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‘Jeremiah, You Demented Old Bastard’

Posted on | July 17, 2010 | 18 Comments

Doug Hagin’s Daley Gator podcast examines Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation Theology:

Doug’s talking about this video posted at Weasel Zippers:

Category: Barack Obama, Daley Gator, Racism, Religion

Criminal Tendencies: ‘Poorly Spelled, Profanity-Laced Text Messages’

Posted on | July 17, 2010 | 2 Comments

It starts with stupid people who can’t spell. Next, they discuss their porn careers on Twitter. Inevitably, this leads to murder:

A pair of porn actors are starring in a real-life murder mystery.
The X-rated boyfriend and girlfriend stabbed and pummeled a Florida tattoo artist with a sledgehammer, detectives said Friday.
Amanda Logue, a lingerie shop owner who also dabbled in prostitution, and Jason Andrews, a Chicago deejay, stand accused of the May 15 murder, police said, pointing to poorly spelled, profanity-laced text messages the couple exchanged before the killing as proof. . . .
The couple spent April and May in Florida starring in porn videos and hanging out at the beach, according to their Twitter accounts.

Via Dan Riehl, who never misspells profanities on Twitter.

Category: Crime

Liberals Love a Greedy Sexist Capitalist

Posted on | July 17, 2010 | 6 Comments

If his name is Hugh Hefner:

What other company does so much for its top guy? Consider this from the company’s regulatory filing, which has a hilariously detached explanation for why it pays the expenses of an old lecher. A passage reads, “Crystal Harris, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, Karissa Shannon, Kristine Shannon and Kendra Wilkinson, the stars of The Girls Next Door on E! Entertainment Television, resided in the mansion with Mr. Hefner at various times in 2009 and 2008. The value of rent, food and beverage and other personal benefits for their use of the Playboy Mansion was charged to Alta Loma Entertainment, our production company. The aggregate amount of these charges was $0.3 million and $0.4 million in 2009 and 2008, respectively. In addition, each of these individuals receives or has received payments for services rendered on our behalf, including appearance fees.”
Services rendered? Sheesh, CEOs have been sacked for stashing one mistress on the payroll, but they weren’t in the porn business. . . .

That’s from an excellent Chicago Sun-Times column on the finances of Playboy, Inc. While liberals make a big deal of denouncing corporate greed, you’ll never hear them breathe a word against Hefner’s slimy operation, just as no liberal has ever criticized Planned Parenthood’s obscene profits.

Category: Sex

Dream Date: Youth Prison

Posted on | July 17, 2010 | 32 Comments

From the Department of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up:

The New York State Commission of Correction says top officials and staff were irresponsible when they authorized and failed to supervise a party at a youth prison where some violent offenders had sex with dates.
The commission faults the Office of Children and Family Services for directing the Goshen Secure Center in the Hudson Valley to hold the December party for four offenders as a reward for good behavior. They ranged in age from 17 to 20, three doing time for murder and one for armed robbery.
The commission says officials knew little about the four female guests, ranging from 16 to 27, who were driven from Albany and New York City by state workers in state vehicles.

I’m having trouble trying to picture that 16-year-old’s conversation with her mother:

“Hey, Mom, can I go to a party at a prison with three convicted murderers?”
“I don’t know. There might be drinking and driving.”
“Oh, no, Mom. We’ve got state workers to drive us to the prison, so it will be perfectly safe.”
“OK, then. Have fun!”

Call me old-fashioned, but this isn’t my idea of good parenting.

Category: Crime, Sex

Democrats Have Their Economic Excuse Ready: Blame Rahm Emanuel!

Posted on | July 17, 2010 | 29 Comments

Paul Krugman is the de facto leader of those neo-Keynesians who say the problem with Obamanomics is that the stimulus package wasn’t big enough. And he links to this interview with Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.) who points the finger at Rahm:

The problem for Obama, he wasn’t as lucky as Roosevelt, because when Obama took over we were still in the middle of a free fall. So his Treasury people came in and his other economic people came in and said “Hey, we need a package of $1.4 trillion.” We started sending suggestions down to OMB waiting for a call back. After two and a half weeks, we started getting feedback. We put together a package that by then the target had been trimmed to $1.2 trillion. And then [White House Chief of Staff] Rahm Emanuel said to me, “Geez, do you really think we can afford to come in with a package that big, isn’t it going to scare people?” I said, “Rahm, you will need that shock value so that people understand just how serious this problem is.” They wanted to hold it to less than $1 trillion. Then [Pennsylvania Senator Arlen] Specter and the two crown princesses from Maine [Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins] took it down to less than $800 billion. Spread over two and a half years, that’s a hell of a lot of money, but spread over two and a half years in an economy this large, it doesn’t have a lot of fiscal power. . . .

This is another example of how liberals distort economic history by spreading self-serving mythology: The New Deal saved America, Reagan’s tax cuts caused the deficit, Clinton was a fiscal conservative, the Bush tax cuts only helped “the rich” and, now, Obamanomics failed because of that stingy penny-pincher Rahm Emanuel.

Category: Economics

Fail Mosque Jokers Really Annoy

Posted on | July 17, 2010 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

This week’s FMJRA offers Scalia body language to New York City Minor Bloomberg, who loses the respect of the title ‘Mayor’ from this blog, due to a pattern of invertebrate cretinous behavior. To Brussels with your dhimmitude, Bloomberg.

Over in the comments on the Geller post, Kn@ppster makes a straight libertarian play on the mosque. I follow the logic of the argument right up to this point: that building is a component of an act of war, and the intended use of the structure, with all history and current events taken into consideration, is possibly a continuation of that act of war. There are times for theory, and times for pragmatism.

This inevitably leads to the Japanese Internment question, which underscores my point: requesting, for reasons of 3,000 corpses, a different venue is simply not much to ask, at all. OTOH, Bloomberg’s three card monte approach to the public hearings is despicable. Read more

Category: FMJRA Award

Who Is Todd Gaziano?

Posted on | July 17, 2010 | 5 Comments

That’s the question raised by the Ben Smith column at Politico in which Abigail Thernstrom accuses her fellow Republican members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission of exploiting the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in pursuit of “their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration.”

Thernstrom herself is well-known as a critic of race-based quotas in education and so she caused a stir a couple weeks ago when she declared in National Review that prosecution of the Panther case was a fool’s errand. What struck me in the Politico column was this:

“Millions of people saw the clip on Fox News and YouTube,” said Todd Gaziano, a commissioner who has been the driving force behind the commission’s investigation. “Any reasonable American knows this is voter intimidation. And so the dismissal itself of an infamous case where there’s footage is more damaging to people’s perception of the rule of law than a dismissal when nobody’s paying attention.”

OK, so the question naturally occurs, Who is Todd Gaziano? He is the director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal & Judicial Studies:

Todd Gaziano focuses on legal and judicial reform and such constitutional issues as ensuring that all citizens are accorded equal treatment under the law. Before joining former Attorney General Edwin Meese at The Heritage Foundation in 1997, Mr. Gaziano served under noted conservative leaders in all three branches of the federal government. He was Chief Counsel to the House Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs, where he worked on government-wide regulatory reform legislation for Chairman David McIntosh. He served in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Justice Department, which provides advice on constitutional and legal issues to the President, the Attorney General, and other Cabinet Secretaries. He also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Edith H. Jones, United States Judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Gaziano received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was selected as a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.

It’s not like Gaziano is a redneck hayseed who just fell off the turnip truck. Anyone wondering why so many conservatives have made a cause célèbre of the Panthers case can stop wondering: If Gaziano is a longtime associate of Ed Meese, he’s almost certainly good friends with Mark Levin, who is in turn friends with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. So his influence is not insignificant.

Gaziano’s argument is interesting: The Panther case is important because the widely-seen video made it so “infamous” that Eric Holder’s dismissal of the case is “damaging to people’s perception of the rule of law.” If nothing else, that makes Gaziano a leading endorsee of Professor Glenn Reynolds’ ubiquitous video camera argument.

Allahpundit asks the delicious question:

At the very least, since Fox now owns this story, will Megyn Kelly have Thernstrom on next week?

Ouch! Stop twisting my arm! I know you want me to re-post that Megyn Kelly/Kirsten Powers catfight video:

UPDATE: Remember that the Panther case got renewed attention after PJM published this column by DOJ whistleblower Christian Adams.

Category: Crime, Racism

Angelo M. Codevilla, Populist

Posted on | July 16, 2010 | 36 Comments

OK, he’s a professor emeritus at Boston University, but his new article at The American Spectator is a 12,000-word indictment of the nation’s ruling class so thorough that I can only snap my suspenders and say, “Harumph!”

Category: Uncategorized
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