by La Shawn on September 30, 2004
in Bloggers
Update (10:35 p.m.): Who won the debate?
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Have you heard about the ruckus in Detroit? The Detroit City Council wants to declare the dilapidated city “Africa Town” and siphon off more taxpayers’ money for yet more skin color preferences. In other words, they expect the public to pay for their pity party.
Devoid of fresh ideas and innovative approaches, as well as spiritual and moral solutions to Detroit’s many problems, politicians with too little real work to do come up with one hare-brained scheme after another. There’s nothing new under the sun.
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by La Shawn on September 30, 2004
in General
According to the Washington Post (reg. req):
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday repealing most of the District’s gun laws, in a vote that handed an election-season victory to gun rights groups and was denounced by the city’s leaders as a historic violation of home rule.
By a vote of 250 to 171, the House passed the D.C. Personal Protection Act, which would end the District’s 1976 ban on handguns and semiautomatic weapons, roll back registration requirements for ammunition and decriminalize possession of unregistered weapons and possession of guns in homes or workplaces.
The bill also would prohibit the mayor and D.C. Council from enacting gun limits that exceed federal law or “discourage…the private ownership or use of firearms.”
Of course the bill won’t pass, especially in a corrupt, broken-down city where the criminals run the show. I’ll have more to say on this later. In the meantime, read about what I think of DC’s gun ban.
Warning: Graphic, stomach-churning stuff below.
I like Mike S. Adams because he doesn’t speak in euphemisms. He calls a thing what it is and regularly exposes liberal lunacy and debauchery at UNC-Greensboro and Chapel Hill. (See this post for background.)
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by La Shawn on September 30, 2004
in General
In a way, I feel sorry for Al Gore. I can’t imagine how emasculating losing a close election might be. His op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times doesn’t help matters.
In his article (reg. req.), “How to Debate George Bush”, Gore offers no debating techniques. It’s just more of the same, boring, quagmire-in-Iraq stuff you hear John “Orange Glow” Kerry mumbling about everyday.
Gore’s party has relegated him to the sidelines. Not having any real role in the Kerry campaign, he’s reduced to writing (or dictating) op-eds like this one. He begins by commenting on the “dominance of attack advertisements” and media spin. He says Bush is a “skilled debater” but that his campaign has made “lowering expectations” an art form, whatever that means.
According to Gore, Bush’s presidency has been a “catastrophic failure.” And here is where my pity for him comes in. This one-time vice-president, reduced to playing attack dog for the Kerry campaign, is not a very good attack dog. Like all politicians, he watches polls and understands Americans are very concerned about Iraq, but as a good poll watcher, he knows that people don’t like John Kerry. How do you work with this kind of material?
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by La Shawn on September 29, 2004
in General
Pray for the people of Florida affected by the hurricanes. Many people have lost their lives and homes; the fortunate have lost only electricity. Despite the destructive forces of nature, God is still sovereign. Sometimes that reality is difficult to deal with when you’re going through trials, but I know it works for me. He is faithful. Christians know that even “bad” circumstances work out for good, somehow.
That’s where trust in the Lord comes in. Walking by faith is like making your way through the dark with a tiny candle illuminating only the next step. I intercede on behalf of those suffering from the destruction and hope the ones who are not followers of Christ are drawn to him through these circumstances.
I also pray for a different group of Floridians: the people Democrats will use to undermine the results of the November election. I’m developing a post or series of posts about the ridiculous voter disenfranchisement fraud perpetrated by Democrats, who apparently believe blacks in Florida are gullible, naive, ignorant, irresponsible, apathetic, or a combination thereof.
By the way, there are a few liberals out there who hate me. They can’t even conceal it (although they inexplicably read my blog, link to it and make vague references to me in their posts). Good grief. My Florida voter post(s) will not improve the situation, I’m afraid. Such is life!
Are there any readers from Florida or otherwise affected by the storms?
Update (9/30) : Blogbrother Michael King cites a story where someone says blacks are not “technologically savvy” enough to vote in Florida. Man, if Trent Lott were to say that…
HobbsOnline does voter fraud watch. Via Dean’s World.
Hello, loyal readers and fellow bloggers. I need your help. I’m conducting an informal survey about the role (if any) small- and medium-sized bloggers played in Rathergate.
I haven’t defined “small” and “medium” because I want to hear from a wide range of people. If you believe you’ve contributed to the exposure of the forged Killian memos or just the flow of information, I want to hear from you.
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by La Shawn on September 28, 2004
in Bloggers
Michelle Malkin writes about a subject I’ve been thinking about for a while: blog envy. She cites this Los Angeles Times article by blogger Billmon. He thinks the big bloggers are selling out to mainstream media:
For almost two years, I blogged the political scene, first as a guest writer on the popular Daily Kos site, and then on my own blog, Whiskey Bar. During that time, I was able to indulge my passion for long-form writing — a relative rarity in the blogging world, which leans toward snippy one-liners and news nuggets — and to mix satirical humor with serious analysis, all without the worries of deadlines, editors and advertisers.
It was intoxicating while it lasted, as was the sense of community I found with my readers. At the peak of Whiskey Bar’s popularity, I could count on receiving 100 or more comments about each post — articulate, querulous and sometimes profane voices from the Internet hinterland.
Recently, however, I’ve watched the commercialization of this culture of dissent with growing unease. When I recently decided to take a long break from blogging, it was for a mix of personal and philosophical reasons. But the direction the blogosphere is going makes me wonder whether I’ll ever go back.
Even as it collectively achieves celebrity status for its anti-establishment views, blogging is already being domesticated by its success. What began as a spontaneous eruption of populist creativity is on the verge of being absorbed by the media-industrial complex it claims to despise.
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by La Shawn on September 28, 2004
in General
Reader Jeffrey W. sent me this link.
Some local black Republicans said they understand why Clark County Commissioner Lynette Boggs McDonald last week called the Democratic party the “last plantation in America.”
Democrats quickly held a press conference Friday to call for an apology from Boggs McDonald, saying it was “unconscionable” and “inexcusable” to use slavery — one of the nation’s darkest periods — in political campaigns.
“To invoke the comparison is irresponsible,” said Clark County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates.
But the Republican party is increasingly using powerful language to say that Democrats take blacks for granted and aren’t doing enough to empower the black community…
[E]qual opportunity, school choice, tax relief and faith-based organizations that help the community….”Those are the things that matter most to my family and why I’m supporting our leaders in Congress and President Bush,” she says.
Local black Republicans said they agree that the Democratic Party pays lip service to blacks during election season but does little to bring blacks to the table when it comes to setting policy….
“African-Americans have to look more toward self reliance, less government and being able to create more opportunities for themselves….We’re dealing with the remnants of the ’60s,” [Cornell] Clark said. “But these young, so-called upwardly mobile people — they’re open minded. They don’t think like the old crowds.”(my emphasis)
I have to add Ms. McDonald and Mr. Clark to my People-to-Meet list.
On a side note: Roger Clegg, once a frequent contributor to National Review Online and Vice President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity (not to be confused with the skin color preference pushers at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), sent me a bound copy of a law review article he wrote for Georgetown University titled, “Black Culture and Black Conservative Thought: Toward an Anthology.”
First of all, Roger Clegg knows who I am. 
Secondly, he obviously went out of his way to track down my work address. Thirdly, he wrote a personal note on the cover of the article. Wow. As I said, you never know who’s reading your blog!
Addendum: I’ll blog about Clegg’s article after I’ve finished reading it.
by La Shawn on September 28, 2004
in General
To watch the video of Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi’s speech before the United States Congress, click here. To read his remarks, click here. For the Rose Garden speech, see this. For John Kerry’s boneheaded remarks about Allawi’s speech, visit this link. To watch columnist Mark Steyn eviscerate Kerry, see here. To see Doug Giles do more of the same, visit this link.
Update: Sorry about that, folks. Kerry’s link is fixed. And check out this item from Matt Drudge. I didn’t know he had a sense of humor.
More on Allawi from JustOneMinute.
by La Shawn on September 28, 2004
in Bush Good
I don’t know about you, but I’m glad our president is from a state like Texas. I’ve read numerous accounts of George Bush’s “swagger.” In my opinion, this is something only an insecure man would have a problem with. After all, why would a real man begrudge another man’s swagger?
That’s what I was thinking about when I read Paul Krugman’s column in the New York Times (reg. req.). He writes:
Let’s face it: whatever happens in Thursday’s debate, cable news will proclaim President Bush the winner. This will reflect the political bias so evident during the party conventions. It will also reflect the undoubted fact that Mr. Bush does a pretty good Clint Eastwood imitation.
But what will the print media do? Let’s hope they don’t do what they did four years ago.
Interviews with focus groups just after the first 2000 debate showed Al Gore with a slight edge. Post-debate analysis should have widened that edge. After all, during the debate, Mr. Bush told one whopper after another — about his budget plans, about his prescription drug proposal and more. The fact-checking in the next day’s papers should have been devastating.
I don’t know about the “Bush lied” routine, but Krugman sounds a little envious because he knows his guy is an elitist patrician from New England who can’t possibly match Bush in manliness, at least in the opinion of the American people (and me). I’m a little suspicious of a man who whines about the potency of another man’s attributes.
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This post is reserved for the latest CBS updates and blogger comments. Also added will be mainstream media’s latest assessments of bloggers. For instance, Power Line mentions an article from the New York Times Magazine.
See Dan Rather’s free-fallout into the ratings dumpster.
Semi-related: JustOneMinute on the New York Times on Valerie Plame, world-class spy.
Hey bloggers, do you want to interview one of those foreign observers sent to monitor the November election? See No quarters blog.
Update: Does CBS source Bill Burkett have a blog? Ask Beldar.
Update (9/30): 101 comments: That’s a record!
Addendum: New visitors and commenters please read this.
It’s a shame that the media and regular citizens seem to be enemies. It doesn’t have to be that way, but when I read articles like this one (registration req.), “Cries of ‘media bias’ hide sloppy thinking”, I can’t help but think: “This pompous journalist is still in denial!”
Chris Satullo, editorial page editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, thinks he has a finger on the pulse of the blogosphere, but he’s clueless. His tone is a little too superior for me, but the beginning of the column is readable:
The ruling spin on Dan’s Big Blunder seems to be: Rather exposed as a biased hack; mainstream media exposed as arrogant, obsolete gatekeepers; the blogosphere rules!
For any journalist who understands his real job — helping the public life of this nation work well — the rise of citizen comment on the Internet should be something to celebrate.
The blogosphere is a dynamic expansion of things newspapers have long done to aid democratic dialogue, from letters to the editor to experiments in civic journalism.
Many bloggers are citizens who care about facts and ideas. (Some are narcissistic boors, but let’s ignore them.) Good bloggers devour information, making then a smart, skeptical audience. Any journalist who would not welcome that is a fool. Given a choice between a world of nonreaders zoning out with MTV or a posse of tart-tongued digital watchdogs, I say: Up with blogs!
Although I don’t like his parent-talking-about-his-rebellious-kids tone, he recognizes there are good bloggers out here. But then he descends:
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Until the CBS hype abates, I’ll post at least one entry a day on the latest developments and blogger comments.
Jay Rosen at PressThink asks, “Does CBS News Have a Political Future in This State?” The “AP Writers For Kerry” club stumps for their man. Power Line has the details. Protein Wisdom has more on the AP and other interesting things…
See Joe at Daily Newsbrief for the latest on liberal bias. Why do we let them get away with this stuff?
Update: Power Line has more on the AP, especially reporter Jennifer Loven. Read the latest on Bill Burkett, CBS source, at Allahpundit.
Update II (9/26): Michelle Malkin dissects a column by conservative-turned-liberal David Broder, and Power Line does the same to a column written by Richard Cohen. Good stuff.
How closely have you been following the network’s folly? Leave a comment and I’ll link to your latest post.
More updates to follow…
by La Shawn on September 24, 2004
in Lunacy
Update (9/26): A commenter, whose post I deleted, called me a liar because the story states that some Indians are offended by “Redskins”, but my title reads, “Only White Liberals…” I thought it was obvious that I was exaggerating in the post title for effect. I excerpted the story and linked to it so everyone could see that some Indians are offended by the word. My point is that white liberals are at the forefront of this stupid stuff, and the survey shows the majority of Indians are not bothered by the name. If my intent wasn’t clear, I hope it is now.
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Just as I thought:
A poll of American Indians found that an overwhelming majority of them are not bothered by the name of the Washington Redskins.
Only 9 percent of those polled said the name of the NFL team is “offensive,” while 90 percent said it’s acceptable, according to the University of Pennsylvania’s National Annenberg Election Survey, released Friday.
Annenberg polled 768 Indians in every state except Hawaii and Alaska from Oct. 7, 2003, to Sept. 20, 2004.
The survey found little disparity between men and women or young and old. However, 13 percent of Indians with college degrees said the name is offensive, compared with 9 percent of those with some college and 6 percent of those with a high school education or less. Among self-identified liberals, 14 percent found the term disparaging, compared with 6 percent of conservatives.
I blogged about something similar: American Indian vs. Native American.
White liberals puzzle me with their paternalistic, presumptuous and often preposterous schemes, thinking they know what’s best for everybody else. I’ve had a few lecture me on how racist conservatives are. Can you believe it? I better go to bed before I say something I’ll regret in the morning.
By the way, I’m not a Redskins fan. I’m a Carolina girl!
