Sports & Politics

Gee, who ever thought those two might be associated?

I was following a link, and found this, filled with information about Sterling's downfall. Might it have neatly be engineered by some mysterious person with some interest in getting the franchise?

Nah, that's silly - people NEVER engineer conspiracies for money, do they?

Check out the last 3-4 paragraphs.

More from that site - VERY good, worth reading. Not a sports nut (I prefer participatory sports, not spectator sports), but - I'm going to bookmark the site.

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It's an OUTRAGE!

Racist Senator writes:

“When I see Mexican flags waved at proimmigration demonstrations, I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment. When I’m forced to use a translator to communicate with the guy fixing my car, I feel a certain frustration.”

Who was that Racist?

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

Barack Obama.

I was going to stop blogging for today (or, at least, schedule the posts for a future date), but - come ON! Who could resist?

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Police Shootings

There is a directed effort to effectively disarm police. The means used to to aggressively fight EVERY police shooting, claiming that the ONLY reason the cop used his/her gun is because that cop is a racist. The media are actively assisting this effort with their unwillingness to ask reasonable questions of the spokespersons and activists.

Here is a link to Bookwormroom, who addresses this issue, asking questions the media should have, and including a very interesting interactive video.

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It's Written in Black & White

Today's National Review post by Seth Forman is an eye-opener.

After an historic election result that occurred, in part, due to the desire of White voters to put race behind them, the nation is more racially divided than ever.

even though the 2010 census reveals that residential segregation for blacks is at its lowest level ever (the average black lives in a community that is 54 percent nonblack), blacks remain the most politically segregated group. There is indeed no greater predictor of voting patterns than being black — not income, not education level, not marriage status, not age, not religious affiliation, not party affiliation, not profession. Once the voter is known to be black, it can be estimated with roughly 90 percent confidence that he will pull the lever for a Democrat.

This is behavior that the Democratic Party takes for granted.  This is behavior that the Democratic Party exploits.  Knowing that the Dems can count on the Black vote, they push legislation and regulations that are antithetical to their interests.  Examples of such legislation are the DREAM Act, Amnesty, and the requirements that mortgage lenders make a certain percentage of loans to minorities, regardless of ability to pay for that loan (which hit them hard when the housing slump wiped out what little equity they had).

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Jim Crow - Pakistan-style

I didn't know about the background of the some of the opposition to Musharraf. This was found at Sigmund, Carl and Alfred.

The current hatred of Gen. Musharraf has little to do with the nature of his government. His real "crime" is that he is a Muhajir, the son of one of millions of Indian Muslims who fled to Pakistan during partition in 1947. Although it was Muhajirs who agitated for the creation of Pakistan in the first place, many native Pakistanis view them with contempt and treat them as third-class citizens.

Ms. Bhutto herself, as prime minister in the summer of 1995, referred to Pakistan's Muhajirs as "rats" and said they had "bad blood." In an interview with India Today, a Muhajir spokesman responded that "we have bad blood; it was this blood that built this country."

Even for Western-educated Pakistanis like Ms. Bhutto (the scion of an elite Sindhi family), the sight of a common Muhajir like Gen. Musharraf as Pakistan's supreme power holder is intolerable. Pushing for his fall has little to do with "a return to democracy." It is far more a matter of restoring Pakistan's equivalent of Jim Crow.

I'm kind of annoyed about the adulation that was being shown to Bhutto before her assassination. The massive looting of Pakistan's assets during her term in power is being glossed over. Just because she was a woman, corruption of her and her people (including her husband) is being Whitewatered whitewashed.