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Saturday, August 30th, 2003Does anyone really believe that the Democrats are really friends of minorities anymore? While African-Americans and other minorities overwhelming support the Democratic ticket, the party they champion continually seeks to bring them down.
Liberals want to have nothing to do with equality. They don’t care about equal rights. Ideology is the only fuel to their activism. Power is the only motivation for their efforts. Deceit is their method to obtain the power the need to force upon America their dangerous ideology.
Minorities who find success without the liberal “civil rights” movement attached at their hips expose this shocking reality: minorities don’t need the Democrats.
Bush Rules!
Thursday, August 28th, 2003The media would like you to believe that George W. Bush is skydiving in the polls.
The media would like you to believe that most Americans don’t support the war.
The media would like you to believe that Iraqis don’t like our presence in their country.
The media would like you to believe that the Iraqis overwhelmingly hate George W. Bush.
The media would like you to believe what they want you to believe.
But let’s look at the facts:
The latest Gallup poll shows Bush with a 59% approval rating. [At the time of this post]
A recent USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup poll shows that 63% of Americans say the war in Iraq is worth fighting, and 57% of Americans believe the war in Iraq is part of the overall War on Terror.
A story today from Fox News tells of an Iraqi couple who had a child on July 11, and chose to name their baby George Bush showing their appreciation for the United States’ efforts toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime.
So what else is there to say, except Bush is doing great, things are going well, and God Bless America…
So NOW what? Nothing.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2003Gee, and I was beginning to worry about Carol Moseley Braun’s candidacy. The token black woman candidate of the Democratic Party, who’s lackluster candidacy has been laughable since Day 1, has been endorsed by two women’s organizations, the National Organization for Women, and the National Women’s Political Caucus.
No shit? Who would have thought that two women’s organizations would endorse the woman candidate – even though she stands as much chance of winning the nomination as I stand the chance of voting for her.
Braun, considered a long shot for the nomination, has been conducting an exploratory presidential campaign, traveling, raising money and participating in debates while trying to decide whether to stay in the race.
A long shot? Try a “doesn’t stand a chance.”
The former Illinois senator and ambassador to New Zealand raised under $250,000 in the first half of the year — less than any of the eight other candidates seeking the party’s nomination. Still, she said she has been encouraged by the response from people she’s met on her travels.
I’m sure she can remember all their names and faces – because there probably wasn’t that many of them.
“Nothing was more significant than having the support of the National Organization for Women and the National Women’s Political Caucus ,” said Braun, the only woman in the race. “And I hope and I know, I feel confident, that other women’s organizations will come on board based on the leadership of these two very important, significant national grass-roots organizations.”
Ignoring the fact that she stands no chance in the race, does she really think it is going to be an effective to run using her gender as a device in her campaign? Any minority candidate will have a tough time winning an election using their minority status as a means of mustering support. Moseley Braun, or any woman candidate, could never win on women’s issues alone. A black candidate could never win running on a campaign focused solely or primarily on minority issues.
The caucus only endorses pro-choice women candidates, and leaders said they were excited to finally have a presidential candidate they could endorse. NOW/PAC Chairwoman Kim Gandy said the group considered all nine presidential hopefuls, but Braun had the longest record of supporting feminist ideals.
This is why these endorsements mean nothing. These are essentially single-issue organizations. This is not going to win Moseley Braun much support, especially since women are more and more pro-life.
Why do these women’s organizations think that the only woman’s issue is abortion? Has the woman’s movement done so poorly over the years that the only issue these ideological women think they can unite their gender with is abortion? While America shifts to the right, these liberal organizations think they can take America hostage again by steering further to the left.
These endorsements won’t do anything for the Moseley Braun campaign. Her role is simply to neutralize the Al Sharpton campaign and nothing more.
What Price Are You Willing to Pay For Diversity?
Tuesday, August 26th, 2003Ahhhhh… how refreshing it was today to be sitting in Starbucks with an iced latte and to see this Boston Globe story.
Oh how sweet it is to finally see something good in the Boston Globe!
A federal judge has ordered the Boston Fire Department to hire four white men who successfully challenged the department’s affirmative action policy and award them back pay and the seniority they would have earned had they not been passed over for lower-scoring minorities three years ago.
This is a good day for people who believe in fairness and equality. Can you believe it? An important job such as firefighting had its hiring policy perverted by affirmative action.
For the first time since the affirmative action plan was put in place 30 years ago, the city will be forced to compensate white applicants who say the hiring policy violated their civil rights.
Isn’t that a noble concept… white people deserve civil rights too…
“I think hopefully we’re just going back to normal, the way it was meant to be, so that now they are just hiring the best person, regardless of race or color,” said attorney Harold Lichten, who represents the four men who challenged the hiring plan in court..
That’s right, the way it was meant to be: pick the best applicants. Does anyone want to put their lives in the hands of the most “diverse” fire department, or the smartest and strongest?
In his four-page decision released yesterday, US District Judge Richard G. Stearns stressed that his order was limited to the four men who sued and wasn’t intended to establish a precedent with respect to other white applicants who were also passed over in October 2000. A Globe analysis showed that 70 white men and women were bypassed in favor of minorities who scored lower.
Seventy white applicants were passed over for lower scoring minority applicants… How sad. If I was in a burning building, I wouldn’t care what color the firefighter was, I just want them to best there was to offer because being a firefighter is surely no easy job, and if I have to discriminate against the less qualified – then tough… it’s my life we’re talking about here. I want someone who met the qualifications, not someone who’s skin color allowed them to get the job over someone who was better.
Stearns ordered that the four men be hired “at the next immediate opportunity to fill vacancies.”
Here’s an idea, lets send the unqualified firefighters back to the books so they can reapply and give the qualified white applicants those jobs they had been previously denied.
Attorney Toni Wolfman, who represents the NAACP, which brought the 1972 suit that triggered the affirmative action policy, disagreed with Lichten’s statement that the court rulings will lead to a more “normal” hiring practice.
I hear an idiot bell ringing soon.
“If a return to normal means a return to the way in which the Boston Fire Department conducted its hiring prior to the mid 1970s, it will be a disaster for any applicants of color in the city,” said Wolfman, adding that there’s not an effective check on the discretion used by those doing the hiring.
I’m terribly sorry is Attorney Wolfman doesn’t believe minority applicants are qualified to be firefighters on their own merit. If hiring based on qualifications puts minorities at a disadvantage, then perhaps the problem isn’t with the hiring process…
Each of the plaintiffs had been bypassed several times for firefighter jobs, despite scoring 98 or better on the civil service exam. All five had scored 99 when they were passed over for appointment three years ago.
…All in the name of “diversity.” What a crock.
By 2000, according to data collected in the case, 40 percent of Boston firefighters were black or Hispanic, slightly more than their 38 percent representation in the overall population.
Oh no! Where’s the disaster for minorities! Geez, next thing you know this will be too good for them, and then they’ll complain that too many minorities are in “high risk” jobs like firefighting.
If not for the ruling, some of the men would never get another chance to be firefighters because they’re more than 32 years old, the maximum age for applicants, Lichten said.
I wonder what it must feel like to have your goal in life stolen from you in the name of “diversity.” I wonder what it must feel like to be caught in a burning building and wondering the firefighters coming to get you are there because they were the best of the best, or because they had the right skin tone.
I want the best people fighting fires. I want the best people caring for patients. I want the best people teaching children. I want the best people researching for cures to diseases. I want the best people getting the jobs… When it’s your life on the line, wouldn’t you want the same thing? What price are you willing to pay for diversity?
Are You a Reasonable Person?
Monday, August 25th, 2003Those of us who have always known Saddam had weapons of mass destruction are not surprised. However, should this information result in an extraordinary discovery in the near future, it won’t be good enough for the liberal anti-Bush ideologues who wouldn’t believe Bush if he said the Earth was round.
U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.
Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq.
This is good news, however, this business about not being able to get them is not acceptable. We have to get to them and show to the skeptics liberals that they were wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Instead they are located in Lebanon’s heavily-fortified Bekaa Valley, swarming with Iranian and Syrian forces, and Hizbullah and ex-Iraqi agents, Geostrategy-Direct.com will report in Wednesday’s new weekly edition.
I find it hard to believe that the United States will accept this and not attempt to retrieve the WMD.
U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebanon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.
U.S. intelligence sources believe the area contains extended-range Scud-based missiles and parts for chemical and biological warheads.
So let’s get them! What are we waiting for?
The CIA now believes a multi-million dollar deal between Iraq and Syria provided for the hiding and safekeeping of Saddam’s strategic weapons.
This is new? Let’s think about this here, Saddam Hussein had plenty of warning that we were going to attack his ass. He knew that George W. Bush was serious, and wasn’t going to let down. So obviously, Saddam went to extraordinary efforts to hide the weapons in the event that he’d survive a U.S. invasion and obtain power again.
So, as far as this news is concerned, we’ll see how things develop. Now, to address the liberals…
Liberals will make any excuse to explain why this information, or the potential seizure of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction is a farce. Why? Because they’re hatred of President Bush is more important to them than the truth. It is more important than the facts. It is more important than what is right. It is more important than our lives.
Hypothetically speaking, let’s say we can’t prove the WMD are there. Now, while the information may have been reliable, to liberals, the inability to prove it is equivalent to it being a falsehood.
Only liberals are afforded the “luxury” of the benefit of the doubt. When Bill Clinton warned the United States about Iraq’s weapons programs in the 90’s liberals gave him the benefit of the doubt – if they even doubted him at all. George W. Bush on the hand, obviously must have had an ulterior motive, and is immediately called a liar by the left.
So what does this say about liberals today, beside their obvious hypocrisy?
The ultimate truth is they’re willing to give evil terrorists and dictators the benefit of the doubt. They don’t want a commander-in-chief who’s willing to take a chance on reliable intelligence to protect our country.
A Commander-In-Chief who is willing to risk the lives of Americans rather than act on potential threats against them is no Commander-In-Chief I want.
There has been plenty of intelligence supporting Bush’s assertion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. If more and more intelligence surfaces supporting this, wouldn’t you rather have a President who is willing to take the chance and do something about it, rather than a President who will just sit at his desk with his fly unzipped and let us be attacked?
Any reasonable person who cares about his or her family, friends, relatives, and fellow citizens, would prefer a President who acts on questionable intelligence, rather than waits until it is too late do anything about it.
So, are you a reasonable person?
Lies and The Lying Liar Who Told Them: An Objective Look at Al Franken
Thursday, August 21st, 2003So the nimrod Al Franken, who’s upcoming “book,” “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right,” has been caught lying himself.
I’m not talking about his book yet, for it has not been released, I’m talking about his recently publicized attempt of deception of John Ashcroft:
Franken, a satirist and former writer for “Saturday Night Live,” admitted in a letter last month that he deliberately tried to mislead Ashcroft when he sought personal information from him.
For someone who’s upcoming “book” is trying to make claims that The Right are the ones who are liars, this doesn’t quite support his theory, and it certainly doesn’t help legitimize his views.
Al Franken wrote in his letter of apology to John Ashcroft:
In the letter, I indicated that I wanted your story for a book about abstinence-only sex education entitled ‘Savin’ It!’ I claimed that I had already received testimonies from several conservative leaders, which I had not.
To put it simply, he’s a lying liar who told a lie. Not only did he lie, but he also was deceiving by using letterhead from Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center for Press and Politics at the Kennedy School of Government. Franken, although a “fellow” at the school during the last spring semester, did not have permission to do this and the school was not pleased.
Al Franken’s letter addressed this specifically:
My biggest regret is sending the letter on Shorenstein Center stationery, I can assure you that no one at the Shorenstein Center had knowledge of the letter before I sent it. I am very embarrassed to have put them in this awkward and difficult position, and I ask you not to hold this against the Center, the Kennedy School, or Harvard in general.
Al Franken is not really concerned about the school. He’s just sorry he was exposed for the lying liar that he is.
Franken, however, did not admit to lying:
I regret wasting your time on what as an imprudent attempt at satire.
In retrospect, I hope you will take my original letter with a measure of the humor with which it was intended.
Satire? Is that what he calls it? I call it lying and deceiving.
Al Franken is the kind of person who thinks that the Left is always right, and the Right is always wrong. He thinks that conservatives only win arguments because they cheat. Al Franken is the kind of person who writes a “book” calling others liars, but clearly doesn’t lead an honest life himself.
It must be nice to have the opportunity to hide behind the label of “satirist” in order to get away with lying. When Franken is in a position where his views or actions backfire on him, he can just claim “I’m a satirist, you shouldn’t take me seriously,” and when he builds momentum, or has no opposition, he claims to be bastion of truth and objectivity.
In my book, that is what I consider cheating. Franken has clearly attempted to absolve himself of accountability for his lying and deception by claiming satire.
This is how he operates. This is how he’ll continue to operate. His “book” should have been titled “Lies and the Lying Liar Who Tells Them: An Autobiography.”
Thou Shalt Not Remove
Wednesday, August 20th, 2003
Offended? Tough.
Media Needs to Bust-a-move on Bustamante
Wednesday, August 20th, 2003Bustamante is up in the polls for the recall in California. I really paid little attention to the California recall because of the circus it has become. However, information recently discovered by me thanks to an article written by Michelle Malkin, has made me really concerned about what’s going on.
Malkin’s article tells very disturbing things about Bustamante which made me realize just how serious now the recall is – if he wins, the State of California will find itself in a state of complete disarray, and the state of our union will suffer as well.
Bustamante has ties to a racial separatist group called Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), which stands for Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan. Malkin notes that it is “one of the nation’s most virulently racist organizations.”
Malkin wrote about MEChA:
…it operates an identity politics indoctrination machine on publicly subsidized college and high school campuses nationwide that would make David Duke and the KKK turn green with envy.
Just goes to show you (again) that certain forms of racism are more equal than others.
MEChA members in the University of California system have rioted in Los Angeles, editorialized that federal immigration “pigs should be killed, every single one” in San Diego, and are suspected of breaking into a conservative student publication’s offices and stealing its entire print run in Berkeley.
That’s very nice, not only does the group support homicide, but also censorship of different points of view.
…its motto is ” Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada (For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing).
Could you imagine if the gubernatorial recall front-runner had ties to a white supremacist group with a similar motto?
The MEChA Constitution calls on members to “promote Chicanismo within the community, politicizing our Raza (race) with an emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlan.” “Aztlan” is the group’s term for the vast southwestern U.S. expanse, from parts of Washington and Oregon down to California and Arizona and over to Texas, which MEChA claims to be a mythical homeland and seeks to reconquer for Mexico ( reconquista ).
To put it simply: they want to flood the United States with these people and take over our country. They are the Chicano equivalent of Nazis.
Does Bustamante find himself accountable for his ties to this organization? Schwarzenegger get ragged on for the alleged affiliations of his father the Nazis, but Bustamante remains unscathed by the media to address his past and present ties with this organization. Trent Lott gets shamed out of his leadership position in congress for saying some kind words to the late Strom Thurmond who was once a part of the Dixiecrat Party, Meanwhile Robert Byrd, former member of the Dixiecrats remains unblemished for this part of hist history as well as his membership with the KKK. Al Gore single-handedly rewrote his own father’s life story by suggesting that his father was huge advocate for civil rights, even though he was also a part of the pro-segregationist Dixiecrat party.
So let’s just say for the sake of discussion that a man’s past is a man’s past and what we do in college isn’t necessarily a reflection of one’s present day values… We’d like to believe this is the case, and I’m sure such a case will be made on Bustamante’s behalf in the event of widespread media exposure on his MEChA ties, but then we must once again look at Trent Lott, and the criticism he received.
True or not, I don’t know, however, I’m not holding my breath for TIME to write such an exposé on Bustamante. He clearly was unaffected during his campaign for lieutenant governor – do I really expect that things will be different this time? Not at all. The media ought to get onto Bustamante – he has some explaining to do.
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