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Jim Carrey and the Politics of Astigmatic Hypocrisy

Actor Jim Carrey is not unlike any number of his comrades and comradettes in Hollywood: He operates under the delusion that stardom confers wisdom and that wealth bestows insight.

And Carrey, like George Clooney and Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon, is flush with celebrity wisdom and insight when it comes to political observations.  Even as he rakes in $20 million a picture, he sees fit to rip “personal greed and ambition” and the capitalistic system that made him a very rich man.

Such an outlandish display of astigmatic hypocrisy!

Canadian Carrey, stand-up-comic-turned-movie-star, has made it big time via the capitalist-world of Hollywood yet feels free to attack the very economic system that made his success possible. 

Compounding his muddled thought processes, Carrey’s newest flick, Disney’s PC version and “Digital Dickens” production of A Christmas Carol, had a lackluster opening.

In a decidedly negative review of Carrey and his Scrooge, S.T. Karnick wrote of Carrey’s ”political flatulence.” 

He quoted the actor: . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1319)

Once again, we honor today those brave millions who have served and fought for our country over its history.  Without them, we would not have a history.

We especially pay tribute to those now fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.  May they all come home healthy.

Remember to fly our flag! 

I proudly reprint here last year’s two Veterans Day salutes:

It was the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month when the ”War to End All Wars,” “the Great War,” ended in 1918 with the declaration of an armistice.

The fighting was over between the Allies and Germany, the bloodletting was finished, even though the politicians took another seven months to declare an official end to what would become known as World War I with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles:  http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp

Ironically, the punitive and shortsighted nature of that treaty . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1317)

Who to believe?

Dirty Dave Letterman, the teflon-coated comedian/late night talk show host is being beseiged once again.

Not that any of it mattered to CBS or its president Les Moonves. 

However, since he wed long-time live in, Regina Lasko, mother of his now 6 year old Harry, in March, poor Dave has repeatedly been run through a mill of his own making and always comes out well, smelling like Dave.

CBS’ meal ticket can apparently do no harm.

His reference to Sarah Palin as a slut and to her daughter, Bristol, as not much better didn’t even stir the ire of the NOLW, the National Organization of Leftist Women and other defenders of the fair sex because he is philosophically one of them.

Rather than offer a true apology for those nasty slurs, he gave a feigned contrite pro forma on-air speech and to demonstrate his heart-felt sincerity compensated by relentless ridicule of Palin and, lately, of her best-selling book, Going Rogue.

For those who’ve forgotten that contretemps, including either Bristol’s or 14 year old sister, Willow’s bumping the uglies with A-Rod out in right field of Yankee Stadium, do see http://bit.ly/3jvH2h.

Then came yet another tear-jerker, his disclosure in September, also in front of his adoring, applauding audience, that he had been the object of an extortion plot by Joe-Bob Halderman,  a CBS producer.

Not wanting to cough up a two million dollar ransom for his reputation, Letterman instead called in the cops and Halderman was arrested.

And the crowd applauded more.

That mess related to Dave’s promoting his former, young and perky intern, Stephanie Birkitt, . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1316)

Terrible Terror, Terrible Terrorist: Part Two

Amid new allegations that the Obama administration is withholding “critical information” concerning the murders at Fort Hood, ranking Republican Pete Hoekstra is demanding the CIA and the FBI release full details on what he calls “a terrorism attack” at our military facility in Texas.

Why a congressman would have to insist the government inform the governed of such information is beyond me.  It smacks of Whitewater–and whitewash: http://bit.ly/3W73Fk.

However, there’s much more about those murders.

Todd Huston on AmericanConservative.com outed something the Obama administration would very much like to keep under wraps, the connection between the alleged murderer, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, and the Obamians.

Handwriting on a wall is one thing, often equivalent to scrawled grafitti.  Messages chiseled into a wall by a dedicated terrorist are something else again. . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1315)

Terrible Terror, Terrible Terrorist: Part One

Though it was in full swing prior to 9/11/2001, few Americans paid much attention to the reality of terroristic activity around the globe. 

In the intervening 8 years, after a flurry of outrage and alarm, and two ongoing wars, many of us–too many of us–have retreated into a comfortable cocoon of terrorism-denial.

With mushrooming unemployment and with so many other personal and domestic problems on our plates, why bother worrying ourselves over something we can’t individually do anything about?

That denial, that gut refusal to come to terms with the truth that America is engaged in a worldwide struggle against the Islamic jihad, is almost as dangerous as the terrorism itself.

One individual who has adopted a blase’ demeanor toward the all-important issue is our terrorism-averse president who also happens to be the Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, our chief line of defense from enemy attack.

Obama campaigned against the Iraq War, banned “harsh” interrogation techniques to elicit life-saving information from prisoners, promised to shutter GITMO, and banned the use of the term War on Terror.

Mr. President, point of information: Ignoring the threat of continuing terrorism and, worse, minimizing it to the point of absurdity, won’t make it go away.

I’ve long suspected the motivations of President Obama . . .

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News You May Have Missed, or Wanted To

Rev. Al’s (Ex-)Wife and Daughter Arrested!  It’s true, the Very Reverend Blowhard Al Sharpton’s   former blushing bride, Kathy Jordan, 53, and their daughter, Dominique, 23, were arrested after running a red light in Harlem.

The NYPD doesn’t customarily incarcerate red-light violators, especially in Harlem, but this situation was unique.

According to the Houston Chronicle, Al was fuming and shocked, I tell you, over the incident, twittering in not just his usual twitter but on Twitter. 

In high dudgeon he twitted, “I cannot imagine how two unarmed women with no record could be taken in cuffs from a traffic dispute with NO personal or property damage involved.”

Without literally invoking his usual charges of racism, he merely insinuated it: “Well this is what we deal with every day. We will never accept unfairness. (There was) no drugs or drinking at all.”

Now, the last thing NYC cops would want to do would be to offend Rev. Al and his constituency so one must suspect there was more to the matter that met the eye, including an exhibition of “blackitude,” that attitude expressed in oppressed indignation long synonymous with northern African-Americans.

After speeding though the light past a police car, the pair were cuffed and arrested for resisting arrest and after arguing over a traffic summons: http://bit.ly/1oZLKs

Although the Chronicle failed to report details as to the disposition of the charges or the argument content, the retort may very well have gone something like this: “Whatcha mean, yo racist, honkie, mutherf*cker?  We be related to the mutherf*cking Al Sharpton and we has our own as president!  Yo can jest shove that ticket!”

Let’s have a shout-out for the NYPD!

Pee-Wee Is Still Pee-Wee!  On a note much lighter than Sharpton, that scamp Pee-Wee Herman, aka, Paul Reubens,  has announced he is still the beloved Pee-Wee and that, after a 19 year absence, “he was bringing his brilliant Pee-Wee character back to the stage.” 

His fans “went into a tizzy:”. . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1312)

The Good, Bad, Ugly–and the Funny, Stupid, and Sad

. . . The nouns “ethics” and “congress” rarely appear in the same sentence but Black Voices claims that legislators such as Maxine Waters,  Charles Rangel, Bennie Thompson, et al. are being targeted not for any ethical/criminal lapses nor the content of their character but simply due to the color of their skin.

Another possibility offered for the unfairness of it all is that all 7 supported the “Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act” and repeal of mandatory minimum sentencing: http://bit.ly/1wNVEm.

The third possibility is that they’re all guilty as charged.

THE FUNNY: I’ve never seen ventriloquist, Jeff Dunham, . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1310)

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. . .

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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)