Jules Crittenden with a riveting, monster of a post on Patriots Day: It Was About Hope, And Change...

"To give a particular account of the ravages of the troops as they retreated from Concord to Charlestown, would be very difficult, if not impracticable. Let it suffice to say that a great number of the houses on the road were plundered and rendered unfit for use; several were burnt; women in childbed were driven by the soldiery naked into the streets; old men, peaceably in their houses were shot dead; and such scenes exhibited as would disgrace the annals of the most uncivilized nation.

These, brethren, are marks of ministerial vengeance against this colony for refusing, with her sister colonies, submission to slavery, but they have not yet detached us from our royal sovereign. We profess to be his loyal and dutiful subjects, and so hardly dealt with as we have been, are still ready with our lives and fortunes to defend his person, family, crown, and dignity. Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry, we will not tamely submit. Appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free."

That's the Massachusetts Provincial Congress trying to set the record straight with their "Friends and Fellow-Subjects" in Britain.

Go read it all, and let it be a lesson for our modern times.

UPDATE: added the picture. Hey Reuters! Two can play this game!

This one is coming right up my list of the most absurd headlines ever. From the BBC:

Obama to regulate 'pollutant' CO2

So CO2 is now officially a pollutant? And the Obama is going to "regulate" it? — which, in real English always mean tax it, incidentally.

So what's next? Oxygen to be declared a toxin just to make sure the whole cycle is covered? Followed by a mandatory respiration license, and perhaps breathing quotas?

Thanks to Obama, the cause of climate anti-science just made a great leap forward, pushing us back steadily to the Middle Ages. This new US Administration is following in the footsteps of Europe, using plain old fashioned superstition under the influence of witch-doctors as a cover for more confiscation and taxation.

And these frauds dare call themselves progressives.

The big event in the social-media bobosphere at this moment is that Ashton Kutcher [He of the sinister North-Korean State-propagandish video "I pledge (to worship and obey the Dear Leader)" fame] has "won" a "race" against CNN by reaching the one million followers¹ mark to his Twitter thingy.

In effect, this means that the little twerp has found more than a million of other twats willing to lend their continued attention to his fascinating "tweets" under the nom de plume "aplusk", such as:

lol RT @gembuild: @aplusk will RED put his foot in your ass if you LOOSE?

Or:

I think I've acquired some type of virus that is taking down my wifi... sabotage? lol

Or even:

Thanks dude lol RT @jeremybunner: i think ppl are following CNN bc they think @aplusk is a douche.

Douche, indeed — at least that one makes sense.

That's just a sample. I pulled the hard work of rummaging through Kutcher's seemingly endless flow of retarded teenage syntax so you don't have to. Now slowly awake to the realization that there is, at this moment in mankind's (globally) glorious history, more than a million of our fellow naked bags of water and calcium with just enough thinking matter² to follow that kind of blabber every day, several times a day.

Gives you the creeps yet? Wait, that's not all: realize that this is the kind of folk — Yes, I mean the cretin who graces the world with such insightful snippets as "Thanks dude lol i think ppl are following CNN bc they think i is a douche" for instance — who are, in effect, the bulk of what we cannot avoid to call the international elite, for lack of a better... Well, elite.

If you're American, it's even worse: you also have to realize that they are running your country at this very moment. I feel your pain.

The so-called "web 2.0/social media" movement is a venture capital-wasting scam brought to us by a crowd of bleeding-heart iPoded/iPhoned Socialist socialites, but there is no escaping reality: with public performances such as Kutcher's "tweets" we are reminded, once again, that their leaders are dribbling imbeciles, advancing in front of a rank and file made up of dull, conformist and unthinking human² automatons.

And that is good news — at least in the long run, for as far as the short run is concerned, there is little hope left when you know that Oprah just joined the herd of twats. Or is it Twits? Whatever.

British Bulldog quote:

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." [Winston Churchill]

For the sake of mutual comprehension between the concerned parties, let's have that in Arabic

سجين الحرب رجل يحاول قتلك ولا يتمكن، وبعد ذلك يطلب منك أن لا تقتله

And, why not, in Persian too:

اسیر جنگی کسی است که میخواسته است شما را بکشد ولی موفق نبوده است , و بعد از شما می خواهد که شما او را نکشید

You never know. Could come in handy.

More versions for the global understanding of this very simple concept to ponder before closing Gitmo here.

Sometimes — oftentimes — I think about creating a new posts category called "There are so many stupid people on the Intarweb that we should enforce a license to use it". Here's one of those:

by palegray.net (1195047) on Tuesday April 14, @04:07AM
The USA is a democracy, and we've got this little thing called (ironically enough) the Patriot Act that can be used to make people disappear.

First, we'll applaud the guy answering this pathetic ignorant prat that the USA is a representative republic, though I'm afraid that this is just a detail for the kind of retard that peddle the Patriot Act = Gestapo Democratic Party line whenever they get close to a keyboard.

So let me get this straight: you pretend to have "An Opinion" on the politics of your country, even though "(ironically enough)" you don't actually know the basics such as the exact nature of your country's regime. Fine. Now let's take your claim at face value. Let's say Bushitler enforced the Patriot Act and has turned America into a modern day mash of Hitler's Germany, Soviet Russia, Castro's Cuba and Pol Pot Cambodia were honest-to-god Americans disappear simply because they dare criticize the system and stick it to The Man.

Name one. Name JUST ONE of those people gone missing after the government used the Patriot Act to make them disappear. Provide every evidence in your possession of said disappearance (last known address, SS number, driver ID, relatives and witnesses, shady police reports that claim the suspect brutally accidentally cut off his head while shaving, that sort of things.)

Out of 306 millions of Americans, among which 52.9% of the popular vote (including a few dead folks, Saddam Hussein and Mickey Mouse ACORN registered voters) went to B. Hussein Obama, in effect designating themselves as ideal targets for Bushitler's Patriot Act Disappearance Program, surely, you can find one.

Name one. Name just one.

Or shut up now and never, ever, write anything again on the Internet.

Okay, it's official: polar bears have absolutely no compassion for the wretched of the Earth, and will viciously attack even the most depressed and despaired among the casualties of the Euro-Socialist economy (or rather lack of):

Teacher who survived polar bear mauling at zoo 'was depressed over job'

The woman - named only as Mandy K - was mauled and bitten by the polar bears after climbing over safety walls [...] The keepers' bravery was praised after they dragged the 32-year-old German mother out of a moat for the animals. They had to shove the animal out of the way after one of four polar bears dived into the water and attacked her, inflicting serious bites to her legs and arms.

On Monday it emerged that she is a teacher who had been driven to despair by her failure to find a job.

Mercilessly eating off the poor? No wonder Al Gore loves them.

As for me, I do care about those big fat furry f*ckers too. I hear they make great rugs.

The White House publishes the Remarks of Resident Barack [Hussein — Ed.] Obama At Student Roundtable In Istanbul, and it's such a mixed bag of Leftist drivel (from global warming to Palestinians) that I frankly can't be bothered to read it all, let alone fisk it all. Life is too short.

Just a couple of snippets though so that you can't complaint you came here for nothing today:

Resident Obama: "If we want to say to Iran, don't develop nuclear weapons because if you develop them then everybody in the region is going to want them and you'll have a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and that will be dangerous for everybody -- if we want to say that to Iranians, it helps if we are also saying, "and we will reduce our own," so that we have more moral authority in those claims."

Was that teleprompted? Probably not, and this would explain the lack of commas.

Okay, I know this resident is shaping up to be the dumbest Resident of the United States so far (from Grandpa liberating Auschwitz to Gordon Brown's DVDs) but that was one of the dumbest things he's said so far.

Hey, Mister Resident, just in case Hillary didn't send you the memo, the Iranian regime is a bunch of Islamic Apocalypse cranks, who've been financing, enabling and engaging into terrorist attacks worldwide for decades, while hanging their own kids, arresting, torturing and executing political opponents and pursuing nukes for the sole purpose of wiping a democratic state from the map. If you, Barack Hussein Obama, believe that America must put down her weapons to "have moral authority" over that kind of fanatics, then what you need first is a moral compass.

Because you obviously don't know jack about morals.

For example, I agree that al Qaeda is an enormous threat not just to the United States but to the world. I have no sympathy and I have no patience for people who would go around blowing up innocent people for a political cause. I don't believe in that.

Woah, impressive display of moral authority Mr. Resident Obama Sir. One name does leap to mind however, when it comes to your sympathy and patience.

Here's a tip, a quote from that dude published in the NYT on September 11, 2001:

''I don't regret setting bombs,'' [He] said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.''

Here's a second tip, from the same puff piece:

''Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at,''

Yeah, Mr Resident Obama Sir, that's your old pal Bill Ayers — I wonder if you mentioned him to those admiring Turkish students?

I know, I know, Britain is pretty much sliding down the gutter just as the rest of us on the continent, and that country that once looked like the Old World's freedom haven (as well as something of a tax haven for many French) is falling under the blows of Socialism and its cohort of abuses of civil liberties, political correctness and groveling accommodation with some of the ugliest Islamofascists in the European Union¹.

But if you, as an individual Brit, your appalling government and elites notwithstanding, still have an ounce of honour left, you won't let that happen.

Yeah, I dare you: move your backside, write the Daily Mail, start a campaign, and bring that boy home. Don't let a bunch of barbarians take a cheap revenge on him.

UPDATE: perhaps there's a connection to be made here?

The road not to be taken:

"Toward the end of World War II, newspapers reported the following: when Russian troops moved west and occupied foreign towns, the Soviet authorities automatically executed any person who had a bank account of $100 or a high-school education; the rest of the inhabitants submitted. This is a physical dramatization of the spiritual policy of mankind's moral-intellectual leaders: destroy the tops, the rest will give up and obey.

Ayn Rand, The Age of Envy in Return of the Primitive, the anti-industrial revolution.

Hey, could this mean one could sue the hell of each and every pawn in the Obama Blog Brigades?

The FTC is planning to hold marketers liable for false statements published on blogs and social networks—meaning companies or bloggers could get sued for saying a product was good if it really wasn’t.

Just products? And what about Residents of the United States?

Sweet Holy Mother of Jesus, they can't even get that right? What a bunch of miserable failures:

Mecca mosques 'wrongly aligned'
Some 200 mosques in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers, reports from Saudi Arabia say.

The whole idea, as you may know, is to bow towards and worship a stone, and submit to one of the hundreds of idols to which it was associated in pre-Islamic Arabia: the moon god named Allah.

But while slews of socially-working auto-dhimmis, multi-culti artists and profligate politicians spend much of their time and too much of our money propagandizing the myth of Islamic enlightenment, the allegedly enlightened ones keep demonstrating how retarded they are: great at spewing head-chopping cultism, no so great at mastering such sophisticated, cutting-edge tech tools as the compass¹ — even when it is required by the aforementioned head-chopping cult.

As a result, it is feared that a sizable portion of the flock has been turning their asses to the Most Merciful & Most Compassionate — perhaps even farting in His general direction:

Some worshippers are said to be anxious about the validity of their prayers.

Anxious? Dude! You've just mooned Allah!

Ed Morrissey @ Hot Air on Obama getting himself a meager French personal guard of 300 gendarmes when he's asking for a serious NATO commitment in Afghanistan. That'll teach him to bring us crappy DVDs.

Notice that those gendarmes are to be specifically deployed in places where Jihadists are absent, and law enforcement is therefore not needed.

I beg my American readers and nevertheless friends not to take this as another example of French perfidy: this is actually the standard procedure for our gendarmes. You will frequently find them standing idly on the roadside with various photographic devices, taking picture of cars and drivers passing by, and keeping safely away from those troubled and predominantly Islamic suburbs that grabbed the headlines during the hot winter of 2005.

It's just how our elite gendarmerie is trained.

Nothing personal.

Johnny Ramone's ghost speaking to those who should know better:

People back then were going on about Kennedy: “Oh, I really like this guy. He’s so good looking .” This is how we’re picking a President? If he’s good looking?

If you're not interested in the Ramones (Fine. Just don't be interested in one of the most influential, and greatest band in the whole history of the whole world and beyond) then read the second part of the interview, starting with "You’re sort of regarded as an oddity in the punk movement. A conservative Republican. Like a right-winger doesn’t belong.". Yeah, I knew that would get your attention.

Pop culture these days is just a pathetic pool of politically correct, holier-than-thou conformists who fancy themselves as "rebels" when they are nothing but the voice of their masters. Quick! Someone slips into Johnny Ramone's torn jeans and sneakers, and beat on the brat(s) with a baseball bat!

Richard Viguerie's Conservative HQ had quite a naughty April's Fool prank running yesterday:

In Bold Move, RNC Replaces Steele with Ron Paul

In a bold move to regain confidence among their conservative base, the Republican National Committee has replaced Chairman Michael Steele with GOP Congressman Ron Paul.

This could only be a joke of course.

While I'm given to understand that the Republican Party does find itself in quite a spot of trouble with respect to their "conservative base", the notion that they would ease it by picking as their chairman a man who went on the records by saying that when it comes to 9/11 America, basically, had it coming looks a bit funny indeed.

Funny as in freaky¹.

And freakish even without mentioning the appalling hysterical show put on display all over the Internet by his followers (cultists?) during the campaign. I know as a foreigner in a foreign land I'm quite remote from the subtleties of domestic US politics but I did have a hard time distinguishing Paul's moonbats from Obama's moonbats.

Funny that. I mean, freaky.