Your Daily Dose of Irony

The person in the news of late with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis who, despite being warned not to fly because it could endanger other passengers in the plane, did so anyway....is a personal-injury attorney.

Apparently the code among lawyers is that sharks don't eat their own.

First Nigeria, Now Widows

Based on my email today, the scammers are getting more subtle.

Dear Beloved,

My name is Mrs. Wells Iris I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have to charities through you. You may be wondering why I chose you. But someone has to be chosen. I am 59 years old and was diagnosed for cancer about 2 years ago, after the death of my husband who had left me everything he worked for. I have been touched by the Lord to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to charity through you for the good work of humanity, rather than allow my relatives to use my husband's hard earned funds inappropriately.

I have asked the Lord to forgive me all my sins and I believe he has, because He is merciful. I will be going in for an operation, and I pray that I survive the operation. I have decided to Will/Donate the sum of $10,300,000.00 (Ten Million three hundred thousand Dollars) to charities through you for the good work of the Lord, and to help the motherless, less privileged and also for the assistance of the widows. At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls, due to the fact that my relatives are around me and I have been restricted by my doctor from taking telephone calls because I deserve all the rest I can get.

Presently, I have informed my consultant about my decision in willing this fund to charity through you. I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others. If you are interested in carrying out this task, I will inform my consultant, so that he can arrange the release of the funds to you. I know I have never met you but my mind tells me to do this, and I hope you act sincerely. I decided that 20% of this money should be taken by you from the total sum upon the success release of this fund, because I am now too weak and fragile to do things myself because of my cancer.

NB:I sincerely know that a lot has been written about some SCAM coming out of the world, but I assure you that this will never in any way associated with that as you will be given the right to verify this directly with the finance company where the fund was deposited.

I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished, as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my last wish, due to the fact that I do not want relatives or family members standing in the way of my last wish.

Please reply me via this address: mrswells_iris@yahoo.es

Your sincerely,
Mrs. Wells Iris

PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR FULL NAME, ADDRESS, TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER ON YOUR REPLY FOR EASY AND IMMEDIATE COMMUNICATION WITH MY CONSULTANT.

What burns me the most about this sort of thing is not the fact that it exploits those who don't know any better, but that it makes those of us who do more cynical. It's already too easy to rationalize not acting to help others; this can only make matters worse.

Priorities

Today's latest bit of ACLU leftist lunacy; they are suing Jeppesen Dataplan, a unit of Boeing, because they claim it "assisted the Central Intelligence Agency in secretly abducting suspect foreigners to overseas prisons where they were held and interrogated".

Jeppesen Dataplan makes charts and maps.

Of course, the ACLU makes their case obvious; like petulant teenagers who scream at anyone who is nice to the people they insanely hate, they're trying to punish corporations for selling to the government.

"American corporations should not be profiting from a CIA rendition program that is unlawful and contrary to core American values," Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, said in a statement. "Corporations that choose to participate in such activity can and should be held legally accountable."

Meanwhile, while filing lawsuits roughly equivalent to litigation against a gas station owner for giving people directions, they apparently ignore the kiddie porn and sex chats with twelve-year-olds in which their leaders are indulging.

Priorities.

It Does Matter

A couple of weeks ago, at the event of Jerry Falwell's passing, I posted a piece of classical literature that seemed quite relevant given the response of others.

Particularly famous from that work are these lines.

No man is an island. entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Which is why I take sorrow in this news.

Cindy Sheehan was exasperating, annoying, melodramatic, and -- on several levels -- hateful. But in perspective, she exemplifies a lot of what is right with America -- our freedom and ability to protest, to stand up for what we think is right, and our belief that we can make a difference.

Seeing that die in her does truly diminish us all. While some might claim this is a won battle, I think it a Pyrrhic victory at best -- and perhaps a reminder that the greatest virtue of our country is that it forgives and heals with and for all of its people.

I wish Ms. Sheehan all the best in whatever she chooses to do next -- and would ask my readers to reflect themselves on their thoughts and attitudes towards her.

For the bell is tolling.

Uh Oh....

Princess got caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

Of course, her response was appropriately outraged that anyone would even THINK she was wasting taxpayer dollars and why she NEEDED the military charter.

Use of military aircraft, while limited, does give us the ability to maximize our schedule and get more done in a shorter amount of time. We flew mostly at night in order to have more meetings during the day. It also allows us to work on the aircraft to further manage the time we are spending away from home.

Yes, because we know there are no overnight flights to Europe and people never work on commercial jetliners.

Meanwhile, if you go to Kayak.com and ask for departures that leave Washington Dulles in the evening and arrive in London in the morning, it will gladly spit back numerous matching flights; indeed, with a one-month advance purchase at the height of the season, a pampered business class seat on union-owned and dominated United Airlines will only set Princess's unlimited account back a paltry $4,500, allowing her and her retinue of ten lackeys to save the American working class (who she claims to represent) over $100,000 dollars on the national security essential of sending her to the mother country for a few hours of work and a few hundred hours of clubbing.

And what makes this even funnier is how often Princess and her party, especially in Princess's position as head of the Finance Committee, rail against executives and their corporate jets, insisting that the time savings is a waste of money, that executives don't need perks, meeting time, or privacy, and that everyone should be just fine in coach.

Look on the bright side, though; maybe the Brits will keep her. Or we can offer them a trade for a barrister to be named later.

For Those of You Not From San Francisco......

this bit takes a little setup.

First, two humpback whales wandered into the Port of Sacramento.

(Yes, you read that right -- the Port of Sacramento. For the record, that's around eighty miles from the Pacific, through the Golden Gate, up the length of the Bay, through the Carquinez Strait, then along a narrow deep-ship channel. Ask them how it happened.)

Next up, Carole Migden, state Senator, lesbian, and Harpo Marx hairstyle devotee, did a fine imitation of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride on I-80, blaming her erratic behavior and involvement in as many as three accidents on medications she had been taking for the past ten years finally working.

Moving forward, San Francisco City Supervisor Ed Jew is facing questions from the City, his constituents, and the FBI over a series of miracles that have occurred in his presence, including his moonlighting role in recommending "consultants" for whom he then collects the payments, but insists he has no conflict of interests, his magical safe that produces $20,000 in marked bills that he claims are for "park improvements", and the fact that anyone who enters the house that he claims establishes his residency in his district becomes invisible.

And finally, as most people know by now, Gavin Newsom wholly ruined the naughty fantasies of roughly half of the gay community by demonstrating that he is a staunch adherent of the finest in heterosexual traditions -- including philandering.

Enter Don Asmussen, the brilliant cartoonist and social commentator, to tie all of these together in his Bad Reporter comic for yesterday.

Genius. Sheer, unadulterated genius.

Nose on Face Obvious

Brilliant insight from Ace.

Money quote:

Their announcement of a timetable for withdrawal from a fight with a patient opponent in the White House having resulted in catastrophic failure, Democrats went on to immediately call anew for a timetable of withdrawal from a fight with a patient opponent in Iraq.

Clueless ain't just an Alicia Silverstone movie.

Same Coin, Two Sides

It isn't often that I agree with Pam Spaulding on something, but in this case, she's very right.

This, I think, is the statement that best sums up the problem:

There should be no touch of sadness when a healthy baby boy is born into a home with two parents, but in this case, we’re afraid, there is.

While we celebrate new life, we cannot celebrate homosexual parenting –– which involves intentionally denying a child either a mom or a dad. In this case, young Samuel David –– who, as a Cheney, will surely enjoy privileges and comforts greater than most children born in 2007 –– will be missing an irreplaceable one: a father, to have as a loving guide, male authority, friend and role model as he grows from boy into man.

Well, you're not alone, Mr. LaBarbera; there are a whole lot of other people expressing "sadness" over how awful young Master Cheney will have it, given that, according to them, Satan is his grandfather, Medusa his grandmother, and two evil self-loathing and hateful lesbian witches, who have gleefully laughed and clapped their hands as thousands of their helpless LGBT counterparts were marched off to the gas chambers, are his mothers. And oddly enough, they manage to sneak in a shot at the fact that his family is well-off, too.

Granted, you haven't wished him ill yet, but you're probably saving that for your launch of your latest "research" finding confirming that the children of gay parents die earlier.

I do find it more than a bit amusing that two groups of people who supposedly loathe everything there is about each other are both using the excuse of "concern over the baby" for saying rather mean, vile, and vicious things about him and his family.

Perhaps that's because ideology is neither an indicator or deterrent of hate tactics.

The Orientation of Hate

Moonbats, as somehow befits their name, truly are 24/7, all-night, always-open creatures.

Examples have continued to pile up through the sleeping hours and this morning of the verbal bricks, stones, and Molotov cocktails being hurled by the gay left and gay Democrats against their favorite villainesses, Mary Cheney and Heather Poe, and their new baby, Samuel.

Most of them are nothing too new, comparisons to Satan and whatnot, calling them horrible names, mocking the Cheneys, and so forth. But there was one in particular that I thought was both simply, chillingly concise and effective in summing up the desires of the "LGBT community" towards them.

I'm praying for SIDS.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Probably the worst, repeat worst, thing that can happen to parents -- to wake up and find a baby that was perfectly healthy the day or night before completely limp, cold, and lifeless.

Wishing a baby dead is bad enough in itself. But SIDS is particularly horrible because the cause of death is so often unknown -- which invariably drives parents downward into a maelstrom of grief, crushing uncertainty, and guilt, always wondering what they had done wrong and leaving them with the specter of a repeat hanging over their decision to have more children.

In short, these people, the "community" that preaches "love", "tolerance", and "support", not only wants Samuel dead; they want Mary and Heather destroyed and devastated in the most horrible fashion with him.

I had previously thought that the Aravosis/Spaulding/HRC/Stonewall Democrats cabal had hit rock bottom with their hopes for Mary's pregnancy and Samuel's birth. But this really, truly, represents the newest, most disgusting low yet.

Even worse, in my opinion, are the gay enablers who, rather than throwing open the windows and airing out this hideous and dark underbelly of the gay community, are blithely papering over the slime by claiming comments are "positive", or worse, arguing that Mary, Heather, and Samuel somehow deserve this because of who her father is and his relationship to the Bush administration.

Let's call this what it is, people....sick.

It is sick that someone could wish a child dead.

It is sick that they hope his parents are thrown into the worst sort of misery.

And it is beyond sick that someone could argue that these are somehow justified because of who the parents' families are and their political affiliations.

That is what gay pundits like John Aravosis, Pam Spaulding, and Andy Towle preach and support. That is what gay "moderates" enable. And that is what represents the gay community to the world -- the idea that it is perfectly acceptable to wish a baby dead and his parents crushed by the worst kind of grief on the basis of their political affiliation, and get away with it because you are gay.

UPDATE: Now "sean", a regular Democrat and liberal commentor on GayPatriot, has added a new wrinkle; they don't want the kid to die, but that's just so he can get beat up later.

No, the kid can’t die of crib death!! He has to go to school and get ridiculed and bullied and punched by the offspring of Christianists…and have no recourse to protections afforded to children of heterosexual couples. Then Dick Cheney will see what he has wrought.

So again, we have people wishing physical harm on a baby on the basis of his family's political affiliation -- which they think they can get away with because they are gay.

Blood Oaths

I thought it had been a while since we'd had controversy over this.

Gay men remain banned for life from donating blood, the government said Wednesday, leaving in place — for now — a 1983 prohibition meant to prevent the spread of HIV through transfusions.

The Food and Drug Administration reiterated its long-standing policy on its Web site Wednesday, more than a year after the Red Cross and two other blood groups criticized the policy as “medically and scientifically unwarranted.”

I must confess, I was curious about how they suddenly got around the HIV issue...until...

In March 2006, the Red Cross, the international blood association AABB and America’s Blood Centers proposed replacing the lifetime ban with a one-year deferral following male-to-male sexual contact.

Oh yes, you're going to find a lot of gays who will defer all sexual contact for a year just for the thrill of a needle stick with a juice-and-cookies chaser.

Of course, the reason why the FDA is being so cautious is elegantly laid out elsewhere; put bluntly, gay men, despite comprising a miniscule fraction of the population, constitute 58% of ALL HIV-infected individuals in the United States (and 74% of those in California).

Given that no one seems to be complaining about the ban on prostitutes and intravenous drug users, which are the next two groups most likely to be HIV-positive, I fail to see why the FDA should be compelled to give up a screen that, when put into effect, theoretically reduces the risk of HIV-infected blood entering the national supply, or exposing the people and equipment who collect it, by well over half.

In my opinion, the risk to others outweighs concerns for political correctness.

Having a "Little" Problem

Michael Demmons of GayOrbit, on why he was compelled to post a ten-point diatribe ridiculing Christians, albeit merely one of a recent string:

Sorry, I’ve just been on an atheist reading kick of late. It'll pass.

Personally, it reminds me of an old gay adage; people who are constantly telling you how ugly other people are invariably suffer by comparison when looked at themselves.

Or, put differently, those with big dicks don't have to tell you how small everyone else's is.

Quiet, The Baby Is Sleeping!

Congratulations to new moms Mary Cheney and Heather Poe.

And of course, the moonbat squad is already out, obviously pissed that their desire for a deformed baby and Mary screaming in agony, as well as other pleasant outcomes, hasn't come true.

And they wonder why none of us wants to play ball with them.

Yes, we will be tracking the response from the usual suspects. Stay tuned.

Update #1: Feel the love from gay leftist organization Family Pride -- courtesy of Pam Spaulding, who we encourage to let loose and tell us how she's really feeling.

Update #2: Pam's commentors are picking up the slack nicely. Don't forget to keep checking Family Pride and Aravosis Land, where the vitriol wishing horrible things on Mary and the new baby is now being delivered by the 55-gallon drum. Meanwhile, Towleroad, another example of a blog where fine tolerant and non-hateful Democrats hang out, is starting up.

Update #3: GayOrbit joins in the anti-Mary bitch fest. Sweet!

Update #4: I found something which, quite honestly, deserved its own post. See above.

Expect Bad Grades When the Teacher Hates You

To no one's surprise, Amnesty International's report released today exhibited the organization's usual commitment to fair and objective analysis.

While Amnesty International has highlighted rights issues that have erupted since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, little of the 337-page report dealt with the terrorist threat itself or attacks linked to the al-Qaida terror network.

I particularly like the response of the US State Department.

In Washington, Deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the report reads more like a political document than an honest review of human rights around the world.

"It's pretty clear that Amnesty International thought that we'd make a convenient ideological punching bag," he said.

Most Americans have figured out by now (thankfully) what Israel knew years ago; trying to ingratiate yourself with organizations that would love more than anything else to see you fail is an instant recipe for self-destruction.

But I doubt that will stop Congressional Democrats from shrieking about this report as a means of slipping tongue to their European allies, who could use it; their countrymen are starting to forget that the United States is the primary threat, rather than their sclerotic and dysfunctional economies.

One Word......

Duh.

While We Were Out......

Read the whole comment string. It's hilarious.

Weighing in, while tempting, would be worse than wasted effort on my part.

Gone Drinkin'

Off to Sonoma for the weekend. Talk amongst yourselves; we'll commune again once the Cabernet wears off.

Blaming the Dead for the Stupidity of the Living

While looking through the responses over on Ex-Gay Watch to the death of Jerry Falwell, this particular rant raised itself to consciousness.

Ronald Reagan’s electoral success in the 1980’s was in part due to Falwell’s mobilization of the Religious Right in this country. The Reagan Administration’s abysmal response to the AIDS crisis was probably related to their electoral reliance on the Religious Right.

This seems to be one of the most popular and enduring mythos in the gay community; the idea that Reagan and other Republicans stood by and laughed evilly as poor, innocent, helpless gays sickened, withered, and died.

However, what no one has ever explained is what, exactly, could they do?

Rule number one of epidemiology: when confronted with a disease you can't cure and which is spreading like wildfire, your priority should be focused on one thing -- removing the pump handle.

The Reagan administration took immediate steps to eliminate the vectors it could control -- the blood transfusion supply, infected needles, and so forth. But when a Democrat mayor did what she could to remove the largest pump handle -- closing the San Francisco bathhouses where unprotected sex most readily spread the disease -- she was almost run out of town on a rail.

The gay community has spent upwards of twenty-five years trying to deny what people knew millenia ago from studying prostitutes; those with the most partners invariably have the most problems. Despite the best efforts of gay leftists to make, to force it to be otherwise, the simple fact remains; HIV/AIDS is a sexually-transmitted disease, no different than the others that came before it.

What that means is simple; the people who could have done the most to control the AIDS epidemic were, not Falwell or Reagan or Feinstein, but the ones who were having the unprotected sex. They chose to have it. They chose to do it without using protection. And they were the ones who chose to, rather than restrain themselves, point the finger of blame at someone else. It is no surprise that, in a quarter of a decade, our infection levels have continued to merrily perk along at Third World levels, affecting both the young and old, and adding the delightful accompaniments of what were once medical anachronisms like gonorrhea and syphilis.

As I have said before, one's serostatus is emphatically a matter of personal choice. However, it infuriates me beyond belief that people are blaming others for supposedly not reacting -- when the only meaningful reaction was opposed tooth and nail by the same people demanding action.

Lessons Not Learned

I was more than amused by this post discussing the gay lacrosse coach at the University of Missouri who recently lost his job -- supposedly because he was gay.

Why, according to the poster?

I remember lacrosse players in high school and college as male, white, affluent, and extremely homophobic (your experience may differ of course).

Two words: Mike Nifong.

But of course, the reason for all of these assumptions and accusations against the Missouri lacrosse team is obvious:

Missouri is a state where it is aok to be fired for being gay. If legal protections for LGBT people existed there (via state laws or ENDA), employers would be less likely to pull nonsense like this.

Yes, because we know, as in the case of Bonnie Bleskachek, the only reason gays are ever criticized or have negative actions taken against them for poor job performance and on-the-job behavior is "homophobia" and "sexism".

In contrast, if you are a "privileged" straight white male CEO, you can be canned for carrying out a private, consensual affair with a coworker -- and no one raises a single word of protest.

This leads me to believe that most gay liberals don't want equality in the workplace; they want guaranteed employment regardless of behavior or job performance.

Sorry, Lori......

but I can't agree with you on this one.

Nobody but a first-rate assclown can sit there with a straight face and criticize people for speculating (as so many of us are) as to the sort of reception Falwell might be getting from the Maker he now has to meet.

Or someone who's seen this in person.

And as to why, here's The Man Himself:

"But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.

"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' lend to 'sinners,' expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."

Luke 6:27 - 36

I can think of no better person on which to put that into practice than Jerry Falwell.

Put Simply......

Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.