Archive for June, 2009
Insane HuffPo Writer Of The Day–UPDATED
Sunday, June 21st, 2009The only thing disturbing about the post by Frank Shaeffer I’m going to link to is that the Left generally believes it:
If the far right of the Republican Party and we of the Religious Right had had our way by now there would be a constitutional amendment and/or laws forcing prayer in schools, disenfranchising gay men and women, banning all abortions under penalty of death, banning gay men and women from serving in the military, launching a neoconservative led and religious right backed holy war against Islam, fixing Israel’s borders permanently to incorporate all the land taken in 1967 forever into a “Greater Israel” based on the “fact” that “God gave the Jews” the land “forever,” capital punishment would be used routinely to punish a variety of crimes including being gay, civil rights for blacks, women, gays, unions would be in retreat, and — other than enforcing “morality” – George W. Bush’s style of “free market” non-governance would be permanent.
Think this is all far fetched? Then you never sat in secret meetings with Pat Robertson or the late Dr. Kennedy — as I did when I was a religious right leader — fomenting plans to “bring America back to God.” If we’d won America would be a slicker more dangerous version of Iran.
Since the content is pure, unmitigated insanity, it should be laughable. But no. The people who voted for President Obama, believe this. They believe that Christians against abortion in America are more dangerous than suicide bombers in Iran. The Christians are just as evil and slicker too.
This sort of moral equivalence will be the end of Western Civilization and should be labeled as the rantings of a crazy loon. The HuffPo readers and the press who take their musings as gospel, give credence to this crap.
UPDATED:
Good thing I just specified the Huffington Post. If I had included the whole Media-Leftist complex this could have been the winner. [H/T Instapundit]
Who displays more fascist love, CNN or HuffPo? Hard to tell…..
Iran: Blood Is Spilled
Saturday, June 20th, 2009Please go look at this video. This video reveals the regime. There is too much proof.
Will Iran fall? We can hope. The suffering will be absolutely unspeakable should the mullahs reassert their iron grip.
Freedom for the Iranian people.
It is not too much to speak strongly in defense of the rights of our fellow men. To scorn another man as undeserving of the rights we enjoy is the height of selfishness. At the least, we can express our support for the individual. We can show respect for the blood that has been spilled like the girl you saw in the video.
Should the president of the United States be eating ice cream (looking very much like he’s campaigning) while people die around the globe?
A little respect for the blood spilled and the blood that will continue to be spilled. Freedom is always bought at a price and the Iranian people are willing to spill their own blood to pay it.
Senator Boxer: Senator, Yes, Senator
Saturday, June 20th, 2009From BlackFive:
Apparently, Barbara Boxer, a Senator from California where some of the biggest military bases exist, doesn’t understand respect when she hears it.
As a former Army Officer, if one of my soldiers called me “Lieutenant”, instead of “el-tee” or “Sir”, I would know that he found me lacking. Calling me by my job title or rank is only done because it is the lowest requirement of respect.
The. Lowest. Requirement. Of. Respect.
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BG Walsh was showing Barbara Boxer respect by calling her “Ma’am” instead of “Senator.” Believe me, the title “Senator” does not really hold a whole lot of credibility in the US military. It’s a job, and a Corporal leading a team in Baqubah has more honor than most of those holding that title.
From now on, it’s Senator. And it’s more than she deserves. Vote for Chuck DeVore.
Reparations: The Dick Cheney & Tiger Woods Problem
Friday, June 19th, 2009The Senate’s conclusion about slavery? We’re sorry, but you’re not getting money. Still, there are those who want to quantify it:
Charles Ogletree, the Harvard law professor who has championed restitution, was consulted on the Senate’s resolution and supports it, but he said it is not a substitute for reparations. “That battle will be prolonged,” he said.
Randall Robinson, author of “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks,” said he sees the Senate’s apology as a “confession” that should lead to a next step of reparations. “Much is owed, and it is very quantifiable,” he said. “It is owed as one would owe for any labor that one has not paid for, and until steps are taken in that direction we haven’t accomplished anything.”
Cohen said he and Harkin worked closely with the NAACP and other civil rights groups on language that would not endorse or preclude any future claims to reparations. “It will not harm reparations but won’t give any standing to it,” Cohen said.
Can you imagine a bigger mess than trying to make reparations happen? For many, electing President Obama meant that, finally, once and for all the past racial problems are a distant memory. We are now a colorblind society. As. If. But whatever, I do believe that many Obama voters hoped that his presidency would create a post-racial America.
Too many people benefit by keeping race front and center, though. So I expect this kind of talk to increase.
The main problem with reparations is that America is a big melting pot. People who look white have more black DNA, however that’s measured, than some people who look black but have more white DNA. Is Dick Cheney more black than Barack Obama? Do we need to know this?
We don’t need to know, although, it would be fun to find out. Part of me perversely wants this pursued. Wouldn’t it be great to have all these white-looking people getting huge payouts because they’re “more black” than, say, Oprah? Good times.
Chastity Bono: Deep Thoughts
Friday, June 19th, 2009You probably don’t care that Chastity Bono is getting a sex change operation. I’m just going to bring up two points about this.
1. We watched Chastity grow up. She looked normal enough as a kid. However, she is the kid of popular celebrities. One of her parents is the outrageous Cher. How do you top a parent like Cher? How do you capture and maintain your mother’s attention when you felt deprived as a kid? I think we’re seeing how to do exactly that.
2. Should her surgery be covered by insurance? And if, gender confusion/identity mix up actually becomes a legit diagnosis, would you, as a taxpayer like to pay for this surgery for someone else should health care reform get passed?
Under a government-run health care, the science to support health choices will be as dubious as the science that supports climate-change driven economic policy.
ABC Employees Contributed $160,000 To President Obama
Thursday, June 18th, 2009ABC employees contributed $5,000 to John McCain in contrast to the $160,000 contributed to then candidate Barack Obama. Now, ABC gets to broadcast out of the White House about President Obama’s health plan.
Hmmm…….PDF file on the details at Conservatives for Patients Rights
Curing Our Public Education System
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Here’s my cure for the sick system:
1. Eliminate tenure, the bane of all union systems.
2. Teach a classical education.
3. No homework until sixth grade.
4. Find a way to make standardized testing shorter and less complicated.
To learn more about education please listen to my interview with Matthew K. Tabor, education and new media expert.
There are so many issues that we on the right have conceded to the left. Matt is young and dedicated to exposing the fraud and problems in the educational system. There are people out there doing this work. We need to be paying more attention to this topic because our tax dollars are at work here and in a big way.
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Can Feminism Be Saved From Feminists?–UPDATED
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Over at Reclusive Leftist, via Instapundit, the author goes after the women of Feministing for their repetition of the false Sarah Palin is against rape-kits charge:
No shame. No shame at all.
You know, I would really like to just ignore these woman-hating hypocritical Third Wave “feminists” who made such a g*ddamn mess last year. I never want to mention them or deal with them at all. I’m glad they want to be feminists, and hey, maybe someday they’ll realize what complete and total f*ck-ups they are. Power to ‘em. But jesus f*cking christ, when they start in again with rape kit thing, helping to perpetuate one of the most cynical of smears (from a campaign that was chock-fucking-full of cynical smears), it’s too g**damn much.
The problem for the feminists is that the brand is ruined beyond recognition. When people think feminists they think man-hating, abortion-loving, children-resenting, big-mouthed butch lesbians.
So, for women who feel pro-woman, who believe in equal pay for equal work, who don’t feel defined or limited by a functioning uterus, who happen to believe that abortion is wrong because it violates the civil rights of the unborn statistically half of them women, and who really dig men, feminism just doesn’t fit.
And then, when women who look, work and believe like Sarah Palin are savaged by other women because she is different ideologically, women are further turned off by feminism. Feminism has become exactly what feminist women despise: an organization that discriminates based on gender and thinking the “wrong” thoughts.
Further, when women see the Feminists defend David Letterman for making jokes that would get his ass kicked by the father of the 14 year old WOMAN if he said it in a bar, while leading the charge against Imus for making a less degrading comment (Both were degrading and wrong, but the women basketball players were at least grown women. Sheesh!) reveals their bias.
The fact is, most feminists didn’t mind the sexism aimed at Sarah Palin during the campaign. If it shut her up, well, all to the good. Sexism was just one of the many tools to get someone who disagreed with them to be quiet. Irony was lost on them. The fact that their actions hurt women, and continue to do so, seems to be lost on these “feminist” women.
There are some on the right who believe that feminism, the term and the movement, can be rescued from the feminists who now own it. Personally, I think it’s impossible. And really, I’m not sure I want the word even if could be redeemed.
UPDATED:
Cynthia Yockey, whom I met and spoke with at CPAC, says this about her feminist experience:
Like Michelle Malkin, I know what is it like to get beaten up and run out of town by totalitarian feminists because that’s what happened when my late life partner and I conducted a six-year campaign in the 1990’s to get a group LED BY THE TOP LESBIANS IN THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT in Washington, D.C., to make good on their pledges to choose wheelchair-accessible meeting venues. I fell in love with Michelle Malkin for her column on the “Sisterhood of the Protected Female Liberal Journalists” because she made sense of what had happened to me on a much smaller scale so that for the first time I could understand why I had been shellacked, abandoned by almost everyone I thought would have my back and driven out of the lesbian community.
Not only are there right and wrong women. There are right and wrong feminist lesbian women. The tent sure is tiny.
FREEDOM! Freedom For Iran
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009All men are free. Regime leaders know this. This is why they use force to suppress the people. If the people realize they are free….the fight is over.
Freedom for the people of Iran. Freedom for all men.
Yes. I’m idealistic. Yes, I know attaining freedom is not simple. Often, blood is spilled. For the Iranian people, I wish them freedom from tyranny. I wish them peace. I wish them self-determination.
Their brothers over the border in Iraq have it. Sure, it’s messy, but once a person has a taste of freedom…..domination by the government feels like it what it is: slavery.
So, love and prayers and solidarity with the people of Iran. You are not alone. The will of the world is on your side.
More from the Anchoress:
Emily Dickinson wrote:
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words
And never stops at all…How appropriate then, that the communications tool most responsible for keeping hope alive in shattered Iran is “a thing” called “Twitter,” and that the 140-character dispatches being sent and received by people in desperate straits are called “tweets.”
People are “tweeting” for their lives, and their messages are bold, frightened, determined and unbelievably moving. Students are sending out: “They are trapped in the dorms,” and “I cannot remain; I must participate.” They head off, unsure whether they are headed to a peaceful rally or a massacre, and they are not heard from for 18 hours; and people around the world -strangers- pray and wonder.
Indeed. The Twitter community has rallied where the officials in D.C. have dithered. Some have not been silent, though:
“The cause of American is freedom and in that cause, we must never be silent.” — @RepMikePence
I’ll give the last word to The Anchoress because she is so eloquent in the defense of Iran:
Pray for the people of Iran; pray for good to triumph. Pray for their safety, their fortitude, their energy, their “thing with feathers,” which is hope:
“…hope is not simply a feeling. Hope says, “awake, O Sleeper, arise from death!” Hope is the builder of bridges, the tamer of winds, the harnesser of ideas and possibilities. A poor man with hope is immeasurably richer than a wealthy man without it, because he carries within him the spark that can alight a thousand tomorrows.”
Freedom for the people.
It’s Not About Burgers, It’s About The Little People
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Could the mainstream media be more irrelevant? Just when I think it’s not possible, Maureen Dowd writes about President Barack Obama and his dietary habits. From the New Editor:
Dowd goes on to note that President Obama has gone out on highly-publicized trips for burgers, and “Michelle sometimes takes her staff on impromptu lunch trips to Five Guys or other burger and barbeque spots.”
To all of which one might reply, “Who gives a damn?”
Ms. Dowd, like a good portion of the New York-Washington political and media nexus, thinks the public is an idiot, and that it hangs on every action, every word of its spokesman, the new president, as if it were some divine guidance for how to live its life.
Eh, maybe. I think there’s more to it than that. The press tries to bring down to earth an elitist snob so the vast unwashed can feel that the President is “just like me”. Um, no he’s not.
If you’ll recall, President Bush’s midnight snack was PB&J’s. He served BBQ at state functions. He was also generally thought to be a stupid rube by the same press now trying to humanize the god-prophet Obama.
Obama needs to be big, mind you, but not so big as to intimidate the little people given to small pleasures like cheeseburgers.
Thanks, Maureen, for humanizing the president for us. You know, we can’t judge for ourselves. We need guidance to really understand him and what he’s all about. Without you, we’d only see the god-king. We wouldn’t see his humanity. He’s real, man.
So, you know, thanks. I bet Barack Obama actually poops, too. Perhaps an analysis of his bowel movements will be forthcoming from the ever helpful media.
