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November 29, 2007
Jason Whitlock on Sean Taylor
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The Black KKK claimed another victim, a high-profile professional football player with a checkered past this time. No, we don't know for certain the circumstances surrounding Taylor's death. I could very well be proven wrong for engaging in this sort of aggressive speculation. But it's no different than if you saw a fat man fall to the ground clutching his chest. You'd assume a heart attack, and you'd know, no matter the cause, the man needed to lose weight. Well, when shots are fired and a black man hits the pavement, there's every statistical reason to believe another black man pulled the trigger. That's not some negative, unfair stereotype. It's a reality we've been living with, tolerating and rationalizing for far too long. When the traditional, white KKK lynched, terrorized and intimidated black folks at a slower rate than its modern-day dark-skinned replacement, at least we had the good sense to be outraged and in no mood to contemplate rationalizations or be fooled by distractions. Our new millennium strategy is to pray the Black KKK goes away or ignores us. How's that working? |
Love him or hate him, Whitlock certainly stimulates discussion. I'd like to see him get some more media attention because the things he writes need to be discussed.
November 28, 2007
Pat Sajak Gets It
Finally, someone in Hollywood who can smell the coffee.
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Does anyone decide which candidate to choose based on the recommendation of a TV talk show host or a singer/actress? If any group of citizens is uniquely unqualified to tell someone else how to vote, it’s those of us who live in the sheltered, privileged arena of celebrityhood. It’s one thing to buy an ab machine because Chuck Norris recommends it (he’s in good shape, isn’t he?) or a grill because George Foreman’s name is on it (he’s a great guy, so it must be a great grill!), but the idea of choosing the Leader of the Free World based on the advice of someone who lives in the cloistered world of stardom seems a bit loony to me. |
Via Drudge
November 22, 2007
Pause, Reflection and Thanks
Outside, it is quiet. Uncommon for my neighborhood, but not so on a holiday. When I woke up I looked out my front window and the only pedestrians were the leaves strolling across the street. Though I know a few hundred thousand people are watching a parade several miles from me, I feel as if my city is on pause. And for a short time, people can stand still and watch instead of buzzing around. It lends itself to reflection.
What words can express the feelings you have when you look around and realize everyone and everything you are surrounded by is filled with love?
I am thankful for my wife.
I am thankful for my family and friends.
I am thankful for living in a country protected by the finest men and women on the planet.
I am thankful to God.
Later, when I'm stuffed with food and watching football, I will give thanks again, for being able to do such things with the people I love.
November 21, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
November 20, 2007
Thanksgiving Funny
I've just had several cheesecake-brownies and a large coffee, I'm buzzing.
November 19, 2007
Capitalism At Its Finest
Maybe this will catch on around the globe.
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The king of Spain's recent undiplomatic outburst at the Venezuelan president has become a ringtone hit across Spain. An estimated 500,000 people have downloaded the insult featuring the words "Why don't you shut up?", generating a reported 1.5m euros ($2m). King Juan Carlos asked Hugo Chavez to "shut up" at a summit in Chile last week after the president said Spain's ex-PM Jose Maria Aznar was a "fascist". |
Via Drudge
November 16, 2007
23 or 34 or Something
Bramble sent me a link to The Dissident Frogman's celebration of Al Gore's math. Check out the video and article.
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Relax, and don't forget what Al Gore the Witchdoctor is carefully not telling you. Non exhaustively: that his computer models are regularly proven wrong, that we're coming out of a little Ice Age (which tends to explain why it is a bit warmer than it used to be), that even if the Arctic ice is melting, the Antarctic is getting colder (meaning that global warming is not even global), that CO2 is a consequence, not a cause of warming, that if some glaciers are melting, others right next to them are advancing, and that compared to the 1930s and 1000 AD, it's actually getting rather cold these days. |
If you haven't been to The Dissident Frogman, do so.
I think he has come up with a phrase that, with any luck, will catch on: "Global warming is normal warming."
Leadership is Listening
November 15, 2007
Ho Ho Ho...
Thanks to LM for sending me this one. Let's put this in the "you have got to be kidding" file.
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Sydney's Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say "ha ha ha" instead, the Daily Telegraph reported. One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute. |
Might as well ditch the red suit too, it does make him look like a pimp.
NYU Students: My Vote for an iPod
Most NYU students would sell their vote. Rock the vote and all that business.
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Only 20 percent said they'd exchange their vote for an iPod touch. But 66 percent said they'd forfeit their vote for a free ride to NYU. And half said they'd give up the right to vote forever for $1 million. But they also overwhelmingly lauded the importance of voting. Ninety percent of the students who said they'd give up their vote for the money also said they consider voting "very important" or "somewhat important"; only 10 percent said it was "not important." Also, 70.5 percent said they believe that one vote can make a difference — including 70 percent of the students who said they'd give up their vote for free tuition. |
What I find interesting is that even though 90% say voting is important and 70% believe their vote makes a difference are still willing to sell it. So it isn't a matter of kids thinking they can turn a profit with something that is worthless to them, it is conscious decision to sell their souls for money. Good work!
Oh and I'm sure they'll still have protests and marches to complain.
November 11, 2007
Veterans Day
My grandfather, my father and my closest friend are veterans. Though I am not, I try to understand the sacrifices they and all veterans have made for our country.
My words are like breath on a cold day, visible only for a moment, a scattered memory. I hope my actions last longer, and truly honor those who have given the ultimate sacrifice.
God bless you all.
November 08, 2007
Weather Channel Founder Slams Global Warming
Newsbusters wonders if the MSM will pay attention to The Weather Channel founder, John Coleman's article in ICECAP slamming Global Warming as "the greatest scam in history".
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Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the “research” to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus. |
As Mr. Coleman points out, he is "a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States", what good is his life-long expertise.
From NBC's green programming to CNN's Planet in Peril it is all about making money.
So why not just get yourself a Global Warming Mug (with chocolates), "fill the mug with a hot beverage and watch the world’s coastlines disappear. Unwrap a milk chocolate Earthball, pop it into your mouth, and it, too, will disappear". Delicious.
November 06, 2007
What's Going On?
Been very busy at home and at work so I haven't been able to post as regularly as I like. Hope to get back to it in the next few days.