Our own American Leftists look up to the European versions. Here's what's coming to America..."Control the Cradle Racists"

Via Darleen Click at PW..."I wonder how tiny handcuffs are being made these days?"

Children as young as three should be reported for 'racism', Government-funded group claims

Yeah, we need to start this right away. Little buggers might grow up and not agree with (gasp!) identity politics!

From the article...

Toddlers should be taught about racism and singled out for criticism if they have racist attitudes, a Government-funded advisory group said yesterday.

It told nursery teachers, playgroup leaders and childminders to record and report every racist incident involving children as young as three.

These could include saying 'Yuk' about unfamiliar food.

Even babies should not be ignored in the hunt for racism because they can 'recognise different people in their lives', a new guide for nurseries and child care centres said.

Who is this group that is promoting this nonsense? The National Children's Bureau (NCB), a British 'charitable organization' "that acts as an umbrella body for organisations working with children and young people in England & Northern Ireland. Through working in partnership, sharing knowledge, resources and services we have created a powerful, authoritative and influential voice to improve the lives of children and young people." Just look at their "Aims and Principles"...

• * to reduce inequalities in childhood
• * to ensure children and young people have a strong voice in all matters that affect their lives
• * to promote positive images of children and young people
• * to enhance the health and well-being of all children and young people
• * to encourage positive and supportive family, and other environments

Well and good, for the most part. But to promote this sort of thought-control at as early as three years old is mind-numbing. But par for the course for the direction British (and our own leftists) are wanting to go.

More, from the article...

It also runs the Sex Education Forum, a campaign for more sex education in schools.

The new 366-page guide, Young Children and Racial Justice, warned that 'racist incidents among children in early years settings-tend to be around name-calling-casual thoughtless comments, and peer group relationships'.

It said such incidents could include children using words like 'blackie', 'Pakis', 'those people' or 'they smell'.

Children might also 'react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying "yuk".'

Nursery staff are told: 'No racist incident should be ignored. When there is a clear racist intent, it is necessary to be specific in condemning the action.'

If children 'reveal negative attitudes the lack of censure may indicate to the child that there is nothing unacceptable about such attitudes'.

Nurseries are encouraged to report as many racist incidents as possible to local councils.

'Some people think that if a large number of racist incidents are reported, this will reflect badly on the institution,' it said. 'In fact, the opposite is the case.'

The guidance said that anyone who disagrees is racist themselves.

It also suggests cultivating the home languages of new immigrants - despite Government anxiety to promote the learning of English.

It said: 'English is now viewed as the major language of the world but this is not because it has any innate linguistic advantages - it is because English is the language of power in a world dominated by English-speaking peoples.'

Critics of the race programme for pre- school children labelled it 'totalitarian'.
[emboldenings mine]

Totalitarian. And that's what leftists say about Conservatives in America!

Seriously strong stuff here, folks.

If we allow these sorts of control thoughts and concepts from three years old on, will there be any need for politics? Since everyone thinks alike, why, why not just install a 'world leader' to run the whole damn place?

We could call him..."Big Brother". You know, to the children...

"Ministry of Truth"! Barack Hussein Obama sets up an "Internet War Room"

For to 'rebuff false rumors'. To assure that those pesky 'Barack is a Muslim!' rumors are quickly...rectified.

"In recent days Mr Obama has — unprompted — brought up the subject of the chain e-mails and blog sites making the false claims. Some state that he is a radical Muslim who was sworn in as a US senator on the Koran; others that he sympathises with Palestinian radicals. Many focus on his middle name of Hussein, which was taken from his Kenyan father.

"Mr Obama referred to the e-mails in a speech last week to AIPAC, the powerful Jewish lobby.


"Mr Obama said: “They are filled with tall tales and dire warnings about a certain candidate for president and all I want to say is, ‘Let me know if you see this guy named Barack Obama because he sounds pretty scary’.”

What's scary, Mr. Baracky Hussein Obonga, is that you think setting up an 'internet war room' is something you should do. I mean, golly gosh darn, you already have the entirety of the Main Stream Media in a state of near-worshipful adoration; why bother with a few pesky e-mails?

Just keep an eye on us, Baracky, and make sure you have plenty of memory holes for sinking any negativism down to your hidden furnaces.

Substitute "Political Correctness" for "newspeak" in this pick from Orwell's 1984...

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?…The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."

I wonder how Obama's internet sweepers will view this little site?

(Do you smell... smoke?)

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Obama flubs his first policy speech...tells AIPAC Jews one thing, then reverses for HAMAS

This is exactly what we expect from an inexperienced 'junior'.

In a major screwup, right after his ascendancy to the role of The ChosenOne: Democrat Savior, B. Hussein Obama (the survivor of the biggest yet, and the meanest to date multiculturist 'identity politics' squareoff ([subcategory: race] won this fight; the [subcategory: gender] loser was tossed to the curb on Tuesday) completely flips his position to pander to Hamas.

BHO, in his speech to AIPAC on Wednesday...

"Let me be clear. Israel's security is sacrosanct. It is nonnegotiable. The Palestinians need a state that is contiguous and cohesive, and that allows them to prosper," Obama said.

"But any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state, with secure, recognized and defensible borders. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided," he said.

BHO, after getting heat from Hamas (who just so happens to have endorsed his candidacy), Thursday...

"Well, obviously, it's going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues. And Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations," Obama told CNN when asked whether Palestinians had no future claim to the city.

Here you go. The kid just can't keep his story straight.

BHO flubs his first policy speech.

He gets in front of a group and says exactly what they want to hear. Then, just a day later, he changes his remarks to satisfy a known terrorist group.

BHO would sit down with Ahmadinejad, that guy who wants Israel wiped off the map.

Keep your eye on B. Hussein Obama. If you can look past the smile and the candy surface, you will see there's nothing at all of substance going on. Just pandering to whoever it is that happens to listen. The candidate of swoon.

Jimmy Carter with a tan.

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h/t Ace

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Iowahawk blogs "Reconstructed Eagle", and the follies of the Canadian Thought Police

Another instant classic, "Canadian Radio Classics: Warman of the Royal Canadian Mounted Human Rights Police".

In case you're not checked out on Canadian political correctness (makes our stateside version seem a bit weak, for now) just know that what you say or blog (or even think, huh?) can be used against you in a kangaroo court. No matter what it is that you say, print or post, the threshold for (in)tolerance is very low. A single complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission can bring down the stuffed shirts with an axetogrind...

Marc Lemire is a computer whiz, and also past-president of the late Heritage Front, a neo-Nazi organization. That is to say that while a quick glance at his freedomsite.org looks mostly concerned with free speech, he is not the ideal poster boy for it.

Enter Richard Warman, a former CHRC employee but now a serial complainer to it with a seemingly boundless vulnerability to offence. He complains about offensive comments on Lemire's web page.

Lemire is then charged under Section 13.1 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which makes it illegal to disseminate material on the Internet "likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt."

For Warman, it is a familiar evolution; he has done this a dozen times before with other people, and is so far 12 for 12.

Lemire, however, suspects the commission itself may be the source of some comments.

Sure enough, at the tribunal, two CHRC employees admit logging in under false names to post provocative comments.

Including Warman himself, posting under the handle 'axetogrind'.

It's a big complicated mess. I'm just glad I don't live in Canada; they can keep their restrictive clauses and trumped-up overlawyered injustices up there. And in Massachusetts. Our own liberals here in the U.S. have a desire that we be just like the Canadians, with their poor-quality socialized medicine, their absolute gun control, and this nearest thing to thought crime since Orwell put a camera in every TV set.

Oh. Back to Iowahawk's post.

You'll find, of course, Waxman and...Reconstructed Eagle. This character had my characteristically stoic half-smile turn to an actual, well, grin.

If you can believe that.

;D

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Tennessee GOP slaps visiting Mrs. Baracky (PROUD for the First Time!) Obama

Mrs. PROUD Obama was in town last night for a fundraiser; the welcome mat was offered by the Tennessee GOP...

Of course, the crybaby Baracky fires back: 'Racists! HUSSEINISTS!!'

From a post at American Thinker titled "Broaching That Other Off-Limits Obama Topic"...

You may recall the furor in January over a pre-Nevada primary "robocall" [MP3] that dropped the full name of Barack Hussein Obama four times. Or the outcries the following month when Cincinnati radio personality Bill Cunningham spoke those same three words repeatedly at a local McCain town-hall meeting. And who can possibly forget the widespread media rush to assure the public of their hero's baptism when a photo of him clad in traditional Muslim garb surfaced on the web that same month?

Not surprisingly then, shortly following the media and blogosphere-pressured condemnations by both Hillary and McCain, mention of Obama's middle name or Muslim heritage became de facto taboo amongst politically correct company.

Well, that's fine for that sort of company, I suppose. But I'm PROUD of my non-compliance with Political Correctness, and I imagine there's a couple more who can get around without wearing Political Correctness blinders.

Oh, and thanks to the Tennessee...did you say, GOP?

Who are these guys again? Tennessee has a GOP??

Who knew?

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h/t Six Meat Buffet.

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Oh. I just noticed this comment at American Thinker....

"Yes, but it's not the only question that needs to be addressed. Another is 'what would his foreign policy towards the Muslim world be'? You see, Islam is not the only part of his heritage, another is his Arabic composition. Obama is not a Negro. Obama is an Arab. His father's side of the family tree is exclusively Arabic, and that fact is signified by their names and the name of Senator Obama himself: Barack Hussein Obama. His first name is Muslim also. Not just the middle name. Real Kenyan Negros have Christian names. By giving his son a Muslim name, Obama's father has sent a signal: he may live among Kenyan Christians, but he is not one of them."

"Moreover, he is only 6.25% Negro. He's 50% Eurocaucasian (after his mother) and 43.75% Arabic. The federal law of the US says that to claim minority status, you must be at least 12.5% (1/8) of the race you claim to represent. Senator Obama is half the legal treshold. He could honestly say, 'My father was a Negro.' His father was a member of the last generation able to claim to represent the Negro race."Obama is guilty of lying to the Harvard Admissions Committee to get in; lying to Chicagoians to get elected to IL state senate; lying to IL citizens to get elected to the Senate; and lying to all Americans to get elected President (but luckily, he hasn't won yet).

"He is also guilty of lying in his book 'The Audacity Of Hope'."

...[emboldenings mine]

Nice.

RACIST LIAR!!!111!!!!

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Obama's "Secret Weapon"?

This morning, Karl links an Ann Althouse post that in turn links a photo of what Ann feels is "Obama's Secret Weapon", a couple nice photos of Baracky's family on a campaign stop. Or, more precisely, the Obama family unit as presented to us for, as Karl puts it, use as a "political prop".

Well and good, but as I commented at Ann's yesterday, a family photo tells us nothing except for that instant fractional second of what was a happy moment. We can't really discern much from such instant and fleeting snapshots.

Not saying that there's problems with Obama's family life.

I am saying that as a 'secret weapon', a nice picture of smiling kids isn't much to go on. Especially in the context of a Presidential election with the country's future at stake.

I'll give Obama the nice family; just remember the background.

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"Best Sheriff in America", Arizona's Joe Arpaio, under attack from Political Correctness 'Bots

We knew this was coming. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, he of 'Tent City' and 'Pink Underwear' fame, the sole American Sheriff left on the continent with a no-nonsense approach to crime, incarceration and enforcement, has run afoul of Hispanics and...Democrats.

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon (Democrat) (who was, not surprisingly, born in Chicago), State Democrat Representative Ben Miranda (a member of the Latino Caucus) and his freakin' brother, State Democratic Senator Richard Miranda, are sending letters and caucusing with heartfelt protestations to Washington, hoping for federal intervention. A letter speeds to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, seeking relief from heartless Sheriff Joe. From AZCentral...

Showing a unified front, Latino state lawmakers said Thursday they are backing Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon's call for a federal probe into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's recent crime sweeps in Hispanic neighborhoods.

Lawmakers said the sheriff's tactics are tantamount to racial profiling and reflect poorly on all Arizonans, regardless of their ethnic heritage.

“When one group is under attack like this, when one group is having their civil rights violated, I believe it imperils all of us, everyone across this state and across this country,” said Rep. Linda Lopez, D-Tucson, who joined six other members of the Arizona Legislative Latino Caucus at a Capitol news conference.

“That is not what this country is about. We're not about targeting individuals because of the color of their skin, their religion or their gender,” she added. “This has to be put a stop to, and I believe an investigation is fully warranted.”

Here we go again. Our Criminal Justice system is forced to go after crime and criminals wearing blinders, oblivious to the facts. We screen grannies in our airports so as not to offend possible terrorists (who, amazingly enough, are men between the ages of 17-40 and of middle eastern descent). We care less about actually doing the job of reducing crime and more about pampering the blocs of whiny special interests. Let's not possibly offend someone's civil rights.

The 'raids' in question are not brownshirts stopping everyone and threating arrest, but actual traffic and crime -prevention stops based on witnessed violations. 30 illegal immigrants were arrested just this week in Wickenburg, a suburb of Phoenix. And deported.

Earlier, a Hispanic US citizen was stopped for speeding. This guy was trying to become a 'politically correct martyr', much like those Praying Flying Imams who wanted to challenge security before boarding a plane last year by acting like, well, terrorists. This unnamed guy is playing his sad-song violin well, and has these affronted politicians using his breast-beating for their own political ends. But, he may have overplayed his hand...

"..the man was “belligerent” and refused to show identification upon being stopped for a traffic violation. Only after he was arrested and turned over to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents was it discovered he was a citizen, said Brian Sands, the sheriff's chief of enforcement.

“He was so uncooperative through all stages of the booking process, he was trying to get into a position where we might deport him,” Sands said.

Sheriff Joe's response to this obviously politically-motivated Political Correctness attack...

“I am not concerned about (the caucus) going to Washington. I have nothing to fear and will continue to do crime suppression. I will continue to lock up illegals,” said Arpaio, who denied that he targets Hispanic communities. “I will not be intimated by minority groups.” [emphasis mine]

These politically correct whine-bots face a wildly popular figure in Sheriff Joe. Joe Arpaio may be the only elected sheriff who has the cajones to face off against politically motivated whiny Democrats.

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Sunday Afternoon free-style "Monthly Rag and Hag" Photoshops

...not that this one is remarkable or anything. But, don't click on it unless you want to be...startled.

This innocuous little 'chop is a quick response to Hillary Clinton's visit for Pizza and Beer last night in Crown Point, Indiana; a celebration, obviously, of Snob-ama's latest misfortunate commentary concerning us poor gun-and-bible totin' humble-visaged Typical White Folk. Thanks to commenter Pablo for pointing to the link this morning. You would think Hillary would celebrate with something more than beer; yes, she took a shot of Crown Royal as well. But her face here says "Jack" all the way.

Hidden away under that horn swaggler is parody sure to be troubling to feminazia everywhere...

Darleen Click posted an essay on the problems facing some Colorado College students who happened to parody an on-campus feminist newsletter called "The Monthly Rag"...from the Denver Post article...

"A satirical response to a feminist publication at Colorado College has landed the college and two of its students in the middle of a fierce debate over freedom of speech.

"Chris Robinson and another student at the Colorado Springs institution decided to print "The Monthly Bag" after seeing copies of a feminist and gender studies newsletter, "The Monthly Rag," in restrooms around campus.

"The edition of "The Monthly Rag" that prompted action included an announcement for a talk on feminist pornography, information on gender-bending practices, and a tidbit about a myth involving male castration. According to Robinson, it was representative of what appears every month."

Of course. The Monthly Rag. Darleen writes

"By what rationale does Colorado College deem the parody flier “threatening?” According to Mike Edmonds,vice president for student life at Colorado College, it is because of “the juxtaposition of weaponry and sexuality.”

"What Edmonds intentionally forgot to say was it is because of the juxtaposition of stereotypical masculine sexuality and weaponry. The Monthly Rag (which last time I checked is a play on a crude reference to menstruation — and any male who uses such a reference is liable to have a murder of feminists after him demanding blood) juxtapostions mention of castration along with feminist porn and carrying dildos."

So, feminists can have their rag and bleed us too.

Of course, I have my own parody version of "The Monthly Rag".

But because this is an "R" rated blog, you'll have to click out to see it...

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Hillary goes on "Apology Spree" at NNPA forum

Wow. The Ice Queen cracked last night, and apologized for every racial misdeed that's ever occurred within a light-year of her presence. The only thing missing were some nice crocodile tears.

At a forum at the National Newspaper Publishing Association (over 200 black community newspapers in the U.S.) Hillary got on a apology roll. Her apologies whitewashed her husband, Bill Clinton, for his comments comparing Obama's South Carolina primary win to Jesse Jackson's primary wins in '84 and '88 (well, comparing Obama to Jackson is a deep cut; Jackson is far more racist and inflammatory than Obama). Hillary...

“I want to put that in context. You know I am sorry if anyone was offended. It was certainly not meant in any way to be offensive,” Hillary Clinton said. “We can be proud of both Jesse Jackson and Senator Obama.”

“Anyone who has followed my husband’s public life or my public life know very well where we have stood and what we have stood for and who we have stood with,”

Yeah, we know about your husband's hidden but actual racial insensitivities, Hillary. Remember, he's repeatedly lied to the entire nation; his lying under oath got him impeached. So, we really, really want to believe everything you and Bill say. Really.

Again at NNPA, Hillary threw Geraldine Ferraro under the bus for her remarks concerning Obama. Geraldine said, somewhat candidly but definitely not conforming to the Political Correctness Policy Democrats have hammered into place, that Obama would not have made it this far had he been white (well, he's half-white, but everyone seems to forget that). Hillary whitewashes this with

“I certainly do repudiate it and I regret deeply that it was said. Obviously she doesn’t speak for the campaign, she doesn’t speak for any of my positions, and she has resigned from being a member of my very large finance committee.”

Here we have the politically correct Racial Trap sprung on Democrats. This trap (along with the gender pitfall) was fostered by Democrats, created by Democrats, and now they are swinging from their own gallows. Don't you love it?

Hillary capped her apology spree with more Katrina spin. Just imagine Hillary standing there, saying...

“I’ve said it publicly, and I say it privately: I apologize, and I am embarrassed that our government so mistreated our fellow citizens … It was a national disgrace...”

A disgrace, Hillary, that the city of New Orleans was so lackadaisical in getting people prepared for the inevitable strike; and another disgrace that still New Orleans isn't accepting of the fact that another strike could do the same sorts of damage again (because, maybe, the city is on the coast, is mostly below sea level, and has been for centuries?) The city needs some stronger dikes.

But, you know, when you're on a apology roll you just gotta let your feelings dictate your toungue. And isn't that what most of these Democrats love to spout? These feel-good policies and apologies that have little to do with solving actual problems, but are sure to attract votes from the American Idlers who want an easy way out?

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photo cred Zimbio

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Obama Hussein Flap: Democrats cry foul, Republicans want distance

From today's Nashville City Paper...

Tennessee Republicans appear to be a divided house over a controversial state party press release attacking Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama.

The ordeal centers on the use of Obama’s middle name of “Hussein” in a Tennessee Republican Party press release issued this week, entitled “Anti-Semites for Obama,” as well as the posting of a picture of Obama in traditional Somali garb.

The GOP’s press release, issued Monday, has caused a national stir and been picked up by some international news outlets.

Nationally, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has repudiated using Obama’s middle name when referencing him, shining more light upon the GOP’s release. The McCain campaign has also been critical of the Tennessee Republican Party.

Much ado about nothing.

Democrats want to insulate Obama from any sort of criticism, and it seems Republicans are so fearful of getting caught in a political correctness trap that they are distancing themselves from anything that might stick to their collective shoes. Democrats cried foul over our Tennessee GOP's handling of Obama, including the Obama-in-a-headdress photo, his relationships with Louis Farrakhan, and his membership in that Racist! Church. All of this happening just after John McCain, titular head of the Republican party (NOT the conservatives, mind you) threw Bill Cunningham under a bus for 'Husseining' Obama.

Karl at PW sees right thru 'em...

"After I noted Josh Marshall’s effort to impose a double-standard on the campaign under which John McCain must ritualistically repudiate any person or any comment about Barack Obama deemed to be inappropriately racial or ethnic, while Obama is excused from discussing his less savory associations, Allahpundit flagged a piece at TNR by Historian4Hillary Sean Wilentz, noting how Obama has played the race card against Hillary Clinton (though I agree with AP that Wilentz overdoes it a bit). Allah writes:

If you want to see a politician remaining ostentatiously above the fray while winking at cretinous race-baiting by his supporters, look no further than the TNR piece about how deftly the “post-racial” candidate has leveraged ye olde racial playbook these past few months.

Obama’s positioning as the “post-racial” candidate is a key factor in the strategy.

When The Future King has no clothes, we are forced to view him as transparent.

Because of his color!

These episodes are simply Democrats digging a moat around Obama, and raising the drawbridges against any criticisms. An opening salvo for their November run for the Whitehouse and Obama's antiness ascension. We are to ignore this Future King's lack of clothing, because of his racial makeup. The mentioning of the unfortunateness of his middle name (and of his familial muslim heritage) is off limits. We can blame his grandmother for the name, his mother for her strange marriages, but Obama is not to be criticized.

Jeff Goldstein seems to realize Obama's exact makeup, and McCain's as well...

"Obama’s experience, such as it is, has been in getting elected to ever-higher offices on the strength of a charisma that, to me at least, is as grating and affected as anything even Mike Huckabee might ooze.

In the end, McCain can certainly show that his experience far outweighs Obama’s — and is of far greater heft, if only for its, um, bipartisan nuance. [cough cough hack]

None of which will matter if this turns out to be a Fox Mulder election, wherein enough voters buy into Obama’s platitudes and conclude, ultimately, “I WANT TO BELIEVE”!"

It's a shame our nation's voting public (and even our Republican party) (especially "Titular Head" McCain) are weak enough to fall for it.

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Heere Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Hatte. (Another Iowahawk masterpiece)

Heere Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Hatte.

An Archbishop of Canterbury Tale

With apologies to Geoffrey Chaucer

1 Whan in Februar, withe hise global warmynge

2 Midst unseasonabyl rain and stormynge

3 Gaia in hyr heat encourages

4 Englande folke to goon pilgrimages.

5 Frome everiches farme and shire

6 Frome London Towne and Lancanshire

7 The pilgryms toward Canterbury wended

8 Wyth fyve weke holiday leave extended

9 In hybryd Prius and Subaru

10 Off the Boughton Bypasse, east on M2.

Off ye to read the rest. There's much hilarity there; Iowahawk is well-known as possibly the internet's best satyr-ist. His two-part deconstruction of Amanda Marcotte (that's been a year!) is internet lore.

Set down ye coffee mug before travel, ye keyboard may well not survive!

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Oh, I reworked the Ché Obama flag thing a bit; to reflect Ted Kennedy's misspeaking of his name last year, and to fit in better with the theme of this post...
Keep, for know thee well the Mussel-man
;D

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Archbishop of Sharia!

An embattled Archbishop of Canterbury will confront anger within the Church of England as, on this most critical day of his five years in office, he tries to justify his remarks about Islamic law.

Dr Rowan Williams will open the General Synod in Central London this afternoon with a presidential address in which he will show that he can weather the storm over his recent remarks. He will attempt to set the record straight, insisting that he never advocated a “parallel jurisdiction” of Sharia.

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2007...goodbye. Recap, Image style

I can't do a 2007 Year in Review, after reading dAVe barry's syndicated column here. He's hit every high and low with teh funny. Just a sample...

"It was a year that strode boldly into the stall of human events and took a wide stance astride the porcelain bowl of history.

In short, 2007 was a year of deep gloom, pierced occasionally by rays of even deeper gloom. And as is so often true of bad years, it began with ...

January

... when Democrats, having won the November elections, take control of both houses of Congress with surprisingly little loss of life.

Upon taking power, the Democrats, who campaigned vigorously against the war in Iraq, and who hailed their victory as a clear voter mandate to get the troops out of Iraq, immediately get down to the business of being careful to not do anything that might actually result in the removal of troops from Iraq, in case that might turn out to be a bad idea. This is fine with President Bush, who calls for a "troop surge," based on his understanding of the comprehensive Iraq Study Group Report, as interpreted for him by aides equipped with 20,000 G.I. Joe action figures.

As the debate over Iraq intensifies, the eyes of a worried nation turn to another trouble spot: New York City, where Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell are locked in a bitter high-stakes battle to determine who is the bigger horse's ass.

In sports, a Los Angeles team signs glamorous British soccer star David Beckham to a $250 million contract. This raises eyebrows, both because of the amount of money and because the team is the Dodgers. But Beckham's glamorous presence quickly boosts ticket sales; within days the Lakers sign Angelina Jolie.

Sports remains in the news in ...

February..."

That's world-class tease, folks.

My own little look-back will be spartan, comparatively speaking. Since I'm into imagery, I'll just dump my favorite item from each month's posts, not exactly tying into dAVe barry's outline, but close enough.

January (Saddam was still on my mind)



February (Premature Infant...Abortion really sucks)


~*~

March "I closed my eyes, and it slipped away..." Brad Delp, RIP



April Nappy-headed jackass, indeed.



May Paris, in Jail. Lovin' every minute...


aimez le modèle, Paris~!


May McNair, Pacman, Vick...with their weaknesses exposed.



June We lost one of my favorite bloggers, Barking Moonbat Early Warning System's Skipper. His knowing post...

Allan C. Kelly
1949-2007
R.I.P.

In one of the Skipper's final posts, he described his pending back surgery, and left these thoughts:

"Meanwhile, while you slept a few thousand more Mexicans crossed the border last night, Wal-Mart built six more stores somewhere, the trade deficit with China increased by a few billion dollars, the North Koreans and Iranians came up with seventeen more plans to prove they are barking mad and several thousand more non-Muslims were murdered in Darfur by followers of the Prophet For Profit.

"Then again, you already know all this and just need a place to get together and figure out what we’re all going to do when the roof caves in - and make no mistake, the rafters are crumbling. Depressing? Sure, but what are we going to do?

"We can start to fix our government eighteen months from now in the 2008 elections. The interim is going to be dicey as somebody out there decided in the last election to install a whole bunch of really crazy people in the Congress and Senate. That was not my fault, by the way - and neither was it George Bush’s fault.

"As for the rest of the sitrep, we can wall ourselves off from the rest of the world and experiment with isolationism again or we can continue to muddle our way through the minefield of international relations - and that is where the problem comes in. We’re just no damn good at realpolitik. Not this administration, the whole country has never been real good at the devious games diplomats play. We haven’t been at this game long enough to understand all the rules.

"All I can really tell you is (a) keep a firm grasp of right and wrong, (b) stay involved in government and watch the bastards in Washignton every minute, (c) use every legal means to make sure you can defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and (d) keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere."

Damn, he was succinct, and unnervingly right on the money. And that last paragraph is....knowing.

July Scott Beauchamp, liar, gets nailed to the wall by Jeff Goldstein. (Click on the pic for the links)



August Michael Vick... "Yonder goes a man with a dog collar on, think we ought to throw old Spike a bone? Hey, Spike! whadda you like!"



September Iran's Blood Fountain, Black Friday...click the image for the background info.



October The Nobel Peace Prize Jumps the Shark (again...)



Novmeber Lame Hollywood Movie Leaves Hollywood Limp...


December Hey, I made the paper!



That's a wrap. I've got much to do.

See you next year!

Gleen goes POOFT! (or, POOFgate, but that's demeaning to Poofters everywhere)

Gotta get this in before the Titans-Colts game on NBC tonight. I'm grilling some victimized beef later on...

Dan Collins over at Protein Wisdom's been grilling Glen Greenwald over his latest nonsensical tripe-attack of Peggy Noonan's column whereby she laughed much at John Edward's hairalogue performances (on this YouTube piece). Peggy wrote "John Edwards is not reasonable. . . . .[W]e can’t have a president who spent two minutes on YouTube staring in a mirror and poofing his hair. Really, we just can’t." Of course, that written remark set off Gleen[s] victimization gaydar, given that poof means 'faggot' in England. Read the comments (192 at last count) on Dan's first post; hilarity ensues.

So, my bit for Poofgate...

Canadian Court Corrals Criticism of Teh Ghey...but so does Katherine Coble

A Lifetime Ban for criticism of the Gay Lifestyle. The ban put on an evangelistic Christian, of course...

"A lifetime ban on public criticism of homosexuality was upheld against a Catholic activist in Canada by his province's superior court.

"Bill Whatcott was fined 17,500 Canadian dollars by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission in a complaint by four homosexuals who charged he "injured" their "feelings" and "self respect" in pamphlets denouncing the "gay lifestyle" as immoral and dangerous, Lifesite News reported.

"This fine is for telling the truth [that] homosexual sodomites can change their behavior and be set free from their sin and depravity through the forgiveness of sins and shed blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," Whatcott said."

That's Canada. But, here, in Tennessee, there's some parallel...

From Music City Blandness, a thread that contained some back-and-forth on the subject of Gays and Religion was gutted by Katherine Coble...

"Sorry, but I’ve been offline. Now that I’m back, suffice to say I’ve removed a lot of the cruel, bigoted and meanspirited comments from this thread...."

That's just fine, Katherine. Now, you've put yourself in a position to dictate what and how we discourse, you have complete control over every aspect of thought and process that happens within your posts at MCB. You are, therefore, in a position to dictate thought. That's a pretty big role you've taken on; pretty much puts you in a position to impose your views of what is right and appropriate in comments. What you deem inappropriate for whatever reason, you slash and burn. In poor form, Katherine.

“Scratch a lefty, you’ll find a totalitarian.”

-Kim du Toit

have a drink, on me!

NBC Doesn't Support the Troops UPDATED: Newt Gingrich Calls for Boycott of NBC UPDATED AGAIN: NBC CAVES

NBC is long known for it's liberal bias. From KOS-like commenter Keith Olbermann on MSNBC to syndicated pundit Chris Matthews (who worked for Tip O'Neil) and Tim Russert (worked for Mario Cuomo), there's always some slap at conservatives. Olbermann once said that President George Bush is taking the money "out of the pockets of dead soldiers in the battlefield."

So does it surprise that NBC is refusing to air this commercial thanking the troops during the Christmas season?

Their reason? This ad was paid for by Freedom's Watch, a group that gasp! supports the President.

WASHINGTON - NBC has rejected a TV ad by Freedom’s Watch, a conservative group that supports administration policy in Iraq, that asks viewers to remember and thank U.S. troops during the holiday season.

NBC said it declined to air the ad because it refers to the group’s Web site, which the network said was too political, not because of the ad’s message

Even CNN ran this ad. If CNN (of the famous Loaded Debates) will run the ad, as biased as they are, then what's NBC's problem?

They are eaten up with BDS.

Can't say I watched much NBC; can say I'll go out of my way to never watch their crap again. MSNBC moves a notch farther left than CNN.

Let the boycott begin...

UPDATE Drudge just posted this video...

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UPDATE: NBC Caves in to pressure; will air Freedomwatch's Support the Troop Video!

"We have reviewed and changed our ad standards guidelines and made the decision that our policy will apply to content only and not to a referenced Web site. Based on these amended standards the Freedom's Watch ad will begin to run as early as Sunday."

Lesson learned.

Only temporarily, though, I'm sure...

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h/t Texas Fred

Immigration: A True American President's Views (as opposed to the Democrats in their 'Debate' Pander-Fest)

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and on being and becoming an AMERICAN...
in 1907

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Hmmmm....these foreign terms, lost to our leadership today, left behind somewhere in time in the past 100 years..."assimilation", "divided allegiance", "loyalty"...that's what made this country work.

Without at least some allegiance and loyalty from our citizens, we're doomed to fracture and fall. Much as we're seeing today, it seems we're trading our national security for Political Correctness.

From the Democratic Debate, Nov. 14 on the Clinton Cowed News Network, Wolf Blitzer (who was properly scared of The Girl after what happened to his counterpart Tim Russert, who has yet to get his credibility with the Democrats back) did manage to elicit this admission from Governor Richardson...

MR. BLITZER: Let me just be precise because I want to make sure we all -- I heard you correctly. What you're saying, Governor, is that human rights, at times, are more important than American national security?

GOV. RICHARDSON: Yes, because I believe we -- (applause) -- we need to find ways to say to the world that, you know, it's not just about what Halliburton wants in Iraq, it's also about our -- (cheers, applause) -- values of freedom, equality. Our strength is not just military and economic. Our strength as a nation is our values -- equality, freedom, democracy --

MR. BLITZER: All right. All right.

Look back at that transcript, try to find one man who could fill Teddy Roosevelts' boots.

I can single out several who couldn't perform a polish...

Lowe's "Family Trees"...just in time for Christmas!

UPDATED
To all the Liberals linked from NIT...
Have a nice drink, on me~!

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Political Correctness is hitting the 'Holiday' Season early this year.

Lowe's, in a reprise of their 2005 "Holiday Season" gaffe, has put out a "Holiday" season catalog that introduces us to the concept of "Family Trees". In all, the 2007 Lowe's 'Holiday' Catalog uses the word "Christmas" only twice out of the 56 pages. From the link above...

In their Holiday 2007 catalog, containing 56 pages of Christmas gifts, Lowe’s advertises hundreds of gift items, including scores of “Family trees.” In fact, the word “Christmas” only appears two times in the entire holiday catalog. The ads mentioning “Christmas cover only 12 square inches of the 5236 square inches available…

Lowe’s evidently did not want to offend any non-Christians, therefore they replaced “Christmas tree” with “Family tree.” Of course, if Christians are offended that is evidently ok.

Or, it seems that "Christ" is out of the family at Lowe's...

Al Gore's Global Warming Gospel is Challenged by Meteorologist John Coleman

Who DARES challenge lofty lefty Gore the Great on his particularly self-serving 'invention' of man-made, said to be eventually catastrophic Climate Change (a concept that's spread like wildfire amongst simple-minded leftists who, incidentally, also believe that George Bush and Dick Cheney purchased insurance on the Twin Towers just before their attack, so they could get richer)? Why, the inventor of the Weather Channel, a lifelong meteorologist, one with impeccab