Expat Texan

Examining the cause of ALL the world’s ills.

Prior to July 4, 1776, not a single person in the world starved, got sick, worked hard for a living, or experienced any pain and anxiety. No one had ever been oppressed or unfairly exploited because the oppressive and unfair American system had not yet been created.

Since the beginning of time employment had been equally guaranteed to anyone who cared to work, along with an equal pay of exactly $1,000 a week regardless of outcome, occupation, or the geographical area. All work was equally pleasant and enjoyable. Those who chose not to work also received $1,000 a week in unemployment compensation and Union benefits. Other guaranteed people’s rights included the right to housing and free universal health care, as well as the right to 100% literacy through federally funded public education.

Problem is, I can’t tell if it’s a parody……..

Well, at least progressive leftist people.

Hating George W. Bush is not only dull and unoriginal, but it shows a complete lack of understanding of the world in which we live in.

You want liberty but you don’t want to defend it… right.

I have a few questions I would like to ask him about Saddam and yellowcake uranium.

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program - a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

While we’re asking Joe questions, we might have a few for Valerie as well.

‘Cause it’s true.

Or at least it WOULD be funny, if not for the fact that an international news organization has dropped all pretense of objectivity in a quest to be sure their preferred candidate is elected in November.

Background here.

What say you now?

Terror Purposely Targets Civilians – The terrorist operating the bulldozer chose his victims deliberately - even starting his attack by motioning for a woman driver to precede him, before crushing her vehicle with his shovel. He went on to run-down pedestrians, ram two buses, and crush a number of civilian cars.

Among his innocent victims is an infant, who was injured in the attack and taken to hospital. Eyewitnesses told police that the murdered mother saved her baby, by throwing the child out the car window, just before the bulldozer crushed her to death.

To be fair to Elmasry - he did say that the totally innocent children should not be targeted.  I assume he’s OK with the mother being killed as she fought to save her baby, if we refer to his published remarks.

ELMASRY: I’m saying that it has to be totally innocent, OK? Totally innocent are the children, obviously, OK? But they are not innocent if the army [inaudible] in civilian clothes, OK?

COREN: What about women?

ELMASRY: The same, if they are women in the army…

COREN: Anyone over the age of 18 in Israel is a valid target.

ELMASRY: Anybody above 18 is a part of the Israeli army…

COREN: So everyone in Israel and anyone and everyone in Israel, irrespective of gender, over the age of 18 is a valid target?

ELMASRY: Yes, I would say.

Funny that the Montreal Muslim News site publishes Elmasry’s remarks - presumably as a way of allowing us to evaluate them in full context.  Well you know what?  Even in full context, Elmasry’s comments are incredible, and reveal the mindset of those who would use Canada’s own western laws to try and silence those who disagree with them.

But it’s gonna be GOOD!

Bill Whittle has always been one of my favorite essayists.  If you’re unfamiliar with the name, then you should head on over and browse.  Allow plenty of time - you’ll probably be there a while.

That’s gonna leave a mark.

I’ve always thought Clark was an odious human being.  His smarmy “getting shot down and tortured doesn’t prepare you to be President” comment just confirms it.  And does Clark (or any of Obama’s surrogates, for that matter) REALLY want the American public to start looking closely at their candidates qualifications to run the good ol’ USofA?  Methinks not (the article is typical Chicago rah-rah for Obama, as the author tackles an op-ed that questioned whether Barack is ready for the presidency - but read the comments).

Facts?  We don’t need no stinking facts.

Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, lamenting the decision overturning his city’s handgun ban, said Thursday, “More handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence.” That’s a dangerous statement for a politician to make–an empirical claim that can be judged against empirical data.

I emailed Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, one of the nation’s leading gun scholars, to ask if the proposition Fenty set out is true. Surprise: It’s not.

This, of course, is not news to anyone who has actually followed the debate on gun control policy and the effect those policies have in the real world.  Look at the UK, look at Washington, DC - and then look at right to carry states (pay special attention to the Florida statistics).  Those data will show you all you need to know - that people tend to be a lot more polite and respectful of your property/person when they think there’s a chance that you may introduce a gun into the equation.  What possible sense does it make to only allow criminals to be armed?

Kleck says his latest research indicates that when gun ownership rises among noncriminals, homicide rates decline.

In short: Well, Duh.

Look at total violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants. Their rate is now about twice as high in Canada as in the U. S. The violent crime rate has dropped markedly in the U.S. since the early 1990s, but has remained basically stable here.

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In the U. K., after the introduction of tougher gun control and a prohibition of handguns in 1997, as well as the general repression of self-defence (victims who defend themselves against violent criminals often get more severe sentences than their aggressors), violent crimes have shot up. To control exploding crime, the British government is resorting to police-state surveillance and control measures, an astounding development in the cradle of Western liberty, and the cradle of our traditional right to keep and bear arms.

Massive social-science research shows the ineffectiveness of gun control in reducing crime. It is a source of continuous amazement that gun control advocates ignore the results of criminological, historical and econometric studies by reputed scholars like (among others) John Lott, Bill Landes, Gary Kleck, James Wright, Peter Rossi, Taylor Buckner, David Kopel, Don Kates, Gary Mauser, Colin Greenwood, and Joyce Malcolm. Why?

In January 2002, two armed students of Appalachian Law School, in Virginia, stopped a mass killing in progress at the university by arresting the killer. Why don’t gun-control activists wonder why there have been no mass killings at the University of Utah, where students are allowed to carry guns? Could it be that madmen look for places where they can do more damage without being interrupted?

And let’s not even get started on that whole registry issue, m’kay?

Irony so deep you can drown in it.

Mike Klonsky, the Maoist Hardliner, Obama supporter and former best friend of the Weatherman terrorist group founders William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.

Klonsky belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was best friends with William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who later became famous for their acts of terrorism when the SDS broke up and the Weathermen terror group was formed.

Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) chairman and Obama supporter Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing.

Yesterday, Klonsky was posting a blog on the Obama website:

But, that was yesterday.

Today his blog was removed from the Obama website.
Comrade Klonsky is no longer with us.

“Uncle Joe”, a hero of Klonsky’s, airbrushed millions of people.  And by airbrushed I mean killed - but I digress.  Now he’s been quietly removed from the Obama website, as Barack desperately tries to hide any signs of his hard leftist leanings.

The official theme song for the Obama campaign should be “Another One Bites The Dust”.

John McCain with a knife is way, way, way more dangerous than Obama with a gun.

Barack Obama is warning supporters that the general election fight between him and John McCain may get ugly, but the Illinois senator is vowing not to back down.

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a fundraiser in Philadelphia Friday, according to pool reports.

Channeling the genre of Chuck Norris jokes:

John McCain doesn’t need a gun.  He just points at people, and they die.

And yes, I know some find Chuck Norris jokes incredibly irritating.  But they’re funny in a crazy kind of way.

Chuck Norris counted to infinity.  Twice.

C’mon - that was funny and you know it.