Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Race relations in the era of Obama

Black lawmakers lament flaring of racial tensions under Obama  "When President Obama follows in Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps on Wednesday with an address at the Lincoln Memorial, he will face a nation where race remains the great divide.

"Black lawmakers say the election of the nation’s first African-America president has not been a salve for racial tensions, a view that the public has also voiced in recent polling."
Political Cartoons by Glenn Foden
Colin Powell sprinkles gasoline on racial fires of resentment  "By delegitimizing the judicial system, Powell harms the American social order.  When respect for law declines, brute force tends to become the principal alternative mode of dispute resolution.  "How far he has fallen since his years of honorable service in the United States Army. I used to respect him."

A Discussion On Race, Crime And The Inconvenient Facts  "The racial violence issue in the U.S. just won't go away. Still in the aftermath of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, now it erupts in Oklahoma. A troubling corollary also adheres, though not universally recognized: 
"The racial victimhood industry demonstrably cares little about the facts, for example, in cases such as Martin—Zimmerman. The ultimate legal and factual aspects, therefore, become peripheral to the larger societal issue because the race hustlers have been aggressing regardless of the still-opaque full truth.

Toure: Conservatives Linking Lane And Belton Murders To Trayvon Martin A “Vile New Tactic” 
The short version: Shorter Toure: Conservatives talking about black on white crime is racist.
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Monday, August 26, 2013

If Miley Cyrus really, really, really wanted to shock people...

Iowahawk 
 
 Dear Miley Cyrus:
"We get it already. You’re not a kid anymore. That Teddy Bear-to-porn maven motif at the 2013 MTV VMAs was so unsubtle even the kind of people who like the VMAs couldn’t miss it. Ditto the latex bikini and relentless “twerking.” Besides, you’re belaboring the point. It’s been abundantly clear for some time you killed Hannah Montana and you’re pole-dancing on her grave."....

Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke performance draws negative reactions from fellow celebrities
 

After MSNBC Broadcasts 20-Minute Sharpton Speech, MSNBC Anchors Fawn Over Him as 'Peerless' Civil Rights Leader of Our Time

Newsbusters  "Does Al Sharpton run MSNBC now? On Saturday, the cable network broadcast hours of live coverage of the Sharpton-organized 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. When Sharpton prepared for his keynote speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, his friend Rev. Franklyn Richardson singled him out as “the one who has become the voice of this era.” They broadcast Sharpton’s entire 20-minute speech live.

"When he was finished on stage, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Michael Eric Dyson formed a hallelujah chorus, all praising Sharpton in the same glowing light as the "peerless" and "pre-eminent" civil rights leader of our time, like he was paying everyone’s salary:

HARRIS-PERRY: Joining me now for ongoing coverage of today's events is MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, host of The Ed Show. So nice to have you.
SCHULTZ: A fabulous last hour. A number of different speeches. There's no doubt that Reverend Sharpton is the contemporary civil rights leader of our time.

When the going gets tough, Obama goes golfing

American Thinker  "While his underlings selflessly toil to determine whether or not all the Assad government of Syria used chemical weapons against its own people (as seen on TV), President Obama played a 5 hour round of golf Sunday, closing in on a presidential total of 150 rounds of golf in four and half years. Meanwhile, The Royal Navy is ready for strikes on Syria, should Obama decide that his red line is more than the empty threat it seems to be.

 

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Potty train your cat and save a fortune on kitty litter

 

Obama worship

 
One tweet with this post:
Kyle Harding @schmylesmarding
A marcher carries US flag with image of Obama on it. State worship, meet hero worship. Hero worship, state worship. http://tinyurl.com/lp69cq5

 
 

Obama and the Middle East; Rhetoric Running on Empty

Victor Davis Hanson   "The latest disclosure — and the most grave — of the Assad regime’s supposed deployments of chemical weapons puts the West in general and the U.S. in particular in an untenable position."
....
"The president’s rhetorical quiver is empty. After tough talk about boots on the ground and the good war in Afghanistan, deadlines to Iran, and redlines to Syria, all of which proved sorta/kinda pipe dreams, there are no more “make no mistake about/let me be perfectly clear/game-changer/I’m not kidding” arrows. Assad knows that, and the world knows it as well. In other words, another Obama speech will earn guffaws."
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"All of the above hypotheticals and diplomatic nuances would not matter to a Churchill, Truman, or Reagan. They would size up the humanitarian crisis, grasp the strategic consequences of legitimizing the use of WMD, weigh the prior rhetorical investment of the U.S. in warning against what apparently is now happening, and craft an air strategy that might stop the violence without pulling U.S. ground troops into the mess — and act with dispatch and moral confidence.
"And now? Enough said."

Obama should express condolences for Lane's death, says governor


The Hill  "The silence over Lane's shooting has infuriated conservatives, in light of the extremely vocal stance Obama personally took during the Trayvon Martin shooting.  

"Two of the teenagers involved in Lane’s slaying were black. Conservatives have noted that one of the teens, James Edwards, sent out tweets that he hated white people on his Twitter account.
But Jason Hicks, the district attorney for Stephens County, where Lane was killed, said there was no evidence to treat the case as a hate crime."
 

Meet the Radical Lawyers Suing Bobby Jindal to Block School Choice

J. Christian Adams  "Personnel is policy, and the Obama administration knows it.  That’s why they hired swarms of committed leftist lawyers to populate the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.
"Bobby Jindal and school choice advocates are finding out the hard way how it works.
"Mike Flynn at Breitbart covers a lawsuit filed last week to block school choice in Louisiana by the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division. (Copy of complaint is here.)  The lawsuit alleges that school choice in Louisiana means too many white kids are going to private schools.  Never mind the fact that black children can do the same thing."

Muslim “minority ” views and sexual identity

Bookworm Room
...."And one other great find on Facebook, apropros Bradley Manning’s announcement that, henceforth, he is to be known as a girl named “Chelsea”:  “Breaking news! Due to an administrative error today, Bradley Manning was martyred and Maj Hassan was given gender reassignment surgery.”
"As for me, I’m wondering whether the Left might not think it the slightest bit embarrassing that one of their treasured “gender confused” people committed treason against America.  Oh, never mind!  I keep forgetting that, on the Left, treason against America is a good thing.
"As for me, I’m not the first and won’t be the last to say that Monty Python got it when it came to gender transformations:" 

Must read: The Associated Press and the Jerusalem World Review Notice that Obama Is A Failure

Powerline  "In foreign policy, anyway. Funny thing about getting that 2012 election behind us; now that President Obama has been safely re-elected, we are seeing occasional outbursts of honesty about his performance. This AP report by Julie Pace is surprisingly accurate:"   Read Article.
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"That Obama is a failure in foreign affairs isn’t news; that a generally liberal source like the Associated Press is willing to acknowledge the fact, is."

Must- read article:  Caroline B. Glick; Never since America's founding has the US appeared so untrustworthy, destructive, irrelevant and impotent   "Nothing short of a fundamental transformation of foreign policy will suffice to begin to repair the damage."   

DoD Training Manual: ‘Extremist’ Founding Fathers ‘Would Not Be Welcome In Today’s Military’

dodmanInfowars   "Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch recently obtained a Department of Defense training manual which lists people who embrace “individual liberties” and honor “states’ rights,” among other characteristics, as potential “extremists” who are likely to be members of “hate groups.”
Marked “for training purposes only,” the documents, obtained Thursday through a Freedom of Information Act request submitted in April, include PowerPoint slides and lesson plans, among which is a January 2013 Air Force “student guide” distributed by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute simply entitled “Extremism.” Via Drudge.