(This was supposed to post this morning but it decided all on its own not to, sigh…)
I want to honor those who gave their lives for this nation…
No matter what our politics or beliefs they deserve the full measure of our respect.
And I mourn that this nation has become something that I think most vets throughout this nations history would find loathsome.
Of all people my wife is questioning whether Miss Scherzinger, this years winner of the Dancing With The Stars mirror ball trophy, has the requisite, um, heft, to carry a rule 5 post all by her lonesome? In the interest of comity in my home life I’ll let y’all decide, so, does Miss Scherzinger have what it takes…?
And now your weekend linkfest…
The Righteous Rant Of The Day #2
Moral Monopoly No More?
“Machete”: A new front in the war on Whites?
87-Year-Old Beaten So Severely She Lost Sight in One Eye
17 states now poised to follow Arizona’s lead on immigration!
Imagine 2050: Federal Troops Should Occupy Arizona
More rule 5 goodness…
* Dennis the Peasant, we now know, is not a nom-de-blog of Dennis Hopper.
* Uncle Jimbo, while we’re linking self-portraits of artists as young right wing extremists, has such.
* mean ol’ meany, we were taken to task for not noting, has the “Rima Fakih Nude” Google bomb. Beyond PG-13 photos, not so much, or we’d let others link him.
* TrogloPundit that even being pretty like Danica doesn’t make an Obama Blame Shift work well. Perverse incentives have drawn out Chinese hotties for protests, he notes. Some sort of weird Wisconsin religious ritual here.
* The Daley Gator has featured an impressive top 25 countdown of lovelies:
o #10 Kate Beckinsale
* The Pirate’s Cove had its trademark pinup, this one of patriotic bent.
* Instapundit linked “The 15 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media.”
* So It Goes In Shereveport pointed out the glaring omission of Mary Katherine Ham.
* Carolyn’s Closet wanted to know about Megyn Kelly, but the argument might be that Ms. Kelly doesn’t work in ‘new media’ as such.
* Bob Belvedere brought in his usual fistful of high-quality posts:
o A Bikini Preview
* Mark in Spokane has a lovely bit of Bach to lift the spirit.
* Gateway Pundit pointed to his sporty niece and beach volleyball. And also the moon of Venus. Most sadly for the causes of free speech and Rule 5, KrisAnne Hall was fired.
* American Power was inspired and joined in the Sela Ward revival.
* Washington Rebel was right there with Sela.
* GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD has a memorial day reminder of one of the reasons we fight so hard. And a devastating Sienna Miller shot.
* Dustbury brought another delightful Zooey Deschanel roundup, and then spots Angie Harmon looking classic.
* Fishersville Mike noted Lauren Hart working out for Stanley Cup games.
* Smash Mouth Politics reports on the sad state of Simona Halep’s cleavage. Also an homage to Mélissa Theuriau.
* Fausta brings the tango goodness.
* Yankee Phil asks “Why?” for a 95% tattooed lady.
* Proof Positive offers Ava Gardner and Jennifer Aniston. The highly intellectual Beach Blanket Burger Babe is exactly what we’re on about. Women of PETA VIII merits attention for the babes.
* St. Angilbert Press brings a daily cutie and reviews a list of 75 sci-fi hotties. You readers know what to do.
* Eye of Polyphemus gives us Kristen Bell from a list of All Time Favorites.
* The Classic Liberal deploys Nicole Scherzinger to explain how inflation is just taxation by another name.
* Paco Enterprises brings Alice Faye.
* iOwnTheWorld apparently includes a Kendra Wilkinson sex tape under that Big Fur Hat.
* Three Beers Later arrived with the Juliana Moreira installment.
I was just watching this on Hulu? The whole thing is worth watching but if you want to fast forward to the mind boggling bit fast forward to about the 9:00 mark…
As you watch just keep chanting “race is merely a social construct.” If that doesn’t work may I suggest a fine Vodka?
If this commercial is any indication, then yes, yes they are…
To recap: if White folks require a Black man to deflect the charge of racism? Allow me then to ask a silly question: then what if no Black was willing to stand up for us and all our racism?
I think a better idea is to laugh all accusations of racism out of the room and stop allowing people to shut down rational debate because they call us a name.
Well, pretty much this.
This is the slavering mob unleashed, who will it come after next?
Race not a factor…
Police: Man Intentionally Plowed Into Woman, Girl
INDIANAPOLIS — A mother and daughter were hospitalized on Sunday after they were purposely plowed down by a man on Indianapolis’ northwest side, police said.
Officers were called to the intersection of Kessler Boulevard and 56th Street around 5 p.m. on Saturday after witnesses said a man in a black SUV struck a woman and girl who were standing in the median, advertising a car wash for the Indiana School For The Deaf.
According to the police report, Derek Dewitt, 43, was driving between 60 and 70 mph when he struck the victims, and then waited by the vehicle for police to arrive.
“We thought it was an accident, but when the driver got out of the car, he made statements that this was not an accident,” said Sgt. Paul Thompson, who indicated Dewitt likely did not know the woman and girl.
Witnesses said that Dewitt told them, “Yeah, I (expletive) hit them. They (expletive) dead now, ain’t they?”
Tina Carter-Boozer, 41, and her 15-year-old daughter were transported to Methodist Hospital in critical condition.
Superintendent of the Indiana School For The Deaf David Geeslin said the girl is a student at the school.
“Why here? Why in that place? Why those particular people?” he asked, through an interpreter. “I have heard the words ‘victim of a hate crime.’ I’m wondering if that is really what’s going on, and I have to say, that’s a very scary thought.”
Thompson said Dewitt will undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
“We all know rational human beings don’t drive around looking for a human target to strike,” he said
Assuming this is true, and I think that it is, when exactly should we start worrying?
“America is home to about seven million Muslims. Most of them, even if they are not terrorists, do harbor hostility towards the U.S. and feel no loyalty to it. As an Arab and Muslim, [I tell you] that it is difficult to find a Muslim who loves America; those [who do] constitute a tiny minority among all those millions.
And that’s just Muslims, how about Hispanics?
Just curious, is there a non-White immigrant group in America we’re feeling good about these days?
And you know…heh!
Yay?
Some Arizona Latinos Embrace Immigration Law
Though Latinos in Arizona and nationwide have mobilized in protest against the state’s new immigration law, not all Hispanic Americans are opposed to it. In Arizona, many Latino voters see it as a much-needed crackdown.
Twelve percent of second-generation Latino voters in the state say they support S.B. 1070, according to a recent Latino Decisions poll. That jumps to nearly 30 percent in the fourth generation.Jesse Hernandez, a second-generation Mexican-American, a product of public housing and a proud Phoenix Republican, is one of those in Arizona who favor the law.
Hernandez says he knows many Latinos who feel just like he does.
“I just don’t like the fact that they’re going to say that an American Latino has the same concerns as a Latino from Mexico. No, we don’t,” Hernandez says.
Hernandez says his Mexican-born parents came to the U.S. after years of waiting at the border to secure papers. He says illegal immigrants need to get in line, just like they did.
“We don’t have time to be marching down the street waving the Mexican flag saying we want rights,” he says. “Because you know what? We did it the right way, and we have rights.”
12% eh? That is pretty darn exciting! But wait, what’s this…
Like Hernandez, Marín says she loves her people and her culture. She grew up in a South Phoenix barrio in the early 1940s. Her late father Guadalupe came from Mexico as part of the Bracero Program, which allowed thousands of laborers to enter the U.S. and work in American fields.
so, question: why is it when Marin says “her people” Lefties, Progressives, Communists, Transgressives, F’ing savages begin weeping at the sheer beauty of it all but when I say the exact same phrase Janet Napolitano calls out SWAT teams?
Anybody? Beuhler?
But wait, there’s more…
GOP and immigration: For the Republican Party, politically, there’s good news and bad news in our new NBC/MSNBC/Telemundo poll on the subject of immigration. Let’s start with the good news: The Arizona anti-illegal immigration law, passed by a GOP-led legislature and signed by a GOP governor, has been a short-term political winner. The poll shows that 61% of the public supports the law, and a Republican congressional candidate who backs the law beats a Democratic candidate who opposes it, 40%-26%. But here’s the bad news: Latinos, once a semi-swing group of voters, now have swung overwhelmingly for President Obama and the Democratic Party, and younger Hispanics are moving to the Democrats in even greater numbers
Latinos aren’t swing voters anymore: For example, 68% of Latinos approve of Obama’s job (compared with 48% of overall respondents and 38% of whites), and they view the Democratic Party favorably by a 54%-21% score (versus 41%-40% among all adults and 34%-48% among whites). And their views of the Republican Party? In the poll, the GOP fav/unfav among Latinos is 22%-44%. What’s more, Latinos think Democrats would do a better job than Republicans in protecting the interests of minorities (by 58%-11%), in representing the opportunity to move up the economic ladder (46%-20%), in dealing with immigration (37%-12%), and in promoting strong moral values (33%-23%).
I believe the technical term for this is the end of America as we know it. Though on the upside the Hispanics in FG’s neighborhood are nice to him, so there’s that.
Andy McCarthy has been called NRO’s lone adult, here he is kicking some much needed ass…
The House Divided
How long can a people remain a People when its leaders side with its foes?Bill Bennett and Seth Leibsohn don’t mince words on NRO: “Allowing the running down of a part of the United States by the head of a foreign government, at the White House, standing next to the president — who not only didn’t challenge him, but encouraged him — is a foreign- and domestic-policy catastrophe.” I couldn’t agree more with them, or with Mona Charen and Michelle Malkin, who’ve written forcefully about the absurdity of entertaining commentary on our immigration enforcement (or lack of same) from Mexico. That would be the same Mexico that enforces its immigration laws with the very “intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse” of which its president, Felipe Calderón, falsely accuses Arizona.
It is sadly noteworthy, though, that Bill and Seth wrote their essay before Calderón’s appearance Thursday before a joint session of Congress. It was at that latter event, with Vice President Biden and Speaker Pelosi presiding, and with President Obama’s cabinet front and center, that the most breathtaking display took place. I refer not to the tongue-lashing from Calderón, but to the standing ovation from nearly two-thirds of the People’s representatives and from the assembled administration officials. The ovation was for a brazen attack on the People.
Make no mistake: In the Congress of the United States on Thursday, it was a hostile Mexico against a besieged Arizona. Mexico won in a rout.
I was talking to a friend the other day, trying to explain my melancholy over the country. Conversations like that tend to get a bit self-absorbed, but indulge me for a second. I said I couldn’t think of a better example than myself for relating the problem no one wants to face up to. A number of years ago, at some risk to myself and my family, I prosecuted savage jihadists who had made themselves enemies of the United States. I was lauded for doing so by the Clinton administration. Though I disagreed with that administration philosophically, and particularly with its conception of international terrorism as a crime problem, I praised the much-needed overhaul by which it put teeth in our counterterrorism laws. Our disagreement was over the best way to protect the country, not over the imperative that the country be protected. Our debate was the traditional Right-Left debate.
Moreover, as a New York lawyer who made no secret of having conservative views, I was a decided minority, even among my fellow prosecutors. But that only mattered in the occasional, friendly joust over a beer. Day to day, our politics had nothing to do with how we went about our jobs. At the office, I had friends across the ideological spectrum. Most of them were from the political left, but we liked and respected one another. The bond we shared, the sense that we were doing something good for the nation we all loved, was stronger than any ideological divisions.
Why does that matter now? Because, for the first time in our history, we have a president who would be much more comfortable sitting in a room with Bill Ayers than sitting in a room with me. We have a governing class that is too often comfortable with anti-American radicals, with rogue and dysfunctional governments that blame America for their problems, and with Muslim Brotherhood ideologues who abhor individual liberty, capitalism, freedom of conscience, and, in general, Western enlightenment. To this president and his government, I am the problem. Americans who champion life, liberty, and limited government are not just the loyal opposition; they are deemed potential terrorists, and are derided with considerably more intensity than the actual terrorists. Arizona — for criminalizing criminal activity, for defending its sovereignty and protecting its citizens’ lives and property — is slandered as a human-rights violator.
And here is the excruciating part: As the Calderón spectacle demonstrates, these sentiments are not fringe sentiments.
