The Trayvon Martin story has taken on a race life of it's own

It's all about race now.....

From katu.com -- PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) - Seven black teens have been arrested on suspicion that they committed a hate crime when they attacked a 15-year-old Hispanic boy while he was walking home from school in Southern California, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office.

The March 14 beating in Palmdale was captured on video and posted on YouTube, but has since been removed from the site. The seven boys, ages 13 to 16, were arrested Wednesday for investigation of assault and committing a hate crime, Lt. Don Ford said.

The video shows as many as 10 boys surrounding the victim and challenging him to a fight. The suspects then began hitting the teen while others watched.

During the beating, the teens made racially derogatory statements that were captured on the video, Ford said.

After the victim fell to the ground, the assailants kicked him multiple times in the head, knocked out several teeth and left shoe impressions on his skin.

Who couldn't have predicted this given the way the media gleefully advanced the race angle to this story? If the police in Florida don't handle this correctly, there might be race attacks in every city in the US on suspected Hispanics and whites, by blacks. The media, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the black caucus in Congress aren't doing anything to prevent it. I think the guilty white media want a race war. How much fun would that story be to cover with phony, self-righteousness indignation?

Obama doesn't like the lottery

With the Mega-millions lottery reaching $560million, stupid people in droves are buying up tickets using money they should be spending on groceries, clothes, and health care. Obama thinks the lottery "targets" those who can least afford to buy tickets.....

From FoxNews -- In 2000, then State Senator Barack Obama slammed the Illinois lottery on a Chicago talk show as he felt it targeted "lower income" people who spent money they "don't necessarily have"

Obama cites “studies” that indicated more lottery tickets were sold “among working class folks” than in “well to do areas”…

Working class people are working class because they make decisions that keep them in the working class....such as wasting money on lottery tickets. Well to do people are well to do because they make decisions that make them wealthy....such as saving and investing money rather than wasting it on gambling.

Lotteries don't target people, people target themselves.

Supreme Court considers judicial activism?

The Obama-care law, as written, is 2,700 pages long and literally nobody important has read it, not the lawmakers who stupidly passed it and not the Supreme Court judges who're going to rule on it. The lynch-pin for the whole health care house of cards is the individual mandate, which is clearly unconstitutional. But the judges seem to be hinting that they might consider partially allowing other parts of the law to stand, having given weight to the consequences of striking it down.

Should the Supreme Court ever consider the consequences of their actions, or just rule up or down on the constitutionality of a law? Parsing the health care law is equal to the court deciding for itself what it thinks is good law and expands dramatically the role of the judicial branch in law making. In fact, the judicial branch has NO role in law making, only in ruling on the constitutionality of that law after it's passed.

Judicial activism is bad because it blurs the lines between the proper and respective roles of the three branches of government. Let's hope they decide to rule "Yea" or "Nay" on the entire health care law and let the chips fall where they may. That's how the Constitution was written.

January Jones consumed her placenta?

Did you know that Madmen star January Jones is an advocate of maternal consumption of the placenta(she had hers dried, ground into powder, and put into gelatin capsules), but many people eat the placenta as if it's any other meat in a dish.

Her rationale is that the placenta is rich in the hormone oxytocin which promotes bonding, milk production, and ameliorates postpartum depression. If she had stopped there, I'd have a little more respect for her ideas, but she also added that humans are the only mammals that don't eat their placentas. Here are a few of the comments I read about that......

-Thank you yahoo, for that lovely mental image. Does anyone want the rest of my burrito?

-Animals do it to eliminate the smell that might attract predators for god sake.
The only predators around hospitals are ambulance chasing lawyers.

-Animals do it to replace lost nutrients... people do it for attention or because they are idiots.

There is no doctor-supported evidence that consuming the placenta is beneficial, though nor is it harmful. My guess is it's just the popular thing to do among Hollywood weirdos, who let's face it, had the kid in the first place because it's a popular accessory in Hollywood right now. But I'll tell you this, if you're a new father, it changes the whole concept of, "Honey, make me a sandwich."

Spike Lee is an idiot

Race-centric Spike Lee re-tweeted the home address of George Zimmerman, the reason being obvious...to incite violence on the Zimmerman family from angry Floridians as a way to avenge the death of Trayvon Martin which they see as having been racially motivated, primarily because the media advanced the racist narrative from minute one and haven't deviated from it. It's too good a story to check.

The only problem is that Spike tweeted the wrong address and stupid Floridians hell-bent on revenge ended up terrorizing an elderly couple who have a son named George Zimmerman, but who is entirely unrelated to the shooter. They had to leave home and move into a motel. I wonder if good old Spike will apologize and pick up the motel bill....I'll be pleasantly surprised if he does. 

Justice Kennedy sums up the problem with Obama-care in this one statement

Justice Kennedy, known to be the swing vote on any Supreme Court rulings, had this refreshingly ominous statement regarding Obama-care....

From FoxNews -- And here the government is saying that the Federal Government has a duty to tell the individual citizen that it must act, and that is different from what we have in previous cases and that changes the relationship of the Federal Government to the individual in the very fundamental way.

Exactly! If the government can force you to buy health-care insurance for your own good, then it can force you to buy brussel sprouts for your own good; a cell phone for your own safety; or cable TV so you can get emergency alerts.

No amount of "public good" outweighs the awfulness of government being able to compel, under penalty of law, individuals to engage in commerce. The federal government cannot create by force, interstate commerce, just so they can regulate it. Let's hope this marks the beginning of the end of Obama-care.

Trayvon Martin gets the friendly media treatment, George Zimmerman, not so much

Want to know how the media slants the stories they report to reflect their preconceived narrative? Look no further than the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case. According to Glen Beck, these are the images the media decided to show us and other pictures of the same people without the benefit of a slanted media that already has it's conclusions....

The media narrative of a young black kid being targeted and viciously murdered by a racist half Jew half Hispanic was served perfectly as long as they could use the most innocent-looking picture of their victim and the most menacing picture of their murderer. Look at the other pictures....would you have had the same sympathetic reaction to the shooting if the media had shown you those pictures instead?

I wonder if Obama would claim the picture of Trayvon Martin on the left saying, "if I had a son, he'd look like that."? I seriously doubt it.

Muslim Brotherhood to receive money from US taxpayers

In a speech a while back, President Obama announced that if congress didn't sign off on his agenda, then his administration would just do it unilaterally. This difference between what congress wants and what Obama wants is no clearer than in Egypt where the radical Muslim Brotherhood has control of the country....evidently with the approval of Obama. Sec. State Clinton announced that the US would resume payments of $1.5billion of US taxpayer money each year to prop up the Egyptian military.

Even deranged democrats like Patrick Leahy see what a mistake it is to underwrite radical, violent Islamism. Human rights have never been worse in Egypt than now and chaos is still the order of the day. Why would we invest $1.5billion in a violent faction of Islam with a history of anti-western rhetoric? Obama consciously refuses to see radical Islam for what it is, the enemy of America.

Automatons for Obama

In Virginia an 8th grade teacher forced his students to conduct opposition research on republican candidates, looking for weaknesses and political vulnerabilities, and forward their reports to the Obama campaign. No such assignment was made for Obama.

Vladimir Lenin said, "Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever."

For statism to succeed, the statists must have control of primary education. That's the way they indoctrinate children to believe in no power higher than government and that government is the answer to all of society's ills. The NEA is in obedient lockstep with the Obama administration's intent to create millions of democrat, automaton voters of the future to guarantee democrats stay in power.

The liberal brainwashing of kids and the compulsory idolatry of Obama in government indoctrination centers is as sickening as it is predictable, knowing what we know about progressives' government-first agenda.

Somebody find a deprogrammer, quick!

H/T to Moonbattery for the pic.

Obama, no foreign-policy wizard he

I realize there is probably more American history in this one post than you probably had in your entire government-high school career, but here are 5 of the top foreign policy doctrines in recent American history:

*The Monroe Doctrine which states that any attempt by a foreign government to control the affairs of a nation that the US recognizes as independent will be taken as action against the US herself. It was intended to, and it did seriously crimp England's practice of imperialism.

*The Truman Doctrine, also known as "the doctrine of containment", described the practice of assisting with money, equipment, and military force, any country that was struggling against communism.

*The Carter Doctrine stated that any attempt by a nation to prevent the free commercial movement of oil by consolidating control of the Persian Gulf, specifically by the Soviet Union, would be seen as directly hostile to the US and would be met with whatever was necessary, including military means. The Persian Gulf remains free today.

*The Reagan Doctrine was an overt extension of the Truman Doctrine, by which we aided not only nations but rebel forces who fought communism. The Reagan Doctrine partially led to the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall.

*The Bush Doctrine which was in direct response to 9/11. It stated basically that any country who harbors or sponsors terrorist activity will be treated like the terrorists themselves. It was our public warning to the world that we will prevent another terrorist attack by rooting out the terrorists where they are now, no matter what country harbors them. We won't wait to be attacked again.

You might be wondering where The Obama Doctrine is on this list. Well, the unintended consequences of the Obama Doctrine are so embarrassing, you're not likely to find it in any text books any time soon. They call it The R2P Doctrine which stands for "Responsibility to Protect". Essentially it explains our policy in the recent Arab-Spring uprisings. Always take the side of the put-upon civilians against their oppressive government. Citizens who we naively believe will organize after we topple their government and form a US-friendly democracy. Obama stated it specifically as our reason for intervening in Libya: "we have a responsibility to protect the citizens" he said.

We hoped for that in Algeria, Egypt, and Libya and we're hoping for it in Syria and possibly Iran, but what has happened where governments were toppled with or without our help? In Algeria, Egypt, and Libya something far worse is happening...chaos, violence, tribalism, and disorganization. The weapons and refugees are flowing into neighboring countries threatening to destabilize them too. Thanks to Obama's R2P doctrine, North Africa and the larger middle east is far more unstable and likely to get worse than it was before we "helped". This is why you won't see the administration or the media recognizing the 1-year anniversary of our intervention in Egypt and Libya.....it failed utterly and made the US look weak, inept, and uninsightful that we didn't see this eventuality.