Laugh at Liberals Archive for September, 2005
No Matter What -Just Say ‘No’
It is interesting to note that there are still dead horse democrats on the Judiciary Panel regarding Supreme Court nominees in general and Justice John Roberts, in particular.
Ted Kennedy , Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Jon Corzine and Frank Lautenberg have already let it be known, loudly and proudly, that they are voting against Justice Roberts. O.Kaaaay. And their point is…?
While sane and rational people all along the political continuum see no problem with a man of Roberts’ intellect being voted to the Supreme Court, these bastions of party-line logic (not to be confused with facts) plan to vote against Roberts for no other reason than the fact (the only one they seem to recognize) that he was not nominated by a Democratic president. These are sorry excuses for even politicians. They can find nothing that sends up red flags…EXCEPT - Roberts has not been approved by the far left groups who own them.
I hope their constiuents use the same logic against these activist (not public) servants when it comes time for filling their positions and
No Matter What - Just Say ‘N0′.
THE REAL CATASTROPHE
Below is an article that was emailed to me by a friend. While not attaining written permission, I have published this here with full credit to the author. It is a powerful statement regarding the aftermath of Katrina.
An Objectivist Review
by Robert Tracinski | The Intellectual Activist
September 2, 2005
It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can’t blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster.
If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city’s infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild.
Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists–myself included–did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting.
But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.
The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong. The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades.
Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.
The man-made disaster is the welfare state. For the past few days, I have found the news from New Orleans to be confusing. People were not behaving as you would expect them to behave in an emergency–indeed, they were not behaving as they have behaved in other emergencies. That is what has shocked so many people: they have been saying that this is not what we expect from America. In fact, it is not even what we expect from a Third World country. When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the occasion. They work together to rescue people in danger, and they spontaneously organize to keep order and solve problems. This is especially true in America. We are an enterprising people, used to relying on our own initiative rather than waiting around for the government to take care of us. I have seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town whose main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops, directing cars through the intersection) and large ones (the spontaneous response of New Yorkers to September 11).
So what explains the chaos in New Orleans?
To give you an idea of the magnitude of what is going on, here is a description from a Washington Times story: “Storm victims are raped and beaten; fights erupt with flying fists, knives and guns; fires are breaking out; corpses litter the streets; and police and rescue helicopters are repeatedly fired on. “The plea from Mayor C. Ray Nagin came even as National Guardsmen poured in to restore order and stop the looting, carjackings and gunfire….
“Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-hardened Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders. “‘These troops are…under my orders to restore order in the streets,’ she said. ‘They have M-16s, and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will.’ ” The reference to Iraq is eerie.
What explains bands of thugs using a natural disaster as an excuse for an orgy of looting, armed robbery, and rape? What causes unruly mobs to storm the very buses that have arrived to evacuate them, causing the drivers to drive away, frightened for their lives? What causes people to attack the doctors trying to treat patients at the Super Dome? Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing further destruction? Why are they attacking the people who are trying to help them?
My wife, Sherri, figured it out first, and she figured it out on a sense-of-life level. While watching the coverage last night on Fox News Channel, she told me that she was getting a familiar feeling. She studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Chicago, which is located in the South Side of Chicago just blocks away from the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the largest high-rise public housing projects in America. “The projects,” as they were known, were infamous for uncontrollable crime and irremediable squalor. (They have since, mercifully, been demolished.) What Sherri was getting from last night’s television coverage was a whiff of the sense of life of “the projects.” Then the “crawl”–the informational phrases flashed at the bottom of the screen on most news channels–gave some vital statistics to confirm this sense: 75% of the residents of New Orleans had already evacuated before the hurricane, and of the 300,000 or so who remained, a large number were from the city’s public housing projects. Jack Wakeland then gave me an additional, crucial fact: early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city’s jails–so they just let many of them loose. There is no doubt a significant overlap between these two populations–that is, a large number of people in the jails used to live in the housing projects, and vice versa. There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit–but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals–and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep–on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves.
All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. But in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters–not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency.
No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In fact, some are already actively distorting it, blaming President Bush, for example, for failing to personally ensure that the Mayor of New Orleans had drafted an adequate evacuation plan. The worst example is an execrable piece from the Toronto Globe and Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the chaos on American “individualism.” But the truth is precisely the opposite: the chaos was caused by a system that was the exact opposite of individualism. What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider “normal” behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don’t sit around and complain that the government hasn’t taken care of them. They don’t use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.
But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don’t, because they don’t own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them. The welfare state–and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages–is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is reporting.
Source: TIA Daily — September 2, 2005
Copyright(c) 2002 The Intellectual Activist
BLAME BUSH AND IGNORE THE TRUTH ABOUT KATRINA
Kanye West is a moron. He would pimp his grandmother if he thought it would get him some PR. His whole Bush hates black people rant on NBC’s Katrian fundraiser was pure publicity, plain and simple.
The real truth about Katrina is that Mayor Nagen of New Orleans, a black man, and Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a white Democrat, have failed their constituancy. What is even worse is they lack the character to admit mistakes and step up. They’re not leaders. They’re vote getters.
Case in point. While it is true that New Orleans is demolished, so is the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Its not flooded, but virtually everything from coast for a quarter mile inland is gone. Is there a great hue and cry about George Bush failing those displaced people? No, because their leaders, the mayors of Gulf Port, Biloxi and other small towns, and their Govenor, Haley Barbor, are leaders. They prepared their people and their communities before the storm, to deal with what might be the reality after the storm. They are bouncing back together.
WHAT HAPPENED IN NEW ORLEANS?
People that could have left, didn’t. Why? Ask them. If they had the means and method to leave, and most people did, they are reaping the consequences of their own decision. That’s not Bush’s fault. They deserve help, short term and long term, and they are getting it, but they are there because they decided to stay.
WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO COULDN’T LEAVE?
Look at the picture below.
What is wrong with this picture? Its the fact that busses are sitting empty in a flooded parking lot instead of in Baton Rouge or some other nearby town.
Read this excerpt from Louisiana’s disaster plan, pg 13, para 5 , dated 01/00, as published on the Drudge Report.
‘The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating’…
Why Mayor Nagen? Why are they sitting there? If the poor black people of New Orleans needed a way out, why Jesse Jackson, are those school busses sitting there? Why Kanye West, didn’t Mayor Nagen use his authority to fill those busses with gas and send them out to the neighborhoods that needed them the most. THATS HIS JOB!
All Mayor Nagen has given his people after Katrina is finger pointing and hysterics. If he would have been their leader before the storm hit, he could have been their hero today.
And what of Gov. Kathleen Blanco? I have yet to see a press conference where she didn’t have the deer in the headlights stare. If only the good people of New Orleans had Mary Landreau as their govenor. I’ve seen two press conferences where Mary Landreau was helping Kathleen Blanco mouth the words to her prepared statements because Blanco was lost. I understand she is personally devastated, but in times of crisis, LEADERS MUST LEAD! It is the job they asked for and if they fail in doing it, should someone else be held accountable?
WHAT HAPPENED TO ADVANCED PLANNING?
They way our government works, The govenor of a state must request assistance from the federal government. Blanco ordered 2000 national guardsmen on standby prior to the storm. 2000 troops to manage the evacuation of a half million people? Why were more troops not in place before the storm? Why wasn’t more equipment for levee repair and rescue operations in place before the storm? WHY DIDN’T SHE ORDER MAYOR NAGEN TO SEND THOSE STATE OWNED SCHOOL BUSSES INTO THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE PEOPLE NEEDED THEM?
Nobody can be blamed for Katrina. It is a natural disaster. But local and state officials in New Orleans and Louisiana went AWOL when their people needed their leadership the most. Now they, and others, want to blame….who? George Bush. Mayor Nagen and Gov. Blanco can’t pass this buck, but what they can do is step forward and accept the yoke of leadership now, because the hardest part is yet to come.
100 PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING UP AMERICA
Bernard Goldberg has true grit. He is the author of “Bias”, the best-seller that gave an insiders view of liberal bias in the media. To support the selling of his new book he had to do…what? Go on the mainstream media. Those they gave him air time, which were few, tried there best to lay him out cold. He held his own just fine, thank you. Of course, truth has a way of helping you stand up straight. But to open up a lions mouth so you can stick your head in it and tell the lion he shouldn’t be eating people takes cajones. (I think the spelling is correct.)
His latest offering is the wildly poplular “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America”, and yes, he names names. You can probably guess a few of them, Al Franken, Tim Robbins, Rep. Sheila Jackson Leah and a few more prominent liberals He also names categories of people, including Hollywood liberals, rappers, lawyers. Again it’s his marketing efforts demonstrate his grit as much as the content of his books.
To promote “100 People” Goldberg recently went on The Daily Show with John Stewart. A hostile host, a loaded audience and yet again, Goldberg’s truth of thought wins the day.
Goldberg’s basic premise in this book is that abusrd ideas and actions put forth in the name of political correctness are harmful to this country and what we stand for, especially when they’re not denounced by the so called main stream. Its even worse the it’s the socalled mainstream doing the talking.
Example: Rep. Shelia Jackson Leah (E) thinks we need a law that would force the national weather service to give “black” names to Hurricanes. The implication by Leah is that the lack of “black sounding” names for hurricanes is robbing black youth of self-esteem.
Goldberg, while accepting the basic absurdity of this view, points out that there could be some black people named Katrina or Andrew. So don’t they count? Is Leah saying to those people, you aren’t really black because your name isn’t Rashonda or Tamiqua? Rep. Leah is one of the most powerful memebers of the congressional black caucus and she thinks theres so much racism in America that even our hurricanes are too white?
Yes, theres a problem and on page after page Goldberg shines a light of truth on examples of absurd thought and even hate-speech promoted by the supposedly “open-minded” liberal establishment.
Yes, most of the people in the book are liberals, but if the shoe fits, right?
This book is a must read for any true conservative. It offers up great fodder for the next time you go toe to toe with a liberal whiner, and trust me, if any liberal sees you reading this book, you will be having a conversation.
Bill O’Reilly Books
Bill O’Reilly has been laughing at liberals on Fox New’s O’Reilly Factor
for years. Mr. O’Reilly regularly speaks out against the music industry’s promotion of violent and sexually explicit lyrics and tracks issues like gay marriage from the closet to the courthouse. Bill O’Reilly covers conservative political issues and confronts some of the most laughable liberals on the O’Reilly Factor. Even on the rare occasions when his liberal guests are right, he simply shouts them down. By the way, Bill O’Reilly is "not a conservative," he says.
Anne Coulter Books
Laugh At Liberals admires the unabashed conservative wit of Ann Coulter. Among
Ann Coulter’s book titles that point out laughable the fallacies of liberalism are:
- Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
- Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right and
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton.
P.J. O’Rourke Books
P.J. O’Rourke political humor has given comic relief to conservatives through the years in such works as Peace Kills : America’s Fun New Imperialism, Eat the Rich, and Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government.
Dennis Miller Books
Dennis Miller may not be a conservative, but that doesn’t stop him from making conservatives laugh at liberals. Dennis Miller’s style of wit often points out insanities that should be obvious to everyone, but that have been clouded by society’s reverance of political correctness. Dennis Miller is best known as a television personality and author of his series of "Rants" books. Have you read a Miller Book? Please comment.
Robert Bork Books
Were it not for Robert Bork’s prolific works of writing, he might just be a supreme court justice now. Robert Bork’s books are not humorous, but serious and worthy analyses of liberalism, morality and the American judicial system. You will find Slouching Towards Gomorrah and other books listed here in association with Amazon.com.
Newt Gingrich Books
Newt Gingrich has written works of fiction, but his most controversial works are his conservative nonfiction books such as To Renew America, published around the time of the Republican congressional revolution in 1994. Also listed here are some liberal books that attempt to rebut or parody the Newt Gingrich’s work. Laught at Liberals loves Newt!
