Race-Based Caucuses Should Be Abolished

September 6, 2011 By

It is past time for the Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus, as well as the Demo­c­ra­tic and Repub­li­can Con­gres­sional His­panic Cau­cuses to be abol­ished. The reason?

They are racist.

 In this day and time it is morally rep­re­hen­si­ble and coun­ter­pro­duc­tive to have cau­cuses solely based on race. Just the very names are racist. How would the “minori­ties” feel if there was a Con­gres­sional Cau­casian Cau­cus, which allowed only white mem­bers no mat­ter the makeup of the constituency?

Exactly. They wouldn’t like it one bit, and would raise total hell about it.

Well, when you have a Demo­c­ra­tic Rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Cal­i­for­nia who tries to gain mem­ber­ship into the Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus (CBC) so he can rep­re­sent his con­stituency - which is 60% black — be rejected because he is white, and ONLY because he is white, it’s quite obvi­ous the group is racist in their mem­ber­ship and agenda.

Recently, some mem­bers of the CBC have been try­ing to race-bait and stir up racial strife once again.  Regard­ing the Tea Party, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Max­ine Waters (D-CA) said the fol­low­ing:

I’m not afraid of any­body.  This is a tough game. You can’t be intim­i­dated. You can’t be fright­ened. And as far as I’m con­cerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to Hell.

And if this wasn’t enough, Andre Car­son (D-IN) said “some of them in Con­gress right now of this tea party move­ment would love to see you and me … hang­ing on a tree.”

Frankly, this is the kind of rhetoric that dri­ves wedges between races and classes of peo­ple, and that is exactly what these mem­bers of Con­gress want.  They want their con­stituents to hate every­one that isn’t black.  They want their con­stituents to remain deaf, dumb and blind to what they are doing.  They want their con­stituents to stay “on the gov­ern­ment plan­ta­tion” if you will.

Wake up, Black Amer­i­cans!  Wake up, His­panic Amer­i­cans!  Wake up, AMERICANS!  Do you really want to be rep­re­sented by peo­ple like this, who are so full of hate?  It is time to fully real­ize Dr. King’s Dream:

I have a dream that my four lit­tle chil­dren will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the con­tent of their character.

I have a dream today…

And when this hap­pens, when we allow free­dom to ring, when we let it ring from every vil­lage and every ham­let, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s chil­dren, black men and white men, Jews and Gen­tiles, Protes­tants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spir­i­tual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

It is time that our Nation is truly free from all oppres­sion and racism.  Vote these peo­ple out that would race-bait and stir up racial strife.   Let’s abol­ish all racial cau­cuses.  Like the unions, they have lived out their use­ful­ness.  (If they were ever “use­ful” at all.)

That is the only way our coun­try can move toward being “colorblind”.

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Disgust and Disgrace: A Racially-Driven Murder

August 11, 2011 By

The other day I was brows­ing through the news web­sites as I always do to see what was hap­pen­ing in the world.  The every­day sto­ries were there:  Polit­i­cal bick­er­ing, stock mar­ket going up and down, the newest tech­nol­ogy devel­op­ment.  But then I saw some­thing that filled me with utter dis­gust and con­tempt – con­tempt for those who would com­mit such a ter­ri­ble crime.

On June 26, 2011 [Yes, that’s Two Thou­sand Eleven, not 1911 or even 1961], James Ander­son, 49, a black man and an auto worker from Jack­son, Mis­sis­sippi, was going about his own busi­ness at a hotel on the south side of town.  Two vehi­cles filled with white teenagers from Bran­don, a town more than 16 miles away, then pulled into the hotel park­ing lot near him.  They were out joyrid­ing and decided that they would try to find a black per­son to tor­ment.  The teens, includ­ing an 18-year-old named Deryl Ded­mon, mer­ci­lessly beat Mr. Ander­son, then got back into their truck and pro­ceeded to run him over like he was noth­ing but an ani­mal.   “I ran that nig­ger over”, Ded­mon is said to have told his friends on a cell phone call later.  It appears these teens had a his­tory of beat­ing black home­less people.

After every­thing that has hap­pened in this state since the 1960’s, I thought we had finally been able to move past the stigma that the rest of the coun­try and the world has attached to us.  But then a per­son like Ded­mon and his actions put Mis­sis­sippi right back in that racist spotlight.

This does not occur every day and every­where in Mis­sis­sippi.  And this white-on-black crime doesn’t just hap­pen here, either.  It’s in every city and every state in the nation.  And, as we’ve seen in Lon­don over the past few days, it’s also in Europe.

The thing that dis­gusts me is that when it hap­pens in Mis­sis­sippi, the whole world soon learns about it.  It becomes a national and inter­na­tional event.  It’s as if the world looks at Mis­sis­sippi and says, “See?!   They ARE all racist!”  Trust me; I’m just as out­raged and dis­gusted at these teens as you are.   They are the low­est of the low — a dis­credit and a dis­grace to their race.  I truly hope that Deryl Ded­mon is tried, con­victed, and sen­tenced to death for his heinous and cow­ardly act.  This trash doesn’t deserve to see another sun­rise.  And to those that didn’t stop him or help Mr. Ander­son:  May you bear the guilt for your cow­ardice and inac­tion for the rest of your life.

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The Liberals’ Idea of America

August 9, 2011 By

Lib­er­als detest Amer­ica.   Let me be more spe­cific:  Lib­er­als detest cap­i­tal­ist, rep­re­sen­ta­tive repub­lic Amer­ica.  The lib­eral agenda is two-fold:  First, destroy the cap­i­tal­ist eco­nomic sys­tem that has served our coun­try greatly the past two hun­dred and thirty-five years; Sec­ond, destroy the rep­re­sen­ta­tive repub­lic that our found­ing fathers fought, bled, and died for.

Why would they do this?  It’s sim­ple.  The want to insti­tute their own vision of Amer­ica – a social­ist utopia where all are rich, every­thing is free, and the work­ing class rules.  Sounds great, right?  Let’s look at this in some detail.

Gina Miller, a local jour­nal­ist and audio blog­ger, had a won­der­ful piece this morn­ing on a local news talk radio sta­tion, News­Ra­dio 104.9 FM.   She does a won­der­ful job explain­ing just how deranged and non­sen­si­cal the Com­mu­nist Party USA’s agenda is.  I just want to present you with some quotes as an exam­ple of how far out in left field these peo­ple are.

This past Sun­day morn­ing on “This Week”, Cokie Roberts of ABC News said the fol­low­ing:

 This group of peo­ple in New York [Stan­dard and Poor’s] is actu­ally talk­ing about more gov­ern­ment rather than less gov­ern­ment, Con­gress­man. In fact, the rea­son they like France and Great Britain is because they’re par­lia­men­tary sys­tems where the major­ity gets what it wants no mat­ter what.

And the prob­lem that we have here is the Con­sti­tu­tion of the United States of Amer­ica which actu­ally does require peo­ple to come together from dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives whether it’s divided gov­ern­ment or not. We have divided branches of gov­ern­ment under any circumstance.

As Noël Shep­pard said in his arti­cle, WOW!  You can’t get more plain and straight to the point than that.

It is quite clear that lib­er­als detest the checks and bal­ances sys­tem of our gov­ern­ment, espe­cially when they don’t “own” all three branches.  They would like to see noth­ing more than a Stal­in­ist style of gov­ern­ment, where every­thing is owned by those in power – i.e., them.   What they fail to see, or per­haps can’t see, is that in every coun­try where socialism/communism has been imple­mented, total ruin has fol­lowed.  Per­haps that is what they ulti­mately want.  Per­haps they are so hate-filled they would rather bring the great­est coun­try in the world to her knees just to snuff out the last bas­tion of cap­i­tal­ism and democracy.

This is why we must be vig­i­lant daily to fight for our coun­try and our rights under the Con­sti­tu­tion.  Lib­er­als will stop at noth­ing to destroy our way of life, and they will vil­ify any­one who gets in their way.  The great­est exam­ple of this has been the past week’s debt debate.

The “talk­ing points” from the left for the past week and a half has been how the “Tea Party” has been “hold­ing hostage” the gov­ern­ment.  Every­one from Vice Pres­i­dent Joe Biden to Howard Dean, the head of the DNC, has called “Tea Party” mem­bers “ter­ror­ists” and “hostage tak­ers”.  A “jour­nal­ist” (if you can call him that), Fareed Zakaria of Time and CNN said the following:

So, instead of accept­ing some com­pro­mise that can get through the demo­c­ra­tic process, what they’re say­ing is we’ll blow up the coun­try if you don’t lis­ten to us. We’ll hold hostage the credit of the United States, the good stand­ing of the United States and we’ll blow it up.

They have also been say­ing how the credit rat­ing down­grade by Stan­dard & Poor’s is the “Tea Party” down­grade.  How is that so when the Democ­rats hold the Sen­ate and the White House?  And where is the civil­ity in rhetoric that they called for ear­lier this year?

I will not sit idly by and watch those in power try to destroy this coun­try.  I urge all of you to get out there and edu­cate those you know as to what is going on.  Let’s take this coun­try back from those who would seek to destroy it.  I will leave you with two quotes:

 Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I dif­fer in opin­ion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not mak­ing them easy in poverty, but lead­ing or dri­ving them out of it. In my youth I trav­elled much, and I observed in dif­fer­ent coun­tries, that the more pub­lic pro­vi­sions were made for the poor, the less they pro­vided for them­selves, and of course became poorer. And, on the con­trary, the less was done for them, the more they did for them­selves, and became richer.

–Ben­jamin Franklin

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“Bullsh*t!” Al Gore Says: Gore Goes into a Tirade during Climate Change Speech

August 8, 2011 By

Uh-oh.  I think Al Gore may be los­ing his com­po­sure over the lat­est news in the cli­mate change world:

Per­son­ally, I think it’s funny.  It’s about time we see Al Gore’s true col­ors com­ing out.   Wake up, Gore.   The world now real­izes your “cli­mate change” BS is, well, BS.  

I think some­one is going to be out of a job soon (or at least I hope so).

(Read more at The Blaze)

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Casey Anthony: A Travesty of Justice

July 18, 2011 By
Is there no justice for Caylee?

Is there no jus­tice for Caylee?

So Casey Anthony is now a free woman again after three years of being jailed and put on trial for the mur­der of her daugh­ter, Caylee Marie. As was much of the coun­try, I was sick­ened and stunned at her acquit­tal. The jury’s final deci­sion, I believe, is a vile mis­car­riage of justice.

We, as a soci­ety, have become so caught up in the real­ity TV and “CSI: [Name the City]” world that we have lost sight of what it is to truly have a “rea­son­able” doubt. As I told my wife shortly after the ver­dict was announced, there is a huge dif­fer­ence between a “rea­son­able doubt” and a “shadow of a doubt”. Let me explain.

A “rea­son­able doubt” is defined as hav­ing proved based on the evi­dence to the extent that there is no doubt in a rea­son­able person’s mind that the defen­dant is guilty. There can still be some doubt, but only to the extent that it would not affect a rea­son­able person’s belief whether or not the defen­dant is guilty.

A “shadow of a doubt” means there is suf­fi­cient evi­dence that proves the defen­dant is guilty with no room for doubt at all about any­thing in the case. And this, ladies and gen­tle­men, is an impos­si­ble stan­dard and is not used in U.S. trials.

As I saw it, the “rea­son­able doubt” stan­dard was def­i­nitely met. Sure there was some gaps as to the cause of death and a some­what ambigu­ous motive. How­ever, I believe the pros­e­cu­tion proved its case beyond and to the exclu­sion of every rea­son­able doubt. The 31 days of not report­ing Caylee miss­ing, with all the par­ty­ing and such; the duct tape on the skull; the cholo­ro­form pres­ence in the car and at the crime scene; and the com­puter searches all point to Casey Anthony and her involve­ment in Caylee’s death. That’s all the jury needed to con­vict her of murder.

As I said ear­lier, our soci­ety has become so caught up in the CSI world that they expect every mur­der trial to be an open-and-shut case. And as I have heard many a lawyer say: you’ll never have that in a mur­der trial. That’s what this jury was expect­ing. They didn’t get it handed to them on a sil­ver plat­ter, so they acquit­ted her. How can a jury, in a two-month-long trial, spend just shy of 11 hours to review all the evi­dence and dis­cuss it? There is no way. There is just no way.

I truly fear that with this prece­dent, there will be numer­ous baby killers that will walk. There is no jus­tice for Caylee Marie. There will be no jus­tice for her on this side of eter­nity. And that, I feel, is the great­est trav­esty of all.

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Casey Anthony Murder Trial: Victim or Villain?

June 6, 2011 By

I have been debat­ing what to blog about recently. But last week, the Casey Anthony mur­der trial started and it imme­di­ately piqued my inter­est. Never before have I been as engrossed with the goings-on inside a court­room as I have been this case – not even with the O.J. Simp­son mur­der trial back in 1995.

The story is dis­turb­ing to say the least. A sin­gle mother, liv­ing at home with a seem­ingly lov­ing fam­ily, takes her daugh­ter and goes “miss­ing” for 31 days. In fact, she has been bounc­ing from the home of friend to friend, never call­ing her par­ents and let­ting them know where she is. Then, when she is finally con­fronted by an angry and wor­ried mother, she tells her mom, Cindy Anthony that her daugh­ter, Caylee, has been taken by the nanny and has been miss­ing the whole time.

The foren­sic sci­ence used in the inves­ti­ga­tion is very intrigu­ing. Nor­mally I would be bored to tears by the tes­ti­mony that has been given by the anthro­pol­o­gists, ana­lysts, and sci­en­tists that have taken the stand. But I find myself want­ing to hear more about all the tech­niques used in the investigations.

I have been thor­oughly impressed by the case the pros­e­cu­tion is build­ing. They basi­cally start in the begin­ning, and take the jury and audi­ence through the events from June 15/16, 2008 – when Caylee was last seen – to July 15, 2008 when Casey finally was found, con­fronted by her mother, and then inter­viewed by Orange County Sheriff’s Office investigators.

The case they build is this: In the 31-day span men­tioned above, Casey goes from friend’s house to friend’s house, par­ty­ing and hav­ing a good time. None of those who saw her dur­ing that time said she appeared dis­traught, wor­ried, or con­cerned about the where­abouts of her daugh­ter Caylee. They have all said she appeared “nor­mal”, even happy at times. When asked, “Where’s Caylee?” she always says, “She’s with the nanny.”

How­ever, the defense says that Casey was abused sex­u­ally by her dad and brother. It also pur­ports that Caylee drowned acci­den­tally in the pool, and George Anthony, Casey’s dad, helped her dis­pose of the body. I’m not buy­ing it, and unless the defense has an air­tight case they can prove (other than more lies by Casey), the jury won’t either.

The evi­dence pre­sented by the pros­e­cu­tion so far really hasn’t done any­thing in the way of estab­lish­ing a modus operandi (or “motive”) or a cause of death for Caylee. What it does do is estab­lish the case that Casey Anthony is a cold, cal­lous, unfeel­ing mon­ster that doesn’t care what has hap­pened to her daugh­ter. She con­tin­u­ously and patho­log­i­cally lies so much that it seems sec­ond nature to her. It also proves, via cir­cum­stan­tial evi­dence, that Casey was the last one to see Caylee alive and had some part to play in her death and dis­posal of her body. Caylee’s body wasn’t found until Decem­ber of 2008.

I truly believe, based on what I’ve seen so far, that this jury will have an easy time of con­vict­ing Casey of first-degree mur­der. It will be much harder to prove pre­med­i­ta­tion, so I don’t really fore­see the death penalty in this case.

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Time for a Reboot

June 1, 2011 By

If you are still read­ing this web­site, you will notice that I have been notice­ably absent from the blog­ging scene for a while. Due to a new job and other things (like play­ing too much World of War­craft) I just haven’t had the drive to blog lately. That is about to change. In the near future, there will be some heavy changes made to this site, both to the layout/design and to the content.

Con­sider it a late “spring clean­ing”. Just like a home, every once in a while a web­site needs a good visual “facelift.” It keeps the site edgy, cur­rent, and it keeps the audi­ence inter­ested. My goal is to find a design that fits me and my per­son­al­ity, but one that is also subject-oriented…

Speak­ing of sub­ject, I don’t plan on chang­ing the top­ics of dis­cus­sion — just how I approach the top­ics. I will still be talk­ing cur­rent events, pol­i­tics, sports, and any­thing else that grabs my atten­tion. I also plan on dis­cussing them from my point of view, but in the past I didn’t really engage the audi­ence. That is what I hope to change — to give you, the reader, a bet­ter plat­form to voice your thoughts and ideas. I desire for this site to grow and gain an even larger audi­ence, and give peo­ple a place to speak openly.

So as they say in the com­puter world, “It’s time for a reboot.”

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Screenshot of the Day

April 12, 2011 By
Meagosh on his Drake of the West Wind, waiting outside the Bastion of Twilight

Meagosh on his Drake of the West Wind, wait­ing out­side the Bas­tion of Twilight

Filed Under: World of Warcraft

All Together Now — Realm First 25

April 5, 2011 By
ATN Realm First Level 25

Well, we did it!   All Together Now is Realm First Level 25 guild for the Gar­rosh server!  Con­grat­u­la­tions, ATN!   You all are wonderful!

Here’s a screen­shot from my hunter when we dinged.

All Together Now — Garrosh-US Realm First Level 25 Guild

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The Race is On

April 5, 2011 By

Most of you may know that I play the immensely pop­u­lar World of War­craft.   Well, the guild I’m in — All Together Now — is in the race for Realm First Level 25 guild on the Garrosh-US realm.   This is a really big deal and great for brag­ging rights.  I will not dis­close exactly where we are (as to not tip off the com­pe­ti­tion), but I will say this:   We are mak­ing the final push for Level 25 and are in the lead.   Keep up the good work, fel­low guildies, and I will see you tonight and hope­fully help push us over the edge!

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