"Kramer's" apology opens the door for others
by Larry Elder
Thursday, November 30, 2006

Here's my holiday wish list:

Dear Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton,

Please accept my apology for launching into a racist tirade against two black hecklers at my comedy show. Because I attacked two blacks in particular, I know this means I harbor deep-seated racist feelings about all blacks. While, in return, I heard words like "f---ing white boy" and "cracker-a-- motherf---er," I know those epithets were directed toward me, as an individual, and not at the entire white race.

Again, please accept my deepest apologies.

Michael Richards, aka "Kramer" of "Seinfeld"

Dear Anti-Defamation League,

Once again, please accept my apology for calling Jews "Hymies" and referring to New York City as "Hymie-town." As I said at the time, "Charge it to my head . . . not to my heart."

Sincerely, Rev. Jesse Jackson

Dear NAACP, Urban League and Congress of Racial Equality,

Please accept my apology for, during concerts in which I sang my song "Gold Digger," giving whites permission to sing along and use the "n-word." Perhaps Michael Richards attended one of my concerts and left not realizing his license had expired.

Kanye West, hip-hop artist/rapper

Dear Jewish Defense League, Korean-American Grocer Association and Council on American-Islamic Relations,

Please accept my apology for, while serving as a Wal-Mart spokesperson, condemning Jewish, Korean and Arab inner-city merchants for "overcharging" blacks. I also inexcusably said that these merchants sell "stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables." Charge that to my head, not my heart.

Sincerely yours, Andrew Young, former U.N. ambassador for the United States, former mayor of Atlanta and former colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dear Democratic National Committee,

During the recent election cycle, the Republican Party ran a number of blacks -- among them Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele for Senate, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell for governor, and Lynn Swann for governor in Pennsylvania. So please accept my apology for saying Republicans have a "white-boy attitude," which means "I must exclude, denigrate and leave behind."

Sincerely yours, Donna Brazile, former Al Gore 2000 campaign manager

Dear White Community,

Please accept my apology for my statement during the 2002 "Millions for Reparations" rally: "I just might walk up to the nearest white man and say, 'You don't understand this, this is a black thing,' and slap 'em, just for my mental health. If they don't pay us reparations now, we're talking about scorched earth." There goes my head!

Sincerely yours, Charles Barron, New York City councilman

Dear Anti-Defamation League,

Please accept my apology. I lost my temper during my husband's unsuccessful 1974 congressional campaign. Bill's campaign adviser, Paul Fray, and his wife publicly claim that I called Fray a "f---ing Jew b-----d." I don't recall this, but assuming I did, what was I thinking? It wasn't my heart.

Sincerely yours, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton

Dear Jesse Jackson and local Little Rock, Ark., black activist Robert "Say" McIntosh,

Former Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson publicly claimed I referred to the two of you as "n--gers." Ditto what Hillary just said.

Sincerely, Former President of the United States Bill Clinton

Dear Ward Connerly and anyone in an interracial relationship,

When you led the successful campaign in California to end race-based preferences, I criticized you, a black man, saying, "He's married a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black." My bad.

Sincerely, Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif.

Dear Republican National Committee,

Please accept my apology for saying, after the Republicans took over Congress in 1994, "It's not 'spic' or 'n--ger' anymore. They say 'let's cut taxes.'" Also, I apologize for, following Katrina, publicly saying, "George Bush is our Bull Connor" -- referring to the former Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner, who turned water hoses and dogs on civil rights workers. My head and heart were clashing.

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., incoming House Ways and Means Committee chairman

Dear Anti-Defamation League and White Community,

Please accept my apologies for calling whites "interlopers" and referring to Jews as "diamond merchants," and, during a conflict between Jews and blacks, saying, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." They were mistakes of the head, not the heart.

Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights activist and former host of "Saturday Night Live"

Dear Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and other minority members of the Bush administration,

Please accept my apology for, while co-hosting a radio show in 2001, calling Bush's minority appointees "Uncle Tom types." I made a mistake of the head, not of the heart.

Sincerely yours, Gloria Allred, attorney at law, currently representing the black "victims" of Michael Richards' racist rant

Now, don't we all feel better?

Larry Elder is host of the Larry Elder Show on talk radio and author of Showdown : Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests That Divide America .

From today's Washington Times:

"Air marshals, pilots and security officials yesterday expressed concern that airline passengers and crews will be reluctant to report suspicious behavior aboard for fear of being called "racists," after several Muslim imams made that charge in a press conference Monday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport."

As I blogged yesterday, the six Muslim holy men have been throwing a hissy fit since being ejected from a U.S. Airways flight in Minneapolis last week after several passengers noticed that the imams were exhibiting behavior that mimmicked the 9/11 terrorist hijackers, such as praying loudly before boarding; switching seating assignments to a configuration used by terrorists in previous incidents,asking for seat-belt extensions, which could be used as weapons, and shouting hostile slogans about al Qaeda and the war in Iraq.  (Gee, in our post-9/11 world, why would any air traveler find such behavior suspicious?)

Now, the imams are urging Congress to pass laws prohibiting ethnic and religious "profiling."  Yeah, right.  (Then again, the Democrats will be in control of Congress in January, so I don't dare speak too soon.)

Fortunately, the air marshals and other airline and safety officials speaking out are showing good ol' fashioned common sense.

"The crew and passengers act as our additional eyes and ears on every flight," said a federal air marshal in Las Vegas, who asked that his name not be used. "If [crew and passengers] are afraid of reporting suspicious individuals out of fear of being labeled a racist or bigot, then terrorists will certainly use those fears to their advantage in future aviation attacks.  The political correctness needs to be left at the boarding gate.  Instilling politically correct fears into the minds of airline passengers is nothing less than psychological terrorism."

Here's what Rabiah Ahmed, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) spokeswoman, had to say:

"[Muslims] have to walk around on eggshells in public just because we don't want to be misconstrued as suspicious. You have to strike a balance between legitimate fears which people may have, but not allow passengers to have so much discretion that they can trigger a process that would violate a traveler's basic civil rights.  Because one person misunderstood the actions of other law-abiding citizens, they were able to trigger a very long and daunting process for other travelers that were pulled off the plane in handcuffs and detained for many hours before they were cleared."

The behavior of the six imams was "misunderstood"?  Let me reiterate the behavior of these Muslim holy men as reported by the passengers, which resulted in their eviction from the airplane in handcuffs:

• The six imams were reported as praying very loudly, almost shouting "Allah," before boarding;
• They switched to unassigned seats in a configuration used by the 9/11 hijackers  - two seats in the front row of first class, exit seats in the middle of the plane and two seats in the rear (such a seating arrangement would have given them full control of the airplane exits);
• They asked for seat-belt extensions, which include heavy metal buckles that could be used as weapons, and then threw them to the floor under their seats.

Yet, CAIR believes that their behavior was "misunderstood."  What's the weather like on your planet, Ms. Ahmed?

Robert MacLean, a former federal air marshal, expressed the fear yesterday that the situation "will make crews and passengers in the future second-guess reporting these events, thus compromising the aircraft's security out of fear of being labeled a dogmatist or a bigot, or being sued."

I share Mr. MacLean's concern, given the climate of political correctness in which we live.  At the same time, I am encouraged by the guts and determination of the airline officials cited in the Times article to stick to their guns, stand by what they did (which was the right thing), and do it again in the future if need be.  Kudos to them for allowing C.S. (common sense) to supersede p.c. and not allowing themselves to be bullied by a group of whiney Muslim imams and their victicrat sympathizers. 

(Ben Shapiro has a great article out today that really drives this point home.)

The following are very great quotes to live by by one of America's greatest presidents, Ronald Reagan.

• "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
• "This country has lost control of its borders.  And no country can sustain that kind of position."
• "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
• "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
• "Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
• "I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."
• "The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
• "Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
• "The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."
• "I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
• "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.  I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
• "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it.  If it keeps moving, regulate it.  And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
• "Politics is not a bad profession.  If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
• "No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
• "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
• "The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America... our country is in need of an ready for a spiritual renewal..."
• "Hamilton, Jefferson, and all the Founding Fathers recognized that the Constitution is the supreme and ultimate expression of the will of the American people.  They saw that no one in office could remain above it, if freedom were to survive through the ages.  They understood that, in the words of James Madison, if 'the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation is not the guide to expounding it, there can be no security for a faithful exercise of its powers.'"
• [Given the results of the recent Congressional elections, this last one is so apropos]"A political party cannot be all things to all people.  It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, simply to swell it's ranks." 

Long live the Gipper.

Last week, six Muslim religious leaders, or imams, were removed from a Minneapolis flight last week for allegedly exhibiting behavior associated with a security probe by terrorists and were not merely engaged in prayers, according to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials.

And they've been whining about it ever since.

Yesterday, Omar Shahin, one of the "offended" imams removed from US Airways flight 300,  joined other interfaith victicrat religious leaders in a "pray-in" at the US Airways ticket counter at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC.

From today's Washington Times:

Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, called removing the imams an act of Islamophobia and compared it to racism against blacks.  "It's a shame that as an African-American and a Muslim I have the double whammy of having to worry about driving while black and flying while Muslim," Mr. Bray said.   The protesters also called on Congress to pass legislation to outlaw passenger profiling.

Here's a "double whammy" for you, Mr. Bray: 

For one thing, passengers and flight attendants told law-enforcement officials the imams switched from their assigned seats to a pattern associated with the September 11 terrorist attacks and also found in probes of U.S. security since the attacks -- two in the front row first-class, two in the middle of the plane on the exit aisle and two in the rear of the cabin.   "That would alarm me," said one federal air marshal. "They now control all of the entry and exit routes to the plane."  A pilot from another airline said: "That behavior has been identified as a terrorist probe in the airline industry." 

In other words, those six Muslim imams were exhibiting behaviour that, in post-9/11 America, would have made any rational person suspicious.  Oher pilots told the Washington Times that they would taken the same action as the US Airways pilot.  Well, duh!

Secondly, Imam, Shahin has been whining like a snotty-nosed brat sent to time out, claiming how "it was the worst moment of my life." Oh, the injustice of it all!  What Imam Shahin failed to mention, however, are (a) his admitted ties to Osama Bin Landen and his denial that 9/11 was an Al Qaeda plot; and (b) his links to a charity group with ties to Hamas and whose assets have been frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department as a result.  (Two double whammies for the price of one, Mr. Bray!)  Those two not-so-insignificant little tidbits must have slipped his mind - given his emotionally fragile state and all.

Because we are living in a post-9/11 world, and in light of the very observant and conscientious U.S. Airways passengers, flight attentants and pilot who very well may have prevented another catastrophe, I've got three words for the six cry-baby Muslim Imams and their victicratic sympathizers:

GET OVER IT!!!!!!

As Michelle Malkin said on the O'Reilly Factor last night, those Imams should just wipe their noses, dry their eyes and basically suck it up.  Nineteen of Shahin's "brethren" used hijacked airplanes to murder over 3,000 innoncent men, women and children a little over five years ago.  We ain't takin' no chances, buddy!

Deal with it.

People are still taking about "Seinfeld" star Michael Richards' recent racial (and, I must say, incredibly profane) tirade at a Los Angeles comedy club, as well as the P.R. woodshed whopping he's still taking from it.  Needless to say, Richards suffered from a serious lapse in judgement and common sense when he went Bull Connor cuckoo on the mic that night.

Here's what a recent Washington Times op-ed had to say about it:

Mr. Richards took on a pair of black hecklers Friday night at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood with a stream of racial slurs. Captured on grainy video, the outburst caught fire online and led to Mr. Richards making an uncomfortable apology on Monday's "The Late Show With David Letterman."

It's a mystery why Mr. Richards was on stage in the first place. 

The longtime sitcom actor toyed with stand-up comedy before finding marginal fame on the ABC sketch comedy show "Fridays." He later worked in film and television before securing his niche in pop-culture lore on
"Seinfeld," which aired from 1989 to 1998.

His stand-up cobwebs were all-too evident in his disastrous appearance last weekend, which might just have rung the death knell for an already infirm career.

In addition to apologizing on "Letterman" after the incident, Richards is now taking a page out of Sen. Trent Lott's (R-MS) playbook by groveling before the self-annointed black "leadership."  Richards has recently hired a public relations expert who will have Richards bow down before the two Grand Poobahs of Black America: Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Jackson, reached by phone, said Richards called "expressing his remorse and his confusion."  "He's embarrassed. He got caught on tape. That's a big part of his anxiety now," said Jackson.

"Clearly he needs some race sensibility training, and some psychiatric help. His anger is volatile and dangerous to himself and others," Jackson said. "I hope he gets the help he needs. But the culture that's producing this kind of animosity toward blacks must be addressed. ... We're increasingly facing cultural isolation in Hollywood, in the movies and in TV."

There's no question that Richards screwed up big time, and will be paying the price for some time to come.  And I do feel that Richards owes Kyle Doss and Frank McBride - the two gentlemen who were to object of his racist tirade - a face-to-face apology.  However, I do not believe that the two men deserve financial compensation, which is what they're seeking with the help of famed lawyer Gloria Allred.

Why? firstly, Michael Richards' racist tirade, as deplorable as it was, is constitutionally protected by the First Amendment.  That's what is so great about America.  We live in a country where idiots have the freedom to spew their idiocy with impunity (Ward Churchill immediately comes to mind).  And those of us who want nothing to do with idiotic, racist or other such rhetoric and those who espouse it have the freedom to speak out against and repudiate it - with impunity.

Secondly, as rightfully disgusted and offended as the two gentlemen were by Richards' words (and, after listening to them, what sensible person wouldn't be?), going the "compensation for pain and suffering" route is, in my view (and I am NOT a lawyer) a slippery slope that will open up an already nasty can of worms.  If people could sue for damages every time someone said something that "hurt their feelings" or offended them, then our legal system would be even more screwed up then it already is.  Liberals would be suing conservatives left and right, for example, because conservatism in and of itself is a belief system that many liberals find offensive (not to mention threatening).  And, considering how infested our legal system is with liberal judges who want to rewrite the law instead of interpreting it, this would put our society in a bad, bad way.

Instead of demanding money, Doss and McBride should take the moral high road.  They should continue to demand a face-to-face apology from Richards, which I'm sure Richards would be more than happy to offer at this point, and accept his apology.  This would show them to be mature, morally level-headed young men, well within their rights to be angry the actor's unwarrented verbabl assault on them, yet, recognizing that we all make mistakes, big and gracious enough to accept the man's sincere plea for forgiveness.  Not only would this make these fellows out to be the real winners in this drama, as well as serve to put Richards on the road to redemption, but it would cut Jackson, Sharpton, Allred, and any other would-be race-hustling, guilt-mongering profiteer/sheister out of the equation.

Good news: The U.S. teen birthrate feel in 2005 to a new historical low.  According to preliminary data from the CDC, the teen birthrate of 40.4 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19 was 2 percent lower than in 2004 and 35 percent lower than 1991's 61.8 births per 1,000 women.  This decrease is the lowest in the 65 years since the federal government has been keeping records of such data.  In fact, according to Brenda Rhodes-Miller of the D.C. Campaign to Prevent Child Pregnancy, the biggest declines in teen birthrates have been among black girls.

Bad news: Almost four out of five U.S. teen births, hower, are to unmarried females.  Add these figures to the more than half of births to unmarried women ages 20 to 24, and the total U.S. birthrate to unwed mothers increases to a record 36.8 percent.

From the Washington Times:

The rise in unwed births is "disastrous, about as big a leap as we've ever had," said Robert Rector, welfare analyst at the Heritage Foundation. 
    
When welfare reform passed in 1996, the unwed birth figures leveled off and seemed to stabilize for a while, Mr. Rector said. But recent increases in these numbers "clearly show that the impact of welfare reform is now virtually zero, and we are going back to the way things were before welfare reform." 
    
Focus on the Family sexual health policy analyst Linda Klepacki applauded the "great news" about sinking teen birthrates but said the rise in unwed childbearing is a sign that "our culture and policies are not supporting marriage." 
    
"We know that more than anything stable marriages help to bring children and mothers out of poverty. So when we link this to economics, it's very sad news," she said...

Other highlights of the CDC's preliminary data show the following: 

• The total number of births in 2005 rose 1 percent to 4,140,419. Of these, 1,525,345 were to unwed mothers. The number of births to teen mothers was 421,123. 
• The decline in teen births was due almost entirely to declines among girls 15 to 17; birthrates among those 18 to 19 and 14 and younger were essentially unchanged. 
• The birthrate for women 20 to 24 increased by less than 1 percent, while the birthrate for women 25 to 29 -- the most common age for motherhood -- remained unchanged. 
• Birthrates among women in their 30s and 40s continued to rise, reaching rates not seen since the 1960s. 
• The rate of Caesarean sections rose 4 percent, to 30.2 percent of all births.

Kudos to News Corps for doing the right thing.  Bravo!

From today's Washington Times:

After a firestorm of criticism, News Corp. yesterday said that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and TV special "If I Did It." 
    
"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. "We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown-Simpson." 
    
A dozen Fox network affiliates had said they would not air the two-part sweeps-month special, planned for next week before the Nov. 30 publication of the book by ReganBooks. The publishing house is a HarperCollins imprint owned, like the Fox network, by News Corp. 
    
HarperCollins spokeswoman Erin Crum said some copies had been shipped to stores, but would be recalled, and all copies would be destroyed. 
    
During an appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live," Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman's father, expressed appreciation to all who expressed their opposition to the book and interview. 
    
"We want to say thank you, thank you for everyone in this country who raised their voice and stood up for the right thing," the elder Mr. Goldman said. 
    
Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of murder in a case that became its own TV drama. The former football star and announcer was later found liable for the deaths in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the Goldman family. In both the book and show, Simpson speaks in hypothetical terms about how he would have committed the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife and her friend...

Any hopes of commercial reward were quickly overwhelmed by near-universal revulsion to last week's announcement -- from those who knew Mr. Goldman and Mrs. Brown-Simpson, from booksellers and advertisers, and even from Fox News Channel talk-show host Bill O'Reilly.

A dozen Fox network affiliates had said they would not air the two-part special, and numerous stores had either declined to sell the book or had promised to donate any profits to charity. 
    
"I have my own moral compass, and this was easy," said Bill Lamb, general manager of WDRB in Louisville, Ky., which had said it would not air the special, regardless of Fox network's decision.

 

I’m probably one of the few black people who will openly state the obvious: O.J. Simpson is guilty as sin of butchering two people, including the mother of his two children. But I’m NOT glad he “got off” (i.e. was acquitted of the heinous crime). Furthermore, I'm absolutely disgusted that he's basically sticking his finger in the eye of the family of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman by coming out with a book and Fox TV interview called "If I Did It, Here's How it Happened."

If he did it?

I remember vividly the entire O.J. phenomenon that captivated the word from 1994-1995. A junior in college during the trial, I recall how all of the black students just "knew" he was innocent, while whites and other moderately intelligent Americans who, based on the overwhelming evidence, believed he was (is) guilty.

I remember the scenes of mixed-race crowds listening intently to the verdict, and how blacks erupted in euphoric jubilation when Simpson was acquitted, while whites sat dumbfounded and utterly horrified.

(It's funny how blacks will vilify great Americans like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, yet, in a feeble effort at "getting back at the Man," praise a double-murdering scumbag like Orenthal James Simpson. Go figure.)

Not only did my heart go out (and continues to do so) to the Brown and Goldman families, but I really felt bad for O.J. prosecution team member Christopher Darden. An educated, dedicated black prosecutor for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office at the time, Darden took it on the chin every day, being labeled a “sellout,” “Uncle Tom,” “House N*****,” and every other despicable name you can think of (and he was even spat on) by blacks – just for doing his job. As he wrote in his book, In Contempt, Darden had prosecuted countless black defendants in his career before Simpson, and no one in the black community batted an eye.

O.J. Simpson was one of the wealthiest and most liked celebrities-former athletes in American history before being put on trial in 1994. However, his defense team (lead by the late Johnnie Cochran, who, as fellow defense attorney Bob Shapiro stated, “played the race card from the bottom of the deck”) was able to stoke the flames of racial animosity only two years removed from the L.A. riots, by portraying Simpson as a “victim of a racist criminal justice system.” And, as expected, many gullible, racially insecure black folks gobbled up every bite, and Chris Darden, the capable litigator that he is, was made the fall guy.

Yes, the LAPD botched their investigation, compromising very important forensic evidence. Yes, members of the prosecution made some mistakes. And, yes, I’ll give the Devil his due, Cochran and company did what they were paid big bucks to do: get their client off. However, the evidence of Simpson’s guilty was incontrovertible. And he was acquitted.

O.J. Simpson got a way with murder. Now, 12 years later, he wants to rub America’s nose in it.

Whatta guy.

Mike Gallagher sums it up nicely:

"It’s been said that Simpson is fawned over every where he goes. He signs autographs, poses for pictures, and claims to sleep with more beautiful women than he knows what to do with. I guess it’s impossible to stop ReganBooks from publishing Simpson’s vile book. But I am left with one single hope. Let the publisher make its money. So what if Simpson pockets a bunch of cash. May this book, allegedly filled with the specifics of how he did it, be his final undoing. Let’s pray that this “confession” will finally be what it takes for Americans everywhere to wake up and realize what a murdering, cowardly scum he is. Perhaps after people digest what he has to say, they’ll stop the stupidity of treating him like a beloved movie star.

I want to hear stories of how restaurants will refuse to serve him, how hotels will refuse to let him spend the night. I hope to hear accounts of ordinary citizens hissing, “murderer” as he walks through the grocery store. I long to read about people finally and fully treating him like the pariah he is.

Most of all, I want to pick up a paper or turn on a radio and hear how he finally administered justice to himself. After all, the guilt is clearly tearing him up. Why else would he open himself up to this kind of publicity just to write a book? Perhaps he’s living such a miserable, bitter, guilt-ridden life that he has to keep re-visiting the scene of his crime in his evil mind.

Maybe, one day, he’ll take a long look in the mirror and despise himself as much as the rest of us do. Perhaps he already does.

We can only hope. And that’s no joke."

On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Education voted (4-2) to eliminate the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) over the next two years.

So this is what the powers that be in San Francisco think of our United States Military, the same military whose brave men and women in uniform risk their lives every day to protect the freedoms of ungrateful, un-American cretins like them.   If that's how they feel, then I agree with Bill O'Reilly in his recent Talking Points Memo:

"This is a direct insult to the U.S. military and violates the civil rights, I believe, of the ROTC students. The federal government should immediately suspend all federal aid to San Francisco schools."

As I have blogged before, I have never served in the military, yet I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for those who have and those currently serving.  Anyone who dedicates his/her life, who voluntarily signs up to put him/herself in harm's way, sometimes under the harshest conditions, to protect me and mine will always have my respect.  What those kooks in San Francisco have done is basically spit in the face of the United States Armed Forces and everything they stand for.

This is beyond shameful.  Then again, the secular-progressive forces that run San Francisco have no sense of shame, now do they?

Another gem by Ann Coulter.

Desperate Congresswomen of Hysteria Lane
by Ann Coulter
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

In the past week, there are 476 documents on Nexis heralding the magnificent achievement of Nancy Pelosi becoming the FIRST WOMAN speaker of the House.

I thought we had moved beyond such multicultural milestones.

The media yawned when Condoleezza Rice became the first black woman secretary of state (and when Lincoln Chaffee became the first developmentally disabled senator).

There were only 77 documents noting that Rice was the first black woman to be the secretary of state, and half of them were issues of Jet, Essence, Ebony or Black Entrepreneur magazine.

A New York Times profile of Rice at the time waited until the last sentence to note in passing that Rice was "only the second woman, and the first black woman, to hold the job." (In a separate column by me, it was noted that Rice was the "first competent woman" to hold the job.)

Not everyone ignored Secretary Rice's achievement. Gore's campaign manager, Donna Brazile -- the last black person to hold a prominent role in any Democratic presidential campaign -- told Newsweek that when she watched President Bush nominate Rice, "I had chills up and down my spine." Brazile said: "I never thought in my lifetime I'd see an African-American woman being nominated as secretary of state. George Bush made that happen."

On MSNBC's "Hardball," even Al Sharpton said of Rice's appointment, "I don't think you can sneeze at the fact that she has made a tremendous achievement as the first black woman in history to be a State Department head."

Rice was not the first black secretary of state because Bush had already made Colin Powell the first black secretary of state. That was back during Bush's first term, when Rice was the first female national security adviser.

Bush also named Alberto Gonzales the first Hispanic attorney general. He made an Arab-American, Spencer Abraham, secretary of energy; a Cuban-American, Carlos Gutierrez, secretary of commerce; an Asian-American, Elaine Chao, secretary of labor; and a retarded-American, Norman Mineta, secretary of transportation. It was as if Mariah Carey and Tiger Woods had children and they all joined the Bush Cabinet.

The whole place has been lousy with women since the first Bush term, including Gale Ann Norton, secretary of the interior, Ann Veneman, secretary of agriculture, and Margaret Spellings, secretary of education. For a while there, it looked as if Bush might become the first president whose entire Cabinet's menstrual cycles were synchronized.

In a rare article taking note of Bush's "Benetton-ad presidency," Time magazine's Joe Klein said of Bush's second-term appointments: "It took Bush a month before he named a standard-issue white male."

By contrast, John Kerry hired only white males for top positions in his presidential campaign, a fact so embarrassing that even the media eventually took notice. In Kerry's defense, almost all of his and Teresa's domestic servants appear to have been people of color, although we still don't have a final head count on the place in Aspen.

But when Nancy Pelosi -- another Democrat who married a multimillionaire -- achieves the minor distinction of becoming the first female speaker of the House, The New York Times acts like she's invented cold fusion.

There were two major articles breathlessly reporting Pelosi's magnificent achievement as first female speaker and an op-ed by Bob Herbert, titled "Ms. Speaker and Other Trends." Beatifying Pelosi as "the most powerful woman ever to sit in Congress," Herbert began: "Sometimes you can actually feel the winds of history blowing." There was a major Times profile of Pelosi, gushing that Pelosi was "on the brink of becoming the first female speaker." (Isn't she just the most independent little gal?)

So in addition to bringing back a cut-and-run national security strategy, tax-and-spend domestic policy and a no-enforcement immigration policy, the new Democratic Congress is apparently ushering in a return to feminist milestones.

I warned you people about what might happen if "Take Your Daughter to Work Day" ever caught on, and now you've got no one but yourselves to blame. Happy now?

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This man is beyond shameless. 

From Yahoo! News:

In a new TV interview and book, O.J. Simpson discusses how he would have committed the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend "if I did it."

The two-part television interview, titled "O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened," will air Nov. 27 and Nov. 29 on Fox, the TV network said Tuesday.

"O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes," the network said in a statement. "In the two-part event, Simpson describes how he would have carried out the murders he has vehemently denied committing for over a decade."

"This is an interview that no one thought would ever happen. Its the definitive last chapter in the Trial of the Century," Mike Darnell, executive vice president of alternative programming for Fox, said in a statement.

The interview, conducted with book publisher Judith Regan, will air days before Simpson's new book, "If I Did It," goes on sale Nov. 30. The book "hypothetically describes how the murders would have been committed," the network said.

The book is published by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers run by Regan.

Simpson, who now lives in Florida, was acquitted in a criminal trial of the 1994 killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in 1997 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Goldman family.

Messages left with Simpson and his attorney Yale Galanter were not returned Tuesday night.

From the Washington Times:

President Bush joined icons of the civil rights movement in paying tribute yesterday to Martin Luther King at the groundbreaking for his memorial on the Mall. 
    
The King memorial will be the first for a civilian and black leader among the monuments marking presidents and the nation's wars on the Mall. The memorial, which will sit on a bank of the Tidal Basin, is expected to be completed in 2008. 
    
"I'm proud that this piece of the nation's capital is a monument to this great man," Mr. Bush said during the three-hour ceremony that drew about 5,000 people. "This is a memorial to the man who redeemed the promises of America that Jefferson and Lincoln made." 
    
Former President Bill Clinton, who signed legislation in 1996 authorizing the memorial, spoke of King's commitment to nonviolence and social justice causes such as ending poverty, saying those goals have not yet been achieved. 
    
"If he were here, he would remind us that the time to do right remains," Mr. Clinton told the gathering. 
    
At the end of the ceremony, civil rights leaders, celebrities and political leaders took shovels and dug dirt from the shore of the Tidal Basin. The memorial will sit on a 4-acre plot that's on line between the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, where King gave his renowned "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963...
 
Born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, King spent his life campaigning for peace, equality, brotherhood and integration. He received the Nobel Peace Prize when he was 35. 
    
On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., he was assassinated by James Earl Ray, who later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.


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Why am I not surprised?

From CNSNews.com:

Iran and Syria say that a Democrat-controlled Congress and the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could relieve the pressure on them, officials from those countries said.

Both Iran and Syria have been under pressure from the U.S. -- Iran, for its refusal to abandon its nuclear program; and Syria for its alleged involvement in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The U.S. also has criticized Damascus for hosting the headquarters of Palestinian terrorist organizations and for supporting the insurgency in Iraq.

Washington has accused both countries, which back the Hizballah terrorist organization in Lebanon, of trying to topple the government in Beirut.

Syrian officials said the U.S. midterm elections mark a "significant change," and they view it as an American vote "against the neo-conservative mentality of the current administration."

"The outcome of the theses elections [is] a genuine punishment from the American people to [President Bush's] administration that staged a war on Iraq because of incorrect and inaccurate stimulations," Syrian Information Minister Dr Mohsen Bilal said in an interview with al-Jazeera, according to the official Syrian news agency SANA.

"Therefore the U.S. and British forces are in a mess there now," Bilal was quoted as saying on Thursday.

Bilal noted that incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes the war in Iraq. "This lady has made the word of the American people audible," he said. "And this is very comfortable."

When you have terrorist-sponsoring nations (where they treat women worse then they treat their farm animals) singing the praises of Nancy Pelosi, then you know we're in big trouble.

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As far as how and why the GOP blew it this mid-term election, Hugh Hewitt and Ben Shapiro offer some very good insights.  Also read Mike Gallagher and Charles Krauthammer.

From the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative and the Detroit Free Press:

Michigan voters sent a clear message about affirmative action programs that offer preferences to women and minorities: It’s time for them to end.

An Election Day poll and hard voter numbers showed the controversial proposal winning by a wide margin.

Michigan now becomes the third state to outlaw the practice of giving preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes.

In the poll of 800 voters, the ban led 55% to 45%. In addition, with 49% of Michigan’s precincts reporting, the proposal was ahead 58% to 42%.

Fran Smeak, 80, a registered Republican from Birmingham, said she read the pros and cons for the five ballot proposals, but Proposal 2 was the hardest to make a decision about. In the end, she voted for the ban.

“I can see how some people would feel like if they did not get extra help, they would not make it,” she said Tuesday. “My overall view is that if everyone is on the same basis, then they should all get fairly treated.”

The proposal was largely prompted by a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld a general affirmative action admissions policy at the University of Michigan’s law school but struck down the undergraduate admission formula as too unyielding because it awarded points based on race.

U-M is the only university in the state that uses affirmative action to a great extent in admissions, but all public colleges and universities would have to reevaluate their outreach, scholarship and grant awards if they benefit gender or racial or ethnic groups. Programs that target specific groups in K-12 schools also would be affected.

Jennifer Gratz, the U-M applicant who was waitlisted and later spurred the case heard by the Supreme Court, served as the executive director of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. Tuesday, she smiled.

“I am excited and hopeful that Michigan will finally be a place of equal opportunity for all,” Gratz said. “The people of Michigan are the ones who have won today. They stood up to big business, big labor, to the entire establishment and said ‘we want to be treated equally.’ ”

Click here to read more about Proposal 2.

From USA Today:

Dr. George Tiller said he will ask the Kansas Supreme Court on Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate and take possession of the records of 90 patients from two clinics.

Attorney General Phill Kline obtained the records recently after a two-year battle that prompted privacy concerns. He has said he sought the records to review them for evidence of possible crimes including rape and illegal abortions.

During a Friday night broadcast of The O'Reilly Factor, the conservative host said a "source inside" told the show that Tiller performs late-term abortions when a patient is depressed, which O'Reilly deemed "executing babies."

O'Reilly also said his show has evidence that Tiller's clinic and another unnamed clinic have broken Kansas law by failing to report potential rapes with victims ages 10 to 15.

A spokeswoman for Kline, who received redacted copies of the records Oct. 24, said Saturday he doesn't know how O'Reilly obtained the information.