What's This Have To Do With Palestine?

As Islamofascist apologists are always saying, "Muslim violence is about US support for Israel & the oppression of the Palestinians."

Well, what does Turkish youths in Brussels rioting & stabbing people have to do with Palestine?

Yet again, I ask, what does Muslim violence in Chechnya, Indonesia, Phillipines, Sudan, India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, the riots over cartoons depicting Mohammed, etc. have to do with Palestine?

Wake up, people.

In another story:

They're just here to steal emergency supplies that Americans won't steal themselves.

There's also rumors out there, as yet unconfirmed that ILLEGAL immigrants may have started the wild fires that have been plaguing So. Cal this past week. As I've said before, I'll gladly pay $4 for an orange or tomato if it means we deport the 11-20 million illegal immigrants out of the country. Remember, when I say illegal, I mean illegal in the illegal sense meaning "illegal" as in "against the law."

Is It The Truth? Or Not?

"The truth hurts" - Anonymous

Scientific enquiry is about searching for truth not making people feel good about themselves.

Selywn Duke's take on the recent fuss over the geneticist, James Watson, who caused a stir by claiming research data shows those in Africa aren't as intellectually capable as other groups.

The thing that gets me about the PC police & the left-leanign mindset on issues like this is the skewing of semantics & the meanings of words into something the man did not say. The Left & the PC cops would have you think that Watson said something to the affect of "Africans/Blacks are intellectually incapable compared to other races, not as intellectually capable," which is a huge difference.

If you interpret that he said the former you basically read it as "Africans/Blacks are stupid." If you interpret the latter you read it as "Africans/Blacks on the whole are generally less capable intellectually." Which to most I'm sure still sounds as daming as saying "Africans/Blacks are stupid." But let's hold on for a minute.

Say hypothetically, you take an infinite # of tests which measure intellectual capacity of certain races as a quantifiable # & for the sake of the argument it comes out something like this:

1. Asians, 98
2. Native American, 97
3. White, 95
4. Arab, 94
5. Hispanic, 93
6. African, 92

Now, this list shows hypothetically that some races are more intellectually capable than others, but if we assign a test like score to these hypothetical results, everyone gets an "A" or is intellectual capable as a whole but not as capable compared to each other. So for once, we need to back up & really think about what people say & understand what they mean rather than always jump to the PC, feeling friendly conclusion & the ever ready leap to outrage.

Put this another way, if what James Watson said about possible intellectual differences amongst the races bothers you, turn it on yourself & see if you agree or disagree with statements such as "Asians are better at math," "White Men Can't Jump," "Latin lover," etc. etc.

P.S. I like the point Selwyn Duke makes in his article about how people will argue about how evolution supposedly causes groups in different environments to develop genetic differences except in humans' case & that the reason for this would be a good argument for the existence of God.

I Hate This Blogger Text Crap Sometimes

I apologize for the post beneath...

Int they're ever-wonderful supposed brilliance, the computers think they know more than me or we humans. The text shows up fine when you go to edit, but somehow, some way, the HTML f*cks up & gives you the crap-assed post beneath, even though I didn't make any HTML changes. So there's that. F*cking computers.

Tasty Nuggets, Week 8

Yes, posted after the fact... again. Bite me. For posterity's sake. The picks are for posterity's sake, I mean, not biting me.

Welcome to Week 8 of the Tasty Nuggets, now serving mediocre picks that are ACC-free.

Thlou Holth, your campy, folksy senile old man bit has grown tiresome & I can't wait until you catch pneumonia. Or go play shuffleboard in Boca like the rest of all the old coots. Stay away form Morty Schulzberger though, Thlou. That one's a scheister. And that Ethel Friedman. She's such a gossip!

Week 7 Quick Review

Hawaii -17.5 over San Jose St.
Hawaii 42, San Jose St. 35 OT
SU: Won; ATS: Lost; LOW: Lost

Texas Tech -8 over Texas A&M
Texas Tech 35, Texas A&M 7
SU: Won; ATS: Won

Oklahoma St. +4 vs. Nebraska
Oklahoma St. 45, Nebraska 14
SU: Won; ATS: Won

Kansas -25 over Baylor
Kansas 58, Baylor 10
SU: Won; ATS: Won

Missouri +10.5 vs. Oklahoma
Oklahoma 41, Missouri 31
SU: Won; ATS: Won

LSU -9 over Kentucky
Kentucky 43, LSU 37 3OT
SU: Lost; ATS: Lost

Georgia -7 over Vandy
Georgia 20, Vandy 17
SU: Won; ATS: Lost

Miami (FL) -2.5 over Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech 17, Miami (FL) 14
SU: Lost; ATS: Lost

Notre Dame +14 vs. Boston College
Boston College 27, Notre Dame 14
SU: Won; ATS: Won

Illernoise -3 over Iowa
Iowa 10, Illernoise 6
SU: Lost; ATS: Lost

Weekly Record
SU: 7-3, .700
ATS: 5-5, .500
LOW: Lost

Season Record
SU: 43-27, .614
ATS: 31-39, .443
LOW: 3-4, .429 (higher avg. than Ted Williams' & Rogers Hornsby!)

Louisville -3 over UConn- Basketball, baby! Never nervous Pervis gonna win this one! Just like when he was never nervous against the 86 Dukies to win all the mawbles. Mawbles! Mawbles! Isuro Tanaka say Mawbles! What you say to dat, Jobu? You trying to tell me Jobu can't read a zone defense? Louisville 41, UConn 31




Rutgers +3 vs. USF- Da team dat CFN.com has labeled da "New U," faces last year's darlings, Rutgers. Who will win this matchup of former vs. current Hot Hot Hot? With increased exposure comes increased scrutiny & expectations. Sort of like running for national office. There's the of course well known story of how USF's football offices were once housed in a trailer but upon further investigation it's been found that USF's football program used Geico car insurance & got great rates & saved a lot of money which was then spent on gifts, I mean recruiting budgets. USF 21, Rutgers 20



Utah +3.5 vs. TCU- Utah's back with a brand new invention. It's called an uninjured Brian Johnson. He's got some Big Love for TCU coming this week. No I'm not going to make a Horny Toad reference. Utaht I was going to do that, admit it. I like Rubenesque women like Meat at the LSU-UF game. Utah 28, TCU 24



Auburn +10.5 vs. LSU- What sort of obligatory weirdness will this game bring this year? Let's see, we've done burning fieldhouses, sketchy refing, multiple INT TDs in the same qtr, smoking cigars at midfield... I vote for corndog missiles tossed at the Auburn sideline continuously throughout the game. They'll have so much cholesterol built up by the 4th qtr that Tommy Tuberville will confusingly attempt a trick play where Wes Byrum throws a pass... but it goes wide right... LSU 20, Auburn 14




Michigan -2.5 over Illernoise- Don't call it a comeback, Lloyd's been here for years! Momma said to knock Zook out! Momma say knock 'im out! It's simple, Hart plays w/o injury effects & Michigan wins this if no other reason b/c I say so. From now on Hart's Delta Chi name is Cheese. And Zook's is Urban. Zing! Pow! Kablamo! Michigan 23, Illinois 20 OT



Kansas -4 over Colorado- Carry on my wayward Jayhawks, there may be a Big 12 CG when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest, don't you choke no more! Wooooooooooo! I'm listening to Black Sabbath right now which has nothing to do with Kansas other than I'm sure Ozzy puked there before. Kansas 27, Colorado 17



Florida -7 over Kentucky- Yeaaaaaaaaaaah, kiss of death, Tearbow! Here comes Andre Woodson! And like the other Woodson who was a Heisman candidate he'll steal it from an SEC guy! Wait, except he's one too... d'oh! Something about the hills make people burn couches after big wins. Be careful Tearbow, I think the UK are like the Bene Gesserit & are actively working against the Kwisatz Haderach prophecies being fulfilled again... Muad'dib!!!! Florida 28, Kentucky 20



Oregon -11 over Washington- I never saw a blue duck before. That's quacktastic. Man that Dixon cat at QB for Oregon is pretty a'ight. The battle for the Repbuclic of Cascadia National Championship. Cascadia is/was a proposed country consisting of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia & part of Idaho. You know what irks me? Columbia vs. Colombia. Pick one spelling, damnit! Oregon 38, Washington 24



Michigan St. +17 vs. Ohio St.- Anyone ever heard of the emo/indie band, Drive Like Jehu? Well meet, the grindcore band, Run Like Jehuu. Rogga rogga broooarrr gooor drugga dugga dugga duuuuuu rrrrrooooaaaarrrrrrrrrr. Sckrack kak skaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rrrrrrrrrroaoaoaoaoaaaaaaarrrrrrrr!!!!! You try writing the onomatopeiac vocal style of death growls & metal shrieks! Ohio St. 27, Michigan St. 20



Penn St. -7.5 over Indiana- Hey Indiana, Hoosier daddy? It's JoePa "Trots" Paterno. Although I guess it'd be more like Hoosier grandpa? Despite having the trots on national tv, I envy Joe Pa since he'll obviously never get carpal tunnel or minimal arthritis since he will use a cell telephone or engage in that text phoning ebay stuff. Hey Joe you do know we put a man on the moon right? No that drunkard Kerry Collins doesn't count. he only thought he was on the moon. I got nothing, this week was weak. Get it? An alliteral pun! Penn St. 31, Indiana 17

Sports Round-Up Of My Teamses

Rangers lost 5-3 to Atlanta Thursday night. Looked really sketchy until late when they scored a couple of garbage time goals. All 3 goals came via the powerplay in the 3rd period by Girardi, Shanahan & Gomez, respectively.

Rangers lost in a shootout to the Bruins on saturday after a 0-0 game. Does King Henrik get a shutout for a 1-0 shutout loss?? B/c the shootout goal is not an offical goal scored I believe that is a shutout... shutout with a "loss." Strange days indeed! Most peculiar, momma.

Next up for the Rangers, Sindey Crosby, the Prince of Wails, & his Pirates of Pittsburgh on Tuesday. With Bettman's princess on display bet on pro-Penguin refereeing! Waaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

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Arsenal shutout Bolton 2-0 on saturday. Goals came from Kolo Toure & substitute Tomas Rosicky. Didn't see the game only heard bits & pieces of the last 20 minutes or so but it sounded like Arsenal dominated after the hour mark.

Arsenal's next match is their home Champions' League match against Slavia Prague of the Czech Republic. With Arsenal being at home they'll no doubt be expected to bag all 3 pts.

Rangers Play Atlanta Tonight

All the ladies can find me at Mother's tonight watching college foozball & Rangers' hockey. On dat HD tv. Boy, dat's fancy stuff dat HD is. So clear. Like clarity.

Rangers have gotten off to a so-so start with their record being 2-3 after 5 games. Curiously it's been their offense that's struggled a bit early in the season with the defense & specifically King Henrik Lundqvist playing well only allowing more than 2 goals once, 3 in a loss to Ottawa in their last game.

Hopefully the 4 day break will give the Rangers plenty of jump in tongiht's game & time to have gained some more cohesiveness on offense. Let's Go Rangers!

NHL action! It's puckin' awesome!

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On football world soccer variety, the Unied States beat Switzerland yesterday 1-nil in a friendly. Michale Bradley, son of head coach Bob Bradley, scored the winner late in the game after some good work down the right side & keeping the initial clearance in by Maurice Edu.

Overall the United States played ok & the rain on the fast pitch didn't really allow either team to get into a groove for any extended portion of the game.

It was the 1st time the US has won on European soil since the fall of the Holy Roman Empire or something.

There was almost a brewhaha before halftime with Oguchi Onyewu & Marco Streller of Switzerland with a little push & a fall & a lot of hands out in the "what I do?" gestures.

Freddy Adu also came on as a late substitute for only his 2nd cap. Danny Szetela made his international debut as well.

-- U.S. Men’s National Team Game Report --
Match-up: USA vs. Switzerland
Date: October 17, 2007
Competition: International Friendly
Venue: St. Jakob Park – Basel, Switzerland
Kickoff: 2:30 p.m. ET
Attendance: 16,500
Weather: 64 degrees; rain

Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
USA 0 1 1
SUI 0 0 0

Scoring:
USA – Michael Bradley (Clint Dempsey) 86th minute

Lineups:
USA: 24-Marcus Hahnemann (18-Brad Guzan, 46); 6-Steve Cherundolo, 22-Oguchi Onyewu (2-Dan Califf, 46), 3-Carlos Bocanegra (Capt.), 7-Eddie Lewis (9-Danny Szetela, 84); 5-Benny Feilhaber, 13-Maurice Edu, 4-Michael Bradley,17-DaMarcus Beasley (11-Heath Pearce, 31); 20-Taylor Twellman (25-Freddy Adu, 77), 8-Clint Dempsey (29-Robbie Findley, 90)
Subs not used: 23-Jay DeMerit
Head Coach: Bob Bradley

SUI: 1-Pascal Zuberbühler; 2-Johan Djourou (25-Steve Von Bergen, 17), 3-Ludovic Magnin (Capt.), 5-Xavier Margairaz (22-Hakan Yakin, 46); 11-Marco Streller (31-Blaise Nkufo, 46), 13-Stephane Grichting, 14-David Degen, 16-Tranquillo Barnetta (17-Christoph Spycher, 75), 27-Gokhan Inler, 29-Stephan Lichtsteiner, 35-Fabio Celestini (33-Gelson Fernandes, 46)
Subs not used: 12-Diego Benaglio, 37-Germano Vailati
Head Coach: Jakob Kuhn

Stats Summary: USA SUI
Shots 9 8
Shots on goal 5 3
Saves 4 3
Corner Kicks 3 4
Fouls 25 16
Offside 3 0

Misconduct Summary:
SUI – Marco Streller (caution) 45th minute
USA – Oguchi Onyewu (caution) 45.
USA – Maurice Edu (caution) 53.

Officials:
Referee: Frank de Bleeckere (BEL)
1st Asst.: Peter Hermans (BEL)
2nd Asst.: Danny Huens (BEL)
Fourth Official: Nicole Petignat (SUI)

Sierra Mist Man of the Match: Carlos Bocanegra

Vive Le Bobby Jihad!

A'ight! Bobbay!

Tough Love in the Big Easy
By Kathleen Parker
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

NEW ORLEANS -- People here haul out multisyllable adjectives to describe the back-to-back storms that devastated Louisiana two years ago.

Catastrophic, cataclysmic and apocalyptic are three of the favorites. Biblical is another.
Touring New Orleans today, seeing barren lots where homes once stood and giant X's still marking houses to indicate if bodies were found, it is easy to think in those terms.

But hurricanes Katrina and Rita did more than just destroy homes and histories. They seem to have changed Louisiana's personality.

Where once cronyism and corruption were tolerated almost as local eccentricities, today they are viewed as the detritus of a benighted past. As voters prepare to elect a new governor and a large slate of legislators on Saturday, ethics is the new byword and brains may trump political brawn.

The political emphasis post-Katrina isn't so much ideological -- Democrat vs. Republican -- as it is reform vs. status quo. Leading the reform surge, as well as in the polls, is a young politician Huey Long could never have imagined. Bobby Jindal, the wiry and wired Republican son of Indian immigrants, doesn't look like a Louisiana good ol' boy and he doesn't talk like one either.

At 36, he has a resume that should place him closer to retirement than to yet another career. A Rhodes Scholar, Jindal was accepted to the medical and law schools of both Harvard and Yale (though he attended neither). While still in his 20s, he served as president of the University of Louisiana System and as assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He successfully reformed Louisiana's Medicaid program and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004.

Meeting at a Baton Rouge coffee shop late in the afternoon, I was relieved when Jindal did not have coffee. The man has so much energy already, he could charge batteries. I ordered a double cappuccino.

If elected, Jindal wants to turn that energy on ethics reform, which might make him popular among voters. With legislators, maybe not so much.

He wants to make lawmakers fully disclose their finances -- income, assets and debts. He also wants to forbid legislators from serving as lobbyists or consultants while in office and to prevent people from serving in government and doing business with government at the same time.

Jindal's tough-love approach to the business of government stems from his belief that Louisiana is at a now-or-never point in its history. If the state doesn't get its programs straightened out, the Big Easy, for one, may go down hard and Louisiana may never recover.

What happens here also affects the rest of the country, as Louisiana is home to a third of the nation's petrochemical industry. As a port and entry point to the Mississippi River, the state is also crucial to distribution of 40 percent of the nation's natural gas and 20 percent of its imported crude oil. A third of the seafood consumed in the U.S. is harvested off the Louisiana coast.

Jindal has found support in unexpected quarters, including the 65-member Louisiana Sheriffs' Association, all but seven of them Democrats. The group supported a Jindal opponent when he first ran for governor in 2003, the race Kathleen Blanco won. She is not seeking re-election.

The sheriffs' conversion to Jindal's camp is another of Katrina's legacies. St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stephens told me that many voters have "buyer's remorse," and, "we've come to place a high value on intellect."

Also, in the days after Katrina when state and local leaders were tangled up in red tape, Jindal materialized with his sleeves rolled up -- without cameras or fanfare -- and said, "What do you need?"

Shortly thereafter, trucks, food and medicine began arriving in St. Bernard, where most of the parish's 27,000 residential units were damaged or destroyed.

Jindal's double-digit lead in the polls has prompted his opponents to play a deck of cards -- from religion to ethnicity. One ad asserted that Jindal, a Catholic, is anti-Protestant. The state Democratic Party has used Jindal's given name, Piyush, clearly aiming to rally ethnophobes.
In an act of desperation, one opponent ran a television ad noting that, yeah, sure, Jindal's got brains, but does he have a heart?

Being too smart hasn't been plaguing Louisiana leadership lately. It couldn't hurt to give brains a chance.

Although if I'm honest, I'd vote for Huma here... soooooooooo prettyyyyyyy

"St. Al Of The Ecopalypse?" Well played, Mr. Steyn

Doom if Saint Al loses carbs

Mark Steyn October 15, 2007

A COUPLE of days before Al Gore was awarded his Nobel Peace prize, Michael Burton, an English High Court judge and apparently a fine film critic, ruled that Al's Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth was prone to "alarmism and exaggeration" and identified nine major factual errors.

For example, the former vice-president predicts a rise in sea levels of 6m "in the near future". "The Armageddon scenario he predicts," declared Burton, "is not in line with the scientific consensus."

I'll say. The so-called scientific consensus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests rising sea levels across the next century of somewhere between 15cm and 60cm, with about 30cm being most likely. An Inconvenient Truth insouciantly adds a zero to the worst-case scenario.

And nobody minds. His Honour was examining the vice-president's acclaimed crockumentary because the British Government, in its wisdom, has decided to force-feed it to hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren. It would be nice to think it would have to be preceded by a warning that any resemblance between this film and any actual planet living or dead is entirely coincidental, but it seems more likely that the Nobel Peace imprimatur will completely insulate the picture from even the most modest quibbles.

A schoolkid in Ontario was complaining the other day that, whatever subject you do, you have to sit through Gore's movie: It turns up in biology class, in geography, in physics, in history, in English.

Whatever you're studying, it's all you need to know. It fulfils the same role in the schoolhouses of the guilt-ridden developed world that the Koran does in Pakistani madrassas. Gore's rise is as remorseless as those sea levels. I assumed Gore's clammy embrace would do for the environmental movement what his belated endorsement had done for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential candidacy: kill it stone dead. But governor Dean was constrained by actual humdrum prosaic vote tallies in Iowa and New Hampshire. The ecochondriacs, by contrast, seem happiest when they're most unmoored from reality.

That's where Gore comes in. No matter how you raise the stakes ("It might take another 30 Kyotos", says Jerry Mahlman of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research), Saint Al of the Ecopalypse can raise them higher. Climate change, he says, is the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced. Ever. And not just humankind, but alienkind, too. "We are," warns Gore, "altering the balance of energy between our planet and the rest of the universe".

Wow. It's not just the Maldive Islands, but the balance of energy between Earth and the rest of the universe. You wouldn't happen to have the stats on that, would you? Universal "balance of energy" graphs for 1940 and 1873? Gore is the logical reductio of what the popular Australian blogger Tim Blair calls global warm-mongering: Worst-case scenario, with all the zeroes you want on the end, and then a few more for holes in the ozone layer as yet undreamt of. Anyone can, as the environmentalists advise, think globally and act locally, but only Gore thinks cosmically and acts not at all.

One can forgive youthful indiscretions, like his 1988 presidential candidacy, when he became the first and only politician in US history to hire a herd of cows for the launch of his campaign, positioning them attractively around him for the photo op at the supposed Gore "family farm". The contribution to global warming from increased methane from bovine flatulence in the Gore neighbourhood was no doubt "offset" by reduced flatulent emissions from whichever farm he'd hired the cows from: it was, in that sense, a "carbon-neutral" event.

But since then there's been a pronounced pattern of behaviour. In 2000, it was revealed that his tenant, Tracy Mayberry, has asked her distinguished landlord to fix the plumbing. The toilet overflowed and the tank was held together by bread bag ties. This was after Gore had inflicted federal toilet regulations on the rest of the country in the interest of water conservancy, yet he let his own tenant's lavatory overflow for months on end. Americans have to make do with cisterns that hold less than a supersized cup at McDonald's, but Environmental Boy had a Niagara-sized torrent running through his tenants' bathroom and down the stairs 24 hours a day. After Channel 5 in Nashville ran a story, he eventually called Tracy and invited himself to dinner so they could get to know each other. But Mayberry, a Democrat, told the vice-president he could "kiss my ass", which given the state of sanitation on the property was probably not a wise idea.

An isolated incident? Well, the average US household consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours of electricity. In 2006, the Gores wolfed down nearly 221,000kWh.

221,000kWh? What's he doing in there? As his spokesperson explained it, his high energy usage derives from his brave calls for low energy usage. He's burning up all that electricity by sending out faxes every couple of minutes urging you wastrels to use less electricity. Insofar as he's made any contribution to global peace, it's in persuading large swaths of a narcissistic Western world to busy itself with non-solutions to pseudo-crises to such a distracting degree that al-Qa'ida may wind up imposing the global caliphate without having to fire a shot.

As for the climate, you could take every dollar spent on "global warming" and blow it on internet porn, and the Earth's climate in 2050 will be pretty much what it would be anyway. Meanwhile, Gore is now being urged to jump into the presidential race and save Democrats from the allegedly too-hawkish Hillary Clinton. I doubt he will.

But you'll know he's considering it if he starts slimming down faster than the Antarctic shelf. When Al Gore starts getting carb-neutral, we're really in trouble.

Ewwwwwwwww, Peasants! Ick!

Crabs? Friiiiied 'r Soft-Shelled?

Dirty South?

Ewwwwwwww, tired, unwashed masses of the South. We have to go to the South? They have like, guns & stuff! And the poke their cousins so they have all these STDs!

Bluegrass Blues

Crap. No, seriously, Crap!

Sumb1tch.

LaFell, you've got to catch the ball with consistency, dude. Reggie Nelson is gone. Forget him. Catch the damn ball. Until you do our passing offense will sputter. Although to be fair, Flynn you have to throw better deep balls too. You had LaFell on that skinny post / go route & underthrew him. No excuses for that.

Could be worse.

LSU is still in line to be able to get to Atlanta & still has a decent shot at getting in the BCS title game. But the way CFB is going this year who knows what the hell'll happen.

Lesticles' post-game comments.