Viva Italia!

At last a European country with guts when it comes to Muslims. The NRO has this account of the Italian reaction to Iran's threats of genocide against Israel. Maybe the French will join in once its indigenous Muslims have finished burning down Paris...after all, even the Nazis never did that.

Bloody Typical.

This is typical of the New Zealand approach to bad behaiviour and, indeed, to crime in general. Instead of dealing harshly to offenders, let's inconvenience everyone else. In reponse to boorish drunken louts harassing others at cricket matches, New Zealand cricket will segregate families from drunks. So, if I want to take my kids to the cricket, I can't just buy a ticket and sit where I want, if I'm worried about some lager soaked idiot yelling obscenities into my ear. And here, I thought the law required drunks to be tossed out on their ass.

Drunk driving? Instead of locking up habitual drunk drivers, confiscating their cars, and banning them from driving for life, it's of course easier to make it impossible for anyone to have a couple of pints after work and then drive home.

Street crime? Instead of announcing that civilised societies don't surrender their parks and their inner cities to thugs at sundown and then putting enough cops on the street to make it happen, let's just warn everyone to take care, and maybe stay at home as well.

Property crimes? Instead of declaring someone a habitual criminal after three (or 5, or even 10) convictions and sending them down for a long stretch, after 60 or so convictions we'll consider locking up the crims for a few months. Maybe the victims can meet with their burglar for some "restorative justice". Restorative justice is sending the bastards to the darkest hole in New Zealand for a significant and highly unpleasant experience.

The Grinning Face of Evil

Silent Running has Zombietime's pictures of the urban left's celebration of the 2000th American death in Iraq. Look at the smiles on their well made-up faces as they mug and caper and think about the post rally Chardonnay while their fellow citizens sweat and die and dream of clean water. This is disgusting. I can only wish for them to be reborn in bin Laden's world.

Dominos ain't just a pizza.

And down they go....Iraq, Lebanon, Syria....just like W. said they would. Brother Mubarak isn't looking too well these days either. Maybe we should send Saddam into exile in France, Assad and Mubarak can follow on. They could get a nice apartment in the 5th. They could play bridge every day with Baby Doc Duvalier, of course they'd all cheat.

I feel a little sorry for Boy Assad, he never wanted to inherit the family strongman business anyway.

Say Goodnight, George.

In the "Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy" category, the facts of George Galloway's secret life as one of Saddam Hussein's paid apologists have come to light. The Telegraph, among others, has the story.

Come on, you just knew it was true all along, didn't you?

Princess Pinhead

If ever there was a tradition that needed dumping on the compost heap of history, it's the whole idea of royalty. Why should these people be any more entitled to have their boneheaded opinions respected than, say, Paris Hilton or Tariana Turia, just because their ancestors managed to steal most of the real estate in some corner or another of the planet. Princess Irene (Irene?) of the Netherlands has suggested that the West should "open negotiations with al-Qaeda. Perhaps the royal moonbat would like to join Osama's harem as well.

Lest We Forget Them

Of the three great marshals of the Cold War, Margaret Thatcher is the last survivor. Ronald Reagan and John Paul II were the others. These three rallied the free peoples of the world against a ideological and physical menace no less mortal, pervasive, remorseless and relentless than was Fascism. Where are those who would rally us now against Islamism?

In the Meantime....

In the meantime, here's someone who does deserve a Nobel prize.

Nobel Peace Prize

And the Nobel Prize for anti-Americanism, lying through one's teeth, corruption, thuggery, empire building, and pedantic, irritating behaviour (oh, Peace they call it) goes to Mohammad (Call me Closeau) el-Baradei and his bureaucracy over at the IAEA. This is the guy who completely missed fully developed nuclear weapons programs in North Korea, Libya, and Iran; who allowed AQ Khan to run his Nukes-R-Us operation in Pakistan; who failed to catch Saddam's second nuclear program in the late 80's; who never lifted a finger to stop unemployed Soviet bomb designers from plying their trade anywhere they pleased.

Other notable winners include Kofi Annan and the UN, who managed it just as the true multi-billion extent of UN corruption became clear; Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger for making Indochina safe for Pol Pot; Mikhail Gorbachev for knowing when to cut his losses; Yasser Arafat, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin for general and historic thuggery, excellence in military dictatorship, and terrorism; David Trimble and John Hume for releasing convicted IRA terrorists back into society while Sinn Fein was still plotting ethnic cleansing in Ulster; Jimmy Carter for a failed presidency and being a general pain in the ass; and my personal favorite, Rigoberta Menchu Tum.

Remember her? Thought not. She won the prize for the originally titled book, "I, Rigoberta Menchu" in which she detailed atrocities inflicted on her family by Guatamalan authorities, including the death of her brother from starvation. Problem was, her brother turned up alive and well and pointed out that Rigoberta had made the whole thing up. Never mind, it could have been true.

The Literature prize has some real winners too, but that's a subject for another day.

More on Harriet Who?

Charles Krauthammer joins the dump Hattie brigade. He's spot on when he compares Harriet Miers to Nixon crony G. Harold Carswell.

What Does a Guy Have to Do To Go to Jail Around Here?

Nanny's little helpers spend a lot of time and the MSM spends a lot of ink wondering why there's so much crime, especially the burglary, dairy robbery, purse snatching, graffitti scribbling, boy racing, village idiot level crime that fills those little side bars in the papers. Here's a hint. How about the failure to lock up recidivist crims after their third, or tenth, or fiftieth, or sixty-fifth conviction?

This is ridiculous even by New Zealand standards. Young Joshua Lukic has finally been sent down at the tender age of 17 after admitting to 62 crimes between 2002 and 2004, plus eight convictions in adult court. Even making the highly dubious assumption that this is the extent of Lukic's crime wave, the public can be forgiven for wondering why this little thug was still walking the streets.

Maybe "three strikes and you're out" is a bit harsh, but how about, say, "10 strikes and you're out". In a moment of masterful understatement, the Probation Service said that it's "sceptical of Lukic's attitude to rehabilitation."

Don't Confirm Harriet Miers.

It took Osama bin Laden to save George W. Bush's presidency. There, I said it. I'm as conservative as one can be here in Godzone without being arrested for thought crimes, and I have swallowed much principle to support W because I believed (and still do) that his leadership is needed if civilization is to triumph over Islamofascism. His domestic policies however have been erratic and unprincipled to the point of stupidity. Now however he has committed an error of judgement so gross as to cost him the support of his greatest well wishers.

In nominating the unqualified and unserious Harriet (Harriet who?) Miers to the Supreme Court, he has betrayed his party, the cconservative cause, and worst of all, the Constitution. What did he do, throw a dart at a list of his cronies? George Will has the best and most stinging take on this, but the conservative blogosphere is on fire with criticism. If Harriet Who? has a single conservative bone in her body, she withdraw her name and urge the president to nominate any of tens of thousands of more qualified people.

Barbara's Global Weather Emergency

Well known geophysicist and famous person, Barbara Streisand declares a global warming emergency. I hope she's right because my I am freezing my ass off here on the mountain.Hurry up will you?

John and Yoko's Bogus Adventure

John and Yoko-The Musical. Won't this woman ever go away? Not as long as there's still a buck to be wrung from aging hippies. The real story, just waiting to be told is how two of the most banal, pretentious, and narcissistic people on the planet managed to find each other--and without the Internet. I never cared much for some mega-bucks stoner in a pink Rolls-Royce telling ME to imagine no possessions.

It's About Time.

Finally, some law enforcement agency has saidwhat what everyone knows to be true, instead of inconveniencing an entire population or blowing the heads off poor Brazilian electricians, the police are going to concentrate on searching the people who are known for a fact to be the problem. As the good Constable put it, "We aren't going to waste time searching old white ladies."

You Couldn't Make This Up.

Jane Fonda will make an anti-war tour in a bus fueled by vegetable oil. Sounds like fun, but I've got a dental appointment.

I Thought I'd Never Say This.

I admit, Helen Clark said something that made me admire her for a minute.

When Ashraf Choudury couldn't quite bring himself to say that stoning people to death is wrong, and then couldn't quite figure how to say he personally opposes it of course (at least in New Zealand) without saying the Koran is full of medievel nonsense, there was Nanny saying she didn't care whose "religious tract" it's in, stoning is barbaric.

For just one minute she dropped the PC mask and I actually liked her. I'd better have a drink.

Another Reminder

The Islamofascists have given us another reminder of why we are at war. Why do they think that murder and mayhem will work any better to break the Brits' will anymore than it did the Americans' or the Aussies? Don't they get it yet? This crap just pisses us off more.

Far from saying, "OK let's go home now.", some very angry and resolute men are cleaning their weapons, sharpening their knives and thinking real hard about payback.

The IRA has been at this for decades and gained nothing but grief and poverty for their people....just like the Islamists.

Durbin Apologises

Dick Durbin has peered into the political abyss and decided to sort of apologise to those who "may have believed" that his remarks comparing US soldiers to Nazis or the Khmer Rouge "crossed the line". American politicians can smell death better than vultures can. The mayor of Chicago caught a good whiff coming off Durbin and helped push Senator Dick over the edge. Public tears AND insulting the military, better not quit your day job, Dicko.

Sully

I went over to visit Sully today for the first time in a long while. Are there two people writing that blog? Has the boyfriend or the beagle taken over half his brain? He wants to the right thing, you can tell he does. But somehow the demon left that lives in the back of his mind keeps doing a Linda Blair on him.

We shouldn't give up on him yet. Maybe a "Save Sully" day?