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by SitasMom on 04 September 2012 - 16:09
I will NEVER understand why minorities side with Democrats!
June 10, 1964, was a dramatic day in the United States Senate. For the first time in its history, cloture was invoked on a civil rights bill, ending a record-breaking filibuster by Democrats that had consumed fifty-seven working days. The hero of the hour was minority leader Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.).
On June 10, 1964, Democrats filibustered the Civil Rights Act.
Grand Old Partisan reported, via DANEgerus:
On this day in 1964, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), the Republican Leader in the U.S. Senate, condemned the Democrats’ 57-day filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Leading the Democrats in their opposition to civil rights for African-Americans was Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV). Byrd, who got into politics as a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, spoke against the bill for fourteen straight hours. Democrats still call Robert Byrd “the conscience of the Senate.”
In his speech, Senator Dirksen (republican) called on the Democrats to end their filibuster and accept racial equality.
Michael Zak wrote about this in his book Back to Basics for the Republican Party and reminds us that Democrats, the party of Slavery, Secession, Segregation and the KKK… fought against equality.
by Keith Grossman on 04 September 2012 - 17:09
A lot has changed in 50 years.
by SitasMom on 04 September 2012 - 18:09
all i can say is that the misinformation that all policians spew is status quo.....
here are some facts to check......
Obama's Dreams
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
After reading Barack Obama's book "Dreams from My Father," it became painfully clear that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth — and now it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to change things.
Obama did not simply happen to encounter a lot of people on the far left fringe during his life. As he spells out in his book, he actively sought out such people. There is no hint of the slightest curiosity on his part about other visions of the world that might be weighed against the vision he had seized upon.
As Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has pointed out, Obama made no effort to take part in the marketplace of ideas with other faculty members when he was teaching a law course there. What would be the point, if he already knew the truth and knew that they were wrong?
This would be a remarkable position to take, even for a learned scholar who had already spent decades canvassing a vast amount of information and views on many subjects. But Obama was already doctrinaire at a very early age — and ill-informed or misinformed on both history and economics.
His statement in "Dreams from My Father" about how white men went to Africa to "drag away the conquered in chains" betrays his ignorance of African history.
The era of the Atlantic slave trade and the era of European conquests across the continent of Africa were different eras. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, most of Africa was ruled by Africans, who sold some of their slaves to white men.
European conquests in Africa had to wait until Europeans found some way to survive lethal African diseases, to which they lacked resistance. Only after medical science learned to deal with these diseases could the era of European conquests spread across sub-Saharan Africa. But the Atlantic slave trade was over by then.
There was no reason why Barack Obama had to know this. But there was also no reason for him to be shooting off his mouth without knowing what he was talking about.
Similarly with Obama's characterization of the Nile as "the world's greatest river." The Nile is less than 10 percent longer than the Amazon, but the Amazon delivers more than 50 times as much water into the Atlantic as the Nile delivers into the Mediterranean. The Nile could not accommodate the largest ships, even back in Roman times, much less the aircraft carriers of today that can sail up the Hudson River and dock in midtown Manhattan.
When Obama wrote that many people "had been enslaved only because of the color of their skin," he was repeating a common piece of gross misinformation. For thousands of years, people enslaved other people of the same race as themselves, whether in Europe, Asia, Africa or the Western Hemisphere.
Europeans enslaved other Europeans for centuries before the first African was brought in bondage to the Western Hemisphere. The very word "slave" is derived from the name of a European people once widely held in bondage, the Slavs.
As for economics, Obama thought that Indonesians would be worse off after Europeans came in, used up their natural resources and then left them too poor to continue the modern way of life to which they had become accustomed, or to resume their previous way of life, after their previous skills had atrophied.
This fear of European "exploitation" prevailed widely in the Third World in the middle of the 20th century. But, by the late 20th century, the falseness of that view had been demonstrated so plainly and so often, in countries around the world, that even socialist and communist governments began opening their economies to foreign investments. This often led to rising economic growth rates that lifted millions of people out of poverty.
Barack Obama is one of those people who are often wrong but never in doubt. When he burst upon the national political scene as a presidential candidate in 2008, even some conservatives were impressed by his confidence.
But confident ignorance is one of the most dangerous qualities in a leader of a nation. If he has the rhetorical skills to inspire the same confidence in himself by others, then you have the ingredients for national disaster.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.
here are some facts to check......
Obama's Dreams
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
After reading Barack Obama's book "Dreams from My Father," it became painfully clear that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth — and now it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to change things.
Obama did not simply happen to encounter a lot of people on the far left fringe during his life. As he spells out in his book, he actively sought out such people. There is no hint of the slightest curiosity on his part about other visions of the world that might be weighed against the vision he had seized upon.
As Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has pointed out, Obama made no effort to take part in the marketplace of ideas with other faculty members when he was teaching a law course there. What would be the point, if he already knew the truth and knew that they were wrong?
This would be a remarkable position to take, even for a learned scholar who had already spent decades canvassing a vast amount of information and views on many subjects. But Obama was already doctrinaire at a very early age — and ill-informed or misinformed on both history and economics.
His statement in "Dreams from My Father" about how white men went to Africa to "drag away the conquered in chains" betrays his ignorance of African history.
The era of the Atlantic slave trade and the era of European conquests across the continent of Africa were different eras. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, most of Africa was ruled by Africans, who sold some of their slaves to white men.
European conquests in Africa had to wait until Europeans found some way to survive lethal African diseases, to which they lacked resistance. Only after medical science learned to deal with these diseases could the era of European conquests spread across sub-Saharan Africa. But the Atlantic slave trade was over by then.
There was no reason why Barack Obama had to know this. But there was also no reason for him to be shooting off his mouth without knowing what he was talking about.
Similarly with Obama's characterization of the Nile as "the world's greatest river." The Nile is less than 10 percent longer than the Amazon, but the Amazon delivers more than 50 times as much water into the Atlantic as the Nile delivers into the Mediterranean. The Nile could not accommodate the largest ships, even back in Roman times, much less the aircraft carriers of today that can sail up the Hudson River and dock in midtown Manhattan.
When Obama wrote that many people "had been enslaved only because of the color of their skin," he was repeating a common piece of gross misinformation. For thousands of years, people enslaved other people of the same race as themselves, whether in Europe, Asia, Africa or the Western Hemisphere.
Europeans enslaved other Europeans for centuries before the first African was brought in bondage to the Western Hemisphere. The very word "slave" is derived from the name of a European people once widely held in bondage, the Slavs.
As for economics, Obama thought that Indonesians would be worse off after Europeans came in, used up their natural resources and then left them too poor to continue the modern way of life to which they had become accustomed, or to resume their previous way of life, after their previous skills had atrophied.
This fear of European "exploitation" prevailed widely in the Third World in the middle of the 20th century. But, by the late 20th century, the falseness of that view had been demonstrated so plainly and so often, in countries around the world, that even socialist and communist governments began opening their economies to foreign investments. This often led to rising economic growth rates that lifted millions of people out of poverty.
Barack Obama is one of those people who are often wrong but never in doubt. When he burst upon the national political scene as a presidential candidate in 2008, even some conservatives were impressed by his confidence.
But confident ignorance is one of the most dangerous qualities in a leader of a nation. If he has the rhetorical skills to inspire the same confidence in himself by others, then you have the ingredients for national disaster.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.
by Mindhunt on 04 September 2012 - 21:09
I am hoping this link works, if not, checkout Mike Lofgren's essay "Goodby to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult" on www.truthout.org
http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=3079:goodbye-to-all-that-reflections-of-a-gop-operative-who-left-the-cult
You can also read the transcripit of Bill Moyer's interview of Mike Lofgren on www.truthout.org
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11304-the-party-is-over
http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=3079:goodbye-to-all-that-reflections-of-a-gop-operative-who-left-the-cult
You can also read the transcripit of Bill Moyer's interview of Mike Lofgren on www.truthout.org
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11304-the-party-is-over
by SitasMom on 05 September 2012 - 04:09
Mindhunt, there are many from each side swapping....
If the democrats were the party of JFK, I could live with it......
"its not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"
A lot has changed!
The DNC first day - all about how much help people need from the country...
about abortions for all.....and how humble and how much humillity the first family has.
I was laughing so hard my diet coke shot out of my nose.......
Its better sport then the superbowl.
If the democrats were the party of JFK, I could live with it......
"its not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"
A lot has changed!
The DNC first day - all about how much help people need from the country...
about abortions for all.....and how humble and how much humillity the first family has.
I was laughing so hard my diet coke shot out of my nose.......
Its better sport then the superbowl.
by Preston on 05 September 2012 - 05:09
Superb article by Paul Craig Roberts, formerly was the Asst. Sec of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan. He has been a top rated economist, a fiscal conservative, but also somewhat of a populist in that he has always cared about people and the working folks: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/09/04/the-republicans-cross-the-rubicon-paul-craig-roberts/
When well known Republican Insiders jump ship you have to wonder what has happened that they found out about that has turned them off so much. Most of the time we don't find out why. In this case Paul Craig Roberts tells why he has jumped ship. What he says is chilling.
When well known Republican Insiders jump ship you have to wonder what has happened that they found out about that has turned them off so much. Most of the time we don't find out why. In this case Paul Craig Roberts tells why he has jumped ship. What he says is chilling.
by mtndawg on 05 September 2012 - 20:09
Hmmmm...wonder if this is true or not. The 1,000,000 bitcoin ransom is pretty funny.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/381038/20120905/mitt-romney-tax-returns-hacked-ransom-taxes.htm
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/381038/20120905/mitt-romney-tax-returns-hacked-ransom-taxes.htm
by Bhaugh on 06 September 2012 - 01:09
So after 51 pages of chatting about this I ask:
What has Obama done that has really turned things around? Made life BETTER for a good majority of the American people.
Factually speaking my state STILL has the HIGHEST unemployment rate in the country and highest foreclosure rate in the country
Illegals abound here: Use the ER as a private doctors office, saturate the school system to the point it has basically gone broke and dominate the Unions but cant speak any english or even have a green card to be here
I can barely find produce grown in the US anymore because importing seems to be the ONLY products we can get. I dont know about you but I refuse to eat produce from MX because they still use pestisides that were banned years ago because of cancer
Because the economy is in the toilet, wages in my career have tanked and trying to stay afloat on that Mexican produce I am forced to eat will go well with Obamycare healthcare everyone thinks will save us all.
My utilities have skyrockeded, I had to move because my neighborhood was overtaken by illegals, gangs, the bank and my son mugged for a stick of gum and a cell phone....
So I ask what has he really done in 4 years that I should even consider wanting him for another 4. If he was a CEO he would have been fired by now or standing in the unemployment line with my ex who still hasnt found a job and hasnt paid child support in 4 years!
What has Obama done that has really turned things around? Made life BETTER for a good majority of the American people.
Factually speaking my state STILL has the HIGHEST unemployment rate in the country and highest foreclosure rate in the country
Illegals abound here: Use the ER as a private doctors office, saturate the school system to the point it has basically gone broke and dominate the Unions but cant speak any english or even have a green card to be here
I can barely find produce grown in the US anymore because importing seems to be the ONLY products we can get. I dont know about you but I refuse to eat produce from MX because they still use pestisides that were banned years ago because of cancer
Because the economy is in the toilet, wages in my career have tanked and trying to stay afloat on that Mexican produce I am forced to eat will go well with Obamycare healthcare everyone thinks will save us all.
My utilities have skyrockeded, I had to move because my neighborhood was overtaken by illegals, gangs, the bank and my son mugged for a stick of gum and a cell phone....
So I ask what has he really done in 4 years that I should even consider wanting him for another 4. If he was a CEO he would have been fired by now or standing in the unemployment line with my ex who still hasnt found a job and hasnt paid child support in 4 years!
by Mindhunt on 06 September 2012 - 02:09
Duh, Obama inherited the wall street crash that started in Bush's tenure, he inherited the economy that had started to tank in Bush's tenure. He is also fighting an uphil battle against a mostly Republican Congress who will stop at nothing to derail the Democrats, check the voting record and bill sponsorship if you don't believe me
by gsdpartisan on 06 September 2012 - 02:09
"Factually speaking my state STILL has the HIGHEST unemployment rate in the country and highest foreclosure rate in the country
Illegals abound here: Use the ER as a private doctors office, saturate the school system to the point it has basically gone broke and dominate the Unions but cant speak any english or even have a green card to be here"
So you live in Las Vegas too!
Illegals abound here: Use the ER as a private doctors office, saturate the school system to the point it has basically gone broke and dominate the Unions but cant speak any english or even have a green card to be here"
So you live in Las Vegas too!
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