Oh Mr. Prime Minister, Hellfire Missile For You on Line One

This is really great stuff...if only our own politicians had the testicular fortitude and backbone to take our enemies, both foreign and domestic, at their word when they say they mean to destroy us by any means necessary. Captain Ed at Captain's Quarters says it better than I, but Israel is dead on correct with their response. After being showered with rockets, threatened with chemical weapons, having one citizen murdered in cold blood, and having a soldier kidnapped for use in an extortion attempt to secure the release of terrorist prisoners, they have apparently decided that Hamas means business when they say their goal is the destruction of Israel. Having already rounded up several Cabinet ministers in response to the kidnapping, sending a Hellfire missile into the office of the lead terrorist, er, I mean, "Prime Minister", of Hamas, sends the appropriate message that no one is safe if any harm comes to the abducted Israeli soldier. To borrow and modify a quote from Wyatt Earp in "Tombstone", "Hamas has called down the thunder boy, and now they've got it. Tell them the IDF is coming, and Hell is coming with them!"

So You Wanna Come to My Hotel?

I could just as easily put up a headline that says, "Party over here!" because the housekeeping folks could clean up while I was at work and save me the trouble. My roommate and her man closed on their house about 3 weeks ago and finished moving all their stuff in today. The lease we had was until July, but since it was ended a month early, I have to find another place to stay. For anyone who doesn't know this area well, every place around here (just about) is ghetto/Section 8 or should be. Although I am glad they provide me with a job, I don't want to live near my clients. In addition, certain areas of my life are sufficiently unsettled/in flux that I am not sure how good an idea it is to sign a lease that I might not live up to until its completion.

That, and the fact that the only apartment complexes around here that don't require me to wear neutral gang colors and do not come with complimentary gunshot wounds are ridiculously, insanely expensive have led to my decision to stay in an extended-stay hotel. The rates there include utilities and cable and are less than even the rent for an apartment, much less the security deposit, utility hook-ups, etc., so it only makes sense, and I will be moving in on Saturday. So if any of my peeps are in my 'hood in the next month or so, let me know and we will kick it without worrying about the clean-up, lol.

Modern Day Common Sense Preamble to the Constitution

Via Spatula City, this is at once hysterical and sad, funny because it is so true, and pathetic because this is the state to which a majority of the "sheeple" in our society have devolved. Read it all, it's funny and worth it :)

NEW PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION

We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common-sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt-ridden, delusional, and other liberal bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights.

ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.

ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc, but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.

ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful, and do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.

ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes. (This one is my pet peeves...get an education and go to work. Don't expect everyone else to take care of you!)

ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in public health care.

ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.

ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.

ARTICLE VIII: You do not have the right to a job. All of us sure want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful.

ARTICLE IX: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.

ARTICLE X: This is an English speaking country. We don't care where you are from, English is our language. Learn it or go back to wherever you came from!

ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country's history or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it, TOUGH!

R.I.P. Rob, a.k.a. "Acidman"...You Will Be Missed

Acidman, a blogger, whose real name was Rob and who posted at Gut Rumbles, just passed away. He had some severe health complications for a while now, and I just hope he is no longer feeling any of it. He was a cantakerous old cuss of a man, with an endless streak of vitriol and boundless reservoir of sarcasm for all things idiotarian. In his honor, here's one of his funnier posts, about a man who received $400K from a jury for implanting something in his hoo-ha and then complaining when it, er, adversely impacted his life. Read the whole hilarious story and poke around the blog for other ribald laughs if you choose. R.I.P. Rob...you will be missed.

So THAT'S Why They Sell Out Our Intelligence Programs...

***UPDATE! Michelle Malkin is one of my favorite authors and columnists around. I sent her a copy of a letter I e-mailed to AG Gonzales about the media's disclosure of the classified SWIFT program, and she republished it in its entirety on her blog on Monday! I am very heartened at the massive response from other readers on this issue, and maybe it will lead to something being done about this. Very cool indeed, good times...check out this link (scroll about halfway down the post) and behold my writing skills, lol:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005442.htm

Via Ace of Spades, this sounds like as rational and reasonable explanation as any as to why leftist partisans in the media and intelligence communities continue to blow the cover on programs necessary to prevent further 9/11 style attacks, or worse. They can't be bothered to see past their own deranged sense of hunger for a return to power to put the welfare and best interests of the country and its citizens, regardless of political affiliation, front, first, and center, not even for a moment. If that's true, then there is no reason these leakers should not be locked up for 5-10 years in a federal pen to think about their lawbreaking ways (see previous post for applicable statutes), although a blanket prohibition on federal intelligence officials talking to New York Times reporters and employees is almost certainly unconstitutional, except in at-will employment states like TN, where people may be fired for any or no reason, so long as it is not for a discriminatory or otherwise illegal purpose.

"The left continues to undermine national security in the most despicable, cynical way. I'm quite sure the reasonable liberals at the NYT and WaPo know full well that programs like this are absolutely vital, and their secrecy is likewise vital. However, they have made the most anti-American and evil sort of decision: While tools like this are vital for saving American lives, they will not permit any Republican President to use them. Only Democratic Presidents are permitted to employ the full panoply of powers for protecting American lives.

It's blackmail, pure and simple. Either let a Democrat into the White House, or we will continue to sabotage American security and, in effect, kill Americans. We will keep secrets when a Democrat is in office, but not a Republican. So we offer the American people a choice: Let the politicians we favor run the country, or we will help Al Qaeda murder you. I don't believe it's politically practicable to arrest reporters. Reporters don't have the primary responsibility for protecting American secrets; and the cries of "Fascism!" would be hysterical should a few part-time reporters/part-time Al Qaeda intelligence agents frogmarched off to jail.

But (expletive deleted -Ed.), the cocksucker liberal partisans in the CIA and NSA have signed contracts promising to keep secrets secret, and voluntarily exposing themselves to long periods of jail should they breach those obligations. It's time to start putting them in jail for 5 or 10 years. If this is all a matter of "conscience" to the terrorist Helpy Helpertons in the CIA and NSA, well, then, they shouldn't mind cooling their heels in prison for 10 years in the name of their "consciences."

Starve The Beast: There has got to be a way to declare, and enforce, a "Death Sentence" for the NYT. A total lockout. No access to any government official anywhere. Impose an immediate ban on any government official in any security-oriented agency from speaking to the NYT. They're already forbidden from disclosing national secrets; but apparently that doesn't matter to them. So just make it a firing offense to even be seen talking with a NYT reporter. Unconstitutional? I don't know. We'll let the courts work it out. In the meantime, fire anyone known to talk to any NYT employee for any reason."
Also, a fantastic smackdown for Abu Musab al-Keller and his band of merry leakers from an angry soldier's momma, at Some Soldier's Mom, with a prize-winning excerpt below, which will most definitely leave a mark:

Some Soldier's Mom

"So, Bill, the next time a group of terrorists drives a few vans of C4 into a building in Iraq and tries to kill my son and the other soldiers in his unit, Im going to call you up and ask you who paid for the explosives. The next time an IED blows up under a Bradley or a HUMVV and kills the soldiers inside, I'm going to call you and remind you that the money that paid for the bomb might have been stopped had it not been for your shi**y little attempt to bolster your newspapers sagging circulation numbers. You should be made to attend the funeral of every U.S. service member killed from now on in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bill, and know that you might have prevented their deaths by NOT publishing the details of secret programs meant to intercept information between the terrorists. You should be made to hear the sobbing of the mothers and wives and families of the service members who are out there putting it on the line protecting your right to write the crap you do and know that perhaps the one transaction that was not seen because of your exposé bought the bullets that killed their son or husband."

What if I Don't Like What's in the Magic Box?

This is just a random, horribly politically incorrect musing, and I couldn't care less. As Jeff Foxworthy famously said, "Getting married to have sex is like flying cross-country to get the free peanuts." I'm also reminded of Robin Williams, who said, "God gave men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to operate one at a time." I wonder how many men, especially back in the 50's, "voluntarily" married a woman just so they could have sex with her and then regretted it intensely afterward. I've heard so many women say that things will be different in the bedroom once they're married, that they'll spend days together in the sack once they get that ring, etc., and it makes me sick. It's a bunch of baloney, because, for the most part, they can't promise any such thing. For instance, what if the man is awful at sex and never gets any better? What if it's physically painful? What if they just plain don't like sex? I could go on for days with thoughts just like this off the top of my head.

Before anyone starts hurling Scripture at me, I know very well what the Bible says about premarital sex. That said, I'm not a virgin and I know there are some women out there who are horrible kissers and even worse in bed. If I'm going to stand up and swear before my friends, family, and God that this is the last person I'll ever have sex with, I want it to be with someone I'll actually enjoy having being naked and having sex with. I think some of the physical compatibility risk can be alleviated by paying attention to how the person moves on the dance floor, how they kiss, and how it is being with them doing things short of sex itself. Maybe I won't demand sex before marriage, but the same idiots who says looks and compatibility don't matter at all are the same liars who claim money doesn't matter at all. Such misguided yahoos are wrong in both cases, and unless I'm satisfied within myself, one way or another, that there's sufficient physical chemistry, attraction, and compatibility between myself and a woman, I will not marry her. Likewise, any woman who owns an ounce of self-respect should take the same stand re: any man she considers marrying. In closing, to quote the immortal Forest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that."

New York Times + L.A. Times = Treason Charges

First off, congratulations are in order for Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) for being the first Congressman to explicitly call for prosecution of the New York Times under applicable statutes. Maybe the apologists and CYA crowd supporting these two bird cage liner papers could be troubled to read the following section of the U.S. Code, 18 U.S.C. § 798(a)(3) (Hat Tip to the Weekly Standard for pointing this out):

"Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information . . . concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States . . . shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both [emphasis added]."

In case you haven't heard, for at least the third time since 9/11, the New York Times has managed to give our terrorist enemies around the world something more valuable than the America-hating propaganda they already provide...free intelligence. Now added to the entirely legal data-mining operations performed by the government to track terrorists' phone calls and internet usage and the disclosure that our intelligence community had traced a particular kind of cell phone via satellite being used by top AQ leaders, including bin Laden himself, we now have a third U.S. intelligence operation blown by the MSM. This time, the Treasury Department was using computer monitoring to track known and/or suspected terrorist money movements overseas. This program led to the capture of the one of the world's most dangerous Islamic terrorists, Hambali, who was responsible for the Bali nightclub bombing that killed nearly 200 innocent civilians in Indonesia.

The tips and intelligence from this program will surely dry up now that it has been shouted from the rooftops in the drive-by media. I don't care if caring and being outraged about this stuff makes me a dork because our survival as a nation means more to me than Brangelina's spawn or Ms. Federline's doomed marriage...it is too important not to care, not to shine sunlight on these cockroaches. It heartens me greatly to know that people (myself included) are still capable of outrage at dangerous loose lips that could cost American lives. These treasonous crapweasels have crossed over from annoying sideshow to dangerous national security liability. After sending a strongly worded letter to the Dept. of Justice (gotta be heard even if it bears no fruit right away), I came across a perfect zinging for the terrorist-enabling Fifth Column in our midst, written to the NYT by a reader of Michelle Malkin's, which is so good I had to repost it in its entirety here. Rope, tree, journalist, some assembly required.

"As I'm certain you've already discerned, the vast majority of Americans are not terrified of their government leaders in this time of war; yet they are most certainly furious, and yes, terrified, at the MSM's willingness to endlessly betray the best interests of our nation's security. I have chafed and groaned at each and every disclosure of vital national secrets and programs; at the inevitable harm they will cause our nation; and at the vacuous grounds on which your organizations assert the right to betray our nation. No more.

Our nation has preserved itself and the entire free world from seemingly innumerable despicable tyrannies bent on global domination over the course of her existence. In none of those ultimately successful struggles has America suffered the deliberate discord and demoralization of an unfettered fifth column gnawing at her resolve, and, indeed, her very foundations. Vietnam notwithstanding, the degree of aid and comfort, of crucial and actionable intelligence that is being provided to our current enemies, has no precedent. Only in the few spectacular cases of individual spies have we seen this level of willingness to compromise our intelligence and defense capabilities by American citizens.

This treasonous behavior is beyond reprehensible. Were your organizations to sport newly grown beards and fly the standards of the innumerable terrorist organizations arrayed against us upon your rooftops, you could no more demonstrate your support for our enemies and your disdain for our nation than you have with these endless publications of state-secrets.

You have shown no light of truth upon a travesty or an injustice; you have not bravely spoken truth to power; you have simply acted upon an irrational hatred of your own country and contempt for the current administration in a time that represents the greatest vulnerability our nation has ever faced; for your own egos and will to power. It is disgraceful, disgusting, and completely unacceptable.

The program that you just blew was entirely legal, unopposed by its Congressional overseers, outside of American territory, targeted very few Americans, and was both vital and effective in our efforts to prosecute the war against the Jihadis. Simply watching the movement of money with the hopes of spotting terrorist funds and their abettors is not a threat to Americans. It is a threat to our enemies, and you have aided only them by your actions.

Our nation is a nation of laws. We have chosen the leaders who will act on and under those laws. They have done so with an amazing degree of conciliatory concern for the sensitivities of those that pretend to have reason to suspect the benign intentions of our executive branch. It is not your right to take their every action and decision directly to the American populace for the purposes of second-guessing and ankle-biting. You may express the great difficulty that you suffered in deciding whether to expose this latest program, but the truth is that you all glory in your foolish notion that you are a legitimate branch of our government charged with putting even potentially harmful information in the hands of the citizens. The decision was not yours to make. This administration has been too soft, too kind, too timid in dealing with the likes of the NY and LA times and their treasonous revelations. You have broken the law. You have broken faith with America; her values, her well-being. Your cheering section is much smaller and much less wise than you seem to believe. You need to start looking beyond your self-constructed echo-chambers and see what Americans really think of treason.

It is time that Americans refuse to accept the Administration's molly-coddling of traitorous and treacherous elitists bent on self-aggrandizement and political tomfoolery at the expense of our security. From this point forward I will demand that the Administration prosecute the organizations that engage in such acts of sedition and espionage. I will encourage everyone I can in every way I can. If reporters will not reveal their sources in the face of a criminal investigation, then they must be jailed, and every layer of editorial and managerial responsibility above them as well, until we have eliminated the leakers, or, if need be, paralyzed their means of disseminating their seditious wares by imprisoning the entire lot of you.

Valerie Plame's identity means nothing to anyone, and should legions of such once faceless nobodies be revealed to be regular commuters to Langley, our nation will be no less secure. Yet you undermine the very means of detecting the dots that we desperately must connect to preserve the fabric of our nation and the lives of her citizens: and you do not see the hypocrisy or irony of it. Hypocrisy is certainly not a crime. What you have done, repeatedly, and continue to do, IS a crime. It must not be allowed to continue, or go unpunished. I suggest you open your phonebooks to the legal pages: you're gonna be real busy soon."