Fistgate

I had heard about Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar, Kevin Jennings, and his past but I really didn't look into that much. Well, I've dug a little deeper into it and all I can say is how is this guy not in jail for what he is advocating?

GLSEN maintains a recommended reading list of books that it claims “furthers our mission to ensure safe schools for all students.” In other words, these are the books that GLSEN’s directors think all kids should be reading: gay kids should read them to raise their self-esteem, and straight kids should read them in order to become more aware and tolerant and stop bullying gay kids. Through GLSEN’s online ordering system, called “GLSEN BookLink,” featured prominently on their Web site, teachers can buy the books to use as required classroom assignments, or students can buy them to read on their own...

What we discovered shocked us. We were flabbergasted. Rendered speechless.

We were unprepared for what we encountered. Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.

Does the American public really know about this?

Exerpts of the extremely graphic - that's putting it mildly - reading material can be found here and here.

Obama needs to resign immediately just for appointing this guy. I'm not kidding. Why isn't this being broadcast on the news incessantly? We are talking about children here. This is OK with you? You want your children reading this?

The pedophiles have walked straight into your child's classroom, invited in, through the front door while we were guarding the back door.

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The Leaning Tower of Liuzhou

How do you say implosion in Chinese? That's not it

Video at the link.

Holy Cow!

Shamelessly Stolen

Barack Obama meets with the Queen of England. He asks her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?"

"Well," says the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people."

Obama frowns "But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?"

The Queen takes a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy. You just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle." The Queen pushes a button on her intercom. "Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?"

Tony Blair walks into the room. "Yes, my Queen?"

The Queen smiles. "Answer me this, please, Tony. Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?"

Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answers, "That would be me."

"Yes! Very good," says the Queen.

Obama goes back home to ask Joe Biden, his vice president, the same question. "Joe. Answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?"

"I'm not sure," says Biden. "Let me get back to you on that one." He goes to his advisors and asks every one, but none can give him an answer. Finally, he ends up in the men's room and recognizes Colin Powell's shoes in the next stall.

Biden asks Powell, "Colin! Can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?"

Colin Powell yells back, "That's easy. It's me!"

Biden smiles, and says, "Thanks!" Then, he goes back to speak with Obama.

"Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It's Colin Powell."

Obama gets up, stomps over to Biden, and angrily yells into his face, "No, you idiot! It's Tony Blair!"

From Xavier

Obama Baby!

Wish I'd seen this earlier. I thought I was subscribed to her but I don't know what happened. I am now. Gotta support the good guys.

Restrained No More

Delusions of Grandeur

Modern-day lunacy on Capitol Hill

The dilemma Congress always faces when it messes with the economy was aptly described in a Negro spiritual play by Marcus Cook Connelly titled "Green Pastures." In it, God laments to the angel Gabriel, "Every time Ah passes a miracle, Ah has to pass fo' or five mo' to ketch up wid it," adding, "Even bein God ain't no bed of roses." When Congress creates a miracle for one American, it creates a non-miracle for another. After that, Congress has to create a compensatory miracle. Many years ago, I used to testify before Congress, something I refuse to do now. At several of the hearings, I urged Congress to get out of the miracle business and leave miracle making up to God.

A Sudden Destruction

Zombified Americans

The world's dumbest joke and one of the world's most brilliant military actions are curiously related.

The joke: The police chief who knew the bad guy was in the movie theater ordered all exits guarded. When the theater was emptied and it was clear the bad guy had gotten away, one of his cops shook his head and said, "We had all the exits closely guarded, Chief. He must have gone out one of the entrances."

The military act: Before World War II the French, fearing a strong and aggressive Germany, built an impregnable series of fortifications along France's border with Germany; the famous Maginot Line. Everybody agreed the German army could not get through it. They didn't have to. They went around it and took France out of the war, never even needing to bother Berlin for more ammunition. The famous Maginot Line extended only as far west as the Belgian border. Nobody in France, apparently, ever dreamed the Germans would take Belgium and go around it.

Underline, please, "Nobody ever dreamed." To understand the unique danger confronting America, a good place to begin is to realize we're already deep inside undreamed-of territory. Let's begin with the unprecedented dismantling of the America we thought would last forever. We, the people, are today like the decent people of France in 1940; standing there open-mouthed and zombified at the speed and brazenness with which the Obama team is "going around our defenses" and transmogrifying America into something unwanted, unwelcome and, until now, unimaginable. The key question is: If the Obama team is rebuked at the polls in 2010 and thrown out in 2012, can the damage be reversed? Already, maybe not!

There are many ways to say, "What's going on here?" The young people call it a "new paradigm." You can also say, "We're not in Kansas anymore!" Others would call it a "whole new ball game." What's so new? Well, in the old days, if Obama's policies were unpopular, he'd have to slow down, stop and reverse those policies. Votes, you understand! No more. The radical, almost violent, restructuring of America ignores unpopularity and plunges ahead buoyed by a compliant, not a complaining, media. The Obama team is showing about as much concern about their escalating unpopularity and their breathtaking election losses in 2009 as the Germans showed to French shock at the outflanking of the Maginot Line. The Obama game plan: "We'll shake it up so much while the American people stand there blinking that they won't even remember how it used to be!"

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Alan Caruba

It's Not Socialism. It's Communism.

There was a time when Americans took Communism seriously. It challenged us in the form of the Soviet Union and we witnessed its takeover of China.

In Europe, uprisings against Soviet rule were crushed in East Germany in 1953, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Poland in the 1980s gave proof that only oppression can sustain this failed economic and political system. President Reagan gave voice to it when he called the Soviet Union an "evil empire."

It's NOT OK!

...to be drunk on the House floor. There's no excuse for it and any congressman who is drunk should be immediately escorted off the floor and have an alcohol test administered and removed from office on the spot if his blood alcohol level is above the limit for driving. If you can't drive drunk, you sure as hell can't run the country. Why do we let them get away with so much? Not acceptable any more!

Mark Steyn's Newest

Cross the river, burn the bridge

Last week, during a bit of banter on Fox News, my colleague Jonah Goldberg reminded me of something I’d all but forgotten. Last September, during his address to Congress on health care, Barack Obama declared:
"I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last."

Dream on. The monstrous mountain of toxic pustules sprouting from greasy boils metastasizing from malign carbuncles that passed the Senate on Christmas Eve is not the last word in "health" "care" but the first. It ensures that this is all we'll be talking about, now and forever.

Government can't just annex "one-sixth of the US economy" (ie, the equivalent of annexing the entire British or French economy, or annexing the entire Indian economy twice over) and then just say: "Okay, what’s next? On to cap-and-trade..." Nations that governmentalize health care soon find themselves talking about little else.

In Canada, once the wait times for MRIs and hip surgery start creeping up over two years, the government distracts the citizenry with a Royal Commission appointed to study possible "reforms" which reports back a couple of years later usually with recommendations to “strengthen” the government's "commitment" to every Canadian's "right" to health care by renaming the Department of Health the Department of Health Services and abolishing the Agency of Health Administration and replacing it with a new Agency of Administrative Health Operations which would report to a reformed Council of Health Policy Administrative Coordination to be supervised by a streamlined Public Health Operations & Administration Assessment Bureau. This package of "reforms" would cost a mere 12.3 gazillion dollars and usually keeps the lid on the pot until the wait times for MRIs start creeping up over three years.

The other alternative is what the British did earlier this year: They created an exciting new "Patient's Bill of Right", promising every Briton the "right" to hospital treatment within 18 weeks. Believe it or not, that distant deadline shimmering woozily in the languid desert haze can be oddly reassuring if you’ve ever visited a Scottish emergency room on a holiday weekend. And, if the four-and-a-half months go by and you still haven't been treated, you get your (tax) money back? Ah, no. But there is a free helpline you can call which will give you continuously updated estimates on which month your operation has been rescheduled for.

The lot of them should be in jail for what they are doing to this country. The only people who support this are the something for nothing, what's in it for me crowd and they will be the ones complaining the loudest when they don't get what they expected from the system - and they won't.

The Sorcerer

You thought health care was bad?

With Obama, always, always look at the other hand...

Yesterday, it was brought to my attention by Pierre Legrand that President Obama signed an Executive Order on December 17th that no one and I mean no one, reported on. Cue the crickets... As horrifying as the health care legislation is and I personally believe it is worthy of revolt, this Executive Order has the potential to be monstrous.

This now says that Interpol is no longer subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Their premises or staff can no longer be searched either. Their files are not subject to legal subpoena or discovery. Our government could just hand documents and files over to Interpol and Americans would no longer have access to them. Interpol can legally keep files now on all citizens of the US with no right to redress.

In reality, we have just handed over our sovereignty. Interpol headquarters in the US is currently headquartered in the Department of Justice. A ‘separate’ Interpol agency has been created in the DOJ – let that sink in for a moment. Interpol has been granted diplomatic immunity now by Obama – they have exemption from being subject to search and seizure by law enforcement, US taxes and immunity from FOIA requests, etc. This action could also be used to divulge American military secrets and a whole host of horrific practices having to do with going after our military. It’s the road to internationalism on steroids.

If Only They Knew

As Browning sang, "Youth sees but half." Youth is only intended to see half. It has not yet seen life in its entirety.

--G. Campbell Morgan

Healthcare

America is the bedridden patient and congress is the man putting a pillow over the patients face and holding it down till he stops moving.

A Joke?

Yes, he is.

Q. How many Al Gores does it take to change a light bulb?

A. None. He’ll warn others of the impending doom if the light bulb isn’t change, but he won’t lift a finger himself.

There's more.

His Gift Comes at a Price

Kim Peek, the man who inspired the movie 'Rain Man' has died. The video below is fascinating and is part 1 of 5 parts. You can see them all here.

Fishing Bloopers

Deadliest Catch Season 5

I missed most of season 5. I'll probably get it on video. I like watching it but it's something I could never do. Below are clips of my favorite captains.

Detroit, Rock City?

This is sad, sad, sad. Great video, though. It needs to be seen. They should play this in schools instead of Al Gore's global scam video.