Dangerous little homophobes like this must be re-educated (photo credit: phineas h)
Back when we were in kindergarten our biggest concern was learning our ABCs. Apparently, the kids in Alameda, California have bigger (and stranger) things to worry about.
California’s Alameda Unified School District may institute a supplemental curriculum aimed at eradicating “homophobia” in kindergarten kids.
Let’s just pause for a moment while you digest that concept.
OK?
“Nowhere at anytime did it give any protection for children being bullied because of their faith, their religion, their size, their race, ethnicity,” said Brad Dacus, founder of the Pacific Justice Institute. “It is only going to give this special anti-bullying protection for homosexuals and transsexuals.”
Welcome to Alameda, California. Where the kids don’t know their ABCs, but do know their AC/DCs.
Thugocracy: (thu-goc-ra-cy, pronunciation: thə-‘gä-krə-sē) The form of government in which only 12.4% of workers belong to unions, yet virtually all stimulus money goes to unionized companies and government entities.
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is not happy with President Obama
Earlier this year, the President Obama told an Elkhart, Indiana audience, “You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime.”
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons fired back on Tuesday after Obama declined an invitation to meet with Gibbons and the state’s business leaders.
“I am disappointed at the hypocrisy shown by this Administration,” Gibbons said. “President Obama is coming to Las Vegas later this month for a political fundraiser, but he will not help the struggling families in Las Vegas and Nevada who are out of work because of his reckless comments.”
“President Obama is coming to Las Vegas to raise campaign cash for Senator Harry Reid, apparently our money is good enough for the President, but our tourism, jobs, and economic future are not.” Gibbons added, “This is politics, pure and simple, President Obama stood for change, but all he has done is brought negative economic change to Nevada.”
Since Obama’s comments, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has lost more than 400 conventions and meetings, costing Vegas in excess of $100 million.
We say keep President Obama out of Las Vegas. The way he’s been going, he’d might be tempted to head for the roulette tables and put all the stimulus money on red.
What the hell, his odds of success are probably higher than the way he’s gambling it all away now.
C'mon, give daddy sugar. It's Non-Heteronormative Father's Day
Harry Knox, a member of President Obama’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, says that promoting responsible fatherhood should include moving away from the “heteronormative view of fatherhood.”
Don’t you love words like “heteronormative?”
What it means is that traditional fatherhood is passe. Now gays should be fathers. Lesbians should be fathers. Trans-sexuals should be fathers. Amoebas should be fathers. Lamp posts should be fathers. Everyone and everything should be fathers.
The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships divvies up the big pot of federal money among religious non-profit and charitable groups.
Don’t forget. Father’s Day is June 21. We’re not sure when Non-Heteronormative Father’s Day is.
Congresswoman Linda Sanchez parties after a long day of jailing bloggers
You never know what to expect from the sinister Sanchez sisters – Linda and Loretta both Democrat representatives from California – but you know it won’t be good.
Rep Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat, says, “Congress has no interest in censoring.” Of course, she said that in defense of her bill that censors the internet.
Sister Linda has introduced the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act. Despite her claim that “Congress has no interest in censoring,” Civil libertarians call the overly-broad bill “the Internet Censorship Act of 2009.”
“Put simply,” she commented in a piece for the Huffington Post, “this legislation would be used as a tool for a judge and jury to determine whether there is significant evidence to prove that a person ‘cyberbullied’ another. That is: did they have the required intent, did they use electronic means of communication, and was the communication severe, hostile, and repeated? So — bloggers, e-mailers, texters, spiteful exes and those who have blogged against this bill have no fear — your words are still protected under the same American values.”
Sanchez shows her deep commitment to the First Amendment by including the phrase “so-called free speech” in her HuffPo article.
Methods of communication where so-called hostile speech would be criminalized include telephones, websites, e-mail, instant messaging, blogs, and text messages. No word of whether sexting is included.
Murphy’s Law says, “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.” It’s corollary, Sanchez’ Law says, “Whatever I say is wrong is wrong.”
Those two veteran America haters, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers enjoy each other's company at a weekend protest
Those two harmless jesters who don’t know each other, never met each other, barely knew Barack Obama, and wouldn’t really know him if they ran into him on a Chicago street, got together in Chicago on Sunday.
Yes, unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers and America-hating Reverend Jeremiah Wright led a group of community activists, clergy and residents on a march “demanding a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Translation: Screw the Israelis.
“We can’t be squelching viewpoints because they are unpopular or because someone has a reputation through Fox News,” said Caren Levy Van Slyke, a spokeswoman for the group.
Translation: Fox News shouldn’t have told the truth about Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.
When asked about the event, President Obama said, “Who? Bill Who? Jeremiah Who? I don’t believe I’m familiar with either of those gentlemen.” Then he laughed his ass off and said, “Gotta go. I’m nationalizing a couple more industries this afternoon.”
OK, the previous paragraph is a complete fabrication. But it could have happened.
Of course, Janet Napolitano can have a gun. She didn't define herself as a terrorist
They call it “The Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009.”
It sounds like a good idea until you find out that it would authorize the Attorney General to deny the sale of firearms to known or “suspected” terrorists.
Of course, you don’t have to remember back more than a couple weeks to remember who Janet Napolitano “suspects” as a terrorist.
Who? You. That’s who.
What Napolitano called “extremists,” more rational civil libertarians call “advocates” for frightening things like Christian identity, anti-abortion, anti-immigration and states rights.
“It doesn’t say anything about trials and due process,” commented Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America said about the proposed legislation. “This is one of the most outrageous pieces of legislation to come along in some time. It’s basically saying, ‘I suspect you, so your rights are toast.'”
We’re no mathematicians, Janet, but we can add two and two and get 1776.
Is it just us or is there something just a little creepy about Katie Couric’s manner in this report from Saudi Arabia?
On one hand, she tries her best to be oddly bubbly. On the other hand, she acts as if she expects the Saudi religious police to swoop down on her at any moment.
And is it just us or does she seem a little too flippant about buying her daughter a mosque-shaped alarm clock?
While the left demonized those damn white conservatives — evildoers like Miss California Carrie Prejean — as homophobes, a huge, mostly Hispanic crowd took to the streets of New York in opposition to Governor Patterson’s same-sex bill. The crowd, which some estimate at 20,000, gathered at the Governor’s Manhattan office, stretching from 35th to 40th Street on 3rd Avenue.
Welcome to the family, fellow right wing extremists.
She may be a Republican, but Bill Clinton proved that he’s an impartial groper by putting his support squarely behind Fran Drescher at a formal ball in Vienna.
CSNnews.com reports that, “The National Institutes of Health is studying the use of ecstasy, LSD and other ‘party drugs’ in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a $117,876 investment from taxpayers. According to an NIH summary of the grant, ‘The topic is interesting and the data will be useful to understand the emerging problem of club drugs and raves in Brazil.’
Looks like college professors have figured out how to get the government to fund their kinky foreign vacations.
So we’re thinking of studying the sex habits of middle-aged men in Bora Bora. We figure it should cost about a quarter mil. Anybody know where to get the application forms?
Awkward moment between Democrat Governor Mike Easley and Democrat President Barack Obama (See how easy that was, AP?)
Here’s a rule of thumb: If a newspaper story doesn’t mention the party of a politician who’s in trouble, bet your house it’s a Democrat.
AP proved the wisdom of that betting strategy again on Friday when it took eight paragraphs to identify the party of former North Carolina Governor Mike Easley.
Here’s how Associated Press framed the story:
Federal authorities revealed Friday that they are looking into who paid for flights former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley and his family took on privately owned aircraft while he was in office.
The FBI subpoenaed the state Highway Patrol and a trooper who was the head of the governor’s personal security detail, seeking information about the travel, documents involving payments and any communication the agency had with the Easleys about those private flights.
The subpoenas also ask for public inquiries of the flights and the patrol’s policies on keeping records related to the Easleys’ trips.
Where do they mention the former governor’s party affiliation? Not for five more paragraphs.
Easley, a Democrat, didn’t immediately return a phone call at his law office in Raleigh.
If he’d been a Republican, the headline would have said, “Republican investigated by FBI.” Maybe even “Evil Racist Republican investigated by the FBI.” Possibly even “Evil Racist, Gun-Loving, Misogynist Republican investigated by the FBI. Dems demand immediate resignation.”
Miss California Carrie Prejean. Sure to increase ratings and libidos across the fruited plain (no Perez Hilton reference intended)
Rumors are running rampant that Miss California Carrie Prejean is reconsidering her decision to co-host the Fox News morning show.
Here’s how MediaBistro.com reports the story:
Fox News insiders tell TVNewser Carrie Prejean is having second thoughts about co-hosting Fox & Friends next Wednesday. “Prejean’s people emailed Friday night calling off the deal,” the insider tells us.
Prejean, the reigning Miss California who’s been in the headlines for her stand on gay marriage, is scheduled to fill in for vacationing Gretchen Carlson on Wednesday, May 27.
We hear negotiations continued through the weekend to try and salvage the booking. A Fox News spokesperson tells TVNewser Prejean is “absolutely still hosting.”
Say it ain’t true, Carrie. If you don’t appear on Fox & Friends we’ll be forced to continue watching Cops reruns on G4.
We recently published Try explaining this new Quiznos commercial to your children, featuring a Quiznos commercial featuring a deep-voiced gay oven that says, “Put it in me, Scott,” referring to the male Quiznos worker’s tasty, toasty torpedo. Judging from the reaction we and other sites showing the video received, it did not go over as well as they expected, well, maybe in the company we keep.
But, it looks like the Quiznos marketing department is paying attention. They’re making up for it with a new commercial that will appeal more to the horney heterosexual male, and the Hollywood female: It features two sexy women in bikinis fighting over that once again, tasty, toasty torpedo. It puts a just slightly different vision in one’s head than their last attempt.
What’s next we wonder? Are they going to start checking ID’s just to get into this steamy sandwich shop?
While Fox News is covering car chases and missing girls and MSNBC is trying resurrect Air America on their network, much more important news is going around the world, virtually unreported, or at least underreported, by all U.S. networks. The best way to really learn what’s really going on in the world is to go to directly to the source. Yet it often requires translation. Thank God for Memri.org that non-profit organization providing translations of the Middle East media.
One recent story is a translation of the General Commander of the Iranian Army Ataollah Salehi who claims that It Will Take Us 11 Days “to Wipe Israel Out of Existence.”
Memri.org also includes a translation of the video into English, repeated here:
Following are excerpts of statements by Iranian military commanders, from a TV report which aired on LBC TV on May 3, 2009.
The "killer chip" (also known as "the Napolitano Chip" at the Department of Homeland Security)
A Saudi inventor has developed “the killer chip,” a tiny semiconductor-controlled device that can be implanted in a person, allowing authorities to track them from anywhere in the world with GPS.
A second version of the device could remotely release poison to “eliminate” anyone who becomes “a security risk.”
The patent application was tossed by Germany’s Patent and Trademark Office because that nation doesn’t recognize inventions they deem unethical or a danger to the public.
Sadly, Attorney General Eric Holder would never consider using this product on the terrorists he wants to release in the United States, but Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano probably would consider using it on those dreaded rightwing terrorists.
James Lovelock says, "The world is doomed, so let's party, dude."
On one hand, renowned climate expert James Lovelock thinks the global warming will destroy the world. On the other hand, he thinks all the political solutions are a scam.
The Guardian UK reports Lovelock’s heresy:
He dismisses eco ideas briskly, one by one. “Carbon offsetting? I wouldn’t dream of it. It’s just a joke. To pay money to plant trees, to think you’re offsetting the carbon? You’re probably making matters worse. You’re far better off giving to the charity Cool Earth, which gives the money to the native peoples to not take down their forests.”
Do he and his wife try to limit the number of flights they take? “No we don’t. Because we can’t.” And recycling, he adds, is “almost certainly a waste of time and energy”, while having a “green lifestyle” amounts to little more than “ostentatious grand gestures”. He distrusts the notion of ethical consumption. “Because always, in the end, it turns out to be a scam … or if it wasn’t one in the beginning, it becomes one.”
The Guardian continues:
You’re never going to get enough energy from wind to run a society such as ours,” he says. “Windmills! Oh no. No way of doing it. You can cover the whole country with the blasted things, millions of them. Waste of time.”
So given all this, what would Lovelock do now? “Enjoy life while you can. Because if you’re lucky it’s going to be 20 years before it hits the fan.”
A round of applause for James Lovelock for his honesty. Anyone Al Gore disagrees with is alright with us.
Religion is being squeezed off PBS but Obama worship will still be encouraged.
PBS likes religion about us much as Barack Obama likes auto executives.
A committee has recommended that PBS boot any affiliate stations that air “sectarian” programming.
The bottom line: Broadcast any religious programming and you’ll lose every PBS program. Sesame Street. The NewsHour. Nova. The Nightly Business Report. Everything.
Believe it or not, PBS has a fairness-and-balance policy, instituted twenty-four years ago, that says affiliates must be noncommercial, nonpartisan, and nonsectarian.
For example, WHUT has notified the Archdiocese of Washington that its “Mass for Shut-Ins” will be cancelled if the policy is approved. Oddly enough, WHUT’s general manager heads the committee that recommended the policy.
We’d have to say that this is noncommercial, nonpartisan, nonsectarian nonsense.
Cheer up, Chrysler dealers. Be happy that you survived this 1965 model.
Jim Anderer is the first guy in the last two years to get more face time than Barack Obama on the network news.
Who is Jim Anderer? He’s owns Island Jeep in Lindenhurst, New York. Island Jeep was one of the 789 dealerships across the nation that Chrysler announced that it was going to eliminate on Thursday.
Yet, with 789 dealerships to choose from ABC, CBS and NBC News all somehow ended up talking to Anderer.
If someone had wanted to buy a car at Island Jeep on Thursday, they couldn’t have. Not the way network TV news crews were mobbing the place.
As NewsBusters said, “…only Anderer, who must have had a busy day in front of film crews from the national and local media, earned the triple play on the broadcast networks. Following a piece from Chris Bury in Chicago, ABC’s World News ran a ‘1st Person’ segment with Anderer railing against Chrysler. The CBS Evening News put two bites from Anderer in a piece narrated from Atlanta by Mark Strassmann and NBC slid a clip of Anderer into a Nightly News story from Lee Cowan in Los Angeles.”
In the old Soviet Union, every store carried the same poor quality products. Not unlike the network news in 2009.
The graduates at the University of California Merced may have thought she was talking public service, but we’re pretty sure she’s talking about another tax increase.
We’re sad to report that the trio of British ecological explorers who’ve been trying to reach the North Pole had to give up their global warming expedition because – are you ready? – it was too cold.
The Catlin Arctic Survey team had to be rescued this week after finishing less than half their trek. In fact, they fell short by more than 300 miles.
WattsUpWithThat.com summarizes the hilarious results:
Due to horrifically cold weather, hypothermia and frostbite, they made it less than half way to the pole.
Some of the distance they did travel was due to polar drift. They reported crossing the 85th parallel “in their sleep.”
They started on ice which was already known to be first year ice, yet were “surprised” to find that it was first year ice.
They stayed on first year ice for most of the truncated journey.
Their ice measurements tell us that the first year ice this year is fairly thick.
Their ice measurements tell us very little or about the thickness or “health” of multi-year ice.
They will no doubt get an invite to St. James Palace for tea with Prince Charles.
We feel confident predicting that the team’s final report will blame the extremely cold conditions on global warming.
Republican Kim Hendren, minority leader of the Arkansas state Senate, got mad the other day and called New York Senator Charles Schumer “that Jew” after Schumer told a TV interviewer that conservative Republicans are “hard right.”
Remarkably, Hendren attempted to explain away his gaffe by pointing out that he says a lot of stupid things.
“I don’t use a Teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my mouth,” he said.
Later, when asked to name a Jewish person he admires, he said, “ Jesus.” He also said he likes Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman.
“I ought not to have referred to it at all,” Hendren said. “When I referred to him as Jewish, it wasn’t because I don’t like Jewish people.”
Schumer didn’t want to get anywhere near this stupidity and simply said, “Apology accepted.”
In other news, Hendren called Hillary Clinton “that bitch.” He didn’t really. But he should have.
Nuclear codes, military secrets or anything else you want to know, Joe Biden will tell you.
Vice President Joe Biden has put his foot squarely in his mouth again, accidentally revealing classified information meant to protect sitting vice presidents. You know, sitting vice presidents like Joe Biden.
While filling in for President Obama at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an Biden revealed the existence of a secret bunker under the historic U.S. Naval Observatory, which serves as the official residence of the vice president.
According to reporter Eleanor Clift, Biden “said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.”
“The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down,” Clift continued, “this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn’t be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall.”
Biden’s blabbery seems to confirm reports of a massive underground construction project that began at the Observatory back in 2002. Neighbors were told the work was “sensitive in nature” and “classified.”
Fact is, you wouldn’t have to waterboard Joe Biden to get him to reveal secret information. You’d just need to say hi.