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Some deaths are more equal than others

Posted: July 17, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Godfather 3 is the victim of comparisons. It is a better than average movie, but because the first two movies are two of the greatest of all time it looks much worse than it is.

There is a scene where two older ladies complain about Joey Zasa. How he allows trouble in the streets of the neighborhoods where their people live contrary to the Italian way. It leads to the following confrontation between Zasa and Michael Corleone:

Joey Zasa: “Yes, I take the blacks, the Spanish into my Family because that’s America.”
Michael Corleone: “And you guarantee they don’t deal drugs in those neighborhoods?”
Joey Zasa: “I don’t guarantee that. I guarantee I’ll kill anyone who does.”

Which brings me to this weekly standard story about the Violence in Oakland. Excusing the rioters. Don’t let the title fool you, although Heather MacDonald touches on the disgraceful conduct of Mayor Ron Dellums vis a vis the riots by page two she manages to get to what should be the real outrage:

A little over 24 hours after the destruction in Oakland’s downtown, a 30-year-old man was shot multiple times in East Oakland and killed. The next morning, another man was found dead in his car, also a suspected homicide victim. Neither of those killings received the slightest bit of attention from Oakland’s mayor or the activists who have been whipping up anti-cop, anti-society sentiment. The routine, daily bloodshed in inner cities is regarded as the ordinary course of affairs.

That is the true disgrace, daily bloodshed in the Black community that is left unchecked. The statistics are telling:

The hundred or so homicides in Oakland each year are part of nearly 6,000 murders nationally committed by blacks, mostly of other blacks, compared to just over 5,300 homicides committed by whites and Hispanics combined. (Blacks are 12.8 percent of the U.S. population, whites and Hispanics, 81 percent.).

Where is the outrage in the black community. Why does not the black leadership or the elite liberal opinion address this outrage, because it doesn’t fit their template of racism as the primary cause of the suffering of the Blacks in America. Much easier to attack the Tea Parties instead with all the sincerity of the environmental community.

“I don’t need to make a case to you”

Posted: July 16, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news, tea parties
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Are these people running for president of the NAACP?

Via glenn who is on fire today.

Eugene Robinson spills the beans, Reversing Reaganism!

Posted: July 16, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/news
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The MSM has been very careful to talk respectfully about Reagan lately but Eugene Robinson just gave up the game. He agreed with Charles Krauthammer statement of the following:

The net effect of 18 months of Obamaism will be to undo much of Reaganism.

On Morning Joe he agrees saying saying on Morning Joe that the president is “Reversing Reaganism” but unlike Charles he things this is a good things and the rest of the MSM is with him 100%. He thinks they just need to sell it.

Of course the media would also love to reverse the country’s love of Reagan but they’ll settle for this as the next best thing.

How that “tea party racism” meme working out for ya?

Posted: July 15, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news, tea parties
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Apparently not all that well for Think Progress for example from Conservative Generation at Left Coast Rebel:

The claims of racism in the Tea Party movement are so overblown and unsubstantiated that the best Think Progress could do to prove racism was post a video of four supposed racist Tea Partiers. Right Klik has found that of those four, two of them were not even in the Tea Parties.

Scroll down for the updates they are priceless meanwhile Confederate Yankee piles on:

Did you not think we’d remember the amusing signs your fellow liberals created for their little abortive “Crash the Tea Party” stunt in Boston? Let’s just say that some were more amusing than others, and some just showed pathetic and angry progressives often are.

There is an old saying that you’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

At Think Progress, they’re ready to make up the “facts,” yet again.

Update: Oh, Think Progress… did you really think you’d get away with it?

As a matter of fact they did, this is a religion to the left and they act accordingly.

And congratulations for their first memeorandum thread

Meanwhile over at the NAACP land of open debate a slight shift in tone:

NAACP President Ben Jealous said Thursday that the resolution passed by the group on Wednesday does not call the tea party “racist.”

The resolution the NAACP approved Wednesday at its annual conference in Kansas City, Mo., alleges that the tea party has used racial epithets against President Barack Obama and has verbally and physically abused African-American members of Congress.

A portion of the resolution does indeed characterize the behavior as “racist,” but Jealous said Thursday during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the resolution was not intended to condemn the entire movement as such.

“We aren’t saying that the tea party is racist,” Jealous said. “What we’re saying is that with their increasing power comes an increasing responsibility to act responsibly … and to call out when they see those things on those signs.”

Oh no not at all funny how things were reported in those olden days of yesterday

Unfortunately for Jealous, that is not what was reported on their awful resolution.
The KC Star reported:

The resolution, scheduled for a vote as early as Tuesday by delegates attending the annual NAACP convention in Kansas City, calls upon “all people of good will to repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties, and to stand in opposition to its drive to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era.”

Jealous better start getting his facts straight. You can’t have it both ways, Ben.

For the record… The former civil rights group does not even have the courage to post their resolution online.

It was interesting to note that yesterday they were making the Washington accusation and today they were not, at least not on Morning Joe

Why is this not working out because they don’t want to see stories like this:

Black tea partiers rebut NAACP

Can’t be having that, once people realize that there are black conservatives out there running that the media ignores, the game is over.

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