Well, I Guess That's It Then.

ViaMatt Drudge, it seems the Senate is now "in play".

Yep, a little more wishful thinking by the NYT, a few more felonies committed by Democrat supporters in the CIA or State, a few more smear jobs on George Allen (Did you ever try to put a deer head in a mailbox?), a few more psychotic episodes from Bill, and that should do it... a permanent Republican majority that is.

The hatchet job that the Wapo and the NYT are trying to pull on Allen is straight out of an old Soviet disinformation handbook. Get someone to make an outrageous statement (or just make it up), plant the story (Questions have emerged about.....), the wire services pick it up (The New York Times reported today that....)

It's sleazy, unprofessional, and so NYT. Welcome to the new Pravda.

Psychocrats

What is it with Democrat ex-Presidents and ex-almost-Presidents and loser candidates going loonier than a zoo after leaving office. As Mark Levin points out in the NRO, Bill Clinton is certifiable. Add to that Al Gore's lunatic rants, Howard Dean's primal screaming, and Jimmy Carter's paranoid fantasies, you get the picture that thorazine should be a big part of the Democrat primary process. The last Democrat to just go away and leave us alone was Lyndon Johnson, although he was about as stable as Macbeth, having taken over from the drug-addled sex addict Kennedy. OK, Nixon was no picture of mental health, but for the most part Republicans are sane to the point of boring.

Break Over.

I've been away and been busy. A lot of idiocy has occurred while I was taking a nap. John McCain turns into bizarre cross betweenNelson Rockefeller and Neville Chamberlain, Islamofascists see no irony at all for wanting to behead the Pope for suggesting that Islam might just have an anger problem, the Israeli government gets suckered by the UN one more time. On the other hand, Billy's little tantrum on Fox, the possibility that Osama may have died in his cave, paralysed, shitting himself and gasping for breath, and ever increasing signs that maybe the West is opening one eye to the new fascism help balance the ledger a little bit.

The UN Does What It Does Best..Nothing.

This would be funny if it weren't so pathetically stupid. The Secretray General, rising to ever more precious heights of obstructionism and hypocrisy says:

"It is not expected to achieve by force what must be realized through negotiation and an internal Lebanese consensus," Annan said in a report to the UN Security Council on implementation of the Aug. 11 resolution calling for an end to the Israeli-Hizbullah conflict."

Thirty years of negotiation has brought us to the point of war. Earth to Kofi:

THE WHOLE ISSUE IS THAT THERE ISN'T AND PRBOBABLY NEVER WILL BE ANY "INTERNAL LEBANESE CONSENSUS."

Security will be achieved by force or it won't be achieved at all.

AP's Evasions

Here's the story from AP on the persons whose assets have been frozen by the bank of England in connection with the plot to commit mass murder in the sky. At the end, AP notesthat "many of the subjects had Muslim names". Of course that's not quite accurate. ALL of them, as in 100 per cent, had Muslim names. All right, there are a few non-Muslims with Muslim names, but I'll wager George Soros' dividend cheque that none of these lads went to mass yesterday. Here's the list: not a Seamus, Billy Bob, Juan or Sven among them. What could possibly be the point in pretending any further that this is not a Muslim problem?

1.ALI, Abdula, Ahmed

2. ALI, Cossor

3. ALI, Shazad, Khuram

4. HUSSAIN, Nabeel

5. HUSSAIN, Tanvir

6. HUSSAIN, Umair

7. ISLAM, Umar

8. KAYANI, Waseem

9. KHAN, Assan, Abdullah

10. KHAN, Waheed, Arafat

11. KHATIB, Osman, Adam

12. PATEL, Abdul, Muneem

13. RAUF, Tayib

14. SADDIQUE, Muhammed, Usman

15. SARWAR, Assad

16. SAVANT, Ibrahim

17. TARIQ, Amin, Asmin

18. UDDIN, Shamin, Mohammed

19. ZAMAN, Waheed

"We are at war with Islamic fascism"

W has uttered the truth at last. There is no war with some amorphous thing called terrorism. There is a war with the murderous proponents of an ideological movement, its state sponsors and its enablers. Islam in these terms is not a religion. It's an expressly political enterprise, an ideology and one that's practiced by an indentifiable group of people who can be located and dealt with as required.

When the names of the arrested are known, the list won't contain any Muellers, Mulligans, McDonalds, Matsumotos, Mas, Munoz's or Moskowitzs. There will be a number of Mohammads. They won't be of of Swedish, Burmese, Korean, Ugandan or Jamaican origin. They will be from Pakistan, Bangladesh or some other country that has Islam as a state ideology.

The next step is to demand that Muslims who want to live and let live disown the fascists among them.

A good question.

As noted first by Cartoon Nazi, there were 29 US senators who voted with the White House on the war. Only one of them is Jewish. Only one of them was particularly singled out by the moonbat left for defeat. Why not any one of the other 28?

Good news, but sad news.

Joe Lieberman's loss in the Connecticut primary and Cynthia McKinney's melt-down in Georgia are both good news. McKinney was barking mad and a racist at that, so good riddance whether a Democrat or a Republican ultimately takes her seat. Lieberman's demolition by the angry left is sign of the Democratic Party's further marginalization. Remember that this is the man who saved Bill Clinton's presidency, and who was deemed worthy to carry the party's banner as a vice-presidential candidate. Now the Democrats' moonbat wing has forced him from the party in what can be fairly described as a purge. As a conservative, I must admit that the spectacle of the party of FDR and John Kennedy turing into the party of wealthy eccentrics like Al Gore and Michael Moore, dimbulbs and dilettantes like John Kerry, Chivas-soaked has-beens like Ted Kennedy, and nutcases like Cindy Sheehan engenders a bit of schadenfreude. But as an American, I find it sad. The Democrats are headed for schism, and the Republicans will be the stronger for it, but politics in America will be the poorer. In a way this reflects the end of a Cold War consensus on national security that perhaps should have ended with the Cold War. Perhaps it will lead to ideological realignment similar to the UK's Tories and New Labour, but the road to a new stability where ideological differences end where existential threats to the nation begin will be a long and unpleasant one.

Gone Troppo in Reuterville

In Reuterville, everything is a sign of global warming. Fromthis article:"SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rare, mother-of-pearl colored clouds caused by extreme weather conditions above Antarctica are a possible indication of global warming, Australian scientists said on Tuesday."

Then later in the same article:
"Nacreous clouds can only form in temperatures lower than minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 Fahrenheit).

Meteorologist Renae Baker said a weather balloon in the vicinity of the clouds in the stratosphere about 20 km (12 miles) above the Earth's surface measured temperatures as low as minus 87 Centigrade (minus 124.6 F).

"That's about as cold as the lowest temperatures ever recorded on the surface of the Earth," Baker, who photographed the clouds, said in a statement.

This is, what's the word, STUPID, even for global warming cultists, even in Reuterville.

Wellington Blows.

Nothing like a trip to Wellington to make one appreciate Christchurch. How did this place ever become the capital? The road network was designed by bored crack addicts with no regard to either the permanent torrential rain or the frequent landslides, the street lights seem to be powered by cheap batteries and give off a weak, useless pink glow that does nothing to penetrate the gloom. Everything seems kind of fungal and mouldy and the whole city smells like it has athlete's foot.

Parking is double the price in Christchurch and what little there is of it has been contracted out to a deranged scalper named "Wilson".

The vaunted Wellington dining experience is the same generic Asian crap, pub grub, and American fast-food that you can get in Bluff or Eketahuna.

Theairport was apparently designed to channel the roaring 40s wind straight across the runway.

South Island independence anybody?

Why the NYT and not the WSJ?

My frequent correspondent B. Shuai asks why we lambaste the poor NYT but not the "right-wing" Wall Street Journal. Actually we don't particularly care for the WSJ's chamber of commerce brand of conservatism either, but that's another story. The answer to Brother Shuai's question is

here.

Te Papa

Te Papa? I'm sorry, but this is NOT a museum, it's an arcade. All the worthwhile exhibitions cost extra--a lot extra-- and there's only enough parking for about a tenth of the suckers, I mean patrons, who are trapped there by the crappy weather.

Mr. Assad, this is your wake-up call.

You have to like this. The last time the Israelis buzzed Boy Assad's house the sonic boom broke the windows. Message: We know where you live.

It must really suck to be a Great Dictator and not be able to take a nap when you want to.

New York Times: Yawn.

The latest act of treason at the New York Times should have been anticipated. The NYT long ago stopped having anything original to say. They're more like the old Pravda or the Peoples Daily in that on any issue you know, without reading the story, exactly what the Times is going to say.

They used to be important, then they were deliberately obtuse and kind of patronizing, now they're just boring.

Stop, or we'll blow ourselves up.

"Hamas Sets Conditions For Soldier's Release"

Doesn't look to me like the bright boys in Gaza City are in any position to have conditions about anything.

Report an Unusual Animal to ABC

Tim Blair has a capital idea. Report any sightings of unusual animals to ABC News. Of course since Tim lives in a place where the all the animals are weird, it's easy for him.

I reported the hedgehog that I saw wearing a Hawaiian shirt yesterday. Global warming or just a hedgehog with a fever?

What If There's Already a Warhead?

I hope (but without much confidence) that someone besides me is thinking about this. What if Bouffant Boy has already put some kind of warhead on the missile that North Korea is about to test? What if BB has decided that a demonstration detonation in the Aleutians or somewhere in the north Pacific would be a dandy way to impress the world with his seriousness? What do we know: 1) the NoKo's have at least one weaponized fission device; 2) the NoKo's have at least one--but probably only one-- long range missile; 3) the NoKo's are led by a man whose world view is not, strictly speaking, firmly grounded in objective reality. Given those three facts, shouldn't we (by which I mean the West), be giving serious consideration to destroying the launch site? We know where it is, we can see it and we have all sorts of large explosive devices that can be delivered with great accuracy. (right, Zark? What was that? You're gurgling again.) We do not, a week from now, want to be explaining why Seattle will be uninhabited for the next 400 years due to fallout from one explosion somewhere in Alaska.

Just Shoot It Down

If Kim "Bouffant Boy" Jong-il goes ahead with his missile test, the United States and Japan should make every effort to shoot the thing down. I don't know whether we have any functioning component of SDI in the area, but if so this would be as good a time as any for a live test. What are North Korean's going to do, complain to the UN? Then again.....

Keep Your Eye on the Red Dot

"North Korea appeared close Sunday to test-firing a long-range missile capable of reaching the United States, prompting the White House to warn of an appropriate response and Japan to threaten a "fierce" protest to the United Nations."

Just listen for the loud bang, Bouffant Boy.

What was that? Rosebud? Raisins?

"He mumbled something, but it was indistinguishable and it was very short," U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said at a news conference."

Rot in hell.