Secular Apostate

The remaining womyn of NOW have been a-twitter about a Super Bowl ad starring Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mom. NOW President Terry O’Neill commented on behalf of all womyn when she said:

“The goal of the Focus on the Family ad is not to empower women. It’s to create a climate in which Roe v. Wade can be overturned,” O’Neill said. “There are always going to be women who need abortions. In this country, one in three women will have an abortion.”

“Focus on the Family has cynically set it up so they can say anyone who disagrees with airing this ad is disrespecting one woman and her choice. NOW respects every woman’s right to plan her own family and insists our laws do the same,” said O’Neill.

OK, if you weren’t watching, here’s the ad:

Horrifying. A travesty of womyn’s right to chews.

But here’s the best remark I’ve seen about this “controversy”, from Beers with Demo:

All that bitching and whining, all that kvetching about “hate masquerading as love” and that is what you were battling against? All the media savvy and money that is at the disposal of the ubiquitious womens’ groups that were opposed to this ad and they wind up at the end of the day getting punked by a bunch of evangelical hay seeds from out in Colorado somewhere. [emphasis added - ed.]

My compliments, Mr Beers.

In 2005, the Democrat Party castigated GW Bush for observing that the Social Security fund was destined to go bankrupt.

The party statement went on to say that

The Social Security Trust Fund is running a surplus, and will have enough money for another 50 years. Social Security now runs a surplus, raising more in taxes than it pays in benefits. In 2018, the Trust Fund will start paying out more in benefits then [sic] it collects in taxes and will need to begin drawing on its interest earnings and reserves to help pay for benefits. But according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the reserves in the Social Security Trust Fund won’t be depleted until 2052.

But the non-partisan CBO didn’t forsee the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Axis of Imbecility (or Axis of F**king Idiots, as some, less euphemistically-inclined, researchers in the field of Supercold Intellectual Functioning would observe).

Fortune magazine reports that

A report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that for the first time in 25 years, Social Security is taking in less in taxes than it is spending on benefits.

Instead of helping to finance the rest of the government, as it has done for decades, our nation’s biggest social program needs help from the Treasury to keep benefit checks from bouncing — in other words, a taxpayer bailout.

Clearly, what we need now is more debt, more borrowing, another even more grandiose entitlement program (e.g., Obamacare), and faster printing presses in the Treasury. If we just flood the economy with worthless currency everyone can be a millionaire! But why stop there?? Let’s all be billionaires!

So let’s celebrate with FDR’s 1932 campaign song!

President Beaux Zeaux seems to be getting hammered from all sides these days. For example, Las Vegas Mayor Goodman recently observed that:

[W]hen he hurt our [Las Vegas] economy by his ill conceived rhetoric, we didn’t think it would happen again, but now that it has I want to assure you, when he comes I’ll do everything I can to give him the boot back to Washington and to visit his failures back there.

“I gotta tell you this, everybody says I shouldn’t say it, but I gotta tell you the way it is. This president is a real slow learner.”

Well, I suppose that Beaux Zeaux should be grateful that Mayor Goodman is less blunt than Rahm Emanuel, who has recently become notorious for asserting that liberal activists, a political movement in which the President obviously belongs, are “f**king retarded“.

Look, guys, I know the President has some fairly obvious… shortcomings in some areas, but there’s no point in getting nasty about it. What he needs most is adult supervision, not crude and insulting remarks that may damage his fragile self-esteem.

I realize the White House is not the best place for a group home, and that the Secret Service doesn’t normally offer special needs training for its front-line officers. But can’t you keep the President away from Copenhagen before he “wee-wees” himself up again in front of the global media? It’s very embarrassing.

An excellent video from Klavan on the difference between reality and Progressive Reality™…

This video needs to go viral. You know what to do.

(Video H/T: sda)

If you have any doubt that President Beaux Zeaux benefits from being the first black President, connect these dots:

In response to news of President Obama receiving the Nobel Prize for peace, an e-mail from a reader recalled a black classmate’s comments upon graduating from high school many years ago. When asked to list the advantages and disadvantages of being black, the black student facetiously listed as an advantage “being praised for infinitesimal accomplishments.”
—–- Thomas Sowell

And last weekend, Rasmussen reported that

Just 19% of voters nationwide believe that President Obama achieved most of his goals during his first year in office. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 70% hold the opposite view and say he did not accomplish those goals.

Of course, President Beaux Zeaux

[A]warded himself [...] “A good solid B plus.”

That self-awarded grade was apparently for accomplishments so infinitesimal that 70% of Americans cannot detect them.

So… now that we’ve established the self-esteem thing, can we move on to the task of governing?

Or, “How To Be A Broadcast Journalist”:

Leave your name, with middle initial, and the statement “I really did watch the whole video”, in the comments section and I’ll send you a degree in journalism from the Oxbridge-Columbian Online University (fully accredited by the Perky/Couric Institute of Journalistic Self-Revelatory Truthiness).

No, wait. On second thought, just send a note in a postage-due envelope pasted on a brick to the New York address of your favorite MSM manure lagoon. You just may get a contract with your degree.

(video H/T: sda)

[ABC News] A source close to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., says the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee has reacted with sorrow to the scandalous personal behavior of his former running mate, former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC…

“This isn’t the person I campaigned with back then,” Kerry has privately said, according to the source.

This is astonishing. Look at this image! It looks just like John Edwards:

John Kerry with Mystery Vice-Presidential Candidate

Is that a perfect Photoshop or what? The Palestinian “government” should recruit the perpetrator of this hoax immediately.

But the question America wants answered is: who is the person John Kerry campaigned with? And does Sen Kerry still have the hat?

I know that IQ has lost a lot of its glamor over the past few decades, except for a few diehards like Vice-President Biden (“I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do.”). But it still has some utility, despite the discovery of vast numbers of specialized “intelligences” like Wise Latina Empathy and Gaydar. It’s true that some folks’ brains work on a level incomprehensible to the average particle physicist.

But there are other cases where statistical data tend to confirm the existence of the Factor g, or General Intelligence, that garden-variety intelligence tests purport to measure.

Such a result was discovered by Rasmussen in a poll intended to gauge public response to the State of the Union Speech:

One of the key new initiatives in President Obama’s State of the Union speech is a three-year freeze on discretionary government spending, but voters overwhelmingly believe the freeze will have little or no impact on the federal deficit.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just nine percent (9%) think the freeze will reduce the deficit a lot.

And, it seems to me, 9% is about right, and definitely on the Left. The ninth percentile in the IQ score distribution is an IQ of about 80, as shown below:

Now you know what it means to be a Left-Winger.

President Beaux Zeaux is taking some heat from the City of New York about using New York federal courts as a trial venue for Git Mo’ Detainees:

The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.

The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would “prefer that they did it elsewhere” and then spoke to Attorney General Eric Holder.

We all know that the Prez is committed to the most rigorous and Constitutionally-protected defense possible for all depraved Islamotards who live and breathe to murder as many innocent Americans as possible in the most grisly and grotesque ways imaginable. The show trials are all a part of the “Lick The Mailed Fist That Smashes Your Face” diplomatic initiative necessary under the rubric of Progressive Smart Power™ diplomacy.

President Obama is still committed to trying Mohammed and four other terrorist detainees in federal court,” spokesman Bill Burton said Thursday.

So, being a concerned and engaged citizen, I have a grassroots suggestion for the trial venue. It would be far less expensive to the Treasury Department, who has union handouts and ACORN funding to preserve, and it has the advantage of built-in security.

I propose Clay County, WV. The fine people of Clay County (as pictured on right) would be ecstatic to be granted an opportunity to host as many detainees as the US military can provide. Clay County has a proud tradition of good citizenship and excellent marksmanship, and the economy would be considerably boosted by an ongoing supply of imported high value targets. And President Beaux Zeaux would get a political boost on the heels of the Administration’s shock and awe destruction of the Clay County surface mining economy and tax base.

It’s just a suggestion, Mr President. Take it or leave it. But the Clay County citizenry are already chanting “Git Mo’ Detainees!”

But art does it a helluva lot better:

Michael Ramirez, Prince of the Political Cartoonists

A fabulous video by Breitbart, starring President Beaux Zeaux:

"Narcissus" by Caravaggio

Here’s an object lesson for all of those folks that are interested in getting involved with the underage Latina slave trade:

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a 50-year prison sentence was appropriate for a man who forced young Mexican girls to work for him as prostitutes in the Mid-South.

Juan Mendez, who could have gotten life, directed his girlfriend in 2005 to smuggle young teenaged girls into the United States under the pretense of getting them jobs in restaurants and a better life.

Instead, he raped them and forced them into prostitution in Memphis, Nashville and other Mid-South cities…

“Mr. Mendez states that he came to the United States, similar to these young ladies, in an effort to better himself, yet he chose to go down the path of victimizing and abusing and just basically treating these young ladies as pieces of meat to be passed around in the sordid circumstances involved in this situation,” U.S. Dist. Judge J. Daniel Breen said at a sentencing hearing last year.

Had Señor Mendez consulted with the experts at ACORN, he would have known that these girls were to be called “exchange students”, or “performing artists”, who needed to be trained to “keep their mouths shut”. Or, Señor Mendez could have called three of them “dependents” so “… so you is [sic] eligible to get child tax credit and additional child tax credit.”

“I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.”

—–- B. Obama, 1/2010

Those are not the only two choices, Mr President. You wisely left out “really good two-term President”, but you foolishly forgot “mediocre one-term President”. The latter is looking like a real possibility, Sir.

Just ask Jimmah Carter.

Rolling in the floor laughing my a** off. Mrs. Apostate actually interrupted her morning routine to rush in and check on me when I burst out laughing at the following picture of the President of the United States, B.H. Obama, preparing to speak to a sixth-grade class:

That photo should have been classified before Vladimir Putin got hold of it. The man is a caricature of a President.

Life imitates art:

I’ll bet you one thing, though. The opportunity for a photo like that never, ever happens again, so savor it.

(Image H/T: JWF)