I laughed and said "Ma'am, Al Sharpton is a pretender. He is going to tell you to pretend that the color of your skin matters. He is going to ask you to ignore the now overwhelming proof that 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, blacks are now destroying each other faster than the KKK could have dreamed."
As people streamed in, like ants to a picnic, it was the most orderly, polite, and helpful affair as people took position for the rally the next day. Shouts of "Welcome!" and "Thank you for coming!" rang out from strangers.
So, these people didn’t have any wheelchair-bound friends coming. They didn’t know anyone in wheelchairs, but they were on the lookout for STRANGERS in wheelchairs who MIGHT be coming, and proactively decided they were going to reserve a space for them, on their own, coming to the rally site at midnight the night before to do it.
When K. told them he was the only one of us camping out that night, these same people said, "Well, it’s official, you are a McCallister now. You are now part of the McCallister Family from Willmette, North Carolina for the duration of this rally and beyond if you like". ... When K. tried to curl up on the ground with his backpack for a pillow, the McCallisters said, "Oh, no you don’t buddy. We have all this space right here on the blanket, so you are sleeping there. And here’s a real pillow. Do you want any hot chocolate and s’mores before you go to sleep?" The McCallisters shared everything they brought with K. and adopted him into their group.
It was very rough for some sleeping out on the dirt, grass, rocks, and cement, and we’ve seen people lose their manners and temper at large events like this in Chicago, waiting just an hour or so for some program to start on the lawn in Grant Park. But there were no arguments we could hear…no incidents of people acting out in anger…no fights over territory on that grass.
They only had to say it ONCE, and then the crowd just politely told anyone who would come later, not knowing, that they had been told to move from those paths and that we needed to keep those paths cleared in case of emergencies. No one argued. No one tried to defy the system. No one thought they were entitled to break the rules. They just peacefully complied and policed themselves…and the paths were clear for emergencies all day.
By the time the rally was about to begin, the McCallister family had dispatched itself to find anyone in a wheelchair and bring them close enough to see. They found three men in wheelchairs and one grandma. All four of them became "honorary McCallisters" too, and we all sat together in the space the McCallisters had reserved.
We all saw, at various times, people get up from their places to make coffee or donut runs. When they would get up, they would ask the people immediately around them if they wanted anything too.
As the rally was getting closer to starting, we saw people all throughout the crowd hold up garbage bags and ask if others in the crowd could take some of them and disperse them, so that no trash would be left behind.
Throughout the day, as people would try to make their way through the crowd, returning from coffee runs or bathroom breaks, people were so kind in letting them pass through and get by. "You need to get back to your family? Here, let me help you," they’d say, with thank-yous extended in return.
So everyone in the crowd seemed respectful of one another, and tried to make sure they did nothing to take away from the enjoyment of those around them. So, there was no talking. There was no loud eating. There was no distracting behavior. It was the most respectful any of us have ever seen a large crowd behave.
When Governor Sarah Palin spoke at the rally, and told stories about wounded veterans, the crowd became incredibly emotional and we saw many people crying. STRANGERS gave them comfort, held them, and joined in for a tear or two because the Governor was so moving, and the tales she told so patriotic and full of emotion.
As the sun really started to beat down, and people really started to feel the heat, the Momma Grizzlies made sure everyone around them had water. They had brought more than they needed because they figured strangers would need water too.
K. now has a place to stay if ever he’s in Wilmette, North Carolina. The rest of us now have places to go and visit where people we met at this rally live. And they expect us all to come. These were not just throwaway "let’s do lunch" invitations. It was incredible.
People left the area in an orderly fashion, walking out like streams of ants, in single file lines, just as they came in. Elderly people who had trouble walking on the uneven ground got the assistance of everyone around them. Paths were cleared, without anyone having to ask, for those in wheelchairs. As we’ve noted before, but can never emphasize enough, THE LAWNS LOOKED BETTER WHEN THE CROWD LEFT, THAN BEFORE WE CAME.
Once you have established the premise that hateful ideas must be dismissed without further thought or discussion, immense power accrues to whoever gets to classify ideas as “hateful.” Hatefulness becomes a virus, spreading rapidly through association with anyone the elite have identified as a carrier. You don’t have to argue with the infected, or consider the merits of their arguments… just avoid all contact with them. Thinking unclean thoughts could cause the contagion to spread.
Moreover, there's a subtle but important distinction here that shouldn't be missed: it's one thing to condemn a person's behavior or his position on an issue, but if you move on from that to condemning him as a human being because of his sexual orientation, you've gone too far.
Are we better off with gays in the GOP, or telling them to get lost so they can join the Democrats where they will be radicalized and turned back against us? Do we want gays in churches learning about Jesus and the Bible, or kick them out so the only place they feel comfortable is in clubs and bars? If we want to diminish the gay identity group, the first thing we have to do is stop discriminating against it.
We’re always told to turn the other cheek. Use your last dime to help someone else. Don’t complain, you’re selfish, you bigot, you racist, you retarded self absorbed piece of crap. Write your check. Shut up and give us your sweat while we mock every value that you own. You’re insensitive, culturally ignorant. You don’t appreciate the nuances of the situation.
We are NOT that. We are so much better than that. We were never that.
It’s a cemetary. It’s a mass grave at the scene of a mass murder. It should be treated as such.
As far as I am concerned WE are the victims this time, the injured parties, the people who should be given compassion, understanding, tolerance and kindness. We should be the ones who are on the receiving end, instead of being the ones who give. We should be allowed our time to grieve and not be told how to grieve, how to feel, and be told that somehow we should be over it.
No more. Not this time. I refuse to be put in a box of badness. I refuse to be less than human.
Hmm. Let's take this sign in order, shall we?
Passed Health Care Reform over the will of the American people.
Signed Economic Stimulus Bills that did nothing but drive us further into debt.
Recast America's Global Image as a gutless, dhimmi nation sucking up to jihadists.
Commands two war zones in theory. What is he actually doing to contribute to the war effort?
Won the Nobel Peace Prize, as did Yassir Arafat(known terrorist), Al Gore("climate change" snake-oil salesman and suspected sexual predator), Jimmy Carter(for doing...well, what, exactly?), Woodrow Wilson(a racist and anti-American 'progressive')...I'm sorry, what was the point, again?
Nominated 2 Supreme Court Justices. Well, that's what a President is supposed to do. I'd hardly call that an accomplishment. Not to mention, I'd say both of them are far-Left idealogues rather than 'Justices.'
Overhauled financial regulations to the detriment of America and the benefit of his cronies.
Yes, he does deserve a vacation. A permanent one, which will start at noon on 01/20/13.
A classic pattern emerges.
"You people illusion yourselves to believe you are accepted by the right-wing even thought you oppose SSM, you’re all on crack.
"Because I don’t think its about how much work you have to do, there is no work to be done as they CLEARLY DO NO WANT YOU. Do I need to staple that on your face?"
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This is the classic pattern of the abuser — they try to control and manipulate others by telling them how everyone else hates them, how worthless they are, how they have no choice but to do what the abuser tells them, and so forth.
Sick, isn’t it? But it really gives you a window into what the gay left and the Obama Party deem to be acceptable behavior.
The only solution for an addict caught in this spiral is to stop and take the pain of detoxification. The pain is considerable - even excruciating. Indeed, it feels even worse when the drug is stopped than it did in the depths of hell to which addiction had taken the sufferer.
Yet it is the only path out.
Such it is with the economy.
Barack Obama and Congress simply do not get it. They think they, along with The Fed, can "prime the pump" with "stimulus", just as the meth-head thinks he can "stimulate" recovery with "just one more hit."
He's wrong, as is Congress, Barack and The Fed.
The excess capacity in the economy cannot be sustained. It simply doesn't matter whether policymakers like this or not. An economy that can only run at its former rate when mainlining speedballs cannot continue to operate in this fashion without killing the host. Detoxification and a slowing of the economic metabolism to sustainable levels is the only way you survive.
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There’s a line in Annie Hall in which Alvie Singer admits to a young woman “You’re right. I am a bigot. But for the left.” There you have, in a nutshell, why a significant portion of the American population overlooks failings that honorable people have learned are grave moral shortcomings. Being a bigot, liar, tax-cheat, philanderer, traitor, weasel, reprobate, chauvinist, elitist, hypocrite, exploiter, despoiler, glutton, back-stabber, thief, or sociopath is excusable as long as it is sanctified by the proper politics. Once again, we see how America is trying to skate by on the cheap and easy, falling for the con that emotional satisfaction is an acceptable substitute for principles.
Our current disarray is not the inescapable result of social complexity, unhealthy concentrations of wealth, or menacing forces lurking in the darkness. Rather, it is the natural and unavoidable price that a society pays when it has allowed itself to be distracted by celebrity, to indulge adolescent fantasies and grudges, and be seduced by the serpentine myth that it is “entitled” to something. Our budget is shaky, our security questionable, and our insitutions tottering, quite simply because we have earned for ourselves the stupidest, shallowest and most incompetent political class in our history. We have allowed ourselves to be ruled by mediocrities and scoundrels that appealed almost exclusively to the notion that we should not vote for their opponent.
Negative campaigning and pop-psychological fluff have been the criteria which has given us more morons, jackanapes and grifters in our government than at any other time in our history. Now these same defective overachievers want us to cede more of our liberty to compensate for their lack of brains, character and courage.
We have the dumbest Speaker of the House in history; a shallow, unprepared President; an unprincipled hack as Senate Majority leader; and a passel of political opportunists like Arlen Specter, Ben Nelson, Charlie Crist, and Michael Bloomberg ,whose beliefs are blown about by the slightest breezes of political opportunity.
We have been given the greatest opportunities of liberty, natural resources, economic and technological innovation, and legacy of sacrifice in pursuit of noble ideals and human dignity that the world has ever known. We have chosen to neglect them on grounds that holding and honoring principles is too hard, voting for corrupt, pandering politicians is too easy; and being proud of our accomplishments and decency is too unfashionable. I say, “screw that.” I’m an American, dammit, and I am not entitled to anything that I don’t earn honorably. The proper response to the great gifts of freedom and comfort that I enjoy is humble gratititude, not peurile indignity and grievance. My happiness, success, honor and those of my family are my responsibilities, not to be relinquished to, but rather protected against, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, and the gaggle of fools and miscreants that think they know what is best for me better than I do.
America will turn around and maintain its greatness when we all get serious about electing a government for which principle and character are not optional.
Jan Brewer flosses her teeth with barbed wire from the border.
The movie Terminator is, in fact, an autobiographical documentary of Jan Brewer’s life.
Jan Brewer invented every letter of the alphabet, including ?.
Jan Brewer once had an awkward moment. Just to see how it feels.
Jan Brewer is known to cure narcolepsy just by walking into the room.
Janet Napolitano lives vicariously through Jan Brewer.
Jan Brewer climbed Mount Everest in just one day. Twice.
The most interesting man in the world retired when he met Jan Brewer.
You don’t decide whether or not to boycott Arizona. Jan Brewer decides whether or not to let you in.
Jan Brewer can pop a wheelie on a unicycle.
Jan Brewer taught Chuck Norris how to do a roundhouse kick.
Liberal President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And Jan Brewer.”
Jan Brewer can squeeze orange juice out of lemons.
Sharks have a week dedicated to Jan Brewer.
When Jan Brewer wants shade, she stares down the sun.
Jan Brewer sealed the border. By herself.
Not an idea that would play well with Christians or Jews vis-a-vis property adjacent to a church or temple, but oh well: If we’re going to celebrate tolerance regardless of the sensitivities of the surrounding area, let’s celebrate! And the best part? Because, as we’ve been assured many times, the “Park51″ cultural center will be a model of moderation, gay Muslim men don’t have to worry about being seen entering Gut’s establishment. Flaunt it all you want, fellas; you’re in Moderate Town, U.S.A., on that block. I look forward to the congratulatory Mike Bloomberg press conference.
I have never been embraced or appreciated in the gay community for believing in limited government, the Constitution, and personal liberty for all persons.
Why is this important? Well, there are several reasons but the simple fact that it is easier for me to be gay around conservatives, than it is to be conservative around gays, is a very telling dynamic in showing how accepting conservatives are of everybody, regardless of race, sexual orientation, economic status, or political affiliation. Conservatives are independent patriotic individuals. As long as you agree with the basic platform of constitutional government, individual liberty’s, and a high sense of morality, then they welcome you with open hearts and arms.
Strip searches are intrusive not because they require the removal of clothing, but because they force the revelation of that which is ordinarily our prerogative to withhold.
Because of this, it is a well settled matter of law that they can only be performed under certain conditions, (on the order of entering prison, for example) and flight boarding is not one of them.
The fact that technologically assisted strip searches can now be done in bulk, without the removal of clothing is entirely immaterial to that point, and the entire matter is a power grab, attempting to create a precedent for mass strip searches of the public.
I’m aware that one would have to hear voices, wear a tinfoil hat, drink moonshine, live in a trailer, and have been bad-touched by aliens at least once in their life to so much as suggest a leftist bias exists in mainstream American journalism.
Part of the reason I ceased identifying as a leftist about twenty years ago is because it became impossible to ignore the unapologetically infantile tantrum-throwing and witch-hunting bloodlust that always seemed to lurk beneath leftism’s fake-ass shield of compassionate humanism. That, and the fact that most of its spokespeeps were affluent Caucasians who for some reason fancied themselves as champions of “the people” despite the fact that the middle-class, working-class, and lumpenproletarian whites who actually constitute the statistical bulk of “the people” are the incessant targets of their elitist scorn and derision.
