(In)Tolerance and the American Left

At an Obama rally, several of the Illinois Senators’ rabid supporters were seen wearing a shirt that insulted Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin by calling her the worst word that can be used against a woman.

Democrats are purportedly more tolerant than everyone else, yet the evidence over the years shows that they are just the opposite.

They accuse the Christian Religious Right, for example, of being intolerant, yet they are extremely savage in their attacks on that segment of our society, overreacting to the slightest things.

Unless, of course, Muslims are involved: in that case, the American Left either show their cowardice by failing to say anything negative about Islamists, or, worse yet, they show their hypocrisy by pandering to the followers of Allah by supporting them in whatever grievance they have (which is usually against Christians and Jews).

The absolute hatred displayed by those on the Left is akin to the hate of the Bolsheviks in 1917. Not surprising, I guess, since they, like Lenin’s followers did, harbor a deep hatred towards anyone who has been successful on their own, without government help, and want to redistribute the wealth others have made and place some of it in the hands of the non-productive; like Lenin’s Marxists, they despise and denigrate religion and God (except for Allah, since today’s Marxists are too cowardly to stand up and decry Islam as they do all other religions); like Lenin and his mob of thugs, they want to obliterate the Individual and replace him with Everyman (remember how Maoists loved to dress the same in those pajamas?); and like the old-time Bolsheviks, they wish harm to those who do not think as they do: the only difference is that whereas Lenin ordered the death of the Tsar’s family and most Russian aristocrats, and got away with it, today’s American would-be Bolsheviks, while they obviously would love to execute their foes, have to satisfy themselves with hurling the vilest insults and vitriol they can muster…must be frustrating for the poor dears…

If even one single McCain supporter were to wear some t-shirt attacking the Left’s messiah, the socialist Barack Hussein Obama, on his Race, the Mainstream Media would be all over it; but since the once-honorable Fourth Estate is now firmly in the hands of Leftists, there is hardly a murmur of disapproval being heard, and that is only coming from the Conservative and Libertarian Media, who have (Thank God!) been a thorn in the Left’s derriere for years, since they and they alone seem capable of pointing out the truth to the Public.

Here’s where I am supposed to say that the Left should be ashamed of itself for t-shirts that mercilessly and without merit attack a decent woman who has done them absolutely no harm, other than to have a different set of beliefs; but unfortunately, those intolerant scum have no shame.

PC Pets

One day a few months ago, while washing my breakfast dishes, I was listening to a TV commercial for some product that files pets’ nails. What struck me was that at one point, where one would have expected to hear the term “Pet Owners”, the commercial mentioned “Pet Parents”.
Pet Parents???
Perhaps this should not come as a big surprise, not in a Politically Correct world in which Bums have disappeared, to be replaced by The Homeless; Janitors and Garbage Men have gone the way of the Dodo to be replaced by Maintenance Engineers and Sanitation Engineers, respectively.
Okay, I’ll admit that maybe some PC terminology is a little more sensitive than the terms previously used: Retarded people, once referred to as Retards, are now called Mentally Challenged; same goes for the Handicapped, who are now referred to as Physically Challenged.
But there’s nothing wrong with someone being a Garbage Man, or a Janitor; these are people who do important, if usually unappreciated, jobs, jobs most people would not want to do. Heck, I’m sure many of those people who do those jobs would rather be doing something else, but Life sometimes forces uncontrollable circumstances upon us, or maybe choices we make during the course of our lives lead us to have to take jobs we’d rather not have. Giving them fancy titles is a way of making them feel better about themselves. Which in itself is not a bad thing, but whatever happened to the concept of taking Pride in your work, no matter what that work might be?
This all brings to mind other PC demands on our language, such as people being upset at sports teams such as the Braves or the Redskins; but I have never felt these names were derogatory; on the contrary, they are the names of Teams, for crying out loud! Teams people root for, teams that many fans in fact (sadly) live for. Who in their right mind can find something wrong with that?
Only the humorless PC crowd that walks around with a stick up their collective rear end, and who try their best to avoid insulting everyone – except White Males, of course, who are the only Fair Game for the PCers. Oh, and Black Republicans, who are also seen as not worthy of any respect for their feelings and choices.
This thinking has led directly to the banning or at least attempted bans of certain mascots and fan favorite customs, like a man dressed as a Brave, or fans in Atlanta doing the Tomahawk chop. The PC crowd claims these things are demeaning to Indians – oops! I mean, of course, Native Americans…
I still think of Asians as Orientals – not because I am racist, but because they are from an area of the world known for may centuries as the Orient.
If truth be known, I admire many aspects of Oriental – or Asian – cultures, such as Zen and Tao Te Ching, Eastern Martial Arts, the fact that for thousands of years the Chinese have had Herbal Remedies that equal or surpass Western medicines, and so on; if I were racist, then I would have no admiration for anything originating from Asia.
I still think of Native Americans as Indians, again, not because I am racist or because I want to insult or put them down, but because a) that’s what they were referred to as for centuries; b) that’s how I was taught to call them when I was in school, and c) they are not the only Native Americans: I was born here, therefore I am also a Native American, as is EVERY person who was born in the Americas.
And if you want to get picky about it, let me digress for a moment and bring up Kennewick Man, whose remains were found on July 28, 1996. These remains seemed to be Caucasian rather than Asian or so-called Native American. Five tribes - the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Yakama, Wannapum, and Colville - tried to block any scientific investigation of the remains, claiming the remains should be buried according to their traditions (in a locale known only to themselves, and never to be disclosed to the White Man).
In 2004, the courts finally ruled that scientific study of the remains should be allowed. Subsequently, it was determined that the remains were indeed of Caucasoid origin, that they were the skeletal remains of a man who was about 50 years old when he died, and that these remains were about 9300 years old.
WOW! White man’s ancestors in the America’s long before Columbus, or even Leif Ericson and his Vikings, ever set foot here? THAT certainly blows a hole in the long-held theory that only Asiatic-descended Natives (a/k/a American Indians) are the only ones who can lay claim to being Native Americans, doesn’t it?
No wonder the Tribes wanted to keep the fellow under wraps, out of the lab, and bury him in some location where he’d never be found.
But back to the main point of this essay:
Unless you have had some kind of illegal sexual intercourse with an animal, and afterwards one of you gave birth, you CANNOT be a Pet Parent. You might have a pet, in which case you are considered to own that pet, thus making you a Pet Owner.
Especially in the case of dogs, which in most places must be registered with your city or town, so that a License may be issued (probably more for the city or town to make a little money rather than for any other reason). So by requiring that you get a license for your dog, government thus places you in the class of Pet Owner.
NOT Pet Parent.
Duh-uh. Whatever happened to Honesty?

Who is the Lesser of Two Evils?

I am sick and tired of supporters of Senator Barack Obama playing the Race card every chance they get; the latest incident is the stupid, unfounded allegations by Rep. Lewis, whose allegations uncover his own racist views of White people.

Already the Dems are stating that if Obama loses, it will be because of racism.

 Bull.

The American people should reject this man's bid for the Presidency not because of his color, but because of his political beliefs.

 Look at what he espouses, at what he has voted for (when he has actually voted, rather than go on record as being "Present", rather than actually make a decision): he is for Higher Taxes, Higher Government Spending, has expressed his desire to "Tax the Rich", wants to shrink the Military even as he expands the Federal Government and its influence over the lives of American citizens.

In other words, the man is a Socialist, a proponent of Class War and Redistribution of Wealth polices: take more and more from those who are successful to give to those who are not so successful. Punish Success, but reward incompetence, laziness, and fear of taking a risk to better your life.

That alone should be more than enough for Americans to vote for John McCain - who, I hasten to add, is NOT my candidate of choice, but who is, in this election,  the lesser of two evils.

Unfortunately, in most elections, that is the real choice we are faced with: picking the Lesser of Two Evils.

I have a lot of respect for Senator McCain, a man who truly sacrificed for his country; but I disagree with him on some policy points, mainly his stance on Illegal Immigration; unfortunately, both McCain and Obama are willing to allow illegals to continue to stream across our porous borders, just as President Bush has. 

Such a policy is leading to the downfall of the United States. All Empires must eventually fall, and ours - benevolent as it is, compared to most Empires of the past - must also one day wane.  But we will not be brought down by force, for we are still the most powerful nation in the world, militarily speaking (although in recent decades Congress has too often handcuffed our Armed Forces, causing unnecessary losses of precious lives, money, and prestige).

This nation is being brought down from within, by those who want us to open our borders to anyand all, whether or not those who sneak in will become assets or liabilities (and most of them contribute to the latter). And those responsible for the invasion we find ourselves suffering are on the Left. The Leftist Limousine Liberals of our country - who routinely claim to still be the Party of Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy, but are nothing like those men - whose policies more closely resemble those of the late President Reagan than anything the Dems of today espouse - have opened up a wound that will, if left open, lead to our bleeding ourselves to (financial) death as a world power, for we will be unable to continue to provide for all these illegals swarming into our land - who use our schools, our hospitals, and whatever Public Welfare systems they can, even though they contribute almost NOTHING to these systems, except to make them more costly to Citizens and Legal Immigrant residents and visitors; we will be unable to continue to pay for the dubious (and unasked-for) honor of being the World's Policeman, will be unable to continue to send billions and billions of our Tax Dollars overseas as Foreign Aid to countries whose populations or at least governments hate us...money that would be better spent here inside our own borders, to refund the Social Security System that Congress has raided for years (the recent Banking crisis we are currently suffering through is a foreshadowing of what will happen to the underfunded Social Security later this century).

Lest anyone think I am speaking solely about Mexicans or other Hispanics, let me express my extreme displeasure and outright anger at the Bush Administration's policy of still allowing Muslim immigrants to enter this country, even LEGALLY, after what happened on 9/11.

It's no secret that most Muslims around the world dislike us (to put it mildly); yet we continue to allow them to pass through our borders. The fact is, there are dozens and dozens of Muslim nations in the world; why don't Muslims emigrate to any of those countries, rather than come over here, to a country they hate, a country most of them will never feel or pledge any honest allegiance to, a country many of them refer to as The Great Satan? If our country is so bad, so evil, why do they continue to come here? There are more than enough countries they can go to where they will feel more comfortable, since we are decadent and those countries are holy...

All Empires eventually fail and fall because they can no longer foot the bill: Rome, Great Britain, the unlamented Soviet Union - those are just three examples of empires that took the same road we are careening down.

But at least McCain is opposed to an outright Redistribution of Wealth, a corner post of Obama'sfiscal policy; at least McCain will keep our Military strong, whereas I foresee Obama doing what Jimmy Carter did: gutting the Military and drastically lowering its morale, and thus its effectiveness, and making it a laughing stock.

And placing us in a position that may very well leave us unable to stand up to a newly-invigorated, oil-rich  Russia, and its own Imperial designs...not to mention Red China, whose corrupt leadership has its eyes on Taiwan...at the very least.

If all that is not enough to sway you from not voting for this new darling of the Democratic Party, just think on these other factors: his friendship with unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers; the fact that Louis Farrakhan has called Obama "The Messiah"; Obama's lying about his association with Acorn, which is being investigated in at least five states for Voter Fraud - an organization that uses intimidation as a lobbying tool, and whose key people were trained by Community Organizer Barack Hussein Obama;  Jeremiah Wright, who Obama, after a 20 year association, finally stepped away from (publicly, anyway), because he suddenly found out (surprise, surprise!!!) that his preacher and admitted Mentor hates America, and White people in particular. 

(Twenty years? What happened, Senator, were you always sleeping during the irreverentReverend Wright's fiery sermons?)

If nothing else, these associations show a lack of judgment...

Finally, there is the fact that Obama is a Chicago politician; Chicago politics are about as dirty as they come, and have been for many, many decades...I, for one, can't help but think of the possible ramifications of that fact.

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