Kerry Convicted.

There was a lame science fiction novel a few years back about the world in ecological collapse, one of those Green wet dreams. There was a very interesting thread running through an otherwise stupid book though. It involved people called "convictors" who could use sophisticated software and linguistic analysis to develop a true portrait of public figure. What appeared on a kind of proto-Internet was a picture of the real person with all the perversions and prejudices right up there in living color. Mark Steyn does something similar to JFK, Mark II, here.

Squeegee This, Loser

Finally, the police are doing something to squash this business. Anyone who lived in an urban area in the US in the late 70's or early 80's will remember vagrants congregating at every traffic light extorting payment for not smearing your windscreen with a greasy rag. These guys were one of the worst features of US urban life, right up there with graffiti, aggressive panhandlers and street crime. If the cops want to pretend for PC reasons that it's for the bums' own safety (if I'm driving, it could well be), that's fine. Just do not let this nonsense get started in New Zealand.

Call for Sheik Khalil

How does Hamas keep recruiting "spiritual leaders" when the Israelis keep sending them to commune with the spirits? The car bomb was a nice touch of irony and more likely a wake-up call for Boy Assad than an attempt to decapitate Hamas. Is that fool in some kind of race with the Iranians to see who can attract the most flaming metal onto their heads?

What's wrong with this picture?

Child murderer Anthony Roma should stay in jail for at least the next three years the Parole Board has ruled.

Roma was last year released on parole from a life sentence for the April 1991 murder of seven-year-old Simon Reaney, but was recalled after being arrested for committing an indecent act in a Manukau shopping centre in January.

As well as killing Simon, Roma tried to kill his brother and father. Mr and Mrs Reaney unsuccessfully challenged his release on parole last year.

The above from the New Zealand Herald today. This freak killed a seven year old child, tried to kill two other people and hears voices telling him to commit murder. The Parole Board, summoning all its spongy backbone and flea-like intelligence has decided he could go free in 2007. Little Simon Reaney on the other hand will never see the light of day again.

Yes you're sorry, and......

Dan Rather and CBS issue what may be the lamest apology since Cinton. They were "misled"? A major news organisation with essentially unlimited research capability is "misled" by a paranoid using one PC and his local Kinko's? Spare us, please. Why not just change your name to Pravda and drop any pretense of professionalism and integrity.

Where is the word forgery? Oops, must have been an editing mistake.

As Tim Blair notes, 60 Minutes must be approached by hordes of fraudulent tipsters every year, why did this one make it through? Because tis is the one they wanted to be true, that's why. Rather and Heyward must go.

We can thank Dan for one thing. He stepped on Kerry's oxygen hose justas the campaign was dying. Maybe it was a mercy killing.

Say Goodnight, Dan.

Drudge and the NYT are both reporting that CBS is about to swallow hard and confess that they were at best dumb as a fencepost and at worst, unprofessional and perhaps criminally complicit in a fraud. The First Amendment doesn't protect criminal activity.

Who's the Dummy?

When Dan Rather and CBS President Andrew Heyward finally get the ax, maybe they'll move down to Florida and join Howell Raines and Jayson Blair at the Home for Unwanted Hacks. They could play bridge together except they'd all cheat

Cry Havoc and Unleash the Blogs of War-against CBS

Jim Geraghty from Kerry Spot has a well-mapped out strategy for conducting asymmetric warfare against CBS and Dancing Dan, and by extension against the rest of the overpaid hacks in the MSM. Read the whole thing, and pass on the link, but generally it calls for attacking CBS's weak points at its local affiliates, other CBS employees who don't live up in the Danosphere and other MSMs who may be a little concerned that their whole profession is starting to look like a cheap circus.

Prison Dole

This could be more lucrative than selling drugs or smashing ATM machines. Maybe it's a plot by the Government to get the Mongrel Mob out of the crime business and onto a benefit. Maybe they'll even vote Labour.

There's also the little matter of the NZH's wording. Note the Herald's bloodless description of Sam Te Hei's crime:

One is Te Hei's brother, Sam, also a Mongrel Mob member, who was convicted in 1987 of kicking a 16-year-old girl to death with his steel-capped boots after she refused sex.

How about this instead:

Gangster Sam Te Hei was convicted in 1987 after he stomped a child to death with steel-capped boots when she resisted being raped.

Bill Burkett

It looks like this is the source of the Bush memos, one seriously deranged individual with MS Word and a fax at Kinko's. This is not a man who is familiar with reality as we know it. Burkett apparently believes in all seriousness that W wants to make himself king. And so passes a once great network. Edward R. Murrow is spinning, spinning.

Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?

The High Court awards for criminals are blood in the water for shyster, ambulance-chasing lawyers. Look at this:

"In the September 2 decision, Christopher Taunoa, who is serving a life sentence for the 1996 murder of Sanson publican Keith Lynch, was awarded $55,000, aggravated robber Alistair Robinson got $40,000, Lesley Tofts $25,000, Mathew Kidman $8000 and Steven Gunbie $2000."

That's bad enough, but the lawyers will get hundreds of thousands. That's your money folks.

So which is it?

"Mr. Klein dismissed the bloggers who are raising questions about the authenticity of the memos: "You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of check and balances [at '60 Minutes'] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing." quoted by John Fund at Opinion Journal.

I'll have you know that I blog in my underwear, never in pyjamas. Anyway, my brown shirt is at the laundry.

I am Al, hear me roar.

Just when I thought Al Gore couldn't get any weirder, he goes and outdoes himself. Is this a joke?

Is there anybody out there who still thinks this wacko should have been president? The thought gives me night sweats, makes black dogs howl at the moon, and sends strong men screaming into the nearest pub.

I did like the "digital brown shirts" line though. That's you and me he's talking about there. It does have a nice ring to it. the brown shirts versus the brown shorts.

Mark Helprin Speaks

Helprin doesn't often publish in the mainstream media anymore, but when he does he should be read and his words heeded. I think he's a little overly pessimistic in this case, but not by much. The West must, officially I mean, name the enemy--radical Islam--and make plain that sedition will be prosecuted. ANd then the war must be taken to Riyadh, Damascus, or anywhere else. By all means necessary, as people used to say in a time of more moral clarity.

Can the Kerry Campaign Get Any More Incompetent?

Drudge is all over this. I can't decide which is the more pathetic, that Dan Rather and CBS want Bush to lose so badly that they were suckered by an obvious forgery or that the DNC apparently dumped it on CBS knowing it was fake, or least highly suspect. The worm is turning so fast that the DNC is even trying to spin it that the Republicans deliberately gave the DNC forged documents to embarass them. This would be funny if it weren't so sad. I'm almost embarrassed for them. They could have nominated Joe Lieberman, but no, thay had to go for another Massachusetts loser. Attention Democrats: for the sake of the country, please, please trust me on this: John Kennedy is dead and he's not coming back.

Forgery?

If this is true, Kerry can quit now. I'm sure CBS will do the right thing, aren't you? This will likely turn out to be just another example of the bicoastal media's willful credulousness on anything anti-Bush. I looked at a PDF version of the document, and it looks odd to me. The military orders that I've seen have all sorts of identifying data on them and are usually highly detailed as to when, where and how the recipient is to report.

Before we take too much comfort in that double digit lead, lt us remember that the demons who dwell deep in the worm gnawed crevices of James Carville's brain are working overtime on little schemes just like this one.

Say goodnight, John

John Kerry is going down, he's going down like McGovern and Dukakis and Mondale because like them he really and truly believes that the New York Times, the faculty club at Ann Arbor, and the population of Marin County will carry the day. Wrong. Wrong and stupid.
All those folks in the flyover states really go and vote, and they're really going to vote for W.

Kerry meanwhile takes deathbed advice from Bubba, who sensibly urges him to shut up about Viet Nam. Message to John: almost no one buys the war hero story and even fewer people want to hear it again. Problem is that Kerry has nothing else to talk about. Oh, well. May be he can inherit the Teddy Kennedy role of senior aging, Chivas-addicted loser from Massachusetts. Mark Steyn has more.

Nanny Watch

Nanny Helen has an idea. We're all taking way too many hot showers, so let's make solar hot water heating compulsory. Now how long do you think it will take to amortise the cost of a solar hot water system? I bet those folks on the West Coast will be very happy.

The Brave Warriors of Islam

The Sydney Morning Herald has the horrible details.

"When children fainted from lack of sleep, food and water, their masked and camouflaged captors simply sneered. In the intolerable heat of the gym, adults implored children to drink their own urine."

And this:
"Pandemonium broke out and captive children and parents fled for their lives. From the rooftops the terrorists fired into their backs."

And when they encountered people who could shoot back, they ran like rats.
"Of the 32 killed, only eight died in the grounds of the school, the rest being hunted through the suburbs of the town. Three were in custody and two remained on the run."


Payback is on the way.
"For some North Ossetians, grief had turned to anger. "Fathers will bury their children, and after 40 days [the Orthodox Christian mourning period] they will take up weapons and seek revenge," said Alan Kargiyev, 20, a university student in the regional capital Vladikavkaz."

Cry

If you don't believe in evil, read this.

Silence of the Blogs

The massacre of the innocents in Russia was of such depravity, that even the hardened cynics of blogdom have been silenced. There truly are no words. Perhaps Cotton Mather or John Wesley could summon the righteous anger, or Martin Luther King the high eloquence, needed. But now, there is just silence.

May God bless their little souls.

And may God damn their killers to the deepest Hell.

Janis Karpinski and the Wages of PC

Poor Janis. She wanted to be a general but doesn't want take responsibility for her command. General Karpinski by all accounts was at best a mediocre officer and rose to her rank and position solely on PC promotions. It just wouldn't do to be cutting one of the few high ranking female officers, even she is a dimbulb. This is where Lynndie England might have wound up if she'd had an education.

The Army figured she couldn't do much damage as head of the military police, but then the war came along and the MP's became reponsible for Abu Ghraib, and now this loser has done more damage to the war effort than the Republican Guard.

Russia

If this doesn't settle it, nothing will, and we will have the world we deserve. Heads up France, Russia, Spain, and all other past and future members of the Axis of Weasels. Nothing can save you...not appeasement, not abstention, not surrender. I don't know how the Islamofascists can make it plainer. There are two and only two choices: fight or die.

Something tells me that the Russians won't be overly concerened about process when payback time comes.

France

Do forgive me a little schadenfreude as the failure of the French appeasement policy comes home to Paris. Two French journalists kidnapped and in Iraq by Islamofascist murderers, and probably destined to get their heads sawn off live on al-Jazeera. And over what? French support for the Allies in Iraq? That vote for the war in the UN? All those French troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? Mais non. It's all about headscarves.

Do you get it now, Jacques? These people have no demands. They cannot be appeased.