Review of Karen Santorum's book

I only gave Everyday Graces: A Child's Book of Good Manners
two stars, because I think she should have added a bit more from her personal experience.

Mrs. Santorum should draw more from her own experience, August 7, 2004
Reviewer: Gen. JC Christian, patriot (Tremonton, UT United States) - See all my reviews

It's a good effort, but Mrs. Santorum should have drawn more from her own personal experience. For instance, in another book she wrote that she and the Senator brought their miscarried fetus home so that the children could hold it and grieve its demise. I'd like to know if the Santorum children demonstrated good manners as their father handed the fetus to them. For that matter, I'd like to know what the proper protocol is for introducing a miscarried fetus to your children. This is an area of etiquette about which I know nothing. It's unfortunate that Mrs Santorum didn't use this opportunity to enlighten us all.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the Santorum family's special way of mourning a miscarriage, you can learn more about it here.

A Beatitude for O'Niell and his friends

Republican Jesus mugs and shirts available here

Republican Jesus Archive.

Thanks

The surgeon is trying something else tonight. If that doesn't work, she'll undergo surgery tomorrow (Saturday). Thanks to all of you who've expressed concern.

Waiting for a babysitter

My daughter is having emergency surgery tonight. I'm waiting for a babysitter to come to watch my grandson and then I'm taking off, so I probably won't post anything until tomorrow unless I come home all stressed out and need to wind down.

Our Leader On a Swift Boat of his Own

Another commie-pinko blogger has cottoned to the idea that Our Glorious Leader is using the Homeland Security Alert System to counteract the occasional spot of unpleasant news. While this Julius (the name just singes with treason, doesn't it?) is hauled off to the appropriate Attitude Adjustment Center, please join me in supporting Our Leader for having the foresight to head off these nattering nabobs of negativity.

It's late and I'm tired.

I'll update the election countdown and write some meatier posts later today. (It's OK for heterosexuals to use forms of the word "meat" in a sentence. There's nothing wrong with that--even it does put sinful thoughts into our head. ummmmmm...meeeeat)

BTW, James L. Hart is now the official Republican nominee in Tennessee 's 8th Congressional District. The General salutes the Republicans of that fine district for choosing the man who best reflects GOP values.

Victory in Afghanistan

It looks like our efforts in Afghanistan are finally paying off. As that nation returns to its former ways, it's as if the Taliban was just a bad dream.

Russian border guards deployed in Tajikistan have seized over a ton of heroin smuggled from neighboring Afghanistan, a record haul of drugs intercepted on the border, the guards said on Friday.

My review of the Deputy Leader's consort's book is up.

I gave it five stars.

Enemies of the state

Why would anyone want to go to these concerts when they could see Toby Keith?

Bruce Springsteen
Dave Matthews Band
Bonnie Rait
Babyface
R.E.M
Pearl Jam
the Dixie Chicks
And more...

Are all coming together for a concert series in swing states to try and register Democratic voters.

Celebrating our heritage

Dear Mr. Taaffe,

As vice president of the library board, you deserve to be congratulated for the Shrewsbury Library's efforts to promote our great heritage. There aren't a lot of libraries in these politically correct times who'd have the guts to hold a traditional cakewalk and advertise it using pictures of minorities posed in the old minstrel cakewalk style.

It's my understanding that even though the library has been told that the advertisement was offensive, they've stuck by their guns and defended our proud heritage. Good for you.

You might consider making this event even a little more authentic by inviting a traditional Republican congressional candidate to preside over the festivities. If you're interested in doing so, then congressional candidate James L. Hart is your man. A defender of segregation and racial eugenics, he's as traditionally Republican as they come. I'm sure he'd be happy to participate in an event like yours.

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot

Thanks to Don, Publius, and the rest for the tips.

Treasonous books

Those vile Frenchies at Catch have posted a collection of pictures of treasonous books at their site. I say we hunt them down and have a good old fashioned book burning.

Concentration camps can be a good thing

My review of Michelle Malkin's latest book is up at Amazon.

It doesn't go far enough, August 4, 2004
Reviewer: Gen. JC Christian, patriot (Tremonton, UT United States) - See all my reviews

While I agree with Malkin's thesis that sometimes concentration camps can be a good thing, I think the addition of an argument for public humiliation, and perhaps even stoning, would make the book more complete. Why should good, God-fearing, Christian Americans be denied an opportunity to taunt these unbelievers by poking them with pointed sticks? Why can't we put dunce caps on their heads and parade them through the streets before we subject them to public criticism? Allowing these acts would do wonders for our collective stress level.

Don't forget to tell Amazon that you thought the review was helpful.

Update: A lot of reviews have been posted since I posted mine. The easiest way to see it is to sort them by "Most Helpful" like I've done here.

Bush's Brain

I just finished watching the French documentary, Bush's Brain. It was fantastic. I find it comforting to know that there are still true believers out there like Karl Rove, who'll do absolutely anything to get a God-fearing conservative elected. Some might say that it is immoral to win elections by planting fake bugs, using the FBI to destroy political opponents, and attacking a competitor by falsely claiming that his adopted child was the product of inter-racial, extra-marital hanky-panky, but Karl knows better. Like his spiritual mentor, G. Gordon Liddy--who once proposed a plan to murder a journalist who opposed Nixon--Karl Rove knows that the highest form of morality is to win at any cost.

No wine before they sign

My inner Frenchman is going after the Gallos at TAS. Commie bastard.

Timing is everything

Dear Sec. Ridge,

Although we've never really met, you might remember me as one of the men you assigned to fly the flag on Flag Day. I'm proud to say that I heeded your call to service and proudly flew Old Glory all day long without regard to my own safety.

Those who've never conducted a mission for the Department of Homeland Security will never know how it changes a man. Once your body has come alive with the electric, adrenaline fueled thrill that accompanies such a mission, you'll never be the same again. You'll want to do more, and you'll be miserable until you get an opportunity to do so.

That's how I felt as I awaited your next call. That is until today, when I read that the intelligence you used to trigger Sunday's threat alert was four years old. Upon learning this, I realized that I possessed old intelligence that just might save this country. I'm back in the game!

A few years back, I heard that a Russian man boasted that he would bury capitalism, and by extension, the United States. It was the guy who was always drinking Pepsi with Nixon--Khrushchev, that's his name. Anyway, a couple of years ago, I was at the equipment rental store in Puyallup and there was a Russian sounding guy there who was trying to rent a backhoe. I'm willing to raid the place if you give me an OK. Or perhaps you'd rather I wait until the day the Plame indictments are announced. It's your call.

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot

Yo Mamta

I posted a few last words about the Mamta Popat controversy at Spectre's blog.

Wolves at War: A Neocon Fairy Tale (Part II)

Colin Wolf liked to think of himself as being an honorable wolf. His whole career was based on this belief. Everyone in the forest knew the story about his vow at the end of the great Python War to never allow the politicians to make military decisions. It was a vow he took very seriously and one he had jealously guarded in the last war, the triumphant victory over Putrid Pig. Now the politicians were pushing for a second war against Putrid--a war that would result in the toppling of his house, something that had been left undone in the first war.

Leader Wolf and his advisors were huddled together in an undisclosed log, deciding how to react to the woodcutter's latest atrocity. A wolf had been killed by the woodcutter at Grandma's house and all of the wolves in Wolfland were howling for vengeance. Colin wanted to lead a pack against the woodcutter to capture and eat him, but Wolfowhit, Rumwolf, and Wolfdick had convinced the passionately credulous Leader Wolf that war with Putrid made more sense.

"What will the wolves say if we attack Putrid for something the woodcutter did," asked Colin.

"I know a pig who once lived in Putrid's house," said Wolfowhit. "He still has friends there." "They tell him that the woodcutter's friend, the little red-hatted girl, has a cousin who once might have visited Putrid's house to sell him straw," he continued. "That's a direct connection between the woodcutter and Putr..."

"That's not all," Wolfdick interrupted, "I know that same Pig." "He says that Putrid has built a wolfstomper."

"A wolfstomper!" cried Leader Wolf as he dove to hide underneath some moss in the darkest part of the log, "what will we do?"

"That's it," declared Karl Wolf, Leader's most trusted advisor, "there isn't a wolf alive who isn't terrified of wolfstompers--blowing down Putrid's house will make you the greatest Pack Leader ever."

Leader shook off his meager moss hiding place and stood tall. "We have to make the forest safe from those who would use wolfstompers," He declared in his best, most resolute, growl.

"But we all know that this pig you're talking about--the spy, Glutton--is a con pig," replied Colin. "It's my job to sell this to the other creatures of the forest, and they'll never believe it,"

The other wolves glared at him in response. They knew he'd tell the other forest creatures what they wanted him to tell them, because they knew the truth about Colin Wolf--the perception that he was an honorable wolf was just that, a perception. He had covered up the massacre at Maylay during the Python war. He knew how to take orders no matter how distasteful they might be.

Next week, Part III

Part I

Thanks Karen

Thank you for the Big Dog's book. It's great.

Suffer the little children...(revisited)

The General is certain that the Sunday Herald reporter who wrote the following must have confused life under Saddam with life under the benevolent rule of Our Leader. Surely, we don't hold children in our Iraqi prisons, and most assuredly, if child prisoners were being raped, the Anointed One would move heaven and earth to punish the rapists without regard to political consequences. We have only to look at how He has pursued those who outed Valerie Plame to see His commitment to doing the right thing.

From the article:

It was early last October that Kasim Mehaddi Hilas says he witnessed the rape of a boy prisoner aged about 15 in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets," he said in a statement given to investigators probing prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib. "Then, when I heard the screaming I climbed the door -- and I saw [the soldier's name is deleted] who was wearing a military uniform." Hilas, who was himself threatened with being sexually assaulted in Abu Graib, then describes in horrific detail how the soldier raped "the little kid."

In another witness statement, passed to the Sunday Herald, former prisoner Thaar Salman Dawod said: "[I saw] two boys naked and they were cuffed together face to face and [a US soldier] was beating them and a group of guards were watching and taking pictures and there was three female soldiers laughing at the prisoners. The prisoners, two of them, were young."

It's not certain exactly how many children are being held by coalition forces in Iraq, but a Sunday Herald investigation suggests there are up to 107. Their names are not known, nor is where they are being kept, how long they will be held or what has happened to them during their detention.

Proof of the widespread arrest and detention of children in Iraq by US and UK forces is contained in an internal Unicef report written in June. The report has --? surprisingly -- not been made public.

[...]

"I saw a camp for children there," he said. "Boys, under the age of puberty. There were certainly hundreds of children in this camp." Al-Baz said he heard a 12-year-old girl crying. Her brother was also held in the jail. One night guards came into her cell. "She was beaten," said al-Baz. "I heard her call out, 'They have undressed me. They have poured water over me.'"

He says he heard her cries and whimpering daily -- this, in turn, caused other prisoners to cry as they listened to her. Al-Baz also told of an ill 15-year-old boy who was soaked repeatedly with hoses until he collapsed. Guards then brought in the child’s father with a hood over his head. The boy collapsed again.

[...]

High-placed officials in the Pentagon and Centcom told the Sunday Herald that children as young as 14 were being held by US forces. "We do have juveniles detained," a source said. "They have been detained as they are deemed to be a threat or because they have acted against the coalition or Iraqis."

Officially, the Pentagon says it is holding "around 60 juvenile detainees primarily aged 16 and 17", although when it was pointed out that the Red Cross estimate is substantially higher, a source admitted "numbers may have gone up, we might have detained more kids".

[..]

The Norwegian government, which is part of the "coalition of the willing", has already said it will tell the US that the alleged torture of children is intolerable. Odd Jostein Sæter, parliamentary secretary at the Norwegian prime minister's office, said: "Such assaults are unacceptable. It is against international laws and it is also unacceptable from a moral point of view. This is why we react strongly -- We are addressing this in a very severe and direct way and present concrete demands. This is damaging the struggle for democracy and human rights in Iraq."