Unhelmeted nine-year-old crosses street illegally and is killed...

...by speeding truck driven by careless sixteen-year-old.

If any of you go to church and don't pray to be rid of our local Orwellian fishwrap, I have to wonder what's wrong with you.

Go read their spin on this tragedy.

Obviously the boy who killed the little kid belongs to a family who is well connected to the Red Guard, or at least are heavy advertisers.

cell phone photo cuteness

Arlington and Xiao Hua having a cuddle.

Let's see Henry James write a bigger check!

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Here I am ranting about the dreadful Eugene Weakly again! I know I promised that I wouldn't, but do bear with me:

Last week, their cover story was about the evils of College football. It was written by Professor of English who is magnitudes smarter than you or I. (Just ask him.) He would like to spend his weekends reading a complex novel. He doesn't like football. I can sympathise. While reading all weekend certainly isn't my thing, I'd rather give myself a root-canal with rusty tools than watch football.

Fine and dandy. It's a free country! Professor, if a bunch of drunken, yellow and green painted fans take you from your home and drag you to Autzen stadium, you just give me a call. Betsy and I will come right over and put a quick stop to that nonsense!

Now let's say I'm out the woods planting trees, cutting them down, blasting holes in the earth, and shooting animals. Suddenly a gang of pipe-smoking, cardigan-wearing professors start to chase me with leather-bound copies of Proust! I hope there's someone I can call.

Do Academics smoke pipes anymore? Does anyone? I used to, but Missus said it made me look like Josef Stalin, so I quit.

Well anyway, shortly after the Weakly published thia article about the evils of college sports, Phil Knight goes and donates one hundred million dollars to the University!

The strange thing is that all the copies of the Weakly disappeared from their boxes the very morning the story came out. Hmmmmm.

Like them or not, men's football and basketball are entirely self-sustaining and very popular. I wouldn't be surprised thhose two programs actually fund every other sporting event at the U fo O.

To each their own.

Send some love.

Go to my wife's english language blog, and offer kind thoughts.

Thanks.

Brownshirt Weekend!

Those plucky little fascists progressives of the Bus Project will be having a BBQ (probably tofu) at 1263 w. 5TH Avenue, this Sunday at 6. This appears to be a private residence so maybe all that counter-protesting payed off? (Maybe they just aren't allowed at the Petersen barn anymore.)

BURN, BABY BURN!!!

The greenies are groaning! Kitty and her cats are yowling!

The foes of field burning brought lots of science-free pathos to the hearing, but despite their incredibly emotional dog and pony show, the Commissioners of the Department of Environmental Quality managed to keep their sanity, and unanimously refused to recommend a ban on field burning.

It's hard to imagine why those granola-snarfers would so hate a centuries-old agricultural practice which eliminates harmful bugs and weeds, and uses no chemicals!

The crusade against field burning has nothing to do with the public welfare. It's just smoke and mirrors (smoke anyway) to draw our attention away from the waste and incompetence which permeates city and county government!

Now, If those crusaders could find which of my State employee neighbors is burning garbage in their fireplace at night, I'd be mighty grateful!

Piercy Pods a'Popping!!

These looming apartment buildings are getting shoehorned in all over the University Ghettoes! While they aren't exactly butt-ugly, they do overwhelm historically significant houses in the area. I wouldn't want to live near one.

Some folks complain that they ruin the "character" of the area, but I never thought it had any. The throng of clueless drunk bohemians students and the bare-minimum effort landlords ruined the neighborhood long ago.

All I know is anything that forces me to contend with more clueless drunk bohemians youngsters on my way to work can NOT be a good thing for anybody. -At least they don't wake up till noon.

Farewell Karl Rove

(It's almost as if he's saying, "SUCK IT, HIPPIES!!!")


"Now that the seventh seal is opened, and the doom of Mankind is at hand, I'd just like to relax with my family."' Rove said. He added, "That, and perhaps torture the occasional kitten."

HAPPY HIROSHIMA DAY

It was just last week, when Frank J. noticed that most everything the Left has recently published or said, has sounded even funnier than any parody we could have done. I think he's right.

Unfortunately, I had a chance to read our horrible local paper today. I read about how one of my favorite public parks was used for a Politically-charged "Peace" rally.

Luckily, only a few of our local useful idiots showed up at this fiasco, but maybe, If I do my little bit, even fewer will show up next year.

"We're the descendants of the barbarians," said Watada, who recently moved from Hawaii to a farm near Pleasant Hill. "Years from now the history books will talk of the barbarians lasting well into the 21st century."

You'll probably miss the irony of that statement. You might assume that Watada-san is referring to the Japanese Imperial soldiers who murdered EIGHTEEN MILLION innocents at Nanking, Corregedor, Batann, and countless other places. He's not referring to the Japanese soldiers who used Chinese and Philippine babies for bayonet practice. He not talking about the Japanese "scientists" who dissected people while they were alive and entirely conscious. He's talking about Americans!


Infants murdered at Nanking

Let's examine the facts in context. Alot of arm-chair analysis and revisionist lies can attach to an event in 62 years, but lets pretend it's 1945. You're the President-by-succession. Germany has surrendered. All your Generals can think to plan is a D-day type landing on Kyushu and then a long slog North to Tokyo and beyond, where countless life and wealth will be lost on both sides.

Suddenly, You have a few weaponized fission devices that can be delivered to select strategic targets.

What do you do? You push the GO button!

Were the Japanese rapacious beasts that had to be utterly destroyed? No. They just behaved as such, and got what they deserved!

Artist burns a rare Koran

I have to wonder about his "art":

NEW YORK, July 26, 2007 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Charles Merrill, the artist who recently edited the Holy Bible with a black marker and pair of scissors, has lately burned a rare Islamic Holy Book, The Koran, valued at $60,000.00, in an undisclosed Chicago location. "The purpose of editing and burning Abrahamic Holy Books is to eliminate homophobic hate," Merrill stated. "Both ancient books are terrorist manuals."

He continues, "I inherited the rare Islamic book from my late wife, Evangeline Johnson Merrill. As the daughter of the founder of the international pharmaceutical giant, Johnson and Johnson, Inc., doors of kings and queens opened to her around the world. Evangeline was given the rare manuscript by the late King of Jordan when she was on a mission for the United Nations in the 1950's."

A Joke

Q: Why do Sumo wrestlers shave their legs?

A: They don't wish to be mistaken for feminists.