MY HERO, THE ULTIMATE POLITICAL BLOGGER, SCOTT OTT

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TOO DUMB FOR PRIME TIME?

Check out what, who our friends at lucianne.com refer to, either Hildebeast or PIAPS, said in South Carolina:

"Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she sees her sometimes Southern accent as a virtue.

"I think America is ready for a multilingual president," Clinton said during a campaign stop at a charter school in Greenville, S.C."

Uh, the dreaded Bu$hitler speaks Spanish, so is that what you are talking about? Are you a Bu$hCo supporter? And, I'm quite sure MANY of the former presidents spoke French and Latin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams come to mind from my own reading.

Yet, this simple fact was never mentioned in the article. No, there's no bias in the MSM.

"WHAT DO YOU JUST CALL ME?"

This was the headline on MSN this morning at 9:20 AM:

Dem hopefuls show political heft
The overall impression from the first formal debate from this early-starting campaign is that the Democrats have a field of contenders that, by any historical measure, matches in quality any the party has offered in decades.

Have they just been insulted?

BEYOTCH

Naomi Wolfe, the woman who was hired to teach Al Gore how to be a man in the 2000 election, has an out of this world screed in The Guardian about how America is becoming a fascist state. I need to take apart some of her arguments, so lets go:

First check out some of her preamble:

“Because we no longer learn much about our rights or our system of government - the task of being aware of the constitution has been outsourced from citizens' ownership to being the domain of professionals such as lawyers and professors - we scarcely recognise the checks and balances that the founders put in place, even as they are being systematically dismantled. Because we don't learn much about European history, the setting up of a department of "homeland" security - remember who else was keen on the word "homeland" - didn't raise the alarm bells it might have.”

And why don’t we learn about American History or Western Civilization anymore? Because of PC liberals just like you. So don’t pretend this is some George Bush plan to keep us all from wearing earth tones.

“1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy

After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.”

Now, why wouldn’t your Congressmen have scarcely read it? Maybe because they abdicated their responsibility? Maybe because they are lazy, obtuse, half-wits in earth tones who know how to get elected but have no idea how to lead? Or is it because they actually agreed with the "nightmarish "Patriot Act? Who are your representatives, Naomi? Morons, people you don't understand or liars?

“2. Create a gulag.

…But Americans still assume this system and detainee abuses involve only scary brown people (bolding mine) with whom they don't generally identify”

Don’t YOU ever accuse me of being a racist. YOU and your ilk are the racists in this. If I was a better Christian, another fault against me to you I’m sure, I wouldn’t have the disdain and anger I feel for you now.

"3. Develop a Thug Caste

… Thugs in America? Groups of angry young Republican men, dressed in identical shirts and trousers, menaced poll workers counting the votes in Florida in 2000.”

I can only imagine she-whose veins-course-with vinegar-and-water is talking about the pink shirted dweebs who insisted on witnessing the re-count (as required by law) in 2000. I hate this woman more and more.

“4. Set up an internal surveillance system

In Mussolini's Italy, in Nazi Germany, in communist East Germany, in communist China - in every closed society - secret police spy on ordinary people and encourage neighbours to spy on neighbours. The Stasi needed to keep only a minority of East Germans under surveillance to convince a majority that they themselves were being watched.”

Nobody is as surveillanced as the Europeans – they have video camera’s at every intersection and all over the Autobahn. What about that, beyotch?

“5. Harass citizens' groups

The fifth thing you do is related to step four - you infiltrate and harass citizens' groups. It can be trivial: a church in Pasadena, whose minister preached that Jesus was in favour of peace, found itself being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, while churches that got Republicans out to vote, which is equally illegal under US tax law, have been left alone.”

Which party consistently has candidates campaign in churches? Which President's detractors found themselves investigated by the IRS, especially if they accused the Gropenator of sexual misdeeds? Oh, yeah – it’s your party, Wolfey.

“6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release

This scares people. It is a kind of cat-and-mouse game. Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the investigative reporters who wrote China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, describe pro-democracy activists in China, such as Wei Jingsheng, being arrested and released many times. In a closing or closed society there is a "list" of dissidents and opposition leaders: you are targeted in this way once you are on the list, and it is hard to get off the list.”

If this is so prevalent and used to stifle defense, why hasn’t your boy mentioned here, Nicky Kristoff been detained? For years he has been a very vocal critic of the George Bush in the paper of record, the New York Times. Wouldn’t it make sense to shut him down? Huh? Anything, Naomi? Anything?

“7. Target key individuals”

ibid.

“8. Control the press”

Double ibid. With another beyotch thrown in for good measure.

“9. Dissent equals treason

Cast dissent as "treason" and criticism as "espionage'. Every closing society does this, just as it elaborates laws that increasingly criminalise certain kinds of speech and expand the definition of "spy" and "traitor". When Bill Keller, the publisher of the New York Times, ran the Lichtblau/Risen stories, Bush called the Times' leaking of classified information "disgraceful", while Republicans in Congress called for Keller to be charged with treason, and rightwing commentators and news outlets kept up the "treason" drumbeat. Some commentators, as Conason noted, reminded readers smugly that one penalty for violating the Espionage Act is execution.”

I would throw this back on Wolfe. If this isn’t treason, OK. So, what DOES constitute treason? I’m not saying it was treason, but I would like to know, what, if anything, is treason?

“10. Suspend the rule of law

The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 gave the president new powers over the national guard. This means that in a national emergency - which the president now has enhanced powers to declare - he can send Michigan's militia to enforce a state of emergency that he has declared in Oregon, over the objections of the state's governor and its citizens.

Even as Americans were focused on Britney Spears's meltdown and the question of who fathered Anna Nicole's baby, the New York Times editorialised about this shift: "A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night ... Beyond actual insurrection, the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or any 'other condition'."

Are you basing fact on an opinion piece? That’s stupid from step one, and gets dumber after that. This last bit proves to the world you are an idiot. Who can we take you seriously? If I didn't think you were out of your mind before this, this might just push me to pat you on your pretty head and say, "There, there, honey - it will be all right. The nice men in the white coats are here to help."

SANCTUM SANTORUM

I'm sorry to have another abortion post up - the past 10 are almost all abortion related, but this is beautiful. And it summarizes everything I feel about the Partial Birth Abortion ban.

AN ALLEGORY IN THE TIMES

I found myself harboring a fantasy that the New York Times was telling an allegory today in it’s Opinion section. In there, we find an editorial about fishing in the south Pacific titled Pacific Miracles. Here’s some bits:

“The trouble with modernity is how efficiently it obliterates the troves of age-old knowledge otherwise known as wisdom. The good news from Palau, a Pacific island nation near the Philippines, is that some wise old ways have reasserted themselves to the great benefit of that tiny republic’s fish and reefs, and the people who depend on them.

Under an ancient system of laws known throughout the South Pacific as tabu or kapu, rulers would forbid fishing in certain areas to let them recover from overuse. Their decisions relied on deep knowledge of seasons and of the habits of fish and plants, and were strictly obeyed by islanders, who understood that depletion of fisheries meant death.”

“…Native Hawaiians know all about kapu. What the lobbyists pushing the legislation are banking on is that Hawaiians will forget the usefulness of the old ways and bristle at the supposed paternalism. It would be a perverse victory for “rights” if such an attitude hastened the demise of a shared, precious and vulnerable resource like an island fishery.”

Now, I do care about reefs, ugly fish, blah, blah, blah – but, that’s not what this about. See how the Times is pining away for the “old ways”? See how they are even willing to call a victory for “rights” (notice the scare quotes?) a bad thing?

To me, this is all an allegory for the loss of social norms. I have wept for the demise of social norms for years in this blog and I still do. Social norms were those little rules we all knew and lived by. They were not the law of the land and they certainly did infringe upon your “rights”. You didn’t dress like slut. It was a BAD thing to get pregnant if you weren’t married. You married that girl, deadbeat. Being on the public dole was something to be embarrassed about and you did everything to get off it.

Now, the Times, of course, is not saying this at all. They support the loss of norms and the damage it has done to society. But, I’ll still live in my fantasy world and read this article the way I mean it to be.

VICTORY!

Seven years ago, in a different venue, I wrote the following words (or thereabouts):

“If George Bush is elected for one term and appoints some conservatives to the Supreme Court, it will be a successful Presidency”. I, of course, was thinking about stemming the abortion problem in this country and today, I have to say “This is a successful Presidency!”

The Supreme Court of the United States of America has ruled today the 2003 Partial Birth Ban, (ending the most disgusting, abhorrent, inhuman medical procedure dreamed up in Hell) LEGAL in the United States. This does not reduce the number of abortions, but it does open the door to end this infanticide we have been allowing for the past 35 years.

More on the doomsday scenarios we will see in the MSM tomorrow.

PS. Notice how the Supreme Court had a "Conservative Majority?". Do you remember the Court having a "Liberal Majority" when it upheld McCain-Feingold? Me either.

BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY!!

There’s nothing better than a foreigner who talks out of his butt and, because he’s doing such a stupid thing, has no idea what he’s saying. Case in point, Ian Bell from the Glasgow Herald. In a knee jerk, total jerk reaction to the killings in Virginia, he slams this countries Second Amendment right to bear arms. In the same spirit of Bellsy, I’ll let the first idiocy “pass”, that the Bill of Rights consists of the first TWELVE Amendments, instead of the first Ten. Because his country isn't so “rights” oriented as the United States, this isn’t so surprising.

The first thing I’ll take umbrage with his assertion that,

“Contrary to myth, in fact, nothing in the constitution prevents the US federal government or state governments from passing laws forbidding the ownership of certain weapons, or from legislating on the way others may be used. Nothing at all. But we'll let that pass.”

If this moron had spent, I don’t know, 23 seconds searching the net instead of reading the DNC, AFL-CIO, CCCP handbook, he would have found this little ruling from just over a month ago:

“Court Rejects Strict Gun Law as Unconstitutional”

This is the first paragraph from the notorious gun-hating New York Times:

“Interpreting the Second Amendment broadly, a federal appeals court in Washington yesterday struck down a gun control law in the District of Columbia that bars residents from keeping handguns in their homes.”

The rest of the article is a pie in the sky, if I wish hard enough I can un-invent gun technology, clap trap. Typical garbage from the MSM.

GOOD GUNS AND BAD GUNS

The obviously senseless tragedy at Virginia Tech yesterday saddens and horrifies me as much as everyone else. I can’t imagine the terror of being chained in a building with an armed madman casually shooting people for fun. My heart races and my blood boils at the thought of those helpless students.

This incident of course brought out the liberals and their gun control fetishes. John McCain was asked about it at a campaign stop in Texas. But, I couldn’t help but think of an incident this weekend at a local dive/bar in Manchester. A patron was thrown out and pulled a gun on the bouncers, firing at them and thankfully missing. It would have ended up quite differently if another patron hadn’t come to the defense of the staff and pulled his own gun, firing three, better aimed shots, striking the assailant twice.

Tales from the armed citizenry…

THIS IS THE “CRISIS”?

There’s an abortion crisis happening in Great Britain and it’s not the one you imagine. No, it’s not the 190,000 abortions every year (silly me, I thought THAT was the crisis), the crisis is there aren’t enough doctors to kill, I mean abort, no, terminate that many pregnancies every year.

“Ann Furedi, chief executive of BPAS, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which carries out a quarter of all abortions performed in England, said: "There is a real crisis looming. Unless we can address the problem and motivate doctors to train in abortion, we may well face a situation in five years' time in which women's access to abortion is severely restricted. It is our biggest headache."”

Fortunately, the abortion lobby in Britain isn’t at the point of making abortion procedures a mandatory work requirement, which I thought was going to be tossed out in the article.

“Kate Guthrie, a spokesperson on family planning for the RCOG and a consultant in sexual and reproductive health in the North of England, said…"There is a new core curriculum being introduced in August and my view is that we must ensure abortion care is part of core training. We would not make [carrying out terminations] compulsory but we need to ensure trainees are given the knowledge so they are more likely to want to develop the skills."”

It take a special kind of person who wants to learn that type of skills.

The scariest bit of the article was a throwaway line,

“One in three women has an abortion at some point in her life.”

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it’s a lot scarier, too.