THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Victor Davis Hanson on the promise of November, specifically about high-debt California but also about the rest of us:

“Give Obama some credit. He has framed the 2012 election as a conflict of visions unlike any of our time. It’s our choice now, no excuses, no one left to blame. Change is coming, and with it, hope. This week I saw a ray of sunshine amid the clouds.”

Or, we can let the obvious lies of welfare-state multiculturalism and diversity endure and re-elect the author of this government-induced depression for more of the same. In which case we will deserve every bit of suffering we get.

Robert McCall was the dean of American space artists and his painting of a proposed moon base (for the 1960s Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey) still haunts my dreams.

It might have come true but for the wasted billions spent on the stupid Democrat (JFK & LBJ) war in Viet Nam. Now with Uncle Barry focused on enlarging the welfare state, it’s unlikely. Unless private companies find a compelling way to make money at it, perhaps through minerals mining.

Fortunately, there’s still time for it to happen, of course, even if it’s long after I’m gone and it turns out to be made-in-China.

This time it wasn’t on behalf of an insulted white woman, but for the alleged murder of “the son President Obama never had.” Well, the plump-cheeked 13-year-old in the old photo the media loved, not the gold-grill, petty-thief, new thug version.

And the black man? That would be George Zimmerman, recently vindicated by the evidence: his bloody nose and bloody head from the beating Trayvon gave him before GZ shot his attacker.

GZ’s grandmother was black, you see, making him, as any student of modern identity politics and affirmative action could tell you, part black. Hardly the “white” Hispanic the NYTimes so disingenuously dubbed him to keep up the drumbeat of hate.

And the lynching of the headline? A media and race-baiter lynching, courtesy of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee, etc. The usual suspects, in other words, spouting off before the details were available. The real questions are why were these details suppressed for so long, and why was Zimmerman indicted, for profiling, which is not a crime? Except, duh, I think we can all figure it out.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  So is the MSM reporting the new facts? Get back. They are butt covering like crazy.

“So, the Save Bill Powers [Facebook] page was essentially a ghost town, and essentially the entirety of the social media operation to that point was astro-turfed by a P.R. firm.”

All in reaction to Gov. Rick Perry’s attempt to lower tuition at the state’s flagship U of Texas which has climbed 23 percent in four years under president Bill Powers while academic standing [44th according to U.S. News] has declined.

Granted, Perry is an arch-rival Aggie, but, really now, teasippers. It’s elementary. If you’re going to cheat, try not to get caught, okay?

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Perry wants a $10,000 bachelors degree for Texas residents versus the $10,000 per year UT seems to be headed for at the moment.

This meme of Obamaloot bites dog is becoming a trend, at least among conservative and libertarian bloggers. It is funny, I think, though it always reminds me of my little tour in the Southeast Asian War Games in 1969.

American military advisors (as I was to the South Vietnamese light-infantry militia) had to spend at least one day a month (sometimes weekly) having lunch or supper with a hamlet or village chief—who invariably served us dog or cat meat. They would have preferred monkey, and some actually apologized for not having any monkey meat to serve, but dog and cat was the rule.

I knowingly ate dog and cat and probably unknowingly ate rat, since fat rats were ubiquitous in the villages and hamlets (even in the rice paddies) and dogs and cats, even skinny ones, were seldom seen. At least in the countryside southwest of Da Nang, where I was. But no one ever admitted to serving rat and so I can’t be sure.

And, no, dog and cat meat does not taste like chicken.

Via Treacher.

Criticizing Obamaloot for the passing remark that Americans are “fighting on my behalf” seems misguided to me. Totally unnecessary, considering all the non-controversial criticizing that could be launched his way.

As far as I can see, the American military has been “fighting on [the president's] behalf” since the dawn of the Republic whose Constitution made presidents commanders-in-chief of the military.

Especially since presidents began taking the military to war without a declaration from the Congress. If we don’t like it (and I certainly don’t) then we need to change it. In the meantime, the troops clearly are fighting on a president’s behalf. Get used to it.

Finally…. After forty-one years of President Nixon’s War On Drugs, a group of mothers has organized—just as women did to help end Prohibition.

Their children have been imprisoned (or legally murdered) for nonviolent drug offenses and these California women want the political, social and law enforcement madness to finally stop.

MomsUnited: To End The War On Drugs

“It hasn’t saved anybody, it hasn’t changed anything, it’s created chaos in neighborhoods and shootings, it’s stupid….”

Amen. Happy Mother’s Day.

Let’s get something straight, all you leftie boys and girls. Inconvenient as it may be to Democrat socialists like yourself, Uncle Barry, Aunt Hillary and their cronies, history is history. You can only twist it so far to suit your own fantasies. So calling their free-market conservative and libertarian opponents fascists and Nazis is, at best, ignorant.

Adolph Hitler’s political party, which carried him to power, was called the National Socialist German Workers Party. Yep. These soak-the-rich, anti-business, anti-capitalist Nazis created social health & welfare programs for all Germans considered to be good Aryans. It was an early, racist version of Obamacare.

German Jews, of course, were excluded, along with other such undesirables as gypsies and homosexuals—except, uh, for the homosexuals of the Nazi Party who were smart enough to keep it to themselves, in a sort of early version of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

So when you Democrat socialists (but I repeat myself) insist the Nazis were nasty right-wing conservatives, I don’t merely swoon at your stupidity, I point you to this page at Wikipedia, or this humorous blogger’s post, or, best of all, to buy and read this bestselling book, all of which summarize the shocking truth rather neatly.

Mittens was a mean and naughty high school student who tormented gays and women? Back in 1965? Well, he is a white male heterosexual, so what can you expect?

This American newspaper journalism is powerful stuff. Thank goodness the WaPo is there in the backfield of the eunuch court media to help get Uncle Barry re-elected, even if he and his Democrat socialist pals have (only temporarily, mind you) screwed up the economy.

So don’t look behind the curtain of this superb piece of reportage (a Pullet Surprise winner if there ever was one) when the naysayers include Romney’s alleged victim. Must be brainwashed, or bought off. Has to be.

And certainly not this major source who claims he was misquoted.

We will not be fooled. Not us. No siree. Forward, into ever-higher unemployment!

UPDATE:  The rest of the WaPo’s political hit-piece also seems to be imploding. But it’s only an illusion. Avert your eyes.