Roseanne Barr has announced her candidacy for the Green Party’s nomination for President. Well, certainly the sight of Roseanne Barr is enough to turn anyone a bit Green so perhaps this is part of the enviroMentals’ strategy to boost their membership roles.
Now that the breast cancer bosses at the Susan G. Komen Foundation have collapsed under the insidious pressure placed on them by the Big Abortion lobby of the oh so tolerant Left, I offer up some summarizing thoughts on this ugly liberal gang bang by Mark Steyn, political commentator extraordinaire. Apparently, it’s a Pro-Choice world for everyone except those who choose other than the progressive party line.
Komen was a generous patron of Planned Parenthood, the “women’s health” organization. The Foundation then decided it preferred to focus on organizations that are “providing the lifesaving mammogram.” Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms, despite its president, Cecile Richards, testifying to the contrary before Congress last year. Rather, Planned Parenthood provides abortions; it’s the biggest abortion provider in the United States. For the breast cancer bigwigs to wish to target their grants more relevantly is surely understandable.
But not if you’re a liberal enforcer. Sen. Barbara Boxer, with characteristic understatement, compared the Komen Foundation’s Nancy Brinker to Joe McCarthy: “I’m reminded of the McCarthy era, where somebody said: ‘Oh,’ a congressman stands up, a senator, ‘I’m investigating this organization and therefore people should stop funding them.’” But Komen is not a congressman or a senator or any other part of the government, only a private organization. And therefore it is free to give its money to whomever it wishes, isn’t it? Dream on.
Komen could not be permitted to get away with disrespecting Big Abortion. We don’t want to return to the bad old days of the back alley, when a poor vulnerable person who made the mistake of stepping out of line had to be forced into the shadows and have the realities explained to them with a tire iron. Now Big Liberalism’s enforcers do it on the front pages with the panjandrums of tolerance and diversity cheering them all the way.
After 72 hours being fitted for the liberals’ cement overcoat and an honored place as the cornerstone of the Planned Parenthood Monument to Women’s Choice, Komen attempted to chisel free and back into the good graces of the tolerant: As Nancy Brinker’s statement groveled, “We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.”
Congratulations! Planned Parenthood certainly raised Nancy’s awareness. I wonder what color ribbon that comes with? Black and blue? Orange County Register
Cecile Richards, the white woman who runs Planned Parenthood, makes approximately $400,000 a year not counting benefits. And other top executives at this abortion mill make over $250,000 a year. Ka-Ching! Ka-Ching! Yep, sucking fetuses out of women’s wombs is a nice little racket for these non-profit entrepreneurs.
But we must not forget that these highly paid white women at Planned Parenthood, who are clearly some of the privileged few inhabiting that Occupy demon division known as The One Percent, aren’t in it for the money. Certainly not. They’re altruistically providing a needed service to all those poor Women of Color that we keep hearing so much about. Interesting though that an organization founded by a racist white middle-class lady by the name of Margaret Sanger, who believed that African-Americans were “socially undesirable people” whose numbers needed to be decreased by all means possible, is still basically run by a bunch of we-know-best middle-class white women condescendingly caring for poor minorities by ‘mercifully’ exterminating their unborn offspring, and I might add, making a damn good living out of it to boot!
Ah, the labyrinthine motivations of American liberalism.
After hearing all the hype about Donald Trump gearing up to endorse Newt Gingrich, it now appears that Trump is ready to throw his weight behind Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney will receive Donald Trump’s presidential endorsement Thursday, sources with knowledge of the endorsement told CNN.
Trump said he thought Romney “did great” in the final two presidential debates in Florida, while Gingrich “was off.” CNN
Well, well. The political soap opera continues. If this latest bit of so-called insider news is correct, then Romney is getting another nice boost to his campaign.
With the fall of Spain’s socialist government back in 2011 and with an end to the 7-plus year reign of Jose Zapatero as the country’s prime minister, Spain is now in the midst of not only an economic restructuring but a cultural re-do as well. The new Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy of the Partido Party has promised to rescind many of the controversial changes enacted by the outgoing socialist government. And at the top of the list of Spain’s culture splitting issues are abortion, gay marriage, and educational indoctrination.
Zapatero’s socialist government pushed through abortion-on-demand legislation that also allowed underage girls to obtain abortions without parental knowledge or consent. His socialist-dominated parliament then rammed through a very controversial same-sex marriage bill while instituting what was euphemistically called the Education for Citizenship program foisted upon Spain’s school children. This ‘educational’ agenda was mandatory for all public and private schools and required teachers “to have students make a critical evaluation of the social and sexual division of labor and racist, xenophobic, sexist, and homophobic social prejudices and to revise the student’s attitude towards homosexuality.” All the phobes, ists, and isms were certainly out in force during the socialist reign. Needless to say, this ‘citizenship’ agenda met with tremendous opposition and not just from the Catholic Church.
The new Minister of Education, Culture, and Sports, Jose Wert, announced yesterday that the controversial Education for Citizenship program will be eliminated and replaced with civics courses focused on Spain’s constitution, citizens’ rights and responsibilities, and developing knowledge of European institutions. The far-flung multicultural agenda and the socialist indoctrination are getting tossed into the trash heap where they belong.
And as for abortion and gay marriage….well, already in the works is a governmental movement to scrap the abortion-on-demand law instituted by the Socialists and to return to the much more circumscribed legislation that only allows abortions under extraordinary circumstances, such as fetal deformity, rape/incest, and the health of the mother. Underage girls would be required to obtain parental consent. On the gay marriage scene, the new Prime Minister is in favor of civil unions. What rights and obligations will be part of a civil union contract are still under review.
Abortion and gay marriage, two very controversial issues that aren’t going away any time soon. And as many countries see-saw up and down over these contentious political fulcrums, the angst and anger generated will only create an even bigger cultural divide.
It’s a good day for the Hoosier State and a bad day for the organized protection racket known as employee unions. Governor Mitch Daniels signed his state’s Right-to-Work bill into law today which will now prohibit unions and companies from entering into contracts that require non-union workers to pay mandatory union dues.
As the Indiana State Senate passed the bill on Wednesday with a 28 – 22 margin, the union mugs on hand for the final count shouted See you at the Super Bowl! The insinuation of course was that the union thugs would attempt to disrupt the Super Bowl game this Sunday. A spokesperson for the AFL-CIO did declare that union members would be handing out leaflets at the stadium before the game.
Oh, I would love to see organized labor try to disrupt the Super Bowl. Such an idiotic action on their part would hammer down the final nail in the union coffin. Oh, bring it on!
Indiana becomes the 23rd state in the union to enact Right-to-Work legislation.
Allen West, who just a few days ago looked like he would be redistricted out of his Congressional seat by the powers that be in the Republican party, has now announced that he’s running for the Congressional seat in the newly created 18th district in Florida.
After much prayer, reflection and discussion with my close friends and family, I am announcing today my decision to seek reelection in Florida’s proposed 18th Congressional district.
Congressman Rooney is a statesman and has been an honorable public servant to the constituents of Florida’s 16th Congressional district. It is my goal to continue the success Congressman Rooney has had in Florida’s 16th Congressional district in the newly proposed 18th district. I welcome the challenges and excitement that lie ahead. As a 22-year United States Army veteran who commanded troops in combat, one should never underestimate my ability to be a strategic thinker. My voice for the restoration of constitutional principles for our Republic shall continue to resonate through Florida and on Capitol Hill.” Right Scoop
Hooray! And here is Congressman West inviting Obama, Pelosi, Wasserman Schultz, and little Harry Reed to take a trip oversees and to take all their anti-American baggage along with them.
The last poll taken before the Florida primary shows Mitt Romney pulling way ahead of the competition.
Mitt Romney – 40 %
Newt Gingrich – 25 %
Rick Santorum – 18 %
Ron Paul – 11 %
Nice to see Ron Paul pulling in at dead last. Just in case Papa Paul has entertained any idea of running as a third-party candidate, a poor performance in the primaries just might disabuse him of such a nasty notion.
Ever hear of Mesothelioma? That’s a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. It develops from transformed cells originating in the protective lining that covers many of the internal organs of the body and the most common development site is the outer lining of the lungs and the chest wall. But it can also arise in the linings of the abdominal cavity, the sac that surrounds the heart, and the sac that surrounds the testis.
Most of the people who develop this form of cancer have worked in jobs where they were exposed to asbestos dust and fibers. But it’s not just the workers themselves who are at risk; it’s also their spouses and their children—anyone living in close contact to the clothing and other paraphernalia that the worker might bring home that could be contaminated with asbestos fibers.
So what does this horrible asbestos-caused cancer have to do with Elizabeth Warren, Democrat contender for the Senate seat in Massachusetts, overpaid Harvard Law Schoolmarm, self-proclaimed champion of The People, and Mother-in-Waiting to the Occupy movement? Well, this elite spokeswoman for the academic good life may pose as a loving caretaker for the muddled masses but in reality Madam Warren has no problem at all in allowing the stricken and the infirmed to sicken and die on the doorstep of the nation’s insurance industry.
Warren, who specializes in bankruptcy law, took a cool $44,000 from Travelers Insurance to help the company challenge an unfavorable ruling before the US Supreme Court. Travelers served as the insurance carrier for a mining company that had multi-million dollar asbestos lawsuits lodged against it. Ms. Warren, serving as the company’s consultant, argued that Travelers Insurance should be protected from future individual lawsuits and that the court should uphold a trust fund that had been created by the company to cover all asbestos victims. In other words, Travelers wanted to cap their loses at a particular dollar amount and not have to worry about any future claims. Warren was hired by Travelers because she helped to establish the bankruptcy strategy as a way for companies to avoid having to pay out lawsuits. And of course, when it comes to getting a check for $44,000, well, lung cancer be damned! To hell with those dying members of the 99%! How very George Bush of her.
Here’s Queen Elizabeth’s altruistic explanation, through a spokesperson, of why she took on this consulting assignment:
Elizabeth served as a consultant and wanted to ensure that all victims got a fair shake and had an equal chance to get paid. That is why she supported all insurance proceeds being put in a trust rather than fighting lawsuit-by-lawsuit until the money ran out.
Ah, yes, fair shake, equal chance. The extent of Lizzie Warren’s benevolence brings tears to my eyes. And we all know why insurance companies exist, we all know why they hire high-priced lawyers—to ensure a fair shake and an equal chance to give their money away to the masses.
This dizzy broad thinks that the Massachusetts voters are a bunch of stupid chumps, and if she ends up getting elected to the United States Senate, then damn, she’s right—they are.
Lung Cancer Lizzie, champion of The People. This academic hypocrite just can’t admit that it’s all about the money.
A Canadian jury on Sunday found the Shafia family guilty of murdering their three teenage daughters and the father’s co-wife back in 2009. Mohammad Shafia and his second wife, Tooba, murdered their three teenage daughters, aged 19, 17, and 13-years old and Mohammad Shafia’s first wife, Rona Mohammed, 52 years old. Assisting them in this grisly family affair was their son, 21-year old, Hamed. During the trial, the prosecution submitted evidence to show that the girls were murdered because they ‘dishonored’ their father by defying his dictates with regard to dating, socializing, and using the internet. Shafia’s first wife, who was childless, was chosen for death because the polygamous relationship, if exposed, could have resulted in the family’s deportation. Shafia was a wealthy businessman who hailed from Afghanistan.
The months leading up to the deaths were not happy ones in the Shafia household, according to evidence presented at trial. Zainab, the oldest daughter, was forbidden to attend school for a year because she had a young Pakistani-Canadian boyfriend, and she fled to a shelter, terrified of her father, the court was told.
The prosecution presented wire taps and cell phone records from the Shafia family in court. In one phone conversation, the father says his daughters “betrayed us immensely.”
The wiretaps, which capture Shafia spewing vitriol about his dead daughters, calling them treacherous and whores and invoking the devil to defecate on their graves, were a focal point of the trial. Fox News
The four victims were rendered unconscious, their bodies stuffed into a car and the car was then pushed into a local lock where they drowned.
And while claiming his innocence throughout the trial, Daddy Mohammed’s actual comments concerning the death of his daughters included such loving sentiments as the following:
Since 2002, there have been 13 honor killing episodes in Canada. But hey, not to worry. After all, what’s a few dead broads when there’s a glorious multicultural mission underway to stamp out that evil Christian European culture?
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Since there has been a lot of talk lately about the spouses of presidential candidates and since that chatter seems to have been mostly concerned with Mr. Newt’s three lady loves, I thought it would be nice to take a look at the marriage of Ann and Mitt Romney.
Now, this video is a very nice piece of Romney for President propaganda and yes, it’s a bit on the corny side, but it’s also a very sweet glimpse into a marriage that has weathered many seasons and some life-threatening illnesses along the way. Ann Romney is a breast cancer survivor and has been struggling with the scourge of Multiple Sclerosis since the late 90s.
And here is Ann Romney speaking at the Hispanic Leadership Network in Florida on Friday. She comes off as intelligent, warm, friendly, and sincere.
Oops! MSNBC’s alternative lifestyle lesbian is apparently not the household phenomenon that those in the know among the liberal Left seem to think she is. Last Thursday, the contestants on ABC’s game show, Jeopardy, had not a clue who this woman of so many words but nary an original thought might have been. After a prolonged silence from the three contestants when asked to identify this cable TV ‘newswoman’, Alex Trebek, the program’s long-time host, enlightened the players and the audience with the correct answer.
I’m sure there will now be a rush to re-evaluate Jeopardy’s screening processes for choosing prospective contestants. After all, when supposedly smart and savvy people fail to recognize The Rachel, it sort of gives the liberal media elites a pretty obvious black eye. For after all once again, it’s kind of hard for these on-camera darlings to claim they speak truth to power in the name of The People when the people don’t even know who the heck they are.
The Bullwinkle for President campaign is crying foul over this latest smear ad from the bad boys over at the Boris Badenov camp. Where the heck is Rocky when you need him?!
To choose or not to choose, that is the queer question. For when it comes to the politics of sexual orientation within the LGBT communities, the concept of choice has long been the foreign invader for the gay group-think agenda. The terrible taboo of ever classifying anyone’s sexual identity as, god forbid!, an individual choice, appears to be exhibiting some cracks and crevices in that gay Ivory Tower of tow-the-party-line political correctness. And interestingly enough, the loudest voices of pro-choice dissension aren’t just coming from outside the gilded gay ghetto.
Take the case of Cynthia Nixon. Ms. Nixon, an actress who co-starred in the Sex in the City TV series, publicly acknowledged her relationship with another woman back in 2004 and hence quickly became a media icon for the gay community. After spending most of her adult life sexually involved with men, Nixon was classified by the head homos of the queer community as simply a late gay bloomer or perhaps bisexual. But Nixon’s recent remarks concerning her sexuality given in an interview with the New York Times on Sunday, have caused a comic commotion of hissy fit proportions. Here is the gist of her comments:
I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.’ And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if it’s a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesn’t matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.
Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.
Nixon is getting dumped on from the usual corners of the gay ghetto for daring to describe a personal sense of reality that doesn’t fit the political agenda of Gay, Inc. But despite the nasty flak, she’s also getting a lot of support.
Gee, the good old LGBT community, now isn’t that the groovy group of people who tout the fluidity of gender? Aren’t these the folks who tell us that despite pesky biological realities to the contrary, that gender is an individual psychological choice? Yet somehow, these same wily wizards declare that sexual orientation is a biological imperative set at birth for everyone and can never, ever be changed. Our gay betters insist that those who come out in their older years, are simply late bloomers who never realized nor accepted their true sexual identity. The reverse, however, is an utter impossibility, according to those gay gods of political science. Such a dramatic transformation is apparently a one way street. Us humans, we are told, can live straight for decades and then come out but we can’t live gay for decades and go back in. Gee, do you think the homo hoods are trying to have it both ways and all ways?
Below are a few links to some of the opinion pieces covering Nixon’s for me it’s a choice story. Many of the comments are more insightful than the actual articles and they clearly show that the Old Gay Guard is losing its stranglehold on this political narrative.
Huffington Post
AMERICAblog Gay
Eonline
So just what’s wrong with Mitt Romney’s campaign? Well, Mark Steyn, commentator, columnist, radio host, and author, has concisely and accurately hammered the political nail directly on the head. I don’t know who is providing the highly-paid campaign advice for Mr. Mitt, but there needs to be a Come to Jesus confrontation within his consultative ranks.
Mitt’s strategy for 2012 as for 2008 was to sit on his lead and run out the clock. Four years ago, that strategy died in New Hampshire; this time round it died one state later. Congratulations!
He’s not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters. So, in compensation, he’s bought himself a bunch of A-list advisers and a lavish campaign.
For a guy running as a chief exec applying proven private-sector solutions, his campaign looks awfully like an unreformable government bureaucracy: big, bloated, overstaffed, burning money, slow to react, and all but impossible to change.
The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it’s not clear that it’s good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly.
And I think that about sums it up. If Mitt doesn’t start pulling away from the Republican establishment and their milquetoast mannikin middle-of-the road presidential model, he’s going to fade, and fade fast.
