I know that many of you are waiting with baited breath in extreme anticipation as to what I will have to say about Herr Ahmadinejad.

Rest assured, it is forthcoming. Maybe not tonight, maybe tomorrow, but it is forthcoming.

It is consuming all of my will not to, as of this moment, rip him a new orifice in the chest area around his bloody black heart, but I shall persevere and do the piece when appropriate.

I don’t know how true this is, but Samantha Burns posted an entry about how a mayor in Brazil is trying to make death illegal, due to the fact that they are running out of room in their cemetery.

How Dare You Die:

I don’t know what some politicians are thinking.

A mayor in Brazil is trying to make it illegal for citizens to die because the town’s only cemetary is full.

He wants to have a law stating that relatives of the deceased would incur a fine or jail time. The law would also make it an offence to not look after one’s health proplerly.

It is said that the town has no way of building a new cemetary or expanding on the present one, and that 89% of the town is river and the remainder is protected tropical jungle.

UPDATE: Apparently it is true. I found this via Sigmund, Carl and Alfred.

There’s no room left at the cemetery, so mayor proposes a ban on death

Bush blew the “bubble” myth out of the water today.

Bush says he does not live in a bubble

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday that he does not live “in a bubble” and that he is well aware of what is going on outside the White House, rejecting critics’ claims that he is out of touch with public opinion.
“I don’t feel in a bubble,” Bush said in an interview on “NBC Nightly News.”

“I feel like I’m getting really good advice from very capable people, and that people from all walks of life have informed me and informed those who advise me. And I feel very comfortable that I’m very aware of what’s going on,” Bush said.

But Bush did acknowledge the bubble of security that prevents him from enjoying ordinary experiences.

“I mean you feel in a bubble in the sense that I can’t go walking out the front gate and you know, go shopping, like I’d love to do for my wife,” he said.

Asked how much television news and newspapers he regularly consumes, Bush moved to dispel a myth that grew a few years ago after he told an interviewer that he does not read newspapers.

“Every morning I look at the newspaper,” Bush told NBC. “I can’t say I’ve read every single article in the newspaper. But, I definitely know what’s in the news.”

It took him far too long to clear that up. Personally, however, I think it’s nice to have a President who doesn’t sit down and watch yelling and screaming talking heads spouting off hot air which means nothing at all. This Cult of Stupid TV has created far too much hatred not only against Bush but against our country in general. I find it refreshing to have a President at the top give a virtual finger to it all.

Rest in Hell, Tookie.

I, for one, am glad that it is over. I’m going to be base and cruel for a moment, disregarding my usual motto for not celebrating the execution of people because it is a somber affair.

It is a beautiful day today. The sun is shining, and the air is like spring. Blue skies and puffy clouds. I am enjoying this moment in the sun outside with my coffee with my laptop. And I am glad that “Tookie” is dead, because he’s not enjoying this day. I have this day, and he doesn’t.

It’s cold blooded when I think about it, but I don’t really care. I am enjoying myself far too much to care about the death of a wasted life who cut short so many others because of a fantastically huge ego trip about self-righteous oppression.

Thousand of people around the world die each day, and the fact that the media spent so much time on this murderer is tantamount to a bigger insult to me than my words and feelings about this beautiful day. At least, I think so. Thousands of people each day die because of assholes like “Tookie”, and dozens today may die because of his legacy of violence which he helped to create in the form of a world-renown gang.

There are so many reasons to be grateful for life on a day like this; so many things to appreciate that he will no longer ever know. Some people think that a lifetime of rotting in prison is the best solution, and I can usually agree. Then again, some people live with his legacy every day, and may differ with a more expert opinion on the matter.

As for me, I would believe that the trauma of the approaching day of execution is a very satisfying revenge; the breaking down of the monster’s spirit; the inevitable fatality of it all while they despair and do anything to stay alive, much like their victims might have done. I am one of those who actually don’t believe in an afterlife at all, so I have to content myself with the suffering that these murderers receive in this world and not the next. Barring physical torture for the rest of their lives, this appears to be a nice second option.

Yes, I know it is absolutely cold-blooded and cruel. But as I see it, it is chiefly the rectification of a grievous error done in the past. People like “Tookie” should be shot when they are apprehended. He wasn’t shot because we have a justice system which I fully support, so it earned him more than two decades of life after he ended the lives of others so quickly and violently. What that got “Tookie” was mercy, and then his final dark days of punishment.

On the “cruelty to bastards” news front, Gov. Terminator has denied clemency to “Tookie” the murderer.

I was almost gambling that he might give it to him, but I’m glad that he didn’t.

I would just like to mention here and now that I think he deserves to die. I know that he’ll never read these words, but some of his supporters might, and I’d just like to say that to piss them off.

Tookie: time to check out, bro. That’s what happens to murderers sometimes, you know. And I’m not just talking about the people he killed directly for which he was convicted. I’m talking about what this man has done to the black community.

What blows me away is that so many black leaders are “standing up” for this asshole. Here is a guy who singlehandedly started a movement which denigrates and degrades black people as a whole since decades, and has caused thousands of deaths. This is a guy who has destroyed a good part of black America, given it a bad name and image, and has caused more racism to be exploited by both whites and blacks and everyone else all over the world.

Should he live? No. The man is a weapon of mass destruction and should be destroyed. I don’t care if the “majority” of the black community thinks that he is a hero. The fact that they even consider him to be a hero (which I seriously doubt that most black people do consider this to be the case) means that he should die. It is his filthy philosophy which has enabled so much of black America to be portrayed as a segment of the population which stands up for assholes like this.

Again: I think it’s full of crap. I don’t believe for a moment that the majority of black Americans give a shit about this guy, nor should they. I believe that only the idiots which comprise parts of any segment of society believe that this guy is a hero. And I believe that it is only assholes who claim to speak for “black America” who think it is right to defend this guy. Most “white Americans” don’t stand up for KKK assholes who are condemned to death either, nor should we. When they put Tim McVeigh to death, I cheered. I actually clapped my hands in my office in New York at the time, because that person deserved it, and worse. I feel no more pity for “Tookie” than I did for “Tim”. Fuck them both and may they burn in Hell.

This person, for that reason alone, needs to be offed. And I mean that in the most explicit sort of way. I don’t care if he claims that he’s been writing books about how it was all a mistake because that hasn’t made a fucking dent in the problem he helped to create in the first place. Even were he to manage to erase that entire movement and philosophy of ignorance, I would still want him to die for the thousands of people he helped to kill by having a hand in creating this movement.

For the sake of black Americans everywhere, I implore the gods above to strike this man down now. And I should be sorely disappointed were this not to happen. I also hope that some of his supporters have read this, just so that I can make their day even worse than it already is.

This isn’t for anyone deeply religious because some of the things which are said might be taken as a slight when you listen to the interview.

Harold Bloom has written a new book called Jesus and Yahweh, which sounds interesting to me. He relates the characters as literary characters, which is exactly how I, in my infinitely atheistic view of the world, first became interested in really reading the Bible as literature.

Now, to most religious people, Mr. Bloom will sound like a deeply self-involved liberal who “just doesn’t get it” about “the word” in the Bible. But be that as it may, it is still interesting to me because I agree with some of his points of view.

You just have to listen to the interview to understand: ‘Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine’

I personally found it fascinating and I might even read the book at some point in the future.

This is fun:

A Syrian visitor from Damascus to my blog. I would think that nobody there has net access without government approval, especially in Damascus. I’m also amazed that I have yet to be banned there, seeing as I hate their guts and have said so on many occasions.

Still, maybe I should ban all Syrian access, as well as the rest of the Muslim world, because they appear to do that to Jews and others who don’t quite meet up to their decrepit Islamic status.

I’ll think about that. Either way, a big fuck you to visitors from Syria and other Muslim anti-Israel nations…which probably includes most or all of them, I should think.

We have yet another story of Arab anti-Semitism (and, seriously, if you are one of those people who think that anti-Semitic includes Arabs, you’re an asshole):

No Jews allowed:

I’m still waiting for the international outrage.

I’m still waiting for my colleagues in the news media to jump on the story.

I’m still waiting for Americans to recognize the way the story illustrates the root cause of conflict in the Middle East.

I refer to last week’s story of how WND’s Jerusalem bureau chief, Aaron Klein, was denied entry to Syria because he is a Jew.

As I prepare this column for publication, not one other news agency in the world has reported on it.

Farah is a godsend. The man needs an award. He’s right to be pissed off. It’s a shame that nobody else has reported on this story. Why? Because as much as the leftist fucking media likes to pretend that Muslims aren’t anti-Jewish at all, simply “anti-Zionist”, this story comes as no surprise. You’d have to be a total fucking idiot to think that Muslims don’t, deep down, hate Jews. And as “liberal” as the leftists are with their ideas about how it’s all really about Israel, they know that it isn’t, or they would report this as an outrage.

But it isn’t “outrageous”, is it? Why? Because this is the norm. And the fact that the idiots in the media don’t even bother to report it is because it is simply “business as usual”. Which means, deep down, they admit that Muslims hate Jews as well.

Which makes them lying, sycophantic, asswipes as far as I am concerned.

I love John Bolton. I actually sent him fan mail once.

Seriously, he’s the best thing in the Bush administration - ever. I’d love to see the man run the State Department after his stint at the U.N. But I do hope that he breaks up that institution before he gets another job.

Pamela has more about his visit and speech to the Zionist Organization of America.

I’d just like to mention that I think that Pamela is also one of the best bloggers around, and she’s about as busy as you can get. She also manages to place herself in every photograph I’ve ever seen online of famous political figures on our side, meaning she’s really versatile. I can see her running for office one day.

My thanks to Pamela for making Bolton’s speech available on her site and writing about it. She’s one cool blogger.

Here we have yet another demonstration of the psychotic delusions coalesced into a personage representing the Arab world:

Assad threatens the world

Typical Arab reaction: “we don’t like civilization, so we’re going to destroy it because we’re idiots.”

Go there and read it at Boker Tov and leave her some comments on some of her entries. She’s one of the best blogging sites online. Again, if you don’t know, I subscribe to her RSS feed and read her, literally, every day. If you don’t know what an RSS/Atom feed is, you can ask me via email and I will open your eyes to the best technology in a long time.

This is absolutely disgraceful, and completely unsurprising:

Palestinian Authority Claims Western Wall is Moslem Property

The Palestinian Authority’s Office for Religious Affairs claims that the Western Wall, revered by Jews for generations as the last structural remnant of the Second Holy Temple, is Moslem property.

The Palestinian Authority’s official website, echoing the claims of its Religious Affairs office, also attempts to negate Jewish ownership of the Western Wall.

The PA office claims Moslem ownership of the Western Wall by referring to the wall on its website as the Al-Boraq Wall. According to Moselm legend, the wall is the place where Mohammed tied his horse, named Boraq, before ascending to heaven.

Again, not surprising. What can we expect of a group of people who also are in the midst of destroying the inside of the Temple Mount to erase Jewish history?

This is one topic which outrages me enormously. Here we have clear, absolute proof of the Arab mentality: deny everything. Everything. Everything is a conspiracy against them, including real historical documents by third parties over thousands of years. Thus, the Romans, Greeks, Macedonians, Byzantines, and all the rest have actually falsified history, thousands of years before, to make up the claim that Jews, somehow, are related to Israel and the Temple Mount.

It’s mind-bogglingly fucked up. Pardon my Arabic. It’s beyond fucked up. It borders on qualifications of euthanasia for an entire “culture” of lies. In fact, that is exactly what I advocate.

I’d like to mention, here and now, that I believe Israel should threaten Mecca itself with a nuclear fucking bomb, if the Palestinians don’t stop fucking up the Temple Mount. It isn’t theirs, it never was, and they only got it by being bloodthirsty fucks. Now they are the backwater of civilization itself, with less manners and decency than an idiotic and hairy caveman scratching his ass when he tries to think, because that is how he stimulates his brains.

It outrages me because they are so self-involved that they haven’t lived in “reality” since the seventh fucking century. That’s right, that is their paramount idyllic civilization: a nomadic tribal desert tradition which hasn’t changed in fourteen hundred years is what they think is the most perfect civilization on earth. Anything which gets in their way to disprove them becomes a traitor to their barbaric cause.

Honestly, the Frankish tribes of Europe at the time had more sense than the Arabians did at the time. Arabians were the learned equals to something you’d find when you turned over a rock in the middle of the desert and a scorpion would scurry out: just as friendly and just as advanced.

So is it any surprise that they not only claim that the Temple Mount was never there, but that history has been forged to slight them? No, it isn’t. It’s what they always do. Apparently, America was discovered by Muslims as well (according to them).

If Islam was a person, it would be locked up and shot for the good of the society. Unfortunately, it is a mental disorder. You got it right: I said that Islam is a mental fucking disorder. If you believe anything in the Koran, you’re a fucking moron. Quite frankly, people who say that I shouldn’t say that have probably never read it for themselves, or they are devout Muslims, which discounts their opinion off the bat.

Why do we have to put up with this shit? It incenses me to no end. Isn’t it time that Israel and the Western world start to slap this fucking stone-aged culture around and tell them to join the twenty-first century? I don’t understand why we even allow the Muslims to control the Temple Mount. Jews have been wanting it back for nearly two thousand years, because it was stolen from them. And not, mind you, by the Romans, but by the Muslims. The Romans destroyed most of everything there, but the Muslims took over the remnants and have kept it as their own, building up mythologies which have no basis in reality, and have denied the Jews access to it for far too long.

Well, Jews won it back in 1967, after a very hard fight, and it belongs to Israel. It will always belong to Israel. It will belong to Israel for the rest of eternity, and no idiotic Muslims should ever be allowed to take that away again.

On another personal note:

I went to the Mariachi Festival yesterday here in Phoenix, AZ. One of my business friends (and friends in general) sings and loves Mariachi. I went knowing absolutely nothing about what to expect. And, quite frankly, being the classical music snob that I am, I really didn’t know if I was even going to enjoy it for more than five minutes.

How wrong I was.

First of all, it was pretty interesting being in a crowd of thousands of Spanish-speaking people and knowing very little, or no, Spanish. But that didn’t deter me. It was held at the indoor stadium in downtown Phoenix and what a show it was. Hundreds of Mariachi players on stage and in the aisles played their hearts out. All of them wore their costumes, which are simply beautiful to look at. It was a Christmas event so there was lots of Christmas music done in Mariachi style.

Let me just say here and now that I have taken back everything negative that I have ever said about Mariachi music. It is beautiful. Once you see the top of the artists in this genre, you will have to agree. They were fantastic. It truly sounded like classical music done in a beautiful Mexican style. And boy, can they sing. We are talking opera-level singing for some of the songs.

The shows were punctuated with humor to an absolutely adoring audience who knew all of these classic songs, of course, and they sang along with them on many occasions.

The two groups which really stood out were, naturally, the stars of the show: Sol de la Mexico and Mariachi Vargas. The latter is the most famous group of course, having been around for many decades. They even did a rendition of “New York, New York”, “Ave Maria”, and one of Andreas Bocelli’s songs. And I’m telling you, it was not the whiney, out of tune, music that you usually can negatively associate with Mariachi music. It was simply astoundingly beautiful, emotional, powerful, funny, and awesome to hear.

And what a spectacle. There were hundreds of kids dressed up in traditional Mexican outfits, dancing in the aisles during some of the huge performances, with a rainbow of colors and movement, as well as the traditional Guadalupe homages with banners and the like. Of course, the whole thing was in Spanish so it was very hard to understand. But, native French speaker that I am, I did get the gist of much of what they were saying.

Again, there was so much going on and so many different kinds of playing and music, that it is hard to describe in full for a first-timer. Needless to say, I will go again next year. My friend goes every year and brings all his friends with him, and I want to be there for the next time.

Unfortunately, the stadium doesn’t allow picture-taking so I couldn’t shoot any of the event. But it was dazzling. If you happen to be anywhere near where the Mariachi Festival is showing, you should definitely go.

I just wanted to announce that my site (hosted by Total Choice Hosting) is now running on the new server and everything appears to be going smoothly.

I just have to plug them for a minute and say that if you need a good server solution for your blog, or your site, or email, or whatever, give them a look. They’ve been really amazing with me. They always have somebody to reply to my needs instantly, at any time of the day or night, and they are very professional and friendly.

Thank you TCH.

According to the New York Times, conservative bloggers are the best political machine that there is.

Or close enough.

Conservative Blogs are More Effective

When the liberal activist Matt Stoller was running a blog for the Democrat Jon Corzine’s 2005 campaign for governor, he saw the power of the conservative blogosphere firsthand. Shortly before the election, a conservative Web site claimed that politically damaging information about Corzine was about to surface in the media. It didn’t. But New Jersey talk-radio shock jocks quoted the online speculation, inflicting public-relations damage on Corzine anyway. To Stoller, it was proof of how conservatives have mastered the art of using blogs as a deadly campaign weapon.

Of course, I think that the article insinuates a load of balderdash. Frankly, I don’t know any bloggers who simply make up stories just to hurt the other side. Perhaps, but I haven’t seen it on my side. But then, the NYT wouldn’t have a complete day if it didn’t accuse conservatives of something underhanded.

A lot of the “conservative” blogs which I visit merely reproduce links with some commentary. I think that the problem with the “liberal” blogs is that they don’t really know what they want - simply reflecting the general malaise of the liberal side in today’s political world. The only thing they appear to have in common is that they are against Bush, against “the war”, and against pretty much everything which most of America supports.

Conservatives don’t have to make anything up to make the liberals look pathetic because the liberals are doing it to themselves.

Or should I say the leftists? I see myself still as very liberal on some issues. And yet, I still fit nicely in the Neocon side of things.

I just want to extend my heartiest congratulations to two bloggers on their wedding yesterday.

Pictures at IMAO.