TOBY PETZOLD

In a remarkable hat-tip (you know, for a propaganda organ of Der Chimperor), enjoy Feministing’s post on Wal-Mart’s disgusting sexualization of America’s young daughters:

Suggestive pink Santa panties targeting young girls are being removed from Wal-Mart stores after parents objected to the offensive undergarments.

The panties, which were sold in the juniors department, seemed to suggest that girls don’t need money, they just need a sugar daddy — in this case Santa Claus.

The hipster briefs — carrying the slogan “Who needs credit cards …” on the front and “When you have Santa” on the derriere — caused an uproar among parents, who called for the $2.96 drawers to be pulled off the racks.

These panties were intended for a domestic, English-speaking market, right? Or is the whoredom of this culture more “advanced” than I had feared —and such messages are now just part of the noise that deafens the soul?

Wal-Mart doesn’t understand this, but their choice in marketing and profiting from this sort of degeneracy is as morally repugnant to me as though these were burkas. And that’s what they are: grade school snatch hijabs.

Our culture is positively schizoid about the wimmins, though. That’s for damned sure. We’re a lot of John Mark Karrs and Patsy Ramseys chasing after JonBenet. A lot of lip service is paid to the safety of children, but the parents are either clueless or complicit about their girls’ habits: the drinking, the oral sex, the internet thing, the general vulgarity of their language, dress, and character, etc. It’s heartbreaking.

I do hope for the day that I will be a father, but things like this worry me.

UPDATE: Oops! Switched my hyperlinks above, but you can figure it out.

UPDATE 2: Corrected dyslexic spelling of hijab above.

Wow. Arthur Blank really went to town with Tony Kornheiser’s “retail” metaphor.

Let’s not not pay retail so much, gentlemen. Jeeze.

Jim Hoft mines from the Gorebot’s speech today before the Nobel Committee the motto that should follow him to the compost heap where his grave shall be: “We Are What Is Wrong.”

How succinctly put is the self-loathing essence of the Left. What a window on their soul!

It’s funny, but every time I see a new photograph of Chelsea Clinton, it just makes me smile. She is such a pretty young lady —and I am glad that she is around to enjoy all the admiration now after living through the hateful opinions of vicious pricks in her youth.

Living well is the best revenge.

John Hinderaker observes:

Every NIE is, by definition, supposed to represent a “consensus” of all of the intelligence agencies. Yet those who actually write the report obviously exercise great influence, and when the “consensus” of seventeen agencies does a 180-degree U-turn, it is reasonable to shine a spotlight on the authors.

This is the same thinking that invited the scrutiny of Robert Novak and others into the backstory of Joe Wilson’s notorious excretions in the New York Times. Who, exactly, is writing this stuff is of great interest to all and I think more should be said about it.

Remember Alger Hiss? He was exactly who Richard Nixon said he was.

Ewen MacAskill of the Guardian Unlimited writes:

But pivotal to the US investigation into Iran’s suspect nuclear weapons programme was the work of a little-known intelligence specialist, Thomas Fingar. He was the principal author of an intelligence report published on Monday that concluded Iran, contrary to previous US claims, had halted its covert programme four years ago and had not restarted it. Almost single-handedly he has stopped - or, at the very least, postponed - any US military action against Iran.

His report marks a decisive moment in the battle between American neoconservatives and Washington’s foreign policy and intelligence professionals - between ideologues and pragmatists. It provided an unexpected victory for those opposed to the neocon plans for a military strike.

The report, the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which represents the consensus of the 16 US intelligence agencies, gave President George Bush one of his most difficult weeks since taking office in January 2001.

Fingar’s findings were met in many Washington offices occupied by foreign policy and intelligence professionals not only with relief but with rejoicing. They had lost out in the run-up to the war in Iraq in 2003, but they are winning this one.

Well…one can plainly see the importance that Iran’s sympathizers and apologists have invested this NIE with. The degenerate pacifists of Eurabia are determined to sell out their own civilization to keep the peace with Islamist psychopaths. Disgusting.

A couple of days ago, an Iranian ”supervision bureau” executed a 21 year-old gay man for sex-related crimes he supposedly committed several years before.

Government-ordered executions of homosexuals is one of those things one might suppose would anger the “progressive” West, but no. It’s more important to undermine Bush in his fight against the mullahcracy.

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl writes:

On Nov. 2, 2005, the Washington Post detailed the CIA’s secret prison program known as “black sites.” It was November 2005 that the CIA destroyed the tapes.

[Director of Central Intelligence Michael] Hayden said the tapes were destroyed because “they were no longer of intelligence value” and that they posed “a serious security risk” because if leaked, they’d reveal the identity of covert CIA agents.

That was probably a good move for Hayden, considering that nothing exists for Big Media anymore if it cannot be seen and, thereby, believed. And when there’s an agenda to be pushed, the anonymous leak of such a video would have been inevitable. But, in response to Hayden’s rationale, the old liberal stalwart Ted Kennedy observed:

“That excuse won’t wash … How is it possible that the director of the CIA has so little faith in his own agency?”

That’s some glib bidness, Teddy. Have you already forgotten George Tenet’s many failures? How about farming out the intell gathering to the loudmouthed spouse of a supposedly undercover agent? How about nutjobs like Michael Scheuer and the other shit-stirrers dropping the dime to whichever Big Media organ is ready to go with their latest [whistleblowing]?

Do the leakers know when to stop?

So the CIA recorded itself torturing al-Qaeda terrorists and then destroyed the recording. Why is the public even in a position to know that either event occurred?

How different a world it would be if the idiots at Abu Ghraib had thought to destroy the evidence of their own shameful stupidity.

I wonder if the leakers in the CIA, the DoJ, the State Department, and wherever else actually know when to stop. Is it an orchestrated effort? How much of this stuff is disinformation?

Who is the enemy?

The assessment by some in the anti-war/anti-Bush segments of the IC and diplomatic communities that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 is, as I have explained elsewhere, irrelevant. But, while its authors may have had their own agenda in promulgating it, the NIE may ultimately serve instead to divine where people stand on the issue of Iran with the Bomb.

If this be disinformation, make the most of it.

I encourage all Democrats opposed to this Administration’s policies in the Middle East to step up and declare with all their heart their firm belief that they know for a fact that Iran stopped and has not restarted its nuclear weapons program.

Please. Step up.

Now that is real time, baby!

This global warming debate today is just so fucking historic!

Note to Dhimms: I don’t listen to you stupid bastards until you finally make the connection between reductions in oil importation and the necessity of legalizing hemp. Are we clear on that? Don’t give me Iowa corn subsidies and Bush the Younger’s bullshit “switchgrass” and all the rest of it until you grow some balls and make the case you know must be made. Period. It’s cowardice because you don’t want to go against the War on Drugs community of courts, attorneys, prisons (public and otherwise), and cops.

P.S. Using food stocks to produce ethanol at a loss is also raising the price of food and hurting working class Americans. Wake up, morans!