McKinney: "In Congress While Black"

McKinney is about to go live..she says she was attacked by the cop!

Streaming Live at 11Alive.com -- http://www.11alive.com/video/default_live.aspx?storyid=78076

The news conference on the campus of Howard University in Washington.

Sounds like she's begging to be charged. It would be interesting to see the security video of this incident.

The guy from the NAACP says "The officers talked to the children like "animals" ... like they came "off the plantation."

Oh.....Now I think i'm gonna be sick.

INTERNET JIHAD: MY SITE IS BEING BLOCKED

Atlasshrugs2000 is under attack please pass the word.

Today she posted this outcry for all bloggers to take note!
The left and Islamist are trying to come after our blogs!
Enough is Enough
Let the Jihad began!

INTERNET JIHAD: MY SITE IS BEING BLOCKED

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INTERNET JIHAD!

Assigning Blame

How often have you heard conservatives tell blacks to stop blaming whites for their problems, or that they are practicing victomology??

What I find funny is that these same conservatives who tell blacks NOT to assign blame turn around and assign blame to liberals for all the failings in America.

Just thought I would toss that out.



Blaming white people as a race and blaming a bunch of good-for-nothing socialists is not the same thing. Liberal policies have done more harm to blacks as a race than any one particular white person or whites as a race of people.





Well I have to take the Bill Cosby stance on this and say that I agree. Blacks DO need to stop blaming white for problems created andmaintained within their community. As for liberals, its different because I think that liberals CAN be blamed liberal and at times socialist policies that hurt America. The difference is that Liberals when elected have the power to make a wreck of things with bad policies. Whites for the most part cannot influence blacks to do such things as increase their marriage rate, and rebuild the concept of the black American in a traditional family unit.


Liberals who promote taxing the producers of wealth to pay for state-run social programs that almost all of the producers aren't eligible for (e.g. Food Stamps, Welfare, Section 8, Medicare, Medicaid) are at a minimum, socialist idealogues.

These programs have socially engineered the removal of drive and pride from many, if not most black people. At least when poor blacks had to work for a check (or even work to avoid the master's whip) they had pride in what they did and they looked forward to a better day for themselves and future generations. People tried to make things better back then.

The social welfare systems implemented in the 1960s turned the emerging post civil rights economic rainbow upside down, and here we are almost 50 years later and it's _still_ broken. Most blacks are simply pawns for yet another liberal policy. It's a royal shame.

How to spot Racism?

I have often found that while debating the right and left racism isis often exagarated or down played.

How does one find a balance.

Racism exist and will always exist as long as people are on theplanet.So for some in the right to ignore racism is just dumb and canbe racist.

On the left they make create an enviroment wherepeople can not belive them.It is like the boy who cried wolf!How do you respond to this issue?
Libertas



Dell Gines

I have long argued that the only way racism can aptly be identified is through statistics.

Our relative group disparity between the majority group has to be the measurement of the latent and active effects of racism, because it can be argued that the initial disparities were the result of racism.

Most people use anecdotal evidence or assumptions.

I think the correlation between black disparity from the majority and racism is a spurious one. In other words there many things that come into play that keep black disparity alive that have nothing to do with racism. Sure we can blame the legacy of slavery, but at some point the individuals in question must simply snap out of it, as today more than ever blacks, and non-whites in general have many opportunities to acheive and advance in this country."Most people use anecdotal evidence or assumptions."I agree.

Russell Simmons, Kimora Lee announce split

Hip-hop mogul, designer to end 7-year marriage, remain caring friends

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and his model-turned-entrepreneur wife, Kimora Lee have appeared at public events together in recent weeks but reportedly had been separated for some time even though they were still living together.

Adjective: Removing the Black from Black Conservative

Adjective - The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.

I was about to blast another 'black conservative' yesterday for his particular rant on the rest of us 'stupid blacks' who aren't Republican. I didn't though. I really have been trying to not minor on the minutia. In other words, I want to stop wasting time on folks who really have relatively little influence on blacks and our experience and outlook in the world. This is difficult for me though, because I love deconstructing foolishness as much as my 9 month old son likes knocking down the big lego towers my daugher builds. So I am, just a little bit today, and in a general way going to knock down some fake black cons.

First don't get me wrong, as I have stated before there are some conservative and Republican brothers and sisters I love in the blogosphere, as well as in public life. Many folks might define me a some what of a conservative depending on how you define that term, and that would be a fair assessment. But these are folks who have an ability to be introspective and critically reasoned, and not ideological buffoons parroting white conservatives and getting tossed scooby snacks.more-->

So the general thesis of my article today is that brothers need to detach the black from the conservative, if you aren't a black applying the blackness to conservativism.

Riddle me this huh?

As stated above, an adjective is a word used as a modifier and descriptive term for a noun. For example, if I say 'white' wall, then I have identified the wall by virtue of its color. Now when we use it for humans, and adjective can be used as a state, or as an expression. Check it, the 'black' guy down the corner versus he is in a 'black' mood today. The first adjective is state, IE the guy has dark melanin skin, his state is 'black'. The second adjective is an expression, he is expressing himself through his 'black' mood.

Now as this relates to the black conservative we have to ask ourselves if it is a state or an expression. If it is a state, IE it is simply a 'black' guy who practices conservative ideology, then there is really no purpose for being identified as a 'black' conservative, because there is nothing materially different from a 'black' conservative and a 'white' one. However if it is an expression, if the 'black' truly modifies the term conservative then this is much different. In this adjective scenario the conservative noun would be modified by 'blackness' meaning that the black conservative would be using conservative philosophy and innnovative conservative thought specifically applied, derived, and in relation to black American life.

It is my belief that most so-called 'black' conservatives are simply talking about state. They are 'black' but that blackness has nothing to do with their conservativism. They don't offer innovative conservative solutions to black life and culture, they don't offer critical conservative reasons specific to and derived from 'black' culture, they simply are what they are, conservatives. They parrot non-unique standard conservative ideology, nothing more nothing less. To me they have no real relevance for the black experiences and answer no questions for the disparity that blacks face that we could not get from a white conservative.

But the true 'black' conservative whose blackness colors and truly modifies his/her conservatism uses as a framework for innovative social change conservatism distinctly colored and applied to the very real conditions of black Americans. Although common principles may be seen in relation to white conservatives, the expression of these principles is unique to the unique condition of blacks and the black culture which shapes this expression.

The reason Project 21 cats, and other so-called black conservatives are outcast, isolated, and deemed as foolish asses, is because the 'black' in the black conservative is a state, and being that it is a state, it has no relevance to the masses of us blacks. They should just drop the adjective 'black' all together, because it has no bearing on the expression of their conservative ideology.

But I think there is opportunity for true black conservatives who express blackness and black culture through conservatism and apply it for the betterment of the race to make some head way.

We will see...but as long as Black Conservatives like Jesse Lee Peterson, Michael Massie, LaShawn Barber, Bob Parks among others are the leading voices of 'black'conservatives, those who truly could have a relevant conservative voice in our communities are getting drown out by those who never will.





Dell Gines is the President of the The Urban Center for Economic Education and Development, ., He has been blogging since June 2005 at Dellgines.com AKA Adequate Defense, and discusses a vast array of topics dealing from Urban Culture, Politics, and Faith

NYU Suppresses Free Speech About Islam

By Dr. Yaron Brook
FrontPageMagazine.com March 31, 2006

Wednesday, in a shameful act, NYU broke its own official policy and denied free speech to its students.

After having approved the display of the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad for a panel discussion on free speech hosted by a student group, NYU's administration reversed its decision in the face of Muslim protests.

A day before the panel discussion was to take place, NYU gave the student event organizers a non-negotiable ultimatum: if you display the cartoons we will close the event to non-NYU guests. This was in spite of the fact that NYU's own rules leave this decision to the student sponsoring organization.

And even though the students opted for not showing the cartoons, NYU barred entry to at least two journalists and more than 30 registered guests. Even after learning that Muslim students had sabotaged the event by acquiring and destroying two hundred tickets to leave as many seats empty, NYU officials still refused to allow non-NYU guests to enter.

In caving in to fear, in restricting and obstructing attendance, in forbidding the display of the Danish cartoons, NYU handed a victory to the Islamic totalitarians and their facilitators. In standing up to the destroyers of free speech, the NYU student sponsors of the free speech panel showed the courage that the NYU officials lack.

http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21874



Is it me or does it seem that the only absolute rights in America are
Burning the American flag

Criticizing the government
Helping the enemy murder Americans
Illegal migration, from Mexico and the middle east

I dunno... I missed a few. Speech is not an absolute right as proven over and over, it is restricted and prosecuted. However America is the best western nation for freedom of speech.

Ooh its only ok to criticize religion, if its about Evangelicals.
and its ok to be racist if you are talking about whites.

Gibson first to announce for Macon mayoral bid

Gibson first to announce for Macon mayoral bid

By Travis Fain


Macon's 2007 mayoral race got an early start Friday morning as local Republican Arlan Gibson formally announced his intention to run.

Qualifying for the race won't begin until next year, but Gibson said he needed to get an early jump because he's a relative unknown in Macon politics.

"I'm kind of a dark horse - no pun intended," said Gibson, one of a few black Republicans to offer for local office. "I kind of have to get out of the gate early."

Gibson's announcement was short on details - he said he plans to release his comprehensive plan for the city soon - and focused on his broader ideas. He said he wants to fill "a deficit of good and moral leadership in the city."

He said his priorities are: a strong police force; working "side by side with the Board of Education" and parents to strengthen local schools; and a "resistance" to higher taxes and a pledge to lower them "if economically feasible."

Gibson is the first person to hold a news conference and announce for the mayor's office, though Macon City Council President Anita Ponder has long said she's planning a run for the office. Others have said they're considering a run, including former state Rep. Robert Reichert.

Gibson's announcement is "probably going to start a domino reaction" among other potential candidates, Reichert said.

Gibson lives in unincorporated Bibb County, but said he plans to move inside the city limits - a pre-requisite for holding office - "very shortly."

Though he is embracing his novelty as a black Republican, Gibson said he hopes people will judge him by his character.

"I'm tired of the great racial divide that polarizes this city," he said. "And what my leadership will do will bring us together."

Vicente Fox is a Fox

Vicente Fox: U.S. Will 'Beg' for Mexican Workers

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/30/103635.shtml?s=ic

Mexican President Vicente Fox is defending earlier comments where he insisted that the U.S. will soon be "begging" Mexico to send workers to alleviate a coming U.S. labor shortage.

"I dare say that in 10 years, the U.S. will be begging, will be pleading with Mexico to send it workers," said Fox, who meets with President Bush in Cancun today to discuss what he calls the "migration" problem.

In his March 3 remarks to the BBC, Fox warned that the U.S. had better take advantage of the Mexican labor pool while it has the chance, because when America starts begging for Mexican workers, "Mexico won't do it because it will have its people employed [here at home]."

In an interview Wednesday night, Fox said he stood by his comments...



BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's just invade them and be over with it after the spineless Congress issues a declaration of war.

Mr President stop lying there aren't any jobs that Americans won't do.

There are sur jobs that Americans are denied because they pay such paltry wages that Americans can't survive on them as a source of income. Do you even know what the unemployment rate for African-Americans without a high school education is?

Why would you want to import millions more illegal aliens without marketable skills, or any education?

You do realize that the whole idea of a generous welfare state-or even a decent social safety net-is predicated upon the assumption that there are enough well-paid wage-earneers paying enough in taxes to support such a system, don't you?

The truth be told Mexico could become a national power with their natural resourses, expansive land and warm climate. However, being a little more corrupt than Somalia, I don't think it's going to happen.

Fox is merely parroting what the lefitsts have been trying to sell us, namely that we Americans are too arrogant and lazy to do manual labor. I don't buy it, and neither does the rest of America.

Cheap Mexican labor is like heroin, and the leftists and Mexicican government are the pushers, trying to get us hooked on something that we don't need and something that has more dangers than benefits.

This crap makes me want to repeal the 13th Amendment

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NASA HQ Raided In Kiddie Porn Probe

Feds: "Skin tone filtering system" helped nab space agency executive
MARCH 31--The Washington headquarters of NASA was raided this week as part of a kiddie porn probe targeting an executive with the space agency, The Smoking Gun has learned.

On Wednesday morning, federal investigators seized a laptop computer, a hard drive, CDs, and other material from the office of James Robinson, who was present when agents with NASA's inspector general executed a search warrant at his E Street office. According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court, Robinson, 42, used his office computer (and another in his Virginia home) to trade and examine illegal image and videos. An excerpt from the affidavit, sworn by agent Paul Danley, can be found below.

Robinson, a program executive with NASA's In Space Propulsion, Mission and Systems Management Division, was snared last year in an online operation run by postal inspectors. In correspondence with a series of undercover agents, he described his preferences as, "probably priority right now would be boy-on-boy or boy-with-Man, and girl-on-girl. But really, anything is of interest." Robinson wrote that he was "Not a cop," and explained that he amassed his child porn collection via downloads "via Kazaa and usegroups." The affidavit also indicates that Robinson, who traded via a Yahoo! mail account using the alias "Jim Saron," trolled "alt.chxld.mxlexter.com." In December, after being contacted by postal agents, NASA's inspector general opened its own probe of Robinson, which included a review of reports from the space agency's "web activity monitoring application." The NASA system, dubbed Web ContExt, is apparently a state-of-the-art application that used a "skin tone filtering system" to determine that Robinson was viewing child porn from his office computer, most recently in January, according to the affidavit. (10 pages)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0331061nasa1.html


I bet it is easier to send them to prison for life than it is to get them fired from a gov. job

Wow instead of looking at the stars Nasa's looking ar Kids..

what sicko's just another reason to slash there budget!

Rep. Cynthia McKinney to be Arrested?

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Capitol Hill police plan to issue an arrest warrant today for Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.).

The warrant is related to the incident Wednesday when McKinney allegedly slapped a Capitol Hill police officer.

Charges could range from assault on a police officer, which is a felony carrying a possible five year prison term, to simple assault, which is a misdeamenor.

McKinney has canceled a news conference that she had scheduled for this morning to discuss the incident.

McKinney issued a statement yesterday saying she "deeply regrets" the confrontation with the police officer.

The six-term congresswoman apparently struck a Capitol Police officer when he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a metal detector. Members of Congress wear identifying lapel pins and routinely are waved into buildings without undergoing security checks. The officer apparently did not recognize McKinney, she said in a statement.

Asked on-camera Thursday by Channel 2 Action News whether she intended to apologize, McKinney refused to comment.

"I know that Capitol Hill Police are securing our safety, and I appreciate the work that they do. I have demonstrated my support for them in the past and I continue to support them now," she said in the statement on her Web site.

Democrats and Republicans, meanwhile, engaged in a rhetorical scuffle over the incident.

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday labeled it "a mistake, an unfortunate lack of recognition of a member of Congress." She added that the police officer was not at fault.

"I would not make a big deal of this," said Pelosi, D-Calif.

Ron Bonjean, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., responded: "How many officers would have to be punched before it becomes a big deal?"

The dustup is the latest in a series of tangles for the roughly 1,200-officer Capitol Police department.

The department faces a difficult task -- protecting 535 members of Congress and the vast Capitol complex in an atmosphere thick with politics and privilege.

The safety of its members became a sensitive issue after a gunman in 1998 killed two officers outside the office of then-Republican Whip Tom DeLay of Texas.

More recently, police obeyed an order by an angry House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., to remove Democrats from a hearing room. Thomas later tearfully apologized on the House floor.

This year, during President Bush's State of the Union address, police drew criticism for first kicking antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan out of the House gallery, and then for evicting the wife of Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla.

Merle Black, a professor of politics at Emory University, says that while the scuffle was rare for an elected politician, it's unlikely to cost McKinney more than a few votes. Black says McKinney is in damage control -- cutting her losses by not insisting on right or wrong.

Copyright 2006 by WSBTV.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed


How long before the battle cry "RACISM" is spewed.

I don't know if she'll be charged w/ a felony or misdemeanor.
The NAACP will hail her as a heroine, and her black constituents will build a statue in her honor!

I guess we wil have to wait for the protest..give it time people.
Jesse Jackson still hasn't had his morning cup of java.

RNC Releases Web Ad Entitled Censure? Impeachment?

The Republican National Committee today unveiled a new web ad entitled Censure? Impeachment?

The web ad features Democrat attacks on the Terrorist Surveillance Program. Censure? Impeachment?

It will also be emailed to Republican grassroots supporters and is available for viewing now at www.GOP.com.


http://www.gop.com/Default.aspx?s=censuread

The failure of Black Conservatives in Modern Society

by Greg Thrasher

The failure of the politics of conservative thought in the Black community has never been a surprise for me. I have always known that black people are very astute in rejecting backward ideas, underdeveloped thoughts and philosophies. The media fiction that the GOP and conservative principles are gaining a new foothold with Black folks is nonsense and is nothing more than the exaggerated press releases of GOP balloon blowers and black apologists seeking affirmation from conservative whites as they mine the lucrative cottage industry of black conservatism.

Conservatives, when they dressed themselves in black face, become even of a more losing proposition because this partnership only insults the audience the conservatives wish to recruit and indoctrinate.

It should, however, be pointed out that the failure of conservative politics in the Black community is not based entirely on the underdeveloped core themes and ideas of conservative politics nor on the legacy of its racists beliefs as marketed by white republicans. Some of the failure of conservative thinking in the ‘hood is a direct result of Black folks who have embraced conservatism as a panacea for the ills of black folks as manta from heaven .

Black conservatives are always their own worst victim in this parade. Black conservatives continue to display a patronizing and condensing posture
when they interact with those who are not card caring members of the GOP. In addition these Black operatives never seem to get passed touting the usual Black token darlings of the GOP.

It should be noted that the very ideals of some conservative principles have existed in the Black community long before whites even entered the soil of North America. Black conservatives who have embraced conservative politics fail miserably in the black community because they are viewed as
agents of a political philosophy that at it's core has contempt for black dignity and humanity.

Black conservatives simply cannot navigate around the ugly legacy of white racism so when black conservatives seek to uplift and elevate black masses with the failed themes of conservative politics, they look like minstrels and fools to the majority black electorate. The truth is, of course, liberal political ideology and conservative ideology both are on their last days in the black community as
neither has been effective in truly changing the life conditions of the majority of Black Americans.

Black cultural traditions and our very essence, as a people, have liberated us from the obstacles that life has brought us in America and not the partnership with whites marketing political dogma from either side of the aisle, right or left. The Black electorate has always been vulnerable to the prospects of a movement which values and respects the vast cultural and social capital the Black community has. Liberal conventions have at least offered some basic features which have
contributed to the well being of Black folks in this country. Of course none of us are enshrining white liberals as our saviors or liberators - we have done that ourselves and no doubt we will continue to be our own icons and legends.

Black people generally are not obsessed with politics nor do they view the political arena as being an integral aspect of their lives. Our greatest assets have always been outside the traditional mainstream orthodoxies. Black folks will embrace a political construct that has them at the core of it's paradigm. We are hungry for a new meal with a menu full of new recipes and ideas. Black conservatives would be best suited if they were the primal beginning of a new political movement,
one which is without the legacy of white supremacy nor the result of white architecture. The question is, where is the origin of this fertile spring? It is apparent that the stream of conservative dogma and propaganda has never truly flowed with our interests at heart....

Greg Thrasher, Director PLANE
IDEAS

He can be reached at planeidea@msn.com

Swann Holds Slight Lead in Pa. Gov. Race

Pro Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann held a slight lead over Gov. Ed Rendell in a statewide poll released Thursday, but more than a third of registered voters indicated they hadn't settled on either candidate.

Thirty-five percent of those surveyed in the IssuesPA/Pew Poll said they were likely to vote for Swann, a retired Pittsburgh Steelers star and Republican campaigning to become the state's first black governor.

Twenty-nine percent said they would probably support Rendell, a Democrat and former Philadelphia mayor who is running for a second four-year term.
Among the rest, 34 percent were considered up for grabs and 2 percent didnt support either candidate. Neither Swann nor Rendell faces a primary challenge.

Go Swan ....Go Swan.......Go Swan

"Its ya birthday get buzy"


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060330/ap_on_el_gu/pennsylvania_governor_poll_2

Ron Miller Announces Campaign Manager

Ron Miller a black Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress in Marylands 5th Congressional District today named long time Maryland Republican Party activist Kelly Kout as his campaign manager.

Miller enthused about Kouts joining the team stating, I am thrilled to have someone with Kellys vast experience and knowledge join my team. It is truly humbling that of all the opportunities afforded her, she chose to become the captain of my team.

Ms. Kout was honored for her service to the Maryland Republican Party in 1997 when she was named the Maryland Republican Party Woman of the Year.

The Bowie resident also has extensive experience in the 5th Congressional District serving as the campaign manager for John Morgan in 1996, and again for then-state Representative and current State Police Chief Tim Hutchins in 2000.

Kout has also served as the Prince George's County coordinator for Ellen Sauerbrey's campaign for Governor.

Read entire transcript
http://www.ronmillerforcongress.com/news/articles/article_14.shtml

United Black Republican Coalition announces Scholarship

UBRC is proud to announce its first scholarship award.

The United Black Republican Coalition has established this scholarship to encourage young black Republicans in their commitment and contribution to Republican principles and ideals, and to assist them in their college and career pursuits.

The scholarship in the amount of $1,000.00 is being awarded for payment toward the awardees tuition and college expenses.

Email Arniter Jamison for details.

http://www.ubrc.org/

MOHAMMED AZAR TRIED TO KILL INFIDELS OUT OF LOVE FOR ALLAH

In a letter Mohammed Taheri Azar, (the 22 year old UNC student who tried to kill his fellow students by running them down with his rented SUV), wrote that he did not do what he did out of hate but out of love for Allah. read on:

"I live with the holy Koran as my constitution for right and wrong and definition of injustice.

I've read all 114 chapters about 20 times since June of 2003 when I started reading the Koran.
I did not act out of hatred for America but out of love for Allah instead. I live only to serve Allah by obeying all of his commandments of which I am aware by reading and learning the contents of the Koran.
I would be glad to have an on-camera interview."
Sincerely
Mohammed Taheri-azar


Now Allah, whom muslims love more than their family , says in Quran that non muslims are worst beasts (8.55), lowest creatures (98.6), lowest animals(8.22) evil(16.20) perverts(63.4) dirty(9.28) and then he orders to slay them whereever they find them (9.5), what is the big deal? Dont Muslims kill millions of animals ( which are not even evil pervert and dirty) to please Allah every year during Haj and on Id day ? So why every body is making a big fuss on a practising Muslim's religious right to carry out Allah's orders? Are muslims not free to practice their religion in this country?

LA agrees to pay $1.1 million to Notorious B.I.G. family

His family's lawsuit against the city and LAPD claimed a corrupt LAPD officer arranged to have Wallace killed at the behest of Death Row Records founder Marion Suge Knight, and officials covered up his involvement.
The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $1.1 million (euro920,000) in legal costs to the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. because of police errors during a wrongful death case brought against the city and its police department.

Christopher Wallace, or Notorious B.I.G., was shot and killed March 9, 1997, after a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The murder has not been solved.

His family's lawsuit against the city and LAPD claimed a corrupt LAPD officer arranged to have Wallace killed at the behest of Death Row Records founder Marion Suge Knight, and that LAPD officials covered up the officer's involvement. Knight has denied involvement.

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper had sanctioned the city after learning that a police detective withheld documents that were pertinent to claims made by the rapper's family. She declared a mistrial in July. A retrial of the wrongful death case is expected later this year.

The payment represents the cost of legal fees and other expenses incurred by the family's attorneys. City lawyers told the council an appeal was unlikely to overturn the judge's ruling. The council approved the payment Wednesday.

"It's unfortunate, but we don't have any choice,'' Councilman Dennis Zine said after the 11-0 vote. "We had a case here where an experienced detective made a mistake and the city and its taxpayers have to pay for it.''

Quote Of The Day...

Quote Of The Day

"Though they work for slave wages, illegal immigrants' humanity is not at issue. Instead, the issue is whether they entered the U.S. with the proper documentation. Period. It drives me loco to hear illegal immigrants say they haven’t done anything wrong; they just want to work. They’re here illegally. Again, what part of illegal immigrant don’t they understand...?

While low-skilled undocumented workers, arguably, are 'contributing to the economic vitality of our country,' the high cost of their cheap labor is being paid by American taxpayers. Once they sneak across the border, American citizens pay for the delivery and education of anchor babies, hospital emergency rooms visits, and other government services. So, I support building a 700-mile security fence along the southern border. As I’ve written before, good fences make good neighbors. " — Faye Anderson, liberal blogger

Busta Rhymes' gay fan attack

LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Busta Rhymes has lashed out at a gay fan who tapped him on the shoulder.

The incident happened as the rapper-turned-actor was leaving the 11th Street Diner in Miami's trendy South Beach district in the early hours of Sunday (26.03.06).

Eyewitness Thomas Barker told America's New York Post newspaper: "The restaurant was packed with transvestites, gay men and drag queens, which obviously made him a little edgy.

"When a young gay guy came up behind Busta and tapped him on the shoulder to congratulate the rapper on his recent comeback.

He added: "Before the guy could even mutter a word, Busta turned around and repeatedly screamed, 'Why the f**k you touchin' me, man? Get the f**k away from me'.

It's claimed the 'Break Ya Neck' rapper then whispered to one of his bodyguards: "I hate f*****g faggots, man'."

Rhymes is believed to still be upset by the murder of one of his minders, and long-term friend, Israel Ramirez, in February.

The father-of-three was fatally shot in the chest outside a Brooklyn warehouse, in New York, where the rapper had been filming a music video with fellow hip-hop legend Missy Elliot and G-Unit members Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks.

Hip Hop gets a pass for its hostility to gay people,
if this were a country singer the left would
be talking about rednecks.

The truth is Busta like so many other
artist will get an easy pass!
Hate and bigotry can not possibly come
from the left.

Yeahhhhh!

Mid Term Elections Prediction

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict that the demos will atleast take one house.

The party has been raising record funds

The majority of their candidates are war veterans, mostly the first Iraq war and a sizeable portion are from the current war.

I believe if the party can stop bitching and moaning about bush and put together a contract with america similar to what the republicans did they will take back the house.

Dems Applaud Soc Sec Failure

The Demos actually stood and applauded when Bush stated that Congress had failed to fix Social Security. Sick. I guess we know who's side these degenerates are on.

Nice to know i'm going to be busting my ass in the future to try to support a broken social security system. thanks dems, that was a real class act.

Swann Song

by Justin Sykes

Does the former football star stand a chance at ousting Rendell?

Pennsylvanias 2006 gubernatorial race is shaping up to be a contest of larger than life personas from different sides of the state. Ed Rendell the gregarious incumbent Democrat, will be sweating to retain his post against charismatic Republican Lynn Swann, a candidate more recognized as an athlete than as a politician.

The difference between the candidates could not be more apparent Rendell has been a key player in politics much of his life serving as Philadelphias district attorney and mayor the Democratic National Committee chairman, and now as governor of the state of Pennsylvania.

Swann is a novice in the political arena. He hails from Pittsburgh, where he once won three SuperBowls with the Steelers. After his hall-of-fame-worthy career, Swann became a commentator, analyzing college and professional football from the sidelines.

Though not often associated with politics, Swann does have some experience. In 2004, he served as the co-chair of the African-Americans for Bush steering committee. Prior to that, he was chairman of the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness, a post once held by another celebrity-turned-politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger. A late January poll showed the race between Swann and Rendell to be a statistical dead heat. Similar polls in addition to the alignment of the state Republican Party machinery behind Swann convinced other Republicans in the race, including former Lt. Governor Bill Scranton and State Senator Jeffrey Piccola, to drop out.

A more recent poll released mid-February paints a different picture. In the survey by Quinnipiac University, Swann trails Rendell by twelve points. Polling institute assistant director Clay Richards attributes this discrepancy to low support for Swann among Republicans and Independents.

Rank and file Republicans appear more reluctant than their leaders to back Swann,
Richards said.

Twenty-two percent are voting for Rendell at this point. And only about a quarter of all Pennsylvania voters say Swann has the right kind of experience to be governor. For Swann to overcome this deficit, he will need to instill confidence in Pennsylvanians that he is more than just a 1970s football standout. An appearance on ABCs This Week raised questions about Swann’s political acumen and many pundits predict that despite his experience as a sideline reporter Swann will be gobbled up by Rendell in the inevitable gubernatorial debates. Nevertheless, Michael Shiely, chairman of the Penn College Republicans, believes that Swann will bring new ideas and wash out the corruption and partisan bicker that has plagued Harrisburg for the last three years. Said Shiely Ever since the legislative pay increase was signed into law by Ed Rendell, an anti-incumbent environment has blanketed Pennsylvania.

While Nathan Hake, president of the Penn College Democrats, declined to comment, he did say that the Penn Dems fully support Governor Rendell and are confident that Rendell will be reelected.

To win, Swann must tap voter skepticism of Rendell, whose approval ratings have hovered at or slightly below fifty percent. Victorious non-politicians like Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger have had the most success when dissatisfaction with incumbents is high.

Swann is currently hammering away at high property taxes and low economic growth in the state under Rendell. According to Swann, citing a study by the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, The reality is that this governor has failed us when it comes to creating jobs. That is why he received a grade of F for job creation by a non-partisan group, and …the F doesn’t stand for fine.

Rendell’s plan for lowering property taxes calls for raising the state stales tax to 6.5 percent in addition to collecting revenues from state-run slot machines. Swann has not yet announced the specifics of his proposal. If elected, Swann would become Pennsylvanias first African-American governor and the highest ranking black Republican nationwide. He is part of a wave of black Republicans including Michael Steele, who is running for U.S. Senate in Maryland, and Ken Blackwell, who is running for Ohio governor, seeking office as Republicans in 2006. In 2004, George W. Bush won barely 11 percent of the black vote. Penn will likely play a pivotal role in the November election, especially if turnout is as high as it was in 2004. In the past presidential election, turnout on campus increased 280 percent over 2000.

Christina Catanese, a College sophomore, is torn by her allegiance to Pittsburgh Steelers and the Democratic Party. Said Catanese, I do not consider it responsible as a voter to blindly vote along party lines. She admits that she would consider voting for Swann, but would not vote for him solely for the reason that he is a former Steeler.

If I find that his candidacy is legitimate and that his platforms and plans strike a balance with my personal views for the state of Pennsylvania I would ponder giving him my vote.

Justin is a sophomore in Wharton and the managing editor of the Penn Indy.

Torture and displacement in Northen Uganda

Two million civilians have been driven from their homes by 20 years of armed conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government in Northern Uganda.

Human Rights Focus (HURIFO) and WITNESS have co-produced "Between Two Fires: Torture and Displacement in Northern Uganda" to address the issue of torture committed against the IDP communities of Northern Uganda.

The video advocates for official acknowledgement of these abuses, redress for torture victims, and strengthened national mechanisms against the use of torture. In this interview with Pambazuka News, James Otto, director of Human Rights Focus (HURIFO) and Hakima Abbas, Program Coordinator for Africa and Middle East, answer questions about the video and the situation in Northern Uganda. The video is part of a wider advocacy project.


Anyone interested in participating can sign a Witness Rights Alert by visiting

www.witness.org/option,com_rightsalert/Itemid,178/task,view/alert_id,47/

Chares Taylor has been Caught!

UN peacekeepers delivered handcuffed former Liberian president Charles Taylor into the custody of a UN-backed Special Court in Sierra Leone on Wednesday where he will be the first former African head of state to face prosecution for war crimes before an international tribunal.

A UN helicopter brought Taylor from the Liberian capital Monrovia directly to the landing pad of the Special Court in Freetown where officials whisked him directly to his waiting cell.

This is wonderful news now this ass hole can face justice
for his war crimes!

http://allafrica.com/stories/200603290669.html

Impeach Bush Stupidity!

If the Dems were to get a majority in Congress during the mid-term elections, and pursued impeaching George W. Bush, they would be stopped in their tracks. This is because Dick Cheney would then become president. Personally, I wouldn't mind it if the VP became president, but I also think that above all things, Democrats DO NOT want Dick Cheney to become president. Therefore, any talk of impeachment is crazy and has no value what-so-ever.

That is unless the democrats declare Cheney a fellow "conspirator." If they are "cohorts" than it is safe to say they would both go to the "slammer, " but the entire notion is a stark example of a nonstory, politically promulgated nonsense from the left.

Human Remains Found Near 9/11 Trade Center

NEW YORK - Construction workers cleaning toxic waste from a vacant skyscraper near the World Trade Center site have found more bone fragments and human remains, officials said Tuesday.

The city medical examiner's office plans to extract DNA from the latest remains to be recovered from the former Deutsche Bank building and try to match it against a database of the 2,749 people killed at the trade center on Sept. 11, 2001, said Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the city medical examiner's office.

Fire Department crews had inspected the building in the months following the attacks, but construction workers clearing gravel off the rooftop found 10 bone fragments there last fall.


This story should strike a chord in us all. It still makes 9/11 seem like it happened yesterday and reminds us of what we are fighting for.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060328/ap_on_re_us/attacks_remains

Enough is Enough..Listen up Mexico!

Enough!

1. It is NOT racist to call these people "illegal aliens" In fact, "illegal aliens" is the only term used in federal laws and regulations to describe criminals (and they ARE criminals) who come into our country illegally. They are not illegal immigrants, not undocumented immigrants, not migrant workers, and not day laborers - they're ILLEGAL ALIENS.

2. Mexico is NOT a poor country. It has the fifth richest economy in the world, and by sending its teeming masses to our country, that status keeps on rising. Mexico has more resources per square mile than the U.S. and plenty of money to take care of its own people. Why should the taxpayers of this country subsidize Mexico's corruption?

3. Illegal aliens are NOT necessarily coming here to work. CNN recently reported that 33 percent of our prison population is now comprised of non-citizens. Plus, 36 to 42 percent of illegal aliens are on welfare. So, for a good proportion of these people, the American dream is crime and welfare, not coming here to work.

4. Illegal aliens are NOT doing work Americans won't do. What jobs won't Americans do? In most states, Americans still clean their own houses, do their own landscaping, clean hotel rooms, work in restaurants and fast food places, paint houses, DO CONSTRUCTION WORK, work in airports, etc. - just like we have the past 200 years before "our" government allowed these people to invade our country. There are 18 million Americans who cannot find a job, so illegal aliens who are coming here to work do so at peril to American workers.

5.Illegal aliens absolutely do not contribute more than they cost. Certainly the millions in prison and on welfare aren't contributing a dime to our economy, and the ones who are working often are paid in cash with no deductions for taxes at all. The ones who use fraudulent social security numbers and qualify to pay taxes and social security have so many deductions for dependents that they pay little if any taxes. We have seen them pay less than $100 in taxes and get back $4, 000 refunds (thanks to earned income tax credits and multiple dependents). The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the average Mexican illegal alien costs U.S. taxpayers a whopping $55, 000 each. Some bargain, eh?

6. The economy does NOT depend on illegal aliens. Sure, greedy CEOs (making $50 to $150 MILLION a year) and business owners depend on illegal aliens, but due to ..3, ..4 and ..5 above, the only thing illegal aliens are contributing to is the collapse of our economy and making the rich richer.

7. Without illegal aliens, the price of agricultural products and other goods and services will NOT soar. The definitive study on this subject is the University of Iowa's "How Much Is That Tomato?" The study concludes that 'since labor is such a small component of the end-price of agricultural products (which includes price to the growers, transportation costs, processing /storage costs, grocers' profit, etc.), using minimum wage workers instead of illegal aliens would increase prices of agricultural products by approximately 3 percent in the summer and 4 percent in the winter ... hardly the making of $10 heads of lettuce, $25 hamburgers, $1, 000 per night Days Inn hotel rooms like the pro-illegal alien lobby claims.

8. Consumers are NOT benefiting from lower labor costs. Again, it's CEOs and business owners who benefit from taxpayer subsidies for their illegal alien workers. The Big Three automakers say they moved so many jobs to Mexico because their labor costs are 80 percent less than in America. Anybody notice the price of new cars spiraling downward under NAFTA?

So, before you believe the prevalent pack of lies perpetuated by the illegal alien lobby, which makes billions off this government-sanctioned criminal activity, ask yourself who's saying this garbage and look at what they have to gain.

WE NEED TO MAKE OUR PRESENCE KNOWN!!!

Madeleine Albright Attaks Bush's Foreign Policy

Former Secretary of State "MadAndnotSoBrights" attack on
Bush is silly leftist rehtoric!

Here are some statements she made recently in the LA times Paper

Not So Bright wrote:

The first is to understand that although we all want to "end tyranny in this world," that is a fantasy unless we begin to solve hard problems. Iraq is increasingly a gang war that can be solved in one of two ways: by one side imposing its will or by all the legitimate players having a piece of the power. The U.S. is no longer able to control events in Iraq, but it can be useful as a referee. Albright wants us to step back and watch them all kill each other. WTF does it mean to be a "referee".


Not So Bright wrote:

Second, the Bush administration should disavow any plan for regime change in Iran — not because the regime should not be changed but because U.S. endorsement of that goal only makes it less likely. In today's warped political environment, nothing strengthens a radical government more than Washington's overt antagonism. It also is common sense to presume that Iran will be less willing to cooperate in Iraq and to compromise on nuclear issues if it is being threatened with destruction. As for Iran's choleric and anti-Semitic new president, he will be swallowed up by internal rivals if he is not unwittingly propped up by external foes.

Same tired argument from the moronic left. The same rhetoric was barfed during the cold war. Y'all we wrong then and you're wrong now. Diplomacy should always be a mixture of carrots and sticks. Her former boss certainly tabled and used of force in his feckless negotiaties with N. Korea, Iraq, and the Balkins.

Not So Bright wrote:
Third, the administration must stop playing solitaire while Middle East and Persian Gulf leaders play poker.

I'd rather play chess than the luck of the draw card game. More empty rhetoric from an empty talking head.



Quotes from Secretary Not So Bright!

"No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators."

Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University February 18, 1998 http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/18/town.meeting.folo/


Does Secretary Madeleine Albright Regret Calling for Regime Change in Iraq? .... compares Saddam to Hitler... so much for the no evil comparisons.... http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2006/03/does_secretary_madeleine_albri_1.html


"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and the security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction."

Kadima Wins, Israel Loses!

Kadima is a bought and paid for political party serving foreign interests, alien powers out to dismantle the Jewish homeland and destroy Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem. Kadima Wins, Israel Loses!

http://ezinearticles.com/?&id=169554

Illegals hijack American Flag

Oh fuck that shit. I think those fucking assholes need to find out what cruise missiles up the wazoo feel like.

Where is Micheal Savage when you need him?





The Stars and Stripes have been replaced by the Mexican flag at Chasewood North, and residents of the condominium community off Central Boulevard are puzzled as to who made the switch.

"I woke up Sunday morning and looked up from my patio and then realized that the American flag wasn't on the flagpole," said Sue Miller a Chasewood North board member. "What captured my attention were the colors — at first I thought it was an Italian flag, but one of our residents said it was the Mexican flag.

"I went to the flagpole, to see if the American flag was maybe on the ground, but they took it, and they cut the rope to get the American flag down and the Mexican flag up as well."
A best estimate of when the switch took place is Saturday night. Chasewood South, which also has a flagpole at its entrance was untouched; its American flag was still flying from its 20-foot flagpole.

At the present time, Congress is in the midst of a debate about immigration, seeking to radically change the immigration laws, perhaps by allowing the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants in the country to have a path to citizenship. But Miller said she can't figure out why this national debate would result in the American flag being stolen and replaced by a Mexican flag in Chasewood North.

"I'm flabbergasted that someone would do this, and I'm wondering why here," Miller said. "We have some Hispanic residents here, but not a large Hispanic population, and I'm curious if this occurred anywhere else in town."

It may be several weeks before the Stars and Stripes once again fly over Chasewood North, according to Miller, who at one time was the resident manager of the complex.
"We tried to get the flag down but couldn't, so we need to hire a company with a boom truck to get up there and replace the rope and put up the American flag," she said. "I would guesstimate that this would cost $500 or more to do."

White supremacist sues to run as Democrat in primary

A man who wants to run for Congress has gone to court demanding he be allowed to run as a Democrat in the Seventh Congressional District. Aurora resident Frazier Glenn Miller had filed as a candidate on March 6th, but the Democrat Party refused to accept his filing fee because of Miller's racial views. Republicans and Libertarians also have refused to let him be on their primary ballots. Party officials say they don't want him on their ballots because of his so-called "pro-white" racial views.

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14215284.htm

Well what do you know?

Democrats are returning to their roots.

Cynthia McKinney Got Her Hair Did!

"Do I have to contact the police every time I change my hairstyle?
-Cynthia McKinney

An unconfirmed statement attributed to McKinney has been released on the Internet, where she allegedly claims to have been harassed by Capitol Hill Police.

The statement's writer says that she has been harassed by white police officers she says do not recognize her due to her recently changed hairstyle.

"Do I have to contact the police every time I change my hairstyle? How do we account for the fact that when I wore my braids every day for 11 years, I still faced this problem, primarily from certain white police officers," the statement says.

The writer details the incident, saying, "I was rushing to my meeting when a white police officer yelled to me. He approached me, bodyblocked me, physically touching me. I used my arm to get him off of me. I told him not to touch me several times. He asked for my ID and I showed it to him. He then let me go and I proceeded to my meeting and I assume that the Police Officer resumed his duties. I have counseled with the Sergeant-at-Arms and Acting Assistant Chief Thompson several times before and counseled with them again on today's incident. I offered also to counsel with the offending police officer."

Falun Gong, the Chinese and harvesting organs?

Are they killing Falun Gong, for their organs?

by Jay Nordlinger

http://nationalreview.com/nordlinger/nordlinger200603300722.asp

These people are so tragic.

OK, so they're all over the place trying to make us aware of them and
their torture. But, NOW it comes out that they're being murdered for
their ORGANS as well?!! I'm speechless.

I'm wondering...who do they ship these organs to?
What countries? Who are the buyers??

Pamela

Georgia may Ok the Bible as a textbook

The state of Geogia is on the verge of approving a law that would require it's department of education tp put into place a curriculum to teach the history and literature of the Bible. Schools would use the Bible itself as the class textbook. Specifically the bill would establish electives on both the old and new testaments.

How do you feel about this?
Should public schools teach classes based on the Bible?

Tania is a Hip Hop Republican from
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

Criminals

Last I checked, criminals were revoked of certain rights, like accessing public info and voting. Protesting is included... isn't it?

Ok, folks, everyone's talking. Now you have at it. Tell me how you feel about illegal immigrants/criminals, what you think of Bush, and all that's been going on. I will not state my opinion on this topic yet :) I'm driven so crazy that I can't even comment.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1604915/posts


http://www.aztlan.net/la_gran_marcha.htm meanwhile... check this homepage, too.

Beautiful Stranger
21 years old founder of BlackMinds
She loves horror films, comedies..
and anything that doesn't include a love story.
Her heroes are Tyler Perry and Alicia Keys

Breaking News: Cynthia McKinney punches cop

Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) punched a U.S. Capitol Police officer today after he mistakenly pursued her for failing to pass through a metal detector, HOTLINE reports... The entire incident is on tape. The cop is pressing charges and the USCP are waiting until Congress adjourns to arrest her, a source claims... Developing..

http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2006/03/27/daily29.html?surround=lfn

Cynthia McKinney is just one of those Democrats that makes it so much fun to be a Republican.

I hope it was not a black cop because this black on black crime

must stop!

And yes this is the same Cynthia who told a Saudi prince she would accept his offer of $10 million that New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani rejected because it came with anti-Semitic strings attached

More on Rep.McKinney....http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1508

Civil Rights Vs Originalism

Recenlty a member of Hip Hop Republican was asked these questions by
a liberal democrat.

The replies to the questions are recorded!

#1. Were the Emancipation Proclamation and the forceful desegregation of the south unconstitutional?

#2. According to originalism, we should interpret the Constitution as it was interpreted by the founding fathers. Clarence Thomas is an originalist. Had Clarence been a white SC justice in the early 19th century and someone sued on the claim that slavery was unconstitutional, how would he have ruled if he were an originalist?

#3. What's your opinion of the economic beliefs of Martin Luther King and the other black civil rights activists?

#4. Should people have the right to discriminate against black people?

#5. If there is a predominant amount of evidence that social programs, not apathy, may help to close the racial gap at the expense of higher taxes, would you support it or oppose it?


Answer

Originalism is not "the theory of original intent"

Original intent is only one theory in the Originalist family of theories. Many of the criticisms that you make are directed at Original intent and thus do not apply to Justice Thomas.

Original intent is not the same as Originalism!


Thomas also holds that the Constitution should be interpreted in light of the Declaration of Independence, notably its statement that "all men are created equal."

King's economic bill of rights called for massive government jobs programs to rebuild America's cities. He got them 40 years after
they are now hubs for gangs and crime.

Democrats have poured billons of goverment money into the city,
with little to show for it.

King was a leftist in his ecommic views, I would argue thats because the people around him were primarly leftist!

He was not hanging with Milton Friedman!

They articulated to him leftist economics, the man was a minister
not an Economist.


Should people have the right to discriminate against black people?


People will do whatever the wind leads them to do,
people who violate the constitution and bill of rights are not Americans
and should be dealt with. But yes everyone has the right to do what they want, but there are consequences to our actions.

If there is a predominant amount of evidence that social programs, not apathy, may help to close the racial gap at the expense of higher taxes, would you support it or oppose it?

No on is opposed to social programs that work, what I am opposed
to is social programs that do not, and instead hurt peoples ingenuity!
Goverment can create a nation of dependant zombies!

That to me is cruel and in it self racist!

NAACP stands by fired radio host..Whatever!

On his show, Radio Talk Show host David Lenihan said: "She's been chancellor of Stanford. She's got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big coon. A big coon.

Oh my God. I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that."He said he had meant to say "coup" instead of the slur. KTRS president and general manager Tim Dorsey agreed that the remark was accidental but announced the same day that Lenihan had been fired.

St. Louis NAACP leaders said this morning that KTRS radio overreacted by firing host David Lenihan over a remark about U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "This is an event that the press has blown out of proportion," said NAACP chapter president Harold Crumpton...


I wonder if Bush made such a slip about lets say ....Maxine Waters!

He would be impeached!

Riots would be all over the country, the NAACP shows its hypocrisy ounce again,
by remaing quiet while Condi is attaked.

We have not forgotten the Radio Host who said "Condi Rice is an Aunt Jemima".
The NAACP offical comment was it can't comment on the remarks until it hears them in its entirety. As usual when a black republican is targeted the NAACP
is no where to be found.

It took the Urban League to demand an apology!
http://bookerrising.blogspot.com/2004/11/radio-host-condi-rice-is-aunt-jemima.html

Was this an unintentional slip of the tongue, or a fruedian slip?

I do how ever belive that the guy should not be fired, and he did make a mistake

From what I hear he is a respected Disc Jockey for Jazz on another station.

Also Condi Rice has accept his apology, so he should get his job back.

He should not be fired!

Scared Democrats "Spying" on Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele

Maryland Democrats are keeping close tabs on the top Republican candidate in the state's U.S. Senate race, by videotaping Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele's campaign stops and noting his fundraisers with Bush administration officials.

"God bless them," Mr. Steele said. "They're so scared, and I love them for that." Derek Walker, executive director of the state's Democratic Party, said videotaping is a typical campaign tactic and that party members are "learning as much as we can" about Mr. Steele. "We certainly take Michael Steele seriously," Mr. Walker said. "And we take George Bush and Karl Rove's threats of bringing $20 million [in campaign money] into Maryland seriously!

Given all the talk about spying from the Democrats, you would
think they would be just a little cautious!

I guess not!

This is a link to Steels new website!

http://www.michaelsteeleformaryland.com/videos.htm

God bless Michael Steeles new Campaign Manager.

They got rid if that stupid webiste and replaces it with a new one!

Listen to Michael Steele's Message http://www.michaelsteeleformaryland.com/

This election is important because if Republicans win
it sets a strategic pattern for future candiates who are black
to win in Democrat strongholds.

It would simply mean that if Democrats just lose 10 percent of the black
vote its all over!

And there scared as shit!

'I did crack with Whitney'...

Super Star diva Whitney Houston is back in the news this time the National Enquirer claims she is still on crack and that it has proof.

Given The National Enquirer'spast sensational claims one must be careful
with there claims.

But if this is true than Whitney is going deeper into the world of drug abuse.
This is a very, very sad story. To know she came from a stable background and grew up attending church services, it’s a real shame. Whitney is painfully and slowly killing herself. Her money should be directed to her kids and those less fortunate. Not to some random crack dealer. I am shocked and saddened by Whitney's demise. This once beautiful woman is unrecognisable. However, where is her husband and what is he doing to support her?
This is a tragedy.

Some say they have no respect for her because of her actions. But they should remember that she is addicted to something much stronger that any of us can imagine.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/63569

UN Council powers agree on Iran deal

Liberals around the globe will want at least 17 RESOLUTIONS!!!!!!

Before we do ANYTHING!!!
That should be just enough time for Iran to nuke Israel and America.

Oh my my Ambassador John Bolton looks just ecstatic!



UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The five U.N. Security Council agreed on Wednesday on a statement that would call on Iran to suspend parts of its nuclear program that could be used to build weapons, Britain announced. The new text, which makes concessions to Russia and China, is being referred to the full council for formal approval only hours before foreign ministers of the five powers and Germany meet in Berlin on Thursday to map out strategy on Iran.

Time Magazine Vs Abdul Rahman

Time Magazine is accusing ABDUL RAHMAN of being a dead beat, abusive father.

The author Rachel Morarjee is french leftist reporter for Agence France Presse.

Rachel Morarjee who could hardly wait for the Abdul to put his feet down,
is already slandering this guy.

The facts given are simple interviews by Islamist!

Time claims an "official police report" on the Christian convert in alleges a tawdry domestic life.

An "official police report"?

When in heavens name did Afghanistan start doing official police reports?

The same people who wanted to kill him, Time is interviewing.
The truth is Time does not know what was going on in this mans life.
Even if he was a dead beat father given the poverty and suffering
in Afghanistan one wonders how any father could have kept sanity.
Also Time fails to emntion that the father put his life on the line
to get custody of his children.
Shame on Time!

ABDUL RAHMAN HAS LANDED

By Michelle Malkin

Just in:

An Afghan Christian convert, who had faced the death penalty in his country for abandoning Islam, has arrived in Italy which has offered him asylum, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday.
"He is already in Italy," Berlusconi told a news conference in Rome.


But others have been left behind at the mercy of the jihadist lynch mob:

US-based Christian news source, Compass Direct, reports that more Christians have been arrested for their faith in Afghanistan in the wake of the release of Abdul Rahman. Compass, a news service that tracks persecution of Christians mostly in Islamic countries, says harassment of the Christian community has been stepped up.
Compass says two more Christian converts have been arrested in other parts of the country, but further information is being withheld in the “sensitive situation” caused by the international media furor over Rahman.

Reports of beatings and police raids on the homes of Christians are filtering out of the country through local Christian ministers...

http://michellemalkin.com/

Whats wrong with Hip Hop?

Is Hip Hop beyond critism?

What is good about Hip Hop and what is bad?

I think Hip hop is a valid free market billon dollar industry.
At the same time I hate when women are degraded,
and young black boys think hip hop is black culture..



Dell Gines

First of all capitalism is based upon morality it is based upon the simple function of supply and demand, it is people who are moral or immoral.

People like child porn, why is it illegal to sell? Because we define the right of a child to be protected from exploitation as a greater good than the profit and economic growth that tolerating a legal child porn industry would give.

My point is this, because something is successful from a capitalistic perspective, doesn't mean that it is good for the consumer nor for the community at large.

Hip hop has degenerated into a commercialized vehicle of exploiting the imagine of the worst of blackness. We tolerate it, others use it to enrich themselves, and people who attack it get huaranged as folks who don't like free speech, hate the hood, don't understand what these people are trying to communicate etc.

It is all bullshit. Hip hop is a cancer that perpetuates and reinforces the worst steriotypes about us out there and it needs to die.

Dell Gines is the President of the The Urban Center for Economic Education and Development, ., He has been blogging since June 2005 at Dellgines.com AKA Adequate Defense, and discusses a vast array of topics dealing from Urban Culture, Politics, and Faith.

Fake Immigration Rally!

I only saw a little bit of the students but I heard interviews with them on the radio. They can hardley articulate why they're marching in the streets.

Apparently the L.A. Times has a story of how hispanic radio was the major factor in getting so many people out to this rally.

It was sad to see so many ignorant kids, ditching school and screaming pride in their "raza (race)" rather than, at least, saying they want to become Americans, love America, etc... But this emphasis on the country of their parents birth (I'll bet most are native born Americans) and talk of "raza" is perpetually disgusting. As Victor Davis Hanson said in his book Mexifornia, would we allow talk by people of German ancestry, of the greatness of their "volk?" Cries of racial supremacy would fill the airwaves. How then can this be tolerated with the "raza" talk?

Anyone have anything to say about the big March that happened in LA? And how about the way the Senate Judiciary Panel is handling it? What are your opinions? You feel that this will damage the economy? Make it stronger?

Who's Behind the Immigration Rallies?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=21841

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004869.htm

http://michellemalkin.com/immigration/2006/03/27/11:14.pm

http://www.lashawnbarber.com/

Sean Hannity Vs Alex Baldwin the 4th rate Actor

UPDATE - Hannity, Levin and 4th rate Actor Audio
http://exposetheleft.net/video/baldwin-hannity-levin.mp3

Newsmax.com wrote:

Hollywood liberal Alec Baldwin stormed out of an in-studio radio interview Sunday night after he was confronted on the phone by radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.

Baldwin was 30 minutes into a planned two-hour-plus sitdown with WABC Radio's Brian Whitman when Hannity called in.

The fireworks commenced almost immediately.

HANNITY: Alec, I wanted to give you an official WABC welcome considering you were supposed to come on my program last week and you didn't show up. What happened?

BALDWIN: No, I wasn't supposed to come on your program, Sean Hannity.

HANNITY: No, actually you were supposed to come on the program because a deal was made with your agent that if you were going to come on with Brian, first you'd come on with me.

BALDWIN: I wouldn't dream of coming on your program, Sean Hannity. I'm here with Brian. I'm here with a really talented broadcaster.

HANNITY: [Crosstalk] that you are, you don't tell the truth.

BALDWIN: Why would I want to come on the show with a no-talent, former construction worker hack like you?

HANNITY: Are you the guy that said of our vice president, while we're at war, while we're leading troops in harm's way - are you the reckless, third-rate Hollywood actor who said that Dick Cheney is a terrorist? Are you the guy . . .

BALDWIN: Yes I am.

HANNITY: . . . . who said to stone Henry Hyde to death? Are you the guy who said our president is a CIA mass murderer? I wanted you to come on the program and defend that, you gutless coward.

BALDWIN: At first I thought this was a joke. But you can hear all the acid venom spewing hatred. It is Sean Hannity. [END EXCERPT]

The exchange got even hotter when Mark Levin joined in.

LEVIN: We've only just begun - are you 40 or 50 pounds overweight now?

WHITMAN: Oh, C'mon now . . . .

HANNITY: Once and for all you need to be challenged. You want to call our vice president a terrorist - fine. You want to talk about stoning people to death, say it on my program. If you want to be irresponsible and call our president a mass murderer while he's at war leading troops in harm's way . . . .

BALDWIN: And what are you gonna do about it, Sean Hannity?

HANNITY: You don't have the courage to answer questions.

BALDWIN: And what are you gonna do? And what are you going to do about it, Sean Hannity. If I come on your program, what are you going to do?

LEVIN: He's going to show that you have a two digit IQ - that's what he's gonna do.

BALWIN: What are you going to do?

LEVIN: I just told you - you've got a two digit IQ.

BALDWIN: And who's that - who's your little cabin boy there with you.

LEVIN: I'm not a cabin boy, butt-boy.

BALDWIN: What are you doing there, cabin boy? . . . . I now dub you Sean Hannity's cabin boy.

LEVIN: And you know what you are? You're 'Brokeback Alec.' [END EXCERPT]

The confrontation continued to spiral out of control, with Whitman intermittently trying to make peace and Baldwin repeatedly urging him to move on to other callers.

BALDWIN: Listen, Sean - you incredibly ignorant boob from Long Island . . .

HANNITY: Oh, ouch, Alec.

BALDWIN: No, no, no, you've spoken, let me talk, Sean. Cause you've been spewing your . . .

HANNITY: You're a third rate Hollywood egomaniac.

BALDWIN: You're a no talent ignorant fool from Long Island. You should go back to building houses in Hempstead.

LEVIN: Why was your wife [Kim Bassinger] so pissed of at you, anyway?

WHITMAN: Now, c'mon guys.

BALDWIN: OK. We're done. [Gets up and leaves the studio]

WHITMAN: Come back. Come back. Alec? They're gone. Alec? Alec has walked out of the studio. Alec, please come back.



That's hilarious!

Lashing out at people who call us Uncle Toms and Sellouts?

Anthony
21 years old
GARDENA, CALIFORNIA

My whole family and friends calls me a uncle tom and sellout cuz I like bush, I dont know what to do since they are my blood and friends, they think its funny that we are looseing the war in iraq, and they call me a house niggia to George Bush's party.

Do you guys think I should tell them to go to hell because my own momma hates the fact im a republican?



Kristina
20 years old
OAK PARK, MICHIGAN

I feel ur pain. My whole family is the same way. I tell them all the time how I feel. Don't let them stop you from expressing yourself. You know your beleifs to be true. Ask them this name one thing Clinton did to help blacks. I bet you they couldnt name one thing. See you must understand that the only way Democrats see to keep the black vote is to envoke them with fear. Fear of racism. They are blinded by the truth with that fear af racism. Because we are taught that Democrats are good for black though the things they support hurt us.

I deal with constantly with my family. The things they say are so stupid they confuse themselves. They never really pay attention to what democrats do they only payattention to what democrats swear republicans will do. Like John Kerry telling the Black Cacus(I think I spelled it right) not to vote for Bush because he will re-enstate segregation???

Come on now but, low and behold people were cheering. Common sense should tell you that's bull. But to many Black people have this thing that dems were once there and will always be. It's not true but, we as Black Republicans espically can not back down we must spread our message so we can hopefully reach more of our people.




I experience that almost daily.....My solution?? Most of the time I just laugh at them. It's a shame that people don't like to research and find out for themselves. Unless someone is truly interested in my views then I will share, other than that I shall not be ridiculed because of their ignorance!!

I usually tell people that ask me ( why are you a republican), well why are you a democrat? If you line up everything that the dems "so-called" did for black folks you will find absolutely nothing! The dems have hoodwinked us too long...and yes it is fear!! You are right my sister! F E A R!!! I can think for myself thatnk you!

Also, I ask these say people...What do you stand for?? Abortion? Same-Sex marriage? the Big Government? When they answer NO! Well I answer that's what your party endorses! So I ask them again....Why are you a democrat? I can most eloquently tell you why I am a republican, but can you tell me exactly why you are democrat?

They usually leave in silence.

I'm Out!




Carla
39 years old
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

HONEY, I TOO KNOW HOW YOU FEEL!

MY HUSBAND WHO IS BLACK{DARK SKIN, JUICY LIPS, LARGE NOSE}, BEST LOOKING MAN I'VE EVER SEEN! WAS THE FIRST IN BOTH OF OUR FAMILIES TO SWITCH TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND HE WAS CALLED "WHITE BOY", "UNCLE TOM", "BROWN-NOSER". I GOT THE SAME WHEN I CHANGED PARTY AFFILIATIONS.

MY CHILDREN ARE ALL EXHIBITING SIGNS OF JOINING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHEN THEY BECOME OF AGE.[THEY'RE PRETTY SMART KIDS]

DURING THIS PAST PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, MY CHILDREN WANTED TO SHOW A STANCE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, SO WE PUT UP SIGNS IN OUR FRONT YARD {IN AN ALL DEMOCRATIC NEIGHBORHOOD} AND HAD STICKERS ON OUR VAN. WE EVEN STOOD AT A VERY BUSY INTERSECTION DURING THE EVENING RUSH HOUR PROMOTING GEORGE BUSH AND THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS CALLED AS THE CARS DROVE BY! MOST OF OUR SIGNS HAD THINGS SUCH AS "which of us eight would you have killed?" OR "stop partial birth abortions!" AND "SOME BLACKS DO THINK FOR THEMSELVES! VOTE REPUBLICAN!"

ONE YOUNG BLACK LADY(IN HER EARLY 20'S) SCREAMED AT ME FROM OUT OF HER ESCALADE~ "YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!" I SCREAMED BACK "WHY? BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE IN THE GENOCIDE OF OUR RACE?"
sHE CONTINUED TO SAY THAT I WAS DOING MY CHILDREN A DIS-SERVICE BY MAKING THEM STAND OUT THERE HOLDING SUCH SIGNS! I TOLD HER TO GET OUT OF THE CAR & TALK-- SHE DROVE ON CUSSING AS SHE WENT.

WE LIVE IN PITTSBURGH AND IT HAS BEEN A DEMOCRATICALLY RAN CITY FOR EONS~ NOT ONE TING HAS VBEEN DONE TO IMPROVE THE BLACK SITUATION HERE. OUR GHETTOS HAVE GOTTTEN LARGER AND THE DEPENDANCY ON THE GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT OUR FAMILIES HAVE GROWN. WE CAN'T OPEN OUR OWN BUSINESSES BECAUSE THEY TAX YOU BEFORE YOU EVEN MAKE A DOLLAR!
BUT TOO MANY OF US ARE LOOKING TO "UNCLE SAM" TO REMDY OUR SITUATIONS! I SAY GET THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY BUSINESS AND LET ME MAKE A LIVING!
THE MORE WE ASK FOR HELP, THE CLOSER TO SLAVERY WE GET!
OUR PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, AND THE HATRED THEY HAD AND STILL HAVE FOR THE BLACK PEOPLE.

I AM READING THOMAS SOWELL'S "BLACK REDNECK WHITE LIBERAL" VERY INTERESTING! AND AS A FAMILY WE WATCHED PBS' PRESENTATION OF THE RECONSTRUCTION. IT HAS TAUGHT MY CHILDREN SO MUCH.
BUT HOW DO WE GET THE REST OF OUR RACE TO LISTEN AND TO LEARN?
MY PRAYERS GO OUT FOR THOSE OF US WHO STRUGGLE TO LIVE AND LEARN THE TRUTH OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THIER REAL AGENDA.

NYU Forbids Display of Danish Cartoons

New York University (NYU) is attempting to stifle a student group's
panel discussion on the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. At the last
minute, an NYU administrator has ordered the students to choose one
of two unacceptable options: not displaying the cartoons, or
excluding 150 off-campus guests who have registered to attend. NYU's
actions violate its own policies, not to mention its moral
obligation to stand up against the heckler's veto. The panel is
scheduled for tonight, and FIRE is calling upon NYU to immediately
cease its attacks on liberty. In fact, I will do so in person
tonight, as I will be on the panel.

FIRE's full press release on this case appears below, but if your e-
mail client does not support HTML, you can view a link-rich version
at http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/6930.html.

Sincerely,

Greg Lukianoff, President
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
601 Walnut Street, Suite 510
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-717-3473; Fax: 215-717-3440

We Could Be France: Why Job Protectionism Fails

We Could Be France: Why Job Protectionism Fails
By Dell Gines

In America we have a jobless percentage of about 4.5% plus or minus .5 as a general rule. In our African-American communities, the jobless rate is roughly double that, and usually hovers around the 8% to 9% range. We hawk that number, using it to evaluate Presidential effectiveness, and where the economy is at any given time. When that unemployment rate increases, we groan, we start assigning blame to inept fiscal management by the Republican or Democrat who happens to be in the White House at the time. When that unemployment rate decreases the President generally gets a little more flexibility and freedom on the economic front. That is the way it works in America, people want jobs, they want to work, and when they can't the incumbent president probably will have a difficult time winning the next election.

Fast forward to France. The hot news story of the day is the 1 Million plus workers rioting over the proposed law to make it easier for business owners to fire workers under the age of 26. In a Chicago Tribune Story, Strikes & Protest Grip France, by Tom Hundly he states:

The point of contention is a new labor law called the First Employment Contract set to take effect next month, which would allow businesses to dismiss new hires under the age of 26 without cause during the first two years of their employment.

The idea is to make it easier for employers to hire young people, but students see it as an attempt to dismantle the elaborate social welfare system that they take as their due.

On the surface, it is easy for people not familiar with the political structure of France or basic economics to say, Damn right, they should be protected and not be able to be fired without cause but this ability to fire and hire is precisely why America maintains such a low unemployment rate. Let's make a comparison. Currently in France, the overall unemployment rate is around 9.6% (the approximate rate for Blacks here in America). This particular demographic of young workers has a staggering unemployment rate of over 20%! In the same Chicago Tribune article it states:

The jobless rate for people under age 30 in France is 23 percent. Overall unemployment is 9.6 percent.

This means that in France roughly 1 out of every 4 able bodied adults under 30 are not able to find a job and 1 out of 10 adults of any age. The question which many then ask is why is there such a disparity between young workers and their ability to find employment and individuals over thirty and their ability to find employment? The second question many will ask is why is the unemployment rate so high in a nation with the 5th largest GDP? A common answer to both is the difficulty in terminating employees by business owners in France due to liberal French labor law that overly protects workers. According to Triplets & Associates, in an article titled, French Employment Law: Dismissing Employees in France:

Employment in France is not 'at will' and thus dismissals may only come about on demonstrably and limited objective grounds, which must be brought to the attention of the employee in writing.

Dismissals are subject to stringent, and often bureaucratic, procedural statutory constraints.

Redundancies, or lay-offs on economic grounds, are subject to separate and complex procedural and substantive constraints particularly in the case of multiple dismissals.

Here is how the game works. Because it is so difficult to fire employees, companies are hesitant to hire new employees because if the economy shifts and there is a downturn they can not let employees go to maintain profit. Secondly, the employment taxation rate on having an employee work for you in the first place is above 50%. As reported by in an article titled OECD says employment taxes above 50 pct in Germany, France, Belgium in Forbes.com:

It said the tax wedge -- the share of total labour costs taken by the state in income tax and social security contributions -- was 55.4 pct in Belgium, 51.8 pct in Germany and 50.1 pct in France.

In contrast, the tax wedge figure for the US was 29.1 pct, for the UK 33.5 pct and Japan 27.7 pct.

So now employers are in a catch 22. Due to the government making it extremely difficult to fire employees even in a market downturn and also the high cost of maintaining an employee because of labor taxation, employers won’t let old underperforming workers, or workers who have the wrong skill set for the current market go. Because the cost of adding a new worker to the staff is so high, plus you can’t get rid of him if he doesn’t work out employers shy away from hiring new employees or younger employees, pushing that demographic group’s unemployment rate up. Therefore you have a system where the older employees, who are protected because they are in the labor market in France, are holding on to jobs longer than they probably should where a young person may be more effective. You also have the concurrent stagnation of new job creation because it cost so much for employers in taxation to risk expansion and hire new employees.

This is the effect of the liberal mindset in France that operates on a theory that government should protect workers at the expense of business beyond what is rational in a free market. French law does protect the worker in the labor force, but it doesn't protect the able bodied worker who wants to join the labor force because it limits employment opportunities to the tune of a standard 9% plus unemployment rate nationally as a whole, and a 20% plus unemployment rate for workers under the age of 30. French law also harms businesses because the businesses can’t expand, and hire workers (and reduce the unemployment rate) without the risk of being stuck with a 50% employment tax and an employee that even if they can’t perform the job they were hired for can not be let go.

As much as people resist tax cuts for business and the lack of worker protection here in the U.S. on a macro scale it keeps our unemployment rate low, and the ability of our businesses to expand and hire high. That is how capitalism works.

So when we complain about the American economic system, layoffs, unemployment rate and economy here, consider one thing, we could be France.

Taylor "disappears" from Nigeria...Duh, Duh..

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Former Liberian Dictator, Charles Taylor, is missing from his luxury villa in the Nigerian city of Calabar, where he was equipped with a car with diplomatic plates and his proper security guards. The disappearance is embarrassing to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is blamed of "obstructing justice" by the Liberian press and has ordered the "immediate arrest of all security personnel" detailed to Mr Taylor.

http://www.afrol.com/articles/18592


What retards at the UN...Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is a fucking idiot.
He knew what would happen if he waited.
Was Taylor going to stay and wait for him to be taken to court.
This jerk escaped an American high security prison some years ago.
President Bush should tell President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria
to kiss his white ass.
Either President Obasanjo is a retard or he knew what would happen.
Now he acts like a deer in head lights.
He had this shit planned, and he should be blamed if Taylor enters
Liberia causing trouble to that vulernable democrasy.

SCREW YOU President Olusegun Obasanjo!!!



You Fat Pig!

'Marriage Is for White People'

LaShawn Barber looks into Joy Jones article ....'Marriage Is for White People''!

Joy's Washington Post Article..which also ran in the NY POST!
Also read topic "The Black Family Crumbling which was posted on
Hip Hop Republican a year ago!

http://hiphoprepublican.blogspot.com/2005/01/black-family-crumbling.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032500029_2.html

http://www.lashawnbarber.com/ Lashawn Has her say

http://www.independentconservative.com/2006/03/26/black_women_mate/

Is the Justice System Racist?

Why are there so many of us in jail?



Alby Speaks Out
M/33
Ashburn,VIRGINIA

Because so many of us do stupid shit and get caught.If you want a solution, lead a crusade that gets black people to put their talents into legitimate practices and make legal money doing it.

Drug Dealer = Pharmacist

Car Thief = Repo Man

Gang Banger = Police Officer

Drug Addict = Drug Test Recepient

Ass Kicker = Night Club Security



Dell Gines

M/32
OMAHA,NEBRASKA

So many of us are in jail because of non-violent drug offenses.
The recidivism rate is ridiculous, ironically I was doing a piece on the justice system and the increase in the prison population since the eighties, and how tough on crime legislation has nearly cracked the budget of many cities such as Denver etc.

The foolishness & myopia of people like Alby is their solution is one that has demonstrated that it does work, particularly in the inner city, and that is that locking people up is a primary deterent to crime. The fact is if you concentrate more on certain preventative forms of policy, you not only can reduce recidivism, but you also save money in the long run.

But because so many politicians want to play the role of being tough on crime, hey continue to funnel funds not into prevention but into incarceration and they increase cost of building prisons and housing prisoners is cracking the budgets of states. It is ass backwards, and foolish, but it sells well to say you are 'tough on crime' as opposed to actually funding things that help eliminate crime and recidivism.



Joel Guerra
Male 25 years old
Austell, Georgia

The prison system in this country is messed up, there's no doubt about that, however I have to agree that blacks do alot of dumb shit to get themselves in trouble, as a result they've built up a profile. I mean look at the thug culture...?
Why are they suprised to go to jail,
then many of them blame it on everything but themselves.


Male 45 years old
RENO, Nevada

A lot of young black men are in jail because of racist lawsthat the liberals and democrats champion.google "Clayton Cramer the racist history of gun control"New York Cities jail system is overflowing with black criminals the "crime" owning a gun!Are not civil rights the rights enumerated by the Constitution?

Rich white men in NY can own and carry guns, Trump and Howard Stern etc get permits at the drop of a hat, permits to carry loaded pistols. A single mom living in Harlem has to pay exorbitant fees and wait years to get "permission" for a right guaranteed by the Constitution. but she can only keep it in the house.

If she picks up her kids from school and shoots a mugger on the way home she will go to jail.

The same is true in CA, Robert Blake the actor charged with shooting his wife and other celebs routinely get carry permits, blacks and latino's are just as routinely denied.Same as NY only rich white men may carry guns for self defense. Google "equal rights for ccw, Jim March"sorry for my poor spelling and grammar, it's late and I'm sleepy.



Michael

M/27
BEACON,
NEW YORK

Bull.

I live in New York and I have a permit to carry a gun.

The problem is that in New York City, the price is $380+ to get the permit and they won't let you carry it for self-defense purposes.If the laws are wrong (like gun laws) then fix them.
Otherwise, follow the law.

Black people are in jail because black people commit crimes. Black people are in jail for a long time because the penalties are often excessive (such as for non-violent drug offenses).Once again, fixing the law would fix that problem.
Based on current trends, it means that black people would be in jail more often for smaller periods of time.

Illegals Immigration and Street Protest?

Its really funny to see all these people jam the streets in protest, although what they are protesting is to do "nothing" about illegals roaming the countryside. And that would be foolish for any nation to tolerate.

Its time to round up the illegals, deport them to their home country, and give them a packet of information on the proper channels to use in becoming a "legal" immigrant. Even if they don't want to give up their home-country citizenship, they can still get a Work Visa.

It just amazes me the people who fail to see the illegality of illegal immigrants. As if you have a "right" to remain undocumented, unchecked, untouchable, if you can swim the Rio, jump the fence, or row on an inner tube to America.

I understand the economic reasons of why they come to America. And if I was in their shoes, I'd be coming to America too. But the correct way is to visit the US Embassy in their home country. Not pay Jose a year's salary to be trucked in an 18-Wheeler across the border.


Male
33 years old
Ashburn, VIRGINIA
United States



The whole issue is not with immigrants in general. I am all for legal immigrants...completely for legal immigrants because we are a nation of immigrants. But this illegal immigration stuff is ridiculously. Of course, foreigners help our economy and are helpful to our culture.

But, I think about the ones who want to change our culture and make it their own. Yeah, America is the land of opportunity, but we still have a culture. We still have laws here. The thing that's amazing about the Left is that their stupidity has led them to believe that the argument is for not having immigrants here, period. They go on about how they just want to be hard workers and all of this. Well, millions of us are and want to be hard workers. What about the hard workers who have come here legally and assimilated into our society legally? It's frustrating to say the least. The argument is against those who come here illegally.

Male
23 years old
KENNESAW, Georgia

I'm a computer network systems student at ITT Technical Institute in Georgia. I am a proud Libra, Republican, Black, American male.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=30146205

Pennsylvania Governor: Rendell (D) by 3

RasmussenReports.com

March 28, 2006--The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll in Pennsylvania shows Democratic Governor Ed Rendell leading Republican Lynn Swann, the former Pittsburgh Steeler, 44% to 41%.

That's an echo of our February report, except that each candidate has lost a couple points since then. In February, 7% were undecided, 4% would have chosen another candidate. Undecideds are still at 7%, but 8% would now choose another candidate if the election were held today.

Swann is viewed favorably by 55% of voters, unfavorably by 34% (a jump from 18% as more people make up their mind about him). Rendell is viewed favorably by 52%, unfavorably by 44%.

Swann leads by 10 among those who name the Pittsburgh Steelers their favorite football team while Governor Rendell holds a 2-to-1 margin among Eagles fans. (We noted in January that the governor is a fan of the Eagles.)

The bad news for Rendell is that, in the wake of a Super Bowl season, there's a lot more Steelers' fans in the state. In fact, a majority of 51% name the Steelers as their favorite team while only 19% say the Eagles. Twenty percent (20%) say some other, out-of-state- team, is their favorite.

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Fifty percent (50%) say elections are fair to voters. Fifty-three percent (53%) of Pennsylvania voters say journalists have more impact on elections that campaign contributors do; 34% say it's the other way around.

The rolling average of our last three Pennsylvania election polls shows Rendell at 44% and Swann at 43%. This confirms the very close nature of the race

David Horowitz vs. Ward Churchill Debate in DC

Young Americans For Freedom a conservative youth group
have put foward a date where David Horowitz the ex liberal,
and the liberal,fake Indian Professor Churchill will debate.

How much you wanna bet they had to pay Churchill more to come to this?

I would even lay good odds that they are paying Horowitz little or nothing, and Churchill thousands.

Now that the hearings on Churchill are over, and he is safely in his tenured position and unable to be fired now for anything; he is going to start to rear is ugly head more often in order cash in on his 'fame'.

Churchill was a "paid consultant" to that moron Jay Bennish, the teacher caught with his ranting ideological pants down in Colorado.

The funny thing to see with Mr. Churchill (he is not a professor)in the house is how the libs wet themselves over him like screaming groupies.

What is wrong with these people?

Here is a bio on David Horowitz

He was born in 1939 to a Jewish family in Forest Hills, New York. His parents Phil and Blanche Horowitz were school-teachers in Sunnyside Gardens, in the borough of Queens in New York City. Horowitz attended Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley where he received a Master's degree in English literature. Breaking with his parents who were members of Communist Party USA, he joined the New Left and called himself a Marxist. He worked for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, wrote several books, and was an editor at the now-defunct radical magazine Ramparts. Horowitz closely aligned himself with the Black Panthers, providing financial and legal support, and was a confidant of its leader Huey Newton.

Horowitz turned away from the left in 1974 after the murder of a close friend Betty Van Patter. Horowitz blames the Panthers for her death although no one was charged and the case remains unsolve In 2004 he launched Discover the Networks, a conservative watchdog project that monitors funding for U.S. leftists, communists, socialists, Arab terrorists and others he labels "extremist."

30 days as a Muslim ..Fox Propaganda Film

Morgan Spurlock got famous from his Oscar-nominated documentary "Super Size Me." He ingested big McDonald's meals three times a day for 30 days, then blamed McDonald's for his bloated body and dodgy health. Now he's using his 30-day premise to get Americans to ingest his version of radical Islam on cable's FX Network.

Here is the link
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8596690458731858361&q=muslims&pr=goog-sl

This was a nothing but a chance to make Americans look stupid for their feelings and obversvations about Islam and muslism. This was a 'victim' clip for the muslims and how 'misunderstood' they are in America. I think this was just to make Americans look stupid. Even you Al, want all negative comments made about Islam prohibited. I just don't buy into all that. Especially with CAIR. There were a few highly defensive muslims when he was questioning their beliefs. He was made to question his beliefs in regard to Jesus Christ is the son of God. Which Muslims like to put Muhammad as the top prophet. Notice the tree diagram with Muhammad put at the highest branch and the other two equal on lower branches?

That guy was not enlightened, he was just influenced to feel stupid because he didn't understand Islam. Until CAIR comes out and outrightly condemn terrorism, meaning competely getting rid of supporting Palestine and denying Jews their existence, completely stop justifying and trying to silence their opposers and American muslims stop being so damn sensitive and expecting us to understand them on their bases. They will never be welcomed. They need to show in words and deeds that they are fully committed to work along with the infidels to stand against terrorism instead of being defensive.


It was kind of like a Michael Moore piece where it shows how stupid Americans are being for thinking Islam and muslims are terrorists. It's to bring a christian in the heart of Islam community to shake his beliefs. It made ordinary Americans on the street look stupid after asking them questions about their feelings on Islam and muslims or racial profiling. etc... It was done by Morgan Spurlock. It was very slanted. The American white guy who participated in living with the muslim family had to wear a robe and the skull cap through the airport. Naturally and rightfully so other Americans were alerted and showed it. It was to make them look stupid for being wary. Just a totally pc piece of shit.

How About...... "ONE DAY AS A CHRISTIAN IN Saudi Arabia"

http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110006868

Chavez Threatens To Use Poison Arrow Frogs Against US

If this does not prove that guy is crazy nothing will. What say you leftists?



CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he would have a nasty welcome waiting for U.S. forces he insists are preparing to invade his country -- arrows laced with Indian poison.

The left-wing former soldier, who has ordered his military to train civilian reserves for a guerrilla war, including the use of bows and arrows, often accuses Washington of planning to invade to control Venezuela's vast oil reserves.

U.S. officials dismiss his assassination and invasion charges as populist rhetoric meant to mobilise supporters before presidential elections in December. But they say Chavez is an anti-democratic threat to the region.

With an audience of ministers, army officers and local officials chuckling, Chavez remarked on how he would target U.S. soldiers with arrows covered with curare, an Amazon Indian poison made from plants.

"I am going to practice with a bow and arrow. If we have to put a few arrows into any invading gringo, then you'll be done in 30 seconds, my dear gringo," Chavez said pointing to his neck during his regular Sunday television broadcast.

Chavez has become a fierce critic of U.S. President George W. Bush, labelling him everything from a "terrorist" to a "donkey," as the two governments clash over Chavez's socialist revolution and his close ties to U.S. foes Cuba and Iran.

Venezuela troops have started training for an asymmetric war or conflict of resistance and Chavez has worried Washington by reaching out to Russia, Spain and Brazil to purchase military helicopters, boats, planes and new rifles.

Chavez's opposition to U.S. free-trade proposals have won him support among resurgent left-wing movements in South America, where a string of socialist presidents have come to office, most recently in Bolivia and Chile.

The Venezuelan leader on Sunday accused Washington of planning to undermine the credibility of upcoming elections in Venezuela and in Peru, where nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala is ahead of a conservative candidate in the polls.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-03-27T071648Z_01_N26222183_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-VENEZUELA-CHAVEZ.XML


I have never heard of another "leader" who wanted us to invade their country so badly.

Sorry Hugo. It's not going to happen.

This paranoid schizophrenic needs to settle down. He is coming out with these accusations of the U.S. coming for him and we haven't even mentioned such a thing. He must be trying to seek attention of the U.S. to try out his poison arrows. Sounds like another Kim Jong Ill.

This is what any dictator of his stripe does. The N. Koreans are forever about to be invaded according to the tea-leaf reading of The Great Leader. Cuba routinely goes on nationwide alert because we are about to invade. It's a way these dictators have of keeping their masses both roiled up over the "invader" coming for their daughters, and to weed out those who don't man the burning tire barricades with quite the required enthusiasm.

Clinton chauffeur an illegal immigrant

NEWARK, N.J., March 27 (UPI) -- An embarrassing hole in security surrounding former U.S. President Bill Clinton turned up when one of his chauffeurs was found to be a wanted man.

Shahzad Qureshi, 42, was in one of three cars awaiting Clinton at Newark Airport last week when a Port Authority policeman happened to check license plate numbers.

The computer came back showing the Pakistani national had skipped a residency-status hearing in 2000, and a deportation order had been issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the New York Post reported.

Qureshi was still in jail Monday awaiting immigration processing, the report said.

An unregistered middle easterer no less.

Let me guess...Hillary had no idea what Bill was doing.

No idea what was going on with:

Flowers, Lewinsky, Dubai, law firm billing records, Marc Rich, the chaffeur...

...since intel expertise has become such a critical factor for presidents in the mdern world will the DNC still be nominating Hillary in 2008?

Hip Hop Summit Run by Nation Of Islam Convert

The Hip-Hop Summit was held this week..This years Hip-Hop Summit theme was “Getting Your Money Right.” Its main focus was teaching today’s youth on how to save their money and plan for the future.

What few people ever talk about is that the leader of this group of impressionable
young black children is a member of the Nation of Islam.

Benjamin Chavis Muhammad was born Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Jr. on January 22, 1948 in Oxford, North Carolina. Chavis served as a youth coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on the advance team for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He worked to desegregate the public school system in Wilmington, North Carolina where he was arrested on conspiracy and arson charges. Chavis spent nearly a decade in prison, receiving international attention, until the charges were overturned in 1980.

Chavis became a leader in the civil rights community, rising to become Executive Director and CEO of the NAACP. He was an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and in that capacity he was head of the UCC's Commission on Racial Justice. Chavis was also one of the organizers of the Million Man March in 1995. Later, he was forced out of his position at the NAACP due to allegedly paying off a former mistress to keep quiet about their affair.



Chavis joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name to Benjamin Chavis Muhammad. He tried to keep his UCC credentials but was defrocked for converting to another religion. Chavis Muhammad is currently the CEO of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, which he cofounded with rap mogul Russell Simmons.

McCain-Guiliani '08!

by Reblrx

You heard it here first. I love Condi, but my pick for the '08 ticket is McCain-Guiliani. Before I give my reasons why, I'll share these two reasons why I'm not on the Condi '08 bandwagon.

1. First and foremost, the lady says she doesn't want the job, and I'll take her at her word. The Presidency is not a position to run for, let alone hold, if it is not sincerely what you want to do, a "fire in the belly", if you will. Now I know what you're thinking: "But Reb, politicians deny interest all of the time only to run anyway". True. I admit that such denials are typically less than truthful, and par for the course. This takes me to my second point:

2. Condoleeza Rice is NOT a politician. That is, of course, a compliment. Politics is a dirty game, as you all know. If "24" can be used as an example, playing the game successfully requires more "Sherry Palmer" than "David Palmer".
Condi is a diplomat. Her style is straightforward and open, but being in the unique position of being a high-profile black woman running for the presidency would invite a level of nastiness never before seen in politics. The disgraceful cartoons that characaturized Condi as a bucktoothed, squawking parrot, or worse, as a barefooted mammy, would be the tip of the iceberg. Sure, a Rove-type would likely steer her through the muck, and the strength of her resume and personality could rise above it, but for a job you really don't aspire to, why go through the trouble?

Now for McCain and Guiliani.

Both men are the Republican Party's best chance at defeating the best the Dummycrats have to offer, so we might as well use both of them. Let's be candid here: The last two elections were to close, and too much has gone badly the past few years, to assume that there will be any significant margin for error.
Especially if the Dummycrats send HillBill after us, it is imperative that the GOP send the best it's got. Frankly, that's McCain and Rudy.

For one, it's critical that whoever is on the GOP ticket can carry his own state.
I don't care what the polls said in today's paper, Guiliani is the only politician who is capable of taking NY from Hillary, and McCain isn't far behind her. I don't think that even she can beat both of them. We cannot underestimate how important this is. Think about it: If Gore had carred his home state in 2000, we'd probably be in the middle of his second term now, as sickening a thought as that may be, and if Edwards had won his, W would be in Crawford now, and we'd be writing posts cussing out President Kerry (blechh!). If the GOP takes NY- not the pipedream you might think, with those two as the ticket- the 2008 election goes from a likely squeaker to a GOP landslide. No other converted "blue"state will be necessary, but don't rule out NJ also turning "red" with a "McRudy" GOP ticket.

Living in NJ and working in NYC, I watched the evolution of Rudy Guiliani firsthand, from a headline loving, incredibly polarizing, and abrasive mayor, with a myopic tendency to jump the gun in defending any police action, to a reassuring, unifying figure who would have easily been elected to a third term if not for self-imposed limits.

Admittedly, my knowledge of McCain is not as familiar, but what we DO know will do him little harm. Strong. TRULY Patriotic. Realistic. Loyal, but not blindly loyal. Unable to bully. Respected on both sides of the aisle. I could go on. More importantly, these are attributes that apply to BOTH men. And BOTH of them have the personality that would make them undeniably electable and capable of attracting swing voters and even some Dummycrats (this will be an important factor, to replace the inevitable votes that will be lost because of Guiliani's so-called "pro-life" and so-called "gay rights" positions).

The problem is, BOTH of them can't be president. That's where reality and compromise come in.

At McCain's age, I doubt he will seek more than one term, and with Guiliani as is VP he won't need to. Without knowing either man well, I can't be certain, of course, but I doubt it will take much for both men to get on the same page, and lay the foundation for what could be a good 12 more years in the White House.

That's my speculation. Here's one for you: McCain declines re-election, Rudy runs in 2012. Who's his running mate? Any ideas?


A Hip Hop Republican from New York City,


To contact him on this post email
reblrx@yahoo.com

John McWhorter's "Authentically Black"

John McWhorter's "Authentically Black" picks up where his best-selling tell-it-like-it-is "Losing the Race" leaves off. He is not afraid to turn the microscope on black America and force us to take a hard look our current ways of thinking and how they hinder us from fully realizing our potential as the powerful people that we are.

In fact, the author does so with surgical precison in this book, which is why black "flaming leftist" critics like Ishmael Reed have basically resorted to such childish tactics as calling the man names (e.g. "a rent-a-black who only writes and says what conservative whites want to hear." Give me a break!) instead of trying to offer thoughtful rebuttals to his arguments.

They can't refute him, quite frankly, because deep down people like Reed know that McWhorter is telling the truth. Period.

One of the most important themes of this book is that the author wants black Americans to stop emphasizing black plight and misery and all the negative aspects of our history, while treating our successes as anecdotal "exceptions" (a constant theme in more liberal black American discourse these days). In other words, let's ACCENT THE POSITIVES: i.e., focus more on black American achievements of yesterday and today (two notable examples being that the current U.S. secretary of state and national security adviser are both black). As he states poignantly, a people cannot continue to stress how strong it is if it constantly focuses on the negative aspects of its history and current state of affairs. McWhorter blasts such an oxymoronic way of thinking, while reiterating a point he made in "LOSING THE RACE" that black American success stories nowadays are not longer "the exception" - they are THE NORM.

John McWhorter represents the most refreshing and eye-opening contribution to the dialogue on American race relations since Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell. This book along with "Losing the Race" should be required reading in every African-American studies and sociology college curriculum in the country.

Judge Refuses to Delay New Orleans Vote

A federal judge Monday refused to delay New Orleans' April 22 mayoral election.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/27/D8GK2IN86.html

Consider Nagin gone. Landrieu or Forman have this one since the "Chocolate City" is looking more vanilla than usual and Nagin has pissed off the white and Latino vote. Personally, I prefer Forman. Now that the date is in stone, I'm waiting for the campaign to get dirty.
And to think he started out a good Republican!

Times Reports Bush Determined to Invade Iraq!

The New York Times reported yesterday that Bush told Blair determined to invade Iraq without UN resolution or WMD.


According to the New York Slimes.

The US President made clear to British Prime Minister Tony Blair in January 2003 that he was determined to invade Iraq without a UN resolution and even if UN arms inspectors failed to find weapons of mass destruction in the country.

GEEZ, THE NY TIMES certainly seems to get their hands on an unusually high number of "confidential British memoranda" whenever the timing suits their political agenda. Either they have a mole in Tony Blair's closet or they just make the stuff up, rewriting old half-truths. Why am I not surprised? But so what if all this is true? Do you think plans for a military action just happen on the spur of the moment, without months of planning out every detail in advance? Whether or not the action is carried out is irrelevant, the planning goes forth either way.

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and America, please join this site!

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From the Lynn Swann Campaign

Our campaign has had a lot of good news lately. Recent polls have shown us in a dead heat with Ed Rendell, it is clear Pennsylvanians are responding to our call for change and reform. Together we are going to make history this November!

As you may know, our campaign has an important fundraising deadline on Monday, March 27th. I need your help to show that our campaign is strong. The media and my opponent will use the amount of money we've raised to measure how success of our campaign.

You and I know there is widespread support for my vision across our great state. But I need to raise as much money as possible in the next 72 hours to communicate our message of positive change.

I've been traveling around the state sharing my plan for positive change in Pennsylvania. One of the central components is my plan for tax reform. I want to:

Lower your property taxes. (Ed Rendell promised to do something about property taxes in Pennsylvania, and so far heís failed us.)
Lower the corporate income tax
Eliminate the capital stock and franchise tax

But I can't implement my plan for change without your immediate help. Time is running out, please make your donation in the next 72 hours so we can make our deadline!

I am always grateful of your support. Without your support, I wouldn’t be where I am today. Many thanks.

Please Help Contribute to Lynn Swanns Campaign

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Swann
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Democratic Pleads Guilty

Lauren B. Weiner, a former Democratic researcher, pretended to be Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele (R), who is a U.S. Senate candidate, to access his credit report online.

The ex DSCC researcher charged accessing Lt. Gov. Michael Steeles credit report will plead guilty to a misdemeanor and receive about 150 hours of community service.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032401726.html

Ohio's Blackwell Leading by 11 Points

If a new poll is any indication of his vote-pulling power, Ohio s Ken Blackwell will be his state's next governor.

A new Columbus Dispatch poll shows that Ohio's secretary of state, credited with helping President Bush carry Ohio in 2004, has a commanding 11-point lead in his state's GOP gubernatorial primary race and even leads by 12 points in his opponent's former stronghold.

Please Donate t o his Campaign

https://www.rapiddonor.com/Blackwell2006/

http://www.kenblackwell.com/

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Invisible Children Movie

Have any of you heard of this movie: Invisible Children It was made by
three college guys and it documents the horror of Uganda's children who are
trying to avoid being abducted and conscirpted into the rebels' army.
www.invisiblechildren.com

Illegal Immigration and Black America

Illegal Immigration and Black America

Posted by Robert Klein Engler

A goblin is haunting Barack Obama's election campaign to become the
Democratic senator from Illinois. That goblin is in the shape of illegal
immigration and its impact on Black Americans. The Democrats need the votes
of both Latinos and Blacks to win in November, yet this victory may be
brought at the expense of Black Americans. Barack Obama cannot talk about
this, because to do so he will have to alienate one group or another.

The fact of the matter is, illegal immigration, especially illegal
immigration from Mexico, is hurting Black Americans. If Democratic
candidates ever getting around to speaking the truth, they will have to tell
Black voters that illegal immigration is taking jobs away from Black
Americans, cutting into resources available for welfare, and restructuring
public schools and many urban areas. In short, the votes of Latinos are
brought by the Democrats at the expense of Black America.


Tony Brown, author of What Mama Taught Me, knows all too well how
Black Americans are injured by illegal immigration. He writes, '''The U. S.
Census Bureau reported in the New York Times...the poor Black and Latino
communities lose the most income of any group of Americans, including all
Americans who did not finish high school and all Americans who are paying
higher taxes to subsidize welfare benefits for illegal immigrants and
businesses that hire them. Illegal immigrants overuse welfare benefits and
services and underpay income taxes for a net loss to local, state and
federal taxpayers.''


The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
http://www.fairus.org, has also documented the detrimental impact of illegal
immigration on Black Americans. In California, Blacks are being forced out
from communities like South Central, Los Angeles, where they have long
lived. ''This once predominantly Black neighborhood is becoming largely
Hispanic. South Central is being transformed. Here we talk about 'Black
flight.' People are leaving neighborhoods where they have lived for years
because they don't feel like they belong any more reports Terry Anderson in
the San Francisco Examiner, (Feb. 3, 1999.)"


The Federation for American Immigration Reform continues in its
report that, ''Other statistics are also sobering: a GAO study found that a
decade of heavy immigration to Los Angeles had changed the janitorial
industry from a mostly native Black, unionized workforce to one of
non-unionized Latinos, many of whom were illegal aliens. According to the
Census, the employment of Black Americans as hotel workers in California
dropped 30 percent in the 1980s, while the number of immigrants with such
jobs rose 166 percent. A similar story can be told of the garment industry,
the restaurant business, hospital work, and public service jobs.'' One can
expect Blacks in Illinois to suffer the same declines as illegal immigration
from Mexico continues.


Immigration researcher and commentator Roy Beck noted in his 1996
book, The Case Against Immigration that: ''To review the Black side of our
nation's immigration tradition is to observe African Americans periodically
trying to climb the mainstream economic ladder, only to be shoved aside each
time. It is to see one immigrant wave after another climb onto and up that
ladder while planting their feet on the backs of Black Americans....The most
racist policy in this country for the past 25 years has been our immigration
policy, because it has been the worst thing that has happened to Blacks from
the federal government since slavery.''


The Harvest Institute also documents the impact of illegal
immigration on Black Americans. ''Dr. Claud Anderson, president of The
Harvest Institute, a Black research and education organization, announced
that The Harvest Institute does not support President Bush's recently
proposed amnesty for illegal immigrant aliens and has released an
Information Alert (available at www.harvestinstitute.org). Dr. Anderson
said, ''Despite the stance of many civil rights groups, immigration's impact
on native Blacks and their communities is disproportionate, direct and
devastating. Blacks are losing faith because the government continues a
pattern of bestowing the rights that should first go to native Blacks to
immigrants from foreign countries. Native Blacks are ignored and patronized
with symbolic and ceremonial actions by both political parties. The issue
of immigration is roiling within Black communities and has
become...divisive.''


As the Democrat's ''multicultural'' candidate, Barack Obama has
little to say about this multicultural issue. You can read his position
papers and look at his website and find no recognition that illegal
immigration from Mexico is hurting Black Americans. One has to wonder what
kind of immigration policy Obama will vote for if he ever becomes a U. S.
Senator. One has to wonder even more why Black Americans continue to vote
Democratic, when the Democrats are not looking out for their interests.


The Obama campaign has been silent too long on the issue of illegal
immigration and its impact on Black Americans in Illinois. Nor have other
prominent Democrats like Mayor Daley of Chicago, or Jesse Jackson and his
son spoken out about the impact of this issue. Black Americans like
basketball player Michael Jordan, who gave $10,000, also contribute money to
the Obama campaign without questioning Obama's stand on illegal immigration.
Don't expect a critical voice anytime soon, however, from the Democrats.
When it comes to illegal immigration and Black Americans, the Democrats want
to have it both ways. We can only hope that this duplicity will lead them
to a defeat at the polls in November.


Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago. He is an adjunct professor at
Roosevelt University. His book, A WINTER OF WORDS, about the ethnic
cleansing at Daley College, is available from amazon.com

Immigrants vs. African Americans

One of the facts of American history seldom discussed is the nation's long-standing preference for immigrant labor, when the alternative was to train and employ native-born black Americans. Historically, blacks have been regarded as a residual labor pool and were drawn into the urban, industrial economy only when the preferred immigrant supply was not available. As a consequence, spokesmen for black Americans historically opposed mass immigration.

Today, as manufacturing and industrial jobs continue to decline, the competition for the remaining blue-collar jobs intensifies, and when this happens black Americans lose for a variety of reasons ranging from racial stereotypes to employer preference for vulnerable workers fearing deportation.

Next we have Norman Matloff's Public Interest article, ``How Immigration Harms Minorities.'' That article was adapted from his longer analysis, which he presented earlier in testimony to Congress (for a more nicely-formatted PDF version of that testimony, click here ).
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/Immigration/EffOnMinorities/PublicInterest.html




Peter Skerry writes in The New Republic on the adverse impacts on African-Americans.
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/Immigration/EffOnMinorities/Skerry.html

Peter Schuck then follows with an essay on loss of political power of African-Americans due to immigration.
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/Immigration/EffOnMinorities/Schuck.html


Publications:

"Immigrant Indigestion": A. Philip Randolph, Radical and Restrictionistby Daryl Scott, University of Florida (held the Center's 1998-99 Fellowship in Immigration Studies)Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, June 1999
"Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are": Black Americans on ImmigrationCenter for Immigration Studies Paper 10, June 1996

"Urban Labor Markets: Immigrants vs. African Americans"Review by Frank Morris of Still the Promised City?, By Roger Waldingerpp. 18-19 in Immigration Review no. 27, Fall/Winter 1996/1997 Also available in PDF

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICY

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICY

Illegal immigration is a hot button topic in the recent news. President Bush gave a speech outlining his plan to address the problem. His plan summarized, basically is to secure the border through more border patrol agents and increased use of surveillance.

In approaching any discussion of illegal immigrants (or "undocumented workers" for all you PC types), one must understand that there are two important aspects of any solution to the problem.

These ascepts are the 1) ECONOMIC INTERESTS and 2) NATIONAL SECURITY.

You can't just talk about one w/o discussing the other, both of these topics need to be addressed in forming any comprehensive immigration reform policy. Starting with the economic interests first, democrats, liberals, and pro-business republicans always are quick to assert that the mass numbers of illegal immigrants in this country are needed. I will concede that both illegal and legal immigrants contribute a great deal to the economy by performing jobs that Americans don't perform.

However, have you ever asked the question why this is? The reason is basically b/c these immigrants are being exploited by these businesses, and working for wages which these businesses wouldn't dare and/or legally be able to offer to American citizens.

Thus, these businesses don't want to offer Americans a reasonable wage to perform these jobs, so they exploit the plight of illegal immigrants to the detriment of both immigrants and Americans. Also when looking at the economic impact of illegal immigration, you must look at the economic costs impacted. State governments have to spend millions of dollars to provide education, legal proceedings, prison facilities, health care, and other social services to illegal immigrants.

Can somebody please justify to me why Americans should pay these costs for illegal immigrants when we can't provide for American citizens adequately?

How can an illegal immigrant get financial aid, home mortgages, etc., but American citizens can't?

In addition, I'm frustrated by the spin that illegal immigrants pay their fair share of taxes. The fact is they don't. They may pay sales taxes and some may pay Social security taxes or income taxes. But why should they have the option of volunteering to pay income or social security taxes. American citizens don't have this option.

If I didn't pay my taxes, I guarantee the IRS would be on me like white on rice with penalities and possible jail, b/c they know who I am due to the fact that they have all kinds of information, social security number, and etc. pertaining to myself and most Americans, not so for illegals.

How is this fair?

Simple it's not, you are rewarding illegal activity.

Next aspect of this issue is national security. First of all, let me say I recognize that most people coming across the border illegally aren't terrorists.

They are good people just looking for an opportunity, I understand that. However, we have laws and procedures in affect in the U.S., so we can know who is coming in and out of our borders. We can't let everybody and there mother come across the border w/o knowing who they are just b/c they are looking for a better opportunity. I mean are we going to start allowing people from all the other desperate countries in this world to enter this country.

The answer is no, in fact just look at examples of Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and Haiti. People from these countries are routinely sent back. Why can we send them back, but not people from Mexico and South America?

Lastly, without a secure border terrorists and other criminal elements will take advantage of this breach in our border and exploit it and some already have.

In some parts of this country crimes committed by illegal immigrants from Mexican and South American gangs are a serious problem. Don't believe me, just ask the people outside of D.C. in Northern VA or people living in Long Island, NY.

SO HOW WOULD YOU APPROACH THE PROBLEM OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION? WHAT SOLUTION(S) OR POLICY DO YOU THINK IS APPROPRIATE IN ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE? My solution is to first seal the border off from these masses of illegal immigrants coming across, whether that is done by contructing a wall or dramatically increasing border agents and/or technology along the border.

Secondly, I recognize that we need these workers here and that most of them are just looking for work and an opportunity. I'm compassionate about allowing people that want to make a better life for themselves to have a chance to do that. I just want to make sure that we know who these people are, and are able to keep track of them for security purposes and to make sure that they pay their fair share of all taxes, not just sales taxes.

Thus, I think that a guest worker program for those illegal immigrants already in the country along with a stream-lined legal immigration process is needed. Lastly, I would have severe penalities for any employer that knowing, intentionally, or recklessly employs illegal immigrants. Well those are just some of my thoughts. I want to know what you think, so please feel free to express your thoughts and opinions!!!!


Jerry Cole Brooks is a third-year law student. He is originally from Alabama and graduated with a B.S.B.A in Accounting from Auburn University in the Spring of 2000.
He is the owner of http://spaces.msn.com/blackconservative/
He is also a Republican

Isreali Elections

Tomorrow Israel heads to the polls, I hope Israelis choose Likuds Binyamin Netanyahu.

I do not think Olmert is a tough enough guy and seems to lack personality.

But thats just my opinon.

Any way who ever is chosen will have a great deal to think about.

Israel's centrist Kadima party remains on course to win Tuesday's general election but with fewer seats than it hoped, last-minute opinion polls say.
Two opinion polls in papers on Monday predicted 34 seats for Kadima, about 19 for Labour and 13 or 14 for Likud.
Earlier polls had indicated Kadima would achieve the 40-plus seats interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he needed for a stable government.
Security is intense amid fears of disruption by Palestinian militants.

3rd rate Actor" Alec Baldwin gets OWNED!!!!!!

3rd rate Actor" Alec Baldwin gets OWNED!!!!!!


BTW, the only thing Alec Baldwin has done is confirmed what we already knew about him.

-He's an idiot.

-He's a tempermental idiot.

-He's a faux-macho airhead, who's better at making threats than actually carrying them out.

-He does not countenance any opinion-under any circumstances-that differs even slightly from his own, which is probably another reason he's divorced, and doesn't have custody of his children.

-He lives in a bubble.


Newsmax.com wrote:

Hollywood liberal Alec Baldwin stormed out of an in-studio radio interview Sunday night after he was confronted on the phone by radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.

Baldwin was 30 minutes into a planned two-hour-plus sitdown with WABC Radio's Brian Whitman when Hannity called in.

The fireworks commenced almost immediately.

HANNITY: Alec, I wanted to give you an official WABC welcome considering you were supposed to come on my program last week and you didn't show up. What happened?

BALDWIN: No, I wasn't supposed to come on your program, Sean Hannity.

HANNITY: No, actually you were supposed to come on the program because a deal was made with your agent that if you were going to come on with Brian, first you'd come on with me.

BALDWIN: I wouldn't dream of coming on your program, Sean Hannity. I'm here with Brian. I'm here with a really talented broadcaster.

HANNITY: [Crosstalk] that you are, you don't tell the truth.

BALDWIN: Why would I want to come on the show with a no-talent, former construction worker hack like you?

HANNITY: Are you the guy that said of our vice president, while we're at war, while we're leading troops in harm's way - are you the reckless, third-rate Hollywood actor who said that Dick Cheney is a terrorist? Are you the guy . . .

BALDWIN: Yes I am.

HANNITY: . . . . who said to stone Henry Hyde to death? Are you the guy who said our president is a CIA mass murderer? I wanted you to come on the program and defend that, you gutless coward.

BALDWIN: At first I thought this was a joke. But you can hear all the acid venom spewing hatred. It is Sean Hannity. [END EXCERPT]

The exchange got even hotter when Mark Levin joined in.

LEVIN: We've only just begun - are you 40 or 50 pounds overweight now?

WHITMAN: Oh, C'mon now . . . .

HANNITY: Once and for all you need to be challenged. You want to call our vice president a terrorist - fine. You want to talk about stoning people to death, say it on my program. If you want to be irresponsible and call our president a mass murderer while he's at war leading troops in harm's way . . . .

BALDWIN: And what are you gonna do about it, Sean Hannity?

HANNITY: You don't have the courage to answer questions.

BALDWIN: And what are you gonna do? And what are you going to do about it, Sean Hannity. If I come on your program, what are you going to do?

LEVIN: He's going to show that you have a two digit IQ - that's what he's gonna do.

BALWIN: What are you going to do?

LEVIN: I just told you - you've got a two digit IQ.

BALDWIN: And who's that - who's your little cabin boy there with you.

LEVIN: I'm not a cabin boy, butt-boy.

BALDWIN: What are you doing there, cabin boy? . . . . I now dub you Sean Hannity's cabin boy.

LEVIN: And you know what you are? You're 'Brokeback Alec.' [END EXCERPT]

The confrontation continued to spiral out of control, with Whitman intermittently trying to make peace and Baldwin repeatedly urging him to move on to other callers.

BALDWIN: Listen, Sean - you incredibly ignorant boob from Long Island . . .

HANNITY: Oh, ouch, Alec.

BALDWIN: No, no, no, you've spoken, let me talk, Sean. Cause you've been spewing your . . .

HANNITY: You're a third rate Hollywood egomaniac.

BALDWIN: You're a no talent ignorant fool from Long Island. You should go back to building houses in Hempstead.

LEVIN: Why was your wife [Kim Bassinger] so pissed of at you, anyway?

WHITMAN: Now, c'mon guys.

BALDWIN: OK. We're done. [Gets up and leaves the studio]

WHITMAN: Come back. Come back. Alec? They're gone. Alec? Alec has walked out of the studio. Alec, please come back.

How many black Republicans?

This article seemed fairly interesting and seemed to hit alot of good points.
Any thoughts or comments about it?

How many black Republicans?

Vincent Laforet, the New York Times
George W. Bush embraces former football star Lynn Swann seen as a strong contender for governor of Pennsylvania.


They're a tiny minority who mostly choose not to trumpet it too loudly.
The Economist Magazine
(Mar 25, 2006)
Asked why she switched from being a Democrat to a Republican, Carolyn Mason sounds defensive.

"It's a free country," says the former mayor of Sarasota, Fla. "I don't need to ask anyone's permission."

Was it something to do with the Republican ideals of hard work and personal responsibility? "That's the way I was brought up," she says, but won't elaborate.

Being black, Mason has been pilloried for joining the party of George Bush. Black Republicans are a tiny minority and mostly keep their affiliation quiet.

"Democrats call us 'sellouts', 'tokens', 'Uncle Toms' or 'Aunt Jemimas,'" says Frances Rice, the chairman of the National Black Republican Association.

"Yet when you ask black people about their values, they agree with Republicans 100 per cent."

That is a big exaggeration. But it is clear that the diversity of black opinion is poorly represented in government.

All 43 members of the Congressional Black Caucus are Democrats. Because of gerrymandering, most come from majority-black districts. Since Republicans usually don't have a hope in such districts, the contest that matters is the Democratic primary.

To win, a candidate must appeal to party stalwarts, who are typically more radical than regular voters.

The effect of this on black politics is striking. For example, black Americans tend to be quite socially conservative, but their representatives are anything but.

Only four black congressmen voted to ban partial-birth abortion (late in pregnancy) in 2003, though most blacks abhor the procedure.

On practical issues, too, there is a disconnect.

Most African-Americans favour school choice, yet not one black member of Congress voted to support a voucher program to rescue mostly black pupils from failing schools in Washington, D.C.

Blacks are stiffed by the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system because they die younger than whites and so collect fewer benefits.

Yet blacks in Congress were united in their opposition to Bush's tentative reform plan last year, which now appears doomed.

Republicans see this rift as an opportunity. The party is grooming more than 50 black candidates for national office this year, says Tara Wall of the Republican National Committee.

The most prominent include two would-be governors, Lynn Swann in Pennsylvania and Ken Blackwell in Ohio, and two senatorial candidates, Michael Steele in Maryland and Keith Butler in Michigan.

Ken Mehlman, the party chairman, implores blacks not to let the Democrats take their votes for granted. "Give us a chance and we'll give you a choice," he said last year.

The Republicans don't need to win a majority of black votes. If they won as much as a quarter, that would keep the Democrats out of power indefinitely, reckons Rice.

But even that modest-sounding goal is virtually impossible, at least in the short term.

George Bush won more of the black vote in 2004 (11 per cent) than in 2000 (9 per cent), but his approval rating collapsed after Hurricane Katrina.

The proportion of blacks who thought Bush cared "a lot" about the needs and problems of black people was a mere 1 per cent in September last year, according to a CBS poll.

That figure rebounded to 7 per cent in February, but the president remains unusually unpopular among blacks even for a Republican.

Wall retorts that if one looks at individual swing states, the picture is sometimes rosier.

In Ohio, Bush doubled his share of the black vote in 2004, to 16 per cent.

Winning Ohio won Bush the presidency, in effect, so these things matter.

This year Ohio is again up for grabs, with the state Republican Party crippled by scandal.

Some Republicans think a 6-foot-5 former college football star can save them.

Ken Blackwell is running for governor on a platform that draws condescending grimaces from the Congressional Black Caucus: low taxes and opposition to abortion and gay marriage. If he can enthuse conservatives and persuade black Democrats either to switch sides or stay home on polling day, he might possibly win.

Even more intriguing is the thought of Condoleezza Rice, Bush's secretary of state (and no relation to Frances Rice), running for president in 2008. Her boosters think she could grab both black and female votes from the Democrats.

On the down side, however, she has never run for elective office, has no domestic-policy experience and says she's not interested.

With the national mood shifting against them, it will be especially hard for Republicans to win votes among blacks in November's elections.

Wayne Perryman, a black preacher from Washington state, favours trumpeting the Democrats' racist past.

Most blacks don't know that it was Democrats who upheld slavery and segregation, he complains.

The Republicans could win votes by educating them.

For example, though he admits "this may sound self-serving," they could distribute copies of Perryman's book, Unfounded Loyalty: An in-depth look into the blind love affair between blacks and Democrats.

Harping on history might work, up to a point.

But the age of segregationist Democrats ended before most Americans were born.

Today, it is Republicans who are distrusted, partly because so many oppose affirmative action, and partly because, as Perryman observes, the people young blacks see coaching sports teams and doing other good works in their communities are almost all Democrats.

Frances Rice offers a counter-example. Newtown, a small and impoverished black area of Sarasota, is starting to recover, she says, thanks to the efforts of Republicans such as herself in getting it designated a "Front Porch Community," eligible for various types of assistance.

The people of Newtown, however, seem reluctant to give the party credit.

Alton Dorsey, a 39-year-old self-employed landscaper standing on a dilapidated front porch in Newtown, says he sees Republicans as "a huge elephant that can trample over things; an elephant that steps on the scales of justice and tips them."

Are We Still Evolving?

Some scientists have found 700 regions on the human genome that appear to have been reshaped by natural selection over the past 5000 to 15000 years.

With all this DNA knowledge we are now getting it seems to me that: life started out with a very simple DNA string. Radiation etc. caused changes from time to time. The chain got longer. Sometimes what resulted worked out, other times it did not. For the times it worked out new species resulted.

At some point we finally got a length(combination) DNA that resulted in Man. The question is: are we still evolving. Is there evidence that changes in us are in process today.

I say sure we're still evolving. What would stop us?

Immigration Reform -- Senate CSPAN 10 AM EST

Republican Sen. Arlen Spector chairs a full Judiciary Committee meeting to mark up pending legislation including a draft bill on comprehensive immigration overhaul. Also, the committee will vote on a bill to televise Supreme Court proceedings and judicial nominations to federal courts.

If you watched the debate let us know what you think!

Immigration Problem Solved

I propose we Annex Mexico...

the oil would be nice .....social security would be screwed....oh wait it already is!

If given the chance would you move to Africa?

I found this site by George Cook of the web site www.letstalkhonestly.com http://www.letstalkhonestly.com

He has a question for you.

If given the chance would you move to Africa?

Give your answer here http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/page/page/2977592.htm

Democrat Assemblyman calls Evangelical Teens disgusting

What a jerk with all the protest in The Republic of San Francisco this
idiot attacks a christian group.

I am suprised that the media has not jumped on this.

If this were a African American rally this person would have been
fired .

The comments by Mark Leno are wrong and the DNC and Democrats
should repudiate his comments.
Please contact Mark Leno and tell him what you think

Also be firm but Kind

Capitol OfficeState CapitolP.O.

Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0013
Fax (916) 319-2113
Phone(916) 319-2013


Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, told counterprotesters at City Hall on Friday that while such fundamentalists may be small in number, "they're loud, they're obnoxious, they're disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/25/BATTLE.TMP

Nigeria says to transfer Charles Taylor to Liberia

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria will transfer former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who is living in exile in Nigeria and has been indicted for war crimes, to Liberian custody, the Nigerian government said on Saturday.
It issued a statement headed "Former president Charles Taylor to be transferred to the custody of the government of Liberia", which read:
"President Olusegun Obasanjo has today ... informed President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf that the government of Liberia is free to take former President Charles Taylor into its custody."

Washington Let Himself Go for 'Inside Man'

Denzel Washington had to play down his good looks for his latest part in the movie Inside Man, because he had to be a convincing "regular guy.

" The Oscar-winner had to shave his head and pack on some extra weight to play a cop who negotiates with a master criminal played by Clive Owen. He explains, "He's a regular guy. He's in over his head. He's been accused of stealing $140,000, his girlfriend wants to get married yesterday... This is the biggest case he's ever had, so he's got a few issues." The Training Day star insists his wife of 22-years, Pauletta, had no problems with her husband letting himself go for the role. He adds, "(She's fine) as long as I buy her something."

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808716085&intl=us

Rumsfeld Tells CNNs McIntyre Get a Life

Source: Rumsfeld Tells CNN Reporter Quoting Maureen Dowd to Get a Life
http://newsbusters.org/node/4614

What follows is a full transcript of this segment, and a video link courtesy of Ian Schwartz and Expose the Left.

JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SENIOR PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Secretary, I'm just curious, do you feel at all embattled at this point in your tenure?

DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: No.

MCINTYRE: Aside from the retired two-star general calling you incompetent and asking you to step down in an op-ed over the weekend, you also have a column from Maureen Dowd in which she quoted an unnamed administration official saying that you don't hold the same sway in meetings and that you're treated as, quote, "an eccentric old uncle who is ignored."

RUMSFELD: You like to repeat all that stuff, don't you. On camera? Did you get that? Let's make sure you got it. He loves that stuff. It's a sure way to get on camera. He'll be on the evening news.

MCINTYRE: I know you like to have the facts in the premise of the question.

RUMSFELD: Yes, I do. And you did it very well.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can do one-armed push-ups and put all this to rest.

RUMSFELD: The answer is no.

MCINTYRE: Do you hold the same sway in meetings?
RUMSFELD: Oh, come on. I'm not going to get in that. Pam?

QUESTION: Sir, in your opening statement, said...

RUMSFELD: If you believe everything you read in Maureen Dowd, you better get a life.

It was great. McIntyre was out-of-line with his "in your face" tasteless, cruel and rude questioning. Rumsfeld put it right on the line and exposed McIntyre's outlandish behavior. He also smacked the weird Dowd up the side of her head, too.


Reporter Asks Rumself If He is Retiring Quotes Dowd, Told To Get A Life (VIDEO)
http://www.exposetheleft.com/2006/03/23/rumsfeld-retire-dowd/

Thomas Sowell.. ...An American Legacy

Thomas Sowell is rarely mentioned by black leftist.
He is marginalised and referred to in many circles as the black "conservative".
The facts of his life should be known and understood.

Wikipedia has agreat piece on his life and his accomplishments.

Thomas Sowell is an American success story which should be a name that young black
children should know about.

He can not be dismissesd by character attacks, because
his arguments are strong and have navigated the test of time.

Thomas Sowell (born 30 June 1930) is a prominent American economist, political writer, and conservative [1] commentator. He is presently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. In 1990, he won the prestigious Francis Boyer Award, presented by The American Enterprise Institute.

In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science. Best-selling conservative British author, Paul Johnson, once described Sowell: "America's leading philosopher is Thomas Sowell. He has given me more than any other living American philosopher..."

Education

Thomas Sowell's memoir, A Personal Odyssey (2000)Sowell was born in North Carolina, where, he recounts, his encounters with white people were so limited that he didn't believe that "yellow" was a possible color for human hair (A Personal Odyssey, 2000), and later moved with his mother and siblings (his father died before he was born) to Harlem, New York City. There he attended the highly selective Stuyvesant High School, but dropped out when he moved out on his own at the age of 17 because of money problems and a deteriorating home environment.[2] He soon after served in the US Marine Corps as a photographer. After his service, he earned an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College, an A.M. in Economics from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, known for its Chicago school of economics.

He chose University of Chicago, he has said, because he wanted to study under George Stigler, who would later in 1982 win the Nobel Prize in Economics.

At University of Chicago Thomas Sowell also took a course taught by Milton Friedman, who went on to win the Nobel Prize in economics. Sowell has taught at prominent American universities including Cornell University and UCLA, and since 1980 has been a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, where he holds the fellowship named after Rose and Milton Friedman.

Writings
Sowell is both a popular columnist and an academic economist.

Besides scholarly writing, Sowell has written books, articles and syndicated columns for a general audience, in such publications as Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and major newspapers. Sowell primarily writes on economic subjects, in which he generally advocates a laissez-faire free market approach to capitalism. In addition to this Sowell opposes Marxism providing a critique in his book Marxism: Philosophy and Economics. In this book he also makes the declaration that Marx never had a labor theory of value. Sowell also writes on racial topics and is a critic

Londonstan new Book to be released

Londonistan
by Melanie Phillips($25.95; hardcover)
Released March 2006

The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an enormous fifth column of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers.

Under the noses of British intelligence, London has become the European hub for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamic terror and extremism so much so that it has been mockingly dubbed Londonistan.

In this ground breaking book Melanie Phillips pieces together the story of how Londonistan developed as a result of the collapse of traditional English identity and accommodation of a particularly virulent form of multiculturalism. Londonistan has become a country within the country and not only threatens Britain but its special relationship with the U.S. as well.

http://www.melaniephillips.com/

Jon Stewart Interviews Iraqi Gen. Georges Sada

Gen. Sada was second in command of the Iraqi Air Force under Saddam Hussein currently he is the head of Iraqs National Security Council. He says that Saddam had WMDs and spirited them to Syria prior to the 2003 invasion. Jon Stewart s interview of him is fascinating you need to watch it. Right now.

(via InstaPundit)
http://instapundit.com/archives/029292.php

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml

Does diversity in Black opinion threaten Traditional Black Thinkers

Does diversity in Black opinion threaten Traditional Black Thinkers (TBTs)?

As I see, more and more in the Yahoo and MSN Groups, there are growing numbers of Black voices that are moving away and even challenging what has been the TBT across America. This seems to have been long over due, as more and more, Black folks are thinking ‘outside of the box’ in many areas from politics to health to economics to religion and family.

So, are the TBT people losing in the war of true debate? Or is debate possible? Can two different mindsets have a debate when one is based on emotions and what they want the world to be, verses proven results? Let’s be honest, TBTs love to launch salvos of one-liners of how Black folks are hated, cannot survive in this racist country, and on and on. Funny thing is TBTs are very short on giving facts to support their broad-brush painting of this country as a racist society especially when Black faces are showing them wrong. TBT love to hate and launch off canned responses, yet, can only support their argument with more canned responses OR will launch personal attacks at you in order to get away from having to support their side of the discussion with facts.

How do you piss of a TBT person? You take away their canned answers and make them give facts. TBT people have their catch phrases, buzz words, and canned presentations in order, yet, when challenged to go beyond those canned phrases, they will attack those who are looking deeper and who question what has been etched in our thinking for 2 generations now.

Black people are making progress to some extent or another, except in the eyes of TBT. We see Blacks running major corporations, running major areas in the government and military, and owning large successful Black companies. Funny thing is that contrary to what mainstream white media portrays, Black folks can do more than entertain, and play sports.

Here, test yourself. Omitting entertainers, and sports figures, name 3 self made black millionaires in America. Name 3 books that are authored by Black millionaires who took their time to write these books to help YOU. Name 3 Black executives of major companies or self made entrepreneurs of multi-million dollar companies. Name 3 Black owned national or international businesses that you can do spend money with. Who is the 16-year-old self-made millionaire businessman from the projects? We don't know these people who are pioneers who are setting the new standards and beating racism, but we all know about the hip-hop artists who sold drugs to get out of the hood, right?

It’s sad that we don’t condemn hip-hop artists for selling death and destruction in the poorer Black neighborhood, and who are now are living in the lap of luxury with their ’40 Pieces of Silver’ given to them by the white corporations to promote Black stereotypes. Sort of reminiscent of Step-n-Fetchit and how he was given a lot of money by the Hollywood elite to portray Blacks as shiftless and lazy. And now they are doing it all over again, but our kids have no idea because they are not in school to learn these things.

What has TBT brought us? Have we gotten so caught up in TBT that we don't look further into realistic solutions based on what the world is all about? Let’s fact is … TBT has remained stagnant and the world has moved on. Each day, a more vocal and effective segment of Black folks who have found that they can make it without government protections and assistance. This threatens the existence of TBT advocates, because their ways are seen as out-dated, unrealistic and in many ways are counter productive to the success of all of Black America.

TBT people love to have causes, and most of them are noble and very much needed. But, how many of their solutions to problems in Black America are based on facts and reality? How many times has TBTs partnered with those who have succeeded and asked them to teach others to do the same? I mean you have the ‘Get Out To Vote’ (for Democrats), but where is the drive to ‘Get Out To Read’ or ‘Get Out To Save Your Money’ or ‘Get Out To Clean Up Our Neighborhood’ or ‘Get Out To Keep Your Kids In School’? How many times have TBTs focused on scholastics over athletics or entertainment?

TBT whine about how much we are in poverty. Next time, look around and count the cell phones, the type of clothes, how much is spent on hair and nails. How much is wasted on cars that we cannot afford just to look good. How much is wasted on entertainment such as cable and satellite, or music or renting DVDs to watch on our big screen televisions from the Rent-to-Own places. Want to see another waste of money, Google ‘rent to own rims’.

How many of us can read a stock page or even know how to take $100, (less the $6 commission) and turn it into $150 in less than 10 days and keep turning it into greater profits? Television shows us that everyday for FREE, but we are too busy being entertained and being brainwashed into losing before we get into the game.

We gripe about not being able to fund business ventures, but how many Black folks walk into the library and find a book (for FREE) on how to accomplish this task? How many of us know where the business section is in the library? How many know other issues needed that we can find in the library for FREE such as finding grant money for school or to fix homes or to go into business. But, we spend money on cable television and CDs to keep ourselves entertained around the clock.

Selling Avon or some other legal hustle? What are you doing to eliminate your taxes and maximize your savings from this income? What is the difference between an LLC, and a C-Corp? How about a Nevada Corporation and how are your assets protected with this simple paper work? This is all FREE yet we don't touch it. Then get mad at others who follow these simple rules, pay less tax, obtain tons of credit and protect their homes and assets when a business fails and turn around and try again in 60 days. We can do the same if we’d open a book as fast as we learn the new CD or run to a Madea movie.

TBT has taught us to keep one foot firmly planted on first base and never remove it, and then wonder why we can’t score a run in the game. It has also taught more of us to stay on the bench and complain rather than learn how to play the game.

Some are saying that we need a leader to take Black folks out of despair, but is that really necessary? Or, do we need to simply wake up just a segment of Black America to stop repeating what has not worked.

TBT verbalizes freethinking; yet, criticize those who are not following the ‘Victim Mentality’. It has taught us to criticize those who have ‘Left the Plantation’ and have done it on their own. TBT will mislabel successful and assertive Blacks as ‘Sell-Outs’ and ‘Uncle Toms’ and use other negative canned phrases that are used to demean success, or making an effort to succeed. But more and more, they don't see that they are actually identifying themselves as the ones who can’t survive in the today’s world.

To say that racism and sexism does not exist is foolish and closed minded. The world has a million miles to go on racism, sexism and the war on poverty. But, can we move forward as long as a certain segment of us refuse to accept the fact that there ARE other ways to doing things and that maybe JUST maybe, we need to change our thinking and switch gears and become the force that made this country great?

We need to stop brainwashing ourselves thinking that we can’t do, and start thinking about what we can do to become that Kings and Queens that we claim that we are.

- david grier is a new Contributor to HipHopRepublican.com
He is from cleveland, ohio

Rally For Abdul Rahman

These were the pictures from the...Rally For Abdul Rahman!
Michelle Malkin and many people left and right came out
in support!
The event was held at 12pm outside the Afghani Embassy!

Dr Evil...The Funny of the Week

Dr. Evil: The details of my life are quite inconsequential

Therapist (Carrie Fisher): Oh no, please, please, let's hear about your childhood.

Dr Evil: Very well, where do I begin?

My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.

My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets.

When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.

Therapist: You know, we have to stop.

Dr. Evil (played by Mike Myers) is an evil genius, the chief villain of the Austin Powers series of films. He is a parody of James Bond villains, most particularly Donald Pleasence's portrayal of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the film You Only Live Twice. Dr. Evil is bald and wears a gray Nehru Jacket jumpsuit, which is also a reference to Joseph Wiseman's costume as Dr. No from the 1962 film of the same name. Some of Dr. Evil's facial and vocal expressions are allegedly patterned after Lorne Michaels, producer of television's Saturday Night Live

Blacks and Jews

Black Informant is blogging about an important subject.
The often strained relationship with Jews and Blacks.

http://blackinformant.com/2006/03/23/program-that-unites-blacks-and-jews/

The relationship between Blacks and Jews is one that has a very long history. It has only been recently that this relationship has hit some “bumps” (mainly here in the US).


African-American students from St. Frances Academy in East Baltimore and students from Beth Tfiloh High School, in Pikesville, have come together to share their cultures.

On Wednesday, as part of an exchange program called BLEWS, sophomores from both schools met at Beth Tfiloh to learn about Purim, a Jewish holiday.

Later, all students went to St. Frances, where they shared laughs while working in the community garden. They also spent part of the day learning how to make mosaics.

"The students are getting to know each other..I think this is the best thing that can happen to all of our students," St. Frances teacher Mary Gabriel tells WJZ's Richard Sher. Beth Tfiloh Principal David Portnoy also believes the BLEWS program prepares students for positive, multi-cultural work experiences in the future.

"The students get to meet one another, to work together, which, in the long run, is a good thing for the larger Baltimore community," Portnoy says.The program is sponsored by the Black/Jewish Youth Forum of Baltimore


http://www.baltjc.org/

www.ecyp.org/

Judge To Take Control Of Suge Knights' Assets

By Houston Williams

A Los Angeles judge has declared that he plans to seize control of Marion "Suge" Knight's personal and business assets after the Hip-Hop mogul refused to pay a $107 million civil court judgment from 2005.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald Sohigian said that he planned to appoint a court officer to manage the Death Row co-founder’s finances, but said Knight could prevent the injunction if he would reveal all of his assets to the court.

Knight wasn’t present for the proceedings on Thursday.

In March 2005, Knight was ordered to pay Lydia Harris $107 million, after she charged that the impresario defrauded her out of her half of the label. Harris asserts that she helped found the fledgling Death Row label in the early 90’s.

"Because he had a long history of deceiving the court and avoiding payment, I asked the court to appoint a receiver to take over," Harris' attorney, Rex Julian Beaber, said to Reuters. "If Knight cooperates in providing the information, he can ask the court to remove the receiver. But I don't think there's a chance in hell Knight is going to cooperate."

Sohigian said that Death Row Records would be placed in receivership if Knight refuses to appear at a debtor hearing next month. Receivership is a special form of bankruptcy where a company can avoid liquidation through a court-appointed trustee.

Dermot Givens, counsel for Knight, claimed that Sohigian had yet to formally signed the order sequestering Knights assets. Furthermore, Givens said that Knight and Harris had independently settled on the multi-million dollar case. The judge hasn’t signed such an agreement, should it exist.

"In May of 2005, [Harris] received a million dollars and rights to various music, and she signed a settlement agreement," Givens told Reuters.

Lydia Harris must also contend with her husband, convicted drug dealer Michael “Harry-O” Harris. Harry-O claims that he is due at least half of the $107 million judgment and he filed for divorce in June of 2005 after learning of Lydia’s legal maneuvering.

Earlier this year, Knight and Death Row Records filed a $106 million dollar lawsuit against Harry-O and others claiming fraud, conspiracy, racketeering and attempted extortion.

http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5493

David Letterman has finally lost it!

David Letterman is only making more and more people turn his ignorant ass off. I used to think he was better than Leno, now?

Now he's nothing more than another disgruntled leftie who hates Bush. Every monologue of his is nothing more than a Bush bash.

Hey Letterman!

You aren't John Stewart and don't even have 1/2 the talent!

It's amazing what happens to lefties when people try to plot against kidnapping their children. Must be nice to have that 500 acre ranch in Montana. What a true leftie! Hypofukincrite!

-Zeforcereic

South Park vs. Scientology

Following the departure of Isaac Hayes last week, Comedy Central pulled an episode of South Park that lampooned Tom Cruise and Scientology.

What do you think?


Stephen Grossman,Epidemiologist

"Leave the Scientologists alone, already. Don't they have enough to worry about, what with the tyranny of the galactic God Xenu and his evil body thetans?"

Russia spies operated in Iraq through 2002

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So Russia which opposed the war was helping Saddam,

This is no way suprises!

Rememberthe veteran FBI agent in 2001 who was charged with passing secrets to Russia.

Robert Philip Hanssen, a 25-year FBI veteran, was charged with passing classified documents to Russia and with identifying three KGB agents who were working for the United States as double agents. He spent most of his career in counterintelligence operations designed to catch spies at the State Department.

In retaliation to the discovery of alleged Russian double-agent Robert Hanssen, sources confirmed that the State Department has asked 50 Russian diplomats to return to their homeland on suspicion of acting as intelligence officers. The suspected agents took many tours of national facilities, including FBI headquarters in Quantico, VA and the White House. "They took many pictures, and many have acquired very dangerous information," said one unnamed source .
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/02/20/fbi.spy.06/

Associated Press

MOSCOW - Russia had a military intelligence unit operating in Iraq up through the 2003 U.S. invasion and fall of Baghdad, a Russian analyst said Friday. A Pentagon report said Russia provided Saddam Hussein with intelligence on U.S. military movements and plans.

The unclassified report does not assess the value of the information or provide details beyond citing two captured Iraqi documents that say the Russians collected information from sources "inside the American Central Command" and that battlefield intelligence was provided to Saddam through the Russian ambassador in Baghdad.

A classified version of the Pentagon report, titled "Iraqi Perspectives Project," is not being made public.

A duty officer with Russia's Foreign Ministry refused to comment on the report late Friday evening and said questions must be faxed in advance before any answers would be given.
No one answered the phones at the Defense Ministry.

Pavel Felgenhauer, a respected independent Moscow-based military analyst, said the report was within the realm of possibility.
"It's quite plausible," he told The Associated Press.

He said a unit affiliated with the Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Department, known by its abbreviation GRU, was actively working in Iraq at the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The unit apparently was shut down after Baghdad fell during the U.S.-led invasion.

There also was an Internet site in Russian called "The Ramzay Files" that caused a stir in Moscow's military and diplomatic community at the time, Felgenhauer said.

The site, which also shut down after the invasion, posted striking insights, predictions and analysis into U.S. military activities as well as Iraqi military and intelligence activities.
He said former GRU officials told him the type of information that was being posted - both on the Iraqis and on the Americans - appeared to be the kind that only highly placed Russian intelligence officials in Iraq would have.

According to the Pentagon report, one piece of Russian intelligence - whether by chance or design - actually contributed to an important U.S. military deception effort.
By telling Saddam that the main attack on Baghdad would not begin until the Army's 4th Infantry Division arrived around April 15, the Russians reinforced an impression that U.S. commanders were trying to catch the Iraqis by surprise.

The attack on Baghdad began well before the 4th Infantry arrived, and the Saddam regime collapsed quickly.

The Pentagon report also said the Russians told the Iraqis that the Americans planned to concentrate on bombing in and around Baghdad, cutting the road to Syria and Jordan and creating enough confusion to force Baghdad residents to flee.

Felgenhauer said the release of the report was coming at an inauspicious time, given the marked cooling in Russian-U.S. relations in recent months, and could be "the beginning of a real degradation in relations" between Washington and Moscow.

"This could reflect this ongoing confrontation and now the Pentagon is sticking its finger into the pie," he said.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/14179534.htm

Political spectrum quiz......

Take the test, and post where you stand.

http://www.okcupid.com/politics

Marriage for the poor the answer?

Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Wade Horn feels that
marriage is the key to moving families out of poverty.

Although he admits he had no evidence that government can
do anything to persuade poor people to get married.

But he is using his post at the Health and Human
Services Dept. to speak out in the voice of conservatives
who believe marriage should be a bigger piece of
welfare reform. He also preaches the virtues of sexual
abstinance saying unmarried people should not be having sex.

He also says that married couples should get
preferential treatment in publice benifits with limited spots
such as housing and head start.

Women groups have complained that this could trap poor women in abusive
marriages because they stand to lose their benifits if they
lost their husbands.

Research sugests that children
raised in two parent families are better off than those
who rely on just one.

What do you all think?

THE DANISH IMAM'S BOMB THREAT

THE DANISH IMAM'S BOMB THREAT
By Michelle Malkin

Danish Imam Ahmed Akkari, who helped inflame the Cartoon Jihad, has reportedly been taped on a hidden camera threatening to kill Naser Khader, a member of Denmark's Parliament who recently founded an organization for moderate Muslims.

According to Bibelen and Agora, this Jyllands-Posten article reports that Akkari said of Khader: "If one day he should become minister for immigrants or integration, shouldn't one then send over two guys to blow up him and his ministry?"

The footage is schedule to air tonight in a French documentary. Akkari at first denied making the threat, but now claims it was a joke (via Agora):

If they think I have said that, then I must have been jesting. […] You also need to understand, from the context, that I wasn’t being serious because I usually don’t say stuff like that - not even in jest. But sometimes things happen.
Agora has comprehensive background on Akkari and rounds up the fallout:

Naser Khader has recovered enough to give a statement to the news agency Ritzau. Ritzaus reports that he is still shaken by the statement but wants to see the documentary and hear what is said in Arabic before he issues a statement: "But this is in any case still very, very discomforting."
Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has issued a statement: "I only know of the case from the media. But if things are the way they seem, I find reason to express horror that anyone could seriously consider saying that. It’s quite shocking shocking that an elected Danish politician is threatened like that. I assume the police will investigate what’s what in this case and then I count on them to deal with it."

http://www.michellemalkin.com/

Should felons get the right to vote?

The roots of felony disenfranchisement laws can be traced back to ancient Greek and Roman traditions. Disenfranchisement was commonly imposed on individuals convicted of "infamous" crimes as part of their "civil death," whereby these persons would lose all rights and claim to property. The practice of disenfranchisement was transplanted to American by English settlers.

Upon the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, giving African-Americans the right to vote, Southern States began to use seemingly neutral voting qualifications - e.g. literacy tests, property requirements, grandfather clauses, tests for good moral character and criminal disenfranchisement - to deny the vote to blacks. While disenfranchisement laws had existed long before these practices began, a number of Southern States tailored these laws to maximize their impacts on African-Americans. Unlike most other laws that burden the right of citizens to vote based on some form of social status, felony disenfranchisement laws have been held to be constitutional.

In Richardson v. Ramirez, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of felon disenfranchisement statutes, finding that the practice did not deny equal protection to disenfranchised voters. The Court looked to Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which proclaims that States which deny the vote to male citizens, except on the basis of "participation of rebellion, or other crime," will suffer a reduction in representation.

Based on this language, the Court found that this amounted to an "affirmative sanction" of the practice of felon disenfranchisement, and the 14th Amendment could not prohibit in one section that which is expressly authorized in another. However, many critics, argue that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment does not represent an endorsement of felon disenfranchisement statutes as constitutional in light of the equal protection clause; but is limited only to the issue of reduced representation.

The United States Supreme Court has generally upheld felony disenfranchisement laws, but has at the same time struck down those that were clearly intended to disenfranchise particular racial groups, or which allowed disenfranchisement based on the commission of acts so minor that they could not be classified as felonies.


The Congressional Black caucus and other left wing groups,
have made it there mission to get felons to vote.

Some see this as a way to get more votes for the Democrats,
since a great deal of felons are minority.

But no matter what the reasons are for this movement,
the question remains Should felons get the right to vote?
HipHopRepublican.com has askes this question to
some contributors on this blog.

The replies to this important question shows the
split amongst young urban black Republicans.


Below are just a few views.


Alby
M/33
Ashburn,
VIRGINIA

Hell No... If you commit a felony, you have lost your "privileges" as a citizen.
Felony's can't get a passport, own a gun, or vote....
Voting is for "Citizens" who respect the rule of LAW. Not criminals who broke the laws. Create to protect citizens from law breakers. As such, ex-criminals will never get the chance to vote and sway elections to undo the LAW.



A felon convicted of murder should be left to rot in jail for the rest of their life (or, in a perfect world, executed)
There are more law-abiding citizens than felons. If they have to live by our (nation's) rules than they deserve a say.
No one said that felons should be granted all their rights immediately. But there needs to be a procedural mechanism (other than a governor's or president's pardon) to make a citizen whole. If you're convicted of a non-violent federal felony (like computer hacking) you'll never be able to own a gun unless you get a presidential pardon -- Congress refuses to fund the BATF unit that restores rights.
Each state (along with the feds) should have a procedure where after X number of years you get all your rights back (assuming you've been good). Lifetime loss of rights is excessive in many instances.


Dell Gines

I think there is something inherently immoral about someone not being able to participate in the democratic process when in a Democracy that is how a voice is heard. Be it released felon (in prison all bets are off) or not, the fundamental principle of self-governance is that the voice of the people through vote determine the nature of government. That is why the arbitrary restriction of voting rights to felons who served their penal or other consequences smacks of totalitarian restriction to me.

Why? Because these same individuals are now left without a voice as a citizen in determining the rule of law that they will have to live by, and that principle of participation IS the corner stone of our society.

The question is this

A) Can a one time felon be a good and productive citizen?
B) Can a felon be patriot and seek to serve the best interest of the country?
C) Can a felon be a conscientious voter?

The answer to all of those is a resounding yes, so the question then becomes why would you sanction for life an individual who for all intents and purposes might be equal or superior to the non-felon in what they can add to this democratic republic?

Like I said, what can be done, and what should be done are two different things and restricting the cornerstone of American democracy, the right to vote, after someone has done their penance to me is anti-American.

ABC NEWS EXEC: 'BUSH MAKES ME SICK

duh-duh-der-duh-duh.... What Liberal Media?

From the Drudge Report!

ABC NEWS EXEC: 'BUSH MAKES ME SICK'; E-MAIL REVEALED**Exclusive** A top producer at ABC NEWS declared "Bush makes me sick" in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.

John Green, currently executive producer of the weekend edition of GOOD MORNING AMERICA, unloaded on the president in an ABC company email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.

"If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke," Green complained.

The blunt comments by Green, along with other emails obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT, further reveal the inner workings of the nation's news outlets. A friend of Green's at ABC says Green is mortified by the email. "John feels so badly about this email. He is a straight shooter and great producer who is always fair. That said, he deeply regrets the sentiment expressed in the email and the embarrassment it causes ABC News."

Rally for Abdul Rahman at Afghan Embassy

Blogger Michelle Malkin wants all bloggers to make it to the Support Abdul Rahman event tomorrow outside the Afghan Embassy in Washington DC from noon to 1pm.

Many religious activists and bloggers will be joining us–and in addition to honoring Rahman, it is also an opportunity for people of all faiths to come together and celebrate a precious cornerstone of Western civilization: religious freedom.

Best, Michelle The rally for Abdul Rahman will take place at the Afghan Embassy in DC tomorrow at noon:

Friday March 24 Noon to 1pm Outside the Afghan Embassy 2341 Wyoming Ave NW. Washington DC

1995 Osama Bin Laden Meeting With Iraq

No connection?

A newly released pre-war Iraqi document indicates that an official representative of Saddam Hussein's government met with Osama bin Laden in Sudan on February 19, 1995 after approval by Saddam Hussein. Bin Laden asked that Iraq broadcast the lectures of Suleiman al Ouda, a radical Saudi preacher, and suggested "carrying out joint operations against foreign forces" in Saudi Arabia. According to the document, Saddam's presidency was informed of the details of the meeting on March 4, 1995 and Saddam agreed to dedicate a program for them on the radio.

The document states that further "development of the relationship and cooperation between the two parties to be left according to what's open (in the future) based on dialogue and agreement on other ways of cooperation." The Sudanese were informed about the agreement to dedicate the program on the radio.

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The Alliance For Black Republicans

http://www.alliancegop.com/


The Republican Party understands Black Americans concerns about jobs, education,their families, social security, home ownership, and achieving the American dream.Thank you for visiting the Alliance of Black Republicans (AllianceGOP) website.

Our mission is to increase participation of the Black-American community in the Republican Party.Please sign up to become a member so that we can make contact with you, as the website will be continually updated as election 2006 nears.

Visit with our link to our partner groups as they conduct meetings and forums throughout Michigan. We plan to have materials available to help interested voters become involved in the Republican Party as well as to help voters make clear choices about which candidate best represents their views.Ken Mehlman, chair of the Republican National Committee says it best: 'Give us a chance and we will give you a choice'.

The Alliance of Black Republicans wants you to be informed of the choices on this side of the aisle.-Kim M. Hoppe Chair, Alliance of Black Republicans

The Alliance For Black Republicans is a new group

Hip Hop Rivalry...East Coast vs West Coast

Probably the most famous rap feud of recent times is the early to mid-1990s rivalry between the East Coast's Bad Boy Records and the West Coast's Death Row Records, which was widely thought of and reported in the media as an East Coast vs West Coast dispute.



Hip hop had originated in the streets of New York, and the city remained the undisputed capital of hip hop until 1992, when Dr. Dre's The Chronic became one of the biggest-selling hip hop albums in history, followed shortly by Snoop Doggy Dogg's breakout album Doggystyle in 1993. Dre was on Death Row Records, headed by Suge Knight, and he soon built up a roster of stars like - Tupac Shakur, Tha Dogg Pound and Snoop Doggy Dogg that reigned on the charts, and Los Angeles begun to rival New York for its place as the center for mainstream hip hop.

This had already, and somewhat inevitably, created a tension between certain industry heavyweights on both coasts, each hungry for control of an increasingly lucrative market. The biggest stars on the East Coast at this time were Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records crew, which was founded in 1993 and included Craig Mack, Mase and the Notorious B.I.G..

Bad Boy and Death Row were thrown into conflict with one another after Tupac Shakur was shot five times at a New York recording studio on November 30, 1994, and publicly blamed his former close friend Notorious B.I.G and his Bad Boy Records cohorts. This feud escalated after Suge Knight mocked Puff Daddy at the Source Awards in August 1995, announcing to the assembly of artists and industry figures: "If you don't want the owner of your label on your album or in your video or on your tour, come sign with Death Row." Despite Puff Daddy himself attempting to defuse the situation with a speech later in the evening, a later performance by Death Row's Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg was booed (to which Snoop famously responded "The East Coast ain't got no love for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg?").

The feud continued to escalate through numerous incidents. First, in September 1995, a close friend of Knight's was gunned down at a birthday party thrown for producer Jermaine Dupri in Atlanta, Georgia, for which Knight publicly blamed Bad Boy Records. Then, in December, while filming the video for the Dogg Pound's song "New York, New York" in Manhattan, Snoop Dogg's trailer was shot at numerous times (though the trailer was in fact empty at the time).

The video itself then become the source of further controversy on its release, featuring Death Row artists knocking over New York skyscrapers and landmarks, to which many East Coast artists and fans took offense. There was also suspicion that the song itself was also targeted at Bad Boy Records and New York in general, though this is unlikely as the song is in fact a remake of a Grandmaster Flash song, features only generic, non-specific braggadocio/battle rhymes with nothing that could be interpreted as a specific attack on any specific individuals, and was written and recorded before the Bad Boy/Death Row feud got off the ground.

In 1995, The Notorious B.I.G. released the track "Who Shot Ya." Tupac interpreted it as B.I.G. mocking his '95 shooting, and claimed it proved that Bad Boy had set him up. In early 1996, Tupac released the infamous dis track "Hit 'Em Up," in which he claimed to have had sex with the Notorious B.I.G's wife Faith Evans and that "this ain't no freestyle battle, y'all niggas getting killed" and was viewed as taking the feud to another level and critics today look on the song as one of 2Pac's worst moments. B.I.G. soon responded on Jay-Z's track "Brooklyn's Finest" (a move which also caused Jay-Z to become embroiled in the dispute). In March 1996, at the Soul Train Awards in Miami, there was a confrontation in the parking lot between the respective entourages of Bad Boy and Death Row in which guns were drawn. Although an armed staring contest was all this confrontation eventually amounted to, it was readily apparent to hip hop fans and artists that this rivalry was getting very out of hand, and going far beyond the heated, but never violent, lyrical battles for superiority of the past.


Tupac ShakurOn September 7, 1996 Tupac Shakur was shot several times in Las Vegas, dying a few days later on Friday 13. On March 9, 1997, the Notorious B.I.G. was shot and killed in California. Both murders remain unsolved, and numerous theories (some of them conspiracy theories) have sprung up. These include, most notoriously, that Shakur (and possibly Biggie) faked their own deaths.

In 1997, several rappers, including Bizzy Bone, Doug E. Fresh and Snoop Dogg met at the request of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam and pledged to forgive any slights that may be related to the rivalry and deaths of Shakur and Biggie.

Prior to his death, Tupac had also come into separate disputes with several other East Coast rappers. Some friends of Tupac Shakur had been apparently snubbed by the group Mobb Deep at one of their concerts, and when word of the incident reached a then-jailed Tupac he sent out a message to Mobb Deep threatening violence.

Mobb Deep immediately responded with the track "Drop a Gem on 'Em" which, although its official release on the Hell On Earth album occurred after Tupac's "Hit 'Em Up" single which mocked Mobb Deep, it had been circulating on mixtapes and radio in New York long before. Nas also angered Tupac by appearing to mock Tupac with the line "Fake thug, no love, you get the slug, CB4 gusto your luck blow..." in the track "The Message," although Nas denied that this line was ever aimed at Pac.

Even Chino XL, an underground rapper from New Jersey with no eye on mainstream domination and no ties to Bad Boy Records, Nas or Mobb Deep, incurred Tupac's wrath on "Hit Em Up" by using him in a somewhat ambiguous simile "By this industry, I'm trying not to get fucked like Tupac in jail" (ironically, the track to which this line belongs is a duet with proud West Coast representative Ras Kass).

Chino soon responded with a freestyle on live radio, but it was either ignored or not heard by Tupac. Since these rappers were all East Coast artists, and because they were often insulted in the same songs which Tupac insulted Bad Boy Records, they are often believed to be part of a greater "East Coast vs West Coast" war driven by allegiance and territory. Tupac was quick to diss any East Coast artist that had any kind of association with Biggie, and in fact was harsh on his Death Row labelmates who were reluctant to participate, such as Snoop Dogg and later Dr. Dre.

Because of Tupac and Biggie's prominence on the West and East Coast respectively (both were believed to be the preeminent MCs of their time) the feud became widely known as East vs. West, rather than simply Bad Boy vs. Death Row. However, there were several different artists who, albeit less commercially successful, were relatively uninvolved in the beef; these included Nas, Redman, Busta Rhymes, and the Wu-Tang Clan. Some have claimed that the "East vs. West" paradigm amounted to media sensationalism; however, as previously stated, both artists were the preeminent rappers on their respective coasts, and often invoked their region in their music (the cover of Tupac's All Eyez on Me, for example, shows him flashing the "Westside" sign.)

Soon after the death of Shakur, Death Row Records folded as Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mother, sued the label for allegedly cheating her son out of millions. Label head Suge Knight ended up in jail for unrelated probation violations. Lady of Rage and Nate Dogg have also filed suits against Death Row with similar allegations. Puff Daddy has also had multiple legal troubles, including a much-publicized case resulting from a shooting in a New York club; he has been acquitted, though fellow rapper Shyne was not. Bad Boy Records had for the most part maintained its place at the top of the industry since the death of Notorious B.I.G, with artist Mase achieving success before his early retirement (and un-retirement) and Puff Daddy (now Diddy) himself achieving considerable commercial success.

More recently, Bad Boy has struggled as a record label due to a lack of marketable talent and allegations that Puff is more concerned with his other ventures (i.e., Sean John clothing). After Suge Knight's release from prison, Death Row Records was reborn as "Tha Row," signing many artists including former Dogg Pound member Kurupt, and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. Unfortunately Lopes was killed in a car crash not long after signing to the label, and none of their other signings have achieved much in the way of commercial success. Mostly Deathrow focuses on dissing former label mates,such as Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.

Hip Hop Industry dogged by Police

(LOS ANGELES, CA, United States (UPI) -- 'Rap Sheet: Hip-Hop and the Cops' is a documentary that claims U.S. police have been keeping secret dossiers on rappers and hip-hop executives.

Filmmaker Don Sikorski interviews Russell Simmons, Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, Ja Rule, Snoop Dogg and Damon Dash for his film, which also includes performance footage from Eminem, Fat Joe, Judakiss and Lloyd Banks, Daily Variety reports.

Police in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency have compiled an amazing amount of 'intimate, private information,' Sikorski told Variety.

'I was amazed at the volume of intimate, private information that this national network of police had gathered,' Sikorski said. 'But the more I talked to artists and cops, the more I understood that this is a situation with few heroes and plenty of villains on both sides.

Copyright 2006 by United Press International

RuPaul the Man

Okay,
So I have never known what Rupaul the man looked like,
so here is Rupaul's male picture.



Rupaul blogs! Wadda ya know!

http://www.rupaul.com/weblog.shtml

BENIN: Boni Yayi to become President

Yayi was born in Tchaourou, in the Borgou Department in northern Benin, then the French colony of Dahomey. He was educated in the regional capital, Parakou, and later studied economics at the National University of Benin. He studied banking at the University of Dakar in Senegal, and later economics and politics at the University of Orleans in France and at Paris University, where he completed a doctorate in economics in 1976.

From 1980 to 1988 Yayi worked for the Central Bank of the States of West Africa (BCEAO), becoming its Deputy Director, based in Dakar. In 1988 he became Deputy Director for Professional Development at the West African Centre for Banking Studies, also in Dakar. From 1992 to 1994 he worked in the office of the President of Benin, Mathieu Kérékou, in charge of monetary and banking policy. Finally in 1994 he was appointed President of the West African Development Bank (BOAD). For his work on West African development he was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre National de Mérite of the French Republic.

With more than 70 percent of the votes counted in the first round of the elections, held on 5 March, Boni had polled nearly 32 percent, according to a Reuters report, although no official results had been posted. His nearest challenger, Adrien Houngbédji of the Party for Democratic Renewal, had reportedly polled 25 percent. Twenty-six candidates contested the election, which was reported to have been peaceful and fair. A runoff was held between Yayi and Houngbedji on March 19; Yayi won with almost 75% of the vote, and will take office on April 6



Boni Yayi, a former banker in his maiden bid for political office, has won nearly 75 percent of the vote in the final round of Benin's presidential election, according to provisional results from the National Electoral Commission.

Yayi won 74.51 percent of votes in the second run-off round on 19 March against 25.49 percent for veteran political leader Adrien Houngbedji, the electoral commission (CENA) said late Wednesday after counting 97.20 percent of the ballot papers.

Turnout was 67.01 percent against 70.87 percent in the first round on 5 March.

The election of a new president – the fourth poll since the introduction of multi-party politics in 1991 – marks a turning point for the tiny West African nation wedged between Nigeria and Togo. It ends almost three decades in office for President Mathieu Kerekou, who was ineligible to run due to his age and to having completed two successive terms. Doubts over whether he would relinquish the office at the end of his mandate 6 April clouded the run-up to the poll.

Yayi, who last month resigned as chairman of the Togo-based West African Development Bank to run in the election, said after voting last Sunday that "we must work together to take up the challenge of developing our nation". The 54-year-old ran as an independent with the backing of a coalition of parties and civil society groups.

While the run-up to the poll was marred by funding shortfalls, complaints from disgruntled electoral workers and fears of a less-than-smooth process, two peaceful rounds of voting once again reinforced Benin's status as an oasis of stability and democracy in turbulent West Africa.

Challenger Houngbedji, the 64-year-old leader of the Democratic Renewal Party who twice served as speaker of parliament, was quick to extend his congratulations. "Our country has turned a new page in its history. Our common duty is to get down to work to open the page of a strengthened unity, a deepened democracy and the beginnings of our development."




The Republic of Benin is a country in West Africa, formerly known as Dahomey or Dahomania. It has a small coast line with the Bight of Benin in the south, borders Togo in the west, Nigeria in the east, and Burkina Faso and Niger in the north.

The African kingdom of Dahomey originated in Benin. By the 17th century, the kingdom, ruled by an oba, stretched beyond the borders of present-day Benin, covering a large part of West-Africa. The kingdom was prosperous and established slave trading relations with the Europeans (mostly Portuguese and Dutch) who first arrived in the late 15th century. The coastal part of the kingdom became known as the Slave Coast.

By the 18th century, Dahomey started to fall apart, enabling the French to take over the area in 1892. In 1899, the land became part of the French West Africa colony, still as Dahomey. In 1958, it was granted autonomy as the Republic of Dahomey, and full independence started on August 1, 1960.

For the next 12 years, ethnic strife contributed to a period of turbulence. There were several coups and regime changes, with three main figures dominating - Sourou Apithy, Hubert Maga, and Justin Ahomadegbé - each of them representing a different area of the country. These three agreed to form a presidential council after violence had marred the 1970 elections. In 1972, a military coup led by Mathieu Kérékou overthrew the council. He established a Marxist government under the control of Military Council of the Revolution (CNR), and the country was renamed to the People's Republic of Benin in 1975. In 1979, the CNR was dissolved and elections took place. By the late 1980s, Kérékou abandoned Marxism after an economic crisis and decided to re-establish a parliamentary capitalist system. He was defeated in 1991 elections, becoming the first black African president to step down after an election. He returned to power after winning the 1996 vote. In 2001, a closely fought election resulted in Kérékou winning another term. His opponents claimed there were some election irregularities.


It is believed that Vodun (or "Voodoo", as it is commonly known) originated in Benin and was introduced to Brazil, the Caribbean Islands, and parts of North America by slaves taken from this particular area of the Slave Coast. The indigenous religion of Benin is practiced by about 60% of the population. Since 1992 Vodun has been recognized as one of Benin's official religions, and a National Vodun Holiday is celebrated on January 10.

A View from the Dark Side!

This is a vivid look into the mind of the socialist at the Black Radical Congress.
Read what they say is the problem with black America.
These guys are the real problem.

Black Radical Congress
May/June 1998

What follows is the call for the Black Radical Congress, which will be held in Chicago, Illinois startingon Juneteenth, June 19-21, 1998.

The Struggle Continues: Setting a Black Liberation Agenda for the 21st Century

Black people face a deep crisis. Finding a way out of this mess requires new thinking, new vision, and a new spirit of resistance. We need a new movement of Black radicalism.

We know that America's capitalist economy has completely failed us. Every day more of us are unemployed and imprisoned, homeless and hungry. Police brutality, violence and the international drug trade threaten our children with the greatest dangers since slavery. The politicians build more prisons but cut budgets for public schools, day care and health care. They slash welfare yet hire more cops. The government says working people must pay more taxes and receive fewer services, while the rich and the corporations grow fat. Black people and other oppressed people have the power to change the way things are today. But first we must unite against the real enemy.

Now is the time for a revival of the militant spirit of resistance that our people have always possessed, from the Abolitionist Movement to outlaw slavery to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s, from Black Power to the anti-apartheid campaign of the 1980s. Now is the time to rebuild a strong, uncompromising movement for human rights, full employment and self determination. Now is the time for a new Black radicalism.

If you believe in the politics of Black liberation, join us in Chicago in 1998 at the Black Radical Congress. If you hate what capitalism has done to our community--widespread joblessness, drugs, violence and poverty--come to the Congress. If you are fed up with the corruption of the two party system and want to develop a plan for real political change, come to the Congress. If you want to struggle against class exploitation, racism, sexism and homophobia, come to the Congress. The Black Radical Congress is for everyone ready to fight back: trade unionists and workers, youth and students, women, welfare recipients, lesbians and gays, public housing tenants and the homeless, the elderly and people on fixed incomes, veterans, cultural workers and immigrants. You!

Sisters and Brothers, we stand at the edge of a new century. The moment for a new militancy and a new commitment to the liberation of all Black people, at home and abroad, has arrived. Let us build a national campaign toward the Black Radical Congress, setting in motion a renewed struggle to claim our historic role as the real voice of democracy in this country. Spread the word: "Without struggle, there is no progress!" Now's the time!




It's because of this socialist mindset. A mindset that has been ingrained in them by their National leaders, Revereneds, any black who talks the socialist idealisms. You read this coming straight from them. You see there is no idea to look from within. It's all a "victimhood" mentality.
There is no idea of responsibility, of working hard to get an education.

Do we ever see these people criticize those black music artists casting a destructive model for young black generations? Who is selling drugs in black neighborhoods? It's black brothers.

Whose fault is it that the black youth are more than likely to follow a life of crime? It's the examples they see from their elder black role models and leaders.

You can't blame the white people for that. Until you see gangsta rap artists, who themselves get in turf wars with eachother and sing songs about destructive lifestyles change and do something actually positive for their communities, you will never see a change in their prison numbers.

It's not the white man's responsibility to make sure the black man gets a education. It's the black man's responsibility to do for himself. But, these people are socialists and they want to create a new system.

They are anti-capitalists. So, it makes sense they want to keep the dependent masses in this mind frame to have a following. I am only talking about those blacks who have the socialist mind thing going with their people. They are the ones who are keeping their own people down. These mindsets are void of responsibility, accountability, entitlement are destructive to any chance of progressing. They take no responsibility for their own situation.


Hip Hop Republican is removing the above picture after
a complaint from the owner.

Awsome Pic

I had to post this!

The Covenant with Black America

The Covenant with Black America is a collection of ideas
by prominent liberal black leaders.
There ideas hope to galvanize a movement to help
uplift black folks.

The Covenant, a book which features essays examining issues facing black America, including health, education and criminal justice, was released three weeks ago and earned a great deal of hype during the live The State of Black America broadcast on C-Span in late February.

The book, which will appear on the Times’ March 26 listing, became number one with online booksellers like Amazon, Borders and Barnes and Nobles only days after the C-Span broadcast.

The book starts out with these points.

As we witnessed in the 2004 presidential election, Americans are deeply divided between race, class, gender, political ideology and moral values. A divide so extreme, that in order to bridge it, we must speak openly, freely, without judgment and work together.

It is imperative that we take this opportunity to consider the issues of particular interest to African Americans and to establish a national plan of action to address them. No longer can we sit back and expect one political party, one segment of the population or one religious denomination to speak for us or to act on our behalf. It is our responsibility as an entire community to no longer be left behind politically, socially, or economically and to bridge the economic and social divides ourselves, by encouraging a conversation and a commitment that will inevitably benefit all Americans.

It seems like the only Republic friendly person is Bishop Harrt Jackson
who is a popular minister in Maryland.

He is a registered democrat but supported Bush on 04.
I think the book has some good ideas, but I think its
to partisan.

The book which was attacked by Louis Farakhan for
relying governmentent to much, will no doubt create much needed debate.
Tavis Smiley has to understand that for his
goals to embraced the partisanship must stop.
Calling Republicans racist,and anti civil rights,
then asking for there help will not work.

You must be willing to have an open mind,
and a willingness to try to find new ways for dialoge.

If not this book will go by the way side
as so many have in the past.

Reperations - yay or nay?

Yo..I briefly hit on this subject... just interested in two things a) how everyone feels on this subject and b) what some of your suggestions might be for reperations.

I'm really interested in hearing a mock plan for these reperations!

I am highly against it (at the moment, but can be swayed on this one if a good argument is presented) and think it will only be used to further cause harm. But then again, I don't know.... the Japanese (Americans) have received some aid for the "internment" camps they were held in during WWII. I know of this first hand because my buddies parents actually received the aid. So, then, why not blacks? or is this considered a hand out? How will it be done? In what fashion will it be done? Do only blacks with a certain percentage of bloodline in them receive it?

What about giving it to only older blacks, idea being the younger blacks haven't gone through anything that occured pre-civil rights era?

What's the best case for reperations? What will it do? Why do you think we need it? Or why don't you think we need it?

I'm against it for now, but what about giving them in the form of tax breaks? or would that be too much for the govt and/or too little for the individual?

Dell Gines says ..Kinda



I do not favor reparations as a cash redistribution of taxed money. Although I think this would have some benefit, I think the structure of reparations needs to be such that it corrects or works to aid directly in the correction of the social ills that slavery has caused in black America. So this is my plan:

We redirect a certain amount of tax dollars of the next 20 years. (Let’s say $1 Billion EACH YEAR that grows each year in conjunction with inflation and does not include the bureaucratic cost associated with the program). $1 Billion in terms of government programming is chump change.

This money would be distributed in ways that would:

1. Create incentives for education
2. Create incentives for starting businesses in disadvantaged urban areas.
3. Create disincentives for having children out of wedlock
4. Create incentives for marriage

Here is how it would work (for length purpose we will assume the bureaucracy is already in place).

The pool of money as hinted above, will only be distributed to individuals who are pursuing higher education, or who are starting a business. No free cash handouts.

1. Create incentives for education

Education
100% of undergraduate education will be paid out, up to $100, 000 per student.

50% of postgraduate education will be paid out, up to $100, 000 per student.

25% of doctoral education will be paid out, up to $100, 000 per student.

The caveat is this, it is grade based. If a student maintains a 3.0 or above GPA he receives the 95% reimbursement. If it is between 2.0 or 3.0 it is reduced to 50%. If it is beneath 2.0 he or she is suspended from the educational reparations program until they increase their GPA to 2.5 or above.

This incentivizes students to enter college and perform at a high level. Thereby increasing human capital amongst American blacks and improving ultimately their socio-economic status.

2. Create incentives for starting businesses in disadvantaged urban areas.

Entrepreneurs would be eligible to receive loans up to $500, 000 for a qualified new venture. They would not be excused from education though. To apply for the reparations grant, they would have to complete a two year night entrepreneurial business program. This program would teach them the foundation of entrepreneurialism, and have them prepare the business plan that they would eventually submit for funding.

As opposed to a 100% grant, the owner would still be required to come up with 5% of the total loan request to ‘tie them into’ the project.

If the business owner wanted to start the business outside of a disadvantaged community, they would be required to come up with 25% of the total cost of the project.

3. Create disincentives for having children out of wedlock.

All programs (education & loan) would have a 50% reduction in reparations for the person entering the program has a child outside of marriage. Although not 100% effective, this would be determined in the male cases by child support records.

4. Create incentives for marriage

All of the reparations programs would be the same for married individuals. The incentives would be in tax credits. For example, during the five years after graduation, the married couple would receive a $5000 tax credit per year. If a person gets married within five years of graduation he would receive the five year tax credit also. On the entrepreneurial side, the married owner would be able to receive either a $5000 personal tax credit for the first five years the business existed or a $10, 000 income tax credit on the business for three years.

What this program inherently tries to do is create incentives for behaviors that are most needed in our urban black communities, and discourage behaviors that tend to lead to higher poverty. Of course the devil is in the details. But it isn’t a ‘cash handout’. It could be crafted and marketed as another socially progressive program that has positive economic impact for the whole of America even though it directly relates to blacks. And it strengthens a variety of non-black industries and institutions as well.


Mr. Skelly says...Hell Na


We cannot wait to hit the lotto and the way the US government works we might do better buying Powerball tickets than waiting for a reparations check. Your model could be a great starting point if reparations came to reality. But in the meantime blacks have to dig themselves out of the socioeconomic hole. Its not going to happen instantly but we can make up ground for the next generation like the civil rights movement did for us.

One thing you cannot predetermine in people and thats self-determination. There are many students that come from horrible school systems and are honor students. It’s easy to say that if students get a certain GPAs the government will pay for college, numerous minority science and math scholarships out go unclaimed even with the internet access an raising higher education cost.

Finally, all blacks arent poor would these benefits be available to blacks above the poverty line. Would a black family that makes $100k have access to the same benefits that a single mom with 2 kids who makes $8.00/hr? If they do its reparations if they don’t then its an entitlement program.


Michael says No


I am absolutely against any reparation plan at this point. The time for reparations would have been soon after the federal government began enforcing the 13th amendment. You would need an entire government agency just to handle qualifying claims. You would also need to address non-black slaves and their claims as well. It would be just as disaterous as all of the other social programs that the government has attempted over the years.

Money and tax breaks are not a solution for black people. I don't need a government program for me to show another black person how to apply for loan, incorporate their business, or get financial aid for college.

Instead of reparations, how about an apology, and open up a SBA (small business administration) field office in impoverished areas. Streamline the SBA loan process in these areas that need "accelerated economic development". Provide incentives to open schools in these same areas. It's easier for a single mom with two kids to get job training or a degree when her school has child care and is down the street from her home -- forcing her to get on a bus or drive somewhere out of the way is another reason for her to stay home and do nothing about changing her position in life.

A former aide spills the dirt on Fidel Castro

A member of Fidel's inner circle now lives in Miami and is talking up a storm. He even knows why the Cuban leader burns his underwear.

This is some crazy shit!


BY OSCAR CORRAL
ocorral@MiamiHerald.com

As part of Fidel and Raúl Castro's inner circle, Delfín Fernández learned titillating secrets -- everything from why the Cuban leader incinerates his dirty underwear to his cravings for pricey Spanish ham.

Oh, Fidel's former gofer confirms, too, the heftier ''secrets'' that Cuba experts have talked about for years: how the brothers assemble dossiers on foreign businessmen who want to invest in Cuba, for instance.

It's Fernández's knowledge about Fidel Castro's dirty laundry, though -- literally and figuratively -- that has made him a cause célbre in South Florida. No detail about the Castro brothers seems too small for sharing with the world.

Fernández says chief of bodyguards, Bienvenido ''Chicho'' Perez, told him the Cuban leader has his underwear burned to foil any assassination plots with chemicals during laundering.

And he knows Fidel's capricious appetite for Serrano hams, having been sent to Spain to bring $2,500 worth of the pata negra delicacy back to Cuba. He knows well the Castro brothers' doctors and children, having vacationed with them at lavish oceanfront homes on the island.

So what does a man with such sensitive information do once he goes into exile?

Why, he gets a steady, if unpaid, gig on a Spanish-language TV show in Miami, of course, after having been a bodyguard to international stars -- among them, Antonio Banderas.

Fernández, cherubic, chatty and with a portfolio of sensitive photographs and a memory filled with intimate Castro morsels, arrived in Miami less than a year ago after living in Spain for five years. But already, he has a spot on a new TV show on WJAN-Channel 41.

``I was assigned to take care of the people closest to Fidel. So that they don't lack anything and don't feel threatened by anything inside or outside of Cuba. . . . When I tell about these things on television, people see me and I start making a name for myself.''

Former CIA analyst Brian Latell, a senior researcher at the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies, said this week he spent several hours meeting with Fernández in Miami earlier this year for academic research.

''A lot of the stories he told me were fascinating, and I found almost all of them to be highly credible,'' Latell said.

Fernández, 44, was code-named ''Otto'' when he reported to Cuban counterintelligence's Department 11 -- assigned to the Castro brothers and their closest foreign investment contacts, mostly from Spain, he said.

Fernández got the post as a trusted gofer in 1980 through his uncle, Rodolfo Fernández Rodriguez, chief of the Office of Special Affairs of the Counsel of State and one of Fidel's most trusted confidants.

While he worked for the Castro brothers, Fernández witnessed the tactics used by Cuba's leaders to monitor important foreign investors. His disillusionment with the regime, he said, and his ambitions for a better life compelled him to defect.

''The initial idea of Fidel was good. Batista was an assassin,'' Fernández said. ``What happened was, the course he took with the revolution was wrong. It has dissolved into this unstoppable, insatiable corruption without limits, a vast lie. The people are in misery. Cuba's people have been enslaved as cheap labor for foreign businessmen.''

Fernández said Cuba's leader always travels around Havana in a six- or seven-car motorcade led by three nearly identical black Mercedes-Benz 560s. The Castro brothers have as many as 300 cars for them, their families, their bodyguards, Fernández said.

Fidel Castro turns 80 this year, and he has become obsessed with his health, Fernández said. The Castro brothers each have their own clinics and their own doctors in Havana's Council of State Building and in the Cimeq Hospital. Last year, Fidel Castro built a multimillion-dollar clinic a few yards from his front door, on the grounds of his Havana estate, Fernández said he learned from his island contacts. .

''So that if Castro has a heart attack or he dies, the only people who will know about it will be his family, the guards working at the time, and Raúl,'' Fernández said. ``Fidel never cedes control, and will never cede power.''

One example of Fidel Castro's concern with ceding power is former Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina, applauded by some in the international community for trying to open Cuba to the world. But Robaina, whom Fernández knew well, was ultimately sacked by Castro in 1999, according to The Miami Herald and other media reports at the time.

''He was a guy with progressive ideas,'' Fernández said. ``But he is an example of what happens if you try to change the Cuban system from within. He was under house arrest for two years.''

Fernández paints Raúl Castro, who runs Cuba's armed forces and by extention much of its economy, as more practical and family oriented than his older brother, an analysis echoed by Latell in his book After Fidel.

''Raúl likes the money -- he has a transition plan,'' Fernández said. ``Fidel doesn't. I think Raúl would want to lead an economic transformation, and ultimately find a way to retire peacefully with his family with all the money he has stolen from the Cuban people over the years and taken out of the country.''

Fernández said he carried suitcases with cash out of Cuba for the Castro brothers.

Fernández's photographs include several of him with the children of Fidel and Raúl at one of their beachfront estates and with many high-profile Spanish businessmen.

Fernández said he defected in Spain in 1999 on a trip to Europe to drop off Raúl's daughter, Mariela Castro Espin, in Italy to visit her father-in-law and pick up a Rotweiller in Germany for Fidel.

Fernández settled in Spain for five years, becoming one of Europe's most successful bodyguards. Among his clients in Spain: actors Antonio Banderas and his wife, Melanie Griffith, soccer star David Beckham, Spanish actresses Ana Obregon and Esther Cañada, former Spice Girl Emma Bunton and several high-profile businessmen.

The Spanish media have embraced him, writing dozens of articles about his life as a Castro insider and bodyguard. He was also a consultant on an investigative book, Conexión Habana, by Spanish authors. Fernández said there's a black market trade in sensitive videos of Spanish businessmen -- videos made by Cuban agents.

''Fidel is an avid consumer of those materials,'' he said.

Last year, Fernández moved to Miami, eager to reconnect with friends and a community that reminds him more of home: like Cuba without Castro on TV every night. He has been an outspoken critic of the Castro government since he defected.

``Cuba has a death sentence against me for high treason.''

Now waiting to get residency under the Cuban Adjustment Act, Fernández won't talk about his own family, but he has plenty to say about the Castro clan. People can't seem to get enough.

Oscar Haza, a popular Spanish language talk show host on Channel 41, has invited Fernández on his show at least six times, firing up the ratings when he's a guest, said Channel 41 news director Miguel Cossío.

The ratings were so strong that Channel 41 offered to let Fernández be a permanent guest on a new daily weekday show, Arrebatados, at 6 p.m., hosted by Maria Laria.

''I'd like to start a bodyguard agency in Miami when I'm all settled down here,'' he said. ``I'm very grateful to the people in Miami that have been so welcoming to me.''

Should religious converts be punished?

A Muslim man who converted to Christianity could face the death penalty in Afghanistan.

Abdul Rahman is charged with rejecting Islam and could be executed under Sharia law unless he reconverts.

This is thought to be Afghanistan's first such trial, reflecting the tensions between conservative clerics and reformists which have arisen since the fall of the Taleban.

Should religious converts be punished? What effect will this have on people's freedom to worship?

Should the international community get involved in the case?

I think there is something called Freedom of Religion which probably got lost in time and none has any right to impose any religion on anyone. Its the time for international community and people to realize that religion has got nothing except consuming numerous life's around the world in the name of terrorism.
Wake up everyone from religious ignorance and darkness.

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Somali warlords battle Islamists

Mogadishu is controlled by thousands of gunmen

Heavy fighting is continuing in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, between warlords and an armed Islamist group.

Hospital officials say at least 60 people have been killed in two days of clashes in the north of the city. Residents say mortars are being used.

The warlords accuse the Islamists of sheltering foreign fighters and assassinating moderate Muslims.

Somalia has been without an effective central government for 15 years and has been carved up by rival militias.

A transitional parliament met recently for the first time on home soil since it was formed in Kenya more than a year ago as part of attempts to restore peace and stability.

The BBC's Hassan Barise in Mogadishu says residents fear that with such a strong ideological divide between the two sides, it may prove difficult to negotiate an end to the fighting.

Passengers killed

The United Nations' Irin news agency reports that thousands of people are fleeing the clashes.

It also quotes a doctor saying many more than 60 people may have been killed "because a lot of people are being buried where they died".


Facts and figures about life in Somalia


At-a-glance

The AP news agency reports that five civilians were killed when a mortar fell on a bus, while a man was shot dead for telling gunmen they could not hide in his house.

The dispute started near the port area, which is currently controlled by powerful businessmen.

Much of the fighting has been in residential areas and the latest clashes are reportedly closer to the city centre.

More than 50 wounded have been taken to hospitals.

Four days of fighting last month between the two sides was some of the heaviest fighting seen in the Somali capital for several years.

At least five warlords-cum-ministers in the transitional government are behind the new Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism, opposed to the Islamic courts' militia.

The courts have set up Mogadishu's only judicial system in parts of the capital but have been accused of links to al-Qaeda.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4836494.stm

Michelle Malkin Interviews Cindy Sheehan

Link to Michelle Malkin Interview with Cindy Sheehan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JuTFtfmtEQ

She's just great. That was so funny. Cindy is too darn busy to put a headstone on her child's grave. The "sandwich" eater was the best.


My Son Doesn't have a headstone because I've been going all over the world trying to keep other kids from being buried" - Cindy Sheehan

Mississippi Outlaws Sex Toys

In Mississippi, people can buy guns at a gun show with no background check and certain weapons can be carried almost anywhere. Sure, guns and toys can bring joy and a sense of comfort to the user, but apparently the legislators concluded that a genital replica is a far greater threat to society.

Why cant people mind there own business?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/

Nazis Unite to Massacre Muslims at World Cup

ROME (AFP) - The World Cup in Germany is set to become a battleground between facists and Muslims, an Italian member of a new European neo-Nazi movement warned
In a statement published by Italian daily Repubblica, the memeber of AS Roma's notorious ultras hooligan group claims neo-Nazis across Europe met in Braunau in Austria to plan attacks against supporters from Islamic countries during the World Cup in Germany from June 9 to July 9.
"We are united. For the first time we are talking and planning together, with the English, the Germans, the Dutch, the Spanish, everyone with the same objective. At the World Cup there will be a massacre," said the Italian ultra.

"We will all be in Germany and there will be Turks, Algerians and Tunisians. The Turks, we can't stand them. In our country (Italy) there are not many, but in Germany, there are many of those guys there. They are Islamic terrorists.

"We will attack them. They are all enemies that need to be eliminated, just like the police. If we make the Roman greeting (the fascist salute) they put us in prison. We will be tens of thousands. Nothing but the English are feared."


On first quick read I thought they were speaking figuratively, as in they were gonna kick ass at soccer. Then I realized it was probably all talk. Security will be out in force and this will be a non-event.

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=77972&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21

Farrakhan visits Cuba, denounces US Katrina aid

Source: Reuters




HAVANA, March 20 (Reuters) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is visiting communist Cuba to learn about disaster relief, a visit prompted by the failure of the U.S. government to cope with Hurricane Katrina, he said on Monday.

The controversial Nation of Islam leader, who is visiting Cuba for a week, criticized Washington for refusing a Cuban offer to send doctors after Katrina devastated New Orleans last August, flooding neighborhoods mainly populated by blacks and the impoverished.

"After Hurricane Katrina and the failure of federal and state government, we felt it was our duty to come to Cuba to learn disaster management from the Cuban people who have had many hurricanes and have not lost lives," he said.

Farrakhan, who led the Million Man March on the Washington Mall in 1995 to promote black self-reliance and responsibility, said he intended to "spread the knowledge" among impoverished black, Hispanic and Native American communities.

He met with young Americans studying medicine in Havana on Cuban scholarships and encouraged them to go back to their communities to deliver medical services needed by those who lack health insurance.

"This is a difficult road that you have chosen, but you must not give up," he told some of the 74 Americans studying at Havana's Latin American Medical School.

The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba and enforced an economic embargo after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. The Bush administration stepped up sanctions in 2004 to undermine what it calls an "outpost of tyranny."

Farrakhan said the U.S. State Department "represents the rich and the powerful."

"We do not believe that Miss Condoleezza Rice, no matter how beautiful she is, represents policies that represent the poor people of our nation," he said.

Heard the one about the racist black comedian?

Dieudonné's one-man show is all the rage in Paris but his act is virulently anti-semitic, exploiting the anger that exploded among young Arabs and blacks in the suburbs last autumn. Now he is talking about running for the Presidency. John Lichfield meets the controversial comic.

22 March 2006

Stand-up comedy, or "le one-man-show", is all the rage in Paris these days. (Riots are not the only show in town.) One of the most talented, and popular, French comedians of his generation, Dieudonné, is launching a new season at his cosy, scruffy little theatre, the Théatre de la Main-d'Or, near the Bastille.

When the curtain rises, he is greeted with roars and whoops by a packed, multi-racial audience, which is young, trendy, intellectual and left-wing. Many of them have come straight from the latest demonstration against the government's new jobs law for the young.

Much of Dieudonné's show - "Le Depot du Bilan" (The Bankruptcy) - is surreally funny. A bored bureaucrat from a government welfare agency for threatened animal species is interviewing a distraught rhinoceros. "Wouldn't you consider getting rid of that horn? Horns don't go down so well these days. You have to adapt to survive..." Eventually, the rhinoceros falls through the floor.

All through the show, however, something else intrudes, something darker and more sinister. Dieudonné is obsessed with Jews. All races, even his own mixed black and white origins, get a gentle mickey-taking in his show. When Jews are mentioned - and they are mentioned over and over again - the tone becomes more aggressive, even violent.

In one skit, Bernard-Henri Lévy, the Jewish-French philosopher, haggles with a street potato seller. Dieudonné/Lévy says: "How can you ask me to pay so much when six million of us died in the Holocaust?" Roars of delight from the audience. There is also a Hitler-in-his-bunker sketch which is moderately funny until the closing line: "You will see, in the future, people will come to realise that I, Adolf Hitler, was really a moderate."

Until a couple of years ago, Dieudonné - his full name is Dieudonné M'bala M'bala - was a kind of French Lenny Henry. His stand-up comedy was corrosive, satirical but fundamentally good humoured. And funny.

There was a social or political message in many of his skits but he bashed all ethnic groups and prejudices equally. He was an anti-racist, who believed in universal values. He was a black man who refused, as he said, "to dance the calypso with a banana stuck up my arse". He appeared in popular films, such as Asterix and Cleopatra.

Since 2002, and intensively since 2004, Dieudonné has become a kind of French Louis Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam in the US. His critics (including former friends) say that he is no longer a comedian interested in politics but a politician, who uses comedy to further extremist political ambitions. Sometimes directly, sometimes by coded, or scarcely coded references, he presents the Jews as the main source of black misery; or he suggests that the obsession with the suffering of the Jews soaks up too much of the fund of guilt and shame that would be better spent on black people.

Earlier this month, he was found guilty of "incitement to racial hatred" by a French court for saying in a newspaper interview that his Jewish critics were "slave traders, who had converted to banking".

In recent days, he has been accused by a former friend, the leading Socialist (and Jewish) politician Julien Dray, of being partly to blame for the horrific torture and murder of a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi, by a suburban gang last month.

Dieudonné, 40, of Cameroonian and Breton middle-class origins, has announced that he plans to run for the presidency next year. He says that he "sees himself" in the second round run-off, which is exceedingly unlikely. Nonetheless, he is not a figure to dismiss lightly.

An utterly unscientific, phone-in opinion poll was conducted recently by Skyrock, a French radio station popular with the urban and suburban young. The two politicians who scored the most votes were the veteran far-right xenophobe, Jean-Marie Le Pen (29 per cent), and Dieudonné (26 per cent).

Dieudonné brings together, and plays on, many of the most poisonous issues in French politics and society: the contempt of many young people for main-stream politics, seen again in the intensity of the mobilisation against the new labour contracts for the under-26s; the shattering of the French political consensus into tribal extremes of right and left; the racial and social exclusion and suppressed violence of the multi-racial suburbs (where he was himself born).

Most of all, however, Dieudonné has come to symbolise - and some say foment - the rise of a "new anti-Semitism" among Arab and black youths and on the "white" far left.

Race was not a direct issue in the suburban riots which shook France last autumn. The young, black, brown and some white kids who belong to suburban youth gangs are not racist among themselves. There is one huge exception, however. They have a gut hatred of the "feujs" (backward slang for juifs or Jews).

This anti-Semitism, often based on lurid fantasies of Jewish wealth and power, was not invented by Dieudonné. It began with the sympathy of young people of Arab origin for Palestinian kids throwing stones at Israeli troops.

Dieudonné stands accused, however, of making this new anti-Semitism of the French under classes - and increasingly of the French far left - more respectable and spreading it to French people of African or West Indian origin.

Mr Dray is the official spokesman of France's main opposition, Socialist party and a founder of SOS-Racisme (an organisation once supported by Dieudonné, now dismissed by him as a "Zionist" front). M. Dray said: "[Ilan Halimi's] murder must be seen against the background of the social climate in France. Dieudonné is not responsible for his death but he shares the blame for the rise in anti-Semitism [in the suburbs]."

Youssouf Fofana, the alleged leader of the kidnap gang which abducted, tortured and murdered M. Halimi (a mobile phone salesman from a modest background), explained his choice of victim to his fellow gang-members in starkly racial terms.

According to statements to police, he said: "The Jews are kings, because they eat up all the state's money, but I'm black and treated by the state like a slave." This is a garbled version of the "Jews rule-black suffer" message popularised in the suburbs by Dieudonné in the past two or three years.

Off-stage, or off his political soap-box, Dieudonné is a gentle, soft-spoken man. He was so loved by showbusiness friends - including his original double-act partner, the Jewish comedian, Elie Semoun - that they defended his initial lurches towards anti-Semitism. A comedian had the right to satirise even the most sacred of taboos, they said. As Dieudonné plunged further into politics, and outright Jew-baiting, his entertainment friends dropped him one by one.

In an interview with The Independent, the comedian-politician rejected suggestions that he was anti-Semitic. "I am anti-Zionist and I oppose the power of the Zionist lobby in France," he said. "France is meant to be a secular Republic which treats all races equally but the power of Zionism has perverted that.

"I remain as profoundly anti-racist as I ever was. It is the Jews, or Zionists, who have created racism by forming such an effective lobby for one ethnic group and for the state of Israel, which illegally occupies the land of another people.

"The Holocaust was a terrible, appalling thing but there has been other suffering in history and there is other suffering today in a world cursed by the power of money. The Zionists have perverted the values of the Republic so that only the suffering of the Jews is recognised officially, not, for instance, the suffering of blacks through the slave trade."

Dieudonné proceeds by the kind of nudge-nudge, coded provocation that has long been the stock in trade of the anti-Semitic far right in France. He had been prosecuted 17 times for inciting racial hatred, or denying the Holocaust, but had won every case before his recent condemnation.

If you put a few of his comments together, however, the Dieudonné message becomes pretty clear.

On Beur FM, a radio station directed at young people of North African origin, he said in March last year: "In my children's school books, I ripped out the pages on the Shoah. I will continue to do so as long as our pain is not recognised."

In December 2003, he appeared on a French chat and comedy show dressed as an Israeli West Bank colonist and ended his skit with a Nazi salute and shouted: "Israel-heil". In his statement announcing his intention to run for the presidency, he launched an attack on the French Jewish association CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France). It was, he said, a "Zionist organisation of the extreme right that gathers all our leaders at the beginning of the year to share with them a roadmap or an agenda for the year ahead".

Even the anti-Semitic paranoia of Jean-Marie Le Pen does not go that far - in public, at least. But why? Why insist that it was Jews that ran the slave trade, when they did not? Leaving aside distaste for Israeli policy (which is shared by many people), why the obsession that Jews secretly run the world and that Jews deliberately soak up all the world's natural resources of pity?

Eric Marty, a professor of contemporary literature at Paris-VII university, links the Dieudonné phenomenon to the similar savage hatred of Jews among some American black radicals, which began in the 1960s. He says it is a question of transfer of anger from real causes of black suffering - white slave masters, white prejudice - to a rival victim "someone who is identified ... as more of a victim than yourself".

Politically, also, it is easier to goad young blacks or Arabs into hating Jews than into hating a white society whose symbols of success they crave.

Anne-Sophie Mercier, a TV journalist who published a book on Dieudonnné last year (La verité sur Dieudonné), which he tried to block, believes that the comedian's lurch into outright anti-Semitism in the past two years is part of a deliberate strategy.

If you really want to address the problems of young blacks, she suggests, there are plenty of topics to choose: the prejudice of employers; poor schools; broken families; drugs; the many self-defeating jealousies between different black communities in France. Jews, objectively, would not figure high on the list.

If, however, you want to leap-frog into a position of influence as a potential leader of all black people in France, especially young black people, you need a short cut. Stoking up anti-Semitism and presenting yourself as a victim, someone with the courage to speak out, offers a potential route.

"Dieudonné is no longer a comic," says Mme Mercier. "He is a politician. He is trying the unite the different black communities ... and to build something it always helps if you can persuade people to be against someone else."

A question remains open: "Is Dieudonné still a one-man show?" Or is he being used by others? Mme Mercier, in her book, tracks Dieudonné's connections and supporters to an eclectic range of extremist movements, from Islamists, to black radical separatists, to the French representative of Louis Farrakhan, to the shadowy figures on the French ultra-Left who promote the theory that the US attacked itself on 11 September, 2001.

However, she finds no conclusive evidence that Dieudonné is controlled or funded by any of these people.

Dieudonné himself rejected suggestions that he has become a politician or a tool for political forces. "First and foremost I am a performer, a comic," he said. "But I travel around France and around Africa and I see the great suffering caused by the power of money and ultra-capitalism, the wiping away of human values. As a human being, I cannot remain indifferent to that."

His former showbusiness friends suggest that, at some time in past three years, Dieudonné underwent a dramatic change. Some believe that he is just a naïve tool for others. Others says that Dieudonné is driven by himself alone and by a belief that he can become a kind of black political Messiah. Either way, they suggest, Dieudonné is "not funny any more".

The real danger may be, however, that Dieudonné is funny and very talented.

Stand-up comedy, or "le one-man-show", is all the rage in Paris these days. (Riots are not the only show in town.) One of the most talented, and popular, French comedians of his generation, Dieudonné, is launching a new season at his cosy, scruffy little theatre, the Théatre de la Main-d'Or, near the Bastille.

When the curtain rises, he is greeted with roars and whoops by a packed, multi-racial audience, which is young, trendy, intellectual and left-wing. Many of them have come straight from the latest demonstration against the government's new jobs law for the young.

Much of Dieudonné's show - "Le Depot du Bilan" (The Bankruptcy) - is surreally funny. A bored bureaucrat from a government welfare agency for threatened animal species is interviewing a distraught rhinoceros. "Wouldn't you consider getting rid of that horn? Horns don't go down so well these days. You have to adapt to survive..." Eventually, the rhinoceros falls through the floor.

All through the show, however, something else intrudes, something darker and more sinister. Dieudonné is obsessed with Jews. All races, even his own mixed black and white origins, get a gentle mickey-taking in his show. When Jews are mentioned - and they are mentioned over and over again - the tone becomes more aggressive, even violent.

In one skit, Bernard-Henri Lévy, the Jewish-French philosopher, haggles with a street potato seller. Dieudonné/Lévy says: "How can you ask me to pay so much when six million of us died in the Holocaust?" Roars of delight from the audience. There is also a Hitler-in-his-bunker sketch which is moderately funny until the closing line: "You will see, in the future, people will come to realise that I, Adolf Hitler, was really a moderate."

Until a couple of years ago, Dieudonné - his full name is Dieudonné M'bala M'bala - was a kind of French Lenny Henry. His stand-up comedy was corrosive, satirical but fundamentally good humoured. And funny.

There was a social or political message in many of his skits but he bashed all ethnic groups and prejudices equally. He was an anti-racist, who believed in universal values. He was a black man who refused, as he said, "to dance the calypso with a banana stuck up my arse". He appeared in popular films, such as Asterix and Cleopatra.

Since 2002, and intensively since 2004, Dieudonné has become a kind of French Louis Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam in the US. His critics (including former friends) say that he is no longer a comedian interested in politics but a politician, who uses comedy to further extremist political ambitions. Sometimes directly, sometimes by coded, or scarcely coded references, he presents the Jews as the main source of black misery; or he suggests that the obsession with the suffering of the Jews soaks up too much of the fund of guilt and shame that would be better spent on black people.

Earlier this month, he was found guilty of "incitement to racial hatred" by a French court for saying in a newspaper interview that his Jewish critics were "slave traders, who had converted to banking".

In recent days, he has been accused by a former friend, the leading Socialist (and Jewish) politician Julien Dray, of being partly to blame for the horrific torture and murder of a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi, by a suburban gang last month.

Dieudonné, 40, of Cameroonian and Breton middle-class origins, has announced that he plans to run for the presidency next year. He says that he "sees himself" in the second round run-off, which is exceedingly unlikely. Nonetheless, he is not a figure to dismiss lightly.

An utterly unscientific, phone-in opinion poll was conducted recently by Skyrock, a French radio station popular with the urban and suburban young. The two politicians who scored the most votes were the veteran far-right xenophobe, Jean-Marie Le Pen (29 per cent), and Dieudonné (26 per cent).

Dieudonné brings together, and plays on, many of the most poisonous issues in French politics and society: the contempt of many young people for main-stream politics, seen again in the intensity of the mobilisation against the new labour contracts for the under-26s; the shattering of the French political consensus into tribal extremes of right and left; the racial and social exclusion and suppressed violence of the multi-racial suburbs (where he was himself born).

Most of all, however, Dieudonné has come to symbolise - and some say foment - the rise of a "new anti-Semitism" among Arab and black youths and on the "white" far left.

Race was not a direct issue in the suburban riots which shook France last autumn. The young, black, brown and some white kids who belong to suburban youth gangs are not racist among themselves. There is one huge exception, however. They have a gut hatred of the "feujs" (backward slang for juifs or Jews).

This anti-Semitism, often based on lurid fantasies of Jewish wealth and power, was not invented by Dieudonné. It began with the sympathy of young people of Arab origin for Palestinian kids throwing stones at Israeli troops.

Dieudonné stands accused, however, of making this new anti-Semitism of the French under classes - and increasingly of the French far left - more respectable and spreading it to French people of African or West Indian origin.

Mr Dray is the official spokesman of France's main opposition, Socialist party and a founder of SOS-Racisme (an organisation once supported by Dieudonné, now dismissed by him as a "Zionist" front). M. Dray said: "[Ilan Halimi's] murder must be seen against the background of the social climate in France. Dieudonné is not responsible for his death but he shares the blame for the rise in anti-Semitism [in the suburbs]."

Youssouf Fofana, the alleged leader of the kidnap gang which abducted, tortured and murdered M. Halimi (a mobile phone salesman from a modest background), explained his choice of victim to his fellow gang-members in starkly racial terms.

According to statements to police, he said: "The Jews are kings, because they eat up all the state's money, but I'm black and treated by the state like a slave." This is a garbled version of the "Jews rule-black suffer" message popularised in the suburbs by Dieudonné in the past two or three years.
Off-stage, or off his political soap-box, Dieudonné is a gentle, soft-spoken man. He was so loved by showbusiness friends - including his original double-act partner, the Jewish comedian, Elie Semoun - that they defended his initial lurches towards anti-Semitism. A comedian had the right to satirise even the most sacred of taboos, they said. As Dieudonné plunged further into politics, and outright Jew-baiting, his entertainment friends dropped him one by one.

In an interview with The Independent, the comedian-politician rejected suggestions that he was anti-Semitic. "I am anti-Zionist and I oppose the power of the Zionist lobby in France," he said. "France is meant to be a secular Republic which treats all races equally but the power of Zionism has perverted that.

"I remain as profoundly anti-racist as I ever was. It is the Jews, or Zionists, who have created racism by forming such an effective lobby for one ethnic group and for the state of Israel, which illegally occupies the land of another people.

"The Holocaust was a terrible, appalling thing but there has been other suffering in history and there is other suffering today in a world cursed by the power of money. The Zionists have perverted the values of the Republic so that only the suffering of the Jews is recognised officially, not, for instance, the suffering of blacks through the slave trade."

Dieudonné proceeds by the kind of nudge-nudge, coded provocation that has long been the stock in trade of the anti-Semitic far right in France. He had been prosecuted 17 times for inciting racial hatred, or denying the Holocaust, but had won every case before his recent condemnation.

If you put a few of his comments together, however, the Dieudonné message becomes pretty clear.

On Beur FM, a radio station directed at young people of North African origin, he said in March last year: "In my children's school books, I ripped out the pages on the Shoah. I will continue to do so as long as our pain is not recognised."

In December 2003, he appeared on a French chat and comedy show dressed as an Israeli West Bank colonist and ended his skit with a Nazi salute and shouted: "Israel-heil". In his statement announcing his intention to run for the presidency, he launched an attack on the French Jewish association CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France). It was, he said, a "Zionist organisation of the extreme right that gathers all our leaders at the beginning of the year to share with them a roadmap or an agenda for the year ahead".

Even the anti-Semitic paranoia of Jean-Marie Le Pen does not go that far - in public, at least. But why? Why insist that it was Jews that ran the slave trade, when they did not? Leaving aside distaste for Israeli policy (which is shared by many people), why the obsession that Jews secretly run the world and that Jews deliberately soak up all the world's natural resources of pity?

Eric Marty, a professor of contemporary literature at Paris-VII university, links the Dieudonné phenomenon to the similar savage hatred of Jews among some American black radicals, which began in the 1960s. He says it is a question of transfer of anger from real causes of black suffering - white slave masters, white prejudice - to a rival victim "someone who is identified ... as more of a victim than yourself".

Politically, also, it is easier to goad young blacks or Arabs into hating Jews than into hating a white society whose symbols of success they crave.

Anne-Sophie Mercier, a TV journalist who published a book on Dieudonnné last year (La verité sur Dieudonné), which he tried to block, believes that the comedian's lurch into outright anti-Semitism in the past two years is part of a deliberate strategy.

If you really want to address the problems of young blacks, she suggests, there are plenty of topics to choose: the prejudice of employers; poor schools; broken families; drugs; the many self-defeating jealousies between different black communities in France. Jews, objectively, would not figure high on the list.

If, however, you want to leap-frog into a position of influence as a potential leader of all black people in France, especially young black people, you need a short cut. Stoking up anti-Semitism and presenting yourself as a victim, someone with the courage to speak out, offers a potential route.

"Dieudonné is no longer a comic," says Mme Mercier. "He is a politician. He is trying the unite the different black communities ... and to build something it always helps if you can persuade people to be against someone else."

A question remains open: "Is Dieudonné still a one-man show?" Or is he being used by others? Mme Mercier, in her book, tracks Dieudonné's connections and supporters to an eclectic range of extremist movements, from Islamists, to black radical separatists, to the French representative of Louis Farrakhan, to the shadowy figures on the French ultra-Left who promote the theory that the US attacked itself on 11 September, 2001.

However, she finds no conclusive evidence that Dieudonné is controlled or funded by any of these people.

Dieudonné himself rejected suggestions that he has become a politician or a tool for political forces. "First and foremost I am a performer, a comic," he said. "But I travel around France and around Africa and I see the great suffering caused by the power of money and ultra-capitalism, the wiping away of human values. As a human being, I cannot remain indifferent to that."

His former showbusiness friends suggest that, at some time in past three years, Dieudonné underwent a dramatic change. Some believe that he is just a naïve tool for others. Others says that Dieudonné is driven by himself alone and by a belief that he can become a kind of black political Messiah. Either way, they suggest, Dieudonné is "not funny any more".

The real danger may be, however, that Dieudonné is funny and very talented.

CREATING JOBS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS AND ECONOMIC SECURITY

CREATING JOBS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS AND BUILDING ECONOMIC SECURITY

Tax Relief

Allows 3 million African-American families to save more for their children’s needs by raising the Child Tax Credit from $600 to $1,000 per child this year.
Commitment to Bridging the Homeownership Gap

President George W. Bush signed the American Dream Downpayment Act which attacks the homeownership gap that exists across America by helping approximately 40,000 minority families each year with their down payment and closing costs. Homeownership among African Americans is at its highest rate ever.

Within the next decade an estimated 4.09 million full time jobs in construction and construction-related industries will be created. This increase in jobs represents over $150 billion in new wages.
Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

Provides an annual upfront pharmaceutical credit of $600 per low-income beneficiary for individual seniors with incomes under $12,900 a year and senior couples with incomes under $16,600.

More than 3.5 million disabled and senior African Americans are able to realize significant savings of up to 25% of what they currently pay for pharmaceuticals with a Prescription Drug Discount Card.

Faith and Community Based Initiative

President Bush signed an executive order to make it easier for people in need to gain access to the broadest range of assistance possible. Recognizing churches are often the first source of assistance in a community, the executive order eliminated discriminatory barriers imposed on faith-based and community groups.


PROVIDING EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR QUALITY EDUCATION

Increasing Access to Higher Education

Funding for minority serving institutions is up by 30% under the Bush Administration. The President’s budget includes over $200 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and almost $60 million for Historically Black Graduate Institutions.
Head Start

The President is working to ensure that a greater number of Head Start teachers are adequately trained and educated in early childhood development. One-third of the students enrolled in Head Start programs are African Americans.
STRENGTHENING FAITH AND FAMILIES


From the founding of the Republican Party to today, African Americans have been central to the GOP.

The leadership of President George W. Bush provides an opportunity for us to work together and better include everyone of all backgrounds in the Republican Party. Bringing African Americans back to the Party of Lincoln has been a central priority of President Bush, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, and is the mission of the RNC's African American Team Leader Outreach program.

Working together with African Americans in communities across the country, we can make the Party of Lincoln stronger and more diverse than ever before.

Shout Out of the Week!!

Does Welfare hurt black people?

Hip Hop Republican.com recently asked
this question to some young black urban youth.

These are just a few of there answers.

Well, I wanted to say that whites also are on welfare in big numbers. But, I don't think it hurt if they are using it as temporary means to get back on their feet. The days of being on welfare for years are long gone folks. I know many longtime welfare recipients who are now working.

Mike from the Bronx, New York

I definitely think it contributes to a sense of govt dependence mentality. This is hurtful because that type of mentality hampers people from self sufficiency. New Orleans at the time of Katrina was something like 60% on welfare. I have to wonder if that had anything to do with them possibly waiting on govt assistance to get them out of town.

-Joel Guerra
25 years old

I just look at the projects near where I grew up in Kinston, NC, I would see that at least 75% are on welfare on a longterm basis. I also agree that it forces people to be solely dependent on the government (dems' goal?) and substantially reduces the feeling of selfsufficiency. I sort of like welfare-to-work programs though, at least those do have a goal.
-Alfred
20
East Patchogue,
NEW YORK

I think welfare does hurt you if your on it for long periods of time not only do you come to depend on the government but not working does damage self esteem which probably compounds the dependency. I was also under the impression that a family couldn't be on welfare for very long. Here in CT the limit is 2 years. I thought that was the case everywhere. We also have good welfare to work programs in place that recipients must participate in in order to recieve their money. I know all this because my mom is a case manager for one of the programs. She has quite a few success stories. Also you dont nessesarily have to be on welfare to live in a project. My father grew up in a project ( at least I think it was a project) in Wilson, NC and my grandmother worked the whole time.
Austell, Georgia

-Tania

F/30
HARTFORD,
CONNECTICUT


I think you need to break down the term 'welfare', that is to general of a term. For example, you have housing assistance, medicaid, food stamps etc., and of course cash assistance, some folks may be on some but not others, etc.

I think it really depends on the situation, but over all I would say the NEED to be one welfare is what hurts poor people in general not the act of receiving welfare itself.

-Dell Gines
M/32
OMAHA,
NEBRASKA


Isn't it obvious? It keeps you as a (dependent) of The Man. Instead of busting your ass to get a good education, job, etc... You become lazy letting The Man take care of you, just like the Master taking care of his slaves..

As long as the slave get his bread, water, and piece of fruit, he'll remain a loyal sucker. Not realizing that if he broke free of his chains and got out to see the would, he would realize he's nothing more than a captive to Master.

All black people need to be freed from all forms of welfare. They hurt 100x more than they help...

We need to stress Education above all else... All issues which effect Black people can be traced back to lack of education. Poverty, Crime, etc....

And step 1 starts not with the Schools, but with the HOME.... Parents need to do everything within their power to educate their children. Math, Science, English, etc...
Solve that problem and everything else will following..

People with a good education become productive members of society, not lazy slackers waiting on the Goverment to save them.

Instead of stupid programs like "Midnight Basketball", how about something useful like "Midnight Computer Programming" or "Midnight Stock Picking"? Maybe the winner of a Stock picking group gets $1000 or the best computer program that does xyz gets $1000...

-Alby
M/33
VIRGINIA