Cannonball Baptism

OK, I admit it... I haven't been in a serious-news mood for the last few days, and probably won't be until after Christmas.

Enjoy this video; it's a riot!

Peace In Our Time!

Huzzah, everyone!

Showing What A Little Editing Can Do...

Maybe you can't play an instrument worth a darn, but if you're good at editing, who cares?

Make sure to shut the music off before playing; the controls are to the right, in the sidebar.



Kind of makes you wonder about those "artists," huh?

Congratulations, Fellow People Of The Year!

Congrats, bloggin' friends! You are the Person of The Year, according to Time Magazine!

In perhaps their biggest cop-out ever, Time has decided not to pick one great person, but instead has taken the route of PC generalization: Everybody is great.

From Time(red type mine):

To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. (What, nothing great happened?) The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon. (Those vicious Israelis, and poor, poor Muslims...) A war dragged on in Sudan. (I'm shocked they even bothered to mention Darfur, even in a passing, non-judgmental to Muslims fashion.) A tin-pot dictator in North Korea got the bomb (I guess that makes him a little more worrisome than a "tin pot dictator."), and the president of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile nobody fixed global warming (Oh, dear lawrd, no one heeded Al Gore's warnings, and now we're all gonna die. We in the West are so cruel to the environment. Boo-hoo. Let's not mention the type of polluting that third-world countries do...), and Sony didn't make enough PlayStation3s. Chortle. Snort. How droll.

But fear not, simpletons... Time has vindicated you:

But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. (Oooh. Sounds grandiose, don't you think?)It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

So let me get this straight... This load of utopianist dross is somehow going to change the world and make it a fantastic place? I post a few goofy videos on YouTube, and suddenly I've "changed the world" and helped my fellow man out of the goodness of my heart? I edit Wikipedia, and I've added to the vast wealth of mankind's knowledge?

Aren't you folks the same sort of liberal people who look down their noses with utter derisement at the blogging community? But I thought I was helping to shape the cosmic compendium of community knowledge...

Let's not get carried away, Time. Sure, the internet is fun, and can be used to exchange information and ideas... As long as you aren't in a country run by a "tin-pot dictator" who limits access through poverty and through outright censorship.

Try Googling whatever you want to in China, or Iran. You won't get very far. Which brings us back to the matter at hand... THE REAL WORLD.

My advice to you, Time: Stick to picking out the real movers and shakers in the world. I may not always agree with you, but at least you haven't wasted my time (heh) with some load of spineless, feel-good tripe.

Ginger The Jihad Angel

From Glenn Beck (.com):

It's the perfect gift for all of the militant extremists on your Christmas list!

Sewing And Stress Relief

I think I will take this weekend to do a little cross-stitching; my hobby of choice!

Here is the project I'm in the middle of:




Here is the designer's website, and here is a wonderful supply site.

Have a great weekend, one and all!

**Update**
It may take more than sewing to unwind at this point... The children have pushed me out of sewing, past "Calgon take me away," and clear into "a wee dram" land.

It's gonna be an early bedtime tonight...

Presidential Christmas Carol

NeoCon Command Center is pleased to present the President of the United States giving his rendition of "Deck The Halls."

Enjoy!

Deck The Halls | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab

Speaking Out Against CAIR: Muslims!

As you've no doubt heard by now, American Muslims have been encouraged to file lawsuits against airlines if they feel discriminated against on the journey to Mecca this year.

They've even established a hotline to call if you are a victim of "flying while Muslim!" (The number is 1-800-784-7526. Do with it what you will...)

This pitifully transparent political move has drawn anger from pilots and air marshals, who call the move an attempt to intimidate passengers and crew from reporting suspicious behavior from Muslim passengers, and say it will start a cascade of lawsuits.

After all, you only have to feel discriminated against.

Debra Burlingame, sister of one the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 calls the push by CAIR a ploy to extort money from the airline industry.

"I think CAIR is soliciting complaints, and if they don't get it, they will make it up," said Ms. Burlingame.

CAIR knows that the poorer Muslims can't afford to make an overseas journey to Mecca. It is logical to assume that only the more well-to-do Muslims will be going, and since they don't need monetary remuneration, guess who'll be raking in the donations... That is, if members of CAIR just don't outright file the lawsuits themselves to start with.

This time, however, CAIR hasn't just hacked off the average Joe... Dr. M.Zuhdi Jasser, the chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (Gee, MSM, we haven't heard of these guys, have we?) said the statements from CAIR "continues the tired stoking of the flames of victimization."

"They are unfortunately exploiting, for purely political reasons, what should be a sacred and purely spiritual story of our faith's annual holy pilgrimage to Mecca."

"We need new leadership and organizations which use their passions and the bandwidth of the media to lead the ideological fight against radical and political Islam rather than this tired pre-emption of supposed discrimination."

YES! Y-E-S!!!

Why, oh why, can we not hear from more Muslims like Dr. Jasser?

Warm-And-Fuzzy Cute Moment

Isn't this the most adorable thing? This baby giraffe was born at the Bronx Zoo on October 30th, and was six feet tall as a newborn!

Iran And Friends

But, hey... I'm sure that nuclear program he has going is all about energy, and has nothing to do with nuclear weapons.

International Iranian Insanity

Iran has been kicking it up a notch lately. Just days after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's latest call to destroy Israel, he's at it again, this time at Iran's warm and fuzzy Holocaust Denial Convention.

After calling the annihilation of six million Jews a "myth," he again called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

"Thanks to people's wishes and God's will the trend for the existence of the Zionist regime is downwards and this is what God has promised and what all nations want," he said.

"Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out," he added.

Uh-huh. Except I suspect that unlike the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Israel will actually have a hot nuke launched on them.

Ahmadinejad continues, saying that countries where Holocaust denial is illegal do not respect free speech...

"Iran is your home and is the home of all freedom seekers of the world," Ahmadinejad said. "Here you can express your views and exchange opinions in a friendly, brotherly and free atmosphere."

Oh, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This, from a country where women and girls are routinely left dangling from cranes for daring to show their faces, and where human rights organizations classify Iran as one of the worst violators of free speech on the planet.

Does "State-run media" mean anything to you, Momo? How many journalists and bloggers do you have in jail right now?

The head of the Holocaust denial convention claimed that they would form a "fact-finding" committee to study the Holocaust, and said it's members were "not racist or opposed to any particular group."

Yeah, except Jews and women, and Americans, and non-Muslims.

Of course, being a new Muslim territory, France had her share of scholars present. Robert Faurisson, a French so-called scholar, called the Holocaust a "historical lie."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Photoshop hadn't been invented in the 40's, right?




Other countries such as the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, and Austria had people present, and if I were those governments, I'd bar their re-entry into my country. There were even some self-hating, anti-Israel Jews there.

All of this Iranian guff of course drew criticism from sane members of the world. The Vatican called the Holocaust an "immense tragedy," and German Chancellor Merkel said the Iranian Holocaust denial convention "shows the danger of the situation Israel is in and in particular the threat that Israel lives under."

AMEN, Merkel!

Even the EU Commissioner crawled out from underneath Eurabia's dhimmi fog to express "shock and indignation." Franco Frattini added, "Anti-Semitism has no place in Europe; nor should it in any other part of the world.

Anyone care to place bets on how quickly Ahmadinejad will threaten the Jewish state again? I'll bet you a dozen doughnuts that it'll be before this Friday!

Wife Beating: Preserving The Stability Of The Family

Islam once again shows us how to take care of women:



Of course, you shouldn't consider beating to be assault, but rather, as THERAPEUTIC:



Of course, the wife is the one causing the beatings with her bad behavior... It could NEVER be that the husband is abusive, or out of control...

Heaven forbid that someone want to bring the Muslim man into the 21st century:



Amazing, isn't it, that human rights groups, and more specifically, women's rights groups aren't screaming out about this!

Islam: Anti-Chivalry In Action

Almost a month ago, I posted about the Women Protection Bill that Pakistani President Musharraf just passed into law that ends the penalty of death (usually by stoning) for extramarital sex, and amends the requirement of a rape victim to somehow produce four male eye witnesses to prove that they were raped, lest they be charged with adultery... And considering the aforementioned punishment for that, you can imagine how many victims ever come forward.

These amendments are a step in the direction of humanity for Pakistan.

Of course, human rights and Islamofascism to together like oil and water, and Sharia law proves it.

Thousands of Islamist protesters congregated in Karachi yesterday to protest the Women Protection Bill, claiming that not forcing rape victims to bring along four amicable men to their trial, and no longer stoning wicked adulteresses to death will somehow turn Pakistan into a "free sex zone," according to one speaker. Others carried signs that read, "Down with Musharraf," and "Down with the Women Protection Law."

Those evil women. I'm sure they'll be having open sex in the streets in no time flat!

Have A Holly, Jolly Yule?

How would you react if your elementary school child brought this home in his backpack?


(Click to enlarge.)

Parents from the Albemarle School District in Charlottesville, VA. got to find out...

Read the entire story here.

Bad Santa

Pretty soon, anything that is even moderately enjoyable will be illegal in New York.

How far does Nanny Government go in telling us what choices we can make, and how to live our lives?