As opposed to a president who thinks there are 57 states?
Or refers to service folks as dead people? (Corpse Men)
Or acknowledges that he sees dead people: “Those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, many who are here with us now”
I’ll take a quickly gathered poem which turns out to be a song any day over a current president who has not a 2nd grade understanding about this country.
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
But you know since I am adding more, lets take a look at OBAMA’s sexual harrassment:
“Hold on one second, sweetie, we’re going to do
– we’ll do a press avail.”
–to a female reporter for ABC’s Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers
Huh. I seem to recall calling a professional ‘sweetie’ was condescending and worthy of punishment in the 1990s. I guess we have grown beyond that?
Dear Mrs.Richardson, Oh sorry I forgot you are a modern and emancipated woman. Dear Ms. Laurence,
By your posts I get the feeling that you really “hate” Mr. Cain. Does your dislike for Mr. Cain stem from a feeling that he is not qualified to be the President of the United States, or is it based on “Bigotry”, because Mr. Cain is all Black and not half White? Could it be that you believe the attacks on Mr. Cain by the media and the bimbo white trash women who are accusing him with absolutely no proof of any inappropriate behavior? In these cases I always try to look at the bright side ” at least he is not “Gay”.
Grand Traverse County Commissioner Ross Richardson answered our robot-call saying he would like to help the VOTE NO Group make phone calls to our supporters. Isn’t that cute?
Here is the Row and Column from the XL file.
8 – ROSS – RICHARDSON – 2319475515 – 873 – WASHINGTON – ST – TRAVERSE CITY – MI 49686 Help make calls
Ross, you and your homosexual friends are the real haters and bigots in Traverse City, When we receive one of your calls, we always respect your efforts, and treat them with respect. You and your homosexual friends really do live in a make believe world. Grow Up — with County Commissioner Ross Richardson.
Thomas Sowell
Speech codes dangerous to our rights
Back in the 1920s, the intelligentsia on both sides of the Atlantic were loudly protesting the execution of political radicals Sacco and Vanzetti, after what they claimed was an unfair trial.
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to his young leftist friend Harold Laski, pointing out that there were “a thousand-fold worse cases” involving black defendants, “but the world does not worry over them.”
Holmes said: “I cannot but ask myself why this so much greater interest in red than black.”
To put it bluntly, it was a question of whose ox was gored. That is, what groups were in vogue at the moment among the intelligentsia. Blacks clearly were not.
The current media and political crusade against “bullying” in schools seems likewise to be based on what groups are in vogue at the moment. For years, there have been local newspaper stories about black kids in schools in New York and Philadelphia beating up Asian classmates, some beaten so badly as to require medical treatment.
But the national media hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. Asian-Americans are not in vogue today, just as blacks were not in vogue in the 1920s.
Meanwhile, the media are focused on bullying directed against youngsters who are homosexual. Gays are in vogue.
Most of the stories about the bullying of gays in schools are about words directed against them, not about their suffering the violence that has long been directed against Asian youngsters or about the failure of the authorities to do anything serious to stop black kids from beating up Asian kids.
Where youngsters are victims of violence, whether for being gay or whatever, that is where the authorities need to step in. No decent person wants to see kids hounded, whether by words or deeds, and whether the kids are gay, Asian or whatever.
But there is still a difference between words and deeds — and it is a difference we do not need to let ourselves be stampeded into ignoring. The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees freedom of speech — and, like any other freedom, it can be abused.
If we are going to take away every Constitutional right that has been abused by somebody, we are going to end up with no Constitutional rights.
Already, on too many college campuses, there are vaguely worded speech codes that can punish students for words that may hurt somebody’s feelings — but only the feelings of groups that are in vogue.
Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police — as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.
Is this what we want in our public schools?
The school authorities can ignore the beating up of Asian kids but homosexual organizations have enough political clout that they cannot be ignored. Moreover, there are enough avowed homosexuals among journalists that they have their own National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association so continuing media publicity will ensure that the authorities will have to “do something.”
But political pressures to do something have been behind many counterproductive and even dangerous policies.
A grand jury report about bullying in the schools of San Mateo County, Calif., brought all sorts of expressions of concern from school authorities, but no definition of bullying nor any specifics about just what they plan to do about it.
Meanwhile, a law has been passed in California that mandates teaching about the achievements of gays in the public schools. Whether this will do anything to stop either verbal or physical abuse of gay kids is very doubtful.
But it will advance the agenda of homosexual organizations and can turn homosexuality into yet another of the subjects on which words on only one side are permitted. Our schools are already too lacking in the basics of education to squander even more time on propaganda for politically correct causes that are in vogue.
We do not need to create special privileges in the name of equal rights.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Pokemon, Sim City, and so much more.
I only pray that Herman will become your Republican nominee.
Check this out for more merriment.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/11/poet-quoted-by-herman-cain-in-recent-debate-turns-out-to-be-pokemon/#.TrxRbTQ8wwY.facebook
As opposed to a president who thinks there are 57 states?
Or refers to service folks as dead people? (Corpse Men)
Or acknowledges that he sees dead people: “Those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, many who are here with us now”
I’ll take a quickly gathered poem which turns out to be a song any day over a current president who has not a 2nd grade understanding about this country.
Nice try.
OH, shoot.. here is the ACTUAL QUOTE:
But you know since I am adding more, lets take a look at OBAMA’s sexual harrassment:
–to a female reporter for ABC’s Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers
Huh. I seem to recall calling a professional ‘sweetie’ was condescending and worthy of punishment in the 1990s. I guess we have grown beyond that?
Dear Mrs.Richardson, Oh sorry I forgot you are a modern and emancipated woman. Dear Ms. Laurence,
By your posts I get the feeling that you really “hate” Mr. Cain. Does your dislike for Mr. Cain stem from a feeling that he is not qualified to be the President of the United States, or is it based on “Bigotry”, because Mr. Cain is all Black and not half White? Could it be that you believe the attacks on Mr. Cain by the media and the bimbo white trash women who are accusing him with absolutely no proof of any inappropriate behavior? In these cases I always try to look at the bright side ” at least he is not “Gay”.
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Can’t you count beyond three? Where’s the “4th comment?”
I remember Junior weighed in — why has his response been
bumped?
Grand Traverse County Commissioner Ross Richardson answered our robot-call saying he would like to help the VOTE NO Group make phone calls to our supporters. Isn’t that cute?
Here is the Row and Column from the XL file.
8 – ROSS – RICHARDSON – 2319475515 – 873 – WASHINGTON – ST – TRAVERSE CITY – MI 49686 Help make calls
Ross, you and your homosexual friends are the real haters and bigots in Traverse City, When we receive one of your calls, we always respect your efforts, and treat them with respect. You and your homosexual friends really do live in a make believe world. Grow Up — with County Commissioner Ross Richardson.
The system sees each entry as a single comment. I count 5 including yours. 6 now with this one.
As for Junior’s comment maybe you imagined it.
Thomas Sowell
Speech codes dangerous to our rights
Back in the 1920s, the intelligentsia on both sides of the Atlantic were loudly protesting the execution of political radicals Sacco and Vanzetti, after what they claimed was an unfair trial.
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to his young leftist friend Harold Laski, pointing out that there were “a thousand-fold worse cases” involving black defendants, “but the world does not worry over them.”
Holmes said: “I cannot but ask myself why this so much greater interest in red than black.”
To put it bluntly, it was a question of whose ox was gored. That is, what groups were in vogue at the moment among the intelligentsia. Blacks clearly were not.
The current media and political crusade against “bullying” in schools seems likewise to be based on what groups are in vogue at the moment. For years, there have been local newspaper stories about black kids in schools in New York and Philadelphia beating up Asian classmates, some beaten so badly as to require medical treatment.
But the national media hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. Asian-Americans are not in vogue today, just as blacks were not in vogue in the 1920s.
Meanwhile, the media are focused on bullying directed against youngsters who are homosexual. Gays are in vogue.
Most of the stories about the bullying of gays in schools are about words directed against them, not about their suffering the violence that has long been directed against Asian youngsters or about the failure of the authorities to do anything serious to stop black kids from beating up Asian kids.
Where youngsters are victims of violence, whether for being gay or whatever, that is where the authorities need to step in. No decent person wants to see kids hounded, whether by words or deeds, and whether the kids are gay, Asian or whatever.
But there is still a difference between words and deeds — and it is a difference we do not need to let ourselves be stampeded into ignoring. The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees freedom of speech — and, like any other freedom, it can be abused.
If we are going to take away every Constitutional right that has been abused by somebody, we are going to end up with no Constitutional rights.
Already, on too many college campuses, there are vaguely worded speech codes that can punish students for words that may hurt somebody’s feelings — but only the feelings of groups that are in vogue.
Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police — as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.
Is this what we want in our public schools?
The school authorities can ignore the beating up of Asian kids but homosexual organizations have enough political clout that they cannot be ignored. Moreover, there are enough avowed homosexuals among journalists that they have their own National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association so continuing media publicity will ensure that the authorities will have to “do something.”
But political pressures to do something have been behind many counterproductive and even dangerous policies.
A grand jury report about bullying in the schools of San Mateo County, Calif., brought all sorts of expressions of concern from school authorities, but no definition of bullying nor any specifics about just what they plan to do about it.
Meanwhile, a law has been passed in California that mandates teaching about the achievements of gays in the public schools. Whether this will do anything to stop either verbal or physical abuse of gay kids is very doubtful.
But it will advance the agenda of homosexual organizations and can turn homosexuality into yet another of the subjects on which words on only one side are permitted. Our schools are already too lacking in the basics of education to squander even more time on propaganda for politically correct causes that are in vogue.
We do not need to create special privileges in the name of equal rights.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20111120/OPINION03/111200305/Speech-codes-dangerous-to-our-rights#ixzz1eHV6Niax