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ITS NOT NICE TO BLAME MOTHER NATURE
The Obama administration is saying that the unusually cold and snowy weather this winter may have “artificially” driven February unemployment rates. OK NOW I’M REALLY CONFUSED! If the weather is so cold and snowy that people can’t get jobs, wouldn’t global warming, at least a little bit, be a good thing? Work with me on this. Global warming could actually be good for the economic recovery by making sure people don’t get snowed in and can go to work. So I propose that we increase carbon emissions, temporarily, until the jobless numbers go down. Let’s get all those clunkers back on the highway! Fire up the coal plants! Feed your cattle pork and beans!
The administration is also saying that green jobs are the future of the economic recovery. These are jobs that are, by their nature, tied to defeating global warming, thereby perpetuating the same weather patterns that are causing the causing the jobless numbers to go up. OW! I JUST GOT A HEADACHE!
And just for the record, unless it was artificial snow, wouldn’t it be more accurate to say that the cold and snowy weather this winter, naturally drove February unemployment rates higher?
Any thoughts on this?
SIGNS THE ECONOMY IS REALLY, REALLY BAD!
THE ECONOMY IS SO BAD:
I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
I ordered a burger at McDonald’s and the kid behind the counter
asked,”Can you afford fries with that?”
CEO’s are now playing miniature golf.
If the bank returns your check marked “Insufficient Funds,” you call
them and ask if they meant you or them.
Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
McDonald’s is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their
children’s names.
A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .
Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.
Motel Six won’t leave the light on anymore.
The Mafia is laying off judges.
Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.
Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madof scandal. Oh
Great! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by
the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!
I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy,
wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I
called the Suicide Lifeline. I got a call center in Pakistan and when I
told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could
drive a truck.
The WanderingMind on YouTube
When I get up in the morning, I like to have my coffee, check emails and run through several websites I like to follow daily. This morning, my first stop was at Drudgereport. The banner headline was a link to an article about Phil Jones, the embattled climate scientist from East Anglia University. The jist of the story was this. Yes, I lied. There has been no global warming since 1995. I’m pretty disorganized so that’s why I can’t find the actual collected data which forms the foundation of my thesis. That is pretty much a 180 from one of the lead global warming proponents in the world.
From there I went to YouTube and somehow stumbled upon a video posted by a guy named Greg, screen name wanderingmind42. This very pleasant, self-described science teacher has a hugely popular video that walks through an 10 minute logic and reasoning exercise that basically says, no matter what you think the “undeniable conclusion” has to be doing something now, immediately to curb global warming or catastrophe awaits.
After reading the current story on Drudgereport and knowing that it is just the latest in a series of broadsides against the man-made global warming argument, I was amazed at this video. The more I thought about it, the more I felt obligated to post something here. What concerned me most was the idea that this wonderingmind42, who has a very good on camera presence, is filling young minds with his activist rubbish. He invites people to poke holes in his “silver bullet theory” but takes huge leaps in logic that demonstrate his and other peoples closed minded, unscientific, activist approach to global warming.
“>BEFORE READING MORE, GO TO YOUTUBE AND WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.
Okay, assuming you didn’t watch the video, here it is in a nutshell. In fact the image below is a recreation of the cost/benefit analysis grid the teacher uses in the video.
Got it? True or False it is much better to act now than not.
ILLOGICAL
The key element of wonderingmind42’s presentation is his cost/benefit analysis grid. Unfortunately he makes two presumptions that unhinge his argument from the outset. The first is regarding the causes of global warming. His premise is that we don’t have to even know whether or not human caused global warming is true to come to the undeniable conclusion that we should do something about it now. While there is ample evindence to the contrary, lets just assume that there is global warming and humans do cause it. Can we realistically assume that we are the ONLY cause of global warming? Of course not. The known and unknown effects that the sun has on warming the earth are far, far greater than any impact that man can have. Now that is an undeniable truth. The undeniable conclusion then is that even if we did everything we could to curb or even eliminate human’s contribution to global warming by acting now and acting radically, we have no control over the sun or other natural phenomenon that can change the climate. Can we stop a volcano from erupting? Can we stop an asteroid from impacting the earth?
The second jump in logic that wandermind42 doesn’t address is the solution side. Again, let’s assume, despite the evidence, that humans cause global warming and there is no other natural cause, therefore, we must act. The global warming community has proposed any number of solutions, from the ridiculous cap and trade farce to draconian emissions standards to green technology requirements, etc, etc. These are the economic hardships referenced in the upper left panel. The unfortunate truth for the global warming community is that even using their numbers, all of these efforts over a 50 year span might be able to impact the temperature by a fraction of a degree, maybe as much as 1 degree. The undeniable conclusion is that what is being proposed is an unproven solution to unproven problem.
Unproven solutions to problems that may not even exist. Maybe, just maybe, a little more study is needed. Now I am not opposed to promoting energy efficiency, energy independence and green technology. Nothing wrong with that. Go for it. Bill Kristol made a great observation on Fox News Sunday this past weekend. He rightly pointed out that if all this liberal talk about energy independence was real then Obama would be calling for the building of nuclear power plants, U.S. based refineries, coastal drilling, drilling in ANWAR and domestic engery exploration tax incentives.
Of course the real reason behind the global warming scare is money. If you wanted millions in grant money in the last 10 years, all you had to do was propose a study on how man is causing global warming. Come up with the right conclusion and you’ll get even more money. All the proposed solutions are about money as well. In fact even a casual observer can recognize that the proposed global warming solutions such as cap and trade, green technology, etc., do little but create revenue streams that concertrate a power in the hands of a few. The undeniable conclusion….Lets wait study more, then act.
DO YOU MISS ME YET?
There has been a confirmation, of sorts, regarding the billboard in Wyoming that features a picture of George W. Bush with a caption reading, “Miss me yet?” Apparently it is a real billboard. Rush Limbaugh got a call from a listener who said she passed by it every day on the way to work. Now, the owner of the sign company that owns the billboard has come forward to reveal that the billboard was purchased by a group of local small business owners who posted the board as a protest against the current administration.
There has also been an email floating around regarding a visit by the former president to Ft. Hood. The email claims that Bush visited Ft. Hood and was asked to leave by the White House. The web is all a-twitter regarding the veracity of the claims made by the author of the email, that include, Bush arriving unescorted, Obama showing up at Ft. Hood only for a photo op, and so on, blah, blah, blah. After receiving the email then doing some follow up investigation I decided to post my conclusion.
Yes. I miss him.
It’s a fact that Bush went to Ft. Hood. He went unannounced, no fanfare, no photo ops, no talking with reporters. His people didn’t stage an event. He and his wife went because they wanted to go and offer whatever they could to help people in need. In fact, when was the last time you ever heard Bush hold a press conference or make any public statement about any current events? Gore? Clinton? Carter? Yeah. Big difference! The left hates Bush for precisely that reason. He’s just a regular guy that does what regular guys do. You can find the same kind of hate directed at Sarah Palin. Interesting.
Below. George and Laura Bush meet with Sgt. Randy Royer and his wife Trisha at Ft. Hood. 
THERE IS WHAT ALL OVER THE LAWN?
There seems to be a problem with global warming.
NUCLEAR OR NUCULAR?
Remember how stupid Dan Quayle was because he couldn’t spell potato? It was an iconic episode in American politics. The media was relentless in demonstrating how the inability to spell a simple word was proof enough that Quayle lacked the gravitas to hold the office of Vice President. The truth behind the story was that Quayle was handed a list of spelling words prepared by the teacher with the word potato misspelled with an e at the end. As candidates are wont to do on the campaign trail, he didn’t pay to much attention to what was being said. However, the “gotcha” moment was to good to filter with the truth.
Remember how George W. Bush said “nucular” instead of nuclear? It was the clarion call for the attack media and entertainment leftists. “See!”, they shouted. “He can’t even pronounce the word correctly.” Careers were launched and saved by using the “mock Bush strategery”. (Will Ferrell is the funniest.)
Remember when Obama was making a speech before a bunch of people from the military and kept referring to a Navy Corpsman as a “corpse-man”? You don’t? Heck, it just happend a few days ago. Haven’t you seen it all over the media? Oh, that’s right. It wasn’t all over the media. In fact, I’ve only seen it reported in once place. Here at National Review Online. You would think that with Obama’s very election to the presidency dependent, in part, upon his silver-tounged oratory, that a misstatement of this magnitude would be big news. But of course, this is Obama and the media is not going to turn on Obama. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Brian Williams start referring to the “corpse-man shipping out overseas to fight the war.” After all, if Obama said it, it must be so. Maybe he should issue an executive order changing the official pronunciation of the word.
In Texas, they have a saying. “Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.” When it comes to Obama the media is pissing bias and claiming that it’s raining objectivity.
Punxsutawney Phil Hates Global Warming
In a stunning blow against Osama bin Ladin and Al Gore’s fight to hold the western world accountable for global warming, Punxsutawney Phil declared six more weeks of winter during his annual prognosticating festival this week. The ground hog who, to date, has been more accurate at weather forecasting than all of the climate scientists at East Anglia University, saw his shadow on the snow-covered Gobbler’s Knob. The prediction dealt yet another setback to the embattled climate change community.
The series of recent revelations about estimated data, incomplete evidence, false research and outright lies being used as the basis for the IPCC’s reporting on global warming has done only a little damage to the global warming cause. Even with record cold temperatures, snow blizzards causing event cancellations and Osama bin Ladin jumping on the global warming bandwagon, the march continues towards a world wide solution to find a way to tax people when the temperature goes up..
Then comes Punxsutawney Phil. What does his prediction reveal? LaughAtLiberals sat down with Phil for an exclusive interview.
LAL:Phil, first the obvious question. Your prediction was for 6 more weeks of winter. What makes you think winter will continue, especially in light of the facts presented by Al Gore in an Inconvenient Truth?
PHIL: Well first of all I saw my shadow. I’m not bragging, but I’ve been pretty accurate for the last 100 years. As for Al Gore’s movie, I didn’t see it so I can’t comment, but I did see G-force and those gerbil chicks are hot!
LAL:Well Phil, Inconvenient Truth used some questionable data to propose that the earth’s temperature has risen dramatically in the last century and that man is the cause of what will be a devastating climate change if we don’t do something to stop it.
PHIL: Oh yeah, that was the one with Dennis Quaid in it with the kids in the library. Yeah, it was kind of stupid if you ask me. Look, everybody in the world knows that the sun has the most impact on our climate, followed by natural forces such as volcanoes, the oceans, plants and animals. What man can do to effect world wide climate is so far down the list, its kind of arrogant to assume that you humans can change the climate that dramatically, let alone fix it.
LAL: Well what about those who point to recent data showing that the temperature is rising?
PHIL: Well, actually, it’s not.
LAL: Well what if it is?
PHIL: Yeah, but it’s not.
LAL: Well lets just pretend it is.
PHIL: You mean like those scientist at East Anglia University?
LAL: Yes, I mean No. What I’m saying is, if the temperatures here on earth were warming wouldn’t that be a bad thing?
PHIL: Not really. Look. The earth has gone through these warming and cooling cycles before. I remember I ate a science book once that had a whole chapter
devoted to the Little Ice Age. Hello. Temps change. Nothing you can do about it and in fact, it may have a positive impact, allowing for longer growing seasons, more tillable soil, the spread of plant life.
LAL: So what you’re saying is that man-made global warming is a hoax?
PHIL: No. What I’m saying is there is absolutely no evidence at all that man is the sole cause of recent changes in temperature. There is also absolutely no evidence that there is anything that man can do to have any kind of an impact on changing it.
LAL: So we should just do nothing?
PHIL: No. There is nothing wrong with building things and using things that are more environmentally friendly. That’s a good idea and groundhogs like me appreciate it. But this idea of taxing people and business and countries for the carbon they produce sounds like a scam to me. I mean, I eat grass and clover. Do I need to borrow some carbon credits?
LAL: Good point, thanks Phil.
Happy Birthday Emory
I wanted to wish a happy birthday to my long time friend Emory Rowland. The reason I’m doing it here is that without Emory, Laugh at Liberals would not be. It was his effort, all those years ago, that launched our first Laugh At Liberals site and he has continued to play a key roll in it’s growth and development.
More important than that, though, is my long connection with Emory. I am 46 years old and I have known Emory since I was 15. I still hold a close place for him in my heart. We played in our first band together. It was just a high school band, but we were pretty good! I lived with Emory for a few weeks right after graduation then moved away from the small town where we met. We have only seen each other in person a few times since then, but we have always talked and remained close via phone and internet.
Emory has an amazing mind, a warped sense of humor and a huge heart. I am proud to call him my friend. Emory has always provided me with a reference point in my life. As you grow older it is good to have those people and places that focus your mind on who you are and where you’ve been. Knowing Emory and having him in my life, even it is only an email or a phone call now and then, gives me a sense of self. He’s part of my roots.
Happy Birthday Emory.
Love, Buck
Apple iPad: Could be a Game Changer.
I’ve been following the stories about the Apple iPad and with the release announcment now official I wanted to take a few minutes to comment on this technology and how it might effect the future.
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I am a real fan of Apple technology. I use a Mac every day and use it exclusively for web development, graphic design and video production. Mac has always been on the creative cutting edge. When the iPhone and subsequently the iTouch were released, I couldn’t help but think then that Apple’s next step would be a highly portable, but more functional unit that was similiar, but better than what those products offered. They have done exactly that with iPad.
I am convinced that the Apple iPad is the next step in the evolution of computer/human interface concepts. Cell phone technology has been improving rapidly, but let’s face it, the physical limitations that cell phone size presents to operator interface and data storage limits not only the audience for that technology, but how far it can be advanced. The Apple iPad has solved that problem by creating a book size device, with very intuitive interace, that anyone can use. I don’t text much on cell phones. My fingers are to big. My vision is to poor and for my types of usage, it just doesn’t quite hit the mark. My mom uses here cell phone just for calls for the same reasons. The Apple iPad’s size is probably it’s best asset. Small enough to be portable but big enough to usable, iPad will bring a lot of people “into the fold” when it comes to using this kind of technology.
The Apple ipad is about 10\
The newspaper business is dying. The internet and cable TV are killing it. It’s probably better to say that the newspaper business is having to convert into the content development business and the internet advertising business. People who still subscribe to a daily newspaper for home or office delivery, read it over breakfast, or after dinner in the easy chair, maybe on a break at work or in the train station during a commute, but millions of people have abandoned the historic interface between humans and the newspapers we read to access news and information easily and instantly via the internet and cable news. Now comes the iPad. It’s portability makes the breakfast table, the easy chair and even the morning commute a great place to read the newspaper again. However, instead dropping a quarter in a newspaper stand, you just touch your iPad link to your favorite newspaper.
The iPad is green technology too. Think of how many trees can be saved because instead of printing books or newspapers, you can just download them onto your iPad. Think of the savings in manufacturing.
It has long been the stuff of science fiction and science fact that computers would become easier to use. Instead of you having to get smarter to use the computer, which is the way it used to be, the computer is now getting smarter so it is easier for you to use. The Apple iPad is leading a giant leap forward in towards easier interface and more daily usage of technology by everyone.
A DEMOCRAT THUG IN MASSACHUSETTS
You really need to see this video. A Weekly Standard reporter was following Massachusetts senatorial candidate Martha Coakley, Democrat, after a press conference and firing questions in her direction. As the video here shows, the reporter, John McCormack was shoved by a man and knocked over. After “helping him up”, the man then does his best to interfere and intimidate McCormack away from Coakley.
As it turns out the guy doing the shoving is Michael Meehan a well connected national level Democratic campaign consultant. Even though Meehan has apologized and said he was just trying to help McCormack up, you can clearly see in this video that Meehan pushed the guy, then acted like a complete jackass.
I guess Fox is not the only conservative news organization that gets bullied around by the Democrats.
When you add up all that has transpired in the last few months you can only come to one conclusion. The Obama team and the Democratic leadership currently in power are thugs of the first order. If a legitimate news organization dares to question them, they are attacked, shutout of the news process and even shoved around. They line their pockets with your tax dollars while the nations economy withers on the vine. When Nancy Pelosi, at a press conference, said Obama lied in his campaign about televising the Health Care debates, then had the audacity to say it has been the most open process in history…that was a jaw dropping lie….and she smoothed right through it like a hot knife through butter.
Wake up people. This Democrat thug in Massachusetts is showing you who these people really are. The foxes are in the hen-house, and they’re not even bothering to dress up like chickens anymore!
IS OBAMA JESUS?
When did Obama replace Jesus? Was there a meeting or a memo that I missed somewhere? I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but in my absence did I miss the speech where the heavens opened and doves flew down to land on Obama’s head? I must have, because after seeing the video of the school kids singing MMM, MMM, MMMM Barack Hussein Obama, I am convinced that my salvation can come from Jesus or Obama.
What do this little kids know about equal work for equal pay? THEY DON’T HAVE JOBS! What possible reason could a teacher have for including a line like that in a song for a bunch of little kids!!!!
Equally troubling is the “Red and yellow, black and white, they’re all equal in his sight.” That line is a direct quote from “Jesus Loves The Little Children.” A song I sang in Sunday school when I was a kid. BUT THAT WAS AT CHURCH AND IT WAS ABOUT JESUS!
I am so comforted knowing that we are all equals in Barack’s sight. As he looks down upon me from on high. Unfortunately, I don’t think the Reverend Jeramiah Wright feels the same way.
And then they follow that song up with another about his accomplishments to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
What are his accomplishments after 9 months in office anyway?
HERE’S MY VERSION
(sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic)
Since has a been elected
Obama hasn’t done a thing
That is why I get confused
When all the little children sing
He’s not a real messiah
Just a hack from the left wing
His truth is just a lie…
More later.
ITS NOT THE ECONOMY, STUPID….ITS STUPID POLITICIANS!
I just finished reading up on ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. If those words, Community Organization stick out, they should. Barak Obama has a history wtih ACORN. His role with the Chicago-Annenberg Trust project worked with ACORN to, you guessed it, “encourage” banks into making loans to low income and unqualified applicants for home mortgages.
ACORN is also involved in nearly a dozen voter registration fraud cases throughout the country. ACORN is a taxpayer supported, liberal political organization that rakes in millions and millions from the Housing Trust Fund….Yet another tool of the federal government to take your money and spend it how they see fit. READ MORE HERE.
I bring up ACORN, only because its just another in the long list of entities, agencies and programs that exist, only because of your tax dollars. Only because some politician introduced a bill, called in some favors and lined the pockets of his friends.
If there ever was a time to say enough is enough, it is now.
The $700 billion dollar bail out bill got voted down by house members who’s constituents were overwhelming their phone banks saying, don’t vote for it, or else. I think it’s because, like me, most Americans are starting to think of $800 toilet seats, studies of the mating habits of woodchucks, statues honoring the guys who introduced the bill to build the statue and we’re starting to do the math. $700 billion dollars is a lot of money, but if you went through last years budget and cut out all the wasteful and needless spending, you’d probably come close to having that much available.
And if you went back over the last two years and added up all the CEO bonuses and profits from companies that no longer exist, you’d have a chunk of it to play with.
Americans, like me, are starting to figure out, its not the economy, stupid, its stupid politicians. More accurately, its stupid voters like me allowing the stupid politicians to say one thing and do another. A friend of mine sent an email to me the other day saying he was going to vote against anybody who was in office right now, Republican or Democrat, it didn’t matter. Maybe that’s not a bad message to send. We don’t care what your politics are, it’s time to start handling our business like it’s our money and not yours.
I am confident that America will come through this economic crisis we are facing and be better than ever on the other side, but we must….we must….start holding our elected leaders accountable for their decisions.
Not matter how you want to vote, please make sure you vote to send a message that politics as usual will not stand.
BIDEN TO RESIGN FROM RACE!
This website has been given information from a confidential source close to the power brokers of the Democrat National Committee that indicates Joe Biden will resign from the presidential race October 5th. On or about October 5th, it is believed that Biden will excuse himself from the ticket,
citing health problems, and he will be replaced by Hillary. This is timed to occur after the vice presidential debate on 10/2.
According to the source, there have been ongoing talks about how to best to proceed with the strategy without it appearing to be a blatant political maneuver.
Just a week ago, after Biden stated publicly that “Hillary would have been a better choice for vice president than him”, this web site posted a blog commentary stating that this looked suspiciously like the “soft grand opening” of the replace Biden with Hillary idea. Having Biden deliver the idea to the minds of voters is the subtle beginning that such a blatantly obvious political move would have to employ in order to a chance of passing the smell test in the minds of voters. One of the possible scenarios is for Biden to announce a medical issue, such as an anurism, that will prevent him from performing his duties, if elected. This medical cover story, however, is nothing but a ruse to shield the Obama campaign from the attacks that are sure to come from the McCain camp and the right. The economic news that changes daily will also help to squash the media frenzy that is sure to ensue.
The real question is can the American people ever accept a move like this? Other web sites and blogs are hinting at the Biden departure, but Laugh At Liberals, based on recently received information, is now convinced that the Obama campaign is going to make history, yet again.
What are the ramifications? Obviously the Obama campaign and the Democrat party have decided that the risks outweigh the rewards. They feel an Obama/Hillary ticket would guarantee the White House. The left will also find support among in the liberal media. There will most certainly be those in the left leaning media who will say, it doesn’t matter that Obama is doing it because Hillary is a better choice so he’s doing the right thing anyway? The spin from the left will be this is good for America, blah, blah, blah.
It is also the opinion of this writer that this move may have even been planned before the Democrat national convention. One theory being discussed in conservative circles is the idea that Obama, Hillary and the DNC, conspired to keep Hillary off the ticket until after McCain had made his choice for Vice President. It’s possible that McCain’s campaign may have even got wind of the October-Hillary surprise and made the Palin choice to get out in front of the the Dem dream ticket.
Watch for this story to develop this week.
McCain Picks Sarah Palin-Are You Kidding Me?
Alaska’s govenor Sarah Palin is now the presumptive Republican nominee for vice president.
When I read the news the first thing that came to mind was Admiral James Stockdale. Remember him. That was Ross Perot’s running mate in his ill-fated independent bid for the presidency. In his first major public appearance, a vice presidential debate, Stockdale’s first statement was, “Many of you are probably asking, who am I? Why am I here?”
I had the same initial response to Palin. Who is that? I have to admit, I’ve never even heard of her until this morning. Now that she is on the verge of becoming the Republican nominee for vice president, I guess it’s time we asked those same questions. Who is she?…and more importantly, Why is she here?
Palin’s govenor’s web site, McCain’s web site and a hot, fresh entry at Wikipedia reveal a young, fresh faced Alaskan govenor who came from humble beginnings and apparently has a strong moral compass. She served two terms on the Wasilla Alaska city council, got elected as the towns mayor and won the office of govenor by beating a Republican incumbent and a former Democratic govenor in the process.
It’s a pretty thin record for a Vice President, but technically, she has more executive experience than any of the candidates, including McCain. Still I was blown away by the pick until I started looking at the second question…Why is she here?
First of all, the obvious. She is a woman. McCain needs to woo the conservatives who were supporting Hillary because of her gender and Palin may help do that. Secondly she is a staunch pro-life advocate, and a woman, which will please the pro-life evangelicals. She is young, which helps negate McCain’s age issue and I think she also changes the dynamic of the “experience” debate. McCain has tried, unsuccesfully, to use Obama’s lack of experience. How can Palin’s lack of experience be called into question? She has a track record of controlling spending and making tough budget choices.
Most importantly though, Palin is a maverick. Just like McCain. She has bucked her own party on more than one occasion. She has brought corruption and ethics charges against fellow Republicans who deserved it. She has also taken the oil industry to task in Alaska. A tough thing to do.
Palin’s pick sends a signal from McCain. Not just to Obama, but to the Republican establishment in Washington. If McCain wins, you can bet he’ll turn Palin loose on the DC-GOP club to clean up any lingering questions about ethics and pork-barrell spending. Unlike a lot of Washington insiders, like Biden, Obama and even McCain, Palin is not beholden to special interests, fellow party members or other inside the beltway loansharks. One gets the impression from reading her bio that if she loses the election, she’d be just fine heading back to Alaska for some hunting and fishing.
Look out Washington. You’ve just met probably the most dangerous political animal ever. A conservative woman candidate for VP with absolutely nothing to lose.
Oh yeah, she’s a hottie too!
THE NIGGER TRAP
Nigger. It’s just a word, right? It can’t cut you, break a bone, steal your money or take your life…unless you’re white.
If you are white and you use that word in the wrong context and you will lose your job. You can be banned from television and radio. Use that word in the wrong neighborhood, it will get you killed.
Now if you’re black, you can use the word in any circumstance without fear. You can use it jokingly. You can use it in anger. It doesn’t really matter. The fact that you are black means you can say it and get a free pass because of the color of your skin.
That pretty much sums up the debate that has emerged after Jesse Jackson was caught on tape by Fox News calling Barack Obama a nigger and saying he would like to cut his nuts off. Mind you, this is the same Jesse Jackson who beat the drums so loudly after Don Imus called a bunch of girls, jokingly, nappy headed hos, that Imus got fired. CBS was so scared of retribution from Jackson and his ilk that they fired Imus and ended up losing the lawsuit he filed. That fear cost them millions, but they figured it was worth it.
I don’t see anybody threatening to fire or ban Jesse Jackson, do you?
I watched excerpts from the view as Whoopi Goldberg explained that the black community has co-opted the word, originally meant as an insult, and turned it into something less vicious…but, she added, if you’re white, you still can’t say it. I can say it, because I’m black. You can’t because you are white, so get over it. I can understand this concept to a degree. It’s the same thing for fat people. I can joke about me being overweight, but if you joke about me being overweight, it’s hurtful. I get it.
The problem is, sometimes, very rarely, but sometimes even white people can get a pass on using the word. I have seen and heard white comedians, in front of black and mixed race audiences, use the word nigger and get howls of laughter. It’s the context I suppose. The comedian was making a joke, it was funny, everybody laughed, no harm no foul, right? Let that same comedian walk outside of the comedy club and call one of the black audience members, in anger, a nigger and he is very close to committing a hate crime.
If Don Imus was black. Would there have been any controversy? Of course not. And he didn’t even use the N-word. He just made a stupid observation using language that some people, in some circumstances MIGHT find offensive. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard girls, white and black, call each other ho and laugh about it.
The only reason white people can’t say the word is because the black activist community is struggling to find anything that they can point at to prove that racism is still a scourge on society that requires your donation to fight. In other words, white people saying the word nigger keeps Al Sharpton in business. That should be reason enough to stop using it.
Rappers sing it, comedians shout it and people use it every day…but if you’re white and conservative you better back off. It’s a trap.
I decided I can’t stand Rush
I have gotten to the point I can not stand listening to Rush Limbaugh any longer. The same rhetoric is repeated over and over. I’m not a liberal and can no longer call myself a conservative if the leading conservative is sounding so pathetic. Wednesday he went on and on several times in his broadcast about how stupid the Demorcrats are for not wanting to get even for the beheadings and loss of soldiers we have had in Iraq. We were never in Iraq to get even for current events, if we are there for that reason we will always be there since there will be a never ending supply of events to get even for. It would be impossible to have those current events had we not gone there in the first place, first grade logic. He sounds completely ignorant, and this is who we choose to represent us on a world stage. He calls himself El Rushbo for crying out loud, how much more juvenile and happy hour bar mentality can you get than that? He makes us look like a bunch of redneck idiots. Last week his comments about 1% of the the population paying the majority of taxes was just plain stupid, duh Mr. Limbaugh 1% has the majority of income. I don’t begrudge them having it, but I definitely am not concerned they are taxed on it. It isn’t going to matter if they start taxing our capital gains because we are not making millions like Rush Limbaugh therefore we will not have any capital left to tax.
Middle income hard working people are struggling to keep their homes, go to work and pay daycare because prices have gotten out of control and the best our most paid attention to spokesperson can come up with is calling a presidential nominee lord messiah over and over and over and over and over. We are not living in times where we can look at the poor and say oh well they should have worked harder it’s their own fault because we are becoming them and it’s not our fault. Could the man come up with some real solutions rather then a constant parade of what he believes is wit in running down others.
My end of Rush came in his commentary about a woman this week who wrote a letter to her Senator saying we need to prioritize. He spent alot of his show ridiculing her on the order she put her priorities, food being third on the list. What he doesn’t realize with his millions is that food can come third, it’s called taking the hamburger out of the spaghetti, it’s one of the few places have left where we can cut back and save a couple of bucks. I realized then he is so completely out of touch with us and what is going on because he is not us, he does not even have to consider what is going on out here because he is protected from it all with his wealth. Then it dawned on me, he is just a high paid entertainer, nothing more. He has been telling us what we want to hear for years and I’m ashamed to admit I listened and I went with it because my calf was fat and life was good. Now it’s starting to unravel and it’s not going to matter who gets into the white house. The reality is the cost of living has gone up by over 60% in eight years and it’s not going to come down, it never has and never will. And it will be a very long time before income catches up again. This is where we are and we had better come up with something better than pointing fingers, calling names, and listening to commentary of leaders or shall I say entertainers who in reality couldn’t care less about us.
MLK is Rolling in his Grave
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black America took a wrong turn. At some time in the past few decades, although it pains me to determine precisely when, this occurred. In his March 26 article the Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts Jr. illustrated this so eloquently that I really won’t have to say much to make this point… but I will!
Barack Obama completely missed the boat on this. His “race speech” was a bland continuation of his passionate delivery of vague generalities. He no more “showed us how” to talk about race than Pete Rose showed us how to talk about ethics.
Here stood the first legitimate Black American in the running for the United States Presidency. The bully pulpit was his. The media was all ears! The time was NOW! And…
A dud.
A stale, rhetoric filled dud.
If Obama had talked to us “as though we were adults” as John Leibowitz (Stewart’s real nam stated on his Daily Show then he would have been HONEST and DIRECT in his words to the country. This is something both White and Black America desperately need to hear, and they need to hear it from (Bill Cosby can’t do this alone and last I checked he was not a Presidential candidate, and while all my points are factual and true I am indeed a Typical White Person so I have racism bred into me since birth and am therefore disqualified to comment).
Obama could have been a reformer Democrat. He could have risen to this occasion and turned the negatives of his preacher’s alarming views into the ultimate positive. Instead Obama swung and missed.
Obama: “I can no more disavow my pastor as I can the black community.” With this he undid any chance he had for lifting up the black community. The remarks of Pastor Wright are so far removed from reality that most simply laugh them off or sit in stunned amazement of how dangerously pandering they are, especially coming from an educated adult. Not only should Obama have denounced the statements of his pastor of 20 years, he should have offered rebuttals! This would have started the American ball rolling towards… what is that word again???
Here is what Obama should have said:
There is absolutely no conspiracy to let drugs into the black community, and the AIDS virus is a worldwide epidemic, not a scheme created by the U.S. Government to infect Black Americans. Anyone who would say this is either woefully ignorant or an outright liar.
Al Qaeda has attacked the U.S., the U.K., South Africa, Israel, Yemen, Australia, Spain, and Japan to name a few.
Al Qaeda opposes liberty and individual rights. They hate our freedom and way of life. They are indoctrinated against the West from the time they are children. This has nothing to do with any “chickens coming home to roost.”
People who support Affirmative Action based on RACE (and not on economics) are misguided and bigoted. They look at you based on the color of your skin and say “they are not good enough and need the help of the government.” President Bush was right when he called this the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
We are fooling ourselves. We allow people like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton to claim they speak for us with for race baiting rhetoric. We ignore the brilliant minds of Black Americans such as Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Roy Innis, Ward Connerly, Sojourner Truth, Justice Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele, Francis Rice and Justice Janice Rogers Brown to name a few. These are the role models for young Black Americans to emulate!
Blacks face an uphill battle to start with due to the high rate of out of wedlock births in our community. It is at 70%. In the 1950’s it was at 20%. How did this happen? Why did this happen? This is not about slavery or even about racism. Look yourself in the mirror!
I was wrong when I called for the firing of Don Imus and although his statements were in fact stupid, bigoted and wrong, I see the error of my thinking and what a double standard I have set for those who look up to my leadership and vision for the country.
Man is imperfect. History has proven this time and time again. Racism will always exist in the minds of some. It is up to you to determine how this affects your sense of self worth and your ability to make it in America.
The “War on Poverty” has lasted for 40 years and cost $40 Trillion (with a T). Go to any big city in America and the poor section of town is always heavily populated by Blacks. 9 of the 10 cities highest in poverty are run by Democrats and have been for decades.
You’ve been hoodwinked. You’ve been had. You’ve been took. You’ve been led astray, led amok. You’ve been bamboozled.” Malcolm X
Blacks now vote 92% for Democrats. This represents the highest voting bloc in the country’s history. Even as a Democrat I can see how this is harming us as a society. We are being taken advantage of. We should at least revisit the issues at hand. Which is the party that best represents your chance at economic freedom and success? Which party correctly defines the ROLE for the Federal Government?
Consider:
1. With blacks dying at an average of 7 years before their white counterparts, why do we support a Party who prevents us from passing our “social security” savings to our children?
2. Blacks support personal responsibility and strong punishment for criminals. We must understand that the criminal justice system is not racist: Blacks make up 12% of the population yet commit almost 50% of the violent crime!
3. Blacks overwhelmingly oppose gay marriage and abortion on demand.
4. Republicans support school choice in general and vouchers in particular, which would directly help the poorest inner city children with nowhere to turn. Democrats blocked school doorways for blacks in the 60’s and continue to do so today with their policies towards education.
5. Learn History. The Democrat Party filibustered to kill the 1964 Civil Rights Act, started the KKK, and proudly refers to a former Klansman as “the conscience of the Senate.”
In closing, we need to realize that we live in the greatest country ever conceived by man. We should thank God each day that we were born into a country that provides each and every one of us with the opportunity to do with our lives whatever we choose and to earn as much wealth for ourselves and our families as we can. Remember that “People vote with their feet” and millions upon millions of people each year would not risk their very lives to come to this country if this were not so. Wake up people!
Perhaps this was the turning point: When Senator Barry Goldwater (REP) voted against the Civil Rights Act the liberals seized this as a propaganda tool and a spark that drove Black Americans from the RED side to the BLUE. No matter that Goldwater did this based on a constitutional argument that the Act was unnecessary because of the 14th Amendment. Goldwater later regretted this vote. I do too as it led to millions of modern day Black Americans being led astray.
The real tragedy in all of this is that not only are many Black Americans missing the boat when it comes to the American Dream, they don’t even know what that dream actually is and that they too can achieve it, since they are constantly being told how awful our country is! This is truly a shame.
At the end of the day, the person telling the truth is typically vilified, as most of the time people don’t want to hear it. But the truth is the truth. Facts are facts and cannot be “agreed with.” What I have written here today is indeed fact. Cold and Hard.
If Barack Obama had said these things he would have made a difference. He would have forced the issue. He could have defined a generation.
I am still waiting. And Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is rolling in his grave.
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