Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Observations on . . . Mother Teresa

Observations on . . . Mother Teresa

After spending a great deal of time on and devoting a good deal of space to the two previous subjects in this series on recent anniversaries, 2005’s devastating Hurricane Katrina and the world-changing 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I had looked forward to writing an innocuous, little piece on one of the two saints I have ever known.

Pope John Paul II was one, Mother Teresa was the other.


Not that I personally met with either the pope or the Catholic nun Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later to be known as Mother Teresa, but I felt that a few words commemorating the anniversary of her birth in Shkoder, Albania on August 26th, 1910 were in order.

Agnes’ middle name, Gonxha, meaning Rosebud, may be somewhat difficult to pronounce in English but this woman who committed herself at age 12 to a life of religious, missionary work for the Catholic Church led a life of service that wasn’t difficult to evaluate.

I had an old Irish Uncle Mike whom my son labelled a saint and he might indeed have been one. With Agnes Gonxha Boxahiu, there was far less doubt and following her death in 1997 at age 87 she was beatified, made blessed, on her path to sainthood by Pope John Paul II.

There is no need here to detail Mother Teresa’s life or contributions to humanity which were recognized even by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee which awarded her its Peace Prize in 1979.

What is almost as remarkable as her selfless, almost half-century devotion to the poorest of the poor, the sickest of the sick in India is the controversy even such a life could generate among people who have contended that Mother Teresa was a dishonest fraud and an evil, immoral individual. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1873)

Monday, August 30, 2010

Observations on . . . "I Have a Dream"

Observations on "I Have a Dream"

Forty seven years ago, on August 28th, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered what must stand as one of the most quoted speeches in American history and one of the most important speeches of the twentieth century.

Tens of thousands remembered and commemorated that address on Saturday with a “Re-claim the Dream” march led by the Reverend Al Sharpton which ended near the location of the 1963 rally.

Now commonly called the “I Have a Dream” speech, its most memorable and most quoted line, ”I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” is also its saddest line.

King’s successors may frequently recite the words but have lost sense of their meaning and spirit.

(Fortunately forgotten was a subsequent line that reflected a Freudian slip of a dream added after King departed from his prepared text, ”Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!” The FreeOnlineDictionary defines “curvaceous” as “[of a woman’s body] having a large bosom and pleasing curves; [as in] ”Hollywood seems full of curvaceous bondes;” “a curvy young woman in a tight dress,” which surely Dr. King did not mean at all.)

King’s stirring 10-minute address was delivered before a massive crowd of civil rights supporters estimated at some 200,000, and delivered, appropriately, it was believed at the time, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Had certain truths about Lincoln, . . .
(Read more at Forty seven years ago, on August 28th, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered what must stand as one of the most quoted speeches in American history and one of the most important speeches of the twentieth century.

Tens of thousands remembered and commemorated that address on Saturday with a “Re-claim the Dream” march led by the Reverend Al Sharpton which ended near the location of the 1963 rally.

Now commonly called the “I Have a Dream” speech, its most memorable and most quoted line, ”I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” is also its saddest line.

King’s successors may frequently recite the words but have lost sense of their meaning and spirit.

(Fortunately forgotten was a subsequent line that reflected a Freudian slip of a dream added after King departed from his prepared text, ”Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!” The FreeOnlineDictionary defines “curvaceous” as “[of a woman’s body] having a large bosom and pleasing curves; [as in] ”Hollywood seems full of curvaceous bondes;” “a curvy young woman in a tight dress,” which surely Dr. King did not mean at all.)

King’s stirring 10-minute address was delivered before a massive crowd of civil rights supporters estimated at some 200,000, and delivered, appropriately, it was believed at the time, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Had certain truths about Lincoln, . . .
(Read more at Forty seven years ago, on August 28th, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered what must stand as one of the most quoted speeches in American history and one of the most important speeches of the twentieth century.

Tens of thousands remembered and commemorated that address on Saturday with a “Re-claim the Dream” march led by the Reverend Al Sharpton which ended near the location of the 1963 rally.

Now commonly called the “I Have a Dream” speech, its most memorable and most quoted line, ”I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” is also its saddest line.

King’s successors may frequently recite the words but have lost sense of their meaning and spirit.

(Fortunately forgotten was a subsequent line that reflected a Freudian slip of a dream added after King departed from his prepared text, ”Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!” The FreeOnlineDictionary defines “curvaceous” as “[of a woman’s body] having a large bosom and pleasing curves; [as in] ”Hollywood seems full of curvaceous bondes;” “a curvy young woman in a tight dress,” which surely Dr. King did not mean at all.)

King’s stirring 10-minute address was delivered before a massive crowd of civil rights supporters estimated at some 200,000, and delivered, appropriately, it was believed at the time, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Had certain truths about Lincoln, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1872)

Observations on 3 Anniversaries--Katrina, "I Have a Dream," and Mother Theresa

Observations on 3 Anniversaries--Katrina, "I Have a Dream," and Mother Theresa

This past weekend witnessed a trifecta of momentous anniversaries. Katrina happened 5 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech” on the Washington Mall 47 years ago, and Mother Theresa was born a century ago.

It is already five years since August 29th, 2005, since the incredibly devastating Category 3 hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in our history, the deadliest storm to strike the United States in 83 years, all but wiped out much of the City of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward as well as laying waste to vast other areas of the Gulf Coast.

Testimony to the remarkable resilience of humankind and the human spirit, with the exception of that Ninth Ward, an area catastrophically flooded by Katrina’s storm surge, reinundated a month later by Hurricane Rita, and still largely devastated, most affected Gulf Coast communities have been rebuilt, if not fully recovered.

Much, perhaps too much, has been written about the failures surrounding Katrina: the failures of the levees, the failures of Michael Brown and FEMA, the failures of Democrat Governor Kathleen Blanco and the Republican President George W. Bush, the failures of the Superdome, the failures of government in general in not doing more to alert New Orleans of the impending disaster, to save more lives, to assist in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, to reconstruct the destroyed, and to console the afflicted.

That focus on failure may have been “too much” for three significant reasons, the first of which is a reason based on the common sense shared by ten year olds but not by politicians, city planners, and builders. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1869)

Sunday, August 29, 2010

How Obama Spent (Some) of His Summer Vacation

How Obama Spent (Some) of His Summer Vacation

“V-A-See-A-T-I-O-N, we’re on vacation, we’re gonna have a ball!” (Connie Francis)

It may be antiquated and not “with it” today but a popular back-to-school, first week assignment to get kids back to the grind used to be to have them write about how they spent their summer vacations. Most kids could write at least something on that easy topic.

If little Barry Obama were heading back to classes following summer vacation 2010, he would have a lot to write about. If he included where and how he spent this year’s vacations, to date, he could almost literally write volumes.

Compliments of IOwntheWorld.com, we present this pictorial insight into how our commander-in-chief, our president, our leader and chief bottle-washer, who had vowed, “I will not rest until everyone has a job, a good wage, and benefits,” has been spending his last vacation during this, America’s “recovery summer.”

Suffice to say, Obama, now being termed President Clark Griswold in a few quarters, has never, ever rested on his laurels nor on his vacations. Maybe he simply forgot that pledge to the American people and forgot those many millions of Americans still without a job, still without a good wage, and still without benefits.

Then, however, it would seem he has a surprisingly bad memory for such a smart dude since he’s forgotten any number of pledges and promises.

The pictures depict the president and First Lady thoroughly enjoying some ice cream during their vacation up there in the playground of the very rich and very famous, Martha’s Vineyard, where, for some very bizarre reason, GWB tee shirts were outselling BHO tee shirts. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1868)

Friday, August 27, 2010

Relapse Summer 2010

Relapse Summer 2010

As thousands of mortgagors, many of whom wouldn’t qualify for mortgages in the real world, line up to be bailed out by the feds, as the nation’s recession birth rate falls to 2.7%, the lowest in a century, as Joint Chief of Staffs Chairman Mike Mullen warns that the national debt is endangering national security, President Nero Obama fiddles away, chows down on shrimp and lobster, golfs, parties with the other rich and famous on Martha’s Vineyard, and generally enjoys the hell out of his sixth vacation this year.

Is anyone minding the ranch? It certainly isn’t our vice president who revels in his own non-existent, Nirvana.

It can’t yet be termed a double dipper, it certainly isn’t the Big Dipper, but VP Joe Biden’s sanguine reference some weeks ago to the summer of 2010 as “recovery summer” is turning out to be one of the dumbest and most presumptuous remarks our dumb and presumptuous vice president has made to date.

Even if Biden’s July mantra was only part of the administration’s campaign to convince the American people not to believe their lying eyes and those lying economic numbers and it wasn’t one his very original observations such as, “This is a f***ing big deal!” the term “Recovery Summer” has been hung around the VP’s neck like a dead economic albatross.

And, not only is Recovery Summer 2010 collapsing into Relapse Summer 2010 but the administration doesn’t seem to much care or notice any more than they notice former rabid supporters turning on them as if they had a terminal dose of the plague.

When the CBO announces that Obama’s stimulus “may” have added 3.1 million jobs and lowered the unemployment rate by up to 1.7% in the second quarter and is unable to substantiate either of those bizarre claims and no one is able to locate any of those phantom jobs and the Commerce Department reports a paltry 1.7% GDP increase in that same quarter, people begin to wonder as should the Obamians.

When staunch Obamian from day one, David Letterman, begins cracking jokes about the sorry state of America’s financial affairs and refers to his former hero as a one-term president, which Letterman has been doing of late, Obamians might want to consider sitting up and taking notice even if, by force of habit, Dave and his writers still reserve their most scathing rips for George W. Bush.

However, when the media mogul, gazillionaire, highly-influential Mortimer B. Zuckerman . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1867)

Thursday, August 26, 2010

"Obama Sucks" and Other Profound Thoughts

"Obama Sucks" and Other Profound Thoughts

The following is an admittedly ineffectual effort to come to an understanding of the meaning behind prevailing anti-Obama sentiment as revealed in two pictures. Since the pics are not visible on all websites, I’ll also attempt to provide sufficient detail about them so that the reader knows what he’s missing.

A) The first photo depicts a fairly attractive, blond woman in her thirties or forties possibly attending an anti-Obama rally while sporting a white print on a black tee shirt that clearly reflects her political feelings: It reads in bold lettering: ”OBAMA SUCKS.”

Absent a confirmed statement by the wearer, we can only guess at the precise meaning behind her cryptic tee. The graphic idea if not graphic photo appears to be an attempt by “ht/jc lady” on Iowntheworld.com to express one of two sentiments.

Either the provocative “ht/jc lady” is expressing a deep and heartfelt emotion in contemporary jargon that President Barack Hussein Obama represents the worst president in America’s long and illustrious history, that he “sucks” even worse than Fillmore, Wilson, Harding, and Carter, or ”ht/jc lady” is commenting on Obama’s sex life.

For the purpose of retaining my breakfast, I hope “Obama Sucks” relates only to his ineptitude and not in any way to his relationship with Michelle.

Tongue in cheek, IOTW comments on the photo that, “This woman is a straight up racist,” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1864)

History and the Evolution of Conservatives and Liberals

History and the Evolution of Conservatives and Liberals

(Received as an email and slightly modified)

For those that don’t know anything about history, the following is a condensed version: Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundations of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups, liberals and conservatives. Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet so while early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative Movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ’s and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal Movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. They became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1865)

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

What's a Mother to Do? Part One: Dealing with International Green Hypocrites

What's a Mother to Do? Part One: Dealing with International Green Hypocrites

Perhaps I shoudn’t ask the question, “What’s a mother to do?” since I’m a father not a mother. However, a male colleague used to ask that question not as a query but as an expression of frustration as to what anyone can do in response to the conditions and state of the world today.

The short answer is that a mother, or father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, can’t do very much if anything but it’s nevertheless fulfilling to speculate on what we should do under certain sets of circumstances.

Would that we average joes and josies could do things, change things, or reverse things that, in our inexpert and humble opinions, called for doing, changing, or reversing based on a long-lost American skill and capacity, the application of common sense.

“Mother’s Commonsensical Solutions” will no doubt be attacked as everything from nonsensical and simplistic to naive and stupid but asi es la vida, tough apples. Readers are invited to offer better ideas.

Mother’s Problem Number One: Dealing With International Green Hypocrites

. “China, India, Indonesia, Brazil Can’t Estimate Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions–Latest Figures Are from 1994:” http://tiny.cc/81heh

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1863)

"Police Say It's 'Very Possible' Attacks Near Fairgrounds Had Racial Overtones"

"Police Say It's 'Very Possible' Attacks Near Fairgrounds Had Racial Overtones"

“Police say it’s ‘very possible’ attacks near [the Iowa State] fairgrounds had racial overtones:” Tom Alex, “public safety reporter,” DesMoinesRegister.com

That classic example of contemporary journalism’s and contemporary journalists’ lack of backbone is characteristic of how the mainstream media deals with certain racial incidents and criminal activities in America’s and President Obama’s apocryphal and poisoned post-racial atmosphere.

Following stabbings on August 14th, last weekend two cops were injured as were an unspecified number of civilians, three people were arrested, and a number taken into custody and later released after groups of marauding teenagers and young adults, males and females, caused havoc in and around Iowa’s state fair.

A nearby resident indicated she had never before witnessed such “hostility” toward police who had to fend off repeated assaults, many by females.

Des Moines Police Sgt. David Murillo stated in a report, “On-duty officers at the fairgrounds advise there was a group of 30 to 40 individuals roaming the fairgrounds openly calling it ‘beat whitey night.’ ”

Yet the Des Moines Register and its “public safety reporter,” Tom Alex, ran with the intentionally obtuse, evasive, and misleading headline that “It’s very possible attacks near fairgrounds had racial overtones?”

Very possible? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1862)

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Sharia, Part Two: Imam Rauf's Jihad Against America

Sharia, Part Two: Imam Rauf's Jihad Against America

I’m about as sick of writing about mosques, Muslims, Sharia, Islam, Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, and Muhammad as readers are sick of reading and hearing about them.

Yet to suspend attention to them at what might be the most critical juncture in America’s history is to surrender to those forces dedicated to the defeat and dismantling of America as we know it.

Symbolized by the Ground Zero Monster Mosque, Muslims and Islam, with Rauf acting as their commander, are intent on capitalizing on their victory of September 11th, 2001, defeating America in our decades-long war on terror, and subjugating Americans to the brutal strictures of Sharia law.

As I concluded Part One of this series, “Think it can’t happen here? September 11th, 2001 couldn’t happen here, but it did.” And it could be repeated.

As per usual, the Democrat Party has taken an almost united stance of support on the issue of Imam Rauf’s obsession with building his 15 story, $100,000,000 mosque-cultural center-gymnasium-restaurant-fun place massage parlor near the hallowed site of Ground Zero.

Unlike Christians’ lack of rights to erect a cathedral, a church, even a chapel in Mecca and Medina, Rauf has every constitutional right to build his mosque and no American has disputed that right. Having a right and doing what’s right are vastly different, however.

Joining with the Islamic Raufians, the formerly-reputable Democrat Party has ironically discovered deep within its bowels a renewed, long-lost concern for religiosity and religious freedom and the First Amendment.

Democrats have condemned those who oppose Rauf’s project as bigoted, racist, un-Americans for seeking to deny Rauf’s grand scheme to trumpet Islam’s triumph of nine years ago by building a garish monument to Islam’s greatest victory over the infidel Christians since Saladin captured Jerusalem in A.D. 1187. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1861)

Monday, August 23, 2010

Sharia, Part One: Muslim Women

Sharia, Part One: Muslim Women

Sharia law, or simply Sharia or, in Arabic, شريعة Å arÄ«Ê¿a, is a complex set of rules for Muslims transmitted by Allah. However, any comparisons to the Christian Bible would be tantamount to comparing our Bible to eternal truths within “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

According to Wikipedia, “Muslims believe all Sharia is derived from two primary sources, the divine revelations set forth in the Qur’an, and the sayings and example set by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. . . [and subject to] the consensus of the religious scholars” and Islamic jurists who interpret Sharia.

“The imam [the position held by the Ground Zero monster-mosque-builder Feisel Abdul Rauf] has varying responsibilities depending on the interpretation of Sharia . . . leader of communal prayers, . . . scholar, religious leader or political leader. Sharia deals with many topics addressed by secular law, including crime, politics and economics, as well as personal matters such as sexuality, hygiene, diet, prayer, and fasting.”

In a nutshell, Sharia represents the words Muslims live by, necessarily updated to reflect the passage of fourteen hundred years since the holy Prophet Muhammad passed to his reward no doubt stll in the loving arms of his child bride Aisha, whom he took to his holy marital bed when she was all of eight years old and who was just one of his 13 wives and concubines.

Despite all the updating and interpretation over fourteen centuries, things really haven’t changed an awful lot for Muslims, and even less so for Muslim women.

Nonie Darwash was one of those (Egyptian) Muslim women.

Now considered an Islamic apostate . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1860)

Conservatives and Show Biz

Conservatives and Show Biz

“There’s no business like show business like no business I know . . .” (Irving Berlin)

You got that right, Irving, even if your next 2 lines, “Everything about it is appealing, everything that traffic will allow/ Nowhere could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra bow,” no longer apply.

To the average American, show biz in the 21st century is far less appealing than it ever was and is less involved in projecting happy feelings than it is in proselytizing, demeaning our culture, and propagandizing.

Oh, add to that making money, BIG money.

I know that’s an overly broad and subjective allegation which must be tempered by many exceptions but it’s still difficult to refute that in A.D. 2010 the entertainment industry, show business, stage, television, and Hollywood, are more sociopolitically polarized than ever and is almost exclusively dominated by liberal-leftists engaged as deeply in outright or subconscious “educating” as in entertaining.

Consequently, show biz is a hugely challenging life for conservatives.

If a right winger dare advertise his or her politics, social views and mores, he and she are often shut out of entertainment’s inner circles and pathways to success and stardom. It becomes tempting for those wannabes with a conservative bent to either conceal their personal philosophies or to live lives of baldfaced lies.

Again, there are exceptions, there are always exceptions to general rules.

The late Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, Gary Sinise, Patricia Heaton, and the good Baldwin brother, Stephen, come to mind.

However, they are generally very low key and non-combative in expressing their views–except for Voight of late–and they have earned their star status by virtue of dogged perseverence and talent that would not be denied.

Rumor has it that Robert Downey, Jr. is a closet member of that exclusive club of conservatives but he’s not talking.

Those conservatives made it, they became major and lesser celebs, not because of the welcoming arms of the show business set but in spite of oh-so-tolerant Tinseltown’s and television’s gilded doors that were closed to those who failed to hew to the leftist line. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1856)

Sunday, August 22, 2010

"All I Ever Needed to Know about Islam, I Learned on 9/11"

"All I Ever Needed to Know about Islam, I Learned on 9/11"

After those planes struck America on September 11th, 2001, many relatives of the victims roamed the smoking rubble and toxic air of Ground Zero in the vain hope of some word, any word, on their missing loved ones.

Few received any word.

By the very nature of their quest, all of those who posted notices on those dusty, dirt- encrusted doors and walls left standing in the vicinity of Ground Zero seeking information on fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters were emotionally moving but one was exceptionally so. A small boy carried a large sign asking, “Has Anyone Seen My Daddy?” with a photo of his dad attached.

It’s unlikely that anyone had seen the boy’s father.

It’s far more probable that he was one of those vaporized by the ferocity of the planes’ impacts, burned alive, crushed in the falling debris of two thousand-foot towers, or he was one of those many and still-uncounted who chose to escape the searing flames by a few moments of deadly exhilaration before they were literally obliterated when their bodies smashed into the pavement.

Too graphic? Too Much Information? Well, too damned bad for any overly-sensitive psyches out there. 9/11 is what it is, was what it was, and to hide from its realities is both an act of pusillanimity and perilously un-American. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1857)

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Islamic Insights into Islam

Islamic Insights into Islam

Some people firmly believe that we are known by the company we keep. I’m not certain whether that qualifies as an established truism but we can certainly be known by the manner in which we treat our own.

Islam, Islamic nations, Muslims generally treat “their own” dismally at best and often inhumanely.

Take, for example, Islamic Pakistan which is currently being almost being flooded out of existence.

One would think that fellow Islamic nations, a number of which are wealthy beyond imagining, would be lined up to offer financial and humanitarian assistance to the millions of Pakistanis.

If one so thought, one would be miserably wrong. What aid is being sent is predominantly being provided by private Muslim groups, not Muslim countries which, for the most part, are practicing a policy of benign neglect toward fellow Islamic Pakistan.

That would be the same policy of neglect applied to Muslim Palestinians whose plight is bemoaned by the Islamic world at the same time it makes no effort to alleviate Palestinian suffering.

However, Islamists also demonstrate their inhumanity toward their own in a number of other ways. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1854)

Friday, August 20, 2010

Words to Live and Die by

Words to Live and Die by

Consider the following video as preface to this article on the subject of why Democrats are so nitwitty that they can’t comprehend the difference between actual reality and their miasmic interpretation and misunderstanding of what is real.

The video features that peace-lovin’, diversity-endorsing, monster mosque-building, in-yer-face-America-we-won-you-lost Islamic terrorist-without-portfolio, Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf’s comments following September 11th, 2001: http://tiny.cc/92t8v.

Imaf Rauf is the same Muslim whose project to build that monster mosque/recreation center/restaurant/gymnasium/meeting place/ cultural-exchange locale and generally jolly old Islamic fun place to be place has been heartily endorsed by Democrat Governor David Patterson, Democrat Senator Chuckie Schumer, life-long Democrat Mayor Boomboom, Democrat gubernatorial aspirant Chris Cuomo, and virtually every other Democrat in the nation.

New York Governor-by-default Patterson last week tossed in a sweet freebie for Rauf and his monster mosque. With New York teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, the ever-generous Democrat . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1853)

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Gays Target Target

Gays Target Target

In case anyone hasn’t noticed, maybe people such as those living in caves or underground shelters, the United States of America is currently in the deepest midst of the most most profound social upheaval we have ever experienced in our short but illustrious history.

To be sure, there are also political and economic and international upheavals in progress in A.D. 2010 but, barring another terrorist attack, the changes most likely to immediately affect and influence the lives of every living American are social, not even socioeconomic.

The most transparent and profound societal change is the rapid ascendancy of homosexualism, homosexuality, and the rise of the designedly euphemistic “gays” in America.

Whether attributable to the innate and ingrained liberalism of the current entertainment world or to an insidious infiltration by homosexual actors, directors, and producers. in just the last decade we have witnessed a virtual takeover of that world by gays.

There are many indicators that, although some moviegoers and television-watchers are increasingly tolerant of homosexuality, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1852)

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Rooting Out Nitwits Such as Sheryl Crow, II

Rooting Out Nitwits such as Sheryl Crow II

. . . In Crow’s blog, she explained, “I have spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming. Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating. . . I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.”

Seemingly aware even then of the absurdity of that well-thought-out plan, she qualified it: ”Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, [muchas gracias, Ms. Crow] but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required:” http://tiny.cc/uzpzx

No mention was made as to whether a federal corps of potty police would be needed to enforce the one-square rule, and how, what the penalties would be for failure to comply, or whether the square would be one ply or two. . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1851)

Monday, August 16, 2010

The World's Hottest Women?

The World's Hottest Women?

Moonbattery.com makes an excellent point in its comment on First Lady Michelle Obama placing 93rd–ahead of Marisa Tomei and only 11 and 12 spots behind Emma Watson and Heidi Montag, respectively–on Maxim’s 2009 “100 Hottest Women” list.

Moonbattery.com asks rhetorically if Michelle made the list ”for the same reason her husband was granted a Nobel Prize?” and offers this picture as verification that it was:

Now I’m fully aware that Maxim’s “Table of Hotness” is over a year old and that it’s considered mean-spirited in the extreme to comment negatively on a woman’s looks so I won’t do it, but, c’mon! The 93rd hottest woman in the world? Out of maybe three or four billion eligible females? On the same list as Tomei, Watson, and Montag? On the same list as Taylor Swift and Jessica Biel and Angelina Jolie?

As the late Gary Coleman would definitely have said, “Gimme a break!”

Just as it’s crude to demean a lady’s looks, isn’t it rude to insult the intelligence of women and men alike . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1847)

Roasting Hoff on Comedy Central

Roasting Hoff on Comedy Central

With some rare and notable exceptions, Hollywood/television stars/personalities tend to be or become prime, air-headed, insipid examples of what human beings can devolve into when elevated to the rank of the idolized or even to the level of the personalitized.

They also become, among other things, masochists.

The truly-sloshed, burger-eating, daughter-berated, grossly-disgusting David Hasselhoff, who is far from an idol except in Germany, went YouTube-viral when daughter Taylor Ann decided to make public her video of dear old dad drunkenly slobbering and dripping burger on the side of the family pool a few years ago.

Taylor Ann, who probably had the good, intereventionist intention to embarass her father into going on the wagon, was in attendance last night when “Comedy Central” chose Dad to be the subject of a roast. That video was cited by virtually every roaster.

Now, I’m no prude and I’ve seen televised roasts before on the somewhat more civilized broadcast channels, Last night was my first viewing of a cable channel roast and I discovered that cable channel roasts were markedly different.

I subscribe by default to “Comedy Central” but usually confine myself to the occasional “South Park” episode and more recently to the 35 year old, German born, Daniel Tosh who hosts the totally irreverent “Tosh O.”

The roast of David Hasselhoff, to me at least, was in a class of its own, or a classless class of its own. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1846)

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Abortion Euphemisms March On

Abortion Euphemisms March On

The so-called morning after pill, also known as the emergency contraception pill or ECP and Plan B, is mistakenly described as a contraceptive but really isn’t since it doesn’t prevent a pregnancy and isn’t designed to. The pill is an abortafacient which terminates an existing pregnancy and kills a human being at the earliest possible stage of its development.

Call it by whatever euphemism you choose, the ECP has been around for years now but only in 2009, another great advance, did it became available without a prescription for 17 year old girls in the U.S. It may be on its way to the scrap heap, however, supplanted by the “five or seven days after pill” developed by HRA Pharma.

Maybe to make it more user-friendly, that French company quaintly assigned the pill a name, “ella.”

Legal for some time in Europe which is usually ahead of the curve when it comes to “progressive” thinking on matters of sex and abortion, our FDA approved ella as a prescription drug last Friday.

In actuality, the morning after pill had been mis-named . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1845)

Still on the Ground Zero Mosque Fence? Then Read This!

Still on the Ground Zero Mosque Fence? Then Read this!

Now that the radical Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf has hit the trifecta in his quest to build his Park51, formerly known as the Cordoba Initiative, New York’s Monster Mosque just may be a go.

(The project name was changed due to the very negative associations with Cordoba, home to the Great Mosque in Cordoba, Spain which was built on the foundations of a Christian cathedral, a fact Muslims would not want Christians to think too much about.)

Rauf must be leaning on his architects to get the project moving so that it will be ready for its scheduled grand opening on, what else?, September 11th, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the Islamic attack on the World Trade Center.

Is that scheduling, indeed, the entire obscenity that is the Cordoba House Initiative/Park51, not the most outrageous example of Muslim in-your-face arrogance of this century, building a monument to Islam barely two blocks from Ground Zero?

Nevertheless, the Islamists now have the Democrat president of the United States as well as the Democrat governor of New York State and the lifelong Democrat mayor of New York City in their corner, all of them spouting the same tired drivel of freedom of religion while ignoring the essential truth that the Islamic religion is irrelevant in this matter.

Does our Jewish mayor ever think of what the Islamists in our midst think of him?

The perfect analogy has already been articulated. . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1844)

Saturday, August 14, 2010

America, the Money Tree

America, the Money Tree

Advertisers know that certain key words attract attention. One of those words is “FREE!” since everyone loves a freebie.

Under the auspices of President Gotrocks, who shovels money out of the United States Treasury as if it were worth nothing, which it soon may be, Uncle Sam has become the very generous old uncle who used to throw quarters or a dollar bill our way when we were kids. The primary difference between Obama and that old unc is that Obama doesn’t toss his own bucks around, he dispenses the taxpayers’ bucks.

Barack Hussein Obama, having now joined the heady ranks of the newly rich himself thanks to his book sales, like others in that nouveau riche classless class such as the Clintons, has no respect for hard-earned money, especially when it’s not his.

Bailouts on top of bailouts, stimuli on top of stimuli, with government bureaucrats handing out stimulus funds as if it were candy, as if it were Marie Antoinette doling out cake to the bourgeosie and hoi polloi, as if it is a useful tool to purchase votes, have caused an unprecedented explosion of American greed.

Where’s my cut of all those trillions, people are thinking and saying, when do we get our share? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1843)

Friday, August 13, 2010

Dr. Laura, the N-Word, and P.C.

Dr. Laura, the N-Word, and P.C.

Dr. Laura Schlesinger, the liberal-turned-conservative talk/advice show hostess who admits on her blog that she “preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values and ethics” is no stranger to controversy. However, she bit off much more than even she could possibly chew yesterday when she used the dreaded and verboten N-word on the air.

She not only used the word, the only word in the English language that is forbidden to be written, spoken, or even thought about throughout the vast expanse of the United States of America, she used it 11 times, 8 times with a black woman caller and 3 more following the call.

Although she was curt, as she often is, she wasn’t rude to the caller, who was married to a white man and had called for advice on how to deal with racial comments made in her presence by a neighbor and others. One racist comment that disturbed her dealt with, “How do black people think about doing this . . . or that,” which Dr. Laura didn’t perceive as racist but rather as an instance of hypersensitivity on the caller’s part.

She upset herself so much she was barely able to finish her show and shortly after the word hit the fan, she apologized on her blog: “I talk every day about doing the right thing. And yesterday, I did the wrong thing. I didn’t intend to hurt people, but I did. And that makes it the wrong thing to have done. I was attempting to make a philosophical point, and I articulated the “n” word all the way out - more than one time. And that was wrong. I’ll say it again - that was wrong.”

However,she wasn't wrong at all . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1841)

And Rush Takes (Another) Bride!

And Rush Takes Another Bride!

Ok, this isn’t Rush Hudson Limbaugh III’s first bride, not even close.

Although the 59 year old Rush-man hasn’t (yet) approached Larry King’s (Lawrence Harvey Zeiger’s) eight weddings, he has been wed four times, the last time to 33 year old Kathryn Elizabeth Rogers at the ultimate classy venue, The Breakers in June of this year.

Black minister Dr. Kenneth L. Hutcherson, Founder and Senior Pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Redmond, Washington, presided and homosexual entertainer Elton John entertained at the festivities that followed. I mention Hutcherson’s race and John’s sexual proclivities simply because Mr. Limbaugh has often been accused of both racism and homophobia. . .
(Read more and see the wedding pics at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1840)

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Democrat Culture of Death

Democrat Culture of Death

. . . Just yesterday, a Democrat candidate for New Hampshire’s state legislature, Keith Halloran, expressed his regret that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her almost son-in-law Levi Johnston had perished in the Alaska plane crash which took the life of former senator Ted Stevens and four others: http://tiny.cc/isr1g.

Sick? You betcha, but explicable for the Party of Death, aka the Democrat Party, which wallows in the morbid. While accusing Republicans of being cold-hearted and insensitive louts who want to throw grandma under a bus, in truth, it is they, the Democrats, who feel free to voice death wishes for conservatives and crack funnies about conservatives dying of liver disease and in plane crashes.

It’s a natural inclination for certain people to project their own cheerless and gruesome psyches onto others as a defense mechanism to conceal their own sick and morbid thoughts. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1839)

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Impeaching Barack Hussein Obama

Impeaching Barack Hussein Obama

Another excellent reason for Republicans to regain control of the Senate and House of Representatives on November 2nd, beyond the obvious reasons of rolling back the Obama initiatives of the last 19 months and saving this country from socialism and bankruptcy, would be to impeach and bring to trial President Barack Hussein Obama.

Article 1, Section 2, of the Constitution specifies that “the House of Representatives . . . shall have the sole power of impeachment.” Article 1, Section 3, specifies, “The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments.” Article 2, Section 4, specifies that “The President, Vice President and all civil officers [including federal judges and cabinet members] of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Proving charges of treason and bribery against the president would be unlikely at best but making a foolproof case for his having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors” is entirely within the realm of the possible. . .
(Read more at Another excellent reason for Republicans to regain control of the Senate and House of Representatives on November 2nd, beyond the obvious reasons of rolling back the Obama initiatives of the last 19 months and saving this country from socialism and bankruptcy, would be to impeach and bring to trial President Barack Hussein Obama.

Article 1, Section 2, of the Constitution specifies that “the House of Representatives . . . shall have the sole power of impeachment.” Article 1, Section 3, specifies, “The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments.” Article 2, Section 4, specifies that “The President, Vice President and all civil officers [including federal judges and cabinet members] of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Proving charges of treason and bribery against the president would be unlikely at best but making a foolproof case for his having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors” is entirely within the realm of the possible. . .
Read more at Another excellent reason for Republicans to regain control of the Senate and House of Representatives on November 2nd, beyond the obvious reasons of rolling back the Obama initiatives of the last 19 months and saving this country from socialism and bankruptcy, would be to impeach and bring to trial President Barack Hussein Obama.

Article 1, Section 2, of the Constitution specifies that “the House of Representatives . . . shall have the sole power of impeachment.” Article 1, Section 3, specifies, “The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments.” Article 2, Section 4, specifies that “The President, Vice President and all civil officers [including federal judges and cabinet members] of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Proving charges of treason and bribery against the president would be unlikely at best but making a foolproof case for his having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors” is entirely within the realm of the possible. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1837)

Walker, Gay Judge?

Walker, Gay Judge?

The jury’s outrageous nullification of the evidence in the OJ Simpson case was nothing compared last week’s judicial nullification of the evidence in the Prop 8 case.

District Court Judge Vaughan R. Walker threw out thousands of years of tradition and overruled 7,oo1,084 good citizens and voters of the State of California at the same time he labelled them as irrational, hateful cowards.

In finding for the plaintiffs in the now-famous same-sex, homosexual marriage case Perry v. Schwarzenegger–the matter of Proposition 8– he didn’t quite use those words, opting instead for the more judicious language of irrational “fear” and “animus,” which amount to the same thing.

In a very revealing sentence from his decision quoted in a CNS article by Terence P. Jeffrey, he also said, “The evidence did not show any historical purpose for excluding same-sex couples from marriage . . . Rather, the exclusion exists as an artifact of a time when the genders were seen as having distinct roles in society and in marriage. That time has passed:” http://tiny.cc/hxnxs

Judge Walker thereby does not perceive “any historical purpose” for society to reserve marriage to those capable of procreation. His twisted decision is virtually palpable: Try the very perpetuation of a society, Judge Vaughn!

Furthermore, his usage of the words “artifact” the time for which had “passed” reveals the judge to be an incredibly supercilious individual who somehow felt empowered to take unto himself the right to toss out ancient precedent as nothing more significant than an old shoe and to proclaim that we are now living in his version of the astrological Age of Aquarius because the time had arrived for homosexuals in A.D. 2010.

What arrogance and presumption! . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1836)

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Predictions: Hillary, Biden, and Children under the U.N.

Predictions: Hillary, Biden, and Children under the Auspices of the United Nations

Making predictions is a cinch job and making long-term predictions is even cinchier. Like weather predictions, the predicter can always figure his audience will forget that he said, “Cloudy with an 80% chance of rain” and we end up getting a foot deep blizzard or he can always say the snow “developed out of nowhere.”

Likewise with socio-political-economic prognostications, there the prognosticator always has the out that “unforeseen circumstances” developed that made his predictions 100% inaccurate and/or hope that people forget what he said in the first place.

With that as preface, a few very plausible predictions:

Hillary Clinton for Vice President? Washington scuttlebutt of the day is that the Secretary of State may be offered the Democrat Party’s VP slot in 2012 after Foot-in-Mouth Joe Biden gracefully bows out. The theory is that Mrs. Clinton would boost the president’s sagging hopes for re-election. It’s even being suggested that the two switch jobs and that Biden goes to State after Clinton is elected: http://tiny.cc/ae6oi

Gasp!

As comical as Old Joe can be, his gaffes are usually forgiveable since the vice presidency isn’t “worth a bucket of warm spit” or “warm piss,” as John Nance Garner actually said. As Secretary of State, Biden’s inanities would be taken seriously!

PREDICTION: No way on God’s green Earth . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1835)

Monday, August 9, 2010

Abortion: Conservatives vs. the Others

Abortion: Conservatives vs. the Others

For those unaware, conservatives are far from perfect.

If proof were needed for that statement, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford provided it in spades when he chucked wife, family, office, and self-respect to go trotting off to South America to hook up with his Argentinian bimbo, Maria Belen Chapur.

However, Sanford’s excursions prove absolutely nothing with regard to conservatives in America aside from verifying that males of our human species–conservative, liberal, “moderate,” “progressive,” or homosexual–are imperfect and have a propensity to stray.

What is also indisputable is that true conservatives have an inviolable respect for life, for the societal necessity to recognize that protecting and preserving any and every stage of life as basic to civilized society, that to ignore or trample on that essential and obvious truth is to ignore and trample on that which distinguishes humans from beasts of the jungle.

That prevalent pro-life sentiment among conservatives doesn’t necessarily make them better people and doesn’t reflect a “holier than thou” attitude. It simply reflects a concern for the nature of society and the utter collapse of society’s value systems.

Any society is rightfully judged by how it treats the weakest in its midst, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1834)

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Michelle's Great Adventure as America Burns

Michelle's Great Adventure as America Burns

These aren’t the times that try men’s souls as much as they are times for some people to live large, grab all the gusto they can get, party ’til ya puke, suck long and hard on the taxpayers’ teats, forget all the misery at home and go on vacation and live in the lap of luxury before you have to return home to your ghetto at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.

Hey! If your hubby can hail Marine One and helicopter to a venue 6 miles away rather than take the plebeian mode of transportation in a limo and suffer through all those hours and days in the blazing sun of various golf courses, surely the First Lady, Michelle LaVaughan Robinson Obama, is entitled to take Second Daughter Sasha to Spain on a little tour.

No?

The fact she spent it luxuriating with 40 of her bestest bffs was merely coincidental: Sixty rooms were reserved for the entourage at the 5 star, posh Villa Padierna in Mirabella on the Costa del Sol where “rooms start at £210-a-night and stretch to around £4,100 for a villa with 24-hour butler service and private pool and garden:” http://tiny.cc/lef7c.

Reminiscent of Nero fiddling while Rome burned and compared to Marie “Let Them Eat Cake” Antoinette . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1833)

Oink, Oink

Oink, Oink, A Parable for Our Times

This is an oldie but a goodie. It’s a little parable on the inherent dangers of dependence on government largesse which in itself is a contradiction since governments really have no money to dispense, throw away, or use to buy votes. All funds that governments possess come from the people they govern or mis-govern:

HOW TO CATCH WILD PIGS

"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.

When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate on the last side.

The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again.

You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.

Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."

I was wearing a T-shirt one day that read in part, “Freedom Isn’t Free” and my 10 year old grandaughter sassily said, “That doesn’t make any sense!” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1832)

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Ice Cream Men and Other Perverts

Ice Cream Men and Other Perverts

You can thank IOwntheWorld.com for publicizing this local story out of Memphis.

It relates to that iconic summer noise and treat, those ice cream trucks that meander through America’s streets and byways during the warm months with their mind-numbing, repetitive cacophonies blaring from their speakers luring kids with their seductive music like the rat catcher, the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

In the Memphis instance, the pied piper was a guy named Onuoha Agba who operated an ice cream truck in Shelby County and who may have sold some banana nut crunchy cones or chocolate peanut surprise cups but whose business plan was far less wholesome. Agba, it is alleged, would also engage in barter, offering ice cream to little girls in exchange for their flashing him, lifting up their shirts for his perverted entertainment.

Some months ago, WSHN television had confronted Agba and accused him of employing “sex offenders and murderers” to peddle his wares. See the video of that confrontation here–and be mindful that Mr. Agba was not pleased with being confronted and the video includes some very unsavory language: http://tiny.cc/iyrsb

That report led to a new Tennessee law barring sex offenders from selling ice cream from trucks although the statute doesn’t require background checks, a measure which bona fide drivers support.

Agba’s employment practices became more transparent recently when he was arrested practicing his pedo-scam, as described in the above WSHN video. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1831)

Boring Stimulus Facts that Will Change Our Lives

Boring Stimulus Facts that Will Change Our Lives

Ever get a big wad of unexpected cash fom somewhere? Were you conflicted as to what to do with it, whether to just go out and blow it, pay off bills, or save it for a rainy day?

The Obama administration had no such conflict, no doubts at all as to what to do with the $862 billion windfall it got its hands on as a result of the critically-needed 657 page stimulus bill last year, to which Democrats assigned the grandiose title of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Like any good drunken Democrat, they pissed it away.

The result has been no economic recovery, no “reinvestment,” (whatever that meant), and certainly no stimulus felt by the economy or the American people. Employment remains at an intolerable 9.5% a full 17 months after Obama’s stimulus package was passed by Obama’s Democrat congress and after the president promised that its passage would keep the unemployment rate at 8% or less.

One could say that we were snookered except for the fact that the snookering, as well as all the other Obamian boondoggles perpetrated on the American people, will not only affect us, the taxpayers. Our kids and grandkids will be paying off much of the tab into the next century.

And now Obama and his merry band of spendthrift Democrats want yet another “stimulus package” to piss away.

The inmates have clearly taken over the asylum.

Republicans, who also screwed up during the Bush years with their irrational exuberance for spending our and our kids’ and grandkids’ hard-earned bucks, have nothing to crow about but at least the deficits they built up during those years were believable if obscene. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1830)

Friday, August 6, 2010

New Black Icon Bites the Dust: The Sherrods, Slavemasters

New Black Icon Bites the Dust: The Sherrods, Slavemasters

All social movements require a hero or a heroine, someone who exemplifies the goals and aspirations of the movement, someone to admire as an icon, someone to point to as a model for their younger members to emulate.

Communist Cubans had their Che’, liberal Americans have their Obama, farmworkers had their Chavez, and African-Americans recently crowned a new heroine, Shirley Sherrod. Her status was upgraded to icon after her dust up with the NAACP, the USDA, the president, and Andrew Breitbart over a video excerpt.

Now it turns out that even if the video was misleading and Sherrod wasn’t preaching race hatred, she, and her husband Charles, are hardly pure as the driven snow. Both have a seamy history of virtual enslavement, discrimination, and gross mistreatment of their farm workers in the 1970’s.

No doubt that record will be dismissed as ancient history by some of Sherrod’s champions but it’s difficult to dismiss out of hand unless we also discount and dismiss all instances of discrimination if they took place thirty or so years ago.

I say “some champions” will defend her since it’s far from all.

Among those who have exposed Sherrod’s past is none other than Joe R. Hicks, former director of a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) chapter and Ron Wilkins, former organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), two black activist organizations. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1829)

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Homosexuals Win a Battle But Not the War

Homosexuals Win a Battle But not the War

Once again, a federal court has overturned, if not spat upon, the will of the people.

As in Massachusetts last month where another federal judge threw out key provisions of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, saying “that it is unconstitutional to define marriage only as a union between a man and a woman,” California’s Proposition 8 was struck down by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughan Walker on the same grounds.

Prop 8, passed on November 4th, 2008 by a vote of 52.5% to 47.5% in one of the most liberal states in the nation, read simply, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

That date, of course, will live in infamy as the date on which Barack Hussein Obama was elected president of the United States. Californians helped elect him, apparently oblivious of the fact he forcefully opposed DOMA, the federal version of Prop 8.

Inconsistently, the pro-gay president has also said he does not support same-sex marriage.

So, the battle lines have been re-drawn just as they were before and after the Proposition 8 vote, and battle lines are not an exaggeration.

Back in 2008, the campaign by homosexuals to defeat the ballot measure was marked by threats of violence against its backers and, following passage, homosexuals launched a nationwide, virtual rampage in protest.

Their targets were primarily Catholics and Catholic churches and Mormons and their Church Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. When those efforts at intimidation and calls for a reversal failed, gays took to the courts as they always do to nullify the majority opinion.

(For more details on the events before and after November 4th, 2008, see “The Gay Battle against the Will of the People Parts One and Two,” http://tiny.cc/fvcwu and http://tiny.cc/6kgns)

That battle was re-joined before and during the California case, Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, and the decision was a foregone conclusion.

Governor Arnold refused to defend his own state’s law, the suit was filed in San Francisco which voted down the proposition 3 to 1, and Judge Walker agreed to have the proceedings put on YouTube against the recommendation of the U.S. Supreme Court. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1828)

It's About Time Someone Punched Back!

It's About Time Someone Punched Back!

Let’s face it. As a group, conservatives are too often weenies, just too damned meek for their own good.

Granted, the second Beatitude reads, “The meek shall inherit the Earth” but before that can happen we have to battle defamation, promote truth, challenge the defamers, and win elections. Humility, docility, and submissiveness just won’t cut it nowadays.

With virtually the entirety of the mainstream media on the other side, it’s no easy task to battle, promote, and challenge the left, the liberals, the “progressives” so it’s good to see some degree of resistance and retaliation such as that demonstrated yesterday by the Tea Party.

That much-maligned, amorphous and diverse collection of Americans, blacks, whites, elders, young people, Democrats, Republicans, independents, libertarians, and moderates are concerned primarily about excessive taxation, (TEA=Taxed Enough Already), big government and everything associated with big government including its primary exponent, President Barack Obama.

It is the Tea Party’s opposition to Obama that has inspired most of the brickbats hurled its way.

Even before Obama’s election, it was widely expected that any criticism of the president would be contorted into charges of racism . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1825)

Religious Hypocrisy and the Denver Broncos (Separate Issues)

Religious Hypocrisy and the Denver Broncos (Separate Issues)

Of the 5,100 bishops in the Catholic Church worldwide, nary a one is a woman, unless we count Bishopress Nancy Pelosi of the First Congressional Church of God who occasionally tends to act and speak as if she were an ordained prelate of the Church.

Her chief problem in that role of bishopress is similar to the one Pelosi faces as Speakerette of the House of Representatives: She doesn’t know what she’s talking about and, when she does speak, she rambles incoherently and much of her audience is more preoccupied in identifying where she got her last Botox shot rather than in the words of Catholic religious wisdom she vainly attempts to impart.

Pelosi ”publicly stated earlier this year that she had a duty to pursue policies ‘in keeping with the values’ of Jesus Christ, the ‘Word made Flesh.’ But at a press briefing last week, when reminded of this statement, Pelosi declined to say when Jesus got the right to life.”

Poor Pelosi was in a sorry state, faced with a positively preposterous problem, a querulous quandary.

In that, Pelosi was akin to some Denver Bronco fans but more about them later.

Bishopress Nancy, a nominal Catholic, was confronted with a conundrum: How can a Catholic, nominal or not, legislatress defend the values of Jesus Christ, the Word made Flesh, and at the same time be an ardent supporter not only of abortion but of the most radical type of abortions, infanticide in the form of what doctors call intact dilation and extraction?

She thought and thought and thought about the question of when Jesus earned the right to life and then responded by saying, “Whenever it was, we bow our heads when we talk about it in church, and that’s where I’d like to talk about that.”

Umm, duh and wow!

Pelosi outdid herself on that one, not only by refusing to answer but by lying that “we bow our heads when we talk about it in church. . ."
(read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1827)

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Racism In (and Outside) America

Racism In (and Outside) America

Probably the 3 most pathetic news items to hit the wires in the last 24 hours are the desparate efforts of Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Charles Rangel to blame their ethical violations on racism and the effort of the family of mass murderer Omar Thornton to do likewise.

They’re pathetic but explicable in the racially-charged atmosphere and race-baiting the Obama administration has created in this country.

Gallup has released its latest poll on the president’s job approval ratings revealing, in a nutshell, that there is a marked racial component in how African-Americans think and function.

Gallup reports that “Obama’s job approval ratings among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in July are all at their lowest levels to date, although the overwhelming majority of blacks still approve.”

Thus, in post-racial America, it seems that quite a few people still operate on a racial plane. Blacks, especially, approve of and will undoubtedly again vote for Obama come 2012 although their approval has slipped to a still robust 88% in July as opposed to the 96% that voted for him just 20 months ago.

Since only 38% of whites now approve of the job Obama has been doing, a 50% difference, something seems awry. Compared with the 2008 tally when Obama garnered 43% of the white vote, that’s a very significant disparity since blacks only comprised 13% of the overall vote and whites 74%: http://tiny.cc/ktxwp

So what do we make of that plethora of numbers? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1824)

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Senate Censorship and the New Black Panther Party

Senate Censorship and the New Black Panther Party

The chronically dysfunctional United States Senate, formerly “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” and the House of Representatives, have devolved into ultra-exclusive clubs for Democrats where Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi conduct business and wield power as if they are blind, partisan tools of the autocratic Obama regime.

Cesar Chavez, the Castro Duet, and every other world despot would be so very proud.

Acting like a rubber stamp for Obama, the Senate has adopted a policy of shutting out Republican input, such as during the long, volatile health care debate and more recently with the unemployment extension, and then brazenly denouncing the GOP for obstructionism.

Vermont’s Senator Pat Leahy is the latest to demonstrate that we are now living with a government of, by, and for the Democrats who have as much respect for the American people as they do for the loyal opposition which, when they were in control, often chose bi-partisanship over strictly one-party rule.

Fools.

Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, last week attempted to squelch and censor further inquiry into the mushrooming scandal surrounding Eric Holder’s Justice Department, the black racist New Black Panther Party, and the dropping of the virtually air-tight case of voter intimidation against the NBPP by the Obama-Holder DOJ. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1822)

Cojones and Our Ruling Enemy

Cojones and Our Ruling Enemy

Whatever the Left says about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, and they say a great deal, they can never say she fails to speak her mind.

You betcha, she does!

Like VP Joe Biden, but devoid of Biden’s inanity, Palin tends to think out loud as she did on “Fox News Sunday” in commenting on President Obama and his administration’s selective enforcement of the law.

When Governor Jan Brewer and the state of Arizona elected to enforce federal immigration law since the federal government has failed to do so, Obama and his Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security denounced the Arizona statute, SB1070, without bothering to read it, then went to court to sue a sovereign state.

Essentially, the administration contended that Arizona had no right to usurp federal law which superseded state law. They won a temporary injunction levied by United States District Court Judge Susan Bolton.

Governor Palin objected not only to the lawsuit but to the federal government’s failure to enforce its own laws equally. Arizona was deemed not in compliance but the 31 American cities which are self-designated “sanctuary cities” and which have instituted ordinances, effectively local laws, in violation of federal laws were given a free pass.

Among other issues, Palin addressed that inequity, that selective law enforcement, and denounced the president as lacking “the cojones” which Governor Brewer has: http://tiny.cc/w6sgp

Aside from the technical impossibility of a woman possessing those male appurtenances, Palin’s remark is right on the money. (Incidentally, before liberals start attacking Palin for having a potty mouth, then-U.N. ambassador Madelyn Albright used the same graphic terminology in reference to Cubans back in 1996.)

Obama and Company wink at cities . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1821)

Hyperbole Morphing into Reality: America's Looming Revolution?

Hyperbole Morphing into Reality: America's Looming Revolution?

It’s easy to engage in negative hyperbole in discussing the current president even if that exaggeration sometimes seems unfair.

His policies, his associations, the statutes and regulations he and his swampy congress have pushed through, the now-exposed media conspiracy to grease his way into office and cover up his gaffes and flaws, the national upheaval and divisiveness he has created naturally lend themselves, and him, to occasional, irrational overreaction.

No president has ever won the hearts and minds of 100% of the American people; even George Washington was disparaged by some former Tories. However, from his inauguration and in the campaign leading up to November 4th, 2008 when he so often slipped and tipped his hand as to his true designs on the country, this chief executive escaped general distrust.

At the inauguration he insisted on taking the oath of office using the middle name he never really used; during his run for the presidency he kept preaching but never defined “change” and slipped and admitted what should have been incriminating ideas such as his Saul Alinsky-Marxist plan to “share the wealth.”

The mass media let it all slide, never doing its job, never inquiring and investigating his reasons for suddenly invoking the name Hussein, never asking what specifically he meant by sharing the wealth and just how he would accomplish that redistribution of Americans’ hard-earned money.

The bitter fruits of his socialistic thinking and scheming are daily becoming more and more apparent so is it any surprise that people, many of whom supported and voted for him just 20 months ago, have become so disenchanted, frustrated, and furious with Barack Hussein Obama that their emotions sometimes get the best of them and they hyperbolize their feelings? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1820)

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Overstepping Part Three--Prince Charles, Savior of the World

Overstepping Part Three--Prince Charles, Savior of the World

I lost all respect for England’s Prince Charles after I read that he was overheard via an illicit telephone tap telling his illicit lover Camilla Parker Bowles that he wanted to be reincarnated as her tampon.

Or maybe it was when I heard that among the duties of his faithful man servant Michael Fawcett was to squeeze toothpaste onto the prince’s toothbrush and to hold the cup while the prince gave a urine sample.

Or maybe I’m lying and I never did have any respect for Charles Phillip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Lord of the Isles, Duke of Rothesay, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Chief Royal Cook and Most Noble Bottlewasher.

Okay, he really doesn’t have that last title but he has been granted the others and a few dozen more.

All those undeserved, honorary titles have finally gone to his head and penetrated that miniscule royal brain lodged between those Dumbo/Obama ears and he’s so delusional now that, as the UK’s Daily Mail is reporting, “The Prince of Wales says he believes he has been placed on Earth as future King ‘for a purpose’–to save the world.”

That belief may be wrong on various counts, the first of which is that he may not be the future king of England, with or without a purpose. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1818)

Overstepping: Part Two--Lame Ducks and Amnesty

Overstepping: Part Two--Lame Ducks and Amnesty

You’ll never go broke betting on the treachery and deceitfulness of politicians.

We saw a classic example last week with the unemployment extension which Democrats could have passed on their own but instead insisted on a two-thirds vote rather than a simple majority in order to embarrass the Republicans three months before the elections.

It lost, as per the Dem plan.

Democrats seem to be plotting more treacherous shenanigans with regard to the amnesty for illegals issue, something Obama and his storm troopers would love to grant in order to garner millions more votes when amnesty is followed by citizenship. And what better time could there be to pull off that scam than during a lame duck session following November 2nd should the Democrats lose the House?

Charles Krauthammer suggests that ousted and retiring Dems, with nothing to lose and no backlash to face, could use those 2 1/2 months before the 112th congress convenes in January to foist all kinds of ideologically controversial laws on the American people before they vacate the premises . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1817)

Overstepping: Part One--the Insult that Is the Monster Mosque

Overstepping: Part One--The Insult that Is the Monster Mosque

Now that Chelsea and Marc’s nuptials are over and I can take a deep breath and my heart can stop excessively pittypatting from the excitement, we can all sit back and wait for news on whether a ketuba was signed, a canopy used, and a glass broken as is all traditional in Jewish wedding ceremonies.

It’s hard to imagine after that star-studded multi-million dollar event staged by luminaries of the Democrat Party of the Common People that other things were actually happening in the world, things that reflected an obtuseness, an ignorance of the fact that one can push just so far before people will push back, things that showed people were overstepping their bounds.

Examples of recent overstepping involve the Monster Mosque at Ground Zero, the sneaky shenanigans on amnesty on Capitol Hill, and the future king of England, never the brightest color in the royal crayon box, once more making a complete ass of himself.

The Mosque: In an interview with NY1, New York Republican candidate for governor, Carl Paladino, who has as much chance of being elected as Mayor Bloomberg would have being elected mayor of Riyadh, was free to speak his mind. His mind, soul, and body are viscerally committed to preventing the erection of a huge mosque, cultural center, library, restaurant, gymnasium, auditorium two and a half blocks from Ground Zero. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1816)