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Sotomayor’s racist remark

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn?t lived that life.” -Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in her Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law in 2001

The Replublican’s in Washington seem to be agonizing over calling Judge Sotomayor to task for this remark.

Why?

The remark is racist. She may not be, but the remark absolutely is and she should answer for that.

We do not condone such remarks against blacks, hispanics, native americans, homosexuals or any other group labeled as minority.

Why do liberals insist that it’s just fine to condone and accept such remarks against white males.

Is racism only racism if aimed at groups with members below a certain numeric quantity.

Is there some magic number threshhold that once crossed opens you to contemptible treatment that would not be tolerated
if you were below that magic number.

No. It isn’t numbers that matter here, it’s membership in the selected groups with tickets to ride the victim train and white males have no ticket.

If the GOP accepts and doesn’t challenge such blatant and discriminatory views they’d best close up shop. The country has no need of a Democratic Lite party and conservatives who accept selective discrimination don’t deserve the name.

A preview of Supreme Court things to come?

Obama’s pick thinks that courts make policy…( with perhaps only a wink at the constitution).

and certainly isn’t shy about the value of one ethnicty vs another when it comes to doing the job…

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn?t lived that life.” -Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in her Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law in 2001

U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job

NIH (National Institute of Health) grant for $2.6 Million to teach Prostitutes in Guangx, China, proper alcohol use, while they’re on the job.

To keep you up to speed on the latest doublespeak, prostitutes are referred to as “female sex workers” or FSW and their handlers are “gatekeepers”. (read here)

Makes sending your money to the U.S. Treasury Dept, seem like a great idea, doesn’t it?

A freefall dive into generational bankruptcy

Thanks to StopSpendingourFuture.org

Worth a few minutes of your time — to perhaps put these insane $’s into perspective!

Worst idea of the day -Mass. to stop fee-for-services and pay doctors yearly lump sum per patient.

Massachusetts proposes to stop fee-for-service payments to doctors (and others) and instead pay each doctor a single annual lump sum for each patients yearly care. This they claim would maybe save the state a munificent 5% of health costs.

What it will cost us -the patients, is that individually tailored medical care would be destroyed. Patients will become an endless stream of quantified sameness. .

All patients are individual and unique and their medical care requires the application of individual and unique medical services. This idea would replace individual care with prepaid assembly-line care.

It would serve to erode the time-tested doctor patient relationship and incentivize doctors to provide the minimum care necessary to stay ok within the bureaucratic dictates.

The commission claims that the state would carefully monitor the quality of care to insure patient health.
Yup! Think elevators. Think bridges. Think tunnels.

It is the worst idea I’ve heard so far today. Trading individual medical care for a supposed 5% cost savings, should tell everyone exactly what value our state government places on the well being of each of us.

What’s the governor’s email address. Can’t find it?

Try this:
Phone: 617.725.4005
888.870.7770 (in state)

Peres declares: US and Israel 100% on same page when it comes to Iran

So the Jerusalem Post reports

Both Peres and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman have indicated Israeli support for the Road Map

President Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel are reportedly pressing Israel for a two-state agreement with linkage to aid in deterring Iran’s bid for a nuclear bomb.

Foreign Minister Lieberman declared that action would need to be taken if three months of diplomacy elapsed with no results.

Meanwhile, Iran continues to stir it’s bubbling nuclear cauldron and the brew gets closer to usable strength

Whether it’s three months or 6 months or a year, it’s a reasonable assumption that Iran’s attempt to become a nuclear power in the region, is a deadly serious issue that needs resolution in the very short term.

Such a term cannot include the Palestinian question, which has been in contention for 61 years and is no closer to resolution now then it was when it began.

Hamas controls Gaza, Fatah is in the West Bank, neither is willing to recognize Israel’s right to exist.

Peace between any two entities requires both sides to desire peace and both sides to willingly accede the others right to exist. The crux here is that the Israeli side will accept a peaceful Palestinian neighbor while the Palestinian side will only accept peace without an Israeli neighbor

Such a situation can only resolve to a continuation of the status quo, a one state solution by force or a two state solution through a coercive negotiation or an Israel that unilaterally decides to accept it’s own demise.

I fear that Obama and his advisors are not adverse to either of the latter, so long as a Palestinian state comes into being.

Have to wonder if anyone trapped in the paradigm - ’satisfy Palestinian’s now and at any cost and the h*ll with Israel’ - has ever read this excerpt from Article Thirteen of the Hamas Covenant of 1988

“Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement.”

..”There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”

The U.S. and the rest of the involved world should require that the Palestinian representatives publicly repudiate that position and accept and recognize Israel’s right to exist or the only discussions that can take place must be viewed as deliberately weighted against Israel, the only true U.S. ally and democratic state in the region.

CNN Reporter’s Bias shows through

CNN reporter turns interview at Tea Party into her own personal protest against conservative views.

Posting this per Power Line post that CNN removed the original videofrom UTube.

So much for CNN’s reponsibility to inform the public. Well, I suppose not reporting what you don’t agree with becomes habit forming.

North Korea launches missile - Obama responds with consultations

North Korea continues to thumb it’s nose at the world and in particular the United States. The Bush administration allowed itself to be bamboozled by North Korea at every turn, sending money and oil upon demand and accepting empty promises in exchange.

The Obama administration appears to be taking the same path. Kim Jung fires off a ballistic missile to test and improve the level of their technology for a delivery system for nuclear weaponry and the Obama administration threatens them with the rhetoric of UN Security Council dissaproval.

Obama was elected in great part by his ability to deliver grand oratory and obfuscate reality. I suspect that attempting to govern and more importantly protect the United States relying only upon that same dubious talent will prove ineffective and possibly disastrous. Many of the 190 plus countries of the world may smile at his extended hand but offer a pointed stick in return.

Watch Obama Bow

Just don’t know how to characterize this. Maybe he just prefers the Saudi’s over the British.

The Saudi’s put down women. They fund the dissemination of radicalism in Mosque in the United States and the world. They are a breeding place of terrorists.

The Queen…, I guess,she’s just another white grandmother type.

Here’s a still image of the same obsequious bow.

Visualize 1 trillion dollars

You really have to see this - Courtesy of www.pagetutor.com

Has to be seen to be believed…
(This administration and congress have lost touch with the rest of us. )

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

Listen to “It ain’t your money to spend”

Great tune and lyrics. (h/t) Power Line

Check other selections at Kathleen Stewart’’s web site

Listening to Pres. Obama’s message to the troops concerning Iraq very disheartening

I listened to Pres. Obama’s speech at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, announcing his plan for withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq. The withdrawal plan itself is a reasonable one. His message to the troops (and to us, and our self-declared enemies), I found intensely disappointing and worrying.

He did not at any point recognize or credit our troops with a victory over the Islamic radicals. He did not recognize the importance of the establishment of a democratic state in the Middle East. He mentioned Saddam Hussein once, in passing, and referred to overcoming sectarian violence comparing it obliquely to America’s civil war.

His only mention of Al Queda came in relation to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He also said that he planned to talk with Syria and Iran, but said nothing indicating disapproval of Syria or Iran and their duplicitous support of Al Queda, against our troops.

Is his Iran, the same Iran supplying weapons and other support to the Islamic radicals attacking American troops over the past few years? Is his Syria the same Syria with the leaky borders spewing so called foreign fighters into Iraq, attacking wounding and killing our troops.

The smallness of his refusal to recognize the reality of the achievements in Iraq is a disappointment.

Extending an open hand toward Syria and Iran and backing it up with nothing but a smile of appeasement, would be delusional diplomacy.

$900M to HAMAS, - Support for the folks who danced.

This President and Administration plans to send $900M to aid in rebuilding Hamas’ home turf, the end result of which is a direct support of Hamas and it’s activities. Hamas is a terrorist organization.

We’re adding almost $1 Billion American dollars to the pot of money Iran already contributes to support Hamas and it’s terrorism. Cloaking it as reconstruction aid given through the UN or NGO’s is naivete or just plain deception.

Hamas has a stranglehold on Gaza. Any monies spent there will pass through and likely stick to the hands of Hamas, or at least allow them to spend the money in their other pocket on their main charter plan - destruction of their neighbor.

While we’re short funding our own efforts in Pakistan for the Security Development Plan for Tribal Areas and our economy slides and we’re nationalizing private banks and running flat out toward Socialism, our just elected folks in Washington can’t think of anything else to do with One Billion Dollars, except to donate it to the same people who danced in the streets in joy, the day almost 3000 American’s died.

Rick Santelli (CNBC) — The man’s right. — Listen.

Our country of free enterprise, is being morphed into a new socialist paradise, or worse. The governmemt is punishing personal responsibility, rewarding bad behavior and raising the entitlement meme to new heights.

Michael Ledeen -We're All Fascists Now II: American Tyranny

Michael Ledeen - We're All Fascists Now II: American Tyranny

Do you have a queezy uncomfortable feeling about where America is heading, but you’re just not sure -or-. Do you outright absolutely know that the destination you see us heading for, will be a bad place?

If your one or the other or anywhere in between, you should take a bit of time and read this article.

A 12 year olds’ class speech on Abortion brings “insults and threats” on YouTube

The speech was well received by her 7th grade class, but not by some on YouTube.
Comments were shut down by the parents with this explanation:

“We apologize for turning off the commenting functionality. This was not to stop genuine discussion or debate on the issue but was, rather, a response to the cowardly who used it as an opportunity to throw insults and threats at a young girl that they hated without reason. Thank-you to everyone who, whether in agreement or not, has responded in a respectful manner.”

The state of our public discourse continues to deteriorate at an ever increasing rate. The voicing of disagreement with established liberal viewpoints is more and more likely to be subject to vilification and attempts at suppression.

America, as a free and open society that celebrated diverse opinions and ideologies, is rapidly changing to a society that shouts for diversity in all things -but only the approved version.

I’ll close with a more positive thought. The speech was well written and well presented. I hope she got a high mark.

A shoe repair revival?

Seems a good idea. Undoubtedly even cheaper than designer replica’s.

A new sole for the asking. (sorry).

O Canada

“Click to enlarge”

Below is a quote from the opening of an article [”My Canada includes O Canada”] by Rex Murphy in the Globe and Mail (Canada) on Jan. 31st 2009.

My Canada includes O Canada, by Rex Murphy

Inclusive: adjective describing the act of halting, shutting down or banning any halfway normal practice or event enjoyed by a whole lot of people over a very long time because one or two people, now, don’t like it. e.g., The company stopped sending out “Merry Christmas” cards because it wanted to be inclusive.

Funny thing how in our time, words are being hauled up from their roots, beaten about their little lexical noggins and turned into their exact opposites.

You would think, for example, that an activity supported or enjoyed by a majority of people is more inclusive - includes more people - than a call from a few people who do not enjoy or support it to shut it down.

PC Inclusiveness = excluding, denying and banning unapproved ideas and mores through intimidation and indoctrination.
The end result will be a culture that is dead and meaningless.

Full Article here.

NPR - KQED Forum - Interview Benny Morris on Gaza & Hamas

An NPR interview (KQED Radio - Forum-Michael Krasny) with Historian Benny Morris, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Ben Gurion University.
(h/t: Solomonia)

Very interesting and I thought enlightening comments from an Israeli historian considered by some, on both sides of this continuing conflict, as sympathetic to a left leaning Palestinian Arab view.

The second half of the program, Prof. Morris answers callers questions.Entire interview worth time to listen to.

Caller section begins about 30:30.

Mr. Obama’s stated his criteria to evaluate good government - “Does it work.”

The congress should keep that admonition in mind when replying to the request from the U.S. Postal Service to change the current law that requires the mail be delivered 6 days each week.

The Postal Service wants to cut out either Tuesday or Saturday deliveries to save money (a $2 Billion to $3 Billion dollar increase in losses), due to recent declines in mail.

If they can’t deliver the mail and at least break even, congress should farm it out to someone who can — maybe Fedex or UPS or failing that maybe congress could spare the $2 Billion or so from the $819 Billion Giveaway the Democrats in the House just gave a yes vote. (All house Republicans voted no.)

Well, maybe not, since the $819 Billion is actually money we don’t have — the Treasury’s piggy bank rattles. We’re going to have to borrow that $819 Billion and let our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren worry about paying it back.

The media and the elites in Washington DC and elsewhere constantly harp on how bad our countries actions look to the Europeans and the rest of the world. What are those folks, across the waters, going to think about an America that can’t even deliver it’s own mail.

Mr. Obama had better hop in here.

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