Sunday, December 26, 2010

Kan't Believe Its Kwanzaa



For the fourth year in a row Central Iowa is seeing a white Kwanzaa.







Oddly, it doesn't look like the White House has included Kwanzaa in its Holidays at the White House.

This year's Kwanzaa theme is "Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba: An Ethics of Sharing Good in the World"

Keeping with that theme, the Liter is proud to share (and the scientific community is united in that fact) its annual Kwanzaa Klassic!

So this is Kwanzaa




















With apologies to the "Twelve Days of Christmas".

"Seven days of a made up Holiday"

On the first day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Umoja(Unity), as in his group United Slaves.

On the second day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Kujichagulia(Self Determination), as in two dead Black Panthers killed by United Slaves.

On the third day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), as in the time Karenga served for the torture of women members of United Slaves.

On the fourth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), as in the commercialization of a phony holiday.

On the fifth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Nia (Purpose), as in the words of Al Sharpton, "De-Whitizing" Christmas. It's put there so the brotha's would par-tay.

On the sixth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Kuumba (Creativity), as in the seven headed hydra symbol of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

On the seventh day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Imani (Faith), as in "People think it's African, but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American...". a 1978 Washington Post quote from Ron Everett now known as Maulana Karenga.


HAPPY KWANZAA!

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Kwanzaa Daze















Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful...OOPS, that's Gilligan's Island.

Which, just like Kwanzaa, was made up and the scientific community is united in that fact



The Weather Wienies have worked it out so we may experience another White Kwanzaa.

Would a Kwanzaa coloring book be considered racist?

This year's Kwanzaa theme is Celebrating and Living Kwanzaa: Sowing and Harvesting Seeds of Good

With that in mind, we're harvesting a seed we first sowed back in 2006.

So this is Kwanzaa


















With apologies to the "Twelve Days of Christmas".

"Seven days of a made up Holiday"

On the first day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Umoja(Unity), as in his group United Slaves.

On the second day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Kujichagulia(Self Determination), as in two dead Black Panthers killed by United Slaves.

On the third day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), as in the time Karenga served for the torture of women members of United Slaves.

On the fourth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), as in the commercialization of a phony holiday.

On the fifth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Nia (Purpose), as in the words of Al Sharpton, "De-Whitizing" Christmas. It's put there so the brotha's would par-tay.

On the sixth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Kuumba (Creativity), as in the seven headed hydra symbol of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

On the seventh day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Imani (Faith), as in "People think it's African, but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American...". a 1978 Washington Post quote from Ron Everett now known as Maulana Karenga.


HAPPY KWANZAA!

Friday, December 26, 2008

A Kwanzaa Klassic

This year's theme from their official web site...

"Kwanzaa and the Seven Principles :
Repairing and Renewing the World"


That certainly sounds Obama-esque and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Enjoy my annual Kwanzaa Klassic!

Can one dream of a white Kwanzaa?

So this is Kwanzaa




















With apologies to the "Twelve Days of Christmas".

"Seven days of a made up Holiday"

On the first day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Umoja(Unity), as in his group United Slaves.

On the second day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Kujichagulia(Self Determination), as in two dead Black Panthers killed by United Slaves.

On the third day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), as in the time Karenga served for the torture of women members of United Slaves.

On the fourth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), as in the commercialization of a phony holiday.

On the fifth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Nia (Purpose), as in the words of Al Sharpton, "De-Whitizing" Christmas. It's put there so the brotha's would par-tay.

On the sixth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Kuumba (Creativity), as in the seven headed hydra symbol of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

On the seventh day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Imani (Faith), as in "People think it's African, but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American...". a 1978 Washington Post quote from Ron Everett now known as Maulana Karenga.


HAPPY KWANZAA!

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Can one dream of a white Kwanzaa?

In honor (?) of Kwanzaa, which doesn't seem to be getting the press this year, (Thank goodness and the scientific community is united in that fact).

This year's theme from their official web site...

"Kwanzaa and the Seven Principles :
Willing the Well-Being of the World"



Here's my holiday rerun...


So this is Kwanzaa




















With apologies to the "Twelve Days of Christmas".

"Seven days of a made up Holiday"

On the first day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Umoja(Unity), as in his group United Slaves.

On the second day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Kujichagulia(Self Determination), as in two dead Black Panthers killed by United Slaves.

On the third day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), as in the time Karenga served for the torture of women members of United Slaves.

On the fourth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), as in the commercialization of a phony holiday.

On the fifth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Nia (Purpose), as in the words of Al Sharpton, "De-Whitizing" Christmas. It's put there so the brotha's would par-tay.

On the sixth day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Kuumba (Creativity), as in the seven headed hydra symbol of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

On the seventh day of Kwanzaa, Founder Ron Karenga gave to me...

Imani (Faith), as in "People think it's African, but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American...". a 1978 Washington Post quote from Ron Everett now known as Maulana Karenga.


HAPPY KWANZAA!

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Tater Salad


I gotta go with Ron "Tater Salad" White on this one.

An Arizona psychiatrist Tuesday described railway killer Angel Maturino Resendiz as a violently psychotic man whose diseased brain sent him on a cross-country killing spree, led him to fear wild government conspiracies and now makes him think he will survive execution.

Maturino Resendiz, thought to have killed as many as 14 people, is scheduled for execution June 27.

The psychiatrist believes he is not competent to be executed because he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

Ron White: "If he doesn't know we're killing him and it makes me feel better..."

Monday, October 01, 2007

SCOTUS























It's the first Monday in October and the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) begins its term today.

Large issue to be decided include...

The legal rights of Guantanamo detainees, the constitutionality of lethal injections for executions, photo identification cards for voters.

I have trouble understanding the fiberal mindset that has a burning desire to support a bunch of scum that want us all dead.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Especially in lieu of the fact that...

at least 30 former detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release.

In July...

An analysis of 516 Guantanamo detainees (that is now down to 330) found...95 per cent were a potential threat to US interests. This was based on their affiliations with groups such as al-Qaeda, their enthusiasm for violent jihad, their having undertaken small-arms training or having been willing to perform a support role for terrorism.

Nice guys!

I'm with Texas on lethal injection and Ron White on the death penalty...

(I'm doing this from memory)

We have a policy in Texas, if you kill someone we will kill you back.

If more than three credible witnesses saw you commit the crime, you don't spend years on death row. You move to the front of the line. While other states are trying to abolish the death penalty, mine's putting in an express lane.

Why is it that some doctors won't perform this function sanctioned by the state, but have no trouble performing euthanasia or abortion?

It's more cruel to terminate the life of someone who's killed others, but not the innocent unborn?

I'll never understand the fiberals who argue against ensuring that our elections are free from voter fraud, with I.D. laws, by ensuring that only eligible voters are voting.

One of their arguments is that there is no proof fraud has been committed, yet on the other hand they have filed suit to stop paperless balloting on the theory that it could lead to a fraudulent outcome.

HUH?!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The NRA called


The call came from (703) 398-0839 during Monday Night Football, at 8:41p.m. (in the evening) to be precise.

When the automated dialer kicked it over to a live person, the caller asked for me.

The caller then preceded to ask me when the last time I was able to get out and enjoy shooting a gun.

My one word response was, "Never".

The caller then wanted to know if I owned any guns and my response was again in the negative.

At that point the stunned caller told me to have a good evening and the call ended.

I'm sure a Conservative who doesn't own guns, or has ever shot one is stunning.

I have nothing against the N.R.A., it's just not me and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I remember getting chills when Charlton Heston uttered his, "From my cold, dead hands" speech.

I'm from the Ron White school of hunting.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Oh no he didn't!


Here's more from Iowa Dummycrat Bruce Braley's questioning of Roger Clemens...

Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa): Have you ever been a vegan?
Roger Clemens: A what?
Braley: A vegan.
Clemens: I dunno what that is.

Where was Dennis KOOKcinich when you needed him, he sits on that committee.

I'm from the Ron White school regarding vegan's...

"I didn't climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots".

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Monday, April 06, 2009

Freedom From The Press


It's a good thing Richard Doak is retired from the Ragister, because Gannett just might have permanently furloughed him for comments in this editorial...

Newspapers matter, for democracy's sake

Newspaper corporations have been paying their CEOs millions of dollars a year. These corporate chieftains have only one job, really - to develop the new business model and guide their operating units through the transition to a new era of success.

The CEOs simply haven't earned their pay. Amid bankruptcies, closings and shrinking news staffs, the industry is no closer to a successful new model than it was five years ago.

If the big newspaper corporations can't reinvent their product, perhaps it's time to break them up.

I've met Dick Doak a couple of times and he is genuinely a nice person, so I hope he was able to pull his pension & 401K away from Gannett's control.

I used to love the Ragister, Chris and I once made a drive to Kansas City fly by with my ideas on how they could fix it.

That was 20 years ago, now I say (with apologies to Ron White) take it down I don't give a shit and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Stunningly Michael Kinsley seems to agree...

Life After Newspapers

If General Motors goes under, there will still be cars. And if the New York Times disappears, there will still be news.

FYI Dick, the First Ammendment established freedom of the press, not newspapers.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Syntax?


"Wait a minute now, I didn't authorize any ATTACKS on the pirates...I authorized A TAX on the pirates".

That's certainly more inline with Obama's way of thinking and the scientific community is united in that fact.

From my friend Cal, Freedom's pal.

It reminds me of a Ron White bit..

"If I knew the difference between anecdote and antidote, my friend Bob Schneider would be alive today. He got bit by a copperhead and I'm reading him humorous stories out of Reader's Digest."

Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Stupid

According to Ron White -- You can't fix stupid and stupid is forever.

I typed that to type this --

US adults are dumber than the average human

I'm not sure why they wasted money on a study, because to paraphrase our friend Cal (Freedom's pal), I would have thought it self evident after the election and reelection of Barack Obama.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

  

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

A day without illegals, is like...

M&M's in the jowls of a bulldog, "It's gonna be a good day tater". My apologies to Ron White. It has its plusses per Representative Tom Tancredo, (R) Colorado. For an article in National Review Online, Tancredo states...

Hospital emergency rooms across the southwest would have about 20-percent fewer patients, and there would be 183,000 fewer people in Colorado without health insurance.

OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24-percent fewer deliveries and Los Angeles’s maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40 percent and maternity billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66 percent.

Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50 percent in many states, and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34 percent and auto theft by 40 percent.

In Durango, Colorado, and the Four Corners area, the methamphetamine epidemic would slow for one day, as the 90 percent of that drug now being brought in from Mexico was held in Albuquerque and Farmington a few hours longer. According to the sheriff of La Plata County, Colorado, meth is now being brought in by ordinary illegal aliens as well as professional drug dealers.

Colorado taxpayers would save almost $3,000,000 in one day if illegals do not access any public services, because illegal aliens cost the state over $1 billion annually according to the best estimates.

Colorado’s jails and prisons would have 10-percent fewer inmates, and Denver and many other towns would not need to build so many new jails to accommodate the overcrowding.

Our highway patrol and county sheriffs would have about far fewer DUI arrests and there would be a dramatic decline in rollovers of vanloads of illegal aliens on I-70 and other highways...

Sounds like statistics Representative Steve King, (R) Iowa, was skewered for by the Ragister last Thursday. According to King, if there were no "illegal invaders...there would be no one to smuggle across our border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States. . . . The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. . . . Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded. . . . Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime." King called the May 1st boycott, "Nothing Gringo Day" and "Bite The Hand That Feeds You Day." Actually the May Day celebration in Mexico was called, "A Day Without Gringos." There boycotts against U.S. goods and companies were endorsed by government officials. Mexico's restive union movement, which traditionally holds rallies on May 1, dedicated this year's march to the legalization of undocumented workers in the United States and President Vicente Fox called for a migration accord that would legalize the millions of undocumented Mexican workers living in the United States. Undocumented? I don't think so! These people purchase fake licenses and social security cards. Which is illegal, I do believe! The Associated Press ran a couple of interesting quotes, "We are the backbone of what America is, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter, said Melanie Lugo, who joined a rally in Denver. HUH? Let me say that again backwards....HUH? Then there's this gem, "I want my children to know their mother is not a criminal," said Benita Olmedo, a nanny who came here illegally in 1986 from Mexico...Seems to me illegal actions would make one a criminal. The A.P. also noted, "In Chicago, illegal immigrants from Ireland and Poland marched alongside Hispanics". I don't care where they're from if they're ILLEGAL! My Italian grandfather migrated to this country and became a legal citizen, even learning the English language! I did find it interesting that WHO TV13 had a news story stating that Victoria Cleaners could not offer their usual same day service because of workers who took part in the boycott. The taped piece showed workers of Southeast Asian heritage toiling away pressing clothes. The owner stated they were offered the day off too, but chose to work. Isn't that ironic! I'm going to take a silly, wild ass guess and say they're LEGAL immigrants! CNN's Lou Dobbs weighed in with this....It is no accident that they chose May 1 as their day of demonstration and boycott. It is the worldwide day of commemorative demonstrations by various socialist, communist, and even anarchic organizations. Dobbs noted, "that ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) has become an active promoter of the national boycott." Even those among the left admit that ANSWER is a Marxist organization. Dobbs also took on meat-packing companies like Cargill and Tyson who closed many of their plants."The meat packers are confirming what we know," says University of Maryland economics professor Peter Morici, "and that is that this large group of illegal aliens in the United States is lowering the wage rate of semiskilled workers, people who are high school dropouts or high school graduates with minimal training."In fact, a meat-packing job paid $19 an hour in 1980, but today that same job pays closer to $9 an hour, according to the Labor Department. That's entirely consistent with what we've been reporting -- that illegal aliens depress wages for U.S. workers by as much as $200 billion a year in addition to placing a tremendous burden on hospitals, schools and other social services...Looks like I need to get back to buying my beef from my friend T.J. He has a small family owned business butcher his cattle. I feel good having done my part to derail the boycott by spending my money, but I'm only one Gringo!

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Dean's The Scream

I got this from the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal

Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, stopped by the offices of the liberal American Prospect for lunch last week, and according to the Propsect's Tapped blog, Salon's Walter Shaprio had this exchange with him:

Shapiro: Governor, from where you sit, is the fact that there will be two caucuses between the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary a done deal, or is this still open for negotiation, as to whether there will be caucuses and/or whether New Hampshire will have its traditional unmolested Iowa/New Hampshire role in American history?

Dean: We don't molest anybody. We leave that to the deputy press secretary of the Homeland Security agency.

Dean's reference is to Brian Doyle, who was arrested this month for allegedly sending sexually explicit emails to a "14-year-old girl" who was actually a police detective. Blogger Kevin Aylward notes that this case has gotten lots of attention from liberal bloggers, "heaping generous portions of blame on the Bush administration."

But it turns out, also according to Aylward, that Doyle is a career civil servant and a registered Democrat! Dean's little joke is not only tasteless but is at the expense of his own party.

I still have the visual of Iowa's own CommieTommie Harkin standing behind Dean caucus night 2004, when Howard let her rip...HEYAWWWWWWWWW! As Ron White would say; He had the right to remain silent, but he didn't have the ability!

Friday, February 21, 2014

You Said

Most weekday mornings I tune the TV into the Mike & Mike radio show on ESPN2.

This morning the two Mike's, Greeny & Golic, were going on about how Golic had jinxed the U.S. Women's Hockey team by prematurely tweeting they were winning gold against Canada, they didn't, and how Golic shouldn't do the same to the Men's team.

Greeny went so far as to say an "anecdote" was needed to counteract Golic's jinx.

Which made me think of a bit by Ron "Tator Salad" White -- "If I knew the difference between anecdote and antidote, my friend Bob Schneider would be alive today. He got bit by a copperhead and I'm reading him humorous stories out of Reader's Digest."

Greeny also is known to "unquote" a quote.

You can't unquote a quote and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Mike "Greeny" Greenberg is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

They must be so proud.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

For Tater


One of Chris' favorite comedians, Ron "Tater Salad" White, is coming to Tama next month.

So here's a story he would appreciate.

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who is a vegan, has been hospitalized with "severe" effects of apparent food poisoning.

Your system's kickin' back broth?

You're a manly man.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.