Posted on 09/27/2005 6:18:50 AM PDT by ElCapusto
I'm right behind you. There is no place on FR for that crap.
I don't think that qualifies as a true "false premise," but point taken. Of course, there are no true, perfect comparisons. Take a look at my 60.
Glad you got my back. Thanks.
No problem.
She's not the only one. We work hard enough fighting the slanderous accusations from the left. We don't need idiots hiding behind us and lobbing race-bombs in our name.
Thanks to you, too.
Safe travel. (Same to jerseybikerchick...forgot to mention it).
Great site - thanks.
Another great insight on how the left works in the US is Horowitz's autobiography - "Radical Son".
Not true:
Biloxi:
White - 36177 - 71.43%
Black or African American - 9643 - 19.04%
American Indian and Alaska Native - 248 - 0.49%
Asian - 2590 - 5.11%
New Orleans:
White - 135956 - 28.05%
Black or African American - 325947 - 67.25%
American Indian and Alaska Native - 991 - 0.2%
Asian - 10972 - 2.26%
One of several questionable statements or concepts in this opinion piece, such as When Katrina hit, about 1,000 of New Orleans 1,500 police officers deserted their posts.
Welfare debilitates, no one is arguing with that, but what really motivated these looters was a sense of racial grievance, a fact that the author hints at but doesn't quite say. Such a sense of racial grievance would probably be present among blacks in any case but what really allows it break out so often and so virulently is its promotion by the liberal establishment. Black thugs and the black underclass are the physical and cultural stormtroopers of the left. Much black behavior, from the antics of so-called leaders like the Black Congressional Caucus to the baggy-pantsed-sideways-baseball-capped morons on the street should be mocked and ridiculed in the media, and would be if they were white. Had rap been non-black it would have been mocked out of existence by now. (All these things are manifestations of black separatism, BTW.) Instead this behavior prospers because it's treated with respect by the liberal establishment, and it's treated with respect not on its merits but because it is valuable to that establishment as a political, cultural and even physical weapon. That is what is important to understand.
How utterly ridiculous.
Looters are criminals who deserved to be shot on sight.
Racial grievance? Hardly. It appears that you weigh heavily in on the side of the apologist leftists.
I don't believe this sentence at all.
Trillions have been spent on the phony "War on Poverty" initiated by the evil Lyndon Bird and to no avail.
That ridiculous spending program has increased the base of low-lives who lay around all day waiting for the next goobermint check.
As I've said often, there is no father as he has been replaced by the goobermint handouts.
The Federal government rebuilding New Orleans is not constitutional in any way shape or form.
The tragedy of Katrina pinpointed the real problems: state and local DemocRAT government is bankrupt and worthless.
I agree w/ you completely.
Similarly, the other day I read an article in the WSJ about how West Germany has poured something like 1.47 trillion into East Germany since reunification about 15 years ago. That's about 100 bil / year. And the result? 18% unemployment in the east couple w/ growing calls for greater gvt services and a return to communism.
That's why it kiils me when our current crop of RINOs throws money at the situation in hopes it will buy them political support. It wont.
And we saw what kind of "children" Ol' Daddy Government raised....
Should be billions of dollars.
Based upon today's revelations, termination of the deserting police officers should be pretty easy since a lot of them never existed in the first place. Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Cosmo Krammer has been showing up for work every day at an office where he has never been actually hired. After a couple of weeks, he is fired for incompetence. Cosmo says something like, "You can't fire me because I really don't even work here," and his boss responds, "That's what makes this so diificult."
because the vast majority of them work under the table, selling drugs or are professional parents (pop out more children to get more welfare money).
my favourite scam: people who go into a store and spend their food stamps on the cheapest pop they can get, dump it on the sidewalk then turn around and get cash from the deposits.
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