2011 April Fools
There are so many eligible candidates for 2011′s April Fools Awards that it’s difficult to choose the most worthy but I have narrowed down the best by limiting them to the most current in their various fields. . . Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. April Fools such as Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Charlie Sheen, Bill Maher, David Ferrer, Barry Bonds, and the NYPD rush in when propriety, honesty, decency, and common sense are tossed. Give me good, old fashioned circus clowns anyday!
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4029)
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
MLB and Barry Bonds' Bulging Bean
MLB and Barry Bonds' Bulging Bean
“There Can Be No Good Ending to the Bonds Perjury Trial” reads a headline on SportingNews.com.
The author, Rich Couch, then discusses said trial, debating whether it is in fact a perjury or a steroid trial, the testimony of Bonds’ long-time mistress, Kimberly Bell, the element of racism, Sammy Sosa’s feigned language challenges under oath, and the related matter of admitted steroid-user Mark Mcguire who “is slowly being forgiven” and now serves as the St. Louis batting coach.
Now in its second week, Bonds’ trial is indeed a sticky wicket and this week became a voyeuristic delight: Bell testified concerning Bonds’ mean and violent streaks, steroid side effects of impotency and, to put it delicately, shriveling of certain body parts. Bonds’ lawyers countered the latter by touting his multiple affairs as proof of his sexual potency and lack of shriveling at the same time they sleazily attempted to paint Bell as an ungrateful, money-grubbing slut.
It doesn’t get any better–or worse, depending on your point of view–on primetime TV!
The most pronounced and most publicly visible side effect of using illegal anabolic steroids, a synthetic hormone, is bulking up virtually every area of the body, virtually as Bell testified, including head size. Bonds’ head bulged by half an inch.
Coincidental with his alleged but denied steroid use, the son of Bobby Bonds and cousin of Reggie Jackson went from being a good ball player on the San Francisco Giants to a Hall of Fame-quality athlete who set records that may never be broken.
He and baseball fans saw his home run totals grow from an excellent output of 49 in 2000 to an astounding 73 the next year. His batting average climbed from .262, slugging average .617 in 1999, when Bell says he had a steroid-caused elbow injury, to .362 with a slugging average climbing to an even more astounding .863 in 2001. He ended his career breaking Mcguire’s single season homer record with 73 and Hank Aaron’s career total with 762.
Babe Ruth’s record of hitting the equivalent of a rolled up sock out of the park 714 times under the influence of just beer and hot dogs was long gone but either Barry had suddenly discovered an amazing groove in a short period of time or he’s a liar.
Kimberly Bell may have her own fish to fry and may still be annoyed at being dumped and being marooned in Houston by Bonds after 9/11 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4014)
“There Can Be No Good Ending to the Bonds Perjury Trial” reads a headline on SportingNews.com.
The author, Rich Couch, then discusses said trial, debating whether it is in fact a perjury or a steroid trial, the testimony of Bonds’ long-time mistress, Kimberly Bell, the element of racism, Sammy Sosa’s feigned language challenges under oath, and the related matter of admitted steroid-user Mark Mcguire who “is slowly being forgiven” and now serves as the St. Louis batting coach.
Now in its second week, Bonds’ trial is indeed a sticky wicket and this week became a voyeuristic delight: Bell testified concerning Bonds’ mean and violent streaks, steroid side effects of impotency and, to put it delicately, shriveling of certain body parts. Bonds’ lawyers countered the latter by touting his multiple affairs as proof of his sexual potency and lack of shriveling at the same time they sleazily attempted to paint Bell as an ungrateful, money-grubbing slut.
It doesn’t get any better–or worse, depending on your point of view–on primetime TV!
The most pronounced and most publicly visible side effect of using illegal anabolic steroids, a synthetic hormone, is bulking up virtually every area of the body, virtually as Bell testified, including head size. Bonds’ head bulged by half an inch.
Coincidental with his alleged but denied steroid use, the son of Bobby Bonds and cousin of Reggie Jackson went from being a good ball player on the San Francisco Giants to a Hall of Fame-quality athlete who set records that may never be broken.
He and baseball fans saw his home run totals grow from an excellent output of 49 in 2000 to an astounding 73 the next year. His batting average climbed from .262, slugging average .617 in 1999, when Bell says he had a steroid-caused elbow injury, to .362 with a slugging average climbing to an even more astounding .863 in 2001. He ended his career breaking Mcguire’s single season homer record with 73 and Hank Aaron’s career total with 762.
Babe Ruth’s record of hitting the equivalent of a rolled up sock out of the park 714 times under the influence of just beer and hot dogs was long gone but either Barry had suddenly discovered an amazing groove in a short period of time or he’s a liar.
Kimberly Bell may have her own fish to fry and may still be annoyed at being dumped and being marooned in Houston by Bonds after 9/11 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4014)
Monday, March 28, 2011
Attempted Media Murder
Attempted Media Murder
You’re known as much by the enemies you keep as you are by your friends.
America’s liberal mainstream media, long accustomed to virtually absolute dominance of both print and the airwaves, was initially unperturbed when Rush Limbaugh arrived on the scene in 1984 and it ho-hummed the inauguration of the Fox News Channel on cable barely 14 years ago since it had a steel grip on what ideas and news were disseminated for public consumption.
No more.
Since Limbaugh’s amazing success and the growth of conservative talk radio in general and, especially since Fox has galloped so far ahead of CNN, MSNBC and other leftist cable channels that the MSM can barely see its haunches in the distance, mainstreamers have grown, in turn, wary, concerned and recently apoplectic over the loss of its previous monopolistic control over what people hear, see, and think.
Of course, they still have a lock on televised news via ABC, CBS, and NBC and public radio with NPR but those networks are in rapid decline much like the New York Times. Unlike the Times, they may survive as minimalist news sources with their little niche of viewers who don’t have or want cable and listeners who prefer to be force-fed pap by NPR.
However, leftwingers aren’t about to surrender to Fox, yet.
In fact, at least one influential member of that media has now declared war, an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against the Fox News Network which has morphed into an enemy rather than a competitor. Even worse, it’s an alleged arm of the Republican Party and that can no longer be tolerated nor will contentions the Democrats have owned the MSM for decades.
You’re known by the enemies you keep. You also know those enemies are being driven frantic by your success and influence when they declare all-out war. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4002)
You’re known as much by the enemies you keep as you are by your friends.
America’s liberal mainstream media, long accustomed to virtually absolute dominance of both print and the airwaves, was initially unperturbed when Rush Limbaugh arrived on the scene in 1984 and it ho-hummed the inauguration of the Fox News Channel on cable barely 14 years ago since it had a steel grip on what ideas and news were disseminated for public consumption.
No more.
Since Limbaugh’s amazing success and the growth of conservative talk radio in general and, especially since Fox has galloped so far ahead of CNN, MSNBC and other leftist cable channels that the MSM can barely see its haunches in the distance, mainstreamers have grown, in turn, wary, concerned and recently apoplectic over the loss of its previous monopolistic control over what people hear, see, and think.
Of course, they still have a lock on televised news via ABC, CBS, and NBC and public radio with NPR but those networks are in rapid decline much like the New York Times. Unlike the Times, they may survive as minimalist news sources with their little niche of viewers who don’t have or want cable and listeners who prefer to be force-fed pap by NPR.
However, leftwingers aren’t about to surrender to Fox, yet.
In fact, at least one influential member of that media has now declared war, an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against the Fox News Network which has morphed into an enemy rather than a competitor. Even worse, it’s an alleged arm of the Republican Party and that can no longer be tolerated nor will contentions the Democrats have owned the MSM for decades.
You’re known by the enemies you keep. You also know those enemies are being driven frantic by your success and influence when they declare all-out war. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4002)
Not So Gay News
Not So Gay News
Homosexuals and their supporters are nothing if not indefatigable, and devious. Since Obama became president, they’ve grown even more relentless in their pursuit of acceptance by the straight world and they’re succeeding by virtual gazelle leaps.
With the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Act killed by the the lame duck Democrat Congress last session–and the Defense of Marriage Act in its death throes by executive fiat–implementation of the military’s new policy of tolerance of homosexual behavior has begun, starting with indoctrinating commanding officers and working its way down to the grunts.
Even the Marine Corps, whose commandant had voiced strong opposition to repealing DADT, has caved. Bible-believing chaplains are bearing the brunt of the responsibility of explaining why the government is right and the Bible is wrong. Gay Marines hugging and kissing will now be considered as acceptable and “appropriate:” http://bit.ly/hqSOuc
The appropriateness of other homosexual practices and whether engaging in them during combat has yet to be addressed.
With their right to subvert the military now ensured, homosexuals are now able to focus on their primary interest, converting the young to believing that the gay lifestyle is nothing more or less than a variation on the norm, if not more normal than normal.
They’ve learned Communism’s lesson well, to get them while they’re young.
Of late, in order to end run around increasing awareness of their aims, they’ve also learned to cloak their schemes with the mantle of school lessons in health to get kids attuned to sexual body parts and to attune them early. After all, sexualizing kids young is advantageous when you later try to pervert their sexuality.
The annual student indoctrination has resumed in the hottest bed of homosexuality in the land, the State of Massachusetts, which just launched what one Bay State mother calls its “wrong rite of spring.” It features kindergarteners learning anatomy and essential vocabulary and “a list words that included not only penis and vagina, but also scrotum and vulva!”
Wait, you say, sick, yes, but what’s so gay about all that? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3991)
Homosexuals and their supporters are nothing if not indefatigable, and devious. Since Obama became president, they’ve grown even more relentless in their pursuit of acceptance by the straight world and they’re succeeding by virtual gazelle leaps.
With the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Act killed by the the lame duck Democrat Congress last session–and the Defense of Marriage Act in its death throes by executive fiat–implementation of the military’s new policy of tolerance of homosexual behavior has begun, starting with indoctrinating commanding officers and working its way down to the grunts.
Even the Marine Corps, whose commandant had voiced strong opposition to repealing DADT, has caved. Bible-believing chaplains are bearing the brunt of the responsibility of explaining why the government is right and the Bible is wrong. Gay Marines hugging and kissing will now be considered as acceptable and “appropriate:” http://bit.ly/hqSOuc
The appropriateness of other homosexual practices and whether engaging in them during combat has yet to be addressed.
With their right to subvert the military now ensured, homosexuals are now able to focus on their primary interest, converting the young to believing that the gay lifestyle is nothing more or less than a variation on the norm, if not more normal than normal.
They’ve learned Communism’s lesson well, to get them while they’re young.
Of late, in order to end run around increasing awareness of their aims, they’ve also learned to cloak their schemes with the mantle of school lessons in health to get kids attuned to sexual body parts and to attune them early. After all, sexualizing kids young is advantageous when you later try to pervert their sexuality.
The annual student indoctrination has resumed in the hottest bed of homosexuality in the land, the State of Massachusetts, which just launched what one Bay State mother calls its “wrong rite of spring.” It features kindergarteners learning anatomy and essential vocabulary and “a list words that included not only penis and vagina, but also scrotum and vulva!”
Wait, you say, sick, yes, but what’s so gay about all that? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3991)
Sunday, March 27, 2011
A Preview of Obama's Libya Speech
A Preview of Obama's Libya Speech
Our president plans, finally, to address the nation on his actions, and inactions, regarding Moammar Khadafy, Libya, maybe the United Nations, maybe NATO, maybe Hillary, maybe the price of keffiyehs in Tripoli.
Speech well-prepared, trusty teleprompters at the ready, President Barack Hussein Obama will take the Oval Office seat, long disinfected of Clinton droppings, and try to explain . . .
It was amusing when Prissy famously said in GWTW, ”I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ babies.” It’s terrifying when an American president effectively says, ”I don’t know nothin’ ’bout what tha hell is goin’ on in the world.” He also knows nothin’ ’bout being president.
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3984)
Our president plans, finally, to address the nation on his actions, and inactions, regarding Moammar Khadafy, Libya, maybe the United Nations, maybe NATO, maybe Hillary, maybe the price of keffiyehs in Tripoli.
Speech well-prepared, trusty teleprompters at the ready, President Barack Hussein Obama will take the Oval Office seat, long disinfected of Clinton droppings, and try to explain . . .
It was amusing when Prissy famously said in GWTW, ”I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ babies.” It’s terrifying when an American president effectively says, ”I don’t know nothin’ ’bout what tha hell is goin’ on in the world.” He also knows nothin’ ’bout being president.
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3984)
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Muslim France, Hispanic America
Muslim France, Hispanic America
I don’t want to rip France too much since France did help in our Revolution and President Nicolas Sarkozy did step to the Libyan plate while Barry O. begged permission from the United Nations to do something, anything, about Moammar. Nevertheless, let’s face it, France’s glory days are long gone.
France should serve as an object lesson for America in how to surrender national identity, if not sovereignty, without firing a shot.
World War One began the death rattle of French pretensions to significance, World War Two and Vichy confirmed it, De Gaulle simply refused to accept it.
Ironically, France’s next election may see the populist President Sarkozy losing to either a Jewish socialist or to an extreme rightist, which is ironic because it doesn’t really matter who wins. The French Republic is on an irreversible course to becoming the French Islamic Republic as Muslims gradually undermine the country, institute enclaves of sharia law, and the French are, once again, rolling over and playing dead.
With at least 5% of its population Muslim and very fertile Muslims comprising almost 70% of new immigrants, France accelerated the process of national suicide for practical, economic reasons. They needed bodies to man their factories and staff other positions native Frenchmen felt were beneath their dignity. They invited Muslim immigrants to fill that need, and the immigrants obligingly complied.
Now, like guests who overextend their visits, they not only have full intentions of staying indefinitely but are making little effort to comply with house rules.
Sound familiar?
Sarkozy has made some indignant noises as to the Muslim threat to the national and European identity of France declaring that efforts at multiculturalism have been “a failure” insofar as its burgeoning, assimilation-rejecting Islamic population was concerned. Sarkozy was echoing similar warnings from Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron who unequivocably announced in the same context that “state multiculturalism is dead:” http://bit.ly/f7CxwY
Both Sarkozy and Cameron were attempting too late to stem an inexorable Islamic tide which they could only forestall at this juncture via restrictive immigration and social policies which have little likelihood of implementation due to Muslim resistance and probable rioting which would dwarf earlier experiences.
Sad to say, France, Britain and other European nations, notably Belgium and the Netherlands, deserve what they’re getting.
France, especially, long ago abnegated any claims to national or cultural integrity when it sold out its heritage for expediency . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3977)
I don’t want to rip France too much since France did help in our Revolution and President Nicolas Sarkozy did step to the Libyan plate while Barry O. begged permission from the United Nations to do something, anything, about Moammar. Nevertheless, let’s face it, France’s glory days are long gone.
France should serve as an object lesson for America in how to surrender national identity, if not sovereignty, without firing a shot.
World War One began the death rattle of French pretensions to significance, World War Two and Vichy confirmed it, De Gaulle simply refused to accept it.
Ironically, France’s next election may see the populist President Sarkozy losing to either a Jewish socialist or to an extreme rightist, which is ironic because it doesn’t really matter who wins. The French Republic is on an irreversible course to becoming the French Islamic Republic as Muslims gradually undermine the country, institute enclaves of sharia law, and the French are, once again, rolling over and playing dead.
With at least 5% of its population Muslim and very fertile Muslims comprising almost 70% of new immigrants, France accelerated the process of national suicide for practical, economic reasons. They needed bodies to man their factories and staff other positions native Frenchmen felt were beneath their dignity. They invited Muslim immigrants to fill that need, and the immigrants obligingly complied.
Now, like guests who overextend their visits, they not only have full intentions of staying indefinitely but are making little effort to comply with house rules.
Sound familiar?
Sarkozy has made some indignant noises as to the Muslim threat to the national and European identity of France declaring that efforts at multiculturalism have been “a failure” insofar as its burgeoning, assimilation-rejecting Islamic population was concerned. Sarkozy was echoing similar warnings from Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron who unequivocably announced in the same context that “state multiculturalism is dead:” http://bit.ly/f7CxwY
Both Sarkozy and Cameron were attempting too late to stem an inexorable Islamic tide which they could only forestall at this juncture via restrictive immigration and social policies which have little likelihood of implementation due to Muslim resistance and probable rioting which would dwarf earlier experiences.
Sad to say, France, Britain and other European nations, notably Belgium and the Netherlands, deserve what they’re getting.
France, especially, long ago abnegated any claims to national or cultural integrity when it sold out its heritage for expediency . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3977)
Friday, March 25, 2011
Sex, American and Muslim Style
Sex American and Muslim Style
Sex may be the most popular indoor sport in the Western World, but not so much in Muslim countries.
To clarify, that sport may simply be more public in America and Europe. Based on rates of procreation and the 1.2 billion or so Muslims in the world, adherents to the Koran seem to indulge even more than we do or, at least, care not a fig whether or not they make a baby every time they make whoopie, within Koranic constraints, of course.
Good benefactors of the Earth that we are, we’re more responsible in the procreation aspect of sexual activity even as we encourage “doing it.”
Indeed, we’re very keen on that responsibility, so keen that many of our high schools and middle schools teach safe sex and distribute free condoms to all takers no matter their ages so that the cultural and media encouragement don’t overwhelm rational discretion.
Rationality isn’t usually considered a major facet of teen thought yet that age group appears to be the prime focus of primetime media. Witness “Glee” and the countless other gleeful tv shows which feature and promote teenage sexual experimentation and practice.
They would include ABC’s “Family Channel” with its lineup of such shows as “Pretty Little Liars” and “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.” In a single episode of the latter gem, ABC managed to incorporate 70 references to sex. Count them: http://bit.ly/eiILFN
On the other hand, Islamic television wouldn’t be caught dead televising such smut.
Muslims are taught they are superior to us infidels in all things. Mayhem, murder, and jihad are perfectly acceptable but sexual discretion and restraint are mandates, for half the population, according to the Koran. It requires intercourse at certain times and promises slews of virgins as rewards for good Muslim men but don’t talk about it–or televise it–at the risk of annoying Allah and losing your head, like adulterous Muslim women.
At the same time, strict Islamists require that females . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3973)
Sex may be the most popular indoor sport in the Western World, but not so much in Muslim countries.
To clarify, that sport may simply be more public in America and Europe. Based on rates of procreation and the 1.2 billion or so Muslims in the world, adherents to the Koran seem to indulge even more than we do or, at least, care not a fig whether or not they make a baby every time they make whoopie, within Koranic constraints, of course.
Good benefactors of the Earth that we are, we’re more responsible in the procreation aspect of sexual activity even as we encourage “doing it.”
Indeed, we’re very keen on that responsibility, so keen that many of our high schools and middle schools teach safe sex and distribute free condoms to all takers no matter their ages so that the cultural and media encouragement don’t overwhelm rational discretion.
Rationality isn’t usually considered a major facet of teen thought yet that age group appears to be the prime focus of primetime media. Witness “Glee” and the countless other gleeful tv shows which feature and promote teenage sexual experimentation and practice.
They would include ABC’s “Family Channel” with its lineup of such shows as “Pretty Little Liars” and “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.” In a single episode of the latter gem, ABC managed to incorporate 70 references to sex. Count them: http://bit.ly/eiILFN
On the other hand, Islamic television wouldn’t be caught dead televising such smut.
Muslims are taught they are superior to us infidels in all things. Mayhem, murder, and jihad are perfectly acceptable but sexual discretion and restraint are mandates, for half the population, according to the Koran. It requires intercourse at certain times and promises slews of virgins as rewards for good Muslim men but don’t talk about it–or televise it–at the risk of annoying Allah and losing your head, like adulterous Muslim women.
At the same time, strict Islamists require that females . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3973)
Race, Abortion, and Al Sharpton
Race, Abortion, and Al Sharpton
A few weeks back, a New York City billboard depicting an innocent, young black girl and the caption, “The Most Dangerous Place for an African American Is in the Womb,” sent Al Sharpton and friends into racial spasms.
He threw around words such as offensive, condescending, racial profiling, stigmatizing, and shameful even though the billboard message was statistically true. Various studies have shown that 42%-60% of black babies in America are aborted annually but don’t confuse Sharpton with facts. He objected because it sought to ”discredit the work of Planned Parenthood” and “discourages a [black] woman’s right to choose:” http://bit.ly/h01UGV
As always, Al the Wordsmith was spot on.
The billboard was trying to discourage black girls and women from continuing to fulfill the black genocidal goals of the racist eugenecist Margaret Sanger, the founder and inspiration for Planned Parenthood. However, the billboard sponsor, ThatsAbortion.com, http://bit.ly/hlO4pC, doesn’t contribute to Sharpton’s various enterprises designed to keep Al from getting a real job.
Poor Al is liable to suffer more spasms over recent news.
Ariana Huffington’s HufPo’s less than objective headline, “Arizona Legislators Pass Paranoid Abortion Bill,” which bill in reality is simply aimed at preventing abortions based on the race or gender of the fetus, was rendered almost moot by an Associated Press report of even more widespread abortion paranoia. The AP reports that dozens of anti-abortion bills are advancing though state legislatures nationwide.
True to Sharpton form, the AP characterizes the measures as “an array of new obstacles–legal, financial and psychological–in the paths of women seeking abortions.”
The AP defines that array as “tactics” which vary and include the underhanded ploys on the parts of pro-life lawmakers to require “mandatory sonograms and anti-abortion counseling, sweeping limits on insurance coverage, bans on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy:” http://apne.ws/gJH7X0.
Imagine! Those dastardly pro-lifers want women and girls, black and white, to actually see what they’re killing. They want someone to sit down and discuss the termination of the lives of their pre-borns. They want them to pay for the executions. They want them not to murder their fully-formed, often viable fetuses.
How barbaric of them!
Compounding Big Al’s consternation over aborting black babies is yet another report exposing his favorite abortion mills’ and Margaret Sanger’s commitment to exterminating the black race . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3971)
A few weeks back, a New York City billboard depicting an innocent, young black girl and the caption, “The Most Dangerous Place for an African American Is in the Womb,” sent Al Sharpton and friends into racial spasms.
He threw around words such as offensive, condescending, racial profiling, stigmatizing, and shameful even though the billboard message was statistically true. Various studies have shown that 42%-60% of black babies in America are aborted annually but don’t confuse Sharpton with facts. He objected because it sought to ”discredit the work of Planned Parenthood” and “discourages a [black] woman’s right to choose:” http://bit.ly/h01UGV
As always, Al the Wordsmith was spot on.
The billboard was trying to discourage black girls and women from continuing to fulfill the black genocidal goals of the racist eugenecist Margaret Sanger, the founder and inspiration for Planned Parenthood. However, the billboard sponsor, ThatsAbortion.com, http://bit.ly/hlO4pC, doesn’t contribute to Sharpton’s various enterprises designed to keep Al from getting a real job.
Poor Al is liable to suffer more spasms over recent news.
Ariana Huffington’s HufPo’s less than objective headline, “Arizona Legislators Pass Paranoid Abortion Bill,” which bill in reality is simply aimed at preventing abortions based on the race or gender of the fetus, was rendered almost moot by an Associated Press report of even more widespread abortion paranoia. The AP reports that dozens of anti-abortion bills are advancing though state legislatures nationwide.
True to Sharpton form, the AP characterizes the measures as “an array of new obstacles–legal, financial and psychological–in the paths of women seeking abortions.”
The AP defines that array as “tactics” which vary and include the underhanded ploys on the parts of pro-life lawmakers to require “mandatory sonograms and anti-abortion counseling, sweeping limits on insurance coverage, bans on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy:” http://apne.ws/gJH7X0.
Imagine! Those dastardly pro-lifers want women and girls, black and white, to actually see what they’re killing. They want someone to sit down and discuss the termination of the lives of their pre-borns. They want them to pay for the executions. They want them not to murder their fully-formed, often viable fetuses.
How barbaric of them!
Compounding Big Al’s consternation over aborting black babies is yet another report exposing his favorite abortion mills’ and Margaret Sanger’s commitment to exterminating the black race . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3971)
Thursday, March 24, 2011
President The Donald?
President The Donald?
Just who is Donald John Trump, Sr., aka The Donald, aka obnoxious multi-millionaire television personality, aka a business-hotel magnate, aka a maggot to those who despise him? Trump is many things to many people but, right now, he’s an unannounced candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2012, which means he’s also a lib target.
He has as much chance of achieving the presidency as I do. Ok, maybe a somewhat better chance but not by much. On the other hand, he carries a helluva lot more baggage than I do, so who knows?
Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, compliments of his late father, Fred, the 65 year old Trump has had a chequred personal and financial life but it’s his fortune and political conservatism that will do him in, mainly with liberals who can’t stand the scent of either success or conservatives.
The Donald, as he likes to be called, has been sending out feelers to gauge the sentiment of the electorate and, true to form, his feelers aren’t your average feelers. Most recently, he’s been saying what he thinks about pirates and birth certificates. Also true to form, he doesn’t pull any punches.
We usually think Johnny Depp when we think of pirates. History buffs may think Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates Wars when Jefferson defeated the Muslims of North Africa on the high seas and on “the shores of Tripoli.” There’s more conflict in and near Tripoli today but Trump directed his attention a little south and west to Somali pirates preying on American and international shipping.
The Donald is blunt about it all: He would obliterate them.
As he said, “Give me one good admiral and a few ships, and I will wipe them out so fast. Can you believe that these guys are taking tankers that are a thousand feet long and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and just taking them with rowboats? It’s hard to believe. One good admiral, that’s all I want.”
That’s all it would need. His frank addition to that resolve is what makes you love him: “It’s a total lack of respect for this country:” http://bit.ly/h540yV
Our current president seems to lack resolve when it comes to anything, least of all respect for our country.
Trump entered much more turbulent waters than the Indian Ocean when he dared sail into ABC’s ”The View,” where pirates are not an issue but where vicious sharks in the persons of Whoopi and Barbara Walters lay in wait. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3960)
Just who is Donald John Trump, Sr., aka The Donald, aka obnoxious multi-millionaire television personality, aka a business-hotel magnate, aka a maggot to those who despise him? Trump is many things to many people but, right now, he’s an unannounced candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2012, which means he’s also a lib target.
He has as much chance of achieving the presidency as I do. Ok, maybe a somewhat better chance but not by much. On the other hand, he carries a helluva lot more baggage than I do, so who knows?
Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, compliments of his late father, Fred, the 65 year old Trump has had a chequred personal and financial life but it’s his fortune and political conservatism that will do him in, mainly with liberals who can’t stand the scent of either success or conservatives.
The Donald, as he likes to be called, has been sending out feelers to gauge the sentiment of the electorate and, true to form, his feelers aren’t your average feelers. Most recently, he’s been saying what he thinks about pirates and birth certificates. Also true to form, he doesn’t pull any punches.
We usually think Johnny Depp when we think of pirates. History buffs may think Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates Wars when Jefferson defeated the Muslims of North Africa on the high seas and on “the shores of Tripoli.” There’s more conflict in and near Tripoli today but Trump directed his attention a little south and west to Somali pirates preying on American and international shipping.
The Donald is blunt about it all: He would obliterate them.
As he said, “Give me one good admiral and a few ships, and I will wipe them out so fast. Can you believe that these guys are taking tankers that are a thousand feet long and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and just taking them with rowboats? It’s hard to believe. One good admiral, that’s all I want.”
That’s all it would need. His frank addition to that resolve is what makes you love him: “It’s a total lack of respect for this country:” http://bit.ly/h540yV
Our current president seems to lack resolve when it comes to anything, least of all respect for our country.
Trump entered much more turbulent waters than the Indian Ocean when he dared sail into ABC’s ”The View,” where pirates are not an issue but where vicious sharks in the persons of Whoopi and Barbara Walters lay in wait. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3960)
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Obama's Fiscal Armageddon
Obama's Fiscal Armageddon
No one could possibly say that this president of ours isn’t always on the job, highly-attuned to his responsibilities, committed to serving the American people. As incontrovertible proof of all that, he abbreviated his South and Central American jaunt and headed home–a full two hours earlier than planned.
Nevermind those allegations that heading off with family in tow for Brazil when Japan was on the verge of exploding, when Libya was in critical meltdown, when Wisconsin was in revolt was ill-conceived and outrageously-timed. Obama’s finger was on the pulse of national and world events at all times. He even passed up an excursion to Mayan ruins to accent his dedication and jetted home from his 5 day trip–two hours early.
Who knows what inspired the sudden attack of awareness that he should be in Washington rather than in Latin America? After all, he was as well capable of tending to the affairs of state in Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador as he was in the White House. And never you mind, you naysayers and Obama-bashers carping that he never should have left D.C. in the first place during upheavals at home and abroad! Just disregard the messages of detachment and disinterest sent by an American president going on another vacation during these tempestuous times.
Malia and Sasha were on spring break. He had to take them somewhere!
But, the enigma remains: Why the rush back? Lord help us if it were because of Liz Taylor’s death! That’s doubtful, although anything is possible with a star-struck president so enamored with the Hollywood set.
Perhaps he had to get back because his Libyan coalition which had never really coalesced was rapidly disintegrating or because word had leaked out that the administration is considering for FBI chief a candidate who would make Gaius Caligula’s appointment of his horse as Roman senator seem like a stroke of genius.
Then, again, Obama’s Libyan war that is not a war couldn’t be the cause of his hasty retreat home since his non-war strategy couldn’t be any murkier whether he was in the lands of latinos or in the White House. And, as for short-listing Jamie Gorelick . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3951)
No one could possibly say that this president of ours isn’t always on the job, highly-attuned to his responsibilities, committed to serving the American people. As incontrovertible proof of all that, he abbreviated his South and Central American jaunt and headed home–a full two hours earlier than planned.
Nevermind those allegations that heading off with family in tow for Brazil when Japan was on the verge of exploding, when Libya was in critical meltdown, when Wisconsin was in revolt was ill-conceived and outrageously-timed. Obama’s finger was on the pulse of national and world events at all times. He even passed up an excursion to Mayan ruins to accent his dedication and jetted home from his 5 day trip–two hours early.
Who knows what inspired the sudden attack of awareness that he should be in Washington rather than in Latin America? After all, he was as well capable of tending to the affairs of state in Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador as he was in the White House. And never you mind, you naysayers and Obama-bashers carping that he never should have left D.C. in the first place during upheavals at home and abroad! Just disregard the messages of detachment and disinterest sent by an American president going on another vacation during these tempestuous times.
Malia and Sasha were on spring break. He had to take them somewhere!
But, the enigma remains: Why the rush back? Lord help us if it were because of Liz Taylor’s death! That’s doubtful, although anything is possible with a star-struck president so enamored with the Hollywood set.
Perhaps he had to get back because his Libyan coalition which had never really coalesced was rapidly disintegrating or because word had leaked out that the administration is considering for FBI chief a candidate who would make Gaius Caligula’s appointment of his horse as Roman senator seem like a stroke of genius.
Then, again, Obama’s Libyan war that is not a war couldn’t be the cause of his hasty retreat home since his non-war strategy couldn’t be any murkier whether he was in the lands of latinos or in the White House. And, as for short-listing Jamie Gorelick . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3951)
Sharia, DOJ, Border, Cuban Surprises!
Sharia, DOJ, Border, Cuban Surprises!
We all just love surprises, no? Well, most people seem to even if I don’t although I have to admit some surprises can be entertaining.
For instance, it came as a total surprise that Muslim Sharia law can supersede the Constitution in America. At least that’s the case with Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen in Tampa, Florida.
Judge Nielsen was all verklempt over a lawsuit against a local mosque, the Islamic Education Center of Tampa so what else could he do but conclude, ”This case will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law” to determine whether the mosque followed Koranic law in a matter involving an Islamic scholar: http://bit.ly/gtALT4
The mosque attorney made more sense than the judge when he said, “The mosque believes wholeheartedly in the Koran and its teachings. They certainly follow Islamic law in connection with their spiritual endeavors. But with respect to secular endeavors, they believe Florida law should apply in Florida courts.”
Makes sense to me. I mean, Tampa isn’t London.
Equally surprising, and galling, was the decision by Eric Holder’s Department of Justice to deny justice in school bullying situations–an area of law for which we are still searching for federal constitutional authority–toward straight white people. President Obama and AG Holder have already, repeatedly, demonstrated an antipathy toward white Americans and now have furthered that discrimination by vowing to apply federal law selectively.
They will “enforce federal laws that protect students from discrimination and harassment at school because of their race, national origin, disability, religion, and sex, including harassment based on nonconformity with gender stereotypes.” http://bit.ly/dE2r6H
If you’re some poor, normal white kid being harrassed, pummeled, discriminated against, you’re SOL. If you’re black, yellow, Kenyan, Buddhist, gay, transgendered, the feds have your back.
Another surprise, at least to our present government, is that all those millions of illegal aliens–sorry, undocumented, poor people . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3948)
We all just love surprises, no? Well, most people seem to even if I don’t although I have to admit some surprises can be entertaining.
For instance, it came as a total surprise that Muslim Sharia law can supersede the Constitution in America. At least that’s the case with Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen in Tampa, Florida.
Judge Nielsen was all verklempt over a lawsuit against a local mosque, the Islamic Education Center of Tampa so what else could he do but conclude, ”This case will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law” to determine whether the mosque followed Koranic law in a matter involving an Islamic scholar: http://bit.ly/gtALT4
The mosque attorney made more sense than the judge when he said, “The mosque believes wholeheartedly in the Koran and its teachings. They certainly follow Islamic law in connection with their spiritual endeavors. But with respect to secular endeavors, they believe Florida law should apply in Florida courts.”
Makes sense to me. I mean, Tampa isn’t London.
Equally surprising, and galling, was the decision by Eric Holder’s Department of Justice to deny justice in school bullying situations–an area of law for which we are still searching for federal constitutional authority–toward straight white people. President Obama and AG Holder have already, repeatedly, demonstrated an antipathy toward white Americans and now have furthered that discrimination by vowing to apply federal law selectively.
They will “enforce federal laws that protect students from discrimination and harassment at school because of their race, national origin, disability, religion, and sex, including harassment based on nonconformity with gender stereotypes.” http://bit.ly/dE2r6H
If you’re some poor, normal white kid being harrassed, pummeled, discriminated against, you’re SOL. If you’re black, yellow, Kenyan, Buddhist, gay, transgendered, the feds have your back.
Another surprise, at least to our present government, is that all those millions of illegal aliens–sorry, undocumented, poor people . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3948)
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Baby Boomer Nostalgia
Baby Boomer Nostalgia
This emailed trip down 1950s Memory Lane is a welcome relief from the world of 2011. Boring old Dwight Eisenhower was president back then and, though the Fifties weren’t free of conflict, they pre-dated Vietnam, assassinations, Woodstock and the other events and happenings which turned America’s world upsidedown, a disorientation from which our country has yet to recover and which seems to grow more disorienting by the day. The 1950s weren’t a perfect era but they were a much simpler era, a period in the life of the nation those of whom lived it cherish–and wish our kids and grandchildren could re-live. That wish can never be fulfilled except in dreams so, for now, take a trip down our Memory Lane even if your lanes came later. If you’ve already seen and read it, see and read it again if for no other reason than to realize America was once much different than it is today.
(Read "The Land That Made Me, Me" here: http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3944)
This emailed trip down 1950s Memory Lane is a welcome relief from the world of 2011. Boring old Dwight Eisenhower was president back then and, though the Fifties weren’t free of conflict, they pre-dated Vietnam, assassinations, Woodstock and the other events and happenings which turned America’s world upsidedown, a disorientation from which our country has yet to recover and which seems to grow more disorienting by the day. The 1950s weren’t a perfect era but they were a much simpler era, a period in the life of the nation those of whom lived it cherish–and wish our kids and grandchildren could re-live. That wish can never be fulfilled except in dreams so, for now, take a trip down our Memory Lane even if your lanes came later. If you’ve already seen and read it, see and read it again if for no other reason than to realize America was once much different than it is today.
(Read "The Land That Made Me, Me" here: http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3944)
Misperceptions and Misconceptions on War and Oil
Misperceptions and Misconceptions on War and Oil
Old Heraclitus knew the only constant was change. Most moderns also perceive the undeniable truth that nothing stands still and that nothing endures indefinitely. One need only refer to politicians to understand the mutability of their most deep-seated beliefs.
Take America’s distinctly non-Heraclitean Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden. Good Ol’ Joe has never been at a loss for words, especially when he can mangle them and his thoughts better than his boss or when he can simply be obtuse.
Like his boss, his beliefs and opinions are written on the wind and he was markedly windy when, among other utterances, and after deep study of the Constitution, he eruditely concluded that, ”The Founding Fathers had vested the power to authorize even the limited use of military force in the Congress not the president—unless it was necessary for the president to act swiftly to repel an attack on the United States or to rescue U.S. citizens:” http://bit.ly/h8uSRp
That was then, in 1998 as the senior senator from the State of Delaware. Now, as VP during the reign of Obama, he remains eerily silent as the president launches an undeclared war in Lybia without so much as an obeisance, a request for a consult, or a May I? from Congress. For all his faults, GWB did his constitutional duty with Iraq and Afghanistan and received the advice and consent of Congress before going to war.
The more things change, the more Joe changes as does President Changeling, the constitutional scholar, who also flipflopped on the Constitution last weekend.
When asked on December 20th, 2007 during his campaign for the presidency when a president “would have the authority to bomb Iran without first seeking authorization from Congress,” candidate Obama was adamant in declaring virtually never: “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation:” http://bit.ly/eGkLhT
George W. Bush was commander in chief in December 2007, Barack Hussein Obama in March 2011. Either Libya was about to attack America last week or Obama acted in violation of the Constitution when we hurled Tomahawk missiles at Khadafy. Or, everyone, including members of his own party, are misreading the law of the land.
Another misconceived perception is the illogical belief that if America pumps more oil, we would have more oil. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3937)
Old Heraclitus knew the only constant was change. Most moderns also perceive the undeniable truth that nothing stands still and that nothing endures indefinitely. One need only refer to politicians to understand the mutability of their most deep-seated beliefs.
Take America’s distinctly non-Heraclitean Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden. Good Ol’ Joe has never been at a loss for words, especially when he can mangle them and his thoughts better than his boss or when he can simply be obtuse.
Like his boss, his beliefs and opinions are written on the wind and he was markedly windy when, among other utterances, and after deep study of the Constitution, he eruditely concluded that, ”The Founding Fathers had vested the power to authorize even the limited use of military force in the Congress not the president—unless it was necessary for the president to act swiftly to repel an attack on the United States or to rescue U.S. citizens:” http://bit.ly/h8uSRp
That was then, in 1998 as the senior senator from the State of Delaware. Now, as VP during the reign of Obama, he remains eerily silent as the president launches an undeclared war in Lybia without so much as an obeisance, a request for a consult, or a May I? from Congress. For all his faults, GWB did his constitutional duty with Iraq and Afghanistan and received the advice and consent of Congress before going to war.
The more things change, the more Joe changes as does President Changeling, the constitutional scholar, who also flipflopped on the Constitution last weekend.
When asked on December 20th, 2007 during his campaign for the presidency when a president “would have the authority to bomb Iran without first seeking authorization from Congress,” candidate Obama was adamant in declaring virtually never: “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation:” http://bit.ly/eGkLhT
George W. Bush was commander in chief in December 2007, Barack Hussein Obama in March 2011. Either Libya was about to attack America last week or Obama acted in violation of the Constitution when we hurled Tomahawk missiles at Khadafy. Or, everyone, including members of his own party, are misreading the law of the land.
Another misconceived perception is the illogical belief that if America pumps more oil, we would have more oil. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3937)
Monday, March 21, 2011
Defining Moments
Defining Moments
We all experience defining moments, those Eureka! times in our lives when we experience personal epiphanies whether large or small which constitute new understandings of who we are and why we’re here.
Perez Hilton, age 33, “celebrity blogger superstar and author,” had his moment defined when he realized he was in a chubby phase. As he put it, “I think that was a manifestation of how not taking care of myself I was [sic] and how I didn’t have anyone around to make me make sure I was taking care of me. So now my mom makes sure I’m taking care of myself:” http://aol.it/hgQF2M
That enlightening tidbit of celeb inconsequentiality on PopEater.com didn’t delve into Perez’ other defining moments such as when he went all tweetery over being called a “faggot” and was assaulted by a Black Eyed Pea or when he went obscenely ballistic on Miss California, Carrie Prejean, over her beliefs in normal marriage and over Demi Moore’s accusations that he was a pedophile: http://bit.ly/gMxnoI
It was good to hear, though, that Perez recovered from his fat phase, thanks to his mommy.
Unrecovered, apparently, from their sexually-abstinent high school years are some students at the University of Chicago whose defined moment came when they hit upon a unique idea, providing a website for UC students to hook up, a euphemism for college kids to hop into bed together, or into an elevator or into a custodian’s closet to copulate.
Their school is dedicated to “Changing the World.” They’re dedicated to getting some.
“A group of University of Chicago students have [that should be "has" but why quibble on copulation?] created a website called UChicagoHookups.com. The site offers students a chance to spice things up on campus by helping them hook up with other students for casual sexual encounters” and features as its motto, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3923)
We all experience defining moments, those Eureka! times in our lives when we experience personal epiphanies whether large or small which constitute new understandings of who we are and why we’re here.
Perez Hilton, age 33, “celebrity blogger superstar and author,” had his moment defined when he realized he was in a chubby phase. As he put it, “I think that was a manifestation of how not taking care of myself I was [sic] and how I didn’t have anyone around to make me make sure I was taking care of me. So now my mom makes sure I’m taking care of myself:” http://aol.it/hgQF2M
That enlightening tidbit of celeb inconsequentiality on PopEater.com didn’t delve into Perez’ other defining moments such as when he went all tweetery over being called a “faggot” and was assaulted by a Black Eyed Pea or when he went obscenely ballistic on Miss California, Carrie Prejean, over her beliefs in normal marriage and over Demi Moore’s accusations that he was a pedophile: http://bit.ly/gMxnoI
It was good to hear, though, that Perez recovered from his fat phase, thanks to his mommy.
Unrecovered, apparently, from their sexually-abstinent high school years are some students at the University of Chicago whose defined moment came when they hit upon a unique idea, providing a website for UC students to hook up, a euphemism for college kids to hop into bed together, or into an elevator or into a custodian’s closet to copulate.
Their school is dedicated to “Changing the World.” They’re dedicated to getting some.
“A group of University of Chicago students have [that should be "has" but why quibble on copulation?] created a website called UChicagoHookups.com. The site offers students a chance to spice things up on campus by helping them hook up with other students for casual sexual encounters” and features as its motto, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3923)
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The Sick Comedy of Barry and Mo
The Sick Comedy of Barry and Mo
A few generations ago, ”Obama and Gadhafi” or “Barry and Mo” might have suggested a comedy team or comic strip characters. No more. Now there may be comedic elements in that pair but there’s little that’s really funny about either of them.
Thanks to his mainstream media, President Barack Hussein Obama may be riotously gaffe-prone with his references to America’s 57 or 58 states, his use of “corpse,” twice, in lieu of “corps,” his stupidity in calling a Cambridge cop stupid, and a host of other ignorant statements, they are all little known and/or soon buried by his MSM.
Leno and Letterman still crack Bushisms. They dare not touch Obama.
Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, better known as Gadhafi, Khadafy, or just plain Mo and Daffy to some, could be the straight man in that comedy duo since he isn’t nearly as funny as Barry–unless one views maniacal behavior as amusing. Recent events in Mo’s Libya could also be seen as amusing–if one can get past repression, slaughter, and mayhem.
Mo isn’t new to the world of comedy, either. His 2009 United Nations’ speech defending the Taliban and Somali pirates has to be considered a comedy classic, especially since one of his boys, Ali Treki, was then President of the U.N. General Assembly, a situation made even funnier by Libya’s subsequent placement on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Positively rollicking stuff! Then, along comes Barry and war to steal Mo’s comedic, absurdist-comedic, thunder.
America’s Hamlet-function-alike president, torn between his Muslim roots and his presidential responsibilities, was all verklempt over Egypt’s Mubarak but more so about his bud, Mo. I’m not suggesting Barry is or ever has been a Muslim. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3926)
A few generations ago, ”Obama and Gadhafi” or “Barry and Mo” might have suggested a comedy team or comic strip characters. No more. Now there may be comedic elements in that pair but there’s little that’s really funny about either of them.
Thanks to his mainstream media, President Barack Hussein Obama may be riotously gaffe-prone with his references to America’s 57 or 58 states, his use of “corpse,” twice, in lieu of “corps,” his stupidity in calling a Cambridge cop stupid, and a host of other ignorant statements, they are all little known and/or soon buried by his MSM.
Leno and Letterman still crack Bushisms. They dare not touch Obama.
Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, better known as Gadhafi, Khadafy, or just plain Mo and Daffy to some, could be the straight man in that comedy duo since he isn’t nearly as funny as Barry–unless one views maniacal behavior as amusing. Recent events in Mo’s Libya could also be seen as amusing–if one can get past repression, slaughter, and mayhem.
Mo isn’t new to the world of comedy, either. His 2009 United Nations’ speech defending the Taliban and Somali pirates has to be considered a comedy classic, especially since one of his boys, Ali Treki, was then President of the U.N. General Assembly, a situation made even funnier by Libya’s subsequent placement on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Positively rollicking stuff! Then, along comes Barry and war to steal Mo’s comedic, absurdist-comedic, thunder.
America’s Hamlet-function-alike president, torn between his Muslim roots and his presidential responsibilities, was all verklempt over Egypt’s Mubarak but more so about his bud, Mo. I’m not suggesting Barry is or ever has been a Muslim. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3926)
Obama, "Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?"
Obama, "Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?"
For some while now–about two years or so–I’ve been thinking that things can’t really be as bad as my perceptions tell me, that the United States isn’t respected internationally, that the economy and unemployment rate aren’t improving, that our commander in chief was so far in under his head that he can’t tell which side is up, that he is a committed ideologue whose commitments supersede by far the interests of America, that he is a loser par excellence.
My suspicions are rapidly being confirmed and Rasmussen.com confirms the American people are on to Barack Hussein Obama, the pseudo-American apotheosis, as well.
If they still hold firm to the belief that he is deserving of even minimal respect, witness the disrepectful reflections of an unacknowledged buddy and intimate of his former pastor, Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright and Moammar “Daffy” Gadhafy, Rev. Louis “Calypso Louis” Farrakhan: http://bit.ly/hKWHwt.
For those not curious enough to click on that story and video, Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan addresses his brother Obama and says, among other things, ”I warn my brother do you [sic] let these wicked demons move you in a direction that will absolutely ruin your future with your people in Africa and throughout the world. . . Why don’t you organize a group of respected Americans and ask for a meeting with Qaddafi, you can’t order him to step down and get out.”
Calypso Louie then totally disses his bro, the President of the United States, with the rhetorical question, “Who the hell do you think you are?”
Disapprobation by one’s bros may be acceptable to fellow bros. Statistics may not be.
The highly-respected pollster Rasmussen.com has tracked Obama’s approval ratings literally from Day One, January 21, 2009 when his approval index was 28 with a whopping 44% of Americans strongly approving the president and 65% in the total approving column and a mere 16% strongly disapproving, 30% total disapproval.
Contrast those numbers with March 19, 2011 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3913)
For some while now–about two years or so–I’ve been thinking that things can’t really be as bad as my perceptions tell me, that the United States isn’t respected internationally, that the economy and unemployment rate aren’t improving, that our commander in chief was so far in under his head that he can’t tell which side is up, that he is a committed ideologue whose commitments supersede by far the interests of America, that he is a loser par excellence.
My suspicions are rapidly being confirmed and Rasmussen.com confirms the American people are on to Barack Hussein Obama, the pseudo-American apotheosis, as well.
If they still hold firm to the belief that he is deserving of even minimal respect, witness the disrepectful reflections of an unacknowledged buddy and intimate of his former pastor, Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright and Moammar “Daffy” Gadhafy, Rev. Louis “Calypso Louis” Farrakhan: http://bit.ly/hKWHwt.
For those not curious enough to click on that story and video, Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan addresses his brother Obama and says, among other things, ”I warn my brother do you [sic] let these wicked demons move you in a direction that will absolutely ruin your future with your people in Africa and throughout the world. . . Why don’t you organize a group of respected Americans and ask for a meeting with Qaddafi, you can’t order him to step down and get out.”
Calypso Louie then totally disses his bro, the President of the United States, with the rhetorical question, “Who the hell do you think you are?”
Disapprobation by one’s bros may be acceptable to fellow bros. Statistics may not be.
The highly-respected pollster Rasmussen.com has tracked Obama’s approval ratings literally from Day One, January 21, 2009 when his approval index was 28 with a whopping 44% of Americans strongly approving the president and 65% in the total approving column and a mere 16% strongly disapproving, 30% total disapproval.
Contrast those numbers with March 19, 2011 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3913)
Obama, "Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?"
Obama, "Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?"
For some while now–about two years or so–I’ve been thinking that things can’t really be as bad as my perceptions tell me, that the United States isn’t respected internationally, that the economy and unemployment rate aren’t improving, that our commander in chief was so far in under his head that he can’t tell which side is up, that he is a committed ideologue whose commitments supersede by far the interests of America, that he is a loser par excellence.
My suspicions are rapidly being confirmed and Rasmussen.com confirms the American people are on to Barack Hussein Obama, the pseudo-American apotheosis, as well.
If they still hold firm to the belief that he is deserving of even minimal respect, witness the disrepectful reflections of an unacknowledged buddy and intimate of his former pastor, Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright and Moammar “Daffy” Gadhafy, Rev. Louis “Calypso Louis” Farrakhan: http://bit.ly/hKWHwt.
For those not curious enough to click on that story and video, Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan addresses his brother Obama and says, among other things, ”I warn my brother do you [sic] let these wicked demons move you in a direction that will absolutely ruin your future with your people in Africa and throughout the world. . . Why don’t you organize a group of respected Americans and ask for a meeting with Qaddafi, you can’t order him to step down and get out.”
Calypso Louie then totally disses his bro, the President of the United States, with the rhetorical question, “Who the hell do you think you are?”
Disapprobation by one’s bros may be acceptable to fellow bros. Statistics may not be.
The highly-respected pollster Rasmussen.com has tracked Obama’s approval ratings literally from Day One, January 21, 2009 when his approval index was 28 with a whopping 44% of Americans strongly approving the president and 65% in the total approving column and a mere 16% strongly disapproving, 30% total disapproval.
Contrast those numbers with March 19, 2011 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3913)
For some while now–about two years or so–I’ve been thinking that things can’t really be as bad as my perceptions tell me, that the United States isn’t respected internationally, that the economy and unemployment rate aren’t improving, that our commander in chief was so far in under his head that he can’t tell which side is up, that he is a committed ideologue whose commitments supersede by far the interests of America, that he is a loser par excellence.
My suspicions are rapidly being confirmed and Rasmussen.com confirms the American people are on to Barack Hussein Obama, the pseudo-American apotheosis, as well.
If they still hold firm to the belief that he is deserving of even minimal respect, witness the disrepectful reflections of an unacknowledged buddy and intimate of his former pastor, Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright and Moammar “Daffy” Gadhafy, Rev. Louis “Calypso Louis” Farrakhan: http://bit.ly/hKWHwt.
For those not curious enough to click on that story and video, Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan addresses his brother Obama and says, among other things, ”I warn my brother do you [sic] let these wicked demons move you in a direction that will absolutely ruin your future with your people in Africa and throughout the world. . . Why don’t you organize a group of respected Americans and ask for a meeting with Qaddafi, you can’t order him to step down and get out.”
Calypso Louie then totally disses his bro, the President of the United States, with the rhetorical question, “Who the hell do you think you are?”
Disapprobation by one’s bros may be acceptable to fellow bros. Statistics may not be.
The highly-respected pollster Rasmussen.com has tracked Obama’s approval ratings literally from Day One, January 21, 2009 when his approval index was 28 with a whopping 44% of Americans strongly approving the president and 65% in the total approving column and a mere 16% strongly disapproving, 30% total disapproval.
Contrast those numbers with March 19, 2011 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3913)
Saturday, March 19, 2011
A Tribute, of Sorts, to Helen Thomas
A Tribute, of Sorts, to Helen Thomas
I guess Helen Thomas figured that if Jimmy Carter could do it, so could she, not lusting in her heart as Jimmy admitted but consenting to an interview in Playboy Magazine.
Poor 90 year old Helen.
Grand Old Dame of the White House Press Corps, (“corpse” to Obama), 57 year UPI veteran, first female member of the Gridiron Club along with a host of other firsts, was ousted from her prestigious position in the front row at presidential pressers as well as from everything else last May after making off-the-cuff comments about Israel, Jews, and Palestinians.
Harridan when it came to haranguing Republican presidents, creampuff when it came to Democrats, Helen should have known better than to stray off PC message on issues near and dear to the hearts of the Jewish Lobby. Of Lebanese Arab extraction, she committed the unforgivable political faux pas of letting slip the truth as she saw it regarding Israel, “Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,” embellished with a few other gems.
Banished to retirement if not oblivion for her indiscretion, Thomas re-emerges in the April Playboy to defend and reiterate her May opinions. Feisty to the end, she says, “I knew exactly what I was doing–I was going for broke. I had reached the point of no return. You finally get fed up. . . I finally wanted to speak the truth.”
Most of that is baloney; she just slipped up without thinking of the repercussions.
However, to her credit, she hasn’t backed down, saying in the interview that, “Sure, the Israelis have a right to exist–but where they were born, not to come and take someone else’s home.” She also expresses her admiration for the “wonderful” Jewish people: ”They were leaders in civil rights. They’ve always had the heart for others but not for Arabs, for some reason. I’m not anti-Jewish; I’m anti-Zionist.”
More baloney but all well and good, so far.
Then, Thomas reverts to her May indiscretions, hitting sacrosanct Jewish beliefs: “The slaughter of Jews stopped with World War II . . . They were liberated since then. And yet they carry on the victimization. American people do not know that the Israeli lobbyists have intimidated them into believing every Jew is a persecuted victim forever–while they are victimizing Palestinians . . . Why do they inflict the same pain on people who did nothing to them?”
As if that were not enough to ensure she will never get back her front row seat at White House press conferences–which was pretty unlikely, anyway–Hellacious Helen took on the Holocaust. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3911)
I guess Helen Thomas figured that if Jimmy Carter could do it, so could she, not lusting in her heart as Jimmy admitted but consenting to an interview in Playboy Magazine.
Poor 90 year old Helen.
Grand Old Dame of the White House Press Corps, (“corpse” to Obama), 57 year UPI veteran, first female member of the Gridiron Club along with a host of other firsts, was ousted from her prestigious position in the front row at presidential pressers as well as from everything else last May after making off-the-cuff comments about Israel, Jews, and Palestinians.
Harridan when it came to haranguing Republican presidents, creampuff when it came to Democrats, Helen should have known better than to stray off PC message on issues near and dear to the hearts of the Jewish Lobby. Of Lebanese Arab extraction, she committed the unforgivable political faux pas of letting slip the truth as she saw it regarding Israel, “Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,” embellished with a few other gems.
Banished to retirement if not oblivion for her indiscretion, Thomas re-emerges in the April Playboy to defend and reiterate her May opinions. Feisty to the end, she says, “I knew exactly what I was doing–I was going for broke. I had reached the point of no return. You finally get fed up. . . I finally wanted to speak the truth.”
Most of that is baloney; she just slipped up without thinking of the repercussions.
However, to her credit, she hasn’t backed down, saying in the interview that, “Sure, the Israelis have a right to exist–but where they were born, not to come and take someone else’s home.” She also expresses her admiration for the “wonderful” Jewish people: ”They were leaders in civil rights. They’ve always had the heart for others but not for Arabs, for some reason. I’m not anti-Jewish; I’m anti-Zionist.”
More baloney but all well and good, so far.
Then, Thomas reverts to her May indiscretions, hitting sacrosanct Jewish beliefs: “The slaughter of Jews stopped with World War II . . . They were liberated since then. And yet they carry on the victimization. American people do not know that the Israeli lobbyists have intimidated them into believing every Jew is a persecuted victim forever–while they are victimizing Palestinians . . . Why do they inflict the same pain on people who did nothing to them?”
As if that were not enough to ensure she will never get back her front row seat at White House press conferences–which was pretty unlikely, anyway–Hellacious Helen took on the Holocaust. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3911)
Friday, March 18, 2011
Grant Hill vs. Jalen Rose
Grant Hill vs. Jalen Rose
Not being a basketball aficionado, I hadn’t the slightest idea of who Grant Hill and Jalen Rose were and why the two were embroiled such a commotion in basketball circles.
I still don’t really know much about them but I do think I have a grip on the commotion. Hill doesn’t fit the profile of some NBA-ers and he particularly bothers the retired Jalen Rose. Rose thinks Hill is an “Uncle Tom” who went off the plantation, sucking up to the White Man.
Hill, who currently plays for the Phoenix Suns, was an all-around college athlete on the Duke Blue Devils, Team USA member, and noted for his 1992 exploit in the NCAA regional championship game against Kentucky. All that went for nought with Jalen Rose who recently ripped into the former Duke star.
Hill’s crime against his race consisted of being a proud black man whose principal crime was that he posessed a sense of personal integrity.
The controversy centered on a Jalen Rose-produced ESPN documentary, “The Fab Five,” about the Michigan basketball careers of Rose, Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson from 1991 to 1993. They are said to have revolutionized the game of basketball with their baggy shorts, black socks, tattoos, and bald heads–and attitude.
Called by some candid, insightful, and chock full of integrity, Jalen Rose may have been candid but didn’t demonstrate much in the way of insight or integrity in his comments in the ESPN film. They could better be classified as bitter, envious, and resentful, according to Rose himself. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3905)
Not being a basketball aficionado, I hadn’t the slightest idea of who Grant Hill and Jalen Rose were and why the two were embroiled such a commotion in basketball circles.
I still don’t really know much about them but I do think I have a grip on the commotion. Hill doesn’t fit the profile of some NBA-ers and he particularly bothers the retired Jalen Rose. Rose thinks Hill is an “Uncle Tom” who went off the plantation, sucking up to the White Man.
Hill, who currently plays for the Phoenix Suns, was an all-around college athlete on the Duke Blue Devils, Team USA member, and noted for his 1992 exploit in the NCAA regional championship game against Kentucky. All that went for nought with Jalen Rose who recently ripped into the former Duke star.
Hill’s crime against his race consisted of being a proud black man whose principal crime was that he posessed a sense of personal integrity.
The controversy centered on a Jalen Rose-produced ESPN documentary, “The Fab Five,” about the Michigan basketball careers of Rose, Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson from 1991 to 1993. They are said to have revolutionized the game of basketball with their baggy shorts, black socks, tattoos, and bald heads–and attitude.
Called by some candid, insightful, and chock full of integrity, Jalen Rose may have been candid but didn’t demonstrate much in the way of insight or integrity in his comments in the ESPN film. They could better be classified as bitter, envious, and resentful, according to Rose himself. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3905)
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes!
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes!
For those residing under rocks or in Neverland, on or about April 15th, you will be expected to pony up an excessively high percentage of your hard-earned income to Uncle Sam or to his state and municipal imitators.
Of course, if you’re among the 35% or so of Americans who are living scotfree of income taxes, you’re “in like Flynn” on April 15th, exempt from what Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. called, “the price we pay for civilization,” what 21st century taxpayers would call an inordinate charge, which taxpayers would call the people who don’t pay any income taxes leeches.
What better word describes people who suck at the public teat and who contribute nothing toward the the sustenance of that teat?
Still, there’s even more bad news for us honest taxpayers: For those who haven’t noticed, income taxes are just the beginining. In governmental sleights of hand designed to make us schlups think the IRS and its state counterparts are the only governmental pocket-pickers and to convince us that taxes are really in the public’s best interests, the feds, states, and localities have cooked up all kinds of thievery.
Ken and Daria Dolan outline just some of those tricks of the governmental trade: http://aol.it/hWuFJt
Take, for instance, what are termed “sin taxes,” financial penalties for what bureaucrats deem activities detrimental to our health and moral well being. Testimony to political hypocrisy, the imposition of such behavioral taxes presupposes the moral superiority of the imposers who, all too often, are imposters.
The Dolans cite levies on liquor, gambling, and smoking but include in other categories taxes on equally “sinful” pursuits such as strip shows and the like as well as taxes on those who indulge in a friendly game of poker with playing cards. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3901)
For those residing under rocks or in Neverland, on or about April 15th, you will be expected to pony up an excessively high percentage of your hard-earned income to Uncle Sam or to his state and municipal imitators.
Of course, if you’re among the 35% or so of Americans who are living scotfree of income taxes, you’re “in like Flynn” on April 15th, exempt from what Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. called, “the price we pay for civilization,” what 21st century taxpayers would call an inordinate charge, which taxpayers would call the people who don’t pay any income taxes leeches.
What better word describes people who suck at the public teat and who contribute nothing toward the the sustenance of that teat?
Still, there’s even more bad news for us honest taxpayers: For those who haven’t noticed, income taxes are just the beginining. In governmental sleights of hand designed to make us schlups think the IRS and its state counterparts are the only governmental pocket-pickers and to convince us that taxes are really in the public’s best interests, the feds, states, and localities have cooked up all kinds of thievery.
Ken and Daria Dolan outline just some of those tricks of the governmental trade: http://aol.it/hWuFJt
Take, for instance, what are termed “sin taxes,” financial penalties for what bureaucrats deem activities detrimental to our health and moral well being. Testimony to political hypocrisy, the imposition of such behavioral taxes presupposes the moral superiority of the imposers who, all too often, are imposters.
The Dolans cite levies on liquor, gambling, and smoking but include in other categories taxes on equally “sinful” pursuits such as strip shows and the like as well as taxes on those who indulge in a friendly game of poker with playing cards. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3901)
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tom, Jesus, Barack, and Elton
Tom, Jesus, Barack, and Elton
Updates on recent articles, two of which are sickening, two of which are pathetic, all of which are indicative of a world in dire need of a reality check-up:
BABY TOM IS DEAD. He didn’t have to die. Well, yes he did. You see, Baby Tom Godwin missed the cut. He was born 12 days too soon according to the British National Health Service’s minimum requisite of 24 weeks gestation and so NHS doctors at Southend Hospital, Southend, Essex, England, left him unattended, untreated, and uncared-for.
Baby Tom lived for 46 minutes.
His mum, Tracy Godwin, age 31, had just given birth to her first child and was bewildered. “We couldn’t understand why no one was helping him,” she said. Her confusion was somewhat remarkable considering that she–and Tom, briefly– lived in England where the NHS–the model for Obamacare–provided “universal health care,” except for people like Tom and any others it deems unworthy of care or treatment.
Poor little Tom didn’t even get the benefit of a death panel, those decision-making bodies of experts which, we’re told, will not be a feature of Obamacare. Or, maybe, unknowingly, he did. Either way, the verdict was death.
Read Tracy’s account of her and Tom’s ordeal here: http://tiny.cc/7isni
JESUS IS UNCOMFORTABLE. At least to a Minnesota lawmaker He is. “State Sen. Terri Bonoff, who is Jewish, said she feels uncomfortable when ministers mention Jesus and Christianity during prayers.” Eighty-one percent of Minnesotans are Christians but Sen. Bonoff ”said she feels uncomfortable when ministers mention Jesus and Christianity during prayers.”
When the senate Baptist chaplain, Dennis Campbell, offered a prayer mentioning Jesus Christ not once, not twice, but three times and uttered the words, “And we pray, Lord, that you help us to show reverence to the Lord Jesus Christ and the word of God today,” Bonoff was beside herself.
In high dudgeon following those offensive–if not seditious–words, Bonoff objected, demanding Campbell not be invited back and that, in the future, chaplains be required to deliver “non-denominational prayers:” http://bit.ly/ePs9tr
Something along the lines of, “Oh, Great Someone, have mercy on us” or, “Dear Mother Earth, please oversee our endeavors” might placate the good senator, and might not.
BARACK IS TRANSPARENT. In what could be, but isn’t, a satirical item from TheOnion.com . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3897)
Updates on recent articles, two of which are sickening, two of which are pathetic, all of which are indicative of a world in dire need of a reality check-up:
BABY TOM IS DEAD. He didn’t have to die. Well, yes he did. You see, Baby Tom Godwin missed the cut. He was born 12 days too soon according to the British National Health Service’s minimum requisite of 24 weeks gestation and so NHS doctors at Southend Hospital, Southend, Essex, England, left him unattended, untreated, and uncared-for.
Baby Tom lived for 46 minutes.
His mum, Tracy Godwin, age 31, had just given birth to her first child and was bewildered. “We couldn’t understand why no one was helping him,” she said. Her confusion was somewhat remarkable considering that she–and Tom, briefly– lived in England where the NHS–the model for Obamacare–provided “universal health care,” except for people like Tom and any others it deems unworthy of care or treatment.
Poor little Tom didn’t even get the benefit of a death panel, those decision-making bodies of experts which, we’re told, will not be a feature of Obamacare. Or, maybe, unknowingly, he did. Either way, the verdict was death.
Read Tracy’s account of her and Tom’s ordeal here: http://tiny.cc/7isni
JESUS IS UNCOMFORTABLE. At least to a Minnesota lawmaker He is. “State Sen. Terri Bonoff, who is Jewish, said she feels uncomfortable when ministers mention Jesus and Christianity during prayers.” Eighty-one percent of Minnesotans are Christians but Sen. Bonoff ”said she feels uncomfortable when ministers mention Jesus and Christianity during prayers.”
When the senate Baptist chaplain, Dennis Campbell, offered a prayer mentioning Jesus Christ not once, not twice, but three times and uttered the words, “And we pray, Lord, that you help us to show reverence to the Lord Jesus Christ and the word of God today,” Bonoff was beside herself.
In high dudgeon following those offensive–if not seditious–words, Bonoff objected, demanding Campbell not be invited back and that, in the future, chaplains be required to deliver “non-denominational prayers:” http://bit.ly/ePs9tr
Something along the lines of, “Oh, Great Someone, have mercy on us” or, “Dear Mother Earth, please oversee our endeavors” might placate the good senator, and might not.
BARACK IS TRANSPARENT. In what could be, but isn’t, a satirical item from TheOnion.com . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3897)
The Brits and the Irish An Gorta Mor
The Brits and the Irish An Gorta Mor
In 1997, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair made the extraordinary–albeit a century and a half too late–gesture of accepting national blame and extending the British government’s hand in apology to Ireland for what is now known as The Great Hunger.
That political exercise doesn’t come close to making amends for atrocities committed by a world power against a conquered, defenseless people.
Also known as the Irish Potato Blight and the Potato Famine, An Gorta Mór in Gaelic describes the period between 1845 and 1850 but “great hunger” says it all: A million and a half to two million Irish literally starved to death or died from diseases induced by starvation–not the million Blair said–during those years.
In 2011, with our tater tots and pastas it’s as difficult to grasp the enormity of such numbers as it is to understand how a whole people could be decimated by the loss of a single crop. That difficulty and understanding become more explicable in light of Ireland’s history with Britain.
As Grant Lawrence wrote in A People’s History of the Great Irish Famine, ”History tells us that the Great Famine was caused by the potato blight. But, the potato disease shouldn’t have created the misery of what came to be known as the Great Famine. The starvation and suffering that arose from the potato failure could have been drastically reduced or even eliminated if the British had implemented governmental policies against exploitation to protect the Irish people.”
Lawrence adds, ”Instead, the British did just the opposite.” . . .
(Read more and see and hear a beautiful Irish blessing at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3887)
In 1997, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair made the extraordinary–albeit a century and a half too late–gesture of accepting national blame and extending the British government’s hand in apology to Ireland for what is now known as The Great Hunger.
That political exercise doesn’t come close to making amends for atrocities committed by a world power against a conquered, defenseless people.
Also known as the Irish Potato Blight and the Potato Famine, An Gorta Mór in Gaelic describes the period between 1845 and 1850 but “great hunger” says it all: A million and a half to two million Irish literally starved to death or died from diseases induced by starvation–not the million Blair said–during those years.
In 2011, with our tater tots and pastas it’s as difficult to grasp the enormity of such numbers as it is to understand how a whole people could be decimated by the loss of a single crop. That difficulty and understanding become more explicable in light of Ireland’s history with Britain.
As Grant Lawrence wrote in A People’s History of the Great Irish Famine, ”History tells us that the Great Famine was caused by the potato blight. But, the potato disease shouldn’t have created the misery of what came to be known as the Great Famine. The starvation and suffering that arose from the potato failure could have been drastically reduced or even eliminated if the British had implemented governmental policies against exploitation to protect the Irish people.”
Lawrence adds, ”Instead, the British did just the opposite.” . . .
(Read more and see and hear a beautiful Irish blessing at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3887)
Socialized Medicine and Presidential Intrigue
Socialized Medicine and Presidential Intrigue
As Republicans in the House struggle to scuttle, scrap, de-fund the national health care plan that 59% of Americans didn’t want in the first place, Democrats aren’t exactly sitting still and waiting for the ax to fall.
One Democrat, Rep. John Conyers (MI), Mr. Black Reparations, has obviously been deep in thought over Obamacare, so deep that he must have been barely conscious when he let slip what Democrats have been denying ever since the Obamanation was conceived. Usually more circumspect, the doddering Democrat Conyers must have been overcome by all the attention at the National Press Club when he conceded that, in fact, Obamacare was socialized medicine.
Conyers admitted that “Obamacare is just a ‘platform,’ or a step, toward an eventual government takeover of health care.” Asked if he ultimately envisioned a single-payer health care system, another term avoided like the plague and denied repeatedly by congressional Dems during the great debate of 2009, he said, “Of course. Universal health care–well, every industrial country on the planet already has a universal system of health care.”
What Conyers failed to mention was that the primary model for Obamacare, and it’s not Massachusetts’ Romneycare–although that’s bad enough–was Britain’s NHS which is going broke and systems in the other industrialized nations are in a similar pickle.
Nevertheless, kudos to Rep. Conyers even if his fleeting moment of honesty was a fluke. See his moment here: http://tiny.cc/5a1u0
No fluke is President Transparency’s latest attack of opaqueness.
Our vacationing, partying, golfing, basketball-playing, NCAA-tournament handicapping president is playing it very close to the executive vest when it comes to clandestine health care–don’t dare call it Obamacare to him!–meetings. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3895)
As Republicans in the House struggle to scuttle, scrap, de-fund the national health care plan that 59% of Americans didn’t want in the first place, Democrats aren’t exactly sitting still and waiting for the ax to fall.
One Democrat, Rep. John Conyers (MI), Mr. Black Reparations, has obviously been deep in thought over Obamacare, so deep that he must have been barely conscious when he let slip what Democrats have been denying ever since the Obamanation was conceived. Usually more circumspect, the doddering Democrat Conyers must have been overcome by all the attention at the National Press Club when he conceded that, in fact, Obamacare was socialized medicine.
Conyers admitted that “Obamacare is just a ‘platform,’ or a step, toward an eventual government takeover of health care.” Asked if he ultimately envisioned a single-payer health care system, another term avoided like the plague and denied repeatedly by congressional Dems during the great debate of 2009, he said, “Of course. Universal health care–well, every industrial country on the planet already has a universal system of health care.”
What Conyers failed to mention was that the primary model for Obamacare, and it’s not Massachusetts’ Romneycare–although that’s bad enough–was Britain’s NHS which is going broke and systems in the other industrialized nations are in a similar pickle.
Nevertheless, kudos to Rep. Conyers even if his fleeting moment of honesty was a fluke. See his moment here: http://tiny.cc/5a1u0
No fluke is President Transparency’s latest attack of opaqueness.
Our vacationing, partying, golfing, basketball-playing, NCAA-tournament handicapping president is playing it very close to the executive vest when it comes to clandestine health care–don’t dare call it Obamacare to him!–meetings. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3895)
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Multiculturalism in Dayton and Midsomer
Multiculturalism in Dayton and Midsomer
We’ve all heard of creeping socialism, especially lately when it’s leaping more than creepting in America. We should hear more about creeping, leaping multiculturalism. The mindless quest for diversity is as much of a threat to sanity and nationhood.
For example, what would or should the average person do if he or she were turned down for a job because he or she was unqualified or underqualified or was just deemed unable to satisfactorily perform the duties of the job description?
One option would be to sulk, but that’s not very productive. Another might be to study and prepare better so that next time around you did make the grade, but that takes time and effort. A third option would be to just look for another job, but that would make sense.
The ultimate recourse would be to complain, complain about everything from unfair employment practices to personality differences with the potential employer, to discrimination of some sort. Blacks and other minorities have often resorted to the latter excuse and have won. In the case of the Dayton Police Department’s test for recruits they didn’t have to complain. Eric Holder’s Department of Justice did it for them.
Without citing any specific reason, aside from the fact black and other minority candidates failed to achieve the exam’s modest passing scores of 66% on part one and 72% on part two, the DoJ ordered the results thrown out and new passing standards to be implemented. According to DaytonNewsSource.com, the DoJ “approved new scoring policy [which] only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%.” As DNS observed, ”That’s the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’.”
After all, what’s more important to a police department? Quality, qualified, competent officers on the job protecting the citizens of Dayton, or multicultural diversity? Apparently, the answer is multicultual diversity regardless of the consequences.
As Dayton Fraternal Order of Police President, Randy Beane, commented, “It becomes a safety issue for the people of our community. It becomes a safety issue to have an incompetent officer next to you in a life and death situation.” While not calling for higher standards, Dayton NAACP President Derrick Foward kind of concurred by saying, “The NAACP does not support individuals failing a test and then having the opportunity to be gainfully employed. If you lower the score for any group of people, you’re not getting the best qualified people for the job:” http://tiny.cc/6q8ty
Yet, that is precisely what’s happening in Dayton . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3885)
We’ve all heard of creeping socialism, especially lately when it’s leaping more than creepting in America. We should hear more about creeping, leaping multiculturalism. The mindless quest for diversity is as much of a threat to sanity and nationhood.
For example, what would or should the average person do if he or she were turned down for a job because he or she was unqualified or underqualified or was just deemed unable to satisfactorily perform the duties of the job description?
One option would be to sulk, but that’s not very productive. Another might be to study and prepare better so that next time around you did make the grade, but that takes time and effort. A third option would be to just look for another job, but that would make sense.
The ultimate recourse would be to complain, complain about everything from unfair employment practices to personality differences with the potential employer, to discrimination of some sort. Blacks and other minorities have often resorted to the latter excuse and have won. In the case of the Dayton Police Department’s test for recruits they didn’t have to complain. Eric Holder’s Department of Justice did it for them.
Without citing any specific reason, aside from the fact black and other minority candidates failed to achieve the exam’s modest passing scores of 66% on part one and 72% on part two, the DoJ ordered the results thrown out and new passing standards to be implemented. According to DaytonNewsSource.com, the DoJ “approved new scoring policy [which] only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%.” As DNS observed, ”That’s the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’.”
After all, what’s more important to a police department? Quality, qualified, competent officers on the job protecting the citizens of Dayton, or multicultural diversity? Apparently, the answer is multicultual diversity regardless of the consequences.
As Dayton Fraternal Order of Police President, Randy Beane, commented, “It becomes a safety issue for the people of our community. It becomes a safety issue to have an incompetent officer next to you in a life and death situation.” While not calling for higher standards, Dayton NAACP President Derrick Foward kind of concurred by saying, “The NAACP does not support individuals failing a test and then having the opportunity to be gainfully employed. If you lower the score for any group of people, you’re not getting the best qualified people for the job:” http://tiny.cc/6q8ty
Yet, that is precisely what’s happening in Dayton . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3885)
Monday, March 14, 2011
Barry Obama, Party Animal
Barry Obama, Party Animal
No one can ever say that anything really bothers our president.
With two wars raging, with our ally, Japan, in catastrophic upheaval, with chaos reigning in our Midwest and in the Mideast, with an economy still mired in unremitted recession, with various other monumental issues facing the nation, Barack Hussein Obama just does his favorite things–partying and playing golf, and he’s reportedly not very good at the latter.
After bemoaning his sad plight as president of the United States and demeaning China and its government, (“Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. . . ‘No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square,’ ” he said according to the New York Times), the Playboy of the American World partied at the Gridiron Club on Saturday.
As a warm-up to those festivities, Obama hit the links for the 61st time since becoming president. Each of those golfing excursions, while he worked on his swing, consumes some five hours of precious presidential time, including motorcading to and fro.
Hey! We shouldn’t expect him to take a bus or to wait in line with other duffers for a tee-time, now could we? Of course not. But we could expect him to put more time in on the job. After all, America didn’t elect some nitwit to lead us, like Joe Biden. Or, did we?
The much-abused George W. Bush was routinely castigated for virtually everything he did and didn’t do during his presidential tenure especially when he retreated to Crawford for working vacations. But Bush stopped playing golf in 2003 saying, ”I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t concern himself with such trivia as wars or signals . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3880)
No one can ever say that anything really bothers our president.
With two wars raging, with our ally, Japan, in catastrophic upheaval, with chaos reigning in our Midwest and in the Mideast, with an economy still mired in unremitted recession, with various other monumental issues facing the nation, Barack Hussein Obama just does his favorite things–partying and playing golf, and he’s reportedly not very good at the latter.
After bemoaning his sad plight as president of the United States and demeaning China and its government, (“Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. . . ‘No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square,’ ” he said according to the New York Times), the Playboy of the American World partied at the Gridiron Club on Saturday.
As a warm-up to those festivities, Obama hit the links for the 61st time since becoming president. Each of those golfing excursions, while he worked on his swing, consumes some five hours of precious presidential time, including motorcading to and fro.
Hey! We shouldn’t expect him to take a bus or to wait in line with other duffers for a tee-time, now could we? Of course not. But we could expect him to put more time in on the job. After all, America didn’t elect some nitwit to lead us, like Joe Biden. Or, did we?
The much-abused George W. Bush was routinely castigated for virtually everything he did and didn’t do during his presidential tenure especially when he retreated to Crawford for working vacations. But Bush stopped playing golf in 2003 saying, ”I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t concern himself with such trivia as wars or signals . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3880)
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Japanese Agonistes
Japanese Agonistes
I must concede a general antipathy toward Japan and the Japanese people, an antipathy not necessarily borne of Pearl Harbor since I wasn’t alive at the time and my family was spared the loss of any members in the conflagration that was World War Two.
Rather, my negative feelings toward the Land of the Rising Sun grew after reading James Bradley’s Flyboys: A True Story of Courage which is not as much a tale of courage on the part of American airmen who were unfortunate enough to be captured and imprisoned by the Japanese on the island of Chichi-jima as it was the story of the incredible brutality inflicted on those prisoners, brutality that included torture, beheadings, and cannibalism on the part of their captors.
As a child, all I remember of Japan was that we beat them in the war and that its exports were derided as junk; anything cheap was described as something that “looked like it was made in Japan.” However, both its economy and product quality improved greatly over the years and the Japanese evolved into a valued American ally and Japan took its rightful place among major world powers.
It may remain an ally but may not fully recover for many years after a powerful 8.9/9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan at around 2:46pm on March 11 (JST). That catastrophic event was soon followed by widespread tsunamis, fires, explosions at nuclear plants, radiation contamination, severe aftershocks, and a devastating loss of life which could rival the Japanese war losses before it is all over.
When entire towns disappear, misfortune must be re-classified as cataclysm. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3873)
I must concede a general antipathy toward Japan and the Japanese people, an antipathy not necessarily borne of Pearl Harbor since I wasn’t alive at the time and my family was spared the loss of any members in the conflagration that was World War Two.
Rather, my negative feelings toward the Land of the Rising Sun grew after reading James Bradley’s Flyboys: A True Story of Courage which is not as much a tale of courage on the part of American airmen who were unfortunate enough to be captured and imprisoned by the Japanese on the island of Chichi-jima as it was the story of the incredible brutality inflicted on those prisoners, brutality that included torture, beheadings, and cannibalism on the part of their captors.
As a child, all I remember of Japan was that we beat them in the war and that its exports were derided as junk; anything cheap was described as something that “looked like it was made in Japan.” However, both its economy and product quality improved greatly over the years and the Japanese evolved into a valued American ally and Japan took its rightful place among major world powers.
It may remain an ally but may not fully recover for many years after a powerful 8.9/9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan at around 2:46pm on March 11 (JST). That catastrophic event was soon followed by widespread tsunamis, fires, explosions at nuclear plants, radiation contamination, severe aftershocks, and a devastating loss of life which could rival the Japanese war losses before it is all over.
When entire towns disappear, misfortune must be re-classified as cataclysm. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3873)
The States of Maine and Marriage
The States of Maine and Marriage
Two widely disparate topics, Maine and marriage, may be more closely related than appears at first glance. They are linked by payoffs.
The state of Maine, not usually in the news this time of year for anything other than what its RINO Republicans are up to in Washington or record cold snaps, has gained a new distinction as the first state to win an Obamacare waiver from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Maine thus joins an increasingly unselective group of 1,040–as of Thursday–including McDonalds, the Service Employees International Union, Teamsters, UFCW, Steelworkers, Communications Workers of America, United Federation of Teachers, public sector unions, and numerous local school disricts encompassing 2.5 million Americans–as of Thursday.
Maine and the other elites are exempted from the onerous and expensive regulations imposed on the rest of us schleps, which onerousness and expense increase with every new waiver since the whole concept of Obamacare was predicated on sharing the costs. The fewer the participants, which numbers shrink with every waiver, the higher their costs.
As always with this administration, there’s a proffered excuse, in the case of the Pine Tree State, a threat by a major insurer, MEGA Life and Health, to “withdraw from the market altogether if the federal requirement remained in place:” http://tiny.cc/91ftl
The unannounced threat posed by many of the other exemptees, and virtually all of the waivered unions, is to withdraw from supporting Obama in 2012. No fool he, the president knows where his bread is buttered and where his political contributions come from. He took the state in ’08 with 57.71% of the vote, a difference of 126,650 votes.
The president also knows who won’t be sending him big bucks . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3868)
Two widely disparate topics, Maine and marriage, may be more closely related than appears at first glance. They are linked by payoffs.
The state of Maine, not usually in the news this time of year for anything other than what its RINO Republicans are up to in Washington or record cold snaps, has gained a new distinction as the first state to win an Obamacare waiver from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Maine thus joins an increasingly unselective group of 1,040–as of Thursday–including McDonalds, the Service Employees International Union, Teamsters, UFCW, Steelworkers, Communications Workers of America, United Federation of Teachers, public sector unions, and numerous local school disricts encompassing 2.5 million Americans–as of Thursday.
Maine and the other elites are exempted from the onerous and expensive regulations imposed on the rest of us schleps, which onerousness and expense increase with every new waiver since the whole concept of Obamacare was predicated on sharing the costs. The fewer the participants, which numbers shrink with every waiver, the higher their costs.
As always with this administration, there’s a proffered excuse, in the case of the Pine Tree State, a threat by a major insurer, MEGA Life and Health, to “withdraw from the market altogether if the federal requirement remained in place:” http://tiny.cc/91ftl
The unannounced threat posed by many of the other exemptees, and virtually all of the waivered unions, is to withdraw from supporting Obama in 2012. No fool he, the president knows where his bread is buttered and where his political contributions come from. He took the state in ’08 with 57.71% of the vote, a difference of 126,650 votes.
The president also knows who won’t be sending him big bucks . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3868)
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Video: "I Have Sex!"
Video: "I Have Sex!"
Recent studies have shown that American college students learn little if anything in their first two years and precious little in their next two. Those studies aren’t entirely correct. College students learn a great deal but most of what they learn is irrelevant to their future careers.
Whether parents will do anything about what their sweet cherubs are up to in academia is questionable and whether, if they tried, they would have any effect is disputable. Hint: The kids aren’t studying for a test in Human Anatomy 101; it’s closer to exploring human anatomy. And parental influence is nil.
A video posted by IOwntheWorld.com, http://tiny.cc/mi2k5, will not be reassuring to parents who send their kids off to colleges in the hope and expectation that said kids will get an education of sufficient quality to guide them through the shoals and vicissitudes of adulthood and the real world but the videos do provide a wakeup call for parents.
It features male and female college students proudly displaying homemade signs and declaring, “I Have Sex,” “My Friends Have Sex,” “I Use Birth Control,” etc. Then comes the true purpose of the video–not to advertise what kids are doing in their spare time but to serve as college lobbyists for Planned Parenthood of America.
That video is chilling, not as much for featuring college students proudly exhibiting signs proclaiming, “I Have Sex” and “I Use Birth Control,” which exhibitions are their right and privilege. However, what they also are doing is advertising and promoting Planned Parenthood and its abortion mills as if Margaret Sanger’s creation were a viable option when they have sex and don’t use birth control.
The student video declarations are followed by sales pitches for PPOA, with musical accompaniment, announcing that not only do the collegians have sex but that they also vote ”for people who treat us as adults,” that they want to get educated, stay safe, “and plan for our own futures.” That revelation is followed by informative messages . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3863)
Recent studies have shown that American college students learn little if anything in their first two years and precious little in their next two. Those studies aren’t entirely correct. College students learn a great deal but most of what they learn is irrelevant to their future careers.
Whether parents will do anything about what their sweet cherubs are up to in academia is questionable and whether, if they tried, they would have any effect is disputable. Hint: The kids aren’t studying for a test in Human Anatomy 101; it’s closer to exploring human anatomy. And parental influence is nil.
A video posted by IOwntheWorld.com, http://tiny.cc/mi2k5, will not be reassuring to parents who send their kids off to colleges in the hope and expectation that said kids will get an education of sufficient quality to guide them through the shoals and vicissitudes of adulthood and the real world but the videos do provide a wakeup call for parents.
It features male and female college students proudly displaying homemade signs and declaring, “I Have Sex,” “My Friends Have Sex,” “I Use Birth Control,” etc. Then comes the true purpose of the video–not to advertise what kids are doing in their spare time but to serve as college lobbyists for Planned Parenthood of America.
That video is chilling, not as much for featuring college students proudly exhibiting signs proclaiming, “I Have Sex” and “I Use Birth Control,” which exhibitions are their right and privilege. However, what they also are doing is advertising and promoting Planned Parenthood and its abortion mills as if Margaret Sanger’s creation were a viable option when they have sex and don’t use birth control.
The student video declarations are followed by sales pitches for PPOA, with musical accompaniment, announcing that not only do the collegians have sex but that they also vote ”for people who treat us as adults,” that they want to get educated, stay safe, “and plan for our own futures.” That revelation is followed by informative messages . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3863)
Friday, March 11, 2011
If Only We Had More Entertainers Like Ben Affleck!
If Only We Had More Entertainers Like Ben Affleck!
Entertainers, whether stage, screen, television, radio, or blogosphere entertainers, are imbued with a gift, an enviable ability infused by stardom which they often confuse with wisdom and which they often employ to inculcate in the masses a sense of righteous, often misdirected, rectitude.
We’ve grown accustomed to egotistical entertainers like Martin Sheen and Lindsay Lohan making public fools of themselves. It’s the more committed types like Sean Penn, Michael Moore, and George Clooney who take themselves so very seriously and who predicate their rants on little else than misinformation and liberal ideology who pose the biggest danger. Ben Affleck is a charter member of that club.
Thirty-eight year old actor-director Ben Affleck, born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt, made his Hollywood mark as the third banana dumb guy in 1997′s “Good Will Hunting,” and has vainly been trying to overcome that dumb stereotype ever since.
An ardent liberal and cause activist, Affleck has campaigned for get-out-the vote drives and has worked tirelessly for the A-T Children’s Project, Feeding America, Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, and the UN’s Refugee Agency, the UNHCR’s Gimme Shelter Campaign. Given all that social activism, it’s tough to see how he crams in time to make movies, but he does and they’re not all bad.
Dumped by Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez, Affleck continued his quest for personal reinvention by marrying Jennifer Garner five years ago and they’re still together. A Democrat liberal to his core, when he’s sufficiently well-heeled he’d like to run for Congress even though previous excursions into politics when he enthusiastically loaned his ego and influence to presidential losers Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton didn’t go very well.
The multi-millionaire Affleck, fresh off attacking American CEOs for their extravagant compensation and after offering his expert opinions on criminology since he starred in “The Town,” is currently on another tear, saving the Congolese, and he wants America to accomplish that salvation.
Dem-libs usually stand in vociferous opposition to any American extranational involvement, especially when a Republican is president, but Affleck is making an exception for the Congo with an African-American residing in the White House. Never reticent, he testified before Congress on Wednesday on the subject of the corrupt, warlike Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is to be distinguished from its neighbor, the somewhat less-corrupt, warlike Republic of the Congo.
In making his case for increased U.S. involvement, Affleck “told Congress that 5 million people have died from civil conflict in that country since 1998.” He didn’t reveal the basis for that catastrophic number but did insist that “The United States government can and should play an active role in ensuring that this November’s elections are free and fair.”
“He called on Congress to provide the Congo with funding for . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3854)
Entertainers, whether stage, screen, television, radio, or blogosphere entertainers, are imbued with a gift, an enviable ability infused by stardom which they often confuse with wisdom and which they often employ to inculcate in the masses a sense of righteous, often misdirected, rectitude.
We’ve grown accustomed to egotistical entertainers like Martin Sheen and Lindsay Lohan making public fools of themselves. It’s the more committed types like Sean Penn, Michael Moore, and George Clooney who take themselves so very seriously and who predicate their rants on little else than misinformation and liberal ideology who pose the biggest danger. Ben Affleck is a charter member of that club.
Thirty-eight year old actor-director Ben Affleck, born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt, made his Hollywood mark as the third banana dumb guy in 1997′s “Good Will Hunting,” and has vainly been trying to overcome that dumb stereotype ever since.
An ardent liberal and cause activist, Affleck has campaigned for get-out-the vote drives and has worked tirelessly for the A-T Children’s Project, Feeding America, Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, and the UN’s Refugee Agency, the UNHCR’s Gimme Shelter Campaign. Given all that social activism, it’s tough to see how he crams in time to make movies, but he does and they’re not all bad.
Dumped by Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez, Affleck continued his quest for personal reinvention by marrying Jennifer Garner five years ago and they’re still together. A Democrat liberal to his core, when he’s sufficiently well-heeled he’d like to run for Congress even though previous excursions into politics when he enthusiastically loaned his ego and influence to presidential losers Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton didn’t go very well.
The multi-millionaire Affleck, fresh off attacking American CEOs for their extravagant compensation and after offering his expert opinions on criminology since he starred in “The Town,” is currently on another tear, saving the Congolese, and he wants America to accomplish that salvation.
Dem-libs usually stand in vociferous opposition to any American extranational involvement, especially when a Republican is president, but Affleck is making an exception for the Congo with an African-American residing in the White House. Never reticent, he testified before Congress on Wednesday on the subject of the corrupt, warlike Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is to be distinguished from its neighbor, the somewhat less-corrupt, warlike Republic of the Congo.
In making his case for increased U.S. involvement, Affleck “told Congress that 5 million people have died from civil conflict in that country since 1998.” He didn’t reveal the basis for that catastrophic number but did insist that “The United States government can and should play an active role in ensuring that this November’s elections are free and fair.”
“He called on Congress to provide the Congo with funding for . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3854)
NPR in a Nutshell
NPR in a Nutshell
The New York Sun predicted back on October 23, 2010 that the current Republican effort to defund National Public Radio just may succeed even though previous attempts at cutting off NPR from the public trough have failed and despite the fact “the recipients of taxpayer funding will try to make a constitutional case that they can not be cut off for content.”
NPR and its primary money supplier, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB, which itself is itself federally funded, have yet to make that freedom of the press/speech case but give it time. As of now, NPR is boasting that it doesn’t need government subsidies. We should take it at its word and end them.
The latest brouhaha over NPR began with the firing of political commentator Juan Williams who had worked for NPR for a decade and years later began making appearances on the Fox News Network. NPR considered that treasonous mutiny, in direct conflict with NPR’s leftist programming, although it couldn’t quite say that.
Instead, NPR waited for more substantive justification to send Williams packing.
Williams, who is far from conservative, furnished that justification on October 20, 2010 during a guest appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor” when he spoke a truth with which any thinking air traveller would concur: “Look, Bill, I’m not a bigot,” Williams said. “You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
Notwithstanding his incongruous non-sequitur of comparing the civil rights struggle with Muslim terrorism–Williams subsequently called NPR “an all white operation–Juan had given NPR CEO Vivian Schiller and her cronies the ammunition they needed, a pretext to dump him. Insensitivity to Muslims was inconsequential; daring to appear on the vile Fox network–and on O’Reilly!–was Williams’ unforgivable sin.
Five months down the road, after Williams unaccountably snagged a plum multimillion gig at Fox and after Schiller took heat even from liberals, she conceded that, “We handled the situation badly” and the Williams episode was a breakdown in “personnel processes about who calls who when.” Without identifying those processes, she said those issues have been “fixed” and that NPR has “undertaken a thorough review” of its news code of ethics: http://tiny.cc/zbxuu
Schiller didn’t clarify that code, either.
Her die was cast after other NPR scandals hit the . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3846)
The New York Sun predicted back on October 23, 2010 that the current Republican effort to defund National Public Radio just may succeed even though previous attempts at cutting off NPR from the public trough have failed and despite the fact “the recipients of taxpayer funding will try to make a constitutional case that they can not be cut off for content.”
NPR and its primary money supplier, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CPB, which itself is itself federally funded, have yet to make that freedom of the press/speech case but give it time. As of now, NPR is boasting that it doesn’t need government subsidies. We should take it at its word and end them.
The latest brouhaha over NPR began with the firing of political commentator Juan Williams who had worked for NPR for a decade and years later began making appearances on the Fox News Network. NPR considered that treasonous mutiny, in direct conflict with NPR’s leftist programming, although it couldn’t quite say that.
Instead, NPR waited for more substantive justification to send Williams packing.
Williams, who is far from conservative, furnished that justification on October 20, 2010 during a guest appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor” when he spoke a truth with which any thinking air traveller would concur: “Look, Bill, I’m not a bigot,” Williams said. “You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
Notwithstanding his incongruous non-sequitur of comparing the civil rights struggle with Muslim terrorism–Williams subsequently called NPR “an all white operation–Juan had given NPR CEO Vivian Schiller and her cronies the ammunition they needed, a pretext to dump him. Insensitivity to Muslims was inconsequential; daring to appear on the vile Fox network–and on O’Reilly!–was Williams’ unforgivable sin.
Five months down the road, after Williams unaccountably snagged a plum multimillion gig at Fox and after Schiller took heat even from liberals, she conceded that, “We handled the situation badly” and the Williams episode was a breakdown in “personnel processes about who calls who when.” Without identifying those processes, she said those issues have been “fixed” and that NPR has “undertaken a thorough review” of its news code of ethics: http://tiny.cc/zbxuu
Schiller didn’t clarify that code, either.
Her die was cast after other NPR scandals hit the . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3846)
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Education News, None of it Good
Edcation News, None of it Good
Among other understandings, teachers of America’s elementary and high school students were always expected to set examples for their students.
Aside from the obvious of not seducing their students, public school teachers were expected to establish a certain sense of decorum, which mandate in my school district incorporated into the union contract the allowance: “Male teachers are permitted to remove their jackets in the classroom.”
Times have changed. Radically.
Teacher-student assignations have become almost commonplace, student behavior has gone far beyond tossing spitballs and chewing gum, and teacher dress codes have gone the way of high-buttoned shoes. Aside from teachers hitting on students, other behavioral modifications on the part of teachers are much less forgivable, especially when the example they are setting is one of extreme misbehavior and lawlessness.
Teachers and other public servants in Wisconsin have the same rights accorded to every American under the First Amendment to the Constitution’s prohibition against infringement on freedom of speech, interference with the right to peaceably assemble, and the right of petitioning governmental redress of grievances.
What teachers do not have the right or privilege to do is to disgrace themselves and their profession, to break laws, to interfere with government functions, or to shamelessly trash both their profession and themselves by allowing teacher and outside thugs to direct and dictate their criminal activities: http://tiny.cc/2j0b9
In Wisconsin, teachers protesting new Republican Governor Scott Walker’s attempts to clean up the fiscal mess he inherited have reached new lows in their efforts to resist limitations on collective bargaining rights.
Despite Walker’s offers of compromise, Wisconsin “educators” have abandoned their classroom responsibilities by calling in sick in droves, falsifying medical “sick notes,” committing outright slander against their duly-elected representatives, and resorting to the same bullying tactics they decry in their schools, all of which are condoned by the nation’s Bully-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama
Acting more like semi-civilized Third Worlders instead of American student role models, their protests are costing millions. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3839)
Among other understandings, teachers of America’s elementary and high school students were always expected to set examples for their students.
Aside from the obvious of not seducing their students, public school teachers were expected to establish a certain sense of decorum, which mandate in my school district incorporated into the union contract the allowance: “Male teachers are permitted to remove their jackets in the classroom.”
Times have changed. Radically.
Teacher-student assignations have become almost commonplace, student behavior has gone far beyond tossing spitballs and chewing gum, and teacher dress codes have gone the way of high-buttoned shoes. Aside from teachers hitting on students, other behavioral modifications on the part of teachers are much less forgivable, especially when the example they are setting is one of extreme misbehavior and lawlessness.
Teachers and other public servants in Wisconsin have the same rights accorded to every American under the First Amendment to the Constitution’s prohibition against infringement on freedom of speech, interference with the right to peaceably assemble, and the right of petitioning governmental redress of grievances.
What teachers do not have the right or privilege to do is to disgrace themselves and their profession, to break laws, to interfere with government functions, or to shamelessly trash both their profession and themselves by allowing teacher and outside thugs to direct and dictate their criminal activities: http://tiny.cc/2j0b9
In Wisconsin, teachers protesting new Republican Governor Scott Walker’s attempts to clean up the fiscal mess he inherited have reached new lows in their efforts to resist limitations on collective bargaining rights.
Despite Walker’s offers of compromise, Wisconsin “educators” have abandoned their classroom responsibilities by calling in sick in droves, falsifying medical “sick notes,” committing outright slander against their duly-elected representatives, and resorting to the same bullying tactics they decry in their schools, all of which are condoned by the nation’s Bully-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama
Acting more like semi-civilized Third Worlders instead of American student role models, their protests are costing millions. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3839)
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Lies, Liars, and Incompetents
Lies, Liars, and Incompetents
THE MOST EXPENSIVE JOBS IN HISTORY: We all want America’s unemployment rate to go down, right? We want it to decline even further than the administration’s reported–fabricated–February 8.9% number announced last week. The question remains as to what the nation can afford to spend in order to create jobs, and rosy statistics.
In an imaginative rhetorical flourish, President Obama’s economic wordsmiths long ago, as in two years, concocted a new employment term, “created and saved jobs,” a term as vague as it is unverifiable.
Allowing for estimates by the allegedly non-partisan Congressional Budget Office of somewhere between 1.3 and 3.5 million new jobs resulting from Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ARRA, “The Stimulus,” each of those positions cost a minimum, on average, $228,055 per, a rather hefty sum for taxpayers to lay out during a nasty recession for jobs that paid significantly less than $228,055 a year: http://tiny.cc/c0r5u
Even we who are admittedly math-challenged can see the absurdity there as well as we can see the complete and utter failure of Obama’s plan to jump-start the economy by exorbitantly spending monies the country doesn’t have to hype employment that, historically after downturns, has always increased on its own.
Not incidentally, the CBO also said it had been wrong in its original cost estimate for The Stimulus. Initially, the CBO estimated ARRA would cost a mere $787 billion. The CBO is now guessing $821 billion but what’s a piddling $34 billion to a people now on the verge of national bankruptcy?
Anyone still wonder why Americans neither believe nor trust government, especially when that government is controlled by Obamian-Alinsky socialists who would like nothing better than to plunge us into chaos and are presently peforming admirably in their quest for that goal?
MICHAEL MOORE INVADES MADISON: Less admirable if more prodigious is the figure of Michael Moore. Matching the girth if not the integrity of New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie, Moore is a veritable caricature of the Hollywood liberal.
The bloated, hypocritical, leftist Moore not only revels in denigrating America but is so filled with venom and himself–and with the food provided by this hateful nation–that he can’t see the truth beyond his formidable belly. On the back of capitalism, he rose from obscurity and as a failed seminarian in Flint, Michigan to become our foremost celluloid critic of the capitalistic society that enabled him to spew his vitriol.
With formidable competition, Moore has risen to the top of the Hollywood hypocrite heap as spokesman for the downtrodden who sends his child to private schools, who resides in a million dollar Manhattan apartment, whose schlockumentaries are proven lies, and who throws tantrums when he doesn’t get his way, among other demonstrations of his infantilism. See MichaelMooreExposed.com: http://tiny.cc/dl5y9
With little else to do at the moment between eating and spewing, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3831)
THE MOST EXPENSIVE JOBS IN HISTORY: We all want America’s unemployment rate to go down, right? We want it to decline even further than the administration’s reported–fabricated–February 8.9% number announced last week. The question remains as to what the nation can afford to spend in order to create jobs, and rosy statistics.
In an imaginative rhetorical flourish, President Obama’s economic wordsmiths long ago, as in two years, concocted a new employment term, “created and saved jobs,” a term as vague as it is unverifiable.
Allowing for estimates by the allegedly non-partisan Congressional Budget Office of somewhere between 1.3 and 3.5 million new jobs resulting from Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ARRA, “The Stimulus,” each of those positions cost a minimum, on average, $228,055 per, a rather hefty sum for taxpayers to lay out during a nasty recession for jobs that paid significantly less than $228,055 a year: http://tiny.cc/c0r5u
Even we who are admittedly math-challenged can see the absurdity there as well as we can see the complete and utter failure of Obama’s plan to jump-start the economy by exorbitantly spending monies the country doesn’t have to hype employment that, historically after downturns, has always increased on its own.
Not incidentally, the CBO also said it had been wrong in its original cost estimate for The Stimulus. Initially, the CBO estimated ARRA would cost a mere $787 billion. The CBO is now guessing $821 billion but what’s a piddling $34 billion to a people now on the verge of national bankruptcy?
Anyone still wonder why Americans neither believe nor trust government, especially when that government is controlled by Obamian-Alinsky socialists who would like nothing better than to plunge us into chaos and are presently peforming admirably in their quest for that goal?
MICHAEL MOORE INVADES MADISON: Less admirable if more prodigious is the figure of Michael Moore. Matching the girth if not the integrity of New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie, Moore is a veritable caricature of the Hollywood liberal.
The bloated, hypocritical, leftist Moore not only revels in denigrating America but is so filled with venom and himself–and with the food provided by this hateful nation–that he can’t see the truth beyond his formidable belly. On the back of capitalism, he rose from obscurity and as a failed seminarian in Flint, Michigan to become our foremost celluloid critic of the capitalistic society that enabled him to spew his vitriol.
With formidable competition, Moore has risen to the top of the Hollywood hypocrite heap as spokesman for the downtrodden who sends his child to private schools, who resides in a million dollar Manhattan apartment, whose schlockumentaries are proven lies, and who throws tantrums when he doesn’t get his way, among other demonstrations of his infantilism. See MichaelMooreExposed.com: http://tiny.cc/dl5y9
With little else to do at the moment between eating and spewing, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3831)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
The Illiberality of Gay Liberals
The Illiberality of Gay Liberals
Liberals by definition–by liberal definition–are broadminded, sensitive, generous, tolerant lovers of freedom as opposed to that other ilk, those non-liberals, illiberals, who are notable for their narrowminded, bigoted views toward life and their fellow man– again as defined by liberals.
In America, liberals are exemplified by such individuals as the late Senator Ted Kennedy and such current liberal lights as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, and by virtually the entire entertainment industry and the mass media. To the man and woman, they are best characterized by their illiberality.
However, scratch a liberal–if one is inclined to scratching libs–and one invariably uncovers more bias, bigotry, and insensitivity toward their fellow man, and woman than one would care to shake a stick at. Obama’s farcical call for a greater sense of decorous civility in the nation was greeted with hearty approbation by his liberal constituencies at the same time they ramped up their uncivil intolerance toward everything and everyone with whom they disagreed.
The old saw, “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged,” has as much validity today as thinking that liberals much mind if they’re mugged.
More likely, as they scrabble to their feet after they’re pummeled to the ground, or shot, or stabbed, or merely have their wallets or purses stolen, they are inclined to muse that societal inequities caused it all and were it not for mean conservatives they would be living in downtown Utopia where life is beautiful all the time and muggers are their babysitters.
Regrettably, Utopia may be a few steps, or years, or eons down the road and until we arrive at that Nirvana on Earth, we have to contend with reality.
Among Obama’s various constituencies, none are more intolerant toward dissent and differing points of view than the homosexual lobby which, ironically, have incessantly moaned about discrimination and bias at the same time they have exercised blatant discrimination. Gay liberals are far removed from classic liberality, broadmindedness, sensitivity, generosity, and tolerance–or appreciation of other points of view–when it comes to the rights of others who may disagree with the homosexual lifestyle.
Gays, thanks in large part to the enthusiatic support of the most homosexual-friendly president in American history, Barack Hussein Obama, as well as to the aforementioned entertainment industry which persistently campaigns for homosexuality via movies and television programming, have never had it better and have made incredibly amazing advances in public acceptance.
However, as is typical when fringe groups leave the fringes, gays have tended to overstep their bounds, to believe their cause, their acceptance, has been so successful that they proceed to dictate their rules, their agenda.
A small but telling instance of that overstepping is the case of Jim and Beth Walder, owners of the Timber Creek Bed & Breakfast [e-mail: info@timbercreekbb.com] in Paxton, Illinois. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3825)
Liberals by definition–by liberal definition–are broadminded, sensitive, generous, tolerant lovers of freedom as opposed to that other ilk, those non-liberals, illiberals, who are notable for their narrowminded, bigoted views toward life and their fellow man– again as defined by liberals.
In America, liberals are exemplified by such individuals as the late Senator Ted Kennedy and such current liberal lights as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, and by virtually the entire entertainment industry and the mass media. To the man and woman, they are best characterized by their illiberality.
However, scratch a liberal–if one is inclined to scratching libs–and one invariably uncovers more bias, bigotry, and insensitivity toward their fellow man, and woman than one would care to shake a stick at. Obama’s farcical call for a greater sense of decorous civility in the nation was greeted with hearty approbation by his liberal constituencies at the same time they ramped up their uncivil intolerance toward everything and everyone with whom they disagreed.
The old saw, “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged,” has as much validity today as thinking that liberals much mind if they’re mugged.
More likely, as they scrabble to their feet after they’re pummeled to the ground, or shot, or stabbed, or merely have their wallets or purses stolen, they are inclined to muse that societal inequities caused it all and were it not for mean conservatives they would be living in downtown Utopia where life is beautiful all the time and muggers are their babysitters.
Regrettably, Utopia may be a few steps, or years, or eons down the road and until we arrive at that Nirvana on Earth, we have to contend with reality.
Among Obama’s various constituencies, none are more intolerant toward dissent and differing points of view than the homosexual lobby which, ironically, have incessantly moaned about discrimination and bias at the same time they have exercised blatant discrimination. Gay liberals are far removed from classic liberality, broadmindedness, sensitivity, generosity, and tolerance–or appreciation of other points of view–when it comes to the rights of others who may disagree with the homosexual lifestyle.
Gays, thanks in large part to the enthusiatic support of the most homosexual-friendly president in American history, Barack Hussein Obama, as well as to the aforementioned entertainment industry which persistently campaigns for homosexuality via movies and television programming, have never had it better and have made incredibly amazing advances in public acceptance.
However, as is typical when fringe groups leave the fringes, gays have tended to overstep their bounds, to believe their cause, their acceptance, has been so successful that they proceed to dictate their rules, their agenda.
A small but telling instance of that overstepping is the case of Jim and Beth Walder, owners of the Timber Creek Bed & Breakfast [e-mail: info@timbercreekbb.com] in Paxton, Illinois. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3825)
Monday, March 7, 2011
Missing Person Report: Marizela Perez, "Em-Em"
Missing Person Report: Marizela Perez, "Em-Em"
In apparent all seriousness, IOwntheWorld.com, has posted the following alert:
“MISSING PERSON
Name: Marizela Perez
Date Missing: March 5, 2011, 12:00-12:30 P.M.
Last Seen: Rainier Beach area, heading to UW Seattle campus to meet friends for lunch or study in the UW libraries
Possible Routes: Sound Link Light Rail stations, downtown/Chinatown areas, UW Seattle campus, U-district
Description – Asian female, 5’5” tall, 110 lbs, skinny build, asymmetrical bob with short bangs and brown/red highlights hairstyle, tattoo on left inner arm with the words ‘lahat ay magiging maayos’, last seen wearing denim jeans, light brown suede laced boots, possibly wearing green eye contacts, possibly carrying a plaid backpack with a Macbook Pro laptop, taking medication for depression.
Michelle [Malkin, Marizela's aunt] is asking that we help get the word out via Facebook and newscasts. Please pray that she is found safe, and do what you can to help get the word out. Thanks so much.”
Ms. Malkin added the following on her website:
“Seattle-area readers, can you please help get the word out–and if you or anyone you know might know anything about Marizela’s (nickname: “Em-Em”) whereabouts, please get in touch with the Seattle Police Department/UWPD or contacts listed at Facebook link above [Facebook and Q13Fox/KCPQ] in Seattle:ASAP. Marizela, if you are able to let your dad and mom know that you are okay, please contact them. You are so loved. “Lahat ay magiging maayos” is Tagalog for “All will be well.” May God make it so. Please keep my cousin and her family in your prayers. Thank you.” (http://tiny.cc/zx4dm)
Enough said!
In apparent all seriousness, IOwntheWorld.com, has posted the following alert:
“MISSING PERSON
Name: Marizela Perez
Date Missing: March 5, 2011, 12:00-12:30 P.M.
Last Seen: Rainier Beach area, heading to UW Seattle campus to meet friends for lunch or study in the UW libraries
Possible Routes: Sound Link Light Rail stations, downtown/Chinatown areas, UW Seattle campus, U-district
Description – Asian female, 5’5” tall, 110 lbs, skinny build, asymmetrical bob with short bangs and brown/red highlights hairstyle, tattoo on left inner arm with the words ‘lahat ay magiging maayos’, last seen wearing denim jeans, light brown suede laced boots, possibly wearing green eye contacts, possibly carrying a plaid backpack with a Macbook Pro laptop, taking medication for depression.
Michelle [Malkin, Marizela's aunt] is asking that we help get the word out via Facebook and newscasts. Please pray that she is found safe, and do what you can to help get the word out. Thanks so much.”
Ms. Malkin added the following on her website:
“Seattle-area readers, can you please help get the word out–and if you or anyone you know might know anything about Marizela’s (nickname: “Em-Em”) whereabouts, please get in touch with the Seattle Police Department/UWPD or contacts listed at Facebook link above [Facebook and Q13Fox/KCPQ] in Seattle:ASAP. Marizela, if you are able to let your dad and mom know that you are okay, please contact them. You are so loved. “Lahat ay magiging maayos” is Tagalog for “All will be well.” May God make it so. Please keep my cousin and her family in your prayers. Thank you.” (http://tiny.cc/zx4dm)
Enough said!
Calypso Louie and Sedition
Calypso Louie and Sedition
Louis Eugene Wolcott, aka Calypso Louie, aka “The Charmer,” aka Louis Farrakhan, aka “The Prophet of Rage” had a short and less than illustrious career before he hit on his life’s work, serving as humble servant of Allah and America’s pre-eminent domestic terrorist in his role as Grand Poobah of the Nation of Islam, NOI.
Son of Carribbean immigrants, a native Bronxite who relocated to Boston, Louie or, as he prefers to be known, the Reverend Louis Farrakhan, struck paydirt with the NOI after the death of the former Elijah Robert Poole who also had made it big after changing his name to Elijah Mohammad and founded the NOI.
Louie abandoned his calypso for greener Islamic pastures and subsequently became a reverend, maybe to be part of the black reverend clique of his bosom buddies, Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. “Ah Hate America” Wright, our president’s pastor of 20+ years.
Since becoming reverend, Louie has made quite a name for himself, a bigger name than he could ever have achieved strumming his calypso: Jew-hater, (“an unclean, gutter religion,”) white-hater, (“vicious beasts” and “the skunks of the planet,”) and America-hater, (“We must end your world and bring in a new world.”)
I hesitate to even mention some of Louie’s other noteworthy contributions to astronomy, history and mathematics. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3820)
Louis Eugene Wolcott, aka Calypso Louie, aka “The Charmer,” aka Louis Farrakhan, aka “The Prophet of Rage” had a short and less than illustrious career before he hit on his life’s work, serving as humble servant of Allah and America’s pre-eminent domestic terrorist in his role as Grand Poobah of the Nation of Islam, NOI.
Son of Carribbean immigrants, a native Bronxite who relocated to Boston, Louie or, as he prefers to be known, the Reverend Louis Farrakhan, struck paydirt with the NOI after the death of the former Elijah Robert Poole who also had made it big after changing his name to Elijah Mohammad and founded the NOI.
Louie abandoned his calypso for greener Islamic pastures and subsequently became a reverend, maybe to be part of the black reverend clique of his bosom buddies, Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. “Ah Hate America” Wright, our president’s pastor of 20+ years.
Since becoming reverend, Louie has made quite a name for himself, a bigger name than he could ever have achieved strumming his calypso: Jew-hater, (“an unclean, gutter religion,”) white-hater, (“vicious beasts” and “the skunks of the planet,”) and America-hater, (“We must end your world and bring in a new world.”)
I hesitate to even mention some of Louie’s other noteworthy contributions to astronomy, history and mathematics. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3820)
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Masters of Unemployment Prestidigitation
Masters of Unemployment Prestidigitation
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,” said Mark Twain. Less memorable and catchy is the line that “Statistics are the products of propagandists.”
Both apply to the government’s announcement that the nation’s unemployment rate dropped minimally to 8.9% and a piddling 192,000 new jobs were added nationwide in February, which still left 13,700,000 people out of work. Still, the numbers do represent an improvement in the job market since the November rate of 9.8%.
Then we get to other bad news: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that black unemployment stands at 15.3%, hispanic at 11.6%, teenagers at 23.9%, with 2.7 million “marginally attached,” part-timers and workers who had given up looking for jobs, a number up 200,000 in a year: http://tiny.cc/c6yo6
Now comes the realy bad news: The BLS numbers are baloney. As CNBC’s Rick Santelli pointed out on Friday in “Good Jobs Report Has a Dark Side,” things are not always what they appear to be.
Government stats fall short of reality by not factoring into the good news the bad news of America’s incredible shrinking work force.
As Santelli explained, “The government’s definition of the labor force is all individuals 16 years of age and older, who are employed or seeking employment. It does not include students; retirees; anyone with unreported income, or ‘discouraged’ workers. . . meaning the percentage of Americans not working or even trying to join the work force is at a near three-decade high.”
For the non-economists out there, a layman’s translation . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3816)
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,” said Mark Twain. Less memorable and catchy is the line that “Statistics are the products of propagandists.”
Both apply to the government’s announcement that the nation’s unemployment rate dropped minimally to 8.9% and a piddling 192,000 new jobs were added nationwide in February, which still left 13,700,000 people out of work. Still, the numbers do represent an improvement in the job market since the November rate of 9.8%.
Then we get to other bad news: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that black unemployment stands at 15.3%, hispanic at 11.6%, teenagers at 23.9%, with 2.7 million “marginally attached,” part-timers and workers who had given up looking for jobs, a number up 200,000 in a year: http://tiny.cc/c6yo6
Now comes the realy bad news: The BLS numbers are baloney. As CNBC’s Rick Santelli pointed out on Friday in “Good Jobs Report Has a Dark Side,” things are not always what they appear to be.
Government stats fall short of reality by not factoring into the good news the bad news of America’s incredible shrinking work force.
As Santelli explained, “The government’s definition of the labor force is all individuals 16 years of age and older, who are employed or seeking employment. It does not include students; retirees; anyone with unreported income, or ‘discouraged’ workers. . . meaning the percentage of Americans not working or even trying to join the work force is at a near three-decade high.”
For the non-economists out there, a layman’s translation . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3816)
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Humor, Calderon-Salazar Style
Humor, Calderon-Salazar Style
Politicians are by nature gregarious, almost as gregarious as they are entertaining.
Showing that our own politicos don’t have a lock on the absurd, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon gave fair warning to Americans during his visit to the Land of the Gringos that Mexicans were getting upset with us over the illegal immigration issue. Before we go ahead and do something foolish, like securing our borders and asserting our national integrity, Calderon wants us to speak softly and drop Teddy Roosevelt’s menacing, big stick.
Calderon didn’t specifically refer to Teddy’s stick but he did declare that, “We need to change the general perception inside the public opinion in America and the public opinion in Mexico” because ”bad feelings are growing on both sides of the border. The anti-American feeling in Mexico is growing again” and we should all make nice.
He didn’t actually say that either. What Calderon did say was that, “What we need to do is remember each other–that we are neighbors, we are nice, and we are human persons. We contribute to each other’s prosperity.”
In a Q&A following a speech to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Mexican president added that the “Dream Act,” would have been a great move a toward alleviating those Mexican “bad feelings” and negative perceptions toward America: http://tiny.cc/lv7kr
In a joint appearance with President Obama, Calderon also voiced his hearty support for Obama’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
We certainly can’t permit those feelings and perceptions to fester and should, therefore, have passed the “Dream Act,” which would have rewarded young criminal illegals in our country. We certainly should endorse Obama’s package which would express the nation’s appreciation to the other 13 million or so, mostly-Mexican, criminal illegal aliens who have violated our laws by sneaking across the border, who have taken jobs away from legal residents, who have wreaked havoc in border towns, who don’t pay income taxes and have over-stuffed our prison systems.
Still, Calderon’s ideas could be implemented, with one stipulation: Mexico would have to repeal its own onerous immigration laws which make Arizona’s seem like an engraved invitation.
Among other things, those laws provide for the imprisonment and/or expulsion of any foreigners stupid enough to intrude on Mexican soil and the jailing of those who assist them. They also impose severe restrictions even on legal immigrants, requiring an unblemished character and a capacity to significantly contribute to Mexican society.
Until such repeal, we should regard Calderon’s suggestions for what they must be, a tongue-in-cheeky effort to induce American guffaws.
The United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar isn’t especially known as a stand-up comedian but he recently rivaled Felipe Calderon’s comical ideas in his statements on American energy independence.
With a straight face–politicians are awesome when they tell jokes–Salazar ridiculed the popular chant, “Drill, baby, drill!” and dismissed without answering a question on getting oil from the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. His non-response: “We don’t believe that you need to drill everywhere.”
No one had suggested drilling “everywhere.” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3808)
Politicians are by nature gregarious, almost as gregarious as they are entertaining.
Showing that our own politicos don’t have a lock on the absurd, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon gave fair warning to Americans during his visit to the Land of the Gringos that Mexicans were getting upset with us over the illegal immigration issue. Before we go ahead and do something foolish, like securing our borders and asserting our national integrity, Calderon wants us to speak softly and drop Teddy Roosevelt’s menacing, big stick.
Calderon didn’t specifically refer to Teddy’s stick but he did declare that, “We need to change the general perception inside the public opinion in America and the public opinion in Mexico” because ”bad feelings are growing on both sides of the border. The anti-American feeling in Mexico is growing again” and we should all make nice.
He didn’t actually say that either. What Calderon did say was that, “What we need to do is remember each other–that we are neighbors, we are nice, and we are human persons. We contribute to each other’s prosperity.”
In a Q&A following a speech to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Mexican president added that the “Dream Act,” would have been a great move a toward alleviating those Mexican “bad feelings” and negative perceptions toward America: http://tiny.cc/lv7kr
In a joint appearance with President Obama, Calderon also voiced his hearty support for Obama’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
We certainly can’t permit those feelings and perceptions to fester and should, therefore, have passed the “Dream Act,” which would have rewarded young criminal illegals in our country. We certainly should endorse Obama’s package which would express the nation’s appreciation to the other 13 million or so, mostly-Mexican, criminal illegal aliens who have violated our laws by sneaking across the border, who have taken jobs away from legal residents, who have wreaked havoc in border towns, who don’t pay income taxes and have over-stuffed our prison systems.
Still, Calderon’s ideas could be implemented, with one stipulation: Mexico would have to repeal its own onerous immigration laws which make Arizona’s seem like an engraved invitation.
Among other things, those laws provide for the imprisonment and/or expulsion of any foreigners stupid enough to intrude on Mexican soil and the jailing of those who assist them. They also impose severe restrictions even on legal immigrants, requiring an unblemished character and a capacity to significantly contribute to Mexican society.
Until such repeal, we should regard Calderon’s suggestions for what they must be, a tongue-in-cheeky effort to induce American guffaws.
The United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar isn’t especially known as a stand-up comedian but he recently rivaled Felipe Calderon’s comical ideas in his statements on American energy independence.
With a straight face–politicians are awesome when they tell jokes–Salazar ridiculed the popular chant, “Drill, baby, drill!” and dismissed without answering a question on getting oil from the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. His non-response: “We don’t believe that you need to drill everywhere.”
No one had suggested drilling “everywhere.” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3808)
Friday, March 4, 2011
Sex in the Age of Obama
Sex in the Age of Obama
Legal sexual assault, sex games for kids, collegiate drilldos. America in 2011 is a far cry from what your gramps or dear old dad ever knew.
Those “enhanced security measures” introduced by the TSA and fully endorsed by DHS Secretary, who also contends our southern border is secure even as Border Patrol agents and civilians are being slaughtered, have been denounced for what they really are: “tyranny, sexual assault and a violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure.”
New Hampshire State Rep. George Lambert has sponsored a bill that would make not just touching your “junk” a federal crime but simply viewing someone’s breasts or genitals by a TSA agent would constitute a sexual assault. Men and women have already reported numerous instances of agents not only abusing security requisites but even needlessly strip-searching people but arguing over who gets to feel up–they call it “pat-downs” pretty, young women.
Lambert thinks the TSA has gone too far. HB 628 would require agents convicted of sexual assault to register for life as tier 3 sex offenders. He’s not alone in his thinking although Rep. Laura Pantelakos, who may enjoy being felt up, facilely advised those who don’t wish to submit to the assaults to avoid flying: http://tiny.cc/58t8z
Professor John Michael Bailey of prestigious Northwestern University would surely concur with Rep. Pantelakos and she might want to participate in his next after-class presentation on “networking for kinky people,” and maybe bring along her main squeeze.
Bailey indicated his entirely optional cocurricular activity following his human sexuality class and was not “for the faint of heart,” which was a good thing since it involved a female volunteer submitting to what could cause a stroke in those with faint hearts, and which should cause spasms of horror on the part of women’s rights proponents, although it resulted in neither.
With the assistance of her boyfriend, and purely for educational value, the volunteer was penetrated with a power drill adapted for that purpose. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3800)
Legal sexual assault, sex games for kids, collegiate drilldos. America in 2011 is a far cry from what your gramps or dear old dad ever knew.
Those “enhanced security measures” introduced by the TSA and fully endorsed by DHS Secretary, who also contends our southern border is secure even as Border Patrol agents and civilians are being slaughtered, have been denounced for what they really are: “tyranny, sexual assault and a violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure.”
New Hampshire State Rep. George Lambert has sponsored a bill that would make not just touching your “junk” a federal crime but simply viewing someone’s breasts or genitals by a TSA agent would constitute a sexual assault. Men and women have already reported numerous instances of agents not only abusing security requisites but even needlessly strip-searching people but arguing over who gets to feel up–they call it “pat-downs” pretty, young women.
Lambert thinks the TSA has gone too far. HB 628 would require agents convicted of sexual assault to register for life as tier 3 sex offenders. He’s not alone in his thinking although Rep. Laura Pantelakos, who may enjoy being felt up, facilely advised those who don’t wish to submit to the assaults to avoid flying: http://tiny.cc/58t8z
Professor John Michael Bailey of prestigious Northwestern University would surely concur with Rep. Pantelakos and she might want to participate in his next after-class presentation on “networking for kinky people,” and maybe bring along her main squeeze.
Bailey indicated his entirely optional cocurricular activity following his human sexuality class and was not “for the faint of heart,” which was a good thing since it involved a female volunteer submitting to what could cause a stroke in those with faint hearts, and which should cause spasms of horror on the part of women’s rights proponents, although it resulted in neither.
With the assistance of her boyfriend, and purely for educational value, the volunteer was penetrated with a power drill adapted for that purpose. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3800)
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Michelle Obama, Stealth FLOTUS
Michelle Obama, Stealth FLOTUS
Her hubby, the POTUS, may suffer from “narcissistic personality disorder” based on an analysis by Ben Shapiro of CNS.com, but America’s FLOTUS Michelle Obama has her own little quirks. She shares Barack’s penchant for secretiveness approaching paranoia.
The president loves partying and posing and mincing for the camera even as he detests his buddies in the press when he is expected to answer unrehearsed responses to unanticipated questions. (See ”The Stealth Presidency,” http://tiny.cc/dykcf, to which a new wrinkle was added today when the Associated Press reported that, after promising to answer “a few questions” during the Obama/Calderon presser, he answered one–on a possible NFL lockout.)
The first lady almost outdoes him in the opaque department. As Obama has given new meaning to his professed drive for transparency, Mrs. Obama has given new meaning to the terms “conferences” and “press briefings.” Like her multiple vacations and her kids, she likes to keep them private. Her office calls them “listen only” conference calls.
She talks, reporters listen.
According to CNSNews.com, on February 8th, she conducted one of those charades on her favorite topic, obesity. The next day, she held an “invitation only” call with unidentified “online media.” Her office refused to identify the which “online media” had been invited.
Yesterday’s exercise in controlling the media was devoted to the Healthier U.S. Schools Challenge program, as well as devoted to the admistration’s line. Ably assisted this time with backup . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3798)
Her hubby, the POTUS, may suffer from “narcissistic personality disorder” based on an analysis by Ben Shapiro of CNS.com, but America’s FLOTUS Michelle Obama has her own little quirks. She shares Barack’s penchant for secretiveness approaching paranoia.
The president loves partying and posing and mincing for the camera even as he detests his buddies in the press when he is expected to answer unrehearsed responses to unanticipated questions. (See ”The Stealth Presidency,” http://tiny.cc/dykcf, to which a new wrinkle was added today when the Associated Press reported that, after promising to answer “a few questions” during the Obama/Calderon presser, he answered one–on a possible NFL lockout.)
The first lady almost outdoes him in the opaque department. As Obama has given new meaning to his professed drive for transparency, Mrs. Obama has given new meaning to the terms “conferences” and “press briefings.” Like her multiple vacations and her kids, she likes to keep them private. Her office calls them “listen only” conference calls.
She talks, reporters listen.
According to CNSNews.com, on February 8th, she conducted one of those charades on her favorite topic, obesity. The next day, she held an “invitation only” call with unidentified “online media.” Her office refused to identify the which “online media” had been invited.
Yesterday’s exercise in controlling the media was devoted to the Healthier U.S. Schools Challenge program, as well as devoted to the admistration’s line. Ably assisted this time with backup . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3798)
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The "Let My People Go!" Cards
The "Let My People Go!" Cards
Go down, Moses,
Way down in Egypt land,
Tell old Pharaoh,
Let my people go.
That old Negro spiritual has taken on new meaning of late. The “people” have evolved into the New Black Panther Party and public labor unions and the new pharaoh has emerged as the Republican Party.
America’s Attorney General or, more precisely, African-Americans’ Attorney General Eric Holder, became mildly incensed–if incensement can ever be mild–over his department’s handling of the New Black Panther Party’s 2008 Philadelphia voter intimidation case. In a nutshell, Holder’s Department of Justice didn’t handle it at all. Rather they abandoned the cut and dried case.
See “That New Black Panther Party Holds AG Holder in its Spell,” http://tiny.cc/rjnko, and earlier articles that exposed the black racist doings at the DoJ.
Mr. Holder all but lost it during a House Appropriations subcommittee this week when Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) accused Holder’s department of doing what sworn congressional testimony by reputable DoJ attorneys has already substantiated as fact, namely that race trumped justice when it came to prosecuting the New Black Panther Party.
Holder, already on record as denouncing white people as cowards–even before his confirmation as the nation’s principal law enforcement authority–reacted as if it were a personal offense when Culberson read a statement by former Democratic activist Bartle Bull calling the NBPP “incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.”
Instead of responding to the charge, Holder said, ”Think about that. When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia–which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.”
The AG then babbled on about his sister, and courage, and history and defensively rejected Culberson’s charge of “overwhelming evidence” of “a double [racial] standard” at the DoJ by saying, “I would disagree very vehemently with the notion that there’s overwhelming evidence that that is in fact true. This Department of Justice does not enforce the law in a race-conscious way:” http://tiny.cc/wquk1
Methinks Holder doth protest too much.
First of all, no comparisons were being drawn between the NBPP travesty and the Civil Rights Movement in the South and therefore no “disservice” was implied or intended. Secondly, that “overwhelming” evidence has already been presented to Congress, even if it has been ignored. Third, what’s this “my people” talk?
The Attorney General of the United States is supposed to represent ALL the people, not some people, not just Eric Holder’s “people.” Holder seems to forget or disregard that mandate all too frequently.
On the other hand, Rep. Charles Rangel (D, NY) forgets little or nothing, except when it comes to ethics and ill-gotten gains. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3789)
Go down, Moses,
Way down in Egypt land,
Tell old Pharaoh,
Let my people go.
That old Negro spiritual has taken on new meaning of late. The “people” have evolved into the New Black Panther Party and public labor unions and the new pharaoh has emerged as the Republican Party.
America’s Attorney General or, more precisely, African-Americans’ Attorney General Eric Holder, became mildly incensed–if incensement can ever be mild–over his department’s handling of the New Black Panther Party’s 2008 Philadelphia voter intimidation case. In a nutshell, Holder’s Department of Justice didn’t handle it at all. Rather they abandoned the cut and dried case.
See “That New Black Panther Party Holds AG Holder in its Spell,” http://tiny.cc/rjnko, and earlier articles that exposed the black racist doings at the DoJ.
Mr. Holder all but lost it during a House Appropriations subcommittee this week when Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) accused Holder’s department of doing what sworn congressional testimony by reputable DoJ attorneys has already substantiated as fact, namely that race trumped justice when it came to prosecuting the New Black Panther Party.
Holder, already on record as denouncing white people as cowards–even before his confirmation as the nation’s principal law enforcement authority–reacted as if it were a personal offense when Culberson read a statement by former Democratic activist Bartle Bull calling the NBPP “incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.”
Instead of responding to the charge, Holder said, ”Think about that. When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia–which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.”
The AG then babbled on about his sister, and courage, and history and defensively rejected Culberson’s charge of “overwhelming evidence” of “a double [racial] standard” at the DoJ by saying, “I would disagree very vehemently with the notion that there’s overwhelming evidence that that is in fact true. This Department of Justice does not enforce the law in a race-conscious way:” http://tiny.cc/wquk1
Methinks Holder doth protest too much.
First of all, no comparisons were being drawn between the NBPP travesty and the Civil Rights Movement in the South and therefore no “disservice” was implied or intended. Secondly, that “overwhelming” evidence has already been presented to Congress, even if it has been ignored. Third, what’s this “my people” talk?
The Attorney General of the United States is supposed to represent ALL the people, not some people, not just Eric Holder’s “people.” Holder seems to forget or disregard that mandate all too frequently.
On the other hand, Rep. Charles Rangel (D, NY) forgets little or nothing, except when it comes to ethics and ill-gotten gains. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3789)
The City on the Bay Stinks!
The City on the Bay Stinks!
Tony Bennet may have left his heart there but, if so, Tony should know that San Francisco may be fine for storing organs but when he visits he might consider bringing a bag lunch and some Air Wick.
I’ve never been to San Fran and I hear it’s nice this time of year. So, too, is Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, where many Kolkatans/Calcuttans engage in the same activity as some San Franciscans. In less sophisticated locales it’s called “dumpster diving.”
I don’t know what it’s called in Kolkata/Calcutta since I haven’t visited there either–I’m only allowed to travel around the block–and I doubt they have many dempsty dumpsters or any other kind of dumpsters but Frisco sophisticates call it “foraging.” They also, naturally, believe they’re making an environmental statement, as Friscans are apt to do.
“BigFurHat” of IOwntheWorld.com–who evidently doesn’t get out much either– witnessed a forager on the Travel Channel say, “This generation is breaking free from the undemocratic contrivances of food distribution and unsustainabilty and embracing a unique vehicle of how one goes about reclaiming a relationship with food.”
Not being a food sophisticate, I’m not sure what that means but “BigFurHat” did. He termed it “bullsh*t,” which seems to fit since the server of the Travel Channel meal, priced at $85 per, “made some snail concoction on a cracker. Then he served some fennel thing on a cracker. Then he served wild boar that some dude shot on his parent’s farm:” http://tiny.cc/xsk8f
The sources of all the other delicacies were not revealed, probably because they were all illegally obtained either from dumpsters or from “public spaces.” Hey, if super-sophisticated Friscans were willing to fork over $85 for grub that could have been dumpster-dredged and plucked from municipal flower beds, it’s all good, no? As long as we are ”breaking free” and “reclaiming,” yada, yada, yada.
Bless their and Tony’s hearts, San Franciscans are also very water conscious . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3782)
Tony Bennet may have left his heart there but, if so, Tony should know that San Francisco may be fine for storing organs but when he visits he might consider bringing a bag lunch and some Air Wick.
I’ve never been to San Fran and I hear it’s nice this time of year. So, too, is Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, where many Kolkatans/Calcuttans engage in the same activity as some San Franciscans. In less sophisticated locales it’s called “dumpster diving.”
I don’t know what it’s called in Kolkata/Calcutta since I haven’t visited there either–I’m only allowed to travel around the block–and I doubt they have many dempsty dumpsters or any other kind of dumpsters but Frisco sophisticates call it “foraging.” They also, naturally, believe they’re making an environmental statement, as Friscans are apt to do.
“BigFurHat” of IOwntheWorld.com–who evidently doesn’t get out much either– witnessed a forager on the Travel Channel say, “This generation is breaking free from the undemocratic contrivances of food distribution and unsustainabilty and embracing a unique vehicle of how one goes about reclaiming a relationship with food.”
Not being a food sophisticate, I’m not sure what that means but “BigFurHat” did. He termed it “bullsh*t,” which seems to fit since the server of the Travel Channel meal, priced at $85 per, “made some snail concoction on a cracker. Then he served some fennel thing on a cracker. Then he served wild boar that some dude shot on his parent’s farm:” http://tiny.cc/xsk8f
The sources of all the other delicacies were not revealed, probably because they were all illegally obtained either from dumpsters or from “public spaces.” Hey, if super-sophisticated Friscans were willing to fork over $85 for grub that could have been dumpster-dredged and plucked from municipal flower beds, it’s all good, no? As long as we are ”breaking free” and “reclaiming,” yada, yada, yada.
Bless their and Tony’s hearts, San Franciscans are also very water conscious . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3782)
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Uncle Teddy, Liberal Lion, Rake, Snake
Uncle Teddy, Liberal Lion, Rake, Snake
You can lead a guy out of a tidal channel but you can’t make him drink.
That makes as much sense as sanctifying a murderer and treating him as God’s gift to America. I refer, of course, to the late Sen. Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy.
Before I’m accused of gross insensitivity and needless abuse for telling the truth about Uncle Teddy, it should be noted that barely a year after the liberal lion passed from this mortal world to the Great Beyond–and 40 years after he sent Mary Jo Kopechne on that journey– failed liberal President Jimmy Carter lambasted him as “irresponsible,” ”abusive,” and spiteful in an interview with CBS’ Lesley Stahl: http://tiny.cc/73zrr
The truth should be an improvement on that harsh evaluation, even if it is not. Now, true, Ted was never convicted of murdering 28 year old Mary Jo. He merely got drunk, drove off the Dike Bridge into Chappaquiddick’s Poucha Pond, and swam away to save his own life and political career. In Kennedy’s Massachusetts, that’s totally forgivable.
Also forgivable as perfectly in character is that, according to just de-classified FBI files, Ted rented a brothel while on an official visit to Chile in 1961 and invited one of his chauffeurs to participate in the night’s debauchery. If nothing else, Ted was always Ted.
What can’t be forgiven the Lion of the Senate is the revelation in those files that Kennedy didn’t just satisfy his lustful besottment on that excursion. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3776)
You can lead a guy out of a tidal channel but you can’t make him drink.
That makes as much sense as sanctifying a murderer and treating him as God’s gift to America. I refer, of course, to the late Sen. Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy.
Before I’m accused of gross insensitivity and needless abuse for telling the truth about Uncle Teddy, it should be noted that barely a year after the liberal lion passed from this mortal world to the Great Beyond–and 40 years after he sent Mary Jo Kopechne on that journey– failed liberal President Jimmy Carter lambasted him as “irresponsible,” ”abusive,” and spiteful in an interview with CBS’ Lesley Stahl: http://tiny.cc/73zrr
The truth should be an improvement on that harsh evaluation, even if it is not. Now, true, Ted was never convicted of murdering 28 year old Mary Jo. He merely got drunk, drove off the Dike Bridge into Chappaquiddick’s Poucha Pond, and swam away to save his own life and political career. In Kennedy’s Massachusetts, that’s totally forgivable.
Also forgivable as perfectly in character is that, according to just de-classified FBI files, Ted rented a brothel while on an official visit to Chile in 1961 and invited one of his chauffeurs to participate in the night’s debauchery. If nothing else, Ted was always Ted.
What can’t be forgiven the Lion of the Senate is the revelation in those files that Kennedy didn’t just satisfy his lustful besottment on that excursion. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3776)
Jew-Bashing Re-Visited
Jew-Bashing Re-Visited
It seems that, even as I came across as a Jew-hater to some, others interpreted my sentiments in “What’s With All the Jew-Bashing?” (http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3756) as evidence I am an Israel-apologist.
In truth, I am neither.
Rather, I am an American Firster revivified, someone who believes to his core in the United States, in all it is, in all it stands for, and in all I hope it will be. I also subscribe to the antiquated notion that those who are not with us are against us. If we include “those against us” as any nation or people who have disparate aims from ours and would be more than willing to sacrifice the United States to their ultimate goals then I would have to say they are against us.
If that profile fits Israel, so be it.
That said, the following angry yet comical diatribe was posted as a comment on the Jew-bashing article. It’s too preciously inane, vitriolic, and wrong to be incorporated as a mere addendum to previous postings and deserves some extra attention if only to illustrate the inanity, the vitriol, and the wrong-ness out there in blogland.
As before, the comment is verbatim and bracketed editorial commentary is provided.
From niungramodeclase@yahoo.com:
“See, what you get, Berlet98, for sucking ass? [Good grief!]
You try to ingratiate yourself by pantingly defending the Jew cause at the expense of browbeating and condemning other people’s right to dislike the ‘sacred cows’ but they still don’t approve you and validate you.
That is their nature, Sir.
You just don’t take it on your own and start defending their ass without any license lest you cause their lucrative industry of victimhood to be downplayed by your honest and objective view of history. [That seems just a tad confused, "Naiungramodeclase."]
Wait ‘til they soon enact laws to enforce ‘their version of history’ as they’ve done in Europe and in Canada. . ."
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3772)
It seems that, even as I came across as a Jew-hater to some, others interpreted my sentiments in “What’s With All the Jew-Bashing?” (http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3756) as evidence I am an Israel-apologist.
In truth, I am neither.
Rather, I am an American Firster revivified, someone who believes to his core in the United States, in all it is, in all it stands for, and in all I hope it will be. I also subscribe to the antiquated notion that those who are not with us are against us. If we include “those against us” as any nation or people who have disparate aims from ours and would be more than willing to sacrifice the United States to their ultimate goals then I would have to say they are against us.
If that profile fits Israel, so be it.
That said, the following angry yet comical diatribe was posted as a comment on the Jew-bashing article. It’s too preciously inane, vitriolic, and wrong to be incorporated as a mere addendum to previous postings and deserves some extra attention if only to illustrate the inanity, the vitriol, and the wrong-ness out there in blogland.
As before, the comment is verbatim and bracketed editorial commentary is provided.
From niungramodeclase@yahoo.com:
“See, what you get, Berlet98, for sucking ass? [Good grief!]
You try to ingratiate yourself by pantingly defending the Jew cause at the expense of browbeating and condemning other people’s right to dislike the ‘sacred cows’ but they still don’t approve you and validate you.
That is their nature, Sir.
You just don’t take it on your own and start defending their ass without any license lest you cause their lucrative industry of victimhood to be downplayed by your honest and objective view of history. [That seems just a tad confused, "Naiungramodeclase."]
Wait ‘til they soon enact laws to enforce ‘their version of history’ as they’ve done in Europe and in Canada. . ."
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3772)
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