Billboard of the Day!
Here’s a photo of what eye-witnesses confirm to be a real billboard.
Photo from NPR H/T melo’s Shared Items
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The Relevance of Patrick Henry’s Views
I just finished two biographies of American Founding Fathers, Washington: The Indispensable Man and A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic. I have no major complaints about the bio of Washington, but I cannot recommend Patrick Henry and the American Republic enough. Henry does not get as much credit as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mason and other Founding Fathers from Virginia. In fact, he’s mainly become nothing more than the man who came up with the one-liner “Give me Liberty or give me Death.” But, as A Son of Thunder illustrates, Henry was a key player, along with Mason, in securing the freedoms enumerated in The Bill of Rights and fighting against an all-powerful central government.
The People Have Spoken
Radio networks need money to stay in business. This revenue comes from advertising. Advertisers decide whether to buy air time based on network ratings. When no one listens to a radio program, ratings dwindle and ad revenue dries up. Through this free and democratic process, Air America has been ousted:
Air America ceased airing new programs Thursday afternoon and said it will soon file to be liquidated under Chapter 7 bankruptcy. It began broadcasting reruns of programs and would end those as well Monday night.
The people have spoken.
No Negro Dialect
Harry Reid said of Barack Obama back in 2008 that he is electable because he is:
“light skinned… with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
Now that this is news, Reid has apologized to Obama and blacks.
Why?
Reid’s comment only displays his own backwards way of thinking, referring to blacks as “Negroes.” He says nothing disparaging about Obama, unless Obama resents the implication that he would use different manners of speaking to suit his own aspirations, that is, unless Obama resents the implication that he is a politician.
Reid should apologize to the American people. The soon to be former Senator clearly thinks that Americans are too racist to elect a dark-skinned politician with a “Negro” dialect.
And to the Republic
Progressives often try to insult Americans by calling them ‘flag-waving s0-and-sos’ or some such epithet in which ‘flag-waving’ is used as a pejorative description. Here are some examples. Then candidate Obama, while on the campaign trail, explained that he refused to wear an American flag pin on his lapel because
I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism.
Apparently, Obama felt that the U.S. wasn’t great enough for him to wear a flag pin.
Behind much of this thinking is view that the American flag is not a symbol of the greatest nation that ever existed on Earth, but it is empty. Obama thinks it better to dispose of the flag and go straight to the people, in the true spirit of democracy.
Žižek – Moron
I just saw a documentary about ‘thinker’ Slajoz Žižek. Now that it’s over I seriously cannot tell if it was a satire like Spinal Tap or if it was real. I do not recommend this movie. Here’s a clip for the masochistic:
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Ben Nelson – Sell-out
The Dems have 60 votes for Obamacare thanks to the latest of a dozen or so “moderate” Democrats who have sold out their constituents and real moderate values in the face of intimidation and back-room deals, Ben Nelson.
Nelson disclosed his decision as Majority leader Harry Reid unveiled a final series of changes to the measure, including concessions abortion, funding for Nebraska and more.
Outrageous
Mahdi Bray, Hypocrite.
Mahdi Bray says that Muslim leaders need to launch a counter-attack on recruiters for radical Islam who use the internet to express their extreme views. You know, like sympathizing with Islamic terrorists like al-Qaeda, HAMAS, and Hezbollah. Oh, here’s a video of Mahdi Bray expressing support for some of those same terrorist groups.
He’s the guy raising his arm in the spot-light
Obama and Glenn Beck Agree
I was watching Glenn Beck the other day when the show was interrupted so that FOXNews could air a message from Obama at an Air Force base in Alaska. Apparently it was the first time Obama had visited the state. When Beck came back on after watching the coverage and taking a commercial break he commented that Obama, who is not known for being a big supporter of the US Armed Forces, and other politicians are using members of the military as “props.”
It’s really not for President Obama, it’s for all politicians. Does anybody — when you see a politician speak now, and you see these people standing behind them, does anybody look — and I don’t do it with the soldiers. But I always do it when regular people are there. I go, OK, there is the Asian, there is the elderly person, there is the African-American, there is the handicapped person …
Politicians are using us as props, and I’m sick of it. Especially when it comes to the soldiers. They are not props. As a guy with a soldier that is currently serving in my family, and somebody with honor … they are not props.
Well, Obama may not have been thinking when he said this, to a crowd of soldiers at a military base in S. Korea, he remarked:
“You guys make a pretty good photo op”
(h/t – Blogmocracy)
Glenn Beck is right and Obama confirms it. First and foremost on Obama’s mind is “a pretty good photo op.”
Geez… Obama, you’ve been called out numerous times for your staging of crowds, but you’re not supposed to talk about it.
Obama is so cocky that he casually talks about propaganda tactics. He surely thinks we don’t care or are not paying attention.
How to spot a Spambot: A Response to ’stillhere4u’
stillhere4u says:
According to http://deligentia.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/enabling-lies-the-palin-factor/, Palin’s lie about not quitting her job also involves misappropriating hunting language that really doesn’t apply. I agree. I wonder how many people will call her on it?
Not only does stillhere4u link its name to a ‘blog‘ which features nothing but the following post:
On Palin, please go to: http://deligentia.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/enabling-lies-the-palin-factor/On Zen, please go to: http://deligentia.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/empty-your-cup/
but, if you’ll notice, the comment to cites the same link regarding Palin.
It’s clear that what we have here is shameless self-promotion via spam-comment. Now, in response to the claim made in the “deligentia” post, namely the following:
In her recent book-selling public appearances on television, Sarah Palin has insisted that she did not quit the Alaskan governorship; rather, she was “reloading.” Her father apparently said this to her so she wouldn’t think of herself as a quitter. Unfortunately for Mrs. Palin, words are not as elastic as she might like. Plain and simply, to resign a job is to quit. To misappropriate language from another domain–in this case, that of hunting–does not nullify the definition of “to quit.” Let’s have a look at the definition. According to dictionary.com, to quit is “to give up or resign; let go; relinquish,” as in “She quit her job.” The dictionary really uses that sentence! There is nothing about reloading one’s shotgun.
I have some remarks:
- Palin does not “insist that she did not quit the Alaskan governorship.” (see video below)
- Neither Palin nor her father equated the act of resignation in itself to the act of reloading.
- The context in which Palin’s father made his comment justifies the use of the phrase “reloading”
All of this is clear from the interview which the deligentia post conveniently fails to link or cite at length. Well, here it is:
More Jihad Coming From VA Mosque
I’ve noted before that there seems to be an awful lot of Islamic jihad terrorists coming from the Northern Virginia area. That’s why I was not too surprised to learn, from FOX News, the only real news network, that the Fort Hood Islamic jihad terrorist attended a the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Virginia.
(Falls Church, VA) — An imam with the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque where accused Ft. Hood shooting suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped has commented on the church-member relationship.
Imam Johari Abdul Malik said the man accused of last weeks massacre isn’t the same man he knew who worked at the mosque.
but…
The Dar Al-Hijrah mosque is where two of the 9-11 hijackers reportedly worshipped.
The imam doesn’t deny that link
Liebe Ist Für Alle Da
Rammstein released a new album in mid October. The album is called “Liebe ist für alle da,” in English, “Love is for everyone.” Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of any Germanic language, including English, should be able to understand the words that comprise this title, it is amazing what some folks come up with.
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- Pre-Existentialist Quote Of The Day! January 20, 2009I can't be bothered. I can't be bother to ride, the motion is too violent. I can't be bothered to walk, it's too strenuous; I can't be bothered to lie down, for either I'd have to stay lying down and that I can't be bothered with, or I'd have to get up again, and I can't be bothered with that either. In short: I j […]
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- On this Day in Ancient History - Augustus Received a TitleAugustus. St Petersburg - Hermitage.CC Flickr User thisisbossi. In 2 B.C., the first Roman emperor, whom we call Augustus, received the title Pater patriae 'father of the country'. This title was a great honor given for outstanding service. The famous orator and Roman statesman Cicero had earned the title Pater patriae in 63 B.C. Later emperors rec […]
- She ChoseThanks to Andrew Garland for this link, which provides details about Melanie Shouse, the St. Louis woman who once worked for the Obama campaign and who died last week of breast cancer. Contrary to the implication that I drew in my previous post, Mr. Obama did not know Ms. Shouse, so I was off-base to suggest that perhaps he should have personally paid for he […]
- Perhaps He Gave Her a Free T-ShirtHere’s a letter that I sent to the New York Times: You open your report on the President’s continued push for health-care reform with the following account: “For a moment, President Obama’s pledge to keep fighting for major health care legislation got personal on Thursday night as he told supporters at a fund-raiser about a former campaign worker in St. Loui […]
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