Is this ad racist?

I'll let you decide.



If you think the ad is racist how would you make the point that borrowing money from a foreign country, namely China, is harmful to our economy? I think the economic point is debatable but that doesn't make the ad racist.

Of course if Hoekstra was a Democrat and Stabenow was a Republican nobody would bring this up.

The Multicultural Left takes on the Evil Mormons

How predictable. Now the Anti-Mormon articles start coming out. "Mormons are a cult." "They’re crazy." "Mormons are racist." And all these articles will be coming from the pro-multicultural hypocrites in the MSM. I guess we're all equal and good when it's to their advantage.

Here are some quotes from a New Republic article: Why Mitt Romney Needs To Talk Openly About His Mormon Faith

The essential question, from the perspective of many voters, concerns the very nature of Mormonism, an upstart religion born in western New York in 1830 and persecuted for much of the nineteenth century.

If you can’t get your side excited about their candidate, how about quelling the enthusiasm on the other side.

What ought to interest us about Romney’s faith are not the vagaries of Mormon theology, fascinating as they are, but how he understands that theology, how his faith informs the way he lives, his sense of responsibility toward others and how that might affect the way he governs.

Yeah. And the asked the same question about Obama and how his faith might affect the way he governs.

Then we have this stupidity:

Although Mormons are hardly the only group that claims to be the “true” religion, how does that teaching inflect Romney’s notions about pluralism and toleration?

The initial clause gives the author an out but the second clause shows where the author is leading us. Mormons are “scary.” They are intolerant. Of course the same accusation could be made of the author. Muslims think their religion is the true religion; as do Jews and Christians. In fact ALL the major religions think so. That being the case – what is the point of the author?

Is there any doubt that this dirtiest presidential election in modern history?

Honor Killing - Good News For Once

Rare as it is a Western Court fully acknowledged the horror of honor killing and did the right thing.

“It is difficult to conceive of a more heinous, more despicable and more honourless crime,” Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Maranger said Sunday after the jury foreman had read aloud the verdicts.



“The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameless murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your twisted notion of honour, a notion of honour that is founded upon the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honour that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.”

By using the words “honourless” and “shameless”, Maranger was tossing back at Shafia some of the very epithets he used so often when speaking about his dead daughters.

No honour in ‘cold-blooded, shameless’ murder of Shafia girls

It's too bad that the hypocrites who talk about multi-culturalism never seem to remember about cases like this.

One Year Away from Hope and Change

1/20/13. Only one more year until Obama is out!



I hope. I really hope for change.

What did you expect? Higher Taxes Doesn't Solve the Problem

Illinois raised personal and corporate taxes in order to solve their budget crisis. They used the time honored argument: if only the rich would pay their fair share everything would be ok. Who knew that it wouldn't work out as advertised?

Judy Topinka, the Illinois State Treasurer, says that this is "extremely disappointing" as a year ago Illinois increased income taxes by 67 percent and also corporate taxes.

“After the largest tax hike in our history, the state continues to be in this precarious fiscal position with persistent payment delays, and frankly, the situation is unlikely to significantly improve in the near term."

And here I thought that budget deficits were due to not enough revenue. I suppose Illinois will have to raise its income and corporate taxes a little more this year - this time it will solve the problem.

So Disappointed in Perry and Gingrich

I’m now officially opposed to both Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich. Their attacks on Bain Capital were the final straw. As far as Rick Perry goes he can't string ideas together and his Small Government critics were right: he really is a Yellow Dog Democrat. He may get me excited by calling Social Security a Ponzi Scheme but how can I back him if he bashes business as he did by calling Bain Capital "Vulture Capitalism". Perry, what were you thinking?

And Newt - I love a lot of what he says. I love the way he turns the tables in debates and doesn't let himself fall into trap - but then he turns around and backs government-run health care, calls the Paul Ryan plan "right-wing social engineering" even though the plan really is too-little-too-late; and now he bashes businesses like Bain Capital? I can forgive Gingrich for falling for the global warming crap but this I cannot.

I don't expect Gingrich to take punishment without hitting back - he should attach Romney on his ideas, attack him on his policies, attack him on not being able to connect with the American people - but to attack him for Bain Capital? No. With that you lost my support.

EDITED 1/20/2012

Obama may truly be Carter 2.0

As of now there is no crystal ball for the 2012 elections. There are almost no certainties except that Obama will not do better than his 2008 performance. As of now not much has changed from a year ago when I wrote that we are going to have a return to the 2000 electoral map and have another close race.

The only thing that has changed is that I think that there is real chance for a Republican blow-out as happened in 1980. There is so much disapproval of Obama, especially among working-class labor voters (teamsters, laborers, machinists, etc... ) that the loss of this core Democratic block would result in an electoral blow-out.

A generation ago this voting block was called Reagan Democrats. It was nothing like that - it was that construction union members felt estranged from Carter in much the same way their children feel estranged from Obama. The more the Republicans bring up Keystone and Solyndra the more "Reagan Democrats" will be tempted to vote for the Republican candidate. For this to be true the Republican candidate must, in the same way that Reagan did, prove that he is not the evil, brain-dead, dangerous caricature he is made out to be. It may very well be close until the last month before voters move en mass away from Obama.