Recent White House Deceptions: Transcripts, Dreams, and Muslims
In our high-speed Internet, our 24/7 cable news age, we tend to get complacent insofar as the news and information we’re getting, innocently believing that what we’re seeing and hearing is substantially everything that’s out there, that it’s relatively accurate and reliable.
That ain’t necessarily so, especially when the news and information relate to the White House and its current residents.
Cases in point: White House transcripts which aren’t transcripted as much as they are scripted, the nightmarish Dream Act which seemed dead yet is very much alive, and the prosecution of Muslim terrorists who may very well be merely misunderstood conscientious objectors. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4876)
Showing posts with label dream act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dream act. Show all posts
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
News You Really Don't Need
News You Really Don't Need
With apologies to Ben Franklin, there are other certainties in life aside from death and taxes and Ben may not have said that in the first place. Another surety is news since something is always happening on our planet whether we want to hear about it or not.
There are many happenings the squeamish would prefer not to know about, other events few of us care about, and still more most of us find so mystifying or just so plain dumb that we tend to believe the news accounts just have to be wrong.
In the recently mystifying category are a plethora of stories which, no matter how hard we wish, are true whether we choose to believe them or not.
Take, for example, the Holy Name of Jesus parish in West Palm Beach, Florida, which offered a “prayer request” in last Sunday’s bulletin for the repose of the soul of the mass murderer and architect of 9/11, Osama bin Laden.
More rational critics abounded and parishioner Lois Pizzano spelled out their objections: “I think it’s totally wrong, he doesn’t belong in the Catholic religion. For what he did to Americans, he doesn’t belong anywhere. It’s unconscionable, it’s sacrilegious,” a sentiment with which the pastor, Father Gavin Badway, took issue.
Rev. Badway concedes that many in his congregation are less than happy with the idea of praying for the Butcher of 9/11 but “he says the church has never turned down a prayer request before. He says making the right decision isn’t always easy.” He added that, “Their [parishiners'] hearts are troubled because they’re thinking emotionally about what he has done and he has done a lot of evil. Nevertheless, Jesus tells us, love and forgive.”(http://bit.ly/myxk0Q)
As a fellow Catholic, I have to wonder if Rev. Badway is in complete possession of his senses and whether we are also expected to pray for Judas, Attila, Hitler, and other poor, misunderstood, bloody souls. I also have to wonder whether Badway is just ambitious to move on up the clergy ranks by demonstrating how caring he is or whether he’s gay since homosexuals are said to be very empathetic.
Out there in the secular world, Maryland’s Governor Martin O’Malley is also evidently a sensitive guy. He joined his state to ten others in signing on to the so-called Dream Act, which act has been repudiated, so far, by the U.S. Congress and which is only a dream for illegal invaders of our country and for Democrat politicians who crave their votes . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4492)
With apologies to Ben Franklin, there are other certainties in life aside from death and taxes and Ben may not have said that in the first place. Another surety is news since something is always happening on our planet whether we want to hear about it or not.
There are many happenings the squeamish would prefer not to know about, other events few of us care about, and still more most of us find so mystifying or just so plain dumb that we tend to believe the news accounts just have to be wrong.
In the recently mystifying category are a plethora of stories which, no matter how hard we wish, are true whether we choose to believe them or not.
Take, for example, the Holy Name of Jesus parish in West Palm Beach, Florida, which offered a “prayer request” in last Sunday’s bulletin for the repose of the soul of the mass murderer and architect of 9/11, Osama bin Laden.
More rational critics abounded and parishioner Lois Pizzano spelled out their objections: “I think it’s totally wrong, he doesn’t belong in the Catholic religion. For what he did to Americans, he doesn’t belong anywhere. It’s unconscionable, it’s sacrilegious,” a sentiment with which the pastor, Father Gavin Badway, took issue.
Rev. Badway concedes that many in his congregation are less than happy with the idea of praying for the Butcher of 9/11 but “he says the church has never turned down a prayer request before. He says making the right decision isn’t always easy.” He added that, “Their [parishiners'] hearts are troubled because they’re thinking emotionally about what he has done and he has done a lot of evil. Nevertheless, Jesus tells us, love and forgive.”(http://bit.ly/myxk0Q)
As a fellow Catholic, I have to wonder if Rev. Badway is in complete possession of his senses and whether we are also expected to pray for Judas, Attila, Hitler, and other poor, misunderstood, bloody souls. I also have to wonder whether Badway is just ambitious to move on up the clergy ranks by demonstrating how caring he is or whether he’s gay since homosexuals are said to be very empathetic.
Out there in the secular world, Maryland’s Governor Martin O’Malley is also evidently a sensitive guy. He joined his state to ten others in signing on to the so-called Dream Act, which act has been repudiated, so far, by the U.S. Congress and which is only a dream for illegal invaders of our country and for Democrat politicians who crave their votes . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4492)
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)
Sunday, November 28, 2010
The Formerly Great State of Texas, Part Two
The Formerly Great State of Texas, Part Two
In terms of sheer revulsion, the actions of some student nitwits attending the taxpayer-supported University of Texas at San Antonio are no match for how some people of the formerly great state of Texas treated the rape of a 16 year old high school student at Silsbee High School.
In that matter, outlined in “The Formerly Great State of Texas, Part One,” said student, identified only as Hillaire, endured not only the pain and humiliation of being raped by fellow student, Rakheem Jamal Bolton and his cohort in crime, Christian Paul Rountree, but then was subjected to rejection by her school and community apparently since she was merely a cheerleader and Rakheem was a valued basketball star.
Adding vile insult to injury, the nimrod school administration at Silsbee threw her off the cheerleading squad because she refused to cheer for her rapist: http://tiny.cc/2u9vo
The offenses of the taxpayer-supported UT-San Antonio students don’t come close to the horrendous nature of the offenses against the Hillsbee cheerleader. They were more akin to testimony of UT-San Antonio students’ ignorance.
As of last count, almost 50 of those students, including temporary student reinforcements from other Texas schools, are engaged in a hunger strike to intimidate Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison into voting for the deviously-titled Dream Act. The reinforcements will only fast for 24 hours rather than risk losing too many pounds in the extended hunger strike which had lasted 13 days as of November 22nd.
No sense going overboard even in a good cause, right?
Protest leader Lucy Martinez, a somewhat less than lovely sophomore and, not surprisingly, a Mexican and Women’s Studies major at UT-San Antonio and herself an illegal, explained the protest rationale: “There’s 2.1 million of us out there, it’s not like just five or 10 people who decide to go on a hunger strike just to do it. . . You have to eat, you can’t have your kids starving.”
As of now, Sen. Hutchison has told the Dream protestors to stuff it and keep on protesting, if they wish, but she still won’t vote for the farce: http://tiny.cc/6nhg2
It appears that few if any have cited American immigration law to Ms. Martinez or reminded her that she is an illegal alien in our country or told her she should be jailed and deported rather than taking up space in a taxpayer-subsidized Texan university when she isn’t protesting, or that her illegal alien buddies who have sucked dry the American teat and graduated from our schools and now are waiting tables and changing sheets could instead be in Mexico waiting for their next meal and exchanging rancid enchilladas for stale enchilladas.
That “Dream Act” with which Ms. Martinez is so enamored and committed isn’t an “act” at all since it has not been passed by the United States Congress. It has more aptly been termed the “Nightmare Act” since, if passed, it is nightmarish to all but America’s illegal-alien-loving leftists.
The Nightmare Act, if and when it’s passed by the lame-duck . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2835)
In terms of sheer revulsion, the actions of some student nitwits attending the taxpayer-supported University of Texas at San Antonio are no match for how some people of the formerly great state of Texas treated the rape of a 16 year old high school student at Silsbee High School.
In that matter, outlined in “The Formerly Great State of Texas, Part One,” said student, identified only as Hillaire, endured not only the pain and humiliation of being raped by fellow student, Rakheem Jamal Bolton and his cohort in crime, Christian Paul Rountree, but then was subjected to rejection by her school and community apparently since she was merely a cheerleader and Rakheem was a valued basketball star.
Adding vile insult to injury, the nimrod school administration at Silsbee threw her off the cheerleading squad because she refused to cheer for her rapist: http://tiny.cc/2u9vo
The offenses of the taxpayer-supported UT-San Antonio students don’t come close to the horrendous nature of the offenses against the Hillsbee cheerleader. They were more akin to testimony of UT-San Antonio students’ ignorance.
As of last count, almost 50 of those students, including temporary student reinforcements from other Texas schools, are engaged in a hunger strike to intimidate Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison into voting for the deviously-titled Dream Act. The reinforcements will only fast for 24 hours rather than risk losing too many pounds in the extended hunger strike which had lasted 13 days as of November 22nd.
No sense going overboard even in a good cause, right?
Protest leader Lucy Martinez, a somewhat less than lovely sophomore and, not surprisingly, a Mexican and Women’s Studies major at UT-San Antonio and herself an illegal, explained the protest rationale: “There’s 2.1 million of us out there, it’s not like just five or 10 people who decide to go on a hunger strike just to do it. . . You have to eat, you can’t have your kids starving.”
As of now, Sen. Hutchison has told the Dream protestors to stuff it and keep on protesting, if they wish, but she still won’t vote for the farce: http://tiny.cc/6nhg2
It appears that few if any have cited American immigration law to Ms. Martinez or reminded her that she is an illegal alien in our country or told her she should be jailed and deported rather than taking up space in a taxpayer-subsidized Texan university when she isn’t protesting, or that her illegal alien buddies who have sucked dry the American teat and graduated from our schools and now are waiting tables and changing sheets could instead be in Mexico waiting for their next meal and exchanging rancid enchilladas for stale enchilladas.
That “Dream Act” with which Ms. Martinez is so enamored and committed isn’t an “act” at all since it has not been passed by the United States Congress. It has more aptly been termed the “Nightmare Act” since, if passed, it is nightmarish to all but America’s illegal-alien-loving leftists.
The Nightmare Act, if and when it’s passed by the lame-duck . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2835)
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