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Senator Burris’ Conflict with the Constitution

Democratic Party hack Roland Burris, (D-Il) who got his job as a United States senator as a result of disgraced governor Blago’s greed and because of the color of his skin, made a profound observation on Obamacare’s mandated health insurance.

Sen. Burris, a constitutional ignoramus, “pointed to the part of the Constitution that he says authorizes the federal government ‘to provide for the health, welfare and the defense of the country.’ “

Advised in an October 21st interview with CNS that the word “health” appears nowhere in the Constitution, Bumbling Burris, an over-achiever if there ever was one, blustered, “That’s under the Constitution.  We’re not even dealing with any constitutionality here.”

Excuse me?

Burris then rambled on about private options, yada, yada, yada, and resorted to the Democrat default position by dredging up a number constantly in flux: ”We’ve got the 48 million people who are without it. [health insurance]”

Disregarding the fact that his number is baloney . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1309)

Tea-Bagging Anderson Cooper Outed?
Who the hell would name a kid “Anderson,” aside from an artist and heir to the Vandebilt fortune?

Anderson Hays Cooper   began life as a child model, presumably not because his mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, needed the bucks.  His 23 year old brother, Carter, took a flying leap to his death from the family’s NYC penthouse but Andy eventually blossomed into the anchorman of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”

His show title was quite apt since I’ve always thought Andy was more than a tad light in the loafers and more than a few degrees off compass.

Now Anderson and the truth have been outed, sort of, though Mr. Cooper has yet to admit that he swings the gay way.  The Blog Universe has been clamoring for him to confirm the many rumors: http://bit.ly/lBggd

As Seinfeld said, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that,” except that there’s a load wrong with that when it comes to a CNN anchor who, the public usually assumes, maintains a modicum of objectivity.

Andy Cooper proved that assumption wrong when back in April he let slip a slab of gay jargon on “teabaggers” in his attempt to demean the anti-Obama, anti-tax TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party Movement.  Specifically, he quipped, “It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging:” http://bit.ly/W0Np

Andy must have been day-dreaming of his hidden life when he said it.

For the unitiated normals out there, “tea-bagging” has nothing . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1307)

Maine, SEIU, and Bob Casey

The great state of Maine made a collective decision on Tuesday to buck the trend of its New England neighbors and to effectively make an announcement to its resident and non-resident homosexuals.

The Pine Tree State announced that it doesn’t necessarily condemn their lifestyle but it emphatically rejects their agitation for state-approval of what Christians call Holy Matrimony.

The vote to overturn the state legislature’s bid to extend Maine’s imprimatur to gay marriage stood at 53-47% at last count adding Maine to the 30 other states which have voted against same-sex weddings. 

By judicial fiat, in five New England states plus Iowa such marriages have been legalized.

That vote is only relatively newsworthy compared to the reactions of one prominent homosexual. 

According to the Bangor, ME Daily News, Jesse Connolly ”pledged” after their defeat “In a defiant speech to several hundred lingering supporters, . . . that his side ‘will not quit until we know where every single one of these votes lives.’ “  (http://bit.ly/3FgU4K)

For some reason, that threat was omitted in most other mainstream news reports.

Just why Connolly is so committed to learning the addresses of “these votes” is unclear but it sure smacks of an effort at intimidation against those who voted to oppose gay marriage.

Could Connolly and fellow gays be planning to attack their opponents with their purses and feather boas?

Next, and lest we disregard the dedication and vicious nature of Obama supporters such as the Service Employees International Union, SEIU, take a look at this reaction to a rara avis, that rare bird, a conservative African-American.

Kenneth Gladney had come to demonstrate his rights to free speech at Rep. Russ McClanahan’s town hall meeting by distributing free “Don’t Tread on Me” flags when he was attacked by SEIU thugs.

“Gladney said he was giving out the “Don’t Tread on Me” flags when someone walked up to him and asked, ‘Who in the (expletive) is selling this (expletive) here?’

“Gladney said he asked him if he wanted one of his flags, and the man (who was also black) asked Gladney, “What kind of n_____ are you to be giving out this kind of stuff?” (http://bit.ly/367DJ5)

One of those arrested in the unprovoked August assault on Gladney was Elston K. McCowan, Baptist minister, community organizer, former local SEIU director, and Green Party candidate for the mayoralty of St. Louis who had accused the mayor of racism: http://bit.ly/2fyUx4.

See the attack and the more civil protest which followed here: http://bit.ly/cwsDo.

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1305)

. . . Let’s say you’re a woman who abandoned discretion, or a young girl who got carried away one steamy night with that month’s true love, or a college kid who conferred more benefits on her friend than either of you anticipated and as a result you got pregnant.

Where do you go?  What do you do? 

Ghostbusters are not an option since you haven’t conceived some phantom but a precious human child.

And, let’s say you have an innate antipathy toward the thought of murdering a sentient being who, by no choice of his or her own, happens to be comfortably nestled within your body.

What do you do?

Well, there’s always the latest craze, the “morning after” pill.  Also termed “Plan B” or “Emergency Contraception,” it’s relatively inexpensive but must be prescribed by a doctor if you’re under 17. 

However, Plan B is actually a two-step abortafacient, that is, an abortion remedy which will kill the tiny product of your indiscretion, your baby, and may cause severe short- and long-term emotional and physical repercussions.

Then there’s the more traditional method of killing your baby, . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1291)

Two Firings: Two Sad Signs of Our Times

As a cocky college kid working part time, I once told a supervisor at Met Life who was letting a bunch of us go that I’d been fired from better jobs than this, which may or may not have been true.

Getting fired, canned, dismissed, discharged, terminated, let go from a job, part or full time, is often a shot to the ego and and the wallet.  Today, especially, it’s no joking matter since decent positions are hard to come by.

Getting fired, etc. for your religious beliefs at any time is even less a subject for jocularity.

Even if you’re working at Home Depot, not the ultimate career for most people, but, hey, a job is a job and a buck is a buck, a guy shouldn’t expect to be sent packing for wearing a pin.

However, college kid/cashier Trevor Keezor was canned for his pin which read, “One nation under God, indivisible,” which happen to be words excerpted from the Pledge of Allegiance.  Said pin also featured the American flag, which may have offended some illegals at his Okeechobee, Florida Home Depot.

He merely wanted to express his sense of patriotism and support for his brother, a National Guardsman who was scheduled for his second tour in Iraq next month.

No, no, no, said Home Depot.  We will tolerate none of that folderol!  We may (or may not) concur with your sentiments but trash the pin or you’re gone to the unemployment line!

Trevor chose unemployment over surrendering his constitutional rights and love of country, and his support for his brother.

Company spokesman Craig Fishel contended Keezor had violated company policy and the Home Depot dress code by sporting the pin, which Keezor had worn for a year and a half before anyone noticed, or cared, or complained.

Perhaps what really precipitated the kid’s dismissal was his recent habit of toting his Bible to work and reading it on his lunch hour.

Either way, Trevor’s gone and won’t be able to ever again pollute Home Depot with his patriotic and God-loving fervor.

The good news is that he plans to sue on the basis of religious discrimination.  The bad news is that the ACLU effectively said, “Fat chance” since a private corporation such as Home Depot is within its rights to disregard an American’s right to free speech and worship: http://bit.ly/4pAx8s.

Another notable canning occurred up in Barney Frank-land.

Peter Vidala’s infraction?  Failure to comply with political correctness . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1302)

“Queering American Education,” and Other Edifying Thoughts

“Nowhere is this failure [of education] more evident than when it comes to antigay prejudice, and nowhere is that particular failure more manifest than it is in our elementary schools.”

“Acknowledging children as sexual beings or allowing males (particularly homosexuals) to teach in elementary grades dislodges the classroom from the ‘safe haven’ of heteronormativity.”

“Boys don’t have to stand to urinate (nor do girls have to sit–they could squat), that’s just how they got conditioned.”

“Assumptions about children’s ‘innocence’ regarding sexuality are outdated.”

All of the above quotations are taken from Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling, a 1999 book for which Obama’s “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary for education who heads the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, wrote a foreword. 

Jennings “called for elementary school children to explore their sexual identities, for teachers to incorporate homosexual themes in grades K-5, for discarding a ‘hetero-normative’ approach to education and for ‘acknowledging children as sexual beings:’ ” http://bit.ly/3b3GGU.

Jennings is the founder and president of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

The lead quotation above is also taken from his foreword, the other three from contributors to Queering . . .

If I may be so presumptuous as to summarize the contents of a book I’ve never read, it’s a work intended to subvert the innocence of children in the interests of furthering the agenda of the homosexual lobby.

I base that presumption on a passing acquaintance with Jennings in the sense of knowing his history.  See previous articles about this gem of an Obamaczar, http://bit.ly/3kkzGt and http://bit.ly/Loo9u.

Not on his resume’ is his advising a 15 year old boy to wear a condom during his assignations with an adult, male pervert while Jennings was a teacher in Barney Frank’s Massachusetts. . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1301)

Oh, Brave New Babies!

Aldous Huxley’s unintended prophecies in his darkly satirical novel, Brave New World, (1932), had one major flaw: He missed the mark by at least 531 years.

He described his new world as a “nightmare” in Brave New World Reisited twenty-six years later.  He evidently knew whereof he spoke since by then he had become an aficionado of Timothy Leary’s favorite brand of euphoria, LSD.

Set in the year A.D. 2540 in England–632 A.F., (After [Henry] Ford)– Huxley’s vision of the future was characterized by a societal-condoned hedonism, unrestricted drug use, loveless sex, and universal “happiness” in a tightly-controlled structure designed and manipulated by an all-powerful yet benevolent government.

It was indeed a nightmare even if it was a drug-induced pleasant nightmare devoid of withdrawal symptoms or hangovers, a genetically-engineered Utopia where life began in test tubes.

Much like millions now pop a Valium when regrets or sadness threaten to overwhelm the psyche, Huxley’s New Worlders popped a soma and drifted off to a blissful neverland.

We still have a few years to go before reaching Huxley’s nightmarish eugenics, but a major step in that direction was recently taken in an American research lab.

A report published in the scientific journal Nature details “a cure for infertility [which] could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their own,” a boon for infertile males by coaxing “cells into becoming eggs and sperm.”

Another plus is that the research findings may postpone menopause.

Minuses include the fact that stem cells are used in the procedures which would probably involve even more destruction of embryos, that the practice of aborting unwanted babies   would mushroom, and that homosexuals could seek out practioners who could grow their children.

Other bad news is that the test tube breakthrough by Stanford scientists accomplishes that cure by creating ”the possibility of children being born through entirely artificial means, and men and women being sidelined from the process of making babies.” . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1300)

Say It Ain’t So, Joe Biden!

There’s been an ugly rumor floating around Washington for a while now, namely that Vice President Joe Biden is a drunk.

Not to make light of the serious disease that is alcoholism but, if true, it would explain quite a bit about his antics and gaffes during last year’s campaign and since he assumed the vice presidency in January.

Of course his boss, Barack Obama, is D.C.’s resident Gaffe King.  That’s not a result of being tipsy but because he’s just Obama. 

He is so reliant on his crutch, Mr. Teleprompter, that without it he tends to say stupid things such as claiming he had campaigned “in all 57 states” and being unable to speculate on the moment of conception because it “was above my pay grade.” 

Post-election his most famous, and insensitive, goof was ridiculing Special Olympians on Leno.

Not that any of the gaffe twins’ numerous examples of foot-in-mouth disease get any significant play in the mass media, except for the Leno remark which was made on national television.

If covered at all, their flubs and screw ups are soon buried, never to see the light of publicity again, whereas George Bush’s numerous misspeaks still are prime fodder.

Biden   is no slacker in the blooper department, either.

Don’t expect to see them on NBC, CNN, et al., but two videos featuring good ol’ Joe have come to light which give credence to his having an issue with “the drink,” as his Irish ancestors would say.

They offer explanation for his often rambling dissertations, solecisms, flubs, and outright improprieties.

The first Biden video, . . .

(Read the rest and see the videos at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1299)

And, They’re Off!

The title isn’t a reference to the Derby or the Preakness or the Belmont Stakes.  It’s a reference to the annual Festival of Nativity Naysayers, aka the Feast of Christmas Humbuggers, aka the Holiday When Liberals Dump on Christians.

We’ve barely reached the pagan festival of Halloween but, never known as people who missed a chance to bash Christian beliefs, the Left is already up in arms over a 63-year Christmas tradition in Warren, Michigan. 

They’re trying to ban the return of a creche scene to a public site where it has stood every year since 1945.

Perhaps emboldened by President Obama’s outrageous declaration that America is not a Christian nation and well aware it could never accomplish its goals by public referendum, the atheistic Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed suit in federal court to banish the creche.

The foundation’s basis?  Why, the non-existent constitutional clause mandating a strict separation of church and state, of course.

John Satawa’s dad built and installed the creche. . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1298)

An Obama-Islamic Video

When George W. Bush proclaimed during the 2000 presidential campaign that Jesus Christ was his “favorite philosopher,” he was roundly chastised by America’s left wingers for intruding religion into politics.

Bush would also as a matter of course end his speeches with, “May God continue to bless the United States,” another horrific violation of the leftist-inspired, false issue of separation of church and state.

All Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote of a “wall of separation” in an 1802 letter was that this nation would and should never have an official state religion.  We had escaped the state Church of England by our revolution and weren’t about to re-establish a national religion.

In the interests of full disclosure, I’m not a big fan of our current president, for sundry reasons, as regular visitors to this site would know.  I have also questioned his religion.

I caught a lot of flak last year from friend and foe alike for suggesting the man wasn’t all he seemed.  We all know appearances can be deceiving and Obama was always careful to present a pleasant facade.

In order to win the presidency, he had to appear non-threatening, a proverbial man of the people, open to all ideas, open to all races and religions.

With the aid and abettance of the MSM, he deftly skirted all negative issues and questionable associations with committed domestic terrorists such as his good buddy Bill Ayers and committed racist America-haters such as his pastor and moral compass, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Along the way in his campaign of deception and since his election, the gaffe-prone Obama has let slip though his opaque facade some very telling commentary, slipped probably when his trusty teleprompter wasn’t guiding his words. . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1296)

Nancy Pelosi, Queen of OHI

When Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address with the stirring words, “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom–and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” he could never have envisioned Nancy Pelosi.

We still have a nation even if God has been banished from the public forum and we still have some freedoms left despite efforts by Congress and the president to deny them.

However, Abe’s dream that our government would always be of, by, and for the people took another shot to the solar plexus in Washington today.

Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill, is a monstrosity in every sense of the word. . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1295)

The U.N., a Boil on the Arse of America
  We should have known at the inception of the United Nations when the U.S.S.R. was accorded three separate votes in the General Assembly that the whole idea was a bad deal for the United States.

We should have known but we didn’t, or else we did know and bought into the deal anyway because, ostensibly, it was all in the interests of a lasting world peace, aka, pie in the sky.

Then, too, convicted Soviet spy, Alger Hiss, helped establish the structure of the U.N.  However, that was before the Cold War with the Soviet Union so his machinations must have been motivated by the purest and most patriotic intentions.

The fact that the world hasn’t had any real peace since the U.N. entered the geopolitcal picture still hasn’t resonated with many Americans and the fact that nothing the U.N. has ever done has favored American interests.  We still pour money and precious military resources into that cesspool.

The U.N. has been and will continue to be the proverbial teats on a bull while posing as mankind’s savior and American suckers will continue to subsidize that sad excuse for a deliberative, international body.

Far worse, the rotting building on New York City’s East River   and its thousands of rotten, resident delegates and functionaries represent the most insidious, dangerous force we have ever faced.

Too many books and articles, including any number of articles in this space, have been written on the fraud that is the United Nations to beat that dead horse so let’s just focus on one of its most recent foray into diplomacy.

US Drones May Be Tantamount to Summary Executions: Of all institutions, the U.N. should be the last to speak of drones but this week U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston did just that.

With that ostentatious title, I guess Mr. Alston feels he’s entitled to address any issue he damned well pleases. . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1293)

Dem Damned Lies, Deceptions, and Dolts

This mess of Democrats in control of our government has come near to perfecting the fine art of political obfuscation and nervy prevarication.

Whether it’s the president   who now says that, “Gee, when I said that my Obamacare proposals never incorporated funding for aborting the pre-born, I didn’t really mean that Obamacare wouldn’t incorporate such funding,” or other deceptions, it’s transparent that this ilk has gone to the top of the Prevarication Charts.

Seriously, now, they are absolutely superb at twisting the truth, that is unless, ala Bill Clinton, everyone else is lying but they are telling the god’s-honest truth.

For example, “Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.)  told CNSNews.com that President Barack Obama told him in a telephone conversation that when he said in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress that ‘under our plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions’ he was not talking about the actual bill drafted in the House but about the president’s own health care plan—which has never been written.”

Huh?

“I don’t know if it is a game of semantics or what,” Stupak said of Obama’s nationally-televised declaration to Congress that the health-care plan will not allow federal funding of abortion:” http://bit.ly/11fnaq.

Rep. Stupak, it’s not semantics.  It’s baldfaced lying, a political technique developed into an art form by Barack Obama and his acolytes and predicated on the assumption that the American people are dolts.

All Stupak wants is a floor vote on an amendment prohibiting abortion funding in Obamacare, a transparent, democratic procedure to determine specifically where House members stand.  Speaker-wannabe Steny Hoyer has now tried to placate Stupak with more mealy-mouthed, vague promises of compromise: http://bit.ly/4dy7iw

Then along comes the Queen of Deceptive Prevarication, House Speaker Nancy Patricia D’Alesssandro Pelosi, who feigned ignorance–or was it feigned?– . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1289)

For those not familiar with the name Jesse Dirkhising, that’s no surprise.  He was never a media favorite like Matthew Shepard even though the two met similar fates. 

The chief differences are that Jesse was a child of 13.  Matthew was a young man of 21.  Jesse’s vicious murder was committed by two pedophiles, sadistic animals who also tortured and repeatedly raped him.  Matthew was killed by 2 drugged up drunks in a robbery.

Oh, there was another difference: Jesse   was a totally innocent, heterosexual victim and Matthew,  a homosexual, was picked up in a Wyoming tavern before he was robbed, beaten, and left to die tied to a frozen fencepost.

Both were horrendous crimes but for some inexplicable reason, we now have a hate crime law commemorating the life of Matthew Shepard, a man, and only a tombstone to remember Jesse Dirkhising, a child.

Why the disparity in recognition? 

Ask the mainstream media which chose either to treat Jesse’s horrific murder as a mere random aberration–which it wasn’t–or chose to ignore it altogether, and to honor Matthew as a cause celebre’ because he is some kind of hero–which he wasn’t.

Rumor has it that the hate crime law passed in his name was passed because in our increasingly gay-dominated culture Matthew was honored simply because he was gay.

We all know that homosexuals on the prowl in bars are far more sympathetic figures than defenseless children, right? . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1290)

All That Glisters Is Not Gold

Having barbarized the English language, we now prefer to say that, “All that glitters isn’t gold,” instead of using Shakespeare’s “glisters.”

The meaning is about the same: Gold and the pursuit thereof, whether for investment, speculation, jewelry, or its sheer gut attraction has its pitfalls and the benefits of its attraction may not always be what they seem to be.

The same goes for “the poor man’s gold,” silver, which today seems ubiquitous in cheap baubles.

Unlike real estate which Will Rogers said we should buy since they’re not making any more of it, they’re still “making,” as in mining, gold although gold deposits are becoming harder and harder to find even as competition heats up and as the price soars.

Gold,  that most precious of all precious metals, has from time immemorial been the one true sure bet.  However, not that it would ever be worthless, but gold could lose significant value and lose investors/speculators big money.  For the hoarders, it also presents the problem of storage.

Under Grandma’s bed is not recommended, especially if she tends to wander with her purse stuffed.

Of course, land, real estate, tends to periodically crash and burn as millions of Americans witnessed from the government-caused burst housing bubble.

In today’s very uncertain times, buying–and hoarding–gold has become an enticing hedge against wildly-inflated paper currencies, such the Obama dollar.  The inflationary effect of Obama’s fascination with printing far more greenbacks than we should has yet to hit America’s fan.

Just give it time, until after the elections.

Gold is considered the safest hedge . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1288)