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  • Jesse Jackson needs to shut the hell up!

    Story Published: Nov 19, 2009

    Jesse-jackson-mug-shrunk The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

    “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.” -The Hill

    Nice.

    What else can't you vote against and call yourself a black man?

    "The poorest people need healthcare protection," Jackson said. "They have the highest infant mortality and the lowest life expectancy. They're dying from lack of access."

    Lack of access...

    Where does Jesse Jackson live? Does he live in the hood? Why does a rich poverty pimp, who lives in a high end suburb in Chicago, who supports a mistress and their love child, get to represent the poor and downtrodden?

    Can the poorest people of Chicago have access to his house?

    Jesse, the poorest of the poor also have the highest illegitimacy rate, the highest abortion rate, the highest drop out rate and a high rate of drug addiction. Why is it the governments (ie taxpayers) responsibility to provide healthcare protection? Why do you think black folk ain't black unless they vote for the slavery of dependency?

    Jesse why don't you preach universal responsibility instead of universal dependency. Better yet, why don't you just shut the hell up!

    (And people call me a sell out!)

    HT Dad 29

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  • I Feel Sorry For Mayor Tom Barrett

    Story Published: Oct 28, 2009

    Images-1 I feel sorry for Mayor Tom Barrett. He doesn't want to be the next Governor of Wisconsin. What sane Democrat would? Governor Doyle has driven the state into the ground. High taxes, massive job loss and the slow exodus of industry have made Doyle unelectable. So when he announced this summer that he would not be running for re-election, Wisconsinites rejoiced!

    Rejoiced!

    Doyle has created a huge problem for Democrats and any fool-hardy Donkey who would run for the office would be tagged and branded Doyle, Jr. -- and rightfully so. There was absolutely no Democrat opposition to the Doyle madness that took place in the last budget cycle.Like Washington, all three branches of Wisconsin government are run by Democrats, and like their national conterparts, they have made a mess of things.

    A royal bloody mess.

    Let this sink in. As of this writing, there is no Democrat candidate for the 2010 race for the governorship... no one. The only crazy Donkey, Barbara Lawton, dropped out of the race two days ago under mysterious circumstances...

    Mysterious circumstances.

    Today it was announced that the Chocolate Jesus himself will descend on Wisconsin next week to give a major speech on school reform. Mayor Tom Barrett (the guy I feel sorry for) is being forced by the not-quite lame duck Governor Doyle to take over Milwaukee's failing school district as he is simultaneously pressured to run for governor, by the President of the United States!

    The President of the United States.

    So let's sum this up: Jim Doyle, arguably one of the most corrupt governors the state has ever seen, folds his tent. The Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton, who is excited to run (but whom Democrats despise), suddenly (eh hem) quits...  leaving an open field, a reluctant mayor and the Chocolate Jesus, who personally wants him to run, knowing that he would lose...

    Knowing... he would lose!

    One more thing... The mayor is a family man and he promised his wife that he would not run for governor again after he lost to Doyle the first go round.

    He promised.

    I feel sorry for Mayor Tom Barrett.
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  • Two Family Nation

    Story Published: Oct 26, 2009


    Images-1 If you missed hour two of Sunday's radio edition of the National Conversation, you need to podcast it. We talked about a conversation that I had with "at risk" inner city youth and what they see as the biggest problem in the black community.

    They agree with me and other right thinking Americans. The absent father is the heart of the problem. Voices from the mainstream media are also starting to be heard. Here are two from last week.

    Where does low achievement come from? High school teacher Patrick Welsh writes in The Washington Post: "Why don't you guys study like the kids from Africa?"

    In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given. A kid who seldom came to class -- and was constantly distracting other students when he did -- shot back: "It's because they have fathers who kick their butts and make them study."

    Another student angrily challenged me: "You ask the class, just ask how many of us have our fathers living with us." When I did, not one hand went up.

    I was stunned. These were good kids; I had grown attached to them over the school year. It hit me that these students, at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, understood what I knew too well: The lack of a father in their lives had undermined their education. The young man who spoke up knew that with a father in his house he probably wouldn't be ending 12 years of school in the bottom 10 percent of his class with a D average. His classmate, normally a sweet young woman with a great sense of humor, must have long harbored resentment at her father's absence to speak out as she did. Both had hit upon an essential difference between the kids who make it in school and those who don't: parents.

    My students knew intuitively that the reason they were lagging academically had nothing to do with race, which is the too-handy explanation for the achievement gap in Alexandria. And it wasn't because the school system had failed them. They knew that excuses about a lack of resources and access just didn't wash at the new, state-of-the-art, $100 million T.C. Williams, where every student is given a laptop and where there is open enrollment in Advanced Placement and honors courses. Rather, it was because their parents just weren't there for them -- at least not in the same way that parents of kids who were doing well tended to be.

    Along the same lines, Yahoo News ran an

    article

    with this extraordinary headline:

    Stop blaming racism for the failure of black parents.

    The article references the famous Moynihan Report which foretold the future of the Black family way back in 1965. Today deviancy is entrenched, multigenerational poverty is largely black; and it is intricately intertwined with the collapse of the nuclear family in the inner city.

    By now, these facts shouldn't be hard to grasp. Almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers. Those mothers are far more likely than married mothers to be poor, even after a post-welfare-reform decline in child poverty. They are also more likely to pass that poverty on to their children.

    This is not a new problem, quoting from the same article:

    Consider a memo written in 1965 to President Lyndon Johnson from Moynihan in which the Assistant Labor Secretary expressed his great concern over the high rate of out-of-wedlock births among blacks (25 percent at that time). Unaddressed, Mr. Moynihan predicted, this large number of fatherless children would result in increasing school failure, criminal delinquency, and joblessness. Sadly, because liberals across the board condemned this call for action as racist propaganda, President Johnson didn't want to risk heated public debate and so did nothing.

    The recent Chicago incident, and countless others that occur daily, are the result of not heeding Moynihan's warning 44 years ago. The previous out-of-wedlock birthrate has almost tripled, and 7 out of 10 black children now grow up not only without a father, but also in disproportionate poverty. That means millions of young kids lack adequate parental guidance to make the transition to become successful adults.secretary expressed his great concern over the high rate of out-of-wedlock births among blacks (25 percent at that time). Unaddressed, Mr. Moynihan predicted, this large number of fatherless children would result in increasing school failure, criminal delinquency, and joblessness. Sadly, because liberals across the board condemned this call for action as racist propaganda, President Johnson didn't want to risk heated public debate and so did nothing.
    The recent Chicago incident, and countless others that occur daily, are the result of not heeding Moynihan's warning 44 years ago. The previous out-of-wedlock birthrate has almost tripled, and 7 out of 10 black children now grow up not only without a father, but also in disproportionate poverty. That means millions of young kids lack adequate parental guidance to make the transition to become successful adults.

    Liberals often try to dodge the implications of this bleak reality but this is largely a low-income--and disproportionately black--phenomenon. Unfortunately, John Edwards was right, well sort of... America is now a two-family nation, separate and unequal--one intact and thriving, and the other struggling, fragmented, and far too often, Black.

    The likes Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton need to take a time off from bashing the NFL over Rush Limbaugh's desire to buy the St. Louis Rams (with HIS own money mind you...) and start speaking truth to deviancy in the black community.

    On second thought, Al and Jesse need to sit down and shut the hell up. The rising tide of black conservatism is on the job.

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  • Abortion Kills more Americans of African Descent than 7 other causes of death.

    Story Published: Oct 26, 2009

    Graph The Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, The NAACP, Urban League, and the National Action Committee of Al Sharpton, (Democrats all) stand guard as abortion does what the Klan only dreamed of...  systematically destroy black babies in the name of choice and civil rights.

    Read the story here.


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  • Maybe We Can't!

    Story Published: Oct 25, 2009

    5404ea9f30_DevalObama_splash_10242009 “You fired up? Ready to go?”  Uhhhh, no. Firtst there was Patrick’s “Together We Can.”  Then Obama's “Yes We Can.” Now, (cue the crickets) it's...

    "Maybe We Can't!"

    From The Boston Herald:

     

    Plagued by his own plummeting polls and playing to empty seats at a high-roller Hub fund-raiser, President Obama acknowledged yesterday that his close friend and political alter ego Gov. Deval Patrick faces a rough road to re-election.

    “There really should be no doubt that this guy gets a second term. But let’s be honest. This is going to be a tough race,” Obama told a room barely half-full with 125 deep-pocketed Democrats who ponied up $6,000 for Patrick and the party. “Re-election is not a foregone conclusion because times are tough.”

    Gosh, sounds like "Hope & Change" is turning into "Gloom and Doom." Will America's first rock star president become a flash in the pan, no-hit wonder?

    Like Milli Vanilli (another pair of famous pretenders) used to sing,

    Images-1 "Blame it on Re-pub-li-cans.

    HT Maddypie

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  • Yard Sale!!!

    Story Published: Oct 25, 2009

    In da hood... One day only!

    IMG_0258  $27,000.00 cash! Aged Italian designer car.

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    It's not everyday you see a Lamborghini parked on the street, for sale, in the hood.

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  • Mmm, mmm, mmm....

    Story Published: Oct 2, 2009

    Barrack Hussein Obama.

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    He said that he could heal the world, instead he failed his own hometown.

    Mmmm, mmm, mmm. Barrack Hussein Obama.

    Made time to shill for Olympic pride, On his plane while soldiers die.

    Mmmm, mmm,mmm...Barack Hussein Obama.

    Doesn't have a single plan but still believes that he's our man.

    Mmmm, mmm, mmm.

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  • Nice Guys Finish Last

    Story Published: Sep 29, 2009

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    The chattering classes and talking heads clearly want Tom Barrett to run for governor. I don’t. It’s not because I think he would be a formidable candidate who would perhaps block a good conservative from obtaining that office. My reason is more basic than that: Tom Barrett has not been a good mayor.

    Wow! Now I feel terrible.

    Sure, Tom Barrett is a nice guy. (As I’ve stated in previous posts, this is always the first thing that everyone says about him.) Yes, he got beat up trying to help someone, so I understand that some people who may never have given any thought to him have joined his “nice-guy” fan club. But, really, what has he done as mayor of Wisconsin’s largest city?

    Where's the beef?

    Tom Barrett is to be admired for having done nothing to embarrass Milwaukee. But he has also done little of substance to help Milwaukee. He has appeared at press conferences, shaken hands, and given pats on the back. Aside from that, the most notable thing he’s done is shave his mustache.

    (Looks nice!)

    His saving grace may be the hiring of Police Chief Flynn, who has managed to change the perception of Milwaukee as a crime-ridden city. Other than that stroke of luck -- thanks to the Bradley Foundation’s intervention into the mayor’s failed search for a chief – Tom Barrett has merely gone through the motions.

    I know this sounds harsh, but I’m not saying anything that hasn’t been said at city hall – or worse. The word from inside is that the mayor has been totally hands off and has left a huge void in city government. In reality, rather than Tom Barrett running the city of Milwaukee, there are four other people doing the real work. They are named below in order of my ranking of them in power/influence:

    First, Common Council President Willie Hines has basically taken the reins of city government and nearly single-handedly made Milwaukee more efficient. He’s the one who put forth the audit of police overtime (which Chief Flynn has followed); he cut waste and dedicated more funding to infrastructure. As my alderman, he has been easily accessible. At the same time, he seems to be constantly out working on behalf of the city. If there is one – and ONLY one – reason that I’d want Barrett to be governor, it’s so that Hines could be mayor.

    (Barrett 2010. Bad for Wisconsin. Good for Milwaukee! …Hmmm, that needs work.)

    Second, Chief of Police Ed Flynn has made MPD more effective and raised morale among officers. (Well maybe not the detectives but....) He has cut overtime and boosted Milwaukee’s confidence in its police force. AND...Thank God for a cool summer.

    Third, Rocky Marcoux, as head of the Department of City Development, makes decisions totally independent of Barrett (not that he’s doing a great job) and has carte blanche to do whatever he wants. And fourth, Patrick Curley, the mayor’s chief of staff, is the one who makes day-to-day decisions about what’s good for Milwaukee.

    Hines, Flynn, Marcoux and Curley. What.. No Moe?

    I'm not a reporter, I just happen to be watching on the day the Mayor of Newark, N.J., Cory Booker, was on Meet the Press.  His demeanor impressed me. He referred to Newark as "his city." He had vision for the city and was passionate about the city’s issues. Ownership has its merits.

    I see no such passion and vision in Tom Barrett.

    What’s clear to me is that Mayor Barrett is hands-off. For example, did you hear the back-story on how 50 of Milwaukee’s finest were sent to Pittsburgh for the G20 Summit? As Dan Bice wrote in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Chief Flynn had decided it was a bad idea – Pittsburgh didn’t have its act together. But Barrett got a call from the mayor of the former Steel City and said, “Sure, why not?” The mayor had no clue what sending police officers to Pittsburgh entailed. A fiasco was born when, instead of sending the legislative file to the Common Council when he first got word, he sat on his hands and waited until the 11th hour. President Hines had to call a special Common Council meeting to get the proper approval.

    I’m just saying… Barrett doesn’t run this city.

    I’ve heard Mayor Barrett talk about the reasons why he might (or might not) run for governor: family, funds, campaign organization, etc. What I’ve never heard from him is what he would DO as governor. Why does he want the job? Because it’s the job he’s always wanted? (See 2004.) Because it’s a “promotion”? What’s his agenda? What are his goals? What is his vision?

    No one knows.

    Meanwhile, Wisconsin and Milwaukee are in trouble. They need visionary leadership, passionate involvement and innovative solutions from their executives. I am absolutely in agreement with those people who say Tom Barrett is a nice guy. But nice isn’t good enough.

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  • Friends, neighbors, countrymen, lend me your ears...

    Story Published: Sep 20, 2009

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    Well, that's not exactly what I said, but you get the point.

    I want to thank all of you who poured into Veterans Park yesterday for what was billed as Milwaukee's largest tea party. I expected protestors, there were hardly any. I expected some rowdiness, there was absolutely none! I looked for signs of racism.... none, zero, nada!

    Hmmm...

    On several occasions I wandered through the crowd meeting and greeting people as they arrived. The event was a multi-generational affair. It was a slice of America, it was inspiring. I will never forget the 87 year old woman who grabbed me and held on tight. As I bent down to hug her, she squeezed me and whispered in her broken voice, Thank you for coming! She was welcoming me to her party! When I looked up, I saw what looked to be her entire family, three generations worth! Her daughter said, "My mother turned us all on to your show! She's the reason we are down here today! Can we take your picture with her?"

    "Of course you can. Snap away!"

    There are hundreds more stories like this one. Stories about the crowd, the excitement, about love of country and the brotherhood of man. It kills me that the DI's of the world (Deficient-ly Interested) get to re-define, through bias and contempt, what thousands of people experienced as positive and inspiring.

    Jimmy Carter, Bill Cosby... DI's.  Danny Infernos ... Deficient-ly Interested.

    As many of you know, I don't consider myself to be part of the main stream media, but my "credentials" gained me access to two of the headline speakers at yesterday's rally.

    I guess membership does have its privilege.

    Michelle Malkin: Sigh. Brilliant, beautiful, on purpose. I used my allotted time to thank her for her support after my McCain moment. She didn't know me at the time but she did come to my defense at HotAir.com. Her acknowledgment inspired me. It also alerted the Conservative calvary who soon rode to the rescue. I was grateful for the chance to finally thank her. personally.

    Joe The Plumber: Incredible fit (As in, "Dude, do you work out?"). Genuine, plain spoken, libertarian. I finally got to thank Joe for taking the heat off me. He was amused at the thought that his hell was my salvation! It was a genuine moment.

    Both speakers rocked the house along with everyone else who took the stage. In less than a year, I have now attended the ultimate town hall meeting and the largest tea party in Wisconsin's history. Both events were amazing in how they brought together the best in people, the best in civic pride, and in love of God and love of country.  I believe that makes me uniquely qualified to say that people who characterize what they see through media as racist.... are racist.

    More to come...

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  • Today Is The Day

    Story Published: Sep 19, 2009

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    Today is the day people! Be Part of History!Americans For Prosperity - Wisconsin Chapter


    & The Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty Present:


    A Taxpayer Tea Party/Milwaukee Constitution Day Celebration!

    WHAT: Wisconsin's Largest Tea Party

    WHEN: TODAY, Saturday, September 19, 2009, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

    WHERE: Veterans Park, 1010 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


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