There is more than one kind of equality

Cross Posted at Left Coast Rebel


"We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal..."

That is a loaded phrase in itself. We can argue the meaning of nearly every word. Whether you believe in an actual Creator or not, it is hard to dispute that we are created. Perhaps a more modern way (although not better) of saying it would be "...all people begin life equal". That is not exactly what "created" means to me but it is an acceptable paraphrasing if creation would offend someone. But what about this "equal" thing.

Equal does not mean "same". Surely no rational person would argue we are all the same. Even when we are first born we are all different. Life is wonderful because of diversity. Anyone who would prefer to live in an ant colony has a bleak outlook at best. So equal does not mean that we look or behave the same. As we grow we become more different. This results in the long limbs and torso narrow waist and broad shoulders that make an Olympic swimmer; the size, musculature, and near preternatural quickness that makes an NFL linebacker; the innovative, questioning, and exacting mind of an inventor, or the compassion and intelligence it takes to become a doctor. With these differences in ability and structure come different levels of capacity for achievement. I will never be an NFL lineman, a great painter, a ballerina, or invent the next iPhone. But there are many things that I am quite good at, and my opportunities are wide and varied, if not actually infinite.

We are not physically or mentally all the same.

Not to burst anyone's bubble but realistically speaking we are not even all born with the same opportunities. If Paris Hilton had not been born a Hilton it is unlikely she would have had a tv show, been in a movie, had a recording deal, or been a fashion icon. If Chelsea Clinton was not the daughter of Hill and Bill she would not be getting married at the old Astor estate. I was born with more opportunity than almost anyone born in Zimbabwe or China. Malia Obama has a much different position in life than any other little girl from Chicago just by virtue of who she is.

So even when we are born we are not equal in actual position.

So we are not equal in ability or position but we are also not equally different:

The range is not all or nothing. It is different by intricate and infinitesimal degrees. A person not born into Paris Hiltons position could very well become more successful or famous. Rags to riches stories still happen here everyday. But what separates Ussain Bolt from Tyson Gay as fastest man alive? Less than Milliseconds.


So in what way are people equal? How can men be equal when they are so different?

Because of our differences in ability and position the only way to MAKE us the same is to treat people differently. To give to some and take from others and, yet, we will all still be different. Because we really cannot give; we can only take.

So if people are born different, have different opportunities by birth, and the only way to make people the same is to treat the differently then how can we be Equal?

By controlling the only thing we actually have control over. Our interpersonal dealings. The dealings of people can be dealt with equally. We can TREAT all people equally. We can do unto others; how we would like others to do unto us. And being that we are not all equally moral or ethical and must create governments to protect the non-aggressive from the aggressive evildoers in our midst then the best we can do is to create such a government where all people are treated equally under the law. That is all I ask for.

To take it one step further we have to decide as a species if we are going to seek material equality (as Obama and the socialists are for) or equality under the law (as the founders were for) because you cannot have both. If we decide on material equality then we must treat everyone differently under the law. And if we choose equality under the law then we will necessarily have to accept differences in material possessions.

And if we choose material equality then we will remove the wide and varied opportunities that now exist to better ones position than that which they received at birth.




It would likely keep the Norma Jeans of the world from becoming Marilyn Monroe, or Elvis A Presley from becoming the King of Rock and Roll; or of Cassius Clay becoming Muhammad Ali. Of course, it would also limit the ability of Paris Hilton to be, well, Paris Hilton.



We can't have it both ways.

Kook
-via my iPhone

The Difference between Sympathy and Empathy

 Closing Guantánamo Fades as a Priority - NYTimes.com

The above linked article from the NYT discusses how support for the plan to close the prison at Gitmo went from having a slight majority of support on inauguration day, to nearly 60% majority for keeping it open by March.  Certainly the failed bombing attempt in Times Square has increased the support for keeping terrorists off our soil and stirring up the anger levels again.  But I believe there is more to it than that.

The Moonbat plan was to close camp Xray and move all the prisoners to some civilian prison on US soil.  Several Liberal Lawmakers made political hay out of the plan by saying that they would be glad to house the terrorists in their states.

I think that is where things began to falter for the hope’n’change crowd.  It went from theory to reality.

“close gitmo!, no military tribunals!, civil rights!”  “close gitmo!, no military tribunals!, civil rights!” “Bush  Lied, people died!”

 

  “We are bringing them to your city”

 

 

“close gitmo!, no military trib….no…wait, what?  near my home and my children? In my community?  No, I want Gitmo closed but I don’t want them in my backyard.”

There is the real break in the mental processes that separates logical, pragmatic, realistic, liberty loving, constitutional libertarian thought from  impassioned, emotional, irrational, illogical moonbat ‘thought’. 

When the argument for closing Xray went from some theoretical exercise where the terrorists would be housed out of sight and out of mind, and the libtards could feel that they were being morally superior and all goody- goody, safe in the knowledge that Khaled Sheikh Muhammed was being treated with Kid gloves, but far far away from them; to theoretically being held within 30 miles of their homes with underpaid and undermotivated civilian guards the whole thought experiment was made real.

This is something I have expressed before.  When any of the Liberals pet issues is put into a perspective where it would actually affect them, the tune suddenly changes.  They move from Sympathy to Empathy.   Sympathy for the perceived situation, to empathy with how actually being in the situation feels.

Other cases in point:  Many are against hunting, feeling as though it is animal cruelty.  In several cities suburban hunting permits for deer are issued to well qualified archers.  There is usually the obligatory protest of people wanting to “live with Nature” until a deer runs into the side of their Hummer H3 and dents it all up.  Then there is the chorus of “kill bambi” which reinforces what farmers and ranchers have known all along, Man and Animal can coexist, as long as both sides are controlled.  Fact: Deer are hard on crops, fences, and automobiles and until the Sympathy for Deer becomes Empathy with someone who has had the beejesus scared out of them and cost them a few thousand bucks in auto repairs by a suicidal deer, it is not “real” to some people.   

Take Arizona and the illegal immigration debate as an example; it is very easy for a senator from a northeastern state, or someone who lives in a gated community far removed from the border to denounce what the citizens of Arizona have been clamoring to have for years.  Arizona needs to secure the border it shares with a foreign country because there is a serious crime wave going on down there and no one but Arizonans are going to do anything about it.  Arizona has no hope to stop the crime wave if they cannot control the free movement of foreigners back and forth across their border.   Now, if one of Nancy Pelosi’s grandkids was kidnapped by a foreign invader from mexico, do you not think that immigration reform would suddenly find its way onto the House Calendar?  It is like the old west in southern Arizona now, with the criminal element coming into the state to commit its’ crimes and then hightailing it back across the border, like Pancho Villa or something.

I remember when I was younger there was a huge debate in Missouri regarding “bussing”.  Many rural and suburban schools were predominately White, and many inner city schools were predominately Black.  This was obviously (to democrats) a problem.  In support of this was the fact that inner city schools performed more poorly than those of the suburbs.  Now, I firmly believe that the real source of the problem is not Race, but one of culture. There is nothing inherently inferior about anyone’s skin color or ethnicity. 

But I can take any child and ignore them, never teach them right from wrong, show them that might always makes right, that society “owes them something”, and turn them into the perfect weapon of self destruction. 

The solution was to spend huge amounts of taxpayer money on “bus-ing”  white kids to inner city schools and black kids to Suburban schools.  I would have argued that the lower test scores and higher dropout rates in the cities was not related to race at all and would have probably spent the money on some sort of job creation, community outreach, and parenting classes for families in those areas where performance was suffering.  But that is not what happened, does anyone care to guess or remember the result?  Performance of both types of schools went down, violence went up, and parents got angry.   Once the feral kids who were (un)raised by people succored from the government teat were introduced into schools where more parents took an active role in their children’s education everyone suffered.  The issue was not because some kids were black and some were white,  it was because a majority in one group were effectively tutored in how to be a productive member of society, and a majority of the other group were raised as though in the wild.  This whole issue went from being a sympathetic thought experiment in forced diversity, to an empathetic real world experience of what happens when children who have never been taught how to behave in society mix with less violent ones who were raised by people who believe that you can socially engineer the demographics of a city. 

One more short example:  Two years ago there was a huge sympathetic outpouring of support for a little known Freshman Senator from Illinois to become The President of the United States.  He promised Hope, and Change.  People said, “just give him a chance.”  The sentiment was one of sympathy for his message, and the historic nature of  half black man as president.  Now that we have moved into an empathetic situation of dealing with he and his friends’ policies more and more people agree with those of us who said that he had no executive experience, had questionable judgment in choosing friends and associates, and no more cared about the rights of  the oppressed or the economic opportunities of the poor than any other Despotic ruler throughout history, irrespective of his genetics.  Popular sentiment is now changing.  But that is ok, society forgets these lessons every two generations or so.

-KOOK

I'm tired.

The title is true, I'm tired from a long day of driving and playing with race cars so I am posting this e-mail that I recieved earlier (and edited slightly). Now I'm going to pass out.


I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.   
  
I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes."  Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times their real value and 1000 times their needs at less than my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.   
  
I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Christian people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. 
  
I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.   
  
I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois. I'm glad that the 98% of black Americans that voted for obama know the principles of Marxism so well. Most of them can quote the Communist Manifesto verbatim.
  
I think it's very cool that we have a black dictator and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I think it's ironic that a black man who is enslaving us all in the name of the all-knowing government after swearing on the Lincoln Bible cover draped over a Koran   
  
I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News?  Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.   
  
I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.   
  
I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. Not only do I have a carbon footprint, but my feet and the rest of me is made of carbon just like our home planet. Still, my carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're a red Bolshevik through and through..   
  
I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a "disease", and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? Drug users chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I gave up marijuana permanently. If someone is going to stop using drugs (including tobacco), a true desire to change behavior is necessary. How many people try to catch malaria by choice? At the same time, heroin is NOT an airborne virus!!!
  
I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next?  Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"?  And, no,  I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion.  I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, and who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need.   
  
I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war?  You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave?  Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are?  Not even close.  So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.   
  
I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Florida where there has been bipartisan corruption by those who public office for years. Not to mention our bipartisan, bisexual governor cheats on his boyfriends in Obama's cabinet, and under his bed, and on air force one. Our governor changes parties more often than he changes sexes-now that's change you can believe in!!!   
  
I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.   
  
Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.   
  
I'm real tired of people blame me for their problems. Recently, when someone said that I, and all of my race owe "reparations" to descendents of Antebellum slaves. My reply was if their housing project, food stamps and wellfare checks, plus affirmative action aren't enough, I will be happy to sell them to Arab slave traders in Gaza (it's big business there after all). Simple fact, the poorest people in America live better than most national leaders in 3rd world countries and yet they complain. Still, I hope they don't learn what life in Zimbabwe or North Korea is like the hard way. I believe deep down most of you feel the same way which is what separates America from the rest of the world. Be thankful you live here and prepare for the toughest challenge you have ever faced in stopping the atheist liberal agenda. You best believe those on the other side aren't going to go away quetly, and will have no problem torturing persecuting and even killing you because you are their enemy and the only common ground between us and them is a cemetary!

Who are the Anarchists Now? Arizona Immigration Enforcement

Let’s put this in perspective, you are often asked to show your ID when you use your credit or debit card, you have to produce ID to get a loan, buy a home, apply for assistance, enroll for school, fly on a plane, stay in a hotel, or rent a car.  Every time I have been stopped by the police I have been asked to produce license and proof of insurance.  But asking for documentation to prove legal residency in this country is an affront to civil rights? What about my Civil Rights?

I will now have to prove to the IRS every year that I have purchased Federally mandated health insurance, but we cannot ask anyone to prove legal residency in this country? Seriously?

I still cannot wrap my mind around the mental gymnastics required to reconcile that a person who is here illegally, has not committed a crime. If you will break our laws to get here in the first place why are you amazed we automatically think you will break others while you are here?  How does one become an UNdocumented worker if Documents are irrelevant?  I mean really we do not have pass amnesty at all if we just quit being a nation of laws.

Of course, that would gloss over the fact that Arizona has become the 2nd place winner in the World Kidnapping Olympics…right behind, huh…Mexico City.  Phoenix has more Kidnappings per day than anywhere else in the USA.

It is Racist to affirm enforcement of a Federal Law?  Of course it is.  And all the cops are racists too.  Arizona is only 30% Latino according the the last census (which I am sure did not include many of the soon to be citizens of this country), so I am sure none of the police officers are Latino, and none of them would be married to a Latino. Nope they are all a bunch of White Racists.

What the pResident and the Left Stream Media are asking the border states to do is to ignore Federal Law, which puts us in the powerful and unique position of getting to choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore.  If the Feral Government is so intent on not enforcing their own law then why not do as Silverfiddle from Western Hero suggests and repeal it?  Just do away with Customs and ICE and Border Patrol, and all of that.  If we can pick and choose what laws we want to follow or not, then why have them in the first place?  That is the logical conclusion to the line of thought now being pushed.  Most liberals are in favor of not enforcing Marijuana laws as well.  So if we are not going to follow Drug Laws, and we are not going to follow Immigration laws, and we rarely follow voting eligibility laws, then guess I don’t have to follow laws that I don’t particularly like either.

NO, that is wrong, we do not get to pick and choose, folks.  Just because we do not think a law is Just (for the record I am in favor of the AZ law, and have mixed opinion on the weed issue) we do not get to decide whether or not we follow it.  People who know me and have been listening know that I have said repeatedly that whoever gives amnesty to the illegal aliens in this country is pretty much guaranteed a 60 year electoral majority.  This is about politics plain and simple, this is how the most rapidly unpopular administration our nation has ever seen plans to stay in power.

I think that this has been a goal of people like William Ayers and Saul Alinsky for years and years, Anarchy for everyone, courtesy of the Progressive Liberal Establishment.

Arriba La Raza, Viva La Reconquesta!

-KOOK

immature humor

It's been a busy weekend for me, but I wasn't going to just not post anything so I hope you get a good laugh.

I'll show you mine if you show me yours....

Why the (His)Panic, Why we are missing the boat with Latinos?

Western Hero: Why the (His)Panic?

This is a superb piece that I found over on Western Hero by the DeviledEgg posted by Foutsc.  I just want to add my .02c.  I love Latino people.  I love the food, and the culture, their sense of family, their work ethic, and I love the language, even though I am terrible at speaking it.  We, as Conservatives, MUST learn how to reframe the argument.  Our beef is not RACISM.  Our beef is the Rule of Law.  It is not “we don’t want any immigration”, the statement is “we want our immigration laws respected”  But Deviledegg is right, the fault really does lie on our side of the border.  We have got to figure out how to reach out and change the language.  That is what the Liberal Establishment does all the time, they change the language.  Because Latinos are naturally conservative.  They have seen what governmental corruption and the lack of rule of law create…that is why they are leaving their countries. Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba… not noted for low corruption and rule of law.

The issue really is not immigration, the issue is one of being law abiding.  If a person will break a law to enter the country, at what point to we believe that a law is important enough to follow?  More importantly, what laws do we expect THEM to follow…  anyway, on to the deviled egg’s rant:

Why the (His)Panic?

** Unhinged DeviledEgg Rant Alert! **

Alright, I'm really PO'd about illegal immigration! 
To think that the retards in congress would reward criminal trespass and identity theft with free US citizenship galls me. It also chaps my ass that any foreign fertility goddess who crosses the border can squeeze out a pup and, bingo! She's won the US lottery!
Who's stupider than us, huh?

But anyway, I started this rant because Hispanics in America are getting a bum rap, and it ain't fair. They ain't all illegal, and the ones that are wouldn't be here if the US Chamber of Commerce, businesses, and the Democratic party hadn't lured them with open borders, pathetic immigration enforcement, no-questions-asked employment and a cornucopia of social services only dreamed of south of the border.

We keep hearing they will one day be the largest demographic group in the US, and whitey is supposed to tremble at the thought. Well, that's like saying German-descent people are the majority now. Yeah, it's true, but your average Yank don't know any Deutsche besides Der Wienerschnitzel and beatchen. We've assimilated.

Hispanics assimilate easily
I know, some treat your neighborhood like little Jalisco, slaughtering hogs in the front yard and playing mariachi music all night... But give them a generation or two. Texas is filled with people with Hispanic last names who don't know a lick of Spanish.

How do I know Hispanics are easily assimilated? The evidence is all around us!
If a guy's name is Jose Ramos and he don't talk like the Frito Bandido no more, he's assimilated!
Hispanics intermarry like crazy. Like coffee and milk, American whiteys and Latin lovers just can't help mixin' it up. And the results are beautiful (excuse my moment of soft-boiled weakness).
If you say to some guy named Rodriguez, "Oye vato! Que onda?" and he says, "Excuse me, I'm with a patient right now," he's assimilated!

The average Hispanic newcomer is: 
* Christian 
* entrepreneurial (No safety nets in Latin America!) 
* hard working (again, no safety nets...) 
* anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, anti-tax 
* willing to live in a one bedroom apartment with 58 other men until he saves up for a place of his own 
* and almost as friendly as a drunken Irishman 

It's a natural GOP constituency if we can just get them out of the shadows and free them from the clutches of social workers waving food stamps and La Raza plying them with illegal ballots and fake drivers licenses.
Here in Europe, the average Brit, Swiss or Dane would trade their Muslims for our Hispanic "problem" in a heartbeat. Count your blessings, Dammit!
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The DeviledEgg is prone to unhinged rants, childish outbursts, and fits of anger, but he's really a good egg once you get to know him. He is half German and half American and splits his time between the two countries. Western Hero is proud to add him to the team.

And I am proud to repost this great post

-KOOK

Open Border Policy

I recieved this in an E-Mail.
Franks rips Obama administration for Arpaio move 

Daily News-Sun
Below are the complete remarks of  Congressmen Trent Franks of Arizona and Lamar Smith of  Texas in response to reports that the Department of Homeland Security has stripped Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio of  his illegal immigration enforcement powers:

“This unbelievable move by the Obama Administration represents a politicized attempt to hinder one of our most effective illegal immigration enforcement mechanisms, the 287(g) program.

“The key to combating illegal immigration is federal, state, and local cooperation.  This is why we believe it is crucial for the federal government to continue to support individuals like Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the implementation of agreements under section 287(g), which provides for the Department of Homeland Security to delegate authority to enforce federal immigration laws to state and local officials.  To date, hundreds of local officers have been trained in enforcing U.S. immigration laws, and nowhere in the country is this more critical than in Maricopa County.  Currently, over 33% of inmates in Maricopa County Sheriff facilities are illegal, and more than 53% of violent crimes in Maricopa County are committed by illegal immigrants.

 

 

Russ Carnahan, Healthcare, SEIU Union Shill, Unfit For Washington

 

With a Big Hat Tip to STL tea party where much of this post came from, Here is a list of reasons that Russ Carnahan, along with the rest of the Carnahan Ilk need ran out of Missouri.

After Russ Carnahan’s SEIU thugs severely beat a conservative  the Congressman issued a statement  blaming the victim, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

 

Carnahan issued a statement after the Thursday night’s forum, saying:

“Sadly we’ve seen stories about disrupters around the country, and we have a handful of them here in Missouri. Instead of participating in a civil debate, they have mobilized with special interests in Washington who have lined their pockets by overcharging Americans for a broken health care system.”

 

Carnahan’s shameful opportunism and inhuman disregard for the safety and health of Kenneth Gladney is beneath contempt.  His lies about the impetus and leadership of this movement are approaching libel.

Russ Carnahan is unfit for Congress.  He has disgraced the city of St. Louis, and the state of Missouri by using radical tactics to intimidate ordinary citizens who dare to disagree with his lord and master his high Barackness and her eminent Lordship Pelosi.

Russ Carnahan voted for a $750 Billion stimulus bill that he never read, promising that the bill would arrest unemployment at under 8 percent.  Unemployed is now 9.8 percent.

Russ Carnahan voted put thousands of Missouri small businesses out of business through Cap and Trade.

Russ Carnahan has sided with criminal union thugs over an innocent black man who was beaten, in part, because of his race.

Russ Carnahan was one of the Three Doucheketeers from Missouri along with Cleaver and Clay who voted for Nationalized Pelosi Healthcare. 

 

Full Details from multiple sources here : Russ Carnahan SEIU Gladney Beating Details and more here I am Kenneth Gladney, basics of the incident are below:

ON August 6, 2009 at Rep. Russ Carnahan's town hall meeting in South St. Louis County. Kenneth was approached by an SEIU representative as Kenneth was offering "Don't Tread on Me" flags to those exiting the gathering. The SEIU representative demanded to know why a black man was handing out these flags. The SEIU member used a racial slur against Kenneth, then :punched him in the face. Kenneth fell to the ground. Another SEIU member yelled racial epithets at Kenneth as he kicked him in the head and back. Kenneth was also attacked by one other male SEIU member and a woman. The three men were clearly SEIU members, as they were wearing T-shirts with the SEIU logo.

Help Me Unseat Russ Carnahan in 2010!

-Kook

Hate crimes : Eric Holder, FBI, from The Right Stuff

One of my associates and best blogging buddies BlackAndGoldFan put this post together and it is mind blowing. Check it out:

http://therightstuffbng.blogspot.com/2009/10/fbi-eric-holder-and-hate-crimes.html

What constitutes a "hate crime?" According to the FBI, a subdivision of the Department of Justice, the official definition is a "criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation." Sounds pretty fair, eh? I mean, we'd all agree that crime itself is bad enough, but targeting someone just because of their skin color makes it worse, right?

A House resolution passed this summer as part of a larger defense bill. Here's the title of the resolution:

PROHIBITION ON RECRUITMENT, ENLISTMENT, OR RETENTION OF PERSONS ASSOCIATED OR AFFILIATED WITH GROUPS ASSOCIATED WITH HATE-RELATED VIOLENCE AGAINST GROUPS OR PERSONS OR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

That's right. The U.S. Government has put itself on a par with Matthew Shepard and James Byrd. Commit a crime against a black in the name of white supremacy? Hate crime. Beat a homosexual to a bloody pulp while yelling slurs? Hate crime. Organize a rally against government policy in the name of freedom? Hate crime.




The most disturbing part of the legislative text lies within Section 524. This part of the text must have been written by George Orwell himself. The resolution uses the phrase "...as determined by the Attorney General" multiple times. In short, current Attorney General Eric Holder will determine what constitutes a hate crime. The Founding Fathers would have called this tyranny, and they would have been exactly right.

Subsection 2 of Section 524 reads as follows:

A “Hate Group” is defined both explicitly and as “other groups or organizations that are determined by the attorney general to be of a violent and extremist in nature.”

The "evidence" that a person belongs to what is deemed a "hate group" by the AG is defined very clearly in Subsection 3 of Section 524 of the resolution.

“...a person is associated or affiliated with a group associated with hate-related violence...Individuals known to have attended meetings, rallies, conferences, or other activities sponsored by a hate group. Individuals known to be involved in online activities with a hate group, including being engaged in online discussion groups or blog or other postings that support, encourage, or affirm the group’s extremist or violent views and goals. Individuals who are known to have in their possession photographs, written testimonials (including diaries or journals), propaganda, or other materials indicating involvement or affiliation with a hate group. Such materials can include photographs, written materials relating to or referring to extreme hatred that are clearly not of an academic nature, possession of objects that venerate or glorify hate inspired violence, and related materials, as determined by the Attorney General.” [emphasis mine]

Now, let's put the pieces together. Eric Holder has free reins to determine who is and is not a member of a "hate group," a term determined by Holder's personal whims. And let's be real: Holder isn't exactly the paradigm of fairness.

The firm he worked for before ascending to AG has represented enemy combatants housed at Guantanamo Bay, and Holder himself has said:

"In the end, Guantanamo will be closed, and I think that that is an appropriate thing to do, given the fact that it has served and I think continues to serve as a recruiting for those who intend to do this nation harm, and has served as a wedge between us and those nations that are our allies."

So there it is. His rationale for closing Gitmo is because it keeps the radical Muslims plotting against us. FYI, Mr. Holder: They hate us and want us dead whether Gitmo stays open or not.

The determination of a "hate crime" lies in the hands of one man should this come to pass.

"Mr. Orwell....paging Mr. Orwell..."



And now, on to the FBI...


THE FBI CONNECTION TO HATE CRIMES

At the beginning of this post, I gave you the FBI definition of a "hate crime." How does this all tie together with AG Eric Holder? It's a little murky, but stay with me.

As AG, Holder is the last say so for the FBI. The FBI director reports to Holder and Obama. That's it. So let's say, hypothetically, that the FBI receives information that a small group of church members are planning to organize an anti-abortion rally on the steps of the Supreme Court. Not wanting an ugly scene, Holder could then have the FBI investigate said church members. If any literature found within their homes is deemed as evidence of belonging to a "hate group" by Holder, the little old lady who decided to help stop the scourge of abortion by peacefully protesting will be brought up on "hate crime" charges. It's the Gestapo on steroids.

Who would be giving information to the FBI of potential hate crimes? Hang on, folks. This will blow your mind.

From the FBI website under the heading of "Public Outreach":

The FBI has forged partnerships nationally and locally with many civil rights organizations to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems. These groups include such organizations as the NAACP, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, and the National Organization for Women.

This is a virtual rogue's gallery of leftist groups. If they feel a "hate crime" has been committed, or let's say that they've just gotten their panties in a twist, they go directly to their partner, the FBI. And who does the FBI report to? If you said "The AG, who will determine what constitutes a 'hate crime'", move to the head of the class.

One group that jumped out at me on the FBI site was the Southern Poverty Law Center. This is one of the most whiny group of progressives and socialists to take up space in this country, and they have an interactive map of what they have dubbed "hate groups" in each state.

In my home state of Pennsylvania, here are some of the groups put into the same category as the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nation.
Catholic Counterpoint
Alliance for Catholic Tradition
Council of Conservative Citizens
Catholic Apologetics International
While I know nothing about these groups and their methods, I will say, in all fairness, that the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam are also on the SPLC list of "hate groups." But since when is belonging to a group of conservative citizens equated with belonging to the Klan? Maybe since the partnership with Eric Holder's FBI was formed? It is quite the possibility.


I wonder if Eric Holder and the FBI are following this advice:

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. -- Josef Stalin


-Kook
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Rampant Stupidity: The Political divide in this country is (not) Racial.

 So I was googling some search terms trying to do a little post research.  This is part of my process, I try to key in on something I have heard or seen and then I start asking myself questions and walk around the idea kind of mull it over; kick the tires a bit, then I start googling and Wikipedia searching.  So I have a pretty good idea for a post and I am doing a little brainstorm googling and I stumble up on this steaming pile of dog poo.  At first I thought I had an “Aha!” moment, then I read deeper and all the alarm bells started going off.  I had stumbled on to thinly veiled racial propaganda cooked up by some kind of leftist  machine think tank that does not exist anymore. It is not a brand new study and I would not even care except for the fact that it has been used a LOT as a source for conservative and liberal cities in the US.  And it is a farce.   I will not bore you with the whole study.  You can read the whole thing if you want;all I want to share right now is a very short part:

“A new nationwide study released by the nonpartisan Bay Area Center for Voting Research (BACVR) ranks the political leanings of every American city and finds that Detroit, Michigan is the most liberal and Provo, Utah the most conservative…[snip]….The great political divide in America today is not red vs. blue, north vs. south, costal vs. interior or even rich vs. poor it is now clearly black vs. white, says Phil Reiff, a BACVR director.
The list of America’s most liberal cities reads like a who’s who of prominent African American communities. Gary, Washington D.C., Newark, Flint, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Birmingham have long had prominent black populations. While most black voters have consistently supported Democrats since the 1960s, it is the white liberals that have slowly withered away over the decades, leaving African Americans as the sole standard bearers for the left”

 

This makes me want to scream and pound my head on the desk.  How effing libtarded do you have to be to believe that 15% of the population put the Democrats in a super majority and elected the first black president?  IF EVERY VOTING AGE BLACK PERSON IN AMERICA had voted they could not have done it!

The Black population is only 15% of this country.  The Black population of Detroit is between 70% and 80%.  But the population of Michigan as a whole shows people of African Descent as only  eleven (11) Percent --11%.   Interestingly enough…hmm…look at this (from the census) :

If you cannot make it out I will help.  That  darker purplish color is African American Population distribution. To read the whole report go here: http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-5.pdf.

Now if that was the case then Obama and the Democrats should have cleaned up in Mississippi, Louisiana,  and the Carolina’s:

 

Huh… looks like a whole lotta Red in the south.   Even more importantly in the Northeast where it is DARK BLUE and the West Coast where it is also blue there is a distinct lack of the purple African Descent color from the other map…hmmm.  Not one speck of Purple in the pacific northwest.  There is a better correlation between being Latino and Democratic voting habits.  And the Hispanic population is larger than the black population now anyway.  But my favorite part of that map showing the ethnicity breakdown by population is that huge area of the country that just identifies themselves as “American” (pale yellow).  Look at that part, and then look at the election map.  Red.  Now red means they voted for McCain and he is a Republican ,worse than that he is a RINO.  But that is the best way to determine if anyone has a hope of being conservative; there is no way a conservative votes Democrat in a national election.

This is the most RIDICUOUS and easily debunked thing I have seen in a long time.  This is all done by some liberal think tank in California to stir people up using the Race card. The organization was sold on ebay.  The website it dead. As far as I can tell it existed only to publish this data.

The real divide in the United States, I think, is URBAN vs RURAL.  I have been saying this for a while.  Even though, as I posted on before,  what is rural is hard to define. It does not have much of anything to do with education, it has little to do with wealth, it has  next to nothing to do with Race.  It is not all about sexual orientation or gender or blue collar vs white collar.   It is, as far as I can tell, about population density more than anything else. Compare the map below from the 2000 census with the map above.

So what makes more sense, that Race is the key factor (look at the first and second maps comparatively) or that Population Density is closer to a factor (look at the second and third maps)?    I am not doing original research and I am not a sociologist and I don’t study a lot of demographics but this seems somewhat of a no-brainer to me.

  Now the real question that someone with more time than I have will have to answer is: “Do cities attract liberals or make them?”  See I love wide open spaces, I am into individual freedom, I like to pee off my front porch at night (too much sharing?… oh…sorry) I don’t like being right up next to someone.  Heck I don’t even like sitting at a table in a restaurant close to another party.   But I have known people who love cities and they confuse me.  Even just the short while I spent in DC, I re-affirmed my distaste for public transportation, hustle and bustle, and the general way of city life.  But some people love that.  I like being alone at times, I like the occasional solitude; some people can’t tolerate solitude but they do want to be anonymous.  So they like all these strangers.  They like the action.  Now, does that personality type gravitate toward Liberalism?  Does this need and desire to be part of a hive or herd lend itself to the groupthink necessary to be a liberal, or does the act of being in a herd for a long time to that to a person?  And I realize many of my freedom loving conservative brothers and sisters out there live in highly populated places, but they are ..uhhh… Rebels there aren’t they?

I do not know, but I wager it is the first part.  People who want more government go where there is already more government intrusion.  They want to be part of the herd.  I am not part of the herd, never have been, and do not want to be.  I am ruggedly individualistic in the great American tradition. You can keep your hive. I will take Freeeeedoommm.

The political divide in this country is NOT racial.  Race may play a little part in it, but if people of African Descent were able to sway the political process as much as what has been claimed above; then why in the hell is there not a starker contrast in the coloration between the two parties?  I can also tell you why there are lots of people of African Descent in those Cities that the “Study” claims are the most liberal.  But that is a post for another time.  Now I have to go find some actual research for my original post idea.  It is going to be good if I can put it together.

-KOOK

We Are All Racists Now

CHARLIE RANGEL USES PRESIDENT OBAMA AS AN EXAMPLE TO PLAY THE RACE-CARD - New York Post

First it was Gov. Paterson. Now the dean of New York's congressional delegation has played the race card -- and just as the governor did, he's using President Obama to do it.

Rep. Charles Rangel said Tuesday that "bias" and "prejudice" toward Obama are fueling opposition to health-care reform.

Those incendiary comments came on the heels of Paterson's controversial comments about race that also mentioned the nation's first black president.

"Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, 'How did this happen?' " Rangel (D-Manhattan) said Tuesday. You are right about one thing I do go to bed, or at least watch the news everyday and wonder “how did this happen?” But it has nothing.  NOTHING. to do with the fact that Rangel is Black, or that Obama is Black, or that Conyers and Waters and others are black.  Or that Pelosi and Reid and Dodd, and Frank are White.  Nor, does it have anything to do with the fact that Frank is a queer as a 3 dollar bill.  It doesn’t matter to me that Biden is a big fat stupid white drunk with diarrhea of the mouth.  It doesn’t matter that Ted Kennedy died, or even that when he was alive he was a big fat rich elitist philandering drunk who should have been in jail for manslaughter. 

Let me be plain spoken so that we can be crystal clear on these few points. 

I dislike you, Charlie Rangel, because you are a Crook.  You lied about your income on your tax returns and you are the head of the Ways and Means Committee which makes you a Lying Hypocritical Crook.  I also further dislike you because you are a racialist for accusing me of being a racist because I disagree with your IDEAS. 

I Dislike Barack Obama, because I feel he has been less than honest about his worldview, beliefs, plans and associations.  I do not know that he outright lied about anything but I dislike all of his policies to date and I think he mislead a great majority of the people who voted for him. I think he has been in some shady real estate deals, I think he has taken political assassination to a high art, I think that he is a Statist and I think he does not have the best interests of our country at heart.

I Dislike Van Jones not because he is black, but because he is an avowed communist and former Con, who uses Scientific Political Science terms like “Asshole” when describing people who do not agree with his agenda. 

None of these things has one single iota of relevance to Race.

Bad ideas and lying hypocritical crooks are found in every ethnicity.

I dislike Joe Biden…well because he is obviously on too much medication or not enough.  I would not want him to be in charge of a kindergarten class.  So I do not think he should be in any position of power.

I dislike Nancy Pelosi because she is a Liar and an Elitist.  Not because she is a rich or because she is a woman.

Dodd and Reid and Frank and all the others…I dislike them because I think that they are an assortment of Tax Cheats, Liars, Crooks, Elitists,and Statists of some stripe or another.

Not because they are Gay, Old, White, or anything else. 

I read about Charlie Rangel and John Conyers both in the news and thought they were crooks and socialists and bad for this country for months before I knew either of their races.  Because I do not care that they are black.

Speaking at a health-care forum in Washington Heights, Rangel said that when critics complain that Obama is "trying to interfere" with their lives by pushing for health-care reform, "then you know there's just a misunderstanding, a bias, a prejudice, an emotional feeling."

NO not an emotional feeling.  Not a Misunderstanding.  They are banking on our misunderstanding.  I have a problem because of several well reasoned objections.

"We're going to have to move forward notwithstanding that," said Rangel, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a chief health-care negotiator.

So we are going to cram it down your throats because once again we know better and we Rule you, not because we Represent you.

Rangel then likened the battle over health-care expansion for the uninsured to the fight for civil rights.

OH. MY. GOD.  this is nothing like Civil Rights,  there is no RIGHT TO FREE MEDICAL CARE  ARGGGGHHH  Who are we discriminating against?  The poor?  Or just the poor blacks?

Well then why does Mr. Rangel try to cheat the IRS all the time?  Doesn’t he want to help his poor brethren with his tax dollars?

"Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can't we get what God has given us? GOD?  God did not give you the right to welfare, or social entitlements! That is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners WHITE SOUTHERNERS?  WTF?   WHO IS RACIST NOW? and not count the votes. Just do the right thing," he said.

Rangel's comments came less than two weeks after Paterson claimed he has been the victim of a racist white media -- and also suggested that opposition to Obama's plan is racially driven. Anytime a black man does not get his way it is Racial then?  That is the standard we live under now? I thought Obama was the post racial president, but apparently all we have done is take race baiting to a higher level now.

The White House was quick to rebut Paterson's comments. Of course they did.  How many times?  How many times is someone at the white house going to have to distance themselves from a racialist comment from one of its associates?  Rev. Wright, Van Jones, John Conyers, Charlie Rangel, Gov. Paterson.  Not even to mention all the other moonbat leftists who say the same thing.  If all of your friends supporters and associates are crooks, racialists and liars …eventually…at some point… doesn’t that sort of stick to you?

Critics of ObamaCare blasted Rangel for taking the low road.

"Charlie Rangel knows that race has nothing to do with the health-care debate. He should not be implying that race has anything to do with it," said Rep. Peter King (R-LI).

State Conservative Party leader Mike Long called Rangel's comment "outrageous and outlandish" -- and suggested the congressman might be trying to deflect attention from his ethics woes.

"Rangel is playing the race card. It's clear that the congressman is trying to galvanize the minority community that this is 'us against them.' It's going to backfire. A majority of people will see through this," Long said.

After the forum, Rangel insisted he was not smearing opponents as racists. Just because that is what I SAID doesn't mean that is what I Meant in my heart.

"What I'm saying is, if you watch the town-hall meetings, people were angry and did not care what the answer was to some of their questions. They were angry with their member of Congress, period," he said.

No sir, NO sir.  You cannot back your way out of this one.  Sorry.  Not with me, and not with the rest of us either.  Yes we are angry.  No we do not really care to hear the same old tired lies that we have heard before.  We went there to be listened to.  That is what a Town Hall is.  We do not go to them to be talked down to like ignorant peons who have no idea what is in their best interests.  You work for us.  We do not live to Serve You.  You do not Rule us, you are supposed to Represent us.  But I know I am not represented, I and others like me have not been represented by this government for many years now.  But I hope and pray that you will learn the difference soon between being a Ruler and being a Representative. 

100 Days...sigh, a commemorative re-posting

This is posted in the Kook File, but I thought it was relevant enough to go ahead and post on the front page. I wrote this on Immaculation Day (inauguration day), and it seemed just as fitting today as then. First is the Inaugural Poem...then my (more fitting) attempt.


Ridiculous Poem from Immaculation and My Attempt.
It doesn’t even rhyme. I have read it three times and it just makes me angry. I do not know why it makes me angry, probably because I know it is somehow racial…why I should feel guilty as a white man or something. I don’t know. I like poetry. I can recite several poems word for word, and I like them…I don’t think this is poetry…and I do not understand it…gobblydegook….pisses me off.

Praise song for the day. Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others' eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues. Someone is stitching up a hem, darning a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair. Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice. A woman and her son wait for the bus. A farmer considers the changing sky; A teacher says, "Take out your pencils. Begin." We encounter each other in words, words spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed; words to consider, reconsider. We cross dirt roads and highways that mark the will of someone and then others who said, "I need to see what's on the other side; I know there's something better down the road." We need to find a place where we are safe; We walk into that which we cannot yet see. Say it plain, that many have died for this day. Sing the names of the dead who brought us here, who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges, picked the cotton and the lettuce, built brick by brick the glittering edifices they would then keep clean and work inside of. Praise song for struggle; praise song for the day. Praise song for every hand-lettered sign; The figuring it out at kitchen tables. Some live by "Love thy neighbor as thy self."Others by first do no harm, or take no more than you need. " What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance. In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun. On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp -- praise song for walking forward in that light."

That steaming pile of poo was The inaugural poem for Barack Hussein Obama.
Here I can do one too..

"Oh glorious morning I have to go to the bathroom and do my business, walking past the coffee pot, looking at the clock or not, listening to people speak and not speaking. All I hear is noise, I stepped on a toy in the den, the name of my child is loud upon my tongue! I have too much crap to do today, going to work, supporting the lazy, patching a hole in my pants because I am broke, repairing things that need fixed because everything is made in China. Someone is making too much damn noise somewhere; sounds like jungle drums, I tell them to shut the hell up. I have to take the bus to work, I cannot afford a car. A farmer considers why prices are so high, while his pay is so low. A teacher says “the answer to the question 4 on the test is B” so that everyone passes the test, education in the 21st century. We encounter each other at the unemployment line, we start to speak but, what is there to say? We wish we would have considered the consequences and we reconsider our vote. We cross dirt roads, because the state cannot pave them, too many welfare payments to make because of the will of someone who said, “everyone gets everything no matter who works” We need to find a place that is safe, I walked into something I could not see, my electric has been shut off. I say it plain that many have died to prevent this day, and yet no one really cares, scream the names of the living who brought us here; liberal progressives every one! Sing a song about the heartland the only place I feel at home, sing about the way a good man works until the daylight is gone; sing the rain on the roof on a summer night, where they still know wrong from right, sing a song about the heartland, sing a song about my life. Some live by “take from thy neighbor for thyself”; others praise “doing nothing”, or “take all you can get, the white man will make more” What if the mightiest words are “get a damn job” and “let me keep my money” but no one hears them because they are all high on Peace and Love…drugs that cost nothing but make us stupid and incapable of rational thought. In todays pc world, this foul climate, anything can be done, and anything can be said, unless you are a white Christian man under the age of 60, then you are an intolerant bigot no matter what. Down the drain, circling the bowl, up shit creek- that is what we are boldly walking toward"

One More Short Comment on Race

Two Definitions and then a short comment.

Ethnicity (n) a term which represents social groups with a shared history, sense of identity, geography and cultural roots which may occur despite racial difference

Race (n) A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.

Exactly. The United States is made up of Many Races, but SHOULD only be one ethnicity.
If you are not willing to modify your ethnicity to melt into the ethnicity of the USA then stay where you are.
The term "ethnic group" as a euphemism for "racial groups" is misleading.
Liberals say "ethnic group" when they mean "racial group". If they really meant "Ethnic" group or really better yet "subculture groups" they would actually be right. Ethnic groups have nothing to do with Race. It is a cultural phenomenon.

On "Heroes" the other night there was a very Asian looking truckdriver and Hiro and Ando thought he spoke Japanese, then he started talking and sounded 100% Texan. It was a good point on the difference between Race and Ethnicity.

There is a difference between appreciating your heritage and knowing where you come from and refusing to join the larger culture of the nation to which you belong.

I am against divisive subculture, I am pro racial diversity.

KOOK on Racism

I have not covered Racism yet, and that is because it is almost a non-issue. I know there are people who have made their whole career and lives off of race baiting, they are just perpetuating a dying issue, and they need to be marginalized. Affirmative action had a place for about 10 years in certain areas. The time for preferential treatment of any race with the possible exception of Native Americans, is OVER.

You know...it is not really about Race with most folks. It is about lifestyle, or culture. The color of someone's skin means little to most Americans, but how they conduct themselves and the values (or lack thereof) they hold dear are what puts us at odds. I have issues with the Gangsta Culture (if you can call it culture)I have issues with Militant Islamic Extremism. I have issues with Neo-Nazi culture. I have issues with the culture of La Raza. I have issues with the Liberal Agenda. I have issues with the Apathetic and the Lazy. I have issues with people who would rather tear this country down than do their small part to build it up.

I do not hate Blacks, Hispanics, Whites, Asians, Indians, Natives, Arabs, Europeans, or people from the Left Coast. I have a problem with the breakdown of civilized responsible culture. I have a problem with the entitlement mentality. I have a problem with failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions and decisions in life. I have a problem with the assault on Liberty. I have a problem with people who are educated beyond their intelligence. I have a problem with the lowering of standards for any reason.


All of these issues are irrespective of Race.