Posted on 05/05/2006 8:01:45 AM PDT by dukeman
I hear you! It's truly shameless, isn't it? The Herald Tribune frequently follows the "Fire, Ready, Aim" approach to journalism, especially when they're chasing after a conservative.
Say, isn't Adam Putnam that cogressman who looks like he's about 12 years old?
You won't find any socialist liturgy taped on the bottom of that cement block, sister.
That's Adam all right - the Ledger mocks him a lot for his youth and calls him "Opie." But he's been a very good Representative - just quietly goes about his business and gets things done.
He was 26 when he won his first term (he's currently serving term number 2, I think) - the youngest member of Congress at the time.
Bingo. On the money. Once I finally figured that out, that white liberals such as I considered myself to be at one time, had a vested interest in keeping african-americans economically and socially marginalized, or in a state of IIS&P as you say, was the day I turned in my "bleeding heart" pacemaker. It is neither just nor compassionate to aid & abet self-destructive anti-social behaviors by others by dehumanizing them (as this woman does in denying them their capacity for self-determination) just to keep those federal grants rolling in our way so that Buffy & Muffy & Biff can repay their student loans while working for the Department of Social Services or on Capitol Hill.Took me a while after the brainwashing I received at private schools and an esteemed institution of higher learning, but it finally dawned on me who the real racists were in this country. Better late than never I guess. I still have some amends to make,too.
Nope. This Lemming didn't learn a bloody thing.
Hey, I'm old alright, but I ain't movin' to Florida just yet....I kinda' like it here in Savannah, good fishing, pretty women, great friends, etc. Why would I want to have to arm myself to go to the grocery store or drive thru town? I work down there all of the time and carry (permitted) the whole time. My friend got robbed in St. Augustine a few years ago as he was checking into his roonm at the hotel. They made him open his trunk, were he kept a .357 w/8" barrel, and he opened up on the three robbers, shooting all of them twice!(3 kneecaps, 2 in the butt, and 1 in the hand-the dude with the gun) He forgot to tell them he had been an Olympic pistol team member in the 50's. He taught me how to shoot, so I am prepared.
LOL! Some crooks just don't have any luck at all. Kinda reminds me of a story I heard on TV news probably 10 or more years ago: A bad guy breaks into a house and surprises the husband and wife occupants. Bad guy is beating on the husband and winning. Unfortunately for the bad guy, wife is a former female professional wrestler and she nearly kills the bad guy while defending her husband!
Don't you love it when a plan comes together?
If this was California, the concrete block would not be considered a dangerous item. During the riots in LA, Denny was hit upside the head by a brick by a miscreant and the powers there decided that a brick is not considered a weapon.
Ban the concrete blocks!
Don't tempt a good boy to go bad.
You remind me of a story I posted here years ago: A teenaged boy and some buddies stole a car and went joy riding. They smashed into road signs and mailboxes and eventually ripped up the tires by crashing into elevated curbs. He ended up driving the wreck back to his own house on a couple of the wheel rims. The cops tracked him down simply by following the grooves he dug in the street all the way home. The mother was quoted in the newspaper defending her son as a "good boy." For his part, the boy said "I wish I had never seen that car!" That's right-- the car was responsible!
I had a colleague at work that used to say the public service PR campaign in the Sixties that had the motto "Don't tempt a good boy to go bad" was a sign that we had gone over the edge in denying personal responsibility for our actions.
Wonder if any SUVs have run over anyone today?
Just a cold, empirical observation, but every MLK Blvd. in every town I've ever been in that has a street so named, it has invariably acted as a marker for that area's "no go" zones.
Greensboro NC
In the 20's, Lee St, named after the great general, was the finest neighborhood in town. In the 80's, it was renamed to MLK Blvd and it was the worst part of town. All the grand old homes had been converted to apartments.
It was the best of streets, it was the worst of streets. It was less to do with race and more to do with changing views of living close to downtown. Now, downtown is the hot market
And yet, they don't know what their spawn are up to.
And it's not likely that long hours at work is the reason, either.
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