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Culture Watch, Vol. 46
Nancy Morgan
RightBias.com
December 23, 2008
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The biggest non story of the week was Time magazine picking Obama as their 2008
Person of the Year.
The world awaits his coming.
The floodgates to the US Treasury remain open, with an ever expanding list of businesses
and institutions lining up for a handout. The latest are real-estate developers and educators. AArgh.
The total federal burden is now $52,700,000,000,000. Your share: $175,000
Its almost impossible to find any news channel where we, the people, aren't subject
to an ever increasing parade of 'Lies and Liars.' Despite this, there remains plenty of:
GOOD NEWS:
It appears our government has finally gotten serious about enforcing our immigration
laws. The United States deported more than 154,000 Mexicans and Central Americans in the 2008
fiscal year, in a 46 percent rise on the previous year.
Government has also completed 500 miles of fencing along the Southwest border, 170 miles short
of its goal. The administration expects to have at least 600 miles complete by Jan.
20.
We're also cracking down on employers who hire
illegals, with the largest fine ever, $20.7 million, levied against a
company accused of encouraging hundreds to illegally enter the United States
and then hiring them using fake Social Security numbers.
It also appears that there are plenty of Americans willing
to take jobs formerly held by illegals. Evidence is emerging
that tens of thousands of Hispanic immigrants are withdrawing from the labor market
as
U.S. workers crowd them out of potential jobs.
Last, but not least, Baghdad is celebrating its first public Christmas. A huge multi-colored hot-air balloon
floats in the Baghdad sky, bearing a large poster of Jesus Christ. Below it, an
Iraqi flag. Thank-you, George Bush and all military services.
CULTURE:
California Attorney General Jerry
Brown changed course on the state's new same-sex marriage ban Friday and urged the
state Supreme Court to void Proposition 8.
The American Catholic News Agency (CNA) has linked a gay band scheduled to march in Barack Obama’s
inauguration parade to a festival “infamous for its public lewd acts”.
A public school teacher in Mississippi marked down an eleven-year-old’s Christmas
poem assignment and told the boy to rewrite it because he used the word “Jesus,” and in Milwaukee, the Public School
System will expand the services provided by its gay-friendly high school and apparently
become the nation's first school system to create a gay-friendly middle school. Ah, government schools...more
gays, less God.
A nude portrait of embattled Illinois governor Blagojevich,
by artist Bruce Elliott, is nearly complete and will hang on the wall of Elliott's
wife's bar, the Old Town Ale House. Eye candy for liberals.
Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, made the hajj pilgrimage
to the holy city of Mecca last week, calling it a "transformative" experience. Ain't diversity grand?
Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, California's high court on Thursday said
a would-be Good Samaritan accused of rendering her friend paraplegic by pulling
her from a wrecked car "like a rag doll" can be sued.
From the 'Its Not My Fault' files: A man beat his wife and then sued the airline for getting him all liquored up, which
“caused” him to lose control and smack his poor wife around. Hold on, there's more:
Convicted last year of intoxication manslaughter for the death of her boyfriend,
the 21-year-old daughter of a state district judge is suing the truck driver she ran into during a drunken driving
crash. So many rights, so little responsibility.
Drew Peterson
Drew Peterson, the retired Illinois police sergeant who gained national attention
after he was suspected in his third wife's disappearance, is engaged to be married again. Till death do they part.
Speaking of scoundrels, while facing his own legal cloud, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
has decided
to pardon 22 other people.
An Arkansas woman has given birth to her 18th child. Michelle Duggar delivered the baby girl by
Caesarean section Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers.
ESSENTIAL TRIVIA:
For the third year in a row, a gold coin worth about $1,000 has shown up in a Salvation Army kettle in Lee County, Florida.
Imagine - being charitable without getting your picture in the paper. Hopefully
the trend will continue.
One of the "bundlers" who has raised $50,000 to $100,000 for the Barack Obama presidential
campaign is Terrence Bean, who once controlled the biggest producer of gay porn in America
For the fourth year in a row, more residents left California than moved there from other
states. On a personal note, I left California after 33 years. It was the best decision
I ever made.
Check out the Navy's new X47B unmanned jet. Called the Evil Robot, this
autonomous airplane will launch and recover on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and
conduct strike and other missions — without the hands-on controls of an onboard
pilot.
The world's first refrigerated beach is to be built at a luxury hotel
in Dubai so the filthy rich holidaymakers don't burn their feet on the scalding
hot sand.
From the Schadenfreude files, we include the 2008 Mug Shots Of The Year - just to remind you that no
matter how bad things get, someone else has it worse.
RightBias is running late compiling this week's Idiot Awards. We'll just have to
refer you to
last weeks'.
RightBias wishes each and every one of you a wonderful, happy and safe Christmas.
We very much appreciate all our readers and look forward to 2009, with the firm
conviction that the worst has already happened. Till next week, keep smiling,
Nancy Morgan
Culture Watch may be reprinted, with attribution to RightBias.com
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