Unsurprising News: Obamacare, the Groper, and the Gulf
With apologies to the Bard, some news is born worthy of being news, some becomes newsworthy as a result of misinterpretation, and some achieves newsworthiness due to wildly-inflated, distorted exaggerations.
Obamacare: Anyone who believed the Democrat-Obamian sales pitch on Obamacare has to have been an Obama-enamored African-American, a disturbed Democrat with a government sinecure, a chronic user of illicit, mind-altering drugs, or all of the above.
All the horrors of Obama’s signature legislation that its opponents warned about are either coming to pass or are in process, from rationing to death panels to higher costs to the dreaded “public option.” The truth about Obamacare will include both intended consequences, which Obamians will deny, and unintended consequences they will declare total surprises, even shocks.
As one observer wrote, ”Higher costs, longer wait times, inferior care–essentially every nightmare scenario envisioned by Obamacare critics is coming true” and, by design, Obama will be out of office or a lame duck when the major horrors kick in in 2014: http://tiny.cc/8t0o3 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1815)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Close the Doors, They're Coming Through the Windows!
Close the Doors, They're Coming through the Windows!
The antiquated expression, “Close the doors, they’re coming through the windows,” derives from a hit 1950’s song by the Stargazers; it referred to the chaos when too much happens at the same time.
We’re experiencing that superfluity today, that overkill with regard to the sound of squeaky closet doors being opened wide and gays, lesbians, homosexuals, queers, bi-sexuals, transgenders, and God knows what else emerging into the normal world and proclaiming their normality, denouncing the meanness of heterosexuals, and demanding their acceptance by one and all.
They may not yet be coming through the windows but give them time. When this new breed of gays is confronted with closed doors, they will use any avenue of ingress available in order to gain entry.
The latest ingressor is Sara Gilbert, the pasty-faced thing on the old, trailer-trashy, 80’s sitcom, “Roseann.”
As if the world cares about whom she takes to bed, or to the rafters, or to a chandelier, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1813)
The antiquated expression, “Close the doors, they’re coming through the windows,” derives from a hit 1950’s song by the Stargazers; it referred to the chaos when too much happens at the same time.
We’re experiencing that superfluity today, that overkill with regard to the sound of squeaky closet doors being opened wide and gays, lesbians, homosexuals, queers, bi-sexuals, transgenders, and God knows what else emerging into the normal world and proclaiming their normality, denouncing the meanness of heterosexuals, and demanding their acceptance by one and all.
They may not yet be coming through the windows but give them time. When this new breed of gays is confronted with closed doors, they will use any avenue of ingress available in order to gain entry.
The latest ingressor is Sara Gilbert, the pasty-faced thing on the old, trailer-trashy, 80’s sitcom, “Roseann.”
As if the world cares about whom she takes to bed, or to the rafters, or to a chandelier, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1813)
Mongrels in the White House!
Mongrels in the White House!
. . . “When asked about his background, which includes a black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: ‘We are sort of a mongrel people.’ ” He elaborated, “I mean we’re all kinds of mixed up. That’s actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it. “
He further added, “there’s still a reptilian side of our brain” that leads people to not trust others “if somebody sounds different or looks different.” http://tiny.cc/ng72i
Huh? Mongrels? Reptiles? This is the president of the United States speaking?
Those off-the-cuff remarks are notable on a number of levels. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1814)
. . . “When asked about his background, which includes a black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: ‘We are sort of a mongrel people.’ ” He elaborated, “I mean we’re all kinds of mixed up. That’s actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it. “
He further added, “there’s still a reptilian side of our brain” that leads people to not trust others “if somebody sounds different or looks different.” http://tiny.cc/ng72i
Huh? Mongrels? Reptiles? This is the president of the United States speaking?
Those off-the-cuff remarks are notable on a number of levels. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1814)
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Questions of Ethics: Charles Rangel, Bradley Manning, et al.
Questions of Ethics: Charles Rangel, Bradley Manning, et al.
Making ethical judgments is a complex business, fraught with nuances and subjectivity.
Ethics has been defined as “the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. . . the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a particular society requires of its members. Ethics has developed as people have reflected on the intentions and consequences of their acts.”
That definition may be reduced to four words, doing the right thing.
There’s a narrow distinction between unethical behavior and simply lying although some form of lying is usually associated with a lack of ethics.
Thus, when Elena Kagan dissembled in her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by saying she had merely “suggested” changes in the language of an anti-partial birth document to which she objected she was both lying and acting unethically to accomplish her goals: http://tiny.cc/9l5jb
On the other hand, when President Obama appeared on “The View” today and listed dealing with the H1N1 “pandemic” as one of the “thorns” of his first 18 months in office he was dramatizing, bloviating, in a word, lying. There was no H1N1 pandemic in 2009 as he well knew. It was no more a pandemic than the average year’s flu. The Center for Disease Control had grossly exaggerated the H1N1 virus danger and the manufacturers of the Swine Flu vaccine reaped a windfall in the billions.
Much more clearcut as unethical behavior were the actions of United States congressman Rep. Charles Rangel and Pfc. Bradley Manning of the 10th Mountain Division Second Brigade in Baghdad. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1812)
Making ethical judgments is a complex business, fraught with nuances and subjectivity.
Ethics has been defined as “the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. . . the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a particular society requires of its members. Ethics has developed as people have reflected on the intentions and consequences of their acts.”
That definition may be reduced to four words, doing the right thing.
There’s a narrow distinction between unethical behavior and simply lying although some form of lying is usually associated with a lack of ethics.
Thus, when Elena Kagan dissembled in her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by saying she had merely “suggested” changes in the language of an anti-partial birth document to which she objected she was both lying and acting unethically to accomplish her goals: http://tiny.cc/9l5jb
On the other hand, when President Obama appeared on “The View” today and listed dealing with the H1N1 “pandemic” as one of the “thorns” of his first 18 months in office he was dramatizing, bloviating, in a word, lying. There was no H1N1 pandemic in 2009 as he well knew. It was no more a pandemic than the average year’s flu. The Center for Disease Control had grossly exaggerated the H1N1 virus danger and the manufacturers of the Swine Flu vaccine reaped a windfall in the billions.
Much more clearcut as unethical behavior were the actions of United States congressman Rep. Charles Rangel and Pfc. Bradley Manning of the 10th Mountain Division Second Brigade in Baghdad. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1812)
Obama,"The View," and the Boy Scouts
Obama, "The View," and the Boy Scouts
What’s next for Barack Obama? A cameo on Drew Carey’s upcoming show, “WTF!”? A plaintiff role on ”Judge Judy?” A hard-hitting interview with Larry King?
He’s already done “Oprah” and “The Young and the Restless” and “Jerry Springer” seem out of the question so where can he go now to get simpering, fawning attention from vacuous women viewers and brain-dead ”progressives” after his Thursday appearance (taped Wednesday) on ABC’s “The View?”
Obama “made history” by being the first sitting Chief Executive to appear on a daytime television talk show at the same time he further diminished the office he holds, something he does almost every day.
Any number of people, Democrats like Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell included, felt it was an inappropriate waste of time for a president of the United States to appear with the ladies. They generally spend their time chatting amiably but insubstantially, or spatting, or ganging up on Elisabeth Hasselbeck on such Earth-shaking topics as upcoming weddings, the real housewives of New Jersey, women having affairs, and teenagers giving oral sex.
Not exactly the topics a president should be dealing with, although Obama did manage to elucidate a bit on the personal ”roses” and “thorns” associated with his presidency.
No fool he, Obama knew he had a receptive audience and guesting on “The View” sure beat dealing with press . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1811)
What’s next for Barack Obama? A cameo on Drew Carey’s upcoming show, “WTF!”? A plaintiff role on ”Judge Judy?” A hard-hitting interview with Larry King?
He’s already done “Oprah” and “The Young and the Restless” and “Jerry Springer” seem out of the question so where can he go now to get simpering, fawning attention from vacuous women viewers and brain-dead ”progressives” after his Thursday appearance (taped Wednesday) on ABC’s “The View?”
Obama “made history” by being the first sitting Chief Executive to appear on a daytime television talk show at the same time he further diminished the office he holds, something he does almost every day.
Any number of people, Democrats like Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell included, felt it was an inappropriate waste of time for a president of the United States to appear with the ladies. They generally spend their time chatting amiably but insubstantially, or spatting, or ganging up on Elisabeth Hasselbeck on such Earth-shaking topics as upcoming weddings, the real housewives of New Jersey, women having affairs, and teenagers giving oral sex.
Not exactly the topics a president should be dealing with, although Obama did manage to elucidate a bit on the personal ”roses” and “thorns” associated with his presidency.
No fool he, Obama knew he had a receptive audience and guesting on “The View” sure beat dealing with press . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1811)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The Eve of Arizona's SB1070: The Eve of Destruction?
The Eve of Arizona's SB1070: The Eve of Destruction?
On the eve of implementation of SB1070, Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law, United States District Court Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee, issued her decision on the federal government’s suit seeking an injunction against or the voiding of SB1070.
In a nutshell, illegal aliens won, the American people lost, although we haven’t lost everything. The judge gutted the principal features of the law but allowed some provisions to stand.
Also, there will be appeals, first to Bolton to re-consider her decision and then probably to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which is the most liberal circuit court in the country but which has sided with Arizona on similar issues in the past.
There were high hopes that Judge Bolton would find for Arizona since she had voiced skepticism as to whether SB1070 actually does pre-empt federal immigration law and whether the feds should be trying to overturn Arizona’s right to be “inhospitable” to illegal aliens but politics eventually prevailed.
Okay, so what’s out and what’s still in? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1810)
On the eve of implementation of SB1070, Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law, United States District Court Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee, issued her decision on the federal government’s suit seeking an injunction against or the voiding of SB1070.
In a nutshell, illegal aliens won, the American people lost, although we haven’t lost everything. The judge gutted the principal features of the law but allowed some provisions to stand.
Also, there will be appeals, first to Bolton to re-consider her decision and then probably to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which is the most liberal circuit court in the country but which has sided with Arizona on similar issues in the past.
There were high hopes that Judge Bolton would find for Arizona since she had voiced skepticism as to whether SB1070 actually does pre-empt federal immigration law and whether the feds should be trying to overturn Arizona’s right to be “inhospitable” to illegal aliens but politics eventually prevailed.
Okay, so what’s out and what’s still in? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1810)
The Sherrods. Profiles in Black Racism?
The Sherrods. Profiles in Black Racism?
“Finally, we must stop the white man and his uncle toms from stealing our election.”
Those aren’t exactly the words of a racial healer, someone committed to effecting a reconciliation between the races, someone like Shirley Sherrod who was recently denounced as a racist, fired by her boss, Tom Vilsack at the USDA, and lambasted by Barack Obama and the NAACP, who then received apologies and accolades from Tom Vilsack, Barack Obama, and the NAACP.
Not at all! Those weren’t the words of Ms. Sherrod expressing as they do an unresolved antipathy toward whitey and toward subservient blacks, those uncle toms defined by the Urban Dictionary as ”black people [who] try to convince other black people that working, education, living well, and setting a good example for their children is selling out.”
No way would Shirley Sherrod the healer use such racially-charged language.
Those are the words of her husband, Charles Sherrod, founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, better known as SNCC.
See this undated video of Mr. Sherrod which Moonbattery.com classifies as one of its “Profiles in Racism:” http://tiny.cc/e8zsw
Far be it from me to suggest that Mr. Sherrod is in any way a racist or that, Gawd forbid, his wife Shirley in any way shares his sentiments.
Then, again, she too was a member of SNCC back in the 1960’s when it was a major player in the Civil Rights movement. Both Shirley and hubby Chuckie continued their membership in SNCC even after black supremacist Stokely Carmichael, later Kwame Ture, took over the reins and converted SNCC into a militant, black power gang along with fellow black racist, H. Rap Brown. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1808)
“Finally, we must stop the white man and his uncle toms from stealing our election.”
Those aren’t exactly the words of a racial healer, someone committed to effecting a reconciliation between the races, someone like Shirley Sherrod who was recently denounced as a racist, fired by her boss, Tom Vilsack at the USDA, and lambasted by Barack Obama and the NAACP, who then received apologies and accolades from Tom Vilsack, Barack Obama, and the NAACP.
Not at all! Those weren’t the words of Ms. Sherrod expressing as they do an unresolved antipathy toward whitey and toward subservient blacks, those uncle toms defined by the Urban Dictionary as ”black people [who] try to convince other black people that working, education, living well, and setting a good example for their children is selling out.”
No way would Shirley Sherrod the healer use such racially-charged language.
Those are the words of her husband, Charles Sherrod, founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, better known as SNCC.
See this undated video of Mr. Sherrod which Moonbattery.com classifies as one of its “Profiles in Racism:” http://tiny.cc/e8zsw
Far be it from me to suggest that Mr. Sherrod is in any way a racist or that, Gawd forbid, his wife Shirley in any way shares his sentiments.
Then, again, she too was a member of SNCC back in the 1960’s when it was a major player in the Civil Rights movement. Both Shirley and hubby Chuckie continued their membership in SNCC even after black supremacist Stokely Carmichael, later Kwame Ture, took over the reins and converted SNCC into a militant, black power gang along with fellow black racist, H. Rap Brown. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1808)
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