Monday Musings With The Crew

• Something is happening in Philadelphia that should terrify you to your very core.  Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has directed the Philadelphia Human Rights Commission to investigate Philadelphia Magazine.  You see, the magazine dared to publish an essay about race relations that was authored by a white journalist and that contained quotes and opinions from white citizens of Philadelphia.  Mayor Nutter called the piece "disgusting", and described the white citizens quoted in the article as "too cowardly" to use their names.  Here's my opinion.......Mayor Nutter is just one more in a long line of race-baiting progressives who will do anything it takes to shut white people up.  He is despicable, intellectually dishonest, and a threat to every freedom-loving American of any color.  Read the Philadelphia Magazine article here, and decide for yourself.

• Pew Research Center has released an interesting study of cable news outlets, comparing time spent reporting factual news vs time spent on opinion and commentary.  CNN led the way, spending 54% of its time reporting the news, and 46% opining about it.  Fox News was next, with 45% hard news and 55% opinion.  A distant third were the pyschopathic leftists at MSNBC, who spend 15% of their time reporting the news, and an astounding 85% of their time spewing filth about it.  Me? I think 15% sounds pretty high for MSNBC's actual news coverage.

• Barack Obama, the great centrist, has nominated a hard left radical to fill his Cabinet's empty slot at Labor.  Tom Perez is a dangerous man, and should be allowed nowhere near a presidential Cabinet post.  Senate Republicans must derail this nomination at any cost.  Read more about Mr. Perez and the Inspector General's report on his gross misdeed's while at the Dept. of Justice here.  

I'd give her a million bucks in taxpayer funds
just to go away....

• And then there's this......   The federal government has awarded a Harvard-associated hospital $1.5 million of Other People's Money (OPM) to research why lesbians are so fat.  According to the grant application, 75% of lesbians are obese.  Look, only one of two things can be happening here.  Either Rosie O'Donnell is just skewing the curve for everybody, or.....dare I suggest it.......maybe this is nothing more than the classic chicken and egg scenario.  

• Finally, in a remarkable example of typecasting, Barack Obama is apparently playing Satan in the current History Channel hit "The Bible".  The big baddie himself showed up in last night's episode, and the internet exploded with the amazing similarity the character had to Dear Leader.....here is Glenn Beck's tweet on the topic.......                  

Monday Musings With The Crew

• Breaking News:  The Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy effective Feb. 28, becoming the first Pope to do so since Gregory XII in 1415.  Benedict's successor will be elected by a conclave of cardinals, which interestingly enough is exactly how I got this job.  

• Here's a question.....if the proper term is "African-American", why is February "Black" History month?

Give Mommy a little smoochie!

• Kimberly Margeson raised a few eyebrows at a New York prison by laying an open-mouth kiss on her incarcerated son's mouth during a recent visit.  Was she just a little more lusty than current societal norms permit?  Not exactly.  She was actually passing sonny boy a few oxycodone pills via the lip-lock.  It's weird....she doesn't look anything like Alicia Silverstone!

• It's official....I'm an old geezer.  I listened to the radio news guy list the big winners at last night's Grammy Awards, and I didn't recognize a single act.  

• Nancy Pelosi made another remarkably incoherent appearance on Fox News Sunday this weekend.  A couple of the highlights...

• She blamed the current sluggish economy on the previous administration.  I'm pretty sure she meant the one before that.
• When host Chris Wallace asked Pelosi about gun control, the sage of San Francisco said this...  "We avow the First Amendment, we stand with that and say that people have the right to have a gun and defend themselves".  I feel much better knowing that great Constitutional scholars like Pelosi are entrusted with protecting my rights.  

• In direct contrast with the idiot Pelosi is SecDef Leon Panetta.  Although he is on the opposite side of the political aisle from me, I've always found Panetta to be an earnest and thoughtful man.  His recent testimony in front of the Senate about the attack in Benghazi was remarkable.  Here is a clip of him answering Sen. Ayotte's (R-NH) questions about Dear Leader's involvement that night.  Take a look....

You can hear in his voice and see in his face the pain and disgust that Obama's dereliction of duty gives him.  Obama showed absolutely no interest in the fact that our consulate was under attack, and our Ambassador and 3 other brave Americans had been murdered.  Five years ago, I would have said that it wasn't possible for the President of the United States to be so callous and disconnected.  Today, in SecondTermica, it barely makes a ripple.  We take a lot of jabs at Dear Leader here at SACSTW, but that 2 minutes of video is all you need to know what a loathsome, traitorous human being currently inhabits our White House.

USA USA USA! Must Be Racist Gangbangers!

Tough day at work for the Crew.  What with the mild winter we've had, it's getting harder and harder to find good baby seal clubbing ground.  Anyway, I digress.  I settle down in front of my computer, only to learn that the name of my country is now classified as a racist attack.

At a high school basketball game in San Antonio, the student section of the winning team apparently started chanting USA, USA, USA as the game wound down.  For the record, the winning school (Alamo Heights High) is primarily Caucasian and the losing school (Thomas Edison High) is primarily Hispanic.  Predictably, officials from Thomas Edison were offended and perceived the chant as racist.  

Here is the issue being discussed on Fox News program The Five.....

At around the 7:30 mark in the video, Juan Williams compares the incident to one that SACSTW covered here.  In that incident, high school students in the People's Republic of California were deemed to have been racially offensive to Hispanic students. Their crime...wearing Tshirts depicting the American flag.  Unbelievably, Juan Williams equated that with "wearing gang colors".  Let me tell you folks, if red, white, and blue are the new gang colors, then patch me in.

The take-home message about the USA chant from those who took offense is that the chant was out of context because the game was not an "international" contest.  The game was between two schools located in the USA, with the students on both sides being Americans.

Hmmm, somebody better tell Rosalba Aguillon.  Ms. Aguillon is a student at Thomas Edison High, and was interviewed about the incident by Fox News.  She explained that she was offended "coming from a school that has mainly Mexicans. I feel that was wrong, they shouldn't have chanted that".

In fact, it is much ado about nothing.  Sound engineers in the SACSTW research lab have uncovered the truth behind the chanting at Alamo Heights High.  The students were simply celebrating Tom Vilsack's recent announcement of 1.2 million in federal grant money made available for rural Texans.  That's right, if you listen closely you can hear the students lusty cry of USDA, USDA, USDA!  It brings a tear to my eye to see youngsters so supportive of bloated federal bureaucracies.  Touching really.

Gotta run for now, I'm going to head down to the creek and catch a mess of snail darters for lunch.  Tasty little critters, but you need a bucket full to make a decent meal.