How do people who have no power get to be bigots?

The canard among the pro-affirmative action race mongers is that “minorities” cannot be considered bigoted because they have no power (or they’re Asian).

In an Obama empowered moment of porcine aviation, that idea gets thrown under the bus by none other than Napoleon the Pig himself.

But for now, the flashpoint in the culture wars is gay rights, and I have to say, as wonderful as yesterday might’ve been, losing Prop 8 hit me hard. That California would vote for a black president with a margin of 61-37 and then shit on gays was horrifically disappointing.

This will be only the first of the disappointments the gay community will face under an Obama Administration. Anyone who was paying attention knew that McCain was the candidate they needed to have voted for. Instead they completed their textbook lemming maneuver and voted (D). Sadly for them, they’ll find out in short order that that just won’t do anymore.

Personally, if I were a Californian, I’d have probably bit down hard on that bullet of having to agree with SF Mayor Newsom on something and voted for Prop. 8. The Proposition doesn’t harm The Wife or myself in any way and going to the voters is the only proper way to approve the idea that government should get involved in something as abstract as love.

I’d much rather get the choice to approve the idea that government should stay out of the marriage business altogether, but that ain’t gonna happen in my lifetime. And that is exclusively because the folks who keep dragging this issue through the courts seem to want government approval of their choice and will settle for nothing less.

So gather round the May Pole, people of African descent, you’ve moved up in the world in more ways than one this week.

Y’all can be considered bigots now by those who deem themselves your betters.

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Superman?

We’ll see. If he wields his veto pen with vigor and reins in Congress, I have to admit he could be one of the greats in terms of impact on the country (a la FDR). I seriously doubt that’s going to happen, and agree with most of Steven denBeste’s excellent analysis here.

I would have enjoyed watching lefty heads explode if McCain had won. But we’re going to see lefty heads exploding anyway; it’s just going to take longer.

Pay particular attention to denBeste’s list of predictions, heavy on foreign policy. Especially these:

2. The US hasn’t suffered a terrorist attack by al Qaeda since 9/11, but we’ll get at least one during Obama’s term.

3. We’re going to lose in Afghanistan.

4. Iran will get nuclear weapons. There will be nuclear war between Iran and Israel. (This is the only irreversibly terrible thing I see upcoming, and it’s very bad indeed.)

On the domestic front, I’d add that if Obama is stupid enough to, say, sign a national CCW ban, then I’ve seriously overestimated him.

Besides, we’ve got Superwoman waiting in the wings. 

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So

I’m disappointed.

Not alarmed. Not angry. Not disenfranchised.

Just disappointed.

Disappointed in the way a father would be when his daughter comes home from her second year in college pregnant.

Pregnant by a guy who, when you get to meet him, only calls your wife Mrs. when he can put the first initial of your last names after the word, and otherwise will only call you and her by your first names. His Camaro is spotless and his mullet immaculate, and he speaks as though he has never heard the words “Please” or “Thank You”, or learned how to give a compliment.

He smacks your daughter on the ass in front of you and doesn’t ask permission before grabbing a second and third beer.

And then the situation goes downhill.

In the ensuing weeks and months your daughter repeatedly calls your wife crying because they have had an argument. After one of those arguments he posted compromising photos of your daughter on the internet. The guy is drinking most of their money away and has quit multiple jobs. He has money coming in, but your daughter isn’t sure from where, and you’re sure that it isn’t legitimate. Any money she brings home gets thrown into their collective pot, and she never sees much from it.

And then one night she comes to your home with marks on her arms, but she threatens to go back to him and lie to the police if you call them. “That’s it!”, you say, and your daughter moves back in permanently with you and your wife. You’d like to “take care” of the problem, now that it has gotten completely out of hand, but you know that your daughter would spill the beans, and taking care of problems like that just aren’t as easy as they used to be.

But it doesn’t stop there.

Now that you have taken away “The Love of His Life”, he retaliates against you. The guy knows you’re a gun owner and manages to get a No Contact order against you and then begins to sue for custody of the future child on those grounds. The parents of this punk are funding that legal excursion, hiring the number one family practice attorney in your state.

All the while, your daughter wants to argue with you and your wife about maybe giving the guy “another try” to “make it all stop”.

And now that you’re just treading water here, your son comes home from college with the news he’ll be a dad in eight months, and the girl could easily be the sister of your daughter’s problem.

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What are you doing here? (Updated)

I’m busy voting.

Like you should be doing.

Oh, you already voted? Excellent. When I get back I’ll have a gift for all of you who have voted.

In the meantime, have a good day.

Update: It was the busiest polling place I’ve ever been to, with lines 100 yards long (not that that bothered me, I knew to wear comfortable shoes). However, I’m quite sure that the four different polling places I’ve had to go to since living in the area were consolidated this year.

Also, first police officers I’ve seen at a polling place, only one of which was actually voting. One in the parking lot and one wandering through the halls.

But, business is done. For my fellow voting citizens, your surprise is below the fold.

Continue reading →

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A Prediction

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Blogmeet

For those that missed last week’s announcement, myself and a number of local bloggy-types will be meeting for dinner this upcoming Sunday, the 9th of November at La Cabana Cafe 2532 Beacon Ave S in Seattle @ 1800. You can write me for directions if you’d like to attend (second link in the sidebar).

If you’re local and want to join us for some excellent conversation and excellent food, that will be the place you’ll want to be seated.

Since this weekend was our Anniversary, and it was our first Favorite Restaurant, The Wife and I made our way up there over the weekend and I am happy to say that it hasn’t changed a bit since the last time I was there and that they’ll be more than happy to seat us.

Warning: Wear comfortable pants that you can loosen. Good food and lots of it.

Hope to see you there.

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RNS Quote of the Day: 11/01/08

I think this is exceptionally appropriate considering tomorrow’s events.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Lin Yutang

All things being equal, I prefer sunrises.

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Heat. Kitchen.

Who just left?

Why, it was the assholes at the weekly Seattle alt-rag, The Stranger, who over the weekend published the addresses of King County residents who posted McCain/Palin yard signs in front of their homes.

A number of local area non-Messiah supporting blogs (this one not included for reasons mentioned on Saturday) decided that turnabout was fiarplay and posted the home addresses of the editorial staff of The Stranger.

Oddly enough, The Stranger took down their morally offensive post, post haste. Just an FYI: if you see alink to the stranger post, you will automatically be redirected to Drudge.

Unless you click this link.

It will take you to G’Willie’s blog Geobent, where he has reporduced the text and pics from the article, minus the addresses.

My only bit of surprise here was that this happened in Seattle and not our neighbor to the south, Frisco-land, where the stalking of non-Democrats is damn near legal.

But then again, the Seattle Activism site is advertising a McCain Sign Stealing Party.

Join the fight against facism by eliminating hate speech. Help us replace the racist Republican message of intolerance with one of hope and change.

There is, quite literally, two tons of irony in that statement. Spelling inaccuracies have been left in tact.

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That is not “Change”

It is the same old shit the Democrats do every time they have the chance

Iraq War Vet’s Service Attacked in Ohio Campaign

When Josh Mandel got a call from the Marines last year asking him to return voluntarily to Iraq, he had much more to contemplate than when he first enlisted in 2000. He had just been elected to the Ohio state legislature. Family considerations were also important to him. He ultimately decided to serve a second tour in Iraq “because I didn’t join the Marine Corps to say no when my country called,” Mr. Mandel explains.

Of all the factors he weighed, Mr. Mandel says political concerns were not among them. Now he has been forced to deal with the politics of that decision. The opponent in his tough re-election fight, trial attorney Bob Belovich, is attacking Mr. Mandel’s service, arguing that he abandoned voters. Mr. Belovich’s wife, Barbara, acknowledged in an interview for this column that she has told voters that Mr. Mandel “went AWOL” (a military term for desertion) by fighting in Iraq.

Even Mr. Mandel’s motives for serving in Iraq are being questioned. Mrs. Belovich claimed in an interview with this columnist that Mandel “put his personal ambitions ahead of his constituents.” Asked why anyone would enter a war zone out of “personal ambition,” Barbara Belovich replied curtly, “Certainly he wasn’t serving our needs.”

I hope that Belovich removes his head from his ass long enough for someone to fill the space with their foot.

Utterly and completely disgusting.

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Stompin’ Termites

We had our annual termite swarm today. Every year at this time, from a hidden lair somewhere nearby, they hatch and boil about on the ground in clumps of a few hundred or so. Usually I don’t get to see it happening until they’ve started flying in short hops and are covering our patio furniture. Today, my wife spotted ’em first and I was able to walk up on the hillside and smear each of the ten or so piles with my booted heels. Crushing the swarms of little brainless insects that want to use the power of their numbers to eat me out of house and home felt gooood.

Just talkin’ insects here. That’s all.

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