God's Own Crunk

I’m not a fan of Thomas Kinkade, but the tendency of people who aren’t Christians or conservatives to mock those who are as soon as they die is, shall we say, tacky:

The death of popular artist Thomas Kinkade is certain to ignite controversy regarding the painter’s legacy. Known for his renderings of luminous landscapes and street scenes, often captured at twilight, the so-called painter of light, a Christian who said that God guided his brush, died Friday at 54 of natural causes.

Regarded as both a master of kitsch and a genius of commercial marketing, Kinkade, a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, discovered a lucrative formula for his art at an early age. He and his wife, Nanette, initially sold his painting for $35 apiece. Saturday morning on EBay, a 30-by-48-inch canvas of a stormy mountain range by Kinkade was listed at $95,000.

via Thomas Kinkade’s artistic legacy up for grabs – latimes.com.

Two honkeys were arrested in the Tulsa shootings – I’m sure this is the last we’ll hear of this (uhhuh…):

Two arrests have been made in the North Tulsa shootings that left three African American men dead, FOX23 reports.

Cops apprehended two white males — 19-year-old Jake England and Alvin Watts, 32 — at 1:47 a.m. local time, KOKI reported.

They will be charged with three counts of murder and two counts of shooting with intent to kill.

via Oklahoma Police Arrest Two Suspects In Tulsa Shootings | Fox News.

And you thought you had problems! 

Well, the NYT’s female ethicist cobbled together a panel about the ethics of meat-eating, and that bee-atch had the nerve to not include one woman and no people of non-white colors – the panel includes four white guys and a bloody Jew!

You know what that means, right? Outrage, brother, outrage.

[It wasn't revealed if there were any theists on the panel, but no mention thus far - a relative point since organized religion's rules on eating and food are, in many cases, several millennia old and often have to do with humane treatment of animals, but that's not very sexy to the PC-minded.]

This was a nice zinger – Surber’s better than most on a typical day, but when he rolls, he rolls hard:

Soledad O’Brien’s unpopularity is symptomatic of how out-of-touch CNN is. The network lost its credibility with conservatives, who are the core audience for cable TV news. MSNBC at least can get frat boy libs to tune in at night. CNN? It has to stick TVs in dental offices, airports and gas chambers to get people to watch. If I were about to be executed, I would say, hurry up. Wolf Blitzer is coming back on.

via CNN babes fail « Don Surber.

I’ve been screeching about this since Bill Clinton was in office, but it’s well-said here – this is a cultural shift that’s been taking place since I was in college, and it’s destruction is just getting started:

But the Romney heckler illustrated the way in which wants have been transformed into “rights” in America and ultimately into obligations and entitlements. The process can be illustrated this way: “I want you to buy me lunch. Therefore, I need lunch. And if I need something, I have a right to it – and you, therefore, have an obligation to pay for it.”

The equation looks like this: Wants = needs = rights = obligations. The laundry list goes far beyond free lunch to include free health care, free cell phones, free birth control, free mortgage bailouts – and on and on.

via The Entitled States of America: We Want More!.

Bill Quick posted this nugget earlier, and it got me to thinking about a story that made the rounds a couple weeks ago. Many conservative-leaning sites ran commentary about an outrageously outrageous woman who had the gall to win the lottery and continue to use food stamps. She was tracked down by a news outfit (if memory serves) and she didn’t understand what the big deal was. Why this would surprise, shock or even outrage anyone is beyond me.

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Although there are hints of resentful niceguyism in this piece, it’s quite a read, a damn good one at that – I share the conclusion, but do read the whole thing:

Led by a small cadre of practical game theoreticians, most notoriously the brilliantly dour Roissy, more and more men are taking the red pill and rejecting the pretty lies they have been told throughout the entire course of their education and upbringing. Some are choosing to go their own way. Others are improving the quality of their marriages, and still others are using their new-found knowledge to plow through the opposite sex like Visigoths and Vandals sacking Rome. What Peggy Noonan does not realize is that whereas men once assumed that a woman was a lady until proven otherwise, increasing numbers of them assume women are shallow and superficial until they are provided with credible evidence to the contrary.

via Sl-tgate and society.

I’m perpetually surprised when I see a humorous piece about the writer experiencing Christian rock. The surprise isn’t that the writing is humorous; rather, that there’s not a lot more of it:

Throughout Winter Jam’s four-hour show, unoriginal rhythms and derivative vocals are woven into a cacophony of clichés laced with “God is the light,” “Praise be to your name,” and “Glory hallelujah.” Spotlights shine on meticulously primped prophets wearing gelled faux-hawks and guy-liner. The performers praise Jesus as though he’s some pagan deity who suffers from self-doubt and a chronic lack of attention. When celibate sex symbol Kari Jobe sings, “I know that you have come now” to her Lord, I wonder if her boyfriend gets a little jealous.

via Jesus Returns in a Tour Bus – Takis Magazine.

Given that men pay more income tax than women in the US and given that men are given almost no voice in whether a woman keeps or ends a pregnancy and given that men are overwhelmingly made financially responsible for the child, I’d say a better question would be, why would women be allowed any voice at all it this matter?If and when women as a whole are willing to step up and take responsibility for their lives and their actions, then we’ll look at letting them speak up.

via Shut the Fuck Up, He Explained | Daily Pundit.

For a couple years now, Mark Steyn has primarily dwelled on debt issues, which is really depressing. This weekend, he set his sights on Sandra Fluke and the kabuki theater of the absurd in which she starred:

No, the most basic issue here is not religious morality, individual liberty or fiscal responsibility. It’s that a society in which middle-age children of privilege testify before the most powerful figures in the land to demand state-enforced funding for their sex lives at a time when their government owes more money than anyone has ever owed in the history of the planet is quite simply nuts.

As stark staring nuts as the court of Ranavalona, the deranged nymphomaniac queen of Madagascar at whose funeral the powder keg literally went up, killing dozens and burning down three royal palaces. Indeed, one is tempted to arrange an introduction between “T Squalls, 30,” now 32 going on 33, and Sandra Fluke, 30 going on 31, like a skillfully negotiated betrothal between two royal houses in medieval Europe. The student prince would bring to the marriage his impressive fortune of a decade’s worth of Trojan Magnums, while the Princess Leia would have a dowry of index-linked RU 486s settled upon her by HHS the Margravine of Sebelius. They would not be required to produce an heir.

Insane as this scenario is, the Democrat-media complex insists that everyone take it seriously. When it emerged the other day that Amanda Clayton, a 24-year-old Michigan million-dollar lottery winner, still receives $200 of food stamps every month, even the press and the bureaucrats were obliged to acknowledge the ridiculousness. Yet, the same people are determined that Sandra Fluke be treated with respect as a pioneering spokesperson for the rights of the horizontally challenged.

via Miss Fluke goes to Washington | fluke, sex, right – Opinion – The Orange County Register.