Happy New Year!
December 31, 2007 by Joe
I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year.
Here’s some Jimi Hendrix.
Impeachment fever at an all-time high in Vermont
December 29, 2007 by Joe
It’s no surprise that this news is coming out of the state in which socialist forces have created the closest thing to a communist utopia you will find in the U.S. this side of a Hillary Clinton Presidency. A group in Brattleboro, Vermont is pushing to add a proposal to a town meeting agenda in March that would make President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest and indictment if they visit the southeastern Vermont community.
Leading the impeachment parade in Vermont is the raspberry beret wearing leftinista pictured to your left, Kurt Daims, 54, a retired machinist. According to the Castro look-a-like in the raspberry beret, “This petition is as radical as the Declaration of Independence, and it draws on that tradition in claiming a universal jurisdiction when governments fail to do what they’re supposed to do.”
Vermont’s very own raspberry beret wearing Fidel Castro wannabe has been passing out documents that claim the community should acquire a “universal jurisdiction” to, you know, be above the law and impeach the President and Vice President without due process of the law, and no valid reason what-so-ever.
Hat tip: the Bashman
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Hello Kitty goes metrosexual
December 29, 2007 by Joe
I’m sure that almost everyone has seen Hello Kitty, the annoyingly too-cute marketing phenomenon created by the Japanese and now spread all throughout the world. Originally aimed at pre-adolescent girls, the Hello Kitty logo has gone on to adorn products for girls of all ages.
In Japan, Hello Kitty is no longer viewed as merely for young girls, but is equally popular with teenagers and even adults who like the sweet, cute and girly image. This expanded market is reflected by the sale of Hello Kitty adult underwear and even vibrators. Hello Kitty items in the USA include luggage tags, posters, purses, cosmetics, stickers, and jewelry.
Now comes the news that starting next month Japan’s Sanrio Co., the creators of the Hello Kitty brand, will be offering a line of Hello Kitty products targeting young men.
I bet this is going to be Huge in San Francisco.
TOKYO (AP) — Hello Kitty is no sexist.
The cute cuddly white cat from Japan’s Sanrio Co., usually seen on toys and jewelry for girls and young women, will soon don T-shirts, bags, watches and other products targeting young men, company spokesman Kazuo Tohmatsu said Friday.
“We think Hello Kitty is accepted by young men as a design statement in fashion,” he said.
The feline for-men products will go on sale in Japan next month, and will be sold soon in the U.S. and other Asian nations, according to Sanrio.
The usual bubble-headed shape of Hello Kitty was slightly changed for a more rugged, cool look to appeal to men in their teens and early 20s.
For example, a picture of the cat on a $36 black T-shirt has the words, “hello kitty,” instead of the usual dots for the eyes and nose.
Hello Kitty is one of mascot-obsessed Japan’s biggest “character” hits, decorating everything from a humble eraser to a $48,000 diamond necklace.
The planned products mark the first time Sanrio is developing Hello Kitty items especially for males, Tohmatsu said.
But Sanrio had tried a “limited edition” collaboration in men’s clothing with designers in Tokyo’s chic Harajuku section earlier this year, and they proved popular, he said.
“Young men these days grew up with character goods,” said Tohmatsu. “That generation feels no embarrassment about wearing Hello Kitty.”
I just hope that this disgusting fad of mass-marketed gender reassignment stays in Japan. What’s next Barbie dolls for boys? Any father that allows their son to wear or own Hello Kitty products, should have his parental rights revoked.
Canada, Islam and the War on Freedom
December 28, 2007 by Joe
Photo courtesy of Red Planet Cartoons
One of the greatest ideas, if not the single most defining ideal, of Western culture is the value of freedom of speech. Unfortunately, for the rest of the Western World, the United States of America is the only Western country that has this basic human right built right into its constitution — via the First Amendment.
Earlier this month the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), had announced that it had filed a complaint with three “human rights commissions” in Canada against Maclean’s a Canadian weekly newsmagazine and Mark Steyn, author of a October 2006 piece in the magazine that the CIC had issue with.
The CIC accuse Maclean’s and Steyn, of advocating the idea that Islamic culture is incompatible with Canada’s liberalized, Western civilization. They insist that this is not the case and want opinions that express that banned from publication.
Two separate groups, one Provincial and one National, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and the Canadian Human Rights Commission, have agreed to hear the case.
The article that has caused this outrage, adapted from Mark Steyn’s book America Alone, which argues that Western society is on the verge of destruction, by unassimilated Muslim immigration.
While I admit that this idea is somewhat controversial, I do agree with Steyn’s work and further believe that America Alone is one of the most important books written in recent years.
The problem is that the CIC’s complaints and the “human rights commissions” agreeing to hear the case only serves to prove Mark Steyn’s point. Muslims who immigrate to Western countries, at an alarming rate, refuse to accept the values of those Western countries.
The banning of opinions, even ones that may not be “popular,” go against everything that Western culture’s notion of freedom of speech stands for. Mark Steyn is right, through reverse assimilation Islam is gradually conquering the West. Unfortunately for Canada, they have seemed to fail to realize this — I just hope the same doesn’t happen here in America.
Merry Christmas
December 24, 2007 by Joe
I just want to wish everyone who reads this a very Merry Christmas for you and your families.
Here’s some Trans-Siberia Orchestra
The “Moral” Political Quiz
December 24, 2007 by Joe
Not that I felt I needed confirmation in this, but it is confirmed — I’m a Conservative.
I never really take too much stock in these online political quizzes, though I do rather enjoy taking them. I found an interesting one which touts itself as a “morality-based political test.” Now I’m not sure what the designers of the test would infer about my morality, via my results — but the results did confirm something that I already knew. I am a Conservative — and according to the quiz more particularly what it refers to as an “Extreme Conservatism.”
According to the results I scored 4 on the Moral Order axis and -7.5 on the Moral Rules axis. Which specifically on the grid, put me dead center between “Economic Conservatism” and “Extreme Conservatism.” It listed Ronald Reagan as the closest out of U.S. Presidents to my political beliefs.
Interestingly enough out of the 399169 people who took the test, only 0.3% scored the same as me.
There are two versions the short and the long, I took the long one.
I’ll take a little more stock in this one, because according to the main page:
This test is (or at least tries to be) a different political test. Most tests assess your opinion by questioning your stance on political issues. This test explains why you think what you think by mapping your personal moral system. Moral views are the major factors that influence political opinions. Every political stance can be explained by one’s moral position on the inner value of human beings and their role in society.
Christmas message from Fred Thompson
December 22, 2007 by Joe
Another Liberal Endorsement for the Huckster
December 22, 2007 by Joe
The Governor of my home State, “Tax ‘em” Ted Strickland has said he likes “Tax Hike” Mike Huckabee.
But he’s the kind of combination of conservative views in some ways, but very, almost liberal views in other ways. He’s a very socially compassionate man who obviously has concern for the poor and the working middle class, while at the same time, having rather conservative views when it comes to a matter like abortion or gay marriage. … I think of all the Republican candidates, Mr. Huckabee would be my personal choice.
It is no surprise that one proponent of a big-government nanny state would support another proponent of a big-government nanny state — liberals stick together.
7-year old girl about Huckabee “I thought he’d be reading at a higher level.”
December 22, 2007 by Joe
The Huckster, whom supports would have you think doesn’t do any pandering, recently went pandering in West Des Moines Iowa where he came across little 7-year old Aleya Deatsch.
“Who is your favorite author?” Aleya Deatsch, 7, of West Des Moines asked Mr. Huckabee in one of those posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa moments.
Mr. Huckabee paused, then said his favorite author was Dr. Seuss.
In an interview afterward with the news media, Aleya said she was somewhat surprised. She thought the candidate would be reading at a higher level.
“My favorite author is C. S. Lewis,” she said.
I’m surprised he didn’t answer God because he wrote the Bible. Seriously though, I’m not surprised that he picked the leftist-leaning author of The Lorax and The Butter Battle Book. After all, the Huckster himself leans to the left.
Kill the terrorists. Protect the border. Punch the hippies.
December 21, 2007 by Joe
Why do I support Fred Thompson in his run for the nomination of the Republican Party and ultimately for the office of President? It’s simple really, I’m a Conservative and Fred Thompson is not just the only Conservative currently running for President… but he is hands down the best choice to be President out of all the other options out there.
That, and this video is cool.
Hat tip: IMAO
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