The Party of Retreat and Defeat

A MUST READ article by Peter Collier and David Horowitz at FrontPage Magazine. Some snips:

As the fall elections approach, the Democrats have formally unveiled their platform for the war in Iraq: snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

At the very moment that documents captured from the Zarqawi death site indicate that Al Qaeda feels it is losing its war against the Iraqi future and has become so desperate that its only hope to prevail is by embroiling the U.S. in war with Iran; at the very moment Iraq’s democratically elected government is establishing itself as a functioning regime, and its increasingly capable military becomes more successfully engaged against the insurgents —at this critical moment for the future of Iraq and the Middle East, more than three quarters of the House Democrats have voted against a resolution to “complete the mission.”

For the first time in American history, a major political party wants America to run from a war we are winning.

We have come to an historic juncture. It is not mere perversity or jockeying for position before the fall elections that makes the Democrats refuse to take yes for an answer on this war to liberate a Muslim people, break the hold of bloodlust and authoritarianism in the most benighted region of the world, and defeat terror on its central front. Nor is the Democrats’ choice of capitulation simply a reflex— like so many other positions they hold—of their pathological hatred of George Bush. In large part, in fact, their insensate hatred of Bush is hatred for what this war embodies: America taking up arms against a sea of troubles as turbulent as any it has faced before; America bringing freedom to the heartland of terror.

And the result of these attitudes can be seen in the way the Democrats and their media allies have conducted themselves throughout. For the Bush administration and the coalition troops in Iraq the battles have been for Baghdad, Fallujah, Mosul and Basra, all engagements with the enemy in the field. For the Democrats and their media allies it has been Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Haditha and Niger, all behind-the-lines battles against our troops and their commander-in-chief. For the Bush administration the chief prize has been Zarqawi, the beheader himself. For the Democrats it has been Scooter Libby. The Bush administration barely missed getting Osama bin Laden; the Democrats barely missed getting Karl Rove. The Bush administration’s strategy is to defeat the forces of terror. The Democrats are conducting psychological warfare aimed at American morale – the decisive factor in war.

It is hard not to conclude that the Democrats want America to be defeated in Iraq and that it is not only their electoral opportunism but their worldview that demands it. This shows how different the Democratic Party is from what it was a generation ago when its stalwarts assumed the moral leadership in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The current Democrats bear no kinship to the John F. Kennedys, Hubert Humphreys and Scoop Jacksons who saw this prior conflict in the same black and white terms as Bush does the present conflict, and whose disheartening moments were far bleaker than the setbacks the U.S. has experienced in Iraq. Such men would be read out of the Democratic Party today and reviled as yahoos for their patriotism.

The worldview of the current Democrats was created generation ago in the first war that America lost on the home front, and it hasn’t changed since. Notwithstanding the Democrats’ timorous, and reluctant -- and quickly retracted -- support for the war in Iraq, and notwithstanding the disingenuous insistence that “anti-war” activists also “support our troops,” the leaders of the Democratic Party left – Kennedy, Kerry, Carter, Gore, Pelosi, Murtha -- looked on the Iraq War from its onset as another Vietnam. Whenever there is the possibility of the use of American power against an enemy that can fight back, it is always for the Democrats a quarter past Tet.

Hanoi’s General Nguyen Giap, the Democrats’ Clausewtiz, famously said that his country could not win on the field of battle but would win in the streets of America. Divide politically and conquer militarily. That is what happened then; that is what the Democrats’ leaders are working to make happen now.

Yes they are converging, but not yet on the field of battle where America is winning and the Zarqawi terror front is failing. They are converging here at home, where an anti-movement is hoping to win a majority in Congress this fall and cut off support for the freedom forces in Iraq. Let’s hope the American people will not listen to them and make the same mistake twice.

Read it all and remember that today's Democrats are not Americans anymore. They don't support the values and traditions that made this country great and are actively allied with America's enemies because they share common cause: The destruction of Dubya and America as the dominant world power.

As pathetic, feckless, cynical and basically lame as the Stupid Party is, the alternative - electing the fascist Dems - would be a disaster, leading to death, destruction and dhimmitude.

Why I'm Not Watching The World Cup.

Simply put, because it ain't like this!!!

(h/t IGN)

Adventures In AIM Porn Spam!

Real-life chat log:

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Dirk: DOOM!!!

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Dirk: Not as cute as I am. Vanquished!!!!

Then I blocked them. (I hope that bot cried.)

Poor Dan, Alone and Unloved.

The NY Times types up a pity piece, "Moving Ahead, Rather Throws Sad Look Back", for the guy who sacrificed his ability to lie with impunity by deciding that election tampering was so important to his cohorts in the Treason Media and fascist Left, that he thought he would be able to lie with immunity from repercussions. So he spends his days watching liberal porn like "Good Night, and Good Luck", jerking off in his worn trenchcoat and wondering why no one loves him anymore.

It's Hard To Find Entertainment With All The Hate Around.

I used to like Henry Rollins. Really. Sure, he's a sh*tty singer, but even he will admit that he sounds like a baboon f*cking a toaster oven in a hot tub filled with lye and Perrier. His spoken word albums, heck, call them what they are, stand-up comedy albums, are hysterical and his comedy specials were as well.

But, as the mind-eating fevers of Bush Derangement Syndrome have rendered otherwise talented performers from Janeane Garofalo, Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, the Dixie Chicks, etc. into screeching, shrill harpies consumed with spewing their hate all over their audiences, it's getting harder and harder to look past the vicious snarling teeth to see what they're up to artistically.

Rollins has a chat show on IFC which the g/f and I were looking forward to watching, even though he was having the shrill and marginally talented Sleater-Kinney on as music guests. I know that like 99% of Hollywood, he's a Lefty - you're not allowed to work unless you toe that line - but we were taken aback at the sheer blind parroting of the moonbat shibboleths that he uttered. He and Oliver Stone were so enthusiastically bashing Dubya for everything from the war to the disappointing turns Britney Spears career has taken as of late. (They must've cut the part out where Henry ripped open Stone's relaxed fit khakis and vigorously fellated him.)

Even tackier was a segment in which he wrote a letter to Laura Bush, basically trashing her husband in nasty terms - especially by my aggressive standards - and it simply wasn't funny or satirical. It was mean-spirited and totally beneath him. We cut the tape off there and never bothered to check back.

Judging from Henry Rollins: A Love Letter To Ann Coulter, which is making the unhinged titter as they see their best-selling nemesis being bashed by the formerly-feminist Rollins. I guess this is supposed to be adapted from a character called "Ann Hitler" from his latest book - uh, Godwin's Law? - but the repeated theme of the article is that Ann needs to come over to Henry's pad and be his subservient sex slave and "shut the f*ck up."

WTF is that about? Humor works when it's true and since Ann isn't Hitler, this isn't funny and how does Henry get a pass for his misogyny? Because non-fascist-liberals aren't accorded any right to basic courtesy in the Left's diseased, enraged minds? Duh. Of course not!!! Unless you drink from the Kool-Aid nozzle that feeds them all, you aren't entitled to jack, Jack!!!

Now, let's flip the script: Imagine Rush Limbaugh doing a "Letter to Nancy Pelosi" or Cindy Sheehan in which he used the same language Henry uses. Who'd be laughing then? Nobody? Would the P.C. police be hauling him in for disturbing the peace?

Duh.

Hypocrisy is the coin of the liberal realm. I can't wait for 2009 to see if these maniacs will STFU themselves and get back to being pleasant company or whether they'll tear into President Mitt Romney the same way?

Duh.

Dems Say, "Winning Is Not an Option!"

Jonah Goldberg states the obvious about the disingenuous traitors whose symbol is the ass.

Let me get this straight. For a couple of years now Democrats have increasingly demanded that America get out of Iraq now, soon or by a date certain. The Murtha bug-out chorus says “it’s not our fight,” “let the Iraqis handle it,” “let’s stay out of a civil war,” and, “we can’t win.”

I think I have that right.

What on earth do these people think cutting and running from Iraq means? When they say, “it’s not our fight” and “it’s a civil war,” how do they envision this non-American conflict to be resolved after we depart?

Look: Bugging out of Iraq is the greatest amnesty possible because it’s the only way the men who’ve shed American blood can not only get off scot-free but actually win the war. But that is precisely what Democrats want to do. These guys talk about how the sacrifices of American troops would be “devalued” by amnesty, but they see no devaluation of such sacrifice in surrender. They say they don’t want to “reward” those who spilled American blood through amnesty. But amnesty is the consolation prize. It is the set of steak knives and coupon to Chuck E. Cheese’s of rewards. Chasing the infidel American crusaders out of Iraq is the jackpot. And that is precisely what the Democrats are for.

This sanctimony is so dishonest it stews the bowels. Most of these Democrats have denounced America’s decision to disband the Iraqi military after the toppling of Saddam. Those Iraqis fired on Americans and now they comprise the bulk of the insurgents. These Democrats wanted to keep many, if not most, of the same fighters in uniform and give them the color of authority in Iraq — not send them off to be ditch diggers and taxi drivers under some amnesty plan. They wanted them to command troops!

Read it all and remember this unpleasant fact: Today's Democrat is NOT an American; they are Democrats FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS! A real patriot would never do what these fascists do on a daily basis, but then again, they are only patriotic to their own insatiable thirst for power.

Hitler cats!

There is a web site for everything, isn't there?

The First Ever Owen Wilson Sex Quiz!

HuffPoo troublemaker Greg Gutfield has a new site, The Daily Gut, with his quirky humor including this titular quiz testing your knowledge of the phallus-nosed star's proclivities. A snip:

1. Is Owen Wilson having sex right now?
a. Yes
b. Probably

2. If Owen Wilson is having sex right now, is he having it with
a. two women
b. two women of different nationalities
c. three women, one of them a member of the Houses of Parliament
d. a rare François' langur monkey.

True/False
__________

When you have sex with Owen Wilson, he prefers to pull out and ejaculate onto pictures of your parents.

Owen Wilson has a private laboratory in his house where he creates things he can have sex with.

Owen WIlson suffers from a strange disorder that prevents him from assessing the quality of his sexual conquests. Recently, for example, Owen Wilson was about to have sex with Britney Spears but decided instead to have sex with a rare whooping crane.

Some funs stuff at the Gut. Look for it to be added to the links at right.

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UPDATE: I forgot to add the link to this interview with Greg. Sorry.

Teach Your Children Well (By Lying To Them!)

Spotted on The Corner (follow the source links from there):

When the Walthamstow Guardian asked if the 9/11 attacks should be used as a teaching tool, one educationist said the pack was not about “preaching” to children, but about providing “impartial and unbiased information” and “letting them make sense of it”.

That would be information such as: “The terrorists had shown that, despite America’s size and military power, careful planning and complete faith could defeat them.”

So al-Qaeda defeated America. Or did it? After all, according to this impartial pack, “it is not known whether Flight 93 was taken over by passengers or shot down by the military”. The only people to whom this should be “not known” are conspiracy theorists. You might as well tell kids it is not known whether men really landed on the Moon.

The outside sources of “impartial and unbiased information” include a news website that speculates about whether images of Satan appeared in smoke over the Twin Towers, and the mystic significance of the number 11. Another link, to explain the role of the US Vice-President, turns out to be an excerpt from a 9/11 conspiracy website that asks whether Dick Cheney “was directing the response to the attack. Or was he directing the attack?” The pack’s main attempt to situate 9/11 in some context is a lengthy list of “Osama’s grievances”.

As if this is a surprise, that teachers are more interested in indoctrination than education.

New Blog Link Added

While looking for something else, I stumbled across Tom the Dog's You Know What I Like? As his sub-title reads:

A blog about all that is worthy in the Culture we call Pop. TV, Comics, Movies, TV, Music, Books, and a little TV as well. Updated every day, in a perfect world. The same world where Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson had not all won Best Director Oscars before Martin Scorsese, J.D. Salinger had been as prolific as Stephen King, and Whoopi Goldberg was locked away where she could never hurt anyone ever again.

Give him a looksee and tell him Dirk sent ya!

Survey Sez I'm A....

Libertarian.

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 90%.

Well....duh.

Take the quiz yourself and see where you fall.

Friday Morning Coffee

Hey, let's have a moment's fun, OK?

• THE FRIDAY FIVER (On Time Edition!): Name your favorite...

1. Candy: York Peppermint Patties

2. Cookie: Mom's Oatmeal Chocolate Chip

3. Donut: Boston creme

4. Cold drink: Diet cola

5. Hot beverage: Cocoa

• DIRK'S DISH DU JOUR: Not the usual celebrity today, but the guitarist/singer for an Australian indie band called The Golden Age that I saw while in Toronto last week. Her name is Kat Hurley and she's got a megaton of rock sass and charisma that absolutely riveted my attention during the two sets I caught.

I may update this with a better photo later - this is the best I've got available at the moment - but of all the acts I saw, she had the most "rock star" vibe coming off her.

A close second would have to be the bassist for Burning Brides (placeholder image - I'll put one of mine up later):

RAWKER GRRRLZ!!!!

Mark Steyn: Dem Victory Would Mean The End of American Influence

Transcribed from his appearance on Hugh Hewitt's radio show:

MS: You know, all the talk, basically, the Democrat media view on Iraq, that this is a civil war, is completely and utterly deranged. I mean, it has none of the elements of a civil war. For a civil war, you need two sides that are willing to fight. And there simply are not large numbers of Iraqi people who are interested in joining this. So you've just got a dwindling, isolated band of terrorists who can blow up Muslims in bus stations, and Muslims in shopping markets. And the more they do that, the more they're going to be in the situation Zarqawi, where there's more and more people willing to rat him out.

HH: And even as that unfolds, however, like runaway trucks, the left in the United States cannot seem to cope with news, especially news for which they're not programmed. And so Yearly Kos unfolds into a long, anti-Bush rant, and today in the Senate and the House, the resolution to cut and run out of Iraq lost by a vote of 93-6 in the Senate, with only Boxer and Feingold and Kerry and Kennedy and a couple of other...you know, Bryd and one other person. But the net roots, as they call them, can't seem to cope with this, Mark Steyn.

MS: Well, no. I mean, you say only six, but we're talking about the great lion of the Democratic Party, Ted Kennedy. We're talking about their last presidential candidate...

HH: Yup.

MS: John Kerry. We're talking about the so-called father of the Senate, Robert C. Byrd. I mean, we are talking about very eminent figures here. And what I think people should understand is that whatever the argument for going into Iraq, once you're in it, you've got to have even better arguments for getting out of a was without victory. And I think for America to actually announce an exit strategy, to say you're right, this is a disaster, we're getting out of here, we're going home, it would end the American moment. If America cannot even withstand in fact what is a relatively successful operation in Iraq, if even that is too traumatizing for a society of 300 million, then that's the end of the American moment. There's no reason for Russia and China to pay any attention to America ever again. Not only that, there's no reason for Belgium or Luxembourg to take America seriously ever again. It's over. You go the John Kerry route, it's over. And if Americans really want to be the kind of defeatist loser nation that Kerry-Kennedy & Co. paint them as, so be it. I don't think they are, and in fact, I would say you know, despite the best efforts of the Republican Party to shoot themselves in the foot and in the hand and in the kneecap and everywhere else, that the Democrats will not do well this November, and the Republican Party will hold Congress.

Read the whole thing and check the transcript below it to see how the psychos who control the Dem Party are trying to run out anyone who tries to preach a little moderation. The old heroes of the Dems - FDR, JFK, LBJ, Truman - would be attacked as "neocons" by today's loonies.

Joss Whedon Says Buffy and Angel Movies Not Happening

Dammit! 20th Century Fox sucks major donkey balls! They yanked "Firefly" prematurely and now they're f'ing up Buffyverse flicks that there IS an audience for. Throw in the rushed production of "X-Men: The Last Stand" and there is no joy for geeks coming from Fox. Bastages!!

Dems To Lose Big This November? Huh?!?

Michael Novak seems to think so.

Just think how crushed the Left is going to be when they lose seats in the onrushing congressional elections this November. They have been so certain they would win big.

They have been blowing hot air.

My belief is that the Left has not yet learned the lessons of 1989. They have not learned that big government cannot make an economy inventive, dynamic, and entrepreneurial. The Left is still a party of, well, not quite socialists, but certainly a party of anti-capitalists.

[snip]

They call themselves the “reality-based community,” when in truth they are still living on scraps of the old illusions, from which they have never wakened.

The Left is going to lose — big — because they have nothing noble, nothing beautiful, nothing real, nothing true, with which to lead. They are the merchants of illusion. And a significant majority of Americans, although not all, see through them.

I dunno about this one. While Democrat defeat is a good result, the problem is that the Stupid Party will believe that they won by being feckless on the borders and profligate with their spending. The only way they'll come to their senses is to get their asses handed to them by the conservatives who've given up on their failed tenures.

What The Treason Media Isn't Telling You About "Hadji Girl".

The spineless military brass is shooting their own troops in the back in order to appease the demands of jihad-enabling outfits like CAIR and you've probably seen brief news clips about the Marine singing the song "Hadji Girl". The stories are repeating the Big Lies that the song celebrates killing civilians because that's what the Treason Media thinks of our servicemen - that they're redneck racist goons who were too poor and stupid to be liberals and thus kill innocent people of color, blah-blah-woof-woof...

To see what the Treason Media isn't telling us, bop over to Hot Air and watch Vent which plays the ENTIRE song with the lyrics scrolled over it so that you can see for yourselves what the song REALLY says, not what the Treason Media tells you it says.

Conservative blogs provide the evidence while the Treason Media lies and lies and lies as if no one will ever get the real story out there. Those days are ending, fortunately.

Real Scientists Say, "There Ain't No Such Thing As ManBearPig!"

Keep in mind the next time you hear the suckers for Al Gore's hysterical fairy tale yelping that we are all doomed and must see his movie - I'm looking at you, Mr. Ebert - that when real scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe, the inconvenient truth is that he's a lying sack of hot air.

Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia gives what, for many Canadians, is a surprising assessment: "Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention."

But surely Carter is merely part of what most people regard as a tiny cadre of "climate change skeptics" who disagree with the "vast majority of scientists" Gore cites?

No; Carter is one of hundreds of highly qualified non-governmental, non-industry, non-lobby group climate experts who contest the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing significant global climate change. "Climate experts" is the operative term here. Why? Because what Gore's "majority of scientists" think is immaterial when only a very small fraction of them actually work in the climate field.

To recap:

Friday Fiver (Catch-Up Edition)

After doing the last few as bulletins on MySpace - as if anyone frigging cares there (or here) - the FF is back to banal some more.

1. Do you play cards?

Not much. Used to play Rummy with my grandparents.

2. Do you have any rings on your hands?

No.

3. Would you describe yourself as innocent?

As in "never convicted"? Sure.

4. What do you think of chivalry?

It's not dead, but it is lying bleeding in the gutter.

5. Have you seen The Thomas Crown Affair?

Saw the remake. Mmmmm...Rene Russo...[drools]

Dirk's Dish Du Jour (Standalone Edition)

I've been so busy that I haven't even had a chance to edit and post a half-dozen rather important items about the Canadian Jihadis that were conveniently rounded up before my trip to Toronto; the termination of Mooseoweee(sp?); the kerfuffle over Ann Coulter's new book and big mouth; the war and other important (but aging) stuff and nonsense that's going on unremarked about here.

But, in the absence of substantative commentary, here's another reminder of why the War Against Islamofascism must be won, lest such treasures be obscured by the medieval sexist tyrants who would have us bow to their swords: Allison Hannigan.

I finally got a copy of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds" for the Xbox last night (long story) and when I knocked off, I was playing as the winsome Wicca.

ManBearPig vs. "Cars"

Jonah Goldberg wonders why Al Gore isn't attacking Pixar's "Cars":

The No. 1 movie in America today is a fun, family-friendly romp of a cartoon about sending Jews to the gas chamber.

Just kidding.

It’s actually the movie Cars by Pixar. But according to some people, there’s not much difference. Indeed, the No. 1 movie in the hearts of liberals and environmentalists is An Inconvenient Truth, starring Al Gore, a man who believes that the threat posed by the internal combustion engine is not only the gravest peril mankind faces, but that defeating it is a moral imperative equal to stopping the Holocaust.

[snip]

Al Gore and his confreres argue time and again that Americans must change their habits and culture to avoid the ecological holocaust. Chief among these changes is for Americans to give up their addiction to driving, or driving “unnecessarily.” Surely a film that teaches young children to love cars is a great moral crime given the supposed moral stakes. Similarly, why isn’t Gore — or anybody else in the Democratic party — denouncing NASCAR? If global warming is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust, aren’t NASCAR races the moral equivalent of corporate-sponsored, televised neo-Nazi rallies? NASCAR creates greenhouse gasses for pure entertainment. Millions of people drive to these races, poisoning the atmosphere, to watch grown men poison the atmosphere even more. Where is the condemnation?

I know I’ll hear from all sorts of angry readers for taking Gore’s position to the extreme. But this has it backwards. I’m merely taking Gore’s extreme position seriously. We have lots of debates over the factual soundness of environmental extremism but nearly none on the moral soundness of environmental extremism. Once you compare a problem to the Holocaust — even remotely — you’ve lost your moral wiggle room.

Go read it all and see what the real inconvenient truths are.

Buh-Bye, Andrew.

I've kept the link to Andrew Sullivan's site for quite a while despite his descent into madness over gay marriage and his frequent specious diatribes against Dubya, but he's gone too far in shrieking that America is evil and it's all Dubya's fault because we've dared to discomfort the Islamofascists who would cut his dhimmi throat if they had a chance.

So insane with rage over the gay marriage issue he is, he doesn't even consider what life under the Taliban would be like for him and his fellow homosexuals (no pun) if America is prevented from fighting this evil threat. (It's like the stupid priests who cuddle up to Marxist dictators in the name of "liberation theology".)

See ya, sucker (again, no pun) - good luck with your Muslim pals.

Photo Nerds Only!!!

Check this thread at the Lighting Technique Forum of Digital Photography Review. Funny as hell on 6/6/06!

Numbers of the Beast!!!

Hey, it's not all politics and misery here!

• 666 Biblical Number of the Beast
• 660 Approximate Number of the Beast
• DCLXVI Roman Numeral of the Beast
• 665 Number of the Beast's Older Brother
• 667 Number of the Beast's Younger Sister
• 668 Number of the Beast's Neighbor
• 999 Number of the Australian Beast
• 333 Number of the Semi-Beast
• 66 Number of the Downsized Beast
• 6, uh... I forget Number of the Blond Beast
• 666.0000 Number of the High Precision Beast
• 665.9997856 Number of the Beast on a Pentium
• 0.666 Number of the Millibeast
• X / 666 Beast Common Denominator
• 0.00150150... Reciprocal of the Beast
• -666 Opposite of the Beast
• 666i Imaginary Number of the Beast
• 6.66 x 102 Scientific Notation of the Beast
• 25.8069758... Square Root of the Beast
• 443556 Square of the Beast
• 1010011010 Binary Number of the Beast
• 1232 Octal of the Beast
• 29A Hexidecimal of the Beast
• 2.8235 Log of the Beast
• 6.5913 Ln of the Beast
• 1.738 x 10289 Anti-Log of the Beast
• 00666 Zip Code of the Beast
• 666@hell.org E-mail Address of the Beast
• www.666.com Website of the Beast
• 1-666-666-6666 Phone & FAX Number of the Beast
• 1-888-666-6666 Toll Free Number of the Beast
• 1-900-666-6666 Live Beasts, available now! One-on-one pacts! Only $6.66 per minute! [Must be over 18!]
• 666-66-6666 Social Security Number of the Beast
• Form 10666 Special IRS Tax Forms for the Beast
• 66.6% Tax Rate of the Beast
• 6.66% 6-Year CD Interest Rate at First Beast Bank of Hell ($666 minimum deposit, $666 early withdrawal fee)
• $666/hr Billing Rate of the Beast's Lawyer
• $665.95 Retail Price of the Beast
• $710.36 Price of the Beast plus 6.66% Sales Tax
• $769.95 Price of the Beast with accessories and replacement soul
• $656.66 Wal-Mart Price of the Beast (next week $646.66!)
• $55.50 Monthly Payments for Beast, in 12 easy installments
• Phillips 666 Gasoline Used by the Beast (regular $6.66/gal)
• Route 666 Highway of the Beast (where he gets his kicks!)
• 666 mph Speed Limit on the Beast's Highway
• 6-6-6 Fertilizer of the Beast
• 666 lb cap Weight Limit of the Beast
• 666 Minutes Weekly News Show about the Beast (airs daily from Midnight to 11:06 a.m., on Cable Channel 666, of course)
• 666F Oven Temperature for Cooking "Roast Beast"
• 666k Retirement Plan of the Beast
• 666 mg Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast
• Lotus 6-6-6 Spreadsheet of the Beast
• Word 6.66 Word Processor of the Beast
• Windows 666 Bill Gates' Personal Beast Operating System
• #666666 Font Color of the Beast (gray)
• i66686 CPU of the Beast
• 666-I BMW of the Beast
• IAM 666 License Plate Number of the Beast
• Formula 666 All Purpose Cleaner of the Beast
• WD-666 Spray Lubricant of the Beast
• DSM-666 (rev) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast
• 66.6 MHz FM Radio Station of the Beast
• 666 KHz AM Radio Station of the Beast
• 66 for 6 A Beastly Score for an Innings (in cricket)
• 6 for 66 Bowling Figures of the Beast
• 6/6/6 Birthday of the Beast

(h/t The Corner)

Join the Video Game Voters Network!

The fascist nannies in government, notably DEMOCRATS like Hillary!, are plotting to restrict the video game industry in ways that other forms, like movies and music aren't. Join the Video Game Voters Network and send an e-mail to your Senators.

Yeesh! My Xbox 360 Sure Whines On Its Blog.

DirkBelig's Xbox 360 can blog.

I've been busy! Quit whining!!!

Deeee-troit Basssss....Oh, Who Cares?!?

Clinton Uses Fundraiser To Blast GOP "Crony Capitalism". O RLY?

The Big He said:

the Republican Party is dominated by "right-wing, white Southerners."

Other than being a Left-wing criminal, how is he different from his description?

Clinton also hit the GOP for favoring the rich and practicing "crony capitalism".

Unsurprisingly, there is no mention about how he fired the White House Travel Office and had Billy Dale brought up on trumped-up charges (that he was acquited of faster than O.J.) in order to give the business to his cronies. And how about his sale of pardons? Don't forget about the sale of White House "coffee" to Chinese arms dealers and his co-conspirator Al Gore's "dialing for dollars" from his office, another felony, which Gore said had "no controlling legal authority" to stop him.

No one from the Clinton Regime should dare to call corruption or cronyism on the current pack stinking up the place. Not because there isn't anything funky going on (eh Brownie?), but because some of the most egregious perps of these shenanagins should simply STFU out of a sense of shame. (Not that they have any.)

Planning Ahead is Considered Racist?

That's what the Cato Institute reports:

Are you salting away a little money for your retirement? Trying to plan for your kids' education? If so, Seattle Public Schools seems to think you're a racist.

According to the district's official Web site, "having a future time orientation" (academese for having long-term goals) is among the "aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype and label people of color."

Huh?

Not all the district's definitions of racism (and there are lots of them) are so cryptic. The site goes on immediately to say, "Emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology" is another form of "cultural racism."

Did I mention that the district thinks only whites can be racist in America?

Regardless of your color, your affinity for planning or your penchant for reading "Das Kapital" under Fremont's Lenin statue, does this make any sense to you?

See if this sounds familiar: a government agency redefining a highly charged word to advance a particular ideology. ... Um, note to the Seattle School Board and administration: George Orwell's novel "1984" was a cautionary tale, not a how-to book. And the folks trying to control people's thoughts through state manipulation of the language -- they were the bad guys.

Your property tax dollars at work.

Roger Ebert: I want to have Al Gore’s baby

Al Gore's liberal porn fantasy - see corrected poster a few items down - opens today and to the shock of no one with IQ above room temperature, the overwhelming reaction of film critics has been to blow a collective load in their pants, as all good porn inspires one to do.

Hot Air's story which provides this post's title quotes Ebert's overheated review which reads, "In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to."

Allahpundit retorts:

Let’s try that again. If you don’t see Al Gore’s movie, you should justify your actions to your lineal descendants.

“What should we do today, grandpa?”

“Well, Billy, I suppose we could see ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’ But frankly, I find Al Gore sour and pedantic, and whatever the merits of his argument, I’d prefer not to subsidize the work of a cretin who thinks nothing of undermining our government overseas by groveling to primitive Wahhabist degenerates. Also, my prostate hurts.”

“Duly noted, grandpa!”

By the way, not once since 1967 has he told his readers “you owe it to yourself to see this movie”? They didn’t owe it to themselves to see Star Wars or The Godfather? If I have three hours left to live, I’ve got to go pull An Inconvenient Truth down off the shelf instead of The Empire Strikes Back?

Ebert does cop to being a liberal at the beginning of the review, though. As they say, the first step is admitting you have a problem.

"An Inconvenient ManBearPig" is rocking a tidy 89% at Rotten Tomatoes and it's already being favored for the Best Left-Wing Political Fantasy...er...Documentary Oscar. The pull quotes are pretty nauseating and the rare countering reviews, like the one from the NY Post...

But much of what Gore says in this slide show he gives to people whose minds are not yet fully formed (undergraduates, actors) is absurd, and his assertions often contradict each other.

He implies that no reputable scientists dispute anything he says...But there is wide disagreement about whether humans are causing global warming (climate change preceded the invention of the Escalade) and about whether we should be worried about the trends. Look carefully at Gore's charts and you'll see that the worst horrors take place in the future of his imagination.

His implication that he is our only hope - every ticket bought for this movie amounts to a soft-money contribution to his 2008 campaign - is ridiculous. He and his friends were in charge for eight years. His charts say global warming got worse in that time. The environment doesn't seem to care whether the president is a Texas oilman or the Man from Hope.

Global warming hasn't noticed that we got the lead out of our gasoline or that Stage One smog days in Los Angeles fell from 121 in 1977 to zero in 2004. All regulations and taxes to date have done nothing. Does this hint that pollution isn't the cause?

Gore claims, with pie-chart-in-the-sky dreaminess, that unspecified measures can reduce emissions to 1970 levels. He assesses the tradeoff between the economy and the environment with the kind of buffoonery you'd expect in a Marxist comic book, displaying a cartoon of a scale with Earth on one side and bars of gold on the other. "OK, on one side we have gold bars," he says. "Mmm, mmm, don't they look good!"

Why doesn't he get specific and replace the "gold bar" side of the scale with, say, a $50,000 tax on SUVs? The ensuing destruction of the car business would hurt blue-collar workers, not the rich. What if global warming continued unabated? Gore's faith-based pessimism would lead him to call for even more taxes.

People are skeptical about global warming because it builds up to the same chorus as every other lefty hymn: more taxes, more hypocritical scolding (the film is the brainchild of Larry David's wife, Laurie, part of the community of people who drive a Prius to the private plane) and especially more America-bashing.

...and Film Threat...

Silly me – I went into “An Inconvenient Truth” expecting a serious, provocative documentary on the damage created by global warming. Instead, I got a 96-minute commercial on the deification of Al Gore. Talk about a bait-and-switch!

What is missing from “An Inconvenient Truth” is the inconvenient truth that global warming actually accelerated during the 1990s, when Gore was the number two man in the Clinton White House. The film also omits that the U.S. auto industry (including the auto workers union) have repeatedly and successfully fought against energy standards during the 1990s – and that Clinton and Gore never forced them to acquiesce since they were profiting from their financial campaign contributions.

“An Inconvenient Truth” is something you rarely see in movies today: a blatant intellectual fraud. Shame on all of the people involved in this travesty.

...will be disregarded because the former paper is owned by the same parent as owns Fox News Channel and the latter is a genre zine site, not a member of the crix elite.

"Al's ManBearPig Dreamland" won't make a fraction of what the latest "X-Men" movie will make, but the crucial difference between them is that audiences going to see Wolverine and Magneto throw down know going in that what they're seeing is a work of fiction.

Unemployment Is Down and GDP Is Up, Ergo (Sez the Treason Media), WE'RE DOOMED!!!

From Media Blog on National Review Online:

It is likely that the economy will not repeat last quarter's astonishing growth — how long can 5.3 percent expansion be sustained? But looking at the press coverage of today's jobs report, one would be forgiven for thinking that by August, the most difficult decision facing average Americans will be whether to eat Whiskas and Friskies. We're at near-full employment. Is this a problem of unrealistic expectations, or is there some other agenda driving this relentlessly downbeat coverage?

Agenda? NO WAY!!!

ZOMG!!! It's Friday Morning Coffee!!!

I've been too busy and too pissed off to do the light morning coffee thing and today is no different, but I figured I needed to force myself to do something frivolous before the feeling that I've taken Crazy Pills consumes me.

The world has gone nucking futs! Up is down; lies are truth; right is wrong; blah is woof - you get the drift. The nation and the world are facing serious problems and instead of dealing with those, we're treated to the Treason Media's jihad on Team Dubya. It's more important to the fascist Left to destroy Dubya and America than air itself and this situation in Haditha, Iraq is being touted as "My Lai 2006" by a media who hate the military and wants nothing more to tear it down and leave America a humbled, broken giant living on its knees in shame.

All because the Dems picked lousier candidates than Dubya and are too immature to face up to their bad decisions, preferring to live in a fantasy world of stolen elections, etc. Pathetic.

• BUMMER ARTICLE OF THE DAY: My foul mood is due in no small part to this column, "Iraq Syndrome Has Finally Arrived" by Daniel Henninger which says in part:

This Memorial Day week the news is preoccupied with stories of the Marine squad that allegedly killed civilians at Haditha, a town in Iraq. The narrative of this story has pretty much set in already: It's another My Lai, we all know they did it, the brass covered it up, and prison sentences for homicide are merely a formality.

Haditha is indeed the new Abu Ghraib. What this most importantly means is that any U.S. military action overseas now, no matter its level of justification, can be taken down by the significance assigned to events by the modern machinery of publicity. This explains why the U.S. commanders in Iraq announced yesterday that all soldiers in the next 30 days would take what the headlines are calling "ethics training." Of the some 150,000 U.S.-led troops there, Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the U.S. combat commander in Iraq, said "99.9% of them perform their jobs magnificently." Yes, and 99.9% of them, after all they've been through, will deeply resent the clear inference they lack "core values." Is that different than standard "Corps values"?

Stories of apparently malfeasant U.S. troop behavior are arriving daily now. A military truck whose brakes failed from overheating crashed and killed Afghan civilians. Press reports are now fly-specking whether the troops shot over or at the rock-throwing mob of more than 300 that surrounded them. Every one of these troops surely knows the story of Mogadishu. Been there, never again. But there will be investigations of their behavior.

Intercepted communications between Al Queda cells have openly said that while the military component of their jihad is a failure, the propaganda war is going well. Well, DUH!!! When the anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-military fascist Treason Media gets to pick what it's going to distort in order to brainwash the public into believing that strength is weakness and America is the greatest evil in the world, of course they're going to ally with the Islamofascists against their shared foe of Dubya and America. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that rot.

Liberals whine like bitches when they think that their patriotism is being challenged and timid pundits like Rush and Sean kowtow and say the they're just questioning their judgement, not their patriotism. BULLSH*T!!!! You've got to call a shovel a shovel and if you're siding with our enemies because you can't get over political defeat, then you are a TRAITOR and NOT a PATRIOT!!!

I told you I was depressed. Now for something lighter before I get back to work...

• THE FRIDAY FIVER - Favorite phrase when you have:

1. Ate food that tastes bad

As good a time as any to start that diet.

2. Stubbed your toe

YEOUCH!!!! F*CK!! F*CK!! F*CK!! F*CK!! F*CK!! F*CK!! F*CK!!

3. Become frustrated

I'm gonna kill someone!

4. Broken something

Dammit!

5. Been cut off by another driver

Arm photon torpedoes!!!

• DIRK'S DISH DU JOUR: Today I'm feeling in an Anne Hathaway mood. (Enjoy it now before the Taliban covers her up.)


As a bonus, here are some NSFW screen caps of the nude scene she did in "Havoc" which was the only reason anyone saw the movie!

"The Inconvenient Truth" Poster!

Here's a slight edit of the movie poster to reflect the reality that doesn't seem to pierce the tinfoil hats of the Left:

Newt Gingrich on Campaign-Finance Reform

In the article "Blacking Out Speech", Newt calls out John "I said I'm a maverick!" McCain and the rest of the self-serving pigs, including Dubya, who silenced political speech in order to elevate themselves above criticism.

Today we are seeing the most systematic effort to censor and repress political speech by those in power since the Federalist overreach of the 18th century.

[snip]

This is horribly wrong. What would the Founding Fathers have thought of such free speech “blackout periods”? The days leading up to an election ought to be filled with debate. Free speech and activism, by informing and organizing the public, empower average citizens to promote a cause they believe in and to demand honest and responsive representation. Instead, the incumbent politicians that supported McCain-Feingold prefer to keep us quiet and prevent us from making noise about their records as Election Day gets closer.

A great travesty of the law is that it makes it harder for candidates of middle-class means to run for office at all. Instead, we have the example of how one candidate [John Corzine, D-NJ] spent $100 million personally to buy a Senate seat, then a governorship, but while in the Senate voted for McCain-Feingold to limit every middle-class citizen to $2,500 in donations per election campaign. These rules move us dangerously closer to a plutocracy where the highest bidder can buy a seat.

In 1994, the Contract with America was a commitment to restore the bond of trust between individuals and their elected officials, putting the interests of the American people above all else. By limiting the ability of individuals or a collective group of individuals to participate and voice their opinion Congress is breaking this bond.

We must repeal McCain-Feingold as the necessary first step towards reaffirming a bond of trust between the American people and their elected representatives.

A truly functioning campaign system would take power out of Washington and return it to its owners—the American people. Such a system would allow individuals to make unlimited contributions to candidates for Congress in their district, so long as it is reported immediately on the Internet and is transparent and accessible.

Read it all and remember when you hear fascists like McCain and the Dems tell you that they just want to take the money out of politics. HA!!! They just want to take the criticism out!

All you need to remember is this: You can't buy what's not for sale.

Say you see some fine lady and want to get with her. You approach and ask her out and she turns you down. You start offering her money and she still refuses because she's seeing someone or just isn't interested. You could offer her a million bucks and she'd still say no if she has principles.

Pols, OTOH, are whores selling their votes (and OUR money) to the highest bidder. McCain's thesis basically admits that they can't stop sucking the money cock and that only by shredding the First Amendment can government be safe from influence. Now, we know this is a lie, but there aren't enough people in the "we" cohort (yet, I hope) to have him laughed from the stage yet. So the games go on.

National Security That Tastes Good Too!

Michelle Malkin-Belligerent has the news that Dunkin’ Does the Right Thing over at Hot Air. Seems the fat ring merchant is going to check the papers of its workers. Of course, the ACLU and Dubya are opposed - f*cking traitors.

I Need To Get Around To Reading "Atlas Shrugged"

As anyone who grew up listing to Rush - the Candanian prog rock band, not Limbaugh - knew, drummer-lyricist Neil Peart was a huge follower of Ayn Rand and her libertarian-objectivist philosphies. "Atlas Shrugged" is her signature work, having been named as the 2nd-most-influential book (after The Bible) in polls.

I had a bear of a time tracking down a used paperback for some reason - I always assumed that those who'd read it had moved to Montana and joined a militia, but I finally secured a copy and it has sat unread on my shelf for many years. I call it "The book I'll read while recovering from being hit by a bus."

Well, I came across this quote in a post at SlashDot and it certainly seems to cover a lot of what's going on these day, doesn't it?

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens' What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Forget Nostradamus, Rand saw the future.

Is Google Purging Conservative News Sites?

NewsBusters has some worrying information that the company whose motto used to be "Don't be evil", only to cuddle up to the Communist Chinese government in order to make a buck, is kicking conservative news sites out of its Google New feeds for "hate speech". It also shows that Google insta-millionaires give 99% of their political cash to the Dems and thus could be silencing dissenting voices in order to prop up their side.

Liberals can't stand free speech and will always move to supress dissent, while simultaneously proclaiming themselve to be tolerant and diverse. Actions, not words, people.

Jonah Goldberg: What’s Wrong with Extremism?

A good piece about how the mugwump way of governing is simply stupid. Some snips:

Almost by definition, illegal immigrants don’t create a paper trail when they come into the country. Hence, proving how long they’ve resided here presents a real challenge. It also creates massive opportunities for fraud and opens the door to a truly extreme bureaucratic expansion where immigration officials will have to study everything from ATM receipts to soccer team photos to figure out how long each immigrant has been here. The extreme liberal position of blanket amnesty and the extreme conservative position of blanket enforcement both make a lot more sense intellectually and practically.

This sort of thing is typical across the political landscape. Personally, I believe the radical remedy of privatizing health care in this country makes a lot of sense. But, I’m also inclined to believe that the Left’s extreme solution of government-run health care—or “single-payer”—has a lot more going for it intellectually than the crazy quilt of regulations and grotesquely distorted markets we have today.

On issue after issue, the Left and Right get into a tug-of-war over their preferred policy solutions. And politicians, extreme people-pleasers that they are, try to split the difference. The journalists who cover politicians are cynics and assume that true believers are by their very nature suspicious. Moreover, because politicians and mainstream journalists alike get the most grief from “partisans” of the Left and the Right, they both assume that the middle is the most enlightened place to be, since they think that’s where they are. But compromise is not always the smartest way to go. Leaping a canyon in one jump may or may not be stupidly extreme, but it’s a hell of lot smarter than the more moderate approach of trying to leap it in two jumps.

[snip]

Paladins of bipartisan moderation may not realize how responsible they are for today’s polarized climate. In America, it is impossible to gain traction on an idea unless you first assure everyone that it’s not “extreme” or “radical.”

Assurances that “this is a moderate, centrist reform,” and that “this is mainstream,” proliferate whenever a policy is put forward. There’s a deep cynicism in the assumption that Americans will only agree to things that aren’t too inconvenient. But, more important, there’s a profound dishonesty to such assurances, which inevitably cause people with opposing views to get very, very angry.

For example, legalizing gay marriage may or may not be a moral imperative. But when you tell opponents that doing so is not only no big deal, but also that those who disagree are extremists for disagreeing, it’s insulting. And, when pro-legalization activists refer to gay marriage as “landmark,” “revolutionary” and “historic” to their own side while selling it to the rest of America as a modest reform, it’s hard not to assume some bad faith.

One of the most effective means of controlling people is to use the fear of ostracism against them. "If you believe this, that means you're a meanyhead and no one will like you and you'll be alone. If you don't buy this product, you'll be left out of the reindeer games and be an outcast freak. Follow. Accept. And be accepted and loved. Disagree and be shunned and vilified."

Keep this in mind whenever you hear aristrocratic hypocrites like Al Gore call Team Dubya a "renegade band of rightwing extremists" before destroying the atmosphere with his private jet from which he hunts ManBearPig.

Penn & Teller on 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Hot Air has an excerpt from Penn & Teller's "Bullsh*t" about the kooky whack jobs that insist that Dubya knew about/staged 9/11, the WTC was demolished by charges, United 93 was a sham, etc. While I've criticized P&T for cheating on their anti-death penalty show, they're generally spot-on and are so here.

I've encountered these conspiracists first-hand and they gave me the first glimpses of what full-blown Bush Derangement Syndrome looks like. When one asstackler posted that this was a result of the "coup by the Supreme Court" that put Dubya into office barely a half-hour after the towers fell, I knew that it was a special kind of insanity at work. While the nation looked on in shocked horror at the unknown thouands of innocents being killed, the unhinged's first thoughts were to spew their political grievances in typically selfish fashion.

In case you've bought the lie that only poor black soldiers are dying in Iraq...

...here's your chance to learn the truth about one of those "facts" that so many believe without evidence.

For those too frightened to click, here's the takeaway:

Total deaths (as of 5/18/06): 2447
Black: 244 (9.97%)
Hispanic: 274 (11.2%)
White: 1804 (73.72%)

Remember this the next time you hear someone peddling this lie.

Eric In Wonderland

Today's reading is Eric Alterman's screed in The Nation, Time Is on Their Side in which he regurgitates the insane notion that the fascist Left holds that the Treason Media is too right-wing and that they need to balance the mean words of the non-fascists with more truthiness.

Translation: Silence voices of freedom and replace them with true believers in the Left's Divine Right.

Note that he bases his charges in the assumptions that animate the Left - Dubya lied, global warming is real, chickens make good pets, consensual heterosexual sex is rape, etc. - and thus believes that any opposing viewpoint is a sign of conservative hate and must be silenced.

That's the difference between freedom-loving conservatives and the fascist liberals: We are willing to argue the issues and back up our positions with facts; they scream like babies and won't even consider the basis for their rigid dogmas - they think it and that's the end of it. Period. Talk to the hand.

F*cking babies. Too bad the Stupid Party and Team Dubya have mutated into them with this America-destroying amnesty scheme. Pray that the conservatives in the House can derail this train to oblivion.

The 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs.

John J. Miller at National Review Online has assembled a sometimes surpising list of songs that Time magazine covergirls, The Dixie Twits, wouldn't appreciate while they whore for free publicity with their faux bravery. A sample:

27. “Obvious Song,” by Joe Jackson.
For property rights and economic development, and against liberal hypocrisy: “There was a man in the jungle / Trying to make ends meet / Found himself one day with an axe in his hand / When a voice said ‘Buddy can you spare that tree / We gotta save the world — starting with your land’ / It was a rock ’n’ roll millionaire from the USA / Doing three to the gallon in a big white car / And he sang and he sang ’til he polluted the air / And he blew a lot of smoke from a Cuban cigar.”

Check it out.

Inconvenient Truths Indeed

Al "No controlling legal authority" Gore has been getting the full Monica treatment from the Treason Media over his sci-fi-horror film - whoops, I guess they're calling it a "documentary" - "An Inconvenient Truth", in which the Inventor of the Internet, the formerly pro-life, more conservative Senator, who's wife was allowed to attempt to censor music, yet now is A-OK after switching to the Party of Death's platform, says we're doomed, DOOMED!, by ManBearPig...er...Global Warming.

Anyhoo, as anyone with a no globally-warmed IQ above room temperature surely knows, he's lying and this TCS Daily article runs down the duplicity in this Moore-esque fraud:

Throughout the film Gore displays his passion for the global warming issue, and it is obvious that he has dedicated a substantial amount of time to learning about climate change and the greenhouse effect. This leads to an obvious question. The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in December of 1997 giving the Clinton-Gore administration more than three years to present the Protocol to the United States Senate for ratification. Given Gore's position in the senate and his knowledge and passion for global warming, one must wonder why then Vice President Gore did not seize on what appears to have been an opportunity of a lifetime?

Note to commenters: Don't bother with the ad hominems about TCS, which, like slagging the Washington Times for being owned by the Moonies, are just your way of playing straw man when outflanked by the facts. Thank you.

Revisionist History: Antiwar myths about Iraq, debunked.

I've barely had time to drink my morning coffee, much less post it, but here's a quick hit for the nutcases who keep yelping "BUSH LIED!!! PEOPLE DIED!!!", not that these folks have any interest in facts and Truth.

Iraqis can participate in three historic elections, pass the most liberal constitution in the Arab world, and form a unity government despite terrorist attacks and provocations. Yet for some critics of the president, these are minor matters. Like swallows to Capistrano, they keep returning to the same allegations--the president misled the country in order to justify the Iraq war; his administration pressured intelligence agencies to bias their judgments; Saddam Hussein turned out to be no threat since he didn't possess weapons of mass destruction; and helping democracy take root in the Middle East was a postwar rationalization. The problem with these charges is that they are false and can be shown to be so--and yet people continue to believe, and spread, them. Let me examine each in turn:

School yourselves in what the Left is still lying about. You're welcome.

10 Things I Hate About Commandments

Too busy to write, but not too busy to post the funniest movie trailer recut/mashup I've seen in ages!

Monday Morning Coffee

Jeez, I'm a busybusybusy man! Sorry for the scarcity of posts, but that's why it's a good idea to subscribe via the links at the right - so you'll know when my latest wit and wisdom is posted. Here's a few items to tide you over:

• DUBYA TO PRETEND HE CARES: Tonight, Dubya is gonna screw up everyone's Tivos who want to watch the "Jack Bauer Power Hour" by making a speech intended to calm down those you are fed up with his feckless surrender of the Southern border to invaders fleeing his pal Vincente Fox's corrupt incompetence. Michelle Malkin drop the bomb on this charade. Go read her post and despair for our nation's future.

John Derbyshire at The Corner said last Friday morning when this pooch screw was announced:

I shall run screaming from the room if the President utters any of the following words or phrases:

jobs Americans won't do
nation of immigrants
compassionate
family values don't stop at the Rio Grande
good-hearted people
path to citizenship
my good friend Vicente Fox
this is not amnesty

Make a checklist and cross them out as Dubya says them. (I will.)

The Stupid Party is going to lose their asses over this. Unfortunately, the Dems see illegals as voters to bribe with the wealth of the producers and have rubber-stamped citizenships of felons in order to secure the votes they can't win with their terrible ideas. This leaves voters with two parties who pay lip service to border security only to then ignore it for their own petty, cynical partisan reasons.

• THE LATEST ATTACK OF THE TREASON MEDIA against the NSA and the data-mining of call records shows that they only fear police states when someone other than Dems are poking into our lives. I was walking thru a warehouse last Friday and some poor fools were listening to Air AmeriKKKa's Jerry Springer and he was lying that the gub'ment was monitoring, as in listening, to our calls, which they aren't, but why should facts get in the way of the Big Lies of the fascist Left?

When people trip over their privacy concerns, I wonder how many are worried about political dissent being crushed and how many are guys who are calling their mistresses or junkies paging their dealers who are afraid of getting busted? Think about it.

• MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III: Caught it yesterday and liked it a lot. Surprisingly intense in spots and great action, but by making it more about the team, it renders it all a bit generic. If Tom Cruise is a drag on the B.O., they could drop him for another, cheaper and less crazy, lead. 8/10.

• THE PRODUCERS: I can see why it was a big Broadway smash, but it's a lousy movie. 4/10.

• FRIDAY FIVER: Yeah, it's late. Sue me.

1. How many siblings do you have?

None.

2. Do you get along with your family?

Not really.

3. Think you look like anyone in your family?

No. (Thank God.)

4. Do you want / do you have any children of your own?

No and not that I know of. ;-)

5. Special plans for Mother's Day?

None. Gave Mom a brief call, but that's it.

(Yeesh. I could've skipped this one, couldn't I?)

• DIRK'S DISH DU JOUR: Since she was one of the few things that didn't stink up "The Producers", here's that lovely Swedish dish, Uma Thurman.

The Illegal Alien-Loving Stupid Party Alienates Sane Americans

Man, this is depressing stuff to read and report, but Team Dubya seem to be on a self-destructive course to alienate any remaining diehard supporters they may still have. It's not depressing from a personal political angle - I gave up on these losers ages ago - but if their remaining base comes to the conclusion that the Stupid Party is no longer interested in doing their jobs, they'll stay home in November and the fascist Democrats will seize power and proceed to destroy this country.

As disastrous as that would be for America, the Stupid Party has become too odious to support, even as an anti-fascist-Dem vote. Nice going, dumbasses. When a rock-ribbed conservative as John Derbyshire is saying:

This thing about our govt. colluding with Narcistan — sorry, I mean Mexico — to keep the flow of illegal immigrants coming, is the last straw. Either our govt. is criminally incompetent, or else it is maliciously hostile to ordinary American citizens. Or both.

I kept my mouth pretty well shut when the splendid whack-'em'upside-the-head assault on Iraq turned into a ludicrous and apologetic "nation-building" exercise. I bellyached in a restrained fashion at the Harriet Miers farce. I kept my grumbling over Medicaid, the budget bloat, and border security at a decently low volume. This one, though, I can't take.

I can't think of a single thing to say in favor of the national Republican party, its senators, representatives, governors, and administration. I can't think of a single reason why, right now, I should vote for any of them.

I could never vote for the liberal mob; but if a conservative third party comes up between now and 2008, they'll have my full attention — likely my money and my vote, too. We are on the last page of Animal Farm here; I can no longer tell the men from the pigs.

Michelle Malkin slices and dices the DHS explanation, saying that DHS stands for "deny, hedge, spin":

This White House has another burgeoning debacle on its hands. And it's not the Daily Bulletin or conservative bloggers' fault. I would highly recommend that blind Bush supporters not attack the reporter as some sort of NYTimes liberal ideologue. Those who have followed their excellent journalism over the years know that the Daily Bulletin and its reporters in the trenches have been at the forefront of border and immigration enforcement reporting.

Message to apologists: Stop blaming the messengers. It's only going to make those poll numbers you worry so much about worse.

Message to the White House: Stop blaming the messengers. Do us all a favor by ending this travesty and apologizing. And please don't fire Mario Martinez for telling the reporter the truth.

Coincidentally, the Cato Institute's Daily Commentary says "Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish", looking at the collapse of the Stupid Party from the libertarian persepective:

Last week I turned on NPR and heard some crazy woman ranting "We have two oilmen in the White House. The logical follow-up from that is $3 a gallon gasoline. It is no accident; it is a cause and effect, a cause and effect." Then the next morning I watched CNN and discovered that the ranting woman was Nancy Pelosi.

So it's hard to summon up hope that libertarians might find common cause with the Democratic party.

But the Republican party doesn't seem very inviting lately, either.

As one astute commentator said recently: "The Republican Party in Washington is in trouble not because it's overrun by crooks, but because . . . it has degenerated into a caricature of the party that swept to power 11 years ago promising to take on the federal bureaucracy and liberate the creative genius of American society."

And Tony Snow was right.

Along with all the snowballing fiscal problems that David Frum cites, I would add the very discouraging rise of nanny-statism on both right and left. This takes many forms—Clinton was famous for "I feel your pain and I have a program for it." Bush II responded with "compassionate conservatism" and "We have a responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move." Both conceptions offer a sweeping mandate for the federal government, one never envisioned by the Founders nor even by FDR. They combine Progressivism with Prozac.

Make sure to read the parts were Al Gore and Andy Card speak of government as a caring parent or grandparent, the yutzes. [mad face]

All in all, the people are screwed royally. The GOP used to be semi-useful as, at minimum, a bulwark against Democratic fascism, but they no longer provide even that utilitarian function. The only reason talkers like Rush and Hannity - and to a lesser degree, Ingraham and Bennett - aren't calling for a top-to-bottom purge of Congress and the White House is because the alternative - fascist Democrat rule - is so much worse.

If you think it can't get worse under the Dems, you haven't been paying attention or are ignoring reality. Unfortunately, the Stupid Party has become so pathetic that to cast a vote for them, even in an anti-Dem move, is no longer a viable option because given a choice between these losers and the 1994 version of the Republicans, today's pander bears are unacceptable.

Now that we're all depressed, here's a token to cheer you up and to make up for the lack of DDDJ's for the past few days. Since the Treason Media keeps lying about "immigration reform", it bears repeating that the Minutemen aren't trying to keep LEGAL immigrants out, just the invaders that Team Dubya is now providing aid and comfort to.

An example of a legal Mexican immigrant?

Digital Lynch Mob

I posted a link and excerpt from Richard Cohen's column criticizing Steven Colbert as unfunny at the WHCD. Today he writes about the seething hate mail he's received from the unhinged moonbats which comprise the Left and reaches the same conclusions anyone who's still sane would reach:

The Colbert messages began with Patrick Manley ("You wouldn't know funny if it slapped you in the face") and ended with Ron ("Colbert ROCKS, you MURDER") who was so proud of his thought that he copied countless others. Ron, you're a genius.

Truth to tell, I peeked into only a few of the e-mails. I did this because I would sometimes recognize a name I thought I knew, which was almost always a mistake. When I guilelessly clicked on the name, I would get a bucket of raw, untreated and disease-laden verbal sewage right in the face.

But the message in this case truly is the medium. The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before -- back in the Vietnam War era. That's when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon. In this way, they managed to prolong the very war they so hated.

The hatred is back. I know it's only words now appearing on my computer screen, but the words are so angry, so roiled with rage, that they are the functional equivalent of rocks once so furiously hurled during antiwar demonstrations. I can appreciate some of it. Institution after institution failed America -- the presidency, Congress and the press. They all endorsed a war to rid Iraq of what it did not have. Now, though, that gullibility is being matched by war critics who are so hyped on their own sanctimony that they will obliterate distinctions, punishing their friends for apostasy and, by so doing, aiding their enemies. If that's going to be the case, then Iraq is a war its critics will lose twice -- once because they couldn't stop it and once more at the polls.

I finally figured out what is behind the violent conduct of the modern fascist Left these days and I'll share that in a future post. Stay tuned.

The Killing of Atwar Bahjat (UPDATED: It's Sort of a Hoax)

***** THE FOLLOWING STORY HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE UNTRUE AS INITIALLY POSTED. SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES. *****

The Mudville Gazette has the details of yet another victim of Dubya's "religion of peace", a Muslim woman journalist who, well, here's a snip:

First she was stripped to the waist, a humiliation for any woman but particularly so for a pious Muslim who concealed her hair, arms and legs from men other than her father and brother.

Then her arms were bound behind her back...the condemned woman has been blindfolded with a white bandage...It is stained with blood that trickles from a wound on the left side of her head. She is moaning, although whether from the pain of what has already been done to her or from the fear of what is about to be inflicted is unclear.

A large man dressed in military fatigues, boots and cap approaches from behind and covers her mouth with his left hand. In his right hand, he clutches a large knife with a black handle and an 8in blade. He proceeds to cut her throat from the middle, slicing from side to side.

Her cries — “Ah, ah, ah” — can be heard above the “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) intoned by the holder of the mobile phone.

Even then, there is no quick release for Bahjat. Her executioner suddenly stands up, his job only half done. A second man in a dark T-shirt and camouflage trousers places his right khaki boot on her abdomen and pushes down hard eight times, forcing a rush of blood from her wounds as she moves her head from right to left.

Only now does the executioner return to finish the task. He hacks off her head and drops it to the ground, then picks it up again and perches it on her bare chest so that it faces the film-maker in a grotesque parody of one of her pieces to camera.

The voice of one of the Arab world’s most highly regarded and outspoken journalists has been silenced. She was 30.

With so many examples of this sort of barbarism available, why is it that the Catholic Church is bashed as being the most repressive religion to women simply because they don't ordain women as priests? Why are the fascist Democrats already planning to investigate and impeach Dubya when the Islamofascist's global jihad against modernity rages on, sending Europe scurrying for dhimmitude? After the jihad succeeds, won't the Left be wistful for the days when gays and women were merely discriminated against and not murdered?

Probably not. :(

***** UPDATE *****

A reader's comment calls into question the above story and a check back to the Mudville Gazette shows that they updated the story after this post went up, adding:

Update 8 May 1550 UTC:: Questions have been raised concerning the identity of the victim in the video described in this story. According to this wikipedia entry photos of Atwar Bahjat's body prove she was not decapitated. The photos linked from the entry, while gruesome, are not conclusive.

What's known at this time: Atwar Bahjat was kidnapped and murdered while covering the Samarra bombing. The author of the London Times' story has been with the paper for some time, and is self-identified as "a friend of Bahjat who had worked with her on a variety of tough assignments". According to that Times story, the paper received a video of an execution that concludes with a close-up of the victim's face. The author has seen the video. The video is "cell phone" quality. The author says the victim is Atwar Bahjat.

While the particulars of this story are still not 100% certain, what isn't in dispute is that this woman was killed and Dubya didn't pull the trigger or cut her throat, not that the fascist Left cares about the distinction.

This is also why the blogosphere and new media are supplanting the Treason Media: It's responsiveness to reasonable challenges and self-correcting nature. As readers sent in their contests, both MG and Dirkworld have endeavored to get the facts straight and posted them where all could see. Compare that to Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, both of whom are still peddling the line that they didn't do anything wrong and that their fake documents were still valid, 18 months after their careers were claimed by their failed suicide bombing attempt to sway the 2004 Election to the candidate they were in collaboration with.

(Attempted to post @ 14:15 EST but Blogger is having a glitch.)

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***** SECOND UPDATE - IT'S A HOAX!!! ******

The rapid, self-correcting nature of the Blogosphere is doubly reinforced by this update at The Jawa Report:

The Jawa Report can reveal that the Times and Halal Jabar, the author of the article, are victims of a hoax. The video actually shows the gruesome murder of a Nepalese man by the Army of Ansar al-Sunna in Iraq from August of 2004. The man was one of 12 victims executed by the terrorist organization--the other 11 were shot (original story, video, and images of 12 Nepalese murdered in Iraq here).

The Times describes the Nepalese murder video precisely. However, the video delivered to the Times was actually a low-quality version of a much higher quality film originally made by Ansar al-Sunnah. The Times video also is edited to exclude the murder of the other 11 hostages.

The Army of Ansar al-Sunna has murdered dozens of civilians in Iraq. The organization is an offshoot of the Army of Ansar al-Islam--a Kurdish Islamist organization. The group routinely murders those suspected of collaborating with the U.S. and Iraqi governments. Before the group murders their hostages they accuse them of 'apostasy', a crime punishable by death under Islamic law. They therefore justify their murders as 'executions' for 'crimes' committed against Islam.

I expect the usual moonbat Kool-Aid chugger catcalls about how untrustworthy the Blogosphere is in posting these sorts of stories, but keep in mind that...

1. Atwar Bahjat was killed by Islamofascist warriors, albeit by bullet, not beheading.

B. Practitioners of Dubya's "religion of peace" murdered TWELVE people for "apostasy", including the man who's death video was turned into this hoax.

3. The folks duped were the Sunday Times in London. The bloggers just posted what this supposedly legit media outlet posted, but when questions were raised, the Blogosphere was able to ferret out the Truth in less than 24 hours. Readers of the paper know less than the readers of Dirkworld and other blogs.

The Bottom Line: Islamofscism is the greatest threat to the civilized world today. NOT Dubya. NOT global warming. NOT high gas prices and a soft opening for "M:I-3". Stark raving liberals won't take away the lessons from this incident, but sane and rational people mustn't forget them.

Monday Morning Coffee

I'm sleepy, my allergies are bugging me and I've got other stuff that needs to be written, so no rants or raves this morning, just a picture of Maggie Q, who's in "Mission: Impossible 3" (which I haven't seen yet):

The Blue Shirt Invasion of Beast Buy!

Instead of humoring the liberals who are still trying to peddle the myth that Steven Colbert is some sort of comedic oracle, why not check out this prank pulled some crew called Improv Everywhere that I saw mentioned at Slashdot. Here's the teaser:



Clever, funny and no one got hurt and there were no hard feelings. (Unless you count the tightass managers of the store.)

RoboBjork?

Doesn't this Korean android look like Icelandic weirdo singer Bjork?

"But we are looking further ahead - we are working on upgrading the android with the aim of making it move its legs by the end of this year. It will be able to sit down and stand up by then," he expects.

Get your dollar bills ready, fellas!

He Would've Been Better Than Tony Snow.

Check out WuzzaDem's "Scott McClellan's Out - Mr. Stick Figure's In", which ran six months ago. It's killer!

Monday Thru Friday Morning Coffees

Jeez, I've been making little notes about what needed to be covered all week and been to busy to post them up, so here's the pile with the super-important ones up top and the rest in somewhat reverse order of freshness.

• THE MUST-READ COLUMN OF THE YEAR!!! - I've always wondered why we were pussy-footing around about the war and why the Left is always bringing up bad behavior by America that happened a century ago to excuse their current opposition to our policies and the answers to both can be found in this monumental column "White Guilt and the Western Past". A snip:

Certainly since Vietnam, America has increasingly practiced a policy of minimalism and restraint in war. And now this unacknowledged policy, which always makes a space for the enemy, has us in another long and rather passionless war against a weak enemy.

Why this new minimalism in war?

It began, I believe, in a late-20th-century event that transformed the world more profoundly than the collapse of communism: the world-wide collapse of white supremacy as a source of moral authority, political legitimacy and even sovereignty. This idea had organized the entire world, divided up its resources, imposed the nation-state system across the globe, and delivered the majority of the world's population into servitude and oppression. After World War II, revolutions across the globe, from India to Algeria and from Indonesia to the American civil rights revolution, defeated the authority inherent in white supremacy, if not the idea itself. And this defeat exacted a price: the West was left stigmatized by its sins. Today, the white West--like Germany after the Nazi defeat--lives in a kind of secular penitence in which the slightest echo of past sins brings down withering condemnation. There is now a cloud over white skin where there once was unquestioned authority.

I call this white guilt not because it is a guilt of conscience but because people stigmatized with moral crimes--here racism and imperialism--lack moral authority and so act guiltily whether they feel guilt or not.

They struggle, above all else, to dissociate themselves from the past sins they are stigmatized with. When they behave in ways that invoke the memory of those sins, they must labor to prove that they have not relapsed into their group's former sinfulness. So when America--the greatest embodiment of Western power--goes to war in Third World Iraq, it must also labor to dissociate that action from the great Western sin of imperialism. Thus, in Iraq we are in two wars, one against an insurgency and another against the past--two fronts, two victories to win, one military, the other a victory of dissociation.

The collapse of white supremacy--and the resulting white guilt--introduced a new mechanism of power into the world: stigmatization with the evil of the Western past.

GO! READ! IT! ALL!!!

• WHY LIBERALS ARE LIKE THE TALIBAN - This week's other must-read is this Time magazine column by a bona fide hard-Left ultra-liberal who found herself being pilloried by her own fellow travelers because she wrote a book praising the virtues of traditional marriage. Liberals are rigid, inflexible people so up their own asses with superiority that they crap themselves when someone actually tries to express a differing opinion. Remember that when they attack non-liberals as intolerant and remember the psychological term "projection".

• IF THE STUPID PARTY SOLICITS MONEY, send them this:



Freaking brilliant!

• STEVEN COLBERT: HERO OR ASSHOLE? - Last Saturday night was the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner which was hosted by comedian Steven Colbert of Comedhimmi Central's "The Colbert Report". While you may've seen a clip of Dubya doing shtick with the impersonator who Jay Leno uses, what got less play was Colbert's trash-talking Dubya and the press. Many fans of Colbert thought it was a poor performance, but what bugged me was that it was yet another example of liberal smugness and a belief that their superiority exempted them from basic politeness.

In one forum I post - where 99.44% of the members are rigid ultra-liberals - they thought it was the greatest thing and were braying about how Colbert was "speaking truthiness to power" - gah, that tired phrase again! - and thought that the Treason Media was selling out to Dubya (yeah, right) by not airing it all over the place.

I tried to point out the rudeness aspect, but they reacted so (typically) badly to this contrary opinion that the moderators had to delete the thread because the stench of all those filled diapers became unbearable. However, it's not just people who don't hate Dubya enough for these fascists you thought it was rude, Richard Cohen, himself a high-ranking leader in the Treason Media priesthood, thought so too in a piece entitled "Not So Funny". A snip:

Colbert was not just a failure as a comedian but rude. Rude is not the same as brash. It is not the same as brassy. It is not the same as gutsy or thinking outside the box. Rudeness means taking advantage of the other person's sense of decorum or tradition or civility that keeps that other person from striking back or, worse, rising in a huff and leaving. The other night, that person was George W. Bush.

Why are you wasting my time with Colbert, I hear you ask. Because he is representative of what too often passes for political courage, not to mention wit, in this country. His defenders -- and they are all over the blogosphere -- will tell you he spoke truth to power. This is a tired phrase, as we all know, but when it was fresh and meaningful it suggested repercussions, consequences -- maybe even death in some countries. When you spoke truth to power you took the distinct chance that power would smite you, toss you into a dungeon or -- if you're at work -- take away your office.

But in this country, anyone can insult the president of the United States. Colbert just did it, and he will not suffer any consequence at all. He knew that going in. He also knew that Bush would have to sit there and pretend to laugh at Colbert's lame and insulting jokes. Bush himself plays off his reputation as a dunce and his penchant for mangling English. Self-mockery can be funny. Mockery that is insulting is not. The sort of stuff that would get you punched in a bar can be said on a dais with impunity. This is why Colbert was more than rude. He was a bully.

On television, Colbert is often funny. But on his own show he appeals to a self-selected audience that reminds him often of his greatness. In Washington he was playing to a different crowd, and he failed dismally in the funny person's most solemn obligation: to use absurdity or contrast or hyperbole to elucidate -- to make people see things a little bit differently. He had a chance to tell the president and much of important (and self-important) Washington things it would have been good for them to hear. But he was, like much of the blogosphere itself, telling like-minded people what they already know and alienating all the others. In this sense, he was a man for our times.

He also wasn't funny.

I guess Cohen can look forward to being thrown under the bus by his fellow travellers, too. NOTHING must stop the "Get Dubya" jihad!!!

For an interesting profile of the Dubya impersonator, here's a story from today's McNewspaper. I didn't realize this guy used so many prosthetics. I just figured he was riding a fortuitous moment of dopplegangerdom.

• RECONQUISTAS ON PARADE - The big illegal immigrant amnesty rallies were on May Day and I caught on O'Reilly's show, Geraldo Rivera spew stupidity and reveal the inherent racism of liberalism by saying that the alternative to securing the border is $20 bananas and a $10 avocado. He was saying that we should exploit the brown people in exchange for cheap produce. Isn't it immoral to exploit people for low prices - that's what they Lefties say about Nike, yet it's OK to explot Mexicans? What are the benefits of economic apartheid and why is the Left trying to enshrine racist slavery?

• LIONIZING A MURDERER - On eastbound I-94 in Detroit is a billboard that Eminem's Shady Records uses which now reads "BIG PROOF FOREVER". While I understand Proof's significance to the Detroit rap scene, the truth remains that he killed an unarmed man over a pool game. The family of Keith Bender is suing the estate of this murderer, who was buried in a $44,000 coffin around the corner from Rosa Parks. Good for them! The Detroit alternative weeklies are still lionizing this killer. Pathetic.

• AMERICA'S ROYAL FAMILY SKATES AGAIN - 3rd-string Kennedy loser, Patrick Kennedy (D-RI, or should that be D-UI?), crashed his car and the cops who were right there said he looked and smelled drunk. Instead of being hauled off like us peasants, the Capital Police brass rushed to the scene, didn't give him a Breathalizer test and swept it under the rug. The Treason Media is actually reporting on this, proving that while they'll go all out to commit crimes against America, they aren't such whores that they'll dive for the political equivalent of Nicole Richie.

• THOSE ADS FOR TAG AND AXE BODY SPRAYS seem to promise that guys who use them will be constantly assaulted by hordes of smoking hot babes, pawing at their clothes and basically trying to get a baloney pony ride. If it was that simple, rock stars and rich guys would be getting left alone in favor of po' boys wearing Axe, ya dig?

• GUYS GONE WILD - What is the market for these discs: Women or gay men? What's scary about the ads is that they use the same language as the "Girls Gone Wild" ads, including the bit about "wait till you see what happens when the lights go out." Yeep!!! Is it Brokeback Spring Break?!?

• GANG MEMBERS IN THE MILITARY? - That's what it looks like and it's not a good thing.

Egads! I've still got a ton more to include, but it's already lunchtime! The rest will (hopefully) go up for dessert tonight. Stay tuned...it's not as if there isn't already plenty to chew on here. Two more quickies....

• FRIDAY FIVER:

1. Have you ever been to Mexico?

No. And if I snuck in, I doubt they'd be receptive to my demands for rights and free stuff.

2. Do you know anyone who is currently in the military?

I did, but most have already cashed out their stints.

3. What is the last party you attended?

I can't remember.

4. What do you think about President Bush saying that the United States' National Anthem should only be sung in English?

Considering he was having it played in Spanish and singing along during his campaigns, it's another one of his bonehead comments. Forget worrying about the anthem and start moving toward making English the official tongue of the US government and stop all this bi-tri-quad-lingual garbage. Learn the language or get the f*ck back to wherever everyone else can understand you!

5. French fries or freedom fries?

DIRK® Fries, bitch!

• DIRK'S DISH DU JOUR: I know I posted her recently, but I'm in the mood for some more Scarlett Johanson. (Like you're complaining.)