Monthly Archives: July 2013

Florida, Politics, Race Relations

Race Industry In Search Of Another Hero?

Although Trayvon Martin’s past has nothing to do with events on the night he met George Zimmerman, it is relevant on the subject of profiling. What was Trayvon doing in Sanford, since he lives in Miami Gardens? Having time off from school, being suspended for 10 days, he went to trayvon_martin_no_limit_niggaSanford to stay with his father. Just one of multiple school suspensions for Trayvon. George Zimmerman wasn’t the first person to think that Trayvon Martin was acting “suspicious.”

In October, a school police investigator said he saw Trayvon on the school surveillance camera in an unauthorized area “hiding and being suspicious.” Then he said he saw Trayvon mark up a door with “W.T.F” — an acronym for “what the f—.” The officer said he found Trayvon the next day and went through his book bag in search of the graffiti marker.

Instead the officer reported he found women’s jewelry and a screwdriver that he described as a “burglary tool,” according to a Miami-Dade Schools Police report obtained by The Miami Herald. Word of the incident came as the family’s lawyer acknowledged that the boy was suspended in February for getting caught with an empty bag with traces of marijuana, which he called “irrelevant” and an attempt to demonize a victim.

Nothing against Trayvon or his parents who lost their child in the most unfortunate circumstance, but for Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump to say “Trayvon Martin will forever remain in the annals of history, next to Medgar Evers and Emmett Till as symbols for the fight for equal justice for all,” using Trayvon and raising him to the level of Medgar Evers in a civil rights struggle is, or should be, an insult to him and his parents.

Link: Multiple suspensions paint complicated portrait of Trayvon Martin  |  Was Trayvon Martin a Drug Dealer  |  Martin Family Lawyer Likens Trayvon To Medgar Evers And Emmett Till

Media, Politics, Race Relations

Zimmerman Verdict, Lesson To Be Learned

Some in the media are looking for a monumental lesson to be learned by the ‘not guilty’ verdict in the Martin/Zimmerman trial. Suggesting systemic failures in the justice system on race. But for the introduction of politics, from the President on down, the trial would not have happened. The original investigation had it right. It was a case of self-defense. But could-a, would-a, should-a doesn’t get us to the lesson, the takeaway from the entire incident.

The real lesson is much simpler than exacerbating racial tension, perpetuating the race industry. It’s about exercising a little self-control, being civil to one another.

Profiling is not an excuse for breaking the law. Profiling is a natural behavior. For a person, like Zimmerman, to be looking out for bad guys that had been breaking into homes in his neighborhood, coming upon Martin “looked” to him to be someone to watch. Nothing illegal about watching someone. Martin did a little profiling of his own as well. He thought, and said, that Zimmerman was a creepy-ass cracker. A natural reaction perhaps from someone who lives in the hood in Miami Gardens.

The lesson to be learned is that if some asks you “what are you doing here?”, you might respond in a civil, non-violent way. For example, “just going home” or “not that it’s any of your business, but I’m going home,” or just ignore him and continue walking home. Responding in an un-civil manner, like with your fists, could end up costing your life.

That’s the message community leaders and politicians should be getting, and making, from this unfortunate incident.

Economy, Egypt, Middle East, Politics, Religion, War On Terror

News Flash, alQaeda Is Not Dead

Next time you hear a politician (take your pick) say how alQaeda is “on the run,” they want you to believe that they are running away. I don’t see any evidence of that. Do you? If anything, the direction is towards us, not away.

alqaeda_not_deadAside from Allah calling for the destruction of infidels in America, the Egyptian Muslim Cleric in this interview also has a commentary of America in general. Says that “America will collapse on itself” from its “huge debt” and “spreading poverty.” Apparently he didn’t get the memo. What appears to be a collapse to him is part of the “transformation” our President had in mind.

Economy, Egypt, Media, Middle East, Politics, Race Relations, War On Terror

Obama’s Racially Divisive Administration

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If recent history is a lesson, and it ought to be, you can count on one thing from our community-organizer-turned-President. And that is, whatever he says about important issues, you better believe his true place, and desired result, is the opposite. With one, and only one exception.

Beginning with his coming out at the Democratic National Convention keynote speech in 2004, he painted himself as someone who even a Republican could embrace. But it was all false. All for show.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation, not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can tuck in our children at night and know they are fed and clothed and safe from harm. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hiring somebody’s son. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted — or at least, most of the time.

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The people I meet in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks, they don’t expect government to solve all their problems. They know they have to work hard to get ahead and they want to. Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don’t want their tax money wasted by a welfare agency or the Pentagon.

When it comes to Race Relations. This President bragged that his administration was going to be the first post-racial administration. At every turn, President Obama has not only sat on his hands when he could have helped, but he, and sometimes his Attorney General Eric Holder, have been active in festering a racial divide. Preamble to the beer summit, New Black Panther voter intimidation in Philadelphia, the personal destruction of Paula Deen, the stirring up of tension in the Martin / Zimmerman incident ultimately leading to Zimmerman being over-charged when in fact, no charges were called for. And now, same case, sitting on his behind leading from behind with the media eagerly anticipating racial unrest if/when Zimmerman gets acquitted.

This is just his racial deception. Pick any other topic from foreign policy, education, health care, THE ECONOMY, JOBS, and you will also see the results are 180 degrees from his promises.

Which brings me to the one exception to his promises, the one he has steadfastly kept. That is, to fundamentally transform this great country. That, he has done.

Nuclear proliferation gone wild, terrorism and terrorists spreading around the world (Africa, Middle East, “the right war” in Afghanistan), Pakistan, a nationalized health care system that is still leaving over 30 million people without health care, more expensive health care premiums, never before government levied fines for not buying health care, high fuel and energy prices and going higher, record food stamps, nearly a third of the entire population getting some government help, record long-term unemployment, smallest worker participation rate since Jimmy Carter. And, none of it has to do with his skin color. It has to do with his political color.

It is time for the coward to come off of the golf course, off from vacation, long enough to address the public, today. And tell the American people, especially those Black Americans who are already getting restless, that whatever the verdict in the Zimmerman show trial turns out to be, that he expects everyone to respect the decision and, that anyone breaking the law or rioting because they don’t agree with the verdict, will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. White, Black, and everywhere in between. And he should address the race industry specifically, the Jesse Sharptons, the New Black Panthers, the Farrakhans of the world, that he and his Justice Department expect them to change their tune and preach the same message to their activist followers.

And just one last thing. That we can believe him this time.

If he doesn’t use his bully pulpit to do that, then he will have shown ‘his true colors,’ and I don’t mean skin color, to all of America.

Media, Organized Labor, Politics, Race Relations

Unreported Scandal Of The Day, Zimmerman/Martin

I’ll bet you a cheesesteak that you haven’t before heard of the Community Relations Service within the Department of Justice. Not in the American media establishment anyway. That would be President Obama’s and Eric Holder’s Department of Justice. What a misnomer for a department’s name.

According to their Mission Statement . . .

The Community Relations Service is the Department’s “peacemaker” for community conflicts and tensions arising from differences of race, color, and national origin. Created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, CRS is the only Federal agency dedicated to assist State and local units of government, private and public organizations, and community groups with preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders, and in restoring racial stability and harmony.

. . .   CRS does not take sides among disputing parties and, in promoting the principles and ideals of non-discrimination, applies skills that allow parties to come to their own agreement. In performing this mission, CRS deploys highly skilled professional conciliators, who are able to assist people of diverse backgrounds.

zimmerman_martin_2Come to find out that the CRS spent taxpayer’s money and other resources to add fuel to the fire over Zimmerman not being charged in the clear self-defense shooting of a guy who beat on him. The campaign the DOJ participated in, along with their buds at the SEIU, stoked racial tensions and, after a period of time, ended in the Sheriff being fired over it, and Zimmerman being charged with murder.

Seems to me they chose sides, and did the same community organizing agitation that is trademark for this administration. There is no justice in Obama’s Department of Justice.

Link: Revealed: How taxpayers paid for Justice Department unit to ‘support protests after killing of Trayvon Martin’

Economy, Politics

The Case Against Transparency, Accountability

A curious dichotomy in politics has arisen in the name of the Farm Bill. It is drawing out the hypocrisy in the politicians and special interest groups always harping on cutting waste and ending corporate welfare, not to be more responsible with the people’s money, but to get a larger piece of the pie for themselves.

Which is why battle lines seem to be shaping up between those wanting truth in legislation, transparency, and accountability, and the special interests and establishment Republicans  and Democrats in the House that want none of that.

Preferring the anonymity of an ambiguous slush fund, they are getting their shorts in a wad over breaking out food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, from the “Farm” bill.

So not only are we seeing a President that reneges on his promise to go over every line of every bill to cut government waste, we are also seeing politicians scrambling for dollars, reneging on their promise to be responsible with the people’s money.

When the rubber hits the road, the old guard wants nothing of accountability or transparency. Something to be remembered when the mid-term elections roll around. Time is now to let your representative know that you want two clean bills, not the same old same old jumbled, irresponsible mess.

Links: Proposal to Split Farm Bill Divides Congress

Politics

Similarities Of President Obama And King George III

Independence Day was last Thursday. Or as the low information voters that work would call it, a “day off.”

declaration_of_independenceIf you’ve never really read the Declaration of Independence, you should see this post, The Words That Started It All. You will see striking similarities between what King George III was doing to the colonies that caused our founding fathers to declare independence, and what President Obama and his administration are guilty of today.

A big Lefty at Applesauce offered the usual derogatory comments at my very suggestion. Got me to thinking that this needs sharing here, where you, gentle reader, can appreciate it. Not for the drivel he offered but for the content of the Declaration and what you see happening in this country today.

I picked out the most obvious abuses. There are more,  but they are not as obvious as these six.

Compare them to what King President Obama and his administration have done so far and tell me if you have any doubts of a similarity.

About King George III, the founders wrote:

  1. He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
  2. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
  3. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
  4. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
  5. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
  6. For imposing taxes on us without our consent.
Egypt, Politics

Obama Advocating For Muslim Brotherhood, WHAT?

Obama pleads for terrorists, the Muslim Brotherhood, to be included in Egypt’s political process.  He has a history for supporting terrorists. Like in 2006 when he advocated for “democratically” held elections in Gaza, when everyone knows that Hamas is the majority political and terrorist party in Gaza. As if an election guarantees peace loving people will win. It doesn’t. It does however, clearly identify who the enemy is. He repeated this in Egypt when he set up the Muslim Brotherhood at the fall of Mubarak.

The fool doesn’t know how to protect our interests or those of our allies. Or, he simply doesn’t want to. My money is on the latter. Which one works for you?

Link: Obama Call for Muslim Brotherhood Role Overtaken in Egypt – Bloomberg.

Energy, Media, Politics

Buffet’s Railroad, Or XL Pipeline

Check out this sanitized headline. Can’t CNN bring themselves to use “crude oil” instead of  “flammable liquid?”

Train carrying flammable liquid derails, bursts into flames in Canada

(CNN) — A train pulling over 70 tankers of crude oil derailed and burst into flames in Canada early Saturday near the U.S. border.

The crude was being shipped to Maine in the United States. Why the omission in the headline? Please, let’s not call attention to the risk involved in moving crude oil via Warren Buffet’s railroad instead of a pipeline.

Link: Train carrying flammable liquid derails, bursts into flames in Canada – CNN.com.

Update 7/8/2013: Now the headline was changed, slightly edited story, same link. The product of seven CNN writers. The new headline is 1 dead, others missing after train derails, burns in Quebec