The Nobel Peace Prize
Yasser Arafat is dead! Hip-hip, hurray! Hip-hip, hurray! Hip-hip, hurray! Hyperlink. Yasser Arafat was a terrorist. His whole life, was willing to kill civilians - men, women, and children - to forward his cause. By signing the Oslo Accords in 1993, he tried to trick the world into believing he was other than he was; but when he rejected Ehud Barak's peace proposals in 2000, proposals that would have given the Palestinians everything they could ever hope to get, he showed his true colors and launched the second intifada. As I type this, Arafat's soul in is Hell, which is exactly what he deserves. His death marks today as a great day for the Israelis and, more importantly, for the Palestinians. The Palestinians are the worst lead people on Earth. No other population, not even the North Koreans, has had a leadership so diametrically opposed to its people's wellfare as have the Palestinians. The murderer and terrorist Yasser Arafat is dead. Today is a great day for all Mankind.

Armistice Day
Thank God for America's veterans. They have defeated, in turn, imperial domination, slavery, fascism, and communism, and today do battle with genocidal jihadism. My purpose is not to take anything away from them, for they deserve all the honor in the world. But, I have always liked this quote from Second World Ware veteran Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:

"Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans Day is not."

Eighty-six years ago today, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Great War came to an end. May we never forget that dread war and it's terrible lessons, for we do so at our peril.

Vote For Kodos - Patriots and Loyalists
I have noted with great glee and enjoyment the joking suggestion by many on the American Left that they are seriously considering moving to the Dominion of Canda in the wake of President Bush's reelection. Personally, I believe it is a fabulous idea. The last time a large number of Americans voluntarily moved to Canada was following the successful conclusion of the Revolutionary War. (I consider the flight of escaped slaves to Canada an involuntary relocation, since after Dred Scott it was painfully clear that no place in the United States was a safe enough refuge.) These Loyalists refused to recognize the new Republic over their mad king George III, and so they relocate to where His Majesty still held sway. Had they stayed, they would he worked relentlessly to undermine our fledging democracy, and in the chaos of the Articles of Confederation and the Shay's Rebellion crisis, they might have succeeded in handing us back to the Crown. America was better off without those Loyalists who departed for Canada, and if any leftists wish to make neo-Laoyalists out of themselves today, we shall be better off without them as well.

H-A-N
Fall in love tonight.