The Stoner Pundit

Well at least the car he was driving was a Prius...

2007-07-04T19:12:00.000-07:00

Police: Drugs found in Gore son's Prius after traffic stop

Al,

Before telling us how to run our lives (as in how we should create a carbon neutral footprint for ourselves), please teach your son that driving 100 mph even in an "environmentally friendly" automobile is environmentally irresponsible and fucking dangerous. I'm pretty sure that puts a lot of carbon into the atmosphere and we will all soon be melting from all of the heat. I do however applaud his use of herb. I'm sure it's the finest your "An Inconvenient Truth" and Occidental Petroleum money could buy. I also believe if you want me on your side in this debate, we should legalize and grow massive amounts of hemp (aka marijuana). It's a plant. It thus takes carbon from the atmosphere and we can also smoke it be happy.

Sincerely,

The Stoner Pundit

p.s. I've been too stoned to get around to posting here but I'll try to keep up with what's going on in the world.

I just took

2006-03-15T18:45:00.000-08:00

a drag on the wrong end of my one hitter. Ouch! Burnt my tongue. It really didn't hurt that bad, though.

I demand a UN investigation into this immediately

2006-03-11T11:53:00.000-08:00

Police: U.S. hostage shot, tortured

As if that will ever happen...

Oscar Blogging

2006-03-05T19:38:00.001-08:00

Just watched the "In Memoriam" section of the Oscars. I just have to ask, where was Don Knotts? Was he not in films? He's had many parts in movies. Many lesser known actors were featured in the short piece.

Did he die too late to be included in the piece? Or was it a slap at red state values, because he and the Andy Griffith show represent the red state moral compass? I just have to say they had 9 days to get it done and that should have been enough.

This Oscars' ceremony drips excessively of politics. It doesn't need to. We in the red states don't need to be preached to. We can be engaged in polite conversation, but it seems the Hollywood elite would rather hit us over the head or berate us as morons.

Oscar Blogging

2006-03-05T19:38:00.000-08:00

White House Trains Efforts On Media Leaks

2006-03-05T06:21:00.000-08:00

via the Instapundit in the Washington Post:

"There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, their appetite for withholding information, and the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded traitors," said New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, in a statement responding to questions from The Washington Post. "I don't know how far action will follow rhetoric, but some days it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad."

Translation: We in the press think leaks are bad, but we still should have the right to print them on our front pages.

I'm going to go hit the bong and get mellow. This kind of shit is driving me insane. When did hypocrisy become a value worth protecting?

Great Video

2006-03-02T20:16:00.000-08:00

via Instapundit

Video you have to see is here, Memri.org,

I wonder how long this woman will be alive before a Muslim kills her for being a heretic. She was very well spoken. I think to speaking to Muslims (and countering their ideas) in their own tongue may help to increase dialogue between our civilizations. I hope I'm wrong, but I think we will find this woman murdered before long.

Prayers for the Assassin

2006-03-01T16:49:00.000-08:00

I just started reading "Prayers for the Assassin" by Robert Ferrigno. I'm not going to give a full review, but so far the book is well paced. It's extremely timely in the events of recent weeks, such as the recent cartoon jihad. There's definitely some insights to be gleaned about the Muslim mind and culture from this book.

I've listed some links below if you want to check it out.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/22/schuster.column/index.html?section=cnn_latest
http://www.prayersfortheassassin.com
http://www.republicworldnews.com/

Energy independence is a disaster in the making?

2006-03-01T15:50:00.000-08:00

via CNNMoney.com

"it could doom the economy, the environment and our position in the world."

If you ask me, this article is a just bit pessimistic. The writer must be a free marketeer, which is what I used to be. I believed in markets and the power of the invisible hand. One day I woke up and planes were flown into the World Trade Center towers. Is it possible that the some economic transactions cost more than the price paid?

If we look at the world, there are times when the full economic costs are not reflective of the price. Cigarettes, for example, cost a few bucks a pack. The economic damage done by them to the lives of human beings through cancers, emphysema, heart disease, and lost economic performance are enormous. Therefore perhaps we should raise the price to a point where individuals partake in a manner that is beneficial or at least neutral to society. Thus we see higher taxes on cigarettes, designed to create government revenue to pay for the damage done to the public health and welfare.

So when we look at oil, we see a world where the vast majority of proven recoverable reserves are in the hands of people who regularly scream "Death to America". These people are empowered by the money we spend on oil and they spread their ideology with the money we give them. This is a recipe for disaster for our country. We can't continue on this path.

What to do? We have to become energy independent, at least to the extent that it reduces our need to deal economically and culturally with these fanatics. We need to become efficient. We need to conserve. We need alternatives to oil. We need to devalue oil. We must recognize the true costs of oil.

First, let me say I believe it is impossible to become 100% energy independent. In the future technological advancements may be made that allow us to be 100% independent. For now though our focus on energy independence must be to escape the Mideast-OPEC sphere of oil influence.

We should start with efficiency. Hybrid engines, plug in hybrids, raising CAFE standards on automobiles, using strong plastic composites to lower car weight are some of what is needed.

Next we should conserve. One idea is to tax a gallon of gas so that it will always be $3.00. At current prices this would put an additional 60 to 70 cents (OH-KY area) onto a gallon of gas. A higher price should reduce consumption. It also would incentivize drivers to get cars that are more efficient.

To this end there should be a national campaign to promote recycling. A single aluminum can takes 350 watts/hr to create. That means one can in my area takes the equivalent of about 2-3 cents of energy. If we're going to one day start plugging in our cars at night to suck up electricity from the grid, we're going to have to find ways to save electricity. There are many recyclable items in every household in America and unfortunately most of them wind up in landfills. We can reduce energy use by recycling.

Ethanol, biodiesel, synfuels. These are some alternatives to oil. Certainly some people talk about these alternatives like they are pie in the sky. I don't believe we're capable of eliminating our full need for oil, but we can use these to greatly reduce our need for oil. We must move forward with technologies to produce these alternatives. There is no other choice.

In looking at the article, the writer points out that if we make advances in alternative fuels then the price of oil will likely drop, which is likely true. Let's say our reduced demand for oil results in an overall gas price of $1.50 (oh the days so long ago when the precious liquid was at that price). If we're paying $3 for ethanol, biodiesel, etc, then we would be vastly overpaying wouldn't we? Or would we? We're not adding in the cost of oil wars, terrorism, or kissing peoples asses who hate us. That $3 for ethanol would be spent in the US, stays in the US, and would be taxed in the US. It would create American jobs, not Saudi or Iranian jobs.

I would rather pay $3 a gallon for fuel if the money stayed here than pay $1.50 to the Saudis. It would allow me to sleep better at night, knowing that we've reduced the value of their oil and thus reduce the terrorism they create. If fuel is $3 a gallon, I have the incentive to use it more efficiently than I do if the price is $1.50, (which at the price is way too low for the additional external costs).

We must forward with measured steps, but most of all we must move with urgency.

Couldn't have said it better

2006-02-28T19:09:00.000-08:00

Via the beautiful Michelle Malkin-

MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.

We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.

The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.

Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man's domination of woman, the Islamists' domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.

We reject cultural relativism, which consists in accepting that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions. We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.

We plead for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas.

We appeal to democrats and free spirits of all countries that our century should be one of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.

12 signatures

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Chahla Chafiq
Caroline Fourest
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Irshad Manji
Mehdi Mozaffari
Maryam Namazie
Taslima Nasreen
Salman Rushdie
Antoine Sfeir
Philippe Val
Ibn Warraq

BREAKING NEWS: The Stoner Pundit Offers Bounty on Pakistani Cleric

2006-02-17T15:25:00.000-08:00

I, the one and only Stoner Pundit, place a bounty on the head of Pakistani cleric Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi of Peshawar, in the amount of 5 million American dollars*.

“This is a unanimous decision by the Stoner Pundit that whoever on earth is this stupid deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end, will get this prize".

*This will be payable only if the cleric is killed and I am the unanimous winner of this Saturday's Powerball drawing. Otherwise, the bounty is reduced to $5.

U.N. draft: Acts 'amounting to torture' at Guantanamo

2006-02-13T17:12:00.000-08:00

LINK

I can predict exactly what the report will not say. It will not say that the prisoners of Guantanamo are without food, without Korans, without access to health care. Most importantly it will not say that any of the prisoners has been beheaded. There's a war going on here. These people were captured on the battlefield, most likely with weapons. They're not good guys. They're the bad guys. They're the ones who would just as easily bomb the UN as the US. They don't care for modern civilization and they will lie in every way possible to make the US and the West look bad. Case closed.

UPDATE: How about a UN report on how Christians are treated in Saudi Arabia? LINK
I'm sure you won't see that. Dr. Sanity talked recently in a blog post about "Guilt" cultures and "Shame" cultures, HERE.

We're a guilt culture and the Saudis are shame culture. So we make more of our mistakes while the Saudis seek to deflect theirs by blaming someone else, which is us. Our treatment of Muslims in this country can't even compare to the crimes they commit against humanity. Yet, they blame the US, so that we internalize and then fail to point out that the Saudis have much more to be blamed for.

So, if one were to think for a second... How exactly does a country like Saudi Arabia, become almost 100 percent Muslim? History has shown us that there were many Jewish and Christian tribes and cities in the area. Different people when given a choice on an issue will almost never make 100% the same choice. If given the choice between Coca Cola and Tab, invariably some people would choose Tab.

How then does a society become 100 percent Muslim, when there were other religions in the area? Everywhere else in the world that this has come close to occurring, it often involves the cleansing of a population. Hmmm. So is it possible that the Saudis and other Muslims in the area have killed off (read: genocide) or terrorized (read: terrorized) the other religious populations?

Duh. I don't know.

Area Muslims decry Bok cartoon (AKRON)

2006-02-12T14:30:00.000-08:00

LINK (via Michelle Malkin)

OH MY GOD! Do we have to deal with these idiots on everything? First of all, the cartoon isn't lampooning Islam or the prophet Mohammed. It's lampooning CNN and a supposedly free press. Secondly, I think the next statement says it all:

The editorial cartoon has prompted several letters in response. Also on Friday afternoon, there was a demonstration outside of the newspaper's East Exchange Street building.

Several letters? And we have a major controversy? Wow. Let's not give in too easy to these fucks. I'm like why don't we just make the whole country Muslim friendly in every way that can be accomodated, so that maybe they don't start suicide bombing restaurants and coffeehouses. Let's invite Bin Laden right to the dinner table.

Muslim leaders said Bok's cartoon was disrespectful because the prophet should not have been depicted in such a way. In fact, they said, there are no pictures or statues of Muhammad because he should not be confused with God.

Are we really going to surrender to people this stupid? The guy doesn't even know his own religion. A picture of the prophet Mohammed's face is not allowed by the Wahabibists. If you look in art you will find many instances where Mohammed's body is displayed, but his face is whited out. If you don't know what his face looks like you don't know what he looks like.

Should we just rollover right now to them? Or should we at least wait until we have dozens of letters? Maybe then we can get a better deal, you know?

Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter

2006-02-12T14:05:00.000-08:00

Link

I've never fired a gun. Despite all of that I've thought of joining the NRA. We should have the right to choose. If I so choose to buy a gun, I definitely don't want to go hunting with Vice President Cheney. Fucker's dangerous.

I'm kind of interested what kind of hay the Left will make of this. Was it really conspiracy to off someone that went bad? Was this lawyer really a Democrat? Will the Left use this to say, "Hey you're not for gun control, but you can't even control your gun." I'm sure there'll be some scandal. Can't wait to read each scandal.

RUMOR UPDATE: The guy who got shot was overheard saying "Republicans are assholes" right before being shot by the VP. WOOHOO YEAH! (Just my sarcasm. Sure that's what happened.)

Great Comment

2006-02-08T13:56:00.000-08:00

Comment #35 from Little Green Footballs:

If someone was to put up a statue of Mohammed, would Muslims tear it down and destroy it, or would the tearing down and destroying also be an afront to the Prophet?

Interesting question. Heh.

Joke Of The Day

2006-02-08T05:52:00.000-08:00

Got any dirty pictures of Mohammed?

Want some?

Hitting The Nail On The Head

2006-02-06T15:43:00.000-08:00

(From Filibuster Comics via The Mohammed Image Archive)

Cartoon War: My Solution

2006-02-06T15:15:00.000-08:00

From Little Green Footballs
Omar Bakri Mohammed, the radical Muslim cleric, has said the cartoonist behind caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that have sparked outrage across the Arab world should be tried and executed under Islamic law.

He said if countries refused to put people on trial for insulting Mohammed they must “face the consequences”.

My solution is simple, very simple. It goes against many of our standing Western traditions, but I'm willing to do that for world peace, love, and harmony. With my solution we'll all be able to hold hands together and pick flowers in the grass.

So here it is: I, citizen of a Western democracy will make no effort to offend your Islamic God(s), countries, or prophets. In return you Islamic citizens of mostly totatalitarian states will make no effort to offend my Western God(s), countries, or prophets. Thus in doing so I will turn over anyone who offends your fragile Muslim sensibilities, whether by word or artistic expression. You in turn will turn over anyone who offends our Western sensibilities by word or artistic expression. Thus, I agree to turn over the cartoonists, if you in turn will turn over every Muslim who has ever shouted "Death To America" (or any Western country for that matter) and every Muslim who has ever burned the flag or embassy of a Western country.

You see I can understand our Western offense and how it affects you and your co-religionists. You must also understand that I, even as Western kafir infidel, I have feelings also. My religion is liberty and freedom (and reason)for all, which is embodied by the soul of my country, the United States of America. When you burn my flag or shout death to my country it greatly offends me. So please be nice. We don't have to have stupid shouting matches or embassy burnings to come to a mutual understanding of our differences.

I'm Back With "The Death to Islam" Cartoon Contest

2006-02-04T15:11:00.000-08:00

I've been off for a while. I've just started smoking weed again after a semi-long respite. It's a good to get off now and then to change thinking now and then, but it's also nice when I'm back on the stuff for a little while. So much has happened.

The extermination is on it's way? You don't have to go far on the internet to find pictures and statements like those in the picture above. I read somewhere that Palestinians in Gaza were praising their brother Osama Bin Laden in hopes that he would destroy Denmark. I would provide links, but if you do a simple search on Google or hit the Instapundit.com
or Little Green Footballs or other sites, you'll find the information. Read what the militant Islamofascists have to say. All of this because of a few cartoons. If they'll kill people over this, they'll willingly kill all of us over any reason they can think of. So in defense of tolerance and reason, I say "Death to Islam!". Or at least the militant assholes of Islam.

Christopher Hitchens at Slate had this to say:

Which is what taboos are for. Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet—who was only another male mammal—is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible proof of an aggressive intent. This current coexistence is only an interlude, he seems to say. For the moment, all I can do is claim to possess absolute truth and demand absolute immunity from criticism. But in the future, you will do what I say and you will do it on pain of death.
I refuse to be spoken to in that tone of voice, which as it happens I chance to find "offensive." ( By the way, hasn't the word "offensive" become really offensive lately?) I, too, have strong convictions and beliefs, and value the Enlightenment above any priesthood or sacred fetish-object. It is revolting to me to breathe the same air as wafts toward me the exhalations of the madrasahs, or the fumes of the suicide-murderers, or the sermons of Billy Graham and Joseph Ratzinger. But these same principles of mine also prevent me from wreaking random violence on the nearest church, or kidnapping a Muslim at random and holding him hostage, or making a moronic spectacle of myself threatening blood and fire to individuals who have hurt my feelings. The babyish rumor-fuelled tantrums that erupt all the time, especially in the Islamic world, show yet again that faith belongs to the spoiled and selfish childhood of our species.

Concise and to the point, Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom says:

Translation: “Free speech is good so long as it tolerates our right, as an identity group, to dictate which free speech is authentic and allowable. Otherwise, y’know, we get to torch shit.”

With all of the furor over the Danish cartoons, I thought I'd create one of my own and see if other bloggers out there will join me in lampooning the stupid ideology of Islam. I understand that the cartoons in question were offensive to the feeble minds of many Muslims. I understand why they would be upset. It's okay to be offended. It's okay to be upset. It's not okay to threaten the rest of the world with massacres because someone drew a picture of your religion's psychopathic leader. It's not okay to commit violence just because someone offended you and your fragile mental state. Well... I guess it's okay if you're Muslim. Then it's definitely okay.

So if you create a cartoon please leave a link to your blog in the comments section. I may even post the best on this blog. My cartoon is below. I call it "The Prophet Mohammed Gets Head From Pam Anderson".

Are we in the midst of watching the Muslim world destroy itself?

I was hoping the "Islam vs the West" would mostly be a cold war (where eventually hearts and minds could be won), with small interventions here and there, but it now looks like we are well on our way to a very hot war. A war that may result in the death of hundreds of millions of people. The question that comes to my mind is always about the use of WMD. What happens after Bin Laden or Iran or Pakistan or some other muslim group uses a nuke or nukes? I don't believe we will just step aside and say "Oh, that's okay we're just going to let them get away with it." I think our retalliation will be swift and unforgiving. Perhaps even leading the extermination of Islam and its adherents. As always I hope I'm wrong on this. I hope that we can live peaceably in this world.

Where do we find morons like this?

2005-11-08T06:37:00.000-08:00

Chavez better in some ways than Bush (from letters to the editors in today's Cincinnati Enquirer)

Your "Hot corner" tirade against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ("At least Chavez has no nukes," Nov. 6) read suspiciously like another media propaganda "plant" by the Bush administration. Let's compare: "Dictator" Chavez has won huge majorities in two elections and a referendum; Bush has not. "Strongman" Chavez fears invasion; Bush has perpetrated an invasion. Crowds cheer Chavez; they protest Bush. The wealth gap has declined under Chavez; it has increased under Bush. Chavez chummy with Castro; Bush chummy with totalitarian leadership of home to 15 of the 19 terrorists of 9/11.

This one you got right: Bush has nukes; Chavez does not. It's scary indeed.

Bill Westerman, Brookville, Ind.

I just wish people like this would get fed up with this country and move to Venezuela. I'm sure they would be much happier there. I'm sure that Chavez won huge majorities in two elections because he was a really nice guy. I mean Saddam Hussein won with 99.8% of the vote in Iraq, so having a large majority must mean he's one hell of a guy.

Let me also remind Bill, that a Democrat is the only one to ever authorize the use of nuclear weapons on another country.

How long

2005-11-07T17:14:00.000-08:00

will it be before Terrell Owens blames George W. Bush for his situation? I'm sure someone on the left already has.

How long will it be before France blames America for the riots in their streets?

The Best Shiznit

2005-11-02T18:40:00.000-08:00

I woke from my slumber this morning with the horrifying feeling I’d done something very naughty with the Travelocity Roaming Gnome. I love weed. This was good stuff.

NEWSFLASH: WILL BLOG FOR WEED

2005-10-31T18:35:00.000-08:00

I am out of the ganj. Just smoked my last little bit and I mean just scaps. Someone please email me some weed and I mean now (THESTONERPUNDIT AT HOTMAIL.COM).

Obviously everyone missed my last advertisement offering my freelance blogging services. So I state the offer again; I will write a blog post for you for weed. We'll work out the exact details later. Email me at THESTONERPUNDIT AT HOTMAIL.COM. Now!

In other news: So the libs don't like Harriet Miers? Guess what? We'll give them their worst nightmare or at least their worst wet dream. Alito. Scalito. Scalito's Way. I like the sound of the coming war between the Left and the Right. It should be interesting. It's time that things got fought over a little. There's been too much give and take. Let stop pussyfooting around. Get it over with. Let the debate begin.

I think I've used pussyfooting two straight posts. Maybe that'll be one of my trademarks. Kronkite had "and that's the news" or was it "and that's the way it is". I'm getting slightly stoned. Plus I ate a lot of Halloween candy. Not very many kids came by so I had plenty. It's not like my house is that bad. It's not like I'm the crazy pothead down the street or something. Or maybe I am and I just don't know it. I don't run and bark at cars or anything insane like that.

Maybe it's the women I've been hanging with. Hot and Slutty! Good girls, everyone of them. There might even be a future Miss Stonerpundit or two in the bunch. All very friendly. Smoking my pot. Must get more pot. Need more pot. Need more naked hot chicks coming "over" to roll and then roll. So no more pussyfooting around. WILL BLOG FOR WEED. Must blog for weed. Get it. Got it. Good. Man, cheetos never sounded so good as right now

Go Ahead. Make My Day.

2005-10-27T20:10:00.000-07:00

Iran: Israel should be wiped off map

I say to Iran, "Go ahead, full bore." Then see what happens next. Maybe you've got a few nuclear weapons, but we've got more. Don't pussyfoot around. Use them like a man. Just do everything you possibly can.

I have to say I don't agree with everything Israel does. I feel for the Palestinians. I think they're getting a raw deal, but there's a lot of them that are so stupid that they've constantly wound up with nothing, when they could have had plenty. It's like a half a loaf is better than none, but not to a Palestinian. They have to have it all, which of course will almost always mean none. Throwing stones ain't going to get the job done. Killing yourself to kill others won't work, either.

Instead of intifadah, just call it what it is: War. The object of war is not to die for your cause or your country, but to make the other guy die for his.

That all said, the head of a country is calling for just short of a full Jewish genocide. I'm sure the Koran allows this. It must be such a peaceful book.

Maybe someday people can work out their differences like human beings. Maybe they'll be able to look each other in the eye understand the other. I guess not in my lifetime.

My mood

2005-10-27T17:15:00.000-07:00

I feel like I've got goddamned fucking Tourette's syndrome today.