America's Education System Fails For Reasons Like This

I heard about this from one of the radio shows I listen to--Glenn Beck. This highlights the problem with letting the college education Intelligentsia turn out generation after generation of ill-equiped imposters to teach our children:

So Long, Alan

This clip is fascinating by itself, as it confirms most of the encounters I've had with not only Obama supporters, but also with liberals for the past 20 years. But besides that, it was significant to watch the performance after learning a few days ago that Alan would be exiting Hannity And Colmes in a month or so.

I am not looking at Alan from only his television incarnation of the past 12 years, but from his earlier days of radio syndication from 20 years ago. He is and was a sharp wit on the air, which helped him keep the pacing going throughout his show. "Good radio" we would say.

I remember his usage of a show-ender segment called "radio graffiti", where the call bank was dumped, line by line, with each caller getting only 5 seconds to make their statement, their 'graffiti on the walls', so to speak. That was 20 years ago. In fact, Sean encorporated the same bit in his radio show only after it had been made famous by Alan many years before.

I am a fan of Alan Colmes from a radio professional's perspective, and that includes his punchy, off-putting questions used when he didn't have anything else along the idea of substance and logic to draw from. It worked on radio, because he could always rely on a caller when his own bank was dry, then rail on something else in an incendiary manner. Great radio.

But as we can see, Alan, without his radio props, always comes across as mean-spirited, vengeful, and devoid of substantive questions.

As Alan performs, here, it is obvious that his style wouldn't allow him to take a more holistic angle from which to question Zeigler, but instead goes immediately to the reactionary response of, "Well, so are you", and then "You're calling us bad names". Alan has to make his 2 minutes with the subject, Zeigler, seem a breathless flurry of attacks from what is really fluff.

Sad waste of anything, like, for instance, what a calm, reasoned, more clinical conversation might have allowed. Instead, we are treated to the mud-slinging it usually reduces to, adding nothing to the conversation from the left, other than the sentiment, "You called us stupid".

This is usually the same flacid, inconsequential argument most things of depth and substance break down to when dealing with liberals. Alan just happened to be a little more entertaining about it.

Homosexuals Send White Powder To Mormon Churches

When these protestors took their rage out on the Westwood Mormon Temple in Los Angeles last week, they inspired maniacal elements in their fold to take the action just one step further: they sent white powder, disguised as anthrax in envelopes not only to the LA church, but also to a Mormon temple in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Does it matter to these cowards who sent the fake anthrax that the Mormons aren't to blame for the way Prop 8 failed? No. If these deranged malcontents had any sense of right and wrong in them, they would target the groups that are most responsible for the failure of Prop 8: African Americans and Latinos.

But that would take bravery.

Instead, these reactionary zealots decide to target a non-violent, peaceful, tiny group of believers who never did anything wrong to homosexuals, or anyone else for that matter. How easy it is to throw rocks and epithets at the meek, God-fearing people in our society. How can anyone look at the misplaced anger of these militant punks and not come away thinking one word: bully.

Veteran's Day 2008

This is a day that is set aside to recognize all men and women who have served in the Armed Forces of America. It means a lot to those of us who wore the uniform when someone actually stops to make a gesture to you on that day.

I can tell you right now that in the 22 years since I joined the U.S. Army, someone has thanked me on Veteran's Day less than 5 times, easily. In fact, only my mother calls me to say "Thank-you" on Veteran's Day.

She's a very concientious person, very giving, and was raised by a career Army Infantry soldier. She knows what kind of a sacrafice it is for any man or woman to sign up.

Check out this great Power Point display from Military.com

Preview Of Destruction: Obama's Big Bang

The transition team chief, John Podesta, has divulged that Obama is planning to use executive powers to reverse certain Bush era policies, besides waiting on Congress to initiate his other agenda items. (source)

With an election that brought out only as many voters as the election of 2004, this is clearly not a mandate that Obama has been given, but the tone of his rhetoric suggests that this new president thinks it wise to look at Bush policies as "pre-reversed".

With a world awaiting leadership due to the many chaotic eruptions that have recently arrived, it will take a deft leader to keep us from being "bled dry" by the many demands of foreign nations. From Darfur's China connection to Syria and Iran's Russian connection, we have been wise to steer away from potential conflicts that could have spread our forces out wider, stretching more thinly, thanks to President Bush.

If Obama thinks himself too wise for President Bush's reasoning on many things related to foreign policy, he performs a disservice to this country.

Election Over, Press Now Admits Bias

Deborah Howell, Washington Post Ombudsman, finally acknowledged what most of us who read newspapers regularly already knew: the Washington Post is not objective and gave Obama overwhelmingly biased reports for over a year, leading to the election of 2008.

Here's an excerpt from her report, dealing with only one part of any newspaper, the opinion page:

"The op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32, than on Sen. John McCain, 13. There were far more negative pieces (58) about McCain than there were about Obama (32), and Obama got the editorial board's endorsement. The Post has several conservative columnists, but not all were gung-ho about McCain." (source)

Obama And The Ghosts Of The Past

President Elect Obama, only hours after mesmerizing the nation to choose him, is trying his best to be coy, funny, and mocking of the Right. This is his attempt to be cute with the reporters assembled for his first official press conference since being elected just 3 days before:


The poor thing had to call Mrs. Reagan himself and apologize for his stupidity and bad manners. You see, when trying to cast Republicans as loony people who hold seances, his deep, analytical mind switched the women in the famous seance episode: It wasn't Ronald Reagan's wife who "held seances", it was Bill Clinton's.

Lesson learned, I guess, little boy. We're going to have to brace ourselves for years' worth of cutesy remarks, hidden middle fingers, and the like from this man-boy. (source)

Pink Riots At A Church In LA

Everything went the Left's way on Tuesday except for one thing: Proposition 8. For some reason, all of those Hispanics in California aren't buying everything being sold to them these days. It's well enough to be courted for your vote of Democratic candidates, they seem to be saying, but don't tell us where to put our genitals.

And it wasn't just Hispanics who overwhelmingly defeated this desperate ballot referendum in 2000 AND 2008 (Moonbeam Attorney General Jerry Brown had a fit of activism this year, as he decided to name the Proposal, "Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry" in an effort to shame anyone who reads it into "doing the right thing", by voting NO on Prop 8), it was the African American community leading the charge.

According to The Nation, here are the breakdowns of those who voted YES on Prop 8:

Demographic Pctg
African American 70

Latinos 52

Asians 49

Los Angeles county total 50

On the same ballot, here's how they voted for Obama:

Demographic Pctg

African American 94

Homosexuals in California woke up Wednesday feeling like they were left out of the show, and got their clubs and bullhorns to show that they ARE UPSET.

So what do they do? Mass at city hall to demand justice? Form a parade?

Nope.

They are thousands strong right now, threatening, screaming, and protesting against a church in Los Angeles. According to their reasoning, since they found out that the Los Angeles chapter of the LDS spent money on promoting the definition of marriage as meaning only one man and one woman, the Mormon Temple, where meek, quiet, Christians are shuffling in and out, should be the focus of their fury:

These lovers who "LOVE NOT H8" are screaming at attendees of a LDS temple as they go in to worship. The whole state voted, but instead of heckling African Americans or Latinos, these revolutionary activists turn violent towards WHOM?

A Christian church of Mormons.

My, my, how brave.

Too bad that the minds and hearts of the LARGER COMMUNITY in California, who probably aren't Mormon, aren't getting your message, o pink rioter.

According to you, they're the ones who need it.

You've got more of a problem on your hands than pelting the walls of the church, I would say to them if they would listen. You break your necks to usher in illegal workers and give them not only sanction, but registration to vote, and you're so patriarchal that you think they're supposed to do your bidding when it comes to deeper issues, like sexuality? Just who do you think you are?

This driver put a huge "Yes On 8" sign in his car window. The activists surround him, stopping traffic.

The same can be said of the African American community. Just because you work and work to get their voter participation up, it doesn't mean they will end up feeling the way they're supposed to, I guess. Perhaps they didn't get the memo--"Stay on the plantation and vote the way we tell you to."

The Numbers

After the initial dust has settled, it looks this way: Obama 52%, McCain 46%

Welcome Chicago Politics

The man who learned politics first from Leftist agitators in Hawaii, then moved to join the remnants of 50 years' worth of corrupt politics still being run by the likes of Rezko, picked his Chief Of Staff today--Chicago Representative Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel was a former aide to President Clinton before running for US Congress.