The Nihilist in Golf Pants has an interesting take on the movie.

I’m going to say something about that silly Brokeback Mountain movie. It is certainly not one that I will see. I am very disgusted about Heath Ledger. He gave a stupendous performence in The Patriot. I thought he might be a new Mel Gibson.

Instead, he participated in a bunch of really stupid movies after that coup. Now, he’s ruined any chance, in my mind, of inspiring me to go to any of his movies.

David Kupelian has given the best explanation of the propoganda motive of this movie. He has also convinced me that this is the silliest movie ever screened. Any young person who goes and tells me that it is profound is going to be considered by me to be an impressionable moron unworthy of employment or respect by me.

This dumbass movie apparently has a scene alleging that some red-state people retaliated against some old cowboys who lived together as lovers by taking one and killing and mutilating his privates. BS! Country people keep to themselves and don’t interfere in the business of others. I say that any pair of cowboys who descended into fornication with each other, would have killed themselves before any neighbor even contemplated such a thing.

This movie is an insult to true country people. But, more than that—it is an apologetic for homo men who break vows to wives and their children during a mad search for momentary orgasm.

Blogging has confirmed to me the magnitude of my tendency to give into obsession. I latch onto a topic and have trouble going on to others.

I’ve lately been obsessed about the goings on in Australia with the muslim gangs that harass women and children on the beaches. It makes me wish that I go go over there and start a Beach Guardian Angels group. Of course, given how they’ve disarmed the populace, I have a feeling that the Liberals also discourage any movement that smacks of self-defense.

My conversations with an Australian friend lead me to believe that it won’t be long before such ideas fall by the wayside given the true Aussie attitudes. I pray for that.

This leads me to some excellent bloggers who are discussing the propensity for Muslim transplants in civilized countries to engage in and justify honor killings and rape. Laers at Cheat-Seeking-Missiles begins:

And where is it over mercy killings—like this one in Pakistan?

Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family’s “honor” — a crime that shocked Pakistan.

We’ll believe that shock when we see Pakistan and other Islamic nations begin to confront mercy killings before they’re carried out, through condemnation, reform and education. Or are they only shocked because he went beyond killing his stepdaughter and killed all his daughters?

Laers points us to Bookworm who discusses the rape issue:

In Australia, when journalist Paul Sheehan reported honestly on the Sydney gang rapes, he was called a racist and accused of stirring up anti-Muslim hatred. And when he reported in his Sydney Morning Herald column that there was a high incidence of crime amongst Sydney’s Lebanese community, fellow journalist, David Marr sent him an e-mail stating, “That is a disgraceful column that reflects poorly on us all at the Herald.”

Keysar Trad, vice-president of the Australian Lebanese Muslim Association said the gang rapes were a “heinous” crime but complained it was “rather unfair” that the ethnicity of the rapists had been reported.

Journalist Miranda Devine reported during the same rape trials that all reference to ethnicity had been deleted from the victim impact statement because the prosecutors wanted to negotiate a plea bargain.

So when Judge Megan Latham declared, “There is no evidence before me of any racial element in the commission of these offences,” everyone believed her. And the court, the politicians and most of the press may as well have raped the girls again.

***

Oslo Professor of Anthropology, Unni Wikan, said Norwegian women must take responsibility for the fact that Muslim men find their manner of dress provocative. And since these men believe women are responsible for rape, she stated, the women must adapt to the multicultural society around them.

The BBC pulled a documentary scheduled for screening in 2004, after police in Britain warned it could increase racial tension. “In these exceptional circumstances… Channel 4 as a responsible broadcaster has agreed to the police’s request…” The documentary was to show how Pakistani and other Muslim men sexually abused young, white English girls as young as 11.

This is sick. It is especially sick that media and governments are covering up the identity of the sick f@#ks perpetrating this.

A Battered Woman’s group used to call me to ask me to donate old cell phones. They stopped after I told them that I would rather donate a short-barrelled 20 guage shotgun and shooting lessons to one of their clients. I told them that I couldn’t see the efficacy of a woman calling 911 in the midst of a beating by a goon.

My basis for such an opinion was my role as a law clerk in a DA’s office. One of my appellate cases involved a young woman who called 911 as a psychopath beat in her door. He abducted her before the police could get to her. She was found on a country road, raped and throat cut ear to ear the next morning. If she had owned a short-barrelled Mossberg 20 guage like I do, she would have lived.

If those girls in Australia and Norway had owned and been trained in the use of firearms, perhaps fewer Muslim rapists would be walking in Australia and Norway today. As for the 11 year old girls—I can’t figure out how they got into the hands of this scum. I will say that my nephews and niece learned to shoot before that age.

I am a bit obsessed about what is going on in Australia, because it is impacting decent, hardworking people proscribed from protecting themselves because of the “anointed elite.” What can they do in the face of a threatening, violent group- that doesn’t acknowledge freedom of conscience, individual liberty, and respect for the individual—especially in light of the fact that the Aussies’ hands are tied by their own leaders’ notions about political correctness.

I’ve been wondering what means of self-protection they have. Mahone Dunbar answers in a fanciful post at Paxety Pages. The only part that is not fanciful is the part about the draconian gun laws. Juan Paxety provided a link to a story about the disarming of the Aussies.

Maybe, the people over there agree with the idea that the government should restrict the average citizen’s means of self-defense by disarming decent people. After a bit more rioting and running amuck by thugs—perhaps they will reconsider.

Some the “bobo’s” in Australia are suggesting that the solution to the Australian beach riots is to include the Lebanese Muslim “youth” in the surf “livesaving movement”. Currency Lad has the story:

The Liberal Party backbencher is keen on the plan: “It is hoped that it will provide Lebanese youths with a deeper understanding and respect for the beach culture and etiquette in the Sutherland Shire.” I suppose that’s what I mean by half-smart. That Lebanese men have been causing the problems is acknowledged but what sort of urban hillbilly needs to learn that gang bashings are offensive to “etiquette”? The level of community support for this soft bigotry of low expectations can be guessed at from the report: “A full-time co-ordination officer will be provided to ensure the participants are fully incorporated into surf clubs.” Skeg Stalinism – great idea.

I wrote a comment about reports from an Australian friend of mine that these Leb Muslims are pinching and pushing Aussie women who dare to wear bikinis on the beaches. Note this comment from one of those Aussie women.

This morning, I discovered that watching WWE wrestling is fun. I have a particular liking for this Boston “Southie” wrestler:

What does this have to do with the beach riots?

Well, what if some of the WWE women wrestlers donned bikinis and took a stroll on an Australian beach? And, what if one of the swine who like to pinch and push women in bikinis happened to try that swinish behavior with one of the WWE Babes? Perhaps something like this?

I can dream can’t I?

This is from an old post at The Command Post. It’s an e-mail from a French guy about the riots in Paris. It strikes a chord in light of what has been happening in Australia. I’m sure there are a few BoBo’s in Australia too:

Click here for the rest…

Who else would elect Opie the Goat as Honorary Mayor? (HT Dave Barry’s Blog)

Of course, there are always those who worry too much—such as one of Mayor Opie’s detractors: I want people to take us seriously. We’re just as legitimate as Los Angeles.

The riots in Australia are being blamed on “white supremacy” by the Aussie media, apparently. (from the Jawa Report) From some of the things I have been reading, I think that the failure of the government to contain and bring Muslim thugs to justice for quite some time has provoked vigilante justice.

For instance, from Currency Lad:

Yesterday’s events came just a few days after a Muslim gang rapist told a court in Sydney that culture and mysterious voices made him brutally terrorise his teenage quarry – girls, he said, who “had no right to say no.” The victims were called “Christian whores” and “white Australian sluts” during their ordeal. The Rodney King factor, however, was last Sunday’s vicious gang assault on three lifesavers by as many as 14 “Middle Eastern youths.” Most leftists would cite such background incidents as ‘root causes.’ Perhaps they’ll now see how problematic that concept is. Very unhelpful were reports that because the lifesavers responded to invective from their attackers with a quip about the latter not being able to swim, police have now decided the bashing that followed “was not completely unprovoked.” It is possible the non floatie-dependent beachwackers were ‘humiliated.’

Or this found via Tel Chai Nation:

YOUNG woman this week told a TV camera crew of the intimidation she has experienced on Cronulla beach.

“They’ll stand over you while you’re sunbaking, block your sun so they get your attention, then say, ‘She’s not worth doing 55 years for’,” she told them.

For those unsure of what these lowlifes are referring to, it’s the length of the prison sentence which was given to Sydney’s infamous gang rapist, Bilal Skaf.

Clearly, there’s a deep cultural problem that exists with some of the second-generation young men of Middle Eastern descent who live in this country.

Our senior police officers have referred to them in the past as “entrepreneurial criminals”. By this they mean they will form loose associations with others in the criminal milieu to take part in just about any illegal activity.

Taskforce Gain was set up after a spate of drive-by shootings in Sydney’s south-west and continues to target Middle Eastern criminals involved in drugs, car rebirthing and extortion. You name it, and these men are into it, so it seems.

Now, even the most quintessential Australian pastime – spending a day at the beach – is at risk from these youths looking to cause nothing but trouble.

And what about this, posted at Tel Chai via Michelle Malkin:

I BELIEVE that the rise of Middle Eastern organised crime in Sydney will have an impact on society unlike anything we have ever seen.

In the early 1980s, as a young detective I was attached to the Drug Squad at the old CIB. I remember executing a search warrant at Croydon, where we found nearly a pound of heroin. I know that now sounds very familiar; however, what set this heroin apart was that it was Beaker Valley Heroin, markedly different from any heroin I had seen. Number Four heroin from the golden triangle of South-East Asia is nearly always off-white, almost pure diamorphine. This heroin was almost brown.

But more remarkable were the occupants of the house. They were very recent arrivals from Lebanon, and from the moment we entered the premises, we wrestled and fought with the male occupants, were abused and spat at by the women and children, and our search took five times longer because of the impediments placed before us by the occupants, including the women hiding heroin in baby nappies and on themselves and refusing to be searched by policewomen because of religious beliefs. We had never encountered these problems before.

As was the case in those days, we arrested every adult and teenager who had hampered our search. When it came to court, they were represented by Legal Aid, of course, who claimed that these people were innocent of the minor charges of public disorder and hindering police, because they were recent arrivals from a country where people have an historical hatred towards police, and that they also had poor communications skills and that the police had not executed the warrant in a manner that was acceptable to the Muslim occupants.

The magistrate, well known to police as one who convicted fewer than one in ten offenders brought before him during his term at Burwood local court, threw the matter out, siding with the occupants and condemning the police. I remember thinking, thank heavens we don’t run into many Lebanese drug dealers.
—snip—
The Middle Eastern crime groups and their associates number in the thousands, not the hundreds as the government and senior police would have you believe. It is the biggest crime problem we have ever faced, and it is growing. Hardly a day goes past without some violent crime involving a “male of Middle Eastern appearance”, though I see lately that description is watered down now to include “and / or Mediterranean appearance”. To an operational policeman, there is a noticeable difference between an Italian and a Lebanese male.

That these groups of males can roam a city and assault, rob and intimidate at will can no longer be denied or excused. You need only to look at Paris and other European countries that have had mass immigration from Middle Eastern countries to see the sort of problems we can expect in years to come. My prediction is that within ten years, Middle Eastern crime groups will spread rapidly across Australia as they seek to expand their enterprises. There will be no-go areas in south-western Sydney, just like Paris.

Only recently I have seen quotes from senior police and retired police who claim that race is not the issue in organised crime. Those statements are stupid and dangerous. Organised crime groups with the exception of the bikies are almost always ethnically based — any experienced detective will tell you that. The days of Anglo-Saxon gangs are almost gone, with the exception of one or two local beach gangs.

I also predict that there will be a dramatic rise in gang shootings as rival gangs compete for turf and business. This will be done with almost complete disregard for police attention, as they are well aware that the New South Wales Police has to be rebuilt from the ground up. We have seen in the past three years the phenomenon of drive-by shootings, Los Angeles-style. Not only are the increasing incidents a major cause of concern, but also the use of automatic weapons that spray hundreds of rounds at their targets. This is virtually unprecedented in this country.

Wretchard at The Belmont Club has this:

I somewhat disagree with his last statement. Sometimes when there is an absence of official justice, there arises frontier justice as a necessity for survival. For an example, read this.

After you read that, then go read Aussie News & Views as of yesterday:

10 48 pm latest FLASH Cronulla Beach is been trashed, cars destroyed, Muslim thugs running riot, windows broken.
Shop windows smashed by roving gangs of Muslim thugs with iron bars, Police arresting thugs as I speak, Residents advised to stay indoors, roads closed…..... more as it happens

Reporter Jason Morrison of Radio 2gb reports Police & Ambulance moving away from Cronulla Beach proper, numerous incidents flooding Police Radio for assistance.
Police helicopter lighting up the area…...
Residents in shock disbelief as Muslim thugs rampage.
Patrons at outdoor cafe attacked, patrons covered in blood….
sign off 10 55 pm.

Here’s more from Aussie News.

It sounds as if a little self help might be needed here as the police can’t be everywhere. But, haven’t the Aussies been disarmed?

If you want root causes for this—forget the racial angle. Look at the law enforcement failures of governments shackled by political correctness and weakling judges who rarely share the dangers of crime with their fellow citizens.

Update:

For some more illustrations of my thesis above, go read more of the earlier posts at Aussie News & Views like this .

I’m reading Anne Rice’s Christ The Lord, Out of Egypt. Anne has become a Christian, and I am enjoying her book. She is also involved in Democrat politics.

I just took a break from her novel to surf the net. By way of World Net Daily, I find this at Delta Mike Charley:

How would you explain the traditional Christian symbol of the fish with a cross at the head of it and with flames and the word “Hypocrite” emblazoned across it that’s being sold on the Washington State Democrats website?

Here is the emblem:

Does the leadership of the Democratic Party have any clue as to who is in their Party? It’s really strange. Anne Rice is writing about Jesus as a Child, and the fact that His family had to keep Him hidden to keep Him safe in that troubled time—and it was a very troubled time in the Holy Land.

I wonder what she would say about the symbol above?

After Delta Mike Charlie posted this, the symbol was removed from the webpage—but that blog has the cache.

Update: For a good post on Anne Rice’s book go here to This Classical Life.

For a good while, I have been addicted to Law & Order. I’ve tried to break it to no avail. Last nights Special Victims show fixed that.

The best show in my opinion is Monk. I’ve loved it. I don’t care if Tony Shaloub is a big lib or not. (I’m not sure he is—I’ve just heard rumours). I am, as I write, watching the newest installment. It’s the Christmas show. So far, they’ve shown a party at headquarters which includes a banner saying Merry Christmas, the Chief singing “Fall on Your Knees”—a song that includes mention of Christ as our Savior, Monk singing Silent Night, a character saying “but for the grace of God”, and a nun speaking of “Our Father.”

This is a winner.

Law & Order can do without my viewership.

Oh yeah, Monk also showed a Nativity Scene.

Saddam was at it again today. Shrieking at the Judge. Claiming that he wasn’t going to come back to court. Complaining about the conditions of his own detention during the horrific testimony of one of his victims.

When I took my road trip with Nelson a week or so ago, our conversation meandered from the topic of field dressing a deer to the slaughter of pigs. We were talking about how smart pigs are.

Nelson told me that on pig slaughtering day—after the first one is killed—all the other pigs realize what is happening and start squealing and trying to get away from their fate. Sadaam is acting like a pig being led to slaughter because he understands his fate. He’s a man filled with fear, arrogance and self-pity:

“Witness C,” a man, testified that he was taken by security forces along with his parents and sister. They spent 19 days at the intelligence headquarters and 11 months in Abu Ghraib, where his father died after being beaten on the head, he said. Then they spent three years in the desert.

“At the intelligence headquarters, they put two clips in my ears,” the witness said, adding he was told that if he lied, he would be given an electric shock. When he answered a question, the shock was administered, he said.

“In prison they used to bring men to the women’s room and ask them to bark like dogs,” he said. “My father died in priso able to see him.” He added that his father, who was 65 and had heart problems, was kept in a room about 50 yards from him.

“How come you remember all these things?” Saddam asked.

“This was a great sadness to me,” the witness replied, “and I can’t forget a sadness.”

The testimony prompted an outburst from Saddam, who complained of his own conditions in detention. He said the court had time to listen to the witnesses’ complaints “but does anyone ask Saddam Hussein whether he was tortured? Whether he was hit?”

He urged the judge to investigate his conditions because “it is your duty as judges to investigate the crime at its scene.”

“I live in an iron cage covered by a tent under American democratic rule. You should come see my cage,” he told Amin. “The Americans and the Zionists want to execute Saddam Hussein.”

Yep—he’s a real pig.

Currency Lad discusses an Islamic leader residing in Australia who favors banning the name Christmas:

Mr Seyit has called for the re-naming of Christmas. That’s right. He thinks it’s time Australia emulated the UK, where some mussie-whipped councils have renamed Christmas “Winterval” and replaced the word Christmas on signage with vulgar enormities like “Festive” and even “Winter.” Observed Mr Seyit, humbly: “Australia is now so diverse and there are so many cultures and festivities, we need to acknowledge the need to be inclusive of our identity.”

Currency Lad’s response to Mr. Seyit?

Okay. Ramadan should be renamed “Night Binge for Allah.”

LOL!!

That gave me an idea. Let’s rename all the leftist holidays and special recognition days. I think that most leftist ideology fits the definition of “religion” so if they want to screw with our religion—let’s screw with theirs. Look at this definition of religion:

A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.

Let’s start with AID’s Awareness Day because I think that, at least here in the U.S., AID’s activism approaches a form of religion. Let’s change the name of AID’s Awareness Day to “Awareness of the Consequences of Putting Things In Places Where They Don’t Belong Day.”

A good part of my career was spent doing trial work in the area of personal injury (mainly for defendants). Early on, I developed a measure of skepticism for the purity of physicians. This arose, mainly, from deposing physicians in their capacities as expert witnesses.

It wasn’t just because so many of them “whored” themselves and their opinions out for money. It was also because I found so many of them to be arrogant and inconsiderate. I remember attending one physician’s deposition that was supposed to start at 5:30 pm. Over ten attorneys waited for him. Because the phsycian was a rude asshat, it didn’t start until 8:00 pm. During the deposition, he continually took non-emergency phone calls. I have great capacity for giving contempuous looks and I used that capacity to the maximum that night. I was the youngest lawyer in the room and the only woman and he kept looking at me. After a few of my special dirty looks, he got an uncertain look in his eyes and took the telephone off the hook. I probably reminded him of his ex-wife.

Now, I find this story so full of pettiness and misplaced concern—it rekindles my occasional contempt for physicians. It’s about the story of the face transplant. This part causes bile to rise in my throat:

But Prof Hirsch said that many worrying questions remained unanswered. “How was the patient told about this, was it explained to her that she would be undergoing two experiments: the transplant but also a new immuno-suppressing treatment which involves the injection of stem cells from the bone marrow of the donor? The transplant, even partial, of a face is not just a medical but a psychological test because the identity of a person is involved. Was she well prepared for this?”

The woman’s face was torn off and she couldn’t eat or breath normally! This is just petty. The next quote makes it apparent that the objections are mainly about turf warfare:

Yesterday a row broke out after Emmanuel Hirsch, a professor of medical ethics and a member of the Biomedicine Agency – one of the organisations whose approval was sought for the transplant – said his particular committee had not been informed of the surgery. “I have the impression that everything was done in a hurry and that not all the questions involved were taken into account when there was no real urgency,” he told yesterday’s Le Journal du Dimanche. “We are talking about a pure experiment. Personally I would have expressed serious reservation about this transplant. I’d like to know why we weren’t even informed about this operation.”

This next part is just ridiculous. There is no theft when you voluntarily give something to someone:

The Sunday newspaper also reported that another French plastic surgeon, Laurent Lantieri, claimed the transplant team stole his technique, after his request to carry out a face transplant in 2004 was rejected. He said one doctor involved in Ms Dinoire’s transplant had called him in May “to ask for my protocol – yes, I gave it to him”, he told the newspaper. “Afterwards? I didn’t hear anything more.”

This is the part I think deserves more attention:

The donor, whose name has not been released, was said to have been of a similar age and from the same area as Ms Dinoire. She had hanged herself. Permission for the transplant was given by her family after she was declared brain dead.

After reading the MSM past descriptions of PVS and other conditions resulting from brain damage as “brain death”—why is not more attention being given to the condition of the donor.? Was she truly brain dead? Many in the media said that Terri Schiavo was brain dead—a total misunderstanding of brain death. How do we know that the donor in this case was actually brain dead? What if she was merely cognitively impaired?

I guess physicians and medical ethicists are more concerned about turf than the impact of procedures on people.

This morning, I heard the latest on the trial of Saddam Hussein. I couldn’t believe it. I could believe that he would behave in this manner—I couldn’t believe that the judges didn’t do more about it.

I kept imagining what judges over here would do if lawyers walked out of a courtroom because the lawyers didn’t like a ruling. Every judge I’ve ever been before would have asked if I happened to bring my toothbrush that day so I could brush my teeth before going to bed in the local jail. This applies even to an ancient judge I tried a case in front of in the early 1980’s. During the case, he fell asleep with his chin on his chest several times. One time I looked over and a string of drool was coming out of the corner of his mouth. Even that judge would have thrown me in jail for the night and then referred me to the State Bar if I had walked out of the courtroom in protest of one of his rulings.

In American courtrooms, lawyers have to endeavor to prevent looks of disgust from crossing their faces when the judge rules against them. I once tried a different case and my investigator, who was sitting in the spectators section, got a big old poo-eating grin on his face when the judge made a ruling. The judge chewed him up one side and down the other in front of the whole courtroom.

The Iraqi judges did threaten that they would replace the lawyers—but then they caved in and let Ramsey Clark flap his lips. I think they should have threatened to totally bar him from the courtroom if the lawyers didn’t return. As it was, Clark abused their order allowing his statement by going outside the boundaries of what they proscribed. That’s the usual result of appeasing people who have no respect for rules.

And what about Saddam shrieking at the judge? In mostAmerican courtrooms, he would have ended up chained to his chair with a gag over his mouth. Remember the Chicago 7? What would be the problem with gagging and chaining him in this case? There’s no jury present to get the wrong idea about the presumption of innocence.

Saddam’s half brother was apparently making threatening comments to the judges and then to witnesses as they testified. Over here, he would have earned himself a big old criminal charge for intimidating witnesses. At the least, he would have been barred from the courtroom.

I’m afraid for this trial. I have to concede that the judges have guts for presiding—but they need to get control over the courtroom. Saddam says:

When the judge explained that he was ruling in accordance with the law, Saddam replied: “This is a law made by America and does not reflect Iraqi sovereignty.”

Given the goings-on today—the only resemblance to any American trial I see is a slight one to the trial of O.J. Simpson.

Why did I never learn about this story until now?