Human beings suck

China eye-gouge boy is discharged.

If I have to explain it, you suck.

When feminazis attack

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See, that’s where they all went wrong, liberals and conservatives

Mandela, again

What is lost in most of the heartfelt remarks, including the touching tribute of  former South African president, P. W. (Pik) Botha, is that Mandela was on the wrong side of the Cold War, a far-more important war, frankly, than the war against apartheid.

Well, no; it wasn’t.

Not for America, anyway, and not even for SA.

The Russians were just not going to be coming.

Too big a disaster to let on? Fukushima. Just say “No” to nukes.

Fukushima, mon amour

To my dismay, things are moving faster than expected and human incompetence, sloppiness, and greed may have a chance to kill me, after all.

Frankly, I thought the first nuclear disaster to do serious harm to lots of the public would happen after my death.

Fukushima may prove me wrong.

I’m not the only one who finds liberal globo-meddling annoying

US State Dept Protests India Law

Meddle, meddle.

Want to fight a war to make India safe for gays?

Maybe Iraq?

Maybe Russia?

How much national power ought to be expended by our heroic leaders to make other countries comply with their – not to say “our,” as it surely isn’t that of most of our Christians and we amoralists don’t have any, anyway – morality?

Putin asserts Russian moral superiority

Putin is annoyed at all the meddling.

Everybody on the wrong end of moralistic American meddling finds it highly offensive and annoying.

And isn’t it anti-democratic to be trying to subvert the laws of other democracies because they don’t comport with the wishes of America’s liberal elites?

On the other hand, liberals have about the same degree of respect for democracy here at home, when it comes to such things, don’t they?

Anyway, Putin also takes the opportunity to defend Christian values against the West.

And that must really annoy American conservatives.

I found links to these stories prominently displayed on Drudge, today.

More liberal craziness about race

Megyn Kelly on Santa and Jesus

She say's they're both white, as indeed they are, even if neither is real, as I pointed out in a comment.

Not entirely clear why she felt a need to say, but all the same.

On the other hand, do Christian parents who are not white feel a need to portray Jesus otherwise to their children?

To portray Santa otherwise?

Do we care about the 'druthers of parents who are not Christian in this matter?

Unitarians, say?

Or in-the-closet atheist Methodist ministers?

My comment:

When you're right, you're right.

They are both white, even if neither one was or is a real person.

Just as they have hair and eye color and even sex, fictitious characters, mythical characters, etc are white, black, Chinese, Indian (red or East), or whatever.

But that's hysterical, all the same.

Gump thinks Middle Easterners aren't ("necessarily"?) white?

Tell that to your Syrian restauranteur.

Actually, go LOOK at your Syrian restauranteur.

He thinks fictional characters "can be whatever you want them to be"?

Try passing a quiz on David Copperfield with that attitude.

Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, or whatever, y'all.

I fully expect to be denounced as a bigoted racist.

Gump was a comment writer who opined otherwise.

"Megyn"?

Really?

Women are nuts about the spelling of girls' names, these days.

If they got to name the boys, too, there would be kids running around named "Goe," "Whylliam," and "Ghonny."

Btw, David, who put up the post at C&L, takes issue with Megyn with the following entirely faux au contraire.

Contrary to Kelly's assertions, Jesus Christ was a Jew of Mediterranean descent and not the white European figure often depicted in paintings and movies.

And yet, Jews of Mediterranean descent are white.

And yet, she didn't say Jesus was a Swede.

Anything to avoid agreeing with the hated truth, Jesus was white and so was Santa.

(As well as St Nick and Kris Kringle.)

It just kills them.

Even whispering these things makes them explode.

Mediterranean men are white.

And Muslim is not a race.

By any means necessary

Ducks All Askew

A short while ago the Republicans brought themselves opprobrium by pitching a colossal, irresponsible fit that cost the nation twenty odd billion and risked far more because the Democrats would not accede to their demands for additional draconian cuts.

It was possible to cast the Republicans as the bad guys because everyone knew they were trying to use the threat of disaster to extort what they did not have the votes in the senate to get legitimately, repeal of Obamacare or extensive defunding of key features of social democracy and more tax cuts for the rich.

Their radicalism, their willingness to harm the country to get their way, led to the people as well as the Democrats seeing them as extortionists holding a gun to the nation’s head, though the Democrats were the ones who repeatedly refused offered budgets and funding that would have mitigated or prevented the harm at the cost of cherished Democratic values.

That time the Democrats refused to be “the responsible adults” and refused to be bullied, and earned kudos and esteem for it.

But today BooMan and since yesterday many others are perfectly willing to reverse roles and refuse every budget deal that does not include Republican concessions, Republican surrenders of victories the Democrats could not win without the threat of disaster and do not have the votes in the house to get legitimately.

Things like an unemployment extension or expanded food stamp coverage and tax hikes for the wealthy, that are not in the negotiated deal BooMan and other liberals want the Democrats to reject, thinking the Republicans will get the blame if the government is shut down again and not seeing at all the importance of the fact that it is they, now, who want to hold a gun to the nation’s head to get their way.

It is they who now are the radicals, the extremists, the bullies, the extortionists, the political thugs holding the country hostage, out to win at any cost.

And that makes a difference.

If they do this they will vindicate every Village pundit who bloviates a plague on both their houses and so facilely blames both parties equally for gridlock and bitterness in our politics.

Better to take the negotiated deal - and I'm not saying it was well negotiated or it's a good deal - and let the Republican radicals be the bad guys, if they can't help themselves.

Much better.

Update.

BooMan added another post with the same point.

He claims if Boehner cannot get enough votes to pass the deal in the house without the Democrats that will make the collapse of the deal the Republicans' fault.

He just doesn't see that if the deal fails because Democrats want to extort more for their side with the threat of another shutdown the public will correctly perceive this and blame them, just as last time they blamed the Republicans, for holding a gun to the nation's head to win by extortion what they don't have the votes to win by legitimate, majority rule.

But they will.

The Democrats will be blamed and they will deserve it.

Why do I have the impression that bloggers, if not all pundits, are in the nature of the case so committed to their side winning that they tend almost without a moment's thought to plunge into unscrupulous, unpatriotic, and dangerous methods for a better shot at victory?

Oh.

Because it's true.

White guilt

Hopi masks to return to their tribe.

My God, what a crock.

No atheists need apply

An atheist president?

Chottner says it's not harder for politicians, but there's no clear up-side to coming out as an atheist, compared to coming out as gay.

Jennifer Heckt sees things otherwise.

He ignores a poll they both quote that says Americans are much less willing to say they would vote for an atheist than a Jew, a Catholic, a Negro, a woman, or a homosexual (male or female).

And Barney Frank is just incredible.

Soft on the Sandinistas

Ortega 'could stand for fourth term.'

When they came to power in1979 they were communists and installed themselves as a Marxist, one party dictatorship on the Cuban model, allied with Castro and the Soviet Union.

Reagan's illegal support for guerrilla opposition forced the profoundly unwilling dictator, Daniel Ortega, to open the country to real, competitive elections and break off cooperation with Cuba and the Russians in supporting guerrillas and subversion throughout Latin America.

That was all Reagan wanted.

But Ortega to this day, like other admirers of Castro in presidential palaces, is impatient of constitutional limits on his power or its duration.

And so a chief duty of his party in the legislature is to push back those limits.

The left is generally fine with that, the radicals more than the others.

But when Hitler and Mussolini did that - or even Peron - the left was very unhappy.