The Weekly Enlightenment

Another great week. I have so much information for this week so I will try to limit it to a reasonable amount.

There was a large march on Capitol Hill protesting Obama's version of health care reform. President Obama and his press secretary expressed shock when hearing about it, as if they didn't know it was going to happen. Obama would most certainly know in case there was any kind of security threat to him personally. Of course the media covered it just as they always do (calling protestors teabaggers, unpatriotic, mobsters, etc.), but this time additionally pulling out the race card. One can always be sure of the race card being pulled when Democrats are losing the argument on substance. Lest any of you think perhaps it was an isolated bunch, here is a sampling pulled from Rush Limbaugh's show:

CAMPBELL BROWN: (music) ...vicious, racist imagery attacking our first African-American president.
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: (newsroom noise) Gentleman Joe Wilson has done much to make the racist history of South Carolina jump back into our present consciousness.
CANDY CROWLEY: (b-roll) Critics think this is about resistance to a black man as president.
JAMES CARVILLE: People are upset with President Obama because of the color of his skin. Who cannot believe that?
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Could there be a refusal to accept the legitimacy of Barack Obama as president because of his race?
WOLF BLITZER: A small but disturbing minority within the tea party movement is also blatantly anti-black.
JOHN RIDLEY: When you talk about racial image, this is not just standard debate.
ELAINE QUIJANO: (b-roll) A small but passionate minority is also voicing what some see as racist rhetoric.
JOHN AVLON: Hitler. Communism. Racism. All this ugliness is bubbling up.
ANDERSON COOPER: There is an undercurrent of racism in some of the criticism of the president.
JUAN WILLIAMS: An attack on somebody because you really don't like the fact that they are president or because of their race.
ROSS DOUTHAT: Clearly Barack Obama's race plays some role in the kind of anxieties that are roiling the political right.
CLARENCE PAGE: (outdoor noise) People are not just mad at Obama. They are mad at Jesse Jackson. They are mad at Reverend Wright. They are mad at Al Sharpton. They are mad at people who have nothing to do with Obama except they all happen to be black.

All predictable, all smears. Even the Joe Wilson vote on the Confederate flag is misunderstood. Liberals see the Confederate flag as a flag of racism (though the US flag oversaw more racism than the Confederate one). They will never understand the Confederate flag and the South's affection for it has to do with Southern pride. Amazingly these liberals ignore the Democratic Party's own racist past.

Other big news was more ACORN videos being released, one with a woman saying how she killed her husband and another actually offering to help procure prostitutes from Central America. Of course the ACORN top brass is expressing shock at this and trying to explain it was just low level employees doing the acts. Which makes me wonder...how do such low level employees have such an intricate knowledge of how to avoid taxes? And the knowledge about gaming the system? I'm pretty confident such things are rampant, not isolated incidents. Thankfully, this has led both houses of Congress to pass resolutions withdrawing federal funding for ACORN.

The other big news is Obama canceling the missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. The bottom line other countries will see is that America does not keep its promises.

MUST READ/SEE
* ACORN caught again.
* The left is really the least tolerant of all.
* An offer to hire the ACORN ladies. Everyone is a capitalist in their own life.
* Video of ACORN in San Diego.
* Another ACORN video in San Bernadino, CA. This is the one talking about killing her husband.
* How to tell if you are a racist.

Silly Liberals
* Interesting to compare the scene after Obama's inauguration with the scene after the recent protest. I thought liberals were all for going green.
* Dissent is not so patriotic after all. I have given serious thought to donating to Wilson's campaign.
* Even Jimmy Carter got in on calling protestors racist.

What Media Bias?
* Well, well, it looks like Palin was right after all.
* Journalists are complaining about gotcha journalism done by the ACORN exposers...unfortunately the news networks have a pretty good history of doing that themselves. (Not that it all is necessarily bad, but when liberals can't complain about substance they complain about process.)

Bad Science
* Wind power isn't so powerful after all.
* Green energy is largely a myth, unless you're talking nuclear.
* Two stories regarding evolution here and here. As Ann Coulter points out, every time there is new evidence the theory of evolution changes. But don't dare question evolution!

Our Justice System At Work
* This is a local story for me, judge overturns woman's OWI (DWI in MN) conviction based on not enough time before submitting to the breath test. Notice what is missing? She still blew over the limit so there is no doubt she was illegally operating a vehicle. This is a perversion of justice.

Health Care Reform
* 45% of doctors would consider quitting if the overhaul passes. Not surprising if one has even the basic knowledge of economics and Medicare. Doctors are already getting shafted on Medicare payments. It will also result in fewer people deciding to become doctors in the first place. Alas, but then that will be a new problem for our government to "solve".
* I don't like posting stuff like this, but since liberals are claiming it is compassionate to pass government health care, shouldn't we examine who is really more compassionate?