From Catholic Exchange:

If the average Kenyan knew that their favourite son, Barack Obama, had declared June the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender Pride Month, they would simply not believe it. Nor would they believe that in his proclamation for Fathers’ Day, he’d said that nurturing families comes in many forms, including being raised by two “fathers” – even if neither of them is the true father.

To top it all, Hillary Clinton recently told “LGBT members of the State Department family” that gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay and that her first concern for Africa is how LGBT persons are treated on the continent. “Our regional bureaus are working closely with our embassies on this issue. The Bureau of African Affairs has taken the lead by asking every embassy in Africa to report on the conditions of local LGBT communities. And I’m asking every regional bureau to make this issue a priority. ”

This was greeted with thunderous applause in Foggy Bottom. But I wonder if she would dare to make this announcement in Nairobi…

Thought we were supposed to respect “the other”? Ah, who am I kidding? We know darn well that “multi-culturalism” only applies to kowtowing to foreigners who threaten to behead people. If you’re not a violent Islamist, then your culture and values are something to be ground down by the global left. Anyone want to take bets of whether or not Hillary will say that advancing gay rights is a priority in Saudi Arabia?

The hypocrisy of the left is only matched by its dishonesty. Lecturing us on consumption, they fly first class to swank resorts. Lecturing us on respecting foreigners who refuse to integrate in to our society, they then turn about and demand that foreigners toe the liberal line.

My view: I think I’ll let the Africans work it out for themselves. You know, having a deep and abiding respect for the people of that continent who have suffered so much and yet retained strong families, sustain a rapidly growing Christian culture and remain cheerful in the face of adversity Americans have never seen.

In fact, I see a time when we here in America might learn a bit from the Africans. I look forward to the redemption of a promise made by a Kenyan priest to my parish – that they are so overflowing with seminarians that we will soon have our shortage of religious orders filled by enthusiastic Africans. And maybe a few of them will be able to spare the time to instruct Hillary Clinton in how to respect other cultures.

From the New York Times:

The sovereign debt crisis would seem to create worry enough for European banks, but there is another gathering threat that has not garnered as much notice: the trillions of dollars in short-term borrowing that institutions around the world must repay or roll over in the next two years.

The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund have all recently warned of a looming crunch, especially in Europe, where banks have enough trouble raising money as it is.

Their concern is that banks hungry for refinancing will compete with governments — which also must roll over huge sums — for the bond market’s favor. As a result, credit for business and consumers could become more costly and scarce, with unpleasant consequences for economic growth…

This is why Keynesian pinheads are calling for more money printing by central banks. Desperate to avoid a liquidity crisis which will simply crush the world economy at a blow, banksters and bureaucrats are hoping to sucker the world in to picking the pockets of the working poor and middle class for another round of banker bail outs. I bet they get at least part of what they want – they will steal more from us, but I don’t know if they’ll muster the political will to fend off the crash for, say, another year.

And “fend off” is all they can do – they can’t stop it. The fact of the matter is that there is too much debt. Heck, there was too much debt before the 2008 crash, and all we’ve done since then is pile huge amounts of new debt on our economic grave yard. The more they do this, the worse the crash will be, the longer it will last and the longer it will take to build our way out of it.

So, they might get part of what they want and they might put off the day of reckoning by six months. Or, they might not – so much debt has to be rolled over that even a great deal of printing might not do the trick. It might, as it turns out, signal the collapse. Only time will tell on this – as we can’t audit the Federal Reserve, we don’t really know what they – and the rest of the world’s central banks – are up to.

There is not much we, the people can do about this at the moment. The party in power is made up of people who are blind to the facts, or bought by the banksters. We’re just along for the ride – but we can pledge ourselves to never allow this to happen, again. Debt is bad – and we must, in the long run, prohibit our government from borrowing against our future. That is the long-term financial fix.

The change we can believe in – from the Daily Caller:

…By all accounts, the president is starting small. Abengoa Solar, which received $1.45 billion from the Department of Energy, admits on its website that it will use the money to build a plant in Arizona that will create only 85 permanent jobs.

The company appeared to attempt to soften the news by estimating that “98 percent of the jobs…will be American jobs.”…

Whew! That was a relief, I was worried that as many as 3 of the jobs would go to foreigners!

This is the kind of ridiculous garbage Obama and his Democrats push – you just watch, if any Democrat Congressman had to vote on this, he’ll have ads out saying he “voted to provide ‘green jobs'”. No word on the cost, the number or, indeed, if they serve any larger purpose. Just money going out really in the form of bribes, all designed to advance an agenda and protect a political party.

November can’t come fast enough.

That was about 81 days ago, right? Three vacations in less than three months:

The first family’s summer vacation plans will include a trip to Maine.

The White House says the Obamas will travel next Friday to Mount Desert Island, which is home to Acadia National Park. There will be no public events for the president during the three-day trip…

Nice gig, if you can get it – more vacation than work. And, let me tell you, the air travel is really first rate!

This from the man who said he wouldn’t rest until the Gulf oil leak was fixed. Obama’s promises have all turned out to have an expiration date – and I guess as time goes on, that expiration date comes ever sooner. If he keeps going on at this rate, then a promise made in next year’s SOTU will be broken before the end of the speech.

HAT TIP: Gateway pundit

They just don’t get it, at all – from the Washington Post:

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, the “tea party” movement must be honored.

In an effort to replicate the tea party’s success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition that they hope will match the movement’s political energy and influence. They promise to “counter the tea party narrative” and help the progressive movement find its voice again after 18 months of floundering.

The large-scale attempt at liberal unity, dubbed “One Nation,” will try to revive themes that energized the progressive grassroots two years ago…

First of all, its an incredible thing for the MSM to suddenly come ’round and say that the progressive movement has been “floundering” for 18 months. They aren’t “floundering” – they are doing precisely what they’ve wanted to do. That its unpopular with the people and a complete failure in practice is just a fact of life. This isn’t floundering, its failure.

Outside of that, the left also doesn’t understand that grass roots efforts must rise from the grass roots. No surprise they don’t get it – remember, our President was a “community organizer”. That is liberal-speak for “you’re not smart enough to figure out what you want or need, so I’ll graciously stoop to your level and tell you what to do”. To a complete leftists, there’s just no way to conceptualize a system in which regular folks set the agenda – regular folks don’t have what it takes to do it, in their view.

But, they are gravely threatened by a bunch of knuckle-dragging, toothless hicks in the TEA Party movement. They don’t understand how it came to be. Projecting from their own methods, they figure it simply must be the creation of some nefarious gathering of right wing groups. So, their program of countering the TEA Party is to “duplicate” what they think happened – and so we’ve got “One Nation” (one wag has already suggested that they take as their slogan “one people, one nation, one leader”…but “ein volk, ein Reich, ein fuhrer” has already been used. No doubt to the dismay of our progressive friends).

This will fail as badly as the absurd “Coffee Party” failed – and it has been noted that the WaPo article acts as if the Coffee Party idea never even existed. In the report, this is about the left finally starting to counter the TEA Party…as if they hadn’t gone through a half dozen expedients so far in the attempt to defuse the popular revolution embodied in the TEA Party. The left is alien to America because it doesn’t take in to consideration the fact that Americans run their own lives – or, at least, want very much to, if they can just get the government off their backs.

Found this video linked over at The Distributist Review and it is an excellent, short explanation of what our consumerist culture is all about.

The maker of the video seems to be of leftist ideology, at least to some extent, and so figures that the government should protect us from consumerism. This is a bit like asking a tiger to protect the sheep from the wolf. The only way to kill off consumerism is for a change of heart on the part of the people – a rejection of get-rich-quick; a rejection of mindless celebrities determining our judgments of good and bad; a rejection of borrowing money to pay for un-necessary items.

We’re in the soup not because of some nefarious plot – we’re in it because we eagerly jumped in to it. We wanted everything and we wanted it now – when some stupid ad came on telling us that we “deserve” some grand thing, we said, “yes”. Just as when some grafting politician said we needed welfare, social security, medicare and all manner of “free” government goodies we jumped at it. We need to jump back.

Change can happen, but it has to happen in each of our hearts – a humble begging of forgiveness for our errors, a determination to do better, and we’re half way there. It is up to us – we can choose to decline and die, or we can choose to advance and live. Its really all up to us.

Col. West, Republican candidate for Congress, gets this headline over at Politico:

Bombastic West rakes in cash

Bombastic? Can you imagine any MSMer, anywhere, describing any on the left side of the aisle as “bombastic”? Of course not. But, they have to do something about a black man who is extraordinarily knowledgeable, speaks very well and and who is conservative to the core…and is, as they say, raking in the cash:

West, a former Army colonel challenging Democratic Rep. Ron Klein, raised $1.4 million in the second quarter of 2010 – an astonishing number that puts him in the same league as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, the inflammatory conservative who raked in $1.7 million over the same period, and Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, the caustic liberal cable news fixture who vacuumed up $800,000 in the first three months of 2010. (emphasis added)

You catch that? West is “bombastic”; Bachmann is “inflammatory”; but Grayson is “caustic”. Two quotes:

Liberty is about each and every person having the abiliy to do what they want with the fruits of their labor but tyranny is when someone else comes in and tries to make the decision about what you should be doing. – Lt. Col Allen West (Ret.), July 4, 2010

And:

How about tracking down every person who said ‘drill, baby, drill’ and putting them all in prison? – Rep. Allen Grayson (D-FL), June 4th, 2010

Is West “bombastic”? It Grayson merely “caustic”? No, West is merely stating first principles – bedrock, American beliefs. Grayson is calling for the jailing of people for holding certain opinions – and if you listen to the audio, its clear he’s not joking and that quote is not out of context: Grayson is of that leftist type who views opposition to leftism as criminal behavior.

This is the media bias – essentially slandering a Republican by making him out to be terrible when he’s not; white-washing the downright evil being said and done by Democrats.

Given that a recent poll shows 55% of Americans agree that Obama is a socialist, this is a great time to have a good example of just what we’re dealing with regarding socialists:

From Pajamas Media:

…Our current Department of Justice is anxious to encourage the obligations to get everyone registered, but explicitly unwilling to enforce federal law requiring states to remove the dead or ineligible from the rolls.

In November 2009, the entire Voting Section was invited to a meeting with Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes, a political employee serving at the pleasure of the attorney general. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Motor Voter enforcement decisions.

The room was packed with dozens of Voting Section employees when she made her announcement regarding the provisions related to voter list integrity:

We have no interest in enforcing this provision of the law. It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.

As I’ve said before, once we do get back in to power we’re going to have to steel ourselves to the task of ruthlessly investigating the rampant criminality in the Obama Administration and the Democrat party and start sending a lot of people to jail. For too long now we Republicans can been unwilling, when able, to fully enforce laws against political corruption. This fear must stop – we are now reaping the whirlwind of not strictly enforcing the law.

The problem of corruption in the Democrat party fundamentally stems from the fact that Democrats either heartily approve of corruption, or are unwilling to stop anything which might, by some means, advance their cause. While corruption has always existed in both parties, the problem became endemic with the Democrat party when Clinton got away with perjury and Gore got away with “no controlling legal authority”. Once Democrats saw them both prosper after clear violations of the law, the flood gates opened.

For the sake of our Republic and, indeed, for the sake of the Democrat party, this must be brought to an end. Once we get back in to power, anti-corruption must be a top priority.

Let’s face it, the Nevada battle is America’s battle – if we can’t get rid of Reid, we can’t get rid of liberalism.

The good news is that Reid, even after quite a lot of smear efforts against Angle, still trails badly.

Now he’s brought Obama out – and we’ve seen how well that worked out elsewhere.

And she’s raised more than $1.6 million since the primary.