A saturday morning on Fox news

I woke up early this morning and decided to watch FOX news. First thing I see is Neil Cavuto
and a panel of pro corporate talking heads criticizing the financial reform regulations. Yeah that's it! Let the Wall Street fat cats continue the same practices that brought this country's economy to it's knees. How can anybody it their right minds be in favor of this?

Second segment has more talking heads, this time complaining about Alan Grayson and some of his heated rhetoric. I don't agree with everything the Senator has said, but I find it highly hypocritical for these folks on FOX to be outraged NOW. Where are they when their fellow Republicans are making all kinds of over the top statements?

The wife is awake now and has assigned me chores for the day. So I gotta run folks!

Paul: No repeal of civil rights law - Manu Raju and Jonathan Allen and Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com

Dude is doing some serious damage control now. Not sure why right-wingers think Maddow Ambushed him.

Paul: No repeal of civil rights law - Manu Raju and Jonathan Allen and Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com

America's Underclass: The Growing Gap Between the Rich and Poor

Not sure why the guys in the video are acting like all of this is big news. I've been saying for the last 3-4 years now, that the middle class is slowly disappearing and we are returning to a society of only two classes. The rich and the poor. The jobless "recovery" as it's called is nothing but another nail in the coffin of the middle class. This is the very reason why we need to drill in to our kids heads that they need to strive to own their own businesses and not put their destiny in the hands of others by being somebody else's employee.

'YouCut' votes target welfare - Jake Sherman - POLITICO.com

Of course welfare was the program most people wanted to cut.
I'm no great fan of welfare myself, but I wonder how much of the total federal budget actually goes to welfare programs.\
I've seen various site that give an assortment of answers. most seem to geared toward pushing a certain political stance.
Anybody out there know where I can find a legitimate unbiased source?


'YouCut' votes target welfare - Jake Sherman - POLITICO.com

Just Tired.

Black Man is tired Y'all. I know I need to write something one of these days. But a brotha is tired when he gets home from work.

So for now I'll keep re-tweeting and linking to other folks stuff.

Oh yeah and check me out on Facebook.

nite nite

Palin says Obama would ban guns if he could :: WRAL.com

Obama has pretty much stayed out of the gun debate. So what's she talking about?

Palin says Obama would ban guns if he could :: WRAL.com

Tim Wise: Imagine if the Tea Party was Black

Tim Wise: Imagine if the Tea Party was Black

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Crist goes Independent

It's late but Black Man wanted to make sure he got this comment on record.

I will probably support Crist in the general election. Since living in Florida I've been pleased with most of his policies. I think his decision to run as an Independent shows just how small that Republican "Big Tent" has become.

All is Fair in love and stepping

This is old news now but I just now saw the video of the white Sorority Zeta Tau Alpha that won the Sprite Step Off championship and I have to admit those girls threw down!

If they were best performers I have no problem with them winning. How can we claim to want
a level playing field but at the same time say there should things that nobody else is allowed to participate in yet alone win.

My wife and I are both a members of Black Greek Letter Organizations. So I know all the history of why we were founded etc. And I can understand why some may be uneasy. But should this be viewed any different that any other aspect of black culture that others have embraced or made their own. I intentionally didn't use the word "stole" because I don't view it that way. Have you been to blues concert lately? With the exception of the performers the audiences are largely white. Yet I don't see anybody complaining about that.

I've got to cut it short as I have to take my pup the vet. But bottom line is if we really want a more inclusive society we have to remember it works both ways.

Crashing the Tea Party

The right-wing blogs and talk shows are all buzzing about a new website that has surfaced called
crashtheteaparty.org. Supposedly this groups is dedicated to discrediting the tea party by infiltrating their events and passing themselves of as members of the tea party carrying signs with misspelling and idiotic slogans. Some right-wingers have been saying all along that the idiot tea baggers we see with the racist signs with misspelling etc. were liberal plants. I seriously doubt this. From what I've seen of these folks, most seem to be grossly misinformed and obnoxiously ignorant.

If this crashtheteaparty group is legit, the question I would ask the founders is why would they even bother? The Tea Party folks in my opinion are doing just fine making themselves looking like ignorant, hateful racist without any outside help.

Secondly, the Republican party has more to gain my marginalizing and discrediting this group that the Democratic party. The Tea party was the GOP's creation but now some Republican politicians have found themselves in the tea party's sights. The moster they created has now turned on them. Let's not forget the independents. If the Republicans hope to win over enough independents to make a difference come November they are going to have to distance themselves from the tea party and it's associated gang of far right lunatics..

Black conservative tea party backers take heat :: WRAL.com

Black conservative tea party backers take heat :: WRAL.com

I think they only take heat not because all blacks are Democratic sheep. They take heat because some don't seem to be interested in calling out the racist in their ranks.

Government-hating tea-partiers love their government checks

Government-hating tea-partiers love their government checks

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DHS Extremism Violence Report Off Base Political Propaganda, Or Necessary Apolitical Warning of Increasing Threats?

I think somebody owes somebody else an apology. I read an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (I believe) that was written well before the election and Obama's rise as the Democratic nominee. In that article the author predicted that if a liberal Democrat won the White house we would see a rise in right-wing militias. Unfortunately I haven't been able to locate the article online yet, but I'll keep looking.

Aside from that we now know the DHS report wasn't that fall off base at all. In fact it was spot on.

Who are the Hutaree? - The Week

Who are the Hutaree? - The Week