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Hello, Everyone!
Have you ever experienced an in-flight emergency that sent flight attendants scurrying and prompted the pilot to make a wacky, unprofessional announcement like, "We smell smoke in the plane and we don't know where it's coming from?"
Well, that's what happened on my return flight from Puerto Rico yesterday. Halfway to LAX we made an "unscheduled" landing in Houston, where we waited seven hours for another American 747 to take us the rest of the way home.
All I can say is... the vacation must have worked, because I didn't feel the slightest bit panicked, or even nervous. All I thought was, "Great... maybe we'll have time to drink one last vacation Pina Colada before I return to my regular, healthy diet in real life! (During the 7-hour layover we actually had time for many, many Pina Coladas... but hey, now that I'm safe and sound in LA I can repair my alcohol-soaked cells with wheat grass juice, right? Riiiiight.....)
Today I will make a valiant attempt to re-boot my mellow brain. Meanwhile, thanks so much to everyone for commenting while I was away... I visited the blog daily to see what you were saying, and even though I lost half of my vocabulary from spending so much time in the sun, I enjoyed your comments tremendously.
I'm thinking of writing a non-political post about my amazing night-time experience in the bio-luminescent bay... anybody interested?
posted by Yakpate at 8:38 AM
8 Comments:
Non-political?
About an amazing night-time experience??
Your out of country experience apparently has transformed you!
You got my imagination rolling.
Go 4 it YP!
9:50 AM
Yes, please! Can't wait to read it!
9:52 AM
Yes, yes and more yes! I've blown all my spark plugs on this election, and now the resulting cabinet picks by our supposed leftist pres elect. click here for a summary of MY frustration there.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet/385427/left_out?rel=hpbox
Oops, I'm derailing again.
Yes! Night time wonder splendiferousness and glowing bioluminescent mysteries! Here here!
2:13 PM
Click here 4 some peace, love & understanding; & maybe wisdom:
Read Marc Cooper ex of LA Weekly
6:49 PM
Yakpate...please write about Palin giving that interview in front of the Turkey Kill....I mean that is the most hilarious thing...I mean not funny for the Turkey...and Im now considering becoming completely VEGAN(ballbuster Help me out on this!)...but...still I can't help but giggle at Keith making fun of the interview....LOL!
7:44 PM
I have a great idea for the new, all-white cable TV network... it should be named "WET." As in, all wet...
9:36 AM
If you haven't seen this one, enjoy. He makes some very interesting points.
WHITE GUILT IS DEAD
By Tom Adkins
Look at my fellow conservatives! There they go, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I’m virtually euphoric. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not thrilled with America ’s flirtation with neo socialism. But there’s a massive silver lining in those magical clouds that lofted Barak Obama to the Presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to America : The Era of White Guilt is over.
This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of white Americans didn’t give a fluff about skin color, and enthusiastically pulled the voting lever for a black man. Not just any black man. A very liberal black man who spent his early career race-hustling banks, praying in a racist church for 20 years, and actively worked with America-hating domestic terrorists. Wow! Some resume! Yet they made Barak Obama their leader. Therefore, as of Nov 4th, 2008, white guilt is dead.
For over a century, the millstone of white guilt hung around our necks, retribution for slave-owning predecessors. In the 60s, American liberals began yanking that millstone while sticking a fork in the eye of black Americans, exacerbating the racial divide to extort a socialist solution. But if a black man can become President, exactly what significant barrier is left? The election of Barak Obama absolutely destroys the entire validation of liberal white guilt. The dragon is hereby slain.
So today, I’m feeling a little “uppity,” if you will. From this day forward, my tolerance level for having my skin color hustled is now exactly ZERO. And it’s time to clean house. No more Reverend Wright’s “God Damn America ,” Al Sharpton’s Church of Perpetual Victimization , or Jesse Jackson’s rainbow racism. Cornell West? You’re a fraud. Go home. All those “black studies” programs that taught kids to hate whitey? You must now thank Whitey. And I want that on the final.
Congressional Black Caucus? Irrelevant. Maxine Waters? Shut up.. ACORN? Outlawed. Black Panthers? Go home and pet your kitty. Black separatists? Find another nation that offers better dreams. Go ahead. I’m waiting.
Gangsta rappers? Start praising America . Begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. And please…no more ebonics. Speak English, and who knows where you might end up? Oh, yeah…pull up your pants. Your underwear is showing. You look stupid.
To those Eurosnots who forged entire careers hating America ? I’m still waiting for the first black French President.
And let me offer an equal opportunity whupping. I’ve always despised lazy white people. Now, I can talk smack about lazy black people. You’re poor because you quit school, did drugs, had three kids with three different fathers, and refuse to work. So when you plop your Colt 45-swilling, Oprah watchin’ butt on the couch and complain “Da Man is keepin’ me down,” allow me to inform you: Da Man is now black. You have no excuses.
No more quotas. No more handouts. No more stealing my money because someone’s great-great- great-great grandparents suffered actual pain and misery at the hands of people I have no relation to, and personally revile.
It’s time to toss that massive, obsolete race-hustle machine upon the heap of the other stupid 60s ideas. Drag it over there, by wife swapping, next to dope-smoking. Plenty of room right between free love and cop-killing. Careful…don’t trip on streaking.. There ya go, don’t be gentle. Just dump it. Wash your hands. It’s filthy.
In fact, Obama’s ascension created a gargantuan irony. How can you sell class envy and American unfairness when you and your black wife went to Ivy League schools, got high-paying jobs, became millionaires, bought a mansion, and got elected President? How unfair is that??? Now, Like a delicious O'Henry tale, Obama’s spread-the-wealth campaign rendered itself moot by it's own victory! America is officially a meritocracy. Obama’s election has validated American conservatism!
So, listen carefully…Wham!!!
That’s the sound of my foot kicking the door shut on the era of white guilt. The rites have been muttered, the carcass lowered, dirt shoveled, and tombstone erected. White guilt is dead and buried.
However, despite my glee, there’s apparently one small, rabid bastion of American racism remaining. Black Americans voted 96% for Barak Obama. Hmmm. In a color-blind world, shouldn’t that be 50-50? Tonight, every black person should ask forgiveness for their apparent racism and prejudice towards white people. Maybe it’s time to start spreading the guilt around.
Tom Adkins is the publisher of CommonConservative. com http://commonconservative..com
2:50 PM
I'm open to more than 1 side, otherwise I would be 1-sided if not 1/2 brained! Many just get defensive.
He makes good points. Truth is a breath of fresh air & the lightness of freedom.
Our allegiance should be for seeking the truth or objectivity.
7:03 PM
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