More on Free Speech: Islamo-Fascism and Dutch National Socialism in agreement

Michelle Malkin's post: "MUSLIMS VS. FREE SPEECH IN THE NETHERLANDS" has an interesting story illustrating how the so-called utopian schemes or of the Radical Islamists and the Euro-Socialists can agree that real free speech has no place in their pipe dream societies. Reality and free thinking always appear as flies in the ointment to utopian pollyannas. Therefore it is right to ban the speaking of these ideas. The Dutch have become what they hate; the hoary cosmic rule is affirmed again. What goes around, comes around.

Voting in the Cradle of Civilization

A popular Iraqi blog, Hammorabi puts it this way, "It is the birth of freedom and democracy in Iraq!" I say congratulations, enjoy your great day. May peace and prosperity come to your honorable people and may God bless Iraq.

So much for Islamic free speech

Middle East Online reports that "Muslim activists rip, deface offensive advertising in predominantly Muslim areas in Britain." These are the kind of Islamo-Fascists that the folks in Iraq want to vote OUT of their lives. I hope their new constitution has a place for free speech. BTW, there have been Osama sightings in the US! This foto from a San Francisco reader just in:

Osama & Friend

Read All About It - Iraq Election News

Some good news from Iraq: Friends of Democracy - Iraq Election News

A Plains Tradition: "Fill-in-the-blank Days!"

Out here we have Corn Days, Crazy Days, Beet Days, Trail Days, Frontier Days and Your-town-name-here Days. (There was a trend for a while to spell Days as Daze, but that has mostly passed.) Now Gilbert, Minnesota wants to have 'Whorehouse Days'. Naturally, this has caused an uproar. The town has a long standing reputation for sex trade, but some locals don't want to advertise it. But now, the cat is out of the bag, "The damage has been done," resident Fran Marolt was qouted in the Feed Trough article as saying, "This is not a family-oriented activity." I thought it was funny. I wonder if I could still get a tee shirt?

Terrorist Scenario of the Week

This from Right Wingnuthouse: "Just a reminder: The Super Bowl is in 2 weeks. It's estimated that almost 1 billion people will be watching."

I think Michelle Malkin might be picking an old scab on the FBI's butt. Are there strange connections between the various characters that drifted in and out of Alpha Tango Air and Lackland over the years? How many pilots from Islamic countries did a stint at Lackland? Where are they now? Too many questions.

Proceed with caution.

Update: Lunatics are listening- "Man Accused Of Threatening Super Bowl With 'Big Bang'".

Gun control laws racist?

Newsday.com - AP National News: "'We know intuitively that we are being dealt with more harshly than whites. This just reinforces it,' she said. The overall disparity is such that 'I don't know what else it could be other than race,' " This article points out that blacks are more likely to be charged with a felony for violating the state weapons registration law. It fails to ask about the circumstances surrounding the registration violations.

Gun registration law violations may be minimal, like forgetting to carry the papers, expired registrations, improper transport and the like. Or even just forgetting to register a gun. I picture old NRA Life Members like me forgetting to put a stamp on their license application. These violations come to light in the normal course of lawful and peaceful life. The perpetrators deserve leniency.

You get pulled over for your burned out tail light. You get a fix-it ticket, but the cop spies your 'I forgot to register it' gat in the glove box. So you get charged with a gun registration violation, too. Maybe you use your 'gun you forgot to register' for genuine self-defense. When the police get done patting you on the back, they charge you with a registration violation.

But other gun registration law violations come to light in a very different way. You get caught robbing a convenience store, murdering your dope connection, or using your new roscoe to threaten your neighbors. After the police get done booking you for the chicanery that got their attention, they charge you for a registration violation as well. As a criminal, you haven't registered your gun deliberately to keep the cops from knowing you have it, and to prevent them from tracing it back to you.

You are the prosecutor, and these two cases land on your desk: 1. Motor vehicle infraction by old NRA lifer AND gun registration violation; 2. Armed robbery by gang member AND gun registration violation. Which one are you going to throw the book at on the gun registration violation.

Unless California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's report addresses the effect of all elements at work in the prosecutors' decision to charge gun registration violations as felonies or misdemeaors, the report says nothing. He has no business concluding that racism is at work.

File this under: "Statistics: the whore that escaped from the ivory tower and is loose on the town".

Shopping at Wal-Mart today?

Imagine youself in your nearest Wal-Mart store. See the shelves overflowing with goods. Now imagine that everything made in the Orient disappears from the shelves. How empty is your Wal-Mart? Here is a case of globalization that worries some folks. Americans hardly make anything the Wal-Mart sells. The CIA's National Intelligence Council has issued a report titled "MAPPING THE GLOBAL FUTURE" where they make the following prediction which I found in a San Gabriel Valley Tribune opinion page: "By 2020,' the CIA predicts, 'globalization could be equated in the popular mind with a rising Asia, replacing its current association with Americanization."

Does this disturb me, here at the Feedlot, where the world must come to my town to sell me stuff? I don't know. I know I like cheap stuff. I don't like the idea that, should China disappear or get pissed at the USA, I won't be able to get any sneakers. I'm confused. Perhaps if Wal-Mart were to replace their signage with Chinese characters, or their little yellow smiley starts showing mongoloid features. I know Wal-Mart adds salt water (up to 12%) to their 'fresh meat' and then sells it to us by the pound. I really don't like this. I have a scarred up liver and salty stuff makes me swell up like a toad. I found out about the adulterated meat the hard way. I still buy cheap sneakers at Wal-Mart, but I don't trust them any more. I feel like I'm buying from crafty chinese merchants who would sell me salt water for meat when they think I'm not looking.

They've got their Irish up

Ban the Fun, continued:

What can I say, I have always liked the bullfights. I went to them as a kid, and haven't missed a chance to go ever since. Would-be matadors practiced in an empty lot near my home when I was 8 or 9 years old. We lived in Madrid. They used a set of horns attached to a large wheelbarrow sort of contraption. They had real swords! Looked like fun to me. But the Irish Council Against Blood Sports wants to close down Las Ventas. Too many folks having fun, enjoying life, I guess.

We don't have a Plaza de Toros here in not-very-mediterranean Nebraska, but we do have the rodeo! I'd like to see some Irish Council on anything get our cowboys to give up watching the bull riders. But they probably won't because most of the blood in our State Blood Sport is shed by the human participants. Perhaps these misguided Irish cranks are really animal rights kooks. If I thought they were a real threat, I'd check them out. See who is funding their creepy web site.

If you would like to learn to be a matador, try a school like this one: Link

Plains Bloggers

I hate to say it, but my freshman year (65-66) at Iowa State was sort of like this. Here at College is Fun you can see things like, "Jimmy, lighting his shirt on fire for the New Year." These 'hijos de fruta' will one day be selling insurance or managing retail stores. Now they wrestle in their dorm rooms. I hope they all live through it. I wonder about the URL, collegeandkimchee. We didn't have any kimchee in our dorm rooms. Why would anyone send a daughter to college? To meet guys like this?

The Land of the Free - Europe to ban everything unpleasant or stupid.

I read the AP wires for laughs. This is funny.Newsday.com - AP World News: "The European Union may consider banning Nazi symbols in its 25 member nations after Britain's Prince Harry wore a swastika armband to a costume party, the bloc's top justice official said Monday. "

They should just make it against the law to be an idiot in Europe. But then they would create a huge criminal class, as Prohibiton did in the States. I wish I could live another 200 years just to see what happens to Europe.

Plains Bloggers

If you would like a view into the lives of high school Nebraska, check out The Trials of White Suburban Childern (sic) in the Heart of Nebraska. Learn more about Frau Huskey, the German teacher. See for yourself that the seed of America has more to do than get stoned and go to the mall. Not much more, but hey, it IS just a blog.

Update: 02/01/05 The Papillion kids have moved to a New Server.

More Creeping Tenuous Taxation

law.com - Article: "Although Thomas L. Huckaby of Tennessee spends little time in New York, does not live in New York and does virtually no work in New York, New York claims it is entitled to tax 100 percent of his income because his employer is based in Queens."

Tenuouser and tenuouser. And the lawyers helped! Nex us.

New Orleans Taxing Local Artists

Found this article while perusing the Bayou Buzz discussion boards. Refers to article by Daniel Grant at PaintingsDirect.com:
"Dean Mitchell, an Overland Park, Kansas painter, whose artwork has been consigned to Bryant Galleries in New Orleans, recently received a tax bill for $8,000 from the City of New Orleans. But this was not a tax on any picture that had sold; it was an inventory tax. "

I gather this is some sort of personal property tax. Legislators have heard about George Bush's "Ownership Society" and it won't be long before there is a tax on owning anything, no matter how tenuous your ownership may be. Why not tax your personal space? The law says that a trespass upon your personal space is an assault. Therefore, you 'own' that space. Therefore your ownership should be taxed. I'm going to tell Warren Buffet about this.

UNocrats

I'm all for helping out the tsunami victims, but the UN and its wasteful, corrupt bureaucracy isn't on my list of suitable conduits. I have seen these cats in action, all gold watches and silk suits.
The Diplomad: The "Turd" World And The High Priest Vulture Elite: has it right.
"As we come up on two weeks since the disaster struck, the UN is still not to be seen where it counts -- except when holding well-staged press events. Ah, yes, but the luxury hotels are full of UN assessment teams and visiting big shots from New York, Geneva, and Vienna. The city sees a steady procession of UN Mercedes sedans and top-of-the-line SUV's -- a fully decked out Toyota Landcruiser is the UN vehicle of choice; it doesn't seem that concerns about 'global warming' and preserving your tax dollars run too deep among the UNocrats."
Mucho disgusto nauseo!

Plains Bloggers

I went looking for other blogs that identify themselves as originating from Nebraska. Right away I found "Lisa's Blog". Her blog is nice looking and the content is interesting. Her vocabulary building entries caught my eye. This is something I do myself. With my old small-print OED, and a collection of specialized dictionaries, I try to add a word or two now and then.

I'm not obsessive or even regular about it. When a new word pops up in reading, conversation, or on the airwaves, I make an effort to look it up. And dictionaries, I can't get enough of them! I look for them at library sales. Not regular dictionaries, but things like medical dictionaries, legal dictionaries, and technical dictionaries are the ones I look for. Etiology and linguistic analysis are favorite pastimes for me. Syntax and usage are not far behind. Wish I had the time to make a blog with nifty daily features like Lisa's.

Soldier of Misfortune

I don't know why, but I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one that thought the CJR story was interesting. My favorite blog, Wizbang, refers to it here , focusing on the fact that this idiot duped the media. I figure just about anyone can dupe the media these days, as long as your scam supports their cause. Look at Michael Moore and his crappy movies, Dan Rather and his crappy fake documents; anyone can dupe the media.

I found the story interesting because the cat in question was such a screwball.

A Real War Profiteer

Too much Soldier of Fortune magazine, too much Geraldo Rivera, too much money. Click the Feed Trough to read about the strangest reaction to the war in Iraq I have seen yet.

IBM Selectric Composer

During the recent presidential election the fool on the hill was amazed to see CBS News allow Dan Rather and his ugly gang of truth twisters to use obvious forgeries of documents purporting to show President Bush in a bad light. No fool when it comes to typesetting, I spotted the fakeness straight away. Then I found Kevin Aylward's dissection of the matter on Wizbang. All the research and background I found there convinced me I was right: the docs had to be faked.

The upshot of the matter is that the only way these Texas Air National Guard docs could be real is if they had been typed on an IBM Selectric Composer. This was a fancy tool that TANG offices probably didn't have. I wondered who did use these things besides publishers. Then I saw this picture of Rosemary Woods in her White House office trying to demonstrate how she might have accidentally created the infamous 18 minute gap on Nixon's Watergate tapes. If I'm not mistaken, that is an IBM Composer she has on her desk. Could there be a connection? Where are the Moonbats when you need them?