‘You know we’re not racist… It’s just a word, not a label.’

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Dec 132011
 

So.. Apparently we have managed to teach our children that it’s ok to use the “N” word, even when black people object because very apparently, just because you use that word, your clearly not a racist… From the WTF files, via the Buffalo News.

At least a dozen Kenmore East High School girls varsity basketball players have been suspended and face other sanctions for using a racial slur as part of their regular pregame locker room chant. The practice apparently had been going on for years.

Teammates would hold hands before their games, say a prayer together, then yell “One, two, three [N*****]!” before running out onto the court, according to offended students.

In what world do you live in when the only black girl on the team complains to her team members about their little tradition and they blow her off with ‘You know we’re not racist… It’s just a word, not a label.’

oh well. 1, 2, 3, Bigots. don’t worry, it’s just a word, not a label.

 Posted by FatherStorm at 2:59 pm

Survivor: D.C.

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Dec 062011
 
Candidates Reality Stars Swinging In The Wind
Romney Gingrich Bachman
Huntsman Perry
Paul Santorum

The above table shows who has decided to take their political campaign on the reality-show circuit by participating in a Debate moderated by Donald Trump. In what universe does Donald Trump make a qualified moderator for an actual debate? In what universe would candidates who might actually end up competing against Trump (Who still asserts he will run as an Independent next year) agree to a debate he is moderating?  Does he get to “fire” one of the candidates at the end of the debate? or deos he bring them on as an apprentice? Those dumb-ass candidates who agreed to this have most certainly asinine excuse for a campaign have definitely lost any shred of respect I might have held for them. Maybe this helps sort out who is actually serious about being President and who realize the gravitas of the office, from those ass-hats who are treating this like “Survivor: D.C.”

 Posted by FatherStorm at 10:24 pm

I am not racist.

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Dec 022011
 

Read this following statement please…

“I am not racist. I will tell you that. I am not prejudiced against any race of people, have never in my lifetime spoke evil” about a race, said Thompson, the church’s former pastor who stepped down earlier this year. “That’s what this is being portrayed as, but it is not.”

Now this is the statement made by Melvin Thompson after he offered the following proposal at his Kentucky church.

 

“That the Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church does not condone interracial marriage. Parties of such marriages will not be received as members, nor will they they be used in worship services and other church functions, with the exception being funerals. All are welcome to our public worship services. This recommendation is not intended to judge the salvation of anyone, but is intended to promote greater unity among the church body and the community we serve.” Submitted to the church business committee November 9, 2011 for their consideration by Melvin Thompson, member, Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church.
Continue reading »

 Posted by FatherStorm at 10:31 pm

Last Card In The Deck

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Oct 212008
 

 Posted by at 12:08 pm

Palinizing (Courtest Daily Kos)

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Oct 062008
 

palinizing:. The tactic is defined as a painfully transparent political
filibuster of sorts. When Sarah Palin is presented with a question she either
does not understand or that she does not want to answer truthfully, she
opens her mouth and out pours a waterfall of GOP buzzwords, cascading
haphazardly from her lips and leaving listeners drenched in the
horrific realization that this small-town mayor turned newbie governor
from Alaska is, quite simply, both an idiot and a liar.

Palinizing is above all the art of distraction, with the goal of
diverting attention away from a fault (in Palin’s case, ignorance) and
towards the glittering veneer of hollow talking points which dazzle but
do nothing in terms of answering the question presented. For Palin’s
most ardent fans, the evasiveness is perceived as a much-deserved slap
in the face to the “mainstream” media. For her detractors and even
those who are ambivalent towards her, Palin’s verbal hopscotch is
infuriating.

 Posted by at 10:53 am

McCain Campaign Jumps The Shark (Unfairly)

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Oct 022008
 

John McCain said Thursday that Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink “because life isn’t fair.”

“He certainly did nothing for the first few days,” McCain told Fox News Thursday. “I suspended my campaign, took our ads down, came back to Washington, met with the House folks and got on the phone, and also had face-to-face meetings.”

New CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation polls of several key battleground states released Wednesday found Obama has made gains across the board – either taking statistically significant leads, or erasing McCain advantages – over the past few weeks. Since the financial crisis began in mid-September, Obama has taken and held a lead over McCain in the national CNN poll of polls.

“I’m the underdog[ed. Huh?]. I love being the underdog…. We’re going to be up late on election night,” he said.

According to McCain, running mate Sarah Palin is also facing an unfair disadvantage as she heads into the debate tonight. “Frankly, I wish they had picked a moderator that isn’t writing a book favorable to Barack Obama. Let’s face it,” he said. “But I have to have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will handle this as the professional journalist that she is… Life isn’t fair, as I mentioned earlier in the program.”

PBS journalist Gwen Ifill, the moderator of Thursday’s vice presidential debate, is writing a book about a new generation of black leaders that happens to include, of all things, Barack Obama. Perhaps she should stick to the revisionist type of history that Republicans so favor?

 Posted by at 12:20 pm

Wanting to help vs. hurting your cause.

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Sep 302008
 

John McCain stunningly came out last week stating that he was halting his campaign to go back to Washington to help resolve our current financial crisis. He was in fact so dedicated to this cause that he suspended his campaign and initially said he would be too busy saving the country to join in the Presidential Debate last Friday. He, of course, managed to sneak away from the crisis long enough to join the debate, and then somehow must have solved the Problem because he was right back to campaigning Monday, criticizing Obama for his supposed inaction. Obama for his part, kept out of the kitchen, apparently having been taught by someone what too many cooks can do to a dinner, made phone calls, and worked his side of the aisle. And come Monday, when the measure came up for a vote, Democrats came through with their votes, while the Republicans chose any reason they could find to justify their voting against the measure. What does this mean? it means that Even though McCain was apparently boots-down in D.C., herding this bill to it’s adoption, his party members decided they preferred a different route, they preferred to make a point, stand their principled ground, defy Nancy Pelosi, irregardless of the effect of their actions on the economy, on Wall Street, and more importantly, on Main Street. If this is the type of statesmanship that McCain will bring to the Oval Office, grandstanding, theatrics, and rash actions, then maybe more people should think about what they want for themselves, for their children, for their future, and for their savings and investments. Maybe a serious and grave crisis requires introspection, requires measured thought, requires the counsel of expterts, and not the cessation (short as it was) of a campaign. Especially when that gambit not only didn’t work, but failed miserably. And now that the gambit did not work, McCain is managing to step back from his savior role, and pretending that he never had the intention of going to DC and fixing the world as he so bravely did just a few days ago.

 Posted by at 11:35 am

Gotcha Journalism

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Sep 292008
 

Wow. Asking candidates to clarify their position is now “Gotcha Journalism” being asked what your position by one of those people who are sopposed to make up their mind about voting for you is not playing fair. Palin needs to be so protected that McCain has to answer her questions for her. When Palin very clearly says something that completely contradicts McCain’s positions, and does so with apparent thought and specific detail, it’s the fault of the media for hearing her correctly. I’m waiting for criminals to start using the McCain-Palin defence in court. It’s not fair to ask me what I did when it clearly not what I said I intended to do.

 Posted by Administrator at 5:56 pm

Posse Comitatus. A primer and a warning.

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Sep 252008
 

From Wikipedia.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement police or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property (states, their counties and municipal divisions) in the former Confederate states.

The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the United States National GuardConstitution or Congress.

under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the

From Army Times:

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the
day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of
Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or
manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.
…

They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control
or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive
poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological,
radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.

Training
for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes
specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the “jaws of life” to
extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a
CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how
to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.

The
1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal
package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger
Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and
nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals
without killing them.

“It’s a new modular package of nonlethal
capabilities that they’re fielding. They’ve been using pieces of it in
Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated
and this package fielded, and because of this mission we’re undertaking
we were the first to get it.”

The package includes equipment to
stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or
controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets.

Anyone else a touch concerned??

 Posted by at 2:02 pm

Let’s get a little real for a little while.

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Sep 242008
 

From CNN:

Less than an hour after Barack Obama’s team told reporters that John McCain’s Wednesday announcement that he would be suspending his campaign came after the Democratic nominee suggested a joint statement from both candidates on the financial crisis, the McCain camp issued its own account of talks between the two men.

"Senator Obama phoned Senator McCain at 8:30 am this morning but did not reach him," the campaign said in a memo sent to reporters. "The topic of Senator Obama’s call to Senator McCain was never discussed.

"Senator McCain was meeting with economic advisers and talking to leaders in Congress throughout the day prior to calling Senator Obama. At 2:30 pm, Senator McCain phoned Senator Obama and expressed deep concern that the plan on the table would not pass as it currently stands. He asked Senator Obama to join him in returning to Washington to lead a bipartisan effort to solve this problem."

Minutes after McCain’s Wednesday statement, Obama’s campaign said that the Democratic nominee had called McCain earlier that morning to ask him if he would be willing to issue a joint statement on the economy and "urg[e] Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal." They also said that McCain returned the call at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon and agreed to join him in issuing such a statement, and that the two campaigns are currently "working together on the details." McCain’s announcement came shortly before 3 p.m. ET.

 

So..McCain got a call from Obama in the A.M., but even though it wasn’t the magic 3AM call, McCain still wasn’t around to acknowledge it. Supposedly. I’m more inclined to believe that they did talk, but McCain just got good and GOP-reedy for credit for the idea. Adding on that he wants to avoid the debates at any cost, and this clears the way to excuse  Sarah from having to debate Joe as well. After all, after Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan felt her up, she probably wants to take a calgon bath anyways.

 

Now, on to the big news. Here are my suggested modifications to the economic bailout bill.

  1. Any company that accepts the bailout has to cap their executive salaries at 2.5 Mil (or 10x the President’s salary) for the duration before the amount is repaid.
  2. All executive termination compensation agreements are changed to no greater than 6 months (at the 2.5 mil) in salary, 6 months medical,  and a no-compete in the same sector for 3 months.
  3. Any company that allows their execs to bail before accepting the assistance, would have to divert the amount of the golden parachute package off the top of the bailout as a 100% repayable portion at %10 interest to be paid before any profit can be realized to shareholders.
  4. All packages include the govt becoming a percentage partner commensurate with the percentage of the aid in proportion to the company’s net worth on the day of accepting the loan until such a time as the company repays the loan at a  interest rate twice the prime rate on the day of acceptance.
  5. Shareholders cannot be paid at a percentage of net profits greater than the percentage amount of the aid initially provided as calculated in the previous point.

Give me those five points and I think I *might* go along with it.

 

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