POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

Do Italians Owe Neanderthals an Apology?

Read this piece and decide. It may have something to do with the Italian geography of prejudice, on this page.

Eric Holder, whose DoJ is under increasing scrutiny for its egregious lies, had this to say at a conference celebrating To Kill a Mockingbird:

Describing Obama's commitment to civil rights enforcement, Holder said the Justice Department has asserted itself in the protection of disabled people, workers, students and religious groups and has prosecuted civil rights-era slayings across the South.

"As we have seen in recent decades — and, unfortunately, in recent days — the world has not yet run its course of intolerance and bigotry. Injustice remains. Divisions and disparities remain. Bias- and hate-fueled violence persists," Holder said.

"Although life may, in some ways, feel easier today than ever before, and although the doors of opportunity may be open wider than they were 50 years ago, the truth is that there is nothing easy about 2010," said Holder.

He feels that the venerable book is still relevant to how we deal with the threat of terror. Also, Pudd'nhead Wilson has been tapped for counterinsurgency strategy.

Regarding DADT, Jerry Wilson loves his dead gay aunt.

Brent Bozell's thoughts regarding Carter are similar to those I expressed yesterday, and William Jacobson has reflections on O'Donnell.

In his updates to his blonde in bikini post from yesterday, Stacy gives us the skinny on the epic battle between Shaft and Action Jackson, Jr.

Cinco de Cuatro: I haven't mentioned it, because I've come to expect idiocies from our Harvard educated Presidunce, but in case you want to consider how the US was inhabited by Mexicans before the existence of Mexico, you can find it here.

Today's political D'OH! moment comes via Five Feet of Fury.

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Completely Disjointed

What follows is simply the crap I was thinking on the plane to Chicago today; you are forewarned.

The 3.2 MP camera on my Storm doesn't do it justice but I have to say the view from the Colorado Springs airport is spectacular.  Well, at least it is to the west.  I headed east, away from my beloved mountains.  The spiritual connection I get from mountains is something I have a hard time explaining, but it's real and I'm grateful to God for it.

The good thing about small planes is that there is no middle seat. 

I must be irritable today, I'm getting annoyed at people for planning ahead and doing what I should have done: bringing their own snacks onto the plane.

I've never been to Chicago other than driving through, so I'm really looking forward to this trip.  I just hope I am ready for these meatings.  I guess it'll give me something to do in the hotel room during commercial breaks of NCIS.  Should be three hours of awesome tonight.

I know not all male flight attendants are gay, but this one is.  My gaydar sucks and it's going crazy.

I had Pizza Hut Express at the airport for lunch.  It'll help me appreciate Chicago pizza that much more.

The line to the bathroom has been steady for an hour. Glad I took care of business during the delay.  Yeah we were delayed while the maintenance staff cleaned up what was left of some birds that played chicken with the Canadair Jet.  If it was a bigger plane, would they have known better than to try?

That flight attendant guy just announced we have an hour left.

We seem to be turning.  I wonder if the pilot is dodging speed bumps or something.  Maybe those birds have angry friends?

So, can someone define a RINO for me?  Is it about the ACU score?  Is 60% enough?  70%?  If not the score?  What?  Specific issues on which a candidate must toe the line?  Who picks the issues?

I think we just hit the speed bumps.

I should have brought a book to spare you all this self-indulgent tripe.

Does anyone know of an alternative to those insipid ear buds?  I cannot get them to stay in my ears when I exercise.

The line to the bathroom just slowed down.  No, wait, it's busy again.  One bathroom for sixty people, it's like basic training all over again. Only different.

These clouds look puffy, like I could jump on one and bounce into space.

Some of these people aren't staying in the bathroom long enough to wash their hands.  I don't like that because it makes me feel judgmental.

Karl Rove's problem is the rules have changed and he doesn't realize it.  The rest of his problem is that he is unwittingly responsible for the change.  Having Bush act like a Democrat light made Pelosi and Obama possible.  How should he have known that the public would get sick of liberal policies and vote for socialists?

I'm starting to see the argument in favor of leaving Congress to the Dems. I understand it's a matter of long term vs short term thinking. I just don't like the idea of sacrificing too much short term; especially when it makes the long term that much harder to fix.
We've either started our descent or the rubber band needs rewound.

Adam Wells

Living life at 84 mph and 7000 feet. All I ask is that you don't block traffic, act like a professional, and don't act all surprised when your actions have consequences. Oh, and don't complain about the refs; trust me, they don't care if your team wins or not.

Much Obliged, Ma’am

I guess at least we know where Obama got his enormous tin ears and his sense of entitlement:

President Barack Obama's aunt, who lived for years illegally in Boston before being granted asylum in May, said the United States has an "obligation" to grant her citizenship.

"If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen," Zeituni Onyango told WBZ-TV in an interview that first aired Monday.

Wow. If your blood pressure's okay, you may want to read the whole thing.

I should have read Rocketman's earlier post more closely. I had no idea it would be so breathtaking.

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Decision Scientist Incarcerated

Heh. (via Protein Wisdom, Actual)

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Jesse Jackson, Jr. Is Sorry for . . . Whatever [UPDATEDx2]

I saw the story original over at the place of Ace, and he's got a picture of the hootchie, who looks like she was hit with the GaGa stick, in my heterosexual opinion.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. asked a political fund-raiser to offer then Gov. Rod Blagojevich $6 million dollars in exchange for an appointment to President Obama's former Senate seat -- and had the fund-raiser pay for two airline trips for a blonde "social acquaintance" -- the fund-raiser told federal authorities.

Businessman Raghuveer Nayak... says Jackson instructed him to offer Blagojevich as much as $6 million for the seat -- $1 million from the Indian community and $5 million from a yet-to-be-held fund raiser that Jackson Jr. would organize.

That's via Ace, but in his post you'll find the money issue: "The best part is that she's white, because, racism. And she's not just white, she's blonde-white."

Because, you know, I bet that's the part that's going to bother some of his followers. Like black women, in particular, the same way they were pissed about a certain Cablinasian's sexual preferences. And the irony is, Tea Partiers are the people whose agenda is driven by a phobia of inter-racial sex.

As for Jackson, he has done nothing wrong, but understands the disappointment some of his followers may feel over . . . whatever.

Anyway, Jesse Jackson, Jr. just got a little whiter, and that's a bad thing, according to Bill Maher.

UPDATE: Stacy's photo of said hootchie is better, naturally.

UPDATEx2: Rahm, you'd better get out there and become mayor before the lid blows off any more of this.

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Jhimmi, Cratered

Jimmy Carter's been on a roll, lately. It seems as though he thinks he's irrelevant in new and important ways.

And that's just plain scary.

First he complained about recently departed Ted Kennedy deep-sixing his version of ObamaCare. Then he said that the ill-fated attempt to rescue the Ayatollah's American hostages should have worked in any reasonable cosmos. Now he claims he's the best ex-President EVAR!

Oh, and anyone opposing the GZ Mosque is an Islamophobe.

My Twitter friend @nickmarshel says he got one thing right: it's awesome that he's an ex-President. Still, Jhimmi, this one's going to eat your transubstantiated wafer lunch. He's going to be the BEST. EX-PRESIDENT. EVAR! And for the same reasons.

I don't want to belabor the point. I know that the Clintons have horned in on your hot Middle Eastern action. I feel sorry for you, a little. At least you are canny enough to know that we've arrived at a point of Obamalaise that people are thinking of you again. I'm drawing different conclusions, though. For all of your pretensions to humility, you are an out-and-out glory hound. You were when you were President. And you can't serve your own self-delusions and The People at the same time.

You sucked then, and you suck now. You got elected because of Nixon. And just as Nixon attempted to rechronicle himself as an elder statesman in his later years, so are you. But I wouldn't expect you to denigrate Teddy because of his treasonous pussyfooting with the Soviets. You've always been so realistic.

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The Making, Staking, and Burning of a Witch

Christine O'Donnell is a witch. Clearly...

Proof 1: O'Donnell Opposes Masturbation. Who in their right mind could be against masturbation? I mean, who would deny themselves their creaturely right to massage themselves into orgasm? And worse, who would impose such views on others? I'll tell you who: a Catholic! That's who... Those most superstitious of creatures... known to pray to statues and repeat mysterious incantations ad nauseum! Simple, though superstitious as they might be, these sons and daughters of Satan go on blathering and converting souls to the Dark World of witchcraft! What is the Pope but a Sith? By God, all one need do is look at him to know he is a Dark Lord indeed! A Nazi! Leading other superstitious along the path to eternal ruin! What is a parish but a coven? What is a priest but a warlock?

Ok - so now she claims she's an Evangelical! HA! She may say that... but does anyone really believe that she is anything but a tool of the Papacy, infiltrating another denomination only to bring them further into darkness? For my part, I do not believe she is anything but a Catholic agent. How convenient that she is now in the presence of people who speak in tongues and handle snakes without being bitten!

Proof 2: O'Donnell Admitted It! Who can deny that O'Donnell confessed to "dabbling" in witchcraft? What is dabbling? I'll tell you what... someone raised among "mystics" (ie. Catholics) is so obviously dedicated to witchery and the occult that the only surprising thing is that she admitted it! How many others among the billion Catholics worldwide would ever fess up? That she admitted it may say something... but that's like giving credit to a murderer who confesses his crime. The murderous act cannot be undone.

Faces of Death

Proof 3: What State is She From? Enough said. Where some see accidents, or coincidences, other more reasonable people see dark strategies emerge.

Proof 4: She is a "Woman" and a conservative? Only an uncaring witch (bitch?) with a hardened heart of darkness could exist as such a walking contradiction.

Proof 5: Everyone who is Anyone is saying it... over and over again. And, well, perception is reality, right? Right!

Proof 6: When is the election? That's right... eerily close to Halloween. Again... I ask you, is this pure coincidence? I think not.

My plea: do not vote for a woman who is clearly a witch... a dark heart passing herself off as a caring, right-minded person. Also, she may be is possessed by the Devil.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

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“SarcMark”®

Mark H/T jefferson101

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Willing Media Collaborators [UPDATE]

Yesterday, I noted Patterico's piece on Chris Coons. One of the important revelations there is that nobody in the local media had picked up the story of harassment, apparently driven by political agenda, and later yesterday Pat elaborated on this point:

The bigger context for that post is the willingness of Democrats to use the power of government to intimidate those who are engaged in speech they don’t like. I went on Tammy Bruce’s radio show today at lunchtime to discuss the piece, and we discussed how my piece fits into that context. Regular readers know that I am (RINO that I am!) mostly skeptical of any notion that leftists are intrinsically bad people who display worse character traits than conservatives — with exceptions for things like responsibility and adherence to principle. But anti-speech thuggery is one way we’re different. Whether it’s Democrats’ threatening to pull Fox News’s broadcast license because they don’t like the content; or Harry Reid & Co. writing a mafia-style letter threatening ABC’s broadcast license over “The Path to 9/11″; or the DNC threatening Sinclair Broadcasting’s broadcast license over an anti-Kerry documentary; or Obama’s thugs threatening networks’ broadcast licenses over criticism from the NRA; or, most recently, Kathleen Sebelius suggesting that insurance companies had better not claim they’re raising rates because of ObamaCare, or they may find themselves regulated out of existence . . . based on these examples and many more, the public has a special need to fear Democrats’ bringing down the hammer when they engage in free speech.

And if Chris Coons is that type of thug, best we find out now.

Exactly.

Yesterday also, at NewsBusters, Lachlan Markey had an article about an SEIU supporter of GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker's opponent bragging to a Walker staffer that the media were in the pocket of his opponent:

"They've really been willing partners in it," Morgan told the staffer. "They come in with the TV cameras, and [channels] 58, 12 come, and 6 doesn't always. But, yeah, they've been really helpful. They think it's fun." Channels 58 and 12 are Milwaukee's CBS and ABC affiliates, respectively. "It's not perfect," Morgan added, but "they get our message across."

That was caught on tape.

And as snaqwells pointed out in his post just below, the lies used to cover up the DoJ's dismissal of a judgment against the New Black Panther polling place thugs from Philadelphia are beginning to come to light. Michelle Malkin broke the news a few days ago that there had been a IG assigned to the case, and that's important, but what's sad about this is that Judicial Watch had to file the FOI requests to get the information, when the MFM should have understood how flimsy the edifice of untruths surrounding the issue was. It was clearly BS, yet they dutifully reported the transparent lies of the department spokespeople.

Disgusting. So, next time you hear some MFM nabob nattering about layers of fact checking, consider what they don't even choose to investigate and report, and whom they take their information from.

Related: Were you aware you might be arrested in the UK merely for watching video of Koran burning? If you watch and share video of beheadings or people diving off of burning skyscrapers, though, that's a protected religious liberty.

Sheesh.

The album features a little print dedication to Henry VIII, a strange choice of favorites.

UPDATE: Chris Matthews to professional liar Eric Boehlert: "We rely on Media Matters."

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Teamsters unionize Pot growers

Legalize it...Don't criticize it...

Thugs and drugs; sounds like a music video to me

The Teamsters added nearly 40 new members earlier this month by organizing the country's first group of unionized marijuana growers. Such an arrangement is likely only possible in California, which has the nation's loosest medical marijuana laws.

But it's still unclear how the Teamsters will safeguard the rights of members who do work that's considered a federal crime.

Oh, I don't think they'll have too much trouble, considering their numbah-one patron is currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania avenue.  I mean, if the DOJ is just now getting "busted" for squashing a slam-dunk case of voter intimidation, a case that they had already won, against the New Black Panther Party, well, there's no telling how long they could cover for the pot-growing Teamsters...

After all, California might be a right to work state .

So, I wonder if the rum runners and speakeasy suppliers were organized during prohibition? Or was the problem that they were the ones doing the organizing...

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