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Is This the Change Obama Wanted?

Mark Noonan

The news story:

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called the U.S. president inexperienced, compared him unfavorably to President George W. Bush and suggested he apologize for “interfering in Iran’s affairs.”

“Do you think that this kind of behavior is going to solve any of your problems? It will only make people think you are someone like Bush,” the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

“You are at the beginning of your way and you are gaining experience, and we do not wish the scandals of the Bush era to be repeated during your term of office,” the Iranian leader said.

President Obama, who has been in office for five months, has been treading a careful line on Iran, which has seen two weeks of street demonstrations following a disputed presidential election there.

To be entirely fair to President Obama, we have to treat this CNN story with care – after all, we learned post-liberation in Iraq that CNN trimmed its reporting about Saddam in a pro-Saddam manner in order to retain access…there can be no doubt that something similar to this is happening in Iran, today. Thus, this might be part of some careful script of the Iranian government to provoke a certain response in the United States.

But, that aside, the lesson to be learned here is that the United States is the whipping-boy of all regimes in the world that are bent on evil. It is the nature of things – as the beacon of liberty in the world (and, liberals, that beacon never has been, is not and never will be such liberal utopia’s as Germany, Canada and Sweden – it is and always will be the United States of America…unless you get your way) thugs of all types around the world perceive us as the primary enemy. This is because of what we are, not because of what we do…be President Bush calling Iran part of the “Axis of Evil”, or be Obama kowtowing to Islamist thugs by carefully referring to Iran as the “Islamic Republic of Iran”, its all the same…because there is even the remotest chance that America will come down on the side of domestic freedom-fighters, the thugs see us and act towards us as an enemy.

In the end, the US might as well come down hard on the side of freedom fighters – even at some considerable risk – because we might as well be damned by thugs for doing what they fear most, when we’re going to be damned by them no matter what. By doing the right thing – all the time – we will always place ourselves in a stronger position. Additionally, the more we clearly come down on the side of liberty the more encouraged will be all freedom-fighters, and thus the pressure for liberty will continually increase around the world.

New York City to Insist Upon Busy-Body Stupidity

Mark Noonan

Geesh:

The New York City health department is moving forward with a plan that would require about 12,000 cigarette retailers to post large anti-smoking signs.

It’s billed as the first such regulation in the United States.

The eye-level signs would have information about the harmful effects of smoking, possibly with an image.

The assistant commissioner for tobacco control, Sarah B. Perl, says it can be effective to display gruesome health effects such as amputations and throat cancer.

The city’s Board of Health is now seeking public comment. At the earliest, it would vote in September.

Trouble is, if you actually gave rational comment (ie, “what the F are you lunatic morons doing?!?”), you’d be ignored…so, only stupid comments from people who think this is a good idea will be allowed, and thus on a wave of popular support (so called), this will become the way of life in New York City…

Perversion on Parade at New York’s Folsom Street East Festival

Mark Noonan

Just can’t beat that headline:

Since 1997, New York City has turned a blind eye toward anti-nudity and anti-lewdness laws that govern life in the Big Apple as well as the state during the Folsom Street East festival (FSE). This year’s even took place on Sunday, June 21, which, ironically is also Father’s Day.

Described on its website as “NYC’s premiere sado/masochist-leather-fetish themed street festival,” the event attracts approximately 10,000 visitors annually. They claim that this is the largest outdoor event of its kind east of the Mississippi.

The FSE press release stated that “the street will once again be lined with some 50 community groups and vendors that appeal to the LGBT and the kink communities and it will be filled with mobs of leatherclad musclehunks. A one-stop shop for leather gear, porn, and toys. And no throw pillow, magic mops, or tube socks – promise!”

The organization Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) obtained footage of this year’s event, which included scenes of an “electro-torture” demonstration where a half-naked man was strapped to a cross while electric current shocks were sent through his body.

As long as homosexuality is identified with this sort of thing, so long will homosexuality be considered outside the pale by the majority. It is tolerated, but not loved – and that is why gay marriage is running up against an immovable object in the votes of the public. People wanting to live their lives as they see fit – fine; people wanting to have their freak show considered as valid as normal human activities – not so fine. The key to any sort of victory for so-called “gay rights” is for homosexuals to show they are part of us – this sort of thing shows that homosexuals are not at all part of us and, indeed, are directly in opposition to us.

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-25

Matt Margolis

Senator Kerry, Resign

Mark Noonan

We’ve got enough problems on our plate and we just can’t afford to have this incredibly stupid man remain in the United States Senate:

U.S. Sen. John Kerry must have been channeling his inner Letterman yesterday.

The Bay State senator was telling a group of business and civic leaders in town at his invitation about the “bizarre’’ tale of how South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had “disappeared for four days’’ and claimed to be hiking along the Appalachian Trail, but no one was really certain of his whereabouts.

“Too bad,’’ Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.’’

There’s just so much big hair and your wife’s Republican money can do for you Senator, and you’re waaaay the heck past your spoil date. Just go – move to France…heck, no, that is too mean to the French…move to Cambodia and set up house where you went on that secret mission for Nixon before he became President. Main thing – just get lost.

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Mark Noonan

The number of pages in the Obama “Screw the People” climate change bill – which not one single person on God’s green earth has actually read…and Donks want to rush it trough. Just like the Spendulus, and we know how well that worked out, huh?

Makes you wonder just why the EPA is suppressing a recent climate change report – could it be that the word is finally getting out that anthropogenic global warming is a complete hoax, and thus the lefties better shove it through right away?