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9月27日 The Jena 6 or is it 9?I have to admit that I've been avoiding this news piece. First I heard it was 9 and now I hear it's 6, oh well, who cares the outcome's the same.
When a particular section of a school yard is unspokenly reserved for one group of students, this was, in my day, known as a click. In the case of the Jena students it was not just a click, but the white students versus the black. This is known as racism. The white student or students that hung the noose(s) in this section, in a tree--was making a racist statement. Now let's face it--admit it--and move on.
I was born and raised in Bradford, Pennsylvania in 1950. We had one black family in our town, the man was the pastor of the Baptist church. His seven children attended the same school as myself, my brothers, my cousins, and my friends. Why? Because our town couldn't afford two junior high schools and two high schools. But, if the town could have afforded it, these seven children would have been attending their own separate school. Racism was not a pretty thing before John Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now I have traveled extensively in my life and I know what racism is. Although we Americans want to brag that we have "Overcome." We really haven't.
The other element in the Jena case is the black boys who got in a fight over this incident and beat up a white boy. They were arrested and one was convicted of attempted murder. When I was in school, kids got in fights all the time. Our parents told us to learn to defend ourselves because they were not going to fight our battles for us. Apparently, this ideology no longer exists.
Kids have to learn what the world is really like--it's not like a video game. When I was a teenager, I got in more fights than anyone else in my school. I had a chip on my shoulder that no one got close enough to even try to knock off. Finally, the school administrators ask me, not politely, to leave and not come back. It's a good thing that the police didn't arrest kids back then for attempted murder, or I'd be setting in jail instead of blogging.
I'm not advocating violence, on a kids' or an adult level. But, I think that someone in this Jena 6 case has to get some sense. And, it's not Al Sharpton, although he was a praying on TV with the boy placed on bail today. Get over it people, kids are kids, and when you add racial tension to the equation, well someone is going to get beat up. 9月25日 Shame on the Ugly AmericansThis week Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to the U.S. to speak at Columbia University. Instead of showing this guy that all the things he says about Americans, all of the things that he accuses Americans of being, were not true--we proved that we are indeed the Ugly Americans.
Mr. Lee Bollinger, Columbia's President,--if you didn't want to afford Mr. Ahmadinejad the coutesy of a decent, warm welcome--then you shouldn't have invited him to begin with. Insulting him in front of the school and the American public was not the American way that I was raised with. Saying that this man was was a petty and cruel dictator was a grave understatement; but, to say that Ahmadinejad was "either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated" was only spiteful. Although this Iranian is loud and outspoken, he is not uneducated.
And, to the mayor of New York City--terrorists commit terrorist acts because they de-personalize their victims. It's easy to hurt or kill people you do not know and have never taken the time to meet. Let Ahmadinejad visit Ground Zero. Let him see what he and other terrorists have done to human beings, flesh and blood people, and the victims that are left to suffer for acts of terrorism.
Yeah, we really outdid ourselves this time. Congratulations, Ugly Americans. 9月20日 Pakistan PoliticsPakistan is preparing for elections. Two former prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, want to come back to Pakistan to run for the highest office, that of President. Both of these individuals have been charged with corruption during their time in office and were forced to leave the country.
President, Musharref, refuses to follow the wishes of the people and take off his military uniform while standing up for office. President Musharref is a dictator, supported by the United States, who rules Pakistan as head of the military and the political party.
Now, the United States invaded Iraq to depose a dictator and install a democratic government (or so our government says). In Iraq, the citizens want to be left alone to establish their own form of government, not necessarily a democracy. In Pakistan, the United States supports the dictator and ignores the calls of the citizens to establish a democratic form of government.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
Seems to me that our government doesn't know what it really supports. Or maybe we support what is important to us at the time. Because Musharref has not run the Taliban and Al Quida out of Pakistan, and he has stated on the news that the United States bullied him into allowing our troops to even look for Bin Laden in his country. So, just why are we supporting this dictator to the detriment of the Pakistani people? Do we support democracy or don't we? 9月18日 Misc InfoOne of the victims of the OJ robbery is now in the hospital because of a heart attack. They are saying that he suffered the heart attack because of the robbery, so....OJ you'd better pray he makes it. If this man dies, it's another murder trial for Simpson.
9月17日 Blackwater, episode 2Blackwater is in the news again. There are conflicting stories, either they have been thrown out of Iraq or they have had their license revoked to work in Iraq. Then, too, did they have a license to work in Iraq, some say yes and some say no.
They were involved in a firefight this weekend in which Iraqi civilians were killed.
If they are thrown out of Iraq, the military will have to have more soldiers to perform the work that Blackwater performs. And, from what I can gather, that's a lot. They have government contract work up the butt over there. As far as security in Iraq, Blackwater is it, even to guarding and escorting the American Ambassador.
I'm not in favor of Blackwater mercenaries being allowed in Iraq, or anywhere else for that matter. But, seems like our government has put itself between a rock and a hard place. It pays Blackwater millions of dollars to perform the work, makes them immune to American and Iraqi laws, and then bitches about how they perform the work. You can't have you're pie and eat it too.
Dig yourself out of this one, Chaney. The JuiceO.J. Simpson is back in jail again. I remember watching him play football, he was fast and he was good. People loved to watch him get the football and weave in and out down the field for a touchdown. How far this man has fallen.
Reduced to breaking into a hotel room to steal back his football memorabilia, at gun point, is worse than sad. When I listened to the tape of his tirade at the man he says stole his things, it showed me that this man is capable of the violence it took to almost decapitate his ex-wife and Mr. Goldman. This is a man who can not control his anger.
Put this with the book that he was trying to publish, entitled, "If I did it," was the clincher. Anyone aquited of murder, who then turns around and writes a book containing details even the police couldn't figure out, is, in my opinion, GUILTY.
The Juice has finally been spilt. When you finally pass over to the other side, you have some really big explaining to do. 9月12日 To be Spanish or not to be SpanishThe last debate between the Democratic candidates has upset our Governer, Bill Richardson. Seems they wouldn't let him speak Spanish. He thinks that he should be allowed when none of the other candidates were. This is our great governer.
Bill, if you want to speak Spanish and give everything New Mexico (and possibly the US if you were elected) away to the illegals, why don't you just go back to Mexico and live. Cause Mexico wouldn't give it to you as well as the US?
In fact why don't you go to Mexico and run for president? You could probably give Mexico all the insights on how to sneak up here without getting caught; how to milk the US dry paying for illegals housing, medical, education, food stamps, etc. Yes sir, I think that you would do a great job as a Mexican president. And, you could speak Spanish all the time, everywhere.
We'll miss ya Bill (NOT), but can I help ya pack? 9月10日 The Victims of 9/11Tomorrow at 8:46AM
Please take a moment of silence
to honor the victims of 9/11.
Remember that
No one dies in vain.
9月9日 All in Favor, Say AyeI finally decided to register to vote in New Mexico. I've always been registered to vote in Alaska. So, I was told to go to the Post Office in Rio Rancho and register. At the Post Office I found a lady setting at a table by the front door who gave me a form to fill out to register. I filled out the information on the form until I got to the blank that asks what party you want to register as. Republican or Democrat.
I told this lady that I was an Independent, do I just write that in? No, in New Mexico you have to be a Republican or a Democrat. I'm neither!! Than you can't vote in New Mexico. Who the hell put that rule into effect? This is a free country and I'm an Independent. Sorry you can't register.
Now this lady never ask to see any Identification, she said, you don't need to show ID in New Mexico. Then how do you know if I'm eligible to register. We don't care.
Ya know, I've had just about enough of this crap in New Mexico and I'd like to know how many of you out there would be willing to join a new political party--The American Party. For those Americans who want America back on the right track.
All in favor of the American Party, say aye. 9月7日 When is the war in Korea ever going to end?I was listening to public radio at lunchtime today and they were playing the tape of President Bush and the president of South Korea giving their news conference at the Asian-Pacific summit. President Moo of South Korea was trying to get President Bush to commit to ending the Korean War. President Bush wasn't biting.
The Korean War ended in 1953 with a ceasefire and America has been keeping troops in the DMZ ever since. But, you never hear the American people complaining about that. Personally, I think that most young Americans do not even know about this situation. Yes, folks, we have actually been at war with North Korea since before I was born.
Every once in a great while you read on the back page of the paper about an American or a North Korean soldier firing their rifle across the DMZ, but nothing big ever becomes of it. Well now President Moo wants to end this war because he thinks that will help the situation with North Korea (well it couldn't hurt and it might get our troops out of that country).
When you all start complaining about us getting out of Iraq, think about Korea. Why isn't Congress complaining about supporting a war that should have ended in 1953. 9月6日 I'd Like to Pat Myself on the Back!Congratulations to
Myself!
I have been promoted to
Project Analyst
effective 10 September 2007
That comes with a 10% raise
and
I have opened my own business
online at
the alternative to Chinese made products
handmade American products
made the way you want them. Okay, Where Did Those Nucs Go?Someone at Minot AFB, North Dakota misplaced some nucs at the end of August. A B-52 took off for Barksdale AFB with nuclear weapons attached to its belly and no one knew about it until it arrived at Barksdale. Now the Squadron Commander is fired and the load crew has been decertified.
Of course, it's not good that a thing like this can happen, especially after the Air Force has sworn that it never could happen. But, let's face it. Even if the plane had crashed, nuclear warheads can explode without going nuclear, even on impact from a plane crash. I know because it has happened before. And, here's one to show my age--I ask the question--didn't anyone check the bomb flags to determine if it was conventional or nuc? Seems years ago they stopped flagging bombs so that no one (civilian or enemy) could tell what a plane was carrying. (So, maybe the Air Force can't tell sometimes either.)
I'm sorry that this type of thing can happen with circumstances as they are in the world now; however, I'm not worried about it. And, I also know that if the person at fault is someone being groomed for bigger and better things (they are under some political power), that person is not going to pay for their mistake--someone not so popular is going to take the blame and go down in flames. 9月2日 Ex-Senator CraigBig Brother's Watching
I'm not sure what was really transpiring in a Minneapolis airport men's room, but there are a few things I'd like to add to the story.
1. I listened to the police tape and the officer involved was very rude.
2. What transpired to get this policeman detailed to sitting in a stall in an airport men's room?
3. No one states what hand signals Craig was giving the officer, and there is a disagreement on what was really going on in the men's room.
Now, I've been through the Minneapolis airport many times and have used the women's rooms. I have never been propositioned for sex in any restrooms, in Minneapolis or anywhere else. I have been offered things by women selling items including drugs (in Minneapolis) and elsewhere. I have been known to use the men's restrooms on occasion; twice by accident, not paying attention and just walking in thinking I was in the women's room, and three times on purpose because the line at the ladies' rooms were way too long and I had to catch a plane. I got strange looks, but no one bothered me. Then too, in Europe, restrooms are usually co-ed and no one thinks anything of it, hi--goodbye--that's about it.
If Ex-senator Graig was in the Minneapolis airport restroom trying to find sex with another guy--I guess he's paid the price. If he wasn't--I guess he paid the price unnecessarily. Only he and his God and that police officer know for sure.
But the whole thing bothers me because America is turning into Big Brother. Here in Albuquerque the local government is putting cameras everywhere and it doesn't seem to be lowering the crime rate. When they put up the first bunch of red-light cameras, we were told it would lower the accident rate. After people started getting tickets that couldn't be disputed in local court, the judges wouldn't even listen to residents who complained; we found that the city was not setting the lights properly. The law states that there has to be at least a 4 second delay between Green-Yellow-Red but the city was allowing only 2 to 3 seconds between Green-Yellow-Red. And, these tickets were not cheap, over $100 for a first offense.
Now Albuquerque is placing cameras in public common areas watching everything because in the government's opinion this will cut down on crime. Well so far it isn't working. What does this have to do with Ex-senator Craig?
I know for a fact that some stores have cameras in the restrooms to catch shoplifters (the only place they can not put them LEGALLY is dressing rooms); so is there a video tape of this incident? I'd like to see just what lead to this arrest. Maybe Craig is just a victim of the policeman who certainly wanted a better way of spending his shift, or the newspaper in his hometown that's been trying to get him out of office.
I'm really not sure what's at work here, but it's obvious that Big Brother is watching, and our freedoms are slowly being taken away. Smile you're on candid camera. |
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