The Blackshirt Army

"You Can't Handle This"
Five Iron Frenzy

Making young girls pine
I don't have the time
Babies get in line
I've got a protractor
Got a stapler now
it goes "Ka-ching"
gotta have the math club crown me king
gotta rock the screen with the cosine graphing
on my calculator
If you're up
and if you want
a piece of me
wave goodbye and blow a kiss
'Cause you can't handle this

[Chorus:]
No, No, No
you can't handle this.

Through my glasses glare
you'll see savoir faire
beneath my icy stare
I've got a retainer
Maybe I'm the physics main event
maybe I'm the chem club president
maybe even Texas Instruments
thinks that I'm coplanar
If you're up
and if you want
a piece of me
wave goodbye and blow a kiss
'Cause you can't handle this

And Leonard Nemoy
can't stand up to this
And Captain James T. Kirk
bows beneath my fists
And I am awesome
awesome
I am the awesomest

What do most members of the Democratic National Committee, the American Bar Association and the American Civil Liberties Union have in common? They hate the Constitution of the United States of America....

You see, these DNC/ABA/ACLU types think that normal, working class people are idiots, who have no business running their own lives. Average folks are only competent enough to go to work, pay taxes, and shop at Wal-Mart. Beyond that, they're morons, with no clue as to what's really good for them.It seems to me that anyone who has been alive for the past couple of decades, and isn't illiterate, shouldn't be having a problem comprehending that the elitists I've writing about are determined to bastardize the Constitution via judicial fiat. They know that they have no popular support for their views, so they have little choice but to turn to activist judges who are willing create laws from the bench on their behalf....

In fact, mentally deficient justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer have been steadily eroding the integrity of both the Supreme Court and our Constitution for years now, and there's no reason to believe that they'll suddenly pull their heads out of their respective posterior orifices and embrace the wisdom of their detractors.

These are the kinds of arrogant nitwits who actually believe that the opinions of foreign courts should be taken into consideration by members of the Supreme Court during their deliberations on Constitutional matters. At the same time, the will of the American people, as expressed in the laws of the several states, is often ignored completely by them. If I'm wrong, how then can one explain the recent declaration, by certain members of the high court, that the execution of minors is cruel and unusual, and therefore un-Constitutional?

Where in the Constitution are the words cruel and unusual defined in any way which relates to the execution of anyone, let alone minors? Here's a hint... NOWHERE!

Justice Kennedy wrote, with regard to the abolition of the death penalty for individuals under the age of 18, "Our determination finds confirmation in the stark reality that the United States is the only country in the world that continues to give official sanction to the juvenile death penalty."

To this I ask SO WHAT? What does that have to do with OUR Constitution and OUR laws? The answer is clear... NOTHING!

Edward L. Daley
"Stalin Would Be Proud Of Them"

WASHINGTON - Republicans took a step Thursday toward a Senate confrontation over filibusters of President Bush’s judicial nominees by advancing two of the White House’s favored — and most controversial — candidates for prospective votes.

Republicans are “doing this as a prelude to setting up the greatest constitutional crisis that the Senate has faced,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has vowed to slow or halt Senate action on much routine business if the GOP bans judicial filibusters and forces up-or-down votes in which nominees could be confirmed by a bare majority.

Democrats have condemned those attacks, saying they will block the nominees because they are too conservative, calling them judicial activists who should be stopped before they get lifetime appointments.
-MSNBC

I believe if someone were to take the Constitution off their shelves, dust it off and open it to Article II section 2 someone will find that the president has the power to appoint judges with the consent of the senate. Consent: pemission to do something. This means thumbs up, thumbs down. In the case of someone like Ben the choice would overwhelmingly be thumbs down, with the exception of Zel Miller and perhaps Ted Kennedy because he got wasted the night before and his hangover is so bad that he thinks the political system works in a circle: Like heading north you will eventually begin heading south, Ben is so right-wing that he is about to come around to the other side. In the case of Mr. Harry, the democrats would approve the republicans disapprove, with the exception of Kevin Brady(one of only two republicans to vote against the repeal of the inheritance tax), because he likes men. What is interesting about both of these situations is that they both have the senate giving an answer. Yes or No. That's real difficult.

From DNC Dictionary:
Judicial Activist: A Republican judge

The most obvious of these challenges will be restoring stability to an institution rocked by clerical sex-abuse scandals. But as one of the most prominent and highly published theologians over the past 40 years, he is also likely to address broader modern threats to religious belief. In a homily to commence the conclave on Monday, Cardinal Ratzinger specifically criticized Marxism, liberalism, libertinism, collectivism and atheism. He warned that, "We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goals one's own ego and one's own desires."
::Washington Times Op-Ed

For one thing, the new Pope seems to be aware of the grave danger Europeans face: he has called upon Europe to recover its Christian roots “if it truly wants to survive.” For while his predecessor kissed the Qur’an and pursued a consistent line of conciliation toward the Islamic world, despite numerous provocations and attacks against Catholics in Muslim countries, the new Pope Benedict XVI, while no less charitable, has been a bit more forthcoming about the reality of how Islam challenges the Catholic Church, Christianity, and even the post-Christian West....“What offends Islam,” said Cardinal Ratzinger, “is the lack of reference to God, the arrogance of reason, which provokes fundamentalism.” He has criticized multiculturalism, “which is so constantly and passionately encouraged and supported,” because it “sometimes amounts to an abandonment and disavowal of what is our own.”
::Pope Benedict XVI: Enemy of the Jihad
Robert Spencer

What the fight against communism was for John Paul II, the fight against rampant secularism will be for Benedict XVI. And all those anti-papist commentators who protested at the attention given to John Paul II’s illness, death and funeral will be gnashing their teeth once battle commences. I believe, and firmly, that with God’s help Benedict XVI has it in him to be another great pope. He will build on the foundations laid by John Paul II, whose saintly genius he understood better than anybody else. And he knows exactly how to galvanise not only the devout, but also the vast dormant pool of lapsed Catholic laity.
::The Best Man for the Job
Daniel Johnson

I need a Pope Benedict XVI shirt!

"As for what many are calling racial profiling in the aftermath of Sept. 11, well, get ready to be [ticked] off, you ACLU-[expletive]-morons, we're dealing with a massive threat and limited manpower, so you want them to check everybody out equally? Sure, fine, OK, but let's at least compromise and put the Swedish dwarf a little further down the list than the Iraqi explosives expert carrying a Belgian passport with more eraser marks on it than Kid Rock's trig final."
:: Denis Miller

"I like the state of Texas because they're giving out the electric chair like it's coupons. They've fried like 30 people in the last two months in Texas. And there's a lady in Texas on TV going: 'We're giving too many people the death penalty.' That's [expletive]. More people died from airbags last year in the country than from the death penalty. [To Texas lady:] Would it make you feel better if we put these rapists in a Lexus and drove it into a tree? [In effete voice:] 'It's cruel and unusual.' Well, do it more, and it won't be so unusual."
:: Nick Di Paolo

A Panegyric on Polysyllabic Profundity and Pompous Prolixity

Is it even possible to memorize 1300 words in two days? I think not.

Can today get any worse? Oh wait...I think it is starting to rain burning sulfur.

MUN:



Pimpin:
The Kumbia Kings
Meditation Camps and the Final Solution to immigration
Single handedly destroying an entire days worth of negotiation and compromise
Meatball Subs
Not Bitch
"Risen" being the perfect passive participle
Jelly Beans

Not Pimpin:
Judges
Portugal
Slovenia
Hot rooms with no air conditioner
Getting Jipped
People who have no idea what the hell they are talking about
Prom decision
Grades
Seeing people you once knew

Taking such a medium-term perspective also makes it clear why short-term indicators that the economy is cooling should not lead to what could be premature celebration and why policy levers that produce impressive short-term results may not do the job over a multiyear period. Consider, for example, the growth of total bank lending, which has appropriately been a major concern of the monetary and banking authorities since the middle of 2003. After increasing at an average annual rate of RMB 1.2 trillion in 1998–2001, the increase in bank loans outstanding jumped to RMB 1.9 trillion in 2002 (largely because of an acceleration of lending in the fourth quarter) and then mushroomed to RMB 3.0 trillion in 2003. Th is brought the increase in bank lending relative to GDP to an all-time high of 25 percent. 2003 is thus best characterized as a full-scale “blowout” of bank credit that could generate large future fi scal losses. Approximately 40 percent of the increase in loans during the last credit boom subsequently became nonperforming. If, say, a third of the increase in loans from 2002Q4 through 2004Q1 eventually meets the same fate, the losses (about RMB 1.8 trillion) would amount to 15 percent of China’s GDP.

Get the whole enchilada: What Kind of Landing for the Chinese Economy

Act I: Thomas Jefferson is a PIMP

"The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them."
- Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821

"The federal judiciary: an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. To this I am opposed; because, when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government or another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The Constitution...is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the
judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they
please." --Thomas Jefferson

Intermission:

"We must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world -- and might even be more difficult to save. For mere improvement is no redemption, though redemption always improves people even here and now and will, in the end, improve them to a degree we cannot yet imagine." --C.S. Lewis
Speaking of: The Latest Odd Couple: Disney and C.S. Lewis

"The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team. All of the players seem to be on the same team. Call them the 'Capital Spenders.' Occasionally, the taxpayers give them some opposition, but like any team that opposed the Harlem Globetrotters, the taxpayers never win. ...[For example,] Congress is spending $35,000 for a weight loss demonstration program for 1,000 federal employees at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC. The program will use the latest technology, including a private automated weigh station to track participants' progress; daily e-mail support on nutrition and exercise; and education and detailed instruction on exercise techniques, meal ideas and motivational success stories. It's one thing to have weigh stations for heavy trucks on the highway, but do we need weigh stations for federal employees? How about if they eat less and exercise? There, I just saved taxpayers $35,000." --Cal Thomas


Act II: Lorca is a freak

Romance de la Luna, Luna
Frederico Garcia Lorca

La luna vino a la fragua
con su polisón de nardos.
El niño la mira, mira.
El niño la está mirando.

En el aire conmovido
mueve la luna sus brazos
y enseña, lúbrica y pura,
sus senos de duro estaño.

Huye luna, luna, luna.
Si vinieran los gitanos,
harían con tu corazón
collares y anillos blancos.

Niño, déjame que baile.
Cuando vengan los gitanos,
te encontrarán sobre el yunque
con los ojillos cerrados.

Huye luna, luna, luna,
que ya siento sus caballos.
Niño, déjame, no pises
mi blancor almidonado.

El jinete se acercaba
tocando el tambor del llano.
Dentro de la fragua el niño,
tiene los ojos cerrados.

Por el olivar venían,
bronce y sueño, los gitanos.
Las cabezas levantadas
y los ojos entornados.

Cómo canta la zumaya,
¡ay, cómo canta en el árbol!
Por el cielo va la luna
con un niño de la mano.

Dentro de la fragua lloran,
dando gritos, los gitanos.
El aire la vela, vela.
El aire la está velando.

-Curtain-

"But for many, beneath the grief over Terri's passing lies a bubbling rage over a judiciary branch that has recklessly incorporated personal political yearnings in its decisions as opposed to preserving constitutional law. How can this happen when the founders of our country set up the judiciary to be of equal footing alongside the executive and legislative branches of government--answerable to the Congress, and ultimately, the people?"

Vincent Fiore
America's Tyrannical Judiciary

How the judiciary can make such decisions is beyond me. I guess the right to die is just another one of those unenumerated rights, verdad? Of course, what other explaination could there be? Oh yeah, blatant political manuevering. Michael Schiavo hit it right on the head when he blasted the governor and Congress for their "interference," accusing them of doing what they did only "to win votes" on ABC's "Nightline" program. Because of course the executive and legislative branches of the government don't really do anything anymore, especially with the judicial branch writing the laws, interpreting them and then enforcing them, too. Good thing people like Michael Schiavo recognize that Congress only tries to enforce the will of the people in order to get more votes.

Politics and the English Language by George Orwell

Exhibit A:
“For a bulky segment of a century, I have been an avid follower of comic strips — all comic strips,” Parker wrote. “This is a statement made with approximately the same amount of pride with which one would say, ‘I’ve been shooting cocaine into my arm for the past 25 years.’”
Intellectual Marijuana:
comics and their critics
By Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester
Toronto Star Ideas section (March 27, 2005)

Exhibit B:

intro
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G--------0-----0-----0---0-------0-----0---
D------3-----2-----2---2---2---2-----2----- repeat
A----5-----0-------------------------------
E----------------0-----------3-----1-------

verse:
E----------------------------------
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G---------0-----0---0-------0----0- repeat 4x
D-------1-----0---1---1---1---1--2-
A-----2-----1-----------2--------2-
E--------------------------------0-


Exhibit C:
I don't have school tomorrow. I instead get to go to a dude ranch and learn about the free enterprise economy from who other but the rotarians. Muy Pimpin. Yesterday I finally met my Public Forum Debate partner for National Forenics League District Tournament. It was wierd, like a blind date, except for debate. Hmm. Oh well, we are still going to win district and go to nationals. The weekend after that I am going to win UIL Regionals and go to state. Prom is for losers. Debate is where it's at!

George Orwell stated: I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-know verse from Ecclesiastes: "I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Here it is in Modern English: "Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must inevitably be taken into account." Alas, too many speakers habitually employ the latter style.

I went to a Model UN "practice simulation" today. What a bunch of nut jobs. Congress is so much easier. Oh well. I wrote this awesome legislation along with Chris and Rahul regarding the Columbian drug trade. The "problem" was that the drugs were getting into America and then helping to spread HIV/AIDS. Well, we correctly identified this to not be a problem, and wrote a resolution to take money away from children in Africa to help fund the drug lords not to only put a check on the imperialistic tendencies of the United States, but also to allow HIV, the cure to homosexuality, to take its course. To ensure this we also repopulated the concentration camps of Germany with HIV patients. Wow, aren't we tolerant? Oh yeah, and we made a Benito Mussolini memorial. Sweet!

Item 1: A Bill to Enforce Blog Updating

Whereas, I update my blog once every two months or so and,
Whereas, I should update it more so my loyal and devoted die-hard fans do not pass into a comatose state waiting for my update and,
Whereas, I have nothing better to do and,
Whereas, A current cost benefit analysis presented by Rueters proves blog updating to be a worthwhile venture.
Be It Resolved by the author of this here blog, that I shall update more often. In such context more often shall be defined as no less than once a week upon violation of which this author shall be subject to criminal charges of negligence consisting of a minimum fine of no less than 1 entry per day for on week (Sundays excepted) and no more than 3 entries per day. Any conflicting federal laws shall be declared null and void.

Passed unanimously this day, 28 March 2005, 8:49 PM CST

I AM A RISK II MACHINE!
Allow me to illustrate what happens when I wish to take over the world:
The great thing about Risk II is that you can play several different ways. One of the ways I like to play is called Election. What happens is, at the beginning of the game each player is given a certain number of election points in order to win over the locals and take control of the territory. You bid for the country and whoever bid the highest takes the country, but you only have a limited number of votes so you have to use them wisely. Well, I in my infinite wisdom am a wonder with the locals and I win them over nolo contendere. This is what the board looks like just after the elections ante bellum (notice the one blue army attempting to hold out in the eastern United States):



So then I begin fortifying and before long all that remains are disiecta membra. Too bad. And so of course, dei gratia, the red army once again triumphed.



I love the smell of war in the morning. You'd better get used to this map because in 20 years or so this is what my empire will look like.