They used to just move the goalposts. Now, they reverse them.

Let’s see. We still have troops in Kuwait, so we must have lost the Gulf War.
But we pulled our troops out of Mogadishu so we beat Somalia.
No American troops in Vietnam. Yeah, we won.
But we still have troops in Korea. Darn it, we lost the Korean War.
Troops still in Japan? We lost World War II.
Troops still in Germany? We lost World War I.
Troops still in the Philippines? We lost the Spanish-American War.
Troops still in the South? We lost the Civil War.

Related – mapping of Al Qaeda in Iraq, before and after.

Mark Steyn;

[A] recent panel convened at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London to discuss the topic “Is All Modern Art Left Wing?” The formal discussion was dreary and predictable but things turned livelier when it was opened to the floor, and the question of double standards was raised: “Courageous” artists seemed happy to mock Christianity but curiously reluctant to hurl equivalent jibes at Islam. Grayson Perry, the Turner Prize-winning transvestite artist who looks very fetching in his little Disney-princess frocks, reveals that he self-censors when it comes to Muslims because “I don’t want my throat cut.”
But that doesn’t entirely explain it, does it? Earlier this year, Channel 4 in London broadcast a documentary called Undercover Mosque in which various imams up and down the land were caught on tape urging men to beat their wives and toss homosexuals off cliffs. Viewers reported some of the statements to the local constabulary. The West Midlands police then decided to investigate not the fire-breathing clerics but the TV producers. As the coppers saw it, insofar as any “hate crime” had been perpetrated, it lay not in the urgings and injunctions of the imams but in a TV production so culturally insensitive as to reveal the imams’ views to the general public. As The Spectator’s James Forsyth put it, “The reaction of West Midlands police revealed a mindset that views the exposure of a problem as more of a problem than the problem itself.”

h/t

To Bill D. Cat goes the revered Rosie O’Donnell statuette:

pu leze
4 teh
chillinz
h8
bush 2

I know you’ll treasure it, Bill.
The coveted Moonbat Purity Award goes to jonathan horsington, who scored a perfect 10 on style points:

everbody knows bush cheny runsfelt setup and enginered 911 and its proven in 40000 websites, the list is endless!!
ibet uyou dont know that the illuminatii bildrberger congress MIC are under ordees from them to spray chemtrails for the new order. i know. googleit and see.

Leftie Logic Award goes to jetski:

Watch out people, At this moment Bush & the Neocons are slaughtering innocent Iraqi babies & when they’re done they will be going after a Womans’ Right to Choose!

Alex is winner in the CanCon Division. Because we needed it for the arts grant:

The only reason there were election wins for Harper in Canada and Sarkozy in France were because the evil Chimp McBushitler sent Cheeky’s evil minions from Haliburton to steal wins for those people! I wouldn’t be surprise if even Saskatchewan’s election was stolen! It happened in the US, people! It happened here! Look it up! There are documentaries on this!!!

Friend of USA gets the nod for Spot The Evil Genius:

“We know every thing is not a Bush conspiracy.
But we also know the only reason Bush chooses to not be behind everything is to make us look paranoid.”

Glenn was just clever, so gets this honourable mention:

GEORGE BUSH SMUGGLED OIL FROM IRAQ TO MELT THE STEEL AT WTC SIMULTANEOUSLY INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF CO2 POLLUTION INTO THE ATMOSPHERE WHICH CREATED KATRINA. HE HAS NO ONE TO PLAME BUT HIMSELF

Runner-Up to Wimpy Canadian. [If for any reason the winner cannot complete his reign, you will take his place as Moonking]:

CHIMPBUSHITLER IS STUPID AND RULES THE WORLD … oh, wait a minute.

And (drum roll) this year’s winner for Best Overall goes to Canadian Infidel (sorry for the nick mixup!) for this work of art.

Two words – Bush, necrophilia
GOOGLE IT!

One final honourable mention to irwin daisy for this retort to a sniffy leftie. While it doesn’t strictly qualify as an entry, it does seem the perfect way to close the evening:

“Is this little exercise designed to make you guys feel better about backing the wrong horse?”
He won, or should I say, stole, two elections. And personally gave the orders to fly two planes into the twin towers, in order for his cabal to secure oil rights in Iraq.
I’d say he’s the winning horse.

(You can read the full list of entries here).

Then why can’t I sell a kidney?
Update– Important points by David Freddoso on a related issue.

Reagan was right about everything.

University;

Students living in the university’s eight housing complexes are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs). The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a “diversity facilitation training” session at which RAs were taught, among other things, that “[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.”

Update – University of Delaware President Patrick Harker:

“While I believe that recent press accounts misrepresent the purpose of the residential life program at the University of Delaware, there are questions about its practices that must be addressed and there are reasons for concern that the actual purpose is not being fulfilled. It is not feasible to evaluate these issues without a full and broad-based review.
Upon the recommendation of Vice President for Student Life Michael Gilbert and Director of Residence Life Kathleen Kerr, I have directed that the program be stopped immediately. No further activities under the current framework will be conducted.”

Warmer winters, wetter summers, and now – deader rodents.
I’m failing to see the downside in this.
Update – Commentor Raphael Alexander; “You can’t on the one hand say it isn’t happening, and on the other say ‘but if it is… x’.”
Yes we can – because we’re smart enough to understand that no matter whether it’s happening or whether it’s not, no matter whether we’re causing it or whether we’re not – that the only folly more profound than the notion that mankind can “change the weather”, is the folly that argues that we can change it back.

It coulda been worse, cat – some Clinton pets have been known to find themselves thrown under a bus…

Is the opportunity to turn on a local radio newscast and hear “the accused is currently serving time for throwing a rock at a federal buliding in Fargo”.
Heh.

Eh….. what?

Kyoto … goodbye.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said the environmental proposals are too vague to defeat the government on.

To you progressive true-green believers still worshipping at the altar of Kyoto – how’s that working for you?
Elizabeth May has just conceded she no more believes in “catastrophic global warming” than she does the tooth fairy. Like Stephane Dion and Al Gore and so many others, when a politician signals that their personal political fortunes trump “saving the planet”, I don’t think you have to worry too much about the planet.
No wonder Cherniak is closing shop to pursue other elvin opportunities. The fairy tale was wearing thin even for him.
More: “At most [the Liberals] have two surrender-monkey acts to perform to keep the government in business before they become a Liberal laughingstock.”

According to Air America host Randi Rhodes was beaten badly while walking her dog on Sunday. Of course, it was obvious who the culprits were…

“Is this an attempt by the right wing hate machine to silence one of our own,” [AAR late night host Jon Elliott] asked. “Are we threatening them. Are they afraid that we’re winning. Are they trying to silence intimidate us.”

It prompted an outpouring of sympathy in the comments – “I hope the dog wasn’t harmed!” … “Maybe if she were armed it wouldn’t have come to this.”… “I thoughr Air America was bankrupt?”
UPDATE!

“She, in fact, fell down and injured her teeth outside of a Midtown Irish bar at around 6 o’clock Sunday evening after downing about fourteen Ketel One Bloody Marys. She was abusive to the barstaff and generally gross, crass, loud, and pretentious.”

I still hope the dog is OK.

You can bid here.

Just to know he had his hopes raised.

They get stuff like analagees and stuff like that.

30 years ago;

Thoughtful people worried that we had reached “the limits of growth,” the point at which the world would begin running out of natural resources. Prime minister Pierre Trudeau warned Canadians, most notoriously in his Dec. 28, 1975, end of year interview: “We haven’t been able to make it work, the free enterprise system.”

SABC News;

[South Africa’s] Health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, says cooperation between South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique has led to a 90% reduction in new malaria infections in the three countries.
Tshabala-Msimang says this has been achieved through the use of Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), an agent that kills the malaria-carrying mosquitoes. She was speaking at one of the commissions of the People’s Assembly in Bizana, which was discussing the health situation in the country. […]
“… They wanted to tell us that we mustn’t use DDT for indoor residual spraying because it destroys vegetables and… fauna and we just said, ‘Look in Europe they conquered malaria because they used DDT’… The Italians told us that, ‘Don’t listen to what they are saying, we conquered malaria because we just killed the mosquitoes’ (sic),” said Tshabalala-Msimang.

Good for them.

[On Sept. 20]“… the UN Human Rights Council launched a special agenda item singling out Israel for permanent indictment. The special debate criticizing Israel allowed the Palestinian representative to take the floor and accuse Israel of “atrocities”, Syria to charge Israel with “Judaising” the Golan, and the Islamic group to protested Israel’s entry of Syrian airspace. Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement complained Israel was excavating around the Al-Aqsa mosque. Iran, Kuwait, Algeria, and Venezuela and others also joined in condemning the Jewish state.”

Transcript here.

University;

“Yes, diversity in all things. Except, of course, in thought. Presumably, Professor Stanton is also “stunned”, “appalled” and “deeply offended” by the over-representation of, say, gay people in the spheres of arts and drama, or of women in the caring professions, or of Indian employees in Indian restaurants. Perhaps some recalibration of those industries is also in order, to ensure suitable diversity.

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