Archive for November 2008
November 30, 2008I’m not sure how this one slipped past us all, but despite all indications (including those coming from the man himself) the Washington Post has discovered that Barack Obama is not black.
We call him that — he calls himself that — because we use dated language and logic. After more than 300 years and much difficult history, we hew to the old racist rule: Part-black is all black. Fifty percent equals a hundred. There’s no in-between.
That was my reaction when I read these words on the front page of this newspaper the day after the election: “Obama Makes History: U.S. Decisively Elects First Black President.”
Luckily, we later learn that he’s not black because he’s just so damn much more! What a relief.
To me, as to increasing numbers of mixed-race people, Barack Obama is not our first black president. He is our first biracial, bicultural president. He is more than the personification of African American achievement. He is a bridge between races, a living symbol of tolerance, a signal that strict racial categories must go.
Next they’ll be telling us he wasn’t born in Hawaii.
The opportunity for the Pennsylvania legislature to pass a bill that would impose a 5-cent tax on each ammunition shell and require each to be encoded with a serial number will expire in the House Judiciary Committee on Sunday. It could, however, be reintroduced as early as next January.
The requirements would cause the cost of ammunition to skyrocket, becoming unaffordable to most. Similar legislation has been introduced in 18 other states and DC, but none has yet become law.
“Gun-control advocates have realized that it would be nearly impossible to achieve an outright ban on firearms, whether at the state or federal level,” said [National Sports Shooting Foundation spokesman Ted] Novin. “Understanding this, they have recently turned to backdoor attempts at firearm prohibition — bullet serialization, which is a de facto ban on ammunition, is a perfect example of this legislative strategy.”
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The production costs would make ammunition unaffordable to most people, Novin contended.
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Nationally, such bills generally cover all ammunition, Novin said. But, he noted: “There are absolutely no studies to suggest it would work.”
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Under [the] bill, older ammunition would have to be disposed of by Jan. 1, 2010.
Various sources are reporting a mini-shakeup in the works at New York’s right talk radio station WABC.
A deal to begin a local radio show with an eye toward national syndication for MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough has been talked about all day.
As Joe Biden warned, “Gird your loins.” ABC News is reporting that the FBI has issued a terror threat warning surrounding the Long Island Railroad and New York City’s Penn Station based on a “reliable and knowledgeable” source. The alleged plot is to bomb commuter rail cars as they enter Manhattan’s Penn Station during the Christmas season.
Continue Reading “FBI: NYC Subways And Rail Lines Face ‘Reliable’ Terror Threat” »
A couple of Detroit radio guys made a playful call to the Kenyan Embassy on November 6, but what started out as a light-hearted conversation wound up adding fuel to speculation regarding Barack Obama’s true birthplace.
The embassy later verified that Mike Clark and Marc Fellhauer on WRIF’s “Mike In The Morning” had actually spoken with Ambassador Peter N.R.O. Ogego.
Continue Reading “Kenyan Official: Obama’s Kenyan Birthplace An Attraction” »
Even as the new administration gears up to ram economically damaging environmental legislation through Congress and into law, data shows that global warming has ended and that the earth has cooled dramatically over the past two years.
A recently released map of temperature trends compiled by the NOAA shows that many areas are at or below their normal temperatures, with some areas of the mid-west having recorded the record coldest climate for the period between November 2007 and October 2008.
First Lieutenant Travis Manion will receive the Silver Star, the military’s third highest award, posthumously at a public event on the courthouse lawn in Doylestown on December 5.
The Silver Star and Bronze Star with Valor will be presented to 1st Lt Manion’s parents, Colonel Tom Manion and Janet Manion, by Lieutenant General John Allen of the US Marine Corps.
Always the bearer of great news, Senate leader Harry Reid drops a dime on some kind of agreement between Barack Obama and John McCain to move forward on immigration reform early in the next Congress.
Continue Reading “McCain Ready To Work With Obama On Immigration Reform” »
A Chester County representative of Barack Obama’s bank intimidation and voter fraud group ACORN received a sentence of 6 - 23 months house arrest as well as being ordered to pay a hefty $574 in restitution for forging 18 voter registrations.
Sitting around for a couple years and paying $574 dollars? And they said cruel and unusual punishment was unconstitutional!
Continue Reading “ACORN Worker Gets House Arrest For False Registrations” »
Former Philadelphia news anchor Alycia Lane doesn’t appear “ready to make nice” with disgraced former Philadelphia news anchor Larry Mendte despite Mendte turning to face Lane and issuing a tortured apology to her during his sentencing hearing for hacking into her email accounts yesterday.
Continue Reading “Apology Not Accepted: Mendte Grovels To Lane At Sentencing” »
