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This post is from Captain’s Quarters

By David Hampton - The Clarion Ledger - Link

Race has everything to do with politics in Mississippi and the South, but it is probably the least openly discussed factor.

Discussed, yes. Openly, not. It is discussed and analyzed matter-of-factly by politicians and professionals in detail.

The sad bottom line is, race matters. African Americans are elected in black districts and whites elected in white districts in most cases.

Race and politics were discussed openly in Memphis recently and the raw racial politics was disturbing. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a white Jewish liberal midtown-Memphis resident, was elected to replace former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. in Congress. Ford, one of the state’s most well-known and powerful black politicians, made a strong run for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee. Cohen, a well-known and popular politician, was elected in the majority-black district for a lot of complex political reasons.

RACE BOILS UP

Recently, Cohen met with a group of black ministers concerning his support for a hate crimes bill. Most of the ministers oppose the bill. It is a hot-button conservative issue, black and white.

The meeting turned ugly. Some of the ministers jeered him. Then one minister said flatly: “He’s not black and he can’t represent me, that’s just the bottom line.”

Ruffled feathers were smoothed somewhat with apologies and there has been an interesting coming-together dialogue in the community on race and politics. Ironically, Cohen probably has a voting record more in line with the Black Caucus than did his predecessor.

But, the assumption of representation based on race was shocking when spoken out loud. It sounds so wrong. It is wrong. It’s downright racist, and we don’t say it. But we often accept it.

Black and white politicians alike will say they have no chance to win in this or that district based on their skin color. Just political reality, they say. How sad that we accept such as “political reality.”

SUBCONSCIOUS FACTOR

Brad Chism, a Democratic political consultant and pollster, says there appears to be a tipping point when race becomes a factor. For example, he said at times it is easier for an African-American candidate to be elected in areas with minimal black populations than in areas where race becomes more identifiable to a group of voters.

“Studies have shown we as humans are subconsciously reluctant to vote for people who do not look like us, yet we have to overcome it,” he said.

A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Dalton Conley, chairman of the department of sociology at New York University, explored those unconscious biases of voters. Polls will show whites saying they will support black candidates, then the election results show otherwise. Those being polled won’t admit it.

Of course, race or gender or whatever does not show how a candidate will vote on issues, he notes. He suggests testing yourself by actually listening to what candidates say or reading their positions without regard to race or gender.

“We shouldn’t be fooled by either our own hidden biases or by the promise of personal identity,” he wrote. “It’s the policies (and the ability to carry them out), stupid.”

Do we really believe that? I think we think we do. But we have seen some tests in state politics in recent years and so far we’ve flunked. Why? We need to talk about it, openly.

I’m recycling because I’m responding to Paul fans…

Text from the site GOP Bloggers, funny stuff.  Apparently not only are Ron Paul supporters’ nuts, they also cheat. Shocking!!

Some of you may be wondering about the absence of Ron Paul from this months straw poll. Let me explain. After my decision to include Ron Paul in the previous poll, I monitored (to the best of my ability) the efforts by Paul’s online supporters. With the help of other bloggers, we discovered a sophisticated coordinated effort to spam the poll, obfuscate their actions, and even cheat the poll.Shortly after the launch of the previous poll, I received an email from Jesse Benton, the communications director for Ron Paul’s campaign. He was interested in getting information about what safeguards are used in the straw poll in order to protect it from spammers/cheaters. I made it clear that I was not about to share the details of what protections are place. His response was a bit less than amicable.

I found it very curious that someone from Ron Paul’s campaign would have such an active interest in the GOP Straw Poll and specifically request such guarded details about it. This high suspect request, combined with the efforts of Paul’s online supporters to spam/cheat the poll. Ron Paul has been removed from this months poll in order to provide usable data on the acceptability/unacceptability of the candidates in the race. As you may have noticed in the previous poll, people who voted for Ron Paul as their number one choice also only put Ron Paul as the only acceptable candidate — a voting behavior not mimicked by supporters of other candidates. This made the data severely flawed and useless as a barometer — even for an unscientific one.

So, that’s all there is to say about it now.

 UPDATE: Here are the details on donations coming from that address in Daily City. Via Sister Toldjah.

Clinton “Experience” in Fundraising Raises New Questions - From Flopping Aces

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Found via Hot Air

Well. One of Hillary Clinton’s biggest supporters, the same one who turned up in a weird fundraising story yesterday, is officially a fugitive swindler.

The Los Angeles Times will report on this website later tonight and in Wednesday’s print editions that a major Democratic Party fundraiser named Norman Hsu is wanted by authorities for skipping out on an agreement to serve up to three years in prison after pleading no contest to grand theft swindling charges.

In an exclusive story by Chuck Neubauer and Robin Fields, The Times will report that for three years Hsu has been carving out a place of political and financial influence by funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions into Democratic Party coffers, much of the money earmarked for Sen. Hillary Clinton. He has earned the ranking of Hillraiser for pledging to raise at least $100,000 for her.

He has given to several big-name Democrats, including presidential candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Swimmer Kennedy, too.

“He is a fugitive,” said Ronald Smetana of the California attorney general’s office. “Do you know where he is?”

Perhaps he’s in China where the rest of the Clintons’ 1996 pals fled to.

Other stories :

OH-EIGHT (D): The other Hsu drops

What’s new: Dem contributor is also a fugitive

BREAKING NEWS: Big Dem fundraiser wanted on swindling charges

 Big Dem fundraiser wanted on swindling charges

The LA Times reports that Norman Hsu, powerful fundraiser for the Democratic party, is a wanted man “hiding in plain sight.” Declared a ‘fugitive’ by the California attorney general, Hsu is wanted for evading a jail sentence for pleading no contest to charges of grand theft swindling.

Hsu evidently faced up to three years in prison for the charge. Hsu’s lawyer, contacted Tuesday, recalls neither Hsu’s pleading to a criminal case nor facing jail time.

Over the years, Hsu has contributed to the campaigns of Dianne Feinstein, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Edward Kennedy. His fundraising efforts for Hilary Clinton already total over $1 million. A spokesperson for the Clinton campaign said “We have no reason to call his contributions into question or to return them.”

NEWARK — Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo on Monday accused city officials of complicity in the execution-style slayings of three college students by failing to report the prior arrests of two suspects to immigration authorities.

“If the alleged assailants are found guilty of these brutal crimes, Newark and its political leadership share a degree of culpability,” Tancredo said.

Representatives of several groups — including You Don’t Speak for Me, the 9/11 Families for a Secure America and Citizens for Immigration Control — joined the Republican presidential candidate in calling for an end to policies that bar local police from seeking and sharing information about a suspect’s immigration status.

Speaking on the steps of City Hall, Tancredo said he believes Newark and other cities that protect illegal immigrants through sanctuary policies could be subject to criminal charges for aiding and abetting.

“We can no longer allow illegal aliens to be above the law.” said Tancredo, sponsor of a bill to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities. He asked what officials consider more important: “the safety of the citizens of this city and state or this alleged chilling effect it would have on people reporting crimes?”

Lupe Todd, a spokeswoman for Mayor Cory A. Booker, called Tancredo’s visit to City Hall “crude, irresponsible and polarizing” at a time when the city is trying to heal. “The rule of law does not require the Newark Police Department to do the job of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency,” she said.

Tom Tancredo on Newark and illegal immigration

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WASHINGTON, (AScribe Newswire) — Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy illustrates the importance of talk radio among black Americans. To help predict how this medium may influence the upcoming presidential elections, the Center for Media and Public Affairs examined the political content of black talk radio shows during the 2006 national elections.Throughout the final week of the 2006 election campaign, CMPA analyzed 62 hours of programming from four shows that address politics and public policy issues for a national audience: The Bev Smith Show, Al Sharpton Show, Lincoln Ware Show, and The Black Eagle, hosted by Joe Madison.

MAJOR FINDINGS:

- Minority Focus: Fewer than half of all issue discussions (46 percent) focused on their relevance for African Americans. The majority dealt with the issues without reference to the black community. The top five issues were:

1. The economy (44 discussions); 2. Iraq War (27); 3. Affirmative action (29); 4. Crime and drugs (15); 5. Education (13).  EDUCATION SHOULD BE #1!

- Bashing Both Parties: The two major political parties were evaluated over 700 times by hosts, callers, and guests. Four out of five comments (81 percent) were critical of Republicans. But so were three out of five comments (60 percent) about Democrats. In addition, two out of three discussions (68 percent) concluded that Democrats take black voters for granted.

- Bashing Black Voters: Every evaluation of the black community (100 percent) was negative. African Americans were criticized for not participating in elections, for blindly accepting the views of black clergy, and for making bad choices at the polls.

- The Host Factor: Program hosts criticized Democrats nearly as much as Republicans (69 percent v. 73 percent negative evaluations.) However, this mainly reflected Lincoln Ware’s support for Ken Blackwell, the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio. The other three hosts combined for almost unanimous criticism of Republicans - 98 percent negative comments, compared to 66 percent negative comments about Democrats.

From The Hill

Eight House Republicans have called for a boycott of next year’s Olympics in Beijing in a resolution introduced just before the congressional recess.The resolution criticizes China’s human rights record and compares the 2008 Beijing Games to the 1936 Olympics in Nazi-era Berlin.

Those Olympics showed that “the integrity of the host country is of the utmost importance so as not to stain the participating athletes or the character of the Games,” according to the resolution, which is cosponsored by Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (Calif.), Joseph Pitts (Penn.), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.), John Doolittle (Calif.), Dan Burton (Ind.) Frank Wolf (Va.) and Christopher Smith (N.J.).H. Res. 610 is one of three House resolutions calling for a U.S. boycott of next year’s Olympics introduced just before Congress adjourned for its August recess. The resolutions show that next year’s Beijing Games will continue to be used to leverage China on a host of issues.

All of the resolutions criticize China’s human rights record and say “immediate steps” should be taken to boycott next year’s Olympics unless the Chinese government takes certain steps on human rights, foreign policy and the Darfur conflict.

H. Res. 610 and a similar resolution cosponsored by Rohrabacher, Pitts and John Shimkus (Ill.) criticize China for contributing to human rights abuses in Sudan, North Korea and Burma. They also cite China’s own human rights record, singling out its detention of the Panchen Lama, a central figure of Tibetan Buddhism selected by the Dalai Lama.

A third resolution, introduced by Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.), focuses on China’s ties to Sudan, which critics charge has provided cover for the Sudanese government to engage in genocide in Darfur.

Both the Senate and House have already approved non-binding resolutions calling on China to use its influence to end the Darfur conflict. Those resolutions mentioned the Olympics but did not call for a boycott.

Chinese embassy officials have met with members of Congress in an effort to curtail calls for boycotts. Last week, China held a party in Tiananmen Square to mark that the games are a year away, and to celebrate its hosting duties.

Tiananmen Square was the site of pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 forcibly put down by Chinese police and soldiers, an event mentioned by H. Res. 610.

Nice try, but unless China is indiscriminately shooting people in the head on live TV way too many politicians and major corporations are in bed with China and are reaping multiple monetary orgasms.

Despite arms dealing with Sudan, Myanmar and Iran and certainly arms sales to terrorists around the globe and even despite Chinese goods, poisoning American children, trade with China has, been a boom for large U.S. companies like Boeing, Caterpillar, and Cargill, which had trumpeted the prospect of a massive Chinese market for American products and services. China is a growing market for commercial aviation, and NEEDS billions of dollars worth of airplanes from Boeing.
Let’s see Darfur/Human Rights vs lot’s of dead presidents, simple math.

Now just ignore the fact that China has been a tougher… er uh impossible market to crack for smaller and mid-sized American companies, like those selling bicycles, small electronic goods, vacuum cleaners, and lawn mowers, who face stiff price competition from Chinese manufacturers of these products.
Try going through your home and find something NOT made in China.

Bottom line, this country is not going to do anything to piss off China. We will take our happy asses over there, win a few gold metals, smile and praise them for keeping people from spitting on the streets.

This is simply more Washington symbolism that won’t amount to anything.

“Mitt takes the gloves off” and politico.com, Romney became aggressive with staunch conservative Mickelson after some back and forth.  Here is the transcript of that discussion: Video can also be seen hereMickelson: “I hope we can do this so we can expend some quality time on here rather then the sound bytes.”

Romney: “No, I don’t like coming on the air and having you go after me and my church.”

Mickelson: “I’m not going after your church, I agree with your church!”

Romney: “I’m not running as a Mormon, and I get a little tired of coming on a show like yours and having it all about Mormon.”

Mickelson: “See, I don’t mind about it being all about that.”

Romney: “I do, I do.”

Nobody is going to vote for a Mormon in a national election anyway…. oh, get a grip people you know I’m right, I always say what others won’t.
I checked out this PBS documentary on Mormons and there was one section that talked about excommunication and how people who would question the Mormon faith would basically tell anyone who would dare question doctrine to “get the fuck out” you can’t be part of OUR religion anymore. Forcing family member to shun each other because some brainwashed old white guys could maintain control over the flock.
Free thinking is strongly discouraged.

Again, Romney is a non factor in the race, but I find it interesting that he would be upset that individuals like me want to focus on his religion. A religion basically pulled out of one dudes ass with a history of racism, subordination of women and isolationist tendencies and you want to be president representing ALL Americans? Plez!

In case you did not know…..

From Brigham Young
Journal of DiscoursesShall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African Race? If the White man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.

Cain slew his brother. . . and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.

You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind. The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race–that they should be the “servant of servants;” and they will be, until that curse is removed.

Just as I said about Ron Paul, racists are automatically disqualified from running for public office, “but Snoop Romney doesn’t believe that, Mormons are not like that anymore.” C’mon, ole Snoop is not boo boo the fool, any good PR effort can burry crap like this and help an institution put on a more public friendly face.
You can’t be part of a religion that taught this racist crap for many years and all of a sudden say, “never mind, Negros are good people too.”

Sorry I’m someone who looks deeper at issues than most folks, I’m just wired that way.

The video:

Cartoon banned by the Mormon church

(From Newsmax) Civil rights leader Al Sharpton said Thursday black voters should punish Republicans who fail to show for presidential candidates’ forums hosted by the National Urban League and the NAACP.”We can only assume you weren’t courting us,” Sharpton said. “Republicans have to lay out their policies and court the African-American vote. We need to have our interests debated in the market place.”

Sharpton noted there won’t be another NAACP or Urban League conference before the presidential primaries.

“When I was in high school, I may not have gone to the prom with the girl I wanted, but with the girl I could get,” he said, suggesting Republicans leave black voters little choice but to vote for a Democrat.

Sharpton was among a panel of black leaders, political strategists from both major parties and journalists who discussed the black vote in the 2008 presidential election at the Urban League’s national conference here.

Five presidential candidates - four Democrats and one Republican - are scheduled to address the conference Friday. Among them are top-tier Democrats Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, and John Edwards. The lone Republican is Rep. Duncan Hunter of California.

Earlier this month, all eight Democratic candidates participated in a forum at the NAACP meeting in Detroit. The only Republican was Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a long-shot candidate.

Shannon Reeves, director of state and local development for the Republican National Committee, said his role in the RNC was to get them to understand the black community.

“There are some in our party who don’t want to associate with our community,” he said to groans from the crowd. He added that “black folks had to kick the door open. The Democratic Party didn’t open it wide and say come on in.”

Urban League president Marc Morial said black voters deserve more than “drive-by politics and last-minute appeals to churches.” But, he admitted, “sometimes we aren’t good about getting out to vote.” He said no candidate has talked about black economic development, which is the civil rights organization’s major thrust.

(Snooprant:) I don’t know if white folks truly understand the dilemma black individuals like me are in when it comes to being on the polar opposite sides of the societal and political fence with those with whom you share similar pigmentation.

Now those of you white people who insist on baking yourselves in the sun or the “Easy Bake human oven” to achieve the ultimate Negro tan, you don’t count.

We all know that 90 percent of Negros vote Democrat. No P.R. firm could ever turn that around for Republicans and frankly I am resigned that I won’t see that change in my lifetime.

Democrats invest heavily in the Negro vote, because they absolutely know they can’t win without it.
So when do black folks like me say to themselves “ ya know fuck em, those stupid Negros deserve what they get for following these idiot ass niggas like Sharpton.”

As a black individual it is difficult to stray from that identity that is defined by your skin color.
Because of where I live 24/7 I’m inundated by white people. Here in the Midwest you can go a week and not see any black folks.
Some may argue well people are people, but when you are white, everyone you see, everywhere you go, every social situation, ever work situation YOU see people and not white people.
We see both, not in all cases, hell I’m not obsessive about it, but you do think about it.
What makes it more prevalent is when you enter social situations white people unconsciously let you know how they feel about someone of another color invading their territory.

I know it sounds nuts folks but most of us black folks process this shit. SO when we go to a community where there are actually black people participating in world around you, there is some comfort that comes with that.
We can’t help that.

While in Maryland a few months ago, Mrs. Snoop and I went to visit a good friend of mind. It was cool to see upscale black folks, looking nice, not ghettoized, driving nice cars not acting a fool. There, yes it felt comfortable to me. Now Mrs. Snoop on the other hand, well, the roles were reversed, proving we all (or most of us) have that “racial” chip on our shoulders.

NOW, with ole Snoop that is easily erased when I see ghetto ass Negros with busted weaves, saggy paints, gold grills and 1980’s perms.

While in LA, Mrs. Snoop and I went to this neighborhood grocery story around the corner from our hotel to get a salad.
I was at the food bar when this black dude came around the corner and said “whoa a brotha in the hood, right on!” I turned around and said “you too” basically as if to say hell I’m as shocked to see you and you are me.

On occasion in the white world if you see another black person you give them the extra kinship nod for extra recognition that whew, if a riot breaks out I got one brotha on my side. LOL!

So it is sometimes painful to see the damage that corrupt Niggas like Sharpton, Jackson and other liberal Democrat scam artists inflict on the black community and it is even more painful to see that it is all self inflicted because Negros can’t get of the Democrat plantation, most are conditioned to think in very narrow terms. We are not still in the 1960’s.
“Republicans are racist,” you mean less so that Democrats!? It’s just silly.

It’s painful because even as Conservative and as unapologetic I am about my politics you can’t just say “fuck em”, because like it or not you are identified with the very people you criticize.

Bottom line, no matter how Republican I am, no matter my knowledge of Reagan politics and Conservatism, whether I listen to Rush or agree with Newt to some white folks I’m still just a nigger. They don’t give a fuck about your politics, social status, or place of employment.
So because of that you cling to that racial or I mean (hey there’s another Negro) recognition thing.

So black folks like myself are stuck in “neither-world” we are on occasion confused about balancing racial identity vs. political and social reality.

If you are reading this you are clearly bored, and you certainly are not drinking and relaxing.
Me? Instead of mowing my lawn (still too wet) I’m posting this from Meet the Press this morning.
I actually stayed awake during MTP this morning.

Nothing noteworthy, your typical liberals on TV executing their offensive against the right wing folks, a few observations from the Snoop point of view after the clip.

I totally ignored Lehey, I never pay attention to what he has to say.
He is one of these old white guy Democrats that need attention from time to time to show he is doing “something”

Part 1 (above) focused on the “Bush defeat of the immigration bill” and how as Tavis Smiley puts it: How much did “the Republican Party lose” by not passing amnesty for illegals.

Apparently Tavis Smiley is himself a amnesty pimp, see this as a loss for not only Bush but America as well.
According to Smiley black folks don’t mind illegal immigrants screwing black folks out of jobs.
Dude needs to take a trip to LA sometime soon. The black folks in the audience at Howard University could not possible understand the problem posed by illegal immigration.

I loved the line uttered by Ms. Woodruff when she said “most Americans supported most parts of this bill.” I’m wondering where does she get this bullshit from.

Last point Chuck Todd, a fucken dunderhead, how this dude is NBC’s chief political dude is beyond me.

While speaking on the low approval ratings for the (Democrat controlled Congress)
Todd actually says “Congress is being hurt by the President’s approval numbers.”
I have not heard this from leader Pelosi or Harry Reid. They are now conveniently linked because the Democrat controlled popularity ratings are actually below President Bush’s, Amazing.

Part 2 Timmy played a couple of clips of Mrs. Bill and Obama that showed the contrast between the two candidates.
Obama who carefully crafts his words and Mrs. Bill taking advantage of being the wife of the first black president, screeches out racial rhetoric that fires up the Negro audience.
Smiley points out that Mrs. Bill clearly won the debate, (NO SHIT) these Negros are paid big money and are given huge perks for riding the Mrs. Bill slave train.
Smiley even scoffed at the notion that Obama’s fund raising numbers are over hyped.
He clearly is in the Mrs. Bill camp.

Part 3 briefly talks about a website called “Hillary is 44 dot com” an anti Obama site.
Young voters turning to the Democrat Party, no shit, young skulls full of mush who are confused and delusional.
Also Rudy and Republicans on Iraq.

Part 4 touches on Black Voter issues (Tavis’s words) I guess as oppose to white voter issues.
Health Care, Jobs….welfare! Is that a black issue? Democrats see it that way.
Congressional Pay Raises, now over $177,000 a year, WTF!?
Finally new guard vs old guard Democrats, the pending battle.  

Man I feel like crap, and too lazy to post stuff, so check out this video of the top political ads of all time. Democrat and Republican.
Great stuff for politial junkies.

I’ve been meaning to post this video. If you are a political junkie or like the history of political ads this clip is for you.

Yet again an anonymous Senator has placed a secret hold on legislation that would increase transparency. This time a secret hold has been placed on a bill, S. 223, that would mandate that Senators file their campaign finance reports electronically. This process would not only make these reports more readily available to the public but would also save money and resources.Yesterday this bill was blocked by an anonymous Senator who placed a secret hold on the bill. Secret holds are so looked down on these days that earlier this year the Senate itself banned the practice, although the bill containing that provision has yet to become law. But until secret holds are banished forever, we need your help in exposing the culprit who is blocking consideration of the electronic filing requirement for Senate campaign finance reports.

We need your help to find out who placed this secret hold! Call your Senators and ask them if they are the one with the secret hold on S. 223. Then report back here in the comments with your findings or contact us using this contact form. Below is a list of Senators, organized by state, and their contact info. If a Senator issues a denial we will indicate that next to their name.

Click here to find the name of your senator and call!

This from Right Wing News

 The general theory here seems to be that it’s better that children be kept ignorant than risk offending someone,

“Schools are dropping controversial subjects from history lessons - such as the Holocaust and the Crusades - because teachers do not want to cause offence, Government research has found.The way the slave trade is taught can lead white children - as well as black pupils - to feel alienated, according to the study by the Historical Association.

And a lack of factual knowledge among teachers, particularly in primary schools, is leading to “shallow” lessons on emotive and difficult subjects.

Some teachers have even dropped the Holocaust completely from lessons over fears that Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic reactions in class.

And one school avoided teaching the Crusades because its “balanced” handling of the topic would directly contradict what was taught in local mosques.”

Why not just educate the children properly and let the cards fall where they may?

By Walter E. Williams - Human Events 

Not that many complimentary things are said about politicians. When a problem arises, people say, “Government ought to do something.” They seem to have forgotten that it’s the politicians who are running the government. Many think things can be changed by electing different politicians, but I ask: Given the incentives politicians face, why should we expect one politician to differ significantly from another? We should focus less on personalities and more on rules.

The kind of rules we should have are the kind that we’d make if our worst enemy were in charge. My mother created a mini-version of such a rule. Sometimes she would ask either me or my sister to evenly divide the last piece of cake or pie to share between us. More times than not, an argument ensued about the fairness of the division. Those arguments ended with Mom’s rule: Whoever cuts the cake lets the other take the first piece. As if by magic or divine intervention, fairness emerged and arguments ended. No matter who did the cutting, there was an even division.

By creating and enforcing neutral rules, we minimize conflict. Consider one area of ruthless competition — sports. In Super Bowl XL, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks had a lot on the line. Specifically, there’s the $73,000 payment per man, contract enrichment and other benefits to the winners. Despite a bitterly fought contest and all that was at stake, the game ended peacefully and winners and losers were civil to one another.

How is it that players with conflicting interests and reasons for winning can play a game, agree with the outcome and walk away as good sports? It’s a minor miracle of sorts. That “miracle” is that it is far easier to reach agreement about the game’s rules than the game’s outcome. The rules are known and durable, and the referee’s only job is their evenhanded enforcement. Even football teams with losing records would find their long-run interests lie in known, durable and evenhandedly applied rules. They can more adequately devise a winning strategy because predictability is enhanced.

Suppose the game rules were flexible and referees played a role in determining the game’s outcome. In other words, imagine the referees were more interested in what they saw as justice than enforcement of neutral rules. What might one predict about team behavior? Instead of trying to raise team productivity, owners would allocate resources to influence-peddling in the form of lobbying or bribing the referees.

In the case of last year’s Super Bowl, the referees might have argued that since the Pittsburgh Steelers won four previous Super Bowl championships, justice demands that the game be rigged in favor of the Seattle Seahawks, who have never won a Super Bowl. It’s easy to imagine all the conflict that would arise — team owners bringing lawsuits for what they see as biased referee decisions, and games ending in rancor and fights. There would be a reduction in the skill and fitness of all players and a lower overall quality of the sport. After all, if the outcome is determined by how well the team influences the referees, why spend resources recruiting and training superior players? It’s better to use those resources for lobbying and bribes.

We have a set of rules that are known, neutral and intended to be durable. Those rules were created by our founders and embodied in the U.S. Constitution. Those rules have been weakened by a Congress of both parties that picks winners and losers in the game of life. The U.S. Supreme Court, which was intended to be a neutral referee, has forsaken that role and become a participant. All of this means we can expect a future of bitterly fought elections and enhanced conflict.

 Is this woman stupid or what?
Someone needs to give her a Political Campaigning 101 lecture.
When the U.S. median income is $35,000 per year, don’t say stupid shit like
“my income is pretty low” particular after your husband signed a million dollar book deal!
First Hussein’s shady real estate deal, now this from his idiot wife!
This media circus won’t last long; we can just sit back and wait for Mr. and Mrs. Hussein to do or say something stupid real soon.
Hillary must be quite pleased. 

From the American Thinker 

Poor Mrs. Barack  Obama! “My income is pretty low compared to my peers“ she says.

How much is she scraping by on?

According to a tax return released by the senator this week, the promotion nearly tripled her income from the hospitals to $316,962 in 2005 from $121,910 in 2004.

Her income coincidentally jumped when her husband was elected to the United States Senate. She handles “community outreach” for the University of Chicago Hospitals, which does indeed sound like vital work, right up there with open heart surgery.

But wait, there’s more, as the late night television commercials assure us. Hubby bashes Wal-Mart, following the union boss catechism:

The Chicagoan who would be president - maybe - told members of a union-backed coalition that they have “a moral responsibility to stand up and fight” the big retailer. “The battle to engage Wal-Mart and force them to examine their own corporate values and what their policies and approaches are to their workers . . . is absolutely vital,” the Associated Press quoted the U.S. senator as saying.

But Mrs. Obama is a director of a certain company:

Michelle, make $45,000 a year serving on the board of a Chicago-area company that pays its executives a very hefty amount of money while laying off mostly minority workers in an economically deprived area, a company whose No. 1 customer is - you guessed it - Wal-Mart?

The story, by Greg Hinz of Crain’s Chicago Business continues:

In early 2005, Texas-based Dean Foods Co. spun off its processed-food subsidiary into an independent company, TreeHouse Foods Inc. Stock in Westchester-based TreeHouse began trading on June 15, 2005. Elected to its board of directors on June 6 of that year was Michelle Obama, who receives $30,000 a year plus $1,500 per board or committee meeting she attends. That totaled $45,000 in 2005, according to Mr. Obama’s Senate ethics disclosure. Ms. Obama got 7,500 stock options this year, company filings show. At the current price of TreeHouse stock, she has a paper profit of about $60,000 on the options.  

Now, I never thought there was that much money peddling pickles, non-dairy creamer, puddings and related goods to grocery stores, which is what TreeHouse does. Apparently I was wrong. In 2005, TreeHouse CEO Sam Reed was one of the highest-paid executives in Illinois. In fact, on Crain’s annual Fortunate 100 list of best-compensated execs, Mr. Reed ranked No. 2, with total compensation of nearly $26.2 million, just ahead of Motorola Inc. chief Edward Zander and Abbott Laboratories boss Miles White.

I am sure that Senator Obama and his wife, with a combined income of about half a million dollars (plus all those book royalties), will somehow manage to scrape by. And besides, the experience of low income will help them empathize with America’s poor. And Senator Obama can demagogue on about the gap between rich and poor, since his wife has given him an example of high compensation for executives.  

Wal-Mart board of directors veteran Hillary Clinton freely obeys the dogma of the union bosses and bashes her former benfactor. There’s no reason why the Obamas can’t learn from her example.

Found on the Blog, Dell Gines 

One of the phenomenons that I have been attacking recently has been the trend of isolating [tag]Black Americans[/tag] and evaluating them as isolated units unique and seperate from the ups, downs and impacts that the broader culture of America imposes on its citizens. What this form of isolation does foremost is present Blacks as a composite of overt negative stereotypes in which nothing outside of the ‘Black group’ impacts the group, and therefore the group is behind or has problems solely due to its own failures as a group. In conjunction with this stereotyping, the isolation also leads the broader American society to evaluate Blacks and Black communities against abstract perfections of ‘the way things should be done’. When Black communities do not live up to those the abstract perfections, their inability to do so gives additional ammunition to the critics who condemn Black communities for their ‘failures’ and reinforces the “Blacks are bad because of this” mentality so pervasive in America today.

The general American perspective on [tag]Black leadership[/tag] is a case in point. The common discussions on Black leadership tend to center on Black unity amongst the leadership and criticisms of the lack of it. When Black leaders publicly do not get along, have differences of opinion, or differences of vision people begin leveling charges such as “that’s why we or they can not get ahead” or “we need to come together and be on the same page and stop the crabs in the bucket syndrome”. On the other side of the coin, the majority tends to target individuals or groups within the Black communities of America and identify them as the sole arbiters of what Black folks are thinking on issues. The assumption is that if a so-called Black leader says it, it must be the general consensus amongst Blacks as a whole; IE Blacks are homogenous group thinkers.

To add a little color to this commentary, I want to look at an article written about the case of Tennie Pierce, the fireman in Los Angeles who sued the department because his colleagues put dog food in his spaghetti. On December 6th, 2006 by Erin Kaplan, in the LA Times titled, The black leadership gap, which opens with the statement:

LOS ANGELES’ BLACK leadership is a microcosm of black leadership everywhere: a superficially similar but fractured collection of individuals and interest groups that can nonetheless unite in the heat of a racially controversial moment, especially if there are cameras rolling.

And she concludes the article with the statement:

But it is also hard not to think that so many black issues increasingly are being reduced to gamesmanship, a series of maneuvers by players less concerned with fixing systemic problems than with keeping one step ahead of … well, whoever’s ahead…rest assured that the black populace most in need of leadership will remain miles behind.

Ms. Kaplan in the article implies that Black leadership is failing. The rationale that she uses for its failures are common themes that I am sure many have heard:

1. They only unite if the cameras are rolling
2. They only are interested in gamesmanship
3. They only want to keep one step ahead of the other leaders, regardless of the problems occurring in the community
4. They are unified fractured interest groups

There are two questions that must be answered in regard to Ms. Kaplan’s Black leadership criticism (which seems to be shared by many Blacks and whites alike). The first question is which group, race, or party in America does not have these same problems? The second and more serious question is, “When did all Blacks start looking alike”.

In regard to the first question, the fact is all groups manifest the characteristics leveled against Black leadership above to some degree or another. In addition, performance is what needs to be measured to determine if Black leadership is failing or not. Performance can only be gauged by having an identifiable achievable goal, matched with the ability and resources to attain that goal. So to imply that Black leadership is failing simply because it demonstrates characteristics that are cross-cultural is poor analysis and reinforces negative stereotypes towards Blacks and Black leadership as a whole.

One only needs to reflect back on a recent event that occurred amongst Evangelicals in America to demonstrate that diversity and disagreement amongst leadership is a cross-cultural phenomenon. Rick Warren, a hugely popular and influential Evangelical took extreme criticism from other evangelical leaders for inviting a liberal, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage Barrack Obama to speak at his church about AIDS. It is no secret that the Evangelical movement in America is largely composed of white Americans. What evangelicals believe is not relevant to the point of this article though, what is relevant to the point of this article is the fact that we heard no one criticizing whites for “not working together”.

In the broader American purview of leadership differences in perspective and vision have been embraced before Thomas Jefferson and James Madison presented their different views on how America should be governed. Outside of white radicals, one rarely hears individuals criticizing whites for “not having a unified white leadership”. However, when it comes to Black leadership the unfortunate reality is that the charge of disharmony is used both by those within the Black community as well as outside of the Black community as a litmus test for good or bad Black leadership. These charges and the implication that they are asymptomatic of Blacks and Black failure further reinforce the notion that “Blacks are bad and here is a reason why…”

To answer the second question posed above, “When did all Blacks start looking alike”, bring your attention back to the old cliché that whites can not tell Blacks apart. Many scoff at this notion, and recognize it as a cliché to a degree, but in relation to Black leadership and the ‘abstract perfection’ in which it is measured against it is very real. The fact of the matter is Blacks have worked very hard and died to be perceived and function in America as a unique individual with the same rights as everyone else. To lump Blacks into the ‘they all have to think alike or they are failing’ marginalizes the diversity that has always existed amongst the Black community.

In the end, Blacks have differences in thoughts, ideas, and perspectives, and therefore those differences will translate into Black leadership differences. This diversity amongst Black leadership should not be condemned as a Black failure. To condemn Black leadership diversity plays into the stereotype of ‘Blacks are bad and here is the reason why…’ and also seeks to isolate Blacks from the conditions that occur amongst [tag]American leadership[/tag] as whole. Leadership diversity amongst any race should be looked at for what it is, a human phenomenon, not a Black failure.

By BEN EVANS

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush.

The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment.

McKinney, a Democrat

TIMEOUT!, I WANT TO REPEAT JUST IN CASE YOU FOLKS MISSED IT… 

 McKinney, a Democrat, McKinney, a Democrat, McKinney, a Democrat, McKinney, a DEMOCRAT! JUST LIKE WILLIAM JEFFERSON, NO!?     

who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long insisted that Bush was never legitimately elected. In introducing her legislation in the final hours of the current Congress, she said Bush had violated his oath of office to defend the Constitution and the nation’s laws.

In the bill, she accused Bush of misleading Congress on the war in Iraq and violating privacy laws with his domestic spying program.

McKinney has made no secret of her frustration with Democratic leaders since voters ousted her from office in the Democratic primary this summer. In a speech Monday at George Washington University, she accused party leaders of kowtowing to Republicans on the war in Iraq and on military mistreatment of prisoners.

McKinney, who has not discussed her future plans, has increasingly embraced her image as a controversial figure.

She has hosted numerous panels on Sept. 11 conspiracy theories and suggested that Bush had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks but kept quiet about it to allow friends to profit from the aftermath. She introduced legislation calling for disclosure of any government records concerning the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

But it was her scuffle with a Capitol police officer that drew the most attention. McKinney struck the officer when he tried to stop her from entering a congressional office building. The officer did not recognize McKinney, who was not wearing her member lapel pin.

A grand jury in Washington declined to indict McKinney over the clash, but she eventually apologized before the House.

This is gonna be a busy day and I won’t have time to blog much, but I had to get this in.
Another political pundit, ABC News Political Director Mark Halpern made his way to KU and he voiced his is opinions on 2008 naming the usual suspects, I don’t need to go into that you already know.

However what I am tired of is having seemingly credible individuals continue to sound off about Barrack Hussein Obama.
Forget about his politics, his best selling book, his appearances on Oprah and the love fest from the rest of the leftist media.

As a black man I continue to be amazed at how intellectually bankrupt most people either pretend to be or not to care that you know it when it comes to sizing up various political issues.

Barrack Obama has absolutely no chance of being president of this country. Zero, nada, zilch. I have said it before and I will keep saying until I start to read either blogs, newspapers or other websites speak honestly on the issues of race and politics.

I recently had a new grandbaby and she will not see a black man as president in her lifetime, nor will her sons or daughters.
So why do you people keep writing and speaking to audiences as if a second sun is rising in the east.
Stop yelling at your computer screen, I know it’s to sell books, magazines, newspapers and for people to read various other websites.

I’m a very simple guy and see things very plain and clear and I hate to waste time discussing or listening to people babble on about pointless shit.

White people don’t want a nigga occupying the White House, period.
And as I have stated before his name automatically disqualifies him.

Now don’t get me wrong, Mitt Romney has ZERO chance of being president as well and I’m not even going to talk about my one of my favorite South Park episodes, dumb, dumb, dumb!  

Now this is not some self hating, defeatist, playa hating prophecy, it is simple reality.
I was watching the Today show and Lee Hamilton and James Baker were on talking about the Iraq study group report and I said to myself, more old white guys, making decisions and recommendations for the direction of America. And when those old white guys die off they will be replaced by more old white guys, and you people see this trend grinding to a halt sometime soon, because….of what exactly?

I just wish that political pundits, commentators, politicians, whomever would say exactly what is on their mind and be honest with their readers or their audience.
But what do I know; I’m just some old white guy hiding behind my blog masquerading under the persona of a gansta rappa.  

By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) - In a last ditch effort before the end of the congressional term on Friday, pro-life GOP lawmakers are promoting a bill that would require women considering an [tag]abortion[/tag] to be informed of the “intense pain their baby would feel during an abortion.”

The [tag]”Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act”[/tag] was introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) in September, but Congress has failed to act on the legislation until now. The bill, which requires a two-thirds majority to pass, will come before the House on Wednesday.

“Today’s society must face the morally troubling question of how much pain an unborn child suffers when he or she is dismembered or poisoned by an abortionist - and does a woman have a right to know that her child is pain-capable and that an abortion will likely impose excruciating pain upon the baby,” Smith said at a Capitol Hill press conference on Monday.

READ THE REST, but why bother? 

This kind of bullshit worthless legislation is exactly why folks in the Republican Party are so screwed up, more pandering legislation to appease far right wing folks.

The act of abortion is barbaric and repugnant.
The individual, who is considering it, has already showed a huge lack of judgment and selfishness.
Uh I don’t know, but I seriously doubt they give a shit what kind of pain is inflicted on “the thing.” They just want “it” out.
Why people continue to believe that you can legislate morality is beyond me.

“Today’s society must face the morally troubling question of how much pain an unborn child suffers when he or she is dismembered or poisoned by an abortionist” 

Classic.

 

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., backed funding for a bridge between Nevada and Arizona that could affect the value of property he owns nearby.

The planned span over the Colorado River between Laughlin, Nev., and Bullhead City, Ariz., got an $18 million boost in last year’s massive federal transportation bill.

Reid, who’s in line to become Senate majority leader after last week’s election, owns 160 acres of undeveloped property in Bullhead City, several miles from the proposed bridge sites. Development is booming in the area and local officials in Laughlin and Bullhead City support a new crossing to ease traffic on the one existing bridge. They also expect it would add to property values.

Reid aides said his support for the bridge has nothing to do with his ownership of the Bullhead City property, which he values between $500,000 and $1 million on his annual financial disclosure forms. His spokesman said he had no plans to develop the property.

After the Los Angeles Times published a story on the issue Monday, Reid’s office issued a five-page fact sheet in response.

According to the statement, Laughlin officials began pushing for another bridge after the nearby Hoover dam crossing was closed because of security concerns after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, pushing traffic onto a single Laughlin-Bullhead City bridge.

Reid and others in the Nevada delegation responded, securing $500,000 for planning in 2004. Reid and Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., then pushed for the $18 million in last year’s $286 billion highway-mass transit bill.

A final location has not been designated for the bridge, which is projected to cost $30 million to $40 million.

“Sen. Reid’s support for the bridge had absolutely nothing to do with property he owned,” said the statement from his office. “Sen. Reid supported this project for one reason only - his continuing efforts to move Nevada forward.”

Reid and other incoming Democratic leaders have promised to bring more openness to the practice of earmarking, where lawmakers insert funding for pet projects into legislation with little scrutiny.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., was criticized after it was disclosed that he sold property near his home in Kendall County, Ill., for a $1.8 million profit last year after championing a $207 million earmark in the same bill for a nearby connector road.

 From Michelle Malkin

Remember how pathetic it was when the Left tried to make scandals out of books written by Lynne Cheney and Scooter Libby?

Cheney wrote a pulpy novel, “Sisters,” about a frontier woman that included graphic sexual passages and lesbian lovers. (A conservative-bashing site reprinted excerpts here.)

Libby wrote a pulpy novel, “The Apprentice,” a “story of innocence and temptation” set in turn-of-the-century Japan that included graphic sexual passages–including bestiality and a scene in which the brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter.

Both were works of fiction. You know, stuff that’s made up.

Now, the George Allen campaign has detonated its October surprise using the same tactics as Cheney’s and Libby’s critics–attacking the fiction of his Democrat opponent, James Webb via an official “press release” sent to the Drudge Report last night. Are the passages in Webb’s “Lost Soldiers” bizarre and perverted? Yes. But they are no more proof of Webb’s immorality and unfitness for office than the passages in “Sisters” are proof that Lynne Cheney hates men or that the passages in “The Apprentice” are proof that Scooter Libby endorses sex between children and bears.

John Hawkins, who first highlighted Webb’s fictional work here and here, does make a good point about media double standards:

It goes without saying that any Republican who wrote this sort of thing and ran for office would be absolutely ripped into a thousand pieces by the mainstream media.

Of course, John’s right.

Allah does him one better:

If George Allen had written this book, not only would the left be going berserk, they’d be circulating lists of characters in his other books whom they suspect of being gay.

Heh.

I don’t think, however, that the Allen campaign–couldn’t they leave this to surrogates?–should be trafficking in this late October muck. It is beneath them and there’s plenty else about Webb that is damning.

Like Webb’s lying about leading the “fight” to include an African-American soldier in the Vietnam War soldier’s memorial.

Or his non-fiction writing about women in the military.

And what happened to focusing on Webb’s stance on taxes, as fiscal conservatives in Virginia have been urging?

Political strategists in the Beltway are exulting that “Webb is toast” as a result of this Drudge/Allen bomb. But if this what Republican Senate candidates need to do to win elections, I don’t think any of us should be cheering.

Strange day in the news.
I’m reading my usual blogs and news sites and nothing grabs me.
The liberal blogs are posting the same old shit, more discussion on Michael J. Fox and his exaggeration ads, Pelosi, did Billiary have a facelift, Bush is evil yada, yada, yada.
Nothing really grabbed my attention so far.
So I decided to look for some posts to recycle and I found one of the funniest examples of Democrat lunacy, my 200,000,000 post at Rep. Major Owens in New York. I added some stuff too.
As the Democrats get excited at the possibility of taking over things in Washington this is a good reminder of just how dangerous the lunatics on the Democratic side can be.
If people like Major Owens is who you want leading the country, feel free to vote DEMOCRAT in November.
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While driving home the other afternoon, I laughed so hard I almost got into a wreck. I literally had to pull my car over.
Rush repeated (my first time hearing) a clip from Rep. Major Owens (D-NY) that he first aired in 1996. He currently has an article on his website (for subscribers) but hell Snoop has the gist.
Anybody who is a long time listener to the Rush Limbaugh show or listened to the show back in the Clinton era may remember this information about Rep. Owens.
Rush highlighted in his show an ABC World News Tonight report in June of 1996, by Carole “Jennings” Simpson reported that 100 million slaves were thrown overboard during the slave trade.
This is what Rep. Major Owens (D-NY) claimed in a speech a year earlier on the house floor, in an except he said

200 million slaves were thrown overboard and that this genocide changed the ecology of the ocean so much that the sharks still swim the slave routes!

I thought OH MY GOD! You know I hear and read a whole lot of stupid shit but to hear it come out of an elected officials mouth and the dumbass said it on the house floor was nothing less than stunning.

This idea was first expressed by Owens during Special Orders a year earlier 1995.
So dude had been processing this info for quite some time.
Owens insisted that 200 million slaves on their way to America had been thrown overboard during the slave trade and that this had changed the ecology of the ocean to the point that sharks still swam the old trade routes in the hope of finding more bodies to feed upon.

You do the math, if the slave trade ran from 1550 to 1850. That’s 300 years. Multiplying 300 x 365 gives us 109,500. Dividing that into 200,000,000 gives us 1826.484. That means that over 1800 dead blacks would be thrown overboard every day! 

Rush’s staff ran the numbers and found that to be have 100 million drowned slaves, the slave traders would have had to put out nine ships a day with 152 slaves in each ship. This would have had to continue every day for 200 years, which works out to 1,370 slaves a day and 499,977 slaves per year thrown overboard, not counting leap years.
No matter how the numbers are worked, this figure of 100 million drowned slaves would still be impossible, especially since some of these slaves had to