Moron!
Saddam, you're an idiot. You're an evil killer for 25 years and expect most of Iraq to even care that you're alive, much less care that you're making broadcasts?

One thing he said:

"The duration of invasion or occupation ... will be the exception, a brief period, compared with the period in which people live free in their homeland."

 
The Death Party
Through the gross negligence of continually filibustering appellate court nominees, the Democratic Party has proven once again that it's a party with but one (disgusting) issue: abortion. It's a shame, too, because these nominees are eminently qualified. These nominees are among the brightest, most experienced judges around. Unfortunately, these nominees also might hold a personal belief that is antithetical to the Democrats' position that slicing-and-dicing a baby in the womb is a privacy right. And these "morally superior" Democrats are trying to make them pay for holding such a belief.

In my short life, I have not seen a more repulsive and obvious example of Democrat obstructionism. Judge Miguel Estrada, Judge Priscilla Owen, and whoever else is to be put up for confirmation aren't required to hold a particular belief on abortion to be qualified. There shouldn't be a litmus test on ONE issue to determine qualification. But, reality is reality. These obstructionists couch their witch hunts in rhetorical gymnastics about "women's rights," but at the heart of the hunt is keeping legal the ability to kill babies in utero. You know, I wish I could respect the Democrats for their zealousness. Baby killing, however, is so putrid that I can't have any respect for those who crusade so heavily for it.

It's too bad the Democratic Party is, at best, an amoral party. Before 1973 they were one that deserved respect; perhaps just as much as the Republican Party. They were for the people. They were a moral party. They're not anymore. They're for the radical left-wingers who, at any and all costs, support baby-killing-on-demand. I remember Bill O'Reilly saying something to the effect that the radical leftists would support abortion even if the Almighty Himself came down and said, "Abortion is killing: abortion is wrong." I find that very easy to believe. The Democratic Party, unfortunately, is the Death Party.

  posted by Stephen @ 4:22 PM

 
Three Cheers For Virginia
If you're like me, the daily deluge of spam is VERY bothersome. Thankfully, Virginia has just become a bellwether in enacting tough spam laws: the state passed a law that make sending gobs and gobs of spam a felony. I say, "Hip-hip-hooray!"

(The law actually applies to fraudulently sent OR high-volume spam mail. In most cases, it'll be high volume whether it's fraudulent or not. That's the problem: volume.)

I think making spam a true-blue crime is a huge step in the correct direction. What was to stop people from continually theiving services and time without the imposition of harsh penalties? Nothing...until now, of course.

Virginia's law applies to any spam sent through Virginia. That's pretty significant since the state provides a huge amount of Internet connectivity. My guess is they'd be second only to California. (But that's just a guess.) Hopefully this law will start the ball rolling against spamming and spammers. Let's hope this is the beginning of the slow road to V-S Day: Victory from Spam Day!

  posted by Stephen @ 12:04 AM

 
Saddam? So what?
I don't honestly even want to link to the pertinent news stories about Saddam Hussein. It's crap. It doesn't matter if this evil despotic ruler is alive or dead. It doesn't matter what he says or how he says it. It's meaningless and worthless. Extremely evil people shouldn't have an ounce of credibility and therefore shouldn't be given a platform!

Supposedly, he signed a letter telling Iraqis to resist occupation. Supposedly, he's gonna be broadcasting a message within the next couple of days. What the hell can he say and why the hell does ANYONE care? He's deposed and maybe even dead. The Iraqi people and the world are free from him.

  posted by Stephen @ 3:11 PM

 
Oh, Ashleigh-Ashleigh! I DON'T love you.
Now, for those of you who don't know who Ashleigh Banfield is, I don't blame you. She's a little-known correspondent for MSNBC who recently made some stupid comments lambasting much of the war coverage for not adaquately depicting the horrors of Gulf War II.

Such a pretty face and such an empty mind. Thankfully, she was taken aside by the president of NBC News and, well, I'm sure she got a tongue-lashing for making dumb remarks. I found an interesting comment that a guy with the user name "Pharlap" made on Lucianne.com:

Memo to Ashle[igh]:
For years the pro-choice people have told us that abortion is "wonderful and glorious". Does that bother you, Ashle[igh]? For years the main stream media have not shown the "bloody reality" of abortion because it might traumatize the children. Does that bother you, Ashle[igh]? Or, is it alright to traumatize children with the horrors of war but not the horrors of abortion. Please, tell us, Ashle[igh].

 
I Wouldn't Be TOO Lenient
A 20-year-old idiot wrote "threating notes" on a cruise ship to allegedly try to turn the boat around so she could get back home to see her boyfriend. Also, she was declared poor at her trial, so the taxpayers of the US have to foot the bill for her defense.

What a moronic troublemaker. She faces up to 10 years in prison. The maximum seems a bit much, but, considering the times we live in, I feel very little sympathy for her. They oughta give her a couple years to clear her head. That seems fair enough.

  posted by Stephen @ 1:24 AM

 
60 Years Ago?!
I realize delay is a fact of life, but should it REALLY take 60 years for German insurance companies to release more than 300,000 names of Holocaust victims covered by life insurance policies? Germany told the US not to go to war with Iraq when they hadn't even completely remunerated the people's families who their erstwhile evil regime massacred?!

The files were "sealed" up until now, which doesn't make any sense. You'd think that all that would be straight before 60 years had elapsed. Too many delays! Pay up!

  posted by Stephen @ 12:26 AM

 
Hypocrisy At The Highest Level
Generally speaking, I like the Supreme Court. They're the people who stopped the idiotic goings on in Florida (AND in the Florida Supreme Court) that could have caused George Bush to be wrongfully not declared the winner of the 2000 Election.

Today, though, there's some hypocrisy going on. At least, implied hypocrisy. They refused to look at a case in which an appeals court ruled that Kentucky couldn't put the Ten Commandments on the grounds of its state Capitol. (As an aside, it seems to me that a state should be able to do much of what it wants unless it grossly violates the Constitution or federal law.)

Hello? United States Supreme Court? Are you listening? You've got a representation of the Ten Commandments CHISELED INTO THE WALLS OF YOUR OWN COURT. Are you guys violating law by having that? Of course not. That's ludicrous.

For one, the Ten Commandments are one of the bases of modern law. They're historical, like the Code of Hammurabi or the Magna Carta.

More important, the Constitution says NOTHING about requiring states or the country to be anti-God or atheistic. It says "Congress shall make no law RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT of religion...." (Emphasis added.) Does that mean "Congress shall make no law or practice that has anything to do with God or theism"? No, it means that there shouldn't be any laws that infringe on others' rights to be religious or spiritual in whatever way they so choose. In other words, the Founders thought that praying or reading the Bible IN GOVERNMENT was okay. They just didn't want the Government to become "Methodist" or "Anglican" or "Baptist" and follow in the footsteps of the England's church government. If we became a theocracy early on, we might have been doomed to follow in the footsteps of failed middle eastern theocracies. However, we're unfortunately becoming an atheocracy. I have no problems with atheists, but the Declaration of Independence itself talks about a monotheistic Deity. It's in our tradition and in our culture. We're a culturally Christian nation. Why, as a society, must we try to change that?

  posted by Stephen @ 3:35 PM

 
Baseball News
For those of you who appreciate baseball, a couple of unique things happened today on the diamond.

Former Braves pitcher Kevin Millwood, now on the Phillies, pitched a no-hitter today versus the Giants. Congrats to him on his elite achievement!

Perhaps more "fun" news was the 7-6 Marlins victory over the Cardinals. Why is that, you ask? It's because it was the first 20 inning baseball game since 1993. It took 6 hours and 7 minutes. Talk about free baseball! Did a little research and found the longest game ever played in both innings and time in modern baseball was when the White Sox played the Brewers on May 9, 1984. That went 25 innings and took 8 hours and 6 minutes! (Chicago won 7-6.) Whoa.

  posted by Stephen @ 10:13 PM