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Because I’m feeling extra cranky tonight (and have for the past 24 hours or so)…

“Chutzpah” is a Yiddish word meaning “shameless audacity”. It’s an olden Hebrew term that in his book The Joys of Yiddish author Leo Rosten describes as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts,’ presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to.”

So what fits in the category of “chutzpah”?

One example of chutzpah is the child who kills both of his parents, and then throws himself down on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he is an orphan.

Another example of chutzpah is the “evangelist” who routinely rails against a television station for “promoting dancing, R-rated movies” as being somehow sinful behavior, yet is apparently not bothered by the fact that he gives more than a million dollars of his congregation’s money to buy airtime ...

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This is gonna be a helluva fun thing to watch. I’m getting the popcorn ready even now…

Media conglomermonster Viacom – which has tied up the video hosting service in litigation for the past three years over “copyright infringement” – is now said to have been secretly uploading its own videos to the Google-owned website!

From the statement on the official YouTube blog, pertaining to court documents made public earlier today…

Because content owners large and small use YouTube in so many different ways, determining a particular copyright holder’s preference or a particular uploader’s authority over a given video on YouTube is difficult at best. And in this case, it was made even harder by Viacom’s own practices.

For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its

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Last week President Barack Obama met with Akihito, the titular Emperor of Japan. You might have heard about it: Obama made a ceremonial bow to Akihito and it’s purportedly caused a lot of his political enemies to seethe with outrage…

Interestingly, many if not most of these same critics defended George W. Bush when in April 2008 (when he was still President) Bush not only held hands with but also gave a big fat slobbering fat kiss right on the lips to the visiting king of Saudi Arabia…

Bush’s supporters at the time claimed that Bush was just “following protocol”, exactly as Obama’s defenders are doing now.

Me? I can’t see a difference between what either of these two Presidents have done. And regardless of who’s doing it, it sickens me to no end.

If either Bush or Obama had acted like this as private citizens, that would have been ...

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Say what one might about Bob Lawson, to the very best of my knowledge there was only one person in that “debate” on WGSR this past Tuesday night who has lied boldly and publicly when he accused not one but two churches, with no evidence whatsoever, of what can only be called child pornography.

And Bob Lawson wasn’t that person.

More than a few people have told me that Johnny Robertson is “scum”, “a dirty-minded individual”, “a sick man”, “a complete bastard”, and numerous other epithets that I won’t share here for sake of polity, for making those unfounded accusations against First Christian Church in Kernersville and Osborne Baptist Church in Danville. Interestingly, Robertson hasn’t dared bring those accusations up any more since they have been chronicled by this and other bloggers in the area.

Based on the footage I have seen from Tuesday night’s “debate” and now tonight, Robertson ...

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So the House Republican Conference has just started up a new website dedicated to helping “the public and the press keep track of the billions of taxpayer dollars spent each year on government projects”.

Who the hell do these people think they’re kidding?

WHERE was this kind of concern from the Republicans about “billions of taxpayer dollars” between the years 2001 and early 2009, when they had the White House and for most of that time control of the House and Senate?

George W. Bush and his allies misspent more money from the public treasury than any other presidential administration in modern American history. Thus far the fiscal practices of Barack Obama have not been intrinsically different or substantially more wasteful than those of his predecessor. And it could be readily argued that Bush and his Republican colleagues certainly paved the way for whatever Obama will be doing for the ...

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And lemme tell you why.

Because as much as it does bother me to see those who have expressed outrage at President Obama’s health care plans being labeled as an “angry mob” by officials and now being officially targeted by what can only be called Obama’s own army of brownshirts…

…I have to remember that much the same thing was happening during the previous eight years during George W. Bush’s tenure, what with “free speech zones” and loyalty oaths and people getting arrested for showing dissent… and sometimes arrested for no clear reason at all.

Hell, I was threatened with physical violence by one of Bush’s thugs before he was President, just because I was a reporter with an independent newspaper (i.e. outside the grasp of Bush’s control-freak nature).

I remember all too well telling Bush supporters what kind of a man he really was, and how the way he ...

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As I write this, Drudge Report has a red-colored link to a story about Governor Rick Perry of Texas vowing that he would assert that state’s Tenth Amendment rights if he had to in order to oppose President Obama’s plans to nationalize health care.

Hey, I’m all for that. I think every state should consider using that Tenth Amendment. But does Governor Perry seriously oppose Obama’s mad medical plot on account of principle?

Because as recently as two and a half years ago Perry was very much for government-mandated medicine! It was in February of 2007 that he issued an executive order mandating that all girls entering the sixth grade be vaccinated against cervical cancer. The only vaccine available, Gardasil, is manufactured by Merck & Co.

And it soon turned out that Perry was more or less in Merck & Co.’s pocket, having received $6000 from the corporation’s political ...

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I still can’t believe that I almost went to work for this guy…

James Dobson of Focus on the Family is telling his radio listeners that there is now “utter evil” coming out of Congress. What scares Dobson, he claims, is so-called “hate crimes” legislation: the proponents of which want tougher penalties for those convicted of criminal acts committed against others because of “sexual orientation”.

Now folks, I’m against “hate crimes” legislation myself. Because in my mind there is no such thing as a “hate” crime. Does the motive honestly matter why somebody chooses to hurt another, if the end result is the same as any other circumstance? I have as much sympathy for a victim of a criminal act as I will for any other… but I’m not gonna consider one victim to be any more “special” than someone else because of alleged precipitating criteria. So as far as ...

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So the senator from Pennsylvania today declared that his party affiliation “has not defined who I am”.

And as an act of faith, the first thing Arlen Specter did to demonstrate his proclaimed values was… change parties.

Think about that for a moment.

Why should any person who claims to not be defined by party affiliation, even care enough to so grandiosely publicize that he or she is switching parties?

And wouldn’t a person supposedly not defined by a party, in keeping with his or her principles, choose NOT to belong to any party at all?

All Specter is proving is that America has scarce few real leaders. What America does have is an excessive amount of damned fools who aren’t shy about their willingness to be yanked around by their noses by whatever “the party” tells them. And Arlen Specter is one of ’em....

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This was among the e-mails awaiting my perusal this morning. I should comment that the same issue has been raised considerably on various forums in recent weeks and months…

“Johnny Robertson and James Oldfield can’t be the real church of Christ because they aren’t obedient to Romans 16:16.”

The writer is of course referring to local cultist Johnny Robertson and his lackey/second cousin James Oldfield, the leaders of what they proclaim is the “Church of Christ” (no relation to the real Churches of Christ). The two men who have been harassing the legitimate churches in this area, and even committing slander against some (like when Johnny Robertson accused one church in Kernersville, without evidence, of child pornography).

And in case you’re wondering what Paul instructs in Romans 16:16, here it is from the King James version…

Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

You ...

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