A Manhattan Tea Party

The Terrier journeyed to City Hall Park to express opposition to the Anointed One, Obama. More specifically, to his plans. Any hope that he would govern as a centrist (which I never expected) is lost. Throughout the country Americans are turning out in growing numbers to say "No." Of course, with the Executive and Legislative branches in the hands of the doling class, saying "No" has little immediate effect.

Nancy Peolsi has expressed her belief that hundreds of millions for birth control in the stimulus bill is going to help the economy because local and state communities will not have to bear the costs of the young children who might result if not for the birth control. She would have been thrilled by the Black Death. With a 1/3 of Europe dead wages rose.

The Terrier has had little to say on this depressing campaign season, but after hearing the Chosen's speech in Berlin a word comes to mind: GASBAG.

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."
Michelle Obama, february 2008

The Terrier has just caught up with this outrageous statement by the 1st Lady hopeful. Audacity seems to be something of a theme for the couple from Illinois. Ooops! BHO has said attacks on his wife are "unacceptable". He speaks more like the Sun King than a republican (in the broadest sense of the world.

The Terrier has sat on the sidelines throughout this campaign, but now, in the words of Droopy Dog, I'm really mad:
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and
keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just
expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not
leadership. That's not going to happen."

Says Obama.
I think that's not leadership.

Michelle Obama
Doesn't think law or finance are good career choices. Nursing, teaching, that's where it's at.
“We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do,” she tells the women. “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that."
I guess they've got theirs and the aiming for more than teaching or nursing has served her well.
The hypocrisy of the typical liberal never ceases to amaze.

Michelle Obama at the age of 44 is proud of her country for the first time in her adult life. I don't think I want a woman to be first lady if the only reason she is proud of her country is because her husband has a shot at running it.
I suppose "change" includes a lack of patriotism at the top.

A Lazy Terrier Am I

Two posts in a year. Shame! I must have nothing to say.

The Clouds are Gathering

Islamic Homophobia in Europe

"Europe is on its way down the road of Islamization, and it’s reached a point along that road at which gay people’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is being directly challenged, both by knife-wielding bullies on the street and by taxpayer-funded thugs whose organizations already enjoy quasi-governmental authority."

You needn't be gay to be alarmed.

Hit the Big 15

Happy Birthday to me, 15 years old today.

Hillary to "End" War

Clinton
"Believe me, I understand the frustration and the outrage," Clinton said in a speech to the Democratic National Committee meeting that brought the party's nine White House hopefuls together for the first time. "You have to have 60 votes to cap troops, to limit funding to do anything. If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as president, I will."
Back in the my day, the preferred way to end a war was by winning the darn thing.
This would have been at the same DNC meetings which had a session opened by an imam, one who is a supporter of terror groups, BTW. See more Jihad Watch.

January is a hard month for blogging, for me, anyway; this seems like a good note on which to jump back in.

Back to the Keyboard

Work and Christmas get in the way of blogging, but The Terrier is back. I missed a lot, non-flying imams, Iranian rants, Pelosi party preps, and the ISG for a short list. Let me jump back in with this: Lepanto. Or rather Crisis Magazine on Lepanto, by way of G.K. Chesterton. This gives the battle a decidedly Catholic slant, but as The Terrier is proud to be of that persuasion it works for me. This is how it starts, and every word is worth your time:

Lepanto, 1571: The Battle That Saved Europe
By H. W. Crocker III

The clash of civilizations is as old as history, and equally as old is the blindness of those who wish such clashes away; but they are the hinges, the turning points of history. In the latter half of the 16th century, Muslim war drums sounded and the mufti of the Ottoman sultan proclaimed jihad, but only the pope fully appreciated the threat. As Brandon Rogers notes in the Ignatius Press edition of G. K. Chesterton’s poem “Lepanto”: Pope Pius V “understood the tremendous importance of resisting the aggressive expansion of the Turks better than any of his contemporaries appear to have. He understood that the real battle being fought was spiritual; a clash of creeds was at hand, and the stakes were the very existence of the Christian West.” But then, as now, the unity of Christendom was shattered; and in the aftermath of the Protestant revolt, Islam saw its opportunity.

Lepanto

More Nonsense at Work

Muslims Seek Prayer Room at Airport
Did anyone think to point out that prayer did not cause the problem? That had they not insisted on sitting in seats to which they were not assigned and asking for seat belt extenders that were not necessitated by their size and then not used, no one would have cared about their prayer. Maybe they should pray for some sense and rationality to descend on the Muslim community. Or they could stop flying and spend all their time in prayer.

Rangel: Reinstate Draft

Draft
Did anyone not see this coming?

France Revisited

French Violence
Quite apart from considerations of Islamic Fascism, one can't help but recall the sneers directed at the U.S. by Europeans during the Civil Rights movement in the U.S.
The U.S. was castigated as ignorant, racist and beneath contempt. This by a Europe which was racially homogeneous by U.S. standards. As the racial component has grown, so has the racism. Sneering does little good, however, so I'll just wish them well as they seek their own way out of a difficult situation.

Ban the Burqa in Holland?

Burqa Ban?

"The Dutch cabinet has backed a proposal by the country's immigration minister to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public places.

The burqa, a full body covering that also obscures the face, would be banned by law in the street, and in trains, schools, buses and the law courts.

The cabinet said burqas disturb public order, citizens and safety."

The Ass, er...Donkey Brays

Well, John Kerry's gaffe failed to sink his party's hopes for the House, and Nancy Pelosi Of San Francisco appears to be set to be the Speaker of the new House. Commentary centers on her being the first woman Speaker, yet I think we will all learn that she is may well be the most liberal Speaker ever.
The bright aside? Now that the election is over and the Democrats remindthe country of what they really are like, the 2008 election may well see them repudiated, along with whatever candidate they propose.

Roosevelt on Wars of Civilization

The indispensable George Rutler From the Pastor (Bulletin of Our Saviour, 38th and Park NYC):
Quoting Theodore Roosevelt:
The Greeks who triumphed at Marathon and Salamis did a work without which the world would have been deprived of the social value of Plato and Aristotle, of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Thucydides. The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because the victories stretching through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century."

End of Rutler's quote. More is here:

"During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can find in them any "social values" whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There are such "social values" today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the Moslem invader."

Funny how some folks get it, and some folks never will.

Kerry Continues to Annoy

The Joke is on Kerry

Okay, so it's all a joke about Bush being stupid. Only it can't be much of a joke, laughing about W's SAT scores and grades at Yale, in as much as Kerry has never released his SAT's and Bush had a higher GPA at Yale than did Kerry. Does this man never think about what he's saying?And he should be president why?

The Face of Islam

The woman above shows herself long enough to demonstrate support for the Muslim cleric who in defense of rapists, likened Western women to meat. Who can blame a cat if it eats meat exposed for all to see?
In other Islamic news:

Canada Warned

"OTTAWA - An al-Qaeda strategist has warned Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan or face terrorist attacks similar to 9/11, Madrid and the London transit bombings.

The threat, attributed to a member of the al-Qaeda information and strategy committee, condemns Prime Minister Stephen Harper for refusing to pull out of Afghanistan.

It also refers to Canada's "fanatic adherence to Christianity" as well as its purported attempts to "damage the Muslims" and its support for the "Christian Crusade" against al-Qaeda."

Finally, from Tehran comes criticism of Bush and the republicans, who it seems are to blame for the disquiet in the world. One supposes Pelosi et al agree.