Palin's Outmoded Hairdo

I've resisted posting anything about Sarah Palin. I don't have too many readers, and they're more than able to make up their own minds without any prompting from me. But I saw this in The Boston Herald this morning, and can't resist making one small observation.

From the Herald:

But must her hair suffer? With her long, straight, often pinned-up locks, Palin looks one humid day away from fronting a Kiss cover band.

“It’s about 20 years out of date,” said Boston stylist Mario Russo of the Alaska governor’s ’do. “Which goes to show how off she might be on current events.”
Small potatoes, since they've picked on everything they could conceivably pick on.

However, for all the Democrats and news pundits and feminist icons questioning her fitness as a mom for daring to run for high political office, this provides an answer.

She's been too busy as a mom and a mayor and a governor to give a rat's ass that her 'do is out of date. All that time she could have spent primping and getting facials and massages were earmarked for more important things. She was probably busy enough reading stuff for her jobs and checking her kids' homework to keep abreast of the fashion mags and Madonna's new look.

I love how some Democrats and lunatic fringes are shooting themselves in the foot with all the idiocy and misogyny they're spewing. I've heard from a number of people who are very angry, including some lifelong libs and Democrats.

Funny email from Dr. Sanity's Blog

Pat Santy posted this email from her brother on her blog yesterday:

I was talking to a friend of mine's little girl, and she said she
wanted to be President some day.

Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I
asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you
would do?'

She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.'

'Wow - what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'You don't have to wait until
you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow,
pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take
you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and
you can give him the $50 to use toward food or a new house.'

She thought that over for a few seconds 'cause she's only six. And
while her Mom glared at me, she looked me straight in the eye and
asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and
you can just pay him the $50?'

And I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.'

Her folks still aren't talking to me.

Great speech from Fred Thompson

Better Watch your back in the Bayou

Next time he heads down New Orleans way for some jambalaya, he better have a taster.

The short version (if you only want to hear his pleasure at Hurricane Gustav striking when it does):



The long version of his MSNBC spot with Olberman so you can hear him say more stupid things:



Isn't it sweet he hopes no one will be hurt? I guess that's because our health care system is so far behind Cuba's.

And about how women won't want to vote for Palin because she's "against the very things that women are for and women need."

Because we all know that all women want and need the exact same things. We all have the same desires and opinions and political, social, and religious views, so we naturally will all vote for the same candidate.

What a schmuck. You wouldn't know what women are for and what women need, Mr. Moore, if you had a map, a diagram and an instructional video.

Thank God for Governor Jindal. He started them evacuating early and made it mandatory. And they've provided shelters for the pets too.

Go see An American Carol when it comes out in October! The Michael Malone character seems to be slapped hard and slapped often.

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I'm starting a war for peace

I've found two items dealing with childrens' books that I want to blog about. I should go with the annoying one, but the "so idiotic it's funny" one is a better Earth Day post, so I'll go with that.

From USA Today: The Lorax is Back!

And he's going to help save the rainforest this time, instead of the Truffula trees! How is he going to do this? I hear you ask. I picture you straining forward in your seats, holding your collective breaths in anticipation.

Why, by putting out a new edition of his book, naturally.

Now, Dr. Seuss Enterprises is teaming with Conservation International and Random House to use The Lorax to help save the forests.

The book is being reprinted with a special environmental message that describes "The Lorax Project," which is being launched today in honor of Earth Day. Ten percent to 15% of profits from the book and from Earth-friendly consumer products featuring the Lorax's image will be used to stop deforestation in Madagascar, Brazil and China.

The book's depiction of how environmental destruction is bad for everyone is especially relevant to today's world, says Leeanne Alonso, director of Conservation International's rapid assessment program.

She says the disappearing forests are our Truffula Trees. The Lorax "was the harbinger of what's happening now. He's saying, 'Stop cutting the forest now, or you're going to regret it later.' We're protecting the forests that are left, like The Lorax is saying."

Maybe this new edition will have the Lorax cutting down some of the remaining Truffula trees so he can print up handbills and pamphlets decrying their destruction?

Parents Fight Over Which Gang Toddler Should Join

Yes, gang. Not playgroup; not preschool. Not Church. Remember the days when having parents of different faiths would cause problems with the child's upbringing? And the tensions caused by interracial unions? Welcome to the new millennium:

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father's arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday.

On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said.

After he ran out of the store, police were called and the 19-year-old was arrested at his home.

His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, is a member of the Crips. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman said.

"They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would 'claim,'" Sandoval said

Manzanares was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment, and domestic violence. He was transported to the Adams County Detention Facility.

On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was sentenced to a year of probation. The misdemeanor harassment charge was dropped.

Everyone knows how bad it is for the child when parents don't present a united front. Whichever gang this toddler joins, he's sure to alienate himself from one of his parents. Very psychologically devastating.

There's no mention of Child Protective Services. Or parental counseling. Hopefully that will be addressed later, but who knows?

Fitna

It's only about fifteen minutes long, and isn't that remarkable. If it weren't for the calls for death against Geert Wilders and the server on his web site not permitting him to show the video, no one would have noticed it.

Warning for graphic images of violence.



There are articles about the Dutch government breathing a sigh of release that there has been no outbreaks of violence since the movie went up yesterday.

The Dutch government worked for months before the film appeared to defuse Muslim anger over its theme. In a statement broadcast live on television on Thursday in both Dutch and English, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said he rejected Wilders’ views.

But if Wilders views are wrong, why would the Dutch government need to work so hard to appease the Muslims?

If you've watched the movie, Wilders lets Islamic extremists speak for themselves. Unless you can argue that he took them out of context? The man who said, "[The Jews] are the ones who must be butchered and killed." Maybe he followed that up with a "Just kidding, folks. I love the Jews!" but Wilders cut that out so he could incite anti-Islamic violence?

Are there moderate Muslims? Sure, but there's no way of knowing how many, as they are mostly too frightened to speak out.

Are we at war? Yes, and there are no civilians. When the war is against terrorists -- who target civilians specifically -- there are no civilians.

It’s for our own good

There was an explosion last Thursday at a Times Square military recruitment center.

An explosive device caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above.

The recruiting station, located on a traffic island surrounded by Broadway theaters and chain restaurants, has occasionally been the site of anti-war demonstrations, ranging from silent vigils to loud rallies.

The Department of Homeland Security is looking into it. If it was terrorists, it was probably the home-grown kind.

Anti-war protestors have been targeting recruitment centers, usually with picketing and vandalism. Berkeley has received its share of bad press for telling the Marines their recruitment center wasn't welcome there and seeking to pass legislation that would make recruitment centers harder to open within their city limits than porn shops. The mayor of Toledo, Ohio got a lot of flack for denying the Marines permission to conduct military exercises within the city.

I could write about the immorality of using terrorism to advance any cause. I could mention that the ends do not justify the means. I could opine that violence and destruction are never the answer. But most people know that.

What really gets me, what annoys me to the point I feel compelled to blog about it, is the arrogance and condescension of these leftist, anti-war radicals.

Recruitment centers aren't doing the hard sell. They are there, in major cities, for young people who want to explore the option of a military career. ROTC and military recruiters have already been banned from plenty of college campuses and high schools.

Recruitment centers put posters and info in their windows. Maybe some of the officers linger outside the center. I don't know. We have one downtown in my city, but I haven't really paid attention. I do see men in uniform walking along the street from time to time.

These military personnel are not roaming the street, pulling unwary men and women into their center. Marines and sailors aren't roaming Norfolk, VA and San Francisco, press-ganging people onto ships and bases like the British Royal Navy of the 17th and 18th century.

But Code Pink, the council in Berkely, and other protest groups don't see it that way. They feel they have the right to intimidate both the military and prevent young people from making up their own minds. And therin lies the arrogance.

I've said it here: people are stupid. Not so much low IQ. It's just that most people don't think and most people don't want to think.

But I would never suggest that anyone -- aside from the truly mentally disabled -- be prevented from exercising their free will and free choice.

But a lot of these groups think anyone who doesn't think like them are, to put it crudely, retarded.

They obviously can't think for themselves, they reason. If they could, they wouldn't set foot in a recruitment center. Therefore, we have to prevent them from coming into contact with anything that is evil (evil being anything they disagree with). We have to protect them from themselves.

Arrogance. Pure, unmitigated condescension. And a totalitarian mindset that scares the hell out of me. I hope these people never get into postitions of real power, not more than they have already.

They Don't Like Us

On Destroyerclub, on a debate thread about the state of the U.S., one of the posters mentioned he didn't think there is a foreign country that likes us any more.

Oh dear. Other nations don't like the United States. Jealousy's a *****. If there's any topic that gets my indignation up, it's the plaintive cry that we're not 'liked.'

The other countries don't like us? Boo freakin' hoo. The important question is why they don't like us.

Europe doesn't like us? Europe ought to be more concerned about their own situation. European countries have a higher unemployment rate. Their birthrates are lower while their social and health care programs take a larger chunk of their income. The result: an aging population whose younger members won't be able to support the bloated social welfare cradle-to-grave nanny states they've created. It's worse than our own serious Social Security problems. Instead of solving their own problems -- sucking it up and doing without the six weeks paid vacation and paying more out of pocket for health care -- they'd rather harangue the USA to follow their example.

The fastest growing population in France, Holland, and others is Muslim immigrants, who have a higher birth rate than the native populations. This has lead to inner city enclaves of Muslim youths who are rabidly radicalized. They do not recognize the laws of their adopted countries. Non-Muslim women have taken to wearing head scarves when going through some sections of their cities because it's easier than being followed, harassed, and threatened with physical violence.

The Islamic populations around the world don't like us because we promote the basic freedoms of speech, religion, peaceful assembly, etc. which are the antithesis of their sharia law.

And I can see their point. Our freedom of speech and expression leads to an 'anything goes' society where vulgarity, crudeness, and impiety are not only tolerated, but now are trumpeted by our intellectual elites (and Hollywood, where anything approaching intelligence seldom rears its ugly, sane head).

Works of 'art' like Piss Christ are an unfortunate byproduct of the rights that allow me to post this without worrying that I'll be dragged before the authorities and fined or forced to publicly recant my opinions.

(And speaking of art, isn't it funny that among all the feces smeared Madonnas and bondage-themed Last Suppers you don't see any Piss Mohameds? Ask the editor of Danish newspaper The Jutland Post why. Ask Salman Rushdie (if you can get him on the phone). Ask Theo Van Gogh. Oh, no, you can't ask him.)

The Arab countries also hate us because we support Israel. Israel -- aside from being full of dirty, filthy, lazy, pig Jews -- has also committed the unforgivable offense of building a modern market economy and a high tech society despite having few natural resources and some monumentally rude neighbors.

This is very embarrassing to the Arabs, who, if they didn't have oil, would have sand and camels as their main exports. And even with their thriving oil fields, only the ruling families own the wealth. The rest of the population depends on their largesses. And even if their standard of living is high, their medical, technological and scientific advances stalled out sometime in the middle ages. Islam has not been conducive to free thought and experimentation these last thousand years. It's risky promoting new ideas or methods when any Imam among thousands can decide it's blasphemy and declare a fatwa.

Who else doesn't like us. Russia? And all the other countries who used to be part of the USSR? They've had economic and social problems since before the fall of the Tzar. The collapse of communism and the move to a more free market economy helped for awhile, but now with Time's Man of the Year skulking in the Kremlin, they've regressed.

China's still trying to make communism work with a limited free economy. But they want to be the next super power, so of course they don't like us. All those lead painted toys and poisoned tooth paste were real clues.

And Canada. Some Canadians still like us, but they're too busy following Europe's example and oppressing free speech. Ask Mark Steyn. Or Ezra Levant.

Mexico hates us, but they're all too busy trying to sneak in here to complain about anything except how prejudiced we are when we object to them sneaking in here illegally.

I don't think Australia hates us, which is good, because I'd like to have Australia's good will. Any nation descended from convicts and forced emigration is a country I want to have on my side. Seriously. I think Australians kick butt and I hope any carping coming out of there is from their version of the lunatic fringe who spawned Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan up here.

The strong are always hated by the weak. The rich are always hated by the poor. We need to suck it up, not descend to their level or make their mistakes.

If we ruin our economy, who will go to the tsunamis and other natural disasters with aid and money? If we stifle our creativity, where will the little Saudi princes get future versions of Wiis or iPhones? Where will the rest of the world go when they need new medical procedures that aren't available anywhere else? Or routine but crucial operations that have a two-year waiting list in their countries?