For all of You Bashing Rev. Wright: Racism & Sexism Are Alive and Well

Over at Delaware Politics they have made a disturbing little heartland industry of bashing Barack Obama's Reverend Jeremiah Wright whose comments sparked a national debate with "right wing liberator cum-aggressor" and militia agitator Sean Hannity.

But for all the racists it seems to be OK since The Hon. James David Manning Ph.D. of Atlah Ministries gave Obama a tacit endorsement by way of breasts and trashy white women.

Proving once again why we need a clear seperation of church and state- "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."

But as if to prove to you that it is not only fun for racists to attack African-Americans but also fun to bash Gays, the folks at North Dakota State University have proven , once again, that we have NOT always moved as far as we thought in race relations and we are at a standstill in our national discourse about people who are gays or lesbians.

This is clearly illustrated when one student noted "we like to dress up in blackface." I bet they also like to whistle dixie.

So not only do racists like to bash Presidential candidates, but they like to bash African-Americans and gays generally. And do not think it is is an isolated phenomena, not only at NDSU, but also at that bastion of tolerance Emory University. Even Clemson.

Keep that in mind next time you feel complled to yell "go Clemson Tigers...."

However nothing quite matches the Veteran Dispatch's "Son of a Luo Tribesman" post that compares Obama to a goat herder, or maybe that was one of the other racist rants.

Now I could and want to go off the deep end admonishing all the racist homophobes on the virtue of libertarian tolerance; but I know all of this racism and homophobia comes from and is simply a reflection of the down south, out-west insane square state values permeating our culture at the moment. I mean the South Will Rise Again right?

I do not know ask Fox News who "eloquently" prove that racism when it is not addressed cuts in every direction. Institutional racism is still racism no matter who it touches it degrades the fundamental dignity of the human person and lowers our political discourse.

At least Obama talked to Americans as if they were adults when it came to race.

The disappointing news is that many Americans are not adults. And it appears many cannot overcome their own delusions and psychological projections.

The good news is, I can express my outrage over this lack of tolerance without going ape-shit crazy and telling you a-holes to go back to Alabama or whatever.

But I have seen how much worse what you racist and homophobic screed people are saying. So I am going to continue to advocate tolerance and respect your first amendment right to make an ass out of yourself. And express my disapproval by noting that anytime you use race or sexuality as a political weapon, you are demeaning the principles of freedom, liberty and equality.

Why not just stamp Farakhan or Commie African Tribesman all over the man who could be your next president?

For all of you living with the delusion we live in a "color blind society" I cannot add anything here.

Comment Rescue (?) and child-related gun violence in Delaware

In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw

The Obligatory Libertarian Tax Day Post

The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?

New Warfare: I started my posts with a discussion.....

.....on Unrestricted warfare . The US Air force Institute for National Security Studies have developed a reasonable systems approach to deter non-state violent actors who they label as NSVA's. It is an exceptionally important report if we want to deter violent extremism and other potential violent actors that could threaten this nation and its security. It is THE report our political officials should be listening to to shape policy so that we do not become excessive in using force against those who do not agree with policy and dispute it with reason and normal non-violent civil disobedience. This report, should be carefully read by everyone really concerned with protecting civil liberties while deterring violent terrorism and I recommend if you are a professional you send your recommendations via e-mail at the link above so that either 1.) additional safeguards to civil liberties are included, or 2.) additional viable strategies can be used. Finally, one can only hope that politici

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