Bush's Midas Touch
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The first known case of sex recorded on a mobile leading to murder was in 2004. Film of a boy making love with a 17-year-old girl circulated in the Kurdish capital, Arbil. Two days later she was killed by her family and a week later he was murdered by his. -- The IndependentThey are burning women alive in Iraq. Pouring paraffin over them and letting the die a horrible death because they have had sex. Shaira law is spreading in Basra and in other areas of southern Iraq. After decades there are men fighting in the streets in Lebanon again. Turkey has all but permanently invaded northern Iraq. The fallacy that Bush has made America safer is only valid if you don't include losing New Orleans or protecting our civil liberties. Or if you believe that "hasn't happened yet" equals "not going to." But, it is extremely clear that the middle east is not only a much more dangerous place, it has descended into religious terror and violence across the region.
Remember when our foreign policy was all about maintaining peace in the region? Remember fears of setting the middle east ablaze? Like many things from the reality based community that concept went out the window with reverse midas Bush. I am sure that Israel thought our invading Iraq and posting 100,000 troops next door in Iraq was a good idea, but as more and more goes wrong in more and more places, I suspect that that feeling of safety is running on par with Bush's polling numbers.
Our inability to win the "peace" as the pentagon's Orwellian phrase goes is a major factor in this. This is now beyond a military solution and has been for years. Having less people with guns around is a good first step. Nobody notices the sniper on the roof across from the womens shelter because that's normal.
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By dtaylo75May 20, 2008 - 2:20pm
Do you think the residents of the areas of town that "you would never live in" want to live in such conditions either!?!?!? Of course not! Poverty breeds crime, what would you expect? Without providing a real means for them to get out of poverty (and don't give me that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps crap), it will persist.
There will always be haves and have nots. We can't fix the culture that praises people like 50cent, snoop dog and gun toting animal fighting atheltes as heros and yet looks at education as a waste of time. In other words, the "Hip Hop" or "Urban" culture. There will always be and have always been slums.
Yes, I didn't include the entire breakdown on the 1964 CRB I just cited the final vote.
Racisim persists in the south...Really?
"All the early Black congressmen (and senators) were members of the Republican party. This is because the Republicans, exemplified by President Abraham Lincoln, were the party in office during the Civil War and many abolitionists belonged to the Republican Party. The Democrats were opposed to all attempts to banish slavery."
Other Blacks who were elected to the House and seated often had very rocky tenures. Only a few did not have to face hostile, organized opposition within Congress. A few examples are listed below.
• Robert C. DeLarge, South Carolina, elected in 1870
His election was challenged from the beginning and the challenge resulted in him serving twenty-two months out of twenty-four. The seat was declared vacant for the final two months.
• Josiah Thomas Walls, Florida, elected in 1870
Wells was the only Black representative unseated twice by opponents challenging his elections.
• Jefferson Franklin Long, Georgia, elected in 1871
Served an abbreviated term in 1871 (the election he won was held to fill an abbreviated term). White congressional opposition and intimidation of Black voters led to him not being reelected.
• Robert Brown Elliott, South Carolina, elected in 1871
An attorney before he entered politics, Elliott served two consecutive terms. He was also able to read, German, Spanish, French, and Latin.
• Joseph H. Rainey, South Carolina, elected in 1871
Served two consecutive terms, but as usual, the environment in Congress, especially from White southern representatives, was very hostile.
• Alonzo J. Ransier, Georgia, elected in 1872
Succeeded Robert C. DeLarge. He was Lt. Governor before he won DeLarge's seat.
• James T. Rapier, Alabama, elected in 1873
He served two consecutive terms and lost in 1875 when many ballot boxes were stolen and destroyed and replaced with others containing stuffed or illegally cast ballots. There was also armed intimidation of Black voters by Whites.
• John Mercer Langston, Virginia, elected in 1888
The only Black person ever elected to Congress from Virginia, Mercer was denied his seat for almost two years.
• Thomas E. Miller, South Carolina, elected in 1889
He served one term and afterwards was named president of the State Colored College at Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Funny, I see NO northern states in there....
www.ipoaa.com/1st_black_congressmen.htm
In 1989, Virginia became the first state in America to elect a Black man as its governor.
New York ONLY got a black man as governer by default when an "Elite" Dem stepped down...
In the Senate:
First African American Senator
Hiram Revels (R-MS)
On February 25, 1870, visitors in the Senate galleries burst into applause as Mississippi senator-elect Hiram Revels of Mississippi entered the chamber to take his oath of office.
www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/First_African_American_Senat...
In the Reconstruction era
Senator Party State Term
Hiram Rhodes Revels Republican Mississippi 1870-1871
Blanche Bruce Republican Mississippi 1875-1881
[edit] In the modern era
Senator Party State Term
Edward Brooke Republican Massachusetts 1967-1979
Carol Moseley Braun Democrat Illinois 1993-1999
Barack Obama Democrat Illinois 2005-present
[edit] United States House of Representatives
[edit] In the Reconstruction era
Representative Party State Term
John Willis Menard[1] Republican Louisiana 1868
Joseph H. Rainey Republican South Carolina 1870-1879
Jefferson F. Long Republican Georgia 1870-1871
Robert C. De Large Republican South Carolina 1871-1873
Robert B. Elliott Republican South Carolina 1871-1874
Benjamin S. Turner Republican Alabama 1871-1873
Josiah T. Walls Republican Florida 1871-1873, 1873-1875, 1875-1876
Richard H. Cain Republican South Carolina 1873-1875, 1877-1879
John R. Lynch Republican Mississippi 1873-1877, 1882-1883
James T. Rapier Republican Alabama 1873-1875
Alonzo J. Ransier Republican South Carolina 1873-1875
Jeremiah Haralson Republican Alabama 1875-1877
John A. Hyman Republican North Carolina 1875-1877
Charles E. Nash Republican Louisiana 1875-1877
Robert Smalls Republican South Carolina 1875-1879, 1882-1883, 1884-1887
James E. O'Hara Republican North Carolina 1883-1887
Henry P. Cheatham Republican North Carolina 1889-1893
John Mercer Langston Republican Virginia 1890-1891
Thomas E. Miller Republican South Carolina 1890-1891
George W. Murray Republican South Carolina 1893-1895, 1896-1897
George Henry White Republican North Carolina 1897-1901
LOTS of Southern "Racist" States there....
It wasn't until the "Modern" ear that the north had ANY real black representation.....
Get your facts straight....
"My presidency will be al Qaeda's worst nightmare." -John McCain Sep 4, 2007
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By Fight4itMay 20, 2008 - 2:37pm