U.S.-Based Anti-American Fast Food Chain Plays on Stereotypes Abroad

Subway gets munchies, bites hand that feeds it

 

SUBP-DATE:

05 AUGUST

15:50

 

 

 

Subway takes it several steps FURTHER in Germany…

(props to Beautifulatrocities.com, who was among the first to post on this)

 

Man falls from WTC, 9/11/2001

 

In mockery of the 9/11 tragedy, where airliners were crashed into buildings in New York City, Subway (“21641 Restaurants In 76 Countries“) depicts a picture of a burger crashing through buildings in September style. The depiction is found in of all places Subway’s “food-diary”, available to the German masses aka die Deutsche Menge.

 

Apparently Subway is living up to its name.

 

However, public pressure was successful in getting Subway to pull their offensive tray-liners, which we talked about just yesterday. After complaints poured in, many because of grass-roots work by The Center for Individual Freedom, Subway began to see the light- well, at least they were sorry they were caught. What we obviously need to push for is more than “sorry to be caught”, but “sorry, we were ethically and morally bankrupt and made light of the deaths of thousands of Americans, the grief of their family and the assault against the people of the American Nation.” This, and firing whomever thought these ideas were cool will be a single step in the direction of winning back patronage.

 

There may be more such images. CNS News says that according to a representative of The Center for Individual Freedom, that same “food-diary” that contained the 9/11 parody is "replete with anti-American images." So clearly for Subway, declaring Jihad is more than a miss-step, it’s F.R.E.S.H.

 

According to Subway’s website, Subway has over 50 restaurants in Germany, one is “on the grounds of the Warner Bros. Movie World theme park, in Kirchhellen.” Subway’s German website seems to be down at the moment and it is not known when it will become available again. Subway’s other international sites, such as their FRENCH site, are still working properly. Navigating to the German site from there was also unsuccessful.

 

Subway has also partnered with several groups that may not be very happy about Subway’s misadventures. If you are involved with any of these organizations, you might want to pay attention: according to their website, Subway “has been involved in motor sports since 2002, sponsoring the SUBWAY® 400 at the Rock, which takes place at the North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, NC. Since then, SUBWAY® restaurants has steadily increased its involvement with auto racing, adding another Nextel Cup sponsorship in 2003, the SUBWAY® 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, VA.

 

In 2004, the SUBWAY® chain also became a major sponsor, along with the National Guard, of the No. 16 Ford Taurus of Roush Racing star Greg Biffle. SUBWAY® Restaurants also provided the primary sponsorship on the No. 20 machine of two-time Indianapolis 500 champion Al Unser Jr. for the 88th running of the acclaimed race on May 30, 2004.”

 

It would appear that Subway, dubbed the “#1 Franchise” could be well on its way to a much-deserved Dixie-Chicking.

 

 

 

Resources:

 

The Subway website

 

Beautiful Atrocities website tell-all: with a picture of Subway’s 9/11 “humor”

 

CNS News Story: More Anti-American Images Found at German Subway Stores

 

Newsmax Run of the CNS Story

 

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03 AUGUST

20:29

 

U.S.-Based Anti-American Fast Food Chain Plays on Stereotypes Abroad

Subway gets munchies, bites hand that feeds it

 

 

“Warum sind Amerikaner so fett?” – was the question posted on paper tray-liners featuring an image of a bloated Statue of Liberty. The question in English asked, “Why are Americans so fat?” Playing off a popular stereotype abroad that often is the centerpiece and starting point for many a diatribe about what some across the pond think is wrong about America.

 

Oddly enough, the first people offended by this were those at local Subway shops across Germany. In fact not Americans, rather Germans who are known for their delight in poking fun at Americans, felt that even this shameless prostitution by the American company went too far. My guess would be most Americans would have to agree.

 

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly says we should boycott France. I say we boycott Subway. There needs to be a complete and full apology to all concerned for this. I also recommend the execs at Subway undergo what people of their political persuasion always like to talk-up: sensitivity training.

 

In the meantime, you can contact Subway to share your thoughts on their hand-biting ignorance two ways:

 

You can visit their contact page here

 

Or you can send them an e-mail directly to this address: asksubway@subway.com

 

Please, as usual be passionate but articulate and civil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BREAKING:

 

General Tommy Franks: “I’m leaning to George W. Bush”

 

-In response to the question by Fox News’ Sean Hannity for whom the retired general intends to vote this year.

 

 

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Fall’s Hippest Trends Already Upon Us-

 

 

UPDATE:

23:17

 

Bill O’Reilly tonight had the chance on his Fox News “Factor” program to ask National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice about the matter of border-control as it relates to threats of terrorism to homeland security.

 

In
response to O’Reilly’s probing with regard to how the Department of
Homeland Security is dealing with the Islamofascist threat coming
across the U.S.-Mexican border, Dr. Rice had this to say,

 

“(This
administration has) done more to try and secure our borders than has
been done really in the entire history of the United States”.

 

Oh, really, Dr. Rice? Then why, as I mentioned earlier in this blog, are we not doing what has been done already numerous times before in our history- i.e. doing the most secure thing: placing our troops all along the border?

 

She later seems to mitigate her first claims by offering this explanation,

 

“It’s a balance between trying to keep commerce activities alive…”

 

So
she seems to hint that the relationship that criminal businesses have
with their illegal alien slave-laborers is a vitally more important
interest than homeland security and at the same time she admits that
the interests of those businesses engaged in criminal activity (namely,
the hiring of illegal aliens – and doing it with inhumane suppressed
wages) is greater than the security of law-abiding citizens. We should
all be outraged.

Her
statement here also seems to hint that controlling the border at
unauthorized entry points would hurt the legitimate business for which
NAFTA was ostensibly created. That’s awfully funny Dr. Rice, since most
of us would expect legitimate shipments to pass through customs.

 

Another of Condi’s quotes worth mentioning is her assertion that there is “cooperation with Mexico (and) Canada”,
which she actually dished out with a straight face. Everyone knows that
Vincente Fox has been anything but cooperative on any front and is
clearly pursuing a national agenda in Mexico which is in many ways directly opposed to the interests of the United States.
Namely and with regard to the current news, freely granting Visas to
individuals known to be on the international terrorist watch list
and even granting those same individuals various forms
of Mexican identification. The Al Jazeera- and Easy Visa-friendly
government in Canada is not much better.

 

It
therefore remains to be seen if the Bush administration is truly
"getting it", when it comes to border control, or if this is just
another attempt at shameful obfuscation from the grave realities we
currently face in this country. Realities which call for in the very
least, a similar course of action we have always followed when threats
loomed across our border, but for the first time in U.S. history, have chosen not to.

 

Well, maybe the second: after all, there was the War of 1812 when unsecured borders and ports allowed the U.K. to march down from Canada and come ashore at Maryland to burn the White House to the ground.

 

-M

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I
am finally back from my weekend vacation out of town and have
discovered a mound of interesting items to read that have developed
over the last few days. Those developments are interesting in
themselves, but I want to also look out at some different
perspectives and considerations- outside the litterbox.

 

We will begin today with what is sure to be one of the big topics around the water cooler this August. Let’s
jump into one of the hottest things selling on both sides of the pond,
Terrorism. That’s right, terrorism is making a comeback this fall with
a retro look any self-respecting einkaufs-bin-laden would love. For one of the first times ever, popular fashion is actually on the same page everywhere.

 

As we know today, reports indicate terrorists may be plotting to attack specific commerce targets in Washington D.C., New York and elsewhere, thus raising the panic code chromatic to orange (or in French, “orange”). At the same time a woman with a fake South African passport has been detained in Texas for suspected terrorist ties- only the third South African in Texas recently apprehended, some of whom snuck in across the hemorrhaging US-Mexican border. (Teresa Heinz Kerry, whose first husband died Ron Brown-style in a plane crash, attended school at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, a country which some now fear has become a “terrorist breeding ground”). However,
the South Africans’ arrests seem to me to mark only a few of the first
in which there may have actually been cooperation between the FBI and
immigration officials. These events are not long after recent reports of activity in the U.S. Southwest where several states were put on alert, but law enforcement was refused help in detaining suspects. Such has been the case now, as we know, in several incidents where Customs allowed known watch-list persons of interest to be turned back onto the streets.
And from these examples, it seems safe to assume that the Feds are
thinking that anyone here illegally in the U.S. becomes the beneficiary
of an unspoken rule- one which requires every illegal alien be allowed
in and given complete freedom to move about unmolested- which, as we
have learned from the generous, if not traitorous bureaucratic
benefactors, trumps the Homeland In-Security list of known persons of
interest. In eternal wisdom, the spectacular minions of brilliantly
thinking federal workers in the U.S.
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (BICE) told one South
Texas sheriff that he had to let any such persons of interest go
because of jail space. Isn’t that a
judges call? And what about Gitmo? Well, apparently BICE also trumps
the State department and CIA. It even seems to trump itself- BICE’s own
interim assistant director of investigations, Charles H. Demore did
more than indicate that BICE suffers from some form of institutional
Multiple Personality Disorder when he addressed the Senate Judiciary
Committee, according to a
report found on the U.S. Embassy’s Tokyo Website that admits in no uncertain
terms that immigration enforcement goes hand-in-hand with homeland
security.

 

But
many elected officials and local law enforcement are beginning to call
BICE out on the carpet for all that has been occurring much to the harm
of all Americans. Texas Congressman John Culberson, who recently was featured on the John and Ken show in LA has
become one who is leading the charge. While at the same time, local law
enforcement doing its part by documenting and publicizing each instance
of federal dereliction of duty by immigration. Ominously however,
Culberson stated he believes based on the intelligence data he’s
received that we face a 100% chance of a terrorist attack before the
elections are held in November because the federal government is still
not acting to seal the borders and control the inflow of illegals, even
though intel shows that terrorist are exploiting the border to gain
access, sometimes posing as Mexican illegals. So it was no surprise
after hearing such news, such as the Culberson story, which came out
two weeks ago, that the sequence of events which we have hence
encountered is the most likely scenario of all.

 

We
need to make sure that BICE learns that not only do we prefer not to
become the primary care-giver to millions of unproductive illegal
aliens, but we are moreover of the opinion that mass death and
destruction by way of rabid jihadist is also not the best thing in
town. Nor is trying to make up the slack by limiting our freedoms a
reasonable first-line of defense. Until the federal government stops
trying to combat terrorism in the homeland by restricting the rights of
its citizens and yielding non-existent rights to non-citizens in favor
of gaining favor with those who wish to cross the border illegally, any
reasonable person would agree the mechanism of homeland defense is
philosophically bankrupt.

 

There
is little doubt the threat of attack will remain a strong one
throughout the coming months in large part due to a lack of desire to
deploy troops to guard our borders from unlawful crossings and
incursions- something which the U.S. Military has done numerous times throughout the 19^th and 20^th Centuries- but I suppose we shouldn’t give any credit to the old fogies that did that, should we.

 

We
are fortunate still, to have been able to find to this point a few good
breaks. But like 9/11, the game of Russian roulette is likely to turn
more deadly. The information which lead to the latest set of terror
alerts was apparently gleaned by the capture of a key Al Qaeda
“computer engineer” in Pakistan recently. According to the New York Times,
Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan has been giving the CIA a great deal of
information while leaving agents stunned by the sophistication of
reconnaissance done by operatives inside the US.
Khan’s tasks included the passing of secret information between various
al Qaeda correspondents which “included a Saudi-based Yemeni, Egyptian
and Palestinian nationals and Arabs in unknown locations, and someone
described as the ‘in-charge’ in the city of Khost in
eastern Afghanistan.” Such details as given by the CIA however are
naturally and understandably not always accurately given. Khost, for
example has basically been a US stronghold since 2002 due to the importance of its airport, once also used as a base by the Soviets in Afghanistan to conduct sorties.

 

We will have more on the matter of domestic terrorism and border protection at a later date.

 

More related:

 

Feds Arrest Al-Qaeda Sleeper Agent In Queens

 

 

On border control…

 

An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo

 

MichelleMalkin.com

 

Police Arrest Man Armed to the Teeth Who Also Had Flight Manuals

 

Arizona Border Patrol Catching Hundreds of Islamists Attempting to Cross Border from Mexico

 

 

Across the pond…

 

St. Petersburg Under Threat of Massive Chechen Attack?

 

Meanwhile in Russia, St. Petersburg police this week also may be scrambling to stop a terrorist plot. BalticBlog says Chechens are in search of targets in the historic city in the coming days.
The site claims Russian officials suspect that over 200 Chechen
separatists may be filtering in to the city. Though, it would not be
surprising, I was nevertheless unable to find any reports to fully
confirm this, however past such occurrences have been noted by the St. Petersburg Times.  The January 2000 report interestingly enough also gives an account of involvement by Egyptian nationals in not only the carrying out of attacks inside Russia, but masterminding and sponsoring them. The report cites a man by the name of Said el-Maban, who supposedly fronted $200,000 USD for the operation which blew up several Moscow apartment units, killing hundreds back in September of 1999.

 

Russian officials have long connected Chechen rebels with Al Qaeda and their backers.

 

 

 

On a side note-

 

New
reports seem to indicate what we already knew- most Europeans (and
possibly some of John Kerry’s “world leaders”) strongly support U.S.
Democrat Nominee John Kerry over incumbent presidential candidate
George W. Bush this fall. A quote from a recent article at SeattlePi.com reads,
"’It is not just a narrow majority of American voters who, according to
current polls, want Mr. Bush to be defeated in November,’ The Guardian
said in an editorial on the convention. ‘It is an overwhelming majority
of the citizens of other lands, those of this country very much
included.’" It amazes me how so many people can be out of their minds
at the same time. George W. Bush, who supports open borders for all who
wish to cross (including by definition, terrorists), is viewed in Europe
as a “cowboy”. One does wonder how steep the rhetoric would right now
be had we someone as no-nonsense about national Defense as either of
the two Roosevelt presidents, in the Oval Office today.

 

 

 

 

 

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Day Two: “Conventional” Wisdom from the Blogbatosphere

 

 

Day two of the Democrat dreamcast as they continue their quest to put two Johns into the White House this time, whereas last time around they only put one in. Reminiscent of the Soccer crowds in Mexico a few months ago who chanted “Osama, Osama, Osama”
as the American athletes fielded for play, the Democrat delegates
seemed to whip themselves into a frothy frenzy as they burned
effigies of President Bush and the American and Israeli flags on the
floor of the convention hall before the Fire Marshal (who will be
sued later) put the kibosh on it all. The chanting continued for awhile
though, as participants seemed fully aware of what they would be
getting once John Kerry stepped into the now
four-years-sanitary-and-running Oval Office.

 

Among
the more important speeches tonight were ones by a particular
press-fondled Democrat Illinois Senate candidate. That highlight came
when candidate Barack Obama spoke before the adoring menge in Boston
tonight. Judging by the extraordinary hard-ball politics played by the
Party against his opponents this year, it would appear Obama is to be
the anointed one for future glory. Pundits, of course agreed. Peter
Jennings did more than agree, but I won’t go into discussing what he
might have framed in his WC in this blog. Naturally, there were
comparisons to Bill Clinton from all quarters, but I still find it
difficult to wrap my teeth around “Slick-Barack”. Some say both he and
Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford Jr. (friend of the Memphis, Tennessee
branch of the Blogbat fam.) is the other contender for future
knighthood. Still, Republicans will likely think that either one is
“Baracking” up the wrong tree.

 

The next special guest star of "The Munster’s” was none other than Ron Reagan Jr., son of the Great One.
Former President Jimmy Carter and Veep Walter Mondale were seen
convulsing in the back about this time. I found Ron’s time at the
lectern especially interesting because two things. First, there
was the obviously awkward chemistry in the auditorium. You know,
that feeling you get when you walk into the washroom to find it
occupied? One could hear the folks on the convention
floor thinking, “okay, he’s not Ronald Reagan, must not recoil and
hiss." Amazingly, even while they inherently knew history had been
whitewashed and revised in every public school, college and library,
which allowed them to tell anyone they wanted that Jimmy Carter was a
foreign policy genius, they still remembered, and it was
not a good taste at all for these vermin. It was the best part of the
festivities tonight though to watch this gun-shy group of partisans
squirm in their seats at the sheer memory of it all.

 

 

Even
as Ron discussed a topic which Libs hope is their holy vindication for
prenatal-infanticide, stem-cell research, you could tell they all still
had one hand on their shotguns. Which brings me to my second reason for
finding the time during this speech especially interesting. Not
gun-control, but science and human rights. Ron, of course is sincere,
just misinformed and he allows his rhetoric to be both unnecessarily
divisive and hateful in his grief for his father’s passing. During his
speech, Ron told the Dems, “Theology of a few cannot interfere
with the health and well-being of the many.”  The
problem with this however (and I will likewise chide the knee-jerkers
on the other side of the issue) is that it is a false-dilemma- there
shouldn’t be a problem here at all (The Democrats on the floor
applauded his statement haltingly however due to its foreign policy
implications, if applied in that manner). Of course, Ron wishes to
focus on embryos (fertilized eggs) as the way, the truth and the life.
But, the same stem-cells are available in umbilical cords (which seem
to not be running out any time soon) and can be derived also from
miscarried babies. The Libs however want their political salvation and
they know time is runnining short on the "logic" behind Row (thanks to
science), as it was with the "logic" behind slavery in the 19^th century, and the flat-earth thing.

 

 

 

Somewhere in the course of the night's events, Howard the Dean spoke, but his utterances are no longer any fun. Howard of course missed his calling, I am convinced. He should have been the next Steve Martin. Howie, you blew it.

 

Last
but not lacking in international salutations, was the catsup lady,
dressed as if she had personally just fallen out of the bottle. It
was the DNC’s hope that this red genie, Teresa Heinz Kerry would pour
herself out to her unfamiliar audience and thus guarantee her husband,
who has started to get lodged again in the polls, the chance
to catch-up. 

 

Teresa Heind-end Kerry, who often seemed to have the look deep in her eyes of a Fidel Castro, was born in Mozambique, a Communist totalitarian regime in Africa. When she was ready to take on University, she moved to South Africa
where she studied a bit and protested a bunch ostensibly against
Apartheid. Sounds humanitarian so far, except for that part where the
crowd she ran with was the Nelson Mandela crowd. By the way, for those
of you who aren’t familiar with the South African politics of the time,
there were plenty of groups against Apartheid other than Mandela’s
(which was a known Leftist Front group). Unfortunately
for those who were not on the Mandela track, there was a tendency to
encounter what some might say was a ruthless form of death called
“necklacing”. This is where old tires are stacked around your body all
the way above your head, doused in petrol and set ablaze- one of Winnie
(Nelson’s wife) Mandela’s favorite tricks was this very thing. I guess
nostalgia is why Teresa likes the Ruckus so much.

 

 

During
Teresa’s speech, we were given two shots of Hillary in the audience at
applause points and neither shot showed her very happy at all. In fact,
she seemed to be seething. If looks could kill, JK would be a
widower.

 

Teresa’s
major political highlights came when she started in on the topic of
equality for women and then ended her speech. On the former,
she mentioned the fact that around the world today women’s voices
have been "both excluded and discouraged," which in many countries
is rather true. Yet to my surprise there was no talk of the women
now liberated in Afghanistan. I wonder why.

 

After Teresa spoke, an Indian chief from a reservation in Arizona addressed
the flock via satellite. His reservation runs along the
US-Mexican border. The man uttered what I for the first time from
either party have heard on the topic of border-control and Homeland
Security, coherently mentioned in the same sentence. In fact it is the
first expression of any reservations whatsoever against the
current open-throttle-border policy. The Dem’s must be wagering they
will get a pass from Leftist groups and CNN for this shameless appeal
to what they consider the “bubba” vote.

 

Lastly, we heard a benediction by Islamic claric Imam Yahya Hendi (no, he doesn’t play the cello or have a sisterhood), from Georgetown University. Yahya read to us out of the Quran and then prayed to Allah.

 

 

 

 

 

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Some “Conventional” Wisdom from the Blogbatosphere

 

 

It was an exciting day in freakdom as the Democrats came out into the light for their Imperial Rally. Today I'll cover some of the more memorable events and end with my first ever "ATTA-boy" award, for acts of treachery or hypocrisy beyond the call of duty. Also of note was the news USA Today decided to spike Ann Coulter's blog from the convention floor. You can find her banned ponderings here.

 

To start things off in this blog, let's go with Blogbat’s Convention Quote of the Day:

 

“It’s not about gender, it’s about an agenda”. This interesting announcement (or confession) was made by none other than boxy Barbara Mikulski, “female” Senator from Maryland. Gruffly spoken to the slightly confused eyes of audience and camera alike as the other female Democrat senators looked on, Mikulski rattled on long enough for me to be glad all the more I wasn't there. It was definately a tribute to "Feminazism" that only a Reno could love.

 

And speaking of Janet the Reno, we were blessed with an opportunity to see her and some others in the crowd tonight in what I would say fairly well-resembled the tavern scene from the original Star Wars movie, absent the good music. (Janet Reno, according to some of my family members who knew the Renos, had dreamt of one day being President, while her sister was known for being in a lot of beds, but never sleeping. Reno, of course was beaten by Bush, Jeb, that is, in her run for Florida Governor- and so ended her little dream.)

 

Natalie Portman (props to Michelle Malkin) has even been involved this year, apparently hoping to find the wookie of her dreams, strangely and eerily reminiscent of the celebrated spoofer Paul Shanklin’s 90’s parody hit, “Starr’s War”.

 

Al Gore of course was also at the convention today, along with wife Tipsy. Tipsy, as we all might remember was the previous almost-First Lady press-darling who suffered bouts of depression…for some reason. During the festivities tonight, she and Al managed for our benefit to swap spit again (apparently because we didn’t get enough of her tree-hugging last time). Gore-y, indeed.

 

During Al’s speech to the Convention, he reportedly began to worry a few when he suddenly started telling convention-goers that he could actually fly.

 

Not to be outdone later on by former Peanut President Jimmy Carter’s speech (who brought back many fond Democrat memories of the Misery Index and the glories of foreign policy collapse), Al Gore again stood up telling those around him that he could really, really fly. Carter pleaded with him to sit down so he could finish his monophoniclogue about those crazy bellbottoms.

 

Of course the speakers of the night were Billary. The press mostly was in a sustained state of “Clintasm” the entire time…except for CNN’s “Larry the Cucumber King, who was drooling at the feet of John Kerry’s daughters. The Clintons of course reminisced about the good ol’ days of living off the economic and strategic fat of the Reagan administration. Some even broke out in spontaneous singing of, “can’t stop thinkin’ bout…yesterday” at the end of Bill’s speech as he and the New York Senator practiced their 3^rd Reich Waves (apparently to impress French President Jacques Chirac). “Slick” also seemed to be wearing one of those bracelets of recent notoriety because of their reputation as being “sex bracelets”. Well, at least they are known to be such among some New York Jr. High girls. Now that’s scary.

 

 

And the winner of this week’s “ATTA-boy” award is:

 

Jimmy Carter.

 

In tonight’s convention address he asserted,

 

"Today, our dominant international challenge is to restore the greatness of America -- based on telling the truth, a commitment to peace, and respect for civil liberties at home and basic human rights around the world," he said. "Truth is the foundation of our global leadership, but our credibility has been shattered and we are left increasingly isolated and vulnerable in a hostile world. Without truth – without trust – America cannot flourish. Trust is at the very heart of our democracy, the sacred covenant between the president and the people." - Quote courtesy of WorldNet Daily.

 

Now that’s interesting. So Jimmy must then be admitting to the Clinton administration's gutting of the military by 50%, its assault on US intelligence-gathering and what the definition of “is” is- or was.  Jimmy’s brother Billy helped, as we remember, to build that trust as he accepted bribes from Libya to the tune of $200,000 US to paint a rosy diplomatic picture for them inside the White House. Of course it is agreed President Carter himself, long known for his ever so tough stance on American foreign policy (tough on it, not with it), should be the one to criticize the current Bush administration’s doctrine and all of its foreign policy similarities to that of the Reagan era, which as we now know was a complete failure. And particularly such with regard to that still looming Soviet Union we face today...

 

Thus, Carter is our first official recipient of Blogbat’s “ATTA-boy” award.

 

Bonne chance, America!

 

 

 

 

More Photos below:

 

"Ein (Robert) Reich, Ein Volk(swagen for the environment), Ein Land!" -Feminazi Senator from New York Hillary Rod-of-Ham Clinton

 

Clinton Salutes the French (and if you look hard the NBC delegates)

 

Clinton Salutes the French again.

 

"I can be dictator, see?"

 

Meanwhile, back at the cantina...

 

Jimmy and wife Rosanna Danna Danna as they spot Al Gore on the Balcony telling people around him to watch him fly...

 

Sources say he is now medicated and doing, "much better".

 

Former President Carter pleading with Former Vice President Gore to come down off the ledge, as Carter put it...

 

 

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Top 3 Guesses for Now by Blogbat...

 

I thought I might throw out a few random predictions, if I may go off topic for awhile:

 

1.
Republicans may be giving the Dems a "protesting" advantage this
convention cycle. There appears to be nothing in the works similar to
the “cage” which will be used to house protestors during the Dem Convention in Boston this year.
Dems will no doubt try use the "protesting" differential given that
hides anti-dem protesters in cages difficult for the media to see to
their advantage, since the only media-friendly protestors this year
will be our fine pro-cruelty to animals friends, The Ruckus,
who will be protesting the Republican convention in New York next
month. Any Republican strategist reading this blog needs to get their legal team in gear to make sure The Ruckus gets put in “storage” too.

 

2.
Police find Lori Kay Hacking actually took the whacking from her
adopted mum Thelma Soares, whom we later discover was involved in a
sick affair with son in law Mark,
the grad-poser. Mark, we will find used his access to the mental
hospital where he worked (and now plays) to procure some of the items
needed.

 

3. 9^th
"Circus" Court that Appalls rules that owners of cars with
“Bush-Cheney” bumper stickers are engaged in hate speech, and as such
anyone wishing to vandalize the stickers, the cars or assail the owners
cannot be held responsible for his actions. Well, okay, maybe I was
just a little too imaginative there. But it’s the 9^th
"Circus" after all. Maybe they’ll just rule this November that national
elections are inherently unfair because they involve the will of the
majority and therefore cannot henceforth be seen as constitutional,
particularly in light of manifold World Court and other important precedents set forth in Libya and North Korea. The 9^th: Proof there may really be a Frankenstein. Well okay, an Al Frankenstein. Or was that an Al Gorelickfrankenstein-Berger. With pickles...  

 

Have a nice weekend.

 

p.s. Remember kids, this was just for fun; I’m not putting any money on these, so if you do, I can’t be held responsible.

 

Bye now.

 

 

 

 

Notes from the Garden Journal

 

Whatever Happened to the Human Race?

 

The weekend alas is here. And what many plans we all must have for the things we hope to accomplish by the time it is all over and we again board the train of another busy week, can sometimes crowd our time away from "work". Yet, as busy as our weekends often may be, they also present us with few similar opportunities to dig deep and consider the basic foundations of our very being or what their implications are to each of us as well as those around us.

 

I thought it good therefore to reflect on the past 30 years of American society and see in which direction the common flow of human ideals has been heading, but also with the world in general. Some years ago some people expressed worry that our culture was being conditioned similar to a frog in a water pot where the heat was slowly being turned up bit by bit so that the frog would not jump out when it became too hot for him to go on without any danger. The frog, once vigilant, would grow more and more comfortable, more and more complacent with each augmentation of the burner, not realizing the changes that were taking effect both inside and outside of him. Eventually and much to the frog’s difficult-to-quantify dismay, and even before he realized it, the pot would begin to boil and he would be quite dead. Now to be someone's dinner.

 

I decided that there were with few exceptions none better to discuss briefly the matter by way of his own poignant quotes, than a man who had actually passed away long ago in the early 80’s, but was able to predict without error exactly where we would be as a society at this very hour. Though he is Christian, I think his perspective is reflected also in Judaism and perhaps other non-humanistic doctrines. And his observations about society’s march are incontrovertible now that we see them in the light of history. Regardless of whether you fit the  monotheistic mold or if you are Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, or worship light bulbs, the analyses below are worth further exploration.

 

For now, I’ll allow these quotes to speak for themselves. You may feel free to comment candidly here, if you wish, or walk away and dismiss them or just simply explore the matter further on your own. The noted philosopher is Dr. Francis Schaeffer, 1912-1984. The quotes are taken from his book, “Whatever Happened to the Human Race?” (rev. 1983), Ch. 1. These references below are courtesy of RationalPi  

 

Enjoy.

 

The thinkables of the eighties and nineties will certainly include things which most people today find unthinkable and immoral, even unimaginable and too extreme to suggest. Yet -- since they do not have some overriding principle that takes them beyond relativistic thinking -- when these become thinkable and acceptable in the eighties and nineties, most people will not even remember that they were unthinkable in the seventies. They will slide into each new thinkable without a jolt.
(Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everette Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, Ch. 1)

In our time, humanism has replaced Christianity as the consensus of the west. This has had many results, not the least of which is to change people's view of themselves and their attitudes toward other human beings. Here is how the change came about. Having rejected God, humanistic scientists, philosophers and professors began to teach that only what can be mathematically measured is real and that all reality is like a machine. Man is only one part of the larger cosmic machine. Man is more complicated than the machines people make, but is still a machine, nevertheless.
(Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everette Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, Ch. 1)

For a while, Western culture -- from sheer inertia -- continued to live by the old Christian ethics while increasingly embracing the mechanistic, time-plus-chance view of people. People came more and more to hold that the universe is intrinsically and originally impersonal -- as a stone is impersonal. Thus, by chance, life began on the earth and then, through long, long periods of time, by chance, life became more complex, until man with his special brain came into existence. By "chance" is meant that there was no reason for these things to occur; they just happened that way. No matter how loftily it is phrased, this view drastically reduces our view of self-worth as well as our estimation of the worth of others, for we are viewing ourselves as mere accidents of the universe.
(Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everette Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, Ch. 1)

 

The Bible teaches that man is made in the image of God and therefore is unique. Remove that teaching, as humanism has done on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and there is no adequate basis for treating people well.
(Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everette Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, Ch. 1)

 

...because the Christian consensus has been put aside, we are faced today with a flood of personal cruelty. As we have noted, the Christian consensus gave great freedoms without leading to chaos -- because society in general functioned within the values given in the Bible, especially the unique value of human life. Now that humanism has taken over, the former freedoms run riot, and individuals, acting on what they are taught, increasingly practice their cruelties without restraint. And why shouldn't they? If the modern humanistic view of man is correct and man is only a product of chance in a universe that has no ultimate values, why should an individual refrain from being cruel to another person, if that person seems to be standing in his or her way?
(Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everette Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, Ch. 1)

 

Modern humanism has an inherent need to manipulate and tinker with the natural processes, including human nature [through genetics], because humanism:

1. Rejects the doctrine of Creation.
2. Therefore rejects the idea that there is anything stable or "given" about human nature.
3. Sees human nature as part of a long, unfolding process of development in which everything is changing.
4. Casts around for some solution to the problem of despair that this determinist-evolutionist vision induces.
5. Can only find a solution in the activity of the human will, which -- in opposition to its own system -- it hopes can transcend the inexorable flow of nature and act upon nature.
6. Therefore encourages manipulation of nature, including tinkering with people, as the only way of escaping from nature's bondage. But this manipulation cannot have any certain criteria to guide it because, with God abolished, the only remaining criterion is nature (which is precisely what humanist man wants to escape from) and nature is both noncruel and cruel.
(Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everette Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, Ch. 1) 

With nothing higher than human opinion upon which to base judgments and with ethics equaling no ethics, the justification for seeing crime and cruelty as disturbing is destroyed. The very word crime and even the word cruelty lose meaning. There is no final reason on which to forbid anything -- "If nothing is forbidden, then anything is possible."
(Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everette Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, Ch. 1)

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today: abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, the increase of child abuse and violence of all kinds, pornography (and its particular kinds of violence as evidenced in sadomasochism), the routine torture of political prisoners in many parts of the world, the crime explosion, and the random violence which surrounds us.
(Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everette Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, Ch. 1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes from the Garden Journal

ISSUES

 

An Update from the Front (a view from the mainstream media)

 

Bob Krumm

 

December 8, 1943

 

London - It has been two years since President Roosevelt has embarked on the most far-reaching global war in history, and yet America has so far seen little success. 

 

Attacked by Japan--an attack not unprecipitated by America's heavy-handed policies in the Far East--America's reaction has been to wage war against foes ten thousand miles distant from the Japanese.  Rather than trying to bring to justice organizers of the Japanese attack, this war's major fighting has been limited largely to North Africa and the Mediterranean. 

 

Critics have had plenty of fodder for claiming that the administration had been looking for any excuse to fight Hitler.  Even without proof of German involvement in the attack on Pearl Harbor, neo-zionists in the administration seemingly viewed the Hawaiian attack as a green light for their ambitious plans.

 

Meanwhile, Roosevelt's military has been less than successful on the battlefield.  Kasserine was far from a stellar example of American military prowess.  And for what?  So that America could lay claim to the barren land inhabited by the third world tribes of Libya?  Across the globe at a tiny and irrelevant atoll named Midway, the Japanese finished off one of America's newest carriers, the USS Yorktown.  This, after the Japanese already destroyed the backbone of America's Pacific fleet: the battleships.  Ironically the USS Yorktown was named for the last battle of the first American war.  Could it be that fifty years from now Japan will celebrate America's last-ever battle by naming one of its ships the Midway?  And on the beaches of Anzio a country not known for its military success, Italy, has given Americans fits.  The Army has been particularly ineffective thus far.  Could it be that General Marshall's purges of the Army's general officers has made its ill effects felt on the battlefield?

 

And what of America's allies?  There's England, led by the "hero of Gallipoli" Winston Churchill.  And don't forget tiny Australia.  Last and certainly least is Stalin's Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.  If there was one country on the globe that justified an American attack against it, it would be her ally Russia.  And yet Roosevelt arms America's doppelganger, while he makes excuses for its inhumane treatment of its citizenry.   Doesn't sound quite like the "shining city on the hill" you probably thought America once was.

 

Tens of thousands dead, and two years into the globe's most horrific war, and America looks no closer to achieving its goals.  And just what does President Roosevelt actually expect to accomplish as a result of this expensive gamble?  Does he really expect to introduce democracy to America's enemies?  Imagine Germany, which itself has only been a country for 70 years, accepting a constitutional form of government.  Even more laughable is the idea that a Far Eastern culture like Japan's, with its Oriental religion and its martial history, could ever accept Western-style democracy.

 

At home America still reels from the worst economy in its history.  One can't help but wonder if the administration views news of the steady stream of military casualties so casually because they know that at least that means there will be less hungry mouths to feed.

 

Because of Roosevelt's costly war-without-end, and a struggling economy, Republicans can't help but to be excited about their prospects of finally achieving long-awaited electoral success in 1944.

 

(I orignally found and posted this 7. October 2003)

 

 

Related:

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1933-1945  

137 Remarks at Malta

December 8, 1943

 

Lord Gort, officers and men, good people of Malta:

 

Nearly a year ago the Prime Minister and I were in Casablanca —shortly after the landings by British and American troops in North Africa—and at that time I told the Prime Minister some day we would control once more the whole of the Mediterranean and that I would go to Malta.

 

For many months I have wanted on behalf of the American people to pay some little tribute to this island and to all of its people- civil and military- who during these years have contributed so much to democracy, not just here but all over the civilized world. And so, at last I have been able to come. At last I have been able to see something of your historic land. I wish I could stay but I have many things to do. May I tell you though that during these past three weeks the Prime Minister and I feel that we two have struck strong blows for the future of the human race.

 

And so, in this simple way, I am taking the opportunity to do what all the American people would like to join me in doing. I have here a little token- a scroll- a citation- from the President of the United States, speaking in behalf of all the people of the United States. And may I read it to you:

 

"In the name of the people of the United States of America, I salute the Island of Malta, its people and defenders, who, in the cause of freedom and justice and decency throughout the world, have rendered valorous service far above and beyond the call of duty.

 

"Under repeated fire from the skies, Malta stood alone, but unafraid in the center of the sea, one tiny bright flame in the darkness—a beacon of hope for the clearer days which have come.

 

"Malta's bright story of human fortitude and courage will be read by posterity with wonder and with gratitude through all the ages.

 

"What was done in this Island maintains the highest traditions of gallant men and women who from the beginning of time have lived and died to preserve civilization for all mankind.

"Dated December 7, 1943.

 

                        Signed FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT."

 

I have signed it at the bottom and I wrote on it not today but yesterday, December 7, because that was the second anniversary of the entry into the war of the American people. We will proceed until that war is won and more than that, we will stand shoulder to shoulder with the British Empire and our other allies in making it a victory worth while.

 

 

ISSUES

Blogbats Newseye Updated 03:34 (09:34 UTC)- Latest Blog 21.July.2004

 

SHOCKING VIDEO: Stormtroopers' Rape of Human Rights in China

- Read related piece by Blogbat

-The Chinese people yearn for Freedom

 

UPDATE - WATERGATE II

SMOKING GUN HAS BEEN FOUND

Kerry Anti-Terror Plan Removed From Campaign Web Site After Berger Revelation

-- Scandal, Prison, Political Downfall -- Kerry Denies Security Breach --

 

Related:

White-Powder-Gate?

Today, suspicious powder was “discovered” at a Kerry campaign HQ. What would the Dems say about “timing” if the shoe were on the other foot? Blogbat will be fair here and not throw 'round any outlandish accusations- yet, but with the “Wag the Dog” Clinton era, laid out in history as a guide for our instruction, I think we should eye this with a certain amount of circumspectfulness. Sadder that many of us are so conditioned as to not give the Libs even the benefit of the doubt in the wildest cases.

 

 

Berlusconi's Brother Sentenced to Prison

News may spark more rhetoric against the pro-American leader

 

Video Shows 9/11 Hijackers' Security Check

 

Clear Channel Picks Up O'Franken Network

Rewind: Blogbat’s word of the day: Frankenhoochie

 

Will Landmark Suit Force Immigration Reform?

Casus Belli: Public tolerance for corrupt government may be reaching its final days

  

Beijing to Buy More Russian Oil

 

Related:

PM-elect's Visit Proves Singapore Backs Self-rule for Taiwan; Beijing Fumes

 

Singapore Growth on Track Despite Interest Rate Hikes, China Slowdown

 

Beijing Lashes Out at British Criticism over Pace of Hong Kong's Democratization

This as persecution by CCP continues unchecked

 

More:

TESTIMONY OF WANG GUOQI

 

 

Lebanon: Has the Withdrawal Served Israel's Interests?

Readers comment

 

Related:

EU Passport Gets Popular in Israel

Even as the rising tide in Anti-Semitism comes ashore in the Mediterranean. But is it merely wishful thinking on the part of Deutsche Welle, which hints that Israelis want to leave for the EU to cede the land to Palestinians…

 

Israel: It Will Be Difficult to Include EU in Mideast Peace Efforts

Diplomats: How can Israel place its future in European hands after EU countries back anti-fence resolution in UN General Assembly?

 

Nazi Hunters Search Hungary

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the successful prosecution of any surviving Hungarian war criminals.

 

German Media Cleans Stasi Out of Its Closet

 

Annan drängt Arafat zu Reformen

(Annan calls on Arafat to begin reforms, cabinet-cooperation)

“(Arafat) solle dann eine Regierung ernennen, die Recht und Ordnung in den besetzten Gebieten wieder herstelle,“ sagte Deutsche Welle

 

 

Army Recruit Pool Lowest in Three Years...

Even the girl that cuts Blogbat’s hair today said she had been “cold-called” by a recruiter who sounded desperate. Blogbat thinks draft more imminent than officials are telling

 

Related:

GAO: DoD $12 B Short for War on Terror This Year

 

 

Physicist Rethinks Theory on Black Holes

Famed Stephen Hawkin Revises Theory

 

Scientists Challenge Validity of Darwin's Theory

Parts of the theory have been criticized and revised over the years, but rarely the entire orthodoxy. Possibly bad news for agnosto-zealots like the ACLU, whose worldview so conflicts with that of the Founding Fathers precisely because of its foundation in species’ origins.  

 

Hate, against Judeo-Christian ideas and the groups who hold them, has been on the rise in recent decades and part of that may be due to a new radicalized boldness. That radicalism is possibly due in turn to around a 10% increase in people identifying themselves as atheists in the US and Canada, as Bill O’Reilly pointed out yesterday during his radio show. But the cause is also likely in large part the result of what is considered the bigoted and irreverent tone and pitch often commonplace in the establishment media and academia, making a bold ascent during the 90’s.

 

WorldNet Daily links to two related articles:

Satan Rules' Scrawled on Christians' Bus  
Tires on touring coach also slashed, no 'hate crime' prosecution

Mexican Evangelicals Flee Death Threats
Chiapas Christians requested 'freedom of worship be respected'

 

  

OPINION & REVIEWS

 

BLOGBAT ORIGINALS

 

The Panama Canal, American Sovereignty and Self-Defense

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

 

Related:

Terrorists Plotting Against Panama Canal?

 

 

Under Secretary Refuses to Comment on Border Security

 

Big News, Relevant Thoughts

Will the CIA get much needed housecleaning or will the changing of the guard keep the status quo ante bellum

 

Related:

Congressional Joint Inquiry into the CIA Post 9/11 Echoes Blogbat

 

 

MONTH OF REMEMBERING THE HEROIC ROOTS OF AMERICANS AND THOSE DEDICATED TO THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM EVERYWHERE:

 

Blogbat Remembers President Reagan

 

Blogbat Celebrates Independence Day

 

How Bad Are Human Rights in CCP-Controlled Red China?

 

Related:

The Pot Begins to Boil

The past month has seen more demonstrations against the Tyrants of Tiananmen Square than any time since the horror we all witnessed against civilians back in 1989

 

 

MORE BLOGBATATIONS...

 

 

11.JULY.2004  ISSUES REPORT - “F” Is For France AND Faint of Heart…Or Is It?

What is the state of anti-Semitism in France and everywhere else? Are we asleep?

 

07.JULY.2004  ISSUES REPORT - Police Politics and Runaway Crime in Dallas

 

01.MAY.2004 Notes from the Garden Journal - The Truth About Cats and Technical Support

 

18.APRIL.2004 DAILY POO Blogbat talks about Camel Spiders and other desert obscurities

 

 

Rewind: 

01 September 2003 RUSSIA: Do Pensions Prove a Penchant for Local Manipulation?

 

30 August 2003 North Korea Sticks to Script But Bad Actor

Performances still enjoyed by children

 

Related:

North Korea later confirmed in the 08 September WorldNet Daily Article, "New Axis of Evil?" and the 10 September Reuters headline about Russian military support 

 

 

07 August 2003 First Amendment and Do-Not-Call – It’s All About Who Owns the Presses

 

06 August 2003 The Paine’s of American Society

04.04.04 Funnies- Humour Blogbat style 
06.02.04 More Funnies
04.04.04 More Funnies...Again!

14.05.04 Et more les funnies!

16.07.04 Et more les funnies!
16.07.04 Et even more les funnies!

Blogbat Reviews 

 

Past BlogBreak^® Stories

Some highlighted stories which Blogbat was among the first to mention...

 

OTHER PREVIOUS STORIES

 

 

EXTRAS!

 

 

 

 

Election Mania!

Check out Blogbat's Democrat Candidate Demystifier Tool

 

»HAPPY MAY DAY, COMMIES!

 

 

 

Dedicated to Michael Moore-Ons Everywhere! Click here to find out more- on this...

 

 

OUTSIDE COMMENTARY

 

15 Things I Don't Understand about the Mideast Peace Process

by Rabbi Ephraim Shore, Aish.com (props to Mishlei who first posted this)

 

Related:  

France Pledges Support to “Palestinian” Arab Cause

 

 

Bush's Victory Over Terror

Interesting, though incomplete perspective by Henry Lamb on the war waging since before the fall of the Shah of Iran, it is nonetheless an informative piece 

 

 

 

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Now includes Archives of Notes from the Garden Journal, a "There's More-ism" section, Philosophical Notes and New Word of the Day sections and some other splendorosities! Old Articles never die, they just go to heaven: Blogbatopia. You will also find the occasional article at Blogbatopia that you won't find here.

 

REMEMBER KIDS: IT'S BETTER THAN LOG,

 

IT'S BLOG!

 

 

http://www.pro-life.net/sanger/woman_in.htm

 

UPDATES

 

15:42 USA Debunks Iraq Nuke Yarn

Master Sgt. Robert Cowens declared, "Nothing's been found."

 

15:20 Frogs Spit as Biker Flies

Hateful fans spat, jumped out at Armstrong. (Apparently someone told the French he was Jewish)

 

France Calls on Israel to End Standoff

Meanwhile, Chirac has not addressed Israel’s concerns

 

Israel Sees "Nuclear Capable" Iran by 2007

International report shows Iran capable of “being” nuked NOW

 

Meetings for Solidarity with Korean People Held Abroad

 

Kim Il Sung's Exploits Praised in Various Countries

 

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UPDATE

 

10:42 NewsMax Now Linking to Washington Times Article

 

 

QUESTIONS ABOUND, WORLD WAITS

 

World Watching Drudge, Washington Times, Reuters

Major news organizations, watching to see if nuclear missiles in Iraq were actually discovered. World skeptical.

 

-IAEA Mohammed El Baradei Reportedly Summoned by Iraqi Foreign Minister

 

-US Officials have no information

 

 

NewsMax: Senate Predicts More Subtle Discoveries

 

 

-Blogbat