For Attorney General Eric Holder:
How long did it take you to find a white defendant to prosecute for a "hate crime" -- the knockout game?
How many black defendants did you pass on prosecuting while you were searching for a white man to prosecute?
Did you remember to make sure the defendent you settled on isn't a homosexual?
For the editorial board at the New York Times (a former newspaper):
Now that you have created the term "white Hispanic" for George Zimmerman, how much longer will it take you to call some conservative black like Deneen Borrelli or Herman Cain a "black Caucasian"?
For any spokeman for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration:
When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, they rounded up and massacred government leaders, military officers, college professors, and other potential leaders. Then they declared that they would have to run Poland, since the Poles had no leaders capable of running a government. Didn't you do something similar when you stopped counting the coldest temperature reading stations between one publicized calculation of global temperature and the next, so that you could falsely claim that the temperature had gone up "according to your readings"?
For the Love Canal Media:
Hundreds of people died of Fast and Furious. Four Americans were killed in Bengazi. How many died in the George Washington Bridge traffic jam?
Friday, January 17, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Chris Christie, Bob Gates, and my solution for carbon dioxide
Dammit, Chris Christie, you gave the media exactly what they wanted! You've given them something to cover other than Obama scandals, incompetence, and cronyism. Can you be surprised that you are under so many spotlights that you can't even distinguish any one of them individually? To think that some people thought this bumptious blimp could beat out Hillary in the Presidential race! Of course, even if your governorship made George Washington look like Bill Clinton, they would still make a scandal up to use against you. (Do you remember Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, and Joe Septic?) At least we can try to bust frauds.
(If you want to imagine something truly appalling, imagine an actual footrace between Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie.)
Now that I've done yelling at CC (for the moment), a warning for the rest of you. B e ready for the Love Canal Media to stretch this bridge fiasco as long as they can, with endless breathless updates and "exclusives". The LCM wants to keep their gaze (and hopefully, in their eyes, yours, too) on the figure of Chris Christie (pun intended) until they catch another Republican doing or saying something they can make a scandal out of. As the media pirates yell, "Prepare to be bored!"
Few sights amuse more than the consternation of the Left when they are wounded by the turncoats they prepared to join their crew. They are shocked that Robert "Beltway Bob" Gates would dare to criticise their Mickey Mouse Club foreign and military policies. Turnabout, I call it. How do you suppose we Republicans felt when Gates consented to stay on as Secretary of Defense. You kept him because he was pliable, and would change teams to stay in office. Why are you surprised when he leaves the ship and tells the reading public (that which remains) and the media of the brainlessness of the captain and his officers. Bob Gates may be fond of the military, but he's more fond of Bob Gates, and it's only Bob to make more money and TV time for himself.
Be the President Republican or Democrat, George W or Barry O, a tiger is a tiger, a jackel is a jackel, and a Gates is a Gates.
If coal industry executives are, shall we say, reluctant to trust Democrats and environmentalists, one can hardly blame them. The "war on coal" goes back longer than you may realize.
First the coal power plant owners were ordered to either retrofit their plants to use clean coal or install costly "stack scrubbers" in their smokestacks. They complied.
Then they were told that they had to install stack scrubbers into the smokestacks of the plants that had converted to clean coal. There were protests, but "no mercy, no quarter" - they had to do it or face business-killing fines. Again they complied. The real pollutants that made "smog" a word in the dictionary virtually disappeared from our air.
So naturally, the enviros and their Democrat wage-slaves declared the second most important gas for life on earth a pollutant, so that they could continue their torture-murder of a great American industry. Their theories are wildly, transparently false, but that never stops a dedicated power-hungry lefty.
Personally, I think that if every member of radical environmental groups like the Sierra Club would just stop exhaling, it would do more good for the planet than the shutting down of every coal-fired plant in America.
I know I'd breathe easier.
(If you want to imagine something truly appalling, imagine an actual footrace between Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie.)
Now that I've done yelling at CC (for the moment), a warning for the rest of you. B e ready for the Love Canal Media to stretch this bridge fiasco as long as they can, with endless breathless updates and "exclusives". The LCM wants to keep their gaze (and hopefully, in their eyes, yours, too) on the figure of Chris Christie (pun intended) until they catch another Republican doing or saying something they can make a scandal out of. As the media pirates yell, "Prepare to be bored!"
Few sights amuse more than the consternation of the Left when they are wounded by the turncoats they prepared to join their crew. They are shocked that Robert "Beltway Bob" Gates would dare to criticise their Mickey Mouse Club foreign and military policies. Turnabout, I call it. How do you suppose we Republicans felt when Gates consented to stay on as Secretary of Defense. You kept him because he was pliable, and would change teams to stay in office. Why are you surprised when he leaves the ship and tells the reading public (that which remains) and the media of the brainlessness of the captain and his officers. Bob Gates may be fond of the military, but he's more fond of Bob Gates, and it's only Bob to make more money and TV time for himself.
Be the President Republican or Democrat, George W or Barry O, a tiger is a tiger, a jackel is a jackel, and a Gates is a Gates.
If coal industry executives are, shall we say, reluctant to trust Democrats and environmentalists, one can hardly blame them. The "war on coal" goes back longer than you may realize.
First the coal power plant owners were ordered to either retrofit their plants to use clean coal or install costly "stack scrubbers" in their smokestacks. They complied.
Then they were told that they had to install stack scrubbers into the smokestacks of the plants that had converted to clean coal. There were protests, but "no mercy, no quarter" - they had to do it or face business-killing fines. Again they complied. The real pollutants that made "smog" a word in the dictionary virtually disappeared from our air.
So naturally, the enviros and their Democrat wage-slaves declared the second most important gas for life on earth a pollutant, so that they could continue their torture-murder of a great American industry. Their theories are wildly, transparently false, but that never stops a dedicated power-hungry lefty.
Personally, I think that if every member of radical environmental groups like the Sierra Club would just stop exhaling, it would do more good for the planet than the shutting down of every coal-fired plant in America.
I know I'd breathe easier.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Surrounded by Lispers in ADA America
I am beset by lispers on the airwaves. One of the local sponsors of my favorite local conservative radio show, The Bill Nojay Show on my favorite New York talk radio channel, WYSL, has a lisper read their online ad. It irritates me so much I don't even remember whose ad it is.
What's worse, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops website has a lisper recording the psalms I get with my daily Bible readings. Hearing the psalms spoken as if the reader just finished having dental work done is exasperating! I don't listen to my Bible readings in the morning to start the day irritated. But irritated I am.
I blame the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Act was sold to us as a law that would prevent unfair discrimination against the disabled, which was preventing them from obtaining jobs they were capable of performing. Sounded nice to most, although some of us knew where this would end up.
As we all know, hand a trial lawyer in or out of government a chopstick, and he'll turn it into your suppository.
So it proved with the Americans with Disabilities Act. From the prevention of unnecessary discrimination against the handicapped (yes, I will use the old word), the focus soon became the enrichment of trial lawyers. (This happens to most laws.) Gradually employers realized that they were likely to be hauled into court anytime you turn down anyone with a handicap, no matter what it is, and no matter how relevant that handicap is to the job duties. Do you remember the blind firefighter?
So we are beset with lispers on the radio and barely coherent telemarketers. Do you see why I invoke Shakespeare and intone "I trust not fair terms and a villain's mind"?
What's worse, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops website has a lisper recording the psalms I get with my daily Bible readings. Hearing the psalms spoken as if the reader just finished having dental work done is exasperating! I don't listen to my Bible readings in the morning to start the day irritated. But irritated I am.
I blame the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Act was sold to us as a law that would prevent unfair discrimination against the disabled, which was preventing them from obtaining jobs they were capable of performing. Sounded nice to most, although some of us knew where this would end up.
As we all know, hand a trial lawyer in or out of government a chopstick, and he'll turn it into your suppository.
So it proved with the Americans with Disabilities Act. From the prevention of unnecessary discrimination against the handicapped (yes, I will use the old word), the focus soon became the enrichment of trial lawyers. (This happens to most laws.) Gradually employers realized that they were likely to be hauled into court anytime you turn down anyone with a handicap, no matter what it is, and no matter how relevant that handicap is to the job duties. Do you remember the blind firefighter?
So we are beset with lispers on the radio and barely coherent telemarketers. Do you see why I invoke Shakespeare and intone "I trust not fair terms and a villain's mind"?
Monday, January 13, 2014
Libertarians and Tea Partiers flunk their Civil War era homework
Well, okay, my claim is a bit overblown, but the TPers and the Libertarians do have the common Young American weakness of shoddy research. I'll give three quick examples here:
Libertarians often claim that President Abraham Lincoln was the real father of big government during his time in office, because the size of government and taxes expanded during those years. Now, let me think. There was something unique about Abraham Lincoln's Presidency. Hey, I remember...
HE WAS PRESIDENT DURING A CIVIL WAR!!
This means, for those who can connect two dots, that the precedents Honest Abe set are valid IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR! (The government post-bellum was back down to its pre-war size only seven years after the shooting stopped. Ask your favorite small-government Lincoln basher is they knew that.)
Libertarians also love to claim that Abraham Lincoln violated the Constitution by suspending the Writ of Habeus Corpus in 1861. I haven't the time for an extended treatment of the issue, so I'll give you the bullet points version:
The Constitution dictates that the Writ will not be suspended EXCEPT IN CASE OF REBELLION. As Professor Harry Jaffa points out, if an attempt to separate 11 states from the Union by force of arms isn't rebellion, what would be?
Congress was in recess when Lincoln found it necessary to suspend the writ. He called the Congress back early in a special session, and then asked them to rule up-or-down on his actions during the crisis, including his action of suspension of the Writ. They approved.
A-ha, say the libertarians and neo-Confederates, but the states had reserved the right of secession from the Union when they ratified the Constitution! They were exercising their legal right!
Wrong again. Claremont Institute Fellow Thomas Kranawitter reviewed the records of the various ratification conventions in every state, including the ratification statements, the proposed amendments (sucessful and failed), and the records of the debates, and he made a startling (to some) discovery.
Not one state reserved a right of secession in their ratification statement. Not even one. In fact, only one convention, Delaware's, even proposed an amendment reserving that fancied right. It was defeated.
You have to do your homework, people.
Libertarians often claim that President Abraham Lincoln was the real father of big government during his time in office, because the size of government and taxes expanded during those years. Now, let me think. There was something unique about Abraham Lincoln's Presidency. Hey, I remember...
HE WAS PRESIDENT DURING A CIVIL WAR!!
This means, for those who can connect two dots, that the precedents Honest Abe set are valid IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR! (The government post-bellum was back down to its pre-war size only seven years after the shooting stopped. Ask your favorite small-government Lincoln basher is they knew that.)
Libertarians also love to claim that Abraham Lincoln violated the Constitution by suspending the Writ of Habeus Corpus in 1861. I haven't the time for an extended treatment of the issue, so I'll give you the bullet points version:
The Constitution dictates that the Writ will not be suspended EXCEPT IN CASE OF REBELLION. As Professor Harry Jaffa points out, if an attempt to separate 11 states from the Union by force of arms isn't rebellion, what would be?
Congress was in recess when Lincoln found it necessary to suspend the writ. He called the Congress back early in a special session, and then asked them to rule up-or-down on his actions during the crisis, including his action of suspension of the Writ. They approved.
A-ha, say the libertarians and neo-Confederates, but the states had reserved the right of secession from the Union when they ratified the Constitution! They were exercising their legal right!
Wrong again. Claremont Institute Fellow Thomas Kranawitter reviewed the records of the various ratification conventions in every state, including the ratification statements, the proposed amendments (sucessful and failed), and the records of the debates, and he made a startling (to some) discovery.
Not one state reserved a right of secession in their ratification statement. Not even one. In fact, only one convention, Delaware's, even proposed an amendment reserving that fancied right. It was defeated.
You have to do your homework, people.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Andrew Cuomo Steps on Faces of New Yorkers to Reach for the Presidency
Since becoming New York's Governor, Andrew Cuomo, son of former NY governor Mario Cuomo, has done much to prove Dr Johnson's old definition of second marriage (A triumph of hope over experience.) Prince Andrew has taken many actions which seemingly have defied rational analysis, from ramming homosexual marriage through the legislature to ramming the immensely unpopular (and comically misnamed) gun-rights-destroying SAFE Act through the same legislature, without even allowing them to read it first.
He has single-handedly prevented New York from reviving its flagging economy by preventing hydro-fracking for natural gas (New York is figuratively floating on a sea of it).
He's promoting youth unemployment with his determination to raise New York's minimum wage to $9.00/hour, even higher than the job-killing federal rate of $8.00.
He hurried to the front of the line to establish a ObamaDon'tCare exchange when B.O.Care when passed, just as he would hurry to pass the first 2nd Amendment slashing laws after Newtown.
His new trick is to crow about his business tax-free zones in New York, forgetting to mention that those zones are little more than the campuses of the state university system. He also spends state tax dollars on television campaigns telling of all the wonderful things Governor Corleone has done for the state, every message riddled with lies. I recently read that Andy is now going to use tax dollars to put his name on every Thruway rest stop and all of the other state facilities across the Vampire State. By now New Yorkers are suspecting that their governor is insane.
Not insane. Just insanely ambitious.
You see, Andy ben Mario wants to be President, which Daddy never got to be. Now, Andrew has a nice big campaign war chest for a governor, but it's not big enough for a presidential candidate. He also is assuming (safely, in the opinion of most) that Hitlery Clinton will be contending for the nomination that she feels was stolen from her in 2008. Now, Andy knows that a lot of big-bucks liberal individuals will be only too eager to fund her run for the prize. He's a creep, but he's not stupid. He has hit on a strategy.
Look at that list of "incomprehensible" actions again. Every one of his actions, unpopular with the people he is sworn to serve, have one thing in common. Every one of them is very pleasing to big-bucks leftist interest groups who are willing to put their money where there interest lies, meaning they will support candidates who have pleased them in the past. He wants all of them to be pleased with him, so that they can help him close the campaign funding gap with the dreaded Hildabeast. Then he can take her on in an even match.
He has single-handedly prevented New York from reviving its flagging economy by preventing hydro-fracking for natural gas (New York is figuratively floating on a sea of it).
He's promoting youth unemployment with his determination to raise New York's minimum wage to $9.00/hour, even higher than the job-killing federal rate of $8.00.
He hurried to the front of the line to establish a ObamaDon'tCare exchange when B.O.Care when passed, just as he would hurry to pass the first 2nd Amendment slashing laws after Newtown.
His new trick is to crow about his business tax-free zones in New York, forgetting to mention that those zones are little more than the campuses of the state university system. He also spends state tax dollars on television campaigns telling of all the wonderful things Governor Corleone has done for the state, every message riddled with lies. I recently read that Andy is now going to use tax dollars to put his name on every Thruway rest stop and all of the other state facilities across the Vampire State. By now New Yorkers are suspecting that their governor is insane.
Not insane. Just insanely ambitious.
You see, Andy ben Mario wants to be President, which Daddy never got to be. Now, Andrew has a nice big campaign war chest for a governor, but it's not big enough for a presidential candidate. He also is assuming (safely, in the opinion of most) that Hitlery Clinton will be contending for the nomination that she feels was stolen from her in 2008. Now, Andy knows that a lot of big-bucks liberal individuals will be only too eager to fund her run for the prize. He's a creep, but he's not stupid. He has hit on a strategy.
Look at that list of "incomprehensible" actions again. Every one of his actions, unpopular with the people he is sworn to serve, have one thing in common. Every one of them is very pleasing to big-bucks leftist interest groups who are willing to put their money where there interest lies, meaning they will support candidates who have pleased them in the past. He wants all of them to be pleased with him, so that they can help him close the campaign funding gap with the dreaded Hildabeast. Then he can take her on in an even match.
Friday, January 10, 2014
The Real Deniers
Those of us who realize that global warming is a global hoax of monumental and disastrous proportions tend to react with fury when accused by the likes of Al Gore and Bob Beckel of being "deniers". Here's why:
If you want to make yourself aware of how many liars and haters there are,and how alive anti-Semitism still is, comment on a Holocaust video on YouTube. The Holocaust is the most lavishly documented crime in world history, and yet some idiot named Gary Freeman claims that there is not one document (not ONE) that proves it. He and another idiot calling himself St George's Flag claimed that there were more Jews in Europe at the end of the war than at the beginning. The former claimed that there were only 5 million Jews in Europe at the start of the war. That's interesting, because at the Wannsee Conference where the Nazi hierarchy planned the co-ordinated actions necessary to implement the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, Reinhard Heydrich's presentation put the number of Jews in Europe at 11 million.
It is also worth mentioning that Rudolf Hoess testified that during his tenure at Auschwitz, at least 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, were "exterminated" there. (His testimony at the Trial of the Major War Criminals at Nuremberg claimed that the toll was 2.5 million.) There was actually little need for the prosecution to cross-examine Commandant Hoess, as he testified so freely in his role as defense witness that he left very little to inquire about save for small details.
It is also worth noting that in his sworn testimony, SS Security Service chief Otto Ohlendorf testified that during his time at the head of Einsatzgruppe D, his command killed 90,000 people, mainly Jews and communists. Presumably Freeman and "Flag" assert that he hallucinated his actions during that time?
It is grimly amusing to me that many of the Nazi participants in the Holocaust were more honest at their trials than the Holocaust deniers are about those years today.
It's tempting to just write off people like Freeman and Flag as idiots (and they are), but idiots in large numbers can be deadly. Every genocidal crime in human history bears ghastly testimony to that.
Idiots can also have advanced degrees, as possessed by a surprising number of Nazi upper-level functionaries. Hans Frank, Albert Speer, Hjalmar Schacht, Josef Mengele, Ohlendorf himself -- these were not ill-educated men. The possession of an advanced degree tells nothing of a person's character.
These are points to ponder for everyone. In the meantime, boys, zip your jackets -- your swastikas are showing.
If you want to make yourself aware of how many liars and haters there are,and how alive anti-Semitism still is, comment on a Holocaust video on YouTube. The Holocaust is the most lavishly documented crime in world history, and yet some idiot named Gary Freeman claims that there is not one document (not ONE) that proves it. He and another idiot calling himself St George's Flag claimed that there were more Jews in Europe at the end of the war than at the beginning. The former claimed that there were only 5 million Jews in Europe at the start of the war. That's interesting, because at the Wannsee Conference where the Nazi hierarchy planned the co-ordinated actions necessary to implement the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, Reinhard Heydrich's presentation put the number of Jews in Europe at 11 million.
It is also worth mentioning that Rudolf Hoess testified that during his tenure at Auschwitz, at least 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, were "exterminated" there. (His testimony at the Trial of the Major War Criminals at Nuremberg claimed that the toll was 2.5 million.) There was actually little need for the prosecution to cross-examine Commandant Hoess, as he testified so freely in his role as defense witness that he left very little to inquire about save for small details.
It is also worth noting that in his sworn testimony, SS Security Service chief Otto Ohlendorf testified that during his time at the head of Einsatzgruppe D, his command killed 90,000 people, mainly Jews and communists. Presumably Freeman and "Flag" assert that he hallucinated his actions during that time?
It is grimly amusing to me that many of the Nazi participants in the Holocaust were more honest at their trials than the Holocaust deniers are about those years today.
It's tempting to just write off people like Freeman and Flag as idiots (and they are), but idiots in large numbers can be deadly. Every genocidal crime in human history bears ghastly testimony to that.
Idiots can also have advanced degrees, as possessed by a surprising number of Nazi upper-level functionaries. Hans Frank, Albert Speer, Hjalmar Schacht, Josef Mengele, Ohlendorf himself -- these were not ill-educated men. The possession of an advanced degree tells nothing of a person's character.
These are points to ponder for everyone. In the meantime, boys, zip your jackets -- your swastikas are showing.
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