…if you continually decide,

to faithfully pursue…

something something something…

I think Jonathan Springston knows the next lyric.  He probably knows the whole song by heart.

Objective truth, is not the  kind of truth that the editor of the Atlanta Progressive News deems a good fit for his rag. Truth is not their policy, so they fired it.

In the end, we had to make a very difficult decision to move forward as a publication without Jonathan Springston. Last Wednesday, we informed him it seemed more appropriate if he found work with another publication or started his own publication.

At a very fundamental, core level, Springston did not share our vision for a news publication with a progressive perspective. He held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy at Atlanta Progressive News. It just wasn’t the right fit.

We have already begun drafting a more programmatic statement on our editorial position regarding objectivity, inter-subjectivity, and news. To be sure, I’ve commented on Creative Loafing’s blog previously about such issues.
(Inter-subjectivity?!)

In the meantime, here is some information from our Frequently Asked Questions page:
“Progressive news is news that brings us closer to universal health care, living wages, affordable housing, peace, a healthy environment, and voting systems we can trust.

We provide news of concern to working families, and therefore, our writing is geared toward a specific audience. Fortunately, our audience–working families–comprises a majority of people in the United States who are largely ignored by corporate media sources.

We believe there is no such thing as objective news. Typically, mainstream media presents itself as objective but is actually skewed towards promoting the corporate agenda of the ultra-wealthy.

The truth sure does give these guys the vapors, doesn’t it? He prefers subjective truth, which is a fancy Orwellian phrase for “lie”. But only uber-wealthy corporate media, and troglodytes like Joe Wilson, would use such an objective “fact-based” word.

The editor made sure to clarify his position in the comments section:

APNEditor Says:

1. February 15th, 2010 at 6:59 pm Also, I didn’t mean to imply–even indirectly or in the slightest way–that Creative Loafing was objective. Quite the opposite- Creative Loafing’s slant is so inline with the bourgeois, corporate ideology of most of the corporate media in Atlanta, that you all kind of reinforce and reify each other to the point where one can easily become deluded that this corporate ideology you propagate is somehow an objective truth.

I have a subjective truth. I think the term bourgeois is tres passe. I mean, who is this guy? Some mustache-twisting, goatee stroking throwback to the Bolshevik revolution? What kind of currency does Cardinale get paid in for his work ? 1905 rubles?

Probably.  I’ll go search for his picture.

That is definitely the APN editor on the far left, circa 1919.  According to my subjective truth.  Guess you have to go back that far to be “progressive”.

(I found this somewhere on Big Journalism but I lost it somewhere. I certainly didn’t find it by reading Creative Loafing.)

Update: (Or inconvenient objective truth) Atlanta Progressive News is not a non-profit, it is a corporation.

Last night I got a call from a survey company out of Denver.  It went something like this:

Hello, my name is ***** and I’m calling from ***** and was wondering if you had some time for a brief survey concerning your political opinions?

I felt a little energetic, so I replied in the affirmative.

Great Mrs. ****.  Tell me, how likely are you to vote in Tennessee’s next gubernatorial election? Not Likely, Likely, or Certainly?

Certainly.

(here I begin paraphrasing a bit.)

Thank you.  Mrs. ****.  Some in the administration have proposed that in order for Tennessee to be fiscally healthy, there should be a one cent tax on sugar, soft drinks, and sports drinks.  Others have proposed that local officials come and take your babies by force and have them severed in two.  Tell me Mrs. *****, which option would you support?

Uh.  Um.  Can I pass on that one?

Sure.  I’ll just note that you “don’t know”.

In the country right now there is an epidemic of obesity.  Some lawmakers in Tennessee have proposed that special funds should be set aside for educating school children, especially at-risk kids, about healthy lifestyles.  Others have proposed that all Tennessee babies should be force-fed crack sandwiches.  Tell me Mrs. *****, which option would you support?

I’ve gotta pass on that too.

Sure.  I’ll just note that you don’t care about children.

All right,  let’s see.  Mrs. *****, due to the same obesity epidemic, some lawmakers have proposed a law that would require chain restaurants to list nutritional information on their menus.  Those who don’t support the proposal have stated that they would like to stand by as fat customers choke to death on their fried buffalo bacon and bleu cheese sandwiches.  Which option sounds best to you Mrs. *****?

You know, all of these questions seem designed to get me to choose option A.

Ma’am, I didn’t design the questionnaire, I’m just reading from a form here.

Oh, I understand.  Can I just say something here?

Sure.

(here begins the transcript of my fantasy conversation.  The one I came up with after the survey while I was making bean sprout sandwiches on whole wheat with sugar free yogurt for the kiddies, and Nutri-Crap cake for dessert.  This is what I would have said if I had a quick wit to match my justifiable political cynicism.  I mean, do you know how long it takes me to write these things?!)

I think I understand the political purpose of this survey.  First to publish in the news that the population of Tennessee overwhelmingly supports higher taxes and greater government intrusion, since no decent survey taker ever supported option B.  Secondly to place in my mind (the Tennessee voter) that there are no other viable alternative solutions (besides the evil option B) to the problems of the budget or obesity. Thirdly, to place in my mind that the candidate I must vote for is the option A candidate, because his opponent is obviously an option “B” man, and to give the option “B” man our vote would prove that I hated children and thought they should grow up ignorant and die a slow painful death from diabetes and heart disease. Right?

Like I said, I didn’t design the questionnaire.

Let me just say this.  I’ll start taking the advice of my school officials on issues of children’s health when they stop loading my kids with white bread and high fructose corn syrup in the lunch room, and chocking kindergartner’s pie holes with marshmallows and chocolate kisses every time they bark like a trained seal.
And I’ll start giving Tennessee’s wise government authorities my ear about my kid’s health and safety when they start putting aside a bit of the budget to make sure autistic kids don’t end up in cages, and to do background checks on elementary school teachers to make sure they haven’t attempted to kill anybody in the last few years.

Mrs. ****, should I note that you intend to discontinue the survey?

Click.

Yeah.  That’s how it should have gone.

Tea Parties dominated by conspiracist kooks. According to Newsweek’s Jonathan Kay.

This world view’s modern-day prophets include Texas radio host Alex Jones, whose documentary, The Obama Deception, claims Obama’s candidacy was a plot by the leaders of the New World Order to “con the Amercican people into accepting global slavery”; Christian evangelist Pat Robertson; and the rightward strain of the aforementioned “9/11 Truth” movement. According to this dark vision, America’s 21st-century traumas signal the coming of a great political cataclysm, in which a false prophet such as Barack Obama will upend American sovereignty and render the country into a godless, one-world socialist dictatorship run by the United Nations from its offices in Manhattan.

Sure enough, in Nashville, Judge Roy Moore warned, among other things, of “a U.N. guard stationed in every house.” On the conference floor, it was taken for granted that Obama was seeking to destroy America’s place in the world and sell Israel out to the Arabs for some undefined nefarious purpose. The names Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers popped up all the time, the idea being that they were the real brains behind this presidency, and Obama himself was simply some sort of manchurian candidate.

Of course every movement has its radicals, but if these ideas dominated the Tea Party movement, wouldn’t I have heard about them before stumbling upon them in a Newsweek article? I mean, I know my political prophets and they’re all pretty much dead.  Well, not ‘Zo, but anyway.

Kay didn’t even mention all of the wordpress-hating, Bill Whittle goading, gun-toting, earth-loving, secular Christian, veteran Wiccan Tea Partiers that had me fascinated all morning, but then again, they don’t fit his narrative. If you’re at all intellectually/philosophically/spiritually curious, and willing to have all of your own stereotypes challenged, you should read the comment thread on that one.

Hey Nigel, I think it’s going to be a little easier now for Russell to beat Murtha in 2010.

But, then again, this wouldn’t be the first time the Dependocrats have tried to elect a dead man.

UPDATE (Cranky) Yes, I know. I’m a bad person.

Forgive the long post.  I’m not known for being particularly laconic.

Does idolizing someone require you to suspend rational thought?  If independent, rational thought is at the core of your principles, can you really ever have an idol?  Even if that idol inspired your radical libertarian way of thinking?  Because at some point have to accept as a creed of sorts that humans are deeply flawed, overemotional, and irrational on the inside and many will disappoint you at all turns, especially the ones you put on a pedestal.  How can they let you down if you didn’t hold them up in the first place? I assert that you probably hold someone in too much esteem because they have only revealed to you what they want you to see, and that you don’t truly know them.  If you still feel deep affection for someone despite who they actually are, and you are in full possession of your senses, then that is called love/friendship and is a whole different issue.

I started thinking about this a few months ago while researching Ayn Rand.  I was curious about what she thought about the infirm, the mentally ill, and the unborn.  I discovered to my dismay that her belief in the inalienable rights of the human individual does not extend to those who still have an umbilical cord attached, no matter which trimester.  She also believed that handicapped people shouldn’t be seen in public, especially by children.  So there’s a hole in her belief that she would never ask another man to give up his life for her.  And her belief that one should never initiate violence. But I guess that depends on your objectivist definition of “man”.  If his existence is an undue burden for you , and he has no ability to rationalize, then he is not a human, and therefore he is dispensable.

While I was deciding whether I was going to throw the baby out with the bathwater, I realized that my beliefs are not an all-or-nothing proposition.  Independent thought is an a-la-carte menu and I don’t have to dine exclusively at the table of Ayn Rand.  I can take from her table some very important ideas and accept that despite her brilliance she is still deeply flawed.  I also am freed from idolizing her.  Which is refreshing, because I dislike the idea of submitting myself to someone else’s ideas so completely.

All that being said, I found this video very interesting.

I think Penn’s problem is that he suspended his independent thought when it came to his idol. And when his idol disappointed him, it hit him like spit in the face.  Literally.  The sad thing is that Jillette is temporarily abandoning his own reason by thinking that perhaps his unhinged hero may have been correct .  But it jars a person when he gets yelled at by someone dear to them, and most deeply flawed human beings want to make things right when their world gets a crack in it.  Jillette can’t change Smothers, so instead he considers changing himself.

I just have to say, if I had to agree with someone on all core principles in order to even engage them in conversation, then my husband and I would never speak to one another.

I also believe Tommy Smothers is an ass, but I still like his yo yo tricks.

Excuses Wearing Thin for Obama, Media Pals

The White House trying to dictate who’s a news organization. Democrats out to gut a business group. Obama media allies damning Americans as racist, unpatriotic and treasonous. Is this the America Obama promised when he campaigned to end the cynical and divisive politics of the past?

RTWT

The Imperious White House Communications Director and Mao mistress Anita Dunn opened her Mao mouth in January:

“One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters,” said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama’s chief campaign manager.

“We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it,” Dunn said.

Continued Dunn: “Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying.”

You don’t have to look too hard to find our comrades.   All of Uncle Barry’s troops “appear” to be walking around in government approved red berets and jackboots with little red books, and skinny cigarettes, spouting Maoisms.  That’s fine, we have news organizations who will help the workers understand the nuance behind the appearance.  We don’t even have to make the media cover this.  Most channels salivate over our chic neo-marxist style.

Lately a perceptive comedian has been pointing it out: “Hey! Look at those commies walking around in red berets and jackboots with their tiny cigarettes talkin’ Mao!” We must laugh at these fools.  In a better world we would call him unstable and send him away to the proper mental facility- make him shut up, before he starts bandying about the idea that our new emperor is simply a useful idiot.

We must be grateful to Dear Leader that we have public figures like Anita Dunn to act as wise filters who will help us view the news from the White House in the appropriate context.  From this day forward, we shall refer to the public statements that the government approves and permits as real news. You should not worry about stumbling upon news items that make you uncertain, since real news is widely dispersed on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and of course CNN.

Go forth with confidence comrades! There is nothing to see here!

I just need to add this, because the Dunn’s quote clearly reveals how the Obama campaign operated, and his leadership operates, through a method of deceiving the people.  When there is not such a wide gulf between what your president says and what he means, then the press doesn’t need to be manipulated by White House Communications Directors into reporting only what he said,  not asking why he said it, and wondering “what the tactic was” behind the words.

Back when we had a president that spoke plainly, who didn’t need a translators/handlers,  the press regarded him as a swaggering simpleton who was an embarrassment to America. The press, in general, would rather hear a poetic lie than the bald truth.

I guess these are general questions, but they have come up again since this Rush Limbaugh/NFL flap.

It seems the left spends a lot of time making spurious claims, and in Sarah Palin’s case, dragging public figures into lawsuits based upon these falsehoods.    The people bringing the suits know that their claims are based on fabrications, but that’s not the point.  The point is to destroy the image of the political figure, talk show host, plumber etc., and also, in Sarah Palin’s case, to bankrupt them.

Because they don’t have the patience or guts to do the actual work required to civilly defend their positions, the left makes sport out of  fighting strawmen. They coat conservative figures in stories they have created out of whole cloth to make a monster that doesn’t even exist, so they can set it on fire.  Do they at some point forget that they created the monster themselves?  If all of the Hitler mustaches, bloody fangs, and unsettling uplighting are stripped away, what are their true feelings about the grandma they put inside the wolf-suit?  Do they really feel that strongly about policy? And which actual policy is it that they take issue with?

At what point, when confronted with the actual facts, would  they have to break down and say “well, I just didn’t like the tone of his voice” or “her glasses were funny” or the more honest: “I believe a bunch of bullshit that’s not based in truth or rational thought, and I think that’s a superior way to think”?

Childish.

What the left doesn’t seem to understand about the right is that we don’t operate that way as a general rule.  We’re not out looking to create a boogeyman when we say, based upon economic and historical fact, that someone is implementing socialistic or fascistic policies, but when we make assertions like that are told what we are saying is derogatory or I am ignorant or misinformed, and lately we get accused of incitement to violence and hate speech.  But we are not hunting down imaginary monsters we have sewn together.  We are arming ourselves against a very real threats to freedom. The czars, ACORN, the stimulus, the government control and rationing of health care… we could go on and on ad nauseum about very real threats to freedom.  We don’t have to invent something to disturb us, but the left is too immersed in Alinsky’s Art of Poo-Flinging to see that the right’s protests arise from serious concerns.

There is a true a living, breathing threat, but it may take some unadulterated education on history and economics for the left to understand the monster, and that’s just too much work for them. In the meantime we’re all about to get our heads chewed off.

Apparently, according to the bastions of rationality that are Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg, ACORN is doing the job Republicans won’t do, which is helping the poor.

GOLDBERG: Everything, I mean, you know, there are boneheads in all organizations. We’ve worked for them. We know that they’re there. But do you kill the whole thing? And I don’t think so. A lot of people think that you should kill it. But you can’t answer, you can’t tell me where those people who become even more disenfranchised go. Because we know the Republicans aren’t going to take care of them. Cause we see that doesn’t work anymore for them. So now where do they go? I am sick and tired of people dismantling stuff and saying, “Oh, we’re for the people,” and then leaving the people this. Because they don’t care. Find a way to fix it.

BEHAR: They haven’t dismantled the Catholic Church and they have some boneheads in there.

GOLDBERG: This is true.

Just in case you evil right wingers needed to know what’s involved in helping the poor,  I have provided a list that you can refer to when you get “confused” as you often do. If you have trouble reading, there are videos that we have just released this week which will provide much of the same assistance.

1. Provide poor people with low interest loans on properties that are out of their price range.  Picket when they get foreclosed upon and go bankrupt.  It won’t help their future ability to buy a home, but hey, you looked pretty philanthropic when you where breaking the locks for them.

2. Teach poor people how to commit tax fraud in order to open a brothel.

3. Remind poor people that there is no shame in selling your body. Have posters of Heidi Fleiss on the wall, because she is a hero.

4. Teach prostitutes and pimps how to claim their underage sex slaves as dependants on their tax forms.

5. Tell a hooker how to seduce a bank president in order to get a loan to open a brothel where you will instruct youngsters who barely speak English about the LA sex industry.

6. Tell an abused woman how she can “lay groundwork” with battered women’s charities and the authorities in order to provide a cover for murdering her abuser.

7. Offer, in exchange for sexual favors, to get your contact in Tijuana’s help in smuggling children across the border to be sex slaves.

There are also ways that the poor can offer their own contributions.  Getting involved in politics by registering dead people, cartoon characters, and football teams to vote Democrat.  Just make sure the office is closed when the poor come for their paycheck.

These are just a few ideas. Because you know the Republicans never helped a poor person in quite this way.  It’s change we believe in.  If the Catholic Church wasn’t so corrupt they would get with the program and start helping the poor too. Who is going to provide these valuable services if ACORN is shut down?  I mean, do we want to give a monopoly to the mob, or the international sex-slave trade?

(BTW I know there are a few progressive ideas that I have failed to note.  So if you have any more ways in which we can educate the ignorant Teabaggers among us on how to bring about economic justice to the unfortunate in this corrupt America, just leave it for me in the comments.)

Yes, Congress voted to defund them., but ACORN is still on Obama’s official Organizing  for America website. And why wouldn’t they be?

When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education.  Senator Obama said, “I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school.   That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it.  I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career.  Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”

His entire career.

If you haven’t seen this, it’s great. Burris has got true courage that rises from the conviction that underage illegal sex slavery is fine if it’s done for the greater good. Of course, if you’re a decent man, you don’t have to run.

Massachusetts voters immediately vote to change state law (again) to allow newly-stuffed taxidermic Senator to run for his own Senate seat in special inanimate election. Anything for the Kennedys.

or…

Democrat party leaders scour inner-city Boston for a black community-organizer who can “talk good” to fill Senate seat.

or…

Leave your own insensitive headline to help out the Old Media.

Stuart Schwartz at the American Thinker has penned a scathing takedown of Peggy Noonan’s obsession with Sarah Palin. It is absolutely brilliant.

It’s brilliant because it’s beautifully written and spot on, but it is also brilliant because it nails the liberal country-club leadership of the GOP in the process. Noonan is one of the standard-bearers of the elitist, liberal, big-spending Republican party – the anti-Jim Demint, if you will. It cannot be denied, Peggy is skullcrushingly jealous of Sarah Palin, and simply can’t tolerate us rubes in flyover country, period.

Can’t you just visualize Peggy sitting down at her Mac laptop, sipping an $8 Starbucks latte, eyes filled with rage and disbelief that someone left the servants’ door open, allowing this weapon-wielding guttersnipe into the comfy, elitist confines of the GOP?

As we always say – and this time I really mean it – READ THE WHOLE THING.

Speaking of the elitists in the GOP, who want to keep liberal Republicans like Charlie Crist and John McCain in power, they will be none-too-pleased to know that actual conservative Pat Toomey has pulled into a tie with former-RINO Snarlin’ Arlen Sphincter in PA. Now if Marco Rubio can gain some traction in Florida, we can really get a GOP purge underway.

Liberal ex-journalist dispatched to the great beyond. Joe Jackson suspects foul play.

No disrespect intended, I didn’t even know he was still around.

B-Mac here: I usually don’t add on to a post but when it comes to Satan’s Anchorman, it’s worth noting that he did as much to secure defeat in Vietnam as anyone and the aftermath is still felt today whether you’re a sweatshop worker still toiling under that Soviet-backed communist regime, the bones littering the killing fields of Cambodia, or a Latin American strongman threatening to overthrow a democracy.  The precedent stands when a US President sits on his hands.

The interview with NV Colonel Bui Tin from the Wall Street Journal in 1995:

Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi’s victory?

A:  It was essential to our strategy.  Support of the war from our rear was completely secure  while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m.  to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement.  Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence  that we should hold on  in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.

Q: Did the Politburo pay attention to these visits?

A: Keenly.

Q: Why?

A: Those people represented the conscience of America. The conscience of America was part of its war-making capability, and we were turning that power in our favor. America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win.

Of course, the “Conscience of America” is a direct reference to Walter Cronkite. Though they could win one battle they knew they could not win the war without the help of Cronkite.  And boy, did they ever get it.   He may have been wearing a suit on tv but he might has well have been dressed in a pair of black pajamas.  Indeed, Walter Cronkite was the Original Pajamas Media.

It’s no wonder that whenever America faces an enemy -  be they an entrenched Marxist dictatorship, a teetering rogue nation, or a pack of Islamofascist hyenas that they can never underestimate what an ally they have in the American media.

For every Cronkite dead, there’s a thousand aspiring J-school students clamoring or MSNBC anchors willing to throw a sympathetic hug on a terrorist or a dictator and spit in our country’s face.

Or, how Tennessee continues to show the rest of the country how to do it. The only problem is that 37 other states have already made restaurant carry legal, so, technically we’re not cutting edge, but at least we’re a little freer (is that a word?).

Right on cue, the Tennessean (or as BMac calls it, “Pravda on the Cumberland”) had their hysterical local restaurant owners ready to foam at the mouth.

Sounds like Cliff is encouraging folks to engage in fisticuffs at his place of business. You heard him, boys!

The best non-quote is a restaurant owner who is so distraught that he couldn’t even put together a sentence.

All Ben had to do was mutter “uuuuhhhh…. ummmmm……. uuuuuuh….” like President Hussein sans teleprompter and he would undoubtedly be heralded a genius. Use this article to guide where you spend your ever shrinking dining dollar.

Way back before the veto, I sent the beloved Governor a note and urged him to sign the legislation. He declined to do so, but was kind enough to (1) let me know why and (2) call me friend.

Time to Fisk the Governor.

I think he means that.

If you ever listen to leftists speak – particularly President Hussein – they always say “let me be clear”. My response is, who is stopping you from being clear? Who is obfuscating your message? You have the entire media machine amplifying your message, liberals, and you still have to say this? Tedious.

In other words, “I believe in your right to own a gun, but leave it locked up at home, unloaded and make sure there’s a trigger lock in there too…” Heaven forbid we be allowed to take it places where they may be needed, though the occasion may be rare. Just to reinforce how much he loves guns (and how much he is just like me), he provides some history.

Or as Nashville’s own Barney Fife says, “see what happened in all them saloooons in old westerns when people would just start a-shootin’?”

The law explicitly states that the carrier is prohibited from drinking. You do care about the rule of law, don’t you? Well, we’ll all make an exception for the groups of illegals who come to do your yardwork, but aside from that, you do care about the law, right?

He needs to know my views so that he may locate me and send his press ghoul Lydia Lenker to my house to interrogate me for being one of Napolitano’s right-wing terrorists.

Fisking… the last refuge of the uninspired blogger. But still, suck on that, Tennessee elites, and by all means, put up your “firearms prohibited” signs sooner rather than later so that we will know where not to spend what’s left of our disposable income.

Nanny-state eurowhore Jacqui Smith is selectively banning foreigners who don’t come to her country from coming to her country because:

“If people have so clearly overstepped the mark in terms of the way not just that they are talking but the sort of attitudes that they are expressing to the extent that we think that this is likely to cause or have the potential to cause violence or inter-community tension in this country, then actually I think the right thing is not to let them into the country in the first place. Not to open the stable door then try to close it later,” Ms Smith said.

“It’s a privilege to come to this country. There are certain behaviours that mean you forfeit that privilege.”

Thus spracketh the Mammy-State Moses as she came down from Mt. Self-Righteous to deliver her stone tablets. Among her Who’s Who of Who Can’t Visit her dying country in the hospice of it’s history is a luminary cast of klansmen, skinhead murderers, terrorist preachers and radio talk-show personality Michael Savage.

Don’t get me wrong. Savage can infrequently be entertaining when on his medication and not stoked by the audience to discuss the climatological impact of woodburning fireplaces but lumping him in with murderers is a bit much, love.
After all, we don’t have to look too far back in the past to find that the privilege of coming to Britain isn’t so bloody hot in the first place:

‘HE is the coward for mocking victims of friendly fire’: Families of dead soldiers react with fury to Muslim hate preacher’s taunts
By Andrew Levy and Paul Harris
Last updated at 9:46 AM on 12th March 2009

The families of soldiers killed by friendly fire in Iraq have reacted with fury after a firebrand preacher taunted them over the deaths of their loved ones.

…

The preacher, the right-hand man to cleric of hate Omar Bakri, went on to attack the ‘vile’ parade. He said the soldiers were ‘terrorists’, comparing them to Nazi troops who ‘cannot be excused for simply carrying out their duty’.

…

Choudary, 32, posted the comments on a website run by the Islam For The UK group.

He has close links with Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah, the radical Islamist group believed to be behind the application to Bedfordshire Police for permission to stage the protest. ASWJ was founded in 2005 and took in members of Al-Muhajiroun when the Luton-based group formerly led by Bakri was outlawed.

He said: ‘Pathetic and cowardly British soldiers pompously marched through Luton to demonstrate their skill at murdering and torturing thousands of innocent Muslim men, women and children over a 24-month period.

He added: ‘Non-Muslims in Britain must appreciate that the actions of the British soldiers must be condemned unreservedly; they are not heroes but closer to cowards who cannot fight, as their uncanny knack for death by “friendly fire” illustrates.

‘They are terrorists, and cannot be excused for simply “carrying out their duty”, which incidentally (and vividly) was also used by Nazi soldiers in Germany to justify their notorious and bloody campaigns in the early 20th century.’

Yes. Do lecture the world about your standards for civil behavior while you coddle the Islamic scum suckling at the state teat while they piss on your dead in open public.

Radio personality who most people in Britain would have never heard of? Banned. Radical Islamics who spit and mock your returning soldiers for cleaning up their native countries get a check in the mail courtesy of the British taxpayer. Better yet, let them work at your airports handling the luggage.

Allow me to save everyone some time and voluntarily ban myself from going to England. I hate visiting nursing homes much less ones for Western Civilization. The only thing worse is visiting daycare. In this case, we find Ms. Smith gladly cheering the British Intifada’s baby steps while teaching them to sing “London Bridge Is Falling Down”.

I really really do.  I don’t want any scary government agency breathing down my neck.  There are a few things a sane person should never do, run down the street naked, douse yourself with honey and throw yourself into the bear pit at the zoo, or to call for the assassination of the president.  Apparently there is a politician out there who misunderstood my tea party sign and posted about it in a letter to the editor of our local paper.

It is slated to run this Sunday.  Here’s the bit:

Among the most noteworthy signs were the following: ‘Revolution is Brewing’ held by a member of the College Republicans; ‘Each State is Sovereign,’ citing the Articles of Confederation; ‘Stop Predatory Taxation’ with a target on the president’s head;

I wish he had come up and asked me about it, and I would have told him that the target was not in fact on Barack Obama’s head, but the head of a businessman, meant to symbolize Congress’ unconstitutional targeting of AIG reps’ bonuses with a 90% tax. I also would have reminded him that these same AIG reps were the recipients of a polite request by Senator Charles Grassley that they give up their bonuses or kill themselves. That too inspired the target.

He could have looked at me for goodness sakes.  Imagine Debbie Gibson calling for the president’s head.  That’s pretty much what it would have looked like.

So here’s the photo of my sign:

Yes, he has big ears and a skinny neck. I should have thought of that. I went to great pains to make him balding, I put pinstripes on his suit so he would look more like a banker-type, and he wore a bright blue shirt.

Here’s the original that worked from:

Next time I’ll just go to Kinko’s. But let me say this. I think people see what their preconceived notions tell them to. Like how for the last 8 years when I was watching all of  those peaceful rallies where screaming activists painted Bush up like Hitler and the Devil and burned our president in effigy. The media never made a big deal about how dangerous these folks might be, I mean these political activists were just doing their patriotic duty to dissent and disagree. Maybe I remember that all wrong because I’m a right-wing extremist teabagging nut.

Ugh.  Enough with this blogging. I have a country barn to draw and some azaleas to plant.

Latin American cultural outreach.

The gutless cowards who are now in charge of our government are lunatics. How else do you account for their maniacal fits of inappropriate laughter? Gallows humor, I guess.

I have a feeling Capt. Phillips’ family isn’t laughing right now. But when you have the big, bad U.S. military sitting there handcuffed (even moreso than they were under the PC Bush regime), what do the pirates (Somali muslims) have to fear?

Nothing, with these douchebags giving the orders to do nothing. As Drew so aptly put it over at Ace’s place, Obama. He’s Jimmy Carter without the muscular foreign policy.

There are quite a few reasons to highlight the story of Biden’s daughter’s alleged flakefest instead of playing this magnanimous “I wouldn’t want it done to me and my kids” card being trotted out by The Chivalrous Knights of the Center Right. And I’m reposting my comment from another site but we all have our reasons.

First, let me second Dan Riehl’s observations here.  The scolding Miss Manners of Centrism have gotten our asses handed to us the last two election cycles.

A. That luxury has not been afforded to the Bush twins over alcohol when they weren’t 21. Mary Cheney’s gayness being brought up during the VP debates.  They put Pattie Davis in Playboy to piss off Daddy didn’t they?  Andrew Sullivan’s conspiratorial stalker-lite snoopings around Bristol Palin’s nether regions and attacking a baby of all things.  Etc., etc.

B. Joe Biden is a big Drug Warrior. That’s a terrific CATO podcast link to Timothy Lynch’s comments about Biden’s selection. Now’s the time to even out that crack vs. coke sentencing disparity. Otherwise, we’ll think that white people getting caught doing cocaine is no big deal but black people doing cocaine in crack form gets them sent up the river. Take one for the team, Ashley. Dad’s Team. Dad’s team kicks your door in at night. Shoots first and asks questions maybe.

C. She’s 27 years old. How long do you get to be a kid in this country? The tape is evidently of her joking that the lines aren’t big enough and from within the year.  Sorry, but when Dad’s running for the big job and you’re out tooting it up like the whistle on the Chattanooga Choo-Choo you’ve got to know these no longer youthful indiscretions are going to bite you and Dad in the ass.

D. In light of the President’s plan to continue raiding pot dispensaries and the increasing drug violence along the Mexican border, Hillary Clinton is in Mexico this week condemning Americans for doing the drugs that have the cartels holding daily bullet festivals. Coincidentally the same kinds of drugs her Brother tries to sell pardons for and Brother-In-Law has been convicted of.  Drugs her husband admitting doing and not inhaling.  Drugs the current President engaged in freely.  Drugs the last President did before Jesus became the ultimate high.

Let’s clean our own houses first, eh?

It’s a story whether you want it to be or not. When did Pajamas Media get to be the filter that tells us what we are and aren’t allowed to talk about. You can reason. You implore. But the only one who gives orders is Boss.

Biden’s helped write the laws that have sent millions to jail. If he can’t stop his own daughter then how the hell are we?

Dad’s running around thanking Spain for all of their help in Iraq.  Spain hates us.   They cut and ran so fast I was afraid that their mothers were going to switch them to safety scissors lest they trip and land on them.  Maybe he should get drug tested too.

Maybe they should all get drug tested.  If it’s good enough for our welfare recipientson government assistance, it’s good enough for our welfare recipients in Congress who just voted themselves another fat raise while millions are getting laid off.

Breitbart’s Conservative Manifesto:

The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and other left-leaning sites benefit from the right’s belief that there are rules and decorum in political debate and civic engagement. Of course, every now and then, a curious right-winger will go in and engage in discussion at a left-wing site, but rarely under purely disingenuous and mass coordinated means.

David Brock, John Podesta, am I missing something?

As a prolific consumer of online content, I value nothing more than the sincere expression of opinion that differs from mine. Sometimes I am even moved or swayed from my dogma. But that was not the type of communication that got Mr. Obama elected.

The American right is in a heap of trouble in a media age that doesn’t shun the goons and liars that have poisoned the political process and won the American presidency by breaking the rules of fair play. It is time to fight back, but it won’t be easy. The enemy is willing to do and say anything in order to win.

And our side simply is not.  Even when we are completely in the right and have non-nefarious motives for doing so.

It’s not 100% perfection, but it’s damn close.

From someone handled Cashncarry in the forum over at Denninger’s place.

Clutch cargo quote.

It’s national tea party day, and like T-Man, I have to work so that I can pay taxes to provide more handouts for the Obamabots.

However, I have it on good authority that some Buffet regulars are heading down to Nashville for the Nashville Tea Party. Hopefully they will report back later in the day. If you’re in the middle Tennessee area, get down to Legislative Plaza around Noon to protest the Feds’ attempt to bankrupt the country and control our lives through confiscatory taxation and environmental restrictions on our daily lives. Or, if not, find one in your area.

T-Man’s contribution to Tea Party day is definitely worth a read. It’s “How to Explain Conservatism to Your Squishy Liberal Friends: Individualism ‘R’ Us” by P.J. O’Rourke. My Tea Party Contribution today is to steal T-Man’s Tea Party contribution. It’s blog redistribution. Read and share with your uneducated friends. They need someone besides Katie Couric and Oprah to explain Conservatism in clear and simple terms.

Tea Party Background

Snoopy, victim of friendly fire

Fresh off of criticizing Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, Urkel Christ struck back at last night’s press conference as if to say, “Hey, I’ve got a fatso radio blowhard of my own” by giving a prime lame duck blind in the press shooting gallery to obese Air America ginger Ed Schultz.  Schultz, when not assaulting women at the bar,  then berated a writer at Politico for having the Obamanian audacity to question whether he is the renewable windbag that’s going to get us off foreign oil.

Liberal radio host Ed Schultz kicked off his show today by addressing a Politico item from last night.

“I end up with a front row seat in the first prime-time press conference, and all of a sudden it’s all over the blogosphere,” Schultz said.

Schultz called Politico’s Jonathan Martin a “punk” and a “nitwit” for asking if it was an assigned seat.

“I have earned that seat,” the veteran radio host said on the air.

Schultz claimed that conservative hosts had access to the Oval Office during the Bush years, and that wasn’t noted by the press. However, I think it’s safe to say that if McCain were elected, and Limbaugh had a spot right up front, the media would call attention to it.

By seating him in the front row, taking a question from the Huffington Post, and calling on Helen Thomas, Schultz said it’s evident that the White House is “listening outside the mainstream media.”

No kidding.  He earned that seat and he’s got the dirty kneecaps to prove it.

But Urkel giving left wing loons preferential treatment is really a dog bites man story.  Schultz, on the other, is more like a man shoots dog story.

Sorry if the truth hurts, Ed.  Don’t shoot the messenger.  Or the dog for that matter.  I’d like to say no animals were injured in the production of this post.

But I can’t.

The fun police never take a holiday – even in Palinland.

The locals don’t have much in the way of Christmas spirit, so they went to the little totalitarians at City Hall and had the massive snowman beheaded permanently.

Who’da thunk Alaska would go all nanny-statey on us? What a shame.

h/t Tanya B.

In fact, it’s summed up nicely by this ad sent to me by a co-worker.

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The blessed UAW thugs will not be denied. Especially when their candidate’s dictatorship starts in January. I won’t give up hope, though.