If you live in Europe and are about to purchase Windows 7 (and apparently also for Vista and XP users), you will get to pick the browser you want to install with your operating system…no thanks to the European Union, which has gone further than even the US Government did a decade ago.

Don’t get me wrong…a whole bunch of Microsoft products still suck, but the Government should not be getting into what can and cannot be installed on an OS. Authoritarian groups tend to go for that.

Unfortunately, it isn’t. This was sighted in the Antarctic Ocean. What’s worse…it’s supported by Bob Barker. Yes, THAT Bob Barker, who donated $5 million to the group which constructed this ‘stealth’ craft.
That’s the bad news. What’s the good news you ask?
Well, a Japanese whaling vessel, Shonan Maru, ran into this boat and sliced the bow off. The activists’ boat was subsequently destroyed and the six crewmembers were rescued by fellow activists in another vessel. It’s too bad the Japanese didn’t rescue them and treat them to a meal like, say…whale soup to warm them up.
As a measure of Goodwill, you understand.

Was I going to waste my time (or that of The Mrs. for that matter) listening to Президент Оба́ма‘s Nobel Peace Price acceptance speech in Norway? Of course not!
But Victor Davis Hanson did, and here’s his summary:

1)  long again (4,000 words); 2) “I” or “me” 34 times: same old self referencing; 3) the inadvertent cosmic arrogance [“I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war.” = you think?]; 4) straw men trope: some say this; others say that; but I uniquely say…; 5) reference to my own personal inspirational story; 6) trash my predecessor or his policies; 7) end with hopey/changey cadences.

See? VDH just saved us all a bunch of time we can now utilize for better purposes.

I have to laugh my a** off at the fact that Norwegians can’t believe Президент Оба́ма is snubbing most of the events normally attended by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate…including lunch with their King:

“Of all the things he is cancelling, I think the worst is cancelling the lunch with the king,” said Siv Jensen, the leader of the largest party in opposition, the populist Progress party. “This is a central part of our government system. He should respect the monarchy,” she told VG.

It’s ironic that, since he doesn’t have any respect for American traditions and values, the Norwegians apparently are having a hard time believing that he won’t have respect for their traditions, either.
So, Nobel Peace Prize Committee…How’s that Hope & Change workin’ out for ya!

OK el cubos…you got your election in Honduras, and here’s the winner:

You can now STFD and STFU, thank you very much.

Now here’s an interesting development in Europe:

A Swiss referendum has voted 57% Yes, 43% No to ban all future minaret construction in their country. Doesn’t say they can’t build mosques, they just can’t build minarets to go with them. Of course, the Islamofascists are up in arms over this.
Let’s see what they do about it. They’d better remember, the Swiss Citizenry have GUNS.

This has got to be the WORST NEWS I’ve woken up to in quite a while. Here, let Drudge tell you….


That’s a very good question, Matt. Here’s the answer. Get your barf bag ready and get more than one!
My God, what are those folks in Norway SMOKING? All I can figure is that for starters, this must be “compensation” for the Народный Социалистический Город-Государство Чикаго having lost the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Let’s see…what’s wrong with this scenario?
The left-wing President of Honduras, Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, schedules a referendum for TODAY which changes his country’s Constitution to allow him to run for another term. Their Supreme Court rules it Unconstitutional; the President’s own party is against it, and so are the Honduran People, not to mention the legislature, who ultimately ousts him with assistance from the military. Zelaya is taken to Costa Rica, where he has set up his shadow government.
And what statement does Президент Оба́ма issue about this situation?

“I call on all political and social actors in Honduras to respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American Democratic Charter. Any existing tensions and disputes must be resolved peacefully through dialogue free from any outside interference.”

Um…‘scuse me, Господин Президент, the Honduran People have already respected their democratic norms; it’s Zelaya who was thwarting it.
And look who else is about to spring into action: why it’s the President of the UN General Assembly,  Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, who’s also a DFC Sandinista. He calls the military action “criminal”; why is it that the el cubos of the world, not to mention the Islamofascists, insist that everything done by the book is “criminal”? Yes yes, I know I’m being rhetorical here.
In any case…BULLY for Honduras!

Right after a C-SPAN interview where Президент Оба́ма admits that we’re out of money, he seeks to extend the reach of the Internal Revenue Service into the halls of European Banks. Those same European Banks are showing signs of revolt, in refusing to take new American clients should those proposals be enacted into law.
Imagine that.
The very protectionism that governments around the world are enacting, tax hikes and trade restrictions for starters, are the very same actions they took nearly eighty years ago and prolonged he Great Depression of that era. And yet, Оба́ма continue to insist that they take more and more from the people, fighitng the EEEEVIL Banks and businesses. What duplicitous bulls**t.

Since I got such a kick out of the original recruitment ad for the JMSDF from the late 90s, which I chronicled here, I managed to find a more recent campaign, this one from 2006:

I wonder if those ads say “Don’t Frak With Us, North Korea!”

Maritime Self-Defense Force!
Strongest on the seas!
A steel castle!
Escort ship!
Hunter of the heavens
With eyes that can see for a thousand miles
Patrol plane!
A dolphin that hears all
Submarine!
International service?
Leave it to us!
Air cushion craft!
Helpers of the seas
Rescue lark!
Defending Japan night and day
Its duties never end
Go!  Maritime Self-Defense Force

No DPRK references, unfortunately. The humor is lost in English because the ad is written to sound like a Japanese POWER RANGERS-type show and if one doesn’t grow up with that sort of thing, it’s not as funny ... though I did grow up with it, and I’m not laughing.

Dang. Maybe someone in the ad agency at the JMSDF can take care of that?

Today I issue not just one Race Card…but TWO! There are race baiters not just here in the USA, but also elsewhere. Lula, the President of Brazil, uttered the following in relation to the current financial mess, at a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown:

“This crisis was caused by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.”

And Prime Minister Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer before he inherited his current post, and just stands there and lets Lula say this? He is just as full of s**t as Lula is, and THAT’s why he’s getting the Race Card too!

I’ve been rooting for Benjamin Netanyahu to become Prime Minister of Israel for quite some time. Since the wimpy-a** bastards over in Kadima failed to form a Unity government, Israeli President Shimon Peres has given Bibi the opportunity.
And it’s about time. Since Президент Оба́ма took office, the only people who will be able to take care of the People of the State of Israel…will be the Israelis themseves. As long as Likud’s in charge.
Now, Mr. Netanhayu…please go and kick the a**es of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranians, since the guy who currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is bent over for them.

Earlier this year, the Archbishop of Canterbury opened his mouth regarding not insulting Islam and the inevitability of Sharia in the UK. Now, he’s chiding us for what we’re trying to do to combat the financial crisis:

“How we all work is vastly complicated—no one is pretending it isn’t. But without these anxieties about the specific costs, we’ve lost the essential moral compass.”

And you, sir, lost that same moral compass by comparing OUR way of life to Nazism, whom the Islamofascists you wish to praise want to emulate by destroying it. You are lost to moral relativism. If Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, has any sense of decency left, she should fire your a**.

My apologies once again to David Byrne and the Talking Heads….
There was a fire at Gibson Square’s headquarters in London yesterday. Three guys are in custody on charges related to the UK’s anti-terrorism laws. So what did Gibson Square do?
They published an historical novel about Aisha, the nine-year-old child “bride” of Mohammed. It’s a sure bet that the three guys who allegedly set the fire were probably thinking along the lines of “You blaspheme our prophet, now you will pay!” Notice, BTW, that I refuse to capitalize what everyone else does.
And what’s even worse than this “blasphemy”: the author is an American woman infidel. Look out! Get ready for some more riots! Remember, these folks demand that you respect them as a Religion of Peace. Otherwise, they’ll kill you!
LAN ASTASLEM. I will not submit.

China’s first three-man space mission, Shenzhou VII, blasted off at 2110 Beijing time (0810 hours Eastern Time) today. The three-day mission will feature their first EVA.
According to Xinhua, the three taikonauts…Mission Commander Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipen…may also hold a meeting of the DFC Chinese Party while in orbit. In any case, I hope they do return safely to Earth.