An Islamo-Nazi totalitarian dictator funds trips for Democrats in order to get media attention and stop the potential invasion and liberation of the citizenry  living under his jack-boot, and the Democrat Seattle Non-Intelligencer says, "Eh, no big deal. Nothing to see here. Please move along."

Ponder for a few moments those same circumstances but a mere 67 years earlier. Imagine if Warren Magnuson had take a trip to Nazi Germany, funded by Adolf Hitler, in order to forestall America going to war with Germany.

The Democrat Leftists running Seattle's main paper are moral idiots, as is the foolish Rep. Jim McDermott, whose district, I embarrassingly must admit, I live within.

Byron York gives a few tidbits from the recently released Obama tax returns from 2000 to 2006. According to what's in those documents, the Obama's only donated 0.5% of their income in 2001, 0.4% in 2002. In 2005 this skyrocketed up to a whopping 4.7%.

Tithing, the practice of giving at least 10% of one's income to one's church or synagogue. Apparently giving 10% isn't a virtue preached at Trinity United Church of Christ, the Obama's church for over 20 years. America-bashing, racism and giving antisemites "Man of the Year" awards - that Trinity UCC has plenty of time for. Teaching their congregation the virtues of tithing, that's something else entirely. Maybe "Rev." Wright was sympathetic with the Obama's plight of having to live off the paltry income of almost $260,000 in 2001, over $270,000 in 2002 and more than $1.6 million in 2005, and didn't want to stress the idea for a family facing such an economic hardship.

You are not reading that wrong.

For the next 30 days or so, you can read Neil Gaiman's American Gods for free. Gaiman's work might not be for everyone, but, as I've noted perviously I am a big fan. American Gods is a panoramic story that grabs myths from around the world and drops into the great American Melting Pot. Ever wonder what happens to myths when people stop believing in them. Click on over to American Gods and find out.

It took more than 10 years to finish the '91 Iraq war. All the while Saddam Hussein was attacking American forces who were patrolling the "No Fly Zones".

Currently Iran is attacking American forces in Iraq. How many years will go by and how many will die before we declare war in Iran?

War Heroes aren't what they used to be, especially when they are manipulated by the comic writers suffering from BDS. The cover certainly looks we might be getting a fantastical story in which America Servicemen become superhuman soldiers.



Are they getting 'supe'd up to take on Islamo-Nazi evil? Doesn't look that way to me (forgive the profanity).



In the midst of a war against Islamic theofascists, Mark Millar finds it necessary to pit American soldiers against ... Americans.

Is it any wonder that violent attacks against military recruiters like this, and this, and this happen?

But, I'm sure that Mr. Millar and and the folks at Image Comics are proud supporters of American men and women who wear the uniform and serve in harms way.

I noted, a few days ago, that Marvel's summer 2008 event is a massive crossover story running under the tag line: "Who do you trust?", which will go well into September, or perhaps further.

Michael Diaz, over at the Comics Bulletin, is beginning to wonder if this harbingers comics doom. He writes:

In the late 90s comics were in trouble because of incentive covers and the glut of far too many crossovers. I remember when Joe Quesada came to power as EiC of Marvel he said that there were far too many X-titles and too many crossovers within the company.

When Joe Quesada made these comments, "far too many X-titles" meant two core X-titles and several ancillary X-titles. Quesada's solution to this? Create 3 core X-titles and 10 ancillary X-titles. And the solution to the problem of too many crossovers is to add even more crossover titles. And when it comes to alternate covers, Marvel & DC are just as busy as ever publishing alternate covers for most their biggest titles. Though I think Marvel is guiltier in this than DC.

As the economy tightens and individual disposable income shrinks comic buying will undoubtedly decline. If the creators can keep the readers' interest this decline need not be all that steep. Readers will be hard pressed to keep interest high in the same story told by the same characters in spin off title after spin off title and crossover after crossover. Micheal Diaz notes that, as his personal and professional obligations increase, his free time decreases as does his interest in comics. I would argue that if the stories were compelling enough, then Mr. Diaz would probably find the time and interest in what was produced.

The stories are not compelling because the creators do not bring diverse world-views to the table. The massive Entertainment-Industrial Complex is a closed shop when it comes to diversity of thought. If you are of the Left you will be embraced and fetted by the EIC elite. If you are of the Right you will be cut out of projects and relegated to the veritable wasteland of independent production (and you'll be lucky if you can get that). If Marvel & DC wanted to attract new readers then they would be talking to the folks at Charlie Foxtrot Entertainment or like the creators of Matamoros, Sleet and Darius LaMonica.

Rather than end the blacklist against conservatives & libertarians creators, Marvel & DC would rather continue creating solely for the Scare-America audience.

Concerned over "Big Oil's" profits & what it is costing you  to fill the tank each week? Click on over to Red Planet Cartoons and get a short primer on oil company profits, taxes and who is really making the money as the cost per gallon goes up and up.

I've been reading and hearing a lot of commentary about David Mamet's conversion after a lifetime of being a "brain dead liberal". I have been skeptical of this, though I am happy, knowing that, at the very least, Mr. Mamet is taking conservative arguments seriously. It would be wonderful to see a Mamet play on Broadway that doesn't trash America, and hand a propaganda victory to our Islamo-Nazi enemies.

Exactly why I was skeptical eluded me, until I stumbled upon an ISI Forum topic, begun by Jeremy Beer, titled "David Mamet gets happy". In a handful of sentences Mr. Beer helped me gain understand my skepticism. David Mamet's political conversion essay, Beer writes,

"... illustrates that this is what our political categories come down to:

1. If you are a liberal and upset about things, you call yourself a liberal.

2. If you are a liberal but pretty happy about things (as indeed you should be if you are a liberal, as Mamet points out), you call yourself a conservative.

Now, mightn't there be a couple of categories left out of this beautiful analysis?        

I am glad to know that Mr. Mamet is reading Thomas Sowell, Milton Freidman, Paul Johnson and Shelby Steele. I'm delighted to read that he feels the American military "is ... made up of those men and women who actually risk their lives to protect the rest of us from a very hostile world." I'm thrilled that an elite member of the New York artistic community understands that "classes in the United States are mobile, not static, which is the Marxist view." But just how much a conversion took place? I ask this question because of the lies regarding President Bush Mamet perpetuates in his essay.

"Bush got us into Iraq" - No, actually it was Pres. George H. W. Bush, that began the war with Iraq. Pres. Clinton made regime change in Iraq American policy. Pres. Bush, whose hand was forced by the altered climate created by 9/11, put into action what these two presidents started.

"Bush stole the election in Florida" - No one but the most died-in-the-wool loony liberal believes this. Every study shows this is nothing but a pernicious lie.

"Bush outed a CIA agent" - Wrong, again, Mr. Mamet. The liberal holdover from the Clinton presidency, Richard Armitage "outed" Valerie Plame. Not George W. Bush.

"Bush lied about his military service" - How? Where? Pres. Bush is, as far as I know, proud of his military service in the Texas Air National Guard and never once claimed more nor less than this service. If anyone lied about Pres. Bush's military service it is the Left which continue the Big Lie that Pres. Bush dodged the Vietnam era draft. I would be willing to bet that David Mamet's votes during the 90's were cast for a very real draft dodger, William J. Clinton, who ran off to England rather than risk the possibility of military service in Vietnam.

"Bush was in bed with the Saudis" - The United States has been "in bed with the Saudis" ever since oil was discovered beneath the Saudi deserts and America shipped the equipment and know-how, allowing this corrupt regime to tap the massive reserves upon which they sat. That this is not healthy for anyone is rather self-evident. To put this solely at Pres. Bush's feet is, at the very least, dishonest.

I do not think that being a conservative means one must drink the Bush kool-aid. However, I do think that a principle conservative tenant is devotion to the truth. David Mamet, despite his "conversion", still believes a barrel load of lies about our current President.

So excuse me if I'm rather skeptical about this conservative "conversion" of a New York playwright.

Every summer sees some "event" book from DC & Marvel: Civil War, World War Hulk, 52, Countdown, Infinite Crisis, etc., etc. The movie studios have their tent pole summer movies, so do the comic publishers.

Marvel's tent pole for the summer of 2008 is Secret Invasion. An 8-issue series that brings the Marvel Universe together again. But don't think you'll be forking out a paltry $24.00, give or take, for this story.

According to a bit of marketing I received recently, during the month of July you can expect to shell out at least $45.00 to keep tabs on all the Secret Invasion storylines. And that's just one month and only halfway through the "event".

Marvel did the very same thing with Civil War. They fooled me once. They won't fool me again. Regarding Secret Invasion, you can keep your bloody secret.

Science Fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke has passed on to his great reward. I grew up reading Clarke and his work is a big part of why I am a science fiction fan.

While Clarke was an atheist, "Religion is a byproduct of fear ... For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?"

Despite his professed atheism, I pray that his creative genius is welcomed into heaven and the angels are regaled with his stories for eternity.

Here's a story both Main Scream Media and Alternative Media, though Investor's Business Daily and Roger Kimball are paying attention, are pretty much ignoring, while all the attention is on the rantings of Sen. B. Hussein Obama's insane spiritual advisor:

"Raul Reyes, the Colombian warlord and second-in-command of the Marxist-Leninist terror group FARC (short for “Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia”)" ... "cheerily reported to his inner circle that he met “two gringos” who assured him “the new president of their country will be [Sen. B. H.] Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support ‘Plan Colombia’ nor will he sign the TLC (Free Trade Agreement).” (emphasis added)

IBD notes some questions, related to this revalation, that should be answered by the Obama camp, but will likely never get asked:

1. Is it true Obama would cut off Plan Colombia military aid to our ally, which would serve the terrorist group FARC's interests?

2. Does Obama still oppose a free trade agreement for Colombia, even though that puts him on the same side as FARC in the debate?

3. Does Obama know or care that one of his staffers or supporters is claiming to disclose his positions in secret meetings with FARC terrorists outside government channels?

4. Can he tell us why his supporters would pass on such information to terrorists, and what he or she could gain from it?

5. Will Obama, as president, treat FARC as the serious terrorists they are, given that they still hold three Americans hostage?

 

Imagine, if you will, that John McCain sat in a church and declared as his spiritual advisor, a man who preached from the pulpit that the devastation Hurrican Katrina inflicted upon the black communities in New Orleans as "chickens are coming home to roost" and went on and on with hateful, racist attacks against black Americans.

Does anyone with an once of brains think that John McCain would not have been dogged with questions about this from the very beginning of his campaign? Does anyone honestly think that the media would have ignored what would be obvious, even to the most obtuse observer, racist rantings that might be linked to a Republican?

But that is exactly what has been happening with regards to Rev. Wright's racists, anti-American "preaching" that Sen. B. H. Obama has been listening from his beloved "spiritual advisor". Rolling Stone magazine reported this stuff back in February 2007. The rest of Main Scream Media is only now paying attention. And that is mostly because conservative radio and blogs have drawn attention to the "Reverends" insane rants.

I guess MSM was, as Chris Matthews stated, to focused on the "thrill running up [their] leg" watching Obama to notice the crazy preacher Obama consciously chose and admired.

Now that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright tapes are out and the public is getting an earful of what Barak Hussein Obama has been hearing for the last 20 years or so, the reaction is very interesting.

If it isn't clear, then that rabid organ of Right Wing Extremism, Rolling Stone magazine, will help with this, written in February 2007:

The Trinity United Church of Christ, the church that Barack [Hussein] Obama attends in Chicago .... The church is a leftover vision from the Sixties of what a black nationalist future might look like. There's the testifying fervor of the black church, the Afrocentric Bible readings, even the odd dashiki. And there is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a sprawling, profane bear of a preacher, a kind of black ministerial institution, with his own radio shows and guest preaching gigs across the country. Wright takes the pulpit here one Sunday and solemnly, sonorously declares that he will recite ten essential facts about the United States. "Fact number one: We've got more black men in prison than there are in college," he intones. "Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!" There is thumping applause; Wright has a cadence and power that make Obama sound like John Kerry. Now the reverend begins to preach. "We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!" The crowd whoops and amens as Wright builds to his climax: "And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS S**T!" (emphasis added)

This is as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from ... The senator "affirmed" his Christian faith in this church; he uses Wright as a "sounding board" to "make sure I'm not losing myself in the hype and hoopla." Both the title of Obama's second book, The Audacity of Hope, and the theme for his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 come from Wright's sermons. "If you want to understand where Barack gets his feeling and rhetoric from," says the Rev. Jim Wallis, a leader of the religious left, "just look at Jeremiah Wright."

And if that doesn't bring home B. Hussein Obama's radical roots and black nationalist longings, those rabid Rolling Stone conservatives continue:

Obama could have picked any church — the spare, spiritual places in Hyde Park, the awesome pomp and procession of the cathedrals downtown. He could have picked a mosque, for that matter, or even a synagogue. Obama chose Trinity United. He picked Jeremiah Wright. Obama writes in his autobiography that on the day he chose this church, he felt the spirit of black memory and history moving through Wright, and "felt for the first time how that spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the possibility of moving beyond our narrow dreams."

Those who long for "hope", "change" and "unity" have all but ordained Sen. B. H. Obama as the guy who should be the 44th President of these United States. God forbid another Islamo-Nazi attack occurs on American Soil (or anywhere in the world for that matter). Should it happen will "Pres. Obama" hear, "Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!" and "GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS S**T!" from his "spiritual advisor"?

Go to any college or university and you will be told that it is not the instructors job to teach students what to think. Rather the task is instruct the young on how to think. In a brief review of "Married Life", Barbara Nicolosi, an instructor at Azusa Pacific University, Origin Entertainment, Act One, the Los Angeles Film Study Center, and various other locals, gives us her experience with "thinking" Gen Xers:

"... after I have gone through the three elements of the beautiful from St. Thomas - wholeness, harmony and radiance - one of the undergrads will prop a limp elbow into the air - what is it with this generation that even asking a question in class has to be a statement on how ambivalent they are about even being there? - and then he or she will issue forth, "I don't agree."

And then I respond, pretending all the while that this is the first time I've heard the astonishingness, "You don't agree that there are elements to the beautiful? Okay, cool. Give me an argument."

"Well, I think, you know, that any body can just decide what, you know, they like."

"That's not an argument."

"I don't need to give you an argument. It's what I think. I have a right to my opinion."

Barbara clarifies that this isn't thinking, this is "resentment and petulance and the need to assert one's existence. But it ain't thinking." Furthremore, "every time you disagree with them, you suddenly find yourselves in a battle with their emotional survival."

The Baby Boomer Left has taken over education at all levels. This is the sour fruit of their pedagogy: Feelings and emotional survival trump thinking, argument and reasoned debate.

The massive majority of comic creators are disgustingly AWOL when it comes to the West's War on Islamo-Nazism. One writer, thankfully, is not.

Dirty Harry, at Libertas, has alerted me to one, of only three, anti-Jihadist comic books that has actually been published. It is titled Matamoros.

"Part political thriller, part war story, and part “classic” action comic book, Matamoros follows one of America’s heroes in the “Long War” - an ordinary guy who discovers that  only extraordinary situations exist when the enemy is a protean entity which refuses to adhere to the laws of war or the laws of civilized nations."

I'll be ordering my copy shortly. How about you?