http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4bxz2RSkrI
James O'Keefe A.K.A abusive pimp, shill for the Muslim Brotherhood, Irish Heritage Foundation community organizer.
I am proud to identify myself as an Irish American, basking in the warm identity politics light of Mr. James O'Keefe. James O'Keefe is a very busy guy. For those of you living under a rock, James is the lad who got Ron Schiller to articulate some very unsurprising sentiments about various Americans who fund NPR. Personally, I was delighted to hear Mr. Schiller brand me "racist", hastening the day when NPR will be found only on satellite radio along side Howard Stern. However, I am curious to know how Schiller devises ways to avoid deeming himself as "racist' as well? Perhaps he accepts as fact that some types of racism are superior or more justifiable than others? Despising members of the racist, racist Tea Party is passe - everyone knows they are awful working class white people. Everyone knows!! No matter - NPR will soon join Acorn in the dead letter office and all the upper middle class "white" people who must hear the ironically titled "All Things Considered" will have to pay for the privilege to do so.
While exposing the wide and deep hypocrisy at NPR, Acorn and Planned Parenthood required both guts and skill, most of us are unaware of O'Keefe's early groundbreaking work while a student at Rutgers. O'Keefe organized "Irish Americans" at Rutgers University to demand the removal of Lucky Charms from the cafeteria!! As he clearly states in the video, to portray Irish Americans as little green gnomes is offensive and hurtful, even though the offense occurs on a cereal box, and to do so during the blessed month of March is beyond the pale. (You know, once you decide to organize a community there is no limit to what can be accomplished.) The earnest black woman, taking notes in the video, is bureaucratically hard-wired to be sensitive to any and all demands, even those that are seemingly ridiculous. Without resorting to violence, unlike the public employees in Wisconsin's, the Irish Heritage foundation's demands were met and the cereal was removed. Rest assured that the ground breaking "zero tolerance" movements started at American colleges and universities give all of us hope that we will never, ever be offended, insulted, slandered, excluded or dissed again. A life free from offense is now the American Way. My green bowler hat is off to James O'Keefe.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
What a Long, Strange Trip it's Been .... Grateful Dead
Actually, not long, but definitely strange. Down the rabbit hole strange.
Obama's speech at the National Archives in May 2009:
"Rather than keeping us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security. It is a rallying cry for our enemies. . . . By any measure, the costs of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing it. That's why I argued that it should be closed throughout my campaign, and that is why I ordered it closed within one year."
Well, well, well. I guess Obama's math methodology, as seen by his belief that cutting 4.6 billion from the 2011 budget constitutes a measurable reduction in federal spending, empowers him to recompute the length of "one year". I understand his enchantment with executive power is typical of the office, underscored by his "ordering it closed" in Cesarean fashion. And though I actually agree that Gitmo should not be closed, I do not understand why we hear only feeble bleating from the left on this shameful about face. Could it be that there are different standards for different leaders? Or could it just possibly be that the steady increase of "lone wolf" attacks by the shouters of "Allah Akbar" has frightened the likes of Couric and Krugman and Matthews who are secretly relieved that many lone wolves will continue to languish in Gitmo?
We all wind up disappointed in politicians. As a matter of fact, other than Ron Paul, who is regarded by people who know more than me as a very marginal politician, when members of the House and the Senate move from the minority to the majority party, e.g. Boehner, they start doing and saying things that surprise the people who elected them. This has been true for a long time. The difference now is that is harder to deny a former position/comment/campaign promise with the various tools available on the Internet, YouTube and twitter to track their every move. Every pissed off Josephina Blow, myself for instance,can watch Boehner on Cavuto complain about Obama and his profligate spending. Now, as majority leader, we hear him mew that making cuts needs to be done carefully, with caution, since so many depend on federal spending, NPR included, and we (they) don't want to damage the tender recovery. But, Dear John, that is not the charter you were given by the angry electorate who pushed the Democrats out. You. Were. Hired. To. Cut. Spending. I am sorry that your job is so difficult but not as sorry as I am that lifting the debt ceiling only worsens the terrible problem created by this cowardly Congress. Here is some math not yet learned by Congress; regardless of tax rates imposed by Congress, the American economy yields no more than 18.6% of GDP in tax receipts. Therefore, spending in excess of 18.6% of GDP must be borrowed. We are approaching 26% of GDP in federal spending; a measurable gap of 7.4%. Every bit of it borrowed. So.
So back to my original subject; the war on terror and Obama's morph into a hawk as revolutions hop from one middle eastern dictatorship to the next - is Gitmo the rallying cry of our enemies? Can Obama, two years into his own dictatorship, clarify to any one's satisfaction who America's enemies are? As he mutters threats at Qaddafi about a no-fly zone the goodwill he was to have generated with his metro sexual style among the Europeans seems in short supply as they decline to enforce the no fly zone themselves. Very disappointing. By my bitter computations things can and do go from bad to worse. Bad - unemployment of 9.8%. Worse - escalating inflation. Bad - an unknown outcome in Libya and Egypt. Worse - the US military interrupting the Libyan revolution, spilling more American blood and creating a new "rallying cry" for our enemies. Bad - Obama for two more years. Worse - Obama for six more years.
Obama's speech at the National Archives in May 2009:
"Rather than keeping us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security. It is a rallying cry for our enemies. . . . By any measure, the costs of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing it. That's why I argued that it should be closed throughout my campaign, and that is why I ordered it closed within one year."
Well, well, well. I guess Obama's math methodology, as seen by his belief that cutting 4.6 billion from the 2011 budget constitutes a measurable reduction in federal spending, empowers him to recompute the length of "one year". I understand his enchantment with executive power is typical of the office, underscored by his "ordering it closed" in Cesarean fashion. And though I actually agree that Gitmo should not be closed, I do not understand why we hear only feeble bleating from the left on this shameful about face. Could it be that there are different standards for different leaders? Or could it just possibly be that the steady increase of "lone wolf" attacks by the shouters of "Allah Akbar" has frightened the likes of Couric and Krugman and Matthews who are secretly relieved that many lone wolves will continue to languish in Gitmo?
We all wind up disappointed in politicians. As a matter of fact, other than Ron Paul, who is regarded by people who know more than me as a very marginal politician, when members of the House and the Senate move from the minority to the majority party, e.g. Boehner, they start doing and saying things that surprise the people who elected them. This has been true for a long time. The difference now is that is harder to deny a former position/comment/campaign promise with the various tools available on the Internet, YouTube and twitter to track their every move. Every pissed off Josephina Blow, myself for instance,can watch Boehner on Cavuto complain about Obama and his profligate spending. Now, as majority leader, we hear him mew that making cuts needs to be done carefully, with caution, since so many depend on federal spending, NPR included, and we (they) don't want to damage the tender recovery. But, Dear John, that is not the charter you were given by the angry electorate who pushed the Democrats out. You. Were. Hired. To. Cut. Spending. I am sorry that your job is so difficult but not as sorry as I am that lifting the debt ceiling only worsens the terrible problem created by this cowardly Congress. Here is some math not yet learned by Congress; regardless of tax rates imposed by Congress, the American economy yields no more than 18.6% of GDP in tax receipts. Therefore, spending in excess of 18.6% of GDP must be borrowed. We are approaching 26% of GDP in federal spending; a measurable gap of 7.4%. Every bit of it borrowed. So.
So back to my original subject; the war on terror and Obama's morph into a hawk as revolutions hop from one middle eastern dictatorship to the next - is Gitmo the rallying cry of our enemies? Can Obama, two years into his own dictatorship, clarify to any one's satisfaction who America's enemies are? As he mutters threats at Qaddafi about a no-fly zone the goodwill he was to have generated with his metro sexual style among the Europeans seems in short supply as they decline to enforce the no fly zone themselves. Very disappointing. By my bitter computations things can and do go from bad to worse. Bad - unemployment of 9.8%. Worse - escalating inflation. Bad - an unknown outcome in Libya and Egypt. Worse - the US military interrupting the Libyan revolution, spilling more American blood and creating a new "rallying cry" for our enemies. Bad - Obama for two more years. Worse - Obama for six more years.
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