The Unwanted Blog

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=11279038

Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist.

Wow. Really? The video wasn’t edited to make her appear racist; it was actually longer than it needed to be to make the NAACP members in the audience appear racist.

But she’s decided to sue. Fine. This means she’s going to have every last bit of whackadoodle Marxist nuttery she’s ever uttered brought to the public fore. Obama’s gonna *love* this…

Of course, if she somehow wins the lawsuit, it will be open season on *every* media outlet that ever dares to show any video ever. Breitbart did nothing more to the tape - if he did anything at all -  than to simply show a single four minute segment. He didn’t alter the audio or the video at all. So, the next time some politician gets caught saying something stupid, he can sue the hell out of any media outlet or blogger who dares to show it without showing the preceeding and following half hour as well.

Hmmm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD_tHu4vdS8

3:20 through 3:40 are particularly interesting.

From HERE.

Where’s the NAACP to decry this?

It’s coming, and will be administered byt the IRS. Joy unbounded.

http://www.pgnh.org/obamacare_s_hidden_gun_control

Effective January 1, 2012, the national healthcare legislation passed by Congress contains tax provisions that will require gun dealers to report to the IRS purchases and sales of guns and any other goods valued over $600. IRS 1099 forms will have to be filed, reporting the sale/purchase. This reporting will be required for purchases from either individuals or corporations. The new IRS provisions apply to all goods and services.

Looks like it also means that if you, Regular Joe, decide to sell your $601 hunting rifle to your neighbor, you’ll need to fill out the IRS paperwork… or you’ll go to federal prison.

This is pretty remarkable. Not that the story told happened, but that the government official admits so openly to blatant racism.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/19/breitbart-hits-naacp-with-promised-video-of-racism/

Show this to all your friends/relatives/co-workers who are convinced that the Tea Partiers are the racist ones.

UPDATE:

Been lots of news on this story. To sum up, I’ll simply cut-and-paste from a response to an email about it…

> According to the NBC News report, the story in question actually occurred 20 years ago — when the speaker, Shirley Sherrod, was not yet employed by the Department of Agriculture — and was being used Sherrod as part of a larger tale of how she eventually overcame her racism.

Yup. Been following the story through the day. Imagine that… someone gets accused of racism, and it turns out that the story is incomplete/out of context. I wonder how many Tea Partiers empathize with that?

>She was nonetheless fired by the DOA, which preferred to put the fire of controversy the Brietbart article created.

Yeah, that’s the weird part. After the Obama administration went out of it’s damned way to let black racist criminals off the legal hook with the “New Black Panther” voter intimidation case, they went out of their damned way to throw this woman under the bus. My guess is that it’s in order to help create more “victims of the conservatives/Tea Party.”

The ones who really seem to be in a twist now are the NAACP, who have made a *lot* of blunders recently. They started with their politically motivated attack on Tea Partiers, based on charges of endemic racism that have long since been proven to be fraudulent, and now this. Weird.

The NAACP has added a video of the full speach to YouTube. Far better audio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NcCa_KjXk

The story seen in the earlier edits starts at about 17 minutes. There’s an odd edit at about 21 minutes where something got chopped out. On the whole, Sherrod seems to come off fairly well out of the speech (NOTE: On *this* topic. She comes off like the stereotypical brain-damaged Leftist as she trots out the usual libtard talking point that the reason why Republicans are opposed to Obamacare is because they’re racist). You know who doesn’t come off well? The NAACP. At about 17:25, she says “… I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him.” Audience reaction? Laughter and approval.

 The NAACP needs to look at its *own* racist membership before they start attacking other groups for having racist members.

UPDATE: She ain’t none too damned bright, or she is at least pathologically stuck on the “if they disagree, it’s because they’re racist” meme:  And on CNN, Sherrod said that people who had interpreted her comments to be racist were themselves racist.

One of the ways in which FDR helped to screw over the American populace was to make it illegal to own gold bullion and coins and certificates. And it wasn’t until Gerald Ford that people could own gold again. Well, it’s startign to look like we’re slipping back that way again:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=11843

What has happened is that effective Jan. 1, 2012, the whole system of giving and receiving Internal Revenue Service 1099 forms will be turned on its head and all persons (including corporations) who are in business will now have to give 1099 tax reporting forms for coins and other goods that they sell as well as buy.

The responsibility for issuing forms kicks in at $600 for coins or bullion – not a very high level and one that has already started sounding alarm bells. It doesn’t matter in what form payment is made, whether cash, check, credit card, or Yap stone money, the $600 threshold applies.

Translation: the buying or selling of a one-ounce gold coin - which last I check would run you about $1200 - would require that the IRS be informed. And in what financial reform law is this new regualtion installed within? Why, Section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (”Obamacare”), of course!

What in the hell is this doing in a health care law?

One can certainly argue with much of Griffin’s approach… choosing a specific launch architecture before the mission to the Moon and Mars was really worked out was not a spectacular strategy. But he did at least have the vision to push for such missions… a vision obviously lacking in the current NASA/White House administration. Plus, he’s capable of seeing the obvious:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/06/nasa-official-walks-claim-muslim-outreach-foremost-mission/

Griffin said Tuesday that collaboration with other countries, including Muslim nations, is welcome and should be encouraged — but that it would be a mistake to prioritize that over NASA’s “fundamental mission” of space exploration.

“If by doing great things, people are inspired, well then that’s wonderful,” Griffin said. “If you get it in the wrong order … it becomes an empty shell.”

Griffin added: “That is exactly what is in danger of happening.”

He also said that while welcome, Muslim-nation cooperation is not vital for U.S. advancements in space exploration.

“There is no technology they have that we need,” Griffin said.

Got it in one.

And Bolden has uttered his rubbish before:

A Feb. 16 blog in the Orlando Sentinel reported that Bolden discussed the outreach during a lecture to engineering students. As he did in the interview with Al Jazeera last month, Bolden was quoted then saying Obama told him to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries.”

He reportedly talked about the importance of helping countries establish space programs and pointed to the largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia, as a possible partner.

Indonesia? INDO-FRIKKEN’-NESIA?!?!?! What can they possibly have that we need… or that would make the sending of Americans to Mars substantially easier?

I spent a whole lotta years and a whole lotta my parents money getting an aerospace engineering degree in the first half of the 1990’s, because for some reason I was just sure that we were going to go off into space and people like myself would be needed to design the numerous manned spacecraft that would be required. Little did I know that the American aerospace engineering industry had no interest in designing any such thing (much less building such things). And little could I have imagined that fifteen years after getting my degree, the American government would essentially abandon manned spaceflight. With the mind-boggling damage that the FedGov has done to the American economy, they’ve also done a most effective job at wiping out any real prospects for private spaceflight to take up the slack.

So, imagine my irritation upon reading that not only has NASA been neutered and gutted, it’s being turned into yet another arm of the government meant for little more than surrendering to our enemies:

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. … “When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering,” Bolden said in the interview.

First and foremost, Chuck, it’s not the role of the US Government, never mind NASA, to make people in other nations “feel good” about something their ancestors may or may not have done the better part of a millenium ago. Second, if you want to inspire the kiddies… wiping out manned spaceflight is not the way to do it.

He said the United States is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit on its own

Grrrrrrrrrraaaaaauuuuck.

I cannot express just how much this Royally Pisses Me Off.

The United States travelled beyond low Earth orbit on its own forty fricken’ years ago. it is perfectly capable of doing so again. But *not* when it’s being run by incompetant jackasses like Bolden and whatever MORON installed him in that position. Telling Americans that we are incapable of doing what our ancestors did, and begging for help from those who would see us destroyed, is not the job of the NASA administrator.

The NASA administrator should be out there beating the drums for American exceptionalism. Telling us not that our time is over, but that the future is limitless, and that we should be grabbing for it.

Snerk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO13_tJ6×44

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100043808/barack-obama-the-most-unpopular-man-in-britain/

The key catalyst for rising anti-Obama sentiment in the UK has been his disastrous handling of the BP issue, and his relentless desire to crush Britain’s biggest company. There is no doubting BP’s responsibility over the Gulf oil disaster, and it is right that the firm is being held to account for its failures. But the brutal, almost sadistic trashing of BP by the imperious Obama administration, which has helped wipe out about half its value, threatens its very future, as well as the pensions of 18 million British people and the jobs of 29,000 Americans. There is now the very real danger of the bankrupting of a great British enterprise, and the prospect even of a Chinese or Russian takeover.

Awesome. When it comes to “restoring Americas standing in the world,” heckuva job, Barky.

Ah, good ol’ fashioned indoctrination of Dear Leader:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/16/school_kids_chant_i_am_an_obama_scholar.html

Be sure to watch the video… some “teacher” leading kids in a mindless, thoughtless chant about how they can be anything they want to be, using Disney-logic:

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I know, I know, I know, I can achieve it.

Here’s a suggestion, teach: conceive that you can fly by sheer willpower like Superman. Believe it. Then find yourself a tall roof and prove it.

But the real topper to this display of intellectual child abuse:

For I an an Obama Scholar.

Now in this, there may be some Truth. The kids are, well,  kids. Which means they are almost certainly governed not by experience and reason, but by passions and a selfish sense of “gimme.” Now, if that doesn’t scream “Obama Scholar,” I don’t know what would.