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August 31, 2008
Liberals Consider Gustav Proof There Is a God
The Left has managed to squeeze so much propaganda out of Katrina, the approach of Gustav has them all but wetting their pants in anticipation. Here's Michael Moore on a soapbox provided by the vile Keith Olbermann, gloating that a potentially devastating hurricane scheduled to hit New Orleans during the Republican convention is "proof that there is a god in heaven."
The suffering and damage caused by major hurricanes are a cause for celebration for libs, so long as they can be spun to make Republicans look bad — as if Bush and McCain were somehow responsible for the weather.
Louisiana Republican Rep. Steve Scalise responds:
People in Louisiana, regardless of political affiliation, are making plans to leave to protect their families from this serious storm, and the God I know would not share Michael Moore's glee for our plight.
But former DNC chairman Don Fowler sure would. Via RedState:
No wonder moonbats hate God; the god of their sordid imaginations isn't a very likable character.
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August 30, 2008
Moonbats Already Stooping Low in Palin Attacks
Moonbats are at a loss on how to drag down the lovely Sarah Palin. Look what they've already stooped to in the cesspool known as Daily Kos.
[I]t appears that Pallin's [sic] last child, a baby with Down's syndrome, may not be hers. It may be that of her teenage daughter.
The evidence: Palin allegedly didn't "look pregnant" at six months, and her daughter was out of school with mono.
If only she were a liberal, it wouldn't matter who was the mother, because they could have just had the poor kid killed. If Trig survived the attempted abortion, they could have dumped him in the Soiled Utility Room and waited for him to die, like they do with Down syndrome kids in Chicago, thanks to policies dear to the heart of Barack Obama.
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August 29, 2008
As Temperatures Cool, Global Warming Hype Gets Ever More Hysterical
Even as temperatures continue to cool, global warming hoaxers get ever hotter under the collar at the way their proclamations of imminent doom are ignored. A particularly hysterical diatribe in WaPo declares that we have only 7 years to forsake our comfortable lifestyle and submit to a government-imposed economic depression, or:
The Earth is on a trajectory to warm more than 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit by around mid-century. Exceeding that threshold could trigger a series of phenomena: Arable land will turn into desert, higher sea levels will flood coastal areas, and changes in the convection of the oceans will alter currents, such as the Gulf Stream, that determine regional weather patterns.
Manhattan and Florida would be under water, while Nevada would have no water at all. Some Russians quip that they would welcome a more temperate climate, but they would probably be sorry to lose St. Petersburg. Countries such as Bangladesh and Mali do not have the resources to mitigate or even to adapt to the impact of climate change; millions would flee coastal flooding and the desertification of farmlands, creating instant "climate refugees."
To avoid this horrific fate, we must "consent to sacrifices and changes in lifestyle," in order to reap "the ultimate reward — survival."
It's hard to believe the mainstream media doesn't try to salvage some credibility by laying off with the increasingly stale Chicken Little act. If you know anyone who still takes it seriously, please let them know I have carbon credits for sale.
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Spike Lee Announces the Coming of Year One
He's no longer the flavor of the month among the moonbat intelligentsia, but Spike Lee can still be counted on to push liberal asininity to the most ludicrous extremes imaginable. Here he is on the deity of the Marxist punk who would be President:
Spike didn't mention whether we should reset our calendars this year, or after the Obamessiah takes office.
Hat tip: NewsBusters; on a tip from Cheetah.
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Establishment Media Formally Endorses Radical Homosexual Agenda
When it comes to imposing homosexual depravity on mainstream American culture, the establishment media doesn't report the news — it is the news:
ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the corporate owners of USA Today, the Miami Herald, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Sacramento Bee, The Dallas Morning News and many other newspapers, all spent thousands of dollars sponsoring the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention in Washington, D.C. Many journalists from these Big Media mainstays attended or spoke at the convention.
In the name of "diversity," all the organizations listed above ran recruiting booths, as did NPR. Thus, the nation's major news providers demonstrated that they have bought into the central proposition of homosexual activists: that people engaging in homosexuality or bisexuality, along with transsexuals, are a historically oppressed minority group deserving the same preferential treatment and legal protections that society provides to ethnic minorities and women.
This is unlikely to result in objective journalism:
If Big Media views homosexuality primarily as a civil rights issue rather than as a moral and health issue, their coverage of all homosexual-related stories from HIV/AIDS to same-sex "marriage" must be viewed skeptically. How can they cover homosexual-related issues fairly if they define opponents of the activist political agenda as enemies of equal rights — in short, as bigots?
Also, by deliberately recruiting NLGJA members, the news media have demonstrated their willingness to hire journalists who likely share the radical political and social perspectives that dominate the homosexual activist movement.
Many of the journalists at the convention made their left-leaning partisanship and anti-religious prejudice clear. During a discussion on covering sex scandals, a panelist said, "There's a whole lot of hypocrisy on the Republican side, they spout this crap about family values all of the time, you know, gotta love my wife, yada yada yada…" The specific examples of hypocrisy he cited, however, were Democrats.
Speakers made quite plain that journalism is to be used as a political weapon with which to punish those who resist the radical homosexual agenda. As for what this agenda entails, they made that fairly clear to:
At the welcoming reception, a man sported a T-shirt with "NAMBLA" boldly emblazoned on the front. NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association, advocates pedophilia.
The way moonbattery is progressing, it won't be long before careers are ended over accusations of being opposed to raping children. Naturally they will use suitable euphemisms, just as killing children is now known as "choice."
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Taking After Britney Again
Moonbats didn't like it when McCain compared their Messiah to fellow shallow pop phenom Britney Spears. Yet the absurdly pretentious Mount Olympus stage set for his Democrat coronation yesterday was designed by the same team that constructed cheesy sets for Britney Spears's last tour.
Hopefully Obama won't also adopt Britney's habit of flashing her genitals to the paparazzi. There's no telling how desperate he might become once the hype wears thin and his poll numbers crash.
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Ramadan Fasts Imposed on British Council Meetings
British bureauweenies take another step from dhimmitude toward sharia:
Councillors have been ordered not to eat during town hall meetings while Muslim colleagues fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
All elected members at Left-wing Tower Hamlets Council in East London have been sent an email asking them to follow strict Islamic fasting during September no matter what their faith.
As well as restricting food and drink until after sunset, the authority's leaders have decided to reduce the number of meetings throughout the month so they do not clash with the requirements of Ramadan.
Outside of council meetings, most Britons are still allowed to eat when it's light out during Ramadan — for now.
On a tip from Oiao.
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ABC Producer Arrested While Covering Dems in Denver
Relying as it does on a free press, the media might want to rethink its slavish devotion to the cause of installing Barack Obama in the White House, in light of this and this and this from Wednesday:
Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.
Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit. […]
Eslocker and his ABC News colleagues are spending the week investigating the role of corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the convention for a series of Money Trail reports on ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson."
Here's video showing cops shoving Eslocker into oncoming traffic and grabbing him by the throat. That will teach him to embarrass Democrat bigwigs.
Hat tip: Counter-Stupid.
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Art Museum Displays Crucified Frog
For millennia, going back to the exquisite sculptures of the Greeks, Western Civilization rightfully took pride in its art. Then came moonbattery.
The latest example of what art has deteriorated into comes from Italy, once the epicenter of the Renaissance:
An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.
If it offends decent people, it's art. Apparently there are no other standards, which is why so few artists bother to develop any depth of vision or technical skill anymore.
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What They Mean by "Lightworker"
Check out the Dedication in Saul Alinsky's infamous Rules for Radicals, a book known to have heavily influenced Barack Obama:
Now I get why his most unrestrained media sycophants call Obama a "Lightworker." Lucifer literally means "light-bringing."
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A Victim's View of Obama's Friend Bill Ayers
Since we don't hear much from the mainstream media about the Obamessiah's longstanding friend and mentor Bill Ayers, let's see what we can learn from Yonkers city councilmember John Murtagh, whose familiarity with Ayers goes back even further than Obama's:
During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up "a gentleman named William Ayers," who "was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He's never apologized for that." Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama's answer: "The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense, George." Obama was indeed only eight in early 1970. I was only nine then, the year Ayers's Weathermen tried to murder me.
In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the so-called "Panther 21," members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car. (Today, of course, we'd call that a car bomb.) A neighbor heard the first two blasts and, with the remains of a snowman I had built a few days earlier, managed to douse the flames beneath the car. That was an act whose courage I fully appreciated only as an adult, an act that doubtless saved multiple lives that night.
I still recall, as though it were a dream, thinking that someone was lifting and dropping my bed as the explosions jolted me awake, and I remember my mother's pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn't leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside. The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. Sunlight, the next morning, revealed three sentences of blood-red graffiti on our sidewalk: FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS. […]
Though no one was ever caught or tried for the attempt on my family's life, there was never any doubt who was behind it. Only a few weeks after the attack, the New York contingent of the Weathermen blew themselves up making more bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse. The same cell had bombed my house, writes Ron Jacobs in The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground. And in late November that year, a letter to the Associated Press signed by Bernardine Dohrn, Ayers's wife, promised more bombings.
As the association between Obama and Ayers came to light, it would have helped the senator a little if his friend had at least shown some remorse. But listen to Ayers interviewed in the New York Times on September 11, 2001, of all days: "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." Translation: "We meant to kill that judge and his family, not just damage the porch." When asked by the Times if he would do it all again, Ayers responded: "I don't want to discount the possibility."
Incredibly, only 7 years after 9/11, Ayers is on the verge of seeing a likeminded protégé whose political career he launched be handed the presidency by an adulating media that could best be described as depraved.
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August 28, 2008
Moonbats Continue to Milk Katrina
Three years down the road, moonbats are still trying to milk Katrina for free money and left-wing propaganda:
Some survivors of Hurricane Katrina say they aren't getting enough attention from the Bush administration, so they're turning to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez for help.
Ishmael Muhammad of the New Orleans Survivor Council has visited Venezuela three times to seek funding and forge ties. He says the group hopes to raise $45,000 for a center to house 50 people as they rebuild their homes.
He says the community knows the Venezuelan government "could use it for political propaganda, but they're OK with that."
As you'll recall, Chavez has already attempted to buy bad press for the USA — with the eager assistance of particularly verminous moonbats like Joe Kennedy and William Delahunt — by donating fuel oil to our downtrodden masses. Meanwhile back in Venezuela, the shelves are bare despite oil prices that should have the whole country floating in money.
Here's hoping the next hurricane washes Ishmael Muhammad out to sea, and that he washes up in Venezuela.
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Obamunists Attack Radio Station for Shining Light on Bill Ayers
Another little foretaste of what an Obama victory would mean for freedom of speech:
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign organized its supporters Wednesday night to confront Tribune-owned WGN-AM in Chicago for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its air.
"WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears," Obama's campaign wrote in an e-mail to supporters. "He's currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers."
Kurtz, a conservative writer, recently wrote an article for the National Review that looked at Obama's ties to Ayers, a former 1960s radical who later emerged as a school reform advocate in Chicago. […]
Obama's campaign has launched similar offensives against stations that have run campaign ads that it did not like.
Now is your chance to read up on Obama's long-time friend and associate Bill Ayers, the unrepentant anti-American terrorist at whose house his political career was launched. Information on the alarming backgrounds of Obama's friends and associates might not always be available.
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Global Warming Hoaxers Demand Fewer Children
Not even the Most Powerful Woman in the World can deny that according to the Catholic Church, abortion is evil. But as all liberals know, morality is relative. According to another religion, abortion must be good, because it means having fewer children.
The British Medical Journal, setting aside science for the dadaist religion some call Enviromoonbattery, wants Britons to quit having so many kids, out of faith that this will reduce harmless CO2 emissions and cause the climate to become stable for the first time in the history of the planet.
Never mind that the most serious problem faced by Europe is depopulation caused by falling birth rates.
China's communist rulers opportunistically argue that they should be rewarded with emission reduction credits for their unconscionable one-child policy — which may be their next major export.
John Guillebaud, a "family-planning doctor" who spewed anti-child moonbattery in BMJ, assures us:
We're not Big Brother. We're not for pushing people. We just think deciding how big a family to have should take into consideration our descendants.
These descendants won't even exist if moonbats have their way. It's reassuring that Guillebaud is "not for pushing people." But others won't be so squeamish. After all, they have a planet to save.
On a tip from Todd S.
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Nancy Pelosi Claims Catholic Church Is Unclear on Abortion
If Nancy Pelosi is to be believed, Obama isn't the only one who can't figure out when human life begins. Neither can the Catholic Church. Here she is on NBC's Meet the Depressed, via One Mom:
MR. BROKAW: Senator Obama saying the question of when life begins is above his pay grade, whether you're looking at it scientifically or theologically. If he were to come to you and say, "Help me out here, Madame Speaker. When does life begin?" what would you tell him?
REP. PELOSI: I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition.
Actually, the Church is well aware that human life begins at conception.
Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl responds to Pelousy:
Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.
As do Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput and his auxiliary bishop James Conley:
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a gifted public servant of strong convictions and many professional skills. Regrettably, knowledge of Catholic history and teaching does not seem to be one of them. […Abortion] is always gravely evil, and so are the evasions employed to justify it.
Another prominent Dem who blasphemously claims to be a Catholic is Joe Biden, whom Chaput considers unqualified to take Communion because of his pro-abortion politics.
Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop of New York, was also taken aback by Nasty Nancy's lie:
What the Speaker had to say about theologians and their positions regarding abortion was not only misinformed; it was also, and especially, utterly incredible in this day and age.
We are blessed in the 21st century with crystal-clear photographs and action films of the living realities within their pregnant mothers. No one with the slightest measure of integrity or honor could fail to know what these marvelous beings manifestly, clearly, and obviously are, as they smile and wave into the world outside the womb.
In simplest terms, they are human beings with an inalienable right to live, a right that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is bound to defend at all costs for the most basic of ethical reasons [and moonbats who pretend otherwise] should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name.
I'll take that as a hint that Cardinal Egan won't be voting for Obama.
Via The Ryskind Sketchbook, here are a few more of Pelousy's theological insights:
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Seattle's Progressive Energy Policy
Surprisingly, Mayor Greg Nickels's ingenious plan to meet our energy needs by closing Seattle streets has not noticeably impacted gas prices. His strategy apparently entails forcing people to ride bicycles, the way they do in half-starved socialist backwaters like Cuba. At least in Cuba, it doesn't rain all the time.
Heavy rains turned the first of Mayor Greg Nickels' planned car-free Sundays into a nearly people-free afternoon.
Supporters hoped this trial closure of a quiet five blocks east of Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill would prove a successful introduction to what's likely to be the more challenging street closures of Rainier Avenue South and Alki Avenue Southwest on the following two Sundays.
People foolish enough to elect Nickels will be foolish enough to approve of his moonbattery.
Residents and visitors along 14th Avenue East had mostly praise for the idea of opening the street to bicyclists, pedestrians and kids on training wheels and roller blades. […] "It's about enjoying the neighborhood and playing without cars," said Margaret Kramer, who arrived at the 14th Avenue barricades on foot while her two sons rollerbladed down the middle of the street.
Margaret didn't explain why she chose to live in a large city if she wants to be away from cars.
Harder still to explain would be why anyone would choose to live in Seattle if they didn't like being bossed around and fleeced by flaky bureaucrats, who will soon be charging people a fee for using grocery bags. The pointless street closures cost about $45,000 for permitting, barricades, et cetera, not to mention the cost in wasted time as drivers were forced to deal with heavier congestion on the streets remaining open. Twenty people had their cars towed for violating street-closure notices.
I think Obama may have found his Secretary of Transportation.
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Australian Government Pays $5,000 Bonus for Late-Term Abortions
It's time for government to stop trying to helpful. In Australia:
It was intended to boost the birth rate, but a legal loophole means the $5000 baby bonus can be claimed for late-term abortions.
The loophole arises because abortions after 20 weeks' gestation are recorded by doctors as stillbirths.
Parents of stillborn babies receive the maternity benefit on compassionate grounds.
Not everyone sees this as a problem. Bleats Andrew Pesce, chairman of the National Association of Specialist Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, referring not to stillbirths but to late-term abortions:
I think it is a very humane gesture from society to say, "You are going through enough already, we're not going to withhold the bonus."
That is, the mother is going through enough already, having to deal with the guilt of having killed her child. So in the interest of compassion, $5,000 should be confiscated from total strangers and given to her to make her feel better.
Pesce didn't mention what the executed babies go through; maybe some enterprising lawyer could sue taxpayers on their behalf.
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August 27, 2008
Blind Thugs Loot Target
Justice is blind, all right — blind as a moonbat. The following is not a joke:
The Target retail chain will make its Web site accessible to the blind and pay $6 million to visually impaired Californians who have tried unsuccessfully to use the site, under a settlement announced Wednesday.
The nationwide settlement, filed with a federal judge in San Francisco, is intended as a model for the retail industry, said a lawyer for the National Federation of the Blind, which sued Target in 2006.
You would think Target would be in charge of how its website is designed, not some judge in San Francisco. After all, the website is Target's property, not the government's. But that's assuming there is still such a thing as private property, which is becoming increasingly disputable.
Mr. Magoons from the National Federation of the Blind will be monitoring Target's website for the next three years, to ensure that it complies with their demands. If they find something they don't like, they can loot Target — and Target's customers — for some more free money.
Next, blind people should start suing the makers of cars and cameras, which clearly discriminate in favor of people who can see.
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Biden Identifies Corn Syrup and Coal as Greater Threats Than Terrorism
Biden is really going to add some ballast to the Dem ticket. In the video below he explains to cartoonish moonbat Bill Maher the hierarchy of threats menacing America. Despite the fact that Muslims could turn New York into a mushroom cloud at any moment, terrorism falls below corn syrup, which in turn falls below coal.
If Biden weren't the VP pick, he'd be a sure bet for head of Homeland Security.
Hat tip: Stop the ACLU.
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Denver Moonbattery Takes a Turn for the Uglier
It started out innocently enough, with a bunch of Recreate 68 types attempting to levitate the Denver mint through the power of sheer moonbattery. But at around 2:45 in this video, the tone takes an ugly turn, with 9/11 troofer and all-purpose paranoid schizophrenic Alex Jones whipping a crowd of kooks into a frenzy against Michelle Malkin.
The "Kill Michelle Malkin" chant was chilling even by moonbat standards. Jones should be less worried about camps than asylums.
Hat tip: Dummie Funnies; on a tip from Cheetah.
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Deval Patrick: A Preview of the Obama Administration
If the media is able to install Obama in the White House, he won't stop at borrowing Deval Patrick's speeches; he's likely to emulate the affirmative action governor's policies too.
This should sound familiar: Patrick was elected as a Harvard-trained Chicago lawyer with little relevant experience, who ran to the left of the more established candidate. Once in office, he devoted himself to spending taxpayer money on $23,000 drapes, a Cadillac DTS, and an assistant for his wife. Meanwhile, his state is plunging toward insolvency:
This year's state budget included a whopping $16 billion in new debt — that's more than half the state's entire annual budget. And that's just the new debt. Massachusetts taxpayers were already carrying the highest debt burden per capita in the nation. But that hasn't slowed down Gov. Patrick.
As the Boston Herald reported this week, Gov. Patrick has added nearly 2,000 new state employees to the payroll after 18 months in office. He's also raised his own office's budget by 80 percent in a year — not even gas prices jumped as fast.
At least not all of the taxpayers' money will be wasted hiring more useless bureauweenies:
And one of his pet projects is a $1 billion state "investment" in life sciences, a program using tax dollars to fund projects and facilities to benefit multi-billion dollar drug companies like Wyeth and Genzyme.
Unsurprisingly, executives from these companies are big Patrick supporters. I wonder what kind of federal funds President Obama would invest in the slumlords, terrorists, and racist demagogues who have provided him with such loyal support.
As an inexperienced post turtle elected primarily for his skin color, Patrick is easily dominated by Taxachusetts's leftist legislature. Presumably the same would hold true under an Obama regime, effectively putting Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in charge of the country. Even that might be better than Barack the Teenage Marxist trying to run it himself.
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Michelle Obama Convention Speech Borrowed From Saul Alinsky
Even when doing her best to impersonate a Republican long enough to dupe voters into letting her into the White House, Michelle Obama can't help but betray the radical roots she shares with the Obamessiah. In her convention speech Monday she managed not to denounce America as "just downright mean" and not worth being proud of, but she did say this:
And Barack stood up that day, and he spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about "the world as it is" and "the world as it should be."
Maybe she's mixing up Barack with fellow extremist Saul Alinsky, who wrote this in his pernicious guide to replacing freedom with socialism, Rules for Radicals:
The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.
Or maybe Uhbama was borrowing again, like he did from fellow floundering post turtle Deval Patrick, and like his running mate is wont to do. It's also possible that as Gateway Pundit suggests, Michelle just happened to hear it in church:
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Oslo Rots Under Moonbattery
How's that commitment to politically correct, multiculti, socialistic, degenerate moonbattery working out for you, Norway?
Visitors to Oslo say they're "shocked" by the sheer numbers of prostitutes, beggars and drug addicts who now sometimes aggressively accost people right in the heart of town, on the capital's parade boulevard Karl Johans Gate.
One visitor from Sweden told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that he was uncomfortable just walking near the central train station with his children. Another visitor from France expressed dismay that there was so much open solicitation in a city that's supposed to be affluent.
[Erling] Lae [of Oslo's Municipal Executive Board] is distressed and says the situation flies in the face of Norway's image as a prosperous welfare state.
Pules Justice Minister Knut Storberget:
It doesn't help to punish these people, we need to help those who are in such a poor social situation.
Storberget's attitude helps explain why Oslo's crime rate is four times that of New York.
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Khalid Al-Mansour: Yet Another Evil Kook From Obama's Closet
It takes more than black skin to get into Harvard Law School. It also helps to have connections. Obama had a valuable one in his friend Khalid Al-Mansour, who prevailed upon civil rights activist Percy Sutton to write the admissions folks a letter of recommendation on Obama's behalf.
Here's Obama's old pal Al-Mansour holding forth on the evils of Christians and white people:
This part ought to get Obama's base revved up:
White people don't feel bad, whatever you do to them, they deserve it, God wants you to do it and that's when you cut out the nose, cut out the ears, take flesh out of their body, don't worry because God wants you to do it.
Looks like Khalid fits right in with Reverend Wright, Father Pfleger, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Frank Marshall Davis, Mike Klonsky, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseam.
Hat tip: Stop the ACLU.
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August 26, 2008
Food Nazis Launch Anti-Hot Dog Propaganda Campaign
Nothing could be more all-American than hot dogs. Maybe that's why moonbats hate them enough to run ads attempting to convince children they cause cancer:
A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: "I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer." […]
The commercial's pro-vegetarian sponsors say it's a dramatization that highlights research linking processed meats, including hot dogs, with higher odds of getting colon cancer.
But that connection is based on studies of adults, not children, and the increased risk is slight, even if you ate a hot dog a day. While compelling, it isn't conclusive.
If hot dogs raise cancer risk at all, which is hardly certain, the likelihood is on the order of a 1% risk — and then only if you eat them every day for years. The risk of becoming sickly if you don't eat anything food fascists disapprove of is 100%.
Anti-meat activist Neal Barnard gives the game away:
Hot dogs may be considered as American as apple pie, but Barnard said it's time to change that tradition.
"Children are born with no traditions whatsoever," he said. "You or I might think a hot dog, that just goes with baseball … We can always change our traditions to be healthful."
It's all about Change. No doubt an Obama regime would put an end to both baseball and hot dogs, replacing them with group hugs and arugula.
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Obama Resorts to Tyrant Tactics to Suppress Revealing Ad
The Obama machine is going to great lengths to prevent people from seeing this ad:
From AP:
Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations [from airing] the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.
Kind of reminds you of his fellow socialist Hugo Chavez, doesn't he?
Supposedly right-wing Fox News has joined CNN in refusing to run the ad, but it has still been seen in some local markets, mainly on stations owned by Sinclair Communications. Enraged to see their Messiah exposed to normal voters as an anti-American radical, Obamunists have been deluging the stations with nasty emails. Growls Obama spokesthug Tommy Vietor:
Other stations that follow Sinclair's lead should expect a similar response from people who don't want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks.
Unable to dispute the accuracy of the ad, Obamatrons have been reduced to whining that Obama was only a little kid when his unrepentant mentor Ayers committed his vilest crimes against the America he so hates.
The American Issues Project, which created the ad, responds to the banana republic attempts to suppress it (PDF):
Surely we have not come to a point where the government and its agencies are used to protect presidential candidates from citizens' speech, essentially destroying the very purpose, meaning and historical essence of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Ironically, if the media is able to install Obama in the White House, the free speech it relies on will be among the first things to be Changed, as his ham-fisted attempts to bully media outlets make obvious.
Hat tips: Stop the ACLU, Michelle Malkin.
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Portrait of a Denver Delegate
Here's Democrat delegate Alyssa Zeller of Brooklyn, venerating a graven image:
It's a fair guess she's Jewish. If Jews can wear trendy terrorist neckwear, Caucasians can support a practitioner of Black Liberation Theology like Barack O'Bigot.
Hat tip: Israel Matzav; on a tip from Burning Hot.
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Nancy Pelosi Is Completely Clueless on Energy
Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in the world, is largely responsible for determining our energy policy, which helps explain the extravagantly expensive gasoline that is dragging our economy down toward recession. Despite her awesome responsibility, she knows next to nothing about energy, to the point that she does not even understand that natural gas is a fossil fuel and is not conjured into existence by fairies but must be drilled out of the ground. Power Line offers a transcript of Nasty flaunting her appalling ignorance on NBC's Meet the Depressed:
BROKAW: Well, I think most people understand that, but at the same time, if we work our way off carbon-based fuels, in the meantime, this is not going to happen overnight.
PELOSI: No, it isn't, but you could — again, you could reduce the price at the pump immediately with (inaudible). You can have a transition with natural gas. You can have a transition with natural gas. That is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels.
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PELOSI: I'm — I'm investing in something I believe in. I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.
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PELOSI: Well, that's not — that is the marketplace. The fact is, the supply of natural gas is so big, and you do need a transition if you're going to go from fossil fuels, as you say, you can't do it overnight, but you must transition.
These investments in wind, in solar and biofuels and focus on natural gas, these are the real alternatives.
As for drilling to acquire the fossil fuel known as natural gas:
BROKAW: Sounds like we're going to have offshore drilling.
PELOSI: No, no, no.
Maybe Pelousy thought we could achieve an endless supply of natural gas by hooking up a tube to Ted Kennedy's backside. Notice that she still hasn't caught on that the biofuel boondoggle is an unmitigated disaster, much less that solar and wind power are nowhere near efficient enough to challenge fossil fuels and nuclear power, no matter how heavily they are subsidized with money looted from taxpayers.
On a tip from Byron.
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Meddling Envirokooks Unleash Plague of Giant Man-Eating Lizards
Once people on the islands of eastern Indonesia lived in peace with Komodo dragons, gigantic lizards that can recognize individual humans. They left the dragons deer parts after hunts, and tied goats to posts as sacrifices. In turn the semidomesticated dragons mostly left them alone. But then, Virginia-based Nature Conservancy was called in by the government to tell the villagers how to conduct their affairs.
Deer hunting and goat sacrifices have been banned. Now that the villagers are no longer allowed to feed them, the ten-foot lizards have adapted by eating children instead.
Dogs used to keep the dragons away from homes. But these have been banned too, for being an "alien species."
A 9-year-old named Mansur was eaten alive in broad daylight in front of his family. But Marcus Matthews-Sawyer, who works for a local subsidiary of Nature Conservancy, sniffs that the kid had it coming, because he "shouldn't have crouched like a prey species in a place where dragons live."
Widodo Ramono, the subsidiary's policy director, makes the priorities clear:
We don't want the Komodo dragon to be domesticated. It's against natural balance. We have to keep this conservation area for the purpose of wildlife. It is not for human beings.
As Ingrid Newkirk might put it, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy is a giant lizard's lunch.
On a tip from V the K.
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August 25, 2008
Obama Reaches Out to the Center
After reviewing the 2007 Senate vote ratings at the nonpartisan National Journal, I'm starting to make sense of Joe Biden as Obama's VP pick. The Obamessiah has promised to unite the country, despite being the most extreme leftist in the entire Senate. That's where Biden comes in:
Obama could have gone with the second most extreme leftist, Sheldon Whitehouse. But in the spirit of bipartisan cooperation, he went for the third most extreme leftist.
If he really wanted to build bridges, he could have picked Socialist Bernie Sanders at #4. But no doubt Obama was advised not to go overboard and risk alienating his base.
Hat tip: America Is an Obamanation!
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Moonbat Morality Hits Little League
Imagine if liberal principals were applied to sports, so that the best team is shamed and punished for oppressing the others, and the team that manages to lose the most games is awarded the championship to encourage self-esteem. In Little League, it's already happening:
Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player — too good, it turns out.
The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said.
Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho's team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $50 sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it. They say Jericho's coach, Wilfred Vidro, has resigned.
But Vidro says he didn't quit and the team refuses to disband. Players and parents held a protest at the league's field on Saturday urging the league to let Jericho pitch.
"He's never hurt any one," Vidro said. "He's on target all the time. How can you punish a kid for being too good?"
The answer: the same way you can rob people of their wealth for creating too much of it.
By the same logic, they might send kids home from school for being too smart, or fire people for working too hard. We wouldn't want others to feel stupid or lazy by comparison.
To the moonbat mindset, excellence is the only real sin.
On tips from Matt L, Thomas G, and Viking04.
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Obama on Abortion, Extended Version
Only the Obamessiah could crack people up while advocating the killing of inconvenient babies:
On a tip from nanc.
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Silky Pony Refunds Contributions to Big Wigs
The disgraced John Edwards has proven himself right about there being two Americas: one is rich enough to get their campaign donations quietly refunded; the other is poor enough to ignore. Following Warren Buffet's warning that donors could give the ambulance-chasing Breck Girl a dose of his own medicine with a class action lawsuit, DBKP reports:
Out of 667 "bundlers" or designated fundraisers, 276 or 40%, had received a refund of their individual contributions. Not only did the individual bundlers get their money back but in some cases so did their family members.
Other refundees included Fred Baron, Edwards' former national finance campaign chairman in both the '04 and '08 elections. Baron recently admitted that he had been monetarily "helping" Edwards' ex-mistress, Rielle Hunter. The list includes some of Edwards' largest bundlers, Thomas Girardi, John O'Quinn, and William Lerash, as well as other "famous" refundees: Michael Eisner, Don Henley, Eric Montross, and Michigan Congressman (D) David Bonoir of Michigan.
As for the little guys Edwards supposedly champions:
The percentage of refunds returned to the "grass roots" contributors, those who received a refund of a 100.00 or less was 1/5th of a percent of the total amount refunded.
For some reason, the same mainstream media that managed to ignore Rielle Hunter for so long hasn't been reporting this story.
Hat tip: NewsBusters; on a tip from nanc.
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Michael Moore Warns Obama Not to Throw Him Under the Bus
Michael Moore's lucrative career in anti-Americanism may have run out of gas, but he's still very much the center of the universe, from his own point of view. Here he is warning Obama not to throw him under the bus along with Reverend Wrong, Trinity United, Tony Rezko, the New Black Panthers, Detroit area Muslims, BHO's white granny, Mike Klonsky, Jim Johnson, et al.:
I remember poor John Kerry not even being able to admit, when asked by Larry King, if he had seen Fahrenheit 9/11. "No," he said, "I haven't. … I don't plan to, right now." But he had indeed seen it. I sat there watching him say this, and I just felt sorry for him and for the election he was about to lose. […]
So Barack, by denouncing me, you can help McCain get elected. Because when you denounce me, it's not really me you're distancing yourself from — it's the millions upon millions of people who feel the same way about things as I do. And many of them are the kind of crazy voters who have no problem voting for a Nader just to prove a point.
Scary threats notwithstanding, it appears Obama's handlers aren't listening to Moore's advice. He wanted them to pick Caroline Kennedy for VP. True she has no qualifications for office, but neither does Obama, and her last name has totemic powers for liberals. But Joe Biden was a much more entertaining selection.
Hat tip: FrontPage Magazine; on a tip from Oaio.
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Denver Freak Show Commences
The fun has already begun in Denver, where the next generation of community activists is gaining the experience and acquiring the connections that could one day win them the Democrat nomination. Via Looking at the Left:
Hat tips: Caption This!, Pajamas Media.
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BBC's Lyse Doucet Laments the Underemphasized "Humanity of the Taliban"
Beebstress Lyse Doucet gripes that the problem with media coverage of the thugs waging a terrorist war against civilization in Afghanistan is that it hasn't sufficiently emphasized "the humanity of the Taliban."
Doucet also declares that life in Afghanistan has "got a lot worse" now that the country is no longer controlled by the Taliban and openly infested by al Qaeda.
Socialism seems to have the same effect on journalism that it does on healthcare.
On a tip from V the K.
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Biden's Foot in Mouth Disease as an Asset
It can't be easy, spinning the selection of Joe Biden as anything but a boneheaded mistake. But Democrat hacks have a talking point for everything. Here's John Harwood of CNBC and the New York Times, explaining why Biden's racially insensitive gaffes — which would have ended his career long ago if he were a Republican — are actually a positive quality:
He is not somebody who is infused with political correctness, the verbal equivalent of putting his pinky up when he opens his mouth. So this is what, the way ordinary voters are as well. They're not always worried about sort of calibrating every single word by "ooh, is this racially insensitive?" That's something that Joe Biden brings as an asset to the ticket. The gaffes actually show one of his strengths.
Here the ever tactful Biden demonstrates his strength:
Meanwhile, George Allen is still trying to get his head around the fact that his promising career is over because he called some punk a macaca.
On tips from Byron and Oaio.
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Biden on Blacks, Condoms, and AIDS
Check out the look on Al Sharpton's face:
With Biden on board, the Obama campaign will be a laugh a minute, right up until McCain sinks it to the bottom of the sea.
On a tip from Smoke TNT.
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Naked Moonbats on Wheels Besiege Vancouver Police Station
Maybe having children isn't the best idea where moonbats are concerned:
Naked cyclists converged on Vancouver's main police station Saturday after a man was arrested with his 3-year-old son during a nude ride earlier in the day.
Naked Bike Ride spokesman Conrad Schmidt said six squad cars and a paddy wagon showed up as the group of about 75 naked cyclists arrived at the station.
Vancouver Police Constable Jana McGuinness told The Canadian Press that several people called police, concerned about the child's well-being. Police arrived and got the man to agree that he and his child would wear underwear during the ride.
But as he left to join his fellow naked cyclists, the man stripped and took off his son's clothes. Police then charged him with violating public nudity laws.
Schmidt said the toddler was in tears as police took father and son away. The arrest prompted the group to cycle through downtown Vancouver to the police station.
Mercifully, there's no picture for this one.
On a tip from Wiggins.
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Obamunist Fashion Wear
With relatively moderate Democrats turning to McCain in droves, Obama has been reduced to focusing on the one demographic he can count on not to see through the hype the MSM has manufactured on his behalf:
If only he could grant the vote to babies, like his fans in Germany want to do, Uhbama might have a chance. But there are enough mental toddlers over 18 to at least make things scary.
On tips from LT Nixon and Burning Hot.
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August 24, 2008
Madonna Peddles Obamunist Kool-Aid
The Obamessiah has picked up yet another endorsement that would make a serious candidate cringe with shame. The Queen of Crassness, aka Madonna, has been broadcasting her Obamunist views — or rather, pandering to what she thinks will appeal to fans two generations younger than herself — with her usual taste and subtlety:
Amid a four-act show at Cardiff's packed Millennium Stadium, a video interlude carried images of destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe's authoritarian President Robert Mugabe — and U.S. Senator John McCain. Another sequence, shown later, pictured slain Beatle John Lennon, followed by climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain's Democratic rival Barack Obama.
Ironically, race-obsessed socialists Hitler and Mugabe have much more in common with Obama than McCain. But the Wizard of Uhs does belong in the same lineup as fellow moonbats John Lenin and Al Snore.
This latest endorsement should give Obama a lock on the crucial postmenopausal prostitute vote.
On a tip from Matt L.
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Kos Kooks Are Already Blaming Obama Loss on Voting Machines
It looks like the moonbats at Daily Kos can smell a drubbing coming their way. The inevitable tinfoil-hat gibbering about stolen elections has already begun. A Kostard calling itself midwestvoter snivels:
"We are really going to do this; Man, it's really going to happen!", I kept thinking. The more I thought about what is possible with Obama and Biden the more emotional I felt. Laying there, I cried again just thinking about Biden sprinting on to the stage, him nailing McCain's inability to relate to kitchen table issues with the most charming dig I've ever seen, and his ability to compliment Obama's commitment to the middle and working classes. It was just such a beautiful day. Then it hit. Without warning, my heart started pounding enough to hurt, I felt a bit panicked and I didn't know if I was having a mild heart attack or some sort of panic attack. I was consumed with doom all of a sudden, out of nowhere. Then it hit me, "How can we lose when we have everything on our side? It was the answer I came up as quickly as the question entered my mind that caused my distress. The answer was "BECAUSE EVIL WANTS IT MORE".
We have history on our side, we have two candidates, two genuine leaders, to navigate us out of the darkness greed and selfishness has inflicted on our ideals and threatens to destroy the American Dream. We have the people finally waking up, realizing they've been used, getting mad finally and taking action and we have the truth breaking past the corporate filters, paid hacks and shills, via the internet communities. We have it all and this should be our time. But we are ignoring the 800lb gorrilla in the room and that is the voting machines that after 8 years of rigged elections STILL AREN'T RELIABLE!
Imagine having the dream of an Obama bin Biden regime daggled in front of your snout, only to have it snatched away by Diebold! The world can be cruel to moonbats — though it could never be cruel enough to the weepy paranoiacs found hanging from the ceiling at Daily Kos.
On a tip from Todd D.
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Obama Praises "Vastly the Superior" Communist China
If Obama gets a chance to inflict Change on America, he'll have a ready-made model: communist China, where wages are kept low with slave labor, the government censors the Internet and arrests reporters, the air is unbreathable, and dissidents disappear into reeducation camps. Here's Obama praising the system founded by Mao Zedong, who killed more of his own people than any other tyrant in history:
Transcript:
Everybody's watching what's going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are all vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business … you're starting to think, "Beijing looks like a pretty good option." Why aren't we doing the same thing?
We've come to a pretty pass when a presidential candidate suggests with a straight face that we ought to make ourselves more business-friendly by emulating a communist police state.
The communist China that so impresses idiots like Obama is a Potemkin Village, as phony as he is. Via Q&O, these shots sum it up:
Imagine what it looks like outside of Beijing.
Hat tip: Hot Air; on a tip from Smoke TNT.
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August 23, 2008
The Ticket
Timely new art from Hugh:
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August 22, 2008
The Wizard of Uhs
Quick, someone get this man a teleprompter:
On a tip from Oiao.
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Gay Pride Parade Goes Forward, Vet Parade Nixed
Last year 3,000 vets who served in wars from World War II through Afghanistan marched proudly through Doncaster, England on Veterans Day. Not this year though: city officials deep-sixed their parade.
Reports Ken Wood, a Gulf War vet and district secretary of the Royal British Legion:
One of our Legion members spoke to an official at the civic offices who told him we couldn't have a parade this year because the council did not have the amenities.
I rang the official and she effectively told me the police couldn't afford the staff to block off the roads. It's crazy, I went on the parade last year and only saw two community bobbies stopping the traffic.
Strangely, amenities sufficed for a gay pride parade last Sunday, and a civic parade featuring local bureaucretins and "community workers" a few weeks ago.
On a tip from LT Nixon.
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Ben Affleck Adds Ballast to Denver Obamafest
It's nice to see the Democrats have added a little intellectual substance to the Obama coronation. A roundtable discussion on the topic of "Combating Global Poverty" will reportedly include limousine liberal movie star Ben Affleck.
Though not terribly bright, Affleck is probably less clueless than fellow participant Madeleine Albright, and his credentials as a moonbat are impeccable. Plus, he's as cheesily handsome as a Ken doll.
Hat tip: Slapstick Politics.
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The Vicious Cycle of Democrat Control
Thank you Glenn Beck, for shining some light on a telling correlation. The American cities with the worst poverty have been run almost exclusively by Democrats.
Nearly a third of the residents of Detroit and Buffalo live below the poverty line. Here's why:
Detroit, whose mayor has been indicted on felony charges, hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961. Buffalo has been even more stubborn. It started putting a Democrat in office back in 1954, and it hasn't stopped since.
Unfortunately, those two cities may be alone at the top of the poverty rate list, but they're not alone in their love for Democrats. Cincinnati, Ohio (third on the poverty rate list), hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1984. Cleveland, Ohio (fourth on the list), has been led by a Democrat since 1989. St. Louis, Missouri (sixth), hasn't had a Republican since 1949, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (eighth), since 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ninth), since 1952 and Newark, New Jersey (10th), since 1907.
Implementing policies that increase poverty broadens Democrats' voter base. This creates a vicious cycle that has created the Democrat stranglehold on so many large cities. The more Democrats you have in office, the more socialist policies, the more poverty, the more poor people electing Democrats so as to get their free handouts. This loop has reduced great cities like Detroit into Third-World wastelands and promises to do the same to the country as a whole.
Beck quotes Benjamin Franklin, who would be unlikely to win a mayoral election against Detroit's felonious Kwame Kilpatrick:
I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty but leading them or driving them out of it.
If we had the likes of Ben Franklin running our cities, the cycle would be reversed. The more people who take initiative, the more people there are with money, the more vote against socialists, the more the government stays out of the way, the more initiative pays off.
Unless we find a way to make this happen, Detroit's present is America's future.
On a tip from V the K.
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Out Come the Chainsaws in Berkeley
At long last UC Berkeley, plagued by tree-dwelling moonbats since December 2006, has brought out the chainsaws:
Chainsaws lopped off all lower branches of the last remaining bastion of the Memorial Stadium tree-sit Thursday as UC Berkeley prepared for their final moves against the protesters in the oak grove.
Lower branches? If the treetards were in the lower branches, you could just reach up and pull them down by the hair. The trees need to be removed anyway. If they would just bring them down, moonbats and all, it would quickly put an end to the hippie tree-sitting phenomenon.
On a tip from Mike H.
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Hallmark to Sell Homosexual Marriage Cards
Once known for being mawkishly old-fashioned, Hallmark cards are going overboard in the opposite direction, with a new line promoting the perverse and socially corrosive travesty known as gay marriage.
Explains spokeswoman Sarah Gronberg Kolell:
It's our goal to be as relevant as possible to as many people as we can.
I can hardly wait to see their special NAMBLA line of cards for child molesters.
The other leading brand, American Greetings Corp., tastefully declines to follow Hallmark's lead.
On a tip from Bob Mc.
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Grim Forecast for the Obamessiah
Gerard Baker has some grim news for the Obamessiah and his followers:
[A]s cruel geography and the selfish designs of the American Founding Fathers would have it, Europeans don't get to choose the US president. Somewhere along the way to the Obama presidency, somebody forgot to ask the American people.
And wouldn't you know it, they insist on looking this gift thoroughbred in the mouth. Who'd have thought it? You present them with the man who deigns to deliver them from their plight and they want to sit around and ask hard questions about who he is and what he believes and where he might actually take the country. The ingrates!
Obama's lead, based on frothy media hype and never that big to begin with, has already evaporated. Most people outside the MSM have noticed that Obama has no qualifications to be President, and that "Hope" and "Change" are vacuous platitudes, not policies. Russia's belligerence has reminded people that we live in a real world, full of real dangers, and we need a real leader — not an affirmative action post turtle who plays one on TV.
Obama has gone as far as he's likely to with his cult of personality. As Baker concludes, "the uncomfortable truth for the many devoted fans of Senator Obama is that the more the race is about him, the less likely he is to win it."
On a tip from Byron.
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Another Obama Half-Brother Comes to Light
Obama's half-brother George, left to subsist on a dollar a month in a tiny shack on the outskirts of Nairobi while the multimillionaire Obamessiah munches arugula in the pricey Chicago mansion crooked slumlord Tony Rezko helped him acquire, isn't the only relative to cause some embarrassment. The Onion reports on another half-brother, Cooter:
Long kept a family secret, the overalls-clad, straw-chewing Kentuckian first entered the public spotlight in July, when he drove his 1982 Ford flatbed pickup through the press corps at an Obama rally in order to inform his brother that he caught the skunk that had been living under his front porch. […]
The Obama camp has scrambled to control the damage caused by Cooter's penchants for loudly practicing his banjo during Obama's speeches, repeatedly referring to Barack by his childhood nickname, "Ol' Jelly Legs," and chasing his troublemaking pig, Mbogo, in the nude in the background of Obama's CNN interview on the importance of education. […]
In the past two weeks, Obama has lost support from such groups as PETA, which withdrew its endorsement when Cooter punched a swan in the face, claiming it was "one of them mean ones"; the Clean Energy Group, which protested Cooter's recent attempt to fry a squirrel in a flaming 20-gallon barrel of diesel fuel; and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), whom Cooter mistook for an outhouse Monday and urinated on for 35 seconds.
Despite assisting in Obama's campaign, Cooter plans to vote for McCain, because "Ol' Jelly Legs wants to take my guns away."
The media really ought to take an interest in Obama's background. There's no telling what kind of colorful characters might turn up.
On a tip from d.
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August 21, 2008
Nipping Capitalism in the Bud
If moonbattery is to flourish, it's crucial that children be taught at a young age that wealth is for seizing, not creating, and that individual initiative will only draw the ire of the authorities. Clayton, California Mayor Gregg Manning is doing his part:
Two young East Bay girls are trying to find out if you really can fight city hall. The youngsters are battling to get their produce stand back after the city of Clayton shut them down.
The mayor himself is getting involved in this issue; he says the produce stand, operated by two young sisters, had to be shut down because of public safety and a zoning ordinance. But members of the Lewis family say — we have just begun to fight.
On a Clayton street corner is where 11-year-old Katie and 3-year-old Sabrina Lewis had been selling their families surplus fruits and veggies — stuff like:
"Zucchini, melons, tomatoes, radishes," said Sabrina Lewis.
They did it for maybe four hours on Saturday mornings to make a little money. They haven't sold a thing since the police showed up recently in response to one complaint to the mayor's office.
"They said traffic was being stopped and then they came up with we can't have a roadside stand and then they said it was a commercial enterprise," said Katie Lewis, former produce seller.
As for the traffic issue, neighbor Terri Highsmith says there isn't one.
"On the weekends is when I mostly notice them selling. I come and go a lot and I've never seen any traffic problems," said Highsmith.
Clayton Mayor Gregg Manning disagrees. And wonders what Katie and Sabrina might do with that produce stand if the zoning laws weren't enforced.
"They may start out with a little card-table and selling a couple of things, but then who is to say what else they have. Is all the produce made there, do they make it themselves? Are they going to have eggs and chickens for sale next," said Manning.
By the time they're in their thirties, they could be running a chain of supermarkets! Good thing Manning put a stop to their ambitions before things got out of hand.
On a tip from Rob Banks.
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Via Cracked.com; on a tip from b1bbet.
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McCain Campaign Takes the Gloves Off
McCain spokesman Brian Rogers responds to a lame attempt by the Obama campaign to link McCain to the stale Abramoff scandal through Ralph Reed:
Barack Obama's ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail.
However, if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let's start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama's political career was reportedly launched. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group responsible for countless bombings against targets including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and numerous police stations, courthouses and banks. In recent years, Mr. Ayers has stated, "I don't regret setting bombs … I feel we didn't do enough."
The question now is, will Barack Obama immediately call on the University of Illinois to release all of the records they are currently withholding to shed further light on Senator Obama's relationship with this unrepentant terrorist?
What's this about University of Illinois releasing its records? Apparently there's much more to be learned about Obama's longstanding relationship with the Maoist terrorist Ayers. Obama WTF offers some interesting clues, which would lead to front page stories if the mainstream media had a higher calling than installing Obama in the White House.
If the media won't do its job and give us relevant background on Obama, people will be forced to get their news from the McCain campaign. Opening the door to guilt by association was not a wise move on Obama's part.
Hat tips: Stop the ACLU, Signmund, Carl and Alfred, Doug Ross @ Journal.
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The Dems Gain a Convert
Tragic news: Moonbattery has lost a treasured reader to the Dark Side. Oiao reports on his conversion:
NOW, I see the light! 'Change we can believe in.'
I'm voting Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
I'm voting Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody (except a Christian or a conservative) is offended by it.
I'm voting Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they NOW think we're good people.
I'm voting Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start riding the subway.
I'm voting Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates live.
I'm voting Democrat because I believe that business should NOT be allowed to make profits for stockholders (pension funds, 401K's, etc). They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as government bureaucrats see fit.
I'm voting Democrat because I believe three or four pointy headed elitist liberals need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would NEVER get their agendas past the voters.
I'm voting Democrat because I believe that when the terrorists don't have to hide from us over THERE, and they come over HERE (and they WILL!), I don't want to have any guns in the house to fight them off.
I'm voting Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. (I've decided to marry the Olsen Twins — both of them — AND their dog!)
I'm voting Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the GOVERNMENT TAX on gas at 18% isn't.
I'm voting Democrat because I don't want the USA to drill for oil off its own shores to preserve its economic freedom but will allow other countries that choice!! … and even let foreign countries drill off of OUR OWN coast — like China is doing off Florida!!
I'm voting Democrat because I want the Congress to take a vacation to avoid a vote on off-shore drilling.
I'm voting Democrat because I believe that 143 days in the US Senate is enough experience for a person to run the whole country!! (For a CHANGE)
I'm voting Democrat because we need a leader with the wisdom that tells us that if we just put more air in our tires instead of drilling for more oil that we can save as much oil as if we drilled new wells. This is the wisdom of 'Change.' WOW!
I'm voting Democrat because I want to PAY for illegal alien health insurance, illegal alien car insurance, illegal alien education, etc. This too, is the wisdom of 'Change'! DOUBLE WOW!
I'm voting Democrat because I want to pay reparations to all the people who once had ancestors who were ever treated poorly (only hyphenated Americans need apply), now that we've apologized to them. TRIPLE WOW!
But mostly I'm voting Democrat because I'm mad at anyone who makes more money than me; and I expect the government to PUNISH them by taking the extra and giving it to me. In fact, I should quit working and let the government give ME even more. QUADRUPLE WOW!
That's 'Change' we can believe in!
See ya at the DNC next week.
Hopefully the Democrats will hire him to do outreach on behalf of the Party.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:58 AM | Comments (12)
Mayor Mike Calls for Windmills on the Brooklyn Bridge
You might think the Mayor of New York would want to grow the city's economy. But Michael Bloomberg has other objectives:
[W]e're determined to do what no other city has ever attempted, and that is to keep our energy usage at or near its current level even as our population grows.<