Thursday’s Toestubs

*  Imagine that:  John Lennon was a closet Republican and a Reagan fan in his latter few years of life, and he also regretted his previous left-wing activism.  That all means that the John Lennon that the anarchist left loves so much, the Lennon whose song “Imagine” is taken as a serious political treatise by the same insane milieu, is admitting that his leftism was nothing more than youthful indiscretion and immaturity.

*  Huh?  Why are they mad at the RNC?  Don’t they know most of the people inside want amnesty and open borders?  They better not shit where they might be invited to eat.

*  Last of the Mohicans:  Heath Shuler’s alma mater is reportedly waving a lot of money at him to quit Congress and become their new AD.  I wouldn’t blame him for taking the job, because he’s now part of a marginalized minor constituency within the minority party in the House.  If he does take the job, I wouldn’t necessarily take it as an indication that he thinks the Republicans will keep the House for the foreseeable future, for even if the Democrats get it back in 2012 or 2014, Shuler would still be just as much a pariah in the eyes of Pelosi, Hoyer and Clyburn as he is now.

*  When you have to resort to the House defense, i.e. trying to plead innocence based on a disease that most people only know about from watching House, then you’re in deep doo.

*  Now I think we have found out Gerry McCarthy’s problem, the reason he went off into screwballville at St. Sabina’s Nut House:  He’s an insipid ass kisser, and will say whatever he has to say and do whatever he has to do to please enough people to get promoted from cushy job to cushier job.  He probably has no real core principles.  Notice that the author of this piece sees a lot of similarities between McCarthy’s rant at St. Sabina’s and typical Obama administration talking points and propaganda.

*  The State of Illinois has now classified MRSA as a “killer.”  That means it gets life in prison without parole, i.e. Governor Quinn will pardon it a few years from now.

*  Marine Le Pen is having it fired at her with both barrels — She’s getting it both from the left and the right.

Some of us were worried that she would soften up the FN too far such that it’s no longer really nationalist.  We can stop worrying now if both the vicious left and the lamer right are both out to get her.

*  Yet, they can and keep on wanting to make your 95-year old white grandmother take off her Depends.

The only way this story would have been even more ridiculous is if Mr. Noibi had an actual grenade taped to his body in plain sight.

You know why they let him on the plane.  Denying him would have been “racist.”

*  Green Bay Packers might soon be a double entendre.

Don’t Go West, Young Man. And No Raising Cain, Either.

Cops fear violence against violent thugs.  You can’t make this shit up.

WTXF-Fox-29 Philly:

Cops Fear Violence Against Flash Mobs

UPPER DARBY, Pa. – As police in Upper Darby, Pa., search for more young people involved in last week’s flash mob, more adults are thinking about arming themselves with guns.

People are talking about how afraid they are of being caught in the path one of these flash mobs while they’re out minding their own business, and they want to be ready.

Law enforcement officials say it’s a nightmare in the making because ordinary, private citizens are getting gun permits.

“We have people now that are fearful and carrying guns because of children. How sad is that?” Upper Darby police Captain George Rhoades said.

He said it’s all legal.

(snip)

Rhoades says with that many people “carrying” and the violent actions of these flash mobs, the worst is bound to happen.

No actually the best is bound to happen.  It might deter these flash mobs from flashing again.

There’s an object lesson in all this.

Capt. Rhoades probably leads a decent moral life in private and probably the same in public. (I’ll say that, then we’ll soon find out that the FBI is investigating him for something. For the meantime, presume he’s straight as an arrow). So much so that all that, combined with the proper skin color, gets him into a leadership position in this Upper Darby, Penn.’s Police Department. Since he’s a cop, his duty is to enforce the city’s laws, the state’s laws, and (for the most part) the Federal government’s laws. Yet, when the rubber hits the road, he is opposed to white people using their legal rights to self defense against wild gangs of black thugs for one reason and one reason only: Because he is also black.

The object lesson? A black is a black is a black is a black is a black. Keep that in mind, those of you who might harbor sympathies for Allen West and Herman Cain. Make any one of them President, or give the former any measure of power in Congress other than being a regular Congressman, and they’ll do just like this Capt. Rhoades did.

As an aside, Pennsylvania’s Governor just signed a bunch of laws making self-defense easier, the “Castle Doctrine” bill.

(snip)

“Everybody’s got a gun permit. Everybody’s got a cell phone. Depends upon which one you wanna pull out,” he said.

Yeah, your cell phone is a really good weapon against a rampaging mob of hateful blacks.  Besides, if the cops come, and they see you recording their efforts to quell the mob, they’ll want to seize your cell phone.  The war on photography, as the Instapundit calls it.