Obama and Jon Favreau and taste and how that relates to the safety of the country

the photo featuring President-elect Obama's chief speechwriter Jon Favreau and his colleague that turned up in the media and on the Internet last week.

While the following notation of the usual double standard applied to the sins of the Demos as compared to the sins of the Repubs is accurate, it really isn't the point.

Breitbart observes that "[t]he aggressive iconography of two young drunk men taking advantage of a life-size cutout of a woman - especially a powerful one - would bring an elite college campus to a standstill, force a housecleaning of a Fortune 500 company, ground the Air Force Academy and would, in most cases, ruin the career of a Republican staffer or elected official." He juxtaposes the jocular reaction to Favreau's photograph with that of any comparable Republican:

"If, for instance, President Bush's former speechwriter Michael Gerson had been caught in flagrante cartone, he would have stepped down before the president could fire him. If not, the media, the feminist establishment and the Democratic Party leadership would have destroyed Mr. Gerson and Mr. Bush and crafted a "culture of harassment" umbrella descriptor to hang around the administration's neck in perpetuity.

In GOP land, apologies and resignations are never enough...."

In the case of Favreau, however, "the Democratic double standard on political correctness kicked in immediately as the feminist establishment, the media and even Mrs. Clinton herself came forth to save the fast-rising Obama wordsmith." Whatever moral one draws from this particular episode, it is a striking illustration of the phenomenon that was the subject of Professor Hanson's column.

No. The issue is Hussein. By tolerating this action he is clearly saying, "I have no taste."

But why, you may ask, is this important? Because dear chums it validates those who rightly noted that Hussein had hung around the Reverend Wright because he had no particular problem with listening to someone scream "God damn America!" and better yet, Hussein could use the association to his advantage.

The same applies to his association with Ayers. He knew who Ayers was and what Ayers had done. But again, he had no particular problem with what Ayers was and what he had done, and again better yet, he could use the association to his advantage.

He has no taste. No foundation in middle class morals and mores. He belongs to no group and thus feels free to do as he feels right. There is another word for such a person that I am inching towards using, but I think he deserves a bit longer to prove me wrong.

He is starting to remind me of Nixon without Nixon's base patriotism... and, like Nixon, his loyalty is to someone who is loyal to him. In the end that destroyed Nixon's ability to govern.

At present the media is still in denial, but the far Left is starting to grumble. We shall see how long and how much they will endure from The Chosen One.

Powerline Link

England gives up its language

A nation that gives up its language soon ceases to be a nation. The ties that bind its citizens together are words. Spoken and written words that invoke common memories of the country.

From England, a country that seems to be unable to shed its glorious and freedom giving past fast enough, we get another example of how those who worship at the altar of diversity are the leaders in this damnable task.

Keep in mind that this the "Children's" dictionary so some one will argue that the words aren't gone, merely moved. I would argue that 99% of the vocabulary is formed by age ten, and by removing them, even if a child is exposed to such a evil word as "altar," they won't have a ready and easy source of its meaning.

Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", "chapel", "empire" and "monarch" from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like "blog", "broadband" and "celebrity". Dozens of words related to the countryside have also been culled.

The publisher claims the changes have been made to reflect the fact that Britain is a modern, multicultural, multifaith society.

I never dreamed that "aisle," was ancient and out of date. And replacing "chapel" with "celebrity" seems to be well past midnight on the stupid clock.

What's next? "Terrorist" replaced by "insurgent?" That would suit the Left wing diversity crowd quite well."

Evidently this nonsense started in 2003. The removed words are:

Carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe

Dwarf, elf, goblin

Abbey, aisle, altar, bishop, chapel, christen, disciple, minister, monastery, monk, nun, nunnery, parish, pew, psalm, pulpit, saint, sin, devil, vicar

Coronation, duchess, duke, emperor, empire, monarch, decade

adder, ass, beaver, boar, budgerigar, bullock, cheetah, colt, corgi, cygnet, doe, drake, ferret, gerbil, goldfish, guinea pig, hamster, heron, herring, kingfisher, lark, leopard, lobster, magpie, minnow, mussel, newt, otter, ox, oyster, panther, pelican, piglet, plaice, poodle, porcupine, porpoise, raven, spaniel, starling, stoat, stork, terrapin, thrush, weasel, wren.

Acorn, allotment, almond, apricot, ash, bacon, beech, beetroot, blackberry, blacksmith, bloom, bluebell, bramble, bran, bray, bridle, brook, buttercup, canary, canter, carnation, catkin, cauliflower, chestnut, clover, conker, county, cowslip, crocus, dandelion, diesel, fern, fungus, gooseberry, gorse, hazel, hazelnut, heather, holly, horse chestnut, ivy, lavender, leek, liquorice, manger, marzipan, melon, minnow, mint, nectar, nectarine, oats, pansy, parsnip, pasture, poppy, porridge, poultry, primrose, prune, radish, rhubarb, sheaf, spinach, sycamore, tulip, turnip, vine, violet, walnut, willow

Words put in:

Blog, broadband, MP3 player, voicemail, attachment, database, export, chatroom, bullet point, cut and paste, analogue

Celebrity, tolerant, vandalism, negotiate, interdependent, creep, citizenship, childhood, conflict, common sense, debate, EU, drought, brainy, boisterous, cautionary tale, bilingual, bungee jumping, committee, compulsory, cope, democratic, allergic, biodegradable, emotion, dyslexic, donate, endangered, Euro

Apparatus, food chain, incisor, square number, trapezium, alliteration, colloquial, idiom, curriculum, classify, chronological, block graph

Isn't the question.... Why not just add the words? The English language is a wonderful sponge and is used the world over because it is flexible and adds/removes words on its own. It needs no help.

This action is like the canary in the coal mine.

The excuse, and the Left always has a good intentioned excuse, is stated as:

Vineeta Gupta, the head of children's dictionaries at Oxford University Press, said: "We are limited by how big the dictionary can be – little hands must be able to handle it

But wait, dear Vineeta, are you telling us that six or seven extra pages are so burdensome that the users can't handle them? As Colonel Potter said, "Horse hockey."

Here is the real reason. Again from Vineeta:

We are also much more multicultural. People don't go to Church as often as before. Our understanding of religion is within multiculturalism, which is why some words such as "Pentecost" or "Whitsun" would have been in 20 years ago but not now."

Indeed. "Not now."

`I don't know what you mean by "glory,"' Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'

`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,"' Alice objected.

`When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.'

`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master - - that's all.'

--Lewis Carrol, "Through the Looking Glass"

Links and thanks to the Telegraph.

A boy and his train..

This came from Grant M or Jimmy M... sorry guys, can't remember which... I am not getting old. I am not getting old.......

Can't we all just get along... with terrorists?

Yesterday I wrote of a Somali immigrant who returned to Somali and killed 29 people when he killed himself. Now we find there are more.

Nearly a dozen local boys and young men have gone missing in the past two years, said Somali community leader Abdirizak Bihi, whose nephew is among them. There likely are more, he said.

Some of the men and boys have called home saying they are in Somalia, without specifying why. There is concern they were brainwashed and then left to fight in the civil war their parents fled from, local leaders said Saturday.

Without specifying who they believe recruited the young men for such a mission, leaders said investigators should look closely at the money at local Muslim institutions.

"(The missing men and boys) have been financially supported to leave the country with the promise of utopian society," Bihi said. "(But) they are in harm's way."

Local concerns grew after a Minneapolis man, Shirwa Ahmed, disappeared and killed himself in a suicide bombing in northern Somalia on Oct. 29.

No one should be surprised at this. It has long been obvious that this last and current wave of Muslim immigrants are not being successfully assimilated into society and are busy demanding their "rights" from cab drivers refusing to carry passengers with alcohol and/or dogs to schools that teach it is okay to steal from and kill Jews and non-Muslims.




The obvious villain in this is our dear friend, "diversity," in which we are told to celebrate the differences. The dummies who teach this nonsense must think that all that is different is dress and food differences and that pleas of, "Can't we all just get along," are heard by the terrorists.

But rational people are hard to find among our elitist Lefties. They still don't understand that "useful idiots" is a term as applicable to them regarding radical Muslim terrorists as it was 70 years ago to the Leftie fans of Stalin.

Actually they are heard , and their answer is a simple and easy to understand by rational people, "No."

Powerline

Bits and pieces

I read and hear that Caroline Kennedy has decided that it is her turn to be a Senator, reason being is that she has raised her children and has done good things.

Oh, did I mention her name is Kennedy? Besides Hillary she will have other big shoes to fill.


And I read somewhere that a better Big 3 bailout would be to give everyone vouchers so they could buy a new automobile.. Let's see... $30,000 (3 x 10 to the 4th) x 300,000,000 (300 x 10 to the 6th) is 900 x 10 to the 10th or $9 trillion.... You know, whoever thought this up has a future in politics or else selling paper to the US Mint's printing office..... And that figure doesn't include the cultural sojourners...aka illegal aliens.



In the meantime it appears that William "Cold Cash" Jefferson, he of the $500,000 in the fridge fame, is being challenged by a Vietnamese Catholic Priest who speaks four languages. It is not known if Ebonics is one of them. What endears me to the Democrats dogged support of old "Cold Cash" is this account of his actions during Katrina.

Two Heavy Trucks, Helicopter Were Involved in Lawmaker's Trip at Height of Crisis

"I can't comment on why the congressman decided not to go in the aircraft," McPherson said. "Did it take a little more time to send the rescue swimmer back a second time? Yes … You'd have to ask the congressman if it was a waste of time or not."

The Louisiana National Guard then sent a second five-ton truck to rescue the first truck, and Jefferson and his personal items were returned to the Superdome.

You see the power was off and he was concerned that his goldfish's loss of their aerator would kill them. And, yes, I saw "A Fish Named Wanda..."

Wait! This just in!"

NEW ORLEANS — Representative William J. Jefferson was defeated by a little-known Republican lawyer here Saturday in a late-running Congressional election, underscoring the sharp demographic shifts in this city since Hurricane Katrina and handing Republicans an unexpected victory in a district that had been solidly Democratic.

Oh, really? Didn't they re-elect the same mayor??



I love this one from TalkLeft.

Sometimes (5.00 / 1) (#57)
by Fabian on Sat Dec 06, 2008 at 08:25:12 AM CST

I wonder about the future of our civilization.

Not our species, because we've proved to be an incredibly adaptable species. But the very social instincts that makes us collectively strong and resilient is the same drive that causes us to be collectively stupid, short sighted and aggressive.

We are self limiting. We will consume as many resources as possible to keep ahead of the Them, even if it means impoverishing centuries of our descendants and destroying everything we have built.

If this is Intelligent Design, then the Designer is a moron! That's why I believe in evolution - because all the evidence points to a driving force that only thinks about surviving long enough to create the next generation. That works for individuals and species, but it totally bombs out for societies and civilizations. As far as evolution is concerned, the newest generation is more than welcome to devour everything the previous generation has built if it increases the current generation's chances of survival.

Think about it. Evolution causes actions that destroys civilization and societies.

And the fact that it is civilized societies that tolerate changed (evolved) individuals means??

Later chums!

R is for Santa Claus

Blame this on Jimmy M.

Somali Suicide bomber buried in Minnesota

Link

Filed under stuff I couldn't make up.

Somali suicide bomber given decent burial in Minnesota
Posted by acorcoran on December 4, 2008

A reminder Dec. 5th: A reader has just reminded me to tell new readers that as many as 80% of the Somali refugees entering the US may have done so illegally, here.

Update: Somali men missing all over the world tonight.

You gotta be kidding! This guy, 27 years old, blows himself to bits and takes along 29 other people (I bet there were women and kids among those killed) and our FBI scoops up the body parts and brings them to Minnesota for a funeral. I wonder what that cost the US taxpayer? Have we gone completely around the bend?

And then, would reporters find someone other than Omar Jamal to speak for the Somalis. Jamal was found guilty in 2003 of immigration fraud and ordered deported. Hat tip: Blulitespecial.

Family and friends did not wish to talk about the circumstances of his death.

Community activist Omar Jamal is one of the few who will.

“Honestly I look at him seriously as a victim and not as a criminal, I think of him as a young victim,” says Jamal.

A victim? The killer was a victim? He was 27 years old, not 17. Jamal, that doesn’t make him a ”kid!” If the killer is the victim, what does that make the 29 people he murdered? Aren’t they the real victims?

Nobody made this 27-year-old American citizen go to Somalia. This is just infuriating. Stop all Muslim immigration to the US or we will be seeing more decent burials for American suicide bombers.

See the story and especially the video of the funeral here.

Hat tip to Diana West.