http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/national/dpgo_HOA_Asks_Vet_to_Remove_Bumper_fc_20090528_2518563

We talked about illegals and employers as well as the Washington State Petition that is currently collecting signatures.  What are your thoughts? 

If you would like to see our state make using the e-verify system a law for employers (both government and private) sign the petition.

 To find out more about it you can go to:

www.RespectWashington.us or email: info@RespectWashington.us

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Reporter-Dragged-Kicking-and-Screaming-From-Near-Air-Force-One-.html

http://www.10news.com/news/19562217/detail.html?taf=sand

ANNE  WORTHAM

    Anne  Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at  
Illinois
State
University and continuing  Visiting Scholar at

Stanford
University ’s  Hoover Institution. She is a member of the  American Sociological Association and the  American Philosophical  Association.
    She has been  a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and  honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by  the National Association for Equal Opportunity  in Higher Education.
    In  fall 1988 she was one of a select group of  intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer’s  television series, “A World of Ideas.” The  transcript of her conversation with Moyers has  been published in his book, A World of  Ideas.
    Dr. Wortham is  author of “The Other Side of Racism: A  Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness”  which analyzes how race consciousness is  transformed into political strategies and policy  issues.  She has published numerous  articles on the implications of individual  rights for civil rights policy, and is currently  writing a book on theories of social and  cultural marginality.
     Recently, she has published articles on the  significance of multiculturalism and  Afrocentricism in education, the politics of  victimization and the social and political  impact of political correctness. Shortly after  an interview in 2004, she was awarded  tenure.
    This article by  her is  something.
Fellow  Americans,

Please know: I am  Black; I grew up in the segregated South.   I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote  in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president.  Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do  not require a Black president to know that I am  a person of worth, and that life is worth  living. I do not require a Black president to  love the ideal of
America  .

I cannot join you  in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is  no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy.  There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For  such emotions and behavior to come from me, I  would have to deny all that I know about the  requirements of human flourishing and survival -  all that I know about the history of the United  States of America , all that I know about  American race relations, and all that I know  about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have  to deny the nature of the “change” that Obama  asserts has come to
America  .

Most importantly,  I would have to abnegate my certain  understanding that you have chosen to sprint  down the road to serfdom that we have been on  for over a century. I would have to pretend that  individual liberty has no value for the success  of a human life. I would have to evade your  rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on  which your success and mine depend. I would have  to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of  the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for  a man because he looks like them (that Blacks  are permitted to play the race card), and that  they were joined by self-declared “progressive”  whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look  like them.

I would have to  wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the  kind of people who have advised and taught  Barack Obama and will fill posts in his  administration - political intellectuals like my  former colleagues at the Harvard University ’s  Kennedy School of  Government.

I would have to  believe that “fairness” is equivalent of  justice. I would have to believe that man who  asks me to “go forward in a new spirit of  service, in a new service of sacrifice” is  speaking in my interest.  I would have to  accept the premise of a man that economic  prosperity comes from the “bottom up,” and who  arrogantly believes that he can will it into  existence by the use of government force. I  would have to admire a man who thinks the  standard of living of the masses can be improved  by destroying the most productive and the  generators of wealth.

Finally,  Americans, I would have to erase from my  consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming,  crying, cheering people in Grant Park,
Chicago  irrationally chanting “Yes We Can!” Finally, I  would have to wipe all memory of all the times I  have heard politicians, pundits, journalists,  editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals  declare that capitalism is dead - and no one,  including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to  their assumption that the particular version of  the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want  to replace with their own version of  anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent  to capitalism.

So you have made  history, Americans. You and your children have  elected a Black man to the office of the  president of the
United States , the wounded  giant of the world. The battle between John  Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and that Fonda  won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be  very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the  Kennedys have at last gotten their? Kennedy  look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists  in the suburbs can feel warm moments of  satisfaction for having elected a Black  person.

So, toast  yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s  yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast  yourselves, Black
America . Shout your glee  Harvard,
Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and  Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who  is qualified to be president, but a Black man  who, like the pragmatist Frank lin
Roosevelt,  promises to - Do Something! You now have someone  who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s  Great Society.  But you have also foolishly  traded your freedom and mine - what little there  is left - for the chance to feel  good.
There is nothing  in me that can share your happy  obliviousness.

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job.

Depression is when you lose your job.

Recovery is when Obama loses his.

The Bellingham Task Force on taking more money from the people says we need to install cameras to ticket speeders.  Is this a money grab?  Arizona is going to take out the 100 cameras they wasted money on…

I would love to know what you think.

Any thoughts on the jihad terrorists arrested last night in Hew York City? 

Do you feel more threatened by terrorists, enemy governments, the IRS, street criminals, or global warming?

What do you think about the new septic system inspections?  I personally think they stink to high heaven!  This is no more than a money grab, a land grab and bullying by governement agencies!  Would love to hear you thoughts…

It appears they will now tax food with sugar, salt; you name it.  Tell me, what don’t they tax?  Just something to think about…