Got Oil?
Got oil? We have plenty though you’d never know it from gas and heating oil prices.
We have it in ANWR, we have it in tar sands, shale, the Outer Continental Shelf, the Bakken Play in Montana, in fact, we have enough untapped oil to power our motor vehicles, heat our homes, and energize what’s left of our industries to keep America in business three hundred years, according to Kiplinger Magazine: http://bit.ly/cl0Zih
Problem is, we’d rather have $5 or $10 dollar gas, freeze our arses off, continue our dependence on foreign oil, let our industries and jobs slide down the sewer rather than go after those reserves, disturb moose-mating in ANWR, risk that shrimp, mackerel, and sturgeon don’t copulate and propagate sufficiently, or aggravate the environmental lobby.
More than any other president in modern history, you have to watch carefully what Obama does and virtually disregard what he says. Richard Nixon was a known dissembler and so his words were often discounted as the public and the press paid far more attention to his deeds to see what he was up to. Barack Hussein Obama is given a free pass by that same media and his deeds are disregarded when they are at variance with his actions.
Whether it’s his gaffes, or lack of transparency, or outright prevarications, don’t bother to read his lips, note his actions.
The question of energy independece represents a classic example of Obamian doublespeak.
An environmental extremist, Obama constantly preaches conservation, minimizing our oil and gas consumption, cutting back on essential activities, which is all well and good. At the same time he professes to be doing all in his power to explore and drill for oil and produce so-called clean energy and biofuels which are more expensive and in the case of windmills and solar, unreliable since winds don’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine.
The 31.2 billion barrel trove in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4085)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Recent Change We Have To Believe In
Recent Change We Have To Believe In
Candidate Barack Hussein Obama’s ambiguous, slick campaign promise of “Change We Can Believe In” had as much substance as George W. Bush’s “Compassionate Conservatism,” Bill Clinton’s “Putting People First,” and Al Gore’s “Prosperity and Progress.”
Of course, slogans are just slogans. Precious little that was compassionate or conservative resulted from Bush’s Democrat-light economic policies, the only people Clinton ever put first were Monica and his other girlfriends, and Gore fortunately never got a chance to strut his version of progress to the American people.
To his credit, Obama has brought change to Washington, more and more radical change than all but his most ardent supporters could have anticipated. Still, he would have been more honest had he campaigned on his socialistic slip of the lip made to Joe the Plumber. He would not have won with the slogan ”Share the Wealth!” but he would have shown some integrity.
Many changes are in progess, though. Reports that food stamp participation on his watch has balooned by 50% certainly prove he is fulfilling that pledge to his constituency.
Obamian foreign policy changes have dominated the news of late principally with regard to Libya where we are now engaged in our third Mideast war which is not really a war but what the White House in a marvel of linguistic distortion terms “a kinetic military action" and not a war.
One more change.
Another dubious but noteworthy change is apparent in America’s Afghanistan real war: Our military has lost 858 soldiers or 60.13 of the total fatalities there since Obama took office twenty six months ago: http://bit.ly/eCLfTG
Maybe he’s actually trying to win that war? Don’t bet on it. Keep in mind, this is Obama.
Something and someone else to keep in mind in this brief look at recent changes in D.C. is the conversion of the Department of Justice under Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder into an agency dedicated and committed to getting even for the long-dead evil of slavery. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4070)
Candidate Barack Hussein Obama’s ambiguous, slick campaign promise of “Change We Can Believe In” had as much substance as George W. Bush’s “Compassionate Conservatism,” Bill Clinton’s “Putting People First,” and Al Gore’s “Prosperity and Progress.”
Of course, slogans are just slogans. Precious little that was compassionate or conservative resulted from Bush’s Democrat-light economic policies, the only people Clinton ever put first were Monica and his other girlfriends, and Gore fortunately never got a chance to strut his version of progress to the American people.
To his credit, Obama has brought change to Washington, more and more radical change than all but his most ardent supporters could have anticipated. Still, he would have been more honest had he campaigned on his socialistic slip of the lip made to Joe the Plumber. He would not have won with the slogan ”Share the Wealth!” but he would have shown some integrity.
Many changes are in progess, though. Reports that food stamp participation on his watch has balooned by 50% certainly prove he is fulfilling that pledge to his constituency.
Obamian foreign policy changes have dominated the news of late principally with regard to Libya where we are now engaged in our third Mideast war which is not really a war but what the White House in a marvel of linguistic distortion terms “a kinetic military action" and not a war.
One more change.
Another dubious but noteworthy change is apparent in America’s Afghanistan real war: Our military has lost 858 soldiers or 60.13 of the total fatalities there since Obama took office twenty six months ago: http://bit.ly/eCLfTG
Maybe he’s actually trying to win that war? Don’t bet on it. Keep in mind, this is Obama.
Something and someone else to keep in mind in this brief look at recent changes in D.C. is the conversion of the Department of Justice under Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder into an agency dedicated and committed to getting even for the long-dead evil of slavery. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4070)
Monday, April 4, 2011
The Torpedo Is a Bomb in Detroit
The Torpedo Is a Bomb in Detroit
I hate like hell to concede that Perez Hilton could ever be right about anything but he was on the money when he insinuated that “Charlie Sheen’s: Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option” tour would be a dud.
Even though Rachel Marsden opined on HumanEvents.com that Charlie should run for president–her reasons for which peculiar suggestion included the facts he is beyond scandal, he hasn’t shot animals from a plane, and that he doesn’t need the job–Mr. Torpedo-Tiger Blood bombed in of all places, Detroit.
See some comments from the morons fans who paid to see Charlie in live action here: http://bit.ly/hKzpPP
A minute-by-minute account of that Motor City bombing and star-struck Detroiters’ wake-up call that stars implode can be read on Inside TV. Suffice to say, since Saturday night was the tour’s inaugural debacle, its remainder promises to be one pip of a loser, much like Charlie himself.
As seen in the play-by-play account, the Winner clearly demonstrates he’s not insane at all but rather crazy like a fox and a canny actor who is milking his notoriety for all its worth with not a care in the world for presenting a well-staged performance. In fact, he’s not on stage much at all and when he is he rambles incoherently.
A comic nonentity opens the show, Sheen makes a cameo to plead on his behalf, but the pathetic comedian is roundly and literally booed off the stage anyway. The whole mess starts and stops at intervals, is filled with Charlie’s film clips and singers who can’t sing very well, for some reason “two goddesses” swap spit onstage, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4061)
I hate like hell to concede that Perez Hilton could ever be right about anything but he was on the money when he insinuated that “Charlie Sheen’s: Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option” tour would be a dud.
Even though Rachel Marsden opined on HumanEvents.com that Charlie should run for president–her reasons for which peculiar suggestion included the facts he is beyond scandal, he hasn’t shot animals from a plane, and that he doesn’t need the job–Mr. Torpedo-Tiger Blood bombed in of all places, Detroit.
See some comments from the morons fans who paid to see Charlie in live action here: http://bit.ly/hKzpPP
A minute-by-minute account of that Motor City bombing and star-struck Detroiters’ wake-up call that stars implode can be read on Inside TV. Suffice to say, since Saturday night was the tour’s inaugural debacle, its remainder promises to be one pip of a loser, much like Charlie himself.
As seen in the play-by-play account, the Winner clearly demonstrates he’s not insane at all but rather crazy like a fox and a canny actor who is milking his notoriety for all its worth with not a care in the world for presenting a well-staged performance. In fact, he’s not on stage much at all and when he is he rambles incoherently.
A comic nonentity opens the show, Sheen makes a cameo to plead on his behalf, but the pathetic comedian is roundly and literally booed off the stage anyway. The whole mess starts and stops at intervals, is filled with Charlie’s film clips and singers who can’t sing very well, for some reason “two goddesses” swap spit onstage, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4061)
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Islamic Vengeance and Excuses
Islamic Vengeance and Excuses
Revenge may be a dish best served cold but when it comes to Koranic vengeance it’s usually meted out blazing hot.
Islam’s Koran is big on revenge, vengeance, retaliations, and reprisals. As for forgiveness, understanding, brotherhood, and love, the Koran isn’t as big on those.
Whether it’s a Salman Rushdie, a woman found guilty of adultery, a nation found complicit in desecrating Muslim lands, or virtually anyone who in any way offends the Prophet Muhammad, Islam, “the religion of peace,” Muslims, or the Holy Koran, the verdict is always the same: death.
Rushdie’s publication of The Satanic Verses–a novel, for Allah’s sake!–was deemed blasphemous and a fatwā, an Islamic religious ruling, a scholarly opinion on a matter of Islamic law, was issued against him by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for Rushdie’s death. On the other hand, no fatwās are required before adulterous women are stoned to death and none were issued before Islam attacked America and murdered almost 3000 innocents on September 11th, 2001.
Muslims can be fickle with issuance of their fatwās.
Fatwās seem incidental when sweet vengeance beckons Muslims. In fact, Muslims seem to have the capacity to wreak vengeance at the drop of a keffiyeh. They need little excuse to riot, kill, and generally commit mayhem, unless a collective conscious feeling of inferiority is considered an excuse.
Islam has an admirable history of accomplishment in science. medicine, education, agriculture, engineering, the arts, and other fields dating back to its Golden Age. Regrettably for Muslims, that age ended seven hundred years ago. Today’s heirs to that rich legacy must ask themselves, What have we done lately?
The answer is little or nothing along the lines of science, medicine, etc. although they have continued their age-old traditions of brutal violence against fellow Muslims and, when that gets boring, against hated infidels, i.e., anyone who isn’t a Muslim.
Discoveries of black gold, oil, in the Mideast have enabled some limited few Muslims to accumulate wealth beyond imagining, leaving the billion or so left out of the oil loop to continue wondering. Western advancements and technology accorded those select few their wealth and palaces and despotic regimes but that reality afforded no solace to those on the outside.
It’s enough to get a billion or so people annoyed and to seek other avenues of self-esteem, reasons, excuses and rationales to make them feel better about themselves . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4048)
Revenge may be a dish best served cold but when it comes to Koranic vengeance it’s usually meted out blazing hot.
Islam’s Koran is big on revenge, vengeance, retaliations, and reprisals. As for forgiveness, understanding, brotherhood, and love, the Koran isn’t as big on those.
Whether it’s a Salman Rushdie, a woman found guilty of adultery, a nation found complicit in desecrating Muslim lands, or virtually anyone who in any way offends the Prophet Muhammad, Islam, “the religion of peace,” Muslims, or the Holy Koran, the verdict is always the same: death.
Rushdie’s publication of The Satanic Verses–a novel, for Allah’s sake!–was deemed blasphemous and a fatwā, an Islamic religious ruling, a scholarly opinion on a matter of Islamic law, was issued against him by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for Rushdie’s death. On the other hand, no fatwās are required before adulterous women are stoned to death and none were issued before Islam attacked America and murdered almost 3000 innocents on September 11th, 2001.
Muslims can be fickle with issuance of their fatwās.
Fatwās seem incidental when sweet vengeance beckons Muslims. In fact, Muslims seem to have the capacity to wreak vengeance at the drop of a keffiyeh. They need little excuse to riot, kill, and generally commit mayhem, unless a collective conscious feeling of inferiority is considered an excuse.
Islam has an admirable history of accomplishment in science. medicine, education, agriculture, engineering, the arts, and other fields dating back to its Golden Age. Regrettably for Muslims, that age ended seven hundred years ago. Today’s heirs to that rich legacy must ask themselves, What have we done lately?
The answer is little or nothing along the lines of science, medicine, etc. although they have continued their age-old traditions of brutal violence against fellow Muslims and, when that gets boring, against hated infidels, i.e., anyone who isn’t a Muslim.
Discoveries of black gold, oil, in the Mideast have enabled some limited few Muslims to accumulate wealth beyond imagining, leaving the billion or so left out of the oil loop to continue wondering. Western advancements and technology accorded those select few their wealth and palaces and despotic regimes but that reality afforded no solace to those on the outside.
It’s enough to get a billion or so people annoyed and to seek other avenues of self-esteem, reasons, excuses and rationales to make them feel better about themselves . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4048)
Friday, April 1, 2011
Carlos Irwin Estevez, What's Wrong with You?
Carlos Irwin Estevez, What's Wrong with You?
Charlie, Charlie, Charlie! What in the name of all that’s Hollywood are you doing?
Forty five year old Carlos Irwin Estevez, aka Charlie Sheen, seems to be on a meltdown trajectory or he has already melted down and is now bent on becoming a modern equivalent of Dorothy’s nemesis, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Sheen is one of those entertainers in the mold of George Clooney, Sean Penn, Bill Maher, and too many others who cash in with their celebrity by becoming advocates and spokesmen for various causes as they assume the roles of social and political gurus, always guru-ing on the side of leftism, always guru-ing to compensate for their paucity of substance.
Multimillionaires like Clooney, Penn, and Sheen hardly need the money that Maher craves but what they all have in common, is the same thing that motivated the late billionaire Nelson Rockefeller, something money can’t easily buy–recognition, respect and, especially, power and influence.
Charlie’s causes run the gamut from Lee National Denim Day to Aid for AIDS to the Best in Drag Show to the 9/11 Truth Movement, anything to distract him from the vacuousness of his life for which he also substitutes booze, bimbos, and drugs.
He’s a sad but not unique case in his sphere.
Bounced from his lucrative role in ABC’s “Two and a Half Men” not because he went nutty with whores and illicit substances but because he went beyond the pale and criticized the show producer’s Jewishness, Charlie then literally lost it, it being his career.
It may not be PC to say but the lesson for Charlie Sheen and for any and all other celebs who want to continue to enjoy their perks and salaries is to indulge their bizarre world all they wish and can physically sustain but never, ever cross a Jewish exec.
As Charlie discovered, they don’t ever forget or forgive religious slurs.
Charlie’s now-international ”Charlie Sheen LIVE: My Violent Torpedo of Truth”, aka “Charlie Sheen’s: Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option” tour won’t be a dud even though rumors are afoot that its 10-18 minute sellouts aren’t really sold out and despite Perez The Swisher Hilton’s view that Sheen “is NUTS,” that it will be improvisational, that it “sounds strange fun [sic],” and Charlie may not even show up.
Perez is certainly familiar with strange, so who knows? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4019)
Charlie, Charlie, Charlie! What in the name of all that’s Hollywood are you doing?
Forty five year old Carlos Irwin Estevez, aka Charlie Sheen, seems to be on a meltdown trajectory or he has already melted down and is now bent on becoming a modern equivalent of Dorothy’s nemesis, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Sheen is one of those entertainers in the mold of George Clooney, Sean Penn, Bill Maher, and too many others who cash in with their celebrity by becoming advocates and spokesmen for various causes as they assume the roles of social and political gurus, always guru-ing on the side of leftism, always guru-ing to compensate for their paucity of substance.
Multimillionaires like Clooney, Penn, and Sheen hardly need the money that Maher craves but what they all have in common, is the same thing that motivated the late billionaire Nelson Rockefeller, something money can’t easily buy–recognition, respect and, especially, power and influence.
Charlie’s causes run the gamut from Lee National Denim Day to Aid for AIDS to the Best in Drag Show to the 9/11 Truth Movement, anything to distract him from the vacuousness of his life for which he also substitutes booze, bimbos, and drugs.
He’s a sad but not unique case in his sphere.
Bounced from his lucrative role in ABC’s “Two and a Half Men” not because he went nutty with whores and illicit substances but because he went beyond the pale and criticized the show producer’s Jewishness, Charlie then literally lost it, it being his career.
It may not be PC to say but the lesson for Charlie Sheen and for any and all other celebs who want to continue to enjoy their perks and salaries is to indulge their bizarre world all they wish and can physically sustain but never, ever cross a Jewish exec.
As Charlie discovered, they don’t ever forget or forgive religious slurs.
Charlie’s now-international ”Charlie Sheen LIVE: My Violent Torpedo of Truth”, aka “Charlie Sheen’s: Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option” tour won’t be a dud even though rumors are afoot that its 10-18 minute sellouts aren’t really sold out and despite Perez The Swisher Hilton’s view that Sheen “is NUTS,” that it will be improvisational, that it “sounds strange fun [sic],” and Charlie may not even show up.
Perez is certainly familiar with strange, so who knows? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4019)
Saturday, April 25, 2009
The Shyster, Sighster Speaks!
Call Al Gore whatever you want, the Goracle, Algore, Albore, Al-the-Liar, Al-the-Fraud, or any of his other less-than-complimentary nicknames, you have to give him one thing: He’s consistent. He’s like an annoying, dripping faucet and he’s especially consistent in his perfected, exasperated sighing when confronted by a serious question or issue raised by someone who hasn’t signed on to his pre-fabricated, “Inconvenient Lie.”
President Obama’s unofficial, un-designated point man for the global warming/global cooling/climate change scam dredged up a sigh of epic proportions last Friday when rudely asked by a fellow Tennessean, GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn, if he were stuffing his wallet and bank accounts with all his campaigning to save Planet Earth from the planet’s chief predators, humankind: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/04/25/2009-04-25_al_gore_shows_his_disdain_for_global_warming_doubters_on_capitol_hill.html.
He seemed positively aghast that anyone would have the sheer effrontery to question his motives, punctuating his righteous defense with his patented, practiced sigh to emphasize his frustration with such dolts.
“Greed, you say! Greed? I give every bloody farthing I extort, ahem, earn from my movie to charity, I’ll have you know, you impudent little bitch!” Well, Gore didn’t exactly say that to Rep. Blackburn but he did say that if she knew him she wouldn’t have asked such an impertinent question. However, those who have been following the Nobel Prize winner’s misrepresentations and machinations for lo, these many years do know him quite well and we can read what’s really going on in that huge, hypocritical head of his.
You can catch his equally huge sigh here and his equally huge indignation here: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=326113&widget=1.
He needn’t have been so frustrated. The Democratic congress had his back by virtue or lack of virtue in its dis-invitation to an actual expert on climate change. Lord Christopher Monckton had been prepared to challenge Gore’s thesis that this poor planet of ours is on the threshhold of an unspeakably catastrophic, cataclysmic, and really bad calamity due to cow farting but mostly due to Earthlings’ nasty habits of eating, manufacturing, consuming, and accomplishing in order to survive and thrive.
“Oh, no, you don’t, Monckie!” congressional Dems blustered. “You’re not going to expose and humiliate our Goracle with evidence that he’s a shamster and undermine all our efforts to screw this country with Cap and Trade and our other schemes. We’ve spent far too much time and effort spewing all that crap to have a Brit twit expose us now!”
Okay, neither Rep. Henry (The Weasel) Waxman nor any other Dem precisely used those words to articulate their sentiments nor did they fess up to supporting Obama’s efforts to surrender America’s sovereignty to the U.N. but, again, we of the Hypocrisy Police can read their minds. They should be afraid, very afraid.
Lord Monckton is anything but afraid. His wheels had barely hit the tarmac when he was informed...
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/.)
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Hypocrites in the News II
Please see previous (political) “Hypocrites in the News:” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=969.
Today we widen our focus to cite non-political hypocrites very deserving of our attention to demonstrate that, although politicians have raised hypocrisy to a virtual art form, they don’t enjoy a monopoly.
A sad case in point is the previously-discussed, Mel Gibson, (”Sex, Morality, and the Decline of a Nation II,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=961), who, apparently, couldn’t keep his pants zipped when it came to a couple of Russki hotties. If the allegations are true, Mel merits the top of the hypocrisy heap simply due to his prior status as a conservative icon who let us down almost as much as he let down his wife, his family, and himself.
Second place in the hypocritical non-political category is awarded to a sorry substitute for a human being, some swishing twit named Perez Hilton, who earned his position here by demonstrating intolerance. As a dashing gay blade and a representative of his homosexual clique, surely he must have heard of the gay “Day of Silence” last week which sought to muzzle straight high school and college kids to enable the homosexual lobby to present its case for, take a guess, tolerance toward the gay community.
In actuality, the Day of Silence was dedicated as much to recruiting kids to its lifestyle as it was to gaining respect and tolerance, but that’s just one man’s opinion. See here for the substance behind that opinion: http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=931.
Well, Perez, whose real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. and who maintains a website which features a more than flattering caricature of his likeness,proved proved to be more than a tad intolerant of a young lady named, Carrie Prejean.
The Perez-Carrie story has been widely circulated but for those not into the stuff of fluff, such as Miss America contests, a quick summary: For some reason, Perez was chosen to be a judge of this year’s competitors to help determine who would wear the 2009 crown. Why a flaming homosexual would be asked to sit in judgement on a bevy of American beauties in the first place, except perhaps for a touch of comic relief, is beyond me. It was tantamount in its absurdity to Rep. Barney Frank judging honest CEO’s, which he does.
Now, I’m not qualified to allege that gay “men” don’t like women, especially pretty women, although it’s probably true, but Perez went at Carrie as if . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Picking and choosing America’s current most outstanding hypocrites involves a daunting challenge. Separating the spoiled wheat from the rotting chaff is only doable providing one can pick and choose at the same time one holds one’s nose. The trouble is, there’s just so much competition, so many vying for the hypocrite crown that the only practical thing to do was to set aside two separate and equal crowns, for the political and non-political spheres.
Today, the political arena.
Needless to say, so I’ll say it anyway, hypocrisy is most prevalent in the smarmy world of politics where it’s so ingrained that it all but defines that world. Most people, unfortunately, anticipate lying, cheating, finagling, and subterfuge from most politicians who denounce the lying, cheating, finagling and subterfuge in other societal fields as if they were shocked, shocked, I tell you, at the corruption in the human soul. However, hypocrisy is hardly confined to politics where, thanks to our system of virtual lifetime tenure for career politicos, they have perfected the art of hypocrisy which others can only hope to emulate.
Let’s therefore begin with the political sphere and, since we’re there, why not start at the top, namely with the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. Still shy of a hundred days in office, Obama and his appointed henchmen and henchwomen have already set a multitude of hypocrisy records. They range from the president’s accepting purebred Bo instead of adopting one of those puppies in a shelter window to his knowledge of Cabinet nominees’ tax cheating, most of which have been detailed in this space. Since we’re focusing here on the most recent events, we can narrow the field.
Many Americans very intelligently despise politics and all its related ickiness and generally ignore what comes out of D.C. and state capitals rather than getting involved in the nitty-gritties and rolling in the political mud. As a friend once confessed, he gets all the news he needs from ABC, NBC, and CBS even though he knows the coverage is slanted and superficial, and he’s pretty typical of the average guy, except in his awareness that network news is as skewed so far to the left it’s virtually objectively useless.
Obama, (no dumb bunny, he), is fully aware of the inclinations of Joe Average. After all, he was elected largely by the uninformed and misinformed. So, when he announced at his first full Cabinet meeting that $100,000,000 must be, ahem, slashed from his department budgets, he knew full well that the headlines would read just that, “PRESIDENT SLASHES $100 MILLION FROM BUDGET,” and my friend and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Average would be thrilled that our leader is leading the pack in cutting the federal fat. Maybe, only maybe, the mass media might mention, might mention, somewhere how many zeroes there are in the total budget of $4,000,000,000,000. Someone did the math and that Obama’s admitted “drop in the bucket” was a rousing 0.0025% of the total planned outlay and 0.007% of the projected deficit: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21480.html.
Obama richly deserves to take top place in our CURRENT HYPOCRITE AWARDS not because of Bo but because of, once again, fooling some of the people all of the time while thinking he can fool all of the people all of the time.
Hot on Obama’s heels for the hypocrite pinnacle is Senator Dianne Feinstein, (D. CA), one of the dozens of multi-millionaires sitting in those taxpayer-provided seats in Congress. She was very eager to share the wealth, a goal expressed, then hushed, by candidate Obama. It would be admirable on the good senator’s part if it were her own wealth she were sharing. However, it’s taxpayer wealth she wanted doled out–to her husband–but indirectly, of course.
It was no paltry sum that Feinstein wanted shared. In fact, it was $25 Billion she wanted doled, to the FDIC, the agency which is normally funded by banks. She all but fell over herself when congress convened this year to get those billions shared but failed to mention that the FDIC “had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms:”
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/21/senate-husbands-firm-cashes-in-on-crisis/. What’s that adage, “One hand washes the other?”
Feinstein’s intervention with that unorthodox end-run for redistribution of wealth to the FDIC and, again indirectly, to Richard Blum, her loving and equally wealthy hubby, earns her second place in the hypocrite sweepstakes. As they say, the rich get richer and the poor either get pregnant or go broke keeping the rich happy.
Third place in political hypocrisy goes to an old favorite,. . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)
Saturday, April 18, 2009
America's Apostate Catholic Universities
What, in the name of God, is going on with America’s Catholic universities?
Notre Dame alumni are putting the screws to their alma mater, hitting it where it hurts most: in the Irish endowment.
The purpose: Dumping university president, Rev. John Jenkins. The reason: Jenkins’ invitation to pro-abortionist President Barack Obama to speak at commencement on May 17th and Jenkins’ surrender of the values upon which Notre Dame was founded. The prospects of success: Nil, in either ousting Jenkins or in stopping their school from honoring a man who stands in opposition to virtually everything Notre Dame and the Catholic faith holds true and sacred.
(http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46823)
It would represent a further embarrassment to all concerned to revoke the Obama invite at this point and an equal embarrassment to force Jenkins to step down under duress. However, the school still has high hopes and anticipates President Obama will abide by tradition, even if the school has abandoned its traditional moral principles. A university spokesman indicated that, “Notre Dame expects Obama to Wear Prayer to Virgin Mary on His Chest When He Accepts Honorary Degree:” http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46844. That is the same traditional robe worn by such luminaries as George W. Bush and Martin Sheen and, as another spokesman added, “everyone” wears that robe when receiving such recognition by Notre Dame and so will Obama.
Don’t bet the farm on that expectation. Not that Obama isn’t into tradition but his traditions aren’t quite the same as Notre Dame’s. A White House spokesman when asked about the robe hemmed and hawed over an answer and sputtered, “I’ve looked around, but I don’t have an answer for you.”
We will get that answer in a little over a month at the graduation ceremony. I wonder how proud the new graduates and “Rudy” Ruetigger feel about the whole mess created for their beloved school by Father Jenkins.
That other prestigious, eastern United States Catholic university, Georgetown, had already succeeded in upstaging its sister Catholic school in South Bend by its shameful action when Obama spoke there recently. Georgetown deferred to Obama by covering the religiously-symbolic letters, “IHS,” which were never an issue for other speakers. For Obama, for some reason, the iconic symbol was “out of context.” GU subsequently offered the lame excuse that it required the space for flags. (See http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46784 and “Pusillanimity on Parade in Academia:” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=959.)
In what appears to be a never-ending competition for publicity, or for something far worse, Georgetown outdid itself during this year’s Lenten season
If I may digress for a brief bit, GU’s desecration of Lent brought to mind the priest and family friend who had officiated at our wedding 40 years ago. Twenty years later, Father Joe decided he had had it and left the priesthood. His winters of discontent were not rooted in his religion or the priesthood per se as much as it was discontent with the new priests entering that vocation. He expressed the reason for his giving up his vestments in a rhetorical question: “What other profession offers such a ripe field for homosexuals to pursue their homosexual inclinations?”
His point and the cause of Father Joe’s justifiable anger was the influx of gays into the priesthood, the results of which have become all too evident in contemporary headlines about predator priests and child molestation. As vocations by the truly priestly plummeted, the Church sought to fill the ranks by allowing entry into its seminaries not only to “non-practicing” homosexuals but to others of questionable character and morality, as long as they hadn’t been caught yet.
The results are also evident at Georgetown University. Jesuit GU bastardized the first week of Lent with “Sex Positive Week,” dedicated not exclusively to homosexuality but open to all “positivity.”
Georgetown’s “Sex Positive Week” featured a variety of “positive” events. On Monday they had a panel discussion on positive sex. Tuesday focused on the eternal query, “Can pornography be sex positive?” Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Save These Dates!
Save These Dates!
With the holy season of Easter behind us, it’s time to mark these imminent dates and events on your calendars.
April 15: Be sure your tax returns are postmarked by this date to insure Uncle Sam and Uncle David (in New York) don’t impose a stiff penalty for your audacity in submitting your federal and state tribute late to the state or the feds! Neither looks kindly on such procrastination. As Obama’s vetters for such positions as Secretary of the Treasury know full well, our Democratic leaders are permitted to procrastinate and even ignore the tax mandates with which we groundlings must abide but watch your butt if YOU follow suit! That is, unless you are apt to consciously, or sub-consciously, tend to chant, “Change!” In that case you still have to pay through the nose but you should be content with the change left in your pocket after you pay your dues.
April 15: Yep, this requires some multitasking expertise since you must first cough up to the feds and maybe to your state the cash they need to administer social programs from which you derive no benefit and to reward simple servants whose hearing defects limit their ability to answer phones. Nevertheless, cast aside your tax-anger on Wednesday and get thee to a Tea Party, whether you prefer to indulge in a nice cup’a tea, a nice cup’a coffee, or a few slugs of high test Coke to get you moving in the morning. “Tea Parties” are being held throughout the nation on April 15 to protest the efforts of Obama and his tax cheats to impose on us, our children, and our grandchildren the burden of paying for their profligacy. For background on America’s first tea party, click here: http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=949. For local tea times, consult your local rebels and remember to BYOT, Bring Your Own Tea.
April 17: This is another day that may soon live in infamy, if we allow it. America’s resident gay blades and their fellow travellers are intent on conducting a widespread Day of Silence in Massachusetts and other public schools on April 17th. The plan is that straight, normal, heterosexual kids will keep their mouths shut, so they cannot object, and their ears wide open, so that they will be receptive to the “gay” message. That message has two components, one, that straight kids accept them as normal and, two, that confused straight kids sign up for more information on the glories of homosexual life. See “Day of Silence–Day of Seduction,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=931 and call or picket your school to register your objections.
If I had a choice among not paying my taxes by April 15th or not attending a tax rebellion on that date or not protesting that effort to seduce our kids on April 17th, I’d skip my taxes, pay the penalties, skip the tea party and protest the Day Of Silence. That day and its many ramifications could affect America, and our kids, far more grievously than unfair and outrageous taxes.
(http://genelalor.com/)
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Yuks, Chucks, and Giggles
Those not familiar with MoonBattery.com should get familiar, especially if they enjoy keeping updated on “moonbats” making fools of themselves.
In a recent, recent 24 hour period, MoonBattery.com readers were entertained with these stories exposing the ironies, clownish actions, absurd statements, and outright idiocies committed by those of the liberal persuasion, (read “liberal persuasion” as clownish, absurd and idiotic:)
MOONBATS TARGET TOP ARMY CHAPLAIN: “The Military Religious Freedom Foundation sought Maj. Gen. Douglas Carver’s ouster on the day Carver designated for prayer and fasting for chaplains. It also was the start of Passover, observed with a ritual meal, or Seder, by Jews.” Cutely named “Mikey” Weinstein, in conjunction with co-plaintiff and atheist, medic Spc. Justin Chalker, have filed suit seeking Carver’s ouster on the basis of “Christians upset about what they view as discrimination by other Christians.” Carver’s egregious offense? Scheduling a day of prayer and fasting on a day which happened to coincide with the beginning of the Jewish Passover when Jews like to enjoy a nice meal: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21466. God forbids (voluntary) prayer and fasting at any time?
MUSLIM MURDERESS OPPRESSED: It was alleged that a Muslim woman, Nour Hadid, had murdered her 2 year old niece, according to Orland Park, Illinois police. That would be a horrific crime and Orland Park police handled it in a professional manner. After her arrest, as per procedure, her picture, her mugshot, was taken, sans her hajib or head scarf and in a “skimpy” top. Hubby Alaeddin Hadid, no relation to the magic carpet Alladin, took offense, contending Nour was dissed by the cops and he vowed to sue saying that such a photograph “is against our religion; we do not do this in our culture:” (http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1520478,041009mugshot.article) Well, hello, Alaeddin, you’re not living in your culture and in our culture we take great offense at murdering children and objecting to cops doing their job by recording on film the face, not the scarf, of the accused!
PLAGUED FOR SELLING PUPPIES: Puppies are all over the mass media news lately as it breathlessly awaits confirmation on the identity of the pet that Malia and Sasha Obama will be getting, and which White House personnel will be cleaning up after. Pooper scoopers . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
America's Next Tea Party: April 15, 2009
The Boston Tea Party wasn’t much of a party and the ton of tea dumped into Boston harbor in 1773 represented more a sacrifice than it was a protest against Britain’s tea tax. The colonials loved their spot of tea but they loved their freedom and independence far more.
The Boston Tea Party was actually a powder keg which wasn’t the least bit dampened by the frigid New England waters that December night. The massive explosion of that keg helped serve to light the way for the American Revolution which, three years down the dusty roads of 18th century America, led to our Declaration of Independence from an oppressive King George III and a vengeful British Parliament.
The madness of King George and the stupidity and venality of that legislative body whose members, bedecked in their powdered wigs and immersed in their pride and righteous indignation, have been fully documented over the 235 intervening years since that tea party. See here for an abbreviated account of the events and consequences of the Boston Tea Party and a participant’s recollections: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm.
Five days from now, Americans will have another opportunity to inform other oppressive ruling bodies that we’re fed up and refuse to take it any longer.
The Congress of the United States and our new, reigning monarch-wanna be, Obama the First, have seen fit to impose on the American people and upon our children and grandchildren undue, repressive, and unnecessary tax burdens which are designed to create, support, and expand massive social programs intent on establishing a massive, dependent welfare state and to “share the wealth,” as King Obama let slip to Joe the Plumber during the campaign.
Most of the machinations in process are still unknown to the citizenry, such programs as ending the Bush tax cuts in 2010, a tactic which will allow our Democrats to assert they did not raise taxes. Taxes will soar because the tax cuts simply expired. Get that?
Our Democratic leaders are actively and subtly employing the ol’ boiling a frog trick: Dump that little green sucker into tepid water and gradually jack up the temperature until, Voila! you have frog legs that taste like chicken, and taxpayers who are boiled alive and ready for the Soylent Green factories–after they pay their taxes.
Scheduled not coincidentally with the day our various governments, led by and linked to the feds, exact their pounds of taxpayer flesh, April 15th, full details on the reasons and purposes behind America’s New Tea Party can be found here: http://www.teapartyday.com/.
There may or may not be any actual tea tossed into the briny on that day. It’s planned as a, hopefully peaceful, national demonstration by good, American citizens who sincerely yet forcefully demand to be heard in Washington, Albany, Trenton, Sacramento, and the rest of our state capitals. We want it made vividly clear that we do not endorse and will never support converting the United States of America into a socialist nation.
As Jefferson wrote in America’s Declaration of Independence, “we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
May God bless, save, and preserve America!
(http://genelalor.com/)
The Boston Tea Party was actually a powder keg which wasn’t the least bit dampened by the frigid New England waters that December night. The massive explosion of that keg helped serve to light the way for the American Revolution which, three years down the dusty roads of 18th century America, led to our Declaration of Independence from an oppressive King George III and a vengeful British Parliament.
The madness of King George and the stupidity and venality of that legislative body whose members, bedecked in their powdered wigs and immersed in their pride and righteous indignation, have been fully documented over the 235 intervening years since that tea party. See here for an abbreviated account of the events and consequences of the Boston Tea Party and a participant’s recollections: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/teaparty.htm.
Five days from now, Americans will have another opportunity to inform other oppressive ruling bodies that we’re fed up and refuse to take it any longer.
The Congress of the United States and our new, reigning monarch-wanna be, Obama the First, have seen fit to impose on the American people and upon our children and grandchildren undue, repressive, and unnecessary tax burdens which are designed to create, support, and expand massive social programs intent on establishing a massive, dependent welfare state and to “share the wealth,” as King Obama let slip to Joe the Plumber during the campaign.
Most of the machinations in process are still unknown to the citizenry, such programs as ending the Bush tax cuts in 2010, a tactic which will allow our Democrats to assert they did not raise taxes. Taxes will soar because the tax cuts simply expired. Get that?
Our Democratic leaders are actively and subtly employing the ol’ boiling a frog trick: Dump that little green sucker into tepid water and gradually jack up the temperature until, Voila! you have frog legs that taste like chicken, and taxpayers who are boiled alive and ready for the Soylent Green factories–after they pay their taxes.
Scheduled not coincidentally with the day our various governments, led by and linked to the feds, exact their pounds of taxpayer flesh, April 15th, full details on the reasons and purposes behind America’s New Tea Party can be found here: http://www.teapartyday.com/.
There may or may not be any actual tea tossed into the briny on that day. It’s planned as a, hopefully peaceful, national demonstration by good, American citizens who sincerely yet forcefully demand to be heard in Washington, Albany, Trenton, Sacramento, and the rest of our state capitals. We want it made vividly clear that we do not endorse and will never support converting the United States of America into a socialist nation.
As Jefferson wrote in America’s Declaration of Independence, “we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
May God bless, save, and preserve America!
(http://genelalor.com/)
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
A Heterosexual Questionnaire
Sometimes lately, too often, the efforts of the homosexual lobby, the LGBT crowd, to attract America’s young people to their twisted lifestyle becomes too blatant to be ignored. Such is the planned Day of Silence/Day of Seduction set for 10 days from now, April 17th, in Massachusetts schools and, organizers say, in hundreds of other American elementary and high schools. For details, see http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=931.
The gay movement seems to be picking up a great head of steam since Obama’s election as they mobilize in courts, legislatures, streets, and schools to win over the public to universal acceptance of its agenda. The most liberal president in America’s history has made it vividly clear that their agenda is his agenda.
As with most radical movements, in their fervor and haste to conquer the public’s mind and soul, they overstep, exceed limits, and betray their essential mindset that they believe most people are too stupid to notice their machinations. A prime example is the website, http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/.
Ostensibly, “advocates for youth,” in actuality it is as much a vehicle for the seduction and recruitment of normal young people as it functions as a support group for gay teens.
Where it most obviously shows its intent is in a poorly-constructed “heterosexual questionnaire.” The questions try to steer youths toward favoring and adopting homosexuality but are so laughably biased in that direction that it is a virtual parody of itself, replete with distortions, false assumptions, twisted facts, and outright lies.
Below is that questionnaire, intended to serve as a lesson plan for teachers. I took the opportunitity to supplement it with editorial commentary to set the record straight: http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/lessonplans/heterosexual2.htm
What do you think caused your heterosexuality? (Suggestion: It’s some kind of genetic flaw or disease which, given some effort, could be cured.)
When and how did you first decide you were heterosexual? (Suggestion: It’s a decision heterosexuals make, in contrast to homosexuals who insist they are born that way.)
Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of? (Suggestion: This too will pass, like biting your nails or twitching.) ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
John Rich, Rebel With A Cause
I’m not a big aficionado of country and western music nor of country singer, John Rich, but his new hit single is worth a listen if you’re as angry as he is over Washington’s efforts to bankrupt the nation.
It’s worth a listen if you believe that the CEO of Merrill Lynch using taxpayer bailout money to buy a $38,000. toilet is an incredible wasteful use of our money during an awful economy.
It’s worth a listen if you’re angry that this and other monumental waste is going on when people are being thrown out of work and thrown out of their homes and as workers and retireees watch their nesteggs go round and round, heading down that CEO’s toilet.
If you believe that the D.C. shenanigans are “absolute nonsense” and reflect “a lack of reality and a lack of respect for American taxpayers” and if you further believe that the “long-term effects of spending trillions and trillions of [our] grandkids’ dollars [isn’t] worth the short-term blackjack move that [President Obama’s] making to stimulate our economy right now?” you should appreciate, “Shuttin’ Detroit Down.”
For background on John Rich and his music see the source of those John Rich quotations, http://www.theboot.com/2009/03/26/john-rich-preaches-his-own-agenda/?icid=main|htmlws-main-t2|dl5|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theboot.com%2F2009%2F03%2F26%2Fjohn-rich-preaches-his-own-agenda%2F.
To hear John Rich sing “Shuttin’ Detroit Down,” click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW3ysJQX9Cw&feature=related.
For the lyrics, click here http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/rich-john/shuttin-detroit-down-26813.html.
For an opportunity to voice your anger over the sorry state of affairs in 2009 America, call your congressman and senators; names and numbers should be in your phone books. You may even want to leave a message for Obama at the White House switchboard, (202) 456-1414,(202) 456-2461, so that when he gets back from his European Grand Tour after wowing his fans and wooing heads of state, he may get a reality check from the hometown folk.
For some personal and family consolation during these very trying times, try praying.
(http://genelalor.com/)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
You Go, Blago!
You Go, Blago!
I’ve gotten to like semi-deposed Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich.
No, I’m not mentally deranged, I don’t think. Nor am I of Serbian extraction as the mop-haired ex-gov is. Nor do I suggest he’s innocent of any charges against him, although he’s not been charged with any; after all, the guy is from Illinois, home state of the most corrupt town in the country, if not on the planet, so he has to be guilty of everything.
And, yes, I’m up to here with 24/7 Blago news as much as I am with Madoff news and Britney news. But, I’ve come to like Rod’s overall style, if not his hairstyle–and how this Chicago-born Democrat has been sticking it to his fellow Dems far and wide.
I furthermore believe that he’s not a “cuckoo,” as Mayor Daley II has called him twice, the same mayor who supported him twice for the governorship and with whom he palled around and with whom he sat on numberless daises, etc. I think also that Rod has a couple tricks still up his well-tailored sleeve as well as a plan to keep himself out of the hoosegow. He may have risen from humble roots, but he seems to have a grand exit plan.
True, he’s brash, obnoxious, foul-mouthed, sleazy, greedy, and glib, all of which are standard attributes for Illinois political success. He also seems supremely confident for some reason and for that reason, the Powers-that-be in Illinois and Chicago are determined to bring him down. I think those Powers are mightily afraid of what Blago knows and aware that he has no compunctions about spilling all he knows.
Let’s look at the record, as the venerable former New York Governor Al Smith used to say, not Blagojevich’s record in Springfield but the record since December 9th when what he has termed his personal Pearl Harbor began.
The poor guy was rousted from the warm bed he shares with the equally-greedy and equally-foul-mouthed Mrs. Patricia B. on that cold December morning in 2008, barely a month after Barack Obama’s election as president. With his two young kids, hopefully, still sleeping at 6:15 a.m, ...
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
Monday, January 26, 2009
Where Have All the Somalis Gone?
Where Have All the Somalis Gone?
Another story getting little play in the very news-selective mainstream media is the mysterious disappearances of dozens of young immigrants from Somalia who had been living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area. CNN, Newsweek and the LA Times have finally seen fit to cover the two month old story: http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/holy-cow-now-40-young-somalis-are-missing-in-minnesota/
The story hit (some) wires in late November, most notably on the Fox News Channel, that up to 40 Somalis have simply upped and disappeared without even a fond adieu even to their parents. One, a naturalized United States citizen, reappeared as a suicide bomber in Somalia.
Not mentioned in any of the stories that I have seen is the possibility that at least some are not journeying back home, a long and expensive trip for the mostly impoverished Somalis, but are being trained here and in their other adoptive nations for domestic jihad, or struggle mandated by the Qur’an and Allah.
The fear of the conventional wisdom is that they are being recruited to participate in jihad in their native Somalia which is torn by upheavals between what government there is in that country and Islamic insurgents bent on establishing an Islamic state there: http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11783918&Itemid=0.
That story goes further, referring to reports that similar disappearances are occurring worldwide where Somalis have gone to seek a better life, in Europe, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and Saudi Arabia.
Sorry, but I can’t work up much fear that all headed back to blow themselves up in Somalia after being accorded the privilege of living in America or elsewhere where their lot in life had to have been a vast improvement, no doubt subsidized by Americans, Europeans, et al.
Muhammed Atta and his band of merry murderers may not have been Somalis but they were Islamic jihadists. Could the next 9/11 be in the planning stage and will the ranks of the next wave of terrorism here be supplemented by Somali recruits?
The FBI is said to be on the case but the FBI also knew in advance about Atta.
(http://genelalor.com/)
Another story getting little play in the very news-selective mainstream media is the mysterious disappearances of dozens of young immigrants from Somalia who had been living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area. CNN, Newsweek and the LA Times have finally seen fit to cover the two month old story: http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/holy-cow-now-40-young-somalis-are-missing-in-minnesota/
The story hit (some) wires in late November, most notably on the Fox News Channel, that up to 40 Somalis have simply upped and disappeared without even a fond adieu even to their parents. One, a naturalized United States citizen, reappeared as a suicide bomber in Somalia.
Not mentioned in any of the stories that I have seen is the possibility that at least some are not journeying back home, a long and expensive trip for the mostly impoverished Somalis, but are being trained here and in their other adoptive nations for domestic jihad, or struggle mandated by the Qur’an and Allah.
The fear of the conventional wisdom is that they are being recruited to participate in jihad in their native Somalia which is torn by upheavals between what government there is in that country and Islamic insurgents bent on establishing an Islamic state there: http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11783918&Itemid=0.
That story goes further, referring to reports that similar disappearances are occurring worldwide where Somalis have gone to seek a better life, in Europe, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and Saudi Arabia.
Sorry, but I can’t work up much fear that all headed back to blow themselves up in Somalia after being accorded the privilege of living in America or elsewhere where their lot in life had to have been a vast improvement, no doubt subsidized by Americans, Europeans, et al.
Muhammed Atta and his band of merry murderers may not have been Somalis but they were Islamic jihadists. Could the next 9/11 be in the planning stage and will the ranks of the next wave of terrorism here be supplemented by Somali recruits?
The FBI is said to be on the case but the FBI also knew in advance about Atta.
(http://genelalor.com/)
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Abortion's Ugly Realities
Abortion in America: A Grisly Reality
As the ardently pro-abortionist President Obama plots to end any and all restrictions on the practice of aborting pre-born babies in the United States and to fund abortions worldwide, it’s time to review the issue. It would be in America's interest for Obama to do the same.
Fifty years ago in our country, the word “abortion,” if not unheard of, was rarely uttered in polite society, much like but more emotionally charged than the use of the F-word or even the N-word are today. But times have changed and as the old Virginia Slims cigarette commercial enticed women, “You’ve come a long way, Baby!”And that they have, for better or worse.
It is not the purpose of this article to discuss the reasons for that change as it relates to what is now called reproductive rights other than to mention the obvious, namely the development of the women’s rights movement, women’s liberation, which not coincidentally sprouted around the same time that agitation for legalized abortion began.
A significant and deadly right claimed by the bra-burning demonstrators of the 1960’s was the right to destroy their pre-born “products of conception” Today, that right has become so ingrained in the American psyche that the act itself is almost commonplace.
Originally, pro-abortionists readily, if not proudly, accepted that label until the rise of the Pro-life movement and the realization of Americans’ general feeling of repugnance at the thought of what an abortion involved. It was then that pro-abortionists resorted to the euphemistic label of “pro-choice” to describe themselves and their position.
The Pro-choice movement, however, never took into consideration a choice that should have been the right of the most innocent party in an abortion, namely the pre-born child’s. That tiny being was denied personhood by the highest court in the land in 1973 in its most capricious and far-reaching decision since Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. One main difference is that Roe v. Wade had much deadlier consequences for what lawyers call the party of the first part, the baby, who not only was denied personhood but literally had no voice in the matter and ultimately was denied life itself.
One principal reason offered for legalizing abortion was to save women from the horrors of so-called “back alley abortions,” which rarely...
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
Abortion's Ugly Realities
Abortion in America: A Grisly Reality
As the ardently pro-abortionist President Obama plots to end any and all restrictions on the practice of aborting pre-born babies in the United States and to fund abortions worldwide, it’s time to review the issue. It would be in America's interest for Obama to do the same.
Fifty years ago in our country, the word “abortion,” if not unheard of, was rarely uttered in polite society, much like but more emotionally charged than the use of the F-word or even the N-word are today. But times have changed and as the old Virginia Slims cigarette commercial enticed women, “You’ve come a long way, Baby!”And that they have, for better or worse.
It is not the purpose of this article to discuss the reasons for that change as it relates to what is now called reproductive rights other than to mention the obvious, namely the development of the women’s rights movement, women’s liberation, which not coincidentally sprouted around the same time that agitation for legalized abortion began.
A significant and deadly right claimed by the bra-burning demonstrators of the 1960’s was the right to destroy their pre-born “products of conception” Today, that right has become so ingrained in the American psyche that the act itself is almost commonplace.
Originally, pro-abortionists readily, if not proudly, accepted that label until the rise of the Pro-life movement and the realization of Americans’ general feeling of repugnance at the thought of what an abortion involved. It was then that pro-abortionists resorted to the euphemistic label of “pro-choice” to describe themselves and their position.
The Pro-choice movement, however, never took into consideration a choice that should have been the right of the most innocent party in an abortion, namely the pre-born child’s. That tiny being was denied personhood by the highest court in the land in 1973 in its most capricious and far-reaching decision since Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. One main difference is that Roe v. Wade had much deadlier consequences for what lawyers call the party of the first part, the baby, who not only was denied personhood but literally had no voice in the matter and ultimately was denied life itself.
One principal reason offered for legalizing abortion was to save women from the horrors of so-called “back alley abortions,” which rarely...
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Gays and Polls
Something Is Amok with the (Florida) SunSentinel.com
Less than 3 months after Florida voters resoundingly defeated gay marriage in the Sunshine State comes this item from SunSentinel.com: “Let Gays Marry, Adopt, Have Civil Unions, Most Floridians Say [emphasis added]: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/sfl-flbgay0123sbjan23,0,76194.story.
That emphasis was added due to the content of the article which goes on to say, according to a Quinnipiac poll, that 27-35% of all surveyed voters endorsed all those demands of the LGBT, Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgendered community.
First and foremost, even 35% can hardly be construed as constituting most Floridians, unless there’s some new math out there which equates one-third with a majority.
Secondly, there must have been a mass upheaval over a very short timespan in the thinking of Floridians regarding gay adoption if, again according to Quinnipiac and SunSentinel.com, 55% now oppose the state law prohibiting such adoptions. (Older, Republican, poorer, and less educated voters are said to be the bigoted culprits who still believe in traditional morality.)
Of course, depending on the poll-takers and the wording of poll questions, any poll can be skewed and that could explain Quinnipiac’s results but nothing can explain SunSentinel.com’s interpreting and reporting that a minority of Floridians means “most Floridians say.”
My personal suspicion is that an LGBT constituent is the headline writer for the Sun Sentinel.
(http://genelalor.com/)
Less than 3 months after Florida voters resoundingly defeated gay marriage in the Sunshine State comes this item from SunSentinel.com: “Let Gays Marry, Adopt, Have Civil Unions, Most Floridians Say [emphasis added]: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/sfl-flbgay0123sbjan23,0,76194.story.
That emphasis was added due to the content of the article which goes on to say, according to a Quinnipiac poll, that 27-35% of all surveyed voters endorsed all those demands of the LGBT, Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgendered community.
First and foremost, even 35% can hardly be construed as constituting most Floridians, unless there’s some new math out there which equates one-third with a majority.
Secondly, there must have been a mass upheaval over a very short timespan in the thinking of Floridians regarding gay adoption if, again according to Quinnipiac and SunSentinel.com, 55% now oppose the state law prohibiting such adoptions. (Older, Republican, poorer, and less educated voters are said to be the bigoted culprits who still believe in traditional morality.)
Of course, depending on the poll-takers and the wording of poll questions, any poll can be skewed and that could explain Quinnipiac’s results but nothing can explain SunSentinel.com’s interpreting and reporting that a minority of Floridians means “most Floridians say.”
My personal suspicion is that an LGBT constituent is the headline writer for the Sun Sentinel.
(http://genelalor.com/)
Friday, January 23, 2009
Meet the Press--Obama Style
MEET THE PRESS–Obama Style II
President Barack Hussein Transparency Obama,who had promised a “a new level of transparency” in public life is rapidly retreating to a new level of opaqueness within all of three days into his four year reign.
For those maleducated in American public schools, the word “transparency” in a political context means clarity, openness, honesty, candidness, and visibility as opposed to deceit, artfulness, concealment, secrecy, and opaqueness.
Why anyone would expect Obama to follow through on a pledge of transparency when his entire campaign, from questionable fund raising to his smarmy associations was cloaked in subterfuge and deception is beyond me but a majority of voters still bought into his baloney and voted for the guy.
Go figure but the baloney won’t last the test of time until 2012.
You can take a politician out of Chicago but you can’t take the seamy world of Chicago intrigue and crime out of the politician. Of all Obama’s camp followers, the mainstream media, the MSM, is the first that’s quickly coming to realize that the man is not what he seemed. More precisely, the man is all that he seemed to objective critics, though not to his media lapdogs and therein lay the shocker to them. That media, which never bothered to vet him or insist he serve some meat with his political pap, may be coming to realize he is the ultimate charlatan.
BHM may have been able to fool a press more than willing to be fooled but when he starts messing with their bread and butter, accessibility, the White House Press Corps tends to get downright ornery.
And he has begun messing with that accessibility.
Way back in November, 2007, when Barack Obama was still a “presidential hopeful,” the transparency issue had raised its ugly head with regard to his fund raising secretiveness: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/11/sweet_web_column_obamas_transp.html. That should have been a tipoff but the MSM never ran with it. Lapdogs by definition don’t run with much.
Media-types are somewhat less than pleased when they feel shut out. White House media-types can become all but rabid but instead of frothing in public, they tend to politely vent and save their foamy mouths for more intimate venues and circumstances, such as over a martini at The Reliable Source Bar at the National Press Club in D.C.
They vented at Robert Gibbs,...
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