tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63561202024-03-13T15:15:20.847-04:00Disaffiliates - Think TwiceIdentify your premises and live consistentlyMPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-55314669755674145262014-02-04T10:53:00.000-05:002014-02-04T10:58:03.049-05:00So people are up in arms about Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad? Go figure.<div>
So people are <a href="http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/day/2014/02/02">up in arms about</a> Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad? Go figure.</div>
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Coca-Cola needed cover against the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgendered activists who <a href="http://ny-popculture-politics.blogspot.com/2014/01/New-Activist-Video-Mocks-Coca-Cola-Id-Like-to-Teach-the-World-to-Sing-Over-anti-LGBT-Russian-Sochi-Olympics.html">are</a> <a href="http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/coca-cola-refuses-help-gay-russians-olympics211113">blasting</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/business/media/activists-try-to-hijack-promotions-by-sponsors-of-sochi-olympics.html">them</a> <a href="http://guardianlv.com/2014/01/sochi-games-trigger-gay-rights-protest-against-coke-video/">for</a> sponsoring the Sochii games. The agency purposely courted this sort of response, knowing the same crowd Sarah Palin exploits on a weekly basis would jump into the fray. Same shit as the A&E and Duck Dynasty flap. </div>
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MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-45778275105612852002012-03-01T17:40:00.004-05:002012-03-05T13:22:08.180-05:00What happened to Andrew Breitbart?<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K5pQXI3YChI/T1UCH494mII/AAAAAAAAIF4/m_beaIOBybo/s1600/toast.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 347px; height: 347px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K5pQXI3YChI/T1UCH494mII/AAAAAAAAIF4/m_beaIOBybo/s400/toast.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716477636590999682" /></a><br /><br />Walking to the subway with my wife this morning, strangely, the first thought in my head was Andrew Breitbart; I had no idea he had passed away just a few hours earlier. Inspired by some recent discussions with friends about the state of popular media today, I was thinking about how tragic Breitbart’s mission to take control of that culture was. Stranger indeed was it to step out of the 1-train ten minutes later with news of his passing flashing on my Blackberry. The following is my attempt to put down on paper what I was thinking just prior to the news.<br /><br />Not long after the election of President Obama, I saw an energized and optimistic Andrew Breitbart speak at a Manhattan Institute event; he primarily spoke about culture – and his desire to play a role in shifting the media power structures in New York and LA away from the cultural Left. He properly and calmly discussed their vulnerabilities, particularly economic and foreign policy issues; how his upcoming efforts wouldn’t focus on social issues; how you could win people over at the margin by creating independent media that was interesting to the political and non-political alike; and by appealing to common sensibilities already prevalent in the culture, but not well represented across current popular media. He knew his goal was daunting, but he sounded focused and ready to give it his best shot. I’ve read the Drudge Report almost daily since 2002, so I’d heard of Breitbart before, but I left that talk in favor of his efforts and a fan of Andrew himself.<br /><br />How disappointing then that instead of taking on the incredible challenge of working outside the cultural paradigm, over the past few years he instead adopted it whole-heartedly. The entire BigJournalism / BigHollywood / BigGovernment effort was setup as a reaction to the Left – not an attempt to work from outside their borders. Such efforts never change cultures – because they are so fully entrenched and invested in it. For Breitbart, it was no longer about changing reasonable peoples’ minds. BigX’s very success now depended upon ginning up a reaction from the Left – by creating a reaction and re-reaction – the miserable spiral that generates plenty of eyeballs, but rarely does it change hearts and minds.<br /><br />I remember <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=breitbart+dyson+maher&btnK=">a miserable segment on the Bill Mahar</a> show in early 2009 where Breitbart launched into an incredible attack on an obviously reprehensible Eric Dyson. But spending so much negative energy on this relatively meaningless celebrity made both of them look ridiculous. The performance was off-putting to anyone on the margin – but it was exciting to the people who live for and profit from the fight itself. The persona of a bombastic attacker soon became his new persona. The title of his one year-old book, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Indignation-Excuse-While-World/dp/0446572829/&tag=jusadbel-20">Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World</a>” pretty much speaks for itself. <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewbreitbart">On Twitter</a>, he was obsessed with baiting big-named leftists into flame wars (last week he was excited about <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-twitter-feud-alec-baldwin-calls-andrew-breitbart-a-festering-boil-on-the-anus-of-public-discourse/">luring Alec Baldwin into another meaningless back-and-forth</a>). No one took more delight in generating and retweeting all qualities and quantities of hate spilled at him. Where was the guy who said you don’t win by playing by their rules – you don’t win by indulging them? You win by ignoring them – by going around them – by creating your own rules.<br /><br />Breitbart gave Bill Maher and his audience exactly what they wanted. He gave him a prize fight – a spectacle. He gave Jon Stewart and his Daily Show audience something they could compartmentalize into “the other” – he gave them the luxury of lumping his persona up with worthy ideas not worth their time or consideration – saving them a lot of time and critical thinking. This is the same reason Sarah Palin is a multi-millionaire today. Her enemies need her as much as she needs them. But Palin is playing by their rules…and once you’re playing by their rules, you might become a household name and wealthy, but it’s nearly impossible to get out…and your legacy is no longer in your own hands. One hundred years from now, who will remember Sarah Palin or BigGovernment.com?<br /><br />I’ve heard plenty of second-hand stories about the rambunctious life and times of Andrew Breitbart – many of our family friends have spent good quality time with him. To our friends, he was always an enigma; always talented and always potentially capable of something great and unexpected. I don’t know what happened to him. I think he just gave up. I think he quit. Seduced by the modern culture and its easy rewards for playing by their rules, he stopped hating it and became a key cog in its machinery. Was it the money? He didn’t seem to be the kind of person who’d be so easily bought – and to me, that is the hardest thing to understand – and exactly what I was trying to wrap my head around this morning.MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-28934918607450288692011-11-07T01:05:00.003-05:002011-11-07T01:11:02.801-05:00What is the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly?As explained by <a href="http://georgiasagri.blogspot.com/2011/10/nyc-ga-wall-street-occupation.html">Georgia Sagri</a>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><blockquote>"NYC General Assemblies are an open participatory and horizontally organized process through which we are building the capacity to constitute ourselves in public as autonomous collective forces within and against representative politics, cultural death and the crisis of our times."<br /></blockquote><br /></span><br />Got that?<br /><br />Now here's how you participate as part of the autonomous collective force:<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qaVvzTyMcls" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-15468473616373799052010-02-28T13:12:00.001-05:002010-02-28T13:18:36.382-05:00Toyota -- The Car Dealers....of DEATH.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4390570934_5487f5ebb3_o.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 480px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4390570934_5487f5ebb3_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><center>Iowahawk delivers: <a href="http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2010/02/take-that-tojo.html">Take That, Tojo!</a></center>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-58350836173744215492009-07-08T12:29:00.006-04:002009-07-08T13:36:56.100-04:00The Sarah Palin as Trainable Parrot TheoryI continue to <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/07/08/reader_letters/">read</a> about and <a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/20965?in=37:55&out=39:06">hear</a> this notion that if Sarah Palin can "<a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjdlZDRkNGUxOGY2NTA2NzQ0MGU1YzlmNzBhMmY0ZDU">bone up</a>" on her grasp of the issues, she can come back and be a force.<br /><br />Simple question: Would anyone be saying this if she were a man? Isn't treating her like a parrot misogynistic on some level?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__Fd9ngFW7os/SlTVkUbx-fI/AAAAAAAAF5U/7eeCpltHpH0/s1600-h/palintheparrot.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__Fd9ngFW7os/SlTVkUbx-fI/AAAAAAAAF5U/7eeCpltHpH0/s400/palintheparrot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356140676787599858" /></a><br /><br />I strongly recommend reading "<a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-meaning-of-sarah-palin-14674">The Meaning of Sarah Palin</a>" by Yuval Levin.MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-80839517343651497392009-07-02T10:41:00.003-04:002009-07-02T10:46:44.292-04:00The fabled shift to a "green energy" economy is a pipe-dreamIt takes a special kind of naivete to believe subsidizing energy which costs 3x to 6x as much as fossil fuels (depending on who you ask) is going to benefit anyone, except for the politically connected...even so, the fabled shift to a "green energy" economy is a pipe-dream to succor the feel-good set into supporting what is essentially just a big tax hike.<br /><br />Ten years from now, the percentage of energy produced from wind and solar will be no higher than it is today -- we'll just be paying a lot more for the oil and coal energy we consume.<br /><br />There does exist a real green and cost effective energy source not many in power seem interested in -- nuclear power, of course.<br /><br />My home state of Maine has been ahead of the curve lately, passing gay marriage laws and income tax cuts. Perhaps Maine can lead country forward with clean nuclear energy. Let's bring <a href="http://www.maineyankee.com/">Maine Yankee</a> back online and continue to show the rest of the country how it's done.MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-1703898317955526862009-02-12T16:40:00.002-05:002009-02-12T16:44:29.623-05:00Only 3.27 Trillion?<a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/02/12/true-cost-of-stimulus-327-trillion/">Heritage Foundation estimates</a> the true cost of stimulus: $3.27 Trillion. I actually think they are underestimating, as many of the programs (and the failures they create) will lead to new programs and greater spending in the future.<br /><br />Best comment:<br /><blockquote>Dick Turpin, Dallas writes:<br /><br />True act of highway robbery.<br /><br />There are two types of people in America today:<br />1- those who remember the Carter years and<br />2- those who are going to find out.</blockquote>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-38520950800235556332008-04-20T09:43:00.003-04:002008-04-20T09:48:04.431-04:00We are going to laugh at this fad 20 years from now, right?This "green" product brings the movement form ridiculous to absurd.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D905FE700&show_article=1">Green funerals make for eco-exits</a><br /><br />And check this out: <a href="http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/">Natural Death Centre</a>, where they ask you, "How green is your life."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/__Fd9ngFW7os/SAtJUVE3VQI/AAAAAAAAD2s/rFhC3bNos3g/s1600-h/howgreenisyourlife.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/__Fd9ngFW7os/SAtJUVE3VQI/AAAAAAAAD2s/rFhC3bNos3g/s400/howgreenisyourlife.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191323609078387970" /></a>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-19945088078992634312008-04-13T23:12:00.004-04:002008-04-13T23:23:16.946-04:00Obama is a politician in denial (video)Here is Obama today in Pennsylvania, defending his <a href="http://instapundit.com/archives2/017754.php">demeaning put-down</a> of blue collar America. Here is a politician who has already gotten away with so much, always escaping unscathed. Watch this video and you'll see someone in denial (yet sub-consciously, it is clear he knows he is in trouble). He is trying to spin his blunder like it is nothing, only he comes across as an insecure bully who knows he is cornered (even his laughs, and the crowd's laughs, are strange and pleading).<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NIxmi3e2Vmo&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NIxmi3e2Vmo&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />Look at this guy. There is no way he is going to be the next president. Even though I doubt Hillary catches him, especially after Bosnia-gate, it doesn't matter; you are looking at McGovern 2008.MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-78633227985403584802008-04-11T19:27:00.002-04:002008-04-11T19:33:14.987-04:008 Year Old Asks for Divorce<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/__Fd9ngFW7os/R__1LOj2iGI/AAAAAAAAD2M/p3TPRVht_XY/s1600-h/8yearolddivorceyemen.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/__Fd9ngFW7os/R__1LOj2iGI/AAAAAAAAD2M/p3TPRVht_XY/s320/8yearolddivorceyemen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188134868989937762" /></a><br />At Weasel Zippers: <a href="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2008/04/yemen-8-year-ol.html">8 Year-old Girl Seeks Divorce From Husband.....</a><br /><blockquote>SANA’A, April 9 - An eight-year-old girl decided last week to go the Sana’a West Court to prosecute her father, who forced her to marry a 30-year-old man.<br /><br />Nojoud Muhammed Nasser arrived at court by herself on Wednesday, April 2, looking for a judge to handle her case against her father, Muhammed Nasser, who forced her two months ago to marry Faez Ali Thamer, a man 22 years her senior. The child also asked for a divorce, accusing her husband of sexual and domestic abuse. </blockquote>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-77375770359065838742008-03-20T14:31:00.005-04:002008-03-20T14:43:47.753-04:00Obama: Merely Changing the SubjectInvestor's Business Daily understands that Obama is <a href="http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=290732552237836">merely changing the subject</a>:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />But Obama's recent troubles, which this much-hyped speech was supposed to put past him, are not about race relations. They're about one churchman who happens to be black, whose views from the pulpit are repugnant and from whom Obama doesn't seem to have the guts to distance himself.<br /><br />...<br /><br />The supposed divide between black and white is not the issue here; Obama's longtime association with Jeremiah Wright is.</span></blockquote>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-36722993530838218582008-03-18T16:58:00.006-04:002008-03-19T19:54:21.029-04:00Obama is a cynical pragmatistThe Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair and his "<a href="http://drudgereport.com/flashos.htm">oops, you got me</a>" response speech has only confirmed the obvious. Obama is a typical cynical politician. In his case, he needed credibility in South Chicago so he partnered with the people who could buy him influence (Wright and Rezko).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Obama doesn't believe in Wright's foolishness because he doesn't believe in anything. His prime motivation is the ability to exercise power.</span><br /><br />Obama doesn't care to sooth race relations. He seeks to exploit them, evidenced by his proposals for more socialism and more affirmative action.<br /><br />Obama would happily throw Jeremiah Wright under the bus if it meant more power. His problem now is how to delicately do just that without looking like a hypocrite and damaging his credibility as a uniter. <span style="font-weight:bold;">He must now attempt to present himself as a politician unique in American history, someone who doesn't just feel your pain, but feels everyone's pain. </span>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-40672885397124690892008-03-02T23:45:00.006-05:002008-03-02T23:54:14.278-05:00It is Getting Worse -- Obama's Hollywood Cult has Officially Jumped the SharkFound at <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/03/and-now-for-pro-obama-video.html">Althouse</a>.<br /><br />You have to see this video to believe it -- Yes We Can by Will.I.Am was embarrassingly bad. Who knew it was possible, but this one puts it to shame. I'm smiling ear-to-ear. These fools are making it too easy. If they can top this one, I'll be shocked.<br /><br /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="Musicane" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="371" width="408"><param name="movie" value="http://www.musicane.com/yeswecan/musicane2.swf?rsid=03f7fdbc-2da6-458e-bbcc-28d91c081b06&sid=911E113E-F2EA-41EA-A5A6-C2A2B1A2E9E3&uid=&featured=31CD154E-6075-4DAB-A39E-EB1B1E57BA23"><param name="quality" value="high"><embed src="http://www.musicane.com/yeswecan/musicane2.swf?rsid=03f7fdbc-2da6-458e-bbcc-28d91c081b06&sid=911E113E-F2EA-41EA-A5A6-C2A2B1A2E9E3&uid=&featured=31CD154E-6075-4DAB-A39E-EB1B1E57BA23" quality="high" name="Musicane" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="371" width="408"></embed></object><br /><br />Is Will.I.Am working for Karl Rove or something? Wow...MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-5978494996443745802008-03-01T15:45:00.002-05:002008-03-01T15:48:18.426-05:00The more I know, the more I doubtOops - <a href="http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/global-warming-paradox/">Global Warming Paradox</a> at the NY Times Science Blog.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><blockquote>If only the masses could understand the science of global warming, they’d be alarmed, right? Wrong, according to the surprising results of a survey of Americans published in the journal Risk Analysis by researchers at Texas A&M University.<br /><br />After asking a national sample of more than 1,000 Americans how much they knew about global warming and how they felt about it, the researchers report that respondents who are better-informed about global warming “both feel less personally responsible for global warming, and also show less concern for global warming.” Another unexpected result: “Respondents who showed a great deal of confidence that scientists understand global warming and climate change showed significantly less concern for the risks of global warming than did those who have lower trust in scientists.”<br /></blockquote></span>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-10188623203359765932008-02-25T20:23:00.004-05:002008-02-25T20:38:34.622-05:00To know Obama, look to the women in his lifeI am throughly impressed with some of the articles recently written identifying the Obama phenomenon for the fraud it is, in beautiful plain English.<br /><br />Someone writing under the pseudonym 'Spengler' for the Asia Times writes <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html">Obama's women reveal his secret</a>. This is without a doubt, a must read. Spengler tells you to look to Obama’s mom and wife for clues to his real motivations. Here are some choice quotes:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><blockquote>"Cherchez la femme," advised Alexander Dumas in: "When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman." In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama's women reveal his secret: he hates America<br /><br />...<br /><br />Obama profiles Americans the way anthropologists interact with primitive peoples. He holds his own view in reserve and emphatically draws out the feelings of others; that is how friends and colleagues describe his modus operandi since his days at the Harvard Law Review, through his years as a community activist in Chicago, and in national politics. Anthropologists, though, proceed from resentment against the devouring culture of America and sympathy with the endangered cultures of the primitive world. Obama inverts the anthropological model: he applies the tools of cultural manipulation out of resentment against America.<br /><br />...<br /><br />There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture.</blockquote></span></span><br /><br />There is so much more in this one. Please <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html">read it all</a>.MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-82891589882327127262008-02-13T00:08:00.005-05:002008-02-13T00:22:08.025-05:00Thomas Sowell: Dangerous demagogueryAnother <a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell012208.php3">must read</a> (from a long line of must reads) from Thomas Sowell.<br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">"Many people find it thrilling that the mantra of "change" is ringing out across the land during this election year. But let's do what the politicians hope that we will never do — stop and think."</span></blockquote><br /><br />Oh, I love Thomas Sowell. I'm not sure I've ever heard him say something I've disagreed with.<br /><br />Listen to him in 1980 addressing the Fairmount Conference in San Francisco (still so prescient today):<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1GqDe6zN_mk&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1GqDe6zN_mk&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />Make sure and buy his memoir, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Man-Letters-Thomas-Sowell/dp/1594031967/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202879876&sr=8-5">A Man of Letters</a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.com/Man-Letters-Thomas-Sowell/dp/1594031967/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202879876&sr=8-5"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookimages/54/c7054_full.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166330253081502786" /></a>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-24189558081672804412008-02-12T23:44:00.004-05:002008-02-12T23:49:54.159-05:00Religous nut-job of the day (The Obama Messiah Watch Continues)I mean it -- I hope to see a lot more of this ridiculousness over the next few months. People like this just might convince enough people to steer clear from the <a href="http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com">Messiah</a>. Watch this 60's throwback...laugh at her...and then weep for her and her cause.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yb4wtiYcFLQ&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yb4wtiYcFLQ&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />BTW -- there is a new Facebook group dedicated to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7920979546">Obama as Messiah</a>. Join it if you can.MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-41585627273255979532008-02-10T12:22:00.000-05:002008-02-10T12:32:52.796-05:00Laughing at the Obama cultists<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/Obama/obama_eyes.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/Obama/obama_eyes.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />It is very encouraging to see so many people recognizing and starting to make fun of the Obama cult. This is the greatest attempt thus far:<br /><a href="http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/">Is Barack Obama the Messiah</a><br />h/t: <a href="http://www.instapundit.com">instapundit</a><br /><br />Read the entire site for the alternating chills and laughs.<br /><br />It is funny to see the so-called secular leftists embracing religion so fervently. It pretty much blows a hole in <a href="http://www.billoreilly.com/culturewarrior">Bill O'Reilly's thesis</a> - the secular left was never secular.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/Obama/obama_worshippers.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/Obama/obama_worshippers.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-15099407159370235762008-02-07T11:00:00.000-05:002008-02-07T23:08:44.335-05:00Obama is a Messiah for the 21st centuryProps to Jake Tapper at ABC for being brave enough to <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/and-obama-wept.html">call Obama's campaign for what it really is</a> -- a religion. Every time I see an Obama self-lauding campaign speech in which he says nothing except for how great the Obama movement is, I get chills in the same way I would if I was watching a fire and brimstone Southern Baptist stumping on a pulpit before millions of true believers. Get to someone's soul and you control their brain.<br /><br />He quotes one Obama supporter who is starting to get freaked out:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">Describing various encounters with Obama supporters, she writes, "Excuse me, but this sounds more like a cult than a political campaign. The language used here is the language of evangelical Christianity – the Obama volunteers speak of 'coming to Obama' in the same way born-again Christians talk about 'coming to Jesus.'</span></blockquote><br />Tapper also refers to a Joe Klein piece titled "<a href="http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1710721,00.html">Inspiration vs. Substance</a>":<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><blockquote>"That is not just maddeningly vague but also disingenuous: the campaign is entirely about Obama and his ability to inspire. Rather than focusing on any specific issue or cause — other than an amorphous desire for change — the message is becoming dangerously self-referential. The Obama campaign all too often is about how wonderful the Obama campaign is. “</blockquote></span><br /><br />I've noted <a href="http://disaffiliates.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-changes-your-underwear.html">many</a> <a href="http://disaffiliates.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-has-some-spare-change.html">times</a> how <a href="http://disaffiliates.blogspot.com/2007/02/63-cliches-per-minute.html">empty</a> Obama's rhetoric actually is. Even the NY Times is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/us/politics/08obama.html?ei=5065&en=37cff990ddae9847&ex=1176609600&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print">under his spell</a>. <span style="font-weight:bold;">I must say it now -- this man is dangerous.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/__Fd9ngFW7os/R6s0pVuXbzI/AAAAAAAADyg/JyayRt5FXaQ/s1600-h/obamagod.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/__Fd9ngFW7os/R6s0pVuXbzI/AAAAAAAADyg/JyayRt5FXaQ/s400/obamagod.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164279282521304882" /></a><br /><br />Update: Check out this image direct from Obama's homepage!!!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.barackobama.com/images/temp_flashheader.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px;" src="http://www.barackobama.com/images/temp_flashheader.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-90784432624737137832008-02-02T00:06:00.000-05:002008-02-02T00:18:36.708-05:00Van Jones -- Another Crook hanging around DavosANOTHER EMPTY-HEADED SOCIALIST CROOK HANGING IN DAVOS - Van Jones of <a href="http://www.greenforall.org">greenforall.org</a><br /><br />Hey Van -- how can we make the world a better place?<br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">"<span style="font-weight:bold;">Green collar</span> jobs for 'working people'"<br /><br />"<span style="font-weight:bold;">Green pathways</span> out of poverty"<br /><br />"A <span style="font-weight:bold;">green wave</span> that can lift all boats"<br /><br />"We need to connect the people who most need work with the work that most needs to be done."</span></blockquote><br />Listen to him --- listen to the lack of conviction in his voice -- the tepidness of his message. He has no clue what the words coming out his mouth actually <span style="font-weight:bold;">mean</span> and he knows it.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3IUVpwx23cY&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3IUVpwx23cY&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-66226772501587669172008-02-01T23:55:00.000-05:002008-02-02T00:05:01.420-05:00Wow - Bono is annoyingListen <a href="http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/06/editorials/bono.htm">to this</a> "rock star."<br /><br />Bono's Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">Please join me in praying that I don't say something we'll all regret.<br /><br />That was for the FCC.<br /><br />If you're wondering what I'm doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I'm here because I've got a messianic complex.<br /><br />Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation.<br /><br />Well, I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural… something unseemly… about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water.<br />It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert… but this is really weird, isn't it?</span></blockquote><br /><br />Look at this empty sack of shit talking to a webcam in Davos. He says absolutely nothing in the most sanctimonious way possible. Nothing.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MTTqP4r6bgI&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MTTqP4r6bgI&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />"Hello, my name is Bono and I'm a rock star....sort of." <br /><br />While Bono's shtick is grating on the senses, I do think the fat guy chomping on his lunch in the background is a funny counter-point.MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-75346331518580208042008-02-01T23:39:00.000-05:002008-02-01T23:51:40.618-05:00William J. Cole gets paid to write this shitTake a look: <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UHG6SG1">World Captivated by US Presidential Race</a> <br /><br />Who the hell is this guy, William J. Cole of the Associated Press? Isn't this more like a blog post that belongs on Daily Kos?<br /><br />Can we re-title this "William J. Cole loves Obama," please? This is not news -- it is so poorly written, it is almost not even pretending to be news. Every paragraph stinks. Every one of them.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><blockquote>"The idea since the country's founding—'You can't become president if you're not a white man'—has already been destroyed," the Mainichi newspaper said in an editorial.</blockquote><br /><blockquote>"Nobody in Europe ever took Bill Clinton's problems in office seriously," said Patrick Dunleavy, a political scientist at the London School of Economics. "Nobody could ever understand why Americans were so upset. Bill Clinton was always a fantastic presence in Europe."</blockquote><br /><blockquote>"People all around the world are pretty worried," he said. "They want a president who will restore a kind of U.S. legitimacy in the world."</blockquote></span>MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-88944475438717938072008-01-30T20:46:00.000-05:002008-01-30T20:59:42.678-05:00Begging Tiger Woods to be a DemocratThis has been <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BUE/is_8_135/ai_n18615113">going</a> on <a href="http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=830">for years</a>. Begging, pleading...<br /><br />Today's blubbering attempt: <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080130173847.suv5kt02&show_article=1">Woods impressed by Barack Obama</a>, via <a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/">Drudge</a>.<br /><br />Tiger Woods is the consumate sports professional. He knows that, at the end of the day, he alone is responsible for the choices he makes.<br /><br />See Tiger's <a href="http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur40210.cfm">response</a> to the idiotic noose cover on Golfweek magazine:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><blockquote>"It was unfortunate," Woods said in a statement Monday. "Kelly and I did speak. There was no ill intent. She regrets saying it. In my eyes it's all said and done."<br /></blockquote></span><br /><img src="http://www.sportsnet.ca/golf/2008/01/18/golfweek_magazine2_260.jpg" />MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-27732730965637812062008-01-11T16:14:00.000-05:002008-01-11T16:39:50.730-05:00Something truly sickThe drug-store chain CVS wants to open a simple clinic service in their existing locations to assist people with easy-to-treat illnesses (such as sore throats). These clinics can help take the burden off of the existing health care infrastructure and in many instances significantly lower the cost of care, ultimately benefiting lower income families most. Of course, the city of Boston wants to outlaw this.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/01/11/menino_decries_clinics_in_retailers/">Boston.com</a>: Menino decries clinics in retailers<blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">"Limited service medical clinics run by merchants in for-profit corporations will seriously compromise quality of care and hygiene. Allowing retailers to make money off of sick people is wrong."</span></blockquote><br />That last sentence pretty much sums up the statist's view of the world.<br /><br />Glenn Reynolds <a href="http://instapundit.com/archives2/013953.php">asks</a>:<blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">"Is it too cynical to suspect that the real opposition stems from fears that they will make national healthcare seem less urgent?"</span></blockquote><br />The government doesn't like competition and they aren't afraid to stifle it. Upward mobility for this core-constituency is bad for business of expanding government, so outfits such as Wal-Mart have to be fought every step of the way.MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6356120.post-6281668837691753992008-01-07T23:03:00.000-05:002008-01-12T00:51:18.347-05:00Obama CHANGES your underwear!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/__Fd9ngFW7os/R4L7PT2dJzI/AAAAAAAADw4/3uNXUckMIkM/s1600-h/obama-change.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/__Fd9ngFW7os/R4L7PT2dJzI/AAAAAAAADw4/3uNXUckMIkM/s200/obama-change.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152957164110554930" /></a><br /><br />Obama is changing everything...and its really catching on. This change message is really bringing out the best in people.<br /><br />Here are some brilliants minds at work executing on this brave and innovative message.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-sedaei/the-courage-to-change_b_79288.html">This maestro</a> wordsmith was able to incorporate the great word 26 times in one short essay telling us how cool Barack is! Awesome!<br /><br />These people are selling "Obama for Change" T-shirts <a href="http://www.obamaforchange.com/">here</a>! Change your t-shirt today and show the world how Obama can change more than t-shirts and underwear.<br /><br />BTW -- right now there are 29,399 news stories for the Google News search "<a href="http://news.google.com/news?q=obama%20change">obama change</a>". Not a bad days work.MPHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832807936475030356noreply@blogger.com0