Advertising

July 26th, 2006 by Administrator

As you can see I have decided for the first time in 5 years to accept advertising. I like the way I can set the skyscraper ad “off” of the main page with Clicksor, but am concerned about the ads -which I have very little control over. For example, I do not gamble on moral - not religious - grounds, believing that one should advance his lot in life through hardwork and luck, not luck alone. If liquor advertisements appear, I’ll drop the ads entirely.

Of course the viewer of the ad has the ultimate responsibility whether or not she clicks the ad. I am one man’s father - not everyone’s. However I have read that discussing addiction actually triggers the area of the brains that cause cravings in addicts. It is safe to assume that ads do the same, and I don’t wish to be associated with liquor ads. If anyone sees one, please email me and let me know.

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Moral Clarity

July 25th, 2006 by Administrator

A bit of moral clarity from Real Clear Politics, via American Future:

I would note that the Palestinian would not be wearing any insignia that would differentiate him from the civilians he hid behind. Other than that, it’s a graphic that I wish I would have come up with myself.

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The Ineffectual Left

July 25th, 2006 by Administrator

I was researching images for a new product line of Fry Mumia gear, when it dawned on me:

The Left really sucks at winning.

Take Mumia for example. He’s been in jail for 24 years now, and will likely be executed no matter how many French streets are named after him.
Another Lefty cause is Leonard Peltier has been in jail for 30 years, where he will most likely remain given recent testimony that he admitted to a fellow AIM member that (re an FBI agent) “The mother fucker was begging for his life, but I shot him anyway.”
The granddaddy of all Lefty causes (and one I happen to support) is Free Tibet. Tibet has been occupied by the Chinese for close to fifty years, with no signs of it ever becoming free.

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Love Park Pro-Israel Rally

July 24th, 2006 by Administrator

As I walked to my favorite restaurant for a bite to eat, I noticed a gathering happening at Love Park in Center City Philadelphia.

It turned out to be a rally in support of Israeli actions in Lebanon. I stayed for about an hour after getting a small Israeli flag and took these pictures using my Motorola e815.

Here is a “protest babe”. There were other beautiful women of various ages, but I’m not used to taking pictures of women without them knowing it. Besides, I find it somewhat creepy…

This creature was wondering around - a Jewish war veteran I believe - not a homeless guy there to get free stuff.

I’d estimate the crowd at about a thousand. The atmosphere was pretty bubbly and pleasant, about what you would expect at a sururban neighborhood picnic or carnival. Most of the people had come from the suburbs on trains, housewives, retirees and students - however there were quite a few well-dressed attendees obviously spending their lunch hour like me supporting Israel. A well-dressed man walked through the crowd, handing out flyers stating “Senator Rick Santorum Fully Supports Israel’s Right To Defend Itself Against Hezbollah Terror Threat.” Santorum is in a tough fight for re-election in this blue state - although I’d peg that his re-election will be successful and not as close as many Democrats believe.

Another guy was handing out a flyger advertising the ZOA Middle East Report radio show, whose previous guests included Bat Ye’or, Sec of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Daniel Pipes - not a bad listing of guests for a radio show I”ve never heard (or will, given that it’s at 12:30 pm on Wednesdays) .

The rally started a few minutes late with the Star Spangle Banner followed by the Hatikva - Israel’s national anthem. The latter is quite a beautiful piece, and one that I am not as familiar with as I should be given my near life-long support of the state of Israel. I stood in the group, watching people and debating whether it would be rude to eat a double-cheeseburger with observant Jews around.

Hunger eventually set in so I had to return to the office. I worked my way out of the center of the crowd and towards the edges. As I walked back, I passed a small group of self-hating Jews holding signs that read “USA and Israel are the Real Terrorists”, and “Bombing Problems Won’t Solve Them.” They stood quietly with their backs to the backs of the pro-Israel supports, vastly outnumbered by the police who stood around looking bored but effective. Given their ages, I would say the small group of about 12 was comprised of lifelong protesters along with their grand-kids. Both groups looked dejected - even slightly malnourished. One kid wore a “Free Mumia” t-shirt, faded from too-many washings and also a bit baggy on his lanky frame.

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Thought for the Day

July 22nd, 2006 by Administrator

Fighting terrorism promotes terrorist attacks just like fighting crime increases criminality.

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Fury Magazine

July 22nd, 2006 by Administrator

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Classic Co-Dependence

July 21st, 2006 by Administrator

Mirrored at Dean’s World

This morning, the Mother-in-law had promised she would care for the Kid, and the Kid had looked forward to seeing his grandmother. This morning we got up and I called the MiL, but got her machine. While we dressed I called several more times, ditto.

Finally, I’m running late for work and the Kid is getting upset. We get into the car and drive over to the MiL. I call from her driveway, and we bang on her doors - but fail to wake her up.

Now, my alcoholic sister-in-law is staying with the MiL. The house isn’t that big, and we were making quite a ruckus at 8:30 in the morning - yet we failed to wake either one of them.

We had to opt for Plan B for the Kid, who was very disappointed that he wouldn’t be eating his grandma’s homemade pancakes for breakfast. I made it late to work, and finally got the mother-in-law up at 10am - extremely late for her.

I reminded her that she was supposed to spend time with her grandson today. “I’m not feelign well,” she said. “What’s wrong?” “You know, (sister-in-law).” The next thing she said was classic. “I know she’s not drinking.”

My g-d, how many times we had gone over this. All that time spent in ER rooms with BACs high enough to embalm most people. The police calls at midnight, the threats and cursing. Years of Alanon meetings in church basements. “I know she’s not drinking.”

Yet in classic codependent fashion, the Sister-in-law’s problem makes the mother-in-law physically sick. The first thing you learn in Alanon is that a drunk cuts himself and you bleed. Mother-in-law hasn’t learned this yet.

So, the Kid has to suffer today - and I am so mad I could spit fire. If there is one thing that really, really pisses me off is when a child is promised time and then loses it because an adult f***s up. I experienced that a lot growing up, which may explain why I’m now living 1200 miles away from those who made those promises.

I hold out little hope that the MiL will understand what she is doing. All I know is that I am angry with myself for allowing my son to be hurt this morning, allowing the poison of alcoholism and codependence to touch him ever so slightly.

It will not be a mistake I do again, and if that means completely cutting him off from his grandmother, then so be it.

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Questioning HIV and Evolution

July 20th, 2006 by Administrator

I’m still wavering on this issue, although I have moved more towards the mainstream view of late. Much of the evidence that I have seen (and can understand) seems to be nipping at the edges and not enough to overturn the current paradigm.

Still, the common equation of those who question the HIV Hyptothesis with Intelligent Designers really annoys me. It’s the intellectual equivalent of running to your mother instead of defending your pet hypothesis. Although I’ll hand it to them: it does put those who question the HIV hypothesis on the defensive.

But take a moment to consider: Evolution has been around in its current form for over 150 years. HIV? I still clearly remember when it was called HTLV just over 20 years ago. Evolution has survived countless debates, bannings, and challenges since it became public: Duesberg’s criticism is only the first challenge to the hypothesis. The evidence of evolution is all around us - from the spread of methicillin resistant staph aureus infections to the breeds of dogs being walked by their owners on city streets. HIV is silent, and the mechanisms behind it only understood by a small cadre of scientists. Evolution is perhaps the single greatest scientific achievement in the entire history of humanity, while HIV is just another disease that kills half the people stroke does - if the HIV hypothesis turns out to be true.

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Silence of the Lambs (Lefties)

July 19th, 2006 by Administrator

At Dean’s World, Aziz takes issue with what some on the Right are characterizing as the Silence of the Left over recent events in Israel’s neighborhood. I too have noticed that NPR has reported relatively little on the conflict during peak drive time. Instead they have run stories about Bush’s planned veto on federally funded stem cell research, and illegal immigrants. They even ran a story about a town posting signs in a fountain warning of “hydrogen” in the water. Meanwhile Israel is taking care of business.

Whenever the Left is silent, I know that something is up. Reality has intruded into their fantasies, and they are forced to spin new theories or push their cognitive dissonance beyond its limits. Similar events happen on the Right - usually involving the personal failings of a favored pol or spokesman (Rush’s chemical abuse is one example that leaps to mind).

What really buggers them is that the actions of Hamas and Hesballah (today’s spelling) are so blatantly warlike. Crossing a border, attacking soldiers, then firing missiles into civilian areas - all from areas that Israel has completely vacated. The hard anti-semitic Left will have no problem making Israel the aggressor in these cases, but it’s much harder for the softer Left - many of whom happen to be Jewish.

Jews and the American Right have never been natural allies. The traditional Right - exemplified by Pat Buchanan and his publication, American Conservative - has never been a strong supporter of Israel and has always encompassed groups with various degrees of anti-semitic views. They have therefore tended to lean leftward traditionally.

However the traditional terms used to describe political ideologies no longer make sense anymore. For example, the strongest anti-semitism is now found on the Left - supporting boycotts of Israel to its outright destruction. It has also become a bastion of intolerance toward Judeo-Christian religions - seeing them as oppressors of more enlightened peoples.

Meanwhile the Religious Right has been vocal in its support of Israel, de-emphasizing its past history of attempted conversion of the Jews while discovering Biblical basis for Israel’s right to exist. Also, the Neo-Conservatives have championed America’s strong support of Israel as a way to protect the US from the anti-American forces in the Middle East - ignoring Israel’s weapon sales of American technology to China.

The silence exists - contrary to what Aziz believes - and it is palpable as the pro-Israel Left comes to terms with an Israel that played by the rules and got hit anyways. One can only hope that many of the Left begin to recognize that what they call Liberalism is nothing of the such, and is more reactionary than anything found on the Right.

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Do you really want to hurt… Hezballah?

July 18th, 2006 by Administrator

Israel airstrikes in Beirut, troops on the march in southern Lebanon. A call for multinational peacekeepers to enforce a cease-fire.
“Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler at the top of the charts.

Current events? Hardly. It’s 1983 all over again. Back then the Israelis were chasing the PLO up the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon. Just before they sent Yassir Arafat to a hero’s martyrdom, the UN prods the French and America to pull his fat out of the fryer.

And what did we get for saving the Palestinian leadership? 241 dead soldiers and sailors thanks to Hezballah - the same outfit that Israel is currently pulverizing. It was also the beginning of the Jihadi teachings that if one hit America hard enough, it would run - which is exactly what it did under Reagan’s leadership.

Have we come for circle? Only if the Israelis fall for international pressure once more. This time Bush is much stronger in his convictions than Reagan was back then. The Gipper saw the world through the lenses of the Cold War - and the “cut and run” strategy made sense at the time. However Bush sees this as an opportunity to really lay the hurt on Iranian-funded terrorists, and wisely has decided to remain on the sidelines as Israel does what it does best: Protects its citizens.

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NY Times: In an About-Face, Sunnis Want U.S. to Remain in Iraq

July 17th, 2006 by Administrator

The New York Dhimmis has a front page story about Sunnis wanting the US military to stay in Iraq.

The Sunni Arab leaders say they have no newfound love for the Americans. Many say they still sympathize with the insurgency and despise the Bush administration and the fact that the invasion has helped strengthen the power of neighboring Iran, which backs the ruling Shiite parties.

But the Sunni leaders have dropped demands for a quick withdrawal of American troops. Many now ask for little more than a timetable. A few Sunni leaders even say they want more American soldiers on the ground to help contain the widening chaos.

Typical Arab cognitive dissonance, sympathizing with the insurgency (which is trying to drive out Americans) yet wanting “more American soldiers on the ground to help contain the widening chaos.”

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Islamic Girls Gone Wild

July 16th, 2006 by Administrator

Hot! Hot! Hot!

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Ministry of Propaganda: Pure Propaganda

July 14th, 2006 by Administrator

Just a note that I have doubled the amount of offerings in the Cafepress store - the Ministry of Propaganda. I have added an entire section devoted to propaganda posters - so feel free to browse the selection. Here’s one of my personal favorites - from a poster telling people to be watchful of the northern border with the Soviet Union:

All of the new designs reflect a new level of professionalism in my photoshopping abilities, thanks to efforts you will find here - in Hell’s Newsstand.

These items are reasonably priced and look pretty cool, if I might say so myself. There are also new anti-Left items in the mainstore so be sure to browse. If you like what you see, pass a link to your friends.

The Ministry of Propaganda - Bringing death to our enemies and the sounds of the lamentations of their women directly to you.

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Israel Unchained

July 13th, 2006 by Administrator

Terrorists are stupid.
When you get right down to it, the only way terrorists survive is by maintaining a low-level of violence - setting off a few bombs here and there that put your name into the papers for a few days or makes your enemy think that it’s easier to give you what you want than to crush you.

It’s hard to maintain that level of violence: enough to keep your fanboys drinking the kool-aid but not too much that tips your enemy into coming at you with guns blazing. In fact, most terror organizations fail. The Red Brigades. Bahder-Meinhoff. FLN. ETA. IRA - a whole slew of acronyms filling up the dustbin of history.

Hamas and Hezbullah are no different. Following quickly on the heels of al-Qaeda whose recruiting slogan should be “Guaranteeing you 72 virgins in 30 minutes or less” , both organizations have left the realm of “acceptable level of violence” that allowed the IRA to survive until the Irish realized that they would rather drink in pubs than blow them up. In short, they have really, really pissed off their enemy who now realizes that it has more to gain by crushing them than in putting up with them.

So as the katyushas fall like rain in Northern Israel, rest assured that once this is over neither organization will resemble what they looked like three weeks ago. Both organizations don’t seem to understand the Rubicon they have crossed, bleating that all they want are some prisoners released. However their actions have convinced Israel, the US, and even their sympathizers the EU and Egypt that they have gone too far and awoken a tiger that they now must face.

Israel is unchained. The United States has removed its bindings on its sibling. Even the EU seems resigned to picking up the pieces - literally - once Israel has done what it must do. The only thing holding Israel back now is itself: Does it have the will to do what must be done? And can it do it quickly - before the anti-Semitic press and human rights organizations gain traction from the dead Arabs.

What must Israel do? The most likely strategy Israel will follow will decapitate the leaders of its enemies, and convince those that survive that Israel’s withdrawal from Southern Lebanon and Gaza were not from terror attacks.
To that end,
1. Hamas leader Khalid Meshal must be killed.
2. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya must disappear.
3. Hezbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah must die.
4. Beshir al-Assad must be weakened - most likely through the destruction of military equipment and bases - if not Syrian infrastructrue.

Beyond that? The ultimate solution would be to ethnically cleanse the West Bank and Gaza - forcing the Palestinians into Jordan and Egypt. This would be the most dangerous strategy politically, but it would force the Palestinians to choose between nothing and something, ending their dream of everything.

Israel must do what it must do and ignore international opinion. It is already a pariah state in the eyes of some, and those who are its friends will continue to back them no matter what it does. International opinion only matters if one cares what foreigners think. Does Iran, North Korea and Cuba care about international opinion? Israel must protect itself, and it has every right to do so. Therefore it must act as the tiger acts.

A tiger does not attack to wound: It attacks to kill.

I don’t think the Jewish people has the stomach for this, but it would end the problem once and for all. Will the Israeli leadership consider this strategy? Only the coming days will tell.

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Latest Dean’s World Postings

July 12th, 2006 by Administrator

Syria Delenda Est
Terrorist Op-Ed In Washington Post
Face Up on the Guillotine - The Democratic Revolution
Swiss: Israel Violating Geneva Conventions
Photoshop Fun
Hamas Kidnaps Israeli Soldier
A True Uniter for the Democratic Party
Terrorists Using Women for Cover
Hope for Virginia and Democrats
Buying an Election in Virginia
Should We Celebrate Zarqawi’s Death
Ann Coulter Calls 9-11 Widows Witches
How NOT to Win Friends and Influence People
Oh Canada…

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