Nom de plume: Rivrdog

This needs to be watched

There is a certain stink about this information.

That stink is the stink of racism.

This program of pumping Federal dollars into "low-interest loans to unemployed homeowners in danger of foreclosure." needs to be followed. It appears, if one reads between the lines of the AssPress article, that you might just have to be African-American to get at this money. If that's the case, the program is blatantly illegal on it's face, and those politicos who put it together knew that to start with, and therefor have committed a felony: RICO.

Somehow, I can't imagine that this sort of blatant racial favoritism could have happened in previous Administrations, whether they were Democrat OR Republican.

The Obama Administration (and it's enablers in Congress, such as Barney Fwank): resembling a street gang more and more every day.

The good news in this is when an angry electorate finally DOES throw these bums out, we will have quite a selection of charges for which to indict all of them, from Obama on down. The list for indictments starts here.

"Minority doctors"

The US Surgeon General speechifies and tells the world that we need more minority doctors.

No, doctor, if we need more physicians, crank up our medical education system to produce them. Producing doctors that somehow have two roles, healing the sick AND healing racial divides is not YOUR job nor is it the job of medical education. Being such a doctor with divided attention should be the choice of the doctor, not the government.

Doctor, go push out a policy statement to doctors on just how they're supposed to treat an aging Boomer population on 20% less money, or better yet, push a medicine ball around in the gym, m'kay?

Who is a racist?

It seems that anytime the ObamaBots begin to lose an argument, or anytime they don't dare start one, they fling the turd of "racism" at their detractors.

I've been called a racist by commenters to this blog, but not recently.

I thought it time I re-stated my policy on such absurd mouthings.

I don't fit MY definition of "racist", so I am not, and if you, as a commenter, want to change that, you can't. Too bad, so sad, someone cut off your "Kool-Aid" and you're feeling so bad.

Let me put it another way in case you didn't get the hint above. If you want to conflict with me badly enough, you will need to be a VERY highly-trained gunsel (because I am Highly Trained myself).

I call a spade a spade in this blog, and yes, I WAS writing that phrase before the PeeCee idiots decided it was racist. See paragraph above.

In my book, race matters not. The only thing that matters is how intelligent you are for starters, and how well you communicate, for finishers. If you're a dumb SOB, I will handle you as a dumb SOB, no matter what race you are. If you talk/write like an idiot, I will treat you like an idiot deserves to be treated, that is, you will either be ignored or I will highlight your idiocy for all to laugh about, because the world needs a few good laughs. In my nearly 66 years of existence, I've found idiots all across the spectrum of races.

That is all.

Put away those prayer rugs now

All you Obama worshippers, your idol is just an ordinary guy like everyone else you know.

Sure, he occupies the most powerful office on the planet, and yes, he was put there by a democratic vote of the citizens.

No matter, day before yesterday he showed us that he can make mistakes just like any Joe or Jane Ordinary.

I refer, of course, to his NON-SCRIPTED remarks at the end of his prime-time news conference. Some reporter asked him about the arrest of Professor Gates in Cambridge, MA, and he shot off his answer from the hip and from the lip, revealing himself to be just like everyone else in the entire world.

OK, so Obama just lost the "Obama-Messiah" halo. What else did he lose?

By joining the race-baiters like the Revs. Jeremiah and Al and Jesse, he has lost ALL his credibility as a man of color standing above the fray and leading us to a better place. The Professor, of course, has made a career out of his race and trying to tell everyone just how downtrodden it is, without a corresponding emphasis on how his race might improve themselves, as Dr. King always included in HIS messages on the subject.

Nope, Obama proved some of his most dangerous critics correct night before last, and in doing so, lost the moral high ground he desperately needed to keep to stay on the message all of his supporters put him there to spread.

The most blatant, racist critics of the man now have their "Aha! Told you so" moment to bash him with.

In a way, it's sad to see the mighty fall this way. Obama COULD have had the impact of Dr. King, had he actually THOUGHT before he spoke. Were Dr. King still alive, and were he to have been asked to comment on this incident in Cambridge, I have NO doubt that he would have deferred his comments until after the facts were all available.

The lesson for all the former Obama-worshippers is just this: Follow Dr. King's advice, and judge a man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin. Judging Obama that way shows that he has a perfectly ordinary character, capable of making misjudgments at the worst times, just like you and I.

You and I don't have worshippers, and neither should Obama. We have now been delivered from Saint Obama's presence, where we never really should have been, and are now back in the real world, with an inexperienced President who desperately needs to get his act together and actually RUN the nation according to it's Constitution, not try to use his semi-religious aura to remake the nation in some fashion that it was never intended nor destined to be.

Race had nothing to do with it

Read this story for the rich details it reports about the circumstances and exchanges between the Professor and the police.

Now, put up a mental filter and take all the "race" angles out of it.

What clearly remains is that a motormouth disturbed the peace with a screaming rant in a public area (yes, his own front porch is a public area, the SCOTUS decided that a LONG time ago). He was then arrested for his disturbance of the peace in public.

That's a legitimate arrest.

I'm betting that the wussy government of Cambridge won't see it that way, and will order the prosecutor to drop the charges, leaving the police open to a lawsuit, which WILL be settled out of court for a sizable sum.

If ANYONE at Harvard University had any cojones, this idiot would be hauled before the Harvard Faculty Senate and that body of august scholars would decide that he was a sufficient embarrassment to the University that his teaching contract would be terminated.

That won't happen either.

It's always what DOESN'T happen in these phony "racial profiling" cases that prolongs the idea that the races can't assimilate or get along with each other.

It's what DOESN'T happen in these cases that prolongs the existance of race hustlers like Al Sharpton.

That, kiddies, is your Race lesson for today.

Race Discussion

...will be a new category of this blog, at least as long as I can write on the topic and stay out of jail for doing do.

To start off with, let's ask a question that has been asked before, but for which I have NEVER seen an answer from any lefty who counted. The Left has to answer this question, because they are the ones constantly expanding the definition of minority and including new "minorities" for special consideration and "protection" from the rest of us non-minorities.

At some point, given the requirement to "legally describe" minority classes, an exact enumeration of minorities can be made. It's already made in the US Census, due to come around again next year.

Since, supposedly, every person of minority status IS known to the Government, and every person of ANY status is known to the Government, there ought to be a simple breakdown somewhere of minority vs. non-minority numbers. If the Census were accurate, and properly counted, including all the illegals in the country, perhaps as many as 30,000,000 of them, it's possible that us non-minority Caucasians (are there any other non-minority people?) are already in the minority.

This isn't a play on words, people. If you read the previous post about the new US Attorney General, Eric Holder, you would have noted that he wants to extend government-lawyer privileges to all foreign nationals detained for deportation. It is but a VERY SMALL STEP from there to extending government protection, as a minority class, to all illegals currently in the country.

If illegals make up 10% of the current population, and there is a good possibility of that, then we Caucasians may already be a minority.

To make the question more difficult to answer (or easier for the Left to dismiss out of hand), first it has to be decided whether numbers alone puts one in a minority class. If there are fewer Caucasians than other minorities, we are a NUMERICAL MINORITY (whites vs. non-whites) by definition. That's one form of minority, but I suspect that even if I marched into Federal Court with the best attorney available, I would have a difficult time proving that I actually WAS a minority, because the political process loads up this question with intangibles.

Am I a member of an "oppressed" class of people by race? By circumstances? BY MY OWN DOING? These are all the "qualifiers" that the Left has placed on defining a minority.

If we accept the Left's constantly-variable definition of a minority, it's entirely possible that even when whites get down to the last definable individual with solely Caucasian genetics, that person STILL won't be defined as a minority, even though he or she would certainly qualify as an endangered sub-species.

So, in reality, isn't this whole business of minorities just a convenient (for the Left) political construct? A construct which changes with every change of political administration?

If it is, as I suspect, purely political, the whole idea of minority status should be scrapped, because we ARE all politically equal in this country. Some folks' personal foibles prevent them from acting on the premise of total political equality, but it is a REAL construct, backed up by law and legal precedent, while political "minority status" is not Constitutional OR logical. In fact, every "legal" attempt to elevate behavior to protected status is, on it's face, un-Constitutional.

I guess the real question is, then, why do we bother? Race is SUPPOSED to be a non-issue in this nation, but will it ever get there if government keeps favoring political constituencies with minority status, then granting those with that status things of value, such as "free" education, or job security which non-minorities can not get at any price?

I ask the questions, and will publish any THINKING replies.