For once, Grahamnesty’s actually right; Lindsay, speaking for the rest of the GOP field, you suck as well…along with your buddy McCain.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, in the interests of accuracy, Karl Rove did NOT advocate repeal of the 2nd Amendment:
“Asked by “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, “How do we stop the violence?” Rove said there isn’t an easy answer.
…Rove said there might be “some magic law” that would stop the string of gun-related killings in America, but added, “basically the only way to guarantee that we will dramatically reduce acts of violence involving guns is to basically remove guns from society. And until somebody gets enough oomph to repeal the Second Amendment, that’s not going to happen.”“
He simply displayed a total lack of understanding regarding the realities and root causes of gun violence. As a public service to Karl and other supposed-Conservatives without the courage, or understanding, of their reputed convictions, we offer these five helpful hints:
Anyone still wondering why Bush II was such a disaster?!?
Meanwhile, from Yahoo News, the pot whose entire anti-American life has been dedicated to divisiveness presumes to call the kettle (if you’ll forgive the pun!) black:
In an interview, Obama weighed in on the debate over race and guns that has erupted after the arrest of a white man for the racially motivated shooting deaths of nine black church members in Charleston, South Carolina.
“Racism, we are not cured of it,” Obama said. “And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public. That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination.Societies don’t, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior.”
…The president said while attitudes about race have improved significantly since he was born to a white mother and black father, the legacy of slavery “casts a long shadow and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on.“
So the Geneticist-in-Chief has now settled yet another area of ground-breaking science: racism is inherited! Through…what? Some previously-unknown process by which historical events mysteriously mutate human DNA?!?
Yeah…
Though if racism is indeed genetic, wouldn’t that render racists incapable of acting contrary to their heritage? Certainly would explain Moochie!
Here’s the juice: like every other narcissistic zealot whose sense of self is totally dependent upon their crusade, The Obamao knows…
Booker T. Washington knew The Dear Misleader’s kind even back in his day:
The story here isn’t a President using the “n” word, but rather the ostensible leader of all Americans informing a portion possessed of a particular pigmentation they’re guilty of crimes committed only in his mind. More importantly, the sentence for said transgressions is be to served until such time as The Obamao and his fellow race hustlers feel the appropriate penance has been paid. In other words…in perpetuity!
In a related item, Commentary Magazine‘s usually-reliable Max Boot offers not only an inaccurate version of history, but what we strongly believe to be an errant assessment of the situation:
“…The Confederate flag has quite rightly come under fire again after the appalling massacre carried out by a white supremacist in Charleston, South Carolina, who murdered nine church goers because they were black. It has become the politically correct stance to assert that the Confederate flag that continues to fly over the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse needs to come down. But just because a position is politically correct doesn’t mean it’s wrong. In this case, it’s right. Not only should the Confederate flag come down, but I believe it’s also time for Southern states to change place names in honor of traitors such as Jefferson Davis.
I know, I know: it’s a slippery slope that could eventually result in taking slaveholders such as George Washington off our currency or even renaming our national capital.But Washington, in spite of being a slaveholder, also helped to create this country as a bastion of freedom.The good he did far outweighed his deplorable participation in the slave-owning customs of his time and place.I can think of no similar redeeming virtues that can be claimed for the likes of Jefferson Davis who helped to plunge this country into a civil war that left as many as 800,000 dead in a fruitless quest to ensure that slavery would remain legal.
I believe it is a calumny to assert that the South of today is unchanged from the 1860s or 1960s. But the South needs to complete its transformation by finally jettisoning the remaining symbols of its dark past.“
So, the entire Palmetto State, indeed, the citizens of every state which once comprised the Confederacy, are required to react as the result of a calamity caused by one crazed South Carolinian?!?
Over at the Washington Examiner, Noemie Emery evinces some of the same feelings as Max, but with a drastically different take on circumstances:
“What’s in a flag — specifically, the Confederate flag, which will soon be removed from the grounds of South Carolina’s state capitol? The American and state flags there are flying at half-mast in mourning for the nine black Charleston residents shot dead at a prayer meeting last week. The perpetrator is yet another dead-eyed-young-white-male-loser, whose photo looks like the poster for yet another down-market-hot-summer-in-Hollywood thriller, perhaps to be called “Satan’s Spawn.”
The claim is that the flag stands for racism and rage, and as such may have inspired the killer, and this may have substance. But the fact is that while the Confederate flag flew over the capitol, the state underneath it has become one of the most diverse and least polarized states of the union, and perhaps the most tolerant.
Of the many cases of white-on-black deaths that have roiled the country in the past year, the massacre in South Carolina has been one example in which death united, and did not divide, the whole population. South Carolina has been the one state in the union in which black people seem to feel they have found justice.If what’s in a flag is what one sees in it, what some people saw may be wrong…”
Truth is, this is all part of a much larger, and far more sinister picture, as detailed by Jazz Shaw at HotAir.com:
“…The politicians have spoken and that piece of cloth should be reserved to the grounds of a disapproved segment of society. But before we pack the Confederate Battle Flag “off to a museum” as the President suggests, I would offer a bit of perspective.
Some years ago, as I’ve noted in the past, our Red State colleague Erick Erickson penned a column on a completely different subject titled You Will Be Made to Care. Erick was talking about gay marriage, but what he described was the the ever present mode of operation for the modern American Left. It’s not enough to disagree with someone when there is a difference of opinion on social issues, government policy or even the color of the sky. It’s not even sufficient to shut down the conversation, as Guy and Mary Katharine so aptly identified in End of Discussion. Those who dissent must be forced to bend a knee and participate…”
“There are moments when I want to weep for America. They often come, now that I think of it, when I read the Washington Post.Last week, that newspaper ran an article by a long-serving English teacher in Sacramento called Dana Dusbiber, who dislikes Shakespeare so much that she has decided to ignore the curriculum and stop teaching his works:
“If we only teach students of color, as I have been fortunate to do my entire career, then it is far past the time for us to dispense with our Eurocentric presentation of the literary world. Conversely, if we only teach white students, it is our imperative duty to open them up to a world of diversity through literature that they may never encounter anywhere else in their lives.”
You know what’s disappointing here? It’s not that an English teacher uses such shoddy syntax (you mean “teach only students of color,” Ms. Dusbiber, not “only teach”). Nor is it the flaky logic(Black kids? Don’t teach them white authors! White kids? Don’t teach them white authors!).No, the really depressing thing is that someone who is supposed to be opening the minds of young Americans can miss the universality of the greatest writer produced by our species…”
Speaking of closed minds, the WSJ reports how it’s…
“One obvious risk of a nuclear deal with Iran is that the mullahs will pocket Western concessions even as they work on their atomic capabilities in secret. That much was suggested this month by Gen. Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, who told Congress that “it is prudent to conclude that there are elements of Iran’s nuclear program that still remain hidden from view.”
But here’s a less obvious risk: The U.S. might find evidence that Iran is cheating but fail to act out of bureaucratic neglect—or a political desire to look the other way. (“Less obvious” only to those who fail to grasp the true nature of this Administration!)
That’s the message of a report last month by the Government Accountability Office, which found that the State Department had failed to provide timely reports to Congress on the proliferation activities of Iran, North Korea and Syria. Instead of delivering reports every six months, as required by law, delays ranged from 22 months to three years.
…Arms control is an obsession in which belief is inversely proportional to evidence of success, and so it is with this Iran deal.How is the U.S. supposed to enforce an Iran deal when the State Department would rather cover up an adversary’s deceit than face the failure of U.S. diplomacy?“
Since we’re on the subject of faith, misplaced though it be, bordering on religious fervor, it’s time for today’s Environmental Moment, and the latest on the cult of anthropogenic climate change, courtesy of…
“…The Gaia Principle, first advanced by chemist James Lovelock (who has lately had second thoughts) and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s, says that all life interacts with the Earth, and the Earth with all life, to form a giant self-regulating, living system.
This goes far beyond the fact that the Earth’s climate system has feedbacks, which are at the very center of the debate over climate change. In the Gaia Principle, Mother Earth is alive, and even, some think, aware in some ill-defined, mystical way. The Earth knows man and his activities and, frankly, isn’t too happy with him.
This is what we might call “scientific pantheism,” a kind that appeals to atheistic scientists. It is an updated version of the pagan belief that the universe itself is God, that the Earth is at least semi-divine — a real Brother Sun and Sister Water! Mother Earth is immanent in creation and not transcendent, like the Christian God.
What’s this have to do with Schellnhuber? In the 1999 Nature paper “‘Earth system’ analysis and the second Copernican revolution,” he said:
Ecosphere science is therefore coming of age, lending respectability to its romantic companion, Gaia theory, as pioneered by Lovelock and Margulis. This hotly debated ‘geophysiological’ approach to Earth-system analysis argues that the biosphere contributes in an almost cognizant way to self-regulating feedback mechanisms that have kept the Earth’s surface environment stable and habitable for life.
Geo-physiological, in case you missed it. Cognizant, in black and white. So dedicated is Schellnhuber to this belief that he says “the Gaia approach may even include the influence of biospheric activities on the Earth’s plate-tectonic processes.”Not the other way around, mind you, where continental drift and earthquakes effects life, but where life effects earthquakes.
He elaborates:
Although effects such as the glaciations may still be interpreted as over-reactions to small disturbances — a kind of cathartic geophysiological fever — the main events, resulting in accelerated maturation by shock treatment, indicate that Gaia faces a powerful antagonist. Rampino has proposed personifying this opposition as Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction.
Mother Earth gets the flu and instead of white blood cells and a rise in temperature to fend off the infection, it sends white ice and a decrease in temperatures. How? Geophysiologically! I remind the reader that our author, writing in one of the world’s most prominent science journals, does not use these propositions metaphorically. He proposes them as actual mechanisms.
Which brings us to this next item, as James Taranto notes another of Francis’ amazing capacity for inconsistency…bordering on ignorance:
Two Popes in One!
“The Pope has condemned weapons manufacturers and investors in the industry as ‘hypocrites’ if they call themselves Christian.He issued his toughest denunciation to date of the arms industry in front of thousands of young people at a rally in Turin.”—Daily Mail (London), June 22
“ ‘The great powers had photographs of the railway routes that the trains took to the concentration camps, like Auschwitz, to kill the Jews, and also the Christians, and also the Roma, also the homosexuals,’ Francis said, citing the death camp in Poland. ‘Tell me,why didn’t they bomb’ those railroad routes?”—Daily Mail (London), June 22
As we’ve often observed of The Obamao, you can tell a lot about a man by the company he keeps. We’re starting to get the same vibes from Francis.
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