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A monument to Confederate denial is rising again in Biloxi Mississippi, with 90% of the cost paid by federal and state taxpayers.

Cracker bitter-enders have rebuilt Beauvoir, Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and are now working on the accompanying “presidential library,” completely destroyed by the storm.

Things To Come: Enough Pillars? 

The complex is run by the Mississippi branch of the Sons of Confederate War Veterans.  The Sons are a coven of cranks determined to put across their claim that the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, which has taken them into the nether worlds of  Lost Cause-ist racists, Black Confederate fetishists, and “heritage” activists who enjoy presenting creepy readings of history with much winking and nudging

“We note with interest the revelation that Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has slave owners in his ancestry. This news demonstrates an interesting irony with respect to contemporary multi-cultural American politics...For candidate Obama, the news is perhaps more complex since his African roots may link him to African tribes that traded their brothers and sisters into slavery.“

  Obtuse Apologists

Quote Me From Your Leader      

Google’s scrappy Android phone system doesn’t pull the babes like Apple’s IPhone, although some claim it will win in the end.

Until then, Android users pining for that Reagan touch must make do with less than glamorous apps.

  While IPhone users revel in the splendor of an official Reagan Library endorsed IReagan app, droid-ists must make do with the new Ronald Reagan random quote function.

The swank factor is not increased just because the app “Comes with several backgrounds.”

And if your fount of wisdom is to be thirty years old wouldn’t you at least like a search function?

Additional  delight may be found with the Ronald Reagan CallClip, which pops up random photographs of our leader.

IReagan has been embraced by clowns of all ages, such as FoxNews goofball Adam Housley.      In his hard-hitting report, Adam spouts “facts” of no known origin. Tie urgently eskew,  he claims that the just introduced IReagan is “the first politician to have an app,” news certain to be of interest to Barack Obama.

If you embrace Reagan and IPhone, but reject Big Library’s IReagan, the for-profit sector has stepped into the breach.

Shake it ’till you make it happen with this        

…or enjoy more random Reagan with this app

Or full-throttle full length Reagan speeches from yesteryear can be had here, divided into three separate eras in chewable $.99 portions.

         

rt of the cost of doing business. You and I pay the taxes imposed on business every time we go to the store. Only people pay taxes and it is political demagoguery or economic illiteracy to try and tell us otherwise.

Two Hearts That Beat As One

Charles Krauthammer knows that the scruffies want our money, and this global warming hokum is but the latest chapter in the ceaseless struggle to make the white man pay.

But once heroes walked the Earth.

“The idea of essentially taxing hardworking citizens of the democracies to fill the treasuries of Third World kleptocracies went nowhere, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher (and the debt crisis of the early ’80s). They put a stake through the enterprise. “

And how does Chuck know what drove these stakeholders?  Making it up with Magic Realism!

Reagan launched his presidential run with bold talk:

“The only way to free ourselves from the monopoly pricing power of OPEC is to be less dependent on outside sources of fuel.“

But by the time of he debated President Carter, OPEC was just a weakling’s excuse for inflation.

In office Reagan could look bravely into the future:

“Whatever happens in the short-term on oil, we must also continue the transition to an era of fission, fusion, coal, and renewable resources. “

The end result?

“Net imports have generally increased since 1985 while U.S. production fell and consumption grew.”

And when OPEC finally did begin to crumble…

“In April 1986, Vice President George H.W. Bush traveled to Saudi Arabia with a stern warning. Record low oil prices of $10 a barrel threatened the U.S. oil industry and U.S. national security. If prices don’t rise, he warned, perhaps a U.S. tariff on imported oil would do the job.“

If Krauthammer is too enthused on Reagan, he’s too modest in his Thatcher claim.  He  ignores her role in the Saudi arms scandal said to have netted her son twelve million Pounds, apparently undermining that particular kleptocracy by taking their cash.

Stuffed And Mounted?
Via Wonkette, deeply disturbing news on the “how may I take my unhealthy interest in all Obama-licious to troubling new heights” front.

When Bugs Cry   

Indonesians of all ages turn out to see a splendid new statue commemorating Barack Obama’s brief childhood sojourn in the capitol Jakarta.
The BBC has locals hero worshiping Barack In Bronze, but the Jakarta Globe talked to a less happy resident.

Raditya Ayu speaks for youth:

“I think people should make a statue of someone if that person has done something for the people. And I don’t think Obama has done anything for Indonesia. …I think they should have erected a statue of SBY [Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono] here, or even a statue of Michael Jackson. If you travel to a place where there is no TV, I’m sure you will find that people will still know him [Jackson]. He is really great.”

Pre-Presidential knees in representational art have proud precedence of course in the Michigan Boy Scouts stirring tribute to local Eagle Gerry Ford.