Why is Racism OK with Liberals…
November 30, 2007
If it comes from an African-American? Note the paucity of drive-by media reaction to these words from Chris Rock:
ABC News — At Harlem fundraiser, Obama says he’s “tired of reading about nooses;” comedian Chris Rock jokes that blacks could be embarrassed if they vote “for that white lady:” Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama hosted a fundraiser Thursday night at New York’s Apollo Theater — his “first campaign visit to Harlem, on the home turf of his rival Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and just blocks away from former President Bill Clinton’s Harlem office.” The audience was mostly black, and Obama said he’s running for president because, ‘I’m tired of reading about Jena, I’m tired of reading about nooses, tired of reading about Justice Department that doesn’t understand justice.’ ” Comedian Chris Rock, who introduced the candidate, told the crowd they will regret it if Obama wins and they had voted for Sen. Clinton, the Democratic front-runner. “You’d say, ‘I had that white lady! What was I thinking?’ ” Rock joked.
Yep, Chris, vote for Obama for one reason only: he’s black.
You, sir, and the “reasoning” that your bigoted words implies, are one of the main things that is wrong with this country. If Barack Obama is the right man for the job, vote for hiim; if he isn’t, don’t. But wouldn’t it be a lot better in this country if, while we honor the ongoing legacy of Dr. King, we actually heed his words instead of making a mockery of them, judging people, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their characters?
In Honor of Sudan and Islam…
November 29, 2007
So the Teddy Bear Teacher got 15 days in jail and deportation for allowing the kids in her class to name a teddy bear “Muhammad”? This, of course, just another instance of the insecurity of this phony religion, and the governments that support it.
So in honor of this event, and of Islam and the government of Sudan, I’m going to do the following, and invite all readers of The No Kool-Aid Zone to do the same:
I’m naming every roll of toilet paper in the house “Muhammad”.
When it’s time to take SweePea “potty”, I’m going to say, “c’mon, SweePea, let’s go Muhammad!”
I’m going to tell Crazy Teenager, when the can gets full, to “take out the Muhammad, son.”
Any other suggestions?
Something from C.S.
November 29, 2007
I must, I simply must, read more C.S. Lewis. The man is brilliant, and I think about him every year about this time, remembering that the world lost two great men on November 23, 1963: John F. Kennedy at the hand of an assassin, and Clive Staples Lewis, to more natural causes. But I digress…
I’m reading in his book The Weight of Glory, which is a series of addresses/sermons Lewis gave, and I’m in the middle of one on the subject of “membership”. If you pastor a church, you need to read this. I haven’t even finished it yet, and I’m recommending it. But it’s great. Anyway, without comment, some provocative words from the Oxford don:
It is idle to say that men are of equal value. If value is taken in a worldly sense—if we mean that all men are equally useful or beautiful or good or entertaining—then it is nonsense. If it means that all are of equal value as immortal souls then I think it conceals a dangerous error. The infinite value of each human soul is not a Christian doctrine. God did not die for man because of some value He perceived in him. The value of each human soul considered simply in itself, out of relation to God, is zero. As St. Paul writes, to have died for valuable men would have been not divine but merely heroic; but God died for sinners. He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is Love. It may be that He loves all equally—He certainly love all to the death—and I am not certain what the expression means. If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.
Selah…
Moron Convention?
November 29, 2007
I’m sorry, but this is the thought that just came to my mind. I’m sitting in Atlanta Bread Co., which has become a favorite haunt of mine, and walking by outside came at least two teenage boys (they were beyond me before I saw them, and there might have been a third), but they were literally waddling along, not walking, because their pants were so baggy that the rear pockets were at or below their knees. I kid you not. And I thought, “there must be a moron convention around, because what on earth else would 
cause a person to so inhibit his ability to walk down the sidewalk?” I mean, fashion is one thing, and I have a fairly high tolerance for differences in fashion (those of you who knew me in high school might remember that I loved disco shirts, and truth be told, if they made their comeback tomorrow, I’d be in one posthaste). But “fashion” that actually makes it hard to negotiate a simple task such as walking? What genius thought this was a good idea? And what geniuses continue to carry on with this fashion trend?
Unless there’s just a moron convention down the street, and if I find out there is, I’ll retract this post.
What They’re Saying about Mike Huckabee
November 29, 2007
After last night’s performance:
Big Night for Mike Huckabee
Huckabee Shows He Belongs in Top Tier
I first blogged my support for Mike Huckabee in May of this year, and at the time, one of the common themes I heard in response wer words to the effect of “nice guy, but no chance”. Nobody with a brain is saying “no chance” now…10-1 odds aren’t great, and it’s still a long road, with some big hills to climb, but if at this point you think a Huckabee nomination, or a Huckabee presidency, just can’t happen, you’re not paying attention. I’ll tell you, the thought of Mike Huckabee going up against Mrs. Bill in a debate? Wow…I just salivate at the thought of that.
I Finally Watched a “Debate”…
November 29, 2007
And here are my impressions of what happened last night (by the way, “debate” is in quotes because these dog-and-pony shows hardly qualify):
Guys who looked good:
John McCain demonstrated why, regardless of the fact that he’s got some issues I can’t abide, the man is a true patriot and knowledgeable, and would make, IMHO, a nice running mate for Mike Huckabee (I can hear some of you screaming at me right now). He shredded Flip Flopney on waterboarding, and Ron Paul on Iraq. And he’s right on both issues; I’ve decided that as a Christian, I can’t support waterboarding. Call me a weenie; I don’t care. McCain is right on this issue, and he came across really strong.
Mike Huckabee came off as the most affable candidate, but that’s old news, of course. His only stumble, which Tancredo seized upon, was his answer on space exploration. With his fiscal policy being his only Achilles heel that I can see, his answer there opened a door he didn’t need opened. But he came off quite presidential in all of his remarks; he isn’t going to change what he believes to please you or me, or to get elected. I like that.
Guys who looked bad:
Flip Flopney. I really thought he weaseled around on the torture thing, though he did have some nice moments.
Fred Thompson. He wouldn’t be in this category if not for the inane decision to run, as his commercial, an attack ad against Huck and Flip. This wasn’t the place for doing that, and it made him look cheesy. Nice answer on immigration, though.
Mixed-bag guys:
Rudy. The man basically lied about Flopney’s house being a “sanctuary mansion”, and that was cheap. At the same time, he’s got an impressive record in NYC, and he accented it well.
Ron Paul. You know, he says a lot of things that are spot-on; he’s at his best when talking about getting the government out of our lives. But when he talks about Iraq, he can’t seem to distinguish between the fact that, in retrospect, we shouldn’t have gone in, and what we need to do now that we are there. He seems to justify “let’s get out” with “we shouldn’t have gone in”. No, Ron, it doesn’t work that way, and you look like a doof when you try to go toe-to-toe with McCain on this one.
Guys who don’t belong on the stage:
Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo. Guys, you both have nice points to make, but the handwriting has been on the wall for awhile, and everybody seems to know it but you. You’re clogging up the stage. You’re taking up space and time. Throw your support behind somebody else, and go back to being effective House members. Now. Time’s up; out of the pool, boys.
Awful performance:
CNN and Democrats. Anderson, if there are eight candidates on the stage, then give them some semblance of equal time. Get somewhere in the ballpark; don’t ask guys to come up there on the platform just to witness the Flip and Fred and Rudy Show. And putting a mic in the hands of the homosexual general? What in the world was that about, particularly now that we know who that dude was.
And the Democrats lose by virtue of two things: one, there were four or five guys on that Republican platform with better experience and better ideas and better willingness to come clean than almost any of the Dem candidates (with the possible exception of Bill Richardson, whose ideas stink). Two, and more importantly, your gutlessness in being unwilling to have a debate on Fox News is transparent. CNN is a lefty-leaning organization (and some of the questions that were chosen help in that assessment, as was the decision to give the mic to the general), but the Republicans went into that situation nonetheless. The next president is going to be dealing with real bad guys, like al-Zawahiri and bin Laden and Ahmedinejad, and those nutjobs, and you weaklings don’t have the courage to deal with Fox News.
Yeah, you’re ready to lead the country…like I’m ready to quarterback the Colts.
UPDATE: I promise I didn’t see this article until after I wrote this post, but Time Magazine agrees with me.
And by the way, that’s the correct way to put it: Time agrees with me. 
Answering Questions About Mike Huckabee’s Fiscal Conservatism
November 28, 2007
Dick Morris weighs in on Mike Huckabee’s fiscal conservatism in this article.
Now, I grant a couple of things: one, figures lie and liars figure; that’s true. And two, Earl Weaver used to say that every time he heard talk about statistics, he remembered the guy who drowned in a river with an average depth of two feet. So you’ve got Dick Morris on one side and Bob Novak on the other, blah blah blah. Look, Mike hasn’t always done everything quite the way I would, but he remains, clearly I think, the best of the current crop of candidates.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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