Paula Deen's apology...why didn't it work?

Althouse  "I had guessed — when we first talked about Paula Deen, here — that Paula Deen would be okay. In the comments: *Rumpletweezer said...* I just hope she turns out to be a Democrat. *Ann Althouse said...* Paula Deen is a Democrat, so she'll probably be okay. But Paula Deen was fired from the Food Network, even after making this apology: That had elements of a sincere apology. None of the typical "I apologize to anyone who was offended." Why didn't it work? 4 ideas: 1. She opted out of "Today" show Matt Lauer interview, supposedly because she was in so much *pain*, but she admits that...

"But Paula Deen was fired from the Food Network, even after making this apology:" 

Another perspective on Deen's firing: The Politically Correct Firing of Paula Dean(sp)    [Deen] "is being sued by a white woman who is claiming that she was exposed to a hostile work environment.  Now, I at one time worked at this non-profit who gave us training on hostile work environments often.  I think I had to sit through that seminar four times in the two years that I worked there.  Like most federal laws there are too broad and far too encompassing to my taste.  Virtually anything can be an offense under these laws..."

 

Couldn't she have said she is a fan of Rap music and just thought the N-word was part of normal conversation?

Questions Remain After 7 Arrested For Trespassing

Conservative Daily News   "Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2013, five men and two women, all of Middle Eastern decent, were arrested for trespassing within the boundaries of the Quabbin water reserve just outside Boston, Mass. The seven, who are from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Singapore, are recent chemical engineering grads and “cited their education and career interests” for being at the reserve, according to local news reports. The seven individuals currently live in various Massachusetts towns including Amherst, Cambridge, Sunderland, and Northampton, and one of those arrested lives in New York City."

Isn't this the sort of things that we want to track phone and email records for?

Mass State Police Unhappy With Clerk Decision "After being detained, interviewed and released by state police, the seven people were to await trespassing charges and a court summons. Local news reports in the days immediately following the incident listed the seven as “arrested,” though state spokesman David Procopio is now saying the group was “detained.”
"The clerk’s decision not to charge the group, despite the incident triggering terrorism alerts and the involvement of the FBI, has left state police confused."

State Police: Alleged trespassers at Quabbin Reservoir not connected to other criminal activity

The Senate’s Comprehensive Immigration Bill: Top 10 Concerns

Heritage   "Millions of people who entered the U.S. illegally belie the core principle of the rule of law and belittle the legal naturalization process, while continued large-scale immigration without effective assimilation threatens social cohesion and America’s civic culture and common identity. This is especially true when immigrants are assimilated into the welfare state rather than into a society of opportunity."

 Corker Amendment Permanently Offers Citizenship to Those Overstaying Their Visas
"Just as public anxiety about the weak border security provisions in the Senate immigration bill was building, GOP Sen. Bob Corker stepped forward with an amendment to "fix" the problem. The result of his efforts, however, has been a "christmas tree" measure, covering items far beyond border security. Breitbart News has learned exclusively that one provision of Corker's amendment will allow workers who stay in the country past their visa will remain on the "path to citizenship." "



Harry Reid: Ted Kennedy Will 'Smile Down' at Us for Passing Immigration Reform

Those whom Ted Kennedy does not smile down on must have shuddered as did Judge Bork  "But if this isn’t the occasion to dwell on the senator’s personal shortcomings, it should be one to examine his words. And in terms of both dramatic and lasting effect, nothing in his 46-year tenure in the Senate comes close to this":...


 

This cartoonist sees the world as it, unfortunately, is

http://www.conservativedailynews.com

 

Someone I know quite well is arrogant in the extreme about Obama's re-election and gloats about it for reasons no more substantial than if his favorite sports team won. I challenged him to give me every reason he can think of for Obama being a good president and I would respond with every reason the man should not be allowed near the White House. His answer: 

"There are 50 million reasons for Obama being president."

 For me, that is the first OJ Simpson jury multiplied by four million.

Tony Branco illustrated those fifty million Democrat voters in this cartoon very well, I'd say.  TD

Remembering Drummer Lee Rigby; Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Corps of Drums march through town

This is the unit the murdered soldier Lee Rigby belonged to before being attacked on these very streets.
Youtube

 

It wasn't all dress parades for these men: 

The troops of the RRF mourn Lee Rigby

Many more images of this proud unit of the British Army here.

Charles Krauthammer; Syria: America Sidelined

After Iraq, Obama wasted a golden opportunity to keep a presence in the region.

Charles Krauthammer  "The war in Syria, started by locals, is now a regional conflict, the meeting ground of two warring blocs. On one side, the radical Shiite bloc led by Iran, which overflies Iraq to supply Bashar Assad and sends Hezbollah to fight for him. Behind them lies Russia, which has stationed ships offshore, provided the regime with tons of weaponry, and essentially claimed Syria as a Russian protectorate.
"And on the other side are the Sunni Gulf states terrified of Iranian hegemony (territorial and soon nuclear); non-Arab Turkey, now convulsed by an internal uprising; and fragile Jordan, dragged in by geography.
"And behind them? No one."

Lets have no more snide comments about the French being "surrender monkeys"

More and more nations pay the price for a timid US president

 

The world becomes more unstable and hostile because of a feckless, guilt-ridden US president who has been taught to hate American power. This happens when liberals want the US to be liked instead of respected. Entities around the world that oppose us have become ascendant and future administrations will have Obama's mess to inherit. TD
 

Related to the subject: Moscow sets up Russian Golan brigade, warns Israel Sunnis plus al Qaeda are bigger threat than Assad   "DEBKAfile notes that this was the first time any Russian official had mentioned the unmentionable: a possible future turn in the wheel of the Syrian conflict that would oust Assad and bring his foes, the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda, to power in Damascus."

Taliban 'Embassy' Is a Surrender by Obama  "The decision by the Taliban to hoist their own "Islamic Emirate" flag above what was supposed to be just a "political office" in Doha, Qatar is more than just an embarrassment for President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, and more than a stumbling block in negotiations over U.S. withdrawal from the country. Rather, the provocative gesture unmasks that withdrawal for what it is: a surrender, and a betrayal of the war against terror."  Obama's negotiating partners

Counterterrorism efforts have been weakened by the administration’s policy of dissociating Islam from al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorism

 

Obama and his team have subverted the government they pledged to serve.

Victor Davis Hanson   "Truth is the lifeblood of democracy. Without honesty, the foundations of consensual government crumble.
"If the Internal Revenue Service acts unlawfully, our system of citizens’ computing their own taxes implodes.
"Yet Lois Lerner, one of the IRS’s top officials, would not answer simple questions about her agency’s conduct during congressional testimony, instead pleading the Fifth Amendment. Any taxpayer who tried that with an IRS auditor would end up fined, if not in jail."

 

Catholics Fire Back at Obama over School Comments: 'Anti-Faith, Secular Agenda Shamelessly on Full Display'

Big Government   "Speaking in Ireland this week, President Obama stated that Catholic schools were divisive: “If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation.” On Thursday, the American Catholics for Religious Freedom fired back on President Obama’s words to 2,000 young people at the G8 Summit."

From the Scottish Catholic Observer: US President undermines Catholic schools after Vatican Prefect praised them
"The US President has made an alarming call for an end to Catholic education in Northern Ireland in spite of the fact that Archbishop Gerhard Müller told Scots that Catholic education was 'a critical component of the Church.’ "
Some of the comments to this article:
"The expert of division making speaks about division making."
 
Irish culture is not alone in Obama’s ignorance. Trust me, he is just as ignorant of American culture too. Yes, he stinks and his manners to Americans are equally atrocious.
Please don’t blame me as I voted for the other guy & am watching Obama destroy our country & culture. 
 
"showing his ignorance and intolerance once again.. sigh..he is making America a laughing stock.. If it weren’t for Catholic education in the USA, there would be far less successful, moral, citizens in this country.. he hates the Catholic religion because we don’t allow abortion,we won’t go along with same sex marriage, and we are fighting his stance on making us pay for the above and for contraception in his Obamacare disaster ...."


"I’m still waiting for the dear leader to go to the podium in a Muslim country and make the same speech. Why is it with this guy that only Christians are required to suborn their faith to the state?"

"So ashamed of our President…he’s such a disgrace."

Obama, in Belfast, adopts Unionist argument against Catholic schooling 
"President Obama continued his charm offensive in Belfast yesterday. Emphasis on “offensive.” " ....Read what he said at the link.

This seems pretty innocuous, unless you know the context. The notion that religious education is the real problem in Northern Ireland is very politically controversial — a unionist argument that’s been used to attack Catholic schools’ right to exist. (Nearly all Protestant schools there handed over control to the state years ago.)

It is interesting to note here that he only mentioned Catholic and Protestant schools and didn’t bother to mention Madrassas,....

CHILLING – Obama Calls For End To Catholic Schools  "It was likely among the most shocking and classless attacks against the Catholic Church by any American president of the modern era – words spoken by Barack Obama right after a high ranking representative of the church praised Catholic education in Ireland."

Obama Declares War On The Catholic Church: An Explainer  "Do you find this sudden rush of stories about Obama being in open conflict with the Catholic Church confusing? 

"We've done a simple Q&A to help clear things up."  Read more:

2016: Can America Afford An Over- the-Hill Lefty and Her Meandering Hubby Back in White House?

Will you let your daughter become a White House intern then?

John W. Lillpop
"After Obama’s disastrous speech in Germany following his pummeling at the hands of Super Bowl ring thief and Russian hit man Vladimir Putin, the world is surely asking: How was this man elected in the first place, and how in the hell was he re-elected?

"Is this what the once-great America has come to?

"Great questions, those! In answer, America needs to cull out pretenders and naïve community organizers from the pool of candidates offered as presidential candidates in the future.

"Our nation also needs to get over the Rock Star phenomenon when electing presidents!"

Lets see how the Clintons are viewed in this former Soviet republic called Abkhazia:

Politico (Via Surrogates) Tells Snowden: Shut Up!

Sweetness and Light 
Edward Snowden is milking it.
The briefly anonymous leaker has leaped into the public spotlight — and now he’s risking overexposure in a big way. Public relations pros and image makers say Snowden’s repeated interviews and growing number of claims are making him look like someone who’s exploiting his sudden worldwide fame for personal glory, and that threatens to undermine the very privacy crusade for which he said he’s willing to give his life.   Politico

"We have actually been saying this from the start. But we have never said he should stop talking. The more he talks, the more truth comes out. About himself, as well.
"But the Politico and the rest of the Democrat operatives in and out of the press are noticing that his charges are hurting Obama, after all. (Witness that CNN poll from two days ago.) So they want him to shut up.
"And, if they can’t get him to stop talking, they will settle for discrediting him as a ‘celebrity wannabe.’ "

From Forbes: Edward Snowden Blows It  "Spilling the beans to his fellow Americans over the depth of surveillance being carried out by the National Security Agency within the borders of the United States is one thing—disclosing the nation’s covert activities involving spying on other nations is something else entirely."

On Illegal Immigration

Tentative deal reached in Senate on enhanced border security  "A tentative deal has been reached on border security that would go a long way toward meeting the concerns of nervous GOP Senators and may even convince some Republicans in the House to vote for some kind of immigration reform."

Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal makes this case against the border fence: A fence built along the border with Mexico will stand as a permanent embarrassment to the United States.  "The idea of sealing the border with Mexico against illegal entry originated years ago with citizens in communities in southern Arizona and Southern California, where violence and murder accompanied illegal crossings. Residents there were under siege. In time, the desire of these people near the border to be protected from unlawful cross-border flows was expanded by party activists beyond a policy goal into a commit-or-die litmus test, like opposing amnesty, for any Republican presidential candidate. This symbol sits in the middle of the Senate immigration bill."

My problem is that Democrats want to give the vote to those whose first love is Mexico and who intensely dislike the US. Watch US- Mexico soccer games played in Los Angeles if you need an example. Their first concern is the best interests of America? TD