Useful Idiots for Palestine and The Great Palestinian Lie

American Autumn

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/279534/american-autumn-mark-steyn

...If you don’t like to think of Jobs as a corporate exec (and a famously demanding one at that), think of him as a guy who went to work, and worked hard. There’s no appetite for that among those “occupying” Zuccotti Park. In the old days, the tribunes of the masses demanded an honest wage for honest work. Today, the tribunes of America’s leisured varsity class demand a world that puts “people before profits.” If the specifics of their “program” are somewhat contradictory, the general vibe is consistent: They wish to enjoy an advanced Western lifestyle without earning an advanced Western living. The pampered, elderly children of a fin de civilisation overdeveloped world, they appear to regard life as an unending vacation whose bill never comes due.

[Video] Ben Folds: Bitch Went NutZ (Fake Version)

Anti-Israel Demonstration - West LA on Jan. 10, 2009

Full photo essay can be found (here).

Here's a sample photo of a cute little girl...

Gaza War Protest and Anti-Israel Rally San Francisco, January 10, 2009

The full photo essay can be found (here).

UC hits tree-sitters with expensive surprise

Full story (here).

Berkeley's infamous tree-sitters have been hit with a rude surprise since they came down to earth: Judges are socking them with thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees.

Ironically, much of the money - which could total more than $10,000 per sitter - is going straight to the University of California, the very institution the tree-sitters were protesting as they tried to save a grove of trees outside Memorial Stadium.

"It's really vindictive," said an attorney for some the sitters, Dennis Cunningham. "They don't have this kind of money."

Maybe, but university lawyer Michael Goldstein isn't making any apologies.

"We've asked the judge to throw the book at them," Goldstein said flatly.

UC Berkeley estimates it spent more than $800,000 on police and other security measures during the 22 months sitters were up in the trees. The university spent $40,000 alone on the scaffolding that went up around the final tree during the last day of the protest this month.

Now, the school wants its pound of flesh.

Anatomy of a Video - Democratic Convention 2008

This story is an excellent illustration of a police brutality claim that lacked proper context.

(Video) Protest Warrior takes on the Moonbats

Denver Cops 1, Protesters 0

Ever wanted to be inside a radical-left protest-turned-mini-riot? Me neither. But, if you would like to see what goes on inside one, you should check out
this photo essay.

Mr. Spielberg, tear down this wall

Full article (here).

The conventional wisdom is that Hollywood has never before been so gaga over any candidate as she is now for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. In addition to raking in Oprah-level campaign cash, Mr. Obama is making Sen. John McCain, despite the Republican's comedic turns on "Saturday Night Live" and in "The Wedding Crashers," look like an out-of-it grandfather.

While it is true that the ratio of Obama-to-McCain bumper stickers in West L.A. is about 250-to-1, there are untold closet Republicans in the entertainment industry who dare not advertise their beliefs in movie studio parking lots. (Unfortunately, car keying is a tactic wielded liberally by the self-described "tolerant.")

But in this land of superficiality and augmented assets, the inconvenient truth is that, in Hollywood, absolute conformity to the Democratic Party is a well-constructed facade. The environment is not so much unfavorable to the Grand Old Party as it is utterly totalitarian. There's simply no lifestyle choice that receives a worse response at dinner parties.

(Video) North Korean Propaganda Tribute to American Progressives

(Video) People Walking on American Flags as "Art"

From the University of Maine at Farmington.

Fun Protest Pictures

Here are two pictures from recent protests that I really enjoyed.

First up, we have an ignorant hippie who wore his Chairman Mao shirt to a protest against the Chinese government's actions in Tibet. He's the white guy on the left. Based on the smug look on his face, I don't think he gets it.

(source)


I don't know where this one took place. But, it really doesn't matter.

(source)

(Video) MTV: The Holocaust is Coming to America

I finally understand why my mother didn't want me to watch MTV.

Pro-Troops Rally at Berkeley Marines Recruiting Office

That is not a typo in the title. It happened March 22, 2008.

Here's a sample.


See the rest at http://www.zombietime.com/pro-troops_rally_berkeley_3-22-2008/

Happy Easter from America's Left

I wonder if these fine folks are Obama supporters?

Full article (here).

Six Iraq war protesters disrupted an Easter Mass on Sunday, shouting and squirting fake blood on themselves and parishioners in a packed auditorium.

Three men and three women startled the crowd during Cardinal Francis George's homily, yelling "Even the Pope calls for peace" as they were removed from the Mass by security guards and ushers.

One Mass attendee, Mike Wainscott of Chicago, yelled at the anti-war protesters.

"Are you happy with yourselves?" he said. "There were kids in there. You scared little kids with your selfish act. Are you happy now?"

The group, which calls itself Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War, said in a statement after the arrests that they targeted the Holy Name Cathedral on Easter to reach a large audience, including Chicago's most prominent Catholic citizens and the press, which usually covers the services.

San Francisco Anti-War March

Yes, this is another one of "those". As I noted earlier, these are starting to get a bit stale. If you want to check out the full photo essay, go here:
http://www.zombietime.com/five_years_too_many

Personally, this was my favorite picture.


In case you missed the funny part, read it again. ;)

Anti-War Protest at Los Angeles on March 15, 2008

Another photo essay of another anti-war protest can be found here:
http://ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20080315

This one was held to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war.

Maybe I have seen too many of these, but there was nothing really good at this one. Mostly, it was just retreads of all the old slogans and chants I have seen before. These people need to come up with some new material if they want me to keep paying attention to them.

Thankfully, there was one counter-protester present who provided me with a good laugh.

David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'

David Mamet has been one of my favorite writers for quite some time. So, I really enjoyed this.

Read the whole piece (here).

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

As a child of the '60s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is corrupt, that business is exploitative, and that people are generally good at heart.

These cherished precepts had, over the years, become ingrained as increasingly impracticable prejudices. Why do I say impracticable? Because although I still held these beliefs, I no longer applied them in my life. How do I know? My wife informed me. We were riding along and listening to NPR. I felt my facial muscles tightening, and the words beginning to form in my mind: Shut the fuck up. "?" she prompted. And her terse, elegant summation, as always, awakened me to a deeper truth: I had been listening to NPR and reading various organs of national opinion for years, wonder and rage contending for pride of place. Further: I found I had been—rather charmingly, I thought—referring to myself for years as "a brain-dead liberal," and to NPR as "National Palestinian Radio."

This is, to me, the synthesis of this worldview with which I now found myself disenchanted: that everything is always wrong.

But in my life, a brief review revealed, everything was not always wrong, and neither was nor is always wrong in the community in which I live, or in my country. Further, it was not always wrong in previous communities in which I lived, and among the various and mobile classes of which I was at various times a part.

And, I wondered, how could I have spent decades thinking that I thought everything was always wrong at the same time that I thought I thought that people were basically good at heart? Which was it? I began to question what I actually thought and found that I do not think that people are basically good at heart; indeed, that view of human nature has both prompted and informed my writing for the last 40 years. I think that people, in circumstances of stress, can behave like swine, and that this, indeed, is not only a fit subject, but the only subject, of drama.

I'd observed that lust, greed, envy, sloth, and their pals are giving the world a good run for its money, but that nonetheless, people in general seem to get from day to day; and that we in the United States get from day to day under rather wonderful and privileged circumstances—that we are not and never have been the villains that some of the world and some of our citizens make us out to be, but that we are a confection of normal (greedy, lustful, duplicitous, corrupt, inspired—in short, human) individuals living under a spectacularly effective compact called the Constitution, and lucky to get it.

(Video) McCain Why Are You So Angry?

This video inspired the Associated Press to run a piece on John McCain's famous "temper" (found here).

I think it sounds like I do when dealing with stupid people. :)