The Left Is Never Right

<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0O73Z6lkw_5ZP0UR4v9vkVgnh53KLT8yDa39liplzhKZPhJ-DB52ZI0BIDrJMVVhNqgfOFsouSD_FEAUvqeHS-6c_XTceJW3rKN_KKU0TLp8VtUP7H8-6p2GodaGJK5F9riPrhBEIRdD/s1600-h/Liberals-Prelutsky-Termites-Cover1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444544215798503170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0O73Z6lkw_5ZP0UR4v9vkVgnh53KLT8yDa39liplzhKZPhJ-DB52ZI0BIDrJMVVhNqgfOFsouSD_FEAUvqeHS-6c_XTceJW3rKN_KKU0TLp8VtUP7H8-6p2GodaGJK5F9riPrhBEIRdD/s400/Liberals-Prelutsky-Termites-Cover1.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 258px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">by Burt Prelutsky</span></em><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><p>During his State of the Union address, with eight of the Supreme Court justices sitting right in front of him like clay pigeons, Barack Obama told the world that he would have to correct their mistake by bringing back McCain-Feingold. Well, why wouldn’t he say such a stupid thing? After all, he’s been wrong about everything else.<br /><br />It’s perfectly reasonable that Obama would oppose corporations donating money to political campaigns. Where do oil, coal and pharmaceutical companies, get off thinking they should have the same right as the UAW, the SEIU, ACORN and George Soros, to finance elections? For that matter, while whining about some corporations playing a role in the election process, I haven’t heard Obama say boo about the role that such corporations as NBC, CBS, ABC, the Washington Post or the New York Times, have played in creating and burnishing his image.<br /><br />But, then, who are regular, run-of-the-mill, tax-paying Americans to question Obama? He’s brilliant, after all. It’s not just liberals who say so, either. I keep hearing people like Bill O’Reilly saying so day after day. The problem is that I keep looking for signs of his brilliance, and looking and looking. It doesn’t help that the O’Reillys of the world never point out any examples.<br /><br />Still, if Obama is so brilliant, why does he parrot the words and thoughts of a bunch of schmucks like Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, Al Gore and Michael Moore? Why does he insist that the trouble with the Constitution and the Civil Rights movement is that they didn’t focus on the redistribution of wealth? Why would he hand over the federal budget to a couple of morons like Pelosi and Reid? And why on earth would he put Henry Waxman in charge of his energy program? A brilliant person wouldn’t trust Waxman to bring baked beans to a picnic.<br /><br />When someone decides to model a health care plan after such dismal failures as England, Canada and Cuba, while exhuming the failed economic policies of FDR, why would anyone suggest he is anything but a left-wing ignoramus?<br /><br />This is an American president, for heaven’s sake, who has more in common with Noam Chomsky, Hugo Chavez and some Berkeley hippie than he has with Washington, Jefferson and Adams. Except that he is now 30 years older, Obama seems to think exactly the same way he was thinking back in college, when he was a pot-smoking idiot who sought out students who were self-professed revolutionaries and professors who were communists.<br /><br />If we have come to a point where the ability to read scripted lines off a Teleprompter is considered a sign of brilliance, no matter how fatuous the actual words may be, we are in even worse shape than I imagined.<br /><br />In a movie I loved, “The Princess Bride,” the villain, Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), keeps saying “Inconceivable!” each time something happens that he failed to anticipate, mainly because, in his arrogance, he underestimated his adversary. Finally, after he has said “Inconceivable!” once too often, one of his cohorts turns to him and says, “I don’t think that word means what you think it does.”<br /><br />But I wouldn’t want to leave liberals and some goofy conservatives entirely speechless when it comes to describing the president. So to fill the void, I’m happy to supply them with some options, such as stubborn, pompous, inflexible, dishonest, officious, partisan, unpatriotic, duplicitous, socialist, untrustworthy and dictatorial.<br /><br />Any of those words is far more fitting than brilliant, as are self-enamored, egotistical, narcissistic, long-winded and boring.<br /><br />You want to know who I think is truly brilliant? Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, that’s who. His demeanor is pleasant and his decisions are invariably sensible and well-considered. And that includes his most recent decision, which was to skip Obama’s State of the Union harangue<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;color:#333333;">Pick Up Burt Prelutsky’s New Book</span></strong></p><p></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><em><span style="color:#000099;">Liberals: America’s Termites or It’s a Shame That Liberals, Unlike Hamsters, Never Eat Their Young.</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">The title pretty much says it all – Prelutsky isn’t afraid to say what he thinks, and his short book is chock full of hysterical one-liners and RPG attacks on the left.</span></em></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><em><br /></em></span></p>

The Left Is Never Right

by Burt Prelutsky During his State of the Union address, with eight of the Supreme Court justices sitting right in front of him like clay pi...

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Jacob Zuma is a sex-obsessed bigot with four wives and 35 children. So why is Britain fawning over this vile buffoon?

<p><span style="font-family:arial;"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">By Stephen Robinson<br />on 02nd March 2010</span></em><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444119095084985522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPnsm0h0QTvuy5TgyIk85iKV-ld7ZAgVmkGOCj5wH9rx19avpV-EpB86n5_b8kxULW7aK_f7VT5jI82uyZqtFIDkVSWXGaFimZK70D-lfsRDpwLJEYomXX4TGVfeKFHl11UjUvtTQweAxK/s400/zapiro0203_517056d.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 282px; CURSOR: hand" />Spare a thought for the Buckingham Palace protocol officials tomorrow when His Excellency President Jacob Zuma arrives in London for his first state visit to these shores.</span></strong><br /><br />For this incoming 'One hundred per cent Zulu Boy', as the South African President styles himself when he has an election to win, presents unique challenges of planning for the courtiers.<br /><br />The formal announcement of the state visit primly notes that the President will be accompanied during his three-day stay at Buckingham Palace by 'his wife Mrs Thobeka Madiba Zuma'. This is not untrue - but nor is it quite the whole truth.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444094403350338386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHAj0NIm0p2iXIukd3IxmoloOHlBAF39E-uaOV4tmW7x9CXqXMuAU3PFWMH1_vMqRQd5g-wGEsoGlz0NM1OHICB4fE_nrgJrxbQYSBafGTmedyGbhoX6C-qke3e0yTjZBp6QIbUmDSBsgs/s400/ZUMA-BUFFOON.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 328px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" /><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Buffoon: Jacob Zuma with one of his four wives</span></strong> </p><p align="left">Because Thobeka is just one of Mr Zuma's four living wives, not including one from Mozambique who committed suicide in 2000. She is also one of the estimated ten women with whom the libidinous Zuma has sired the 20 children he acknowledges to be his own.<br /><br />On top of that, Zuma has paid lobolo - a sort of tribal deposit on a future bride - to the families of at least two more potential wives.<br /><br />On a recent visit to South Africa, I was told very confidently by a man who knows the inner workings of the government that Zuma's true tally is actually 35 children, including a set of twins with a woman from Ukraine.<br /><br />One thing is clear. Jacob Zuma could not be more different from the man in whose long shadow he must walk - South Africa's great and first democratic leader, Nelson Mandela.<br /><br />But to go back to the hard-pressed Palace courtiers in charge of protocol, how can they prevent disaster in the diplomatic minefield of tomorrow night's state banquet?<br /><br />At these state dinners it is traditional to invite leaders of the 'arts community' to break up the stodgy ranks of diplomats and establishment bigwigs who tend to get the bulk of the invitations.<br /><br />But will theatrical greats such as Sir Ian McKellen be comfortable breaking bread with a man who has described same-sex marriage as 'a disgrace to the nation and to God', and who boasted that when he was a young man, any sensible homosexual would have got out of his way because: 'I would have knocked him out.'<br /><br />Will our bishops want to nibble canapes with a man who won the South African election last year by appearing at rallies and singing the old ANC guerilla war song: 'Bring Me My Machine Gun'? At the time, this was interpreted by many South Africans as a grotesque disavowal of Mandela's exhortation to his supporters to throw their weapons into the sea.<br /><br />And for that matter, would Harriet Harman, assiduously promoting her equality agenda as the General Election nears, wish to discuss gender issues with a man who, when charged with rape in 2005, protested in court that the alleged victim was wearing an extremely short skirt. </p><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444094418998531922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE6ggVu3-PnGx0mhyu3cMGdW1H2hoMqvjRTf2HzYW6rChwWxpUXNWec2tdsg4wR78FF4l5p-ewlZ-8l9CtvtjuovDkxu2PWvIyT0ATMJSC2p4mF79eitJMq1PwH2BwoiRwfLoq2S74J58i/s400/ZUMA-3-WIVES.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" /><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Polygamous: Zuma with three of his wives - Sizakele, right, Nompumelo, left, and Thobeka</span></strong> </p><p align="left">'In Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready,' Zuma told the judge. 'To deny her sex would have been tantamount to rape.'<br /><br />Knowing that the woman he had imposed himself upon was HIV positive and that he had not used a condom, Zuma took a postcoital shower, believing that would protect him against the virus.<br /><br />The Foreign Office expects the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to submit themselves to an average of only two incoming state visits a year, so why was it thought necessary to honour Zuma in this way? It is not as though South African leaders have been strangers to Buckingham Palace in recent years.<br /><br />President Mandela came on a state visit two years after winning the first democratic election in 1994, and returned again 18 months ago during his 90th birthday celebrations. Thabo Mbeki, Zuma's predecessor as president, came over with his wife on a state visit in 2001.<br /><br />Which all means there was certainly no diplomatic need for Britain to mark Zuma's installation in power last year. During almost 60 years on the throne, the Queen has learned she broadly has to do what the Foreign Office tells her, so she throws open Buckingham Palace and pins medals on the chest of any murderous dictator the government wishes to suck up to.<br /><br />Zuma may not have matched the grotesque misrule of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, who was welcomed to the Palace in 1994. But he tends to side with the mobs who have invaded the white-owned, productive farms rather than those who used to produce the country's food.</span></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">'Europeans often ignore the fact that Mugabe is very popular among Africans. In their eyes, he has given blacks their country back after centuries of colonialism,' Zuma has said. 'The people love him, so how can we condemn him?'<br /><br />No wonder that affluent South Africans, black and white, are now so concerned by the course South Africa is taking under Zuma, and fearful they are on a trajectory towards becoming the continent's next basket case.<br /><br />It seems utterly misguided to have invited Zuma at a time when it is becoming ever more evident that <span style="color:#990000;">South Africa is being turned into an organised <span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">kleptocracy</span></strong>.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">With timing that seems suspiciously fortunate given the looming state visit, the government this month announced a deal with British Aerospace to end investigations into whether bribes were paid in several recent contracts.<br /><br />This is fortunate for Zuma - he was deeply implicated in the bribes paid by European defence contractors, including British Aerospace, over a gigantic 1998 South African arms deal.<br /><br />Schabir Shaik, Zuma's personal financial adviser, was one of the few men to stand trial for corruption as Thabo Mbeki's government kicked over the traces of the arms deal and other corruption scandals.</span> </p><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444094409181389026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheGfVVFk_FXgnFOWJprV9g_KXW8erZMUCJ3PAGCJiYlXxtKEVMvf9tJLxTDRL_OC_xkKR5Q-eV5-ZpbkfbCag7KC3_ZygIPHrWywyWvbswYTteYMW0DJn2FrOEeFeSGJDwEol9KbR2FhTi/s400/ZUMA-LONDON-VISIT.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 244px; CURSOR: hand" /><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;">State visit: The flags of South Africa and Britain fly together on the Mall in London for Zuma's visit</span></strong><br /></p><p align="left"></span><span style="color:#000000;">Shaik was convicted of making several illegal payments to Zuma, and in effect underwriting the cost of his substantial private home to accommodate his various wives and children.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#990000;">The truth is that</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">corruption</span></strong> <span style="color:#990000;">is now so prevalent that South Africans have lost their capacity to be shocked by it</span></span><span style="color:#990000;">.</span></span></span><span style="color:#990000;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />But Zuma may not be forgiven for his flamboyant sex life. Having been acquitted of rape, then mobbed by jubilant supporters, Zuma believed he was beyond criticism.<br /><br />Yet he now finds himself in political difficulty after the recent revelation of the birth of the 20th acknowledged child, to a woman in Durban. This broke a deal he made with the party that even if he could not conquer his libido, he would at least behave with discretion, and stop impregnating casual sexual partners.<br /><br />Like the 19th-century missionaries who attempted to stamp it out, the ruling ANC party disapproves of polygamy, partly because it reinforces white men's stereotypes of Africans as somehow uncivilised.<br /><br />But Aids is the much more compelling explanation for why Zuma finds himself in trouble. With an HIV infection rate feared to be close to 30 per cent, and with South Africa's rural areas overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of Aids orphans, Zuma's manic promiscuity is setting a terrible example and has become a matter of grave public concern.<br /><br />The ANC was forced, in a formal statement, to acknowledge the level of public disquiet about Zuma's conduct. And there is now even talk at the highest level of the ANC that Zuma might not be allowed a second term as president.<br /><br />Since Thabo Mbeki (who had demented ideas about Aids) was forced from office, the government has made progress in changing the sexual attitudes of black South Africans. Zuma has blown a hole in this campaign for the sake of his nights of passion.<br /><br />No doubt the guests tomorrow night in London will be too polite to raise such delicate matters with the guest of honour.<br /><br />But millions of South Africans, viewing television images of the Zulu Boy at Buckingham Palace, will wonder why the Queen is honouring a man who back home is rapidly becoming a very bad joke.<br /></span><br /><em><span style="color:#000099;">Source: - <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1254748/Jacob-Zuma-sex-obsessed-bigot--Britain-fawning-him.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1254748/Jacob-Zuma-sex-obsessed-bigot--Britain-fawning-him.html</a> </span></em></span><p align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;"><em><span style="color:#000099;"></p></span></em></span><p></p><br /></span>

Jacob Zuma is a sex-obsessed bigot with four wives and 35 children. So why is Britain fawning over this vile buffoon?

By Stephen Robinson on 02nd March 2010 Spare a thought for the Buckingham Palace protocol officials tomorrow when His Excellency President J...

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Malema's dodgy R27m roads and bridges washed away

<p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">AT LEAST three of several multi-million-rand bridges and roads built by Julius Malema’s company in ­Limpopo were washed away within weeks of their completion.</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIQ9Rg4Fhg_JQGR0NpRoRTFNBEEqAT-AGY-FphCpZlTaDxCWM4i-fZr4dRTydNAdpZz-9QKzOjqQR-zyE2i6m30sjwF9pMQVIhisdAPUqfdNjayzAm14aQZc4m39_VTH55DMeUwGi5PaID/s1600-h/malema-stupid.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443722425128011074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIQ9Rg4Fhg_JQGR0NpRoRTFNBEEqAT-AGY-FphCpZlTaDxCWM4i-fZr4dRTydNAdpZz-9QKzOjqQR-zyE2i6m30sjwF9pMQVIhisdAPUqfdNjayzAm14aQZc4m39_VTH55DMeUwGi5PaID/s400/malema-stupid.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" /></a>The City Press newspaper reported on Sunday that several multi-million rand bridges and roads in Limpopo, built by SGL Engineering Projects in which Malema has the majority shareholding, had been washed away within weeks of their completion.<br /><br />It reported that communities affected were demanding that authorities force the company to repair the infrastructure or take legal steps to recoup the money spent.<br /><br />City Press visited several SGL projects in the past week.<br /><br />"At Kgapane Township, about 120km east of Polokwane, only a portion of one of the two bridges constructed last year [is] still in place," the newspaper reported.<br /><br />"A bridge built at the township's Meloding Section is effectively a hill of soil covered with pavement. It has no concrete layers.<br /><br />"Residents said heavy rains in January swept it away just a few weeks after it was finished."</span> - <em>Sapa</em></span></p><p><em><span style="font-family:arial;color:#666666;">Read full story :-</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">Url -</span></em> <a href="http://www.citypress.co.za/Content/SouthAfrica/News/2168/39468c96d5f54d0da7ed5ef47d4416b4/28-02-2010-02-00/Juju%E2%80%99s_dodgy_R27m_bridges"><em><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">http://www.citypress.co.za/Content/SouthAfrica/News/2168/39468c96d5f54d0da7ed5ef47d4416b4/28-02-2010-02-00/Juju%E2%80%99s_dodgy_R27m_bridges</span></em></a><em><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">_</span></em></p>

Malema's dodgy R27m roads and bridges washed away

AT LEAST three of several multi-million-rand bridges and roads built by Julius Malema’s company in ­Limpopo were washed away within weeks of...

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