The Zombieslayer

The Supreme Court today did the right thing and reaffirmed that the Right to Bear Arms is a personal Right, not some collectivist group think crap that certain folks on the Left think it is. Finally. Now, let’s roll back some of these anti-gun laws.

Like always, uber-hypocrite Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said that because of the Supreme Court’s ruling, the country will be less safe. Keep in mind Feinstein has a California Concealed Weapons Permit, yes, a gun, that she keeps on her at all times because she said that if someone wanted to take her out, she’d take “that bastard” out with her.

Now, doesn’t that sound like something that I would say? Sure does. Amazing how someone could be that hypocritical. Well, what do you expect from the anti-gun crowd? They have no respect for our Constitution.

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We have a serious energy crisis, my friends. Now is not the time to point fingers but the time to take action. It’s time we started taking Solar Energy seriously. Get the ball rolling. Start putting out massive Solar Power projects.

It’s not just about the environment any more. It’s about slavery. Do we want to be slaves to foreign oil? No. $400 billion over 40 years is chump change. It’s less than we spend on farm subsidies and much less than we’d spend on foreign wars because of oil. If I had my fingers on the budget, I guarantee you I could cut $10 billion a year in pork, easily.

If you want to hear more about what I’m talking about, read the January 2008 issue of Scientific American. It has all the details, and shows that your energy bill will actually go down, not up. Plus, we won’t have to worry about foreign oil at all.

Imagine, telling the Middle East where they can stick their oil. Following the plan detailed in Scientific American, we can ditch foreign oil altogether.

Did you see the market today? The Dow dropped around 350 points. Why? Because of the price of oil. We need to kick this crack habit.

As for extra drilling here, no. Why not? Because there really isn’t that much. Certain lobbies would like you to believe it’s the greenie meanies who are holding us back but in reality, it’s the scientists. They know it’s not enough to be even worthwhile.

Solar on the other hand is limitless. Twenty years ago, I would have dismissed this concept as a bad joke but technology changes. Solar has grown leaps and bounds in the past decade and has become not only a lot more efficient, but much cheaper, and will continue to be more efficient and cheaper. Unlike oil, there’s an unlimited supply. Well, I take that back. We only have five billion years left of it.

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I’m proud of this last shot. No, I do not have a telephoto lens. I was really this close to the squirrel. By request, I’m going to start posting more pictures that I took.

This morning, Benazar Bhutto from Pakistan was assassinated.  She had been in exile and recently returned to Pakistan to run against President Musharraf.

I’m deeply saddened to hear about her death.  The 54-year-old former Prime Minister had twice the brains and ten times the charisma of Musharraf and I was really hoping she’d win in the elections.

This sets Pakistan back.  The Pakistani people are an intelligent lot of people, and this is a country I’ve been following for years now.

For those of you who don’t know who she was, Benazar Bhutto was the former Prime Minister of Pakistan.  Her father was Prime Minister but he was assassinated.  Educated in Harvard and Oxford, Bhutto was a good friend of America and the West.  She was Prime Minister of Pakistan twice between 1988 and 1996.

Musharraf warned her about returning to Pakistan for he said he was worried for her safety.  He said he couldn’t guarantee her security.  I’m not at all implying Musharraf had a hand in the attack.  I don’t know if he was genuinely concerned or not, but for right now, I’m mourning her death.  I think it’s more likely that he had no hand in her attack and actually was worried because the country’s stability had been deteriorating in recent months.

She was a good woman and could have taken Pakistan far into the future.

I don’t get moved easily, but the reason this one hit me is it came from Canada, not the Middle East.

A 16-year-old Canadian girl, Aqsa Parvez, was strangled to death by her own father for not wearing her hijab (a traditional Muslim head scarf). Her father had beaten her before for not wearing it, and she had gone to school having to cover up bruises. She had been fearing for her life and actually had been living with a friend to escape the violence.

She had also been followed around to make sure she was wearing the hijab. Sadly, she had predicted her own demise, telling a friend of hers that her father was going to kill her for not wearing it.

Her father Muhammad Parvez has been charged with second-degree murder.  Waqas Parvez, her brother, may be charged with obstruction of justice for intentionally trying to mislead investigators.  Waqas Parvez is on bail for $10,000 and had to surrender his passport to authorities.

In Saudi Arabia last Tuesday, a 19-year-old victim of a gang rape was sentenced to six months in jail and 200 lashes, only because she was with an unrelated male when she was gang raped.

Imagine that. Here’s a young woman who had just been gang raped and she gets jail time and 200 lashes. Her crime? Being in a car with a man who wasn’t her relative.

The full story was, she was in a car with a man who was not her relative, got carjacked by two other men, then they took her to a secluded area and seven men total raped her. Her friend was also raped by these thugs.

The international outcry so far has been strong. Yes, Saudi Arabia has officially not left the Middle Ages, while the rest of the world has somewhat advanced. The day after Thanksgiving, I’ll have to add one more thing on the list to be thankful for - that I don’t live in Saudi Arabia.

Full story on BBC here.