Waaaaay Off-Track

 

 Shia LaBeouf makes major career change after converting to new religion 

   

 CNN: Israel nowhere near destroying Hamas 

   

 Megachurch leader raped and tortured worshippers 

   

 I was warped by celebrity yoga cult loved by Kate Hudson, Demi Moore & Alicia Keys

President Obama Spoke @ The National Action Network

He got a good laugh from the Birther nonsense,...

Live Long And Suffer

“You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and say, ‘You are now free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.”

- Lyndon Johnson 

Leaving out the part that said, "If America fails on the first try, then give up because WHITE"

 

American Black Life In 1964 (Doesn't Sound Too Rosey)

Fannie Lou Hamer, vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an independent political organization formed in response to the racial exclusionary policies of the state’s official Democratic Party.

The party elected delegates to the Democratic National Convention, held in Atlantic City, N.J., that year, and attempted to unseat the all-white official state delegation.

Hamer’s direct appeal to the national credentials committee of the Democratic Party was carried live on national television. Testifying about the horrors of living as an African-American political activist in Mississippi, she noted that “we have to sleep with our telephones off the hook because our lives are being threatened daily.”

The power of her testimony worried the White House under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He immediately called a live press conference in order to get Hamer’s live statement off national television,...

I Really Don't Think I've Asked For Much & So Will Again

Watching how the world warps and sags around him, Barack Obama's not coming off too badly as president now, in my CrackdeBlackstimation. But still - when it comes to presidential style - so far, I've preferred the "Earthy" guys. Give me your George Ws or Lyndon Johnsons:

“Is this the White House? Oh, sorry. The White House? Sorry. Bird! Come over here and get me the White House,..."

My reasoning? Simple - same as any white guy's:

It's easier to forgive someone I understand.

Speaking of things I understand, conservatives get how ObamaCare's playing, all wrong.

They live in a world of media hype.

Like every other "scandal" the Right has had on Obama lately (Benghazi?) it's a, manufactured, mountain out of a molehill.

They're talking about a website - an insurance website at that.

Isn't the point, as most see it, that a lot of people never even had insurance before?

Then doesn't it figure, in the real world - which is almost everywhere but in the media - nobody will really care about this topic until they themselves get hurt?

Here, further, let me play Karl Rove and explain the psychology of entitlements - especially, especially massive ones:

People will wait, to get the website right, as long as the Dems care (and/or appear to) for those who can't.

The other party - my party - that insists on looking and acting like it's filled with stupid white racists, who want women in the kitchen and everybody in church, has nothing to compete.

But Chris Christie.

Add Scott Walker to the ticket (if he realizes what a lack of charisma he has and takes the veep spot before, foolishly, deciding to challenge) and we're "in".

Otherwise, forgetaboutit.

I do like watching the Right, going nuts over nothing, though - they look great on TV.

But then, so do cheerleaders in an empty stadium,...

 

Black Is White / White Is Black: What Was I's Thinking?

That everything could be turned upside-down. 
Did you ever play "Red Light/Green Light" when you were a kid? 
Oh man, that was fun - Red Light!

If we care to recall it, there is a direct and historical relationship between the ideological commitment to small government and the belief that the government’s priorities are skewed toward racial minorities. Federal intervention in the Little Rock desegregation crisis and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society initiatives hardened the conviction among some whites that government worked predominantly on behalf of minority communities. L.B.J. had envisioned the Great Society as an updated New Deal, but F.D.R. knew well that his reforms didn’t stand a chance unless Southern legislators believed their benefits went largely to white workers.

It’s also worth remembering that the Dixiecrats had few illusions that Strom Thurmond, their Presidential nominee, could win the election. But they did believe that by denying either party a majority in the South they could magnify their influence in national affairs and, in a best-case scenario, throw the Presidential election to the House of Representatives. In short, they hoped to leverage their influence as spoilers and obstructionists in national affairs,...

Those still "searching for new members" can now keep walking,...

 

Life's A Gift - So Why Does It Always Have To Be Socks?

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Chekhov, Homeopathy and the Placebo Effect

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1st Native American saint stirs pride, skepticism

 

‘Chinese Warren Buffett’ Weizhen Tang found guilty of fraud by jury

Burning Man arsonist dies on BART tracks

“A background in American history for the cults and manias of our own time.”

 

The Dark Knight Is Here (And The Dark Son Sets)

Whoo, buddy, y'all done gone and done it now:

Assassination in American history has pretty regularly been the blessèd resort of the Left. Start with Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered the very conservative William McKinley; turn next to Harry Orchard, the union bomber who blew up Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg in 1905; turn again to Lee Harvey Oswald, the Marxist who murdered JFK (but whom Oliver Stone tried mightily to redefine as a clandestine conservative); add in Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, who tried to attack Gerald Ford in 1975 on behalf of “clean air, healthy water, and respect for creatures and creation,” and Sara Jane Moore, who fired a .38 revolver at Ford a few weeks after Fromme’s abortive attack because the “government had declared war on the left”; and then top it off with John Hinckley, the would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan who claimed Lee Harvey Oswald as his role model, and you begin to get some sense of how closely the profile of the gun-toting lunatic assassin suits the Left’s enragés. When the Left talks about violence from the Right, the only name it seems able to come up with is that of Timothy McVeigh.

I also seem to remember that the “climate” of nastiness that is supposed to have fostered the Giffords assassination attempt did not spring from the head of the Tea Party. It began long, long ago, sometime between Lyndon Johnson’s anti-Goldwater atom-bomb ads and the election of Richard Nixon, and then accelerated with the election of Ronald Reagan (whom Sam Donaldson badgered at press conferences in a manner unthought-of in the previous history of the Washington press corps). I was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania when Reagan was gunned down, and I awoke the next day to find an op-ed column in The Daily Pennsylvanian, written by one Dom Manno, a DP staffer, gloating over the shooting and regretting only that the president had survived. Mr. Manno had to be taken in hand by the Secret Service for a brief lesson about the consequences of encouraging assassins, but the lesson Manno’s column taught me was about the serene sense of immunity he had felt in wishing a conservative president dead. The Left, in other words, never notices when it turns politics or journalism into a free-fire zone. It is only when one of its own gets hit in the process that the nastiness becomes unspeakable — but it is still never the Left’s fault for having manufactured the ammunition in the first place.

If we are living now in a time of unprecedented political “vitriol” — and I believe we are, and very much to the detriment of democracy itself — it is a brand of vitriol that was sprayed with relentless generosity on George W. Bush, who was caricatured by The Nation, day by day during his presidency, as a morphed version of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman. And it was only yesterday that the Left’s president referred to Republicans as “enemies,” while the Speaker of the Left snarled at her critics as Nazis with swastikas.

Still, the rule of the Left is that nothing committed by the Left is a sin, whether it’s poisoning the political “climate” for the last forty years, or accusing “the Tea Party” and “the Right” of poisoning it when they strike back in kind. This is hypocrisy on a grand-mal scale.

Wow. A NewAger goes on a(nother) killing spree and it unleashes a level of scrutiny on the Left unseen, probably, in it's history? Now who woulda thunk that? (A little late but - hee-hee) Oh, come on, laugh!

Or should we say:

Making A Connection (By Getting Plugged In)

So it appears I have a lot in common with James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal:

"Way back during the 2008 presidential campaign, we observed from time to time that the personality cult surrounding Barack Obama creeped us out. Some readers faulted us for not explaining why--a fair enough criticism. It was an inchoate sense that we had, but it bothered us enough that we felt a duty to acknowledge it."

Man, I thought I was alone on that. Apparently, I also have a lot in common with Karl Rove, who has seen a scam being played out on the political stage:

"Mr. Obama is not the centrist or new-style bipartisan leader he presented himself to be. On many of the most basic issues raised in the campaign, and in describing the kind of leadership he would practice, Mr. Obama misled voters. Americans will overlook a lot of things when it comes to politicians—but being on the receiving end of a giant bait-and-switch game isn't one of them."

And The Washington Post's Harold Meyerson sees some "loopy" behaviors, behind the president, that I've witnessed as well:

"Unlike [Franklin] Roosevelt or [Lyndon] Johnson, who benefited from autonomous movements, Obama would be answerable for every loopy tactic his followers employed."

I should hope so - and here I was feeling completely isolated.

Think any of those guys study NewAge, too?

Our Bad Story Teller (With A Head Like A Stone) And One Of Our Last Great American Statesmen

“[Oliver Stone] and his cast plainly don’t understand George W. Bush so they,...settle for a two-hour Saturday Night Live sketch that skims every surface.

Stone still cannot fathom how Bush won four huge elections, thrice bested the man universally acknowledged to be the country’s best debater in 2000 and inspired millions in (to cite a few examples) his speech atop the rubble at the World Trade Center, his Convention address in 2004 and in his second inaugural in 2005. Astonishing but true: Stone simply skips over all of these signature moments because they don’t fit Stone’s one joke about a bumbler who drifted to the top and destroyed the world.

To put it another way: the film does not show the courageous choice to launch the Surge and the way it succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest dreams, but does show the pretzel-choking incident, during which the president is shown wearing a novelty T-shirt with a dog on it.

Except for (perhaps) a scene in which Bush is shown breaking down and praying for salvation, there is not a single moment that shows any reason why anyone would support such an imbecile; in its determined omissions, it’s a bigger insult to the 62 million who voted for Bush than to the man himself.”

— Kyle Smith, on another piece of Hollywood tripe that'll never see a dime from me, or Pajamas Media

On his own site, Mr. Smith adds:

Stone served in Vietnam and says, “I did not like Nixon. I suffered, like many people suffered under him, in Vietnam.” OK! Except, according to this extremely detailed fansite, Stone served in Vietnam in 1967-1968. MSN’s Encarta Encyclopedia agrees that Stone served from 1967-68. That means his suffering–all of it–was under Lyndon Johnson."

Who, I might add, was a Democrat. My favorite Dem, actually: he'd take his pants off - in public!

Raging About France Again

"They care about nothing because they believe in nothing."

-- "Kevin," commenting on the destruction of the beech trees of Saint Pierre de Varengeville-Duclair forest - which were inscribed with the mementos of American soldiers who fought in France - on the Times Online site.

I don't know why, but this reminds me of when Charles de Gaulle demanded all American soldiers leave France, and LBJ was moved to ask, "Even the dead ones?"

Bastards.

Let an American be as proud of our country as this superficial bitch is of hers (when we've accomplished so much and they've failed so often) and all you get is an argument - even with your fellow citizens - about some imagined fucking "empire" when we've claimed nothing from anyone. Look at her:

Our guys died, suffered wounds and nightmares, for that?

The thought disgusts me. No - they fought to defeat Hitler. She is as big of an afterthought as she appears.

And these fucking "Americans" today are as pathetic, and superficial, as the French are. I heard Susan Sarandon say she's moving to Yurp if John McCain is elected president. Well, having lived in France - and left hating it - I've got a message for her and Yurp:

Kiss my black ass.