AMERICAN INDOLENT (Doesn't Obama have enough work to do?)

You can't escape this guy Obama. He’s always on TV—the Super Bowl, MLB, The Final Four, and now American Idol (AI). It’s as if the CSI franchise expanded to CSI - Ysleta, Texas or Law & Order put out a new show, Law & Order—Flashers Special Unit. I wish this guy would jump the political shark and do some work. He seems to have an excuse to do anything but his job.

The AI show that Obama will be on is the show in which AI "gives back" (a term I wish would die along with "I want to make a difference") and donates megabucks to charities and causes.  It's the old "goodness by association" aura that Obama is seeking via his appearance on AI.  Unfortunately for Obama, not even standing next to Mother Teresa would help him.  Besides, Obama was never a generous person.  His charitable contribution only went up when he started running for President and the book royalties (laundered and disguised campaign contributions?) started rolling in. According to the New York Times some of the largest contributions went to Trinity United Church of Christ.  Its then pastor, Jeremiah Wright, was the author several inflammatory racist and anti-American statements. Obama sweated that one out even throwing Reverend Wright under the bus until after his inauguration.

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As an aside, when it comes to going to church, Obama's excuse for not going is that he and Michelle would be too much of a distraction to the other churchgoers. So he says this is why he hasn’t found a church in Dee Cee to attend. BS, the guy would rather shoots hoops on Sunday morning than to go to church. Why not be honest about it?  A lot of us backsliders—me included—have skipped out on church more than a few times.  So what's the big deal?

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The talent pool on AI is average this year, and putting Obama on AI won't really help things. Besides the "goodness by association" trick, another reason that Obama is going on AI is to divert attention from the intense anger seething from America over his underhanded health care plan. Today one of the poster children for Political Weasels everywhere—Bart Stupak—announced his retirement todayfrom Congress. Apparently Rep. Stupak doesn't have the "you-know-whats" to face angry voters.  They're somewhat upset over his about face in supporting ObamaCare after thumping his concave chest that he would NOT support it. The only association Americans are making is that we have politicians that don't respect the American voters' wishes. It's a good thing for Obama that AI voters won't be voting on his performance Tuesday night.

What is hate speech?

What is hate speech?  According to Answers.com, it is "Bigoted speech attacking or disparaging a social or ethnic group or a member of such a group. The article points out that the United States is unique among the judicial systems of the world in extending broad protection to such speech. Evidently, university speech codes were developed with the 1942 Supreme Court case Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire in mind. 

Chaplinsky established the "fighting words" exception to determine whether the offending speech is protected or not. The court opined that, "...as those [words] that neither contributed to the expression of ideas nor possessed any social value in the search for truth and that incited an immediate, violent response.  Sounds a lot like the old "no redeeming social value" test found in obscenity cases.  And like obscenity, fighting words are in the eye of the beholder.

Hate speech as defined by the Liberal-Fascists is a different animal. It is a tool by which they supress any opposition to their agenda.  Hate speech, therefore,  is any criticism of Obama's agenda by equating the agenda with Obama himself.  Perhaps the master stroke by the Democrats was in nominating Obama instead of Hillary Clinton for the presidency.  Yet somehow, the press handling of Obama with kid gloves smacks of racism, i.e., the soft bigotry of low expectations.  Chris Matthews epitomizes this institutionalized media bigotry.  Watch this little exchange between Matthews and his fellow Leftist media stooges, Keith "Mr. Depends" Olbermann and Rachael "Mad Dog" Maddow.

Gee, Chrissy, did you forget that Obama is half white? No, I wouldn't have expected anything less stupid from a half-wit like you.  This patronizing attitude by white Liberal-Fascists fits the definition of hate speech because it's reflective of a deep seated bigotry.  These are the most dangerous bigots because they are political sociopaths dressed in sheep's clothing.  

 

Do you really give a damn about role models?

Nike will air a TV commercial prior to the beginning of the Masters Tournament with Tiger Woods and a voice-over of his late father admonishing him about his personal problems on the eve of his return to golf.  In the retro old-school black-and-white ad, Woods looks directly and silently into the camera while a recording of his late father is heard, speaking about taking responsibility.  Earl Woods asks rhetorically,  "Did you learn anything?"  I'm getting this as secondhand hearsay so I'm relying on the PGA website for a description of the ad. 

This technology worked effectively in 2000 with Natalie Cole and her late father, Nat King Cole doing a faux duet of the classic Nat King Cole song “Unforgettable.”  But this Tiger Woods commercial isn't the same thing.  This is not a tribute to a legendary entertainer and racial trailblazer like Nat King Cole,  but is a rather cynical attempt to curry favor with pissed-off sponsors.  You will catch on to the manipulation technique if you hear cheesy piano music in the background.  Ad agencies like to use a manipulative piano music score with ads for health care providers and charities to ad pathos.

The only person to whom Woods owes an apology to is his wife.  In that same spirit, Jesse James owes an apology only to Sandra Bullock.  None of their sexual pecadillos is any of our business. Nor should we expect that people that make huge sums of money in the entertainment business owes any of us a duty to be a role model.  They are working stiffs that happen to have highly compensated and prized attributes that's all.   If you buy a product because of a celebrity's endorsement then I understand P. T. Barnum's unorthodoxically wise quotes that, “There's a sucker born every minute” and that “Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!”  

How Do You Justify the Assassination of an American Citizen?

According to the blog Truthout, Dennis Blair, the director of National Intelligence, admitted at a House Intelligence Committee hearing last February that the CIA can assassinate Americans abroad that are suspected of being involved in terrorism.  Blair added, "We don't target people for free speech. We target them for taking action that threatens Americans or has resulted in it."  Well, that's comforting to know.  Although to listen to the Democrats whine and lie about the "vitriol" surrounding the passage of the Health Care Deform legislation you'd think that Tea Party participants and talk radio hosts are the terrorists.

Anwar al-Awlaki is a Muslim cleric and a native born American.  Al Awlaki was born in New Mexico but is now living in Yemen.  He is believed to be the first US citizen targeted for assassination by the CIA under a counter-terrorism policy initiated by President George W. Bush and put into actual practice by the Obama regime.  

Knowing the tendency of the Obama regime to overreach their authority this move is troubling.  Why is this terrorist not being brought back to the United States to stand trial like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four other men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks?  As quoted in the Truthout blog, Professor Jonathan Turley, (not my favorite legal scholar), said last February, "...it is one thing to kill an American in the course of a terrorist act or to prevent an imminent attack. It is quite another thing to kill someone suspected of terrorism without a trial. That would amount to the assassination of a citizen."  

If we follow the "logic" of the Napolitano report citing right wing terrorism as the biggest danger to the United States then all of us on the center right had better hire some bodyguards muy pronto.    A comment to an Opinion Focus web forum with Eugene Robinson, a Washington Post columnist, responded effectively to Robinson's attempt to smear the right as domestic terrorists.

To claim that political violence exclusively or mainly originates on the right requires record breaking levels of either cognitive dissonance or dishonesty. Did you miss yesterday's arrest of a Democratic donor who planned to kill Eric Cantor and his family? The death threats against Sarah Palin and her family? Did you fail to notice the left wing terrorists who threw cinder blocks and sandbags from overpasses at GOP convention buses? What is the political affiliation of the rioters who disrupt every G20 and IMF meeting? Where were you when SEIU thugs put Kenneth Gladney, an African American Tea Party attendee, in the hospital? I missed your condemnation of movies, plays and books fantasizing about the assassination of President Bush, and your reaction when the authors were treated to fawning NPR interviews. Your attempt to delegitimize opposition to radical left wing policies by smearing opponents as violent racists is despicable and a threat to the fundamental principles of democracy. 

Yesterday's arrest of probable nut case Charles Alan Wilson, 64, for alleged threats against Washington Senator Patty Murry for her vote in favor of Health Care is what the Liberal-Fascist Democrats have been waiting for.  They may have found their Marinus van der Lubbe and the excuse to practice open repression against all political opponents. 

THE PLAYBOY BUNNY DIED FOR OUR SINS

On the holiest day of redemption in Christianity, Catholics are confronted by the following: the Catholic Church, and in particular, the Pope is under attack by secularists for priestly molestation of their young charges.  I have heard a lot of my non-Catholic acquiantences say that the Church is hypocritical and should allow priests to marry and the problem with aberrant priests molesting their young charges will simply go away.  Maybe, but that's just as silly as buying into the equally looney spin that these aberrant priests are in  reality gay and just like their prey to be very young.

  

Nobody that is a sane human being and has a working moral compass likes any abuse of trust, be it by Catholic priests and their alter boys, public school teachers and their students, or Congressmen and their Congressional pages.  Yet the Leftist stooge press ignores the larger overall societal problem of pedophilia and focuses in on their favorite target, Christianity and in particular the Catholic Church. 

It's true that prohibition against priests marrying probably goes back to the Investiture Controversy in which a series of popes challenged the authority of European monarchies over control of appointments, i.e., investitures, of church officials such as bishops and abbots.  The land and other fiscal accotrements associated with clerical office made them valuble commodities.  

These secular officials often sold these offices via a practice known as simony not unlike POTUS Obama I, promising a congressman a judicial lifetime appointment of the Congressman's brother to a Federal Circuit Court judgeship in exchange for the "honorable" congressman's vote on healthcare deform. One of the things the Church did was to take the comercialization out of clerical office by turning the office into an instrument of the church and not a family business purchased on the open market. 

Yet, non-Catholic meddlers want to change basic church structure to suit their secular fancies.  My question to these meddlers is why not ask other religions to reconsider some of their more medieval doctrines, e.g., the subjugation of women as personal chattel or the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation?  

By the way, in my part of the world there is one local high school where there have been four instances of teacher-student pedophile abuse in the last two years.  Where's the flaming outrage fanned by the repressive radical left press?  There have also been calls by some for a Senate hearings on the pedophile priest crisis.  Well, while we're at it then let's go whole hog and investigate public school pedophile crisis or the Congressional pedophile crisis. 

Let's bring former public school teacher and  the schoolboy's favorite femme fatale Mary Kay Letourneau up before the drinking, carousing, philandering Senators.  Fat chance, inasmuch as teachers unions are the sacred cow of the Democrat controlled Congress.  I would like to see these political vermin pass their "august" judgment upon the Catholic church.  Well that's not likely, because you see these vermin politicians and secularist haters have an unfair advantage.  They can't judged because they have no standards to held to.  They are, to be frank, set-up not to fail so that they can be free to pontificate (pun intended) on the bad morals of others that oppose their secularist agenda.  (You know the story, specks in the eyes of others and logs in their own eyes. Religion is opiate of the masses... blah, blah, blah.)   Not that the victims do not deserve justice but behind much of this focused anti-Catholic furor are (1) a leftist political and social agenda and (2) greedy lawyers.  I can't think of a more unholy mix on this holy day.  Let's attack the whole problem and not just part of it.