2050 is the new 2012
Supposedly, 2012 is the year in which the Mayan calendar ends. What some have taken from this is that 2012 will also be the year in which planet Earth becomes, with apologies to Hal Lindsey/Tim Melton (below), “The Late, Great Planet Earth”.
Have you ever seen these 2 men at the same place at the same time?
A movie was even made about this mythical 2012 date, the movie was called, *drum roll please* “2012″.
The fact that Mayans don’t buy into this 2012 hysteria has been cavalierly brushed aside in the name of sensationalistic entertainment.
Perhaps if we ask a certain slice of the American population, the year the world will end is not 2012 but 2050. Why 2050? Because of what this story reports,
White Americans’ majority to end by mid-century
So, I guess the question is, when this shift occurs what will be the consequences, if any, for this nation “under God”?
Since I’m no futurist or gypsy fortune teller, I cannot say but when I read stories like this one or hear caterwauling about how brown people are overrunning this land, I cannot help but hark back to what Chris Rock said at the end of the last millennium:
Man, the white man thinks he’s losing the country. You watch the news: ”We’re losing everything. We’re $#@?&%$ losing. ”Affirmative action, and illegal aliens… and we’re $#@?&%$ losing the country… lf y’all losing, who’s winning?”
Talk to Chuck
Unlike Floyd Mayweather Jr., I don’t “keeps a private jet”. However, many of the loudest voices urging the narod to cut down on their ravenous predation of Mother Earth do. For some examples you can check out this article.
Many politicians also don’t shirk away from using G’s to flit around to and fro, all the while pontificating on the need for Joe Six-Pack to reduce his carbon footprint.
It must be noted that the senior Senator from New York, Charles Schumer (below), actually flies commercial. Props to Chuck for keepin’ it real and not succumbing to the temptations of Senatorial life.
However, a recent incident on US Airways might just offer Mr. Schumer a convenient excuse to shun commercial flights and hop on a G from now on: Schumer has a Flight to Forget
Chuckles was quoted as saying, “It’s Harry Reid calling. I guess health care will have to wait until we land.”
Hey at least he didn’t pull the “Do you know who I am?” card.
Houston Makes History
The voters of H-town have spoken and their voice has been heard. Annise Parker has emerged victorious from the mayoral runoff election despite the fact that 11-year-old sources were the fulcrums of her TV ads, but I digress. Historical events trump stale cheap shots and differences in spellings.
After Ms. Parker’s triumph, the city of Houston will have a mayor named after a spice. Hey San Fran, Austin and Seattle, what spice are your mayors named after? Ya might wanna take a gander at the… scoreboard. In fact you’ve never had a mayor named Dill Weed, Coriander or Paprika. How regressive of you…
Given H-town voter tendencies, these 5 ladies will own the city of Houston should they ever decide to embark on political careers here in the Spice, er Space City.
Still collecting royalty checks
In more serious news, President Obama was robbed tonight at the Downtown Athletic Club. Mark Ingram? Really, Heisman voters? How many “Beer Summits” has he presided over?
Public Enemy had it wrong, 911 isn’t a joke, Heisman voting is.
Carl Pelini Gets “Jiggy Wit It” in Oslo
For those of you who don’t know who Carl Pelini is, he is the defensive coordinator and defensive line coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. His younger brother, Bo, is the head coach. Yes, this is the dynamic duo who nearly unraveled my Longhorns drive to the national title game with their brilliant defensive game plan and a boy named Suh.
Shortly after the dramatic conclusion of the Big XII championship game, Bo and Carl stormed off the field in disgust over what they perceived was a hose job from the powers-that-be. Click here and here for excellent analysis.
According to this article, the strongest words came from Carl who allegedly said, “You should be ashamed to accept that trophy!” in the direction of the exultant Texas Longhorns who were accepting the Big XII Championship trophy at midfield.
Yesterday, President Barack Obama was in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. Many feel that POTUS hasn’t done anything to deserve such high praise, and apparently the Pelini brothers reside in this demographic and made the roadie to Scandinavia to express themselves:
I wonder what the Fresh Prince thought of the Pelinis’ act…
Tebow Wept…
In defeat, Tim Tebow is Christ-like,
Someone give this man the Heisman, it should look great flanked by the scalps of Texas OC Greg Davis and Texas OL coach, Mac McWhorther
And finally, the man who prevented BCS chaos with his golden foot, Texas kicker Hunter Lawrence,
Hook ‘em
Moratorium
On using out-of-context Biblical passages or events to bash or deify President Obama.
Enough already.
This might unsettle the throngs of Left Behind devotees, but POTUS is not the rider of the white horse in Rev 6, though Anna (below) might be.
“I can even save Charlie Weis’ job”
Nor is President Obama the rider of a different white horse in Rev 19, I’m looking at you Spike Lee. This does raise the question: If POTUS got inked up, what would he go with?
Diversianity Has its Limits
Vigilantism is not encouraged by most of Western society. Which is odd considering how well movies about vigilantes (i.e. “The Dark Knight”) rake at the box office.
Speaking of Batman, the next story features a boat that looks like something the Caped Crusader might con:
Pictured: The bullet-proof ‘Batmobile’ set to wreak havoc on the Japanese whaling fleets
Who is “The Sea Shepherd Society”? Nothing more than a group of concerned citizens that has waged a jihad (“Now batting for Allah, Gaia!”) against Japanese whalers.
One of the vigilantes activists is none other than Daryl Hannah who I guess is just getting back to her roots (right)?
Whaling is part of Japanese culture. How integral? I don’t know, but who are we to tell them what they can or can’t do in international waters?
Incidents between the “Sea Shepherds” and Japanese whalers in the past have resulted in people getting hurt.
These Hollywood types are really something else. They seem to pontificate about how there is no right and wrong, yet there are plenty of things they seem to find “wrong”. So much so that they take extreme measures to battle whatever they deem as “wrong”, multiculturalism be damned.
Much closer to home, why aren’t they protesting the ritual slaughter of lambs by Muslims and Jews? You wouldn’t need a bulletproof Bat Boat to do it either, but for sure it’d upset the apple cart much more than protesting a distant nation’s customs.
To paraphrase a fictional Politburo member: “Where are the cultural relativists here!?!”
“Tibet will Rise Again”?
I have observed with no small degree of fascination, the obsession people have with “freeing” Tibet. I’ve wondered if the same people who vehemently oppose war would oppose it if the goal was “liberating” the region from China.
Having spoken with a Chinese co-worker in the past, he conveyed to me that the Western press oversimplifies things and that Westerners have no business meddling in Chinese internal affairs. Needless to say, he’s not the world’s biggest Dalai Lama fan.
The Dalai Lama, of course, is the exiled leader of the Tibetan people. The current one is referred to as “His Holiness”. How a Buddhist is addressed with such a moniker is puzzling, given the fact that Buddhism, to my limited knowledge, doesn’t deal in “holiness” but I digress.
Why do I bring this up? Because the Chinese government has done something which will not endear it to either the “Free Tibet” crowd or much anyone else in the good ol’ U.S. of A.
They went out on a limb and made the following analogy,
Lincoln:Secessionist South::China:Tibet under the Dalai Lama
No they didn’t, well actually yes they did. Check it out here.
How long before the following composite makes its way to the streets of Dixieland?
Disputable Matters
Carrie Prejean (below), the much despised/admired former Miss California recently sat down with Christianity Today a for a Q&A.
Truth be told, reading the interview won’t change your view of this polarizing woman. If you disliked her you’ll dislike her more after reading it. If you were shaking the Carrie pom-poms before, you’ll continue to spirit sprinkle yourself until your fingers fall off. Both camps are represented in the comments section of the article.
The interviewer lobbed more softballs than any pitcher that patrols the mounds of your local beer league. Softball guy is a post all unto himself, but I digress.
There was one question which will surely catch anyone’s attention,
You wrote that you don’t regret getting breast implants. Have you ever wondered whether it might be incompatible with your Christian faith?
Here’s Prejean’s answer:
No, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with getting breast implants as a Christian. I think it’s a personal decision. I don’t see anywhere in the Bible where it says you shouldn’t get breast implants.
St. Paul couldn’t have possibly imagined boob jobs would be in play when he told the Romans not to “pass judgement on disputable matters”.
Begs the question: Do boob jobs fall under “disputable matters”?
What about skin-whitening creams?
Let the Church Bells Ring
From Christian Lander, a prophet for our troubled times,
An interesting fact about white people is that they firmly believe that all of the world’s problems can be solved through “awareness.” Meaning the process of making other people aware of problems, and then magically someone else like the government will fix it.
As a call to action on global warming, churches throughout our fair planet will ring their bells on December 13, which just happens to be the date of the Copenhagen climate change summit.
“Church bells to ring out warning on climate change”
What’s next a synod against the sun for its role in global warmingt?
What all this hand-wringing bell-ringing is going to actually accomplish, I can’t really surmise. Perhaps the World Council of Churches was influenced by Christopher Walken’s Bruce Dickinson on SNL (below),
“Guess what? The planet has a fevah, and the only prescription is more church bell”
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