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Apparently they couldn't think of a way to work a gun into the picture — or to get the arrogant sneer off Obama's face.

Passing off the abortion-friendly Obama as a Christian candidate is particularly risible in light of his religious background. Raised a Muslim, he was converted to Black Liberation Theology by Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright.

Although Black Liberation Theology adherents may call themselves Christians, their pernicious cult is distinguishable from Nation of Islam mainly by its emphasis on leftist economics. They worship not Christ, but Marxism and their hatred of white people. To quote Wright's hero James Cone:

What we need is the destruction of whiteness, which is the source of human misery in the world.

They work in Jesus by blaming Caucasian Romans for the Crucifixion. I doubt many churchgoers in Kentucky would recognize Obama's black supremacist Christ.

On a tip from Lyle.

Four white students at Central York Middle School were charged with harassing and using racial slurs against a black student on a school bus Friday. The 13-year-old boys were charged Wednesday with harassment, ethnic intimidation and disorderly conduct by Springettsbury Township Police.

One of the boys was also charged with terroristic threats and open lewdness, police said. The boy simulated an inappropriate gesture involving his genitals and made vulgar comments, Lt. Scott Laird said. […]

The boys face fines, community service and time at the juvenile detention center, police said. The students were also disciplined by the school, according to school officials.

When I was 13, events like this were resolved by the bus driver shouting, "Hey you kids, pipe down." The next day all the kids involved would be out playing ball together. But that was before we learned how to create racial grievances.

The black kid will go away believing he's been discriminated against, and the white kids will know they really have been discriminated against, since when the racial roles are reversed, no one gets in trouble. Social harmony will not be enhanced. But of course, the objective of political correctness is to pit us against each other, not to create social harmony.

On tips from Cheetah and Chris.

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided." We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Possibly because his media adulators have him convinced that he's the center of the universe, Barack Hussein Obama assumed Bush was talking about him:

It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.

Easy now, BHO. Bush was talking about all idiot appeasers, from Neville Chamberlain to Jimmy Carter — not just you.

Meanwhile, Palestinians in Hamas-controlled territory run phone banks to convince Americans to vote for Obama.

On a tip from Burning Hot.

The inevitable result is rationing. Since healthcare can no longer go to those who have earned the money to pay for it, Britain has been doling it out by postcode lottery.

If you're dying of cancer, you might be saved by new drugs like Sutent. But only if you're a lucky winner — or if government bureauweenies decide your impending death counts as "exceptional circumstances."

You can't pay for these drugs with your own money, or the government will withdraw all healthcare — even after you've paid for it your whole life through exorbitant taxation.

Don't bother to work, to invest, to save. Life is free if you happen to win the lottery or find official favor. If you don't, you die. Liberals apparently regard this as fair.

The irresponsible demagogues that make up our Democrat Party have been attempting to apply similar principles to our oil supply. If they manage to have their way with Big Oil, we may soon have postcode lotteries over here, to see who gets to put gas in their car.

On a tip from Lyle.

Soon all car ads in Europe will have to highlight gas mileage and allegedly harmful CO2 emission in large type. References to sportiness are to be "frowned up." With typical grandiose arrogance, Euroweenies announce they will be "rebuilding society" and "changing habits in consumption and production" by dictating the content of car ads.

As usual when it comes to bureaucratic moonbattery, the French come out on top, as they tend to make wobbly little death traps with high mileage and low sportiness. German manufacturers, which produce cars that people actually want to drive, are getting the short end.

Even the libs at Der Spiegel are fed up:

From breakfast cereal to Coca-Cola, everything is being classified as being either good or bad for citizens, who apparently have lost the ability to make that judgment on their own. Brussels, says advertising executive [Volker] Nickel, is staging "a gigantic reeducation program for consumers and producers."

Last summer, for example, complex rules were introduced to regulate the way food producers advertise their products. A central register with officially-sanctioned phrases is even in development for language that includes health claims, such as "Builds Immunity" or "Keeps you in Good Shape." Once the register is complete, alternative expressions will no longer be allowed.

Wernhard Möschel, a law professor at the University of Tübingen in southwest Germany, is incensed over the way the EU's producers of rules and regulations treat the consumer "as a pathological idiot in need of supervision, as someone who can't tell the difference between red and white wine."

Get used to it, Herr Möschel. The forced infantilization of Europe is well underway.

On a tip from Oiao.

Liberals have been laboring mightily to destroy the family, the foundation of human civilization. This should be a major victory for them. However, by attempting to make a mockery of marriage, Californian kooks may be holding only themselves up for derision.

If decent people still constitute a majority in the state, a constitutional amendment will put an end to this travesty. If not, California has officially jumped the shark. A state clearly sinking into self-induced decline won't be setting the trends forever.

"It's about human dignity," bleats a triumphant Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco. It sure is. Our innate dignity will prevent us from following California over the edge and into an abyss of moonbatty degeneracy.

On tips from Wiggins, Cheetah, hiram13pm, and mega.

Wesley Crawford was sentenced to 12 years for robbery. After escaping from Sudbury "open prison" in Derbyshire, he came back and pleaded to be let back in, so he could continue to enjoy unlocked doors, a TV, a wide choice of food, a gym, snooker and ping-pong facilities, etc.

According to a Sudbury prison source:

He basically said that it was much more cushy being inside prison than it was on the outside. And he still believes that — even though he has now been sent to a closed prison.

No wonder the number of prisoners absconding is at its lowest level in 10 years, even as the prison population increases.

On a tip from Oiao.

Triump International Japan has unveiled an environmentally friendly "Solar Power Bra" that allegedly generates enough electricity to charge a mobile phone or iPod. Unfortunately it requires direct sunlight, and women tend to wear clothes over their bras. But as with all things environmental, it's the gesture that counts, not actual effectiveness.

Testifies model Yuko Ishida:

It is very comfortable and I can really feel involved in eco-friendly efforts as well.

The company also markets a bra that serves Gaia by converting into a reusable shopping bag.

On tips from Wiggins and Burning Hot.

The answer has to do with history. Over the decades, black Americans have had plenty of opportunities to vote for white people for president. And they have done so. But this is the first time that white Americans have a chance to vote for an African-American with a shot at the presidency.

In today's political climate, a cretin like Navarette passes for an intellectual. Like Obama, he does have ethnic credentials, and that's the important thing.

Hat tip: LGF; on a tip from Burning Hot.

Polar bears are not the least threatened. Alarmingly, the numbers of these human-hunting monsters have been on the rise. Their population has more than doubled since 1960.

But according to global warming doctrine, even as their numbers swell, polar bears qualify as oppressed, because if all the polar ice were to melt, it would interfere with their seal-hunting methods.

The ice is not going to melt any time soon. The slight warming trend profiteers like Al Gore are exploiting ended ten years ago. Even if it did melt, polar bears have survived interglacial periods before.

But facts like these apply only to reality, not to the 2+2=5 world of hard left politics.

In the unholy alliance between government bureaucrats and leftist environmental groups, both have their own objectives. The bureaucrats want absolute control: a level of totalitarianism undreamt of by Hitler and Stalin. Leftist environmentalists want to strangle capitalism and radically curtail the human race.

Now that the government has officially endorsed the preposterous notion that CO2 emitted anywhere in the world is harmful to sacred polar bears, there is no constructive activity — literally including breathing — that is not vulnerable to increasingly repressive regulation and lawsuits.

In the future, we will live in a grim, socialist world, where personal initiative will be not only senseless but illegal. Individual liberty will not exist, less someone emit more than their allotted share of harmless CO2. Our standard of living will collapse. Humans will be forced to live like animals in a zoo, every aspect of our lives under strict control.

Polar bears will not benefit from this in any way, as if it would matter if they did. But the John McCains and Robert Kennedy Juniors of the world will be riding high.

On tips from mega, matterhorn, and Oiao.

[T]he Senate rejected, 56-42, a broader Republican energy plan that called for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and some offshore waters that are now off limits to oil development.

Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said more domestic oil production is needed to keep prices in check and to reduce U.S. dependence on oil imports. But opponents said the Alaska wildlife refuge and coastal waters that have been off limits to drilling for 25 years ought to remain out of bounds to oil companies.

"We can't drill our way to lower prices," said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.

Turban — the same liberal jackass who compared our army to Pol Pot's thugs — didn't explain how else we would lower prices, increasing supply being out of the question so long as Democrats and their RINO accomplices run Washington.

Hat tip: Free Republic; on a tip from Cheetah.

Instead of giving your change to a person, you put it in a machine, so the bureaucracy can dole out the right amounts to the right constituencies.

SF's "homelessness czar," Dariush Kayhna, modestly admits:

This is not going to solve poverty. But it is another strategy to see if we can save lives out there.

Homeless advocates upped the absurdity ante by whining about stereotypes. Who says bums blow all their free change on drugs and alcohol? Wails Sister Bernie Galvin of Religious Witness with Homeless People:

Forget the children, forget the mothers who are struggling to raise their family homeless or in inadequate housing. Will the city never give up on trying to find ways to make the lives of homeless people harder?

In counterpoint to Sister Bernie's bleeding-heart rhetoric, San Francisco's moonbatty policies have attracted bums from all over the world, causing the city to be so overrun with them that even liberal bureaucrats, who exploit derelicts as justification for socialist policies, want to lower their numbers.

On a tip from V the K.

Comrades are to use the blue wheelie bin for cans and cardboard, a green box for glass, and a black wheelie bin for everything else. The lawless Mr. Woodward put his ketchup bottle and coffee jar in the blue bin, heedless of the disastrous impact this could have on the biosphere.

Actually, recycling is an ineffective waste of time except in the case of aluminum cans. But obeying the government is its own reward.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin; on tips from wz, Burning Hot, Cheetah, and essemess.