PETE SEEGER FULFILLS LIFELONG DREAM OF MEETING STALIN - Unfortunately Stalin hates the banjo
HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO
Strip away the year and it’s hard for the listener to tell whether he’s listening to a cut from the 2008, 2011 or 2014 SOTU album. Clip all the static about competing with China by building bridges so that babies with Asthma can attend free pre-K with Google and you catch snippets of the new stuff.
The Justin Bieber of politics cannot change and before long he’s back to threatening a unilateral campaign against the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights and invoking Marx’s hoary old specter of class warfare sleeping under a bench in Zuccotti Park after a long day of wandering ominously around Wall Street.
Michelle Obama’s starvation lunches for schools and jazzercise tour have lowered obesity levels, according to her husband, and ObamaCare is a huge success, according to the guy it’s named after.
Afghanistan is a success. The economy is a success. Unemployment is a success. Democrats loyally clap sweaty palms at how wonderful everything is, but for some reason much of the country is out of work.
Obama’s Tired Song and Dance
THE SOTU OBAMA REALLY WANTED TO GIVE
The film depicts an FDR look-alike president who, after a coma-inducing car accident, is transformed from a passive Warren Harding type into a hands-on dictator. The reborn commander-in-chief suspends the Constitution, violently wipes out corruption, and revives the economy through a national socialist agenda. When Congress tries to impeach him, he dissolves Congress.
The Library of Congress summarizes the film nicely. “The good news: He reduces unemployment, lifts the country out of the Depression, battles gangsters and Congress, and brings about world peace. The bad news: He’s Mussolini.”
Pakistan Used Anti-Terrorism Cash to Sacrifice Goats - The four sacrificial goats, plus butchery costs, were listed as “stabbing charges”
JUSTICE IS BLIND, DEAF, DUMB AND RETARDED
The “The Port Hills Groper” who cannot speak English put the offending down to a “cultural” misunderstanding, saying he was trying to be “friendly” around Christmas time.
On one occasion he called out to a woman jogging on the Rapaki Track and, when she slowed down to listen, grabbed her buttocks and said “lovely lovely”.
The Middle Eastern refugee who grabbed, groped and licked female joggers on a popular running route in Christchurch has today avoided jail and been granted permanent name suppression. The family of the man accused of being fears he’ll be ostracised by their Muslim community if his identity is revealed.
Muslim Refugee Gropes Women, Blames Cultural Differences, Avoids Jail
If You Loved All-American Muslim, Get Ready for Beverly Hills Muslims
EMPLOYEES NOT WANTED
The United States has been taking in a million immigrants a year since 2004. Are a million immigrants a year really inadequate for the needs of businesses in a country with less than one hundred million private sector employees and over ninety million people out of the workforce?
Black and Latino unemployment rates are already far higher than white unemployment rates. The Mexican-American unemployment rate is between 10 and 12 percent. If American companies can’t employ the millions of Mexican-Americans already in this country, why do they insist on displacing minority workers born in this country, including Mexican-Americans, by legalizing 12 million more?
From 2000 to 2009, nearly 2 million Mexican immigrants obtained permanent legal status in the United States.
Where are the 12 million jobs supposed to come from for the suddenly legal illegals whose employers never wanted to hire legal workers?
Amnesty Ends the American Dream
MICHAEL MOORE HARDEST HIT
In the bleak grey skyscraper towering precariously over Eight Avenue, the filing cabinets bulge with back issues of the New York Times full of optimistic speculations about the future. But now the Old Grey Lady hardly mentions the Arab Spring except when she’s talking about insurgencies and riot casualty counts.
Only a few years ago, she fell head over heels for the bad boys of the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, despite the best efforts of her procurers of Islamism like David Kilpatrick and Robert Mackey, she has stopped taking their phone calls and has settled down to placidly chronicling the daily urban disorders of Egypt.
The old argument that the region was unstable and that we were hated because of the dictators no longer holds water. The United States pushed out the dictators; their own people brought them back.
The Arab Spring Killed the Left’s Foreign Policy
Employee Who Denied Extra Security to Benghazi Mission Promoted to Regional Security Officer
EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT OBAMA, I LEARNED IN GRAD SCHOOL
“I actually think there’s a subset of black women who really do get off on white women being prostrate,” Cooper says. Brittney Cooper, an assistant professor at Rutgers, is one of the black women who participated in #Femfuture.
Sarah Milstein, co-author of a guide to Twitter, published a piece on the Huffington Post titled “5 Ways White Feminists Can Address Our Own Racism.”
At one point, Milstein argued that if a person of color says something that makes you uncomfortable, “assume your discomfort is telling you something about you, not about the other person.” After Rule No. 3, “Look for ways that you are racist, rather than ways to prove you’re not.”
Also if he’s hitting you, assume that it’s something you did wrong. Look for things you did wrong, not things you do right. This is the pathetic disgusting mess that feminism has become in the grubby hands of the race-obsessed left.
Feminism’s Insane Leftist Race War
...from the comments
Tina Trent
Feminist theory is sado-masochism, with white women policing themselves to vigorously enjoy the pummeling black and hispanic and asian (and all those East Asian Brahmin exchange students with their own servants back home playing oppressed-grrl here) love to deliver. It's a world so sick that it has birthed naught but generations of white women hellbent on inventing ornate proxy sexualities in order to climb up to the position of piling on whitey via alleged sexuality oppression.
It is also a great lesson in the current politics.
I once offered a perfectly ordinary critique of an impressively awful poem by a famous black-lesbian-handicapped poetess who subsequently died (of unrelated causes). The class held an enraged moment of silence, and as we sat there, the whitest woman in the room glared at me with uncontrollable anger. She told me afterwards that she couldn't stand being in the same room with me as they memorialized the dead poet. She felt I should leave the class because my mere presence was repulsive to her. She felt utterly justified saying this.
Everything I needed to know about Obama I learned in grad school.
Sheila Jackson Lee: “American People Crying Out for… Climate Change”
NO, NO, NO
"1. For $26 billion more a year, we could provide a basic education to every child in the world by 2015."
26 billion dollars is roughly the education budget for New York City alone. New York has 8 million people. The world has 7 billion people.
"2. For $990, a farmer can get training in dairy production and four milk-producing animals.
In most parts of the world where these animals are sent, between 50 and 95 percent of the population can’t drink milk due to lactose intolerance.
A Liberal and Someone Else’s Money are Swiftly Parted
The Kerry Plan: Mandatory Global Warming Plan for US in 2015
HISTORY ISN'T HISTORY
Samantha Power, who once discussed invading Israel, decided to use the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz to link it to the Syrian Civil War.
“In 1945, Russian soldiers liberated Auschwitz. Sixty-nine year later, if the United Nations is to live up to the noble purposes for which it was founded, the world again needs Russia to use its influence, this time, to ensure that food reaches the desperate and starving people imprisoned in besieged Homs, Yarmouk, the Damascus suburbs, and elsewhere,” she added.
The Red Army did indeed take Auschwitz, but the Soviet Union’s pact with Nazi Germany had helped make Auschwitz possible.
What Samantha Power Forgot About the Soviet Role in the Holocaust
DON'T TELL ME WORDS DON'T MATTER
The GOP insists on borrowing leftist rhetoric. No one is punishing the kids of illegal aliens by not legalizing them. They’re just not eligible for it. To become eligible, they would have to move back home and apply to immigrate like everyone else.
Not giving them a freebie is not a “punishment”. They’re not being punished because their parents came here illegally. But they’re not being rewarded for it either.
GOP House Principles: “National and Economic Security Depends on Illegal Alien Amnesty”
Senator Jeff Sessions summarizes it neatly.
Once again, we have the same recycled talking points—crafted, it would appear, with the help of the same consultants and special interests. Each time, the talking points are followed by legislation that fails to match the promises—legislation that, at bottom, ensures only the amnesty and not the enforcement. The leadership talking points look like an attempted repackaging of the tired Gang-of-Eight-style formula that has been proposed, rejected, and re-proposed for years.
Is it not time we pushed aside the stale proposals stitched together in concert with the same lobbyists, and asked what is in the best interests of the hardworking American citizen—and the nation?
What a crazy idea. Maybe then we could even win a presidential election.
Income Inequality: ObamaCare Call Center Workers Sue Over Unpaid Wages
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Waxman helped craft ObamaCare and now he retires to spend time with his money, a big chunk of which happens to be invested in health care industries.
Congress Waxman spent a horrifying 40 years in Congress and another six years in the California legislature. Now he can move on to a productive career of frightening small children at state fairs.
ObamaCare Architect Retires After 40 Years in Congress to Spend More Time W/his Health Care Investments
Paul Krugman is Wrong About Jobs and Income Inequality
WE MUST HELP DESTROY THE VILLAGE TO SAVE IT
Officially there are no more terrorist attacks, just man-caused disasters brought about by offensive YouTube videos. Also there are no more terrorists. Just Violent Extremists. And there’s no more counter-terrorism, just experts on Countering Violent Extremism.
At the CFR’s Foreign Affairs, McCants joined together with two others to argue that Ahrar al-Sham is, and I quote, “an al Qaeda–Linked Group Worth Befriending.”
With the collapse of the Free Syrian Army, the Islamic Front is now the only game in town for the people who insist that we should counter Al Qaeda by supporting Al Qaeda.
State Department Adviser on Extremism Urges US to “Befriend” Al Qaeda
THAT'S RACIST!
I’m not sure how this is racist, but once Chris Matthews, Melissa Harris-Perry and the other good people at MSNBC put their brain cell together, they’ll figure out the answer to that.Gibson Commemorates Obama’s Raid with Government Series Guitars
This week Gibson has announced the “Government Series” of guitars, to celebrate the end of its tussle with the eager enforcers of the U.S. Customs Department.
The body is painted in a custom color the company has named “Government Tan”–suitably drab–a nod to the joyless reality of living under the heavy thumb of stifling bureaucracy.
Wait… government tan. That’s racist!
THE LEFT GETS LEFTIER
Dean said the United States has not placed enough emphasis on human rights issues in its talks with Iran… and added that if Tehran walked away from a deal due to pressure over human rights issues, then the regime is “most likely going to kill the negotiations as soon as they get out of the economic problems their sanctions are causing them.”
“We need to stand up to the mullahs,” said Dean. “These are not people we ought to be negotiating with.”
Howard Dean Now More Right-Wing on Iran than Obama
DAMOCLES SIGHS in RELIEF
During the election, Obama kept claiming that all the bridges are falling down. Last year he kept claiming that all the bridges are so old that “they are ready for Medicare.” That was bad news for the senior citizen bridges, because ObamaCare cuts Medicare.
In the last State of the Union address, there were more falling bridges. 70,000 of them. Then the number grew to 100,000 bridges.
In 2012, Obama wanted to invest 50 billion dollars into crumbling bridges. In 2013, he wanted to invest 40 billion dollars into crumbling bridges.
Obama’s Bridges Have Finally Stopped Falling Down
IMAGINE
Imagine French academics boycotting US History professors over the Iraq War and you get a taste of how ridiculous the whole thing is. And not just because the godfather of BDS is a foreigner who studies in an Israeli university that he wants everyone else to boycott.
And then there’s SodaStream. Its CEO is liberal, his rationale for keeping the factory going is helping Muslim workers, he claims, and it likely is true, that everyone in the company opposes the “occupation”.
Again, picture Europeans trying to get back at the Tea Party by boycotting a Warren Buffett owned company.
SodaStream and the Absurdity of BDS
STUDY FINDS POLAR BEARS GET STRESSED BY BEING HUNTED AND KILLED
Last year, a team reported that fluctuations in climate and ice cover are closely related to stress among polar bears in East Greenland as indicated by levels of the stress hormone cortisol in hair samples.
For the collaboration with Thea Bechshøft of Aarhus University and colleagues, Meyer’s lab received blind hair samples from 88 polar bears legally killed between 1988 and 2009 in Greenland by indigenous people who have an arrangement with researchers to provide biological samples.
Is it at all possible that the polar bears were stressed because they were being killed, rather than because of Global Warming?
Warmist Researchers Claim Dead Polar Bears Upset over Global Warming
HOWARD ZINN DIDN'T WRITE ANY HISTORY BOOKS
Finally, the American Temperance movement was often associated with a liberal strain of reform, particularly in New England. Some of these people did have a weakness for agrarian utopianism, but that was a general problem for the left until fairly recently when it decided to abandon rural areas and entrench in the cities.
The people most likely to push temperance were exactly the kind of liberal reformers who today go to work as community organizers.
They weren’t the rural gun-clinging Tea Partiers that Charles Schumer imagines them to be. They were anti-slavery, anti-Catholic, pro-Negro, social reformers who fought urban political bosses with vigor, were wealthy, lived in cities, would eventually favor Socialist schemes, opposed immigration and were ahead of their time in gender roles and had a tendency to believe in communication with spirits and the coming of a new age of transcendence.
Schumer is Ignorant and Wrong About the Temperance Movement
TOTALITARIANISM 101
Stealth censorship. It's all of a piece in the name of domestic tranquility. Its feasibility must be "studied." The nation must be made "safe" from provocative words. If that means shutting up anyone who offends with his words, and preventing projected or hypothetical or imaginary violence, so be it.
It won’t be called "censorship." It will be called the enforcement of "responsible speech." "Irresponsible" speech must be codified into the criminal law and punished.
It is uncommon knowledge – I say uncommon because not everyone is anchored to reality – that when the government begins to "study" a problem, it usually leads to legislation to control or eradicate the problem. The government studied the meat-packing industry, and wound up regulating it. The government studied farm prices, and decided they needed to be "stabilized" with subsidies. The government studied cars, and wound up regulating them. The government studied smoking, and wound up regulating it. The government studied nutrition, and wound up regulating it. The government has studied climate change, and wishes it could regulate it. The government studied birds, bees, trees, and rocks, and wound up regulating or at least protecting them.
from Edward Cline at Rule of Reason
SAME OLD STORY
According to Israel Radio... diplomats and foreign officers have warned against this trend. According to officials based in foreign missions, the Israeli government is increasingly being viewed as fanning the flames among American Jews by encouraging them to promote the official government position while making no room for opposing viewpoints.
Not only does the hypocritical charge of "no room for opposing viewpoints" sound all too familiar, but this "revelation" is likely a foreshadowing of things to come. How long until we are forced to revisit widespread accusations of dual loyalty, poisoned wells and such from the Obama,Walt & Mearsheimer Post-American Left™ ?
from Boker Tov Boulder
UNDOCUMENTED SANITATION ENGINEERS
We’ve written before about how open-borders supporters carefully and successfully manipulated our language by branding long-standing terms such as “illegal alien” or “illegal immigrant” racist even though the terms are race-neutral.
This paragraph has an interesting title: Individuals Living Outside the Rule of Law
And you thought “undocumented immigrant” was too politically correct? The GOP will jump even higher.
That's from Prof. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection. It's more than PC though. The lobbyist caucus is carefully framing the issue as being a problem of individuals living outside the law so that the logical solution is to... legalize them.
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