Middle East – Palm Down

Trump Breaks Chamblee

February 12, 2025

Every man has his price, so it’s said, and in the case of Brandel Chamblee, it would appear that price is a simple green fee and a round of golf with President Trump. Moral giant Brandel appears to have changed his tune regarding LIV and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) overnight after years of hand-wringing and sermonizing about the Middle East country’s human rights record.

Chamblee has taken to the Golf Channel airwaves nightly and lectured about his nobility and his utter abhorrence for the country that dirt-napped Muslim Brotherhood terrorist scum Jamal Khashoggi in a Turkish embassy in 2018. But with the return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office, Chamblee, who surely shits ice cream, has finally discovered where his bread is soon to be buttered and has now morphed into the spineless and compliant hypocrite most of us knew he was all along. Trump has been rumored to be involved in talks between PIF and the PGA Tour intended to mend the chasm in professional golf, and with his notable dexterity in “The Art of the Deal”, many say his involvement will soon bring and end to the impasse.

The next step in negotiations is for Chamblee’s slurp buddy Eamon “Bonesaw” Lynch to knuckle under to the larger-than-life President, and too, become a whimpering dog like Chamblee—both men avatars of moral righteousness until their paychecks are threatened. You see, with an eventual merger of PIF and the Tour, Chamblee and Lynch will essentially be accepting payment from the very entity that they have described with nothing less than bitter contempt for the last several years.

Lynch, in particular, must be gnashing his teeth at the thought that his false piety is now threatened by the man he takes gratuitous and unfounded jabs at in every piece he writes. That would be the man who won the popular vote and an Electoral College landslide to again become President after having the election stolen from him in 2020.

But the Tour is nothing if not flush with money-grubbing hypocrites, so, of course, insufferable windbag Rory McIlroy, who never met a topic he couldn’t be wrong about, had to do another of his numerous about-faces, this time in regards to President Trump. When asked if he thought Trump could facilitate a deal to unite the golf world, McIlroy exclaimed, “He might be able to! He’s got Elon Musk, who I think is the smartest man in the world beside him, so he might be able to do something if we can get Musk involved too.” As if Trump became the top real estate mogul on the globe and eventually leader of the free world by the grace of Elon Musk.

McIlroy played a round of golf with Trump a few years back and described his experience thusly:

“I’ll sit here and say the day that I did spend with him and others was very enjoyable. He’s very charismatic, he was nice to everyone—it didn’t matter whether you were me or the guys in the cart barn or the pro at the golf club. He has something. He obviously has something or he wouldn’t be in the White House, right? He has something—whatever it is, an X factor, charisma, whatever. Most people that he came across that day he was cordial to; he was nice and personable. That was my only interaction with him the day I had with him.”

McIlroy then went on to say he would never play with Trump again because, you know, “Orange Man bad.” McIlroy is another dim one incapable of thought outside his social-media saturated iPhone, but if Orange Man can put a few green bills in his pocket, he’s all on board.

One suspects that if Chamblee, Lynch, and McIlroy were gifted a free round of golf with Hitler—the real one, not the one conjured by the mendacious media in the form of Donald Trump—they could be found goose-stepping from hole to hole, gleefully swapping their soft spikes for jackboots.

Eric Holder…Hold This!!

February 20, 2009

So Eric Holder, our country’s new Attorney General, wants to have a discussion on race. He said so today during a speech honoring Black History Month. “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder said at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. “Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”

Well, Mr. Holder, allow me to offer some insight as to why talks about race are lacking in this country. Perhaps it’s because such “talks” aren’t talks at all, but rather one-sided diatribes where black leaders recite grievances and blame everyone but blacks themselves for their inability to get their acts together. Perhaps it’s because blacks scream “racism” for any perceived slight and whites have to cower and take it lest they lose their jobs, are charged with hate crimes, or are socially ostracized.

But I, Mr. Holder, am not afraid of you, as to me you are just a sleazy remnant of the Bill Clinton administration. So let’s have that talk. Let’s talk about the fact that blacks make up 14% of the U.S. population but are 41% of the prison population. Let’s talk about the fact that 70% of black children are born out of wedlock. Let’s talk about the fact that blacks under perform every single racial and ethnic group on any standardized test—I know…it’s cultural bias. Nevertheless, Asians and students from the Middle East-many of whom don’t even speak the English language-outperform whites on said tests.

Let’s talk about the fact that black criminals prey on white victims for 45% of their crimes while whites prey on black victims a mere 3% of the time. Let’s talk about “black leaders” like Jesse Jackson, the Rev. who fathered a child out of wedlock, and blowhard Al Sharpton, who cry about injustices they manufacture like the Duke rape case and the Tawana Brawley hoax, but are largely silent when it comes to imploring their own to demonstrate personal responsibility.

Indeed, in the black community, those who choose to achieve are called sell-outs and Uncle Toms. Bill Cosby is routinely castigated for calling attention to the plight of inner cities where blacks complain about not being accepted in the mainstream even as they kill one another, refuse to speak the King’s English, and insist on retaining their “culture.” Success stories like Colin Powell and Clarence Thomas are derided as being too white, and even comedian Chris Rock admits that, “Books are like Kryptonite to a nigger.”

So while Holder wants to look the other way and disregard the billions of dollars thrown at the black problem in the form of welfare, affirmative action, college admission quotas, Section 8 housing, and myriad other social programs, he wants to look closely at, and have “talks” about, race. Be careful what you wish for Mr. Attorney General, because if all the fed-up middle-aged white guys take you up on your talks, we may decide we’ve had enough of carrying your race on our backs.

To Hell With Hezbollah

July 18, 2006

Upon witnessing the renewed violence in the Middle East as Israel and Hezbollah square off, I’m reminded of Clint Eastwood in the movie Dirty Harry when he’s asked how he can be certain that the serial killer he’s pursuing will continue to kill. “Because he likes it,” Dirty Harry explains.

This, in a nutshell, sums up those in the Middle East. They like–no make that love– violence. Year after year, through cease-fires and civilian withdrawals from various “homelands,” the carnage continues unabated. So, I ask, “When are we going to stop wringing our hands and start embracing the death and destruction?” It’s not about statehood or hegemony…it’s about a group of people that are by their very nature violent and clannish and predisposed to gutless killing. It’s ingrained in Arab culture, indeed, it’s ingrained in their very souls.

So let them die, but keep American boys out of the mess. I simply have to laugh when people talk about establishing peace in the Middle East, or anywhere else for that matter. It AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN!!!! EVER!!!! So give it up…let those who want to fight kill each other off and spare me the crocodile tears about the “innocent civilians.” These “innocent civilians” are the people shouting in the streets and burning American flags. Let’s kill all them, too. You’d better believe, given the chance, they would kill us. It seems silly to me that civilians are supposed to be somehow sheltered from the violence perpetrated by their various leaders. The sight of dead civilians, to any civilized culture, would be an incentive to cease and desist. Sadly, in the Middle East, there is no such civility—so let the Middle East burn, but keep our boys out of it.