Viral of the day: Little Johnny
Little Johnny:
of them were Obama fans.
Not really knowing what an Obama fan is,
but wanting to be liked by the teacher,
all the kids raised their hands except for little Johnny.
The teacher asked little Johnny why he
has decided to be different again.
Little Johnny said, “Because I’m not an Obama fan.”
The teacher asked, “Why aren’t you a fan of Obama?”
Johnny said, “Because I’m a Republican.”
The teacher asked him, “Why are you a Republican.”
Little Johnny answered,
“Well, my Mom’s a Republican and my
Dad’s a Republican, so I’m a Republican.”
Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked,
“If your mom were a moron
and your dad were an idiot, what would that make you?”
With a big smile, little Johnny replied,
“That would make me an Obama fan.”
Geaux Saints!
Why did I root for the Saints? Cause they were the underdogs. Never won one. Weren’t favored to win this one. And yet, they did. It gives me hope. Sometimes good things happen to those that deserve good things to happen.
-Kook
via iPhone
Got This From A Friend
Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s new “Usurper Value Meal”?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
Q: What does the usurper Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund-raiser!
Q: What is the difference between Obama’s Cabinet and a Prison?
A: Obama’s Cabinet is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society. A Prison is for housing prisoners.
Q: If Nancy Pelosi and the usurper Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?
A: America!
Q: What’s the difference between the usurper Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers.
Could This Be A Signal
Prezbo the Usurper ( my new nickname for the one) is now willing to hold televised health care reform talks with the Republicans. What gives? Is he trying to make good on his CSPAN promise or is this just another carrot and stick. I’m reminded of the Paris Peace Talks back in the 70’s. It took North Vietnam and Kissinger about 2 years debating the shape of the table they would sit at, round or square. I expect about the same level of intransigence.
Today Prezbo the Usurper is summoning the leadership on the right to meet with him on their ideas as a show, operative word “show”, he is willing to listen. Apparently PZB has had selective deafness these past 12 months. PZB has behaved identical to a senior citizen with a so called hearing aid battery problem. Sometimes he wants to hear, sometimes he doesn’t. “Eh? Eh? My Battery Must Be Out,hehehe” Funny how a 60 vote super majority defined his willingness to be non-partisan. Call it Large and in Chargeitis. Now that a dose of Scotty has innoculated DC faster than a souped up Nascar H1N1 Welcomemobile. The Great Two Faced Barritonist, is now singing a different tune out of his other mouth on a scale higher than a Falsetto huffing helium. (the cowardly prick bastard)
On the off chance PZB’s hearing is now back online, let’s bring up a few other things while we’re at it. Deficit Spending,EPA Regulatory Backdooring Us, OFA in the Schools, Climate Gate and the crooked data, Cap and Tax,Gitmo,Miranda Rights on the battlefield, New York City Trials, Navy Seals, the Tea Party, Czarpalooza, Union/Communist expansion in America, and Birth Certificates. Phew ! That’s just for starters.
Birth Certificates actually that should be at the top of the list.Unless its answered we’re just wasting more time. As I already mentioned though, expect intransigence on all of the above, especially the BC matter.
Steve
Turning History Into a Politically Correct Cartoon
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Barry Rubin
Historians have long known that treating the past as if it were the present—thinking people acted, spoke, and thought the same way; that conditions were parallel; that problems were identical—is the surest way to misunderstand the past. Historical times must be dealt with on their own terms though, of course, understood in the context of larger trends.
One of the main intellectual mistakes of our current era is to teach students that all times are basically the same and that all can best be judged by the dominant contemporary ideologies of Political Correctness, multiculturalism, and “progressive” leftism masquarading as liberalism. Instead of being the result and beneficiary of historical struggles who owe a debt to the past, people today are told they can be ingrates, benefitting from their ancestors struggles for freedom and democracy while deriding them for being imperfect, laking the great moral superiority, total knowledge, and absolute truth of contemporary smugness.
In addition, they are taught to demand that contemporary standards be applied to the past, thus branding their ancestors as racist, sexist, et cetera.
This kind of narrow teaching—prevalent in Western education especially after the murder of Western Civilization courses—is not only a form of arrogance but also of systematic indoctrination. If you don’t understand how silly ideas were developed and rejected in the past or how the process of reform worked or the cost of self-righteous ideologies like the ones prevalent today, then you don’t comprehend much about how society and the world works.
These reflections are further prompted by reading about a new book which, according to the description offered by the publishers, “provides a critical analysis of forms of Islamophobia throughout history and in the present, from anti-Islam movements in the Middle Ages and the ‘Turkish threat’….”
The transparency of the propaganda exercise can be easily seen by the absence of anyone writing or teaching about the history of Islamic “Christianophobia.”
Well, history actually happened and it didn’t just involve people standing around and being bigoted. The “phobia” in Islamophobia means “fear,” and these were not merely imaginary fears and conflicts.
The Crusades were the result of a civilizational war in which Islam was advancing and taking over formerly Christian-ruled territories. There were a long series of wars in Spain and Portugal between Christians and Muslims. Of course, even in Spain there were alliances among specific Christian and Muslim nobles against other Christian and Muslim nobles. History is complex and that’s why it must be understood in its own right and not distorted by preexisting ideological premises.
The Turkish, more accurately Ottoman, threat was real. To put the words “Turkish threat” in quotes as if it were some mythical propaganda scheme thought up to fool the masses is absurd. As far west as Slovakia, towns were under Ottoman attack from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Vienna was twice besieged. Muslim forces engaged in Jihad also seized Russia for a time and arrived as far west as Poland.
It is vital as well to understand that “Christian” and “Muslim” did not then represent just religious beliefs but were principal markers of political identity and loyalty as well.
This does not mean Christians were always right or behaved well (a criticism not only permissible nowadays but practically mandatory) but neither did the Muslims (which is speech that is discouraged and even slandered or made criminal). But this is history we’re talking about, not a morality play nor a parable for proving that Political Correctness and multiculturalism are right.
Such an orientation can be reduced to a comedy skit in which two Christian peasants, riddled with arrows, are running away from Ottoman warriors engaged in Jihad swinging their scimitars and in hot pursuit. One peasant is saying to the other: “The trouble with you is that you’re Islamophobic.”
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley), and The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan)
‘Israel’s obliteration is certain’
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07/02/2010 22:02
Iran’s supreme leader vows to “defend Palestinians due to their heartfelt beliefs.”
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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday the destruction of Israel was assured, while pledging to “defend Palestinians due to their heartfelt beliefs.” ”Israel is going downhill toward decline and fall and God willing its obliteration is certain,” Khamenei said during a meeting with Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, according to the Teheran Times.
“Today Palestine is the symbol of life, determination, faithfulness, diligence, and dignity,” Khamenei explained, adding that the Palestinians had proved that they were “spiritually more powerful than Zionists,” which is why the IDF has been unable “defeat them.”
“Palestinians’ faith is the main factor in their resistance,” he said.
Khamenei went on to call Israel “a symbol of atrocity, viciousness, and ugliness,” and said the West’s “support for the Zionist regime is ineffective.”
Comment: Of course, this is not new-simply another attempt at “misdirection” in order to take focus off of Iran’s internal problems as well as its continued lies regarding sanctions.
Obama Hits Lowest Approval Mark
Independent voters see Pres. Obama in a negative light by a nearly 2-1 margin, according to a new Marist College survey, while almost half of voters say he has failed to meet their expectations.
The poll, conducted Feb. 1-3, showed just 44% of registered voters approving of Obama’s job as president. 47% disapprove. But among indie voters, Obama’s approval rating sits at a terrible 29%, while his disapproval rating is at 57%.
Obama’s 44% job approval rating is the lowest he has scored in any non-internet poll since moving into the WH, according to a review of data compiled by Pollster.com.
And while GOPers strive to avoid attacking Obama personally, for fear of offending voters who see him in a favorable light personally, even that aura of invincibility is wearing off. Independent voters view Obama negatively, too, by a 39% favorable to 52% unfavorable margin. All registered voters still see Obama favorably by a 50%-44% margin, but that’s down 5 points in just 2 months.
Voters are disappointed in what they got with Obama’s first year. The poll shows 47% believe Obama has failed to meet their expectations — including a quarter of Dems, 65% of GOPers and 53% of indie voters — while just 42% say he has met their expectations. 38% say Obama’s policies are moving the country in the wrong direction, while 37% say they’re making the country better.
Meanwhile, members of Congress should brace for a difficult election year. 42% of registered voters said they would back their current member of Congress, while 44% said they would support someone else — a drop of 9 points in support of the incumbent in just 2 months.
The Marist College poll surveyed 910 registered voters for a margin of error of +/- 3.2%.
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