grow a beard and Lennon looked postively wimpy in those naked pictures with Ono. So this is the "soft" culture which seduced us. It seems very androgynous to me. But we're still suffering from it.
If I were braver I'd call it witchcraft. But I'm not that brave. Happy Halloween!!

Why I am not a Liberal-- Part One

2004-10-31T14:24:00.000-08:00

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark

2004-10-19T17:23:00.000-07:00

Why do we as Americans have such an inferiority complex when it comes to American culture? One of the reasons I associate the Beatles with "the day the music died" is that we lost our vision, our own true American vision regarding music and what that music is supposed to do. And whatever was happening to our American popular music at the time (1964 or thereabouts) was crushed by (and never quite recovered from) the British invasion.
Do I dislike the Beatle's music? Having heard it played to death, I can say I am tired of it. But I was as excited as the next person when I first heard "I love you, yay, yay, yay......" I was a senior in high school and we were all excited about this new sound. So I never disliked it. I was just waiting for an American counterpart--and that counterpart never really came. What was the best we had to offer? The Monkees?
I was never part of the drug culture and later on this whole "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" stuff was too much. Maybe it was the war in Viet Nam that dragged us all down. Thank God for Neil Diamond ("Cherry, Cherry") and a few others. Jimmy Webb offered a promising new vision, but he faded away. So what happened to American optimism? ("Up, Up, and Away?....") The Age of Aquarius had begun, as well as a longing after all things east Indian. Those were depressing times ("One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small...") and I took consolation in syrupy concoctions like "Cherish". An escapist by nature, I suppose.
Am I saying the Beatles killed American popular music? Wellllll..........yes. Maybe the reason Elvis refuses to rest in peace is that he was the last true hero of the American popular music. The poor boy from Memphis with his own sound. What have we had since that was not derivative?
Ever watch that big cartoon foot on Monty Python absolutely crushing and splattering whatever it descended upon? That's what the Beatles did to American music. Why did we let it happen?

The Apostles' Creed

2004-10-19T13:31:00.000-07:00

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He decended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again.
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Beautiful

2004-10-16T17:53:00.000-07:00

Liberalism is a failed religion. (There, I've said it. Oooops!)
Islam is a failed religion also, but you should probably keep that to yourself.
Remember the old "My Karma just ran over your Dogma" bumper sticker? Well, liberals have no defense against terrorists. Liberals choose to love them and commiserate with the Islamofascists' hatred of western civilization. After all, liberals hate western civilization too. Look at the misery that's been inflicted on the rest of the world by western culture.
Come to think of it, "culture" and "civilization" are ugly words to libs unless it's someone else's culture. As for "civilization", it's such a presumptuous word. One would have to be civil in order to take part in a civilization. No room for the noble savage.
What ever happened to flower power? Stick your daisy down the barrel of islamoterrorist and see what happens. Nothing very nice.
Why does the rest of the world hate us? To begin with, not everyone does. But if you eliminate ENVY from the equation, what are you left with? Godless countries hate us. And rightfully so. Because we are the manifestation: "America, America, God shed His grace on thee!" Do they hate me because I'm beautiful? Yes, yes, and yes. America the Beautiful.

The Stockholm Syndrome

2004-10-16T14:20:00.000-07:00

As I understand it, the Stockholm syndrome has to do with a captive becoming increasingly sympathetic to his captors. The prisoner starts to identify and empathize with his jailor, so to speak. This syndrome was named after an incident in Stockholm in 1973 when some hostages actually started to take up the cause for the bank-robbers who had taken them captive. I think that anyone in fear of his life would try to climb into the captor's mindset to see things from the captor's point of view. But to start empathizing with that point of view??
I think Senator John McCain and Max Cleland must be suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Why else would they hold such a soft view toward our country's enemies? Dear God! I loved what Zell Miller had to say at the Republican convention! (Oh, is it in style again to be proud of America? Really? Ofrabjousday!) To want to kill those who want to kill you and yours is not PC today. I'm surprised someone didn't offer Zell a free anger management course. But that glorious man proved what a real man is--someone who wants to protect and defend what is his--his God, his country, his family.
What's with John McCain? Is he just confused or is he just playing politician? Inquiring minds haven't a clue, apparently. Is he a fencesitter? No, I think he is a bonafide Stockholmer. Someone who had a transformation during captivity in North Viet Nam. (All the fight, the spleen was taken out of these men. Not all the POW's, but some.) There seems to be nothing noble about McCain or Cleland. They seem petty. And what's worse--they seem calculating.

How the Mighty hath Fallen!

2004-10-16T14:00:00.000-07:00

First it was Dan Rather, then Mark Halperin, and now Ted Koppel--I can hardly wait to see who's next. (Maybe Bill O'Reilly--but that's for another column.)
Ted Koppel really disappointed me, because I really thought he had some credibility. On his Nightlight program investigating what really happened in Viet Nam in the Kerry incident involving the lone loin-clothed youth , Koppel takes the word of a handlful of communist Vietnamese over 240 swiftvets. Fortunately, John O'Neill was on the program to rebut some of Koppel's assertions, but he had very little time to do so. Koppel's whole story was to reinforce the original Kerry tale of being under attack. But of course, Kerry changed his story later on. Someone should have told Koppel.
These newsgiants aren't just shooting themselves in the foot, but right between the eyes.
Goody!!