EVIL

Michael Berg is a butt monkey.

Ok, maybe not the most adult and intellectual thing I have ever said, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Over in London, he droned on and on about how terrible the United States is, his constant refrain since his son was beheaded by the bugs, I mean animals, I mean non-humans over in Iraq.

As with all liberals, he views the world in terms of good and evil, ironic considering how much the liberals hate religion and morality, but I digress. Because he must be good, after all, people like Berg care so much, than anyone who disagrees with him must be evil, and we know who the master of evil is – George Bush. And this is what Bergie had to say about the master of evil:

"People like George Bush and (U.S. Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld don't see the pain that people have to bear -- they don't know what it feels like to have your guts ripped out."

Of course, because Bush is evil, he relishes in the death of innocents, there’s no way someone like him could feel pain.

But that’s not what I write about tonight. I’d like to bring your attention to the last quote in the article:

"Observing someone's pain just makes you think just how can they (Bush and Blair) possibly do this. There isn't enough money in the world that could ever make this worthwhile."

This being, of course, the liberation of Iraq. There’s no thinking person out there who wouldn’t read this as saying,

“There is nothing in the world to make the shutting of rape rooms and the ending of summary executions, not to say the stopping of a madman from world destruction worthwhile.”

Mike Berg would rather have Saddam in power, killing wantonly than a free Iraq. Who’s the evil one here?

MISSING VOTERS

I spent all day Sunday fighting with computers. I formatted three of them and reloaded the operating systems and software. Of the three, two of them were mine, including the main computer and Katie’s. Of course, I had trouble setting up the home network, so I didn’t have any Internet. I say this as a lame excuse as to why there was no post from me on Sunday.

Anywhoo, the Wall Street Journal Opinion Page had a wonderful editorial from Larry Eastland quantifying what the Journal has dubbed the Roe effect. The Roe effect, in a nutshell, says the 43 million babies aborted since the Roe decision would have been, for the most part, Democrats and liberals. Therefore, the left has been decimating their ranks for the past 30 years and the effects have shown in recent elections.

In fact, Eastland points out that the 2000 election would have been Al Gore’s by a long shot if the Democrats hadn’t been killing their children. Eastland refers to the aborted children as “Missing Voters”, a succinct and apt description. This is what he had to say about the 2000 election in Florida:

“In the actual popular vote for president in the 2000 general election in Florida, George W. Bush was declared the winner by 537 votes. But if the 260,962 Missing Voters of Florida had been present to vote, Al Gore would have won by 45,366 votes. Missing Voters--through decisions made in the 1970s and early 1980s, encouraged and emboldened by the feminist movement at the height of its power--altered the outcome of the U.S. presidency a generation later, in a way proponents of legal abortion could not have imagined. “

Eastland makes a point that I missed - one that is obvious, yet chilling:

“Examining these results through a partisan political lens, the Democrats have given the Republicans a decided advantage in electoral politics, one that grows with each election. Moreover, it is an advantage that they can never regain. Even if abortion were declared illegal today, and every single person complied with the decision, the advantage would continue to grow until the 2020 election, and would stay at that level throughout the voting lifetime of most Americans living today. “

The editorial goes into a lot of detail with demographics and giving what I see as irrefutable proof that the conservative movement in this country has been given a boost, however unintentional and by horrific means, by the “it’s all about me” left. As Eastland says:

“As liberals and Democrats fervently seek new voters and supporters through events, fund-raisers, direct mail and every other form of communication available, they achieve results minuscule in comparison to the loss of voters they suffer from their own abortion policies. It is a grim irony lost on them, for which they will pay dearly in elections to come. “

God help us all.

VACATION

He everyone, thanks for the vacation. Andrew Sullivan, one of the web’s most prolific and best bloggers, takes a month off every year, so I thought I would, too. Actually, I’m using that as an excuse for my laziness, Well, I did actually go to North Carolina for a week or so during that time, so it wasn’t completely laziness that kept me away.

Well, what’s happened during the last month?

- Two more innocent civilians were beheaded by the non-humans we are fighting in Iraq. Some of the blame goes to the people like Ted Kennedy, who morally equated the abuses of Abu Ghraib with the torture chambers of Saddam Hussein, therefore emboldening the animals. Strong words on my part? You bet. True? You bet.

- Bill Clinton’s My Life was released to acclaim and yawns. All of the usual suspects wet themselves in happiness while the other set of usual suspects shook our heads in disgust. We also gloated over the inconsistencies the book revealed compared to his testimony under oath. I personally loved watching the New York Times squirm and flop when their own literary critic skewered the book and then, in a fit of repentance, released a fawning review by Larry McMurty set to appear in the New York Times Magazine two weeks early to show they are still full members of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.

- The 9/11 Commission wraps up and President Bush is generally vindicated. You didn’t know that? Must be getting your news from the VLWC.

- Senator Patrick “Gas-Bag” Leahy gets put in his place by Vice President Cheney. Few people deserved it more and it was long overdue.