Kennedy Uncensored: Real Racism

Ah race relations, a subject I’m sure will manage to get the attention of a few people, primarily because they live in some sort of fantasy world where I purportedly get privileged treatment because my ancestors were Celts. Let me count the ways: 1) I burn easily because my skin has nearly no melanin, the chemical in your skin that acts as a natural barrier to sunlight. 2) Because my family is middle class, I get the benefit of paying my own loans after college out of my own paychecks with my own money, just like everyone else here. Although my family is white, we do not generate money just by breathing. My parents work their behinds off at their businesses to make sure we have food and a roof over our heads. I grow weary of people who think white means rich, it doesn’t. 3) I receive no race-based “assistance” scholarships, and as my GPA is decent but no 4.0, no academic scholarships will be flying my way. 4) When I go to get a job, and there is a choice between myself and a minority and we are otherwise equally qualified, it is I who will not get the job because I do not “promote diversity” because my skin happens to be pale. If there is an unwritten percentage of minorities or women to be filled through an affirmative action plan, this white male is going to be passed up because he isn’t “diverse” enough.

Yet I am somehow the beneficiary of “white privilege” and further, I apparently live the lavish life of a Caucasian American, someone who has no “dual experience”. Somehow every minority has their “dual experience”, but I do not. No, I do not know what its like to grow up as an African American or a Latino American, but I sure wish minorities would stop assuming they know what its like to grow up as a Caucasian American. As if we don’t have problems, as if we don’t suffer, as if we, just by nature of having pale skin, do not know what it is like to have to work for a living or experience adversity. If you want to see people who benefit in society from no work of their own, they are labeled “inheritors of a fortune”, not Caucasians. I am now done with my rant and will get to the real substance at hand; it is time to deal with the real racists.

In a previous article last semester which many still remember, I defined racism of the injection of race into matters where it does not belong. Race does not belong anywhere because race is a social construct, not a scientific one. There is only one race that matters and that is the human race. The only diversity that counts is diversity of thought, and although those who make a habit of playing the race card are free to espouse their thoughts, that does not prevent them from being wrong. I grow weary of the race-baiters of the world, who, just like their Jim Crowe establishing Democrats of the South, invoke race to separate and divide people at every possible opportunity. Hillary Clinton walks into a Harlem church and expects the audience to “know what she’s talking about” when she references the House being “run like a plantation”. Ned Lamont’s blogging cohorts put Joe Lieberman in blackface, and yet black “leaders” Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson back Lamont to the hilt. Democrats toss Oreo cookies at Michael Steele (black on the outside, white on the inside, ha ha ha.) and say Condoleeza Rice is “serving the master”. Cynthia McKinney claims her whole cell-phone socking incident with the Capitol Police was “police brutality” and a statement against black women in congress.

Does anyone notice a pattern here? Those racist conservatives are just coming out of the woodwork, aren’t they? And yet, Black America votes for these clowns to represent them 90% of the time. These are the real racists; people who will stop at nothing to make the black community feel entitled, because when they are entitled they are dependent, and when they are dependent they are easily influenced. And so it is also true here, if something bad happens to me, it is just my bad luck. If something bad happens to an African American, it can be pawned off as “institutional racism”, “the ole boy’s network”, or anything else that places blame off the individual and onto society. Further, this racism is said to be systemic and invisible. You can’t trace it; you just know it is there, always trying to push a brother down. It is a good thing this isn’t a religion, otherwise we’d have activist atheists attacking blacks for believing in nonsensical things of their own imagining.

What I propose to you is that Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, W.E. B. Dubois, and all the other civil rights leaders actually got a great deal accomplished and the “great struggle” of Black America relative to other groups is for the most part only there if you are actively seeking it out and hope it is there. After all, what need is there for affirmative action, a race-based system of segregation, if there truly is equal opportunity for all? How would we be able to have BROSSIS sending out e-mails about “strength in numbers” to minority students if there was no alleged white power structure running the show? So I have but two questions to ask all our minority students on campus. 1) Do you think a policy which assumes you need assistance based on the color of your skin or your ethnicity is racist? And 2) When did the segregation of students based on race or ethnicity become a good thing? Last I checked, Martin Luther King Jr. was all about integration. He’d surely roll in his grave if he knew in our “progressive” society we only sent BROSSIS e-mails to minorities, to the exclusion of those of us cursed with a legacy of pale skin.

Kennedy Uncensored: Special Edition: Men, Women, and Sex

The events in my life over the past weeks have compelled me to write this column. This will be a no holds barred, pointed analysis of the culture that seems to permeate college and, sadly, life in general. I simply serve this as a warning to anyone who tries to intimidate me or make me go against my principles: You will fail. Go back and take care of your own business. I neither want nor care for your temptations. I am hardly a saint and wish I were less of a sinner, but the fact remains that my principles do not shift and will not shift for anyone for any reason.

I have to wonder exactly what women’s lib and the sexual revolution brought society other than women who are the either witting or unwitting tools of men. The number of references to sex I must deal with on a regular basis are shocking in number and worse yet, convey to me a sense of underlying insecurity about oneself or outright contempt for any woman who would lay down with that man. The persons in the examples I am about to give will go unnamed, as I feel they will either be so embarrassed they shall not speak of it again, or they will go around getting high fives and “word ups” for managing to incite my rage.

For instance, just the other night there was an incident with a girl or two, and one of the persons said that they could not sleep with a woman because they were sober and she was drunk. They argued that they had to be drunk too or else if something went wrong they couldn’t blame it on drinking. Earlier that night, two others approached me about “random comments not being funny”, which somehow flowed into my lack of having nightly or near-nightly sex partners. Then I recall that the slogan for sex praised by Planned Parenthood and other Pro-Abortion agencies is “Safe is Sexy” or “Wear a condom”.

Where on earth all the self-respecting men have gone to? This society is full of emasculated BS. What kind of self-respecting man has to use beer as a crutch to hide his clear lack of respect for women? Just blame the beer; don’t try to actually respect the woman, she’s just a sack of meat with breasts and a vagina for your use, right? No, I don’t engage in nightly sexcapades, I have this insane idea you should get to know, love, respect, and trust a woman before engaging in sexual relations.

Then there are flavored condoms. What kind of woman gets off on tasting watermelon flavored latex, and what kind of man would concede to his partner that he doesn’t care what she wants to taste, he just wants to get his service and be done with it. If a woman ever asked me to do that, I’d tell her to get herself a watermelon from the store and come back to me when she’s ready to respect the attributes of my body for what they are. Never mind the fact that even if condoms were 99% effective at preventing pregnancy, their failure is the cause of 99% of “unwanted” pregnancies.

Maybe I’m just a throwback to a time that never existed. Maybe there was never was a time where they didn’t hand out pamphlets on date rape (due to its utter prevalence). Maybe there never was a time when women regarded their virginity as sacred rather than just something to be tossed out for the “liberating experience” of having sex before marriage. Maybe there never was a time when women cared more about the content of a man’s character than the content of a man’s pants. Perhaps I am engaged in pure fantasy trying to equate human beings to more than hairless gorillas in a constant state of estrus.

Have I set the bar too high? Is it too much to ask of mortal men to keep sacred their dignity and the dignity of the women they encounter? Is it too much to ask that the left-wing fishnet fairies stop trying to promote sexual “liberation” and try a little modesty and chastity for once? If my barometer of respect for women who are “sexually liberated” is accurate, these women are viewed as nothing more than drunken whores to be used at the leisure of men still cognizant enough to engage in sexual activity after a night of drinking. Congratulations risqué mavens of the sixties and seventies, a whole new generation of pregnant teenagers and college students are surely praising your bra-burning antics now.

I’m not done yet though, I’m not going to let society off the hook either. I am appalled when I see little girls dressed like streetwalkers. Get a clue lady, looking like a prostitute isn’t “cute” whether you are six, sixteen, or sixty. We have six year old boys who know more vulgarities than I do. We have television commercials and programs that glorify adultery, one-night stands, and sex before marriage. We have a bunch of punk rappers pawning off their “art”, which is full of nothing but expletives and sexual situations that keep their bling as king, their ho’ on the flo’, and their responsibility exiled to an alternate dimension, because it sure as heck isn’t mentioned in their songs.

This is the basic thrust of my argument: It does not matter if I am the last moral man on earth. I will not bend to the wills of the oversexed, drugged up, and knocked up place our society has become. I refuse to lower my standards to that of society, because the standards of society at current sew nothing but immorality and discord. It is time to restructure our society to show respect for women as a whole, not just in the 60 second commercial that condemns wife-beating that airs every other day. I am hardly asking for everyone to change overnight, but for heavens sake, stop selling your bodies out, grow a moral backbone, and demand society live up to its obligation of providing good role models, not narcissistic half-dressed has-beens who crucify themselves for attention or vulgar bottom dwellers from the streets whose only difference between what they are now and what they were then is that they have more bling, and they use it irresponsibly to promote the very life I thought they were trying to escape from.

Kennedy Uncensored: On Themed Months and “Diversity”

It is human nature that compels us to categorize and organize whatever disorder we may find in the world. Humans have been reorganizing societies since the concept of societies began, and so it may seem natural to us that we dedicate entire months to a particular race or culture. This baffles me because the only experience that matters is the human experience, an experience that should be shared at all times of the year, not just in certain pre-determined months. It is my belief that themed months only serve to segregate and not to enlighten. Of what use is it to us if we try to cram all the knowledge of a race and culture into an entire month, and then seal off discussion until the next year? Months do nothing to help us avoid culture ripped from context. A tribal war dance would normally end in a good spearing of the audience, but instead some intellectual lightweights refer to it as “an interesting piece of culture”. To me, this is treating the members of that culture like children who haven’t grown into the “erudite tastes” of calling a battle dance “an interesting piece of culture.” Other cultures are not like children, they are comprised of human beings who are no better or worse than anyone here.

Last February was Black History Month, as it is recognized nationally. Rather then confining some conflated “Black Experience” into one month we should have events throughout the year that demonstrate the importance of African Americans to the American tradition, not expend our resources to one month, the shortest month, of the year. I never was a fan of Fiddy Cent or all the other half-rate rappers out there who pose as icons for the African-American community, but I have always been interested in Morgan Freeman and Bill Cosby’s remarks on the African American’s place in American society. I’m specifically interested in how to address the problems going on in urban communities with fatherless-ness, divorce, and poverty. Year round we should have discussions on this topic because it is a problem that needs solving and we should put the entire intellectual resources of Bryant University at work to address it.

Then there was March, whose official title I can’t remember because someone thought that the tacky “Herstory” was a word in the English language. Now here was a month that had every left-wing feminists dream: A one-sided event about abortion which I enjoyed forcibly making two-sided by my presence. It had The Vagina Monologues, a vapid play piece that focuses on women’s genitalia as opposed to their cognitive abilities and other, more important qualities. March was the celebration of women as an underrepresented second-class citizenry who are now roaring at the evil patriarchy. All this flying in the face of the fact that women are 51% of the US population, are more than 51% of the general college population, and when compared apples to apples, women make the same amount of money as men for the same jobs, and if that is not the case somewhere then there are laws in place to remedy such an inequity. I’ll have more discussion on this in a later column, but for the record: Women’s History cannot be relegated to a month. It is an insult to the memory of Susan B. Anthony and other leading feminists to use a single month to promote a mentality that is outdated, a platform that is logically unsound, and host events that run counter to everything the early feminists stood for. That particular Women’s History month had nothing to do with Women’s History and everything to do with the promotion of a pro-abortion, pro-sexual revolution mentality.

April was Asian Pacific-American Heritage Month. All I have to say is “Thank you for the Dim Sum Breakfast, please host it more often than one day in April”. Asia is a big place, and I’ve been told there are massive differences between the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, et al. I would most certainly enjoy more fine Asian cuisine and the beautiful, well mannered women who tend to come with it. In all seriousness, we have an institute dedicated to Chinese-American relations, but we seem to tiptoe around our human-rights related difficulties with Beijing.

This Month is apparently Latino Heritage Month. I implore everyone to suggest they extend this month throughout the rest of the semester, and give us a broader analysis of what “Latino” even means, or just scrap the term altogether and speak about the issues that are important to those of Spanish speaking countries. I would be most interested in how they feel about America and the immigration rallies last May that had scores of flags, many of them not American.

The idea we need to categorize people into months is ridiculous. In a truly diverse world we would be having Dim Sum on Mondays, African Cuisine on Tuesdays, Taco Thursday, true discussions of race and gender on a regular basis, and remove the use of “hyphenated Americans” entirely. By celebrating the differences in people we divide, rather than unite them. It is time to stop giving people months and start integrating their cultures year round. Currently all we have in the above list is Taco Thursday, so I implore everyone on campus to stop identifying with months and of cultures ripped from context and start identifying with what we all are: human.

Kennedy Uncensored is my current column running in the Archway, it deals with a variety of political topics and how they relate to events on campus and national news. It includes my general opinion of the relationship between these factors. I usually have a new column every week, but I still write a Multiparisan Hackery article occaisionally.

This column started my series and it essentially serves as a disclaimer for the rest of the columns. It appeared in the September 15th, 2006 Edition of the Archway.

Kennedy Uncensored: On Offending Others

Welcome to a brand new year at The Archway! I wanted to start this year off with a disclaimer. This article is just the first in a series where I will espouse my opinion on race, gender, and other controversial issues, so there is an extremely high probability that I will have “offended” someone either by the end of this column or in the coming weeks. I will simply pause to say “you have been warned”, but I will encourage you to read everything with which you will disagree twice, since I will surely be on campus to discuss anything I write for The Archway in person.

It seems recently the most common responses to anything written or spoken are indignance or offense. This is because America has turned into a feminized society where the only politically correct response one can have to that which they disagree is to attempt to censor it because it dares to offend some person’s sensitivities. I look forward to the day the communists take over, so that instead of lying about the totalitarian thought-police slowly encroaching on our society, they will actually tell us what we can and cannot say under threat of death. That would at least be honest totalitarian rule instead of a subversive, deceitful pervasiveness of political correctness.

Political Correctness is two things: inversely proportional to common sense and the sworn enemy of free speech, and thus, Western society. There are only two forms of speech which I wish to censor: speech which causes immediate danger to those in the vicinity (such as yelling “fire!” in a theater where there is no fire) or hate speech, which I define as any speech which advocates taking violent or prohibitive actions against a certain person or group of people. For instance, I would classify “God hates fags” as something said which is stupid and would note the person saying it is an idiot; I would not however, prevent them from engaging in their foolishness. That being said, if that same person said “God hates fags” and then added “He commands us to beat them and hang them,” I would call for his swift placement into police custody for making a threat against a person or group of persons.

There is a difference between poking fun at stereotypes or making objective, researched statements and calling for people to be censured or harmed. The former can only hurt one’s feelings, and feelings are such that walking in improper posture may be offensive to some. The latter actually calls for an action that, if taken, causes real physical harm to people or establishes unfairness in policy. Political Correctness is an example of the latter; it attempts to silence through censure and discredit a person because of the mere words that they state. Ex-Harvard President Lawrence Summers is a good example. His mere suggestion that empirical data supports the notion that, as a whole, men are better in the fields of math and science required him to make a massive string of apologies and ultimately led him to resign. Why you ask? This data got on the nerves of a few people persistently seeking to be offended. Because what Summers said was unpopular, he got censored. That goes against everything America stands for.

If the roles were reversed and we had a play under the same premise called “The (male genitalia) Monologues” that celebrated the (male genitalia) as a tool of empowerment for men (no pun intended), you would all be in uproar about male dominance and patriarchy and all that other BS that comes part and parcel to this sort of nonsense. For this example, we cannot forget “The Little (vulgarity for female genitalia) Snorcher That Could.” Thank you first for molesting the title of one of my favorite childhood stories, and thank you second for stating how healthy it is for an older woman to take advantage of a 13 (or 16 in the edited version) year old girl. I have heard it has been banned for referencing “a good rape” (but TVM still stands against rape, child molestation, and violence, right?). How would this story go down if it was “The Little (vulgarity for male genitalia) Sucker That Could.” Mark Foley anyone?

Here’s another uplifting tale, “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy,” about a lesbian dominatrix who obviously loved to pleasure women. She doesn’t love them, she doesn’t really care for them beyond loving to fondle their genitalia, and in the end all that matters is the women have one big happy orgasm. There’s a powerful message against domestic violence, just get beaten by a lesbian dominatrix instead.

Like I said, “The Vagina Monologues” is on the whole a steaming, vapid pile of crap. The only thing it makes me aware of is how anybody with a provocative show can get on Broadway. TVM sells not because of its impressive content, but because it has the word vagina in it. Quite frankly Vagina Warriors, I think the supporters of your play are a bunch of pussies, and by that I mean I’m glad none of you lightweights were around when the REAL women were taking charge and fighting for their rights. You are a nuisance selling chocolate vaginas (it is classy and respectful of women’s minds!) whereas they were fighters. Get out of their way and stop undermining all the progress they made with your sophomoric plays filled with lesbianism, pedophilia, and domination. Unless TVM serves as an example of how NOT to treat women, you failed.

I'm not usually one to haul out logs of ridiculous ad hominem liberal attacks, but when someone adds you on facebook, uses your wall to criticize your articles, and then deletes your responses and disables your ability to write on their wall, there is a need to point it out.

Note: all mispellings in our Liberal friend's posts are taken as they are. Not my fault some people don't take the time to spellcheck facebook posts.

http://bryant.facebook.com/profile.php?id=32203761

Multipartisan Hackery was a column I co-created with the help of Ryan Daley, a fellow student and friend who I have great respect for despite his liberal leanings. It was our idea to create a column focusing on the issues of the day for a given week, and publish this weekly in the Bryant University newspaper, The Archway. Last semester we had a Conservative (myself or other members of the campus), a Liberal (generally Mr. Daley or another student and friend, Peter Connors.) and a Libertarian (Steven Saritelli). The three different perspectives made the column very interesting in my opinion. Unfortunately, Mr. Saritelli graduated last Semester, so this semester we just have a Conservative and a Liberal.

The Topic of this Multipartisan Hackery is Dubai Ports World. It appeared in The Archway last March.

Multipartisan Hackery: Dubai Ports World

Over the past few weeks I, and many others, have been having an internal debate about Dubai Ports World (DPW) taking over the terminals at US ports. I’ve listened to both sides and have pondered the threat to National Security. I have heard sides which tell me the UAE is an ally in the War on Terror and are in close proximity to Iran, I have heard Savage talk about the dangers of who controls the manifest. I have also seen the website (www.dpterminals.com), and it appears a large portion of DPW is storage and containment, crane equipment, forklifts, and maintenance. The Security is still in charge of the respective national agencies of the country the port is located in.

I have come to the conclusion that the DPW taking over port terminals is not nearly as big a threat as it is made out to be. DPW has ports in Germany, Australia, India, 6 in China, and 3 in HongKong. If they are good enough for our trade partners and allies, they should be good enough for us. Moreover, DPW has made a gesture of good will by giving our government 45 days to investigate the security threat that may be posed. Security is still the job of US Customs and the US Coast Guard. When you hear that 95% of containers go without inspection, you are being told a lie. The best analogy I can draw is the airport. 100% of passengers go through the metal detector, 5% of people get pulled over and frisked by TSA. Same deal with the ports; 100% of cargos are scanned by a radiation detector and other automated devices, only 5% are physically opened and stripped down.

The opposing model I like to refer to as the “Witch Hunt Model”. A British Company (P&O) used to be charged with the terminal duties of our ports, but now that the Arabs/Muslims would be doing it, it is suddenly a threat to national security. So where does the witch hunt end? What, Iraq suddenly became “not Arab” and “not Muslim” after we kicked Saddam out? There is no reason to fear the UAE or DPW, the UAE is a good country to foster relations with due to its close proximity with Iran, and DPW has ports in 5 out of 7 continents in the world. Too often we have heard Bush and his conservative base have been using “the politics of fear”, well the only fear I see going on is the irrational fear of Arabs or Muslims.

Multipartisan Hackery was a column I co-created with the help of Ryan Daley, a fellow student and friend who I have great respect for despite his liberal leanings. It was our idea to create a column focusing on the issues of the day for a given week, and publish this weekly in the Bryant University newspaper, The Archway. Last semester we had a Conservative (myself or other members of the campus), a Liberal (generally Mr. Daley or another student and friend, Peter Connors.) and a Libertarian (Steven Saritelli). The three different perspectives made the column very interesting in my opinion. Unfortunately, Mr. Saritelli graduated last Semester, so this semester we just have a Conservative and a Liberal.

The topic of this Multipartisan Hackery was the Aruba Boycott. It appeared in the Archway last March.

Multipartisan Hackery: Aruba boycott

From the limited amount of information I have gathered, the current situation is as follows: 1. Natalee Holloway went on a trip about 10 months ago in Aruba after her high school graduation and disappeared, the body has not been found. 2. The governor of Alabama now wants to boycott Aruba for not doing enough to find Natalee. 3. Said governor now wants other states to join in the Aruba ban. The big oddity here is that the reasons for going missing range from “Natalee got drunk, drowned off the Aruban shoreline, and was consequently swept out to sea to “Natalee was raped and murdered” to “Natalee had a drug overdose and her friends sealed her in a 55 gallon steel drum to hide evidence after a night of reckless partying”. There are also theories flying around that negative news for Aruba could inflict harm on Aruba’s major source of capital, tourism, and Aruba is trying to cover something up so as not to get the attribution of an unsafe travel destination.

To me the problem starts long before the disappearance and falls squarely on the shoulders of the adults whose job it was to watch Natalee, if not the parents for not going with her. This whole disappearance could probably have been avoided if someone was aware and alert of what was going on, which is clearly not the case if there has been 10 months of muddle. The boycott is an overreaction that doesn’t even address the real problem. Boycotting Aruba will not succeed in getting Natalee back where 10 months of trying to work with Aruban authorities failed. Boycotting Aruba would do more to hurt America by making us look like foolish overly emotional reactionaries then it will to hurt Aruba, whose tourism base is not strictly dependent on the US. (As a note, we’ve already got Cindy Sheehan making us look like emotionally led fools; we don’t need another runaway train of emotions and hellfire trying to set foreign policy).

Natalee Holloway’s disappearance is tragedy and I sincerely wish her family has a happy ending to this 10-month ordeal. However, boycotting Aruba is not going to help this family. My suggestion is to do something similar to what John Walsh did after his child was abducted: get involved in passing laws and creating organizations that will expedite international missing child claims.

Multipartisan Hackery: Al Gore & environment

The only “Inconvenient Truth” for Al Gore is that he is a washed up has-been who is partly responsible for global warming due to all the hot air he lets out on a regular basis. This is the man who claimed to “invent the internet” (actually created as a flexible decentralized communication network by the US military), the man who on the topic of communications and the internet likened bloggers to “digital brownshirts (Nazis)”, the man who went to Saudi Arabia and said “Arabs have been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions,” and “the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaeda's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.”

As far as the environment and global warming is concerned, I’ll let Al take it: “I demand a recount!” Weather happens in cycles, we have heating periods and cooling periods, and this is a heating period. Don’t tell that to the world doom wing of the environmentalists though, it might jeopardize some of their funding. Should we cut emissions? Yes. Have we been cutting emissions? Yes. Should we care about the environment? Yes. Do we care about the environment? Yes. In fact, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt is regarded as the founding father of the conservation movement as a potent political force in the US.

The US is the world’s number one economy, we have made every attempt to try and better the world in which we have the most power. Kyoto was signed by Clinton, but it was Congress (then Democratically controlled, even.) which refused to ratify it. Kyoto has zilch to do with Bush and everything to do with Congressional approval. Perhaps those members of the Kyoto Treaty, the terms of which are now archaic, should reconsider their approach and focus perhaps on China and other industrializing nations who have black smoke spewing out of their factories, rather than the US who has tried to reduce as much pollution as possible. You can get rid of 95% of smoke pollution fairly easily, but the last 5% is exceedingly difficult and too costly for many companies to afford. The US is easy to lampoon because it is a democracy with heavy involvement in the world stage, but we get a lot of undue criticism from Europeans who turn a blind eye to the Asian countries over which they cannot control or influence.

Multipartisan Hackery: Cheney not psychotic drunken killer

 
It has been revealed through Mr. Whittington that the hunting accident that occurred on Feb. 11^th was in fact, merely a hunting accident.  It would appear that Cheney had the good sense of mind to get Mr. Whittington to the hospital. Because of Cheney’s actions, Mr. Whittington is as fine, healthy, and apparently gracious as ever. This is to the much maligned people on the far left who were SURE Cheney was a drunken vicious malcontent. My response? Bad aim, wingnuts.

In addition to the drunk story being spread around, we have various whining and complaining about a gap in news coverage. Lets role play: You are out hunting with your buddy on a non-official day trip at a Texas ranch, your buddy accidentally gets shot and you have pulled the trigger. Is the first thought that comes to your mind a) Alert the media, I shot somebody! b) Quick! Run (or swim) away from the scene in a drunken stupor leaving the victim to die! Or c) Oh no (buddy), I’m so sorry! Lets get him to a hospital quickly and alert the people he cares about so he can make it out alive! Thankfully like most reasonable people, Cheney chose option c.

For all the whining the press has done about not having a story, the NYT managed to have a week worth of front-page news. Never mind the fact that any news that doesn’t agree with the editing board of the mainstream news sources gets ignored. For the proof that convinced me, do a Google search on “Superhero for Choice”. You will eventually get to a lovely little animated video made by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate about 6 months ago depicting a “Superhero” who basically drowns, blows up, or “cleanses” anyone who politically disagrees with PP’s goals, with First Amendment rights being called irrelevant in the process. Given that the offensive content of that particular animated video has received attention only from the Washington Examiner, does anyone care to explain to me the 4,368-hour gap (roughly 6 months) in mainstream news coverage on that? In short, the babble about a 24 hour gap is irrelevant, the mainstream press only covers stories that the editors want to, “people’s right to know” be damned.

Multipartisan Hackery: Immigration Debate

The Immigration Debate is one I could speak on for pages, but since MPH gives me 3 paragraphs or so, the condensed version is necessary. The most important myth to bust is a semantic one. The proper legal (as in, not politically correct but factually accurate) term for those who cross the border illegally is illegal aliens, not “undocumented immigrants”, and certainly not “undocumented citizens”. Any person who calls an illegal alien an “undocumented citizen” is an idiot with no understanding of the law and no appreciation for the value of US citizenship.

A good example is John Kerry, who just last Monday(April 3^rd) in a radio address boasted, and I quote: “We eliminated provisions that would criminalize immigrants and anyone who would help them.” in a speech claiming “victory for Democrats” (82% of which OPPOSED the bill, HR4437). Kerry, you idiot, no one has problems with immigrants, we have problems with trespassers and those who aid and abet them. My current plan is to loiter on Kerry’s private property and then say he has no authority to kick me out because he would be criminalizing an immigrant to his native front lawn. I am guilty of nothing but trespassing which, according to Kerry’s opinion on HR4437, is not a crime and any provision to make it so is an injustice.

Illegal aliens are not poor, weary travelers who just happened to haphazardly stumble across our borders, these are people whose entire objective was to enter this country illegally. People can and do make plans to illegally enter another nation while speaking entirely in Spanish (or Arabic, perhaps?). What a novel concept, clear and effective communication not done in English.

Recently there have been protests done by illegal aliens where Mexican flags were hoisted above upside-down American flags (at public high schools no less). My response would have been to kick the trespassers out immediately. As illegal aliens they are not US citizens, and therefore not entitled to any rights under the US constitution, including free speech and freedom of assembly. If I entered France illegally and started protesting the French government for not bending to my every need, they would kick me out of town faster than you can say au revoir. These illegal aliens have no right to be here, much less make demands from the government. Here is a novel idea for those aliens, if they are so upset at the government and feel the need to protest, why don’t they go back to Mexico and protest THEIR government for rights and equality?

Finally, “cheap illegal labor” is good for neither the illegal laborers nor the US. We already have a poor underclass in the US, and I’d rather we employ a US citizen at minimum wage than lower the overall wage base by paying an illegal under the table. The illegal aliens are a threat to national security, a tax burden, and a nuisance. Kick them out already (at their home country’s expense, of course). If you want to get into America do it like our ancestors did: legally. My problem is not with immigrants, it is with trespassers. Some might argue I’m being “too harsh” to those poor “undocumented citizens”. Anyone arguing such should just count themselves lucky that our government is too gutless to kick out traitors as well.

Multipartisan Hackery: Scooter Libby.

The facts surrounding the indictment of Scooter Libby, one of Vice President Cheney’s advisors, are scant at best. I’ve heard rhetoric from the Democrats lampooning Libby as just another cog in a corrupt administration. Meanwhile, all I’ve read from those with like minds is that Joseph Wilson was an inept government employee who got all his jobs via his wife, Valerie Plame, and somehow Plame’s name was leaked through a declassification of information that Libby supposedly got the authority from Bush or Cheney to leak.

To me this is much ado about nothing, there is no specific law regarding leaks of declassified information, nor apparently was this operation very important. Moreover, the President and Vice President have the legitimate power to declassify information. The CIA is an obscure government agency that works off of guesswork, intuition, and espionage. If somehow a mission was foiled, it would be neither the first nor the last time such a thing happened.

This is yet another anecdote pointing to a problem among the nutbars currently running the once great (or at least somewhat understandable) Democratic Party into the ground, Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS). The symptoms are a sneaking suspicion that any bad event somehow traces back in source to the policy, presidency, or even just the existence of George W. Bush, regardless of the plausibility of such a cause-effect relationship. Hurricane Katrina cannot simply be a failing of local and state governments failing their duties to use all available school buses or nationalize the security of NO until after the hurricane hit (respectively), but it must be the Bush has a weather machine that was purposely created to target and destroy black people. Kanye West, overpaid egomaniacal rapper who was featured recently on Rolling Stone as a caricature of Jesus Christ, is quoted during coverage of Katrina aftermath as saying “Bush hates black people.” I say give credit where credit is due. Bush isn’t strong enough on the borders, but the economy is doing great with 211,000 jobs created in March and unemployment at a new low of 4.7%.

Its time to cut the BS and the BDS. There are legitimate sources of frustration with Bush’s policies that do not have to extend into hyperbolic insanity. There are good things which Bush has done to aid the nation and to boost our economy. Libby is one obscure government employee who nobody heard of before and no-one will remember after this debacle subsides, save those who work in the POLS department or Washington DC.