Storming the Embassy.

I am sorry, but I am not outraged over the Serbs storming our embassy. I am outraged that we are continuing to allow the Mohammedans free reign in the Balkans. I am outraged that we are allowing Albanians, flying Albanian flags, to rip the heart of Eastern Orthodox monasticism away from the body of Serbia. I am outraged that Democrat Clinton bombed Serbia so that Mohammedanism could flourish in this part of Europe.

Our behavior in the Balkans, following in form from our British allies, has been a catalog of mistakes (with the shining exception of the Truman years, when the communists in Greece were put down decisively - almost makes up for the rest of Truman).

Independence for Kosovo is a joke, and it is not even really taken seriously by the people who support it, who really want Kosovo to be an Albanian province.

So Long, Fidel

As you know, I am the biggest anti-Communist around. I advocate making the late great Hon. Joseph McCarthy's birthday a national holiday. I refuse to spell "Army Street" as c-e-s-a-r-space-c-h-a-v-e-z-space-s-t-r-e-e-t. I don't get all teary when reading accounts of various dictatorships cracking down on college-student-activist-turds. Shucks, I'll be the first to remind the world that Paul Robeson was a crappy singer and that Victor Jara was a pain in the neck.

However, there remains a soft spot in my heart for Fidel Castro. Part of it is my own dislike of the Kennedy clan, something that Fidel shares. Part of it is that he might have been a Commie dictator, but he was a good model for a dictator. I also admire the fact that he held on to power for decades, in spite of a crippling economic embargo (one that is a disgrace on our part, especially as we bend over backwards to enslave our economy to the really villanous Red Chinese). Although he later backed down due to the evil influence of his pervert granddaughter, Fidel Castro had the most enlightened AIDS policy in the world.

He represented an era when our enemies were Reds and not Lavenders, and I, for one, miss that era. It is much easier to love your enemy when the enemy is a real man than when the enemy is some Harvey Milquetoast who whines about not getting enough respect for his sex life. Marxist Leninism is crap, and it is murderous evil crap, but its motivation shares something with all sane economic systems: to generally improve the lot of its subjects. Now, from that good start it quickly goes off the rails into Hell, and Fidel was not the least immune from that unfortunate trend. But there is something infinitely nobler about a Communism that starts with trying to improve the lot of its subjects and a political movement that starts off with fulfilling the basest of illicit desires and tries to build a whole universe based on that.

Will Cuba be better off without Castro? Probably. Will Cuba be better off when the last vestige of Commie-ism is tossed into the sea to feed the tiger sharks? Undoubtedly.

But I still salute the man who outlived Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ron Reagan. Now that he is out of office and the temptations of office, he might find time for introspection and meditation. Now it is especially important to pray for his conversion.

John Paul the Great, in your life you met with Fidel Castro and were instrumental in bringing down the evil of Communism. Please pray for the conversion of Castro that he may not be lost to the abyss but instead may spend the remainder of his days making atonement for the evils of his regime and that he may find salvation in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

Osama and Hillary

I have been thinking about my early endorsement of Osama over Hillary Rodham Clinton, and I am changing it for a number of reasons (the recent comment by Anonymous did not change my mind, but it provided the spark for the post), the two biggest being:

1. If Hillarious wins, it will cause more damage to the Democrat Party. The Massachussettss O'Devil Clan will be in open rift with the leadership of the party. Also, forcing Pelosi to make nice with Hillary will smart with the far left kook crowd, who might get so daft as to elect a third party leftie in Pelosi's home district, leaving the Dems in a really foolish position.

2. Osama is downright scary. Hillary is a good, old-fashioned machine politician.

So, for the Democrat Party nomination, Erik's Rants and Recipes endorses Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Also, we send a warning to McCain that if he decides to make the Mormon his running mate, we will have to join Ann Coulter in campaigning for Hillary.

And furthermore, If he should make the Mormon his running mate, we may have to register Democrat and try to bring it back to its Catholic, semi-Fascist roots. However, we will never vote for a Republican again, and will work to encourage others to avoid voting Democrat.

Another worthwhile use of resources...

Or, the doctoring industry strikes again!

Who authorizes funding for this sort of crap?

In other news...I know I have been absent these last few days. Busy weekend (inlaws in town, trip to Marine World (know known by the horrid name Six Flags Discovery Kingdom: Sea, Land, Air), cooking, more cooking, fundraising event (I scooped more ice cream in one day than in the rest of my life. It took two days for feeling to come back to the pad of my thumb)), followed by the start of school (with me playing the role of teacher - speaking of which, this post will be brief. Class at the Keilholtz Academy starts promptly at 9am).

I know, that is no way to run a blog, and all that. I still haven't posted my photos of Vegas, I still haven't ranted against Sacha Cohen, I still need to post more pictures of art (and that is another story, and another reason that blogging will probably be light - I have to get this stuff done).

The fun thing? We are studying arthropoda, particularly spiders and insects. I bought Amalia a bug vacuum and she is turning into quite the little hunter. Now I need to find a good field guide for arachnid identification. I have a good insect book, but need arachnids.

Recommendations?

More from the Doctoring Industry

This "study" had a sample population of 25.

How do these people get funding?

Why does anyone bother to report the results of these studies?

And most importantly...

Why do we actually base policy discussions on crap of this sort?

Fight the Doctoring Industry (the Medico-Pharmaceutical Complex)!

Hey!

How do I get my group listed as a hate group so California can move ahead on the hate map?

First, it probably needs to be a group, so come on, folks...join the Keilholtz Falange! Let's get on the map!

Look, I will even take out of staters, as second class members, perhaps (look SPLC! "second class members" Nevadans sit at the back! Oooooh!).

In a related front, I just heard that Abe Foxman has finally renounced (somewhat) his holocaust denial (as in Armenians, Turkish slaugther thereof). Just a couple of weeks ago he fired someone who went on the record saying that it was a genocide in Armenia. Media pressure changed his mind, but not enough that he is willing to back the Armenian Genocide Censure bill in Congress. That would piss off the Mohammedans, who are great friends of the Jews(!). Abe needs to check the filter in his hookah.

I am not the least bit an anti-semite. In fact, I cannot understand it. I understand most prejudices, really, especially the Irish-English ones, but hatred against the Jews? They are a good bunch, for the most part. But, like anyone else, they have their bad apples.

Abe Foxman, for instance. A sort of Jewish Bill Donahue, but more obnoxious, more out of central casting, and stupider (and that is tough). Right now the Italians have as our Primo Culo, the one and only (deo gratias) Nancy Pelosi (well, there are some Italian magistrates who vie for the Continental honors there). And I can't say that I would take a trade. I am glad that he is not Signor Fossimani. I am glad that he is not a Californian, too.

The Turkish Army

I have long admired the Turkish Army, for its role in preventing Turkey from going into a frenzy of Mohammedanism. Now, am I holding a double standard when I praise the Turkish Army for what I condemn in the French? Yes, and for good reason.

The Catholic Faith is True, and Mohammedanism isn't.

I know that this is a hard saying for mealy-mouthed modern relativists, but it is true, no matter how unfashionable it is. When the French want secularism, they are rebelling against the very thing that allows a concept of secularism (ironically, opening up the gates to the sort of folks who sneer at secularism). When the Turks want secularism, it is a different story.

My prediction in the latest manifestation of the Army-Government saga? When Erdogun is begging the army to stay out, they are already in. Expect a turnover soon.

I miss the Cold War.

This thought came to me as I was deleting spam comments from the blog. The majority of my two or three hundred daily spam posts have ".ru" addresses. Now, I have many prejudices, but topping the list (or at least sharing it with the Englisch) are the Russians. I dislike most of their music, most of their art, most of their architecture, find their Patriarch a KGB stooge, and their writers overwrought handwringers. And I find vodka a silly drink.

Now, obviously there are exceptions. I like some Russian music, particularly the more folkloric (but not the Stalinist Folkloric stuff) music (and Tchaikovsky, who was really German in his music). I like some Russian literature. When I have had enough silly vodka, I find Russian architecture amusing.

But, when I have to sort through scads of Russian spam, I am ready to revive the Cold War.

I have fond memories of the Cold War. I was on the other side back then, but it was a good time.

If the Russians had tried to infiltrate a blossoming new media at that time, we would have considered it an act of war and would have reacted innapropriately. Commie fifth columnists (and, yes, just about anyone you have ever suspected of taking orders from the Kremlin was doing just that), would have clucked and tsked.

Of course now we know that Sen. McCarthy was right, and yet, his name is used as if he were some sort of demon-man (which Paul Robeson, the Commie psycho ham actor and third-rate singer, who, unlike the Hon. Joe McCarthy, was honored by a postage stamp(!), certainly was).

We won, and are overrun by tacky Russian neo-capitalists spamming us with offers of everything the decadent West has to offer, but in helpings that would make a Cold War Vegas denizen blush.

Whooo hoooo! Raise a toast to the man who brought capitalism to the Russians!

It almost makes me want to sing "Old Man River"

Privacy Rights

As you know, I don't give a hoot for so-called "privacy rights." The only privacy rights that exist are the right to not be forced to go naked in public (and along with that comes the responsibility to not go around naked in public, or semi-naked), and some limited right to keep private matters private (and along with that comes the responsibility to keep them so yourself. That means that if you are gabbing on the cell phone in public about your sex life (or advertising it on a teeshirt or bumber sticker), don't holler to me when the government wants to tap Ahmed the Mad Bomber's phone).

Beyond that, all bets are off, and the whole protection from search and seizure thing is nothing but 18th century liberal fetishism for the supreme autonomy of the individual. Bah! Bah! and Bah! Humbug!

If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.

This sentence still sends liberals up the walls, although none of them can really give a rational reason that it is in error.

If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.

It will probably be the motto of the Civil Guard in the Keilholtz Dictatorship.

Personally, I find it fascinating that Google keeps track of all of these search engine requests. It will be extremely valuable to anthropologists of the future. However, that being said, I do find things like this amusing. Someone went to a lot of trouble to turn their fetish for privacy (and one wonders what sort of wrong they are doing that they dedicate so much time to wanting to hide it) into a product.

So, if this sort of thing appeals to you, for whatever twisted reasons you might have for keeping your internet activity hidden, here are your fellow travellers. In the Dictatorship we will probably secretly monitor who goes on this site and do some investigations.

The Headline is Wrong

The headline to this story should be:

Courageous elderly priest stands down pack of violent defiant low life dirt punks.

And he should be promoted to Archbishop.

Yes, he probably should have kept his cool a little bit and probably should have used less, well, colorful, language, but there were about a dozen of the trespassing little rats, they were defying him, they were quite probably armed to some degree, and I can hardly blame him for using language milder than I would have used on the little turds.