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If you kids out there want to make up for all the trouble you caused your mother, here is a start.

Just a Hint

Parties were more fun when George W. Bush was president. You could debate, argue even, praise and condemn, throw darts and laurels and solve the world’s problems over a bottle of wine. No more. At least not in my circles. If you want to stop a conversation in its tracks, just question something President Barack Obama has said or done. It’s not open to debate — and I don’t think that’s healthy >>Read more

Wow, this was in the NY Times

Among African-Americans, support dropped to 36 percent from about half of those polled last year. Among whites, who constituted much of Mr. Nagin’s voting base in his first election, the approval rating was 5 percent. (The survey’s margin of sampling error for whites was plus or minus five percentage points.)
Edward F. Renwick, a retired professor of political science at Loyola University and a pollster himself, said he found that figure surprising. “I have hardly ever seen 5 percent,” Dr. Renwick said. On the other hand, he added, “I have never met a white person who doesn’t hate him.” >>Read the entire article

He is doing the job he was picked for, making Obama look better than he is. Both of these guys are playing the ‘stupid white guy’ roll. They’re ‘closing the gap’.

And now for our musical interlude for tonight NIN

I’m an unashamed Polonophile. If you grew up in a certain kind of Irish-British Catholic household in the 1980s, Poland was a heroic and tragic fairytale kingdom that, having endured the neo-pagan Nazis, was now held captive by the godless Soviets – and yet maintained its faith, chivarly and honour.
The story of medieval Christian chivalry battling against the monstrous modernists had a Tolkienesque grandeur to it (or Lucasian, you could stay – Star Wars has similar themes) and the election of John Paul II, and the overthrow of the Communists in early 1989, was the end of the hero’s journey. The Evil Empire was destroyed.
Katyn tells the truth about Communism / Socialism emphasis added

The socialists aren’t killing anybody but they are on their way. see Palin, Miss USA contestant, Clarence Thomas etc. etc. etc.

Kristallnacht, might not be too far away.

“Having demolished dwellings and hurled most of the moveable effects to the
streets,” he wrote, “the insatiably sadistic perpetrators threw many of the
trembling inmates into a small stream that flows through the zoological park,
commanding horrified spectators to spit at them, defile them with mud and jeer
at their plight.”

Sounds like the mobs that were sent to demonstrate in front of the homes of the recipients of the AIG bonuses.

An incident several days earlier had given the Nazi
authorities an excuse to instigate the violence. On November 7th, a 17-year-old
Polish Jewish student named Hershel Grynszpan had shot Ernst vom Rath, the Third
Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris. Grynszpan, enraged by the deportation
of his parents to Poland from Hanover, Germany, where they had lived since 1914,
hoped that his dramatic action would alert the world to the ominous plight of
Europe’s Jews. When the French police arrested Grynszpan, he sobbed: “Being a
Jew is not a crime. I am not a dog. I have a right to live and the Jewish people
have a right to exist on earth. Wherever I have been I have been chased like an
animal.” The assassination attempt was successful; vom Rath died on November
9th.

Shoes Michelle Obama wears to a poverty event: $540
The new Amelda Marcos / and also clueless

Another reason why U.S. ed schools are so awful: the ongoing influence of Brazilian Marxist Paulo Freire

Like the more famous Teach for America, the New York Teaching Fellows program provides an alternate route to state certification for about 1,700 new teachers annually. When I met with a group of the fellows taking a required class at a school of education last summer, we began by discussing education reform, but the conversation soon took a turn, with many recounting one horror story after another from their rocky first year: chaotic classrooms, indifferent administrators, veteran teachers who rarely offered a helping hand. You might expect the required readings for these struggling rookies to contain good practical tips on classroom management, say, or sensible advice on teaching reading to disadvantaged students. Instead, the one book that the fellows had to read in full was Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire. >>Read Full Article

I have not heard too much of an outrage from the Women’s Movement about the subjugation of women by men in the Islamic Religion. Maybe this might be OK too.

Males of the aptly-named Harpactea sadistica species pierce the abdomen of females, fertilising their eggs directly in the ovaries.

The so-called traumatic insemination gives the first male to inseminate a reproductive advantage by bypassing structures in the females’ genitalia.

The ‘spermatheca’ is the place, in the female, where the male was originaly suppost to deposit his sperm.

However, the spermatheca is a “last in, first out” structure, so that if any further males inseminate a female, the last mate’s sperm is the first in line to fertilise an egg.

There is also video here