April 7, 2010, - 4:19 pm
When I asked you about the Apple IPad, last week, many of you said the same things as Jimmy Kimmel (though maybe not as funny). He gets it right on the psychology of the IPad and captures it in a nutshell, here. You only need watch until 1:08, as after that it’s kinda stupid.
April 7, 2010, - 3:32 pm
This isn’t about race. It’s about culture–a culture of irresponsibility, selfishness, entitlement, and “if it feels good, do it.”
Pro athletes–of all races–are so predictable. When a friend, today, sent me a story about former NFLer Tiki Barber leaving his pregnant (with twins) wife for an NBC intern, I asked if either of the women was Black, because I doubted it. And sure enough neither is. Just like with the Tiger Woods’ harem. Not a single minority in the bunch. Not that I care about the races of people in lust . . . er “love.” That’s their business. But I care that the same people who can’t practice affirmative action in their own lives expect us to tolerate it in a discriminatory way in our lives in the more urgent matters of the job market and livelihoods that can make or break families and can be the difference of whether rent is paid and there’s food on the table.
Brett Favre: Proud Grandpappy to Second Generation Baby Mama
And then there is the single motherhood for yet another generation in the NFL Favre family. When I read, today, that Brett Favre became a grandfather at age 40 because his daughter Britanny–herself an illegitimate child–had a kid, I said to myself: I’ll bet she’s not married, either. And I was right. It’s so damned easy to predict this pattern of behavior. In fact, not only isn’t the girl married, but the father’s name isn’t mentioned anywhere and the kid doesn’t have his last name. He’s apparently just a sperm donor, just like in that bastion of family values, the Palin family. And just as with Tripp Palin, Parker Brett Favre proves my theory about names: he has the same pretentious, ostentatious kind of first name that signals the family’s desperate, false imploring of “please notice that I have class.” (And like Favre’s daughter’s first name, Brittany, in ten years, it’ll be a common stripper name. “Guys, welcome to the stage and pole, Parker Hills . . . .“)
April 7, 2010, - 11:41 am
As George Orwell might have written, all of the citizen militias in the barnyard are equal, but some are more equal than others.
When the FBI recently raided and rounded up members of the Hutaree militia in Michigan and Ohio, I said to myself, “Well, if they were Muslim (and not Black), they’d have been safe to carry on.” In fact, we’ve seen no evidence whatsoever that, as federal prosecutors claim, the Hutaree members were about to kill anyone, police or otherwise, so I’ll reserve judgment until–and if–I see it. For now, I find the violent, anti-American rhetoric in local mosques–who also train with guns and in the martial arts in rural Michigan–far more threatening and of immediate danger.
Scary: Muslim Matt Savino & His Michigan Militia Escape FBI Scrutiny
And, apparently, my view about the religion of the Hutarees–they are Christian, not Muslim–has been confirmed as a reason for them being targeted. You see, there’s another militia in Michigan, which trains the same way and does the same things. And whaddya know? They weren’t raided, weren’t arrested, weren’t indicted, and aren’t now sitting rotting in jail without bond. And that’s even though the particular militia is based in Michigan’s Lenawee County (where several Hutaree members are based) and its leader is friends with some of the arrested Hutarees.
Muslim Michigan Militia Leader Matt Savino Trains Kids Johnathan and Kiersten
Well, the religion of their leader seems to be a pretty good reason why:
Since nine members of the Hutaree militia, including five people from Lenawee County, were arrested for plotting to kill law enforcement officials, members of another local militia have sought to emphasize their difference from those arrested. . . .
April 7, 2010, - 2:15 am
Tommy Hearns is broke. But it wasn’t always that way. I know from personal experience because he used to be my neighbor.
One Thanksgiving in the ’80s, when I was a kid, a story was on the local newscast about boxer Thomas “Hitman” Hearns’ Thanksgiving Day present to his mother. Hearns bought a home–which I recognized as one in our neighborhood (just a couple of blocks away from our house)–and was moving his single mother and multiple siblings into the house. I thought it was cool that we had a famous champion boxer living in the neighborhood. And, of course, who could beat a menacing nickname like “Hitman”? (Plus, I’ve always been a boxing fan.)
In the ensuing years, you couldn’t miss the Hearns house. It was an average ’70s era middle class colonial which looked like most other homes in the subdivision. But it had a mauve Excalibur, an old Cadillac stretch limo and other gaudy cars consistently decorating the driveway. Some of Hearns’ siblings went to high school with me, and one (Henry) was later convicted of murdering his girlfriend in the house. The murder happened just two nights before Hearns’ 1989 title fight against “Sugar” Ray Leonard in Las Vegas (which ended in a draw).
Ultimately, the Hearns home in a mostly Black and Orthodox Jewish neighborhood went into foreclosure, was repossessed by the bank, and finally purchased by a childhood friend of mine and his wife. The home had a lot of serious physical damage to it thanks to the Hearnses, and a lot of intense repair work had to be done. I remember my friends saying there were gaping holes in ceilings and floors (and I doubt that was from the Hitman’s punches). After it was all cleaned out and set up, my friends had a strange visit from one of the Hearns brothers. He was apparently out of prison (or something like that) after drug dealing and insisted on entering the home to “find something” he “left” there. My friend’s wife insisted the house was long ago cleaned out from top to bottom. But he demanded to be and was let into the home by my friend’s scared wife. He went into the basement and, under some floorboard in the basement, recovered a large brick of cash.
This was the family that Tommy the “Hitman” had to take care of, a family rife with hangers-on who sucked out of him a lot of his bankroll. And after earning $40 million in his career (and that was when a million was still a million), he’s now broke–a shell of what he once was.
April 6, 2010, - 2:07 pm
Ha! No, this isn’t a joke. Both David Letterman and NBC have stated in signed federal court documents–signed by their attorneys–that there is no “Palestine.”
David Letterman & NBC Tell Bruno Star/Terrorist Ayman Abu Aita:
“Sorry, There is NO Palestine”
Oh, sure, this is in court documents to get out of a lawsuit filed by Ayman Abu Aita, the Palestinian terrorist, against Sacha Baron Cohen because of a scene in his “Bruno” movie. But who cares where they said it? The important thing is that they said it at all. In this case they said it in Ayman Abu Aita v. Sacha Noam Baron Cohen et al. Even better, NBC goes on to say, in its brief, “Palestine does not exist.” Hey, they said it. And I’ve posted the legal documents from both below (and noted how Letterman’s high-priced lawyers screwed up–he had two of them working on a brief two page filing, and they still got it wrong). I’ve also noted, below, how NBC was incorrect, unfortunately, about a few sad facts.
April 5, 2010, - 2:56 pm
(bumped up by Debbie’s site administrator)
We’re finally starting to see the rest of the world come to realize what I originally reported on this site: that both Sean Hannity and Freedom Alliance are defrauding donors to their scams, er . . . “charities.” And now, as a result of my work, a major charity evaluator–a charity evaluator whose rating of the group I exposed as completely flawed–has woken up downgraded Freedom Alliance, slashing its rating in half.
A few weeks ago, I blew the lid off of the fraud that is Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concerts and the scam “charity” known as “Freedom Alliance.” I showed you the organization’s tax returns and how Hannity lied to his audience when he told them a $30,000 sponsorship by Boca Java would fund a whole year’s college scholarship for the child of a fallen American soldier. I showed you that, in fact, Freedom Alliance has NEVER paid for the full year’s tuition of a college student. Not even close. And I showed you the pitifully small amounts–$200 here, $165 there–that Freedom Alliance gave to soldiers who lost three limbs and an eye or were totally blinded with their face blown up.
And since then, after I followed up and reported the accounts of TWO insiders, witnesses to Oliver North telling Sean Hannity to stop spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of the concert revenues on private planes–money that was secreted through the bank accounts of Premiere Speakers Bureau, the conservative amen crowd (no different than Obamabots) has been largely silent, unable to refute what I’ve written, with Hannity and Premiere refusing to disclose the financial records of the concerts. At first, like Obama’s brainless, hypnotized minions, they attacked me and echoed the empty denials of the malefactors here, declaring that a “debunking.” But if the debunking of con artists and frauds was actually “debunking,” we’d have no need for prisons.
But now, as a result of my investigation, Charity Navigator–which many of the smirking apologists for Hannity (most of them as fraudulent as he is and, yes, that includes Fraudkin and Big Follywood) cited–has downgraded Freedom Alliance from a “Four Star” charity, to a “Two Star” charity, meaning it “Needs Improvement” and “Underperforms Most Charities in Its Cause.” And, frankly, even that rating is charitable. As I noted in my piece, Charity Navigator’s original Four Star ranking was baloney. It was bogus, and involved a silly, inept number-crunching formula which counted Freedom Alliance’s millions of dollars spent on cronies and consultants as actually going to the intended recipients of the charity. I’m glad that, after my work, Charity Navigator sorta woke up.
April 5, 2010, - 12:13 pm
As a kid my favorite sports car was a DeLorean. One of my schoolmates’ parents drove one and I used to marvel as I saw its gullwing doors open from the low silver stainless steel sleekness. My schoolmate, Jill, told me her parents thought it was a headache because they couldn’t open the car doors in a normal-sized garage. But who cares? That was part of the fantasy.
Now, I have a new fave sports car. And it’s American, too. The Rapier SL-C (for Superlight Coupe). If you’ve never heard of Rapier Automotive, that’s because it’s a relatively new company. (And, in case you were wondering, it has nothing to do with the old Sunbeam Rapier cars.) Based in Boston, it planned its flagship offering for the last five years. It’s got the gull-wing doors of the DeLorean . . . and gull-wing everything else. It looks a little like a Formula One race car (and does use some Indy-style mechanisms), and I don’t care for the red “look-at-me” version. But in black, it’s sharp–like something Batman would drive. In fact, the black version looks a lot like the Batmobile.
So what’s the damage for this cool new car?
April 4, 2010, - 7:15 pm
Throughout his career, there were many who applauded Tiger Woods seeming apolitical nature and non-emphasis on race. It included Rush Limbaugh, with whom I often agree. Many also applauded his statement, on “Oprah,” that he wasn’t Black, but “Cablinasian,” since he has many ethnicities in his background. But I was not among these people. I knew that, sooner or later, Woods would be political and that he would play the race card.
Apparently, that “sooner or later,” was 2005, when Woods spoke of his “racial identity” to Charles Barkley, in Barkley’s book, “Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man.” Woods told Barkley that, in kindergarten at Cerritos Elementary School in Cypress, California, he was tied to a tree, spray painted with the N-word, and had rocks thrown at him. Woods also claimed that the teacher didn’t care and sent him home. I don’t find Woods’ claim credible, especially since he’d never mentioned it before, except in a Baba Wawa interview around the same time. There are no documented reports of such an occurrence. And no-one seems to remember it. Seems to me, he was just playing the race card.
Now, in a comical sort of events, Woods’ former kindergarten teacher, Maureen Decker, is coming forward (where was she in 2005?) . . . and, sadly, she picked the biggest charlatan in the trial lawyer industry–the same lawyer who represents yet another woman in Woods’ life who wants an apology and some cha-ching. I predict both of these women will be waiting a long time for both. Like I said, I don’t believe Woods’ race-card story. But not only is it weird that the teacher didn’t come out and deny this in 2005 (she waited five years), but also that she hired Gloria Allred, possibly the sleaziest attorney of our time. Why? I can understand the teacher’s anger at being defamed in Woods’ obvious attempt to “get down with the struggle.” But she has no grounds to sue him now, as the statute of limitations for filing a defamation suit has long ago expired (it’s only a year in most jurisdictions). She should have done it then.
So, what is really going on here (other than that Woods is a big fat liar, about not just women but issues of race)?
April 4, 2010, - 2:27 pm
As Christians celebrate Easter, today, and I and other Jews continue to celebrate Passover, Islam has provided us a stark reminder that we are at war–despite Barack Hussein Obama’s claim to the contrary–with Islam for the very reason that we want to be able to continue to maintain our freedoms. And as we know, Islam prescribes that they be taken away, including–and especially–our freedom of religion. Keep that in mind, as you observe your holiday.
But in case you forgot, Muslims in Spain provided you with a reminder as they invaded a Catholic Cathedral–Mezquita Catedral de Cordoba–and tried to assert Islam over Christianity in Cordoba. Seven Muslims, who came to Spain from Austria, tried to pray to allah inside, and two of them violently fought with church security when they asked them to leave. The Muslims went there deliberately, even though they knew that Muslims and Muslim prayer rites are forbidden inside the church. And they chose Good Friday for a reason.
April 4, 2010, - 1:31 pm
Happy Easter to my Christian readers, and a note about where I’ll be for the next two days:
Jewish Soldiers in US Armed Forces Who Fought in World War I
Hold Passover Seder in France
Tonight at sundown, the third part of Passover–the last couple of days–begins. So, I will be out of up-to-date blog commission until Tuesday Night. In my absence, I’ve prepared some items in advance which will be posted the next couple of days–including some updates on the Sean Hannity Freedom Concerts & Freedom Alliance scams and a frightening story of a family of Iranian aliens who are being granted citizenship despite the fact that they committed immigration fraud, passport forgery, etc. Plus, I still have a few things yet to post today. Stay tuned. And thanks for your continued patronage.
In the meantime, check out the photo above, which is a Passover Seder held by Jewish American soldiers serving in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I, in France, nearly a century ago. The photo was taken by Private L. Cohen of the U.S. Army. The Seder was put on by the Jewish Welfare Board, an organization that helped Jewish soldiers in the U.S. Armed Forces keep Judaism and also provided moral support, postcards home, and much other aid to all U.S. Armed Forces soldiers of all religions and faiths in several American wars (including WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam).
See ya Tuesday Night, and . . .
Y’all come back now, ya hear.
