It Ain't "It's A Black Thang (You Wouldn't Understand)"

 David Weigel, over at Slate, posted this:

Above, you'll find a short video composed of the floor speeches some top Democrats made about SSM. At the time, Republicans wanted to block gay marriage in Massachusetts by amending the constitution with an official marriage definition. Democrats argued against that, but they didn't argue in favor of gay marriage. They argued that DOMA made such an amendment unneccessary. They assured people like Rick Santorum that the slippery slope case for gay marriage was bogus. 

The new Democratic advocates for SSM fall into two camps. The first consists of people who always liked the idea of this but worried about losing national elections. In his memoir, Democratic consultant Bob Shrum remembers John Kerry fretting that the Massachusetts Supreme Court had forced Democrats to talk about gay marriage before they were ready to. "Why couldn't they just wait a year?" he asked Shrum, mournfully. The second camp consists of people who really do oppose the idea of gay people getting married. Republicans argued that this second camp was tiny, and that liberals were hiding behind it. They were right!

I have said it, here, and I will continue to say it until I see different: 

 This entire debate - whether in the media, the halls of Washington, or the courts - is a lie. 

 Notice, my position - what Ann Althouse describes as California's - isn't being represented:

California, where voters amended the state constitution to restrict marriage to opposite-sex couples and where they permit civil unions that give gay people access to everything but the word "marriage." 

Because "marriage" is between a man and a woman. This ain't difficult. A union between two people of the same sex is called something else - take your pick, I'll endorse it. 

Ann argues gay unions having "everything" but a different descriptive is "almost equal treatment" - like I should take white Americans, describing me as a "black" American, to be an insult. 

Pure Al Sharpton-type thinking, so last century it's competing with The Walkman. 

Actually - when it comes to gays - that's about the only similarity with race I see,...

 

Is It Possible Living A Life Of Luxury Makes You Stupid?

They say this stuff, but no one can grasp it:

On the Right, there is at least as much discussion of the fact that Rubio was asked this elephant trap of a question at all as there is of the details of his answer. And that’s good. But a better question might be, why wasn’t Gabbard asked it? Or President Obama, or Senator Harry Reid or Representative Keith Ellison? After all, Gabbard’s espoused Hinduism, like Obama’s espoused Christianity or Ellison’s espoused Islam or Harry Reid’s espoused Mormonism, entails a range of commitments to claims that are, prima facie, at odds with the empirical record. But there isn’t a cottage industry in interrogating Democrats on their faith the way there is with religious conservatives.

Well shit, man, buy a cottage and start an industry - and hurry. Sheesh:

We're usually led by people of questionable competence, miserable judgment and a flexible relationship with the truth.

And they're easy enough to spot. I look for admissions like this:

Is it possible this whole thing is playing out before our eyes and we’re not really noticing because we’re too busy looking at data on paper instead of what’s in front of us? Maybe that’s the real distortion of the polls this year: They left us discounting the world around us.

See? "Discounting the world around us" is the BIG issue (if I do say so myself) though I don't know about the "us" part:

Some of "us" never had that luxury,....

"I Never Knew How Precise These Things Are,..."

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Why Are Liberals Such Really Bad Winners?

I've noticed this since the night Obama got elected: Liberals don't seem aware when they're winning. Which is fine by me, because I have every intention of burying them when the worm turns (and it always does) so their behavior is nothing I choose to lose sleep over. I already knew they're unhinged. No surprises there.



It is frustrating they never remember what all they do, though. I've had a number of people write in, or e-mail, accusing the right of something that eventually gets exposed as false (like Tea Partiers yelling racial slurs) and who are also completely oblivious to what liberals said and did over the eight Bush years - which included open threats to kill the president - or even the history of the Democratic Party being the home of the KKK's "Dixiecrats". (I wish I could see Democrats, now, as trying to make up for that sordid past but, based on their actions and arguments, I don't: they're just race hustlers and, white, black, or brown, they don't care who they're hustling for as long as it brings the party power. Sadly, I'm finding some of that on the right as well,...) I might not care as much if I thought the Dems were actually helping anyone but - like those great mortgages that have now saddled the poor with huge debts for houses they can't afford to live in - "power to the people" just ain't how the Democratic Party rolls.

O.K., that's enough for this latest example of how great liberals - and especially liberal supporters of Senator Harry Reid - supposedly are.

Me? Shit, I'm a known asshole, so I'm getting away from all this shit - right now - before I might have to go to jail,...

I'm So Glad They've Got Acupuncture In There

Keeps 'em honest.

Hat Tip: iOwnTheWorld

Gangsta: The Boston Tea Party Rides Again

Unlike my "friends" in the Democratic Party, who, once Barack Obama became president almost one year ago today, couldn't help but gloat, call me crazy, a traitor to my race, and basically make jackasses of themselves, I'm not going there. Fuck that - the Hell I ain't!

Are you fucking kidding me? You're actually upset at the idea of Nancy Pelosi and Harry-fucking-Reid losing their 60 vote majority - for Obama's fucked up "health plan" - even though it all hinged on giving this horrible, horrible woman more political power? Really? Are you fucking kidding me? What's wrong with you? What kind of game is being played here? I know politics is dirty but y'all's into some ruthless-assed-shit.

Hush. You gotta listen now: it's like the country's fever's breaking but it's your ass that's gotta wake up. The American people's talkin' and, frankly, they've had enough of this shit. And if you don't believe me, who's teabaggin' it now, yo?

"A stunning victory" my ass, I've been waiting five years for our country to snap out of it, but I never doubted that it would, never did. That it has to, is what bothers me. I hear it's kinda creeping up in other ways, too. Remembering who your friends are. All that. Boston's the place for that kind of reality check. I mean like, if you were trying to hit one thing in the American psyche - but accidently hit the reset button instead - well bullseye motherfucker. Boston.

The One's got Number Two on his face now, so he can't see the "magic" is gone, which, along with poetic justice, presents us with a couple of compelling issues: like how to kick his ass while he's blinded - and keep these other fools out of it.

You can't help him now. Hell, you didn't help him (or yourself) by getting him the job! Now he's gonna get tagged about the head while we keep an eye on all those fools he's been bowing to - ain't that some shit? And right in front of his kids and everything,...

Yea, he'll thank your dumb ass later.

And somebody's gonna get Al Gore in a room and ask him some questions, finally, too. Fuck that shit, with him walking away, that ain't flying no more. (There's a global warming joke in there, somewhere: I ain't got time.) I told you the American people have had enough of this shit. And so have I. And I aim to bring it to an end.

Now, for the last time: bring us the head of Bill Clinton.

Best Thing The Dems Have Done In Decades

Looks like they've got a little rebellion in the ranks,...

They're Comfortable With George Jefferson

Hat Tip: Instapundit

Who's Botching The Botchmen? (We Are)

The Party Of Plotters

The Obama administration and the new Congress are quickly handing over to Republicans the same "culture of corruption" issue that Democrats used so effectively against the GOP before coming to power.

Freshman Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., is only the latest embarrassment.
Senate Democrats accepted Burris because they believed what he told them: He was clean. Burris now admits he tried to raise money for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who authorities say sought to sell President Barack Obama's former Senate seat.

"The story seems to be changing day by day," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday.

The political mess for the Democratic Party, however, isn't Burris' conduct alone; it's the pattern that has developed so quickly over the past few months.

-- Larry Margasak, pointing out the idiocy of belief (and what the meaning of the word "hypocrisy" is) - though no one, who is so ruthlessly amoral they could be on the Left, cares - but it's still being mentioned, for fun we guess, by The Associated Press.

With Apologies To Margaret Bourke-White

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Welcome To Hell

"After some 20 years of teaching mostly minority youth Greek, Latin, and ancient history and literature in translation (1984-2004), I came to the unfortunate conclusion that ethnic studies, women studies—indeed, anything 'studies'— were perhaps the fruits of some evil plot dreamed up by illiberal white separatists to ensure that poor minority students in the public schools and universities were offered only a third-rate education.

All the old media brands of our youth have been tarnished and all but discredited. No one picks up Harpers or Atlantic expecting to read a disinterested story on politics or culture. (I pass on their inane accounts of ‘getaways’ and food.) The New York Times and Washington Post are as likely to have op-eds as news stories on the front page. Newsweek and Time became organs for paint-by-numbers Obamism, teased with People Magazine-like gossip pieces (at least, their editors still cared enough to seem hurt when charged with overt bias). NBC, ABC, and CBS would now make a Chet Huntley or Eric Sevareid turn over in his grave. A Keith Olbermann would not have been allowed to do commercials in the 1950s. Strangely, the media has offered up fashionably liberal politics coupled with metrosexual elite tastes in fashions, clothes, housing, food, and the good life, as if there were no contradictions between the two. No wonder media is so enthralled with the cool Obama and his wife. Both embody the new nexus between Eurosocialism in the abstract and the hip aristocratic life in the concrete.

California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries—and squandered that gift within a generation.

Something has happened to the generic American male accent. Maybe it is urbanization; perhaps it is now an affectation to sound precise and caring with a patina of intellectual authority; perhaps it is the fashion culture of the metrosexual; maybe it is the influence of the gay community in arts and popular culture,...But increasingly to meet a young American male about 25 is to hear a particular nasal stress, a much higher tone than one heard 40 years ago, and, to be frank, to listen to a precious voice often nearly indistinguishable from the female. How indeed could one make Westerns these days, when there simply is not anyone left who sounds like John Wayne, Richard Boone, Robert Duvall, or Gary Cooper much less a Struther Martin, Jack Palance, L.Q. Jones, or Ben Johnson? I watched the movie Twelve O’clock High the other day, and Gregory Peck and Dean Jagger sounded liked they were from another planet. I confess over the last year, I have been interviewed a half-dozen times on the phone, and had no idea at first whether a male or female was asking the questions.

We have given political eccentricity a bad name. There used to be all sorts of classy individualists, liberal and conservative alike,...today we simply see the obnoxious who claim to be eccentric like a Barbara Boxer, Al Franken, Barney Frank, or Harry Reid. The loss is detectable even in diction and manner...I suppose it is the difference between the Age of Belief and the Age of Nihilism.

...the shrill Left is increasingly far more vicious these days than the conservative fringe, and about like the crude Right of the 1950s. Why? I am not exactly sure, other than the generic notion that utopians often believe that their anointed ends justify brutal means. Maybe it is that the Right already had its Reformation when Buckley and others purged the extremists—the Birchers, the neo-Confederates, racialists, the fluoride-in-the-water conspiracists, anti-Semites, and assorted nuts.—from the conservative ranks in a way the Left has never done with the 1960s radicals that now reappear in the form of Michael Moore, Bill Ayers, Cindy Sheehan, Moveon.org, the Daily Kos, etc. Not many Democrats excommunicated Moveon.org for its General Betray-Us ad. Most lined up to see the premier of Moore’s mythodrama. Barack Obama could subsidize a Rev. Wright or email a post-9/11 Bill Ayers in a way no conservative would even dare speak to a David Duke or Timothy McVeigh—and what Wright said was not all that different from what Duke spouts. What separated Ayers from McVeigh was chance; had the stars aligned, the Weathermen would have killed hundreds as they planned.

The K-12 public education system is essentially wrecked,...An entire American culture, the West itself, its ideas and experiences, have simply vanished on the altar of therapy. This upcoming generation knows instead not to judge anyone by absolute standards (but not why so); to remember to say that its own Western culture is no different from, or indeed far worse than, the alternatives; that race, class, and gender are, well, important in some vague sense; that global warming is manmade and very soon will kill us all; that we must have hope and change of some undefined sort; that AIDs is no more a homosexual- than a heterosexual-prone disease; and that the following things and people for some reason must be bad, or at least must in public company be said to be bad (in no particular order): Wal-Mart, cowboys, the Vietnam War, oil companies, coal plants, nuclear power, George Bush, chemicals, leather, guns, states like Utah and Kansas, Sarah Palin, vans and SUVs."

-- Victor Davis Hanson, using actual life experience to kick the results of NewAge indoctrination in the teeth, for Pajamas Media.