“This isn’t about Rush …” [Darleen Click]
“… this is about our community … and that the era of his brand of thinking is over and we’re moving on…”
Behold the multitudes:
Seven women participated in the National Organization for Women’s day of protest against Rush Limbaugh in front of Limbaugh’s D.C. affiliate WMAL, Friday.
NOW’s national protest day had been in the works since April 19, when the women’s advocacy group launched their “Enough Rush” campaign.
Pairing with media watchdog Media Matters for America NOW is targeting local affiliates and local advertisers, Friday’s demonstration was touted as the group’s big demonstration of opposition to Limbaugh with affiliates across the country participating in protests.
As of this morning, Rush’s Facebook page Rush Babes for America has more than 65,000 likes …
Yes, Erin, please do move on.
Justice for sale
Well, if you’re the right sort, that is. Pony up!
From Dan Collins:
What is the matter with these people?
The U.S. government has accepted 10 percent of the profits of the upcoming “Passion of the Christ” prequel in a plea deal with a Mexican drug smuggler, despite apparently knowing the royalties had been obtained illegally.According to AP reports, Jorge Vázquez Sánchez, 34, pleaded guilty to money laundering and extortion last week but managed to get his prison sentence decreased from 40 years to seven after he gave the government his cut of the profits related to the screenplay “Mary, Mother of Christ”, a prequel to Mel Gibson’s 2004 movie about the crucification of Jesus Christ.
That’s odd given that the government certainly knew that Vázquez obtained the screenplay by kidnapping the owner Arturo Madrigal’s brother in Mexico and forcing the man to sign over the rights, the San Antonio Express-News reports — Vazquez had actually admitted it.
Thug Boi and Henchman Holder don’t give a rat’s ass about justice, as long as they get their cut.
So, can that be right? Can you really negotiate a cut in your prison sentence by agreeing to pay a (potentially) tidy sum to the government?
Didn’t the Church once try this — the practice of paying to have your sins exculpated? And isn’t this just the government taking the place of an overthrown Church model — or rather, declaring government itself a secular religion with the power to determine grace on a person by person basis — and in so doing explicitly and unapologetically showing itself willing to adopt the kind of antifoundationalism progressives have long pushed as the necessary precondition to their tyrannical designs (which, of course, they wouldn’t frame as such; to them, their tyranny is compassionate and moral, and to achieve it, the ends justify the means)?
The government flexes its muscles in exchange for a payoff. A stable and just rule of law be damned. Private property rights be damned.
And this is being peddled as a kind of justice?
Good bye, America.
– Or, if you aren’t quite so cynical, hey, at least there aren’t any gun sales involved this time!
(thanks to geoffB)
“In Obama’s economy, it’s better to forget college”
For how many generations have parents told their offspring that a college education would virtually guarantee economic success in life?
Well, not in Obama’s economy. All part of his hopeless change.
Our perspicacious IBD colleague Jed Graham has been studying the latest labor force data. Here’s his eye-opening finding:
“For the first time in history, the number of jobless workers age 25 and up who have attended some college now exceeds the ranks of those who settled for a high school diploma or less. Out of 9 million unemployed in April, 4.7 million had gone to college or graduated and 4.3 million had not.”
So, in his grand transformation of American society into something radically different that Obama won’t really define until safely after his reelection, there’s much less point to continuing on into higher education, especially at those hilarious tuition prices.
Some of us paid less for our entire first house than a current year’s tuition at universities that know they can jack the prices annually because Obama will increase the subsidies too. Sweet deal for the schools.
According to Graham’s findings, the best path to follow for employment now seems to be a two-year college degree; forget the high-priced, high-faluting universities. In April, the two-year college grad unemployment rate was 6.2% for those over 25. The high school diploma with zippo college was 7.7% in the same age group. And the college rate was 8%. (Quick, edit that degree out of your resume!)
You know, I hate to say it, but Judge Smails, conservative cartoon though he be, had it about right: the world needs ditch diggers, too.
And if the Obama administration inadvertently helps break the scam that higher education has become — the idea being that you need it to get a job, but the debt it forces you to incur guarantees that you’ll spend most of your working life servicing that debt, making you a kind of indentured servant to the liberal elite and their populist scheme to dilute the value of a college degree, just as their ideology has diluted the value of a college education — well, then more power to them.
Telling, though, isn’t it, that they only time this Administration does anything positive for the country, it’s because they’ve so seriously fucked up their Utopian promises that things just kinda work themselves back around to sober reality…?
Election 2012: Romney camp indicates early surrender
We knew it would be this way: it’s 2008 all over again, with the GOP Establishment having convinced itself that it was the presence of Palin that likely sank the good and mavericky McCain juggernaut. Which is why we’ll likely get some milquetoast VP candidate like Portman. To vindicate McCain.
So, to recap. The Romney campaign — along with the GOP intelligentsia (but I repeat myself) — has signaled that, while it’s perfectly fine to trash conservatives and demonize those on the right for their unhelpful bitter-clingery racist and xenophobic homophobia, when it comes to debating Democrats, certain things are off the table. Like, for instance, matters of biography — and as such, matters of character and personal conviction. Vetting, if you will .
All with the hopes that such a gesture will prevent the Democrats — and their media arm — from launching broadsides against Mormonism or playing the race card against Republicans. A pre-emptive surrender masquerading as collegiality. The specialty of the contemporary Republican Party which hopes that, if it just keeps quiet and doesn’t do anything to fuck things up, it’ll get swept into power almost by necessity, Obama’s first term has been such a disaster.
2008, redux, this is. First as tragedy, then as farce.
Good bye, America.
Dennis Miller: “Is this where 50 years of feminism has lead us …” [Darleen Click]
Hilarious bit about gender-neutral bathrooms begins at the 4:40 mark, but there are some gems in the first part, too.
h/t The Right Scoop
Politico, Boehner, and the value of trust [bh]
Politico says the House Republicans are planning on saving multiple aspects of Obamacare. Other folks are reporting otherwise and include firm denials from key players.
So, is this something? If you don’t trust Politico and you don’t trust Boehner then it’s hard to say, isn’t it?
Update: Here’s Levin on the matter. (Thanks, mc4ever59.)
Uncle Tom Watch [Darleen Click]
Zimmerman is white, Warren is a woman of color and these guys are not really black:
What the authorities and the media seem determined to suppress is that the hoodlum elements in many ghettoes launch coordinated attacks on whites in public places. If there is anything worse than a one-sided race war, it is a two-sided race war, especially when one of the races outnumbers the other several times over.It may be understandable that some people want to head off such a catastrophe, either by not reporting the attacks in this race war, or by not identifying the race of those attacking, or by insisting that the attacks were not racially motivated — even when the attackers themselves voice anti-white invective as they laugh at their bleeding victims.
Trying to keep the lid on is understandable. But a lot of pressure can build up under that lid. If and when that pressure leads to an explosion of white backlash, things could be a lot worse than if the truth had come out earlier, and steps taken by both black and white leaders to deal with the hoodlums and with those who inflame them.
“Thank you for your conformity” [Darleen Click]
Probably not the best ad I’ve seen … I would prefer a more mocking tone. But it absolutely hits it out of the park when it comes to demonstrating how the Left considers any woman who dissents from its dogma as “inauthentic.”
