The Victorious Opposition

What an ignorant racist. I hope Manny tongue punches his mom’s fart box and then belches in Mayweather’s direction. I also hope that Manny knocks Mayweather out so hard he wakes up back in time and pulls a “Back to the Future” over this video. I have always hated Mayweather, and one of the reasons I like Pacquiao is that he’ll beat a motherfucker’s ass, and then chill with everyday people.

This little prima dona is begging to get his ass knocked out, and I hope he, and his entire entourage get bum rushed and knocked the fuck out; and a sushi roll should be placed over a Filipino flag and laid on his convulsive body.

Filipinos like fried Spanish food, you fucking idiot.

It’s funny and sad at the same time:

According to the survey, nearly one in five Americans (18 percent) say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11 percent in 2009. Obama is a Christian, but the number of people say Christian when asked his religion has gone down sharply, from 51 percent in 2008 to 34 percent today. And 43 percent say they don’t know what religion the president follows.

I’m surprised by this, although it does show how opaque he really is.  The belief that he was a closet Muslim was more of a fringe thing that centered around his attendance at a supposed madrassah as a boy, the middle name “Hussein”, and the fact that his father was a Muslim (which does technically make Barack one too).  Now that his record is on display and we’ve seen the Cairo speech and his ill-conceived statement on Cordoba House, more people either think he’s a Muslim or they just don’t know what the hell he is.  I wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of Birthers also think he’s a Muslim.

Some people try to downplay this, claiming that Obama’s religion is a matter of his own “spiritual privacy.”  That’s a nice sentiment but it’s completely unrealistic.  As we’ve seen over the whole Victory Mosque ordeal, Americans do have serious concerns about Islam and many do have very negative attitudes toward that faith.  I can only conclude that this increasing doubt about Obama’s religion is a bad thing for him.

It’s easy to say that one in five Americans are idiots for thinking he’s Muslim, but the fact that two-thirds now find that they don’t know what he really believes is something else entirely.  For my part, I think he’s Christian.  Of course, Obama loses out on that too given his twenty year attendance in Wright’s Holy Trinity Church of God Damn America.  Either way, he’s out of the mainstream.  What’s ridiculous is that more and more Americans are finally starting to realize that they have no idea who or what they elected to be president.

After many disasters like this, the “you should have known” recriminations begin.

“I just feel angry,” LaTasha Davis, step-daughter of shooting victim Maria Davis, told “Good Morning America” today. “How did she even get a job working at the school when she had that type of background?”

I didn’t think that having being been accused of involvement in terroristic activity was a bar to employment as a university professor.  Consider just the Weather Underground members turned professors:

Bill Ayers: Professor at University of Illinois Chicago
Bernardine Dorhn: Associate professor at Northwestern University School of Law
Eleanor Raskin: Associate professor at Albany Law School
Mark Rudd: Instructor at New Mexico Community College

Then there’s Black Panther Angela Davis of UC Santa Cruz and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian at the University of South Florida.

I’m sure that the victim’s families will sue on some sort of claim of negligent hiring.  Unfortunately, it seems that Alabama University was following standard established guidelines for hiring university faculty.

“So, did you ever try to bomb anything?”
“Well, not exactly.  A bunch of us were putting together a bomb that accidentally went off and killed a few of my friends.”
“Oh, were you convicted?”
“No, the FBI wiretapped me without a warrant.”
“Excellent!  When can you start?”

UPDATE: Just in case anyone wasn’t aware of this development in the case, I’ll draw attention to it since this post is based on it:

Bishop was the prime suspect in a 1993 mail bombing attempt on a Harvard Medical School professor.

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Though investigators say they will not re-open the investigation into the 1993 attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor, those who worked with her at the time say it was terrifying.

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Once again, Bishop was never charged due to lack of evidence. And, authorities, say the motive seemed to be eerily similar to the potential motive in the Alabama rampage—Bishop was reportedly upset about a negative evaluation she was expecting to get from the targeted professor.

As an added bonus, she was completely obsessed with Obama and characterized as a “far left political extremist”.  It just goes to show that being a rabid leftwingnut with a violent history has never exactly been a disqualifier for a faculty position in higher education.

Thousands of protesters formed a human chain in Dresden on Saturday, determined to stop neo-Nazis from exploiting the German city’s painful history on the 65th anniversary of its deadly Allied bombing in World War II.

I say “ironically” because the anti-Nazi protestors don’t seem to be strangers to Brownshirt tactics themselves:

There were some minor skirmishes, with some barricades set ablaze but quickly extinguished, and a car flipped over. A busload of far-right supporters was turned back after its headlights and windows were smashed.

Police reported some minor injuries, including people hit by rocks, but said the opposing sides were largely kept separated.

Several uniformed Nazi Party members were forced to jump off a bridge and into a river after two Caucasian men dressed like “Hasidic diamond merchants” driving in a 1974 Dodge Monaco plowed their vehicle toward them.

I probably added that last sentence.

Another ironic aspect of this is that the Nazis were the ones responsible for Dresden being destroyed in the first place thanks to their hero’s reckless aggression.  Not being content with having started the war and waged terror bombing of London with relish, they now want to wear the victim mantle?  Fuck ‘em. 

Personally, I find basketball boring as sin and don’t watch it (even though I’m a former colleague of, and work-friend of, the new owner of the Washington Wizards). But a story about a new basketball league caught my eye. And not for good reasons:

The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its inaugural season in June and hopes Augusta will be one of 12 cities with a team.

“Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league,” the statement said.

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“There’s nothing hatred about what we’re doing,” he said. “I don’t hate anyone of color. But people of white, American-born citizens are in the minority now. Here’s a league for white players to play fundamental basketball, which they like.”

Lewis said he wants to emphasize fundamental basketball instead of “street-ball” played by “people of color.”

Oy vey. Would it be over the line to bust out the “racist” card for this one?

H/T: Alan Colmes

A plea by California Representative Laura Richardson that House Democrats respond after Republican Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” at President Barack Obama last week helped spur her party’s leaders to action.

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Not all of her fellow Democrats agreed with Pelosi’s assessment, including Richardson, 47. The second-term member who represents Long Beach said she spoke up at the weekly caucus meeting that same day because “leadership didn’t say something strong” about “what they were going to do” in response to Wilson’s outburst.

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“No other president in history has been called out in a joint session,” Diane Watson, a California Democrat, said yesterday before the House vote.

Shown Disrespect

Wilson “kind of winked at that element” of society that has shown disrespect to Obama because of his race, Georgia Democrat Hank Johnson said yesterday. “He said it’s OK.”

“We will probably have folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again, riding through the countryside intimidating people,” Johnson said. “That’s the logical conclusion if this kind of attitude is not rebuked.”

During her behind-closed-doors speech to House colleagues, Richardson recalls saying that “this country has taken on a display of hate, a display of rage a display of unwillingness to even consider and be open to change.”

Richardson said she was concerned that Wilson’s outburst showed “we have crossed the line of it becoming dangerous if we as members are going to scream at one another.”

She didn’t ascribe any racial motivation to Wilson’s comment, though other black lawmakers who pushed for a rebuke of Wilson said they believed that Obama wouldn’t have been heckled during his speech if he were white.

So those of you who were pushing the line all along that this was about “civility” and “respecting the House of Representatives” can finally see that it was a platform for nothing more than race-baiting.  Now that they’ve admonished Wilson, they’re letting it all bubble up to the surface.  Hopefully, some of you here at the VO won’t be so naive in the future about the motivations of congressional Democrats but you should know one thing: I forgive you.

This has turned into a total debacle for the Democrats.  Had they let Wilson apologize to nobody but the man he called a liar and dropped it, they could have marginalized him and ended the matter.  Instead, the race-baiters in the House were able to intimidate Pelosi and were so successful in getting their way, that they’re now out to do it on a national scale by calling all opposition to Obama “racist”.  As (I) expected, this whole thing is becoming bigger than Wilson and his outburst.

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UPDATE:

I have to admit that although I thought that partisan politics and a desire to distract from Obama’s failures to ram healthcare reform through were driving the Wilson admonishment, it never occured to me that it was racially-based.  That’s a glaring oversight on my part because EVERYTHING revolving around Obama has been about race and we have seen that “dissent is the highest form of racism”. 

Hey, imagine if it had been Ron Paul who made the outburst.  Do you think we’d be hearing about anything else this week besides his old newsletter writings? 

“Given recent revelations concerning the associations and statements of the president’s green jobs czar, Van Jones should resign his position and if he is unwilling to do so, the president should demand his resignation. His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this Administration or the public debate,” Congressman Mike Pence said. “The Constitution of the United States vests Congress with the responsibility to advise and consent in the appointment of high ranking officials by the president. To date, President Obama has appointed more than thirty individuals to ‘czar’ positions within his Administration without permitting the Congress or the American people to properly examine their backgrounds or public records.”

Before this guy is pressured to resign or transferred to another government post where he can’t cause as much trouble for Obama, I just wanted to put my thoughts on the matter into the VO.  This is what I had to say back in October of last year of Obama and the extremists he seems to attract and be attracted to:

Obama’s friendships, partnerships, and associations are a huge indicator of the sorts of people who he would appoint within the government.  So far, I’ve seen very little among his pals that I like and I don’t think that we ever need to experiment with the radical notions of what Obama and Co. call “change”.

This is why I ask if anyone is really amazed that a racialist, extremist nutbag like Van Jones is currently serving at an Obama-created post in which he is accountable to nobody but the President?  The White House will claim that they didn’t know about the inflammatory things that this particular czar has said and done but it ignores the real problem: it’s not that Van Jones was unvetted, it’s that Obama was.  It’s likely that the WH knew who they were hiring and didn’t really think anything was wrong with any of it.  It’s just what they believe.

I’d like to think that by the time we arrive at the next presidential election, voters are going to take the friendships and associations of presidential candidates more seriously—particularly if one of the candidates does lack a real track record or is, shall we say, less than forthcoming about his history and beliefs.  For the time being, we’re stuck with a president who seems to be intent on creating all sorts of new government positions and staffing them with extremist lunatics that only answer to him.

Considering the poor quality of people that he nominated for cabinet posts (who actually did need to be approved by Congress), you really have to wonder how many more like Van Jones are running around in this Administration.

UPDATE: As working man pointed out, he’s gone.  How nice of him to resign right in the middle of a three day weekend when most people aren’t paying attention to the news.

“The president and the CEQ accepted his resignation because Van Jones, as he says in his statement, understood that he was going to get in the way of the president and ultimately this country moving forward on something as important as creating jobs in a clean energy economy,” Gibbs said, adding that Obama does not endorse Jones’ statements and associations.

Sure he doesn’t.

An African-American man from Mississippi admits posing as a white supremacist to send a death threat across state lines by Facebook.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 20-year-old Dyron L. Hart of Poplarville pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a threat in November 2008.

Hart admitted creating a name and using a white supremacists’ photo to pose as a white man who planned to kill blacks because Barack Obama had been elected president.

This sort of thing seems to happen quite a bit.  I remember an incident involving a Muslim college student after 9/11 staging a pretend hate crime, the Duke LaCrosse rape investigation, and that deranged woman who scratched a “B” onto her own face and claimed that a black guy did it because she’s a Republican.  I wonder if anyone really studies that phenomenon to understand why it happens?

Seriously, if you’re a complete attention whore, don’t commit a felony or mutilate yourself.  Do what any other relatively sensible jerkoff would do and release a sex tape of yourself onto the Internet or upload a YouTube video of yourself revealing your killer recipe for Ramen noodles if you really need attention.

Back to the topic at hand, there are very limited circumstances under which black folks can acceptably be portrayed as white racists. 

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Asked if he had spoken to the President, Wright said: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office. ...

“They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. ... I said from the beginning: He’s a politician; I’m a pastor. He’s got to do what politicians do.”

Wright also said Obama should have sent a U.S. delegation to the World Conference on Racism held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, but that the president did not do so for fear of offending Jews and Israel.

“Ethic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing of the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don’t want Barack talking like that because that’s anti-Israel,” Wright said.

Twenty years.  Obama attended this nutbag’s church for twenty years and was one of his best friends.  Now we look at how Obama is out to put all of the onus of Mideast peace on Israel and equating the treatment of the Palestinians with the Holocaust and it should become obvious why many of us said before the election that these questionable long-term personal associations matter.

I have to know: did Obama ever try to convince Wright that the Joos aren’t the focus of evil in the world or even in the Middle East?  Given the fact that Wright says “they don’t want Barack talking like that” I think it’s obvious that he never disagreed with Wright on any of it.  Obama can be as telegenic and articulate as he likes but that media-created image is masking an assload of racial and ethnic hostility and bitterness.  Honestly, would you associate with a clergyman or even attend his church if you knew his attitude was that disdainful of Jewish people?  Would you think I was someone you wanted to buddy up with if I said that I can’t get in to talk the mayor of Kansas City because the darkies that run the city bureaucracy won’t let me?  I’m just asking.

I foresee a really rough four (eight?) years for Israel.  They have no friend in this White House.

Daily Press

H/T: Ace of Spades

UPDATE: While we’re on the subject of Obama’s life experiences and how it influences his foreign policy, here is the new editorial by Ralph Peters on that very thing:

Much of our president’s youth was spent in the Third World; his closest relatives viewed events through a wacky leftist lens—and he sat for decades in a church whose pastor ranted against Jews, “racist” America and our foreign policy. It would be astonishing if Obama hadn’t internalized such views by sheer osmosis.

The evidence of our president’s preferences is on the video record: Compare his upbeat body language and smiles as he embraces Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez or the Saudi king with the scowls he offers European leaders.

Our president not only identifies with the Third World, but with a romanticized Third World whose failings are all the West’s fault. It’s the typical view of an undergraduate leftist—in 1979.

UPDATE 2: Just out of curiosity, will Wright be called upon to condemn the shooting at the Holocaust Museum since he has been one of those engaging in hateful rhetoric against Jews or is that only something pro-lifers have to do when an abortion doctor gets shot?  I ask only out of a desire to know what the ground rules are.

Here in Kansas City (commonly known as “Killa City” by gang members due to its ridiculously high homicide rate among their numbers), we are looking at a reduction in our police force thanks to budget cutbacks.  Earlier this morning, I wondered about the NYPD’s Stop and Frisk program, in which police use criminal profiling to search for illegal weapons on people they encounter during routine incidents and whether it would work here. 

RAND recently came up with a new study on that very thing, but only focused on the racial aspect of it, instead of whether or not it is worth doing simply because it works:

I started out noting that NYPD’s stop and frisk practices do disproportionately burden nonwhite pedestrians. These practices can certainly strain police-community relations. At the same time they also result in arrests and recovered guns. Balancing these issues is worthy of public discussion such as today’s hearing. My analysis of the 2006 stop data indicates that, with some exceptions, racial profiling is unlikely a major factor in the stop patterns. If racial profiling played a major role in the stops we would not see black pedestrians and similarly situated white pedestrians having the same frisk rates and use-of-force rates.

The obvious: more minorities get stopped because more minorities are involved in gang activity.  There were other problems, though. For example, some officers noticeably stopped more blacks and others stopped more Latinos than other cops.  Beyond that, racism is generally not a big motivator in the decision by a cop to stop and frisk. 

The only racial aspect of interest to me in this is the fact that minorities are also the greatest victims of street and gang crime, not just the perpetrators.  A couple of years ago, I looked at the homicide map for the Kansas City Police Department along with all statistics and was able to deduce that the single most dangerous circumstance for homicide you could have would be for you to be a black man between 16 and 25, east of Troost Avenue, at midnight to 3 AM on a Saturday night.  Your probable killer? Another young black man out and about on a Saturday night.

What I would really like to know is why the street agitators and other race-baiting activists who make criminals out to be victims and police officers to be Klansmen seem to have so little regard for minorities to live in neighborhoods in which they are not terrorized by crime.  Is it really any better to lose control of your streets to people who look like you rather than crazy yahoos in white sheets?

RAND

UPDATE: NYPD, to their credit, is taking the report’s findings seriously:

They’re slightly bigger than a driver’s license and they aren’t all that detailed, but the New York Police Department is hoping an informational card handed out to New Yorkers will improve relations between police officers and those they stop to question about crime.

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On the back it lists four general reasons why someone might be stopped, such as “carrying what appears to be a weapon” and “reports of suspicious or suspected criminal activity.”

Police officers started giving out the card about 10 days ago during stops in three precincts comprising a pilot program: the 32nd Precinct in Harlem, the 44th Precinct in the Bronx, and the 75th Precinct in Brooklyn.

I’m pretty honest with all you guys about the perils of living in Los Angeles. I am at odds with this city pretty much all the time. Since I told you where I am can you help me and tell me where you’re “from”?

Where am I from? I’m from the Dirty South. Watchu really know about the Dirty South?

I only found a couple of things in this article that really got my attention.  The first:

The U.S. president is trying to mend fences with a Muslim world that felt it had been blamed by America for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Golly, I don’t know how that blame thing possibly could have happened, given that people in Muslim countries and even heads of state have been calling our country the Great Satan for decades, funding organizations that blow up people they don’t like, and (in the case of Saudi Arabia) funding and championing lunatic Wahhabism all over the world.  9/11 could have just as easily been carried out by the Mormons, for the love of Brigham Young.  That the hijackers last words as the airliners collided with their targets was “Allah is great” is purely incidental, I’m sure.

The other thing that struck me was this statement by the Great Apologizer:

Gul said many Turkish Muslims were killed during the same period. Historians, not politicians, Gul said, should decide how to label the events of those times.

In his 2008 campaign, Obama said “the Armenian genocide is not an allegation,” but rather “a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence.”

Now that he is president, the genocide question may not be Obama’s best issue for taking a tough stand that antagonizes a key ally. It is important in U.S. communities with large numbers of Armenian-Americans, but it has a low profile elsewhere.

In his speech to the parliament Monday, Obama said the United States strongly supports the full normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia. He also noted that the United States “still struggles with the legacy of our past treatment of Native Americans.”

I have to say that I give him full credit for managing not to outright call US policy with regard to the tribes “genocide”, even if he did implicitly equate it with the Armenian genocide.  Yesterday, I pointed out that Obama was willing to bash the policies of presidents before Bush when characterizing what a shameful country recently elected him and all.  He has now managed to go beyond even that,  to slam the policies of pretty much every Presidential Administration of the 19th Century.

Now we know that Michelle didn’t feel proud of America until her husband was nominated for President by the Democratic Party.  When exactly is her husband planning to start sharing some of that pride?

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Our chief law enforcement officer of the nation wasted little time making the news. But did he crack some spy ring, capture a known terrorist, uncover a massive child labor violator, or even bring a case against the tainted peanut butter manufacturers? Nope, you want real police work, go watch CSI, no, Holders’ claim to fame (and probably a harbinger of what to expect from this slick practitioner who is thin on credentials but makes up for it in bluster) is to be the racial consciousness (cudgel) to the nation. And how he will wield this new power of his is to label us as a nation of cowards.

Eric Holder, the nation’s first black attorney general, said Wednesday the United States was “a nation of cowards” on matters of race, with most Americans avoiding candid discussions of racial issues. In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder said.

Race issues continue to be a topic of political discussion, but “we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”

And for some, that’s all they talk about. But I’m confused, I thought we already crossed that bridge, already proved our meddle by being the first major power to elect a black man ( VO disclaimer- all descriptions of our president have the title “black man” used perfunctorily as a politically correct imprimatur, even though racially speaking, he is only half black, but in matters of race, the black influence is always rounded up, so although not factually correct calling Obama black, for purposes of conciliation, we will continue with the charade here and just call him our first black president).

I’ve written before how those on the left that felt obliged to make a racial statement in the last election and think they are now off the hook, better think twice.

Ogletree’s point is that because of pervasive racism which he expects will last decades, white America won’t vote for blacks and other minority candidates. The expected heavy white vote for Obama doesn’t disprove this thesis, Ogletree says, because Obama’s not black; he’s “biracial.” So it looks like, according to Ogletree (and Obama?) that white America will have to do lots more for blacks after electing Obama to atone for past sins; it will get little if any credit for electing Obama.

So now we have Holder telling us that even though we now have a black president, and that the work place is integrated, it’s not enough, painfully brought to the forefront by the fact that on the weekends, people have the audacity to pal around with their friends and the people they feel comfortable around, and these people do not have the required amount of diversity as mandated by the federal government. I wish Holder would come visit my tennis club on the weekends, the only groups not sufficiently represented are midgets and scientologists.

A neo-Nazi group has joined the state’s “Adopt-A-Highway” volunteer litter pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight won four years ago by the Ku Klux Klan.

The Springfield unit of the National Socialist Movement has committed to cleaning up trash along a half-mile section of Highway 160 near the Springfield city limits.

Two signs noting the group’s membership in the Adopt-A-Highway program went up in October but drew attention only recently when the group picked up litter as part of a gathering in Springfield.

The state says it had no way to reject the group’s application. A 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling arising from a similar effort by the Ku Klux Klan says membership in the Adopt-A-Highway program can’t be denied because of a group’s political beliefs. At the time, the state could reject applications for the program from groups that denied membership based on race or had a history of violence.

God damn it.

If I recall, the KKK eventually lost their right to participate in the program because they never actually got around to cleaning the road and people kept stealing the signs.  These numb-nuts, apparently bored with bitching about Obama on the Ron Paul Forum—I mean Stormfront (dot) org—are even lamer since they don’t even get points for originality.

Don’t mind me, I’ll be in the corner, cradling my head in shame.  Feel free to make jokes about people getting curb-stomped American History X-style for littering.

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I just noticed this story that ties in with Rich’s post on the BART shooting:

The white former transit police officer, who is charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black man on New Year’s Day in Oakland, pleaded not guilty on Thursday.

I’m not really clear on why MSNBC feels the need to inject a racial component into this when there is no evidence that it was a motive in the shooting or that it really has any place here.

Would they ever post a story that said, “A Hispanic man who is an undocumented alien was in court on charges of allegedly raping a white woman…?”

Just wondering.

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