Monday, August 08, 2005
Daylight come and he brain go home
Todd-Oh, To-oo-ooodd-Oh
Mister Belafonte, what impact have prominent blacks such as former Secretary of State Powell and current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had on the Bush administration’s relations with minorities?
"Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. [If] a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated ..."
I see. So, Mr Belafonte, who, specifically, is a “black tyrant” in the Bush Administration?
“You.”
uhm, Mr Belafonte? In all fairness I feel I must point out that I am, in fact, a white fella. Yanno; a honkey, ofay… ghost… tan-challenged… yanno....
"That’s it.” *flounces off*
And this is why we pay you to sing, Harry—not to think, m’kay?
Who doesn't have a picture ID? -- Raise your hand!
who is toodamdumb to drive to the DMV to get one?—raise your hand!
who is toodamdumb to raise their hand?—...sing like Stevie Wonder.
Stevie Wonder told the crowd that it’s “ridiculous” that in 2005, black Americans must stage mass demonstrations to demand their right to vote.
Well, I agree with that. Maybe I oughta hold a demonstration to demand that women have the right to drive? Ooooooo—but how would I get there? Oh, that’s right—I would drive there!!
Jesse “I am somebody” Jackson: The right to vote does not endanger, but we must protect it against discrimination,”
“We need to act with a sense of desperation, Our right to vote is in jeopardy, and the radical right-wing is trying to undermine our right to vote.” [emph mine e-C]
And we still let him vote…
Maxine “Lemme outta da kitchen!” Waters: “We’re here to take on President Bush, We’re here to take on the new nominee to the Supreme Court, John Roberts."
Ahh—as the stated first agenda item of the Bush administration is “Fercrissakes, don’t let them darkies vote!” We’ve all read it a thousand times…
Civil rights leaders also cited the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as examples for why the Voting Rights Act is so critical to minorities, as thousands of votes by black Americans were thrown out on technicalities in Florida and Ohio.
Damn those technicalities: no felons, must not vote 12 times, must actually live here to vote here, must actually live to vote.... Picky, Picky bastards!
Activists also used the rally to protest Georgia’s recently passed voter identification law, which critics call the most restrictive in the country.
If the bill is approved by the Department of Justice, Jackson warned on Friday, it could “spread like a virus” to other states.
Other attendees [whom we also allow to vote (?!?) ]: Rep. John Conyers (D-MI); Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY); Rep. John Lewis (D-GA); Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Tales from The Country™
it’s Summer—so that stink must be the Fair!
So I went to the County Fair yesterday. The thing about this fair is, if ya ever been before - you’ve been. So it’s an exercise in the familiar and checking to see what’s different ‘this year.’ And seeing the animals.
Under ‘new stuff’, there was a big display—one of those that is a semi-trailer with bump-outs—that looked like the inside of a house. For Scott paper products. On the way in they hand you a packet of the wet wipes and a bunch of coupons and as ya go thru, there are rolls of tear-off “hints” for improving your life [using Scott products, o’course.] I learned deep things like, “keep bandaids in the kitchen” and “use paper towels to wipe up spills.” uhm… ‘k. Hints for Todds.
Then—the good part: *drumroll* at the end *drumroll* they hand ya *drumroll* as a gift *drumroll* a roll of TP! *random cheering*
No bag, no cute little sack --- just one of those hotel, paper-wrapped rolls of TP. Simply everybody walking around the fair had one—which accounted for much heated speculation until we saw the display.
No neat new gadgets in the hucksters hall—disappointing. Remember when the fluffy dust wands were new? Those’re cool. Now it’s the same ol’ rubber brooms and ‘magic’ dust cloths; “As Seen on TV!” [why do they think that makes something more ...er, *real*?!?] ZZzzzzzzz
Two kewl things, tho. Aussie hats and ear cuffs. I snagged two hats—a khaki version of the black one I’ve been wearing this Spring and one especially made for my favorite trick: dunk the hat in the horse trough—yes, it’s clean - it’s drinking water ferhevinsake—shake it off and wear. Like instant air conditioning. Works great here in The West where there is no moisture in the air and the touch of the sun feels like laying your cheek on a hot, un-buttered griddle. The hat not only has the mesh bonnet [the part not the brim - just learned that term] that lets what small few breezes we get to blow thru and cool the brainpan, but the brim is specially designed to let the water dry slowly thus prolonging the air conditioning effect. Mmmm-mmmm, aaahhhhh.
And the earrings--mmmm, the earrings. Made from silver or gold wire, they fit like cuffs but have scrolly, wispy bits down, or both up and down the whole ear. Verrry giiiirly.
The funniest thing I saw was the DNC booth. Yep, every year both parties have booths in the hucksters’ hall. At the Rep. booth, there were bumperstickers like, “BIGOT: a conservative who wins an argument with a liberal” heh. Sense o’ Humor ‘r’ Republicans.
At the DNC booth? Kerry Edwards stickers. FOR SALE!
And Gore stickers! My friend and I were stopped, slack-jawed in our tracks by the K/E sticker, the LOL* at the booth happened to look up and catch my eye and I couldn’t help myself; I mouthed, “Get OVER it!” complete with eyeroll. She looked like I’d slapped her with a wet fish, then the vapid, Moonbat-zombie expression slowly returned. [thought occurs: that slack-jawed amazement response to Moonbat antics just might be a contributing factor in the Moonbats’ image of conservatives as *ahem* slack-jawed dunderheads. hmm...]
The Fair was fun.
*[Little Old Lady, sub-species; Holey Sweater Gal [from the lumpy, loose-weave hand-knit ‘wearable textile art’ sweaters with matching Righteous Attitude they favor]
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Friday, August 05, 2005
Ok -- *This* is what I mean
Action Speaks Louder Than Words
WATERBURY-- A Connecticut lawmaker is proposing a bill that would violate a seven year old law that prohibits racial profiling in the state. ...Selim Noujaim, in his third term representing the 74th district in Waterbury, is a native of Lebanon.
...In the next session, he plans to propose a bill that would allow police around the state to specifically question people of Middle Eastern descent, as well as other ethnic groups, for the sake of national security.
Bingo.
Tony Blair: “Let no one be in any doubt, the rules of the game are changing. Coming to Britain is not a right and staying here carries a duty to support our values."
Coming from this public-school-boy socialist. And not from The Cowboy who’s busy rubbing shoulders with the Colombian NarcoTerrorists in Crawford.
Bad Cowboy! Bad!!
So much crappola out there today
Yet, look what Our Species is capable of:
The view from Husband Hill, Mars, August 1, 2005
*click* for larger
If that doesn’t make ya feel better about things, there’s just no talkin’ to ya.
ThanQ! TBK
Thursday, August 04, 2005
WTF izza matter with these filk©?!?
MSM—professional reportage
The NEW YORK TIMES is looking into the adoption records of the children of Supreme Court Nominee John G. Roberts, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. ...A TIMES insider claims the look into the adoption papers are part of the paper’s “standard background check.”
...well, the Evil Conservative ones.
the WASHINGTON POST Style section had published a story criticizing the outfits Mrs. Roberts had them wear at the announcement ceremony.
Yep—criticizing the children’s outfits—that’s quality reporting.
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Big Fearsome Terrorist?
or big fat baby made outta gravy?
Really—how is this different from the whining of a rather ...um, delayed two-year-old?
"Our message is clear: you will not be safe until you withdraw from our land, stop stealing our oil and wealth and stop supporting the corrupt rulers,” al-Zawahri said.
“Stealing” your oil? Whad’eryou—Michael Moore?!? We pay the prices you set. Do da name OPEC ring a bell?
“Stealing your wealth?” Until the West came along y’all were a bunch of beaten tribes squabbling amongst yourselves, wackin’ on your women and camels and living hand to mouth. [not like much of that has changed] Your freakin’ “glory days” came before the onset of Islam, remember? Oh, yeah—since y’all have no useful education, you wouldn’t know that.
“Stop supporting the corrupt leaders?” Ya mean your corrupt leaders? Mebbe it would be more effective if you quit supporting your corrupt leaders? Or perhaps changed the cultural norms that support corruption?
Grow the hell up and learn to clean up your own messes without flinging yourself to the floor, kicking your wee feet and beating your tiny fists, and then blaming someone else.
...and put on some pants fercrissakes.
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Let's Play a Game! No peeking!
Who said this?
“Blair’s policies brought… destruction in central London and will bring… more destruction ... ,”
“The Americans… will see horror that would make [] forget the horror [] saw in Vietnam,” he said.“The truth that (President George) Bush ... hides from you is that there is no exit from Iraq except through immediate withdrawal. Any delay will mean only more dead and losses."
a] Teddy Kennedy
b] Hillary Clinton
c] Diick Durbin
d] other [write in name]
Insight on a More Personal Level
A young British woman—British born, British citizen, of Somali parents—wrote about her experience as a Somali Moslem in England. She identifies as a Somali Moslem—not as a Brit.
I find myself having to justify who I am now on a regular basis. I used to think it was quaint, but now it’s just increasingly annoying. I am a Black British-born Muslim woman living in London. People have told me that I resemble someone Sudanese, Sri Lankan, Indian, Eritrean, and even Egyptian. I’m actually Somali, but Somali ethnicity, history, culture, and language contain threads of shared experience with the above peoples. This would add to the doubt surrounding the whole notion of exclusive “ethnicity” or “culture” in the field of social science, but that’s another story.
[emph. mine - e-C]
Touting all the while the virtues of British multiculti and cultural diversity, she admits that she has never lived outside the Somali self-imposed ghetto commuuuunity in whatever part of Britain she moved to; thus indicating that she prefers her culture to that of the surrounding native British commuuuunity.
Leaders of [Islamic revivalist movement ...the Salafi movement of my college and university days] constantly reminded us followers that the best of times for Muslims had been and gone with the Prophet… and his Companions..., and that all we could hope to achieve now was to remain “strangers” in this world ( dunya ) existing on the periphery and detached from the filth of mainstream modern society.
In that case, it’s only reasonable to live apart, no? But…
Muslims want to be accepted as equal citizens in Britain with equal opportunities and rights,
[emph. in original]
The only thought I can come up with [other than “sod off, wankers"] is:
"How can you be
In two places at once
When you’re really
Nowhere at allllll"
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Of Bermuda Grass and Islam
it’s left to the Cowboys to use the Round-Up
David Davis, the senior opposition Conservative member of Parliament (MP) “Britain has a proud history of tolerance towards people of different views, faiths and backgrounds. But we should not flinch from demanding the same tolerance and respect for the British way of life."
Gerald Howarth MP said if some Muslims “don’t like our way of life, there is a simple remedy: go to another country, get out."
Welcome back, Mssrs Van Winkle. Nasty dream, eh?
Yet, ‘tseems the multiculti has deep roots reluctant to let go—kinda like Bermuda grass. Says Mark Rice-Oxley, correspondent of the CS Monitor:
The problems facing multiculturalism have been underscored by the arrests that followed the failed July 21 attacks in London. The suspected bombers are east Africans who settled here in the early 1990s. Some took British citizenship. But the suspicion is that none really took to the British way of life. East African communities here are known for being particularly close-knit, in part because of the huge cultural barrier they face in settling here.
Didja catch that? Those sassy Muslims; “the suspicion is,” realized once they tried to blow up the Tube, they didn’t really take to the British way of life.
Another problem, community leaders say, is that minorities are expected to embrace a local culture that still discriminates against them and does not always represent their worldview.
Uhm… what’s wrong with this picture? I [this’s just me, mind you] I am not about to move to Saudi Arabia where the ‘local culture’ discriminates against me and in no way shape or form represents my worldview. That’d be like committing suicide.
Now, if’n one is moving from Somalia to Britain, moving away from starvation and random genocide, a little job discrimination due to the fact I didn’t speak English and therefore couldn’t do the dam job might not seem so bad. But thenagain, that’s Just Me©.
The practice in Iran and many other rural farming areas has been that the Christian farmers would hire Moslem workers, who would then bring their families and, ya come back a hundred years later and all those little Christian villages were Moslem. Along the lines of the Aztlan model. And Bermuda grass.
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
The pen is mightier than the blathering keyboard
Cox and Forkum says better than I
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Steven Vincent - RIP
the words of a man committed, live on
“Words matter. Words convey moral clarity. Without moral clarity, we will not succeed in Iraq. That is why the terms the press uses to cover this conflict are so vital. For example, take the word “guerillas.” As you noted, mainstream media sources like the New York Times often use the terms “insurgents” or “guerillas” to describe the Sunni Triangle gunmen, as if these murderous thugs represented a traditional national liberation movement. But when the Times reports on similar groups of masked reactionary killers operating in Latin American countries, they utilize the phrase “paramilitary death squads.” Same murderers, different designations. Yet of the two, “insurgents” and especially “guerillas” has a claim on our sympathies that “paramilitaries” lacks. This is not semantics: imagine if the media routinely called the Sunni Triangle gunmen “right wing paramilitary death squads.” Not only would the description be more accurate, but it would offer the American public a clear idea of the enemy in Iraq. And that, in turn, would bolster public attitudes toward the war.
Supporters of the conflict in Iraq bear much blame for allowing the terminology ---and, by extension, the narrative--- of events to slip from our grasp and into the hands of the anti-war camp. Words and ideas matter. Instead of saying that the Coalition “invaded” Iraq and “occupies” it today, we could more precisely claim that the allies liberated the country and are currently reconstructing it. More than cosmetic changes, these definitions reflect the nobility of our effort in Iraq, and steal rhetorical ammunition from the left.
The most despicable misuse of terminology, however, occurs when Leftists call the Saddamites and foreign jihadists “the resistance” What an example of moral inversion! For the fact is, paramilitary death squads are attacking the Iraqi people. And those who oppose the killers--the Iraqi police and National Guardsmen, members of the Allawi government, people like Nour--- they are the “resistance.” They are preventing Islamofascists from seizing Iraq, they are resisting evil men from turning the entire nation into a mass slaughterhouse like we saw in re-liberated Falluja. Anyone who cares about success in our struggle against Islamofascism, or upholds principles of moral clarity and lucid thought--- should combat such Orwellian distortions of our language..."
ThanQ! for the choice of quote; OC Chronicle
Stoopud is as Stoopud does.
Pop Quiz for Mayor “I disagree with profiling for fairness reasons” Blumberg
1. In 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
a. Superman
b. Jay Lenno
c. Harry Potter
d. Muslim male extremist between the age of 17 and 40
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and
massacred by:
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
4. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 405. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old
American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair
by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver
trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill’ s women
problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles
to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one
crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
14. Yesterday, US freelance reporter, author and blogger, Steven Vincent, was shot dead in Basra by:a. Haliburton
b. Helen Thomas
c. Drudge
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
And this is fair to the denizens citizens of NYC, how?
ThanQ! J
!!!
“I’ll never talk to a reporter again!”
"We were just talking—I was ranting—and he wrote about it. That isn’t right. We all say stuff we don’t want printed,” Thomas said.
ThanQ! GOC
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