I suppose I could be generous and chalk it up to a misunderstanding, or a miscommunication, or faulty intelligence. But let's face it, against common knowledge, or common sense, the Republicans just aren't getting it. Let's talk a look at a couple of examples that leave me scratching my noggin'....
Hate crimes against gays are so few and far between that the gay community has been staging assaults and making them up just to appear persecuted, and in need of hate crime legislation.
Homophobia is just a figment of our imaginations.
Global warming does not exist. In fact, the dumping of tons of hydro-carbons into the atmosphere have had little of no effect on our environment, so lets all go buy a Hummer!!
Hail, Exxon!!
Here is one from today. Vice President Cheney, in Iraq on a surprise visit, said that, "Yes we have a long way to go in Iraq, but "based on conversations he had throughout the day, Iraqi leaders felt that sectarian violence was “down fairly dramatically.” “I think everybody recognizes there still are some security problems, security threats, no question about it,” Cheney said. Now, I wish this was true. I wish we could believe the VP.
And in all fairness, his point was underscored by a thunderous explosion that rattled windows in the U.S. Embassy where he spent most of the day.
The blast in Baghdad struck about 6:25 p.m. local time, just half an hour before Cheney’s wrap-up news conference. It appeared to strike in the vicinity of the heavily fortified Green Zone, which contains the U.S. and British embassies and many Iraqi government buildings.
Now, I am a charitable man, and I believe our VP. He probably meant to say, outside of the green zone, where you might have had your ass blown up today....outside of that, we have made substantial progress.
Maybe he should have brought John Mc Cain.
They could have gone produce shopping together.
The truth is, we havn't accomplished much of anything in Iraq.
No sense lying about it.
What we have been doing isn't working. But they aren't about to give up.
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First of all, hate-crimes are against the Constitution. Secondly, where hate-crimes are imposed, what soon follows is the putting in jail of pastors who preach from some verses of the Bible. This is the stated goal of many radical homosexual groups (usually they have the same book tables that the immigration and peace rallies have – Marxists & socialist books). Thirdly, many homosexuals disagree with the “hate-crime” stance that is being pushed on the public. Again, this is not an issue along heterosexual/homosexual lines, nor non-religious/religious lines; for many non-religious and homosexual people oppose this bill. (I also gave examples in the posted articles that showed some homosexuals making cases up to try and push bills like this.)
The laws are clear to put both homosexual killers of heterosexuals – like the murderer of Mary Stachowicz, a devout Catholic grandmother who was brutally killed by a homosexual man in Chicago merely for sharing the Bible. Her killers got life. And Matthew Sheppard’s killers got life as well.
Can minorities commit hate-crimes? I would oppose any laws that would apply to any race or sexual preference, even if those people could commit “special” crimes. 14th amendment Kimba! If you scratch your head Kimba then you should delve into the issue a bit more. I am going to post an article by a “minority”, you should read his books, they are illuminating:
The double standard slaps you in the face.
Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Ronald Taylor, a black man, allegedly guns down five whites, killing three. What followed became a textbook case on how contemporary American journalism deals with race. The suspect's motive could not have been more clear. A black neighbor quoted Taylor as saying, “I'm gonna kill all white people.”
A white maintenance man described Taylor as disruptive ever since moving into the apartment building, “Whenever he saw me, he'd call me a racist pig, or white trash, or he'd make a point of walking past me and brushing up against me. He just didn't like me.” Yet the media leaned over backwards to avoid any appearance of racism. News anchors cautioned that we don't know whether Taylor's alleged hatred against whites was the “primary” or “sole” reason for the shootings. Pardon me. When did they add that requirement?
The Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act defines hate crime as: “crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of a property crime, the property that is the object of the crime, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of any person.” No mention of hatred as a “sole” or “primary” motive. Even the police issued mild, tentative statements about whether they considered Taylor's actions a hate crime. “There's a lot of hostility in this individual,” said Wilkinsburg Police Chief Gerald Brewer, “so I think it's a little premature to simply define this as a racist event.” A little premature?
In August, 1999, white supremacist Buford Furrow gunned down several people at a Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles, and shot and killed a Filipino letter carrier. In the three days following the shooting, over 150 newspapers wrote nearly 200 articles about the slaughter.
On November 11, 1999, in Kansas City, an Ethiopian man shot and killed two co-workers and wounded a third person. All the victims were white. The Ethiopian shooter, who also shot and killed himself, left a letter referring to “blood sucker” whites. To date, how many newspapers carried a story about this apparent race-based shooting? Eleven.
The killing of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepherd brought screaming headlines and around-the-clock coverage. So did the dragging and killing of black Texan James Byrd.
Jesse Jackson parachutes into Decatur, Illinois, turning the expulsion of seven high school kids into a referendum on race. Meanwhile, in Missouri, a carjacker steals a car. He tries to push out a seat belt-strapped child, and drives at high speeds, with the boy bouncing to his death along the highway. In Michigan, a six-year-old girl is shot and killed by a six-year-old boy. In these cases, the media informs us much, much later that the bad guys are black. Were it the other way around, how long before Al Sharpton holds a press conference, a somber Kweisi Mfume of the NAACP by his side?
Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker shoots his mouth off to Sports Illustrated, and everyone from Jesse Jackson to Jesse James piles on. But the same gang seemed strangely AWOL in the case of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Where's the somber gathering of the “black leadership” demanding that Congress pass enhanced hate crime legislation? Where's the speech by President Clinton asking some blacks to cope with their pronounced and mostly unwarranted anti-white bias?
The double standard simply astonishes. George W. Bush must apologize for speaking at Bob Jones University, given the institution's anti-Catholic statements and policy against inter-racial dating. And on the question of the Confederate flag, the media filed story after story on the Republicans' response.
Yet the media allows Al Gore's black female campaign manager, Donna Brazile, to derisively refer to the Republicans as the “party of the white boys,” while suggesting black Republicans J.C. Watts and Colin Powell are Uncle Toms.
The media sits as both Al Gore and Hillary Rodham-Clinton trek to Harlem and kiss the ring of Reverend Al Sharpton, a David Duke in blackface. Nevermind that Sharpton falsely accused a prosecutor of rape. Nevermind that Sharpton turned a dispute between a black tenant and a Jewish landlord into a racial riff. Stirred up by Sharpton's rantings, a black man set fire to the building in dispute, and then shot and killed several minorities before turning the gun on himself. Nice work, Reverend.
Sooner or later, the mainstream media and the white-man-done-me-wrong black leadership must face the facts. Black/white interracial crime is almost entirely committed by blacks against whites. By ignoring this, and holding black criminals to a different standard, the media heightens tension and divisiveness.
Larry Elder
Way to misrepresent a position – Global Warming. Everyone I know and read says it is happening, but that it happens all throughout human history. Kimba, even though this is hard to grasp, EXXON hasn’t always existed. They weren’t around to blame when trees were growing at a higher tree-line on the north side of Mammoth which were preserved in a volcanic eruption in 1350 A.D. – which proves the earth had to be 3.5 degrees Celsius warmer then than now. They weren’t around when Greenland’s ground wasn’t permafrost and the Vikings had enough food and trees to build boats and sail the seas with enough provisions. They weren’t around to blame when the 8th century Roman’s grew grapes used for wine on the slopes of Salisbury Plain in the United Kingdom.
Kimba, your head scratching is not because there are injustices or self-refuting propositions on the Republican side, it is because the worldview that encompasses progressive thinking is dogmatic and itself self-refuting. This is where all the head scratching comes from; either that or you have lice.
What have I shown with these two posts? That Homosexuals themselves are against the hate crimes bill (you should listen to Al Rantell on 790AM). The 14the Amendment is against hate-crimes --- read it Kimba, if you do not have a copy of the Constitution in your home, I have one of about 10 you can borrow. That minorities are against hate crime legislation. I know it makes you “feel good” to support some issue where it seems that there is an underdog. That is called “white self congratulation”, and a few minority authors have written on it (Sowell, Williams, Parker, Elder).
I have also shown that the earth goes through natural swings of temperature mainly due to the suns natural cycles. All these evil corporations weren’t around during the Medieval warming period. A medium sized volcanic eruption puts out more “greenhouse” gasses than all of mankind’s history. But I am sure that somehow, someway, EXXON was responsible for the rise and drop in temperature many millions of years ago:
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V3/N23/C1.jsp
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First, there will be no clergy arrested for preaching out of the bible. Besides, any bible based, righteous person would only suggest they love these people, regardless of their sins, right?
Second, whether or not I scratch, or if so, where I scratch, is fodder for another blog, perhaps Kimba's Lists, where the profane meats the insane (ooh I like it).
Yes, murder, and many crimes are protected against in the constitution. Womens rights are too, but many saw the need for the Equal Rights Amendment didn't they?
According to Hate Crime statistics 2005, there were 7,163 hate crimes committed in the nation that year. Of these, over 1200 victims were specifically chosen for their sexual orientation. That is over 3 a day. OK, that may not be headline numbers, but we had 255 in our state alone. That is almost 5 per week.
And remember, it must be patently obvious for a DA to charge someone with a hate crime. Just because the victim(s) were gay, is not proof positive. Ergo, the numbers are actually much higher. Proving intent is not always easy.
By the way, SCV had 13; 7 for race, 1 for religion, 2 for ethnicity and 3 for sexual orientation.
Sexual harassment hate crimes numbers go up in metropolitan areas like San Diego (10), Los Angeles (42) and San Francisco (47). How many before they receive extra protection for the mindless hate filled crimes committed for no other reason but sexual preference?
Third: The warming of the planet has taken away from the obvious, our addiction to fossil fuels is having an effect on our atmosphere and environment.
Fourth, and the true subject of the blog was the audacity of the V P to come out and say that sectarian violence had gone down dramatically when the windows were still rattling from a bomb sent into the green zone, is patently absurd.
I really do not know how to comment on the obvious double standards that exist. Except to say that I am positive that if I am killed by a machete wielding person who, while hacking me up into little pieces screams out "death to whitey", he is committing a racially biased hate crime, and will get the punishment he deserves.
Regards from the left, as always
They are being arrested in Canada and other countries?
Women... they have equal rights... any special rights afforded them are not Constitutional.
Numbers... I bet - with some time - I will show how those numbers are skewed. I think I did with a post already on my site... I will fish through them and post it here. Not to mention - per capita - I could probably even out crimes against heterosexuals. Do we need "special rights?"
There are other theories about oil Kimba. I adhere to the "abiotic" version. These are not fossil fuels but oil is produced constantly by the inner working of the earth. This theory was propounded first in the 70's and it is making head way as we speak. (Even though the fossil fuel theory is proof for a young age of the earth.) What this means is that the exhaust we produce is not harming the atmosphere as much as you think.
These crimes of blacks on white are way more numerous that the other way around. yet we find almost no cases supporting the disparity.
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