...is worth 10,00 words of blogging.
Trying to bait the charming and beautiful African reporter into saying that the greeting Barack Obama recieved on his recent visit Ghana was simply "unprecedented", he is corrected by our Ghanese correspondent, who reminds him that Bush did it better:
Geez, Don - why the dumbfounded look? Shocked that a reporter won't play the "all hail King Obama" game, or suprised that Obama's popularity might actually be less than W.'s?
Better get used to it, Donny....
Via The Virginian.
วันอังคาร, กรกฎาคม 14, 2552
Some Fun In The Sun...
....I'm taking a few days off to head to the beaches of South Jersey to swim, fish, drink, and sleep with my toes in the sand.
I'll be back by week's end. Would like to take a moment to thank the folks that keep stopping by here to read on a daily basis. I've read that most political-based blogs have seen big decreases in traffic post-election. I did in fact hit some all-time highs in visitors from October-December, but we have stayed within a few percentage points of those totals, if not occasionally exceeding them, through the summer. In fact, by July 13th, I already exceeded my entire July 2008 visitor total.
So - thanks for reading, big-time! I've got a few posts that will pop up during the week, so stop by and take a peek....
Se ya soon...
I'll be back by week's end. Would like to take a moment to thank the folks that keep stopping by here to read on a daily basis. I've read that most political-based blogs have seen big decreases in traffic post-election. I did in fact hit some all-time highs in visitors from October-December, but we have stayed within a few percentage points of those totals, if not occasionally exceeding them, through the summer. In fact, by July 13th, I already exceeded my entire July 2008 visitor total.
So - thanks for reading, big-time! I've got a few posts that will pop up during the week, so stop by and take a peek....
Se ya soon...
วันจันทร์, กรกฎาคม 13, 2552
When Republicans "Attack" !
Because only Democrats "question" the other parties nominees, and they do so only as a public service - to ensure the "radical", "out of the mainstream" views that Republican nominees have are exposed to the world.
But Republicans, as we all know, are just animals:
How the GOP will attack
How the Republicans Will Go After Sotomayor
Their lines of questioning are already being ridiculed:
They'll grill her on her interest in foreign law - in their eyes an un-American curiosity that could pollute U.S. laws. And they will fret over her Second Amendment decisions and imply she might want to take away some folks' guns
This one is a classic:
Sotomayor has used the "wise Latina" phrase repeatedly in speeches dating back to 1994. In one speech in 2001 she tagged on the line "than a white male who hasn't lived that life." Republicans, who prefer judges that claim total impartiality to the law, do not like that Sotomayor's decisions are influenced by her life experience.
Only Republicans like impartial judges? Really? Perhaps our frineds at Time (and Yahoo, who put this piece of sh*t on their home page) ought to look at these polling numbers on Sotomayor; seems like the majority of Americans perfer impartial judges.
Who prefers impartial judges? Only hard-left Democrats and the mainstream media, I reckon...
After arguing that any "attack" on Sotomayor would be precieved as racist and keep the Republicans in minority status, Time concludes pompously:
There's always the potential for unforeseen fireworks, but if Sotomayor is as well prepared as the evidence would suggest, the hearings could just as easily turn out to be anticlimactic.
We'll see, my left-wing nuts. And should she get the robe, one might only imagine the backlash against Barack Obaba as she decides case after case based on race and social class, as opposed to merit and law. After all, as Ricci has proven, that's her specialty...
But Republicans, as we all know, are just animals:
How the GOP will attack
How the Republicans Will Go After Sotomayor
Their lines of questioning are already being ridiculed:
They'll grill her on her interest in foreign law - in their eyes an un-American curiosity that could pollute U.S. laws. And they will fret over her Second Amendment decisions and imply she might want to take away some folks' guns
This one is a classic:
Sotomayor has used the "wise Latina" phrase repeatedly in speeches dating back to 1994. In one speech in 2001 she tagged on the line "than a white male who hasn't lived that life." Republicans, who prefer judges that claim total impartiality to the law, do not like that Sotomayor's decisions are influenced by her life experience.
Only Republicans like impartial judges? Really? Perhaps our frineds at Time (and Yahoo, who put this piece of sh*t on their home page) ought to look at these polling numbers on Sotomayor; seems like the majority of Americans perfer impartial judges.
Who prefers impartial judges? Only hard-left Democrats and the mainstream media, I reckon...
After arguing that any "attack" on Sotomayor would be precieved as racist and keep the Republicans in minority status, Time concludes pompously:
There's always the potential for unforeseen fireworks, but if Sotomayor is as well prepared as the evidence would suggest, the hearings could just as easily turn out to be anticlimactic.
We'll see, my left-wing nuts. And should she get the robe, one might only imagine the backlash against Barack Obaba as she decides case after case based on race and social class, as opposed to merit and law. After all, as Ricci has proven, that's her specialty...
วันอาทิตย์, กรกฎาคม 12, 2552
Obama, Media Pop Smoke...
....in order to disorient and distract the citizenry from the freefall of the economy and the transformation of our nation into a socialist/authoritarian lite state.
While unemployment keeps rising, the stock market keeps falling, and those alleged "green shoots" now turning brown and decaying as a nation turns against cap & trade and nationalized health, what does an ambitious young Marxist and his allies in the media do?
Pop smoke.
Notice, after being absent for months, George Bush, Dick Cheny, and "torture" has suddenly made a big comback on the front pages. How convenient.
Holder considering torture probe
...Attorney General Eric Holder may push forward with a criminal investigation into the Bush administration's harsh interrogation practices used on suspected terrorists.
Holder is considering whether to appoint a prosecutor and will make a final decision within the next few weeks...
Don't believe for a moment this is being done without Obama's consent. Chicago politics don't work that way. More:
Cheney told CIA not to discuss program
Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June, officials with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday....
Cheney played a central role in overseeing the Bush administration's surveillance program that was the subject of an inspectors general report this past week.
So let's blow some smoke and make a big deal about whether to prosecute the past presidential adminstration, while the economy flails even further under cover, and hey - while all that smoke's still drifting and billowing, maybe we can nationalized healthcare and pass through that massive energy tax we need to pay for all of the earmarks we're funding. Can't count on a celebrity dying every day, can we?
The media obligingly plays along, instead of questioning the motivation and the timing of a political prosecution. Not an independant mind left in that profession, apparently...Obama's the piped piper of economic ruin, and the media are his children, danicing away with him, and urging us all to commit sucide together...
(Incidentally, the Obama adminstration should be aware that prosecuting a previous administration for the crime of protecting a nation under attack is quite the double-edged blade. After all, our current president has danced on the edge of the law with some frequency - think the threats made to automotive, banking, and health care officials - and one would hate to see the Republican congress/president putting Obama into the stockades in 2012 for racketeering and other violations of the RICO act...)
While unemployment keeps rising, the stock market keeps falling, and those alleged "green shoots" now turning brown and decaying as a nation turns against cap & trade and nationalized health, what does an ambitious young Marxist and his allies in the media do?
Pop smoke.
Notice, after being absent for months, George Bush, Dick Cheny, and "torture" has suddenly made a big comback on the front pages. How convenient.
Holder considering torture probe
...Attorney General Eric Holder may push forward with a criminal investigation into the Bush administration's harsh interrogation practices used on suspected terrorists.
Holder is considering whether to appoint a prosecutor and will make a final decision within the next few weeks...
Don't believe for a moment this is being done without Obama's consent. Chicago politics don't work that way. More:
Cheney told CIA not to discuss program
Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June, officials with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday....
Cheney played a central role in overseeing the Bush administration's surveillance program that was the subject of an inspectors general report this past week.
So let's blow some smoke and make a big deal about whether to prosecute the past presidential adminstration, while the economy flails even further under cover, and hey - while all that smoke's still drifting and billowing, maybe we can nationalized healthcare and pass through that massive energy tax we need to pay for all of the earmarks we're funding. Can't count on a celebrity dying every day, can we?
The media obligingly plays along, instead of questioning the motivation and the timing of a political prosecution. Not an independant mind left in that profession, apparently...Obama's the piped piper of economic ruin, and the media are his children, danicing away with him, and urging us all to commit sucide together...
(Incidentally, the Obama adminstration should be aware that prosecuting a previous administration for the crime of protecting a nation under attack is quite the double-edged blade. After all, our current president has danced on the edge of the law with some frequency - think the threats made to automotive, banking, and health care officials - and one would hate to see the Republican congress/president putting Obama into the stockades in 2012 for racketeering and other violations of the RICO act...)
วันเสาร์, กรกฎาคม 11, 2552
Frank Ricci Must Be Destroyed!
Political Correctness for thee, but not for me, huh?
The ugliness of the liberal's PC philosophy become clear last fall, as they led an unprecedented personal assault on Sarah Palin and her family, one that would have drawn howls of outrage from politicians and the press would it have been directed at Hillary (or Chelsea) Clinton. The horror of "having one's patriotism questioned" if you rooted for American soldiers to die in Iraq is now replaced with the shrieks of "treason!" of one fails to support liberal policies such as cap & tax or nationalized healthcare. And the constant complaints of "loss of freedom" under the Bush administration is now replaced by the constant cries for censorship under the guise of a "Fairness Doctirne".
Today, we have a new turn of perversity from the Left. Apparently, they are encouraging the media and Democratic operatives (whats the matter, p*ssies - too scared to take the fight on yourself?) to attack disabled firefighter Frank Ricci, because he may pose a threat to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor:
Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who's at the center of Sotomayor's most controversial ruling.
On the eve of Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the "troubled and litigious work history" of firefighter Frank Ricci.
On Friday, citing in an e-mail "Frank Ricci's troubled and litigious work history," the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way drew reporters' attention to Ricci's past. Other advocates for Sotomayor have discreetly urged journalists to pursue similar story lines.
Heh. When a disabled liberal, or a put-upon women, or a person of minority status sues repeatedly in order to recieve the fairness due to them under the law, they are lauded as brave, courageous, fighters who have sacrificed in the name of civil rights.
When a white fireman, awarded several citations for bravery in the line of duty, fights for the same rights for himself, he is a "troubled" and "litigious" man.
Will the media and the Democrats pick this up and run with it? Maybe. Will they be successful in redefining an innocent citizen (a la Joe the Plumber), via what looks to be an ugly smear campaign, in order to further their radical ideology of racial preferences?
Again, maybe. But all it would take would be for one courageous man to point out in public the vicious double-standard about to be applied to Mr. Ricci. It won't stop the media or the left, but it will inflame the people, who appear to be getting more sick and tired of this leftist doublespeak every day...
The ugliness of the liberal's PC philosophy become clear last fall, as they led an unprecedented personal assault on Sarah Palin and her family, one that would have drawn howls of outrage from politicians and the press would it have been directed at Hillary (or Chelsea) Clinton. The horror of "having one's patriotism questioned" if you rooted for American soldiers to die in Iraq is now replaced with the shrieks of "treason!" of one fails to support liberal policies such as cap & tax or nationalized healthcare. And the constant complaints of "loss of freedom" under the Bush administration is now replaced by the constant cries for censorship under the guise of a "Fairness Doctirne".
Today, we have a new turn of perversity from the Left. Apparently, they are encouraging the media and Democratic operatives (whats the matter, p*ssies - too scared to take the fight on yourself?) to attack disabled firefighter Frank Ricci, because he may pose a threat to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor:
Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who's at the center of Sotomayor's most controversial ruling.
On the eve of Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the "troubled and litigious work history" of firefighter Frank Ricci.
On Friday, citing in an e-mail "Frank Ricci's troubled and litigious work history," the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way drew reporters' attention to Ricci's past. Other advocates for Sotomayor have discreetly urged journalists to pursue similar story lines.
Heh. When a disabled liberal, or a put-upon women, or a person of minority status sues repeatedly in order to recieve the fairness due to them under the law, they are lauded as brave, courageous, fighters who have sacrificed in the name of civil rights.
When a white fireman, awarded several citations for bravery in the line of duty, fights for the same rights for himself, he is a "troubled" and "litigious" man.
Will the media and the Democrats pick this up and run with it? Maybe. Will they be successful in redefining an innocent citizen (a la Joe the Plumber), via what looks to be an ugly smear campaign, in order to further their radical ideology of racial preferences?
Again, maybe. But all it would take would be for one courageous man to point out in public the vicious double-standard about to be applied to Mr. Ricci. It won't stop the media or the left, but it will inflame the people, who appear to be getting more sick and tired of this leftist doublespeak every day...
วันศุกร์, กรกฎาคม 10, 2552
Hardly Stimulating....
Well, some of Obama's stimulus money is finally trickling through, yet nevertheless the jobless rates continue to soar. Well, perhaps with the exception of one of the Democrat's favorite constituencies: marginal actors and actresses:
In February the NEA received $50 million from the administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to preserve jobs in the arts...
Over at GALA Hispanic Theatre, the city's largest Latino performing arts group, the federal grant of $50,000 came just in time. "Now we are able to continue to employ our technical director and hire an additional technical director who speaks Spanish,"
Arena Stage is using its $50,000 to reinstate two positions. The National Building Museum is using its grant of the same amount to retain a job.
Wow! Jobs that pay no more than $25K/year! I guess that's the new "sustainable wage" under the Obama administration, at least before cap-and-trade jacks up our energy prices by another 100%....
And oh, that sense of entitlement - and sense of overwhelming importance - from our artists, who suffer so much more than the out of work construction worker or banker who can no longer support a family:
Dorothy Kosinski, the director of the Phillips Collection, which also received $50,000, said the money is more than welcome at a time of economic stress but also gives an imprimatur to the arts community. The grants, she said, show the necessity of the arts as "part of our essential national infrastructure..."
ARCH Development, a nonprofit group that works to revitalize the Anacostia neighborhood through the arts, is using its $50,000 to support two existing salaries, said a spokeswoman.
Hopefully, when your taxes are jacked through the roof, you can go see a play in Spanish at the GALA Hispanic theatre and let all of your troubles slide away, knowing that their need for a technical director is more important than your family's need to eat.
Maybe some of this taxpayer money being lavished on groups that are saving neighborhoods through interpetive dance is a bit excessive? After all, there's not even enough money left to pay for people who are supposed to vet the whole disbursement process:
Some of the jobs being created by the economic-stimulus law are going to be of the unpaid variety.
The feds are putting out a call for volunteers willing to sort through stacks of applications to decide who gets nearly $5 billion from a program meant to boost Internet access.
The workers won't get a dime for their efforts to help administer President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package, which is meant to create jobs by injecting money into the economy.
Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden appeared at Shenendehowa High School, north of Albany, to promote the stimulus plan....
Wait until these guys get to ration healtcare and control the flow of energy....
In February the NEA received $50 million from the administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to preserve jobs in the arts...
Over at GALA Hispanic Theatre, the city's largest Latino performing arts group, the federal grant of $50,000 came just in time. "Now we are able to continue to employ our technical director and hire an additional technical director who speaks Spanish,"
Arena Stage is using its $50,000 to reinstate two positions. The National Building Museum is using its grant of the same amount to retain a job.
Wow! Jobs that pay no more than $25K/year! I guess that's the new "sustainable wage" under the Obama administration, at least before cap-and-trade jacks up our energy prices by another 100%....
And oh, that sense of entitlement - and sense of overwhelming importance - from our artists, who suffer so much more than the out of work construction worker or banker who can no longer support a family:
Dorothy Kosinski, the director of the Phillips Collection, which also received $50,000, said the money is more than welcome at a time of economic stress but also gives an imprimatur to the arts community. The grants, she said, show the necessity of the arts as "part of our essential national infrastructure..."
ARCH Development, a nonprofit group that works to revitalize the Anacostia neighborhood through the arts, is using its $50,000 to support two existing salaries, said a spokeswoman.
Hopefully, when your taxes are jacked through the roof, you can go see a play in Spanish at the GALA Hispanic theatre and let all of your troubles slide away, knowing that their need for a technical director is more important than your family's need to eat.
Maybe some of this taxpayer money being lavished on groups that are saving neighborhoods through interpetive dance is a bit excessive? After all, there's not even enough money left to pay for people who are supposed to vet the whole disbursement process:
Some of the jobs being created by the economic-stimulus law are going to be of the unpaid variety.
The feds are putting out a call for volunteers willing to sort through stacks of applications to decide who gets nearly $5 billion from a program meant to boost Internet access.
The workers won't get a dime for their efforts to help administer President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package, which is meant to create jobs by injecting money into the economy.
Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden appeared at Shenendehowa High School, north of Albany, to promote the stimulus plan....
Wait until these guys get to ration healtcare and control the flow of energy....
วันพฤหัสบดี, กรกฎาคม 09, 2552
Sonia Sotomayor Nomination: Going South?
Looks like Americans may not want to have this "wise Latina woman" on the Supreme Court, despite her assertions that her race makes her more able a judge than a white man.
The polls have done a virtual flip-flop since her weak decision in the "Ricci" case was overruled almost unaminously by the current Court:
Rasmussen’s June 29–30 survey found that support for her confirmation has fallen 8 points, to 37%, while opposition has risen 10 points to 39%.
Women: In the May poll women supported Sotomayor’s confirmation 45% to 24%. Now they oppose it 31% for to 40% against. Feminists take note. That’s a dramatic, and unexpected, 30-point turnaround.
Age 30-39: In May this age group supported her confirmation by a two to one margin (49% to 24%). Now these 30-somethings oppose her promotion to the High Court – only 29% support her now while 47% oppose her – a decisive 43-point negative shift.
Independents: In May, Independents gave Sotomayor about the same level of support as the country as a whole (41% to 29%); now they oppose her by more than a two-to-one margin, 23% to 49%, a 38-point turnaround for the worse.
By race: ... the racial group Rasmussen calls “other” (which presumably includes Hispanics and Asians) supported her 48% to 25% in May but now opposes her confirmation 32% to 43%, a negative swing of 34 points.
Ah, those pesky "voters" - the scourge of liberal domination! No wonder every time Congress convenes, we lose more and more of our rights and freedoms - we are a threat to their power and to their desires, and must be controlled...
Anyway, I digress. Let's give Jennifer Rubin the last scathing word on Sotomayor's failings as a judge, and as a potential Justice:
One is left to conclude that Sotomayor is devoted to certain ideological outcomes, not to the neutral application of law. When helpful to her cause, she goes rooting around for facts, disregarding the applicable standard of review and imposing her own assessment of the evidence, which should properly be left for others to determine. In other instances, when the facts are not helpful, she ignores them. This is activism of the worst kind — unprincipled and unbound to precedent...
The polls have done a virtual flip-flop since her weak decision in the "Ricci" case was overruled almost unaminously by the current Court:
Rasmussen’s June 29–30 survey found that support for her confirmation has fallen 8 points, to 37%, while opposition has risen 10 points to 39%.
Women: In the May poll women supported Sotomayor’s confirmation 45% to 24%. Now they oppose it 31% for to 40% against. Feminists take note. That’s a dramatic, and unexpected, 30-point turnaround.
Age 30-39: In May this age group supported her confirmation by a two to one margin (49% to 24%). Now these 30-somethings oppose her promotion to the High Court – only 29% support her now while 47% oppose her – a decisive 43-point negative shift.
Independents: In May, Independents gave Sotomayor about the same level of support as the country as a whole (41% to 29%); now they oppose her by more than a two-to-one margin, 23% to 49%, a 38-point turnaround for the worse.
By race: ... the racial group Rasmussen calls “other” (which presumably includes Hispanics and Asians) supported her 48% to 25% in May but now opposes her confirmation 32% to 43%, a negative swing of 34 points.
Ah, those pesky "voters" - the scourge of liberal domination! No wonder every time Congress convenes, we lose more and more of our rights and freedoms - we are a threat to their power and to their desires, and must be controlled...
Anyway, I digress. Let's give Jennifer Rubin the last scathing word on Sotomayor's failings as a judge, and as a potential Justice:
One is left to conclude that Sotomayor is devoted to certain ideological outcomes, not to the neutral application of law. When helpful to her cause, she goes rooting around for facts, disregarding the applicable standard of review and imposing her own assessment of the evidence, which should properly be left for others to determine. In other instances, when the facts are not helpful, she ignores them. This is activism of the worst kind — unprincipled and unbound to precedent...
Anti-White Racism: Legal and Acceptable !!
Black Americans are told they must vote for black politicians as a matter of loyalty to their race. White Americans are told they must vote for black politicians to prove they are not racist rednecks.
So we have a respectable amount of black political leadership in the nation today, given that they make up close to 13% of the nation's population. The question is, can they be racially blind when governing a population that is largely racially different than they are?
Hmm. New York's Mayor David Dinkins was the city's first black mayor, a Democrat in a Democratic town, elected in 1990. We were told, over and over, that he would bring a new era of racial healing to a torn city. Of course, the opposite occured, and blacks were allowed to torment Korean shopkeepers and impose a pogrom on the Jews of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, while the mayor turned a blind eye. He was turned out in 1994 in favor of Rudy Guliani, and this Democratic city has elected strictly Republican mayors for the last 16 years.
So here we are in 2009. Has minority leadership grown up, and grown past racial vengence? Apparently, not in New York state:
During the first five months of this year, with the Senate under the control of its first African-American majority leader, [State Senator Malcolm] Smith, top Democrats bemoaned the lack of minority Senate staffers.
But instead of trying to recruit new hires, they fired nearly 200 almost exclusively white workers and replaced them with a large number of minority employees, many of whom were seen by their fellow workers to be unskilled at their new jobs.
The move produced severe racial tensions, made worse by the fact that, as a high-level Democratic staffer confided, “We’ve been told to only hire minorities.'’
This is ugly, and hasn't gotten the attention it deserves, simply because it is racism against white-skinned people, which is one of two types acceptable in mainstream society (the other is anti-Semitism, but you knew that). Were it white public officials firing 200 minority employees to change the complexion of their workplace - replacing them with incompetents, to boot - there would be a nationwide uproar.
Instead, media silence, and silence from our post-racial President. Somebody ought to tell minority leadership that the race game is a sure loser for them; for if all people feel they must vote by race to protect themselves, you'll be down to a handful of minority elected officials, all from ethnic enclaves. Even guilt(voting) is a rope that can wear thin...
Not a good way to get national - or even statewide - representation. But a great recipie for a disaster in a nation that has seen improving race relations. And it opens up the possibilty that good men or women of minority status will not get elected to higher posts due to the works of the Dinkins, and Smiths....
A tragedy for all, unless minority leadership gets their act together and the Democrats and the media stop excusing every act of liberal racism. Meanwhile, in Obama's America, the "beat" goes on:
Akron police say they aren't ready to call it a hate crime or a gang initiation.
But to Marty Marshall, his wife and two kids, it seems pretty clear.
It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend's home in South Akron.
Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world'' as they confronted Marshall and his family.
The Marshalls, who are white, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all black.
''This was almost like being a terrorist act,'' Marshall said. ''And we allow this to go on in our neighborhoods?''
Apparently, we are. As long as the victims are people of pallor....
So we have a respectable amount of black political leadership in the nation today, given that they make up close to 13% of the nation's population. The question is, can they be racially blind when governing a population that is largely racially different than they are?
Hmm. New York's Mayor David Dinkins was the city's first black mayor, a Democrat in a Democratic town, elected in 1990. We were told, over and over, that he would bring a new era of racial healing to a torn city. Of course, the opposite occured, and blacks were allowed to torment Korean shopkeepers and impose a pogrom on the Jews of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, while the mayor turned a blind eye. He was turned out in 1994 in favor of Rudy Guliani, and this Democratic city has elected strictly Republican mayors for the last 16 years.
So here we are in 2009. Has minority leadership grown up, and grown past racial vengence? Apparently, not in New York state:
During the first five months of this year, with the Senate under the control of its first African-American majority leader, [State Senator Malcolm] Smith, top Democrats bemoaned the lack of minority Senate staffers.
But instead of trying to recruit new hires, they fired nearly 200 almost exclusively white workers and replaced them with a large number of minority employees, many of whom were seen by their fellow workers to be unskilled at their new jobs.
The move produced severe racial tensions, made worse by the fact that, as a high-level Democratic staffer confided, “We’ve been told to only hire minorities.'’
This is ugly, and hasn't gotten the attention it deserves, simply because it is racism against white-skinned people, which is one of two types acceptable in mainstream society (the other is anti-Semitism, but you knew that). Were it white public officials firing 200 minority employees to change the complexion of their workplace - replacing them with incompetents, to boot - there would be a nationwide uproar.
Instead, media silence, and silence from our post-racial President. Somebody ought to tell minority leadership that the race game is a sure loser for them; for if all people feel they must vote by race to protect themselves, you'll be down to a handful of minority elected officials, all from ethnic enclaves. Even guilt(voting) is a rope that can wear thin...
Not a good way to get national - or even statewide - representation. But a great recipie for a disaster in a nation that has seen improving race relations. And it opens up the possibilty that good men or women of minority status will not get elected to higher posts due to the works of the Dinkins, and Smiths....
A tragedy for all, unless minority leadership gets their act together and the Democrats and the media stop excusing every act of liberal racism. Meanwhile, in Obama's America, the "beat" goes on:
Akron police say they aren't ready to call it a hate crime or a gang initiation.
But to Marty Marshall, his wife and two kids, it seems pretty clear.
It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend's home in South Akron.
Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world'' as they confronted Marshall and his family.
The Marshalls, who are white, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all black.
''This was almost like being a terrorist act,'' Marshall said. ''And we allow this to go on in our neighborhoods?''
Apparently, we are. As long as the victims are people of pallor....
วันพุธ, กรกฎาคม 08, 2552
Terror, Coming To Southern California...
I find this bit of news to be quite disturbing:
The State Department confirmed today that as many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians – once the well-treated guests of Saddam Hussein and now at outs with much of Iraqi society – will be resettled in the US, mostly in southern California, starting this fall.
It will be the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian refugees into the US...
Why in the world are we accepting these people?
As Mark Krikorian points out at the link, these are people who danced in the streets at the destruction of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Why should they get the opportunity to settle in a nation they loathe, while countless others who yearn to come here are blocked due to a poorly-devised quota system?
And why won't some of the 20+ Arab nations in the region take these guys in? Oh, right, they need them as pawns in their war against the Jews. Good thing they can count on Brack Obama not to embarrass them with the obvious, and take a few pesky Palis off their hands while leaving the bulk of them poor, armed, restive, and full of hate, conveniently right at Israel's front door.
Interesting as well that these people are "on the outs" with mainstream Iraqi society. I wonder why? Are they still supporters of terror and dissent even in their new homeland? If so, what makes anyone think that they will change their stripes in SoCal ?
And will these Palestinians refugees ever become part of mainstream American society? Or will they be urged not to join the "melting pot" (a phrase no longer used in these days of multiculturalism) and instead be counseled by the grievence experts to nurse their hatreds and grudges, while building a "Gaza West" to continue their war against the Jews, and America?
Illogical, stupid, and not well thought out. In other words, just what we've grown used to expecting from the Obama administration...
The State Department confirmed today that as many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians – once the well-treated guests of Saddam Hussein and now at outs with much of Iraqi society – will be resettled in the US, mostly in southern California, starting this fall.
It will be the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian refugees into the US...
Why in the world are we accepting these people?
As Mark Krikorian points out at the link, these are people who danced in the streets at the destruction of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Why should they get the opportunity to settle in a nation they loathe, while countless others who yearn to come here are blocked due to a poorly-devised quota system?
And why won't some of the 20+ Arab nations in the region take these guys in? Oh, right, they need them as pawns in their war against the Jews. Good thing they can count on Brack Obama not to embarrass them with the obvious, and take a few pesky Palis off their hands while leaving the bulk of them poor, armed, restive, and full of hate, conveniently right at Israel's front door.
Interesting as well that these people are "on the outs" with mainstream Iraqi society. I wonder why? Are they still supporters of terror and dissent even in their new homeland? If so, what makes anyone think that they will change their stripes in SoCal ?
And will these Palestinians refugees ever become part of mainstream American society? Or will they be urged not to join the "melting pot" (a phrase no longer used in these days of multiculturalism) and instead be counseled by the grievence experts to nurse their hatreds and grudges, while building a "Gaza West" to continue their war against the Jews, and America?
Illogical, stupid, and not well thought out. In other words, just what we've grown used to expecting from the Obama administration...
A Show of Strength at the U.N.!
Barack Obama has, as promised, outsourced most of America's security concerns to the United Nations. So let's take quick look at how this august body is handling the rouge nation-state of North Korea, whose saber-rattling gets louder by the day, as they construct warhead-capable missles with a range that takes them closer and closer to Hawaii...
So - shortly after the American ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said that the Security Council was working on a resolution “with teeth that will bite in North Korea,” the Kim regime shot off a bunch of new and exciting missles.
Did the UN bare their newfound teeth?
Well...they “condemned” the launch.
Not quite sure if that's gonna leave a tooth mark, though.
But apparently the UN is less concerned about missile launches and more concerned that some unilateral "cowboy" nation might decide to finally take matters into their own hands:
The council appealed to all countries in the region to refrain from “any action” that could escalate tensions...
Yes, because after all, their repeated condemnations are working! Maybe! Just ask the Japanese ambassador to the UN:
“I think the DPRK is getting the message,” said Japan’s ambassador, Yukio Takasu, referring to North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “We hope they will stop launching missiles eventually.”
The UN "thinks"and "hopes" that "eventually" the Norks (sorry, we refuse to kowtow to Kim Jong Il and use their handpicked name for their slave state) will stop firing rockets towards the US and Japan.
And who knows, Mr. Takasu may be eventually proven right. The Norks may stop launching missiles, but not because of a sharply-worded letter written by a committee of appeasers.
No, the last missile to be fired will likely be one that lands in Hawaii, or somewhere in Southern California....
So - shortly after the American ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said that the Security Council was working on a resolution “with teeth that will bite in North Korea,” the Kim regime shot off a bunch of new and exciting missles.
Did the UN bare their newfound teeth?
Well...they “condemned” the launch.
Not quite sure if that's gonna leave a tooth mark, though.
But apparently the UN is less concerned about missile launches and more concerned that some unilateral "cowboy" nation might decide to finally take matters into their own hands:
The council appealed to all countries in the region to refrain from “any action” that could escalate tensions...
Yes, because after all, their repeated condemnations are working! Maybe! Just ask the Japanese ambassador to the UN:
“I think the DPRK is getting the message,” said Japan’s ambassador, Yukio Takasu, referring to North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “We hope they will stop launching missiles eventually.”
The UN "thinks"and "hopes" that "eventually" the Norks (sorry, we refuse to kowtow to Kim Jong Il and use their handpicked name for their slave state) will stop firing rockets towards the US and Japan.
And who knows, Mr. Takasu may be eventually proven right. The Norks may stop launching missiles, but not because of a sharply-worded letter written by a committee of appeasers.
No, the last missile to be fired will likely be one that lands in Hawaii, or somewhere in Southern California....
วันอังคาร, กรกฎาคม 07, 2552
Run, Sarah, Run !!
....straight into my heart....
Ann Coulter:
As Palin said, God bless people who run for political office, but – and she didn’t say this part – she’s too big to be a lame-duck governor stuck dealing with fishing licenses in Anchorage right now. She’ll be much bigger now and can play on the national stage without constantly setting off state ethics investigations by loons, parasites and liberals.
Will she lead a new party - a "Tea" party?
Palin at the head of a new national party will suck all the oxygen out of the room. This single act will guarantee she will have as much air time as our Spender-in-Chief. Furthermore it will no doubt scare a lot of Republicans (since the leadership is all chickenshit today anyway) into actually taking on the Democrats.
And, cranking it up all the way to 11, Sarah Palin declaring the formation of the national TEA Party would be the single most disruptive, and dare I say most revolutionary act in the history of modern American politics. It will totally change the whole ballgame because everyone in a single stroke will be playing by HER rules.
Sarah is playing it close to the vest for now, and I will not question her strategy a la the idiots Roger Stone refers to above. I do, however, agree with this:
This is not the action of one who wants to go Ross Perot. It is the action of one who’s gone Galt on her own party and has decided to play the game her way.
The way Nixon played it in 1965, and Reagan played it in 1977.
And soon, they're gonna be talking about "Sarah's Rules", and the new way the game is played....
On the cover of the upcoming edition of "Runner's World"...
Sarah's not going down quietly; the reports of her demise are more wishful thinking from nervous liberals (and establishment Republicans) than reality. Roger Stone:
Watching the Washington chattering class pan the Palin moves shows the moronic level of political analysis in the media today...
...Palin needs some rehabilitation to her political image caused by the relentless attacks of the elitist media, the knife-work of the relatively talentless Republican Party pros like Steve Schmidt and her own self-inflicted wounds from the post election period that were born out of inexperience at this level of political combat....Ann Coulter:
As Palin said, God bless people who run for political office, but – and she didn’t say this part – she’s too big to be a lame-duck governor stuck dealing with fishing licenses in Anchorage right now. She’ll be much bigger now and can play on the national stage without constantly setting off state ethics investigations by loons, parasites and liberals.
Will she lead a new party - a "Tea" party?
Palin at the head of a new national party will suck all the oxygen out of the room. This single act will guarantee she will have as much air time as our Spender-in-Chief. Furthermore it will no doubt scare a lot of Republicans (since the leadership is all chickenshit today anyway) into actually taking on the Democrats.
And, cranking it up all the way to 11, Sarah Palin declaring the formation of the national TEA Party would be the single most disruptive, and dare I say most revolutionary act in the history of modern American politics. It will totally change the whole ballgame because everyone in a single stroke will be playing by HER rules.
Sarah is playing it close to the vest for now, and I will not question her strategy a la the idiots Roger Stone refers to above. I do, however, agree with this:
This is not the action of one who wants to go Ross Perot. It is the action of one who’s gone Galt on her own party and has decided to play the game her way.
The way Nixon played it in 1965, and Reagan played it in 1977.
And soon, they're gonna be talking about "Sarah's Rules", and the new way the game is played....
Obama "Puts Out" For Russia...
...and gets nothing in return.
Hey, when the Russian president call's Obama's arms-reduction plan a "reasonable compromise", then you know we are getting screwed, big-time.
And either Barack Obama is too dumb to know it, or he is allowing himself to be taken to the Russian cleaners in order to have an excuse to destroy America's worldwide military capabilities. See, it ain't just about the nukes:
The planned START replacement pact - the centerpiece summit agreement - calls for each side to reduce strategic warheads to a range of 1,500 to 1,675, and strategic delivery vehicles to a range of 500 to 1,100. Current limits allow a maximum of 2,200 warheads and 1,600 launch vehicles. The new treaty, as conceived, would run for 10 years. Each side would have seven years to reach reduction goals with the final three years used for verification.
It's those "strategic delivery systems" that are the key, and Russia knows it:
... the Russians don't care much about our warhead numbers (which will be chopped to a figure "between 1,500 and 1,675"). What they really wanted -- and got -- was a US cave-in regarding limits on our nuclear-capable bombers, submarines and missiles that could leave us with as few as 500 such systems, if the Russians continue to get their way as the final details are negotiated.
Moscow knows we aren't going to start a nuclear war with Russia. Putin (forget poor "President" Dmitry Medvedev) wants to gut our conventional capabilities to stage globe-spanning military operations. He wants to cut us down to Russia's size.
Our problem is that many nuclear-delivery systems -- such as bombers or subs -- are "dual-use": A B-2 bomber can launch nukes, but it's employed more frequently to deliver conventional ordnance.
Putin sought to cripple our ability to respond to international crises. Obama, meanwhile, was out for "deliverables" -- deals that could be signed in front of the cameras. Each man got what he wanted.
No doubt they're laughing in Moscow, and lifiting the shot glasses up in toast to their latest victory....
Hey, when the Russian president call's Obama's arms-reduction plan a "reasonable compromise", then you know we are getting screwed, big-time.
And either Barack Obama is too dumb to know it, or he is allowing himself to be taken to the Russian cleaners in order to have an excuse to destroy America's worldwide military capabilities. See, it ain't just about the nukes:
The planned START replacement pact - the centerpiece summit agreement - calls for each side to reduce strategic warheads to a range of 1,500 to 1,675, and strategic delivery vehicles to a range of 500 to 1,100. Current limits allow a maximum of 2,200 warheads and 1,600 launch vehicles. The new treaty, as conceived, would run for 10 years. Each side would have seven years to reach reduction goals with the final three years used for verification.
It's those "strategic delivery systems" that are the key, and Russia knows it:
... the Russians don't care much about our warhead numbers (which will be chopped to a figure "between 1,500 and 1,675"). What they really wanted -- and got -- was a US cave-in regarding limits on our nuclear-capable bombers, submarines and missiles that could leave us with as few as 500 such systems, if the Russians continue to get their way as the final details are negotiated.
Moscow knows we aren't going to start a nuclear war with Russia. Putin (forget poor "President" Dmitry Medvedev) wants to gut our conventional capabilities to stage globe-spanning military operations. He wants to cut us down to Russia's size.
Our problem is that many nuclear-delivery systems -- such as bombers or subs -- are "dual-use": A B-2 bomber can launch nukes, but it's employed more frequently to deliver conventional ordnance.
Putin sought to cripple our ability to respond to international crises. Obama, meanwhile, was out for "deliverables" -- deals that could be signed in front of the cameras. Each man got what he wanted.
Yeah, I can't bear to look at him either...
Obama gets a signing ceremony, tosses red meat to his far-left base, and will certainly recieve adoration from the mainstream media for his movement on "arms control", even if it is all one-sided.
What does America get? Less strength, less negotiating leverage, and less presence on the world stage as we continue to diminish ourselves financially and militarily under the Obama regime.No doubt they're laughing in Moscow, and lifiting the shot glasses up in toast to their latest victory....
วันจันทร์, กรกฎาคม 06, 2552
"Michael Jackson to be buried without his brain"
...up there in the "best-headline-ever" Hall of Fame, rivaling"Headless Body in Topless Bar".
Adn the story almost outperforms the headline. Yeah, I know, it's The Mirror, but damn, this is good:
Michael Jackson will be buried this week– without his brain. As his family tries to finalise details for the King of Pop’s funeral on Tuesday they have been told it will be held back for tests.
They faced the grim choice of waiting up to three weeks for Jackson’s brain to be returned to them or go ahead and bury him without it – which they have decided to do.
...the examination cannot begin until at least two weeks after the death when the brain has hardened sufficiently to slice it open....
...and then, perhaps, re-animated a la "Frankenstein" into the body of brother Tito?
Adn the story almost outperforms the headline. Yeah, I know, it's The Mirror, but damn, this is good:
Michael Jackson will be buried this week– without his brain. As his family tries to finalise details for the King of Pop’s funeral on Tuesday they have been told it will be held back for tests.
They faced the grim choice of waiting up to three weeks for Jackson’s brain to be returned to them or go ahead and bury him without it – which they have decided to do.
...the examination cannot begin until at least two weeks after the death when the brain has hardened sufficiently to slice it open....
...and then, perhaps, re-animated a la "Frankenstein" into the body of brother Tito?
Obama-Care, Explained With Legos !
...as a counter to deliberate misinformation as provided by the AP here...
Obama to Offer Unilateral Surrender in Russia?
Interesting that finally, some of Obama's work at Columbia has been unearthed, just as he's touching down in the former Soviet Union. Even more interesting is the content of this piece, written by Young Barack, on the "arms race" of the 1980's:
Generally, the narrow focus of the [Nuclear] Freeze movement as well as academic discussions of first versus second strike capabilities, suit the military-industrial interests, as they continue adding to their billion dollar erector sets. When Peter Tosh sings that "everybody's asking for peace, but nobody's asking for justice," one is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms control issues, severed from economic and political issues, might be another instance of focusing on the symptoms of a problem instead of the disease itself....
Yeah, OK, Peter Tosh is a deeper thinker than Ronald Regan. Right. Just what you would expect from an apparently insecure college boy who strives to be percieved as an intellectual...
More:
Mr. Obama’s journalistic voice was edgy with disdain for what he called “the relentless, often silent spread of militarism in the country” amid “the growing threat of war.” The two groups, he wrote, “visualizing the possibilities of destruction and grasping the tendencies of distorted national priorities, are throwing their weight into shifting America off the dead-end track.”
Immature thinking can be excused in a college student. But there is no indication that any of his worldviews have changed one iota, from his "spread the wealth" snark to his obliviousness on how the economy works to his disasterous Russian "reset" button.
More immaturity: If The One walks off a cliff, others will follow:
“It’s naïve for us to think,” he said, “that we can grow our nuclear stockpiles, the Russians continue to grow their nuclear stockpiles, and our allies grow their nuclear stockpiles, and that in that environment we’re going to be able to pressure countries like Iran and North Korea not to pursue nuclear weapons themselves.”
Just like the way the world will tax themselves to death over climate change after they see us wither and die...
Some, ah, "feedback" from various sources:
“This is dangerous, wishful thinking,” Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona...
President Obama, like college student Obama, still fails to grasp the moral and political dimensions of the struggle we are involved in, still lacks any appreciation for the nature of totalitarian despots and of the motives compelling them to seek nuclear weapons. He is still fixated on the notion that weakness can resolve international threats. Unfortunately, the consequences for student Obama were not potentially fatal to his country. The reality is different today.
If the implications were not so serious, the discrepancy between Mr. Obama’s plans and real-world conditions would be hilarious,” said Frank J. Gaffney Jr., a Reagan-era Pentagon official who directs the Center for Security Policy, a private group in Washington. “There is only one country on earth that Team Obama can absolutely, positively denuclearize: Ours.”
And he's about to. Prepare to commit suicide for Obama's twisted worldview. We are the ones Obama has been waiting for - to die for his beliefs, so that he may live and have legitimacy.
Seems like we are about to get a 21st century Judas kiss....
Generally, the narrow focus of the [Nuclear] Freeze movement as well as academic discussions of first versus second strike capabilities, suit the military-industrial interests, as they continue adding to their billion dollar erector sets. When Peter Tosh sings that "everybody's asking for peace, but nobody's asking for justice," one is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms control issues, severed from economic and political issues, might be another instance of focusing on the symptoms of a problem instead of the disease itself....
Yeah, OK, Peter Tosh is a deeper thinker than Ronald Regan. Right. Just what you would expect from an apparently insecure college boy who strives to be percieved as an intellectual...
More:
Mr. Obama’s journalistic voice was edgy with disdain for what he called “the relentless, often silent spread of militarism in the country” amid “the growing threat of war.” The two groups, he wrote, “visualizing the possibilities of destruction and grasping the tendencies of distorted national priorities, are throwing their weight into shifting America off the dead-end track.”
Immature thinking can be excused in a college student. But there is no indication that any of his worldviews have changed one iota, from his "spread the wealth" snark to his obliviousness on how the economy works to his disasterous Russian "reset" button.
More immaturity: If The One walks off a cliff, others will follow:
“It’s naïve for us to think,” he said, “that we can grow our nuclear stockpiles, the Russians continue to grow their nuclear stockpiles, and our allies grow their nuclear stockpiles, and that in that environment we’re going to be able to pressure countries like Iran and North Korea not to pursue nuclear weapons themselves.”
Just like the way the world will tax themselves to death over climate change after they see us wither and die...
Some, ah, "feedback" from various sources:
“This is dangerous, wishful thinking,” Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona...
President Obama, like college student Obama, still fails to grasp the moral and political dimensions of the struggle we are involved in, still lacks any appreciation for the nature of totalitarian despots and of the motives compelling them to seek nuclear weapons. He is still fixated on the notion that weakness can resolve international threats. Unfortunately, the consequences for student Obama were not potentially fatal to his country. The reality is different today.
If the implications were not so serious, the discrepancy between Mr. Obama’s plans and real-world conditions would be hilarious,” said Frank J. Gaffney Jr., a Reagan-era Pentagon official who directs the Center for Security Policy, a private group in Washington. “There is only one country on earth that Team Obama can absolutely, positively denuclearize: Ours.”
And he's about to. Prepare to commit suicide for Obama's twisted worldview. We are the ones Obama has been waiting for - to die for his beliefs, so that he may live and have legitimacy.
Seems like we are about to get a 21st century Judas kiss....
วันอาทิตย์, กรกฎาคม 05, 2552
Tea Party-ing in New Jersey!
Is New Jersey losing some of its deep-blue hue? May be, as Tea Parties broke out statewide yesterday:
Some 2,000 people gathered in Morristown to mark the nation's birth with an old-style political protest as part of nationwide anti-taxation protests fashioned on the Boston Tea Party.
Despite a hot and sunny break from weeks of rain, angry taxpayers skipped the beaches and crammed onto the Morristown Green -- a historical site of revolutionary activity during the Revolutionary War -- to express their frustration with increasing taxes and call for smaller government.
Historical sidenote on "The Green":
General George Washington was headquartered at the Green in Arnold's Tavern during his first encampment in Morristown (January - May, 1777), and was in town again during the winter of 1779-80. As a result, the Green was frequently the center for military and political activities related to the period, and was visited by many of the national military leaders.
Ah, so the blood of the founding patriots does still run in the veins of the residents of New Jersey!
And I just love this:
Rep. Chris Smith, a long-serving Republican congressman representing Central Jersey with a 
pro-life stance, was attacked just as viciously as Reps. Frank Pallone and Rush Holt, both D-N.J.
pro-life stance, was attacked just as viciously as Reps. Frank Pallone and Rush Holt, both D-N.J. Smith is a traitor to conservatives nationwide, one of only eight Republicans to vote for the Democrat's deranged "cap and trade" energy taxation bill. Holt, my "representative", stands up for his heavily-taxed constituents by...voting for every new tax scheme/scam dreamed up by Democratic leadership.
In Jackson, Steve Lonegan, the ex-Bogota mayor who recently lost the GOP gubernatorial nod to former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, and Hank Butehorn, a representative from GOPUSA of NJ, spoke to a crowd estimated at more than 800 people gathered in John F. Johnson Memorial Park.
More protests:
In Middletown, Assemblyman Sam Thompson and Holmdel Committeeman Alan Bateman, who was defeated by Rep. Rush Holt at the polls, spoke outside One Arin Park in Middletown...
Is "revolutionary" fever in the air in New Jersey? Can't say yet, but there are plenty of reasons to believe "Crooked Jon" Corzine is soiling his panties right around now...
วันเสาร์, กรกฎาคม 04, 2552
Independence Day - July 4th, 2009
"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be."- John Wayne
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags. T homas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton. At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months. John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged:"For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor"
This humble blogger thanks these men from the bottom of his heart for their bravery and sacrifice.
I hope and pray that their blood still runs though my veins, and the veins of my countrymen.
Finally - what better way to celebrate the founding of this great nation than to honor the beautiful American women who have found imaginative ways to drape themselves in Old Glory's great majesty:
And to those who wish to light up the night sky tonight with color and thunder, I leave you with the words of Professor Glenn Reyn0lds:
...there’s a big difference between setting off your own fireworks and sitting passively while others do it for you — the difference, if I may say so, between having sex and watching porn.
Happy 4th of July !
And to those who wish to light up the night sky tonight with color and thunder, I leave you with the words of Professor Glenn Reyn0lds:
...there’s a big difference between setting off your own fireworks and sitting passively while others do it for you — the difference, if I may say so, between having sex and watching porn.
Happy 4th of July !
Oh, Sarah....
So Sarah Palin has declared, "We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction'", to quote General O.P. Smith, commander of the First Marine Division, in the Korean War.
There is no shame in retreat, Sarah, especially when the troops are bruised and bloodied, with nary a reinforcement in sight...
What has been done to Sarah Palin is revolting, inexcusable, and horrific. One of the last "regular people" left in politics, she was asked to help on the national stage, and was crucified for it.
After a speech that left the nation swooning and spellbound, the Left and the media knew she had to be stopped, lest the nation take her common-sense populism to heart. So they attacked her with venom and hatred, mocking her accent, her family, her hometown, and her family, displaying their ugly hypocricy by throwing all of their sacred PC rules into the gutter in order to destroy a young woman who they percieved to be a threat. Teenage children became the subject of scorn, disabled babies showered with hatred, and a proud woman was dehuminized on a daily basis.
It was a rape, plain and simple, with the media and the Democrats taking turns on top, while Dave Letterman narrated the action for laughs.
From an earlier post:
For some reason, when liberals see a Sarah Palin or a Carrie Prejean, the impulse immediately is for the lowest road possible: not to engage them, but to defile them. Not to prove them wrong, but to humiliate them in the vilest way possible. The immediate, insatiable urge of the Left is to wreck a female adversary so completely that no one can look at them the same way; so that anyone who sees their victim will see the marks on them and turn away in disgust or openly mock with rightous venom, and to hopefully so emotionally destroy their female "enemies" that their self-esteem is ravaged, and they slink away from public life, alone and ashamed.
There's a word for this type of assault. Rape.
Yes, the assault isn't physical, but the thought process behind the rapes of Palin and Prejean are identical to that of the common street rapist: To defile, degrade, humiliate, embarrass, and make themselves feel better in the process. A broken victim is what each hopes to obtain, and neither stops the assault until the surrender is complete.
Well, I guess the rapists are spent down, and perhaps Sarah will get a respite....
Sorry we let you down, Sarah Palin. And let's hope you meant to channel General Douglass MacArthur, and that you will return...
Update: The media smears continue:
In Alaska, she saw her popularity wane this year after returning from the presidential campaign. She's become a polarizing figure, and multiple ethics complaints have been filed against her with the state personnel board.
She has higher approval ratings than Obama, *ssholes. And who made her "polarizing", anyway? And about those "ethics" complaints - all politically motivated. Where's the criticism?
The media as a pathetic rapist, defending their actions...
There is no shame in retreat, Sarah, especially when the troops are bruised and bloodied, with nary a reinforcement in sight...
What has been done to Sarah Palin is revolting, inexcusable, and horrific. One of the last "regular people" left in politics, she was asked to help on the national stage, and was crucified for it.
After a speech that left the nation swooning and spellbound, the Left and the media knew she had to be stopped, lest the nation take her common-sense populism to heart. So they attacked her with venom and hatred, mocking her accent, her family, her hometown, and her family, displaying their ugly hypocricy by throwing all of their sacred PC rules into the gutter in order to destroy a young woman who they percieved to be a threat. Teenage children became the subject of scorn, disabled babies showered with hatred, and a proud woman was dehuminized on a daily basis.
It was a rape, plain and simple, with the media and the Democrats taking turns on top, while Dave Letterman narrated the action for laughs.
From an earlier post:
For some reason, when liberals see a Sarah Palin or a Carrie Prejean, the impulse immediately is for the lowest road possible: not to engage them, but to defile them. Not to prove them wrong, but to humiliate them in the vilest way possible. The immediate, insatiable urge of the Left is to wreck a female adversary so completely that no one can look at them the same way; so that anyone who sees their victim will see the marks on them and turn away in disgust or openly mock with rightous venom, and to hopefully so emotionally destroy their female "enemies" that their self-esteem is ravaged, and they slink away from public life, alone and ashamed.
There's a word for this type of assault. Rape.
Yes, the assault isn't physical, but the thought process behind the rapes of Palin and Prejean are identical to that of the common street rapist: To defile, degrade, humiliate, embarrass, and make themselves feel better in the process. A broken victim is what each hopes to obtain, and neither stops the assault until the surrender is complete.
Well, I guess the rapists are spent down, and perhaps Sarah will get a respite....
Sorry we let you down, Sarah Palin. And let's hope you meant to channel General Douglass MacArthur, and that you will return...
Update: The media smears continue:
In Alaska, she saw her popularity wane this year after returning from the presidential campaign. She's become a polarizing figure, and multiple ethics complaints have been filed against her with the state personnel board.
She has higher approval ratings than Obama, *ssholes. And who made her "polarizing", anyway? And about those "ethics" complaints - all politically motivated. Where's the criticism?
The media as a pathetic rapist, defending their actions...
วันศุกร์, กรกฎาคม 03, 2552
Obama's Coup?
Why is Obama trying so hard to fight the legitimate exile of wannabe Honduran strongman President Manuel Zelaya? Maybe it's because he sees his future plans unraveling:
...imagine that Barack Obama announced that he was going to hold a referendum on legalizing a third term for himself. Imagine that even his attorney general, Eric Holder, advised him that it was illegal. Imagine that the Supreme Court ruled that holding the referendum was unconstitutional. In spite of that, let's imagine that Obama coerced the FEC into holding the referendum anyway.
Then - let's further imagine -- we found out that Venezuelan strongman Chávez (who has pulled off a similar power grab in his own country) was financing the referendum. What should the Joint Chiefs do in such a case? And if they removed Obama from office, would they be destroying the Constitution or preserving it?
This is exactly what has occurred in Honduras, to a tee.
And if Obama can de-legitimize this lawful protection of a nation's freedom by re-defining it as a "coup", he can do the same thing here, should our other two branches of government legally decide at some point that The One has overstepped his constitutional boundaries. An impeachment would become a "coup", just like he claims it is in Honduras.
The media, of course, parrots the administration's line completely - investigating and explaining the complexities here would take too much effort, spoil a simple narrative, and would require much more thought and work than just repeating Obama's talking points over and over.
Obama's counting on that, as well. He'll need their co-operation if/when he tries to pull a Chavez here in 3-8 years...
Obama is on the same side as Chávez, Ortega and the Castro brothers.
And the mullahs of Iran. What side does that put him on the opposite of?
Freedom.
So what will he do with ours?
...imagine that Barack Obama announced that he was going to hold a referendum on legalizing a third term for himself. Imagine that even his attorney general, Eric Holder, advised him that it was illegal. Imagine that the Supreme Court ruled that holding the referendum was unconstitutional. In spite of that, let's imagine that Obama coerced the FEC into holding the referendum anyway.
Then - let's further imagine -- we found out that Venezuelan strongman Chávez (who has pulled off a similar power grab in his own country) was financing the referendum. What should the Joint Chiefs do in such a case? And if they removed Obama from office, would they be destroying the Constitution or preserving it?
This is exactly what has occurred in Honduras, to a tee.
And if Obama can de-legitimize this lawful protection of a nation's freedom by re-defining it as a "coup", he can do the same thing here, should our other two branches of government legally decide at some point that The One has overstepped his constitutional boundaries. An impeachment would become a "coup", just like he claims it is in Honduras.
The media, of course, parrots the administration's line completely - investigating and explaining the complexities here would take too much effort, spoil a simple narrative, and would require much more thought and work than just repeating Obama's talking points over and over.
Obama's counting on that, as well. He'll need their co-operation if/when he tries to pull a Chavez here in 3-8 years...
Obama is on the same side as Chávez, Ortega and the Castro brothers.
And the mullahs of Iran. What side does that put him on the opposite of?
Freedom.
So what will he do with ours?
วันพฤหัสบดี, กรกฎาคม 02, 2552
Amnesty Caught Lying About Israel - Again
This dispatch from Amnesty International's bizarro world via Reuters:
Amnesty International said on Thursday Israel inflicted "wanton destruction" in the Gaza Strip in attacks that often targeted Palestinian civilians during an offensive in December and January in the Hamas-run enclave.
Among other conclusions, Amnesty said it found no evidence to support Israeli claims that Gaza guerrillas deliberately used civilians as "human shields," but it did, however, cite evidence that Israeli troops put children and other civilians in harm's way by forcing them to remain in homes taken over by soldiers.
{isn' that the safest spot - inside a house that won't be target by "friendlies" - in a war zone? Unless Amnesty feels that Hamas is justified in assaulting Isreali-occupied homes w/Palestinian children in them, but Isrealis cannot target terrorist-occupied homes with children in them. Contradiction, anyone?}
The report ....dismissed Israeli claims that Hamas had used Palestinian civilians as "human shields."
Amnesty said it found no evidence that "Hamas or other armed groups forced residents to stay in or around buildings used by fighters, or that fighters prevented residents from leaving buildings or areas which had been commandeered by militants."
You want evidence, *ssholes? Well, let's go to the videotape - 2009, live from Hamas-controlled Gaza:
Doesn't look like Amnesty tried to hard to look for evidence of Palestinian crimes; but that's to be expected. They are an accessory to anti-Semitism and allies of Hamas, nothing more.
Maybe someone from Reuters would be interested in picking up this video to show, you know, both sides of the story? Or are they too indebted to their anti-Isreali storyline to care about little things like the truth?
Amnesty International said on Thursday Israel inflicted "wanton destruction" in the Gaza Strip in attacks that often targeted Palestinian civilians during an offensive in December and January in the Hamas-run enclave.
Among other conclusions, Amnesty said it found no evidence to support Israeli claims that Gaza guerrillas deliberately used civilians as "human shields," but it did, however, cite evidence that Israeli troops put children and other civilians in harm's way by forcing them to remain in homes taken over by soldiers.
{isn' that the safest spot - inside a house that won't be target by "friendlies" - in a war zone? Unless Amnesty feels that Hamas is justified in assaulting Isreali-occupied homes w/Palestinian children in them, but Isrealis cannot target terrorist-occupied homes with children in them. Contradiction, anyone?}
The report ....dismissed Israeli claims that Hamas had used Palestinian civilians as "human shields."
Amnesty said it found no evidence that "Hamas or other armed groups forced residents to stay in or around buildings used by fighters, or that fighters prevented residents from leaving buildings or areas which had been commandeered by militants."
You want evidence, *ssholes? Well, let's go to the videotape - 2009, live from Hamas-controlled Gaza:
Doesn't look like Amnesty tried to hard to look for evidence of Palestinian crimes; but that's to be expected. They are an accessory to anti-Semitism and allies of Hamas, nothing more.
Maybe someone from Reuters would be interested in picking up this video to show, you know, both sides of the story? Or are they too indebted to their anti-Isreali storyline to care about little things like the truth?
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