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• SECOND APPEAL TO TOM JOYNER

  • From: Mliza
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    Dear Mr. Joyner, First of all, Mr. Joyner, I still dearly love and respect you. But again, I have a problem that needs to be addressed by you ASAP: The last time I sent you a question/remark about D. L. Hugley's TV program being canceled, you responded right away. Now that I have written to you about your own "shortcomings" in reference to the Inauguration DAY 2009 website, I get no response at all. This is quite disturbing. Did you not receive it? Do I need to send it again? I do need to hear something from you. In addition, I published the letter on my page of the website so others who are active will know about this initiative. We all need to hear something concrete from you. I realize that you are an extremely hard working man in all that you do -- which is considerable – but it is precisely why we appeal to you for your continued support. Moreover, we believe the site is well worth it. In respect to the detractors you received on the show from the failure of Black voters to participate in the state and local elections yesterday, I did not really blame you as others did -- how could we? But it was nevertheless a reality to observe that you did not bring the strength of your usual impetus to bear upon this election as you did for the presidential one as well as other concerns. Now we can't ignore that fact. You did not send your staff all over the country, as you normally do for these things, etc. But we can still only blame ourselves for our failure to come out in numbers to continue to effect change by participating in the voting process. In fact, to tell you the truth, I myself was so uninterested in the local elections that I did not actually keep up with it, and it was only because of your show’s commentary that I eventually forced myself and get out and vote before the polls closed. But I could only vote for two main positions of my interest because I had no information on the other two, so my vote only “half counted” in a way, and I felt rather ashamed of myself. So you see I do relate to the people who did not go out to vote or thought it was not important at this stage of the game. We just thought that things would take care of themselves. But we were wrong -- AGAIN! Yesterday was INDEED a wake-up call for all of us. But also for you, Tom Joyner. Unfortunately, I have to say that for all of your worth and work, it seems that WE STILL NEED YOU to urge and prompt us to do what we need to do. We have to take our LEADERS wherever we can get them these days, and it appears we have to rely on them until we become leaders ourselves. So please don’t give up on us. We can and still be moved to do the right thing when the time comes – I hope. But often we seem to wait until the last minute to do it. But if you had kept up the interest of the website INAUGURATION DAY 2009 -- or even changed its name to include continual diligence and vigilance on the political forefront, we as a group might have been able to speak out and help in so many ways. PLEASE RESPOND TO MY APPEAL TO YOU FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT. So until I receive a response from you, I believe I shall resend the former message at least once a week until you do. Please understand my concern. And thank you once again.

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• OPEN LETTER TO TOM JOYNER

  • From: Mliza
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    Open Letter to Tom Joyner:

           First of all, Mr. Joyner, I cannot contact you without first expressing my exceedingly high regard for you and all that you do, especially pertaining to your excellent support of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Voting Rights and Responsibilities, and Family Health Care promotion -- to mention a few.  It is especially because of this high esteem that it is somewhat difficult to utilze this opportunity to “take you to task” about a matter you have not only overlooked these past months, but have actually become grossly negligent for quite some time. The “bone of contention” that we must “machinate” upon is your neglectful ownership of a website called “Inauguration Day 2009.” Tom, this is one time you started something that you have not finished. That is so unlike you. Your “Inauguration Day 2009” site serves as an excellent opportunity to promote social and political responsibility from your listeners. Through it you have attracted and inspired a small, diverse, capable, talented, noteworthy, verbal group of followers – some of whom have still managed to maintain communications on the site by addressing many of the important public issues of our times. I don’t know why they have chosen to hang on, but they have; and it may be for a purpose greater than you even realize just now. It is simply incredulous that you have allowed this significant opportunity to go to waste.

           Tom, you are so savvy, that it is quite a wonder that you have not realized this yet. “Inauguration Day 2009” is an untapped resource that could be mobilized at your fingertips for helping to move and persuade public opinion, but you have chosen not to use it. You seem much more interested in the hottest new craze of text-messaging limited-content notes, rather than encouraging serious, in-depth discussion of issues that can “put the world’s mess to the test.” I have sent you a “Friend Request” that has lain dormant for nearly a year now. J. Anthony Brown and Sherryl Underwood are no better, because they have abandoned the site like their leader. And the usually astute Sybil Wilkes has not even chosen to create a page.  Why is that?  None of you has even been on the site for nearly a year. This is very frustrating. If the creator of the site shows no interest and concern, then the membership becomes truly uninspired, unresponsive, and thus most are inactive. Yet, somehow, a few newcomers appear about each month or so.  So I have decided to begin welcoming them for YOU.  I could have seen this site become a rallying point of writers, journalists, and thinkers, as well as anyone else in cultivating responses and actions that were sorely needed during the Congressional hearings this summer and elsewhere. We longed for a glimpse at other thoughts than those that screamed and screeched out at us over the media. And undoubtedly there are more scintillating times yet to come. With the publication of this Open Letter on my page of your site, as well as more directly in your contact point on Black America Web, I am hoping for a valid response. I must tell you in all candor, I expect no less than the best from you. That’s what you have given to the world so many times over – you can’t stop now.

           In the meantime, I am going to try my best to encourage a little mobilizing on my own from those who are still thriving. But the effort would be so much more appealing coming from you. Finally, please explain the meaning of the site name. It may inspire more tenacity from more people. You are one of the cleverest businessmen we have encountered; surely you can find the means to make this site soar. Thank you in advance for your kind consideration of this request.

     

    P.S.  Most sites allow users to add photos.  Yours does not allow us to do that.  So you obviously intended for this to be solely a talk site.  But come on, Tom, at least let us add graphics or something to increase the interest on this site for those that come on but are not "writers or talkers" yet.  Give us something more to peak our interest.  Please talk with your site designers about that.  We need a few moe perks, I believe.  Too many join and are never heard from again.

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• Should America Fear Muslims an

  • From: TheSarge1960
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    This particular article is not the article that I intended to submit for today’s readers, however, after receiving a disturbing email this morning from a man that I’ve called friend for over two decades and who I personally believe has morphed into a caricature of hate and fear that is reflective of much of the confusion and anger that we see on television and hear on radio in America today, well…again I am compelled to respond in the form of commentary that I hope will promote thought and civil discourse which will prevent that metaphorical “powder keg” from exploding across small towns and big cities in the United States.
     
    This is what the email stated: 
     
    “I feel better now; we need to keep those crazy Christians in check, right?”
     
    “America has finally lost it”.....
     
    “Repeat after me”....
     
    Obama is not a Muslim, Obama is not a Muslim, Obama is not a Muslim,
     
    Obama is not a Muslim, Obama is not a Muslim…
     
    In order to keep my friend’s email in proper context I should explain that embedded in his email is a link islamoncapitolhill.com/Home_Page.html that connects to a website that I assume was created by a pro American Muslim organization. The website announces a planned day of Muslim prayer which is scheduled to be held at the U.S. Capital on September 25, 2009. Upon connection to the link, in addition to what is written, one will hear what appears to be a prayer in Arabic, which to some Americans who are unfamiliar with the Arabic language, may sound sinister and threatening. This is the gist of the website's opening statement:
     
    “The objective of this gathering is to invite the Muslim communities and friends of Islam to express and illustrate the wonderful diversity of Islam. We intend to manifest Islam’s majestic spiritual principals as revealed by Allah to our beloved prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) of Arabia. Likewise, we intend to inspire a new generation of Muslim to work for the greater good of all people, regardless of race, religion or national origin”.
     
    In addition to the proclamation of a day of prayer made in the narrative, the website also gives an itinerary of planned events for that particular day. Motivated to carefully review the website after reading the false allegation that President Obama is a Muslim, I thoroughly searched but could not find any endorsement of this planned event by the President or any of his cabinet members. 
     
    As a professed Christian, I personally do not feel threatened by this event, nor would I feel threatened by any other religious organization / faith that planned to have a peaceful rally at our nation’s Capital. However, for individuals whose agenda includes emasculating the President and disseminating seeds of fear and hate, this is another opportunity to prey on Americans that may not be fortunate enough to be able to separate fact from fiction. I’m not a soothsayer, however; as debate on national health care reform reaches a boiling point, I understand and can envision how tactics of spreading misinformation and fear about President Obama can distract the average American from staying focused on an issue that will ultimately affect tens of millions of fellow Americans who are concerned about not having sufficient health care coverage.
       
    In regard to the email that I received this morning, President Obama has empathically stated that he is a Christian. I find it hypocritical and disingenuous that former President Bush was not accused of being a Muslim when he held an Iftar dinner (refers to the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan) at the White House during his Presidency. www.wrmea.com/archives/janfeb2002/0201082.html  The million dollar question is, why is Obama being accused of being a Muslim and Bush, in light of officially honoring the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, when he served as the President of the United States, hasn't? An image of Jack Nicholson’s performance as the defiant Colonel in the movie, “A Few Good Men” comes to mind when Mr. Nicholson proclaimed to a relentless Tom Cruise, “You can’t handle the truth”. Inquiring minds want to know what you think about the planned Muslim event at the Nation’s Capital which is scheduled on September 25, 2009. 
     
    Is this event something that Americans should fear? Or is the rally being used as fodder for opponents of the President who rely on “misinformation” as means to boost their own agenda and negatively manipulate the minds of Americans who are forced to deal with near record unemployment and an uncertain future?  As I write this commentary there is no doubt in my mind that my friend’s email will be sent to untold numbers of fellow Americans who may become confused as to what to believe. In lieu of some American factions portraying most Muslims as the “Boogie Man” and with an ever increasing effort on their part to associate President Obama as being an undercover Muslim, does my friend’s particular brand of propaganda instigate violence against the President and his family?  
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• The Wizards of Conservatism

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    The Wizards of Conservatism

     

    A Satirical Account of what’s currently going on in Republican Country – * Dedicated to Nandi

     

    Inside the Bunker

     

    Newsflash from the Hooterville Gazette

     

    Seated blindfolded in an underground steel fortified bunker buried 2 miles deep in an unspecified mountain located in the hills of Tennessee, your humble news reporter from the Hooterville Gazette, Cyrus P. Beauregard, (that’s me) has chanced life and limb and not to mention “enhanced interrogation techniques approved by former V.P. Dick Cheney, to report to you and the rest of the “civilized world”, exactly how strategies to combat Liberal Democrat Commies are born and developed in a place so secret, that we will only refer to it as “The Hornets Nest”. 

     

    The Reality of it all

     

    “The Hornets Nest” is the Think Tank of all Conservative Think Tanks.  Funded by our friends and allies from The John Birch Society, the NRA, Fox Network News, Birthers for Freedom, Hanks Ammo and Taxidermy and 65% of the US Senate, our goal, err… I mean, “Their goal”, is to defeat the Socialist Communist Nazi Loving Democrat Party which is led by “Their President”, Barrack Hussein Obama”.  Who, thank you very much, is attempting to ensure that ALL Americans receive affordable healthcare.  Every real conservative knows that healthcare insurance without maximum profit is purely un-American. 

     

    In an exclusive interview granted to yours truly by Tennessee Senator Diane Black this past Easter at the “Beacon Light” Baptist Church in Gallatin, Tennessee, Senator Black stated that “All Good and God Fearing Americans already have ample enough health insurance as provided by our patriotic Health Care Corporations”.  In fact the Senator went on to say that if we allowed Governmental Socialist Health Insurance to circulate around the country, “illegals”  “from south of the border” and welfare recipients from “up North” would live longer, thus creating an unnatural phenomenon that would increase their chances of taking over our beloved country.   

     

    The Hornet’s Nest

     

    Under the leadership of House Minority Leader John Boehner and former Alaska Governor Sarah “You betcha I’m a wolf hunter” Palin, the best and brightest of “Conservative Minds” converge annually on the birthday of our country’s greatest President, Ronald Reagan and devise tactics to counter the Democratic agenda which is led by Obama, Pelosi and Reid. They are taught that the best way to hide one’s weaknesses and the best way to protect one’s backside is to accuse his or her nemesis of the very weakness that makes that particular “conservative soldier” weak.  Whether the weakness is women, young boys, drugs or booze, if that conservative soldier has a particular struggle, then in the name of Gawd Almighty, (Gawd won’t mind, because Gawd is a Conservative) accuse your Liberal opponent of having that weakness and then…create enough smoke to make the charge “linger around” for a decade or two.  Getting “them” before they can “get you” is an essential component of Hornet's Nest Philosophy. 

     

    Per Senator Black, Knowing when to apply the principles of “up is down” and “down is up” – example – (torture is good, war is good, diplomacy is bad) - to our constituents who still believe that “Mayberry RFD” and “All in family” are the last oases for safe family viewing on TV Land, is paramount in being able to control our constituent’s political “hot buttons”.  From years of study and application, it has been proven by alumni of the Hornet’s Nest, that the mere mention of God, guns, abortion, Socialism, and Communism will drive our faithful constituents into a frenzy that is fit for a lynching.  But the greatest secret weapon that current Hornet’s Nest students are devising that will be used against Obama, Pelosi and Reid is a critter called “The Blue Dog”. 

     

     

    The Blue Dog Democrat

     

    Blue Dog who?

     

    Per Pat Buchanan, who is the Dean and Chief Administrator of the Hornet’s Nest, the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition is a group of currently 52 moderate and conservative Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives, first formed in 1995.  The Blue Dogs promote, among other things, fiscal conservatism and accountability.  In other words, Blue Dogs believe in the same values as set forth by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee and John Wayne.  Because of the Blue Dog’s ability to infiltrate and wreak havoc within the world of Liberal Socialism, they are rewarded by way of campaign contributions from our country’s greatest corporate philanthropists (Insurance and Banking), who ensure that the Blue Dog’s double agent existence and cover will prevail and their mission of dissolving Democrat Party unity lives on forever.    

     

     

    Class is about to Start

     

     

    Although I cannot see who is in the room that I am reporting from, I’m hearing from Tom DeLay who is sitting next to me, that class is about to start.  I’m so excited that I’ve accidentally wetted my pants.  That rather attractive conservative Asian woman named Michelle Malkin is about to sing Dixie and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.  I shall have a full report of how “Real Americans” will be mobilized against Obama and his motley crew of Socialists and Communists next week.  Until that time, this is Cyrus P. Beauregard signing off as the roving reporter for the Hooterville Gazette.    

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• The Exorcism of Mr. Charlie, R

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    The Exorcism of Mr. Charlie, Ripples in the Pond, and a Gifted Latina

     

    Ripples in the Pond

     

    Newsflash from the Hooterville Gazette

     

    The era has arrived, the moment has come, and the future has now become the present.  Never before in the history of America has it become more apparent to those who identify themselves as “guardians of Aryan purity and Aryan superiority have life in America been more upside down. Sacred members of the old guard (Pat Buchanan, Tom Tancredo and a few other good old boys) that have been entrusted to carry the torch that houses the “eternal flame” of racial intolerance and racial indignation have been insidiously attacked and subdued by race mixing liberals who have forsaken the angelic twang of country music for the synthesized rhythmic beat of rap.  Good Lordy Miss Claudey, the Colonel has turned over in his grave! What was once a small ripple in Norman Rockwell’s pond of tranquility has now manifested into a Tsunami of Black and Brown culture.  Putting it simply, Mayberry has integrated.  Ma, call the National Guard!

     

    The Reality of it all

     

    The first major ripple in the pond occurred on May 17, 1954 when the Supreme Court decided in the case of Brown versus the Board of Education Topeka, that public schools that purposely separated Colored students from White students, were guilty of denying Colored students the same educational opportunities that were afforded to White students.  Justices of the Supreme Court liberally articulated this “arrangement” as being an inequity and by a vote of 9-0, public school segregation in America officially ended.  Further, the Justices interpreted that racial segregation prevented young Colored minds from receiving the necessary academic and social tools that would enable them to fairly compete with their White contemporaries.  (Well ain’t that the point?) Although there were many lawyers who argued before the Court to rip down the “curtain” that provided cover and concealment for those of us who hide behind granddaddy’s window of racial fear, lets take a moment to recognize the emergence of Thurgood Marshall, a gifted young Colored NAACP lawyer, who subsequently, in 1967 would later be appointed as the first Colored Justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.  Thank you very much President Lyndon Baines Johnson for tossing a stone in Mayberry’s pond, now you know why you and Miss Lady Bird were never invited to our annual fish fry and cross burning gala.

     

    It can be argued that the second ripple in the pond occurred on December 1, 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, when a Colored woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, as mandated by the South’s “Jim Crow Law”, to a White man who understood that because he was born White, it was his inherent right to claim the seat that Miss Park was sitting on.  This bold (OK, brave) and defiant 42 year old woman was the spark that manifested to liberals the meaning of their rebellion which they now consider to be a righteous cause.  

     

    This modern day civil rights campaign which was birthed by Miss Parks, compelled partisans and non partisans of civil rights to re-think and to re-read the words of The American Declaration of Independence which states, “That we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."  The choice that Miss Rosa Parks made on December 1, 1955, to take a stand against what liberals say was an unjust and an immoral law, defined this stubborn (OK, dignified) woman, before the world, as being the catalyst of a movement that knocked Dixie to its knees.  Sacred carriers of the torch that housed the “eternal flame” took notice as the ripples in the pond began to spread. 

     

    The third and most heart stopping ripple that tipped over Andy’s and Opie’s fishing boat, occurred on November 4, 2008.  This was the infamous date that the Democratic Presidential nominee, Barack Obama, a Colored man of mixed heritage with a funny sounding name, defeated White Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain for the office of the Presidency of the United States of America.  We’ve received reports that on that day, White people across America ripped the hair out of their scalp, chain smoked Marlboro Red cigarettes, drank countless bottles of whiskey, beat their children for listening to Jay Z and consequently, bought thousands of rounds of rifle ammunition as they breathlessly awaited for a sign from their local Grand Dragon that the much anticipated race war was about to commence. 

     

     

    And now, adding final insult to our injury, a female Puerto Rican from the Bronx, New York, who also has a funny sounding name, has been nominated to replace albeit a liberal, a White Man, to sit as a judge on the highest court of the United States of America.  The ghost of Confederate President Jefferson Davis has just peed on himself. 

     

    A Gifted Latina

     

    Sotomayor who?

     

    Sonia Sotomayor’s bio illustrates that she was born June 25, 1954 in the Bronx, New York, from parents of Puerto Rican descent.  Judge Sotomayor’s trek through life as a young lady has been marked with both tragedy and triumph.  Raised in the tough housing projects of both East and South Bronx, New York (isn’t that the place where there’s a bunch of Yankees?) and forced as an 8 year old to contend with being a diabetic, young Sonia understood early in life the meaning of determination and survival. Her father, Juan Sotomayor, a tool- and- die worker with a third grade education, spoke a limited amount of English and died when Sonia was only nine years old.  Sonia’s mother, Celina, a Woman’s Army Corps veteran during World War II, worked as a nurse to support Sonia and Sonia’s brother Juan Junior after the death of her husband Juan.

     

    A condensed snapshot of Judge Sotomayor’s academic accomplishes include being honored as her Catholic High School’s Valedictorian, graduating in 1976 from Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude, and in 1979 graduating from Yale University with a law degree.  Acknowledged and admired by past New York Mayors and past U.S. Presidents for her talents as a skilled litigator and arbitrator, Judge Sotomayor has steadily climbed the ladder of professional success and as a tribute to her hard work and experience, was nominated on May 26, 2009, by President Barack Obama, to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter.  If confirmed by Congress, Judge Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic and only the third woman to be seated as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The Exorcism of Mr. Charlie

     

    We love Mr. Charlie

     

    It’s been brought to the attention of our newspaper’s chief editor, Mr. Harlan P. Beauregard that liberals have secretly conspired to contact Father Patrick Mahoney, Hooterville’s only Catholic priest, in an attempt to drive away evil spirits from a local resident, who according to those ignorant liberals, goes by the name of Mr. Charlie. Mr. Beauregard has further discovered after reading Hooterville’s white pages, that currently, there is no “Mr. Charlie” that resides in Hooterville; however, because the names, Hannity, Buchanan, Chaney and Limbaugh are always mentioned in conjunction with the anonymous “Mr. Charlie”, we are compelled as God fearing “Real Americans” to contact the aforementioned brethren and warn them that liberals are trying to drive the devil out from them.  No sir, if there’s to be an exorcism conducted in Hooterville; it will be performed by the good Reverend Percy T. Williams who is a bonafide Christian and gun shop owner.  In our attempt to locate Mr. Charlie and show our support, local volunteers are placing “We love Mr. Charlie” fliers on the windshields of all vehicles parked in the parking lot of the “Galaxy Drive-In Theatre” located on county road 111.  If anyone locates Mr. Charlie before we do, please inform him that Reverend Williams will be performing exorcisms after the annual fish fry and cross burning gala.

     

    Quote of the month:          

     

    "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life"

     

     

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• Executive Director Of Tancredo

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                     It's evident Tancredo is only concerned about racism when it furthers his bigoted agenda.

     

    Yesterday, former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo attacked Judge Sonia Sotomayor for being a member of the National Council of La Raza, absurdly likening the civil rights organization to "a Latino KKK without the hoods or nooses."

    Tancredo's outlandish cries of racism are difficult to take seriously considering his own well-documented bigotry. However, the conservative blog Little Green Footballs has flagged a lesser known story demonstrating Tancredo's embrace of intolerance. Apparently, the executive director of Tancredo's anti-immigrant Team America PAC (also executive director of Pat Buchanan's group, The American Cause) pled guilty to "verbally and physically assaulting a black woman" and will be sentenced in July. According to the Factual Proffer from the case:

    Had this case gone to trial, the Government's evidence would have shown beyond a reasonable doubt the following facts:

    On July 7, 2007 at approximately 7:15 p.m., at Jefferson and M Street, Northwest, in Washington, D.C., defendant was walking down the street when he encountered the complainant, Ms. [Redacted], who is African-American. The defendant uttered, "[N*****]," as he delivered a karate chop to [complainant's] head. Ms. [Redacted]'s [redacted] attempted to detain defendant, but defendant was able to escape. Ultimately, the defendant was stopped and arrested by Secret Service officers.

    The defendant, Marcus Epstein, is still featured prominently on Team America's website nearly two years after the crime. So, it's evident Tancredo is only "concerned" about racism when it furthers his bigoted agenda. (Though there is absolutely nothing racist about Sotomayor or La Raza.)

    Click here to read more official documents from the case. 

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    LOCAL News :: Race/ Racism

    YOUTH FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION CO-FOUNDER FACES SENTENCING ON HATE CRIME ASSAULT IN JULY

    
    
    WASHINGTON, DC--Marcus Epstein, the young executive director of an organization chaired by Pat and Bay Buchanan, the reputed co-founder of a new racist college organization and a regular staple in paleoconservative circles, is to be sentenced for an assault on an African-American woman in Georgetown, DC that has been classified as a hate crime, court records show.

    

     

     

     

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    Left to right, Philip Dewinter of racist, separatist Flemish nativist political party (Nazis for short) Vlaams Belang, Marcus Epstein and Frank Vanhecke also of Vlaams Belang during a Feb. 2007 event sponsored by Epstein's Robert Taft Club in Arlington, VA. Dewinter and Vanhecke are top leaders in Vlaams Belang.
    
    
    According to documents obtained from District of Columbia's Superior Court, Epstein, 25, must appear before Judge Wendell P. Gardner on July 8 for sentencing after pleading guilty to simple assault charges stemming from an incident during the early evening hours of July 7, 2007. The documents state that Epstein was walking down the street making offensive remarks when he encountered the victim, called her the "N-word" and struck her in her head. He was briefly detained by the woman's husband, but was able to escape, only to be arrested minutes later by a Secret Service officer who witnessed the attack. According to the officer's statement, a friend of Epstein's informed him that he had been drinking.
    
    A restraining order to stay away from the couple has been imposed on Epstein. He currently faces a maximum punishment of 180 days in jail and $1000 fine and also had to continue mental health treatment, complete an alcohol treatment program, write a letter of apology to the victim and donate $1000 to the United Negro College Fund prior to sentencing.
    
    Epstein has been involved in political activism since his undergraduate days at the College of William and Mary, editing the Remnant, a now defunct conservative student newspaper on campus, and interning at the conservative Leadership Institute. In 2006 he founded the paleoconservative Robert Taft Club, and generated controversy when he attempted to hold a forum on conservatives and race at the Leadership Institute office building featuring his friend American Renaissance editor Jared Taylor on the panel. When learned of the nature of the forum, the Leadership Institute disallowed it to be held there, and it was moved. Epstein is also the executive director of The American Cause, the research foundation chaired by Pat Buchanan and Bay Buchanan that promotes an America First policy in trade, immigration, and foreign policy, and Team America PAC, a committee founded by former congressman Tom Tancredo and chaired by Bay Buchanan that supports an extremely restrictive immigration policy. Epstein's political activism also included appearing on The Political Cesspool, a white supremacist radio program hosted by Council of Conservative Citizen member James Edwards that proudly admits to hosting white supremacists and Neo-Nazi figures.
    
    In January, a new organization, Youth for Western Civilization was founded with Epstein as its Vice-President. "Youth for Western Civilization will educate, organize and train activists on campuses across the nation to create a culture that will promote the survival of Western Civilization and pride in Western heritage," says the group in their mission statement on their website. "This movement is focused on the support of Western history, identity, high culture, and pride and opposition to radical multiculturalism, political correctness, racial preferences, mass immigration, and socialism." Speaking events sponsored by YWC chapters at Vanderbilt University, American University and the University of North Carolina have been held in the face of public protest. The UNC event in April was squashed as speaker Tancredo was disrupted by activists.
    
    A press conference also in January with Epstein, Bay Buchanan, financial journalist Peter Brimelow, who also edits the racist anti-Hispanic website VDARE and Fox News correspondent Jim Pinkerton saw controversy for its call to the Republican Party to abandon reaching out to Hispanics and nonwhites and focus only on its white voting base. Because of his Jewish and Korean heritage, Epstein's presence has used by far right activists, supporters and by Epstein himself to deny charges of racism and anti-Semitism.
    
    Epstein has already started to make plans to step off the political stage. According to the biography on his website, he has been admitted to the University of Virginia School of Law and will begin taking classes in August 2009. "I will more or less suspend my political activities," Epstein wrote.
    
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• Mr. Cheney, You Did Not Keep U

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    If 3,000 Americans had been killed on your watch, in an attack that could have been prevented, perhaps you'd be a little hesitant to accuse anyone else of endangering America. And if you had advocated torture, and the torture produced false information that you used to mislead America into an unwise, unjust and unwarranted war, you might be a tad sheepish about defending the use of torture.

    Not Dick Cheney. Mr. Cheney has stepped up his attack on Pres. Obama's security strategy, telling CBS's Bob Schieffer that Obama's refusal to use waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" (i.e., torture) endangers American lives.

    The truth is the Bush-Cheney policies did not keep us safe, and Mr. Cheney is not a credible spokesman on issues of national security.

    First, this awkward fact. When it came time to risk his hide to serve our country during the Vietnam War, Cheney got five draft deferments. He later told the Senate, "I had other priorities in the sixties than military service." John Kerry did not. Nor did John McCain. Nor Gen. Colin Powell, nor Gen. Jim Jones, nor Gen. Wes Clark, nor Jim Webb. These warriors - and so many others - strongly oppose the use of torture. They were willing to die to protect America. It is insulting for a doughy draft dodger like Mr. Cheney to suggest they would endanger us today.

    Indeed, the public record offers evidence that torture has endangered American security. Not only by breeding more terrorists, but by producing false intelligence - which Mr. Cheney and President Bush used to mislead America into invading Iraq.

    The case of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi is instructive. Al-Libi was a senior al Qaeda operative captured trying to make his way out of Afghanistan into Pakistan. In US custody, he initially said he knew of no connection between Saddam and al Qaeda, and, according to Newsweek, "he had difficulty even coming up with a story about the relationship between the two." An FBI agent urged that al-Libi be read his rights and be treated with respect, "as a shining example of what we feel is right." There was a practical, as well as moral, reason not to torture al-Libi: veteran interrogators believe establishing a rapport with a prisoner is the key to obtaining actionable intelligence. There are reports that, after hours of bonding with his FBI interrogator through discussions of religion, al-Libi provided useful information about alleged shoe-bomber Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called "20th hijacker" who was arrested just before 9-11.

    But even after the bonding experience, al-Libi continued to deny a link between Iraq and al Qaeda. He was rendered to Egypt, where he faced certain torture. "You're going to Cairo, you know," a CIA agent reportedly told al-Libi at the airport. "Before you get there I'm going to find your mother and I'm going to f*** her."

    So much for building rapport.

    In Egypt, al-Libi was placed in a coffin-sized box for 17 hours, then beaten. Al-Libi cracked. He gave the information Cheney and his crowd most wanted: a direct link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. Al-Libi, (who reportedly died this week in Libya), said Iraq had provided al Qaeda with training in the use of chemical and biological weapons.

    Bingo! Vice President Cheney and others cited the information to justify the war in Iraq. Trouble is, it turned out to be false. As early as February, 2002 - just two months after al-Libi's "confession" -- the Defense Intelligence Agency reported to the White House and the National Security Council that it had doubts about al-Libi's charge. The DIA's Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary (DITSUM) all but destroyed al-Libi's credibility. The report said, in part:

     

    "However, he (al-Libi) lacks specific details on the Iraqis involved, the CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) materials associated with the assistance, and the location where training occurred. It is possible he does not know any further details; it is more likely this individual is intentionally misleading the debriefers. Ibn al-Shaykh has been undergoing debriefs for several weeks and may be describing scenarios to the debriefers that he knows will retain their interest.

    
    "Saddam's regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements. Moreover, Baghdad is unlikely to provide assistance to a group it cannot control." (Emphasis added.)

    The timing here matters. In December, 2001 al-Libi, under torture, claims Iraq trained al Qaeda in chemical and biological weapons. Two months later, the Pentagon's intelligence agency says he was probably lying. And yet on September 25, 2002, Condoleezza Rice continued to spread the myth, telling PBS's The News Hour, "We know too that several of the (al Qaeda) detainees, in particular, some high-ranking detainees, have said that Iraq provided some training to al Qaeda in chemical weapons development." Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, President Bush and several other leading Administration officials kept banging the al-Libi drum.

    In January 2003, the CIA joined the chorus of skepticism about al-Libi's claim that Iraq trained al Qaeda in chemical and biological weapons, noting al-Libi "was not in a position to know if any training had taken place."

    More than a year and a half after al-Libi's claim was discredited by the DIA, and nine months after it was poo-pooed by the CIA, Dick Cheney was still sighting it as Gospel, appearing on Meet the Press on the week of September 11, 2003 and telling Tim Russert, "We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW [biological weapons] and CW [chemical weapons], that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved."
    
    It may well be that torture was used to advance the Bush-Cheney march to war in Iraq rather than to obtain intelligence about al Qaeda plots against the American homeland. A former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the interrogation issue told McClatchy Newspapers, "Cheney's and Rumsfeld's people were told repeatedly, by CIA . . . and by others, that there wasn't any reliable intelligence that pointed to operational ties between bin Laden and Saddam, and that no such ties were likely because the two were fundamentally enemies, not allies." Senior administration officials, however, "blew that off and kept insisting that we'd overlooked something, that the interrogators weren't pushing hard enough, that there had to be something more we could do to get that information," he said.

    Next, consider this inconvenient truth: 9-11 happened on Mr. Cheney's watch. Tom Kean, the Republican co-chair of the 9-11 Commission, has said the attacks could have been prevented. He's right. That fact ought to weigh heavy on Mr. Cheney's conscience. As should these:

     

    • Before they took office, senior Bush administration officials were briefed repeatedly about the al Qaeda threat. Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger told incoming National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, "I believe that the Bush administration will spend more time on terrorism in general, and on al Qaeda specifically, than any other subject.''
    
    
    • Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism chief under both Clinton and Bush, presented the new Bush-Cheney administration with a plan to roll back al Qaeda. He briefed Dr. Rice on the plan. Nothing. In February, 2001, he briefed Vice President Cheney on the plan. Nothing. Time magazine has reported, "Some counterterrorism officials think there is another reason for the Bush administration's dilatory response. Clarke's paper, says an official, "'was a Clinton proposal.'" If true, Bush and Cheney were allowing partisan politics to endanger America.
    
    
    • On May 8, 2001 - three months after being briefed by Clarke - Cheney was instructed to chair a task force on terrorism. It did not meet before the 9-11 attacks.
    
    
    • The FBI asked the Bush-Cheney Justice Department for58 million to beef up its domestic counterrorism capacity by hiring more translators, more field agents and more analysts. The Bush-Cheney Administration told the FBI no.
    
    
    • Congressional Democrats sought to shift 800 million in the Pentagon budget from Star Wars (the Bush-Cheney faith-based missile defense system) into counterterrorism. The Bush-Cheney administration threatened to veto the entire defense budget. Congressional Republicans sided with Bush and Cheney, and blocked the Democrats from transferring the funds.
    
    
    • In July, 2001, an FBI agent in Phoenix reported that Middle Eastern men - possibly al Qaeda - were taking flying lessons. He suggested that al Qaeda operatives might be trying to infiltrate the US civil aviation system. His warning was not acted on.
    
    
    • On August 6, 2001 Pres. Bush received a classified briefing, the President's Daily Brief. On that day, the headline blared: "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, Bush told the briefer, "All right. You've covered your ass, now." Dick Cheney, who has called the President's Daily Brief "the family jewels," presumably received the same briefing. Neither Bush nor Cheney acted on it. The "family jewels" were pearls before swine.

    
    And the attack came. Over three thousand Americans were killed. In the heartache and rage that followed, Bush and Cheney instituted their "enhanced interrogation techniques." Uncovering a pending plot against the homeland was, doubtless, an important motivator. But the al-Libi case is a cautionary one. Rather than finding a ticking time bomb, the al-Libi torture may have been used to build a spurious case for war - a war that has weakened America.

    Perhaps what's most galling about Mr. Cheney is how, without irony, humility or apology, he holds himself out as someone who has protected America when in fact he shirked his responsibility before 9-11 and misled us into war after. The closest Dick Cheney has ever come to fighting for America is when he shot his lawyer in the face.

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• Anybody Know The Rationale for

  • From: Mliza
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    Maybe I missed something somewhere.  I don't get out that much (Just funning!)  What I really mean to say is that I don't come INSIDE this site that much.  I must have missed why my main man, Tom Joyner, created this site anyway, and why he named it Inauguration Day 2009.  Anyone out there want to clear that up for me? 

    Well, for me, Tom "can do no wrong." and if he wants to create such a site and give it such a name, who am I to dissuade him.  I'm all for that.   In fact I'll just join him.  And did.   It's just that i'm usually considered a rational person and want to understand everything that I decide to become connected to.  So what's wrong with that?  Can anyone out there help me?

    I don't even know how I really got onto this site.  Just clicked on somewhere out of curiosity, I guess.  And you know these things -- you have to create some footage, give up some information to get what you want.  But since I have done that, I have come in contact with some interesting people on occasion.  I think this site will soon be growing and will become as popular as any of the others.  I just want someone to explain to me where it is really heading.  Come on, Tom.  You know I also have a connection to Black America Web and get information about your show and business periodically on that.

    Well, at least I can see one main, great value in this connection:  It gives me a forum to say somewhere what I never have access to that's going on on the daily TJMS show.  Am I the only one who doesn't even try to win the $1,000 4 times daily?  Regardless of how much I could use it, I never could get through anyway (And to think there is someone who won it 3 times.  Oh Glory!).  For that matter, I never can seem to keep up with all three numbers:  If I hear 1 and 2, I'll never hear 3.  Most of the time I hear 2 and 3 and would have missed #1.  But haven't there been so many whenever I wanted to say something back to J. Anthony Brown or even Sybil or a guest but I could not do so because I would never be able to get through on the phone that soon.  So here is a place I can express myself:  Even Rant and Rave!  So if nothing else, there is the value in this.  But that's my side of the story and I'm sticking to it.  What say You?

     

     

     

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• Requiem of a House Negro

  • From: TheSarge1960
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    Requiem of a House Negro

     

     

    After hearing Republican National Chairman Michael Steele refer to President Obama as “The Magic Negro” and after reading an Associated Press article that was written in regard to another capitulation by the Chairman to an ever growing number of mutinous Republican National Committee members that have emasculated Mr. Steele by stripping away his control of how he spends money on behalf of promoting the Republican Party, to include forcing Mr. Steele to rehire former RNC Staffer Jay Banning, whom Chairman Steele had once fired, it has been difficult for me to think about anything other than how pitiful Michael Steele and fellow Black Republican Alan Keyes are as Black men.  Failed Republican Presidential Candidate Alan Keyes, in his contempt (and jealousy) for President Obama epitomizes the bitterness felt by ultra right wing crazies who hate President Obama for all the wrong reasons.  Besides the constant slandering and criticism of President Obama by Alan Keyes, Mr. Keyes is guilty of being “stuck” on promoting and promulgating the lie that President Obama is not a US citizen.

     

    Using pejorative terms to describe two Black men whose ancestors were kidnapped from their ancestral homeland and chained together in the dark and hot bowels of European slave ships while crossing the Atlantic Ocean, packed like little spoons in a kitchen drawer, forced to live in filth, being fed the equivalent of garbage, and then finally to be regurgitated onto a foreign and hostile land only to be desecrated as humans for almost four hundred years (I highly recommend reading Lerone Bennett’s “Before the Mayflower, A History of Black America, 1619-1962”) does not appeal to me as an African American male.  However, in the case of Steele and Keyes, I’ll make an exception to my self- imposed rule of not publicly demeaning African Americans by taking a stand against modern day Uncle Tomism and calling them out as the House Negroes that they truly are.  In making the allegation that Steele and Keyes are House Negroes and Uncle Toms, let me make this crystal clear, in my opinion, accepting and adopting Republican ideology does not make an African American a House Negro or an Uncle Tom.  

     

    In contrast to the Democratic Party, there are only a handful of Black Republicans and by far, the majority of these Americans are honorable people.  Former Secretary of State / General, Colin Luther Powell is a shining example.  Black Republicans honestly believe that they, like their White Party members, are indeed patriots, and that America is best governed by the ideology of conservatism. In fact, today’s Republicans are quick to point out in their attempt to deflect  their Party’s indifference and intolerance to Black, Brown, Red and Yellow issues, ( in reality we’re not minorities when you add our numbers) that the Republican Party is the Party of the much revered Abraham Lincoln. (Although it can be easily proven that Abraham Lincoln was no lover of Black Folk) In rebuttal to Republican claims of inclusiveness via a connecting of dots that lead to Abraham Lincoln, I must say that today’s Republican Party is not the Republican Party that their grandfathers once belonged to, especially, when demographically speaking, the Republican’s small base of power is concentrated in America’s deep south.  And I ain’t just whistling Dixie.

     

    In understanding how Uncle Tomism is defined by Black America, I think that it is best that we start with Harriet Beecher Stowe who in 1851 penned the classic novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.  In Miss Stowe’s novel, the character Uncle Tom is characterized as being a righteous martyr that died at the hand of his master, protecting two run away slaves by refusing to betray their whereabouts. Thus, the “Uncle Tom” that evolved from this classic novel, can be described as heroic.  In light of this revelation, I can never imagine Michael Steele or Alan Keyes accepting martyrdom by protecting Black Americans.

     

    The second and most modern definition of an Uncle Tom is a Black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation.  

     

    Given Mr. Steele’s and Mr. Keyes’ extreme negativity that is directed towards President Obama and in light of their willingness to promote hate and ridicule towards a President that received 95% of the Black vote during the last Presidential elections, it is clear to me that these two men are totally out of touch with Black America.  Additionally, to be continuously mocked and rejected by a Party that has little interest in racial diversity and tolerance, yet remain zealously loyal to that Party, only strengthens my belief that both men have adopted the “House Negro Doctrine” (Kudos to Brother Malcolm X) which ensures them a place in the “Big House”.  However, entrance into the “Big House” comes at the expense of each of them having to leave their culture and their people behind.  Which apparently, they have no problem sacrificing.  (Can anyone imagine Alan Keyes with a James Brown ringtone ?) What’s really sad is that no matter how hard they try to ingratiate themselves as loyal Party members by vehemently denouncing President Obama and the President’s policies, members of the Republican Party who actually wield power and authority will only give Mr. Keyes and Mr. Steele a key to the mansion’s back door.  Therefore, both Mr. Keyes and Mr. Steele in my opinion, only qualify to be defined in the most modern definition of the word, “Uncle Tom”.  

     

    In closing I see both men in years to come as being old, feeble and tormented.  As God finally calls them “home” and people gather to pay homage at the funeral, I envision some confusion as to what song should be sung at the closing of the ceremony, however, due to the fact that they probably won’t be allowed to be buried in the same cemetery of the church that they’ve faithfully attended as good Republicans, I recommend that the church choir perform a song that best describes their disposition in life as Black Folk.  And what song is that you ask?  Well no other than “The Requiem of a House Negro”.   

     

     

     

     

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• Lions and Tigers and Bears...O

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    Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tea Parties, Republicans, Pirates and Torture

     

    Lions and tigers and bears oh my….

     

    For those of us who are old enough to remember L. Frank Baum’s classic novel, “The Wizard of Oz”, we can recollect with childlike giddiness, the many perils that Dorothy and her impromptu entourage encountered as they journeyed together hand in hand through open fields of exotic poisonous flora and enchanted forests that were inhabited by demons and witches. Yet, in spite of the many obstacles and dangers that Dorothy and her group faced, they remained a team, steadfast and focused as they followed the path of the yellow brick road. The purpose of their journey was to obtain an audience with a “larger than life” wizard that ruled a magical land that was named “The Emerald City”.  Each member of this team was hopeful that the wizard would empower them individually with a unique gift that would make their lives complete and happy.  As it turned out, the wizard was a fraud and Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, were already endowed with their “unique gift” that they had hoped to receive from the charlatan who pretended to be a great and powerful wizard.  

     

    In reality, much like the fictional characters in L. Frank Baum’s classic novel, President Barak Obama and his administration are currently traveling on their own “yellow brick road”, a road that ultimately leads them to multiple “Emerald Cities”.  As it appears, metaphorically speaking, the President and his “traveling entourage” will sometimes trek on roads that are both dark and dangerous. This “yellow brick road” will lead them to cities both ancient and new. Washington, D.C., Tehran, Baghdad and Kabul are some of the places that his caravan must travel to, in hope of establishing through the use of diplomacy, foundations of peace and prosperity.  In route to these metropolises are very real dangers that threaten life, limb and economic stability.  It is imperative for the sake of all Americans (and the world) that the President stay focused on the multiple dangers that exist from both foreign and domestic enemies. Let us not be naïve, these enemies are real.  They threaten the President’s attempt to stabilize America and American interests by the use of false friendship, misinformation, fear, lies and old prejudices.  

     

    A key weapon that our President possesses that assists him in his daily combat against domestic enemies is his ability to multitask.  President Obama is able to analyze, design and implement more than one plan at a time and as his enemies try to invent a singular plan to discredit and obstruct the President’s agenda of lifting the “veil of darkness” from past American actions and policies, his enemies due to their inability to “keep up” with the President, often become frustrated and resort to name calling. (As illustrated in their McCarthy like tactic of branding the President as being a socialist and communist)  It only stands to reason as President Obama becomes more “seasoned” as the leader of the “Free world”, that he will only get better at utilizing the unique gifts that he already possesses as he interacts with the “wizards” who dwell in both domestic and foreign “Emerald Cities”.

     

    Now, in regard to last week’s pseudo patriotic “Tea Parties” which were held in a handful of cities and towns across the country, let there be no misunderstanding, the highly politicized “Tea parties” that were televised mostly on Fox News and CNN (Lou Dobbs) were mostly “I hate Obama” demonstrations.  These demonstrations were monetarily sponsored by Republican Party lobbyists who represent the political “pushback” that has come mostly from the multibillion dollar health insurance and banking industries that genuinely have great disdain for the changes that President Obama represents to their particular industry. In regard to the majority of the “Tea Party” participants, it truly boggles the mind how these mindless sheep who call themselves patriots, did not plan or organize not one single demonstration against the Gestapo like GW Bush administration even though these so-called patriots were aware that the Bush administration was selling out their children and their grandchildren to the Communist Chinese for untold billions of dollars a month in loans to fight an ambiguous war in Iraq, a war that was and is ironically being fought by (guess who) their children and their grandchildren.  One can only imagine that these mindless sheep dream (as promised in the official Republican Party Gestapo handbook) of one day being promoted from being plantation share croppers to becoming actual plantation owners. (Yeah right…keep drinking the Republican Kool-Aid)  What’s really sad for America is that these “I hate Obama” demonstrations which are Republican sponsored, have also attracted a fairly large amount of Neo Nazis and KKK members / sympathizers. It is probable that this amalgamation of extreme right wing ideology and racial hate will only spawn more homegrown anti-government terrorists like Timothy McVeigh, (Oklahoma City bomber) Randy Weaver (of Ruby Ridge infamy) and Branch Davidian leader David Koresh.  The Republican Party’s quest to discredit and defame President Obama, (in the name of world dominance and political ideology), have become Dr. Frankenstein, creating a monster that they cannot and will not be able to control and the Tea Party demonstrators that blindly follow a leaderless Republican Party, have unwittingly become Dr. Frankenstein’s “Igor”.  Yes, Mr. President, the yellow brick road that leads to the multiple “Emerald Cities” across the United States and the world is a very dangerous road to be travelling on.

     

    Last week, as details came across the news media that three Somali teenagers who were impersonating pirates by kidnapping and holding for ransom an American merchant marine sea captain, were killed by Navy Seals sharp shooters, and the lone surviving “pirate” was being held in American custody, I was relieved that President Obama passed his first test / encounter with terrorism.  Republican Party naysayers were silenced as our President calmly demonstrated his ability to again, analyze, design and implement a plan that led to the rescue of an American citizen abroad.  Kudos Mr. President. 

     

    In closing, I am amazed that most Americans are in “shock” as details unfold about the torture of suspected 9/11 terrorists as directed by GW and his boyz by the CIA and the military.  In retrospect, I’m reminded of the movie, “A few good men”, starring Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Tom Cruise and Kevin Bacon, remembering the scene when Tom Cruise portraying a Navy JAG defense lawyer traps the hardcore Marine Colonel as portrayed by Jack Nicholson into admitting that a marine was tortured and killed by fellow marines. I’ll never forget Jack Nicholson as his character defiantly stood up and accused Tom Cruise of not being able to “handle the truth”.  This is precisely how I feel about America’s “shock” and “disbelief” of how a “cowboy administration” supported by fake Christians, “handled their business” as they sought to find evidence (by any means necessary) for going to war against Iraq.  If I sense that those who read my articles are truly interested in the topic of torture, I will dedicate an article next week to that topic, however, until then, I caution President Obama on shinning a light in places that have a history of being devoid of light. So, President Obama, please remember what happened to JFK as he exposed the demons and witches that lived in the haunted forests that you and your administration must trek through.  Lions and tigers and bears….oh my.

     

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• The Revolution Will Be Televis

  • From: TheSarge1960
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    This particular blog is in response to the piece entitled "Trash in the White House Please", which was written earlier today by nmcgee8198 who like myself is trying to reach out and evoke progressive and stimulating debate on this website. Putting her article into context with my own views, nmcgee8198 was and is attempting to challenge the readers of this site to become more responsive to the blatant bigotry and ignorance that exists on American radio, television and print whenever the subject involves American President Barack Obama. MSNBC appears to be the only American cable media willing to give President Obama the benefit of fair coverage when it comes to his administration and his policies, thus MSNBC has become my primary source of information as it pertains to national and international news. On a personal note, I pray that individuals who frequent this website give the bloggers who take the time to professionally chronicle life as we see it in America, the much needed comments to our articles, which in turn, motivates us as writers to do what I believe God has Blessed us to do. 

     My response to the piece that nmcgee8198 wrote today begins as follows:

    I totally agree with your view points young lady.  Remember the piece that I wrote, "The Art of War"? There is an evil insidious segment of America that relies on maintaining their version of "order" by disseminating fear in the form of lies, racism and misinformation.  Of this I am certain.  At times I am slightly discouraged by the lack of motivation (as I see it) in Black America to respond to issues that are substantive to our daily lives; past, present and future.  Why aren't there more platforms for articulate individuals like yourself to point out and expose these "haters" and their schemes ? As large as a following that Tom Joyner has, writers such as we, receive very little feedback.  I recognize that articles written on the foibles of celebrities are entertaining, however, when will people of color be more interested in events that shape our economic lives and the economic lives of our children?  It's really a shame that on a large scale, we only have MSNBC to represent without hate, the good deeds of President Obama. 

    I pretty much ended my comment to nmcgee8198's article with the above paragraph; however, I would also like to add as an editorial comment to my own piece:

    Currently, the President and the First Lady are together in Europe attending in some cases, separate functions that promote different but equally important agendas. The President's role will be to primarily discuss with other leaders at the G20 summit, upcoming plans that are necessary to prevent a worldwide depression.  If we think that the economic situation is bad now, what do you think would happen, Lord forbid, if there is a complete failure of world banks.  I'm here to state on the record that the "end game" of politics and government gone bad, is a worldwide depression. Born from this very possible depression is anarchy. All Americans, but especially people of color (who always receive the short end of the stick) should become more vigorously engaged in prayer and meditation to include positively involving ourselves in issues that shape our lives and the lives of our children. I am not a forecaster of gloom and doom, to the contrary, I am optimistic because of my personal faith, however, to ignore the fact that the rich has become richer at the expense of the poor and the ever shrinking middle class, would be in my opinion a grave mistake.  The revolution will be televised. Tell me what you think.  This is the Sarge signing and sounding off.  Good day and God Bless. 

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• TRASH IN THE WHITE HOUSE PLEAS

  • From: nmcgee8198
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    Many of us have been very vocal on this site.  We have let it be known that we are the Private Secret Service of President Obama and his family.  Some of us have never sat by and remained quiet.  Why do you think that Tom Joyner Morning Show is no longer on in Chicago.  Tom had a message and he did it without sounding off like Rush Limbaugh.  Tom still can be heard right here on the internet but people scream and holler but they do nothing.  Just a few weeks ago, people were complaining about Sybil and the gentleman that had the magazine of a monkey with magazines of President Obama and First Lady Obama.  People were ready to take Sybil to the shed.  Sybil was speaking out just like people are speaking out against Trash in the White House.  We have to stop the bigots now and not later.  These are the people that want us to have a race riot and I have been saying this for quite some time.  Our voices do need to be heard but we need to take to the media.  We need to take our voices to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and the host of other conservatives that continue to use the Republican banner for their blantant bigotry.  I am fed up with how they get away with it but we have very little black media.  During the election, I became very aware of who really was speaking on the behalf of Democrats totally and I found the platform at MSNBC more educating for us.  We must read, listen to what is out there and become very aware of all of the issues.  In past we could say that we did not have enough information available but there is no longer any excuses.  We can go out to internet sites of the various media that we want to take to task and advise them how we feel.

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• Getting the TJMS back on in Ch

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    If we want to get Tom back on the radio in Chicago (with Steve still on also) then we need to write to Clear Channel and let them know how we feel about their decision to put Steve on both stations and take Tom off altogether! 

    Email Randall T. Mayes or any of the other executives listed on ClearChannel's webiste!  Urge your freind to email the ClearChannel execs also.

    There was no reason for that decison, in my opinion.  We had a choice--we could choose to listen to Tom or Steve.  This decision is unreasonable because we African-American radio listeners in Chicago no longer have a choice!

    We have to let ClearChannel know that we do have money though!  And we do spend it! With businesses that advertise on their radio stations!  And, we won't stand silently by and allow ClearChannel to remove one of our most popular African-American DJ's (the same guy who gave Steve Harvey his first shot on the radio) from one of his biggest listening audience/market!

     

     

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• TOM, IS THIS A JOKE?

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    Tell me it isn't so Tom! It is just unfathomable that I will not hear you on Chicago radio. I recently heard that a replacement will be announced on April 1st. Will that be a revamped Tom Joyner show and this is just some April Fool's prank?

    Is this a joke?

     

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• How do we get Tom back

  • From: Princess1130
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    My question is how do we get our man back.  We must have our voice back.  Who do we call, write, or email.  He is in demand and we must demand that we get him back!!

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• What tha!!!

  • From: mlj2312
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    I guess you know by now that the Windy City is in a complete UPROAR about the situation with WVAZ. As reported in the local news that no explaination was given for your departure, but thank goodness for the "Net" . Some of us might still be able to hear you day after day, but I hope that you get an outlet  here so all of us can enjoy your ADULT SHOW again real soon. Nothing against Steve Harvey, he didn't do this, but 18 years of "Tom" and the crew just don't fade away. Steve may be Hot right now, just not hot enough for the AM crowd at V103. if I were the P.D., I would really really have to have a good reason for the listening public for my " BONEHEAD MOVE ".

    Looking for the TJMS back in the Windy City real soon!!!!

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• Who is the genius that let Tom

  • From: pbeeks
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    I thought I had made a mistake when I turned my radio on and got Steve Harvey. I leave it on V103 so that I can get Tom in the morning and Doug in the afternoon. V103 has made a huge mistake. Not everyone is under thirty and wants to hear that so- called "music" the other stations play. You need intelligent dialogue with good music and that's what Tom offered. Tom Joyner was the only bright spot in my morning. We got to get him, Jay, and Sybil back!!!

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• How Can We Bring Tom Joyner Ba

  • From: vshabazz
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    To All Bloggers, I just couldn't believe it, so I turned on my radio as always and I heard it was true! Steve Harvey and his sidekick were saying how they were protested in Washington when they were moved there also, but now they were the highest rated radio show or one of the highest, I turned it off before it finished.

    I want to know if we can get enough people to write or enough to protest this bamboozle they have pulled. Just as we protested Tavis Smiley, we should do the same this is just as important. Tavis left, if Clear Channel can not sell air time due to lack of listeners, then they will get the message. People here in Chicago are protesting the meters, let do something for us!!!

     

    IT IS TIME TO STAND FOR SOMETHING AND JUST SIT AND FALL FOR ANYTHING!

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