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Should Obama's Gandma Be Worried?

It's all over the news.  Obama resigned from Trinity United today.  I think it's too little too late and how do you defend this?

At first we were told that he could no more give up this church and his association with his pastor then he could his grandmother.

Watch out Grandma, you are next!

Seriously, this tells us volumes about this charlatan.  And that, folks is exactly what Obama is.  He is nothing more than a two bit huckster selling us snake oil named "Change". Ethics to this man is whatever is politically expedient.

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Another Confederate Flag Kerfuffle

The old Confederate flag is a part of our history - parts of which we wish hadn't happened.   But as much as we'd like to erase it, we can't and we shouldn't.  It's a history lesson that all of us should know.  Let's face it, slavery is America's original sin. No Stalinesque attempt at erasing it will really ever work.

That said, I don't think that everyone who displays the confederate flag is a Kloset Klansman or even a racist.  There are some, I'm sure, but let's not try and paint everyone with a stereotypical brush.  I personally won't display it, but that's my choice.  I don't think government entities should display it, but like it or not, private groups and individuals have a right to publicly display it.

From Fox News:

A giant Confederate battle flag may soon be flying near a Tampa highway intersection.

A Confederate heritage group called the Sons of Confederate Veterans plans to fly the 30-by-50 flag atop a 139-foot pole, the highest the FAA will allow.

The group, which bills its Confederate flag as the "world's largest," expects to have it in place by 2009, The St. Petersburg Times reported.

The group has building permits but still needs $30,000 to complete the project, which will be located on private property at the intersection of Interstates 4 and 75.

Organizers say the flag is not a racist statement but a piece of history. They hope it encourages people to stop and see a monument to Confederate soldiers that they plan to build.

Local NAACP president Curtis Stokes, however, says he was shocked to hear about plans to have the flag flying next year.

"I'm surprised that they would allow something like this to go on in Hillsborough County," he told The St. Petersburg Times.

Why shouldn't they allow it.  The first amendment says they can.  Would Mr. Stokes be as indignant about other flags?  Would he be speaking out if someone wanted to fly a large USSR flag?  After all, the USSR enslaved more people than the US ever did!

I'm sorry Mr. Stokes, but the first amendment gives people the right to fly just about any flag they want.

If the first amendment gives people the right to burn the flag, I guess people have the right to display a distasteful one.

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Bob Dole Hammers Scott McClellan

Bob Dole sent an email to Scot McClellan that pulled no punches.  Dole hammered him.

Scott, There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.

In my nearly 36 years of public service I've known of a few like you. No doubt you will "clean up" as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, "Biting The Hand That Fed Me." Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years.

I have no intention of reading your "exposé" because if all these awful things were happening, and perhaps some may have been, you should have spoken up publicly like a man, or quit your cushy, high profile job. That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had credibility and your complaints could have been aired objectively. You're a hot ticket now but don't you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?

BOB DOLE

That's gonna leave a mark!

Thank You Senator Dole!

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Dumbing Down San Fransisco Schools

The future of any people/culture/country is in its educated children.  Therefore, what we teach children is as important as anything we do.  Successful students go on to be the teachers, doctors, scientists and politicians of tomorrow and the they, in turn pass it on.  Ideally, that is how the system works.  But when the system is corrupt and broken, the amount of successful students will dwindle and so will the odds of our survival as a free society.

In San Fransisco, the system is about to suffer a complete breakdown and rob many their children of a decent future. 

From SFGate:

San Francisco Superintendent Carlos Garcia took a first stab at putting his mark on city schools Tuesday with a plan that pushes the district to face racism and classism head on.

The district's strategic plan adopted by the school board 6-0 Tuesday night focuses on reversing the typical academic outcomes for black, Hispanic and poor students.

That doesn't sound real terrible (except that "classism" part) so what is the mission?  What are they going to do to achieve this goal?

Each school will be judged by how well it "serves each and every student based on that school's ability to disrupt the historically predictive power of racial, ethnic, linguistic and socio-economic student attributes," according to the plan.

Here's how this works:  if you are a rich white kid and you make straight A's, your grade will probably be adjusted lower to make up for your race and socio-economic standing.  If you are a poor Hispanic kid that speaks little or no English and here illegally, you will get a higher grade based upon those factors.

In other words, your grade will be based more on your race and economic status than your ability.  How else do they intend to make things "equal"?

This is nothing more than socialism.  The promised outcome is not better schools, just a homogenized that will completely destroy the desire for any kid, regardless of race, class or linguistic ability the desire to succeed. 

By the time these idiots get done with the SF school system, the damage might well be irreversible.

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The New Improved Donko Gaffe-Matic!

Donko Acquisition Corp. announced today their newest model in their "Gaffe-Matic" Democratic Presidential Candidate...

I was going to try and write a little humorous piece about Obama and his gaffe-a-minute speech making and I just couldn't get in the mood.  Frankly, it's not all that humorous.  It's deadly serious and the MSM just seems to ignore this man's ability to make mistake after mistake and gives him a pass each and every time.

Whether it's talking to dead people, not knowing your history or even what city you are in, it doesn't seem to matter. Gaffe after gaffe, speech after speech, he can't seem to get it right.

I know campaigning is grueling and wears at you.  However, he's a young man and yet the septuagenarian he will presumably be running against doesn't seem to make those kinds of mistakes and he's running just as hard as Obama!

Bush might mangle the language, but even he didn't make the kind of factual gaffes that Obama seems to keep making.

I realize the Constitution is a little light on resume requirements, but shouldn't we expect a candidate to get the details right at least most of the time?

Barack Hussein Obama, the Donko Gaffe-Matic Candidate.

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Say What???

I know that European countries have a more advanced transit system, but I didn't realized it was this advanced!   

Here's the headline:

U.S. Tourist Drugged, Robbed, Killed by Train in Italy

That's one hell of a mean train!

Isn't there an editor that reads this stuff?

If you read the story, you find out that the guy was drugged and robbed by some waiter and THEN wandered onto a train track while still dazed by the drug.  The headline makes it seem like the train was guilty of the whole crime.

It's a tragedy and at least they got the waiter that drugged and robbed the guy, but someone needs to proof read their work!

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Memorial Day 2008

Today we honor those members of the Armed Forces who gave their all in the defense of freedom and this great country.

At 3 PM Local time, is the National Moment of Remembrance.

Today at 3:00 PM, our family will pause for a few moments to remember our heroes.

Please join us.

http://www.remember.gov/

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I Don't Believe Them!

There is a few people in Santa Fe that say they are allergic to Wi-Fi signals.  I don't believe them.  If there is a problem, it's in their heads.

A group in Santa Fe says the city is discriminating against them because they say that they're allergic to the wireless Internet signal. And now they want Wi-Fi banned from public buildings.

Arthur Firstenberg says he is highly sensitive to certain types of electric fields, including wireless Internet and cell phones.

"I get chest pain and it doesn't go away right away," he said.

Firstenberg and dozens of other electro-sensitive people in Santa Fe claim that putting up Wi-Fi in public places is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Electro-sensitive?  I ain't buying it.  I'm sure they think they are and I'm sure they actually feel something, but I think it's coming from inside their skulls rather than the outside.

Let me tell you a true story:

Back when I was a kid, we moved out into a rural area.  My Dad serviced police radios.  He work for the city of Pontiac Michigan full time, but he also had contracts with some surrounding small communities.  He built a little shop down in the basement so he could do his contract work and because he needed to be able to test the radios, he needed to construct a tower tall enough to get out of our little valley. 

Dad had a problem.  He knew if he put up a tower with an antenna on it, someone would complain about it interfering with their TV.  Ah, but the wily Old Buffalo had a plan.  He knew how to nip that little problem in the bud.

He put up the tower beside the house and did nothing but ground it.  It was just a plain old steel tower with no antenna or radio attached to it and he left it there for awhile.  It didn't take long.  A neighbor came by one evening and told Dad he was having TV reception problems.  Now keep in mind that this was back when people relied on a TV antenna on their roof for TV and it was subject to interference from strong radio signals close by.  Cable and satellite TV were concepts, not reality.

Dad took the old guy over to the tower and explained it couldn't be him.  He showed the guy there was nothing on that tower.  No wires, no antenna.  The neighbor decided if he was having problem, it couldn't be from us.

A little while later, Dad connected the antenna to the tower and never had a complaint.

The truth is, if our neighbor had a problem, it was most likely his perception, not his reception and I'm thinking this is the problem with these people in Sante Fe

I don't believe these people are that sensitive.

Wrap'em in a Faraday cage, that'll fix the problem.

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Disenfranchising The Democrats!

Rove, you magnificent bastard!  You found a way to keep Democrats from voting!    It has to be your idea.  It's so simple, yet insanely evil!

All we have to do is require photo ID at the polling places and it will stop them Democrats cold!

You see, Rove discovered that Democrats don't have the intelligence it takes to get photo ID.  He is now working (it's why he left the White House) to get laws passed in every state to require Photo ID!

It has to be Rove!!!  Who else could have concocted this?

This transcript from Newsbusters:

JEFFREY TOOBIN: Well, I think they are going to do their best to stay out of the election, per se. They are not going to have many cases that deal directly with elections. But, you know, I think, for better or worse, the Justices are who they are. There are four very conservative Justices there. They decided a case about Indiana election law.

BILL MOYERS:  Upholding the state's voter identification. 

JEFFREY TOOBIN:  Correct.  Which will- 

BILL MOYERS:  What did you think about that? 

JEFFREY TOOBIN: Well, I thought it was a bad decision but a predictable one because it was a very clear attempt by Republicans to stop Democrats from voting. I don't think there's any doubt about what the motivation was of that law. It didn't say that in the text of the law. And the aim of stopping fraud was one that we all can embrace. But the fact is electoral fraud scarcely exists in this country. The real agenda was to help Republicans.

Moyers just let this pass.

Exactly how does this keep a Democrat from voting?  Are the too stupid to get an ID?  I'm sorry, but if you can't get an ID, provided free from the state, you are too stupid to be voting.

As far as electoral fraud, this country is rife with it.  Just look at the Democrat machines in every big city.

You Democrats should be a bit upset that someone thinks you are incapable of getting an ID in order to vote.

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Computer Woes

One of our computers here at the world headquarters complex of The Violence Worker bit the dust.  Not the main one, but one on the network.  Our IT department (me) is busily trying to bring the computer back to life.  The hard drive bit the dust so it had to be replaced. 

It's always a fun process.  Installing Windoze makes the task that much more pleasurable.

Back soon.

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