Have we ceded too much?

Old news, but Carrie Prejean, Miss California, lost the Miss USA pageant because some snotty little queer named Mario Lavandeira (aka Perez Hilton) sandbagged her with a question on gay marriage and didn’t like her answer.

To further add insult to injury Lavandeira then went on to call her a “dumb bitch” for her answer.

So my question is have we ceded too much to these people in the name of “tolerance”?

Not so long ago if a man (which chromosomally Lavandeira qualifies as) called a woman a “dumb bitch” over something like this there would be hell to pay. He would be shunned by respectable people at the very least and at worst his pimple ridden face would be used as a concrete paintbrush.

So what the fuck has happened?

Why are people like Lavandeira allowed to disrespect anyone like this, let alone someone as genuine as Prejean?

Have we as a society collectively lost our spine?

Now its cool?

Something this stupid just has to come from the NY Times.

WASHINGTON is suddenly hip again, infused with the heady double-barreled combination of a new crowd of idealistic young political worker bees, who actually believe they can change the world, and the arrival of America's first black president. It's even cool to wave the Stars and Stripes. And in the honeymoon months of the Barack Obama presidency, before the country's marriage to its new president undergoes the usual souring, a trip to the nation's capital is just the ticket. Why, it would almost be unpatriotic not to visit.

Funny, I always thought it was something to be proud of.

When the Times goes out of business this year, and the Maureen Dowd’s new career consists of working a glory hole at a pornographic book store in Newark, I will open that bottle of Champale I have been saving up for just such a special occasion.

H/T Instapundit.

The NY Times

All the excrement that's fit to shit:

As the Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, an economist, anti-totalitarian and climate change sceptic, prepares to take up the rotating presidency of the European Union next year, climate alarmists are doing their best to traduce him.

The New York Times opened a profile of Klaus, 67, this week with a quote from a 1980s communist secret agent's report, claiming he behaves like a "rejected genius", and asserts there is "palpable fear" he will "embarrass" the EU.

From the Go Fuck Yourselves file

52 to 48 says no hard feeling about the election, lets all be friends and bask in the soft warmth of the Dear Leaders glow. After all, now its cool to love America and be one nation, under the The One, with servitude and government cheese for all.

Sure, we spent the better part of the last several months demonizing a decorated veteran and public servant, labeling him everything from a garden variety racist, a murderer, war criminal, all the way to a fascist but now its time to get past all that and roll over because our guy won.

Now we are all one, now we can be united! The mighty mocha demigod who will now be designated simply as “The One” cannot change the greatest nation on the Earth without compliance and submission from the 48, therefore you MUST submit so that "The One" can fulfill his destiny.

Fuck that.

Diantha Harris

Diantha Harris .. who is she and how do we get her fired?



Update: According to this she is a substitute teacher in Ashville NC.

Summer Patriots and the Elections

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Four years ago when Bush won re-election over Kerry, the wailing and self-flagellation from the left was bad but it was to be expected. For some people patriotism and love of one’s country (much like dissent and questioning authority) only applies when your part doesn’t run the show ... like this asshole.


This election however, the left can once again “be proud to be Americans, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that this sentiment was heralded in the NY Times.

Jessica watched the results from a bar in Cape Town and wrote: “For the first time in recent memory, I can shout in the streets that I am American and be proud of the progress, hope and color that now define us.”

Naturally though a grade-A douche like Bill Krstol would agree with all the trite little whores like Jessica out there.

And naturally what would any post-election analysis be without the deep thoughts of the ultimate Summer Patriots: celebrities. Leonardo Decaprio “couldn't be more proud of my country right now and proud of being an American". Decaprio fair weathered love of country has given me new appreciation for Titanic .... or at leas the end scene where he drowns.

While I certainly take no pleasure in calling Obama “President Obama”, he is the president and no matter who runs this country it does not change the way I feel about it. Why I love this country is not as shallow as who resides in 1600 Pennsylvania.

So do me a favor readers; the next time you hear some asshole say something to the effect that he/she is once gain “proud to be an American” kick them square in the groin as hard as you can. And if you see the jag in the picture above, kick that fucker twice.

You though it would end with 11/04?

Anyone who visits the Drudge Report regularly comes to rely on it for those off the radar stories that everyone either will be talking about or should be talking about.

Yesterday he had a few election clips up … the Black Panther with the Billy club blocking the door to the polling center and that crackpot saying that Obama was going to pay for her gas and mortgage. Well according to the Sun Times Neil Steinberg, turns out that when a raving lunatic McCain/Palin supporter is spotlighted its "good journalism" but when a raving lunatic Obama supporter is show its “racism”. While I expected a little last-minute racial ugliness at the end of the 2008 campaign, particularly as Republican hopes faltered, I did not expect to find it on the Drudge Report, a right-wing but otherwise respectable Web site. It was alarmist, unfair and racist -- partisan propaganda at its worst.

Now, I know a lot of people were really looking forward to the whole “historic” aspect of the election, and that finally, maybe, just perhaps legitimate criticisms and politically minded observation could be made about Obama, or any minority politician for that matter, without the “that’s racist” card being played. Good luck with that one. It always be an easy and convenient cover.

But at least this latest from Steinberg goes to demonstrate that Obama has won over the coveted. 40-something, pudgy, likes to beat his wife when he’s drinking, journalist demographic.