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After the killing of OBL, everybody was as united as can be. President Barack Obama got praises from everybody, even some of his nemesis like Donald Trump, Mike Huckabee, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reily, Glen Beck, FOX News, etc. I mean everybody.
“I want to express my deepest gratitude to the men and women of the U.S. military and intelligence community. Their persistence and dedicated service has yielded success in a mission that has gripped our nation since the terrible events of 9/11. Tonight’s news does not bring back the lives of the thousands of innocent people who were killed that day by Osama bin Laden’s horrific plan, and it does not end the threat posed by terrorists, but it is my hope that this is the beginning of the end of Sharia-compliant terrorism.” [Source]
Get a grip. Are you really American, or do both of you really hate Barack Obama for stealing your shine (which was not coming anytime soon)? Wait are you trying to play “Let’s see who can one-up the “I hate everything Barack Obama does. Even the way he farts?” I don’t know but let hear it for the domestic haters of the United States, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. My man Silky Johnson will accept the award for you and he is at the podium right now.
I know many brothers and sisters really and I mean really hate Clarence Thomas. After all, in the black community, he is known as everything that you do not want your children to be after succeeding. I put it like this. He is the guy that everybody said never stayed true to his principles and sided with others who thought was he should and should not have as African-Americans’ equal rights. Basically, he was the poster boy for After Civil Rights’ Uncle Tom.
….but today is still hard for me to say this “What Justice Thomas said was literally A GOOD POINT.”
He hardly ever speaks during oral arguments, often appearing asleep on the bench. But in his written opinion Monday supporting the right to bear arms, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas roared to life.
Referring to the disarming of blacks during the post-Reconstruction era, Thomas wrote: "It was the 'duty' of white citizen 'patrols to search negro houses and other suspected places for firearms.' If they found any firearms, the patrols were to take the offending slave or free black 'to the nearest justice of the peace' whereupon he would be 'severely punished.' " Never again, Thomas says.
In a scorcher of an opinion that reads like a mix of black history lesson and Black Panther Party manifesto, he goes on to say, "Militias such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of the White Camellia, the White Brotherhood, the Pale Faces and the '76 Association spread terror among blacks. . . . The use of firearms for self-defense was often the only way black citizens could protect themselves from mob violence."
This was no muttering from an Uncle Tom, as many black people have accused him of being. His advocacy for black self-defense is straight from the heart of Malcolm X. He even cites the slave revolts led by Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner -- implying that white America has long wanted to take guns away from black people out of fear that they would seek revenge for centuries of racial oppression.
I can’t believe this came out of his mouth out of all people. I mean, this looks like it will come from people like Rev. Inc. (for those who don’t know that is Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Shout out to Field Negro for that one.), or some black militant cat who works for the Black Panther Party. No, this came out of C.T. mouth. He has a good point on the 2nd amendment. Instead of calling him an Uncle Tom, we might need to be hearing the poster boy (well former to me, there are new Toms and Jemamas, such as Jesse Lee Peterson, that Manning dude, and Star Parker; who in my case don’t give a s^%* about their own race.) instead of listening to media and people who are going to take our Second Amendment Rights away from us. Think about it. I know that it is hard in the Chi with all these killings and everything, but just think for a second if they took the right to bear arms from ALL- AFRICAN AMERICANS. For the gangster who got the gun, it will be use to lock him up, but for just a normal-working African Americans who want to protect their, it is more of the fear that other militias (or domestic terrorist such as White Nationalists, who are protected by the NRA) can have us living in fear if we succeed or say something out the way, which is seriously inhumane.
I am glad Justice Thomas stood up on this not speaking as for one person, but for a race.
What do you think about Justice Clarence Thomas speaking up for African American about the Second Amendment?
I don’t get South Carolina. All of their racial injustice in the past is close to those of my state of Mississippi. South Carolina has been in the news for the all the wrong reasons.
….The Joe Wilson “You lie” while the president is doing a speech.(I am sorry let a black person, let alone any person would have done that to the past 43 presidents, then you wouldn’t have to worry about next election. You would have been sweet-chinned down to president podium.)
….Bloggers banging candidates – Seriously, South Carolina have a real problem with infidelity, or it is just the politicians
…..Alvin Greene – A “Feel Good,” “ Underdog,” and “Rocky Balboa” story that is too good to be true, even with his own party.
So out of all this Black Republicans may have the person that could represent them (the reason I say that is because most (97%) think that most African Americans “which their skin color resembles” are everything negative). His name is Tim Scott.
(An Ace Afterthought: Is it me, or Tim Scott has literally no diversity on here. He could have at least found one or two people of a different race on this commercial. It looks like "Leave It To Beaver Just Met Mr. Tibbs.")
I don’t know who is Tim Scott is but guy actually reminds me of another black conservative that was in Congress. His name is J.C. Watts. Check out some of his views.
On Create Jobs:
As a small-business owner and entrepreneur, Tim understands that business prospers when government gets out of the way. Tim has never voted to increase taxes, because he believes that your hard-earned dollars belong in your pocket, and in our economy – not in a government spending program. He will take these values with him to Washington, and will never forget that his first priority is to protect and create good jobs.
Verdict: Pretty good.
On Healthcare Solutions
President Obama’s health care bill taxes too much, spends too much, is bad for our health care, and is unconstitutional. Tim Scott will fight against government takeover of health care.
Despite our problems, the U.S. healthcare system is the envy of the world. People come from all over the world to be trained in our medical schools, to be treated in our hospitals, and to benefit from our pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Let’s not lose what is good about our health care system.
Tim believes in targeted, common sense reforms that will make health care more affordable, reduce the number of uninsured Americans, and increase the quality of care at a price our country can afford. Medical decisions should be made by patients and their providers, not by Washington bureaucrats. Tim will fight to prevent insurance companies from interfering with the physician-patient relationship, eliminate unnecessary hassles and unfair payment practices, and fight for reimbursement decisions that are based on patient care, not on economics.
Verdict: So you think that not every American need some sort of healthcare…Not a good look, Tim
On Protecting Our Borders
Tim will make strict immigration reform a top priority in Congress. He will fight to remove the incentives, like health care and education, which attract illegal immigrants to our state. Tim will also make sure our state law enforcement agencies are given the proper training and tools they need to enforce immigration laws. Tim is committed to strengthening penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. Tim will work to promote patriotic assimilation by making English the official language of government, and insist that new immigrants learn English.
Verdict: English as the official language is cool, but that Arizona thing you are losing cool points.
The rest is really something that I expect a republican to say.He never said anything about education which is red flag. The reason is that without education, all those issues are useless. the endorsement of Sarah Palin is another red flag (I guess she is post racial afterall.....who am I kidding? This woman will still call Mr. Scott the "n" word if he don't fall in line.) , but he does woo me over with the jobs situation.
My thing if he wins, He is going to have to balance his beliefs and others things.Good luck to you on that one Tim.
Do you think Tim Scott will hit one out the park for Black conservatives, or pull an Angela McGlowan and strike out bad? How do you see Tim Scott if he is a representative of the South Carolina 1st district?
I see that the 2010 primaries are in rare form this year. Between both parties, Democrats and Republicans are feeling the sting. I can tell you from these primaries that these are the most heated in years. Here is the rundown of the survival and prediction of this year’s primary.
People REALLY want change – I like Obama as a president, but his cabinet members…..well not so much. He is really doing the same thing and making the same mistake Bush did. This time it is a turn-around from that ole Kanye West, “Bush hate black people thing,” Even though the Oil Spill is as much of BP screw-up as the government, you can really say the same from the Corp. of Engineers. Both disasters were screwed up by lack of responsibility and both administrators were lacking in response and pointing fingers. Sorry, but that is the exact reason why one was mad then and one is mad now.
People are TIRED of the same songs- I know we wanted change in office, but very few did not understand why people wanted change. If you go by the same rules, people will get tired of them, plain and simple.
People DO NOT like just to be talking and the representatives DO NOT give them any action – Some people just do not get it. Just because you have worked in the same office for many terms does not mean you can turn a deaf ear on the people who put you there. Just ask Representatives Rep. Alan Mollohan, Parker Griffith, and Senators Bob Bennett and Arlen Specter (Yeah, Mr. Steroid Guy).
People REALLY HATE being abandoned – Exhibit A. Artur Davis
That “Obama Effect” only works on one person, BARACK OBAMA – Davis got upset due to him being conservative with his swaying away from the people who put him into office (see the previous point), and McGlowan lost due to her being naïve (Come on, Seriously, I said I was rooting for her. I also knew her election run was going to be literally all of Oxford and that is it.)
People had been through some really rough patches throughout this decade, ENOUGH SAID- I mean if you were born literally between 1978 and 1990. You really had to deal with very little. Now health care, the economy, people stealing money, serious natural disasters, and finger pointing like we are little kids. I can really said Reagan and Clinton were merely the only two problem-solving presidents that really came into mind during the years I have been in this lifetime unless someone can beg to differ with Reagan. I know for a fact Clinton dealt with some serious issues but the only thing he was known for is getting brains in the office. Everything he did was a serious success.
Obama is really not going to be challenged unless someone is has a serious team – I know The Obama Administration is full of it at times, but seriously, who can run against him in GOP. Haley can’t even take care of his own people, Palin got fraud out by LL, Huckabee likes his TV Show, the GOP don’t respect Jindal, Mitt Romney still looks and acts like a Pixar character, Guiliani still think American is all about 9-11 (Playa, get a new line), and Bob McDonnell placed a joker card on the black people in his own state, yet alone fueling fire in the South.
Some Tea Partiers are good for the goose and other are…well just look at RAND PAUL – Nikki Haley could still has shot but she is definitely no Rand Paul. As for others,
So if you want change, listen to all the incumbents and their challengers. See where they stand on issues that are important in your life. Go vote or we will have another 2 more years in turmoil.
(On a side not: Although Bennie Thompson has not done anything to improve the state of the 2nd district. He will be running against either Richard Cook or Bill Marcy. Personally, Bennie Thompson will win anyway because those two cannot connect with people across the Second District. They are too busy thinking about the cities where it is the rural areas that run the show in the 2nd district. So Good Luck on the Bill Marcy or Richard Cook.)
How do you feel about the 2010 election so far? Are you voting? What can be done for the incumbents to win general elections? What can be done for challengers to win also?
Let me get this straight off the board here. The Smoking Ace loves the kids especially when they have stories to tell, truthful or not. I am just a sucker for children though I don’t have any. When a kid tells a true story about the things that are going on in his life, I cling to listen to it. Take Marcelas Owens (young man on the left) from Washington. His mother got sick, lost her job, lost her health insurance, and died. Just telling the story in a long version is seriously sad.
…..Don’t tell that to the Mt. Rushmore of Republican talk: Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Michelle Malkin.
Here is what Glen Beck said:
Here is what Michelle Malkin on her blog:
Never mind that there is not a shred of evidence that any health insurer ever “abused” Marcelas. Never mind that the family has made no claim that Marcelas himself has survived without insurance (in Washington state, low-income children have been covered either throughMedicaid, SCHIP, or the SCHIP expansion program Apple Health for Kids).(see transcript)
And good ole uncle Rush said:
A little more research on the Washington Community Action Network. Technically, these people are not SEIU but they are involved with them. It's close. I want to be accurate here. They're not SEIU, but they're very much involved. And here is their basic stated mission: "to achieve economic fairness in order to establish a Democratic society characterized by racial and social justice --" which just means redistribution of wealth, that's what social justice means, "-- with respect to diversity and a decent quality of life for those who reside in Washington State." They got 50,000 members. That's who the mother of the woman who died works for, still the woman died. And then the woman's death is exploited by these people, along with the 11-year-old kid. (see transcript)
You see, this is what really kills me about Republican talk show pundits. They are heartless. They are saying “Since this little kid told his story, we are going to exposed his grandmother.” This kid believes that he can make a difference in each person life by telling his heart-warming story. This is not some sort of "Balloon Boy" incident, this is a child with a life that want to do better. There are certain things I say that is off-limit, ridiculing kids is a definite high priority. When the young kid came and said his speech at CPAC. I did not see one Democratic pundit ridicule him nor his parents. What conservatives think is that this young kids was exposed to say that. What if that child is telling the truth will shame all the humanity of the Republican party to the world. People are already saying that "All the Republicans want is what used to be. Things have change and people also change too." What these people are doing is calling bullying. If that is how you play it, do not get mad Michelle, Rush, and Glen if anybody start talking about you family members and such.
Should children be off-limits when they tell their story about things that concerns issue? If these people said something negative about you or your children and you belief of what you feel is true based on experience, what would you do?
I had to say that I am a pretty centric person. My parents always taught me that “There are always two sides of a coin; but once you flip the coin, you will know the odds. Many of the bloggers that I have been reading along with myself has been on a rift about Sarah Palin attending a Tea Party meeting when Tom Tancredoinvoking the insidious specterof literacy tests and poll taxes, used in the segregated deep South for nearly 100 hundred years to deny African Americans the right to vote. Even Sarah doing a turn the other cheek at Rush Limbuagh but slams Rahm Emmanuel on the word “retard.” The word Emmanuel apologized for saying but Rush let it rolls off the tip of his tongue when it come to Democrats and namely the president. Palin and this Tea Party thing have too many questionable motives and I nor any left wing person have notice. So When Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain and a Republican, said what she said on the view. I was like, “Here is a Republican that know that the Tea Party may be more of an altercation that could set us back and not forward.”
Meghan McCain believes Sarah Palin's double standard for Rahm Emanuel and Rush Limbaugh is "what's wrong with politics today."
McCain weighed in on Palin's hypocrisy on Monday when she appeared as a guest host on "The View."
In addition to Palin's contradictory standards on the use of the word "retard," McCain also disagreed with the former Alaska governor's suggestionthat Obama should declare war with Iran to win re-election.
…but she did not stop there.
On Monday, Meghan McCain fired back.
"People were saying that this is the new movement in the Republican Party," McCain said during an appearance on 'The View.' "I did not want to go [to last week's convention]. I have (a) very much different, ideological differences with them."
And she described Tancredo's comments as "innate racism."
"And I think it's why young people are turned off by this movement. And I'm sorry [but] revolutions start with young people. Not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can't say the word 'vote' in English. It's ridiculous."
Meghan McCain also decried the divisiveness and partisanship in American politics and the growing populist rage that has powered the Tea Party movement.
"Maya Angelou says we have more in common than we do apart," she said. "We need to use this message in politics more."
Meghan McCain added, "This rhetoric will continue to turn off young voters and anybody that says different is smoking something. Period."
I know Meghan McCain is just maybe a small fish in the GOP pond, but you would not believe who else has called out the Tea Party movement on their M.O.
……Mr. Conservative himself Bill O’Reily. That is the person I would never think would say anything against the Tea Party
Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly is better known for picking fights with liberals, but on Monday he turned his combative drive toward an unsuspecting crowd: teabaggers.
"Some of these tea parties are nuts," O'Reilly told Fox News anchor Brit Hume. "They're crazy."
Hume was silent, and O'Reilly added that Fox News' Jesse Waters, who attended the high-profile Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, "puts the number at about 10 percent, that are just loons, out of their minds."
O'Reilly's words came in response to Hume's suggestion that there are "very few really favorable stories about the tea partiers."
His remarks are doubly surprising not only because O'Reilly seldom takes on conservative groups or causes so explicitly manner, but also because the network that has made his career is a vigorous supporter of the tea party movement.
Dont believe me, see for yourself.
Now just like that Divde We Fail Organization, we might not agree on everything, but there are people that know when you are blowing smoke or messing with something that can alter the aspects of the United States. I know I am not the first one that is saying this and maybe not the last. If your own party members can see something that you are doing is wrong or setting double standards, you will get called out. It is like the movie American History X when Derek Vinyard (played by Edward Norton) who was a white supremacist, saw a disillusion when his white supremacist friends’ friendly dealing with a Mexican prison gang, which is contrary to supremacist beliefs. Vinyard voice his opinion but his collegues was ignoring him, leading him to a beat down and rape by the people he once stood by.
Meghan I toast you for standing your ground on that and Bill O really shocked me. I am having a WTF moment just putting Bill O'Reilly, nuts, and Tea Party in the same sentence.
Do you think Meghan and Bill was right about what both said about the Tea Party Movement and Sarah Palin? Do you believe that the Republican Party is going “far to right?” Express your views. And P.S. Is Angela McGlowan in over her head going to these Tea Parties? Seems like she is the “token black girl.”
I was reading the newspaper and I read this from my neighboring state.
BATON ROUGE, LA. — Louisiana will waive sales taxes on purchases of firearms, ammunition and hunting supplies Sept. 4 through Sept. 6.
The so-called “Louisiana Second Amendment Weekend Sales Tax Holiday” was authorized by the state Legislature and will become an annual event.
Now I am cool with the Second Amendment Rights and all, but the postings from this situation was like The World Series, Super Bowl, NBA Championship, Stanley Cup, and The Masters rolled up in one.
