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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Race relations are wearing mighty thin....

Hat Tip: StacyMae

Weren't we supposed to enter a new age of tolerance with the election of President Barack Obama?

His half-black, half-white ancestry and broad support across racial lines suggested that at last Americans judged each other on the content of our characters -- not the color of our skin or our tribal affiliations.

Instead, in just 18 months of the Obama administration, racial discord is growing and relations seem to have been set back a generation.

Black voters are galvanizing behind Obama at a time of rapidly falling support. White independents, in contrast, are leaving Obama in droves.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has claimed that the loosely organized Tea Party includes "racist elements." The National Council of La Raza has ripped the state of Arizona for its new anti-illegal alien legislation. Jesse Jackson characterized aspects of the multimillion-dollar bidding war to acquire basketball superstar LeBron James in terms of masters and slaves. Pundits are arguing whether the fringe racist New Black Panther Party is analogous to the Klan.

http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_29126.php

"Come on, give me a cotton picking break. And if you think that it is racist for me to say that, let me assure you I am just one generation out from cotton picking. And proud of my ancestors. For Jesse Jackson to compare the highly paid athletes of our time to slavery is ridiculous and shows he needs to retire and live very quietly in obscurity somewhere. Maybe a nice rest home"



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MSM has some "splaining" to do....................

FOXNews did not report on the Sherrod story until AFTER she left her job. But the MSM is telling lie after lie saying FOXNews caused her to lose her job

Let's lay this one where it belongs. At the White House door.

NBC's Today Show Inaccurately Blames Fox News for Sherrod Firing
On Wednesday's Today show, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry and Savannah Guthrie left the impression that Fox News's criticism of Shirley Sherrod was the reason she lost her job at the Agriculture Department, with Lauer, in his interview with Sherrod, charging: "I don't know who to blame here, Miss Sherrod. I mean the, the, the activist who put forward this garbage in the first place has an agenda. We shouldn't be surprised by that. The cable news network that, that played this garbage on and on and talked about it, has an agenda. We shouldn't be surprised by that." But Lauer and NBC News, itself, revealed they have their own agenda, by failing to report that Fox News didn't mention the Sherrod story until she had already left her job. However, that didn't stop Curry from claiming, in the 8am half hour news brief, that: "After the video was used to vilify her on Fox television, she lost her job," and Guthrie advancing the NAACP's notion, in her piece, that they had been "snookered" by Fox News.



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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

How sweet it is to look at the world through these rose tinted blinders or maybe she has a bag on her head......


Hat Tip: Rhonda

Lynn Sweet passes WH spin class but flunks beginner logic and reading comprehension 101

Here are a couple of whoppers from today’s Sweet blog post, complete with inside WH spin.

First, Sweet says that only biased people are noticing Obama’s report on Blago is filled with omissions and discrepancies.


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Thursday, July 15, 2010

9 States are Backing Arizona Immigration Law



Wednesday, 14 Jul 2010 11:34 PM

States have the authority to enforce immigration laws and protect their borders, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said Wednesday in a legal brief on behalf of nine states supporting Arizona's immigration law.

Cox, one of five Republicans running for Michigan governor, said Michigan is the lead state backing Arizona in federal court and is joined by Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia, as well as the Northern Mariana Islands.

The Arizona law, set to take effect July 29, directs officers to question people about their immigration status during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic stops and if there's a reasonable suspicion they're in the U.S. illegally.

President Barack Obama's administration recently filed suit in federal court to block it, arguing immigration is a federal issue. The law's backers say Congress isn't doing anything meaningful about illegal immigration, so it's the state's duty to step up.

"Arizona, Michigan and every other state have the authority to enforce immigration laws, and it is appalling to see President Obama use taxpayer dollars to stop a state's efforts to protect its own borders," Cox said in a statement.

Cont.

http://news.newsmax.com/?K6Ov.XhFhfcGkuGA4wQHGFYADDyebJRAK&http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/US,Immigration,States/2010/07/14/id/364674?s=al&promo_code=A481-1


Tuesday, July 13, 2010

What Else Did We Expect?

July 13, 2010

Obama Administration OKs First Tax-Funded Abortions Under Health Care Law

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Obama administration has officially approved the first instance of taxpayer funded abortions under the new national government-run health care program. This is the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned about when Congress considered the bill.

The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new "high-risk" insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March.

It has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of pro-abortion Governor Edward Rendell under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.

The high-risk pool program is one of the new programs created by the sweeping health care legislation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama signed into law on March 23. The law authorizes $5 billion in federal funds for the program, which will cover as many as 400,000 people when it is implemented nationwide.

http://lifenews.com/nat6531.html

But what did we expect?

http://sites.google.com/site/lauraetch/barackobamabeforeplannedparenthoodaction

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Whatever you do don't put the blame on you...........

It is becoming increasingly harder to blame the previous administration for the mess we are in. Especially since we were promised a Superman who could solve anything and everything. It has been almost 18 months and nothing is solved. He can't even "plug the damn hole".

Listen to the lyrics of this song. Sound familiar? They should.




Blame game could 'boomerang' on Obama, strategist says
By Kristi Keck, CNN
July 2, 2010 3:01 p.m. EDT


(CNN)
-- When signs of a severe economic downfall emerged more than two years ago, then-candidate Barack Obama was quick to point a finger at the man he hoped to replace.

Seventeen months into his administration, the message is often the same, and Republicans say it's time for him to drop the Bush bashing and take ownership of the problem.

"Nothing makes a president look weaker than pointing the finger at past administrations," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean. "By blaming somebody, it looks like you are playing politics and people just want jobs. They don't care about whose fault it is. Playing the blame game only boomerangs on yourself."

Obama repeated that message this week when talking about the still-sputtering economy, twice reminding those at a town-hall meeting in Wisconsin that he "inherited" the economic mess.



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Gotta blame it on something
Gotta blame it on something

Blame it on the rain (rain)
Blame it on the stars (stars)
Whatever you do don't put the blame on you
Blame it on the rain yeah yeah
You can blame it on the rain
Blame it on the rain that was falling, falling
Blame it on the stars that did shine at night
Whatever you do don't put the blame on you
Blame it on the rain yeah yeah

You can blame it on the rain
Cos the rain don't mind
And the rain don't care
You got to blame it on something
(Blame it on the rain)
(Blame it on the stars)
Whatever you do don't put the blame on you
Blame it on the rain yeah, yeah
You can blame it on the rain...............