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Race Relations, Uncategorized

NAACP President Resigns

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Demonstrating that the NAACP wants nothing to do with ‘advancing colored people’ (isn’t it time they drop ‘colored’ from their name?), their President of 19 months Bruce S. Gordon resigns.   Some people thought his leadership would not be a good match and ultimately, they were right.

Bruce S. Gordon, President of the NAACP resigns due to different priorities between himself and the Board of Directors.The rub is between Gordon and the NAACP’s Board of Directors.  The difference was in Gordon’s idea of what the organization’s mission should be.  Gordon was interested in fixing problems in order to raise people that need it, and the Board of Directors’ idea of their mission is to be sort of a black ACLU.  Which begs the question, why can’t they do both?

“I don’t view this as I’m right and they’re wrong. I view this as I see things one way and they see things a different way. That misalignment between the CEO and the board is unhealthy.”

The mis-match in missions reminds me of the classic differences between conservatives and liberals in how social and economic problems are handled.   One side wants solutions to problems that will elevate a people out of whatever ails them.  This represents Bruce Gordon’s vision.  The other side prefers to leave the downtrodden down, offer up nothing but excuses, use the justice system, and blame everyone else for their problems.  This would be the NAACP’s mission, last century’s ideology.

related link: Clarence Page

Uncategorized

The Internet, Man’s Newest Human Right

Pursuant to a 1976 amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, the State Department issued its annual report for 2006.  The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices serves as “encyclopedia on human rights abuses” by 196 countries and entities around the world.  The use of the Internet is added to the list for 2006.

For the first time, the 2006 reports will include a section in each country’s report regarding respect for freedom of speech on the Internet. Although the growth of the Internet is a great trend for democratization, Bibbins Sedaca said, it has been paired with a trend of governments wanting to control the use of the Internet. The Internet threatens repressive governments because it threatens their control, she said. The more information people are getting from the Internet, the less governments can control the minds and information flow of their citizens, Bibbins Sedaca said. Now people can go online and read the human rights reports and see what activists are saying.

Organized Labor, Politics

Employee Free Choice Act, Dems’ Next Fraud

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The name of the bill sounds good, but it is exactly the opposite of its namesake. H.R. 800 is designed for the purpose of helping labor unions (the democrats’ largest contributing block) to organize. As if labor unions don’t already have a right to organize. They do and have had that right for decades.

The reality is that union membership is dwindling because workers are, more and more, voting NO to unionizing their workplace. The synergy between Big Labor and the Democratic party is showing its ugly head, and it is the workers, employers, and consumers that will pay the price if this bill actually becomes law. The bill would eliminate voting by private ballot. Put another way, democrats really don’t want a democratic process when it comes to voting about whether or not to start a union in their workplace. They don’t want a confidential ballot. They fear a confidential ballot. The mis-named bill is actually an Employee No Choice Act, but you won’t find this interpretation in the MSM. The left is claiming that the White House is against workers’ rights, when actually it is workers’ rights that they wish to protect.

Big Labor is expecting to get a return on their investment (campaign contributions) that finance the democrats’ elections. In private industry it would be called an investment, but in politics it is more accurately referred to as a quid pro quo. Substitute the word ‘unions’ for ‘workers’ and you see just who the democrat lawmakers choose to represent.

Politics, War On Terror

Anti-War Dems Revise The Revision

On the verge of kicking and screaming, Democrat leaders revise their opposition to the commander-in-chief, for the third time in a week.

House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn’t cut off money for U.S. troops in Iraq but would require President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.

Time for a flash poll.  All those who are happy with the war raise your hand!  I don’t see any hands.

OK, so war isn’t a fun thing to do.  Like it or not, the Islamic terrorists have declared war on us and on the rest of the world that does not share their insane views of world domination of Islam.  For them, this is a religious war.

Today, March 1, 2007, Democrat party leaders now feel it is more important to get the President to say, to admit, that there are problems with the war rather than get together to win it.  To expect a war to be without problems is to be in some alternate reality like the Twilight Zone. But that is the Democratic Party today. But what is worse than that, is how much more dangerous a place this country and the world will be by inaction or retreat in this war.

Feb 23, 2007, Feb 27, 2007

Politics, Uncategorized

The Unhealthy Alliance

A special election for State Representative was held yesterday here in northwest Florida.  Was the dismal turnout indicative of something more than lousy campaigning?

The low voter turnout in this election surprised me.  In my precinct (97), my vote was number 133, and this was at 5:20 pm. ???

Why so low?  Election burnout?  Uninterested electorate?  A generic campaign on both sides?  Nothing seemed to generate any excitement?  Knowing nothing about either candidate prior to this special election, the pirating of the Campbell’s soup logo turned me off all by itself.

There’s nothing more dangerous than an uninterested, unmotivated electorate like this.  It opens the door for a well organized group to show up and ‘take’ an election from 80+ percent of an electorate that sits on its own hands.

Can’t make a better case for the desperate need for civics education, in schools for our kids, and in the media.

Two hurdles, teachers unions who have their own agenda, and most of the media which has an unhealthy synergy with them.  There is the place to begin to fix this problem.

2008 Election, Politics, Uncategorized, War On Terror

And For Our Next Trick

The headline reads ‘Dems split over Iraq plan details.’  Why, how could that be?  Since the election last November, democrat leaders claimed a mandate to end the war.  Not win it, just end it.  Well, it seems there is some concern for their political ass now, which should be indicative of which is more important to them; the security of our country or the security of their political party.

AP link

Pensacola, Politics, Uncategorized

Neo-cons Fear Us

Pushing real hard for the most ridiculous item of the day, yet another example of the so-called ‘progressive’ movements’ twisted logic. In a Feb. 1, 2007 interview,  Air America radio co-host Mike Papantonio said “The truth is the neo-cons hate us and fear us and they rightly should.”

Papantonio does what all good progressives do. He prefers to shoot the messenger rather than to compete in the ideological marketplace by trying to silence anyone with whom he, apparently, fears and hates.  It’s much easier than actually debating the issues.  Take his February 27th show for example where he joins in an email and telephone campaign to CNN and ABC to get conservative talk radio show host and CNN TV show host Glenn Beck off the air.  Like this . . .

One of our listeners, Christopher Achorn, has posted an online petition to CNN, asking them to remove Glenn Beck from their Network. We encourage all of our listeners to please visit his site and sign his petition.
Contact ABC’s Good Morning America and tell them to fire Glenn Beck! You can also call ABC (212-456-8200 or 212-456-7777) and CNN (404-827-1500) and tell them to get this man off the air.

Who hates and fears who here? It is instructive and educational to see just what these people are all about, which is why I hope they stay on the air, even if they have to continue to pay radio stations to take their rabid programming.

2008 Election, Politics, War On Terror

Dems Need Defeat, Cannot Survive Victory

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Democrats’ ‘slow bleed’ policy isn’t neocon rhetoric.  It is their plan that will insure defeat in Iraq.  The Democrat party leaders are beyond the point of no return where Iraq is concerned.  They are so invested in defeat now that they cannot politically survive a victory.

Determined to challenge President Bush, Senate Democrats are drafting legislation to limit the mission of U.S. troops in Iraq, effectively revoking the broad authority Congress granted in 2002, officials said Thursday.

(AP) Senate Dems move to limit Iraq mission; (WaPo) Democrats Seek to Repeal 2002 War Authorization

Race Relations, Uncategorized

The NBA’s ‘Drive-by’ In Las Vegas

What was to be an event to rehabilitate the National Basketball Association’s thug image, the NBA All-Star Weekend in Vegas was “an unmitigated failure, and any thoughts of taking the extravaganza to New Orleans in 2008 are total lunacy.”

The game is a sloppy, boring, half-hearted mess. The dunk contest is contrived and pointless. The celebrity contest is unintended comedy. And, worst of all, All-Star Weekend revelers have transformed the league’s midseason exhibition into the new millennium Freaknik, an out-of-control street party that features gunplay, violence, non-stop weed smoke and general mayhem.

When people start checking out of their luxury hotels in fear of their safety, there’s a problem.

All-Star Weekend can no longer remain the Woodstock for parolees, wannabe rap artists and baby’s mamas on tax-refund vacations.

Ouch!  How did the NBA get to this point?  Can it, like Ron Artest, be saved from itself? 

related: Get the ‘ghetto’ out of sports