Politico Runs Racially Charged Headline, Calls Rob Portman “Vanilla”

By William Teach April 25, 2012 – 7:37 am

The headline is a multiple entendre, but one of those entendres, intentionally or not, that is evocative of a nasty racial stereotype about white men*: Politico

When I first saw the headline this morning, the multiple meanings were clear: Rob Portman is in serious need of some sunlight, the notion of a Portman VP is unexciting, Rob Portman is…..whiter than white bread. That’s not a nice thing to say about any potential VP pick, but like it or not, it becomes a more loaded accusation when leveled at a guy who is whiter than Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Just to be sure it wasn’t just me, though, I asked several friends about the banner, and four out of four pointed out, unprompted, the stereotype of the “honky,” “good grief, the man should hit the tanning bed” white man. One of the people I called was John Boehner, who, upon hearing my description of the headline, said “Are you kidding me? You have got to be kidding me.”

The two Politico writers should immediately be suspended for this racially charged headline, which reinforces ugly stereotypes about white guys who’ve apparently never stepped outside.

What’s that? That’s not what the article is about? I’m reading too much into it? Well, my goodness. But, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Portman, in contrast — possibly reflecting his strategy but certainly reflecting his personal style — is following a different approach: making himself one of the most boring characters currently on the national stage.

Portman is vanilla, wonky and unflappable. Maybe he’s a safe, conventional, swing-state pick for Mitt Romney, but he’s not exactly the guy who would bring down the house at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

I don’t know, that seems to be stereotyping boring middle aged white men who are boring as….zzzzzzzzz…..where was I? Oh, yes, boring as water.

Just in case, the * leads to a post on a race baiting article by Christopher Hitchens.

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Snap! Climate Change Is A Human Rights Issue Or Something

By William Teach April 24, 2012 – 2:44 pm

Now, if only the Warmists would tell us exactly what the proper temperature should be for the Earth

Climate change is a human rights issue – and that’s how we can solve it

We can overcome the problems of delivering collective action on climate change by treating mining, deforestation, ocean degradation and more as violations of human rights

So says Warmist Olivier De Schutter

Global climate-change talks often resemble the scene of a traffic accident. Multiple voices shout each other down in a bid to tell their own version of events. What is the real damage, how quickly must it be repaired, and who should foot the bill? (snip)

If our political processes cannot conceive of a non-growth future, and yet a fundamental rethink of growth is the only honest starting point for the fight against climate change, then those political processes are clearly not fit for purpose.

But, no, he’s not suggesting democracy has failed

Does this mean that democracy has failed, and must be sacrificed for authoritarian solutions? The solution may in fact be the polar opposite. A system where failing governance procedures are forced to think long-term does not necessarily require anti-democratic “climate tzars”. Instead, this revolution can be hyper-democratic and guided by human rights.

And who makes the decisions? Perhaps we can involve the UN Human Rights Council, which has included such bastions of human rights such as China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia, among others. And, he states that governments would be “obliged”, ie, forced, to adopt measures to “battle” climate change…..sounds rather fascistic, doesn’t it? What of those who do not believe in anthropogenic global warming? Will our opinions be listed to, or simply shut down?

And, as for De Sschutter himself?

Olivier De Schutter is the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food. He will deliver an Oxford Amnesty lecture, entitled Human Rights and the Post-Carbon Economy, on 26 April.

He teaches and lives in Belgium. He’s also a visiting professor at Columbia University and visiting scholar at Washington University. That sure seems to involve quite a few unnecessary fossil fueled flights.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 24, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is a dog which has the same carbon footprint as a Toyota Land Cruiser, you might just be a Warmist

I should make Barack Obama’s campaign site, I Eat Dogs, the blog of the day, but, let’s make it Jake Finnegan.

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Oops: James Lovelock Admits That Warmists Have No Idea What They’re Doing

By William Teach April 24, 2012 – 12:02 pm

Well, I’m sure he must be in the pay of Big Oil and Big Coal, and he’s part of the disinformation campaign or something (via The Lonely Conservative)

(MSNBC) James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being “alarmist” about climate change and says other environmental commentators, such as Al Gore, were too.

Lovelock, 92, is writing a new book in which he will say climate change is still happening, but not as quickly as he once feared.

He previously painted some of the direst visions of the effects of climate change. In 2006, in an article in the U.K.’s Independent newspaper, he wrote that “before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.” (snip)

It will also reflect his new opinion that global warming has not occurred as he had expected.

“The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said.

“The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now,” he said.

“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that,” he added.

He pointed to Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and Tim Flannery’s “The Weather Makers” as other examples of “alarmist” forecasts of the future.

Don’t misunderstand, Lovelock hasn’t abandoned being a Warmist, he’s just espousing on some issues. But, it is interesting to learn from such a big wig in the envirowacko movement (I was never a fan, despite being an environmentalist myself, or, perhaps because I am one, since he tended to lean towards the barking moonbat side, which tends to hurt environmental issues) that globull warming isn’t happening right now, and that they have no idea what they’re doing. If they don’t understand why the climate has leveled out over the past decade plus (really, since 1998), why should we believe them?

Lovelock is also claiming that other Warmists, like Al Gore, went overboard in their alarmist beliefs, too.

Climate Depot has much more on this and background of Lovelock.

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MSNBC’s Bashir Suggests Romney Not Drinking Alcohol Could Put Country In Jeopardy

By William Teach April 24, 2012 – 8:15 am

Of course, having a president who was uniquely unqualified for the position, as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden told us, one who has seen historic long term 8%+ unemployment, record debt and deficits, record spending with no reward, wasted billions on failed green companies, wasted $800 billion on his failed Stimulus, has annoyed our allies, and passed a very unliked health care bill, among others, doesn’t put the country in jeopardy

(Daily Caller) On his Monday MSNBC program, just a week after condemning former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to hell based on the Book of Mormon, afternoon host Martin Bashir cited a column from The New York Times’ Timothy Egan to suggest that Romney isn’t fit for the White House because he does not drink.

“A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol, which begs the question — will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation, in jeopardy?” Bashir said. “That’s the conundrum that could be drawn from a column by New York Times writer Timothy Egan, who does not deal in half measures.”

Got that? Because Romney doesn’t drink booze, this country could be in extreme danger!!!!!!1!!!! From the NY Times idiocy

I’ve always thought the beer buddy threshold was nonsense. Still, it’s worth considering what a White House without a tippling tenant would be like. Sobriety, laudable in many respects, does imply rigidity of thought. The best presidents were open-minded, and generally open to a drink. The nondrinkers, at least over the last century or so, were terrible presidents.

See? What we need in the White House is a drunk. Of course, as both Bashir and the Times article point out, both Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush were non-drinkers. Carter was an abject failure. With Bush, liberals attempt to paint his presidency as a failure, forgetting about the way he turned around the recession he was left with (no blame on Clinton, recessions happen), the way he responded to 9/11 to get America back on track, and turned the economic downturn which resulted from 9/11 around, the way we had historically low unemployment, and how he freed tens of millions from violent and murderous despots/regimes. Everything was going well until the Democrats took over Congress, then things imploded.

Liberals will try anything to deflect away from the pathetic policies of (NMP) Obama, so, expect more as we move towards the general election. At least Romney didn’t eat a dog.

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Sarah Palin Jokes About Having Secret Service Shoot Fish And Game Commissioner

By William Teach April 24, 2012 – 7:48 am

And the 90% liberal media went ballistic, as did the liberal blogs……oh, wait, sorry, I meant crazy Joe Biden said it, and the only other news outlet to cover it other than conservative leaning CNS News is CNN, which didn’t seem to find anything wrong with what Joe said

(CNN) After his tour via airboat, the vice president took to a podium before a small audience, and used a joke to explain that it was his first time touring the Everglades.

“I know Ronnie Bergeron is here,” Biden said, referring to well known Everglades advocate and Florida businessman Ron Bergeron. “He tried to get me out there about 10 years ago. But he didn’t want me to go see it. He wanted me to wrestle alligators. Y’all think I’m kidding. I’m not kidding. He’s one crazy son of a gun.”

As the audience laughed, Biden continued his joke.

“You see this man right here? My Secret Service guy?” the vice president asked, referring to an agent just off stage.

“He said that if I go, he’ll shoot you, Ronnie. I’m only kidding. That’s not true. He didn’t say he’d shoot Ronnie. He said he’d shoot the alligator if I went.”

Ha ha ha, laugh riot. Now, substitute Palin, Romney, or any other Republican name in there, and consider the massive liberal freakout. Of course, those of us in Reality Land, otherwise known as Conservatives, understand it was a joke, one similar to something we’ve potentially said to people we know many times…..oh, you don’t make jokes about shooting your friends? Hmph.

Fortunately, Joe was there to make a speech “highlighting the environmental, economical and ecological benefits of the Everglades”. Well, good thing alligators aren’t a threatened species or something.

Again, we understand it’s a joke. A poor taste joke, but, a joke. This episode of Joe Eats His Foot highlights the partisanship of the media, who would vilify and crucify any Republican who said something similar.

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Emperor Obama Doesn’t Like You Using His Seashore

By William Teach April 23, 2012 – 3:02 pm

The strong arm of government tyranny strikes again

(Human Events) Planning a vacation this summer to Miami’s Biscayne Bay for a little fishing?

Think again, because the National Park Service wants to set aside a large swath of the pristine area as a marine reserve zone, so you might have to leave the fishing poles at home. And the boat.

Perhaps horseback riding is more your speed and the family plans to ride through California’s Sequoia or Kings Canyon National Parks? Sorry, but all of the permits were pulled for those activities this summer.

Or maybe you just want to lounge on the soft sands of North Carolina’s Outer Banks and read a novel, fly a kite with the kids, toss a Frisbee to the dog, and watch dad catch some fish? No, no, no and no.

The extrem-enviros have sued and lobbied the Central Government, ruining it for everyone. Unshockingly, this has caused lost revenue by local businesses as well as layoffs. This will affect tourism.

“The federal government needs to remember that Cape Hatteras was established to be a recreational area for the American people,” (Walter B.) Jones (R-NC) said. “But taxpayers can’t recreate without access to the beach. The goal of management ought to be a balanced approach between visitor access and species protection.”

Obama and his extremists don’t care. Well, at least till they are restricted from using these areas. Make sure to read the whole article.

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Who’s Up For The Green Police?

By William Teach April 23, 2012 – 10:46 am

They aren’t living in my head. Here’s one from a couple days ago, via Climate Depot

(The Constitution Club) Sleep well tonight, America. The ever-vigilant Obama Regime stands at red alert in its unflinching effort to protect you, your loved ones and life as you know it. From “climate change” and “melting Arctic ice.” Uh huh. The epic battle is on – and O’s Army is all over it – just like Dennis Quaid in The Day After Tomorrow. Where would our nation be were it not for Barack Hussein Obama’s extraordinary aptitude for keeping his priorities straight? Other countries should be so fortunate.

Not a minute too soon, the Department of Homeland Security has announced that it is creating “environmental justice” units that will be empowered to oversee regulations in conjunction with local governments throughout the country. The framework for the Environmental Justice Working Group includes eleven federal government agencies, including the TSA, the Secret Service and FEMA. Go big or go home, right?

In its just-released Environmental Justice Strategy document, the DHS says the idea is to “include environmental justice practices in our larger mission efforts involving federal law enforcement and emergency response activities” and to incorporate environmental justice in “securing the homeland.” Roll that around in your head for awhile:

“Federal law enforcement” agents conducting “emergency response activities” in the name of “environmental justice” for the purpose of “securing the homeland.” The Green Police. Oh. My. God.

Lest you think these people are crazy as a loon, (which they are), here’s the official explanation from the Regime:

Our nation’s vision of homeland security is a homeland that is safe and secure, resilient against terrorism and other hazards – where American interests and aspirations, and the American way of life can thrive. In seeking to fulfill this vision, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) aspires to avoid burdening minority and low-income populations with a disproportionate share of any adverse human health or environmental risks associated with our efforts to secure the nation.

Yet another reason to vote out this disgrace of a POTUS this November.

And over in Europe, No Tricks Zone points out they plan to launch a satellite to “hunt down climate violators.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 23, 2012 – 9:48 am

…is a resource sucking dog, you might just be a Warmist

I should make Barack Obama’s campaign site, I Eat Dogs, the blog of the day, but, let’s make it Full Metal Patriot.

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Good News: Obama To Act More Like A Dictator

By William Teach April 23, 2012 – 7:40 am

Obama has fully embraced the use of executive powers, and the NY Times works hard to say “yes, this is A-OK”. One has to wonder how they would react if it was a Republican president

One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in the face of Congressional obstructionism.

Yeah, it’s hard to ruin the country and act like Hugo Chavez when those damned Americans decided to provide a historic beatdown of the Party that controls the House because it was ruining America.

“We had been attempting to highlight the inability of Congress to do anything,” recalled William M. Daley, who was the White House chief of staff at the time. “The president expressed frustration, saying we have got to scour everything and push the envelope in finding things we can do on our own.”

For Mr. Obama, that meeting was a turning point. As a senator and presidential candidate, he had criticized George W. Bush for flouting the role of Congress. And during his first two years in the White House, when Democrats controlled Congress, Mr. Obama largely worked through the legislative process to achieve his domestic policy goals.

But increasingly in recent months, the administration has been seeking ways to act without Congress. Branding its unilateral efforts “We Can’t Wait,” a slogan that aides said Mr. Obama coined at that strategy meeting, the White House has rolled out dozens of new policies — on creating jobs for veterans, preventing drug shortages, raising fuel economy standards, curbing domestic violence and more.

Except, he isn’t creating jobs for veterans, or anyone else for that matter. He’s not preventing drug shortages, curbing domestic violence, “or more”. He did raise fuel economy standards, which will make motor vehicles more expense and less safe. Good job, PBO!

Each time, Mr. Obama has emphasized the fact that he is bypassing lawmakers. When he announced a cut in refinancing fees for federally insured mortgages last month, for example, he said: “If Congress refuses to act, I’ve said that I’ll continue to do everything in my power to act without them.”

Of course, it would be nice if Obama would actually consult with the duly elected representatives of the American People. Perhaps offer up some legislation for Congress to take up. Yet, he doesn’t even send anything over to the Democrat controlled Senate….well, except for his budget proposals, which were unanimously voted down last year and not even brought to the Senate floor this year by the same Democrats.

The rest of the article is simply an attempt to provide political cover for Obama, when the Times would be tearing into a Republican. But, we all know that being the POTUS is hard work, especially when one has no leadership, nor management, skills. It’s one thing to whip up a bunch of left wing folks into a frenzy as a “community organizer”, something quite different having to deal with elected representatives who are (supposedly) responsible to the people who elected them within a Constitutional Republic framework.

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