"They sit there with blank expressions, mouths hanging open like a brook trout, staring off into the distance."

Majority Vote Wins

Ann strikes again:

If the details helped liberals, I promise you we'd be hearing the details. Most important, if liberals could win in the court of public opinion, they wouldn't need the federal courts to hand them their victories in the first place. The reason liberals refuse to elaborate on "extremist right-wing ideologue" is that they need liberal courts to give them gay marriage, a godless Pledge of Allegiance, abortion on demand, nude dancing, rights for pederasts, and everything else they could never win in America if it were put to a vote.

Umm -- yeah.

Who turned my world upside down?

Quoting: The Ultimate Cruelty

MSMemory Hole Update: Pot. Kettle. Nuts?

Here's nice encapsulation of the state of the loony left -- which now seems truly indistinguishable to me from the corpus of the Dhimmi party -- in it's conspiracy unified effort to repeal majority voting for judicial nominations.

You really can't understand this sort of stuff anymore without the help of Dr. Sanity I'm afraid... (And here's the series you missed...)

Our Moderate Salazar

Salazar and the Dhimmi-crats told the people of Colorado that they were electing a moderate. Yes, that's right -- moderates have a habit labeling people they don't like as the "anti-Christ". And then his "apology" is to back off and call a Christian preacher "un-Christian". So his idea of a safe retreat to a moderate position when (inevitably) exposed as a hateful radical is a moderated position of ad hominem attack.

One word: Horsepucky.

Sowell Rocks On Redneck Culture

This just got added to my classics:

For most of the history of this country, differences between the black and the white population--whether in income, IQ, crime rates, or whatever--have been attributed to either race or racism. For much of the first half of the 20th century, these differences were attributed to race--that is, to an assumption that blacks just did not have it in their genes to do as well as white people. The tide began to turn in the second half of the 20th century, when the assumption developed that black-white differences were due to racism on the part of whites.

Three decades of my own research lead me to believe that neither of those explanations will stand up under scrutiny of the facts. As one small example, a study published last year indicated that most of the black alumni of Harvard were from either the West Indies or Africa, or were the children of West Indian or African immigrants. These people are the same race as American blacks, who greatly outnumber either or both.

If this disparity is not due to race, it is equally hard to explain by racism. To a racist, one black is pretty much the same as another. But, even if a racist somehow let his racism stop at the water's edge, how could he tell which student was the son or daughter of someone born in the West Indies or in Africa, especially since their American-born offspring probably do not even have a foreign accent?

What then could explain such large disparities in demographic "representation" among these three groups of blacks? Perhaps they have different patterns of behavior and different cultures and values behind their behavior.

...

Disparities between Southern whites and Northern whites extended across the board from rates of violence to rates of illegitimacy. American writers from both the antebellum South and the North commented on the great differences between the white people in the two regions. So did famed French visitor Alexis de Tocqueville.

RTWT -- it's not long...

Borking pure and simple...

Another Crucial Milestone

In Egypt is pointed out by Glenn:



Yup. No burkas and ropes for her!

"The Democratic tent has shrunk to the size of a dunce cap."

Democracy NYeT!
Sad, but the NYeT norm I'm afraid...

If it's real, now you know who to blame.

The lighter side of evil. And you absolutely must read Wretchard's take if you can't take the time to RTWT...

What Hateful Idiot Leftists Will Never, Ever, Never Ever

Get:

Let nobody mislead you, the Iraq that we inherited in April 2003, following the British and American-led liberation, was a tragedy.

The Ba’athist criminals had starved the country of an infrastructure and the people of their freedom.

Apart from the Kurdish safe haven, Iraq was a playground for thugs and a prison for the innocent.

Saddam’s war against the Iraqi people was on-going; we have evidence which demonstrates that the regime was executing its challengers until the last days of its rule.

It was that war, lasting almost forty years, which was the true war of Iraq.

(HT: Roger again)

"Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment" (HT: Roger)

"It follows that President Bush should be inviting Muslims like that to his ranch, not Muslims like Crown Prince Abdullah."

Gandering And Guffawing At Galloway's Gallows

Sometimes you may think there's no justice in the world. But once in while a story comes along that just warms your heart like this one about British Saddam sycophant George Galloway:

Given Galloway's high profile anti-war record, his richly deserved reputation as a Muslim sycophant and his frequent visitor status with Saddam, plus the fact that Muslims may be reluctant to vote for a black Jewish woman and even less likely to vote Conservative, George had reason on his side in thinking he could have been a natural shoo-in.

Alas, last Wednesday night's public meeting ended in a knock-down drag-out between just about everyone. At a dinner in the nearby Bangladeshi curry restaurant (sit down and take-out) Zeera, at a $50-a-head fundraising for King, a surprise celebrity had been announced.

Meanwhile, before King's fundraiser, Galloway and King met on the hustings for some electioneering before a crowd made up mainly of young Muslim men. The sitting MP, King, who holds the Labour seat with a 10,000 vote majority, many of them middle class whites, told the crowd that a vote for Respect would split the Labour vote and hand a victory to the Conservatives. Galloway accused Tony Blair of "waging war on Muslims" and accused Oona King of being "soft on drugs".

Vituperative accusations flew back and forth between the two candidates. Meanwhile, the crowd of young Muslim men pelted King with eggs and slashed her tires. The Independent's Johann Hari wrote of the Muslim men (no women): "They are intelligent and furious young conservatives, driven by hatred of Western liberalism in all its forms, and absolutely convinced they are being viciously persecuted by the 'infidel' state. It is very hard to engage them in a political dialogue that makes sense -- you talk tax credits and they talk Caliphate, you talk a higher minimum wage and they talk about Mohammed's third wife."

Sure enough, if the Muslim crowd didn't like King, neither did they like Galloway -- who has adopted almost every conservative Islamic position on almost everything, and, like Rod Stewart in his golden oldie Maggie Mae, "couldn't have tried any more" -- accusing him of being "a false prophet".

As the crowd was turning ugly, back at the Bangladeshi Zeera, which had had the honor of preparing a take-out for the IOC when they visited London, the surprise celebrity had entered and turned out to be none other than the prime minister's wife Cherie, a High Court judge. Ms. Booth (as she prefers to be called when it suits her), no lightweight, hove onto the little platform and began attacking George Galloway and Respect with a level of petty invective and vulgarity surprising from a British High Court judge.

"I'm sure his mother loves him," she sneered, inexplicably. "But," she revved up the crowd, "give George Galloway a bloody nose!"

The crowd at the hustings had more than a bloody nose in mind for George, informing him that they were "setting up a gallows" for him. It seems that, among the many other things about the West that offend him, Allah doesn't like voting, either. According to these angry young Muslims, the revealed truth is, voting is "un-Islamic". Live and learn. Any young Muslims contemplating voting for Galloway and Respect were warned that they would attract a sentence of death. One of them went so far as to issue a fatwa on Galloway, although as a non-cleric his word carries no weight other than intimidation.

As the level of invective and violence rose, and the two groups of Muslims turned to punching, pulling offensive weapons and kicking each other, Galloway's daughter, who had been waiting for him in his car, called the police.

The bad news is that these people psychopaths want to kill us too...

Move along now. The U.N. is perfect. Perfect I tell ya...

ACLU hypocrisy watch.

A NEW BENCHMARK IN MSM INSANITY? "Last night, the BBC claimed that the exercise was part of a "completely legitimate programme about the history and art of political heckling" and said that other parties' meetings were being "observed". However, The Telegraph has established that none of Tony Blair's meetings was infiltrated or disrupted in similar fashion." Brother.

Well at least we can breathe easy that he won't be an ambassador -- until the next Dhimmi-crat administration...

The Roots Of Modern Jihad

Bat Yeor puts the Armenian genocide in context in a quote embedded in an article by Dr. Bostom:

The genocide of the Armenians was the natural outcome of a policy inherent in the politico-religious structure of dhimmitude. This process of physically eliminating a rebel nation had already been used against the rebel Slav and Greek Christians, rescued from collective extermination by European intervention, although sometimes reluctantly.

The genocide of the Armenians was a jihad. No rayas took part in it. Despite the disapproval of many Muslim Turks and Arabs, and their refusal to collaborate in the crime, these masssacres were perpetrated solely by Muslims and they alone profited from the booty: the victims' property, houses, and lands granted to the muhajirun, and the allocation to them of women and child slaves. The elimination of male children over the age of twelve was in accordance with the commandments of the jihad and conformed to the age fixed for the payment of the jizya. The four stages of the liquidation- deportation, enslavement, forced conversion, and massacre- reproduced the historic conditions of the jihad carried out in the dar-al-harb from the seventh century on. Chronicles from a variety of sources, by Muslim authors in particular, give detailed descriptions of the organized massacres or deportation of captives, whose sufferings in forced marches behind the armies paralleled the Armenian experience in the twentieth century.

Didn't realize how historically ignorant we are of the Jihad, did you?

Did I mention Annie's back?

And you're not going to believe what you will learn about James Woods...

Move along now. No pattern here...

Tinfoil Apocalypse Watch

Here comes our next failure of imagination.

They won't get the subs though. And after a few million dead we will use them.

UPDATE: Wretchard foreshadows an update to the Three Conjectures...