Racism: a clarification

There’s been a great deal made by the right-wing press and blogosphere denying that there’s a strong element of racism motivating US and foreign conservatives’ criticism of Barack Obama.

Whatever my disagreements with (every single one of) his policies, I have to agree with the 44^th president’s supporters on this one issue.

If a white president had:

Presided over the whitewash of armed and uniformed racist thugs intimidating voters at polling stations;

Covered up its deliberate policy by an agency of the American central government of

permitting the large-scale export of firearms to the gangs of a friendly country in order to promote gun control legislation in the USA;

Tolerated the genocidal ambitions of the implacable enemies of a friendly nation;

Debauched the Constitution regarding freedom of religion;

Returned the gift of another friendly nation and active ally’s greatest war leader;

Made a public gesture of self-abasement to the  head of government of an intolerant extremist theocratic state;

Displayed his ignorance of the number and locality of the States of the Union;

Allowed his personal bodyguard to remove pensioners singing the national anthem from his presence;

Led the US into unprecedented levels of indebtedness and allowed the downgrading of its creditworthiness from AAA for the first time ever…

… then it’s perfectly obvious that the conservative movement in general and the GOP and the Tea Party in particular would have gone along with every deed.

Anglosphere whipers

Pass it on, per Voice of the Resistance, but Big o has more than one superbly competent critic, whose letter, allegedly, the New York Times did not see fit to acknowledge; let alone to print.

"All the news that's fit to print" used to be the NYT's motto, didn't it?
Today what would it be, I wonder? "I love Big Brother," perhaps.

Read what the MSM didn't want Amerikan subjects to see.

LETTER FROM A PROCTER AND GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT

THE LAST SENTENCE IS THE MOST CHILLING

Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America 's true living legends- an

acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest

rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize

him as the foremost leader in change management.. Lou changed the way

America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to

be known as "partnering." Pritchett rose from soap salesman to

Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and

Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike

any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about

you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive

Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no

visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth

growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus

don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming

others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned

yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to

publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail..

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America '

crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style

country where the government sector dominates instead of the

private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system

with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly

capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose

that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of

living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics

against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from

challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider

opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both

omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything

you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the

Limbaugh's, Hannitys, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing,

conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will

probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never acknowledged it.

Big surprise. Since it hit the internet, however, it has had over

500,000 hits. Keep it going. All that is necessary for evil to succeed

is that good men do nothing.. It's happening right now.

"Da-da Dah Dah Dah"

It's rude to gloat.

Massachusetts Senate poll loss threatens Obama agenda

Republican Scott Brown has won a shock victory in the race for the US Senate seat in Massachusetts left vacant by Democrat Edward Kennedy's death.

The result is a huge blow to President Barack Obama, whose healthcare reform programme is now in doubt.

Democrat Martha Coakley conceded she had lost the race after early results gave Mr Brown a healthy lead.

The Republican win has robbed the Democrats of their filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate.

This will make it much harder for Mr Obama to pass a healthcare reform bill - the most important domestic policy objective of his first year as president.

The BBC's Paul Adams, in Boston, says Ms Coakley's defeat is a humiliating blow for the Democrats and their agenda, and a deeply unwelcome anniversary present for President Obama a year after his inauguration.

But it's fun...

"... another one bites the dust."

Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen

When Leif Ericsson set off from his estates here in Copenhagen between ten centuries and a millennium ago to cross an ocean and bring oppression and slavery to the natives: Black, White, Yellow and Red, of North America, no-one could have foreseen that on this day in history an African-American President would stand here as the freely elected leader of a corrupt, cruel and warlike nation to bring peace and equality at last to the globe that has cried out for them so long to deaf ears. But I have large, wide, receptive African-American ears.

Last night I had a dream. I dreamt I left the Road to Mandalay and laid down the white man’s burden and later divorced her just like dear old Dad did. I left all the peoples of the world to govern themselves according to their own unique histories, laws and diverse customs: just as people of every nation should do. And we shall soon freely follow all of those histories, laws and diverse customs in slavish fashion back in the United States – in all 57 of which I have lived and studied and was born.

It was warm that year, and although you couldn’t prove it wasn’t due to there being too many automobiles in the world (and I’ve made sure that there will be just exactly the right number of American ones by helping the Auto Workers Union to make their production targets), you could prove it by the tree rings. Except that there weren’t enough tree rings the first time we counted them, but it’s been possible to substitute similar data to support the mediaeval existence of carbon-spewing industries across the Atlantic by following the ancient Scandinavian science of taking small slivers of timber and casting them into the air to prove that the hockey stick is real.

(Never trust a woman who says she knows what a hockey stick is for, by the way. She’ll say it’s for her children and her children’s children. As if that kind of uncontrolled breeding ever did the human race in all its diverse and equal races any good at all throughout the rise of mankind and the history of civilisation.)

No-one could have foreseen that on this day in history an African-American President, whose ancestors Leif Ericsson would never have allowed to even touch a hockey stick; let alone fabricate scientific evidence to merit the closing down of all carbon-positive industries such as all of those that manufacture goods for profit as well as most services, would stand here to tell you at this moment in history that I have a dream.

It is a dream of two worlds. One is dirty: disorganized; divided; and afflicted with hidebound institutions such as royalty, divisive politics as its leaders squabble, and many individuals have unhelpful opinions, and some of its people cling on to memories of a republican constitution, an independent senate and some old religion.

The other is a perfect world: bright and regular and clean and full of people united in a common purpose. And one day it approaches that old, tired and disorganized world and it brings its message of hope from the stars: a new hope.

And on my orders millions of voices suddenly cry out (for change, I have no doubt) and are suddenly silent.

And so I ask you; the rulers (and in one or two cases the freely elected representatives democratically chosen from identifiably different and competing political parties), to join me and come over to my side. Join me and together we shall rule the world as One. With me as the biggest Number One of all.

My ten cents

Via the blessed Cranmer, we learn just why the Great President Barack Hussein Obama: Beloved Leader; Heavenly Orator; Mighty Poet; Paramount Scholar; Supreme Architect; Engineer of Nations and King of Kings was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the brief 14 days between his inauguration and the closing date for nominations.

"His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

Here's what I guess 'the majority of the world's population' might have as attitudes, above and beyond the Nobel Committee and President Obama's:

I prefer my family's welfare to that of strangers; I prefer the company of my own kind over that of outsiders (exotic though they may be); you should work to support yourself; spare the rod and spoil the child; that's my stuff - leave it alone; criminals should be punished; the devil makes work for idle hands; don't tread on me; I like the way I live so don’t make me change it; keep the bad people down and out and away from me and mine because I don’t trust them and they’ve been known to kill folk without referring their plans to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee first.

Orinoco The Impaler

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

It didn’t turn out like that here after the Cold War. Yet.

This little gem is from the Jewish Chronicle, and concerns our old pal Michael Jackson, RIP.

Jackson: I could have changed Hitler

Michael Jackson spoke of his admiration and love for Hitler the showman, newly discovered recordings have revealed.

Jackson, who died in June aged 50, recorded over 30 hours of conversation with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach eight years ago.

He spoke of his belief that he could have rehabilitated Hitler and said: Hitler was a genius orator. To make that many people turn and change and hate he had to be a showman and he was.

Rabbi Boteach replies: "You believe that if you had an hour with Hitler you could somehow touch something inside of him?".

The singer replied: responded: "Absolutely. I know I could."

Rabbi Boteach has now made the recordings into a book The Michael Jackson Tapes.

He said of Jackson: He yearned so deeply to do good with his life but was ultimately consumed by indescribable loneliness and pain.

Amongst the recordings, Jackson also revealed his wish to date Princess Diana, and how he wanted to hug Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the killers of two-year-old James Bulger.

I don't think that the Jewish Chronicle can have missed anything significant out of this account: except the obvious that Rabbi Boteach clearly A) has the patience of a saint, and B) is an excellent businessman.

Anybody want to argue that Michael Jackson was in any way a conservative?

(Life isnt fair #2817. Can you imagine just how big this story would be if a serving British soldier, any white mainstream Christian clergyman or any businessman who was not a political class supporter had spoken of his admiration and love for Hitler the showman? The end of it we would never hear.)

Jackson wasn’t powerless; after his death many thousands of people proclaimed their admiration and love for the man, and he received acres of press stating how he inspired entire generations, etc. He had influence, and in this case, he added a great deal of candy floss to the thinking of thousands, and maybe millions of fans.

He sang and danced well. He sold soppy records. He was an eccentric and talented entertainer for the same millions reasons that he wasn’t a child abuser. He expressed daft ideas asking can’t we all be friends? and had himself filmed as some kind of musical totalitarian messiah and ambassador to the uncrowned empty heads of Europe.

He thought he could have talked Hitler round in an hour.

Get that? The notion does not seem to have occurred to him that Hitler might have been irredeemably evil: either bad to the bone and the product of centuries of European anti-Semitism or just an amoral opportunist who picked an electoral winner and ended up killing millions.

Amoral speaks to amoral, I suppose.

If it’s okay to consider redeeming and child-murderers by hugging (and even I think that those two boys could very well have improved their behaviour during their years inside the criminal justice system), then logically it isn’t so long a step to talking even the Left’s biggest all-time male hate figure into believing what Jackson seems to have thought - that were all the same and in need of love, a hug, and maybe a pair of tight trousers over white-socked pointy shoes?

Pretty much anyone outside the magic circle who even hints that they like sauerkraut is fit up by the wise for a pair of jackboots and a knapsack load of Zyklon B, but dancing boy makes Stalin-like statue videos of himself and it’s somehow just a big laugh.

But it isn’t just a laugh.

Evil: the conscienceless urge to power: to dominate, oppress or destroy whole populations doesn’t really exist in this one subset of the Left. As Dumb Jon often writes; if liberals ever denounce vampires as a right-wing myth, start laying in the wooden stakes.

Jackson was the liberal gestalt down to his last amino acid molecule and single-width Lego brick.

Denying the existence of evil in all its strength and its eternal appeal is the liberal Trojan Horse to real totalitarianism. This pose, when translated into votes and media messages and hopeful editorials helps to let totalitarianism creep in sometimes with a bang and sometimes with a whimper. Filmed as a science fiction special effects blockbuster this idea would probably be the shortest space horror movie of all time and over in about two minutes: Aliens versus Wombles.

This is how millions of people productive, intelligent people can decide to ignore Barack Obama’s lifelong associations with people hostile to the US military, any use of force by the democracies at all, and who, to this very day, ignore or tolerate his cosying up with the Honduran would-be president for life, and Hugo Chavez the democracy hater, the Castros, the ‘Islamic Republic of Iran’, and resetting US foreign policy with Putin’s Tsarist/Soviet Russia the year after it invaded Georgia. This attitude and belief system – call it three monkeys optimism - comes from somewhere: it sure as hell doesn’t come from any even halfway clear reading of history or knowledge of human nature – even the often instructive playground level. It comes from the culture. Which is where Michael comes in.

So a man who had all his melanin removed and then migrated to live in the sun-scorched Middle East pronounced that 60 minutes of his goodwill could convert a colossal psychopath into pursuing fluffy liberalism, and we’re not all outraged as well as laughing about it?

Our Left and the American Left huff and puff about the allegedly apocalyptic and war-generating fantasies of ‘Christian Bible Fundamentalists’, but if Obama chanelling Earth Song by offering ‘tougher sanctions on Iran’ is what stands between us and nuclear annihilation, then I’d rather stand with - and be protected by - people who know evil when they see it. So what if they happen to believe that Barney The Dinosaur is less than ten thousand years old? I'd much rather be with them than be anywhere near to, let alone have my security negotiated over by, people who happen to believe in Barney The Dinosaur’s policies.

Because as it turns out the boot stamping on the human face forever is looking an awful lot like a sandal just now.

I feel safer already

And in answer to our rolling quiz 'Just how stupid can libs get and still keep breathing?', the BBC has a foreign policy answer for us.

US 'to cut missile defence plan'

Iran has held regular tests of its long-range missiles
The US will abandon its plan to develop a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper said the controversial plan would be dropped because Iran's long-range missile programme was less advanced than predicted.

As in, 'Don't bother locking the doors tonight, Mother. T' Office of National Statistics doesn't expect the burglary rate to increase from its record low until two years' time.'


He really does want us dead, doesn't he?

The end of the beginning?

A small victory but a significant one.

President Obama's truther eco-freak resigns as green energy Czar.

A little gloating here from Gateway Pundit.

Add reminders from Mark Steyn of both how shallow and how much of a whack-job commie he was.

Glenn Beck statement on resignation of Van Jones

September 6, 2009 - 18:38 ET

The American people stood up and demanded answers. Instead of providing them, the Administration had Jones resign under cover of darkness. I continue to be amazed by the power of everyday Americans to initiate change in our government through honest questioning, and judging by the other radicals in the administration, I expect that questioning to continue for the foreseeable future.


It's a good thing that this dingbat's gone, but there are plenty more and leading Obama's slow-motion coup d'etat.

I just hope that HopeandChange Cassidy hasn't just wriggled out of a nasty mess here.

Candy Cain?

Every Right-wing blogger with a friendly interest towards Americans' freedom and prosperity in these politically uncertain times ought to publicise this, and I hope that my mighty readership will do so too.
It raises some important questions about the nature of government and its relationship to the individual...and the direction in which change is going in the USA under the present administration, and as it's long been going here in Britain.

As it's via David Duff, I'll leave him to explain as he dug it out.

But just guess who this happy-looking individual actually is?

Big Brutha is watchin' you

Mark Steyn; praise him! Praise him! Praise his blessed name! points out that the White House , ie President Obama, is asking American Citizens to report anybody who says anything dodgy ( read 'critical') about the nationalisation of healthcare to the White House.

Get that? The head of government of a nuclear-armed nation wants freeborn American citizens to report on other freeborn American citizens for saying things about government policy that the self-same government doesn't believe to be true.

Now, I would never, under any circumstances, want to to interfere with the internal politics of a friendly, sovereign nation, and I don't mean to start now.
However, if they want untrue things reporting to the State, what harm could it do to give them TRUE information about, for example, actual socialized medicine here in Britain, plus other delightful aspects of the Welfare State which the Democrats so openly and flatteringly admire, who better to put them right than us Brits?.

Obviously, the American State might find it a bit more difficult or time-consuming to sort out and investigate freeborn American citizens who have been saying untrue things about socialized medicine's bright American future, but surely it's a small price to pay for putting them right?

The email address is: flag@whitehouse.gov

Thanks for all the Liberty Ships and Shermans and tyres and GIs and Polaris and NATO and Desert Storm and Sat Nav guys.

This one's for you.

Happy 4th of July

We've just been told by BBC Radio Four that the Statue of Liberty is to open today on the 4th July now that the new President does not share his predecessor's obsession (or words to that effect) with national security matters.
I think they can say that again.

The usual interviews with randomly-chosen people up at the top: the park ranger in charge; an Australian tourist; a squeaky teenager? who talks in questions? who thinks that just because 9/11 happened you can't keep it closed forever?
Oh, and someone who said that opening the statue is a sign that things are getting better in America. Funny that.

I just wonder how much Dame Liberty is a source of inspiration to freedom-lovers the world over in countries whose vicious bosses are getting a pass from this administration?
Are the jail cells, torture chambers (which don’t use wet face-cloths so much), rape rooms and kangaroo courts of Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Syria, Honduras and the Gaza Strip today filled with people who look to the USA as a beacon of freedom and a place of refugee from tyranny as so many others did under so many other Presidents?

No matter. Here’s a short and doubtless incomplete list of countries that have been liberated from or were kept free from brutal dictatorships by American sacrifices of blood and treasure; either directly by sole US intervention or with the help from some friends):

Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Chile, Denmark, Dominica, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the Faroe Islands, the Netherlands, the Republic of Macedonia, the United Kingdom, the Vatican City, Ukraine.

Conservatives and other cynics might point out that some of the above have leaped back into tyranny of some sort or another more or less as soon as they can, and that several of the others are far from grateful. I didn’t say that people freed by America can’t be stupid, or that their leaders can’t be jokers.

Whichever way you look at it, the Americans tried more than anyone to preserve freedom and to extend it elsewhere, and many of them are still trying.
You can measure their precious gifts in two units: dollars and gallons.

I’d like to do something for them in return.

God bless America, and thanks.

Click Picture for wish - fulfilment.

Hope murdered Dylan

Come gather Iranians

You all stand alone

And admit that the waters

Around you have dried

And accept it that soon

You'll be bleached to the bone.

If your life to you

Is worth savin'

Then you better start walkin'

Or you'll die like a stone

For the times they aren’t a-changin'.

Come liberals and pundits

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes shut

For it’s Poland again

And don't speak at all

For the wheel's still in spin

And you’re tellin' who

That it's blamin'.

For the death squads now

Will be later to win

For the times they aren’t a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen

Don’t heed the call

Just stand in the doorway

And block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Won’t buy American at all

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'.

It'll not shake your windows

Nor rattle your walls

For the times they aren’t a-changin'.

Come hippies and peaceniks

And look at Iran

And don't criticize

Who you can't understand

These sons and these daughters

Will just die in the sand

Freedom’s road is

Rapidly agin'.

Please forget Uncle Sam

The Yanks won't lend a hand

For the times they aren’t a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The vote it is cast

The quiet One’s fief

It was once the best

As the hope He dashed now

Will soon be the past

Freedom is

Rapidly fadin'.

And the First One now

Will watch over their last

O, The Times They Aren’t A Changing

Big fat zero

It’s official. Elvis has left the building.

Here’s what Big 0 said about North Korea’s insane, country-starving nuclear weapons programme in brief:

"We have continually insisted that North Korea de-nuclearize," Mr. Obama said, standing next to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in the White House Rose Garden. "We have not come to a conclusion that North Korea will or should be a nuclear power. Given the belligerent way in which they are constantly threatening their neighbors, I don't think there is any question that it would be a destabilizing situation that would be a profound threat."

And here’s what he added when he went all hardball:

The president emphasized that along with the United States and the Republic of Korea, Russia, China and Japan have also made it clear North Korea will not find security or respect through threats or weapons.

“Our open societies, our commitment to free democracy and a market economy, and our sustained partnership provide a foundation for the enduring friendship, shared values, and mutual respect that tightly bind the American and Korean peoples,.."

Bring the rain.

And here comes the thunder thundering in support of hopeandchange, momsapplepie and doodledandy for some guys over there in Iran:

US President Barack Obama says he is "deeply troubled" by violence in Iran following last week's disputed presidential elections.

Mr Obama called on Iran's leaders to respect free speech and the democratic process, and said he would continue pursuing tough dialogue with Iran.

Get some!

Which is pretty durn tootin’ tough of him, given the fine nuance that this sophisticated political thinker and supreme diplomat shows here:

The president also said there appears to be little difference in policy between the conservative Mr. Ahmadinejad and Mr. Mousavi, a reformist.

Guess that’s his famous bipartisan approach, as much mentioned during his own election largely thanks to foreign credit card donations last year, huh?

Previous independent overseas freedom movements have haltered thanks in part to Western ineptitude – Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Soviet Union (Vladimir Putin, anyone?) the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, but on the other hand many unfree peoples of the world have long looked to some kind of moral support from the leadership of the United States of America – if not always competent material and military support: the Marsh Arabs, the Cuban freedom fighters, South Vietnam.

But the Wall fell, with American-led NATO behind it, and Saddam Hussein fell, and South Korea survived, and much of Eastern Europe is as free as any EU member states can be.

And of course Western Europe and Japan and India and Australia and New Zealand are free, in part, thanks to the US Pacific Fleet and much, much American blood.

What they can hope for now is ‘Whatever.’

This bounty comes to the world as Big 0 raises his wise, bored, compassionate eyes full of adolescent integrity skyward at all the carping from all those uptight freedom squares both domestic and foreign.

As if any unknown foreigners who don’t even have their own advocates on the talk shows could suffer in any meaningful sense in the liberal imagination compared with the dark, adolescent goth world of Victimerica.

Why, the President’s dear ole Pappy couldn’t ride at the front of the bus, except maybe in his ‘home’ state of Hawaii and perhaps a few dozen other states, and so a bit of a healthy appetite amongst a few guys in North Korea (and that’s not even the cool Korea with that great show with the cute doctors, mind!) and some pre-postmodern ‘reform-conservative’ deal in Iran is no biggie when maybe up to half America’s women still don’t have fast internet connections at home or carbon-neutral cars.

I had wondered whether he really was an uber-pragmatist looking for a vessel for himself to fill and be shaped by, but mostly I go for the Cultural Marxist blame the West first and support only its enemies shtick as standard.

It appears that, despite the hopes of the Obamamcons and others, that he is not a hollow man at all.

In fact, he’s full of it.

As far as the Free World and its would-be new members goes, there’s no sherrif in town.