Difficulty level: O.J. Free Zone! (In fact, let’s strive to keep Balloon-Juice entirely O.J. free, Mmmmkay?)
The “War” on Thanksgiving
Uh-oh! Seems like some Seattle Public Schools official hates America!
With so many holidays approaching we want to again remind you that Thanksgiving can be a particularly difficult time for many of our Native students. … Eleven myths are identified about Thanksgiving, take a look at #11 and begin your own deconstruction.
Myth #11: Thanksgiving is a happy time
Fact: For many Indian people, “Thanksgiving” is a time of mourning, of remembering how a gift of generosity was rewarded by theft of land and seed corn, extermination of many from disease and gun, and near total destruction of many more from forced assimilation. As currently celebrated in this country, “Thanksgiving” is a bitter reminder of 500 years of betrayal returned for friendship.
Look, I’m all for truthful, historically accurate lessons about Thanksgiving. But the “diversity”-peddlers’ agenda is not about historical accuracy. It’s about guilt-mongering and institutional racism indoctrination. […]
Tear up your kids’ construction-paper headdresses pronto and prepare for an Unhappy Un-Thanksgiving.
Heaven forbid that these seditious teachers actually tell students things that are, you know, historically accurate! Shorter Malkin: “I’m for historical accuracy, except when it reflects poorly on our ancestors. Inter these traitors!”
Added: Do you think Michelle Malkin, along with the other residents of metropolitan Wackistan, have a series of fill-in-the-blank templates for all these “War on X” posts?
Project Valour-It
Just got an email thanking Michael D. and others for their support of Project Valour-IT, and it looks like they are going to pass 200k.
Well done.
The New Treason
Via Outside the Beltway, this:
In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and rarely involve issues of national policy. But in a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003, a team of women who represented the United States at the world bridge championships in Shanghai last month is facing sanctions, including a yearlong ban from competition, for a spur-of-the-moment protest.
At issue is a crudely lettered sign, scribbled on the back of a menu, that was held up at an awards dinner and read, “We did not vote for Bush.”
By e-mail, angry bridge players have accused the women of “treason” and “sedition.”
“This isn’t a free-speech issue,” said Jan Martel, president of the United States Bridge Federation, the nonprofit group that selects teams for international tournaments. “There isn’t any question that private organizations can control the speech of people who represent them.”
Saying “we did not vote for Bush” counts as treason in General Wingnuttia. Good to know half the country is plotting to undermine the US.
Or A Little Less In Yours
Christopher Hitchens commenting in the Atlantic on Arthur Schlesinger’s memoirs:
Inded, Schlesinger’s good manners are almost masochistic. Of Vidal, he writes, “At least he knows me, which in a way legitimizes his right to attack me.” Self-deprecation could do no more; still, one might ask for a little more gin in the martini.
Alice Roosevelt once quipped to an unattached young woman at a dinner party, “If you don’t have anything good to say about anyone here, come sit by me.” That said, given the compulsive Hitchensian habit of poisoning every well that he jumps into, even Alice Roosevelt would read Hitch’s Schlesinger diss to as misery craving company, and feeling slightly uncomfortable in its absence.
And God Said No, Again
1. Georgia is in severe drought
2. Governor Perdue decides to pray for rain on Tuesday
3. Forecast called for rain Tuesday
4. Prayer service goes ahead as planned
5. Skies completely clear up immediately following prayer service
6. No rain
Maybe God was celebrating Opposite Day!
Lieberman the Veep, Part Deux
The Weekly Standard simply can not control themselves when it comes to the idea of Joe Lieberman as the VP candidate under a Republican presidential candidate. Here is Michael Goldfarb parroting that idiot Bill Kristol.
I am at home and feel like shit, so i am not up to it, but does someone want to spend a few minutes and go through some of the older Gore/Lieberman era Weekly Standard dribblings to find out what Kristol and company thought about Lieberman then (Sore/Loserman sound familiar, anyone?). Because that could turn out to be loads of fun.