LEE RODGERS "THERE NEVER WAS A GOOD WAR OR A
BAD PEACE"--Benjamin Franklin
The "idealists" who run the Peace Corps must have misinterpreted the spelling in that quotation, because they sat on stories of rape of members and other outrages because they didn't want their little playpen disturbed. While doubtless many good souls with flawless motives have joined the PC over the years, I've heard plenty of anecdotes during my extensive travels (more than seventy countries at last count) about Peace Corps people who were far more interested in partying than assisting poor benighted locals and were therefore widely despised. And what ever happened to the investigation of UN personnel in Africa luring underage girls into prostitution for a few bites of food? And to think: we support these international criminals!
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A little-noticed but sinister facet of Obamacare is the innocuously-named Independent Payment Advisory Board, which would have the power to deny payment for medical care that it determines to be economically inefficient. Which is why detractors call it by its rightful name, "The Death Panel". One can only wish that the leftist hacks who dreamed this up, starting with Barack Obama, would be the first to feel its effects in a time of medical crisis. But the political elite are always exempt, aren't they?
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The Obamunists have banned the conservative-leaning (for Boston) Boston Herald from covering his fund-raising event in their city today on the grounds that the newspaper is "biased". Somewhere, Joseph Goebbels is smiling.
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So now Gingrich apologizes to Cong. Paul Ryan for attacking his budget plan, particularly the part dealing with Obamacare. After providing fuel for every leftist in America, the buffoon apologizes. Too little, too late, Newtie. You had no chance, anyway, so take your monumental ego and find a new market for your talents. Since bull-durham and phoniness are your major products, the advertising world would be perfect.
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Democrat pols and their media allies are playing an old, familiar game. They are trying to influence the Republican choice of a presidential nominee so that, whatever the election outcome, they can say -- as they have before --"We lost, but we STILL won!" The latest object of their affection: Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who worked for Obama as ambassador to China and in a virtual love letter to the Big O, effusively proclaimed his admiration for the Community Organizer. And Democrats expect Republicans to nominate HIM?? But it should not be forgotten that, last time around, the Republicans handed them John "Reach Across the Aisle" McCain, who would have served their purposes nicely. Except, of course, an incompetent unknown beat him like a pinata.
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Commencement speeches are generally notable for being full of platitudes and bull-pucky. Politicians enjoy having these ready-made and generally naive approving audiences to use as props for the TV cameras. Therefore it was totally in the tradition of such affairs that Obama delivered his speech to the graduates of Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis.
Reduced to essentials, the wild applause of the graduates could be analyzed thusly: "HE'S black ... WE'RE black ... therefore HE'S WONDERFUL!"
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Obama has thrown another "oops!" roadblock in front of the ostensibly-okayed trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea. Never mind the estimated 380,000 American jobs that will be saved or created by the agreement. Obama has done another sellout to union goons who want another payoff for jobs they say -- but can't prove -- might be lost by the deals.
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The accused head of the International Monetary Fund who is charged in the sexual assault case in a New York hotel might be cause for leftists to ask themselves, "Why was this Socialist ... likely candidate for President of France ... staying in a $3,000-a-night hotel suite?" Of course, only the terminally naive would be surprised. I covered the 1984 Democratic Convention (Mondale-Ferraro) in San Francisco, and in the confined quarters of Moscone Center where it was held, one was at constant hazard of tripping over the miles of furs being dragged by the party queens. And the party bigwigs' skybox, which was adjacent to our broadcast facility, was stocked with more high-priced booze than an upscale liquor store. (I suspect, but can't prove, that one of our engineers found a way to get into the haven for party honchos. In any case, each night after proceedings closed and the crowds left, he managed to supply all of us in the booth with some fine, fine nectar. The man's place in heaven is assured.)
By the way ... the French horn-dog may have more problems still. It seems his alleged victim, an immigrant from West Africa, lives in an apartment facility occupied exclusively by people with AIDS or HIV.
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I am ceaselessly amazed that there are apparently people whose lives are so empty they will watch TV shows built solely around gluttons demonstrating how much food they can consume. Or, worse yet, consuming items most us would consider inedible.
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The land beneath the town of Ocean Grove, New Jersey, is owned by a Methodist organization. For seventy years, the local high school has held its graduation ceremony in a large auditorium, which is also owned by the Methodist group. Now the ACLU is trying to prevent this year's commencement exercise from being held in the auditorium because it displays ... a cross.
It is time again to remind people of the origin and purpose of the ACLU. It was founded to defend communist subversives and it's founder, Roger Baldwin, candidly stated his position thusly:
"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
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Reader Joan contributes this one --
The woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed to be far too qualified for the job; given her liberal arts degree and her jobs as a social worker and school teacher.
The foreman said, "I have to ask you this.Have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?"
"Well, as a matter of fact, I have! I've been divorced three times, owned two Chryslers, and I voted for Obama."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."