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 "The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness"

 

 

Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution.   She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association. She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas.  Dr. Wortham is author of "The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness" which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.  She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality.  Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness. Shortly after an interview in 2004, she was awarded tenure. This article (below) by her is something.

 

Fellow Americans, 

Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America.

I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America.
 


Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depends. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them. 

I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration - political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University 's Kennedy School of Government. 

I would have to believe that "fairness" is the equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that a man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth. 

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism. 

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the office of the president of the United States , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmy Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person. 

So, toast yourselves, 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee, Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a Black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to - Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to feel good. 

There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness. God Help Us all...



 
 

 

 No info on Snopes..  Probably too much research would be required by them to prove or disprove the information in the email..  However, based on what I have seen, listened to and read related to this subject, I believe every word of it.  You decide for yourself!!!!!!!Then pass it on.  Obama care will be a disaster for America.

 

UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!

 


An Attorney's opinion

So, the Democrats (nor the Republicans) don't have time or
the expertise to read the bill - well here are comments from a lawyer who
has.

An Attorney's opinion

From Michael Connelly - Retired attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton, Texas

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill
3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with
particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was
frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed
might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had
heard or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its
implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are
saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly
where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free
health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably
forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of
business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions
about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats
and most of them will not be health care professionals.

Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary
medical devices will be strictly controlled.

However, as scary as all of that it, it just scratches the surface. In
fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of
providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover
for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of
government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law
or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the
United States will effectively have been destroyed.


The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power
between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S.
Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration
authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American
people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress doesn't
have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with. I
defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any
authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama
administration of all of your personal healthcare
information, your personal financial information, and the information of
your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation
of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution
protecting against unreasonable
searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy.
That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd
and 4th Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private
insurance that is not deemed "acceptable" to the "Health
Choices Administrator" appointed by Obama there will be a tax
imposed on you. It is called a "tax" instead of a fine because of the
intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th
Amendment. However, that doesn't work because since there is nothing in
the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it
is definitely depriving someone of property without the "due process of
law".

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so
much out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are
effectively nullified by this law. It doesn't stop there though. The 9th
Amendment that provides: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain
rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the
people;" The 10th Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
preserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Under the
provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor
the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas
that once were theirs to control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get
the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and
limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of
both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation" to support
the Constitution. If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to
vote for this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was
violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I
would hope the American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult
the source.

Here is a link to the Constitution:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html


And another to the Bill of Rights:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html


There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken
from us..

Michael Connelly
Retired attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton, Texas




MICHAEL R. CONNELLY
http://us.mc599.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=MROBERTC@HOTMAIL.COM


EDUCATION

· Diploma, Redemptorist High School in New Orleans, La. 1966.
· Bachelor of Science, Business and Public Administration, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, La. (Degree required numerous political science
and business courses. Many history and public speaking courses were taken
as electives.) 1971
· Juris Doctorate, Louisiana State University Law School, 1973.
· Graduate, U.S. Army Intelligence School, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1973.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MILITARY:
· Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve, 1971.
· Active duty at the U.S. Army Intelligence School from Sept. 1973- Nov.
1973.
· Assigned to reserve duty with 352nd Army Security Agency company in
Baton Rouge from Jan 1974 until Aug. 1978. (Served as Supply officer,
Operations officer, and Recruiting officer.)
· Left the reserves in 1978 as a Captain.
LEGAL:
· Licensed attorney in Baton Rouge, La. since 1973.
· Qualified to practice before all Louisiana State and Federal Courts and
the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
· I have also represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court.
· Areas of practice include Constitutional Law, Personal Injury Law,
Criminal Law, Family Law, Business Law, Medical Malpractice and
Successions.
· Special assistant attorney general for the State of Louisiana, 1977-80.
· Of Counsel for U.S. Justice Foundation, 1980-98.
· General Counsel, Council for Inter-American Security, 1978-95.
· Still licensed, but inactive since 2001.
REAL ESTATE CONSULTING:
· Part Time Real Estate consultant for McNichol & Connelly, Dallas, TX.
(Duties included preparation of Market & Financial Feasibility studies,
locating real estate for various projects, brokering loans, and locating
potential investors.) 1997 - 1999
TEACHING:
· Currently teaching courses on Evidence Law, Constitutional Law,
Courtroom Strategy and Business Law for Education to Go, an online company
providing courses for numerous universities.
· Have appeared as a guest lecturer at both LSU and University of New
Orleans.
· Substitute high school teacher for East Baton Rouge Parish School
System, Sept. 1998-Jan. 2000. · Temporary full time
teacher of World Geography, Woodlawn High School, Baton Rouge, La.,
1998-99.



You're not going to believe this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To all my friends, regardless of your political views, you need to see this one.



To: 
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:37:30 -0600
Subject: Fw: Nidal Hasan, was Homeland Security advisor on Obama transition team

 
OK, now I know why O Bama didn't want to jump to conclusions about Nidal Hasan. This man who killed and wounded the people at Fort Hood, Texas was an advisor to Obama's Homeland Security transition team.
 
Check it out for yourself. This needs to go to everyone even the O Bama Lovers.
I think is absolutely absurd that news agencies have not reported any of this information. I wonder why???
 
Look on page 29 of the Homeland Security Institute link below. I'm going to keep this link and see who shows up next time.
 
http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.PDF
 

WOW, the ring of shame on us grows !!!!!
1.  Ayers
2.  Wright
3.  Jones
4.  A.C.O.R.N.
5. Hasan






 Letter from WW II Battleship Sailor
 

 



This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii
for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes
all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body,
he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now.
He dictated this letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president.

Dear President Obama,     
         
     My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.
I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly
before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.
One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one,
is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.
So here goes.
I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.
I can't figure out what country you are the president of.
You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:
             " We're no longer a Christian nation"
             " America is arrogant" - (Your wife even
                 announced to the world,"America is mean-
                 spirited. " Please tell her to try preaching
                 that nonsense to 23 generations of our
                 war dead buried all over the globe who
                 died for no other reason than to free a
                 whole lot of strangers from tyranny and
                 hopelessness.)
I'd say shame on the both of you but I don't think you like America nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.
After 9/11 you said," America hasn't lived up to her
ideals."
Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British ? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War ? I hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers,husbands,and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII,because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around because we stand for freedom.
I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.
Take a little advice from a very old geezer,young man.
Shape up and start acting like an American.If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue .You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.
And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts who was putting up a fight ? You don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are,terrorists.
One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life but you're the Commander-in-Chief now,son. Do your job.  When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're thinking of.
You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.
You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.

Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes
 

 
Dear Grim Reaper,
So far this year you have taken away my favorite dancer Michael Jackson, my favorite actor Patrick Swayze,
 my favorite singer Stephen Gately and my favorite actress Farah Fawcett.
Just so you know, my favorite politician is Barack Obama.
Regards,


This article has got to be a joke.  But watch out.  There is a HB2454 already approved by the nitwits in the House and can move forward.  You have to be a trained lawyer to understand some of the details that are accessible, but with the way this current government is operating, I put nothing past these idiots.  Hello homeowners, are you still in love with Obama and his stooges??  I find it difficult to believe that our representatives could even consider this potential garbage but the beaver Henry Waxman is the sponsor and he is missing a few screws in his brain.  And they wonder why people are starting and interested in private armed militias.  Check out some of the info.  Good luck
 
Subject: H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill) A License Required for your HOUSE?

 
 

 
 
 

If you own your home you may want to check this out – at the end of this email is the Google link to verify…..If the country thinks the housing market is depressed now, wait until everyone sees this – no one will be buying homes in the future.

We encourage you to read the provisions of the Cap and Trade Bill that has passed the House of Representatives and being considered by the Senate. We are ready to join the next march on Washington !  This Congress and whoever on their staffs that write this junk are truly out to destroy the middle class of the USA .....

A License required for your house...no longer just for cars and mobile homes....

Thinking about selling your house - A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill) This is unbelievable!

Only the beginning from this administration! Home owners take note & tell your friends and relatives who are home owners!

Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.

The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year. No one is excluded. However, once the lower classes feel the pinch in their wallets, you can be sure these voters get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new cost. Thus, you Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class America will have to pay even more since additional tax dollars will be needed to bail out everyone else.

But wait. This awful bill (that no one in Congress has actually read) has many more surprises in it. Probably the worst one is this: A year from now you won't be able to sell your house. Yes, you read that right. The caveat is (there always is a caveat) that if you have enough money to make required major upgrades to your home, then you can sell it. But, if not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes ("mobile homes") are included. In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator.

To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured. Then the government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements. Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license (called a "label" in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner. If you don't get a high enough rating, you can't sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act.

The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap & Trade program (AKA the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009") and is authorized to make any future changes to the regulations and standards he alone determines to be in the government's best interest. Requirements are set low initially so the bill will pass Congress; then the Administrator can set much tougher new standards every year.

The Act itself contains annual required increases in energy efficiency for private and commercial residences and buildings. However, the EPA administrator can set higher standards at any time. Sect. 202 Building Retrofit Program mandates a national retrofit program to increase the energy efficiency of all existing homes across America .

Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. You had better sell soon, because the standards will be raised each year and will be really hard (i.e., ex$pen$ive) to meet in a few years. Oh, goody! The Act allows the government to give you a grant of several thousand dollars to comply with the retrofit program requirements IF you meet certain energy efficiency levels.

But, wait, the State can set additional requirements on who qualifies to receive the grants. You should expect requirements such as "can't have an income of more than $50K per year", "home selling price can't be more than $125K", or anything else to target the upper middle class (and that's YOU) and prevent them from qualifying for the grants. Most of us won't get a dime and will have to pay the entire cost of the retrofit out of our own pockets. More transfer of wealth, more "change you can believe in." Sect. 204 Building Energy Performance Labeling Program establishes a labeling program that for each individual residence will identify the achieved energy efficiency performance for "at least 90 percent of the residential market within 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act."

This means that within 5 years 90% of all residential homes in the U.S. must be measured and labeled. The EPA administrator will get $50M each year to enforce the labeling program. The Secretary of the Department of Energy will get an additional $20M each year to help enforce the labeling program. Some of this money will, of course, be spent on coming up with tougher standards each year..

Oh, the label will be like a license for your car. You will be required to post the label in a conspicuous location in your home and will not be allowed to sell your home without having this label. And, just like your car license, you will probably be required to get a new label every so often - maybe every year. But, the government estimates the cost of measuring the energy efficiency of your home should only cost about $200 each time. Remember what they said about the auto smog inspections when they first started: that in California it would only cost $15.

That was when the program started. Now the cost is about $50 for the inspection and certificate; a 333% increase. Expect the same from the home labeling program. Sect. 304 Greater Energy Efficiency in Building Codes establishes new energy efficiency guidelines for the National Building Code and mandates at 304(d) that 1 year after enactment of this Act, all state and local jurisdictions must adopt the National Building Code energy efficiency provisions or must obtain a certification from the federal government that their state and/or local codes have been brought into full compliance with the National Building Code energy efficiency standards.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=A+License+required+for+your+home-+Cap+and+Trade&btnG=Google+Search
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Refresher course on firearms
 
There is a lot of truth to this article.  Most of the U. S. Congress either doesn't understand or comprehend liberty.
 
Refresher course on firearms!


1. "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those
who do not." Thomas Jefferson


2."Those who trade liberty for security have neither." John Adams



3. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

 
4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

5. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.

6. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

 


7.You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.

8.Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.


9. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.

 
11. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.

12. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. A ll Rights Reserved.


13. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.

 
14. What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you NOT understand?
 
15. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.

16. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.


17. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.



Fort Hood's 911

By RALPH PETERS  , November 6, 2009

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.

What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.

This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period.

When the terrorist posts anti-American hate-speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as "Palestinian" in a Muslim spouse-matching program, and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit — well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an "Islamist terrorist."

But the president won’t. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because there’s no such thing as "Islamist terrorism" in ObamaWorld.

And the Army won’t. Because its senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America-haters is safer than calling terrorism "terrorism."

And the media won’t. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops — despite their crocodile tears.

Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he wasn’t killed on the spot.

Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming "harassment" drove him temporarily insane. There’ll be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our politically correct Army leadership wouldn’t dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.

Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hasan will be praised privately. And he’ll have the last laugh.

But Hasan isn’t the sole guilty party. The US Army’s unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Ft. Hood.

Given the myriad warning signs, it’s appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damnUS policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Ft. Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.

Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would’ve been gone with the simoon. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.

Now 12 soldiers and a security guard lie dead. 31 soldiers were wounded, 28 of them seriously. If heads don’t roll in this maggot’s chain of command, the Army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.

There’s another important issue, too. How could the Army allow an obviously incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat our troubled soldiers returning from war? An Islamist whacko is counseled for arguing with veterans who’ve been assigned to his care? And he’s not removed from duty? What planet does the Army live on?

For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I’m ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him.

Get ready for the apologias. We’ve already heard from the terrorist’s family that "he’s a good American." In their world, maybe he is.

But when do we, the American public, knock off the PC nonsense?

A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she’s becoming too Westernized.

Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again. And we’re assured that "Islam’s a religion of peace."

I guarantee you that the Obama administration’s non-response to the Ft. Hood attack will mock the memory of our dead.



 


Orange   County California Newspaper

This  is a very good letter to the editor. This woman made some good  points. For some reason, people have difficulty structuring  their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently  proposed immigration revisions. This lady made the argument  pretty simple. NOT printed in the Orange County  Paper.

Newspapers simply won't publish letters to the  editor which they either deem politically incorrect (read  below) or which does not agree with the philosophy they're  pushing on the public. This woman wrote a great letter to the  editor that should have been published; but, with your help it  will get published via cyberspace!

From: 'David  LaBonte'
My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the  editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed.  So, I decided to 'print' it myself by sending it out on the  Internet. Pass it along if you feel so inclined. Written in  response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange   County Register:

Dear  Editor:
So  many letter writers have based their arguments on how this  land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests  we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people  now in question aren't being treated the same as those who  passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.  

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point  out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not  willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back  in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come  to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand  in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even  get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They  made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country  in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary  rule in their new American households and some even changed  their names to blend in with their new home.

They had  waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a  new life and did everything in their power to help their  children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to  them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect  them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they  had brought with them to trade for a future of  prosperity.

Most of their children came of age when  World War II broke out. My father fought alongside men whose  parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France ,  and Japan . None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave  any thought about what country their parents had come from.  They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor  of Japan They were defending the United States of America as  one people.

When we liberated France , no one in those  villages was looking for the French-American or the  German-American or the Irish-American.. The people of France  saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented  one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have  thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it  to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to  their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These  immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They  stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue  bowl.

And here we are in 2009 with a new kind of  immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges, only they  want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules,  one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of  being faithful to their mother country... I'm sorry, that's  not what being an American is all about. I believe that the  immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's  deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and  sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that  has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better  life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used  as an example by those waving foreign country  flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the  Statue of Liberty , it happens to mean a lot to the citizens  who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn't st art  talking about dismantling the United States just  yet.

(signed) Rosemary LaBonte

KEEP  THIS LETTER MOVING. FOR THE WRONG THINGS TO PREVAIL THE  RIGHTFUL MAJORITY NEEDS TO REMAIN COMPLACENT AND  QUIET!

LET  THIS NEVER HAPPEN!
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Our planet is populated with plenty of bizarre and astonishing creatures without the need for resorting to fiction.   Some are rare; some are on the verge of extinction.  
Here are 14 of the most peculiar creatures known to mankind.




Angora Rabbit


 




 Aye-aye



 




 
Blobfish
             

  
 



 
Komondor Dog
  

 



 
Pink Fairy Armadillo 



  
 



 Pygmy Marmoset 
  
 
 



 Sloth 
 


 



 Star-nosed Mole 
 


 
 



 Sucker-footed Bat 
 


 



 Sun Bear 
 


 



 Tapir 
 
 



 
White-faced Saki Monkey 


 



 Yeti Crab



 


Left-Winged Ding Bat   


"What's Happened?"
 WE FIGURED HIM OUT
 
                         By Ben Stein

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get hissocialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust,
voted for a pig in a poke in 2008.
They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.
They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.
They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student.
They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer,"Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as
 a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth.
Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East , way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future. The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically
 means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs
 while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.
These are perilous times.. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.
Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America ...

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in
Beverly Hills and Malibu . He writes "Ben Stein's Diary" for every issue of The American Spectator.
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