A Patriotic Celebration

Veterans and other freedom loving Americans are proudly celebrating the fifth anniversary of victory in Iraq. This is how patriots demonstrate their support for the troops and their bold President. It’s actually quite moving when people publicly express pride in what their nation can do. You won’t find moonbats doing this sort of thing since they treacherously pray daily for defeat.

Along with Iraq war veterans and concerned citizens, Iraq Campaign 2008 says it will unfurl a 50-foot replica “Mission Accomplished” banner at the White House tomorrow, marking the five-year anniversary of President Bush’s now-famous speech.

The unfurling is slated to occur at 10:30 a.m. on Pennsylvania Ave.

Actually that “tomorrow” is today, so happy mission accomplished day!

Iraq no longer has WMDs and Saddam, the butcher of Baghdad, is no longer in power. Isn’t it amazing what we Americans can accomplish when we roll up our sleeves and work together? America: B4B salutes you!

— Psycheout

Bush Refuses to Ban Waterboarding

Kudos to President Bush for not backing down on the issue of permitting terrorists to enjoy watersports:

President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.

“The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror,” Bush said in his weekly radio address taped for broadcast Saturday. “So today I vetoed it,” Bush said. The bill provides guidelines for intelligence activities for the year and includes the interrogation requirement. It passed the House in December and the Senate last month.

“This is no time for Congress to abandon practices that have a proven track record of keeping America safe,” the president said.

Look, no one here enjoys waterboarding. It’s an immoral, sinful pastime. But the terrorists enjoy the practice, and President Bush is making a perfectly valid point: in a nation where the deviant activity known as “snowboarding” is 100% legal, how can he be expected to ban its cousin? Why should worthless snow-Hippies get to damn themselves to Hell, but the CIA not be permitted to use similar sporting pleasures as leverage to extract information from terrorists?

You can’t have it both ways, America. Either you can ban all sinful demon-loving sports, or keep your awful mountain hobby and let the CIA keep their interrogation “carrot.”

Let Freedom Ring in Cuba!

The Evil One has chosen to end his disgraceful rule:

An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.

The end of Castro’s rule – the longest in the world for a head of government – frees his 76-year-old brother Raul to implement reforms he has hinted at since taking over as acting president when Fidel Castro fell ill in July 2006. President Bush said he hopes the resignation signals the beginning of a democratic transition.

“My wishes have always been to discharge my duties to my last breath,” Castro wrote in a letter published Tuesday in the online edition of the Communist Party daily Granma. But, he wrote, “it would be a betrayal to my conscience to accept a responsibility requiring more mobility and dedication than I am physically able to offer.”

Adios, scumbag. Countless Commies are weeping their beady little eyes out right now, but real Christians are tallying up your victims and offering hosannahs to the Almighty!

Redstate has a good post up on this subject.

The media, always willing to prop up a communist dictator, loves to talk about Castro’s survival. Next to Saddam Hussein’s electoral victories, it is one of the most fawning statements the media gives out to anyone.

Castro survived Eisenhower. Castro survived Kennedy. He survived Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, and Clinton.

He won’t survive George W. Bush. For all you media types stopping by, let me repeat that so you can cry a little longer — Fidel Castro will not survive the reign of George W. Bush.

It is a sad day for America haters — the grand daddy champion of the champions of the underprivileged who don’t really care about the underprivileged has given up power in anticipation of meeting his maker on the short path to hell.

I couldn’t have said it any better myself.

George Bush’s Presidency has seen freedom spread from Afghanistan to Iraq, from Lebanon to Kosovo, from the Ukraine to Libya. Now our Southern neighbors are at the cusp of liberty, cleaning out an unpleasant cranny of Bolshevism in a back corner of our hemisphere. Fidel’s brother is a weakling whose power will fail. Fidel will be dead very, very soon. Cuba will join Christian world again in freedom and brotherhood.

God’s will be done! May God bless these United States!

UPDATE: An example of the sheer idiocy one would expect from the Left on this subject:

The history behind Cuba and the rise of Castro is complex, and I do not agree with him in any way that I am aware of, but I do have to admire the fact that he stuck it to the US for 49 years. With the way we like to go around and rearrange the world, the fact that he was able to stay that long is pretty interesting.

Hooray for Castro! He hated America just like the liberals do!

God, I hope when Cuba embraces democracy they let us expand Guantanamo and incarcerate these nuts in it. That couldn’t happen soon enough for me.

Update (by Psycheout): Apparently CNN sent an early morning email to its anchors ordering them to go easy on the communist dictator:

Smoking gun evidence about how the mainstream media and particularly CNN, which we have always referred to as the castro news network, is trying to sanitize castro’s legacy, EVEN NOW!

As if health care and education were a good enough excuse to violate human rights. We have to be fair now don’t we?

The shocking email is included in its entirety at the link.

Bush Toes the Line in the Sand Keeping America Safe

Bush is telling those Hippies in Congress that he won’t take orders from the Hate and Ashbury Street rabble when it comes to keeping this country secure from Islamism:

US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

“The president will veto that bill,” said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.

“The United States needs the ability to interrogate effectively, within the law, captured Al-Qaeda terrorists.”

The Democratic-led Senate voted 51-45 on Wednesday in favor of a bill calling for the Central Intelligence Agency to adopt the US Army Field Manual, which forbids waterboarding and other types of coercive interrogation methods.

It’s heartening that America has 45 patriots in the Senate, including Senator Brownback. But the assembly is currently controlled by Harry Reid, who takes his marching orders from Nancy Pelosi, who takes hers from “Acid Bob,” some San Francisco lunatic who has way too much information about her personal proclivities. Acid Bob also has thousands of idiot Hippie friends, who are the kingmakers in the worthless state of California. A once-decent state was taken over by moonbat drug dealers, and suddenly idiots like Pelosi and Barbara Boxer got jobs. A cautionary tale for the rest of us.

However, the vote fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to overcome a presidential veto. The House of Representatives passed similar legislation in December.

Democratic New York Senator Charles Schumer said that if Bush “vetoes intelligence authorization, he will be voting in favor of waterboarding.”

Good! God wants America to waterboard. It’s not torture; it doesn’t even drown these rats, much as they deserve it. It merely simulates drowning, much as Islam simulates religion. It is not torture; it’s a harmless prank, not unlike those encountered during fraternity hazings. Anyone who grew up with siblings has endured far worse pain and humiliation. Why, my brother Scott once told me I was the adopted offspring of an American sailor and a Cuban prostitute. The emotional pain he caused was far, far worse than the time he stuck a garden hose in my mouth and turned it on. I speak with substantial personal experience on these matters. Waterboarding is not torture, and the only people who’d say otherwise are worthless Hippie Kumbaya-singers and Islamists whose personal idea of a good time is sawing your head off just for setting foot in Arabia.

Asked by a reporter if Bush, who leaves office in 2009, would be labeled as the first US president who favored torture, Perino rejected the assertion and dismissed Schumer’s argument as “simplistic.”

“Across the board people will see, over time, that this was a president who put in place tools to protect the country against terrorists,” Perino said.

Amen, Dana. The first President who favored torture was Thomas Jefferson. His Democrat Party has tormented this country for the last 230 years.

Across the waterboard, Americans will see their nation saved and valuable intelligence gleaned from worthless scum captives whose lives are worth less than a single pinky from one of their victims. The proof is in the pudding- not one single domestic terrorist incident since 2001. Bush has kept this country safe, but the lefties want to open up Guantanamo and let the terrorists have jobs in your town. They oppose putting water up someone’s nose, yet they favor letting terrorists infiltrate into American society. You can’t make these crazies up, folks.

“The president does not favor torture. The president favors making sure we do all these programs within the law,” she said, adding that “all the interrogations that have taken place in this country have been done in a legal way.”

Perino said the United States does not currently use waterboarding, a simulated drowning technique denounced by rights groups as torture, even though the CIA has admitted using the technique in the past.

She reiterated the administration’s assertion last week that it would not rule out the use of such techniques in the future.

“Currently under the law it is not (allowed),” she said. “As we said last week as well, we are not going to talk about what may or may not be lawful in the future.”

Hopefully, that will soon change. America needs waterboarding in domestic law enforcement. Too many crimes are effected under the cover of phantasmic “civil liberties” having no basis in rational Christian society. The Fifth Amendment has killed more innocent victims than any gun in the world. With waterboarding, the police could change all that. Non-coercive interrogation methods utilizing a substance already comprising 80% of your body structure would soon teach these criminals the meaning of justice. If you didn’t learn civic responsibility on your neighbor’s slip-and-slide as a juvenile, your local police department will teach it to you as an adult. Hopefully, President Brownback will make it so.

Perino said the intelligence community’s view is that the Army Field Manual sets an inappropriate standard for seasoned CIA interrogators who are working to extract information from sophisticated militant operatives.

“Today with this bill that they are sending to us they would basically repeal the terrorist interrogation program in favor of something that will definitely weaken our ability to protect the country,” Perino said.

“This Army Field Manual is something that is public for all to see, and we know that Al-Qaeda trains to resist interrogation techniques such as those.”

That’s another good point. Al Qaeda is an organization of crazies who’d rather blow themselves to smithereens killing you than see you driving a car or buying groceries at the local supermarket. Are we really supposed to believe that loud music and uncomfortable seating arrangements are going to make these loonies crack? Get real. Even sticking water up their noses is barely enough to get a peep out of them; notice that not a one has told us where Bin Laden lives. Something harsher should be done, but nothing currently legal will suffice. Still, waterboarding has given us the intelligence we need to defend ourselves, even if we don’t gain the additional intelligence we need to pursue the enemy abroad. I’ll take defensive victories over shameful defeats any day. And so will the other 300 million Americans who want to live secure, happy, and free from terrorist incidents. Waterboarding is the wellspring of our nation’s security.

Coulter: America Deserves to be Run By Moonbats

Ann Coulter has a point, here. If the Democrats win, the American people will flock to the Party of God. As it is, 8 years of moral, sensible government have made the American people complacent, and ripe for the lies and distortions of a deviant candidate like Hitlery.

As usual, Coulter’s one of the smarter analysts out there. (I do wish she’d strap her chest down, but otherwise I also find her a very moral, and very alluring, woman.) Where I tend to disagree with her is her failure to endorse Brownback. I’m not sure America can stand 4 years of Hitlery, even if it’s followed by another 2 decades of Republican dominance. We’re still languishing under a recession caused by Bill Clinton; do we really want a Hitlery recession added onto that? We’ll be in the Great Depression in no time if we keep letting Democrats rule us.

I agree with Coulter about one thing, though: maybe America deserves to be run by Democrats. If we can’t elect God’s candidate, then Hell’s choice is our substitution.

Hooray for George Bush!

We’re all about to get some money! Even the Communist News Network is celebrating!

American taxpayers would get checks of several hundred dollars from the federal government under a plan to stimulate the economy, sources said Thursday.

Congressional leaders of both parties were talking with their membership to sell the plan, sources said.

Sources on Capitol Hill and at the Treasury Department said congressional and White House negotiators agreed upon checks of $600 per individual and $1,200 per couple who paid income tax and who filed jointly.

People who did not pay federal income taxes but who had earned income of more than $3,000 would get checks of $300 per individual or $600 per couple.

President Bush, and Congressional Republicans, are giving me my free money back, just for being an American patriot. I’ve earned my money, and they want me to have it. Democrats tried to stall the bill, of course, but that’s why they’re Democrats.

To get to the agreement, Democrats dropped calls for increases in food stamps and an extension of unemployment compensation. Republicans agreed to allow people who pay Social Security taxes but not income taxes to get the checks, sources said.

Democrats talk about helping the economy, but when you cut to the chase they’re always Socialist to the core.

Thank God we have sensible policymakers in the White House! Thank God we have enough decent folks in the Congress to back them up when they take steps to save America!

Splodeydopes at It Again; Ron Paultard Update

The big news this morning is obviously the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. It’s incidents like this that happen in that primitive and violent part of the world that make us thankful for having a great President like George W. Bush, who has successfully defended America from terrorist attacks. There has been no attack on our homeland since 9/11 due to the President’s incredible leadership.

Naturally President Bush was quick to respond, taking time out of his vacation in Crawford, Texas to condemn this cowardly act of terrorism:

The United States strongly condemns this cowardly act by murderous extremists who are trying to undermine Pakistan’s democracy. Those who committed this crime must be brought to justice. Mrs. Bhutto served her nation twice as Prime Minister and she knew that her return to Pakistan earlier this year put her life at risk. Yet she refused to allow assassins to dictate the course of her country.

We stand with the people of Pakistan in their struggle against the forces of terror and extremism. We urge them to honor Benazir Bhutto’s memory by continuing with the democratic process for which she so bravely gave her life.

For the details on this cowardly homicide bombing that resulted in over a dozen deaths, including Bhutto’s, be sure to check out Hot Air’s coverage. Bryan is doing a heck of a job. Michelle Malkin is too. Isn’t the new media fantastic?

Is this the work of al Qaeda or violent and repulsive wannabes? It’s too early to tell. But this incident proves again the folly of appeasing or surrendering to the terrorists who want to kill us. They must be hunted down and shot like the wild and rabid dogs that they are. There is no other answer. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. It’s time to make the Islamic extremists blind and toothless.

Sadly, there is already a discussion of how this affects the U.S. Presidential campaign. Does this help Giuliani and Clinton? Yuck. Blogs 4 Conservatives explores that angle and determines that it’s too disgusting to contemplate.

Update: al Qaeda behind the attack? U.S. intelligence is looking into responsibility claims at this very moment. What should the U.S. response be? Former President Clinton had plenty of chances to get bin Laden and was even offered Osama on a silver platter by Sudan but he wasn’t interested, since he wasn’t a chubby girl in a thong. The Clinton legacy of perversion and failure haunts us to this day.

Update 2: Ron Paul naturally blames America first. He claims that Al Qaeda is justified in being “annoyed” at us. Nice one, Ron. Wrap a towel around your head and just go away.  Moar reaction from Bryan at Hot Air.

— Psycheout

Act of War?

It is the job of the American President to protect the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. It will be interesting to see how President Bush reacts now that one of the latter threats has taken action.

The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.

“We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,” long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.

I know what you’re thinking: so what if a tiny little reservation spits in our eye and reneges on those treaties that they are bound to? But wait. This isn’t just a tiny little strip of land where people gamble, buy cheap liquor and cigarettes and illegal fireworks. We’re talking about a large chunk of the American frontier.

Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free — provided residents renounce their US citizenship, Means said.

Imagine a terrorist haven in the heartland of the United States. It can happen here. It’s happening now.

The treaties signed with the United States are merely “worthless words on worthless paper,” the Lakota freedom activists say on their website.

Disrespectful double-dealing savages. That’s what these Laotions are. If this rebellion is not quashed through diplomacy or force, and soon, other tribes are likely to follow. Should we just sit idly by while our birthright is snatched away by these turncoats?

What do you think? What should President Bush do? Do we seal off the territory, build a wall around it, deny access to our airspace surrounding the rebel territory and starve them out? Do we smoke the peace pipe with these treacherous folks and convince them of the folly of this action? Do we deliver them some special blankets to keep them warm? Or do we simply bomb them into submission?

A house divided against itself cannot stand. Neither can the secession of territories from the union. So what do we do?

Don’t be afraid to detail your solutions to this crisis since these renegade Indians don’t have access to the Internet in their teepees.  They still communicate largely with smoke signals! Imagine that!

— Psycheout

Time Hates America

Continuing their disgusting tradition of honoring fascists and dictators like Hitler and Stalin, Time has again chosen a non-American thug as Man of the Year. Vladimir Putin. And the runner-up? You guessed it: al-Gore. Second runner-up? Christianity hater J.K. Rowling.

No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin’s. The Russian President’s pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved by the suppression of ordinary needs, like blinking.

Oh barf! A liberal love letter. Look into my eyes, you dreamy tyrant, you. This is too disgusting to go into more detail. Just another heads up on the liberal media’s hatred of America.

President Bush has done more to spread democracy and thwart terrorism in the world than anyone else in history. But he’s not even given consideration by the communists at Time Magazine. All in a day’s work for the liberal fascists.

Update: Time announces it will drop right thinking columnists William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer. But there’s no liberal bias. Oh no, of course not!

— Psycheout

Good News: The Economy Is Booming

Although Democrats are counting on doom and gloom to fool voters into giving them the Presidency and even more power in the increasingly unpopular do-nothing congress, it’s going to be much harder to cash in on pessimism after yet another positive economic report.

The total income of the top 1.1 million households was $1.8 trillion, or 18.1 percent of the total income of all Americans, up from 14.3 percent of all income in 2003. The total 2005 income of the three million individual Americans at the top was roughly equal to that of the bottom 166 million Americans, analysis of the report showed.

And to put that increase in perspective, this should make everyone smile.

The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows.

Wow~! That’s awesome~! President Bush’s tax cuts are working. Clearly. This is not the time to reverse course and return to the days of tax and spend. Remember what happened to the economy under Jimmah Carter? If not, it was really, really bad. Trust me on that. I was there.

With this recent economic report, you can be sure that Republicans will be smiling and laughing as they go to the polls to turn out the unpopular Democrats and to keep our nation on a sane fiscal course. It’s time for more corporate tax cuts and to lower the top rates. Lower taxes results in more revenue and a booming economy. Supply side economics works time and time again.

And it’s good for the economy, stupid.

— Psycheout

Time for Bush To Quote Reagan

The Iranians have dumped the greenback. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Send your emails of support to The White House.

— Psycheout

Terrorism Funding Slashed, Terrorism is Doomed!

In a shrewd move, President Bush is slashing counterterrorism funding:

The Bush administration intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year, according to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The Homeland Security Department has given $23 billion to states and local communities to fight terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks, but the administration is not convinced that the money has been well spent and thinks the nation’s highest-risk cities have largely satisfied their security needs.

The department wanted to provide $3.2 billion to help states and cities protect against terrorist attacks in 2009, but the White House said it would ask Congress for less than half — $1.4 billion, according to a Nov. 26 document.

This makes perfect sense to me. Terrorism has been contained in Iraq, so spending our tax money on cities is a waste of resources. Why should my salary finance some Democrat cityslicker’s wasteful pork reelection project for his brother-in-law, instead of going to where it belongs- the terrorist-killing heroes fighting for our freedom in Iraq? The increased funding could be just what it takes to push us to final victory in Iraq, destroying terrorism there and ushering in a new age of freedom in the Middle East. Bush is wise to provide funding for that, not for some corrupt politico’s scams.

The plan calls outright elimination of programs for port security, transit security, and local emergency management operations in the next budget year. This is President Bush’s last budget, and the new administration would have to live with the funding decisions between Jan. 20 and Sept. 30, 2009.

President Brownback will have no problem whatsoever with these proposals. He knows that killing terrorists is something better accomplished over there than over here. He knows that sometimes you have to stop throwing good money after bad money. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if he figures out some kind of special tax that enables us to get our money back from the wasteful cozeners in the cities like New York, Philadelphia, Boston, etc., who stole it in the first place.

Stealing counterterrorism funding from decent American taxpayers is no more than an economic form of terrorism. President Bush is right to cut the cash spigot; his successor would be wise to get the money back.

Scott McClellan: Trying To Sell a Book

In a craven attempt to rake in a pile of cash, former Press Secretary Scott McClellan has betrayed his President and his Administration. And in doing so, he has betrayed America. Question: was Scott lying then or is he lying now? I can’t be sure, but it seems what he’s leaking now to the press will potentially make him a lot of money from BDS afflicted moonbats who reflexively grasp at any straw in a futile effort to embarrass our great President. Next he’ll be posting on Daily Kos. Just watch.

Get a load of this rubbish:

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan names names in a caustic passage from a forthcoming memoir that accuses President Bush, Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney of being “involved” in his giving the press false information about the CIA leak case.

Simple Scotty draws out the long knives and cheerfully stabs his former friends and superiors right in the back, without hesitation.

“I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the seniormost aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby,” McClellan wrote.

“There was one problem. It was not true.”

And it’s all about money. Not truth, not honor, not principle, not loyalty. Just the visions of dollar signs that dance in his head. Shameful. Simply shameful.

McClellan then absolves himself and makes an inflammatory — and potentially lucrative for his publisher — charge.

That’s what it’s all about, covering his behind and himself in greenbacks. But who really cares about this nonsense anyway? It’s already obvious to anyone with half a brain that there was no underlying crime. So what’s the big deal? And Lewis Libby is nothing short of a hero. That’s a fact. Scott McClellan is a shamelessly disloyal sellout who’s trying desperately to sell a book that nobody wants to read.

It’s pathetic and sad. Scotty, how could you sink so low? And which Democrat are you going to endorse? The moonbat media will make a big deal out of this no doubt, sensing blood in the water, but it will be reportage full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Moonbat McClellan, your five minutes in the sun are long past. Do us all a favor and go spend some time with your family. And don’t forget to turn in your White House press pass.

The saddest part of this whole non-story is that President Bush’s steadfast loyalty to his friend from Austin was repaid with a hard slap in the face.  What an awful thing to do to such a generous and trusting man.  It makes me sick.

— Psycheout

Open Immigration Thread

Long-time commenter Marcia P. recently sent me this email:

Dear Sisyphus,

As you know, I very much enjoy reading your blog. I don’t get to comment on there very often, as my arthritis makes typing difficult. But I think it’s high time you addressed the immigration issue.

The other day, Ralph and I were in Sam’s Club, and it seemed like half the people working there were Hispanic. Most of them didn’t speak English, and more than one of them was incredibly rude. We left without making a purchase, and will not be returning. We will not pay the annual fee to enter a store that lets foreigners make fun of us.

I disagree with Senator Brownback on this point. He wants to let the illegals come in and take our jobs. I want to kill these people, chop their hands off, and send them home to their families as a warning to the rest of them. Our country is under attack by these people, and it needs to respond in kind.

I recently read that the Democrat candidates all oppose giving driver licenses to illegals. That makes sense to me, as far as it goes. But like most Democrat measures, it doesn’t go far enough. I agree with the Democrats on this one, but I don’t think Sam Brownback does.

Brownback doesn’t understand that this is a good way to kill the thieves off peacefully. Illegals mostly drive around other illegals anyway. They can’t afford to live around real Americans, not for the pennies they make stealing our jobs. Let them kill one another. What do I care if some Latinos die? At least my tax dollars didn’t go toward financing their illicit driving on roads my tax dollars also paid for.

We should build a wall with painted-on gates at the border, then let the Mexicans crash into it when they try to leave America with the money they stole from hard-working Americans. I think not letting them have drivers’ licenses would facilitate this endeavour. Most of them are too stupid and ignorant to notice a painted fence; as for the ones that outsmart the fence, that’s what the dogs are for.

Please let me know your thoughts on this matter. I remain your faithful reader and sister in Christ,

Marcia P.

Marcia, President Brownback will not coddle illegals as much as you seem to think he will. Check out his position on the issue. But there’s a difference between not coddling people and not killing them. Remember, most of the Hispanics are decent Catholic conservatives. As such, we should treat them like human beings. They’re not dogs for you to shoot in the street, you know.

I usually agree with you on the issues, Marcia, but in my opinion you’re being a little unreasonable here. Killing millions of illegal immigrants will not make our country any better off. Far from it. In fact, your letter struck me as somewhat (and I hope I’m being off-base, here) racist. Just because someone has brown skin doesn’t mean we should kill them. I got the impression from your letter that maybe you don’t agree with me here. I should point out to you, though, that the only support you’re likely to get for that position around here is from Spacebrother’s candidate, Ron Paul.

What did everybody else think of this letter? Discuss.

State of Emergency in Pakistan

Our ally Pakistan is in a state of emergency today, as ordered by President Musharraf. I don’t really pay attention to political events in other countries, but apparently this has something to do with the President’s electoral victory last month. He seems to be having trouble with the activist Supreme Court which is trying to strip him of his Commander-in-Chief powers. So he shut them down. Good for him!

Perhaps this would be a good move for President Bush to emulate next year. If Giuliani or Romney become the Republican nominee and/or it appears that the Democrat nominee is going to steal the election, President Bush should just declare martial law (or a “state of emergency”) and say “Read my lips: not on my watch” and remain in office until a suitable successor can be found.

Giuliani or Romney Presidencies are unthinkable and a Democrat would mess up or surrender in the War on Terror. That would do inestimable damage to our republic. Therefore President Bush must step up and defend our nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It’s the right thing to do.

I’d go into the situation in Pakistan more, but foreign politics is like cold lima beans. I just scrape them off the plate and into the garbage. All the better to make room for what’s really important. If you want to know more about what’s happening, turn on Fox News.

— Psycheout