March 2009 Archives

That's right. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals killed 95% of the animals it took into custody last year: 2,124 killed, and only 7 placed in adoptive homes. Don't believe me? Read the report that PETA submitted to the State of Virginia.

PETA's rebuttal to the report? Lame and evasive, to put it mildly.

PETA's founder, Ingrid Newkirk, says "When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife." PETA also makes Holocaust comparisons when it condemns meat eaters. Given these facts, what are we to conclude about PETA's mass killing of 21,339 dogs and cats since 1998? By PETA's own standards, it is a genocidal organization.

Disgusting. This is one of many reasons why PETA gets no money from me. I donate to the ASPCA, in large part because they run no-kill shelters.

Read more on PETA's outrageous killings, courtesy of Gina Spadafori and Nathan Winograd.

Hat tip: The Center For Consumer Freedom

What a shock ... the New York Times covered Obama's butt during the 2008 election, preventing an unfavorable October surprise:

A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a "a game changer."

Heather Heidelbaugh, who represented the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee in the lawsuit against the group, recounted for the ommittee what she had been told by a former ACORN worker who had worked in the group's Washington, D.C. office. The former worker, Anita Moncrief, told Ms. Heidelbaugh last October, during the state committee's litigation against ACORN, she had been a "confidential informant for several months to The New York Times reporter, Stephanie Strom."

Ms. Moncrief had been providing Ms. Strom with information about ACORN's election activities. Ms. Strom had written several stories based on information Ms. Moncrief had given her.

During the March 19th hearing, Heidelbaugh testified (emphasis mine):

The New York Times articles stopped when Ms. Moncrief, who is a Democrat and a supporter of the President, revealed that the Obama Presidential Campaign had sent its maxed out donor list to Karen Gillette of the Washington, DC ACORN office and asked Gillette and Ms. Moncrief to reach out to the maxed out donors and solicit donations from them for Get Out the Vote efforts to be run by ACORN. Upon learning this information and receiving the list of donors from the Obama Campaign, Ms. Strom reported to Ms. Moncrief that her editors at the New York Times wanted her to kill the story because, and I quote, "it was a game changer". That's when Ms. Moncrief telephoned me on October 21, 2008. Ms. Strom never wrote another article about ACORN for the New York Times for the remainder of the period before Election Day, i.e. November 4, 2008.

Can you say "illegal coordination"? I knew you could.

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12:10 AM Update: NixGuy has more.

Good Friday's on April 10th. Consider what Jesus of Nazareth experienced during His fatal crucifixion, and marvel at the enormity of His sacrifice.

From the demography-is-destiny file:

The Muslim population in Britain has grown by more than 500,000 to 2.4 million in just four years, according to official research collated for The Times.

The population multiplied 10 times faster than the rest of society, the research by the Office for National Statistics reveals. In the same period the number of Christians in the country fell by more than 2 million.

Say hello to Londonistan.

Corrine Brown, Demcrat Repuhsentative fo' de Thirr Congreshl Districk uh Flohda:

True dat.

Gradulations, Corrine. Whenevuh I embarrass' bout mah state dellgayshun mos' ridickuhluss membuh, someone like you come 'long and remind me dat it could be worse. Yo' fly constituents been sending you to Wash'ton since 1993, where yo' masstry uh de English language continue to amaze.

Hat tip: Iowahawk

Milton Friedman responds to Phil Donohue's well-meaning ignorance:

Are you listening, Barack?

I'm surprised nobody thought of #mockobama before me. Have at it!

In a post on RNC Chairman Michael Steele's mealy-mouthed answers about abortion, Allahpundit restates his own reservations about a human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution ... based on his understanding of federalism. Here's the money quote (emphasis mine):

In fairness, if you look at the full quote, you'll see Steele recovered quickly from the "individual choice" gaffe to emphasize that he meant the individual choice of each state to regulate abortion as it sees fit -- i.e. the federalist position. That's an evolution in thinking from what he told "Meet the Press" three years ago, when he said that the states should have been allowed all along to handle the matter but now that we've got Roe on the books, we'd best abide by it. What I don't get, though, is how he squares what he told GQ with his statement this morning about supporting the GOP's call for a Human Life Amendment. If he believes in federalism, why's he trying to impose a constitutional solution that would prohibit states from authorizing abortion?

Back in October, I first noticed that Allah misunderstood the concept ... and he still doesn't get it. Once again, I must emphasize that amending the Constitution is an inherently federalist process.

If he'd study the Constitution he'd understand why (emphasis mine):

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

U.S. Constitution, Article V

Through their legislatures, the states get the last word on any proposed amendment, and the citizens of the states have a helluva lot of influence over state legislators. If a federally-introduced amendment does not have the support of the vast majority of the citizenry, it will not be ratified.

That's called federalism.

Q: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: That's not funny.

As proposed in the House, here's the text of the Orwellian legislation. They should name it the "Unionization by Intimidation Act of 2009", but of course there's no requirement for truth in advertising by Congress.

The bill's text will soon be available on THOMAS.

We can only hope.

Update: The PD's publisher says the prediction is "baseless" ... but I still think the paper's days are numbered. The comments on the denial post are illuminating.

"Hero" performed by Michael Israel:

David Frum demonstrates:

1. Smear Rush Limbaugh
2. Get called out on the air by Mark Levin
3. Call in to complain
4. Receive beatdown

Bravo, David. Not even T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII could outdo you.

On Obama's inauguration day the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9625.2803, and since then it has dropped to 6594.4399 as of yesterday. That's a drop of 3030.8404, which works out to an average drop of 25.0483 per day. At this rate, the Dow will hit zero on November 23rd.

Order your turkey while you can.

Rush Limbaugh delivered this speech on Saturday, February 28th at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference.

Rush has the transcript. Browse the CPAC web site for more.

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Update: Of course we want Obama to fail!