Ted Rall, once relegated to the likes of the free rags like the L.A. Weekly, now appears regularly in our cat-box-liner of record, the Los Angeles Times. Sheesh! The guys’ the epitome of a raging lefty nutter. That would be hyperbole I guess, if it weren’t so very true.

Now that the left has had its head handed to it at the polls, they’re talking violent revolution. Just another good reason to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights and go down and get that case o’ ammo you’ve been saving up for.

They wanna play? Then, it’s lock & load time — Oh, ya betcha!

[Update -- Ed Morrissey from Hot Air reacts to Dylan Ratigan's near endorsement of Rall's call to armed insurrection.]

I don’t find any of this at all remarkable from the execrable Rall, a cartoonist of limited talent who has compensated for it by turning into a crank. What I do find remarkable is this softball interview from Ratigan and MSNBC of a man proposing an armed revolution in the United States after months of hyperbole from MSNBC about the supposed inherent violence and fascism of the Tea Party movement. In fact, Ratigan seems rather intrigued by the potential of such a proposal, while carefully dancing just short of an endorsement. Apparently, that Election Night meltdown wasn’t an isolated case at MSNBC after all.

There is a special reading list being promoted to your K-12 kids in public schools that is chock full of hard-core pornographic material. This list of books was put together under the leadership of GLSEN [Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network] founder Kevin Jennings. More on this outrage later in the post. Oh, by the way . . .

Obama’s administration has an appointed Czar, this very same Kevin Jennings, and his little Czardom is called Safe Schools. We all want our children’s schools to be safe, right? Surely no one in his/her right mind would want us to have unsafe schools.

If only it were that simple. If only safe meant, well, uh safe. Gotta remember folks, these Lefties can parse even the simplest words like is — in this case, they’ve turned the word and concept of safe over and slammed its little head into the ground! As Troy Silva at American Thinker wrote in October:

Kevin Jennings is Safe School Czar not by some vetting breakdown. He was an official in the Obama Campaign as its Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual fund-raising co-chair. For twenty years until 2008, Jennings succeeded on a massive scale at pro-homosexual propagandizing of school children. His adeptness and accomplishment at semantic deception are extraordinary.

In a 1990 “report” for the Massachusetts Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, it was Jennings himself who re-coined the very term “safe school” to mean a pro-homosexual school. Just as the word “gay” is forever tainted and can now rarely be used in its original sense without prompting the snickers or confusion of the listener, so the term “safe school” is now a post-op product of Jennings that bears no similarity to its original meaning.

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In his revelatory 1995 speech, Jennings accurately stated that in order for his side to win, it was essential to keep control of the terminology, especially the term “safety”. He admittedly seized on the pre-existence of this popular Reagan theme and nomenclature of “safe schools.” The tactic worked well for him; he got his pro-homosexual curriculum in Massachusetts. And if it worked in Massachusetts, Jennings realized that it could work nationwide — and it has.

Orwellian isn’t it? The Left is masterful at subjugation of language to bend it to their own agenda — any means is acceptable to achieve their ends. Now, about those pornographic books — Gateway Pundit has the skinny:

According to GLSEN’s own press releases from the period during which its recommended reading list was developed, the organization’s three areas of focus were creating “educational resources, public policy agenda, [and] student organizing programs”; in other words, the reading list (chief among its “educational resources”) was of prime importance in GLSEN’s efforts to influence the American educational system.

The list is divided into three main categories: books recommended for grades K-6; books recommended for grades 7-12; and books for teachers. (The books on the list span all genres: fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, even poetry.)

Out of curiosity to see exactly what kind of books Kevin Jennings and his organization think American students should be reading in school, our team chose a handful at random from the over 100 titles on GLSEN’s grades 7-12 list, and began reading through.

What we discovered shocked us. We were flabbergasted. Rendered speechless.

We were unprepared for what we encountered. Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.

The random selection of books that GP looked at included these:

Queer 13

Being Different

The Full Spectrum

Revolutionary Voices

Reflections of a Rock Lobster

Passages of Pride

Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian

The Order of the Poison Oak

In Your Face

Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son

Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth

Strong Content Warning if you follow any of the links. However, you should check out one or two just to see what your President and his Safe Schools Czar feel is appropriate reading for your elementary-level, pre-teen and teenagers.

During the CA Proposition 8 campaign last election cycle — the amendment to the California Constitution stating that marriage is to be between one man and one woman — the GLBT forces called those, like this ol’ Okie, who were claiming that the homosexual agenda was going to be pushed into the elementary level of public schools radicals and crazies. In light of Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Jennings’ decades-long radical agenda to sexualize America’s innocents, not so crazy now, eh?

Must be more of that CHANGE candidate Barack Obama kept telling us we all wanted, right? Just more fine personnel put in charge of big sections of the Federal government by The One who the MSM keeps telling us is so much our better. Feel a tingle up your leg yet?

My question to you then: Just how far down the Hard-Left-Rabbit-Hole is this country going to allow itself to be dragged? Elections have consequences and 2010 is comin’ up fast! Get active damn it!

It’s up to US to turn this around before all is lost . . .

It’s getting very, vary late — Tick Tock!

It’s the day after Thanksgiving and one thing that honest big-C Conservatives should have expressed thanks for yesterday is Sarah Palin. Palin was a breath of fresh air in last year’s election campaign — she also breathed a big bunch o’ life into John McCain’s efforts, who found himself paired up against a Titanic-sized wave of destiny and looked pretty weak and used up in comparison. Palin was the pit bull, the rabid badger gnawing her way through all the tough issues like abortion, birthing Downs’ babies, the 2nd Amendment and so forth.

The Left is scared absolutely shitless of Sarah Palin. I always thought that it was because of her beliefs and her ability to express them without remorse. But after reading Robin of Berkeley’s piece at American Thinker, I see that it runs much deeper than that. A former hard-core big-L Liberal from whose eyes the scales have fallen, Robin explains what the Left is doing: They are “Wilding” her — just as they “Wild” anyone that doesn’t kowtow to liberal dogma. Here’s a taste of Robin’s thoughts, but you really owe it to yourself to go and read ALL of this one!

Then along came Sarah, and the attacks became particularly heinous. And I realized something even more chilling about the Left. Leftists not only sacrifice and disrespect women, but it’s far worse: many are perpetuators.

The Left’s behavior towards Palin is not politics as usual. By their laser-focus on her body and her sexuality, leftists are defiling her.

They are wilding her. And they do this with the full knowledge and complicity of the White House.

The Left has declared war on Palin because she threatens their existence. Liberals need women dependent and scared so that women, like blacks, will vote Democrat.

A strong, self-sufficient woman, Palin eschews liberal protection. Drop her off in the Alaskan bush and she’ll survive just fine, thank you very much. Palin doesn’t need or want anything from liberals — not hate crimes legislation that coddles her, and not abortion, which she abhors.

Palin is a woman of deep and abiding faith. She takes no marching orders from messiah-like wannabes like Obama.

And so the Left must try to destroy her. And they are doing this in the most malicious of ways: by symbolically raping her.

Just like a perpetuator, they dehumanize her by objectifying her body. They undress her with their eyes.

They turn her into a piece of ass.

Liberals do this by calling her a c__t, ogling her legs, demeaning her with names like “slutty flight attendant” and “Trailer Park Barbie,” and exposing her flesh on the cover of Newsweek.

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The extreme Left still consider themselves warriors, righteous soldiers for their Marxist cause. With Palin, they use sexual violence as part of their military arsenal.

Palin is not the only intended victim. As Against Our Will described, the brutality is also aimed at men. By forcing men to witness Palin’s violation, the Left tries to emasculate conservative men and render them powerless.

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It has been almost two years since I woke up and broke up with liberalism. During these many months, I’ve discovered that everything I believed was wrong.

But the biggest shock of all has been realizing that the Democratic Party is hardly an oasis for women. Now that it has been infiltrated by the hard Left, it’s a dangerous place for women, children, and other living things.

In the wilding of Sarah Palin, the Left shows its true colors. Rather than sheild the vulnerable, leftists will mow down any man, woman, or child who gets in their way. Instead of a movement of hope and change, it is a cauldron of hate.

President Obama has surrounded himself with radical Leftists and his administration is rife with their philosophy of misogyny, their stated goal to change everything, especially the very fabric of our nation, their determination to destroy what’s pure and good about the United States of America!

Sarah Palin is a giant speed bump in the highway of their statist objectives. She’s not just another woman politician — Sarah Palin is the real deal.

Move over Obamessiah — “It’s gonna take a woman to clean up this YOUR mess!”

Making comparisons to the identities and policies between George W. Bush’s presidency and that of the current White House resident’s, The Anchoress asks Leftists: Why Don’t You Hate Obama?

There’s lots there to read, and it’s intriguing to contemplate, so go and read it all. Here’s a bit o’ the wrap up.

In reviewing all this, it does seem to me that this passionate “hate” of George W. Bush is based not on substance but on style. Obama swagger is cool; Bush swagger was arrogant. Obama arrogance is “confidence.” Bush confidence was “ignorance.” Obama’s misspeaks and gaffes are ignored, Bush’s were magnified. Obama looks good. Bush looked goofy. All that “hate” seems to be part of an adolescent values system that is willing to overlook a multitude of sins as long as you get to belong to the jock/cheerleader clique, and not the Nerd/AV gang.

Although some seem to be tireless in their efforts to convince me that I should “hate” President Bush as much as they think I “hate” President Obama, I don’t think we should “hate” anyone, and I am not seriously suggesting that you “should” hate President Obama. I am simply wondering why two men can do very similar (sometimes exactly the same) things, and the first man’s actions can garner your life-long, cockle-warming hate, while the other man’s actions go overlooked and your cockles go agreeably cold.

It really does no good to try and reason with Lefties, but sometimes we just have to give it another go . . .

Oh boy — here we go folks, and my own representative, Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, leads the health-care-bill-panic-parade:

House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president’s goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and the wealthy.

“We cannot allow this issue to be delayed. We cannot put it off again[.] We, quite frankly, cannot go home for a recess unless the House and the Senate both pass bills to reform and restructure our health care system.”

Included in the bill will be “a surtax on millionaires of 5.4 percent”, gotta pay for all this free health care ya know? They’re bettin’ on folks like most of us sayin’, “Screw them millionaires — it’s not like we’ll be one o’ them anytime soon!” What they aren’t gonna tell ya is that a millionaire surtax isn’t going to cover this monster of a program — not even close. The tax implications will go waaaaay down the income chain and that won’t be enough. Only rationing and finally denial of services to the elderly and chronically infirm will make it even remotely feasible — and that’s a stretch. Just try getting treatment for arthritis in the UK!

Thousands of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers face a lifetime of agony because they are not being treated quickly enough, a report says.

Guidelines state that patients should receive treatment within three months of the first symptoms appearing.

But the average wait is nine months – and GPs are not trained well enough to know what help to offer.

That’s what Obamacare will bring to the US. Crunch the numbers — there’s no way around it. There’s no bi-partisan support for this fiasco either, but that isn’t going to stop this most-leftist-in-chief and his Democrat Congressional majority from jammin’ it down our throats or more likely, up our collective wazzoos!

But, why would our newly-minted President Obamessiah want to punish such a large number of his own subjects people? Well, if you consider the track record of the man that he has made the Science Czar, John Holdren — maybe His Majesty President Obama thinks that humans are the biggest problem in the world, a virus that needs to be controlled, contained, eliminated bit by bit — so that Gaia can return to a state of un-human-contaminated grace? Just askin’ . . .

In her syndicated column today Michelle Malkin compares the mainstream media’s shocked reaction to the “evangelical Christian faith of NIH director-designate Francis Collins” with their complete ignoring of John Holdren’s lifelong record of support for eugenics, forced sterilization & abortion, and world-wide draconian measures to control the world’s human population.

If a conservative blogger or Republican political candidate had published such lunatic claptrap, the Department of Homeland Security would have him on a watchlist. Instead, Holdren is Overlord of Science Policy. “Ecoscience” remains on his curriculum vitae. Obama is still perceived as the champion of reason. And the national media, so concerned about the dangers posed by a born-again Christian scientist, have responded to a secular extremist’s wild blueprints for forced abortions and mass sterilizations with a collective shrug. Scary.

Go and spend time with the Malkin piece, and then follow the ZombiTime link to the source documents. All this preoccupation with humans as a curse to the world gets me to thinkin’ about our ol’ University of Texas buddy, Professor Eric R. Pianka, who believes that “90% of humans must die.”

Oh, and the best part, as Malkin also reveals:

Well, I have indeed read one of Holdren’s recent works that reveals his clingy reverence for, and allegiance to, the gurus of population control authoritarianism. He’s just gotten smarter about cloaking it behind global warming hysteria.

Just last Sunday we experienced the out-in-the-open revelation that the Greenies, led by good ol’ Al Gore, will give it their best shot to rule the world for our own good. They’re gonna get loads of help from good ol’ population-control-by-any-and-all-means-possible Obama Science Czar, John Holdren.

Tons of Change — but not much Hope! Elections. Have. Consequences!

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The worshipers at the Holy Church Of Environmentalism and their high priest good ol’ Big Al Gore call for nothing less than bringing about Global Governance to effect their draconian solutions to the condition that doesn’t really exist — man caused Global Warming. Climate Depot reports:

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”

“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.

“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth’s temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.

Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.

“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.”

Of course, some redistribution of wealth needs to go along with all that governance don’t ya know?

The environmental group Friends of the Earth advocated the transfer of money from rich to poor nations during the 2007 UN climate conference.

“A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources,” said Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth.

Meanwhile, our very own environmental fascist Senator, Barbara Boxer sees doom and gloom for all if Waxman-Markey doesn’t pass the Senate:

If the Senate doesn’t pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.

She says there’s a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation’s children.

Let’s make this real simple so even those worshiping Al Gore and the environuts can understand — these guys don’t believe this crap — if they did they’d live differently, which they don’t. What they want is your money — ALL of your money, so that they can spend it on hastening the demise of the United States into a Leftist, statists, totally federally-controlled utopian society of their own making.

Hasn’t the world tried that far to many times already?