The Second Trial - Bring It On

Here's a list of the Ba'athist goons who are about to go on trial in Iraq.

You gotta wonder what the brilliant Catty Catnip would do with a group like this. Bring George Bush et al to trial instead, I suppose.

Anyway, I hope their trial is swift, thorough and devoid of the usual Ba'athist shenanigans.

I read on some blog a while back that Saddam Hussein wants to be put to death via a firing squad as opposed to being hung. To me, that's a good enough reason to choose the noose.

Civilian casualties or civilian pawns?

This: Photos that damn Hezbollah and this: UN Observer Post Used by Hizballah give you all you need to know about Hezbollah and its tactics in the war with Israel. It's a sinister ruse, yet the lamestream media together with it's leftwing groupies just keep lapping it all up.


If that's not enough for folks like the catnip, try this: Obsession: What the War on Terror is Really About. Of course, if you want to carry on with your silly anti-Americanism, go right ahead. We all know you're a useful fool.

Catty Catnip: Achieving enlightenment or stuck on stupid?

Whenever I discover a new blog I like to go back to the first few posts and read them. Bloggers often introduce themselves with a little biography in their first post and sometimes in the next few they will reveal further facts about their personal perspectives, their life history and so on. When I first found the Catty Catnip, I followed my usual strategy of reading the early entries, plus I have been reading her blog off and on now for more than a month. Although I find her style and the lack of substance rather tiresome and boring, as a specimen of modern day whacky leftism, her blog is an interesting study. In fact, having been a leftist a long time ago, I have even found myself in agreement with her once or twice and I think we have some common roots.

Very early in her blogging career, she revealed that nearly twenty years ago she gave up a dependence on an addictive prescription drug that was often used for treatment of stress and depression. Of course, I can only admire her strength in overcoming this affliction and her courage in making that very personal information public by posting it on a blog. I hope she realizes it's out there now for all to see.

Her revelation of such personal information did allow me to connect a few more of the dots in my ongoing study of her as a personality. Twenty years ago I was just coming out of a serious depression myself, having separated from my husband. Having married a way too young and for all the wrong reasons, I had to face life on my own for the very first time and deal with some very real issues in my own personality. To put it succinctly, in my mid-thirties I had to finally grow up and learn to handle life on my own. It was a rough ride, but it was well worth it.

I had hopped on the 60s radicalism bandwagon and like many others who did the same, I went through a period of disillusionment and ennui in the mid-seventies, about the same time the Viet Nam war came to an end and the feminist movement was running into trouble. Like so many of my generation, during the late 70's and early 80's, I endured a period of soul searching and spiritual hunger - and emotionally wrenching experiences I doubt I will ever have to go through again.

Some of my generation got further and further into the drug scene and became full-blown addicts, subsequently having varying degrees of success in controlling their habit. Catty Catnip appears to have been more successful than some of these poor souls, although it's hard to understand how she managed.

Others - following another track then very much in vogue - began exploring the religions found in India and the Far East. Even the Beatles, THE pre-eminent rock group of our era, had followed that journey and pale skinned followers (ie. not Indian) of Hari Krishna, in their flowing robes, were to be seen on the streets of even the small Canadian prairie city of Saskatoon, where I lived at that time. Still others returned with utter abandon to the faith of their ancestors, taking Christianity to an extreme even their parents would not have recognized. Thus, the 1970s boom in born-again sects of Christianity and a proliferation of new holy-roller churches unheard of prior to that era.

Somewhere during those times, I stopped calling myself an avowed atheist and began to understand that atheists, even if they claim not to believe in any god, do have a idea of what the Judeao-Christian God is, against which they rail, but refuse to contemplate that there may be other conceptualizations. They have one concept. They reject it. Therefore there is no God. Like them, I had no acceptable concept and, although I wanted to, I could not find one. I had to come to terms with the fact that whatever God might be, He/She/It will forever be a mystery to me and that's okay. I kind of like it that way and I now laugh at atheists on soapboxes, as they presume, beyond all doubt, to know the unknowable, to have clinched, unlike anyone else, the ultimate truth, thereby revealing their silliness.

It also took me a long time to admit to no longer having a socialistic outlook on the world. At the end of it, I had to accept that I had changed my politics. I was now completely estranged from the old guard of the 60s and was gradually losing my discomfort when in the company of those at the other end of the spectrum. Although I do think our generation's heart was in the right place, I now look at many of the ideas that prevailed during the 60s as silly and childish. We just didn't understand that the world is not and never will be Nirvana and, as a consequence, I now look upon some of our then strident beliefs as pure, unadulterated narrow-minded bigotry.

I suspect the Catty Catnip and I have a few things in common, then. For example, she has talked about her grandchildren, and although I don't have grandchildren, I am certainly old enough to have several running around. I suspect, therefore, that Catty Catnip and I are roughly the same age. She has revealed she is a Buddhist, and I presume (perhaps incorrectly, I freely admit) that she was not born into that religion, but like many others during the '70s and 80's she was led to it during the great and tumultuous reality-facing "come down" that followed the high produced by the radicalism of the 1960s.

But while I have mellowed considerably since then, Catnip, on the other hand, has not. What Catnip reveals about her personality, through the topics she chooses to write about and, most especially, through the manner in which she develops her ideas, is a baby boomer of advancing age, who has yet to grow up. She hasn't the capacity to critically evaluate any of the subjects she entertains. She lacks the skill of developing a case in support of her position. She utterly fails to do anything but repeat, ad nauseam, the talking points first uttered so long ago by the leaders of the 60s radicalism. In short, despite her age, and the era through which she has lived, somewhere way back when, she simply stopped growing. Alas, she is stuck on stupid, still a catty teenager in her approach to life’s heavy issues and deep philosophical questions.

How ironic, then, that on Thursday of this past week she pays homage to the Dalai Lama, praising him thus: “His astounding capacity for humilty (sic) and compassion reminds all of us that we too can attain such an enlightened state, even in the midst of great turmoil.”

So, Catty. When will your journey to enlightenment actually begin? Enlightenment requires spiritual growth and arises most fully from having successfully dealt with life's many pains. If you are seeking enlightenment, I surely hope you believe in reincarnation, 'cause I don't think you're going to make it in this go round.

Go Arabian Knight!!!!!

This one is too good to pass up. Go read the attack on catty catnip's dipstick ideology on her blog by none other than the Knight in Shining Armour himself. He's got her squirming. It's in the comments thread following this post. She's threatened to ban him. Quelle surprise!!!!

Translation Please!!

Okay. What is this woman trying to say?????

She seems to be saying the document is bogus because the translation of it uses English words rather than the original Arabic.

Duh!!

Or maybe she's just mimicking the take posited by the author of last link she provides, which pretty much suggests the same thing. This is truly a sorry state of affairs when individuals on the left can no longer even think, let alone think for themselves. Maybe it's just as well. They get to spread around disinformation ad nauseam, which wouldn't be so easy if they actually had to think through their arguments beforehand. After all, we shouldn't make it too difficult for them.

Do you know, dear catty catnip, that the English word "God" in Arabic is "Allah"? Did you know that Mohammed, the founder of the Muslim faith, was an Arab, and according to Arab tradition, is therefore a descendant of Abraham (Ibraham, in Arabic). Arabs trace their ancestry though the servant girl, Hagar. (Actually Abraham's wife, Sarah's, servant girl. Yes, the old patriarch had his way with the servant girls, but that was then and this is now and I'm told the Bible is full of stuff like that.)

This is the very same Abraham who figures prominently in Jewish and Christian tradition and the God of Abraham, the Hebrew patriarch, is the very same God to which both Jesus and Mohammed refer in their teachings? So just why do you presume the word "Allah" should have been used rather than the English word "God", which means and refers to EXACTLY THE SAME DEITY, just in a different language?????? After all, it is a translation, catty catnip, and I must presume you know what the word "translation" means. At least I hope you do.

Did you know, also, catty catnip, that English is spoken as a first or second language, and is being taught and learned by more people on the planet than any other language? Did you know that the use of the English language in Iraq by Iraqis goes back a very long way? Hell, my late father-in-law, a Baghdadi Arab who passed away a couple of years ago at the age of ninety-two, had a long career in the foreign exchange department of the Rafidain Bank in Baghdad and was familiar with seven languages, English being one of his strongest (all of which kind of helps when you deal with foreign currencies every day).

Did you think there would be no native Arabic speaker in Iraq who could instantly translate this document within minutes of it being found? Did you not know that the coalition forces in Iraq have Iraqi translators with them almost all the time? You seem to be disputing its authenticity in total ignorance of these facts? (Well I forgive you if you didn't know about my father-in-law.)

If you are not ignorant of these things, then WHAT IS THE RATIONALE FOR YOUR SKEPTICISM????

So you want to dispute the document's authenticity? Fine. But you sure haven't made your case. Why not use a real argument using real evidence? All you've done is confirm your status as a dingbat. Near as I can figure, what you are really saying is you don't want it to be true, and therefore it isn't.

I await your next catty, airheaded remark. Better luck next time. I'm not holding my breath for anything of substance, though.

Catty Catnip Weighs in on Zarqawi Bust

UPDATE: Catnip misses the point, as usual. Now she's going on and on about Michael Berg, father of Nick Berg, beheading victim of Abu Musab Zarqawi. She blathers on about the evils of revenge, blah, blah, blah.

Look, dingbat. Revenge has nothing to do with it. Zarqawi was a rampaging murderer. You would rather have him continue than be stopped??? Why don't you spend a few moments and listen to what Iraqis have to say about his death. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here.


Original Post:

Well. Sort of. Her first crack at it, on June 8th, amounts to Rumsfeld bashing. On June 9th, she then gives passing mention to him in a story about ABC television outing a Zarqawi informant. And then.....and then..... Well, sorry folks. That's all she wrote....literally. She's probably right to call ABC to account for doing this, but where is her relief and jubulation about the scumbag? She doesn't even come close to commenting on the biggest story since Saddam Hussein was pulled out of the hole, let alone expressing anything positive. Of course, there's the usual verbal diarrhea lambasting America, and the Bush administration in particular. This woman is a complete airhead. I'll bet she is one of the three people who vote for the Marxist Leninist Party every time there is a federal election.

More Lunacy from the Catty Liberal - er - liberal catnip

Or

The Catty Catnip Weighs in on the Terrorist Bust in Toronto.

The Catty Catnip: "Earlier today, on CTV's Question Period, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day repeated the old, tired and just plain wrong line that because Canadian troops are in Afghanistan, the risk of terrorist attacks in Canada is 'diminished'.

I have never understood that logic and it certainly flies in the face of what's gone on this weekend with multiple arrests of alleged homegrown terrorists. Now tell me, Mr Day, why didn't the fact that our soldiers are in Afghanistan protect us from these people?"

Well, catnip, my little one, consider this. Perhaps there isn't a direct line between Afghanistan and the sweep in Toronto this past weekend, but I can tell you this. The arrests of these suspects happened on Stephen Harper's watch, not on Jean Chretien's watch, nor Martin's, and most of "these people" arrived in Canada during the era of capital "L" Liberalism. (Or should that be capital "L" Liberal-dumb?)

The Catty Catnip further asks: Why werent (sic) mps warned of terrorism?

Well, if you believe what this Liberal MP has to say, I think this arrest may have saved us from "these people" far more than anything the Liberals did. I believe they were warned, darlin' - by one of yours. In 2004.

So you see, catnip, perhaps the question you should be asking is: Why weren't Liberals listening, even when one of their own issued the warning?

And what was that again about Canadians being aware that this could happen here?

(Question to self: Why does this woman remind me of the stereotypical meanest-bully-in-the-teenage-snob-girl-clique in one of those grade B teen movies? All gossip and backstabbing and no substance. No analysis. Nothing but pure unadulterated bloviation.)

Liberals. Is catnip your creation? Please tell me she's not, 'cause boy, if she is, do you have some work to do!

Welcome to the Centre of Canada's Socialist LaLa Land

Let me see now. This blog is gonna be about politics and society, here and around the world. I'm going to concentrate on two passions. The first is poking holes in the lunatic leftwing ideology that seems to permeate the political landscape here in my part of the world. I thoroughly enjoy exposing lies and hypocracy, so this should be fun. I'll also deal with Middle Eastern issues, another passion, and just about anything else that catches my eye and makes me want to laugh or puke.

Oh, and I will reserve a special spot for comments aimed at liberal catnip, a little girl leftie who banned me from her website for daring to disagree with her. Such is the childish sensitivity of the looney left. But alas, poor catnip has the dubious distinction of being the prototypical example of leftwing lunacy and arrogance. Look. for example, at her entry of today's date, May 22, 2006. She apparently thinks that lefties hold a monopoly on virtue. Not only that, but she seems to confuse the American political system with a "first past the post" type of democracy. WOW!!! If only she knew. Yes, it does include first past the post elections. But it also includes the Electoral College; the equal representation of states in the Senate; the Supreme Court; and so on.

Enjoy.