I will be posting this to conservatism, and possibly Liberal, mid day.
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After the cut is a somewhat long read. It's worth it. A side note before the post:

At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation as to what form of government the people of America would have. He responded to the crowd:

"A republic, if you can keep it."

It's Independence Day. July 4th is just a date. Please try to understand and celebrate the significance of the day along with the gluttony and fireworks I, too, will enjoy.


The following was written in 1973. It is distressing how much applies still today. Here are two snippets:

"Today, in the United States, it is popular among selfstyled 'intellectuals' to sneer at patriotism. They seem to think that it is axiomatic that any civilized man is a pacifist, and they treat the military profession with contempt. 'Warmongers'- 'Imperialists'- 'Hired killers in uniform' - you have all heard such sneers and you will hear them again."

"Patriotism is the most practical of all human characteristics. But in the present decadent atmosphere patriots are often too shy to talk about it-as if it were something shameful or an irrational weakness. But patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual. A man who is not patriotic is an evolutionary dead end. This is not sentiment but the hardest sort of logic."

I resisted putting any of it in bold, as it should be read in its entirety. However, I recognize some are lazy, possess short attention spans, and might be unwilling to take my word for its value. This is what I wanted to share for Independence Day.

( The pragmatics of patriotism )

Occasionally I encounter a sentiment of such concise profundity that I want to credit the user before my blatant theft. The following analogy is one such occasion.

kistrael said this:


"When I was in high school the notion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as a 'living document' was a great idea. Now I realize that 'living document' means more like Wikipedia than Ten Commandments, and it's horrifying."


For the internet savvy (and non Liberals) this is an exceptional way of putting it.

Congratulations to Joe Horn, Texas man cleared in fatal shootings of suspected burglars. I grabbed the first link, which I'm sure is biased against him because it's the LA Times.

Illegal aliens with criminal backgrounds broke into his neighbor's house. He shot them both, killing them. According to Texas law (there is sanity in pockets of America) he was good to go. Thankfully a jury chose well.

Good. Hopefully the crime rate goes down and the immigration of law abiding Americans to Texas goes up.

Why Liberals Lie About What They Believe
Packed with truth.
"Once you've watched liberals long enough to understand how they think -- scratch that, how they feel -- they become extraordinarily predictable.
To begin with, the liberal agenda is, in many respects, the same as it was in the thirties. Whether you call it communism, fascism, socialism, liberalism, or progressivism, the only real difference is how much they believe they can get away with, the way they sell it to people, and the latest trendy name for what they believe."
"So, if you want to know what liberals want to do, their words mean absolutely nothing because lying about their agenda has become as natural to them as chasing a cat is to a dog.
Instead, what you have to do is watch what other liberals have done when they have come into power."

The same as it was in the thirties? What a nice segue...

More of Obama's unreported history and ties
"The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can’t afford to live anywhere else.
But it’s not safe to live here."
"Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers – including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko – collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors."
If "change" means the inevitable results of socialist policies while empowering a corrupt Chicago politician and all his cronies, yep, we're getting change.

Mike Klonsky Joins the Crowd under Obama's Bus
"Unsurprisingly, Klonsky was such a big supporter of Obama, he had a community blog on BHO's official website — until the other day, when he was airbrushed out of existence,"

Yet another new name for an old idea:
The "Fairness Doctrine" Is The Least Of Our Concerns
"Yet, what many Americans are not aware of is the emerging, liberal, “media reform movement,” that has been growing for most of this decade."
"And make no mistake - - the “media reform” movement is, itself, liberal. At the recent, 4th annual “National Conference For Media Reform” in Minneapolis, the list of keynote speakers included liberal commentator Bill Moyers, and Dan Rather"
"Americans, choosing freely, are ultimately choosing the “wrong” kind of media content, and this must be stopped."

Caution: Clown congress at work
Democrat Representative tells Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff he is glad Al-Qaeda can see him testify, so they have a face to target.
HOW DOES THIS STUFF NOT MAKE NATIONAL NEWS FOR DAYS?!?! But there is no Liberal media? C'MON!
And more... "When (subject of interrogation by Congress) Yoo referred to an appendix in the 2003 memo, (DEMOCRAT doing the interrogation)) Delahunt interrupted that he had not read the memo"
Uninformed. Witch hunting. Ultra partisan. Dangerous. Your Democrat Congress at work.

Liberal Congressman Roots for Al Qaeda to Kill American Official
"I'm sure they [Al Qaeda] are watching. I'm glad they finally have a chance to see you, Mr. Addington"
Any member of Congress not denouncing William Delahunt, Representative from (gasp in shock) Massachusetts, shares guilt. This is unacceptable. It's sickening.
It's your Democrat Congress at work.


I had more links but there is so much meat here I think I'll hold off.

Will Obama step up and denounce these people?

Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform
"It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message"

Some say it's bloggers filing false reports to Google. Google then has to investigate, which takes time. Here's the problem with that theory. Google's history shows if these were pro-Obama sites the "investigation" would be handled in minutes, not days.

Google is owned by Liberals. Liberals cannot tolerate free speech. If you ever look to see who is trying to twist or deny the FIRST two Amendments in the Bill of Rights, it will be the Left.

What do you think the "Fairness Doctrine" is?

More: Now just imagine Blogger was the FEC

"There are a couple of other lessons here as well. If Snedeker, GeekLove, and the others experiencing the lockout are correct, some Barack Obama supporters have organized to shut down blog sites. I seriously doubt that the Obama campaign would be stupid enough to get involved in such an effort, but it does say something about his supporters. Filing false complaints to harass critics is close to dirty tricks, and going after free speech shows that to be a virtue that is at best underappreciated by the people involved in these attacks.

Finally, I’d like to recall a few years ago when the federal courts demanded that the Federal Election Commission take action to apply the BCRA to the Internet. A bipartisan coalition of bloggers, including myself, warned that even modest regulations that had sanctions against Internet writers could create a monstrous regulatory hurdle — one that could get invoked precisely by the same kind of specious and malicious complaints that Blogger received. Instead of just taking a few days to get the sites back, though, complaints to the FEC would have required us to hire lawyers and spend months to clear our names.

It doesn’t take much to attack free speech. All it requires is a regulatory mechanism manned by clueless bureaucrats, triggered by people who don’t value free political speech. Thankfully, that’s limited to Blogger …. for the moment."

I hope for a change that doesn't involve shutting down dissent.

While Obama is making the waters recede and healing the Earth (his own words), maybe he'd be kind enough to have his supporters stop shutting down the speech of the opposition. That includes Google. Maybe?

I finally caught There Will be Blood.
Fine performances by all, most especially Daniel Day Lewis. His performance was truly incredible.
Sadly, I found it long, tedious and more or less pointless. I am a simple man. I do not appreciate feeeelm, I guess. People used to rave about Carnivale. While I thought it quite good, I could not have watched it without fast forwarding through the long atmosphere shots when absolutely nothing was going on. Same here. There were a couple of times when I just wanted to yell "get on with it."
The protagonist, I think, was supposed to be painted as a villain of sorts. Personally I didn't really think so until the last few minutes. I related, actually. :)
Clearly according to the makers, Christians and Christian leaders are morons and charlatans who leech off working men. What a new and original idea. Atheists should love it. (Thus the Oscar?) Hey, Hollywood, any chance you could portray ONE positive religious element in a film? The last I checked Western history had ONE OR TWO OF THEM. It might be possible that OCCASIONALLY a Christian might be an honest, good and intelligent person.
Anyway, the film was shot and acted well. It wasn't a waste of my time. I just didn't walk away from it feeling it had much point, or that I cared much what went on. If that does it for you, I highly recommend it.


I caught up on Battlestar Galactica. The lengths I will go to out of curiosity astound me. It remains my vain hope this is somehow going to pay off in the end. I'm still left not getting it. With all due respect to BSG fans, I maintain my initial feelings when I posed this:


It hasn't made a lick of sense since. The moment he didn't have the original series to go off of the creator was lost. I'm glad the Cylons have a plan, as was maintained since episode one. They should let the show runners know what it is. As it is right now who is running the civilian government, who is running the fleet, and who is running the Cylons is as easily figured out by random dice rolls than any cohesive story. But boy does everyone
FEEL
REALLY
INTENSE
about it all. It's a soap opera, except instead of who is pregnant and who has amnesia, it's who is in command and which side are they on.

This show gets its full uninterrupted run, with bonus miniseries, but JMS had the greatest scifi story ever told, Babylon 5's schedule changed on him every week, and had to finance the last season himself. I hate humanity.

(Part 3 of a 3 part post on an article about the Dem Convention preparation. This is the one you all should read.)

I broke this up into three posts because I think it offered three distinct points of which all Americans MUST be aware and wary. This is the third and most important point.

Democrat mayor says healthy food is “the new patriotism”.
"No fried anything.
every meal should be nutritious and include “at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white.”"
"every bit of merchandise at the Denver convention must be organic and union-made."

Now I quote See-Dubya at Michelle Malkin's site, something every American should consider:
social conservatives might be nosing around in your bedroom and your basement where you’ve got the grow-lights and the Pink Floyd posters, but the totalitarian green left is sticking its nose in every every dad-gum room in your house. They regulate the permissible flow of water in your toilet. They regulate the air freshener you can spray after you use it. They mandate a mercury-filled ugly light bulb in every socket. They’re all over your car and your gun cabinet and your garbage can and now your kitchen. They’re in your radio, dumping the Fairness Doctrine all over what you’re permitted to hear. And now we see they care about the stuff in your refrigerator and they care how you cook it.

They have an opinion on everything [snip] and they’re willing to back up every last one of them with the force of the state.

He forgot to add they're regulating the thermostat in your home.

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK." Barack Obama

Yes, it's easy to be concerned about social conservatives having opinions about our sex or recreational lives. Liberals want to control every aspect of everything else. And we're letting them.

(Part 2 of a 3 part post on an article about the Dem Convention preparation)

Democrat mayor says healthy food is “the new patriotism”.

Diversity is the new patriotism.

Enviroextremism is the new patriotism.

As Barack Obama said, then flip flopped on, (wearing a pin) became a substitute for I think true patriotism. He went on to say, "I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great" Tense is such a funny thing. Should we try to ignore the implication that he thinks it isn't great RIGHT FLIPPING NOW? Hillary answers the question correctly on page 2, illustrating the difference between the candidate who likes their country and the one who doesn't.

Anyway...

Obama tells us that telling Americans how to make this country achieve the greatness it lacks is the new patriotism.

Healthy food is the new patriotism.

You know what is the new patriotism? The old patriotism. Stop claiming the latest Liberal fad is the new patriotism. Loving this country is the old, current and future patriotism.

(Part 1 of a 3 part post on an article about the Dem Convention preparation)

It's a shame our mainstream media is such a joke and that The Daily Show is so ridiculously partisan. Watching the Dem convention getting organized should be news for a number of reasons. It's also good for a million laughs.
Democrat mayor says healthy food is “the new patriotism”.

"no fried food. No fried chicken. No fried catfish. No fried green tomatoes. No fried okra. No fried anything. In promoting healthy eating habits, the Democratic guidelines say every meal should be nutritious and include “at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white.”"

"“It’s the new patriotism,” says Denver Mayor"

I recall a couple of people changing the name of french fries getting a million yucks from clever Lefties. Where is all the giggling over rainbow meals?

It doesn't stop there.

"Mayor Hickenlooper’s already been causing trouble for the Dems with his foolish pronouncement that every bit of merchandise at the Denver convention must be organic and union-made."

I bet hoping for that kind of change makes him feel really good. And what else should matter?

Including, apparently, reality.

"Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA.
Official merchandiser Bob DeMasse scoured the country. His weary conclusion: “That just doesn’t exist.”
Ditto for the baseball caps. “We have a union cap or an organic cap,” Mr. DeMasse says. “But we don’t have a union-organic offering.”"

Let me be clear. I'd like it if we had American made baseball caps. The point here is this is a perfect example of how Democrats think and perform. Decree first, based entirely on how they feel, then demand the decree be met despite reality.

Unrelated to any of the posts, but funny and true.

So much good stuff it'll never get read...

Dick Morris on the Fleecing of America
"“No one seems to be doing the hard work of actually going through Obama’s positions, looking at what he’s for and against, and what he would do as president,"
A MUST READ, ESPECIALLY PAGE 2

Don't Fear the Smear!!!
"Obama likes to portray himself as the candidate of hope, openness, transparency and civil debate. But he is the one who quickly questions the motivations of anyone who dare criticize and who labels huge swaths of issues off limits or distractions."
Will Republicans finally grow a set and take this head on?

Obama disagrees with high court on child rape case
I post this only because of the following quote I found quite interesting:
"'I believe there are some crimes _ mass murder, the rape and murder of a child _ so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment,' he wrote in his book 'The Audacity of Hope.'"
I really have to get around to reading his books. They are apparently a treasure trove of delusion. I did not know this. I'm surprised Liberals aren't up in arms. This guy apparently can do no wrong.
Let's focus on one part of that, shall we? "the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage" What?!? That sentiment isn't... troubling to anyone? I want justice, a life for a life. I want to save the taxpayers their money. I do not want government expressing the full measure of public outrage. With a "living document" Constitution the full measure of public outrage could end up with policies killing citizens for anything successfully made unpopular! WTF?!?

Evolving Nonsense
"We deserve a Supreme Court that lets change evolve, in whatever direction, through the legislative processes, not justices who employ “evolving standards” [snip]. John McCain has said that he would appoint judges who will respect the popular will, overturning it only in response to clear constitutional commands and not to their own preferences. [snip] Barack Obama has indicated that he falls on the other side of the jurisprudential debate."

The ACORN Obama knows
Another unreported Obama connection that deserves exploration


You Can't Fuel All of the People All of the Time By Ann Coulter
I'm posting this mainly for this quote:
"In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, 'We can't drill our way out of this crisis.'
What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, 'You can't eat your way out of being hungry!' 'You can't water your way out of drought!' 'You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!' 'You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!'
Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil?
It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan."

Gloucester’s Shame
17 pregnant teenagers at once is the direct result of Liberal policies.

Mexican hitmen arrested for murdering man in his Phoenix, Arizona home
"Full tactical gear, AR-15s, 50-100 rounds burped off at the victim’s house (who was suspected to be a marijuana dealer) and alleged plans to “ambush” any Phoenix PD officers who tried to stop them."
Can we regulate the border yet?

Britain's continued collapse, a harbinger of our doom if we do not learn: Nanny State to Confiscate Children's Incorrect Meals
"If a packed lunch is deemed to contain too much fat and sugar, parents could be sent warning letters or their children's meals confiscated."
The statists will get us through our children.

Here is one Democrat lawyer showing the world what law school taught him about ethics, morality and decency: Dem State Rep. Gets Nasty in Defense of Child Rapists
"that 6-year-old is going to sit in front of me, or somebody far worse than me and I'm going to rip them apart. I'm going to make sure that the rest of their life is ruined. That when they're 8 years old they throw up; when they're 12 years old, they won't sleep. When they're 19 years old they'll have nightmares and they'll never have a relationship with anybody."
"you have to do every single thing you can do on behalf of your client. That is your obligation as a trial lawyer."
The Medieval Catholic Priests of our day. But their God doesn't even have the illusion of moral accountability.

DEATH OF THE WEST: Justice Department Found Guilty of Discriminating against Wackos and Extremists
The Bush Administration tries to weed out potential treason via tools like thought. Democrats are having none of that. Their Justice Department will be diverse, inlcuding terrorist sympathizers. Lucky us.

Media Darling Warren Buffett Decries Obama’s Windfall Profits Tax
Isn't Warren Buffet the go to guy for Liberals to claim the experts agree with their socialist policies?
"In the past when Warren Buffett has spoken out the "super rich" needing to pay a higher tax rate, the media have hung on his every word. But, now that he has spoken out against a windfall profits tax on oil, will they notice?"
I bet no one.

CBS’s Couric: Zimbabwe Dictator Departed From Marxist ‘Hope and Promise’
Sound familiar?!?
"When Robert Mugabe was first elected in 1980, he was a hero. He was seen as one of Africa's most promising black leaders...The son of a carpenter, the revolutionary and former school teacher said he had, quote, 'inherited the jewel of Africa.'"
"But in the '90s, Mugabe became more authoritarian. This one-time revolutionary squashed all opposition and faced charges of cronyism and corruption."
LEARN FROM HISTORY!

The SCOTUS rulings are getting all the attention but this little gem shouldn't go unnoticed.

You are not reading the following sentence wrong.

[Yesterday] morning, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a joint hearing on a "National Intelligence Assessment" on global climate change.

( some details and comments )

Malkin celebrates

I'm torn. On the one hand this is a plus for freedom, and I'm loving the knowledge that countless Liberal statists are pulling out their hair and weeping to the heavens right now. This is an enormous blow to the socialist status forces trying to take over the country.

On the other hand, 4 out of 9 members of SCOTUS either do not understand or do not care about American history (specifically the time of our Founding Fathers) or the obvious meaning of the Constitution. 4 out of 9. That's not worth celebrating.

I do have to get around to reading the dissent. This should be a fascinating thrill ride of legalistic BS. I'm about tapped out for that after California and Kelo.

I've saved a few of these up. Not really much going on I care to remark on. Even some of these end up dealing with my cynical political issues.

The X-Files trailer is out. What, ten years too late, and not even about something interesting? Out of the entire X-Files series this was the premise they decided to go with? Bring me back retarded lightning boy or something.

***SPOILERS*** Indiana Jones was so bad it's sparking a movement for a new internet catch phrase.
Seriously. I'd be saving you money and time by spoiling it. The catch phrase doesn't work, as I don't think we need a "jump the shark for film." And if we did, we should go with, "this sequel was Jar Jar Binksd," or maybe, "They really midochlorianed the heck out of that sequel." Lucas deserves credit for his first effort at ruining millions of childhoods.

In regard to Indiana Jones and The Nonsensical Space Aliens, this is a must read:
***SPOILERS*** Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script
Pure genius, powered by TRUTH.

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And now we enter the "Celebrities are pampered morons" section:

Racist asshole Spike Lee continues to promote his crap by saying idiotic racist BS. Not having learned from the first time he attacked Clint Eastwood, a better man and film maker, he did it again. And Eastwood smacked him down yet again, for the useless racist bitch he is.
Are you listening GOP? THIS is how to handle the race card

Of course, using the Liberal tactic of repetition equals truth, Lee keeps talking. (For the ladies, includes possibly sexy picture of Eastwood back in the day)
Anyone with integrity would denounce this clown.

George Lucas: Moron
"has hailed Barack Obama as “a hero in the making,” declaring that Obama, “for all of us that have dreams and hope, is a hero.”"
You imbeciles deserve all the misery the Marxist state you dream and hope for will bring. Dreams and hope aren't policies, you senile arrogant dope. Make a decent movie. How about that?

Will Smith: Scientologist moron.
He was travelling abroad and, "it just hasn't been a good thing to be American. And this is the first time, since Barack has gotten the nomination, that it, it was a good thing."
Then he goes on to say the FOunding Fathers and the Obbamamessiah are like peas in a pod. I'll skip that anyone who thinks that is absolutely clueless.
Here's the bigger point in this case. Smith is trying to say he used to get bad treatment in Europe, right up until Barack the Magic Negro got the nomination. Does ANYONE with an IQ above a house plant believe Will Smith has EVER gotten bad treatment ANYWHERE in the last decade?
No, I don't think he's a liar. I think he, like most Obama supporters, lives in a fantasy land they have erected in their delusional brains.

Katherine Heigle is a genius
The smart thing to do as an actor is to insult your writers. That can only go well. I can't wait to see her lines next year.
People thinks she wants to get fired from Grey's. Good. Give her her wish. Every new woman they've brought on the show (after the creepy monster whose name shall not be spoken lest she come in the night and consume my skull) has been hotter and more interesting that the originals. Let's keep this trend going.

That's enough of the morons for now...
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To cleanse the palate of imbeciles and loons I give you yet another heartwarming tale of Johnny Depp.
Johnny Depp is Cool, Part 2,534
While shooting a film "Johnny Depp met a 12-year old boy, Jack Taylor, who told the actor that he liked the fedora Depp was wearing." Guess where that led?

What the Hell happened to the Witchblade chick?
Please tell me it was hard drugs. Because that just ain't right.

Speaking of annoying changes in attractive women, I fins Mary McCormack to be a very attractive woman. I have more or less enjoyed the first two episodes of her new series In Plain Sight. One of the things I find attractive about her is her thin beautiful lips, and the adorable expressions she makes with them.
Generally speaking, all like all women's lips. Thin, full, round, flat, what have you, they can all be lovely. In the second episode, however, I became distressed. It is quite obvious to me Ms McCormack got lip injections. Just like Lisa Rinna, or the better known Niki Cox, this has turned into a travesty making them resemble some kind of hairless platypus.
Ladies, I'm begging you. Please stop it. It is not attractive. It is not subtle. It does not make you look younger. It does not make you look better. You look like a duck. You do not need Angelina Jolie's lips. Yours are lovely. More important, only Gaea, God or Satan can give you Jolie's lips. And she had to trade them for sanity, apparently. We can tell. And it's gross.

To again cleanse he palate of such distasteful things, I give you some cutie pictures of the lovely Zooey Deschanel. I always thought she was cute, but absolutely fell in love with her in the movie Elf, particularly from this moment. I mean seriously, how do you look into these eyes without your brain misfiring, then hugging her far too long until the moment gets really creepy and uncomfortable?
Anyway, she's in the critic and fan loathed latest M. Night Shyamalan preach fest. I'm glad the global warming sermon tanked for being what it is, but still hope it helps her career to have another major role.

Pictures of The Bachelorette, who we are supposed to believe can't get a date.
That there is an audience for this show I find truly disturbing.

Another for the ladies. If you don't find Matthew McConaughey attractive I think you may be dead. Apparently some surfers took some time out from weed, beer and keeping their balance to beat on some paparazzi for him. I fully support this.

Speaking of Matthew McConaughey, if you had any hope for our civilization up until now you should know, Fool's Gold is currently number one in DVD sales and rentals. Proving once again that women enjoy spending money, and their men are weak. (Although sure I'd watch for Hudson.)

I don't know about this Wii Fit hula-hoop girl viral video, or the new Playboy Cyber Girl boxing and snowboarding one, but WWTDD seems to enjoy it. I have the same problem with this as with strippers. If I can't touch I need a little bit more going on.

And finally... Science!
Get angry when hungry? Blame low serotonin
"Their research also helps explain why some people become combative or aggressive when hungry because the essential amino acid needed for the body to create serotonin is only obtained through diet."
"People with lower serotonin levels were far more likely to deprive other players of money, even though they lost out as well, as a way to punish the person who made the offer, the researchers said."

Obama: "And did I mention he’s black?"




A video quote from Obama:
"We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. They're gonna say, 'You know what, he’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black? He’s got a feisty wife."

He's pulled the race card. If it wasn't plain before, it is now. Yet again, brilliant politics, pure cowardice. There is NOTHING new here. This is the same old Democrat race baiting and fear mongering projected onto the Republicans. "Unity?" "Post-partisan?" He's a liar. A fraud. A charlatan. He's a coward.

Keep the "change." It's a lie.









10 Concerns about Barack Obama
Repeats mainly, but the truth must be repeated as often as the lies or it gets lost. The last four decades have proven that.

Asking the Bombers to Try Again By Dick Morris
Dick Morris analyzes Obama's (and the Democrats') foolish argument about pursuing terrorists as we did in '93.
Again, a repeat of something yesterday. But it is in more simple terms, and truth needs repetition in a nation of Liberal propaganda.
"Sen. Barack Obama urged us to go back to the era of criminal-justice prosecution of terror suspects, citing the successful efforts to imprison those who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993."
"This is big - because that prosecution, and the ground rules for it, had more to do with our inability to avert 9/11 than any other single factor."
Read it. Tell me what is factually inaccurate. If you've got nothing, tell me why I shouldn't be frightened of an Obama White House?


Boumediene: A Supremely Problematic Court Decision By Fred Thompson
"beyond the rhetoric, we really need to understand the real world impact of this ruling on the war we are waging against our enemies."
"Consider the rights that our country provided to the enemy prisoners in question before Boumediene:"
Seems like a big list. Factual inaccuracies? Anyone?
"Look, this issue isn’t going to go away, so consider these things the next time you hear someone defend the Supreme Court’s majority opinion as an attempt at “basic fairness” and to help prevent an innocent sheepherder from being improperly detained:

First, the Court left total confusion and uncertainty [snip] it will be a federal judge — not the President or the Congress or a military tribunal — who will decide the appropriate extent to which the detainee will have access to classified military information [snip] Second, the majority opinion throws into question whether the tens of thousands of detainees in Iraq and the more than 1000 in Afghanistan are now entitled to habeas [snip] Third, the Court’s decision encourages al Qaeda to continue in violation of the Geneva Conventions."
Again, any inaccuracies based in fact?
SCOTUS screwed us and the Constitution out of pure partisanship. This is what we must avoid.


And now for some racism! L.O.L.

‘They were going to deny us barbecue. Here we are in modern-day slavery again.’ “
Someone actually said that!
"Leaders of the Black Cultural Council say volunteers and the black community felt “humiliated”" [snip] "health inspectors told them it was illegal for the group to serve the sandwiches because they were not prepared at the site where they were served" [snip] ‘They were going to deny us barbecue. Here we are in modern-day slavery again.’"
This is where it will continue to go so long as we allow it. As long as anyone allows any tolerance of this or any other PC thought-control BS to continue this country is on a certain road to balkanization and collapse.

The Columbia noose professor is terminated, story still not over
"Madonna G. Constantine, a professor of psychology and education with a focus on racial issues (You don't say?) at Columbia’s Teachers College, was sanctioned in February"
"she also might sue the college for wrongful termination in either state or federal court."
Probably hundreds of thousands of student money lost to the lawyers after she's done stirring the pot and grabbing her settlement, and this after she was doubtlessly indoctrinating the students into mindless PC BS for years. We are in desperate need of excising this kind of cancer from our universities.
Michelle Malkin reasonably comments, "But what about the noose incident that just happened to take place in the midst of the plagiarism probe? When will the campus cough up the truth about that? In March, I noted that Constantine’s files were being subpoenaed by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force and prosecutors.
No word on what they found. Yet."
This woman who just happened to have "a focus on racial issues" staged a racial incident. Where the hell are Sharpton and Jackson? This does more harm to real racial incidents than Don Imus ever did.

mumbalo_jack had a good post on racial issues the other day from which I had planned to steal. Instead, I think I'll just link it.

And now for a somewhat lighter note...

Why Are So Many Women Depressed?
Dead on!
"Which brings us to yet another cause of unhappiness among women -- the effects of all the above on men."
"The 1960s ushered in The Age of Hubris, a time of almost unprecedented levels of conceit that one knew better than all previous generations how to order life, that almost everything inherited from the past was just plain wrong and outdated. For this hubris we have paid, and will continue to pay, a steep price."

This from badlydrawnjeff:
Island breaks away from UK, EU
"'I also invite anyone from any country in the world, who supports these aims, namely to become free of liars, thieves and tyrants in government, to become a citizen of Forvik,' he added."
Best of luck to him!

I posted (and since corrected) that