tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60491692011-08-24T19:29:19.403-05:00Blacks for BushEarning Respect by Becoming Swing Voters!
Scottnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1104162064276840802004-12-27T10:25:00.000-05:002004-12-27T10:41:04.276-05:00The Scott Wickham Experience
Time has come for me to move my blog home. Over they past two years I have moved from Half Full which was my attempt to counter the forces of negativism I see everywhere in the media and to understand the world. To this blog Blacks For Bush which has focused on the election and the black experience and the future of blacks in America. I have been totally blown away Scottnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1103987491303862672004-12-25T10:10:00.000-05:002004-12-25T10:11:31.303-05:00Merry Christmas
and on earth peace to all men of goodwillScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1103815293507048452004-12-23T10:12:00.000-05:002004-12-23T10:21:33.506-05:00The Cultural Challenge of The Black Conservative
An excellent article, hat tip to Booker Rising. It states three goals black conservatives should strive for.1)Speaking more truthfully and comprehensively about the dynamics on the ground in the Black community
2) Engaging a wide range within the community of Black leadership and organizations in civil society, not for the purpose of recruiting Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1103744181555725792004-12-22T14:35:00.000-05:002004-12-22T14:38:02.253-05:00Lenin Was RightPost Office Hell
Lenin once dismissed the question of how socialism would work by pointing to the workings of the post office. Socialism, he said , means only to "To organize the whole economy on the lines of the postal service."Sometimes its important to get back to basics and understand what is wrong with government run services at the most basic level.Scottnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1103230072943567852004-12-16T15:46:00.000-05:002004-12-18T13:43:58.580-05:00Black Tactics
Over at Black Introspection they have another of their patented posts about how bad negro cons are. One of the reason I read that site on a regular basis is that I think they are a good example of classic communist thinking. The basic tenet of communistic thinking is that group identity and collective work is required for individual progress. This thinking works on all levels. A Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1102683304999120192004-12-13T07:54:00.000-05:002004-12-13T10:54:39.913-05:00Rumsfeld was Right
Why is Afghanistan a success and Iraq's fate is still up in the air? Because in Afghanistan we followed Rumsfeld's plan and in Iraq we didn't. In Rumsfeld's War on frontline they talk about his real plan. Just 50,000 troops, backed with Kurds and other anti Saddam forces. Strike directly at Baghdad, quick elections through local caucuses (like Iowa does) and no occupation. Scottnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1102705779790050642004-12-10T14:07:00.000-05:002004-12-10T14:09:39.790-05:00Freedom is on the MarchIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon moved swiftly to forge a national unity government after winning approval to reshape his coalition and crushing internal opposition to his Gaza pullout plan.For those of you whom are unaware of the details. Sharon's plan to pull out of Gaza alone with Arafat's long overdue death give a real opportunity for the Palestinians to get their Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1102520121992074662004-12-08T10:30:00.000-05:002004-12-08T10:35:21.993-05:00U.N. Money-for-Peace Scam May Force Annan to Resign(2004-12-02) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan today vigorously denied allegations that he has overseen a complex, fraudulent scheme to pilfer billions of dollars from 191 nations under the guise of providing "global peace services."
U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-MN, said "this money-for-peace scam stinks even more than the oil-for-food scandal Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1102390370890549712004-12-06T22:14:00.000-05:002004-12-06T22:32:50.890-05:00Sondheim vs. SondheimHave theatergoers stayed away because Sondheim's melodies can be as elusive as anything Leonard Bernstein ever wrote? Yet he can also compose tunes that a stone could hum: "Send in the Clowns," for example, a melody heard in elevators and restaurants around the world.
It's not an on-again-off-again talent that explains Sondheim's strange duality. Instead, the evidence Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1102342053082701352004-12-06T09:01:00.000-05:002004-12-06T09:07:33.083-05:00Jan 30 : The day we find out
Over at the New York Times they are pushing to change the election date in Iraq. Despite all the debate on gay marriage the one Moral that elected Bush was doing what he said. He said election in Iraq in January. And that needs to happen hell or high water. If it doesn't his second term is over. Nothing is more important. We can debate whether election was fair or Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1102309043556225522004-12-05T23:57:00.000-05:002004-12-06T00:02:33.883-05:00Hate: Same old Same old
He is a movie star and she won the Tony Award for best actress in a musical. Tonight New York City police are investigating threats against this interracial couple as a possible hate crime.
Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel have gotten at least three letters in which the writer threatens to "burn" and "castrate" Diggs, and calling him a "sellout" for marryng a white woman.I Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1102285564388720882004-12-05T17:22:00.000-05:002004-12-05T17:26:04.386-05:00Ohio Republicans make strides in reaching out to black voters"The black vote was very critical in getting Bush over the hump in Ohio," said Dwayne Clark, the coordinator for the Northwest Ohio African American Coalition for the Bush-Cheney campaign. He was one of approximately 40 black political strategists who gathered at Ohio Republican headquarters in Columbus last month for a strategy meetingScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1102261079014210312004-12-05T10:34:00.000-05:002004-12-05T10:37:59.013-05:00Fixing Post Election Myths
The first myth: Many more churchgoing voters flocked to the polls this year, driven by the Bush "moral values" and the gay marriage referendum.
Second myth: The Bush campaign won by mobilizing GOP strongholds and suppressing turnout in Democratic areas.
Third myth: A wave of newly registered Republican voters in fast-growing rural and exurban areas carried Bush to Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1101958296100461552004-12-01T22:28:00.000-05:002004-12-03T10:21:33.386-05:00Draft Colin Now: For NAACP Head
Booker Rising says it much better than I can. Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1101954856632731772004-12-01T21:31:00.000-05:002004-12-01T21:34:16.633-05:00WORLD AIDS DAYBlacks, who represent about 13 percent of the U.S. population, made up 51 percent of all diagnoses from 2000 to 2003.I don't think we need to say more. This isn't the Tuskegee experiments. This is our community doing it to themselves. Scottnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1101690455021620642004-11-28T20:06:00.000-05:002004-11-28T20:29:47.746-05:00Vouchers: Response
Over at Vision Circle a few questions were asked about vouchers.
"One, does public school funding get cut for those students who remain in public schools? If so, is that a "fair" outcome?"
Yes that is what already happens, school budgets are determined by the number of students in them. NYC perfect example, thousands upon thousand kids go to private schools, the public system Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1101478482317376072004-11-26T09:03:00.000-05:002004-11-26T09:23:11.556-05:00The straw after the final Straw
The ACLU war against the Boy Scouts has made me realize that my quick decision to leave the Democratic party the day before thanksgiving because of the NAACP's lauding the destruction of 760 black children's educational opportunity was not an action to be regretted.
These formally great organizations that help secure the right of blacks to vote have so lost Scottnoreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1101433032711304362004-11-25T20:36:00.000-05:002004-11-25T20:37:12.710-05:00Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
This is my favorite holiday. More tomorrow.Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1101323172130939542004-11-24T13:58:00.000-05:002004-11-24T15:27:04.410-05:00Is the NAACP on CRACK ?
Voucher defeat in Fla. called a victory for Black Children
Now I am pissed. And just before Thanksgiving. I have avoided slamming the NAACP on this blog. I guess I need to stop that.
The NAACP, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, Florida Parent Teachers Association, AFL-CIO and the American Jewish Congress, filed a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1101237267221558992004-11-23T14:11:00.000-05:002004-11-23T14:14:27.220-05:00The universal affliction of irresponsibility
Star Parker nails this one.
Many of the problems in America's inner cities seem to me similar to Israeli-Palestinian problems as described by a scholar of an Israeli think tank.
It's becoming increasingly evident to me that the theme of personal responsibility is crucial everywhere and transcends the particularities of different cultures and Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1101187541909168472004-11-23T01:15:00.000-05:002004-11-23T00:26:39.123-05:00Marriage Matters : PDF
Even liberals are starting to get it. This excellent report I found on the left wing Moving Ideas Network: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love: Would Poor Couples with Children be Better Off Economically if they Married?" concludes definitely that waiting to have children until you are married and staying marries is significantly better than being single with children or Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1100964364629400682004-11-20T10:09:00.000-05:002004-11-20T16:21:05.936-05:00Realistic Goals for Iraq
The constant drumbeat of failure from the left will never stop because they don't have a realistic view of what can be accomplished. They are expecting this ravaged disfunctional country to turn into Mayberry, or the O.C. when they should be hoping to get a Compton, Washington D.C. or a Detroit. Measured against these standards there is no chance of success. The Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1100877178199811212004-11-19T10:04:00.000-05:002004-11-19T10:12:58.200-05:00We Won't Have a Draft Post-Vietnam, the military raised the performance bar--for acquired skill sets, new-recruit intelligence and not least, self-discipline. The thing one noticed most when watching the embedded reporters' interviews last year on the way into Iraq was the self-composed confidence reflected throughout the ranks. And this in young men just out of high school or college.
It was noScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1100698201455569992004-11-17T08:27:00.000-05:002004-11-17T08:30:01.456-05:00Even Black Anti-Bush Bloggers understand the problem with the UN and ICC
To Quote Prometheus 6. "...which is exactly why George Bush wouldn't join the World Court" as he links to the insanity comming out of the UN.
Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1100642201151101782004-11-16T16:56:00.000-05:002004-11-16T16:56:49.896-05:00R.O.F.LScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1100558631214422042004-11-15T17:43:00.000-05:002004-11-16T09:16:34.386-05:00Colin Powell : Thank You for Your ServiceHe still performed important, even vital roles. In 2002, he prioritized a personal diplomacy offensive spearheaded by his closest friend and loyal right hand man, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to defuse dangerously escalating tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.
It was one of the great, unsung diplomatic success stories Scottnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1100488946950375692004-11-14T22:20:00.000-05:002004-11-15T12:17:23.406-05:00Crime Doesn't Pay
But not for the reasons you think. Has anyone ever seen a study about the decline in crime being a function of the lack of profitability in being a criminal? I was thinking about this earlier today. I make a good salary as a web developer. Even with taxes taking about 1/2 of it. I can't imagine making more money as a criminal without working much much harder.
In 1976, if youScottnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1100285726375962552004-11-12T13:30:00.000-05:002004-11-14T17:24:29.153-05:00Understanding Liberal Amorality
I am part of a political discussion listserv. When the list started I was a liberal. I was pissed about 2000 election. The list serve calmed down until 9/11 since then the liberal on the list have made me realize there is no place for moderate views on the left side of debates.
The left is saying that middle America is stupid, unscientific in their voting Scottnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1100272524370375602004-11-12T10:05:00.000-05:002004-11-12T10:15:24.370-05:00Veterans Day : Every Day
The office where I work was built in 1928, In the lobby are a few plaques listing the employees of my company who perished in WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam. I walk by them every day. And occasionally I stop look and think and read the names. Small memorials like this exist all over the country. Most churches have memorials like that, where they show the members of their Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1100120668974923072004-11-10T15:53:00.000-05:002004-11-10T16:04:28.973-05:00The problem with Democrats is that they've become the party of moral absolutism AND PERHAPS there's some truth in that claim. Maybe the Americans who voted for Bush have doubts about whether homosexuality is a choice and don't want to rush to change sexual-bond institutions that have benefited society for centuries because of an extremist agenda that implies either you're for gay marriage or Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1100012182990526852004-11-09T09:55:00.000-05:002004-11-10T09:16:26.716-05:00Articles Worth a Minute or Two to Read
Seeing red and wondering why
Why Did Kerry Lose?
The political genius of George W. Bush
We weren't dumb enough to vote Kerry
Dupes and Dopes Of Campaign '04Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099927035696037502004-11-08T10:16:00.000-05:002004-11-08T22:32:39.210-05:00The Silent Swing
The CNN exit polls number of 11% Blacks voting for bush has been the most quoted. But the L.A. Times exit poll ( PDF link) shows 14% of black voters voted for Bush. I hope more post election phone polls are done and we get better data. But The 14% number feels about right.
14% of Blacks voted for Bush, 14% of America is Black. So I get to be a double minority, I am cool with Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099843660843561442004-11-07T11:03:00.000-05:002004-11-07T11:07:40.843-05:00Blacks for Bush : Mission StatementSince the Democrats have failed in their mission to respect and protect their strongest supporters and ignored the black vote I have decided to vote for Bush in the following Election. For me the decision is very easy I live in NYC and NY always goes democrat so my vote is effectively useless in a presidential election. Unfortunately the sick feeling I get when Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099842267761787842004-11-07T10:31:00.000-05:002004-11-07T11:08:31.230-05:00I am sure Bush pulled more that 11% of the Black Vote
Last night I was at a basement party. And liberal girl started on the usual diatribe about how awful Bush is etc. And I was surprised at the response because about 1/2 of the black men at the party had voted for Bush. And this is a group of people I have known for years, but I barely see anymore since I have gotten married, so its not like I Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099706826592874892004-11-05T21:04:00.000-05:002004-11-05T21:07:06.593-05:00WOW : 337,000 payroll jobs last monthEmployers added 337,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, up from a revised 139,000 in September, the Labor Department reported. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com were looking for a gain of 175,000.Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099683058186394862004-11-05T14:25:00.000-05:002004-11-05T14:30:58.186-05:00Deal with it
The leftist paper the Guardian sums it all up. There are no excuses this time. We can hope that Bush takes note of the great (pro-American) English conservative Edmund Burke's dictum that "magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom" and governs more consensually now than before.
But Bush's opponents should be wise too. Bush won. They lost. It's time for the DemocratsScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099595668762460452004-11-04T14:13:00.000-05:002004-11-04T14:14:28.763-05:00Bush Pulls 16% of Black Vote to Take Ohio
Sixteen percent of Ohio blacks — about 90,000 voters — cast their ballots for Mr. Bush, said Matt Daniels, president of Alliance For Marriage, which supported that state's ballot referendum to prohibit same-sex "marriage." If Mr. Bush's black supporters had instead voted for Mr. Kerry, the Democrat would have won Ohio by 40,000, Mr. Daniels said.Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099595358154166232004-11-04T14:06:00.000-05:002004-11-04T14:09:18.153-05:00Black Voters Put Bush Over the Top
A story you wont see on the tv talk shows but fellow conservative brotherhood site Booker rising has the analysis. Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099539386044049232004-11-03T22:21:00.000-05:002004-11-04T09:28:35.036-05:00Nov 2, 2004 The Ultimate Protest59 million adults got up and said, "The status quo is good enough for me."
55 million adults said, "I want a change."
Another 104 million adults decided, "The status quo is good enough for me," so they didn't vote.
Only 25% of the country was dissatified enough with the state of the union to vote for change.Since before we went to war in Iraq, we have been Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099409242791567752004-11-02T10:25:00.000-05:002004-11-02T10:27:22.793-05:00Frontline: Rumsfeld's War | PBS
I am linking to this on a recommendation from S-train. Rumfeld's War = Better understanding of BushScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099408358464129042004-11-02T10:04:00.000-05:002004-11-02T10:12:38.463-05:00Giving the Milk Away for Free
I challenge everyone to go to John Kerry's website which I have linked to above. You will not find one thing to specifically help Blacks, even under civil rights nothing, just saying I will enforce current laws and give illegal mexican immigrants citizenship. But if Kerry wins it will be because of the Black vote alone.
Turnout for Mr Kerry will be key and black Scottnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099394941160284932004-11-02T06:23:00.000-05:002004-11-02T06:29:01.160-05:00Voting Done and Back Home
All of my adrenaline is gone, the kids are awake an hour early. And only one have of my districts voting machines were broken. Lucky me. I hear the NYC voting machines we use were designed and built by Edison.
It was very cool being there with all the other cranky New Yorkers who like to vote when the polls open. Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099391475154437282004-11-02T05:29:00.000-05:002004-11-02T05:31:15.153-05:005:30 AM Polls open in 1/2 Hour :)
I did get about 3.5 hours of sleep but youngest son knowing how important today was woke me up 1/2 hour ago. Totally psyched. Lets hope they didn't change my polling location since NYC can't put a list of polling locations on their website.
Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099374281779906862004-11-02T01:40:00.000-05:002004-11-02T00:44:41.780-05:00Its elections Day, I am So Psyched
I am planning to vote for a republican for president for the first time of my life.
For my Senator I am voting libertarian. For Congress Republican and for local officials democrat.
I really hope the black vote is the determining factor for a Bush win. Otherwise we remain step children of the democratic party for another 4 years.
My polls open in 5 hours 15 Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099115558847763332004-11-01T01:52:00.000-05:002004-11-01T14:03:42.486-05:00Should You have to Pay for Health Care ?
Fact: American health costs account for about 14 percent of GDP.
Fact: American Defense spending is about 3.5 percent of GDP.
So currently American spends about 4 times as much money on health care than we do on national defense.
What is interesting it that they are both very similar in term of transparency. Everyone knows the stories about $500 Scottnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1099057209502233402004-10-29T08:26:00.000-05:002004-10-30T00:30:51.980-05:00Treason and Gay Marriage
Last night I told my wife that Bush/Rove was running a shitty campaign. She said, your an amateur don't second guess professionals. She said they aren't trying to get your vote, you live in NYC. They are speaking to other people.
This morning for the second day in a row I saw a child in NYC wearing a Boston Red Sox hat. I am not a sports fan, but I was incensed. What Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1098732952096697912004-10-25T14:35:00.000-05:002004-10-26T09:26:04.606-05:00Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
One great thing about the web is that it allows you to find out about things you didn't know existed. In this case a 10 year old program to show businesses that the inner city can be the best place to put a store or a service center or factory.
ICIC's mission is to spark new thinking about the business potential of inner cities, thereby creating jobs andScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1098424355372470052004-10-22T00:50:00.000-05:002004-10-22T01:07:12.053-05:00Rolling with the Brotherhood
Cobb has an excellent post After The Bubble that understands the race for president has a lot of the same mania that happened during the internet bubble.
La Shawn is taking a break from the short term thinking of daily blogging to think more holistically ( I bet she hates that word).
Juliette Ochieng discusses one of the saddest things about the campaign which is Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1098369153062898482004-10-21T09:27:00.000-05:002004-10-21T09:56:31.440-05:00Help the World while sitting at your computer
By visting these sites the sponsers donate money to these causes.
The Hunger Site
The Breast Cancer Site
The Child Health Site
The Rainforest Site
The Animal Rescue SiteScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1098244489289334982004-10-19T22:37:00.000-05:002004-10-19T23:02:30.686-05:00Understanding Institutional RacismAfter turning 65, my father wasted no time retiring. He'd purchased our house back in 1952 for $20,000 thanks to a 3 percent mortgage made possible by the Veterans Administration. Now he was considering an offer of $300,000. With the money they'd get a place in the Berkshires and winter in Florida.
Ten years later, my colleague, Cornelius, sold the house he grewScottnoreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1097984843593981302004-10-16T22:43:00.000-05:002004-10-16T23:05:30.750-05:00Why I turned Conservative
Just a few minutes ago I finally figured it out. I was replying to another strange post over at black introspection and I finally realized why I had finally lost patience with the traditional black leadership and the liberal mindset. When I started this blog with its obviously provocative name I was just pissed off at the fact that in all the talk of swing voters and Scottnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1097795682163645232004-10-14T18:09:00.000-05:002004-10-14T18:14:42.163-05:00A Southern black minister tells why he will vote for George W. Bush
Fellow Conservative brotherhood member links to this powerful letter. The best part is the comment section, even some known skeptics were moved.
BTW: For those who don't know I have become a 1 issue voter for this election. NCBL.
If you are a black American who cares about our future this election is a no-brainer.
Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1097677276023995012004-10-14T16:20:00.000-05:002004-10-14T16:40:05.326-05:00Who is responsible for your Health : You : Doctor : : HMO : Government ?
Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1097459360418729952004-10-10T20:43:00.000-05:002004-10-14T17:46:49.446-05:00Why didn't terrorist stop the Afghan Election ?
Except for the UN screw up with the ink, It went off without any major disruptions.
How in the fuck did that happen in the former stronghold of Al Queda and the Taliban when there are barely any American troops on the ground.
And why is no one discussing what this means.
Think about it, think about the amazing meme that now exist in that countryScottnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1097269444222770732004-10-08T15:59:00.000-05:002004-10-08T16:04:04.223-05:00Wow: even The Black Commentator Doesn't like Africa Town
Desperate circumstances cause human beings to make questionable decisions....
The impetus for African Town and homes for moribund baseball teams is the same. Black urban areas are in bad shape. High unemployment rates, a dwindling tax base and a lack of community owned businesses are all recipes for high crime, bad schools, and well Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1097259585009694682004-10-08T13:15:00.000-05:002004-10-08T15:43:27.846-05:00Kerry Lies or (flip flops) about his tax Increases
What is amazing is he lies and contradicts himself on the same page of his website linked above.
To quote the Kerry website:
John Kerry will roll back only Bush's tax cuts for those making over $200,000 a year, and invest those resources in affordable health care and better schools. Specifically, the Kerry-Edwards plan will: ...
But he Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1097095811901563882004-10-06T15:41:00.000-05:002004-10-06T15:50:11.900-05:00Lynching Follow up: Or lack of
As I posted last April a young black man was lynched in Mississippi. There has not been much follow up on it at all, as to be expected. But the family believes it was killed over the family land.
Veal had returned to his home from Seattle to help his family fight a land-grab attempt by whites who alleged title and timber rights to acres that had been in Veal’s Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1097092638031029972004-10-06T14:52:00.000-05:002004-10-06T14:57:18.030-05:00Abortion on demand : My thoughts
Abortion on demand is being able to get an abortion like a snickers bar as a member of my political listserv pointed out. And yes its that easy, you walk into clinic drop your cash wait on line and 1/2 hour later the life you created is gone. Something that was living is now not, whether you think of it as killing a bug, a human or a cat it is more than a hair Scottnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1097075561608046962004-10-06T10:07:00.000-05:002004-10-06T10:12:41.606-05:00Polygamy laws expose our own hypocrisy
No matter which side you are on the marriage debate this article is a must read.
However, in its 1878 opinion in Reynolds vs. United States, the court refused to recognize polygamy as a legitimate religious practice, dismissing it in racist and anti-Mormon terms as "almost exclusively a feature of the life of Asiatic and African people." In later decisionsScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1097073212364590122004-10-06T09:26:00.000-05:002004-10-06T09:33:32.366-05:00Vice presidential Debate Analysis
Both sides pandered to their base and found no converts.
I was pissed off with Edwards because he spun more facts. The most egergious is saying that millions lost their "health care". Which is a LIE. Millions have lost health insurance. Health insurance is not Health care. In my life I have had insurance without care and care without insurance. As long as Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1096651681081118662004-10-06T08:27:00.000-05:002004-10-06T09:34:46.736-05:00The Medium is the Message: Debate # 1
Lashawn listen to teh debate and said Bush obviously one. Pro-Kerry A guy on my political listserve saw on small screen on computer and he knew Bush had won hand down. How you viewed the debate has a tremendous effect on how you precieve it.
And Kerry's stand on North Korea was fucking frightening.
I was amazed that Kerry was finally able to make Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1096922042508057482004-10-04T15:30:00.000-05:002004-10-04T15:34:02.506-05:00Lifeboat Situations
Mises.org's is a great site for those interested in libertarian ideals.
Here is some thoughts about property rights in life boat situtations.
In a lifeboat situation, indeed, we apparently have a war of all against all, and there seems at first to be no way to apply our theory of self-ownership or of property rights. But, in the example cited, the reason is because the Scottnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1096654416739785182004-10-01T13:10:00.000-05:002004-10-01T13:13:36.786-05:00Why We Back Bush: Five elected black Republicans make the case for the presidentJohn Kerry wants to be president. But he doesn't want to discuss his unproductive time in the Senate. And he isn't offering credible ideas to extend opportunity and promote ownership in our communities. Instead, he's going back into the old Democratic Party bag of tricks and pulling out . . . the race card. Mr. Kerry Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1096473094972246302004-09-29T10:49:00.000-05:002004-09-29T10:51:34.973-05:00I want a War Channel
Brother Cobb has hit the nail on the head.
I want a War Channel, all battlefield coverage all the time. I want to see from Iraq what I see on 'Cops' and 'Americas Wildest Police Chases'. I want cameras and eyeballs on the ground watching these 'insurgents' ply their brutal trade. I want a soldier's eye view of what it's like to stand post in New Barbaria. I want to see theScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1096472446149008122004-09-29T10:37:00.000-05:002004-09-29T10:40:46.150-05:00Jews Like Blacks Should Consider Voting Bush
But America in 2004 is very different from the America of 50 or 100 years ago. American Jews owe it to themselves to base their political loyalty on something stronger than force of habit. Those who vote for Democrats (or against Republicans) because that's what their parents and grandparents did ought to take a closer look: When it comes to the issuesScottnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1096469093045054512004-09-29T09:37:00.000-05:002004-09-29T09:44:53.046-05:00Kerry's Non Plan for Iraq
But last week, just after Kerry's major speech on the war in which he insisted that the United States "must make Iraq the world's responsibility" and that others "should share the burden," Schröder's sense of courtesy collided with reality and he drove a spike into the notion. He told reporters, "We won't send any German soldiers to Iraq, and that's where it's going to Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1096435309246504982004-09-29T00:05:00.000-05:002004-09-29T00:21:49.246-05:00Chatting at Black Introspection
I have been spending a lot of time over at this site full of well meaning but poorly observing brothers. To quote one of them. "If you know anything about black people Scott, blacks would prefer to live in warmer climates, like Mississippi ". It very interesting to watch the potential of these men go wasted because they believe that the white man cares enough Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1096151503159737532004-09-25T17:28:00.000-05:002004-09-25T17:31:43.160-05:00Democrats respond to Bush's Ownership Society
New Partnership for America's Future
Throughout our nation's history, hope and optimism for the future have always defined the American spirit. Our tradition has been to expand opportunity, and strengthen family and community. A vibrant middle class and an informed electorate have formed the foundation of our democracy. That is why House Democrats Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1096058127923516012004-09-24T15:32:00.000-05:002004-09-24T15:35:48.143-05:00Can a N***A Get Job
Aaron McGruder might be an anti-war lefty but at least he has a sense of humor.
Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1096053044734092442004-09-24T14:10:00.000-05:002004-09-24T14:20:03.363-05:00Kerry Can't Be President Now
Allawi is a hero in the war against terrorism. He is putting his life on the line every day, he has a price on his head. He is the leader of free Iraq a country with 150k American soldiers stationed in harms way. And Kerry is calling him a liar. He has already basically said the Australia was stupid for standing by us in Iraq.
This man is a fool, he is undermining Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1095953821528692092004-09-23T10:29:00.000-05:002004-09-23T10:37:01.526-05:00Non Violence Against Terrorism
While posting at Peg's What if I realized that we are basically using non-violence bring peace to Iraq. Don't let the 150k troops fool you. They and the thousands that have gone there to help rebuild are non-violent warriors against terrorism. They are not responding in kind with kidnapping, roadside bombs and beheading they are responding with love and helping to Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1095790712628336782004-09-21T13:16:00.000-05:002004-09-21T13:18:32.626-05:00What is a Black Agenda ?
What is it and what should it be. It's an open question for all of my readers. For my readers who are not black, tell us what the media has told you the black adgenda is?
Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1095774039297339562004-09-21T08:34:00.000-05:002004-09-21T08:40:39.296-05:00A Plan for Fallujah and the Future of Iraq
"U.S. commanders say they want to wait until Iraq's new army is large enough, and trained enough, to assume a leading role in retaking the city. "It doesn't do any good for us to go in and clean it up if it's a pure United States or coalition operation," said Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, the top commander responsibleScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1095658817158961792004-09-20T00:32:00.000-05:002004-09-20T08:22:46.876-05:00Anybody But Bush
The anybody but Bush phenomena is well know, but the media and even the blogsphere hasn't investigated it or discussed why its so dangerous for America and the world. The only place I have seen it discussed is in Ralph's Revolt. Ralph's revolt destroys the case for demonizing Bush and his administration. It rightly points out that his tax cuts, the war on Iraq, patriot acts Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1095393769099250852004-09-17T00:02:00.000-05:002004-09-20T08:23:13.583-05:00Waiting for Whoop ass Wednesday
Wednesday Nov 3 will be the day Iraq starts to turn around, because whether he wins or loses the election on that day Bush will be a lame duck president and he can allow the military to get down to business. Bush will finally have no reason to flip flop on Iraq. Attack Faluja, stop the attack because of some bad press saying our marines are killing women and Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1095328719629793032004-09-16T04:58:00.000-05:002004-09-16T05:17:23.966-05:00Birth of a Nation : A Comic Novel
Birth of a Nation : A Comic Novel
by Aaron Mcgruder, Reginald Hudlin, Kyle Baker An excellent, excellent book a must read. These three have nailed it all from inner city life, to international politics.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1095270309156833732004-09-15T10:43:00.000-05:002004-09-15T14:07:18.710-05:00Sucking it Up
Low intensity racism is real and you have two choices, adapt to it and live your life or waste your time hoping that everyone will become more sensitive. Vision circle pointed to this Gallup poll that discuses it. Retail shopping is the setting in which the highest number of blacks perceive discrimination within the last 30 days. Young black males are particularly likely to say Scottnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1095181201635275222004-09-14T12:58:00.000-05:002004-09-14T12:00:01.636-05:00Why I love the web: IM Fight (quicktime movie)Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094955491557575712004-09-11T21:15:00.000-05:002004-09-11T21:18:11.556-05:00Never ForgetScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094915200657232022004-09-11T10:02:00.000-05:002004-09-11T10:06:40.656-05:00For 9/11 I just wanted to point to a previous post of mine about remembering 9/11Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094781360044086432004-09-09T20:49:00.000-05:002004-09-09T20:56:15.090-05:00U.S. jobless rate hits six-year lowJuly 5, 1996
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Economists didn't expect June's unemployment rate to be much different from May's, which was an already-low 5.6 percent. But in fact, it did fall -- to 5.3 percent. The unemployment rate hasn't been that low since June 1990.
The Labor Department said Friday that businesses added 239,000 workers to their payrolls during June. Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094678794056592062004-09-08T16:19:00.000-05:002004-09-08T16:26:34.056-05:00Slow shift in campaign's Iraq factor
Finally people seem to be getting it. That its not about WMD and never was, its about human rights and freedom. The go no-go decision for Iraq was about taking the battle to the Arab world and giving them an opprotunity for freedom. That is why Abu Ghraib hurt the war effort so much, because we want to fight the good fight.Just a few months ago, Iraq looked Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094670813046955282004-09-08T13:59:00.000-05:002004-09-08T14:13:33.046-05:00 Two-Minutes Hate
The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094402657149021532004-09-05T12:39:00.000-05:002004-09-05T22:50:36.226-05:00What Kerry needs to say to get back into the Game
It looks like I hit about 80% on what Bush needed to say to put Kerry out. He didn't hit back with the different job report that the government made which show 600k jobs in July which I think was a mistake. Nor did he mention life time savings account but everything else was there. So Kerry is out of the game. As I talk to my many democratic Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094356657892084332004-09-04T22:49:00.000-05:002004-09-04T22:57:37.893-05:00$9 Trillion Didn't End Poverty -- What to Do? The best way to reduce the poverty rate is to convince people to avoid poverty in the first place by finishing school, delaying parenthood, and getting a job (any job). High school dropouts are roughly three times more likely to end up in poverty than are those who complete at least a high school education. A common reason why teens drop out of high Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094310985972314022004-09-04T10:06:00.000-05:002004-09-04T10:16:25.973-05:00 The Population of the United States is 293,027,571
According to Kerry "1.7 million jobs lost since 2000; 1.4 million more people without health insurance; and 1.3 million more in poverty in the past year". So over the last 4 years the number of people in poverty increased by 0.4%. Less than one 1/2 of one percent. Since things are usually twice as bad for black America I will assume our povertyScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094224334947466552004-09-03T09:41:00.000-05:002004-09-03T10:12:14.946-05:00Sean P Diddy Combs speaks out! on "The O'Reilly Factor"
For me this was my favorite part of the final night of the convention. Bill didn't pull any punches, and neither did Sean. I hope they replay it on the Sunday night best of the week show fox has so you all can see. Sean was very clear about not wanting to be a democrat or a republican. He was very clear that his goal was to make his Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094221514577048212004-09-03T09:07:00.000-05:002004-09-03T09:25:14.576-05:00Only 3 Choices
Those who would call us ignorant for supporting Bush in the election are unclear on the concept of voting. Your choice is limited you can't get everything you want. Anyone who is in any relationship knows it involves compromises. The first choice was Nader who I couldn't support because he represented the green party in 2000 and I hate their communistist platform. That leaves me Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094135697543980452004-09-02T09:28:00.000-05:002004-09-02T09:34:57.543-05:00Sen. Zell Miller's Key Point that the media missed
Or Why he is angry at the democrats.
In the post game shows they are all asking "why is so mad ?". Well if they listened to his speech and they understood how most American fell about their country instead of living in a leftist media bubble they would get it.
today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator.
Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094072741262087962004-09-01T16:04:00.000-05:002004-09-01T16:09:05.370-05:00LOL: Annoy a Liberal
Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094063216806765962004-09-01T13:21:00.000-05:002004-09-01T13:35:32.963-05:00 Slavery is not dead : My Reparation Check In his book "Disposable People," Bales says ownership is no longer an attractive proposition for most slaveholders because the price of slaves is so low. In 1850, a slave would cost about $40,000 in today's dollars. Now, you can buy a slave for $30 in the Ivory Coast. The glut "has converted them from being the equivalent of buying a car to buying a Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1094050962841674202004-09-01T10:00:00.000-05:002004-09-01T10:02:42.840-05:00The GOP's growing rainbow contingent This year, the Republican National Committee boasts that minorities make up a record 17 percent of the delegates at the New York convention.
Bush's four-year snub of the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus was a calculated move to skirt the civil-rights leadership and make his conservative pro-business pitch to black moderates. Polls consistently show Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1093929635168144742004-08-31T00:17:00.000-05:002004-08-31T00:20:35.166-05:00Understanding 'Middle-Class Squeeze'Economists have found that people with identical incomes can wind up in very different places financially. A few years ago, Stephen F. Venti and David Wise examined the relationship between income and wealth for people nearing retirement age. If everyone had approximately the same savings behavior, then you would expect that most of the variation in wealth Scottnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1093890086789727982004-08-30T13:01:00.000-05:002004-08-30T13:21:26.790-05:00Tough Love
Today as I surfed the blogsphere I found myself giving out some constructive criticism to two new black bloggers I have been reading, Black Pundit a conservative and Black Introspection a lefty.
I realized I was critiquing both for the same thing. First preaching instead teaching. Second having arguments that are false. As anyone who had a good math teachers knows, how you get to Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1093879232020017222004-08-30T10:17:00.000-05:002004-08-30T10:20:32.020-05:00The New Black Freedom Fighter
Fellow Conservative Brotherhood member has written an inspirational piece. Check it out.
Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1093878398818254022004-08-30T10:04:00.000-05:002004-08-30T10:06:38.816-05:00Half Full : A roundup of the past two weeks' good news from Iraq.
Please read the whole article its inspirational.Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1093837886675543732004-08-29T22:50:00.000-05:002004-08-29T23:04:53.260-05:00Why Koch is on Bushs bandwagon
As I stated before I believe as an Black American the war on terrorism should not determine how you vote. But if you do think the war on terrorism is a top tier issue. You should read why former NYC mayor Ed Koch is voting for Bush.
Koch was surprised and impressed by Bush's resolve after Sept. 11. "He announced the Bush Doctrine -- he said we would go after the Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1093792934268007092004-08-29T10:09:00.000-05:002004-08-29T10:22:14.266-05:00Kerry Can't be trusted: Or Kerry Lies Cubans Die
Notice the date on the above article, I found it on blogdex today. I am not amazed that the CNN and NYTIMES of the world have ignored Kerry's lies, I am just glad that I and a few other people on the web know.
'I'm pretty tough on Castro, because I think he's running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist secret police government in the world,''Scottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1093755271162302232004-08-28T23:40:00.000-05:002004-08-29T00:01:46.943-05:00A real 9/11 Memorial for the Delegates to Visit during the Convention
As a native New Yorker the most moving memorial for the victims of 9/11 were the flyers of Missing People that their family members and friends made when people still had hope their loved ones might be missing instead of dead.
On 11th street and 7th ave is St. Vincent's Hospital, and they have save a very small number of theScottnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049169.post-1093588448131592292004-08-27T01:34:00.000-05:002004-08-28T11:01:42.210-05:00What Bush needs to say at the Convention to put Kerry Down and out : Part 2
Continuing from Part 1:
We are in an economy of transformation. Thanks to our policies our economy is growing at an unprecedented rate. In July 660,000 jobs were created but only 32,000 of them came from big business. In the past big business created jobs, provided health insurance and provided pensions for Scottnoreply@blogger.com1