Sadly, No!

He argues that the Supreme Court’s decision against diversity programs in schools is the culmination of Martin Luther King’s grand vision for racial harmony:

Inching Towards King’s Dream

More than 40 years after the Dream was proclaimed and in spite of desperate efforts on the part of liberals to judge people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character, we’re starting to see some baby steps towards Americanism in matters of race:

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected diversity plans in two major school districts that take race into account in assigning students but left the door open for using race in limited circumstances.

The decision in cases affecting schools in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle could imperil similar plans in hundreds of districts nationwide, and it further restricts how public school systems may attain racial diversity.

The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court’s judgment. The court’s four liberal justices dissented.

As Justice Thomas once pointed out, the liberal justices dissented because of their strange logic which says that anything majority black must be inferior…such is liberalism in 2007.

This, as I said, is a baby step – the real solution is a Constitutional amendment clearly stating that in no action of government can race be taken into consideration…with the enforcement being 25 years in prison for any judge anywhere who thinks that carving society up based on skin color is a good thing. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had just about enough of liberals dividing us, and it is time we get united – all Americans united to help out all Americans, regardless of skin color, religion, ethnic background or the other idiotic boxes liberals put us in.

Oh, and conservatives, this is where you thank your lucky stars that Bush was elected and re-elected President.

I got nothin’, peeps. Absolutely nothin’.

Shorter Fred Hiatt

• If I were a smarter man, I’d say that Bush’s talk about “compassionate conservatism” in the 2000 campaign was a huge pile of horseshit. But since I’m not that smart, I’m just going to lament how tragic it is that Bush just magically stopped being compassionate the minute he came into office.

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.

I just woke up from a dream where I was cast to play the lead in a movie that mashed together the plots of Gravity’s Rainbow and Battlestar Galactica. It was described during my audition as “the most unfilmable film ever to be filmed.” And it was, except that it kind of made sense in my dream, if you accept the idea that humanoid robots from another planet would come to earth in order to craft a special rocket in post-World War II Europe that would…

Sadly, this is a fairly normal dream on my part. My subconscious imagination is a vast and disturbing place.

The fact that P. Loady is employed by anybody– because let’s face it, he isn’t even qualified to work as the Guy Who Scrapes Dead Animals off the Street- is a national embarrassment:

Palmer is surely smart enough to know that fascism is a more complicated subject than he makes it sound. “I know John Mackey, John Mackey is a friend of mine, and he’s no fascist,” is a pretty vapid argument, to the extent it’s an argument at all. It’s even dumber as a retort to a book Palmer’s never read. Indeed, one gets the sense reading his post or some of my libertarian-reader email, that because Mackey is a libertarian, and perhaps because he’s a libertarian sugar daddy, anything having to do with him, Whole Foods or the organic food fetish is beyond criticism. Palmer might want to read, for starters, the writings of Ludwig Klages, Hitler’s Table Talk, The Nazi War on Cancer or How Green Were the Nazis before he flies off the handle like that.

Dr. Loadpants has just made the argument that liberals and Nazis are the same because they both support eating healthy food and want to cure cancer. This is fucking embarrassing, people. When some smarter alien species studies human history long after we’ve wiped ourselves out, they’ll point to the publication of Liberal Fascism as the moment when we humans started becoming too fucking stupid to do anything but subsist on our own toenail clippings. Unbelievable.

(Via Mona and Jon Swift, both of whom are bloody awesome and should be read daily. See Ogged also.)

It was four years ago tomorrow that George W. Bush said this:

“Anybody who wants to harm American troops will be found and brought to justice,” Bush said. “There are some that feel like if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don’t understand what they are talking about if that is the case. Let me finish. There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring ’em on.”

This easily and handily wins the title of stupidest declaration ever uttered by any government official in any time in any country. Not even Caligula, the crazed Roman emperor who stood before the Roman Senate and said, “May I introduce you to Senator Barbaro,” can keep up.

What is disturbing to me is not that Bush said something so dumb, but that he was reelected almost a year-and-a-half after saying it. I cannot tell you the endlessly depressing conversations I’ve had with some people who voted for Bush and who now admit they made a huge mistake. Here is a sample of the answers I’ve gotten when I asked them why, why in the name of Allah most merciful, did they choose to subject our country to the decisions of the worst president in American history:

-One guy voted for Bush because “Al Gore said he invented in the Internet.”
-One woman voted for Bush because she thought Kerry was a rich elitist, versus Bush who was more in touch with the “common man.”
-One guy voted for Bush because he thought Kerry’s wife “was crazy.”
-Another guy voted for Bush because he thought Al Gore’s shifting wardrobe and hair styles were proof that “he didn’t know who he was.”

These answers made me long for the days when I thought Bush voters were all obsessed with stopping gay marriage. Give the anti-gay “values voters” some credit: they actually picked their candidate based on policy concerns. The other folks just had no idea what they were getting into.

This is not to say that everyone who voted for Bush is stupid. Rather, it’s that the criteria that we use to select our leaders in this country are horribly fucked up. John Edwards can never be president, for instance, because he paid too much money for a haircut. John Kerry was unelectable because he wind-surfed. Al Gore? Sighed too much and wore too many earth tones. George W. Bush, meanwhile, is the least qualified person ever to hold the office of preznit of Americaland, but is deemed acceptable because he looks tuff in a flight suit.

I don’t know how American culture degenerated to the Eloi levels of dumbness we now see, but this is where we are. You can blame television and our dumbass elite press corps, sure, but in the end the fault lies within ourselves.

Dhiren Barot, Brit Al Qaeda Leader, Suspected Mastermind of Today’s London Car Bombs
By Debbie Schlussel

Remember Dhiren Barot a/k/a “Britani” [the Brit]? I recently told you about the British Al-Qaeda cell sachem, whose detailed plans to bomb New York’s financial district with limousine bombs were released by Scotland Yard (click on the links at this link to see the plans).

Well, guess what? He’s suspected as the likely mastermind of today’s two car bombs that were foiled in London. ABC News reports that video pics of the man setting the bomb strongly resembles a suspect once in their custody in connection with the Barot plot in New York of which I wrote previously.

Predictably, liberal websites criticized me for rhetorically asking readers to “Guess the Religion” of the bombers. But–no surprise–I was quite apparently right on target.

Yes, ‘suspected’ as ‘the likely mastermind,’ etc. Debbie, what we did awhile back: We went to Build-A-Bear and custom-ordered a dyed-blond one with split ends and a Fendi knock-off pants-suit. When you squeeze it, it says “Aieee! Muslims!”

Every morning when we read the paper, we prop the bear up in a high chair with its own little cup and saucer, and when we come to each new story (Dry Weather Is ‘Field Day’ For Pollen Sufferers, School Board Eases Budget Woes) we squeeze it and it says “Aieee! Muslims!” This is in order better to analyze the complex narratives with which the media — and indeed the world — presents us. It’s sometimes difficult to see the stories-behind-the-stories, as it were.

When we read the story about the junky car bombs that didn’t go off, we were naturally wondering who might’ve been responsible for such a thing. “Aieee!” the bear explained. “Muslims!”

The bear was quite apparently right on target!

Even so, we felt we ought to check with you, as a second-opinion sort of thing. We learned from you that the inept car bombs that didn’t explode meant that America was very soon going to be overrun by eek-explodey Muahaha bearded go-boom gentlemen of the Islamic variety, who are going to kill us unless we [mumble mumble] and pile all the Muslim shoes and eyeglasses up into a big pile and sell their gold fillings to pay for more Zyklon B, or however you’ve figured out that particular end-game (we are eager for more details on this).

Lesson: We need to order a better bear!

-Yr Sadly Pals

PS: Paki Bear says that Bonne Belle lip gloss is secretly made by Aieee-Muslims. True fact!

You know, as much as the ever-increasing gaggles of anti-Muslim bloggers like to fancy themselves as lonely prophets — forsaken snowflakes scintillating from the radiance of truth-to-power before they’re melted by the harsh heat of political correctness — the more we see ’em, the more we think they’re hatching ’em in a creche somewhere in Orange County, cranking ’em out on the sevens like drive-time traffic updates.

Above: “I don’t watch the news. I make it.”

Our latest contestant is Foehammer’s Anvil. I know what you’re saying: Boy, Mister Leonard Pierce, that name sure does sound like something a guy might come up with who’s just spent many hours playing World of Warcraft and masturbating over what he remembers Seven of Nine looking like. And you’re right. But it takes a lot more than a willingness to rock an absurd self-granted tough-guy nickname to roll with the king snakes! Let’s see if he can bring it the way the authentic voices of the New Eliminationism can! How does Fudgehammer stack up in the compulsories?

SELF-GRANTED TITLE AS SOLE DISPENSER OF HARSH FACTS ABOUT ISLAMOFASCISM: Check! The subtitle of the blog is “Truth, not Islam,” which makes as much sense as “Cotton candy, not justice.”

LOTS OF FANCY-PANTS QUASI-SOCIALIST-REALIST ARTWORK STOLEN FROM OTHER SOURCES: Check! Get a load of Uncle Sam, there, gesturing just behind us and (naturally!) to the right, as if to say “That one there! With the five-o-clock shadow! Get him!”

OODLES OF UGLY, DISTRACTING ADVERTISING LINKS: Check! Take that, Atlas Shrugs — no more store-brand cheese puffs for Fudgehammer!

SCADS OF IMPENETRABLE BANNERS, LINKS, NEWSFEEDS, MADE-UP AWARDS, AND DOOFY WIDGETS THAT MAKE NAVIGATING THE SITE NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE EVEN IF YOU WERE TO WISH TO DO SUCH A THING: Check! Among other things, at this site, you can map jihad (hint: a lot of it is in the Middle East!), look at a guy with a crescent moon on his cufflinks stabbing the Bible, discover that ISLAMSFORLOSERS is a top commenter, take a poll about whether or not the Democrats are pawns of “the Muslim Lobby in Washington” (hint: yes!), and join a group advocating regime change in Iran, which is sadly still necessary even after all of Michael Ledeen’s crackerjack reporting.

BIG GRAPHIC OF A TEMPLAR, JUST AS IF THE CRUSADES WERE SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF: Check, check, and double-check!

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Things that are in German, when you expect English:

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Somebody must’ve told Kathleen Parker about YouTube:

The Internet recently has introduced the world to two memorable individuals — mostly recognizable by their mouths — who vividly illustrate the striking cultural difference between East and West.

She’s referring to this guy and this guy.

They are beauty and the beast — one a testament to civilization and hope, the other a monument to primitivism and despair. One is driven by a search for the sublime, the other by … what? Bitterness? Resentment? Retribution for perceived insults to an ideology, a system of spiritual beliefs?

Yikes, sounds like she’s just charted the trajectory of a Townhall comments thread.

Meanwhile, over yonder in Merry Olde England, where grand traditions of civility and decency are daily being eroded by resident, hate-spewing Muslim clerics, a plump boy with bad teeth got teased growing up and turned his inner rage toward something outside himself. He sang.

Her conclusion is a bit grandiose and ambitious (“there may be something about Western Civilization — the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, to mention a few highlights — that makes [Paul] Potts a possibility”), but I believe she may stumbled over some simple truth.

Or, in the words of one famous British tunesmith: “Well, if you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, ’cause theres a million things to be. You know that there are.”

Gavin adds: There may, as well, be something about Western Civilization — the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, to mention a few highlights — that makes this a possibility:

D. Aristophanes adds: Also, this is totally NOT driven by a search for the sublime. And it’s got nothing to do with a plump boy with bad teeth. Nope, not at all.

Cheney Unbound

Above: Broder plots the shifting center

• The now-weakened Dick Cheney was actually quite a danger to the Republic all this time: Allow me formally to denounce him.

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.