Are liberals (moonbats) afraid of being afflicted by a bout of paraskevidekatriaphobia? Then it's probably a good idea for them stay in bed tomorrow to avoid being struck down with the irrational fear of Friday the 13th.
Tomorrow, Friday the 13th, Clifton of Another Black Conservative, will be appearing on the Glenn Beck Show on Fox News. Set your DVRs to record Glenn’s show if you’re unable to view the show when it airs live at 5:00PM.
Those of us who know Clifton are excited about his appearance on this wildly popular show on Fox. In a recent email, he said, “I promise to bring my A-Game just for you guys.” I know he’s going to make all us conservatives proud!
The 2009 Weblog Awards are the world's largest blog competition. The 2009 edition is now underway. The nomination process for The 2009 Weblog Awards began November 3rd and will run through November 20, 2009.
A person’s “family” is his greatest treasure. Since the creation of this blog a year-and-a half ago, my “family” has grown. A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts.
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is credited with saying, “None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us.” Two bloggers who bent down to help me are Dan Riehl of Riehl World View and Robert Stacy McCain of The Other McCain.
A blog is many things, as I mentioned above, but it is also a way to meet wonderful people and learn about projects that benefit others and I have tried to focus on several of them here. I was especially humbled by something Mary Sue of Ruby Slippers recently said. “Since the fundraising effort began for Project Valour-IT, Carol has devoted almost all of her efforts on her blog to raising money and drawing attention to the project. When I was involved in Project 2996, an effort to remember those who died on 9/11, I remember Carol devoted her blog to the project exclusively. Her dedication is inspiring.”
No Sheeples Here has been nominated in the Best Very Large Blog category. I can’t help thinking that my Technorati “authority” score is a mistake. As it stands, though, I’m now in the “Best Very Large Blog” category.
Click here to see the master list of categories where you can nominate your favorite blogs. Get site badges (with linking code), and learn how you can get involved in this year's festivities.
The schedule for The 2009 Weblog Awards is as follows:
Nominations Nov. 3, 2009 - Nov. 20, 2009
Finalists Announced December 28, 2009
Voting January 4, 2010 - January 11, 2009
Start nominating your favorite sites and start spreading the word about nominations opening and consider putting in a good word for No Sheeples Here. Thank you.
“Show class, have pride and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.” —Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant
Seven years and twelve days after being captured for killing ten people in 2002, the so-called D.C. sniper was put to death in the Greensville, VA Correctional Center. The time of death for John Allen Muhammad was 9:11PM. How fittingly symbolic.
America was still reeling from the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. For three weeks in the fall of 2002, this piece of human garbage and his equally depraved accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, paralyzed the Washington area with a series of sniper attacks.
Beginning on Oct. 2, 2002, they randomly picked out people to die. Using a Bushmaster rifle, they seemed to target Americana itself in the lives they took. Among the victims was a child shot at a middle school, shoppers gunned down at a grocery store, at local malls and while they cut their grass and pumped gas into their car. By the time the pair was finished, ten people were dead and three had been wounded.
The terror Muhammad wrought in America during those dark days is being repaid a thousand-fold as he enters the gaping maw of hell. Good riddance, you piece of sh*t.
For all our efforts to say "thanks”, in the end, we cannot do enough. No holiday in their honor can make up for the hours lost, the innocence lost, the loves, limbs and lives lost.
The horrible events at Ft. Hood remind us just how dangerous their lives are, and how fragile our peace remains.
In this graphic, I’ve added the VFW “Buddy Poppy”. Among all the flowers that evoke the memories and emotions of war is the red poppy, which became associated with war after the publication of a poem written by Col. John McCrae of Canada. The poem, "In Flanders Field," describes blowing red fields among the battleground of the fallen.
The Flanders poppy is native to the Mediterranean and areas of Europe. The tiny seeds can sit in the soil for decades until the soil is disturbed and they come back to life. They are spread on the boots of soldiers and by the winds and birds, by tires on bicycles and cars. It is believed that they were spread to Britain on the boots of Roman soldiers.
During World War I, the soils were disturbed around trenches, craters and graves. When spring came, the poppies grew. John McCrae, an aide station doctor observed the poppies and wrote the touching poem “In Flanders Field” in 1915. The war raged for three more years, and each spring where graves had been dug, the poppies bloomed on them.
The United States Marines represent the best young men and women our Nation has to offer. To be a Marine is to be a member of America’s warrior class—to be one of the few who steps forward with the courage and conviction to face whatever dangers await. Our Nation expects her Marines to be ready when the Nation calls; to leave family and the comforts of home behind; to march into battle under austerity; and to come home under a victory pennant.
From Al Anbar in the west of Iraq, to Helmand Province in the south of Afghanistan, our Corps of Marines can always expect to be found where the fight is the toughest. Such is our history. Today, as we write the final chapter on our victory in Iraq, we will increasingly take the fight to the enemy in Afghanistan and add new pages to our legacy in places like Delaram, Now Zad and Garmsir. One day we will return to our naval heritage and patrol the high seas with our Navy brothers. Such is our future.
As we celebrate our Corps’ 234th birthday, we first pause to reflect and pay tribute to those Marines who have given the last full measure in defense of freedom. We extend our deepest gratitude to our Marine Corps families—the unsung heroes who endure hardship and sacrifice so that we are able to go forward and accomplish any mission. We extend our appreciation to our countrymen who have answered our every need. And we celebrate the magnificent men and women who willingly and selflessly continue to go into harm’s way to protect this great Nation.
To all who have gone before, to those who wear the uniform today, and to the families that give us the strength to forge ahead—I wish you all a heartfelt 234th birthday!
Semper Fidelis,
James T. Conway General, U.S. Marines
Celebrate the Devil Dog's 234th birthday by donating to Project Valour-IT. Click on the widget at the top of the sidebar. It's a small sacrifice to make for their great sacrifices in defense of our great Nation. Thank you.
In the course of our daily lives, many of us seek to accomplish some great and noble task, but it was Helen Keller, one of history’s most remarkable women, who said that our chief duty was to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I discovered that divided among four virtual teams (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines), a wide variety of bloggers were competing online to see who could inspire the most donations to help wounded troops.
The Soldiers’ Angels fourth annual online Valour-IT Veterans Day fundraising competition (from October 26 through November 11) helps ensure America’s wounded soldiers have access to voice-controlled laptops and other technology that supports their physical and emotional recovery.
Each of the devices Valour-IT supplies helps restore confidence and independence. Voice-activated laptops reconnect the wounded with the world and develop self-confidence by showing soldiers they can continue to be engaged and productive despite their injuries. Wounded service members also use the laptops for education about their medical care or preparation for a post-military career.
Getting back to Cassandra of Villainous Company—she is quite a motivator. She, along with her Marine Team buddies, decided to have an inter-service video contest. The winners of the contest would have one of the technology items donated to a severely wounded service member in their name.
Greyhawk of Mudville Gazette took Third Place and a GPS device will be donated in his name.
Who won First Place, you ask? The illustrious “Gunny Sergeant” who owns this blog. Believe me when I tell you that winning first place means so much to me because a soldier will receive a laptop computer with voice-activated software donated in my name. My heart is filled with joy knowing that my small effort will help one of America’s heroes.
I am honored to be associated with these wonderful people who blog for America’s military heroes and with Soldiers’ Angels.
This equipment is a bridge back to life for soldiers who have become disabled fighting for our American ideals, our liberty and our national security.
Please look to your right for the donation widget, click on it to reach the donation page and give generously to send these soldiers the message that you are grateful for their service and stand by them to give them the tools they need now to live fulfilling, meaningful and productive lives.
The following story was gleefully mooched from Wolff at Howls At The Moon:
The average age of the military man is nineteen years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances, is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father’s, but he has never collected unemployment either.
He's a recent high school graduate. He was probably an average student; pursued some form of sports activities, drives a ten-year-old jalopy and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears she’ll be waiting when he returns from half a world away. He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and a 155mm howitzer.
He is ten or fifteen pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk. He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip a rifle in thirty seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark. He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one effectively if he must.
He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional. He can march until he is told to stop, or stop until he is told to march. He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without spirit or individual dignity. He is self-sufficient. He has two sets of fatigues. He washes one and wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry.
He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle. He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts. If you're thirsty, he'll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food. He'll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low. He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands. He can save your life or take it because that is his job.
He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay, and still find ironic humor in it all. He has seen more suffering and death than he should have in his short lifetime. He has wept in public and in private for friends who have fallen in combat and is unashamed.
He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to “square-away” those around him who haven't bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop talking. In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their right to be disrespectful.
Just as his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather did, he is paying the price for our freedom. Beardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the American fighting man that has kept this country free for over two hundred years. He has asked nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding. Remember him always for he has earned our respect and admiration with this blood.
Project Valour IT provides adaptive technology to help severely wounded vets recover faster, establish a support system, and regain their independence. Since 1995, every single dollar raised by Project Valour IT has been used to provide over 4,100 voice- activated laptops, over 30 Wii systems and nearly one hundred handheld GPS devices to wounded vets.
Voice-activated laptops connect patients with still-deployed fellow service members and loved ones who can’t be at their bedside. They run therapeutic computer programs that support restored brain/vision function, research treatments, keep track of treatment regimens and help vets retrain for post-military employment. Voice control makes using a computer one of the first things severely wounded vets can do on their own.
Wii total fitness systems donated to physical therapists in VA hospitals and major medical centers key into patients’ natural competitive nature and allow therapists to track their progress in a fun way.
GPS systems are invaluable for those with severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Traumatic Brain Injury. They foster self-reliance and a sense of competence. For those with short-term memory problems, a GPS can mean the difference between independence and frustration or even failure.
Can you spare five or ten bucks? Hell yeah you can. Gunny Sergeant Sheeples says donate to Project Valour-IT and become a hero to our heroes.
How did you sleep last night in your warm, comfy bed? Did you wake up to the peaceful sounds of family around you? Are you able to eat your meals at a table with silverware? Are you able to go about your life without fear? Do you live and work in air-conditioned air or with a thermostat nearby you can set for your comfort?
If you answered yes, and more than likely you did, thank a soldier, airman, corpsman or sailor. They live and work in a hostile environment. They experience blistering heat and bone-chilling cold in the deserts of Iraq and the mountainsides of Afghanistan.
Every day they face fear with courage and determination. What do you face?
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow man. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
Our military service members are serving their countrymen and they are doing it well. Isn’t time we all honored their service and their sacrifice?
I hope your answer was a resounding “Yes!”
You can help soldiers who have become disabled fighting for our American ideals, our liberty and our national security with a generous donation to Project Valour-IT.
The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who will have sought and found a way to serve your fellow man.
Project Valour-IT raises money for laptop computers with voice-activated software for soldiers whose injuries have cost them the use of their hands or who have received traumatic brain injuries for fighting for our freedom.
The money raised also will buy Wii™ game consoles and games to be used at Veteran’s Administration rehab facilities. Because Wii™ games use the entire body and are fun, they motivate soldiers to learn the new skills they need to replace the abilities they have lost.
Please give generously to send these soldiers the message that you are grateful for their service and stand by them to give them the tools they need to live fulfilling, meaningful and productive lives. Their mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, their children, grandparents, fiancés and friends will thank you.
Young men and women who hail from places nobody’s heard of to urban metroplexes everyone is familiar with joined in the service of their country to defend our nation and our way of life.
To assist them with their physical and psychological recovery, they are given laptops outfitted with technology that helps them stay connected with friends and family. The laptops are donated by Project Valour-IT which is one of the missions of Soldiers Angels.
They believe no soldier should go unloved. The video embedded below is yet another tribute to our heroes. I encourage you to visit the site and consider a generous donation to Project Valour-IT. Thank you.
And remember, the patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.
When you pass an American in uniform do you say, “Thank you. I am grateful?” If you don’t, you should. Do you cherish your freedom and guard it with honor and respect? If you don’t, you should. It carries with it the blood of those who gave it to you.
“It was the first time I felt whole since I’d woken up wounded in Landstuhl.”—Major Charles "Chuck" Ziegenfuss, on using a voice-controlled laptop
The Valour-IT Veterans Day Fundraising Competition was developed as a fun way to raise money for a very serious project. Teams are purely for the sake of friendly competition, building on the natural inter-service rivalries of the U.S. Military. Competition winners get "bragging rights," but the true winners are the wounded warriors who benefit from the results of the friendly competition.
All funds raised go into the same Valour-IT account and are used to assist any wounded service member in need of Valour-IT's support, regardless of his or her service branch.
“The man who will go where his colors will go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to Democratic America. He is the stuff of which legends are made. His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionary, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...he has been called United States Marine.”—Lieutenant Colonel T.R. Fehrenbach, US Army in "This Kind of War"
Show your gallantry to these heroic men and women with a generous donation to Project Valour-IT. Thank you and may God bless.
(Embedded below is a video I created especially for the Marine Team.)
“The only CNN show from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. that did not finish last was Larry King, which was third, ahead of the new Joy Behar show on HLN.” Mmm, mmm, mmm.
“We couldn’t be more pleased that both our networks (CNN and HLN) are now topping MSNBC in total day and that CNN.com leads all TV news competitors on the web. As we have said for years, we measure our audience across all CNN Worldwide platforms and throughout the day, not just primetime. CNN provides quality journalism and our ratings reflect the news environment more than opinion programming does—especially in primetime.”
Every CNN program is down more than 50% year-to-year in total viewers and the demo, but Anderson Cooper’s 10pm ET hour is down 72% and 79%. The top program right now, Larry King’s 9pm ET hour, is just the 16th best cable news program for October in total viewers, and 17th in the demo.
The Daily Dish writes, “…CNN slips behind even its own HLN in peak hours. At some point, blog readerships will eclipse CNN's at this rate. In some cases, that has already happened.”
“So, who offered the clearest, most accurate take on precisely what Obama and his team really were? Big media or the majority of center-Right bloggers sitting at home with their PJ's on? Some bloggers might wear pajamas, but at least they don't go to sleep on the job the way the Mainstream media did. And the mainstream media didn't simply dream about going in the tank for Obama; they actually did it.
It's time for center-right blogs to realize that they represent the most accurate view of what and how the majority of America thinks, overcome early technology advantages ceded to a younger Left and flex their muscles a bit. And that includes keeping our original focus in mind—demonstrating that the mainstream media provides a disservice to America day in and day out. It's important that that message, as much as one that might be mostly anti-Obama, continues to get out.
We were right on Obama and his policies. Big media and the Leftosphere were wrong. We shouldn't be afraid to make that known, even if the media likely never will. Ultimately, a wired in American population that can select it's sources for news without outside interference is the best weapon freedom and democracy have on their sides. And it's the best weapon we have, as well. But we can't rest on simply knowing that we were correct and more in step with America. We must continue to grow center-Right media in all its forms so Americans have good places to go for news as they continue to abandon old media in droves.”
The holidays are fast-approaching. Money is tight for everyone. But I’d like to invite my readers to participate in an amazing mission called Project Valour—IT. Here’s the deal:
Every cent raised for Project Valour-IT goes directly to the purchase and shipment of laptops and other technology for severely wounded service members. As of November 2008, Valour-IT has distributed over 2700 laptops to severely wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines across the country, and is now expanding its mission to include other technology that supports physical and psychological recovery.
Valour-IT accepts donations in any amount to support our mission, but also offers a sponsorship option for laptops. An individual or organization may sponsor a wounded soldier by completely funding the cost of a laptop and continuing to provide that soldier with personal support and encouragement throughout recovery. This has proved to be an excellent project for churches, groups of coworkers or friends, and members of community organizations.
Originally Valour-IT provided the voice-controlled software that accompanies the laptops, but now works closely with the Department of Defense Computer/electronic Accommodations Program (CAP): CAP supplies the adaptive software and Valour-IT provides the laptop. In addition, DoD caseworkers serve as Valour-IT’s “eyes and ears” at several medical centers, identifying patients in need of laptops and other technological support for their recovery. Wounded military personnel can also directly request a laptop through the sign-up form or through the Valour-IT/Soldiers' Angels representatives at the following medical centers:
Thanks to the efforts of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Valour-IT is also able to reach patients in VA hospitals who would benefit from a Valour-IT laptop or other technology to support their recovery and independence.
I’ve joined Villainous Company’s Marine Team. Even though my dad was an Army man (he’s gone now), I know he would be proud of my involvement with Project Valour—IT.
He was on the beaches of Normandy during World War II and taught me about the sacrifices our military men and women make to preserve our freedom.
So come on, let’s make this year’s Project Valour—IT competition a success. Let’s show our gratitude by giving back to them. Thank you and God bless. Hooah!
The prickly, chattering ghoul, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), who took to the floor of the House of Representatives last month to attack the GOP health care plan by bleating, "Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly," went on the attack again.
Grayson is a former lawyer. Undoubtedly an ambulance chaser, Grayson appears to have a predilection for all things ghoulish.
Following former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of President Rollover’s Administration in which he said, "The White House must stop dithering while America's armed forces are in danger. Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries," the horrid little dweeb insinuated that Cheney was a vampire with this banter, "I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he's talking. But my response is this: he's just angry because the president doesn't shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?"
Isn’t a lawyer like a vampire?
He refused to apologize for his comment about Republicans wanting sick Americans to die quickly and has become the darling of the Progressive Left.
This imbecile is nothing more than a deranged attention whore and a loose cannon. How long will it be before he says something so bizarre that even the Left-wing nut jobs will feel compelled to reel him in?
Having explained to us that Fox News cannot be trusted, President Prissy Pants took the additional and crucial step of endorsing certain pundits, opinion leaders and journalists as “President Approved”. Here is your “Not President Approved” Full Metal Jacket Reach-Around:
The All American Blogger wonders when The Great Divider will question whether MSDNC is a “news organization”.
Another Black Conservative calls our attention to the Raaaaacism Industrial Complex and asks a damned good question. [Surely this will not be President approved.]
At The Point Of A Gun goes all Wild West on ManBearPig’s lack of courage.
Though she claims to be confused, she’s really not. Carol’s Closet plays a kind of “What’s My Line?”
Cynthia Yockey feels strongly that the Left’s ideals are all about duping the vulnerable and the idealistic into giving their labor, money and unquestioning support.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier has the newest video on Fearless Reader’s open, transparent presidency. Bleh. [Not President approved.]
Fausta’s Blog provides a comment (via video) from the Baltimore Sun’s TV critic on the White House war with Fox. [Not only not President approved, but really, really pisses him off.]
The adorable Five Feet of Fury provides links to audio/video highlights and transcripts and yes, you guessed it—not President approved. Hate it for ya, Barry!
Was Bill Clinton the first ACORN president? Considering how Dear Leader detests the Clintons, let’s see what Cigar Boy knows about ousted communist radical Green Czar Van Jones. Via Founding Bloggers.
Generation Patriot celebrates the birthday of Margaret Thatcher. I wonder what the Iron Lady thinks about our Whiner-in-Chief?
Good grief! Grandpa John has shocking news that we now know how to keep Iran or North Korea from owning an NFL team. If Rush can’t own one, nobody can.
The House of Eratosthenes (say that three times fast), provides indisputable proof that weighty, relevant and extremely important matters are being discussed in the hallowed halls of Congress.
The AMA hasn’t studied this newest disease, but Liberal Rapture has data on the symptoms associated with HID: Hesitantly Indecisive Disorder. John points out that VP Dick Cheney and The One engaged in a little bastard slapping. Uh-oh. Not President approved.
The scourge of the blogosphere, Little Miss Attila, declares: white makes right.
23 Skidoo. Great linky-love from the cloistered Camp of the Saints.
The Daley Gator offers an early Halloween treat with “Pelosi on Elm Street.” Will he also be having a friend for dinner, Clarice?
That TOTUS is a pip, ain’t it? The Lonely Conservative has video of yet another TOTUS mishap.
The inimitable and wildly genial studmuffin, Smitty of The Other McCain, has posted a video entitled, “An Insult to Our Democracy” and rightly calls for the impeachment of Pennsylvania’s John Murtha.
Rude Dog, the belligerent bulldog over at The Rude News, was one of many of my blogging friends who graciously supported my request to help promote the launch of The 9/12 Mom’s Network this week. He implored his readers to visit, join and participate to keep me from using the rolled up newspaper on him. I only threatened to stop giving him canned food mixed with his kibbles. I wouldn’t pop him with the paper!
On Monday, October 19th, a new website will be launched. It is called the 9/12 Mom’s Network. Please consider joining a movement sparked by a sisterhood of patriot moms. Embedded with this post is a video entitled, America Is Me—Anthem for “We The People”. Please watch the video to the end to see the tribute to two special people that helped to define the title “America Is Me”.
Mary M. Baker, who appeared on the Glenn Beck television show, along with Lori at Asamom.org and Barbara Curtis of Mommylife.net, decided to work together to create the 9/12 Mom’s Network. These women believe that as conservatives, we must stop allowing liberals to have command of public opinion in America and encourages us all to make our voices heard throughout our great nation.
America is me. May I never wake up from the American dream.
John F. Kennedy said, “We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.” It was James Michener that believed that “America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.”
We should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their plows but to secure liberty for their souls and we must not allow this administration or any other to dismantle the Constitution. It is our turn to defeat the enemy within. Will ours be the first generation to not leave our country better off than we found it for our children?
White House communications director Anita Dunn, apparently a Maoist, fired back at criticism from TV commentator Glenn Beck on Friday, saying that a Mao Tse-tung quote Beck took issue with was picked up from legendary GOP strategist Lee Atwater.
"The Mao quote is one I picked up from the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater from something I read in the late 1980s, so I hope I don't get my progressive friends mad at me," Dunn told CNN.
Maoism is a variant of Marxism derived from the teachings of the late Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung.
As for Beck's criticism: "The use of the phrase 'favorite political philosophers' was intended as irony, but clearly the effort fell flat—at least with a certain Fox commentator whose sense of irony may be missing." See also Anita. Done.
On Thursday night's program, Beck showed exclusive video of Dunn discussing the communist leader, who was responsible for a cultural revolution in 1966 that included re-education camps and setting the army and students on witch hunts against his opponents.
Millions of Chinese suffered or died, most notably teachers, writers, political opponents or anyone deemed a "reactionary."
Dunn, taped in a speech in what appears to be a church, said the leader's philosophies were a guidepost for her own strategy on politics. She also praised the philosophy used by religious icon Mother Teresa.
"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa—not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before."
The comments set Beck into a tirade.
"It's insanity. This is her hero's work," he said. "She thinks of this man's work all the time?
I have read opinion after opinion, article after article about racism and post-racism since February of 2007 when Barack Obama announced he would seek the office of the presidency of the United States. I have not written on the subject because more “learned” individuals were offering their insights into the subject.
Some of those insights have been well-reasoned and most have been shocking.
“I think about my own beliefs and values and find that President Obama and I have nothing in common. So what is different about me and other blacks that do oppose him and the majority of blacks who are solely devoted to him?
For those blacks who worship Obama, they follow him because he is black. That’s it; they don’t have to believe anything he believes or have anything in common with him. He is just “black like them.” Obama’s blackness is the god that they worship.
I think about the ideologies Barack Obama holds to and the convictions of those in the black community and I see this so crystal clear. For many blacks, the blackness that they worship means more to them than the God that created them black.”
She continues:
“Many blacks attend church on a regular basis but their doctrine is one built on the religion of blackness. “Social justice” is something that has long been fought through the leadership of the black church. They believe that social justice means that equality in all areas can only be attained by the government. Their views about poverty are evident as many inner cities have been trampled upon waiting for those they elect in government to come through and wipe all of their struggles away.
If we really look into the true motives of liberals and the left, we can see by the living conditions of many inner city communities, that there is a lot of mistreatment going on, and a lot of taking advantage, and many do not really care about the poor they are only using for their own advantage. But again, in the religion of blackness the concept of social justice has been embraced and instilled in the minds of those who worship at its altar. Although they may sing songs with great passion about how good God is, their true deliverer is government officials. That is what they hoped for in electing President Obama. The highest person in office would be the embodiment of their blackness and finally deliverance would come.”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thank you, Mary. I love the content of your character and I would love to call you my friend.
Embedded below is Bob Basso’s latest video: The Broken Common Bond.
Doesn't anyone in this White House like the Founding Fathers? Anyone? White House Communications Director, Anita Dunn, looks upon genocidal maniac Mao Tse Tung as a political philosopher?
In the mid-1950s, Mao repeatedly affirmed his willingness to sacrifice up to a third of the Chinese population in a nuclear war so long as this would help bring about the downfall of world capitalism.
The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was, in many respects, Mao’s most far-reaching attempt to rid China of his supposed opponents. Unlike Stalin, who remained in firm control of the Soviet Party from the 1920s, Mao never had complete command over the CCP. Many of the campaigns from 1957 onward were attempts to increase his political control over the party. However, once Mao realized by the mid-1960s that his quest for undisputed leadership had been stymied; he turned to forces outside the CCP to attack what he considered a reticent party unwilling to implement his erratic policies.
The Cultural Revolution was a mixture of party purge and class warfare, during which radicalized students persecuted, humiliated, tortured and even murdered alleged rightists or counterrevolutionaries. The exact number of those who were killed, committed suicide or died in camps is not known. Nonetheless, it is clear that most of the victims came from the educated strata, had party backgrounds or were from minorities.
[Mao Zedong “On the Current Handling of Contradictions among the People,” February 27, 1957, Harold C. Hinton, ed. (1980) The People’s Republic of China, 1949-1979: A Documentary Survey. Volume I, 1949-1957, Wilmington Scholarly Resources, 534-557.]
[Tewes Frederick C (1979) Politics and Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-1955, White Plains, NY, M.E. Sharpe]
Because her comment about Mao being one of her “favorite political philosophers” has created a bit of a firestorm, the spin doctors are desperately walking this back saying it was all a joke. I don’t think that will fly with anyone.
This White House is unable to endure frank criticism. Fox News has done the best job of serving as watchdog on the Obama Administration and has helped Americans of every stripe start questioning the initiatives being jammed down their throats.
Basically, Obama is a projectionist. What he says has no meaning. Using Freudian projection, The Great Divider makes his followers believe he is good for them. Later, like despots throughout the pages of history, most of their supporters end up regretting helping them rise to power.
John Nichols, writing at The Nation, believes an administration that won the White House with an almost always on-message campaign and generally friendly coverage from old and new media is now frustrated by its inability to control the debate and get the coverage it wants.
“As for the Obama administration, whether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there’s a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is ‘whining.’ And nothing—no attack by Glenn Beck, no blogger busting about Guantanamo—does more damage to Obama’s credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief,” Nichols wrote.
Don Surber summarizes the antagonism between the Nobel laureate and Fox News this way:
Nixon had an enemies list, which included members of the media. Obama has an enemies list, which includes Fox News. Nixon was strongly partisan. Obama is strongly partisan. Nixon had his White House plumbers. Obama had Van Jones leading an advertiser boycott of a critic of Obama.
Are liberals (moonbats) afraid of being afflicted by a bout of paraskevidekatriaphobia? Then it's probably a good idea for them stay in bed tomorrow to avoid being struck down with the irrational fear of Friday the 13th.
