I wanted to see the new movie “Thor”.  I’m excited about comic-book movies nowadays, much more than fifteen years ago, when they were the hit-or-miss-but-mostly-miss kind of fare you dreaded to see adapted to the silver screen.

But I didn’t see “Thor”.  And I probably won’t.   Why?

Because I realized how much Hollywood hates me.   They hate me for who I am.  They hate my religious and political beliefs, and regardless of how much politically-neutral fare that comes out, I’ll still be giving money to an engine that will churn out movies and TV shows that will readily take shots at me every time. That’s like paying someone to call me a racial or ethnic slur to my face.  Why would I do that?  Just read this article from the Politico: HBO is coming out with new shows ready to ding conservatives.  People want to complain about the left-wing garbage in popular culture, but the most anyone wants to do about it is complain.  I have a better idea.

Destroy them.

What do I mean?  I mean hurt them financially.  They won’t listen to a bunch of conservatives complaining, but they will listen to falling revenue.  So stop buying DVDs.  Stop going to the movies.  Stop ordering cable or just go with basic internet.  And if Hollywood throws you a bone or two, refuse to settle for it.  Most of this is easier said than done, I know, particularly if you have kids or if you, like me, promised you would take someone to see a movie.  Maybe your business needs it or you just like to get away from it all once in a while.  I get it.  I’m not saying we should all go chuck our TVs and DVD players out of the window just yet.

But I think we need to start taking radical steps and they might be baby steps.  See if your provider offers internet-only or, at a minimum, just get Netflix.  But don’t settle for anything less than total and complete annihilation.  The system in place refuses to change; so we must change it.  The only way to do that is to destroy it first, then rebuild it.  Popular culture influences the country in ways we don’t always see, but sometimes it does it in painfully obvious ways.  Saturday Night Live parodies of Sarah Palin proved that.

Hollywood 2012 is doing anything it can to keep their emperor with no clothes in place, and that includes tearing you down.

Make them pay for it.

“It means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us.”

These are the words of First Lady Michelle Obama on the Tom Joyner Morning Show on October 13.

I don’t know about you, Michelle, but the only spirits I see gathering around you are those that are telling you two to stop the socialist crap.

Furthermore, Michelle, I hate it when people pander to the black community using pseudo-religious talk.  Talk to people like they are Americans.  You know, that subset of the world’s people you seem to have so much disdain for.

A recent Gallup poll taken showed support among non-Hispanic African-Americans to be 91%, a sharp difference from the rest of the public.  Even among Democrats, support for the President clocks in around 79%.

It’s enough to make you hit your head against a wall.

I understand all too much the mentally that goes into this support among African-Americans.  As a young black man growing up, it was still common to be told that the system was set up against you and that if one of “yours” had a chance of succeeding, you supported “your own”.

There is nothing inherently wrong in desiring to see success come to people who identify with us personally.  We all do it, in some form or fashion.  That family member who happens to get on a game show.  The friend who competes in a game.

But where I draw the line is blind obedience.  Which is funny, since the obedience never seems so blind.  Too often support goes to the person who looks like us because we think he’ll help “us”.  The problem is the belief that commonality means beneficial return.  Few are asking questions of whether Obama or other black politicians is doing the right thing; as long as they’re black, they’re doing the right thing.

This mentality has crippled black communities for far too long.  The current crop of black GOP candidates gives me hope that this trend can finally turn, albeit slowly.  But until African-Americans, on the whole, start questioning their support for individuals solely on the basis of skin color, I will continue to call it the ”acceptable racism”.

Long ago, Matt Drudge fired the first warning shot to mainstream media.  Sure, there had been plenty of others who had criticized the liberal bent of the MSM, but none got as much attention as Matt Drudge did back in 1998 with the breaking Monica Lewinsky scandal.  Since then, dozens of bloggers and media mavens have graced the web with their incisive commentary on the state of the media.  Andrew Breitbart fired another salvo of warning shots with the break of the ACORN scandal and his “Big” breitbart.com sites.

RightNetwork is just the latest shot being fired by those who have had enough of liberals having all of the fun.  Time will tell if this venture becomes a “USA Network” or go the way of the dodo.  But I guarantee it won’t be the last time someone pitches a right-leaning network.  The MSM need to start waking up.

You know, I never understood President Obama’s so-called “credentials” to run the country.  Sarah Palin was criticized as an idiot, an imbecile, and unfit for public office.  But BHO, well, he’s graduated from Columbia and Harvard.  He must be smart enough, or so we’ve been told.  But when I hear things like this, ti makes me realize this guy is pretty much as dumb as a President can get.

Einstein said, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”  The President considers that progress.  An Ivy League education and he still doesn’t get it.

Once again, liberalism rears its ugly, condescending head and tries to turn its Ritalin-deficient focus on the American electorate.  This time, it’s Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post, offering up his assessment of the American voting public.  The good news?  We ballot-casting citizens are not imbecilic rubes anymore.  The bad news?  Now we’re the kid at Toys R’Us who won’t stop screaming until Mommy gets him his toy.  You know the kind I’m talking about.

So The Washington Post shows us, yet again, why print is being supplanted by the web.  And it also shows why liberals cannot be trusted in the fourth estate or in the government: when they believe you’re too childish to govern yourself, it’s only a matter of time before they try send you to bed without supper.

To be honest, I’m certain what I am about to say is not “new”, but something that needs to be said.  It’s all well and good by try9ing to defeat the Democratic Party at the ballot box.  But there is a problem, an insidious one that will prevent them from realizing the full force of their hubris: the Media.

The Media has covered for the Democratic Party in more ways and in more years than countable.  They have repeatedly shilled for the President and his cronies on every occasion, to the point where it is almost a given among conservatives that they will do so.  Case in point, the alleged racial slurs yelled at the Tea Party gathering outside of the Capitol.  Even Fox News, not exactly an ally to the Commander-in-Chief, reported on such slurs without proof.

Such actions by the Media leave an indelible impression on those who have yet to be convinced of the conservative cause.  Every single swing opinion sways with the winds of the message-shaper and the Media is shaping the message.  All the while conservatives play on the defensive or react with boycotts or avoidance.  I say no more.

When your enemy goes to ground, you leave him no ground to go to.  Sun Tzu said that and conservatives should too.  What am I advocating?  The President and his allies can always depend on the Media to back their play and give them cover.  I say we attack that cover mercilessly.  And when I mean the Media I include Hollywood in that cabal.  We go after them and their profits.  I mean without pity.  Responsibly, but without pity.  We highlight every liar and yell it from the stands.   We scrape money for ads listing certain journalists as liars and incompetents.

What I really think would get he ball rolling is a month-long TV documentary/special on media bias.  Some enterprising wealthy conservative could bankroll it.  Yes, it would not be a death blow to the Media, but it will get people to think.  The most dangerous thing for a lot of these liberals is someone questioning their integrity and judgment.  By highlighting and calling out specific instances of bias in a prolonged TV media format, people will not be able to avoid talking about it.

In short, the Media has changed the landscape to the point where “conservative” is a four-letter word.  It’s time to change that.  And when liberals’ cover weaken, it’ll be easier to defeat them at the ballot.

Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, Harrison Bergeron, is a wonderful but chilling tale. It is about a society where everyone is equal. Not just equal in status, but equal in ability. No one is too “gifted”. Too intelligent? You get a mental handicap. Too athletic? Physical handicap for you. Too beautiful for society? The government has to ugly you up a bit. Eventually, the titular character breaks from his imposed bonds and tries to inspire others to do the same and subsequently pays for it. It you have not read it, go ahead and do so. I’ll wait. After you’re done, read this.

Berkeley High School is considering bringing Vonnegut’s horrific vision to life. In an era where a science education is becoming increasingly critical not only to the job force, but to national security and prosperity, the elimination of science labs and advanced science classes for the sake of diversity represents such a disgusting and dangerous adherence to a muddled concept that it crosses from the realm of boneheaded to insane. Only a suicidal civilization would ever handicap its best and brightest on a quest to make others feel better.

A society should, rightly, reward excellence and usually does so through various means. People pay good money for a product excellently made and advertised. Actors and writers are praised for excellent pieces of work that the public enjoys. Chefs, engineers, soldiers, garment makers, CEOs… all of these people are rewarded in some way for excellence. The byproduct of such reward is not only the likelihood that they will continue that excellence, but that others will be inspired to excel as well. When a society decides that excellence is not to be praised but to be scrutinized and hindered because of disparity, then that society cannot survive. While disparities can and should be addressed, harming potentially exceptional individuals to protect the feelings of those with lesser skill will produce a society that accepts mediocrity, twisting its own logic into believing that such harm is justice. Rather than break others to make a diversity omelet, Berkeley High School should be thinking of better ways to improve the science education of its minority students.

In the last week, we heard Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) lamely invoke the words of Rodney King in imploring the GOP and Democrats to “get along” to pass the so-called health care reform. This sounds like a great idea. Who doesn’t want to get along and work together? Who could be against that? I’ll tell you: me. Not because I have an aversion to working together, but because I disagree with the definition of getting along that too many liberals subscribe to. In the words of the great sage and master swordsman Inigo Montoya from the film The Princess Bride, I do not think those words mean what you think they mean, Senator Reid.

Those who don’t like to give it much thought (read: most lefties) seek to tell others they disagree with to “get along” for the sake of unity. In reality, it is merely a ploy to bring others into compliance with their ideas, no matter how boneheaded.  Getting along really means acquiescence, giving up, letting the other guy have their win while conservatives choke down defeat and more moronic government tripe. Most liberals who tell me that we should all get along never understand the fundamental difference between the liberal and conservative ideologies. Indeed, the plea to “get along” prevents actual thought and thus allows the liberal to not fully explore the intricacies of the issues or the reason why the conservative thinks the way he thinks.

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