Political Cartoon

I keep thinking we should include something in the Constitution
in case the people elect a fucking moron.

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Thanks to the kid that used to live across the street from Jean and me who grew up to become a man with his head screwed on straight.

Time for some meaningful dialog?

Talks or Walks?

President Obama said something to the effect that our enemies will grow to understand and even love us if he could get together with their leaders and talk. I realize the President is busy trying to bring the US into socialism, but those enemies aren't going away.

I'm thinking of the enemy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea, not that there aren't others. These folks seem to hate Obama and the US. How come no 'talks'?

Cop a laugh

It's the same thing as last time Senator - It's your redistributor.

I saw this one at Are We Lumberjacks? Its funny, but you had better not call Barack Obama a redistributor. Someone will claim you said he was a nigger. It happened at a Sarah Palin rally in Des Moines, Iowa last Saturday.

Someone in the crowd shouted "He's a redistributor!" The ever-so-sensitive to racism Obama camp thought the cry was "He's a nigger!" and promptly took Sarah Palin to task for failing to "do anything" about it. Michelle Malkin has the story.
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Next we will hear that "redistributor" is another code word.
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Bloggy Business:
The old feeder was nominated for a Superior Scribbler Award by Jeffro of The Poor Farm. I'm honored, but the award, originated by the Scholastic Scribe, is beset with rules and obligations , both of which I am naturally inclined to ignore. Because I have great respect for Jeffro, I shall make an effort to comply. I posted the graphic, linked to the nominator and the rules, added my name to 'the list' and left a comment at the Scholastic Scribe site.

All that remains is for me to nominate five more bloggers. Without further ado, I nominate Angela of the Domestic Divapalooza, Genevieve of Prairie Bluestem, Uncle Wiggily of the Heartland Notebook, Chris McClure the Panhandle Poet, and my feedlot co-blogger Abe of Don't Let Me Stop You. I thoght hard anout nominating the Mickeys (of many many blogs), but I couldn't figure out how many nominations the old beatnik would count for.
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I've also been tagged by Angela. I'm lousy at these things, but I enjoy following her Domestic Divapalooza and she is a good internet friend. I think all I have to do here is list 10 things you might not know about me. That is easy.

1. My favorite dessert is flan. I can make it like a Madrileño.
2. I raised mice to earn money when I was a kid.
3. I have never been bored; I don't know what boredom is.
4. I am profoundly dyslexic.
   
5. All I recall of gradeschool is looking out the windows.
6. The thing I do best is waiting. In line, on hold, whatever.
7. I can sleep at any time, any place under any conditions.
8. There are periods of my life that I cannot recall.
9. Some of my memories are nearly inexplicable.
10. My first real job was in a photographic darkroom.
    

No tag is complete without the need to pass the tag along. To make thing simple, I'm going to tag the same folks that I nominated for the Superior Scribbler Award above. Except, of course, for Angela since she's the culprit that tagged me. In her place, I will tag the Mickeys. They can figure out how many of them will respond.
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A word to those tagged and nominated herein: don't feel obligated to follow up on this business. It won't hurt my feelings if you blow it off. I only do this stuff when I feel like it, which isn't often. Today, I needed something to get my mind off of the coming elections.

Cop a Laugh

Don't call it socialism or you'll be a racist!

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Hat Tip: Babalu Blog

The Left's Big Blunder

Clever Hans

Here is a fascinating article from Zombie called The Left's Big Blunder. The essay itself is intricate enough that it can't be summarized in a short excerpt, but I'll try some bullet points:

• The "meta-campaign" (i.e. the "story" of the campaign) has become the main emphasis of the Left
• Obama is made to seem invincible with the hope that this will make him so
• This is seriously flawed as a strategy and potentially a colossal failure
• There are many reasons to believe the polls greatly overstate Obama's true strength and understate McCain's

There is a lot of solid, detailed analysis of the polling process that backs up these points, and it seems an excellent explanation of the so-called "Bradley Effect." This effect, a black candidate receiving a much smaller percentage of the votes than in the polls, is often reflexively attributed to white racism. The liberal contention is that whites, who are all secretly racist, just can't bring themselves to vote for a black, despite their own conviction that he is the best candidate. This is preposterous and leads to such peculiar spectacles as Rep. "Mad Jack" Murtha accusing his own constituents of being racists.

I agree with Zombie's analysis: this is a manifestation of peer pressure and white guilt, the opposite of racism. Whites responding to polls may hedge or misrepresent their feelings, often unconsciously, to please the poll taker and to avoid the appearance of being racist. However, in the voting booth it's only you and your ballot, and there is no reason to bend your vote against your better judgment.

This certainly makes a lot of sense in today's environment. We're pounded daily with accusations that McCain's campaign is racist and that the country is too racist to vote for Obama. We're told that electing Obama will finally heal the country's racial wounds, despite that fact that his campaign seems to be aimed at ripping them wide open, and that there will probably be race riots if he loses. So much for the post-racial candidate.

Meanwhile, it's hard to speak up for conservative ideas in public or in polls, if it means defending Bush's record (or a lot of McCain's for that matter). I took an online poll that stumped me with this question: "Do you expect to John McCain's policies compared to Bush's to be more conservative, about the same, or less conservative? How do you answer that when neither man seems to have a coherent philosophy to base his decisions on?

Is Zombie right in suggesting that McCain may even be ahead, despite the poll results? I hope so, but that may just be wishful thinking on my part. There's also the question of how many phony votes Obama and his buddies at ACORN can create out of thin air or dig up out of the graveyards. We can only hope that the electorate, staring into the abyss of President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Reid, will come to its senses at the last moment and pull back. I do know that I fully intend to cast my vote against socialism and class warfare up and down the ticket, and I always vote.

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Ann Coulter tackles the question of polling error in her own, inimitable fashion here.

Che is gone, but the lies live on

A Glorious Anniversary

On this day in 1967 a coward died a coward's death. Che Guevara:

"Don't shoot!," he whimpered after dropping his fully loaded weapons. "I'm Che! I'm worth more to you alive than dead!"

Read about how Che died shitting his pants, then learn how a real hero faces death in this excellent article by Henry Fontova.

Why idiots on the left continue to idolize this murdering communist thug is beyond me. Even Barack Obama won't condemn the man whose own comrades called "The Pig"
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Hat Tip: Babalu blog, where you can read the work of real anti-communists.

The Race Card

Barack Obama's Race Card

Breaking News from Michelle Malkin: Barack Obama is half-black. Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius, campaigning for Obama said,

Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American? (Republicans) are not going to go lightly into the darkness.

I think it may be easily considered insulting to call a man half-anything. Barack Obama is all mulatto. He should be proud of it.

An Oil-Free America

Better park all of our airliners - they burn oil

I keep hearing about how America should aim to be an oil-free country. After all, the algore-science consensus pegs oil as one of the main causes of Global Warming, and we all know that it makes us sick. Besides, unless we are willing to drill for oil here at home, we are stuck for buying it from folks that hate us.

Barack Obama seems to think we can achieve energy independence and freedom from our oil addiction. So folks are discussing the pros and cons of becoming oil-free. But they aren't using their heads.

I heard Rush Limbaugh say this about becoming oil-free on the radio today: we will have to give up flying to become oil-free. None of the 'alternative energy' sources anyone has even dreamed of to date can produce the power to weight ratio required for heavier than air flight.

I guess flying for business and pleasure was just a fad we can't afford any more, along with eating meat, keeping warm and driving nice cars. These earth-destroying fripperies were fun while they lasted, but its time to get grim about our future.
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If Barack gets elected president, we won't have anything left to defend, so we won't need the Army, Air Force or Navy doing any tank driving, jet flying or going to sea in their big ships either. They can defend America on foot or horseback, from sailboats and hot-air balloons.

These are changes we can believe in.

Fred Thompson is no Gandhi

What Would Gandhi Do?

I still think the GOP screwed themselves when they failed to take Fred Thompson seriously. The old cat never ceases to amaze me. A Google Alert popped these two stories from the Indian Blogosphere into my in-box this morning: Gandhian self-destruction from Indian Raksa - Defending Secular India, and Gandhi’s Way Isn’t the American Way: Collective suicide is no foreign policy from Islamic Terrorism in India.

Both of these posts are based on this March 15, 2007 National Review Online transcript of a Fred Thompson radio spot. Listen to Fred right here. (mp3 file) Doesn't he sound presidential?

Here is a cut and paste of Fred's still relevant talk:

At what point is it okay to fight dictators like Saddam or the al Qaeda terrorists who want to take his place?

It turns out that the answer, according to Gandhi, is NEVER. During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka. “The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife,” he said. “They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.” “Collective suicide,” he told his biographer, “would have been heroism.”

The so-called peace movement certainly has the right to make Gandhi’s way their way, but their efforts to make collective suicide American foreign policy just won’t cut it in this country. When Americans think of heroism, we think of the young American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, risking their lives to prevent another Adolph Hitler or Saddam Hussein.

Gandhi probably wouldn't approve, but I can live with that.

I could live with that myself, rather than than die trying to appease or reason with the murderous Mohammedan fanatics. Peaceniks, who needs 'em? I'll leave it up to you to ascertain the answer to What would Obama do? We shall see if he's still for surrender in the middle east after he visits the victory zone. Perhaps another giant BO flip-flop is in the works.
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Google Alerts - like having your own clipping service.

Rev. Jackson: Obama telling niggers how to behave

Telling them how to behave

Everyone has heard about Jesse Jackson getting caught on tape saying he wanted to cut Obama's nuts for talking down to blacks. As soon as Fox's creepy Bill O'Reilly said there was more to the tape he wasn't going to play, I figured the rest would be too hot to keep under wraps for long.

The other shoe has fallen, and it was the N-word. Like it would be poison to say it or spell it out. Here's the offending phrase, according to TVNewser:

Barack...he's talking down to black people...telling niggers how to behave.

Conservative blog reactions: Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Gateway Pundit. Most folks are howling about a double standard. I figure the double standard in matters of racism is a given. What will happen or not happen to the Rev. Jackson as a result will just be another example of it. Everyone already knew Jackson was a race racketeer. Whats new besides it being on tape?

As for myself, I'm not afraid of words. If I let words hurt me, all it means is that I'm weak. Likewise it would be a weakness if I were to be afraid to use words. Remember the "He said Jehova" scene from Monty Python's The Life of Brian? I try not to be uncivilized or vicious in my use of language, but I'm not going to pussyfoot around the facts.

The fact is, Jesse Jackson said the black folks Obama "talks down to" are niggers. He didn't say n------s, n—s, n*****s, niggaz or call them the N-word. He said they were niggers. I wonder if they'll take it without a fuss.
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Updated: Al Sharpton, America's hardest working racism hustler, weighs in. CBS News reports Al's disappointment, "I think this certainly does not reflect the Reverend Jackson that we all know and love". The article concludes that "the question is whether the use of the N-word by an African-American to another African-American, talking about African-Americans is offensive." What?

Jesse Jackson goes for Barack Obama's testicles

Racist scam artist Jesse Jackson says he wants to cut off Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's nuts for suggesting that black kids should stay in school and forget about becoming rap stars. Fox has the video and the story has spread like a California grass fire.

Look for Jesse to wind up under Barry's big bus. "That's not the Jesse Jackson I knew."

Does Jesse carry a knife? Perhaps he would bite them off, like a Laplander. No, he specifically said "cut". Even metaphorically, the notion gives me the willies.
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Someone should have 'cut' Jesse before he could sow his seed so far and wide. Remember this?
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There was more "trash talk" from Jesse Jackson caught on the same tape, but Fox wouldn't air it. If the shoe were on the other foot, and a McCain supporter were caught saying such things by CNN or CBS, do you think it would have been withheld?

Barack goes off the plantation: says hip-hop like Imus

Barack Obama

Presidential candidate Barack 'Barry' Obama has his political ears to the ground. In an effort to make hay from Don Imus' recent bloody execution for PC radio speech violations, Obama went so far as to suggest that the filthy hip-hop and rap lyrics heard every day on our airwaves were somehow similarly offensive to Negroes.

Be careful, Barack. When Al Sharpton gets wind of what you are saying, he's either going to whip you back into the cotton field or, worse yet, start questioning your blackness. Better listen up, Barry.

More Jesus abuse - where are the riots?

Barack Obama as Jesus at Chicago art school

American wack-o artists just can't get enough Jesus. They won't be satisfied until Christians are finally fed up enough to run in the streets burning cars and threatening to behead non-believers.You can read about the latest effort, Presidential candidate Barack Obama, or Barry as his friends call him, in the modernistic form of Jesus here and here. Now, what were the real words to Louie Louie? With works like Piss Christ, Sweet Jesus and now Barack Jesus, the genre is becoming a "one note joke", says the Relapsed Catholic. As far as I know Obama is a Lapsed Moslem and sorta Christian. Alan Keyes says Jesus wouldn't vote for Barack.

The old feeder thinks it will take more than this kind of nonsense to piss the be-Jesus out of American Christians and drive them to riot. This kind of sacrilegious self titillation at the expense of Jesus isn't new, and has never been taken over seriously.

How many of you can recall singing this little drinking ditty? I have, in the spirit of the arts, changed the words to it from Be-boppin' Jesus to Be boppin 'Bama:

Be-boppin 'Bama, He's my Savior.
Be-boppin 'Bama, He's my Savior.
My Savior now, my Savior now,
My Savior now.

Now, if I could just figure out the real words to Louie Louie. Wasn't Jesus mentioned in that one?
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YouTube has the original Be-Bop-A-Lula as performed by Gene Vincent on the Town Hall Party TV show in 1958. Town Hall Party also showcased the Collins Kids, DadGum's favorite.
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More on the Church of Barack Soter from Iowa's very excellent State 29 blog.

Barack Obama a Cake Boy?

From Blackfive: Barack Obama as straight up cake boy. Listen to the Mp3 from Sir Mix A-Lot that Uncle Jimbo has linked. First, I laughed, then, the more I thought about it...

CNN Apologizes to Barack Osama Obama

I think this whole CNN Osama-Obama Name Mistake news play is no more than an effort by a fawning MSM to divert attention from Barack's big ears.

Don't Tease Barack Obama

Barack Odumbo

Presidential aspirant Barack Obama, currently in vogue with the leftist media, has ears that protrude. Now we find out he is sensitive about his good-sized flaps. after a news conference the other day, Barack called out the awful NYT columnist Maureen Dowd, a Rodhamite who dared to mention his "big ears" in one of her columns. He is quoted as warning her, saying, "I just want to put you on notice, I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears."

I heard it on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, and read about it here in my favorite Chicago paper, the Sun-Times.

The old feeder got interested, until now not having thought about the size of Mr. Barack H. Obama's ears any more than I had about his middle name. Until Uncle Wiggily at Heartland Notebook pointed out that his middle name is Hussein. So besides looking up why Barak has a Mohammedan middle name, I checked out old pictures of Mr. Obama for ear size. What I found was disturbing.

Barack Obama can actually pull in his ears when he wants to, just like I can suck in my gut. Look at his pictures. In some photos his ears stick out almost as much a those huge megaphones on the Prince of Wales. In others, they appear to be almost pinned back. No wonder some folks think his ear wiggling act is already growing stale.
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Update: Allahpundit takes up the matter of Barack Obama's mostly ignored ear sensitivity offering a clip of the exchange at HotAir. While Allahpundit thinks Obama was only joking, the Dumbo factor takes root. For some really big photoshopped Obama orejas, see Five Reasons Why Barack Hussein Obama Should Be President at Riehl World View. These are really going to hurt his feelings.
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More Barack Obama ear insensitivity:
Paul West - Baltimore Sun - "jug ears"
Alex Locke - Bowdoin College - "McCain's chubby cheeks have nothing on Obama's big ears." and Barack has "Ross Perot's ears"
Gary Patton - Hampton Union - "His ears protrude a little. His mouth is large."
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Más: See Rush Limbaugh's Odumbo photoshop at Stuck on Stupid, plus further aurical taunting, e.g., "Barak Obama doesn't have to bend over to far to have one ear to the ground. But when it comes to campaigning he is wet behind the ears."