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Is it time yet to talk honestly about Maya Angelou? a public pantsing Thomas Lifson When excited bulletins on cable news let the public know that Maya Angelou had passed away, I bit my tongue and stayed my keyboard.  I generally follow the rule of letting the dead rest in peace for a day or two before writing critically of them. But this fine piece by Daniel J. Flynn in the American Spectator covers many of the points I would have brought up about the late poet/madam/actress/communist/all around phony. I once spent about 6 hours in close proximity to Ms. Angelou, flying from Atlanta to San Francisco in the first class cabin of Delta jumbo jet. The phony-detector in my head was flashing red almost the entire time. I have never in my life seen so much fawning on the part of flight attendants nor anyone receiving such fawning with quite the same level of apparent belief it was the least that could be offered. Everyone in that cabin was supposed to be aware that a higher being had graced us with her presence. Flynn calls her “an author more revered than read,” and that gets to the heart of the Angelou phenomenon. I will give her credit, as Flynn does, for playing a role very well. That role was as a victim who rose beyond her victimhood to become an icon. But an icon of victimhood as badge of honor, cultivating a voice, a manner, a persona that embodied dignity, thereby triggering waves of adulation from those who, out of guilt or hope, devoutly wished her to be a giant, so that all who have been a dealt a bad hand at birth could similarly rise and find dignity. She gave the suckers what they wanted.  Flynn has got her number:     “I’m not modest,” Angelou explained last year to the AP. “I have no modesty.” She got to know herself, apparently, after getting to know poetry and politics and songs and stage. She usurped her parents’ privilege by renaming herself after finding “Marguerite Johnson” not quite arresting enough. In this spirit, she insisted that others call her “Dr. Angelou” though she never obtained a college degree.  (continued) Thank You.

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Clap Clap Clap - They're Invaders

Mexican Invaders (Illegal) Immigrants Held in Solitary Cells, Often for Weeks Nearly half are isolated for 15 days or more, the point at which psychiatric experts say they are at risk for severe mental harm, with about 35 detainees kept for more than 75 days. While the records do not indicate why immigrants were put in solitary blah-blah-blah Here's the tragedy of it.  Only some illegals are in these straits. Ahem cuzzin "jose can you see" ricky ”

Doesn't know his ass from ...

Undecided Voter

Horry Clap!

I'm actually staggard

Never heard of it.  WTF?

“ Rodge: Do a web search (Google?) for "Arctic Commons Abyssal" [News] [Groups] Interesting, huh? RWF ” For starters, this is the level of insanity AlGore and ilk are responsible for. And BTW, here is this month's MAN WITH BALLS HERO CLICK Bob Lutz. PS.  Now Google "Putin Arctic"

Into the pink

John Holmes had it right.

"I'm slamming the big one into the pink."

Thank you, but it's not enough. “ "Under the weight of a national uproar, two Berkeley City Council members want to rescind an official statement that the U.S. Marines and their recruiting station are "uninvited and unwelcome intruders." Betty Olds and Laurie Capitelli, however, did not move to rescind three other items the council passed last week: giving the protest group Code Pink a free weekly parking space and sound permit; calling on residents to impede the work of any military recruiting station in the city; and asking the city attorney to investigate whether the Marines violate city laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. The item will come before the City Council Feb. 12. -  [Blonde Sagacity] ”

Warming up to Marxism

The New Marxism

John Bolton, perhaps the greatest political figure in America today, and a man who should be Sec/State appeared on FOX this morning. “ In an interview by Megyn Kelly, Former UN Ambassador John Bolton just stated on Fox's America's Newsroom that Al Gore's assertion that the United States is the principal impediment to progress on issues of global warming is not true. He went on to say that 4 of the G-8 nations, Canada, Japan, Russia and the US oppose any specific target numbers for emissions reduction. He continued to emphasize that the world's most rapidly developing nations, Brazil, India and China also oppose such target numbers. (FreeRepublic) ” What's going on is so blatant an attempt to co-opt our sovereignty that those involved ought be regarded as immediate and mortal threats to this nation's security and treated harshly.  Very Harshly.  For those of you who try to keep track of all the real scientists who denounce this global warming putsch for what it is,  please  note this  Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.  To put this as simply as I am able, since Al Gore has consistently stated that the debate over man made global warming is over, these scientific demurrals   must necessarily expose him as a liar, at best, not worthy of consideration.  Because he is.

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After complaint in Riverside, flag-folding recitation banned at veterans cemeteries nationwide

“ "That the actions of one disgruntled, whining, narcissistic and intolerant individual is preventing veterans from getting the honors they deserve is truly an outrage," said Rees Lloyd, 59, a Vietnam-era veteran and Memorial Honor Detail volunteer. "This is another attempt by secularist fanatics to cleanse any reference to God." World War II Navy sailor Bobby Castillo, 85, another member of Memorial Honor Detail 12, called the federal decision "a slap in the face to every veteran." ” CLICK AND RAGE

Left Wing MFCS

More from the Anti-American Film Festival

"What would Jesus bomb?" she asked invitingly.

History Rewrites

Scholars Needed

Apply at Wikipedia

Speaking of Wikipedia being hijacked by self serving mfkrs, I hope somebody will wade into the pigsty that is Reagan administration scandals.  The entry appears to have been cobbled together by the Hate Reagan lobby.  Here's a sample. “ Savings & Loan Bailout Reagan's "elimination of loopholes" in the tax code included the elimination of the "passive loss" provisions that subsidized rental housing. Because this was removed retroactively, it bankrupted many real estate developments made with this tax break as a premise. This with some other "deregulation" policies ultimately led to the largest political and financial scandal in U.S. history: The Savings and Loan crisis. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around USD$150 billion, about $125 billion of which was consequently and directly subsidized by the U.S. government, which contributed to the large budget deficits of the early 1990s. ” Just off the top of my head ... It was Jimmy Carter who deregulated S&Ls Speaker Jim Wright's home state of Texas was home to many of the worst offenders among the S&Ls.  The House Banking Committee--chaired by Wright arsehole buddy Fernand St Germain, teamed with Wright to cancel regulator testimony that would have laid out the looming crisis, because Wright was in bed with many of the perps. If memory serves, Wright blackmailed one regulator with the threat of revealing his homosexuality if he didn't STFU. Blah-blah-blah Not only is none of that mentioned here -- but Neal Bush, who was never charged with anything, is, while the Clinton gang, all of whom went to prison over S&L fraud, except for the Clintons ahem, are not mentioned at all -- it's ignored on Wikipedia's Jim Wright page as well.  Grab your pens ...

Twisting History

Wickedpedias

In moments of serious reflection I wonder if I might better fight for Truth, Justice and The American Way by focusing on editing Wikipedia. I don't mean mischievously. I mean making an honest attempt to square whatever I was working on with unbiased fact. Others, I see, have the same idea; some without any sense of, or appreciation for history. This week we learned, for instance, that ... “ Someone using a computer owned by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh "idiotic," a "racist" and a "bigot," and said of his listeners: "Most of them are legally retarded." [Wikipedia reliability questioned] ” So, yeah, Wikipedia is no different than text books that regularly slant, spin and twist history to conform to an ideology . A history teacher forced to use, say, a Howard Zinn tome has to live with it. No editing allowed. Science, economics, literature -- all are subject to manipulation by "scholars" with an agenda. At least Wikipedia entries can be policed and changed. Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith just launched an unofficial Wikipedia search tool to "out" self-serving historical adjustments. A quick perusal of the list appears to be just as self serving, and leftist motivated. Is it wrong, for example, for a Halliburton employee to edit a falsehood that's unsupported by document or fact? Of course not, but it will send nut roots into spasmodic outrage, just as Fox News does when it questions liberal scripture. Wikipedia, then, is a useful tool if you bear in mind that, like everything else, there are ratbastardcommieliberals out there who can't handle the truth, and will change it.

Religion and Guns

Two Things Liberals Hate

Religion & the Military

I admit to being flummoxed by the suddenness of the hate campaign against Israel by, not only Europe, which here-to-fore had at least worn a public face of contrition for what happened to Jews during Hitler, but also from the Jewish community in the United States.  Even as Cindy Sheehan was embracing Iranian and Palestinians who vowed to annihilate Israel, Hollywood's elite Jews were feting her.  WTF?  Here, Michael Medved supplies a possible reason for The Hidden Basis For Hostility To Israel And America “ *nut shell*  In other words, for trendy liberals who feel profound, instinctive distaste for the influence of armies and organized faith in human life, it’s only natural to feel somewhat uncomfortable with Israel.            The same attitudes, by the way, help to explain some of the fashionable anti-Americanism that’s taken hold among European and other international elites. Religion remains a vastly more potent force in the U.S. than in any other Western nation, and our military remains far larger, more potent and more revered than the armies of other major nations. Those who love to denounce the impact of militarism and organized faith will inevitably find much to dislike about America – and about our close ally in the Middle East. ”

Rachel Corrie Brigade

Military Diversity in America

Another Great Appeaser

Larry, Moe, and Gordon

Add to the many faces of British PM Gordon Brown, village idiot.  What religion did all of the physicians involved in the recent failed bombings adhere to?  The  Muslim religion.  What was their motivation?  Islamic fascism. Are they terrorists?  Duh.  Mr. Brown moved swiftly in the wake of these revelations and banned the use of the words "Muslim," or "war on terror" by his government in the context of the ... what, the "recent unpleasantness?"  Who's this guy's script writer, Harry Reid? Sweet Jesus. Somewhere in the British hustings is a Winston Churchill; I know there is.  But he'd better ride to Dodge in a hurry, with guns blazing, else it's all over.

Goodbye Punk

OMG! They killed Boonie!

You bastard

“ Hicks was remembered at a growing makeshift memorial Friday near the corner of 90th Avenue and Olive Street in East Oakland. Friends left balloons, candles and bottles of Hennessy cognac on the street and wrote messages on white boards tied to a fence. "Hard-headed ass, Boonie," one message read. "The world's gone miss u boy." "He always had a smile on his face," said a 22-year-old man who identified himself as a rapper named Little Al. "He was a solid dude, loyal." ” Yes, another life needlessly taken by a hand gun.  *Snif.*   Allen Joseph Hicks III, who once hit his girlfriend  so hard "her head hit the wall and it put a hole in it," and on probation for a drug conviction, was only trying to  rob Mr Catarino Piedra's pizzeria at the point of a gun.  *Sob*  Yup, we gone miss u boy.  Mr. Piedra did not however. [Man killed in attempt at robbery]