Jon Stewart wins the battle of the jerks, of course.
Read why in my new post over at Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller by clicking the link here!
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, even though the Giants gave President Obama's staff several phone numbers to call, the President cold-shouldered the World Series Champs.
Maybe it has something to do with all that criticism he took for throwing namby-pamby.
I don't care where he was born. President Obama lacks an American aesthetic.
Well, if you've ever wondered just HOW dumb a Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert viewer is, here is your answer.
And to whomever idea this was - I tip my hat to you.
to you.
I’m sure it’s happened to you, as it did to me again last night: Some starry-eyed collegian told me Christopher Columbus shouldn’t be celebrated because of his treatment of Indians, armed with nothing more than her University professor’s insistence.
If Mark Twain was right that a lie can travel halfway around the world before truth has a chance to put on its shoes, imagine the damage a lie can do over 500 years.
Let me introduce you to Francisco de Bobadilla – liar and Columbus usurper. The criticism of Columbus today comes from de Bobadilla. Who was he? The man who wanted Columbus’ job as Governor of Hispaniola.
In 1500 the King and Queen sent him here to investigate claims that Columbus wasn’t being fair to the European settlers (which means Columbus was protecting the Indians). So de Bobedilla came here, and in just a few short days investigated (with no telephones or motorized vehicles to help him), then arrested Columbus and his brothers for Indian mistreatment and sent them back to Spain, sans a trial. Oh yeah, he appointed himself Governor. Coup de Coeur for power lead to Coup d’ etat, as usual.
The King and Queen called shenanigans and sent for be Bobadilla two years later, but he drowned on the trip home. Columbus was reinstated as Admiral. So what we know of Columbian malfeasance comes from a defrocked liar, de Bobadilla.
Nor was Columbus involved in the slave trade, as America haters like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky have asserted. One of his boats crashed in Haiti. He had no room for 39 men, so he started a colony there. Columbus came back a year later to find the Taino Indians killed all of them and left them where they fell. Columbus went to war with the Tainos and took 500 POWs, not slaves. They were released after the war. Big difference.
Also wrong is blaming Columbus for bringing genocidal microbes to kill the Indians. His detractors make fun of him for thinking he was in the East. So was his evil plan then to bring disease to wipe out the East?
Europeans didn’t know of germs until Italian physicist Girolamo Fracastoro proposed the theory 40 years after Columbus died. Also, had an Indian built a boat and traveled to Europe and back, he would have contaminated the Indians too. Trans-continental contamination was going to happen at some point, making the first carriers irrelevant.
Brown University recently changed the name of the holiday from Columbus Day to “Fall Weekend” due to the Columbus slave allegations. Hypocrisy alert: Brown University was founded with slave trade money, according to their own report. But they didn’t vote to change the name of their college! Hypocrites.
Happy Columbus Day!
Jon Stewart wins the battle of the jerks, of course.
Read why in my new post over at Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller by clicking the link here!
And thank you so much to Michael Erins over at "Masters In Education" for putting us there!
Here's the link!
It’s common in sports to see an athlete play past his prime, searching for something he never achieved or fearing life without the spotlight. Think Muhammad Ali losing to Leon Spinks or Willie Mays batting .211 for the New York Mets.
That phenomenon is occurring with physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking made headlines recently with a pronouncement, coinciding with the release of his book (imagine that), that he has concluded the universe could have come into existence without the assistance of God.
But has he really discovered something scientific? Nope. Stephen Hawking is in a Walter Mitty fantasy. Throughout his career he longed to make that announcement and no doubt repeatedly pictured himself in that moment of atheist glory. He retired last year without achieving his goal.
Unable to resist attention, he went ahead this year and announced it anyway with no more physics in his book to prove that God didn’t make the universe than a priest has in his Bible to show God did.
The Holy Grail for physicists is to find a unified theory that explains the whole universe, large and small. The problem is the physical laws we know of that govern small things like atoms don’t translate to big things like galaxies, so there is no “God excluding theory.”
READ THE REST OF THIS COLUMN ON TUCKER CARLSON'S DAILY CALLER BY CLICKING HERE!
At least the editors of Opinionati do! And thank you very much to them for quoting and linking Justified Right on my post about Obama's assertion that America can "absorb" another attack.
Read their post here.
Well this is scary. According to the Washington Post, Bob Woodwad says in his new book that President Obama said this to him in an interview last July:
"We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger."
We can "absorb" one? What am I a sponge?
Stronger now? Is he recommending we do it again?
Even if he is factually correct that we would bounce back from one, is this the right attitude for a President?
I can give a President a pass if his attitude was "Never again!" but the terroists made it past him.
Not so much if his attitude was, "We can absorb it."
That really cheapens life.
Tonight at 6:30 eastern I'll be on the radio with my favorite host, Andy Caldwell. Andy and I are going to dive into the subject of how we here in America are getting along with our Muslim-Americatizens.
Should be fun. Please come listen by clicking this link:
http://www.calchronicle.com/ac_show.asp
Thanks!
Tommy