I hear that Canada had its “Canada Day” holiday yesterday.

I think its cute that they have their own little holidays and think they have a “real country” up there.

Go Canada Go!

Sometimes… well lots of times… Jeff scares me.

Just sayin’

Saudi Oil Minister Warns Against Hasty Transition to Renewable Energy

According to Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Ali Naimi, renewable energy sources are not fully equipped to meet the world’s energy demands and that governments should avoid making huge investments in developing clean energy systems.

Wow… just wow. Ya think maybe… just maybe… The Magic Kingdom is getting a little, tiny bit nervous?

Remember folks, these people do not have your best interests in mind…

As a public service to my fellow conservatives, I present the stages of grief:

Denial

There must be a simple explanation, the voting machines were rigged, the polls depressed conservative turnout, the people are downright stupid…

Have you said or thought any of the above recently? I know I have. Acorn as my favorite method of denial, though I am still convinced that the people are downright stupid. Truth be told, I have a long history of thinking the least of “the people” as a whole.

Anger

I’m leaving the country, Obama is pure evil. I will treat Obama the way they treated Bush.

I haven’t hit this yet. I hope to miss it entirely, then again I seem to still be hopelessly mired in “Bargaining” (below). I’ve seen lots of this in the right-o-sphere, mostly on smaller blogs.

Bargaining

It’s OK, the people will see their mistake and vote out the Democrats in Congress in 2010. In fact, this is good as it will prove once and for all that leftism will never work! Give them 4 years and we will come back and clean up the mess in 2012. Look at the example of Nixon and Watergate, the people voted out Republicans and then came crawling back after suffering 4 years of Carter. Everything is “reversible”!

I think I am currently right smack in the middle of this. Intellectually I know that it is grasping at straws, but it still dominates my political thoughts. I firmly disbelieve that everything done in the next 4 years can be repealed, except in the most extreme cases. A Government handout can never be taken away.

Depression

The whole country in going in the toilet! Look at the stock market, they know what is coming! I’m going John Galt and will resurface when the people regain their sanity. I’m building a bunker, buying guns and MREs!

CRAZY TOWN HERE I COME!

Read my posts since the “financial crisis” and compare…

Acceptance

Maybe it will be OK, maybe I’m wrong about all the doom and gloom.

I’m looking forward to this one myself, though at present I can’t imagine it happening to me…

I’M STILL IN CRAZY TOWN!

So, there you have it… Can you see these behaviors in yourself?

Have a look at this Huffington Post article and ask yourself the following…

If this bit was about Senator Obama and Doctor Wright, who would be apoplectic?

Still waiting for my Uke to arrive. According to the seller, it can take up to 11 working days. I think its now around 3 or 4 working days so it could still take a while.

I hope my burning desire to play it can withstand the wait…

Has there ever been a move in recorded human history that has not been filled to the breaking point with drama?

If you have had such a move, I envy you.

If you have 40 Minutes to spare, watch and listen to this video series.

Dr. Wright is certainly a dynamic and charismatic speaker and this speech is certainly a very good one. I was interested and engaged all the way through.

I really have only 2 comments:

1) What a great message, delivered with great style and rhetorical power.

2) Imagine this speech given by a white person, using the “white speaking style”, given to the same audience.

I certainly agree with the Doctor’s point of “Different is not deficient”. It is the kind of idea that needs light and oxygen. It needs to be brought to the people, ALL the people, if we are ever going to close the racial divide in the country.

It’s too bad that most of what was said in this speech contradicts “Black Liberation Theology“. He did touch, lightly, on the connection of his theology to political action, but came short of exposing the Marxist nature of that philosophy. The parts about other religions, specifically the “white church” was quite non-representative of the theology he preaches when not in front of cable news cameras. His message of inclusion is 180 degrees from his past statements and statements of Dr. Cone.

The trouble with this idea coming from this massager is that the “bitter” and “clinging to religion” public (i.e. the rubes in the midwest) will not have the slightest inkling that Black Liberation Theology is so caustic and hateful to them and will embrace the man, not the message.

Read the comments at the link to see what I mean.

Update and bump: Dr. Wright’s appearance at the National Press Club is very interesting. His prepared remarks are a slightly watered-down version of his NAACP remarks, but that is not what is interesting. The Q&A portion shows a very different persona than his is pushing in the prepared portions of his speeches. Evasive, demeaning and combative are good adjectives.

No direct link yet, but CSPAN has terrible/nasty Real Player video. Skip to the last 20 minutes for the Q&A portion.

I haven’t looked at Cousin Oliver’s cavalcade of stupid (as per Ace-o-Spades policy, no link. It’s http://www.oliverwillis.com if you must) for quite a while, so I forced the browser to go there against its better judgement. To answer the question “is Ollie still saving his limited brainpower for marriage?” The answer: “oh my yes”.

I just have to show you The 10 things you need to know about John McCain.

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.

Senator McCain did indeed oppose the MLK holday 20+ years ago. On racist grounds? not so much. The argument was that there were already too many paid holidays. Not a great argument in 2008, maybe better in 1987 I don’t know. He has since changed his position and wholeheartedly embraces the holiday. What was Senator Obama doing in 1987? Joining Reverend Wright’s church. Maybe this isn’t such a good point Ollie…

2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi.”

Umm.. good point Ollie, sounds like a winner to me.

3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.

If Senator McCain, of all people, cannot be trusted to make good and moral decisions regarding torture then nobody in the world can. Nice of Ollie to point out yet another good point for the Senator. Very sporting.

4. McCain opposes a woman’s right to choose. He said, “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.”

PERFECT!

5. The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill.

Could he mean the SCHIP bill for poor folks making under 100k? Do you really want to remind the folks of that Ollie?

6. He’s one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a “second job” and skip their vacations.

Ollie is the ever-happy class warrior. Let’s not mention Senator Obama’s “fantastic” year.

What advice would you give those facing foreclosure? “Real” people get 2nd jobs and don’t take vacations when they are in financial trouble. I for one will not be going to DisneyLand this year because of the house I just bought. I suppose Ollie would suggest that the Government should send me some money for that trip because “its only fair”.

7. Many of McCain’s fellow Republican senators say he’s too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He’s erratic. He’s hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”

Who said this? I wonder if by “One Republican senator” he means “The MSM”.

8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.

This from someone who supports Senator “I don’t take money from Big Oil”.

9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his “spiritual guide,” Rod Parsley, believes America’s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a “false religion.” McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church “the Antichrist” and a “false cult.”

Reverend Wright. Nuff said.

And yes, Ollie can’t count either because it ends right there.

Honestly, if you call him a schmuck, it would be an insult to schmucks everywhere.

In my morning coffee and blog session, I ran across a comment that cost me a new monitor.

This on a blog post castigating Rush Limbaugh for chuckling at something the left thinks is a racist comment. Actually, make that “is a racist comment” since our “betters” on the left are the final arbiter of what is and what isn’t racist. Dan Collins takes the topic on so well (with visual aids) that I don’t feel the need to go into detail. Jeff’s comments and many posts on the topic of racial/group politics are certainly worth reading.

Swallow your coffee before proceeding:

But clint, we *don’t* care what you’re saying or thinking. Why should we? You are literally nobodies to us. Whatever accusations or analysis we care to discuss here we aren’t interested in what you or any other dittoheads think about anything. If you listen to Rush limbaugh on a daily basis or read protein wisdom you are, frankly, probably too stupid to breathe without orders. What earthly use could engaging you in conversation have? I mean, I talk to my plants when I water them, but that’s because they are sentient.

aimai

So, if we are “literally nobodies” why make the original post? Why make a big deal out of something so stupid especially when we are “probably too stupid to breathe without orders”?

If I wrote that as a parody of the left, I would delete it because nobody would believe it. Seriously, WTF? Are you trying to take away my shtick?

Aimai, you want to see the face of hate? Look in a mirror.

Michelle Malkin rages on the subject of McCain winning Flordia and by extension, the nomination. She reprints emails from readers on the theme of “I will never vote for McCain”.

Along with Michelle, other conservatives are piling on McCain.

One of the constant themes is that McCain is no better than Hillary! or Obama. I can certainly see the truth in that. I completely agree if the word “domestic” is there. Amnesty, taxes, free speech, and global warming are areas that there isn’t a lick of difference between McCain and the Democrats.

Senator McCain differs from the Democrat contenders in one very important way. He would certainly NOT be pulling out of Iraq ASAP.

If the choice in November is between McCain and Hillary!, the country is in for a rocky 4 years on the domestic side. If McCain wins we might all be unemployed, speaking broken Spanish, and needing (*gulp*) government provided health care, but we would have a much better chance of avoiding mandatory prayers 5 times a day facing Mecca.

Thank about that while you contemplate staying home on election day.

UPDATE: CraigC at protein wisdom makes the same points, except better. At least I was first…

Who is Chuck Adkins?

This loser:

Why is he here and why are lots of other blogs talking about him?

Because he is a douchebag.

Now… Really… Do you want your car equipped with Microsoft?

Seriously, what happens when you get that baby up to 70 miles per hour and get the blue screen of death?