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GRASPING FOR STRAWS: Don Imus The Bigot
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Now it's been a hot minute since morning radio personality; Don Imus referred to the players on the women's basketball team at Rutgers:



IMUS: That’s some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and –

McGUIRK: Some hard-core hos.

IMUS: That’s some nappy-headed hos there. I’m gonna tell you that now, man, that’s some — woo. And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so, like — kinda like — I don’t know.

McGUIRK: A Spike Lee thing.

…ROSENBERG: It was a tough watch. The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the Toronto Raptors.



Well I agree with Al Sharpton and his cronies on one issue. This comment was horrible and should never have been said and deserves the sincerest apology. However I disagree with him and his fellow radicalists when it comes to the whole "boot him off the air" crap. We live in a free society, we must allow the market to dictate whether or not Imus stays on the air. It is NOT our call. Why doesn't Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jackson get their act together and deal with the real issues facing Black America? It seems their only job is to cry foul over anything and everything that takes place, but forget about the countless times where the term "ho" comes from and who it is most primarily used by. I don't see this a race issue as much as I see it as a gender issue. We need to quit getting up in arms over the small faux pas that plague our airwaves....




You didn't hear quite the same type of outcry when these words were uttered over the national broadcast on HBO: "More people in the world would live if Vice President Dick Cheney died", political commentator Bill Maher said on his HBO telivision show. Unlike Mr. Imus, Bill Maher spouted out something slightly more hatefilled and intentional... But where are the "White Civil Rights Leaders" defending white people who are victims of a "bad joke" over our telivision set or radio broadcast?

Maybe we need to get over ourselves as a nation and quit looking to only see things in black and white. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are living in this fantasy world where they believe they can keep African-American people down to a degree in which they are convinced they constantly need to be patrionized and apologized to. That is not the road to true equality, and that is something at least the Republican party has realized and has come to grips with.

Maybe here in America we need to quit being so bashful about talking about race. If you are racist then you should be shameful and be scared to talk about race. But if you see things as they are with no personal prejudice then you should get a dialogue going about this. Nothing makes Americans progress more with civil rights than keeping the activists out of the limelight and letting nature take it's course; Americans finding out on their own that skin color is not an indicator of a different heart that bleeds different blood. It's common sense people... This Don Imus crap is just another distraction from the real issues surrounding the African American community. Pay attention to self made people like Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice... I would listen to their perspective alot quicker on this issue than Rev. Sharpton who feeds off of any publicity stunt he can find for his own political gain. Thank you all, and God Bless you Rutgers' Women's Basketball team, and God Bless you Don Imus, Only HE can know your heart.




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A PARTY DIVIDED: Democratic Leadership Is Unwinding
Tuesday, April 10, 2007


THE DEMOCRATIC TAILSPIN IS UNFOLDING



The
Associated Press
: "Reid Says He'll Try To Cut Off
War Funds"
(4/2/07)



The
Associated Press
: "Levin: Senate Will Keep Paying For
War"
(4/8/07)







Simply unbelievable.... yet so very typical of the leftists in congress. They are starting to crack inside their own political maneuvering.
"We're not going to vote to cut funding, period," Levin said. "But what we should do, and we're going to do, is continue to press this president to put some pressure on the Iraqi leaders to reach a political settlement." But the this democratic senator seems to be trumpeting for his party's leadership who has gone on record stating the opposite:



"We're not going to back up one second on this, on this veto threat," said Reid, pointing out that a report last week by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service concluded that the military does not need the new funding until July.



But again Sen. Reid, you have promised already not to cut off funds for the troops; at least that is what you stated upon gaining power as majority leader of the senate.



The Remarks Sen. Reid made on Nov. 30, shortly after Democrats won control of Congress. "We're not going to do anything to limit funding or cut off funds," he said at the time.



.....on the PELOSI FRONT:





An Editorial from the washingtonpost.com



Pratfall in Damascus

Nancy Pelosi's foolish shuttle diplomacy




Thursday, April 5, 2007; A16



....here is a clip:



Ms. Pelosi was criticized by President Bush for visiting Damascus at a time when the administration -- rightly or wrongly -- has frozen high-level contacts with Syria. Mr. Bush said that thanks to the speaker's freelancing Mr. Assad was getting mixed messages from the United States. Ms. Pelosi responded by pointing out that Republican congressmen had visited Syria without drawing presidential censure. That's true enough -- but those other congressmen didn't try to introduce a new U.S. diplomatic initiative in the Middle East. "We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace" Ms. Pelosi grandly declared.



Never mind that that statement is ludicrous: As any diplomat with knowledge of the region could have told Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Assad is a corrupt thug whose overriding priority at the moment is not peace with Israel but heading off U.N. charges that he orchestrated the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. The really striking development here is the attempt by a Democratic congressional leader to substitute her own foreign policy for that of a sitting Republican president. Two weeks ago Ms. Pelosi rammed legislation through the House of Representatives that would strip Mr. Bush of his authority as commander in chief to manage troop movements in Iraq. Now she is attempting to introduce a new Middle East policy that directly conflicts with that of the president. We have found much to criticize in Mr. Bush's military strategy and regional diplomacy. But Ms. Pelosi's attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.












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GOP Message To Speaker Pelosi... GET BACK TO WORK!
Monday, April 09, 2007




Source: Drudge Report

GOP SLAMS PELOSI: GET BACK TO WORK
Mon Apr 09 2007 10:28:28 ET

Today, GOP Leaders from both chambers urged Speaker Pelosi to call the House back into session immediately to finish its work on the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill for the troops. Speaker Pelosi neglected to appoint House conferees before the two-week break, further delaying negotiations on a final bill.


The joint letter to Pelosi is attached. Text follows:


Dear Speaker Pelosi:

We are writing to urge you to call the House back into session immediately so that Congress can finish its work on the emergency legislation to fund the Global War on Terrorism. This funding request has been pending since February 5, but your leadership team chose to leave town for more than two weeks rather than completing this bill. As a result, our troops have been put at risk.

We are especially troubled by the House's failure to appoint conferees. The Senate appointed conferees on March 29, moments after passing its bill, but the House never did so despite passing the bill a week earlier. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Senate that he hoped the House-Senate conference would begin on March 30. That hoped-for progress has been thwarted by your failure to act.

It should go without saying that our military leaders are in the best position to know the needs of our troops, and they have left no doubt that this funding is needed urgently. General Peter Schoomaker, United States Army Chief of Staff, has written that, "without approval of the supplemental funds in April, we will be forced to take increasingly draconian measures which will impact Army readiness and impose hardships on our Soldiers and their families." Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has also emphasized the dangers of delay: "This kind of disruption to key programs will have a genuinely adverse effect on the readiness of the Army and the quality of life for soldiers and their families."

Our troops need this funding, and they need it soon. The Senate is in session and ready to work. We respectfully request that you cancel the remainder of your break, call the House back into session, appoint conferees promptly, and work in good faith to pass a clean supplemental funding bill that the President can sign as soon as possible. Every day we don't fund our troops is a day their ability to fight this war is weakened.







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Missile-Defense System Test Succeeds
Sunday, April 08, 2007



By AUDREY McAVOY

Source Article Here


HONOLULU (AP) - The military shot down a Scud-type missile in this year's second successful test of a new technology meant to knock down ballistic missiles in their final minute of flight, the Missile Defense Agency said Friday.

A ship off Kauai fired a target missile before 9 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time Thursday. Three minutes later, soldiers with the U.S. Army's 6th Air Defense Artillery Brigade launched an interceptor missile from Kauai that destroyed the target over the Pacific, according to the agency.

The military says it already can shoot down missiles in their last stage of flight by using Patriot anti-missile batteries. But the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system would be able to protect larger areas than the Patriot system because it intercepts targets at a higher altitude, said agency spokeswoman Pam Rogers.

The new system had its first successful test last year at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It had another successful test Jan. 27 at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai.

A September test at White Sands failed when the target missile failed after launch.

The Missile Defense Agency moved its testing for the Terminal High Altitude Defense system to Hawaii because the New Mexico range was not large enough for the military to do the testing it wanted, Rogers said.

The military also uses the Pacific Missile Range Facility to test Aegis technology that's designed to shoot down ballistic missiles midway through their flight.



National Missile Defense Agency Site

Coverage of the Missile Defense Plan Video
Missile Defense System News Archives



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