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NH High Court Justice Linda Dalianis ripped for racist actions & Due Process violations:
Brown v. Board of Education is still good law, no considerations of race may factor into child placement unless there is a state-approved desegregation plan. Linda Dalianis made her own SEGREGATION plan, and that my friends is absolutely clear, no grey area, it is..... ahem..... black and white:
http://tinyurl.com/39xzmr4
As to her not allowing me to Intervene in a case where she gave away taxpayer money to Chief Dunn, for injuries he allegedly sustained because of me that's ridiculous too because I PROVED that his lawyer lied about material issues. Watch the video to see what they are.
We last got together about ten days ago, when I put up a story that hoped to explain to the Islamic world that, Qur'an burning aside, we don't really hate either them, or our own Constitution.
I pointed out that, just like everywhere else, about 20% of our population are idiots, that this means about 60,000,000 of us might, at any time, be inclined to burst into fits of random stupidity, such as the desire to burn Qur'ans to make some sort of statement, and that the same First Amendment that protects the freedom of stupid speech also protects the rights of Islamic folks to freely build mosques...and finally, that this apparent "paradox of freedom" is exactly why the US is the kind of country that many Islamic folks the world over wish they lived in as well.
I then went off to enjoy my Godson's wedding, and I ignored the posting until the next Monday.
On the two dozen sites where it could be found, this was apparently considered to be a fairly innocuous message...with one giant exception, which is what we'll be talking about today.
Long story short, some portion of this country's population has some bizarre ideas about Islamic folks...but maybe if they knew my friend Wa'el, they might see things a bit differently.
This is surely one of the only times in my life I have been literally speechless. In perusing the 'posts' over at NH Insider, this most recent one, reprinted from a site called "American Third Position"
http://american3p.org/p=748&ut...
...literally made me nauseous.
Sample quotes:
"...The report, comprised by estimates of the racial make-up of California's many counties, shows a discouraging trend..."
(Too many of 'those kind,' huh?)
"...it's not just an economic battle Whites contend with in California..."
"...Whites are moving because this place isn't any longer recognizable. It's now a foreign country, and it's uncomfortable just being here."
And that's nothing compared to those who commented in support of this outrageous crap.
New York (FNS)-In an effort to help dispel concerns of racism, Terri Stocke, President of the Second Amendment March, agreed to coordinate with members of the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network and the Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition in an effort to encourage more members of the Black community to bear arms and to carry them publicly.
In return, members of the Black community have agreed to flood the 2nd Amendment March, scheduled for April 19, 2010, in Washington, DC, with hundreds of thousands of heavily armed residents of Chicago's South Side and New York City's Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods.
"We hope that the Black community understands that 2nd Amendment rights apply to all Americans" Ms. Stocke told the crowd outside Mr. Sharpton's offices.
In the coming days I will be sharing my thoughts on Immigration Reform with respect to Bills being introduced into the Congress. There has been a Bill introduced in the House by Rep. Luiz Gutierrez D-Ill, H.R. 4321,
full text here
http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiski...
http://immigrationimpact.com/2...
Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009" (CIR A.S.A.P.)
Today, in a room filled with supporters and shouts of "Si, Se Puede," Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) held a press conference to introduce the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP). Congressman Gutierrez introduced the immigration reform bill-which at last count had 89 original co-sponsors including the Congressional Hispanic, Black, Progressive, and Asian Pacific American Caucuses-before Congress heads home for the holidays "so that there is no excuse for inaction in the New Year."
The mention of that name, in the right circles, brings back a flood of associations.
Among them: a famous cabaret in Gay Paree, a Nicole Kidman movie rich in costume and set design and...well, a movie, anyway; or, if you really know your films, perhaps the association is with the 1952 John Huston "biography" film of the same name.
The one association that might not quickly come to mind, even though it should: ground zero in a battle that led to the desegregation of Las Vegas.
Today's story will fill in the blanks that you might have regarding that association-and by the time we're done, we'll have covered, just as we promised last time, the 55-year history of a place that began in 1955, lasted for not quite six months, and ended just last week...maybe.
It's another one of those American history stories you never heard before, and it's well worth the telling...so let's get right to it.
When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. That should be the lesson of Loudon's American Legion Post 88 renting its hall to the East Coast White Unity and Volksfront...
There may be no more recognizable icon of "Retro-Cool" than that photograph of the Rat Pack standing in front of the marquee at The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.
They're right there, lined up in front of their own giant names on the marquee: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop.
Night after night they would gather with friends such as Shirley MacLaine, Angie Dickinson, and Johnny Carson, to deliver some of the greatest nightclub performances in entertainment history.
Today's story, however, focuses on what happened after the show: when four of those five could leave the showroom, drink at the bar, gamble at the casino, and go upstairs to their rooms.
In a town sometimes known as the "Mississippi of the West", however, one of those five performers could not do any of those things.
Our Journey In Two Parts literally crosses over to the "wrong side of the tracks", tells a story of segregation overcome, and recounts the six-month history of a Las Vegas hotel that has a 55-year history: the Moulin Rouge.
We have a story today that is a big-time reminder of how things have changed in America...and it's all inspired by a book of jokes.
I am often prowling thrift shops looking for interesting things, and I came across a 1946 copy of "10,000 Jokes, Toasts, And Stories" (edited by Lewis and Faye Copeland), which contains a section of jokes entitled "Races and Nations"...which contains a subsection entitled "Negro".
We are going to examine some of those jokes...and the world in which those jokes resided.
I warn you now: it will be highly unpleasant; but as we come out the other side the goal will be to show that what was not only acceptable, but commonplace, not so very long ago, would be considered wildly unacceptable today-and that we are a better people for the change.
The message of the Republican Presidential campaign has been stripped down to this one naked, stark and simple racist message, expressed directly, indirectly, and with provocative code words, but the underlying message is always the same: "Are you really ok with a black president? Are you insane? America is under attack! If you elect him, the country you know & love will be destroyed!" The only thing left for the lily white Republican ticket to offer is that they are not the scary black one. Roughly 75% of the country is disgusted with Bush, Cheney, and the Republicans for the utter destruction they've wrought to our country. On the pressing issues of the day, the overwhelming majority of Americans stand with Senators Obama and Biden.
If not for the invocation of a visceral and racist image of a black man as President, any moderate or progressive Democratic candidate would run away with this election.
Its ideas and policies discredited, the only tactic left the floundering "Straight Talk Express" is stoking the flames of racism and fear, echoing images of Hitler's rabble-rousing beer hall Putsch and the Nazi's hateful propaganda.
John McCain's campaign slogan is "Country First", but with his and his party's Karl Rove driven devil-may-care lust to retain power, his actual slogan is: "Country Be Damned". Now we will all have to live with the consequences and fallout from their destructive, divisive wickedness in the final days of this campaign.
Joe McCarthy would indeed be proud of Senator McCain today, so what was said to him, must now be said to John McCain: "Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" Now as then, the American public view McCarthy (now McCain) with well-deserved disdain. On television, the senator from Wisconsin (now Arizona) comes off as cruel, despicable and reckless.
How very tragic for John McCain to have made so terrible a mistake so late in life. To paraphrase a line from the movie, "The Godfather" - even for old times' sake, Americans cannot let him off the hook for this.
"I have a dream that my four little children
will one day live in a nation where they
will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character."
This election marks a potential turning point in American history. The American people will either elect the first black President, following the dictates of logic, self-interest and absolute common sense... or they will elect John McCain and prove that at least a slim majority of the voters in this nation are ignorant fools, religious extremists, blind believers of the partisan propaganda of the right wing, outright racists -- or some horrifying combination of those descriptors.
McCain's Spawn of Rove has dug even deeper into the permaslime: a new web ad featuring multiple white women talking about how hot Obama is, and then pulling the video when they get called on it.
Or did they plan the pull in advance to make a buzz about their turn towards the racist? Estimating that the negatives toward them would be smaller than the positives of getting people to discuss Obama and young white women.
Update: per Tim Foley's comment below, I can take off my tin foil. The vid was pulled because the morans who make these "ads" forgot to get permission for what they lifted.
It strikes me as we hear the names Shaheen and Sununu everyday in the Senate race, that no one suggests they are unpatriotic, or expresses sentiments that they are Muslim leaners, because of their names. Barack Hussein Obama, well you see where I'm going don't you ? He's been called Halfrican American by Rush the blowhard, many still think he's Muslim, or secretly so. Why not the others ? Is it because they appear white ? Please suggest what is wrong with this picture ? Am I barking up the wrong family tree ? I think it is blatant, perhaps subconscious, but blatant none the less.
This is only tangentially about the Clinton-Obama race. But it is in part triggered by the view expressed by some that - other things somehow impossibly being equal - Americans are less willing to elect a woman than a black as President.
At first glance this notion seemed clearly wrong to me. We have one black Senator today and sixteen woman Senators. We have six woman governors and two - counting the recently-ascended Paterson - black governors.
Black Americans got the official right to vote in the 1870, women in 1920. But women didn't face the same institutional barriers to voting afterward: we needed a Voting Rights Act of 1965 to help end racial, not sexist, discrimination in voting.
By most historical metrics I could see, blacks have a tougher time climbing our political ladder. But then this week's story on the breakaway polygamist sect of Mormons broke.
Laura tells us about Bill O'Reilly's latest racist, hate-filled screed on the public airwaves. He discusses the proper steps to follow before murdering a particular black woman through lynching.
This, as usual, was carried in Keene by WKBK-AM.
As Paul Twomey suggests, local radio is supported by local advertisers. Without the commercials for cars, burgers, and jeans they don't exist.
So what local businesses support lynch mobs?
Jonathan Daniels would probably not buy from them.
Tweety's latest attack on Hillary Clinton is to say that she won in NH because all the Democratic women who voted for her are racists! Unbelievable! Even Pat Buchanan - no friend to Hillary - seems to be as outraged by this nonsense as I am.
(I don't quite know how to write this, or entirely what my point will be? Isn't that a fabulous start to a blog? Something just struck me as I was reading this, and I was hoping to use this forum to solidify my thoughts. So please, bear with me.)
Reading the this article in the Union Leader today, something about the tone of the piece struck me .(I'll blame Dean for making me read this way lately)
They approach with promises of easy money.
This is how the article starts. The very first word frames the entire article in divisive terms. They? someone else? those people? very de-humanizing. The journalist, Scott Brooks, is setting up a scenario where he and the reader are on one side of an issue confronting another group. Hardly objective.
Click on `There's More' for the rest of the story?
