Think positive, Darwin in action.
Was there a conspicuous lack of a description of skin color or ethnic
group? Interesting.
TDD
Yes but take my advice and put your money on the Black. You won't be sorry.
The Commiecrats criticize law enforcement for profiling but the cops
have to be able to broadcast a description of the perps that makes
sense. Political Correctness is sending this country down the drain.
OK good citizens, be on the lookout for a man who is robbing people
on the street somewhere in the city. Of course, they could say be on
the lookout for a "person".......
TDD
> Think positive, Darwin in action.
No one will miss you either, when your gone, and it can't be soon enough.
--
- Billy
Mad dog Republicans to the right. Democratic spider webs to the left. True conservatives, and liberals not to be found anywhere in the phantasmagoria
of the American political landscape.
America is not broke. The country is awash in wealth and cash.
It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the
greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks
and the portfolios of the uber-rich.
<http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/mar/10/michael-moore
/michael-moore-says-400-americans-have-more-wealth-/>
Thought you had more sense.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-real-causes-of-the-economic-c
risis-theyre-history/2011/06/27/AG2nK4pH_story.html>
Wall Street's revisionism is unfettered by facts
They say that winners get to write history. Three years after the
meltdown of our financial markets, itīŋŊs clear who is winning and who is
losing. Wall Street īŋŊ arms outstretched in triumph īŋŊ is racing toward
the finish-line tape while millions of American families are struggling
to stay on their feet. With victory seemingly in hand, the historical
rewrite is in full swing.
The contrast in fortunes between those on top of the economic heap and
those buried in the rubble couldnīŋŊt be starker. The 10biggest banks now
control more than three-quarters of the countryīŋŊs banking assets.
Profits have bounced back, while compensation at publicly traded Wall
Street firms hit a record $135 billion in 2010.
Meanwhile, more than 24 million Americans are out of work or canīŋŊt find
full-time work, and nearly $9 trillion in household wealth has vanished.
There seems to be no correlation between who drove the crisis and who is
paying the price.
The report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission detailed the
recklessness of the financial industry and the abject failures of
policymakers and regulators that brought our economy to its knees in
late 2008. The accuracy and facts of the commissionīŋŊs investigative
report have gone unchallenged since its release in January.
(cont.)
It ain't brown-skined PEOPLE that have caused our problems. It's White
Guys in Suits.
<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-2
0110216>
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
Financial crooks brought down the world's economy īŋŊ but the feds are
doing more to protect them than to prosecute them
"You put Lloyd Blankfein in pound-me-in-the-ass prison for one six-month
term, and all this bullshit would stop, all over Wall Street," says a
former congressional aide. "That's all it would take. Just once."
-----
We need to be clear that racism is a working class issue. Racism
benefits the wealthy and powerful. For centuries, racism has been used
to generate incredible profits through the perpetuation of īŋŊjob ghettosīŋŊ
and differential wage levels and working conditions.
Racism is also a way for employers to attack our solidarity as workers.
As long as we allow racism to exist in our workplaces, we will face our
enemies divided and weakened.
Capitalist's sock-puppets support Wall Street investment banks,
environmental polluters, pointless & endless wars, and the Bush/Obama
administration.
If you like weekends (8 hr./day & 40 hr./week), then thank a labor union.
They paid for it in blood. The Real Deal working class heros.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair>
Fuck Bush/Obama. Vote third party, it's the only real choice that you
have.
<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/18/112346/obama-ran-against-bush-but-
now.html>
I think we have already seen that the color of a man's skin has little
to do with the contents of his heart.
<http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/19/cornel_west_on_charles_rangel_bus
h>
The Obama administration seems to have very little concern about poor
people and their social misery. Look at the policies vis-a-vis Wall
Street downplaying Main Street. Look at the policies of black farmers, a
settlement already in place, but they don't want to executed because
they don't want to be associated with black folk too explicitly. Look at
the dilapidated housing. We can go across the board. Look at the New Jim
Crow system: the Prison Industrial Complex. We're not talking just about
individual presidents. We're talking about a system that is tilted
against poor people, against working people, disproportionately black
and brown and red.
- Cornel West
----
2005 Stats.
Pop. Poor
Blacks 38,700,000.00 (12.3%) 8,243,100 25.8%
White 231,300,000.00 (77.1%) 18,966,600 8.2%
Hispanic 37,500,000.00 (12.%) 4,687,500 12.5%
Total 31,897,200
Poverty by race:
<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/
005647.html>
<Crime Stats: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_43.html>
Offense charged Total White Black
TOTAL 10,189,691 7,117,040 2,830,778
Percent 100.0 69.8 27.8
#of arrested/# of poor 0.3752 = 38% .3434 = 34.4%
Oh I just took my meds, I got out today in this heat to run a service
call and I was in a great deal of pain when I got home. Your attempt
to disparage me indicates you don't grok sarcasm. Of course, you could
always read the site in the link and see for yourself that there was no
mention of the ethnicity of the criminals, even their nationality. ^_^
TDD
I always tell my darker skinned cousins that I don't care about the
color of their skin, the important thing is whether a man has a dark
heart and a dark soul. It's amazing how you can get along with folks
of any variety if you simply treat them the way you'd like to be
treated. :-)
TDD
> On 7/7/2011 3:19 PM, Billy wrote:
> > In article<wvOdndPGHbrzGY7T...@earthlink.com>,
<snip>
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
- J.C.
(Mark 12:28-31)
Of course this is the loving Jesus, not the Hagee the Horrible's Freddy
Krueger Jesus of Revelations, who is to return to rule with an iron
staff.
Good is bad
Love is hate
Peace is war
Welcome to "1984". Actually, Raygun was 4 years early in springing
Orwell's nightmare on us.
Billy, I don't take disagreements personally, without them, there would
be no debate and no reason to even try to carry on a conversation. :-)
TDD
Debate, reason, conversation? You do know that you're in tx.guns don't
you? ;O)
I'm friends with a number of Texans and those that I know are very cool
folks, I like them. I happen to be in Central Alabamastan where many
people have similar values and attitudes as my Texan friends. I even
have friends from Kaliforniastan, they're the most entertaining and I
cherish them as I would any other friend. ^_^
TDD
I wasn't referring to the home of St. Molly, and I definitely prefer
Austin weird. I was referring to tx.guns which seems to be rife with
bigots, and militant blowhards. However, nobody has a monopoly on saints
or sinners.
What is a bigot? Someone set in their ways and inflexible in their
opinions and attitudes? I thought that of my late father back when
I was a damn Liberal Hippie Freak before I grew up and am probably
worse now at times than he ever was. I prefer militant blowhards to
militant bloweasies, there is no balance without an opposition. You
must learn that those you oppose are critically necessary for a stable
society. Without conflict there is no progress or reason to desire
growth and change. I'm glad not everyone thinks or acts the same as
me. This world would be a very boring place. :-)
TDD