Not Finding Enough Poverty, Media Invents Some

CNN: Extreme Recycling by Sarah Jio

“A lot of perfectly good food is thrown away,” says Nelson, a spokeswoman for Freegan.info, a New York City group that promotes “freeganism,” which eschews conventional commerce in favor of a lifestyle that uses minimal resources.

Freegans try not to buy things new — not even food.

Jumping into a garbage bin may sound scary, but Nelson, 52, who lives in Brooklyn, says it’s no big deal. Humans, she says, are “hardwired to be foragers.”

For the thousands who search online for free merchandise, pick up roadside castoffs and even dig through Dumpsters, paying for everything they need is yesterday’s news.

At a time when many Americans are on tighter budgets and worrying about environmental conservation, the practice may get more popular”

People around the world have to sift though garbage to survive, because they have no choice. I suspect they’d rather make a living in other ways.

But enviro-hippie-liberals in America, whose view of reality is based on lack and more lack, and who could avoid sifting though garbage, are now behaving in a way aligned with that belief.

Meanwhile, this biased media is so utterly desperate to make America look like a Third World country (it’s supposed to help Democrats when America’s economy is in the, ahem, dumpster) that it will publish wack job stories like these.

On a somewhat related note, the NAACP, which couldn’t “advance” a tricycle, is apparently unable to find any real racism to complain about, but no matter! When life gives you a molehill, make a mountain of it!.

Michelle Obama Opens Mouth Again, Head for Cover

Quoth that luminary Mrs. Obama:

We don’t like being pushed outside of our comfort zones. You know it right here on this campus. You know people sitting at different tables- you all living in different dorms. I was there. You’re not talking to each other, taking advantage that you’re in this diverse community. Because sometimes it’s easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions. It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is are we ready for change?

I know better than you.

No, it is not America. America is not about being “justified in our own ignorance.” If anything, America seeks to correct its errors.

Self-proclaimed saviors, Mr. and Mrs. Obama, can’t even keep their own damn party in order, refuse to wear an American flag lapel pin (Barack), refuse to condemn an anti-American and bigoted pastor (Barack and Michelle), lecture Americans on what their ideals and priorities should be, and now associate America with ignorance.

This is “change we can believe in”? This is the “hope” that we hear endlessly about? If anything should change quickly, it should be the ignorant and condescending tone of Michelle Obama.

For all the talk about conservatives being “racist,” all of which is slanderous bullshit, it is liberals who are consistently obsessing about everyone’s skin color “diversity.” Meanwhile, “diversity,” which is nothing more than a slimy euphemism for the elevation of minorities into elite positions while discriminating against white males, doesn’t appear to include, say, the U.S. military, or the pro-life movement, or conservatives.

Query: who’s hurting Senator Obama more lately?

a. Jeremiah Wright

b. Michelle Obama

c. They both sucketh the asseth.

Leftist Icon / Cop Killer Jail Sentence Affirmed

Sacco and Vanzetti

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Huey Newton

Stanley “Tookie” Williams

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Are there any criminals whom liberals don’t idolize?

US court orders new hearing for death row campaigner by Fanny Carrier

A US federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction against Mumia Abu-Jamal, but ruled the death-row campaigner cannot be executed without undergoing a new sentencing hearing.

The three-judge panel rejected Abu-Jamal’s request for a new trial but ruled the former radio journalist and Black Panther civil rights activist should either face a new hearing or have his sentence commuted to life in jail.

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Reacting to the decision, the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, who have campaigned for Abu-Jamal to be granted a fresh trial, described the ruling as a “devastating decision” and called for mass protests on Friday.

Judge of the Year

AP: Pa. judge sentences 3 to learn English

A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail.

The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs and get full-time jobs, Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. said.

The men, Luis Reyes, Ricardo Dominguez and Rafael Guzman-Mateo, plus a fourth defendant, Kelvin Reyes-Rosario, all needed translators when they pleaded guilty Tuesday.

“Do you think we are going to supply you with a translator all of your life?” the judge asked them.

Zimbabwe’s Disaster of a President Buying Votes

American liberals take much joy in smearing President Bush as “the worst” President in U.S. history, which is a dubious label considering that most of Bush’s critics couldn’t tell you jack about any American president prior to Ronald Reagan.

If only they were familiar with Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, the economically blind man who singlehandedly turned the “breadbasket” of Africa into an economic basketcase with a worthless currency and nothing to buy.

Reuters: Zimbabwe’s Mugabe hands out cars By MacDonald Dzirutwe

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, facing the toughest election battle of his 28 years in power, handed out hundreds of cars to doctors on Thursday in what opponents say is a vote buying campaign.

Mugabe’s opponents said the veteran leader was plotting to rig Saturday’s presidential election, in which he faces old rival Morgan Tsvangirai and ruling party defector Simba Makoni.

Both accuse Mugabe, 84, of wrecking what was once one Africa’s strongest economies and pauperizing its people.

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Mugabe has also handed out farm equipment and public buses in what critics say is an attempt to win political favor ahead of the vote in a country where many can no longer afford even basic needs and food and fuel are in short supply.

The health sector suffers a shortage of drugs and skilled workers because many have gone abroad in search of better pay.

Nurses and doctors have been on strike to demand more pay and all state workers were promised higher salaries by Mugabe during the campaign, but inflation of over 100,000 percent quickly makes pay rises meaningless.

Critics say Mugabe’s policies, particularly seizing white-owned farms to give to landless blacks, have led to ruin.

From the “No Shit” Files

McClatchy Newspapers: McCain’s Senate record not always conservative By David Lightman and Matt Stearns |

Hillary Reveals Her Secret

“So I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I’m human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.” — Senator Hillary Clinton

It sure as fawk is a revelation to me.

No surprise here: Hillary is lying. The question of whether you have come under sniper fire or not is hardly a subject upon which a person would err. There is no doubt when you’re being targeted with bullets; it’s not subject to interpretation.

“Hmm. I could have swore we just got shot at. Chelsea, did you feel any shift in the winds?”