Ongoing Evidence Of My Ineducability...

For the umpty-bumpth time I am reminded that i will never be smart enough to be a progressive. After years of wrestling with the notion that, contra science and biology, race is a social construct, I am now informed by our President that here in America, racism is "part of our DNA".

Of course, he also said that racism has not been "cured", so either he is advocating for breakthroughs in gene therapy or this is another failed metaphor.

JUST GRUMBLING, or, WADDYA MEAN "WE", BLACK MAN? I am strangely certain that when Obama says that racism is in "our DNA" he doesn't mean his DNA. And certainly not Michelle's. But since I am Anglo-Irish, yeah, I am surely included in Obama's DNA racism range. Whatever. I guess I'd feel worse if I could help myself, but having been born this way...

Comments

[Old Lurker]

Yer gettin there, Cecil.

[Extraneus]

You know, I consider myself fairly up on current events, but I don't think I understand two paragraphs in this entire article.

Former U.S. Agent Will Plead Guilty in Bitcoin Theft

[Miss Marple]

DebinNC, I am with you.

It's up to the people of South Carolina, and it looked to me like Nikki Haley had people from both parties and both races in agreement.

She specifically said that it wasn't about banning it from private use, but from using it on state monuments and facilities. I think this is an example of a gracious gesture and a way to avoid contention over something which can be used to cause further trouble.

And just like it isn't my place to tell them NOT to remove the flag, it is also not my place to tell them they have to keep flying it.

Besides, I have enough to worry about here in Indiana.

[DublinDave]

Don't get me wrong,the African-American community has been an ATM of political capital and retail votes for Liberals down through the years....we've played them as much as they've played us all.

But man,sometimes the little part of my brain that's still manages a bit of critical thinking gets embarrassed by it all.

I liken the African-American community to someone who eats an entire meal at a restaurant, then complains about the food and asks for the check to paid by Management.

Hey,no one said politics wasn't a dirty profession.

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

Video of Navy's X47B stealthy, carrier based unmanned combat vehicle successfully completing autonomous air refueling.

[narciso]

She might earnestly think that, but that isnt where it stops, based on past experience, crimethink is infinite

[DebinNC]

Re Dem discipline, they have megaphones like Trumka et al union bosses, Sharpton and his nationally broadcasted tv and radio shows, Crump et al BGI "Hands UP" hoardes, Soros funded "Occupy" anarchists supplied with enemy home addresses ready to terrorize any target anywhere, etc. Plus, there's BOzo who has no comprehension of what's inappropriate for a POTUS to say, and/or if he does, he doesn't care. Our side has Rush and Ted Baxter.

[NKonChrome]

DD either cashed the check, or the Soros/OFA people stiffed him. There is a clear lie in DD's 10:40; he claims to critically think, and that he can be embarrassed by... well, anything.

[Threadkiller]

Looks like Cruz realized this is a popularity contest and he is now running with how he perceives the vast majority of the electorate define "TPA."

[Extraneus]

Denying the black grievance industry low hanging fruit to rally angry mobs imo is the right and wise thing to do.

I see it just the opposite way. The grievance industry wins a victory for nothing to do with the SC murders. Just another knee-jerk reaction to a tragedy, like banning guns in England and Australia, like the dept of Homeland Security and the TSA.

Do you think the race hustlers will go away now? What about Janet's point about school and road names?

This is all about dominance and submission. They aren't going away.

[glasater]

Until OL explains bitcoin to me I will remain ignorant of how this stuff is generated or of value :-)

[Cecil Turner]

And just like it isn't my place to tell them NOT to remove the flag, it is also not my place to tell them they have to keep flying it.

Concur completely. And though I don't think it ever should've been there (it's inappropriate to fly a symbol of a failed system over the current government house), and it probably ought to be removed, tying it in to the current crisis strikes me as pandering.

[NKonChrome]

Dem Discipline? it's like any criminal organization 'honor amongst thieves". It works as long as they all get paid; but if anyone gets stiffed..... they rat each other out. That is the desperation the Dems now feel as a result of OPM famine.

[narciso]

Hence the incipient push to rename military installations (ht weazelzippers) and yes dunblane and port arthur fit into this

[NKonChrome]

"tying it in to the current crisis strikes me as pandering."

Of course it's pandering, that's what politicians do. It was a convenient time for the Gov. to correct a mistake of someone else's doing, and her supporters couldn't publicly object.

[DebinNC]

Thanks, MM. It so interesting to hear about Indiana from you, and MA from Jane, and Maine from Marlene, etc, etc. I wish more lurkers would chime in so that we'd get a wider sense of JOM opinion on different issues nationwide.

[narciso]

World controller ban kee moon@huxley, meets with aq emir, partof the exiled yemeni opposition

[Cecil Turner]

Looks like Cruz realized this is a popularity contest . . .

Concur he's pandering (on a vote that's probably going down anyway, which is a slim excuse), and it's a failure of GOP party discipline. But if it helps elect him president, I'm okay with it.

[Threadkiller]

He needs all the help he can get.

[narciso]

Anthony lake is director of unicef? They never go away do they, like spence thednc drone made it to the top of osce

[Threadkiller]

Maybe Cruz is a good listener.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/22/donald-trump-tells-senate-to-vote-no-on-obamatrade-tpa/

[narciso]

Re his comments on south sudan, sirik matak and lon nol were unavailable for comment

[Cecil Turner]

I'd give that a qualified maybe.

[NKonChrome]

In his remarks to the (Muzzie) dinner guests, Obama said the iftar was “a reminder of the freedoms that bind us together as Americans, including the freedom of religion — that inviolable right to practice our faiths freely.” AHEM.

[narciso]

Only the ummah can proselytize nk, you know that by now

[DebinNC]

"Practice our faiths freely" ... except bakers.

[narciso]

Oh and immelt pulling a ransom of red chief, relocation to shanghai will be a bear

[NKonChrome]

Tanks to the Baltics: RESET
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3135929/Carter-US-military-equipment-6-European-countries.html

[rse]

narciso-I have heard the 'loyal' Congressional staffers put in their time to qualify for federal retirement and then move into UN system to get more salary and retirement benefits and the salary there is untaxed. I think it gives tremendous impetus to not explaining to your elected boss how statutory language really works.

[narciso]

That last is if the export import bank gets trimmed,

Huxley and wells seem to be the dominant cookbooks, mini love rarely gets involved.

[narciso]

I wouldnt doubt it rse, remember how the osce sent observers to our election,

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

NC Dude planned on killing 1000 Americans for ISIS. Only his father turning him in apparently prevented his completing some portion of his plans.
Awaiting blame being placed on those who decry our oppression of the peaceful religionists of the ME.

[Threadkiller]

Sounds like a DNA problem, Ig.

[Extraneus]

"The decision confirms what should be obvious: the government cannot come and take your personal property without compensation, whether raisins or other property, on the ground that the taking is for your own good," said J. David Breemer, attorney for the Pacific Law Foundation, a conservative group that backed the Hornes.

Interesting qualifier.

[NKonChrome]

TK@1120-- OK, THAT was funny.

[narciso]

So if north korea hacked sony, why does team assange release all the emails

[DebinNC]

MOzo is behind a nationwide "taking" by teachers of personally-owned Oreos.

[NKonChrome]

'taking for your own good' That was the purported rational basis of the Raisin Administration Committee (ponder and let that name sink in) the Gummint claimed that it was shaping the market to maximize profits for the raisin industry. The Hornes disagreed as far as their family was concerned.

[Cecil Turner]

Interesting qualifier.

He could've left it off, it's just that was the government's justification for the taking. And it was somewhat defensible (they kept production consistent, which kept prices steady, and all producers benefited). The main problem was, they turned it into a slush fund for the folks running the system . . . oh, yeah, and it was unconstitutional.

[Extraneus]

Have we still not seen this mug in weeks?

[narciso]

Maron further removes all doubt? Re npr

[Threadkiller]

TPA has 60 votes right now.

Cruz didn't make a difference.

[Extraneus]

Oh, and LOL.

IG: Harassment complaints at State Department nearly triple under Clinton, Kerry

The whole piece is a knee-slapper.

[Jane]

RSe, Warren's daughter runs some lefty organization. She made it possible to include ballots with all welfare payments when Warren was running. I have no idea if they were already checked off.

[Threadkiller]

Now that cloture is done we move on to the Senate game of voting for the Bill.

[Miss Marple]

NK,

A really good campaign issue would be to list all of these things like the "Raisin Adminitration Committee" and the "National Sheep Industry Improvement Center" and grants for shrimp on treadmills and robot squirrels along with how much money these programs get.

I am sure there are more as I just did a cursory search on a few animals and such. I didn't delve into studies on sexual habits, food and drink, restoration of old buildings, etc.

A good ad would be to run a "Thanks for paying for this, taxpayers" ad right before April 15. I would also show how big some of those government buildings are along with how many people are working on raisin and sheep committees.

Americans do not connect there taxes with all of these programs, which seem to never end. Maybe getting a pittance back on their refunds while 5 guys are being paid large government salaries to confiscate raisins might get their attention.

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

--all producers benefited--

Der was too much producin goin on out der.

Now perhaps the consumers will benefit from that discredited thing called the free market.

[narciso]

Instapundit if you want the ray shielded link

[Threadkiller]

Taquia Ted strikes again:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420185/there-no-deal-reauthorize-exim-iain-murray

[Captain Hate]

The Restraining Order shilling for Twitch:

Dear Captain,

Ted Strickland and I have a lot in common. We were both born and raised in Ohio. We served together in the House of Representatives. And we both know what it’s like to put up with outside attacks in a Senate race. And, unlike me, Twitch has never had a restraining order filed against him by his ex wife.

Hours after Ted announced that he was running in 2016, Republicans pounced. They’ve already got a website up, twisting the truth of his work for Ohio families.

Special interests spent $40 million against me in my last election. The same groups that came after me are going to come after Ted this time.

And Captain, Ted’s going to need the same support I had to fight against them -- your support which you somehow neglected to give me. Maybe you don't like my current fatassed wife whom, I must admit, I can barely stand to be in the same room with but if I ditch her she'll take to the pages of the Plain Dealer and never stop badmouthing me to the witless tools who can stand to read her maudlin garbage.

Ted’s coming up on a big FEC deadline at the end of the month -- and he needs to reach his goal before June 30th. Make a contribution today to help Ted fight back.

I’ve known Ted for a long time. He’s a champion for middle class Ohioans. He’s spent his life working to create opportunities for working families.

In the House, Ted stood with Ohio workers, voting against NAFTA and fighting for smart investments in infrastructure and technology. As our state’s governor, Ted held tuition rates to some of the lowest in the nation. I'm stumped to come up with anything else that didn't have "fail" written all over it which is why he only lasted one term.

This is a big month for Ted. Everyone knows he has the right values for Ohio -- now they need to know he’s got the grassroots power to back it up. That’s why hitting his FEC goal in time is so important.

If you're able, give $5 large or whatever you can afford to help Ted today. I admit it's throwing good money after bad, but isn't that why people vote for me?

Thank you.

Sherrod

[Cecil Turner]

Cruz didn't make a difference.

I'm surprised . . . they got it right on the money, and I thought they'd miss it by 2-3. Looks like they're bundling it with TAA and AGOA, which I can deal with (both are relatively minimal). It'll be interesting to see if there's a back door on ExIm, which is far more objectionable.

[DublinDave]

"DD either cashed the check, or the Soros/OFA people stiffed him. There is a clear lie in DD's 10:40; he claims to critically think, and that he can be embarrassed by... well, anything"

I talked to some of my African-American friends this morning and they were laughing about the Confederate flag controversy.One of them,Simon(who's very good at what he does and taught me a lot) said "Dave,we don't give two hoots about the Confederate flag.This is about separating Republican state Senators,Presidential candidates etc from their base and improving our chances in up and coming elections.Those who hold out we'll brandish as racists and beat them anyway.It's politics,Dave,this is how it works.You know this"

Hey,Simon knows his stuff.

[narciso]

How did you end up on twitch's email, and how much mo noply money are you sending him?

[Stephanie]

(it's inappropriate to fly a symbol of a failed system over the current government house)

The flag in question isn't over the current government house. It flies over a Confederate Monument located on the edge of the government grounds.

Lovely how the wording by the MSM distorts the issue.

[Captain Hate]

I used to be a registered donk so I receive all of the restraining order's crap. The good news for Twitch is that, even though I'd never cast a vote for him, I won't do so either for Rob Portman. To Hell with both of 'em.

[Cecil Turner]

Now perhaps the consumers will benefit from that discredited thing called the free market.

I was heartened to see that was an 8-1 decision (even though it was only 5-4 on compensation, with the libs giving credence to the "for your own good" formula). Lots of other good stuff at Scotusblog, including this one with Kagan inserting some humor into the decision:

But she sprinkles the opinion with fanciful allusions to the subject matter of the patent dispute – a Spider-Man toy that shoots foam string from the palm of the hand. Her opinion describes the rights that patents grant as “superpowers,” the quality of stare decisis afforded statutory decisions as “superpowered,” and the type of justification required to overrule Brulotte as “superspecial.” Getting into the same spirit, Justice Clarence Thomas in his dissent denies the need for such “super-duper” protection of the Court’s prior decisions.

Which brings up a funny story. When my kids were little they saw that dumb spiderman web gear commercial that had some kid clinging from the ceiling and shooting foam string from his webshooters . . . and of course they had to have it. My wife tells 'em "you know you won't actually be able to climb on the ceiling"; and, after a quick huddle with her brothers, my daughter turns around and announces, "okay, we promise."

[Jane]

Deb,

I have no issues with the flag. It's a part of our history and I'm pretty tired of people trying to erase that.

But it is an issue I am very removed from.

[NKonChrome]

Heh-- someone got to Davey and dragged him back into the Dem Plantation. No truth permitted by the Dems, ever. Can't have that, the whole criminal enterprise would collapse.

[Cecil Turner]

The flag in question isn't over the current government house. It flies over a Confederate Monument located on the edge of the government grounds.

I sit corrected. However, I'd submit it's a difference without a distinction.

I served with many Southerners, greatly appreciated their competence and dedication, and have unreserved respect for the southern military tradition (which, at least as of a couple decades ago, is alive and well). I further have utmost sympathy for those who'd like to memorialize the valiant efforts of the Confederate armed forces in a losing struggle. But . . . in my opinion, which I wouldn't even offer if I didn't think it was a done deal, the Capitol isn't the place for it (and really never was).

[Cecil Turner]

sb: distinction without a difference

[DebinNC]

Slavery/Jim Crow was a shameful and evil part of our history, imo worse than the Holocaust because of the generations of people adversely affected - past, present, and future. I don't react to seeing the Stars and Bars as viscerally as I do the swastika, but it's easy to imagine why blacks do.

[Cecil Turner]

Not our fault . . . we "inherited" slavery.

[Hey, it works for the President.]

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz]

Wait NK, are you doubting WeeDavey has a posse of African American drinking buddies, especially one called Simon?

[henry]

Ig, DD is just reading R A Wilson Illuminatus Trilogy.

[DebinNC]

Freddie Gray case - trial date set for officers

[DublinDave]

"Wait NK, are you doubting WeeDavey has a posse of African American drinking buddies, especially one called Simon"

Actually, I know quite a lot of people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds from Tampa,Florida to Astoria Queens, to Hammersmith, London. These are a few of the places I work at(actually if you're in King street,Hammersmith,London this Friday around 2.00 pm drop into the Hop poles and ask for Dave(in the irish/scotish/sports section) and I'll buy you a pint). Or call the Hop poles and I'll gladly take your call and natter about American politics

Simon is a real person and has been a friend for many years.I am a liar,obviously but it would kill me to have the actual truth degraded in such a way. What Simon told me is true(on the off chance he's reading this sorry for being such a big mouth bud).

[Jane]

Deb,

When you put it that way....

[Janet]

“The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow, and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on.” - President Obama

Why do so many people from other countries want to come here if Americans are so racist?....if "almost every institution" in America discriminates? Why in the world do citizens of other countries want to come here?

A friend on FB asked - "why did bho sr come here?"

[NKonChrome]

we know Davey is an invention because he has never included the 'c' word in any comment. actual Irish Pub rats (particularly from Dublin) use the 'c' word as a comma. It is involuntary.

[NKonChrome]

Janet-- as MissM/IowaHawk asked, why have over a million AAs moved their families back to former Jim Crow states if the gene pool there is befouled?

The Gray Case?-- if there is any 'law' in Balt, then the State's motion to suppress publication of the autopsy results via prior restraining court order will be laughed out of court. What a sick joke that woman is.

[DublinDave]

"we know Davey is an invention because he has never included the 'c' word in any comment. actual Irish Pub rats (particularly from Dublin) use the 'c' word as a comma. It is involuntary"

He's right. Every second word in Dublin is the 'c' word. After i came to America I was informed that it's a big no no(unless you're David Mamet).

But in Dublin,calling someone a stupid fucking cunt is no worse than calling them a cad.

I think it's better to lie when talking to righties,the truth is just too hard.

[DebinNC]

Baltimore: the Epilogue ... full of clickable links to what's happened since the riots. What I read there makes Baltimore seem as alien to me as Outer Mongolia.

[Beasts of England]

Dang it, DublinDave! If I'd have known you were in Tampa I'd have bought you a beer or three last month when I was down your way. I assume the Mons Venus would have been amicable...

[maryrose]

Deb
I disagree on the present and future part of your view of slavery
In my opinion it does not effect anyone's present or future
People use it as an excuse to not achieve anything
Also having just returned from Chickamauga Battlefield if Conferate flags are displayed or sold there will they be banned as well
I agree with Janet
This is a slippery slope

[Beasts of England]

Oops. Friends in Tampa, DD in London. Never mind.

[Beasts of England]

Over local news at noon just kicked off with a 'confederate flag controversy' teaser. The left does it again. Damn the reality, full meme ahead!

[DublinDave]

"Dang it, DublinDave! If I'd have known you were in Tampa I'd have bought you a beer or three last month when I was down your way. I assume the Mons Venus would have been amicable..."

Lol.....Fox and hound.

Now don't any of you psycho storm front right-wingers come looking for me...I still have real-Ira and Old ra connections.

[maryrose]

I ask absolutely appalled that Hussein Obama would utter such a crass distasteful and vile statement
I am ready for impeachment damn the consequences

[DebinNC]

"People use it as an excuse" ... Absolutely, but blacks didn't create the history that allows the excuse to be used. The KKK wasn't a figment of southern blacks' imaginations. Ditto poll taxes. Ditto separate but unequal schools and so on ....

[DebinNC]

Motion for change of venue filed for Baltimore 6.

[Beasts of England]

I was gonna bring all my KKK buddies with me, Dave! ;)

[jimmyk on iPhone]

"Slavery/Jim Crow was a shameful and evil part of our history, imo worse than the Holocaust because of the generations of people adversely affected - past"

You mean it would have been better if they'd been murdered? I don't think you do.

[DublinDave]

"I was gonna bring all my KKK buddies with me, Dave!"

Actually a lot of the old Clan guys(around Tampa area anyway) are pretty decent. I know a few of them who have married African-Americans or whose children have married AA.

Preserving ones own cultural heritage is quite a Universal theme ,so I get them......on some level.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Also from Iowahawk (who agreed with Haley's decision:

@iowahawkblog: _____ calling for the overthrow of the US government don't belong at state _____.

1. Flags; capitols.
2. Professors; universities.

[NKonChrome]

I thought the change of venue motion went too far afield. Citing Skilling and Enron?

[Beasts of England]

Pretty sure I don't actually know any, DD. There are a few older guys who I know out in the county who make Whisky, and I wouldn't be shocked to hear it about them back in the day. But, times have changed - even in the outskirts - and have changed for the better.

[Jane]

SBW,

Your package just arrived. Thank you so much!

[NKonChrome]

Americans' ignorance of the 'old' and 'new' Klan is impossible to overstate. The old Klan failed to overturn reconstruction Republican state governments and it became irrelevant when reconstruction ended and the Union Army moved out. The new Klan (second and third KKKs actually) became a complete irrelevancy after prohibition was revoked and then when the South adopted modern economics and began to eat the economic lunch of the Northern Blue Hells. The income and wealth transfer from Mass, Ct, NYS, NJ, Pa, Mich, Ill, Ohio to the New South is a massive economic and social story of the past 50 years.

[maryrose]

NK
So true
To my knowledge we haven't had poll taxes or an active KKK in years
Talk about unequal
Up north inner city schools are suffering
Bussing was tried and failed
Repubs want vouchers and school choice
Obama and Dems and unions keep blocking it
I don't respond to continuous griping without at least looking for solutions
All you have then is a bunch of I empowered victims
They can empower themselves

[DebinNC]

White officer stops black driver in TN.
Apparently, TN and SC have some things in common.

[DebinNC]

Storyteller Andy Irwin, resident of Covington, GA

A Message from A Confederate Memorial

We raised our children near Covington. The door of the library read "Sparta Police Department" as the tv series "In the Heat of the Night" was filmed there.

[new lurker]

The last well known KKKer I knew of was Sen. Robert Byrd.