Quote of the Evening

April 22nd, 2009

If you think any American should be prosecuted for protecting us from terrorists, you should be ashamed of yourself. Just so we’re clear.

Jim Treacher, via Twitter


Cause and Effect

January 21st, 2009

Cause:

“For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do. [...]

“Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control — and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.”

President Obama, 1/20/09

Effect:

Joel Samuelson

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What A Day, What A Day

October 14th, 2008

Jesse Jackson, whether due to old age or just plain bitterness toward Barack Obama, re-exposed his anti-Semetic side:

According to a report in the NY Post today, Jackson told an audience at the World Policy Forum in Evian, France last week that the “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” will lose influence under an Obama administration.

“Obama is about change,” Jackson added. “And the change that Obama promises is not limited to what we do in America itself. It is a change of the way America looks at the world and its place in it.”

The distancing from the hateful comments by the Obama gang was quite neutered, so to speak.

Speaking of Obama, Thomas Sowell opines:

Associations are very different from alliances. Allies are not just people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason. The kind of allies you choose says something about you.

Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose to ally himself for years, and with some of whom some serious money changed hands.

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Some gave political support, and some gave financial support, to Obama’s election campaigns, and Obama in turn contributed either his own money or the taxpayers’ money to some of them. That is a familiar political alliance— but an alliance is not just an “association” from being at the same place at the same time.

Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly expressed their hatred of America. No amount of flags on his campaign platforms this election year can change that.

And finally speaking of hatred — namely the kind expressed from tolerant, open-minded black liberals:

Comment 101: “All the mess african amercans [sic] have been through and this uncle tom negro is going to back the GOP. The racist party. I like john Mccain personally but his party has shown to be only for the rich and white. i dont care what anyone says this brotha can kick rocks.!”

Sadly, many blacks who are voting for Obama (including those who are voting for him solely on melanin blend) angrily want to kick James T. Harris in the rocks — or worse. Such is the stark reality of political diversity (or lack thereof) in the black community.

Read the slanted posting at Essence.com. View the one-sided poll question and results. And, if you’re up to it, feel the love in the comments section.

If Barack Obama is elected POTUS, it will not be a fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, but a testament to the down-and-dirty amalgam of Chicago machine politics and stealth Marxism.

Related: Yeah. Tell me about it.

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Black RNC Delegates on Obama

September 3rd, 2008

Yes, there’s more than the one or two faces the MSM will show on TV.

That being said, look beyond the usual mockery and riducule posted at the Huffington Post and you’ll get an honest earful of what most black conservatives/libertarians think about the Democrat presidential nominee.

(link via Negrophile @Twitter)

Also Related: NPR’s Michel Martin interviewed black RNC delegates Sean Conner, Marcus Skelton, and the Rev. Isaac Hayes (no relation to the late Soul artist Isaac Hayes).

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Gore’s Own ‘Inconvenient Truth’

February 26th, 2007

Proof that the “global warming” BS is nothing but feel-good hot air from the left, courtesy of the Tennesee Center for Policy Research:

Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.

Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.

Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

During his acceptance speech for the so-called documentary, director Davis Guggenheim said, “I made this movie for my children. We all did. And we did so because we were moved to act by this man… all of us were inspired by his fight for 30 years to tell his truth to all of us.”

The truth that Gore is a hypocrite?

We didn’t need a gratuitous Hollywood flick to tell us that.

And as for “the children”, talk radio commentator Jerry Doyle noted during his show today that nobody made mention of the children who are starving to death in totalitarian countries like Zimbabwe.

I guess it’s far easier for Hollywood to save the planet than actually doing something tangible to save suffering kids…


Everybody Hates Communism

January 3rd, 2007

I found this rare gem of a letter in today’s R-J:

Lawmakers always want more money

To the editor:

I consider myself to be very liberal. Some might even say that I am a bit socialist. But Assemblyman Ruben Kihuen’s proposal to have the state seize funds from unused, expired gift cards is communism — or more likely outright theft (Dec. 25 Review-Journal).

Whatever the assemblyman wants to use the unused gift card money for, it’s wrong. Even if it’s for cancer research or feeding the hungry, I don’t see how Nevada government can take this money from businesses or the public.

If I buy a sweater and I don’t use it, the government shouldn’t be able to come in and take it from me and give it to someone less fortunate. It’s not the best thing, me having a perfectly good sweater just sitting in my closet, but it’s my choice.

How are gift cards different? I thought governments were going after retailers for having expiration dates on gift cards and service fees. If so, then let’s go after retailers who are making a killing on unused gift cards. But don’t make the situation worse by commandeering private property, especially when Nevada has a budget surplus.

This is the worst thing I’ve heard in a long time. Why doesn’t the Legislature do a better job of managing what they have and weed out crooks in their own midst instead of trying to take more from the public?

Tahirih Kempf

HENDERSON

Run for your life, Tahirih! Kihuen and the Confiscation Cops of Nevada’s state assembly (aka the Democrats) might come after you. To them, everything belongs to the state!


Blog Gets Nod From MSM

August 16th, 2006

Gannett’s Chuck Raasch recently quoted me in a USAToday op-ed piece which was also syndicated to other newspapers. The posting in reference can be found here.


Cindy Sheehan: Traitor

January 25th, 2006

We now know where her loyalties lie — in bed with Hugo Chavez:

Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, joined more than 10,000 anti-globalization activists in Caracas, where she hailed Venezuela’s leftist President Hugo Chavez.“I admire him for his resolve against my government and its meddling,” said Sheehan, who gained notoriety when she camped outside US President George W. Bush’s ranch last year to protest the Iraq war. She said she hoped to meet Chavez later in the week.

Sheehan was among more than 10,000 people from across the Americas who took to the streets of the Venezuelan capital Tuesday in an anti-war protest that launched the six-day Caracas World Social Forum (WSF).

My government should not meddle anywhere, the “peace mom” told AFP during the march, which was marked by anti-Bush slogans. [...]

Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, said she would remain in Caracas until the WSF concludes on Sunday, and would address participants on several occasions.

She said Venezuela’s foreign ministry sponsored her visit (emphasis added).

That tears it.

The woman is a traitor in the truest sense of the term. Her son, had he not died serving his country with honor, would have disowned her — as her immediate family already have.

It’s time for those who are fed up with self-hating Americans like Sheehan to put their feet down. If Venezuela is really all that and a bag of chips to Sheehan and her ilk, why aren’t they moving there in droves? Surely their new bestest friend in the world will take them in without hesitation!

Enjoy your weekend tryst with your new sugar daddy, Cindy — and DON’T come back.

Update: Rob Port at Say Anything nails it:

Opposing President Bush and his policies is one thing. Taking sides against your own government with a non-friendly foreign government is quite another.

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Food for Thought

December 12th, 2005

“It is disgusting for a human to sit and watch another human die.”

- Stanley “Tookie” Williams

Ironically, he had no problem watching his murder victims die 26 years ago…


“That wasn’t the answer I was looking for, ma’am…”

September 16th, 2005

At last, from an actual Katrina survivor, the truth comes out.

Update: Madea takes on the MSM…


Quote of The Day

February 25th, 2004

All marriage is same sex marriage…the same sex, over and over and over again. It’s a long tedious meal with dessert at the beginning.

Neal Boortz


Hitting The Nail On The Head

September 15th, 2003

From Michele:

It seems there are an awful lot of people out there who think that one must join a party and then subscribe to every single idea put out by that party. Toe the party line, so to speak.

People who do that are not called Republicans or Democrats or Greens. They are called sheep.

I do not say baaaaaaa.

Spot on.


Oh. No. He. Didn’t.

August 13th, 2003

“Martin Luther King would have done the same thing.”

Ron Waters, in response to critics accusing Jesse Jackson of intimidating corporations into “funding” Jackson’s non-profit holdings.

Discuss amongst yourselves.


Food For Thought

July 2nd, 2003

“Every man … should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.”
– St. John Ervine

Believe it or not, readers, I strive to adhere to the above every day.

So much for that “echo-chamber of thought” nonsense…