Coach K: Jalen Rose remarks 'insulting' to Duke - WGN

"Never try to teach a pig to sing; It wastes your time and annoys the pig." - Robert Heinlein

I was glad to hear Coach K join the chorus in defense of Grant Hill and the Duke program. I couldn't agree with him more. This on top of Grant Hill's well written defense.

I'm not even sure what kind of a bizarre-o world we live in anymore when there is even a question of someone as classy and successful as Hill. And what do you know, karma comes around immediately and bites ol' Jalen right on the ass with his concealment of a DUI arrest from his employers at ESPN -- the same ESPN that combined with producer Jalen Rose to produce this docu-trash.

Jalen Rose perpetuates this NAACP-type mind-set of covert, institutional racism, a form of "dog-whistle racism" that only they and their ilk can see. This allows them to frame it and re-frame as the situation serves them. Then they can craft self-serving documentaries (by Jalen Rose, for Jalen Rose, about Jalen Rose) that re-write and over-glamorize a legacy that simply doesn't exist.

This serves the same segment of the population that blindly follows the race baiters and poverty pimps like Al Sharpton -- who BTW is still waiting for his "forty acres and a mule" -- and discard the path of success demonstrated by Hill and others. A lot of good Sharpton's (and others) "preachings" have done to improve the lot of African-American in this country over the last, what is it, thirty or forty years? Instead, jackasses of his ilk would prefer to denigrate and tear down a successful, classy A.A, like Grant Hill.

Hill simply doesn't fit the model of the argument regarding race in this country as Sharpton / Rose portrays it in this country, so he has to be torn down. In the same way N.O.W., tries to tear down Palin. It's not the National Organization of Women anymore, it's the National Organization of Women who endorse the Liberal Agenda. (NOW -> s/b NOWELA). It is no longer the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, it's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who fit the Liberal Model and the Denigration of those who Don't (NAACP -> s/b NAACP, ah the heck with it). It is such an insane mind-set or mental model that it makes my head explode just thinking about it. (HYPERBOLE ALERT!!)

Funny, but I never think you are able to build somebody up by tearing somebody else down in the process. These two organizations routinely employ this process in their actions.

In fairness, Jalen Rose has attempted to clarify his remarks and put them into context, but for all intents and purposes, the damage is already done. His clarification will never receive the same attention as his initial remarks. To torture a pair of metaphors, Rose wants to close the barn door after the poop hits the fan.

And then of course, the karma train ran over Jalen, as the DUI details surfaced. A little bit of "Oh what a tangled web we weave...."? Perhaps.

The former Michigan guard said the comments regarding Duke's preference to recruiting "Uncle Tom's" were said from his perspective as a high school athlete heading into college and do not reflect his current opinions as a 38-year-old man.

"I know a lot of people are trying to circumvent a great documentary that was two hours of quality content and paraphrase a statement that I made and look at the headline but not read the story," Rose said in the voicemail, according to USA Today. "That's basically when I talked about my recruiting as a high school student as it related to Duke. I just want to make sure I verify how I felt about that. I was clearly talking about a framework from 1991 to 1993, not about 2011."

I just feel like we've reached a point in the so-called debate where the Heinlein quote shown above rings true.

In the end, Coach K and Hill are right and Jalen Rose is dead wrong. Rose and the Fab Five left little or nothing positive behind at Michigan. Even the baggy shorts thing was a rip-off from the Flying Illini. If we're counting mixing hip-hop and a bad-boy image with basketball, you could say they left a negative legacy. I'll leave aside the allegations of illegal payments. None of which you'll see or hear about as part of the legacy of the so-called "Uncle Tom's" at Duke.

Kudos to Coach K and Grant Hill. Thanks to Jalen Rose for highlighting the stupidity of the argument that underpins the last of the race-baiters and poverty pimps. Hopefully, incidents like this will signal the death knell of their clueless arguments.

From wgntv.com:
Coach K: Jalen Rose remarks 'insulting' to Duke - WGN

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski reacted Tuesday to comments made by Jalen Rose in ESPN's "The Fab Five" documentary referring to black Duke players in the early 1990s as "Uncle Toms."

"Sometimes people say things to get attention so they can sell their documentary," Krzyzewski told "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on WMVP-AM 1000. "Obviously, that was a poor choice of words and very insulting to everyone here at Duke but especially, not just our African-American players, but any African-American students. When you judge within a race, you start judging, like you put categories as to who you are. I think that's just the wrong thing to do."

Duke was 3-0 against the Fab Five and beat Michigan in the 1992 NCAA title game.

"We were very successful against them and, to be quite frank with you, we recruited Chris Webber," Krzyzewski said. "I didn't recruit Jalen Rose because we had Grant Hill and I'm happy with that. We didn't look at the other -- Juwan Howard, we knew wasn't going to come to Duke. The other two kids (Ray Jackson and Jimmy King) we didn't think were of the caliber that could play as well as Thomas Hill and Brian Davis and Billy McCaffery. They're good kids. They were good kids.

"They had a heck of a run, but they didn't leave anything, they didn't establish anything there," said Krzyzewski, referring to the Fab Five's failure to win a national title or lay a foundation for future success. "The guys that I had established something that (former Duke and Chicago Bulls guard) Jay Williams continued to do 10 years later -- the standards of what it meant to be a Duke basketball player."

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Grant Hill's Response:

HillTop » Blog Archive » Grant’s Unedited Response to the Fab Five’s Documentary

Grant’s Unedited Response to the Fab Five’s Documentary
Due to space constraints, the editorial posted in the New York Times was shortened. Read Grant’s full, unedited response to the Fab Five’s comments in their recent documentary here.

I am a fan, friend and long time competitor of the Fab Five. This should not be a surprise because I am a contemporary of every member of that iconic team. I have competed against Jalen and Chris since the age of 13. Jalen, Chris, and Juwan are my friends and have been for 25 years. At Michigan, they represented a cultural phenomenon that impacted the country in a permanent and positive way. The very idea of the Fab Five elicited pride and promise in much the same way the Georgetown teams did in the mid-80s when I was in high school and idolized them. Their journey from youthful icons to successful men today is a road map for so many young, black men (and women) who saw their journey through the powerful documentary, Fab Five.

It was a sad and somewhat pathetic turn of events, therefore, to see friends narrating this interesting documentary about their moment in time and calling me a bitch and worse, calling all black players at Duke “Uncle Toms” and, to some degree, disparaging my parents for their education, work ethic and commitment to each other and to me. I should have guessed there was something regrettable in the documentary when Jay Williams and I received a Twitter apology from Jalen before its airing. And, I am aware Jalen has gone to some length to explain his remarks about my family in numerous interviews, so I believe he has some admiration for them.

In his garbled but sweeping comment that “Duke only recruits black Uncle Toms,” Jalen seems to change the usual meaning of those very vitriolic words into his own meaning, i.e., blacks from two-parent, middle class families. He leaves us all guessing exactly what he believes today. And, I wonder if I would have suggested to former Detroit Pistons GM Rick Sund to keep Jimmy King on the team if I had known, back then in the mid-90s, that he would call me a bitch on a nationally televised show in 2011.

I am beyond fortunate to have two parents who are still working well into their 60s. They received great educations and use them every day. My parents taught me a personal ethic I try to live by and pass on to my children. They remain committed to each other after more than 40 years and to my wife, Tamia, our children, and me. They are my role models and always will be.

I come from a strong legacy of black Americans. My namesake, Henry Hill, my father’s father, was a day laborer in Baltimore. He could not read or write until he was taught to do so by my grandmother. His first present to my dad was a set of encyclopedias, which I now have to remind me of the importance of education. He wanted his only child, my father, to have a good education, so he made numerous sacrifices to see that he got an education, including attending Yale. This is part of our great tradition as black Americans. We aspire for the best or better for our children and work hard to make that happen for them. Jalen’s mother is part of our great, black tradition and made the same sacrifices for him.

It is unbeknownst to me what Jalen meant by his convoluted reference to black players at Duke considering how little he knows about any of them. My teammates—all of them, black and white—were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest level for the best coach in basketball. I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court. It is insulting and ignorant to suggest that men such as Johnny Dawkins (coach at Stanford), Tommy Amaker (coach at Harvard), Billy King (GM at the Nets), Tony Lang (coach of the Mitsubishi Diamond Dolphins in Japan ), Thomas Hill (small business owner in Texas), Jeff Capel (former coach at Oklahoma), Kenny Blakeley (assistant coach at Harvard), Jay Williams (ESPN analyst), Shane Battier (Memphis Grizzlies) or Chris Duhon (Orlando Magic) now or ever sold out their race. To hint that those who grew up in a household with a mother and father are somehow less black than those who did not is beyond ridiculous. All of us are extremely proud of the current team, especially Nolan Smith. He was raised by his mother, plays in memory of his late father and carries himself with the pride and confidence that they instilled in him. He is the quintessential young Dukie.

The sacrifice, the effort, the education and the friendships I experienced in my four years are priceless and cherished. The many Duke graduates I have met around the world are also my “family,” and they are a special group of people. A good education is a privilege. At Duke, the expectations are high for all of us. Just as Jalen has founded a charter school in Michigan, we are expected to use our education to help others, to improve life for those who need our assistance and to use the excellent education we have received to better the world. The total experience at Duke taught us to think before we act, to pause before we speak and to realize that as adults we have a responsibility to do good, not just do well. A highlight of my time at Duke was getting to know the late, great John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor of History and the leading scholar of the last century on the total history of African Americans in this country. His insights and perspectives contributed significantly to my overall development and helped me understand myself, my forefathers, and my place in the world.

Ad ingenium faciendum, toward the building of character, is a phrase I recently heard. To me, it is the essence of an educational experience. Struggling, succeeding, trying again and having fun within a nurturing but competitive environment built character in all of us, including every black graduate of Duke.

My mother always says, “You can live without Chaucer and you can live without calculus, but you cannot make it in the wide, wide world without common sense.” As we get older, we understand the importance of these words. Adulthood is nothing but a series of choices: you can say yes or no, but you cannot avoid saying one or the other. In the end, those who are successful are those who adjust and adapt to the decisions they have made and make the best of them. I only hope I can instill in my children the same work ethic, the same values, the same common sense approach to life and the same pursuit of excellence my parents, Coach K and Duke gave me.

I caution my fabulous five friends to avoid stereotyping me and others they do not know in much the same way so many people stereotyped you back then for your appearance and swagger. I wish for you the restoration of the bond that made you friends, brothers and icons. I hope you reach closure with your university so you will enjoy all the privileges of its greatness.

I try to live my life as a good husband and father. I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.

Grant Henry Hill
Phoenix Suns
Duke ‘94

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Maybe the NAACP should look into this

This is the sort of circular firing squad that the leftists bring on themselves as a result of the (over) playing the race card. This is from a CNN anchor, one of the bastions of leftist thought, that never spares an opportunity to accuse those from the other side of the ideological spectrum of being "hate-filled racists".

Listen to this hate-filed, bigoted, diatribe this guy goes into when talking about those who, for the most part, are part of the "big tent" that is the Democratic Party. His friends, his comrades, his buds. Then extrapolate out to see where some of the venom comes into play when they talk about people that they don't agree with. With friends like this guy, who would need enemies?

These guys always mistake xenophobia for real racism when they are pointing the finger at others. Their own bigotry gets a pass as being "satire" or comedy. These guys always excuse their own brand of racism and excoriate any hint or trace of it in others. "Do as I say, not as I do", I guess

I love when the host defended/excused himself in this manner, but he did say that the job of a comedian is to "lower others to raise themselves". Sounds like the prevalent mind-set of the loony left. One big joke. It explains Al Franken, David Letterman and all the other yuksters who want to make serious issues into a joke and "lower others (that disagree with them) to raise themselves. Typical.

This Sanchez guy is just a little ball of hate. He didn't spare anybody. He should have spent less time sucked up snot and more time thinking about what he was saying. I have a feeling his career just hit a speed-bump.

CNN'S RICK SANCHEZ - HATE SPEECH FROM THE LEFT


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rick-sanchez-jon-stewart-is-a-bigot-news-networks-are-run-by-jews/

CNN’s Rick Sanchez is sick and tired of being treated as a second-rate newsman. So yesterday, he went off on those who he feels have relegated him to the “second tier” of broadcasters — Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and his own network, CNN — and turned a 15 minute interview into an over 20 minute poor-me discussion on race.

Appearing on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show, Sanchez railed against “elite, Northeast establishment liberals“ who ”deep down, when they look at a guy like me, they see a guy automatically who belongs in the second tier, and not the top tier.” He then lumped the Comedy Central hosts into that group, and especially went after Stewart:

I think ESPN's J.A. Andande had it nailed pretty good in a recent article discussing the LeBron fiasco and how race may or may not have played into it. When he uses the term "tribalism", that is virtually synonymous with "xenophobia" or a preference to be in the company of "people like ourselves". It's human nature and rooted in a survival instinct.

from ESPN.com

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/trainingcamp10/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=LeBronRace-101001

That brings us to an essential component we must understand when it comes to any discussion of race and the NBA. It's OK for people to root for people who bear the most resemblance to themselves. I had no qualms with white Boston Celtics fans who bypassed racks of Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce jerseys to buy a Brian Scalabrine jersey. If they could identify more with him -- to the extent almost anyone can identify with a 6-foot-9 man with OrangeSicle-colored hair -- that's fine. It's no different than black people who previously didn't care about the difference between a serve and a volley rushing to the TV to cheer for Venus and Serena Williams. We all do it to some degree, be it with athletes or even "Price Is Right" contestants. We tend to support those representing our racial group.

It's not racism. I prefer the term that movie producer (and soon to be Golden State Warriors owner) Peter Guber used repeatedly in his conversation with Charles Barkley in Barkley's 2005 book "Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?": tribalism.

Tribalism is about familiarity within the known entity. It's not about hatred of others, it's about comfort within your own, with a natural reluctance to expend the energy and time to break across the barriers and understand another group.

Most of what we're quick to label racism isn't really racism. Racism is premeditated, an organized class distinction based on believed superiority and inferiority of different races. That "ism" suffix makes racism a system, just like capitalism or socialism. Racism is used to justify exclusion and persecution based on skin color, things that rarely come into play in today's NBA.

He nails it again when talking about the Lebron James and Dan Gilbert (Cavs owner) battle of the barbs when LeBron left the Cavs at the alter. But he could have easily have been talking about Albert Haynesworth's misguided comments about being treated like a slave or a prostitute by the Redskins who seemingly are just trying to get a minimal amount of return from a huge amount of money invested in this bust.

It began with Jesse Jackson's claim that Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert's late-night rant about LeBron's departure reflected a "slave master mentality" and that "He sees LeBron as a runaway slave." It was an overly exaggerated reaction to the reaction. If Gilbert really saw LeBron as a slave, he would have tracked him down with bloodhounds and lynched him. That's what slave masters did to escaped slaves. That's why I'll never equate professional or collegiate athletics to slavery.

Haynesworth comparing his so-called struggle to slavery. C'mon man!!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5617037

None of these type of incidents do any good at reaching the goal of promoting better understanding and bringing people closer together. It causes an inertia to set in and makes it easier for people to avoid the problem rather than confront it.

They cause real racists to become better at hiding their tendencies and cause people to "see" racism behind everyone because they believe that "everyone" is hiding their "true" tendencies. It drives racism underground and makes it harder to solve the problem.

These false, misguided or misapplied accusations of racism when human nature is really at play drives a wedge between good people.

The racist label has become almost as devalued as the dollar lately because many times it describes situations that have little or nothing to do with race.

People are different, we need to learn how to acknowledge, tolerate and at times celebrate the differences. This drumbeat of suspicion, accusation and demonization does not do anybody a lick of good and is often as evil as racism itself. That's the paradox that these purveyors of hate need to start understanding by taking a good, long, hard look in the mirror.

For the most part:

People who rail against "illegal immigration" are not racist against immigrants - or they would have to hate all immigrants including legal, productive immigrants which most Americans, by nature derive from. They are against the "illegality" issue.

People who oppose the mosque because its insensitive are not racists or bigots or Islamaphobes just because the disagree. They just don't think its a good idea. They see it as inappropriate. "Not there, not now" doesn't mean they hate any Muslim or mosque built anywhere.

People who rail against LeBron or Michael Vick -- or whomever the controversy du jour is -- don't hate black athletes or blacks in general. They are mostly upset about stupid behavior.

People who rail against President Obama are not inherently racist or the Tea Party movement would have coalesced somewhere around the time it was apparent that he was going to defeat john McCain. And that was pretty early in the process, THERE WAS TIME. But he got elected and by being judged on the basis of his work as President, he is in a sense the personification of MLK's dream of being judged by the content of his character.

I guess in this case, the phrase that "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" would apply. It's time to put these false accusations of racism away for a bit and see if we can't bring people together, instead of driving people apart.

In Aesop's fables, when the boy falsely cried wolf too many times, he was ignored when the wolf actually appeared. That is the route we are clearly travelling.

The moral is stated at the end of the fable as:

Even when liars tell the truth, they are never believed. The liar will lie once, twice, and then perish when he tells the truth.

Trouble for the NAACP...

Apparently, PJTV's Tea Party Tracking Poll looked at the Tea Party and found some results that perhaps the NAACP should take a look at. Apparently 1/3 of the folks they claim to represent do not seem to see the world through the same set of glasses that they would like them too. This is really good news for the future. Unless you are employed by the NAACP.

FROM WORLDNETDAILY:

SOMETHING IN THE AIR
Surprise! 1/3 of blacks back tea-party movement
'The wheels on the race-card bus are beginning to fall off'

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=207533

A new poll released this week soundly contradicts critics' claims that the tea-party movement is "fringe," "white" and "racist."

PJTV's Tea Party Tracking Poll has monitored nationwide sentiments toward the tea party on a weekly basis since Aug. 2. The poll's most recent reports reveal the following results:

The number of people who identify as "members" of the tea party has more than tripled over the last month alone, up to 21 percent of likely voters;

Fifty-five percent of those surveyed said they support the tea parties based on the movement's positions on the issues;

Among the likely voters who are black, 32 percent said they would vote for a candidate backed by the tea parties.
The last statistic caught the attention of PJTV.

"Questions of racism within the tea party have been raised for months now," said PJTV's Polling Director Vik Rubenfeld in a statement. "Our survey found that more than one in three African-Americans support the movement. Moreover, the data revealed that 32 percent are also likely to vote for a congressional candidate whom the tea party supports."

The NAACP went looking for Tea Party racism and all we get is a lousy T-shirt?

You can't make this stuff up. If it wasn't such a serious topic this would be comical. But the NAACP comes off looking like the child who cried wolf too many times and wasn't listened to when the wolf actually arrived.

And therein lies the dilemma presented to society by these hate mongers.

Let the record show that since the NAACP has been looking far and wide for racism in the Tea Party and all they have found was one lousy T-shirt?

If we are going to have this much ballyhooed discussion on race that these guys profess to want to have, should we not at least take care to get the facts right?

Good people do not feel the great need to come to the table and be lied about and slandered by others.
That is why there is no conversation.

Story from theblaze.com:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/factor-showdown-naacp-head-cant-cite-actual-tea-party-racism/

FACTOR SHOWDOWN: NAACP HEAD CAN’T CITE ACTUAL TEA PARTY RACISM

Last night, the NAACP‘s Hilary Shelton appeared on O’Reilly to talk about its new website designed to track tea party racism, and asked that the party repudiate any racism by rally attendees. But the problem, as O’Reilly pointed out, is that the party had already done that. Still, Shelton claimed that racism continues. But when pressed for an example, he admitted “the closest things we’ve seen so far is we saw a t-shirt at one the rallies that said something really problematic.” What did it say? Shelton wouldn’t elaborate.
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Perhaps they would do well to remember the following quote and review and learn from history instead of trying to lie about it ot re-write it to fit their narrative and agenda.

THE FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY HAS DONE MORE TO IMPEDE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THAN ANY ONE THING KNOWN TO MANKIND -- ROUSSEAU

From publiusforum.com:
http://www.publiusforum.com/2010/08/27/hey-walter-fauntroy-the-ku-klux-klan-was-the-terrorist-wing-of-the-democratic-party/#more-15688

Hey, Walter Fauntroy, the Ku Klux Klan was the Terrorist Wing of the Democratic Party

At the National Press Club, Walter Fauntroy falsely accused the Tea Party of having ties to the Ku Klux Klan. In the many years Fauntroy was Delegate for the District of Columbia, he was a member of Congressional Black Caucus, an organization that excludes people on the basis of race. Blind to his hypocrisy, he has falsely accused a political movement open to all races, the Tea Party, of being racist. Speaking at the National Press Club, Fauntroy said: “We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux — I meant to say the Tea Party… You all forgive me, but I — you have to use them interchangeably.”

Now is the time to speak Truth to Power.

It would have been far more truthful for Mr. Fauntroy, who is a Democrat, to have admitted the fact that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist wing of his own political party. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan was established by the Democratic Party. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan murdered thousands of Republicans — African-American and white — in the years following the Civil War. Yes, the Republican Party and a Republican President, Ulysses Grant, destroyed the KKK with their Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
How did the Ku Klux Klan re-emerge in the 20th century? For that, the Democratic Party is to blame.

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And what is that saying about those who live in glass houses? Maybe we should worry more about racism and xenophobia from Floyd Mayweather and 50 Cent.

From espn.com
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5542975

The racist and homophobic remarks spewed by Floyd Mayweather Jr. in an attack on Manny Pacquiao last week in a self-made Internet video has elicited a strong rebuke from the National Federation of Filipino American Associations.

The NaFFAA, a private, non-profit organization that promotes the active participation of Filipino Americans in civic and national affairs, "strongly condemned" Mayweather for his attack on Pacquiao, an icon in his home country.

"We are outraged by Mayweather's racially offensive remarks," Greg Macabenta, the NaFFAA's national chairman, said in a statement. "This disgusting diatribe against Pacquiao is a racial slur against all Filipinos and Filipino Americans and an embarrassment not only to the boxing community, but to all Americans. Talking trash may be common between boxing rivals, but Mayweather's racially laced profanities brazenly crossed the line of decency and respectability. Pacquiao, on the other hand, has taken the high road and acted like the gentleman that he is."

"At a time when immigrant communities are being viewed with increasing suspicion and mistrust, Mayweather's cruel, abusive and hurtful remarks can only stoke more hostility, derision and resentment against individuals who look foreign by virtue of their looks, their size or the sound of their names. Coming from a boxing celebrity with millions of fans around the world, Mayweather's shameless and reckless conduct unfairly paints an entire racial and ethnic group with a broad brush and seriously undermines America's core values of inclusivity and racial tolerance."

In the video, which has been widely circulated on the Internet, Mayweather repeatedly insulted Pacquiao with racist comments and derided his English-language skills, even though English is his second language.

Mayweather also used a homophobic slur against him, called him a "whore" and repeated his accusation that Pacquiao uses performance-enhancing drugs, even though Mayweather has never produced a shred of evidence.

"As soon as we come off vacation, we're going to cook that little yellow chump," Mayweather said of Pacquiao, whom he has refused to fight after two rounds of failed negotiations.

Among his other comments, Mayweather said, "Once I stomp the midget, I'll make that mother f----- make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice."

At another point in the video, Mayweather said, "We gonna cook that mother f----- with some cats and dogs. ... Rice with [a] little bit of cat, rice with a little bit of barbecued dog."

Mayweather offered a video apology the following day. In that video, Mayweather said of his remarks, "Forgive me for saying what I said. I was just having fun. I didn't really mean it. Nothing in a bad way. So let's stay on this roller coaster ride and keep riding, baby. It's all love."

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From the New York Post:

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/furious_gays_fire_back_at_fitty_VU3LVj65ynS9QB1TtlGozN

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is mounting a campaign against 50 Cent after the rapper tweeted threatening comments to blogger Perez Hilton last week, including a violent photo of two men in suits running from a mob.
"Perez Hilton calld me douchebag so I had my homie shoot up a gay wedding. wasnt his but still made me feel better," read the tweet with the photo attached.
Fitty also Tweeted Hilton: "stop being so sensitive its a joke. Your acting like a big baby" and, "my next song will make your sweet ass dance lol chill out."


A rep for 50 Cent had no comment. But it wasn't the first time Fitty's run afoul of the gay community. He told Playboy in a 2004 interview, "I ain't into faggots. I don't like gay people around me, because I'm not comfortable with what their thoughts are . . . I'd rather hang out with a straight dude. But women who like women, that's cool."

His recent Twitter posts have also taken aim at unborn children and pregnant women: "I wanna do something that impact kids in a positive way, thats why im opening an abortion clinic. Ima call it 50/50 chance," one of them read.

On Friday, Fitty used nearly a dozen tweets to defend his friend, boxer Floyd Mayweather, who was arrested on charges of theft relating to a domestic-abuse complaint by his former girlfriend Josie Harris, the mother of three of his children.
"Another case of angry baby mama wanting money," he wrote.

There you go, 50 Cent defending Floyd Mayweather, it seems as if idiot birds of a feather flock together. It should be easier for the NAACP to find racism in their own back yard than it will be to find it from with the Tea Party. Now "manufacturing racism", that's another story, But one that it seems like the NAACP is rather good at.

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Maybe the NAACP if they are true to their name and true to their mandate, should look in another direction for both the cause and the cure for some of the major ills facing Black America.


From thegrio.com

http://www.thegrio.com/politics/tea-party-tracker-doesnt-the-naacp-have-better-things-to-do.php

'Tea Party Tracker': Doesn't the NAACP have better things to do?
By Sophia A. Nelson

9:22 AM on 09/02/2010

From the NAACP's official website:
We are satisfied that on August 28 [at Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally], there were few overt signs of racism -- however, we remain committed to holding the Tea Party to their word. Our coalition watchdog website, TeaPartyTracker.org, will serve as evidence of this ongoing vigilance of extremism within the Tea Party movement.

The NAACP has always believed in the promise of America - a promise built on mutual respect, common civility, and hope for a better tomorrow. Together, we will continue to do our part to ensure that the Tea Party reflects these values as well.

Here we go again. I had hoped that the NAACP might have learned a valuable lesson from the events of this past summer (i.e., Shirley Sherrod, its first scuffle with the Tea Party and anti-racism Resolutions, etc.) but apparently not.

Let me be crystal clear about what I am going to write next so that there is no misunderstanding -- you ready -- buckle up: Racism is not the biggest problem facing black America. Period. Black America is the biggest problem facing black America. That's right I said it. It's time we had some real grown-up talk and stop using race as an excuse for all that ails us when looking inward would serve our community a whole lot better.

Of course racism exists in America. How could it not? Our very founding and institutions were built on racist principles (that ought to go over well with my conservative friends). Slavery was legally sanctioned in America until 1863. Jim Crow - or racial segregation - was legally sanctioned in 1896 with the Plessey v. Ferguson decision and stayed the law of the land until the Brown v. Board decision in 1954. Yes, yes, yes racism is real and its vestiges are still with us, but racism is not the biggest threat to what is wrong in black America and the NAACPknows this better than most.

Let me just give you a snapshot of what you already know but may have forgotten in the busyness of your own lives: Fact - black male unemployment in this current recession has been at Great Depression levels in many American cities. The out of wedlock birth rate for black children is well over 65 percent approaching 70 percent according to most statistics.

As noted black historian Dr. Lerone Bennett. wrote recently, "A black child had a better chance of growing up with both of his parents in slavery than he does now." The black marriage rate has declined dramatically since the 1970s. The black divorce rate has soared in the past two decades. Black on black crime and violence in the past two decades in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Camden, St. Louis, Oakland, Cleveland, Birmingham, etc. has caused more death and destruction in our communities than all of the lynchings of black people (that we know of) that took place in the Jim Crow South. And I simply do not have space here to talk about the black male incarceration rates, the AIDS crisis and black women, drug use, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and everything else that is seemingly plaguing the black community at large in alarming rates.

Now hear me out before you lose oxygen and go all weak at the knees out there -- my fellow black Americans we have got to put a stop to this game that is being played on us every single election cycle without fail. I don't care if you are Democrat, Republican, or Independent. We deserve better and should demand it. Every two years and every four years we can count on the same old garbage being dumped on us: The Republicans are racist, watch out for the bogeyman, watch out for the Tea Party, watch out for white folks. I mean come on folks--really?

Why is it that the "race" card is always trotted out in election season, and why is it always trotted out on us? We are treated as if somehow education, higher taxes, crime, national security, and a better quality of life don't matter to us, when no community out there needs more action and help in this area than does the black community.

Here is my point: the NAACP has fresh young leadership in Ben Jealous and Roslyn Brock. Both are exceptionally bright and energetic. But authorizing Tea Party tracking sites that monitor allegedly racist behavior is simply stunning to me.

What does that have to do with fixing what is broken in black America? In the final analysis, I would rather see theNAACP's wisdom and energy spent focusing on policing "us" and our own community so that we can redefine a better, healthier, more prosperous destiny for the next generation to come. When the NAACP gets back to its core mission and values, I will renew my membership and support it wholeheartedly!

God Bless Lt. Col. Allen West....Sen. Reid do you have a question? Molon Labe, Baby!!

Is this the kind of man we need "to restore honor, integrity and character to Washington, DC"?

I LOVE THIS MAN!!!

I suppose to Senator Reid, the only thought might be, "what is a Negro doing in the Republican Party?" Especially one who is "light-skinned" and does not speak in "negro dialect".

What's that Vice President Biden?

Yes sir, he is "clean and articulate" as well, isn't he sir?

This is EXACTLY the kind of man we need in Washington.

Molōn labe! INDEED!!!

You have to watch this video, it's 8 minutes long.

If this guy doesn't win, I really have grave reservations for the future of this country.

Lt. Col. Allen West Tells Florida Dems ‘Come and Get it!’

http://www.publiusforum.com/2010/08/11/lt-col-allen-west-tells-florida-dems-come-and-get-it/




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe

The Greek phrase Molōn labe! (Μολὼν λαβέ; approximate Classical Greek pronunciation [molɔ̀ːn labé], Modern Greek [moˈlon laˈve]), meaning "Come and take them" is a classical expression of defiance reportedly by King Leonidas in response to the Persian army's demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons at the Battle of Thermopylae. It corresponds roughly to the modern equivalent English phrase "over my dead body", "bring it on" or, most closely, "come and get it". It is an exemplary use of a laconic phrase.

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Allen West: Honor In Iraq

AllenWestForCongress

"If it's about the lives of my men and their safety, I'd go through Hell with a gasoline can . . . There is not a person in this room I would not sacrifice my life for." -Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Allen B. West

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http://allenwestforcongress.com/

http://allenwestforcongress.com/blog/2010-07-19/washingtoons-one-nation-under-god-indivisible-liberty-and-justice-all

Washingtoons: "One Nation under God Indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All"

18 July 2010
by: Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Retired)

Greetings Wheels on the Road readers, fellow South Floridians, and all Americans, my how time flies and here we are again for our monthly political assessment.

It never ceases to amaze me that as we get closer to our monthly submission of this regular missive that the topic becomes evident. I often use an ole saying from my parents, "sometimes you just have to thank God for stupid people"....and I do. The focus for this month without any doubt has to be the NAACP and its President/CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous.

Let me make one thing very clear, my Mother, Elizabeth Thomas West, was a lifetime membership holder with the NAACP. Therefore growing up in our home I clearly understood the mission and vision for this organization. It was a mission and vision that enabled me to have the pride in myself and the heritage of my parents, grandparents, and extended family. It was a mission and vision that, to me, fostered a desire to excel beyond the standard and have a commitment to excellence regardless of skin color.

However, something has happened to that mission and vision, something horrific and inconsistent with the principles and values I recalled emanating from the "ole school" black community. Somewhere along the way victimization mentality has taken root in the black community resulting in astronomical unemployment rates, high incarceration rates, appalling murder rates, breakdown of the black family, and embarrassing teen pregnancy rates.

And in the light of all these negative socioeconomic indicators the NAACP decides that the preeminent focus of their national convention would be on issuing a resolution castigating the Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party movement as racist. Even Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas was so compelled as to state that the Tea Party is filled with Klan members.....but we will get to the Congressional Black Caucus a bit later.

Instead of maintaining its mission and vision, the NAACP has now become the "useful idiots" (a term coined by Vladimir Lenin) for liberal racism. They have made themselves into a political hack job organization which now seeks to maintain the liberal progressive socialist control of the 21 century plantation. It is on this new economic plantation where the liberals seek to enslave the black community in order to maintain a devoted, monolithic, voting electorate.

I find it interesting that the NAACP was silent when Senator Harry Reid made his insidious comments about President Obama was favorable, likeable, because he is "light-skinned" and did not speak in "negro dialect". I recall that the NAACP said nothing when Vice President Joe Biden referred to Barack Hussein Obama as "clean and articulate". The NAACP said nothing when liberals attacked Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice (birthing tubes cartoon), Michael Steele, and General Colin Powell.

In 2008, where was the NAACP to denounce the obvious case of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party? Why did the NAACP not demand President George W Bush, and now, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the Obama administration, to prosecute this case to the fullest extent? Does the NAACP now support the same tactic which targeted the black community seeking to restrict the most fundamental of American individual rights, the right to vote? And shall the NAACP distance itself and condemn Malik Shabazz and the New Black Panther Party?

It is this duplicitous hypocrisy which allows me to state that the NAACP is shamefully now a liberal racist enabler. The upcoming mid-term elections have the Democrat party in certain peril. Therefore they have turned to their tactic of first and last resort, race baiting.

The resolution issued by the NAACP against the Tea Party is just a strategy to focus this coming election not against liberal progressive policies, which are anathema to our Republic. No, the NAACP, in conjunction with their masters, the Democrat party, seek to make this into an election based upon an insane charge of racial hatred.

We even see charlatan blasts from the past such as Julian Bond stating that Martin Luther King Jr was a socialist, a feeble attempt to garner black community acceptance of the liberal progressive agenda. We are truly on the verge of a dangerous situation in America. And yes, this also includes the lawsuit being brought against the sovereign State of Arizona, an attempt to win Hispanic votes.....an extension of liberal racism to another minority group.

We can fully expect from now until 2 November 2010 to see the usual suspects come out to promote the dishonest tyranny of the liberals. You will find the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton out to ensure blacks remain wedded to the failing liberal social welfare policies, all the time shouting how the Democrats know what is best. I find it comical that Al Sharpton has already leapt forward to head up a new left-wing grassroots group to counter the Tea Party called "One Nation".

Does One Nation believe in higher taxes and bigger government? Will this counter group promote individual rights and freedoms, liberty, and adherence to our US Constitution? I presume this group will seek to intimidate and put forth the ideals of collectivism combined with victimhood and expansion of the "nanny-state".

I find the Tea Party, to which I have spoken to several times, stands for fundamental principles and values consistent with that which has made America an exceptional Constitutional Republic.

Therefore, under the "leadership" of Al Sharpton, this counter group One Nation obviously stands for principles which are antithetical to our Republic.

In closing, I am sure you are asking why did the ole Colonel have the last sentence in the Pledge of Allegiance in the title for this piece?

Simple, Liberal Racism does not believe in One Nation under God. They believe in a Nation of subjects organized into collective groups under which they shall rule, not govern, in a secular humanist based society.

Indivisible, Liberal Racism does not believe in "e pluribus unim", they prefer a balkanized America where they can pit us against each other through their manipulated messages....such as Tea Party racism.

Liberal racism does not believe in Liberty and Justice for All, they believe in freedom defined by a ruling class elite while creating more victims who become dependent upon their dishonest benevolence. Justice in the world of Liberal Racism means social and economic justice rooted in a principle of leveling, which founding father Samuel Adams spoke against. Al Sharpton defined justice as everyone having the same in every home in America.....government engineering of results and outcomes.

The mid-term elections of 2 November 2010 comes down to "One Nation under God Indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All" or the concept of One Nation under the proprietor of victimization Al Sharpton, a simpleton crony of Liberal Racism. Which shall you choose?

Steadfast and Loyal,

LTC(R) Allen B West

Your Tax Dollars at Work, Garbage In - Garbage Out

America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance. - J.C. Watts

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. - Milton Friedman

This week, aside from Sheriff Joe Biden telling us that the stimulus worked, we get this garbage in, garbage out from economists Mark Zandi and Fed apologist Alan Blinder, titled "How We Ended the Great Recession".

http://www.scribd.com/doc/35002562/How-We-Ended-the-Great-Recession

So this is what we get from our government, two economists who predicted the stimulus would be hugely beneficial, conduct a study that concludes that the stimulus was hugely beneficial.
HOW STUNNINGLY INEPT.

DEFINITION OF CONFIRMATION BIAS:
Confirmation bias (or myside bias) is a tendency for people to prefer information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses, independently of whether they are true.

Buried in the minutiae of the study is the admission that what the Federal Reserve did actually had more impact than our tax dollars.

Also, the authors compare the "success" against a set of alternatives that suggest that the administration and the Federal Reserve just "do nothing" in response to the collapse of the financial system and the economy.

SERIOUSLY?!? Is that the standard we are looking for? Is that where the bar is set? IT WAS BETTER THAN DOING NOTHING?? That's even worse than, "close enough for government work".

The larger problem the "useful tools" in the administration have is that the facts (economic data) keep flying in their faces. My Dad used to say "don't let the facts get in the way of a good story". This is often described as "anchoring" instead of the term confirmation bias. I just hope that they don't pull the whole economy down again by remaining "anchored" to what appear to be failed policy choices.

This is a pretty accurate synopsis of the situation from back in January 2010. Zandi was a goofball then, he's more of one now.


http://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/an-accurate-unemployment-projection/

The Obama administration has explained the dire employment situation thusly:

The economy was way worse than anybody thought
Their predictions were in line with other economists
Things would have been worse without the stimulus
All in all, a nice deflection of blame from themselves (and usually on to the preceding administration). But history isn’t so kind.

You see, back around the time that the Obama team put forth their errant predictions, a fellow named Mark Zandi (Moody’s Economy) made a similar set of predictions using an actual economic model. And here’s how he did:

Yes, your eyes do not deceive you – the unemployment rate is closely tracking Zandi’s predictions for the non-stimulus case. This leads me to the following conclusions (which are somewhat at odds with the administration’s spin):

The economy was exactly as bad as some economists thought
The Obama team’s predictions were much more optimistic than other economists’
The stimulus has had no effect

You can believe the spin or the facts you see/feel for yourself.

My conclusions would echo those of one of the commentators to the story and flow from the wisdom of Milton Fridman:

“I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.”

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

The discrepancy may be explained by either the economy being in worse shape than economists thought at the outset (the Obama excuse, even though we were told this was the worst thing since the Great Depression). In this case the model of the economy without stimulus is wrong.

Alternatively, the discrepancy can be explained by the fact that the model generating the effects of stimulus is wrong. The GIGO argument. Either argument can be made and supported by facts and figures, ultimately we have elections that decide who is right and who is wrong.

We heard the mantra that these stimulus funds would go to "shovel-ready" projects that would have a near immediate effect on jobs and the economy. That has proven to be false at worst or understated at best.

The problem IMO was that the anticipated stimulus multiplier effect was muted or strangled by the harsh anti-business rhetoric and punitive regulatory euphoria that has created a climate where in effect CAPITAL IS ON STRIKE.

Why would a businessman hire, invest and strive for climate in an environment where the costs to hire are increasing, the incentive to invest is disappearing and the profits, if any, generated from investing and hiring are going to be demonized as ill-gotten gains or confiscated by an angry, greedy business partner by the name of Uncle Sam, who is motivated to "level the playing field" and will take your profits to aid those of your less competent competitor. (See GM, Chrysler, Ford)

Put that in your model and smoke it, Zandi!!

It is interesting to see that the political contributions of businessmen and women appear to be heading in a different pocket lately. And Team Obama has taken notice. Also, interesting now that the Obama team, which benefited greatly from contributions from these same businesses to get elected, now criticizes these same businesses for appearing to have buyers remorse. Isn't that their right, sir? To change their mind?

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MORE GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT THAT EMENATES FROM THOSE ENTRUSTED WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS:

CBO Admits It Ignored the Economy’s Actual Performance
Published on March 23, 2010 by Brian Riedl


http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/03/Stimulus-Jobs-Count-CBO-Admits-It-Ignored-the-Economys-Actual-Performance

1) RESULTS PRE-DETERMINED? THAT'S NOT TOO FRAUDULENT OR SELF-SERVING - NICE PR JOB

CBO Confirms Its Methodology

In a recent speech to the National Association of Business Economics, CBO Director Doug Elmendorf confirmed this by stating:

[W]e don't think one can learn much from watching the evolution of particular components of GDP [gross domestic product] over the last few quarters about the effects of the stimulus … so we fall back on repeating the sort of analysis we did before. And we tried to be very explicit about it that it is essentially repeating the same exercise we did rather than an independent check on it.[1]

When asked if this means that any actual underperformance of the stimulus would fail to show up in the CBO's stimulus jobs count, Elmendorf replied "That's right." This means the 1.5 million jobs saved estimate was pre-determined.


Of course, the stimulus was originally promised to create (not just save) more than 3 million jobs.[2] Instead, the economy has since lost more than 3 million additional net jobs. The abject failure of the stimulus policies recommended by Keynesian economic models should induce some fundamental re-analysis of these models' assumptions. Instead, the CBO is re-releasing the same jobs analysis--with the same economic assumptions--that they had used a year ago.

2. GIGO - GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT - WHAT IF THE UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS ARE WRONG?

The "Begging the Question" Fallacy

The CBO's conclusion that the stimulus created jobs is based on an economic model that began with the premise that all stimulus bills create jobs. In other words, the conclusion is already assumed as a premise. Logicians call this the fallacy of begging the question. Mathematicians call it assuming what you are trying to prove.

More specifically, the CBO's model started by automatically assuming that government spending increases GDP by pre-set multipliers, such as:

Every $1 of government spending that directly purchases goods and services ultimately raises the
GDP by $1.75;

Every $1 of government spending sent to state and local governments for infrastructure ultimately raises GDP by $1.75;

Every $1 of government spending sent to state and local governments for non-infrastructure spending ultimately raises GDP by $1.25; and

Every $1 of government spending sent to an individual as a transfer payment ultimately raises GDP by $1.45.[3]

(Note that all CBO figures in this paper represent the midpoint between their high and low estimates.)

Then the CBO plugged the stimulus provisions into the multipliers above, came up with a total increase in GDP of 2.6 percent, and then converted that additional GDP into 1.5 million jobs.

The problem here is obvious. Once the CBO decided to assume that every dollar of government spending increased GDP by the multipliers above, its conclusion that the stimulus saved jobs was pre-ordained.

The economy could have lost 30 million jobs, and the model would have said that the economy would otherwise have lost 31.5 million jobs without the stimulus. An asteroid could have hit the United States, wiping out everyone outside of Washington, D.C., and (as long as Washington still spent the stimulus money) the CBO's economic model would have produced the same stimulus jobs data. There is no adjustment made to reflect what actually happened in the economy after the stimulus was enacted.

3. CONFIRMATION BIAS, ANCHORING - CALL IT WHAT YOU WILL - MOST PEOPLE FEEL LIKE IT'S JUST PLAIN OLD FASHIONED B.S.

Test the Multipliers

The debate over the efficacy of Keynesian stimulus is essentially a debate over the correct multipliers. Some believe the multipliers are high[4]; others believe they are as low as zero[5] (or even negative). Testing the stimulus requires testing the multipliers. Yet by simply assuming large multipliers, the CBO effectively pre-ordained its conclusion that the stimulus worked regardless of what actually happened in the economy.


Elmendorf has confirmed that the CBO's stimulus analysis consists of little more than re-releasing its pre-stimulus projections. Policymakers and analysts should not mistake this analysis for an actual examination of the stimulus's impact.

And this is why the people they call the Tea Party are gaining in numbers, not because they are racists, not because they do not want top see our President and therefore our country succeed. But because they see and feel these things that are going horribly wrong and they have had enough.

This hit my e-mail last week from James Quinn who publishes the blog The Burning Platform
http://theburningplatform.com/

The Burning Platform has posted a new item, 'NAACP - MOST RACIST ORGANIZATION IN AMERICA'

Again, I would like to reiterate that the NAACP, backed up by the hate spewing liberal media pundits on MSNBC and CNN, are just mouthpieces for the Obama agenda. Obama despises white people. Whenever his policies fail and the country is clearly headed downward, he will pull the race card. It is the liberal gameplan. They expect us white people to back down like we have for decades. No more. The Tea Party is about fiscal responsibility. The racists are in the NAACP and the Obama White House. Funny that black men like Thomas Sowell and Deroy Murdock aren’t invited on MSNBC to put Olbermann, Madow, and Matthews in their place. The liberal agenda is hate, racism and division.

Liberals fear the Tea Party. They should. We’re coming to get them.

He defends the Tea Party by noting that

"Consider the Tea Party’s Contract from America, a pledge to which it holds its endorsed candidates. (TheContract.org.)

Among 10 planks, it advocates a single-rate tax, a two-thirds-vote requirement for tax hikes,
ObamaCare’s repeal, and the defeat of cap-and-trade legislation.

Nothing is even remotely related to race, ethnicity or identity. Wouldn’t bigots devote at least one of 10 reforms to something racial?

The Tea Party movement avoids racial issues and instead advances lower taxes and spending and greater fiscal discipline. These issues are neither black nor white. They are green."

This is what I've been saying about the Tea Party all along.

If you really want to get a gander at a wholly racist organization, look no further than the Black Congressional Caucus, whose members basically started this "Tea Party is racist" nonsense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus

The Congressional Black Caucus is an organization representing the black members of the United States Congress. Membership is exclusive to blacks,[1]

I have to agree with J.C. Watts here as well.

Watts said of his refusal to join the caucus, "...they said that I had sold out and Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps."

White members of Congress have never been welcomed into the caucus, although CBC by-laws specifically prohibit any discrimination.

And then there was the infamous Ralph Nader incident.
Sorry, in terms of level of overt racism compare and contrast the overly trumped up version of the congressman walking the gauntlet of Tea Partiers, up the Capitol steps to sign the Health Care bill with this incident.

Oh, you never heard about this incident, or the Sharpton / Brawley smear of NYPD officers. No surprise there.

Ralph Nader incident

In 2004, independent presidential candidate and consumer activist Ralph Nader attended a meeting with the Caucus which turned into a shouting exchange. The caucus urged Nader to give up his presidential run, fearing that it could hurt John Kerry, the Democratic Party's nominee. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) called the upcoming election "a life or death matter" for the Caucus members' constituents. Nader accused Congressman Mel Watt of twice uttering an "obscene racial epithet" towards Nader; he alleged that Watt said: "You're just another arrogant white man – telling us what we can do – it's all about your ego – another f—king arrogant white
man." Watt never offered an apology.[9]

Nader wrote to the Caucus afterwards:

"Instead, exclamations at the meeting... end[ed] with the obscene racist epithet repeated twice by Yale Law School alumnus Congressman Melvin Watt of North Carolina. One member of your Caucus called to apologize for the crudity of some of the members. I had expected an expression of regret or apology from Congressman Watt in the subsequent days after he had cooled down. After all there was absolutely no vocal or verbal provocation from me or from my associates, including Peter Miguel Camejo, to warrant such an outburst. In all my years of struggling for justice, especially for the deprived and downtrodden, has any legislator—white or black—used such language? I do not like double standards, especially since our premise for interactions must be equality of respect that has no room, as I responded to Mr. Watt, for playing the race card. Therefore, just as African-Americans demanded an apology from Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and Senator Trent Lott—prior to their resignation and demotion respectively—for their racist remarks, I expect that you and others in the Caucus will exert your moral persuasion and request an apology from Congressman Watt. Please consider this also my request for such an expression—a copy of which is being forwarded directly to Mr. Watt's office."[10]

So all these factors contribute to the rise of the Tea Party movement. Not racism. Not black /white issues, green issues ($$$). These folks have sat back were not involved as much in politics as they maybe should have been. They allowed the discontented to drive the agenda. Well, good job losers, you've pushed the economic and political climate to the point where now successful and otherwise happy, contented people are pissed off. GOOD JOB, ASS-HATS.

They have put up with the entitlement culture, the ever increasing social safety net and the social justice programs grow way out of control. When times were good they really didn't pay too much attention to what was going on. Politics is always about "greasing the squeaky wheel" and these are folks that didn't have much to complain about. Now they do.

These are people that when times are good are the epitome of good, decent, caring, charitable people. But their patience and kindness and generosity does have it's limits -- it's breaking point -- and we are rapidly reaching that point in this environment.

SEE YOU IN NOVEMBER!!!
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The other success that was touted this past week was the so-called Financial Regulatory Reform bill that was passed. Another gift form out leaders. I'll leave it to a well-respected bank analyst, Rochdale Securites Dick Bove, to give his take on the bill. It's right on the money.

How Wall Street Will Beat the New Financial Regulations - Yahoo! Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/How-Wall-Street-Will-Beat-the-cnbc-2430801725.html?x=0

"What the law did was force the banks to rethink their business lines, their pricing strategies, their methodology for maintaining their balance sheet," banking analyst Dick Bove of Rochdale Securities said in an interview. "When they rethink it all, they will be able to offset all of the costs of this bill."

But crafty financial veterans already are finding loopholes in the law and banks likely will profit both in spite of and because of the reforms.

"If you had anyone who knew anything about the financial industry writing this law, that's one thing," said Bove, who has called the law one of the worst in US history. "But if you have a bunch of hysterics who were looking for political gain, you get something that was an abortion. All it did was increase the cost of banking in the United States relative to the cost of banking in other countries."

The banks' course of action likely will break down into four strategies:

1. Outfox the foxes

A harsh critic of the law, Bove is among the analysts who nevertheless believe banks will thrive. One big reason is because he thinks industry executives will show that they're smarter than the legislators who crafted financial reform, also known as FinReg.

Once again, thanks for nothing guys.

GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT.

Speaking of garbage, this is the prevailing opinion of the current administration, that the people of this country are too stupid to understand that all the data that confirms what people are feeling everyday is wrong and they are right. That is the problem, people are too stupid.



I really hope that we remember to add ALL incumbents to the unemployment lines this November. There isn't one of them that deserves to be re-elected.

They need to be defeated and I use that term in lieu of they need to be beaten, Mussolini-style.

The Italians didn't mess around when a politician preached false hope and fanciful dreams and then failed miserably to deliver (the trains did run on time, though). Maybe a little history repeating around here would do some of our congressmen and women, well. HAHAHAHHA.

FROM ANDREWCOSSACK.COM - MUSSOLINI'S FALL FROM GRACE:

http://www.andrewcusack.com/2007/11/18/mussolini-in-his-own-words/

After a summary execution, Mussolini’s corpse, along with those of his mistress and others, were dragged through the streets of Milan before being strung up at a gas station. Il Duce had previously expounded upon the idea:

“Every man dies the death which befits his character.”

KEEP THAT IN MIND, MY D.C. HOMIES AND REMEMBER WE'VE GOT OUR EYE ON YOU.