The Left has its collective panties in a knot over how unpatriotic people like me are because we found it highly amusing that that the IOC pimp slapped Barack Obama for his efforts to land the 2016 Olympics for Chicago.

And Lefty shill Glenn Thrush isn’t the only one. To Amanda Terkel over at Think Progress and Chuckles the Clown over at Little Green Footballs we were - wait for it - voting against America!

So, now it’s ‘unpatriotic’ to diss a sitting president who decided to grease out from under his responsibilities to go on a $10 million dollar plus roadtrip on the taxpayer’s dime in order to try to give his Chicago political homies a payoff of millions in graft by handing them the Olympics? Which half the people of Chicago didn’t even want?

To give you and idea of how much they intended to make, Mayor Daley and the Boys in Chicago spent $50 million of the taxpayer’s money to lobby for the 2016 Olympics.In terms of results, that works out to $3 mill per vote, a lot more per head than it costs to vote dead people and illegal aliens, hand out walking around money and stuff ballot boxes in Chi-Town during the normal elections these people are used to dealing with.

So, being revolted at the Chosen One’s irresponsibility and ego and being glad that the greedy pirates he’s in bed with lost this one is ‘voting against America?’

Puh-leeze.

I have a somewhat different view of the matter.

(read the rest at JoshuaPundit)

Kevin Jennings, President Obama’s Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug FreeSchools at the U.S. Department of Education, is in hot water this week for having failed to report that a 15-year-old sophomore student in his school had told him of having sex with an older man.

But failure to report what appeared to be a case of statuatory rape of a child may be the least of Jennings’ worries. Lori Roman of Regular Folks United points to statements by Jennings a decade or more ago when he praised Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.

Roman provides damning details and links here. She also notes that Jennings wrote the forward “to a book called Queering Elementary Education. And another fellow you may have heard of wrote one of the endorsements on the book jacket—Bill Ayers.” Ayers, of course, is the Weather Underground bomber from the 1960s who is just an “acquaintance” of Obama.

Every presidential administration ends up with scandals inspired by controversial appointees, but typically those tend to revolve around financial improprieties, conflicts of interest, or some other form of white-collar misconduct. For Obama, the scandals seem to be developing in a pattern of disclosures revolving around radical left ideology that raises questions about their fitness for any job in government.

And that in turn raises the inevitable question: Is nobody minding the White House personnel store?

Mark has to revise his position just a tad and recognize that Hays was never a member or employee of NAMBLA, however he was a lifelong supporter of the group. Mark closes with this:

Jennings praise of Hay was not specifically in the context of the latter’s support of NAMBLA. Readers will decide for themselves whether it is appropriate for an individual who publicly praised an advocate of pedophilia to be appointed Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for Safe and Drug-Free Schools.

I’ve decided for myself — it’s not at all appropriate for an individual who publicly praised an advocate of pedophilia to be appointed Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for Safe and Drug-Free Schools.

It takes a village idiot to do something like that . . . just sayin’.

( discuss at Okie On The Lam)

After ignoring eight years of political mudslinging directed at President Bush, Thomas Friedman has discovered the virtue of political civility. If Friedman every wrote a column condemning the likes of Michael Moore or Cindy Sheehan - or even his co-columnist Paul Krugman - I don’t recall it. I’m sure I didn’t see any columns of him criticizing Air America, Al Franken or those “Re-defeat Bush” bumper stickers. No, for eight years, Thomas Friedman was not bothered by the lack of political civility because he was on the side of the President’s critics, detractors and mockers.

But now he fears for President Obama’s life. How does he know? Because he lived through it once before. In today’s execrable column “Where did ‘we’ go?” he explains:

I was in Israel interviewing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin just before he was assassinated in 1995. We had a beer in his office. He needed one. I remember the ugly mood in Israel then — a mood in which extreme right-wing settlers and politicians were doing all they could to delegitimize Rabin, who was committed to trading land for peace as part of the Oslo accords. They questioned his authority. They accused him of treason. They created pictures depicting him as a Nazi SS officer, and they shouted death threats at rallies. His political opponents winked at it all. And in so doing they created a poisonous political environment that was interpreted by one right-wing Jewish settler as a license to kill Rabin — he must have heard, “God will be on your side” — and so he did.

There is so much wrong with these paragraphs, it’s hard to know where to begin. For all the talk of harsh rhetoric coming from the Israeli right in 1995, he doesn’t recall that the rhetoric coming from the government against the right was just as harsh. Jeff Jacoby noted:

Only by the barest majority — 61-59 — did parliament vote last month to ratify the accord with the PLO. Two weeks earlier, a national poll found that 56 percent of Israelis rated the peace process “bad” or “very bad.” The world applauded Rabin — as now, heartsick, it eulogizes him — for his willingness to reach out in peace to the Arab enemies he had fought for so long. The final tragedy of this man is that he could not extend the same hand of peace to his opponents at home.

“They” didn’t distribute the picture of Yitzchak Rabi as an SS officer, Avishai Raviv, then a government agent did.

And in his appearance on the Ted Koppel’s famous “though shalt not kill” Nightline, Binyamin Netanyahu pointed out that when demonstrators shouted that Rabin was a traitor, he replied, “He’s wrong he’s not a traitor.”

But more than anything, Friedman himself contributed to the poisonous atmosphere in Israel. Seven months later, when Netanyahu was elected, Friedman declared “The bad guys won.”

I’m talking first and foremost about the one Israeli who got to vote twice. His name is Yigal Amir and he is the religious extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin. Under Israeli law, even an assassin gets to vote. So last Wednesday, at the Ohalei Kedar Prison, Mr. Amir trudged out of his cell in shackles and cast his vote — no doubt for Mr. Netanyahu. What poetic injustice. First Mr. Amir voted with a bullet and then he voted with a ballot. Having murdered the one Labor Party leader who would have certainly beaten Mr. Netanyahu, Mr. Amir finished his work with an absurd legal flourish, sealing his ballot under the watchful eye of prison guards.

The problem with his premise is that it’s wrong. A reporter in Israel at the time of Rabin’s assassination had to know that the assassination did not help Netanyahu politically. His campaigning against Oslo was successful and just before Rabin’s assassination Netanyahu had pulled ahead of the Prime Minister in polls. Rabin would not have “certainly” beaten Netanyahu.

As far as Netanyahu’s campaign against Oslo goes, here’s what Netanyahu wrote just before Oslo was signed.

Astonishingly, this bizarre proposal that would result in Lebanese-style terror havens alongside Israel’s cities was negotiated without carefully consulting Israel’s military command. Deputy Chief of Staff Amnon Shahak was first shown the plan only minutes before it was brought to the Cabinet for approval. Chief of Staff Ehud Barak confesses that it poses “grave security problems” for Israel. But the greatest danger of the Rabin-Arafat plan is not terrorism but a full-fledged war that could be launched against Israel from the P.L.O. domain once it is formally recognized as a new Arab state. Indeed, the foundations of such a state are laid by Israel’s consent to cede the land and all legislative authority within it to the P.L.O. As Yasir Arafat said on Thursday, “The Palestinian state is at hand and the Palestinian flag will soon fly over Jerusalem.”

The second paragraph came true - even without the PLO establishing a state. It happened in 2000 with the so-called “Aqsa intifada” and it was repeated in 2008 with the rockets from Gaza. Netanyahu in 1993 was a lot more prescient than Thomas Friedman has ever been.

That Friedman would write a column riddled with such distortions, hypocrisy and outright lies so soon after hankering for a Communist government is more reason why he ought to be considered the world’s worst columnist.

(Discuss at Soccer Dad

In New York Naiz Khan is still under investigation.  Zazi stayed in Khan’s apartment on September 11, 2009 weekend in New York.

Khan said he had not flown to Pakistan with Zazi, but had been visiting family in Karachi as he does every year. He showed CNN his passport, which had an entry stamp for Karachi for November 4.

On the backpacks and scale found in Khan’s apartment in New York:

Khan said he had never seen the scale and that the backpacks had been a gift to his uncle, who also lives in the apartment, from a store. He said his uncle planned to send them to children in Pakistan.

While some think the charges will not hold or that the investigation is stalled:

Sources close to the Zazi investigation said it is continuing at full throttle. “No one will tell you that we have our arms around this,” one source said.  [snip]

One source close to the investigation said Zazi was a “committed jihadist” and that his plans were well advanced.  (CNN)

I hope the authorities have this right, because it would certainly be a disaster if this Zazi is innocent.  I think about a personal friend who’s family is from Pakistan.  He is completely Americanized, runs a business, is married to a professional friend.  I find myself thinking “what if my friend Ali were arrested and charged with terrorism?”  I would find it impossible to believe.  But Zazi’s friends say the same thing.  Do any of you have friends or acquaintances from the Middle East, or whose families came from the Middle East?  It makes you think.  It makes me hope that the FBI, Homeland Security, and others have it right when it comes to Zazi.

(Discuss at Right Truth)

Winning Council Submissions

• First place with 1 2/3 points! – Rhymes With Right - A Note On The “Tenther” Smear
• Second place with 1 points – (T*) – Soccer Dad - Leaving the nest
• Second place with 1 points – (T*) – Joshuapundit - Welcome To The Babi Yar Hotel
• Second place with 1 points – (T*) – The Colossus of Rhodey - More on Obama’s ridiculous foreign policy
• Second place with 1 points – (T*) – Mere Rhetoric - Obama Knew About Secret Iran Facility During Transition, Experts Pushed Engagement Anyway With Pro-Iran Pretexts
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Right Truth - Why America Could Be Doomed
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Bookworm Room - Obama Keeps Hitler Analogy in the Public Eye
• Fourth place with 1/3 points – The Provocateur - Yet Another Defining Moment

Winning Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 1 1/3 points! – Jennifer Rubin/Commentary - Netanyahu’s Speech for the Ages
• Second place with 1 1/3 points – RedState - Common Sense Outlawed in Indiana
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Breitbart TV - Sources: Sarkozy Thinks Obama is ‘Incredibly Naive and Grossly Egotistical’
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – The Anchoress - A Study in Contrasts
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – WSJ/Bret Stephens - The Neocons Make a Comeback
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – StreetWise - It’s Not a Real Estate Crisis, It’s a Debt Crisis
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – The Times Online (UK) - The Anglo-world of settlers, not dominators
• Third place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Larry Greenfield / American Thinker - Liberal Jews and the Legacy of Neoconservatism
• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Kausfiles @Slate - Did ACORN chicanery elect Al Franken?
• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Simply Jews - Ich bin kein Berliner?
• Fourth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Fore-Left - Speaking of Vast Conspriacies..

(T*) – Indicates a Tie.

As always, congratulations to the particpants as well as the winners.

Your approval ratings are plummeting and it’s obvious the honeymoon is over. The nation is in a fiscal crisis, with unemployment and a huge deficit of historic proportions.The dollar’s status internationally is threatened.Your administration has been directly linked with some of the most corrupt and radical elements in American political life and you’re at the final stages of a battle to control America’s healthcare, which doesn’t look like it’s going your way.

It’s time for a major decision on Afghanistan, your vaunted diplomacy is a colossal failure especially in the Middle East, and other world leaders are snickering at you behind their hands. Russia is increasingly aggressive and Iran has responded to that famous unclenched hand you offered by contemptuously testing new missiles as the knowledge of other previously hidden Iranian nuclear sites becomes public.

So whaddya do?

Barack Obama has the answer all right….road trip!

Yes, the president decided to bug out and vote ‘present’ by fleeing to Copenhagen, Denmark for the essential, urgent task of lobbying the International Olympic Committee to make Chicago the site of the 2016 Olympics.

And he’s taking Michelle and Oprah with him.That’s not unexpected,given that Obama has spent more time with Oprah than he has with General McChrystal, the commander he appointed to make sense of the mess in Afghanistan. For that matter, forget about Oprah - he’s probably spent more one-on-one time with David Letterman then with McChrystal.

This little excursion is a presidential payback to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who expects that he and his cronies can expect to make millions on the deal. It will involve no less than two other luxury 757’s including Air Force One - one for backup and communications , and another for Michelle and her multi-million dollar entourage, not to mention Oprah’s people.

This doesn’t include the cost in man hours for the dozens of staffers employed in taking care of every detail, or the several Air Force cargo planes that precede the president’s party and are loaded with security personnel, armored limos, communications gear, and other vital supplies like extra arugula and spare stocks of $100 per pound wagu beef should the president or his guests not find Danish cuisine to their liking, or just want a special little snack to remind them of home.

This particular road trip will cost the American taxpayer at least $10 million dollars and probably more..but who’s counting?

(read the rest at Joshuapundit)

I was raped when I was 14 years old, by a boy of 16. I was not drugged or sodomized - thank God - but it was still rape. Rape-rape.

I could not imagine what it would be like to be drugged and raped by a man of my father’s age. As it was, my parents were excellent at protecting me from all the weird uncles who populated my mother’s side of the family. The idea that one of them might have done that to me… unimaginable.

To be violated by an adult, a person of responsibility - a person of some acclaim - would be terrible. It would be like being touched in church, and not having your parents believe that Father O’Grady could ever do such a thing.

I do however know what it’s like to have my peers tell me it’s no big deal. That it shouldn’t matter. That it’s over, don’t raise a stink about it. Or, better yet: That he didn’t mean it.

This behavior has always baffled me. Why is it ok to be raped, just because the other person is older/stronger/richer/more famous than you are? Why do people stand up for the rapist, but not the raped?

What the hell is wrong with Whoopi Goldberg?

“I know it wasn’t rape-rape. It was something else but I don’t believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and and when they let him out he was like ‘You know what, this guy’s going to give me a hundred years in jail I’m not staying,’ so that’s why he left.”

Roman Polanski left because he’s a guilty, cowardly rapist, Whoopi. A hundred years in jail, of being anally raped like that 13 year old girl was, would be just the thing for him.

I don’t see Whoopi as being a huge fan of cock - what if situations were reversed? How might she then feel about it?

This is Ted Kennedy all over again. This is anal-quiddick. This is what the definition of “is” is. This is Hollywood’s hatred of Elia Kazan.

If there’s a moral divide, you can bet your unraped anus that Hollywood will be standing on the wrong side.

(Discuss at Girl On The Right) ]]> http://www.webloggin.com/rape-rape/feed/ http://www.webloggin.com/put-your-money-on-those-the-dems-attack-most-fiercely/ http://www.webloggin.com/put-your-money-on-those-the-dems-attack-most-fiercely/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:45:58 +0000 Bookworm at Bookworm Room http://www.webloggin.com/?p=8087 We conservatives have tended to be “go along to get along” people.  If the media says someone is crazy, we back off, ’cause we don’t want to scare ordinary Americans.  Mark Steyn usefully reminds us that the media isn’t “ordinary Americans” and that media goals are antithetical to conservative success:

The media would like the American Right to be represented by the likes of Bob Dole and John McCain, decent old sticks who know how to give dignified concession speeches. Last time round, we went along with their recommendation. If you want to get rave reviews for losing gracefully, that’s the way to go. If you want to win, look at whom the Democrats and their media chums are so frantic to destroy: That’s the better guide to what they’re really worried about.

(Discuss at Bookworm Room)

The Watcher’s Council is a group of some of the most incisive blogs in the`sphere. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one of their own and one from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.

So, let’s see what we have this week….and do check out the Watcher’s excellent take on America’s wealthiest Congress critters and their gold plated health care…

Council Submissions

• The Provocateur - Yet Another Defining Moment
• Rhymes With Right - A Note On The “Tenther” Smear
• Joshuapundit - Welcome To The Babi Yar Hotel
• Bookworm Room - Obama Keeps Hitler Analogy in the Public Eye
• Soccer Dad - Leaving the nest
• The Glittering Eye - How the Shell Game Con Works
• Right Truth - Why America Could Be Doomed
• The Colossus of Rhodey - More on Obama’s ridiculous foreign policy
• Mere Rhetoric - Obama Knew About Secret Iran Facility During Transition, Experts Pushed Engagement Anyway With Pro-Iran Pretexts

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: The Provocateur – Breitbart TV - Sources: Sarkozy Thinks Obama is ‘Incredibly Naive and Grossly Egotistical’
• Submitted By: The Watcher – Kausfiles @Slate - Did ACORN chicanery elect Al Franken?
• Submitted By: The Watcher – The Anchoress - A Study in Contrasts
• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – RedState - Common Sense Outlawed in Indiana
• Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Jennifer Rubin/Commentary - Netanyahu’s Speech for the Ages
• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – WSJ/Bret Stephens - The Neocons Make a Comeback
• Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Simply Jews - Ich bin kein Berliner?
• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – StreetWise - It’s Not a Real Estate Crisis, It’s a Debt Crisis
• Submitted By: Right Truth – Fore-Left - Speaking of Vast Conspriacies..
• Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – The Times Online (UK) - The Anglo-world of settlers, not dominators
• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Larry Greenfield / American Thinker - Liberal Jews and the Legacy of Neoconservatism

Just in time for Halloween, here is another classroom full of impressionable youngsters that some leftist idiot has indoctrinated into worship of our Dear Leader. This makes my blood boil. If this happened when George Bush was in office it would have also made me angry…so please, no ridiculous comments about my double standard. Politics has NO BUSINESS in school. Unless we’re talking about a civics class or some sort of learning event that is going to present both sides equally. But for little tiny children?

“Barack Hussein Obama is going to give everyone a chance”?

That’s pure propaganda right there. Hey statist weirdos, when are you going to wake up and realize that HALF of this country not only didn’t vote for this man but are 100% opposed to his philosophy of life and the way things should be? And it’s our right! Half of us will not be teaching our children that it’s okay to take a handout from the government, or that abortion is an acceptable form of birth control, or that America is a sh*tty place, or that competition is bad, or that boys can marry boys, or that people crossing the border illegally should be able to cut in line in front of the thousands waiting patiently, or that foreign terrorists deserve American rights, or that Christianity is evil and Islam is a beacon for women’s rights in the world. There are a whole lot of things this president espouses that I, and half of this country, will NOT be imparting to our children. And for now, that is still our right. They’re our children. Not Obama’s. And as parents we have the right to teach them whatever we want! Teachers, on the other hand, do NOT have that right. Do you ever wonder why so many kids can’t freaking read? It’s no longer a mystery.

I highly suggest looking into home-school or private school for your kids. This kind of stuff is only going to get worse before we overthrow these socialist Marxists and send them back to the university teachers’ lounges from whence they came.

UPDATE: if the video isn’t weird enough, check out the lyrics to this ridiculous violation of the 1st amendment rights of NJ students.

Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be clear today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said Red, Yellow, Black or White
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
Yes
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

Then,

Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say “hooray!”
Hooray Mr. President! You’re number one!
The first Black American to lead this great na-TION!
Hooray, Mr. President something-something-some
A-something-something-to make our economy number one again!
Hooray Mr. President, we’re really proud of you!
And the same for all Americans [in?] the great Red White and Blue!
So something Mr. President we all just something-some,
So here’s a hearty hip-hooray a-something-something-some!
Hip, hip hooray! (3x)

Are you FREAKING KIDDING ME???? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? Not only should that teacher be fired but she should be barred from ever teaching anyone anything again in the public school system. (And she should also have her poet’s license yanked for some of the worst rhyming I’ve ever heard. One and na-tion? Weak.)

The principal of this school is now saying that this song was sung in celebration of black history month. The only problem with that explanation is that no other black people are mentioned other than Barack Hussein Obama, mmmm mmmm mmmm. How this principal, and countless others who keep doing this in public schools don’t see a conflict of the 1st amendment by using federal funds to advance a political ideology is outright CRAZY. They’re either the dumbest people on the planet or so bold in their goals of outright brainwashing the youth that they just don’t care. They do seem to be in full F-You mode. They figure when the kids are in their care they can teach them whatever they want and you, the parent, won’t know about it until it’s already embedded in their little brains.

I would really like to hear from some Obama supporters admitting that this is a clear violation of free speech in America. Never should we force little children to sing songs of praise to any politician, president or not, in this great nation. Save the adoration for the national anthem. Hang his picture on the wall, talk about what it means to be president and how you too can be the president if you try hard (and raise 600 million dollars) but in the name of the U.S. Constitution DO NOT force little children to praise an agenda they know nothing about,and might not support if they knew what it was and might have serious repercussions to their future wealth! What kind of person thinks this is okay?

Did anybody notice the weird sieg heil hand thrust at the end? C-R-E-E-P-Y. Creepy. Barack Obama should come out against this nonsense if he wants anyone to believe he cares about freedom at all. I heard a great caller on Savage today say he thinks we should start a movement to deliver legislation that the people write to ensure SEPARATION OF CHILD AND STATE. This is a fabulous idea. Let’s get on it, People.

(discuss at The Intolerant Fox)