A seventeen-year-old kid, the son of a friend of LC Krondax’s, who was brutally murdered recently. A suspect has been arrested.

If that suspect turns out to be the murderer, or when somebody else is determined to be the murderer, the entire focus will then be, as we all know, on how to be “humane” and “reasonable” when it comes to determining his punishment. Not a single moment of thought will be spent on considering that that animal isn’t even human, that he brutally murdered an innocent and not only took him out of the lives of those who knew and loved him, but destroyed everything that Jason could ever have been.

It will be all about the murderer, and nobody will give a damn about the murdered.

But we can find comfort in the fact that, even though earthly justice has been rendered worthless thanks to our own spinelessness and cowardly failure to do what has to be done, heavenly justice is unaltered. Animals in human guise walk among us and we have chosen, due to our own cowardice, to ignore that fact. Fortunately, our failings, our worthlessness, our unwillingness to face the wolves among us doesn’t change eternal justice. But it does say a great deal about us, and none of it good.

But that doesn’t bring Jason back to us. So we offer our prayers, our condolences for what pitifully little they’re worth, to the friends and loved ones of Jason Grau. May G-d give them strength and the knowledge that justice will be done and that they will all meet again.

We cannot imagine the pain they’re in now, but we can pray that Almighty G-d will lessen the load.

And we will.

Thatisall.

Both to start of the celebrations and to give you a thread to talk about it in.

Adam Gadahn, the goat farmer and traitor to his own country, has been nabbed.

No, the “goat farmer” isn’t just a random insult, that’s actually what he used to be. No wonder he ended up with — those people.

Our celebrations are tempered by the fact that he was captured, however, as opposed to “scraped out of a hole in the ground.” Because now we’ll be treated to yet another miscarriage of justice where “compassion” supersedes the Rule of Law. See “Johnny Walker Lindh, traitor who dodged proper punishment for his crimes because ‘law’ doesn’t mean anything anymore.”

There is only one proper punishment for treason, and that is hanging by the neck until dead. Our forefathers knew it, as a matter of fact it the crime of treason is specifically mentioned in the Constitution, but he won’t ever face that punishment. A horde of liberal lawyers, friends of Ogabe, will stampede to defend that vermin and he will be granted a lifetime of being taken care of, on the taxpayers’ dime.

Which serves no purpose other than to declare to the world that we are a nation who has lost its direction, a nation that will suffer any insult, any crime, as long as we’re not seen to be “mean.”

A nation that no longer deserves to exist.

There is no higher crime than to betray your own, and those who do so must be eliminated. Mercilessly and publicly. Not out of a sense of revenge, but to establish an example, an example so horrible, horrifying, as to discourage anybody on the fence from doing the unspeakable. And to declare to the world that those who violate that most sacred concord, the concord of brotherhood, the concord of honoring your oath, removes you from humanity.

You are no longer human if you cross that line.

Without that rule, no society of man can long survive.

And we don’t have that anymore.

We have become too weak, and our decline is as just as it is inevitable.

Unless we find our way again.

Thatisall.

I was really only going to make this a short announcement regarding the deplorable tendency of certain individuals to think that this site, be it the comments or the Bark, is All About Them™ to the point where participating becomes a pain in the arse to everybody else.

Yes, you know who you are. I’m not even going to dignify your tantrums by calling you out because, quite frankly, you are not worth it.

But the specific nature of the latest spat made me think about something else, something that might actually be interesting as opposed to me just wasting my time playing referee, a task that I neither want nor feel is worth my time.

It is the subject of hypersensitivity towards criticism.

Is this the best country on the planet, is this the only place I’d ever want to live and die in? Yes. Because if it weren’t so, I wouldn’t be here. I’d be in some other better country. I am extremely grateful for having been adopted by this great nation, for having been welcomed like any native son, but I am not here “just” because of that. I’m here because I truly, fully, without hesitation believe that this is the place to be, that there is no other place on Earth better than here.

This is my home. Every blade of grass is sacred to me, every square inch of United States soil is part of me and I would and will die to protect and defend it. Gladly. I challenge anybody to question my patriotic bona fides.

But does that mean that I will suffer no criticism of her, no matter how justified, does that mean that I think that we’re perfect? Not by a long shot. By a much longer shot than anyplace else on Earth – again, if I felt otherwise I wouldn’t be here – but that doesn’t mean that we’re the leader in every single field of human endeavor.

Take education, for instance, something that has been brought up. I don’t mean to piss in my own nest, but the level of education in this country leaves a lot to be desired. Not because Americans are “dumb”, not even close, Americans, a tribe that I am immensely proud to belong to, are some of the smartest, innovative, creative people that ever existed, but because our schools are fucked up. They’ve BEEN fucked up to the point where it pains me to see the results they churn out.

Allow me to give an example: I’m not patting myself on the back here because I’m not in any way exceptional compared to my peers in my native country, but when I was in 11th grade I could do differential equations in my sleep, integration was second nature, I understood complex numbers and n-space, I spoke four languages, I was as familiar with biochemistry as I was with the history of civilization all the way back to the first scattered villages around the Euphrates, I had read a vast portion of the classics and Iambic Pentameter wasn’t Greek to me, I could give you an accurate account of the history of the Roman Empire from the First Punic War to the Fall, there was not a capitol in the entire world that I could not place on a map, I could ride a horse, fire a gun, sail a boat and lead men in battle, quote Shakespeare and Pericles at the drop of a hat and that’s only part of it.

Again: This is NOT because I was a “prodigy”, it was because it was required of me. If I couldn’t do all of those things, I would have never graduated.

And here I constantly run into people with degrees who can’t even fucking spell in their OWN language.

Does me pointing that out make me a “hater” or a “traitor” or an “ungrateful bastard?”

If so, then I’m proud to be all of the above.

But the truth, the truth is that my only motivation for ever bringing up these criticisms whenever I do is that I love my country.

“Better than the rest overall” doesn’t quite cut it when it comes to what I want for these our United States of America.

In every competitions there are two, and ONLY two placements: “Winner and ‘also ran’”

“Also ran” isn’t good enough for our nation. I want, I INSIST on our nation being the best in every field known to man. Every. Single. Field.

Because we’re worth it and we can do it. Second best is not acceptable. I want the rest of the world, no matter what the subject matter is, to look up to us and to realize that nobody does it better than us. Because we DESERVE that. But we’ll have to work to get there, and anybody standing in the way of that needs to be eradicated. Ruthlessly.

We already have a jump start since we are, indisputably, way ahead of the rest of the field in the “overall” category.

But that’s still not good enough. “Good enough” is for losers. We, Americans, my fellow beloved countrymen, are NOT LOSERS.

And the only way we can ever get out of being mired in “good enough” is to accept criticism when it’s warranted. If we’re lagging behind in some field, any field, then we need to acknowledge that and put our energy into changing that, NOT wasting it on denying reality.

And, dammit, we USED to be all about that! When we saw a shortcoming in the way we did things, we USED to take it to heart and make ourselves better rather than just pounding our chests and screaming “we’re the best, no matter what you say.” That’s what made us big, that’s what made us strong. We adopted the best practices of the rest of the world when they proved more efficient than ours and we ended up as the most powerful nation on Earth because of it.

We DIDN’T behave like hypersensitive, spoiled little brats when we were forced to acknowledge that we had something to learn. We adapted, adopted and not only copied what others had found, we ended up doing it BETTER than them.

When Patton was faced with the reality that the Germans knew blitzkrieg, control of the battlefield through superior mobility and disrupting the enemy’s OODA loop, better than us did he react by throwing insults at the Germans and stubbornly insisting that, even though they may have kicked our arses at Kasserine, we were STILL better than they were?

No. He did not. He read their books, he copied their tactics, he refined them and he threw it right back in their Teuton faces in France and, as a result, the Krauts never recovered until the Siegfried Line. He took criticism, learned from it and came out better on the other end.

That’s how you deal with criticism, with your own shortcomings. You realize that you’re behind the curve, you find out why you’re behind the curve, and then you do it better than anybody else. You do NOT respond by whining, screaming and insulting anybody daring to criticize you, claiming that your way is the best way no matter what.

That’s what losers do, and Americans are NOT losers.

I want my country to be the best. Not just in one field, not just in many fields, but in every fucking field known to man. And then some. And that means that, from time to time, I will point out flaws in how we do things and suggest better ways of doing them.

Because I LOVE my country, not because I hate it.

Thatisall.

We can only wonder where the clown writing this breathless nonsense for ABC spend the last thirty years.

Time to break out the Imperial Fisking Stick™. It needs some exercise, but it’ll be long, so feel free to skip it.

Joe Stack Hailed as Hero in American ‘Patriot’ Resurgence
Expert: Online Cheers for Joe Stack Reflect Growing Anti-Government Movement

Nice use of headline. Right off the bat we’ve defined people who are patriots and who are against the overreach and tyranny of the government as “people who love Joe Stack.” Keep that in mind. If you believe in the foundations this country was founded upon, if you love your country, and if you believe that government should act within Constitutional guidelines as set down by the people to whom we owe the very existence of this nation, then you’re somebody who just might set fire to his own family and fly a plane into an office building.

It’s a good thing George Washington wasn’t a private pilot, we guess. It’s funny how liberals in the Lamestream Media sound more and more like King George and his minions with every passing day.

Anyway, moving on:

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…in which His Imperial Majesty, once again, decides to annoy part of his readership with waxing theological.

Well, not really. It’s not so much the question of “is there a G-d?” we’d like to babble on about, that question is, by definition, a matter of faith and, as a good Christian, all we have to say on that is “to each his own” and “what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?”

It’s the annoying amusing tendency among brilliant airhead to, every once in a while, fall victim to their compulsive urge to, once again, put forth the “a truly omnipotent and kind G-d would never allow this; therefore He does not exist” argument. And here’s yet another example.

Summary: “People are sometimes born with horrible mutations, therefore G-d is either evil or non-existent.”

Yes, it amuses us, but feel free to skip the explanation why. We’ll still be friends.

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…looks like there’s a possibility that the Tea Party may come to the rescue of Harry Screech (h/t DPUD):

Jon Ralston reports the Tea Party has qualified as a third party in Nevada and will have a candidate in the U.S. Senate race.

Assuming the Tea Party candidate would draw votes away from the Republican candidates, it may be just the thing Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) needs to win in a race where he’s run behind in polls for months.

Gee… Reminds His Imperial Majesty of Perot and the 8 glorious years that followed as a result.

Which part of “kick out our bums in the primaries, their bums in the general elections” is too effing hard to understand here? Yes, yes, we know. We the People, RINOs, time for a change and all that and we’re all in favor of it too, really we are. And heck, if the Tea Party candidate steamrollers a RINO in the primary, then our marching orders are clear.

But, let’s face it, the RINO in the general election would have to be pretty damn bad to be worse than Harry Fucking Screed, now wouldn’t he? So just exactly where do we, and the nation for that matter, stand to gain from letting him ride a third party protest vote into office? Really, now. We need to know, because we sure as Hades can’t see it.

Would His Imperial Majesty like to see the GOP get a kick in the pants and be sent riding off into the sunset (and hopefully off a cliff)? Indeed he would. But right now, with the most radically socialist administration in the history of our nation in control of all three houses, we’d settle for a heavy dose of gridlock or, at the very least, removing the NSDWP stranglehold on government.

And helping one of the worst scumbags of the NSDWP escape an otherwise almost certain electoral bloodbath by splitting the vote isn’t the way to do this. So here’s another suggestion to the Tea Party of Nevada: How ’bout running your candidate against the GOP candidate in the primaries? If he or she can’t win there, then it’s quite unlikely that it will happen in the general election, but the candidacy certainly will siphon votes away from the Reid Ass-Whuppin’ if it’s a third party candidacy.

Just talking strategery here. If that makes His Majesty a squish, then so be it. We just happen to be a squish who’s sick and tired of socialist tyranny, not “just” because we’ve seen already what it’s doing to this country, but also because we’ve seen and lived under what we’ll get here if that particular train isn’t run off the tracks.

And it ain’t pretty.

Thatisall.

I know all of you peasants are currently getting ready for the SuperBowl and there’s nothing wrong with that. So am I.

But it’s Sunday, so for those who are thusly inclined, I offer the most beautiful, in my opinion, rendition of Schubert’s “Ave Maria”

We are all in the hands of G-d, and in these troubled times, turning to Him for comfort… It’ll all be alright.

I just found out, thanks to random clickage of links I don’t hardly ever get a chance to click on, that our very own Deej is in a bit of a dump, financially speaking, right now.

And obviously he can’t be arsed to let his friends know because, well, he’s got the same kind of silly pride that yours truly suffers from. He’s never going to ask himself, so I’ll just do it for him.

Regardless, if you have a few shekels that you don’t need for anything, I’m sure they’d be much appreciated. And if you don’t, well we’re all pretty much fucked financially these days, so don’t worry about it. No obligations, implied or otherwise.

Thatisall.

…unless we lose interest, of course.

Add “and should therefore never be allowed to vote” to “functionally retarded.”

We’ve spent decades wondering how anybody with an IQ above that of a turnip would ever vote for somebody (a liberal) who actually believes that expanding government and spending tax funds to “stimulate” the economy would ever work better, or even as well as just keeping them out of the equation.

The main reason is, of course, that we actually paid attention in school and that we, as a consequence, are unable to make sense of something that is, on its face, nonsensical. We shouldn’t even bother, we know, but it’s like watching somebody cranking their thermostat up higher and higher to keep warm instead of just closing the damn front door and all the windows. Deep in your heart you know that you ought to put restraints on them for their own good, but somehow you can’t help wondering just how on Earth they managed to get so utterly oblivious to basic reality and, by the way, surely they must realize at some point that they’re being utter morons.

Instead, you end up having to listen to the clown whining about his gas bill.

And thus it is with the economy and the idiocy of claiming that what it really needs is for the government to pour some “stimulus money” into it. You might feel tempted, if you ever read a basic book on economics, to start explaining things like “money supply”, “investment capital”, “savings” and “where the fuck do tax funds actually come from” to them, but you must keep in mind that you’d be talking to the intellectual equivalent of a garden slug. Those are cretins who would vote for somebody like Ogabe, after all, and who most likely were clapping their flippers like trained seals the other night every time Teh Won mentioned spending their own money on giving it to other people as a “solution” to them being unable to pay their mortgages.

You might as well try to explain astrophysics to a skunk.

To them, having the government take their money, then giving it to somebody else for that other party to spend, is somehow always more brilliant than letting them keep it to spend for themselves. Somehow, having a bureaucrat with absolutely no concept of Econ 101 touch their money makes it so much more productive. It’s magic, we tell you. Unicorns. Skittle farts.

So let’s keep things simple.

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If the U.S. health care system is so utterly broken, why isn’t Michael Moore DEMANDING that we stop torturing all of those poor Haitian earthquake victims with it and send them to Cuba?

We’ll be waiting, with bated breath, for your enlightening spin explanation.

F.E.T.E.