Discipline

My Illustration Should Reinforce The Statement That "The Most Radical Artists Today Are the Ones Who Know How to Draw"

 

The Blind Side (To Spirituality In Politics)

The same people to honor and celebrate Hillary Clinton's Russia hoax doubt Michael Oher is telling the truth about his life with the Touhys.

Few (including the Touhys apparently) consider Michael Oher could just be confused, while Hillary Clinton ain't, as she relentlessly cackles over America's dark comedy. 

    

I laugh, too, because this is America - as it is - and it's enough to make anyone laugh.

    

We laughed through the Reagan years,...

    

...and we laughed through the Clinton years, too. 

   

All of our corruption is Democrat, so it's hard to go wrong if you point to the Clintons.

    

 Without the Clintons, we wouldn't have a lying Jake Tapper. Not for the last seven years, anyway.

    

Or Rachel Maddow? Come on: She's been a nightmare while we're awake. Remember Election Night, 2016, when she assured us we're "not in Hell"? But now, here she is, presenting everything backwards and upside down - like she's been the one holding us in Hell! 

   

 And, so far, Hillary and the NewAge Nazis seem assured we can't stop any of it. 

   

 But, rest easy, because their kind's been wrong, many, many times before.

 

Walker Ain't Reagan (And There's No MLK Comparison)

He mostly looks like a nobody to me

A Reagan biographer dissing a conservative is worse than when some Lefty band merely asks a Republican candidate to stop using their song:

“Walker is borrowing from Reagan’s mystique more than any other Republican eyeing the presidency, but Ronald Reagan he ain’t.”

If he wants to be more accurate, all Walker has to do is claim Barry Goldwater: he famously made America's racists feel good, as well,...

Why Everyone Lies But Me (I'm Not Involved In Cults)

These poor deceitful fools, I'm usually 5-10 years ahead - and, since they can't keep the truth quiet forever, even amongst themselves - eventually, I always win: 

“LIKE most children of the Reagan era, I grew up with a steady diet of media warnings about the perils of religious cults — the gurus who lurked in wait for the unwary and confused, offering absolute certainty with the aftertaste of poisoned Kool-Aid. From the 1970s through the 1990s, from Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate, frightening fringe groups and their charismatic leaders seemed like an essential element of the American religious landscape. 

Yet we don’t hear nearly as much about them anymore, and it isn’t just that the media have moved on. Some strange experiments have aged into respectability, some sinister ones still flourish, but over all the cult phenomenon feels increasingly antique, like lava lamps and bell bottoms. Spiritual gurus still flourish in our era, of course, but they are generally comforting, vapid, safe — a Joel Osteen rather than a Jim Jones, a Deepak Chopra rather than a David Koresh. ”

And that's the cult world I've been writing about for almost a decade - to massive denials from all quarters - only to have The New York Times now detail how the liars pulled it off:

They're all, collectively, still lying to anyone who will listen - which ain't ever going to be me.

Don't be surprised,...

 

John Oliver Went After Conservative Christian's Atheist Icon (And The "Selfish Asshole" Cult Leader) Ayn Rand

Remember:

Conservative Republicans aren't racists, they just keep choosing them as their leaders,....

Don't Read TMR (And You Won't Know ANYTHING Early)

Calling stories, so right, there's no way it can be wrong. 

"And the political betrayal (betrayal rarely ends well) Cantor's a Tea Party pol himself, y'know. No loyalty there." 

 - TMR, June 10, 2014

Never mix business with pleasure.

"Off with their heads! Eric Cantor, the Tea Party guillotine, and conservative sell-out

Cantor's just the latest: From Reagan to Rove, the GOP's driven ever-rightward by clash of idealism and betrayal"

- Salon, June 15, 2014

 

The Daily Show On Ukraine And "Reagan's Ghost"

G.O.P. Flirting W/Mormonism Was No Fluke (But No Filter)

Ronald Reagan and the occultist

Welcome: Whites Are Now Living In Cloud Cuckoo Land

"The ANC is a typical terrorist organization ... Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in South Africa is living in cloud-cuckoo land."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Good riddance. She was a staunch supporter of the apartheid regime. She was part of the right-wing alliance with Ronald Reagan that led to a lot of avoidable deaths."

- The ANC's Pallo Jordan, upon news of Thatcher's passing

 

Don't Tread

The tea partiers may control the Republican Party, but they don't command majority support among the American public. Without that, they'll never be able to advance their agenda, and the more apocalyptic they get, the less likely they are to ever win the kind of broad-based victories that Ronald Reagan did.

Vote For Me & I'll Set You Free: Rap On, Brother, Rap On

Oh my! Peter Beinart describes what Republicans winning, via Ted Cruz, might look like:

The Washington GOP’s plummeting approval ratings may well boost the presidential prospects of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, just as the Gingrich Congress paved the way for the comparatively moderate George W. Bush. Like Bush, Christie is described as moderate because he has Democratic allies in his home state and because his rhetoric is not as harsh on cultural issues. But in the White House, Bush’s economic policies were hardly moderate. To the contrary, from taxes to social security to regulation, he governed well to the right of Ronald Reagan. Christie likely would as well. As governor, after all, he’s vetoed a hike in the minimum wage, cut the earned income tax credit, vetoed a millionaires’ tax three times and adopted basically the same attitude towards public sector unions as Wisconsin’s Scott Walker.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful,...

 

From Red Lipstick To Telling Some Punk What's-What

A Second Life for Seconds, the 1966 Cult Classic That Made Audiences Sick

Column: What the Clintons tell us about American democracy

Bodybuilders Think This Dude Is Too Ugly to Get Hot Girls

21 Must-See Documentaries & Interviews on Filmmaking

Sex tourism: Thought it was just men who flew abroad for squalid sexual kicks? Meet the middle-aged, middle-class women who are Britain's female sex tourists

On Forgetting the Obvious

CIA 'helped Saddam Hussein carry out chemical weapons attack on Iran' in 1988 under Ronald Reagan

Fleetwood Mac Guitarist Bob Welch Commits Suicide

6 Hit Songs You Won't Believe Are Insulting Celebrities

Conservative Prof. Has Awesome Response to Guy Who Called Him the ‘Biggest Embarrassment to Higher Education in America’

Reagan

 

 This is a fine example of how the left is more capable of selling their message than the right,...

 

My Pals

 

 And, don't forget, these are "values voters" he's talking about,….

If Media Reports Are True, These Were Made By U.F.O.s

A Talk With An Unbiased Girl And A Classy Guy

Don't you see? Don't you see? You can be minding your own fucking business - hurting no one - and then along will come a couple of liberals, to make your skin crawl, and cause you to think of murder,...

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The Daily Show: America At Not-War

The Daily Show - America at Not-War - Obama Defends Military Action in Libya
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The Daily Show - America at Not-War - Obama's Pragmatic Foreign Policy Decisions
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He Could Be Talking About Anybody Out There

Seriously - take out the "mad dog of the Middle East" line and this statement fits, pretty much, any nation that's known not to like us. Once we - the people of the United States - understand that, we will be able to move forward more confidently.

And by the way, about Reagan:

Is there anything he didn't accurately speak on?

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Reagan (On Those Who Attacked Nancy For Her Psychic But Won't Attack The Left For NewAge)

The Clown Show II: Hitting Them With Confetti

Oh, look - it's Mary Katharine Ham again! Twice in one week! And she's back with another video expose' that promises to be as enlightening, and important to the conservative cause, as the last one she did! Yea! This time she's taking on the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore!

Now you may ask yourself, why is Mary Katharine Ham taking on the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore?

And I'd say "I don't know."

Is anyone who's serious about politics taking the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore seriously?

"Nope."

Is there a chance in hell that the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore would lead to anything happening that he envisions?

"Uh-uh."

Then why is Mary Katharine Ham taking on the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore?

"Because there's a camera and, golly, she shure is purdy."

Let me break this down for you, real straight-talk conservative style:

While liberals are out there saying really stupid things, occasionally they'll say something we conservatives can capitalize on - like what was revealed in James O'Keefe's ACORN videos, or his latest ones that prompted this mind-bending statement from an NPR board member:

After working in many parts of public radio — both deep inside it and now with one foot inside and one foot outside — I believe there's an elephant in the room. There is something that I'm very conscious of as we consider this crisis that I'd like to speak to.

We have built an extraordinary franchise. It didn't happen by accident. It happened because we used a very specific methodology to cultivate and build an audience. For years, in boardrooms, at conferences, with funders, we have talked about our highly educated, influential audience. We pursued David Giovannoni's methodologies. We all participated. It was his research, his undaunted, clear strategy that we pursued to build the successful news journalism franchise we have today.

What happened as a result is that we unwittingly cultivated a core audience that is predominately white, liberal, highly educated, elite. "Super-serve the core" — that was the mantra, for many, many years. This focus has, in large part, brought us to our success today. It was never anyone's intention to exclude anyone.

But we have to accept — unapologetically — that this is the franchise we've built.

We have to look at this because the criticisms that are coming at us — whether they're couched in other things — do have some legitimacy. We must, as a starting point, take on board some of this criticism. Before we can set a path, we have to own this.

Now that's news. It's especially news because I've been reading a lot about how important it is for we conservatives to shake off the image of us as the racists and get minorities to break away from considering liberals as their partners. Well, there's the proof we're looking for! They're admitting it! They can claim it happened "unwittingly" all they want, but an in-depth examination of their elitist programming, coupled with an expose' on the way they fired Juan Williams, would put the lie to that claim in a heartbeat - and any black person would recognize it immediately.

There's only one problem. "I believe there's an elephant in the room" and I'm not talking about the Republican symbol:

Conservatives have "unwittingly" built a similar franchise to NPR's.

Mostly white, it too is "an extraordinary franchise" that uses "a very specific methodology to cultivate" a "highly educated, influential audience" with no "intention to exclude anyone." But exclude it does, based on religion, color, even what kind of music you listen to (like Rap) and a bunch of other nonsensical criteria - like whether or not you're perceived to be "nice" when no one has even met you personally. Criteria that have nothing to do with what it means to be a conservative.

[I did not use that picture of Ann Althouse to imply anything about her - she's different. The picture just "worked" artistically.]

Conservatism today is predominantly elitist, scared to death of anyone who doesn't exactly share their inward-looking views, and I don't just mean RINOs being scared of Sarah Palin. Hell, many who call themselves Tea Partiers are scared of Sarah Palin! Can you imagine what a whole bunch of black conservatives would do to their world?

And if I, a street-wise flag-waving hardcore black conservative, don't give a fig about Mary Katharine Ham taking on the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore, what do you think more like me would think - the people conservatives are supposedly trying to attract? I'll tell you:

Not a goddamned thing.

The kinds of things conservative organizations could be doing are just the kinds of things they don't seem to have either the balls, or the credibility, to do because they, too, are too busy trying to "Super-serve the core" - and playing favorites,...to the likes of Mary Katharine Ham.

Over the last few days, the dribble from Mary Katharine Ham has gotten front page status on Hot Air, and major placement on Instapundit, when her pieces don't contain any meaningful content, don't cause a ripple in the political firmament, and don't do outreach. They're just,...there.

But, boy, she shure is purdy!

Well, I'm sorry, but looks aren't the qualification that either Barry Goldwater, or Ronald Reagan, ran on. And no conservative said they weren't behaving when Goldwater gave his angry "Defense of Liberty" speech or Reagan bellowed "I paid for this microphone!" Miraculously, despite those well-known outbursts (that scared the beejeezus out of many) both were known as nice guys.

And, though she was beautiful to me, Jean Kirkpatrick wasn't a "looker" - but, damn it, she had ideas! And convictions that were unmistakably solid as a rock. And so do I.

As much as I like all the conservative players I've read, and interacted with online, I have to say conservatism cannot stay locked up amongst people like Mary Katharine Ham, Glenn Reynolds, and Ed Morrisey. (Glenn Beck's political accomplishments never would have happened if it was left up to the likes of them.) I know - "It was never anyone's intention to exclude anyone" - but exclude they do, to the detriment of the movement.

Or have I just missed all the black output - every day?

Nobody's asking for apologies, but there must be someone - someone - amongst you that has the guts to reach out and say "Let's meet and see what you've got to offer" rather than sitting on your online thrones and declaring "That guy seems weird and aggressive, let's let him twist in the wind." There are too many, like me, waiting to get in.

Supposedly you want us. Really? Prove it.

Very few saw the Tea Party Movement coming, or knew what it was going to be about, but one thing it is about is outsiders coming in and changing the direction of conservatism to something embraced by the nation. Well, despite recent candidates like Allen West and Herman Cain (or even Alphonzo Rachel) it's too easy, still, for the opposition to accurately frame the Tea Party as a lilly-white phenomena that doesn't attract a whole hell of a lot of blacks. I say that's because of the outdated, and elitist, attitudes I've seen from many of the current movers and shakers that are leading it, catering to each other, and the likes of political milquetoasts like Mary Katharine Ham instead. We could be stronger.

I, for one, am not afraid of - and look forward to - a powerful President Palin.

It's about time so-called conservatives stopped being afraid of someone like me.