July 12, 2008
Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey, internationally acclaimed as the father of modern cardiovascular surgery — and considered by many to be the greatest surgeon ever — died Friday night at The Methodist Hospital in Houston. He was 99.Methodist officials said DeBakey died of natural causes. They gave no additional details.
Medical statesman, chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine, and a surgeon at The Methodist Hospital since 1949, DeBakey trained thousands of surgeons over several generations, achieving legendary status decades before his death. During his career, he estimated he had performed more than 60,000 operations. His patients included the famous — Russian President Boris Yeltsin and movie actress Marlene Dietrich among them — and the uncelebrated.
"Dr. DeBakey singlehandedly raised the standard of medical care, teaching and research around the world," said Dr. George Noon, a cardiovascular surgeon and longtime partner of DeBakey's. "He was the greatest surgeon of the 20th century, and physicians everywhere are indebted to him for his contributions to medicine."
Living here in the Houston area, one cannot help but be struck by the fact that this man was not merely respected by this community, but truly loved as one of the most important individuals in this community. His work went a long way towards putting Houston on the map as a center of medical excellence, and the people of Houston never forgot that. And may I add that it is no accident that HISD's magnificent magnet school for young people interested in entering the health professions is called the Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions.
Dr. DeBakey's death will leave a void in our community -- and a standard of excellence towards which future generations of medical professionals in this community will strive.
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Sadly, this morning's perusal of the Web brings reports of the death of one of those men -- consummate commentator and former White House press secretary Tony Snow.
Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President Bush's press secretary, died Saturday of colon cancer. He was 53.''America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character,'' President Bush said in a statement from Camp David, where he was spending the weekend. ''It was a joy to watch Tony at the podium each day. He brought wit, grace, and a great love of country to his work.''
Snow, who served as the first host of the television news program ''Fox News Sunday'' from 1996 to 2003, would later say that in the Bush administration he was enjoying ''the most exciting, intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have.''
Snow provided what I believe to be the only effective service by a press secretary during the Bush Administration. His wit, feistiness, and charm, coupled with a command of the facts, made him the standard to which future press secretaries should aspire.
It is sad to see him leave us too young.
May God care for and comfort his family at this time.
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July 11, 2008
“What would be important would be for us to do it in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he’s engaged in and not to make him into a martyr, and to assure that the United States government is abiding by basic conventions that would strengthen our hand in the broader battle against terrorism,” Obama said.
Flop -- July 11, 2008:
If he was captured alive, then we would make a decision to bring the full weight of not only US justice but world justice down on him. And, uh, I think that IÂ’ve said this before, that I am not a cheerleader for the death penalty Â… I think it has to be reserved for only the most heinous crimes, but I certainly think that plotting and engineering the death of 3,000 Americans justifies such an approach.
Which is a return to July 20, 2007 -- Flip-flip-flippity-flop!
Obama, who has expressed reservations about capital punishment but does not oppose it, said he would support the death penalty for Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks."The first thing I'd support is his capture, which is something this administration has proved incapable of achieving," Obama said. "I would then, as president, order a trial that observed international standards of due process. At that point, do I think that somebody who killed 3,000 Americans qualifies as someone who has perpetrated heinous crimes, and would qualify for the death penalty. Then yes."
If this man can't even maintain a consistent position on something like how to deal with OSAMA BIN LADEN, then can we really trust him with the authority of the presidency?
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Grand jurors here and in Pittsburgh cataloged what they described as a culture of corruption that allowed former state Rep. Michael Veon, current Rep. Sean Ramaley and 10 current and former Democratic staffers to divert millions of dollars in state resources, including more than $1 million in illegal pay bonuses.The jurors said Mr. Veon and the staff members conspired to arrange hefty year-end pay bonuses to House employees who worked on political campaigns over a three-year period, while Mr. Ramaley is accused of working full-time on his 2004 House campaign in Beaver County while drawing a taxpayer salary as a member of Mr. Veon's staff.
What sort of stuff are we talking about here? How about this.
It found that tax money was used to bump third-party candidates Ralph Nader and Carl Romanelli from the Pennsylvania ballot in 2004 and 2006. Grand jurors said state money was used to provide a no-work job to a high-ranking House aide's mistress.State employees were routinely diverted from their jobs to provide political services and, in the case of Mr. Veon, to transport his motorcycles to South Dakota for his vacation and to provide dinners to members of Mr. Veon's informal basketball league.
"The theft of taxpayers' funds and resources was extensive," said state Attorney General Tom Corbett, who yesterday filed an array of charges against Mr. Veon, Mr. Ramaley and the others, while hinting at more to come.
My personal favorite involves the payment of one of these paragons of Democrat virtue's sex kitten to do her homework for her college and law school classes.
But wait -- there's more!
"Let me make this perfectly clear: This is not the conclusion," [Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett] said at a news conference here.
Your elected Democrats (and their staffers) in action!
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A federal judge rejected Rep. William JeffersonÂ’s (D-La.) request to dismiss five counts of wire fraud in the wide-ranging corruption case against him.JeffersonÂ’s attorneys argued that the wire fraud charges were invalid because JeffersonÂ’s alleged activities would not have denied his constituents honest services. They also argued that the honest service fraud statute is unconstitutional on its face and as applied to the facts of the case.
Yeah, you read that right -- Jefferson and his shyster argue that it is unconstitutional to require honest conduct from a politician. So much for the most ethical Congress in history.
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Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd as part of its search for a possible vice presidential candidate.The former White House hopeful and Connecticut lawmaker indicated Wednesday that he has been approached by the campaign. "There's been some inquiries, yeah," Dodd said. "They ask for a lot of stuff. I'll leave it there."
Two words on this one.
1) Spiro.
2) Agnew.
But then again, maybe that is unfair of me. Perhaps Dodd is just following in his daddy's footsteps.
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Prayers are, of course welcome.
UPDATE -- 15:30: Gee, that was quick! Doctor says everything went smoothly and she should be feeling much better almost immediately with the abscess in her jaw gone.
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The bodies of two U.S. soldiers missing in Iraq for more than a year have been found, their families said Thursday night. The military would not immediately confirm the report.The father of Army Sgt. Alex Jimenez, of Lawrence, Mass., said the remains of his son and another soldier, Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, of Waterford, Mich., had been identified in Iraq.
Jimenez, 25, and Fouty, 19, were kidnapped along with a third member of the 2nd Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division during an ambush in May 2007 in the volatile area south of Baghdad known as the "triangle of death." The body of the third seized soldier, Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr. of Torrance, Calif., was found in the Euphrates River a year later.
Once again we face the sad reality of war -- that there will always be young men 9and some young women), fighting on our behalf, who return home is a somber one as part of the roll of our nation's honored dead rather than the joyous exultation of a safe restoration to their friends and families. This is one of those cases.
And I would like to return to my earlier point. Under the Geneva Conventions, these men should have been held in safe, comfortable conditions with access to food, medical treatment, and means of communication with their families. If they died of their wounds in battle, their remains should have been swiftly repatriated. Instead, based upon what we know of their companion's treatment, they have been brutally murdered and their remains improperly disposed of by the war criminals who held them.
I wonder -- will the "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" and "panties on the head is torture" crowd that demands civilian trials for terrorists and the closure of Gitmo be out in the streets denouncing the murder of these young men by those whose relatively gentle treatment by the United States they denounce as a war crime? or will we instead hear them blame George W. Bush, not the terrorists we are fighting in Iraq and elsewhere, for their deaths? I suspect we know the answer -- and it exposes the true difference between them and members of the US military who, like Sgt. Alex Jimenez and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, who daily show us what true patriotism and heroism really are.
May God give comfort to the families of these brave men -- and may He make use of their fellow soldiers to inflict His righteous judgment upon those who took their lives.
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July 10, 2008
| Votes | Council link |
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| 3 | American Whining and the Culture of Dependency The Razor |
| 2 | Identifying Obama's Real Position on the Second Amendment (Updated) Wolf Howling |
| 2 | You May Now Assume the Risk Soccer Dad |
| 1 1/3 | Narcissism In Another Color Joshuapundit |
| 1/3 | Economic Illiteracy Venting The Glittering Eye |
| 1/3 | Another Disgusting Philly Inquirer Op-Ed The Colossus of Rhodey |
| 1/3 | Does Patriotism Matter? Cheat Seeking Missiles |
| Votes | Non-council link |
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| 3 | Is Gun Control Behind Our Loss of Civil Liberties? Bishop Hill |
| 2 | Former CIA Agent in Iran Comes In from the Heat Pajams Media |
| 1 | There Oughta Have Been a Law! Classical Values |
| 2/3 | Liberals for 'Conservative' Grand Strategy? The American Strategist |
| 2/3 | Georgia Man Killed Own Daughter to Protect Family Honor Shooting the Messenger |
| 2/3 | My Shiny Iraqi Skyline Neurotic Iraqi Wife |
| 2/3 | Arguing Politics Neo-Neocon |
| 2/3 | MPAC Person "Bulldozed By Al-Jazeera" Judeopundit |
| 1/3 | Obama's Flip-Flops =/= Kerry's Ace of Spades HQ |
| 1/3 | Do Liberals Love America Too? Right Wing Nut House |
Congratulations to this week's winners and the excellent runners-up in a week that saw a three-way tie in the Council vote and a tie in the non-Council vote.
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A federal judge denied a request by state Sen. Derrick Shepherd's lawyers Thursday to grant the Marrero lawmaker a separate trial from the bond broker he is accused of helping to launder money.Meanwhile, a defense attorney confirmed that two unnamed co-conspirators in the case are U.S. Rep. William Jefferson and his sister, New Orleans Assessor Betty Jefferson.
Yep, that William Jefferson -- the one who commandeered a rescue craft to sneak evidence out of his New Orleans home in the wake of Hurricane Katrina -- and who was found to have $90K in money from a bribe payment in his freezer.
It's a small world after all, I guess -- but not as small as the cells these folks belong in.
What do we have once again?
Your elected Democrats in action!
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Federal and state authorities are looking into accusations of voting fraud in three largely black counties of Alabama, including Perry and Lowndes Counties, which played a historic role in the struggle for black voting rights in the 1960s.In May, a local citizens group gathered affidavits detailing several cases in which at least one Democratic county official paid citizens for their votes, or encouraged them to vote multiple times. The affidavits were presented to state officials in Montgomery, the capital, and after the June 3 primary, the Alabama attorney general, Troy King, a Republican, seized voting records from the primary election in Bullock, Lowndes and Perry Counties.
The United States Department of Justice posted a team of observers to monitor the primary, and the Alabama secretary of state, Beth Chapman, a Republican, reported hearing from one of the federal observers that a candidate had “free rein” of a polling place, where campaigning is prohibited, passing out sample ballots and instructing voters how to vote.
Ms. Chapman also raised questions about the possible abuse of absentee ballots. In the election on June 3, a quarter of the voters here, 1,114, cast absentee ballots, a percentage that is six times the state average and a figure that Ms. Chapman called “astronomical.” In Jefferson County, which includes Birmingham and has 60 times Perry County’s population of 10,600, there were 365 absentee ballots.
You know, of course, what the response of the elected Democrats in question is -- "It's a Republican plot to disenfranchise blacks!"
So ignore the pictures of a candidate campaigning in a polling place.
Ignore the affidavits collected by a non-partisan, multi-racial civic organization that sparked the investigation.
Never mind that Alabama Democrats have a long history of using just such tactics in Alabama elections -- dating all the way back to Reconstruction.
Just blame the whole thing on the prosecutors for doing their job.
Your elected Democrats in action!
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What civil rights?
I'm the mayor and I get to decide what civil rights exist in my town!
A federal grand jury in Jackson returned a three-count indictment against Mayor Frank Melton and his police bodyguards, officers Michael Recio and Marcus Wright, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The three were cleared in April 2007 of state charges they used sledgehammers and sticks to demolish the duplex Melton considered a drug house.
* * * The federal indictment alleges that on Aug. 26, 2006, the defendants invited several young men into the police department's mobile command unit. The group drove to a home on Ridgeway Street, where Wright allegedly ordered the occupants outside at gunpoint.
"Thereafter, Mayor Melton allegedly knocked out several windows of the home with a large stick and ordered the young men accompanying him to destroy the home using sledgehammers while Wright and Recio stood guard," the Justice Department statement said.
And let's be really clear about this -- while the mentally-ill resident of the home had a history of drug use, the mayor lacked any lawful authority to destroy the home. So much for the right to be secure in one's home from unreasonable state intrusion. Oh, yeah -- when the resident objected, the mayor ordered him handcuffed and held at gunpoint until the destruction of his home was completed.
Your elected Democrats in action!
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Yes, YOU!
You can use Barack Obama's campaign website to make your own official Barack Obama campaign poster!
Here's my first poster.
And my second attempt.
My third is actually a serious comment.
But this might be the best -- if only we could get a question mark at the end.
Have fun, my friends!
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However.
Remember that dental problem from Monday, and the fact that it had started to swell and become otherwise difficult? They did a CT of the head and neck, and it appears that some of the infection that we have been dealing with migrated to her jaw from the site of the other infection, and there is a thumb-sized abscess that has formed (apparently) away from the teeth themselves. The solution? More surgery!
So the upshot is that my Darling Democrat will be going under the knife again tomorrow, at a time yet to be determined.
As before, your continued prayers are requested. And as mentioned before, please feel free to click the Paypal link (or the Amazon one), if the spirit moves you -- we started with a $1500 deductible and have blown right through that, so even with what the insurance covers I imagine our share of the bill increasing like the cost of a tank of super-unleaded for a Hummer.
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Seems the kids built their field on overgrown town property, and the neighbors don't like them having healthy, outdoor recreation near their homes.
Vincent Provenzano, 16 years old, experienced his Kevin Costner moment one Sunday afternoon in May after a thrilling day of Wiffle ball in a friend’s backyard. He came home, gazed at a field of weeds, brush and poison ivy in an empty lot off Riverside Lane, turned to his friend Justin Currytto, 17, and proclaimed: “If we build it, they will come.”After three weeks of clearing brush and poison ivy, scrounging up plywood and green paint, digging holes and pouring concrete, Vincent, Justin and about a dozen friends did manage to build it — a tree-shaded Wiffle ball version of Fenway Park complete with a 12-foot-tall green monster in center field, American flag by the left-field foul pole and colorful signs for Taco Bell Frutista Freezes.
But, alas, they had no idea just who would come — youthful Wiffle ball players, yes, but also angry neighbors and their lawyer, the police, the town nuisance officer and tree warden and other officials in all shapes and sizes. It turns out that one kid’s field of dreams is an adult’s dangerous nuisance, liability nightmare, inappropriate usurpation of green space, unpermitted special use or drag on property values, and their Wiffle-ball Fenway has become the talk of Greenwich and a suburban Rorschach test about youthful summers past and present.
“People can remember how much fun it was to go out in the woods in the summer, build a fort, do something fun and creative, so there’s something pretty cool in what these kids did, especially at a time kids grow up in such an incredibly structured and stressful environment,” said Lin Lavery, one of three Greenwich selectmen, who inherited Wifflegate while the first selectman, Greenwich’s version of mayor, is on vacation.
“But we have a situation that’s escalated,” Ms. Lavery said. “Neighbors are upset that it’s too close to their property; building has been done on town property; there are issues of traffic and drainage. We’re hoping to come up with a compromise, but there are a lot of issues to address.”
Actually, it strikes me that there is only one -- the fact that we as a society have moved so far from the standards that were in place a mere three or four decades ago, when the town's mayor would have patted the kids on their backs for their initiative and improvement of the property. The town would then bring it up to snuff -- having told the neighbors that this was an improvement and an amenity for the city, not a public nuisance.
Alas, we are now in a different, litigious age when NIMBYs with clout are able to strike down things that benefit the public -- whether those are US Senators shutting down wind turbines needed to establish energy independence because they would create a barely discernible smudge on the horizon, or neighbors who are worried that letting the towns young people engage in healthy, wholesome recreational activities might disturb their own serenity.
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July 09, 2008
Christian publisher Zondervan is facing a $60 million federal lawsuit filed by a man who claims he and other homosexuals have suffered based on what the suit claims is a misinterpretation of the Bible.But a company spokeswoman says Zondervan doesn't translate the Bible or own the copyright for any of the translations. Instead, she said in a statement, the company relies on the "scholarly judgment of credible translation committees."
That is to say, setting aside whether the federal civil rights lawsuit is credible, the company says Bradley Fowler sued the wrong group.
His suit centers on one passage in scripture -- 1 Corinthians 6:9 -- and how it reads in Bibles published by Zondervan.
Fowler says Zondervan Bibles published in 1982 and 1987 use the word homosexuals among a list of those who are "wicked" or "unrighteous" and won't inherit the kingdom of heaven.
Fowler says his family's pastor used that Zondervan Bible, and because of it his family considered him a sinner and he suffered.
Now he is asking for an apology and $60 million.
"To compensate for the past 20 years of emotional duress and mental instability," Fowler told 24 Hour News 8 in a phone interview.
Now wait just one minute. Do you mean to tell me that federal courts are now going to rule on the proper translation of biblical passages? That strikes me as a rather grave intrusion into a realm that the First Amendment would seem to bar. Especially when you consider that at least three other translations that I encountered and others refer to men having sex with men or "mankind" -- and therefore clearly refer to homosexual practice -- going back to at least the King James Version in the early 1600s. What's more, the English translation of Calvin's Geneval Bible refers to "buggerers" -- again, something understood at the time as a reference to homosexuality. For that matter, reference back to the book of Genesis makes it clear that the sin of Sodom, from which the term "sodomy" arises, was HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY (though some contemporary theologians attempt to reinterpret it as failure to give proper protection to guests)!
But in the end, this entire matter comes down to a theological dispute over the proper translation of the Bible and whether dynamic equivalence or formal equivalence is the proper method of translating biblical manuscripts from the ancient dead languages in which they were written in centuries past -- and, implicitly, whether the doctrinal interpretations of scriptural passages which have arisen within Christianity over the last two millennia are correct. And that, my friends, cuts straight to the heart of the First Amendment guarantees of free exercise of religion and non-establishment of religion.
Oh, and why Zondervan as the target in this lawsuit? Because they are the biggest publisher of Bibles in America, and the NIV (in its various forms) are the biggest selling text in America today, usually selling more than the venerable King James Version in any given year. Drive them and their best selling translation out of the market, and the hope would be to silence Christians in this country in the same way that Canada's human rights commissions are being used to silence them in the Formerly-Great White North.
H/T STACLU. Right Pundits
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Yeah -- and "after midnight" phone call. She had just gotten done with a visit from hospital personnel telling her that there would be surgery connected with some of the test results from earlier int he day.
It appears to be an exploratory thing, connected with the underlying cause of this infection. It could well be a cyst or an abscess -- it just isn't clear from the pictures they have taken, hence the need to actually go in and remove whatever it is. However, another possibility is a tumor, though that is highly speculative (and I'm now told highly unlikely) and whether it would be benign or malignant is unknown. She asked me to come to her early -- and so that is my plan. I'll have the trusty laptop with me -- but I don't know if the hospital is set up for wi-fi.
Suffice it to say that this is something unexpected for both of us, and I am definitely going to put her first. When I know more and can access the site, I'll update everyone on things -- and it will stay at the top of the site all day, hence the posting time of 23:59 PM, even though I'm writing this first part of the post some 19 hours earlier. Check back for the updates.
And as I said yesterday, your prayers are requested -- and at this point of uncertainty, even begged for until we know more. And yes, if the spirit moves you to click the Paypal link (or the Amazon one), we'll also be appreciative -- but that is secondary to the prayers for health and comfort at this time.
More later.
Update -- 08:00: Surgery will be later today, not first thing in the morning like we had initially thought -- probably in the afternoon, depending upon the surgeon's schedule. Paula is feverish, which leads the doctor to believe that the issue is will be no more than a deep infection, not anything more serious. Unfortunately, she is having swelling in the face related to the dental problem from Monday -- how the two situations are connected (if at all) is speculative at this point.
Update -- 13:00: Surgery will be in the next two or three hours, depending on when the surgeon gets done with his earlier surgeries. Best guess? Around 16:00 this afternoon.
Update -- 18:30: Due to another patient's surgery taking much longer than expected, surgery will be delayed another couuple of hours -- starting between 20:00 and 21:00.
Update -- 21:30: Well, she's in the OR at last -- they've told me to expect to see the surgeon in an hour. Prayers appreciated.
Update -- 23:15: Well, she is back in her room after teh removal of some infected tissue and an abscess that seems to have been at the root of the problem. All is well, and I'm headed home.
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July 08, 2008
And this one seems to have been caught on tape -- if anyone can direct me to the video online, I'll post it.
A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.
Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.
Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole."
That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.
Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster's, is perhaps "the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape."
Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track. TV news cameras were rolling, after all.
I'm stunned. Anyone who has had any access to the media for the last three or four decades ought understand the broad, general outlines of what a black hole is, and understand what the term means colloquially -- and that it has nothing to do with race.
Seems to me that there are two ignorant racists in this story.
Ignorant racist #1 is Commissioner John Wiley Price for intentionally using "white" as a racial slur.
Ignorant racist #2 is Dallas County Judge Thomas Jones for demanding an apology from Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield rather than Price after the latter made an intentionally racist comment in an attempt to bait Mayfield.
And it would never cross my mind to describe either Price or Thomas as a black hole -- but I think we all know what sort of holes these two distinguished Democrat elected officials really are.
And to think that this Dallas County is the model upon which Democrats here in Houston wish to recreate Harris County government!
Now picked up at Urban Grounds and Michelle Malkin
UPDATE: Here's the video.
Good God are these two guys stupid -- and the attempt to justify the objection is even more outrageous.
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"This is a huge deal for TV One as it is for the White community," said Johnathan Rodgers, president and CEO of TV One, a channel in about 40 million homes. "Whites have fallen in love with John McCainÂ’s family, his candidacy Â… we will be covering the Republican convention all the time."But Barack Obama shouldnÂ’t expect the same treatment. The network doesnÂ’t plan any coverage of the Democrat convention.
"We are not a news organization," said Rodgers, speaking at the opening session of the semi-annual Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills. "We are a television network designed to celebrate White achievement."
"My audience is 93% White," Rodgers added. "I serve my audience."
It is, of course, shocking that such racism still exists in this country today, and that any cable system will carry this disgusting network espousing racial separatism. Such attitudes are unAmerican -- and I hope that the governing authorities which granted cable franchises to the companies that carry TV One will dump those revoke them for carrying Grand Dragon Rodgers' foul station.
Oh, wait a minute.
it seems that a correction has just come over in when I refreshed my browser. Here's the actual story.
"This is a huge deal for TV One as it is for the African American community," said Johnathan Rodgers, president and CEO of TV One, a channel in about 40 million homes. "African Americans have fallen in love with Barack ObamaÂ’s family, his candidacy Â… we will be covering the democratic convention all the time."But John McCain shouldnÂ’t expect the same treatment. The network doesnÂ’t plan any coverage of the Republican convention.
"We are not a news organization," said Rodgers, speaking at the opening session of the semi-annual Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills. "We are a television network designed to celebrate African American achievement."
"My audience is 93% black," Rodgers added. "I serve my audience."
Well I guess that makes all the difference in the world. Rogers isn't a malignant racist -- he's just promoting cultural pride. Funny how the mere substitution of white and black takes such actions from "beyond the pale" racism to politically correct, isn't it.
So remember, folks -- black pride good, white pride bad. After all, it is a scientifically proven fact that lack of melanin causes racism.
But I do have a question -- will this wall-to-wall coverage of one convention but not the other be treated as an illegal corporate campaign contribution, since Grand Dragon Rodgers' TV One network is not, by his own admission, a news organization?
H/T Gateway Pundit
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And before anyone asks -- yes, there is a possibility that this is related to what we thought was an unrelated dental problem that I mentioned earlier. One of the specialists has ordered tests to rule that in or out -- and that may or may not change the course of treatment.
Your prayers are requested, and anyone who feels the urge to click the Paypal link (or the Amazon one) would also be appreciated.
Needless to say, I may be less prolific than usual -- call it having my priorities in order.
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It appears that such days are gone.
A major book publisher is planning to release a sexually provocative, fictionalized novel loosely based on First Lady Laura Bush's life during the first week of September - a date that conveniently coincides with the Republican National Convention.Radar Magazine said Curtis Sittenfield's latest tome American Wife, to be published by Random House, 'is sure to send the White House into a fury.'
Of course, it is "just fiction" -- but the main character is explicitly based upon the current First Lady. More to the point, an unfortunate interpretation of libel law effectively forbids any legal action to slap down this sort of nonsense casting a woman of high moral values in a most unseemly light.
Seems to me that the time has come to bring back the venerable old practice of a defamed and offended lady's husband thrashing tracking down such a poltroon and thrashing him to within an inch of his life in the street while the public watches justice being served.
UPDATE: Looks like the sluttiest columnist at the New York Times, who publicly expressed her desire to trade places with Monica during the presidency of BJ Billy, thinks that a fictionalized account of incest, lesbianism, and other sexual acts involving the First Lady "a well-researched book that imagines what lies behind that placid facade of the first lady". I'd ask if Dowd had any decency -- but we already know the answer.
Malkin wonders why the standard for Laura Bush is different from teh standard for Michelle Obama
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July 06, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama ended a week's focus on values by giving a conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church a highly personal account of his spiritual journey and a promise that he will make "faith-based" social service "a moral center of my administration."The address, to one of the oldest and largest African American denominations, brought the senator from Illinois back to friendlier ground after a week's tour through Appalachian Ohio, conservative Missouri, the conservative stronghold of Colorado Springs, North Dakota and hardscrabble Montana. But in its religious tones, the address had a far wider intended audience.
"In my own life, " he said, "it's been a journey that began decades ago on the South Side of Chicago, when, working as a community organizer, helping to build struggling neighborhoods, I let Jesus Christ into my life. I learned that my sins could be redeemed and that if I placed my trust in Christ, that he could set me on the path to eternal life when I submitted myself to his will and I dedicated myself to discovering his truth and carrying out his works."
Now I won't get into the fact that it appears that Obama is trying to "cling to his religion" in an effort to get votes after repeatedly attacking the religious beliefs and values of anyone who doesn't support him. No, I find it striking that nowhere does he mention what he has previously described as the seminal event in his coming the the Christian faith -- attending Trinity UCC and hearing the preaching of Jeremiah Wright. And lest you doubt that, go back and read his first book, Dreams of My Father, for confirmation of that fact.
And yet somehow neither Obama nor the Post mention that important figure, nor Trinity United Church of Christ, in discussing the faith journey of Barack Obama. Do they perhaps believe that silence will effectively bang out the dents on the bumper of the Obama Express?
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That is why the discovery -- and subsequent study of -- Gabriel's Revelation is very exciting. It leaves room for a change in the understanding of Judaism at the time of Christ, not t mention revolutionizing our understanding of the origin of early Christian beliefs.
A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.If such a messianic description really is there, it will contribute to a developing re-evaluation of both popular and scholarly views of Jesus, since it suggests that the story of his death and resurrection was not unique but part of a recognized Jewish tradition at the time.
Here's the interesting part.
The slaying of Simon, or any case of the suffering messiah, is seen as a necessary step toward national salvation, he says, pointing to lines 19 through 21 of the tablet — “In three days you will know that evil will be defeated by justice” — and other lines that speak of blood and slaughter as pathways to justice.To make his case about the importance of the stone, Mr. Knohl focuses especially on line 80, which begins clearly with the words “L’shloshet yamin,” meaning “in three days.” The next word of the line was deemed partially illegible by Ms. Yardeni and Mr. Elitzur, but Mr. Knohl, who is an expert on the language of the Bible and Talmud, says the word is “hayeh,” or “live” in the imperative. It has an unusual spelling, but it is one in keeping with the era.
Two more hard-to-read words come later, and Mr. Knohl said he believed that he had deciphered them as well, so that the line reads, “In three days you shall live, I, Gabriel, command you.”
To whom is the archangel speaking? The next line says “Sar hasarin,” or prince of princes. Since the Book of Daniel, one of the primary sources for the Gabriel text, speaks of Gabriel and of “a prince of princes,” Mr. Knohl contends that the stone’s writings are about the death of a leader of the Jews who will be resurrected in three days.
Now there are two ways of looking at this. One would argue that the ideas contained here constitute evidence that the supposedly unique views about Jesus' death and resurrection were really not so unique after all -- and in the eyes of some this means that we need to reassess the entire understanding of Jesus and the early Christian community. On the other hand, it could be just as easily argued that the Gabriel Revelation is yet one more foreshadowing -- this one extra-biblical -- that the death and resurrection of the Messiah was something foretold and expected by Jews of the period around the time of Jesus, and that said expectation was fulfilled by Jesus.
Frankly, I suspect that this discovery will be fodder for discussion for some time.
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A German friend passed along the news Saturday that local sources in Berlin are confirming that the Obama campaign was in contact with city authorities to discuss the possibility of presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) delivering an outdoor address in front of the Brandenburg gate.
Excuse me -- did I sleep through the election and inauguration? Why is Barack Obama giving a major speech in Germany -- especially in such an iconic location -- when he is still a mere candidate for the presidency, and not even officially nominated yet?
For that matter, since when do American presidential candidates campaign in foreign countries?
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July 05, 2008
Clashes between guards and prisoners at a jail in Syria have resulted in many deaths, human-rights groups have said.At least 25 people were killed after military police fired live bullets at Islamist inmates, the groups said.
* * * Several prisoners have managed to contact Syrian human rights group, as well as the BBC, by telephone.
They said the guards had also desecrated copies of the Koran.
Come on -- aren't there some Muslims in Syria ready to take to the streets in protest, demanding the death of President Assad? Won't they call out for Allah's divine retribution upon the nation that sponsored this outrage?
And what about Islamists in the rest of the world? Where is Islamic Rage Boy and all those extremists who rioted and burned, and killed over the false reports of Quran desecration at Guantanamo Bay, where the prisoners are housed in much greater comfort than in the Syrian prison?
Could it be that they really don't give a damn about the desecration of a Quran (or depiction of Muhammad) unless it can be used to attack and assault the West?
H/T Gateway Pundit
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But that isn't what is striking about his post, which is actually quite mild compared to the vitriol spilled by Leftists around the internet. What strikes me is a rather arrogant claim on his part regarding something he alleges Jesse Helms took away from him:
... [Helms] was personally responsible for removing my right to become an American...
Excuse me?
I don't know how to break it too you, Andy, but you have no right to become an American citizen. No foreigner does. Some are, indeed, granted the privilege of American citizenship -- but there is nothing that a so-called "libertarian conservative" like yourself could coherently claim constitutes a "right" for any non-American to become a citizen of this great country. Indeed, sir, you really don't even have a right to remain in this country -- the privilege of being present here is one which may legitimately be revoked for an alien like yourself. So while you are welcome to hate Jesse Helms and rhetorically desecrate his corpse, please have the decency and integrity to recognize that your claim is false -- for you never had what you claim was taken from you.
UPDATE: As noted below in comments, Andrew Sullivan has changed the wording of his post to remove the claim that he had a right to be an American citizen. Too bad he didn't have the integrity to acknowledge that I had made the point -- or to allow my trackback to post at his site. I guess being called out on the point hurt his feelings.
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The latest version I've encountered reads this way:
Barack Obama is not a legal U.S. natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between December 24, 1952, to November 13, 1986. Federal Law requires that the office of President requires a natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. Citizen parents. This is what exempts John McCain, though he was born in the US Panama Canal Zone.US Law very clearly states: '. . . If only one parent is a U.S. Citizen at the time of one's birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for minimum ten years, five of which must be after the age of 16.' Barack Obama's father was not a U.S. Citizen is a fact.
Obama's mother was only 18 when Obama was born. This means even though she had been a U.S. Citizen for 10 years, (or citizen of Hawaii being a territory), his mother fails the test for at-least-5-years- prior-to Barack Obama's birth, but-after-age-16.
In essence, Mother alone is not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. Citizenship. At most, 2 years elapsed from his mother turning 16 to the time of Barack Obama's birth when she was 18. His mother would have needed to have been 16 + 5 = 21 years old at the time of Barack Obama's birth for him to be a natural-born citizen. Barack Obama was already 3 years old at the time his mother would have needed to be to allow him natural citizenship from his only U.S. Citizen parent. Obama should have been naturalized as a citizen . . but that would disqualify him from holding the office.
The Constitution clearly declares: Naturalized citizens are ineligible to hold the office of President. Though Barack Obama was sent back to Hawaii at age 10, any other information does not matter because his mother is the one who must fulfill the requirement to be a U.S. Citzen for 10 years prior to his birth on August 4, 1961, with 5 of those years being after age 16.
Further, Obama may have had to have remained in the USA for some time frame to protect any citizenship he might have had, rather than living in Indonesia. This is very clear cut and a glaring violation of U.S. Election law. I think the Governor Schwarzenegger of California should be very interested in discovering if Obama is allowed to be elected President without being a natural-born U.S. Citizen, since this would set a precedent. Stay tuned to your TV sets because I suspect some of this information will be leaking through over the next several days.
So let's do some quick analysis here.
1) According to his biography, Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Let's assume for the moment that this information is correct. Given that Hawaii had been a state for just under two years at that time, it is beyond dispute that Barack Obama was born in and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and therefore a natural born citizen of the United States and the state of Hawaii, based upon the clear language of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution and affirmed by the Supreme Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
2) But what of the purported statutory language cited by these bloggers which would seem to argue to the contrary?
'. . . If only one parent is a U.S. Citizen at the time of one's birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for minimum ten years, five of which must be after the age of 16.'
First, such language would be constitutionally invalid on its face if it were applied to anyone born within the United States. And secondly, unfortunately for those who attempt to use it to cast shadows upon the citizenship of Barack Obama, the statute in question never purported to apply to those born on American soil. Instead, it applied only children of American citizens born abroad.
But let's look at the actual statutory language of the Immigration and Nationality Act of June 27, 1952 (66 Stat. 163, 235, 8 U.S. Code Section 1401 (b):
Section 301. (a) The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:(1) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;
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(7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States, who prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years.
So you can see that by virtue of birth in Hawaii, the statute recognizes Obama as a citizen by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment. The question of his parentage only comes into question if Barack Obama were born outside the United States.
3) Was Barack Obama actually born in Hawaii?
Let me begin by stating that I presume that he was -- I cannot believe that it would be possible to keep it a secret if he had not been. Some relative who knew the truth or some government employee with access to the records would have leaked it.
However, the question remains -- and clearly has not been resolved by the release of a purported birth certificate. However, AJ Strata does a great job of arguing for the validity of the certificate that is currently under dispute.
What needs to happen to settle the matter? Barack Obama needs to release a copy of the original birth certificate completed by the staff at the Kapiolani Medical Center in 1961. It should be retained on microfilm in Hawaii, and a copy would be easy enough to obtain -- I think being a US Senator and presumptive nominee for President should give him enough pull to get a copy in an expedited manner.
So let me say it -- it would appear to me beyond question that Barack Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States. By providing unambiguous documentation of this fact, Obama can lay the rumor to the contrary to rest for all time.
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July 04, 2008
And they are shocked -- but not shocked enough to abandon their support for him.
Senator Barack Obama stirred his legions of supporters, and raised our hopes, promising to change the old order of things. He spoke with passion about breaking out of the partisan mold of bickering and catering to special pleaders, promised to end President BushÂ’s abuses of power and subverting of the Constitution and disowned the big-money power brokers who have corrupted Washington politics.Now there seems to be a new Barack Obama on the hustings.
* * * We are not shocked when a candidate moves to the center for the general election. But Mr. ObamaÂ’s shifts are striking because he was the candidate who proposed to change the face of politics, the man of passionate convictions who did not play old political games.
There are still vital differences between Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain on issues like the war in Iraq, taxes, health care and Supreme Court nominations. We don’t want any “redefining” on these big questions. This country needs change it can believe in.
Take that last line as a declaration of continued loyalty to the Democrat candidate. After all, when the newspaper starts quoting campaign slogans as their editorial line, it is pretty obvious that they are in the tank for the candidate in question -- especially when the slogan chosen is vacuous and content-free.
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A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years.A day after finding James Kevin Pope guilty, jurors sentenced him to 40 life prison terms — one for each sex assault conviction — and 20 years for each of the three sexual performance of a child convictions.
At the request of prosecutors, state District Judge Graham Quisenberry ordered Pope to serve the sentences consecutively, adding up to 4,060 years. He will be eligible for parole in the year 3209, according to the Parker County District Attorney's Office.
Given his new-found affection for those who abuse kids, I suspect that Justice Kennedy would consider this cruel and unusual punishment. Unfortunately, our black-robed overlords tell us that we can't execute disgusting creatures like Pope, so requiring him to serve time into the next millennium may be the best possible option.
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July 03, 2008
I'll never forget the anguished words of one of the dead teen's classmates --"I don't know why that man had to shoot him -- he was only trying to rob the gas station!"
Yeah, that's right. Folks were upset because the clerk at the gas station used a legal gun to shoot down an armed robber.
Which brings me to this case.
The family of one of the men who was shot by a retired United States Marine while they attempted to rob a Subway sandwich shop said the customer shouldn't have pulled the trigger.According to Plantation police, two armed men barged into the Subway at 1949 Pine Island Road shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday, demanding money from the employee behind the counter. When they tried to force John Lovell into the bathroom, he pulled out a gun and shot both men, police said.
Donicio Arrindell, 22, was shot in the head and later died at the hospital. Fredrick Gadson, 21, was shot in the chest and ran from the Subway, but police found him in hiding in some bushes on the property of a nearby BankAtlantic.
* * * Gadson's grandparents told Local 10 on Thursday that Lovell was wrong for pulling the trigger.
"He should not have taken the law in his hands," said Rosa Jones, Gadson's grandmother.
Her husband, Ivory Jones, also condemned the media for its portrayal of Lovell's actions.
"I don't condone what they did, (but) I definitely don't condone the news people making him out to seem like they're making a hero out of this man because he shot somebody down," he said
Un-freakin'-believable! These folks are blaming the victim for defending himself from their criminal grandson and his thug-buddy.
Ivory and Rosa Jones are nothing but trash -- low-class, no-account trash, utterly lacking in morals and sense.
But I will agree with their one comment -- John Lovell shouldn't be a hero. What he should be is an example to every single American of how they should respond to crimes committed by punks like Donicio Arrindell and Fredrick Gadson. What he did should be the ordinary response to crime, not an extraordinary one. The fate of Donicio Arrindell and Fredrick Gadson should be the common result of criminal activity, not something that is newsworthy because it is unusual.
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