Pigs de Resistance

The Alliance is Growing!

2006-06-05T07:57:00.000-07:00

Cad, this is excellent news! SnoopyTheGoon stopped by with an offer we couldn't refuse. Clearly, anyone involved with comics is closely associated with the Zionist Conspiracy (TM).

Drat it all, Cad! Are we pigs or apes? As Christians we had best be pigs or we will have to change the name of the blog and I don't know how to do that. Curses upon this Interwebs! We shall have to consult He Who Must Not Be Drawn (Propellor Beanie Upon Him)

More Cartoon Mayhem

2006-05-24T19:29:00.000-07:00

Perhaps we are worrying excessively about Iran's scimitar rattling. No need to trouble the U.S. Air Force, except for the Military Airlift Command They can drop bales of Marvel Comics.

Members of Iran’s Azeri minority hurled stones in violent protests on Monday, enraged by a newspaper cartoon they said insulted them, a semi-official news agency and a witness quoted by Reuters said. The ILNA labor news agency said thousands protested in the northwestern city of Tabriz and police used teargas to try to disperse the crowd. The exact number of demonstrators could not be confirmed.

The cartoon, which appeared in Friday’s edition of the official Iran newspaper, showed a boy repeating the Persian word for cockroach in different ways, while a cockroach in front of the boy asked “What?” in Azeri.

The Azeris of northwestern Iran speak a language related to Turkish. Although Azeris have many luminaries among Iran’s commercial elite, Iran’s majority Persians mock them as stupid in their jokes.

Today's geography lesson has been brought to you by Marvin the Martian.

Cure for Insomnia

2006-05-21T20:16:00.000-07:00

We all know that Al Gore didn't really invent the internet. Hey, wake up! Go get some coffee and continue reading.

The charismatic 45th Vice President of the United States may be arrogant, pedantic and smarmy, but surely even he couldn't think that the hoi-polloi would buy a whopper this big. I didn't know what he actually said, so I used his invention to find out:

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Back in 1999, Gore was blathering to Wolf Blitzer on CNN about his accomplishments through the years.

Snopes pointed out that we commonly refer to the interstate highway system as President Eisenhower's creation.

If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he..."created" the Interstate Highway System, we would not have seen dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system...

Fair enough. Even Vint Cerf ackowledges a level of contribution. The real reason that Gore got all the editorial abuse is because he is an arrogant blowhard. He comes across as smug and superior.

Paul Harvey still hasn't found a replacement, but I had to know the exact quote.

Vive la resistance!

2006-05-21T04:59:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of Banager, Imperial Paladin of the Anti-Idotarian Rotweiller Empire

Oink!

Celluloid Heroes Never Die

2006-05-21T02:58:00.000-07:00

Those Danish cartoons just won't go away. If I were like the tree killing media in the United States I would claim I were keeping a respectful distance, waiting for the fevered brows to cool, but this little piggy doesn't go to that market. This little piggy stayed home.

It is time to ask the world wide audience of readers:

Why does this offend you?

This cartoon contains no prophet, nor anything of a prophetical nature. In fact, the cartoon openly mocks the newspaper publishing it. So do tell, gentle reader, what is it about this student named Mohammed that ruffles your feathers?

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back On The 'Net

2006-05-17T03:52:00.000-07:00

...Dan Simmons has a new message.

What? You didn't read the old one? Click if you need to catch up. I posted a link to the April message earlier and I have since updated it when it got moved to Dan's archive.

The Time Traveler appeared suddenly in my study on New Year’s Eve, 2004. He was a stolid, grizzled man in a gray tunic and looked to be in his late-sixties or older. He also appeared to be the veteran of wars or of some terrible accident since he had livid scars on his face and neck and hands, some even visible in his scalp beneath a fuzz of gray hair cropped short in a military cut. One eye was covered by a black eyepatch. Before I could finish dialing 911 he announced in a husky voice that he was a Time Traveler come back to talk to me about the future.

The April message will grab you by the nethers. The May/June message is an analysis of the previous one. Like a good chess game, the post-mortem is quite a bit longer, but worth the time of the interested party.

First They Came For The Cartoonists

2006-05-15T17:44:00.000-07:00

...next they came for the journalists.

Know this readers: Belgium will not tolerate hate speech, especially double-plus ungood hate speech..

Belgian journalists, lawyers and politicians (including Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt), say that I am responsible for creating the atmosphere of hatred that led to the massacre. Some people even demand that I be prosecuted.

Free speech in Europe is less free than in America. Just ask Oriana Fallaci.

Thanks to Dymphna, Mistress Guardian of the Gates of Vienna.

Patriot's Day

2006-04-18T18:22:00.000-07:00

The British are coming!

Here in the People's Republic of Massachusetts we observe Patriot's Day in honor of the start of the Revolutionary. Maine and Wisconsin are the only other states to observe this very Yankee holiday. Like all good Americans, we moved observance to the third Monday in April to make a three day weekend.

Inspired by by Vince Aut Morire I decided to go for a little road trip.

I stopped by the Bedford Public Library to see the original Bedford Flag. The exact age is unknown, but it is well over 250 years old. I also saw the letter giving John Page his commission in the colonial militia. It was a form used by the governor's office with blank space for Name & Rank ___, Unit & Commanding Officer ___ On This Day ___________ of 173__.

An army marched on its paperwork, even back then.

Photography of the preserved original is prohibited so I got a shot of the town flag in front of Town Hall.

From there it was a just a few miles to the Old North Bridge battlefield.

It was at the Old North Bridge that the colonials turned back the British Army. The first shots were fired at Lexington, but we got beaten soundly.

Several British companies were in the town of Concord burning stores of gunpowder while three companies held this bridge.

After getting pushed back over the bridge, the British were shadowed all the way back to Charlestown, suffering casualties along the route.

These were men willing sacrifice their lives for their freedom at a time when their government held them in low regard.

Update:

More mediocre photos of grand things

Alright, That Does It!

2006-04-18T11:50:00.000-07:00

I'm adding the Gates of Vienna to my links. In the past two days they have published two major article by Fjordman.

Yesterday: The Retreat of the Western World Order

Today: The Fall of France and the Multicultural War

I hope their server can handle the increased load.

Looking For Humor in the Muslim World

2006-04-18T00:20:00.000-07:00

Albert Brooks: Culture Warrior

Funnyman Albert Brooks plays a comedian sent by the U.S. State Department to India and Pakistan to find out exactly what makes Muslims laugh -- all with an eye toward helping everyone to get along better in the post-Sept. 11 world. Directed and written by Brooks, this smart, thoughtful and, yes, funny film essentially bypasses religion, instead focusing on where people find humor, regardless of culture or beliefs.

Mrs. fluffy (one of three humans to read this blog) and I rent movies through NetFlix. I'm sure you are familiar with the process. I decided to add this particular movie, Looking For Humor in the Muslim World, to our queue. I searched, found the title, then encountered "Save", rather than "Add".

Q: Why do some titles have a Save button instead of an Add button?

A: For titles that haven't been released on DVD yet or for which the release date is unknown, we offer the option to save them in the "Saved" section of your Queue.

My search for humor in the Muslim world was fruitless. I hear that is a common experience.

Opium is Religion of the Communists

2006-04-15T07:18:00.000-07:00

One of the great things about the web is taking an interesting wrong turn. If one desires to learn about RSS, what better place than RSS dot Org?

If you think violence was the only thing Naxalites are known for, visit Jharkhand to see "farmers" in comrades. Not wheat or rice, they cultivate opium.

Naxalites are Indian communists. Jharkhand is a state in eastern India, recently formed in 2000.

The Naxalite-infested areas of Jharkhand are underdeveloped. Whatever the government's claim might be, the fact remains that there are no roads, no bridges and no schools in the interior parts of the state.

Usually, the Naxalites demand from a contractor 30 per cent of the total amount sanctioned to him by the government for construction of roads, dams, buildings and bridges.

These Naxalites learn fast. All you have to do is obtain some firearms and proclaim yourselves as 'liberators'.

This had been the major source of income for the rebels ever since Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar in 2000 and there was a boom in the construction industry. Besides, the contractors also have to "please" government officials for granting them the contract.

With the construction business fast turning out to be non- profitable, the contractors recently started looking for other options, forcing the Naxalites to think of something more than just charging levy. In fact, there were instances when the contractors refused to take up work in Naxalite-infested areas as they had to cough up a major part of their income for nothing.

Imagine that, they over-taxed the contractors, who packed up and went away. In these here parts there is an old story about killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

But the involvement of Naxalites in opium farming was proved when a Chatra-based journalist with a vernacular daily, who had come out with a story on opium farming in his newspaper, had to appear in a kangaroo court (jan adalat) of the Maoists to ask for forgiveness. This journalist had to assure the Maoists that he would never (and never) come out with a report on opium farming.

These Naxalites sound an awful lot like Massachusetts Democrats. Do they need reinforcements? We could find some 'volunteers' on Beacon Hill. Exotic vacation anyone?

Bumper Sticker in seen in Moonbatland:

2006-04-14T14:06:00.000-07:00

The Last Time We Mixed Politics and Religion

People were burned at the stake.

I couldn't help but wonder what Rev Martin Luther King would have said about that. I wasn't aware that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was so radical. This wikipedia article seems mostly historical in nature. The SCLC's website is probably more current.

The Moscow Pig Olympics

2006-04-14T13:47:00.000-07:00

Resist this!

Stolen directly from littlegreenfootballs

Your Home is not Your Castle in the People's Republic of Massachusetts

2006-04-13T16:31:00.000-07:00

In Boston ==

"A young illegal immigrant who became a cause celebre in Minnesota after secretly living in a high school for weeks has been arrested here on home invasion charges, months after he was supposed to have left the country.

...

Two weeks ago, police arrested him after finding him with a knife in an apartment in Boston's North End, struggling with the tenant, who was unharmed, The Boston Globe reported Thursday. He remained in Suffolk County Jail facing home invasion charges and eventual deportation. "

From Breitbart via Drudge

Meanwhile, in the suburb of Foxboro==

"Wednesday, Kato wandered to East Street where Frederick Grossmith, 48, lives. He said Kato and his own dog started fighting and, he told police, when he tried to break them up, Kato bit him. He then got his gun and shot Kato in the head"

From WCVB, Channel 5

While shooting the dog seems like a bit much, I wasn't the one that was bitten in my own yard.

Back to the city ==

The part that really frosts me is this:

" A pretrial hearing was set for April 28. The charges against Serrano probably will be reduced to breaking and entering because he has no history of violence and did not hurt the tenant, said David Procopio, spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney. "

The nice folks in the D.A.'s office don't want to charge the nice young man because he is incompetent. Armed home invasion is a big deal. Just because he hasn't done it before doesn't mean he should get off with a warning.

Unusual Duets

2006-04-13T11:32:00.000-07:00

Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach are a pretty odd couple, but Mrs. fluffy has the CD. She's a big Elvis fan.

How about Lionel Ritchie and Moamer Kadhafi? Yes, the man who can't be misspelled is hosting a party celebrating the anniversary of the U.S Air Force crossing the line of death. Jim Croce could have warned the Colonel about tugging on Superman's cape.

"Veteran US soul singer Lionel Ritchie and Spanish tenor Jose Carreras are among the acts that Libya says will be performing in the capital in the early hours of Saturday, exactly 20 years after US warplanes flying out of British bases hit their targets, killing at least 40 people."

Now if it was Tom Waits & Whitney Houston, I would camp on the sidewalk.

From Middle East Online via littlegreenfootballs

Three Words

2006-04-06T03:45:00.000-07:00

...read the message

It ain't Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.

Awake yet?

Hat tip to Darth Misha

Danes pursue dialogue

2006-04-04T18:16:00.000-07:00

Turkish newspaperZaman notes in their English edition that the Danes are 'seeking forgiveness'.

"Danish state channel DR2 employed a Muslim woman that practices wearing the headscarf to present a TV program in the frame of "respect towards different thoughts and beliefs." Palestinian-origin Asmaa Abdulhamid, in the eight-week program, will host a different guest every week together with Danish journalist Adam Holm and ask questions in accordance with her beliefs.

DR2 explained the basic goal of the program "Adam and Asmaa" is "respecting different thoughts" and said the cartoon crisis openly displayed the importance of dialogue and tolerance between the East and the West."

If you speak Danish you can get it from DR2 at their own website. I don't speak Danish, myself, but I did deduce that 'og' means 'and'. I shall reward my own cleverness with a slice of havarti.

Thanks to DB, the Swiftian at Sweetness & Light

A Plan for War: Hit 'em Where They Ain't

2006-04-03T16:56:00.000-07:00

Wolfgang Bruno has outlined a plan for Creating the Online Infidel Library.

"Jihadist Muslims are war fetishists. ... You don’t frighten a war fetishist with war, and you don’t scare a death cult with death. Although the use of force will sometimes be necessary to win this fight, it is important to understand that this is not Islam’s weak point. Islam is a warrior creed, a very good one. War, death and mayhem are its home ground. Free speech is ours. We should draw the enemy away from his home ground by teasing his arrogance, lure him out into the open and over to our home ground, where we have the natural advantage."

"During the Muhammad cartoon affair, the Islamic world might as well have worn a gigantic neon sign saying: “We fear freedom of speech above all else. Give us bombs, just don’t send us rational criticism or mockery.” They scream “We love death,” yet cringe like shivering Christmas puddings in front of a few cartoons. If this is what they fear most, then this is where we should push harder."

It's a brilliant article. Read it all

AP = Admitting Plagiarizing?

2006-03-27T12:31:00.000-08:00

The title is not my original work, but I shall give credit where credit is due.

"Unfortunately this is far too common and has happened to me and to other writers and bloggers far too frequently. This time, however, we made a point of tape recording the AP apparatchiks admitting to taking our work and using it without attribution, stating "we do not credit blogs". "

I'm shocked like Claude Rains.

Read all about it here

Female Afghan Parliamentarian Speaks at Yale

2006-03-26T18:46:00.000-08:00

Hat tip to The Anti Idiotarian Rottweiller

The full article

"Female Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya criticized current U.S. policy in Afghanistan, as well as the presence of former Taliban spokesman and foreign ministry official Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi as a special non-degree student at Yale, both during and after her speech, "Women's Rights, Warlords, and the U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan" on Thursday night."

" Joya said there has been no fundamental change in democratization and women's rights in Afghanistan since the defeat of the Taliban in 2001. She criticized the U.S. government for pursuing its own strategic interests in the region while supporting fundamentalist warlords who make Afghanistan "a hell for its people." "

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan takes a similar stance. I disagree, but I do admire their courage. Kabul and Wellesley are worlds apart. I don't think there were many Female MPs during the Taliban, but they do have a ways to go concerning freedom of religion.

Update: Yale's Hypocrisy Festers

"I met one of those students at the reception. Makai Rohbar, an Afghan student whose family legally immigrated to New Haven in 2002, served as Ms. Joya's translator for the evening. After Ms. Joya's speech, I asked Ms. Rohbar what she was studying. She told me she was taking classes in chemistry and biophysics in the hope of someday becoming a physician. I then inquired how long she had been at Yale. She blushed. "I don't go here," she said. "I attend classes at Gateway Community College," also in New Haven. She had never imagined that she could be accepted into Yale or ever find a way to pay for it."

Read the whole article at OpinionJournal
Ms. Rohbar's story is in the second section.

Thanks to little green footballs

Church of Wales surrenders the flock

2006-03-23T04:17:00.000-08:00

Mmm! Fresh mutton!

The Church of Wales' Welsh language magazine contained one the the cartoons that made the rounds after peace broke out. It was not one of the Danish dozen, but it was commenting on the mayhem.

"The drawing - which was from the French magazine France Soir - shows the Prophet Muhammad sitting on a heavenly cloud with Buddha, and Christian and Jewish deities.
He is being told 'don't complain... we've all been caricatured here'. "

The Archbishop gagged on his tea when he saw the drawing.

"I've unreservedly apologised to my Muslim colleagues and they've been very gracious and I've said to them this in no way reflects the policy or attitude in the Church in Wales." -- The Archbishop of Wales, Dr. Barry Morgan

There was no indication of local Muslim outrage. Apparently he surrendured without a shot.

Dr. Morgan: You have no Muslim colleagues. None. Zero. Muslim are not part of the church. Your responsibility is the church, not the outside world.

A bishop is a shepherd. The staff you are neglecting is not just for guiding the flock. It is also a weapon for the protection of the flock. When the wolves come prowling around you don't take pity on the poor, hungry cubs and send them off with a lamb or two. You bop the wolf on the head to show that you mean business.

Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them. -- Nahum 3:18

Open Letter to Yale

2006-03-21T11:34:00.000-08:00

I sent this to Yale's Office of Public Affairs

To whom it may concern:

Abdul Rahman is an Afghani man in danger of his life. He committed the capital crime of converting from Islam to Christianity. He has been given the option of renouncing his chosen faith or dying. He is a prisoner of conscience.

Link to Chicago Tribune story

Yale University has recently shown interest in the progressive reform of Afghanistan by accepting Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi as a student. Perhaps an internationally respected institution like Yale could offer a compromise solution.

While Mr. Rahman may be smoke in the nose of many presently in power in Afghanistan, he would certainly be welcome in the United States. I am requesting that Yale University intervene on his behalf in any way possible.

Thank you

(fluffy's 3-D name)

Christianity is a Crime in Afghanistan

2006-03-21T10:52:00.000-08:00

If I were really clever this would show up as a trackback, but cut 'n' paste still works.

The Shadow of The Olive Tree Advocates for Yale to give Abdul Rahman a scholarship.

The man exercised his free will, harming no one.

Michelle Malkin also has a wealth of information. You did read her blog today, didn't you?

Another proud Danish-American enters the fray!

2006-03-18T08:28:00.000-08:00

The world has gone insane. Hunter S Thompson should have hung in there for another year. The weird are turning pro in record numbers. Lunatics are burning embassies in the name of peace. I fight back buying eating havarti and buying a T-shirt with a flag on it. The shirt has writing I can't understand and pictures the flag of a nation that some of my ancestors preffered to leave.

Indeed, the weird are turning pro. Where do I sign up?