Whites-Only Basketball League: All-American Basketball Alliance Bans Blacks, Foreigners

They are being pooped on by their own mouths! The logic used to rationalize this away from racism is WEAK. This wasn't thought through very well, and they deserve ridicule for being stupid more than being for being rac ists. In America we have the right to think what we want, say what we want, but not to be free from ridicule for stupidity. I don't care what they say or do as long as NOBODY'S rights are infringed upon. It is illegal to discriminate based on color, and this thinly veiled racism fits the description. The last sentence in your post is a great sentiment if everyone thought so, but they do not, which is regrettable.

"Just ignore them if you don't like what they are doing." Has gotten us into deep trouble with Wall street, and WW2 holocaust, and can be said to have contributed to most of our social problems.

To truly honor our neighbors diversity America needs a sea change in our priorities as far as our constitutional rights are concerned, because we are rotting from the inside due to the dominance of greed in our culture.
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Green Products At CES 2010: The 9 Best Eco-Friendly Tech At The Consumer Electronics Show (PHOTOS)

"The grid" is old and decrepit, It will not last through the population growth projected for the next 50 years. There is so much bleed off due to poor maintenance that it makes the current situation laughable. Humans will not slow the rate of population growth until we are rendered infertile by our actions, so to support the population we will NEED to consume more efficiently and reduce waste. But since there is not really any short term profit incentive for participation in the maintenance of our infrastructure, it's failure will become yet another catastrophe down the road. Which will be used for political gain.
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Roy Sekoff Reviews Sarah Palin's Debut As Fox News Analyst (VIDEO)

It really is an indicator of the acceleration of America's slide to obscurity that Pay-lin repeatedly gets her opinion validated and amplified by the media. In "The End Of America" Naomi Wolf pointed out the parallels between our current social situation and those of countries which fell victim to the "closing" of societies, and the resultant losses of basic democratic freedom. One of those is the fall from popularity of science, literacy, industry, and above all intellectualism. All of which were huge factors in Americas successes in the early to mid 20th century. What do we make? What have we innovated? Can we even MAINTAIN tour current outdated infrastructure? The slide towards mediocrity awaits us fellow citizens, those at the helm will surely hop off the train just prior to the last stop, safety nets in place and pockets full.
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Sarah Palin: WaPo Faces Heat For Running Op-Ed

You have no idea how Americans think, you spout opinion, display some humility for gods sake. If you think that right now as it is that our country is the best in the world you're in a fantasy land. We used to be, but we have fallen from grace through the actions of the commerce/politic machine. Palin is stupid, and driven which is a bad combo. Sorry to say she HAS buckled by quitting her elected post(totally hypocritical). Most folks don't hate HER, they hate the idea that there are people who want her to run our country. The emotion you feel in critiques of her comes from there(horror). How does a nation run on individual responsibility? Lay it out for me. I doubt it includes any social responsibility. Society is not a bunch of individuals acting solely for their own personal survival, that leads to chaos. The great America of the 50's and 60's had national pride, and service to the country was considered obligatory in general. We were the leaders in every capacity relative to the rest of the world. The citizen felt pride (justifiably) for their nation. That respect for the citizen is gone, replaced by $ in the eyes of conglomerated corporations and the politicians they use to gain power(wealth). You and I are expendable to the corporate/­political/­military machine. Sorry to say that your head will explode one day when you realize you were fooled by the folks holding the banner you follow.
About Sarah Palin
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Sarah Palin: WaPo Faces Heat For Running Op-Ed

Ok you're wrong on just about every point you tried to make. The fear of Palin is actually the fear of an ignorant, religious, blatant liar gaining any political power. Did not Jefferson decry the need for separation of church and state?

The government has the responsibility to ensure that our country stays healthy, wealthy and wise, not through ownership, but through regulation of industry.



"If the American people ever allow private banks

to control the issue of their money,

first by inflation and then by deflation,

the banks and corporations that will

grow up around them (around the banks),

will deprive the people of their property

until their children will wake up homeless

on the continent their fathers conquered.­" -Thomas Jefferson



We are not fulfilling the obligations set upon us by the founding fathers.

The individual responsibility is being eroded in front of your eyes through media, and education. Claiming entitlement is not responsibility.

“Family, God & Country”-ok I'll give you that except put god at the end(that's a personal matter not a public one)

If we kept all we earn, who would pay for road repairs/new roads, how would your mail get across the country for less than $1.00, who would pay for the military to stay modern, who would pay to build schools and pay teachers?

I'd love to mind my own business, the behavior of others prevents that. I must make sure that if your business is hurting people, that you're stopped.
About Sarah Palin
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Reply to Bill Maher regarding How good it will get.

Bill I think you're smart enough to understand that the President cannot fight all battles at one time. His seeming lack of temerity in regards to the bailouts and the HC reform issue, in my opinion, are calculated  steps towards progress. The President needs to be more like the turtle than the hare, if lasting change is to come about. As I have said in the past, some bi-partisan inclusion is PREFERABLE to none, when it comes to longevity of changes. The President took upon himself the mantle to represent all Americans (I think his internal dialogue would not differentiate between Americans who like him or those who do not). We all know that those folks who support/deify FOX type rhetoric are not capable of seeing the damage they do to themselves/America. And therefore cannot be trusted as to knowing what their best interests are. The big man is I think giving the(t-bagger, birther crowd) the benefit of the doubt that they will see the light when he's finished.
You know that bit about Rome and how long it took her to be built.
If I did not know that Obama is intelligent, eloquent and assume he has the best intentions for our nation and it's huddled masses; I could not have the faith that I do that he will prove to be the redeemer of American integrity, and I would not have voted at all.
Integrity? You ask, ohh ho ho yes integrity is one major factor common in the failings of our education, economy, media, health care/pharm, mil/ind complex, correctional, and food industries to fulfill their intended services. The flip side of the integrity coin is greed itself. While greed is healthy and necessary for capitalist and free market economies (both of which in their pure unfettered forms proof out to be as unsuccessful as any theory taken to it's extreme) , the greedy excesses perpetrated upon the US public in general; is quite simply deplorable. Moderation of greed (regulation, consumer protection) is required for a sustainable healthy economy.
One example of the transgressions against American integrity is the High Fructose Corn Syrup/ corn subsidies/ sugar tariffs connection, or as I call it The Diabetic Triangle. This triad ensures that Americans WILL become less healthy if they eat the most readily available foods (most of which contain HFCS) thereby guaranteeing increased doctors visits. HFCS will actually increase your appetite due to the fake out it gives our bodies, ensuring that you consume MORE of those readily available foods, compounding those Dr. visits with obesity. If one checks into the profit margins for products sold in fast food chains, one will find that soda has the highest % of profit out of all of them. Sugar tariffs increase the cost of real sugars, discouraging the use of the (relatively) healthy sweetener in mass produced foods.
If one steps back to study the big picture through the integrity filter, it becomes apparent that these industries compound profit at the points where they overlap. Supplementing and/or reinforcing the increasing lack of industrial integrity.
How does one increase the consumption of unhealthy foods, entertainment? Make the population less intelligent by reducing the amount of learning options in schools, make secondary edu expensive            BAD
How does one increase profit at a prison? Do everything you can to ensure return inmates.                    BAD
How does one increase individual food consumption? Add chemicals to induce hunger/mask fullness     BAD
How does one increase profit if all other factors remain unchanged? Decrease the cost(quality) of the product or service. (supply/demand) Fire employees (stock trading)                                                                  BAD
In closing I would like to reiterate that the President has a lot on his plate, more than most realize. It will take time and patience for him to accomplish his goals for our nation. Considering the importance of these times, and the sheer size and complexity of the tasks at hand, I say tread carefully Mr. President. Be the antithesis of your predecessor. I know it will take both terms allotted to you, and all of your skill to make the progress we all see as necessary. The America that has been lost to those who remember our greatness in this world will one day return. These are the times of historical importance that will indicate to our progeny what stuff we are made of.




                        

Jon McNaughton Painting Shows Crippled Kids, Soldiers With Jesus; Lefty Journalists, Professors With Satan

This painting is a classic case of ignorant people with too much time on their hands.

America was not founded to be a nation of ANY religion, in fact church and state separation is included in the first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison both decried the importance of the separation of church and state to the preservation of the basic principles of the U.S. Constitution.

I wonder what Jesus would think of our rampant overpopulation of the planet? Our habit of producing children when we are least prepared to raise them. All under the claim that it is his wish. The bible seems to grant people the ability to rationalize some of the most absurd ideas and philosophies. War, prejudice, slavery, torture, crusading in the name of god.

One difference between the mentality of a Jihadist, and and abortion clinic bomber; one would die themselves to serve their purpose (honorable in the sense that if one is going to kill, at least they are willing to die as well), the other is too chicken $h!t and their belief is weak.
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