In The Black: Rand Paul, Roger Simon & Glenn Reynolds

"We look at slavery like its a thing of the past, but you can go to any penitentiary in this nation and you will see slavery. That was the reason for the protests by prisoners in Georgia in 2010. They said they were tired of being treated like slaves. People need to know that when they sit on trial juries and sentence people to prison time that they are sentencing them to slavery.

If a prisoner refuses to work and be a slave, they will do their time in isolation as a punishment. You have thousands of people with a lot of prison time that have no choice but to make money for the government or live in isolation. The affects of prison isolation literally drive people crazy. Who can be isolated from human contact and not lose their mind?" 

 I've been reading the letters of Ray Jasper, a black murderer who was just executed. They're part of Gawker's Death Row series.

"I am aware of the truths that Jasper writes of." 

 That one's from the victim's brother, Steven-Alejandro. These were men who understood this country, if not each other.

“Whatever you think of Rand Paul, he’s actually doing something that politicians rarely do — talking at length to audiences who don’t usually agree with him. And winning over new friends in the process.”

This is Pajamas Media's Roger Simon, being quoted favorably by Glenn Reynolds while giving us the "whatever you think of Rand Paul" routine. Paul's a man who also seems to know this country pretty darned well, but he doesn't want to talk about it. He didn't at Berkeley. Good for us, right guys?

 

 Paul discussed the NSA. He stuck to a tightly-controlled script and still came off, to me, like a delusional paranoid white supremacist twerp. Did Roger Simon hear the NSA speech - or something else?

"The country is changing. Whole new groups are ripe for the picking, most obviously the young who are being so completely raked over by the Obama administration via Obamacare and the rest of the entitlements so many of them know they will never see. They were ready to applaud at Berkeley." 

 So Simon DIDN'T hear the NSA speech. He's hearing other things. ObamaCare speeches. Speeches on entitlements. Speeches on getting scammed and "raked over". And he's hearing voices. Voices that tell him to use his PJ apparatus to publicly pump up Rand Paul, by launching into those very "social issues" Paul has said we'll have to "agree to disagree" on - by not discussing them.

But I'm chilled by Simon's phrase, "ripe for the picking," signaling, as it does, such malevolent concern. Excellent choice for a fan of Paul's reptilian charms. It's amazing how, when doing the white supremacist/white privilege thing, those on the Right can achieve a perfect pitch they fail to find with minorities.

I don't know how Simon can type while vigorously rubbing his hands together, but that's just me. He does see a power dynamic, with himself perched above, though. I wonder if Simon, like his hero Rand Paul, would have a difficult time deciding if he'd let Martin Luther King sit at a lunch counter? I know now to *duck* when such men voice their "concern":

"And African Americans — when, since the end of Jim Crow, have they done worse than under the Obama administration with its record black unemployment numbers and horrifying statistics on out-of-wedlock births in their community? Consciously or unconsciously, Democrats have been waging a 'War on Blacks' since the days of the Great Society. It’s been a disaster for African Americans, a nightmare, in truth." 

 And the guy who had Wolf Blitzer drag a statement out of him, affirming the Civil Rights Act, is going to save us? Roger Simon needs to take off that damned hat - the headband's getting too tight.

"But where are the Republicans, the party of Lincoln, on that? They should be in the black communities talking to them about it, suggesting ways to make things better. Instead, they just sit around getting annoyed when the Democrats call them racists. Play offense, not defense." 

 Look, why don't you guys cut the crap? Blacks don't have any "friends" - friends would bring us justice - not try to figure out a new way to keep us working for you. What we've got is a bunch of unthinking, insensitive, clods who still think we're desperate to hear them tell us what to do. 

Rather than being jerks, "suggesting ways to make things better", I strongly suggest you non-racists read Gawker's Death Row series. Or pick up a copy of Richard Wright's Native Son, and reacquaint yourselves with what you - and "colorblind" Rand Paul especially - are all so desperately running from.

And, by the way, social isolation from the culture you grew up in, even online - for saying exactly the cultural truths no one wants to hear - that's one of America's prisons, too…

2 Friends, 1 Boss - What's Going On With You, Hoss?

Now, after a couple of shots from Hot Air, here's Pajamas Media's Roger Simon on Instapundit's act:

  “Ignore Glenn’s Advice On IOS7 Upgrade’” 

Ignore his advice.

I guess, like Anthony Weiner, the Right has to wait for complete exposure before they get the message,...

 

"Artist" Carries A Lot Of Cache' Too (And I Carry It Well)

 

 Somebody better send this to Roger Simon, because he and his crew don't read what I write.

But I write it first:

“For as much time as we spend understanding our presidents’ policies and politics, relatively little effort is spent trying to understand them as people. We mythologize them as candidates and demonize them as presidents, denying our leaders the balm that soothes mere mortals: benefit of the doubt.”

They've lost their humanity, that's what I see. It's not just the Democrats, but my "side", too. I'm a staunch Republican - the guy this party was started for - and, I'm telling you, they've lost the plot.

And they won't get it - because they're rewarded for not getting it. 

All this talk of the need for minorities. Well, I've been here, what are they doing? Nothing to bring me closer. I'm stepping away from them. Fuck the talk, that's the evidence. We're primed to take our next big leap but they expect us to flirt with them for not doing it:

"The Althouse Amazon portal: 14" long 4" wide 2" thick."

(How gay. When is it going to dawn on them the title "professor" carries weight?)

   

Sure, Meade - you two also said Mitt Romney was a great choice for president.

Make yourself useful, and the next time you're using Ann's "portal," stock up on KY jelly,...

 

How To Fight Terrorism: Wear Top Hats - Not Fedoras

 

Yes - I'm reusing a photo - and, alright, I know this already, too:

I always make a mistake by starting my intentional reading with Glenn Reynolds. 

Today he quotes his boss, Roger Simon, but that stupid hat's making Simon's brain hot:

"The Obama administration and most of those working for it have taken Islamic terrorism about as seriously as I am taking the Memphis Grizzlies/L.A. Clippers game currently on my TV — in other words, at best mildly interested. Not being a fan of either team, I could watch — I could switch to something else."

 

 It's nice to see Simon's got some perspective on sports, but on terrorism, the man's throwing BS at us and it stinks. Every day - that we hadn't been attacked since 911 - is a day Roger Simon wasn't praising anybody for being alive and well. How many plots have the FBI foiled? Now two brothers pull something off and he's all about why didn't they catch somebody acting weird?

I got news for you, Roger Ol' Buddy:

   

 There's 300 million of us and, from where I sit, we're all pretty fucking weird.

   

 Kinda hard for anybody to stand out, you know what I mean? 

But they try.

   

Now, it's not a secret I'm no fan of the Obama Administration. And it's also no secret I'm a bit disenchanted with my own "side" at the moment. And part of that disenchantment springs from the wrongheaded, unnecessary sniping that goes on, rain or shine, as though there's nothing more important for us to attend to. 

"Not good" Glenn Reynolds said, endorsing Simon's recap of the Bengahzi conspiracy theory currently running through the Right. Look in the mirror, guys. Roger Simon is sitting at home, taking his kicks at this administration, just as casually as his Memphis Grizzlies/L.A. Clippers game. 

I won't deny the Obama administration is taking a different approach to terrorism than I'm comfortable with (our previous discussion of drone strikes, alone, should tell the tale) but I certainly won't deny their effort. The FBI, especially, deserves that. 

   

I also agree too much slips through the fingers of regulators, but in a country silly enough to keep homeopathy in it's pharmacology - and it's selling nationwide - I think there's more-than-enough blame to go around. Simon says:

"Tamerlan, evidently , left quite a trail, from domestic violence to reportedly attacking an imam for holding up MLK as someone to emulate. Not exactly subtle. They were even warned about Tamerlan by the Russians apparently. 

The Feds must have been pretty clueless to ignore all this."

 

 So "must have" Tamerlan's friends and family. Hell, they were a lot closer to the situation than Russia and, somehow, were able to "ignore all this." Or not. They were probably dealing with it in the same manner, I'm sure, the FBI does from time-to-time: 

 The best they can. 

 

Sure, domestic violence is troubling, but hardly a terrorist act - or trigger for a terrorist investigation. And if you're not sick of the MLK whitewash this country indoctrinates us with (along with all the other BS it's intent on doing so) then I question your sanity. 

That leaves the FBI with the damning oversight of a single phone call.

Whoopdefuckingdoo.

 

 If you ask me, compared to everything the Right overlooked in Mitt Romney - and all the smoke Glen Reynolds blew for him - it's not the Obama Administration that's actually looking "pretty clueless" right now,...