Don't feed the animals.

Any park ranger will tell you: don't feed wildlife. The reason behind this is that they become dependent and will not forage for themselves any longer.

The photo captures a disturbing trend that is affecting American wildlife. Animals that formerly were self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party. They have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.

This photo is of a black bear in Montana turned Democrat. He's nicknamed Bearack Obearma. It is believed that he has become a campground organizer.

Rick Santorum

Interesting to research Rick Santorum and see what his opinions are. I've heard of Santorum before, but never bothered to figure it out. It's a mixed bag. I like social conservatism because it leads to the happiest lives for the best people in our society; I'm not sure I want abortion to be legal, but want that to be a states' rights issue and it seems like Santorum is OK with that. I think drug legalization should be a states' rights issue as well, so California legalizes and we can watch to see if it falls apart. Not all issues are represented here, but team Santorum has done a great job of it.

• Rick Santorum (the official Rick Santorum page)

Leftist presidents are creeps

Shades of Bill Clinton -- are they all egomaniacs?

Later that day, Mimi was invited by Dave Powers, the president’s “first friend” and later the longtime curator of the Kennedy Library in Boston, to an after-work party. When she arrived at the White House residence, Powers and two other young female staffers were waiting. Powers poured, and frequently refilled, her glass with daiquiris until the commander-in-chief arrived.

The president invited her for a personal tour. She got up, expecting the rest of the group to follow. They didn’t. He took her to “Mrs. Kennedy’s room.”

“I noticed he was moving closer and closer. I could feel his breath on my neck. He put his hand on my shoulder,” she recounts.

The next thing she knew, he was standing above her, looking directly into her eyes and guiding her to the edge of the bed.

“Slowly, he unbuttoned the top of my shirtdress and touched my breasts.

“Then he reached up between my legs and started to pull off my underwear.

“I finished unbuttoning my shirtdress and let it fall off my shoulders.”

Kennedy pulled down his pants but, with his shirt still on, hovered above her on the bed.

He smelled of his cologne, 4711. He paused when he noticed her resisting.

“Haven’t you done this before?” he asked.

“No,” she said. - NYPost

That's not rapey at all. What is it about being an altruistic self-denying Christ figure that makes these people think they can be molestors?

Exceptionalism or inequality

French Interior Minister Claude Gueant, who also holds the immigration portfolio, caused political uproar by claiming that not all civilisations are equal, with some more advanced than others. "Contrary to what the left's relativist ideology says, for us all civilisations are not of equal value," Gueant on Saturday told a conference in the French parliament building, but closed to the media. "Those which defend humanity seem to us to be more advanced than those that do not," he argued in his speech at a meeting organised by a right-wing students group. - AFP

Why would all civilizations be equal? They evolved separately. What is this universal standard we might speak of, whether equality or a superiority? Adaptations vary. And why is this so demonized?

Do non-profit motivations equal corporate motivations?

The Mozilla home page has some blather about how because they are a non-profit, they are not manipulative in order to enforce market needs.

As a non-profit, we’re free to innovate on your behalf without any pressure to compromise. - "Welcome to Firefox," The Mozilla Foundation

Then why is it, when I specified an alternate location for the Mozilla 10 installation, the installer over-wrote an entirely separate installation of the Mozilla 3.6 software?

That's the kind of thing Microsoft would do.

Then why is it that we are urged to switch over ASAP with nag-windows, much like Adobe would use?

Could it be that since both corporates and un-corporates (sorry, non-profits) have similar motivations, which is to force people to use the products that are convenient for them, that they act similarly?

It sure seems so.

Hitler stole the Volkswagen design from Joseph Ganz

I'd love to believe it, but:

Three years before Hitler described 'his idea' to Mr Porsche in a Berlin ...hotel, Mr Ganz was driving a car he had designed called the Maikaefer, or May Bug.

The lightweight, low-riding vehicle looked very like the Beetle that was later developed by Mr Porsche, who is still considered the foremost car designer in German history.

Jewish inventor Mr Ganz had been exploring the idea for an affordable car since 1928 and made many drawings of a Beetle-like vehicle. - Your Jewish News

Image from the book's Dutch site.

The evidence doesn't add up.

This car is smaller than a Volkswagen and shows none of the design innovations.

Hitler saw the May Bug at a car show in 1933 and made sketches.

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'Ferdinand Porsche drove Ganz's prototype in 1931. I found a lot of evidence that all similar rear engines in the 1930s can be traced by to Ganz.

Further, Porsche (the designer, not the company, which incorporated in 1931) had been making rear-engine small cars for some time.

In 1898, [Ferdinand] Porsche joined the Vienna-based factory Jakob Lohner & Co, that produced coaches for Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, as well as for the kings of England, Sweden, and Romania.

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Their first design, unveiled in 1898, was the "System Lohner-Porsche", a carriage-like car driven by two electric motors, directly fitted within the front wheel hubs, and powered by batteries. This drive train construction was easily expanded to four-wheel drive, by simply mounting two more electric motors to the rear wheels as well, and indeed such a specimen was ordered by the Englishman E. W. Hart in 1900.

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Though over 300 Lohner-Porsche chassis were sold up to 1906, most of them were two-wheel drive—either front- or rear-wheel driven trucks, buses and fire-engines. - The People's Encyclopedia-Blog: "Ferdinand Porsche"

Further, his career had been tending toward smaller and lighter cars:

Porsche's concept of a small, light-weight Mercedes-Benz car was not popular with Daimler-Benz's board, however.

Even more damning for Ganz, Porsche had been building Volkswagen-like cars, which is why Hitler handed him the contract.

From 1931 Ferdinand Porsche and Zündapp developed the prototype Auto für Jedermann ("car for everyone"), which was the first time the name "Volkswagen" was used. Porsche preferred the 4-cylinder flat engine, but Zündapp used a water-cooled 5-cylinder radial engine. - The People's Encyclopedia-Blog: "Zundapp"

This was an expansion on his proposed design for Mercedes. It was built in 1931, so unless we believe he cooked the thing up overnight after seeing the Ganz car, after having built rear-wheel drive cars for two decades himself, we see that Ganz was entirely irrelevant to the Volkswagen.

The Zündapp prototype follows up on all of Porsche's work until that point including the Mercedes prototypes.

I would like to believe Ganz, but the record does not stand up in support of his allegations.

Variation on the "we hate everyone equally" defense

Political correctness loves it when we use generic forms. This enables us to criticize neutral and ineffective things, like "I hate all people," instead of demonstrating any kind of preference that might hinder absolute equality.

Norwegian black metallers TAAKE have sparked outrage after being nominated for a prestigious Norwegian music award despite having written lyrics that are allegedly anti-Islamic.

TAAKE's critics argue that the lyrics in the band's song "Orkan" (Hurricane) are xenophobic as they include the phrase "To hell with Muhammad and the Mohammedans" and their "unforgivable customs."

However, Hoest, TAAKE's front man, has refuted these claims and said that their sole intention was to criticize religion. "Our view, in the name of freedom of expression, is that it is shameful to adhere to Christianity or Islam," he said. - RoadRunner Records

It's OK to hate because their hate is multicultural: they hate all religions, you see, not just the latest invaders.

So far, the usual PC police have given then a pass.

What killed the Twinkie?

Unions.

In Hostess' Chapter 11 filing on Wednesday, the company said its rivals have combined and expanded their reach, heightening competition in the snack space...Additionally, Hostess employees are unionized while most of its competitors aren't. As a result, Hostess has high pension and medical benefit costs. The company has 19,000 employees and operates in 48 states. - AP

I can't say I'm sorry to see this disgusting "food" shuffle off this mortal coil, but it's a warning to all companies about what unions do: they parasitize and then destroy.

Mythos: The Myths and Tales of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard

The new anthology publication from Numen Books: 'Mythos: The Myths and Tales of H.P. Lovecraft & Robert E. Howard'

Mythos contains the key stories which make up the mythical world established by H.P. Lovecraft, and also contains works by Robert E. Howard written in this mythological framework. Contents also include Lovecraft's essay on the the nature of the horror tale, and a new analysis written... on the nature of myth and the occult in Lovecraft's work by M Alan Kazlev. In addition to this, Mythos also contains new tales of terror written in the same vein as Lovecraft by Gwendolyn Toynton, Bernardo Sena, and Michael Kleen.

To order a copy:

• Numen Books
• Amazon