The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    THE BIRD IS THE WORD!!

    By Richard Day on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 2:45pm |

     

    A volunteer group in San Marcos, Texas has set up scholarships for a group of students they think is underrepresented: white men.

    A student formed the "Former Majority Association for Equality" to organize the scholarships. Colby Bohannan -- a senior at Texas State University in San Marcos and the group's president -- told the Austin American-Statesman the lack of white-only scholarships made him feel ”excluded.”

    It was Huckabee's foray into Obama's alleged childhood in Kenya -- of course he never visited Kenya as a child, though he spent four years in Indonesia -- that got him in some trouble for the Malzberg conversation. Some trouble, but not much; in fact, two journalists I respect, Dave Weigel and Ben Smith, have actually tried to defend Huckabee's distorting Obama's childhood history, arguing that the friendly Republican was actually fighting birtherism and trying to get at some actual truth about the president's personal and political background, even if he got his facts wrong

    (The Huckster actually said:

    I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, very different than the average American. When he gave the back the … bust of Winston Churchill, a great insult to the British. But then if you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/

    Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
    Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mau-mau
    Papa-ooma-mau-mau

    Papa-ooma-mau-mau, papa-ooma-mau-mau
    Papa-ooma-mau-mau, papa-ooma-mau-mau
    Ooma-mau-mau-mau, papa-ooma-mau-mau
    Papa-ooma-mau-mau, papa-ooma-mau-mau
    Papa-ooma-mau-mau, papa-ooma-mau-mau
    Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mau-mau

    Papa-ooma-mau-mau, ooma-mau-mau
    Well, don't you know about the bird?
    Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!!!

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow

    Huckabee's claim that the president spent his childhood in Kenya is, of course, factually wrong, but he's not the first to try to paint Obama as anti-American because of the views of his Kenyan father. In his crackpot book "The Roots of Obama's Rage," Dinesh D'Souza made the same case -- that Obama harbored an anti-colonial, and therefore anti-white, animus because of his father's support for Kenyan independence -- while leaving out Huckabee's fiction that Obama actually lived there. Back in September, Newt Gingrich called D'Souza's book "brilliant."

    This is all old news now, but I am older and not newer anyway, so here goes.

    First we must address the personage of Dinesh D’Souza.

    Why do members of minority groups, join up with white supremacists? Well I propose this strange phenomenon has something to do with money.  Here is a quote from Wiki:

    In his book The End of Racism he asserted that the "American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza

    Even Justice Thomas would not abide that quote.

    What we have here is an Indian/Naturalized American/ racist. I suppose that helps the white supremacists because they can point to the fact that they have this idiot listed on their letter heads.

    D’Souza was born in India. So at least we do not have to worry about him running for President.

    He comes here and becomes a naturalized citizen and spouts Roman Catholic Doctrine along with some sort of fundamentalism which is not necessarily Roman Catholic Doctrine.

    It was this moron who debated Hitchens and came up with the extraordinary ruse that we really have no idea what the speed of light is.

    I don’t care if they tested the speed of light a million times, inductive experimentation proves nothing.

    You see if the narrow range of speed for light—depending upon the environs the light finds itself in—is not debatable, then the fundamentalist/literalist/moronic theories concerning the age of the earth and the reality of a Fred Flintstone existence fall flat. I mean how can we see the light from galaxies that was generated billions of years ago and still maintain a literal interpretation of the bible?

    I must have published five blogs on this subject and I still cannot get it out of my system.

    This quote is from memory. I watched the debate on C-Span several times and his argument—if you can call this anti-science argument—reverberated in my head for months.

    The Jesuits over the last couple of centuries have kind of assumed the burden of knowledge for the Church and if you read a Roman Catholic Bible you will note that the official position of the Vatican is that a literal interpretation of the Old Testament—especially Genesis—is ridiculous. The Catholic Scholars take pains to point out four different oral traditions from which Genesis arose and no scholar from the Pope’s enclave would ever propose that the earth is six thousand years old or that God stood on the earth and tossed the moon, the sun and the stars into the ether.

    Dinesh writes this drivel for the fundamentalist Catholics (?) and makes millions.

    He is of course a full-fledged member of the American Enterprise Institute, which says a lot about that corporate fascist propaganda group.

    Now Dinesh steps out of his role as some Swami Pat Robertson and decides he is the Unofficial Biographer of the President; and has reaped millions on the newer myths.

    Newt picks it up and lauds Dinesh’s garbage and suddenly Huckabee has picked up on it and instead of pointing to Obama’s father, skips a generation and has our President growing up in Kenya.

    CNN and MSNBC have torn the Huckster a new one for repeating this lie without even crediting the Indian-Naturalized American for coming up with it in the first place. http://johnkingusa.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/04/huckabees-surprising-misstatement/ and

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-matthews-on-mike-huckabee-do-you-think-hes-lost-it/

    Now if you recall, the king of the Swift Boaters tried to come up with his own take on the Kenyan birth myth but his book fell flat. Some repub groups preordered a bunch of his books and they were not saleable. I think they ended up as toilet paper at GTMO, but who the hell knows or cares?

    I am referring to Jim The Swift Boater Corsi, of course. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/101979/jerome_%27swift_boat%27_corsi_taken_to_task,_arrested_in_kenya/

    Think Progress and The Daily Beast and Huffpo and Salon and a host of other links have beaten this Kenyan horse to death, of course; as well they should.

    I just watched a clip from O’Reilly interviewing the Huckster and letting him explain how he got Indonesia mixed up with Kenya but he still could not explain what the hell Churchill had to do with Indonesia.

    I have come to one conclusion to all this hoopla in addition to linking this idiocy to the Trashmen.

    There are millions of peeps in this country who do not like the fact that there is a N&^%$&R in the White House!!!

    And Newt and the Huckster and others want their vote!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcLWyD-tNE

    Blackbird singing in the dead of night
    Take these broken wings and learn to fly
    All your life
    You were only waiting for this moment to arise

    Black bird singing in the dead of night
    Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
    all your life
    you were only waiting for this moment to be free

    Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
    Into the light of the dark black night.

    Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
    Into the light of the dark black night.

    Blackbird singing in the dead of night
    Take these broken wings and learn to fly
    All your life
    You were only waiting for this moment to arise,
    You were only waiting for this moment to arise,
    You were only waiting for this moment to arise

     

     

    Previous attempt at chaos @ http://onceuponaparadigm.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/kowtowing-indians/

    Comments

    I have to believe they'll eventually burn themselves out with this utter trash.  People are getting tired of this, and it only makes them look ignorant.  They'll have their own little groups who will keep it going but their numbers are getting smaller and smaller.  They're left-overs.  The dregs.  Hopelessly pathetic in their insistence on superiority.

    But, as always, DD, you told me something I didn't know.  Thanks once again:

    The Jesuits over the last couple of centuries have kind of assumed the burden of knowledge for the Church and if you read a Roman Catholic Bible you will note that the official position of the Vatican is that a literal interpretation of the Old Testament—especially Genesis—is ridiculous. The Catholic Scholars take pains to point out four different traditions from which Genesis arose and no scholar from the Pope’s enclave would ever propose that the earth is six thousand years old or that God stood on the earth and tossed the moon, the sun and the stars into the ether.

     


    by Ramona on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 3:23pm

    I hope they represent the dregs Ramona!

    I know I had two posts on racism in two days, but outspoken racist attitudes are given a lot of time on cable, on the radio and on the web.

    Thank God I see all the major sites crying out against this garbage.

    Even George Will who is so very conservative lately, laments some of this crap.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030404613.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

     


    by Richard Day on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 4:03pm

    You did it again.  The King of the Segue has put it all together so we can look at all this in a new light.  Thanks once again.


    by CVille Dem on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 7:16pm

    What a nice thing to say to me!!

    Thank you Cville. Thank you so much!


    by Richard Day on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 7:19pm

    You always inspire, and I am amazed at the way you pull things together seamlessly.  Great job!


    by CVille Dem on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 8:27pm

    PS -- I always hated that song!  


    by CVille Dem on Sat, 03/05/2011 - 8:25pm

    AOL used to feature a regular column by this Dinesh D'Souza moron, and I used to read it, mostly having been drawn in by the completely stupid allegation of the headline.  I finally gave up. He would never be persuaded by the logical reasoning of people responding to his blog because he is simply a provocateur, happily confident and unquestioning of his ridiculous beliefs.  Naturally, that means his blogs are always historically inaccurate and factually incorrect, and since he has absolutely no ability to form logical extensions of ideas and draw rational conclusions from them, they aren't worth spit.  For awhile I thought it was just Left-baiting, but I came to realize that he was just an idiot.  He also isn't a very good writer. 


    by MrSmith1 on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 2:54am

    Oops. Must have double-clicked. Sorry about that.


    by MrSmith1 on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 3:03am

    And he gets away with it Smith.

    Nobody really takes him to task because he has a following and makes money. ha

    And I think the key to all this relates to his refutation of inductive reasoning.

    He would take us back to Augustine.

    When left wingers talk and reason like this, they are abandoned.

     


    by Richard Day on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 3:07am