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.

Kerry Really Is Al Gore

It's kind of creepy really. Al invented the Internet, Kerry spent Christmas in Cambodia. Al inspired Love Story, Kerry has the Flying Dog Story. Al had his Blackberry, Kerry has his lucky CIA hat.

Hate Speech

What on earth can Georgina Beyer and her ilk have in mind with hate speech laws. There are already quite strict laws on making threats, inciting to riot, sedition, libel, slander, defamation and perjury. That pretty much covers the possible range of injury that you can do to a person or to the state by speech alone. Is there some heretofore undiscovered right not get one's feelings hurt (poor thing) or to avoid comment on one's actions, opinions or life style (watch out, that works two ways), or is it just to shut up people whose opinions they don't like.

NZ's Own John Kerry

At least this guy had the sense of shame to resign when he was found out after making a bogus claim to have served in Vietnam. Oh wait, that was Cambodia that Kerry lied about. Hey, what's a border among friends.

Is Kerry Just Gore on Prozac

Nothing against Prozac mind you. I think selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are fine things and the world could use more of them, especially if placed in the coffee at the Democratic National Committee, Labour HQ, or Margaret Wilson's whiskey.

Now that old John can't remember on Wednesday what he said on Monday, much less the details of that Christmas in Cambodia (I too once spent a Christmas eve thinking I was in Cambodia, so I have a certain amount of sympathy for Johnny's situation), maybe he'll play it straight from now on. Then again, playing it straight didn't work for Al either. The man just spoke too much nonsense too often.

Mark Steyn has a good take on this in the Telegraph. Reminds me of all those morons who thought Al Gore was an intellectual and Bush was a, well, moron. It was all too convenient to forget that Al(pha) was the college dropout--from theology of all things-- while Bush got the MBA.

Talking About Asking For It

This seems like a very good way to end up in the same dozen or so unmarked graves as the late Osama bin Hasbeen. The Irraddiated...oops, that's Iranian, government should be looking for ways to imitate Boy Assad by keeping the hell out of sight. Instead they're just begging Bush to open up a big ole can of "W" brand Texas whoopass and serve it up hot to every Ayatollah, mullah, sub-mullah, ubergrupenmullah and assorted unshaven thug in Tehran.

All Is Not Lost

I was thunderstruck this week in my law class when a dreadlocked, bejeaned woman whom I had taken for a rampant Greenie held forth with a perfectly reasonable and well-informed critique of the gloom mongering and mumbo-jumbo floating around about climate change. She is now a Goddess in my eyes and I shall refrain henceforth from judging books by their covers.

Saturday Night

Trying to stay awake long enough to watch the Blacks take down the Yarpies in their own backyard. With Carlos Spencer and his swollen head out and Mehrtens in, it might even happen.

From The Academic Peanut Section

A few of the weeks better comments and, er, contributions to the class. Context: graduate level course in the law department of a major NZ university, subject: economic dislocations in the former Soviet Union:

" I mean just look at Russia, things are just so much worse there since McDonald's came in."

Only Christian forbearance saved this stupid cow from being unmasked as a cretin. Seventy years of a Communist police state has nothing to with it of course, nor today's corrupt rule by the KGB hardman Putin and his gang of former apparatchiks. Nor the fact that at any given moment a substantial portion of Russia's working age population are either drunk, working as hookers in Japan or standing in line for a visa to the Republic of Anywherebuthere.

Academia

Having descended from Cold Mountain to partake of the knowledge available at one of Godzone's finer tertiary institutions, I am dismayed to find that Tim Blair, Conrad, Jonah, Sully and the rest of the VRWC have been absolutely correct in their reaming of the academy. It's all there folks:contempt for science, left wing cant presented as common knowledge, cynicism as a substitute for critical thinking, astounding ignorance of the world, spoiled whinging instead of research, editorialising instead of debate. We have a lot of work to do, fellow conspirators, to arms!

Missing Posts

Some of my best work has vanished into cyberspace, evaporated into the ether, gone like the moa. Damn. Oh well, we'll start again.

That Took Awhile

I've been physically relocating back to Godzone from Taiwan.

Taking It Home III

"Package for Mr. Rantisi". Another Hamas thug takes an Israeli missile up the poop chute. Talk about going after your root causes.

Did I say fight to the death?

It looks like coming face to face with a band of well armed and extremely grim Marines has a salutary effect on even the hairiest "insurgent". According to this dispatch from Reuterville, Shiite thug Moqtada al-Sadr has said that if other Shiite leaders ask nicely, he'll consider ending what's left of his mob uprising and agree not to be crushed like an insect by the Big Green Shithammer.

Burnt Japanese, not.

It's looking more and more like this at least started out as some kind of hoax by a trio of dim lefties. If that's the case, it would serve them right if the "captors" got carried away. Tim Blair has more, as do several others.

Barbarians III

The savages responsible for this are far beyond the pale of civilisation. This description from AP News of the "brave warriors of Islam" needs no elaboration.

"Armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, the kidnappers shouted "Allahu akbar" - God is great - in the video and held knives to the throats of the Japanese, who screamed and whimpered in terror.

Associated Press Television News obtained a copy of the full video, in which four masked men point knives and swords at the blindfolded captives as they lie on the floor of a room with concrete walls.

At one point, a gunman holds a knife to the throat of one of the men, whose blindfold has been removed; his eyes widen in panic and he struggles to try to get free. The woman screams and weeps."

Let's see how brave you are when a Marine puts an RPG up your ass.

A society that encourages and celebrates this kind of barbarism deserves no better than to be on the receiving end of a war without mercy. Does this "culture" also have a place in a multi-cultural society?

Lies and Damned Lies

My dog has a better grasp of statistics than this. There is no way six months of looking at a population this size tells you anything of significance about whether a smoking ban was responsible for a reported reduction in heart attacks. If passive smoking takes decades to produce negative effects, how in hell did a ban reverse this in six months? There's no information about other changes people might have made, no information about enforcement, there's no information here period. How about some numbers on how many people froze to death while smoking outside?

Note well, I don't smoke. I don't like the smell of smoke. But health Nazis aren't allowed on Cold Mountain and this reeks of nanny-state propaganda.

Barbarians in Fallujah

Peggy Noonan in the online Wall Street Journal is her usual eloquent self on the subject of the Barbarian Wars. Here's a quote, but read the whole thing.

"The world is used to bad news and always has been, but now and then there occurs something so brutal, so outside the normal limits of what used to be called man's inhumanity to man, that you have to look away. Then you force yourself to look and see and only one thought is possible: This must stop now. You wonder, how can we do it? And your mind says, immediately: Whatever it takes.

What they did in Fallujah, Iraq, yesterday was such an event. The ambush, grenading, shooting and killing of four American civilians, the setting of their SUVs on fire and the brutalization of their corpses was savage, primitive, unacceptable. The terrible glee of the young men in the crowds, and the sadism they evinced, reminds us of the special power of the ignorant to impede the good. The pictures that television appropriately mostly did not show and the Internet inevitably mostly did were horrifying in a way that was reminiscent of the first still pictures of the Trade Center victims of 9/11. It was like seeing people in business suits falling through the air again. It was as if someone pointed a camera at evil and actually caught it in the act.

The Americans who were murdered were, according to the wires, working for a security company, a North Carolina-based subcontractor hired by the U.S. government, among other things, to guard convoys.

The convoys carried food. They carried it to Fallujah."

It takes generations to civilize barbarian peoples, in the meantime they have to be restrained, by any means necessary.

Barbarians

Is this not sufficient to convince even the most ideology addled multi-culturalist that we are dealing with savages? Keep in mind that the barbarians who perpetrated this said they did it in the name of Islam. Have we not seen enough to know that this is the rule rather than the exception, that this is what lies just below the surface in Muslim society?