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“I said come here, n*gg*r, and bust up this chiffarobe for
me. I got a nickel for you.”

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From Dennis Prager, the man who has no shame, we have a Clown Hall column titled “Minorities Should Express Shame.” It’s hard to imagine what got rolling around in Prager’s protoreptilian brain to prompt him to advocate mass apologies from blacks and gays. Perhaps, he was watching “To Kill a Mockingbird” on TMC and had gotten all hopped up that Tom Robinson didn’t apologize for raping Mayella Ewell before trying to escape from jail and getting shot.

Basically it appears that Prager thinks that individual members of minority groups should apologize for the bad things that other members of that group did which forced the majority to enact discriminatory laws against the entire minority group and then feel vaguely guilty years later for doing so

But what about minority shame?

Why does one almost never hear expressions of group shame from members of any American group other than white Christians (specifically, white Christian male heterosexuals)?

You know you can scarcely turn on the TV these days without being confronted by yet another white guy apologizing for Jim Crow laws and poll taxes.

Is there something inherently wrong about members of minorities expressing anything but group pride? Are there no minority sins worthy of shame?

Surely there are laws that the blacks and the gays passed that discriminated against straight white people that deserve an apology. Like the time that the blacks of Mississippi passed the law requiring white people to take dancing ability tests before voting. And then those gays in New York city passed a law imposing a higher tax on drinks served without little umbrellas and tropical fruit garnishes.

No? Those things didn’t happen? Well perhaps Dennis has some ideas:

[D]isproportionate rates of violent crime and out-of-wedlock births in the black community … is [an example].

Whites shouldn’t be the only ones being forced to deliver tearful apologies for their higher rates of financial crimes and higher divorce rates.

The absence of any expression of shame in the gay community over the current blacklisting — and attempts to economically destroy — anyone who donated to the California proposition defining marriage as between a man and a woman is another example.

Frankly, the gays should apologize for ever wanting to be anything other than hairdressers who live in tiny apartments with be-ribboned little pekingeses and chihuahuas and a collection of Bette Davis DVDs. And they should apologize for not giving enough money to the Mormon Church. Most importantly, they should apologize for Richard Simmons.

And while we’re at it, every black in the U.S. should apologize for this too:

It can often seem as though reasonable people and pathogenic ass fungus perceive the world differently.

Above: current Memeorandum item

Moral reasoning is, you know, also a handicap, for with it one is forced to imagine oneself not only in the place of Muntader al-Zaidi, but also in the place of Baron Bodissey, which — okay, ew.

Above: Hair: It is growin’ on your head

Book: Minimum wage lowers earnings, produces unemployment

• Dunce: Advertising copy for book mirrors conservative canard, is evidentiary.

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Note: Not to play the same game as Ed here, but as we understand things, it’s demonstrable that raising the minimum wage* will tend also to raise unemployment. But here’s the thing. A certain level of unemployment is necessary for an economy to expand (since otherwise there would be nobody to fill any new expansionary jobs). This makes unemployment a moral issue, and unemployment relief a mandate. Simply, if there must be unemployment, it is wrong to inflict unnecessary misery on those who must endure it. This is addressed in most advanced economies by a robust social safety net, which also — since it ‘catches’ the adverse effects of rising minimum wages — allows wages to remain generally high. Since Neumark and Wascher, the above authors, seem to study only the US, it would seem that any grand statements in their book on the inherent effects of minimum wage increases ought to come with a very big asterisk. Also noted: Ed is against the notion of a social safety net.

Also noted: Here’s another book like the one Ed ran across, except for the added bonus that it seems currently to be definitive work on the subject.

* I’m being (rightly) beaten up in comments for this assertion, although there’s a bit more to it than I managed to get across. See below for details.

ABOVE: Joseph “Francis” Farah

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I really can’t for the life of me imagine why someone would think that Joseph Farah is a homosexual — other than perhaps the “ride-me-daddy-stache” — but think it they did and said so on Wikipedia:

Joseph Francis Farah is an Evangelical Christian American journalist and noted homosexual of Lebanese and Syrian heritage.

According to Farah he is not gay and never has been gay even though he may in fact look gayer than Florida Governor Charlie Crist in a slinky leather-thong ensemble. And, of course, such a horrible inaccuracy on a web page really eats at Farah, himself a paragon of journalistic integrity. Who can forget the courage it took for Farah to reveal what the MSM would not — that Barack Obama once smoked crack cocaine in the back of a limo while Larry Sinclair was giving him a blow job.

So he lets Wikipedia have it:

Wikipedia is not only a provider of inaccuracy and bias. It is wholesale purveyor of lies and slander unlike any other the world has ever known. … Too many people looking for easy and cheap sources of information turn to this wholly unreliable website run by political and social activists promoting their own agenda.

Oh my. I think the tea kettle cozy just called the doily lavender.

How low does Wikipedia go? … Librarians have deemed it more dangerous than crack cocaine.

In fact, they had to remove Wikipedia from a library in Hyde Park because Barack Obama kept coming in to look at Wikipedia pages while getting blown by gay derelicts. And it was only just a few months ago that they busted Tatum O’Neal for trying to buy a couple of Wikipedia entries on the lower East Side.

Shoe attack on Bush mars farewell Iraq visit

BAGHDAD (AFP) — A journalist hurled two shoes at President George W. Bush on his farewell visit to Iraq on Sunday, highlighting hostility still felt toward the outgoing US leader who acknowledged that the war is still not won.

Still not won!? Gosh, it’s a good thing we didn’t go all out on this:

The ding-ding-hooray prize goes to Jules Crittenden, for the contiguous series of two posts, Bush’s Victory Lap Never Happened To Saddam (comprising Victory Lap and This Never Happened To Saddam), in which our man at the Herald begins by gloating in the inimitable chin-first, smoldery fluster that is his signature style, smelling somehow as it does vaguely of burnt pork and hair; then reappears in an effortless new reality in which the occasion had reversed but the conclusions stayed the same.

If the public utterances of the Wingnuttius americanus mold naturally into the form, “Here is an outrage, and here is who is to blame,” the first outrage is insufficient appreciation of the stunning success of George W. Bush’s Mideast policy, as displayed in his last, leisurely saunter through Iraq; and the response a rote blamestorm encompassing the public and various named and collective media entities:

Though Iraq has slipped down the list of Americans’ concerns as the recession-hit U.S. economy has taken center stage, polls show most people think the war was a mistake.

Either that, or they bought the distortions, outright lies and pro-jihadi propaganda they were spoonfed over the past five years by Reuters and others. Can’t just let [Bush] have his victory.

Heh indeed. Then the shoes flew and another outrage was provided — specifically that Bush haters are amused and encouraged by the shoe-throwing, even though it only goes to show how free Iraq has become since the removal of Saddam Hussein. Here the culprits, besides Zaidi the shoe-thrower, include liberal blogs, Bill Ayers, Barack Obama, the Lancet report(s), and scoffers en masse.

Thus goes today’s ding-ding-hooray prize.

The Internet was won in comments by Smut Clyde, with the phrase, “The insurgency is in its last throws.”

Our guest today is AJ Strata, a wingnut of some prior achievement who seems lately to have come into his métier, if ‘métier’ were the French word for pants.

The Obama Administration Is Now Damaged Goods, Obama Lied To America

Update: A consensus is brewing about Obama’s pending troubles – see here, here, here and here.

I’d just like to say. Perhaps the moment when the American consensus came undone was when Flopping Aces, Gateway Pundit, Ed Morrissey, and Bruce “QandO” McQuain were said to form ‘a consensus’ without the eruption of a laugh track, specifically a budget-grade, off-the-shelf Sid and Marty Krofft one with audible splices and too few unique laugh samples, furnished with gratuitous, comedy-signaling ‘floop!’ ‘boing!’ and ‘bow-oom!’ noises for the inattentive, of such a type as was uncaringly post-productioned, by order of bored, neatly black-bearded, pinky-ringed impresarios and assistant sub-impresarios of a silk-shirted “quality, schmality” Porsche 924-driving, pre- and/or post-divorce, bankruptcy-bait, San Fernando starter-mansion, web-of-lies-unraveling, found-dead-of-apparent-gunshot-suicide variety, into the soundtracks of shows such as Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Kaptain Kool and the Kongs, and Far Out Space Nuts, not to mention unbelievably drugged-out stoner rampages like Lidsville and HR Pufnstuf, to be experienced at the comedy-numbing hour of 7:30AM, over the rim of a cereal bowl and through a plastic tumbler of reconstituted frozen orange juice concentrate, as it were.

Consider this, then, that laugh track.

Major Update Below!

The big dominos seem to be falling already, less than a week from the news breaking.  I simply cannot fathom the damage Barack Obama and Rahm Emmanuel have done to their incoming administration, a month before it takes office. But I do know they dealt hit a critical blow this week.  Barack Obama has just been exposed as a liar to the American people. He lied to us in a manner that puts him in the same league as Bill Clinton, Senator Ted Stevens, Senator Robert Torricelli, Rep Randy “Duke” Cunningham and Rep William Jefferson. We have yet to know what, if any, crimes Obama has committed. But the fact is¹ this week he went out and lied straight to the American people. He tried to cover his tracks.

Here is the lie, which caught my eye because of the phrasing Obama was using during his press conference on Daschle’s appointment:

But let’s slow down here. Could this be the stupidest thing ever written on purpose? It seems unlikely, but it’s difficult to judge at the moment, consumed as we are by the distinct, but apparently miscible sensations of joyful marvelment (it’s genuinely a bit thrilling to see, isn’t it?) and what a cow must feel at the moment the pneumatic bolt hits its skull.

We’ll be back with more on this remarkable essai later, as soon as Moo? [bonk] manage to stop the Moo? [bonk] endless loop of Moo? [bonk].

¹ In this we are reminded of Mr. AJ Strata, who is literally in the same league, for certain definitions of ‘league,’ as Rev. Gary “Two Wetsuits” Aldridge. We have yet to know what, if any, acts of comically deranged sexual perversion he has engaged in, or whether the newspapers will again avoid reporting the dildos that are found in anuses, if any. But the fact is…

Elizabeth Hasselback slaps down Charles Darwin:

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Hate is hate, in India or America

• Even though the gay rioters in California haven’t killed anyone yet, they are much worse than the terrorists who attacked Mumbai.

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The Groundhog Day bug is fixed (hooray Seb), such that it is no longer eternally December 7th on the main page. We knew it was fixed when our milk instantly went sour and we were suddenly several days unshaven.

Also, comments are temporarily broken, as are links to individual posts working again.

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Fixing is underway, after which the site will work 100% perfectly forever.

Shorter Michelle Malkin:

Rahm-a-drama: “Beet red” and “pissed” with the MSM

• I have chosen gloating condescension as a response to Rahm Emanuel’s complaints of “death threats,” and that the media has “put [his] home address on national television,” for certainly no one will remember the time in 2006 when, in the wake of one of my more infamous exploits, my address was posted on the Internet, and I abandoned my house in fear, loudly complaining of the extreme and woeful injustice that had been inflicted upon myself.

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