Nail biting time for us that live in Hawaii.
FrontPage Magazine - Aloha, "Star Wars"
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Michelle Malkin has compiled tons of information on the name change of Acorn. Bookmark this page as she has tons of links. It turns out that:
"...ACORN hasn’t changed its name. ACORN International has.
What’s missing in soundbite-length TV coverage of the story is the fundamental distinction between ACORN and ACORN International, and why it matters.
They are two separate entities — and there is considerable tension between them. It’s confusing because, of course, ACORN runs a vast network of affiliates across the country that facilitate its money-shuffling racket.
Here’s the deal:
ACORN International, now Community Organizations International on paper (but not on the web yet), is the breakaway baby of disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke — who clung to the outfit after being deposed from ACORN over his brother Dale’s embezzlement of nearly $1 million. Acorn International is not new. It’s been around since at least 2004. In addition to his world travel for the organization, Rathke blogs and mobilizes at “Chief Organizer.org,” his old title at ACORN, and still appears to be using the ACORN name on his Twitter account. His obstinate refusal to leave has caused massive heartburn on the Left — and they’ve tried hard to keep all the legal machinations hush-hush..."
Michelle Malkin ACORN Watch
"...ACORN hasn’t changed its name. ACORN International has.
What’s missing in soundbite-length TV coverage of the story is the fundamental distinction between ACORN and ACORN International, and why it matters.
They are two separate entities — and there is considerable tension between them. It’s confusing because, of course, ACORN runs a vast network of affiliates across the country that facilitate its money-shuffling racket.
Here’s the deal:
ACORN International, now Community Organizations International on paper (but not on the web yet), is the breakaway baby of disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke — who clung to the outfit after being deposed from ACORN over his brother Dale’s embezzlement of nearly $1 million. Acorn International is not new. It’s been around since at least 2004. In addition to his world travel for the organization, Rathke blogs and mobilizes at “Chief Organizer.org,” his old title at ACORN, and still appears to be using the ACORN name on his Twitter account. His obstinate refusal to leave has caused massive heartburn on the Left — and they’ve tried hard to keep all the legal machinations hush-hush..."
Michelle Malkin ACORN Watch
Monday, June 22, 2009
AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes
Here is a bunch of arty naked people who like drugs. After you have checked them out scroll down to Lloyd Marcus whose song was released today.
AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes
AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Thank you, Raccoons, I still haven't a clue where I'd be now if it weren't for this oasis. There is so much wisdom and clarity and comfort over atGagdad Bob's who is accurate in saying that " the the moral retardation of the left is something one never gets used to." A commenter, Northern Bandit said of a troll who keeps showing up in the comments section:
" Godinpotty is a person who instantly triggers nausea in any decent person.
Thing is, I get that same nauseated sensation with I contemplate myself circa 1985. I was every bit as foul, benighted and shallow as this vile troll.
Why do some of us escape?
Of course I didn't think for one second that I was a bad person when I was an atheist/leftist. I believed I was strongly on the side of the impoverished, the environment, and strongly opposed to the simple-minded dangerous jackbooted thugs who attended church each week.
I could easily have sailed through life as a smug leftist convinced of my own intellectual and moral superiority. Frankly the change I've experienced came almost entirely from outside me, the more I reflect upon it."
6/21/2009 09:52:00 AM
And then along comes Wise Will as we wonder why the most powerful man in the world has the skateboarding going on in the White House as people die fighting for a breath of freedom. Pray without ceasing.
."Blogger: One Cosmos - Post a Comment: "Will said...
As much as I hate foraying into politics, I will make an exception here:
By constantly putting pressure exclusively on Israel while seemingly sanctioning the gov. of Ahmadinejad and the mullahs - he labeled Mousavi as virtually no different from Ahmadinejad, thereby undercutting the viability of Iranian protesters - Obama demonstrates the usual moral perversity of the Left. Even a great many Euro leaders have forcefully condemned the Iranian gov, but not so Obama. Yes, he finally came out with a statement somewhat in support of the protests, but only because he felt the heat. Overall though, Obama has been giving the impression that he thinks a regime change in Iran would not be a good thing.
Here's what I think - Obama actually wants Ahmadinejad and co. to retain their hold on the Iranian gov. so that he, Obama, can be seen by the world to personally talk them out of their nuclear/destroy Israel ambitions. That will never happen, of course, but Obama, I believe, is blinded by his hubristic desire for glory as Universal Peacemaker.
Well, that's actually the most positive spin I can put on it. There are other possible explanations for Obama's favoring of the islamo-fascists over Israel, none of them positive, to put it mildly.
6/21/2009 01:13:00 PM
" Godinpotty is a person who instantly triggers nausea in any decent person.
Thing is, I get that same nauseated sensation with I contemplate myself circa 1985. I was every bit as foul, benighted and shallow as this vile troll.
Why do some of us escape?
Of course I didn't think for one second that I was a bad person when I was an atheist/leftist. I believed I was strongly on the side of the impoverished, the environment, and strongly opposed to the simple-minded dangerous jackbooted thugs who attended church each week.
I could easily have sailed through life as a smug leftist convinced of my own intellectual and moral superiority. Frankly the change I've experienced came almost entirely from outside me, the more I reflect upon it."
6/21/2009 09:52:00 AM
And then along comes Wise Will as we wonder why the most powerful man in the world has the skateboarding going on in the White House as people die fighting for a breath of freedom. Pray without ceasing.
."Blogger: One Cosmos - Post a Comment: "Will said...
As much as I hate foraying into politics, I will make an exception here:
By constantly putting pressure exclusively on Israel while seemingly sanctioning the gov. of Ahmadinejad and the mullahs - he labeled Mousavi as virtually no different from Ahmadinejad, thereby undercutting the viability of Iranian protesters - Obama demonstrates the usual moral perversity of the Left. Even a great many Euro leaders have forcefully condemned the Iranian gov, but not so Obama. Yes, he finally came out with a statement somewhat in support of the protests, but only because he felt the heat. Overall though, Obama has been giving the impression that he thinks a regime change in Iran would not be a good thing.
Here's what I think - Obama actually wants Ahmadinejad and co. to retain their hold on the Iranian gov. so that he, Obama, can be seen by the world to personally talk them out of their nuclear/destroy Israel ambitions. That will never happen, of course, but Obama, I believe, is blinded by his hubristic desire for glory as Universal Peacemaker.
Well, that's actually the most positive spin I can put on it. There are other possible explanations for Obama's favoring of the islamo-fascists over Israel, none of them positive, to put it mildly.
6/21/2009 01:13:00 PM
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Check at the perfect little gift item for your more active female friends:
Women can pee standing up with Go Girl | Go Girl Female Urination Device
I found it from the neat blog of Kristin King a beautiful 24 year old soldier who has or is serving in Iraq called
Sorority Soldier.
Women can pee standing up with Go Girl | Go Girl Female Urination Device
I found it from the neat blog of Kristin King a beautiful 24 year old soldier who has or is serving in Iraq called
Sorority Soldier.
In case you missed this ACORN visual aid by Beck or how socialist Amerika 's radical infrastructure is being put into place based on Alinsky 's Rules for Radicals, watch this. It is chilling.
From Seed to Tree - FOXNews.com
From Seed to Tree - FOXNews.com
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
"...Postmodernism is nothing more than intellectual nihilism dressed up in academic robes. If someone ever wrote a history of psychological denial, the philosophy of postmodernism, which burst on the human scene about half a century ago, would undoubtedly have a special place.
The use of postmodern rhetoric is usually a desperate attempt on the part of the person in denial when he recognizes that logic, reason, and reality actually argue against his beliefs or purposes. This strategy can often take the form of redefining or distorting language and ideas so that they conform to ones pre-existing attitudes and emotions.
EXAMPLE: "Everything is relative anyway."
EXAMPLE: "Objective truth does not exist"
EXAMPLE: "Truth is relative and my feelings are just as important as your facts."
EXAMPLE: "My reality is just as significant as yours"
EXAMPLE: "Reality is an illusion."
Dr. Sanity
The use of postmodern rhetoric is usually a desperate attempt on the part of the person in denial when he recognizes that logic, reason, and reality actually argue against his beliefs or purposes. This strategy can often take the form of redefining or distorting language and ideas so that they conform to ones pre-existing attitudes and emotions.
EXAMPLE: "Everything is relative anyway."
EXAMPLE: "Objective truth does not exist"
EXAMPLE: "Truth is relative and my feelings are just as important as your facts."
EXAMPLE: "My reality is just as significant as yours"
EXAMPLE: "Reality is an illusion."
Dr. Sanity
Monday, June 15, 2009
$135 billion bucks of American bonds ? This is a big story one would think.
The Saga Of The Bearer Bonds; Smuggled Bonds Are Probably Genuine
The Saga Of The Bearer Bonds; Smuggled Bonds Are Probably Genuine
Sunday, June 14, 2009
"...buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks and free Salvation Army blankets, the nation's new wave of hip funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings. With no timeclock to punch, they travel on the cheap for weeks, bartering mix CDs or sterno or sexual favors for a fun cross-country boxcar trip. They study yoga and newspaper journalism, or grab a quick al fresco lunch at the neighborhood soup kitchen bistro. They participate in fun dance marathons and pole-sitting contests. And at least till the bank account dries up and the tuberculosis takes hold, they're content living for today.
"I feel like I've been given a gift of time and clarity," said Emily Horton, 29, of Austin, Texas. "And sometimes spare change."
Horton, who was recently laid off from her job as a ElectoChill D.J. at a boutique hotel aromatherapy spa, says lack of a daily job obligation has been "a godsend."..."
iowahawk: Hot New Trend: Carefree Hipsters Go For Funemployment, Starve-cation
"I feel like I've been given a gift of time and clarity," said Emily Horton, 29, of Austin, Texas. "And sometimes spare change."
Horton, who was recently laid off from her job as a ElectoChill D.J. at a boutique hotel aromatherapy spa, says lack of a daily job obligation has been "a godsend."..."
iowahawk: Hot New Trend: Carefree Hipsters Go For Funemployment, Starve-cation
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Significant Other just got a refurbished Mac. This is so that he won't feel so alone.
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Friday, June 12, 2009
Just finished Andrew Klavan's "The Last Thing I Remember" which is a great summer read especially for any young adult with a summer birthday. It's the first book of a series and I can't wait for the next one. Meanwhile, watch this:
Pajamas TV - Klavan on culture - Bumper Sticker Police - Video
Pajamas TV - Klavan on culture - Bumper Sticker Police - Video
Read this -
Just Make Stuff Up by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online
"...First, he has confidence that the media will not be censorious and will simply accept his fiction as fact. A satirist, after all, could not make up anything to match the obsequious journalists who bow to their president, proclaim him a god, and receive sexual-like tingles up their appendages.
Second, Obama is a postmodernist. He believes that all truth is relative, and that assertions gain or lose credibility depending on the race, class, and gender of the speaker. In Obama’s case, his misleading narrative is intended for higher purposes. Thus it is truthful in a way that accurate facts offered by someone of a different, more privileged class and race might not be.
Third, Obama talks more than almost any prior president, weighing in on issues from Stephen Colbert’s haircut, to Sean Hannity’s hostility, to the need to wash our hands. In Obama’s way of thinking, his receptive youthful audiences are proof of his righteousness and wisdom — and empower him to pontificate on matters he knows nothing about.
Finally, our president is a product of a multicultural education: Facts either cannot be ascertained or do not matter, given that the overriding concern is to promote an equality of result among various contending groups. That is best done by inflating the aspirations of those without power, and deflating the “dominant narratives” of those with it..."
Just Make Stuff Up by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online
"...First, he has confidence that the media will not be censorious and will simply accept his fiction as fact. A satirist, after all, could not make up anything to match the obsequious journalists who bow to their president, proclaim him a god, and receive sexual-like tingles up their appendages.
Second, Obama is a postmodernist. He believes that all truth is relative, and that assertions gain or lose credibility depending on the race, class, and gender of the speaker. In Obama’s case, his misleading narrative is intended for higher purposes. Thus it is truthful in a way that accurate facts offered by someone of a different, more privileged class and race might not be.
Third, Obama talks more than almost any prior president, weighing in on issues from Stephen Colbert’s haircut, to Sean Hannity’s hostility, to the need to wash our hands. In Obama’s way of thinking, his receptive youthful audiences are proof of his righteousness and wisdom — and empower him to pontificate on matters he knows nothing about.
Finally, our president is a product of a multicultural education: Facts either cannot be ascertained or do not matter, given that the overriding concern is to promote an equality of result among various contending groups. That is best done by inflating the aspirations of those without power, and deflating the “dominant narratives” of those with it..."
Thursday, June 11, 2009
"Well, I'm glad that's over! Now that our silver-tongued president has gone to Cairo to soothe Muslims' hurt feelings, they love us again! Muslims in Pakistan expressed their appreciation for President Barack Obama's speech by bombing a fancy hotel in Peshawar this week.
Operating on the liberal premise that what Arabs really respect is weakness, Obama listed, incorrectly, Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries (huh?)..."
Welcome Back, Carter - HUMAN EVENTS
Operating on the liberal premise that what Arabs really respect is weakness, Obama listed, incorrectly, Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries (huh?)..."
Welcome Back, Carter - HUMAN EVENTS
Saturday, June 06, 2009
"...Obama's goal was to tell the Muslim world, ‘We respect and value you, your religion and your civilization, and only ask that you don’t hate us and murder us in return.’” But those terms are too narrow. You don’t have to murder a guy if he preemptively surrenders. And you don’t even have to hate him if you’re too busy despising him. The savvier Muslim potentates have no desire to be sitting in a smelly cave in the Hindu Kush sharing a latrine with a dozen halfwitted goatherds while plotting how to blow up the Empire State Building. Nevertheless, they share key goals with the cave dwellers — including the wish to expand the boundaries of “the Muslim world” and (as in the anti-blasphemy push at the U.N.) to place Islam, globally, beyond criticism. The non-terrorist advance of Islam is a significant challenge to western notions of liberty and pluralism..."
‘The Muslim World’ by Mark Steyn on National Review Online
‘The Muslim World’ by Mark Steyn on National Review Online
Friday, June 05, 2009
Read all of today's essay by and at Dr. Sanity
so that you don't misinterpret this comment by the good Dr. Godwin of One Cosmos in the comments:
"I don't know. I think it was nice that a president could reach out to the Muslim world and say, "I'm just like you: vain, narcissistic, grandiose, ahistorical, economically illiterate, prone to fantasy, and more than a little bit ambivalent about those damn Jews."
Gagdad Bob - 8:36 am
so that you don't misinterpret this comment by the good Dr. Godwin of One Cosmos in the comments:
"I don't know. I think it was nice that a president could reach out to the Muslim world and say, "I'm just like you: vain, narcissistic, grandiose, ahistorical, economically illiterate, prone to fantasy, and more than a little bit ambivalent about those damn Jews."
Gagdad Bob - 8:36 am
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Here is some hair curling information which makes many of the meetings I have suffered through make much more nonsense.
About Consensus and Facilitation
About Consensus and Facilitation
Dennis Prager on what Obama's truth based speech could have said instead of the placating one he gave.
Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Recruiting Center Gunman Targeted U.S. Military - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com
Move right along, folks, nothing to see here as the
" shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme."
"...A police report based on an interview with the suspect says Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, told police he observed two soldiers in uniform, drove up to the recruiting center in Little Rock and started shooting.
"He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them," Lt. Terry Hastings told The Associated Press. "That's what he said."
Muhammad had converted to Islam at some point in his life and interviews with police show he "probably had political and religious motives for the attack...:
a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,524139,00.html">Recruiting Center Gunman Targeted U.S. Military - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com
" shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme."
"...A police report based on an interview with the suspect says Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, told police he observed two soldiers in uniform, drove up to the recruiting center in Little Rock and started shooting.
"He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them," Lt. Terry Hastings told The Associated Press. "That's what he said."
Muhammad had converted to Islam at some point in his life and interviews with police show he "probably had political and religious motives for the attack...:
a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,524139,00.html">Recruiting Center Gunman Targeted U.S. Military - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com
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