It is becoming more and more obvious that Obama’s presidency has been nothing but a failed experiment in affirmative action, one that will set the country back scores of years in terms of equality. I know from which I speak - Canada had a female Prime Minister for about 5 minutes, and she was such a disaster that we probably won’t have another one for half a century.

The problem in the US of course is not that Obama is black, but that he’s an idiot. And much like we insist that Muslims apologize for their ’splodey brethren, we want black Americans to explain why we have this wart in the White House.

A real president - of any color - would not feel the homeboy need to protect thugs interfering with the time-honored electoral process. Bros before hos, I guess.

A real president - of any color - would not blame his name for Israel’s mistrust.

A real president - of any color - would not get so mixed up in racial politics that he had to throw a White House kegger when there was more important work to be done.

You want a black president? Get Bill Cosby to run - at least the man has a PhD and a healthy dose of common sense. Don’t give us this second-rate crackhead, still wet behind his gigantic ears.

Yet… there’s nothing we can do about Obama. We are halfway through 2010 - mid-terms are in less than 16 weeks. Like the grasshopper, we have squandered this time on Tea Parties instead of knuckling down to work. Come 2012, we’ll have nothing stockpiled for our winter, and Obama will once more sweep into power. In 2012, his re-election will once more be historic, not this time for the novelty of his color, but for the weakness with which we stood to fight him.

What have we to offer America instead of Obama?

• A beauty queen-turned-politician-turned-talking head
• A paranoid pot-head father/son duo that believes in aliens
• A guy with fiberglass hair who has dropped out of more races than Obama’s ever been in
• Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh

These people may whip up crowds, but come election day in the privacy of the polling booths, are inconsequential. America may listen to their speeches, but they won’t vote for them.

It’s getting to the point in the game where we will have gone too far to turn back from our pity partying. If we leave things any longer, we might as well save the costs of campaigning in 2012, because there will be no use. Until and unless we have something to offer America in exchange for Obama, we might as well quit complaining.

For those unsure what I mean, see Kerry vs Bush. America was angry and fed up with Bush - but all the Dems had to offer up in exchange was Kerry. In this scenario, we are the Democrats, offering up the ineffectual Kerrys of the world.

I have an exclusive LeBron James announcement:

I don’t care.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

A £100,000 report into alleged racism at Scotland Yard was branded ‘a waste of money’ and ‘reward for bad behaviour‘ when it was finally published last night.

London Mayor Boris Johnson ordered the independent inquiry at the height of the so-called ‘race war’ which engulfed Britain’s biggest force two years ago.

Commander Ali Dizaei, the senior officer who pressured Mr Johnson and the Metropolitan Police Authority into setting up the inquiry, has since been jailed for four years for corruption.

I wonder where all the minority cops are?

Heh.

For the record, I have no complaints about the picture associated with your latest podcast.

Just throwing that out there.

Yes, even in radio, it helps.

It’s easy for us to put out of mind that which happens so many miles away. But what happened on July 7, 2005 was part of our fight.

Queen Elizabeth II placed a wreath of flowers at a site of the Sept. 11 attacks Tuesday and chatted with victims’ families and first responders, minutes after using her first visit to New York in more than three decades to praise the U.N. for promoting peace and justice.

The 84-year-old British monarch braved 100-degree heat in a 15-minute visit to the World Trade Center site after challenging the United Nations to spearhead an international response to global dangers.

Near the footprint of the trade center’s south tower, she placed a wreath of New York-grown red peonies, roses, lilies and black-eyed Susans on a wooden riser at the site.

Classy. Unlike say, these guys:

The Cordoba House, a planned 13-floor Muslim community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, has upset families of 9/11 victims and their supporters. They claim the building would amount to a monument for terrorists.

But Islamic community leaders insist the project is about building bridges between Muslims and non-Muslims.

… the Catholic kidfuckers are predominately repressed homosexuals.

Think about human sexuality. Man needs to spread it around to keep the population growing. Woman tempers man by reining him in. Man without woman - without desire for woman - can spin out of control. There’s no reason for him to show any restraint, and he is promiscuous. If he represses that, he cracks. He becomes bent. He fucks children.

This case, on the other hand, is the lesser of two evils. I would rather my parish priest be stealing the church roof fund to hire blowjobs from male escorts than be fucking my son.

Kevin Gray, a priest at Sacred Heart Church in Waterbury, Connecticut, is expected to turn himself in after being charged with siphoning $1.3 million from church coffers to pay for his secret gay lifestyle. . . .

… who can you trust?

David Cameron’s new ‘cost-cut tsar’ faced embarrassment last night after it was revealed that his former male escort lover was helping a campaigning American lawyer to assemble a legal case against him.

Lord Browne of Madingley, the ex-chief executive of BP, is at the centre of litigationin the United States alleging that cost cutting made while he was in charge of the oil giant led to disasters such as the recent Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

I’ve been sick as a dog for the past couple of days, so I’m down 3 lbs. Yay! Sometimes being sick is a great way to break through a plateau! Exercise has included running to the bathroom, and working my abs through vomiting. Plus, I can’t swallow (shut. up.) so I’m not eating much. Huzzah!

I’m keeping my vitamins and electrolytes up with green tea, honey and cinnamon. Also with small amounts of warm water with sugar and salt (very little salt, because too much would make the tummy problem worse).

Last week i started an exercise regimen. It actually began by accident - I was walking Bug, and he was pulling on the leash. Normally I tug him back and then make him sit till he calms down, before carrying on with the walk. Last week, though, I just felt like a kid and began running with Bug - we both had a blast. I can’t see running as something I’ll do often, because of the knee I busted up on my last trip to Hawaii, but it was fun nonetheless. In addition, I’ve been doing daily crunches and squats - 100 of each.

Actually, I think the rapid introduction of exercise might be why I’m ill right now. My body’s probably in shock!

Regardless, I will be better in the long haul. And I’m starting to notice my obliques!

For those of you not aware, I’m not on the E.Coli and exercise diet - that’s just a temporary bonus! I’m actually doing the Diet Solution Program (try it now for $5!). Last week the DSP launched another recipe book, this one for salads. It’s timely, because summer is salad season. Here’s a favorite:

Tomato Chevre Salad

Ingredients:

2 cups of spring lettuce
4-6 ripe tomatoes
½ red onion, finely chopped
8-10 basil leafs
2-3 oz Chevre (goat cheese)
4 oz olive oil
2 oz rice wine vinegar
Salt & pepper

Chop red onion. Dice tomatoes.
Put onion and tomatoes in a bowl; add the oil, vinegar, salt
and pepper. Let marinade for 30 minutes.
When ready to serve, lay lettuce on a plate.
Chop basil and sprinkle it over the lettuce.
Stir the tomato mixture and spoon it out onto the lettuce.
Crumble chevre and sprinkle it over the salad.
Fresh, delicious and ready to serve

Bandar Seri Begawan - The Islamic Da’wah Centre through its Propagation Section is continuing its series of Islamic strengthening courses for civil servants in the country. A total of 55 government officers of level II above and level III attended the five-day course on “Fiqh As-Shiam”, which focuses on fisting and its related issues.

Whaaaa?

Oh right. Fasting.

Over the last week, since the G20 debacle in Toronto ended with claims of police heavy-handedness and breaches of our rights, I’ve seen the most miraculous thing on the blogs I read daily: Left and Right are agreeing that what played out on the streets of Toronto was a farce.

With only a few exceptions - mostly rural people - both law-and-order conservatives and che-shirt-wearing socialists are decrying the over reaching behavior by Toronto police chief Bill Blair and the man who passed all these secret laws, Premier Dalton McGuinty.

I love reading Dawg’s Blog, because Dawg tends to speak with far less vitriol than his comrades on the left. However, just because he doesn’t use the word “cunt” doesn’t mean i agree with him. Except this past week. For the best collection of stories you’ll find surrounding the disaster that was the G20, head to Dawg’s. Specifically:

There’s no civil rights here in Ontario (his latest, with video)

The mean streets

Civil Liberties: Abridged Edition

G20 letter of the day

The fact is, there are too many great posts to list here, so just go trawling through the whole site.

Over on the right, Jay Currie has had some excellent posts up:

Subject to Citizen

Public Confidence

And from the libertarian perspective (keeping in mind that libertarians are actually just anarchists in suits), Mike Brock’s experience wearing a black t-shirt downtown…

It happened just a few minutes ago. I was sitting down on University Avenue, when a group of police officers approached me and said they wanted to talk to me. Stunned, I opened my mouth getting ready to reply to the request, when one of the officers at the top of his lungs yelled: “I DON’T GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK!”

Another officer said they didn’t want to hear about my rights.

People who live outwith the big cities may not be sympathetic - I can’t say as I blame them. They don’t have a real understanding of what it’s like to have so many people crowded, day after day, into so small a place. Add an extra million people with no other goal than disruption, and you figure we all deserve it. Not so. Just because we live in a large metropolis doesn’t mean our basic human rights should be suspended. It doesn’t mean our police chief has the right to lie. It doesn’t mean our provincial premier has the right to ignore the problem.

As Torontonians, we did not choose this G20 summit to be on our doorstep. For those people who just wanted to go about their daily lives, shopping and eating out, they should not have to worry about being held hostage by police in the pouring rain, for hours, at the corner of Queen and Spadina - miles from the so-called “red zone”.

When left and right agree, you know the police and the government have gone way too far.

No riots in the city, sunshine and blue skies, barbecues in my gentleman friend’s backyard… it was supposed to be blissful. Alas, by mid-afternoon yesterday, I felt my throat closing up. By bedtime, I had a fever. Today I slept till past 2pm - and I’m going back to bed in about half an hour.

On the plus side for those around me, I can’t talk.

I’m going to go sit in the backyard for a while, hoping to burn off the illness with sunshine. In the meantime, instead of dropping me “get well soon” notes, you can always click through any ads that catch your fancy either on this site, at Girl on the Write, or even over at The Daily Bug. Knowing that I’ll be able to pay rent and buy groceries means a lot to me, and I thank you in advance.

Happy 234th Birthday!

July first is Canada Day, the celebration of Canada coming together as a sovereign country. Amusingly, Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth is in Ottawa right this minute. Heh.

I am neither pro- not anti- monarchy, but I do find it amusing that she’s here.

Of course, HRH is still our ceremonial head of state. She’s on our money. We are not “independent” in the way the Americans are. We are merely in control of our own laws, such as they are.

Anyway, happy Canada Day, Canadians.