Vox Popoli

Tony Snow hasn’t grasped that Republicans and Democrats are on the same team yet:

By all accounts, the 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public attention a scandal that would make the Valerie Plame affair vanish into comical insignificance….

This careful and continuous monitoring of the report explains why Sens. Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin and John Kerry took the highly unusual step earlier this year of trying to slip into an Iraq-war spending bill an amendment to suppress every word of the Barrett report. (Every other independent counsel finding has been printed in its entirety, with the exception of small sections containing classified material.)

Alert Republicans, pushed by talk-radio listeners and bloggers, managed to short-circuit that effort, but Democrats patiently pursued their goal. They got what they wanted recently, when the House and Senate met to iron out differences in yet another appropriations bill. Democrats inserted language that would prevent public release of the 120 pages of the report listing the Clinton transgressions. They offered what may have looked like a good deal. They promised not to object to letting Barrett continue with any prosecutions already underway.

Republicans negotiators, led by Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Mich, took the bait. They agreed to keep the public in the dark about the important stuff in exchange for a big, fat nothing.

Except the bait was merely a cover meant to appease the hoodwinked Republican grassroots. For whatever reason, it’s becoming ever more clear that Hillary is the Anointed One, (much like George Bush was in 1998 – I never doubted for a second that he’d win the nomination and the presidency), which is why Republicans will put up a sacrificial lamb against her in 2008.

The Republican leadership will force Republicans to choose between a Mormon and a liberal, stamp hard on any grass roots support for a genuine conservative and thus suppress their turnout enough to allow a newly “moderate” Hillary Rodham, with a newfound respect for the American military and the borders, to squeak by.

These are early days and it’s entirely possible that I’m wrong. But that’s what I expect, anyhow. I note that the refurbishing of Ms Rodham Clinton is going pretty much as I described a few months ago.

As for sacrificial lambs, they couldn’t make it much more obvious than selecting a Massachusetts politician. Northeast liberals can’t even win presidential elections as Democrats. About the only thing the Republican leadership could do to make it more obvious that they intend to throw the election – short of digging up the corpse of Bob Dole and running it again – is nominating a gay black Muslim.

Batting .000 for 30,000:

It’s a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill. But thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don’t have autism.

“We have a fairly large practice. We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we’ve taken care of over the years, and I don’t think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines,” said Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst’s medical director who founded the practice in 1973. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies at home, and thousands of them have never been vaccinated.

The few autistic children Homefirst sees were vaccinated before their families became patients, Eisenstein said. “I can think of two or three autistic children who we’ve delivered their mother’s next baby, and we aren’t really totally taking care of that child — they have special care needs. But they bring the younger children to us. I don’t have a single case that I can think of that wasn’t vaccinated.”

The autism rate in Illinois public schools is 38 per 10,000, according to state Education Department data; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the national rate of autism spectrum disorders at 1 in 166 — 60 per 10,000.

“We do have enough of a sample,” Eisenstein said. “The numbers are too large to not see it. We would absolutely know. We’re all family doctors. If I have a child with autism come in, there’s no communication. It’s frightening. You can’t touch them. It’s not something that anyone would miss.”

I’ve long been anti-vaccine for two reasons. First, because there would be no need for Congress to have passed a law protecting those manufacturing and administering vaccines from being sued if they were genuinely harmless. Second, because of the rise of autism and other childhood problems which correlate with the increase in the insane US vaccine schedule.

Now, a second large group of unvaccinated children has been shown to be free of the very issues which the vaccine advocates claim cannot be caused by vaccines. The vaccine-free practice is somehow missing the 114 autistic children that the Illinois Education Department’s statistics would predict, so it’s clear that someone cannnot telling the truth here; Occam’s Razor strongly suggests is that it is the side which is dependent upon selling and administering vaccines to maintain an important revenue stream.

…for they shall know political opposition which immolates itself:

The official website of Washington State Democrats sold magnetic car stickers of the Christian fish symbol and cross emblazoned with the word “hypocrite” on a background of hellish flames. The item was removed about mid-day yesterday after a weblog took note, calling it an example of Democrat Party hostility toward religious believers, especially Christians.

This is an intriguing political strategy, in a quasi-democratic nation where a significant majority consider themselves to be Christians. Democrats like to consider themselves the more intellectual party… and yet they’re so demonstrably and predictably stupid, they’d probably find themselves using a pig as their political symbol in an Islamic country.

Being a demagogue must be tremendously annoying. Sure, it makes it easy to attract a large following. On the other hand, all you end up having to work with are idiots, imbeciles and lunatics.

This year’s Globe noms highlight a year in which lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters played major roles in crossover titles. “Brokeback Mountain,” “Breakfast on Pluto,” “Capote” and even “The Producers” put gay characters front and center.

Meanwhile:

Ticket sale revenues dropped five percent in the first 11 months of 2005 while the number of Americans going to the cinema fell by 6.2 percent compared with the same period in 2004, according to box office trackers Exhibitor Relations Co Inc.

The result is Tinseltown’s most disappointing box office performance in 15 years as audiences, dazzled by their entertainment choices and disappointed by the mediocre films on offer, turned away from the cinema in droves.

Gays have killed off Broadway, now they’ve set their sights on Hollywood. Actually, this is only a small part of the problem. The larger issue is the fact that most movies these days are boring drivel because directors would rather consider themselves artistes or members of the avante garde shocking the boobeoisie than storytellers. But it the juxstaposition of the two articles on Drudge was humorous.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proves it:

“If somebody in their country questions God, nobody says anything, but if somebody criticises the myth of the massacre of Jew, the Zionist loudspeakers and the governments in the pay of Zionism will start to scream,” he said.

It’s difficult to argue with the Iranian President on that one, especially considering how you will find yourself in jail in many European countries should you dare to even question the Worstest, Mostest Terriblest Evil Past, Present or Future. Can you even imagine how the world media would go completely and utterly frothing-at-the-mouth insane if the Belgians started jailing people for denying the existence of God or questioning the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?

The Holocaust is no myth; that the Endloesung was enacted and that Jews were slaughtered en masse by the National Socialists and their puppet governments, I have no doubt. But I have to admit, I’ve never seen a single piece of evidence for the 6 million figure, which seems strange to me given the German predilection for copious record-keeping. According to Robert Wistrich’s Hitler and the Holocaust, France had the largest Jewish population in Western Europe, 195,000; this would seem to conflict with his earlier statement that there were 500,000 Jews in pre-war Germany. Wistrich reports enough Jews to make up the difference in Poland and the Soviet Union, 6.5 million in all according to him, but one would think that the German death camp records would be much more trustworthy than those belonging to the fragmented and twice-conquered Poles or the secretive Soviets. Perhaps the death camp records do show this; I don’t know, never having reviewed them or having read anyone who has.

Given that the National Socialists had killed 90,000 ethnic Germans with disabilities as a warmup to the 1941 Final Solution, the Judeocentric Holocaust version that is generally taught seems to somewhat miss the point of National Socialist evil, and even could be seen to excuse aspects of it while simultaneously lessening by comparison the evil of other, more lethal historical butchers.

To argue that the Holocaust was particularly evil because it targeted Jews is to argue that human beings are of variable worth; this notion is ironically harmonious with the National Socialist concept of Aryan supremacy, one is merely quibbling over the appropriate values to assign the variables. The Holocaust was not the first attempt to exterminate an ethnic group – see the Arminians in Turkey – nor the first attempt to exterminate a religion – see Nero.

All that being said, it can’t be a good sign that this gentleman is likely to have nuclear-tipped missiles at his command in the near future. The problem with his relocation idea, of course, is that with French and Dutch Muslims doing their best to set up a Parisian caliphate, moving Israel to Europe is simply recreating the original problem.

From the Telegraph:

Increasingly, judges are questioning whether consensual sex with a minor should be treated so harshly when the victim is male, particularly if the couple marry. Legal experts are even asking whether the law should intervene if the boy is happy with the relationship…. Last year, a study found that 40 per cent of teachers reported for sexual misconduct with pupils were women.

This seems very strange to me. More law based on feelings? And as women harbor a stronger preference for older men and mature more quickly, why shouldn’t female minors be permitted trans-generational happiness?

Not to mention that whole equality thing that the equalitarians supposedly champion…. It seems to me that the age of sexual consent should be based on sexual maturity, as it has been for most of human history.

The Pan-Gargler tells a tale with a happy ending:

I made my way into our favorite non-union grocery store… and as I went from isle to isle pickin’ up this and thats, I found myself frequently following this little family. Average looking dad… young though… probly mid-20s… beautiful little blonde haired girl in the cart. Curly long hair.. happy.. cute as she could be. She was smilin’ at me…

Then there was the mom… or…. the woman that was with them.. I assume the mom… I don’t know for sure. She was fat. She was ugly. She was a royal bitch. Everything the dad said, she disputed. Everything he picked up was wrong. She berated him continually… I mean the whole time… in the most hateful voice you can imagine. Civilized people don’t talk this badly to unwelcomed dogs.

The dad was simply unphazed. He acted like he didn’t even hear her talking that way. I was so discusted I was hoping he’d actually grow a back bone…

Men, never accept being talked to by a woman in a manner that you would not accept from a man. You don’t have to get physical, just make it very clear that you will not stand for it and if it continues, there will be consequences. You’ll have to follow through a few times as they test you to determine if you’re serious, after which point most reasonable women will adjust their manner of speech accordingly.

Yes, there will be feelings hurt, and yes, you’ll likely be frosted out for a few days… depending on your predilections, it will be a good time to get caught up on your Bible-reading, video game-playing or Internet porn collecting. Remember that in the long run, a woman is a lot more interested in a man she can’t push around than in one she despises.

And women, always remember that silence does not equal acceptance. The weakest, most contemptible little rat of a man is still capable of snapping your neck if you push him far enough. Even overmuscled male bullies know better than to back a scrawny wimp into a corner from which he can’t retreat; if they won’t take that risk, why would you?

Does anyone have an idea why my Sony Cybershot DSC-P150 (7.2 megapixels) tends to take blurry pictures? I don’t know if I have the settings wrong or what, but if there’s any movement at all, the whole thing just blurs, especially if the flash is on.

Any suggestions?

From the Washington Times:

A mother who found out she had cancer after becoming pregnant sacrificed her life for her unborn baby by refusing an abortion and chemotherapy, a British newspaper reported. Devout Catholic Bernadette Mimura, known as Milai, shunned the potentially life-saving treatment because doctors told her it would kill the child, the Northern Echo regional daily reported Friday.

The 37-year-old, a native of the Philippines who lived near Stockton-on-Tees in northeast England with her British partner, Adam Taylor, survived long enough to see the birth of their son, Nathan. But soon after seeing him baptized, she was transferred to a hospice and died about a week later. “Being a Catholic, for her abortion was out of the question,” Mr. Taylor told the newspaper. “It was a tough decision, but the decision was we could not give up on Nathan.”

The boy, now 4 months old, was premature but was born fit and healthy.

Would that all mothers loved their unborn children so. Sadly, there is no shortage of women who will sacrifice their children for a piece of paper and a job making Powerpoint presentations. How contemptible they are when viewed in comparison with this woman!

You’ll have to read this here, lest you scare the little boys from their very serious business:

Hey stupid Christians

Hey Vox Popoli fans – you don’t get it, do you ? We are writing about your champion Vox Day because he’s an imbecile and his absurd moral nihilism is so outrageous that it deserves refutation. We do not want to argue with you. Your amoral and disgusting beliefs do not deserve debate. Go away and complain to your champion about how I’m censoring your discredited worldview, anti-atheist assholes.

PS No seriously, you can stop posting your stupid comments now. You were fun for a while, but this is a serious blog. Enough bullshit.

Yes, this is what passes for that vaunted atheist dedication to reason. Christianity = amoral moral nihilism. High IQ = imbecile. A dedication to free speech = refusal to debate.

These aren’t libertarians, they’re just confused teenagers in the process of discovering that the totalitarian nature of Man is also present in their own fallen natures.