Simple Racism Test

Morgan at House of Eratosthenes has a brilliant Racism Test. As he says, it’s “Short and sweet. Logic unassailable, indisputable and unanswerable.”

Here it is:

Scary how much White Obama looks like Jimmy Carter...

Do You Like Him Any Better Now?

No??

Then You’re Not A Racist.

Brilliant.

Of course, the race-hustlers on the Left will chime in that merely posting this image of White Obama (I can’t read that without thinking of Tracy Morgan‘s character in First Sunday saying, “The White Jesus keeps starin at me!”) makes me a RAAAAACCCIST.

Charlie Rangel “Traumatized” Over Being Caught Cheating and Stealing

Poor little Charlie Rangel (D-NY):

After sounding defiant in his first round with reporters just now, embattled Rep. Charles Rangel sounded sad and seemed downcast and somewhat gaslit as he talked about how “traumatic” he had found the experience.

Asked about sounding confident in advance of Thursday’s hearing, Rangel replied quietly, “I’m not. This is a very traumatic experience for me and for my family and my constituents. I can only hope that … all the facts come out before my primary election, before my general election.”

He added, “At least we’ll know where we’re going, but it’s painful to have to say ‘no comment’ when people are attacking the very reason that you exist.”

After nearly 40 years of living off the public teat; after 40 years of corruption, stealing, and crooked deals; NOW he feels traumatized?

Boo0-freak’n-hoo. The man should be in prison. God knows if you or I pulled the same scams that he did, we would have already been locked up and fined until we are broke. Instead, Fat Charlie will get a slap on the wrist and be talked into retiring “for the good of the Democrat party.”

Where he’ll likely go to work as a Lobbyist, where he’ll continue to lie, cheat, and steal from the same people he’s been colluding with for half his life.

Has San Fran Nan commented yet on why she hasn’t fulfilled her promise to “drain the swamp” of corruption and to make this the most “ethical Congress EVAH!,” and publicly called for Rangel to resign?

Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Vegan Arsonist (and Giant Douchebag) Arrested

Walter Bond: ALF's Lone Wolf is going to prison

How popular is this Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Vegan arsonist going to be in prison?

JULY 23–An animal rights activist who has the word “Vegan” tattooed on his throat was arrested last night and charged with arson for allegedly burning down a Colorado factory that sells a variety of sheepskin products. Walter Bond, 34, is also suspected of torching a leather factory in Utah and a restaurant serving foie gras and other wild game.

[snip]

After Bond’s arrest, agents searched his backpack and found “propaganda literature titled, “The Declaration of War–Killing People to Save the Animals and the Environment–Strike a Match Light a Fuse We’ve Only Have the Earth to Lose.” If convicted of the April 2010 arson at the Sheepskin Factory in Glendale, Colorado, Bond faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.

Of course the irony of the “Vegan” tattoo on his neck is that he’s going to have a whole lot of meat shoved down that throat while in prison (and shoved up another orifice at the  other end — I hope he doesn’t have a stupid tattoo on his ass, too).

And yeah, yeah, yeah…I know prison rape is never funny. Unless it happens to a guy like this who believes it’s OK to kill people to “save the animals.”

The (Not So) Daily Dog: Hill Country Rain Storm

We really needed some rain out here in the hills west of Austin, and this evening we got it in Biblical amounts in a very short time. It ended just in time to take the dogs out back to play in the wet weather creek right behind the house:

Jersey inspecting the waterfall that wasn't there earlier this afternoon

This little waterfall cascades about 8′ into a shallow pool right behind our house (about 30′ from our back property line):

Angus stops to pose for a picture

I couldn’t get Otis to hold still long enough for a picture — old guy was running around a like a puppy playing in the creek and water holes.

We hiked up the canyon a bit but turned back before we got to the bigger falls (~15′ tall) because it was starting to rain again:

Looking back down the canyon at our house

And from the back porch, a brilliant evening rainbow:

The view from our back porch

Can’t see it in this picture, but there was a double rainbow (another rainbow above this one) — simply spectacular. Which is why we love living out in the hill country so much.

Obama Feels Your Pain

Jesus on a cracker! Doesn’t this guy know when to shut the hell up?

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he can relate to the plight of Americans striving in the struggling economy to pay bills while saving for their kids’ education and retirement.

He says he and first lady Michelle Obama took a hit like everybody else when the economy nearly collapsed, telling ABC that a college fund for daughters Malia and Sasha has gone “up and down” with the stock market.

Obama says the first couple is “not that far removed from what most Americans are going through.”

Oh yeah — they feel my pain:

President and Mrs. Obama, joined the ranks of all Americans today by filing their 2008 income tax returns on time. In total, the first couple had a joint income of $2,736,107

And:

President Obama and First Lady released their 2009 federal and State of Illinois income tax returns on Thursday; they reported adjusted gross income of $ 5,505,409 out of $6,114,931 total income.

That’s just in the last two years. So, uh, yeah…cry me a river already about Obama not being too far removed from what most Americans are going through — he couldn’t possibly be any more far removed from what we’re going through, actually.

I wonder if The Won answered this question while on one of his weekly golf outings? During one of the weekly lavish White House parties? During one of their “what city shall we fly to next” date nights? During one of their monthly family vacations?

Next thing you know, we’ll have an infomercial with Sally Struthers and Capt Kangaroo, “For less than the price of a cup of coffee, you can sponsor an Obama child…”

I mean, they already live in government housing, and apparently Michelle Obama’s been forced to take on a second job to help make ends meet:

Michelle Obama: First Lady by night, Cafeteria Lady by day

I don’t begrudge The Won one dime of his wealth. There’s nothing wrong with living the American dream. It’s just that he begrudges anyone and everyone else who has accomplished that dream also and is determined to penalize them heavily for it.

Obama Supported the Release of Lockerbie Bomber

I’ve said all along that I don’t know if Obama is a Muslim or if he’s actually a Christian like he claims (despite having attended church almost exactly zero times since becoming President — I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have a President who goes to church more often than he plays golf…) — but I do think he has more sympathy towards Muslims and their ideology than he does with Christianity.

The Lockerbie bomber sends Obama his personal thanks for helping him escape justice

Which is why the story of Obama supporting and backing the release of Lockerbie bomber and all-around terrorist bad-guy Abdel Baset al-Megrahi isn’t really all that surprising:

THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.

That Obama sided with freeing an Islamic terrorists is no more surprising than having to read about it from an Australian news source rather than from an in-Obama’s-pocket American media source…

The Result of the Higher Minimum Wage: Fewer Teens Are Employed

Why does Obama hate teenagers so much?

How's that Hope and Change working out for you kids now?

Via the Wall Street Journal, in a post titled: The Young and Jobless: New evidence that the minimum wage has hurt teenage workers:

Today marks the first anniversary of Congress’s decision to raise the federal minimum wage by 41% to $7.25 an hour. But hold the confetti. According to a new study, more than 100,000 fewer teens are employed today due to the wage hikes.

Economic slowdowns are tough on many job-seekers, but they’re especially hard on the young and inexperienced, whose job prospects have suffered tremendously from Washington’s ill-advised attempts to put a floor under wages. In a new paper published by the Employment Policies Institute, labor economists William Even of Miami University in Ohio and David Macpherson of Trinity University in Texas find a significant drop in teen employment as a direct result of the minimum wage hikes.

The wage hikes were implemented in three stages between 2007 and 2009, and not all states were affected because some already mandated a minimum wage above the federal requirement. But for the 19 states affected by all three stages of the federal wage increase, “there was a 6.9% decline in employment for teens aged 16 to 19,” write the authors. And for those who had not completed high school, “we estimated that the hikes reduced employment by 12.4%,” which translates to about 98,000 fewer teens in the work force.

I’ll tell you why Obama hates teenagers — because only 2/7 of them are eligible to vote. And of those 2/7, less than 20% manage to make it to the voting booth (according to the Federal Election Commission, not even one in five adults ages 18-25 bothers to vote, a participation level that lags behind all other demographics — I can’t find specific numbers for just 18-19 year old kids, but I’m guessing it’s lower still).

If teens were a reliable and necessary voting bloc, you can bet your sweet ass that Obama would be pandering (and lying) to them, too.

The impact of raising the minimum wage has been studied since its inception. All credible research has come to the same conclusion: raising the minimum wage hurts the poor. It takes away jobs, keeps people on welfare, and encourages high-school students to drop out.

There is not a single economic study that concludes that minimum wage policies actually accomplish the social ideological goals claimed in this article to justify minimum wages. The economic impacts on the most vulnerable wage earners are so well documented, that one has to wonder that supporters of minimum wages are  incapable of acknowledging the data or just flat-out lying.

It’s almost as though Democrats are intentionally trying to keep people poorer and more dependent on the Government.

Is it any wonder that Obama is dropping in approval rating with these kids faster than Al Gore molests massage therapists?

US Army Picture of the Day

Viva the US Army’s Facebook page:

Crew Chief Sgt. Fred Oser

The image caption:

After delivering U.S. Soldiers and Iraq dignitaries to their final destinations, Crew Chief Sgt. Fred Oser, A. Co. 2-25, Combat Aviation Brigade, attached to 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, dismounts the 240 Bravo Machine Guns from the UH-60 Black Hawk used during the morning’s mission to several Combined Security Checkpoints in the Ninewa Province, Iraq, July 2.

The finest fighting force the world has ever known, indeed.

LTC. Allan West: Honor And Integrity Apply To Him, Not His Opponent

If for some reason you aren’t familiar with LTC. Allan West(ret.), it is time you were.

This gentleman was first put in our nation’s spotlight in 2003, after being relieved of his command with 2nd Battalion 20th Field Artillery. LTC. West had physically assaulted an Iraqi policeman, firing his side arm into a barrel near the detainee and threatened to kill him. The detainee then revealed information about a planned ambush on his convoy. From that time in late August until October 2003 when LTC. West was relieved of his command, there were no further ambushes on U.S. forces in Taji.

When later asked at a hearing by a defense attorney if he would repeat that action, given the circumstances,
LTC. West replied:

“If it’s about the lives of my men and their safety, I’d go through hell with a gasoline can.”

That is the quality of character this man possesses. It is further reflected by ninety five members of Congress signing a letter in support of LTC. West to the Secretary of the Army.

Two videos from a recent town hall meeting, where he is in a very tight race for Florida’s District 22 House race.
Notice the comfort and sincerity in dealing with a questioner and how the audience responds to him.

Currently, the House seat he is running for is considered a toss up. The most recent poll taken several months ago had West leading by two points.

Now, his opponent wants to roll in the mud.

A charity gala scheduled for September, the South Florida Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, had extended an invitation for LTC. West and his wife, Angela, to be honored as South Florida’s Finest Couple.
That invitation hasn’t been rescinded, instead an executive with the CFF has asked LTC. West to “withdraw” from the event.
A more cowardly act couldn’t be imagined.
The entire story is found at WND.

Knowing what honor and integrity mean; knowing that doing the right thing often has consequences, I can only imagine the anger and frustration LTC. West must have felt when he received that disgraceful phone call.

If LTC. West needed any further evidence, as to how low down and dirty his jackass opponent would play, he certainly knows now.

I’m confident LTC. West is man enough for the challenge and I sincerely hope the voters in Florida can clearly see the high quality candidate he is, versus the low quality of character his Øbummer supporting opponent has.

It’s only one hundred and one days until the mid-term election. Still plenty of time for the left to continue to show us how unfit for high office they truly are, and for us to vote them out for great candidates like LTC. West.

*Cross posted at Nuke’s*

Keep America ‘Sharia’ Free!

Released today, the following video is from the Center For Security Policy.

Frank Gaffney at Big Peace had this to say today:

More importantly, people across the Nation are learning about the true purpose of this complex: It is intended to be a symbol of America’s defeat on 9/11 – and a beachhead for the toxic program that animated the perpetrators of that murderous attack, the program authoritative Islam calls “Shariah.”

As will be presented in the video, these words represent exactly what this mega mosque is intended to show.

For those weak minded fools who are indifferent or in favor of this affront to our way of life, such as Mayor Bloomberg, this structure is not about religion. It is about a supremacist and totalitarian program Islam calls ‘Sharia.’

Allowing this symbol of an authoritative death cult to be built within the borders of this nation is absurd; allowing it to be built near the WTC site is an admission of weakness, akin to submitting to Islam.

All freedom loving Americans need to oppose this disgraceful act in any way they can. Perhaps the examples set by Louisiana, and soon Oklahoma, will inspire more states to ban Sharia.

Attention Sharron Angle:Your New Campaign Ad Is Ready

From RealClearPolitics, and the disgusting mouth of Senator Reid:
Auto Bailout Probably Saved Ford!

Click on the above link for the punchline and the video.

Currently, according to Rasmussen, the pencil necked real estate guru Senator from Nevada is closing the gap on Angle. It will be interesting to see if his own foolish mouth will be his undoing.

Sherrod on Obama: He Doesn’t Know What It’s Like to be Black

This proves, without a shred of doubt that Shirely Sherrod is a racist — against black people (or at least people who are only half black):

Obama doesn’t understand The Black Experience. “He is not someone who has experienced what I have experienced through life, being a person of color.”

Now imagine Shirely Sherrod was white. And a man. And a Conservative.

RAAAACCCIST!111!!

Journolist Leaked Emails Confirm What We ALL Already Knew About Liberal Media Bias

Obama's favorite pet blogger

Over at Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller, Jonathan Strong has somehow gotten his hands on a boat-load of email threads from Ezra Klein’s now-defunct (allegedly) Journolist — a list where Left-wing journalists (are there any other kind?), policy makers, academics, and other trained circus monkeys could collaborate on the best way to spin the day’s news while pushing their progressive agendas. All under the guise of “objective” and “unbiased” ethical journalism, mind you.

For some dumb reason these 400-or-so Journolisters believed that their electronic paper trail was “private” and “secure.” And thus they were free to drop their mask of “objectivity” and professionalism and let their true colors fly.

And fly they did.

So far we have Journolisters colluding to bury the Jeremiah Wright/Obama story so as not to hurt their boy’s chances of being elected President. Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his Journolister jerk-off buddies to change the subject by smearing Conservatives. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

But that’s not all. In addition to high-jacking their companies’ and employers’ agenda and credibility in order to push their progressive agenda to bury an important story about WHY Obama spent 20 years in that racist, anti-American church, they also:

Cheered and wet themselves — some turning into piles of sobbing jello (by their own admission) — when Obama won the election. There’s an old axiom of sports reporting that “there’s no cheering in the press box.” Well, it’s supposed to be that way too when your the political beat reporter for a supposedly professional and unbiased media company.

Journolister Eric Alterman, who wrote What Liberal Media?, which is Alterman’s refutation of widely flung charges of left-wing bias responed on election night, “Fucking NASCAR retards…”

To answer the question posed by your book title, Mr. Alterman — THAT FUCKING MEDIA LIBERAL FUCKING BIAS, you fetid stream of douchejuice.

If I ever meet Mr. Alterman, I’m going to punch him in the balls. Rhetorically speaking, of course.

Let’s see…what else were the circle-jerk boys and girls up to…oh yeah:

Wishing Rush Limbaugh would die a painful death right in front of their eyes, while they laughed maniacally.

Within moments of McCain picking Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mates, the Journolisters went straight to work coordinating the best lines of attack that they and their “objective” and “professional” media outlets could use against Palin and McCain.

What the Daily Caller is revealing in their daily document drop is what we all already knew: the liberal MSM journolisters helped Obama get elected by shaping the narrative to his benefit.

Seriously — I don’t know how you don’t fire every single of these shit stains if you’re an editor and they work for you. Unless you’re their editor and you’re on the Journolist, too. In which case you should be fired, too.

Legacy and MSM journalism is dead — long live the new Political Advocacy Arm of the Democrat party. May they all suffer burning herpes soars.

Open Death Penalty Thread

The last thread, started yesterday, on the worm food formerly known as Derrick Jackson ballooned to nearly 400 comments — mostly back and forth with the insane (and now banned) Euro-hag known as Lirarenn.

As noted in the Jackson post, next on the Texas Execution schedule is Peter Cantu on August 17. Cantu was involved in one the most brutal and gut wrenching murders in Houston history when he and his friend gang-raped, tortured, and strangled to death Elizabeth Pena (16) and Jennifer Ertman (15).

Sean Derrick O’Brien was the first to be executed for that crime, back in 2006. Jose Meddellin, the ring-leader, was put to death in 2008.

If I can arrange it, I’m going to try to be in Huntsville to report live from the execution. I’ve been following and writing about this case for nearly 5 long years, and Cantu will be the last of the men involved who will be put to death, and I want to be there to show my support for the two victim’s family and for the death penalty in general.

I have a huge meeting here in Austin with a big customer on the morning after the execution, so I might not be able to swing it.

Anywho — I’ll have a Cantu-specific thread up as that date approaches. In the meantime, feel free to use this thread to continue celebrating (yep, that’s right cele-fucking-brating the execution of another vile animal, to discuss the upcoming Cantu execution, or to comment on any other pending executions in Texas or elsewhere.

Long Term Unemployment Reaches Historic Highs

Via Derek Thompson at The Atlantic, “The Scariest Unemployment Graph I’ve Seen.”

How's that change working out for you now?

The median duration of unemployment is higher today than any time in the last 50 years. That’s an understatement. It is more than twice as high today than any time in the last 50 years.

OK, you’re saying, but what does this mean? Does it mean we must increase the duration of unemployment benefits to protect this new class of unemployed, or does it mean we need to stop subsidizing joblessness? Does it mean we need to expand federal retraining programs, or does it mean federal retraining programs aren’t working? Does it mean we need more stimulus, more state aid, more infrastructure projects, more public works … or does it mean it’s time to stop everything, stand back and let business be business?

I’ve bolded my preference.

As Glenn Reynolds notes, this is what happens when “you destroy the incentive to create jobs, promote longer-lasting unemployment.”

Retraction: Because When We’re Wrong, We Need to Admit It

I’ve met Andrew Breitbart. Shot guns with him at the shooting range. Had a beer with him afterward.

I like the guy a lot, and admire the work he’s doing at all of his “Big” sites. But it looks like we — to possibly include Breitbart himself — were duped by the edited video tapes of USDA official Shirley Sherrod, which I wrote about and condemned as racist here.

Glenn Beck and Charles Krauthammer have been the loudest voices on the Right coming to Ms. Sherrod’s defense. And, more importantly, the farmer whom is the subject of the apparent racism is loudly supporting Ms. Sherrod, whom they contend actually helped them save their farm and became a valued family friend.

Hard to argue with that.

And I agree with this 100%:

I saw a video earlier today where Sherrod was telling CNN that the actual incident of racism happened back in the 80?s, and that she was merely telling the story of how she changed. Now, I’m not saying I like where she landed after her revelation, into the old class warfare argument of ‘the haves vs the have nots’, but the story wasn’t what I thought it was. There wasn’t enough context.

Because there was so little context, I assumed that this was current, that she was telling a story of how she withheld money from a farmer since she was appointed to the USDA in the last year and a half. Well, I was wrong for making that assumption. I admit I trusted those who put the video out, but it turns out they didn’t even have all the context. So while she did in the end say it was about black and white, but not…well, I’m not ready to judge her for a crime that happened 24ish years ago.

So where I stand now is pretty much were Beck stands, that she shouldn’t have been fired. I am bothered by the fact that her superiors didn’t even get her side of the story before forcing her to resign; nor did the NAACP care to even speak to her before denouncing her. Now Beck tends to think that this firing hatchet job is symptomatic of the way this administration does business – that it doesn’t care about anything but preserving itself. I don’t necessarily disagree with that, but I can explain it just one word…or rather one number: 2010. It’s election year, and they don’t want any more baggage than they already have that could hurt their agenda. That’s the bottom line.

So, I fully retract any allegations of racism and wrong doing by Ms. Sherrod, and publicly apologize for doing so on so little proof.

I expect(and hope) that Mr. Breitbart is likely working on a similar retraction.

Interestingly enough, Ms. Sherrod isn’t blaming Breitbart, the Tea Party, or Right Wing pundits for her getting fired. She’s blaming the NAACP.