tag:www.thedonovan.com,2012://1/tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-2012-01-06T18:21:18ZComments for How to start each day with a positive outlook:We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010Movable Type 4.12tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.105172009-03-16T16:00:36Z2009-03-16T16:17:10ZHow to start each day with a positive outlook:The Armorerhttp://www.thedonovan.com 1) Create a new folder in your computer. 2) Name it "Barack Obama". 3) Now right click and send the folder to the Recycle Bin. 4) Empty the Recycle Bin. [Note, the folder needs to be the *only* thing in the bin] 5) Your computer will ask you: "Are you sure you want to delete "'Barack Obama'?* 6) Firmly click "YES". 7) Now, don't you feel better?
Tomorrow we will do Nancy Pelosi!
H/t, Jim C.
*Note for LEOs tailgating this blog reading the bumper: Do not hit your digital light-bar buttons. Intended as satire. Castle Argghhh! expresses the fervent wish that President Obama walks away from the Presidency. As soon as possible, mind you, but on his own two feet. We wish ill to numerous of his policies, but not him. ]]>
tag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85965Comment from Josh on 2009-03-18Josh
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2009-03-19T03:52:29Z2009-03-19T03:52:29Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85922Comment from MAJ Arkay on 2009-03-18MAJ Arkay
His whole hopychanginess business sucked in the gullible; his playing the race card sucked in the guilt-ridden liberals. Now they are seeing the results many of us warned them about, and it ain't pretty. Unfortunately, looking to me for sympathy ain't gonna work. Twits.]]>
2009-03-18T18:25:37Z2009-03-18T18:25:37Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85886Comment from Argent on 2009-03-18Argenthttp://www.aaronpoeze.com
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2009-03-18T06:08:59Z2009-03-18T06:08:59Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85883Comment from Josh on 2009-03-17Josh
Well, not everyone. I held my nose and voted McCain, despite my libertarian impulses. :)
Indeed. I just kept telling myself that I'm not voting for anyone, I'm just voting against Barack Hussein Obama.
Actually what I meant was that, by his choice, he bought into the "my race is my identity" mode of thinking. And while I'm thinking about it, apologies if the comment with respect to focusing on skin color offended you. I was trying to repeat back what I was hearing, not tell you what you were saying. My bad.
No offense taken. I'm just saying that you misunderstood me.
I think most folks bought into the Hope'n'Change mantra, as if the man really was an incarnation of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Hoo boy, did they get a big surprise!
Agreed. I wasn't really saying that everybody voted for him purely because he acquired the "black candidate" label, or even that everybody who voted, voted for him. ]]>
2009-03-18T04:35:51Z2009-03-18T04:35:51Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85879Comment from Casey on 2009-03-17Caseyhttp://www.thegantry.net/blog
Actually what I meant was that, by his choice, he bought into the "my race is my identity" mode of thinking. And while I'm thinking about it, apologies if the comment with respect to focusing on skin color offended you. I was trying to repeat back what I was hearing, not tell you what you were saying. My bad.
Agreed that too many people voted for the man just because he's black, although I wouldn't go so far as to say everyone who did vote for him thought that way. Megan McArdle, and otherwise intelligent and sterling woman, decided Barry was a better choice. She spent too much ink complaining about McCain-Feingold.
I think most folks bought into the Hope'n'Change mantra, as if the man really was an incarnation of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Hoo boy, did they get a big surprise!
John said "no hyhpens!" What, are you the hyphen-Nazi? Or do you just keep them as eschew-toys for the Castle dogs?
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2009-03-18T03:38:19Z2009-03-18T03:38:19Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85871Comment from Josh on 2009-03-17Josh
Yeah, but why 50%, except that it conveniently supports your point of view? :)
Because ">50%" is the definition of majority, or in other words, "More than anything else".
So someone who is part black, part white, and part mestizo, with a fairly dark skin, isn't "really" black?
I dunno, how many of his grandparents/great grandparents/great great...whatever...were black, how many were white, how many were American Indian?
I notice that you focus solely on skin color.
I never said ANYTHING of the sort.
But surely you realize that -at least in our culture- "blackness" is cultural as well as physical. I don't doubt you've encountered stories about various high schools in the United States who study hard, do well, speak standard North American English, and are accused of "acting white." Not frequently; not all the time; but it happens.
The idea that being uneducated, illiterate, uncultured, vulgar, and criminal is somehow part of being black is a disgusting racist fallacy. I find it extremely disheartening that so many black people condition other black people to believe it. The fact that the normal black people who don't subscribe to this fallacy are invariably better off makes it even more confusing as to why the others continue the madness.
The irony is that Barak Obama could have established a new kind of identity for mixed-race people in this country. Since he's literally half-black and half-white, he could easily have defined himself instead as just "American." When Barry chose to self-identify with only his father's ancestors; he chose to be black.
It plays into the inherent anti-white "soft racism" that is endemic to modern American liberalism, and the anti-white "hard"(?) racism that is disgustingly common among American black people. It was a calculated, pragmatic move. He (or his handlers) didn't care about helping America or mixed-race Americans or doing something good. He just cared about doing what would get him elected.
Or is that's what's bugging you; that he chose his ethnicity?
What bugs me is that some people just wanted "a black President" for the hell of having "a black President", so they saw a candidate who wasn't pasty white and trumpeted message of how America was going to be saved by elected "a black President", and how Barack Hussein Obama could be that person. Then everybody jumped on the bandwagon. ]]>
2009-03-18T02:12:01Z2009-03-18T02:12:01Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85868Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-17John of Argghhh!http://www.thedonovan.com
Okay, Neffi. You win. That was funny.
2009-03-18T01:17:06Z2009-03-18T01:17:06Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85866Comment from Neffi on 2009-03-17Neffi
Hmm.. Militariamerican... it *does* roll off the tongue nicely...
2009-03-18T01:11:11Z2009-03-18T01:11:11Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85863Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-17John of Argghhh!http://www.thedonovan.com
No hyphens!
2009-03-18T00:28:52Z2009-03-18T00:28:52Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85862Comment from Neffi on 2009-03-17Neffi
a Militaria-American....
2009-03-17T23:11:59Z2009-03-17T23:11:59Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85850Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-17John of Argghhh!http://www.thedonovan.com
Except I eschew hyphens.
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2009-03-17T19:25:49Z2009-03-17T19:25:49Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85849Comment from Casey on 2009-03-17Caseyhttp://www.thegantry.net/blog
So someone who is part black, part white, and part mestizo, with a fairly dark skin, isn't "really" black? Even if he has curly hair, broad nose, and relatively thick lips, not to mention high blood pressure and sickle-cell anemia? No doubt there are quite a few African-Americans who are less than 50%, but still look, speak, and self-identify as black. Some of them are people I've worked with.
I notice that you focus solely on skin color. Does this make people native to the Carribean of unmixed race "black?" Is there a shading scale I should be aware of? That's not to mention the aborigines of Australia, Maoris, and Polynesians. Or Dravidian Indians for that matter?
At least you didn't try to define the term with respect to African heritage. :) But surely you realize that -at least in our culture- "blackness" is cultural as well as physical. I don't doubt you've encountered stories about various high schools in the United States who study hard, do well, speak standard North American English, and are accused of "acting white." Not frequently; not all the time; but it happens.
In fact you can chart the development of 20th-century entertainment by black attempts to establish an artistic method of self-expression that wouldn't be taken over by the white majority: from blues, to jazz, to rock'n'roll, funk, or rap. A character from Sister Act 2 (Ahmal) had an opinion on this:
Don't ya'll realize how much they took from us? Yo, Sketch. You know what I'm talking about, right man? Common, they stole our land, man. And our name. And our mother, man.
Of course, if you saw that scene, you would see the humor of his friends walking away from him, shaking their heads. Heh.
The irony is that Barak Obama could have established a new kind of identity for mixed-race people in this country. Since he's literally half-black and half-white, he could easily have defined himself instead as just "American." When Barry chose to self-identify with only his father's ancestors; he chose to be black.
Or is that's what's bugging you; that he chose his ethnicity? Is that any sillier than (say) someone of mixed British/Irish/European heritage identifying themselves as Irish, at least on Saint Patrick's Day?
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2009-03-17T19:03:49Z2009-03-17T19:03:49Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85845Comment from Red on 2009-03-17Redhttp://qwertyaltfuori.blogspot.com
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2009-03-17T17:43:22Z2009-03-17T17:43:22Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85815Comment from Rivrdog on 2009-03-17Rivrdoghttp://rivrdog.typepad.com
The best reason for them not doing so would be that they would have to enter the Secret Service's kill zone, which is a 360-degree field of indiscrimate fire around the President.
Obama supporters within the LEO ranks are probably confined to the ranks of Captain (Inspector) and above. The flatfoot could care less.
In my 25-year LEO career, I handed two cases to the Secret Service. One was a counterfeiting ring I busted, which the SS declined to prosecute because they weren't passing "enough" funny money, and the second was a crazy preacher who wanted to kill President Bush, and told me so. After I threw him in the clink for resisting arrest on criminal trespass, the SS declined to prosecute, but finally had to jug him when he ran into the minions of the law AGAIN in WY, actually on the way to DeeCee to try the dastardly deed.
Secret Service? Meh, I'm no fanboy, and neither are any other cops I ever associated with. ]]>
2009-03-17T06:10:34Z2009-03-17T06:10:34Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85813Comment from Josh on 2009-03-16Josh
Black: Having any black ancestry at all, regardless of what the rest of your ethnic makeup is. Seven lily white great grandparents and one black great grandparent make you black.
But I prefer a way that DOES exclude him.
Black: Having a majority black ancestry, specifically: Greater than 50%. ]]>
2009-03-17T03:50:29Z2009-03-17T03:50:29Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85808Comment from Casey on 2009-03-16Caseyhttp://www.thegantry.net/blog ]]>
2009-03-17T03:26:15Z2009-03-17T03:26:15Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85804Comment from Josh on 2009-03-16Josh
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2009-03-17T03:13:26Z2009-03-17T03:13:26Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85803Comment from Argent on 2009-03-16Argenthttp://www.aaronpoeze.com/
do Nancy Pelosi? ]]>
2009-03-17T03:04:00Z2009-03-17T03:04:00Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85801Comment from Josh on 2009-03-16Josh But President Obama, being the first black President
*grumble grumble* He is NOT black... ]]>
2009-03-17T02:44:45Z2009-03-17T02:44:45Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85787Comment from Neffi on 2009-03-16Neffi
'Tomorrow we will do Nancy Pelosi!'
Ummm...
ah, never mind. 8^)]]>
2009-03-16T19:56:38Z2009-03-16T19:56:38Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85785Comment from Kirk on 2009-03-16Kirk2009-03-16T17:38:00Z2009-03-16T17:38:00Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85783Comment from FbL on 2009-03-16FbL
*gasp of horror*
You traitorous Rush-bot!]]>
2009-03-16T17:17:28Z2009-03-16T17:17:28Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85781Comment from JamesLee on 2009-03-16JamesLee2009-03-16T17:05:06Z2009-03-16T17:05:06Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85780Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-16John of Argghhh!http://www.thedonovan.com
And, as we've discovered time and time again (from both sides of the aisle) people with no sense of humor don't understand satire and will just pummel you over it.
Lastly, I blog openly, my bosses know I blog, and on occasion they read the blog. I don't need to give them any reason to be nervous about what I write.
While I suspect my bloggish oeuvre is already polarized enough to make them pause during a due diligence action were I to desire to be a corporate officer (I harbor no such ambitions) there's no need to make it *easy*.]]>
2009-03-16T16:57:47Z2009-03-16T16:57:47Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85778Comment from JamesLee on 2009-03-16JamesLee2009-03-16T16:45:36Z2009-03-16T16:45:36Ztag:www.thedonovan.com,2009://1.10517-comment:85777Comment from AFSister on 2009-03-16AFSister
That being said, I also hope that he'll walk away from the Presidency.
Today would be just fine for that walk, thankyouverymuch.]]>
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