Archive for March 22nd, 2011
Madness: Obama claims installing a democratic system is now goal in a country where a democratic election would result in an Islamic thugocracy
As unsavory as the likes of Kadaffy and the Hutt-like royals in various Muslim-majority countries are, these thugs are immensely preferable to the Iran-like Islamic theocracies that would result if elections were held in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, etc.
Muslim countries need secular dictators, no matter how weird or gross, to maintain some semblance of rational government…since Islam has no distinction between church and state and Islamists win elections in Muslim countries using the full thug arsenal of violence, threats, and religious zealotry that ultimately installs mullahs and ayatollahs to power.
This is the Obama Doctrine: to destabilize secular Middle Eastern regimes and replace them with Islamist, radical governments.
Hope!
Change!
Madness!
Palin-free Dancing With the Stars down 20% in ratings
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/22/dancing-with-the-stars-premiere-kicks-up-a-win/
Without Bristol Palin on the show, Dancing With the Stars is down 20% in the ratings.
It looks like Bristol’s season will indeed be the show’s highest rated…as we expected.
I have no interest in watching this show ever again (unless Willow, Track, or Piper compete in the future), but hope Kirstie Alley wins the mirror ball trophy.
The woman has been savaged by the tabloids for years, and was hilarious on Cheers. She also seems, like Bristol, to be trying her heart out…so go Kirstie go.
Effort emerges to strip Obama of Nobel Prize, which he laughably never deserved to begin with
http://m.digitaljournal.com/article/304909
Since Marisa Tomei still holds the random, out-of-the-blue Oscar she won for “My Cousin Vinnie” and Whoopie Goldberg is still an Academy Award winner despite the fool she makes of herself daily on “The View”, there is no reason to believe an effort to strip Obama of his undeserved joke of a 2009 Nobel Peace Prize will succeed…but it’s good the Kool-Aid has worn off enough internationally for this to be said aloud.
The man is an unfunny, incompetent joke whose presidency has descended into dangerous chaos…more so every day.
If he had any sense at all, he would have declined the undeserved Peace Prize back in 2009, instead of accepting an honor he did not earn.
So that hubris and chronic narcissism is coming back to haunt him.
Just as it rightly should.
Kennesaw State University new provost caves in to accusations of Marxism
Timothy Chandler
A couple of weeks ago I did a story about the new provost-elect at Kennesaw State University in Marietta, Georgia. Timothy Chandler was slotted to take over the job this July but it had been discovered that he had done a paper the slanted towards Marxism and once exposed…..there was a rather large backlash from the public. Well…the people have spoken and Dr. Chandler has decided “not to take the job”.
(AJC) Accusations of Marxism and being un-American proved too much for Kennesaw State University’s newly selected provost, who withdrew his acceptance of the position on Thursday.
Timothy Chandler, tapped last month as KSU’s new provost, had been criticized in recent weeks for a 1998 academic paper he co-authored that cited Communist philosopher Karl Marx.
A local Cobb County newspaper accused Chandler of having an obvious fondness for Marx and vehement dislike of capitalism, and was critical of his association with the paper’s co-author who went on to publish theories linking the Bush administration to the 9/11 attacks.
The surrounding controversy sparked debate within the community on both sides of the issue and on KSU’s campus.
“I have decided it is in the best interest of Kennesaw State University for me to withdraw at this time,” Chandler said in a statement released by KSU. “… I have now come to believe that the recent distractions caused by external forces would interfere with my effectiveness as provost.”
Chandler, a British-born senior associate provost at Kent State University in Ohio, was slated to begin his job, second in command to President Dan Papp, at KSU in July. He will keep his job at Kent State.
Given the circumstances, Chandler made the right decision, said Earl Holliday, an assistant professor in KSU’s Department of Educational Leadership and member of the faculty senate.
Earlier this week, after prompting by Holliday, the senate ended a meeting without voting on a resolution of support for Chandler. The senate president did not return calls for comment Thursday.
“For the candidates we bring to campus — and I’m sure [Chandler] is a very talented person — but I think matching their skill set with the university community is very important,” Holliday said.
News of Chandler’s decision was spreading quickly around campus on Thursday, and some students were disappointed at the outcome, said Ali Kamran, student government president.
“Students are disappointed at the personal attacks on [Chandler] and with the narrow-mindedness of people who wrote negative comments about the situation,” Kamran said. “They’re talking about academic freedom and having to start the search all over again.”
Otis Brumby, publisher of the Marietta Daily Journal, which first criticized Chandler’s work, said he was not surprised by Chandler’s announcement.
“A college like KSU is dependent on public funding through the Legislature and private sources, and when asked if [Chandler] could be effective, Papp said I’m not sure,” Brumby said. “It seems Papp, even though he didn’t say it, must have made up his mind that this was the best decision for the university.”
Public funding dependent on public support?
What a novel idea.
Could we possibly apply the same principle to NPR and Planned Parenthood?
You bet.
Not all of Chile was glad to see Obama…
Protesters in Santiago
It looks like Barack Obama has lost his “mojo”. Protesters in Santiago, Chile turned out to show their displeasure of “The One”.
(AFP)- Two peaceful demonstrations were held in Chile Sunday protesting the upcoming visit of President Barack Obama and rejecting a recently signed US-Chilean nuclear agreement.
Some 2,000 people marched in downtown Santiago against Obama’s visit on Monday in an event organized by the environmental group Greenpeace.The protesters were angry that Chile signed a nuclear energy agreement on Friday with the United States despite Japan’s huge atomic crisis.
Some 300 people, including influential union leaders and members of Chile’s Communist Party, earlier marched in the downtown Plaza de Armas carrying banners that read “Obama Persona No Grata” and “Gringos Go Home.”
“This demonstration is to reject Barack Obama’s militaristic policies,” protest organizer Ricardo Sole told AFP.
The shine has definitely worn off. No support on the far left and no support on the right.
Do you think Obama is starting to see the BIG picture?
Probably not.
Tuesday Open Thread: March 22, 2011
This picture speaks a thousand words
I think this picture is great. You’ve probably noticed that I get a lot of things from Moonbattery. I love this site so I encourage you to visit it.
So…..what’s on your minds this Tuesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
