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House Panel Split on Ambivalence Crimes Bill

by Scott Ott · 70 Comments

(2007-05-03) — Just hours after the U.S. House passed legislation to extend “hate crimes” protections to people victimized due to their “gender, sexual orientation or gender identity,” a companion bill attacking so-called “ambivalence crimes” failed to get out of committee due to a tie vote.

Hate crime laws address the proven fact that a victim feels greater pain when he or she suffers as a representative of some downtrodden minority group, rather than simply as a person.

However, nothing in federal law extends special treatment to a person whose attacker has mixed feelings about the victim’s race, gender or degree of sexual disorientation.

According to an unnamed Congressional aide who helped draft the ambivalence crime bill, “People are murdered every day in this country by perps who can’t be painted with a broad brush as racists or homophobes, because they only really hate particular members of those groups…mostly just the people they kill. It’s a loophole that needs closure.”

Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, praised the extension of the “hate crimes” law saying it would “bring justice to oppressed groups, especially to people of gender.”

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70 responses so far ↓

  • 1 JamesonLewis3rd // May 3, 2007 at 8:57 pm

    God Bless America

  • 2 JamesonLewis3rd // May 3, 2007 at 8:59 pm

    22 hours (except for a few minutes today) without TV or Internet! (Storms) Thought I was going to lose it!

  • 3 conserve-a-tips // May 3, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    Oh James. I forgot that you were down there. Talked to my sister just north of Dallas on I-75 and she is without as well. She got caught out in that storm in her car and said it was the scariest thing.

  • 4 conserve-a-tips // May 3, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    I’m not sure how I feel about this legislation, Scott. Actually, I am pretty ambivalent about it.

  • 5 conserve-a-tips // May 3, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    Oh my! It just occurred to me. I am a member of a minority group! I am a person of gender!!! Don’t you dare look at me wrong, buckos.

  • 6 DrivebyMeteor // May 3, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    Hate crimes?

    What about Thoughtcrime?

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/no_more_witch_burnings_for_pc.html

    “This is the way we live now: The only place where speech can occur without fear of job loss is on a cartoon show or in stand-up comedy. This means only the self-identified nuts can say what they want. Welcome to the asylum.

    The left doesn’t mind if comedians savage PC. So what? You get to laugh at the cartoon version but they use the real stuff to fire and eliminate whomever they wish. Thus do we all become their sheep.”

    Welcome to Oceania! Have a pleasant stay . . .

  • 7 Ms RightWing, Ink // May 3, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    Yea, back in the saddle again!

    Just another nasty asthma attack. Steroids, antibiotics and a half dozen breathing treatments and they rolled me out the door towards home.

  • 8 Ms RightWing, Ink // May 3, 2007 at 9:21 pm

    Gay justice? What ever happened to frontier justice??

  • 9 GnuCarSmell // May 3, 2007 at 9:30 pm

    I think I understand. We must protect “people of gender” regardless of “sexual disorientation”.

    Classic Ott.

  • 10 JamesonLewis3rd // May 3, 2007 at 9:30 pm

    A la “Chuck Norris Facts”:

    Fred Thompson facts.

    In an election, it costs ten dollars to vote for Fred Thompson since voting for him is a privilege, not a right.

  • 11 Darthmeister // May 3, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    Is this bill based on some principle of endangered species we’re not aware of? I thought we all had equal protection under the law.

    I guess this means Congress is unilaterally declaring the 14th Amendment unconstitutional … or anachronistic. PC run amok.

    All hail the new progressive thought!

  • 12 University Update // May 3, 2007 at 9:35 pm

    House Panel Split on Ambivalence Crimes Bill…

  • 13 Darthmeister // May 3, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    BTW, I thought plain ol’ murder was a hate crime. That’s what I get for thinking.

  • 14 EXT // May 3, 2007 at 9:46 pm

    Incredibly sad that fruitless negotiations on Ambivalance Crime legislation has forced Global Warming Denial Crime laws onto the back burner.

    Algore has been waging a solitary battle with ambivalance as to whether Global Warming is fact or fantasy. He is said to be seriously depressed about his ambivalance over whether ambivalance concerning his GW hobby-horse or outright GW denial is the more serious threat.

    Taking it all seriously, wife Tipper announced a campaign to ban the word “ambivalance” from the lyrics of songs sold to juveniles younger than 65.

  • 15 Fred Sinclair // May 3, 2007 at 10:18 pm

    Let me see if I’ve got this right….if someone is murdered (in a state with the death penalty) and the murderer is convicted, he would be put to death by lethal injection but if the deemers deem this murder to have been a “hate crime” do they then give him a second injection?

    If he got life in prison wnpop - 60 - 70 years from now when he dies in his cell would they have to leave him in the cell another 60- 70 years before the body could be removed?

    Or is it simply a liberals way of silencing the Christian’s right of free speech? So that if a minister preaches that homosexuality is an abomination in the sight of God and those that commit that sin and die in their sins are going to hell - will that be the moment the jack-booted “Hate crime” Gestapo will come marching down the aisle to handcuff the preacher and haul him off to a kangaroo court - then to be lost in the gulag never to be heard from again?

    At least the Mafia was honest in their intimidation techniques. Or in the words of Richard Petty “If you can’t beat ‘em. outlaw ‘em!”

    Heirborn Ranger

  • 16 conserve-a-tips // May 3, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    MsRightwing, Ink: I just now read the other thread and got your note. Did you send it to Lucky7charm@yahoo.com? I just checked that mailbox and it was full of stuff so I deleted it all. Try again.

  • 17 conserve-a-tips // May 3, 2007 at 11:19 pm

    Darthmeister, re#11: Yes, this does protect an endangered species. You see, since procreation is impossible for gay couples, they must be protected for as long as possible, since the species will eventually die out. If this were simply a behavioral choice issue, then they would be around forever, just as alcoholics have been. I didn’t see anything in that legislation that said, “Any individual or group of individuals who beat, harrass or worse, any lush, or who has uttered, “Take that you drunken so-and-so” shall be punished twice as hard as anyone who does so to a sober man.”

  • 18 camojack // May 3, 2007 at 11:46 pm

    “However, nothing in federal law extends special treatment to a person whose attacker has mixed feelings about the victim’s race, gender or degree of sexual disorientation.”

    Good one!

  • 19 Yaakov Watkins // May 4, 2007 at 12:48 am

    I’m sorry Mr. Ott. People without gender are handicapped. Since a person may be female, male, intersexed, hermaphrodite, transgendered, transexed, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, gay, lesbian, straight or just plain confused; everyone can have their very own gender and doesn’t have to feel left out.

  • 20 gafisher // May 4, 2007 at 5:54 am

    YW #19, is this a call for “A kinder, gender nation?”

  • 21 gafisher // May 4, 2007 at 5:57 am

    Congress must also address those senseless crimes we so often hear of. Let’s return to the days of sensible crimes.

  • 22 Darthmeister // May 4, 2007 at 6:28 am

    You know this whole issue of “hate crimes” smacks of a really bad Monty Python skit.

    Prosecutor (wearing powdered wig and looking quite effeminate): Your honor, the accused uttered a naughty word when killing his victim. The state recommends not only ten lashes, but life in prison without possibility of parole.

    Judge: How does the defense plea?

    Defense: We plead guilty of the crime of murder but only in the third degree in that the victim was making advances toward my client who is a happily married man and my client was acting only in self-defense.

    Prosecutor: I object. If he was happily married, then why would he murder someone like Gay Gaylord in a bar full of people and use the term “fag”?

    Defense: It is true my client used the term “fag”, your honor, but it was only to politely ask for a cigarette in hopes of defusing what he thought was an uncomfortable misunderstanding between the two men at the bar.

    Judge: Is this true?

    Defense: Undoubtedly, there are witnesses.

    Prosecutor: Hearsay! Your honor, the defendant also used the word “niggardly”! I can produce witnesses.

    (The courtroom gasps)

    Judge: That does it! Clearly the defendant is an incorrigible social misfit and will be sentenced to first be shot before a firing squad for the crime of pre-meditated murder and then hanged for using inflammatory and racist terms like “fag” and “niggardly”. We will not tolerate such hateful hate from hating haters in our progressive society. This court is adjourned! Would anyone like to join me for some tea and crumpets in my private quarters? (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

  • 23 Fred Sinclair // May 4, 2007 at 6:58 am

    Re: Darthmeister #22 (for the benefit and furthering education of those of you in or from Rio Linda)

    Reproduced below are the lyrics to one of the songs definitively synonymous with the First World War, Pack up your Troubles.

    Written by George Asaf (words; Asaf was a pseudonym for George Powell) and Felix Powell (music) the song achieved instant success when published by Chappell & Co. in London in 1915. The chorus segment was resurrected and became especially popular during the “Great Depression”.

    BTW Lucifer = match and fag = cigarette

    Pack up your Troubles

    First Verse
    Private Perks is a funny little codger
    With a smile a funny smile.
    Five feet none, he’s and artful little dodger
    With a smile a funny smile.
    Flush or broke he’ll have his little joke,
    He can’t be suppress’d.
    All the other fellows have to grin
    When he gets this off his chest, Hi!

    Chorus (sung twice after each verse)
    Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
    And smile, smile, smile,
    While you’ve a lucifer to light your fag,
    Smile, boys, that’s the style.
    What’s the use of worrying?
    It never was worth while, so
    Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
    And smile, smile, smile.

    Second Verse
    Private Perks went a-marching into Flanders
    With his smile his funny smile.
    He was lov’d by the privates and commanders
    For his smile his funny smile.
    When a throng of Bosches came along
    With a mighty swing,
    Perks yell’d out, “This little bunch is mine!
    Keep your heads down, boys and sing, Hi!

    Third Verse
    Private Perks he came back from Bosche-shooting
    With his smile his funny smile.
    Round his home he then set about recruiting
    With his smile his funny smile.
    He told all his pals, the short, the tall,
    What a time he’d had;
    And as each enlisted like a man
    Private Perks said ‘Now my lad,’ Hi!

    Heirborn Ranger

  • 24 Fred Sinclair // May 4, 2007 at 7:03 am

    ————————————————————————

    We live in historical times as lead democrat Harry Reid makes
    the outrageous claim that the war is lost even as American men
    and woman continue to fight and die overseas. Democrats own
    defeat and proudly hoist the white flag for all of America’s
    enemies to see. Their 180 degree change of position from just
    a few years ago signals to American voters just how poorly they
    would do running the national security of this great nation.
    Join Jeff and Jihad Jay as they discuss the Democrats and their
    desire to see America fail in both the liberation of Iraq and
    the war on terror.

    ————————————————————————

    http://www.openfire.us/blog/archives/2007/05/3680.php

    Heirborn Ranger

  • 25 Darthmeister // May 4, 2007 at 7:09 am

    Make note of new blogsite, wewintheylose.com.

    They’ve already sent a letter to the Congressional Defeatocrats.

  • 26 Darthmeister // May 4, 2007 at 7:10 am

    Well, maybe its more of a petition drive. Sign on anyway.

  • 27 Ms RightWing, Ink // May 4, 2007 at 7:27 am

    I’m going to take a “little” slam at Yaakov Watkins re:19. When we start rattling off satire, everything seems fair play, but…not every child entering this world has everything coming up roses for them.

    I have been in and out of the medical field all my adult life and one of the darkest secrets parents face is babies being born with incomplete or non-existent sexual identification. Doctors have often tried to remedy the situation with disastrous results.

    It is often during puberty that the children realize something is wrong. Now, saying that, most of our confused youth is not a medical situation, it is a million tons of gay lesbo propaganda raining down on weenie kids that are being raised with no sexual compass.

    So perhaps I have a few out there who disagree. Many will say God makes no junk. True. Even “true” transgenedered children “are not junk,” in Gods eyes

    A chromosome test is generally what separates gay-lesbo kids from the medical problems.

    I will stop here before I sink deep into medical mire

  • 28 Len Peracchio // May 4, 2007 at 8:09 am

    can someone help ? … new laws to cover what is supposedly already part of the legal system that ” murder” is not allowed ???? What is going on?? more confusion layerd on top of too many rules which shall result in the typical lunacy that too much confusion shall result in doing nothing???
    We are already facing this nonsense right Nancy Pelosi… NOTHING DONE after 100 days!

  • 29 Libby Gone // May 4, 2007 at 8:36 am

    I really don’t have an opinion on this. Except I am not sexually disoriented.

  • 30 JamesonLewis3rd // May 4, 2007 at 9:30 am

    “People of Gender” Unite!!!!!

  • 31 Shelly // May 4, 2007 at 9:32 am

    Whatever.

  • 32 JamesonLewis3rd // May 4, 2007 at 9:34 am

    I am neither sexually oriented nor sexually disoriented.

    Am I
    a) confused?
    b) ambivalent?
    c) getting old?

  • 33 Deerslayer // May 4, 2007 at 9:40 am

    It is beginning to sound as if lack of being sexually disoriented would put one into a minority status. What have our congressional leaders proposed in the way of benifits for those of us that are not “sexually disoriented”?
    I’m sure they are having hearings, committee meetings and investigations on this topic - they haven’t missed much when blameing GW for everything else.

  • 34 nylecoj // May 4, 2007 at 9:43 am

    Re #10
    JL3, those ‘facts’ came from the website www.imao.us
    Frank has new facts everyday. They have been pretty darn funny.

  • 35 Maggie // May 4, 2007 at 9:50 am

    As a practicing homosapien, I was for the hate crimes bill ,but today I just don’t know.

  • 36 boberinyetagain // May 4, 2007 at 10:28 am

    I’m woozy just thinking about it but then, that’s my natural condition and nothing to be feared. It’s a pleasant way to be actually.
    Like having my glasses made just a tad off prescription with a hint of pink tint.
    All is rosy and just a tad fuzzy, perfect in every way!

    “Hate” crimes eh? A sillier concept has rarely been discussed. I concur that most murders and such can rightly be deemd “hate crimes” as we rarely murder those we are merely annoyed with.

    Good stuff Mr. Ott!

  • 37 tomg // May 4, 2007 at 10:45 am

    What about “tough love”, being hurt by someone who loves you? Doesn’t that hurt more than being hurt by someone who hates you?

  • 38 Ms RightWing, Ink // May 4, 2007 at 11:10 am

    I heard a 60’s libber (now that I can jab at all day long) try to compare V Tech to Kent State. Ha, not even on the charts.

    To the lib dude, you want gun control today, but if we had hippie control back then we would not need gun control today. That is if we even even need gun control at all, but we sure could use some 60’s radical, pony tail, nitwit control now

  • 39 JamesonLewis3rd // May 4, 2007 at 11:12 am

    How’s this for a “hate crime”?

  • 40 conserve-a-tips // May 4, 2007 at 11:17 am

    I realize that I an homogenized American, but can you love me anyway?

  • 41 RedPepper // May 4, 2007 at 11:27 am

    c-a-t: Well, now … that depends.

    Have you been pasteurized?

  • 42 JamesonLewis3rd // May 4, 2007 at 11:29 am

    Here’s a picture that’s worth a few laughs. (The article’s not bad, either).

  • 43 nylecoj // May 4, 2007 at 11:30 am

    Murder in Black and White
    Hate crime

  • 44 nylecoj // May 4, 2007 at 11:34 am

    Please do not click on that I messed it up. Scott perhaps you would delete that for me, Thanks

  • 45 nylecoj // May 4, 2007 at 11:46 am

    Ok, let’s try this again
    Hate crime

  • 46 boberinyetagain // May 4, 2007 at 1:45 pm

    nyle, horrifying but, should we kill those perps twice?

  • 47 conserve-a-tips // May 4, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    RedPepper, re #40: I’m old enough to be put out to pasture. Does that make me pasturized? Oh…pasteurized…never mind.

    On the road, typing on the laptop and enjoying the beautiful northeastern scenery of Oklahoma. We’ve had so much rain, things are just lush. Kinda like Chris Mathew’s state of being.

  • 48 Shelly // May 4, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    What type of accent does Hillary use when discussing this? (This is just a rhetorical question. I’d be afraid of the answer.)

  • 49 Shelly // May 4, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    cat, did you watch last night? I’d still love to see Fred Thompson jump in, but I felt much better after seeing how the candidates handled themselves. Everyone is focused on Rudy and McCain, but its so early to assume they’ll remain front runners. If any hopefuls fell short last night it was those two. I thought Romney was fabulous. Maybe a Thompson/Romney ticket?

  • 50 da Bunny // May 4, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    So, does this mean that, if/when conservatives ever take control of the House and Senate, they can pass legislation making censorship of Christian public prayer and Bible reading/teaching a “hate crime,” too? We Christians are an “oppressed group,” and our oppressors are not limited to the leftist, liberal democrat-socialists both in Congress and in the US judical system.

  • 51 Shelly // May 4, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    da bunny, amen!

  • 52 nylecoj // May 4, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    Not at all Boberin,
    I completely agree with the second paragraph of your comment #35. My point was that, at least according to the MSM, some crimes are apparently more hateful than others.
    No one can know what is in anothers mind so calling something a ‘hate’ crime is completely subjective, therefore should not be able to be used as an issue in a prosecution and makes allegedly thinking of something a crime.

  • 53 Maggie // May 4, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    Shelly,
    I’m also leaning toward Romney.

  • 54 conserve-a-tips // May 4, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    Shelly, my thoughts exactly. What an awesome ticket. And it would leave Romney the option to run for a second set of 4 years. I did watch the debate last night and the steam was coming from my ears such that my puppy was cowering under the sofa. Could you believe those questions?? And could you believe how rude Mathews and that other guy (see I can’t even tell you his name I was so steamed) were? I got so sick of Mathews’ “ok”, “ok”, “ok.” and actually interrupting and arguing. The moderator is supposed to let the participants debate and shut up. But what was with that question to Romney, “What do you dislike most about America?” Sheesh. But he handled it awesome. I actually thought that Ron Paul was a credit to himself and that McCain and Giuliani bombed. Tancredo was so-so, but Hunter really did well. Romney won it hands down…if there was anything to win, because coming from a debating background THAT was no debate. That was public harassment. And did you see that you and I were in the minority - that the majority watched Fox, during the debat, about the debate?? Ha Ha MSNBC.
    Pardon any typos as I am trying to type on a laptop while riding in a car.

  • 55 conserve-a-tips // May 4, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    Shelly, I forgot one more observation. When Mathews and that other guy who I can’t remember his name were in full swing, we decided that they had planned it before, “When I say this, you do this and when I move here, you jump in and say this.” They reminded me of two pit bulldogs taking turns diving in for the kill and getting beaten off with either a stick, a wet noodle or mace, depending on the respondent. The dumbest question of the night was, “Seriously, do you think that it would be ok for Bill Clinton to be in the White House again?” And the nimrod Mathews seemed offended at the answers. Well, duh. Why are these guys running against the other Clinton???? Maybe somebody should have asked back, “Well, Chris. Do you think that it would be ok for Katy Couric to be back at NBC and sitting in your chair instead of you?” And then look offended at his sputtering.

  • 56 conserve-a-tips // May 4, 2007 at 7:39 pm

    Oh my gosh. I just got onto the new conservative video site and I am wondering if the Great Santini is moonlighting with this number!! What a hoot.

  • 57 Every one of us is unique, just like everyone else « Wolf Pangloss // May 4, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    […] 4th, 2007 · No Comments I was reading Scrappleface and found this piece of surreal genius. Hate crime laws address theproven fact that a victim feels greater pain when he or she suffers as a representative of some downtrodden minority group, rather than simply as a person. […]

  • 58 Fred Sinclair // May 4, 2007 at 8:24 pm

    As Rush pointed out today; hate crime legislation has nothing to do with crime but rather everything to do with power, control and intimidation.

    Thought nazis who will overturn your Constitutional right to free speech. A preacher’s sermon against homosexuals, homo-marriages and abortion would violate these hate crime laws, thus effectually silencing the conservative christian viewpoint on these sins. Just calling the sins, sin would be a violation!

    How do you cook a frog? Raise the heat one degree at a time and the frog won’t jump out until it’s too late. Those “strange” people have been chip,chip, chipping away at our laws on homosexuality for decades and decades.

    Next will be laws legalizing the “American Man/Boy Association” so that sex between adult men and six year old boys will no longer be a crime. Think it can’t happen? Ha! We used to have valid laws against sodomy - no longer…no longer.

    A little law here and there a win - a loss, another win - another loss slowly creeping like a cancer in our society until now we are faced with “strange people” day at DisneyWorld. Who could have ever thunk it?

    Hate crimes? My foot! “Thought crime” legislation would at least be honest.

    Heirborn Ranger

  • 59 wolfpangloss // May 4, 2007 at 8:42 pm

    Congress, I beg of you, pass a hate crime law that prohibits hate against me and other fictional, imaginary beings and punishes it with the death penalty. That would be justice, because only by passing from life to death can the living being disintegrate and approach the status of immateriality that I already instantiate.

    We need that hate crime law. Because every one of us, imaginary and real, is unique, just like everyone else, but I am more unique than you. Protect me first.

  • 60 da Bunny // May 4, 2007 at 8:51 pm

    Shelly, re: #50, well it’s long been an “open season” on Christianity, and now they’re getting around to the Christians, themselves, with this legislation being passed. More vetoes for GWB to sign.

  • 61 JamesonLewis3rd // May 4, 2007 at 8:53 pm

    Any (for real, Christian) preacher who rails against sin, whether it be sexual perversion, drunkenness or whatever, is railing against the behavior and not the person. Of course, in the Leftist world where anything goes, it wouldn’t make sense to tell someone that doing any particular thing is wrong; unless, of course, it is doing what is right, just and moral which is, in their “mind”, wrong. (not a very good paragraph, sorry)

    This is where the line is becoming blurred by the Leftists; the chosen behavior of a person is not the same thing as a person’s race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender, et cetera.

  • 62 Harry Daschle // May 4, 2007 at 9:40 pm

    Dear Abby,

    It seems that everytime I see Pelosi, Reid, or MOST libs on television anymore, I want to hurt or kill something.

    Is this normal? Would this be considered a “hate crime”?

    P.S. Purple monkey dishwasher!

  • 63 Darthmeister // May 4, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    Animal activists want chimp declared a ‘person’
    Let me get this straight, a chimp is a “person” but an unborn human baby isn’t? I guess chimps will soon have the “right” to an abortion.

    Illegal Immigration Groups Ponder Next Move…
    How about moving out of the country!

    Poll: Katie Couric Is Least Popular News Anchor
    Imagine that! I’m devastated.

  • 64 Darthmeister // May 4, 2007 at 11:45 pm

    From the Washington Post — Iraqis: Don’t Abandon Us

  • 65 MargeinMI // May 5, 2007 at 7:14 am

    Great link Darth. I like the perspective that the reason there’s so many casualties is that everywhere is so crowded, due to the booming commerce. Hmm, maybe not the right adjective…..

    Morning Scrappleville!

  • 66 EXT // May 5, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    Re: #39

    In the above appears a link and in the link appear these words:

    Zimbabwe is about to become head of UN’s Commission on Sustainable Development. This goes beyond Orwell; it is Kafkaesque.

    Under the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe, all indexes of economic well-being, let alone political freedom, have plummeted. Life expectancy at birth for males has dramatically declined from 60 to 37 since 1990 (for women it is even lower), making it the lowest in the world. The infant mortality rate has climbed from 53 to 81 deaths per 1000 live births in the same period.

    This demonstrates that Mugabe is a true subscriber to the algore theory of global warming! People cause it so the fewer people alive the less the risk to the planet.

    Here is the man algore should be presenting to the world as a true hero of the war on global warming in every one of his performance. His movie should be re-edited to give credit where it is due.

  • 67 EXT // May 5, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Re: #39

    In the above appears a link and in the link appear these words:

    Zimbabwe is about to become head of UN’s Commission on Sustainable Development. This goes beyond Orwell; it is Kafkaesque.
    Under the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe, all indexes of economic well-being, let alone political freedom, have plummeted. Life expectancy at birth for males has dramatically declined from 60 to 37 since 1990 (for women it is even lower), making it the lowest in the world. The infant mortality rate has climbed from 53 to 81 deaths per 1000 live births in the same period.

    This demonstrates that Mugabe is a true subscriber to the algore theory of global warming! People cause it so the fewer people alive the less the risk to the planet.

    Here is the man algore should be presenting to the world as a true hero of the war on global warming in every one of his performance. His movie should be re-edited to give credit where it is due.

  • 68 EXT // May 5, 2007 at 1:47 pm

    Someday I’ll learn how to use this editor properly. In post immediately above italics were meant to end after “births in the same period”. The remainder (from “this demonstrates”) did not appear in the original quotation.

  • 69 Dinocrat » Blog Archive » The history of the last 50 years // May 6, 2007 at 10:29 am

    […] Iowahawk traces the last 50 years of America through the decline of a fictional newspaper. It is quite a layered piece of work, both funny and sad. Extra points if you can spot the hidden serial killer. Meanwhile, Scott Ott lets us know just how far America has fallen in that time. He notes the Congressional debate on the new Ambivalnce Crimes Bill, proposed because “nothing in federal law extends special treatment to a person whose attacker has mixed feelings about the victim’s race, gender or degree of sexual disorientation.” Good to know that we’re finally focusing on the important things in America. […]

  • 70 Darthmeister // May 6, 2007 at 4:56 pm

    Vote here on how many cars you think will be torched by leftists and Muslim youths in the wake of the recent conservative presidential candidate’s win in France.

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