My arrogant opinions about politics, culture, science fiction, and whatever else I feel like talking about.

The Georgia Giant Strikes Again

        Jimmy Carter, "that grinning, gladhanding sack of shit," (Stephen King) has decided that the reason the Hamas and PLO thugs are killing each other is because we and Israel aren't nice to Hamas.

        Even by Jiminny Peanut's absymally low Jew hating standards, that's incredibly stupid.

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blowhards, jew hatred, illogic, arabs, stupidity springs eternal, annoyance, i am not making this up, the georgia giant

Some Good News

        Nifong, who prosecuted the Duke lacrosse players to get re-elected, to protect his pension, and who cares that they were innocent, has been disbarred and suspended as Durham's District Attorney.         Couldn't happen to a more deserving creep.

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the duke non rape non case

"I'm all right, Jack."

        If I hadn't read it, I wouldn't have believed it.  A Hungarian, nostalgic for Communism, says the mass murder of Stalin, Mao, etc. was justified because she liked life in Hungary in the '70s and '80s!  Check here, because I'm NOT making this up.  I wouldn't have dared, assuming I could imagine it in the first place, which I couldn't have.

        Mencken, Rand, you should be living at this hour!

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Disgusting Dishonesty II

        Another example of people who won't speak plainly about their motivation is just about the entire ‘let's have a “comprehensive” immigration reform bill’ crowd.

        When George W. Bush became President, he took an oath that he would “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”  Among the duties he undertook to execute was to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

        By now, it's obvious W. doesn't like our immigration laws, and has no plans to see them enforced.  But he won't admit this, or explain why he thinks he can swear to do something “so help him God,” and then ignore his legal duty and promise to the people and deity.

        Neither will anyone in the “comprehensive reform” crowd admit that they want far more immigrants than most of the population, and are willing to gut enforcement of the immigration laws to get their way.  See for instance this column by George Will.  Will is very sad at the thought that open illegal immigration may end.  And we must have amnesty for illegals, because "We are not going to take the draconian police measures necessary to deport 11 million people."

        What you mean "we," white man?  You won't take those measures, and those who agree with you won't, but the citezenry as a whole probably would.  Shall we put it to a referendum?

        Near the beginning of the article, Will said we must regain control of the border because "conditions along the border mock the rule of law."  Gee, I'd have thought that letting people immigrate illegally, then retroactively legalizing them mocks the rule of law.  I guess Will and I have different definitions of "mocking."  Will also objects to calling amnesty "amnesty."  He prefers to call it "a path out of society's crevices and into citizenship."  He must use a different dictionary too.  Mine says amnesty is:

        1. a general pardon for offenses, esp. political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.

        2. Law. an act of forgiveness for past offenses, esp. to a class of persons as a whole.

        3. a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense.

        Somehow, telling people that they will never be prosecuted for breaking a law they have broken looks like amnesty to me.  And giving eleven million people pardons for breaking the law sounds like it might undermine the rule of law in the future.  But Will and his ilk never, ever, address that concern.

        Will gives the usual line that illegal immigration has been good for the U.S. economy, without noting that there are studies that claim the exact opposite.  Let's not confuse the citizenry with facts, right?  But even if it is true that illegal immigration has been a net gain for the economy, it has costs, and most of those costs are born by the least well off in our economy.  Will isn't worried about them.

        Will speaks for his class, the upper-income, stock-holding group who benefit from sub-minimum wage labor.  They are in favor of amnesty because it's good for their pocket-books, and screw you if you suffer.  They just hope we won't notice that reality.

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Disgusting Dishonesty I

        One of the things I really hate is trying to deal with people who won't stand up and tell the truth about what they advocate.

        Remember the Terri Shiavo controversy?  A lot of us felt that the hearing that decided that Schiavo would ‘want to die’ was a travesty, that the judge involved had conflicts of interest, and that there had never been an honest inquiry into the entire situation.

        But Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds was having none of that!  There had been a judicial proceeding, and we were all required to respect “the rule of law.”  That meant letting Terri Shiavo be killed in a gruesome manner.  All questions about the integrity and competence of the hearing were out of bounds.  He didn't necessarily like the verdict, but he did repect the process.

        Horseshit.  Just lately there's been a case where someone got a legal hearing, and was going to suffer as a result, but this time, Reynolds didn't like the verdict, so this time, it's “good news” that something that “seemed like a gross miscarriage of justice” got overturned.  I refer to the case of Julie Amero, a substitute teacher sentenced to prison because computers were displaying pornographic pop-up ads in the room in which she was teaching.  I know next to nothing of this case, but it appears that Amero did not get a proper trial.  So I'm glad the state has to retry her, or drop the whole thing.

        Reynolds is glad too.  But I'm glad because I want courts to do their jobs properly.  Reynolds is glad, I strongly suspect, because he doesn't approve of people going to jail for pornography.  Unlike Schiavo, who he didn't care squat about, Amero is someone he sympathizes with.  But I don't think we'll ever see him admit that.

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A New Country Has Been Discovered

        It's name is MyRaq.  In fact, MyRaq is a lot of different countries, located solely in various people's minds.

        An individual's MyRaq is likely to be mistaken for Iraq, a real country located between Iran and Syria (the various MrRaqs, in contrast, are located between the various MrRans and MySyrias).  Sadly, many people mistake their MyRaq for Iraq — I know I certainly have.

        For more on Iraq, and it's distinction from the various MyRaqs, see here.

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The EUrocrats Show Their True Colors

        The language in this story is a little vague (or maybe my British is showing its weakness), but it seems to be saying: ‘We are going to have a new EU Treaty.  The EU will get expanded powers.  No nation will be allowed to veto the treaty.  We might let people vote on it, but only if we're sure in advance of getting an EU-wide majority.  Democratic troublemaking will not be tolerated.’

        Nice to know where they're coming from, eh?

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