Brutally Honest

How big a liar is Joe Biden?

Pretty damned huge.  In the following video he claims that Planned Parenthood, under law, can't perform abortions:

Yet from Planned Parenthood's own website:

Abortions are available at many Planned Parenthood health centers, clinics, and the offices of private health care providers. Use our health center locator to find the nearest Planned Parenthood health center that offers abortion services. If there is not a health center nearby that provides the abortion services you need, call your nearest center for a list of referrals.

H/T to Lex Communis who reminds us:

Just remember, this emotionally unstable buffoon is only a heartbeat away from the nuclear missile launch codes.

"I pledge allegiance to the Orgasm, of the disordered states of America"

Frank Weathers is righteously writing about the culture's obsession with sex:

All the blather about birth-control being a means to stop poverty, space births, and help folks live within their means as responsible parents, etc., etc.? Complete bunk.

What we’ve seemingly decided upon is that instead of human rights being paramount, see, the rights to orgasm are really what we as a nation, and as player on the international stage, are all about. And if your little religious qualms about this program of progress gets in the way, then that’s just too bad.

Your conscience, and the doctrines that undergird it,  must be smashed like the glass store fronts in Germany on Kistallnacht. Onward!

But don’t listen to Joe Six-Pack on this subject. Since he’s the wrong gender, see, his opinion is heavily discounted these days.

Also, he’s not allowed to hold an opinion in the public square worth mentioning unless it puts Orgasm on the Pedestal it deserves. Besides, everybody knows that we must re-elect President Obama so our worship of Orgasms can continue apace. Elect Romney/Ryan and all Orgasms will cease.

The winning campaign slogan for the modern age is pretty easy to come up with:Orgasms Über Alles! And the Pledge of Allegiance could be modified as follows,

I pledge allegiance to the Orgasm,

of the disordered states of America.

And to the Pleasure, for which it stands,

many Orientations, over god, non-judgmentally,

with libertinism, and contraceptives, for All.

The whole thing should be read and passed on, particularly his reference to a lecture given by Dr. Helen Alvaré (with video), a law school professor at George Mason University who speaks powerfully to the issue.

Go now and become wiser.

The world needs wiser people.

Insurgents wore U.S. Army uniforms during attack on Camp Bastion

Two of our Marines were killed, including the Harrier squadron commander:

Two Marines assigned to a unit headquartered at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station unit, but based in Yuma, Ariz., have been identified as victims of an insurgent attack on the primary Marine Corps base in Afghanistan, military officials said Monday.

The Pentagon said in a terse statement that Lt. Col. Christopher K. Raible, 40, of Huntingdon, Pa., and Sgt. Bradley W. Atwell, 27, of Kokomo, Ind., died in the Friday attack.

Raible was the commander officer of a Harrier squadron.

The two were among eight troops killed over the last three days.

He and Atwell died when Camp Bastion in the Helmand province came under attack by insurgents.

Officials said the attacking insurgents wore U.S. Army uniforms when they assaulted the base, killing the two Marines, wounding nine other people and destroying six Harrier fighter jets.

Fourteen insurgents were killed. The Taliban claimed responsibility for that attack and said it was revenge for the video insulting Prophet Muhammad, according to an Associated Press report.

Raible, a pilot, was a member of Marine Attack Squadron 211, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing headquartered at San Diego's Miramar Marine Corps Air Station.

Atwell was assigned to Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.

Miramar's commander issued a statement praising the men's service.

We are not there to win.

We should no longer be there with that as a given.

Bring our people home.

"This is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy..."

"... this is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims."

And if you believe that swill, that unmitigated ignorance, that stupidity, that ridiculousness, then there's really no hope for you.

None.

The fact that it's coming from the White House is so freaking depressing, particularly when you come to grips with the notion that the originator of said nonsense might just get re-elected.

Holy. Crap.

Dear God, grant wisdom to our leaders, raise up those who see what's occuring across the Middle East and Africa not as a reaction to a video but as what it truly it.

The manifestation of an ideology purposed in destroying the West and the values to which the West at one time stood for.

Wake us up Dear Lord.

Wake us up before it's too late.

Joe Biden: Lying "squealing pig"

Guest posted by tim, The Godless Heathen

While this story of yet more buffoonery by V.P. Biden is making the rounds today…

The Gateway Pundit- 

Vice President Joe Biden suggested a new image to associate with Republicans who opposed Democratic efforts to toughen regulations on Wall Street, characterizing them as ” squealing pigs.”

I’m afraid of what will be lost is the complete lie that Crazy Uncle Joe would like the electorate to believe -

“…over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it”

Here’s the facts, Joe. I know, why let them get in the way of a good sound bite…

From a few day ago by The American Thinker:

“…the Obama administration's DOJ has not brought criminal charges against a single major Wall Street executive.” (Emphasis mine.)

For a little comparison from that evil George Bush and his “failed policy of the last administration” -

Between 2002 and 2008, for instance, GAI [Government Accountability Institute] points out how a Bush administration task force "obtained over 1,300 corporate fraud convictions, including those of over 130 corporate vice presidents and over 200 CEOs and corporate presidents."

Yes, just a bunch of  “squealing pigs.”

Just like Obamacare not being a tax; how the Stimulus would create jobs; the Bush tax cuts being are “unfair” to the rich; being “laser focused on the economy”…should I go on, or would that be too much “squealing” Joe?

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Writer for Media Matters: "Former Navy Seals don't have guts"

Just when you think leftists have sunk to the deepest of depths, they sink even lower:

Media Matters senior fellow Eric Boehlert said on Thursday that a group of former Navy SEALS “don’t have guts” after the special forces operators launched a media campaign condemning the Obama administration’s national security leaks.

“#kindalame former Navy SEALs don’t have guts to admit they’re running a GOP, anti-Obama campaign; http://nyti.ms/N2nYYj ” Boehlert wrote on Twitter Thursday morning.

The group Boehlert lashed out at is called the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund and it’s composed of former U.S. intelligence and specials forces operators. They describe themselves as non-partisan and finger the current president as an example of a politician who uses national security secrets for political gain.

“STOP the politicians, President Obama and others, from politically capitalizing on US national security operations and secrets!” reads the organization’s website.

Scott Taylor is a former Navy SEAL of eight and a half years, and was a 2010 GOP candidate for Congress. He is now a member of the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund.

Taylor responded to Boehlert’s tweet in a phone interview with The Daily Caller and said that his group of special forces operators is “clearly not gutless.”

“We’re clearly not gutless. We’re in the public right now, completely out there,” Taylor said.

It's increasingly more difficult to endure the sophomoric thinking emanating from leftist grottos across the country.  This goes beyond ignorance, beyond stupid.  There can be little doubt that their ideologies have emptied them of even an iota of common sense and humanity.

It's disgusting.  And clearly, it's projection, as the DailyCaller piece goes on to point out:

There is some irony in Boehlert accusing a political group of hiding its affinity for, or opposition to, a particular candidate.

Media Matters, as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, is forbidden from explicitly endorsing or opposing a candidate for elected office. But as TheDC has previously reported, the group has steadily expanded its support of Obama as he mounts up his 2012 re-election campaign.

A spokeswoman for Media Matters did not respond to a request for comment for this report.

That might be because this spokeswoman, unlike Mr. Boehlert, might be aware of the old adage suggesting silence is best when there' really nothing intelligent to say.

Disordered fakery

Gay guy attempts to do gymnastics on the streets of Missoula, Montana and fails miserably.  Then decides to use his self-induced injuries to further a cause and suck in the gullible.  He succeeds if only for a short time.

Revealing:

A 22-year-old Montana man who told cops he was beaten up by gay-bashing thugs while club-hopping on his birthday — igniting calls online for protest against homophobic violence — made the whole thing up and actually injured himself, he admitted.

Joseph Baken, of Billings, suffered the bruises and cuts to his face when he smashed it against a curb while attempting to stick an Olympic-style backflip in the street, he said.

The young con-artist pleaded guilty to making a false report on Tuesday and was given a 180 day suspended jail sentence and slapped with a $300 fine, the Missoula Independent reported.

Baken's bizarre ruse began when he told Missoula police that three men jumped him outside a club in downtown Missoula early Sunday because he was gay.

Baken said he had gone into the club, announced that it was his birthday and asked if anyone knew a gay bar he could go to.

A man invited him outside for a cigarette, and he and two other attacked him, Baken claimed, according to NBC Montana.

Photos of Baken's battered face were posted on Facebook, Tumblr and other social media sites, prompting an outcry against homophobic violence and calls for protest.

However, a tipster sent a video to the Independent that showed Baker trying to impress his pals by doing a backflip off a curb sometime around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday.

Baker flubbed the stunt and landed on his face.

The newspaper passed the video on to police, and Baken quickly copped to lying about getting jumped.

Video of the man's athletic prowess, or lack thereof, at the link.

Is Cardinal Dolan succumbing to the tyranny of nice?

It surely seems so:

A lawsuit over contraception policy hasn't stopped a prominent Catholic organization from inviting President Obama to dinner.

The Archdiocese of New York has confirmed that both Obama and Republican opponent Mitt Romney will speak Oct. 18 at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a traditional stop on the campaign trail.

Led by the nation's top bishop, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archdiocese of New York is one of more than 40 Catholic organizations suing the Obama administration over a mandate requiring employers to make contraception part of their health care plans. Dolan has also criticized Obama over his support of same-sex marriage.

But the Al Smith Dinner is a major charity event, and for more than six decades has been inviting presidential candidates to give brief, non-political speeches -- though not always.

Critics of Obama's invitation pointed out that the New York Archdiocese did not invite presidential candidates in 1996 and 2004 -- reportedly because of support of abortion rights by President Bill Clinton and Democratic candidate John Kerry.

Some Catholics are circulating a petition asking Dolan to withdraw Obama's invitation this year.

"If Cardinal John O'Connor didn't invite pro-abort Bill Clinton in 1996, and if Cardinal Egan didn't invite pro-abort John Kerry in 2004, then on what grounds could your Eminence find to invite Obama in 2012?" asks the petition, which adds that Obama "has proven handily and has worked arduously since 2009 to act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles."

Back in '09, I put up a post titled 'Nice-ful or faithful?' in which I excerpted a piece put up by Stuart McAllister.  I think it's as relevant, if not more so, today as it was then:

Perhaps you’ve never reflected on how your sincere desire to be “nice” may undermine or completely prevent a serious expression of your faith. If every time you feel you should give an answer or every time you think you should be involved in some kind of witness or ministry, you are effectively stopped by an internal dialogue that insists the need to be “nice” trumps all other goods or needs, perhaps it is time to seek the Lord afresh, resist that voice, break the hold of bad ideas, and step out in faith and obedience and do or say what is needed.

There are worse things in life, after all, than not being nice! Perhaps being unfaithful is one of them?

I see no rationale other than being nice that would be driving Cardinal Dolan to have Barack Hussein Obama seated next to him, chuckling, cajoling, jiving and joking their way through dinner together all while Obama is at the same time doing his level best to quash a Catholic way of being by way of the HHS Mandate.

No other rationale.

I hope the good Cardinal cancels the dinner.

Now can we call them anti-Christian?

I don't know how else to square the logic:

Given his stance on Chick-fil-A, would Mayor Tom Menino grant permits to a group that has counted among its leaders a man who has repeatedly called homosexuality a “crime that must be punished” by death?

Actually, he has done that  . . . and more! Menino effectively gave away city land valued at $1.8 million to the organization, and he gave a speech at its ribbon-cutting ceremony.

It’s the Islamic Society of Boston’s mosque, and when it comes to anti-gay sentiment, one of its early supporters makes Chick-fil-A look like the Provincetown Men’s Chorus.

During the (understandable) controversy over the city selling land for a house of worship at a below-market rate a decade ago, reporters discovered that the Islamic Society of Boston counted imam Yusef al-Qaradawi as one of its spiritual guides. As the Weekly Standard reported at the time:

“The ISB does not dispute the fact that they have repeatedly used al-Qaradawi as a tool to raise funds for the Boston mosque, printing a brochure that highlighted al-Qaradawi’s enthusiastic support of the mosque and playing a videotaped message of support from him at a 2002 gathering.”

Also in attendance at the gathering, listening to al-Qaradawi’s message: Mayor Tom Menino.

I'm sure Menino, should he be confronted with what was just read, would atempt to wriggle out of it in some way by pointing out how may Muslims are moderate and how many would not take seriously the Quranic command to put the homosexual to death.

But that benefit of the doubt the idiot won't extend to Christians and so in the mental gymnastics tumbling forth from the excuse for a brain that sits in the man's head, he finds Christians more threatening in some way than Muslims.

Yea, I think we can call him anti-Christian.

And I think we can do the same for his buddy Obama.  Bowing to Muslim leaders, extending the open hand of friendship while in the same breath attempting to shove the HHS mandate down the throat of Catholics who actually believe in the tenets of their faith.

Yea, I think we can call him anti-Christian as well.

Crossposted at Wizbang.

"Internet Atheism look more and more like a sort of mental virus"

Mark Shea, reacting to this Bad Catholic post, is taking on what he's calling the New Atheists:

Seriously, what strikes me again and again about Internet Atheist culture is how, well,dumb these guys are who constantly trumpet their immense intellectual superiority.  They can’t even get elementary facts right, much less construe the meaning of those facts.  Moreover, they are stupefyingly incurious when you point that out.  And this is in addition to the legendary lack of social and affective skills that allow normal people to navigate ordinary human interactions without looking like clueless gits.

As this pattern continues, Internet Atheism look more and more like a sort of mental virus (why, one might almost call it a “meme”) whose sole purpose is simply to mindlessly propagate the thought “I am smarter!” like the ancient mob shouting “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” again and again.  The Internet Atheist huddles with his peer group, repeating the same cherished legends over and over, safe in a bubble of epistemic closure in which shibboleths like “Flying Spaghetti Monster!” and “Galileo!” and “Stem Cells” are repeated like old nuns telling their beads.  Nothing is allowed to intrude on the smooth worn repetition of this little mental treadmill.  No actual questions are asked, on fake questions masking dogmatic negations.  No new knowledge is sought because it is imagined that their knowledge is complete and unassailable.  And this, these people call “Science, Reason, and Intellect”.  

There's more.

If only these Internet Atheists could be more like our own tim, aka The Godless Heathen.

Right tim?