Moan, Moan, Moan.

Old Fogey alert! I was a kid in the war and I was fifteen by the time the austere post war years with everything rationed ended. Old enough to remember and be fashioned by the prevailing culture that you didn’t complain, you ‘got on with things’, which is somewhat different to the modern advice to ‘get over it’, you didn’t even allow it to become serious enough to be ‘got over’. You put it in its place, you kept a sense of proportion. Oh people used to grumble, about the rationing, the weather, whatever, but grumbling was somehow a good natured activity, a social pastime. Complaining on the other hand is self centered with a sense of entitlement about it, an unspoken expectation that someone else should ‘do something about it’ for you.

Now there is a book about complaining, Complaint by Julian Baggini.

Publisher’s description
Starting with God’s protests to Adam and Eve and working through the French and American revolutions to the war on Iraq, this book examines what we complain about, why we do so, the kinds of complaints we make, why men and women complain about different things, why we complain less than Americans, and whether we should complain differently.

Read an excellent review of it by Theodore Dalrymple in The Guardian.

The best chapter in the book (or perhaps I should say the one with which I most heartily agree) is that about a prevalent modern form of wrongful, or perverted, complaint, namely litigation. In a society with few agreed moral boundaries, people increasingly look to the law to draw those boundaries. For them, anything that is legal is permissible; only the illegal is impermissible. ‘There’s no law against it’ or ‘There’s a law against it’ become incontrovertible moral arguments. This, however, means that we have abdicated our freedom and given legislators total moral authority over us. Nothing stands between the isolated individual and his egotistical whims on the one hand and the government and its diktats on the other. The result is a strange and unappealing mixture of inflamed individualism and collectivist conformism.

Freedom

Via American Infidel
H/T:LatterDays

Grandchildren

You’ll pardon, please, my light posting. A new grandchild has been born, my first granddaughter actually, already having three excellent grandsons. I’m finding it really hard to hold the promise of her, cradled in my arms, to imagine her bright future, and then put her down, take up the keyboard and and write about the very people and events that cast a long dark shadow over her future. I’ll be back Monday.

Quote of the Day.

From The Diplomad commenting on the SCOTUS decision regarding the Second Ammendment.

Last night I got all my handguns and spread them out on the floor in front of my framed picture of Charlton Heston. I read them the press accounts of the Court’s ruling. They were very happy . . .

This and That.

Those poor Socialists can’t seem to get anything right. I went to Grammar School back in UK and an excellent school it was too, as were they all. Kids who were bright but from poor working class families by passing the eleven plus exam could gain a place in them giving them a chance to do better in life than would otherwise be the case. But in a particularly egregious example of the politics of envy the Labour Party decided to abolish them in favour of Comprehensives, this they reasoned would give every child the same opportunity and avoid the snobbishness they associated with the Grammar Schools.
Well guess what, didn’t quite work out that way.

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I try to ignore all diet advice or admonition, part because I can’t be bothered to follow it and part because it so often turns out wrong. I’ve wondered too if there is a link between the large amounts of milk consumed, which ‘they’ tell us is so good for us, and the incidence of heart disease. In my funny way of thinking, I see milk as a specialised food for the sustenance of baby cows. What the hell do we and our digestive systems have in common with them? [Confession, I can't stand the stuff and don't go near it] From the Daily Telegraph:

Eating an apple a day might keep the doctor away, but it could also be the reason why your figure is going pear-shaped. Scientists have discovered that fructose, the kind of sugar found in fruit, causes weight to build up disproportionately around the stomach, rather than being spread around the body.

There are significant implications to all of this: is the Government’s five-a-day campaign, with its insistence on filling our diets with smoothies and juices, actually a cause of the obesity crisis?

Will compensation be demanded by brewers, whose trade has been damaged by the link between their product and “beer bellies”? Will these, in turn, be re-labelled “berry bellies”?

All part and parcel with the previous item , the meddling nanny state telling and coercing us into what they think is good for us.

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Speaking of which, how’s this for gasket blowing and mind blowing idiocy?

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From The Diplomad, Obama and the Art of the Chinese Food Speech.

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That’s shallot. Night night.

Uganda Citizens as United States Soldiers? Feel Safe Yet?

Touted as what is destined to be history’s president of firsts, Senator Barack Obama could be the first Commander in Chief to oversee a military force with foreign recruits?

Ugandans, who want a career in the United States military, can sign up at the annual convention of the Uganda North American Association (UNAA), scheduled to run between August 29 and August 31.
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When Democrats took control of Congress, they promised to make increasing the size of the military one of their top legislative priorities in 2007.

While their incessant threats to withdraw troops from Iraq found media headlines, they’ve been working on increasing the size of the military with noncitizens.

They ought not defile the title of Commander-in-Chief by placing it in such close proximity to Barak Obama’s name. Be that as it may, this idea of having Ugandans serve with American men and women most emphatically defiles the United States military, not to even consider how it undermines our security. This reeks to high heaven of some pureed-brain, pentagon putz’s wet dreams of turning the US Military into some UN circus adjunct.

Analysts warning that a large number of noncitizens under arms could jeopardize national security, and the potential for rankling the courageous, all-volunteer American troops already serving their country, make foreign recruitment for the US military a hot topic.

I have a better idea. Let’s just let the Gitmo terrorists sign up. Screw a trial, screw 9.11. Let’s let bygones be bygones. Anyway, Cuba is closer than Uganda- it’s a bargain all the way around. I mean if this country is going to continue this suicidal march, by all means, let’s accelerate the pace.

While we are at it, let’s ship some Hamas in to guard our borders. I mean, why not? Half of America is ready to elect a Marxist puppet as president. What the hell will security matter once that nightmarish possibility steps into the daylight as reality?

Will Ugandans in the US military feel loyalty to the United States of America or to a president they see as a radical agent of change?

Most know about Obama’s ties to Kenya and that co-President Raila Odinga has claimed a tribal kinship with the Illinois senator.

Few realize the fever pitch of Obama support in Uganda, home of UFOs–Ugandans for Obama.

Part of the Eastern African region that could some day be included in the United States of Africa, some Ugandans and Kenyans see Obama as much the president of the United States of Africa as he would be the president of the United States of America.
Uganda People’s Congress communication chief Benson Ogwant Echonga said: “In Obama, we see a new America”.
Read it All…Will Obama be first Commander in Chief to oversee a military force with foreign recruits?

The only people who will be singing Kumbaya over a campfire one day will be the armies of our enemies, warming their hands around the blazing flames of America burning. And those would be about the only troops Barack Hussein Obama is well qualified to lead.

CAIR: It Ain’t Over Yet

Seventh Circuit Vacates Holy Land Foundation Opinion, Grants Rehearing

On June 16, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the opinion of a three-judge panel, rendered December 28, 2007, which overturned the landmark $156 million judgment against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), other Islamic charities in the U.S., and an alleged Hamas fundraiser. The case arose out of the 1996 murder of David Boim, a 17-year-old American citizen, who was killed in a Hamas terrorist attack in the West Bank. David’s parents sued men who were directly involved in the murder; the Holy Land Foundation (HLF); the American Muslim Society, also known as the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP); the Quranic Literacy Institute (QLI); the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR); Saleh, the alleged Hamas fundraiser; and others (see this summary judgement order from the first trial for the complete list). The June 16 decision will result in a rehearing of the case by the entire court in the near future, thus giving the Boim family a second chance at the appellate level.

I have less and less hope that this castrated government will rid this country of the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and all other islamic front groups. But at least there is this, small as it is. May they nail these bastards to the wall.

Yet Another America Hating Commie Endorses Barack Obama

Okay, so I was wrong… The most damaging endorsement possible for Obama isn’t from The Goracle.

From OneFreeKorea:

The Chosun Sinbo, the mouthpiece of North Korea’s Japanese front organization Chongryon and often for the North Korean regime itself, has announced its preference for Obama over McCain, whom it calls “a variant of Bush” and “nothing better than a scarecrow of neoconservatives,” which is a bit odd considering that the Bush Administration’s giveaway diplomacy is better for Kim Jong Il than even Clinton’s awful performance.

Kim Jong-Il, eh? “I velly pweased to endwoss Obama faw Amelica.

Continue reading Tyrants of Communist North Korea Endorses Obama

Barack Obama: The Un-American Trojan Horse

Obama, with his barely black (but extremely profitable) skin, apparently threw his white blood and American allegiances under the bus long ago. (Maybe that’s where the birth certificate he refuses to disclose is too). But the more you read about Obama, the more you realize how much he shares Michelle’s convoluted notion of pride. Me, if I had a father who abandoned me at birth, a man who used women like concubines and who finally dies an alcoholic in Africa, well, I certainly wouldn’t consider such a loser a point of inspiration. But then Michelle and Obama have a rather perverse view of what is inspiring (and the American way is not on that list)

The senior Obama, who died in an automobile accident in 1982 at the age of 46 was a dead-beat dad. At 18 he married his first wife Kezia in a tribal ceremony in Kenya. Five years later he abandoned his pregnant wife and her infant son and enrolled at the University of Hawaii where he met and married Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas and fathered Barak junior. He again abandoned his wife and young Barak at only 2-years old when he was granted an opportunity to attend Harvard. While at Harvard he met and married Ruth Nidesand. After finishing at Harvard he returned to Kenya. Ruth Nidesand followed him to Kenya, but he had already grown tired of her and they were soon divorced. The photo is Barak Obama at 10 years old with the one and only time he saw his father.

Barak, who idolizes his father fails to mention that the senior Obama was a committed Marxist and worked to bring about change that communist can believe in.(source)

A very extensive article by Greg Ranson at Presto Pundit , posted in April, gives a very in-depth analysis of Obama senior’s fervent love for all things communist – which goes a long way towards explaining why Obama feels so comfortable in the company of anarchists, socialists, muslims and marxists.

If this is the type of man who earns Obama’s love and devotion -a man who hates the West, who abandoned women impregnated by him all across the globe – I can see why Obama has such disdain for typical Americans who, rightly so, would view such a man with contempt. But, as we are often reminded by Michelle, the Obama family values are not American values.

Here is a sampling of what Obama senior believed and what Obama so ardently admires.

Obama,Sr. stakes out the following positions in his attacks on the white paper produced by Mboya’s Ministry of Economic Planning and Development:

1. Obama advocated the communal ownership of land and the forced confiscation of privately controlled land, as part of a forced “development plan”, an important element of his attack on the government’s advocacy of private ownership, land titles, and property registration. (p. 29)

2. Obama advocated the nationalization of “European” and “Asian” owned enterprises, including hotels, with the control of these operations handed over to the “indigenous” black population. (pp. 32 -33)

3. Obama advocated dramatically increasing taxation on “the rich” even up to the 100% level, arguing that, “there is no limit to taxation if the benefits derived from public services by society measure up to the cost in taxation which they have to pay” (p. 30) and that, “Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.” (p. 31)

4. Obama contrasts the ill-defined and weak-tea notion of “African Socialism” negatively with the well-defined ideology of “scientific socialism”, i.e. communism. Obama views “African Socialism” pioneers like Nkrumah, Nyerere, and Toure as having diverted only “a little” from the capitalist system. (p. 26)

5. Obama advocates an “active” rather than a “passive” program to achieve a classless society through the removal of economic disparities between black Africans and Asian and Europeans. (p. 28) “While we welcome the idea of a prevention [of class problems], we should try to cure what has slipped in .. we .. need to eliminate power structures that have been built through excessive accumulation so that not only a few individuals shall control a vast magnitude of resources as is the case now .. so long as we maintain free enterprise one cannot deny that some will accumulate more than others .. ” (pp. 29-30)

6. Obama advocates price controls on hotels and the tourist industry, so that the middle class and not only the rich can afford to come to Kenya as tourists. (p. 33)

7. Obama advocates government owned and operated “model farms” as a means of teaching modern farming techniques to farmers. (p. 33)

8. Obama strongly supports the governments assertion of a “non-aligned” status in the contest between Western nations and communist nations aligned with the Soviet Union and China. (p. 26)

It gets worse than that, so read it all.

Related Reading:
“Problems Facing Our Socialism” by Barack Obama, Sr (PDF)

Also, if you have wanted to read Obama’s books but can’t bear to waste the money, here are some links to free downloads.

New details on Barack Obama’s teenage mentor Frank Marshall Davis (pdf file).

Fred on Boumediene.

Fred Thompson gives his take on the Boumediene Supreme Court decision at Real Clear Politics. After showing what a bad decision it is, he adds this:

It should also be noted that Senator Obama thinks that the decision in Boumediene v Bush is an excellent one. I don’t know what’s worse: that he doesn’t understand what the Court has done … or that he actually does and still thinks this was a sound ruling. Good luck to all of us.

It’s really too bad that he isn’t the candidate for the GOP, on the plus side he is a long time friend of and advisor to Old Mac.

Barack Obama: High Priest of Doom

All across the globe cowering elites in every nation huddle behind their many byzantine obfuscations, like over educated crack heads they fervently cook equations and theories on which to hang their nightmare climate visions, calculating, with dour glee, the deconstruction of the civilized world.

Barack Obama intones sonorous chords of doom, a black magician summoning the tribal spirits of Mother Earth, demanding that Americans not look towards the stars but, instead, bow their heads in servitude, paint their faces in ash and pay penance for having created the most vital, free and prosperous nation on earth.

For a political ideolgy rooted in humanism and secularism, far too many on the left have a terrifying tendency to devolve into evangelical snake handlers, speaking in tongues, babbling insanities.
From The Religion of Environmentalism

There is a certain type of person in the Western world. Well meaning people who think that they hold the fate of the world in their hands and who think that they can save the world…and who think that you have to help.

These are the people who live by the three R’s. They want to drive a Prius but can’t quite afford one yet. They casually talk about Global Warming like it’s a fact but who have never even bothered to investigate the science behind “Climate Change”. These people are members of the new religion – the religion of environmentalism. And guess what? They are just as passionate and just as illogical as adherents of any other religion. And guess who is a member of the New Church? Obama…

The blogger above goes on to introduce Orson Scott Card’s treatise on “Obama’s New Religion”. I excerpt some below, but highly recommend that you read it all.

Barack Obama’s comments…reveal him to be in the religious-faith category. The Environmental Puritans believe that any opposition to their dogmas is heresy, and that anything that doesn’t match their vision of how humans should live is a sin.

Since their vision of how humans should live is “without making any difference in how the world would be without humans,” we are all, alas, sinners. However, some are more sinful than others, and the United States is the most sinful of all.

No, not China, because the Environmental Puritans, like the rest of the world, expect America to live by a higher standard than other nations. Fair enough — we claim to be a special nation, and so we should meet a higher standard.

Still, the Environmental Puritans agree with the ayatollahs on this one point: America is the Great Satan. And Obama echoes that view when he refers to our gasoline consumption, our eating, and our air-conditioning and heating as if they were sins for which we are accountable to the rest of the world.
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When Obama says we eat too much — we, whose surpluses feed so many nations that when we cut back a little on food production in order to make ethanol it causes near famine elsewhere — what is he suggesting?

Is he saying that, as president, he would put us all on a diet?

Is he going to wave his hand and make people whose genes predispose them to gain weight suddenly have the metabolism of naturally skinny people? Can’t wait for that change!

Or is he simply going to ration food, so we don’t eat so much? What, exactly, is his solution to the problem of environmentally sinful America?
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The correct solution to the oil problem, according to the Puritans, is to have fewer humans. Now, I haven’t noticed them volunteering to lessen the population starting with themselves; nor have I seen their heroes bicycling everywhere (environmental ayatollah Al Gore’s plane being a legendary instance).But they do systematically resist every solution that doesn’t involve wrecking the American economy and destroying the American way of life.

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It’s so Calvinist, so Jonathan Edwards. To the environmentalists, the only reason we aren’t a spider suspended by God’s will over the fires of hell is that spiders are natural and don’t deserve to be punished.
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...you finally begin to suspect that the goal of the purest of the puritans is gotterdammerung, apocalypse, the environmental armageddon: The collapse of the world economic order, the abandonment of advanced technology, and the death of nine-tenths of the human race.

Only when we are reduced to half a billion people, or less, will we finally have a chance of being saved — in the view of the Puritan Environmentalists.

That is the religion whose doctrine Obama is quoting when he says, “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”

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This and That.

A couple of worthwhile things I came across today on the loser Obamadhinejad.

First a wonderful piece at Townhall by Mary Grabar, You Need a Weatherman to Tell Which Way Obama Will Go.

When I heard a major part of Obama’s resume included a stint as a “community advisor”, I asked myself what the term meant.

Lovely take down of his pretensions and a clear statement of his lack of anything that would qualify him for any job requiring some sort of expertise.

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You’ve no doubt heard of one of Obama’s foreign policy advisors Richard Danzig citing Winnie the Pooh no less as a model for criticizing GWB’s ‘rigid inability to change direction’, well William Kristol at The Weekly Standard has intriguing thoughts on it, in a superbly titled piece, Obama’s Pooh-Bah.

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History Will Say That We Mis-underestimated George W Bush says Andrew Roberts in The Daily Telegraph.
Send it to any lefties you want to annoy.

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There seems to be a bit of an Obama-bashathon going on around here. Good thing too, apart from the danger that by a fluke he could become President, an even more scary thought than the bumbling Kerry winning, it’s such a target rich environment!

Richard Fernandez of Belmont Club says at Pajamas Media [I still have trouble not writing 'pyjamas'!]that Obama’s changing positions on Iraq coincide with the interests of his old pal Tony Rezko. Of course it will be dismissed by the Kos Kroud as a smear and a distraction but only because it is so damaging and they’ll try to sweep it under the rug, there being no more room under the bus.

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It was bad enough that the Goracle saw fit to put his lucrative amateur long range weather forecasts into a film and then a book, but an opera? On second thoughts since the Global Warming Scam is all smoke and mirrors then the opera house might be the best place to house it. I’m not the only one.

Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” first a film and then a book, is becoming an opera. Officials of La Scala in Milan say the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to write it for the 2011 season, The Associated Press reported.

Dear Mr. Gore,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on my draft of “Verità Inconveniente.” Rest assured that I and the management of La Scala are committed to a serious presentation of your scientific work. I will try to adopt some of your suggestions, but I hope you appreciate the constraints faced by the composer of an opera that is already five hours long.

I agree it would “round out the résumé” of Prince Algorino in the opening scene if he were to sing about his creation of a communications network. But the “Mio magnifico Internet” aria you propose seems to me a distraction — and frankly out of place in an 18th-century Tuscan village. I believe the peasants’ choral celebration of Prince Algorino’s wisdom suffices to establish his virtues.

Obama Makes a Mockery of the Presidential Seal

Typical progressive isn’t he? Just as Reprogressives try to appropriate and distort marriage, Christianity and America, Obama chooses to appropriate the Presidential seal with this none tooo subtle rendering. He could have at least used a vulture instead of an eagle. A bird of prey picking the bones off of carrion far better symbolizes Barack Obama’s intent for America than the noble eagle.
From RedState.com

(a) Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

H/T: LGF commenter

Going Down…..

Quick link before I go to work. Just something to cheer you up this morning.
So stupid Obambi turns down $80 million in public financing just as his contributions are way below his expectations. Captain Ed has the story.
People have been wringing their hands over his apparent money advantage over John McCain, but remember last summer when Mc was going broke and was all but written off? I think he learned a lesson there, it’s a classic tortoise and hare story.

Barack Obama and the Supreme Court

There is not one front, one arena, one issue where Barack Obama is acceptable. So it is no surprise to find that he would trash the Supreme Court. It is well worth following the link to read the entire post, but here is the excerpt that says it all for me.

Barack Obama and the Supreme Court

by JimByrd
Where does that place Barack Obama, who taught Constitutional law, albeit historically iniquitous? It exposes him as an extreme constitutional anarchist. He truly believes that Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David H. Souter are the epitome of Constitutional law. He stated concerning these three, “I want people on the bench who have enough empathy, enough feeling, for what ordinary people are going through.” He has also expanded on what he believes the role the Supreme Court should be:

I taught constitutional law for 10 years, and . . . when you look at what makes a great Supreme Court justice, it’s not just the particular issue and how they rule, but it’s their conception of the Court. And part of the role of the Court is that it is going to protect people who may be vulnerable in the political process, the outsider, the minority, those who are vulnerable, those who don’t have a lot of clout.
Sometimes we’re only looking at academics or people who’ve been in the lower court. If we can find people who have life experience and they understand what it means to be on the outside, what it means to have the system not work for them, that’s the kind of person I want on the Supreme Court.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.

Barack Obama seems to have the job description of a social worker confused with the role of a Supreme Court justice. Perhaps Obama believes the country would be better off if the Supreme Court were substituted with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals–the most overturned court in the U.S. history. His sophomoric ideas of what should constitute the character of a Supreme Court justice has crossed the threshold of absurdity and landed in the iron clutches of adolescence ignorance. He believes the Supreme Court should be the protector of the vulnerable, regardless of de jure; regardless of right or wrong; regardless of the Constitution v. empathy, heart, poor, disabled, African-American, gay, or old. The Supreme Court’s role is to protect the constitutional rights of anyone–rich, poor, vulnerable, powerful, etc. Once again, Barack Obama has demonstrated his lack of intelligence, and in this instance, his chosen field.

Worth Quoting – Michelle Obama: Envy and Revenge

Michelle Obama, wife of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama, symbolizes everthing ill about the politics of race. She also represents the very lowest motivation in life: envy and revenge. Some call it social justice, but that’s only a fancy name for the base reaction to life– pure materialism. It’s all about fame and fortune. Ultimately, now, it’s about the White House.

The Obama’s degrade the very idea of the White House. Instead the home of our country’s leader, they are suggesting that is should be the triumph of envy. Economic jealously. The lowest of the low should sit in the Oval Office. This is justice. This is the juvenile insult the whole world offers America through the Obamas. The Third World believes it has a right to sit on the throne of power. The Third World had nothing to do with the creation of that throne, nor any capacity to contribute to it, nor has it any comprehension of how the throne was established, or what it means, or what it’s worth. The “have nots” simply look at it, and envy it, and are angry that they don’t have it. The Obamas represent the non-white Third World. They represent envy. This is the secret of their popularity.

Continue reading…. Michelle Obama: You Owe Me
Also see… “Is Michelle Obama Emotionally Disturbed?”

Obama Wants a Weakened America. Don’t You Wonder Why?

Video via Always On Watch

Though the media and their messiah, Barack Hussein Obama, want Americans to believe that 9.11 was an aberration, that Islam presents no threat, the evidence paints a vivid picture to the contrary. Listed below is only a partial list of threats and plots that have been thwarted.

So it kind of makes you wonder why Obama wants to weaken our defenses. No other major power is contemplating doing so. Russia is actually ramping up. A recent report describes blueprints for an advanced nuclear warhead being found in the possession of smugglers who have been supplying bomb parts to Iran. You know, the country Obama wants to include in his kumbaya world tour whose leader has never deviated from his obsession with obliterating America

It all makes you wonder why Obama wants to cripple America militarily. Doesn’t it?

NEFA’s “Target: America” series examines the multitude of terrorist plots directed at the United States since 9/11, drawing primarily on court filings and other official sources. The “Target: America” memos, which Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Reports identified as “very good reads for CT professionals,” provide detailed insight into terrorist targeting strategies and tactics.
“Target: America”

Take the link above to read the details of each of the incidents listed below.

• April 3, 2008 Bojinka II: The Transatlantic Liquid Bomb Plot
• March 18, 2008 The Herald Square Plot
• Jan. 28, 2008 The Fort Dix Plot
• Jan. 5, 2008 The L.A. Plot to Attack U.S. Military, Israeli Government, & Jewish Targets
• Dec. 22, 2007 The Illinois Shopping Mall Plot
• Dec. 6, 2007 The New York City Subway Poison Gas Plot
• Sept. 17, 2007 KSM’s Transatlantic Shoe Bomb Plot
• Aug. 14, 2007 KSM’s West Coast Airline Plot
• July 31, 2007 The Columbus Mall Plot
• July 23, 2007 KSM’s Brooklyn Bridge Plot
• July 16, 2007 Hamas’ Operations in North America
• July 9, 2007 Irhaby007′s American Connections
• June 25, 2007 The PATH Tunnel Plot
• June 18, 2007 The East Coast Buildings Plot
• June 4, 2007 The Miami Plot to Bomb Federal Buildings and the Sears Tower

Gaddafi Hopes Obama’s Supposed Support of Israel is Election Propaganda

Madman and dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi, who once declared that “one day…Islam will disseminate its power over the European countries“, is ardently hoping that Obama’s pretense of supporting Israel is simply plain old election propaganda, as do all of Obama’s muslim supporters throughout the world. Gadaffi concludes that Obama’s “inferiority complex” prevents him from declaring camaraderie with Israel’s Palestinian enemies.

The more you dig, the more you discover that Barack Hussein Obama is like honey to a fly when it comes to attracting the support of muslims, terrorists and socialist scum. One wonders why his supporters remain oblivious. Of course, given that his primary base is composed of the hate-America crowd, they probably aren’t oblivious at all, just accepting.

There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency. But we were taken by surprise when our African Kenyan brother, who is an American national, made statements that shocked all his supporters in the Arab world, in Africa, and in the Islamic world. We hope that this is merely an elections “clearance sale,” as they say in Egypt – in other words, merely an elections lie. As you know, this is the farce of elections – a person lies and lies to people, just so that they will vote for him, and afterwards, when they say to him: :”You promised this and that,” he says: “No, this was just elections propaganda.” This is the farce of democracy for you. He says: “This was propaganda, and you thought I was being serious. I was fooling you to get your votes.”

Allah willing, it will turn out that this was merely elections propaganda. Obama said he would turn Jerusalem into the eternal capital of the Israelis. This indicates that our brother Obama is ignorant of international politics, and is not familiar with the Middle East conflict.

Complete transcript and video at Memri.
H/T: LGF

Michelle Obama Promotes Ignorance and Paranoia

Here’s the wife of the Great Unifier, the Great Conciliator, the Great Educator who’s going to bring America to a post-racial future. She’s supposedly a community activist working for the benefit of poor neighborhoods whose teenagers are disproportionately at risk for sexually transmitted diseases. She has an opportunity to reverse, through education, decades of racial distrust and to simultaneously protect her teen-aged female constituents against “cervical cancer and other diseases in females caused by certain types of genital human papillomavirus (HPV)[, a class of viruses] … which are responsible for 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts.” So Mrs. Obama strikes a mighty blow to promote ignorance, to prevent vacination, and to permit preventable STDs and cervical cancer.

Read it all…. Did Michelle Obama, channeling Rev. Wright’s racist paranoia, condemn south Chicago girls and young women to unnecessary and preventable STDs and cervical cancer?

Michelle Obama Tries to Put Her Mask Back On

Well, it looks like Michelle Obama’s real self is being thrown under the bus along with other Obama supporters who provide too much insight into a man who is damn determined that America not realize who and what he essentially is.
Michelle Obama’s attempt to rehabilitate her bitter black image reminds me of an article I read in 2002. This was after the Cincinnati riots when I was trying to fathom who the hell blacks in this country had become. Just as Rev Wright was an eye opener to many white Americans, the riots in my hometown and the ensuing rhetoric of black politics was my eye opener.
One of the things my research led me to be perplexed with is this notion the black community has that they have to wear some kind of mask in order to be acceptable to whites. It would seem that just being regular Americans would be far simpler. But the more I read, the more I understand that those blacks who subscribe to the notions of Jeremiah Wright find being a regular American distasteful.

In every position I’ve held, I’ve felt valued for my qualifications, and highly prized for being black in a sea of whiteness. I’ve sometimes felt like what James Baldwin once described as the fly in the buttermilk. Token and expendable. I am constantly aware of my loneness, of how I am being treated, of how I am treating others and how I am perceived.
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But it leaves us “Only Ones” with a challenge: We must integrate without compromising ourselves or our beliefs. We must retain our cultural selves and run the risk of scaring the white folks we work with and for. We must constantly filter our experiences, screening for racism in each moment, while still being a team player. We must be able to culturally navigate both worlds, working side-by-side with folks who are only vested in their own white world. We must teach tolerance or suffer being misunderstood. We must put up with ignorant comments, always picking our battles. We must reach out to other people of color for reality checks. We must prove that we are more than a dark body the white company brings in to sit behind a desk. And we must perform twice as well as our peers and look twice as good doing it.

Always with a smile and always with flair. No exceptions.

I’m used to being the Only One, so at this point in my professional life it’s almost second nature. Still, it often leaves me feeling numb, defeated. I go home at times exhausted from the effort. I feel cheated out of being who I am in my workplace, where I spend nearly half my waking life.

Oh cry me a river. Talk about a martyr complex, you are either proud of who you are or you are not. Don’t blame “whitey” that you felt you had to conceal your “real nature”. Most of us could care less. But I find it highly tiresome and more than a little exasperating that blacks hold their culture as separate and apart from their American identity.

It certainly doesn’t speak to the reality on the ground that finds a huge percentage of white youth adopting black music, dress, eubonics, and attitudes. Combined with the indoctrination taught in our treacherous public schools which has succeeded in inculcating a few generations with “white shame”, you have millions of white kids emulating black culture and abjuring their own. So what the hell do blacks feel that they have to conceal?

When I brought this article up in a local online forum where whites and blacks were going head to head on race issues, many blacks affirmed that indeed, they felt compelled to hold back their “real’ selves.

“We must integrate without compromising ourselves or our beliefs. We must retain our cultural selves…”

And what beliefs are so alien to white America, except perhaps those that echo the rhetoric coming out of Obama’s long time mentor, Rev Jeremiah Wright.

Sociologist Dena Wallerson is a top college administrator. She remembers her 10 years as one of a few African-Americans in the graduate sociology program at a state university. She wrote a paper there titled “Minority Among Minorities,” which examined how women of color cope in a white-dominated workplace. She found that it was important for the women to network with other people of color outside of their workplace. In these networks, the women could let down their guard and strip themselves of the mask.
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The mask gives you more access to the white world. It is that corporate, professional thing you take off when you get home, put your feet up, pick up the phone, and say, “Girl you wouldn’t believe the kind of day I’ve had. *” It can change daily, depending on who will see it. What doesn’t change is how heavy it is. It weighs so much, it’s numbing.

We get used to the transition — on and off, on and off. I used to date a guy who was an insurance salesman by day, thugged-out rapper by night. Tattooed biceps and all. I called him at work one day and listened to his voice mail — he sounded like a straight-up white guy. His deep voice was nasal, his words crisper than normal. With this voice, his co-workers probably had no idea who he really was. I didn’t either.

When I worked in a more corporate environment, I remember feeling exhausted at the end of the day from continuously putting on the front. Jealous that my white co-workers could let loose and blow off steam while I fronted ’til the end. Some days I was relieved just to make it to my car where I could finally breathe and play my soul music, returning to my black world.

If you read the entire article, you get an idea of why Michelle Obama is such a bitter woman. Putting up with us whitey’s is such a mind numbing, onerous task, according to her sistas.

The slings and arrows of racism can’t get you if you’re not emotionally present. In addition to the mask, tuning out white co-workers is one way of coping.

That black woman in your office who isn’t so friendly? The one who doesn’t hang out with the rest of the gang? The one who doesn’t join in on the water-cooler talk? She’s most likely using the only tool she knows to deal with being the Only One. She’s keeping a safe distance and double-checking her work. She knows that if something goes wrong, she’ll be blamed and fulfill a stereotype of the shiftless Negro.
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Another big problem for “Only Ones”: being the spokesperson for the race. We’re not a monolithic group. Black folks come from as many different backgrounds as white people. Within the community, we are more attuned to the differences, but white folks have a tendency to just see black and make general assumptions.

It’s tiring being the teacher all the time, but Younger believes it is an integral part of black professionalism. The more black professionals there are, the less isolated we are, and the more diversity there is, the less each one has to teach.

Those white folks with little to no exposure to people of color, who are over eager to seem “down,” need to be taught a lot.
from The Only One: Being Black in the White Working World

No, I think maybe blacks in America need to be taught how to be Americans and quit clinging to their culture , which, unfortunately, has little to do with American culture, apparently.

So go ahead Michelle, put your mask back on, pretend to love America. Problem is, you can’t erase the real face we have already seen. And I suspect it won’t take much for your mask to slip away again.