TOBY PETZOLD

Want to hear how the anti-Lieberman crowd are responding to tonight’s vote in the Connecticut Democratic Party’s state nominating convention in which Lieberman’s opponent earned a huge 33 percent to Lieberman’s 66 percent?

Hahahaha, L13b3rm4n i5 teh pwn3d.

What the hell’s become of these filthy hippies’ language skills?

I think it’s saying that Ned Lamont, Lieberman’s anti-war challenger for the Senate, did very well.

I saw a report on CNBC earlier today about how one and two-year old hybrid vehicles (such as the Honda Civic hybrid and the Toyota Prius) are not only not depreciating, but are routinely reselling for as much as 120 percent of their original price.

Anybody have an idea on why that should be so?

It’s very interesting and makes me want one.

According to this report in the World Peace Herald:

TEL AVIV, Israel – Rival Palestinian security forces engaged in a late night gun battle in the heart of Gaza City heightening fears of a deterioration to civil war. 
     
The fighting erupted at about midnight, Thursday, at a police station whose men reportedly answer to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the secular Fatah Party. The gunmen outside belonged to a new force formed by the new government composed of members of the radical Islamic Hamas.

Tension has risen this week as each side sent armed men into Gaza’s streets. There is a cold, brutal struggle for power over who will control the Palestinian Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the security apparatuses, said Israeli intelligence Brig. Gen. in the reserves Shalom Harari, a Fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism.

Civil war in Gaza?

Will the perfidious Jews stop at nothing?!

Bill Walton, just now on ESPN’s coverage of Game Six of the Mavs-Spurs semi-final in which we hear the partisan crowd in Dallas respond to San Antonio Spur Michael Finley:

“You’re gonna boo the victim of a punch?”

Ha, ha.

(Finley’s attacker in Game Five was suspended for tonight’s game.)

Have I mentioned lately that I fucking despise really dislike this blogging software?

Courtesy of Professor Reynolds, read this very interesting essay by Amir Taheri in the latest Commentary. Here’s the passage that caught my eye (emphasis mine):

A second dependable sign likewise concerns human movement, but of a different kind. This is the flow of religious pilgrims to the Shiite shrines in Karbala and Najaf. Whenever things start to go badly in Iraq, this stream is reduced to a trickle and then it dries up completely. From 1991 (when Saddam Hussein massacred Shiites involved in a revolt against him) to 2003, there were scarcely any pilgrims to these cities. Since Saddams fall, they have been flooded with visitors. In 2005, the holy sites received an estimated 12 million pilgrims, making them the most visited spots in the entire Muslim world, ahead of both Mecca and Medina.

Now, why do you suppose that Muslim pilgrims would choose to visit Iraq in such large numbers —and not, say, Saudi Arabia where Mecca, Medina, and brotherhood await? I realize, of course, that we’re talking about Shia holy sites that would be of great interest to Iraq’s Iranian neighbors and that the numbers are inflated for reasons of propinquity.

Still: Iraq? Muslim pilgrims and vacationers are choosing to go into Iraq when the Great Satan is in the house?

That’s the condensation ring on the bar that tells you someone had a nice cold one there just before you showed up and let Big Media hit on you, you fucking floozies.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada called the Senate’s efforts to declare English our official language “racist”.

“I really believe this amendment is racist. I think it’s directed basically to people who speak Spanish.”

Reid’s own understanding of the English word racism is inexcusably poor. Are Mexicans a race? Well, some of them seem to think that they are representatives of la raza, but others seem to be preoccupied with all the outward characteristics of race. Preoccupied to the point that they judge each other by their respective skin tones and other features. Preoccupied to the point that they idealize certain qualities and denigrate others. That is racism. The question of whether they speak the Queen’s English is separate. Reid is a dickhead to misunderstand that.

The expectation that immigrants to the United States speak our primary language is reasonable —and has nothing to do with one’s racial background. If the idea is that this country should be unified —and not balkanized— then language will be a crucial element of that. Indeed, it is one of the only criteria I think should even be suggested.

Reid’s observation —at a time when we are faced with very few reasonable options on the issue of immigration— is irresponsible. It’s like John Kerry rejecting our development of bunker-buster nuclear weapons —in an age when countries like Iran have resorted to subterranean facilities as a means of evading our ability to stop the manufacture of their own nuclear weapons.