http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/01/09/eng_317_how_not_to_be_gay?page=full&comments=true

She will still vote her anyway. No moral dilemma there! The politicians and the chattering classes are all political prostitutes.

I’ve been busy traveling and actually write this comment from my father’s kitchen table in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Are you kidding? The Left has already cried racism–when Obama WON the Iowa primary! From the website of a ridiculous group called Afrospear (“A Think Tank For People of African Descent”):



Obama Win Doesn’t Mean Racism Lost
http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/obama-win-doesnt-mean-racism-lost/



Here’s a quote:

”To make the assertion that racism is on the wane because white people voted to make Barack Obama their primary choice for the Democratic caucus in Iowa ranks right up there with the notion that racism is dead because white people like to watch Oprah. The idea that this proves that the majority of white people would support their black neighbors is rather imprudent and irresponsible.”

So, Obama lost in NH because of racism. AND the idea that “racism is on the wane” just because Obama won in Iowa is “imprudent and irresponsible.” See a pattern? Racism if Obama loses. Racism if he wins.

And Obama has already demonstrated that he knows exactly how to use this approach to demonize not only Republicans, but even worse, people of faith. Has everyone forgotten the speech he made last year at United Church of Christ convention? (http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-06-23-obama-ucc_N.htm)

In his speech, he said the following:

“Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and faith started being used to drive us apart…Faith got hijacked, partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, all too eager to exploit what divides us.”

So, in Obama’s view, it’s not just “divisive” to have secular political beliefs that are inconsistent with the liberal agenda, it’s “divisive” to stubbornly cling to RELIGIOUS BELIEFS that are inconsistent with the leftists’ world view.

I learned all I needed to know at Pacific Street and it only cost me my beer money. Actually, I learned how to be “gay” and avoid it.

From: Vince P
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:13 PM
To: Subject: How to be a parasite

I saw your class “How to be gay”… What’s your next class.. “How to be a cultural parasite, hollowing out the Academy from within.”

Must be nice to live a life devoted to something so trivial and insignificant and get away with it.. I’m jealous.

Vince… gay myself and don’t need to pay thousands of dollars to be indoctrinated on how to be me. Oh I just thought of a fallback job for you in case your scam is eventually resolved… Scientology.

http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?BG/317descr

ENGLISH 317. Literature and Culture.
Section 002 — How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation.

Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term).

Instructor(s): David M Halperin (halperin@umich.edu)

Course Description:

Just because you happen to be a gay man doesn’t mean that you don’t have to learn how to become one. Gay men do some of that learning on their own, but often we learn how to be gay from others, either because we look to them for instruction or because they simply tell us what they think we need to know, whether we ask for their advice or not.

This course will examine the general topic of the role that initiation plays in the formation of gay male identity. We will approach it from three angles: (1) as a sub-cultural practice — subtle, complex, and difficult to theorize — which a small but significant body of work in queer studies has begun to explore; (2) as a theme in gay male writing; and (3) as a class project, since the course itself will constitute an experiment in the very process of initiation that it hopes to understand.

In particular, we will examine a number of cultural artifacts and activities that seem to play a prominent role in learning how to be gay: Hollywood movies, grand opera, Broadway musicals, and other works of classical and popular music, as well as camp, diva-worship, drag, muscle culture, taste, style, and political activism. Are there a number of classically ‘gay’ works such that, despite changing tastes and generations, all gay men, of whatever class, race, or ethnicity, need to know them, in order to be gay? What is there about gay identity that explains the gay appropriation of these works? What do we learn about gay male identity by asking not who gay men are but what it is that gay men do or like? One aim of exploring these questions is to approach gay identity from the perspective of social practices and cultural identifications rather than from the perspective of gay sexuality itself. What can such an approach tell us about the sentimental, affective, or subjective dimensions of gay identity, including gay sexuality, that an exclusive focus on gay sexuality cannot?

At the core of gay experience there is not only identification but disidentification. Almost as soon as I learn how to be gay, or perhaps even before, I also learn how not to be gay. I say to myself, ‘Well, I may be gay, but at least I’m not like that!’ Rather than attempting to promote one version of gay identity at the expense of others, this course will investigate the stakes in gay identifications and disidentifications, seeking ultimately to create the basis for a wider acceptance of the plurality of ways in which people determine how to be gay.

Additional note. This course is not a basic introduction to gay male culture, but an exploration of certain issues arising from it. It assumes some background knowledge. Students wishing to inform themselves about gay men and gay culture in a preliminary way should enroll in an introductory course in lesbian/gay studies.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obamas-troublin.html

Obama’s Troubling Alliance

The New York Sun picked up on my Obama/Odinga connection and ran an excellent editorial, The Kenyan Connection here (Atlas is cited as well):

I found the comments to the oped piece heartbreaking. Mind you, they are all Kenyans. But it certainly raises more questions than it answers. The most obvious question is, why has Obama aligned himself with this murderer?

Here is a sampling of reader comments. Note the relief that someone has brought this to light. Check this man out;

Finally an accurate asessment of Raila Odinga coming from the West

Sir, I am a kenyan who read your article with great relief that finally, someone in the West is seeing Raila Odinga in correct light. I would like to urge any american to take seriously the association that Raila has with a radical Islamic grouping in Kenya before it is too late. He is determined to make sure that that country is at least chaotic enough for such groupings to operate in that region without the inhibition that Kenya’s democracy and stability has so far been. I do not know what kind of relationship Obama has with Raila, politically, but you are right on about the claims of kinship that Raila himself has made.

More….

Obama should come out and denounce genocide

I lived in Kenya for about 2 years and have some understanding of the beautiful country. What is happening is a shame.

Obama has called the 2 leaders to talk about the ‘rigged’ election but he has not issued any statement on the atrocities committed by Raila Odinga’s supporters. Around new years, women and children taking refuge in a church were burned by Raila supporters. I thought this could have sparked a reaction from Obama but it did not. Instead, he called his cousin twice to show his concern about the election.

I support Obama’s candidature but will re consider if he doesn’t come out and condemn his cousin’s crimes against innocent Kenyans.

The majority of the writers felt the same way;

God bless you

Thank you for writing this story. I received the official documents that ODM leader signed with the muslim leaders in Mombasa and I could not believe it.

Thank you, thank you the world needs to know what type of human being the ODM leader is.

And this woman apparently has docs;

Thank you Daniel for your article. Kenya and President Kibaki have been tarnished in this past week due to lack of facts. A document is available that shows ODMs party campaign strategy which includes the plans for the above as well as plans in case of what they call unfavourable election outcome hence the ethnic cleansing. If you provided an email I can forward them.

The same sentiment and desperation running through these Kenyans remarks;

The past 1 week has seen an avalanche of Kenyan blogs trying to paint what is happening in Kenya as a revolt in the masses. It is not true. These blogs were organized by ODM (raila’s party) and to be honest were very good at it.

However your article was very correct to state that the Raila strategy was the demonizing of one tribe and the end result was the killing of women and children inside a church. One of the babies was actually taken from the mothers hands and thrown back in the fire.Over 600 people were killed in this massacre and when the police took action, ODM cried foul.

Kenyans are very peace loving ,but the Raila group has worked systematically to displace over 250,000 people in the name of democracy. In a country where both the opposition and the ruling party can rig elections, the people who are suffering are innocent women and children who are dying .

I ask that people note how Rwanda started. It is already happening and there is no mass movements to support Raila Odinga but there is systematic ethnic cleansing. I do not believe there is any democratic movement in this whole world that can condone burning women and children inside a church.

pls read more on this from the victims and not from a Raila supporter

The riots in Nairobi only happened in one slum in the city and the rest of the city was peaceful.

Most of them read like this, some more desperate. The comments denouncing the article are from American leftards that make no real argument. Snark, ad hominem left wing drivel.

Why is Obama backing is this horse? Very bad judgment.

thanks

Thank you for telling the truth about raila at one and the only international press who have done his his homework kudos

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Will the lame-ass American press do anything about this? Nope.

Where is the man with the presence and convictions of Ronald Reagan?

Dick Morris says that McCain is the one who can bring out the Reagan Democrats.

Or was that the red beans and rice I had earlier?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPUe6T8RVXs

A speech he gave while in the Illinois State Capital when he was part of the Democrat Machine.

Obama’s desire to break the streak of hatefull win at all costs politics

And his idea of it, again, is:

1) He gives a lighter-than-air, happy-sounding speech.
2) Everyone admires him and goes along, giving him his way.

If you don’t go along, he gets out his knives, sure enough. (Or has his left-lib surrogates do it; same difference.)

Has Mr Uniter said one nice thing about Bush?