GOP Vixen

Those freaky-deeky mullahs!

An excerpt from an address delivered by Hasan Rahimpur Azghadi of the Iranian Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution, which aired on Iranian TV -- the land of no homosexuals, as Ahmadinejad told us earlier this week -- on Sept. 3:

"[The Westerners] have transgressed all moral boundaries... The husband and wife are no longer satisfied with one another, and they begin having relations with other men and women. After a while, they start thinking that since they have already experienced this, it is time to try homosexuality. Then, they think this is old-fashioned, and they turn to animals. These things happen in the West. After a while, when they get bored with this, they turn to small children. ... They have now begun turning to objects. There are big factories that produce artificial genitals, and they sell them in stores. A sex shop is a store that sells sex toys."

Er, it sounds like he's speaking from, um, experience...

This goes perfectly with Iranian blogger Ardeshir Dolat's observation that pedophilia gets a thumbs-up where girls are fair game the minute they get their first period:

"I found it incredible when somebody at the UN put it to the terrorist president that she personally knew three homosexuals in Iran, the geezer asked for their names and addresses!! ... However, what is recognised and worse than that not criminal, is pedophilia. ... So having sex with a female child as young as 7 is legitimate and there is no court in Iran that will punish a man for legally having sex with a girl as young as 7."

Teach with Hugo's textbooks, or be shut down

The march toward autocratic rule in Venezuela continues, with Hugo Chavez crafting new textbooks that teach Marxism and glorify his Bolivarian revolution. And if private schools do not use the government texts, they'll be shut down:

"Last year Chavez' Minister of Education, Aristobulo Isturiz, laid the groundwork for the new 'Bolivarian' education program to be imposed in Venezuela when he announced: 'Teachers should be the first soldiers of the revolution ... No Director of a public school shall have his, her job validated unless an evaluation is made, so that we are certain that they know what is the type of republic we want.'

Having already consolidated control over Venezuela's public schools and universities, including bringing in Cuban indoctrination experts to consult and injecting Marxism into the curriculum even in the medical schools, Chavez is now assaulting the last bastion of academic independence, the private secondary schools to which business and intellectual leaders send their kids. Objecting that the private schools teach 'capitalism' and 'consumerism,' Chavez has declared that if these schools do not allow inspectors to keep them compliant with the socialist agenda of the 'new Bolivarian educational system,' the schools will be shut down.

Zulay Campos of the Bolivarian State Academic Commission, which will carry out inspections to make sure that private schools comply with the government's curriculum stated: 'We must train socially minded people to help the community, and that's why the revolution's socialist program is being implemented ... If they attack us because we're indoctrinating, well yes, we're doing it, because those capitalist ideas that our young people have — and that have done so much damage to our people — must be eliminated.'"

It's so nice that all of our American actors and activists who've gone to worship at the Temple of Hugo support the thought police.

Also -- quite amusing considering the above photo -- Hugo has blamed the U.S. for big boobs:

"The president went on to discuss what he considers to be the brainwashing of the capitalist world and criticized the major media and mainstream movie industry that penetrate other nations and cultures with the values and ideas of the United States. He criticized, for example, the increasing popularity of breast implants among young women and blamed it on young women's desire 'to be like Barbie.'"

Yeah -- don't tell me Hugo doesn't have a presidential stable of Barbies.

No Newt in White House run

I really appreciate a would-be candidate who steps back, looks at reality, realizes he has a snowball's chance in Barstow of winning, and decides not to run.

"Just last week, (Newt) Gingrich said he had given himself a deadline of Oct. 21 to raise $30 million in pledges for a possible White House bid, acknowledging the task was difficult but not impossible.

He abruptly dropped the idea Saturday, apparently unwilling to give up the chairmanship of American Solutions, the political arm of a Gingrich's lucrative empire as an author, pundit and consultant.

American Solutions, a tax-exempt committee he started last October, has paid for Gingrich's travel and has a pollster and fundraiser on staff. The outfit has raised more than $3 million, mostly from two benefactors who each gave $1 million: Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., and North Carolina real estate developer Fred Godley."

There was probably the little voice in his head, too, that said, "People aren't getting that excited about my pre-exploratory talk-show appearances..." It isn't that Gingrich is not a smart or capable guy, it's just that his name is attached to too much, well, history.

Journalist’s brutal slaying should be a wake-up call to the world

The photo on the front of the New York Times was chilling: A crowd of Burmese fleeing from soldiers on a rain-slicked street, while one man in khaki shorts and a checked shirt — wielding a camera, the Myanmar regime’s worst enemy — is left behind. Pushed to the pavement by a soldier, the Japanese journalist is killed with a shot through the heart. Subsequent photos and video show that the veteran correspondent for the APF news agency is left in the street to die. The images of the murder of Kenji Nagai will be to the Myanmar crackdowns as the Tank Man was to the Tiananmen Square massacre. In the face of tight media repression, Nagai tried to bring the story of the Burmese people’s fight for democracy and the vicious regime’s reaction to the outside world. And even though he died trying to do so, will the world pay attention? Considering the lackadaisical reaction thus far at the U.N., I’m not holding my breath.

The best part of U.N. week

I thought this pic of the president of Comoros was funny enough, but then I read that he's like the Sit 'N' Sleep president of the island nation as well. He owns mattress factories, but also lives above a store called The House of Mattresses. Comoros: Mattress Kingdom!

Another U.N. low

Mugging and shaking hands with the Myanmar foreign minister at the very moment the Burmese people are being mowed down in cold blood by the junta.

Pervy 'prophet' found guilty

Warren Jeffs, self-annointed prophet and grand pooh-bah of polygamist sect Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was found guilty today on two counts of rape as an accomplice for forcing a 14-year-old girl to wed and have sex with her 19-year-old cousin.

Predictably, Jeffs claimed he was being persecuted because of his religion. Well, there are a lot of religions with odd beliefs or customs around the world. But as politically correct and tolerant we are in our views of religion, it's important to know the difference between a religion and a destructive cult. One easy definition by former Moonie Steve Hassan, who now runs the Freedom of Mind Center to help people get out of cults:

"A destructive cult is a pyramid-shaped authoritarian regime with a person or group of people that have dictatorial control. It uses deception in recruiting new members (e.g. people are NOT told up front what the group is, what the group actually believes and what will be expected of them if they become members). It also uses mind control techniques to keep people dependent and obedient. ... Benign cult groups are any group of people who have a set of beliefs and rituals that are non-mainstream. As long as people are freely able to choose to join with full disclosure of the group's doctrine and practices and can choose to disaffiliate without fear or harassment, then it doesn't fall under the behavioral/ psychological destructive cult category."

Simply put, when you hurt other people you cease to be entitled to use a defense of "religious persecution" when called to answer for your crimes. The turning point in this case was the brave young woman who spoke up about her abuse. Hopefully this case will put on notice those cult figures who continue to deceive, buy influence, force or coerce their members into marrying, etc. And hopefully everyone will see that destructive cults didn't die with the 1970s.

What does the Arab world hear through our Iraq infighting?

Honestly, they're probably hearing that we're losing our national cohesiveness, that we've lost much of the will to fight -- as Osama predicted in 2001. Read more in my Los Angeles Daily News column today:

"During the week of the 'Petraeus/Betray us' brouhaha, an Arab-language satellite channel asked if I would come on and provide an American perspective on our internal debates over the Iraq war.

As things go in television, the segment was rain checked, but I couldn't stop thinking about the topic and the audience. After two weeks of wrangling over Gen. David Petraeus' testimony, MoveOn.org's discount ad treating the general like Benedict Arnold, congressional squabbling and proposed troop cutbacks, far-left ANSWER Coalition protests and more, how would I explain it all to a Middle Eastern audience?

How would I explain this ugly infighting among Americans to the average viewer in the Arab world?    

As Khalid Sheikh Mohammed compares Osama bin Laden to our great Gen. George Washington, how would they view the barbs Americans have thrown at our four-star general shouldered with the unenviable task of commanding forces in Iraq?

And how can I tell viewers that the venom being spewed across our airwaves and on our streets isn't indicative of America?    

Or is it?"

Read the whole thing!

Ahmadinejad: Scared of Holocaust survivors!

The dimwit’s Columbia speech is garnering all the attention — for good reason — but he sure dropped some doozies speaking to the National Press Club. Like when the moderator asked: “Would you be willing to meet with Holocaust survivors who wanted to discuss their experiences with you? And why or why not?”

AHMADINEJAD (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): What do you want to happen from this?

MODERATOR: I don’t — I’m just asking the question that was handed to me.

AHMADINEJAD (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I raised two questions about the Holocaust. I said if the Holocaust happened and is a reality — when, granted that the Holocaust is a reality, then why don’t we allow more research to be done on it? Why are European researchers sent to prison when they question some nature (ph) or aspect of it? Assuming that it — the Holocaust — well, the reality of the Holocaust is here, it saddens us when any human being is killed; Jews, Christians, Muslims — no difference.

How he snapped at the moderator is like the slightly more dignified way of saying, "Ewww!!! Keep them away from me!!!!"

Complete with Freudian slips as he tries to woo America! If it… er, when it; assuming that… er, well the reality…

The world according to Mahmoud

I woke up this morning to the sounds of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yammering on the TV, giving us enough sound bites to last through the rest of what will hopefully be his short reign. I mean, where does one start? Iran is supposedly gay-free, women are treated with respect when not being clubbed by religious police for showing skin, and the Holocaust needs further skeptical research like -- and he specifically said -- any other scientific issue like physics theories or math equations (thank you, Dr. Mengele). Ahmadinejad doubted al-Qaida's involvement in 9-11, and when asked to answer if he sought the destruction of Israel -- with a simple "yes" or "no" answer -- he wouldn't respond and went off on a tangent.

It's not surprising that Ahmadinejad said any of these things. It is sad that some people in the audience applauded some of his assertions. But as my friend Gay Patriot West (gays -- purely an American phenomenon, according to Mahmoud) points out, Ahmadinejad's Bush-hatred frankly makes him attractive to many Americans who have taken the mantra "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" way too far. GPW latches onto a Daily Kos post where a writer describes her crush on Ahmadinejad, passion stoked by mutual Bush-hatred.

And, in response to my earlier thoughts, apparently Columbia would welcome Adolf Hitler to speak! A dean at the school said:

"If (Hitler) were willing to engage in a debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly invite him."

Gee, would students then be assigned term papers to debate the merits and drawbacks of his "final solution"? If Hitler waltzed into New York to speak at a college campus, was given security by the state, was given a platform for his hate, how much culpability would the university then have when it comes to the continuance of his rule and the crimes he'd commit?

So a quick recap of Ahmadinejad's speech:

"Women are respected more than men are."

Well, Iran does extend the courtesy of shrouding women before they brutally stone them to death:

And, of course:

"Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country. We don't have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have it."

That would be because they exterminate gays every chance they get:

And I just heard a lefty colleague say, "Well, I think we just didn't understand him right on the gay quote... I think he was just saying it isn't as prevalent as in the U.S." I think you're an apologist for a tyrant, so there.