How can you help the dear leader today?

Theres something creepy and servile and principally un-American about the fact that their is a book sold at every Barnes & Nobles & Borders entitled, "50 ways you can help Obama". They also have a gizzalion Obama personality cult merchandice (the little blue book of "the Ones" masterful qoutes like: "There is no red state America or blue state America, there is only the United States of America!"). This is something you find in North Korea, little kids being tested on what they can do for the dear leader.

You Can't Say That!: A Lesson In Crime-Speak

I picked up a liberal little book called, "They Said What?" by Jim Hunt, which the editor of The Progressive, Matthew Rothschild, describes as "a compendium of reactionary statements by American officials. Outragous in content, pitchy in style, the quotations reveal the long history of jingoism, racism, exism, and elitism that so mars our country. You want the evidence? Here it is." on the back cover.
Well, anyhow it's a collection, mostly, of quotes from Woodrow Wilson and TR era type politicians identifying difficult, impolite, un-PC truths about race, gender, intelligence, culture, and the like. Hunt makes use of the changing mores surrounding the word "negro". Many quotes within the small book would be prefectly unremarkable if you merely replace the word black with "negro". They are saying all the crucial difficult things that we are not allowed to say today thanks to the likes of Mr. Hunt and are dying as a nation because of it. For instance, coincedentally, the first quote i flipped the book open to see was the following quote from Woodrow Wilson's Secterary of State, Robert Lansing discussing a subject that has boomranged its way back into the forefront of American news media: Hiati and why the Dominican Republic is so much richer than it.

"It is well to distinguish at once between the Dominicans and the Haitians. the former, while in many ways not advanced far enough for the highest type of self goverment, yet have a preponderance of white blood and culture. The Haitians on the other hand are Negro for the most part, and, barring a very few highly educated politicians, are almost in a state of savagery and complete ignorance."

- Sectetary of State Robert Lansing, 1917.

The funny thing is that just 2 weeks ago when Haiti went nuts, i read Jared Diamond, PC as one can be, gently pointing out the exact same point Lansing points out here almost a 100 years ago about why Haiti is so poor and the Dominican Republic is so much richer and well off (cause Haiti has hardly any white blood).

Why was Lansing discussing this recently resurgent subject of the root of Haitian poverty? Because as alarmingly few people have pointed out since the Haiti earthquake America has occupied Haiti before for as long as 15 years. Woodrow Wilson got the Marines into Haiti in 1915 and they quickly came to the conclusion about Haiti (that its virtually helpless under black rule and would do better back under a French protectorate).

This is 1984 the nation we live in today, in which pointing out such things is simply against the social law.

Books Acquired Recently

1. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard Feynman
2.Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
3. The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons
4. Have You Seen My Country Lately? by Jerry Doyle
5. Captilism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
6. Kipling: Everyman's Poetry Collection
7. How to talk about Books you haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
8. Anti-Illectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
9. Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
10. The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
11. Bright Star by John Keats
12. Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings
13.Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper Jr.
14. Samuel Johnson by Peter Martin
15. American Orginal:The Life and Constuition of Sumpreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by Joan Biskupic
16. Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War by Carlo D'este
17 "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" by Ralph Nader
18. Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
19. Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
20. Snoop by Sam Gosling
21. Albion's Seed: Four Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer
22. Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
23. American Nervousness by George Miller Beard
24. The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard
25. My Dark Places by James Ellroy
26. On Classical Economics by Thomas Sowell
27. The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell
28. Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
29. Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell
30. The Housing Boom & Bust by Thomas Sowell
31. A Man of Letters by Thomas Sowell
32. The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
33. On The Wealth of Nations by P.J. O'Rourke
34. The Six Pillars of Self Esteem by Nathiniel Branden
35. The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A.E. Housman
36. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
37. Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
38. Avoid Boring People by James D. Watson
39. Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
40. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
41. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
42. Anthem by Ayn Rand
43. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns
44. Ayn Rand and the World she made by Anne C. Heller
45. The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
46. Philosphy: Who Needs It? by Ayn Rand
47. For the New Intellectuals by Ayn Rand
48. Ayn Rand Answers by Ayn Rand
49. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini
50. "They Have Killed Papa Dead!" by Anthony S. Pitch
51. The Broken Compass by Peter Hitchens
52. Encounters by Paul Gottfried
53. A Country of Vast Designs by Robert W. Merry
54. History of the United States: 1801-1809 by Henry Adams
55. TR: The Last Romantic by H.W. Brands
56. Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor & Saul Singer
57. A Time to Speak by Robert Bork
58. Booknotes by Brian Lamb
59. The Quatable Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge
60. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge
61. Ex-America by Garet Garret
62. The American Civil War by John Keegan
63. A Patriotic History of the United States by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen
64. The Oxford History of The United States by Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison
65.The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Liberal Order by Steven F. Hayward
66. The Age of Reagan: The Conservative CounterRevoultion by Steven F. Hayward
67. Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood
68. We Are Doomed by John Derbyshire
69. Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson by David S. Reynolds
70. The Conservatives by Patrick Allit
71. Founding Brothers by Joesph Ellis
72. What Hath God Wrought?: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
73. What Would the Founders Do? by Richard Brookheiser
74. 33 Questions about American History you're not supposed to ask by Thomas Woods
75. What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
76. Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
77. His Excellency: George Washington by Joesph J. Ellis
78. The Conservative Mind: from Burke to Eliot by Russel Kirk
79. The Almanac of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
80. Forge of Empire by Micheal Knox Beran
81. A Conservative History of the American Left by Daniel J. Flynn
82. The Education of Henry Adams by Donald Hall
83. Who Killed the Constuitition? by Thomas Woods
84. Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookheiser
85. "I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next To A Republican" by Harry Stein
86. Revoultionary Charcters by Gordon S. Wood
87. The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowel
88. A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
89. The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
90. Dutch by Edmund Wilson
91. Titan by Ron Chernow
92. Star Money by Kathleen Winsor
(and more to come.....)

Anybody got Jesse's number?

Jesse Jackson, the 5 time winner of the cat fish-look-alike award (awarded by me annually ever since my sister let me in on the fact that Jackson looks like a catfish) should write a book called, "The Art of Being Offended"

If Jesse's to busy extorting Toyota or whomever it is these days, then i'm sure Al Sharpton or Illinois Rep. Luis Guiterez (the slimy author of the new amnesty bill) or any body working at the Southern Poverty Law Center, CAIR, LA RAZA, the ACLU, the NAACP or MediaMatters.com can write this potential best-seller which i foresee as trailblazing a new sub-genre in self help racial grievance-mongering.

They publish dozens of how to get rich quick books a year, but why not a "Getting your slice of Social Justice, now!: How to get rich suing for Discrimination". That could be written by the shameless black guy who sued the New Haven fire department after the Ricci ruling cause no blacks passed the test (which was checked twice and shown to not be "culturally bias" each time) and Frank Ricci received the promotion to Captain he earned. Whatever happened with that lawsuite?

And finally, who shall write "White Guilt: How to make it pay (on that pink slip day)"?

If there where alot of afro-centric bookstores i think "The Art of Taking Offense" could actually sell, seriously.