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Monday, June 30, 2008

Don't Vote for Obama

Whatever you do, do not vote for Barack Obama. He is a Socialist and he will tax us to death. You might think you are middle class and safe but he will redefine what wealthy is.

DO NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!!!!!!

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Thursday, February 21, 2008

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Response to Wildfires by Military not Hampered by Deployments

It did not take long for people to blame George Bush for the wildfires in California because of his [past] opposition to global warming and because of a general hatred of the man. People compare the response to the wildfires with the response to Katrina and there are those who believe that the wealthier Californians made out better than the poor folk in New Orleans. The fact is, all response starts at the local level and then rapidly involves state resources. The local responders put their plans into effect quickly in California and the state rapidly became involved. The National Guard responded proactively by moving planes equipped to fight fires closer to the action by placing them on training missions until they were requested and the official request could be initiated.

The state asked for help early and it got that help. Unlike the leaders of New Orleans and Louisiana, the leaders of California acted responsibly and did not wait for the federal government to swoop in to help. Had Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco acted as quickly and decisively there might have been a better outcome in New Orleans. I heard someone state, on one of the news shows, that the response of the military (especially the National Guard) was hampered because of the deployments of our reserves to the war on terror. The truth is, a very small portion of California's National Guard members are actually deployed and those deployments did not hamper the efforts in fighting the wildfires. In fact, the military was in place and had to wait to assist because the system had to play catch up with other entities necessary for the military to assist.

In fact, the Defense Department was so aggressive in responding to the dozens of wildfires that scorched nearly 500,000 acres this week that military pilots and crews were in place and set to fly a full day before they were finally allowed to do so, McHale explained.

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Some 2,500 National Guard soldiers were deployed to help fight the fires, McHale said, as were 350 active duty and civilian Defense Department employees. An additional 17,000 National Guard troops were on standby for activation to the fire lines should they be needed, he said.

“The military response to the wildfires in California was not inhibited in any way, to any degree, by deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan,” McHale said. “The capabilities that we needed in Southern California were fully available from our domestic inventory of resources, and those capabilities were made available as fast as was humanly possible.” [DOD News]

Proper leadership is necessary in response to any disaster and the leaders in California demonstrated how it should be done. While I certainly realize that the disasters in New Orleans and California were two completely different entities, I also have heard and read the complaints by people who compared the two events. There is this feeling that California fared better because of its demographics and that is simply not true. There are many ILLEGAL immigrants in the Southern part of California (who hope to find jobs rebuilding the place) so the poverty vs well off does not completely wash, though there were many more rich people affected in California than New Orleans. Additionally, wildfires progress differently than floods and are a different beast to tame all together but since people brought it up...

The overarching theme is that proper leadership in the time of disaster is key to providing the best possible outcome and California outclassed Louisiana in that arena. California leaders gave firm evacuation orders and people obeyed. New Orleans gave half hearted orders and did not enforce them and certain parts of the population did not take them seriously. People died because the leadership of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana failed the people who they were elected to protect.

Let us hope that Bobby Jindal can change the culture of corruption and welfare entitlement that is pervasive in Louisiana, particularly in New Orleans, and get that once great state back on its feet.

BTW, contrary to what people think, arsonists and not global warming, were to blame for the wildfires.

Thursday, December 28, 2006

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Monday, December 18, 2006

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Friday, September 29, 2006

Did Those Crackers Use The N Word?

There are allegations surfacing that George Allen and James Webb used the word "nigger" more than 30 years ago. This seems to be getting a great deal of attention and I can not figure it out. Allen has denied it though several more people have come forward and said they heard him say it and Webb sidestepped the issue by saying that he does not think there is anyone who grew up in the South that has not had that word come across their lips. He also said that he never used the word to hurl a racial slur at anyone.

I find both items hard to believe because many people both black and white have used that word. I have used it in my past and though it is not a good word to use, the fact is, just like the F word, I've said it. The point with these two is, have they said it recently? Who cares if they said it more than 30 years ago? People can crawl out of the woodwork and tell us they heard one or the other say it a long time ago but how many people have heard it recently? I am absolutely positive that Robert Byrd has used that word and he never gets the scrutiny that these two are getting. While this might be an issue to some, it seems to me there are bigger fish to fry.

This quote appeared in an article about Webb:

"The Voting Rights Act transformed that word. It eradicated it," said Jack Bass, a professor of humanities and social science at the College of Charleston. "The crowd that [used it in the 1970s] either quit using it or they were gone. Blacks were voters by then." Washington Post

Maybe Jack Bass is on another planet or does not listen to rap music. A large majority of the gangsters in the gangsta rap crown use that word and they use it a lot.

Driving a Saab that connects with the mob Bank job, plenty niggers I rob (Wanted Dead or Alive)

Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga (Shame)

Nigga it's the Big southern rap pimp resario (Big Pimpin)

“Hey what’s up my nigga.” This is said among millions of times among inner city blacks and has actually reached the mainstream, when in the movie Rush Hour, Jackie Chan said the exact phrase to Chris Tucker. (streetgangs.com)

Maybe it is just me but our society is full of young people, Black, white (and in the case of Chan, Asian) who are using the word "nigger" or a variant "nigga." Perhaps these folks will never run for office or do not vote but it seems to me that with everything going on in the world people can find more to discuss than whether or not two older guys running for office had the audacity to use the word over 30 years ago.

I have not heard anyone ask black or Hispanic politicians if they ever used the word "cracker" or "honky." We know Jesse Jackson used the word Hymie and we know that people associated with Cynthia McKinney used the word crackers and made anti-Semitic remarks (actions she did not comment on), and Don Perata of California used the word crackers as well. When they are running for office, does anyone ask them about this? Of course not and they are actively using those words NOW so it is disingenuous to hold two white guys hostage to words they said decades ago.

Let's stop fixating on who is Jewish or who used the word "nigger" and get down to discussing the issues that actually matter today. Unless someone can show that these two politicians are using the word NOW, then I see no need to waste time. If people want to hear that word used they can listen to rap music or watch a gangsta film like Get Rich or Die Trying.

Other source:
Yahoo News

Cross Posted at Blogcritics and Big Dog's Weblog

Friday, September 22, 2006

Run With The Big Dog Tonight

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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

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