Monday, June 29, 2009

AN AGENDA BEGINS TO SURFACE ((if you care to look)

The U.S. Supreme Court this week voted in a 5-4 decision to do the right thing and vote in favor of men who studied and passed an exam for promotion in the Fire Department of New Haven, Connecticut. What is distressing about the decision is four Justices dissented. And the reaction from the Left is predictable.

Left hanging in all this is President Obama’s nomination of left-leaning Sonia Santomayor as a Justice to replace David Souter.

In an interview on FOX News, Author Juan Williams said, “I think they got it wrong. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Law that says if you have something that looks harmless on the surface, like a test, but it has a discriminator impact, and you have no blacks here qualifying for promotion in the New Haven Fire Department, something might be wrong with that instrument, that test, and it gives the city in this case the right to go back and say we’re gonna have another test because we didn’t like the results of that one.”

Williams opines that if one is just looking at the firefighters you have to be sensitive to people who have dyslexia and who’ve struggled hard and succeeded. Williams attempted to weaken the clear victory for the Right by claiming it’s judicial activism from the right. Well, turnabout is fairplay, no? Williams then tries to rally his troops by saying, “I think this might be the end of affirmative action in America.”

No one questions Santomayor’s qualifications. Indeed, she is well-educated. What the Right questions is her judgement. If anyone thinks a Hispanic female can reach better conclusions about anything than a white male, they are racist, anyway you look at it.

Left-leaning columnist Connie Schultz, wife of Ohio’s left-leaning Senator Sherrod Brown, opined in the Cleveland Plain Dealer that “The Internet poses challenges we never anticipated.” She opines that Federal copyright law should change. She’s right there. The Internet has provided a platform for those on the Right to express their views. What Schultz would do would be to disallow me to quote Juan Williams and Connie Schultz.

Of course newspaper reporters spend hours developing stories. But she cries wolf about television and radio stations and bloggers using the stories they’ve dug up. In their eyes we’re free-riders.

If newspapers weren’t savvy enough to catch the wave, too bad. Henry Ford almost took the company down when he didn’t see that consumers wanted cars that were other than black. National Cash Register made a wonderful, mechanical and analog cash register that lasted forever. It took wholesale firings to bring their corporate culture in to the electronic age. Kodak is playing catch-up in the digital age. Again, their corporate culture, like American auto makers, in cahoots with unions, was to make money in spite of themselves. We consumers are paying that price.

The danger here, however, is the subtle thought processes that seek to change the mind-set of Americans. The Juan Williams and Connie Schultzs of the world are only two of the many syndicated writers who get top billing in the nation’s newspapers. And therein lies the rub. The majority of we, the living, don’t buy it. The danger is when we pass, will there still be alternate ways to communicate other than left-leaning, government supported/owned newspapers who follow the agenda of the powers that be? Isn’t that how North Korea, Stalin’s Russia, Communist China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia and others were able to come into existence and murder those who didn’t think like they did?

It can happen again.

Monday, June 08, 2009

Was this actually a combat death?

The AP story by Mike Levine says "Group Linked to Al Qaeda May Have Killed Minnesota Man Recruited in Somalia." That's the spin anyhow.

Burhan Hassan, a 17-year-old Somali-American, was allegedly killed by Al Qaeda in Somalia. He was part of a group of American-Muslims who were recruited in Minnesota by Al Qaeda.

The FBI is supposedly "investigating" the 20-some Muslims from Minnesota who recently traveled to the Middle East.

"Families that belong to this Minnesota mosque, Abubakar As-Saddiqu, were suspected of having a role in their loved ones' disappearance," wrote Levine.

One can't 'help but think this death is combat-related, perhaps killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. American media isn't about to question it. This writer, however, will.

The other story not getting any attention was the murder of an American soldier by a Muslim-American. Why are these stories being buried?

Saturday, June 06, 2009

In Memoriam - Sgt. Charles G. Rodgers


In memoriam - June 6, 1944. Normandy veteran, uncle Charles G. Rodgers, Sergeant, 9th US Army.

Awarded 4 Bronze Stars - Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe campaigns

Service in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.