What Took You So Long?

Here's a head scratcher - Al Sharpton, known liar, race baiter and so-called poverty-pimp by former US Congressman J.C. Watts, is now starting to sound like the courageous Bill Cosby in his comments regarding black youths. I must say I am a little shocked to hear him say anything other than that blacks' problems are created by whites, but he makes a strong case for black youths to turn from "gangsterism."

"We have got to get out of this gangster mentality, acting as if gangsterism and blackness are synonymous," Sharpton said Thursday at the annual conference of the National Association of Black Journalists.

"I think we've allowed a whole generation of young people to feel that if they're focused, they're not black enough. If they speak well and act well, they're acting white, and there's nothing more racist than that."

He went on to descrine how youths should long for and seek leadership roles in their lives and neighborhoods. Good messages.

I am glad he is saying this publicy, and I applaud him for his statements. Yet I must also ask, "What took you so long, Al? Why haven't you been out there vocally defending Bill Cosby as he's received criticism for saying the same thing over the last few years?"

But it's at least a start I guess.

You Taped Over It?!

NASA has apparently "misplaced" the original tape of the first manned lunar landing. That means moon landing for those of you in Rio Linda (nod to Rush).

[Astronaut Neil] Armstrong's famous space walk, seen by millions of viewers on July 20, 1969, is among transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching, spokesman Grey Hautaloma said.

We've done some brainstorming and came up with a few explanations why the tape may be lost:

1) Some NASA engineer accidentally taped the Superbowl over it, or more likely, taped an episode of Dr. Who.

2) It's being auctioned on Ebay under the title "Really Kewl Battlestar Galactica Audition Tape!"

3) They forgot it was awarded to the best three-legged race team at the last NASA picnic.

4) Someone needed the original to make a clean remix, ala Star Wars Kid, to be posted on YouTube.

and finally 5) MTV never returned it.

World Trade Center the Movie

My review: Fine film, Oliver, Bravo!

Vacation is Sweet

Hey all - Been gone a while on vacation. It was a fun trip to Tampa, Dallas, and South Carolina. But I'm back now and the election cycle is kicking into gear right about now. Things are getting interesting nationally and in Florida.

Hope you are having a safe and fun summer, too.

Referendum : No :: Dem Primary in Itty-Bitty Conn. : Yes

Dem Leader Harry Reid is predicting a 5 seat gain in the US Senate by Democrats this November - and all I've got to say is "Not bloody likely!" His primary, no pun intended, reason for believing this is the result of the Democrat Primary in Connecticut - you know, the one where Joe Lieberman lost to anti-war candidate Ned Lamont (never did trust guys named Ned).

He and the media keep referring to this little tiny democrat primary in a small itty-bitty state as some bellwether, national referendum election on Bush:

"But the perception was that [Lieberman] was too close to George Bush and this election was, in many respects, a referendum on the President more than anything else. The results bode well for Democratic victories in November and our efforts to take the country in a new direction," [Reid and New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee] said [in a joint statement].

Spinning this small tiny democrat primary into some national referendum on the President is the height of mountain out of molehill politics.

And you know what? I'm glad! I want Harry and the Dems to falsely think that the country is going in this "new direction" based on some small state's primary. I want the MoveOns and other anti-war-blame-America-first lefties, who are credited in the media for Lamont's victory, to feel emboldened and force their candidates across the nation to sound like Ned (there's that name again) and run to the far left of the voters.

Politics is local, but Democrats have been desperately trying to make this year a national referendum on Bush, similar to the Republicans successful nationalization of the off-term election in 1994. Well, if they're gonna base their confidence and predictions on a democrat primary in which the victor only won 52-48* (yes it was that close but you wouldn't know from the media's crowing over Lieberman's defeat**) in a small state that has never carried any national significance, then Republicans should sleep well at night this fall.

Hey Harry, here's my prediction - Lieberman retains his seat as an Independent and Republicans gain 2 more.

maninblack

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*This means that 52% of about 33% of all voters in Connecticut voted for Ned - that breaks down to about 18% of Conn. voters - yeah really something to base a national referendum on. When did straw grasping become a democrat hobby?

** Don't forget, the 4 percent spread is after Lieberman publicly said in the weeks prior to the primary that if he lost he'd run as an independent. This means his supporters came out despite his throwing in the towel on the dem primary.

John Kerry Hides Secret Timemachine

It's apparent that John Kerry has found a timemachine and has warped here from 2004. Tuesday he said:

"The Iraqis themselves must build democracy. And it will never be done if Iraqis' leaders are unwilling to make the compromises necessary that that requires," the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate told hundreds of activists at a convention entitled "Campaign for America's Future: Take Back America."

This is the same thing he was saying in 2004. He needs to junk his timeachine and pick up a modern newspaper and read that the Iraqis have held three democratic elections, approved a constitution, and they have compromised greatly in order to fill the Prime Minister position as well as key cabinet positions and a working government.

But, he must have shared his timemachine with all the anti-war hippies that compare Iraq with Vietnam since their message and idiocy haven't changed over the last 35 years either.

As long as democrats/progressives/socialists keep living in the past, they will have no political future. Just the way I like it!

How's November Looking Now?

The events of the last seven days just go to show you how quickly political winds can change. The GWBush poll numbers have hit their low point and will be coming up slowly but surely over the next few weeks to a point that democrats will finally stop talking about taking over the House or Senate and focus on protecting their weak seats.

So what has transpired to give me such optimism? Well let's start with last Tuesday's election to replace former Republican Rep. Duke Cunningham, the poster boy for the democrats campaign assertion that the republicans are the sole party of corruption (despite Rep. Jefferson, democrat from New Orleans, being caught with bribe money to the tune of 90,000 marked FBI dollars in his home's freezer). The democrat running for Cunningham's seat was running against the "culture of corruption" that only Duke Cunningham supposedly represents, and she lost that seat to a republican lobbyist - the supposed dirtiest, filthiest creatures in Washington.

Then later in the week, on Friday, the Iraqi Prime Minister finished forming his government the same time that al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (if you ask a progressive/liberal/socialist Al-Qaeda and Iraq don't belong in the same sentence - they should tell that to the terrorists so they can correct their stationery), was killed by a US military air strike.

Here we are today, a week later, and we've got Bush flying to Iraq for a surprise visit to personally meet with the new Iraqi PM al-Maliki. Oh, and a little news story came out around the same time Bush was flying out there - the democrat target dummy Karl Rove, as anyone with a brain has known since day one of the leak-that-wasn't-a-leak investigation, will not be indicted.

Drudge has a funny story about Homer (D'OH!) Dean:

DNC Chair Howard Dean on NBC's 'TODAY': 'If Karl Rove had been indicted it would have been for perjury. That does not excuse his real sin which is leaking the name of an intelligence operative during the time of war.'

If Rove's sin was leaking the name of the intel operative during a time of war (that's a phrase democrats use sparingly because they only pull it out when it suits their political purpose - they don't actually use it in relation to national security) as Dean asserts, then Rove would have been indicted for it - not just the perjury that obviously didn't occur. Of course, everyone with a brain also knows that the intel operative was not an operative. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, had been riding a desk for about 5 or 6 years in Langley and hadn't been covert during that time, so no law was broken by "revealing" her identity.

But let's allow Dean his little tantrum, along with all his little Deaniancs and progressive socialists. Wouldn't you be angry too if everything politically that you had been working for over the last two years went up in smoke within one week?

I predict that within a month the punditry will begin talking about republicans gaining seats in the US House and maintaining their position in the US Senate, and all this nonsense about Speaker Pelosi and President Reid will finally evaporate into thin air, like the hot air coming out of Homer Dean's trap.

Hey Arlen, Shut Up

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is a typical northeast RINO who makes average Republicans scratch their heads. What makes him most troubling, however, is how he uses his position as the powerful Senate Judiciary chair as a bully-pulpit to comment on almost anything or to generally gum up the work of Congress.

As the Senate's Cliff Claven, Arlen knows a little bit about everything and is gonna share it with you whether you ask or not.

This space is dedicated to pointing out the most recent cases when Arlen just needs to shut up.

June 11th, 2006: Arlen as terrorist sympathizer calls for constutionally guaranteed speedy trials, usually reserved for so-called US citizens, for terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.

June 11th, 2006: Arlen as war crimes judge and jury injects politics into the Marines-Haditha investigation by suggesting a Senate hearing into the matter even before the investigation on the ground is complete and charges, if any, are filed.

Sidebar: The Left and the media grant terror suspects more of a presumption of innocence than they do for the Marines at Haditha.

June 10th, 2006: Arlen as Commander-in-Chief trying to thwart White House efforts to protect Americans with NSA foreign eavesdropping program.

June 9th 2006: Arlen as budget writer holds up war-funding bill over health and education funding issues.

June 7th 2006: Arlen as Senator for the great state of Mexico inserts provision, on May 25th, into US Senate immigration bill forcing consultation with Mexican government before US may proceed to build border wall on its own territory.

US Special Forces: "Next"

The Associated Press reports that Al Qaeda in Iraq Names Zarqawi's Successor. So, before the US Special Forces responsible for the death of Zarqawi even got a chance to clean the scope on their laser range-finder, the terrorists named the next US target.

The new man to be named in the Al-Qaeda in Iraq leadership skeet-shoot is Abu Hamza al-Muhajer. He was provided with one standard issue body bag by his islamofascist brothers shortly before they posted his name on their website.

And There You Have It...

Sure they may wave American flags at their demonstrations now instead of Mexican flags, which was a public relations gaffe on their part of unbelievable proportions, but let there be no doubt about the intentions of those who coddle illegal immigrants:

"We want full amnesty, full legalization for anybody who is here (illegally)," [Jorge] Rodriguez [a union official who helped organize earlier rallies credited with rattling Congress as it debates the issue] said. "That is the message that is going to be played out across the country on May 1."

Jorge is planning on helping organize demonstrations to number in the millions of marchers in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago in order to "close [them] down."

Interesting that they would pick Mayday for their protest - Mayday being the favored holiday on Communism's calendar. Interesting as it may be, it is not surprising, since Jorge is a union official, and we all know that most unions bow at the feet of Marxism.

I would like to contribute to their cause in the spirit of my fellow "compassionate" immigration "reformers" with a simple suggestion - To the demonstrators, since you will all be walking around outside and, I am sure, enjoying a beautiful spring day, why don't you take advantage of the wonderful highway interstate system we have in the U.S. and just keep walking past the southern border. Just take I-35 South. Mmkay?

I genuinely believe that is the best way for the demonstrators to find "full amnesty, full legalization" - back in Mexico. Happy Mayday!