New Haven, a place to realize the American dream as long as you're anything other than a white guy.

New Haven, Connecticut whose slogan is 'It all happens here' hits a home run with that one. New Haven, founded in 1638 is home to Yale University, had the first public tree planting program in America and is known as the Elm City, in 1784 Roger Sherman one of the signers of the Constitution was elected the city's first mayor. Why, New Haven is the Birthplace of our illustrious former President George W. Bush, what a history. But what stands out most about New Haven is that it is probably the worst city in this great country for a white guy to try to attain the American Dream.

New Haven is the home of a group of white firefighters who took the local test for promotion and then were denied by city officials because none of the blacks that took the test passed, discrimination at it's best. Their logic was that the black firefighters would file suit if they promoted the white firefighters regardless of the fact that they didn't pass the test for promotion. The white firefighters decided not to take the slight laying down as most white guys do in America today and sued. The local court, as I call them, ruled against the firefighters and the case went on the the appeals court where none other than Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sat on the bench, and low and behold the fair minded interpreter of the law also, ruled against the firefighters. The case went to the Supreme Court and Justice was finally served, the White firefighters won, they can get their promotions. Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg the most liberal of our Supreme Court Justices was one of the dissenting judges, and since she is white and has some kind of liberal guilt thing working for her wrote in her brief that New Haven had not engaged in illegal discrimination and that the firefighters had no vested right to promotion other than they had met ALL of the requirements set by the city, a typical decision from a lawyer who's background consists of working for the ACLU and academia.

What has come from all of this is a look into how the system works, how discrimination against white males has been legislated and is rampant across the country. Testing is modified to make it easier for minorities to pass, laws based on flawed logic are in place in municipalities across the country that essentially punish whites who apply themselves in an attempt to succeed. Sadly, these laws don't not help the minorities they are written for, what does move all Americans towards equality is a level playing field. Why not let all applicants for all positions know what is expected of them and if they apply themselves, work hard and study hard they will have real equal opportunity. This legislated nonsense just isn't working.

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"Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order"
John V. Lindsay
1921 - 2000
US Congressman, Mayor of New York City

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American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 or how many jobs are going to be lost before the 'millions' are created.

I had the opportunity to run a textile screen printing company in southern California way back in 1990. I was hired initially to get the sales area reorganized, straighten out the accounts receivables and within weeks was given the additional title of general manager or hatchet man which was a more appropriate description of my duties. I bring this up because I had an intimate look at the operation of the company and it's relationship to the EPA in California. California had a system of credits that is similar to what the Obama people are going to put into place if the Senate passes Clean Energy and Security Act.

The company I managed revamped their operations because the codes were so restrictive that they decided it would be easier and far less costly to print with water based inks and not have to put up with all of the government regulation and endless inspections that were basically impossible to pass. As a result we employed about 125 people when we should have been staffed at around 250. At the same time businesses were leaving California as fast as their leases were up or they could sell their property. Much of that business went to Mexico by the way, American manufacturing jobs, skilled factory positions were lost permanently. This is going to be the same scenario, but now on a national scale. Oh yes there may be jobs created, down the road, and you may notice Mr. Obama, the maker of wild ass claims, won't even hint as to when these millions of jobs are going to start or what they will be.

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"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people".
Justice William O.Douglas
1898 - 1980
US Supreme Court Justice

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Stalin, Khamenei, Hitler, Khamenei, Pol Pot, Khamenei, Castro, Khamenei, Sadam Hussien, Khamanei, Idi Amin, Khamenei Oh well what are you going to do.

And the Obama administration wants to have a dialogue with the Iranian regime, over what. Apparently they, or 44 himself, think they will charm the rags right off the heads of these Islamofascist's. Don't they get it, this is nothing more than Joseph Stalin with a turban and a long white beard. The only difference the regime in Iran headed up by the 'Supreme Leader' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and that of the old Soviet Union headed up by Joseph Stalin is the state religion. The same repressive tactics exist and were probably taken right from Stalin's play book.

Today the Ayatollah says that there will be no more discussion about the rigged elections that just took place in Iran and that the Kangaroo (I apologize if any kangaroo's are offended) court system will begin prosecuting protesters for questioning the railroad job that just concluded. This all means that an awful lot of dissenters are about to meet their end, that's the way Totalitarian governments quiet anyone that either questions or opposes them in any way. The next time Amadenajad is invited to speak at one of our fine educational institutions keep this in mind.

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"The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force".
Max Eastman
18883 - 1969
Source; Reflections on the Failure of Socialism, 1955

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Apparently the Chinese and Russian puppeteers have the strings tangled on their Kim Jong Il doll.

The Chinese and the Russians have been giving the west fits for years with their refusal to help with reining in North Korea. As most people familiar with the situation will tell you, the Chinese and the Russians have been playing the west for suckers through the Koreans for years and for some reason the west has never caught on, at least publicly. We cave each end every time Kim starts to rattle his sword and when the crisis ends North Korea goes right back to whatever they were doing before.

However it now appears that the North Koreans have some type of nuclear weapon or at best or worst the technology to produce one based on their recent underground test and now also appear to have the means to deliver one based on the recent and proposed missile tests which appears to have embarrassed the Chinese and the Russians by the seeming loss of control over their puppet nation and that doesn't sit well with the control freaks in either country. As a result the Chinese and the Russians are requesting the rest of the world to join with them in applying further sanctions on the North Koreans, what a bunch of baloney.

We finally have the Chinese and the Russians right where we want them. As Juan Williams stated in an interview today, we should announce a nuclear Japan, that would force the two nations to take control of North Korea and at the same time would show that they have allowed Kim to run on for so many years because they benefit by having a disconnected nation where they can violate treaties they have signed agreeing to cease development of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.

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"If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in a sorry state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny".
Thomas Jefferson
1743 - 1826
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

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Here come da' judge, Here come da' judge and the sad fact is that it's not funny.

I can just imagine the level of anxiety that ran through every member of the House when they impeached Federal Judge Samuel Kent of Texas, today. Not because they had a daunting task before them but because many of them are probably guilty of the same offense they were impeaching the judge for. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan said the issue before them was shocking and shameful, Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas came forth with a healthy dose of good old Texas bull s_ _t when he said he was not unsympathetic to the judge who claimed to be suffering from alcohol abuse and depression from the death of his first wife (that must be some kind of cryptic bureaucrat speak indicating he has a second wife somewhere), and I wonder if his second wife is upset by his forcing himself on his female staffers. However Rep. Alcee Hastings of the great sovereign state of Florida said nothing, probably because he himself was impeached as a federal judge for corruption charges and for the life of me I can't understand how anyone with an ounce of brains would vote a crook like him to another office, no wonder he has such a fine smile on his face on his Congressional site.

For some reason Congress won't or can't fire this goof, and since he refuses to resign he is going to collect his $175,000.00 salary next year, now if that isn't justice gone wrong I don't what qualifies. Since nothing was mentioned about loss of pension, I'm sure he will be collecting one which means the taxpayers are getting double screwed and remember he's a federal judge so we all take this one the hard way. Here's a little scenario to provoke some thought; If you or I went before a judge with similar charges and claimed we were alcohol abusers and or depressed over something they would still throw the book at us, it would cost a fortune in legal fees and not only would we be fired from our jobs when we went to prison, if we were public servants we would lose our pension and would probably have to register as sex offenders.

This nonsense has to end and the only way it will is if the voters start voting these sitting politicians out of office. They write the laws and they also bend them to fit any given situation regardless of the cost to their constituents. A little something to think about when the 2010 elections come up.

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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation".
Henry David Thoreau
1817 - 1862

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D-Day Ceremonies, the Russians and revisionist history or should we say leaving out big parts of the whole truth.

There was an interesting blurb in the news today about the Russians being upset about about being slighted during the recent D-Day ceremonies. Their claim is that they didn't get adequate tribute for their role in defeating Nazi Germany. I guess as a lone American I'll give them an adequate tribute------thanks comrades------but then I must make several clarifications at the same time so as not to ignore actual history.

First and foremost, in case you aren't up on your WWII history or any history for that matter, the Russians were allies of Nazi Germany in 1939, and the real story goes this way. On August 23, 1939 the world was shocked when, Russia and Germany signed a 'Non-aggression Pact'. People would have been even more shocked if they had known at the time that, in addition, the two countries had made a number of 'secret protocol' agreeing to 'spheres of influence' in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Poland. It amounted to an agreement to invade and divide the countries of eastern Europe between them......with Poland first on the list. As stated by the BBC "Germany and Russia agreed to bury the hatchet, they agreed to bury it in Poland".

Further more the Russian's had nothing to do with D-Day (and had they, would probably have notified the German's), the US, England, France and Canada provided the troops that carried out the invasion, which by the way led to the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. Another little known fact that our 'friends in the former Soviet Union' never mention is that the US provided the technology, most of the machinery and most of the supplies that they, the Soviets, used to fight the Germans after their alliance fell apart. And in reality no one will ever know how many of his own people the benevolent Joseph Stalin put to death during that same period and are included in their loss numbers today.

President Obama was the only leader to mention the overall Soviet losses during his speech at the ceremonies and personally I can't figure out why he did, there weren't any Russians killed at Normandy, unless they were there as spies for Stalin hoping to pass word back that we were taking such a beating that we would be so weakened that the Soviets could turn on us. My best guess is that 44 was working the world audience and thought it best to pander to Russia in the hope of reaching their softer side when he has to sit and negotiate with them, I wonder if he will look into their eyes and see friends?

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"The main thing is to have a soul that loves truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on it's side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749 - 1832
German author considered by many to be Germany's greatest man of letters...and the last true polymath to walk the earth.

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North Korea, China's way to antagonize the mush brains in the west.

At the behest of his masters in China, Kim Jong Il fires one missile after another in an effort to heighten tensions with the west, then appoints his youngest son as his successor and names him 'brilliant comrade' (I'm sure the Chinese had their writers working overtime on that one), then sets off an underground nuke which is more than likely China's way of getting around test ban and non proliferation treaties, while simultaneously putting two American journalists of Korean descent on trial for spying or whatever their kangaroo court system can contrive. And through it all the Chinese continue to say that they haven't got any control over what their puppet nation does to antagonize the rest of the world.

The above may seem to be somewhat of an outrageous statement, but, a certain logic dictates otherwise. Everything that Kim does in North Korea benefits the Chinese directly. They allow him to be a distraction and because he is so extreme he takes heat away from the Chinese system which in most ways is a parallel of N Korea's. We have been lulled over the last few years into thinking that China is no longer a strict Communist system and instead is kinder gentler capitalist/communist/socialist hybrid, wrong. The Chinese people are under the absolute control of their government, the have a gigantic, and I mean gigantic military that is being expanded at an incredible pace. They also have the Red Chinese Secret police system that rivals the KGB of old and new and any other intelligence and enforcement organization in history for that matter. If you aren't a member of the communist party you're basically an expendable nobody, and that means no decent education, housing or employment opportunities.

I guess what I'm saying is that I trust the Chinese about as much as I trust the North Koreans.

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"He who would be free must strike the first blow"
Frederick Douglass
1818 - 1895
Escaped slave, Abolitionist, Author, Editor

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For a guy that want's to be universally liked Mr. Obama appears to have never heard the old axiom, 'you can pay me now or you can pay me later'.

I have been listening and reading, yes reading about the auto bailout for the past week and it took that long to completely figure out that this is another screwing of the American taxpayer by our government. We are not just bailing out a couple of very large PUBLIC companies that got themselves into some financial problems, first of all, we are bailing out a private equity firm in the form of Cerberus Capital Management the current, for only a few days, owner of Chrysler Corp and using the guise of saving thousands of jobs, a very suspect claim at best.

However, before going much further a small clarification is in order. Cerberus the PRIVATE company, has been receiving billions from the government in order to prop up a company they have mismanaged horribly. They are, it appears, going to be allowed to sell the bulk of the assets of the company to Fiat and in the process stiff many, many investors in the form of pension funds and other institutional investors holding Chrysler Bonds and various loan instruments etc...ET AL.

You may wonder how they are able to perform this feat, well a quick look at who makes up this company and you can readily see how this can be accomplished. Cerberus is loaded with former politicians and very politically connected people from former Presidents, Vice Presidents to advisers of all sorts. This has all the earmarks of a classic setup, a con job for lack of a better term and the guy whose going to pay in the end with his reputation and standing in history is Barack Hussein Obama himself.

The GM deal is just a sleazy in it's own way and will warrant it's own blog in the next few days.

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"The Federal Government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution."
Ronald Reagan
1911-2004
40th US President

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