Although they've been voting for progressives, liberals, or whatever the Democrats are calling themselves these days, the data are inarguable: blacks in America are voting with their feet, these days, and they're leaving "blue states" in droves. Are they racist? How can they leave the Progressive environments that their betters have established for them?
When whites leave failing blue cities and states, the pundits call this racism: all those white Californians fleeing Nancy Pelosi’s utopia for less ambitious jurisdictions where ordinary people can do things like get jobs and buy homes are clearly pathetic trailer trash hicks too dumb, too selfish and above all too racist to understand the gloriously multicultural blue beauty of California today.
As mentioned here previously, Oregon's all about the tough issues, like requiring schools to eliminate Indian mascot names. Naturally, some folks have a problem with this.
EUGENE (AP) — Oregon’s new ban on Native American mascots in public high schools means a charter school on tribal land may have to change its Warriors logo, a chief in a headdress.
The new rules have drawn objections from two of the nine tribal groups in Oregon recognized by the federal government, including the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.
Over in the little Michigan town of Walker, 65 high school seniors organized a mass bike-ride to school on the last day of their high school experience. And it was well-organized:
The senior students took part in the morning ride, which began at the Walker Fitness and Ice Center and ended at the high school. The students had police escorts and enjoyed donuts provided by Walker Mayor Rob VerHeulen, who rode in a police cruiser leading the group.
Parents lined the 3-mile route, taking pictures and cheering for their sons and daughters.
But upon arrival, the reception was beyond frosty: the Principal assembled them in the school auditorium, chewed them out, and suspended them all.
At a school board meeting that evening, a local DJ showed up with a brand new bicycle, donated by a local shop, which he presented to the board to give to the Principal, who was, oddly enough, absent from the festivities. With luck, one day she may learn how to safely ride.
Closer to home, the stink of hypocrisy emanating from Metro Oregon Zoo just reached overwhelming proportions. We mentioned previously that the place is grossly over-managed, by Oregon state standards. It's been a while since we looked over that way, but as far as we know, the trained professionals have yet to figure out how to get their new giraffe - which arrived about a month ago - to enter the barn. They may not know much about working with, and effectively managing, captive wild animals - but by golly, they're big on telling you all about saving the polar bears from "man-made global warming", the importance of recycling, and so much more.
Forget the animals - it's all about image (and money).
Now the Oregonian's Joseph Rose (thankfully! Katy Muldoon seems incapble of writing anything more than regurgitated press releases and other fluff, which is why she's usually assigned there) writes that the Zoo's vaunted expert middle managers have concerns about repairing the Sunset Highway at a time when one of their elephants is "with calf". Oh, how very touching! Obviously, they Really Care™!
Repaving on highway 26 must be done with caution, if at all:
When Oregon Zoo elephant curator Bob Lee heard of the Department of Transportation's plan to rev up the project in June, he raised a caution flag on Rose-Tu's behalf.
Elephants, Lee said, "are so tuned into the environment that they'll feel the vibrations in their feet and they have great hearing. We need to be careful."
The hypocrisy level is unbelievable, yet people buy into it.
Do you believe for one second that they'll halt the Zoo's summer concerts - held right on the elephants' doorstep - based upon some concern over loud drums and amplified bass and other vibrations? Of course not!
To paraphrase Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: They're Only In It For The Money.
Florida's Secretary of State has gone through the databases, located, and purged some 53,000 dead people from the voter rolls. Here in Oregon, Secretary of State Kate Brown has other things to do: willfully misrepresenting election law in order to favor her fellow Democrats, trying to force Republicans out of the voters' pamphlet, and refusing to destroy unused ballots as required by law, among other things. Small wonder she's been given the #KorruptKate tag - she's been working hard to earn it.
Unlike Florida's SoS, Katie's too busy to bother with trivialities; voter fraud, after all, is simply a nonissue in Oregon - folks like Lafayette Keaton notwithstanding.
Keaton not only voted for a dead person in Oregon, he voted for his dead son. Making Keaton’s fraud easier was Oregon’s vote by mail scheme, which has opened up gaping holes in the integrity of elections.
But the integity of elections isn't nearly as important to Oregon's SoS as rigging them. Oregon has very critical issues facing it, such as requiring schools to eliminate mascot names like "Indians," "Chiefs" and "Braves." Presumably, the next step will involve eliminating things like "Fire Chief" and "Chief of Police". Mustn't risk offending our Indian compadres, after all. Troutdale will soon be home of the "Fighting Smelt", who will battle the Sandy Spotted Owls in epic high-school sports action.
These are critical issues which demand immediate, hard-hitting approaches for successful and sustainable resolution. Election integrity? Not so much.
Gonorrhea superbug. Once easily treatable, now not so much. Now, before you go ragging on those promiscuous little geishas, it seems that we may actually have generated a large part of the problem due to our development of cheap, quick STD tests - that don't, as it happens, test for resistance as well as presence or absence. Therein lies a big part of the problem, because the medical establishment - and governments - have simply administered the test, and if it returns a positive result, prescribed medication.
Done, and on to the next patient. If someone returns and tests positive again, the assumption has been that they've been re-infected, and so another round of antibiotics is prescribed. And the wheel spins on. But bugs are adaptive little critters, and in the case of this strain, it doesn't matter what antibiotics are prescribed. Suddenly, the fast and easy test/cure is neither - a development with profound implications for an entire array of common tests and treatments for illnesses.
The fake Cherokee business that Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren peddled for years (when convenient) was bad enough, but more stuff keeps emerging that speaks to her credibility - or lack thereof: it appears that "her" famous Cherokee recipes, which she contributed to the "Pow Wow Chow" cookbook, were in fact plagiarized. As in, lifted in their entirety from other publications.
As the cookbook was edited by her cousin, perhaps she thought it was "all in the family", and thus of no consequence. Certainly, she didn't profit as she did by claiming to be Indian. Nonetheless, it raises yet another red flag; marking her as ethically-challenged.
Hard to believe, but Barky's former "Green Jobs" czar took to the radio Wednesday night, and unloaded on Barky's pal Eric Holder over his handling of the gun-walking scheme that has resulted in the deaths of two US agents and at least 300 Mexicans; going so far as to suggest that had this happened at our northern border, there would have been more decisive action. That's fairly close to coming out and calling Holder a racist, as it implies that the AG cared less because the victims were Mexican.
Host Brent Munlin pointed out that the “tea party is the one speaking out about this [Fast and Furious]; they’re the ones saying, ‘Hey, people are getting killed, we don’t care if they’re white, they’re black, they’re brown.’ It’s bull crap: that people are getting killed because of a government program that is just letting guns go across the border.”
Jones also said that while he hasn’t closely followed all the developments on the Fast and Furious scandal, he will ultimately back conservatives who have pushed for greater accountability.
“I do know enough to know that something terrible is going on down there,” Jones said. “And if the tea party is going to lead the way to try and shed some light on it, I’ll be right behind the tea party on it. I just don’t know enough about it right now.”
During a discussion that touched upon similarities between Jones’ ideology and that of many tea party activists, he said that grassroots activists should have more influence. It's surprising to find Jones, of all people, backing the TEA Party (albeit tepidly).
North Carolina helped put Barky over the top in 2008, and it seemed like a good place to hold the 2012 Democrat convention. Now, not so much. Things have changed since then:
Since 2008, Republicans took over both chambers of the state legislature for the first time since Reconstruction, and Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue, who had hoped that Obama’s presence in the state could elevate her own campaign, has decided not to run for reelection amid widespread speculation that she’d have little chance of winning.
Moreover, blacks - who charged out to vote for Barky in '08 -charged out again in their recent election, and voted heavily in favor of their homosexual marriage ban. Barky's not in a good spot; he just "came out" in support of homosexual marriage, and the organized homosexual groups are predictably, pissedly, petitioning to have the convention pulled and moved to a "more deserving" state. That's not going to happen, but these are big problems for Barky to dance around. It's also a Right To Work state, so the union thugs aren't happy, either.
And this, just in from the Department of Not Thinking Things Through: what effect do you suppose that Barky's "evolved thinking" in regard to homosexual marriage is going to have on his international efforts to appease the Muslims? Unless something's change recently, they tend to stone homosexuals to death, or saw their heads off, or both. It may have been a great move when it comes to collecting millions from Hollywood, but it's probably not going to play well in Saudi Arabia.
It should come as no surprise that to the Barky campaign, "transparency" is a tool for tyranny. Nixon had his "enemies list"; Barky's got a hit list.
Idaho businessman Frank VanderSloot has become the target of a smear campaign since it was disclosed earlier this year that he had donated $1 million to a super PAC supporting Mr. Romney. President Obama's campaign website teed him up in April as one of eight "less than reputable" Romney donors and a "bitter foe of the gay rights movement." One sin: His wife donated to an anti-gay-marriage campaign, of the kind that have passed in 30 or so states.
Although Barky has stated that children are off-limits in campaigns, it seems clear that this caveat does not extend to other members of the immediate family; thus, he seeks to score points by sliming a Romney contributor by going after the donor's wife. He also has operatives digging through the donor's divorce record and other aspects of his personal life, apparently solely because the businessman donated to a PAC in support of Romney. It's particularly interesting in light of the fact that Barky has spent north of $1 million to keep his own records buried.
The attack on Mr. VanderSloot is also notable for its focus on his wife's contribution to the anti-gay-marriage cause. Gay-marriage activists are winning the debate in much of the country, but as they do they are becoming more intolerant.
After California voters approved Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in 2008, opponents published the names of donors, who were later linked with zip codes and Google Maps. Donors reported getting death threats. Boycotts were set against businesses, and activists encouraged customers to call and harass business owners. Among the activists' arguments for why Mr. VanderSloot is antigay is that his wife donated to the campaign for Proposition 8.
Look for them to throw the race card into heavy play, as well; apparently Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion has been holding training sessions on racial "messaging", citing as an example of conservative bigotry: "Calling a Black man 'the food stamp president' is not a race-neutral statement, even if Newt Gingrich did not intend racism."
Intent doesn't matter; what is actually said doesn't matter. All that matters is the spin applied.
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