Looting in New Orleans

Read what this guy says.

Black people in New Orleans should be made to understand that the whole world is watching. Any racism people may have is being justified every time they turn on their televisions. If you thought turning around the situation in the black community was tough then, wait until the Democrats you know and love so well, have to explain to their white constituents why they'll need to provide additional tax money to help. And when the plea is balked at, don't blame racism. Don't blame Republicans. Don't blame black conservatives who have moved on. Blame yourselves.

As a native New Orleanian I am sick when I see what is happening to my poor city. But poverty did not impel these people to steal anything beyond water and food. Justifying the theft as a proper reaction to poverty and racism only encourages the "it's not my fault and I'm not responsible for anything that I do" attitude that will keep many poor blacks locked in a cycle of poverty.

Last week Jesse Jackson took the time to stroke a neo-communist strongman's ego in Venezuala, something that has nothing to do with the US Civil Rights struggle. This week, in face of story after story showing laughing, smiling blacks looting at will, he is nowhere to be seen.

Leadership means standing up when times are tough and decisions are unpopular. It's time for the black community's leadership (self-proclaimed, by the way, and claiming to stand for a mythical single black America) to demonstate leadership and condemn theft, robbery and murder in the strongest possible terms and not hide behind the same tired slogans.

Negotiation Point

Iraq's Sunnis reejct the constitution, eh?

The Sunni negotiators subsequently issued a joint statement rejecting the draft and asking the United Nations and Arab League to intervene.

By ignoring, in the end, the objections of the country's former Sunni elite, Iraq could face a further spike in the violent insurgency. That insurgency draws fighters from the now-disaffected Sunni minority that lost power with Saddam Hussein's ouster.

How about a trade? U.S. support for the Sunni position (i.e. a unitary state) for an end to the insurgency?

Jesse and Ceasar, Cindy and Al

Ever wonder what old style civil rights leaders do in an increasingly less race conscious America? Well, Jeese went to Venezuela to show support for a neo-communist strongman and to argue for civility (hold your laughter).

"Jackson urged U.S. authorities to take action, and said the U.S. government must choose 'diplomacy over any threats of sabotage or isolation or assassination.'

'We must choose a civilized policy of rational conversation,' he said at a news conference."

While Sharpton joined Sheehan and pronounced her our nation's moral compass.

"I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation," said Sharpton, a former Democratic presidential candidate.

Would someone whose son died in the war and who still supports the war count as a moral conscience? Or is that a priviledge reserved for the anti-war bunch?

Cops -- In Iraq

This is real: Cops, Iraqi Style. Halalalalalalaa- BOOOM! Goodbye high speed chases with drunken white trash, hello exploding Sunnis.

Shattered glass, body parts, a blood-splattered blue sedan: the grainy video pans over the scene as Iraqi officers comb the site of a drive-by assassination.

It's "Cops" Iraqi-style, minus the "Bad Boys" soundtrack but otherwise roughly modeled after the American TV show.

America, the Uncomfortable

This is just plain dumb.

In a nutshell:

Congress passed a law in 1997 barring those convicted of capital crimes from being buried in a national cemetery. The law was designed to block the possibility of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, a veteran, being buried at Arlington.

But some now wonder whether the restriction should cover a broader range of criminals.

...Towers said his office received calls this week from veterans uncomfortable with the idea of a convicted murderer being laid to rest at Arlington, with some saying they would not like to be near such a person in death.

In death. Death.

Get over yourself.

Liberal American Leaders

If these are the type of comments that liberal Americans leaders think will be the formula for electoral success in the future, then they may as well quit politics.

"They all [Republicans -- ed] need to be locked up because they are all criminals and they are all thieves," said Judge Greg Mathis, the star of the syndicated television program "The Judge Mathis Show."

'They shot and missed when they enslaved, segregated and oppressed our people. They shot and missed when they stole the past two presidential elections. They shot and missed when they denied our right to vote,' Mathis said. "

And then there's Pelosi, a liberal's liberal, arguing that blacks were probably disenfranchised to some degree during the last two elections.


Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California appeared at the march and noted that minorities may not have had full voting rights in the last two presidential elections.

"Some changes have to be made so we don't have a repeat of 2000 and 2004 where there was intimidation and discrepancies at the polls," Pelosi told Cybercast News Service during the voting rights march.

Well, duh. If Bush won two elections, the only possible explanation is that he won it by disenfranchising blacks, and probably some women too. It's simply not possible that Bush won fair and square. Not when I hate him so much. Right, Mrs. Pelosi? Judge Mathis?

"In the state of Ohio, where they had fewer voting booths and long lines in minority neighborhoods and no lines and many voting booths in white neighborhoods, that the balance is not what it should have been," she added.

But, wait, there's more.

U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) echoed the accusation of many at the march that Bush was an illegitimate president.

"The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about," Lee told the crowd gathered.

Not to be outdone, Rep. Maxine Waters had her say, too.


"We are here to take on President Bush, [Vice President] Dick Cheney. We are here to take on [House Majority Leader] Tom DeLay. We are here to take on the new appointee to the Supreme Court, John Roberts," Waters said from the podium to cheers from the crowd."

So did Charles Rangel "who declared that the president's "record against human rights, civil rights, economic rights, is absolutely terrible."

And finally (you knew he was coming) the very Reverend Jackson, before whom no Republican walks guiltless, says "the same old enemies of civil rights and voting rights will always keep up their ugly activities. Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town."

Funny. Race baiters. From Jesse "white people don't like you" Jackson.

Is this the Democratic Party under Dean? Is this the group that hopes to retake the White House? C'mon. With falsehoods, half-truths and a condescending anger towards the current administration, these politicos only make themselves look silly and in thrawl to left wing kooks. After all, isn't their collective indictment against Bush, et al. merely an accusatory finger in the face of the majority of Americans who voted for Bush?

How can the left be simultaneously for America, but against everything that the majority voted to support? They alienate their potential voters with every speech from these liberal hotheads.

Toilet Required

No toilet, no seat, says minister

Village council candidates in India should be allowed to stand for election only if they have a toilet at home, the rural development minister says.