Laying Slavery at America’s Feet

Congress Endorses a Lie About Slavery by Michael Medved

The much heralded “slavery apology” voted on Tuesday by the House of Representatives is far worse than a meaningless gesture. This illiterate and mendacious resolution also constitutes an assault on history and a vicious anti-American smear.

The problem with the resolution isn’t its condemnation of the institution of slavery or its denunciation of the brutal discrimination of Jim Crow; obviously, the oppression and exploitation of millions of African captives represented a monstrous and indefensible crime against humanity.

The resolution, however, makes a specific point that America bears unique guilt for the enslavement of Africans and suggests that slavery in the United States proved the worst in history, amounting to an unprecedented degradation of its victims.

The resolution (written, in obvious haste, by the fatuous freshman Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee) includes the following wildly misleading “whereas” clause as its deeply embarrassing third paragraph:

“Whereas slavery in America resembled no other form of involuntary servitude known in history, as Africans were captured and sold at auction like inanimate objects or animals…”

No reputable historian –- no, not one –- would agree with this outrageous statement.

Filed under: Crazy liberals , House of Representatives, resolution, slavery

Illegal Aliens Self-Deporting

The Christian Science Monitor: Tide of illegal immigrants now being reversed — Border crackdown and tough economic times in the US are seen as reasons by Gail Russell Chaddock

Filed under: Protecting Our Borders , borders, illegal aliens

What Democrat Scandal?

In 2007, Republican Senator Larry Craig goes after some tail in a bathroom and the media obsesses over it for months.

This month, former Vice-Presidential candidate and Democrat John Edwards is caught cheating on his wife (who has cancer) and the media ignores it.

“What liberal media?” — Eric Alterman

Filed under: What Liberal Media? , Democrat, infidelity, John Edwards, Larry Craig, media bias, Republican, What Liberal Media?

U.S. Combat Deaths in Iraq Plunge

Reuters accidentally reported some good news from Iraq. Amazing.

Reuters: U.S. combat deaths in Iraq plunge in July By Mohammed Abbas

The number of U.S. soldiers killed in combat in Iraq has dropped sharply in July and the monthly total is likely to be the lowest since the U.S.-led invasion of the country in 2003.

Filed under: The War on Terror , casualties, Iraq, military deaths, troops, War on Terror

The Timing of Senator Stevens Indictment

“The investigation has been for at least a year, an amount of time that is not unusual in white collar cases. Prior indications of an investigation included the raid of Uncle Ted’s home back in July 2007.

“But the indictment of a Republican Senator at the same time as the release of a report on politicization of the department is interesting timing. Is this indictment being issued today to show the public that the present DOJ will not play politics? Is the timing of this Indictment to minimize the sting of the report that was just issued? Or is it just happenstance that these two events occurred around the same time?” — White Collar Crime Prof Blog

Filed under: Everything Else , Alaska, indictment, Senator Ted Stevens

House of Representatives Panders and Panders Some More

In Washington D.C. yesterday, people who never enslaved anyone apologized to those who were never enslaved over the issue of slavery.

I am sure the many poor souls who were enslaved, if they were alive, would be greatly pleased by this empty gesture.

Amazingly, the House of Representatives failed to apologize to the 620,000 men who were killed or injured fighting partly over the issue of slavery.

And lets not forget one assassinated President.

Apparently they don’t count.

Filed under: Crazy liberals , apology, Civil War, Crazy liberals, House of Representatives, pandering, slavery

Obama Gets Coveted Ludacris Endorsement

The latest chapter in the Cult of Obama features rapper Ludacris who recently penned a song for The Messiah. While making a number of racist statements and generalizations, Ludacris (the name is more fitting than you think) calls Hillary Clinton a bitch and refers to paralysis in the same sentence with John McCain.

A class act, this one.

A sampling of Ludacris’s rhymes on behalf of Obama:

Hillary hated on you, so that bitch is irrelevant
[...]
you can’t stop what’s bout to happen, we bout to make history
the first black president is destined and it’s meant to be
the threats ain’t fazing us, the nooses or the jokes
so get off your ass, black people, it’s time to get out and vote!
paint the White House black and I’m sure that’s got ‘em terrified
McCain don’t belong in ANY chair unless he’s paralyzed
Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped
Ball up all of his speeches and I throw em like candy wrap
cause what you talking I hear nothing even relevant
and you the worst of all 43 presidents
get out and vote or the end will be near
the world is ready for change because Obama is here!

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, Crazy liberals, Hillary Clinton, John McCain/Sarah Palin , Barack Obama / The Messiah, bitch, Crazy liberals, cult, Hillary Clinton, John McCain/Fake Conservative, Ludacris, paralysis, rap

Wikipedia Fails to Mention John Edwards Affair

But it immediately posts the indictment of Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska for “seven counts of falsely reporting income.”

More on John Edwards here and the Wikipedia entry on Edwards.

Filed under: What Liberal Media? , affair, indictment, John Edwards, Ted Stevens, What Liberal Media?, Wikipedia

Bali Bombers Seek “Painless” Execution: Beheading

Some things are beyond belief.

Bali bombers seek ‘execution without pain’

Three militants awaiting execution for the 2002 Bali bombings plan to challenge the legality of death by firing squad, but it was unclear if the move would lead to a last-minute stay, their lawyer said Tuesday.

Imam Samudra, one of three militants sentenced to death over the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings.

Mahendradatta, who goes by a single name, said he would file a petition next week at the Constitutional Court arguing that convicts who go before a firing squad sometimes do not die immediately, causing unnecessary suffering.

“We’re seeking an execution without pain,” said the lawyer, who in the past has argued that his clients would prefer to be beheaded, which they say is more in line with Islamic teachings.

Yes, having your neck hacked with a knife is painless.

Filed under: The War on Terror , Bali bombings, Imam Samudra, Mahendradatta

“Climate Crimes”

The enviro-indoctrination of children continues.  This time, it comes from npower in England, which has created a colorful website, called “Climate Cops.” It features three “cops” of dark, medium, and light skin tones, and includes fun “missions” for your little enviro-cadet. Some of the downloadable desktop wallpaper includes a “Most Wanted” poster, which lists an assortment of “Climate Crimes.”

The poster teaches children that rather innocent mistakes — not turning off the tap, leaving TV on standby — are “crimes.” The environmentalist desire to control people might be tolerable if the site focused on merely not being wasteful, but the same poster moves right into telling people how to live: not using energy saving bulbs (mercury anyone?) is a “crime” as is using a dryer on a sunny day.

Another poster can be printed and cut out into door hanger. One side warns the would-be visitor that a “climate crime investigation is in progress.” Apparently once the “crime” has been “solved,” the door hanger can be turned around notifying the world that — whew — good triumphs over evil.

Reporting parents and their “crimes” cannot be far behind. Who says Nazism/fascism is dead?

While it is true that the earth’s temperature has risen a bit, the entire website hinges on the assumption that an increase of CO2 (due to industrial activity — filthy humans) leads to an increase in temperature, which is supposedly bad for the planet.

Pardon me for raining on the enviro-parade but at what point was any of this proven to be scientific fact? Am I permitted to ask or have I just committed thought crimes?

Filed under: Crazy liberals, Environmentalism , Climate Cops, Crazy liberals, England, Environmentalism, indoctrination

U.S. Flag Disappears (but Don’t Question B.O.’s Patriotism)

WND: American flag disappears from Obama campaign jet — Candidate’s trademark ‘O’ replaces stars and stripes By Aaron Klein

As part of a month-long aircraft makeover, a painted American flag was removed from the tail of Sen. Barack Obama’s official campaign airplane and was replaced with the presidential candidate’s trademark “O” symbol.

The refurbished 757 was unveiled to members of the news media today, 41 of whom boarded the craft and took off to meet Obama in Amman, Jordan, where the presidential candidate will stop as part of a Middle Eastern and European tour.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , 757, American flag, Barack Obama / The Messiah, campaign jet, plane

Obamisms and the Two Faced Media

Barack’s Obama-isms By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

The gaffes Barack Obama has committed would have crushed the typical Republican politician. But the reporters who can’t get over Dan Quayle’s misspelling of “potato” have little to say about their man’s slip-ups.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media? , Barack Obama / The Messiah, dan Quayle, hypocrisy, Republican, What Liberal Media?

Fact Checking Obama

In the world of the spoken word, George W. Bush is Professor Stephen Hawking compared to Barack Obama. Of course, liberals not only ignore Obama’s constant verbal errors but actively conceal them. I guess it comes with being chronic hypocrites.

Don Surber lists some Obama quotes below followed by some fact:

Quoth Obama:

The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

Surber explains:

15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. None were poor kids from Somalia. Osama bin Laden is the son of a wealthy Saudi contractor.

Quoth Obama::

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.

Surber:

What walls? France has replaced the aider and abetter of Hussein, Jacques Chirac, with L’Americain, Nikolas Sarkozy. For the first time, NATO is engaged in a mission outside of Europe as NATO fights in Afganistan. Obama’s worldview is stuck in 2002.

Quoth Obama::

That is why America cannot turn inward. That is why Europe cannot turn inward. America has no better partner than Europe. Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic.

Surber:

Again, factually in error and logically flawed. Bridges have been repaired and strengthened. France is thinking of returning to NATO militarily for the first time in 40+ years.

In fact, it is Obama who wants the USA to curl up in a ball like an armadillo and concentrate on throwing billions — if not trillions — on social welfare programs that repeatedly fail. Poverty in Somalia is last on the Obaman agenda.

Quoth Obama::

And despite past differences, this is the moment when the world should support the millions of Iraqis who seek to rebuild their lives, even as we pass responsibility to the Iraqi government and finally bring this war to a close.

Surber:

Obama wanted to abandon Iraq by March 31, 2008.

Then there’s the following nugget on Surber’s site:

Tom Maguire Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 1:00 am

How about his third paragraph?

I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya.

Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell and Condi Rice have all spoken in Berlin.

Jack Kelly on Obama’s Narcissism.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , Barack Obama / The Messiah, Don Surber

Why Women Can’t Parallel Park

Filed under: Everything Else , Adam Carolla, Dr. Drew, Loveline

A Response to the “Citizen of the World”

NRO: It’s America, Obama — A modest dissent to the citizen of the world By Victor Davis Hanson

With all due respect, I also don’t believe the world did anything to save Berlin, just as it did nothing to save the Rwandans or the Iraqis under Saddam — or will do anything for those of Darfur; it was only the U.S. Air Force that risked war to feed the helpless of Berlin as it saved the Muslims of the Balkans.

[...]

When Obama shouts,

Will we reject torture and stand for the rule of law? Will we welcome immigrants from different lands, and shun discrimination against those who don’t look like us or worship like we do, and keep the promise of equality and opportunity for all of our people?

it is the world, not the U.S., that needs to listen most. [...]

I want also to shout back that the United States does stand for the rule of law, as even the killers of Guantanamo realize with their present redress of grievances, access to complex jurisprudence, and humane treatment — all in a measure beyond what such terrorists would receive anywhere else. It is the United States that takes in more immigrants than does any country in the world, and thus is the prime destination of those who flee the miseries of this often wretched globe.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , Barack Obama / The Messiah, Germany, immigration, torture

Hurricane + Reporter =

I’ve never understood the purpose of forcing a reporter to report on bad weather while standing in it. Not that I have much sympathy for reporters.

Filed under: Everything Else

Those Evil Pharmaceutical Companies At It Again

BBC: HIV drugs ‘add 13 years of life’ — Life expectancy for people with HIV has increased by an average of 13 years since the late 1990s thanks to better HIV treatment, a study says.

Filed under: Everything Else , AIDS, drugs, HIV

Why Obama Chose Germany

Europe’s Mosh Pit Of Anti-Americanism Awaits Barack Obama With Open Arms By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

Obama may demand on the campaign trail that no one dare question his patriotism, but for Germans, disliking the U.S. is nothing to hide. Yet this is the place Obama’s team thought would be best to hold a rally to boost his campaign.

Pew’s 2008 survey found that 34% of Germans don’t like Americans at all or in part, and 61% regard the U.S. as headed for something like history’s ash heap, to be supplanted by China.

That is relevant to why Germans are cheering for Obama. He has consistently expounded a worldview that espouses the moral equivalency of nations, rather than importance of U.S. leadership. He’s a big fan of letting the U.N. make America’s foreign policy decisions, consistent with shrinking U.S. influence in the world.

He has also expressed embarrassment at the U.S. compared with Europe, for example, in its mastery of languages — as if the lingual fragmentation of Europe’s tiny nations vs. the continental span of the U.S. were comparable conditions for learning languages.

Not a word, of course, about America’s military, financial or technical superiority over Europe. Just lots of European-style mantras about American differences being somehow proof of inferiority.

An America Firster he’s not. Heck, it was a battle just to get him, a candidate for the highest office in the land, to pin an American flag to his lapel. No wonder they cheer Obama in Germany.

[Emphasis added]

Obama’s Euro Tour 2008 might backfire on him yet.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , Add new tag, anti-Americanism, Barack Obama / The Messiah, Germany

Hypocrisy 101

People in the entertainment industry are normally stupid egomaniacs, but this takes it to a new level.

Now add “hypocrite” to the mix.

Moron #1 / Moron #2

Rapper who wears “Nigger” t-shirt criticizes Fox for “racism” By Michelle Malkin

Filed under: Crazy liberals, Everything Else , clothing, Crazy liberals, Fox News, hypocrisy, Kelli, Nas, nigger, racial slur, rappers

Liberal Bia$ is Costly

New York Times 2Q profit drops 82 percent

New York Times Co. says its second-quarter earnings fell 82 percent from the year-ago quarter boosted by a one-time gain. Meanwhile, print advertising revenue continued to shrink.

The New York-based newspaper publisher says its quarterly net income dropped to $21.1 million, or 15 cents per share, which included 11 cents per share in buyout costs.

Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected income of 22 cents per share in the latest quarter. Analyst estimates typically exclude special items.

Revenue dropped 6 percent to $741.9 million, missing the average Wall Street estimate for $754 million. Ad revenue slipped down 11 percent, hurt mostly by fewer classified ads.

Chief Executive Janet Robinson says business was hurt by the “U.S. economic slowdown and secular forces playing out across the media industry.”

“secular forces” ?

CEO Janet forgot “publication of slanted and highly biased news and national security secrets.”

Filed under: What Liberal Media? , earnings, New York Times, profits, treason, What Liberal Media?

Obama: America “Has Not Perfected Itself”

Barack Obama joins an elite group. He is yet another in a long line of liberals who go overseas like cowards to bash America. Quoth the Obamanator:

People of Berlin — people of the world — this is our moment. This is our time.

Please give me a fuckin’ break.

I know my country has not perfected itself.

I didn’t know any country could be “perfected,” Barack.

Have you perfected yourself yet, Barack? Or did the degree at Harvard take care of all your human failings?

However, now that you’ve graced us with your presence, Barack, we can finally be a more socialist state as you prefer.

At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

You mean, Americans are human beings? No way.

But I also know how much I love America. I know that for more than two centuries, we have strived — at great cost and great sacrifice — to form a more perfect union . . .

Wow, he has something nice to say about the heathen Americans.

to seek, with other nations, a more hopeful world. Our allegiance has never been to any particular tribe or kingdom — indeed, every language is spoken in our country; every culture has left its imprint on ours; every point of view is expressed in our public squares.

We sit around fires and sing Kumbaya.

What has always united us — what has always driven our people; what drew my father to America’s shores — is a set of ideals that speak to aspirations shared by all people: that we can live free from fear and free from want; that we can speak our minds and assemble with whomever we choose and worship as we please.

Your father? The Muslim coward who refused to raise you?

Why won’t Barack say all this in America? Why did he hesitate to wear the American flag? Why does he rarely say anything positive about his country? Why did his wife only recently realize that she was proud of America?

I admit that it is very difficult to believe Obama when he does say anything good about America.

Why? Because in the Obamas, we are dealing with anti-capitalists and anti-American Marxists who have been so indoctrinated into only finding fault with America while ignoring her many achievements. Thus, when Obama says anything positive about America, it is much like trusting the honesty in a chronic bank robber.

Obama had atleast one detractor on his tour:

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, Crazy liberals, What Liberal Media?

“Out of Respect,” Barack Skips Trip to Troops

AP: Obama scraps visit to wounded troops

Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.

The spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Thursday that Obama made his decision out of respect for the servicemen and women, but Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign immediately criticized the move.

“Barack Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit our men and women in the military,” said Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the Republican contender.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , Barack Obama / The Messiah

Why Can’t Obama Fight Terror in America?

Or shall he just fight it in Europe? What a globe-trotting embarrassment.

Associated Press: In Germany, Obama urges joint fight against terror By DAVID ESPO and DAVID RISING

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah , Barack Obama / The Messiah, Germany, terrorism

You Don’t Say!

Reuters: A message to lenders: know your borrowers By Burton Frierson

Filed under: Everything Else

Australian Grievance Mongers Demand More and More from Pope

Herald-Sun (Au): The great victim hunt by Andrew Bolt

HERE’S just the latest example of how our victim industry works, feeding on problems and starving on solutions.

Flying to Sydney for World Youth Day, the Pope told reporters he wanted to express regret to victims of priests who abused them.

But Broken Rites, the victims’ group, said this was not enough, and he must “formally apologise”. Said spokesman Bernard Barrett: “He made some general remarks about regret to reporters and that’s not good enough.”

All right: in Sydney, the Pope gave a formal apology.

But Broken Rites said this was now not enough, and he must apologise directly to a few representative victims. Said another spokeswoman, Chris MacIsaac: “It really needs to be delivered directly to the people who suffered that abuse. They could have looked some victims who represented all victims in the eye and said, the Pope could have said ‘I am truly sorry’.”

All right: the Pope then looked four representative victims directly in the eye, and said: “I am truly sorry.”

But Broken Rites said this was no longer enough, either. MacIsaac again: “I’m afraid that what they’ve done is selected victims who have agreed with what the church’s policies are.”

Can we cut to the chase? What does Broken Rites actually want?

Can the Pope really ever do enough to please it? And bear in mind that the man is being made to jump through endless hoops to apologise for crimes he didn’t commit, never condoned and says offend the most solemn teachings and practices of his church.

But isn’t this in a microcosm the story of professional victimology?

Frankly, an apology for for something as serious as sexual abuse and dereliction of duty is insulting.

Filed under: Everything Else , Australia, Broken Rites, molestation, Pope Benedict, sexual abuse, victimology

When Cakes Go Wrong

Cake Wrecks

Filed under: Everything Else , cake decoration, cakes

Real Human Rights Violations

can often be found in Communist China.

China arrests dissident in pre-Olympics crackdown By Ben Blanchard

Filed under: Everything Else , China, Du Daobin, free speech, Hu Jia, Huang Qi, Olympics, oppression

Pigs DO Fly: Price of Gas Drops

Yes, the drop in price is quite small, but atleast it’s no longer rising.

CNN: Fuel prices fall for 6th straight day — Prices for gasoline, diesel and ethanol continue retreat, according to AAA survey

Filed under: Everything Else , gas prices, gasoline, Oil

Clarifying the Crusades

They were not what most people think.

Inside Catholic: The Real History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden

[T]he Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression — an attempt to turn back or defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands.

Christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics. Muslims really were gunning for them. While Muslims can be peaceful, Islam was born in war and grew the same way. From the time of Mohammed, the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword. Muslim thought divides the world into two spheres, the Abode of Islam and the Abode of War. Christianity — and for that matter any other non-Muslim religion — has no abode. Christians and Jews can be tolerated within a Muslim state under Muslim rule. But, in traditional Islam, Christian and Jewish states must be destroyed and their lands conquered. When Mohammed was waging war against Mecca in the seventh century, Christianity was the dominant religion of power and wealth. As the faith of the Roman Empire, it spanned the entire Mediterranean, including the Middle East, where it was born. The Christian world, therefore, was a prime target for the earliest caliphs, and it would remain so for Muslim leaders for the next thousand years.

With enormous energy, the warriors of Islam struck out against the Christians shortly after Mohammed’s death. They were extremely successful. Palestine, Syria, and Egypt — once the most heavily Christian areas in the world — quickly succumbed. By the eighth century, Muslim armies had conquered all of Christian North Africa and Spain. In the eleventh century, the Seljuk Turks conquered Asia Minor (modern Turkey), which had been Christian since the time of St. Paul. The old Roman Empire, known to modern historians as the Byzantine Empire, was reduced to little more than Greece. In desperation, the emperor in Constantinople sent word to the Christians of western Europe asking them to aid their brothers and sisters in the East.

That is what gave birth to the Crusades. They were not the brainchild of an ambitious pope or rapacious knights but a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense.

Filed under: Everything Else , Christians, conquest, Crusades, Islam, Muslims, The Religion of Peace Files, Thomas Madden

Obama on Vouchers

NY Sun: Obama Tells Teachers Union He Opposes Vouchers — Weingarten Will Take Helm of AFT By ELIZABETH GREEN

Filed under: Everything Else , American Federation of Teachers, Barack Obama / The Messiah, school vouchers, teacher unions