Laws and Sausages

McCain is Pathetic

He and Hil are planning to meet with Sheehan and kiss her insane ass.  He can kiss his POTUS aspirations good bye for this one.  Hell he had no shot anyways after Rove and the boys hand out those flyers in South Carolina claiming he fathered a bi-racial baby anyways.  In Karl We Trust America.

30 Person Horde of Activists Descend on White House

I had more people at a board room lunch yesterday, but the MSM  decides to continue with the analingous on the very anti-semitic Cindy Sheehan (Danka LGF). This is news? Wilco Tango Foxtrot

Help Hurricane Katrina's Forgot Victims

The pit bulls.  No animal is more wrongly maligned nor  forgotten in situations like this. Give 'til it hurts at PBRC today.

Help Hurricane Katrina's Forgot Victims

The pit bulls.  No animal is more wrongly maligned nor  forgotten in situations like this. Give 'til it hurts at PBRC today.

Hitch and Stewart

I used to hate Hitch and now I tolerate him. I used to like Stewart and now I tolerate him.  Here is an amusing little video of a Daily Show appearance with  Stewart basically getting lost  in the details (from Ivory Power). Jon isn't as bright as the MSM would make him seem eh? I suppose contrast is everything.

God Bless Their Deviant Hearts

Between their vending machines that dispense  young girls used panties and their killing of whales for  sushi comes a new success story from these perverted makers of fine stereo equipment:

Kidsbeer, a Japanese soft drink bottled and formulated to look like beer, may soon be available throughout Europe, but watchdogs of underage drinking say they will fight any effort to ship it to the United States

I Am Stunned. Evidently University Researcher Are Full of Shite

Two TCS articles  on academic bellyaching in the hard sciences are chock full of facts but are written like crap.  The first  one by Sally  Baliunas turns into a predicatable love letter to Richard Feynman (a rather  brilliant but playe dout figure these days) that also goes after  dirty dealing by  U.S. reseacher unded by NIH (this means univeristy researchers folks)

According to an eye-popping article in the June 9 Nature, about one-third of more than 3,200 polled U.S. researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health self-reported serious scientific misbehavior during the three years prior to being surveyed. High responses for serious infractions came in categories such as "Failing to present data that contradict one's own previous research" (6% of respondents), "Changing the design, methodology or results of a study in response to pressure from a funding source" (15.5%) and for lesser categories such as "Dropping … data … based on a gut feeling that they were inaccurate" (15.3%). Because the answers are self-reported, the polling researchers think the results may be underestimated. The researchers speculate that misbehaviors are keyed to "perceptions of inequities in the [science] resource distribution" process, and argue that identifying those perceptions might aid the promotion of scientific integrity. Since 1970, total federal non-medical research spending as a fraction of Gross Domestic Product has declined by about one-third. No formal history has tracked research misbehavior, leaving it impossible to say if ongoing stresses on budget allocation systems would partly explain current misbehavior.

I am not sur eof the point of the piece because she seems to get lost half way through it, but some snazzy facts nonetheless.

Iain Murray piece on "Nationalizing Science" is a little more coherent, but still somehow gets lost as well.

It seems as if you can't turn anywhere without hearing that industry is destroying science these days. Former editors of the

New England

Journal of Medicine allege that pharmaceutical companies are perverting health science. The National Institutes of Health have instituted strict new ethics rules that forbid researchers dirtying their hands by collaborating with industry. And at the end of July the American Journal of Public Health devoted an entire supplement to essays alleging that industry was somehow distorting the legal and regulatory processes through a series of laws and judgments.

All these allegations have a similar purpose: to delegitimize industry's involvement in the scientific process.

Murray's correctly notes that univerisittes ar ehostile to  industry and are generally  jerk-offs.  They are also fraudulent liars:

A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association has revealed that 16% of highly-cited medical studies were contradicted by subsequent ones, and another 16% were shown by later trials to have overstated results. In short, almost a third of medical studies - ones that were cited over 1,000 times in subsequent studies and articles - were found by subsequent research to be flawed. But contrary to initial impressions, this shows that in medical science the scientific process is working.

But he goes astray with  his little constructs, conclusions and dubious flow charts.  He also frankly gives universities too much credit for the shear amount of taxpayer money they waste on science research. The truth is if science and technology funding were given driectly to corporations we'd have far more rapid progress towards everything from space exploration to cures for cancer, but for some reason we piss it away on a bunch of tenured lardasses who steal credit from their zitfaced grad students.

Chuckie Gets Bitch Slapped

El Novakio on Schumer's sad efforts to nail Roberts and the shear lack of basic understanding of the nature of the judiciary by the Dems:

Both Biden and Schumer would have turned judicial nominees into political candidates, who would then gain overwhelming support for confirmation by endorsing a liberal laundry list. Roberts responded to Biden that judges "decide cases according to the judicial process, not on the basis of promises made earlier to get elected or promises made earlier to get confirmed."

Roberts has won the argument. Law writer Stuart Taylor Jr., in an Aug. 1 Legal Times article, indicated he had changed his mind and now felt that if Democrats "ever succeed in forcing nominees to detail their views, it will not only corrupt the integrity and independence of new justices. It will also, perhaps, open the way for presidents to pack the court with people who have virtually pledged their votes on a long list of issues." Taylor cited the position by Laurence Silberman, a senior judge on the District of Columbia Circuit Court, that every case must be tried on its merits and weighed against the Constitution rather than decided on broad considerations of social philosophy. That is precisely the standard put forth repeatedly by Roberts.

Quantum Steve Loving Steyn's Latest

As am I.  Head over to Common Sense and Wonder for it.

If you want the state of Europe in a nutshell, skip the German election coverage and consider this news item from the south of France: a fellow in Marseilles is being charged with fraud because he lived with the dead body of his mother for five years in order to continue receiving her pension of 700 euros a month.

She was 94 when she croaked, so she'd presumably been enjoying the old government cheque for a good three decades or so, but her son figured he might as well keep the money rolling in until her second century and, with her corpse tucked away under a pile of rubbish in the living room, the female telephone voice he put on for the benefit of the social services office was apparently convincing enough. As the Reuters headline put it: "Frenchman lived with dead mother to keep pension."

That's the perfect summation of Europe: welfare addiction over demographic reality.

Rep. Meehan, You Have WOn A Dream Date with Hunkiest of All Terrorist Leaders.......

Dear Osama,

I hope all is well, we seem to have gotten off on the wrong foot.  I take all the blame.  Believe I am not like those other politicians. Me, I want to understand you and see the real Osama. Perhaps we can meet at the Tora Bora Starbucks sometime soon and chat over coffee?  Please let me know.

Best Regards,

Hon. Marty Meehan

U.S. Congress

Silly Reader, You Don't Understand My Infinite Nature

The lefties in the the media  while crowing about so-called rights to privacy  in the Roberts' hearings nonetheless decide for haha's to  list  out the salaries of  Bush White House staff.  Before you say "hey let's call for reporters to list their salaries, the hypocritical bastards"  I'll save you the trouble. If you want to know what most reporters  make reach between your couch cushions and dig around ...dime...dime...Frito...penny....dog hair ball....Reporters are a different breed, they can survive without money, food and even oxygen. Their life force  is completely generated by their smugness sense of self righteousness.

Psychopaths could be best financial traders?

I have long said that the difference between a great Wall Street trader and a serial killer was  some time as an alter boy in the Boston Archdiocese and now science backs me:

A team of U.S. scientists has found the emotionally impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes and that people with brain damage may make good financial decisions, the Times newspaper reported Monday. In a study of investors' behavior 41 people with normal IQs were asked to play a simple investment game. Fifteen of the group had suffered lesions on the areas of the brain that affect emotions. The result was those with brain damage outperformed those without. The scientists found emotions led some of the group to avoid risks even when the potential benefits far outweighed the losses, a phenomenon known as myopic loss aversion.

One of the researchers, Antione Bechara, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Iowa, said the best stock market investors might plausibly be called "functional psychopaths."

Notes From The Bunker

Wow 3 welcome back notes already! Thanks folks.  And as to what I did on my vacation, the usual drank, masturbated, cried and prayed for death.  GREAT TO BE BACK!

Burger King Recalls ‘Sacrilegious’ Desserts

LGF brings to our attention Burger King being straight up whack (an ode to KY West the rapper's  call for whitey to only use old Black slang) giving into a terrorist wannabe who claims BK's ice cream cones insult Allah.  Check out the article for the comparison  shots.

What makes me angry is I complained to BK for years the very same  cones insult Catholicism because  when you turn the cone upside down it looks exactly like the hats from the Semena Santa Festival to no avail.

The Mouse That Roared

Anyone remember the Peter Sellers film "The Mouse That Roared?"  The plot is basically that a tiny  country is going bankrupt so they  decide to declare war on the US because they know that  America will then give them a ton of aid. With the windfall  being planned for the hurricane victims I can only wonder if there are  food stamp recipients in Oregon hoping for Mount St. Helens to blow its  lid, Los Angelinos in debt begging for a quake,  or guys in Connecticut behind on their mortgage payments hoping for locusts and a rain of frogs sometime soon (from Stephen Moore  in the WSJ):

There's an old adage that no one in Washington can tell the difference between $1 million and $1 billion. Seldom has that Beltway learning disability been more vividly demonstrated than in the weeks since Katrina.

When President Bush announced last Thursday that the feds would take a lead role in the reconstruction of New Orleans, he in effect established a new $200 billion federal line of credit. To put that $200 billion in perspective, we could give every one of the 500,000 families displaced by Katrina a check for $400,000, and they could each build a beach front home virtually anywhere in America.

THE SUMMER MENTAL VACATION IS OVER

I'm back................

Old LBJ Story and Tony Blair

I remember this story about when LBJ was running for office years ago and he was going up against a goat farmer.  LBJ decided to  accuse his opponent of carnal relationships with said goats. His campaign manager at the time said "sir you can't say something like that. Its a lie. Where is the evidence." LBJ responded, "I know, I know,  but let's watch the sumadabitch stand up in public and have to deny it."

I am reminded of this little bit of obscene political manipulation today as I read  articles such as this one  where Blair confronts filthy anti-war hippies and media blaming him instead of the terrorists for the deaths of Londoners a week ago. " A growing number of voices link the London bomb attacks with Britain's role in the Iraq War."

Almost As Funny As Last Night's Family Guy Episode

I really really hope the Dem's are sincere in their belief that a linguist is all they need to win back Congress and the White House.  Rather than vilifying this inane idea, the NY Times lauds its brilliance.  Throughout the piece there is this sense of  pure unadulterated smugness. "We liberals are so smart, so sensitive, so generally wonderful, if only we  learned to dumb-down how we speak to the inbred masses out there who stupidly believe in God and watch NASCAR instead of takign weekend wine tours, these working stiffs will see how wonderful  we Democrats really are."

The problems with the Dem's, as I have said many times, is the party has not had a new idea since the 60's and frankly for the most part runs on concepts developed during the New Deal. The party's base is made up of dying unions, aggrieved black leaders who prey on their own, and baby killers.  That's not a group who endears a lot of positive vibes. 

My Solution for Solving the US Debt-- It Involves the Internet and Screwing th UN

The UN  thinks the Internet should be for everyone. It thinks no country should dominate it.  Well like the bumbersticker says, "GAS, GRASS, OR ASS-- NOBODY RIDES FOR FREE." The US government created the Internet (no, not Al Gore, DARPA), we have invested in the development and the upkeep of the backbone, and have created all the necessary programs, protocols and systems to make it was it is today.  So the UN's concept that we should globalize (rather than nationalize) the  system under their asinine and incompetent control is nothing short of laughable. 

Now for my solution for solving the US debt.  Create a company  for the backbone, ICANN, etc like Fannie Mae (only not corrupt) and have an IPO and everyone and every nation who wants control can buy some shares. It'll put Google to shame.

I know that's the hangover talking, but so what. Its my brilliant, stupid, idea of the day. 

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER LAYS A HURT'N ON LEFTIES AGAINST IRAQ

Go Chuckie Go Chuckie, its your birthday, its your birthday:

For the next decade, whenever there is a terrorist attack anywhere in the world, there will be those blaming it on America: if only America had not been distracted from the war on terrorism by the war in Iraq, if only America had not stirred Muslim resentment and increased al-Qaeda recruitment by invading Iraq.

Nonsense. The "distraction" argument is the most obvious nonsense. What exactly is the U.S. not doing in the war on terrorism that it would be doing if it weren't in Iraq? We are supporting a fiercely antiterrorist democratic government in Afghanistan, hunting al-Qaeda in the impossible terrain on the Pakistani frontier, coordinating with just about every secret service in the world to disrupt terrorist communications, movement and funding. What is it about Iraq that "distracts"?

As for the recruitment claim, when was the seminal period of al-Qaeda recruitment--indeed, the period during which it created its entire worldwide infrastructure? The 1990s. No invasion of Iraq. No invasion of Afghanistan. The Clinton years saw the most open, accommodating, apologetic U.S. foreign policy since World War II. In fact, the 1990s was the decade of Muslim rescue: the U.S. intervened militarily, and decisively, to save three Muslim peoples--the Bosnians, the Kosovars and the Kuwaitis--from conquest and catastrophe. Yet it was precisely during that era of good feeling that al-Qaeda not only recruited for but also conceived, planned and set in motion the worst massacre of Americans in history. So much for the connection between American perfidy and anti-American terrorism.

Al-Qaeda always invents some excuse, some historical injury to justify its barbarism. Today Iraq, yesterday Palestine and, when all else fails, Andalusia, a bin Laden staple that refers to the Muslim loss of Spain to Ferdinand and Isabella (in 1492!). Various casus belli are served up as conditions change. Only the gullible and the appeasers buy them. Now we're told that the Iraq invasion has increased al-Qaeda recruiting.

The Irony is Delicious

Sen. Clinton  wants an inquiry into why there is sex in the video-game GTA3 that may be seen by impressionable young adults.  Funny, wasn't she against a similar inquiry when her husband decided to actually have sex with an impressionable young adult?

Inside the Terorist Mind

From the Times (UK):

According to witnesses, Van Gogh begged for mercy and tried to reason with his assailant. “Surely we can discuss this,” he kept saying as the shots kept coming. “Let us talk it over.”

Van Gogh, who had angered Islamists with his documentary about the mistreatment of women in Islam, was reacting like BBC reporters did yesterday, assuming that the man who was killing him may have some reasonable demands which could be discussed in a calm, democratic atmosphere.

But sorry, old chaps, you are dealing with an enemy that does not want anything specific, and cannot be talked back into reason through anger management or round-table discussions. Or, rather, this enemy does want something specific: to take full control of your lives, dictate every single move you make round the clock and, if you dare resist, he will feel it his divine duty to kill you.

Can't Have It Botth Ways On Genocide

Lord knows  we support Israel in nearly everything they do, but in this case they are terribly out of line. In a story that has received almost no coverage in the US, Israel has turned down a Polish request for the extradition of an elderly Jewish man accused of “crimes against humanity” for the deaths of hundreds of Germans in a communist-run detention camp after the war. Polish-born Solomon Morel, 86, fled to Israel in 1994 after his alleged role in the killings of 1,580 Germans was exposed by a Canadian author who traced survivors of the camp.

Tony Has His Priorities in Line

Let me get this straight, terrorists (who  according to Blair have nothing to do with Islam or Arabs)   set off 4 bombs in his capital and  kills 50+ people and  Tony Blair in true Clinton-esque fashion hides his head in the sand and instead of focusing on terrorism ( less than 15 hours after  the bombing) spends his time setting up new meetings to tackle alleged global warming.  What a freak's assclown. Tony Blair, you are the ASSCLOWN OF THE WEEK.

Wake Up Call to the G8

Perhaps instead of having an agenda (global warming &  debt relief for African despots)  that appeals to latte liberals, the G8 leaders will begin to focus on  the real business of the world