Saturday Simmer Story

So, at the risk of my blood pressure, I logged on to read the news while I ate my lunch today. As if I needed evidence that things are cockeyed, I found this lovely story. Put away the breakables before reading.

The part that really tweaked me more than anything else? Here:

"Regarding the main route for exiting energy, Iran will definitely act to impose control on the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz," he [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Chief Mohammad Ali Jafari] said of the Gulf waterway through which about two-fifths of all globally traded oil passes.

I'm pretty sure that this topic has been kicked around before. We cannot let these chimpanzees develop their own brand of canned sunshine. CANNOT. LET. THEM. DO. IT.

They have not hidden the ball with respect to their intentions toward Israel. Every time we let them think they can dictate to us, they get a little bolder. The time for talk is passed. Now it is the time to treat them they way you would any misbehaving animal. Whack them over the snout with a rolled-up newspaper. They decide to become a threat, then they get put down. Hard. As in "Their only useful purpose in their short, hot, unhappy lives was to serve as an example to others." Unfortunately, Islam and and its acolytes are feeling their oats. Britain's cowardly retreat over its kidnapped sailors, the success of Barry "Throw 'em under the bus" Obama in the dhimicratic primaries, the congressional dhims preaching cut and run style surrender until even they could not ignore the fact they were wrong and now, cartoonishly try to take credit for the successes. These factors have directly aided the ascendancy of the crescent and its new found clout in the world.

Who do I blame? The Democratic Party. It has slavishly pandered to the whims of the environmental radicals and consistently and predictably voted against any energy policy that could offer any semblance of energy independence in this country. They opposed nuclear energy at every turn. This is, of course, a ridiculous proposition as the fwench have had nuclear power for decades without incident. If the fwench can do it, we can do it.

Every single time drilling for domestic oil has come up, the Dhims wring their hands and say "No." Then they whine about the price of high oil and how the dependency on foreign oil "puts us at the mercy" of people like the clownshoe threatening the oil routes through the mideast. Excuse me? You do everything in the world to empower these clowns, and then you whine when they start squeezing and you blame the Republicans? The mote in your collective eye, which is the size of a six by six, must be transparent.

Reading the story, I was reminded of a similar threat which I personally heard uttered fifteen years ago. I was young and dumb (i.e. liberal) at the time I heard it, and even at the very moment I heard it fall from this nutter's lips, I knew he either didn't believe it, or was possessed of that special brand of stupid that gets lots and lots of people killed. I was an intern in the Canadian House of Commons in the spring of 1993, and he addressed our group of American students days before the Canadians passed NAFTA. He had just gotten done telling us how the US and Canada would be quick to let Quebec into NAFTA after it gained its independence from Canada. Everyone in the room was dumbfounded. I finally asked the obvious question: "Why do you believe that?" The answer "Well, you want to use the St. Lawrence, don't you?" Even being painfully liberal at that point. I couldn't believe what I just heard. This frog was arrogant enough to try to dictate policy to us! At that point, even I wanted to lean forward and say "Who the hell do you think you are? We're UNCLE. Perhaps you've heard of us. We really couldn't give two farts in a hurricane about your disputes with Canada, but I have NO DOUBT that we will keep the river open, chief. But you are welcome to try and stop us from using it...if you dare."

Reading this story, I really didn't feel any different, except for the understanding of the position the Dhims have put us in with their hair brained policies. If we take care of Iran...and I don't think we have a choice, then we are going to have to drop a piano on them. That means that we will kill a fair amount of people who have nothing to do with their country's policies, because the only way we make an example is to level the entire country. At the same time. The best way to accomplish this will be to turn it into glowing glass. And even then, we will have to expect collateral attacks for some time, all of which would have to be dealt with brutally, until their numbers are so reduced that they will submit, or until they are extinct. It is an awful scenario. I type it with no joy, and no pleasure, because I know we would be doing it alone. Europe long ago surrendered its sovereignty when it took this viper to its bosom. Even knowing better, they will be against us, in a pathetic attempt to reserve a few more years of life as western powers before their visitors become their masters. And it makes me angry. Not that Europe is lost. Their current predicament is the end result of centuries of crappy choices, and I think that perhaps the time has come to stop saving them from themselves. No, I am angry because of decades of idiotic policy contrary to our nation's self interest put in place and maintained by the Democrats. Because we have not been allowed to and still are not allowed to exploit our own resources, and therefore the chimps in Iran get to hold the rest of the world hostage until they reach their stated goal: The destruction of Israel.

Now we have to care what happens when we do the right thing, where as we could have been able to to do the right thing without regard to the Iranians.

Thanks Dhimicrats. Your 15 minutes are almost up, and the adults will take over and clean up your mess...again.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???

Politico has a story chock full o Obambi worship of the worst kind.
I make a lot of fun of Obambi. That's because he is such a worthy target of any thinking person's derision and scorn, but apparently, I am part of a very small minority who realizes this.

Seriously, would any other person be considered a viable candidate for POTUS if they were to receive glowing endorsements from Hamas, Ahamadinnerjacket,and Syria? HELL NO! If any other candidate hobnobbed with unrepentant domestic terrorists, spent twenty years in a church where racism blatantly flowed from the pulpit, and had a spouse who never felt proud of this country until their candidacy, we'd send them packing, right?

But because he's black, and gives a good speech, he is anointed as the Second Coming. Unfortunately, he is fooling people who might otherwise be qualified to see right through him, and have more reason then most to do so. Case in point:

Black lawmakers emotional about Obama's success
By: Josephine Hearn
June 5, 2008 01:04 PM EST

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was about to enter his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday afternoon when a tourist from Miami rushed up to him.

"Damn, missed it by that much."

“I was watching Barack last night, and I just kept thinking, ‘What would Dr. King think?’” the tourist, Larry Ellery, told Lewis expectantly.

That Obambi is a tool who will set race relations back a quarter century if elected?

As the only living person to have spoken at the lectern the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, Lewis was perhaps the best person to answer a question that occupied the minds of many Americans.

Waiving the bloody shirt, civil rights style.

Lewis touched Ellery’s arm and paused.

"Connecting" with the voters, no doubt.

“He would have been very, very pleased,” Lewis said. “He probably would have said, ‘Hallelujah!’”

Yes, because the race HAS to trump quality and experience.

On Capitol Hill, as across the country Wednesday, African-Americans reflected on Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s historic rise as the first black presidential nominee to lead a major political party. They noted that only a few decades ago, African-Americans were fighting across large swaths of the South for basic human rights, hardly pondering the possibility that one of them might soon lead the country.

And I think that many of those brave individuals would be asking anyone who would listen "Who's the empty suit?"

Many black lawmakers said they were elated at Obama’s victory.

You expected otherwise?

Many said they never thought such a day would come.

Many cried.

I did too. I suspect it was not for the same reasons.

“If someone had told me this would be happening now, I would have told them they were crazy, out of their mind, they didn’t know what they were talking about,” said Lewis, who was president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee when he stood with King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. “I just wish the others were around to see this day. ... To the people who were beaten, put in jail, were asked questions they could never answer to register to vote, it’s amazing.”

And all so they could get a viable candidate in a junior senator with no experience spouting Marxist ideals and throwing old friends under the bus for political expedience. They should be so proud!

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), who grew up in segregated South Carolina and rose to the majority whip position last year, said he was so overcome with emotion Tuesday night that he left a victory party and had to watch Obama’s speech alone.

I was so overcome with emotion that I had to turn it off before I started throwing things at the visage of the sanctimonious so-in-so.

“I thought this day would come, but I didn’t think I’d live to see it,” Clyburn said. “I got home, and I was so emotional I couldn’t feel myself. I was numb.”

He poured himself a Jack Daniels and Diet Coke and watched Obama speak.

I also needed a drink, but if I started, I might not stop.

Clyburn said he was disappointed that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) didn’t concede but then added: “Nobody can dampen this for me.”

Obama will formally accept the Democratic nomination on Aug. 28, exactly 45 years to the day after King’s speech and 55 years to the day after 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi in a brutal act of violence that spurred the modern civil rights movement.

And if we repeat it enough, it will somehow gain significance.

Throughout the day Wednesday, African-Americans offered up historical yardsticks to measure what is happening now: 40 years since King’s assassination; 43 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act; 60 years since the late Sen. Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party over the issue of race, which began the Democrats’ transformation from the party of Jim Crow to the party of Barack Obama.

Fighting for something to be able to vote for nothing. You've come a long way, baby!

At least five African-Americans before Obama have mounted serious campaigns for president. The first was then-Rep. Shirley Chisholm in 1972. The most successful was the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who won 30 percent of the delegate votes at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. The Rev. Al Sharpton made a notable run in 2004, as did former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun. Republican Alan Keyes campaigned in 1996 and 2000.

And all had FAIL! in common. But now they have Obambi. Now with no substance and scary friends!

But only Obama, because of either ability or timing, has succeeded in clinching a major party nomination.

Well, we can count ability out. How about "Shiny Happy Vacuousness"?

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), son of the one-time presidential contender, said Obama’s victory overwhelmed him.

That IS a surprise.

“I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years,” he said. “What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. ... The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.”

Hubris much? I have a feeling we may cry a lot longer than 4 years.

Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) couldn’t stop laughing Wednesday morning, conceding that he was giddy over Obama’s victory.

Because Airheads in the Oval Office are teh funni!

“It’s a good day in America,” he proclaimed.

If you are a Marxist bent on the nation's destruction.

Clay recalled turning to his father at the breakfast table several months ago and asking whether the elder Clay, himself a former congressman, had ever thought he would see the day when an African-American received the nomination of a major political party.

Showing just how absurd electoral politics have gotten in this country.

“He just straight-out said no,” Clay said, surmising that the same conversation must now be playing out at breakfast tables across the country.

"Dad? Do you think Americans will completely lose their minds and elect a candidate endorsed by our enemies?"

Despite Obama’s singular position in American political history, his backers said his race would not be a focus in his campaign. He will stick to economic matters, foreign policy and other topics with broad appeal. Obama rarely describes himself as an African-American candidate. He will not start now, backers said.

In other words, he will pontificate on subjects he knows nothing about.

“It should be downplayed in the campaign. ... We’ll have to leave that to the historians to consider, because we have an election to win,” said Jackson. “I hope the least historical thing about Barack Obama is his being black and the most historical is that he solved our health care problems, ended the war in Iraq and made life better for Americans.”

Good sentiment, but considering ha can't possibly succeed at those goals, perhaps you should play up the history angle.

Martin Kady II contributed to this story.
He wanted his name on it? Unbelievable.

Ye Shall Know Them By the Company They Keep...

Another of the Obamessiah's close associates opens mouth and inserts foot.

Another pastor complicates Obama’s campaign
Priest mocks Clinton as feeling entitled to nomination because she is white
MSNBC and NBC News
updated 1 hour, 27 minutes ago
CHICAGO - Sen. Barack Obama sought Thursday night to extinguish a burgeoning controversy over another Chicago minister who supports him, denouncing the comments of a Catholic priest who said “a whole lot of white people [are] crying” because a black man was within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination.

Can you say race-baiting? I knew you could.

The remarks by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a white minister known as “Chicago’s renegade priest” for his liberal social activism in the city’s black community, came from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ, the same church where sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright came under scrutiny from critics who called them anti-American and racially divisive.

Can I be disgusted yet?

Pfleger, pastor of predominantly black St. Sabina’s Catholic Church, who fiercely defended Wright even as Obama eventually rejected his support, sounded similar themes Sunday in a guest sermon at Wright’s church.

Yeah, well "Hate Whitey" is much easier than actually, you know, writing a sermon.

Saying he was seeking to “expose white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head,” Pfleger mocked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York for appearing to weep at a campaign appearance before the New Hampshire primary in January, saying she was crying because “there’s a black man stealing my show.”

He should feel lucky that I don't get to expose idiotarianism the way I would prefer...by means of a screaming purple dot that leaves its mark on them.

“She always thought, ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife, I’m white and this is mine,’” Pfleger said in his fiery sermon.

He got it wrong. She feels entitled because she's "The Smartest Woman in America". Just ask her. She'll tell you.

As the racially mixed congregation responded “Amen!” and “Yes, sir!” Pfleger pretended to cry and shouted: “And then out of nowhere came him, Barack Obama. And she said: ‘Damn! Where did you come from?! I’m white! I’m entitled! There’s a black man stealing my show!’

No. She's mad because he has no experience, no brains, and keeps company more contemptable than her own.

“She wasn’t the only one crying!” he said. “There was a whole a lot of white people crying!”

Because they realize there is very real chance that this knucklehead is going to get elected and start dismantling whatever the terrorists don't destroy.

Then, sensing that he may have gone too far, Pfleger added: “I’m sorry. I don’t want to get you in any more trouble. The live streaming [video] just went out again.”

"You mean someone will see me being an asshat? Oh, Snap!"

Obama, priest issue statements
After conservative commentators and Fox News Channel latched onto Pfleger’s remarks, which received wide circulation on YouTube and conservative political blogs, Obama released a statement late Thursday repudiating the priest, who resigned from the campaign’s pastoral advisory committee several months ago.

Preist? Which church? I don't recall the part of the Bible said "Thou shalt be racially devisive." Maybe it was in the Inner-City Translation.

“As I have traveled this country, I’ve been impressed not by what divides us, but by all that unites us,” he said. “That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger’s divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn’t reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause.”

"Damn, they nailed another of my spiritual advisors."

Pfleger issued a separate apology Thursday, saying his remarks were “inconsistent with Sen. Barack Obama’s life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Sen. Clinton or anyone else who saw them.”

"I'm deeply sorry I got caught. Now I won't get to collect the spoils when we come to take away everything that you whiteys have worked for all your lives."

There was no immediate reaction from the Clinton campaign.

As they were all in a closed-door meeting plotting how to Vince Foster his ass.

Of course, the MSM left out the choicest bits of his unconscionable race-inspired frothing at the mouth. Here is the link to the transcript of his "sermon".

And because they are so incredibly insipid, here's how he really feels:

I must now to address the one who says, 'don't hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.' But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did! And unless you are ready to give up the benefits — Throw away your 401 fund! [sic] Throw away your trust fund! Throw away all the money that been put away in the company you walked into 'cause your daddy and your granddaddy and your great grandaddy —

(screaming at the top of his lungs)

Unless you are willing to give up the benefits, then you must be responsible for what was done in your generation! 'Cause you are the beneficiary of this insurance policy!

This guy is as insulting as he is dangerous.

Memo to the good father: "I don't owe the black man a damn thing. I didn't enslave anyone, and I sure as Hell am not holding anyone down. If anything, as a white male, I suffer from racism to a much greater degree. The only difference is that the racism I face is not just institutionalized, it is embraced by society, which chooses to call it "affirmative action" or "diversity", which in the 70's subplanted merit as a means for hiring and advancement in the workplace. And we have suffered ever since. I know it is easier for you to sell taking something from those who have worked for it than it is to sell hard work and perseverence, but you seem to have mistaken "the land of the free" for the "Land where everything is free for the taking". Don't make this mistake, and get yer eyes of the meager bits I work my tail off for, sir.

Talk About Delusions of Adequacy...

H/T to LC Scott at the Rott.



Yes indeed, the purveyors of the failed "policies" of the past will save us from success, if we will only embrace our inner STOOPID and believe what they keep telling us.

This Is Why We Will Never Make Progress With Dhimicrats In Positions of Power

House passes bill to sue OPEC over oil prices By Tom Doggett

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.

Yeah. That'll stop them. I'm sure they fear US Courts. Where does a large portion of investment capital in this country come from again?

The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.

And what are we going to do when they look at us and yawn? Beat them Up? Could be damn hard to get there without OIL.

The measure passed in a 324-84 vote, a big enough margin to override a presidential veto.

Thus demonstrating that shrewness overpowers intellect when enightened self interest of the voting parties is in line.

The legislation also creates a Justice Department task force to aggressively investigate gasoline price gouging and energy market manipulation.

Sound and Fury Amounting to Nothing.

"This bill guarantees that oil prices will reflect supply and demand economic rules, instead of wildly speculative and perhaps illegal activities," said Democratic Rep. Steve Kagen of Wisconsin, who sponsored the legislation.

It guarantees nothing but high prices and short supply. How stupid are these people?

The lawmaker said Americans "are at the mercy" of OPEC for how much they pay for gasoline, which this week hit a record average of $3.79 a gallon.

$3.79 a gallon? I wish it was that cheap.

The White House opposes the bill, saying that targeting OPEC investment in the United States as a source for damage awards "would likely spur retaliatory action against American interests in those countries and lead to a reduction in oil available to U.S. refiners."

That evil President. How dare he be right!

The administration said less oil going to refineries would limit available gasoline supplies and raise fuel prices.

Duh.

Foreign investment in U.S. oil infrastructure has declined in the last decade. But the state-owned oil companies of several OPEC nations are owners of U.S. refineries, and those investments could be affected if the legislation becomes law, said Arlington, Virginia-based FBR Capital Markets Corp.

So we get to screw with our too-few refineries as it is. How wonderful.

The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to carryout a study on the effects of prior oil company mergers on energy prices.

It is stupid energy policy that put us in this mess. We need to be drilling where the oil is, and as Glenn Beck has stated "I am willing to drill right through a polar bear's head to get it if that's where the oil is." And we need new refineries too. Lots of them.

The Senate would still have to approve the House measure.

I never thought I'd be glad for the Senate.

The Senate previously approved similar legislation as part of a broad energy bill. However, the OPEC-suing provision was removed after White House opposition in order to get the underlying energy legislation signed into law.

The adults said no, and the kiddies still want it their way. These people will get us all killed.

The Thought Police Are Coming.

Dutch cartoonist arrested for 'insulting people'
Cartoonist known for mocking Muslims, leftists has received death threats

updated 7:05 a.m. PT, Fri., May. 16, 2008
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch political cartoonist was arrested this week on suspicion of insulting people because of their race or religion through his work, authorities said Friday.

How enlightened of them. Must be their muzzie masters and their outrage.

The cartoonist, who works under the pseudonym Gregorius Nekschot, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of violating hate speech laws and held overnight before being released, a spokeswoman for his publisher Uitgeverij Xtra said.

"Hate Speech" Not too far removed from "hate crime", which we know is a criminal act, but one committed against a minority.

"He was arrested with a great show of force, by around 10 policemen," the spokeswoman said.

Of course, the offender is much more threatening then the outraged parties screaming for beheadings.

She asked that her name not be used, and declined to give Nekschot's real name, because the cartoonist and publisher have both received death threats.

Can't say I blame her. The police would probably be kind enough to give the assassins an escort, just to be sure that justice was done.

Nekschot is known primarily for cartoons mocking Muslims and leftists, though the spokeswoman said he is a satirist who targets "any strong ideology."

Two groups deserving of mockery. Also derision and scorn.

Amsterdam public prosecutor spokeswoman Sanne van Meteren said Nekschot remains a suspect in a criminal investigation.

But the people who have undoubtedly threatened him are no doubt walking around unfettered, swinging their rusty scimitars in outrage.

"We suspect him of insulting people on the basis of their race or belief, and possibly also of inciting hate," she said.

How dare he say what he is thinking.

Each is a crime punishable by up to a year in prison under Dutch hate speech laws — or two years for multiple offenses.

Prison time. Think, people. The Obamessiah would love to see this here. Can't attack his hopey changeyness.

Police seize computer, sketches
Nekschot publishes primarily on several Web sites, including his own, but has also been featured on the Web site of Theo van Gogh, the filmmaker who was murdered by a Muslim radical in November 2004.

The same Theo van Gogh that was murdered for speaking out against the pestilence of islam that is infesting his country?

The cartoonist also works for HP/De Tijd, a major Dutch language weekly news magazine, and he has published two books.

One recent cartoon on his Web site caricatured a Christian fundamentalist and Muslim fundamentalist as zombies who met at an anti-gay rally and now wished to marry.

Funny, as a Christian, I don't feel moved to call for his head. What's the mood on Arab Street?

Van Meteren said prosecutors were investigating a complaint that dated from 2005. They are now focusing on eight or nine published cartoons, she said, but prosecutors are not disclosing which ones.

Speedy are the wheels of Dutch 'justice'.

Nekschot did not answer police questions during his arrest, she said, appealing to his right to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination.

I'd have given them the finger. All night long.

The spokeswoman for Xtra said police had seized Nekschot's computer, sketches, CDs, DVDs and telephone at the time of his arrest.

Because his CDs and DVDs are no doubt filled with hate speech. Either that or he had a few ultra-rare CDs and the cops took a shine to them.

The Latest Kill of the Politically Correct

Don Imus is the latest casualty in the war that the politically correct have been waging against the world the rest of us live in. When I lived in Michigan, I used to watch part of Imus’ morning show on MSNBC. One of the things I liked about Imus was the fact that he was an equal opportunity offender. Left, right, middle, sideways, no one was safe from his pithy observations.

Last week, he made the mistake of saying some of ‘those’ words. Not a four-letter word. That would simply mean paying an FCC fine and moving on. Such an act might not even raise an eyebrow in today’s world. No, Don said some of the dreaded ‘double-standard’ words. You know, those words that have been hijacked by popular culture and made declared off-limits for utterance by a member of any group other than blacks, because if they are uttered by a white male, they can only be interpreted as a racist, bigoted act of hatred that demands the immediate and undeniable outrage of so-called civil rights leaders. You know the ones I’m talking about; they’re the ones who can’t be found when members of their own noble group use such words in public.

This is the part where I get to insert my disclaimer. I would not have said what Imus said. This is not out of fear of using the dreaded double-standard words; I grew up in the suburbs of Flint, Michigan. It’s not like I haven’t heard them before, or that I don’t understand that black people might take offense at their use. It is because I think a point could have been made without saying what was said. Imus has stated that he was looking at it from the standpoint of the impression of two very different teams and styles, in the vein of a matchup between nuns and female bikers. I have never even seen the Rutgers Women’s basketball team, but if they really do have tattoos, I’m sure their daddies must be soooooo proud, not to mention former team members, and alumni.

Don and producer Bernard were discussing the NCCA women’s basketball championship, and Imus remarked that the Rutgers team looked rough, because they had tattoos and such. Bernie fired back “tough looking hos” to which Imus replied “nappy headed hos”. That was enough to fire up the outrage machine. The left-reverend Al Sharptongue (of the famous race-baiting Tawana Brawley hoax) and Jesse Jackson ( think Martin Luther King without dignity or rhetorical genius) wasted no time in parading the predictable “This Cannot Stand!” stance, with Sharptongue calling for his immediate firing and Jackson threatening to protest.

Imus soon apologized for his words, for all the good it did him. The apologies were repeated, and Imus even went on Sharptongue’s show to sit in the hotseat and subject himself to Sharptongue’s sanctimonious finger-waving and silly expressions of outrage, all the while claiming that by having Imus on and continuing to subject him to accusations and demands that he resign. The penance was to no avail. This evening, Associated Pravda was reporting:

“CBS Radio and MSNBC both said they were suspending Imus’ morning talk show for two weeks following his reference last week to members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.””

Now I have been scratching my head and trying to figure out why a man who has gotten to insult Presidents of the United States, while they were physically present, should have to endure this kind of nonsense. The answer is, of course, because the President didn’t inspire the soldiers of political correctness to outrage, but the utterance of “racially charged” words by a white male did. This is not because it is a battle worth fighting. It is because it is a battle they could win.

These “prominent civil rights” figures can’t be bothered to pursue the issue with their own people. Words such as “nappy” (which according to the Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, means “(of hair) kinky”---as no other definition seems to apply.) are perfectly acceptable when spoken by a black person [no, I won’t be forced into saying “African-American”, since not all black Americans have come here from Africa, and since hyphenated-Americanism is one of the leading factors in our collective hypersensitivity that is destroying our nation on a daily basis] but if you are a white male, you might as well be wearing a white robe and hood and burning a cross in suburban Detroit---not that I’d recommend it. I can think of few things to get a person killed quicker.

This is the kind of hypocrisy that infuriates me. When does one group in society get to dictate the proper and improper use of English words for the rest of society? When should the rest of us stand idly by, and let a misfortunate turn of phrase define a career and its end? These really should not be rhetorical questions. If we continue to watch from the sidelines while sanctimonious, self-promoting zealots who use race and outrage as vehicle to self-aggrandizement, all in the name of preserving dignity in the name of the “oppressed” or the “downtrodden”, then freedom of speech will mean nothing at all, because only the defenders will be able to exercise that right. No one else will be deemed worthy. We will all be prohibited from anything other than prescreened and approved discourse; anything else might hurt someone’s feelings.

The stakes are high ones. We are already being betrayed on a daily basis by a media that selectively cherry-picks quotes and statements, so it can report not what happened, but the story it wanted to happen, and we let them slide every day. That is how we have gotten to a point where moral relativists and Christophobes can perpetuate the lie that “all cultures are equal”, and that religion, especially Christianity, serves only to make the human condition worse. The story gets obscured by the message. If you were in suspended animation for the last thirty years, and suddenly woke up, ran out, and bought a major newspaper, you’d have a hard time realizing that western civilization is at war with Muslims who have decided that the west must convert or die. In fact, if you could discern that we are at war, you might not be able to figure out who the malefactors really are. To hear the media’s take, the administration and most of the pentagon should be cuffed and frog marched all the way to Gitmo for their “crimes against humanity.”

Upon reflection, I can see that Imus is concerned about how this will affect his ranch for kids with cancer and blood diseases. What I don’t understand is why no one close to him clued him in to the fact that if he is going to start treading lightly now, he may as well retire. He is an easy target for those who have decided to make an example of him, and the gangpile is the predictable result. Whenever given a choice, the left won’t fight the hard battles, the ones that might actually result in a meaningful change. They will ALWAYS go after the soft target, especially if that target is high profile, and is sure to get them lots of juicy headlines to build up their own bona fides, no matter how shallow they may be. Even if he returns after his two-week suspension, he won’t ever be back. The threat of suspension or firing will stifle the rapid-fire sequence of exchanges that frequently makes the difference between entertaining radio, and background noise for a morning commute. The left will claim this as a victory. But once again, free speech is the victim. I did some searching and found a large portion of the transcript of Imus’ appearance on Sharptongue’s show. I have included portions with appropropriate commentary following. Think about it. Think I’m wrong? Tell me about it. I invite a dialogue. If you act like a shrill moonbat, you will be treated as such.

IMUS. No, I understand that, but I'm not thinking that it is a racial insult that's being uttered at somebody at the time. I think it's in the process of this - what we're trying to rap and be funny. I mean I understand it's not funny. I understand there's no excuse for it. I'm not pretending that there is. I wish I hadn't of said it. I'm sorry I said it but -

SHARPTON. Now, let me ask you this - and then we could talk about the things that you want to talk about. If you realize that something must be done, why would you then feel that we are out of order to ask that you step aside.

Have you asked rappers and other entertainers in your communities to “step aside.”? Don’t bother answering that. I wouldn’t be able to able to hear you over the sound of the deafening cricket chirps.

IMUS. I didn't say that.

SHARPTON. Oh, you don't think we're out of order.

IMUS. No, sir.

SHARPTON. So you've come to sign your resignation?

Why do you automatically assume that your desired result is the ONLY possible result?


IMUS. No, I'm not signing anything.

SHARPTON. So what are you saying?

IMUS. I'm saying you have the right -

SHARPTON. You want to determine what ought to happen even though you are the one that did the wrong?

I don’t remember you being appointed to judge the propriety or impropriety of others.

IMUS. I didn't say that either.

SHARPTON. O.K.

IMUS. I said you have the right to say and do whatever you want to do. What I want you to do, and everybody else - everybody who's calling me a racist, everybody who's calling me a bigot, everybody who says, I don't know anything about him, because I've heard people say, I don't know what's in his heart and I don't know - I've never listened to his show, but I want him fired. That's an ill-informed decision.
When have you ever known Sharptongue to make a well-informed decision?

SHARPTON. I'm going to take a break and we're going to talk about. I will give you credit for showing up and I'd even give you more credit if you'd decided to take - change your mind about resigning.

IMUS. But you're not making an informed decision, Reverend Al.
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IMUS. And then he [Reverend Deforest Soaries] said something else, he said, you know, you said, here's what you have to understand - that's what he said now - he said, black people, at the core of their soul, don't believe that white people like them. And he said, at some point when something like this happens with someone like you, who they would - who a person could, you would think, could trust and would be on our side, he said, this just confirms that whole fear. He says, so it's an egregious sin that you've committed, and I said that I understood that.

No. Instead you have decided to trust the likes of the left reverends Sharptongue and Jackson, who’s years of tireless labor have done wonders in improving their own living conditions. Too bad they have squandered your trust, and too sad that you are unable or unwilling to see it.

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SHARPTON. Let me - you see this young lady here? Where is she at? You see this young lady?

IMUS. Yes, sir.

SHARPTON. This young lady just graduated . . . , went to Temple. She is not a nappy-headed ho, she's my daughter.

Very good, Sharptongue. If she just graduated from Temple, that means she doesn’t play ball for Rutgers, either.

IMUS. I understand that.

SHARPTON. And when I heard what you said, I've got to defend my daughter.


Why? Does she play basketball for Rutgers?
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SHARPTON. - before we go there, let me say this. I don't think the issue is that you may have done good things. The issue is whether we can afford a precedent to be established that somebody can say something that you admittedly say yourself is wrong and I say is racist and sexist, and it just be glossed over. That's the issue here. Because then, if you walk away from this unscathed, the next guy could say whatever he wants and just say, I'm sorry.

IMUS. Unscathed? What are you, crazy? How am I unscathed by this? Don't you think I'm humiliated? Don't you think I'm embarrassed? Don't you think –

Don’t you think having to be in the same room dealing with your incredible arrogance and conceit qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment?

SHARPTON. You're not as humiliated as young black women.

I suppose no one would understand that better than you, having first made a name for yourself by exploiting one yourself.