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September 21, 2007IS AMERICA RACIST? « Neil McKenty Weblog
September 21, 2007IS AMERICA RACIST? « Neil McKenty Weblog
The very first thing that I noticed was that this was hailed as “The first Civil rights” demonstration of the century. Someone has had their head stuck in the ground. This is so ignorant that I will not even bother to post citations about all of the other actions having to do with civil rights that have been performed since the century began.
Should the “white” kids have put the nooses up on the tree? Of course not, that was just plain dumb. Should the “black” kids have retaliated with violence? No, there are a lot of better ways that the situation could have been addressed.
Can the discrepancy in health insurance and economic circumstances be extrapolated across the rest of the country as racism as the story implies? Ask Walter Williams about that…
Mean while..?
September 16, 2007http://texasfred.net/archives/537/trackback/
Stories such as the one linked to above are a serious example of just what the mainstream media excel at doing. Trivializing the deaths of American troops, by an American is disgusting, to say the least.
J.D. Long summed it up pretty well, and the statements below are cross posted, and credited to him.
1.) You’re exactly right, Fred – relegating the ultimate sacrifice of four of America’s Finest to a “Meanwhile” paragraph is insulting, demeaning, and dehumanizing — and he needs to be fired for his callous tratment of human life. He also owes their families apologies.
2.) As an English Major, the whole paragraph is full of comma faults, run-on sentences, and grammatical errors. Here’s just a few:
In eastern Diyala province, meanwhile (Poor Construction, awkward phrasing), a bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Friday (The word “on” is uneccesary), killing four American soldiers in (”in” what? – incomplete sentence), the U.S. command said (The “U.S.Command” doesn’t “say” anything — it’s not a person — mismatched pronouns). They were the first American deaths reported in Iraq since Monday.
3.) And then these are the first deaths this week — and we’re not making a big deal about this????
4.) Finally, the article downplays the fact that this Sheik’s death has turned the Sunnis against al-Aqaeda!!! This is something to rejoice about!
Instead, it reads like a dreary little war dispatch that minimizes human life and misses the point entirely — with bad grammar thrown in as a sideshow.
Yeesh!
~~JD~~
Who earned it..?
September 12, 2007This is an email I got and thought I would pass it along.
Desks
*A lesson that should be taught in all schools!*
Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies schoolteacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten.
On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. Looking around, confused, they asked, “Ms. Cothren, where’re our desks?” She replied, “You can’t have a desk until you tell me what you have done to earn the right to sit at a desk. “They thought, “Well, maybe it’s our grades. “No,” she said. Maybe it’s our behavior.” She told them, “No, it’s not even your behavior.
And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren’s classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room. The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the diskless classroom. Martha Cothren said, “Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom.
Now I am going to tell you.” At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned. Martha said, “You didn’t earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it’s up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don’t ever forget it.” By the way, this is a true story…. If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you read it in English, thank a soldier.
Frankly, I stole this one!
September 12, 2007
A teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.
The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.
“Tony, do you have a story to share?” the teacher asked.
“Yes ma’am. My daddy told a story about his sister, my Aunt Nancy.
She was a pilot in Desert Storm and her helicopter got hit.
She had to crash land in enemy territory and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol and a survival knife.
She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn’t break in the crash and then she landed right in the middle of twenty enemy troops.
She shot fifteen of them with the pistol but she ran out of bullets, so she killed four more with the knife, but then the blade broke, so she killed the last Iraqi with her bare hands.”
“Good Heavens” said the horrified teacher. “What kind of moral did your daddy tell you from this horrible story?”
Tony said, “Remember son, never f**k with Aunt Nancy when she’s drinking.”
Stolen from non other than Texas Fred! 🙂
Now, about all the categories this was entered into..? THINK ABOUT IT!
Permanent Flame–9/11/7 « THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS
September 12, 2007Permanent Flame–9/11/7 « THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS
I am no musician, but you folks need to check this one out!
• Sick Bastards Protest At Ground Zero « Ed Gruberman كافر#comment-147
September 12, 2007• Sick Bastards Protest At Ground Zero « Ed Gruberman كافر#comment-147
Great story about some really disturbed folks.
NEVER AGAIN! NEVER FORGET!
September 11, 2007Today is September eleventh, the year of our Lord two thousand seven. Six years ago this morning the world changed in a way that many it seems, wish would just go away. Well, it is not going away. We, the free peoples of this world must never forget that.
What got me to thinking about this on this anniversary of the terrorist attack? It was the apparent ambivalence of so many people that I see. That, in contrast with something that I watched many years ago in Israel. I was high atop a mesa that had once been an Israeli fort. Seems that the Romans had decided that the land was to be theirs. These ancient people of Israel had been under siege for quite some time. The legions though, would have their way. The fortress was about to fall, the people though were not. They threw themselves to their deaths over the cliffs rather than be enslaved by the Romans. Now, that, was a powerful statement to say the least. Back to when I stood on top of that desert mountain in Israel; The young recruits of the Israeli Defense Force had run from the sea that was many miles away, across the desert, then up the side of the cliffs. When at the top, they said, in Hebrew,
NEVER AGAIN!
Never mind that thirteen people that I knew died while trying to save others. What absolutely has to be, as a way of life, is that we never forget what they gave their lives for. Our peoples, our ways, our beliefs, and our inalienable rights. That is what those brave men and women died for. Not the individual lives, but for what it means to be an American, and yes, like Rangers, they went after those that were their own, to try and help, or to protect the dead, or to fall with them trying to do that.
On this day I wish to extend my heart felt thanks to all those that serve so that others may live.
Patrick D. Sperry
NREMT-Paramedic Retired
The Grasshopper and the Ant.
September 11, 2007TRADITIONAL VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the
winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter,
the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
*****MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and
well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in
his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be,
that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah
with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” Jesse Jackson stages a
demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.”
Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake. Nancy Peloski, John Kerry & Harry
Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and
both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the
Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant is fined for failing
to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is
confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit
against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of
single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house
he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of
spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008.
GUN CONTROL’S ABOMINABLE RECORD
September 9, 2007As Senate Reconvenes… Veterans Disarmament Bill Offers False Hopes
Of Relief For Gun Owners
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the
lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but
by the past. — Patrick Henry, in his “Give Me Liberty or Give Me
Death” speech of March 23, 1775
Patrick Henry had it right. Forget the past, and you’re destined to
make the same mistakes in the future.
Gun control has been an absolute failure. Whether it’s a total gun
ban or mere background checks, gun control has FAILED to keep guns
out of the hands of criminals.
But gun control fanatics still want to redouble their efforts, even
when their endeavors have not worked. Congress is full of fanatics
who want to expand the failed Brady Law to such an extent that
millions of law-abiding citizens will no longer be able to own or buy
guns.
For months, GOA has been warning gun owners about the McCarthy-Leahy
bill — named after Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and Sen. Patrick
Leahy (D-VT). These anti-gun legislators have teamed up to introduce
a bill that will expand the 1993 Brady Law and disarm hundreds of
thousands of combat veterans — and other Americans. (While McCarthy
and Leahy are this year’s primary sponsors, the notorious Senator
Chuck Schumer of New York was a sponsor of this legislation in years
past.)
Proponents of the bill tell us that it will bring relief for many gun
owners. But to swallow this, one must first ignore the fact that gun
owners would NOT NEED RELIEF in the first place if some gun owners
(and gun groups) had not thrown their support behind the Brady bill
that passed in 1993 and were not pushing the Veterans Disarmament
Bill now.
Law-abiding Americans need relief because we were sold a bill of
goods in 1993. The Brady Law has allowed government bureaucrats to
screen law-abiding citizens before they exercise their
constitutionally protected rights — and that has opened the door to
all kinds of abuses.
The McCarthy-Leahy bill will open the door to many more abuses.
After all, do we really think that notorious anti-gunners like
McCarthy and Leahy had the best interests of gun owners in mind when
they introduced this Veterans Disarmament Bill? The question
answers itself.
TRADE-OFF TO HURT GUN OWNERS
Proponents want us to think this measure will benefit many gun
owners. But what sort of trade off is it to create potentially
millions of new prohibited persons — under this legislation — and
then tell them that they need to spend thousands of dollars to regain
the rights THAT WERE NOT THREATENED before this bill was passed?
Do you see the irony? Gun control gets passed. The laws don’t stop
criminals from getting guns, but they invariably affect law-abiding
folks. So instead of repealing the dumb laws, the fanatics argue
that we need even more gun control (like the Veterans Disarmament
Bill) to fix the problem!!!
So more people lose their rights, even while they’re promised a very
limited recourse for restoring those rights — rights which they
never would lose, save for the McCarthy-Leahy bill.
The legislation threatens to disqualify millions of new gun owners
who are not a threat to society. If this bill is signed into law:
* As many as a quarter to a third of returning Iraq veterans could be
prohibited from owning firearms — based solely on a diagnosis of
post-traumatic stress disorder;
* Your ailing grandfather could have his entire gun collection
seized, based only on a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s (and there goes the
family inheritance);
* Your kid could be permanently banned from owning a gun, based on a
diagnosis under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Patrick Henry said he knew of “no way of judging of the future but by
the past.” The past has taught us that gun control fanatics and
bureaucrats are continually looking for loopholes in the law to deny
guns to as many people as possible.
GUN CONTROL’S ABOMINABLE RECORD
A government report in 1996 found that the Brady Law had prevented a
significant number of Americans from buying guns because of
outstanding traffic tickets and errors. The General Accounting
Office said that more than 50% of denials under the Brady Law were
for administrative snafus, traffic violations, or reasons other than
felony convictions.
Press reports over the years have also shown gun owners
inconvenienced by NICS computer system crashes — especially when
those crashes happen on the weekends (affecting gun shows).
Right now, gun owners in Pennsylvania are justifiably up in arms
because the police scheduled a routine maintenance (and shut-down) of
their state computer system on the opening days of hunting season
this year. The shut-down, by the way, has taken three days — which
is illegal.
And then there’s the BATFE’s dastardly conduct in the state of
Wyoming. The anti-gun agency took the state to court after
legislators figured out a way to restore people’s ability to buy
firearms — people who had been disarmed by the Lautenberg gun ban of
1996.
Gun Owners Foundation has been involved in this Wyoming case, and has
seen up close how the BATFE has TOTALLY DISREGARDED a Supreme Court
opinion which allows this state to do what they did. In Caron v.
United States (1998), the U.S. Supreme Court said that any conviction
which has been set aside or expunged at the state level “shall not be
considered a conviction,” under federal law, for the purposes of
owning or buying guns. But the BATFE has ignored this Court ruling,
and is bent on preventing states like Wyoming from restoring people’s
gun rights.
Not surprisingly, the BATFE has issued new 4473s which ASSUME the
McCarthy-Leahy bill has already passed. The bill has not even been
enacted into law yet, and the BATFE is already using the provisions
of that bill to keep more people from buying guns.
The new language on the 4473 form asks:
Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective (which includes
a determination by a court, board, commission, or other lawful
authority that you are a danger to yourself or to others or are
incompetent to manage your own affairs)….
Notice the words “determination” and “other lawful
authority.”
Relying on a DETERMINATION is broader than just relying on a court
“ruling,” and the words OTHER LAWFUL AUTHORITY are not limited to
judges. In other words, the definition above would allow a VA
psychologist or a school shrink to take away your gun rights.
This is what McCarthy and Leahy are trying to accomplish, but the
BATFE has now been emboldened to go ahead and do it anyway. This
means that military vets could potentially commit a felony by buying
a gun WITHOUT disclosing that they have Post Traumatic Stress
Syndrome because a “lawful authority” has decreed that they are a
potential danger to themselves or others.
No wonder the Military Order of the Purple Heart is opposed to the
McCarthy-Leahy bill. On June 18 of this year, the group stated, “For
the first time the legislation, if enacted, would statutorily impose
a lifetime gun ban on battle-scarred veterans.”
MORE RESTRICTIONS, NOT RELIEF
Supporters, like the NRA, say that they were able to win compromises
from the Dark Side — compromises that will benefit gun owners. Does
the bill really make it easier to get your gun rights restored —
even after spending lots of time and money in court? Well, that’s
VERY debatable, and GOA has grappled this question in a very lengthy
piece entitled, “Point-by-Point Response to Proponents of HR 2640,”
which can be read at http://www.gunowners.org/ne0702.htm on the GOA
website.
In brief, the McClure-Volkmer of 1986 created a path for restoring
the Second Amendment rights of prohibited persons. But given that
Chuck Schumer has successfully pushed appropriations language which
has defunded this procedure since the 1990s (without significant
opposition), it is certainly not too difficult for some anti-gun
congressman like Schumer to bar the funding of any new procedure for
relief that follows from the McCarthy-Leahy bill.
Incidentally, even before Schumer blocked the procedure, the ability
to get “relief from disabilities” under section 925(c) was
always an
expensive long shot. Presumably, the new procedures in the Veterans
Disarmament Act will be the same.
Isn’t that always the record from Washington? You compromise with
the devil and then get lots of bad, but very little good. Look at
the immigration debate. Compromises over the last two decades have
provided amnesty for illegal aliens, while promising border security.
The country got lots of the former, but very little of the latter.
If the Veterans Disarmament Bill passes, don’t hold your breath
waiting for the promised relief.
ACTION: Please use the letter below to contact your Senator. You
can use the pre-written message below and send it as an e-mail by
visiting the GOA Legislative Action Center at
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm (where phone and fax numbers
are also available).
—– Pre-written letter —–
Dear Senator:
While the NRA does some good work in the areas of shooting
competitions, firearms training, etc., THEY DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME when
they support the so-called School Safety Act, sponsored by Patrick
Leahy in the Senate and Carolyn McCarthy in the House (HR 2640).
Gun owners don’t support this legislation, better known as the
Veterans Disarmament Act. The Military Order of the Purple Heart is
opposed to it, having stated on June 18 of this year, that “For the
first time the legislation, if enacted, would statutorily impose a
lifetime gun ban on battle-scarred veterans.” Gun owners don’t want
to expand the Brady Instant Check, we want to repeal it. It is
simply un-American to penalize individuals (like veterans) with no
due process by assuming they are guilty until proven innocent.
Anti-gun zealots are always looking to expand the number of citizens
who are prohibited from exercising their Second Amendment rights. I
don’t believe that this bill will provide the relief that supporters
are promising.
After all, the McClure-Volkmer of 1986 created a path for restoring
the Second Amendment rights of prohibited persons. But given that
Chuck Schumer has successfully pushed appropriations language which
has defunded this procedure since the 1990s (without significant
opposition), it is certainly not too difficult for some anti-gun
congressman like Schumer to bar the funding of any new procedure for
relief that follows from the McCarthy-Leahy bill.
The Leahy bill is gun control, pure and simple, and voting for it
tells me you don’t care about a little thing known as the
Constitution.
Sincerely,
Conservative Libertarian Outpost 