Disgusted

I am so disgusted by the politics of our generation that I am taking a leave of absence from this blog. The insanity that is the American left and their obsession with controlling us is leaving me nauseous. I am not quitting the fight, just choosing another way to engage that can be more effective. I now believe that raising money to fight these Bolsheviks is how I can best serve the cause of the American dream and freedom.

Diversity

What is behind the obsession with diversity that liberals have? Where is the virtue in diversity? I have no objection to it; I just fail to see any particular good or bad in diversity or lack thereof. It seems as if our liberal friends believe that "divided we stand" is somehow a good thing.

Actual Mug Shots

What do these mug shots have in common? It isn't race, it isn't gender; so what is it (hint: look at their clothing)?

We Must Be Crazy

I recently received news about oil reserves in the US that is staggering. Here's the quote.

Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this mother lode of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?

They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:

- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia

- 18-times as much oil as Iraq

- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait

- 22-times as much oil as Iran

- 500-times as much oil as Yemen

- and it's all right here in the Western United States .

James Bartis, lead researcher with the study, says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.

If this is true, then that is astounding. We are allowing ourselves to be held captive by a few crazy environmentalists and judges. Are we nuts? H/T Gary.

The President and Malcolm X

President Obama has been quoted that the autobiography of Malcolm X resonated with him. Here is the actual quote.

Only Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me. The blunt poetry of his words. His unadorned insistence on respect. He promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline.

That is high praise from a man who is quite a wordsmith himself. Lets examine some of the quotes in that book. Our first quote is short, but seems to be the Obama playbook.

By any means necessary.

The second quote worries me even more.

You will never get real freedom and recognition between black and white people in this country without destroying the country, without destroying the present political system, without destroying the present economic system, without rewriting the entire constitution. It will be a complete destruction of everything that America supposedly stands for.

Any questions about what is really going on?

Corruption

Michelle Malkin has a story that shows "the Chicago Way" that the Obama administration uses to get things done. In this instance they are blatantly trying to buy the vote of a Utah Democrat.

Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson’s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Taking the most charitable possible interpretation; one that this is just a coincidence, she writes:

Is the White House so fantastically blind and tone-deaf that it failed to detect the blood-red flags and blaring alarm bells that Scott Matheson’s judicial nomination would raise coming on the very day President Obama is wooing his brother, Jim?

I am so grateful for the alternate sources of news like blogs, talk radio, and other Internet resources. ABC, NBC, and CBS would never report about such corrupt behavior by their favorite politician.

Contrast

Here are photos of the last 2 Presidents, each addressing an elementary school group. Note the differences.