Voltaire (Supposedly) Was Right

Voltaire supposedly said, "Show me who you can't criticize, and I'll show you who rules you." While I'm not enough of a French Enlightenment scholar to tell you if he actually did say that, I do believe that's generally true.

Which brings me to HB1523, the favorite whipping boy of the state press. Remember that the bill carved out religious beliefs that were to be respected by the state, and could be used as a defense?  And that the press got the vapors from the mere idea that people might need protections from the government telling their churches what they could and could not preach and believe in?

(Never mind that the federal government has a similar law.  I can hear them now-"But it wasn't meant to protect Christians!" they cry.  Yeah, wipe your tears with the 14th Amendment.)

*AHEM*

This is where they're going.  You didn't really think it was all about who could use which toilet, did you?

In Case You Ever Feel Like You're Alone Out There...

Here's a list of celebrities who "lean to the right," though I find some of them curious (Britney Spears? Meat Loaf? Don King? Really?) and surprising (Kid Rock, James Earl Jones and Karl Malone, huh?). It's still a free country, at least until the thought police get here. Check it out.

And for those of you who hate us conservatives, note that many of them are really, really good looking. None look clingy (though I wish Rachel Hunter was).

http://wcbstv.com/slideshows/Conservative.Celebrities.20.824701.html?rid=0

But..but...Obama Hates Lobbying!

http://perfunction.typepad.com/perfunction/2008/09/waiting-for-gut.html

This simply cannot be true. Obamessiah has spoken. He does not like lobbyists. Certainly he would not employ one to raise millions of dollars and smear Sarah Palin.

Oceania still at war with Eurasia.

UPDATION: Howard Gutman on Friday:

“If my daughter had just come home at 17 years old and said, ‘Mom, Dad, I’m pregnant, we have a family problem,’ I wouldn’t say, ‘You know what we’re going to do? We’re going to take this private family problem … I’m going to go on the international stage and broadcast it to the world’,” he said.

Gutman later added: “If you take a daughter who’s got this emotional strife and subject her to the most intense scrutiny of the world at this time in her life, I think you’ve put your career above your family.”

And he hasn't been let go from the Campaign yet. Way to flip on that one, Barry.

Somewhere, George Orwell Is Having an Aneurysm

Yes, I have compared the Obama campaign to the book 1984 a hundred times. With all the doublespeak, doublethink, Thought Police (the ad is racist! Leaning Tower of Pisa! White chicks! Doesn't look like guy on the dollar bill!), and Big Brother-type images, who wouldn't have made the link?

I mean, all that was missing was a hand gesture symbolizing group identity and solidarity. They included one in the 1984 version of 1984 (good movie, by the way. John Hurt is excellent as Winston, and Richard Taylor makes a very good O'Brien). It was two arms crossed above one's head in an X shape. It's a good thing his supporters are so level headed as to avoid such a bad idea. I mean, surely they learned their lesson from the Obamaland Seal.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/08/07/one-nation-under-a-new-obama-salute.html

Oops. Ummm...when does the two minutes of George Bush hate begin?

UPDATE!: Oh, my God, it just keeps getting better. Live Long and Prosper, Barry. Geez, by the look of the ears, they might be his descendants:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVG1KfcAWgY

Hat tip, Baldilocks.