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November 9, 2008

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Posted by Van Helsing at November 9, 2008 11:24 AM

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And let them all march along like mind numbed robots marching right into the mouth of the dragon of socialism and allow themselves to be devored

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at November 9, 2008 1:29 PM

Posted by: V the K at November 9, 2008 1:57 PM

Please see previous article, “The Stealth Issue that Will Fleece (Some) Americans (Part One).”
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REPARATIONS PART TWO

What do we want? Money! Money!
When do we want it? Now! Now!

The “Reparations Generation” hasn’t, yet, resorted to so crass a chant but give it time.

Then, again, if Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, has his way, individual reparations paid to America’s blacks will never happen.

Quoting an ancient proverb, he inadvertently slurred his own people when he said that, “We cannot accept a cash payment, because a fool and his money will soon be parted.”

Instead, since, (he strongly implies), blacks would soon blow individual payments (on Cadillacs and crack?) Farrakhan calls for America to expend trillions of dollars and implement a Marshall Plan to compensate blacks for the evil of slavery as well as the transfer of “millions and millions of acres of land.” http://www.blackcommentator.com/10_reparations.html

That’s trillions of dollars and many millions of acres, folks! You can’t make this stuff up!

Whatever happened to 40 acres and a mule? Blacks have set their sights significantly higher than 40 acres and mules.

As far back as 2002 with the “Millions for Reparations Rally” in Washington, demands–not requests–were being made for American whites to cough up millions with cries and banners proclaiming, “It’s our time, reparations time” and “What time is it? Reparations time!”

I’m not sure if the millions referred to in that rally name was the number of demonstrators (only a few thousand showed up) or to the amounts demanded six years ago but Farrakhan and others certainly have upped the ante since then.

In purple prose worthy of a revival meeting, BlackCommentator.com waxes almost poetic in this summary of the requisite nature of the payback: “Reparations is an affirmation of human worth and dignity, a super-weapon in…
(Please see http://genelalor.com/ for the remainder of this article.)

Posted by: Berlet98 at November 9, 2008 2:31 PM

There was a jingle during the great depression. It still works--I'll just change the names:

Nancy pulled the whistle
Harry rang the bell
Barack gave the signal
And the country went to hell

Some of the old sayings come to mind:
Apply where appropriate (Three people--three quotes)

Said of George Bernard Shaw "A freakish homunculus germinated outside lawful procreation".

Said of Benedict Arnold by Washington "From some traits of his character which have lately come to my knowledge, he seems to have been so hackneyed in villainy, and so lost to all sense of honor and shame that while his facilities will enable him to continue his sordid pursuit there will be no time for remorse."

Said of Martha Mitchell (time Magazine) "She was called the mouth that roared and the 'worst tressed' woman in America"

Posted by: SnowSnake at November 9, 2008 2:41 PM

"Whatever happened to 40 acres and a mule? Blacks have set their sights significantly higher than 40 acres and mules."

That was promassed by a yankee general in South Carolina. He urged "the darkies" (A common YANKEE term, don't blaim me) --ex-slave or free-- to TAKE the land. Congress ruled that he had no authority to make such promasses and ordered that the land be returned.
They then created SPECIAL taxes to take the land themselves.

Posted by: KHarn at November 9, 2008 2:49 PM

MEXICANS IN AMERICA–PART TRES

(See “Mexicans in America–Part One and Part Dos”: http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=482)

Mexicans, Salvadorans, Gutemalans, any Hispanics and, indeed, most people of any nationality are fundamentally good people. At least, that’s what I firmly believe.

I’ve also said that if I were in their positions of poverty and deprivation and I had the opportunity to sneak into another country which happened to be rich by their standards, I probably would do it. If that were the only way I could provide for my family, as illegal as it may be, I’d give it a shot and risk arrest, deportation, and imprisonment, though imprisonment would be rare if I snuck into the United States.

Chances are, if I were apprehended for violating American immigration laws, I’d be fed a meal then packed off to my native country, enabling me to try, try, try again until I made it into the Land of the Gringos where I could earn some dollars to FedEx back home to be converted into pesos so that my wife and kids could eat and be a tad more comfortable.

Whether it would be via a restaurant job, a farm job, a factory job, I would consider myself, and my family, fortunate. I guess I’d pass at nannying, but who knows?

I’d maintain a low profile, keep my lips zipped, do my job as best I could, and feel lucky. Not special or entitled, just lucky.

Trouble is, many of America’s illegals don’t do that. Many–too many–engage in criminal activities ranging from burglaries to rapes to drugs and even worse. For details on crimes committed by illegal residents in our country, please see http://www.rense.com/general48/comp.htm, ...

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Posted by: Berlet98 at November 9, 2008 4:13 PM

Snowsnake, the quote by George Washington is especially sad because he and Benedict had actually been close friends since they were children. Then, of course, Arnold turned traitor to keep from going penniless, and Washington had to put out a death warrant on the man he once called a friend.
I heard Arnold repented of what he had done on his deathbed, though.

Posted by: Adam at November 9, 2008 5:42 PM

Pretty well covers it...

www.youtube.com/v/WBjzAa1yikY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1

Posted by: TED at November 9, 2008 6:00 PM

V the K, He obviously put that "Wang" in their Kool-Aid...Another herd of mindless morons express their version of liberal "free speech", their version of an educated rebuttal. If you divided their TOTAL IQ by a fraction your result would still be a fraction!

Posted by: TED at November 9, 2008 6:12 PM

OK here's another question for you guys. I feel the Left/Right polarization today is really a Tribal one, and will dissipate over the next term.

Now that the hippies are finally in power, those I have talked to seem to express that now they don't know what to do with themselves.

They got their Messiah in there. They made their accomplishment, climbed their Everest. And the several I've spoken with are more reflective about the last week than they are about what happens next. There is very little interest in what will come down the pike.

My theory is that the experience of actual leadership, being so anathema to liberals, will be a lot less fun in real life. There is in fact only downside from here. They have to actually participate in the kind of day-to-day administration and management that usually makes Republicans out of people.

"Wow dude. We're Establishment. Do we have to protest ourselves?"

Faced with actual responsibility to lead, the tables have turned 180 degrees for liberals, and not in a good way. They have to be accountable. They have to vote something other than "present". That's no fun. And fun is why you become liberal.

Continuing my theory I believe that the electorate's veer to the Left will dissipate. There will be a need to actually evaluate consequences of Lefty actions. That will lead only to conclusions that they are wrong.

Regarding the Iraq war, I always felt that the Left's underlying argument was "Not Invented Here" syndrome. Dems were completely stepped over in the decisionmaking process. I believe that if the appearance of Dem inclusion had been made by Bush, they would have embraced the war wholeheartedly and would have continued to do so.

If Bush had used more tact with the Dems they would not have been threatened by it and could view it as a humanitarian issue like Somalia.

Anyway, with the Dems now in the hot seat they will see how quickly they must embrace normalcy. Look how Pelosi used the Lefties like the neccessary idiots they are, by promising impeachment, immediate surrender, etc. etc. and then dumping her constituents like a bad crap. They HATE her in San Fran.

I wonder, then, if the Dem takeover will actually become a learning experience for them followed by a gradual move towards the center. This instead of what we fear, which is overnight Cuba.

Posted by: Air2air at November 9, 2008 7:42 PM

Peter Hitchens crucifies the Obamessiah

Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.

The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.

I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.


Mr Obama, thanks mainly to the now-departed grandmother he alternately praised as a saint and denounced as a racial bigot, has the huge advantages of an expensive private education.

Posted by: BURNING HOT at November 9, 2008 7:42 PM

Posted by: Air2air at November 9, 2008 7:42 PM

Good post.

How can we predict what they will do when they don't know what they will do? Liberals have always been all hindsight and no foresight. That is the nature of moronic finger-pointers.

I'm certain Bill Ayers has the answer. Just blow up everything and let a God he doesn't believe in sort it all out.

Frightening days coming up, boys and girls, damned frightening. We're about to be led by ignorant 'blamers' who don't have a clue what to do next.

Posted by: Jimbo at November 9, 2008 7:54 PM

Posted by: BURNING HOT at November 9, 2008 8:43 PM

Democrat celebrates new Moonbat era with golden showers onto crowd

A Jersey City councilman has reportedly been arrested for urinating on a crowd of concertgoers from the balcony of a Washington D.C. nightclub.

The New York Daily News reports in Sunday's editions that two-term Jersey City councilman Steve Lipski has been charged with simple assault.

The newspaper says 44-year-old Lipski was removed from a place called the 9:30 Club on Friday night.

That's after club staffers saw him relieve himself onto the crowd from a second floor balcony during a concert by a Grateful Dead tribute band.

Lipski was last seen celebrating the 2006 election and Nancy Pelosi's promotion to Speaker of the House.

Posted by: BURNING HOT at November 9, 2008 9:38 PM

Video: Obama surrenders to Russia

US President-elect Barack Obama has not given a commitment to go ahead with plans to build part of a US missile defence system in Poland, an aide says.

Posted by: BURNING HOT at November 9, 2008 9:43 PM

Posted by: BURNING HOT at November 9, 2008 9:50 PM

Latest Bond film features Al Gore wannabe as the main villain

Quantum of Solace continues the Bond tradition of having topical villains and plot lines, with the film skewering the powerful who profess to have environmental credentials even as they pollute the earth and pillage natural resources.

...everybody presents themselves today as green is so fashionable," Forster explains. "Everyone's trying to be green, every corporation. So ultimately every corporation realized they can make money by being green so let's be green. So I think it's something one has to look at very carefully. Yes, I think we are going through an environmental crisis and if we don't wake up we're going to destroy ourselves, but I think one has to be really wary of people like Greene because they're pretending to be something they're oft-times not. Personally, I know a lot of people who say, 'I'm riding my bicycle.' But then they have their private jet at the airport. 'I have my Gulfstream, but I'm using my vegetable fueled Hummer.'"

Posted by: BURNING HOT at November 9, 2008 10:53 PM

"It's amazing that people today are making business with the right to pollute," Amalric continues. "Selling rights to pollute to other people. It's very complicated what is happening at the moment with the rice, with the wheat. It was this sort of big concern about ecology, or maybe people planned that because the crops are low but at the same time people are starving because we want our cars. It's so complicated."

Posted by: BURNING HOT at November 9, 2008 10:54 PM

AMERICA’S RACIAL POLITICS

We’ve all heard the old saw that people should never discuss politics or religion because either topic evokes passionate responses and the discussion will end up in a donnybrook. Unfortunately, they just happen to be two of the most interesting topics to debate.

There’s another topic on America’s plate nowadays which qualifies for the same warning even though it, like politics and religion, is uppermost in the minds of millions of people, is equally capable of stirring up passion, and is equally volatile. That topic is race and racial politics.

Many of us claim to be oblivious of someone’s race and assert we never even notice if a fellow worker or neighbor or candidate for public office is white, black, yellow, a blend of all three, or a combination of two races, such as Barack Obama.

I would have to guess such people are either blind or liars.

Of course, a person’s race should never be the determining factor in how we regard them, or whether we vote for them. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s remonstrance that the content of an individual’s character rather than the color of one’s skin should guide our thinking. That’s fair enough as long as that message is applied equally without prejudice and that it encompasses all races.

However, in the presidential election campaign, the question or, more precisely, the relevance of race, took center stage, not because the issue was raised by whites but because it was raised as a focal point by the half-black candidate, Obama.

On the one hand, it’s to his credit that he never blatantly appealed to black voters. ...

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Posted by: Berlet98 at November 10, 2008 12:13 AM

Posted by: V the K at November 10, 2008 2:56 AM

BurningHot, that sounds cool. He sounds kind of similar to the villain of the Simpsons Movie (An EPA chairman who has Springfield entombed under a glass dome seemingly to prevent its polluted lake from doing more damage to the surrounding ecosystem, when in fact he's just doing it for personal profit because he owns the company that manufactured the dome).

Posted by: Adam at November 10, 2008 4:42 AM

Posted by: V the K at November 10, 2008 5:45 AM