Friday, July 23, 2010

Tasteful: Exclusive Look at the Blueprint for the Ground Zero Mosque

I don't see the issue.

It's so respectful of other cultures. Kind of like how Saudi Arabia treats churches and synagogues.


Most Hilariously Awesome Revelation from Journolist Scandal: Everyone Hates Keith Olbermann

Even the denizens of Journolist -- the mainstream "journalists", pundits and academics of the left -- thought Keefus was an arrogant, offensive misogynist.

Salon’s Rebecca Traister agreed Olbermann regularly displayed his contempt for women. “Olbermann has a terrible record of going out of his way to talk about young, attractive women he believes to be stupid in grotesquely dismissive and oversexualized terms.”

Traister had written the same thing in her columns for Salon, for instance calling Olbermann out when he “felt free to call [Paris] Hilton a slut on air and speculate about whether anyone had ever ejaculated in her face.”

Blogger Lindsay Beyerstein said maybe the time was now to take down Olbermann. “When we liberals were fighting for political survival after 9/11, it was important to be disciplined and to pick our internal battles very carefully. Now that the Democrats are in charge and progressivism is ascendent, we can afford to demand more from our leaders.

“We can certainly afford to smack down Keith Olbermann when he spouts misogynist garbage,” she said.

University of Chicago Professor Harold Pollack said at the end of a long hard day, the last thing he needs is an hour with someone like Olbermann...

So who's gonna be the WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD tonight, Keefus?

Oops. Tito, hand Keith a tissue.


(Quietly) Obama Upgrades PLO's Diplomatic Status

Dan from New York:

Haaretz, 7/22/10

U.S. upgrades status of Palestinian mission in Washington


Move raises PLO representation to “delegation.” Now able to fly the Palestinian flag.

The United States State Department has upgraded the Palestinian Liberation Organization's mission in Washington, the PLO's U.S. representative said on Thursday.

The upgrade, which will give the PLO Mission to the U.S. the status of 'Delegation General', became effective beginning July 20, 2010.

Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, the PLO's representative to the United States, said that the decision was preceded by several consultations made over the past year between the PLO Mission and the Obama administration.

Although not fully fledged diplomatic recognition, the upgrade raises the status of Palestinian representation in the U.S. to the same level as PLO representation in many European countries, as well as Canada.

In addition to the name change, the PLO office will now be able to fly the Palestinian flag - although there was some doubt that the organization would gain permission to hoist the Palestinian colors from its headquarters, which it shares with other tenants.

Areikat said he hoped the upgrade was "a sign of America’s determination to play an active role in bringing about an end to Israel’s 43-year-old military occupation of Palestinian lands and the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital".

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You can bet your bottom dollar that’s exactly what it is, Ambassador.

Furthermore, the maps and flags distributed by the Palestinian Authority:

...are an important and tangible method of instilling fundamentally [violent and] negative messages... [These] include ignoring the existence of the State of Israel, and denying the bond between the Jewish people and the Holy Land; the obligation to fulfill the Palestinian 'right of return'; the continuation of the 'armed struggle' for the 'liberation' of all of 'Palestine', and perpetuating hatred of the State of Israel. Hence, significant changes in the maps of 'Palestine' would be an important indicator of a real willingness by the Palestinians to recognize the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.

Obama's latest move therefore speaks volumes.


Larwyn's Linx: Top Ten Racist Incidents of the Week

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Nation

Top Ten Racist Incidents of the Week: Zombie
Obama Campaign Advisor Participated On JournoList: Instapundit
States' Inherent Authority to Enforce Immigration Law: PJM

GOP: Defund, Repeal ObamaCare :RWN
Hoyer: 'Read the Bill' Reform is 'Unreasonable': GOPleader
Romanoff Pledges Cooperation With Issa Jobsgate Probe: AmSpec

Economy

Social Security Staggers Toward Collapse: RWN
Immigration Myths: Corner
Schumer courts Snowe with new Campaign Finance bill: Hill

The Scariest Unemployment Graph Ever: Atlantic
Ann Arbor lays off firefighters, buys $850K piece of art: BlogProf
More Unions Means Fewer Jobs: RWN

Laugh Riot: Obama Will Sign Government Waste Bill: RWN
TARP: White House Slush Fund: WashExam
The Regulators Now Run America: FPM

Climate & Energy

Temperatures have risen slower than Hansen forecast for a carbon-free 21st century: TAB
Bobby Jindal Lashes Out at Obama: We 'Don't Want a BP Check – We Want to Go Back to Work!': GWP

Media

Did I Get 'Journolisted'?: PJM
I witnessed Obama worshipping at Jeremiah Wright’s church: Caller
World's Dumbest Blogger Explains His Participation in Journolist: JOM

An Overdrawn Race Card: Wolf Howling
The Short-Selling of For-Profit Education: MTC
Police: 'Blue Meth' Latest Marketing Tool for Dealers: WDAF

HuffPo Reveals Coordination on the Right: Ace
Obama Journolist Operative Invited Other Journolistas to White House: LegalIns
Dear Lib Media, Now That You’re Following Conservative Blogs Please Report on This Kook's Grade-School Porn: GWP

World

Al-Arabiya Director Calls Nuclear Iran ‘Most Dangerous Threat That is Facing Our Region in 100 Years’: CNS
More Muslim Riots in France: PJM
ECB's Trichet calls for fiscal tightening: ForexYard

Zach Chesser Indicted for Material Support of Terrorism: Jawa
Khalidi’s Audacity of Hope: NRO

SciTech

Russia Gets Su-35S by Year-end, Libya to Follow: AviationWeek
White House Emails Show More Extensive Improper Contact With Google?: NLPC
Microsoft beats Street with $16 billion in revenue: CNet

Cornucopia

Tea Party Barbie: BigFeed
Chris Farley is alive and well!: R&R
Glenn Beck's Hilarious Gay-Baiting of American Al Qaeda Adam Gadahn: Ace

Hat tip: W.
Images: Big Feed
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

No. They. Didn't.

The 2009 Mercedes-Benz G-Class, MSRP: between $100,250 and $119,450:


The 1995 Suzuki Samurai, Kelley Blue Book Price: between $1,700 and $1,875:


Add $1,150 in parts, paint and labor:

And *Voila*!

A brand-spanking new Merzuki Gamurai!

In which I thoroughly refudiate the progressives' hatred of Sarah Palin

Over at CNet, a progressive journalist and an eager band of sycophants reveled in a Twitter gaffe by Sarah Palin.

In order to show just how great an impact her every word can have on society, Palin has inspired a new, vibrant meme on Twitter, one that allows those who were lazy and complacent in high school to finally exercise the relics of their inner literary bent.

#ShakesPalin was spawned by a perfectly spontaneous tweet from Palin concerning the possibility of a mosque being constructed near Ground Zero. She initially tweeted that peaceful Muslims should "refudiate" such an idea.

Now, of course there's no such word as "refudiate." But you know exactly what she's getting at: the repudiation of a refusenik. Or of a refuse collector. She was clearly reaching for an expression of strong negative emotion.

Commenters were plainly entertained:

• "She is a comic, GOP her base, please go away."
• "Do you seriously not know why she keeps getting media attention? The woman is dumb as a post, but people watch stuff about her rabidly. It's all about the ratings and ad revenue. If she were anyone else, her idiocy would have relegated her to yesterday's news, but Sarah Palin is a hot commodity."
• "Please, please, please continue using her as your face and voice, GOP. We want the whole world to think "Republican" every time they see her face or hear her voice."
• "Sarah Palin is going to destroy the Republican Party yet. Morons shouldn't let morons drive."

My response was simplistic -- phrased using short words to improved the odds that leftists might understand the message.

I find it fascinating that the learned observers here pillory Palin for a verbal gaffe while the welfare state the Democrat Party has created is collapsing. That's according to their own "deficit commission".

• The New Deal, the Square Deal, the Fair Deal that created Social Security and the FHA are $45 trillion in the red and are due to collapse in six years

• "Great Society" and the endless Welfare Mentality has crushed the will of inner-city residents, locking them into a culture of dependency on government and inspiring record numbers of single-parent families

• Medicare, Medicaid and related entitlements are underfunded by roughly $50 trillion and will collapse under their own weight in less than eight years

• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the job shop for connected Democrats like Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick -- were protected over the last decade by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and will now cost the taxpayer as much as $1 trillion

• A failed $1 trillion stimulus program -- guaranteed, we were told, to keep unemployment under 8% -- went primarily to union construction shops and to state public sector employees as band-aids and did more harm than good

• Adding to the massive, crushing deficits for our kids, the Obama Democrats -- ignoring the clear will of the people -- have created huge new entitlement programs in the form of "ObamaCare". This occurred despite the fact that Medicaid was designed to offer medical care to the most needy and that existing government health care programs suffer from $100 billion or more annually from fraud

* Further, the Obama Democrats are killing successful school choice/voucher programs, like the ones in DC, locking kids into the miserable, union-controlled public schools that reward tenure, not merit.

Everything this government touches has turned to crap and simply confirms the wisdom of our country's founders. They designed the Constitution to prevent federal intrusion into all of these areas. And liberal Democrats, starting with FDR, did everything they could to turn our founding document into a "living and breathing" contract.

Do you have a "living and breathing" mortgage? Do you get to change the terms of your car loan? How about other laws? Get to change those, 'cause they're living and breathing?

The modern Democrat Party is the enemy of freedom. Vote for the most conservative Republican candidates you can to prevent the collapse of this society.

It's November or never. Because the country hangs in the balance.

And that's not me saying that --- that's Obama's own deficit commission. The fuse on the time-bomb has all but burned away.

Ohhhhh, check it out -- Sarah Palin made a boo-boo!

Hat tip: Mark Levin.

When did the NAACP join the Klan?

During the first two-thirds of the 20th century, The Ku Klux Klan served as "the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party."

The Ku Klux Klan was established by the Democrat Party.

The Ku Klux Klan murdered thousands of Republicans -— African-Americans, Catholics and Jews -- in the years following the Civil War.

The Republican Party and a Republican President, Ulysses S. Grant, crushed the KKK with The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.

The Klan was resurrected during the administration of Democrat Woodrow Wilson, an avowed white supremacist. In the White House, Wilson screened the blockbuster film The Birth of a Nation, which was notorious for "promoting white supremacy and positively portraying the 'knights' of the Ku Klux Klan as heroes."

The film inspired a new generation of Klansmen, complete with burning crosses, white sheets and an ideology based upon race supremacy. As recently as the seventies, the Klan was still utilizing the film to recruit new members.

The KKK soon became such a driving force within the Democrat Party that the 1924 Democrat National Convention was known as "the Klanbake".

In 1937 Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed a former member of the Klan, Senator Hugo Black (D-AL), to the Supreme Court.

In the fifties and sixties, members of the KKK who fought the civil rights movement were uniformly Democrats. Infamous police commissioner Bull Connor not only attacked protesters with fire hoses, dogs and clubs, but served as both a KKK member and a committeeman for the Democrat Party.

In the eighties, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) -- a recruiter and executive for the Klan -- was elevated to third-in-line for the Presidency.

In fact, the greatest civil rights activist in American history -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- was a Republican.

In one of the greatest speeches in American history -- many historians believe it is second only to The Gettysburg Address -- King dreamed of a day when skin color was as meaningless as eye color. He said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

King supported the NAACP of his era. The group's proud tradition included fighting against the diabolical practice of lynching, supporting the civil rights struggle, and driving legislation that advanced the cause of equal rights and individual liberties.

The NAACP historically had strong ties to the Jewish community: "Jews wrote most of the checks that bankrolled the fights of Martin Luther King... the Freedom Rides of James Farmer and CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality). Ever since the early years of the NAACP more than fifty years before, with a Jewish president and, a few years later, a black national organizer, leading Jews on the board of directors, and a vocal black membership, blacks and Jews were linked in the fight to end racial discrimination."

Fast forward a few decades and we find that the NAACP has become the antithesis of King's vision. It has, in the words of the National Black Republican Association, a "racist agenda."

It supports the same party of racism -- the Democrat Party -- that murdered its predecessors. It supports the agenda of dependency and modern slavery, endless big government, and an unconditional loss of liberty.

Today's NAACP unapologetically welcomes Louis Farrakhan, a virulent racist who preaches hatred of whites, Jews and Catholics.

Today's NAACP Chairman, Julian Bond, is a spiteful, bitter racist who despises anyone that opposes his radical Statist agenda. If you believe in the Constitution, if you believe in individual liberty and private property, then Bond's bizarre ideology brands you a racist.

At an NAACP gathering, FDA executive Shirley Sherrod "twice decried present-day racism, as if it was 400 years ago. That suggests a person whose views on race have not truly changed at all. But she doesn't stop there. [Referring to Tea Party activists,] Sherrod says, 'I haven't seen such mean-spirited people as I have seen lately over this issue, healthcare. Some of the racism we thought was buried, didn't it surface.' ...In Sherrod's world, no one is allowed to object to a significant Obama-supported policy change impacting the healthcare of all Americans without being labeled a racist."

The NAACP and Sherrod are illegitimate heirs to King's legacy. Political debate can not occur when proven racists claim that any dispute is the result of racism.

Facts, logic, history and reason are of no consequence. If you disagree with the Obama administration, if you believe in the Constitution, if you believe in American exceptionalism, then you're a racist.

The NAACP, with its embrace of racism and hatred, is a national disgrace. Shirley Sherrod is a government hack with a chip on her shoulder. Both owe Andrew Breitbart an apology.

Martin Luther King wouldn't even recognize today's NAACP, which is eerily similar to the Klan of old. It appears to embrace hatred based solely upon race, an ideology that is closer to Germany of the thirties than King's America.


Linked by: Michelle Malkin. Thanks!

Journolist Rallies Around Tiger Woods

Papa B relays this unsourced email.

I think it is remarkable that within a week of Tiger Woods crashing his Escalade, the press found every woman with whom Tiger has had an affair. The media unearthed photos, text messages, voicemails and more. In fact, they not only knew the cause of the family fight, but they even knew it was a wedge from his golf bag that his wife used to break out the windows in the Escalade (not to put too fine a point on it, they even knew which of Tiger's wedges she used)!

And with each passing day, they fed America more updates on his sex-rehab stay, his wife's plans for divorce, and the dates and tournaments in which he'll play.

Barack Obama has been in office for more than a year-and-a-half, and this same press:

· Still cannot find any of his childhood friends or neighbors,

· Or locate any of Obama's college papers, grades or transcripts,

· Or determine how he paid for a Harvard education,

· Or discover which country issued his visa to travel to Pakistan in the 1980's,

· Or his thesis, Barry Soetero's thesis -- even Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis on racism,

They just can't seem to find them.

Yet the public still trusts that same press to give them the whole truth.

In fact, if you want to know any of those details, the press will call you a racist.

Truly, he is the man from nowhere. No tracks, no roots, no history, no records, no transcripts, no one who remembers him, no girlfriends, and no neighbors.

Perhaps someone should ask Ezra Klein or Spencer Ackerman if they can check into these matters.

Larwyn's Linx: Dealergate, Social Justice and Obama's Job-Killing Machine

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Nation

Dealergate, Social Justice and the Obama Job-Killing Machine: Malkin
The Manchurian Listserve: Driscoll
Former DOJ Attorney vs. Power Line on Panthergate: PJM

What the NAACP/Tea Party Battle is Really About: AT
ShoreBank: Is there a Rezko connection?: Pollak
Leftists at Loyola: Rove Blocked From Speaking: RWN

Have We Forgotten Everything MLK Taught Us?: RWN
Reaction: the Journolist Revelations: Caller
ACORN assaults bank in Missouri: BigGovt

Economy

Financial 'Reform' Could Cost U.S. Companies $1T: AmSpec
Obama's NLRB member voting on cases related to SEIU: AT
"I'd Rather Fish": Cold Fury

Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures: AT
It’s Not Health Care ‘Reform’; It’s Exploitation: PJM
Of course Obama's a socialist: AT

Climate & Energy

Thousands of Obama’s drilling moratorium victims rally in Louisiana: Malkin
Dems Attempt to Blame Shift Oil Spill to Cheney: RWN
Oil Spill 'Cleanup' in China: S&L

Media

When McCain picked Palin, liberal journalists coordinated the best line of attack: Caller
Liberal journalists colluded to paint tea party protesters as Nazis: BlogProf
Obamagasms on V-O Day at JournoList: Malkin

My take on the Daily Caller Journolist revelations: Toldjah
CBS's Attkisson Finally Exposes Fannie Mae's Dirty Laundry: B&MI
Wanna Fight? How About Sushi at Three Paces?: Ledeen

Note to White House: Stop Obsessing With Fox News: RWN
Dems buy $5.2MM in airtime for November: Hill
List of Known Journolist Journalists: AT

World

Welcome to Hezboland: GoV
Zakir Naik: "Peace TV"'s Calls for Terrorism: Hudson
Alaska pair pleads guilty to lying about hit list: Breitbart

Stunner. Obama’s PLO Buddy Raising Cash For ‘Audacity of Hope’ Ship to Bust Gaza Blockade: GWP
Obama's Failing Presidency: AT

SciTech

Mystery of TWA Flight 800 Lives On: AIM
Details of the first ever control system worm: CNet
'Legal highs': a law enforcer's nightmare: SMH

Cornucopia

Mother of the Week: C&S
Crazed Sex Poodle Has Apparently Tried To Hump More Than One Masseuse’s Leg: RWN
Swing Shift Cinderella: C&S

Hap tip: W.
Images: Barking Crayon.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

State Welcome Signs -- As They Should Be

Papa B offers more of his politically incorrect fare.















Der Joürnolist: The Media Scorecard

All you need to know about Der Joürnolist can be gleaned from Dougie's exclusive Scorecard. Here's who you can trust -- and who you can't. Here are the folks reporting -- and not reporting -- on Der Joürnolist Scandal:

• ABC: None
• American Thinker: Forget the Whistleblowers! WaPo Management Owns the Journolist
• Bloomberg: None
• CBS: Debunking the Journolist “Conspiracy” (Chait)
• CNN: None
• Fox: Report: Journalists Debated Whether Government Should Shut Down Fox News
• Investors Business Daily: The Smoking Gun For Media Bias
• MSNBC: None
• NBC: None
• New York Post: Steering the Press
• New York Times: None
• NPR: None
• Washington Examiner: First came Climategate, now it’s JournoList; Who’s next for an email scandal?
• Washington Post: Nothing to See Here, Just Move Along Folks (Klein)
• Washington Times: Inside the Beltway

I have a suspicion that Tucker Carlson's biggest revelations are yet to come.

In which case, readers of the Wrinkled Gray Lady and viewers of NBC will find themselves shocked when their favorite commentators are suddenly and unexpectedly forced to resign.