On this day, on behalf of the Jewish people, I say to those who have sought and still seek to destroy us: You have failed and you will fail.
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) April 27, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Benjamin Netanyahu Holocaust Remembrance Day Message
Benjamin Netanyahu: Abbas 'cannot speak out of both sides of his mouth...'
And here's the story at NYT, "Mahmoud Abbas Shifts on Holocaust."
Also at Astute Bloggers, "NOBODY SHOULD BE FOOLED BY MAHMOUD ABBAS'S CONDEMNATION OF THE HOLOCAUST."
And at BCF, "Netanyahu dismisses Abbas Shoah comments, cites alliance with Hamas which ‘attempts to create an additional Holocaust’."
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Professor Scott Lemieux, College of Saint Rose, Claims #Democrat Donald Sterling Will Be Next 'Conservative Martyr'
You know, I don't have a problem with professors adding their own opinions on the issues they teach, but when your ideology completely blinds you to the clear, objective facts out there, then you've got a credibility problem in your profession.
I'm not block-quoting from the post (it's brief), so just go read it at Lesbians, Gays, and Marxists, "Donald Sterling: Same As He Ever Was." Lemieux claims that Sterling's "likely to become the next conservative martyr..."
I know: WTF?
Leftists have been in fits trying to deflect the fact that Sterling's a dyed-in-the-wool Beverly Hills liberal. My post on Saturday pretty much went viral, even getting picked up at National Review, "Racist Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Is a Democrat."
Now, as much as I've been hammering the precious idiot Steve M. at No More Mister, at least he's attempted to rebut the facts surrounding Sterling's disgusting Democrat Party racism, although I've still been having a ball, lol. See, "Sad Little 'No More Mister': Cliven Bundy OMG! RACISM! KKK!! NOT A THROWBACK!! BLARGH!!! OMG!!!"
Typically, though, Lemieux just buries his face in the muck, happy to be stroked by the racist commenters inhabiting the swamp at LGM. I'd say my commenter, Tabitha Bliss, pretty much nails it:
I'm having a good time watching the left twist itself into knots trying their darndest to make this guy out to be some kind of right wing, TEA Party conservative! Even Obama is trying to frame the story that way!Very well said.
Of course conservatives aren't surprised to hear liberals spew such vileness in the least. We've heard it all before. I think what still does shock us is the total hypocrisy of the leftist movement in general.
I mean these people are still having a total melt-down over Bundy's (poorly stated) comments, but let's put things in perspective here. Compare & contrast the statements made by the two men & what is & what is not real bigotry & hatred becomes obvious!
Bundy's no hero at this point, but certainly his comments amounted to at most an inarticulate effort to make the case on longstanding government and Democrat indifference to the plight of black Americans. And it's widely understood that the black family as an institution is worse off today than at any time since the Civil War. Indeed, leftists are all about context, although in Bundy's case his very compassionate statements on Hispanic families have been completely swept under the rug. So yeah, despicable leftist hypocrisy all around.
This is why I push back hard against the lying leftists losers. Fortunately, I've been able to get a little traction of late, but the battle is never over. Keep smacking down leftist liars at every turn. They never stop. They're ruthless and will do anything to destroy people of decency who are thought to stand in their way.
You know, I'm just tickled all over how leftists back themselves into a corner when calling out #TCOTs as racist, lol!
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
Because leftists just come at you all day and then when confronted with #Democrat Party racism they bare their teeth like a cornered dog.
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
Leftists: Sad bitter people who'll stop and nothing to ram through their hateful agenda.
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
Tabitha Bliss is on Twitter as well. She's a good lady.Previous Donald Sterling blogging is here.
Lake Bell for Esquire
At Egotastic!, "Lake Bell Sweet Epic Hot Outtakes from Esquire."
And, while I'm a little behind on my #Rule5 blogging --- what, with all the Donald Sterling news, lol! --- do check out Blackmailers Don't Shoot, "Jennifer Lawrence Spotted at the North Pole with Santa Claus: Rule 5 Linkfest," and Camp of the Saints, "Rule 5 Saturday: Sarah Willis."
Exclusive Extended Audiotape of #Democrat Donald Sterling Racist Rant
Plus, my report from yesterday, "Liberal #Democrat Donald Sterling Caught on Tape Screaming Ugly Racist Epithets."
And here's TMZ's YouTube of the audiotape, 9 minutes long and subtitled. He basically spews profanities about Magic Johnson. The f-word. He's clearly going off with totally unrestrained racism. Intense.
Previous Donald Sterling blogging his here.
#Democrat Donald Sterling Celebrates Black History Month!
Oh the irony.
Free tickets for the kids, but just don't bring Magic Johnson will ya, lol!!
ICYMI, "Liberal #Democrat Donald Sterling Caught on Tape Screaming Ugly Racist Epithets."
And ICYMI, "Clippers Protest #Democrat Donald Sterling by Wearing Shirts Inside-Out for Warm-Ups."
Plus my previous #Democrat Donald Sterling blogging here.
Clippers Protest #Democrat Donald Sterling by Wearing Shirts Inside-Out for Warm-Ups
And at the New York Times, "With Uproar Around Sterling, Clippers Take the Court":
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Los Angeles Clippers, finding themselves embroiled in controversy surrounding racist remarks attributed to the team’s owner, took the court for their playoff game Sunday with a statement, both fashion and political. In sartorial signs of solidarity, players wore their shirts inside out during warm-ups, and each wore black socks and black wristbands during the game.Also, at the Lede, "Reaction to the Remarks Linked to Donald Sterling."
The owner’s wife sat courtside, across from the Clippers’ bench, with her husband barred from attending while the N.B.A. investigates the matter. She wore all black.
The recordings of the remarks, apparently made by Donald Sterling, the Clippers’ owner, bounced around the globe on Sunday like viral aftershocks, rattling the league’s leadership, overshadowing its playoff games and even receiving the attention of President Obama in Malaysia.
But the epicenter was at Oracle Arena, where the Clippers played the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 of their first-round playoff series. The teams are closely matched rivals, and although there were no clear signs that the crowd’s enthusiasm and voracity had anything to do with Sterling, the story line certainly provided a boost to the energy and intrigue.
The remarks struck a nerve in the N.B.A., in which the majority of players are black and the majority of owners are white. That the controversy should involve a team based in Los Angeles, a diverse city with its own history of race-relation problems but one that has long revered black athletes, only added a layer of complex context.
As the Clippers’ players quietly went through their usual pregame routine of stretching and relaxing, trying to make the unusual circumstances feel normal, their coach stepped into a warm and crowded room. Over seven minutes, he answered 13 questions about the racist comments attributed to Sterling.
“Racism, injustice of any kind, it should always be front and center, and we should never run from it,” the Clippers’ coach, Doc Rivers, said. “I think we all do a good job running from it. You should never run from it. You should confront it and try to do your best to handle it. I think we are doing our best right now in this case by trying to do that.”
In a meeting on Saturday, the team considered all its options, from ignoring the comments to boycotting the game, as some suggested.
“Our message is to play,” Rivers said. “Our message is that we’re going to let no one and nothing stop us from what we want to do. And I think that’s a good message.”
Previous Donald Sterling blogging here.
Sad Little 'No More Mister': Cliven Bundy OMG! RACISM! KKK!! NOT A THROWBACK!! BLARGH!!! OMG!!!
He got called out badly yesterday, had to retract his attack on me, and then got the sads after I hammered him as a pathetic leftist loser.
But oh, he couldn't let go, lol! He restored his lame attack in his updated post --- the one that doesn't have DONALD DOUGLAS!! in all caps screaming at you with authoritah! --- hoping that I'd get my widdle feelings hurt.
Update to an earlier post, and a restoration of the parts that were 100% accurate. @AmPowerBlog http://t.co/Mysildi44X
— Steve M. (@nomoremister) April 27, 2014
Man, what a sad little blog is No More Mister, catering to a sad little community of hateful, racist left-wing trolls. Steve M. desperately wants Democrat Party racism to go away. He's so desperate that he posts unhinged rants without even proofreading, pulls 'em after being called out (by his own commenters even!), and then gets all butthurt and reposts the stupid drivel in an update --- to get back at that old meanie DONALD DOUGLAS waaahhhh!!
My 12-year-old is more mature, heh.
But OMG! Republican racism OMG!
Here's his latest hilarious rant on how Cliven Bundy's "ideology" is all KKK and totally not a throwback or anything OMG! ...
[South Carolina Lieutenant Governor and Cliven Bundy clone] Glenn McConnell's thriving career is a reminder to me of why I automatically tune out any argument that contains the phrase "political correctness." I grant that there are things you simply "can't say," according to America's "official culture." But outside America's political and media centers, these "incorrect" ideas are loving cultivated, valorized, and carefully transmitted to future generations. That's why there are still Klansmen and neo-Nazis. That's why well-educated young men still think sexual penetration after the administration of Rohypnol or a few too many drinks is perfectly OK. That's why Silicon Valley and Internet comments sections are still hotbeds of virulent sexism. And so on. Cliven Bundy isn't a throwback. He's just a guy whose ideology usually flies under the radar. We just ignore the precincts where that ideology thrives.Oh, the poor precious widdle weftists. 'Cuz hatefwul conservatives are all about roofies, or something lol!!
BONUS: At the risk of shattering Steve M's tender pwogwessive sensibilities, you gotta check this out --- and love it too. Turns out my post from yesterday got picked up by Tim Cavanaugh at National Review, with the hilariously accurate headline, "Racist Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Is a Democrat."
Racist Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Is a Democrat http://t.co/3IJK9HbkS6 with bonus shoutout to @AmPowerBlog
— Bossy & Proud of It (@lamblock) April 27, 2014
And in the comments there:
Moonbattery • 4 hours agoNails it!
All Democrats are racists. It is the foundation of the Democratic party. Keeping blacks in poverty is just an extension of when Democrats founded the KKK and opposed all civil rights acts the Republicans were trying to enact.
Don't let them keep rewriting history.
FLASHBACK: "Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., Kansas Jewish Murder Suspect, Made Democrat Congressional Bid in 2006."
Jennifer Gratz Kills It Against Bitter BAMN National Chairperson with Civility and Kindness!
The founder and national chairwoman is Shanta Driver, a bitter, bitchy collectivist leftist attacking people as racists for wanting to remove pernicious racial preferences from the public realm. People like this are the antithesis of MLK's "content of their character" admonition, and they're frankly disgusting, covetous collectivists now rending the country at the seams.
But Ms. Gratz stays gracious and on point, and in so doing show how principled articulate conservatism with beat back vicious leftist ideological hatred every time.
Bravo!
At Fox News, "Affirmative action lawyer calls Supreme Court decision on Michigan schools 'racist'."
OMG! @JenGratz was killing it with civility! Jennifer Gratz vs. Shanta Driver - Fox News: http://t.co/2i2h2NXIJy #Schuette cc. @RSMcCain
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
.@JenGratz Ms. Driver is sad, bitter little woman and you handled yourself with exceptional grace. https://t.co/KbD2me5Rs7
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
And from the BAMN profile at Discover the Networks:
BAMN employs an "ends-justifies-the-means" approach that, according to American Civil Rights Institute founder Ward Connerly, is reminiscent of the tactics advocated by the late community organizer Saul Alinsky. In Arizona in 2008, for example, BAMN activists tried to buy lists of signatures that had been collected by anti-affirmative-action petitioners—so as to prevent those names from being submitted to state legislators.Typical Alinskyite radicals. Disgusting, bitter people who'll stop and nothing to ram through their hateful agenda.
Many of BAMN's pro-affirmative action efforts are conducted collaboratively with such organizations as the NAACP, the ACLU, ACORN, and the Service Employees International Union. In BAMN's calculus, “attacks on affirmative action” can be attributed largely to a virulent brand of “smothering and deforming racism” that seeks to promote “a system of de facto segregation” in which “undocumented and immigrant students from less privileged communities” are “almost entirely shut out of [the] most selective public universities.”
Central to BAMN's pro-affirmative action crusade is its effort to eliminate the use of the SAT exam by university admissions departments, on grounds that the test is “biased” and “academically unsound.” On average, whites nationwide score about 200 points higher than their black counterparts—a fact that, according to BAMN, merely reflects “the complex racism and inequality of our society.”
Also active in the immigrant-rights movement, BAMN advocates the passage of a national DREAM Act which would allow illegal-alien students to attend college at the reduced tuition rates normally reserved for in-state legal residents, and to earn conditional permanent residency and a path to citizenship. Moreover, the organization seeks to ban “anti-immigrant raids” at workplaces; stop the deportation of illegals; make California a "sanctuary" state wherein illegal aliens are beyond the reach of the law; and repeal Arizona’s “racist” 2010 immigration law, which deputized state police to verify the immigration status of criminals suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. In the spring of 2006, BAMN helped lead the massive wave of immigrant-rights rallies that swept across the United States.
Consistent with BAMN's view that racism pervades American society, is the group's contention that the U.S. criminal-justice system egregiously discriminates against nonwhite minorities. To address this issue, BAMN has called for a “mass movement against police brutality.”
BAMN also seeks to “defend public education”—from the pre-K through college levels—by demanding an end to all tuition hikes, school-budget cutbacks, and teacher layoffs. Accusing “the rich and powerful” of seeking to use “the economic crisis” as a pretext for shirking their duty to pay school taxes, BAMN in 2010 called for any shortfalls in education budgets to be funded by “taxing the corporations, banks, and billionaires.” Additional revenue, said BAMN, could be generated by “end[ing] the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan,” because “you cannot end racism at home while fighting a racist war abroad.”
Jenny Beth Martin Makes More the $450,000 Annually as National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots!
See, "Tea party PACs reap money for midterms, but spend little on candidates":
The problem of Tea Party candidates being starved of donations by groups scamming their donors is real & serious http://t.co/NTxDJ7FUkx
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) April 27, 2014
MT @PeterHambyCNN: Jenny Beth Martin pays herself $450K/year, but Tea Party Patriots spent just $185K on candidates http://t.co/4QeQx0289L
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) April 27, 2014
Martin, the super PAC’s chairwoman, oversees all its expenditures, according to Broughton, meaning she sets her own $15,000 monthly fee for strategic consulting — payments that have totaled $120,000 since July.Nope. She's making too much money running an organization purportedly established to shrink government and restore liberty. So of course Ms. Martin declined to comment. Her salary figures are obscene.
She also draws a salary as president of the Tea Party Patriots’ nonprofit arm — getting more than $272,000 in the 2012 fiscal year, according to the group’s most recent tax filing.
Her twin salaries put her on track to make more than $450,000 this year, a dramatic change in lifestyle for the tea party activist, who had filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and then cleaned homes for a period of time to bring in extra money.
Martin, through Broughton, declined to comment. But Broughton said Martin’s fees could not “objectively be considered unreasonable.”
“She works the equivalent of two full-time jobs,” Broughton said. “When I say she probably works 90 to 100 hours a week, that’s not an exaggeration.”
Still more at that top link.
And it's not just Tea Party Patriots. See last year's piece at BuzzFeed, "Sources: Cash-Strapped FreedomWorks In State Of Financial Disarray."
Chloé Simone Valdary Stands Up to the Left's Racist Anti-Semitic Hatred
See William Jacobson post on Chloé Simone Valdary, who says that "There is no Apartheid in Israeli society … it's an insult to the people who suffered from Apartheid in South Africa..."
Well, leftists aren't fazed by insulting people. They're out to destroy anyone --- and I mean anyone, like this beautiful black woman --- who stands in their way.
'Game of Thrones' Rape Scene
So I looked it up, and Reason has this, "Game of Thrones Rape Scene Provokes Mixed Messages From Feminists: The latest episode of Game of Thrones has touched off a raging debate that reveals cracks in feminist dogma about 'rape culture'":
Game of Thrones—the hit HBO series now in its fourth season and based on George R.R. Martin’s pseudo-medieval fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire—is big news. Every episode generates not only a tsunami of fan reaction but intense discussions by bloggers and journalists; the death of sadistic boy-king Joffrey may have made more headlines than Russia's attempted takeover of Eastern Ukraine. And now, the latest episode has touched off a raging debate that goes beyond the show itself to a very current real–life issue: defining rape and consent. (The New Republic alone had two online articles on the subject.) But this controversy has revealed a fascinating fact: A lot of feminists who rail against "rape culture" don’t actually practice the black-and-white, yes-or-no dogma that they preach—not even with regard to fiction...Heh.
I'm just observing this from the sidelines. Like I said, I saw that show and thought that all the screams of "stop!" should have triggered some kind of feminist reaction, or something.
But it's not so simple, it turns out. Especially for radical feminists who like "Game of Thrones," lol.
Keep reading.
Oh My! Snoop Dogg Eviscerates #Democrat Donald Sterling as 'White Bread Racist POS...'
I'm issuing an extremely strong language warning, lol!
At Twitchy, "Snoop Dogg has a special video message for Clippers owner Donald Sterling."
There's an Instagram embed at the link.
Fuc the owner!!! I will buy. Them n sell them to magic johnson !! http://t.co/fDHLQw8Im5
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) April 26, 2014
Snoop Dogg said he will buy the Clippers from Donald Sterling and sell it back to Magic Johnson. Straight up, hes a G pic.twitter.com/ocRLBMM0Ro
— Dilpreet (@Dilpreet09) April 27, 2014
Smokin' Conservative Dana Loesch Confronts Gun Control Activist Shannon Watts in Indianapolis.
And at Twitchy, "Dana Loesch: Moms Demand Action bully had her security ‘push and run into me on camera’."
Just met Shannon Watts. #NRAAM
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 26, 2014
Nope, not interested "talking" to #DanaLoesch after insults and bullying of victims and their families. #MomsDemand #gunsense #gunbullies
— Shannon (@shannonrwatts) April 26, 2014
. @shannonrwatts had security who pushed and ran into me simply because I asked her to correct her false remarks about me. #NRAAM #gunsense
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 26, 2014
After the malicious lies and bully tactics against me by @shannonrwatts I was still willing to attempt civil convo. She wasn’t. #gunsense
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 26, 2014
Leftist hypocrites. Man, it's one thing after another with these idiots. Ghouls and idiots. Never a day's rest for patriots. But then, freedom's depending on it.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Bwahaha! 'No More Mister' Pulls Post Attacking 'Donald Douglas' for 'Curiously Incomplete Search Results' — LOL!
Here's my earlier post, "Hey, 'No More Mister', It's 'Donald T. Sterling' Who Owns the #Clippers, LOL!"
So I go to click on the 'No More Mister' link and the post's gone. Deleted, heh.
See, "DONALD DOUGLAS GETS ANOTHER SET OF CURIOUSLY INCOMPLETE SEARCH RESULTS."
And now it's replaced with this, "I had a post up here about Donald Sterling, and about blogger Donald Douglas's accounting of his political contributions..."
Read it at the link.
The idiot Steve M. thought he had some kinda takedown on old Donald (Donald Douglas, that is, and American Power), and it backfired, badly. Now he just looks like what he always looks like: a bloody f-king moron.
But oh, just check "No More Mister's" archives and it's post after post on Cliven Bundy and the horrible! racist! Fox News! OMG! Like I always say: leftist don't care about race --- indeed, they're the biggest racists --- what they care about is power, and they'll stop at nothing to delegitimize and destroy anyone who stands in their way.
Look, it's been a good day blogging. Hilarious. But Steve M. pulling an attack post against me? Priceless.
I'd say it's @NoMoreMister who gets the curious search results, lol! http://t.co/Pv5Mvhfn3U @RSMcCain @GatewayPundit @ChrisLoesch @MsEBL
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 26, 2014
.@BlazingCatFur OMG leftist @NoMoreMIster is having a meltdown over racist #DonaldSterling, lol! http://t.co/Pv5Mvhfn3U #DonaldSterling
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 26, 2014
Hey, '@NoMoreMister', even @MBouffant's calling you out, lol!
http://t.co/gTOZLQwNot #Racist #Democrats
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
.@MBouffant Can you just get idiot @NoMoreMister to issue an update and correction? Thanks: http://t.co/TtsoBmvmUK #DonaldSterling #Racism
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
#NBA to Investigate Clippers Owner Donald Sterling's Racist Comments
Interesting is the quote from the Clippers' management essentially conceding the TMZ audiotape as authentic:
Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Under Investigation By The NBA After Allegedly Racist Comments http://t.co/KzgroGIWWG pic.twitter.com/9elQUx76TT
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) April 26, 2014
In the audio recording, a person identified by TMZ as Sterling can be heard chiding a former girlfriend, identified by the website as V. Stiviano, saying he was angry that she had posted a picture on her Instagram account of herself and Johnson.PREVIOUSLY: "Liberal #Democrat Donald Sterling Caught on Tape Screaming Ugly Racist Epithets," and "Hey, 'No More Mister', It's 'Donald T. Sterling' Who Owns the #Clippers, LOL!"
“It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people,” Sterling is alleged to have said. He added later in the recording, referring to her Instagram postings, that “you don’t have to have yourself with, walking with black people.”
“Don’t put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games,” the person identified as Sterling also said. “Yeah, it bothers me a lot that you want to promo, broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?”
Sterling’s wife sued Stiviano last month, asking for the return of cash, property, cars and other items that Sterling gave Stiviano.
The Clippers’ president, Andy Roeser, said in a statement Saturday that he was not certain whether the recording was authentic and that the club was investigating.
“Mr. Sterling is emphatic that what is reflected on that recording is not consistent with, nor does it reflect, his views, beliefs or feelings,” Roeser said in the statement. “It is the antithesis of who he is, what he believes and how he has lived his life. He feels terrible that such sentiments are being attributed to him and apologizes to anyone who might have been hurt by them.”
Hey, 'No More Mister', It's 'Donald T. Sterling' Who Owns the #Clippers, LOL!
The idiot Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog's all in a lather since I've been calling out Democrats as the rightful racist party that they are. But you know, I don't think citing those $250.00 contributions of Donald E. Sterling, who lives at 118 Beach Mountain Cove, Georgetown, Texas, are quite going to do it, lol!
Actually, Donald T. Sterling lives in Beverly Hills.
But I love the all caps, because authoritah!
Lulz, "DONALD DOUGLAS GETS ANOTHER SET OF CURIOUSLY INCOMPLETE SEARCH RESULTS."
Please, Steve M., do try harder, because this is too easy for me, you ASFL racist apologist, lol!
BONUS: My earlier post is linked at Gateway Pundit, Ed Driscoll, and Flopping Aces. Thanks!
And linked at Memeorandum.
PREVIOUSLY: "Liberal #Democrat Donald Sterling Caught on Tape Screaming Ugly Racist Epithets."
Avril Lavigne 'Hello Kitty' Music Video is Racist!
At Blazing Cat Fur, "Avril Lavigne is not racist, she's only guilty of making bad muzak":
I am fresh out of my 3 week work Bubble which largely kept me away from monitoring pressing current events like the "controversy" over this irritating video made by Avril Lavigne. I mean racist? Really? What a crock. It was allegedly pulled from YouTube, but is back now and apparently hasn't been whitewashed like Katy Perry's crapola was because she offended Islam.Yeah, she's a sweetie. But see Althouse, "Avril Lavigne picked a bad week to go all racist" (via Memeorandum):
Avril is a pleasant young lady, I hope her music improves.
Do you not see what's so cliven about it? Well, then, you might want to submit to Vox, the website that explains everything to the point needed by an adequately intelligent but generally pretty busy person...Well, maybe the Vox-splainers will be all over Donald Sterling's racism as well, lol!
ADDED: The Vox-shaming continues here.
Liberal #Democrat Donald Sterling Caught on Tape Screaming Ugly Racist Epithets - UPDATED!!
This post is linked by Michael Hiltzik, at the Los Angeles Times, "Donald Sterling is a Republican, not a Democrat -- but does it matter?"
I have a response here, "Desperate Leftists: Beverly Hills Liberal Donald Sterling Is 'Registered Republican' OMG! TAKE THAT!! BLARGH!! OMG!!!":
The truth is that the racist Clippers owner is a classic, typically far-left liberal from L.A.'s typically progressive westside.******
Desperate leftists can take that to the bank the idiot losers.
Amazing.
It's been almost like clockwork this last couple of weeks. Leftists got a squirrelly reprieve with the fake Cliven Bundy sideshow, but then the left gets back on track with their racist repertoire of hate. Seriously. It's too good. You just can't make up these far-left Democrat Party supporting leftists spewing vile racial epithets, all caught on tape. Clockwork baby.
I say it all the time: the Democrat Party is the country's natural home to racists and ethnic eliminationists. And now we have über liberal real estate mogul and sports owner, Democrat Party contributor and philanthropist, Donald T. Sterling in the news with yet another case of vile leftist racial hatred.
Here's the headline story at Memeorandum, "Clippers Owner Donald Sterling to GF - Don't Bring Black People to My Games, Including Magic Johnson" and on Twitter:
Clippers Owner Donald Sterling to GF -- Don't Bring Black People to My Games ... Including Magic Johnson http://t.co/AtPwbjxHfA
— TMZ (@TMZ) April 26, 2014
And there's a YouTube clip at the Independent Journal Review, "Explosive Audio: L.A. Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Shows Us All What Truly Ugly Racism Sounds Like." As it notes there: Just for the record, Sterling’s record of political support is for two Democratic politicians: former California Governor Gray Davis and three-term Senator Bill Bradley.Of course! Sterling's a liberal leftist Democrat of the first order! Also here, "Follow the Money: Political Contributions of NBA Owners."
What's hilarious is none of this is new. Sterling's far-left racist bigotry has been on the public record for a long time. See this Los Angeles Times report from black liberal Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks in 2010, "Donald Sterling is generous, impolitic and eager to be liked":
You can't flip through our newspaper these days without spotting the giant ads Sterling buys promoting his awards and donations, his smiling face plastered among a jumble of names and cut-and-paste photos.And left-wing author and activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson, back in 2009, hammered Sterling's racism --- and took the NAACP to task for giving the Clippers owner a pass on his disgusting racist bigotry. See, "Put Donald T. Sterling's NAACP Award on Hold":
I wangled an invitation because I wanted to meet him. I was curious about the man -- and the motives -- behind the generosity. Sterling has been dogged for years by claims that he's a bigot. Was this simple image repair or true redemption, I wondered.
Two months ago, Sterling settled a housing discrimination lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department for $2.7 million. Four years ago, he spent millions to settle a similar lawsuit brought by a fair housing group.
Both accused him of trying to exclude blacks, Latinos and families with children from renting apartments in buildings he owns.
Yet there he was last week playing Santa, handing out $1 million from his private charitable foundation to 10 high schools in South and East Los Angeles and 20 charities across Los Angeles County.
Like Skid Row's Para Los Niños, "another fabulous Hispanic charity in Boyle Heights, where I grew up," Sterling said.
And Roosevelt High, "with all the Hispanic kids," he said, "where nobody thought they could study and learn calculus until that teacher" -- Jaime Escalante -- came along.
Oops -- Escalante taught at Garfield High, which also received a Sterling grant.
A Google search with the name Donald Sterling and racial discrimination found nearly 12,000 results. Not one of them even remotely had Sterling doing anything to further racial goodwill. The checklist of reported Sterling racial escapades include a Justice Department housing discrimination lawsuit and forced settlement, slurs and gaffes against Hispanics and African-Americans, and that includes two high profile Clipper players, the shooing of minorities away from his pricey Beverly Hills condos and rentals, and an overblown and failed promise to build a Homeless shelter on L.A.s skid row. Then there's the allegations and lawsuit by former Clipper General Manager Elgin Baylor that Sterling runs his operations like a Southern plantation.While perhaps Ofari Hutchison's not persuaded that Sterling's done much in fact to help the black community, as LAT's Banks points out, the Clippers owner indeed has a long history of philanthropy for a litany of left-wing causes. Sports Illustrated, back in 2000, ran a major feature story on Sterling, critical of his success as an NBA owner but highlighting his liberal philanthropy, "Up And Down In Beverly Hills":
The NAACP airbrushed this away and simply said that Sterling has been a gem in giving oodles of tickets away to needy inner city kids and ladling out some cash to charities and sports camps for them. How any of this ranks as a take the lead, storm the barriers battle against racial injustice is a mystery....
The issue is not what, whether or even if Sterling did anything to further the cause of racial justice and civil rights. He hasn't. The issue is what the NAACP is doing to further it.
Many people believe that Sterling is playing a different game from the rest of the NBA owners. "I don't know how important winning is to Donald," says [Carl] Scheer, the team's general manager Scheer. "He seems more concerned mat his books are balanced, that he runs one of the few NBA franchises with no debt, that he can bring his friends to games." Those friends—a mix of Friars Clubbers and Merv Era celebs—show up en masse at Sterling's Malibu White Party, the extravagant tented barbecue-and-bubbly beach bash he often throws at his second home, a neo-Tudor oceanfront bungalow. The party is so named because guests are encouraged to dress all in white, as in The Great Gatsby. "Sterling's agenda is as much social as professional," says Los Angeles Times sportswriter Mark Heisler. "He loves the status that owning even a bad team confers."Sterling's a classic Beverly Hills-Hollywood schmoozer and left-wing philanthropist big shot, and the occasional leftist tight wad, heh.
He also enjoys the publicity he's received as a philanthropist. Southern California charities routinely fete Sterling as their Humanitarian of the Year. Since 1997, the title has been accorded him by the Vista Del Mar Orphanage, the Special Olympics, the Los Angeles Yeshiva, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation and the L.A. Police Historical Society. Not that every charity has found it easy to separate Sterling from his swag. Linda McCoy-Murray recognized that last summer when she phoned him to help sponsor a golf tournament in honor of her late husband, venerated L.A. Times sports columnist Jim Murray. Every pro franchise in California, according to McCoy-Murray had forked over at least $5,000 to her foundation, which provides journalism scholarships. Every pro franchise, that is, except the Clippers, which had memorialized Murray on the final page of last season's media guide. Sterling offered McCoy-Murray two season passes. "You know, that's wonderful," she remembers telling him. "but we're trying to endow a college scholarship fund. We could really use cash."
Again, this is just one more case of leftist racism and bigotry, unfortunately too splashy of a celebrity story for the hopelessly biased leftist press to tamp down.
So, enjoy watching the sick racist Democrats squirm under the news of Sterling's racism. That is, until the next distraction squirrel! runs our from the bushes, lol.
Holocaust Denial and the Iranian Regime
Well, we know that there's at least one person who won't be marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday. "Observe that no one in Europe dares to speak about the Holocaust even though it's not clear what the reality is about it, whether it even has a reality, or how it happened," said Iran's ruling cleric, Ali Khamenei, in a March 21 speech. "Expressing an opinion or doubts about the Holocaust is considered to be one of the greatest of sins [in Europe] where someone can get stopped, arrested, sued or imprisoned for this offense."Keep reading.
The ayatollah's recent comments on the Holocaust were part of a longer speech that was a scorching stemwinder against the West and Iranians who embrace Western ways. Holocaust revisionism is part of Mr. Khamenei's resistance to a world organized around Western norms and history. Other strategies include developing Iran's nuclear program, making its economy more sanctions-proof, and maintaining a religious culture capable of closing the "cracks" opened by the allure of a deviant Occident.
Many observers, including some within the Obama administration, have sought to play down the matter of Iranian Holocaust denial. So have many Iranians and Westerners who sincerely want to get past the nuclear issue and see Iran reintegrated into the world—Holocaust denial is just too awkward and painful to examine. It's an aberration, many insist, nasty insecure rhetoric without roots in Persian culture. In truth it is a symptom of a worldview utterly at odds with our own. It strongly suggests that Mr. Khamenei's republic will endure great economic hardship to realize its dream of becoming a nuclear power.
Holocaust revisionism permeates and defines the Iranian regime. Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad famously supported a research mission to Poland in 2005 to investigate whether millions of Jews could have died at Auschwitz. (Poland's foreign ministry turned down the request.) Today, in addition to Supreme Leader Khamenei, commanders of the Revolutionary Guard Corps—who oversee Iran's nuclear program and terrorist operations—embrace Holocaust-denial with gusto.
Even the "moderate" president elected last year, Hasan Rouhani, danced around the subject of the Holocaust in his interview last September with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, saying it was up to historians to decide—as if they hadn't already—the true "dimensions" of Nazi slaughter. Mr. Rouhani didn't deny that the Germans killed Jews, but he grouped them with other victims of Nazi barbarism.
The Tehran regime's Holocaust reflections spring in great part from two sources...
#RNC Spokesman Furious GOP Lumped with Cliven Bundy — Furious!!
And one of the things I find amusing is how everyone's tripping over themselves running away from the guy. Myself? I think it's a fabulous story, and Mr. Bundy's tapping into a real sense of federal overreach. But honestly, as I wrote earlier, "Sounds as if the Bundy family may have bitten off more than they could chew." So it's way beyond that now. It's about the real racists attempting to turn an inarticulate old man into a Klansman, when the real Klansmen are in the Democrat Party killing people (and they always have been). Further, you've got stupid race-trading leftists attacking Mr. Bundy as satanic like it's nothing.
But it's understandable, in our PC-drenched culture. Leftists can scream "RAAAAACIST" and instantaneously shut down the discussion. Notice, though, that the idiots progs aren't messing with me, because they know I'll call 'em out on their lies and they know they'll lose. They'll be exposed as the ASFLs they are, everything. F-k 'em.
Bonus: I think Ron Christie's comments just destroy the leftist meme at the clip, and Carol Costello is the most brainless shill for the Democrats it's hilarious.
Doe-Eyed Jen Psaki Works That Hashtag Diplomacy!
And this week at Twitchy, "Jen Psaki: ‘Let’s hope the Kremlin will live by the promise of hashtag’," and "Jen Psaki says Russians not following up their #UnitedForUkraine hashtag with actions."
Also, "State Department’s Jen Psaki triggers fresh round of ridicule after declaring it ‘wacky Friday’."
Jake Tapper is mercilessly easier on the doe-eyed spokewoman:
Bill O'Reilly Slams Media Hack Brian Stelter on Ridiculous Cliven Bundy Fox News Smear
Harry Reid: A Joseph McCarthy for Our Time
We should ask Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) the same question once posed to Sen. Joseph McCarthy by U.S. Army head counsel Robert N. Welch: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"He's an abomination. An inhuman wretch. A pile of steaming refuse. And a Democrat (but I repeat myself).
Reid is back in the news for denigrating the peaceful supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, a popular critic of the Bureau of Land Management policy, as "domestic terrorists."
McCarthy in the 1950s became infamous for smearing his opponents with lurid allegations that he could not prove, while questioning their patriotism. Reid has brought back to the Senate that exact same McCarthy style of six decades ago -- and trumped it.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Reid libeled candidate Mitt Romney with the unsubstantiated and later-refuted charge that Romney was a tax cheat. "The word's out that he [Romney] hasn't paid any taxes for 10 years," Reid said.
Later, when asked for proof, Reid offered a pathetic rejoinder: "I have had a number of people tell me that." One wonders how many names were on Reid's McCarthyite "tell" list -- were there, as McCarthy used to bluster, 205 names, or perhaps just 57?
When asked again to document the slur, Reid echoed McCarthy perfectly: "The burden should be on him. He's the one I've alleged has not paid any taxes."
When the Koch brothers donated money that was used for political ads -- just as liberal political donors George Soros and the Steyer brothers have done -- Reid rushed to the Senate floor to question their patriotism: "These two brothers ... are about as un-American as anyone that I can imagine." The charge of being "un-American" is also vintage McCarthyite slander.
Reid also has a bad habit of racial bigotry. He once praised fellow Sen. Barack Obama because he was, in Reid's words, a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
When Reid was worried that he would not get enough Hispanic voters to the polls, he condescendingly lectured the Latino community: "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, OK. Do I need to say more?"
Reid once singled out for damnation just one Supreme Court justice -- Clarence Thomas: "I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court."
Reid has also brought back McCarthy's custom of vicious and sometimes profane insults.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Reid announced: "I can't stand John McCain." Of then-President George W. Bush, Reid said: "President Bush is a liar." Reid claimed that fellow Mormon Mitt Romney had "sullied" his religion.
When Gen. David Petraeus brought proof to Congress that the surge in Iraq was beginning to work by late 2007, Reid declared, "No, I don't believe him, because it's not happening."
He elaborated on that charge by labeling Petraeus -- at the time the senior ground commander of U.S. forces fighting in Iraq -- a veritable liar. Reid alleged that Petraeus "has made a number of statements over the years that have not proven to be factual."
When an African-American and Democratic appointee to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, William Magwood, opposed Reid on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site controversy, Reid called him a "first-class rat," "treacherous, miserable liar," "sh-t stirrer," and "one of the most unethical, prevaricating, incompetent people I've ever dealt with."
Like a pre-reform-era politician, Reid entered public service relatively poor and will leave it as a multimillionaire. He has granted lucrative favors to casinos and rich investors who hired his sons' legal firm. While in office he made considerable profits on private business and real estate deals. Some of those who donated to his campaigns got favorable government treatment.
Reid recently paid his granddaughter thousands of dollars from his campaign war chest to make jewelry gifts for his donors and friends. Only after a storm of criticism did he reimburse his campaign fund.
So how does Reid's reckless career continue with the Senate leader avoiding the sort of congressional censure that finally did in McCarthy? Why is there is no progressive muckraker to take on Reid the way that Edward R. Murrow once exposed McCarthy?
For the left, Reid's utility as an attack dog (like McCarthy's utility to Republicans) outweighs the downside of his crude bombast...
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PREVIOUSLY: "Harry Reid's Long, Steady Accretion of Power and Wealth — #Democrat #Corruption."
Ann Coulter on Cliven Bundy
My thoughts on all of this here, "Shiree Bundy Cox, Cliven Bundy's Daughter, Hammers Sean Hannity."
Another 'Uncle Tom' Weighs In on Bundy
The man nails it.
But you're not supposed to think for yourself these days. And a black man agreeing with Cliven Bundy? RAAAAACIST!!!
And see, "Shiree Bundy Cox, Cliven Bundy's Daughter, Hammers Sean Hannity."
Turn the Tables!
RT @HistoryInPix: A liberated Jewish Holocaust survivor turning the tables. pic.twitter.com/kmGtuX3zeD
— Mary Chastain (@mchastain81) April 25, 2014
RELATED: At the Other McCain, "Totalitarian Terror: Anti-Israel Campus Extremists Target Jewish Students." Show no mercy on these bastards.
Friday, April 25, 2014
Harry Reid's Long, Steady Accretion of Power and Wealth — #Democrat #Corruption
A two-part report from Adam O'Neal, at Real Clear Politics:
Contrary to popular belief, Reid arrived in Washington wealthy; he had a net worth of at least -- and likely more than -- $1 million, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Although Reid had spent most of the previous 15 years in public office, or pursuing public office, he still proved to be a robust earner. After his term as lieutenant governor ended in 1975, he would not return to public office full time until 1983. (The Gaming Commission is only part-time work.) All told, he worked at least 14 years as a private-practice attorney between 1964 and 1982.Keep reading. It's the part of the story to which Reid's political handlers objected, and RCP's included their objections bracketed in the text, in italics.
As a former public official with strong political connections, he found lucrative work in Las Vegas. It appears his personal boom was simply part of the broader expansion of Nevada’s economy. Some attorneys at the time, particularly those with political networks, would occasionally receive payment in the form of real estate. Given Nevada’s rapid growth, such payments would become extremely valuable over time. It’s unclear if Reid received land as compensation then, but he certainly made good money and invested in real estate early on.
Theoretically, working as a lawmaker should have severely limited Reid’s earning potential. In the early 1980s, members of Congress received a salary of about $70,000 per year. Though pay has generally risen -- and Reid receives more than most lawmakers because of his leadership position -- he has never earned more than $200,000 per year in salary.
Yet, his estimated net worth peaked at around $10 million just a few years ago, and he has remained consistently wealthier than when he entered Congress. (Reid reported that his net worth in 2012 was somewhere between $2.8 million and $6.3 million. His 2013 financial disclosures will be released later this year.) As of 2012, real estate composed about one-third of his portfolio. The rest was made up of government bonds; stakes in energy, electronics, pharmaceutical, and chemical companies; and other investments. He also possesses significant mining claims potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
How did Reid manage to grow his net worth so significantly while raising a large family, on a public official’s salary, and incurring the expenses associated with maintaining two residences on opposite sides of the country? Reid has lived frugally -- before buying a house in recent years, he kept just a trailer in his hometown of Searchlight -- and he has made undeniably savvy investments. More significantly, however, is his willingness to enter political and ethical gray areas to make money.
Reid has walked a fine line over the years, occasionally breaking rules or engaging in brazenly unseemly behavior during his pursuit of wealth. Further, he has also used his position to save money in ways that the general public can’t -- a practice that creates public relations issues and raises questions about the senator’s ethics. As for any illegal behavior or obvious wrongdoing, Jon Ralston told RCP, “There’s been some smoke but there’s never any fire on that.”
There may be quite a bit of smoke.
Heh, he's a shady fucker.
One of his the responses goes like this, "Senator Reid is not the first person in America to have made a profitable land sale and I suspect he won't be the last but the last time I checked there's nothing wrong with selling land."
Yep, everybody does it so stfu. Sounds like a two-bit criminal.
And at Part II is here, "Harry Reid's Long Coattails."
Reid is what's wrong with Washington politics. I'm astonished that a corrupt f-ker like this still remains on the public's dime. Damn. Just a disgusting specimen of crass political corruption and social decay.
33 Photos of Instagram Sensation Ashlyn Coray
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Connecticut Teenager Stabbed to Death Over High School Prom Rejection
A 16-year-old student was stabbed to death by another student in the hallway of a Connecticut high school on Friday morning, the authorities said.The New York Post isn't being so circumspect about the killer's motive, "Teen girl stabbed to death at school after rejecting prom invitation."
The victim, identified as Maren Sanchez, was attacked by a 16-year-old boy at about 7:15 a.m. on the first floor of the Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Chief Keith Mello of the Milford Police Department said at a news conference midmorning. Both Ms. Sanchez and the attacker, who was not identified because he is a minor, were students at the school.
School staff members tried to resuscitate Ms. Sanchez after the attack, Chief Mello said. She was pronounced dead at 7:43 a.m. at Bridgeport Hospital. The attacker was subdued by staff members and taken into police custody, Chief Mello said.
Chief Mello gave no indication of a possible motive, but said investigators were looking into reports that a dispute over the junior class prom, scheduled for Friday evening, could have prompted the attack. School officials canceled classes for the rest of the day and later announced that the prom was canceled as well.
“This is a very raw, a very fresh investigation,” Chief Mello said...
So, a beautiful young life cut short, and a family shattered, and you know the progressive "criminal justice" authorities will do everything possible to keep the killer from doing hard time. And don't even think about the death penalty. Not only are minors exempt, but Connecticut banned capital punishment in 2012.
How long will until another beautiful young life cut down? There's simply no deterrent, and victims' families get no justice. But we'll see. We'll see.
NYU's Students for Justice in Palestine: Israel's Existence is 'Flagrant Violation' of International Law
Remember, SJP's a Hamas-backed student group advocating the extermination of the Jews.
At Truth Revolt, "NYU SJP Denies Israel's Legal Right to Exist."
@Laura_E_Adkins @WildFTracks @MaxBlumenthal The existence of Israel is in undeniably a flagrant violation of UN Resolutions and int'l law
— NYU SJP (@NYUSJP) April 24, 2014
@DanielMael We cannot deny Israel is a settler-colonial state that has flourished at the expense of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
— NYU SJP (@NYUSJP) April 25, 2014
Also at the Other McCain, "Totalitarian Terror: Anti-Israel Campus Extremists Target Jewish Students."
Shiree Bundy Cox, Cliven Bundy's Daughter, Hammers Sean Hannity
As many of have been saying, this whole Cliven Bundy "racist" affair is one monumental distraction. Frankly, as I said from the first get-go, Mr. Bundy's comments were simply inarticulate. But being raw as they were, the left pounced, screaming "racist" to the high heavens. Sadly, some of the biggest voices on the right refused to speak truth to the lies, and have stood down in the face of genuine regressive evil.
Pat Dollard has the comments of Cliven Bundy's daughter, "Bundy’s Daughter Slams Hannity: He’s ‘More Worried About His Ratings’ Than My Dad."
The Hannity clip is here, which aired a couple of nights ago: "Sean Hannity Addresses Cliven Bundy Racist Remarks on Fox News - 'Racist' and 'Bigoted'."
Some conservatives are urging folks to listen to the whole "context." At Truth Revolt, for example, "Unedited Tape of Bundy Emerges, Sheds Light on 'Racist' Remarks." And from top black conservative Bob Parks, "Update: Deceptive-Edit of the Day."
But no, I can't go there. Simply, Mr. Bundy's comments on their own were inflammatory enough for the left to gain traction.
As always, it's the hypocrisy and opportunism that's key here. Leftists will stop at nothing to drive conservative speech from the public square. While Bundy's daughter swears her father's not racist, his comments stand alone as a gift to the despicable race baiters on the left, who won't stop at Bundy. They'll go all the way to the top of the conservative ranks and the GOP to tar the right-wing as irredeemably racist.
As I wrote last night, the race-trading leftist Jamelle Bouie went all out to portray the entire conservative movement as racist, claiming arguments on things like the continuing black Democrat plantation should be banned from the public realm. Typical totalitarian leftists.
For a loser like Bouie, towering intellectuals like Walter Williams are Jim Crow racists whose views are beyond the pale. People like WSJ's Jason Riley, a black conservative, are somehow "white supremacists" to be banished from respectable society.
In fairness to Bundy, he’s repeating some rhetoric pretty common on the Right. Here’s the WSJ! http://t.co/eainBHUVBz
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) April 24, 2014
This is the state of intellectual debate today. Cliven Bundy simply stepped in it. The disgusting leftists picked it up and threw it America's collective face.
Crisis! Calamity! Disaster! Lime Shortage Puts Squeeze on Margaritas!
At the Wall Street Journal, "Lime Shortage Drives Up Prices at Bars and Restaurants in U.S.: As Margarita-Fueled Cinco de Mayo Nears, Mexican Restaurants Ask Customers to Harvest From Home":
FULLERTON, Calif. — When Matador Cantina's general manager Dave Dennis saw recently that a sharp rise in the price of limes was putting the squeeze on this Mexican restaurant, he called his mother.Well, looks like there solid demand for limes, lol.
But the limes on the tree in her yard here weren't ripe. So he asked his staff to hit up their friends for limes. He got just a few. With his cantina in need of 1,000 limes a week to use in cocktails, Corona beer and food, he decided to go public.
"Bring us a bag full of limes and get a crafted cocktail for just 25 cents," Mr. Dennis posted on Facebook and Twitter. He put up a sign in the restaurant: "WE WANT YOUR LIMES."
Bars and restaurants across the country have been affected by what they are calling the "great lime crisis of 2014." And the timing could hardly be worse: It comes just as the fruit's highest-profile day of the year is approaching—the margarita-fueled Cinco de Mayo.
In Mexico, the holiday commemorates the Mexican army's victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. In the U.S., Cinco de Mayo is a big deal, too. Here it has evolved into a celebration of Mexican heritage, cuisine and drink.
Mexico, one of the world's largest lime exporters, supplies the U.S. with 97% of the limes it consumes, nearly 500,000 tons annually. But this past winter, heavy rains hit lime-growing regions such as Veracruz, said Mexican Agriculture Ministry spokesman Francisco Burguete, delaying the usual harvest and driving prices to an all-time high. A 40-pound crate of Mexican limes has been fetching more than $100 wholesale, four times the typical seasonal price.
By weight, Mexican limes are commanding a higher price than Mexican crude oil. Cruz Sandoval of Ingardia Bros. Produce in Santa Ana, Calif., which sells to U.S. restaurants, said, "All our customers want to know is when the lime price is coming down."
Sensing an opportunity, liquor producer Beam Inc., of Deerfield, Ill., has launched a social-media campaign urging consumers this Cinco de Mayo to "ride out the lime shortage with Hornitos Lime Shot," its tequila "with the flavor of refreshing lime."
"The best way to deal with the lime shortage is to sip lime cocktails," said Jared Fix, vice president of Beam's "mixables."
Mexican limes aren't just used in drinks, of course. Ceviche, a dish made of fresh raw seafood, is cured in lime juice. Limes are also de rigueur in guacamole and fish tacos. Thai cuisine, too, makes liberal use of limes.
In response to the shortage, things are changing north of the border. Alaska Airlines has scrapped limes from cocktails in coach. Mexican restaurants, which depend on drinks like the salt-rimmed, tequila-based margarita to drive traffic, can't take such radical measures.
When limes hit $100, "it was kind of def-con for lime juice," said Mike Barrow, beverage director of the Tacolicious restaurant chain in San Francisco, stressing the urgency of the situation.
More at the link.
Kira Davis: 'This is an issue of freedom, and not racism...'
Kyra Davis steps off the plantation, holla!
At Barracuda Brigade, "Kira Davis ~> 'I Don’t Care if Cliven Bundy is a Racist."
Krya's thoughts almost perfectly sum up how I feel at this point. Hers and Dana Loesch as well, who's just been on fire on this issue for weeks.
Enjoy this video. This lady is so well grounded it's ridiculous:
#Ukraine Halts Military Push, Fearing Attack From Russia
Ukrainian forces moved in on a pro-Russian stronghold Thursday, killing several militants in a firefight at a roadside checkpoint, but quickly halted their advance after Russia activated the thousands of troops it has massed just across the border.Continue reading.
Moscow's saber-rattling—launching new land and air military drills—left Ukraine's new government in a quandary: whether to risk pressing ahead with what it calls its antiterrorist operation in the restive east, or risk more bloodshed and provoking an invasion.
Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov, who had ordered the military operation to restart on Tuesday, vowed it would continue even as a security official in Kiev said the operation in the eastern city of Slovyansk had been paused for reworking. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry gave Moscow 48 hours to explain the military exercises along the border.
The Pentagon called those drills "exactly the opposite of what we have been calling on the Russians to do."
U.S. officials said they didn't know if the drills meant Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to intervene militarily in Ukraine. Some officials said they think it is a show of strength to reinforce his position before moving to reduce tensions and solidify his gains.
"We see movement, motion and activity," said a senior military official. "It looks like muscle flexing by Moscow. But is it more than that?"
President Barack Obama said Thursday in Tokyo that Russia hasn't been abiding by the spirit or letter of the international agreement reached a week ago in Geneva and intended to reduce tensions. Mr. Obama reiterated warnings that the U.S. is prepared to impose additional sanctions in days. Secretary of State John Kerry said Ukraine was holding up its end of the deal, but that Russia hasn't taken a "single concrete step."
Mr. Putin's tone Thursday was less strident than that of his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, a day before...
Sick Leftist Jamelle Bouie Attacks Alleged Racist Rancher as Demonic 'Cloven' Bundy
But he did go off on a little rant yesterday on Cliven Bundy, slithering down to a pretty sick Biblical attack on Mr. Bundy as some kind of demonic figure of purported boilerplate conservative racism.
Here's his tweet attacking Mr. Bundy as "Cloven," which I forwarded to the editor of Slate David Plotz:
Hey @DavidPlotz, are you down with your writers attacking Cliven Bundy as the devil? https://t.co/G4amPhjMao pic.twitter.com/SMPvEKBfhu
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
And here's the oh-so tolerant Bouie on Alex Wagner's MSNBC show last night:
As I posted yesterday, Bouie's just a typical leftist hypocrite: "Leftists Shamelessly Exploit Cliven Bundy Comments to Smear GOP as 'Racist'."
And I just love how Bouie's fellow regressive tweeps thought "Cloven" was an "awesome typo," the hacks.
I sent out quite a few tweets to some of the Slate folks. I'll update if I get a response, especially an apology.
.@JBouie You attacked Cliven Bundy as "Cloven" Bundy. That's real classy, hack.
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@JBouie So, how's about folks call you Jamelle "Burple" Bouie? Would that be cool? "Burple Boy"? How would you like that?
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@JBouie "In folklore and popular culture, a cloven hoof has long been associated with the Devil." It's personal? https://t.co/G4amPhjMao
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
You know, we have conservatives and Republicans across the board denouncing Bundy, and leftists hacks are getting off with "cloven"? #DEMS
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@RachaelBL You at @Slate spend a lots time on race issues, but attacking purported "racist" ranchers as the devil? https://t.co/G4amPhjMao
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@RachaelBL Your writer doing a character assassination on Bundy is @JBouie:
https://t.co/G4amPhjMao Does he represent @Slate's values?
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@Slate Leftists are supposed to be sophisticated and tolerant, except when it comes to Nevada ranchers I guess: https://t.co/G4amPhjMao …
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@DLoesch Just wanted to share this @JBouie tweet with you, attacking Cliven Bundy as "Cloven" Bundy, the devil: https://t.co/G4amPhjMao
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@DLoesch It's been a big day of leftists attacking #TCOTs as "racist," but leftists attacking Bundy as "Cloven"? https://t.co/3UNyPs6i6c
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@JBouie "Pressure cooker"? Why? Cooking some chitterlings? You know slaves ate chitterlings. Guess old "Cloven" was hitting close to home?
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@JBouie That's why you're attacking him as "the devil," kinda like the massa in the big house, no? I mean ya gotta love those chitterlings?
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@JBouie And how do I know about chitterlings, a.k.a. "chitlins"? My dad used to make 'em. His grandparents were slaves.
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@JBouie I guess you can't attack me as "Cloven" Douglas then, right? Doesn't fit the meme of the evil "demonic" white racist, you hack.
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
Depraved leftists thought that @JBouie "Cloven" attack on Bundy was an "awesome typo"! https://t.co/3UNyPs6i6c #Leftist #Hypocrisy
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@DLoesch Just wanted to share that with you as yet another sick example of #Leftist #Hypocrisy. https://t.co/l7lCOewmOh cc. @DavidPlotz
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
.@DavidPlotz So, looking forward to your response and Mr. Bouie's apology: https://t.co/3UNyPs6i6c
cc. @EmilyBazelon @JDickerson
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014
Smokin' Dita Von Teese Launches Sexiest Lingerie Collection Yet
At London's Daily Mail, "'I wanted a bra to create a voluptuous cleavage': Dita Von Teese launches (and models) her sexiest lingerie collection yet. And yes, there is lots of cleavage.