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Friday, October 10, 2008 03:08 PM
Original article: Wall Street's crazy day

SPEAKING OF CRAZY....HOW ABOUT THE N-WORD?

MRS. OBAMA, WHITEY, AND THE N-WORD

With the stock market in an unprecedented freefall, with disturbing tales of banks and bailouts filling our newspapers and TV screens, and with Obama breaking out with a commanding lead over McCain, a little levity is in order and you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ooBhnjl5v4&NR=1.

That link is to a parody of the whole, “Did Michelle Obama use the derogatory term, Whitey, at some point in time brouhaha” and, being a parody, that YouTube tape sheds no light on the question but is nevertheless amusing at the same time it raises some questions. (Mrs. Obama seems to be in virtual seclusion of late and could not be reached for comment.)

Personally, as a whitey, a natural-born whitey unlike the pseudo-whitey, Michael Jackson, I have never taken umbrage at the term. I guess it would depend on how the word was used and whether it was articulated during a frothing diatribe such as in the midst of one of those wild rants by Obama’s pastor, “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright.

Yet, even then, I’d consider the source and just let the word slide off my white back since I believe in the ancient adage that sticks and stones can break my bones but names or words can never harm me.

Considering that truism, it’s difficult to understand why the N-word is now regarded as the worst word in the English language, worse even than the much overused Anglo Saxon F-word. Overuse almost everywhere, in films, high school corridors, and many offices, has rendered the F-word as almost innocuous. It may very well go the way of the classic and vile British cuss word, bloody,...

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Saturday, October 11, 2008 01:01 AM

THE VIEW FROM AMERICANS

FARRAKHAN’S MESSIAH SPEAKS!

I’m getting too old to be afraid of much, aside from high blood pressure and a high cholesterol count, but Louie Farrakhan scares the hell out of me.

See this video of him waxing poetic and orgasmically enthused over an Obama presidency: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=77539.

(Please also see previous articles referencing Farrakhan: “Race in America,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=476, “Obama’s Muslim Faith Outed, Again!” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=444, and “Black Reparations and Your Wallet,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=174.)

Less than affectionately known as Calypso Louie to Rush Limbaugh, Farrakhan is quite probably the most dangerous man in America, a title that will be passed to Barack Obama should he win on November 4th.

Again quite probably, Louie will become a clandestine participant in a President Obama’s kitchen cabinet, unless he’s granted a more visible role in an Obama administration should the rumored Obama landslide actually occur. In that eventuality, the first semi-black president’s celebrated arrogance could come to the fore and he will be even more brazen and perhaps nominate Farrakhan to be ambassador to Israel, an ambassador to a nation whose citizens he despises.

However, for now, it’s more than curious to consider that in the last few weeks the most controversial and mouthy firebrands among Obama’s intimates have become virtually invisible, and inaudible, spectres subsumed in their perception of the Greater Good, Obama’s election.

Unless the mass media has been concealing more than it usually does, Michelle Obama has been muzzled, Jeremiah Wright has been preoccupied, Jesse Jackson is still in recovery, and Calypso Louie has had a rare attack of reticence as they all await the election returns.

So, why is Louis Farrakhan someone to be feared when he finally emerges from his pre-electoral cocoon? A grinning cheshire cat ...

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Saturday, October 11, 2008 02:05 PM

MISOGYNISTIC LESBIAN FEMINISTS VS. SARAH PALIN

MISOGYNISTIC LESBIAN FEMINISTS RAGE OVER SARAH PALIN

They started by burning their bras while cowardly men were burning their draft cards. Current exemplars have now burned and trashed their most fundamental philosophy that women are as good as or better than the male of the species.

They are, of course, so-called “feminists” who have finally come full circle in their beliefs and are back to where they started, if not even worse off.

The impetus, the catalyst, for feminism’s devolution is one Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and Republican nominee for the vice presidency of the United States.

You would think a true feminist would be ecstatic over Sarah Palin’s achievements, becoming mayor of the town of Wasilla, becoming the first female governor of our forty-ninth state, becoming only the second major party candidate, and first Republican nominee, for vice president in the nation’s history.

However, they are anything but ecstatic; in fact they are beside themselves with venom over Palin.

How could that be? Granted, she is no Hillary Clinton–and thank God for that! But shouldn’t Governor Palin be seen as the culmination of their wishes and ambitions–having a woman in the second highest political position in America and, yes, that proverbial heartbeat away from becoming our commander-in-chief?

Well, no, that isn’t really the pinnacle of their dreams since Sarah Palin is not one of them! She may be able to field dress a moose and she can guide a snowmobile over the Alaskan tundra as well as any man but she is accomplished in all the wrong areas, in the estimation of feminists.

Governor Palin is gracious, accomplished, intelligent...

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