You’re A Bad Person
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Angie Harmon doesn’t like being labeled a racist because she disagrees with President Barack Obama:
“Here’s my problem with this, I’m just going to come out and say it. If I have anything to say against Obama it’s not because I’m a racist, it’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you’re called a racist,” Harmon told Tarts at Thursday’s Los Angeles launch of the new eyelash-growing formula, Latisse. “But it has nothing to do with it, I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he’s doing and I heard all about this, and he’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay … I’m still dressing for a recession over here buddy and we’ve got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that’s the thing I really don’t appreciate. If I’m going to disagree with my President, that doesn’t make me a racist. If I was to disagree with W, that doesn’t make me racist. It has nothing to do with it, it is ridiculous.”
You might not be racist, Angie, but you’re most certainly a bad person. Only bad people disagree with the President.
I think it’s time to give credit where credit is due. The Left has succeeded in framing every issue morally. Leave your lights on Saturday night? You’re a bad person and don’t care about the environment. Believe that marriage is, by definition, between one man and one woman (a position so self-evidently obvious it’s been understood since the beginning of man)? You’re a bad, closed-minded person. Believe that people should pay their bills and that includes the government? You’re a bad, judgmental person.
The Left has done an excellent job of vilifying the normal and common sense. I don’t know how we get back to normal. You know, where hard-working, bill-paying, rationally conserving families are viewed as the normal and not framed as freaks.
The fact is, normal people are afraid to speak out. And when they do have the temerity to share their perspective, they’re labeled, as Angie Harmon notes, as racist or whatever fill-in-the-blank word it takes to get you to shut the hell up.
Embrace it: You’re a bad person.
Happy St. Patty’s Day: The Luck O’ The Dodd
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Oh, to have a Democrat Senator’s luck!
“We Need To Redefine Merit”…Because Standardized Testing Is Racist
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009I watched this video yesterday and got sick to my stomach. You can watch the whole thing, too, to get an idea of what is being taught at say, Harvard University. Professor Lani Guinier, at the State of the Black Union jams so many false premises and wrong-headed thinking in 10 minutes that it’s impressive. Here are a couple highlights:
“We need to redefine merit. Within each ethnic group talent is equally distributed among all people. All people have merit.”
“Diversity in problem solving groups trumps individual ability.”
Professor Guinier recommends that rather than hiring smart people, employers should look at hiring people who are dumb but answered the questions the smart people got wrong.
Since some people can’t “make the grade” the solution, then, is to make grades have no meaning. Since some people are stupid, then the goal is to find the few times they are actually smart and endure them the rest of the time–because every once in a while, they might have a novel solution.
This ten minute video encapsulates liberal philosophy. While the Professor talks about the importance of critical thinking skills, she displays an astonishing lack of them herself. Ken Blackwell says:
Guinier goes on to insult hard working students and diminish their academic success in explaining her rationale, saying, “the reason that I’m calling it racism is because it is a state of mind that is indifferent to the fact that these tests, whatever you think about them, are having a disparate impact on different populations and violating that first principal that talent is equally distributed among all groups.”
The audacity in this assertion is exceeded only in its staggering absurdity. Different people perform differently on standardized tests because people are, well, different. I may score high on tests involving history or language, but fear my expertise in higher mathematics is woefully lacking. The same holds true for those in vocational fields. An aptitude for auto mechanics doesn’t automatically translate into great skill in dental hygiene, welding, or any other trade. The facts are simple; talent is not, never has been and never will be “equally distributed among all groups,” as Guinier preposterously claims.
I had to laugh at one point. Professor Guinier disparages Barack Obama’s A+’s (assuming he got any, but whatever) saying that a person’s grades don’t guarantee how he’s going to lawyer. Well, that’s true, indeed.
What Professor Guinier aims to do is to remove all forms of defining achievement so that everyone is an achiever. She’s like Syndrome from the movie The Incredibles:
“Oh, I’m real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I’ll give them heroics. I’ll give them the most spectacular heroics the world has ever seen! And when I’m old and I’ve had my fun, I’ll sell my inventions so that *everyone* can have powers. *Everyone* can be super! And when everyone’s super–
[chuckles evilly] –no one will be.”
Success in America will be when everyone is defined as successful…then no one will be successful.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News
Ed Driscoll
Thursday, January 29th, 2009War, What Is It Good For?
Nuclear warring libraries in Berkeley…or something.
Don’t Be Like THEM
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Ooops! I did it again. Don’t Do It says Andy Levy:
DON’T apologize to foreigners and say things to them like, “I didn’t vote for Obama,” or “He’s not MY president.”
DON’T say or do everything in your power to drive this country apart and then claim you want unity when it’s your guy in power. This is like the convicted felon who conveniently finds God when he’s up for parole.
But I don’t wanna be a grown-up. I want to whine like a baby like Andy Sullivan. Ooops, I did it again.
Intolerant San Francisco
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Intolerant San Francisco
Black flight from a liberal city.
About Caroline Kennedy–UPDATED
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008So, the American Princess desireth a Senate seat. Well, of course she does! She has everything else and what do you get a girl who has everything for Christmas? Barely restrained power, of course. It’s what all the girls want these days.
Aside from the nepotistic, inbred, closed community called leftist Senatorial politics, let’s be real here: It ain’t no big thang to be a United States Senator. If you’re smarter than your Pet Rock, have no real-life experience to speak of, have a vague grasp of world events (aka scan the New York Times Sunday edition), and follow the liberal ideology, what’s to know?
There are only a few things that you have to believe to be a useful Democrat and in their view, a useful American:
1. War is bad.
2. Abortion is good.
3. God is suspect.
4. Government is infallible.
5. Guns kill people.
6. Criminals are victims.
7. Global warming is man made.
8. Corporations are evil.
9. Taxes need to go up.
10. They know what’s best for you
See? Simple. Don’t hassle Sweet Caroline. She’s got all the qualifications she needs to be a Democratic Senator from New York. She’s probably over-qualified.
More here.
Claudia Rosett on New York’s “Banana Republic.”
Mary Katherine Hamm calls her quest not terribly “auspicious”.
The New Blacklist
Monday, December 1st, 2008The New Blacklist
Be a proud member and Donate to Prop 8. Oh wait, it passed.
Homeless in NY “Big Government” Style
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008Why in sam hill would the New York government stop churches from housing the homeless? Rob Port says “big government strikes again”. CBS reports:
With temperatures well below freezing early Saturday, the churches must obey a city rule requiring faith-based shelters to be open at least five days a week — or not at all.
Arnold Cohen, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit that serves as a link with the city, said he had to tell the churches they no longer qualify.
He said hundreds of people now won’t have a place to sleep.
The Department of Homeless Services said the city offers other shelters with the capacity to accept all those who have been sleeping in the churches. The city had 8,000 beds waiting.
I know I’m dull-witted, but I don’t get it. Why would the government prefer to spend tax dollars when private money will take care of it?
Wait, a minute. Maybe the churches offer nicer, friendlier services and the government needs to justify it’s pathetic existence and use up that budgeted money and they view the churches as competition. Imagine. The government monopoly eliminating competition and using your tax dollars.
If you’re homeless in NY, you’re going to do homeless the government way or you’re going to freeze to death. Big Brother is harsh.
