Friday, March 21, 2008

Photo o' the day: what to expect in an Obama White House

 
It'll be celebrities aplenty in the Oval Office.

Photo: Chicago Tribune, Pete Souza

Iraqis prefer present to past

 
A recent ABC News poll of Iraqis find that they, unlike some Democrats, do not think of Saddam's rule as the good old days.

70% Say things are “Good” today in Iraq
56% Say their lives are better NOW than before the war
71% Say their lives will be better one year from now
72% Say schools are better today
56% Say household basics are better today
53% Say crime protection is better today
39% Support the presence of Coalition Forces in Iraq
51% Oppose presence of Coalition Forces but only:
15% Say the U.S. should leave now
10% Say the U.S. should leave in 6+ months
8% Say the U.S. should leave in a few months
78% Reject attacks on Coalition Forces
99% Reject attacks on Iraqi Police
79% of all Iraqis support a united, centralized government...
70% Trust Iraqi’s Religious Leaders, followed by the Iraqi Police and the Iraqi Army.

By the way: jobs, real estate prices, overall commerce and average wages are increasing.

Shhhh. No one tell Harry ("Land Deal") Reid.

Hat tip: Larwyn

How Barack Obama missed it all

 
Larwyn provides us with the following anonymous email.

OK, I understand now!


After hearing Senator Obama's explanation I think it is perfectly clear what happened. I am glad the truth is finally coming out.

We take you to Barack Obama's church. A service is in progress.

Rev. Wright: "`And the lion shall lay down with the lamb' And all God's children will live together in peace and harmony."

Barack Obama stands up in his pew and makes his way toward the back, toward the bathrooms.

Rev Wright: "We stand for peace and harmony, for strong families and loving our neighbor..."

Barack goes out the door and it closes behind.

Rev. Wright: "Is he gone?"

Man in back row by doors: "Yes, Reverend!"

Rev. Wright: "Okay, and the white man runs this country and continues to suppress us! And Israel is evil! But Hamas is good! And don't you know that the CIA was behind September 11? We can never expect fair treatment in this land of oppression! We shouldn't sing `God Bless America` but G*d d**n America!"

The congregation cheers.

Man in back row by doors: "He's coming back! He's coming back!"

Rev. Wright clears his throat. The door opens and Obama comes back in.

Rev. Wright: "Änd as I was saying, we must heal this racial divide and all get along with one another in peace and fairness...."

Hehe!

Related: IowaHawk -- It's time for some straight talk about my Gimp.

Trinity Church and Hamas: no complaints from Barack Obama

 
"...most Americans are only fed a media diet on Islam as it relates to the "war on terror" and the Palestinian muslim [sic] problem in the 'state' of Israel."   -- Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. - July 8, 2007

Point of order: BizzyBlog is performing yeoman's work reporting on the ties between terrorists and Obama's spiritual advisor. These aren't indirect links; they are purposeful and concrete.

In July of 2007 -- during the height of the Obama's presidential positioning -- his beloved church published a "Hamas manifesto" in its newsletter.

The manifesto -- as one could probably guess -- calls for the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel.

The tome itself is signed by Mousa Abu Marzook, Hamas' "political director" and a federal fugitive.

Marzook refers to Hamas' charter as a "revolutionary document," comparing it to the Declaration of Independence. In reality, the charter calls for genocide by eradicating Jews worldwide. Marzook also claims Hamas targets only Israel, but Hamas has routinely threatened America and other "infidels" around the world; Hamas' charter states that Muslims must "pursue the cause of the [Hamas] Movement, all over the globe."

As a reminder, Hamas' attacks on civilians have killed scores of Israelis and Americans. In a spate of civilian mass-murder over a year's period of time, Hamas was responsible for a series of bloody suicide bombings.

June 1, 2001: At a seaside disco in Tel Aviv, 21 killed.

Aug. 9, 2001: At the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem, 15 killed.

Dec. 1, 2001: In a pedestrian mall in Jerusalem, 11 killed.

Dec. 2, 2001: On a bus in the coastal city of Haifa, 15 killed.

March 9, 2002: At the Moment cafe in Jerusalem, 11 killed.

March 27, 2002: At the Park Hotel in Netanya, 29 killed.

March 31, 2002: At a restaurant in Haifa, 15 killed.

May 7, 2002: At a pool hall in Rishon Letzion, south of Tel Aviv, 15 killed.

June 18, 2002: On a bus in Jerusalem, 19 killed.

Other lists are more comprehensive, highlighting Hamas' preference for killing children.

Disturbing as Wright's pro-Hamas and anti-Israel propaganda may be, it appears to be entirely typical for the hateful, racist ex-leader of Obama's church.

BizzyBlog also describes another church bulletin featuring none other than Obid Safi of the "Progressive Muslims Union" (PMU). Those who have researched PMU have discovered uncomfortable ties between the self-described reformist group and radical extremists.

Kudos to Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog for his exceptional work in exposing the links between Rev. Wright and terrorists and their apologists.

Even more unsettling is the realization that Barack Obama was aware of Wright's virulent anti-Semitic leanings, his implicit support for terror and obvious racism and chose to do nothing. Instead of divorcing himself from this hateful loser, he instead wedded his campaign to his "spiritual mentor", adviser and friend.

Update: Gateway Pundit has the essential wrap-up.

Update II: Let Freedom Ring has the critical quotes.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Bodyguard auditions

 
Holy crap, I almost spit out an entire mouthful of ice tea on my keyboard.

Click the image or here.

Please say a prayer for Joey

 
Cincinnati Garry writes:

I am sending this email about my dear friends Stacey & Mike Gruber and their 3 1/2 year old son, Joey. For more on his story you can go to http://www.joeygruber.org. Today, Joey began experiencing dizziness and loss of balance and was admitted to Children's Cincinnati. They decided to do a CT scan to see if there had been progression of his tumors. 4 weeks ago he had his first MRI following 2 rounds of chemo and 30 treatments of radiation.

At that time they discovered his tumors had not been effected by the treatment and found one more, totaling 4, 3 in his spinal fluid and 1 by his cerebellum. They were scheduled to have the second MRI on March 26th. Unfortunately he was found to have at least 6 more in his brain today and many of those were clustered. Tomorrow they will do a MRI to get more definitive answers. Please pray for Joey, Stacey and Mike whether you know him or not. He is a precious little boy and needs every prayer you can give. Please share this message with anyone who believes in the power of prayer.

                  --Garry

Read more: http://www.joeygruber.org

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Another racist preacher linked to Obama's campaign

 
Barack Obama has yet another problematic political advisor, spiritual mentor and friend: the Reverend James Meeks. A few days ago, WJYS in Chicago broadcast some of Meeks' more outrageous statements, captured during the heated frenzy of a --uhmm-- sermon.

We don't have slave-masters, we got mayors, but they['re] still the same white people! ...

...we got some elected officials who are house n*****s... they gonna fight you to protect that white man!

Meeks is also feared and despised in the gay community.

In February, Queerty highlighted the LGBT community's serious concerns with Obama vis a vis Meeks.

Rev. James Meeks is a close friend and spiritual consultant to Sen. Obama. Rev. Meeks appeared in TV ads for Obama’s US Senate campaign; Obama campaigned at his church; and went there for prayer the night he won that primary. Meeks was on his exploratory committee for the Presidency, and his church choir performed at a rally for Obama the night he announced...

Rev. Meeks is also an Illinois state senator who has aggressively campaigned against gay rights and complained about “Hollywood Jews for bringing us ‘Brokeback Mountain’.” He ran for governor on an antigay platform. He calls being gay an “evil sickness,” and his gigantic church is one of those which sponsors a Halloween fright night in which, according to the “Chicago Sun Times,” among those “consigned to the flames of hell” were “two mincing young men wearing body glitter who were supposed to be homosexuals..."

...I asked former Edwards/now Obama supporter Eric Stern at Bilerico.com why Obama, unlike Edwards in his own multipage manifesto, as it were, left us out—why in the 64-page “Blueprint for Change—Barack Obama’s Plan for America” you cannot find one sentence, one word, one syllable relating to LGBT issues. Nothing about DOMA, DADT, civil unions, gay adoption, ENDA, hate crimes, immigration, even AIDS.

I got no answer

The LA Times' David Ehrenstein had similar questions in 2007.

I'm not sure what brand of tolerant and loving Christianity Obama practices, but I hadn't come across it until hearing the sermons of Wright and Meeks.

Nicholas Stix' Obama scoop: four years too early

 
In 2004, Nicholas Stix ("Barack Obama, Man of Faith") nailed the key elements of the Obama-Wright-Meeks story nearly four years ago.

The only recognizably Christian position Obama takes is his opposition to same-sex marriage, due to the “religious connotations” of marriage... However, I would expect his position on same-sex marriage to begin “evolving” around, say, … November 3. Once Obama is safely ensconced in the U.S. Senate, he knows that his black base will stick by him, for richer or for poorer, for better or for worse. Then he will doubtless begin the sort of “education” of the Christian black electorate in matters of same-sex marriage, which black leaders earlier conducted in the matter of abortion.

...Obama’s closest religious advisers -- Fr. Pfleger, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, and Illinois State Sen. James Meeks, who moonlights as the pastor of Chicago's Salem Baptist Church – may have quotes from Scripture always handy, but are theologically closer to Karl Marx and black nationalism, than to Christianity... The transcendent-non-transcendent motto the Rev. Wright has given Trinity is, “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian.”

According to State Sen./Rev. James Meeks’ humble, personal church Web page, “Meeks’ practical and charismatic style of instruction motivates the hearer to take action and has resulted in accomplishments of miraculous proportions.” When the good Senator/Reverend is not accomplishing miracles and other feats “never before documented in history,” he serves as the executive vice president of Jesse Jackson Sr.’s National Rainbow-Push Coalition. Why a man of God would want to be identified with Jackson’s personal den of iniquity is a question only the Rev. Meeks can answer.

Keep in mind the parallels between Obama, his black constituency, and the Democrat party. As black Chicagoans have suffered less and less under racism, they have become increasingly racist. Conversely, once the Democrat party gave up its role as a pillar of Jim Crow, it increasingly has come to trade in race hoaxes. And as leading black preacher-politicians (witness Jesse Jackson Sr.’s former opposition to abortion) and white Democrat pols alike have made “Christianity” indistinguishable from the program of the left wing of the Democrat party, so too have millions of black Christians “revised” their Bibles. And so, just as “rights” have become merely a euphemism for whatever black, “progressive,” or homosexual Democrats desire, so too has Christianity.

Apparently, the only thing that the “Christianity” of Barack Obama, Fr. Pfleger, the Rev. Wright and the Rev. Meeks forbids, is voting Republican...

Photos o' the day


Check out Reuters' latest collection of 'oddly enough' photos. These two -- in particular -- caught my eye.

One of Google's employees crashes in a "nap pod", which suppresses light and sound.

A European fashion show highlights the latest in women's haute couture.

I said it on Saturday and ABC News confirmed it today.

 
Obama lied. His campaign died.

ABC's Brian Ross catches on:

Buried in his eloquent, highly praised speech on America's racial divide, Sen. Barack Obama contradicted more than a year of denials and spin from him and his staff about his knowledge of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial sermons.

Similarly, Obama also has only recently given a much fuller accounting of his relationship with indicted political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a longtime friend, who his campaign once described as just one of "thousands of donors..."

Do tell.

Before and after photos: Obama's site scrubbed again

 
Barack Obama's website has been scrubbed of another problematic endorsement: that of the virulently racist "New Black Panther Party":

How funny is that? While trying to present himself as a "uniter" and kind of but not really to distance himself from some of viciously racist and anti-American remarks of his pastor and mentor (but not the pastor and mentor himself)... Obama picks up one racist endorsement after another.


Before

In the latest endorsement, Malik Zulu Shabazz, New Black Panther Party's national chairman, who last year was barred from entering Canada for his racism and anti-Semitism, refers to the "uniter" Obama as a man with a "Muslim background, a man of color."

Just as Sen. Barack Obama sought to distance himself from controversial racial remarks made by his pastor, an anti-American government, anti-white and virulently anti-Semitic black supremacist party has endorsed the presidential candidate on Obama's own website.

"Obama will stir the 'Melting Pot' into a better 'Molten America,'" states an endorsement from the New Black Panther Party, or NBPP, which is a registered team member and blogger on Obama's "MyObama" campaign website. [Ed: Not any longer]

The NBPP is a controversial black extremist party whose leaders are notorious for their racist statements and for leading anti-white activism... Malik Zulu Shabazz, NBPP national chairman, who has given scores of speeches condemning "white men" and Jews, confirmed his organization's endorsement of Obama in an interview with WND today.

...Speaking to WND, Shabazz referred to Obama as a man with a "Muslim background, a man of color."


After

Shabazz's NBPP's official platform states "white man has kept us deaf, dumb and blind," refers to the "white racist government of America," demands black people be exempt from military service and uses the word "Jew" repeatedly in quotation marks...

I hope the Obama campaign invested in a serious content management system to help administer their website. All of these constant changes require enterprise-class plumbing.

Update: I must have a Vulcan mind-meld with the invaluable Jammie Wearing Fool: he posted on this topic just seconds before I did.

Bear Stearns' Massive Capital Loss Fund

 
About a year ago, in late March 2007, Tony Novelly -- a director at Bear Stearns -- was described as extremely bullish on the investment banking firm's prospects.

Tony Novelly, chief executive and majority owner of Apex Oil Co. in Clayton, is placing increasingly larger bets -- $7.42 million last week alone -- on the stock of Bear Stearns, where he is a director... Novelly bought 50,000 shares of the Wall Street investment banking firm over three days last week: 35,000 shares March 20 at $147.49 a share, 10,000 shares March 21 at $150.29 a share and 5,000 shares March 22 at $150.18 a share.

After those purchases, Novelly, 63, owns 177,905 Bear Stearns shares worth more than $26 million at current trading levels...

"Insider buying is always a positive for a company, because an insider doesn't have to buy," said Ken Crawford, a portfolio manager who follows Bear Stearns at Argent Capital Management in Clayton. "The insider seems to think things are going well or the shares are underpriced."

According to the SEC's insider trading records, Novelly was able to sell $4.3 million worth of shares (50,000 at $86.78) on Dec. 28, 2007. But no additional selling records appear before Bear melted down completely last last week.

Now don't cry too hard for Novelly. A self-made zillionaire, he's the CEO and majority owner of Apex Oil Co., which reported $5.2 billion in revenue in 2006.

But it still can't be much fun losing, by my calculations, around $20 million in a very public and very humbling manner.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

"Grandma was a Cracker": a speech by Barack Obama

 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Four score and seven years ago, my white grandmother first set foot on these shores, an immigrant with a limitless future and the promise of a job in the country's first Maaco™ franchise. Her success inspired the title of my third book, "Dreams of My Audacious Grandmother," which will soon be available on Amazon.com.

My parents came from a diverse background, he a Muslim who ended up in Kenya; she a professional synchronized swimmer with a penchant for erotic macrame. Their stories haven't made me the most conventional candidate, other than the typical shady land deals you'd expect of any Democrat.

So to say that race hasn't played a part in my campaign would be inaccurate, though it didn't turn divisive until Bubba Clinton got involved. But the real polarization hit the fan with a splat this past week. On the one hand, there are the wide-eyed liberals who view my candidacy as a racial comeuppance for the country -- a political Mandingo, if you will.


On the other hand we've heard my former pastor's shocking language. He has expressed all sorts of outlandish views.


Wright said "G*dd**n America," for instance. That we deserved 9/11. That the U.S. government invented the HIV virus to kill African-Americans. And called our country the USKKA. Said that Louis Farrakhan epitomized greatness. That Bill Clinton "rode dirty" on Monica, while simulating that humping motion you see in porn movies, though he was in church at the time. Plus, he cursed a lot in church. A lot. I thought that was kinda neat. Wakes you up during the sermons.


I attended Reverend Wright's church every Sunday for 20 years, but I strongly disavow all of his sermons. None of which I actually heard, by the way, because I was really sound asleep during every single one.


But I can not disown Reverend Wright any more than I can my white grandmother. She was a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed for me, but a woman who is -- seriously -- a cracker. She called me the n-word on numerous occasions but always followed it up with a rimshot.

My other grandmother, a Kenyan who still lives in Africa, also loves me. When I visited her home a couple of years ago, she made me drink something that tasted like goat piss, only tangier. My cousins told me that she thinks I'm a Muslim apostate who should be stoned to death, but that's a sign of love and concern, not hate.

I intend to be a uniter, a man who can bring together people of all races and creeds. Kind of like a political Elvis, only without the current drug problem.


Furthermore, my philosophy of militant pacifism, which I learned from visionaries like William Ayers, allows me to consider unconventional policies. That we talk seriously with any dictator on the planet: Ahmedinejad and Gaddhafi, for starters. That we unilaterally disarm ourselves to set a fantastic new precedent.

In other words, we can lead the world to a utopian existence where everyone earns the same amount of money and there is no war. But we need a leader to take us there. I consider myself that leader; a president in the mold of Jimmy Carter, only with no economic credentials and lacking any sort of military experience.

Recently, Chris Matthews said something that sent a thrill going up my leg. No, "it" didn't move. He said my speech today was worthy of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was not only a great orator, he was a man I truly admire. My spiritual mentor believes Lincoln was a misbegotten cracker, but he never said so within earshot of me.

Put simply, my campaign transcends race. The fact that I have attended a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalistic church for 20 years proves that fact. That we have a choice in this country. We can play Reverend Wright sermons on every channel all day long or we can elect me President to show how far we've come.


Now, if you'll excuse me, Reverend Wright, Minister Farrakhan and I have a flight to catch.


Update: DANEgerus, Don Surber, Gateway Pundit and Vanderleun gift-wrap reax to Obama's more perfect union.

Those Wascally Wacists

 
During the height of the Don Imus controversy in 2007, Barack Obama advocated firing the controversial radio host for his racist remarks.

In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus' show, which is broadcast on CBS Radio and MSNBC television.

"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."

Hold that thought.

Jay at STACLU asks:

While Barack Obama has responded to an admitted “firestorm” over his pastor’s racist and anti-American statements by cla[i]ming he didn’t hear them in person, Rev. Jeremiah Wright has defended himself in the past by referring to his foundational philosophy, the “black liberation theology” of scholars such as James Cone, who regard Jesus Christ as a “black messiah” and blacks as “the chosen people” who will only accept a God who assists their aim of destroying the “white enemy.”

If God is not for us and against white people,” writes Cone, “then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community.”

...Will you explain [these values] to America?

I'd be satisfied with Obama explaining his hypocrisy.

Hat tip: Seafood Gumbo at LGF

Worst. Design. For a web site. Ever.


Try as I might, I can't bring myself to link to Havenworks.com -- the home of this elegant website.

New career opportunity beckons for John Edwards

 
Consumerist reports that a new lawsuit involving Crocs™ and escalators is in the works.

Back in September we wrote about the hazards of wearing the popular "Croc" clogs on escalators, a combination that may have produced more than a few injuries all around the world. We heard about at least one case where the child's toes were ripped off when the shoe was sucked down into the escalator.

Now a family from Westchester has filed a lawsuit that claims that their child was "severely and permanently" injured in November 2007, when her Croc got caught in a escalator at JFK airport...

The Daily News asked the CPSC how many of Croc-related foot manglings they were aware of, but that agency "could not immediately say" how many reports it had.

This sounds like the perfect opportunity for Edwards. He'd be excellent at channeling the toes of a youngster.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 'War on Iraq IQ Test'

 
Jeremiah Wright has two fundamental problems. First, he believes the world economy is a zero-sum game (hint: it ain't. See The Economic Zero-Sum Fallacy). Second, he buys into the conventional leftist moral equivalence argument. That is, there's no distinction between good and evil.

In 2003, Wright published the following quiz. It could have been written by a member of Hamas.

41. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992?
A: Over 65

42. Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and 1990?
A: 30+

43. Q: How much does the U.S. fund Israel a year?
A:$5 billion

44. Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons?
A: 8

45. Q: How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got [sic]?
A: 0

47. Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons?
A: the US

[Ed: Wright obviously needs a history lesson. Perhaps he could read about the millions of lives saved by ending the war before Operation Olympic]

48. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?
A: Over 400

49. Q: Has Israel every [sic] allowed UN weapon inspections?
A: No

50. Q: What percentage of the Palestinian territories are controlled by Israeli settlements?
A: 42%

51. Q: Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land?
A: Yes

52. Q: Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.?
A: ????

Make that three fundamental problems. Wright also visited Libya, one of the poorest countries on Earth -- with Louis Farrakhan, an acknowledged racist and hater -- in order to schmooze with terrorist Muamar Gaddafi.

Gaddafi, you'll recall, ordered the attack on Pan Am 103. A Libyan bomb hidden in a suitcase exploded aboard the flight and killed 270 people. Among the dead were entire families and many children, toddlers and babies:

Asrelsky, Rachel M., 21, New York, NY, American
Concannon, Bridget, 53, Banbury, England. Irish
Concannon, Sean, 16, Banbury, England. Irish
Concannon, Thomas, 51, Banbury, England. Irish
Davis, Shannon, 19, Shelton, Connecticut. ,American
Gibson, Kenneth James, 20, Romulus, Michigan American
Herbert, Pamela Elaine, 19, Battle Creek, Michigan, American

Hudson, Melina Kristina, 16, Albany, New York. American
Ivell, Elizabeth Sophie, 19, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England. British
Jeffreys, Rachel, 23, Kingston-upon-Thames, England. British
Jermyn, Kathleen Mary, 20, Staten Island, New York. American
Johnson, Beth Ann, 21, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. American
Owen, Bryony Elise, 1, Bristol, England. British
Owens, Laura Abigail. 8, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, American
Owens, Martha, 44, Cherry Hill, New Jersey. American
Owens, Robert Plack, 45, Cherry Hill, New Jersey . American
Owens, Sarah Rebecca, 14, Cherry Hill, New Jersey . American
Rattan, Anmol, 2, Warren. Michigan. American (Indian)
Rattan, Garima, 29, Warren, Michigan.,American(Indian)
Rattan, Suruchi, 3, Warren, Michigan. American (Indian) ("The little girl in the red dress...")

Roller, Edina, 5, Hungary. Hungarian
Stevenson, Hannah Louise, 10, Esher, England. British
Stinnett, Stacey Leanny, 9, Duncanville, Texas. American
Thomas, Jonathan Ryan, 2 months, Southfield, Michigan. American
Williams, Brittany Leigh, 2 months, Crown Point, New York American
Williams, Stephanie Leigh, 1. Crown Point, New York. American
Woods, Chelsea Marie, 10 months, Willingboro, New Jersey. American
Woods, Joe Nathan, Jr., 2, Willingboro, New Jersey . American

Wright's support of Gaddafi, Farrakhan and his hateful statements are signs of a serious problem for Obama.

Wright is provably a racist; a hater; and a despicable, divisive figure. That Obama claims not to have known of Wright's background is ludicrous. He must think we're as stupid as the Clintons assume we are.

Hat tip: LGF and reader mcs

Obama's mentor, adviser and pastor: Israel "a dirty word"

 
Jeremiah "Reverend Inclusion" Wright weighs in on Israel.

Ace adds:

But you can count on Obama to support Israel. This is merely his "Crazy Uncle Jerry" who supports the Palestinian terrorists over Israel. It's got nothing at all, nothing I tell you, to do with Obama.

The American Thinker deconstructs Obama's lawyerly evasions on Wright.

Update: Michael Medved asks precisely the right question:

Hey, Barack — it’s either one or the other: either you were lying when you talked about your deep, soul-changing involvement in Trinity United Church of Christ, or else you’re lying when you say you never had any idea (until last week) about the crazy and offensive and sickening contents of the pastor’s diatribes from the pulpit.

Which is it?

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Larwyn's Link Explosion: "Undocumented hitmen for hire!"

 
Junk Science: The Washington Post-er Child for Climate Bias: Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin leads the pack in this year’s contest for misguided climate analysis disguised as "news."

The Mexican Consulate: "San Diego has been and will be Mexico."

Obama's pals: "Guilt by Assocation". You'll also went to check Vanderleun's "Change and Obey".

Need a hitman? Illegal aliens (for progressives: "undocumented workers") are available for hire!

"It's time to take a stand against Sharia":

Maryam Namazie leads the Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain. She says that rights are for individuals, not religions or beliefs...

Picture this, says Maryam Namazie: “A child is swathed in cloth from head to toe every day. Everything but her face and hands are covered for fear that a man might find her attractive. At school she learns that she is worth less than a boy. She is not allowed to dance or swim or feel the sun on her skin or the wind in her hair. This is clearly unacceptable, yet it is accepted when it is done in the name of religion."...

Transitional Fossils: Science puts a stake in the heart of creationism.

MacGruber!


MacGruber!

Making life-saving inventions out of household materials...

MacGruber!

The guy's a frikkin' genius...

MacGruber!

[Typewriter clacking] Obama's Secret Campaign Headquarters, Southside of Chicago...

MacGruber, we almost have this campaign wrapped up!

We just have to play it safe for another month or so -- and we win the Democratic nomination, hands down!

Don't worry! I've got a great plan that is guaran-damn-teed to save the campaign!

What the hell are you smoking, MacGruber? All we have to do is not make any mistakes --

Shut up, Jesse! We've got no time to lose...

...I'm bringing Obama's wife Michelle into the campaign! Her incredible candor and uplifting speeches will--

******KERBLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!******

MacGruber!


Also see: MacGruber, Episode #1