“Don’t Ask, Don’t Yell”
Gays don’t like it and the military likes it even less. I refer to Bill Clinton’s cop out, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy for homosexuals in the military. That coda is about to change into “Leave Me Alone and Stay Outta My Face,” should Obama get his way.
Clinton’s DADT compromise stated that “homosexual orientation alone is not a bar to service, but homosexual conduct is incompatible with military service.” In other words, no one will ask about your sexual orientation and gays should feel free to serve their country but should not feel free to flout or advertise their sexuality.
That’s pretty reasonable, I think.
It’s important to realize that essentially the same policy applies to heterosexual behavior in that public, publicized promiscuous activities between consenting males and females in the military is discouraged and could result in punishment by military authorities.
Heterosexual activities are not usually punishable by discharge, however, nor is “telling” about it, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1457)
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Avatar, the Crock
Avatar, the Crock
Avatar: In Hindu mythology, an appearance, manifestation; personification, embodiment
I discovered a sure-fire way to save at least twenty-five bucks. That’s the cost of two movie matinee tickets plus popcorn and soda in our ‘burb and it’s a bargain, except when it’s wasted on Avatar.
In case you haven’t seen it yet, don’t bother.
I’d give it 2 3/4 stars–mainly for the special effects. Add a star if you appreciate paying for propagandistic, anti-American swill disguised as an science fiction-adventure-romance and add another if you go see it thinking it compares with director James Cameron’s previous epic, Titanic. It doesn’t.
That would give it almost six stars which is what most critics would assign Avatar out of a possible four, if they could. In actuality, it’s too long (150 minutes), too derivative of Cameron’s Alien, and entirely too predictable down to the cataclysmic denouement. If I were to spend 4 years and $300 million on a film, I’d try harder.
The propaganda isn’t even subtle. Consider:
. Set in 2154 A.D., the movie begins with chatter about how super-valuable some exotic mineral is and how a firm, an American firm, of course, is going to extricate it from the equally or more exotic planet of Pandora, like the box. Refugees from “a dying planet,” with depleted resources, the humans are remarkably calm in their desperation and in their willingness to decimate Pandora’s denizens.
. In the process of stealing the resources from the innocent and assumed-defenseless Pandora, if they have to despoil this paradise then they have to despoil it. Business comes first, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1460
Avatar: In Hindu mythology, an appearance, manifestation; personification, embodiment
I discovered a sure-fire way to save at least twenty-five bucks. That’s the cost of two movie matinee tickets plus popcorn and soda in our ‘burb and it’s a bargain, except when it’s wasted on Avatar.
In case you haven’t seen it yet, don’t bother.
I’d give it 2 3/4 stars–mainly for the special effects. Add a star if you appreciate paying for propagandistic, anti-American swill disguised as an science fiction-adventure-romance and add another if you go see it thinking it compares with director James Cameron’s previous epic, Titanic. It doesn’t.
That would give it almost six stars which is what most critics would assign Avatar out of a possible four, if they could. In actuality, it’s too long (150 minutes), too derivative of Cameron’s Alien, and entirely too predictable down to the cataclysmic denouement. If I were to spend 4 years and $300 million on a film, I’d try harder.
The propaganda isn’t even subtle. Consider:
. Set in 2154 A.D., the movie begins with chatter about how super-valuable some exotic mineral is and how a firm, an American firm, of course, is going to extricate it from the equally or more exotic planet of Pandora, like the box. Refugees from “a dying planet,” with depleted resources, the humans are remarkably calm in their desperation and in their willingness to decimate Pandora’s denizens.
. In the process of stealing the resources from the innocent and assumed-defenseless Pandora, if they have to despoil this paradise then they have to despoil it. Business comes first, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1460
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Quiet Desperation of the MSM
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” wrote Tennessee Williams, and well he should know. There’s a lot of desperation out there, both quiet and noisy, but all the sufferers aren’t men.
One very desperate group in America is the mainstream media, particularly the print media which is rapidly being supplanted by the Internet for people to get news, information, entertainment.
Thus we see the “old grey lady,” the New York Times, gradually, inexorably being reduced to an old grey bag lady as its readership declines by the day.
Pretty soon the only people reading it will be the Sulzbergers and their coterie of leftist sycophants.
Barring a federal bailout of the Times and other national lib media, which has been suggested and is not beyond possibility, that newspaper should be gone in a generation or less.
Its disappearance will be all very fitting and proper since it has long abused its position as the only non-taboid in New York City since the Herald Tribune bit the dust in 1967.
With a newspaper monopoly and in contradistinction to its motto, the Times has for years been printing all the news that fit its “progressive” philosophy rather than all the news that’s fit to print.
Another specially sweet instance of journalistic poetic justice is the plight of New York’s Newsday.
Long the only show in town . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1456)
One very desperate group in America is the mainstream media, particularly the print media which is rapidly being supplanted by the Internet for people to get news, information, entertainment.
Thus we see the “old grey lady,” the New York Times, gradually, inexorably being reduced to an old grey bag lady as its readership declines by the day.
Pretty soon the only people reading it will be the Sulzbergers and their coterie of leftist sycophants.
Barring a federal bailout of the Times and other national lib media, which has been suggested and is not beyond possibility, that newspaper should be gone in a generation or less.
Its disappearance will be all very fitting and proper since it has long abused its position as the only non-taboid in New York City since the Herald Tribune bit the dust in 1967.
With a newspaper monopoly and in contradistinction to its motto, the Times has for years been printing all the news that fit its “progressive” philosophy rather than all the news that’s fit to print.
Another specially sweet instance of journalistic poetic justice is the plight of New York’s Newsday.
Long the only show in town . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1456)
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thrashing About on the Left
Thrashing About on the Left
Take former Clinton Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich. As Henny Youngman used to add, Please!!
Reich, or Reisshhh as Rush Limbaugh calls him, is so consumed by vile, sick venom that he sees a Fox under every bed. Not a red fox or a Megan Fox or a Redd Fox but that most vicious of all foxes, the Fox News Channel.
Now, Mr. Reich is a brilliant man, or so we’re told. We’re also told Paul Krugman is a brilliant man, Barack Obama is a brilliant man, and Bill Clinton is a brilliant man. In fact, just about all liberals are brilliant men, even VP Joe Biden who manages to conceal his remarkable brilliance better than most.
Mr. Reich, writer, politician, academic, political commentator, and multi-degreed professor currently serving in the belly of the beast, UC Berkeley, suffers from the tunnel vision that afflicts most lefties, the tunnel vision that sees only the skewed liberal perspective, a redundancy.
With that life view, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1454)
Take former Clinton Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich. As Henny Youngman used to add, Please!!
Reich, or Reisshhh as Rush Limbaugh calls him, is so consumed by vile, sick venom that he sees a Fox under every bed. Not a red fox or a Megan Fox or a Redd Fox but that most vicious of all foxes, the Fox News Channel.
Now, Mr. Reich is a brilliant man, or so we’re told. We’re also told Paul Krugman is a brilliant man, Barack Obama is a brilliant man, and Bill Clinton is a brilliant man. In fact, just about all liberals are brilliant men, even VP Joe Biden who manages to conceal his remarkable brilliance better than most.
Mr. Reich, writer, politician, academic, political commentator, and multi-degreed professor currently serving in the belly of the beast, UC Berkeley, suffers from the tunnel vision that afflicts most lefties, the tunnel vision that sees only the skewed liberal perspective, a redundancy.
With that life view, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1454)
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Obama's Fine Art of Prestidigitation
Obama's Fine Art of Prestidigitation
As the dust settles over the planet following the longest speech of President Obama’s political life, (70 minutes), which included this downer line, “We do not give up. We do not quit. We do not allow fear or division to break our spirit,” the wags are wagging and the talking heads are talking their heads off.
If Obama meant to invoke Churchill’s, “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,” he didn’t come close and, besides, he doesn’t smoke cigars.
Various observers did come close, to burlesque, to insight, and to honesty.
. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is always ready to inadvertently inject some absurd humor into the political scene and he scored again last night.
You may recall MSNBC, it’s the cable news network that no one watches. And you may recall Matthews who, not once but twice, experienced a “thrill” up his leg during the presidential campaign while in the presence of his Obamassiah.. .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1453)
As the dust settles over the planet following the longest speech of President Obama’s political life, (70 minutes), which included this downer line, “We do not give up. We do not quit. We do not allow fear or division to break our spirit,” the wags are wagging and the talking heads are talking their heads off.
If Obama meant to invoke Churchill’s, “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,” he didn’t come close and, besides, he doesn’t smoke cigars.
Various observers did come close, to burlesque, to insight, and to honesty.
. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is always ready to inadvertently inject some absurd humor into the political scene and he scored again last night.
You may recall MSNBC, it’s the cable news network that no one watches. And you may recall Matthews who, not once but twice, experienced a “thrill” up his leg during the presidential campaign while in the presence of his Obamassiah.. .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1453)
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Where Have You Gone, Miss America?
Where Have You Gone, Miss America?
Much has been writ and much more will be written about President Obama’s first State of the Union address last night, so I’ll limit this piece to the essentials to avoid redundancy.
Highlights and Lowlights:
. The 96 times he used the pronoun “I.” (One Dem lackey later defended that sign of egotism on FOX by saying, “Well, Bush used “I,” too!” Well, duh!)
. Justice Alito mouthing the words, “Not true” to Obama’s criticism of Tuesday’s SCOTUS decision on campaign financing. (Alito was silently fulfilling the Joe Wilson function at an Obama speech.)
. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yawning. (Harry may have been bored with all those “I’s” or dreaming of those lazy, hazy, not-so-crazy days he’ll have in Searchlight, NV after the next election.)
. The chutzpa of the president yamping about eliminating earmarks. (Same ol’. He yamped about them during last year’s campaign, then signed various bills overflowing with thousands of earmarks.)
. Terrorists are bad so we killed more of them than Bush. (Obama STILL hasn’t gotten it through his head that we are at war with militant Islamic, jihad-ing terrorists; foreign affairs and national security aren’t his forte’.)
. Promising, once again, to work for repeal of Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for gays in the military. (Election 2010 is just 9 months away and Obama’s gay friends want DADT gone . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1451)
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Much has been writ and much more will be written about President Obama’s first State of the Union address last night, so I’ll limit this piece to the essentials to avoid redundancy.
Highlights and Lowlights:
. The 96 times he used the pronoun “I.” (One Dem lackey later defended that sign of egotism on FOX by saying, “Well, Bush used “I,” too!” Well, duh!)
. Justice Alito mouthing the words, “Not true” to Obama’s criticism of Tuesday’s SCOTUS decision on campaign financing. (Alito was silently fulfilling the Joe Wilson function at an Obama speech.)
. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yawning. (Harry may have been bored with all those “I’s” or dreaming of those lazy, hazy, not-so-crazy days he’ll have in Searchlight, NV after the next election.)
. The chutzpa of the president yamping about eliminating earmarks. (Same ol’. He yamped about them during last year’s campaign, then signed various bills overflowing with thousands of earmarks.)
. Terrorists are bad so we killed more of them than Bush. (Obama STILL hasn’t gotten it through his head that we are at war with militant Islamic, jihad-ing terrorists; foreign affairs and national security aren’t his forte’.)
. Promising, once again, to work for repeal of Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for gays in the military. (Election 2010 is just 9 months away and Obama’s gay friends want DADT gone . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1451)
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Iran, the Mid-East Elephant
Iran, the Mid-East Elephant
In many respects, perceptions of Iran parallel the ancient parable of how 6 blind men describe an elephant based solely on touching one part of the animal.
The man who felt the broad side of the elephant thought it must be a wall, the guy who felt the trunk thought they had confronted a snake, the tusks must be spears, the knee must be a tree, the ear must be a fan, the tail must be a rope.
They’re all reasonable and honest mistakes for the unsighted although I would think that if nothing else the elephant’s elephanty odor should at least have convinced their olfactory senses it was one smelly wall, snake, etc., but that’s just an opinion.
There’s a lot to be said for that metaphor as it applies to how world leaders perceive the West’s and particularly the United States’ attitudes toward Iran, the threats posed by that nation, and how to deal with the ancient land of Persia in the twenty-first century.
It’s no great revelation that the man re-elected president of Iran last June, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in an election that would have made Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro proud, is a raving lunatic with as much popular support as Pol Pot had back in his Cambodian heyday. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1448)
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Big Brother's Paranoia
Big Brother’s Paranoia
If the Obamians were trying to act as if they wanted to create a new Oceania, George Orwell’s Big Brother society, in America, they couldn’t do any better than they are now.
More and more, we’ve seen government sticking its obscene, uninvited nose into every area of our private and public lives, into corporate boardrooms, into every individual and business enterprise. That intrusion is not in the interests of providing assistance or some other boon but rather to manipulate, regulate, and dictate.
Do I sound paranoid? Maybe, but keep in mind that even paranoiacs have enemies and the primary enemy of every American citizen and corporation is our current overbearing, intimidating government.
Anyone who happens to be of a conservative frame of mind can multiply the governmental threat tenfold. One Obamabuddy is now on record as admitting that liberals in power are virtually duty bound to go after conservatives.
Cass Sunstein, Harvard professor, constitutional law scholar, czar of the administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and rumored future SCOTUS nominee, has ripped open the curtain to reveal what the Obamawizards have up their flowing sleeves. Like the Oz wizard, it’s a pack of lies and deceptions designed for mind control. . . .
(Read molre at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1447)
Monday, January 25, 2010
News on Which to Muse
News on Which to Muse
Certain news stories are intended to be dismissed out of hand such as those dealing with which Hollywood bimbette is sporting a baby bump, which Hollywood playboy implanted said bump, virtually anything the chief White House distorter Robert Gibbs utters, and the daily blather emanating from the mouth of Senator Upchuck Schumer.
Other news falls into the category of rumor and innuendo such as inquiries on whether Lady Gaga is a guy in drag or whether Britney fell off the wagon over the weekend.
Then there are the items that fall into the realm of the head scratchers including pronouncements on continuing global warming when that baloney has already been sent to the theoretical scrapheap by the revelations of Climategate.
Some few news stories demand a degree of reflection, worthy of either serious consideration and, if you will, some deep or superficial musing to which we can assign a 1-10 muse rating, (MR), dependent on how significant or insignificant they are.
Today’s News on Which to Muse:
. Anti-White Discrimination: Back in the 1950’s there were calls to break up those “Damned Yankees” due to that ballclub’s dominance of baseball. Today we should consider breaking up the new Yellow Peril, the Asian dominance of school honor societies, academic awards, and scholastic achievement which has culminated in Asian-Americans surpassing Caucasians in average annual salaries.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1444)
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Committing Political Harakiri
Committing Political Harakiri
Literally, hara-kiri or harakiri involves “ritual suicide by disembowelment” committed by samurai warriors for their shameful actions, so maybe desparate kamikazi attacks better describes some Republicans’ statements in the wake of Scott Brown’s laying waste to Martha Coakley last week in Massachusetts.
By any estimation, except White House flak Robert Gibbs’, Brown’s victory and accession to the Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy seat in the U.S. Senate marked a monumental step toward a resurgent Republican Party and signalled an unmistakeable sense that November 2010 and November 2012 could mean a major shakeup, a sea change, in both the national and local landscapes.
In a Sunday interview with Chris Wallace on that enemy cable news channel, Fox News, master spinmeister Gibbs cited a Washington Post poll which purportedly showed Coakley’s ignominious shellacking really represented an endorsement of President Obama and his policies.
I heard of a poll that proves pigs learning to dance the tarantella means they are honoring Fred Astaire’s memory.
Gibbs’ sideshow aside, some GOPers still fail to grasp the import of last Tuesday and, worse, fail to appreciate the negative effects of carping over issues that may be consequential but not consequential enough to undermine the opportunity Brown’s win brought to the Republican table.
In short, if any Republicans set up roadblocks that negatively affect the excellent GOP chances this coming election cycle and for the next presidential election, they should leave the party or, at the very least, keep their mouths shut.
Case in point are those pro-lifers who are making an issue of Senator Scott Brown’s record on the abortion issue. . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1443)
Literally, hara-kiri or harakiri involves “ritual suicide by disembowelment” committed by samurai warriors for their shameful actions, so maybe desparate kamikazi attacks better describes some Republicans’ statements in the wake of Scott Brown’s laying waste to Martha Coakley last week in Massachusetts.
By any estimation, except White House flak Robert Gibbs’, Brown’s victory and accession to the Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy seat in the U.S. Senate marked a monumental step toward a resurgent Republican Party and signalled an unmistakeable sense that November 2010 and November 2012 could mean a major shakeup, a sea change, in both the national and local landscapes.
In a Sunday interview with Chris Wallace on that enemy cable news channel, Fox News, master spinmeister Gibbs cited a Washington Post poll which purportedly showed Coakley’s ignominious shellacking really represented an endorsement of President Obama and his policies.
I heard of a poll that proves pigs learning to dance the tarantella means they are honoring Fred Astaire’s memory.
Gibbs’ sideshow aside, some GOPers still fail to grasp the import of last Tuesday and, worse, fail to appreciate the negative effects of carping over issues that may be consequential but not consequential enough to undermine the opportunity Brown’s win brought to the Republican table.
In short, if any Republicans set up roadblocks that negatively affect the excellent GOP chances this coming election cycle and for the next presidential election, they should leave the party or, at the very least, keep their mouths shut.
Case in point are those pro-lifers who are making an issue of Senator Scott Brown’s record on the abortion issue. . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1443)
Friday, January 22, 2010
Sex in the News. Part One {R-Rated}
Sex In The News. Part One {R-rated}
“And that’s why birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love.”
The lyrics of Cole Porter’s 1920’s song, “Let’s Do It,” was a tad risque’ for its time even if its time was the Roaring Twenties when flappers were re-inventing the social structure and staging an early version of women’s liberation.
What the birds and the bees and both educated and uneducated fleas were doing wasn’t just flocking or buzzing or biting together but rather propagating their respective species via sex.
Despite the flappers, that subject–not propagation but recreational sex–had long been taboo in Hollywood and TV where censors always required one participant to have one foot firmly planted on the floor in bedroom scenes and words such as “pregnant” were verbotten.
Lucy and Ricky had to have twin beds because, God forbid, married couples couldn’t be seen sharing a bed. And Lucy wasn’t pregnant, she was having a baby which was more explicit language than was permissible when George Bailey’s wife conceived a child in “It’s a Wonderful Life” ten years earlier.
Mary Bailey was “on the nest.”
We’ve come a long way, baby, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1441)
“And that’s why birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love.”
The lyrics of Cole Porter’s 1920’s song, “Let’s Do It,” was a tad risque’ for its time even if its time was the Roaring Twenties when flappers were re-inventing the social structure and staging an early version of women’s liberation.
What the birds and the bees and both educated and uneducated fleas were doing wasn’t just flocking or buzzing or biting together but rather propagating their respective species via sex.
Despite the flappers, that subject–not propagation but recreational sex–had long been taboo in Hollywood and TV where censors always required one participant to have one foot firmly planted on the floor in bedroom scenes and words such as “pregnant” were verbotten.
Lucy and Ricky had to have twin beds because, God forbid, married couples couldn’t be seen sharing a bed. And Lucy wasn’t pregnant, she was having a baby which was more explicit language than was permissible when George Bailey’s wife conceived a child in “It’s a Wonderful Life” ten years earlier.
Mary Bailey was “on the nest.”
We’ve come a long way, baby, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1441)
Leno vs. Letterman, When Celebs Attack
Leno vs. Letterman, When Celebs Attack
David Letterman has been sitting atop the late night Nielsen ratings since Jay Leno went prime time and Conan O’Brien took over the Tonight Show, a rare and heady experience for Dirty Dave which should end soon after Leno gets re-entrenched at 11:30.
It’s all good though. Conan is crying all the way to the bank with his wallet stuffed with $45 million NBC had to pay him and Dave is scared out of his worldwide pants that he will again become second fiddle to Leno’s Tonight show, a slot he’s been salivating for since Johnny Carson left the scene.
To demonstrate once again his lack of class and professionalism, Letterman has been relentlessly ripping Leno ever since news of the NBC shakeup became public, mimicking Leno’s voice, mocking his failed 10 pm “variety show,” blaming him for the fiasco, suggesting he stole his material.
Leno finally retaliated with an allusion to Letterman’s confessed infidelities: “You know the best way to get Letterman to ignore you? Marry him. He will not bother you. He won’t look you in the eye:” http://bit.ly/8qr6H0
If Leno thinks that will bother Letterman he has another think coming.
Dave shacked up with his long time live-in, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1439)
David Letterman has been sitting atop the late night Nielsen ratings since Jay Leno went prime time and Conan O’Brien took over the Tonight Show, a rare and heady experience for Dirty Dave which should end soon after Leno gets re-entrenched at 11:30.
It’s all good though. Conan is crying all the way to the bank with his wallet stuffed with $45 million NBC had to pay him and Dave is scared out of his worldwide pants that he will again become second fiddle to Leno’s Tonight show, a slot he’s been salivating for since Johnny Carson left the scene.
To demonstrate once again his lack of class and professionalism, Letterman has been relentlessly ripping Leno ever since news of the NBC shakeup became public, mimicking Leno’s voice, mocking his failed 10 pm “variety show,” blaming him for the fiasco, suggesting he stole his material.
Leno finally retaliated with an allusion to Letterman’s confessed infidelities: “You know the best way to get Letterman to ignore you? Marry him. He will not bother you. He won’t look you in the eye:” http://bit.ly/8qr6H0
If Leno thinks that will bother Letterman he has another think coming.
Dave shacked up with his long time live-in, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1439)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Sex, Lies, and Dirty Diapers
Sex, Lies, and Dirty Diapers
”Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”
The “Two Americas” boy, “Breck girl,” Jumpin’ Johnny Edwards had a great deal of experience deceiving both as a trial attorney making millions and driving up malpractice premiums and later in his personal life.
The North Carolina po’ boy became a caricature of the nouveau riche lacking finesse and flaunting his newfound wealth with his ostentatious 28,200 square foot house plus rec center set on rambling 102 acres. Then he got his comeuppance.
The fifty six year old Edwards finally came clean and admitted to what most people have suspected for a very long time, that he had dallied in the valley with campaign worker Rielle Hunter, 42, and made a baby with her almost 2 years ago.
He didn’t go quietly into that admission, figuratively kicking and screaming for more than 2 years, ever since he was caught by the National Enquirer skulking about the Beverly Hilton Hotel in the middle of a September, 2008 night and then seeking refuge in a basement toilet until the coast was clear.
See “A Modern Icarus Crashing and Burning,” http://bit.ly/6TBmj1
They say confession is good for the soul and Jumpin’ Johnny’s soul must be feeling very good today . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1438)
”Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”
The “Two Americas” boy, “Breck girl,” Jumpin’ Johnny Edwards had a great deal of experience deceiving both as a trial attorney making millions and driving up malpractice premiums and later in his personal life.
The North Carolina po’ boy became a caricature of the nouveau riche lacking finesse and flaunting his newfound wealth with his ostentatious 28,200 square foot house plus rec center set on rambling 102 acres. Then he got his comeuppance.
The fifty six year old Edwards finally came clean and admitted to what most people have suspected for a very long time, that he had dallied in the valley with campaign worker Rielle Hunter, 42, and made a baby with her almost 2 years ago.
He didn’t go quietly into that admission, figuratively kicking and screaming for more than 2 years, ever since he was caught by the National Enquirer skulking about the Beverly Hilton Hotel in the middle of a September, 2008 night and then seeking refuge in a basement toilet until the coast was clear.
See “A Modern Icarus Crashing and Burning,” http://bit.ly/6TBmj1
They say confession is good for the soul and Jumpin’ Johnny’s soul must be feeling very good today . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1438)
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Where Does Obama Dig Up These People?
Where Does Obama Dig Up These People?
We’re shackled to this president we have now for 3 more years and based on his track record of the last 12 months, it’s going to be a very long 3 more years.
Aside from his radical left wing policies, nationalizing auto companies, attempting to turn our health care into a replica of the U.K.’s socialistic system, pouring trillions down ratholes, bailing out the UAW, his foreign policy failures and his broken pledges, it seems he gets his nominees to top administrative positions from an office pool of rejects.
It began with various tainted Cabinet picks, from tax cheats like Tom Daschle and Tim Geithner, and continued with guys about to be indicted such as Bill Richardson, to racist czars like Van Jones, to an attorney general who had defended terrorists, to a whole slew of people who don’t seem to know what they’re supposed to be doing, like Janet Napolitano.
The list goes on and on. Who vets these characters?
The latest loser just withdrew his name from consideration to head the Transportation Security Administration, a rather significant job considering the general state of America’s security and the recent attempt by yet another Islamic jihadist to blow up a plane on Christmas Day.
On the surface, Erroll Southers had great credentials.
Self-described apolitical “counterterrorism expert,” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1437)
We’re shackled to this president we have now for 3 more years and based on his track record of the last 12 months, it’s going to be a very long 3 more years.
Aside from his radical left wing policies, nationalizing auto companies, attempting to turn our health care into a replica of the U.K.’s socialistic system, pouring trillions down ratholes, bailing out the UAW, his foreign policy failures and his broken pledges, it seems he gets his nominees to top administrative positions from an office pool of rejects.
It began with various tainted Cabinet picks, from tax cheats like Tom Daschle and Tim Geithner, and continued with guys about to be indicted such as Bill Richardson, to racist czars like Van Jones, to an attorney general who had defended terrorists, to a whole slew of people who don’t seem to know what they’re supposed to be doing, like Janet Napolitano.
The list goes on and on. Who vets these characters?
The latest loser just withdrew his name from consideration to head the Transportation Security Administration, a rather significant job considering the general state of America’s security and the recent attempt by yet another Islamic jihadist to blow up a plane on Christmas Day.
On the surface, Erroll Southers had great credentials.
Self-described apolitical “counterterrorism expert,” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1437)
Scott Brown and Conservatism
Scott Brown and Conservatism
Ok, it’s great news. Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown trounced Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and will be heading to D.C. asap, hopefully driving his truck. (http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=5338)
The “Kennedy seat” can be termed the “Brown seat” for the next 3 years or so by Republican United States Senator Brown since he will be sitting in it. The Democrat/Kennedy death grip on that seat has been broken and Democrats in the super-blue Bay State couldn’t be much bluer if they held their breaths until the cows came home.
In an effort to shield Obama and his policies from valid criticism, the Dems are spinning crazily and blaming poor Martha Coakley for everything from meanness to ineptitude to being a closet Republican just because she blew a sure thing.
To their credit, the party big wigs have been unexpectedly gracious toward Brown and his victory with David Axelrod grudgingly conceding his “clever” campaign and Harry Reid pledging to seat the new senator posthaste and forego any cynical parliamentary delays.
All fine and good. Even better, Pelosi may be in trouble, Barbara Boxer’s seat is threatened, Reid’s 60 filibuster-proof senate votes just became 59 very filibusterable votes, and Obamacare should be cooked for the nonce unless Dems start playing numbers games with reconciliation.
So, God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world–for now.
Speaker Nancy is no doubt lining up Blue Dogs to be shot at dawn if they don’t tow the Pelosi line and . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1436)
Ok, it’s great news. Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown trounced Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and will be heading to D.C. asap, hopefully driving his truck. (http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=5338)
The “Kennedy seat” can be termed the “Brown seat” for the next 3 years or so by Republican United States Senator Brown since he will be sitting in it. The Democrat/Kennedy death grip on that seat has been broken and Democrats in the super-blue Bay State couldn’t be much bluer if they held their breaths until the cows came home.
In an effort to shield Obama and his policies from valid criticism, the Dems are spinning crazily and blaming poor Martha Coakley for everything from meanness to ineptitude to being a closet Republican just because she blew a sure thing.
To their credit, the party big wigs have been unexpectedly gracious toward Brown and his victory with David Axelrod grudgingly conceding his “clever” campaign and Harry Reid pledging to seat the new senator posthaste and forego any cynical parliamentary delays.
All fine and good. Even better, Pelosi may be in trouble, Barbara Boxer’s seat is threatened, Reid’s 60 filibuster-proof senate votes just became 59 very filibusterable votes, and Obamacare should be cooked for the nonce unless Dems start playing numbers games with reconciliation.
So, God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world–for now.
Speaker Nancy is no doubt lining up Blue Dogs to be shot at dawn if they don’t tow the Pelosi line and . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1436)
The Gay Battle against the Will of the People, Part Two
The Gay Battle against the Will of the People, Part Two
Part One of this series cited courtroom testimony of two “expert” plaintiff witnesses in the San Francisco civil action brought by two gay couples in federal court who were miffed that Californians had seen fit to amend the state’s constitution by adding the words, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
Shocking both the gay and normal worlds, voters in the very liberal Left Coast state approved Proposition 8 by a healthy margin of 52.5% to 47.5% in November 2008 and the matter should have been resolved, the people had spoken.
Not quite.
The next electoral quake of such magnitude wouldn’t occur until January 19th, 2010 when residents of liberal Massachusetts transferred the Ted Kennedy Memorial Senate Seat to a Republican in the person of Scott Brown.
The trial’s poster gays, lesbians Kristin Perry and Sandra Stier of Berkeley and homosexuals Paul Katami and Jeffrey Zarillo of L.A., “were recruited to represent California couples who say they would get married were it not for Proposition 8 because they lead lives indistinguishable from those of other couples, gay or straight, who have jobs, children and a desire for the social stamp of approval that matrimony affords.”
That, of course, is a matter of opinion that the court must decide and may be the crux of the entire push for same-sex marriage.
The bestowal of “the social stamp of approval” effectively would mean society’s official approbation of homosexual relationships, the last rung on the ladder of normality for which gays have been striving for forty years.
Up until 1969 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1433)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Predictable News
Predictable News
Sometimes it’s not worth the bother to open a newspaper or switch on the boob tube to catch the news. Much of it could have been written by the average freshman journalism major before it hit the wires.
For example, Chai Feldblum, recently nominated by the president to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC), last month published an article titled, “Moral Conflict and Liberty: Gay Rights and Religion” in which she made what would normally be an outlandish assertion.
However, considering the outrageous beliefs and statements of other Obama appointments, Ms. Feldblum’s views should have been anticipated.
“Just as we do not tolerate private racial beliefs that adversely affect African-Americans in the commercial arena, even if such beliefs are based on religious views,” she wrote, ”we should similarly not tolerate private beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity that adversely affect LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] people:” http://bit.ly/4P5EIj
Translation: We don’t care if anyone has a moral problem say, with homosexuals trying to recruit high school and junior high school kids to their lifestyle–which they do. Just keep it to yourself if it in any way “adversely affects” LGBT-ers, including if your stated beliefs make them feel bad.
The Libertarian Lexington Institute has released a report showing that more Americans can identify the Gosselins of TV fame than can identify the founding father of the Constitution or who the first chief justice of the United States was.
Talk about a waste of paper and bandwidth! Most Americans can’t identify the current chief justice or George W. Bush’s father, even if they do know who won the Golden Globule Awards and the unwed fathers of the progeny of Hollywood starlets.
The cause of the massive ignorance? The failure of schools to teach. As the report goes on to say, “(S)chool reformers need to do much more to restore history as a vital subject in American education:” http://bit.ly/8mQ3eF
Well, no shoot, Sherlocks! . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1434)
Sometimes it’s not worth the bother to open a newspaper or switch on the boob tube to catch the news. Much of it could have been written by the average freshman journalism major before it hit the wires.
For example, Chai Feldblum, recently nominated by the president to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC), last month published an article titled, “Moral Conflict and Liberty: Gay Rights and Religion” in which she made what would normally be an outlandish assertion.
However, considering the outrageous beliefs and statements of other Obama appointments, Ms. Feldblum’s views should have been anticipated.
“Just as we do not tolerate private racial beliefs that adversely affect African-Americans in the commercial arena, even if such beliefs are based on religious views,” she wrote, ”we should similarly not tolerate private beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity that adversely affect LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] people:” http://bit.ly/4P5EIj
Translation: We don’t care if anyone has a moral problem say, with homosexuals trying to recruit high school and junior high school kids to their lifestyle–which they do. Just keep it to yourself if it in any way “adversely affects” LGBT-ers, including if your stated beliefs make them feel bad.
The Libertarian Lexington Institute has released a report showing that more Americans can identify the Gosselins of TV fame than can identify the founding father of the Constitution or who the first chief justice of the United States was.
Talk about a waste of paper and bandwidth! Most Americans can’t identify the current chief justice or George W. Bush’s father, even if they do know who won the Golden Globule Awards and the unwed fathers of the progeny of Hollywood starlets.
The cause of the massive ignorance? The failure of schools to teach. As the report goes on to say, “(S)chool reformers need to do much more to restore history as a vital subject in American education:” http://bit.ly/8mQ3eF
Well, no shoot, Sherlocks! . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1434)
Monday, January 18, 2010
The Gay Battle against the Will of the People, Part One
The Gay Battle Against the Will of the People, Part One
Reporting from San Francisco - A federal trial on same-sex marriage focused last Wednesday on the similarities and differences between homosexual and heterosexual couples, with a psychology professor citing “remarkable similarities.”
The purpose of that “federal trial” isn’t mentioned until the 3rd paragraph of Maura Dolan’s story about the psycholgist’s testimony, namely ”attorneys for two same-sex couples who are trying to overturn Proposition 8, the 2008 voter initiative that reinstated a state ban on same-sex marriage.”
Prop 8 is referred to twice more, including the last paragraph: “Earlier in the day, a Proposition 8 attorney got Yale historian George Chauncey to say that gays and lesbians have become politically and socially more powerful in recent years. But Chauncey also said that discrimination persists and described writings by a Proposition 8 proponent as evidence of long-held and inaccurate negative stereotypes:” http://bit.ly/5L3h85
Case closed? Not even close. The trial continues.
Aside from the question of why a constitutional proposition democratically passed by Californians would be an issue in contention a year later, what’s missing in such testimony is some clarification of the objectivity of the psychologist, “Letitia Peplau, an expert on couple relationships” and UCLA professor of social psychology and Mr. Chauncey, “a Yale historian.”
Of what use is testmony by biased witnesses?
Put more bluntly, are Letitia and Chauncey homosexuals? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1431)
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Coakley vs. Brown: Updates
Coakley vs. Brown: Updates
What?? Me worry??
Complacent Martha or is it Marcia: Somehow, it doesn’t seem that Massachusetts A.G. is awfully worried about her Tuesday match-up with State Sen. Scott Brown for “the Kennedy seat” in the United States Senate.
For one thing, she’s staged a lackluster, non-campaign as if she knew from the start she would end up a loser even though, at the start, she seemed a shoo-in to head to D.C. to be that crucial 60th vote for Obamacare. (That assumes Harry Reid doesn’t pull an end run and goes to the reconciliation ploy needing only 51 Democrats to foist that obamanation on the American people.)
For another thing, Martha Coakley really seems as if she doesn’t want the job.
As Brian McGrory writes for Boston.com in an article titled, “Race Is in a Spinout,” despite her claims to have traveled the state meeting tremendous people, “If she did, it was under the cover of darkness, with an assumed name . . . Literally, she all but vanished. She refused to debate on TV unless it was exactly on her terms. She went days without venturing out in public:” http://bit.ly/8qLU4S
Not exactly the best way to win a seat in the Senate.
A Kennedy Weighs In: A scion of the Kennedy clan doesn’t seem too worried either, not even concerned enough to get her name straight.
Speaking to reporters after President Obama tried to rally the troops and dragging out the worn-out Bush card to blame GWB for every problem in the universe, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D. R.I) repeatedly referred to “Marcia Coakley,” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1432)
Coakley vs. Brown, the Very Special Election
Coakley vs. Brown, the Very Special Election
Most readers are well aware that Tuesday’s Coakley-Brown contest in Massachusetts is The Big One, Elizabeth–as Fred Sanford used to say, and it actually is the biggest horse race since Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973.
That happens to be one year after the last Republican won a senate seat in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Thirty-seven years is a long time for one political party to have a lock on any state’s seats in the United States Senate but on Tuesday that string just may be broken.
On a political level, it’s the most important race since the one that ended on November 4th, 2008.
In 2009, Virginians and New Jerseyians sent duplicate messages to Washington concerning what happened last November. If they didn’t say they made a mistake, they did the next best thing by making it vividly clear that they still favored change they could believe in but the antithesis of the change Obama had promised.
In essence, after a year of seeing what Obama was plotting and perpetrating, those good citizens of Virginia and New Jersey said, “We want none of it! Not Obama’s incredible deficits that our kids and grandkids will be paying in perpetuity, not the multi-billion dollar bailouts, not the Obamacare scheme to nationalize health care, not the bowing and scraping to kings, emperors, and sheiks by an American president!”
They had enough after less than a year and on January 19th, the electorate in the Bay State will get their chance to protest, to just say no, to register their opposition to Obamanomics, to Obamacare, to the abomination America has witnessed over the last 12 months simply by pulling the lever or pressing a button for Scott Brown in the special election to determine who assumes “the Kennedy seat” in the United States Senate or who gets to sit in the peoples’ seat in the United States Senate.
The choice is pretty simple, really. Continue the Massachusetts status quo by sending party hack Martha Coakley to Washington to continue mind-numbing fiscal insanity and divisive politics or send the president and his congress another message of dissent.
Rarely has there been a time that demanded an infusion of new, revivifying blood into D.C. and to the nation, rarely has there been a better time to quote Howard Beale’s plea in ”Network” that we stick our heads out windows and scream, ”We’re fed up and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
That may be a tad extreme but the times are extreme.
Just two months ago, little known Massachusetts Republican State Senator Scott Brown, labeled “a hunk” by Monica Crowley yesterday, had as much chance of toppling the Democrat machine and Ms. Coakley as Ronald Reagan . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1430)
Most readers are well aware that Tuesday’s Coakley-Brown contest in Massachusetts is The Big One, Elizabeth–as Fred Sanford used to say, and it actually is the biggest horse race since Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973.
That happens to be one year after the last Republican won a senate seat in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Thirty-seven years is a long time for one political party to have a lock on any state’s seats in the United States Senate but on Tuesday that string just may be broken.
On a political level, it’s the most important race since the one that ended on November 4th, 2008.
In 2009, Virginians and New Jerseyians sent duplicate messages to Washington concerning what happened last November. If they didn’t say they made a mistake, they did the next best thing by making it vividly clear that they still favored change they could believe in but the antithesis of the change Obama had promised.
In essence, after a year of seeing what Obama was plotting and perpetrating, those good citizens of Virginia and New Jersey said, “We want none of it! Not Obama’s incredible deficits that our kids and grandkids will be paying in perpetuity, not the multi-billion dollar bailouts, not the Obamacare scheme to nationalize health care, not the bowing and scraping to kings, emperors, and sheiks by an American president!”
They had enough after less than a year and on January 19th, the electorate in the Bay State will get their chance to protest, to just say no, to register their opposition to Obamanomics, to Obamacare, to the abomination America has witnessed over the last 12 months simply by pulling the lever or pressing a button for Scott Brown in the special election to determine who assumes “the Kennedy seat” in the United States Senate or who gets to sit in the peoples’ seat in the United States Senate.
The choice is pretty simple, really. Continue the Massachusetts status quo by sending party hack Martha Coakley to Washington to continue mind-numbing fiscal insanity and divisive politics or send the president and his congress another message of dissent.
Rarely has there been a time that demanded an infusion of new, revivifying blood into D.C. and to the nation, rarely has there been a better time to quote Howard Beale’s plea in ”Network” that we stick our heads out windows and scream, ”We’re fed up and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
That may be a tad extreme but the times are extreme.
Just two months ago, little known Massachusetts Republican State Senator Scott Brown, labeled “a hunk” by Monica Crowley yesterday, had as much chance of toppling the Democrat machine and Ms. Coakley as Ronald Reagan . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1430)
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Barack Obama, Media Man
Barack Obama, Media Man
There’s something very wrong about political figures getting a free pass from the MSM or, worse, being idolized, lionized by an institution that historically, rightly, should be detached from politics and politicians so that it can accomplish its underlying raison d’être objectively.
We’re presently witnessing a journalistic sea change in which, instead of honest reporting on the political scene and on those who inhabit that scene, we’re seeing media fulfilling the role of lap dogs, snuggling up to Democrats in general and Barack Obama in particular in hopes of getting a gentle pat on the head and entry into the inner sanctums of their worlds.
In the past 18 months or so, Americans have witnessed a media phenomenon, a unique–and unfortunate–alteration in our media in which they have become virtual appendages of a political figure and a political party. In that process, the media have abnegated their informational responsibilities and disgraced their sacred duty toward our democratic republic.
Formerly reputable newspapers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, magazines such as Newsweek, Time, and the US News and World Report, regularly bury and ignore news that would reflect unfavorably on the president, brazenly distort reports on his failures, and shamelessly exaggerate his abilities and accomplishments as if they were operating in the Pravda mode of the defunct U.S.S.R.
In pre-internet, pre-YouTube, pre-24/7/365 cable news coverage times, media were far better able to misrepresent and mis-report, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1428)
Multiculturalism = Mediocrity
Multiculturalism = Mediocrity
“Multiculturalism is the acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnic cultures, for practical reasons and/or for the sake of diversity and applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, . . . multiculturalists advocate extending equitable status to distinct ethnic and religious groups without promoting any specific ethnic, religious, and/or cultural community values as central:” Wikipedia
All that gobbledegook regarding the multisyllabic, favorite liberal buzzword of multiculturalism can be reduced to a simple declarative sentence: It’s a plan to cultivate mediocrity.
As so many left wing precepts, it all sounds very nice in principle; in practice, it’s a dud that, applied to education, fosters the idea that a Tower of Babel is preferable to towers of learning. In its effort to promote many cultures, it serves to denigrate America’s “central” values.
Take Berkeley High School, located in the belly of the beast, Berkeley, California, home to U.C. Berkeley, possibly the most leftist-infested institution of higher learning in the country.
With that influence so close by and pervasive, perhaps it’s no wonder . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1429)
Friday, January 15, 2010
Haiti: Twits and Nitwits
Haiti: Twits and Nitwits
Disasters bring out the best in some people, the worst in others. Unfortunately, there are usually far more worsts than bests. The reaction to the catastrophic earthquake on the benighted Haitian end of the island of Hispaniola is a prime example of how any number of twits and nitwits have betrayed themselves as ignoramusi.
“Twit” and “nitwit” are pretty much the same by definition although I’ve drawn a slight distinction between them. Both words describe simpletons, doofuses, contemptible fools but twits are generally more benignly stupid whereas nitwits are beyond contempt.
Two exceptional twits, tweedle-dum and tweedle-dummer, have emerged in the days since the 7.0 Richter scale earthquake all but leveled Port-au-Prince, twits at opposite ends of the political spectrum with totally opposite outlooks on what “caused” the quake.
First came words of wisdom from the conservative activist and founder of various conservative-Christian organizations including the Christian Coalition and the Christian Broadcasting Network, Pat Robertson.
His contribution . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1427)
Disasters bring out the best in some people, the worst in others. Unfortunately, there are usually far more worsts than bests. The reaction to the catastrophic earthquake on the benighted Haitian end of the island of Hispaniola is a prime example of how any number of twits and nitwits have betrayed themselves as ignoramusi.
“Twit” and “nitwit” are pretty much the same by definition although I’ve drawn a slight distinction between them. Both words describe simpletons, doofuses, contemptible fools but twits are generally more benignly stupid whereas nitwits are beyond contempt.
Two exceptional twits, tweedle-dum and tweedle-dummer, have emerged in the days since the 7.0 Richter scale earthquake all but leveled Port-au-Prince, twits at opposite ends of the political spectrum with totally opposite outlooks on what “caused” the quake.
First came words of wisdom from the conservative activist and founder of various conservative-Christian organizations including the Christian Coalition and the Christian Broadcasting Network, Pat Robertson.
His contribution . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1427)
Much Ado About a Lot
Much Ado About a Lot
Pertinent and telling news of late:
It seems our president is something less than confident in suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous reporters.
When bolstered by his trusty teleprompter in prepared speeches, he’s just fine and oh, so articulate.
Faced with the prospect of speaking sans script, as in interviews and press conferences, he either puts his foot in his mouth at the interviews, such as comparing his bowling expertise with those of Special Olympians, or at press conferences where he called Cambridge, MA. cops stupid, he now limits interviews to good buddies and has suspended press conferences entirely.
Of course, ABC covered for him with “Obama had five news conferences at the White House last year, one more than President George W. Bush had in his first year in office.”
His last scheduled meeting with the press was held almost 6 months ago when, unscripted and uninformed, he ripped into Sgt. Joe Crowley for “acting stupidly” by doing his job and arresting Black race-baiter Prof. Louis Gates and then had to make amends by hosting a White House beer blast for the two antagonists: http://bit.ly/6tuaUJ
Talk about acting stupidly!
Here your president shows his true colors by strutting ahead to meet the press after that tete-a-tete while the stupid sergeant escorts the disabled Gates down the White House steps: . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1426)
Pertinent and telling news of late:
It seems our president is something less than confident in suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous reporters.
When bolstered by his trusty teleprompter in prepared speeches, he’s just fine and oh, so articulate.
Faced with the prospect of speaking sans script, as in interviews and press conferences, he either puts his foot in his mouth at the interviews, such as comparing his bowling expertise with those of Special Olympians, or at press conferences where he called Cambridge, MA. cops stupid, he now limits interviews to good buddies and has suspended press conferences entirely.
Of course, ABC covered for him with “Obama had five news conferences at the White House last year, one more than President George W. Bush had in his first year in office.”
His last scheduled meeting with the press was held almost 6 months ago when, unscripted and uninformed, he ripped into Sgt. Joe Crowley for “acting stupidly” by doing his job and arresting Black race-baiter Prof. Louis Gates and then had to make amends by hosting a White House beer blast for the two antagonists: http://bit.ly/6tuaUJ
Talk about acting stupidly!
Here your president shows his true colors by strutting ahead to meet the press after that tete-a-tete while the stupid sergeant escorts the disabled Gates down the White House steps: . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1426)
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The Wicked Weed of the West
The Wicked Weed of the West
It goes by many names–cannabis, weed, pot, joints, ganja, marijuana, maryjane. Those who regularly smoke it are called many things as well, including potheads, stoners, and pot freaks.
Call it what you will, it’s time as a legal high is fast approaching and in a growing number of areas it has already arrived in all its smoky glory. After all, since our president smoked it in his misguided youth, can it be all bad?
Technically not a narcotic since it’s not a synthetic opiate, pot is almost as addictive as heroin and its use among America’s young is as common as the weekend beer blast despite its current classification as an illicit substance.
The arguments against its use are almost as old as marijuana itself. In addition to its addictive qualities, it sucks dry ambition and motivation, it gives you the munchies, its effects on the human psyche are worse than booze, it’s a gateway drug to heroin, cocaine, etc. And, it’s illegal, sort of in some places.
No matter. Pot is gradually making its way toward social, and governmental, acceptability.
Once used for medicinal purposes–Queen Victoria is said . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1424)
The Fourth Estate as Fifth Column
The Fourth Estate as Fifth Column
Our system of government both permits and encourages dissent as long as that dissent is not expressed violently or used as incitements to violence. In those cases, freedoms of speech and of the press can border on sedition and should be supressed to preserve order.
America’s mainstream media, the MSM, may not yet be guilty of sedition but may be guilty of crimes far more reprehensible: giving aid and comfort to the enemy and serving as handmaidens to a repressive government.
The motivations of the MSM are beyond this observer’s comprehension. Even after the president’s grudging acknowledgement that we are engaged in a war with al Qaeda, various elements of our media continue reporting falsehoods and/or concealing truths.
Examples would include continuing to bury facts concerning the Fort Hood murderer’s contacts with al Qaeda as if Major Hasan deserved some media protection, or in order to conceal the scope of Islamic terrorism in America.
More incomprehensible is that it took Obama, this most brilliant of men, over a year to come to the determination that we are engaged in a war against terrorism and, even then, it took an attempted al Qaeda bombing on Christmas Day to provide the catalyst for his concession to reality.
One has to assume that the MSM reporters and editors . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1418 )
Our system of government both permits and encourages dissent as long as that dissent is not expressed violently or used as incitements to violence. In those cases, freedoms of speech and of the press can border on sedition and should be supressed to preserve order.
America’s mainstream media, the MSM, may not yet be guilty of sedition but may be guilty of crimes far more reprehensible: giving aid and comfort to the enemy and serving as handmaidens to a repressive government.
The motivations of the MSM are beyond this observer’s comprehension. Even after the president’s grudging acknowledgement that we are engaged in a war with al Qaeda, various elements of our media continue reporting falsehoods and/or concealing truths.
Examples would include continuing to bury facts concerning the Fort Hood murderer’s contacts with al Qaeda as if Major Hasan deserved some media protection, or in order to conceal the scope of Islamic terrorism in America.
More incomprehensible is that it took Obama, this most brilliant of men, over a year to come to the determination that we are engaged in a war against terrorism and, even then, it took an attempted al Qaeda bombing on Christmas Day to provide the catalyst for his concession to reality.
One has to assume that the MSM reporters and editors . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1418 )
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
When "Kids" Rape
When “Kids” Rape
In the interests of what’s left of a woman’s dignity, news accounts of rape stories customarily omit the identity of the victim, which is altogether reasonable and proper. There’s no crying public need to reveal that information.
At the same time, those accounts also avoid identifying the alleged attacker, not because until he is tried and convicted the charge is still technically an allegation but because he is a minor. If it happens that he is at least 18, his name is publicized loudly and clearly in both print and broadcast media but different rules apply with minors.
Why?
Why is it that a 15, 16, or 17 year old accused assailant in such a crime is protected and coddled by the media while an 18 year old is not? Likewise, why is it that one piece of critical information about an accused assailant, his race, is usually omitted from news reports?
A Cincinnati, Ohio “woman, in her 60s, . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1423)
In the interests of what’s left of a woman’s dignity, news accounts of rape stories customarily omit the identity of the victim, which is altogether reasonable and proper. There’s no crying public need to reveal that information.
At the same time, those accounts also avoid identifying the alleged attacker, not because until he is tried and convicted the charge is still technically an allegation but because he is a minor. If it happens that he is at least 18, his name is publicized loudly and clearly in both print and broadcast media but different rules apply with minors.
Why?
Why is it that a 15, 16, or 17 year old accused assailant in such a crime is protected and coddled by the media while an 18 year old is not? Likewise, why is it that one piece of critical information about an accused assailant, his race, is usually omitted from news reports?
A Cincinnati, Ohio “woman, in her 60s, . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1423)
Monday, January 11, 2010
America's Elitists and Obamacare
America’s Elitists and Obamacare
Ever get the feeling that those people in Congress just don’t get it?
I don’t just mean they don’t get the idea of why they are there in the first place, to represent their various constituencies and to create legislation that serves the best interests of the nation. They surely don’t get that.
I mean that, for the most part, although they technically represent us, they seem different, above it all, as if they exist in another sphere, on another plane.
Every two or six years they descend to the commoners’ level to troll for votes from the democratic masses, when they rub elbows with the hoi polloi, glad-hand some few select constituents, bestow uninvited, germ-laden kisses on a few babies to demonstrate they’re just your average guys and gals, and then probably lather on the Purell and gargle Listerine after they’re ushered into their limos.
Infatuated with wealth, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “The rich are different from you and me” to his sometimes buddy Ernest Hemingway who gently corrected him with the rejoinder, “Yes, they have more money.”
Both writers were correct.
With some few exceptions, our elected leaders also have more money than the rest of us and, yes, they are different from you and me as a result.
Recently, CNBC featured a slideshow report on “The Richest Members of the US Congress” based on research conducted by the Center for Responsive Politics which determined that there were 237 millionaires in Congress, out of 435 members of the House and 100 senators: http://bit.ly/1ficst
My math-challenged brain computes that 44.3% of our D.C. representatives have a net worth above 7 figures, many vastly above 7 figures, a few well above 9 digits. Of the remaining 298 congresspeople, I think it would be fair to guesstimate . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1422)
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Harry Reid and the Racist Democrat Party, Part II
Harry Reid and the Racist Democrat Party, Part II
The winds of rage from Democrats over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s racist remarks about Obama have already subsided.
They were more like zephyrs, anyway, since it is widely known that Democrats can say virtually anything–racially insensitive, sedititiously un-American, drunkenly raucous– and they’re always welcomed back into the fold, into that huge Democratic tent where everyone from Jesse Jackson to Robert Byrd are “family.”
Sunday morning, less than a day after Harry’s comments hit the fan, Donna Brazile in a debate with Liz Cheney on CNN was already saying that Reid’s commendable record on civil rights affords him a pass on racial slurs and that she will campaign for his re-election.
Besides, Brazile noted, Harry was bloviating in the context of praising candidate Obama meaning, I presume, that racist comments are fine and dandy as long as the commentator makes nice to the subject of his racism.
And, as long as the commentator is a Democrat.
The capacity for Black Democrats to forgive their fellow Democrats . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1419)
The winds of rage from Democrats over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s racist remarks about Obama have already subsided.
They were more like zephyrs, anyway, since it is widely known that Democrats can say virtually anything–racially insensitive, sedititiously un-American, drunkenly raucous– and they’re always welcomed back into the fold, into that huge Democratic tent where everyone from Jesse Jackson to Robert Byrd are “family.”
Sunday morning, less than a day after Harry’s comments hit the fan, Donna Brazile in a debate with Liz Cheney on CNN was already saying that Reid’s commendable record on civil rights affords him a pass on racial slurs and that she will campaign for his re-election.
Besides, Brazile noted, Harry was bloviating in the context of praising candidate Obama meaning, I presume, that racist comments are fine and dandy as long as the commentator makes nice to the subject of his racism.
And, as long as the commentator is a Democrat.
The capacity for Black Democrats to forgive their fellow Democrats . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1419)
Harry Reid and the Racist Democrat Party, Part I
Harry Reid and the Racist Democrat Party, Part I
“I don’t know nuthin’ ’bout birthin’ no baby, Miss Scarlet!”
That memorable line by Prissy, Butterfly McQueen, in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind never struck anyone as being racist, but that was over 70 years ago.
Today, in our far more enlightened age and thanks to ceaseless racial agitation, almost any slip of the lip can evoke charges of racism, charges that have a way of sticking to Republicans and are quickly shaken off by the historic party of racism, the teflon-coated Democrats.
Apparently, we’re not nearly as enlightened as we’d like to think. The more things change . . .
Without stressing ancient history back to Lincoln the Great Emancipator versus the slave-owning Democrats of the Confederate South or even back to FDR who never met a racist he didn’t like, in his Cabinet or on the Supreme Court, race in America today has become a defining feature of our lives and culture.
And that despite the high hopes of a “post-racial America” following the election of the first bi-racial president a year ago.
The Democrat Party has had a lock on the Black vote in this country since . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1417)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
"We the People"
“We the People”
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Those stirring 52 words of the Preamble to America’s Constitution, which has been called the most perfect political document in the history of man, are words which many of us have forgotten and which many of our leaders have abandoned.
They assert the rights of “the people” to seek perfection in our system of governing and government even though the framers understood perfection was beyond the reach of man. They call for justice and peace within our borders, security from foreign invasion, and the well-being of our people. They seek freedom now and freedom for our future citizenry under the guidelines set forth in our Constitution.
Drafted in 1787 and adopted in 1789 by the 13 original states, in the year Anno Domini 2010, 221 years later, we have lost our way.
Singer Ray Stevens has captured . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1415)
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Those stirring 52 words of the Preamble to America’s Constitution, which has been called the most perfect political document in the history of man, are words which many of us have forgotten and which many of our leaders have abandoned.
They assert the rights of “the people” to seek perfection in our system of governing and government even though the framers understood perfection was beyond the reach of man. They call for justice and peace within our borders, security from foreign invasion, and the well-being of our people. They seek freedom now and freedom for our future citizenry under the guidelines set forth in our Constitution.
Drafted in 1787 and adopted in 1789 by the 13 original states, in the year Anno Domini 2010, 221 years later, we have lost our way.
Singer Ray Stevens has captured . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1415)
Terrorism 101, Semester Two
Terrorism 101, Semester Two
An Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama:
Dear President Obama:
Ok, look Barry, if I may call you by your pre-Barack nickname, I’d like to speak very frankly since this is no time in our nation to be hemming and hawing. Do consider this a follow-up to Semester One, which I’m certain you read.
It dealt with your declaration of war against al Qaeda, Janet Napolitano, your AWOL security people like Leon Panetta and John Leiter. Remember now?
Anyway, I understand you came into office with an agenda and I know you’re woefully inexperienced but I was curious, Are you comfortable in your own skin yet, sitting in the Oval Office? Honestly, more than a year later, I still can’t believe Americans elected you as our president but what’s done is done so let’s try to make the best of it, ok?
I want to pont out that imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but imitation when there are no parallels is the gravest form of pretension.
Thus, when you said Thursday, “The [anti-terror] buck stops with me,” a line you also used back in May with regard to the AIG bailout, the clear intent was to imply that you were taking full responsibility for the “systemic failure” that allowed the Christmas Day near-catastrophe.
That’s all very well and good, a tough terror facade, but glomming President Harry S Truman’s desk sign, “The buck stops here” doesn’t accord you any of Truman’s grit, resolve, or sense of patriotism. For all Harry’s flaws, he was a pretty good president.
Barry, I didn’t know Harry but you’re no Harry. There are no parallels with you aside from his being a Democrat.
Words without deeds to back them up are cheaper than cheap, especially with Islamic jihadists who consider mere words as a sign of weakness.
What are you going to do with that buck now that you have it?
Are you even aware that on the same day you were talking about stopping bucks and declaring war on al Qaeda that the Christmas underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being indicted as a common criminal in Detroit?
He’s a very uncommon criminal and Islamic terrorists aren’t very nice people.
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1414)
An Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama:
Dear President Obama:
Ok, look Barry, if I may call you by your pre-Barack nickname, I’d like to speak very frankly since this is no time in our nation to be hemming and hawing. Do consider this a follow-up to Semester One, which I’m certain you read.
It dealt with your declaration of war against al Qaeda, Janet Napolitano, your AWOL security people like Leon Panetta and John Leiter. Remember now?
Anyway, I understand you came into office with an agenda and I know you’re woefully inexperienced but I was curious, Are you comfortable in your own skin yet, sitting in the Oval Office? Honestly, more than a year later, I still can’t believe Americans elected you as our president but what’s done is done so let’s try to make the best of it, ok?
I want to pont out that imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but imitation when there are no parallels is the gravest form of pretension.
Thus, when you said Thursday, “The [anti-terror] buck stops with me,” a line you also used back in May with regard to the AIG bailout, the clear intent was to imply that you were taking full responsibility for the “systemic failure” that allowed the Christmas Day near-catastrophe.
That’s all very well and good, a tough terror facade, but glomming President Harry S Truman’s desk sign, “The buck stops here” doesn’t accord you any of Truman’s grit, resolve, or sense of patriotism. For all Harry’s flaws, he was a pretty good president.
Barry, I didn’t know Harry but you’re no Harry. There are no parallels with you aside from his being a Democrat.
Words without deeds to back them up are cheaper than cheap, especially with Islamic jihadists who consider mere words as a sign of weakness.
What are you going to do with that buck now that you have it?
Are you even aware that on the same day you were talking about stopping bucks and declaring war on al Qaeda that the Christmas underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being indicted as a common criminal in Detroit?
He’s a very uncommon criminal and Islamic terrorists aren’t very nice people.
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1414)
Friday, January 8, 2010
Terrorism 101, Semester One
Terrorism 101, Semester One
Having the Obamians in charge of the America’s security is like a teacher appointing the wimpiest kid in a class full of rowdies to take names during the teacher’s brief absence. The kid will be lucky to escape with a bloody nose and a broken limb or two.
So will we.
When the boss man refuses to acknowledge that there’s a worldwide war in progress with Islamic jihadists pitted against Western civilization, with the United States designated as the epicenter for another Ground Zero, there’s not much hope for the good guys.
(Note to the Obamians: We are the good guys!)
To be fair, on Thursday, with his back up against the obvious, the president did finally say, “We are at war, we are at war against al Qaeda.” As CNS added, that was ”a departure from the administration’s move in 2009 to discontinue the phrase ‘Global War on Terrorism’ from U.S. policy:” http://bit.ly/8hKF39
So, the new policy simply materialized as a result of Umar Farouk Abdulmutellab’s flubbed Muslim present to Americans on Christmas Day, whereas Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan murdering 12 and wounding 30 at Fort Hood while screaming, “Alahu Akbar” is still untrelated to al Qaeda?
Pardon me, Mr. President, but that doesn’t make any sense and if it does in your mind, why didn’t you connect the Fort Hood dot with the NWA dot when you declared this war which has been going on for years?
I repeat, the boss man refuses to acknowledge that there’s a worldwide war in progress with Islamic jihadists. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1413)
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Out
Tiger, Tiger Burning Out
“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,/ In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
That first stanza of the famous poem, “Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright” by the eighteenth century English poet William Blake is disproven by this Vanity Fair photo of fallen hero, Tiger Woods.
Snapped by noted photog Annie Liebowitz some years ago, it graced the most recent cover of the mag for various reasons including America’s very own Tyger Woods’ November run-in with his mailbox, a hedge, a tree, and Mrs. Woods–and because the near-bankrupt Liebowitz needed some $$$.
Tiger Wood’s “fearful symmetry” has been well framed.
The first billionaire athlete, Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods, reached the pinnacle of an amazing career and here is depicted as a sullen street thug glaring into the camera with all the malevolence of an Attica inmate: . . .
(Read more and see the pic at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1411)
“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,/ In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
That first stanza of the famous poem, “Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright” by the eighteenth century English poet William Blake is disproven by this Vanity Fair photo of fallen hero, Tiger Woods.
Snapped by noted photog Annie Liebowitz some years ago, it graced the most recent cover of the mag for various reasons including America’s very own Tyger Woods’ November run-in with his mailbox, a hedge, a tree, and Mrs. Woods–and because the near-bankrupt Liebowitz needed some $$$.
Tiger Wood’s “fearful symmetry” has been well framed.
The first billionaire athlete, Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods, reached the pinnacle of an amazing career and here is depicted as a sullen street thug glaring into the camera with all the malevolence of an Attica inmate: . . .
(Read more and see the pic at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1411)
Chris Matthews, Gay Racist?
Chris Matthews, Gay Racist?
Eighty-two percent of NBA players are Black. In the NHL, 99.97% of the players have been White. One hundred percent of contestants in the Miss Black America Pageant are Black. All popes have been White Christians.
Relevance of such percentages in supposedly post-racial America in 2010? None, except maybe to people such as arch-liberal MSNBC commentator, Chris Matthews.
The other day Matthews incorrectly alleged that activists in the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party were exclusively Caucasian or, as he said, “And they’re monochromatic right? . . . Every picture I see shows them to be . . . Meaning they’re all white. All of them, every single one of them is white:” http://bit.ly/4nYQ13
Well, no, not exactly, Chris. Maybe that’s just your perception based on the extremely limited coverage of TEA Party demonstrations such as the ones last April 15th and September 12th not covered by dying, liberal “news” networks such as your own and CNN.
Or maybe it’s your obsession with race? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1410)
Eighty-two percent of NBA players are Black. In the NHL, 99.97% of the players have been White. One hundred percent of contestants in the Miss Black America Pageant are Black. All popes have been White Christians.
Relevance of such percentages in supposedly post-racial America in 2010? None, except maybe to people such as arch-liberal MSNBC commentator, Chris Matthews.
The other day Matthews incorrectly alleged that activists in the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party were exclusively Caucasian or, as he said, “And they’re monochromatic right? . . . Every picture I see shows them to be . . . Meaning they’re all white. All of them, every single one of them is white:” http://bit.ly/4nYQ13
Well, no, not exactly, Chris. Maybe that’s just your perception based on the extremely limited coverage of TEA Party demonstrations such as the ones last April 15th and September 12th not covered by dying, liberal “news” networks such as your own and CNN.
Or maybe it’s your obsession with race? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1410)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Of Sausages and Obama the Octo-liar
Of Sausages and Obama the Octo-liar
Otto von Bismarck:”Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”
Sometimes we forget.
Sometimes we have to connect those underwear dots that went unconnected on Christmas Day. Sometimes we need a wake-up call, a kick in the pants to remind us to make those connections.
I have to confess something. In 1976, I was no big fan of Gerald Ford but I voted for him rather than the peanut farmer from Plains who, if nothing else, seemed fairly bright and ultra-sincere and honest; he did have the temerity to admit in that Playboy article that he “lusted” in his heart.
So, after Carter beat Ford I said, Okay, change can be good and this guy deserved a chance.
I was soon disabused of the notion that Jimmah was as competent and as innocuous as he seemed.
With Barack Hussein Obama, I needed no such disabusing,
Mid-2008, I said to myself, Self, there’s no way on Allah’s green, polluted Earth that a plurality of the electorate could possibly fall for this charlatan. I forgot to factor in the 98% of Blacks who would vote for him, the huge number of self-hating Whites suffering from terminal cases of White Guilt, and ACORN.
I had no naive hopes for Obama that I had for the now-senile Carter but I did actually buy into his pledges and the promises of the Democrat Party as a whole that the 2008 election would bring a new age to American politics even if I felt that change would be repugnant.
One of the principal ”changes we can believe in” would be the oft-heard buzz term, “transparency in government . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1409)
Otto von Bismarck:”Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”
Sometimes we forget.
Sometimes we have to connect those underwear dots that went unconnected on Christmas Day. Sometimes we need a wake-up call, a kick in the pants to remind us to make those connections.
I have to confess something. In 1976, I was no big fan of Gerald Ford but I voted for him rather than the peanut farmer from Plains who, if nothing else, seemed fairly bright and ultra-sincere and honest; he did have the temerity to admit in that Playboy article that he “lusted” in his heart.
So, after Carter beat Ford I said, Okay, change can be good and this guy deserved a chance.
I was soon disabused of the notion that Jimmah was as competent and as innocuous as he seemed.
With Barack Hussein Obama, I needed no such disabusing,
Mid-2008, I said to myself, Self, there’s no way on Allah’s green, polluted Earth that a plurality of the electorate could possibly fall for this charlatan. I forgot to factor in the 98% of Blacks who would vote for him, the huge number of self-hating Whites suffering from terminal cases of White Guilt, and ACORN.
I had no naive hopes for Obama that I had for the now-senile Carter but I did actually buy into his pledges and the promises of the Democrat Party as a whole that the 2008 election would bring a new age to American politics even if I felt that change would be repugnant.
One of the principal ”changes we can believe in” would be the oft-heard buzz term, “transparency in government . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1409)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
On Obama's Back Burners
On Obama’s Back Burners
I bet that when Barack Obama won his current job as president that he didn’t expect he would have to cut short a Hawaiian vacation by one whole day–and a full 9 days after the attempted Islamic terrorist attack on Christmas Day!
C’mon now, a prez and his family deserve a lil’ r&r too, right?
So what if Bush was raked over the media coals when he dillydallied in Crawford while Americans in the 9th Ward were doing the backstroke in the wake of Katrina because they refused to evacuate and because New Orleans Mayor Nagin insisted on Greyhounds rather than use school buses to save his people?
Obama knows he’s immune from media criticism, because he’s the Anointed One, the Obamassiah, and he did reduce Hawaiian sun-basking time by 24 hours.
Now he has to get back to work with both front and back burner pressing issues.
Front Burner Issues:
. Obamacare still has to wend its way through Congress but it looks like a shoo-in now. The Democrat Senate and the Democrat House will surely work out their differences for their Democrat president, and they’ll do it in secret, thank you very much: http://bit.ly/7v8CAt . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1408)
I bet that when Barack Obama won his current job as president that he didn’t expect he would have to cut short a Hawaiian vacation by one whole day–and a full 9 days after the attempted Islamic terrorist attack on Christmas Day!
C’mon now, a prez and his family deserve a lil’ r&r too, right?
So what if Bush was raked over the media coals when he dillydallied in Crawford while Americans in the 9th Ward were doing the backstroke in the wake of Katrina because they refused to evacuate and because New Orleans Mayor Nagin insisted on Greyhounds rather than use school buses to save his people?
Obama knows he’s immune from media criticism, because he’s the Anointed One, the Obamassiah, and he did reduce Hawaiian sun-basking time by 24 hours.
Now he has to get back to work with both front and back burner pressing issues.
Front Burner Issues:
. Obamacare still has to wend its way through Congress but it looks like a shoo-in now. The Democrat Senate and the Democrat House will surely work out their differences for their Democrat president, and they’ll do it in secret, thank you very much: http://bit.ly/7v8CAt . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1408)
Monday, January 4, 2010
The Size of Media Matters
The Size of Media Matters, Part II
The title of this 2-part series was meant to evoke a bit of a smirk and to draw attention but it’s also very true.
Although the leftist, excuse me, the progressive organization Media Matters, individually isn’t hugely influential, in conjunction with its sister leftists, including the Center for American Progress, it matters.
With its principal supporter, George Soros, this mass of left wing media is imposing and matters.
Just as words are a medium of expression and with the continuing decline in the influence of print and broadcast media, the internet is becoming the most powerful medium in America and Soros, one of the richest and most powerful individuals in the land, is tirelessly attempting to re-shape our nation in his image.
That image isn’t very pleasant except to the ideologues on the extreme-left fringes of our society.
One group trying to fight back against the Sorosites is MassResistance.com, members of which don’t just do their fighting with a keyboard and a modem. They take to the same streets and courthouses and town halls used by “progressives” to give us changes many of us find impossible to believe in.
At the forefront of those changes is the homosexual movement and MassResistance is currently battling against one gay standard bearer, “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings, who Obama refuses to dump despite his less than exemplary baggage.
After MassResistance dug into Jenning’s seedy past and revealed him for what he is–a lying gay committed to “homosexualizing” America’s schools and culture–the mainstream media finally picked up the story. . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1407)
The title of this 2-part series was meant to evoke a bit of a smirk and to draw attention but it’s also very true.
Although the leftist, excuse me, the progressive organization Media Matters, individually isn’t hugely influential, in conjunction with its sister leftists, including the Center for American Progress, it matters.
With its principal supporter, George Soros, this mass of left wing media is imposing and matters.
Just as words are a medium of expression and with the continuing decline in the influence of print and broadcast media, the internet is becoming the most powerful medium in America and Soros, one of the richest and most powerful individuals in the land, is tirelessly attempting to re-shape our nation in his image.
That image isn’t very pleasant except to the ideologues on the extreme-left fringes of our society.
One group trying to fight back against the Sorosites is MassResistance.com, members of which don’t just do their fighting with a keyboard and a modem. They take to the same streets and courthouses and town halls used by “progressives” to give us changes many of us find impossible to believe in.
At the forefront of those changes is the homosexual movement and MassResistance is currently battling against one gay standard bearer, “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings, who Obama refuses to dump despite his less than exemplary baggage.
After MassResistance dug into Jenning’s seedy past and revealed him for what he is–a lying gay committed to “homosexualizing” America’s schools and culture–the mainstream media finally picked up the story. . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1407)
Sunday, January 3, 2010
The Size of Media Matters
“Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”
The operative word in that mission statement is, of course, “progressive” which has of late supplanted the words ”leftist” and “liberal” since “progressive” sounds, well, so much more progressive and is definitely more palatable to the gullible American public.
However, calling skunk cabbages roses doesn’t do much to alter their stink.
I took a brief stroll to the dark side, the website of MediaMatters, and noted the anticipated attacks on such conservative devils as Glenn Beck, Anne Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh as well as articles ripping us fools who believe global warming is a massive, political hoax.
There were no pieces about another dark side, the unrelenting homosexual campaign to “normalize” their lifestyle via indoctrination of kids in their schools and everyone via the media, with the happy help of MM.
That was surprising . . .
The operative word in that mission statement is, of course, “progressive” which has of late supplanted the words ”leftist” and “liberal” since “progressive” sounds, well, so much more progressive and is definitely more palatable to the gullible American public.
However, calling skunk cabbages roses doesn’t do much to alter their stink.
I took a brief stroll to the dark side, the website of MediaMatters, and noted the anticipated attacks on such conservative devils as Glenn Beck, Anne Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh as well as articles ripping us fools who believe global warming is a massive, political hoax.
There were no pieces about another dark side, the unrelenting homosexual campaign to “normalize” their lifestyle via indoctrination of kids in their schools and everyone via the media, with the happy help of MM.
That was surprising . . .
Gaza and Israel: Disproportioned Priorities
Gaza and Israel: Disproportioned Atrocities
A few weeks back, I posted an article here, “Israeli War Crimes in Gaza,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1379, which was met with some, shall we say, disputation?
The piece was not designed to be an exercise in flame-throwing or in anti-Semitism, charges which usually follow any critique, no matter how objective, of the state of Israel
Rather, the article attempted to distinguish the unvarnished truth about the admittedly-provoked 2009 attack on Gaza.
One Jewish critic of the exercise of grossly disproportionate power and the wildly disproportionate civilian casualties between the combatants, the emininent jurist, Richard Goldstone, was rudely dismissed as a wayward judge who had suffered a “moral inversion.”
In sum, his implicit immorality rested on the very shaky premise that the military actions of the Israeli Defense Force, the IDF, were all justifiable and well within the bounds of Geneva Convention war prohibitions. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1403)
A few weeks back, I posted an article here, “Israeli War Crimes in Gaza,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1379, which was met with some, shall we say, disputation?
The piece was not designed to be an exercise in flame-throwing or in anti-Semitism, charges which usually follow any critique, no matter how objective, of the state of Israel
Rather, the article attempted to distinguish the unvarnished truth about the admittedly-provoked 2009 attack on Gaza.
One Jewish critic of the exercise of grossly disproportionate power and the wildly disproportionate civilian casualties between the combatants, the emininent jurist, Richard Goldstone, was rudely dismissed as a wayward judge who had suffered a “moral inversion.”
In sum, his implicit immorality rested on the very shaky premise that the military actions of the Israeli Defense Force, the IDF, were all justifiable and well within the bounds of Geneva Convention war prohibitions. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1403)
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Happy New Year?
Happy New Year?
I think it’s all very fitting and proper that perfect strangers on the street, on the phone, or even in darkened alleyways wish us a “Happy New Year” and that we return the favor.
It’s just a common courtesy, a common expression of politeness much like the non-PC greeting of ”Merry Christmas” but devoid of all the needless rancor currently associated with mentioning the reason for the Christmas season.
However, what if the greetee of an unsolicited ”Happy New Year” salutation had just come off a miserable 2009 and is facing an even more miserable 2010?
What if the greetee anticipates being out of a job, his home being foreclosed or, far worse, grave personal or family ilnesses which threaten to make job and home worries pale by comparison?
Sticky wickets there but still not sufficient reasons to turn away what’s really an innocuous wish that you have a good year.
So, Happy New Year!
“At least, you have your health” is another comment that bugs some people–particularly relatively healthy, relative younguns when they’re encountering . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1402)
Friday, January 1, 2010
2009 Top Tens You May Have Missed
2009 Top Tens You May Have Missed
Enough, already, with 2009 top 10 lists!? Here are a few that may have slipped beneath your scanner:
Top 10 White House Surprises: This subjective, unnumbered, list from Eamon Javers on Politico.com begins with the disclaimer, “Barack Obama’s first year as president wasn’t always exactly what Americans expected:” http://bit.ly/6vQdk5
You can say that again, Eamon! Most conservatives feel his year, our year, was even worse than expected even as some liberals think he wasn’t radical enough since he hasn’t yet declared the nation the United States of Socialist Republics.
Various of Javers’ picks as surprises are less surprising than they are a reflection of the fact that deep down Barack is about as warm and fuzzy as month-old bread. Fuzzy, probably, warm, rarely.
In that category fall such surprises as . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1401)
Enough, already, with 2009 top 10 lists!? Here are a few that may have slipped beneath your scanner:
Top 10 White House Surprises: This subjective, unnumbered, list from Eamon Javers on Politico.com begins with the disclaimer, “Barack Obama’s first year as president wasn’t always exactly what Americans expected:” http://bit.ly/6vQdk5
You can say that again, Eamon! Most conservatives feel his year, our year, was even worse than expected even as some liberals think he wasn’t radical enough since he hasn’t yet declared the nation the United States of Socialist Republics.
Various of Javers’ picks as surprises are less surprising than they are a reflection of the fact that deep down Barack is about as warm and fuzzy as month-old bread. Fuzzy, probably, warm, rarely.
In that category fall such surprises as . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1401)
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