Can We Call You Unpatriotic Now That You're Rooting For Your Own Country To Lose A War? Some of the left-wingers at the Democratic Underground are now openly rooting for Iraq to prevail if we go to war. You have see it to believe it in the latest edition of ACPOTI... (Cont)

Ramsey Clark's Moral Equivalence Gone Mad: Left-winger Ramsey Clark, perhaps upset that he didn't make the "Twenty Most Annoying Liberals List" this year, has said one of the most breathtakingly stupid things I've heard in years...

"The Christian Church overwhelmingly -- there are exceptions -- who choose to call Mohammed a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two."

First off, the "Christian Church overwhelmingly" didn't call Mohammed a terrorist, Jerry Falwell did. While some people, including yours truly, criticized Falwell for that, Mohammed was not all sweetness and light. To the contrary, Mohammed was a man of war who had no qualms about converting people to Islam at the point of a sword. To compare Mohammed's violent life with the life of a man of peace like Jesus or worse yet, to call Jesus a terrorist, is moral equivalence at it's worst.

Clark then went on...

"The greatest moral force there by far is Islam because it is present in the prisons. They're the ones that are respected, they're the ones that are up at up at 5 a.m. and worshiping, they're the ones that are praying five times a day and not ashamed to submit themselves to what they believe is a greater power."

It's great to talk about what a "moral force" Islam is, but there's a problem. You see, maybe 10-15% of that "moral force", the radical Islamists, don't find it morally objectionable to slaughter people who disagree with them. Now while the rest of that "moral force" may not have those same radical beliefs, sympathy from "moderate" Muslims for radicals is commonplace. Look to the wide support for Palestinian terrorism and Osama Bin Laden in the Islamic world if you don't believe that. So while Islam and the majority of its practitioners are not our enemies, trying to pretend that Islam is the "greatest moral force there by far is" sounds ludicrous in a world where we have terrorists & dictators committing atrocity after atrocity in the name of Islam with few voices within the Islamic community being raised against them. That's reality, something which Ramsey Clark and the rest of his ilk in the anti-war movement have great difficulty facing.

Disturbing Video Game Of The Year: The content of video games has never been a big issue with me. I loved the carnage of Doom, gunning down drug dealers in the street playing Narc, and dispatching my opponents with gory fatalities playing Mortal Kombat. But the Hentai games they're making overseas are SCARY as you're about to see.

Something Awful, which is a tremendously funny (although very raunchy) humor website, regularly makes fun of hentai games. The latest one they've torn into is called, "Battle Raper: HYPER REALACTION."

As the name implies, the game is about defeating your opponents in combat and then raping them. Zack Parsons from SA desribes some of the action...

"If you are playing as Zenon you can also "face rape" your opponent in a scene where each time you jam their head down onto Zenon's invisible penis tears stream down their cheeks. I honestly thought I would never see the day when polygonal characters wept as their face was raped, even in Hentai games. Thankfully, I guess, Zenon is immune to these attacks."

Against the game's "boss" character....

"When Zenon beats you it will show a lovely movie of your character being raped by him. This is a reward for fighting him I guess."

Once you win the game, more rape related material is made available to you...

"Once you beat the game with all of the characters you unlock all of the rape cut scenes, rape-related rendered stills, and molestation sequences for your future amusement."

Apparently this game does have at least some sort of following as well since a search on Google for the words "battle raper" pulls up 810 entries. Here are some comments from people who played the game that I found on a gaming page...

bob the pedo: "i lovew this game it has inspired me so much! i have learnt so many new tricks, and i think its about time i go out and try some out myself. Oh theres a woman now... here goes nothing!"

zenon: "This is a very innovative game. The battles are a bit waek but the adult part is the best. Best of all you get to relook movies and pics and most importantly rescrew the girls after you've won. check it out!!"

Dr. J: "...The point in this realtime molestation? Its to do 'damage' and to make them 'weak' and 'tired' enough for the male character to rape them. It's all very funny and i think that many people will enjoy this."

Nice huh? I shudder to think of a generation of kids growing up who think nothing of playing games that feature violent beatings followed by rapes. Judging by the number of these games that are out there, it looks like it may already be happening in Japan. Give it a decade, if that, and it wouldn't surprise me if it happens here as well.

Driver's License? Slap The Cuffs On 'Em Instead: Giving driver's licenses to people who obviously have no respect for our laws is a terrible idea. So someone tell that to the police in Georgia...

"Gone are the days when law-enforcers were at odds with law-breakers. Now a cadre of police chiefs has come out in favor of rewarding illegal aliens. That's correct. Several police chiefs in Georgia - including chief of Atlanta - want driver's licenses given to illegal aliens. They are supporting a bill, introduced by a Democrat in the Georgia legislature, that would give licenses to illegal aliens."

We shouldn't let illegal aliens have driver's licenses, use our schools, work in our country, or do anything here other than receive emergency medical care. Giving these people driver's licenses or anything that makes their life here more comfortable just encourages more people to enter our country illegally. Moreover, we need to start getting the police involved in rounding up illegals, instead of standing by while they advocate aiding and abetting people who've broken our immigration laws.

What Benefit Did The Japanese Get From Supposedly Bombing Pearl Harbour?: It has been too long since the last version of ACPOTI (anyone can post on the internet). So, I decided to head over to the AlterNet Forums looking for posts worthy of inclusion in the ACPOTI archives. Well, AlterNet didn't disappoint -- and neither will the weirdness and paranoia in the latest edition of "anyone can post on the internet"...

Good...Bad...Bush Will Be Holding The Smoking Gun In Feb: I'm sure some people are already starting to worry that Bush isn't going to order an invasion of Iraq in Feb. After all, the UN inspectors said today that, "there's no "smoking gun" to prove Iraq has nuclear, chemical or biological weapons." Also today it's being said that, "Britan is pressing for war against Iraq to be delayed for several months, possibly until the autumn, to give weapons inspectors more time to provide clear evidence of new violations by Saddam Hussein."

But, there's no need to sweat it, Hussein has already violated the latest UN Resolution seven ways from Sunday. We already know Hussein claimed that he has no weapons of mass destruction and didn't explain what happened to the weapons he had before. Buried in the latest story (linked above) about there being, "no smoking gun" it's been revealed that Hussein has been refusing to give the inspectors full access to Iraqi scientists and has "imported missile engines and raw material for the production of solid missile fuel in violation of UN resolution." Then we have to consider that Hussein breached the resolution by firing at our planes and despite claims to the contrary, the UN inspectors have already found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that haven't been destroyed (mustard gas in artillery shells for those who have forgotten).

So when you couple all those breaches with the Resolution from Congress that Bush has, he has the authority to go to war if he so chooses..and he will with or without the UN (it'll be with however). Even if Bush weren't inclined to invade Iraq, he doesn't have much of a choice at this point. We can't afford to have all those troops sitting around in the desert twiddling their thumbs indefinitely, certainly not until Autumn. Moreover, politically Bush can't afford to drag his feet anymore. There are lot of people in the GOP who wanted to hit Iraq this summer and there are plenty more who thought it was a mistake to go through the UN to begin with. So if early Feb comes and goes and it looks like nothing is happening except more pointless inspections, a lot of Conservatives are going to start turning on Bush and his commitment to the war on terrorism will be questioned. As Trent Lott could probably tell you, having your own party turn on you is a terrible thing indeed. That's why we're going to Iraq soon, come Hell or high water. The only likely thing I can think of that could possibly stop us would be if Saddam and his sons abdicated. There are rumors about that floating around right now, but it's hard to tell how much credence to give them.

So never fear, Saddam's days are numbered and he'll be blown to bits, locked up in a cell, or taking the next twenty years off in some Middle-Eastern backwater sooner rather than later.

Suggest Some Music: This is a little off the beaten track for RWN, but I have to admit that I'm a little bored with the music I'm listening to right now. So how about giving me some suggestions? Give me a band you like, the type of music they play, and a couple of songs and I'll see if I can add some new music to my repository.

***Update***: Just for entertainment value, here is the current playlist I'm listening to right now...

- Uncle Kracker -- What you lookin at?
- Pink -- Don't let me get me
- Britney Spears -- Overprotected
- Christina Aguilera -- Dirty
- Dope -- Die MF Die
- Fun Lovin' Criminals -- Scooby snacks
- Dope -- You spin me right round
- Lynrd Skynrd -- Sweet home Alabama
- Grateful Dead -- Touch of grey
- No Doubt -- Hella good
- Insane Clown Posse - Hokus pokus
- New Order -- Bizarre love triangle
- Toby Keith -- Courtesy of the red, white, and blue
- Dynamite Hack -- Gin and juice
- Rage Against The Machine -- Darkness
- The Cure -- Strange attraction
- Godsmack - I stand alone
- Lindsey Buckingham - Go insane
- Rob Zombie - Never gonna stop me
- Atari Teenage Riot -- San Dimas high school football rules
- Lady of Peace -- Clumsy

The Washington Post On 'Wedge Driver' George Bush: The lefties at the Washington Post have written an editorial claiming that President Bush is a "wedge driver", is "spoiling for combat", is launching an "all-out war", and is seeking "ugly combat".

What could W. have done to make the Washington Post flip out like this? Did he call Al Gore a "robotic, tree-hugging enviro-weenie"? Did he sign an executive order that forced the Democrats to turn their national headquarters into a hog farm?

No, no, he did something much worse -- he "resubmitted the nominations of U.S. District Judge Charles W. Pickering Sr. of Mississippi and Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla R. Owen to positions on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit" and he "proposed an economic plan so steeped in conservative ideology as to dampen any possibility of early bipartisan compromise on a stimulus program."

Well, imagine that -- when a Republican President proposes a Conservative economic plan and insists that his Conservative judges get a fair hearing in front of the full Senate he's starting a "partisan war." It's especially galling to hear the Washington Post complain about Owen and Pickering since both of them had their good names smeared and were denied votes in front the full Senate for no other reason than because both of them were Conservatives.

I'll be on the look out for a similar editorial from the "fair and balanced" Washington Post the next time the Democrats propose something that most Republicans are strongly against. I'm sure I'll be looking for a long time...

PS: Here's a great editorial that details the unconscionable way the Democrats have twisted Pickering's decision in a KKK related trial around so they can attack him as a racist.

Do Vegetarians Taste Like Chicken? (By Ron Marr): Being a Southern boy, I like chicken. I like it baked or broiled or broasted or barbecued. It's hard to beat a mess of fowl that's been soaked in buttermilk, rolled in corn meal and dunked in the deep fryer. I've never been quite certain whether or not chicken prepared in this manner really tastes like chicken - you could probably batter-fry the backseat of a Chevy and receive a similar gustatory sensation - but that's beside the point. (Cont)

Hey Elliot Ness, Prohibition Is Over: I guess they've solved every real crime in Northern Virginia because the police are so bored that they have nothing better to do than to harass law abiding citizens who are having a few drinks with their friends...

"During the holiday period, undercover agents went to 20 bars in Reston and Herndon looking for examples of bartenders "overserving" customers. Police ultimately raided three bars and arrested nine patrons who failed sobriety tests. They were charged with public drunkenness and spent the night in jail.

Police consider the operation a success and said they would consider doing it again. Lt. Tor Bennett, assistant commander of the Reston District station, described it as a "low-key" operation designed to stop drunks before they got behind the wheel."

What the hell is going on in America when we have the police arresting people for failing sobriety tests in a bar? And here's some more info on this "low-key" abuse of power by the Fairfax police...

"At Champs in Reston, general manager Kevin O'Hare described police as "antagonistic." He said they "pulled" people from their chairs who were making no commotion. "They're always welcome to come in anytime," he said of police. "It's not an issue when they talk to our guests. But when they actually pull people out of their seats, it is an issue. When it's borderline harassment, it's an issue."

One man who was arrested during one of the police raids acknowledged having several drinks during the course of the afternoon, but said he was not driving or acting unruly as he sat at a table with several work colleagues. He had just finished singing "Jingle Bell Rock" on the karaoke machine when an officer asked him to step outside. He failed a breath test and was taken in a van to jail."

Every person who was arrested should have the charges against them dropped and should receive sincere apology from the police. Then the bureaucrat who came up with this idea should be fired. When that's complete, the police in Fairfax County should find some real criminals to bust instead hounding people who are just trying to drink a few adult beverages in peace.

Column Of The Day: Former General Dick Hawley gave a memorable speech that's been written up as a column on Frontpage Magazine. Here are just a few quotes from this excellent article...

"Here's the truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already: Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half-measures lead to more violence. However, complete, fully-thought-through, professional, well-executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead."

"Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After all," they reasoned, "you can see a license plate from 200 miles away." This is very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate."

"Let's please all stop singing "We Are the World" for a minute and think practically. I don't want to be sitting on the floor in the back of a plane four seconds away from hitting Mt. Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the guy next to me to say, "Well, at least we didn't offend them."

Read the entire editorial, it's worth your time.

***Update***: Actually, it appears that this editorial was written almost a year ago by Larry Miller. However, Gen Hawley did weigh in on this column and for the most part, he echoed what it had to say.

You Missed The Call -- I'm Going To Sue!: This idiocy just makes my head hurt...

"A New Jersey lawmaker wants the National Football League to make restitution for a botched call made during the New York Giants' playoff game on Sunday.

"New Jersey taxpayers may have been cheated of tax revenue the state would have earned from players' income and other Giants-related enterprises had the team advanced in the playoffs," Impreveduto said in his letter to George Zoffinger, the sports authority president."

This is the sort of "lawsuit culture" the Democrats and the trial lawyers have fought to create. The refs blew a call? Well, then the NFL owes New Jersey a Super Bowl and they have to replace the tax revenue that would have resulted from a Giant playoff run IF the Giants successfully kicked that field goal.

Maybe the trial lawyers can kick a few thousand dollars into Impreveduto's campaign coffers for coming up with this. Just think of all the opportunities this could open up from a parasitic trial lawyer's perspective. Did a holding call cost your team a touchdown? Did an umpire call your clean-up hitter out on strikes even though the ball appeared to be a quarter of an inch outside of the strike zone? Did your soccer team get cheated...OK...soccer is lame..bad example, but you get the idea.

Hopefully, New Jersey will come to their senses and squash this lawsuit before it gets started and even if they don't, you have to hope it'll get laughed out of the court room. Having lawyers filing lawsuits over what happens on the field in Pro Sports doesn't help anyone in the long run -- except the trial lawyers who make their money by siphoning it out of everyone else's pockets.

Michael Moore: A Psychological Analysis: I punched something up about the latest embarrassing incident featuring Michael Moore, but it lacked a certain pizzazz. Maybe it's just that hearing Moore say something dumb isn't surprising anymore, you know, it's just another "dog bites man" story. But Rachel Lucas had an interesting take on the situation and agreed to let me publish her editorial on RWN. Read and enjoy...

Bush Is A Dummy?: I was reading Taegan Goddard's Political Wire and I came across a post about a book called, " Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George...". Apparently, the theme of this book is that George Bush is nothing but a puppet in the hands of Karl Rove. Here are a few quotes from the book description on Amazon...

"Many Washington insiders believe that the strength of the Bush machine lies not in its leader but in Karl Rove..."

"...Political journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater offer a rare glimpse into the man who has become the single most important advisor to George W. Bush--and the person who many think is calling the shots at the White House."

Of course, Karl Rove is a competent and smart guy, that's why Bush has him as an adviser. But the idea that Rove is actually running the show is laughable. Keep in mind, Bush's had another influential adviser when he started in the White House, Karen Hughes, and she's now sitting at home in Texas. If Rove had left and Hughes were still in Washington, guys like Moore and Slater would be writing a book about her. You know why? The left can't admit that they misjudged George W. Bush.

You see the left stereotypes someone in every Republican White House as, "stupid". They said Reagan was stupid, they said Quayle was stupid, and when Bush came in they claimed he was an idiot too. It's just another standard play in the big book of Democratic game plans. It's like claiming, "that tax cut only benefits the rich", "the Republicans are going to cut your social security", "Republicans are racists," all the same bilge that they repeat like parrots no matter who's in office. In Bush's case, they focused incessantly on little gaffes in his speeches to try to prove their theorem correct. Then we were treated to a bunch of numskulls screaming "Bush is an idiot" over and over just like they yell, "It's a war for oil" today. Eventually, there was enough repetition of the whole, "Bush is brainless" theme that the left became convinced it was true.

But, there was one problem...Bush kept outsmarting the Democrats again and again. Bush's popularity grew to astronomical levels after 9/11 and never went below 60% and then suddenly nothing the Democrats tried was working. They repeated "Enron, Bush & Scandal," cried "tax cuts for the rich", and then eventually complained that Bush needed to go through Congress to go to Iraq -- which they didn't think he was going to do. So then, Bush pulls off one of the most impressive feats of political aikido I've ever seen by doing exactly what the Democrats wanted. He went to Congress & he went to the UN & got exactly what he wanted. Then he hit the campaign trail for his party and helped usher in Republican control of the House.

So now the Democrats have a problem -- because they might think Bush is dummy, but even they have to admit that he sure doesn't act like it. So do they admit that they were wrong? Oh no, instead they've decided that Karl Rove is the puppeteer who's pulling W.'s strings. That way they can account for the fact that W. keeps pulling off these deft political maneuvers and they can keep their little fictional persona of "W the Dummy" alive. Hey, that works for me. The more the Democrats underrate W., the more opportunities he has to take advantage of it. So let the left keep writing their books about Rove is pulling W.'s strings & creating their little urban legends, it makes it that much easier for the right to keep winning elections.

Look Baby, I Know You Love Animals But...: As K. In Men In Black said, "This has GOT to be a nine-point-oh on my weird-sh*t-o-meter." Meet Allison Adams, animal enthusiast...you may notice something strange about her. Yes, she's the woman with possums & squirrels writhing around in her bra =D...

"The baby possums are easier to put up with in your brassiere than the baby squirrels, says Allison Adams of Round Rock.

"The hardest to deal with in my bra are the squirrels," said Allison, 23. "The possums are actually the easiest. They're adorable, beautiful little animals, and since they're used to being in a pouch with their mom, they're used to the feeling. The squirrels, they're not used to it. They're moving around, and every once in a while you hear them squeaking.

Can you imagine this from the baby squirrels perspective? No wonder they're squeaking...

"So what's the record number of baby animals in her bra at one time? "The most I've had at one time was 12," Allison said, speaking of a passel of young possums. "I was living in Killeen at the time, so it was for about an hour and a half, two hours."

Allison, who works at the Northwest Animal Clinic in Georgetown, puts baby animals in her bra regularly. She figures over the past six years she's stuck baby possums, squirrels, kittens or cottontail rabbits in her bra a total of 75 times."

Oh and just in case you thought she does this for five minutes at a time....

"I can walk around all day long with them in there," she said. "When we're going somewhere, I mean, it's unrealistic to keep them in the car in a carrier for four or five hours. They get cold."

Heck, she's even got a fiance...

"By the way, Allison is engaged. So how does her fiancé feel about it? "Everybody has to ask that," she said. "Well, it's kind of a stunner when I come home and he goes to hug me, and he can't, because I have hissing possums. But I guess you get used to that."

This guy must be a saint, because personally, I wouldn't even date Mariah Carey if she kept possums in her bra all day long. This replaces "having hairy legs" on my list of "most repulsive habits" for women...

Is After-School Detention A Human Rights Violation?: You may not believe this, but the following Paragraph appears in the Independent, not on a satire website like The Onion or Broken Newz

"After-school detention for pupils has been banned in hundreds of schools across Scotland amid fears that the punishment could be in breach of human rights."

Snicker, snicker...but it gets better =D

"The move is in response to a lawsuit filed by a 15-year-old girl who claims the detention she received while a pupil at Speyside High School in Aberlour, Banffshire, seriously disrupted her education and violated her human rights.

...The teenager, who is being represented by Cameron Fyfe, one of Scotland's leading civil rights lawyers, claims that repeated detentions disrupted her education and prevented her from attending school until her teachers and headmaster agreed in writing to respect her civil rights."

Imagine if this spread to the US. I can just see Johnny Cochran standing in a day care center somewhere going, "My client lost 10 minutes of his life in "time-out" because he allegedly said Tommy Barnes was a "poopiehead." Well, I've met Tommy Barnes, and if any five year old could accurately be called a "poopiehead", it's him. We don't want to have to take this to a court of law so my client has agreed to settle if you'll take him to Chuckie Cheese tonight, let him stay up an hour late, and pay the $500,000 in lawyer's fees he owes. I'll give you ten minutes to think it over..."

The Bush Speech On The Economy: GWB's speech today on the economy was so chock full 'o' goodness that I thought I should point out some quotes of note from the speech....

For those who claim this tax cut only helps the rich

"We also know that middle-income families need additional relief. So today, I'm asking Congress to speed up three other tax reductions promised in 2001, tax reductions that will help our middle-income families. Instead of slowly reducing the marriage penalty until 2009, we should do it now to help 35 million married couples.

A family of four with two earners and $39,000 in income will receive more than $1,100 in tax relief. Real money to help pay the bills and push the economy forward."

Time to move Bush's last tax cuts forward

"Americans today are paying about a third of their income in taxes. All of this puts pressure on family budget, and, therefore, clouds our economic future. Americans facing these struggles are due to receive additional tax relief in 2004 and again in 2006. Republicans and Democrats in Congress already approved these tax rate reductions, and the time to deliver the tax rate reductions is now when they can do the most good for the American businesses. (Applause) For the sake of economic vitality, I'm asking Congress to make all the tax rate reductions effective this year. Upon passage, I will order the Treasury Department to immediately adjust the amount of money withheld for income taxes so that Americans will keep more of their paychecks right away."

Refuting the claim that Bush's tax cut won't stimulate the economy

Taken together these income tax cuts will put an additional $70 billion to work in the private economy over the next 18 months. And there's no better way to help our economy grow than to leave more money in the hands of the men and women who earned it."

Other proposals of significance from the speech

"As it is now, many investments are taxed not once, but twice. First, the IRS taxes the company who owns the profit, then it taxes the investors who received the profits as dividends. The result of this double taxation is that for all the profit a company earns, shareholders who receive dividends keep as little as 40 cents on the dollar. Double taxation is bad for our economy. Double taxation is wrong. Double taxation falls especially hard on retired people.

So today, for the good of our senior citizens and to support capital formation across the land, I am asking the United States Congress to abolish the double taxation of dividends."

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"Currently, tax law permits small firms to write off as expenses up to $25,000 worth of equipment; buy computers or machinery that they need. I'm asking the Congress to raise that limit to $75,000 and index that number for inflation.

This change, together with the faster rate reductions, will benefit more than 23 million small-business owners. My view is this economy can thrive only if our small businesses thrive, and we will provide them every incentive to grow and create more jobs."

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"Under this new program, Americans who face the greatest difficulties in finding work will receive up to $3,000 to use in their job search. They will have great flexibility in how they use that money. A person with a reemployment account will be able to decide whether to use the funds for job training or child care or transportation or even to cover the cost of relocating to another city for a new job.

As we see new economic growth we will need well-trained workers to fill new jobs, so I'm going to ask the Congress to provide $3.6 billion to the states to pay for the reemployment accounts, enough money to help more than a million unemployed men and women across America."

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Personally, I like everything GWB came up with here except perhaps the extra unemployment benefits. Otherwise, this is a crackerjack proposal and I'd love to see it rocket through Congress. I can see the House passing this fairly quickly but the Democrats in the Senate will put up more of a fight....

More Fark Comments About Annoying Liberals: ZCPortal got my The Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States For 2002 linked on Fark...again. Here are the two most entertaining comments from the 692+ post thread...

From the Right...

Heuer: "For one last time: How Bush Stole the Election

This rant may not be rebroadcast without the implied oral consent of Major League Baseball."

From the Left...

Judasdiomedes: Jimmy Carter as the worst Liberal? You may say he was a lousy president, but the man has been a farking saint ever since..a far better man than president, which is much better than can be said about most other presidents. Being against Carter is equivalent to opposing compassion.

***Update***: Bill Doty from ZCPortal told me that he received the following as part of a reader survey...

"What is your favorite story? 20 Most Annoying Liberals

Comments: Not really, this is my very first visit. I heard about your site from a radio dj at WBT radio in Charlotte, NC. He read off the list of the 20 annoying liberals and gave your web address on the air. I kept rehashing it repeatedly until I could get home and get online where I bookmarked it for future reading."

WBT is my home town talk radio station. I'd love to know which talk radio host actually read that article on the air. If any of you came over from ZCPortal, which apparently pulled more than 30,000 hits off of the article by the way, and actually heard a host on the air talking about it, I'd love to know.

Time For Transfer To Be Put On The Table: I have long been of the opinion that Israel needs to put the option of transferring the Palestinians on the table. If the Palestinians are forced to confront the possibility that they will lose their state permanently then they will begin to get serious about living in peace with Israel long-term...or they'll be driven out of the "disputed territories" at the point of a gun. Either option would be better than the current situation as far as I'm concerned. But, I really have heard very little support for actually transferring the Palestinians aside from Dick Armey's comments several months ago. But today, Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder weighed in on Jewish World Review...

"For the first time in fifty years we have again become a lost, confused, helpless and paralyzed people. Somehow we have resigned ourselves to suffer the constant killing of our people, like another but slower Holocaust. We have paralyzed ourselves by our sickening irrational fear of "World Opinion," which is why we find it impossible to face one simple fact. We will never win this war unless we immediately threaten to drive every Arab out of Israel if the killing doesn't stop.

It is about time we realize that public opinion is nothing but publicly expressed anti-Semitism and appeasing public opinion makes as much sense as Chamberlain's appeasement of Adolf Hitler. Jews dying in Israel disturbs them as much as watching your neighbor killing a cockroach, even if it doesn't fill you with pleasure you certainly don't feel remorse about it. That is why when suicide bombers kill hundreds of Jews not a word of protest is ever heard, but when we try to defend ourselves by retaliating against our killers the U.N. immediately is called in an emergency session to protect our assassins."

That's dead on and agree with it completely. My only question is, "What's taking people so long to figure this out?"

Why Is The War On Terrorism Not Just About Al-Queda?: I was actually going to use this killer quote from Jonah Goldberg about terrorism in an editorial I'm writing, but it didn't end up fitting in. However, it's such a magnificent quote that I thought it deserved a mention even if it is a few months old. In a nutshell, this explains why we're going after Saddam, why the mullahs in Iran have to fall, why Israel must be allowed to do their work in the Disputed territories, why Hizbollah has to be destroyed, etc. All of it is summed up in one little metaphor about a nest of scorpions...

If a scorpion sneaks into your house and bites your child, you kill the scorpion. That's a no-brainer. But if you believe "something like this must never happen again" then you also go out in the yard and kill the other scorpions. You also kill rattlesnakes and black widow spiders, and maybe you even get a new alarm system and a child safety seat for your car. In other words, you do every reasonable thing you can. Imagine telling your wife, "Honey, I know there's that huge scorpion nest out in the yard, but I killed the scorpion responsible. Can you prove that the other scorpions had anything to do with the one that bit little Timmy?"

Destroying Hussein and the rest of the global terrorist network isn't about revenge for 9/11, it's about making sure it doesn't happen again. On 9/11 it was al-Queda, next year it may be Hamas, the year after that it may be Hizbollah, after that it could be a group that doesn't even exist today. In a world where outlaw states that support these groups have access to weapons of mass destruction, that's unacceptable. So these groups and any regimes that insist on continuing to support them must be wiped off the face of the Earth. That won't be easy, quick, or clean but it a necessity if we're going to avoid terrorist attacks that could cost millions of American lives.

Changes To RWN: Some of you may have noticed that I've added a "Support" section on the left-hand side of the page. Currently, I have books from Amazon you can buy, a wish list, and an Ebay sign-up that will make me $5 per person who signs up. I'm also planning to add a PayPal button so you can contribute directly to the page. There are a couple of other advertising options I'm planning to do later (not pop-ups for those of you who are wondering).

Next week-end, I'm planning to add a search feature, an area for graphics, & archives (I hope). I'm also going to put up a section dedicated to refuting liberal lies that are brought up again and again. Like "This is a war for oil", "George Bush used cocaine", John Ashcroft has a "Camp plan", etc, etc. First, I'll post the lie, then I'll post links to articles that effectively refute it. Think of it as a small, Conservative "Snopes" area for RWN. Feel free to make suggestions for lies you'd like to see refuted and/or articles that would work well with the concept I'm developing.

Last but not least, we've just put together another banner ad which you can see here. Thanks to Ozrael from the The Electric Reel and Marc Miyake from Amaravati: Abode Of Amritas for their help in putting together the ad.

***Update***: Ah, the irony. I've now been linked by talk radio powerhouse Neal Boortz twice -- and neither article was on Right Wing News at the time. The first time was on the now defunct, "Brass Knuckles Webzine." The Talkmeister then linked my Politically Correct Fairy Tales article. Today, Neal Boortz linked my The Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States For 2002 editorial at ZCPortal. Considering the amount of traffic I'm getting off the link on ZCPortal, Boortz must be sending mega-traffic over there.

Spot On Description Of The Democrats: Wow, I have to give it to IMAO for about the best description I've ever seen of how most Democrats on Capitol Hill argue..

"But, if Democrats always use the same response to certain stimuli (like mention of tax cuts or social security reform), that sounds like the perfect thing to automate. I think I could build a robotic Democrat (must... resist... obvious Gore joke...) that could perform the same function as any Democratic politician on a talk show. All I would have to do is take a manequin that could be made to sit up in a chair and then insert a microphone, speaker, and a simple computer system running voice recognition software. It will scan the speech of the Republican he's it's supposed to be debating, and then start repeating in a loop its standard response.

Once I've produced a prototype, I can then pitch it to news organizations as a replacement for getting an actual Democrat politician on their show. This will remove all the costs associated with having to book Democrats on their programs and allow them to immediately have a Democratic response to any major issue. I think I could make a bundle."

Toss in a few lines like, "that's a racist code word," & "that sounds like a risky scheme" and you've got most of the Democratic party up in Washington except for a few Southern Democrats.

RWN's 100 Favorite Movie Quotes Of All Time: I've asked for suggestions, combed the net, & wracked my brain to come up with my 100 Favorite Movie Quotes Of All Time. After much work, it's finally complete. Read and enjoy...