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Stop the ACLU

Check out Jay’s Stop the ACLU blog. I’ve touched on the ACLU and how it doesn’t have A C-L-U-e about America and what makes it great. The organization’s founder was a Communist, and his organization hasn’t deviated much from its inception.

However, this blog is a great resource that keeps tabs on the ACLU, as well as their crazy moonbat allies on the left. It’s always nice to know from time to time what the other side is up to, regardless of how anemic its support may be.

Anyway, I’ve linked to his blog now, and it will be a regular part of my blogosphere diet.

October 24, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

British banks get P.C. to curry favor with Muslims

Thanks to Kira for alerting me to this nonsense. From the Aussies:

British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims.

Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here.

Muslims do not eat pork, as Islamic culture deems the pig to be an impure animal.

Salim Mulla, secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, backed the bank move.

“This is a sensitive issue and I think the banks are simply being courteous to their customers,” he said.

Nothing helps to combat the image that Islam is a religion of intolerance more than banning a freakin’ piggy bank…just to convice them that you’re not as intolerant as they are.

“Please don’t hate us! Here…look! We’ve banned the piggy bank! Feel better?”

To be fair, according to a Muslim MP in Parliament, this is stupid:

Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban.

“We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another,” Mr Mahmoud said.

“I doubt many Muslims would be seriously offended by piggy banks.”

Yeah, well…what the hell does he know about Muslims! It’s not like he is one, anyway! Oh, wait…yes, he is. Then I guess the non-Muslim banks just know more about Islam than a Muslim MP, huh?

October 24, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Key West evacuates without the feds?

I was watching the local morning show yesterday morning, and the anchorwoman said that Key West had loaded up some of the city buses and transported evacuees up to Miami’s Florida International University. FIU is their hurricane shelter, I guess.

It dawned on me: “How can Key West do that?”

I mean, they didn’t wait for the federal government to step in. They didn’t wait for the feds to send Amtrak, Greyhound, UPS, FedEx, Domino’s Pizza drivers, or anyone else to come get them. No, the city made the decision at the local level to use its resources to evacuate those who were incapable of evacuating on their own. How is this possible?

This development may come as a shock to moonbats who believe that the already-bloated federal government should be making decisions like these. A city prepping for its own evacuation…what a novel idea! Next thing you know, the state of Florida may actually have a contingency plan for dealing with the aftermath. What? They already do? Both city AND state plans that don’t rely on federal handholding? This is chaos, I tell ya…pure insanity!

Someone send a memo to New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco that there do exist elected officials who know what to do when a hurricane comes bearing down on their areas.

October 24, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

UPDATE: Haloscan supposedly fixed now

Haloscan is supposed to allow comments again. Apparently, they’re testing a spam comment filter, and it worked TOO well…it thought all comments were spam. Granted, some are annoying and tiresome, but that’s not the same as spam!

Anyway, my apologies for Haloscan’s error. I’m still searching for a more reliable service, but it’s hard to beat Haloscan’s price of $0.00. Then again, I guess I’m getting what i paid for it!

October 24, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Biden: Dems will contest every state

No, not like Al Gore contests states. No, Dem prez candidate in ’08, Sen. Joe Biden from Delaware, says that Dems will try to compete in every state, regardless of how red it may be. From the AP:

U.S. Senator Joe Biden says if Democrats are to retake the White House and Congress, they must be more active in and win states like Kentucky.

We here at the Crush Liberalism Objective World News Service (CLOWNS) have obtained a partial transcript of Senator Biden’s campaign speech in Kentucky:

BIDEN: It’s important that we blunt the efforts of those gun-toting, pickup-driving, Bible-reading, inbred rednecks in the next election!

(Aide whispers into Biden’s ear)

BIDEN (murmuring): Dammit! Of all the speeches for me to plagiarize, why did I have to lift Howard Dean’s MoveOn 2004 campaign fundraiser speech from Berkeley?!

Looks like Senator Plagiarism is off to a rocky start for 2008.

October 24, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Bush to pick Greenspan’s replacement today?

According to the AP story, Bush may name Greenspan’s replacement today. Greenspan’s term ends Jan. 31, and apparently, it’s not going to be renewed. I don’t know if it was his choice or not.

Well, in light of some of Bush’s other crony-based picks, such as his personal lawyer for the U.S. Supreme Court, maybe Bush will pick his personal accountant as the Fed chairman! We’ll find out soon enough.

October 24, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Comment problems?

It’s Haloscan…again. Haloscan is what I use for comments and trackbacks, and it appears to be flaky and unreliable again. If you try to comment and can’t, you (likely) haven’t been banned. I’d recommend saving your comments to a file (text file, Word document, etc.), then try later to copy-and-paste them in.

Sorry about that. I’m looking for a new free comment and tracking tool (better than Blogspot’s, which is pretty lame), hopefully more reliable.

October 24, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment