How Do You Say "Asshat" in Canadian?

Dick Warman.

For some reason, there doesn't seem to be any sort of ACLJ-type organization in Canada. It certainly can use one with idiots like Dick running around.

Hey There America!

The teleprompter must have been on the fritz.

Mr. Terrorist Enabler

Also known as possibly the worst President in the history of the United States.

Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.

The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.

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Some Carter critics called the latest reports typical of the ex-president.

“It’s about par for the course from President Carter, demonstrating a lack of judgment typical of what he does," said John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. "To go to Syria to visit Hamas at this point is just an ill-timed, ill-advised decision on his part."

“I’m not surprised that Carter would do this, as he has been supporting Palestinian extremism for many years,” said Steve Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a watchdog group.

Why I Really Don't Like Shaking Peoples' Hands

You just never know where someone's hand has been.



BTW, Jake Peavy denies he cheated, and that there was anything but dirt on his hand. I, a lifelong Dodgers fan, think Peavy is a lying bastard.

RIP Charlton Heston

He wasn't just a gun rights advocate, but was one of the very first Hollywood celebrities to publicly speak out against racism. Heston also participated in the 1963 civil rights march with Martin Luther King.

Not holding my breath that it'll happen, but I'd be interested to see how much class and restraint the left side of the blogosphere will exercise over the news of Mr. Heston's unfortunate passing.

Update (8:36 am): Well, that didn't take very long. You can always count on the unhinged at DU to come through.

Must Be Something in the Vermont Water

Dem-speak is fun stuff. As noted by Ed Whelan, the term "anti-Catholic" to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)apparently means one Catholic, i.e., judicial nominee Robert T. Conrad, criticizing another Catholic, a nun, for displaying contempt toward the Catholic Church.

On a side note, I wonder if Judge Conrad dared the nun he criticized to knock a battery off his shoulder. (Oh, like you weren't thinking that).

Good Gawd

There must be some adage about farting in the forest with nobody around that applies to this. (h/t)

At least Barr won't be running as, and isn't pretending to be, a Republican; unlike a certain Blame America First congressman from Texas who poses for pictures with and willingly takes campaign money from white supremacists.

Speaking of Stupid

Ted Turner is epically so.

I think that they're patriots [the Iraqi insurgents/terrorists] and that they don't like us because we've invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing: we'd be bombing them too. Nobody wants to be invaded.

I actually heard an audio clip of this quote on the Laura Ingraham radio show this morning, and paraphrasing what one of Laura's producers said in response, Ted Turner is an inspiration for all the intellectually stupid people in this country who aspire to be a billionaire.

Reason 983232938 Why Most Academics are Plain Stupid

Looks as though there's some movement afoot to try and boot John Yoo off of the law school faculty at UC Berkeley over his authorship of the so-called "torture memo." This memo was written in 2002 while Professor Yoo was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Setting aside the issue of whether certain authorized war time interrogation techniques that the U.S. employs, e.g. waterboarding, is "torture" under all circumstances (it's not, in my view), for these idiot academic leftists who most likely worship at the altar of killing babies in the womb, and probably defend the murderous rantings of Ward Churchill, to be suggesting that John Yoo should be fired from U.C. Berkeley for moral turpitude is beyond chutzpah. Indeed, it's just one more example which goes to prove that any freakin' moron can be a university professor.

Resurrecting the Dragon...In Song and Dance

Aside from the shock of seeing a Chuck Norris column on Townhall.com, I'm just bowled over at the news there are plans to create a Broadway musical on the life of Bruce Lee.

Just all the way around weird. (h/t)

Juuust a Bit High

Odds are that the few people in the crowd who felt the need to boo are BDS liberals. (h/t)

I saw the highlights of this inaugural game at Nationals Park, and as is usually the case for games I miss seeing on television, there was an exciting finish involving a game winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning.

Paging Professor Kmiec

This quote from Obamessiah doesn't seem to be a real good indicator that he'd accommodate opposing, pro-life, points of view as President (h/t):

"Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old," he said. "I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information."

Outnumbered

We may need to do a little more "crusading." (via Drudge)

Giving Christianity a Bad Name

It really is disturbing how some people in this world can be convinced that this is exactly what God wants them to do when their children become sick:

A grand jury indicted an Oregon City couple accused of failing to seek medical treatment for their gravely ill daughter who died this month.

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The couple's daughter, 15-month-old Ava, died at home March 2 from bacterial bronchial pneumonia and infection. A deputy state medical examiner said Ava's medical problems were treatable with antibiotics.

The Worthingtons belong to Oregon City's Followers of Christ Church. According to church tradition, when members become ill, fellow worshippers pray and anoint them with oil.

Dozens of children have been buried in the parish cemetery over the past 50 years, and a 1998 analysis by The Oregonian newspaper found that many of the deaths could have prevented with medical care.

Thank Goodness for Women

Because most men probably would be too distracted to pay attention to and actually analyze anything Pamela Anderson (I feel a surge in the hit counter) has to say about politics.

Probing Kmiec

The Anchoress proffers a plausibility, but I find pauli's analysis more compelling.

WWDD?

What Was Dubya Doing?

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court rejected President Bush's attempt to literally make the State of Texas submit to international law and set aside the criminal conviction of a Mexican national who committed rape and murder.

'K...

Douglas Kmiec, a constitutional law professor at Pepperdine University who until about a month and a half ago was also on the Mitt Romney campaign team, appears to have flipped his lid by expressly endorsing Obamessiah. (h/t)

As a Republican, I strongly wish to preserve traditional marriage not as a suspicion or denigration of my homosexual friends, but as recognition of the significance of the procreative family as a building block of society. As a Republican, and as a Catholic, I believe life begins at conception, and it is important for every life to be given sustenance and encouragement. As a Republican, I strongly believe that the Supreme Court of the United States must be fully dedicated to the rule of law, and to the employ of a consistent method of interpretation that keeps the Court within its limited judicial role. As a Republican, I believe problems are best resolved closest to their source and that we should never arrogate to a higher level of government that which can be more effectively and efficiently resolved below. As a Republican, and the constitutional lawyer, I believe religious freedom does not mean religious separation or mindless exclusion from the public square.

In various ways, Senator Barack Obama and I may disagree on aspects of these important fundamentals, but I am convinced based upon his public pronouncements and his personal writing that on each of these questions he is not closed to understanding opposing points of view, and as best as it is humanly possible, he will respect and accommodate them.

I can certainly see why Kmiec would not want to endorse, much less vote for, John McCain. But he's nuts if he thinks a President Obamessiah will be accommodating to the "opposing points of view" that Kmiec allegedly espouses and believes in.

Gloria in Excelsis Deo

A most blessed and happy Easter to all!

John McCain and The Surge

Oh, not the military action in Iraq, but my hit counter. For the past week, I've gotten a big surge of visitors to this here blog primarily by those of you Googling "John McCain," "pastor" and "John McCain's pastor."

(Heh. That oughtta bump me back near the top of the search result list).