I read the latest from Thud's toilet bowl, and see that he is speculating that E.W. Moon may be a serious threat to Mayor Herenton in a Grand Jury investigation. First off, if that happens, it would be a great day in the hope for renewing Memphis. Herenton is a slime-ball, crooked mayor that deserves to go down hard. But, with Thud's habit of "bait and switch" I am making this posting as an assumption.
Thud will rant and rave about how Mayor Herenton deserves to be removed from office, cries about how his administration is a failure, how he abuses the systems, and how he furthers his agenda at the expense of Memphis citizens. I could go on for hours on end, but you get the point ESPECIALLY if you live in Memphis.
The FBI has stepped up an investigation into Herenton, and I expect that Thud will change sides immediately if they indict Herenton. Just a few days ago, Thud was calling the FBI "Terrorists of the American People" after the Edmund Ford verdict. Now it seems as if they are just plain FBI now? Hmmm....
The FBI utilized Joe Cooper as a witness against Ford, who the jury apparently did not believe. So how is this different when and if the FBI uses E.W. Moon as a witness against Herenton? It is a delicate balance of competent prosecutors and a COMPETENT AND NON-BIASED JURY POOL!
In the end, we should expect Thud to support Herenton in his fight "AGAINST THE FBI TERRORISTS", the criminal justice system, and "the evil white conspiracy."
And he says "Politrikans don't get no free pass from" him.
Sources state that developer E.W. Moon has been called to aear before a federal grand jury either this week or next week. Could this call be to find out what he has on Willie Herenton who has been question about his rivate land deal with the mayor. Moon paid the mayor $50,000 in a private land deal after landing $702,000 in no-bid city road design contracts.
The deal involved a one-third-acre lot where Herenton built a $236,000 two-story home. In 2005, Herenton sold the then-vacant lot in Banneker Estates for $50,000 to Moon. Months later, Moon quit-claimed the still-vacant property back to the mayor for just $10, according to deeds filed with Shelby County Register Tom Leatherwood's office. Herenton has since built the home on the lot.
Or could Moon's visit have to do with the FBI's investigation into the $300,000 in engineering contracts that he received and the numerous emails that were sent between him and MATA? Maybe it's about his involvement with John Elkiington and Lee's Landing a garage near Beale Street. I do know for a fact that several months ago the FBI made a visit to Beale Street. where they took and made copies of paerwork concerning the Historic District and the parking garage.
COULD MOON BE THE STRAW THAT BREAKS THE MAYOR'S BACK?
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Matthews is grabbing at straws, dildo's, etc.
The SAC of the Memphis FBI has been told to "...make no statements nor, to engage in any conversation with Thaddeus Matthews which would give rise to any sign of impropriety."
This came on the heels of his having that photo taken with her and claiming that he had her personal cell phone number, and was told by her to contact her directly. Which was a lie.
The Office of Professional Responsibilty came down hard on her for this, as well as the Memphis Office in general. The other agents got it because they "...failed to take, or suggest, premptive actions which would have precluded any blemish upon the organizational integrity of the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
They have also classified him as unstable and nefarious.
just say no hoe,are you tired of eating crow?
your mama 12:49
"The FBI has stepped up an investigation into Herenton, and I expect that Thud will change sides immediately if they indict Herenton."
Like I said before, it is okay for Thud to point out illegal and crooked behaviors, however, once the crook comes under indictment, and the crook so happens to be black, the FBI suddenly become a terrorist organization.
Thud Maffews is this town's #1 Idiot!
Bohemian Rhapsody said...
Is this the real life,
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter
To me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life has just begun
But now i've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I've got to go
Got to leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooo
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish i'd never been born at all-(Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters)
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
THUNDER BOLT AND LIGHTNING, VERY VERY FRIGHTNING ME!
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
HE'S JUST A POOR BOY, FROM A POOR FAMILY
SPARE HIM HIS LIFE FROM THIS MONSTROSOTY
easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO
Bismillah! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Bismillah! We WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Will not let you go
Let me go
Will not let you go
Let me go
(never, never)
OHOHOHOH
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
MAMA MIA LET ME GO
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!
FOR ME!
for me....
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye!
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Ooh, baby
Can't do this to me baby
Just got to get out
Just got to get right out of here
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters
To me
(Anyway the wind blows)
May 28, 2008 11:51 AM
Bite The Dust said...
Steve walks wearily down the street,
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
How do you think I'm gonna get along,
Without you, when you're gone
You took me for everything that I had,
And kicked me out on my own
Are you happy, are you satisfied
How long can you stand the heat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip up
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground
You can beat him you can cheat him
You can treat him bad and then leave him
When he's down
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
Repeating the sound of the beat
May 28, 2008 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...
with earth-moving equipment as construction crews assemble long rows of cookie-cutter houses with walls of Styrofoam sandwiched between two pieces of sheet metal. Builders vow the new homes will be ready by the end of June.
Story continues below ↓
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Would-be residents began arriving over the weekend. Originally from nearly two dozen villages scattered around Beichuan county, the people were bused here from an emergency shelter at a sports stadium in nearby Mianyang city. Among the first earthquake survivors to be moved to what is expected to be a permanent relocation site, they are living for now in a sea of government-provided tents next to the construction zone.
Finding room to build
Beichuan, nestled in a sliver of valley surrounded by mountains, will not be rebuilt because authorities deem the area too hazardous. Nearby Leigu, however, is situated along a broad, fertile expanse farther down the valley. Before the earthquake, it was a farming town of 18,000 residents. Most of the homes here, as in Beichuan, collapsed in the earthquake, and 1,000 people died. But the fields provide space to build, and now Leigu's survivors will have to make room for new neighbors.
The one-room dwellings are being built in caterpillar-like lines of 14, each 65-square-foot home attached to the ones next to it. There will be electricity and running water, but current plans call for every two homes to share a tap. Every 50 homes will share a bath house and a kitchen. The floors will be hard-packed dirt covered by plastic.
"It's not realistic to have concrete, attached floors at this point," said Wang Di Sheng, a government official from Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, which provided the materials and is supervising the construction of 7,000 houses for the local authority. The dwellings are supposed to last up to three years while the government constructs a permanent community here.
Though spartan, these portable homes are a step up from the tents and tarps that have been the main shelters for millions of people displaced by the quake. China's top leaders have urged manufacturers and construction crews to rush production of the homes, as the rainy season begins and threatens to turn hundreds of tent cities into swamps.
Construction is quick. It took about 24 hours this week for a 10-person crew to put up one row of homes. First they erected a metal frame. Then they slid the walls and windows into pre-fabricated grooves, tightened screws and reinforcement rods. Then they fastened down the metal roof parts. Wiring and plumbing come later.
Click for related content
World Blog: China quake tot, parents reunited
Trauma rampant after China earthquake zones
Aftershocks in China collapse 420,000 houses
May 28, 2008 11:56 AM
Anonymous said...
And Jerry if you think I'll give up I want you to know I will dig into your ass so deep that Richardson will be able to crawl much more deeper up in it then he already is." -THUD
_______________________
And if Thud and his Kool-Aid Krusaders think that the Anti's are going to give up on exposing him to the world for the criminal fraudster that he is, then he can go ahead and crawl much more deeper in Javier Bailey's rectum than he already is. The TRUTH is getting shit out as we speak.
May 28, 2008 1:31 PM
Anonymous said...
you got 1 little bitty thing wrong & that is it's not Thad or a thad crusader!
May 28, 2008 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...
What itty bitty thing are you referring to? Nobody is studying you or your song lyrics.
May 28, 2008 5:36 PM
Anonymous said...
Hi ya'll! My sn is "Ima Mostly White Brat" but I can't seem to sign in for some ignorant reason.
I left a message and some advice to "RICK JAMES BITCH" and "SUN KISSED CHICK" on another topic, it's called Another Story Thud Won't Post, but it's so old I thought you might not think to look there. But I think it's some good advice that you might use, and you might be reading here today.
Gotta go, mom's calling.
Bye ya'll!
May 28, 2008 6:04 PM
Anonymous said...
a straight fool in full form
May 28, 2008 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Top 10 richest countries of the world
9. Equatorial Guinea - $44,100
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a country in Central Africa. Most people have never heard of it. This country flew into stardom after 1996 when large oil reserves were found in the nation of only 0,5 million people. While being one of the largest producers of oil in Africa, little has been made to improve the living conditions of the people. Corruption is widespread and ordinary people are mostly living in poverty. The gap between rich and poor is probably the largest in the world.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born June 5, 1942) has been the President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.
May 28, 2008 6:59 PM
tj21 @ The Rant! said...
March 28, 2008 Whites Can't Make Blacks Happy
One of the creepy things about our "need to have a conversation about race" is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. Nobody has the power to do that, except what individuals do for themselves, one person at a time.
Most people don't come close to lasting happiness in their own lives. So the popular Leftist charge of America's "institutional racism" comes down to saying that "The Great White Conspiracy is responsible for rescuing you from your bad feelings." That is just cockeyed.
Far too many black people don't feel good about themselves, and are constantly looking for answers from somebody else. That quest for the impossible has been turned into an accusation against the invisible but all-powerful white racist establishment. Michelle and Barack Obama were indoctrinated with those toxic beliefs at Princeton and Harvard, so that they are now making more than a million bucks a year, living in a mansion in Chicago while still feeling sorry for themselves. Give me a break. (Michelle Obama's salary increased by almost 200,000 dollars in one year at the University of Chicago. How many people get that kind of raise?)
No doubt the Obamas tell themselves that they are the lucky exceptions, and that they are just identifying with poor blacks, who surely are out there in the hundreds of thousands. But that's just the self-serving generosity of politicians handing out taxpayer money. The Obamas are rich, highly educated, extremely successful professional politicians. They are the darlings of white liberals. Are they anything more than that?
For politicians, voter dissatisfaction is the fuel of personal careers. You can't get anywhere by promising all the answers to people who don't need you. So the first order of business is to find dissatisfied voters, and if they're not there, stir up some dissatisfaction. That's why Obama needed the Rev -- to get him in good with a proletariat, any proletariat, in this case a black one. If Obama had stayed back in Hawaii or Indonesia, he would suddenly have discovered his inner Hawaiian or his authentic Balinese. Now he is "authentically Black," and the Rev guarantees his blackness. That's why Obama can't renounce the Rev. The Rev is his meal ticket.
Now a preacher in America is very much like a politician. He or she has to get the congregation stirred up, at least enough to pay for his upkeep. The Rev Wright is a fantastically successful politician. The Trinity UCC is a family business, and with DVD sales and televangelism it's making a mint. That's why the Rev has to be so provocative --- to keep his congregation clapping and cheering. Obama learned his rhetorical cadences from the Rev, and probably much else besides. It's been one pro teaching another.
The very notion of "whites" versus "blacks" being like so many M&M's in different candy boxes is a purely political creation. Humans are enormously variable. It makes about as much sense to divide people into sports fans versus music lovers, or fatties vs. skinnies. If politicians could get voting mileage from those divisions, the Left would be telling us all about the oppressive conspiracy against the fat, or the persecuted skinnies all over the world. "Divide and conquer" still works like a charm.
If you think that's exaggerated, just look at the famous classroom experiment in which blue-eyed kids are separated from brown-eyed kids, and one of the two groups is told it's better than the other. It really makes the "bad" group feel terrible about themselves. That's how easy it is to stir divisions among people. Give human beings a flag and a baseball cap with a flashy logo, tell them it's their team, and you can manipulate them for life.
Politicians are expert manipulators, and manipulation works best when people don't think they are being manipulated. That's Obama's biggest talent -- to make the suckered masses feel good while playing on them like an old banjo. So far there's no there there at all -- no substantive ideas that make Mr. Obama any more interesting than the standard-issue ultraliberal Democrat. Oh yes, there's the color of his skin. Big deal.
No, it all goes back to the usual race politics of the post-Civil Rights era, which always needs to pick at that old scab of racism, remind blacks of their old injustices, and convince them that white racism is still keeping them down. It's a disgusting political trick, and many blacks are catching on. If a genuinely self-determining black person ever runs for president without the usual race games, I'll vote for him or her in a minute.
Let a black man say it -- as so many already have, without media support and coverage. Larry Elder's "personal pledge" is one great example. This is the real key to black liberation, just as it has been the key to all the oppressed and persecuted people who rose from poverty and low self-esteem in America.
* 1. There is no excuse for lack of effort.
* 2. Although I may be unhappy with my circumstances, and although racism and sexism and other "isms" exist, I know that things are better now than ever, and the future is even brighter.
* 3. While I may be unhappy with my circumstances, I have the power to change and improve my life. I refuse to be a victim.
* 4. Others may have been blessed with more money, better connections, a better home environment, and even better looks, but I can succeed through hard work, perseverance, and education.
I'll vote for that.
May 28, 2008 7:04 PM
tj21@the rant! said...
HUD Secretary Attacks Black Victimhood
Ronald Kessler
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, says that black leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Julian Bond are doing a disservice to blacks by perpetuating an ideology of victimhood.
"They [black leaders] have created an industry," Jackson, who is black, told NewsMax. "If we don't become victims, they have no income. They have no podium."
Rather than confronting real issues that face blacks, African-American leaders suggest that "it's racism that's stopping everything that we're doing," Jackson said.
"They are in the business of making excuses," he said. "White folks have nothing to do with the fact that seven out of every 10 black children born in this country are born out of wedlock," Jackson said. Nor do they have anything to do "with that fact that we have more black males in prison than we do in college."
While racism still exists, "Young black kids are getting every opportunity that they need, just like every other kid," Jackson said. "I think in 2006 to say that everything is the fault of our brothers and sisters of the lighter hue is ridiculous."
Until blacks "begin to focus in on the serious problems that we have in our communities, and begin to try to solve those problems in the most positive manner that we can, we're not helping ourselves," Jackson said.
Welfare �Close to Stealing'
Jackson said he was reared in a segregated environment in Dallas. As a college freshman, he participated in a civil rights march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965. As he stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state troopers blocked his way and unleashed tear gas and dogs on the marchers.
But Jackson's father Arthur Jackson told his son that everyone can succeed in America regardless of skin color. Even though he had been diagnosed with cancer and had virtually no income, his father refused to go on welfare or take food stamps. When necessary, his church helped out.
"Never take anything that you didn't earn," his father told Alphonso. "That's close to stealing."
"I never went to school with my brothers and sisters of the lighter hue until I got off to college," Jackson, a lawyer, said. "But I'm sitting here," he said, referring to his cabinet position, which controls a budget of $32 billion a year. "And I'm sitting here because I believe that the American system might not be the panacea, but it's the best system that I've ever been able to live in."
Black Leaders Making Problems Worse
By characterizing blacks as victims, making excuses for them, and suggesting that they cannot advance themselves without reliance on the government, black leaders exacerbate the problems that blacks face and give them the tools to become "losers," Jackson said.
"I am not going to let the black leadership � the so-called leadership � of this country tell me that I am a victim," he said. "I believe that if you work hard, strive to do the very best, things will work out for you. [That] doesn't mean you won't have obstacles � you will. But we can't keep living in an era that is bygone," Jackson said. "We need to begin today to teach blacks that they can look in the mirror � and that they have the ability, once they look in that mirror, to achieve."
In his book "Enough," Fox News TV commentator Juan Williams pointed out that blacks who emigrate to America from Africa and the Caribbean are more successful than blacks born in the United States. As outlined in an Oct. 20 NewsMax article, "Juan Williams Called Black Ann Coulter," Williams attributed that to a self-defeating black culture of victimhood, one that says doing well in school is a cop-out and that the way to be successful is to come off as threatening.
Agreeing with Williams, Jackson said, "All you have to do is look at Miami's Little Haiti. The average income of a Haitian in Miami is the same as his white counterpart. They work very hard. But they have not been conditioned that the government owes them something."
Jackson said Africans from such countries as Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, and Senegal come to the United States. with "one attitude: that they're going to get the very best education and make as much money as they can."
Inclusive Administration
When George Bush became president, he named Jackson deputy secretary and then secretary of HUD. Bush and his wife Laura got to know Jackson and his wife Marcia, a former teacher, when Jackson headed the Dallas Housing Authority. The two couples began to socialize, and their kids would go to the movies together. Laura Bush invited Marcia to join her on the board of Child Protective Services Community Partners, which supports social workers.
"She stood out as a person who wanted to bring a diverse face to Dallas," Marcia Jackson told me for my book "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady."
"There are many whites who interact with blacks at work, but in their private lives, they don't," Marcia Jackson told me. "I think that says a lot about them as people."
Alphonso Jackson said Bush has demonstrated the same inclusiveness in his administration, appointing, for example, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell secretary of state. The response of black leaders has been to say that Bush made the appointments to garner votes. That "does nothing to support the progress of black Americans, or to recognize how far we have come," Jackson said.
Denying rumors that he is leaving HUD, Jackson said he is working with congressional leaders on legislation to simplify procedures so potential homeowners with poor credit records can more easily obtain mortgages insured by HUD's Federal Housing Authority (FHA).
Minority Housing Initiatives
"One of the things we have found, especially when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, is that if we can get them in the home, they can sustain the monthly house note," Jackson said. "The biggest problem has been getting them in there, because they have bad credit records. Also, many can't make the down payment and closing costs."
Jackson said he is encouraging those who build public housing to create complexes of low density townhouses rather than single buildings.
"That's why I like to use the housing authority in Atlanta as a model, just as in Dallas," Jackson said. "They have 13 public housing complexes. They've created low density townhouses, and if you go to Dallas or Atlanta, you'll see that the crime is down, education is up, people are working."
Jackson is also working on changing rules under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) so settlement costs will be more understandable and estimates of costs given before closing are the actual prices charged.
RESPA was passed in response to disclosures in a 1972 Washington Post series of kickbacks among real estate brokers, lenders, builders, title attorneys, and title insurance companies. Many of those practices have continued, often disguised. A builder, for example, may force a buyer to use a high-priced lending company owned by the builder. Jackson did not address whether rules will be tightened to try to eliminate these practices.
Besides helping new homeowners through the FHA program, HUD counsels people on how to buy their first home. Through the American Dream initiative, HUD even provides assistance in making a downpayment and paying closing costs to those who meet eligibility requirements. These programs and the improving economy have meant that 70 percent of Americans now own homes, Jackson said.
"For the first time, we have closed the gap that exists among white, black, and Hispanic Americans," Jackson said. "Over 50 percent of black and Hispanic Americans own their own homes for the first time in this country. Some of the people who never thought that they could own a home, they're owning a home."
As an example, Jackson cited Donna Davis, who was able to buy her first home in New Orleans, and Essie Jackson, a maintenance person in HUD's headquarters. Davis told Jackson, "You know, Mr. Secretary, I have a yard. And I have the thrill of measuring and shopping for curtains in my new home."
More than two years ago, Essie Jackson asked the HUD secretary if he could help her buy a home. He got her enrolled in a counseling program.
"She thought she would never be a homeowner," Jackson said. "Today she is. She has a two-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath condominium, and she's planting flowers in her window. And she came and told us the story."
May 28, 2008 7:10 PM
Anonymous said...
Someone needs to start their own blog and LEAVE this one.
May 28, 2008 7:32 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody said...
Is this the real life,
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter
To me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life has just begun
But now i've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I've got to go
Got to leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooo
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish i'd never been born at all-(Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters)
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
THUNDER BOLT AND LIGHTNING, VERY VERY FRIGHTNING ME!
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
HE'S JUST A POOR BOY, FROM A POOR FAMILY
SPARE HIM HIS LIFE FROM THIS MONSTROSOTY
easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO
Bismillah! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Bismillah! We WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Will not let you go
Let me go
Will not let you go
Let me go
(never, never)
OHOHOHOH
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
MAMA MIA LET ME GO
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!
FOR ME!
for me....
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye!
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Ooh, baby
Can't do this to me baby
Just got to get out
Just got to get right out of here
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters
To me
(Anyway the wind blows)
May 28, 2008 11:51 AM
Bite The Dust said...
Steve walks wearily down the street,
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
How do you think I'm gonna get along,
Without you, when you're gone
You took me for everything that I had,
And kicked me out on my own
Are you happy, are you satisfied
How long can you stand the heat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip up
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground
You can beat him you can cheat him
You can treat him bad and then leave him
When he's down
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
Repeating the sound of the beat
May 28, 2008 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...
with earth-moving equipment as construction crews assemble long rows of cookie-cutter houses with walls of Styrofoam sandwiched between two pieces of sheet metal. Builders vow the new homes will be ready by the end of June.
Story continues below ↓
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
advertisement
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Would-be residents began arriving over the weekend. Originally from nearly two dozen villages scattered around Beichuan county, the people were bused here from an emergency shelter at a sports stadium in nearby Mianyang city. Among the first earthquake survivors to be moved to what is expected to be a permanent relocation site, they are living for now in a sea of government-provided tents next to the construction zone.
Finding room to build
Beichuan, nestled in a sliver of valley surrounded by mountains, will not be rebuilt because authorities deem the area too hazardous. Nearby Leigu, however, is situated along a broad, fertile expanse farther down the valley. Before the earthquake, it was a farming town of 18,000 residents. Most of the homes here, as in Beichuan, collapsed in the earthquake, and 1,000 people died. But the fields provide space to build, and now Leigu's survivors will have to make room for new neighbors.
The one-room dwellings are being built in caterpillar-like lines of 14, each 65-square-foot home attached to the ones next to it. There will be electricity and running water, but current plans call for every two homes to share a tap. Every 50 homes will share a bath house and a kitchen. The floors will be hard-packed dirt covered by plastic.
"It's not realistic to have concrete, attached floors at this point," said Wang Di Sheng, a government official from Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, which provided the materials and is supervising the construction of 7,000 houses for the local authority. The dwellings are supposed to last up to three years while the government constructs a permanent community here.
Though spartan, these portable homes are a step up from the tents and tarps that have been the main shelters for millions of people displaced by the quake. China's top leaders have urged manufacturers and construction crews to rush production of the homes, as the rainy season begins and threatens to turn hundreds of tent cities into swamps.
Construction is quick. It took about 24 hours this week for a 10-person crew to put up one row of homes. First they erected a metal frame. Then they slid the walls and windows into pre-fabricated grooves, tightened screws and reinforcement rods. Then they fastened down the metal roof parts. Wiring and plumbing come later.
Click for related content
World Blog: China quake tot, parents reunited
Trauma rampant after China earthquake zones
Aftershocks in China collapse 420,000 houses
May 28, 2008 11:56 AM
Anonymous said...
And Jerry if you think I'll give up I want you to know I will dig into your ass so deep that Richardson will be able to crawl much more deeper up in it then he already is." -THUD
_______________________
And if Thud and his Kool-Aid Krusaders think that the Anti's are going to give up on exposing him to the world for the criminal fraudster that he is, then he can go ahead and crawl much more deeper in Javier Bailey's rectum than he already is. The TRUTH is getting shit out as we speak.
May 28, 2008 1:31 PM
Anonymous said...
you got 1 little bitty thing wrong & that is it's not Thad or a thad crusader!
May 28, 2008 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...
What itty bitty thing are you referring to? Nobody is studying you or your song lyrics.
May 28, 2008 5:36 PM
Anonymous said...
Hi ya'll! My sn is "Ima Mostly White Brat" but I can't seem to sign in for some ignorant reason.
I left a message and some advice to "RICK JAMES BITCH" and "SUN KISSED CHICK" on another topic, it's called Another Story Thud Won't Post, but it's so old I thought you might not think to look there. But I think it's some good advice that you might use, and you might be reading here today.
Gotta go, mom's calling.
Bye ya'll!
May 28, 2008 6:04 PM
Anonymous said...
a straight fool in full form
May 28, 2008 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Top 10 richest countries of the world
9. Equatorial Guinea - $44,100
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a country in Central Africa. Most people have never heard of it. This country flew into stardom after 1996 when large oil reserves were found in the nation of only 0,5 million people. While being one of the largest producers of oil in Africa, little has been made to improve the living conditions of the people. Corruption is widespread and ordinary people are mostly living in poverty. The gap between rich and poor is probably the largest in the world.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born June 5, 1942) has been the President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.
May 28, 2008 6:59 PM
tj21 @ The Rant! said...
March 28, 2008 Whites Can't Make Blacks Happy
One of the creepy things about our "need to have a conversation about race" is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. Nobody has the power to do that, except what individuals do for themselves, one person at a time.
Most people don't come close to lasting happiness in their own lives. So the popular Leftist charge of America's "institutional racism" comes down to saying that "The Great White Conspiracy is responsible for rescuing you from your bad feelings." That is just cockeyed.
Far too many black people don't feel good about themselves, and are constantly looking for answers from somebody else. That quest for the impossible has been turned into an accusation against the invisible but all-powerful white racist establishment. Michelle and Barack Obama were indoctrinated with those toxic beliefs at Princeton and Harvard, so that they are now making more than a million bucks a year, living in a mansion in Chicago while still feeling sorry for themselves. Give me a break. (Michelle Obama's salary increased by almost 200,000 dollars in one year at the University of Chicago. How many people get that kind of raise?)
No doubt the Obamas tell themselves that they are the lucky exceptions, and that they are just identifying with poor blacks, who surely are out there in the hundreds of thousands. But that's just the self-serving generosity of politicians handing out taxpayer money. The Obamas are rich, highly educated, extremely successful professional politicians. They are the darlings of white liberals. Are they anything more than that?
For politicians, voter dissatisfaction is the fuel of personal careers. You can't get anywhere by promising all the answers to people who don't need you. So the first order of business is to find dissatisfied voters, and if they're not there, stir up some dissatisfaction. That's why Obama needed the Rev -- to get him in good with a proletariat, any proletariat, in this case a black one. If Obama had stayed back in Hawaii or Indonesia, he would suddenly have discovered his inner Hawaiian or his authentic Balinese. Now he is "authentically Black," and the Rev guarantees his blackness. That's why Obama can't renounce the Rev. The Rev is his meal ticket.
Now a preacher in America is very much like a politician. He or she has to get the congregation stirred up, at least enough to pay for his upkeep. The Rev Wright is a fantastically successful politician. The Trinity UCC is a family business, and with DVD sales and televangelism it's making a mint. That's why the Rev has to be so provocative --- to keep his congregation clapping and cheering. Obama learned his rhetorical cadences from the Rev, and probably much else besides. It's been one pro teaching another.
The very notion of "whites" versus "blacks" being like so many M&M's in different candy boxes is a purely political creation. Humans are enormously variable. It makes about as much sense to divide people into sports fans versus music lovers, or fatties vs. skinnies. If politicians could get voting mileage from those divisions, the Left would be telling us all about the oppressive conspiracy against the fat, or the persecuted skinnies all over the world. "Divide and conquer" still works like a charm.
If you think that's exaggerated, just look at the famous classroom experiment in which blue-eyed kids are separated from brown-eyed kids, and one of the two groups is told it's better than the other. It really makes the "bad" group feel terrible about themselves. That's how easy it is to stir divisions among people. Give human beings a flag and a baseball cap with a flashy logo, tell them it's their team, and you can manipulate them for life.
Politicians are expert manipulators, and manipulation works best when people don't think they are being manipulated. That's Obama's biggest talent -- to make the suckered masses feel good while playing on them like an old banjo. So far there's no there there at all -- no substantive ideas that make Mr. Obama any more interesting than the standard-issue ultraliberal Democrat. Oh yes, there's the color of his skin. Big deal.
No, it all goes back to the usual race politics of the post-Civil Rights era, which always needs to pick at that old scab of racism, remind blacks of their old injustices, and convince them that white racism is still keeping them down. It's a disgusting political trick, and many blacks are catching on. If a genuinely self-determining black person ever runs for president without the usual race games, I'll vote for him or her in a minute.
Let a black man say it -- as so many already have, without media support and coverage. Larry Elder's "personal pledge" is one great example. This is the real key to black liberation, just as it has been the key to all the oppressed and persecuted people who rose from poverty and low self-esteem in America.
* 1. There is no excuse for lack of effort.
* 2. Although I may be unhappy with my circumstances, and although racism and sexism and other "isms" exist, I know that things are better now than ever, and the future is even brighter.
* 3. While I may be unhappy with my circumstances, I have the power to change and improve my life. I refuse to be a victim.
* 4. Others may have been blessed with more money, better connections, a better home environment, and even better looks, but I can succeed through hard work, perseverance, and education.
I'll vote for that.
May 28, 2008 7:04 PM
tj21@the rant! said...
HUD Secretary Attacks Black Victimhood
Ronald Kessler
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, says that black leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Julian Bond are doing a disservice to blacks by perpetuating an ideology of victimhood.
"They [black leaders] have created an industry," Jackson, who is black, told NewsMax. "If we don't become victims, they have no income. They have no podium."
Rather than confronting real issues that face blacks, African-American leaders suggest that "it's racism that's stopping everything that we're doing," Jackson said.
"They are in the business of making excuses," he said. "White folks have nothing to do with the fact that seven out of every 10 black children born in this country are born out of wedlock," Jackson said. Nor do they have anything to do "with that fact that we have more black males in prison than we do in college."
While racism still exists, "Young black kids are getting every opportunity that they need, just like every other kid," Jackson said. "I think in 2006 to say that everything is the fault of our brothers and sisters of the lighter hue is ridiculous."
Until blacks "begin to focus in on the serious problems that we have in our communities, and begin to try to solve those problems in the most positive manner that we can, we're not helping ourselves," Jackson said.
Welfare �Close to Stealing'
Jackson said he was reared in a segregated environment in Dallas. As a college freshman, he participated in a civil rights march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965. As he stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state troopers blocked his way and unleashed tear gas and dogs on the marchers.
But Jackson's father Arthur Jackson told his son that everyone can succeed in America regardless of skin color. Even though he had been diagnosed with cancer and had virtually no income, his father refused to go on welfare or take food stamps. When necessary, his church helped out.
"Never take anything that you didn't earn," his father told Alphonso. "That's close to stealing."
"I never went to school with my brothers and sisters of the lighter hue until I got off to college," Jackson, a lawyer, said. "But I'm sitting here," he said, referring to his cabinet position, which controls a budget of $32 billion a year. "And I'm sitting here because I believe that the American system might not be the panacea, but it's the best system that I've ever been able to live in."
Black Leaders Making Problems Worse
By characterizing blacks as victims, making excuses for them, and suggesting that they cannot advance themselves without reliance on the government, black leaders exacerbate the problems that blacks face and give them the tools to become "losers," Jackson said.
"I am not going to let the black leadership � the so-called leadership � of this country tell me that I am a victim," he said. "I believe that if you work hard, strive to do the very best, things will work out for you. [That] doesn't mean you won't have obstacles � you will. But we can't keep living in an era that is bygone," Jackson said. "We need to begin today to teach blacks that they can look in the mirror � and that they have the ability, once they look in that mirror, to achieve."
In his book "Enough," Fox News TV commentator Juan Williams pointed out that blacks who emigrate to America from Africa and the Caribbean are more successful than blacks born in the United States. As outlined in an Oct. 20 NewsMax article, "Juan Williams Called Black Ann Coulter," Williams attributed that to a self-defeating black culture of victimhood, one that says doing well in school is a cop-out and that the way to be successful is to come off as threatening.
Agreeing with Williams, Jackson said, "All you have to do is look at Miami's Little Haiti. The average income of a Haitian in Miami is the same as his white counterpart. They work very hard. But they have not been conditioned that the government owes them something."
Jackson said Africans from such countries as Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, and Senegal come to the United States. with "one attitude: that they're going to get the very best education and make as much money as they can."
Inclusive Administration
When George Bush became president, he named Jackson deputy secretary and then secretary of HUD. Bush and his wife Laura got to know Jackson and his wife Marcia, a former teacher, when Jackson headed the Dallas Housing Authority. The two couples began to socialize, and their kids would go to the movies together. Laura Bush invited Marcia to join her on the board of Child Protective Services Community Partners, which supports social workers.
"She stood out as a person who wanted to bring a diverse face to Dallas," Marcia Jackson told me for my book "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady."
"There are many whites who interact with blacks at work, but in their private lives, they don't," Marcia Jackson told me. "I think that says a lot about them as people."
Alphonso Jackson said Bush has demonstrated the same inclusiveness in his administration, appointing, for example, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell secretary of state. The response of black leaders has been to say that Bush made the appointments to garner votes. That "does nothing to support the progress of black Americans, or to recognize how far we have come," Jackson said.
Denying rumors that he is leaving HUD, Jackson said he is working with congressional leaders on legislation to simplify procedures so potential homeowners with poor credit records can more easily obtain mortgages insured by HUD's Federal Housing Authority (FHA).
Minority Housing Initiatives
"One of the things we have found, especially when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, is that if we can get them in the home, they can sustain the monthly house note," Jackson said. "The biggest problem has been getting them in there, because they have bad credit records. Also, many can't make the down payment and closing costs."
Jackson said he is encouraging those who build public housing to create complexes of low density townhouses rather than single buildings.
"That's why I like to use the housing authority in Atlanta as a model, just as in Dallas," Jackson said. "They have 13 public housing complexes. They've created low density townhouses, and if you go to Dallas or Atlanta, you'll see that the crime is down, education is up, people are working."
Jackson is also working on changing rules under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) so settlement costs will be more understandable and estimates of costs given before closing are the actual prices charged.
RESPA was passed in response to disclosures in a 1972 Washington Post series of kickbacks among real estate brokers, lenders, builders, title attorneys, and title insurance companies. Many of those practices have continued, often disguised. A builder, for example, may force a buyer to use a high-priced lending company owned by the builder. Jackson did not address whether rules will be tightened to try to eliminate these practices.
Besides helping new homeowners through the FHA program, HUD counsels people on how to buy their first home. Through the American Dream initiative, HUD even provides assistance in making a downpayment and paying closing costs to those who meet eligibility requirements. These programs and the improving economy have meant that 70 percent of Americans now own homes, Jackson said.
"For the first time, we have closed the gap that exists among white, black, and Hispanic Americans," Jackson said. "Over 50 percent of black and Hispanic Americans own their own homes for the first time in this country. Some of the people who never thought that they could own a home, they're owning a home."
As an example, Jackson cited Donna Davis, who was able to buy her first home in New Orleans, and Essie Jackson, a maintenance person in HUD's headquarters. Davis told Jackson, "You know, Mr. Secretary, I have a yard. And I have the thrill of measuring and shopping for curtains in my new home."
More than two years ago, Essie Jackson asked the HUD secretary if he could help her buy a home. He got her enrolled in a counseling program.
"She thought she would never be a homeowner," Jackson said. "Today she is. She has a two-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath condominium, and she's planting flowers in her window. And she came and told us the story."
May 28, 2008 7:10 PM
Anonymous said...
Someone needs to start their own blog and LEAVE this one.
May 28, 2008 7:32 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody said...
Is this the real life,
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter
To me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life has just begun
But now i've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I've got to go
Got to leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooo
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish i'd never been born at all-(Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters)
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
THUNDER BOLT AND LIGHTNING, VERY VERY FRIGHTNING ME!
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
HE'S JUST A POOR BOY, FROM A POOR FAMILY
SPARE HIM HIS LIFE FROM THIS MONSTROSOTY
easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO
Bismillah! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Bismillah! We WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Will not let you go
Let me go
Will not let you go
Let me go
(never, never)
OHOHOHOH
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
MAMA MIA LET ME GO
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!
FOR ME!
for me....
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye!
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Ooh, baby
Can't do this to me baby
Just got to get out
Just got to get right out of here
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters
To me
(Anyway the wind blows)
May 28, 2008 11:51 AM
Bite The Dust said...
Steve walks wearily down the street,
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
How do you think I'm gonna get along,
Without you, when you're gone
You took me for everything that I had,
And kicked me out on my own
Are you happy, are you satisfied
How long can you stand the heat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip up
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground
You can beat him you can cheat him
You can treat him bad and then leave him
When he's down
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
Repeating the sound of the beat
May 28, 2008 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...
with earth-moving equipment as construction crews assemble long rows of cookie-cutter houses with walls of Styrofoam sandwiched between two pieces of sheet metal. Builders vow the new homes will be ready by the end of June.
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Would-be residents began arriving over the weekend. Originally from nearly two dozen villages scattered around Beichuan county, the people were bused here from an emergency shelter at a sports stadium in nearby Mianyang city. Among the first earthquake survivors to be moved to what is expected to be a permanent relocation site, they are living for now in a sea of government-provided tents next to the construction zone.
Finding room to build
Beichuan, nestled in a sliver of valley surrounded by mountains, will not be rebuilt because authorities deem the area too hazardous. Nearby Leigu, however, is situated along a broad, fertile expanse farther down the valley. Before the earthquake, it was a farming town of 18,000 residents. Most of the homes here, as in Beichuan, collapsed in the earthquake, and 1,000 people died. But the fields provide space to build, and now Leigu's survivors will have to make room for new neighbors.
The one-room dwellings are being built in caterpillar-like lines of 14, each 65-square-foot home attached to the ones next to it. There will be electricity and running water, but current plans call for every two homes to share a tap. Every 50 homes will share a bath house and a kitchen. The floors will be hard-packed dirt covered by plastic.
"It's not realistic to have concrete, attached floors at this point," said Wang Di Sheng, a government official from Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, which provided the materials and is supervising the construction of 7,000 houses for the local authority. The dwellings are supposed to last up to three years while the government constructs a permanent community here.
Though spartan, these portable homes are a step up from the tents and tarps that have been the main shelters for millions of people displaced by the quake. China's top leaders have urged manufacturers and construction crews to rush production of the homes, as the rainy season begins and threatens to turn hundreds of tent cities into swamps.
Construction is quick. It took about 24 hours this week for a 10-person crew to put up one row of homes. First they erected a metal frame. Then they slid the walls and windows into pre-fabricated grooves, tightened screws and reinforcement rods. Then they fastened down the metal roof parts. Wiring and plumbing come later.
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May 28, 2008 11:56 AM
Anonymous said...
And Jerry if you think I'll give up I want you to know I will dig into your ass so deep that Richardson will be able to crawl much more deeper up in it then he already is." -THUD
_______________________
And if Thud and his Kool-Aid Krusaders think that the Anti's are going to give up on exposing him to the world for the criminal fraudster that he is, then he can go ahead and crawl much more deeper in Javier Bailey's rectum than he already is. The TRUTH is getting shit out as we speak.
May 28, 2008 1:31 PM
Anonymous said...
you got 1 little bitty thing wrong & that is it's not Thad or a thad crusader!
May 28, 2008 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...
What itty bitty thing are you referring to? Nobody is studying you or your song lyrics.
May 28, 2008 5:36 PM
Anonymous said...
Hi ya'll! My sn is "Ima Mostly White Brat" but I can't seem to sign in for some ignorant reason.
I left a message and some advice to "RICK JAMES BITCH" and "SUN KISSED CHICK" on another topic, it's called Another Story Thud Won't Post, but it's so old I thought you might not think to look there. But I think it's some good advice that you might use, and you might be reading here today.
Gotta go, mom's calling.
Bye ya'll!
May 28, 2008 6:04 PM
Anonymous said...
a straight fool in full form
May 28, 2008 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Top 10 richest countries of the world
9. Equatorial Guinea - $44,100
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a country in Central Africa. Most people have never heard of it. This country flew into stardom after 1996 when large oil reserves were found in the nation of only 0,5 million people. While being one of the largest producers of oil in Africa, little has been made to improve the living conditions of the people. Corruption is widespread and ordinary people are mostly living in poverty. The gap between rich and poor is probably the largest in the world.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born June 5, 1942) has been the President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.
May 28, 2008 6:59 PM
tj21 @ The Rant! said...
March 28, 2008 Whites Can't Make Blacks Happy
One of the creepy things about our "need to have a conversation about race" is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. Nobody has the power to do that, except what individuals do for themselves, one person at a time.
Most people don't come close to lasting happiness in their own lives. So the popular Leftist charge of America's "institutional racism" comes down to saying that "The Great White Conspiracy is responsible for rescuing you from your bad feelings." That is just cockeyed.
Far too many black people don't feel good about themselves, and are constantly looking for answers from somebody else. That quest for the impossible has been turned into an accusation against the invisible but all-powerful white racist establishment. Michelle and Barack Obama were indoctrinated with those toxic beliefs at Princeton and Harvard, so that they are now making more than a million bucks a year, living in a mansion in Chicago while still feeling sorry for themselves. Give me a break. (Michelle Obama's salary increased by almost 200,000 dollars in one year at the University of Chicago. How many people get that kind of raise?)
No doubt the Obamas tell themselves that they are the lucky exceptions, and that they are just identifying with poor blacks, who surely are out there in the hundreds of thousands. But that's just the self-serving generosity of politicians handing out taxpayer money. The Obamas are rich, highly educated, extremely successful professional politicians. They are the darlings of white liberals. Are they anything more than that?
For politicians, voter dissatisfaction is the fuel of personal careers. You can't get anywhere by promising all the answers to people who don't need you. So the first order of business is to find dissatisfied voters, and if they're not there, stir up some dissatisfaction. That's why Obama needed the Rev -- to get him in good with a proletariat, any proletariat, in this case a black one. If Obama had stayed back in Hawaii or Indonesia, he would suddenly have discovered his inner Hawaiian or his authentic Balinese. Now he is "authentically Black," and the Rev guarantees his blackness. That's why Obama can't renounce the Rev. The Rev is his meal ticket.
Now a preacher in America is very much like a politician. He or she has to get the congregation stirred up, at least enough to pay for his upkeep. The Rev Wright is a fantastically successful politician. The Trinity UCC is a family business, and with DVD sales and televangelism it's making a mint. That's why the Rev has to be so provocative --- to keep his congregation clapping and cheering. Obama learned his rhetorical cadences from the Rev, and probably much else besides. It's been one pro teaching another.
The very notion of "whites" versus "blacks" being like so many M&M's in different candy boxes is a purely political creation. Humans are enormously variable. It makes about as much sense to divide people into sports fans versus music lovers, or fatties vs. skinnies. If politicians could get voting mileage from those divisions, the Left would be telling us all about the oppressive conspiracy against the fat, or the persecuted skinnies all over the world. "Divide and conquer" still works like a charm.
If you think that's exaggerated, just look at the famous classroom experiment in which blue-eyed kids are separated from brown-eyed kids, and one of the two groups is told it's better than the other. It really makes the "bad" group feel terrible about themselves. That's how easy it is to stir divisions among people. Give human beings a flag and a baseball cap with a flashy logo, tell them it's their team, and you can manipulate them for life.
Politicians are expert manipulators, and manipulation works best when people don't think they are being manipulated. That's Obama's biggest talent -- to make the suckered masses feel good while playing on them like an old banjo. So far there's no there there at all -- no substantive ideas that make Mr. Obama any more interesting than the standard-issue ultraliberal Democrat. Oh yes, there's the color of his skin. Big deal.
No, it all goes back to the usual race politics of the post-Civil Rights era, which always needs to pick at that old scab of racism, remind blacks of their old injustices, and convince them that white racism is still keeping them down. It's a disgusting political trick, and many blacks are catching on. If a genuinely self-determining black person ever runs for president without the usual race games, I'll vote for him or her in a minute.
Let a black man say it -- as so many already have, without media support and coverage. Larry Elder's "personal pledge" is one great example. This is the real key to black liberation, just as it has been the key to all the oppressed and persecuted people who rose from poverty and low self-esteem in America.
* 1. There is no excuse for lack of effort.
* 2. Although I may be unhappy with my circumstances, and although racism and sexism and other "isms" exist, I know that things are better now than ever, and the future is even brighter.
* 3. While I may be unhappy with my circumstances, I have the power to change and improve my life. I refuse to be a victim.
* 4. Others may have been blessed with more money, better connections, a better home environment, and even better looks, but I can succeed through hard work, perseverance, and education.
I'll vote for that.
May 28, 2008 7:04 PM
tj21@the rant! said...
HUD Secretary Attacks Black Victimhood
Ronald Kessler
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, says that black leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Julian Bond are doing a disservice to blacks by perpetuating an ideology of victimhood.
"They [black leaders] have created an industry," Jackson, who is black, told NewsMax. "If we don't become victims, they have no income. They have no podium."
Rather than confronting real issues that face blacks, African-American leaders suggest that "it's racism that's stopping everything that we're doing," Jackson said.
"They are in the business of making excuses," he said. "White folks have nothing to do with the fact that seven out of every 10 black children born in this country are born out of wedlock," Jackson said. Nor do they have anything to do "with that fact that we have more black males in prison than we do in college."
While racism still exists, "Young black kids are getting every opportunity that they need, just like every other kid," Jackson said. "I think in 2006 to say that everything is the fault of our brothers and sisters of the lighter hue is ridiculous."
Until blacks "begin to focus in on the serious problems that we have in our communities, and begin to try to solve those problems in the most positive manner that we can, we're not helping ourselves," Jackson said.
Welfare �Close to Stealing'
Jackson said he was reared in a segregated environment in Dallas. As a college freshman, he participated in a civil rights march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965. As he stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state troopers blocked his way and unleashed tear gas and dogs on the marchers.
But Jackson's father Arthur Jackson told his son that everyone can succeed in America regardless of skin color. Even though he had been diagnosed with cancer and had virtually no income, his father refused to go on welfare or take food stamps. When necessary, his church helped out.
"Never take anything that you didn't earn," his father told Alphonso. "That's close to stealing."
"I never went to school with my brothers and sisters of the lighter hue until I got off to college," Jackson, a lawyer, said. "But I'm sitting here," he said, referring to his cabinet position, which controls a budget of $32 billion a year. "And I'm sitting here because I believe that the American system might not be the panacea, but it's the best system that I've ever been able to live in."
Black Leaders Making Problems Worse
By characterizing blacks as victims, making excuses for them, and suggesting that they cannot advance themselves without reliance on the government, black leaders exacerbate the problems that blacks face and give them the tools to become "losers," Jackson said.
"I am not going to let the black leadership � the so-called leadership � of this country tell me that I am a victim," he said. "I believe that if you work hard, strive to do the very best, things will work out for you. [That] doesn't mean you won't have obstacles � you will. But we can't keep living in an era that is bygone," Jackson said. "We need to begin today to teach blacks that they can look in the mirror � and that they have the ability, once they look in that mirror, to achieve."
In his book "Enough," Fox News TV commentator Juan Williams pointed out that blacks who emigrate to America from Africa and the Caribbean are more successful than blacks born in the United States. As outlined in an Oct. 20 NewsMax article, "Juan Williams Called Black Ann Coulter," Williams attributed that to a self-defeating black culture of victimhood, one that says doing well in school is a cop-out and that the way to be successful is to come off as threatening.
Agreeing with Williams, Jackson said, "All you have to do is look at Miami's Little Haiti. The average income of a Haitian in Miami is the same as his white counterpart. They work very hard. But they have not been conditioned that the government owes them something."
Jackson said Africans from such countries as Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, and Senegal come to the United States. with "one attitude: that they're going to get the very best education and make as much money as they can."
Inclusive Administration
When George Bush became president, he named Jackson deputy secretary and then secretary of HUD. Bush and his wife Laura got to know Jackson and his wife Marcia, a former teacher, when Jackson headed the Dallas Housing Authority. The two couples began to socialize, and their kids would go to the movies together. Laura Bush invited Marcia to join her on the board of Child Protective Services Community Partners, which supports social workers.
"She stood out as a person who wanted to bring a diverse face to Dallas," Marcia Jackson told me for my book "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady."
"There are many whites who interact with blacks at work, but in their private lives, they don't," Marcia Jackson told me. "I think that says a lot about them as people."
Alphonso Jackson said Bush has demonstrated the same inclusiveness in his administration, appointing, for example, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell secretary of state. The response of black leaders has been to say that Bush made the appointments to garner votes. That "does nothing to support the progress of black Americans, or to recognize how far we have come," Jackson said.
Denying rumors that he is leaving HUD, Jackson said he is working with congressional leaders on legislation to simplify procedures so potential homeowners with poor credit records can more easily obtain mortgages insured by HUD's Federal Housing Authority (FHA).
Minority Housing Initiatives
"One of the things we have found, especially when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, is that if we can get them in the home, they can sustain the monthly house note," Jackson said. "The biggest problem has been getting them in there, because they have bad credit records. Also, many can't make the down payment and closing costs."
Jackson said he is encouraging those who build public housing to create complexes of low density townhouses rather than single buildings.
"That's why I like to use the housing authority in Atlanta as a model, just as in Dallas," Jackson said. "They have 13 public housing complexes. They've created low density townhouses, and if you go to Dallas or Atlanta, you'll see that the crime is down, education is up, people are working."
Jackson is also working on changing rules under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) so settlement costs will be more understandable and estimates of costs given before closing are the actual prices charged.
RESPA was passed in response to disclosures in a 1972 Washington Post series of kickbacks among real estate brokers, lenders, builders, title attorneys, and title insurance companies. Many of those practices have continued, often disguised. A builder, for example, may force a buyer to use a high-priced lending company owned by the builder. Jackson did not address whether rules will be tightened to try to eliminate these practices.
Besides helping new homeowners through the FHA program, HUD counsels people on how to buy their first home. Through the American Dream initiative, HUD even provides assistance in making a downpayment and paying closing costs to those who meet eligibility requirements. These programs and the improving economy have meant that 70 percent of Americans now own homes, Jackson said.
"For the first time, we have closed the gap that exists among white, black, and Hispanic Americans," Jackson said. "Over 50 percent of black and Hispanic Americans own their own homes for the first time in this country. Some of the people who never thought that they could own a home, they're owning a home."
As an example, Jackson cited Donna Davis, who was able to buy her first home in New Orleans, and Essie Jackson, a maintenance person in HUD's headquarters. Davis told Jackson, "You know, Mr. Secretary, I have a yard. And I have the thrill of measuring and shopping for curtains in my new home."
More than two years ago, Essie Jackson asked the HUD secretary if he could help her buy a home. He got her enrolled in a counseling program.
"She thought she would never be a homeowner," Jackson said. "Today she is. She has a two-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath condominium, and she's planting flowers in her window. And she came and told us the story."
May 28, 2008 7:10 PM
Anonymous said...
Someone needs to start their own blog and LEAVE this one.
May 28, 2008 7:32 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody said...
Is this the real life,
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter
To me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life has just begun
But now i've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I've got to go
Got to leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooo
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish i'd never been born at all-(Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters)
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
THUNDER BOLT AND LIGHTNING, VERY VERY FRIGHTNING ME!
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
HE'S JUST A POOR BOY, FROM A POOR FAMILY
SPARE HIM HIS LIFE FROM THIS MONSTROSOTY
easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO
Bismillah! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Bismillah! We WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Will not let you go
Let me go
Will not let you go
Let me go
(never, never)
OHOHOHOH
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
MAMA MIA LET ME GO
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!
FOR ME!
for me....
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye!
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Ooh, baby
Can't do this to me baby
Just got to get out
Just got to get right out of here
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters
To me
(Anyway the wind blows)
May 28, 2008 11:51 AM
Bite The Dust said...
Steve walks wearily down the street,
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
How do you think I'm gonna get along,
Without you, when you're gone
You took me for everything that I had,
And kicked me out on my own
Are you happy, are you satisfied
How long can you stand the heat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip up
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground
You can beat him you can cheat him
You can treat him bad and then leave him
When he's down
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
Repeating the sound of the beat
May 28, 2008 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...
with earth-moving equipment as construction crews assemble long rows of cookie-cutter houses with walls of Styrofoam sandwiched between two pieces of sheet metal. Builders vow the new homes will be ready by the end of June.
Story continues below ↓
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Would-be residents began arriving over the weekend. Originally from nearly two dozen villages scattered around Beichuan county, the people were bused here from an emergency shelter at a sports stadium in nearby Mianyang city. Among the first earthquake survivors to be moved to what is expected to be a permanent relocation site, they are living for now in a sea of government-provided tents next to the construction zone.
Finding room to build
Beichuan, nestled in a sliver of valley surrounded by mountains, will not be rebuilt because authorities deem the area too hazardous. Nearby Leigu, however, is situated along a broad, fertile expanse farther down the valley. Before the earthquake, it was a farming town of 18,000 residents. Most of the homes here, as in Beichuan, collapsed in the earthquake, and 1,000 people died. But the fields provide space to build, and now Leigu's survivors will have to make room for new neighbors.
The one-room dwellings are being built in caterpillar-like lines of 14, each 65-square-foot home attached to the ones next to it. There will be electricity and running water, but current plans call for every two homes to share a tap. Every 50 homes will share a bath house and a kitchen. The floors will be hard-packed dirt covered by plastic.
"It's not realistic to have concrete, attached floors at this point," said Wang Di Sheng, a government official from Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, which provided the materials and is supervising the construction of 7,000 houses for the local authority. The dwellings are supposed to last up to three years while the government constructs a permanent community here.
Though spartan, these portable homes are a step up from the tents and tarps that have been the main shelters for millions of people displaced by the quake. China's top leaders have urged manufacturers and construction crews to rush production of the homes, as the rainy season begins and threatens to turn hundreds of tent cities into swamps.
Construction is quick. It took about 24 hours this week for a 10-person crew to put up one row of homes. First they erected a metal frame. Then they slid the walls and windows into pre-fabricated grooves, tightened screws and reinforcement rods. Then they fastened down the metal roof parts. Wiring and plumbing come later.
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May 28, 2008 11:56 AM
Anonymous said...
And Jerry if you think I'll give up I want you to know I will dig into your ass so deep that Richardson will be able to crawl much more deeper up in it then he already is." -THUD
_______________________
And if Thud and his Kool-Aid Krusaders think that the Anti's are going to give up on exposing him to the world for the criminal fraudster that he is, then he can go ahead and crawl much more deeper in Javier Bailey's rectum than he already is. The TRUTH is getting shit out as we speak.
May 28, 2008 1:31 PM
Anonymous said...
you got 1 little bitty thing wrong & that is it's not Thad or a thad crusader!
May 28, 2008 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...
What itty bitty thing are you referring to? Nobody is studying you or your song lyrics.
May 28, 2008 5:36 PM
Anonymous said...
Hi ya'll! My sn is "Ima Mostly White Brat" but I can't seem to sign in for some ignorant reason.
I left a message and some advice to "RICK JAMES BITCH" and "SUN KISSED CHICK" on another topic, it's called Another Story Thud Won't Post, but it's so old I thought you might not think to look there. But I think it's some good advice that you might use, and you might be reading here today.
Gotta go, mom's calling.
Bye ya'll!
May 28, 2008 6:04 PM
Anonymous said...
a straight fool in full form
May 28, 2008 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Top 10 richest countries of the world
9. Equatorial Guinea - $44,100
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a country in Central Africa. Most people have never heard of it. This country flew into stardom after 1996 when large oil reserves were found in the nation of only 0,5 million people. While being one of the largest producers of oil in Africa, little has been made to improve the living conditions of the people. Corruption is widespread and ordinary people are mostly living in poverty. The gap between rich and poor is probably the largest in the world.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born June 5, 1942) has been the President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.
May 28, 2008 6:59 PM
tj21 @ The Rant! said...
March 28, 2008 Whites Can't Make Blacks Happy
One of the creepy things about our "need to have a conversation about race" is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. Nobody has the power to do that, except what individuals do for themselves, one person at a time.
Most people don't come close to lasting happiness in their own lives. So the popular Leftist charge of America's "institutional racism" comes down to saying that "The Great White Conspiracy is responsible for rescuing you from your bad feelings." That is just cockeyed.
Far too many black people don't feel good about themselves, and are constantly looking for answers from somebody else. That quest for the impossible has been turned into an accusation against the invisible but all-powerful white racist establishment. Michelle and Barack Obama were indoctrinated with those toxic beliefs at Princeton and Harvard, so that they are now making more than a million bucks a year, living in a mansion in Chicago while still feeling sorry for themselves. Give me a break. (Michelle Obama's salary increased by almost 200,000 dollars in one year at the University of Chicago. How many people get that kind of raise?)
No doubt the Obamas tell themselves that they are the lucky exceptions, and that they are just identifying with poor blacks, who surely are out there in the hundreds of thousands. But that's just the self-serving generosity of politicians handing out taxpayer money. The Obamas are rich, highly educated, extremely successful professional politicians. They are the darlings of white liberals. Are they anything more than that?
For politicians, voter dissatisfaction is the fuel of personal careers. You can't get anywhere by promising all the answers to people who don't need you. So the first order of business is to find dissatisfied voters, and if they're not there, stir up some dissatisfaction. That's why Obama needed the Rev -- to get him in good with a proletariat, any proletariat, in this case a black one. If Obama had stayed back in Hawaii or Indonesia, he would suddenly have discovered his inner Hawaiian or his authentic Balinese. Now he is "authentically Black," and the Rev guarantees his blackness. That's why Obama can't renounce the Rev. The Rev is his meal ticket.
Now a preacher in America is very much like a politician. He or she has to get the congregation stirred up, at least enough to pay for his upkeep. The Rev Wright is a fantastically successful politician. The Trinity UCC is a family business, and with DVD sales and televangelism it's making a mint. That's why the Rev has to be so provocative --- to keep his congregation clapping and cheering. Obama learned his rhetorical cadences from the Rev, and probably much else besides. It's been one pro teaching another.
The very notion of "whites" versus "blacks" being like so many M&M's in different candy boxes is a purely political creation. Humans are enormously variable. It makes about as much sense to divide people into sports fans versus music lovers, or fatties vs. skinnies. If politicians could get voting mileage from those divisions, the Left would be telling us all about the oppressive conspiracy against the fat, or the persecuted skinnies all over the world. "Divide and conquer" still works like a charm.
If you think that's exaggerated, just look at the famous classroom experiment in which blue-eyed kids are separated from brown-eyed kids, and one of the two groups is told it's better than the other. It really makes the "bad" group feel terrible about themselves. That's how easy it is to stir divisions among people. Give human beings a flag and a baseball cap with a flashy logo, tell them it's their team, and you can manipulate them for life.
Politicians are expert manipulators, and manipulation works best when people don't think they are being manipulated. That's Obama's biggest talent -- to make the suckered masses feel good while playing on them like an old banjo. So far there's no there there at all -- no substantive ideas that make Mr. Obama any more interesting than the standard-issue ultraliberal Democrat. Oh yes, there's the color of his skin. Big deal.
No, it all goes back to the usual race politics of the post-Civil Rights era, which always needs to pick at that old scab of racism, remind blacks of their old injustices, and convince them that white racism is still keeping them down. It's a disgusting political trick, and many blacks are catching on. If a genuinely self-determining black person ever runs for president without the usual race games, I'll vote for him or her in a minute.
Let a black man say it -- as so many already have, without media support and coverage. Larry Elder's "personal pledge" is one great example. This is the real key to black liberation, just as it has been the key to all the oppressed and persecuted people who rose from poverty and low self-esteem in America.
* 1. There is no excuse for lack of effort.
* 2. Although I may be unhappy with my circumstances, and although racism and sexism and other "isms" exist, I know that things are better now than ever, and the future is even brighter.
* 3. While I may be unhappy with my circumstances, I have the power to change and improve my life. I refuse to be a victim.
* 4. Others may have been blessed with more money, better connections, a better home environment, and even better looks, but I can succeed through hard work, perseverance, and education.
I'll vote for that.
May 28, 2008 7:04 PM
tj21@the rant! said...
HUD Secretary Attacks Black Victimhood
Ronald Kessler
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, says that black leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Julian Bond are doing a disservice to blacks by perpetuating an ideology of victimhood.
"They [black leaders] have created an industry," Jackson, who is black, told NewsMax. "If we don't become victims, they have no income. They have no podium."
Rather than confronting real issues that face blacks, African-American leaders suggest that "it's racism that's stopping everything that we're doing," Jackson said.
"They are in the business of making excuses," he said. "White folks have nothing to do with the fact that seven out of every 10 black children born in this country are born out of wedlock," Jackson said. Nor do they have anything to do "with that fact that we have more black males in prison than we do in college."
While racism still exists, "Young black kids are getting every opportunity that they need, just like every other kid," Jackson said. "I think in 2006 to say that everything is the fault of our brothers and sisters of the lighter hue is ridiculous."
Until blacks "begin to focus in on the serious problems that we have in our communities, and begin to try to solve those problems in the most positive manner that we can, we're not helping ourselves," Jackson said.
Welfare �Close to Stealing'
Jackson said he was reared in a segregated environment in Dallas. As a college freshman, he participated in a civil rights march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965. As he stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state troopers blocked his way and unleashed tear gas and dogs on the marchers.
But Jackson's father Arthur Jackson told his son that everyone can succeed in America regardless of skin color. Even though he had been diagnosed with cancer and had virtually no income, his father refused to go on welfare or take food stamps. When necessary, his church helped out.
"Never take anything that you didn't earn," his father told Alphonso. "That's close to stealing."
"I never went to school with my brothers and sisters of the lighter hue until I got off to college," Jackson, a lawyer, said. "But I'm sitting here," he said, referring to his cabinet position, which controls a budget of $32 billion a year. "And I'm sitting here because I believe that the American system might not be the panacea, but it's the best system that I've ever been able to live in."
Black Leaders Making Problems Worse
By characterizing blacks as victims, making excuses for them, and suggesting that they cannot advance themselves without reliance on the government, black leaders exacerbate the problems that blacks face and give them the tools to become "losers," Jackson said.
"I am not going to let the black leadership � the so-called leadership � of this country tell me that I am a victim," he said. "I believe that if you work hard, strive to do the very best, things will work out for you. [That] doesn't mean you won't have obstacles � you will. But we can't keep living in an era that is bygone," Jackson said. "We need to begin today to teach blacks that they can look in the mirror � and that they have the ability, once they look in that mirror, to achieve."
In his book "Enough," Fox News TV commentator Juan Williams pointed out that blacks who emigrate to America from Africa and the Caribbean are more successful than blacks born in the United States. As outlined in an Oct. 20 NewsMax article, "Juan Williams Called Black Ann Coulter," Williams attributed that to a self-defeating black culture of victimhood, one that says doing well in school is a cop-out and that the way to be successful is to come off as threatening.
Agreeing with Williams, Jackson said, "All you have to do is look at Miami's Little Haiti. The average income of a Haitian in Miami is the same as his white counterpart. They work very hard. But they have not been conditioned that the government owes them something."
Jackson said Africans from such countries as Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, and Senegal come to the United States. with "one attitude: that they're going to get the very best education and make as much money as they can."
Inclusive Administration
When George Bush became president, he named Jackson deputy secretary and then secretary of HUD. Bush and his wife Laura got to know Jackson and his wife Marcia, a former teacher, when Jackson headed the Dallas Housing Authority. The two couples began to socialize, and their kids would go to the movies together. Laura Bush invited Marcia to join her on the board of Child Protective Services Community Partners, which supports social workers.
"She stood out as a person who wanted to bring a diverse face to Dallas," Marcia Jackson told me for my book "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady."
"There are many whites who interact with blacks at work, but in their private lives, they don't," Marcia Jackson told me. "I think that says a lot about them as people."
Alphonso Jackson said Bush has demonstrated the same inclusiveness in his administration, appointing, for example, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell secretary of state. The response of black leaders has been to say that Bush made the appointments to garner votes. That "does nothing to support the progress of black Americans, or to recognize how far we have come," Jackson said.
Denying rumors that he is leaving HUD, Jackson said he is working with congressional leaders on legislation to simplify procedures so potential homeowners with poor credit records can more easily obtain mortgages insured by HUD's Federal Housing Authority (FHA).
Minority Housing Initiatives
"One of the things we have found, especially when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, is that if we can get them in the home, they can sustain the monthly house note," Jackson said. "The biggest problem has been getting them in there, because they have bad credit records. Also, many can't make the down payment and closing costs."
Jackson said he is encouraging those who build public housing to create complexes of low density townhouses rather than single buildings.
"That's why I like to use the housing authority in Atlanta as a model, just as in Dallas," Jackson said. "They have 13 public housing complexes. They've created low density townhouses, and if you go to Dallas or Atlanta, you'll see that the crime is down, education is up, people are working."
Jackson is also working on changing rules under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) so settlement costs will be more understandable and estimates of costs given before closing are the actual prices charged.
RESPA was passed in response to disclosures in a 1972 Washington Post series of kickbacks among real estate brokers, lenders, builders, title attorneys, and title insurance companies. Many of those practices have continued, often disguised. A builder, for example, may force a buyer to use a high-priced lending company owned by the builder. Jackson did not address whether rules will be tightened to try to eliminate these practices.
Besides helping new homeowners through the FHA program, HUD counsels people on how to buy their first home. Through the American Dream initiative, HUD even provides assistance in making a downpayment and paying closing costs to those who meet eligibility requirements. These programs and the improving economy have meant that 70 percent of Americans now own homes, Jackson said.
"For the first time, we have closed the gap that exists among white, black, and Hispanic Americans," Jackson said. "Over 50 percent of black and Hispanic Americans own their own homes for the first time in this country. Some of the people who never thought that they could own a home, they're owning a home."
As an example, Jackson cited Donna Davis, who was able to buy her first home in New Orleans, and Essie Jackson, a maintenance person in HUD's headquarters. Davis told Jackson, "You know, Mr. Secretary, I have a yard. And I have the thrill of measuring and shopping for curtains in my new home."
More than two years ago, Essie Jackson asked the HUD secretary if he could help her buy a home. He got her enrolled in a counseling program.
"She thought she would never be a homeowner," Jackson said. "Today she is. She has a two-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath condominium, and she's planting flowers in her window. And she came and told us the story."
May 28, 2008 7:10 PM
Anonymous said...
Someone needs to start their own blog and LEAVE this one.
May 28, 2008 7:32 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody said...
Is this the real life,
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter
To me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life has just begun
But now i've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I've got to go
Got to leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooo
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish i'd never been born at all-(Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters)
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
THUNDER BOLT AND LIGHTNING, VERY VERY FRIGHTNING ME!
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
HE'S JUST A POOR BOY, FROM A POOR FAMILY
SPARE HIM HIS LIFE FROM THIS MONSTROSOTY
easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO
Bismillah! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Bismillah! We WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Will not let you go
Let me go
Will not let you go
Let me go
(never, never)
OHOHOHOH
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
MAMA MIA LET ME GO
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!
FOR ME!
for me....
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye!
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Ooh, baby
Can't do this to me baby
Just got to get out
Just got to get right out of here
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters
To me
(Anyway the wind blows)
May 28, 2008 11:51 AM
Bite The Dust said...
Steve walks wearily down the street,
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
How do you think I'm gonna get along,
Without you, when you're gone
You took me for everything that I had,
And kicked me out on my own
Are you happy, are you satisfied
How long can you stand the heat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip up
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground
You can beat him you can cheat him
You can treat him bad and then leave him
When he's down
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
Repeating the sound of the beat
May 28, 2008 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...
with earth-moving equipment as construction crews assemble long rows of cookie-cutter houses with walls of Styrofoam sandwiched between two pieces of sheet metal. Builders vow the new homes will be ready by the end of June.
Story continues below ↓
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
advertisement
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Would-be residents began arriving over the weekend. Originally from nearly two dozen villages scattered around Beichuan county, the people were bused here from an emergency shelter at a sports stadium in nearby Mianyang city. Among the first earthquake survivors to be moved to what is expected to be a permanent relocation site, they are living for now in a sea of government-provided tents next to the construction zone.
Finding room to build
Beichuan, nestled in a sliver of valley surrounded by mountains, will not be rebuilt because authorities deem the area too hazardous. Nearby Leigu, however, is situated along a broad, fertile expanse farther down the valley. Before the earthquake, it was a farming town of 18,000 residents. Most of the homes here, as in Beichuan, collapsed in the earthquake, and 1,000 people died. But the fields provide space to build, and now Leigu's survivors will have to make room for new neighbors.
The one-room dwellings are being built in caterpillar-like lines of 14, each 65-square-foot home attached to the ones next to it. There will be electricity and running water, but current plans call for every two homes to share a tap. Every 50 homes will share a bath house and a kitchen. The floors will be hard-packed dirt covered by plastic.
"It's not realistic to have concrete, attached floors at this point," said Wang Di Sheng, a government official from Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, which provided the materials and is supervising the construction of 7,000 houses for the local authority. The dwellings are supposed to last up to three years while the government constructs a permanent community here.
Though spartan, these portable homes are a step up from the tents and tarps that have been the main shelters for millions of people displaced by the quake. China's top leaders have urged manufacturers and construction crews to rush production of the homes, as the rainy season begins and threatens to turn hundreds of tent cities into swamps.
Construction is quick. It took about 24 hours this week for a 10-person crew to put up one row of homes. First they erected a metal frame. Then they slid the walls and windows into pre-fabricated grooves, tightened screws and reinforcement rods. Then they fastened down the metal roof parts. Wiring and plumbing come later.
Click for related content
World Blog: China quake tot, parents reunited
Trauma rampant after China earthquake zones
Aftershocks in China collapse 420,000 houses
May 28, 2008 11:56 AM
Anonymous said...
And Jerry if you think I'll give up I want you to know I will dig into your ass so deep that Richardson will be able to crawl much more deeper up in it then he already is." -THUD
_______________________
And if Thud and his Kool-Aid Krusaders think that the Anti's are going to give up on exposing him to the world for the criminal fraudster that he is, then he can go ahead and crawl much more deeper in Javier Bailey's rectum than he already is. The TRUTH is getting shit out as we speak.
May 28, 2008 1:31 PM
Anonymous said...
you got 1 little bitty thing wrong & that is it's not Thad or a thad crusader!
May 28, 2008 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...
What itty bitty thing are you referring to? Nobody is studying you or your song lyrics.
May 28, 2008 5:36 PM
Anonymous said...
Hi ya'll! My sn is "Ima Mostly White Brat" but I can't seem to sign in for some ignorant reason.
I left a message and some advice to "RICK JAMES BITCH" and "SUN KISSED CHICK" on another topic, it's called Another Story Thud Won't Post, but it's so old I thought you might not think to look there. But I think it's some good advice that you might use, and you might be reading here today.
Gotta go, mom's calling.
Bye ya'll!
May 28, 2008 6:04 PM
Anonymous said...
a straight fool in full form
May 28, 2008 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Top 10 richest countries of the world
9. Equatorial Guinea - $44,100
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a country in Central Africa. Most people have never heard of it. This country flew into stardom after 1996 when large oil reserves were found in the nation of only 0,5 million people. While being one of the largest producers of oil in Africa, little has been made to improve the living conditions of the people. Corruption is widespread and ordinary people are mostly living in poverty. The gap between rich and poor is probably the largest in the world.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born June 5, 1942) has been the President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.
May 28, 2008 6:59 PM
tj21 @ The Rant! said...
March 28, 2008 Whites Can't Make Blacks Happy
One of the creepy things about our "need to have a conversation about race" is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. Nobody has the power to do that, except what individuals do for themselves, one person at a time.
Most people don't come close to lasting happiness in their own lives. So the popular Leftist charge of America's "institutional racism" comes down to saying that "The Great White Conspiracy is responsible for rescuing you from your bad feelings." That is just cockeyed.
Far too many black people don't feel good about themselves, and are constantly looking for answers from somebody else. That quest for the impossible has been turned into an accusation against the invisible but all-powerful white racist establishment. Michelle and Barack Obama were indoctrinated with those toxic beliefs at Princeton and Harvard, so that they are now making more than a million bucks a year, living in a mansion in Chicago while still feeling sorry for themselves. Give me a break. (Michelle Obama's salary increased by almost 200,000 dollars in one year at the University of Chicago. How many people get that kind of raise?)
No doubt the Obamas tell themselves that they are the lucky exceptions, and that they are just identifying with poor blacks, who surely are out there in the hundreds of thousands. But that's just the self-serving generosity of politicians handing out taxpayer money. The Obamas are rich, highly educated, extremely successful professional politicians. They are the darlings of white liberals. Are they anything more than that?
For politicians, voter dissatisfaction is the fuel of personal careers. You can't get anywhere by promising all the answers to people who don't need you. So the first order of business is to find dissatisfied voters, and if they're not there, stir up some dissatisfaction. That's why Obama needed the Rev -- to get him in good with a proletariat, any proletariat, in this case a black one. If Obama had stayed back in Hawaii or Indonesia, he would suddenly have discovered his inner Hawaiian or his authentic Balinese. Now he is "authentically Black," and the Rev guarantees his blackness. That's why Obama can't renounce the Rev. The Rev is his meal ticket.
Now a preacher in America is very much like a politician. He or she has to get the congregation stirred up, at least enough to pay for his upkeep. The Rev Wright is a fantastically successful politician. The Trinity UCC is a family business, and with DVD sales and televangelism it's making a mint. That's why the Rev has to be so provocative --- to keep his congregation clapping and cheering. Obama learned his rhetorical cadences from the Rev, and probably much else besides. It's been one pro teaching another.
The very notion of "whites" versus "blacks" being like so many M&M's in different candy boxes is a purely political creation. Humans are enormously variable. It makes about as much sense to divide people into sports fans versus music lovers, or fatties vs. skinnies. If politicians could get voting mileage from those divisions, the Left would be telling us all about the oppressive conspiracy against the fat, or the persecuted skinnies all over the world. "Divide and conquer" still works like a charm.
If you think that's exaggerated, just look at the famous classroom experiment in which blue-eyed kids are separated from brown-eyed kids, and one of the two groups is told it's better than the other. It really makes the "bad" group feel terrible about themselves. That's how easy it is to stir divisions among people. Give human beings a flag and a baseball cap with a flashy logo, tell them it's their team, and you can manipulate them for life.
Politicians are expert manipulators, and manipulation works best when people don't think they are being manipulated. That's Obama's biggest talent -- to make the suckered masses feel good while playing on them like an old banjo. So far there's no there there at all -- no substantive ideas that make Mr. Obama any more interesting than the standard-issue ultraliberal Democrat. Oh yes, there's the color of his skin. Big deal.
No, it all goes back to the usual race politics of the post-Civil Rights era, which always needs to pick at that old scab of racism, remind blacks of their old injustices, and convince them that white racism is still keeping them down. It's a disgusting political trick, and many blacks are catching on. If a genuinely self-determining black person ever runs for president without the usual race games, I'll vote for him or her in a minute.
Let a black man say it -- as so many already have, without media support and coverage. Larry Elder's "personal pledge" is one great example. This is the real key to black liberation, just as it has been the key to all the oppressed and persecuted people who rose from poverty and low self-esteem in America.
* 1. There is no excuse for lack of effort.
* 2. Although I may be unhappy with my circumstances, and although racism and sexism and other "isms" exist, I know that things are better now than ever, and the future is even brighter.
* 3. While I may be unhappy with my circumstances, I have the power to change and improve my life. I refuse to be a victim.
* 4. Others may have been blessed with more money, better connections, a better home environment, and even better looks, but I can succeed through hard work, perseverance, and education.
I'll vote for that.
May 28, 2008 7:04 PM
tj21@the rant! said...
HUD Secretary Attacks Black Victimhood
Ronald Kessler
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, says that black leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Julian Bond are doing a disservice to blacks by perpetuating an ideology of victimhood.
"They [black leaders] have created an industry," Jackson, who is black, told NewsMax. "If we don't become victims, they have no income. They have no podium."
Rather than confronting real issues that face blacks, African-American leaders suggest that "it's racism that's stopping everything that we're doing," Jackson said.
"They are in the business of making excuses," he said. "White folks have nothing to do with the fact that seven out of every 10 black children born in this country are born out of wedlock," Jackson said. Nor do they have anything to do "with that fact that we have more black males in prison than we do in college."
While racism still exists, "Young black kids are getting every opportunity that they need, just like every other kid," Jackson said. "I think in 2006 to say that everything is the fault of our brothers and sisters of the lighter hue is ridiculous."
Until blacks "begin to focus in on the serious problems that we have in our communities, and begin to try to solve those problems in the most positive manner that we can, we're not helping ourselves," Jackson said.
Welfare �Close to Stealing'
Jackson said he was reared in a segregated environment in Dallas. As a college freshman, he participated in a civil rights march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965. As he stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state troopers blocked his way and unleashed tear gas and dogs on the marchers.
But Jackson's father Arthur Jackson told his son that everyone can succeed in America regardless of skin color. Even though he had been diagnosed with cancer and had virtually no income, his father refused to go on welfare or take food stamps. When necessary, his church helped out.
"Never take anything that you didn't earn," his father told Alphonso. "That's close to stealing."
"I never went to school with my brothers and sisters of the lighter hue until I got off to college," Jackson, a lawyer, said. "But I'm sitting here," he said, referring to his cabinet position, which controls a budget of $32 billion a year. "And I'm sitting here because I believe that the American system might not be the panacea, but it's the best system that I've ever been able to live in."
Black Leaders Making Problems Worse
By characterizing blacks as victims, making excuses for them, and suggesting that they cannot advance themselves without reliance on the government, black leaders exacerbate the problems that blacks face and give them the tools to become "losers," Jackson said.
"I am not going to let the black leadership � the so-called leadership � of this country tell me that I am a victim," he said. "I believe that if you work hard, strive to do the very best, things will work out for you. [That] doesn't mean you won't have obstacles � you will. But we can't keep living in an era that is bygone," Jackson said. "We need to begin today to teach blacks that they can look in the mirror � and that they have the ability, once they look in that mirror, to achieve."
In his book "Enough," Fox News TV commentator Juan Williams pointed out that blacks who emigrate to America from Africa and the Caribbean are more successful than blacks born in the United States. As outlined in an Oct. 20 NewsMax article, "Juan Williams Called Black Ann Coulter," Williams attributed that to a self-defeating black culture of victimhood, one that says doing well in school is a cop-out and that the way to be successful is to come off as threatening.
Agreeing with Williams, Jackson said, "All you have to do is look at Miami's Little Haiti. The average income of a Haitian in Miami is the same as his white counterpart. They work very hard. But they have not been conditioned that the government owes them something."
Jackson said Africans from such countries as Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, and Senegal come to the United States. with "one attitude: that they're going to get the very best education and make as much money as they can."
Inclusive Administration
When George Bush became president, he named Jackson deputy secretary and then secretary of HUD. Bush and his wife Laura got to know Jackson and his wife Marcia, a former teacher, when Jackson headed the Dallas Housing Authority. The two couples began to socialize, and their kids would go to the movies together. Laura Bush invited Marcia to join her on the board of Child Protective Services Community Partners, which supports social workers.
"She stood out as a person who wanted to bring a diverse face to Dallas," Marcia Jackson told me for my book "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady."
"There are many whites who interact with blacks at work, but in their private lives, they don't," Marcia Jackson told me. "I think that says a lot about them as people."
Alphonso Jackson said Bush has demonstrated the same inclusiveness in his administration, appointing, for example, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell secretary of state. The response of black leaders has been to say that Bush made the appointments to garner votes. That "does nothing to support the progress of black Americans, or to recognize how far we have come," Jackson said.
Denying rumors that he is leaving HUD, Jackson said he is working with congressional leaders on legislation to simplify procedures so potential homeowners with poor credit records can more easily obtain mortgages insured by HUD's Federal Housing Authority (FHA).
Minority Housing Initiatives
"One of the things we have found, especially when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, is that if we can get them in the home, they can sustain the monthly house note," Jackson said. "The biggest problem has been getting them in there, because they have bad credit records. Also, many can't make the down payment and closing costs."
Jackson said he is encouraging those who build public housing to create complexes of low density townhouses rather than single buildings.
"That's why I like to use the housing authority in Atlanta as a model, just as in Dallas," Jackson said. "They have 13 public housing complexes. They've created low density townhouses, and if you go to Dallas or Atlanta, you'll see that the crime is down, education is up, people are working."
Jackson is also working on changing rules under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) so settlement costs will be more understandable and estimates of costs given before closing are the actual prices charged.
RESPA was passed in response to disclosures in a 1972 Washington Post series of kickbacks among real estate brokers, lenders, builders, title attorneys, and title insurance companies. Many of those practices have continued, often disguised. A builder, for example, may force a buyer to use a high-priced lending company owned by the builder. Jackson did not address whether rules will be tightened to try to eliminate these practices.
Besides helping new homeowners through the FHA program, HUD counsels people on how to buy their first home. Through the American Dream initiative, HUD even provides assistance in making a downpayment and paying closing costs to those who meet eligibility requirements. These programs and the improving economy have meant that 70 percent of Americans now own homes, Jackson said.
"For the first time, we have closed the gap that exists among white, black, and Hispanic Americans," Jackson said. "Over 50 percent of black and Hispanic Americans own their own homes for the first time in this country. Some of the people who never thought that they could own a home, they're owning a home."
As an example, Jackson cited Donna Davis, who was able to buy her first home in New Orleans, and Essie Jackson, a maintenance person in HUD's headquarters. Davis told Jackson, "You know, Mr. Secretary, I have a yard. And I have the thrill of measuring and shopping for curtains in my new home."
More than two years ago, Essie Jackson asked the HUD secretary if he could help her buy a home. He got her enrolled in a counseling program.
"She thought she would never be a homeowner," Jackson said. "Today she is. She has a two-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath condominium, and she's planting flowers in her window. And she came and told us the story."
May 28, 2008 7:10 PM
Anonymous said...
Someone needs to start their own blog and LEAVE this one.
May 28, 2008 7:32 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody said...
Is this the real life,
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter
To me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life has just begun
But now i've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I've got to go
Got to leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooo
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish i'd never been born at all-(Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters)
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
THUNDER BOLT AND LIGHTNING, VERY VERY FRIGHTNING ME!
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
HE'S JUST A POOR BOY, FROM A POOR FAMILY
SPARE HIM HIS LIFE FROM THIS MONSTROSOTY
easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO
Bismillah! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Bismillah! We WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Will not let you go
Let me go
Will not let you go
Let me go
(never, never)
OHOHOHOH
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
MAMA MIA LET ME GO
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!
FOR ME!
for me....
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye!
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Ooh, baby
Can't do this to me baby
Just got to get out
Just got to get right out of here
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters
To me
(Anyway the wind blows)
May 28, 2008 11:51 AM
Bite The Dust said...
Steve walks wearily down the street,
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
How do you think I'm gonna get along,
Without you, when you're gone
You took me for everything that I had,
And kicked me out on my own
Are you happy, are you satisfied
How long can you stand the heat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip up
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground
You can beat him you can cheat him
You can treat him bad and then leave him
When he's down
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
Repeating the sound of the beat
May 28, 2008 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...
with earth-moving equipment as construction crews assemble long rows of cookie-cutter houses with walls of Styrofoam sandwiched between two pieces of sheet metal. Builders vow the new homes will be ready by the end of June.
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Would-be residents began arriving over the weekend. Originally from nearly two dozen villages scattered around Beichuan county, the people were bused here from an emergency shelter at a sports stadium in nearby Mianyang city. Among the first earthquake survivors to be moved to what is expected to be a permanent relocation site, they are living for now in a sea of government-provided tents next to the construction zone.
Finding room to build
Beichuan, nestled in a sliver of valley surrounded by mountains, will not be rebuilt because authorities deem the area too hazardous. Nearby Leigu, however, is situated along a broad, fertile expanse farther down the valley. Before the earthquake, it was a farming town of 18,000 residents. Most of the homes here, as in Beichuan, collapsed in the earthquake, and 1,000 people died. But the fields provide space to build, and now Leigu's survivors will have to make room for new neighbors.
The one-room dwellings are being built in caterpillar-like lines of 14, each 65-square-foot home attached to the ones next to it. There will be electricity and running water, but current plans call for every two homes to share a tap. Every 50 homes will share a bath house and a kitchen. The floors will be hard-packed dirt covered by plastic.
"It's not realistic to have concrete, attached floors at this point," said Wang Di Sheng, a government official from Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, which provided the materials and is supervising the construction of 7,000 houses for the local authority. The dwellings are supposed to last up to three years while the government constructs a permanent community here.
Though spartan, these portable homes are a step up from the tents and tarps that have been the main shelters for millions of people displaced by the quake. China's top leaders have urged manufacturers and construction crews to rush production of the homes, as the rainy season begins and threatens to turn hundreds of tent cities into swamps.
Construction is quick. It took about 24 hours this week for a 10-person crew to put up one row of homes. First they erected a metal frame. Then they slid the walls and windows into pre-fabricated grooves, tightened screws and reinforcement rods. Then they fastened down the metal roof parts. Wiring and plumbing come later.
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May 28, 2008 11:56 AM
Anonymous said...
And Jerry if you think I'll give up I want you to know I will dig into your ass so deep that Richardson will be able to crawl much more deeper up in it then he already is." -THUD
_______________________
And if Thud and his Kool-Aid Krusaders think that the Anti's are going to give up on exposing him to the world for the criminal fraudster that he is, then he can go ahead and crawl much more deeper in Javier Bailey's rectum than he already is. The TRUTH is getting shit out as we speak.
May 28, 2008 1:31 PM
Anonymous said...
you got 1 little bitty thing wrong & that is it's not Thad or a thad crusader!
May 28, 2008 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...
What itty bitty thing are you referring to? Nobody is studying you or your song lyrics.
May 28, 2008 5:36 PM
Anonymous said...
Hi ya'll! My sn is "Ima Mostly White Brat" but I can't seem to sign in for some ignorant reason.
I left a message and some advice to "RICK JAMES BITCH" and "SUN KISSED CHICK" on another topic, it's called Another Story Thud Won't Post, but it's so old I thought you might not think to look there. But I think it's some good advice that you might use, and you might be reading here today.
Gotta go, mom's calling.
Bye ya'll!
May 28, 2008 6:04 PM
Anonymous said...
a straight fool in full form
May 28, 2008 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Top 10 richest countries of the world
9. Equatorial Guinea - $44,100
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a country in Central Africa. Most people have never heard of it. This country flew into stardom after 1996 when large oil reserves were found in the nation of only 0,5 million people. While being one of the largest producers of oil in Africa, little has been made to improve the living conditions of the people. Corruption is widespread and ordinary people are mostly living in poverty. The gap between rich and poor is probably the largest in the world.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born June 5, 1942) has been the President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.
May 28, 2008 6:59 PM
tj21 @ The Rant! said...
March 28, 2008 Whites Can't Make Blacks Happy
One of the creepy things about our "need to have a conversation about race" is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. Nobody has the power to do that, except what individuals do for themselves, one person at a time.
Most people don't come close to lasting happiness in their own lives. So the popular Leftist charge of America's "institutional racism" comes down to saying that "The Great White Conspiracy is responsible for rescuing you from your bad feelings." That is just cockeyed.
Far too many black people don't feel good about themselves, and are constantly looking for answers from somebody else. That quest for the impossible has been turned into an accusation against the invisible but all-powerful white racist establishment. Michelle and Barack Obama were indoctrinated with those toxic beliefs at Princeton and Harvard, so that they are now making more than a million bucks a year, living in a mansion in Chicago while still feeling sorry for themselves. Give me a break. (Michelle Obama's salary increased by almost 200,000 dollars in one year at the University of Chicago. How many people get that kind of raise?)
No doubt the Obamas tell themselves that they are the lucky exceptions, and that they are just identifying with poor blacks, who surely are out there in the hundreds of thousands. But that's just the self-serving generosity of politicians handing out taxpayer money. The Obamas are rich, highly educated, extremely successful professional politicians. They are the darlings of white liberals. Are they anything more than that?
For politicians, voter dissatisfaction is the fuel of personal careers. You can't get anywhere by promising all the answers to people who don't need you. So the first order of business is to find dissatisfied voters, and if they're not there, stir up some dissatisfaction. That's why Obama needed the Rev -- to get him in good with a proletariat, any proletariat, in this case a black one. If Obama had stayed back in Hawaii or Indonesia, he would suddenly have discovered his inner Hawaiian or his authentic Balinese. Now he is "authentically Black," and the Rev guarantees his blackness. That's why Obama can't renounce the Rev. The Rev is his meal ticket.
Now a preacher in America is very much like a politician. He or she has to get the congregation stirred up, at least enough to pay for his upkeep. The Rev Wright is a fantastically successful politician. The Trinity UCC is a family business, and with DVD sales and televangelism it's making a mint. That's why the Rev has to be so provocative --- to keep his congregation clapping and cheering. Obama learned his rhetorical cadences from the Rev, and probably much else besides. It's been one pro teaching another.
The very notion of "whites" versus "blacks" being like so many M&M's in different candy boxes is a purely political creation. Humans are enormously variable. It makes about as much sense to divide people into sports fans versus music lovers, or fatties vs. skinnies. If politicians could get voting mileage from those divisions, the Left would be telling us all about the oppressive conspiracy against the fat, or the persecuted skinnies all over the world. "Divide and conquer" still works like a charm.
If you think that's exaggerated, just look at the famous classroom experiment in which blue-eyed kids are separated from brown-eyed kids, and one of the two groups is told it's better than the other. It really makes the "bad" group feel terrible about themselves. That's how easy it is to stir divisions among people. Give human beings a flag and a baseball cap with a flashy logo, tell them it's their team, and you can manipulate them for life.
Politicians are expert manipulators, and manipulation works best when people don't think they are being manipulated. That's Obama's biggest talent -- to make the suckered masses feel good while playing on them like an old banjo. So far there's no there there at all -- no substantive ideas that make Mr. Obama any more interesting than the standard-issue ultraliberal Democrat. Oh yes, there's the color of his skin. Big deal.
No, it all goes back to the usual race politics of the post-Civil Rights era, which always needs to pick at that old scab of racism, remind blacks of their old injustices, and convince them that white racism is still keeping them down. It's a disgusting political trick, and many blacks are catching on. If a genuinely self-determining black person ever runs for president without the usual race games, I'll vote for him or her in a minute.
Let a black man say it -- as so many already have, without media support and coverage. Larry Elder's "personal pledge" is one great example. This is the real key to black liberation, just as it has been the key to all the oppressed and persecuted people who rose from poverty and low self-esteem in America.
* 1. There is no excuse for lack of effort.
* 2. Although I may be unhappy with my circumstances, and although racism and sexism and other "isms" exist, I know that things are better now than ever, and the future is even brighter.
* 3. While I may be unhappy with my circumstances, I have the power to change and improve my life. I refuse to be a victim.
* 4. Others may have been blessed with more money, better connections, a better home environment, and even better looks, but I can succeed through hard work, perseverance, and education.
I'll vote for that.
May 28, 2008 7:04 PM
tj21@the rant! said...
HUD Secretary Attacks Black Victimhood
Ronald Kessler
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, says that black leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Julian Bond are doing a disservice to blacks by perpetuating an ideology of victimhood.
"They [black leaders] have created an industry," Jackson, who is black, told NewsMax. "If we don't become victims, they have no income. They have no podium."
Rather than confronting real issues that face blacks, African-American leaders suggest that "it's racism that's stopping everything that we're doing," Jackson said.
"They are in the business of making excuses," he said. "White folks have nothing to do with the fact that seven out of every 10 black children born in this country are born out of wedlock," Jackson said. Nor do they have anything to do "with that fact that we have more black males in prison than we do in college."
While racism still exists, "Young black kids are getting every opportunity that they need, just like every other kid," Jackson said. "I think in 2006 to say that everything is the fault of our brothers and sisters of the lighter hue is ridiculous."
Until blacks "begin to focus in on the serious problems that we have in our communities, and begin to try to solve those problems in the most positive manner that we can, we're not helping ourselves," Jackson said.
Welfare �Close to Stealing'
Jackson said he was reared in a segregated environment in Dallas. As a college freshman, he participated in a civil rights march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965. As he stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state troopers blocked his way and unleashed tear gas and dogs on the marchers.
But Jackson's father Arthur Jackson told his son that everyone can succeed in America regardless of skin color. Even though he had been diagnosed with cancer and had virtually no income, his father refused to go on welfare or take food stamps. When necessary, his church helped out.
"Never take anything that you didn't earn," his father told Alphonso. "That's close to stealing."
"I never went to school with my brothers and sisters of the lighter hue until I got off to college," Jackson, a lawyer, said. "But I'm sitting here," he said, referring to his cabinet position, which controls a budget of $32 billion a year. "And I'm sitting here because I believe that the American system might not be the panacea, but it's the best system that I've ever been able to live in."
Black Leaders Making Problems Worse
By characterizing blacks as victims, making excuses for them, and suggesting that they cannot advance themselves without reliance on the government, black leaders exacerbate the problems that blacks face and give them the tools to become "losers," Jackson said.
"I am not going to let the black leadership � the so-called leadership � of this country tell me that I am a victim," he said. "I believe that if you work hard, strive to do the very best, things will work out for you. [That] doesn't mean you won't have obstacles � you will. But we can't keep living in an era that is bygone," Jackson said. "We need to begin today to teach blacks that they can look in the mirror � and that they have the ability, once they look in that mirror, to achieve."
In his book "Enough," Fox News TV commentator Juan Williams pointed out that blacks who emigrate to America from Africa and the Caribbean are more successful than blacks born in the United States. As outlined in an Oct. 20 NewsMax article, "Juan Williams Called Black Ann Coulter," Williams attributed that to a self-defeating black culture of victimhood, one that says doing well in school is a cop-out and that the way to be successful is to come off as threatening.
Agreeing with Williams, Jackson said, "All you have to do is look at Miami's Little Haiti. The average income of a Haitian in Miami is the same as his white counterpart. They work very hard. But they have not been conditioned that the government owes them something."
Jackson said Africans from such countries as Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, and Senegal come to the United States. with "one attitude: that they're going to get the very best education and make as much money as they can."
Inclusive Administration
When George Bush became president, he named Jackson deputy secretary and then secretary of HUD. Bush and his wife Laura got to know Jackson and his wife Marcia, a former teacher, when Jackson headed the Dallas Housing Authority. The two couples began to socialize, and their kids would go to the movies together. Laura Bush invited Marcia to join her on the board of Child Protective Services Community Partners, which supports social workers.
"She stood out as a person who wanted to bring a diverse face to Dallas," Marcia Jackson told me for my book "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady."
"There are many whites who interact with blacks at work, but in their private lives, they don't," Marcia Jackson told me. "I think that says a lot about them as people."
Alphonso Jackson said Bush has demonstrated the same inclusiveness in his administration, appointing, for example, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell secretary of state. The response of black leaders has been to say that Bush made the appointments to garner votes. That "does nothing to support the progress of black Americans, or to recognize how far we have come," Jackson said.
Denying rumors that he is leaving HUD, Jackson said he is working with congressional leaders on legislation to simplify procedures so potential homeowners with poor credit records can more easily obtain mortgages insured by HUD's Federal Housing Authority (FHA).
Minority Housing Initiatives
"One of the things we have found, especially when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, is that if we can get them in the home, they can sustain the monthly house note," Jackson said. "The biggest problem has been getting them in there, because they have bad credit records. Also, many can't make the down payment and closing costs."
Jackson said he is encouraging those who build public housing to create complexes of low density townhouses rather than single buildings.
"That's why I like to use the housing authority in Atlanta as a model, just as in Dallas," Jackson said. "They have 13 public housing complexes. They've created low density townhouses, and if you go to Dallas or Atlanta, you'll see that the crime is down, education is up, people are working."
Jackson is also working on changing rules under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) so settlement costs will be more understandable and estimates of costs given before closing are the actual prices charged.
RESPA was passed in response to disclosures in a 1972 Washington Post series of kickbacks among real estate brokers, lenders, builders, title attorneys, and title insurance companies. Many of those practices have continued, often disguised. A builder, for example, may force a buyer to use a high-priced lending company owned by the builder. Jackson did not address whether rules will be tightened to try to eliminate these practices.
Besides helping new homeowners through the FHA program, HUD counsels people on how to buy their first home. Through the American Dream initiative, HUD even provides assistance in making a downpayment and paying closing costs to those who meet eligibility requirements. These programs and the improving economy have meant that 70 percent of Americans now own homes, Jackson said.
"For the first time, we have closed the gap that exists among white, black, and Hispanic Americans," Jackson said. "Over 50 percent of black and Hispanic Americans own their own homes for the first time in this country. Some of the people who never thought that they could own a home, they're owning a home."
As an example, Jackson cited Donna Davis, who was able to buy her first home in New Orleans, and Essie Jackson, a maintenance person in HUD's headquarters. Davis told Jackson, "You know, Mr. Secretary, I have a yard. And I have the thrill of measuring and shopping for curtains in my new home."
More than two years ago, Essie Jackson asked the HUD secretary if he could help her buy a home. He got her enrolled in a counseling program.
"She thought she would never be a homeowner," Jackson said. "Today she is. She has a two-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath condominium, and she's planting flowers in her window. And she came and told us the story."
May 28, 2008 7:10 PM
Anonymous said...
Someone needs to start their own blog and LEAVE this one.
May 28, 2008 7:32 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody said...
Is this the real life,
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
Doesn't really matter
To me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life has just begun
But now i've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody
I've got to go
Got to leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oooo
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish i'd never been born at all-(Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters)
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
THUNDER BOLT AND LIGHTNING, VERY VERY FRIGHTNING ME!
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
HE'S JUST A POOR BOY, FROM A POOR FAMILY
SPARE HIM HIS LIFE FROM THIS MONSTROSOTY
easy come, easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO
Bismillah! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Bismillah! We WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
LET HIM GO!
Will not let you go
Let me go
Will not let you go
Let me go
(never, never)
OHOHOHOH
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
MAMA MIA LET ME GO
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!
FOR ME!
for me....
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye!
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Ooh, baby
Can't do this to me baby
Just got to get out
Just got to get right out of here
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters
To me
(Anyway the wind blows)
May 28, 2008 11:51 AM
Bite The Dust said...
Steve walks wearily down the street,
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
How do you think I'm gonna get along,
Without you, when you're gone
You took me for everything that I had,
And kicked me out on my own
Are you happy, are you satisfied
How long can you stand the heat
Out of the doorway the bullets rip up
To the sound of the beat
Chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground
You can beat him you can cheat him
You can treat him bad and then leave him
When he's down
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
Repeating the sound of the beat
May 28, 2008 11:53 AM
Anonymous said...
with earth-moving equipment as construction crews assemble long rows of cookie-cutter houses with walls of Styrofoam sandwiched between two pieces of sheet metal. Builders vow the new homes will be ready by the end of June.
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Would-be residents began arriving over the weekend. Originally from nearly two dozen villages scattered around Beichuan county, the people were bused here from an emergency shelter at a sports stadium in nearby Mianyang city. Among the first earthquake survivors to be moved to what is expected to be a permanent relocation site, they are living for now in a sea of government-provided tents next to the construction zone.
Finding room to build
Beichuan, nestled in a sliver of valley surrounded by mountains, will not be rebuilt because authorities deem the area too hazardous. Nearby Leigu, however, is situated along a broad, fertile expanse farther down the valley. Before the earthquake, it was a farming town of 18,000 residents. Most of the homes here, as in Beichuan, collapsed in the earthquake, and 1,000 people died. But the fields provide space to build, and now Leigu's survivors will have to make room for new neighbors.
The one-room dwellings are being built in caterpillar-like lines of 14, each 65-square-foot home attached to the ones next to it. There will be electricity and running water, but current plans call for every two homes to share a tap. Every 50 homes will share a bath house and a kitchen. The floors will be hard-packed dirt covered by plastic.
"It's not realistic to have concrete, attached floors at this point," said Wang Di Sheng, a government official from Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, which provided the materials and is supervising the construction of 7,000 houses for the local authority. The dwellings are supposed to last up to three years while the government constructs a permanent community here.
Though spartan, these portable homes are a step up from the tents and tarps that have been the main shelters for millions of people displaced by the quake. China's top leaders have urged manufacturers and construction crews to rush production of the homes, as the rainy season begins and threatens to turn hundreds of tent cities into swamps.
Construction is quick. It took about 24 hours this week for a 10-person crew to put up one row of homes. First they erected a metal frame. Then they slid the walls and windows into pre-fabricated grooves, tightened screws and reinforcement rods. Then they fastened down the metal roof parts. Wiring and plumbing come later.
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May 28, 2008 11:56 AM
Anonymous said...
And Jerry if you think I'll give up I want you to know I will dig into your ass so deep that Richardson will be able to crawl much more deeper up in it then he already is." -THUD
_______________________
And if Thud and his Kool-Aid Krusaders think that the Anti's are going to give up on exposing him to the world for the criminal fraudster that he is, then he can go ahead and crawl much more deeper in Javier Bailey's rectum than he already is. The TRUTH is getting shit out as we speak.
May 28, 2008 1:31 PM
Anonymous said...
you got 1 little bitty thing wrong & that is it's not Thad or a thad crusader!
May 28, 2008 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...
What itty bitty thing are you referring to? Nobody is studying you or your song lyrics.
May 28, 2008 5:36 PM
Anonymous said...
Hi ya'll! My sn is "Ima Mostly White Brat" but I can't seem to sign in for some ignorant reason.
I left a message and some advice to "RICK JAMES BITCH" and "SUN KISSED CHICK" on another topic, it's called Another Story Thud Won't Post, but it's so old I thought you might not think to look there. But I think it's some good advice that you might use, and you might be reading here today.
Gotta go, mom's calling.
Bye ya'll!
May 28, 2008 6:04 PM
Anonymous said...
a straight fool in full form
May 28, 2008 6:30 PM
Anonymous said...
Top 10 richest countries of the world
9. Equatorial Guinea - $44,100
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a country in Central Africa. Most people have never heard of it. This country flew into stardom after 1996 when large oil reserves were found in the nation of only 0,5 million people. While being one of the largest producers of oil in Africa, little has been made to improve the living conditions of the people. Corruption is widespread and ordinary people are mostly living in poverty. The gap between rich and poor is probably the largest in the world.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born June 5, 1942) has been the President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979.
May 28, 2008 6:59 PM
tj21 @ The Rant! said...
March 28, 2008 Whites Can't Make Blacks Happy
One of the creepy things about our "need to have a conversation about race" is the assumption that whites can somehow make blacks feel better, or be happier, or be more self-accepting. Nobody has the power to do that, except what individuals do for themselves, one person at a time.
Most people don't come close to lasting happiness in their own lives. So the popular Leftist charge of America's "institutional racism" comes down to saying that "The Great White Conspiracy is responsible for rescuing you from your bad feelings." That is just cockeyed.
Far too many black people don't feel good about themselves, and are constantly looking for answers from somebody else. That quest for the impossible has been turned into an accusation against the invisible but all-powerful white racist establishment. Michelle and Barack Obama were indoctrinated with those toxic beliefs at Princeton and Harvard, so that they are now making more than a million bucks a year, living in a mansion in Chicago while still feeling sorry for themselves. Give me a break. (Michelle Obama's salary increased by almost 200,000 dollars in one year at the University of Chicago. How many people get that kind of raise?)
No doubt the Obamas tell themselves that they are the lucky exceptions, and that they are just identifying with poor blacks, who surely are out there in the hundreds of thousands. But that's just the self-serving generosity of politicians handing out taxpayer money. The Obamas are rich, highly educated, extremely successful professional politicians. They are the darlings of white liberals. Are they anything more than that?
For politicians, voter dissatisfaction is the fuel of personal careers. You can't get anywhere by promising all the answers to people who don't need you. So the first order of business is to find dissatisfied voters, and if they're not there, stir up some dissatisfaction. That's why Obama needed the Rev -- to get him in good with a proletariat, any proletariat, in this case a black one. If Obama had stayed back in Hawaii or Indonesia, he would suddenly have discovered his inner Hawaiian or his authentic Balinese. Now he is "authentically Black," and the Rev guarantees his blackness. That's why Obama can't renounce the Rev. The Rev is his meal ticket.
Now a preacher in America is very much like a politician. He or she has to get the congregation stirred up, at least enough to pay for his upkeep. The Rev Wright is a fantastically successful politician. The Trinity UCC is a family business, and with DVD sales and televangelism it's making a mint. That's why the Rev has to be so provocative --- to keep his congregation clapping and cheering. Obama learned his rhetorical cadences from the Rev, and probably much else besides. It's been one pro teaching another.
The very notion of "whites" versus "blacks" being like so many M&M's in different candy boxes is a purely political creation. Humans are enormously variable. It makes about as much sense to divide people into sports fans versus music lovers, or fatties vs. skinnies. If politicians could get voting mileage from those divisions, the Left would be telling us all about the oppressive conspiracy against the fat, or the persecuted skinnies all over the world. "Divide and conquer" still works like a charm.
If you think that's exaggerated, just look at the famous classroom experiment in which blue-eyed kids are separated from brown-eyed kids, and one of the two groups is told it's better than the other. It really makes the "bad" group feel terrible about themselves. That's how easy it is to stir divisions among people. Give human beings a flag and a baseball cap with a flashy logo, tell them it's their team, and you can manipulate them for life.
Politicians are expert manipulators, and manipulation works best when people don't think they are being manipulated. That's Obama's biggest talent -- to make the suckered masses feel good while playing on them like an old banjo. So far there's no there there at all -- no substantive ideas that make Mr. Obama any more interesting than the standard-issue ultraliberal Democrat. Oh yes, there's the color of his skin. Big deal.
No, it all goes back to the usual race politics of the post-Civil Rights era, which always needs to pick at that old scab of racism, remind blacks of their old injustices, and convince them that white racism is still keeping them down. It's a disgusting political trick, and many blacks are catching on. If a genuinely self-determining black person ever runs for president without the usual race games, I'll vote for him or her in a minute.
Let a black man say it -- as so many already have, without media support and coverage. Larry Elder's "personal pledge" is one great example. This is the real key to black liberation, just as it has been the key to all the oppressed and persecuted people who rose from poverty and low self-esteem in America.
* 1. There is no excuse for lack of effort.
* 2. Although I may be unhappy with my circumstances, and although racism and sexism and other "isms" exist, I know that things are better now than ever, and the future is even brighter.
* 3. While I may be unhappy with my circumstances, I have the power to change and improve my life. I refuse to be a victim.
* 4. Others may have been blessed with more money, better connections, a better home environment, and even better looks, but I can succeed through hard work, perseverance, and education.
I'll vote for that.
May 28, 2008 7:04 PM
tj21@the rant! said...
HUD Secretary Attacks Black Victimhood
Ronald Kessler
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, says that black leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Julian Bond are doing a disservice to blacks by perpetuating an ideology of victimhood.
"They [black leaders] have created an industry," Jackson, who is black, told NewsMax. "If we don't become victims, they have no income. They have no podium."
Rather than confronting real issues that face blacks, African-American leaders suggest that "it's racism that's stopping everything that we're doing," Jackson said.
"They are in the business of making excuses," he said. "White folks have nothing to do with the fact that seven out of every 10 black children born in this country are born out of wedlock," Jackson said. Nor do they have anything to do "with that fact that we have more black males in prison than we do in college."
While racism still exists, "Young black kids are getting every opportunity that they need, just like every other kid," Jackson said. "I think in 2006 to say that everything is the fault of our brothers and sisters of the lighter hue is ridiculous."
Until blacks "begin to focus in on the serious problems that we have in our communities, and begin to try to solve those problems in the most positive manner that we can, we're not helping ourselves," Jackson said.
Welfare �Close to Stealing'
Jackson said he was reared in a segregated environment in Dallas. As a college freshman, he participated in a civil rights march in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965. As he stepped onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state troopers blocked his way and unleashed tear gas and dogs on the marchers.
But Jackson's father Arthur Jackson told his son that everyone can succeed in America regardless of skin color. Even though he had been diagnosed with cancer and had virtually no income, his father refused to go on welfare or take food stamps. When necessary, his church helped out.
"Never take anything that you didn't earn," his father told Alphonso. "That's close to stealing."
"I never went to school with my brothers and sisters of the lighter hue until I got off to college," Jackson, a lawyer, said. "But I'm sitting here," he said, referring to his cabinet position, which controls a budget of $32 billion a year. "And I'm sitting here because I believe that the American system might not be the panacea, but it's the best system that I've ever been able to live in."
Black Leaders Making Problems Worse
By characterizing blacks as victims, making excuses for them, and suggesting that they cannot advance themselves without reliance on the government, black leaders exacerbate the problems that blacks face and give them the tools to become "losers," Jackson said.
"I am not going to let the black leadership � the so-called leadership � of this country tell me that I am a victim," he said. "I believe that if you work hard, strive to do the very best, things will work out for you. [That] doesn't mean you won't have obstacles � you will. But we can't keep living in an era that is bygone," Jackson said. "We need to begin today to teach blacks that they can look in the mirror � and that they have the ability, once they look in that mirror, to achieve."
In his book "Enough," Fox News TV commentator Juan Williams pointed out that blacks who emigrate to America from Africa and the Caribbean are more successful than blacks born in the United States. As outlined in an Oct. 20 NewsMax article, "Juan Williams Called Black Ann Coulter," Williams attributed that to a self-defeating black culture of victimhood, one that says doing well in school is a cop-out and that the way to be successful is to come off as threatening.
Agreeing with Williams, Jackson said, "All you have to do is look at Miami's Little Haiti. The average income of a Haitian in Miami is the same as his white counterpart. They work very hard. But they have not been conditioned that the government owes them something."
Jackson said Africans from such countries as Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, and Senegal come to the United States. with "one attitude: that they're going to get the very best education and make as much money as they can."
Inclusive Administration
When George Bush became president, he named Jackson deputy secretary and then secretary of HUD. Bush and his wife Laura got to know Jackson and his wife Marcia, a former teacher, when Jackson headed the Dallas Housing Authority. The two couples began to socialize, and their kids would go to the movies together. Laura Bush invited Marcia to join her on the board of Child Protective Services Community Partners, which supports social workers.
"She stood out as a person who wanted to bring a diverse face to Dallas," Marcia Jackson told me for my book "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady."
"There are many whites who interact with blacks at work, but in their private lives, they don't," Marcia Jackson told me. "I think that says a lot about them as people."
Alphonso Jackson said Bush has demonstrated the same inclusiveness in his administration, appointing, for example, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell secretary of state. The response of black leaders has been to say that Bush made the appointments to garner votes. That "does nothing to support the progress of black Americans, or to recognize how far we have come," Jackson said.
Denying rumors that he is leaving HUD, Jackson said he is working with congressional leaders on legislation to simplify procedures so potential homeowners with poor credit records can more easily obtain mortgages insured by HUD's Federal Housing Authority (FHA).
Minority Housing Initiatives
"One of the things we have found, especially when it comes to blacks and Hispanics, is that if we can get them in the home, they can sustain the monthly house note," Jackson said. "The biggest problem has been getting them in there, because they have bad credit records. Also, many can't make the down payment and closing costs."
Jackson said he is encouraging those who build public housing to create complexes of low density townhouses rather than single buildings.
"That's why I like to use the housing authority in Atlanta as a model, just as in Dallas," Jackson said. "They have 13 public housing complexes. They've created low density townhouses, and if you go to Dallas or Atlanta, you'll see that the crime is down, education is up, people are working."
Jackson is also working on changing rules under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) so settlement costs will be more understandable and estimates of costs given before closing are the actual prices charged.
RESPA was passed in response to disclosures in a 1972 Washington Post series of kickbacks among real estate brokers, lenders, builders, title attorneys, and title insurance companies. Many of those practices have continued, often disguised. A builder, for example, may force a buyer to use a high-priced lending company owned by the builder. Jackson did not address whether rules will be tightened to try to eliminate these practices.
Besides helping new homeowners through the FHA program, HUD counsels people on how to buy their first home. Through the American Dream initiative, HUD even provides assistance in making a downpayment and paying closing costs to those who meet eligibility requirements. These programs and the improving economy have meant that 70 percent of Americans now own homes, Jackson said.
"For the first time, we have closed the gap that exists among white, black, and Hispanic Americans," Jackson said. "Over 50 percent of black and Hispanic Americans own their own homes for the first time in this country. Some of the people who never thought that they could own a home, they're owning a home."
As an example, Jackson cited Donna Davis, who was able to buy her first home in New Orleans, and Essie Jackson, a maintenance person in HUD's headquarters. Davis told Jackson, "You know, Mr. Secretary, I have a yard. And I have the thrill of measuring and shopping for curtains in my new home."
More than two years ago, Essie Jackson asked the HUD secretary if he could help her buy a home. He got her enrolled in a counseling program.
"She thought she would never be a homeowner," Jackson said. "Today she is. She has a two-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath condominium, and she's planting flowers in her window. And she came and told us the story."
May 28, 2008 7:10 PM
Anonymous said...
Someone needs to start their own blog and LEAVE this one.
May 28, 2008 7:32 PM
Stupid nigger monkey......the first comment said it all for this thread. You can't block that one!
Let me give your old mammy's tonsils a tickling with this 10 pound dick!
BRUHAWHAWHAW!
"The FBI has stepped up an investigation into Herenton, and I expect that Thud will change sides immediately if they indict Herenton."
Like I said before, it is okay for Thud to point out illegal and crooked behaviors, however, once the crook comes under indictment, and the crook so happens to be black, the FBI suddenly become a terrorist organization.
Thud Maffews is this town's #1 Idiot!
You people are making this blog look more ignorant than Thads. Stop reposting everything and get down to some conversation.
Stupid nigger monkey......the first comment said it all for this thread. You can't block that one!
Let me give your old mammy's tonsils a tickling with this 10 pound dick!
BRUHAWHAWHAW!
May 28, 2008 9:55 PM
___________________________________
& you are 1 stupid ignorant person. If you have a dick it's .5 pounds & that ain't even a pound baby. Don't toot your own horn because no one is buying it but you. Turn in your white card because you make the white race sound bad. You're just a clown posting some crap.
It's only one clown that post under 5 under names that even uses. BHUHAWHAWHAW. Some ole country shit
10:21pm,
That sounds about right. That's the way Thug works. He hated Mayor Herenton and tried to get him recalled, now all of a sudden out of the blue, Thug is on Herenton's side.
Seems like everytime Thug is proven wrong about something, he either flip-flops or he just drops the topic like it never exsisted.
Look at how he flip-flopped on the Ford case. First, he was dogging Ed Ford out, then when the 'chips were down' he was suddenly Ford's best buddy.
What you wanna bet that pretty soon, Thug will be dogging Ford out again, or the subject will mysteriously fade away?
This blog is for jealous Haters
Anti Thad is the jealous king,hater of all haters.All the posts on here come from him,he needs his two posters to help him hate on Thaddeus.
3:01 and 3:02.......don't clog the blog with your old bible and lyrics shit and I won't slam your black monkey asses. Stupid s'reggin!
BRUHAWHAWHAW!
PS. Yo'Mammy!
this is a bunch of shit,thaddeus is f@#king you up BOY.LOL LOL LOL LOL
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