That’s Right Nate

I don’t believe this is disrespectful, but a tribute and I think it’s actually pretty moving.

Growing up, I was always a bit conflicted over Martin Luther King.  My father marched with Martin Luther King when he came to the South Side of Chicago to protest housing segregation.   I probably shouldn’t say he marched with King as my dad and his friends took on the difficult responsibility of patrol the streets of Marquette Park armed only with baseball bats to prevent race riots so that King could march peacefully.   Martin Luther King was a Republican and in my heart I knew that he must favor supply side economics, a strong military, and a weak government just like I do, but somehow King just seemed too racial.   I mean everything seemed to be so much about race with him that as a white person I felt picked on.

Fortunately, in our post-racial society where a black man can grow up to be anything he wants including President, we can finally take a step back from the racial politics of the 1960s.   That’s why I love that Martin Luther King Day has become a day of service.   If Martin Luther King were alive today, would he be complaining about injustice, urban poverty, and a recession that has hit African-Americans particularly hard?  It’s doubtful.  Instead, he’d be using his energies to complain about parks in disrepair and schools that need painting.   There’s no need to take on a corrupt social order anymore–those problems have been solved.  I’m sure if Martin Luther King were alive today, he’d be the first one to put down the picket sign and pick up the paint brush.

In Chicago tomorrow, there’s a march by Public Workers Unite!   They’re starting out at CTA headquarters where new studies show just how underserved poor and minority riders have been by the city’s public transportation system.  The march then continues to the Board of Education where they continue to shut down and privatize minority schools throughout the South and West sides of the city.  Finally, the march ends at the State of Illinois Building.  I’m sorry, this doesn’t seem like MLK’s crowd.  I see him instead working with folks like Target, Starbucks, and McDonalds around the city who are all helping to sponsor programs in his memory.   So grab a brush America and let’s remember Dr. King’s dream of a color blind society with a fresh coat of paint.

Seen here, addressing a Tea Party in Worcester, Brown is the kind of candidate Massachusettians are looking for.

The race for Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat is a toss up and I can no longer sit on the sidelines and watch.   In an election this month, State Senator Scott Brown is running against Democratic shrew Martha Coakley and we wholeheartedly pledge our support to Scott Brown.  We have been avoiding endorsing candidates since our support for Mike Taylor and John McCain didn’t pan out so well.  However, Scott is the rare candidate who inspires us all to get involved.

Brown grew up in the mean streets of Massachusetts where his childhood was anything, but idyllic.   Brown said of his youth, “”I was a jerk. I had some issues… There was some violence in there.”  Brown soon graduated to theft where at age 12, he was arrested for shoplifting records and sentenced to write a 1,200 word letter.

It’s hard to hold these youthful indiscretions against the Senator who admitted that a lot of the problems were his parents’ fault saying that when he was a parent he wanted “to do everything that my parents did wrong right.”

Scott Brown is a good looking man, who had the guts to bare it all and pose nude for Cosmo with only his hand covering his genitals.  However, raising the morale of women in this country isn’t the only time he has come to his country’s aid.   Scott was one of only three Massachusetts State Representatives to hold the line on handouts when he voted against giving financial assistance to Red Cross  workers who had volunteered to work with 9/11 rescue operations believing that service is its own reward and helping with their medical bills would be a step down the slippery slide to socialism.

At a time when our economy is still reeling from the recession that began almost as soon as Obama announced he was running for President, Scott Brown is a true friend to Wall Street.  When Brown announced that he would oppose any financial responsibility tax on banks, Wall Street investors responded by donating very heavily for Scott.   When Wall Street is happy then America is happy.  Scott has always stood up to those claiming that climate change is man made or that gays should be allowed to get married.   These are view held by the silent majority of Massachusettians and by the United States as a whole.   Scott reminds me of a young George W. Bush.   He’s a uniter not a divider and he is exactly what we need in a Senator.

Religious scholar Pat Robertson gave us all food for thought today when he revealed that “something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it’s a deal.”

Hearing this made me even more grateful for our founding fathers who fought British tyranny without any demonic help.   As Robertson pointed out, The Dominican Republican is on the same island as Haiti and doing terrific because they had no such pact with the devil.

Now it’s easy for some on the left to blame Haiti’s problems on centuries of foreign occupation and domination by the United States.   However, this overlooks the country’s pact with Satan.   God knows that revenge is a dish best served cold and that’s why he was willing to wait for 200 years before Bam!  He targeted the descendants of the Haitians who made the deal.   If we’re going to send aid to Haiti let’s send them some Chick Comics as well, so that they can learn what happens to people who make deals with the devil.  An earthquake is the least of their problems.

According to Congressman Jack Kimble (R-CA) earlier on twitter, “I find it distasteful that other countries are so quick to offer aid after a natural disaster, but not after ones we make like Iraq.”

At this time, perhaps more than ever, we need to remember our own disasters as well as the ones made by nature no matter how tempting ending the human suffering in Haiti may be.  After all, if we bail Haiti out what’s to stop other countries from making pacts with Satan?

As the Republican Party sees weakness in President Obama’s faltering poll numbers, Oklahoma’s Senator Jim inhofe took solid aim at challengers Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin by saying he was proud that after 47 years of marriage there had never been a divorce or homosexual in his family.  Cheney whose daughter is gay and Palin whose daughter is filing for sole custody of her love child with baby daddy Levi Johnson did not respond, but it was clear that Inhofe was separating himself as the family values candidate.

What was surprising about Inhofe’s comments is that he stopped short of proclaiming his family free from inbreeding, bestiality, or any of the other sexual deviations often suspected of himself or his family.   At this time, it remains unclear if this was a simple omission or a far more clever cover up.

Now, I find it commendable that the Inhofes have never raised a gay child or grandchild and that is something I’m sure they’d know with 100% certainty.   However, divorce is as Republican as supply side economics.   Myself, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O’Reilly have all been through divorces.   How dare you attempt to be the morality police Senator Inhofe.   Let’s get the government out of straight bedrooms and into gay bedrooms where it belongs.

Michael Medved is a favorite author of mine.   I first wrote about him a little over a year ago when his book  The 10 Big Lies About America came out.   As the title implies, in that book Michael told 10 big lies about America such as slavery didn’t help build this country and that it wasn’t genocide, but marrying black people that really killed off the Indians.   At first, I was appalled because I believe for a lie to be successful, it should be subtle.   However, as I read further I realized that these lies were designed to make us feel better about ourselves as a country–like telling your girlfriend that her new hairstyle looks great or telling your fat friend that he should go ahead and order another desert.

Like any good businessman, Medved has found a way to make the same money while only doing half the work, with his new book The 5 Big Lies About American Business.  In his new book Medved carefully weaves such lies as business executives are overpaid, businesses sometimes mistreat their customers, and big business is bad.

Evidently, Medved has entered the cutting edge of the new electronic media as the Kindle book description is slightly different leading me to think that he has written some changes in the book specifically for the Kindle:

Sent from Boston on a mission to investigate the savage attacks and stop the slaughter, vampire warrior Kade has his own reasons for returning to the frigid, forbidding place of his birth. Haunted by a secret shame, Kade soon realizes the stunning truth of the threat he faces–a threat that will jeopardize the fragile bond he has formed with the courageous, determined young woman who arouses his deepest passions and most primal hungers. But in bringing Alex into his world of blood and darkness, Kade must confront both his own personal demons and the even greater evil that could destroy all he holds dear

Once again, Medved spends 300 pages telling us lies about American business, but they’re the lies that we want to hear.  Everything is great with American business and that’s exactly what I want to think about our country.   Medved does it again and this book is a tour de force that I can hardly wait to read or even better for them to make a movie from it.  I give it 4 stars—my highest review.

For years, residents of Washington, DC have lived with an oppressive city government that has steadfastly denied the city’s residents their most precious right of all–The right to bear arms.   Gun owners who wanted to peacefully enjoy their right to hunt or shoot at targets in the city have forever been penalized because of the overreaction of the government to the city’s criminal element.   The honest residents of Washington have had to suffer this ridiculous oppression while they waited for somebody to stand forward and challenge this unjust law.

Much like a modern day Rosa Parks, NBA Star basketball player Gilbert Arenas stood forward to say, “I will not sit on the back of the bus and I will not ride the bus without my gun.”   Like all who stand up to oppression, Arenas has been persecuted for stepping forward.   There is some disagreement about exactly what happened, but it is clear that Arenas was storing 4 handguns in his locker.   After a disagreement over gambling debts, Arenas jokingly entered into gun play with teammate Javaris Crittendon.

Did the NBA praise Gilbert Arenas for standing up to an unjust law?  No!  Did the NBA laugh at Arenas’ clowning around?  No! What the NBA did was to side with the man and call Arenas unfit to be on a basketball court.  “The possession of firearms by an NBA player in an NBA arena is a matter of the utmost concern to us,” said NBA Commissioner David Stern.

I’m sorry, but he is a basketball player.  He works in a basketball arena.   Where is he supposed to keep the guns he doesn’t keep at home?  In his car?  The NBA would probably have a problem with that too.   I applaud Gilbert Arenas for his courageous stand on behalf of millions of other law abiding gun owners, who wish the right to engage in some harmless gun play at work.   If only the NBA could be made to understand just how wrong they are here.

Despite amazing special effects like these, Avatar is the worst movie ever made.

I know several people have asked me for my take on Avatar and I try not to disappoint my faithful readers.   Avatar is the worst movie ever made.   It has groundbreaking 3-D special effects, but after awhile,  they can’t cover up the thin plot that is your typical recycled story that they borrowed from Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai, and Brian’s Song.    Action takes place on the planet Pandora, where a bunch of 10 foot tall blue aliens live.   This is where the lead character winds up.   At first, he goes there to infiltrate the aliens, but eventually he goes native.

Obviously, this movie is an analogy for our foreign policy.  I find this movie insulting and anti-American and I have no doubt that if I went to see it, I would find it to be the worst movie I ever saw.  I thought of leading a boycott of this movie,  but I realized there are already several great conservative boycotts of the movie so I had no need to reinvent the wheel.   The problem is that a group of left wing nut jobs is already boycotting Avatar, supposedly because it doesn’t advocate transgenderism.   I find this to be a horrible situation.   How do I let James Cameron know that I do not approve of movies like Avatar that show America in such a negative light while not supporting showing transgenders in a positive light?  Please readers and help me with this dilemma because I’m stuck.

UPDATE: I have been told that this picture was not actually from the movie Avatar, but from an older movie called Flash Gordon.   Now, this one looks good. I’m sure the anti-heterosexual boycotters would cringe at this decidedly masculine image, but I think I’m going to pick this one up on Netflix.

Some Muslims are hard to spot without the hot dog and whiskey test.

I imagine as President of the United States that there are times when calm rational thought is the best friend you have when trying to keep our country safe.   Unfortunately, the war on terror is not one of them.   When I look to the President of the United States, I want to see him angrily calling terrorists evil doers and threatening them with extinction–that’s how you fight terrorism.   You don’t fight it by pretending it’s simple criminal activity.   The recent attack on Christmas day in Detroit showed a definite negligence on the part of the Obama administration.   The plane was flying on Christmas.   Who other than a Muslim is going to be on an airplane on Christmas day.  Christians are with their family celebrating Christmas while Jews are at home lighting candles for Hanukkah.

Obama’s response is to try the Underbomber in federal court instead of taking him to Gitmo where he belongs.   We already have the Shoe Bomber in a federal prison, do we really need another bomber like this on America soil?   The terrorists will only be a pair of pants, a shirt, and perhaps a belt from being able to put a full explosive outfit together.   Still Obama passively talks about the situation calmly detached.   Me personally, I want a President who is angry enough to only put 3 syllables in the word terrorism–tear-rism.

Now, most Muslims aren’t terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims or possibly Colombian.   The problem with profiling Muslims is that it’s not like just targeting African-Americans or Hispanics like traffic cops do.   Muslims can be Asians, or Africans, or Middle-Easterners, and there are converts all over the world.   In order to effectively screen Muslims everybody entering an airport should have a choice between having a shot of whiskey and eating one of those tiny hot dogs inside of crescent roll dough.    This will accommodate children who shouldn’t drink and vegetarians who won’t eat hot dogs.  You could even have that red sauce that looks like catsup, but is a little zingier.    Now, Muslims don’t drink and they won’t eat pork, so when one of them refuses, they’re busted.  They can continue on, but only if they go through a more stringent security screening.

Calm and detached may win elections, but it’s time for Obama to get busy and maybe even a little scared.   It is the only thing that can calm down the rest of the nation.   More stringent screening for Muslims is an idea whose time has come.

Brit Hume reminded us all of something very important on Sunday.   We are in no position to judge Tiger Woods simply because he fooled around on his wife with a dozen women.   We can’t really put ourselves in Tiger Woods’ place and it isn’t fair for us to pass judgment on anything he does.  The only way really to judge Tiger Woods is the same way we judge everybody–by whether or not he is willing to accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

Some people belittled Brit Hume for having the guts to say what we all were thinking.   That’s why I am posting his explanation and not just the small clip that a lot of people took out of context.  I think his explanation makes a lot of sense.

Now, as the son of a woman from a third world country, Tiger has misguidedly chosen Buddhism as his faith, but like most people he chose his faith at a young and impressionable age.   As an adult, I urge Tiger to shop around.   As Brit and Bill O’Reilly point out in the above clip, pound for pound you won’t find a more redemptive and forgiving faith than Christianity.   Some of the worst criminals in history have been Christians.   This isn’t a coincidence.

I applaud Brit Hume for letting Tiger know that Christianity is an option and that we would welcome him with open arms.   A lot of priests and ministers like a good game of golf.  I hope Tiger considers it.   Just look at some of the Christians have have found salvation after marital infidelity:

• John Ensign
• David Vitter
• Mark Sanford
• Larry Craig
• Neil Bush
• Rush Limbaugh
• Newt Gingrich

There’s always room for one more.