African-American Canadians? African-American Canadians? How, in any world, does that make sense? Black Canadians, unless they’re also citizens of an African country or America, are neither Africans nor Americans!
You are front-row witnesses to political correctness run amok. The Dumb As Dirt comedy award goes to PhysOrg.com for referring to black Canadians as “African-Americans,” an imbecilic American term used to describe blacks in America.
[Update: I hadn't realized when I published this post that comments were open on the story. It appears I'm not alone!]
I remember using the term back in the 1980s when I was young and dumb and full of respect for Jesse Jackson. He insisted black Americans and everyone else use it so blacks could feel “proud” of their African heritage. But there was a problem. Blacks, Negroes, colored people - whatever you want to call us – are not Africans. Most of us were born in America. Our nationality is American. We are Americans of African descent.
Lunch was not so good. Still nauseated. This post is not helping.
Very early in their pregnancies, women can kill their babies by taking an abortion pill. Women further along (up to 22 weeks) can opt to have the baby sucked out or scraped out. After 24 weeks, women supposedly can’t kill their babies unless it’s for “serious health reasons.”
Students for Life of America (SFLA) has gone undercover again, this time to record a Planned Parenthood “nurse” talking about the killing procedure for an unborn baby close to 22 weeks. The woman asks whether the baby could be born alive, and the nurse says “it does happen, but it wouldn’t be able to survive on its own so eventually the baby does die.” The nurse calls the procedure “an actual delivery.”
During a so-called partial birth abortion, a baby is pulled down the birth canal and partially delivered. While the baby’s head is still inside (to avoid murder charges), the abortionist punctures the baby’s skull with scissors or a probe, killing him.
There is salvation even for people who do this and for the women who allow it to happen. I’ve got a million “There, but for the grace of God…” stories of my own.
Checking my Facebook e-mail today, I saw a “vote no on Prop 8″ ad. The measure, which appears on the California state ballot, would define marriage as between only a man and a woman. The irritants who created this ad used a picture of a black man at a “colored” water fountain from the 1950s or 1960s, similar to the one on the right.
Nothing gets me riled up quite like a homosexual, especially a white male, whining about his inability to legally “marry” another male and comparing himself to blacks who were forbidden to sip from “Whites Only” water fountains or made to go through back doors of business establishments like restaurants.
It makes me want to vomit, too.
Imagine traveling back in time and telling some of those church-going folks getting beat upside the head, sprayed with firehoses, attacked by dogs, drenched with soda and food at Woolworth’s during a sit-in demonstration, and called “Niggers” that they’re enduring all this nonsense so that one day, two men could make a mockery of marriage.
Give me a freakin’ break! Two people, three people, four or more people of any sex can do whatever they want to do to each other. I don’t care! And no one is stopping you from marrying. You just can’t marry a person of the same sex. You also can’t marry your sister or your father or a minor or more than one person at a time. You have the same civil rights as the rest of us, but marriage is not a civil right. The civil rights movement was about giving blacks what had been withheld from them for a long time: the right to the same constitutional protections enjoyed by everyone else. Homosexuals, heterosexuals, asexuals, or whatever, are under those same protections. But what homosexuals want are special rights, one of which involves overhauling the institution of marriage. You have no civil right to do that.
It’s maddening, not to mention insulting, when homosexuals co-opt the language and imagery from that turbulent era to push such an agenda. (I’m choosing my words carefully here.)
There are only a few topics I blog about that interest the largest number of readers. Posts about race and Sarah Palin tend to stir things up. Immigration, not so much, surprisingly. Regular readers didn’t like the music blogging, although female readers seemed to like the Hanson posts. And the 64-comment post on synesthesia was a fluke.
That’s the way it is. When a blogger builds a reputation covering certain topics, those are what people expect to read when they come to his/her blog. Today, I have the pleasure of combining music and politics. A couple of months ago, it seems like I was reading a story every day about some rocker “offended” that John McCain played one of his songs during the campaign. Big babies. Clearly, they were not McCain supporters, and clearly, they were raging liberals.
So, when I hear about an artist type – musician, actor, or whatever – supporting McCain, I simply must blog about it.
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, Dave Wedge of the Boston Herald tells us, is a McCain supporter. Lead singer Steve Tyler (he of the generous lips) gets all the attention, even as he approaches senior citizenship. But for a while, I had a crush on Joe Perry.
A “lifelong Republican,” Perry says he decided to go public for McCain after “seeing so many people come out for Obama.” He has his parents to thank for instilling a “work hard” ethic and encouraging him to be positive. Not that it matters in the scheme of things, but I’m glad Perry went on record that he’s a Republican. He’s a rarity among rockers.
In 2000, 61.4 percent of voters chose to ban homosexual “marriage.” Last June, the California Supreme Court overturned that law 4-3. After the decision, over a million Californians signed a petition to put Proposition 8 on the ballot. The measure would amend the state constitution to define marriage as between only a man and a woman.
“Proposition 8 protects marriage as an essential institution of society. While death, divorce, or other circumstances may prevent the ideal, the best situation for a child is to be raised by a married mother and father.”
Actor Chuck Norris, Christian and Republican, reminds us in “I’m Voting for Those Not Yet Born” of Barack Obama’s record on the protection of unborn life.
If Obama wins, we’ll have a man in the White House who voted multiple times against a bill that would protect babies born alive during abortions. We’ll have a man in the White House who supports infanticide. We’ll have a man in the White House who voted against a bill that would require a doctor to notify a parent or guardian before killing a minor’s unborn child in another state. If elected president, Obama said he’d make it his “first priority” to legalize child killing.
I’ve heard from people who say that being pro-choice isn’t the same as being pro-death. They believe, for whatever misguided reason, that women have the freedom to snuff out the life growing inside them. They take offense at being called “pro-death” or “anti-life.” But that’s exactly what they are. There’s no wiggle room. If you believe women have a right to kill their unborn babies, you are pro-death.
In contrast, I don’t recoil when someone calls me “anti-abortion” or “anti-choice.” Darn right. I am not ashamed to wear both labels anytime, anywhere, in the stark light of day.
As Norris says, abortion isn’t about a woman’s so-called right to choose:
“[I]t is about a more fundamental ‘right to life,’ which is one of three specifically identified unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence (and the Constitution, through Article VII and the Bill of Rights). And it is a violation of government’s primary purpose: to protect innocent life.”
It’s important to note the “innocent” part. This is what distinguishes killing an unborn child from executing murderer.
Around 11:15 a.m. ET, I’m appearing on Doug Giles’s radio show to talk about why people who call themselves evangelical Christians plan to vote for the infanticide-supporting Obama. I’m no expert, but that’s never stopped me before!
Addendum: I’m not crazy about John McCain. In fact, I couldn’t be more disappointed with the Republican party’s choice of nominee. But that’s spilled milk under the bridge. Vote for him…unless you want a man in the White House who intends to re-write the Constitution. It’s not hyperbole.
Just like Susan Smith. Except without children or a carjacking story. Or murder. Or…oh, you get the point.
In 1994, Susan Smith of Union, South Carolina, claimed a black man forced her out of her car, refused to let her retrieve her two sons in the back seat, and drove off. On many levels it didn’t ring true, especially the part about the man refusing to let her get the children. (For reasons obvious to “insiders.”)
We (family and friends) thought she and a boyfriend hid the kids from her ex-husband for revenge and made up a carjacking story. We were half right. She made up the carjacking story, and she hid those precious kids, alright: at the bottom of John D. Long Lake. Smith is serving a life sentence. The jury didn’t have the guts to send her to Old Sparky.
(There was something sketchy about that sketch, too. My brother saw it before I did, and he said it reminded him of a caricature from the minstrel show-era. Once I saw it, I agreed.)
Friday, October 24: Crystal Mangum’s still crying rape! I don’t believe it. I’m speechless. I am without speech. But I’ll manage this: Mangum has gang-rape fantasy issues, as I’ve been saying since I first read her side of the story.
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Man, I hope I get this much press when my book comes out.
Crystal Mangum, former stripper and prostitute who falsely accused former Duke University lacrosse players Reade Seligmann, Colin Finnerty, and Dave Evans of brutally beating, strangling, raping, and sodomizing her, asserted “without equivocation, that I was assaulted” at the infamous house party in March 2006, although there was no evidence of an assault. (Source)
Mangum released two chapters of her “memoir,” neither of which gets to the meat of the story. I presume “Meeting” was written by publisher Vincent Clark about his first encounter with Mangum. The excerpt jumps to the last chapter, “New Beginning,” which is nothing more than a shamelessly maudlin, self-absorbed, unfocused, and unsuccessful attempt to gain sympathy. Does Mangum audaciously maintain in the book that she was brutally beaten, strangled, raped, and sodomized in the bathroom? Can’t wait to read all about it.
I’m sitting outside on the deck with laptop and “working,” as the Santa Ana winds blow all sorts of allergens my way. Hard to believe it’s currently 91 degrees. If I were sitting outdoors in DC in 91-degree weather, I’d be a sopping mess. Dry heat is cool.
Anyway, I stumbled across this YearbookYourself time-waster and thought I’d share.
Check me out in 1958 and 1960 (Integration now! Segregation never!):
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we practice to play the race card so close to Election Eve!*
Lewis Diuguid, a columnist for the Kansas City Star, played the race card and opened up a can of Drudge-linked worms with a blog post titled, “Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black.” An excerpt:
“The ’socialist’ label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has long and very ugly historical roots.
“J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans who spent their lives fighting for equality.
“Those freedom fighters included the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr….W.E.B. Du Bois…Paul Robeson…A. Philip Randolph…”
Commenters are letting Diuguid have it.
As some point out, Barack Obama is a socialist, and socialists come in all races and nationalities. I can’t speak for John McCain and Sarah Palin, but when I use the word “socialist,” I’m thinking of white liberals in particular.
For those who do care, let me ease your mind. As confusing as it may be, you shouldn’t be surprised. That is, if you know anything about Colin Powell.
Did you know Colin Powell is pro-choice? He believes women have a right to choose to have their unborn babies slaughtered in the womb.
Did you know Colin Powell believes colleges and universities should admit and reject applicants based on the color of their skin? Race should play a role in admissions, he thinks, an idea totally contrary to the very spirit of the civil rights movement.
(Incidentally, black Republican Condoleezza Rice is also pro-choice and pro-race preferences.)
I would not be surprised if I learned Colin Powell opposes California’s Proposition 8, a measure that would amend the constitution to define marriage as between only one man and one woman.
Colin Powell, endorser of BHO, is a Republican, but he’s not socially conservative. That should clear up any confusion or answer most questions you have about why he did such a thing.
Update: Speaking of race preferences, check out the American Civil Rights Institute’s (ACRI) new blog. If you’re interested in reading about ACRI’s efforts to end race- and sex-based preferences in government hiring, contracting, and admissions, bookmark it or subscribe via RSS or e-mail.
Thanks to Ward Connerly’s efforts, voters in Colorado and Nebraska will decide on November 4 whether their state and local governments may continue discriminating against and granting preferences to people based on race and sex.
As much as I try to suppress the enthusiasm, I like hearing about “conservative” celebrities. Hollywood is a liberal bastion. They own it. As far as I’m concerned, they can have it.
Every now and then we hear about an actor or musician who isn’t a left-leaning friend of Streisand. I knew Kelsey Grammer, Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, Jon Voight, Pat Sajak, Patricia Heaton, Angie Harmon (formerly of “Law and Order”), her husband Jason Sehorn, former cornerback for the New York Giants, and Gary Oldman (Sirius Black!) voted for Republicans. And Stephen Baldwin (brother of Alec) and Kirk Cameron are conservative Christians.
But soap opera veteran Susan “Erica Kane” Lucci of “All My Children” is a Republican? And Dennis “Easy Rider” Hopper? That’s good, because I really like him. (No, not in that way.) And little Ricky Schroder and “The Rock”? (See Celebs Who Lean To The Right)
Before I interviewed the band Hanson last year for a couple of articles, I had a feeling the Oklahoma-bred, homeschooled brothers were conservative.
Confirmed.
Well, we’ll all commiserate with one another on November 5, 2008. I have a feeling Barack Hussein Obama will be America’s 44th president. The status of that prediction will be a big, fat:
Check her out. Isn’t she quaint? On this boat “doctors” kill babies for women whose countries restrict it. They get around these laws by having their babies murdered in international waters. (Source)
May she perish under the wrathful waves of the sea.
A Students for Life of America (SFLA) plant posing as a 15-year-old girl tells Planned Parenthood workers she had sex with her mother’s live-in, thirty-something boyfriend, and needs a morning-after pill. Planned Parenthood, which acknowledges it was statutory rape, continues making an appointment for the girl.
SFLA posted the video on Monday, October 6. Last Thursday, YouTube removed it for “inappropriate” content and “terms of use violation.” It was reposted on Eyeblast.tv. Watch the video below. Warning: Turn down your volume. The intro’s music is rather loud:
SFLA followed up to find out if Planned Parenthood reported the rape. It had not. The girl falls within the definition of “abused juvenile” under North Carolina law, and the abortion mill was obligated under N.C. Gen. Statue 7B-301 to report the statutory rape:
“Any person or institution who has cause to suspect that any juvenile is abused, neglected…shall report the case of that juvenile to the director of the department of social services in the county where the juvenile resides or is found.”
Planned Parenthood is willing to aid and abet rapists and accept donations from racists. Over $300 million of our money goes to this organization every year.
Marriage: Arizona, California, and Florida will have measures on the ballot to amend state constitutions to define marriage as between only one man and one woman.
Child Killing: Californians will vote on whether “doctors” should be required to notify a parent or guardian 48 hours before killing a minor’s unborn baby.
Colorado voters will weigh in on the Personhood Amendment, which would define “person…as any human being from the moment of fertilization.” Yes, life begins at conception. It’s a shame the issue is up for a vote, but there you go.
No matter what voters decide about the amendment, life still begins at conception.
In South Dakota, voters will choose whether the state may prohibit child killing except in cases of rape, incest, or to protect the mother’s health (which I believe is just a red herring). I don’t agree with such exceptions, as I’ve explained here. People call me an extremist, a label I wear with pride.
Checking my 
So, when I hear about an artist type – musician, actor, or whatever – supporting McCain, I simply must blog about it. 
Californians, vote YES on Proposal 8 to 
(There was something sketchy about that sketch, too. My brother saw it before I did, and he said it reminded him of a caricature from the 
Man, I hope I get this much press when my book comes out.
I, personally, me, La Shawn Barber, couldn’t care less that retired Army General Colin Powell, black Republican, 
Child Killing: Californians will vote on whether “doctors” should be required to notify a parent or guardian 48 hours before killing a minor’s unborn baby. 
