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The Obama administration money for everyone except… Black farmers?

Posted: May 1, 2009 by datechguy in Blame Bush, opinion/news
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Via Laura at the Green room come a link to this incredible story:

The cause gained momentum in August 2007 when Obama, then an Illinois senator, introduced Pigford legislation about six months into his presidential campaign.

Although the case was hardly a hot-button political issue, it had drawn intense interest among African-Americans in the rural South. It was seen as a way for Obama to reach out in those areas, where he was not well-known and where he would need strong support to win the Democratic primary.

The proposal won passage in May as sponsors rounded up enough support to incorporate it into the 2008 farm bill.

Except for now the president is opposing his own bill and trying to limit claims. As Laura says:

If Obama gets his way, those black farmers who he himself said were unjustly victimized by the USDA will now get about $1500.

He’s just blown over three trillion dollars and is poised to spend even more. Another three billion is a drop in the bucket. He could allow banks to pay back their TARP funds if he’s too short on cash to repay debts that he said just a year ago the federal government legitimately owed.

He disproportionately taxes the poor. He didn’t race to the scene of a natural disaster. He refuses to spend money on black students and now on black farmers. So according to the rules and standards set by the left over the last eight years, doesn’t Obama qualify as a racist?

The head of the National Black farmers association John Boyd is confused:

“You can’t blame it on the Bush administration anymore, I can’t figure out for the life of me why the president wouldn’t want to implement a bill that he fought for as a U.S. senator.”

I can. This president has been compared to Abe Lincoln an awful lot but he is like Lincoln in only one way; Lincoln was famous for keeping a promise only as long as he considered it was worthwhile: “Bad promises are better broken than kept.” he said.

A lot of Americans are going to be finding out over the next 3 3/4 years how many of this president’s promises he considers “bad”.

Michelle Malkin: prophet

Posted: April 24, 2009 by datechguy in amazon reviews, opinion/news
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Looking at the debate on who knew what and with the waterboarding and “torture” Michelle Malkin’s book
In Defense of Internment: The World War II Round-Up and What It Means For America’s War on Terror is looking particularly relevant again.

I would suggest giving it a read. My Amazon review from 2004 is here.

There are quite a few sobering parallels to today.

He must be talking post civil war

Posted: April 22, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Maybe it’s just me but I don’t think RFK’s statement calling President Obama an Indentured Servant of the Coal Industry is racist.

There are other terms that would have a racial connotation, the servant of, the slave of, the sharecropper of etc…

You might recall in history that Indentured servants were not in fact slaves but once their committed labor was completed would in fact be freemen. One could claim that the post civil war sharecropping systems designed to keep ex-slaves in virtual serfdom might be

But even if he used these terms I don’t think it would be racist. He is criticizing the president using a valid metaphor.

The metaphor isn’t racist, however as Don Surber points out that doesn’t make it correct and it doesn’t prevent RFK from being full of it.

And what profiteth a woman if she gains Perez Hilton’s approval…

Posted: April 20, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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…but loses her own soul? Apparently Miss California understood what that meant and was unwilling to compromise her opposition to Gay Marriage and reject her religion to court the vote of Perez Hilton.

Well she ended up as first runner up and Mr. Hilton had this to say about her

Hilton, the self proclaimed “Queen of all media” who has campaigned for gay equal rights, called the answer “the worst answer in pageant history”.

On a video blog on his website Hilton said, “She lost not because she doesn’t believe in gay marriage, she lost because she’s a dumb bitch!”

A person is known by their enemies. Miss California should be proud to have this loser as one of them.

Be aware that this is the future for supporters of traditional marriage to be considered idiots, and bigots by the “right” people and the media. If Frank Rich’s scorn is the price of my convictions then I am a lucky man.

BTW Frank Rich has been around for a long time, I don’t recall him writing screeds in favor of Gay marriage a decade or more ago, does that mean he was a bigot then?

And another thing, that rant is very unfair to the actual winner Miss North Carolina. By making this controversy and his rant. Mr. Perez raised questions to the legitimacy of her win. None of that is her fault and it shouldn’t be held against her.

Update: Remind me to hit the “publish” button instead of the Draft button. The Captain is also unimpressed with Hilton.

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