"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
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"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."
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And I have a feeling in my bones that we've almost come to that point with respect to the Indian Industry in Canada, too. Leftards will be the last to acknowledge it, though. They are always slow to catch on.
I, of course, expect angry mobs of Christians to go on the rampage, burning down embassies, killing atheists, etc., etc..
Oh wait. (I don't know for sure, but I expect the "artist" is trying to prove that very same point. Unlike it is with Muslims, insulting a figure that is sacred to Christians will not bring angry, rampaging mobs out into the streets. No foreign ambassadors will be murdered. No embassies sacked, etc., etc. Not even if they are paid to do it.)
PS: I also think the rampaging Muslims incident of a few days ago will backfire badly on the old goats who planned it.
PPS: Let me qualify that. Since this "Piss Christ" exhibit is to take place in New York City, I wouldn't mind if angry mobs destroyed the UN building.
"President Barack Obama threatened Monday to veto any bill that cuts Medicare benefits without increasing taxes on corporations or the wealthy, setting his sharpest boundaries yet in negotiations over reducing the federal deficit."
Leftards are so slow to catch on to how (and by whom) jobs and wealth are created. Why do they always have to find out the hard way? Canada's tax structure seems more business friendly. I wonder if some of that capital will migrate north? Still, I'll bet there's even friendlier places. Bye. Bye.
All the more reason to support the Keystone XL Pipeline. He'll need to do something to put Americans back to work, if he wants the Democrats to win any seats in 2012. Just my prediction.
I know that locking some big gun up in a fake jail and having people pay to spring him is a well worn fundraising gimmick, but I don't think that would work with a journalist. I mean who would part with their hard earned money to free a journalist?
"Named after the first person to die in the Revolutionary War, the Crispus Attucks Tea Party was founded January 18th, 2011..."
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"With the typical politesse and considerate attitude of conservatives — always left unreported by the press (do ya think?) – Rep. Lee was extended an invitation to the event. And with typical leftist rudeness, Lee snubbed it. Wonder why? These are her constituents, after all."
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"Surprisingly, the local Fox News channel reporting on the event hastened to observe that many attendees at this founding meeting were white. Simply unbelievable. Is it not even possible to attend an event in support of the group without the information being somehow skewed by the media to suggest that it wasn’t “authentic” because white people were there???"
Guess who didn't attend. This Democrat is their representative in Washington. Why would she want to hear from them? I mean really!
How do we know you are our beloved leader? Well, you're picture will be plastered all over the billboards and on the sides of buildings.
I was born at the beginning of the Cold War and lived to see it end in 1989 with the collapse of the totalitarian regime known as the Soviet Union.
One of the things that characterizes totalitarian governments is the cult of "dear leader" worship, which explains the need for pictures of "dear leader" to be plastered on big billboards.
The only other scenario where someone's portrait is plastered on billboards is during election campaigns or marketing campaigns, which are really the same thing - attempts to get you to buy/vote/support the man or woman in the portrait, or at least what he's selling.
Every once in a while, in a democracy, a "dear leader" billboard campaign has some other aim, an aim, which in fact, takes us closer to the worship, or the whipping up of worship, of a totalitarian figure.
Of course, I suppose it could be related to the coming November Mid-Term elections, which really could be a vote of confidence on his presidency. Perhaps the size of the thing is a clue about something, too. Or maybe it's been bought and paid for by the Republican Party. Or the people behind the "Miss Me Yet?" campaign. I'll leave to you to decide:
Dr. Roy has some YouTube videos of Sarah Palin delivering another barn-burner speech. Being capable of bringing the house down with a brilliant speech (without a teleprompter) does not make anyone especially suited to the responsibilities that the person who occupies the Oval Office must have, but as Dubya learned, it does serve to limit the stupid set to be more selective in their highest form of patriotism. And of course, scribbling notes on the palm of your hand is no where near as sophisticated as using a teleprompter, ya know.
What it takes to be the President of the US of A is the willingness to take the right course of action, even if it may be unpopular with folks like Howard Zinn and Noam Chom(p)sky and their groupies in the leftosphere, whether at home or in, say, Pakistan.
No. What it takes is unerring resolve to defend the American constitution and the American people. Too bad Americans voluntarily chose to forget that on November 4, 2008. Instead, they opted for redemption for slavery and Jim Crow laws.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it." Mark Twain
And while I'm on the topic of Mark Twain, here's another goody from that immortal wordsmith:
"If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvellous fight in the world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?"
Perhaps that other group of high form patriots, the Anti-Israeli Apartheid crowd, should ponder that for a while.
"A handful of high-ranking American senators are set to land in Alberta Friday for a tour of the oilsands and update from provincial officials on their environmental efforts.
Kay Hagan, a Democrat from North Carolina; Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina; and Saxby Chambliss, a Republican from Georgia will meet Friday with Premier Ed Stelmach and tour some of the province's oilsands developments.
The three senators are also expected to head to Saskatchewan over the next few days for meetings on energy security with Premier Brad Wall, who will also brief the legislators on carbon capture and storage technology."
Gotta wonder if Ms Hagan is trying to distance herself from Pelosi. There's no mention of talking to environmental or Aboriginal groups and unlike Pelosi, the three Senators are actually visiting the site.
"'Well I'm just interested in learning all about it and seeing the volume that's coming into the U.S," North Carolina Democratic Senator Kay Hagan told CBC News. "And I think we're very concerned about purchasing oil from some of the countries in the Middle East and we're very interested in talking to our Canadian partners.'"
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"'There's some lawsuits pending that could affect the ability of the United States to use oilsands products and we're up here to get a balanced view of things," Graham said. "The more Canadian oil for America, the better.
"I'd like our military to be able to use it so we're trying to get informed about the upsides and the downsides," Graham said, adding that all three senators are on the armed services committee. "The province provides the United States with so much of our energy needs. If nothing else [the visit is] just to say thank you for being a good neighbour."
Environmentalists in the U.S. have been campaigning against Alberta's oilsands, launching ads this summer urging Americans to reconsider any vacation plans to the province. The Sierra Club has also launched a lawsuit against the U.S Defence Department for contracting for fuel from Canada's oilsands, claming (sic) it's a violation of the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.'"
Sounds to me like all three of them are preparing to do battle with the environuts in their own country. Pelosi, on the other hand, kept her cards very close to her chest and made it look like she was giving equal weight to the environuts and the Aboriginal people's perspective. But maybe that's just Pelosi, talking out of all three sides of her botoxed mouth.
She has been changing her tune in the last couple of years. At first she was opposed to offshore drilling. Then she was compromising on it. Now, with the disaster in the Gulf earlier this year, she may be looking for the lessor of what she considers to be two evils while promising three different things to three different groups. Just sayin'.
In any case, I'd love to see the environuts left out in the pending Little Ice Age cold, freezing their skinny butts off while the rest of us are toasty warm in oil heated homes.
Perhaps the RCMP can help you out with that Mexican border thingy you've got going down there. That's on your southern border, you know. In your home State.
"Sen. Robert Byrd, the self-obsessed former KKK member whose name graces every immovable object in the state of West Virginia, died this morning after taking ill late Sunday night. According to WTOP, "Byrd was a near-deity in economically struggling West Virginia, to which he delivered countless federally financed projects. Entire government bureaus opened there, including the FBI's repository for computerized fingerprint records. Even the Coast Guard had a facility in the landlocked state. Critics portrayed him as the personification of Congress' thirst for wasteful 'pork' spending projects." Sen. Ted Kennedy, who is also dead, once said of Byrd's kleptomania, "He is a fierce defender of the Senate and its prerogatives in ways that I think the founding fathers really intended the Senate to be." No greater love than that which Sen. Byrd held for himself."
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