Political commentary, tech news and miscellanea I find interesting.
19 years old?! Oh, wow, that’s just awesome! This kid is the future of the GOP, at least in Oklahoma. We need more brave (and young) souls to go out and run in local elections. They’re the ones who will set up a sane governmental infrastructure in the future.
A heartfelt congratulation is in order for Mayor John Tyler Hammons.
I’m skeptical as to how much contact the laymen really will have with the high priests of the bumbling party, but I’m hoping that I’m wrong and that the mob will scare the hell out of the elected with this nifty site , threatening them with a good pillorying if they don’t get off their arses and bring the Republical Party back to its Conservative self.
If you’re moved to, do consider donating to CaringForChina.com and U.S. Campaign for Burma to get money to those who are suffering at this moment.
George Friedman of STRATFOR, the best organization for political analysis, on the ugly disintegration of order happening in parts of Mexico thanks to narco-terrorists running amok.
Are politics in general too “complex” for American citizenry? According to economist Thomas Sowell, the answer is a resounding “no,” and I agree. The mainstream media tells the populace so in order to keep them too lazy to straighten out their situation, that’s all.
UPDATE:
Sowell has added Part 2 and Part 3 of this interesting topic.
Too bad. Why replace Jay Leno with a no-name like Fallon? Outside of Craig Ferguson, late-night has gotten bad anyway.
First Myanmar, now China. This is terrible. And it’s scandalous that the schoolbuildings in Sichuan were so poorly constructed. Considering China’s growing wealth, there’s no excuse for this.
Interesting, and rather amusing story out of the hell that is Zimbabwe. I don’t mean to make light of a horrid situation, but the lady quoted in the beginning was an anti-white activist who may or may not have had a legitimate beef against Ian Smith’s government, as a fair amount of the ZANU-PF membership were espousing Marxist rhetoric. Still, Smith was a far better leader than Black Hitler and Rhodesia was an immensely better country than the pathetic patch of land the once mighty Zimbabwe has become:
Many who can recall pre-independence Zimbabwe said to believe current abuses exceed those of Smith regime.
By Joseph Nhlanhla in Bulawayo
Rosetta Sibanda, now well into her sixties, said she once served time in prison, falsely accused of involvement in political activism.
That was in 1964 in what was then Rhodesia, and she said she had always believed this to be the worst time of her life in a prison manned by “irascible white prison guards”.
“While in prison we went on a hunger strike as part of the protest to have us released,” she told IWPR.
On the fourth day of their hunger strike, a compassionate prison official came to their rescue and they were freed without any charges.
“I have never prayed so hard in my life,” she said as she recalled life under the then white government. But “what I am seeing now is worse”.
Life in post-independence Zimbabwe has, she said, become increasingly unbearable, “Many now believe Robert Mugabe is worse than the white government.”
She recalled being able to buy her home in one of Bulawayo’s working class townships from her wages as a domestic worker during the Federation years between 1953 and 1963 – out of the question now in a country with over 80 per cent unemployment.
Sibanda is one of many older people here who have taken a new interest in the country’s current affairs after the country’s disputed March 29 elections.
In the past, the people who lived through the years of the country’s struggle for independence appeared content getting their monthly pensions or remittances from children living across the border, but Zimbabwe’s rapid economic decline, which has left their pantries empty, has seen them question the country’s leadership.
Rights groups such as Women of Zimbabwe Arise, Woza, which has become a thorn in the side of the Zimbabwean authorities, said it has active members aged over 50. Last year, the group claimed one of their members, aged 64, died after she succumbed to injuries sustained after police violently broke up their demonstration.
For thousands of older people like Sibanda, who are living in an era when children die from ailments that could have been cured had medical care been available, their present circumstances have become particularly dire.
Their pensions have been eroded by hyperinflation, leaving them with no source of income.
“Why is [Mugabe] refusing to go? People have had enough. I have never seen such stubbornness,” said Sibanda, a month after the close of polling.
Analysts and ZANU-PF party insiders say while Mugabe had appeared to concede defeat to the main political opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, led by long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai, ZANU-PF hawks have forced him to fight on, signalling a prolonged struggle for the better Zimbabwe that people like Sibanda say they are dreaming of.
The post-election crisis has seen inflation worsening, with shop shelves remaining empty across the country, further worsening the plight of vulnerable groups like the elderly. The country’s once vibrant commerce and industry has failed to absorb young men and women desperate for jobs.
“I have never followed politics, but because of the suffering we are going through, I now find myself asking younger people about what is happening,” said Sibanda, a widow and one of many grandmothers getting food assistance from a local faith-based organisation. “It will take more than a generation for young people to be able to buy their own homes as some of us did before independence.”
Members of Zimbabwe’s older generation said they remember with fond memories the independence euphoria in 1980. But as the political crisis drags on, older people here are becoming more and more openly critical of the man who led their country to black-majority rule.
“This is not at all surprising,” a Bulawayo-based human rights activist told IWPR.
“They have watched the transformation of the nationalist movement during the Smith years; many also helped the liberation war activists one way or another,” said the activist, who asked not to be named.
“They say old people are guardians of history, and they naturally remember the good old days before bad governance and economic mismanagement set in.
“These people experienced racism and other abuses and they have a template for bad governance and human rights abuses. It is unfortunate if Mugabe is remembered as being worse than Ian Smith.”
Joseph Nhlanhla is the pseudonym of an IWPR journalist in Zimbabwe.
IWPR is responsible for the story, and they are an indispensable source (even if they have a left-wing slant 
) for news from Africa, The Balkans, the Caucasus and other volatile areas.
Dinesh D’Souza is always good for a provocative title or ten. He shows respect for the intelligence of atheist Pete Singer, but not for his gruesome proposition of what is essentially child murder .
A bit of late-night listening provided by Egberto Gismonti.
Erm, sorry about the corny line, kids, but I just watched the film “Night and Day,” and that line managed to get stuck in my mind. 
I can assure anyone reading this page that the seizure of West Beirut by Hezbollah thugs will be looked at as the first salvo of what is sure to be another hot summer war between Israel and Lebanon’s radical fringe.
Get your mind out of the gutter, there! This is a bird story, not a, er, well… nevermind.
Now this is a nice story! Tis a shame we can’t fight our wars more creatively.
Michael Yon , not that Aussie twit running Time’s Baghdad Bureau, is the ONLY legitimate source covering Iraq these days. His dispatches are always worthwhile reads on what is actually happening in both Iraq and Afghanistan, unlike the anti-US tripe put out by the mainstream media.
Yon how has a book discussing his view of the Coalition occupation of the country. Austin Bay, another fine military analyst, gives it a review here .
What evil must be crossing the minds of the generals running Burma that they don’t want aid for their people after their incompetence may end up causing at least 100,000 deaths?
Moral relativism, in my estimation, has proven to be one of the great evils of our age. To equate the misguided words (taken out of context) of a pastor I don’t always care for, but whose eschatological understanding of the Bible cannot be doubted by serious scholars, with a pure, unadulterated bigot like the so-called Pastor Jeremiah Wright continues to prove that liberals have, indeed, lost their moral compass. Thankfully, comments like the ones spweed out by a devil like Wright make him more and more irrelevant as time passes, and history will record this cretin in the same manner as Father Coughlin, a man who at least loved the country.
Dennis Prager comments on said relativism here , courtesy of Townhall.com.
Albert Hoffman, the legendary Swiss scientist whose work gave us one of the most bizarre drugs developed by humanity, LSD, has left this mortal coil. Those into everything from psychedelic music to Krautrock owe him, in some odd measure, a debt of gratitude for making that famous ingestion which gave man its first synthetic trip in 1938.
It looks like the Democratic Party bigwigs are growing a set of gonads and growing up. The appearance of Senators Obama and Clinton on Fox has changed the dynamic quite a bit. The nut-roots are going berserk, but it’s plainly obvious that, at least for now, the radical boobs dragging the Party down are waning in strength.
The Wall Street Journal reports that, unlike that whore of a former Chancellor from Germany, Romano Prodi, a leftist, leaves his post with dignity, as he will not be bought off by Russian oil giant Gazprom.
Straight from the mouth of the Old Grey Lady, the death of newspapers creeps ever so slowly along (You must subscribe to the NYT in order to read the article).
Cinnamon Stillwell makes the case that those peddling this idea are peddling a crock.
Georgia has every right to be angered by Russian meddling, since it was they who made sure they were kept out of NATO along with Ukraine.
Trouble is afoot in Uganda, thanks to the crazies of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a pseudo-Christian rebel group. IWPR has more here.
My most humble blessings to you, family and friends, on this Holy Pascha (or Easter). May the trampling of death underfoot by The Lord be a signal to refresh yourselves in a new start for you this year. May all of you, each one of you a true friend, find warmth, love, friendship and prosperity all the days of your lives.
Rudy
Things in Turkmenistan seem to be going back to normally after the death of the amusingly bizarre autocrat Türkmenbaşy did the world a service and dropped dead. After bastardizing almost every part of his country with his less-than-charming mug, he decided to name the days and months of the year after either himself or family. Thankfully, incoming president Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has decided to go back to a basic international calendar with the proper Russian and Turkmen names for the days of the week and months of the year.
I’m sure Tariq Aziz (once known as Michael Yuhanna) wasn’t hoping for anyone to remind the world media, but it looks as though this Catholic apostate (you’d have to be in order to support Saddam Hussein and stand by when your own people and co-religionists are coldly butchered by the boss) will have his day in court.
Congratulations to Michael Ramirez, one of the best political cartoonists operating, for winning a Pulitzer Prize.
The Sahwaris should have been free since 1975, when Spain surrendered the former colony. Sadly, Morocco swept in and has claimed ownership of the area, causing a civil war that has gone unnoticed in a world more interested in Iraq, Afghanistan, Tibet, etc. Emhamed Khadad makes a case for the UN to get off their collective rears and deal with Morocco’s illegal occupation of the region.
There’s nothing like having a good laugh at the expense of an utter prat.
Richard Dawkins has to be one of the most rude, obnoxious and condescending jerks around (coming in a solid Number 2 against his buddy, uber-creep Bill Maher), and he’s obviously in love with his intellect, which is indeed tremendous in the field of science, though it pales to other scientists working in other fields who rightfully scoff at his brutish atheism.
Filmmaker, actor and economist Ben Stein, whose movie, “Expelled,” has been receiving rave reviews, has fun walking Dawking flubber around his pathetic explanation of evolution, which people sometimes forget is still a theory, no matter how much the science community whines about it.
Go watch the movie. Hawkins isn’t the only one made by his own words to look doltish.
The non-story that recently came out of a few Iraqis running from their post against the Mehdi Army has been effectively shot down by Michael Goldfarb and Bill Roggio.
James Surowiecki writing on Iceland’s economic woes in the New Yorker:
Until last year, Iceland’s economic track record in this decade had been phenomenal – its annual growth rate averaged close to four per cent over the past decade, and its per-capita gross national income is now higher than that of the U.S. This year, though, the country’s currency, the króna, has fallen twenty-two per cent against the euro; the economy has stagnated; and a global rating agency has put the nation’s three major banks on a credit watch. Now analysts are wondering whether the new Nordic Tiger will end up, instead, as “the Bear Stearns of the North Atlantic.”
. . . In order to prop up the króna, and keep foreign capital from fleeing, Iceland’s central bank has had to raise interest rates to an astounding fifteen per cent, a move that will slow the economy to a crawl. By contrast, the dollar, while weak, has evaded the króna’s precipitous fall; the Federal Reserve, far from raising interest rates, has slashed them; and Congress is borrowing a hundred and fifty-two billion dollars to hand out tax rebates. Iceland’s government has been forced to inflict pain; the U.S. is doing everything possible to avoid it. If Iceland were to attempt to emulate America’s approach, its currency would be demolished, and foreign investors would almost certainly head for the exits.
A Quarter Century of ‘Free Markets and Free People’
The philosophy of this page is clear. We are for the individual and stand against infringements on freedom. We put our trust in the industriousness and ingenuity of people left to do their own thing, unencumbered by overreaching regulations or other government interventions into the free economy.
– “The Editorial Page,” editorial, Jan. 31, 1983[A Quarter Century of 'Free Markets and Free People']
Attitudes toward the U.S. in elite European circles range from a feeling of superiority to plain anti-Americanism. At best, we see Americans as overgrown children who have not yet managed to separate from mother Europe. At worst, they are seen as ugly imperialists. This America of today is no longer a part of our Western Atlantic world. But we play the ostrich, hoping that Americans will be more reasonable next time and elect a more civilized president.
– “How Europeans Can Begin a Rediscovery of America,” by Guy Sorman, Jan. 31, 1983The spectacular nuclear accident at Chernobyl probably tells us less about nuclear power than it does about the Soviet Union. . . . The Soviets are trying to push their economy through bureaucratic brute force, resisting the lessons of decentralized market economies. One of the effects is that they take large risks, not putting the same value on civilian lives or on public opinion as does the democratic West.
– “The Russian Syndrome,” editorial, April 30, 1986As the 6 a.m. express for Gdansk prepares to depart, mounds of baggage line the platform. Potatoes and bread peek out of the pockets of suitcases – in this uncertain economy, Poles choose to carry their dinner with them. . . . Foreign reporters fill the dining car, and an audience of amused Poles listens as they practice pronouncing the name of the prime minister-designate: “mah-zo-VYET-ski.” By the end of the three-hour trip some of us have opted for a nickname that’s easier to enunciate: “Maz.”
“God Save Poland” and “God Save Your Soul” reads a cross outside Lech Walesa’s home church, St. Brygida’s, a friendly brick structure. . . .Suddenly the crowd gets nervous. Maz is arriving in a Peugeot. Bells ring as Poles crowd into the church. . . .Outside after Mass, a now-exhausted Maz is pushed forward to the front of a balcony that has reporters and local children clinging to its rails. An older lady in a knit-pink outfit behind me lectures a friend, “In democracy you can do what you want.”
– “Seven Days in a New Democracy,” by Amity Shlaes, Aug. 30, 1989The notion of moral equivalence between American and Soviet motives has had a corrosive effect on Western political thinking in recent years. Communism’s funeral in Berlin should mark the end of that. No one is fleeing east, not even out of curiosity.
– “Berlin: Communism’s Funeral,” editorial, Nov. 13, 1989Thatcher’s was a distinctively British form of greatness, and she will no doubt remain the touchstone of British politics for decades to come. Under her leadership, home ownership and share ownership have been extended, once-moribund industries have been privatized, taxes are less likely to stifle initiative, unions have had to face economic reality, communism has been faced down, the bureaucracy has come under better management. . . . The next Conservative leader may or may not succeed in extending this record, but there will never be another Thatcher.
– “A Woman of Some Importance,” editorial, Nov. 23, 1990The significance of what the world just watched in Moscow is immense. It is in all likelihood the most important thing that has happened in the world since 1945. . . .The collapse of Soviet Communist Party rule and the news pouring in from the 15 republics strongly suggests that, as with the Berlin Wall, the symbol and reality of oppression inside the Soviet Union is rubble.
– “A New Era,” editorial, Aug. 27, 1991The [Common Agricultural Policy] stands out among a plethora of questionable European Commission programs as the most anachronistic, and expensive, of all . . . . The CAP endures in part because it has made farmers a dependent class and because it is a powerful redistribution mechanism in the hands of the European Commission, giving it political muscle.
– “Fresh Thoughts on Farming,” editorial, May 4, 1994In capturing Srebrenica, the U.N.’s first safe zone, Serbian forces orchestrated the worst humiliation of the United Nations and NATO in the sordid history of this war. . . . Unwilling to enforce its resolutions and unable to protect its own forces or the tens of thousands of Bosnians depending on it, the U.N. operation in Bosnia, as it is now conducted, has lost all purpose. The inevitable choice, it appears, will be fight or flight.
– “Losing Bosnia,” editorial, July 13, 1995[A] well-run monetary union encompassing most of the members of the EU today, and most of Europe in the future, will be of enormous benefit to the people of Europe and also to the people of the rest of the world, including the U.S. Members of the EMU will get not just a currency on a par with the dollar and the right to a share in international seigniorage but also greater influence in the running of the international monetary system. The U.S. will get a needed relief from the eventually debilitating overuse of the dollar as an international currency, a single-currency continent that vastly simplifies trade and investment, and a strong partner in Europe with an equal stake in constructing an international monetary system suitable for the 21st century.
– “Great Expectations for the Euro — Part II,” by Robert Mundell, March 25, 1998The great proliferation of peace “processes” around the world has produced more false starts than enduring handshakes. But for once, it’s hard to begrudge the exuberance following Friday’s accord in Northern Ireland. The province’s nationalist and unionist leaders are sworn to mutually exclusive goals, tied to fundamentalist paramilitaries and have long considered any compromise tantamount to defeat. Yet they are now drawing plans to sit together in an elected assembly.
– “Good Friday in Ulster,” editorial, April 14, 1998While other post-Soviet states were sticking their toes in the reform pool, Estonia took a plunge. The government set up a currency board and a flat tax, abolished all tariff and non-tariff trade barriers and privatized everything in sight. In its latest innovation, a plan to scrap corporate taxation, Estonia’s current coalition government has displayed a clarity of thinking on economic policy that sets a new standard in Europe.
– “Estonia’s Bright Idea,” editorial, Aug. 25, 1999Vladimir Putin has had every advantage a new president could wish for. His public-approval rating reminds us of the euphoric early days of the Yeltsin Kremlin. . . . And yet this huge credit was wasted. President Putin’s KGB roots have sadly informed a style of governance that is neither reformist nor particularly democratic.
– “The Putin Doctrine,” by Garry Kasparov, Jan. 4, 2001The combination of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism is a threat of incalculable consequences. It is one at which all of us should feel concerned. Resolution 1441 is Saddam Hussein’s last chance to disarm using peaceful means. The opportunity to avoid greater confrontation rests with him.
– “Europe and America Must Stand United,” by José María Aznar, José Manuel Durao Barroso, Silvio Berlusconi, Tony Blair, Vaclav Havel, Peter Medgyessy, Leszek Miller and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Jan. 30, 2003The list, a copy of which has been seen by the Journal’s editorial page, is in spreadsheet format and details (in Arabic) individuals, companies and organizations, grouped by country, who oil ministry and Iraqi Governing Council officials believe received vouchers from the Iraqi government for the purchase of oil under the oil-for-food program. . . . [It] reads like an official registry of Friends of Saddam across some 50 countries.
– “Investigate the U.N.’s Books,” by Thérèse Raphael, Feb. 9, 2004Terrorism has been on peoples’ mind, put there by ETA and Spain’s support for the war in Iraq. The wail of sirens heard [in Madrid] around 7:30 in the morning yesterday made that insecurity real. . . . Prime Minister José María Aznar gave shape to Spain’s own vision of Europe, telling France to take a hike over his support for America in Iraq. But that new assertiveness, as much as Spanish democracy, is fairly recent. Will this terrorist attack undermine Spanish confidence and turn the country back on itself? One hopes not — fervently.
– “A Grim Day for the ‘New Spain,’” by Matthew Kaminski, March 12, 2004When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can’t be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century.
– “The Good Cowboy,” by Lech Walesa, June 11, 2004This year Europe has witnessed two fundamental political changes: In the first half of the year, the enlargement of the European Union to include eight countries from the old Soviet bloc, and in the second — the presidential elections in Ukraine. What will happen in my country after the election will not only impact Ukraine’s future, but, to a great extent, the future of Europe and Russia.
– “A Peoples’ Revolution,” by Viktor Yushchenko, Dec. 3, 2004Neither Turkey nor Ukraine, nor the Balkans, are ready to become EU members tomorrow. But serious people should not let weak politicians . . . get away with spurious metaphysical arguments about why this or that country doesn’t belong in a club of free democracies. After all, the West is now an idea, not a place.
– “East and West,” editorial, Dec. 16, 2004The death of John Paul II removes from the world a great force for order and rectitude. He was often presented as a conservative, especially by liberal critics within the church. But this was a misreading of his character and indeed of his record. This great pontiff was essentially a defender, promoter, protector and enhancer of life: life in all its forms, as God created them, but especially human life.
– “The Philosopher Pope,” by Paul Johnson, April 4, 2005In itself the constitution was not a huge loss. The best guess is that the EU will go on pretty much as it is now, a developing economic union of 25 nation-states, with the prospect of adding new members as political imperatives dictate. . . . The EU states will also prosper because of the very capitalism that the left fears, for the simple reason that it works. . . . The French have voted “non” to Europe, but the prevailing mood is “yes.”
– “Europe’s Printemps of Discontent,” by George Melloan, May 31, 2005Microsoft waved the white flag this week by dropping all appeals of the European Union’s 2004 ruling against the software giant. Such defeats are a familiar sight, and not only in antitrust. Europe writes the rules for global business today across the board — unapologetically to the benefit of its own industry.
– “Regulatory Imperialism,” editorial, Oct. 26, 2007The proliferation of small states since the fall of communism has made Europe more stable and democratic, from Estonia to Macedonia. A sovereign Kosovo, which follows the entry of even tinier Montenegro into the club of nations, can be a force for good in the region and the wider Europe.
– “The Birth of Kosovo,” editorial, Feb. 18, 2008
Mahatma Gandhi once said that “the caste system as we know is an anachronism.” Yet thanks to India’s politicians, class and race divisions are being codified and extended through affirmative action. If India wants to give its citizens equal opportunity to prosper, as its founders intended, the judiciary needs to put a brake on this train, fast.
As yet, it seems unwilling to do so. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled in Ashoka Kumar Thakur Vs. Union of India, a challenge to 2006 federal legislation to extend “reservations,” or quotas based on class, race, religion or economic circumstance. Public universities already reserve 22.5% of their places for certain castes and tribes. The law extends that privilege to a further 27% of “other backward classes.” Most of India’s students – the pool of future skilled labor in a fast-growing economy – attend public universities.
In a unanimous decision, the Court affirmed the law but split the judicial baby. Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan reasoned that reservations “provide that extra advantage to those persons who, without such support, can forever only dream of university, education, without ever being able to realize it.” The Court then explicitly defined the groups to be excluded, but not those who can benefit.
This is a slippery slope. Take, first, those who can benefit – the “other backward classes.” As Shruti Rajagopalan explains, that category is hard to define in a poor country where most classes have been persecuted at one time or another. Groups classified as “backward” in one state aren’t in other states. The federal government’s last investigation into the issue – the 1992 Mandal Commission – estimated that more than half of India’s population could fall into such categories. And that was based on a 1931 census.
Given that wide net, it’s likely that reservations will go to students who could gain admission on their own merit – in effect, perverting the point of the government’s policy. The Court tried to address this problem by barring reservations for the so-called “creamy layer” of students – children of government officials and lawmakers and those from families with an annual income of more than $6,250. But the Court also left it open for the government to review the definition of this group and define the terms of such a review.
That’s not a very strong check, given the political realities. In recent years both the ruling Congress Party and the the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party have embraced reservations for castes and tribes as a way to win votes for the poor, while embracing them for “other backward classes” as a way to win votes from the elites. Little wonder the government’s Human Resources Development Minister, Arjun Singh, called Ashoka a “very historic judgment.” The BJP did one better, calling for reservations to be extended to more groups.
In a country where ethnicity, race and caste have historically determined educational and employment opportunities, there is a strong belief in the virtues of equality of opportunity. But India’s reservation policies are forced quotas, not voluntary programs. As such, they have the potential to be abused, especially when the definitions of who benefits are so fuzzy.
India’s growing economy will demand an ever-greater pool of skilled labor. If public institutions are going to exclude deserving students thanks to quotas, it’s especially important for the government to encourage the private sector to step in and fill the demand. Given that 2009 is an election year, the opposite could happen – the politicians could try to extend quotas to private universities, as is already being discussed.
Maybe then the Supreme Court would stand up for equality of opportunity, and Gandhi’s vision of a casteless society could be realized.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown waxes on the historical bonds between Britain and America.
Former UN Ambassador John Bolton chastises President Bush for his failed North Korea policy.
This Passover marks the birthday of Israel. Steve Gutman and Josef Federman post a synopsis of the travails of life in Israel, courtesy of Breitbart.
There’s a delicious irony in this. The Chinese are now protesting their foolish lapdogs in France. May they eat each other up and leave the rest of us in peace. Note to French hooligans who want to cause mischief: 1968 was 40 years ago - grow up!
Great. I’m sure Black Hitler is running scared and squirming in Harare. Riiiiiight. This pathetic has-been and corrupted incompetent now demands something be done on the situation in Zimbabwe. It would have been nice if this moral coward had done something during his reign (I mean tenure) at the UN.
Oh, I’m concerned about this story, but it happened because one simpleton in Brazil decided to post a couple having sex (which is pretty tame considering that lots more people are using WP for straight porn than I would have imagined previously), thereby ruining it for the rest of WordPress’ wonderful blogs. Perhaps one should take a second to think before posting garbage that is bound to ruin it for everyone.
Though the topic has been beaten to death and will continue to be for some time, I wanted to comment on what a pompous liberal jackass Barack Obama is. I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but his secret cabal with his coven in San Francisco recently outed him for the socialist he is.
Scanning blogs, I found Prudence Ponder’s post, and she summed up quite nicely what I and many others are feeling.
Just when you think Mr. Peanut can’t do anything more stupid or treacherous, he outdoes himself again.
I thank the hostess-with-the-mostess, Tracy, for not only wonderful company, but a rather tasty dinner at Fez, the hippest restaurant in Phoenix. Actually, I recommend Phoenix as a tourist destination entirely! What a clean and charming city to have spent a weekend. I have plenty of good reasons for returning.
The “gay” angle is as old as wrestling (ask the Spartans). Every few years, one becomes a star (think “Adorable” Adrian Adonis, Gold Dust, “Diamond” Timothy Flowers, etc.). It seems gay heroes are back in favor, in, of all places, Mexico, and as fan favorites. That’s a huge surprise, considering the macho culture in the country, especially from the rubes who follow the “sport.”
If you wonder why no one in their right mind takes Italian politics seriously, look no further than this bum(mer) of a story.
The, ahem, offending picture is here. Whoever said “crack kills?”
Needless to say, if you’re a kid, scram!!! Now!!!!
Yes, the puns are terrible. Don’t worry, you’ll live.
It seems to get people’s goat that bloggers aren’t considered journalists by priggish media hacks. Good. I’m pleased not to be tainted with the brush of bias posing as objectivity. It’s nice to simply state what interests me at the time. Have I been wrong on some posts during the last four-plus years? You betcha. And I make sure to apologize if I’ve made an error. You have to drag it out of “mainstream” journalists, who’d rather you forgot the boo-boos.
Web2 Oh Really has more on their post on this subject.
It seems America is not the only country cursed with embarrassing liberal politicians. Michelene Calmy-Rey, the Social Democratic Foreign Minister of Switzerland, is making an utter arse of herself in courting demons like Iran’s President Mahmoud Amhadinejad, North Korean leadership, and making play-pals with Holocaust deniers. She claims to want to turn Switzerland into a moral superpower. You need morality to do this, something her ilk have sadly forgotten.
Shikha Dalmia comments on the US losing an opportunity to recruit good workers because of the governmental fixation on illegals, who only bring cheap labor. It is mandatory that America bring in skilled labor from Mexico, Europe, India, Pakistan, even Iraq, if the country is serious about maintaining its hegemony worldwide. Sadly, the last few administrations have done little to bring in fresh talent. We will be buried technologically if we don’t start offering something serious to those fresh minds who deserve to come here.
UPDATE: Michael S. Malone offers advice on how to remedy the problems of our place in the world economy.
Sadly, it looks as if the Black Hitler doesn’t plan to go away quietly.
So Snoop-Dogg says the KKK gave money to Senator Obama to run his race? Brother needs to lay off the “indo,” yo.
HT: Barking Moonbat.
Pravoslav in America A Miscellany of Tasteful Music Bella Cine Brushstrokes and Carvings Men of Letters
