William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

Quick, guess which story Foxnews.com is currently highlighting on the front page of its Web site. All of these are actual current news stories, by the way:

1) U.S. Generals expected to be shuffled, as Iraq policy shifts.

2) Bush warns of new sacrifices in Iraq

3) Rival groups in Somalia agree to peace talks

4) N.Korea nuclear talks to continue through Friday

5) Joy Behar of “The View” asks Hillary Clinton softball questions

If you picked No. 5, well, then you understand how Rupert Murdoch’s sick, demented, destroy-a-nation’s-media mind works. Joy. Fucking. Behar.

I kid you not, I am literally shocked that Fox News “Journalists” aren’t blowing their brains out daily. It honestly should be a suicide-fest over there.

Seriously, Joy Behar could spend all day, every day on “The View” calling the Pope a transexual pedophile Nazi, and you still wouldn’t put it on the front page of anything except maybe “Joy Behar Monthly.” By definition, she is not newsworthy.

–WKW

When 95 percent of the nation is having pre-marital sex, just who the hell is the government giving all that money to for faith-based abstinence programs?

–WKW

In a move that smacks of “Hey, we’ve seen this before,” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has begun moving toward having a single, pro-government party run things in poor-as-dirt nation.

From the Associated Press:

Venezuela’s ruling party took the first step Monday toward creating a single pro-government party, a move opponents criticized as a push to consolidate more power in the hands of President Hugo Chavez after his landslide re-election.

Ruling party leader Willian Lara said the Fifth Republic Movement was being dismantled in order to merge with other parties in the new Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela. Before he was re-elected Dec. 3, Chavez proposed the new party to consolidate and unify a collection of loosely allied parties as he steers the oil-producing country toward socialism.

Critics argue the push for one pro-government party is strikingly similar to
Fidel Castro’s creation of a single party in Cuba in the early 1960s.

In a speech Friday, Chavez said Venezuela needs a governing party that is “at the service of the revolution and the people — not at the service of the political parties.” He said parties will be free not to join if they wish.

“Those parties that wish to preserve themselves, they will leave the government,” he said.

Experts have battled over whether Chavez’s rule in Venezuela - where “finding food” and “winning Miss Universe Pageants” rank as top hobbies - have helped or hindered the population.

One thing is sure, however, this radical move by Chavez will anger many, even those in the U.S. seem to feel that two parties is one too many.

–WKW

Republican Rep. Virgil Goode obviously doesn’t understand the basic tenants of being a religious fanatic. Which means he’s a religious fanatic, just a poor one. Let me break it down for Goode:

1) Only the radical and fringe care about Rep.-elect Keith Ellison being Muslim.

2) Only the radical and fringe care about him wanting to swear in - in a private ceremony - with his hand on the Koran. It’s exactly as silly as swearing in with your hand on the Bible, or with your hand on Jaqueline Susann’s “Valley of the Dolls.”

3) The religoids amongst us, like yourself, like Ellison, LOVE to feel persecuted against. Freaking LOVE it. And it totally helps their cause.

4) Your brilliant “Hey, I’m a religious freak, but I’m not a religious freak like THEM, we must create laws to keep THEM out of the country” letter, has in effect, helped Islam greatly in the U.S., which, in theory at least, is still a free country.

5) I find that funny as hell.

Goode’s letter to supporters:

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515-4605

December 7, 2006

Dear Xxxxxxx:

Thank you for your recent communication. When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran. We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country. I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.

The Ten Commandments and “In God We Trust” are on the wall in my office. A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, “As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, The Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.” Thank you again for your email and thoughts.

Sincerely yours,
Virgil H. Goode, Jr.
70 East Court Street
Suite 215
Rocky Mount, Virginia 24151

At least Goode and those like him are making a stand - they want the Republican Party to be the party of of xenocide and limited speech. The Little Green Footballs and American Nazi Party voters are in your back pocket now.

–WKW

Some war-hungry Web sites (the kind that use terms like “Islamonazi” repeatedly) are hailing this as great news:

From Newsweek:

Blood and Money

In what might be called the mother of all surprises, Iraq’s economy is growing strong, even booming in places.

By Silvia Spring
Newsweek International

Dec. 25, 2006 - Jan. 1, 2007 issue - It may sound unreal, given the daily images of carnage and chaos. But for a certain plucky breed of businessmen, there’s good money to be made in Iraq.

Civil war or not, Iraq has an economy, and—mother of all surprises—it’s doing remarkably well. Real estate is booming. Construction, retail and wholesale trade sectors are healthy, too, according to a report by Global Insight in London.

Wow..Booming, eh?

Estimates vary, but one from Global Insight puts GDP growth at 17 percent last year and projects 13 percent for 2006. The World Bank has it lower: at 4 percent this year. But, given all the attention paid to deteriorating security, the startling fact is that Iraq is growing at all.

Yeah, startling.

How? Iraq is a crippled nation growing on the financial equivalent of steroids, with money pouring in from abroad.

Umm, that’s good, right?

Iraq’s problems are daunting, to say the least. Unemployment runs between 30 and 50 percent.

Ok, that’s not quite so good.

Many former state industries have all but ceased to function. As for all that money flowing in, much of it has gone to things that do little to advance the country’s future. Security, for instance, gobbles up as much as a third of most companies’ operating budgets, whereas what Iraq really needs are hospitals, highways and power-generating plants.

You know, this is sort of sounding like how the U.S. economy is booming, also.

There’s even a positive spin to be put on corruption. Money stolen from government coffers or siphoned from U.S. aid projects does not just disappear. Again, says Farid Abolfathi, a Global Insight analyst, it’s the “trickledown” effect. Such “underground activity” is the most dynamic part of Iraq’s economy, he says. “It might not be viewed as respectable. But in reality, that’s what puts money in the hands of the little people.”

Seems like Newsweek has gonme the extra mile when it comes to positive spinning. Combine this story with Newsweeks’ hiding of the Hillary Clinton vs. John McCain poll numbers, and you wonder what’s going on over there.

I guess the silver lining is supposed to be this: Sure, Iraq is a hellhole, but the war profiteers haven’t left yet, so it can’t be that bad.

–WKW

In an election of local council races, it is appearing more and more like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s party will be suffering losses.

From the Associated Press:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suffered an embarrassing blow in local council races, according to partial election results Monday, in voting viewed as a sign of public discontent with his hard-line stance.

The balloting represented a partial comeback for opponents of Ahmadinejad, whose Islamic government’s policies have fueled fights with the West and brought Iran closer to U.N. sanctions.

Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, a relative moderate, polled the most votes of any Tehran candidate to win re-election to a key assembly post.

The biggest victory was for “moderate conservatives,” supporters of Iran’s cleric-led power structure who are angry at Ahmadinejad, saying he has needlessly provoked the West with harsh rhetoric and has failed to fix the country’s faltering economy.

Here is the money quote, however:

“Ahmadinejad’s list has suffered a decisive defeat nationwide,” said the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the largest reformist party. “It is a big no to the government’s authoritarian and inefficient methods.”

Sadly, they will likely get the same end result as American citizens appear to be getting: While the Iranian public votes for change and peace, don’t expect any change in Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric as he pushes his nation to the brink.

Authoritarian and inefficient methods. Iranian and American citizens are in the same fight, it seems. And with no end in sight.

–WKW

Last night, CBS’ 60 Minutes had a terrific segemnet on Bad Arolsen - a city in Germany that warehoused more than 50 million Holocaust-related documents. They have found everything from the actual List of Schindler, to paperwork charting Anne Frank’s actual demise. It is a brilliant segment that you can watch here, at CBS’s Web site.

It is an awesome collection, highlighting the evil of the Nazis. Those that attended Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial conference last week would surely find reason to desperately cast doubt on the findings, but the truth is simple - as their mouths closed, they and their supporters have yet again been shown to be simpleminded racist, hatemongers.

Here is what some bloggers are saying about the long-fought-for release of this astounding collection of documents:

The Moderate Voice: Ahmadinejad Should Visit Bad Arolsen

Tracing the Tribe: “60 Minutes” and the long-secret Bad Arolsen records

EOGN’s Other News: Anne Frank: In vast Holocaust archive, one name stands out

Buzzle.com: Bad Arolsen Archive May Reveal Much About Third Reich Sponsors

Democracy Frontline: Revisiting the horrors of that event that never happened

–WKW

Preparing for his Bob-Dole-Like, Let-me-run-for-President-Before-I-Die campaign, Senator John McCain recently announced legislation designed to punish anyone on the Internet that posts any image that the U.S. Government decides is illegal.

From Yours Truly:

Millions of commercial Web sites and personal blogs would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000, if a new proposal in the U.S. Senate came into law.

In a speech on the Senate floor this week, the Arizona Republican and former presidential candidate warned that “technology has contributed to the greater distribution and availability, and, some believe, desire for child pornography.

Being that “illegal” is in the eye of the beholder, here are some images that are likely considered illegal, nasty, and could lead children astray. At $300K a pop, that makes my bill $3.3 million.

Guess what I’m holding, baby?

Hot geezer on geezer action, Part I.

Hot geezer on geezer action, Part II.

C’mon, pull it.

Edwin McCain was feeling left out.

Hot geezer on geezer action, Part III.

Old Dudes and Muscle Guys

Sometimes, John McCain likes to be called “Nancy.”

Grrrr, suck it.

Judge me. Please, judge me.

“Something illegal is happening here, I’m sure of it.

–WKW

Perhaps now is the time for us to begin the “War on Kindness” or the “War on Cute Little Puppies” or perhaps even, the “War on Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies.”

Because, it’s now obvious that whenever U.S. declares war on an intangible object, we get more and more of said object. Because as the “War on Terrorism” has given us more terrorists, the “War on Drugs” has given us more drugs.

After years of diligent work by the U.S. government to eradicate drugs, the No. 1 cash crop in America is … wait for it … Marijuana.

From the L.A. Times:

For years, activists in the marijuana legalization movement have claimed that cannabis is America’s biggest cash crop. Now they’re citing government statistics to prove it.

A report released today by a marijuana public policy analyst contends that the market value of pot produced in the U.S. exceeds $35 billion — far more than the crop value of such heartland staples as corn, soybeans and hay, which are the top three legal cash crops.

California is responsible for more than a third of the cannabis harvest, with an estimated production of $13.8 billion that exceeds the value of the state’s grapes, vegetables and hay combined — and marijuana is the top cash crop in a dozen states, the report states.

The report estimates that marijuana production has increased tenfold in the past quarter century despite an exhaustive anti-drug effort by law enforcement.

This all may or may not explain why the U.S. as a whole seems to have a huge case of the munchies.

So, what have we learned from all this? Well, if you want an excess of something, have the U.S. declare War on it. I propose we begin the “War on Education” immediately.

–WKW

Read any good instruction manuals lately?

–WKW