Timothy Birdnow

The Faith of Obama

Barack Hussein Obama, chairman of the People's United States (PUS) and Glorious Leader of the Supreme Soviet of America, has proclaimed that the GOP's opposition to his scheme to extend welfare benefits, er, unemployment beyond the two year mark without providing to pay for them is somehow evidence of a lack of faith in the People by Republicans.

Alienation and the Cult of the Left

When religious cults recruit individuals, the first thing they do is make the novitiate sever all ties to their former lives. This involves cutting off family, friends, all of the emotional support structure, thus making the individual vulnerable to "reprogramming" by the collectivist entity that seeks to recreate them. What cults engage in is the work of remaking the individual in the image of the collective, of alienating them to their intimates for the purposes of bonding them to their new social peers.

Honoring Stalin at the D-Day Memorial

In Bedford, Virginia, the United States honors her brave soldiers who stormed Omaha beach on D-Day. This memorial commemorates her valiant efforts to rid the world of Nazism, that heinous doctrine of uber-statism and tyranny. Yet on this 66th anniversary the memorial board quietly erected a monument to an even greater evil, a tyrant who murdered even more innocent people than ever the Third Reich and Herr Hitler.

Global Warming Grows Pacific Islands

For the last ten thousand years sea levels have been rising. Since the end of the last ice age (or rather the beginning of the interglacial period we are now currently enjoying, since we are clearly STILL in an ice age) the sea levels have risen, with an average during the 20th century of about 1.8 millimeters per year (according to the IPCC) or 1.48 millimeters per year according to Berge-Nguyen et al., give or take a few (they increased in the late '90's due to the unusually warm El Nino but have since dropped back down.)

A Hunger for Power

The House of Representatives of the United States passed HR2749 on July 29, 2009, a bill entitled The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. This innocuous sounding legislation, introduced by radical Rep. John Dingle (Democrat from Michigan) was designed to give greater authority to the Food and Drug Administration 'To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food in the global market, and for other purposes" or to grant the FDA the power to decide what and how Americans will eat.

Obama’s Nuclear New Tone

Man is an inherently political animal, and politics may be categorized as war by other means. Take the case of Pitcairn island; the mutineers of the Bounty settled on Pitcairn, and by the time the British found them only one adult man was left alive; the others died in fights. After a brief respite on Norfolk Island, the children of the mutineers returned to Pitcairn, where their descendants live to this day. Pitcairn has been plagued by political intrigue and infighting - and crime - throughout her history.

Homosexuals in the Military and Natural Law

President Barack Obama is entertaining changes to the Uniform Military Code of Justice to allow openly homosexual soldiers to serve in the military. This scheme is disastrous any way one looks at it, and will destroy the cohesion of the military when the United States is engaged in a two-front war, and troops are stretched to the limit.

Eric Massa and the UCMJ

Congressman Eric Massa (Democrat from New York) is a direct reputiation to Barack Obama's planned changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

Only the Strong Survive

On the July 5 edition of Fox News Sunday, Democrat Stenny Hoyer and House Minority Leader John Boehner appeared to discuss the stimulus and healthzilla. While Boehner did get a few decent shots in (pointing out that Obamapromised unemployment would not rise above 8% and it has in fact risen to 9.5%) he practiced the same tired “new tone” of Republican blather, refusing to go after Hoyer and all the false presuppositions that the Democrats have built their talking points on. Boehner is a huge part of the problem for the Republicans; never has a political route been followed by the election of the same leadership that caused said route, yet here we have mild mannered Clark Kent with no superhero alter-ego being put right back where he botched the job so egregiously.

A Tail of Discrimination

Recently Ann Coulter wrote a piece for Human Events in which she took umbrage with affirmative action; Ann discussed would-be SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor, and her patently discriminatory (and anonymous) opinion in the Ricci v. DeStefano case. In this case, the city of New Haven, Connecticut, tossed out the results (and promotions) of a fireman`s promotion exam because blacks did not perform as well as white and latino candidates and thus were not eligible for immediate promotion.

Go Away and Die Already!

When Terri Schiavo was murdered through dehydration by her husband and a pro-death judge, a fierce battle erupted between liberals and conservatives over the issue of euthanasia; liberal Democrats fought furiously for the death of poor Terri, and conservatives-particularly Republicans-fought to save her with equal vigour. What struck many as odd on the pro-life side of the issue was the fanaticism with which those who sought to “end life with dignity” prosecuted their war; why were they so determined to win that particular battle? What was it about this “right to die” that brought out such passion on the left?

Happy are the Poor in Spirit

The blessings of Capitalism are not always apparent to those who are not free, and freedom is not always apparent to those who have not known Capitalism. Physorg has myopic little piece that argues people were better off under Communism than under Capitalism. More specifically, they claim people were happier being slaves of the state than being their own persons, free to live as they wish. According to the article:

Dhimmi-witted; the Obama Apologists

When George W. Bush occupied the office currently held by the Apologizer-in-Chief, he was roundly criticized by the Left for the seeming soft line taken towards the Saudis. Yet those voices have remained strangely silent in regards to his successor, who has turned softlining into an art form. According to a piece by Scott Wheeler in Newsmax:

Too Many Czars and Not Enough Indians

What is it with all the profusion of czars these days? We started off with a Drug Czar, which rather made sense when Bush the elder created the position since the Tsar (Russians pronounce-and spell-it Tsar) was not known for being soft on crime (or anything else) and the notion was that the Drug Czar would have at drugs like Cossacks at the Jews of Gomel in 1906 (never, ever speak treasonous words like “the poor ain`t so bad” or “wouldn’t it be nice if we could vote”), but what of all the newly minted czars? How many czars does a nation need, anyway?

The Corruption of Science

Our modern world is dependent on the quality and veracity of science. Where once Mankind looked to religion for guidance, the modern world looks to science to answer questions and guide our behavior. Public policy is predicated on the findings of the scientific community, and the integrity of that community is vitally important if we are to maintain our civilization and way of life. But can we rely on science in this hyper-partisan world, where Liberals seek to subvert any “good crisis” to gain a political advantage? Can we rely on what the oracles are telling us, or have they been compromised? Physorg has a piece about deliberate fraud in scientific data. Below is an excerpt:

Abortion Murder in Kansas; Obama gets his “Domestic Terrorist”

The murder of a late-term abortionist in Kansas gives Obama and the Department of Homeland Security their “Domestic Terrorist”. One of America`s few late-term abortionists was shot and killed while acting as an usher in his church. George Tiller, infamous for late term abortions (a practice bordering on infanticide) was killed by 51 year old Scott Roeder of Merriam, Kansas Sunday morning at the Lutheran church in Wichita where Tiller was acting as usher. Tiller has been attacked before, having been shot in both shoulders by previous assassination attempts. He was known to ride in an armored car, use bullet-proof glass in his abortion clinic, and sometimes traveled with a body guard.

Cyberbullying, Bad Law and the Decline of Civility

“Hard Cases, it is said, make bad law” John Campbell Argyll When a jury convicted 49 year old Lori Drew of O`Fallon Missouri (an ex-urb of St. Louis) in the now-infamous cyber-bullying case in which Drew posed as a teenage boy on Myspace to woo-then harass-13 year old Megan Meier, many were pleased that justice was done. But that pleasure quickly turned to disgust when it was learned that the jury`s verdict came with a standardized recommendation of probation and a large fine rather than jail time. The presiding judge in the case can still impose jail time at the sentencing hearing on May 18, and he is under considerable pressure to do so; the troubled young girl hanged herself as a result of Mrs. Drew`s harassment.

Apostacy and Anti-Christ at Notre Dame

Notre Dame, largest and perhaps most prestigious of Catholic colleges in the United States, is planning to bestow an honorary degree on Barack Hussein Obama, President of said Republic and radical abortion advocate. on May 20. This has become a matter of much controversy, because Obama`s vision holds for absolutely no restriction on abortion in any circumstance-something completely at odds with Catholic teaching on the subject, which the Church defines as murder in every fashion. Despite considerable pressure and angry objections on the part of the Faithful, the University intends to expectorate in the face of the Papacy and the Cannon of Church Law, honoring a man whose views can be described as open to serial murder and butchery.

Media Propaganda and the Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapse

Recent news stories have trumpeted the collapse of a chunk of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, and to hear the mainstream media tell it the Antarctic is melting away like butter down in south Texas. The collapse of Wilkins has been blamed-of course-on Anthropogenic Global Warming. The truth is that Antarctic ice is up considerably, and has been rising steadily.

Obama’s Ideal Supreme Court: Atheist, Gay, Socialist

President Barack Hussein Obama, thr One we have been waiting for, the man who will lead us away from our bitter clinging to God and guns, may be planning to nominate an openly gay-and by openly gay we mean radically openly gay-person to the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justass, er, Justice David Souter. According to a story in Newsmax (see Obama considers Gay Justicein references):