The Acornholers Are Back

This is just today's vid. Have you seen last week's?
Why not?
You need the history, just like Chuck Gibson does?
Lordy. Didn't our President work with ACORN? Wasn't he a Community Organizer with ACORN? Just askin'.
Correction: Obama lawyered for ACORN. Correction of Correction.
I wonder. If George Bush had community organized with ACORN, or had any even remote connection to ACORN, do ya think you'd be seeing this like on
CBSNBCABCMSNBC?
Seeing it there instead of on your brother's little playblog?
Just askin'.

Hannah not Montana.

If I knew, how come Chuck Gibson didn't know? The truth too inconvenient? Chucky knew everything about our Governor Mrs. Todd Palin, didn't he?
Speaking of Acornholers. Couldda toldja. Did tell ya. Nobody listens when truth speaks to stupid.
That could be part of stupid's charm.
And here.
Just sayin'. But who wants to know?
Thank you, thank you Andrew Brietbart.

Easier Said Than Done

Okay then, one.
Just Call Me Lonesome.

Wolverines

Gerald, Truman and Briar Gates, of the West Virginia Gates.


Requiescat in Pace, Patrick Swayze.

Celebutard Pieholes Emit Hot Foul Emmissions

Words fail.

World celbutards sing to stop global warming
(AFP) – 11 hours ago
GENEVA — British rock group Duran Duran and heavy metal band Scorpions are among 55 world celebrities who have joined in recording a song to draw attention to the global warming crisis, organisers said on Monday.

Musical Interlude

Julio y Tenoch




Turns out this is a Mexican movie weekend here on Cantura Street.
And yeah, that's Gael Garcia Bernal, from Rudo y Cursi, movie of the weekend.
Great fun. Watched twice.
And true story, I think.
73% Fresh on the Tomatometer -- if what others think matters to you.
And Diego Luna's in it with him. First time they're together since Y Tu Mama Tambien. Nice.

Apparently that's an old Cheap Trick song. Who knew? Always thought it was Dwight Yoakam's.

Also watched Sleep Dealer -- who is Luis Fernando Peña? -- and My Mexican Shivah -- didn't care about many/any of those shivah-sittin' characters -- just saying.

Streamed Diego Luna in Criminal today too. American remake of Argentinian Nine Queens. What the heck, it's a Diego Luna afternoon. Don't forget John C. Reilly

Tato "El Cursi" Verdusco. Just wanted to say that.
Tough & Corny.
Yes I have that pic of Gael Garcia Bernal sitting on the toilet but I could not figure out how to justify including it in this post.....

Art Interlude: Bosch Fawstin Today

THE UNAVENGED

Had to laugh aloud earlier today over on the FaceBook thing when an old and beloved friend backhandedly suggested racism and racial profiling and right wingism as motivation for my (annual) display of an FBI picture of the 19 barbarians who perpetrated 9/11 -- old college chum punctuating his chiding accusation with a smiley face emoticon -- as if my slip into bigotry were already forgiven.
Gee, thanks.
Sure I couldda engaged, but I take no offense, especially at quick shots on the FaceBook; hey, we post and we cannot take it back; no do-overs; and them ole Teachable Moments bore the hell outta me anyway. I'm too old for that shite. Time is precious. And I need no defense.
Tru dat.
Tho the easiest, laziest, cheapest, Al Sharptonest comment in America today for anything or anyone you don't like: Racist!
It's our first line of attack.
Our fallback position.
Effin eff that.
And the Rev Wright it rode in on.
Plus that pic of those perps gets big response in different settings every year.
Some'o'those faces don't look any different or any older than some of the kids I teach.
Some of 'em.
Gotta say it makes the young ones s-t-o-p and t-h-i-n-k every time I place it before them.
Silences them.
Those faces silence them.
In a way that the tired droning Reading Of The Names of the 2996 Islamo-murdered does not.
I don't even say anything. I just place the picture before them.
Then my kids say it all. Truthfully and intelligently.
And movingly. And revealingly.
And clear-headedly. And cleanly. And without prejudice.
And I'll say it again. Some of the perp's faces don't look any different or any older than some of the kids I teach.
Can you say Ahmed Alnami or Hani Hanjour?
....Young. Pretty. Earnest. Semitic. Or, Aryan lookin' -- in a Persian way.
And Persians will tell ya, tell ya quickly, they are the original Aryan nation.
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How did those young men decide to do what that they did that day?
One need not be racing, one need not be profiling, one need not be wing-nutting to look at those faces and wonder.
Nor does one need to be forgiving. Leave that to the One God.
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Suspect or suggest or attribute to me any motive you like.
What I do know is that the perps are the perps.
Hey, I'll speak truth to stupid: The perps are the perps.
If they all have something in common, don't blame moi.
Besides if I were to get up off of my prayer rug, put my shoes back on my stinkin' feet and do some profilin', it wouldn't be racial profiling I'd be invoking, it'd be religious profiling.
Mother of God preserve us all from the Islam.
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"Though I was born into a Muslim family, I became interested in Islam only after 9/11/01, when 19 Muslims murdered 2,996 human beings in the name of Islam. Those who always gave a damn for the truth did their homework and found out for themselves what Islam really meant before they said one word about it. But then there were the politicians and the ideologues. Even before the smoke cleared, Western politicians and intellectuals who knew nothing about Islam couldn't wait to exonerate it by uttering the anti-reality check of our time, 'Islam means peace.'

Bosch Fawstin
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And thank you President Obama for your two (2) good good good sentences this week:

"Let us renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and who plot against us still."
"In pursuit of al-Qaida and its extremist allies, we will never falter."

Hope is for chumps but I surely hope your actions match your -- kinda Bushian -- nine one one words, Mr. President.
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We all know I've had bad experiences with art in the past, but Bosch Fawstin: Thank you for your good stuff.
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Shabbat Shalom

Aaron Horwitz

Took them a while but the NYTimes published obituaries of every one murdered by the Islamofascists on September 11th, 2001. Called them Portraits Of Grief.
Me? I cannot forget this kid. And his story. No I did not know him, but I pull this out of my beauty file every September. And, yeah, I'm not alone in loving his face.
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Published: NYTimes, January 13, 2002
Aaron Horwitz: Finding Good in a Bad Day

Once, Aaron Horwitz had what most people would consider a supremely lousy day. A friend asked him how he would rate it, from 1 to 10, with 1 the worst.
"Eight," he replied.
You could get a contact high from Mr. Horwitz, 24, a bond broker at Cantor Fitzgerald with the almost laughable responsibility of entertaining clients and making them feel like the most important people in the world.
As if anyone had to pay him. For he was not just a showman, who did the Michael Jackson moonwalk on bar tops and who, at a museum, drew his own masterpiece on a mist-coated window next to a Rembrandt.
He seized souls, not letting go until he made them merry. He met a guy in a toy store and, moments later, the two were having a hula hoop contest. He insisted a concierge stop weeping over a bad breakup, then called her at 2:30 a.m. to make sure. He sweet-talked hostesses at four-star restaurants into producing tables for eight (and their phone numbers for dates) and persuaded a street masseur to let Mr. Horwitz give him a massage.
"You could talk to a brick wall," his father told him. Yes, allowed the son, but he preferred chatting with a mirror. He often did so, then fell over, laughing.

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Aaron Horwitz.
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Mario Santoro, Rest In Peace

911, NYC

Mario Santoro:Good Food, Good Company

Mario Santoro was a dedicated emergency medical technician who loved his job. Yes, he doted on his daughter, Sofia, who is now 3. And yes, he was a passionate volunteer basketball coach at his local church who sometimes showed up to practice after catching only an hour or two of sleep, after a late shift on the job.

But those who knew him best also realized that Mr. Santoro, 28, loved, more than almost anything else, to have a great meal with close friends and family.

Steak. Seafood. Appetizers. Good wine, good beer. It almost didn't matter what was on the table, as long as the food was good and the company divine, said his widow, Léonor Ramos-Santoro.

"It was kind of like breathing for him; it was almost religious for him, like taking care of your soul," she said about her husband, who immigrated from Argentina as a young boy. "Meals were sacred. You sit down and you enjoy. You're not caught up in what's going on outside."

Sometimes the Santoros made their way to the Bridge Cafe, a restaurant not far from their apartment in Lower Manhattan. At home, Mr. Santoro relished his wife's arroz con gandules, or rice with pigeon peas, with an extra zing of garlic.

"For the rest of my life, I will want Mario to come home for a meal," she said. "If he has to go back, then fine, go back. But just one more meal, that's all."

Perps

YL

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Legal in all 57 states!

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I call this one PalinCare.
Shut up. It's funny.
And she can take a joke.
She doesn't have that thin ultra sensitive skin.

Contento Has A Similar Story -- Don't We All

From over in Carol's Closet:
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Eighty-five Percent of Americans Are Happy With Their Health Care -- I'm One Of Them

Each of us approaches our own health care in our own way. Some are faithful about getting their annual physicals, some go to the doctor at the first sign of a sniffle, and some are like me. My philosophy has always been "ignore it and it will go away."

I probably should have gotten a clue when the cold didn't go away after two months. Certainly by the time the third month rolled around, the cough had gone from bad to worse and I was experiencing a shortness of breath, common sense should have kicked in. The "light bulb" finally came on at three o'clock this morning. I woke up and I was suffocating and soaked in sweat. I went out to the porch and as I gasped for each painful breath I knew it wasn't a cold and it wasn't going away.

I was at my doctor's office at 8:00 a.m. Within ten minutes I was being given a breathing treatment and my blood was being drawn. By 10:00 a.m. I was at the hospital having x rays of my lungs. I walked in to my office at 11:30 armed with four prescriptions including an inhaler. My doctor had talked to me about the obvious diagnosis of COPD and emphysema and we danced around cancer. My doctor told me that we would "face it together" and I knew he meant it. By four o'clock my doctor had called me and told me that I have no sign of cancer. I'll see him again on Tuesday and they will call me tomorrow and let me know what day next week I'll see a specialist.

Can anyone tell of any country with a government run health program where my story would be the same? How many weeks do patients wait in Canada or Great Britain to see a primary care physician? How many weeks or months do patients wait to see a specialist? Or get an x ray? To find out test results?

I haven't heard anyone say that health care in this country is perfect. Almost everyone agrees that we need reform. If we allow government takeover of our health care 100 million people could be forced off their current plans and forced on to the government plan. Aside from government health care being blatantly unAmerican, it doesn't make sense. Tonight the President can promise anything and everything but we already have example after example have how flawed government health care is in practice.

I found out today that I will spend the rest of my life under a doctor's care. I am fifty-one years old and I plan on the rest of my life being a very long time. In order for that to happen I have some work to do and I need to take responsibility for my health. I also need the level of health care that I have now, not a bunch of empty promises from the president.

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While I Have A Minute

Get me outta here.

He is not alone in suggesting such a scenario. A 2007 book, "The Day of Islam," spells out the details, as do any number of Internet sites about a plot called "American Hiroshima."
The nukes, he said, will be detonated over New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami, Houston, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
I asked Hill, "Why now?"
"Eight years from 1993 to 2001, eight years from that 9/11 to this 9/11," he said. "Symbolism. They're big on symbolism."
"Ramadan started two weeks ago Saturday," he said, referring to the Muslim holy month of fasting. "It always hits around Ramadan."

Not the only reason I'm trying to get the hell outta LaLaLand, but it's on the list.

Read and Say

Because there is no POTUS without TOTUS

Watch What They Do, Not What They Say

What was I saying yesterday regarding the oddly worded "survey" on the FaceBook thing?

The voucher program began in 2004 during the evil racist George W. Bush administration. Children whose families had an annual income at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty guidelines qualified for vouchers. More than 1,700 children participated in the program. The progressive rainbow Obama administration offered and then rescinded scholarships to 216 D.C. students in the spring when the program was canceled.

Don't miss the video within the article...Just saying.
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Heh.

Once Upon a Time . . . by Victor Davis Hanson

VDH Hits It Again

Once Upon a Time . . . by Victor Davis Hanson

Once upon a time, a fresh new politician, Barack Obama — black, young, eloquent, and hip — soared with rhetoric about hope and change. The people were mesmerized. What a contrast with the tongue-tied outgoing president, George W. Bush, and his unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!

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More From Our Series: The WalMart Files

Woman beaten to death at China Wal-Mart
(AFP) – 21 hours ago

BEIJING — A woman in eastern China was beaten to death by five employees of a Wal-Mart store who accused her of shoplifting, a police report and state media said Tuesday

Contento calls that Walmart Team Spirit


Previously in our series:

Here and here.
Oh, and other noted WalMart death here.

Camille

I rarely watch TV anymore except for cooking shows, history and science documentaries, old movies and football. Hence I was blissfully free from the retching overkill that followed the deaths of Michael Jackson and Ted Kennedy -- I never saw a single minute of any of it. It was on talk radio, which I have resumed monitoring around the clock because of the healthcare fiasco, that I heard the passionate voices of callers coming directly from the town hall meetings. Hence I was alerted to the depth and intensity of national sentiment long before others who were simply watching staged, manipulated TV shows.

 






Same here, Camille. Didn't see a second of Jackson or the fat murdering drunk. My friends, bless their beloved hearts, boohood on FaceBook though. Sob sob.
Retching overkill. Thanks for that.
Don't worry, kids, she slams the Republicans on page two.

Sweetness and Light


Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama

Back to School Event
Arlington, Virginia

September 8, 2009

Stick to the script and it's all good alla the time. Be good if some kids hear the man here talking like this.
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Evening Update 7:40 p.m.
Podhoretz agrees with Rich -- and me:

It is a pretty wonderful speech, Obama’s controversial address to America’s schoolchildren, and is, I would say, quite remarkably nonideological.

Couldda left out the Bushswipe though, John.
Tuesday morning update: Investigate!

Art interlude

Relax, Chief, it's satire.
















Thank you Haley, age 7....
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O Ye Of Little Faith

One'o'my readers bought into this ice crying thing up north. I didn't buy into it. My toast is real though.
"Nature" weeps sadly 'cos her ice be meltin' while the Obama tilts his head up arrogantly 'cos you're toast and he's not.


















Wait, that looks like Michael Jackson in Holiday On Ice, or was that Ice Capades....Where the glove?
And that's what I get for buying a British toaster.
Is that Punahou baked white bread pretending to be dark'n'toasted?
Next Up: The Blessed Virgin's husband, the saintly Saint Joseph, is set to appear in my Dunkin' DoNutz bearclaw.
Can I git a large coffee with that?
Big tip for the counter girl.

Seeking: Cornflake Elvis


Today's suggested Reading for the casual believer: Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor

Boolean

Think Before You Yap, Honey

Secretary of State Mrs. William Jefferson Blythe "Hillary!" Clinton is upset about a-b-o-r-t-i-o-n. Yes, abortion.
Well, not abortion per se.
But some abortions. And some infanticides.
Of girls.
She has outspokenout around the globe about the scourge of killing our girl children.
Apparently killing boys is okay.

Secretary Clinton, the most cheated on woman in America,
has -- even at her advanced age -- and even by accident,
even without thinking it through before pronouncing her pronouncement,
grasped an essential truth:
It is wrong to kill baby girls.
Hear hear.

But guess what?
It might also be wrong to kill baby boys, Mrs. William Jefferson Blythe "Hillary!" Clinton.
Uh huh.
And it is wrong to kill baby gays.
It is wrong to kill baby down syndromes.
It is wrong to kill baby red-haired step-children.
It is wrong to kill baby "you're really badly timed, child" babies.
And left-handed babies.
And obesity gene babies.
And scholarly not athletic babies.
And, even, Republican babies.
For starters, you assholes.
Hey, Mrs. William Jefferson Blythe "Hillary!" Clinton, just saying.
The problem is not sex selection abortion.
The problem is abortion.
Many politicians desperately hope that the issue will just go away. But it won't.
Tain't a choice, sorry. Tis a child. Sorry.

What? Don't they teach logic at Wellesley?
You skipped those classes?
Logic up, Hon.

The Only Word Is Creepy

Lest we forget these parents in the background, our neighbors, purring so hope-and-changefully at their poor spawn. Creepy then, creep now.

Just last fall. Yeah, upper middle-class, liberal, westside of LA child abuse......oh, look, I guess they don't want to let us watch them any longer. Heh. Too bad. Once posted, still findable. There is no privacy. Get used to it.

Hope is for chumps.

Shabbat Shalom

Credit where it's due. Esther, the former Mrs. Sean Penn, donned the Israeli flag -- handed to her by a member of the audience -- on stage in Tel Aviv last night.
Yeah, that's her daughter there with her...The bare-chested guy? Who knows?

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A little extra today:

September 4, 2009, - 2:21 pm
Thank Madonna For Standing Up to Islamic Thugs, Raising Israeli Flag
By Debbie Schlussel
Recently, I told you how the typical anti-Israel thugs were demanding that Madonna cancel her planned Israeli trip and concert.
Well, it’s now official.  Ignoring the Jew-haters and self-hating Jews, Madonna performed her concert in Tel Aviv, yesterday.  And– a bonus–she raised the Israeli flag.  That’s brave for her, and I give her credit and props for that.  And now she’s under attack from every segment of the Muslim and extremist world, not to mention nutty YouTube commenters (though that could be redundant).

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Local take here.

First Kill All The "Journalists"

Yes I've seen the heartbreaking photograph. No, I won't link it for you.

The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.

The AP reported in a story that it decided to make the image public anyway because it “conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it.”
The photo shows Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, who was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, according to The AP.

Bush appointee and Obama holdover appointee Defense Secretary Gates wrote to the AP:

“I cannot imagine the pain and suffering Lance Corporal Bernard’s death has caused his family. Why your organization would purposefully defy the family’s wishes knowing full well that it will lead to yet more anguish is beyond me. Your lack of compassion and common sense in choosing to put this image of their maimed and stricken child on the front page of multiple American newspapers is appalling. The issue here is not law, policy or constitutional right – but judgment and common decency.”

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Way to honor the fallen -- and their families -- AP.
"He was shy," a friend said, "but he loved to have fun."
Joshua M. Bernard.

CBS News

Silver Lining.

Schoo Days Schoo Days, Good Ole Broken Roo Days

Your Department of Education at Work:

PRESIDENT OBAMA DELIVERS NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA’S SCHOOCHILDREN

Wakefield High School
4901 S. Chesterfield Rd.
Arlington, VA 22206

Media Pre-set: 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM (All equipment must be dropped at the site by 7:00 AM; media will not have access to their equipment from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM.) Media Access: 10:00 AM

Hey, foo, I work in a schoo. A private schoo.

Real Men

Tales from the school bus.

September 1, 2009
Kaleb Eulls saves 22 lives from armed student

Logan Lowery
BulldogBlitz.com

Tuesday morning began just like any other morning for football star Kaleb Eulls.

Documented actions of a real community organizer.

Art Interlude

Bosch Fawstin.

More On The WalMart Front

Busted For Slapping Stranger's Crying Child
Georgia man, 61, threatened to "shut that baby up" at Walmart

This could work on airplanes too. Especially in coach.
Just a thought.