[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Post your short news items, issues of interest, links, and so on. All who advance the Cause are welcome.

LET'S ROLL!!!

[gulfcoast6]

A GOOD A.M. TO ONE AND ALL FROM THE MS GULF COAST, USA!!!

[Guenevere]

Mornin'

Still working on that 2nd cup of coffee.....
...eyes are open.....got through breakfast for hubby & lunch made & saw him on his way....

...but my brain isn't in gear yet....

..just a little more caffeine...:^
..and I'll be good to go....

[gulfcoast6]

Chair, you talking about the news and all, early this A.M. I was watching International World News out of Canada and some reporter up there said that 'Yes, the USA would attack Iraq very soon, then it will be North Korea and then Iran, they are a bully state you know and want to throw their power around', THAT made me sit up in bed and tell the TV,'Good, we will put Canada on our list to attact', sheesh.
There is a lot of this coming out of Canada lately.

[gulfcoast6]

Japan is in serious trouble with their banking system, talking about it might go under, effect the whole world. Seems like the banks loaned large amounts of money on bad loans and it is coming back on them, bad new for the whole money world.

[Teacup]

Good Morning all. I'm Backkkk! We had a heck of an ice strom here in our part of Virginia yesterday. I was without power until 10 PM last night. Blurrr! We were cold and bored, LOL, but we made it through OK. It's still icy outside, but the weather folks say the ice will melt today. We lost a good number of trees, and the roads are awful, but this too shall pass. Hope everyone is having a great day.

Haven't had a TV or the inter net so I'm out of the loop when it comes to the news. I plan on lurking today to catch up with whats happeneing.

[lepton]

Lott is too much [Sowell]

[nicollo]

Here we go again... the (com)Post lead editorial: Mr. Lott's Party. No need to go there except for this gem:

In our view, it is a big deal, as is Republican failure to see it that way. For decades some Republicans have tried to play this game: make clear to white voters through coded language and other signals that they oppose civil rights, while saying enough of the proper words on the national stage to avoid being labeled as racists.

Here's my contribution to their wastebasket:

The Post’s lead editorial today recites its Tuesday demand to know if the Republican Party shall follow Senator Trent Lott into the New Segregationist Party. As with the Tuesday piece that hinted, winked, and stuttered about dirty Republican tricks to suppress black votes, and other sly tactics to re-elect James Buchanan, today's homage to the Party of Lincoln suggests -- but does not go so far as to say -- that Republicans are racists. The Post points to "coded" language used by the Party as a siren to "white voters" who "oppose civil rights."

Once again, the interested reader demands to know. Would that the post unravel and reveal these secret codes? Is it that Republican welfare reform when unencrypted reads like a Strom Thurman platform of 1948? Is school vouchers legislation a Trojan Horse, that once past the Capitol doors will reverse the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Would that the Washington Post please explain! I voted for the Republican Ehrlich for Governor of Maryland. Will his Inter-County Connector project pave over the Bill of Rights?

Clearly, the Washington Post has decided that "States Rights" is segregation is racism is un-American. Too bad, though, that the Washington Post won't say it right out. Please try. "Trent Lott is a racist." "Republicans are racists." "States Rights is the Confederacy." Can you do it? You'll feel better, and we'll all know, finally, exactly what you've been trying -- and would seem afraid -- to plainly say.

And if you can't say it outright, then retract it. Tuesday's and today's editorials intimate that Lott and the Republican party are racists. Be honest with us, Washington Post. Are they, or aren’t they? All these hints and innuendo are not befitting a principal voice in American journalism. You owe the accused clarity, and the public candor.

This matter would be cleared more quickly, with less anger, and to a far greater benefit to all parties if we can understand exactly what is being said -- by everyone, including and especially the Washington Post.

Kisses,
Nicollo