I know she likes to wear her belts a tad high, but compare these recent photos -

And this picture from back in April.

I am just saying – no bump in April, bump now.

After reading this post by Mike gamecock Devine, I was thinking about the statements and its implications.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.

We have seen political correctness on the race issue evolve. Is overt racism the endgame? A bit too cynical perhaps, but food for thought if nothing else.

Consider that simply not discriminating on the basis of race is the standard by which we should judge all such transactions. How far have we deviated from that standard?

Consider that ½ a century or so ago, liberals tacitly and legally approved of the notion that preference for minorities was acceptable as a means to correct the present impact of past discrimination. In other words, the disparate treatment of minorities in the past made it difficult to create a level playing field without some temporary reverse discrimination. Even many non-liberals would agree with the logic of this argument, assuming a temporary preference for minorities to level the playing field a bit.

Decades ago the liberals pushed a new form of affirmative action whereby Diversity of Race was a goal in forming communities. An inherent value was attributed to diversity that didn’t really exist. Thereby universities and employers should consider diversity as a goal in filing their rosters. Here, while there may be some modest benefit to diverse communities, the importance given to this new moral imperative was grossly disproportionate to its rationale, or logical underpinnings. For decades liberals have been indoctrinating society through higher education, takeover of corporate responsibility departments, hollwyood production, and media complicity into believing that failure to achieve diversity is akin to rape and murder. During this time the community goal of diversity has gradually justified increasingly disparate impact on non-minorities. In the beginning diversity may be the deciding factor for two equally footed prospects. Gradually, the minority would achieve a minority bonus so that he or she could overcome even those non-minorities who were objectively superior to them.

But the natural evolution from the non-discrimination standard, to the corrective standard, to the community benefit standard, must lead us to the superior race standard which could be what we are now embarking upon.

Consider Roland Burris. It was made to appear racist to question Burris on his non-race related weaknesses, such as participation in scandal. It was sworn that no appointee from the corrupt governor would be seated by the Democratic controlled Senate. However, because Burris was a minority, any objective reason for refusing to seat him had to be overlooked. In that regard Burris proves that on the criteria of race, he was superior to any white man who would have been roundly rejected.

Now if we consider Obama’s statement that he wants a judge with “empathy” and we consider Soto’s great weakness, her racism. We see that it is not just that it is considered racist to question the racist statements of Soto because of her race. That is part of it of course, just like Burris, Soto’s sins must be forgiven because of her race. But it is more than that. It is because minorities are actually superior to White’s just as Soto puts forth. What if her statement is a strength to liberals instead of a liability? The rhetoric of diversity has evolved and minorities should be understood to be superior to Whites. Why? They have empathy that a White man simply cannot understand. What if Obama believes Soto’s statement not to be racist, but to be true. It could be that he knew the statement was there all along and that this whole national dialogue is a designed test balloon to shift to radical racism against Whites.

Why suddenly is empathy a qualification for a justice of the SC of the US? Empathy is to a person what diversity is to a community. A community is superior if it is diverse. A person is superior if he or she has empathy. Empathy defined as being a minority that is. For only a minority, as Soto points out, can have true empathy.

One might also ask why the justice department just dropped the charges against the Black Panthers who were intimidating voters during the election. Perhaps the White voters shouldn’t have been allowed to vote in the first place. Isn’t empathy a requisite for informed voting? Weren’t the Panthers merely purifying the voting process?

We are now at real racism, not just corrective quotas or false benefits of diversity – but real honest to goodness belief that minorities are superior because of the color of their skin. If you think about it, this is the only way that racism can come full circle. Whites must be viewed as inferior to minorities.

Now even though this new racism is based on race, it is also based on ideology, so that it will be palatable to the liberal white male. The characteristics that make one superior are 1) being a minority, and 2) holding liberal beliefs. Liberals believe that if you have 1 and 2, you are superior to whites. If you have only 2 of course you are also superior, but not if you only have 1. When Soto says she will make better decisions than white males, it is implied that she means “conservative white males” and not liberal white males. Why? Because liberal white males who live in diverse communities and understand the inherent virtue in being empathetic are almost as superior as minorities who understand the inherent virtue in being empathetic. And liberal white males have their own bonus. You see it is liberal white males who have concocted most of this rubbish and therefore they can at least feel superior in that it is their wish that is being carried out. They can also feel superior in that the whole thing cannot be accomplished without their assistance. Further, the liberal white male who allows him to be degraded because of his white maleness, has that grand superiority of false humility. Which is, put another way – supreme empathy.

So it may be necessary to eliminate white males from power positions BECUASE they are white males. A truly cynical person might point out that there is only one remaining step in the circle of racism for Whites to have experienced all the worst that minorities have had to endure. The good news is that I am confident that a few generations as slaves would give us the requisite empathy to be on equal footing with minorities.

The Valley Forge Project

 -The call to citizen patriots in America for unified action against a common threat-

 Introduction

            The proposal that follows is based on the simple belief that by combining forces, those who fight for true American principles, values, and virtues can prevail. We are millions of citizens that fight independently. We are thousands of local organizations that fight independently, and we are hundreds of national organizations that fight independently. The time has come when we must act as one.

            From the local pregnancy center to the National Right to Life, from the small town gun club to the NRA, from groups like Cincinnati’s Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending & Taxes (COAST), to the Club For Growth. Church’s, non-profit groups, political action committees, bloggers, businesses, radio hosts, authors, columnists, and most importantly, individual citizen patriots must come together for this common purpose at this time of America’s need. 

“All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.”

• - Edmund Burke

Many of us are thinking a lot about the above quote. Suddenly we are wondering “what do I need to do NOW, before it is too late, to protect America and the ideal she represents?” “What do I need to do to protect my children from Tyranny?” There are millions of us realizing we must get involved.

So much is happening so fast, what it will take to wake up enough of us to reach critical mass and unite in ways we have not had to unite for a long time, to organize like our lives depended on it, to sacrifice the comfort of our bread and circus routines in order to put down the rising tide of socialism in America? Most of us know the reasons for grave concern. To go through the list would take a book or two, so for this humble proposal, I mention only one scary thought.

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I was on the RNC conferance call on Monday, where the Chairman spoke for about 35 minutes and took a few questions. This was supposed to be a call to gin up exitment about the new RNC and motivate the grassroots leaders and supporters. I have been thinking about that call in relation to many of the diaries I have been reading here. Parts of the call were simply underwhelming, and other parts have the potential to be downright scary.

Specifically, considering the call in relation to diaries about the awful Request for Proposal (RFP) that the RNC has put out there to build their website. (Sorry I can’t find the diaries anymore).

Also in conjunction with the multitude of diaries regarding the need for the RNC to assert basic conservative principles, such as here.

and also in a tangential relationship to the diary comparing Obama’s agenda to the Communist Party USA’s platform, here.

Finnally, in conjunction with diaries decrying Mr. Steele’s inability to articulate much of anything, and his gaffe’s,  apparently one today stating he thinks abortion is a woman’s choice, here.

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“Yes, what Rush stands for by and large are conservative values and that is what we stand for. He is not a politician or leader of the party in that sense, but he is a leader in communicating the truth of conservative values. Both he, and I want the country to succeed despite Obama’s attempt to drag us into socialism, Marxism or communism. But we do not want Obama to succeed in remaking America into a socialist Marxist or communist state. We don’t want him to succeed in spending more taxpayer money than we have spent in the entire history of our country, We don’t want him to succeed in dumping trillions of our dollars into bottomless pits, like bailouts, education beurocracy, carbon trading, and nationalized health care. We don’t want him to succeed in gaining government control of our businesses. Even the mere mention of another Obama policy sends the market down another hundred points. Of course we want him to fail in his efforts to destroy our stock market. We don’t want him to succeed in reviving partial birth abortion so that babies who are perfectly formed and viable can be ripped apart by people like the abortionist George Tiller, the great supporter of Obama’s choice for secretary of Health and Human services. Who by the way is so extreme in her denial of rights to the unborn that she cannot even receive communion in her own church. We don’t want him to succeed in sacrificing national defense for a little cooperation from Russia. We don’t want him to succeed in spending billions to help our enemies rebuild a territory that they destroyed by terrorist activities against our allies.

We don’t want him to succeed in restricting the liberties of every American to go the schools of their choosing, to bear arms, to drive the cars that they choose, to give to the charities of their choosing, to get the health care that they and their doctor agree to, to know if their 13 year old daughter is being statutorily raped and having an abortion, to listen to the radio show of their choice, to buy gas without a 400% government imposed tax, and perhaps most importantly at this time, not to have their money confiscated by the force of law to be redistributed to those who curry favor with the President. The Obama plan is theft on a grand scale, theft of our money, our savings, our ability to choose, our futures, and our children’s futures and our God given liberties. Liberty that our ancestor’s have already died for time and time again as greater men than our current President tried to snatch them from us. And to the extent that Rush Limbaugh is hoping for the failure of these polices, then you are darn right that I agree with him. And as the American people come to realize the depth of the Obama deception, despite the mainstream media’s complicity in that deception, they, The American People, will want him to fail too.”

Why should he say this? The mistake being made by the gutless RNC is the fear that Rahm’s plan will work. That is believing that by agreeing with Rush, they will alienate the center. This is false. Think Howard Dean. Not exactly a centrist head of the DNC. He fired up the base, which in turn fired up the centrists. The only way we win is to communicate conservative values. The base must lead us out of the wilderness, or we will never get out. Now is not the time to pander to the middle. The only way to show the severity of the crisis that Obama and Pelosi are attempting to impose upon us, is to demonstrate the validity of the polar opposite. Who is impressed by saying we only want to spend 2 trillion compared to the White House’s 4 trillion? Who is impressed by saying we want cap and trade, but we want to wait a few years to impose it. Who is impressed by saying we want to bail out the Banks, but we don’t want to nationalize them?

The left wing media will always overestimate their ability to demonize conservatism, and members of the party will always overestimate their ability to be demonized – because they all live in a sheltered world of lefties. If the RNC can’t answer tough questions about conservatism, it is because they don’t know conservative principles. For goodness sake, have them listen to old Reagan speeches, watch Milton Friedman’s decimation of Phil Donahue, the old Bill Buckley show – read a book about it, something. LEARN CONSERVATIVISM. THEN DEFEND CONSERVATISM.

The chairman needs to take the free publicity of the conservative message and run with it. Steele, and members of congress and governors, and everybody else should shove it right down their throats. Watch how fast Rush stops getting negative publicity if those who can articulate conservative values defend him at every turn.

Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag, and real damage has been done. Steele should resign and let somebody else come forward and say these things.

When Ron Paul gets mentioned I sometimes have the feeling that RedState is heavily weighted toward RNC doublespeak. I really don’t get the animosity towards the guy. I hear everybody on here espousing conservative values, but then slam RP because he has a couple of positions that are outside of mainsteam conservatism. The guy is certainly over the top on the whole fiat money thing, and he does have a chunk of support from the conspiracy theorists. But hey, the new world order isn’t really even a conspiracy theory anymore, and as we spend another 900billion on crap we don’t need, I would’t throw Austrian economics out of bed for eating crackers.

What I am saying is it seems dumb to insult Ron Paul fans or libertarians or psedo-libertarians, or independents who lean libertarian, when RS rhetoric is 90% in line with Ron Paul’s ideas.

I also think we need to get a bit radical. Yes I probably would prefer a Jindal or a Palin over a Ron Paul twin. But RP had two huge problems. 1) He was a horrible debator, and 2) The entire RNC and its lapdog Fox News was gunning for him. His ideas lit many people afire becuase they could be distingushed from the rest of the field. We need that badly. We need the ideas and somebody who can present them well. I don’t care how bad the ecomony gets, if our only response is tax cuts and keep guantanamo open – we will keep getting killed.

You think we win with a moderate to liberal like Guiliani or McCain? A preacher like Huckabee? A morman with perfect hair? An actor who doesn’t quite know how to speak publicly? I don’t.  A bunch of guys who couldn’t jerk their hand up fast enough in support of man-made global warming?

We need our own BO. A hard righty who makes it sound good. Ron Paul is not that guy, to be sure. But I don’t think the Ron Paul fans want Ron Paul to be that guy, they know he can’t win. But they are going to follow somebody, and they might do it with passion and zeal and dollars and groundwork – if that somebody can capture the essense of the ideas they saw in Ron Paul. We better embrace that. Much as I love to admit I am a gun and bible clinging pro-life jesus freak – we need more. The beauty is that a RP type allows us to be gun and bible clinging pro-life jesus freaks, but doesn’t completly alienate all those who aren’t gun and bible clinging pro-life jesus freaks. Ron Paul introduced the most common sense pro-life legislation know to man – and yet he got almost zero traction. Why because the RNC tends to use the pro-life issue only at election time. Multiple states are introducing legislation that asserts their 10th amendment rights. You think people are going to be turned off by Ron Paul’s radical 10th amendment position?

You wanna thow RP’s grassroots under the bus because some of his fans collect gold, go ahead. But if we can’t bridge the gap with RP conservatism and RS conservatism – we may be doomed to see the ghosts of primaries past again in 2012. Is there one more octagenarian liberal to moderate Republican with a crippling war injury (to his hand) in the house?

Just remember, it was the “conservative” George W Bush that opened the door for BO’s 900billion giant leap for socialism. All our angst about the spendulous bill rings a bit hollow when we consider that most R’s voted for the 750billion bank bailout not a month before the election. Just rememeber George W. opened the door for health care monitoring, and other scary things with the Patriot Act. Anybody else wondering what happens if terrorism is redefined slightly? I know I have seen a few comments that could justify eavesdropping under the patriot act, if the LIBS choose to weed out those discussing “revolution.”

I could go point by point, but the point is we need to get radical about liberty. Maybe not Ron Paul radical – but damn close.  Sure it may be impossible to eliminate the income tax, and it may be impossible to bring all the troops home – but then again, half of everything that BO said on the campaign trail was either impossible or a lie. We will need our own hope and change campaign in four years (and 2 years). We  need to place our hope in liberty, and we need to change our attitude to allow for everyone who loves liberty to join us. Insinuating that anyone who doesn’t believe in the Bush Doctrine is trailer trash, will not forward the cause.

Think 4 years down the road. More debt by probably double than ever before. Probably highest taxes in a generation. Throw in a better than average chance of hyperinflation and continued high unemployment. I know we all hope that bad times alone will be enough to win with another republican that campaigns 1 degree to the right of the democrat. But will that really inspire anybody? Throw in the election corruption that will be tipping close to the Chavez scale after Acorn gets billions of our tax dollars and BO uses the census to create a federally funded ground game. There will never be a time to push for rabid conservatism like there will be in 2012 (2010). Assuming of course that conservatives are still allowed to run a campaign without running afoul of the fairness doctrine.

My new name for anybody who feels the need to alienate Ron Paul supporters is “Fredutard.”

Step 1: We declare the US bankrupt and announce default on all loans to non-us citizens. We also set a date three years down the road to have hearings on re-affirming this debt.

Step 2: We Issue bills to every country we have issued aid to over the past 10 years including the entire cost of the Iraq war. We assign the proceeds of these bills to those countries we owe. Let China collect from Iraq.

Step 3: We put an immediate freeze on most foreign aid.

Step 4: Get out of the United Nations and take our building back.

Step 5: We announce federal govt. loans to homeowners all current homeowners at 4.25% interest and to new all homebuyers (new buyers must qualify) for a 90 day window begining Ocotber 1 and ending December 31. 

Step 6: The Fed will offer discounted rates for those banks who dollar for dollar buy back the morgtgage.

Step 7: Stop bailing companies out (especially banks) but we insure all deposits. We let bankruptcy courts do what they are supposed to do.

Step 8: Destroy the treasuries printing presses after buying the mortgages.

What this does do? Saves a boatload of money, ruins our credit, ends the housing crisis, stimultes the heck out of the ecomony (except for the banks -which need to learn a lesson anyway), and get us out of the UN. Ruining our credit is the key to long term fiscal responsibility, because we surely have no hope of congress doing it on their own. Can’t fund a deficit when no one will lend to you. I am convinced that bad credit is the only way to return to fiscal responsibility.

This also gives every other country in the world a chance to sit and think for a few years about all the good we have done for them. Kind of like taking the x-box away when your Kid goes on a 1/2 hour rant about not having an i-phone. Teaches gratitude.  In the meantime, Israel can blow Iran to kingdom come and it wont be on our watch becuase we are taking a break.

Banks will hopefully extend 4% loans to existing homebuyers ahead of the October 1 window and the Fed. Govt. will not have to take all these loans. If it does, then the banks will have to buy it back in order to get cheap money. We stop throwing money down the rat hole of bad banks and we let those banks fail, but we protect the deposits. New banks or good old banks can recapitalize while taking loans paying them 4.25%, which is probably the best game in town. People who cant pay 4.25% will be the beneficiaries of government sloth and will by nature have time to work out their mortgages. If they can’t work them out, they will ultimately be foreclosed on.

Just a thought