In my instance I am often a victim of profiling and sometimes I run the risk of being shot at simply by being different. Nevertheless, I understand the importance of identifying the right to vote with the person casting the vote. As the next election looms, I find myself uncomfortable with the continued resistance by the American progressives to this simple and self evident principle. In fact it is beyond irritating and makes Hulk mad and when Hulk mad… HULK SMASH!!!

More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.

The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.

In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a “workingmen’s holiday” on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.

Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From them developed the movement to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.

The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation’s strength, freedom, and leadership — the American worker.

(from US DOL)

Happy Labor Day, everyone!  Have a great weekend!

-TF

I’ve got to be honest, I didn’t watch.  Almost every word the man says in public is a lie, so I feel more than safe reading the transcript the next day.  Let’s just say that my distrust for the President on this issue comes from his disdain for the surge that actually won the war.

*Obama said this about war funding:

“Unfortunately, over the last decade, we have not done what is necessary to shore up the foundation of our own prosperity. We have spent over a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has shortchanged investments in our own people, and contributed to record deficits.”

Veronique de Rugy is unimpressed.

*Funny, I don’t feel safer, by David Harsanyi.

*Some Thoughts on the Speech, by Peter Wehner.

“President Obama has already inflicted enormous damage to our nation; last night he added to the wreckage.”

Restore America Rally (Retread)

*I know this is going to shock you, but Kathleen Parker was unimpressed.

*Glenn Beck’s Ecumenical Moment, by Jonah Goldberg.

“I confess, if Beck weren’t a libertarian, I would find his populism worrisome. But his message, flaws and excesses notwithstanding, is that our constitutional heritage defines us as a people, regardless of race, religion, or creed. Is that so insulting to Martin Luther King Jr.’s memory?”

*I think I see what Glenn Beck is doing, at ChicagoBoyz.

“Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.

He is nuking out the foundations of the opposition’s moral preeminence, the very thing I proposed in this post.

Ronald Reagan said we would not defeat Communism, we would transcend it.

Beck is aiming to have America do the same thing to its decaying class of Overlords, transcend them.”

Misc.

*The Couric-Rich Model of the Five Stages of MSM Grief, by Ed Driscoll.

*The Ground Zero Mosque Imam is a slum lord.

“Nor was Rauf a very good landlord. Both The Record and the the New York Post report a litany of complaints at Rauf’s buildings dating back decades and continuing to this day: heaps of garbage, overgrown grass, lack of heat and hot water; rat, cockroach, and bedbug infestations; and general filth.”

*Hating Your Countrymen is the New Patriotism, by Mathew Sheffield.

“In short: liberals don’t hate America, they simply hate Americans, especially when they won’t go along with such obviously good things such as President Obama’s healthcare law, “economic stimulus” spending, nationalizing student loans, unilaterally disarming American nuclear weapons, or raising taxes in an anemic economy. Having fully embraced the notion that Judeo-Greco-Roman society has engaged in systematic “cultural imperialism,” the modern Left has embraced what might be termed “cultural inferiorism” as a means to atone.”

The article is Meltdown of Climate ‘Consensus’, at the New York Post.

“Al Gore and many other warming alarmists have insisted that “the debate is over” — that the science was “settled.” That claim is now in shreds — though the grants are still flowing, and advocates still hope Congress will pass some version of the economically ruinous “cap and trade” anti-warming bill.

What does the best evidence now tell us? That man-made global warming is a mere hypothesis that has been inflated by both exaggeration and downright malfeasance, fueled by the awarding of fat grants and salaries to any scientist who’ll produce the “right” results.”

Read the whole thing.

RELATED: Take the quiz, Al Gore or the Unabomber.

I scored a 42%.

The statue was created by an Iraqi artist named Kalat, who for years was forced by Saddam Hussein to make the many hundreds of bronze busts of Saddam that dotted Baghdad. Kalat was so grateful for the Americans liberation of his country; he melted 3 of the heads of the fallen Saddam and made the statue as a memorial to the American soldiers and their fallen warriors
Kalat worked on this memorial night and day for several months. To the left of the kneeling soldier is a small Iraqi girl giving the soldier comfort as he mourns the loss of his comrade in arms.

*You shall be re-educated comrade, count on it.

“Re-education” has been a favorite effort by tyrannies over the past century or so, mainly (but not exclusively) communist.  The most notorious programs came in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam, the latter of which produced the mass exodus of “boat people” to the US and other countries. “Re-education” has come to mean either brainwashing or intimidation of political dissidents.”

*Newsweak: Obama isn’t actually President, by Brian O’Connor.

*Ground Zero Mosque Imam: “U.S. response to 9/11 could be considered Jihad.”

*Senator Bennet (D-CO) was for deficits before he was against them.
“It’s immoral to leave this (debt) to our children.”

*The New Moral Equivalence, by Dennis Prager.

“Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments. They once regarded America and the Soviet Union as morally similar. Today, they claim that the people they call Christian “extremists” (who are they?) and Islamist terrorists and their supporters pose equal threats to America and to the world.

That is how bright and decent people become moral relativists and thereby undermine the battles against the greatest evils — Communist totalitarianism in its time, and Islamic totalitarianism in ours.”

*You must fear ManBearPig.

*Islamolepsy: The New Pathology, by David Solway.

*70 Percent of Americans Know They’ve Been Conned, by Hugh Hewitt.

“Two years into what had been sold as a new politics and a new approach, the 70 percent are fully aware that they have been conned, suckered, and taken to the cleaners by a hyper-ideological amalgam of leftist public intellectuals, snarling bloggers, career politicians with limited abilities who are often corrupt, and a president wholly inexperienced in the management of complex problems who is in way over his head and prisoner to slogans and schemes that make for great campus debates — but for disaster in the real world.

The people on the Mall were saying much more than “this far and no farther.” They were saying “rewind and restart.” They will hold that thought and that purpose as they peacefully, but with great passion and purpose, insist on real change come Nov. 2.”

Read the whole thing.

*Sharpton, Not Beck, Distorts MLK’s Legacy, by Gregory Kane.

The lefty response was as predictable as it is banal:

*Bill Press likens the 300k plus crowd to “al qaeda…at ground zero.”

*Stanley Crouch calls Beck and Palin bottom feeding bigots.

*Charles Blow calls Beck the “anti-King” in a column titled “I had a nightmare.”

*The theme de jour for the MSM was “overwhelming white crowd.”

*Even the President can’t help a little demagoging at Mr. Beck’s expense.

Misc.

*America, Behind the Mosque, by Victor Davis Hanson.

RELATED: It’s Not the Location, It’s the Sharia, by Deroy Murdock.

RELATED II: Why They Can’t Condemn Hamas, by Andrew C. McCarthy.

*This is why we need 60 Jim Demint’s (R, S.C.) in the Senate:

“This may be our last chance with voters, because if we’re given the majority . . . and don’t reform Washington, everybody is going to say, ‘What’s wrong with these guys? We need a third party.”

Indeed.

*Why Can’t Obama Tell the World About American Tolerance? By Toby Harnden.

*The Anti-Obama, by Kevin Hassett.

*Dorsal Fins Surround the White House, by Jonah Goldberg.

“You’ve got to wonder when White House political guru David Axelrod will look at the churning pools of poll data and, like Chief Brody in Jaws, say: “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

For months, we’ve heard a steady drone from the administration to the effect that we’re on the right path, we’re moving in the right direction, we’re in the “Summer of Recovery.”

Right.  And aren’t the emperor’s new clothes stunning?

When “Hope and Change” arrived in Washington D.C. in January 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.6%.  Within a few days, the Congress engaged in an unprecedented orgy of pork barrel spending cynically labeled an economic stimulus package.  The choice, we were told, was between passing this bill and doing nothing.  The “stimulus”, we were assured, would keep unemployment from rising above 8%.

The consequences for doing nothing?  If we do nothing, we were warned, unemployment could hit 9%.

The “stimulus” plan passed (along strictly partisan lines) . . . and unemployment hit a high of 10%.  The only reason it now stands at 9.5% is that so many have given up looking for work.

And so, because they passed this partisan porker, we’re worse off now than we were when the Obamites came to town.  Unemployment is  up sharply – even White House economists admit it will stay above 9% for another year or two - AND we have run up nearly a trillion dollars in debt which we have absolutely no way to pay for.

Is it just me, or is “doing nothing” starting to look pretty good about now?

I’ve not even started on the GDP, the balance of trade,or the housing market – all of which are considerably worse now than when “Hope and Change” inflicted themselves upon us.

Memo to Obama, Pelosi, Reid, & Company:  You’ve been in charge for nineteen months.  It is no longer possible to credibly claim that your “stimulus plan” has had any positive impact on this nation’s economic or political health.

Oh, and that Blame-It-All-On-Bush strategy?  Sorry, the statute of limitations has expired.  You’re on your own now.

One: Lefty supporter of Russ Carnahan (D-MO) arrested for fire-bombing said representatives campaign office.

Two: Lefty Ground Zero Mosque Cordoba House Park 51 volunteer arrested for attacking a Muslim cab driver

Two acts of overtly political violence, perpetrated by avowed leftists, both initially blamed on the right wing.  But remember, it is conservatives that are islamaphobic, ignorant, and violent.