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In case there are any visitors from WND, LRC or a blog interested in perusing some of my many points related to the lack of military necessity, or if Mrs. Malkin decides she might like to actually have a look at some of the military realities for the first time, here are links to some related posts over the last two weeks:

The 10 questions Michelle Malkin will not answer.

Percent of US air strength devoted to the Pacific.

An email to Malkin from a Marine descendant of internees.

A perspective on the potential danger of bombing raids

An interrogation of Admiral Toyoda, Chief of Naval Combined Forces, Imperial Japanese Navy.

There’s a lot more, of course, as my weary regulars can attest. Just scroll down or click on the September archives for the full deluge. Nor is this even close to all the information at my disposal on the subject, but you’ll have to wait for the debate to hear that. I’ll arrange to post a transcript here after the fact; if Mrs. Malkin is afraid to show, I believe the Northern Alliance is planning to arrange for one of her proponents to serve as a stand-in.

I don’t know if is the higher than normal volume of critical mail today or the Vikings game tonight, but the adrenaline is definitely flowing. And I’ll never utter a dismissive remark about trainers again – okay, I probably will – but not about The Perfect Aryan Male’s guy, Eric.

Regulars may recall that TPAM got me going on a new program a month ago, one that has him up to 240 from 225. So, I wandered off to the gym this morning and found that I was already able to jack the two top sets of three up to 295. I’m not even on protein or creatine, which of course, has me thinking that maybe I should be. Forget Malkin, I want Alice! In a cage!

Anyhow, those of you who were asking about lifting programs should give that one a serious whirl.

A few emails from Mrs. Malkin’s fans have begun to flow in:

Vox, you’re too bright and insightful to eschew Michelle’s logic and the clear history that she presents about the Japanese removal. I haven’t read her book but I have seen her defend herself on TV and she’s absolutely right on the mark. If she accepts your challenge for a debate my friend, prepare to lose. – JM

I’m always prepared for that risk. I’m also demonstrably willing to take it. Is she?

Although I usually like your articles, I have to part with you on this one. You sound so frightening when you call Ms. Malkin “Out”. Ooooooh, Vox Day is so tough… – TC

I thought I proposed a debate, not a fight. Although I’m always up for that too. I can’t say that I like her odds any better that way, but I’m amenable.

I have observed Michelle Malkin discussing the Japanese internment on several occasions. I believe you are not quoting her correctly. In no case has she said that this was a good thing. She was merely making a case that there was some logical reasoning behind this unhappy event. And the lack of a direct threat of attack on the US mainland, there was a direct threat of harm to Americans and their allies elsewhere. And there WERE many “spies” among Japanese Americans. And Malkin’s discourse is not about facts – many are recorded in the hsitorical record, and she is merely rendering an opinion – just like you are. – FZ

I’m not quoting her at all, I’m tearing apart the foundation of her case, which is fatally flawed. The reasoning behind internment was neither logical nor defensible. Furthermore, Malkin not only continues to insist that there was a direct threat of an attack on the US mainland, her case rests upon it. Spies do not necessarily entail military necessity, otherwise we’d be rounding up all the Jews now, or at least those we missed after the Pollard affair. It is her opinion, and I’m demonstrating why her opinion is wrong.

Usually I like what you print but I’m with Michelle on this one… – MM

With what, refusing to address specific points and throwing out a few snarky comments while simultaneously complaining that others are ducking her? I can’t imagine that you are with Dan Rather too. I have no problem with those who think she’s got a convincing case, in fact, what I’d suggest is that if you’re confident she’s right, write to her at the email address she gives out on her blog: malkin@comcast.net, and encourage her to pick up the gauntlet.

George Will warns of more rights being lost:

Soon — perhaps on the first Monday in October — the [Supreme] court will announce whether it will hear an appeal against a 4-3 ruling last March by Connecticut’s Supreme Court. That ruling effectively repeals a crucial portion of the Bill of Rights. If you think the term “despotism” exaggerates what this repeal permits, consider the life-shattering power wielded by the government of New London, Conn.

That city, like many cities, needs more revenues. To enhance the Pfizer pharmaceutical company’s $270 million research facility, it empowered a private entity, the New London Development Corporation, to exercise the power of eminent domain to condemn most of the Fort Trumbull neighborhood along the Thames River. The aim is to make space for upscale condominiums, a luxury hotel and private offices that would yield the city more tax revenues than can be extracted from the neighborhood’s middle-class homeowners.

If the Supreme Court refuses to hear this case, it will be a truly ominous testimony to the extent to which creeping left-wing fascism is moving from the shadows and out into the open. I wonder which “conservative Republicans” will hail a decision favorable to the New London government as a wise and correct move, despite its total destruction of what remains of our Constitutionally-protected property rights.

I think it’s past time to call for a Constitutional amendment banning eminent domain. You’d think there’d be plenty of politicians who would support absolute invidual property rights, and you’d also almost certainly be wrong.

This should be rather fun, I think.

Last week: 11-5 Overall: 20-11

L – Washington Redskins over Giants

L – Kansas City Chiefs over Panthers

W – Indianapolis Colts over Titans

L – Green Bay Packers over Bears

L – Pittsburgh Steelers over Ravens

L – St. Louis Rams over Falcons

L – Denver Broncos over Jaguars

W – New Orleans Saints over 49ers

W – Detroit Lions over Texans

W – Seattle Seahawks over Buccaneers

W – New England Patriots over Cardinals

W – Oakland Raiders over Bills

W – Dallas Cowboys over Browns

W – New York Jets over Chargers

W – Cincinnati Bengals over Dolphins

Minnesota Vikings over Eagles

The game that makes me nervous is the Patriots over the Cardinals. This is the sort of game that has potential upset written all over it, even though the Patriots are the superior team in almost every way. But sure things in the NFL have an uncanny way of exploding in your face. The Vikings game could easily go either way, but at the end of the day, I have more confidence in Daunte and his receiving corps than McNabb and his. The Vikes destroyed a decent Cowboy squad coached by Bill Parcells, the Eagles destroyed a lousy Giants team coached by Tom Coughlin.

Detroit vs. Houston makes me nervous too, but Chokechain assures me that Houston looked horrid last week. I just find it as hard to imagine Detroit starting 2-0 as Indy starting 0-2. But, as the Sports Guy said, this is a tough week to call and he’d be happy to go 9-7. I’ll settle for 10-6, as long as we drop our low-weight games.

That scratching sound you hear is the White Buffalo desperately taking notes down. He’s hoping to stay ahead of Annabella this week. If he slips any lower, we may have to start calling him Annabella.

UPDATE – yeeouch! Dropping six of the 12:00 games is downright painful! I watched the Falcons play last week and NEVER thought they’d stay with the Rams. Chicago was a fluke, as if Ahman goes in from the 2, it’s 17-14, and anyhow, no one will have had the Bears so that shouldn’t hurt too much. The Carolina win hurts badly, though, although starting DeShaun worked out well. I’m not surprised he picked up a ton of yards and a score, I’m just surprised Priest Holmes didn’t pick up more. 10-6 is still possible, just not very likely.

UPDATE 2 – But unlikely is still possible, and one more win will do it. Skol Vikings!

Actress Nicole Kidman was met by a chorus of boos at the premiere of her shocking new movie Birth – which sees her fall in love with a ten-year-old boy. The redhead, 37, stars as Anna, who believes a young boy, played by Cameron Bright, is her reincarnated dead husband…. The movie’s director, Jonathan Glazer, was disappointed by the reaction but is thrilled it is the front-runner for this year’s prestigious Golden Lion award.

Apparently pedophilia is okay as long as you think it’s your reincarnated dead mate. It’s too bad Mary Kay LeTourneau didn’t come up with that one quick enough, I’m sure it would have flown in court. Not that I’m inclined to shed too many tears for the poor young soul who was forced to share a bathtub with Nicole Kidman for the sake of his budding art, but it’s the precedent and the implicit advocacy that are truly apalling.

If the essence of art has been reduced to the goal of producing shock, shouldn’t Hollywood be giving the Oscar to whoever is behind the al-Qaeda beheading flicks?

Eric Muller chronicles the history of a Malkin post:

First it was a misdirected attack on Julie Chen. Now it’s a misdirected attack on Norman Mineta (who does not oversee the Transportation Safety Administration, which is in Tom Ridge’s Department of Homeland Security).

If you can’t even post without making multiple errors of easily established fact, you really have no business trying to delve into matters any more complex than Bush Good, Kerry Bad.

The funniest thing is that Malkin even complains Julie Chen wouldn’t respond to her email, which is doubly ironic considering a) her own continuing refusal to answer my questions, and, b) the fact that Julie Chen never said anything about her book to President Bush.

Sure, maybe she got the wrong Chen, but that’s irrelevant. As we know, Malkin believes in collective guilt where those treacherous yellow dogs are concerned.

Robert Novak writes:

Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, one of the most liberal of Republican congressmen, Tuesday won an unexpectedly easy Republican nomination for a 12th term from his upstate New York district after receiving support from abortion rights activists, the White House and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Boehlert in 2000 defeated conservative Dr. David Walrath by fewer than 3,000 votes but this time won with 58 percent of the vote against the same opponent. Gingrich surprised conservatives by campaigning for his onetime comrade in the House despite Boehlert’s 39 percent lifetime American Conservative Union rating. Earlier, presidential senior adviser Karl Rove attended a Boehlert fund-raiser in keeping with White House support for all Republican incumbents.

In 2002, Boehlert received the third largest amount of pro-choice contributions among all House members. The $33,700 given him this election cycle was $24,700 more than House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi received.

It’s probably correct to say that conservatives were surprised, but it shouldn’t be. If you’re suprised the first time you’re stabbed in the back, that’s completely understandable. Maybe even the second time. But if you’re still surprised by the fifth or sixth time it happens, much less the fiftieth or sixtieth time, you’re just being wilfully stupid.

Notice that when it’s close, the Republican big guns are always run out on the side of the liberal.

One of the personal benefits of the end of the Kobe Bryant trial for me is the end of a long and seemingly endless stream of emails from a psychotic woman who has been emailing me nonstop ever since I mentioned the well-established fact that women constantly lie about being raped. With literally every twist-and-turn of the case, she would email me the latest update, always punctuated with the usual idiot’s commentary of the all-dismissive “LOL” and whatnot.

I had no opinion about Kobe one way or the other, but after months of these stupid emails – I finally nuked her after a while, but I checked my killfile a few weeks ago and they were still coming – I found myself ready to pop open a bottle of champagne myself when the prosecution dropped the charges. The knowledge that somewhere out there, this pest is completely beside herself, choking with helpless outrage, doesn’t quite make me laugh out loud, but my lips may have twitched a little.

The female tendency to lie about rape is quite easy to establish, as one has only to compare the percentage difference between arrests and convictions for rape with those of other crimes. The fact that it’s easier to convict someone when the victim is actually dead and cannot possibly, short of courtroom necromancy, testify, demonstrates the extent of the problem.

According to a nine-year study conducted by former Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin, in over 40 percent of the cases reviewed, the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred (Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994). Kanin also studied rape allegations in two large Midwestern universities and found that 50 percent of the allegations were recanted by the accuser.

Kanin found that most of the false accusers were motivated by a need for an alibi or a desire for revenge. Kanin was once well known and lauded by the feminist movement for his groundbreaking research on male sexual aggression. His studies on false rape accusations, however, received very little attention.

Kanin’s findings are hardly unique. In 1985 the Air Force conducted a study of 556 rape accusations. Over one quarter of the accusers admitted, either just before they took a lie detector test of after they had failed it, that no rape occurred. A further investigation by independent reviewers found that 60 percent of the original rape allegations were false.

Girls crying rape will continue to be a problem until intentionally making a false allegation of a crime is punished as severely as committing the crime itself. No doubt the fastest way to reduce the incidence of American “rape” will be to lock up a few of these lying hussies as an example to the Sisterhood. Then arm the rest of the girls against the real rapists.

But, as Fred has so eloquently said, America isn’t actually interested in solving its problems.