Say Anything Blog

A couple weeks ago or so Rob introduced many of us older Rolling Stone age Rockers to the Black Keys.

They were terrific.

Now the Wall Street Journal has an article about them and the great music they play.

Now they are toast.  Or not.

Obama has created a great divide in this country and will divide us further if he should become President.

I fear for our country.

Read the update of this post.

Or go to Pat Buchanan’s original article and read a few hundred of the thousand or so comments to the article to see what happens when the great divider speaks.

This is not good. Black Racism is evil

Anger doesn’t even breach the level of disgust I have with the black racist movement in this country who have picked my pocket for the last time.  I work with several good African American People and they are noble hard working folks.  It’s vermin like Wright that frustrate me.  If you hear anger it’s because of the victimization syndrome that lies like Rev Wright tell that keep people in bondage.

I can’t help but think about the contrast of the “Victims” in New Orleans and the people affected by this terrible flood going on in Missouri.  There are no calls for FEMA.  No blaming Bush. No cries of racism in Poplar Bluff MO.

Mostly because the race of most of the residents flooded in this picture haven’t been victimized by the likes of Obama and Wright.  They haven’t been told they have a right and that Whitey owes them a living.

The news stories about them is sad but I’m guessing Hopeful.  I’m also guessing they will vote pretty conservative this fall.  These aren’t whiny folks.  Much of the midwest is under water.

I wonder where the looters are cleaning out the local Wal Mart.  Where are all the people on the roofs.  Oh, that’s right, they heard there might be trouble so they got out.

Yes, people have died.  15 so far.  You get the drift.  It’s tough out there and those who have to go thru it have a choice to make, Victor or Victim.  Reverend Wright’s Message is “Be the Victim and Vote for Obama”.

He is an evil man and Obama is his apologist.  But then that’s just my opinion.

Pat Buchanan may not always speak for me, but he always tells the truth. I agreed with him on trade, on culture decline and on the origins of our nations greatness.

When he made a take on Obama’s speech I decided it was time to tell the truth.

Obama’s thesis when you read between the lines was the same old bull I hear all the time from “Victims” in Chicago. Watch and newscast and the same cast of characters come up.

It’s all Whitey’s fault. We poor folks are oppressed by the white man. So the hate speech that Jeremiah Wright, spiritual advisor and pastor to Obama is all Whitey’s fault. I don’t buy it and neither does Pat.

Read what he wrote today. Read the WHOLE THING. I’m sick and tired of this blame everyone except the guilty parties.

A Brief for Whitey

by Patrick J. Buchanan

How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?

How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn America!”

My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.

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The “white community,” said Barack, must start “acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination—and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past—are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds ... .”

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The “white community” must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with “ladders of opportunity” that were “unavailable” to Barack’s and the Rev. Wright’s generations.

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Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, “everybody but the rioters themselves.”

Was “white racism” really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said—that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery.

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America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ‘60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks—with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas—to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

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Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

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Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

Go to the link and read the whole thing, my anger over this con job is deep.

IF you really want to see how deeply the whole Obama thing has split Americans read the comments at the end of the Buchanan piece. There are over a thousand angry Americans who wrote in and agreed with him. (Obama is a divider not a uniter).

Victor Davis Hanson clears things up.  He identifies 6 things that Obama’s talk today was meant to teach us.  It does none of these things.  He just dug the apologistic hole deeper and deeper.  He managed to drive the wedge Wright gave him between us all.  From Hanson’s Piece:

Obama tried to convince us that:

1) The good that Rev. Wright and Trinity Church did far outweighs his controversial comments, which were taken out of context as “snippets” and aired in the “endless loop” on conservative outlets.

2) We are all at times racists and the uniquely qualified Obama is our valuable mirror of that ugliness: Wright may say things like “God damn America” or “Dirty Word” Israel or “Clarence Colon,” but then it must be balanced by other truths like Obama’s own grandmother who also expresses fear of black males (his grandmother’s private angst is thus of the same magnitude as Wright’s outbursts broadcast to tens of thousands).

3) We don’t understand Wright’s history and personal narrative. But as someone who grew up in the hate-filled and racist 1960s, it was understandable that he was bound to mature into his present angry anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-white mentality. (As if all blacks did?)

4) Indeed, Wright does nothing that much different from radio-talk show hosts and those of the Reagan Coalition who thrive on racial resentments. But whereas Wright has cause as a victim, his counterparts are opportunists who play on white fears.

5) And if we wish to continue to express worries about Obama’s past relationships with Wright — never delineated, never explained in detail — in trite and mean-spirited ways such as replaying the Wright tapes, then we have lost a rare opportunity to follow Obama into a post-racial America.

6) We, both black and white alike, are victims, victims of an insensitive system, a shapeless, anonymous “it” that brings out the worst in all of us — but it will at last end with an Obama candidacy.

The message? Some of us are never quite responsible for what we say. And Obama has no responsibility to explain the inexplicable of how he closely tied himself to someone of such repugnant and racist views. We will never hear “It’s time for Rev. Wright and me to part our separate ways, and here’s why.”

Instead, the entire Wright controversy evolved due to America’s failure to understand the Wright’s past and the present status of race. No doubt, the next time some public figure utters a racist comment — and it will happen — we will then expect to hear about context that explains and excuses such an apparent hurtful outburst.

Obama is right about one thing: We are losing yet another opportunity to talk honestly about race, to hold all Americans to the same standards of public ethics and morality, and to emphasize that no one gets a pass peddling vulgar racism, or enabling it by failing to disassociate himself from its source — not Rev. Wright, not even the eloquent, but now vapid, Barack Obama.

AMEN TO VDH and NOT to Obama.

It’s makes me smile that the Obama express has ended up on a side rail.

They might get it going again, but maybe not.

That’s the problem with being the Messiah when you’re not. 

When they crucify you you have to rise again or be shown a fraud.

So far it’s only one who ever did.

LaShawn Barber is a Christian Conservative Woman from TN with whom I agree a great deal.  When I heard all the uproar over Geraldine Ferraro’s comments I found myself in complete agreement with LaShawn.

Of course, if Obama were white he would have been toast months ago. This IS about race.
OH, and one other thing.  LaShawn is BLACK.  She hates the idea of being called African American.

My kinda Woman.  And Kudo’s to Geraldine.  You go girl.

SO, Here is LaShawn’s Column.

Geraldine Ferraro, a one-time Democratic vice presidential candidate, recently said that Barack Obama was doing so well in the primaries because he’s black. As expected, it raised a s***storm. People called her a racist and demanded an apology.

I have nothing to say about the substance of Ferraro’s comments. I couldn’t care less who said what and whether the assessment is true. What I do care about is how timid and afraid people seem to become after they speak their minds.

The old saying “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” applies whenever you speak or write publicly. If you hold “controversial” opinions, be prepared to withstand the inevitable barrage of daggers. Or else keep your mouth shut.

In my case, some people are bothered by the very fact that I exist, let alone what I dare to say in public and write on this blog. I’m proud to say that in my four years of blogging, I haven’t lost one minute of sleep worrying about what people think of me, my words, or my actions.

Back to Ferraro. In a million years I wouldn’t vote for a ticket with her on it, liberal that she is, but I admire her. Race is a very divisive topic, mostly because the people who claim to want an “honest dialogue” about it really don’t. They want to bit** and moan about how racist you are and how you need to give them more stuff to make up for it. Ferraro dared to say what’s no doubt on the minds of many. And here is where it gets good:

Ferraro refuses to apologize!

I do love it so. In response to calls for an apology, Ferraro told the Daily Breeze:

“Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says, ‘Let’s address reality and the problems we’re facing in this world,’ you’re accused of being racist, so you have to shut up,” she told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, California. “Racism works in two different directions. I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?”

I’m with you, sister, and so-called feminists should be, too. Isn’t this what the cause is all about, strong women speaking their minds, rolling with the big dogs, and prepared to deal with the consequences? Hang in there, Ferraro!

This post is dedicated to people who stand behind their public words and actions and refuse to tuck tail and go meekly into that good night. To everyone asking Ferraro to apologize, here’s my advice, expressed in the gentlest way possible:

Locate Ferraro’s backside, and pucker up.

Addendum: I forgot to mention Ferraro’s letter of resignation to Hillary Clinton. An excerpt: (emphasis added:):

“Dear Hillary, I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what’s at stake in this campaign…

My son who lives in Boston is a fiscal conservative but socially not so much.  Inverse from his father.  When I read what Likwidshoe writes and comments I wonder sometimes if it’s him.  I know it’s not but they are so much parallel.

In a conversation with Son K yesterday about the whole Spitz-Hooker deal his complaint about it was not his fathers moralistic viewpoint about sanctity of marriage, responsibility of officeholders, the biblical standard of judgment that by the same measure you judge others you will be judged more severely, that an almighty God won’t let you get away with all that forever before you are called to account.  That would be his dad, ME.

K’s concern was about the amount of money Spitzer spent on hookers.  That it demonstrtated fiscal irresponsiblity, that it drove up the price of hookers, that anything available for far less money (or free) should not have those kinds of economic benifits in an open market, that his prime sin was taking scarece resources to be spent on non scarce services.  Bill Clinton’s 500 dollar haircut for example.

Of course he confessed he had not experienced a $5000 hooker (or any at any price) and who knows what that might all be worth.  It’s like fine wine or good cigars.  It’s expensive until you understand why it’s expensive.

So his concern and criticism of Spitzer had less to do with morality and more to do with fiscal responsibility.  I think my son and I are the two ends of conservatism that are most representative of the divide that exists in the conservative movement if there ever was one.  Both acknowledge the fact that there are big problems with liberalism but the why is different.

Meanwhile the two articles on Opinion Journal about Spitzer are right on the money.  You should read them.

What Both K and I for different reasons agree on is Spitzer is a scumbag power hungry bully who got what he deserved.  K needs to find a good wife to moderate his economic conservatism.  She should be a social conservative who will help him spend his fortune.  They would balance each other out.

And that is just my opinion and not K’s.  He’s a different kind of conservative.

David Limbaugh has come out with the idea that the Democrats make us less safe and that McCain needs to hammer that point home:

When it comes to national security, Democrats are serving up softballs for John McCain. But he better be getting a lot of batting practice so he can knock it out of the park once the general-election campaign gets in full swing.

Democrats downplay the scope of terrorist threat and constantly obstruct our efforts to pursue this “overblown” enemy.

All that’s true.  It’s just useless information and it’s just batting at the wind.  We need real motivating rhetoric.  Not this. No one believes us anymore.

I think we need some new thinkers.  David, I love you buddy but you are hopelessly lost in the past.

The public doesn’t believe a word of “Less Safe”.

It will only change when we get hit again.  I hope we don’t.  If we do all bets are off.  I’m also certain that if we got hit between now and the election it would help conservatives one bit.  I can hear Obama now, “See even with all the wiretapping, even with all the TSA, even with all the Halliburton Bush couldn’t keep you safe, Elect me, I will.”

Look at our slate of candidates and what we ended up with. Old bald men with no appeal. Losers.

Look at the other side. A woman. A young sexy man (in the eyes of swooning women anyway).

I think it’s time for all republicans over the age of 45 to retire NOW. They should all be replaced by men and women between the ages of 30-40.

We Older Folks have screwed this up for the last time. What brings on this rant is an election in a bellwether contest in Illinois. Ray LaHood (a guy I actually know personally and a really good man) has retired from Congress. There is a well known 55 year old broadcaster running for his seat from the Democrat party.

On the republican side is Aaron Schock, a 26-year-old state representative from Peoria. A smart guy. He is going to beat this democrat. In a year when asses are being handed to republicans on every turn this is an indicator.

So, let’s put some sex appeal back in the Republican party. No old guys or gals. Smart good looking enthusiastic clever conservatives may be the only future that saves us from terminal geriatric unelectability.

I’m one of those. Time to pass the torch.

ROB? Governor Port?

Long Long ago in a far away place called North Dakota a young boy and a band of musicians played songs of the times up and down the roads less traveled.  I was one of those boys.  I had hair and weighed almost half of what I do today.  I remember well.  We played songs of the day.

One of those songs was from a group of northwest musicians called the ventures.  The songs they played were easy, 1-4-5 and loud.

They got older.  They are now in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The discouraging part is we got our pictures back from the photographers today.  Church Pictures.  Who are those old people?  Who are these old guys playing rock and roll?  When did we all get older?

Time is not my friend any more.  I know that when I strap on my guitar and stand up in a couple days I will be casting an image that is very much like these.

Old guys playing guitar remembering days of yore.

I think Yore forgot.

Not a pretty sight.

Unless things change Hunting will decline and become a thing of the long past.  There are places trying to resolve this but it’s an uphill battle.

When David Helms was in seventh grade, he would take his .22-caliber rifle to school, put a box of ammunition in his locker and, like virtually all the other boys, lean his rifle against a wall in the principal’s office so he could start hunting squirrels and groundhogs as soon as classes let out.

Now, when he takes his 8-year-old grandson hunting on weekends, Mr. Helms, 55, searches the boy’s pockets before sending him back to school to ensure that there are no forgotten ammunition shells. But most of his grandson’s peers never have to worry about that, Mr. Helms said, because they would sooner play video games than join them outdoors.

Hunting is on the decline across the nation as participation has fallen over the last three decades, and states have begun trying to bolster this rural tradition by attracting new and younger people to the sport.

There are reasons why the culture of hunting has been lost;

• Access to hunting by hunters is much more difficult.  Posted and closed lands.
• Pay to Hunt has made hunting like Golf.  OK to do but expensive and only for the wealthy.
• Gun Law Nazis have made owning or carrying a gun nearly impossible for kids
• the “People don’t kill, Guns Do”  mentality has demonized anyone who loves guns
• Even though there is still a lot of wildlife to hunt, it’s become hard.

I own several guns.  I used to shoot a lot.  My hearing loss reveals that truth.  I haven’t shot a gun in 3 years.  I don’t have much of an opportunity.  We have laws in IL that are such that all land is considered posted.  The catch 22 is that no one knows who owns that land.  So the idea that like 40 years ago you could drive to the nearest farmhouse and find out to ask permission is gone.  Believe me, I tried.  It’s a tangled web.

I think I am going to just sell my guns.  There’s not point in it any more.

When I grew up 50 years ago and was 10 years old my prize possessions were my single shot 12 gauge and my single shot 22.  I would shoulder my 12 gauge and walk 2 miles out in the field near Ellendale and sometimes even bag a pheasant or a partridge.

In spring I would shoot flickertails for sport and the dime a tail we got.  I was a pretty good shot.  Those days are gone.  I’ll bet there aren’t many 12 year olds traipsing out to the field with a gun over their shoulder to shoot a bird or a gopher today.  The neighbors would complain and the cops would arrest him.

And, where would he hunt.  He would be run off the farmers pasture or out of his slough.

I guess this hunting thing is lost forever.

We are all poorer for it.  I would blame the Democrats but this happened slowly.  Democrat and Republican.  That Second Amendment thing is about to be neutered once and for all.  And when it does it won’t end with a bang, it will end with a whimper.  When there is no reason to own a gun, owning a gun will be meaningless and laws against same will go unopposed.

This is the real problem.  Look to your left, just left of Bill Foster who just won Denny Hastert’s Seat in Illinois. 

That my friends is Dick Durbin.  We have made fun of him for years in Illinois.  Guess what, he’s happy, I’m not.  Neither should you be.

Anything that brings this much joy to an Uberliberal like Durbin is DOOOM for America.

I afraid the monkeys are about to start running the zoo.

I live in Kane County IL.  We are part of Denny Hastert’s district.  When he retired from the house after being deposed as Speaker of the house it seemed like it would be a lay up to get another republican in to follow after him.

Liberal Democrat Bill Foster was elected by a good sized margin.  He is going to the house.  His defeated opponent was Jim Oberweis.  Not the candidate I would have liked to have seen but he was Hastert’s chosen.

THe margin he was beaten by and the fact that a county that votes 70% republican in most every race mean we conservatives are in huge trouble. 

It was inconvenient to vote, it was confusing, the weather was cold.  All things that usually auger against a democrat turnout.

I think this is an overflow from obamamania.

We are in deep doo doo and if nothing changes I am not optimistic about keeping any kind of majority in the house, senate or the presidency.

I’m not hanging crepe YET.  But this should NEVER have happened.  Never. 

But it did and it is a really bad omen.