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Really, Mr. Quick?

Posted on | May 13, 2012 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

Really, Mr. Quick?

Smitty is running a Gay Obama item a day, more or less. I know he’s trying to hurt Obama by playing up Obama’s support of gay rights with those who think gays should have no rights at all.

Hm. I can’t parse this in any meaningful way. Homosexuality, as an idea, argues its own societal utility as well as it can. I hope that we retain the right to disagree with ideas. If we have any free will, that is.

You can still be summarily fired simply for being gay in 29 states – a problem I think is of considerably more significance than being unable to marry – but herein lies my quandary.

Can you? I don’t mean “Do antiquated laws exist?”; rather “Is any private sector work termination occuring based solely upon sexual preference?” Let’s see some cases before we go throwing up our hands in despair over the medieval state of affairs. The lesson we need to get to is that we can’t legislate morality.

I support general civil rights for gays and their relationships, just as Obama does. I further regard most who oppose them as doing so almost entirely out of bigotry of one sort or another.

Does my commitment to a “form follows function” analysis of genitalia render me hopelessly bigoted? Sorry, I’m just an engineer. Systems have their design, work well, and prosper, or not. If something is in the “or not” category, then no amount of Postmodern, emotional stabbing of rationality is going to move it out of the “or not” category.

So, much as I hate Obama, and am even willing to trash my own libertarian conservative principles by voting for the execrable Mitt Romney for the sake of destroying his political career, even I can’t so soil my own beliefs as to join in the mass gay-bashing being used against Obama.
Sorry.

Bill, I’ll fall short of connecting your response with the adjective “sanctimonious”. I thought my post took as libertarian a tack as possible, prior to juxtaposing a link about Rand Paul and a link about John Travolta’s accuser. The context was that of making a joke about improving the spin of BHO’s rhetoric.

This is the internet, and I have to take the hit here for trying to trade clarity for humor.

What I’d like to get from you, Bill, in all seriousness, is some thought on the relationship between Political Correctness and bigotry.

  • Is PC, itself, the ultimate bigotry?
  • Will calls for tolerance eventually hit a crescendo where, in order to disprove bigotry, everone has to go on a local reality TV show and engage in ritualized acts of sodomy?

Update: Collins linked the preceding post in this thread.

Category: Bill Quick, Gays

The Dots Get Connected: Soros Ally Teaches Democrats Cloward-Piven?

Posted on | May 13, 2012 | 23 Comments

Could we get Fox News to bring back Glenn Beck and his chalkboard for a two-hour special? Because what began with a seemingly minor item Friday in the Washington Examiner has exposed a direct connection between congressional Democrats and the radical network Beck so vividly described, involving George Soros, ACORN, SEIU and, yes, the notorious “Cloward-Piven Strategy.”

Before we get to the exclusive breaking news part of the story, let me recount how these dots got connected: Yesterday, I linked Joel Gerhke’s Examiner story in a post titled “Great: Corporate America Now Paying Democrats to Call Americans Racist,” which mentioned that the 2010 annual report for Maya Wiley’s Center for Social Inclusion (PDF, see Page 13) “lists many of the usual suspects, including George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the Soros-funded Tides Foundation.”

Operating in “file-and-forget” mode, I moved on to other stories until last night, when I was having fun on Twitter with the #ObamaBedtimeStories meme, and one of my jokes got re-Tweeted by my friend, investigative reporter Matthew Vadum. Because Matthew is perhaps the nation’s leading expert on the ACORN/SEIU/Soros connection, it occurred to me he might be able to get some data on the Soros connection to what Gehrke had reported. So I sent him a couple of Tweets about it. By the time I got up about 7 a.m. today, Vadum had sent me a spreadsheet listing foundation contributions to Wiley’s outfit. Quickly adding up the numbers and doing additional research online, within two-and-a-half hours I’d filed this brief report for The American Spectator:

A non-profit organization that provided training last week to House Democrats, portraying Republican opponents as racially motivated, has received significant funding from foundations linked to controversial left-wing multibillionaire George Soros.
Soros’s Open Society Institute has given $75,000 to the Center for Social Inclusion, which has also received more than $850,000 from the Soros-connected Tides Foundation/Tides Center since 2005, according to documents obtained by The American Spectator.
In a training session for House Democrats and their congressional staffers last week, Center for Social Inclusion founder and president Maya Wiley described “conservative messages” as being “racially coded,” and suggested that Democrats “raise racial disparities” in public policy discussions, Joel Gerhke of the Washington Examiner reported. . . .
The Soros-Wiley connection was noted by Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center. Vadum, an investigative reporter and American Spectator contributor, is author of the widely-praised recent book Subversion, Inc., an exhaustive exposé of ACORN. Wiley’s background also drew attention from Michelle Horstman of PJ Media, who noted that Maya Wiley is the daughter of 1960s radical George Wiley, founder of the National Welfare Rights Organization.

Please read the whole thing. Connecting the dots to the National Welfare Rights Organization links the Center for Social Inclusion to the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” a 1960s left-wing effort to foment economic crisis and social revolution. This direct connection between the Soros-funded radical network and congressional Democrats could prove to be a major story, if Gerhke follows up on his original scoop and other reporters begin asking questions about why Democrats are getting election-year advice from such a controversial source.

 

 

UPDATE: This connection between Democrats and the Soros radical network has already drawn considerable attention from conservative bloggers, including The Lonely Conservative, The Blaze, Rio Norte Line, Moose and Squirrel and Blazing Cat Fur.

UPDATE II: In a recent investigative report on the Left’s election fraud tactics, James Simpson of Accuracy in Media provides a brief historical synopsis of the Cloward-Piven Strategy:

ACORN is the face of vote fraud, but its intellectual foundation is the Cloward Piven Strategy. Sociology professors Richard Cloward (Columbia University) and Frances Fox Piven (CUNY) were founding members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Cloward died in 2001 but Piven lives on.
In 1966 Cloward and Piven penned an article for The Nation magazine titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.” They posited that if the poor were organized into street armies to demand all welfare benefits available to them, they could overwhelm and crash the system.
It became known as the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” and is credited with expanding welfare rolls 151 percent between 1965 and 1974 and bringing New York City to the brink of bankruptcy in 1975.

It is important to mention the Cloward-Piven connection to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement: Six months before the first “Occupy” protests, socialists scholars met to discuss their plan for “redistributing wealth and power in the country,” and as I reported last year:

Professor Frances Fox Piven is an active supporter of the movement and told a public-radio interviewer: “I think we desperately need a popular uprising in the United States.” Piven also denounced the financial industry at a Sept. 29 rally in New York where, in a bizarre call-and-response speech, she told the crowd: “You’ve heard people say they’re greedy, and they are greedy. You’ve heard people say that they are thieves, and they are thieves. But they’re also cannibals, because they are eating their own.”

Here’s the video of Pivens’s “mike check” with the Occupiers:

UPDATE III: Why would Democrats be willing to resort to such desperate — indeed, dangerous — tactics as smearing Republicans as racist, as this Maya Wiley training session would seem to suggest?

Well, when Obama became America’s “first gay president” (thanks, Newsweek!), some polls indicated a sharp shift toward Mitt Romney. We can expect a dirty, desperate and deeply divisive campaign from Democrats this year.

 




 

UPDATE IV: Linked by Curt at Flopping Aces, by That Mr. G Guy and by Mike Rogers at Granite Grok — thanks!

UPDATE V: Linked by Doug at the Daley Gator — thanks!

 


Category: ACORN, Congress, Democrats, Election 2012, Progressivism, Racism, Scandal

Perfect Bailout Metaphor Achieved

Posted on | May 13, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Daniel Hannan on Twitter points to The Telegraph with a story of classical, titanic impact:

Maiden voyage of Bronze Age boat founders
The crew of a half-sized replica of a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age boat had to abort the vessel’s maiden voyage after it sank as soon as it entered the water.

Hannan relates an oversight in the Telegraph story within the Tweet:

Ah, so the Muscles in Brussels are blowing money from the rest of Europe on perhaps interesting, but ill-fated, projects. Vasa up with that?

Category: Europe, Foreigners, Great Britain, Uncategorized

‘. . .The President Is Required To Do His Day Job’

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

Mark Halperin, how could you possibly write that? #OccupyResoluteDesk is on the fourth year of a phone-in so vast as to invite the question: does he secretly own Verizon?

This election is summarized in a Sun Tzu quote:

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Romney has played a masterful milquetoast hand thus far, and the bluster of Halperin in Time picks up the other end. Next month’s floggings at the Supreme Court are going to beat BHO down even further. Presumably, BHO will run against the SCOTUS and the GOP House. Alas, that will underscore the notion that Obama can only run against things; he really has no accomplishments or goals to stand for*. As a President, that’s tantamount to admitting you’ve been blowing your job right the heck off all along. Like Billy Jeff is purported to have said: amateur.

via Instapundit

*Oh, sure, Yet Another Victory Lap (YAVL) on Osama. Right. As though that wouldn’t underscore BHO’s jackwagon-hood.

Category: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton

Could John Travolta Help Increase Barack Obama’s Marriage Policy Gayness?

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

This is one that has to be sliced finely: I really don’t care, or want to know about, what consenting adults are up to in private. Hetero, homo, married, fornicating: I will defend to the death my commitment to ignorance about fluids, geometries, participants, accessories, and syndication agreements involved. I don’t wanna know.

But having a blog is about trying to help connect the dots; to raise awareness, even on topics where we lack personal enthusiasm; to organize community information so as to maximize synergistic convergence.

Thus, when American Power has a clip of Rand Paul expressing uncertainty aloud about whether #OccupyResoluteDesk’s view on marriage could get any gayer, I have to point Douglas to Althouse’s recounting of accusations against John Travolta. Not out of any personal, prurient interest, mind you: I’m strictly being a helpy helper-person here. It sounds like somebody could be spreading lurid rumors about Travolta in the name of garnering attention. If you find out, please refrain from telling me. I just don’t want to know.

Update: linked at The Rio Norte Line

Category: American Power, Barack Obama

WYB: I Got More Dash Than That @KimKardashian Lady

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 13 Comments

Can I get a witness? Or at least a re-tweet?

Let the World's Youngest Blogger give you lessons in dash, Kim.

Stunned by sudden dash deficit: Kim Shocked!
Category: Celebrities, Rule 5, World's Youngest Blogger

VIDEO: ‘Why Don’t You Tell Her What a Great Sister You’ll Be’ (Mother’s Day)

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 5 Comments

They’re just selling groceries — strictly business. So why does Jill Stanek warn women to “get out the Kleenex”?

 

Category: Video

Irony-Impaired Planned Parenthood Hosts Mother’s Day Fundraiser
UPDATE: New York Democrat Offers Another Ironic Suggestion!

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 24 Comments

Do they lack a sense of irony? Or have no sense of shame?

As families across the nation gather to celebrate Mother’s Day, others will gather to support the abortion industry. Never one to miss a fundraising opportunity, a New York affiliate of Planned Parenthood is hosting a Mother’s Day brunch to support the clinic. . . .
This is not Planned Parenthood’s first attempt to raise money through Mother’s Day. Year after year, the abortion giant encourages supporters to donate on behalf of their mothers. . . .
The organization responsible for the death of over 300,000 children annually has no right to be raising money in honor of mothers. Abortion steals motherhood from women.

Remember this: If you were born after 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States has declared your life utterly worthless, without value, and deserving of no legal protection. That you are even alive to read this is therefore proof that God had some purpose for your life.

Why don’t you think about that? Ask yourself whether you, having miraculously survived despite the hatred of those who viewed your life with such vicious contempt, have a duty — indeed, an obligation of sacred honor — to speak up on behalf of those yet unborn.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.
— Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV)

UPDATE: Democrat death-monger Kirsten Gillibrand wants you to honor Mother’s Day by giving to pro-abortion EMILY’s List. (Hat-tip: Life News and Jill Stanek.) Meanwhile, the author of the article about the Planned Parenthood brunch was excited to learn she’d been linked by Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin’s site.

UPDATE II: “Get out the Kleenex”!

 

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Category: Abortion, National Offend a Feminist Week, Planned Parenthood
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