Read Ric’s post and then read the following:

Repost of Repost of 2004 essay written by Daniel P Collins, MD (Naples Florida)

Framers of the Constitution recognized the need for a Free Press to report on governmental action to the citizenry. They accorded unique privileges to the news media to protect and ensure this vital activity. It is now obvious, with the secret ABC memo, and the 60 minutes, that the media does not know the difference between freedom & license or that privileges always carry concomitant responsibilities. The media has shifted from a legitimate mission of reporting the news to a mission of creating the news. In so doing, it has become the “Fifth Column”*, undermining & eroding the Republic from within. The media manipulation of the election environment to insure a close election, great copy for press & TV, calls for encouragement of visceral hatred of various groups: bad for the nation, but newsworthy. They gleefully & dishonestly set to work. After all, the ends justify the means: the creation of news. Honesty, morality, ethics or National Welfare be damned. The Fifth Column has a job to be done!

Crazy ass, racist Physicians!

The cynical among us will immediately notice this push for what it is.

1) a push-back against people who have decided to yank their kids out of the public education morass. that is, homeschoolers – who tend to be all God-bothery and racisty – desiring, you know, the opportunity to spare their children from statethink. I must say, the un-doing good parents among us must do on a daily basis is quite a task. We must undo all manner of inconvenient memes introduced to and then chiseled into our beloved childrens’ brains. Gay “Marriage” and Globular Warmongering come to mind. But, we could easily throw in “alternate” lifestyle marketing, anti-Christian, pro-Muslim fascism.

2) countering the obvious truth that those very high-minded (but not real smart) public indoctinairres are found to be pigs at the trough. Cadillac benefits none but senators and fat unionistas can claim, 3 months off, early retirement, pensions, and secondary careers after retirement… sure. they do it for teh children.

I could go on. And I might.

But there is also another segment of the population who would love for my children to go to school year-round. Namely, “working moms.” I put it is quotes because it seems to me the hardest working women I know are the stay-at-home variety, whose work is paramount and from which never is a paid vacation.

Let’s face it: if those damnable accessories weren’t so damnably demanding a woman might be able to climb the ladder faster and save some cash in the meantime – kids at school do not result in day-care bills, you see.

It is all crap. And it has nothing to do with being competitive. I have observed in the workplace that some folks have the remarkable ability to spend 60 hours doing what should take 40. I have seen projects afforded 250 hours which could have been done in 120 but ended up taking 275 hours. Am I wrong to assume that a teacher might be completely ok making more money doing 1/4 less work any given day – and having 25% more time to do it? Am I wrong to presume that the next step would be to claim, as is always the case, that teh pay will not suffice for having expanded hours?

I guess my real issue has to do with marketing of the concept. We will be told it is for the children. We will be instructed that a year-long school year is necessary for “America to remain competitive in the global economy.” This, coming from people who have demon-strated the highest degree of ignorance as it pertains to the marketplace and the basic economic ins-and-outs.  But, in reality, the motivation will be most obvious to any who actually retain the ability to critically think: what teachers want these days has ZERO to do with teh Children (who are our future, etc.) and EVERYTHING to do with selfishness.

I say: f*ck em. Next to government bureaucrats, public school teachers are the worst.

Madison — State elections officials Wednesday narrowly rejected a Milwaukee Assembly candidate’s attempt to run with the slogan “NOT the ‘whiteman’s bitch’ ” under her name on the ballot.

Ieshuh Griffin, an independent candidate with a history of feuds with local officials, said in response she would sue the state Government Accountability Board for infringing on her freedom of speech.

She is running to replace retiring Rep. Annette “Polly” Williams (D-Milwaukee).

With inner-city, community leadership like that offered by Ieshuh Griffin, Milwaukee Public School’s high school drop-out rates seem less surprising than ever.

Everyone I spoke with, elderly and young, understand my point of view. – Genius

Erm - Whose Bitch is She, then?

God help her target demographic.

Contemplative Secularist - Played Varsity Waterpolo in Prep School

And these are just guesses, as I don’t know this punk from Adam – though I am sure I have met him more than 3,000 times.

1) Owns a Mac

2) Drives a VW (possibly an Audi)

3) Listens to The Smiths and The Cure – occasionally, 10,000 Maniacs – but is crazy about the Counting Crows

4) Drinks Frappes – pressed by hand!

5) Reads Esquire Magazine

6) Wears Sandals

7) Has a couple Black friends (token, of course)

8 ) Hates his Step Dad

9) Uses terms like, “Bucket List” and “Objectification”

10) Begins any answer with”So….”

11) Doesn’t drink Domestic Beer – But loooooved Zima!

12) Hasn’t been to Temple in a long time

13) Plays Fantasy Soccer

14) Thinks male on female oral sex is gross – but “not that there’s anything “wrong” with it”

15) Straightens his hair – is a wiz with a clothes iron

16) Shaves his manscape – and claims he shaves his legs because he is an avid bicyclist

17) Likes it with the lights off

18) Is pondering Belgium or possibly Israel for his next “getaway” – he works so hard, you see

19) Wouldn’t be caught dead eating grilled cheese and tomato soup – what the heck are tater tots?

20) Thinks Flyover country is quaint – although Chicago is cool!

21) Prefers Pepsi, if forced to choose

22) Hates the Pope, but is very interested in Kabbalah – it’s so, I don’t know, avant gard.

23) is “sooo outta here”

24) can’t name the Supreme Court Justices

Predictable.

h/t Daily Caller

MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee County Board spent part of the day debating a measure that would call for the county to boycott doing business with companies in Arizona.

What a Dummy Looks Like

Communities around the nation have passed similar measures in response to a law in Arizona that makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally.

There was an odd moment during the debate when Supervisor Peggy West stood up and seemed to be confused about her geography. “If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border,” West said during debate.

White Racist on County Board corrects her, “Arizona does in fact share a border with the country of Mexico.”

Worse yet, she is the sponsor of this bill. Worse yet, she is a Latina. Worse yet, half of her constituents are Mexican-American.

WTF? I am not sure.

Complete idiot. Dumb as a box of rocks. Good God, I swear we aren’t all this dumb in Milwaukee. Well, mostly.

Like Father, Like Son

From the Independent (UK)

The Reverend Jesse Jackson, the veteran civil rights leader, has called on African Americans to boycott BP over its record on equality.

The campaigner has set out plans to picket some of the oil giant’s 12,000 petrol stations across the US because the company has so few ethnic minority- owned distributors.

And he is tying the campaign to outrage over the high oil price. This has pushed up energy costs, which, he claims, fall disproportionately on urban residents, including many African Americans.

From the ACUF.org, the American Conservative Union Foundation

Judicial Watch has released a report that details the shakedown tactics that have been used by Jesse Jackson and his Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition against some of the biggest companies in the world.

Jackson’s current target is oil giant British Petroleum. Using one of his almost patented malapropisms, Jackson has informed BP that “We don’t want charity, we want parity,” as he mouthed a laundry list of what the oil company needs to do in order to get the “Reverend” to go away.

I didn’t. But now I do. And the only reason I remember it now is that I sensed something very familiar in Captain Queeg our Dear Leader… in the way he has been analyzing managing triangulating – is tending to – the current opportunity crisis in the Gulf.

I found this in his file folder we keep in the archives here at POWIP. But, no doubt, O’Blameya knows this play by heart. How to extort money from productive employers without spending a dime seems to be a very popular game among… erm… those who haven’t produced anything of substance in their entire adult lives.

As they say, the Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Or, in this case, the bramble.

Is Jackson Watto the Emperor to Obama’s Anakin?

Updatex1 - Joe rightly points out that Jackson is more like the character Watto than the Emperor. Correction made.

And this.

Also, the kid has excellent self-control – I would have beaten the shit out of that old geezer, Bob Etheridge (D – NC) – a good left hook is what the doctor orders.

What the hell is going on? Is this part of the “in yo grill” campaign?

UPDATED X1 – WEIRD – in an effort to serve the DNC and His Highness, El Presidente Obama from embarrassment, it appears that the video has been wiped from YouTube.

Well, here you go… on a more free speech friendly platform.

Update x2- the ass-face’s opponent – don’t know about her hair, but am following Renee Ellmers on twitter now. @Renee4Congress

H/T Fishman

BARACK OTROLEUM

Curious. Every Google search I conduct for “Obama on Katrina Response” or “Obama on Bush Administration Katrina” or anything to do with articles relating to Obama’s criticism of Katrina response… is, well, a field of dead links and missing pages.

The point being of course was I was going to do some find and replace of some of Obama’s statements on Katrina – in order to demon-strate the hOpe-Ocrisy of the New Messiah.

But things keep seeming to vanish. Videos of Black Union Thugs beating on peaceful White Demonstrators, etc. Why, it’s enough to generate conspiracy theories in the minds of right-wing thuggernauts like myself.

This is in part why Google should be considered less benign than most believe the company to be.

Where did they move their world headquarters to again?

Me, I am switching to Yahoo! Search from here on out…

But, I am keeping my Gmail for now.

Maybe it’s time for a Conservative Search Engine.

Lots of good advice out there…

Sir Paul McCartney’s cheap shot aimed at former President George W. Bush at a White House event on Wednesday has prompted House Minority Leader John Boehner to demand an apology from the Beatle.

Boehner is quoted as saying,

“Like millions of other Americans, I have always had a good impression of Paul McCartney and thought of him as a classy guy, but I was surprised and disappointed by the lack of grace and respect he displayed at the White House,” Boehner told HUMAN EVENTS.  “I hope he’ll apologize to the American people for his conduct which demeaned him, the White House and President Obama.”

He is many things, this Paul McCartney… but “classy” is not one of them… maybe Boehner meant Sir Paul is as classy as, say, an Excalibur Kit Car.

McCartney is a has been. A philanderer. A poorly-educated sod. You can take the man out of Liverpool and all that. Wings? Really? Yuck.

UPDATE x1

Stupid Pop Stars

McCartney/Obama

mods inspired by Dan

You’d think that people would have had enough of stupid pop stars.
But I look around me and see the things they sew.
Some people wanna fill the world with stupid pop stars.
And what’s wrong with that?
O’d like to know, ’cause here Paul goes again

You love me
You love me

You love me
You love me

I can’t explain the feeling’s plain to me, my love for me (You love me)
Ah, you give me more, you give it all to me, you must agree, (You love me)
And O’s down with that
And you should know, ’cause here I go again

You love me
You love me

Bright doesn’t come in a minute,
Sometimes it’s  just a dim bulb
Don’t even know that I stepped in it
Aren’t I lovely, aren’t I silly, I’m not silly at’all.

How can I tell you about my loved one?
How can I tell you about my loved one?

How can I tell you about my loved one? (I love me)
How can I tell you about my loved one? (you love me)

I love me
I love me
I love me
You love me
They love me
She loves me
He loves me
I love me

You must agree that people love their stupid pop stars.
Just look around you and you’ll see that it is so. Oh, no
Some people wanna fill the world with stupid pop stars.
And O’s down with that