Both black and white commentators have been calling for a national conversation about racism in America. Good idea. I'll start it off -
My ancestors have been in America since 1620, and my pedigree has been traced in detail back to the early 1800's. There is no record of anyone in my family ever owning a slave. I would imagine the vast majority of white people in America, except possibly those with roots in the southeastern states, could trace their history back and find that no one in their family ever owned a slave, either. On the other hand, blacks serving other blacks as indentured servants was common in Africa and continues to the current day. Furthermore, in the early history of America free blacks were known to own black slaves. Look it up. The question is, why do black people today think white people owe them something?
There is no question that a small percentage of upper class whites have taken advantage of black people to make their personal fortunes. They have taken advantage of the majority of white people, too. White people were not all born to wealth and privilege. My grandmother worked as a cleaning lady for mostly Jewish families well into her 70's until around 1970. I have cousins who grew up in Iowa as dirt poor as anyone could be. I grew up at the low end of the lower middle class in a family of five living in an 800 square foot house with two small bedrooms and one bathroom. We never received any assistance in any form from the government. That was not unusual in America in the 1950's and 1960's, and no one bitched about it.
The only thing we did have that many of the underclass today do not, particularly young black kids, is both a mother and a father living with us in the same household. But it is not white people's fault that black men can't keep their dicks in their pants or accept parental responsibility, or that black women can't keep their legs closed. The same goes for the growing ranks of irresponsible white and brown people who won't stop creating one parent families. If they can't help themselves then maybe they should try some condoms. Oh, I almost forgot. There was one other thing we didn't have. We didn't have the Jesse Jackson's, Al Sharpton's, nor liberal media types running around fomenting social conflict by screaming victimhood and demanding reparations, which really means retribution for whatever imagined white sins they can think up.
Perhaps everyone has a different definition of racism. All I know is, I don't know anyone who dislikes black people or treats them any different than anyone else, which would be my definition of racism. OK, there is one guy I know out of more than a hundred, but that's his problem, not mine. On the other hand, most everybody I know intensely dislikes left wing socialists arrogantly telling us that Americans who have worked hard to earn a living and support their families owe a debt to those who aren't willing to do so. They claim everyone is entitled to the same lifestyle. That is bullshit, and it is not racist to say so. The process of earning a decent living has nothing to do with the color of skin. It has everything to do with attitude.
The only thing everyone in America is entitled to is individual liberty, equal justice according to the law, and security from foreign aggression - and each of those is being taken from all of us by the growth of big government and its intrusion into every aspect of our lives. It is not the function of the federal government to provide an affluent lifestyle for everyone, because it can't. Anyone who wants to improve their personal living standards needs to get off their butt, take advantage of the equal opportunities available to all Americans, and take responsibility for their own life. No matter what color you are, get an education, get a job, earn your respect and stop listening to the phony, incendiary rants of the race-baiting agitators and stop supporting the dead end policies of the left wing political con artists. Then maybe we could all get the country back on track and live happily ever after.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
No Experience, No Clue, No Problem
What is the one job in America a person can get without having any experience, knowledge or understanding of what that job is? That's right - President of the United States. All you have to do is be able to make speeches written by someone else by reading off a teleprompter. The world is discovering what conservatives always knew and what liberals won't admit - Barack Obama doesn't have a clue about how the world works.
Barack Obama came into office singing Kumbaya and declaring that we can all be friends in a world where nations just need a little more love and understanding of each other. Never mind. Naïve attempts to convince the Arab countries of the Middle East that we are all good buddies back in 2009 have now given way to a region that is on fire with violence and instability in Egypt and barbaric civil war in Syria as the Administration's former best friend in the Arab world is gassing his own people. Meanwhile the Iranian Ayatollahs and the affiliated Islamic terrorist groups, i.e., the bad guys, gain influence as ours disappears.
Elsewhere, Vladimir Putin in Russia is treating Obama as a nerdy neighborhood kid to make fun of and push around while the Chinese are ignoring us altogether. Our old friends in Europe are just shaking their heads and laughing at us. Unfortunately, the world's most indispensable nation is withdrawing from global responsibility while at the same time becoming more authoritarian domestically. Obama has discovered that his bullshit works better at home than it does overseas. That does not provide much hope for the future of the planet.
Regarding Egypt, much of the Western media and the Obama Administration are condemning the Egyptian army for tossing the Muslim Brotherhood out on its ass. I find that odd. Following their election the Brotherhood was rapidly dismantling the laws of the land and moving to implement sharia law. That would have been getting rid of one form of tyranny just to get a far worse one. Understandably, that is not what the Egyptian people wanted as evidenced by the millions in the streets who were protesting these changes. Yet the world's talking heads were outraged by the reaction of the army conceding to the wishes of the majority of the people and removing the religious zealots from elected office.
Perhaps the media commentators and the Obama Administration have forgotten the following words - "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."
As you all know, those words are from the Declaration of Independence, and it is exactly what the Egyptians are doing. The Muslim Brotherhood may have been elected, but they were disregarding the laws and dictatorially making new ones to make sure that they would be in power permanently while implementing their agenda. Of course it is perfectly understandable why the Obama Administration would like us all to forget those words from the Declaration of Independence, given what they have done to our country over the last five years.
Oh, and by the way, speaking of clueless, apparently Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are the two front runners as the Democratic Party's candidates in 2016. Are Democrats serious or is that some kind of cruel, unfunny joke?
Barack Obama came into office singing Kumbaya and declaring that we can all be friends in a world where nations just need a little more love and understanding of each other. Never mind. Naïve attempts to convince the Arab countries of the Middle East that we are all good buddies back in 2009 have now given way to a region that is on fire with violence and instability in Egypt and barbaric civil war in Syria as the Administration's former best friend in the Arab world is gassing his own people. Meanwhile the Iranian Ayatollahs and the affiliated Islamic terrorist groups, i.e., the bad guys, gain influence as ours disappears.
Elsewhere, Vladimir Putin in Russia is treating Obama as a nerdy neighborhood kid to make fun of and push around while the Chinese are ignoring us altogether. Our old friends in Europe are just shaking their heads and laughing at us. Unfortunately, the world's most indispensable nation is withdrawing from global responsibility while at the same time becoming more authoritarian domestically. Obama has discovered that his bullshit works better at home than it does overseas. That does not provide much hope for the future of the planet.
Regarding Egypt, much of the Western media and the Obama Administration are condemning the Egyptian army for tossing the Muslim Brotherhood out on its ass. I find that odd. Following their election the Brotherhood was rapidly dismantling the laws of the land and moving to implement sharia law. That would have been getting rid of one form of tyranny just to get a far worse one. Understandably, that is not what the Egyptian people wanted as evidenced by the millions in the streets who were protesting these changes. Yet the world's talking heads were outraged by the reaction of the army conceding to the wishes of the majority of the people and removing the religious zealots from elected office.
Perhaps the media commentators and the Obama Administration have forgotten the following words - "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."
As you all know, those words are from the Declaration of Independence, and it is exactly what the Egyptians are doing. The Muslim Brotherhood may have been elected, but they were disregarding the laws and dictatorially making new ones to make sure that they would be in power permanently while implementing their agenda. Of course it is perfectly understandable why the Obama Administration would like us all to forget those words from the Declaration of Independence, given what they have done to our country over the last five years.
Oh, and by the way, speaking of clueless, apparently Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are the two front runners as the Democratic Party's candidates in 2016. Are Democrats serious or is that some kind of cruel, unfunny joke?
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
The Progressive Brotherhood
Has anyone noticed the similarity between the Muslim Brotherhood and Obama's Progressives? In both organizations no dissent is tolerated within their ranks, and their goal is to eliminate the opposition and subjugate the people under their authoritarian philosophies and doctrines. They do not care what the existing laws are, and they unilaterally ignore, change or over-ride the ones that prevent them from implementing their agenda. They impose their policies and rules on the people whether the people want them or not.
The so-called Progressives under Barack Obama are eliminating liberty and justice in America, leading us into regimentation and involuntary servitude to the "enlightened" arrogant egomaniacs in charge. At the same time they are dismantling our capitalist economic system of private enterprise and free markets. In the process they are confiscating income from the productive middle class Americans and spending it to buy the votes of those dependent on government. They are not redistributing the wealth of the top one percent who control most of the country's assets, because those are the folks who provide the Progressives financial support. If they were really interested in hitting the rich the Progressives would demand to tax wealth, not income.
In America today the rich folks at the top are seeing their wealth skyrocket while the average income for ordinary Americans continues to drop. According to the Census Bureau, median household income was $55,198 in January 2009 and $52,100 as of June 2013, 5.6% below the month Obama took office. But the banking and fund manager billionaires of Wall Street, the entertainment moguls of Hollywood, and the overpaid leftist college professors, Washington lobbyists, labor union bosses and policy institute fellows are doing just fine in Obama's America. (By the way, policy institutes are also known as think tanks, but in reality they are holding tanks for out of office politicians while they await their return to government).
The Progressives are eliminating open competition in the economic marketplace by instituting rules and regulations that make it difficult for small and even medium size businesses to operate and compete with the big corporations controlled by Obama's financial supporters. Obama claims to be the new champion of the middle class, when in fact he is killing it - destroying small business and middle management jobs and raising taxes on the people who actually do all the work in America.
Do the Progressives really believe they can destroy the most powerful economic engine ever devised (capitalism) and continue to stimulate innovation, productivity and ever expanding living standards for all? Is income equality a desirable goal if that income no longer grows and eventually begins to contract? Do they think their idea of social justice will increase social stability and induce all of us to live happily ever after? Can they really be that out of touch with reality? The only thing that makes any sense at all is that these arrogant megalomaniacs think they are smarter than everyone else and are justified in imposing their personal agenda on unenlightened lesser beings.
What is it about capitalism, individual liberty and the rule of law that liberals cannot stand? Capitalism is not perfect and certainly has its flaws. It does produce income inequality and often lacks job security. But capitalism has proven that it generates higher standards of living and offers more life improving opportunities than any other economic system, including for those at the bottom of society. The United States of America is the indisputable example that capitalism produces more affluence and prosperity for the greatest number of people, certainly more than any of the socialist, autocratic, government controlled economic systems advocated by the eggheads in academia and the leftist wing-nuts that now dominate the Democratic Party.
Barack Obama and his authoritarian brigade of indoctrinated zombies claim they are all about social justice. They allege that capitalism is unjust and unfair, and declare that they are the ones anointed to dictate what must be done to create their idea of justice and fairness. They profess that it is their duty to redistribute income from those who have it to those who are less fortunate, because those who have it didn't earn it and those who don't were obviously oppressed or discriminated against by the wealthy. They contend that private enterprise doesn't generate prosperity, enlightened government under their direction does. They apparently believe people should be allowed only the rights and privileges that conform to their concept of a socialist utopia. Anyone who disagrees with them is considered to be either ignorant or evil. Therefore they believe they are justified in silencing the opposition, which the IRS scandal illustrates they are already trying to do. The question is do they really believe that crap, or is it just their marketing program to gain absolute power? Whatever the goal, the end result is totalitarianism, pure and simple.
Capitalism may be unfair, but certainly nowhere near as unfair as socialist societies where talent, creativity and productivity are suppressed and political cronyism is rewarded. And capitalism is not unjust. Those who work the hardest, make the best decisions and take advantage of the opportunities tend to generate the most value to society and the most income for themselves. Everyone benefits as even the poor are better off under capitalism than they are under any other economic system. In the vast majority of countries around the world those at the bottom do not have a solid roof over their heads, reliable vehicles for personal transportation, quality health care, big screen televisions, cellphones and access to the internet. In America they do.
So what is it that the America haters in academia, entertainment and politics are trying to accomplish? Are they indifferent about destroying capitalism, the engine of prosperity and progress, just to create their vision of social justice? Or are they budding autocrats seeking absolute power and control? Whether their goal is an altruistic ideological fantasy or a conspiracy to establish permanent dominance over the people, a successful outcome would create a new America. 99% of us will eventually be equal - equally suffering economic stagnation, declining standards of living, no opportunities for personal improvement, and dependence on the generosity and benevolence of the top one percent who are bringing this all upon us.
Could that happen in America? It is happening in America. After all, people need to understand just who the wealthy and powerful elite in this country really are. It is not the small business owners or the middle managers of American corporations. It is the Barack Obama's, Nancy Pelosi's, Bill and Hillary Clinton's and other entrenched politicians and the Hollywood moguls and Wall Street titans who fund them. It is astonishing that the so-called Progressives are able to continually convince a substantial portion of the American public that they are the defender of the rights of the poor against the evil establishment when they are the evil establishment.
The so-called Progressives under Barack Obama are eliminating liberty and justice in America, leading us into regimentation and involuntary servitude to the "enlightened" arrogant egomaniacs in charge. At the same time they are dismantling our capitalist economic system of private enterprise and free markets. In the process they are confiscating income from the productive middle class Americans and spending it to buy the votes of those dependent on government. They are not redistributing the wealth of the top one percent who control most of the country's assets, because those are the folks who provide the Progressives financial support. If they were really interested in hitting the rich the Progressives would demand to tax wealth, not income.
In America today the rich folks at the top are seeing their wealth skyrocket while the average income for ordinary Americans continues to drop. According to the Census Bureau, median household income was $55,198 in January 2009 and $52,100 as of June 2013, 5.6% below the month Obama took office. But the banking and fund manager billionaires of Wall Street, the entertainment moguls of Hollywood, and the overpaid leftist college professors, Washington lobbyists, labor union bosses and policy institute fellows are doing just fine in Obama's America. (By the way, policy institutes are also known as think tanks, but in reality they are holding tanks for out of office politicians while they await their return to government).
The Progressives are eliminating open competition in the economic marketplace by instituting rules and regulations that make it difficult for small and even medium size businesses to operate and compete with the big corporations controlled by Obama's financial supporters. Obama claims to be the new champion of the middle class, when in fact he is killing it - destroying small business and middle management jobs and raising taxes on the people who actually do all the work in America.
Do the Progressives really believe they can destroy the most powerful economic engine ever devised (capitalism) and continue to stimulate innovation, productivity and ever expanding living standards for all? Is income equality a desirable goal if that income no longer grows and eventually begins to contract? Do they think their idea of social justice will increase social stability and induce all of us to live happily ever after? Can they really be that out of touch with reality? The only thing that makes any sense at all is that these arrogant megalomaniacs think they are smarter than everyone else and are justified in imposing their personal agenda on unenlightened lesser beings.
What is it about capitalism, individual liberty and the rule of law that liberals cannot stand? Capitalism is not perfect and certainly has its flaws. It does produce income inequality and often lacks job security. But capitalism has proven that it generates higher standards of living and offers more life improving opportunities than any other economic system, including for those at the bottom of society. The United States of America is the indisputable example that capitalism produces more affluence and prosperity for the greatest number of people, certainly more than any of the socialist, autocratic, government controlled economic systems advocated by the eggheads in academia and the leftist wing-nuts that now dominate the Democratic Party.
Barack Obama and his authoritarian brigade of indoctrinated zombies claim they are all about social justice. They allege that capitalism is unjust and unfair, and declare that they are the ones anointed to dictate what must be done to create their idea of justice and fairness. They profess that it is their duty to redistribute income from those who have it to those who are less fortunate, because those who have it didn't earn it and those who don't were obviously oppressed or discriminated against by the wealthy. They contend that private enterprise doesn't generate prosperity, enlightened government under their direction does. They apparently believe people should be allowed only the rights and privileges that conform to their concept of a socialist utopia. Anyone who disagrees with them is considered to be either ignorant or evil. Therefore they believe they are justified in silencing the opposition, which the IRS scandal illustrates they are already trying to do. The question is do they really believe that crap, or is it just their marketing program to gain absolute power? Whatever the goal, the end result is totalitarianism, pure and simple.
Capitalism may be unfair, but certainly nowhere near as unfair as socialist societies where talent, creativity and productivity are suppressed and political cronyism is rewarded. And capitalism is not unjust. Those who work the hardest, make the best decisions and take advantage of the opportunities tend to generate the most value to society and the most income for themselves. Everyone benefits as even the poor are better off under capitalism than they are under any other economic system. In the vast majority of countries around the world those at the bottom do not have a solid roof over their heads, reliable vehicles for personal transportation, quality health care, big screen televisions, cellphones and access to the internet. In America they do.
So what is it that the America haters in academia, entertainment and politics are trying to accomplish? Are they indifferent about destroying capitalism, the engine of prosperity and progress, just to create their vision of social justice? Or are they budding autocrats seeking absolute power and control? Whether their goal is an altruistic ideological fantasy or a conspiracy to establish permanent dominance over the people, a successful outcome would create a new America. 99% of us will eventually be equal - equally suffering economic stagnation, declining standards of living, no opportunities for personal improvement, and dependence on the generosity and benevolence of the top one percent who are bringing this all upon us.
Could that happen in America? It is happening in America. After all, people need to understand just who the wealthy and powerful elite in this country really are. It is not the small business owners or the middle managers of American corporations. It is the Barack Obama's, Nancy Pelosi's, Bill and Hillary Clinton's and other entrenched politicians and the Hollywood moguls and Wall Street titans who fund them. It is astonishing that the so-called Progressives are able to continually convince a substantial portion of the American public that they are the defender of the rights of the poor against the evil establishment when they are the evil establishment.
And The Point Is?
Is anyone else sick and tired of the Trayvon shit? It doesn't seem to be going away. The politically correct crowd, and black people, want Zimmerman hung by the gonads for profiling young Trayvon, whether he actually did or not. Is profiling wrong? Yes it is. It is wrong for every black person to see a white person and assume he was born rich. It is wrong for every black person to see a white person and assume he never had to work hard for anything and had everything given to him because he is white. It is wrong for every black person to see a white person and assume that he is a racist. It is wrong for every black person to see a white person and assume that he owes black people something.
Of course those statements are outrageous misrepresentations. Not every black person assumes those things. But apparently a high percentage of them do from what we see and hear in the news media. Maybe they should look at the statistics. For every George Zimmerman killing a Trayvon Martin incident there are two black people killing white people incidents and 10 blacks killing blacks incidents in America. Black folks and the politically correct media need to get a grip and deal with the big picture, not the rare occurrences. It is almost as if the media is trying to ignite a race war.
America goes apeshit over one incident out of the thousands that happen every year because the liberal self-appointed know-it-alls in this country decide to make it a big deal. Does anyone even remember that Trayvon was beating the shit out of Zimmerman. Zimmerman may have been following him, but Trayvon was the one who physically assaulted Zimmerman.
Police and prospective employers treat white people unfairly too. A large number of white folks struggle to get a job, or get fired for dubious reasons. We get nervous every time we see a cop following us. Most people I know, including me, have been stopped by a policeman for no good reason. Some have even been arrested without good cause. Life for the majority of white people is no days of wine and roses either. Shit happens to all of us - black, white, yellow, brown, green or purple.
The fact is that nearly 40% of people in prison in America are black even though blacks comprise only 13% of the population. Black people and the PC liberals claim that is evidence of racial profiling. Actually it is evidence that blacks disproportionately commit more crimes. Maybe if they would stop killing each other, stealing shit, pimping and selling drugs they wouldn't end up in jail. Is it really that hard to figure out that if you do that shit you are going to be arrested and put away. If they would stay in school instead of becoming gangbangers then maybe some positive outcomes would result. And then maybe cops would stop hassling them.
Perhaps the saddest aspect of the whole Trayvon affair is that the Jesse Jackson's, Al Sharpton's and Jeremiah Wright's have now re-emerged from irrelevance after nearly disappearing from the national scene. Instead of the wisdom of Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and Shelby Steele, Americans are now subjected again to the bullshit spun by the agitators and propagandists of racial discord. And of course our Polarizer in Chief in the Oval Office had to throw his ten gallon can of gasoline on the reignited fire.
Just what point is it that the liberal left is trying to make? That white males are evil, heartless, racist killers? Look at the statistics again and see that is not supported by the facts. That there is no justice for black people? Review the facts of the case and see that the six females on the jury ruled according to the law. Hopefully we still are a country where the law does matter regardless of how often our president and his administration ignore them. And by the way, this president is as white as George Zimmerman. They both have one white parent. Apparently ethnicity today is either a personal choice or whatever the PC Gestapo says it is.
This country is over-run by lunatics, most of them white liberals. Beam me up, Scottie! There is no intelligent life on this planet.
Of course those statements are outrageous misrepresentations. Not every black person assumes those things. But apparently a high percentage of them do from what we see and hear in the news media. Maybe they should look at the statistics. For every George Zimmerman killing a Trayvon Martin incident there are two black people killing white people incidents and 10 blacks killing blacks incidents in America. Black folks and the politically correct media need to get a grip and deal with the big picture, not the rare occurrences. It is almost as if the media is trying to ignite a race war.
America goes apeshit over one incident out of the thousands that happen every year because the liberal self-appointed know-it-alls in this country decide to make it a big deal. Does anyone even remember that Trayvon was beating the shit out of Zimmerman. Zimmerman may have been following him, but Trayvon was the one who physically assaulted Zimmerman.
Police and prospective employers treat white people unfairly too. A large number of white folks struggle to get a job, or get fired for dubious reasons. We get nervous every time we see a cop following us. Most people I know, including me, have been stopped by a policeman for no good reason. Some have even been arrested without good cause. Life for the majority of white people is no days of wine and roses either. Shit happens to all of us - black, white, yellow, brown, green or purple.
The fact is that nearly 40% of people in prison in America are black even though blacks comprise only 13% of the population. Black people and the PC liberals claim that is evidence of racial profiling. Actually it is evidence that blacks disproportionately commit more crimes. Maybe if they would stop killing each other, stealing shit, pimping and selling drugs they wouldn't end up in jail. Is it really that hard to figure out that if you do that shit you are going to be arrested and put away. If they would stay in school instead of becoming gangbangers then maybe some positive outcomes would result. And then maybe cops would stop hassling them.
Perhaps the saddest aspect of the whole Trayvon affair is that the Jesse Jackson's, Al Sharpton's and Jeremiah Wright's have now re-emerged from irrelevance after nearly disappearing from the national scene. Instead of the wisdom of Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and Shelby Steele, Americans are now subjected again to the bullshit spun by the agitators and propagandists of racial discord. And of course our Polarizer in Chief in the Oval Office had to throw his ten gallon can of gasoline on the reignited fire.
Just what point is it that the liberal left is trying to make? That white males are evil, heartless, racist killers? Look at the statistics again and see that is not supported by the facts. That there is no justice for black people? Review the facts of the case and see that the six females on the jury ruled according to the law. Hopefully we still are a country where the law does matter regardless of how often our president and his administration ignore them. And by the way, this president is as white as George Zimmerman. They both have one white parent. Apparently ethnicity today is either a personal choice or whatever the PC Gestapo says it is.
This country is over-run by lunatics, most of them white liberals. Beam me up, Scottie! There is no intelligent life on this planet.
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