Reid Pals Rescue Negro Comment And Reelection Support

Wacky Harry throws out more conundrum feed.  And so to, his supporters.

It came straight from the new book Game Change, when Senate leader Harry Reid commented about first term Senator Barack Obama and his aspirations for president in 2008.   

“Game Change,” Mark Halperin and John Heilemann quote Reid as referring to Obama as a “light-skinned black man with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.”

The cries of racism were soon burgeoning throughout the land.  Thus, Reid apologizes for ‘no Negro dialect’ comment about Obama .  LAT.   

…regret for “using such a poor choice of words. I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my improper comments.”

But his avid supporters were happily waiting in the wings for their beloved mean spirited codger.  Scheduled weeks ago, ‘African Americans for Harry Reid’ will go on as planned.  The Hill.

Even Representative James Clyburn: What’s wrong with the word “negro”? chimed at the politically correct moment.  Hot Air’s  keen observation on the modern era.

“We can’t even agree on which terms are offensive.”

Nevertheless with the fall out, can the Dems launch defense to save Reid?  Politico.  Reid has his history to reckon.

…he’s neither a savvy public figure nor a gifted speaker, and he’s his own worst enemy when he goes off script.
Reid once asked a reporter whether she “spoke English” and urged her to “turn up your Miracle Ear.”

He once said you can tell it’s summertime at the Capitol “because you can smell the visitors, [who] stand out in the high humidity, heat, and they sweat.” He called President George W. Bush a “loser,” Justice Clarence Thomas “an embarrassment” and Bill Frist, his predecessor as majority leader, “amateurish.” He referred to Alan Greenspan as a “hack.” And he had to backtrack after saying the U.S. was “losing” the war in Iraq.

Why indeed, it seems like A Disturbing Double Standard.  Fox.  Pegged sqaurely. 

As long as the speech offender is a liberal who favors the social and political policies of the liberal media elite, he (or she) gets a pass.

“Harry Reid.  My color coded system also applies to ‘negro dialect.’  Low, low risk of electoral defeat.  Guarded, general risk of electoral defeat.  Elevated, significant risk of electoral defeat.  High, high risk of electoral defeat.  Severe, severe risk of electoral defeat.”
Image courtesy of Eric Allie via http://furiousdiaper.com/?p=2276.

See:

• http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/01/11/disturbing-double-standard/
• http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dcnow/2010/01/reid-apologizes-for-no-negro-dialect-comment.html
• http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/1405-scheduled-weeks-ago-african-americans-for-harry-reid-will-go-on-as-planned
• http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/11/james-clyburn-whats-wrong-with-the-word-negro/

US Air Force At Work Video

Email in circulation

 

U.S. Air Force at Work.  A video demonstrating the precise actions of airborne military.

This video was taken from inside the cockpit of an A-10 (Warthog) by  the pilot. It was a night view. What you see is from 9700 feet away (almost two miles. Four terrorists are walking along a street with no clue that someone is watching them.

From almost 2 miles  away.  The A-10 fired a 30 mm cannon WITHOUT injuring the dog nearby  who escaped unharmed.  You can see the gun  camera shake a bit as the pilot fires; then count about 4 seconds  for the rounds to travel 2 miles.

Every tenth round is a tracer, so  the bullets you actually see are every tenth; they are getting hit with hundreds of rounds, but the tail wagging dog gets the heck out  of Dodge! 

Muzzle velocity on the 30mm cannon is 2430 feet per second.  The result is that four fewer guys won’t be  blowing up women and children anymore!  GITMO won’t have a prisoner.  Problem and the  terrorists get their 72 Virgins. Everyone is a Winner. 

Don’t you love it when a plan comes together?

USAF at Work.wmv

November 26, 2008

See:

• http://www.gifs.net/gif/index.php3?n=subcat_images.php3&id=40&start=0&end=20&cat_name=Email

Education Secretary Lacks Formal Classroom Teaching Expereince

Education Secretary Has No Professional Classroom Teaching Experience .  CNS News.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the man responsible for assisting the executive and legislative branches in implementing education policy goals, tutored kids as a young student but has never professionally taught inside a classroom. 

Duncan’s experience in education includes time as the administrator of a nonprofit school and as head of the Chicago public school system, according to Education Department press secretary Justin Hamilton.

One who has never known the work in the foxhole would be significantly handicapped in managing the battle from the war room.  A Harvard magna cum laude graduate with many titles and awards, does not automatically a teacher make, nor a manager who knows how to impart education on a large scale.   

See:

• http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59578

Dry Shavings From Feet Find New Use

The demented humor at b3ta for your perusal.  This is called Mmmm yummy.

“Crusty feet?  Try razor blades.  And make a tasty snack for yourself!”
Image courtesy of bogeypie via http://b3ta.com/board/9862950.

Blagojevich Unabashedly Compares His Blackness

Former Illinois governor Milorad “Rod” Blagojevich is talking.  To Esquire magazine.  He has no problems discussing his cultural background.  That is to say, the neighborhood where he grew up.

Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he’s “blacker than Barack Obama” and tells Esquire magazine that he was a real person in a political arena dominated by phonies.

Blagojevich, referring to the president as “this guy,” says Obama was elected based simply on hope.

“What the (expletive)? Everything he’s saying’s on the teleprompter,” Blagojevich told the magazine for a story in its February issue, which hits newsstands Jan. 19.

“I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived,” Blagojevich said. “I saw it all growing up.”

The man does not hide his love for expletives and rattling for deals.  Unlike his politician counterparts who parlay otherwise in public.    

And it does not seem likely anyone will see Blagojevich using a teleprompter.  Ever.

See:

• http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/11/blagojevich-im-blacker-barack-obama/?test=latestnews
• http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/mar/26/local/chi-kass-26-mar26

Track Star Removes Breast Implants To Boost Athletic Performance

Olympic Hurdler Has Breast Implants Removed to Increase Speed.  News.com.au

Jana Rawlinson decided her enhanced breasts were compromising her track performance.  So she did what she felt was best.

“I absolutely loved having bigger boobs, but I don’t want to short-change Australia either. I want to feel the most athletic I can, to know that I’m standing on the track in London (2012 Olympics) the fittest I can be.”

Athletes know their bodies best, but could this have been averted by never having implants placed at all?

See:

• http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581893,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r4:c0.000000:b0:z5

Everything Is Big In Texas Learned The Blind Man

Joke of the day.

People always talk about how everything is big in Texas.  A blind man learned first hand.  Laugh Shack.

There once was a blind man who decided to visit Texas.

When he arrived on the plane,he felt the seats and said, “Wow, these seats are big!”

The person next to him answered,”Everything is big in Texas.”

When he finally arrived in Texas, he decided to visit a bar. Upon arriving in the bar, he ordered a beer and got a mug placed between his hands. He exclaimed, “Wow these mugs are big!”

The bartender replied, “Everything is big in Texas.”

After a couple of beers, the blind man asked the bartender where the bathroom was located. The bartender replied, “Second door to the right.” The blind man headed for the bathroom, but accidentally tripped over and skipped the second door. Instead, he entered the third door, which lead to the swimming pool and fell into the pool by accident.

Scared to death, the blind man started shouting…

“Don’t flush, don’t flush!”

See:

• http://www.laughshack.com/joks/blindtexas.html
• http://www.123gifs.eu/clowns/
• http://freegif.123gifs.eu/clowns/clown-0009.gif

RIP Art Clokey Creator Of Gumby And Pokey

Art Clokey, creator of Gumby, dies at 88.  LAT.  In his sleep, at home, after a series of bladder infections.

The famed  clay animation creator, first to use the modality for television, and the one who brought loveable characters to life for millions of children and adults across the world. 

Clokey and his wife, Ruth, invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art had finished film school at USC. After a successful debut on “The Howdy Doody Show,” Gumby soon became the star of its own hit television show, “The Adventures of Gumby,” the first to use clay animation on television. 

After an initial run in the 1950s, Gumby enjoyed comebacks in the 1960s as a bendable children’s toy, in the 1980s after comedian Eddie Murphy parodied the kindly Gumby as a crass, cigar-in-the-mouth character in a skit for “Saturday Night Live” and again in the ’90s with the release of “Gumby the Movie.”

Gumby history at Wikipedia.

Gumby’s principal sidekick is Pokey, a talking pony voiced by Art Clokey and Dallas McKennon at different times, and his nemeses are the Blockheads, a pair of humanoid, red-colored figures with block-shaped heads, who wreak mischief and havoc at all times. The Blockheads were inspired by the Katzenjammer Kids, who were always getting into scrapes and causing discomfort to others.[2] Other characters are Gumby’s dog Nopey (who responds to everything with a gloomy “nope”); Prickle, a yellow dinosaur or dragon, who often declares himself as a detective, sporting a pipe and a hat in the likeness of Sherlock Holmes; Goo, a flying blue mermaid who spits blue goo-balls and can change her physical shape at will; Gumby’s mother Gumba; Gumby’s father Gumbo; his sister Minga; Denali (a mastodon); Tilly (a hen); King Ott; and Professor Kapp.

Gumby and Pokey – In the Dough (1956)

May 09, 2009

 
“The End.  A Clokey production.”
Image courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewf/53893248/.

See:

• http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-art-clokey9-2010jan09,0,3938052.story
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumby

Democrats Going For Broke On Health Care And More

The Risk of Catastrophic Victory.  WSJ.  When going for broke could actually end up breaking the bank. 

What the Democrats and their leader should have known.

The public in 2009 would have been happy to see a simple bill that mandated insurance companies offer coverage without respect to previous medical conditions. The administration could have had that—and the victory of it—last winter.

Instead, they were greedy for glory.

It was not worth it—not worth the town-hall uprisings and the bleeding of centrist support, not worth the rebranding of the president from center-left leader to leftist leader, not worth the proof it provided that the public’s concerns and the administration’s are not the same, not worth a wasted first year that should have been given to two things and two things only: economic matters and national security.

What the Democrats and their leader did not do.

In politics you must tend to the garden. The garden is the constituency, in Mr. Obama’s case the country. No great endeavor is possible without its backing. In a modern presidency especially you have to know this, because there will be times when history throws you a crisis, and to address it you may have to do an unpopular thing. A president in those circumstances must use all the goodwill he’s built up over the months and years to get through that moment and survive doing what he thinks is right. Mr. Obama acts as if he doesn’t know this. He hasn’t built up popularity to use on a rainy day. If he had, he’d be getting through the Christmas plot drama better than he is.

No matter.  History is recording Democrat actions to stand on their own merits.  Constituents have tried to forewarn to no avail.

Image courtesy of

See:

• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704130904574644701673362182.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

Dysfunctional Toys To Shock And Awe

Did the yuletide season pass you by?  Still clueless about those toys all the other kids got for Christmas?  Then be sure to jog over to visit Death By 1000 Papercuts to clarify all that confusion.  And get a shocking laugh.

Hottest Dysfunctional Toys For Christmas: Transgender Barbie, Easy Bake Meth Lab, DUI Barbie and More.  DBKP.

“My Little Pony Glue Factory.”
Image courtesy of http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2009/12/hottest-dysfunctional-toys-for-christmas-transgender-barbie-easy-bake-meth-lab-dui-barbie-and-more/. 

See:

• http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2009/12/hottest-dysfunctional-toys-for-christmas-transgender-barbie-easy-bake-meth-lab-dui-barbie-and-more/