welcome to the party

righteous indignation and requisite glasses

Oh, honey, I know! Isn't it just awful?

That's why I started marching all the way back in 2009.

where the heart is

When I saw the video of Michelle Obama referring to Kenya as her husband's "home country," I was shocked but it wasn't because I felt that it served as some sort of evidence that Barry is not a natural born citizen and therefore not qualified to serve as the President of the United States. Believe me, there are far more reasons I feel he isn't qualified for the job without opening that can of worms. I'm not sold on the birther theory, but honestly? Sealing Obama's birth certificate and then spending millions of dollars to keep it that way sure doesn't inspire a lot of faith in what the administration is expecting us to believe.

Whether Barry was born in Kenya or Hawaii, or even on the moon, is not what made me so concerned as I watched the video. You see, I am a first generation American, just like our President. My father was from Ireland and never became a U.S. citizen. My mother, first generation herself, even lived in Ireland a few times and I still have plenty of family there. I've often said that Ireland feels like home - it's full of people with whom I share a similar cultural history, has a lovely cool, green, damp environment that seems to suit me perfectly, and offers one of the best breakfasts in the world - but I wouldn't ever call it my "home country." I'm thankful I was born here...nowhere else in the world and at no other time in history has a country given such incredible opportunities for a free and happy life.

So, it's disturbing to consider that Obama might not think of the country that educated him, made him rich and elected him President, as his home...that perhaps, in private, his feelings for the United States might measure up to something other than love and that he might be anything less than proud.

Oh, please.

He wishes he were this awesome.

The funniest part of this is that someone had to photoshop Obama being awesome, but Sarah doesn't have to fake it...

buck up, buttercups.

First, go read my friend PDB's blog post, then watch this video.



There is hope for this country yet - and it is us.

Good morning, comrades!

Rise up and be grateful that today is the glorious day when real change has been accomplished - Democrats are finally telling the truth.

Now get to work - there is a 500 lb. woman with diabetes somewhere out there in this great country of ours, eating half a birthday cake and smoking her fifth menthol of the day, worrying about her healthcare. You don't expect her to pay for it, do you?

sticks&stones

Since the Tea Party protests began, liberals have disparaged and vilified American citizens who did nothing more than peacefully assemble to exercise their right to free speech. In their crude efforts to both stop the debate and belittle those attempting to have it, they immaturely labeled those protesting with a vulgar term. The mainstream media relished being able to get away with dirty jokes on air, left leaning blogs found a new buzzword, and a Senator even used the word to describe a candidate from the opposing party.

So after months of referring to their fellow Americans as "teabaggers," liberals (still staying true to form, bless their hearts*) are now accusing them of namecalling.

But guess what - IT NEVER HAPPENED.


*can't win a debate with someone? Call them a racist. Or a bigot. Or a homophobe.

remember

No matter who holds the most seats in Congress, we the people have always been the majority.

nice try

Drew Carey just loves Cleveland despite not actually having lived here since, oh...about the mid '80s.

Nonetheless, Drew (who seems like a super guy, by the way) and Reason TV still want to save us from our misery by suggesting some radical newfangled libertarian ideas - less government! lower taxes! - to make Cleveland a great city. You know...like Houston.



Sigh.

of the people

Let them hate so long as they fear.
-Lucius Accius,(170 BC - 86 BC)

grading on a curve

Wow, no wonder they won't release his college transcripts.

hue are you?

I'm sure by now everyone is sick of hearing about race. According to liberals, in one way or another we're all racists. Don't like Obama's policies? Racist. Involved in the Tea Party movement? Racist. Think affirmative action hurts more than it helps? Racist. Use the term "black hole" to describe a great sucking void in outer space? Racist. (srsly, look it up.)

I've been called a racist and the first time it happened, I was mortified. I had asked a patron to pay for what she had just printed, a novel sized stack of paper. She only wanted the first page and insisted I was targeting her because of her race. I examined my behavior - had I really done anything racist? Did I treat white patrons any differently? I didn't think so. I'm equally mean to everyone.* Like the time I kicked a bunch of rowdy teenagers out of the library...racially, they were a mixed bag, but as they all shuffled off toward the door it was the black kid who flung a muttered "racist" over his shoulder at me.

This sort of thing has happened frequently enough that the epithet has lost all its sting. I see it now for what it is, a knee-jerk reaction to some perceived slight combined with a lack of better vocabulary.

And honestly? In a way, I can almost understand it. Introspection is hard. It's so much simpler reach for that single word that has the ability to end any debate. What I don't get, though, is the double standard.

Neatly explained away and excused were Democrats Joe Biden calling Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Harry Reid complimenting Obama for being "light-skinned" with "no Negro dialect," and then last night, after the State of the Union speech, MSNBC's Chris Matthews saying that for an hour, he forgot Obama was black. (so tell us, Chris, what did you think of your president during the other 23 hours?)

And then there was the 83-year old black man who came to the library prior to the last presidential election. He told me he had never voted before and needed to register so he could support Barack.

I sighed and handed him the form, not bothering to mention that he could have voted for a black man two years earlier, like I did.

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*that said, I've since given up fighting this battle. Pay or not, I don't care - it's really not worth the grief.

year (of The) One

The official Breda Fallacy State of Obama address, summarized for your convenience...

EPIC

But don't you dare snicker, no, no...

full circle

There are events that, when looked upon through the scope of history, seem miraculous and yet somehow inevitable.

The special election this past Tuesday seems to be one of those cases. Now, don't get me wrong - I fully realize that this is politics and that Scott Brown is just another cog in a very crooked wheel but the Tea Party parallels are just so...sublime that if I was a more religious person I'd be tempted to credit divine intervention.

Imagine...an assumed underdog is propelled to victory over an entrenched superpower by a grassroots movement enraged at being overtaxed by a government that isn't listening.

In Massachusetts.

Again.

just not feeling it

Some bloggers are excited about recent news but I say,
"Meh...and Pol Pot died in his sleep."

60 votes.

"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience."

-- John Locke, 1690

Your government is no longer of the people, by the people, or for the people.

May God have mercy on them...because Lord knows I'd like to see their heads on pikes.

app for that

My iPhone is pretty much the best thing ever - it has an alarm clock, a calendar, the internet, iPod, ebooks (the complete works of Shakespeare! In my pocket!) , games, a bunch of useful (okay, and some useless apps) , etc, etc and etc. I could go on (and on) but I'd bore you all to death. But before I even get out of bed I have my iPhone in my hand. So the other morning after I turned off the alarm, I waited for the WiFi to kick in and looked at the weather. I briefly contemplated checking my email and noticed that my United States Constitution app (an essential download for every geeky tea party extremist) needed updating.

I don't know if it's an unfortunate sign of the times, or if I was still half asleep, or what but I swear my very first thought was, "Oh no...what did Obama do now?"

(iPhone users, what's your favorite app?)

liberalism and feminism

Never the twain shall meet.

Robin of Berkeley, a reformed liberal, has written one of the best pieces I've ever read on why liberals hate women.
Certain women...you know the type.

Go read.

talk about a missed opportunity!

How did I not see it before!?

mmm, mmm, mmm

remaindered

Look who I found in the clearance bin...


Not quite the trash heap of history, but close enough.