Saturday, July 24, 2010

Charade de Sharrod

This is such a good article I had to post it.
Shirley Sherrod Falsely Sainted by Propagandist Media
As anybody who has watched the firestorm of news surrounding Shirley Sherrod knows, the media have found a new post-racial saint. With each reporter as eager as the last to fawn all over Sherrod, it’s become a circus.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38246&page=1&viewID=1499769 (click to read the rest of the article, it's worth it.)

After listening to Shirley Sharrod, I will say this; she did say some conciliatory remarks. But, her remark that people who disagree with President Obama because he is black is both racist and foolish. I disagree with President Obama for the same and only reason I disagree with Senator Nancy Pelosi. I disagree with their liberal, leftist agenda.

I am no longer shocked by so called media journalist lack of integrity. Saddened, but not surprised.

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Shirley Sherrod, President Obama , Breitbart, and an apology?

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""He was willing to destroy me ... in order to try to destroy the NAACP," Sherrod said Thursday. She said she might consider suing Breitbart for defamation. "

Well Ms. Sherrod, thank you for illustrating the obvious hypocrisy and blindness of the left.
Ms. Sherrod, are you willing to destroy Mr. Breitbart in order to destroy his political opinion?
If the situation was reversed and a blogist from the left had taken someones words out of context (and that has NEVER happened) would you be equally offended?

President Obama, your watch, your call, your responsibility. It's nice that you apologized, but, would the media (also known as the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party) allow GW Bush to get off with just that? If you believe that...


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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Fatherhood Our Countries Most Powerful Weapon

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Despite the habitual maligning of men and fatherhood by TV, movies, and the media in general, I believe fathers are some of the most important people in our society.

I may not agree with President Obama on hardly anything politically, but on the importance of being a father, yes. I saw the images of the President and his family on vacation this weekend and while I might think there are pressing political issues that need his attention I do see the value in that image. Our whole society needs to honor and respect men who are good and faithful fathers. So, I commend the President for displaying that image, we all need to see it and emulate it.

We as men need to be unafraid to be men and fathers. I do not expect some to understand that being a man is different than being a women and being a father is different than being a mother. Men and women are different and think differently and make decisions differently. Better, no. Inferior, no. Just different. I need my wife and she needs me. Our children need us.

My children need me to be their father more than they need me to be their friend. You know how it goes, “But dad, you don’t understand…” Actually I do understand and that is why I say no. They need me to stand strong.

My children need to know right from wrong. Society needs my children to know right from wrong.

My father taught me not only right from wrong but also how to treat other people. Dad, as we were growing up would say some things that might make you think he was prejudice. But, if you observed the way he shook hands with everyone, looked them in the eye and called them sir or ma’am and taught us to do so also, you saw a man who had no prejudice in his actions. Actions reflect what is truly in a mans inner being. I remember two gentlemen who moved the family like five times over a twenty some year period. Dad remembered their names and talked to them about their kids, whom he remembered I think by name. I have never forgotten how those men were around my dad. These men were of a different race and color than dad but dad treated them like anyone else, with respect.

I got a job once because my dad was, “A heck of a guy, I’d do anything for him.”

From my father I have learned not only right from wrong but how to treat others and how to get along in the world.

Now, I teach my children. Actions speak longer than words.


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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Get Off the Phone!

In my opinion, it is not the act of talking on...Image via Wikipedia

It’s the law, isn’t it?! Yet, the more time I am on the road each day the more I am confronted with them. They turn without using their turn signal. They sit at a green light until someone honks at them to GO! They drive abnormally slow and swerve all over the road. They run red lights.

Who are these non-engaged drivers? Drunks? Not necessarily? Drug addicts? These are a growing number of drivers, regardless of age or gender, race or political stance, who drive while texting on their cell-phone.

I am blessed in that I only live about a five minute commute to work each day. Yet, it is not uncommon that once on the way to work and once on the way home from work to have to negotiate a texting “Doofenshmirtz” cluelessly texting away while almost driving.

I know it’s illegal, but, I guess I haven’t seen anyone pulled over for texting while driving. There is data being gathered about it. But, it is a rather new phenomenon.  So, there is no Mother's Against Texting While Driving group to draw serious attention to the growing problem.

Here’s my dilemma; do I make a phone call while I’m driving to report these texting menaces’?
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Monday, July 19, 2010

I Need Hope

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I don’t think I have been this depressed since watching Pink Floyds The Wall. I read an article in my local fish-wrap this weekend, Don’t count Obama out as he preps for act two, by Charles Krauthammer. 

After describing how Obama has changed over one-sixth of the economy by shoving his health careless bill down our collective throats, Krauthammer explains that the financial bill that will create some 243 new regulations and give government unprecedented power in the financial marketplace. Remember, power does what? Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely!  Then he discussed the stimulus package that has created “ruinous” deficits that are “not easily reversed.”

I have to just quote at this point. “The result? There just isn't enough to cut elsewhere to prevent national insolvency. That will require massive tax increases - most likely a European-style value-added tax. Just as President Ronald Reagan cut taxes to starve the federal government and prevent massive growth in spending, Obama's wild spending - and quarantining health care costs from providing possible relief - will necessitate huge tax increases.”

But wait, there’s more. Act Two will be “massive regulation of the energy economy, federalizing higher education and "comprehensive" immigration reform (i.e., amnesty) - will require a second mandate, meaning re-election in 2012.”

Here’s the deal, I knew I would not like the policies of then Senator Obama because he is a Democrat. What was hidden from me and American’s Republican, Democrat, and Independent voters alike, was just how far to the left, just how “progressive” (which is an oxymoron if ever there was one) Obama actually is.

So, what will we do as Americans? I am afraid that staunch, entrenched Republican and Democrat politicians  are too concerned with reelection and too deep in political crap to help. I like the Tea Party because they are not controlled by the Republican guard. I don’t like groups like the Coffee Party and whatever they are trying to name themselves because they are just puppets for the Democratic guard.

Who will really work for us?  
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