If You Really Loved Me You'd Let Me Eat Your Brain

So some lefties are steaming mad that the US is pumping money into programs designed to spread news in Iraq.  Isn't propaganda part of every war effort?  I have no problem with our government spending money to establish and support a free press in a newly-democratic society, and I don't for a second think that the stories being printed are at all untruthful.  Isn't that the real test one should apply when judging their sources?  (If you've got a few days and you're really interested in what's going right in Iraq, check out this article and work backwards.)

Perhaps it pisses off the NYT scribes that writers in Iraq are being paid for their efforts and that the Iraqi journalists end up writing good news which bolsters the case for the US continuing its work in Iraq.  I think what makes them even angrier is that the NYT writers, the ones who haven't been fired for passing off fiction as fact, are writing pro-terrorist and anti-American tracts day in and day out with no thanks or financial support from the murderous tyrants and terrorists they support.

Perhaps all the liberals reading this would like to set a timetable for the terrorists all around the world to withdraw and stop murdering people.  Until then their calls for a timetable to exit Iraq (or as I call it, surrender) will be ignored by this writer as I think they should be all freedom-loving people everywhere.

 

Now the monster 300-page EU constitution is 0 for 2. The Dutch bitchslapped it Reagan-style: 61.6% voted No with a 62.8% turnout. Get it? Reagan? Dutch?

Read all about it here. I wonder if the environmentally-friendly and oh-so-advanced Europeans will shred the monstrosity and recycle it for toilet paper.

One maxim I'd like to take credit for: A constitution's effective lifetime is inversely proportional to it's length.

No, I haven't gone off my meds. I'm actually happy about something the French people did for once. Read all about it here.

54.87% of French voters said non to the EU's first constitution on Sunday. This is a good sign for freedom-loving people everywhere. France is the driving force behind the EU's pathetically socialist constitution, one that, in my opinion, creates a nanny state with all sorts of disincentives for personal responsibility. The more people who live under non-socialist democracies, the better.

I do realize that some portion of the non voters are extreme leftists who think the EU constitution didn't go far enough to safeguard the 35 hour work week, eight weeks of paid vacation, retirement at 55, etc. One opponent of the EU constitution was handing out posters that read "No to a free-market Europe." Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Officials in charge of rebuilding the World Trade Center site Wednesday were quick to dismiss real estate developer Donald Trump's proposal to scrap their plan and instead build "reincarnated" Twin Towers similar to the originals.

I like The Donald. He's straightforward and you know what you're getting when you deal with him. An earlier story, maybe in the WSJ, had Trump saying something like "I'd rebuild the towers, only make them one story taller."

As the great poet Jay-Z once observed, "middle finger to the Law, nigga, gripping my balls." That's the kind of attitude I like.

CNN reports that Syria has finished withdrawing its troops from Lebanon.

Ten weeks after the mass protests started and they left without firing a shot. That's a pretty sweet conclusion to the problem.

In an effort to better inform and protect you, dear reader, I've installed a state-of-the-art Terror Alert Level indicator. The level, as set by the Department of Homeland Security, is indicated in the graphic just below the calendar in the right hand column. The terror alert level can change many times a day, so be sure to visit often, especially before venturing outside or opening suspicious packages.

Please refer to the handy graphic below to see how much you should worry.

Remember, check early and check often! If you don't read Manual Override at least once a day...the terrorists have already won!

Hellfire Rocket + Tank = Smoking Hole in Ground

Check it out.

The people doing the grim work of discovering mass graves in Iraq have been busy. From a New York Times article:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 14 [2005] - Investigators have discovered several mass graves in southern Iraq that are believed to contain the bodies of people killed by Saddam Hussein's government, including one estimated to hold 5,000 bodies, Iraqi officials say.

At least 290 grave sites containing the remains of some 300,000 people have been found since the American invasion two years ago, Iraqi officials say.

How could anti-war people continue their opposition to the UN-sanctioned invasion and removal of Saddam Hussein if they were standing on the edge of a pit containing the bodies thousands of murdered men, women, and children?

The mass grave excavators are so busy that they don't have enough qualified forensic workers to dig up all of the graves they've found so far. I've got an idea: Let's ask all those nitwit "human shield" people who raced over to Iraq to protect hospitals and nurseries (but ended up at industrial and military facilities instead) to grab a shovel and help. They're already familiar with the terrain and the culture, and they're oh so concerned about the lives of innocent Iraqi citizens.

It was just another slow day on the Haffenbredl family farm (now in its 110th year) today. Anne and I went to visit the relatives up in the Town of Milladore. That'd be in Wood County, Wisconsin.

We swapped tales of funny spring election results. I told them all about Progressive Dane's wacky platform and their failure to capitalize on their momentum. They told me how they unseated a tyrannical Town Board Supervisor. LeRoy Altmann, your reign of terror is over.

You see, LeRoy Altmann has had the Town of Milladore in his iron grip for many years. He served on the Board of Supervisors for the Town of Milladore. He wasn’t an absolute ruler since there were others on the Board but he ran the show. The townsfolk quaked with fear every year when it came time to decide which dirt roads to pave. The Haffenbredl clan, my brother-in-law Tom in particular, had been getting the cold shoulder (get it? Paving…roads…shoulder?) for a long time. There was always just enough money to pave other sections of road but…never his.

Year after year the Haffenbredls stewed, their rage barely hidden by the clouds of reddish-brown dust whipping off the exposed dirt roads separating their adjacent farms. They’re anything but simple farming folk though. They have long memories and their ambitions reach far higher than the August corn.

They spent their years wisely, organizing, checking the prevailing political winds, and watching for signs of weakness from the office of the Supervisor. Hushed conversations over games of sheepshead, insinuations over lunch breaks at the rock quarry, verbal parries and thrusts with potential supporters...or snitches...over Busch at hunting camp.

They tell me LeRoy Altmann woke up on April 5th, 2005, thinking it’d be just like any other election day. His political machine would turn out the vote, giving him 135 or 150 votes, enough to return him to power for another term, but not enough to fuel suspicions that the dairy farms and cemeteries participated in the vote. He only needed to place second to keep his job because there were two seats open this year. The two candidates with the highest vote counts would ascend to the throne. But this year was different.

This time around my nephews (barely in their early 20s!) and my brothers-in-law held their cards very close to the vest until election day. Not only did they defeat the incumbent, forcing him to vacate his Evil Fortress of Supervision, but they did it without him even suspecting there was another viable candidate in the running! The Haffenbredl boys didn’t bother putting their candidate on the ballot – that’d just given LeRoy time to grease the wheels and buy off voters. No, they outwitted him this time. They organized a write-in campaign and stole enough votes from LeRoy Altmann that he came in third. Their write-in candidate finished a strong second. The candidate who took the most votes, Jerald Aschenbrenner, was a moderate but they were careful not to erode his base of support with their campaign. Well played!

So, LeRoy Altmann, vacate your office, ASAP. I will personally pour a 40 oz. on the steaming asphalt as it cools in front of my brother-in-law’s farm. And know this: My homies will join me in my laughter, since one of them works crushing the rock to make the road base and asphalt, and the other works on the county road crew that’ll be building the road.

Run, LeRoy Altmann, run for the hills! Three cheers for Democracy! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

(Official Wood County election results can be found here.)

Spring elections are being held today in Wisconsin. Please get out and vote.

If you're in Dane County or the City of Madison please do everyone a favor and avoid voting for any candidate endorsed by Progressive Dane. The PD coalition is a group of well-meaning but misguided people who endorse all sorts of bad ideas like hiking the minimum wage to a "living wage"...whatever that is supposed to mean; stopping urban sprawl by imposing Portland-like "smart growth" standards that will kill property values, drive up population density, stop green space development, and restrict the property rights of landowners; preventing city and county jobs being outsourced when private firms can do them less expensively; creating a "social safety net" to expanding services like food stamps, welfare, and SSI to people who don't currently qualify for them; and so on.

I'll write a post dissecting Progressive Dane's city and county platforms later. For now, please, review their stance in the issues (city platform, county platform) and send them packing!