Quick Takes

Dr. Seuss Redo Features Mike's America Do Nothing Trolls!

In the comments section you might have noticed a redo of a famous Dr. Seuss political cartoon lampooning the "America First" crowd who served the interests of our enemies by trying to keep the U.S. out of World War II.

Seems old habits among defeatists, appeasers and terrorist enablers dies hard. So I thought it appropriate to touch up the original Seuss cartoon and give our trolls Ken, Arthur and Elmo more of the attention they crave.


Women, Girls the Target of Islamists

Two weeks ago I posted that women at a ladies night in a London club were the target of the car bomb that Al Queda terrorists failed to detonate. The American Israeli Patriot underscores that targeting of women with this report about the recent murder of school girls at the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

So I looked at the web site for the National Organization for Women to see if they had any reaction. Among numerous anti-war posts (what does that have to do with women's issues?) I did find this one about women in Afghanistan and Iraq. As usual, no mention of the progress and an unsubstantiated assertion that in "some cases, [women are] worse off than before the U.S. military intervention."

Perhaps the women at N.O.W. forget that before we ousted the Taliban women in Afghanistan were executed in public for disobeying their husbands. But then, I doubt the old bags at NOW ever noticed that women in these countries were treated worse than goats to begin with.

Mrs. Bush Speaks of Expanded First Lady Role

Speaking of women, an excellent interview with First Lady Laura Bush in which she discusses her expanded role in International Relations in the wake of the global war on terror.
"Mrs. Bush is now increasingly in the spotlight and spending her political capital on the president's foreign-policy initiatives outside the Middle East. She has made 14 solo foreign trips as first lady, nine of them after Mr. Bush's second inaugural address, outlining his freedom agenda. She's also visited Afghanistan promoting women's rights since the U.S. liberated that nation from the Taliban in 2001."

Russia Suspends Conventional Arms Treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin seems desperate to stop Polish and Czech participation in a U.S. system to track and destroy ballistic missiles. On Saturday, he announced that Russia would suspend participation in a key arms control agreement designed to defuse and disarm Europe.

Putin offered President Bush an alternative at a Soviet-era radar system in Azerbaijan but demanded that both the Czechs and the Poles be excluded.

The only conclusion one can draw from this is that Putin is unconcerned about the existence of an anti-missile shield, he just does not want it to include the former captive nations once enslaved by the Soviet Union.

Does Putin really think that starting a new Cold War, with a broader NATO alliance led by the U.S. AND a working missile defense is a good idea?

Think again Vladamir!

Democrat Candidates Find Religion?

Last week Time Magazine ran an article titled "Leveling the Praying Field." It's amazing that Democrats who constantly complain about the role religion plays in GOP politics spend so much time actually CAMPAIGNING in churches and are tripping all over their prayer beads to try and hoodwink Americans into believing that Democrats believe in anything but themselves and the acquisition of political power.

But far be it from me to discourage them from spending more time in church. If there's one group of people who need religion, it would be Democrats.

P.S. John Edwards is on his "Poverty Tour" this week. He started in New Orleans, where Democrats have been in charge at the local and state level since reconstruction and yet poverty is still that bad? Also, since Edwards has rediscovered religion, I need not remind him that Jesus said: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Something to consider especially since John Edwards has tried to run off the poor neighbor who had the nerve to live for generations outside the gates of Edward's new massive estate in North Carolina.

Winston Churchill Not Relevant in British Education?

Advisors on British National educational curriculum have decreed that it's not "relevant" for students in the United Kingdom to learn about Winston S. Churchill who was voted in 2002 as the "Greatest Briton of All Time."

Churchill saved Britain from the Nazis in World War II over the course of many long years when few listened to his warnings.

Instead, these "advisors" thought that students time would be better spent getting indoctrinated in politically correct issues like global warming.

This comes in the wake of news that some British schools would stop teaching about the Holocaust because it conflicted with what the schools Muslim students were being taught at the Mosque where the claim that no mass murder of Jews occurred.

Is it any wonder that British citizens, like some of their American cousins, are so deluded about the modern life and death threats we face?

Muse on this quote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

Hat tip: Anna's Clue Tank.