Can We Finally Be Rid of This Treasonous Moron?

June 14, 2016

So a man with no balls gets some criticism from a man who has them aplenty, and, of course, the response is to be the petty, thin-skinned, and ineffectual empty suit that he’s been for the last eight years.  President Obama did today what he does best—vented against Donald Trump for telling the truth–and put on full display what a feckless and dangerous president he is.

Trump finally got under his and Hillary’s skin and forced them both to capitulate and utter the OH MY GOSH dreaded words “Islamic Terrorism.”  Hey, Barack HUSSEIN, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it probably is a duck!!  Obama’s intractable refusal to use the phrase “Islamic Terrorism” is a window to his utterly clueless soul where the Ft. Hood massacre is deemed workplace violence and the recent shootings in Orlando are considered an attack on the LGBT community (pardon me if I missed a letter in the ever-expanding whiner community which considers everyone but white, hard-working male Americans to be a protected class in need of safe spaces) even as the shooter professed his support for ISIS throughout the massacre.  (Obama, of course, calls the enemy ISIL in another demonstration of his self-perceived erudition—ten will get you twenty he has no idea what the L stands for, he just knows that if the mass of Americans say ISIS, he’ll say ISIL.)

With today’s petulant outburst, Barack HUSSEIN has removed all doubt about who our next President should be, and trust me, it shouldn’t be wearing a Mao pantsuit and touting a vagina as its only selling point.  God forbid a continuation of the policies which have mired this country in the toilet bowl eddy from which I fear there is no escape.

 

Barack HUSSEIN posed a number of questions and made several pronouncements that I’ll address one by one.

 

  • In speaking of the words “Islamic Terrorism” Obama asked, “What exactly would using this label accomplish?”

Well, it would let your constituents know that you have the ability to connect some dots and that you want to start targeting the people responsible for the bloodshed instead of denigrating gun-owning Americans who simply want to protect themselves from the trash that you’re importing on a daily basis under the guise of compassion.  If someone asks me to jump into a pool of fish, I’d think it fairly important to know if those fish are sharks or guppies.  You can’t attack an enemy if you don’t sharpen your focus and aim at it.  It is not Jews committing these daily slaughters across the globe…it is not Christians and it’s not Buddhists, Hindus, or Taoists.  It’s Muslims!

 

  • “Since before I was president I’ve been clear about how extremist groups have perverted Islam to justify terrorism,” the sympathizer said.

Well the time has come to explore if there is a difference between “extremist” Muslims and “mainstream” Muslims.  This is a religion that marginalizes and kills gays, women, Jews, Christians, and infidels yet we’re supposed to be tolerant of them.  There are TEN Muslim countries where the penalty for homosexuality is death including Saudi Arabia where you famously groveled and bowed to King Abdullah during a trip on April 1, 2009 (I mention the date as it’s not lost on me that it was April Fool’s Day!).  Are we to infer that these ten countries aren’t mainstream?  That they are extremist?  Then maybe we shouldn’t be doing business with them and lifting their sanctions.  But you get after Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A, Mr. Prez.

 

  • Obama went on to say, “Not once has an advisor of mine said, ‘Man, if we use that phrase, we’re going to turn this whole thing around.’”

That’s because your advisors, including the Iranian born Valerie Jarrett, are as dim as you are and proudly belong to the agenda driven “Hate America First” crowd that you’ve consorted with your entire life.

 

  • “Does someone seriously think we don’t know who we’re fighting?”

Well apparently not since you keep denying the obvious and continue to embrace Syrian refugees and other unvetted immigrants that are at best a financial burden, and at worst, killers waiting to happen.  The FBI was suspicious of, and had two separate contacts with, the Orlando murderer, but political correctness prevented them from taking action to head off the carnage.  This was also the case with the San Bernardino killer whom neighbors accused of being suspicious, but who didn’t speak out lest they be called bigoted.  You, Barack HUSSEIN, have engendered a climate where people are more fearful of being called racists than identifying and eliminating the murderers in our midst.

 

  • Obama doubled down on his naivete (or outright hostility to the country—I honestly can’t tell anymore) by declaring that the Orlando, San Bernardino, and Ft. Hood killers were all American citizens.

This is classic political obfuscation of which he is the grand master.  They were,    indeed, citizens, but they shouldn’t have been—that’s the point.  All three killers   were second-generation citizens whose parents came to the United States from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the West Bank, respectively.  Do you see a commonality there, Barack HUSSEIN????  As Trump has suggested we need to start wising up and looking out for ourselves.  There are certain regions of the world whose people don’t like us, and whom we don’t need.  Look at Molenbeek, Paris, Cologne, and even Dearborn, Michigan.  Muslims who refuse to assimilate have taken over and they grow bolder by the day.  They’re not afraid to denounce Western values loudly and brazenly even in their new countries, but we need to walk on eggshells to make sure we don’t offend them.

Alas, our spineless president’s most recent hissy fit can’t even be attributed to a heartfelt or sincere motive since he has no convictions or moral center other than his personal left-wing agenda.  The political undertones were manifested by a gratuitous swipe at Donald Trump whom he derisively mocked for tweeting and appearing on cable news shows.  If it weren’t so dangerous it would be hilarious that this wannabe rock star of a president condemns someone else for appearing on television.  At least Trump has the courage to go to various media outlets and hostile territory to answer questions which are invariably meant to make him look bad, while Obama busies himself slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon and patting himself on the back with his fawning liberal sycophants in Hollywood.

 

Finally the empty suit reveals the true enemy, the only enemy he has the fortitude to take on.  “Do Republican officials actually agree with this?” he asks in reference to the use of the words “Islamic Terrorism.”  No they don’t, Barack HUSSEIN, that’s why they were decimated in the primaries, steamrolled by a Donald Trump who received more votes than any Republican nominee in history.  He actually wants to put America and Americans first.  What a refreshing concept for a President!

Facts Out the Window When it Comes to Assaulting Trump

June 7, 2016

 

 

So here we are again—the entire corrupt and in-the-tank media, abetted by the lifelong feeding at the trough political establishment, is taking Donald Trump’s truths and using political correctness to try and portray them as falsehoods.

Trump is in hot water again for telling the truth, and we all know such a thing is no longer tolerated in a country besotted with political correctness, safe spaces, open borders, and fawning over illegals and other sundry thugs that would shout down anyone who disagrees with them.  The issue this time is Trump’s insistence that he cannot get a fair trial in his Trump University lawsuit because the sitting judge, Gonzalo Curiel, is of Mexican heritage.  All the America-haters, which include the current scum running our government in both parties, from the Paul Ryans to the Mitch McConnells to the Nancy Pelosis—concerned only with maintaining the status quo whereby they can loot and steal from the hard-working people—have denounced Trump as…wait for it…a RACIST!!!

Aside from the utterly unoriginal accusation—anyone to the right of Che Guevara is now denounced as racist—the charges are utterly baseless.

Let’s look at the facts:

1)  Curiel was born to Mexican parents

2)  He is a member of the La Raza Lawyers of San Diego which is a subset of the   La Raza Lawyers of California

3)  The La Raza group is and has been for years strongly engaged in the support of, and amnesty for, illegal Mexicans living in the USA

4)  Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, the law firm representing the plaintiffs in the class-action suit, has given Crooked Hillary and her rapist husband $675,000 in speaking fees since 2009

5)  Donald Trump has made illegal immigration his top priority as the Republican nominee, and has vowed to build a wall to stem the influx of illegal Mexicans.

So tell me why it is so improbable that Curiel might have some prejudice toward Trump and not be able to render an impartial and fair verdict.  One is always able to tell who the liar is by how much they have to twist the facts to suit their positions.  In this case, Trump has stated facts, and his foaming at the mouth opposition is in full spin mode trying to give Curiel a pass for his associations, which in and of themselves, could be deemed racist.

La Raza translates as “The Race,” and thus the name itself implies separation and the  desire of its members to disassociate from the very people whose country they have invaded.  All the Hillary acolytes and the ever-lying media are now busying themselves trying to say Curiel’s group has no link to the national La Raza movement, which is named the National Council of La Raza.  A few minutes of basic homework will easily dispel this lie.  If you go on the La Raza Lawyers webpage, you can find a link to the National Council of La Raza!!  But, of course, to hear the Trump haters tell it, there is no connection!  Additionally, the La Raza Lawyers website states, “The purpose and goal of this Association is to promote the interests of the Latino communities throughout the state and the professional interests of the membership.”

The group in recent years has, among other things, given scholarships to illegals, seen their former president co-chair Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and started riots at recent Trump rallies.  Imagine the hue and cry if a white judge were to belong to the White Lawyers of San Diego—there is no doubt the left would be screaming for blood and impugning the man’s ability to render a fair decision on any cases involving minorities.  Curiel’s heritage, by itself, has nothing at all to do with the current kerfuffle, but judges must maintain the appearance of impartiality, and belonging to a supremacist group that promotes one race over all others does not satisfy this mandate.

Are we not going to admit that this narrow interest of La Raza is in direct contravention of that which Trump is campaigning on?  Why then is it such a stretch that Trump would want Curiel to recuse himself from the case?  Why is it such a stretch that Curiel would make an unfavorable ruling for Trump based simply on personal feelings?

Indeed, let’s go back to the words of current Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor to understand the Us vs. Them mentality of most minorities.  “Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences,” Sotomayor said during a speech at UC Berkeley in 2001, “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”  She further went on to say, “I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women or men of color we do a disservice both to the law and society.”  Sounds like judicial activism to me, and if she is capable of it, why wouldn’t Curiel be?

If recent years have shown us anything, it’s that courts, all the way up to the highest in the land, are merely political figureheads now.  From the absurd rulings and total disregard for the written word in the Affordable Care Act decisions to the outright crafting of law concerning same-sex marriage, courts are not to be trusted any longer.  They are peopled by human beings, susceptible to all manner of prejudice and bribery.

This is not to say that Curiel is dishonest or would make a prejudicial ruling, but to call Trump a racist for bringing the issue up is nothing more than political chicanery and deflection at its finest.

There is Crying in Baseball

March 19, 2016

 

I guess major league baseball players had to do something to enliven the insufferably boring game they play so they’ve decided to create a stir by supporting Adam LaRoche, the puerile, soft-hitting White Sox first baseman who quit on his team four days ago like a pouty brat because he was told by executive vice president Kenny Williams not to bring his 14-year old son Drake to the ballpark EVERY day.

 

Major league players, who always point to the sanctity of the clubhouse as a place where what goes on there stays there, apparently can disregard that credo when they want to mouth off about their boss who made the grown-up decision that children should not be omnipresent in a workplace environment.  White Sox pitcher Chris Sale essentially called Williams a liar while he whined about the LaRoche situation to reporters, apparently distraught that there’s no “safe space” in the White Sox locker room for him and his other pampered and overpaid loser teammates that finished 19 games out of first place last year.

 

Centerfielder Adam Eaton lamented that, “We lost a leader in Drake,” apparently oblivious to how stupid it sounds that grown men, all multi-millionaires, need to find a beacon of leadership in a 14-year old boy.  But leadership is, after all, in short supply in a league where sociopathic behavior like that of David Ortiz pummeling and destroying a dugout phone with his bat is dismissed as simply being competitive, and wife-beaters like Aroldis Chapman get nominal suspensions.  But hey, these major league softies aren’t even allowed to run over the catcher or slide anymore.

 

Dodgers’ pitcher Clayton Kershaw, apparently simpatico with LaRoche, conducted an entire interview today with his 14-month old daughter on his lap.  Perhaps this toddler could suit up and take the mound when playoff time rolls around so her old man can be spared the indignity of another one of his post-season collapses.

 

Former players got in on the act as well.  Chipper Jones, that champion of household cohesion, posted on Twitter, “Big ups to my boy for standing up for his beliefs.  We play a game.  Good for U brother.”  Jones, who is on his third wife, this one a former Playboy model who specialized in naked shower scenes, also has an out of wedlock son he sired with a Hooters waitress while cheating on his first wife.  But he’s a voice for the major league contingent of the family values crowd.

 

Sadly, this is the age we live in. Me, me, me.  From Twitter accounts to cell phone worship, the millennial generation has an insatiable need to be heard and to put its entire doings online for public consumption.  Everyone has to pretend they think it’s cute when Stephen Curry lets his obnoxious daughter hijack an interview after the 2015 NBA conference finals, before he finally releases her from his lap and lets someone who appears to be a team official clean up his mess.  This spectacle, unwittingly, bears sad testimony to the way many athletes deal with kids—have them and let someone else take care of them when the hard work starts.

 

LaRoche’s actions are equally selfish.  He wants the kid around 24/7, but there is no way he can monitor his son’s actions every minute, so fellow teammates and coaches are expected to bear the brunt.  While most players publicly expressed support for LaRoche, some must certainly be aggravated by the constant intrusion, and they are muted lest they be judged harshly by other teammates or the court of public opinion.

 

Jones claims that “we play a game,” but when LaRoche cites a piffling request to walk away from $13 million a year to play said game, he only reinforces the notion of the selfish, spoiled athletes who are so insulated they don’t even realize that most adults don’t have the luxury of quitting their jobs or EVER bringing their kids to work.  But I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts, that if some other team has use for a sniveling, .207-hitting baby like LaRoche, he’ll tuck his tail quick and come running back despite his “principled” stand.

I’m Yours, But You’re Not Mine–Mraz Sells Out!

January 20, 2012

 

Add singer/songwriter Jason Mraz to the long list of elite, hypocritical Hollywood douchebags that say one thing but do another. As a starving actor in Los Angeles, I’m a member of Actor’s Access, a website that sends out breakdowns for acting roles in commercials, television, films, and yes, music videos. While perusing the site this morning, I was ASTONISHED (much like Louis’ astonishment over gambling in Casablanca) that Mraz has sent out a breakdown looking for NON-UNION actors to perform in his upcoming video.

 

Mraz is an outspoken Obama supporter and faithful liberal idiot who specializes in feeble posturing like saying he won’t get married until gays have the same rights, etc., all the while conveniently overlooking the fact that the sainted one opposes gay marriage. Now Mraz has turned one of his two faces to making a buck while turning his back on his fellow performers in SAG/AFTRA by saving a few pennies in hiring the cheapest labor he can find. With this snub to union actors, Mraz now joins the ranks of Michael Moore, another “champion of the people” who likes to hire non-union help for his films, and Russell Simmons, who marches with the Occupy Wall Street knuckleheads even as he hawks credit cards with predatory lending rates to the very people he professes he’s looking out for.

 

“Do as I say, not as I do.” That’s what should be emblazoned across every marquee in Hollywood as the “progressive and enlightened” millionaire singers and actors lecture us about the plight of the common man from their secluded enclaves high in the Hollywood Hills.

Come On Hollywood, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

April 18, 2011

 

Well it’s time to put up or shut up all you sanctimonious liberal elites in Hollywood. A perfectly ripe opportunity is developing that will allow you to once again demonstrate how enlightened and sensitive you all are to the plight of the downtrodden. So come on down Susan Sarandon and bring your boy Tim with you. Step right up, Sean Penn, and drag George Clooney along. I know Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, and Janeane Garofalo will be first in line to get the ball rolling. And you all know what you need to do: Boycott the Cannes Film Festival!!

 

You see France continues to subjugate and discriminate in ways that must surely be offensive to your sensibilities. Why just today those wine-swilling, baguette-munching monsters stopped a trainload of Tunisian refugees at the border and refused them entry because after years of being overrun by Muslims who refuse to assimilate, they have finally figured out that “embracing other cultures” is harmful to the homeland—that their very own history and traditions stand to be subverted by foreigners who look to exploit rather than enculturate.

 

This outrageous atrocity at the border comes hard on the heels of the French law that forbids the wearing of burqas in public. Surely in the face of all this oppression and hate-mongering in the home of the Fleur de Lis, Johnny Depp will pull up stakes, and the Hollywood limousine liberals will shun the south of France and refuse their Palme d’Or’s. Or not.

 

I’m sure it’s not that hard to boycott Arizona when it commits crimes against humanity because who wants to hang out with the cactus, overbearing heat, and Mexican drug criminals anyway? But you’ll have to dig a little deeper to forsake the Riviera and its long, bloated list of five-star shops, restaurants, and beaches. You’ll really have to show some intestinal fortitude on this one, but I have faith. After all, far be it from the Hollywood royalty to think of themselves when there are freeloaders waiting at the trough.

 

It’s hard to feel sorry for the overwhelmed French people as they and the other European Union nations thought it would be warm and fuzzy to have a global community and now are suffering the consequences as they discover that fairy tales are just that. Alas, the stagecoach always turns back into a pumpkin, and now the French have to try and make pie; but at least they’re trying to regain their sovereignty, unlike the ignorant Hollywood types who live in the hills and Malibu while the little people are swarmed.

The Real Truth. If Obama’s Lips are Moving, He’s Lying

April 8, 2011

 

Well our wonderful prez has outdone himself tonight. He just came on the air and patted himself on the back for Congress kicking the can further down the road in passing a stopgap measure on the budget to keep the government running through the fiscal year. Never mind that the lightweight in chief was conspicuous by his absence throughout the whole process—but what can we expect from a man who has spent his entire political career voting present?

 

The fallen messiah tried to couch his incompetence and that of the 535 assholes in Congress in a story about schoolchildren who could now visit the nation’s capital and gaze at the Washington Monument because he and his team of white knights had saved the day and prevented a government shutdown. But the best part is when he spoke of the tax cut that he signed into law earlier this year!! Do you mean the tax cut you stuffed in the stimulus bill that was so meager that 95% of Americans polled were unaware of it, Mr. President? Or do you mean, you vile, lying pig, the tax cut you and your administration have fought tooth and nail against for your entire two years in office? The “Bush” tax cut that the Democratic-majority Congress inveighed against and swore would benefit corporations and the rich. Well perhaps you might like to explain just how it is that you can denounce said corporations when you are in bed with all of them.

 

Tell us, you filthy, lying whore, why you were the #1 recipient of campaign money from Goldman Sachs during the 2008 presidential campaign. Tell us how GE can make billions of profits and not pay a dime in taxes. Tell us why Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE (you know, one of those multi-billion dollar corporations that you’re here to protect us against) was named to your Economic Recovery Board considering the company’s stock has dropped 60% percent since he took over and his company is one of the worst offenders regarding environmental pollution, another issue of such concern to you. It couldn’t be because GE owns NBC News, that pandering, morally debased outfit that helped get you elected, could it?

 

But claiming credit for a tax cut you opposed is but a piffling prevarication in your long string of deceptions and untruths.

 

Let me count the ways:

 

  • Said you would not run for president until you completed your term in the Senate—LIE!
  • Said you would take public funding for your campaign until you found out your war chest was three times larger than McCain’s and flip-flopped: LIE!
  • Said Tony Rezko, William Ayres, and Reverend Wright were just guys from the neighborhood even as you cut seedy real estate deals with Rezko, launched an early campaign from Ayres’ house, and were married by and had your children baptized by Wright: LIES!
  • Said you would run the most transparent administration in history and then stocked it with lobbyists and tax cheats: LIE!
  • Said you would have all healthcare talks aired on C-SPAN: LIE!
  • Said you would put all bills on the White House website for five days for public perusal before signing them: LIE!
  • Said you would close Guantanamo within a year of taking office: LIE!
  • Said you would cease all Guantanamo military commissions and try suspected terrorists, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in civilian courts: LIE!
  • Said you would stop the practice of rendition: LIE!
  • Said you would stop drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan but instead have increased them dramatically: LIE!
  • Said you would pull all troops out of Iraq and stop the war within sixteen months of taking office. You were even rewarded with a Nobel Peace Prize for this bit of pablum, but instead sent 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan and started another war in Libya: LIE!
  • Said there would be no earmarks in the $787 billion stimulus: HA! HA! LIE!
  • Said you knew nothing of the voter misconduct by ACORN and had never worked for them even though you were caught on tape talking about your long and proud association with the now-discredited group: LIE!

 

 

 

I could go on and on, but I grow weary—I won’t even get into the several million dollars this charlatan has spent to cover up his past including his birth certificate, his educational transcripts, and his medical records. Do we even know his real name? Is it Obama or Soetero, Barry or Barack, Boss Tweed or just Milquetoast??

 

This man (and I use the term extremely loosely) cannot open his mouth without a lie coming out—he is the very embodiment of a sleazy politician–yet all his acolytes continue to believe he is actually different, is actually above the dirty dealings and unctuous corruption that now defines Washington. Well these people are flat-out stupid—it can no longer be said in more diplomatic terms. If you believe a word from this gutless, dissembling, makes-Clinton-look-honest manipulator then you are a moron…capital M.

O’Reilly Flip-Flops on Falafel

April 6, 2011

 

I watched with much bemusement this evening as Bill O’Reilly defended the sleazy and seamy tactics employed by conservative activist James O’Keefe to catch NPR executive Ron Schiller with his pants down during a lunch with men he thought were representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood. O’Keefe had sent two operatives posing as members of the Islamic group to ostensibly discuss a donation to the news organization, but in reality, to ambush Schiller as he branded members of the Tea Party movement as racist, discussed pro-Israeli bias in the media, and opined that NPR would be better off without federal funding. With hidden cameras rolling during this meeting with the mendacious Muslim posers, these statements would cost Schiller and CEO Vivian Schiller (no relation) their jobs.

 

Now certainly these two hypocritical Schillers had it coming—their elitist and arrogant belief that everyone is beneath their enlightened consciousness and their laughable assertion that NPR doesn’t lean left made them ripe for a comeuppance, but exactly how low are “journalists” allowed to stoop to get a scoop? Should it not be a fundamental tenet of journalism, not to mention common decency, that people identify themselves honestly and not engage in deceptions?

 

O’Reilly doesn’t seem to think so. He blustered and pontificated that the ends justify the means and that the truth was paramount, and so lauded O’Keefe and his tactics. But it was only six years ago that O’Reilly himself was stung by a secret recording of a phone sex exchange he had with Fox News producer Andrea Mackris, who accused him of sexual harassment. The Fox News bloviator (to speak in his language), the married father of two children, who uses his bully pulpit to promote morality and Christian values, was caught on tape discussing crude sexual acts with Mackris, and in a classic malapropism from the Harvard grad (who never lets you forget it) discussed having Mackris rub his body with “that falafel thing.”

 

Apparently O’Reilly wasn’t so keen on clandestine recordings then as he went to great expense to smear Mackris and sue her for extortion. “This matter has caused enormous pain, but I had to protect my family, and I did,” O’Reilly explained after finally settling out of court by paying Mackris a sum reported in the millions. In O’Reilly’s world, true justice is conferred on those with the biggest checkbook.

Fab Five Fairly Fizzles

March 23, 2011

 

It was rather refreshing to see Grant Hill slap down Jalen Rose in response to Rose’s ridiculous pronouncement that Hill was an “Uncle Tom” for essentially valuing education and actually knowing both his parents. Hill wrote a well thought out piece for the New York Times in which he declared pride in his parents and gratitude for his Duke education. This rebuttal resulted from the firestorm that was created by Rose’s smack talk in the Fab Five documentary recently aired on ESPN.

 

I’m going to engage in some revisionist history here, because as a Michigan graduate I was a fan of the five young ballers who went to the NCAA basketball title game as freshmen, and then repeated the feat the following year as sophomores, although they lost both contests. The group was brash and energetic, and I witnessed a good number of their games either on TV or live in Crisler Arena.

 

But the passage of time has lent a different perspective than the one I held all those years ago, and I now have to consider the real legacy of the Fab Five. Perhaps after all the smoke has cleared, the only thing these Wolverine hoopsters really did was help usher in the era in which we’re now mired, an era where mediocrity is not just rewarded, but exalted. An era in which, not unlike the Fab Five themselves, people become famous not for their accomplishments, but for simply being famous. An era that has spawned the Kardashians and the Hiltons and Kate Gosselin and other non-talents who will do anything to get their faces on the idiot box. An era of lowered standards and in-your-face sportsmanship.

 

Because if you take the time to look at the ledger, the Fab Five really didn’t accomplish much. Consider this: I, me, yours truly has won as many Big Ten Championships, won as many NCAA championships, and won as many NBA title rings as every member of the Fab Five combined. That’s right…not one single member of that vaunted ball team won a single championship of any kind beyond high school. In fact, their only real claim to fame is having lost two consecutive NCAA championship games and contributing to the me-first mentality that now pervades a sports world where it is more important to make it on Sports Center than it is to win games.   But even any evidence of that ersatz achievement has been eviscerated as the team’s Final Four banners were removed from the Crisler rafters in the wake of Chris Webber’s conviction for lying to a grand jury about accepting illegal funds from a Michigan booster while Webber was in school.

 

Incidentally, Uncle Tom Grant Hill won two NCAA Championships at Duke, was voted NBA Rookie of the Year in 1995, and won a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics. Some Fab Five.

Election Day Provides Forum for Americans to Display Their Stupidity…Again!

November 3, 2010

 

 

 

I should have known better. I really should have known better. I went to the polls yesterday buoyed by the thought that this might really be the day. Fed up with the entire political process, I had not voted in 26 years, my own form of protest to a rigged game orchestrated by a handful of insiders. But this election, I was convinced, would be different. Inspired by the Tea Party movement, the rallies in Washington, and widespread anger at town hall meetings across the country, I registered to vote and actually believed that this election would be the turning point. I thought this would be the moment where the American people would finally have the balls to pull a third-party lever and sweep out the entrenched life-long politicians who have run this county into the ground.

 

Alas, as is so often the case, I came away disappointed. Nothing has changed; the American people are as stupid as ever. We are, after all, talking about a country that made Friends and Cheers the most watched television shows for years on end, a country that actually pays money to go see Justin Bieber, a country that worships rapists like Kobe Bryant, and wife-beaters like Charlie Sheen and O.J., a country that goes along when “well-meaning” politicians ban cigarettes and trans fats.

 

Knowing all that, I suppose I should have suppressed my pie-in-the-sky dreams, and sat this one out as well, because in the end, my vote didn’t matter. I refused to tally a vote for a single Democrat or Republican, instead confining my research to, and voting for, the best candidate among the Independents, Libertarians, and other various contenders.

 

But I was a cry in the wilderness. In my state of California, with two races too close to call, EVERY SINGLE incumbent in the House was re-elected. 49-0…simply staggering.   This tally includes Maxine Waters, a life-long leech of the system who is now under investigation for ethics violations; Nancy Pelosi…enough said; Barbara Boxer, a career politician who has been at the helm for much of the state’s slide into bankruptcy. But it gets better…the tree-huggers of this wonderful state also put Jerry Brown back into the governor’s mansion…the same Jerry Brown who started draining state coffers as governor years ago by doling out untenable pensions to anyone who could fog a mirror. His track record of abysmal failure is astonishing, but he’s good enough for California. So much for the peasant uprising.

 

It was this way all across the country. In New York, of the 27 House races decided, 23 were won by incumbents. Charles Rangel, perhaps the most corrupt man in Congress, won with 80% of the vote. Both the state’s incumbent Senators won handily.

 

Other luminaries being sent back for more pork are the illustrious Harry Reid, the vile John McCain, and our favorite–the bloated, lisping pig from Massachusetts by the name of Barney Frank, who has run male prostitute rings out of his home, but who, more importantly, almost single-handedly caused the housing crash with his nefarious machinations at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

 

Two years ago, a fed-up American populace gave Republicans the heave-ho, but somehow they’ve become the saviors again, and in two more years, the cycle will repeat itself when the people realize the Republicans are still…well, Republicans. Nice work, America, now move along, Jersey Shore is about to come on.

Destroyed From Within

August 14, 2010

 

Ahh, the hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds. The culturally aware and broad-minded among us are beside themselves now that our Muslim president has weighed in on the New York City “community center” issue and given the project his endorsement. This is a victory for religious freedom and tolerance they cry, tickled pink that followers of the most peaceful religion on earth can now spit in the eye of the thousands of Americans who lost their lives on 9/11. The people supporting the mosque and religious freedom are the same people that foam at the mouth at the thought of allowing the phrase “under God” to be used during the pledge of allegiance, but I digress.

Just to be clear, I do believe Muslims have the right to build the edifice because unlike the dissemblers supporting the mosque in the name of the 1st amendment—you know, the very same people who would have us do away with the 2nd amendment yesterday—I do believe in the letter of the law. But it’s hard to reconcile the decision to build with the notion that Muslims are simply trying to foster unity and understanding among all religions.

Muslims are notorious for their intolerance of others:

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike off their heads; then when you have made wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives,” (Surah XLVII.4) it says in the Koran.

Indeed, in Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Christians are not allowed to openly practice their faith and are not allowed to even enter the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The penalty for Muslims that convert to other religions is death. Toss in the virulent hatred Muslims have for women and gays, and the rosy picture is complete.

Certainly in the United States we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard in allowing opposing viewpoints, however distasteful they may be, but it’s curious that the people who decry intolerance are forever supporting the avatars of intolerance, and in our efforts to appease all, we are letting our own standards erode and slip away. The biggest floods begin with a trickle, and at what point do we stop allowing other countries’ cultures, ideas, and religions to overwhelm and supplant our own? A judge in New Jersey recently ruled that a Muslim man accused of repeatedly raping his wife was committing no crime because under the Shariah law of Islam, this behavior was permitted. The ruling was later overturned, but the thought that an American judge could make such a ruling in the first place is shocking.

There was a recent episode in Dearborn, Michigan—where a huge concentration of Muslims reside—in which four Christians were arrested for distributing Christian literature outside a Muslim festival. The men arrested were on public property at the time, but they were trucked off to jail anyway. Such is the way of the insidious and slippery slope, but in the name of political correctness, we continue to back down. Ask Europe how backing down to the Muslims is working out for them…ask Salman Rushdie if he thinks Muslims are tolerant—or for that matter, ask a Danish cartoonist.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, the American public’s detestation of George Bush gave a free pass to Obama, who has moved in the shadows his whole life, consorting with the “Hate America” crowd and refusing to disclose college transcripts, medical records, and birth certificates. It’s a popular notion that America will be destroyed from within…it’s happening as we speak…and our president is the most glaring manifestation.