Geez, that Third Rail is so nice and shiny. It shouldn't hurt too much if I just touch it really lightly, like this:
I used to read a blogger who called a lot of his posts com-posts: they started as comments but grew into posts that he couldn't leave on someone else's blog. This is one of those mighty oaks which grew from a tiny acorn. I wanted to be lighthearted, like about the county courthouse dome, and now time to be heavy.
I want to thank Mr. Tracy for thoroughly proving Mr. Gearhart's point. To modify Warhol's famous quote: in the future, everyone will be a bigot for fifteen minutes. I was told back in February by an old classmate of a friend of mine that anyone against Obamacare is a bigot. When I was against it packaged as Hilarycare I wasn't a bigot, but under O's name now I am. There used to be a score of anti-war folk at the Highland flag memorial all the time when Bush was in, but since Obama, none. I guess they don't want to be called bigots. McDermott wanted to replace Seaton on the Democrat ticket for assessor, and Rudy Clay called that racism. We all including Mr. Gearhart agree that there's nothing the state can do to stop this, but we think it's in poor taste and a foolish idea on which the Muslims will follow through. Now we're bigots and or idiots, for disagreeing on whether this move is a bad relations move for them.
There are some points with which I shall disagree with Mr. Tracy. 90% of blacks didn't vote against Republicans or conservatives. Being white and being fully able to participate in politics without hold-backs is something we are so used to, it's like the oxygen around us, so "there" that we forget it is there. Blacks saw the first candidate who was one of them who had a decent shot, and this was their chance to see their school win the state title, so to speak. And I saw both after the election and the inauguration how they stood a little more straight, held their chins a wee bit higher, and carried themselves with a bit more swagger and bravado, and thought if there was anything good to come from his election, it was African Americans' ability to finally take a deep, free breath and feel they arrived after 400 years of fringedom. Good for them! Catholics did the same for Kennedy 48 years previously, before which they were the "not quite 100% Americans" in majority eyes. Oh, California: blacks voted in droves to give Obama a landslide, and those same hands that voted for Obama also voted in droves to make Proposition 8 pass with flying colors in a very socially liberal state, liberal except for the black preachers and little old church ladies and choir members etc.
Many Catholics vote Democrat for the same reason they call themselves Catholic even though they haven't seen the inside of a church except for funerals and weddings since Confirmation 25 years ago: identity. Practicing Catholics who live the tenets of the faith, receive the Sacraments, and go to church at least 3/4 Sundays a month and support it with their labor and donations, let's poll them. The rest, they're as Catholic as Christopher Hitchens, and couldn't name the 7 Sacraments or the 7 Deadly Sins on a bet. You know RINO's. These are CINO's and DINO's.
Republicans will never, ever, get Muslims in their camp as a group, social issue conservatism or not. After all, remember it's the liberals who cover for them at every turn: that's their ally until they achieve Critical Mass, beyond which point non-Muslims of any persuasion are irrelevant. If any other group, whether old school Mormons, or Mafiosos, or militiamen, even private community, tries to establish a government within while outside the purview of the US or state government, in comes the RICO Act, ATF, and all sorts of stuff to flush it out. But Muslims can start their Sharia in their closed communities and the liberals will defend them to the hilt, as has happened in Europe.
I now like the 15 story (it was 13, now fortified with two count 'em two more stories of F You) Islamic Conquest Center idea. It so puts to the lie all the PC stuff. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and this falls under the Stulac revision of Twain's, "Why be quiet and have them think you're an insufferable tool, when you can build a tower at the attack site and remove all doubt." One thing Islam has today that Catholicism lost is its powerful, thorough belief in itself (witness all the pro-abortion voting Catholics). It reminds me of Germany re-occupying the Rhineland: a tactical failure if the bluff is called, the destruction of the rebuilding campaign with the swipe of one French division. But the West caved, and France had the wind knocked out of it while Germany was the rooster of the block.
Here's a video of Dearborn MI, where Muslims have their critical mass. Notice all of the Muslims speak Stand American English with zero accent: they are born here.
Mr. Tracy I'm so glad you're back. I was going to ask if it made sense for Lake County to reskin its government center, since the ugliness of the current facade might be responsible for the current miserable condition of county government.
