Sunday, April 26, 2009

Profile in Cowardice

Local "librarian" and Olmsted County DFL Party "director" Frank W. Hawthorne feigns courage as he derides those who choose to post anonymously at the Rochester Post-Bulletin online comment pages. It also seems he has become somewhat of a cyber mouth piece for the local DFL as of late. Hawthorne, a pious and self-important liberal (Is there any other kind?) posts under his own name and visage, which is his choice. We are not all as good-looking and fashionable (gotta love those sweater vests he wears year round) as Frank, so it is understandable that not everyone would do the same.
Besides, we all know how intolerant, hateful and vindictive liberals are. Several of the more conservative online posters have expressed concern that if their identities are known, they may face retaliation for their opinions in the form of vandalism or character assassination in the community. Since my identity is known (I post under "paleocon"), I have experienced some of the liberal ire. A couple of years ago, one of these courageous liberals copied and pasted my online comments to paper, put them in a manilla envelope and slid it under the door of the Human Resources department at RCTC after hours. If you guessed it that that courageous act was done anonymously, you know liberals quite well.

The picture above and the inset below are a display of Frank's peculiar brand of liberal courage. Last year, Congressman Tim Walz's yellow (brown would have been more fitting) shirts thought it civil, courageous and appropriate to heckle then First District Congressional Candidate Brian Davis during the Rochesterfest parade. When I showed up with my camera to document their asinine and intolerant behavior, they were understandably reluctant to resume it. Granted, these are interns in their late teens or early twenties. I may put their behavior in the context of the stupidity of youth, not as a justification, but as an explanation, though young Republicans do not seem to behave that way in public.





What surprised me was to see Frank Hawthorne as a part of the group. In retrospect, I shouldn't have been. Hawthorne was wearing a red Tina Liebling shirt (a LIEbrarian supporting Tina LIEbling, how appropriate). Unlike Tim Walz's young hecklers, Frank and his female companion chose to hide their faces, which hardly demonstrates any courage of their liberal convictions. What was Frank hiding from? Certainly not his own shameful behavior. Regardless, whenever you read Frank howling about how cowardly the anonymous posters over at the P-B online comment line supposedly are, remember to mention the Rochesterfest parade incident last year when Frank Hawthorne hid his shameful behavior behind kids. Courageous indeed.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Chicken Feed: Obama's $100 Million "Proposed" Budget Cuts

Could it be? Reporters asking tough questions of the Obama Administration Propaganda Minister Robert Gibbs? Say it ain't so!



Update: A good businessman friend tells me that $100 million is 0.0029% of the federal budget. Heck of a job, Obama!

Beautiful. Inside and Out. Miss California Carrie Prejean Sticks to Her Christian Principles

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Carrie Prejean exemplified grace and principle under fire when she expressed her belief that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman in response to a politically charged questions from one of the judges in the Miss USA pageant last night.

The judge, openly gay "celebrity" blogger Perez Hilton, asked if other states should follow Vermont's lead and legalize "same sex marriage." Most people in Prejean's position would have given either a noncommittal answer such as "I believe states should decide on their own" or the politically "correct" reply that it is a matter of equal rights and that homosexual marriage should be legalized across the board.

Instead of lending herself to the furtherance of a key liberal agenda item, however, Prejean chose to cling to her faith principles. What the judge hoped to turn into a platform for his sexual preference instead became a display of Christian character and moral clarity.

God bless you, Carrie! Your example shines bright.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Bush, McCain Warned Dems of Financial and Housing Crisis ... in 2005!

Watch liberal U.S. Rep Bwayney Fwank (D-MA) say that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were fundamentally sound financially and there was no need to regulate them. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued a statement in 2005 affirming that over the years Fannie and Freddie "have done a good job and are an intrinsic part of making America the best-housed people in the world."

These two fools ignored the warning signs and admonitions of the Bush administration in order to keep their Fannie/Freddie campaign piggy bank afloat and now America reaps the whirlwind.

Move over Bernie Madoff and make room for a couple more cell mates.


Friday, April 17, 2009

Enough Said



Obama, Venezuela's Chavez shake hands at summit

PORT OF SPAIN, April 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday greeted and shook hands with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during an impromptu meeting with the anti-U.S. leader at the Summit of the Americas.

Photographs released by the Venezuelan government showed Chavez, a fierce foe of former President George W. Bush, smiling and clasping hands with Obama at the start of the summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in Trinidad.

It's like watching a suicide.

Friday, April 03, 2009


“I will not let anyone tell me that we must spend more money...We must look at the causes of this crisis. It happened because we were living beyond our means...We cannot repeat this mistake.”


German Chancellor Angela Merkel