Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI)
translation: "I am not even remotely qualified to do the job I was elected to do. Heh."
Did Deval make a call?
"I'll speak to your mama outside..." -Harvard Scholar Professor Gates.
On now Professor Gates application to Yale, he wrote the following: "As always, whitey now sits in judgment of me, preparing to cast my fate. It is your decision either to let me blow with the wind as a nonentity or to encourage the development of self. Allow me to prove myself."
After Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct, and it seems by all accounts that the only racist behavior during this incident was Gates' behavior and his conduct was clearly at least disorderly.
Now that the evidence points to Gates' behavior justified his arrest, suddenly there is no more need for investigation. "We" should all learn from this episode and move on. WE should learn...
If by "we" we mean Professor Gates, the Governor of Massachusetts and the President of the United States, then yes; "we" should learn something from this, but first are there not some apologies due?
Maybe Professor Gates would like to start with apologies to "whitey."
The Governor will not apologize: "“I’m not sure what I’m being asked to apologize for,” Patrick said today.
Union officials from the Cambridge Police Department demanded an apology from Patrick on Friday for saying Gates’ arrest by Cambridge Police Sgt. John Crowley is “every black man’s nightmare.”" -Boston Herald
Deval Patrick has a history of trying to free guilty African Americans because they are African Americans.
Benjamin LaGuer, who was found guilty of tying up and raping a neighbor for eight hours in 1983, at MCI-Norfolk in 2002. (Charles Krupa/ File/ Associated Press)
Did Gov. Deval Patrick make a phone call on Gates behalf and get charges, legitimate charges, dropped? Was the Governor of Massachusetts prepared to let Cambridge Police Sgt. Crowley hang for committing "every black man's nightmare?"
Sgt. Crowley executed his duties properly as he has for the duration of his lengthy and exemplary career.
How does the Governor's record compare? Only 33% in Massachusetts Favor Incumbent Governor in 2010
Not many want him back in 2010, but should he be out sooner? Can he be out sooner?
Yes, he can!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Release the audio tapes.
What was said? Obama, who rapidly reversed course, has the FBI Secret Service, et al., at his beck and call, suddenly decided to invite everyone to the White House for beers.
Obama heard the audio tapes (or, more likely was briefed) and suddenly didn't think the Cambridge Police were so "stupid." His friend Professor Gates, joined the rest of his friends...Ayers, Rev. Wright, Dorn, the list is too long. We don't need a list.
Obama heard the audio tapes (or, more likely was briefed) and suddenly didn't think the Cambridge Police were so "stupid." His friend Professor Gates, joined the rest of his friends...Ayers, Rev. Wright, Dorn, the list is too long. We don't need a list.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
The Boston Globe used to be a newspaper...
not anymore. Nothing even remotely related to journalism is reflected in the pages of the failing paper.
For example: In the Metro section of Boston Sunday Globe on July 18, the top of the page headline reads, "Elderly drivers in fewer accidents than others." Well, that's true, but it would also be true to point out that licensed drivers who are also incarcerated felons have fewer accidents. The Globe states that last year drivers aged 75 and older accounted for 7 percent of licensed drivers and accounted for 3.6 percent of all crashes. Without including miles driven, these numbers mean nothing, but the Globe even includes a bar graph. The total crashes involving drivers age 75 and older was less in 2008(7144) than in 2005(8740). The decline in accidents since 2005 is not relevant to the story without more facts. Nor is it relevant to the three people, including a four-year-old, that were mentioned as having been killed in the last month in Massachusetts by elderly drivers.
Readers have to dig their way through paragraph after paragraph of useless statistics to some information pertinent to the issue: "The GAO[Government Accountability Office] noted that the crash rate for elderly drivers is lower than for younger drivers, in part because they log fewer miles per year than younger drivers. They also noted that many elderly drivers hold licenses even though they no longer drive and often avoid getting behind the wheel at night and during rush hour, when crashes tend to occur."
So elderly drivers that don't drive are in less crashes than others. Maybe the Boston globe should have gone with that for a headline.
"They also found that intersections pose more of a problem for the elderly. In 2004, drivers age 65 or older accounted for 37 percent of fatal crashes at intersections, compared with 18 percent for drivers age 26 to 64."
Mary Maguire of the AAA is quoted at the end of the story, "We think that accurate and useful assessment tools are needed to try to determine whether there's a level of impairment, at any age"
What we know is that Massachusetts politicians value votes more than public service and that whether they drive or not - the elderly vote.
We also know that the Boston Globe wants them to vote for liberals.
For example: In the Metro section of Boston Sunday Globe on July 18, the top of the page headline reads, "Elderly drivers in fewer accidents than others." Well, that's true, but it would also be true to point out that licensed drivers who are also incarcerated felons have fewer accidents. The Globe states that last year drivers aged 75 and older accounted for 7 percent of licensed drivers and accounted for 3.6 percent of all crashes. Without including miles driven, these numbers mean nothing, but the Globe even includes a bar graph. The total crashes involving drivers age 75 and older was less in 2008(7144) than in 2005(8740). The decline in accidents since 2005 is not relevant to the story without more facts. Nor is it relevant to the three people, including a four-year-old, that were mentioned as having been killed in the last month in Massachusetts by elderly drivers.
Readers have to dig their way through paragraph after paragraph of useless statistics to some information pertinent to the issue: "The GAO[Government Accountability Office] noted that the crash rate for elderly drivers is lower than for younger drivers, in part because they log fewer miles per year than younger drivers. They also noted that many elderly drivers hold licenses even though they no longer drive and often avoid getting behind the wheel at night and during rush hour, when crashes tend to occur."
So elderly drivers that don't drive are in less crashes than others. Maybe the Boston globe should have gone with that for a headline.
"They also found that intersections pose more of a problem for the elderly. In 2004, drivers age 65 or older accounted for 37 percent of fatal crashes at intersections, compared with 18 percent for drivers age 26 to 64."
Mary Maguire of the AAA is quoted at the end of the story, "We think that accurate and useful assessment tools are needed to try to determine whether there's a level of impairment, at any age"
What we know is that Massachusetts politicians value votes more than public service and that whether they drive or not - the elderly vote.
We also know that the Boston Globe wants them to vote for liberals.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Arguing for the global warming energy bill, Boxer says the NAACP is on her side and the big oil companies are on the side of Harry C. Alford, CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, an opponent of the climate change bill. Boxer with no scientific argument plays the race card against a black businessman, and he doesn't like it.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
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