Posted on 05/26/2010 3:33:41 PM PDT by Syncro
MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS: COCKFIGHTING AND SAME-SEX PROMS
May 26, 2010
Watching TV this week, at first I thought Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul had flown a commercial jet into the World Trade Center. But then it turned out that he had only said there ought to be discussion about whether federal civil rights laws should be applied to private businesses.
This allowed the mainstream media to accuse Paul of being a racist. Twisting a conservative's words in order to accuse him of racism was evidently more urgent news than the fact that the attorney general of the United States admitted last week -- under oath in a congressional hearing -- that he had not read the 10-page Arizona law on illegal immigration, the very law he was noisily threatening to overturn.
And really, how could the U.S. attorney general have time to read a 10-page law when he's busy doing all the Sunday morning TV shows condemning it?
Eric Holder's astonishing admission was completely ignored by ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Associated Press, Time or Newsweek, according to Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center.
I just want to say: I think it's fantastic that the Democrats have finally come out against race discrimination. Any day now, maybe they'll come out for fighting the Cold War. Perhaps 100 years from now, they'll be ready to fight the war on terrorism or champion the rights of the unborn.
It would be a big help, though, if Democrats could support good causes when it mattered.
But as long as the media are so fascinated with the question of why anyone would want to "discuss" certain aspects of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, maybe they should ask Al Gore why his father was one of the leading opponents of the bill.
Or they could ask Bill Clinton, whose mentor, Sen. William Fulbright, actively supported segregation and also voted against the bill. Or they could talk to the only current member of the Senate to vote against it, Democrat Bob Byrd.
As with the 1957 and 1960 civil rights acts, it was Republicans who passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act by huge majorities. A distinctly smaller majority of Democrats voted for it.
In the Senate, for example, 82 percent of Republicans voted for the act, compared with only 66 percent of Democrats. In the House, 80 percent of Republicans supported the law, compared with only 63 percent of Democrats.
With even all Democrats coming aboard on opposition to race discrimination (and it only took them 45 years!) I think we can stipulate that everyone in America is opposed to discrimination against blacks.
Now let's talk about the "civil rights" lawsuits that are actually brought in modern America. Today's "civil rights" lawsuits have nothing to do with black Americans. Worse, blacks are used as props to benefit the Democrats' favored constituencies: feminists and trial lawyers.
Democratic political consultant Bob Shrum pioneered the technique, running ads against Republican Ellen Sauerbrey in the 1998 Maryland gubernatorial race, accusing her of having "a civil rights record to be ashamed of." To really drive the point home, Shrum's ads showed sad-looking black people in front of a mural of Africa.
Of course, if I were forced to appear in political ads for Bob Shrum, I'd be sad, too.
Read more at Ann Coulter.Com
Read the rest at Ann Coulter.ComDemocratic political consultant Bob Shrum pioneered the technique, running ads against Republican Ellen Sauerbrey in the 1998 Maryland gubernatorial race, accusing her of having "a civil rights record to be ashamed of." To really drive the point home, Shrum's ads showed sad-looking black people in front of a mural of Africa.
Of course, if I were forced to appear in political ads for Bob Shrum, I'd be sad, too.
With cockfighting bans and heterosexual proms, Martin Luther King's work remains unfinished!
Half a century ago, Democrats beat up the Freedom Riders. Today the Democrats insult the Freedom Riders by comparing them to irritating lesbians, lawsuit-happy disabled persons and cockfighters.
From www.vancouversun.com:
Ann Coulter’s appearance in Calgary at U of C’s Red and White Club
comes just days after the pundit’s scheduled event at University of Ottawa
caused such a stir that police were forced to cancel her talk
amid raucous student protests. Stuart Gradon, Canwest News Service
I think cockfighting should be legal.
"I just want to say: I think it's fantastic that the Democrats have finally come out against race discrimination.Any day now, maybe they'll come out for fighting the Cold War.
Perhaps 100 years from now, they'll be ready to fight the war on terrorism or champion the rights of the unborn.
It would be a big help, though, if Democrats could support good causes when it mattered." - Ann Coulter
As long as you keep it in the bedroom, pal.
Don’t ask, don’t tell
She's late again this week, but she is going to be on Fox in an hour or so.
May 26, 2010, 11:45 PM COULTER TV THIS WEEK-- BILL O'REILLY TONIGHT -
Wed: 8pm, FNC's O'REILLY
It’s your civil right!
June 10, 1964
Civil Rights Filibuster Ended
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for 57 working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, the bill's manager, concluded he had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate.
The Civil Rights Act provided protection of voting rights; banned discrimination in public facilities—including private businesses offering public services—such as lunch counters, hotels, and theaters; and established equal employment opportunity as the law of the land.
As Senator Byrd took his seat, House members, former senators, and others—150 of them—vied for limited standing space at the back of the chamber. With all gallery seats taken, hundreds waited outside in hopelessly extended lines.
Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence. Noting that the day marked the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, "Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come." He continued, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"
Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the 37 years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.
The clerk proceeded to call the roll. When he reached "Mr. Engle," there was no response. A brain tumor had robbed California's mortally ill Clair Engle of his ability to speak. Slowly lifting a crippled arm, he pointed to his eye, thereby signaling his affirmative vote. Few of those who witnessed this heroic gesture ever forgot it. When Delaware's John Williams provided the decisive 67th vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield exclaimed, "That's it!"; Richard Russell slumped; and Hubert Humphrey beamed. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself—producing one of the 20th century's towering legislative achievements.
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I think cockfighting should be legal.Do you argue from libertarian grounds, that the government has no Constitutional authority to regulate this kind of private activity...
...or are you also a proponent of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? :o)From www.examiner.com (6/19/09):
Early last month, the New Mexico Court of Appeals upheld the state's law banning cockfighting.Less than a week later, New Mexico's cockfighters, lead by the New Mexico Gamefowl Association, filed a $77M class-action lawsuit in Federal District Court in Las Cruces (NM).
The suit alleges that the state's criminalization of cockfighting violates the cockfighters' civil rights.
In 2007, New Mexico became the 49th state to enact a law which made cockfighting illegal (Louisiana became the last in 2008). Amendments to Section 38-19-01 eliminated Subsection K excepting cockfighting from the definition of animal cruelty. Moreover, the amendment to Section 38-19-9 created a criminal penalty for anyone convicted of cockfighting.
Law enforcement officials believe that cockfighting continues unabated due to the fact that it is considered to be a misdemeanor. Moreover, officials believe that New Mexico cockfights attract gamblers and spectators from the four out five neighbor states where the practice is a felony.
Shortly after Governor Richardson signed the law into effect, cockfighting proponents filed suit in the state's court. The trial court rejected the challenge and upheld the bans on all grounds ruling both that the Plaintiffs lacked standing and that the challenged statute was constitutional.
The proponents of cockfighting argued that 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the American-Mexican war, conferred a "cultural" right to engage in cockfighting...
Two words Ann.
Krispy Kreme.
There can be only one.
On the other hand a really good bantum rooster with 2 inch natural spurs can usually kill another animal, even a housecat, in just a few seconds.
There's no sport in that. I used to walk through the neighborhood with my rooster mounted on my shoulder like he was some kind of hawk and the animals would run and hide from him.
Here's what the pros in the business of fighting chickens do ~ they'll find ways to mail them for free. Was a time when they'd use Express Mail, and if the rooster arrived groggy or injured, they'd refuse to pick him up, or pay the postage.
They don't care about the animals with the result that they end up turning them into garbage.
So much for the chicken fighters.
They're mostly of a single ethnic group too. If they really want to fight chickens they and their customers should GO BACK HOME.
Frankly, the penalty for fighting roosters in this country should be 50 head slashes with a straight razor.
And of course there are all the lesbians shutting down high school proms across the country because they can’t take their girlfriends to the dance as the Founding Fathers intended.
LOL she’s awesome.
Good one this week!
"Twisting a conservative's words in order to accuse him of racism was evidently more urgent news than the fact that the attorney general of the United States admitted last week -- under oath in a congressional hearing -- that he had not read the 10-page Arizona law on illegal immigration, the very law he was noisily threatening to overturn.ZING!And really, how could the U.S. attorney general have time to read a 10-page law when he's busy doing all the Sunday morning TV shows condemning it? - Ann Coulter
And from gopbriefingroom.com:
LOL yes, love the kicker “as the Founding Fathers intended”
Heh
One of the cable news channels the other night put together a video of a bunch of dems, cabinet members, Obama etc with each of them saying they had not read the bill.
And of course they had been condemning it for days
:o)
The CANADIAN newspapers still have some of the BEST news photos of Ann. :o)Here is ANOTHER nice "Canadian" photograph of Ann -- taken by that same photographer, from www.nationalpost.com:
THANK YOU, Stuart Gradon!
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