Hurricane Katrina

My heart goes out to all the people in the Red states tonight!

These are some facts about the storm from wikipedia the online encylopedia!



Hurricane Katrina was a major tropical cyclone that caused significant damage in the southeastern part of the United States and became one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the United States.

Katrina is the deadliest hurricane in the United States of America since at least Hurricane Camille in 1969, which killed 256 people, and most likely the deadliest named hurricane on record (which is currently held by Hurricane Audrey in 1957 which killed at least 390 plus up to 160 never accounted for). It is also estimated to be the costliest natural disaster in United States history.


Katrina (at that time designated as "Tropical Depression Twelve") formed over the Bahamas on August 24, 2005 and first made landfall near North Miami, Florida, United States, as a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, causing major flooding, loss of power to more than one million residents, and eleven deaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

Suge Knight was shot!!!!

It seem's like its become quite fashinoable to get shot at Hip Hop gatherings, I wonder if they
plan this crap for media hype!!

What idiots!!

Suge Knight knows better he has a huge record!!

MIAMI --

Police had no suspects Sunday in the shooting of rap mogul Suge Knight at an MTV awards party -- a typical development in the street-justice world of rap.
Knight, 40, was shot once in the upper right leg shortly after midnight Saturday at a star-studded bash hosted by Kanye West.

Knight was scheduled for surgery to remove a bullet from his leg and repair a broken bone.
A police report described the shooter only as a man wearing a pink shirt. "We are interviewing all the witnesses we can to hopefully develop a composite," Miami Beach police spokesman Bobby Hernandez said.
He told the Miami Herald that the investigation was being hampered by witnesses' unwillingness to talk. "We don't have any physical description. We don't know how many subjects were involved, which is mind-boggling, with all those people around," Hernandez said.

A group of Knight's friends said he was alert and talkative after the shooting.
Several witnesses said Knight was sitting at a VIP table when a man walked up and opened fire. No one else was injured.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5583885.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suge_Knight

Cesária Évora...My Baby...

Cesária Évora is my favorite singer in the world, I love this women to death,

I dance in my undies to her music. If you happen to be in the International Music section of Barnes and Nobles

Go check out her CD!!!



Cesária Évora,

born in 1941 in the port town of Mindelo on the Cape Verde island of São Vicente is a notable folk singer. She is known as the 'barefoot diva' because of her propensity to appear on stage in her bare feet in support of the homeless and poor women and children of her country.
Long known as the queen of the morna, a soulful genre (descendant of the Portuguese fado) sung in Creole-Portuguese, she mixes her sentimental folk tunes filled with longing and sadness with the acoustic sounds of guitar, cavaquinho, violin, accordion, and clarinet. Évora's Cape Verdean blues often speak of the country's long and bitter history of isolation and slave trade, as well as emigration - almost two-thirds of the million Cape Verdeans alive live abroad.
Évora's voice, a finely-tuned, melancholy instrument with a touch of hoarseness, highlights her emotional phrasing by accenting a word or phrase. Even audiences who do not understand her language are held spell-bound by the emotions evident in her performances.
In 2004 she won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album.
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Discography
La Diva aux pieds nus - 1988
Distino di Belita - 1990
Mar Azul - 1991
Miss Perfumado - 1992
Sodade, Les Plus Belles Mornas De Cesaria - 1994
Cesaria - 1995
Cabo Verde - 1997
Cafe Atlantico - 1999
Sao Vicente de Longe - 2001
Cesaria Evora Anthology - 2002
Live in Paris (DVD) - 2002
Voz D'amor - 2003
Club Sodade - Cesaria Evora by... - 2003
Live D'Amor (DVD) - 2004

Africa's Contributions to the World!!!

A book some years back, called

Not Out of Africa:
How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth byProf Mary Lefkowitz

It showed in great detail how black leftist professor's invaded black colleges and
started teaching conspiracy theories as fact!

I recall at school when I was seven years old

seeing a poster of Hannibal as black, and with an Afro.

I was proud to think this black guy was so powerful, who would not!

But most if these accusation, that Aristotle was black, is absurd

But here are just some real benefits that African's have made to society at large!

Africa, the birthplace of humanity

We now knowWe now know that far from having no history, it is likely that human history actually began in Africa. The oldest evidence of human existence and that of our immediate ancestors has been found in Africa. In July 2002 further evidence of the existence of early hominids in Africa was found with the discovery of the fossilised remains of what has been called Sahelanthropus tchadensis, thought to be between 6-7 million years old, in Chad. The latest scientific research points to the fact that all human beings are likely to have African ancestors.

Trade, Cultures and Civilisations in Africa

Africa’s great civilisations made an immense contribution to the world, which are still marvelled at by people today. Ancient Egypt, which first developed over 5000 years ago. is one of the most notable of these civilisations and one of the first monarchies anywhere in the world. However even before the rise of this civilisation, the earlier monarchy of Ta Seti was founded in Nubia, in what is today the Sudan. Egypt of the pharaohs is best known for its great monuments and feats of engineering (such as the Pyramids), but it also made great advances in many other fields too. The Egyptians produced early forms of paper and a written script. They developed the calendar too and made important contributions in various branches of mathematics, such as geometry and algebra, and it seems likely that they understood and perhaps invented the use of zero. They made important contributions in mechanics, philosophy, irrigation and architecture. In medicine, the Egyptians understood the body’s dependence on the brain over 1000 years before the Greek scholar Democritus. Some historians now believe that ancient Egypt had an important influence on ancient Greece, and they point to the fact that Greek scholars such as Pythagoras and Archimedes studied in Egypt, and that the work of Aristotle and Plato was largely based on earlier scholarship in Egypt. For example, what is commonly known as Pythagoras’ theorem, was known to the ancient Egyptians hundreds of years before Pythagoras’ birth.

How Europe learned from Africa

Some of the world’s other great civilisations, such as Kush, Axum, Ghana, Mali, and Great Zimbabwe, also flourished in Africa and some major scientific advances were known in Africa long before they were known in Europe. Towards the middle of the 12th century, the north African scientist, Al Idrisi, wrote, ‘What results from the opinion of philosophers, learned men and those skilled in observation of the heavenly bodies, is that the world is as round as a sphere, of which the waters are adherent and maintained upon its surface by natural equilibrium.’ Africans were certainly involved in trans-oceanic travel long before Europeans and there is some evidence to suggest that Africans crossed the Atlantic and reached the American continent, perhaps even north America, as early as 500 BC. In the 14th century, the Syrian writer, al-Umari, wrote about the voyage of the Emperor of Mali who crossed the Atlantic with 2000 ships but failed to return. Africans in east and south-eastern Africa also set up great civilisations that established important trading links with the kingdoms and empires of India and China long before Europeans had learned how to navigate the Atlantic ocean. When Europeans first sailed to Africa in the 15th century, African pilots and navigators shared with them their knowledge of
trans-oceanic travel.

It was gold from the great empires of West Africa, Ghana, Mali and Songhay, which provided the means for the economic take off of Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries and aroused the interest of Europeans in western Africa. An early historian in the 9th century wrote ‘the king of Ghana is a great king. In his territory are mines of gold.’ When the famous historian of Muslim Spain, al-Bakri wrote about Ghana in the 11th century, he reported that its king ‘rules an enormous kingdom and has great power’. The king of Ghana was said to have an army of 200,000 men and to rule over an extremely wealthy trading empire. In the 14th century, the west African empire of Mali was larger than western Europe and reputed to be one of the largest, richest and most powerful states in the world. The Moroccan traveller Ibn Batuta wrote about his very favourable impressions of this empire and said that he found ‘complete and general safety’ there.

When the famous emperor of Mali, Mansa Musa visited Cairo in 1324, it was said that he brought so much gold with him that its price fell dramatically and had not recovered its value even 12 years later. The empire of Songhay was known, amongst other things, for the famous university of Sankore based in Timbuctu. Aristotle was studied at Sankore and also subjects such as law, various branches of philosophy, dialectic, grammar, rhetoric and astronomy. In the 16th century one of its most famous scholars, Ahmed Baba, is said to have written more than 40 major books on subjects such as astronomy, history and theology and he had his own private library that held over 1500 volumes. One of the first reports of Timbuctu to reach Europe was by Leo Africanus. In his book, published in 1550, he says of the town: ‘There you will find many judges, professors and devout men, all handsomely maintained by the king, who holds scholars in much honour. There too they sell many handwritten north African books, and more profit is to be made there from the sale of books than from any other branch of trade.’

African knowledge and that of the ancient world, was transmitted to Europe as a result of the North African or Moorish conquest of the Iberian peninsular in the 8th century. There were in fact several such conquests including two by the Berber dynasties in the 11th and 12th centuries. The Muslim invasion of Europe, and the founding of the state of Cordoba, re-introduced all the learning of the ancient world as well as the various contributions made by Islamic scholars and linked Europe much more closely with north and West Africa. Arabic numerals based on those used in India were introduced and they helped simplify mathematical calculations. Europe was also introduced to the learning of ancient world mainly through translations in Arabic of works in medicine, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics and philosophy. So important was the knowledge found in Muslim Spain, that one Christian monk - Adelard of Bath - disguised himself as a Muslim in order to study at the university at Cordoba. Many historians believe that it was this knowledge, brought to Europe through Muslim Spain, which not only created the conditions for the Renaissance but also for the eventual expansion of Europe overseas in the 15th century.

European views of Africa before the Slave Trade

Before the devastation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade important diplomatic and trading partnerships had developed between the rulers of European countries and those of Africa who saw each other as equals. Some of the earliest European visitors to Africa recognised that many African societies were as advanced or even more advanced than their own.

In the early 16th century, the Portuguese trader Duarte Barboosa said of the east African city Kilwa: There were many fair houses of stone and mortar, well arranged in streets. Around it were streams and orchards with many channels of sweet water.’ Of the inhabitants of Kilwa he reported, ‘They were finely clad in many rich garments of gold and silk, and cotton, and the women as well; also with much gold and silver in chains and bracelets, which they wore on their legs and arms, and many jewelled earrings in their ears.’

A Dutch traveller to the kingdom of Benin in the early 17th century sent home this report of the capital.

‘It looks very big when you enter it for you go into a great broad street, which, though not paved, seems to be seven or eight times broader than the Warmoes Street in Amsterdam. This street continues for about four miles and has no bend in it. At the gate where I went in on horseback, I saw a big wall, very thick and made of earth, with a deep ditch outside. Outside the gate there is a large suburb. Inside as you go along the main street, you can see other broad streets on either side, and these are also straight. The houses in this town stand in good order, one close to the other and evenly placed beside the next, like our houses in Holland.’

Africans and the African continent have made enormous contributions to human history just as other peoples and continents have. It is the development of Eurocentric and racist views in Europe that have denied this fact and sought to negate the history of Africa and its peoples.

Civil Rights Group support Roberts!!!

About a year ago I needed a part time job, and I contacted a telemarketing Job!

Well unbeknown to me that job was ....CORE.

Any way to make along story short, I did not like the work

atmosphere and worked one day!

But Roy and his son Niger are great guys, I also met them

during the RNC convetion, aat an after party!

At a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, speakers from the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Project 21, the Center for New Black Leadership, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said liberal advocacy groups who came out against Roberts' nomination this week did not speak for all minority communities, including blacks and Hispanics.

"We are not a monolith. We come from many different religious backgrounds and different socioeconomic backgrounds," said Jennifer Braceras, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Congress of Racial Equality spokesman Niger Innis, who led the coalition of organizations and individuals, said he was speaking on behalf of voices in the black community that often are not heard on issues of concern to all Americans, but particularly to African-Americans.

Among those issues, he said, are school vouchers, education, making government money available to faith-based organizations and making sure there is no discrimination against faith-based organizations.
On these type of issues, Innis said, the "voice you hear from this coalition represents a large segment of the African-American community that is standing behind John Roberts and his nomination

CORE it has a long Civil Rights record...




The Congress of Racial Equality or CORE is a civil rights organization that played a pivotal role in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century.

CORE was founded by a group of college students led by James L. Farmer, Jr., Berniece Fisher and George Houser. Bayard Rustin, while not a father of the organization, was "an uncle to CORE," Farmer and Houser later said. CORE evolved out of the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation but was not pacifist itself. Rather, it sought to apply the principles of nonviolence as a tactic against segregation, based in part on the writings of Henry David Thoreau and modeled after Mohandas Gandhi's non-violent resistance against British rule in India. Farmer believed that nonviolent civil disobedience could be used by African-Americans to challenge racial segregation in the South and eventually other parts of the United States.

On April 9, 1947, CORE sent a group of eight white and eight black men on what was to be a two-week Journey of Reconciliation through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky in an effort to end segregation in interstate travel. The members of this group were arrested and jailed several times, but they received a great deal of publicity, and this marked the beginning of a long series of similar campaigns.
By the early 1960s, Farmer, who had taken a hiatus from leading the group, returned as its executive secretary and sought to repeat the 1947 journey — coining a new name for it: the Freedom Ride. On May 4, participants journeyed to the deep South, this time including women as well as men and testing segregated bus terminals as well. The riders were met with severe violence and garnered national attention, sparking a summer of similar rides by other Civil Rights leaders and thousands of ordinary citizens.


CORE leadership had strong disagreements with the Deacons for Defense and Justice over their threat to use violent tactics to protect CORE workers from racist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, in Louisiana during the 1960s. By the mid-1960s, however, Farmer was growing disenchanted with the emerging militancy and black nationalist sentiments within CORE and resigned in 1966.
At a conference in Oakland, California, in July 1967, the group struck from its constitution the phrase calling


CORE a "multi-racial organization". It then adopted new constitution advocating "Black Power" as a goal at a conference in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 16, 1968. The St. Louis meeting was the re-convening of a conference in held in July 1968 in Columbus, Ohio, where some delegates had walked out due to the new constitution proposal.

CORE is currently under the leadership of its National Chairman, Roy Innis.
Membership in CORE is open to "anyone who believes that 'all people are created equal' and is willing to work towards the ultimate goal of true equality throughout the world."




http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/25/roberts.supporters/

Is there a black Gene?

Today, I am asking is there a black gene?



Is Race simply a cultural concept?



Please let me know by commenting on my blog!


My opinion is there is no "black gene" and there is no "white gene".
There however are a bunch of different genes. Black and white are CULTURAL concepts. Scientists can guess what cultural race you are a member of only after taking a bunch of samples from a lot of people and relating it to the cultural notion but it is not because there is a 'black gene' or a 'white gene'.

Young Blacks ready to embrace GOP!!

More young blacks ready to embrace GOP
Some cast aside traditional loyalties

By Kaitlin Bell, Globe Correspondent August 22, 2005

WASHINGTON --

Adam Hunter, an ambitious law student with bright eyes, an easy smile, and plenty of charisma, seems practically destined for politics.
A half century ago, his grandfather helped register blacks living in rural South Carolina to vote. Hunter's father, born on a tobacco farm and taught in segregated schools, was inspired by the civil rights movement to join the Democratic Party.

His parents have both headed the local Democratic committee in their New Jersey town, and Hunter himself worked as a campaign volunteer before he was old enough to vote.

Hunter, 22, is a first-year law student at Howard University, a historically black campus with a long record of liberal activism. He has political ambitions of his own -- but not with the Democrats.

Instead, Hunter, who as an undergraduate headed Howard's chapter of College Republicans, sees himself as part of a younger generation of African-Americans. He is ready to cast aside traditional loyalties to the

Democratic Party and forge his own political identity.

''My father and I are not that different, ideologically, but if you look at the time period we grew up in, that's where we're different," Hunter said. ''My foundation doesn't make me beholden to the Democratic Party. To me there's nothing more undemocratic than the idea that you have to vote for a Democrat or don't vote at all come Election Day."

Hunter is one of a growing number of young African-Americans leaving the party of their parents and grandparents in favor of the GOP -- or choosing not to have a political affiliation at all.

A July Gallup Poll of minorities' political opinions indicated that black voters overwhelmingly favor the Democratic Party, and the percentage of African-Americans who consider themselves Republicans lingers at about 9 percent.

However, according to the poll, of those blacks who vote GOP, most are under age 50 -- a generational shift that could be an opportunity for Republicans and a headache for Democrats.

Democrats have had a decades-long hammerlock on the black vote, stemming largely from the civil rights battles of the 1960s. Senator John F. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, received an estimated 88 percent of the African-American vote in 2004, 2 percent less than Al Gore won in 2000, according to exit polls.

Jeffrey M. Jones, who conducted the Gallup Poll, said it is too early to tell whether a slight increase in young black voters identifying with the Republican Party represents a long-term trend. But if those numbers rise another 5 or 10 percent next year, people should take note.

''There's a lot of hints out there that something is going on," he said. ''Nothing is totally conclusive, but the more hints there are out there, the more evidence you have that this could be real."

However, Republicans, billing themselves as ''the party of Lincoln," have launched a high-profile campaign to chip away at what has been a reliable voting block for Democrats.

While older black voters still have strong attachments to the Democratic party, political specialists say, younger African-Americans are less likely to be bound by tradition: They grew up in an integrated society, they don't have personal memories of the civil rights movement, and they are more focused on entrepreneurship and opportunity, two of the GOP's selling points.

''The question people are going to have is, who wants to build on the civil right movement's success -- closing the wealth gap, closing the health gap, offering people real access to opportunity?" Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said in an interview.

He reiterated his pitch to black voters: ''Give us a chance, and we'll give you a choice."

Hunter said he's well aware of the Democratic Party's history of helping minorities; he doesn't think that means they deserve his vote 40 years after key civil rights battles. Other issues are more important to him, he says: privatizing Social Security, lowering taxes, and business development. ''I strongly believe that there should be options for Americans -- rich, poor, old, young -- to invest," he said.

As some black voters drift toward the GOP, Republicans have accused the Democratic Party of expedient politics: ignoring a core constituency until it's time to vote, rather than nurturing African-Americans between elections.

Some African-American Democrats share that complaint.

''I think there's an extreme danger" of losing black votes to the GOP, said Lamell McMorris, an African-American political consultant who heads the Washington-based Perennial Strategies. Democrats are still relying on their civil rights record and are not pitching new ideas to young, professional blacks seeking to build businesses and personal wealth.

''As time goes on, you're dealing with a generation of individuals who, in their mind, are very far removed from the civil rights movement," said McMorris, who is 32. ''You cannot keep going on this romanticized, ideological civil rights agenda and think you can reach out to African-Americans of my generation.' "
''What the Democrats have not been able to do is to come up with a new vision, a new voice, a new perspective, a way to reach out to younger members of the African-American community," he said. ''In that area, I think the Republicans have done a better job."

Hunter said he's been inspired by the Republican Party's efforts to reach out to black voters. He praised
Mehlman, noting that the RNC chairman accepted the chapter's invitation to speak at Howard last spring. It was one of 17 appearances Mehlman has made around the country to recruit black voters. A GOP spokeswoman said Mehlman has held monthly strategy sessions with a group of prominent African-

Americans and is seeking to recruit more black candidates for elected office.

But at Howard, where allegiances to Democrats run deep, recruiting Republicans took some work, Hunter said.

During his freshman year, Hunter said, he resurrected Howard's chapter of College Republicans, which had been dormant for more than a decade, with hopes of injecting some political diversity into campus discourse.

About 60 or 70 students signed up for the group, he said, but only about 10 or 15 were committed members.

Although Hunter has considered himself a Republican since junior high school and had worked on GOP campaigns before graduating high school, he said not all Howard students were as eager to wear their political affiliation on their sleeves.

''On a black campus, it's hard to find people to stand up and say, one, I'm Republican, and two, I'm ready to go out and lead other students," Hunter said. But he noted that Howard's administration supported him by sponsoring debates with other campus political groups. Some administrators and professors said privately that they shared his political views.

Mehlman acknowledged that it will be difficult to tap into the Democrats' most reliable constituency. But he noted that in close elections, even a few percentage points can make a difference.

Republicans doubled their support among African-American voters last year in Ohio -- a critical battleground Bush won by 2 percentage points -- and nearly doubled support among black voters in Michigan, Mehlman said.

Hunter's own future in the Republican Party may come later; right now, he's focused on law school and plans to become a corporate lawyer.

Eventually, he hopes to return to New Jersey, he said, and run for governor or the US Senate. But it will take more than a few young people like himself for the GOP to truly make a difference.

''The Republican Party needs to work hard to understand the issues that are important to the community," he said. ''Funding higher education, home ownership, African famine, genocide, AIDS -- there's still a lot of work to be done."

President Elect Pierre Nkurunziza

Former Hutu rebel leader Pierre Nkurunziza is elected President of Burundi in the first elections since the start of a civil war in 1993.

He is a self proclaimed, evangelical born again christian!

Nkurunziza was born in 1963 in Burundi's capital city of Bujumbura. He attended primary school in Ngozi province and secondary school in Kitenga before graduating from the University of Burundi in 1990. At the university, he majored in education and sports.
His father, Eustache Ngabisha, was elected to Parliament in 1965 and later became governor of two provinces before being killed in 1972 during a period of ethnic violence that claimed the lives of over 100,000 Burundians.
Nkurunziza was a lecturer at Burundi University when civil war broke out in the country following the assassination of Burundi's first ethnic Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye, in 1993.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Nkurunziza

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi

Coretta Scott King 's Heart Attack!!

I love Mr's. King,
she has such style and grace befitting for such a strong black, beatiful women!

So it is with much grief to report to my bloggers of her recent hear attack!

I always remmber seeing pictures of her in 1973, being present when President Ronald Reagan signed legislation establishing Martin Luther King Day, she was so graceful!

Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA

Coretta Scott King is mostly paralyzed on the right side of her body and faces a long, difficult recovery from a stroke, but she managed to say a few words Friday, her doctor said.

Dr. Maggie Mermin, King's personal physician, said that the 78-year- old widow of Martin Luther King Jr. is unable to walk and has been mostly unable to speak since the stroke Tuesday in the left side of her brain, which controls speech functions.

"She said a few words today. We're very encouraged by that," the doctor said.

Mermin said King would be in Piedmont Hospital for at least another week and said, "I'm not certain she'll have full recovery. ... We certainly hope for that."

King, who was listed in fair condition Friday, has recognized all her visitors and was working with speech therapists to communicate using pictures, Mermin said.

"Physically, she's doing beautifully, and emotionally, I think she's doing well given the circumstances," she said.

The doctor said King suffered small strokes in April and on Aug. 2. After the second stroke, King was unable to speak for several hours and doctors put her on a blood thinner in hopes of preventing clots.

But Mermin said the medicine could not dissolve clots that were already there, and one of those caused Tuesday's stroke.

Late Thursday, King's four children, Martin Luther III, Yolanda, Dexter, and Bernice, spoke to reporters for the first time about their mother's condition and said they expect her to fully recover.

"We are completely assured she will come to a complete recovery," said Yolanda King, the oldest child. "We believe this is a cleverly disguised opportunity to grow."

Coretta Scott King founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta after her husband's assassination in 1968 and has traveled widely to help foster his dreams. The couple married in 1953.

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King

"Cindy, Cindy, Cindy!!!!!

I just read a wonderful Op Ed against Cindy Sheehans protest againt's the war,

by a father who also lost his son in Iraq!

She Does Not Speak for Me My son died in Iraq--and it was not in vain.

BY RONALD R. GRIFFIN

August 18, 2005

I lost a son in Iraq and Cindy Sheehan does not speak for me.

I grieve with Mrs. Sheehan, for all too well I know the full measure of the agony she is forever going to endure. I honor her son for his service and sacrifice. However, I abhor all that she represents and those who would cast her as the symbol for parents of our fallen soldiers.

The fallen heroes, until now, have enjoyed virtually no individuality. They have been treated as a monolith, a mere number. Now Mrs. Sheehan, with adept public relations tactics, has succeeded in elevating herself above the rest of us. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida declared that Mrs. Sheehan is now the symbol for all parents who have lost children in Iraq. Sorry, senator. Not for me.

Maureen Dowd of the New York Times portrays Mrs. Sheehan as a distraught mom standing heroically outside the guarded gates of the most powerful and inhumane man on earth, President Bush. Ms. Dowd is so moved by Mrs. Sheehan's plight that she bestowed upon her and all grieving parents the title of "absolute moral authority." That characterization epitomizes the arrogance and condescension of anyone who would presume to understand and speak for all of us. How can we all possess "absolute moral authority" when we hold so many different perspectives?
I don't want that title. I haven't earned that title.

Although we all walk the same sad road of sorrow and agony, we walk it as individuals with all the refreshing uniqueness of our own thoughts shaped in large measure by the life and death of our own fallen hero. Over the past few days I have reached out to other parents and loved ones of fallen heroes in an attempt to find out their reactions to all the attention Mrs. Sheehan has attracted. What emerges from those conversations is an empathy for Mrs. Sheehan's suffering but a fundamental disagreement with her politics.
Ann and Dale Hampton lost their only child, Capt. Kimberly Hampton, on Jan. 2, 2004, while she was flying her Kiowa helicopter.

She was a member of the 82nd Airborne and the company commander. She had already served in Afghanistan before being deployed to Iraq. Ann Hampton wrote, "My grief sometimes seems unbearable, but I cannot add the additional baggage of anger. Mrs. Sheehan has every right to protest . . . but I cannot do that. I would be protesting the very thing that Kimberly believed in and died for."

Marine Capt. Benjamin Sammis was Stacey Sammis's husband. Ben died on April 4, 2003, while flying his Super Cobra helicopter. Listen to Stacey and she will tell you that she is just beginning to understand the enormousness of the character of soldiers who knowingly put their lives at risk to defend our country. She will tell you that one of her deepest regrets is that the world did not have the honor of experiencing for a much longer time this outstanding Marine she so deeply loved.

Speak to Joan Curtin, whose son, Cpl. Michael Curtin, was an infantryman with the 2-7th 3rd ID, and her words are passionately ambivalent. She says she has no room for bitterness. She has a life to lead and a family to nurture. She spoke of that part of her that never heals, for that is where Michael resides. She can go on, always knowing there will be that pain.

Karen Long is the mother of Spc. Zachariah Long, who died with my son Kyle on May 30, 2003. Zack and Kyle were inseparable friends as only soldiers can be, and Karen and I have become inseparable friends since their deaths. Karen's view is that what Mrs. Sheehan is doing she has every right to do, but she is dishonoring all soldiers, including Karen's son, Zack. Karen cannot comprehend why Mrs. Sheehan cannot seem to come to grips with the idea that her own son, Casey, was a soldier like Zack who had a mission to complete. Karen will tell you over and over again that Zack is not here and no one, but no one will dishonor her son.
My wife, Robin, has a different take on Mrs. Sheehan. She told me, "I don't care what she says or does. She is no more important than any other mother."

By all accounts Spc. Casey Sheehan, Mrs. Sheehan's son, was a soldier by choice and by the strength of his character. I did not have the honor of knowing him, but I have read that he attended community college for three years and then chose to join the Army.

In August 2003, five months into Operation Iraqi Freedom and after three years of service, Casey Sheehan re-enlisted in the Army with the full knowledge there was a war going on, and with the high probability he would be assigned to a combat area. Mrs. Sheehan frequently speaks of her son in religious terms, even saying that she thought that some day Casey would be a priest. Like so many of the individuals who have given their lives in service to our country, Casey was a very special young man. How do you decry that which someone has chosen to do with his life? How does a mother dishonor the sacrifice of her own son?

Mrs. Sheehan has become the poster child for all the negativity surrounding the war in Iraq. In a way it heartens me to have all this attention paid to her, because that means others in her position now have the chance to be heard. Give equal time to other loved ones of fallen heroes. Feel the intensity of their love, their pride and the sorrow.

To many loved ones, there are few if any "what ifs." They, like their fallen heroes before them, live in the world as it is and not what it was or could have been. Think of the sacrifices that have brought us to this day. We as a country made a collective decision. We must now live up to our decision and not deviate until the mission is complete.

Thirty-five years ago, a president faced a similar dilemma in Vietnam. He gave in and we got "peace with honor."

To this day, I am still searching for that honor. Today, those who defend our freedom every day do so as volunteers with a clear and certain purpose. Today, they have in their commander in chief someone who will not allow us to sink into self-pity. I will not allow him to. The amazing part about talking to the people left behind is that I did not want them to stop. After speaking to so many I have come away with the certainty of their conviction that in a large measure it's because of the deeds and sacrifices of their fallen heroes that this is a better and safer world we now live in.

Those who lost their lives believed in the mission. To honor their memory, and because it's right, we must believe in the mission, too.

We refuse to allow Cindy Sheehan to speak for all of us. Instead, we ask you to learn the individual stories. They are glorious. Honor their memories.

"Honor their service. Never dishonor them by giving in. They never did".

Mr. Griffin is the father of Spc. Kyle Andrew Griffin, a recipient of the Army Commendation Medal, Army Meritorious Service Medal and the Bronze Star, who was killed in a truck accident on a road between Mosul and Tikrit on May 30, 2003.

Abortion in an Age of Genetic Choice

http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2005/08/16/calling/

I found this question to be of great importance, given so many

Gay groups suport abortion!

Calling All Abortion-Supporting Liberals and pro Choice gays!

Got a couple of questions for you. Set-up first.

As you may know, technology has advanced to such a degree that parents may choose to kill — pardon me, “sex-select” — their babies if they have sex-related diseases such as hemophilia.

The latest topic of discussion in Britain is whether sex selection should be allowed for family planning purposes. Not mentioned in the article, but an obvious cause of controversy, is that “undesirable” human beings will be killed.

My questions to liberal gay and non-gay abortion supporters are these: If a significant number of women begin choosing to abort their babies because doctors discovered a “gay gene,” would your stance on the “right to choose” change or shift in any way? Would the number of women killing these “defective” babies make a difference?

Is one potentially gay dead baby one too many? Please disseminate this post far and wide. No doubt it will attract trolls, but I’m dead serious. Pardon the pun. Update: Off-topic comments will be deleted. The questions are posed to pro-choice readers, by the way.

"Angie! Angie!"

When I was younger I used to live in Bremmen Germany. I have always been fond of German culture, and language!

Well it seems that Germany may be on the way to having its first women President!

Her name?

Angie Merkel

(born July 17, 1954 in Hamburg) is a German politician and the opposition's candidate to become Chancellor of Germany in the upcoming German federal election, 2005.
Merkel is chair of the Christian Democratic Union since 2000. She is a Member of the German Parliament, representing a constituency which includes the districts of Nordvorpommern and Rügen, as well as the city of Stralsund, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania


- The conservative challenger to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder kicked off her campaign for next month's elections calling for more jobs and economic growth, even as polls showed the chancellor's party gaining in popularity.

Yet Schroeder's Social Democrats — whose popularity was up two points to 28 percent — remain well behind Angela Merkel's conservatives, who polled 42 percent, according to the survey by the TNS Emnid research for the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper.

Crowds shouting "Angie! Angie!" welcomed Merkel in Essen, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia where her Christian Democrats and their sister party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union ousted the Social Democrats in state balloting three months ago. The defeat caused Schroeder to call for new elections.

"Now the point is to get out of this misery, we need growth, economical growth is the way we need to grow as we are last in Europe. And that is not right," Merkel told the crowd. "That is not adequate for Germany - Germany can do more."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050811/ap_on_re_eu/germany_election_1

Resist, Gaza Resist, !!!!!

Today,

an unspeakable crime has taken place in Judea and Sumeria!

The unbelievable audacity of Ariel Sharon, to abandon his people as of now is sickness!

This is a difficult time for Israel, my heart is with the settlers and there homes!

This will not bring peace, the Pan Arab Nationalist do not want peace, they want Israel!

The stupidity of leftist and the moderate wing of liked is breathtaking!

I hope that my brothers and siters in Isreal resist, and fight and do not move!

The land is youre's you fought and died for it,

The Arab nationalist along side with the anti semite leftist only want to see Isreal disgraced!

The only occupires today are Sharon and the Arab Nationalist!

REPUBLICAN WROTE NAACP'S ANTHEM

James Weldon Johnson
(1871 - 1938)

Every time the NAACP sings its national anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, it honors a black Republican, James Weldon Johnson. This inspirational song, which was also adopted in the 1940's by millions of black Americans as the Negro National Anthem, was written in 1900 by Johnson in collaboration with his talented musician brother, John Rosamond Johnson, to commemorate President Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
The NAACP itself was founded on President Lincoln’s 100th birthday, February 12, 1909, by white Republicans who opposed the racist practices of the Democratic Party and the lynching of blacks by Democrats.
Johnson, who was born and educated in Jacksonville, Florida, served as field secretary for the NAACP in 1916 when he was offered the position by Joel E. Springham after attending the Armenia Conference on racial issues. In 1920, Johnson became the general secretary of the NAACP, the first black man to hold that office. He resigned from his position with the NAACP in 1930 after serving the organization for nearly 15 years.
After Johnson moved to New York in 1902 and became active in the Colored Republican Club of New York, he was appointed to the post of United States Consul in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, by Republican President Theodore Roosevelt. Johnson transferred to a similar post in Corinto, Nicaragua in 1909. His role in helping the United States Marines defeat the rebels when a revolution broke out in Nicaragua in 1912 earned Johnson wide acclaim.
In 1914, after Democrat President Woodrow Wilson from Virginia was elected, Johnson resigned from the U.S. Consular Service because he believed that there would be little opportunities for black Americans in Wilson's administration. President Wilson subsequently dismissed all black American federal officials. During Wilson's presidency, the Democrat-controlled Congress introduced the greatest number of bills proposing racial segregation and discrimination than had ever been introduced before.
The Daily American, the first black American-owned newspaper, was founded by Johnson in 1895. In the newspaper, which lasted for less than a year, Johnson addressed racial injustice, and, in keeping with his Republican values, asserted a self-help philosophy that was shared by Booker T. Washington. He also argued for the merits of racial integration and cooperation in both his newspaper and later literary works. While serving as the principal of Stanton Elementary School in Jacksonville, Johnson studied law under a white lawyer named Thomas A. Ledwith, and, in 1898, became the first black American to pass the Florida bar examination.
Johnson was a songwriter, poet, civil rights leader, and novelist. He was most likely better known for his literary works in the 1920's during the golden era of black culture and writing, known as the Harlem Renaissance, than he was for his leadership of the NAACP. He was a mentor for young writers during that time, including Langston Hughes.
Among Johnson’s works is The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, a novel about a black man who passed for white, published anonymously in 1912 and reissued in 1927 under his own name. He wrote his autobiography Along the Way in 1933, but his most celebrated work is The Book of American Negro Poetry published in 1922 that helped define what became known as the Harlem Renaissance. He and his musically talented brother, John, became a successful songwriting team on Broadway with Bob Cole, writing such hit songs as Nobody’s Lookin’ but de Owl and de Moon in 1901, Under the Bamboo Tree in 1902 and Congo Love Song in 1903.
Although he died tragically in an automobile accident in 1938 while on vacation in Maine, he is remembered for his dedication to serving his fellow human beings and his unfailing integrity.
Information about Johnson's life can be found in his papers in Yale university's Beinecke Library. The Library of Congress also has manuscripts about Johnson, including the NAACP Collection and the Booker T. Washington Papers. A comprehensive biography is James Weldon Johnson: Black Leader, Black Voice by Eugene Levy published in 1973. An essay about Johnson written by Robert E. Fleming at the University of New Mexico and published in the Literary Encyclopedia on January 8, 2001 can be found on the Internet at http://www.litencyc.com/.

The Pull out of Gaza!!

To my blog readers, to day is a sad day for Isreal, as the news is reporting,
Isreali homes are being demolished, and jews are fleeing there homes!
I am providing a reply to this historic, yet sad event

Alan and Kfir from Protest Warrior have sent some statements about the recent evenst!

I hope you enjoy and read there story!

Today marks Tisha B'Av, a date noteworthy in Jewish history as it was this very day that both Temples were destroyed in Jerusalem, the first by the Babylonians in 586 B.C., the second by the Romans in 70 A.D.

Two millennia later and it appears we'll be able to attach another tragedy to this date, the forced removal of all Jews from Gaza, set to commence this week. This small piece of land has always been barren and squalid until 1967 when after the Arabs failed in yet another imperialist attempt to destroy the Jewish state, Israel took it over. Since then 8,000 brave pioneers have resided in a portion of Gaza.



They settled in on infertile beach sand and were told by everyone that nothing had ever grown there and nothing ever would. Instead, what they accomplished was an agricultural miracle. Utilizing advanced technology which they invented, they made the sand blossom and built greenhouses that produce chemical-free bug-free organic produce that is shipped around the world and renown for its incredible quality and taste. Now if a Muslim country had taken over this land they would have expelled all the 'infidels'. But the Jewish settlers came with garlands of peace, hope and opportunity. The greenhouses they built employ Palestinians at wages far higher than they would make under any Arab dictatorship, and have forged true bonds of harmony and friendship: Saed, a 42-year-old greenhouse worker who commutes every day from Khan Yunis, said, "For me, it's a really good life. I make enough money to feed my family. I am close with my bosses, who treat me with respect. I don't want to be out of a job." Fhaud, 63, a greenhouse supervisor, said he has grown attached to his Jewish employers. "I've known my boss since he was a kid and I worked for his father," he said. "Some workers here have known three generations of Jewish families. I was invited to all the bar mitzvahs and weddings." Mahmoud, who works in the same greenhouse, said, "I don't want the disengagement to go through. Not just because I'll lose a job, but because I'll lose friends." So Jews and Arabs working together, turning the desert green. In a sane world we would be commending these Jewish settlers for sowing real seeds of peace. Of course, this is not a sane world, for next week all this has to be dismantled and turned over to Islamic terrorists in the name of 'peace'. For the first time in world history a country is going to forcibly remove its own people and give land over to its sworn enemies. So now that the poor Palestinians of Gaza are to be freed from their 'occupation', are they rejoicing in their independence and making plans to plow their energies into building communities and farms and schools and infrastructure? Are they preparing to serve as a model to the world that a country under Islamic law with a fresh start and no colonial 'imperialists' can succeed? Are they ready to turn their state into a free and prosperous Palestinian country? At a mass rally in Gaza City last Thursday, some 10,000 Palestinians danced, sang, and chanted, "Today Gaza, tomorrow Jerusalem." Jamal Abu Samhadaneh, commander of Gaza's Popular Resistance Committees, announced on Sunday, "We will move our cells to the West Bank" and warned that "The withdrawal will not be complete without the West Bank and Jerusalem." The Palestinian Authority's Ahmed Qurei also asserts, "Our march will stop only in Jerusalem." Meanwhile Hamas has officially announced that they will continue its war to destroy Israel by launching Qassam rockets at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and communities in Judea and Samaria. We're sure they'll be making full use of their new seaport to import weapons and munitions to keep the carnage coming. What's becoming clear is how the religion of Islam is addicted to war and mayhem. Not a radical minority, not a rogue sect, but its very essence is about submission and sacrifice and proving your worth by worshipping death in this life to gain a paradise of orgies and drunkenness. Their entire history is of warfare, and any accomplishments of their so-called Golden Age has been proven to be merely parasitic off the cultures they've conquered and reduced to dhimmi servitude. That every country under sharia is corrupt, belligerent, desolate and barbaric obviously gives them no pause, except to constantly drive them into further psychotic rage as they refuse to ever accept any responsibility for their conditions. They are akin to the powers in Orwell's 1984; there must always be an enemy. It's no surprise that women are treated like property in these countries as that's the only way Muslim men can feed their egos, to dominate others rather than ever actually produce something. What a victory for these people that their terrorism has paid off, with Western intellectuals cheering them on. You can only wonder how many youth who have been brainwashed from birth in the madrassas and draped in their culture of bomb-worship and martyrdom will join the global jihad as it now appears they actually have a chance to win. While our soldiers at Guantanamo have to wear rubber gloves when handing out Korans, it's pretty reasonable for them to conclude that the West is ready to fall and the global caliphate is a real possibility. Israel's retreat from Gaza will certainly do wonders for their recruiting. We can only presume how the leftist media establishment will cover this sorry affair, so we're making available the Gush Katif section of our film Entering Zion available for free download. You can get a last look at the communities and greenhouses before they are destroyed. At least we were able to record them for posterity.

We'd like to offer congratulations to all the liberal, progressive humanitarian women's rights environmentalist anti-war protesters who have made ending the 'occupation' of Gaza a top priority. What was an oasis of life is now to become a zone of death. You should be proud. *** Speaking of those humanitarians, we have two new PW videos showing what an unprogressive attitude they have towards dissent. Operation Enemy Enlightenment was a little street rumble with some protesters, culminating in one of them admitting his desire for Communism to rise again. And over in Amsterdam, Dutch-PW protested an anti-Bush rally with the predictable results of having their signs ripped down. We're sure the EU will be prosecuting the protesters for hate crimes. We'd also like to call your attention to a counter-protest to ANSWER's mass rally this September 24th in Washington D.C.

Aptly titled Operation Defend the White House, PW will be there with other groups to counter the radical mob that is showing up demanding the President's removal from office. For details go to http://www.defendthewhitehouse.org/. The way things are going in the Middle East, we may soon have to accept the reality that the global alliance of Islamic Jihad and the Socialist Left will not allow freedom to be vindicated. With Iran and North Korea building nuclear bomb factories, China on its way to becoming a military superpower, and Russia falling back towards authoritarianism, a weak and depleted United States will only be a recipe for these states to wage global war. The time is upon us to break out the Sun Tzu and bring the troops home. We've removed the WMD threat of their megalomaniac tyrant and given the people of Iraq control of their own destiny. It's now up to them if they want to be free or be another Islamic slave state. It could have gone differently, but that wouldn't have been good for the peace protesters, for with all the coming war they're helping to bring about by providing intellectual cover to Islam and weakening us from the inside, they'll have plenty of opportunities to engage in their love of politics and protesting. True peace and liberty would be a disaster for these people, they would have nothing to rally against and would lose their justification for being. That may be the silver lining of the past two years, in that at least those with open eyes can see the true nature of evil, the pathological and inexhaustible efforts those who hate the good will go to destroy any standards of objective morality. At this point we can only sit back and watch with detached horror at what they have wrought, and what is to come...

-Alan and Kfir
Founders of Protest Warriors.com

Farrakhan agrees Fox was Right!

In a never ending dispaly of black stupidity,
his holiness the rabid anti semite,

Louis Farrkhan agress blacks "don't want the job's that latins take!

And he argues for a black Latino Alliance, what ever that means?

I guess an alliance would entail bitter latino's and

American hating black elites coming together to bring
down the "man"!

If the facts mean anything, it seems that in California there is a movement of Latino's and blacks calling each other names.

We are killing each other, last week a Califonia gangkilled a black man while shouting
black epithets!

Of course the black elite will not report this, so as not to give the real impression
of a fractured black lating alliance!

Its amazing how mulitculturasim breeds racism, and racial superior idea's about the

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Mexican President Vicente Fox was right to say that Mexican immigrants take jobs "that not even blacks want."

Although Fox was sharply criticized for his remarks by some black leaders, Farrakhan said Sunday that blacks do not want to go to farms and pick fruit because they already "picked enough cotton."
"Why are you so foolishly sensitive when somebody is telling you the truth?" he asked the crowd at Mercy Memorial Baptist Church. He said blacks and Latinos should form an alliance to correct differences and animosity between the two communities.

Civil rights leaders including Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton' have called on Fox to apologize for the remark. Fox has said he was commenting on the contributions that Mexicans make to the United States, and did not mean any offense.

Farrakhan, who spearheaded the 1995 Million Man March that drew hundreds of thousands of people to Washington, D.C., was in Milwaukee to promote the Millions More Movement, which has scheduled a rally Oct. 15 on the National Mall.

The march is billed as a more inclusive successor to the Million Man March. This time, organizers have encouraged women and gays to attend.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050815/ap_on_re_us/farrakhan_mexico_1

New Black GOP group Forming!

Well its about damn time, I was so sick and tired of seeing Rev Peterson, and Project 21 coming out with silly statments! I hope this group is not taked over by peoples who can not articulate a thought! The groups that have normaly been black and associated with the GOP,would never
get a dime from me. These groups are rarely seen, there websites never change, I will only give money if this group acts different than the others! If not they will go by the way side like all the others!


Black Republicans are forming a national organization to recruit and register black voters that will be in step with the strategy of Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman.
The National Black Republican Association (NBRA) officially will announce its arrival on the political landscape today, as well as the creation of its fundraising arm and the opening of its national headquarters at 601 Pennsylvania Ave in the District. "The NBRA wants to empower the people to control their own destiny, hold politicians accountable and vote for candidates for the content of their policies not the label of their party," said Frances Rice, interim chairman of the group and co-founder of a black Republican club in Sarasota, Fla. "Having the black vote taken for granted by the Democratic Party is not a good thing. The Democrats have been running urban black communities for 40 years, and blacks are complaining about the same problems." Mrs. Rice said blacks need an organization that will effectively counter the misinformation concerning Republicans being perpetuated by the Democratic Party. The NBRA will be a resource center for the black community on Republican policy and values. And in tandem with the directives of Mr. Mehlman, the group also aims to increase the number of black Republican voters and, for those already in the party, provide information and networking opportunities. The organization will have an independent political fundraising arm called National Black Republicans for Freedom. The goal of the 527 group, named for a section of the tax code under which it is organized, is to identify prospective black Republican candidates for elected office and provide them financial and grass-roots assistance. "One important aim of the NBRA is to empower the people, by championing opportunity scholarships for black children and helping black Americans move into our ownership society," said Donald Scoggins, interim vice chairman of the group and chairman of the Frederick Douglass Republican Forum, an outreach group based in Loudoun County, Va. It will be only a short while before the 527 begins accepting contributions and buying ads. The NBRA is expected to have its first convention in February. This will be the first time that black Republicans have organized under one house in the party's recent history, said Deborah Burston-Donbraye, an Ohio-based political consultant and deputy director for public affairs for the Justice Department under President Reagan. "We're getting to that younger generation that is not as knowledgeable or as hurt by the past and are looking forward to see what is best for blacks and looking at Bush and the economy, and they like what they see," she said.

http://www.nbra.info/

Jihad and the ACLU

Given the ACLU's arguments against bag searches after the London Bombings,

I thought this was a good mokery of them!

www.thepeoplescube.com/


http://che-mart.com/

William Wilberforce the Evangelical Abolitionist!

William Wilberforce

(24 August 1759 - 29 July 1833) was an English parliamentarian and leader of the campaign against the slave trade.

Born in Hull, he was the son of a wealthy merchant who died when William was still a child. Placed under the guardianship of his uncle and aunt (a strong supporter of John Wesley), William developed an early interest in Methodism. His mother, however, was disturbed by this development and the young Wilberforce was returned to her care.

In 1776, William Wilberforce was sent to St John's College, Cambridge. He was shocked by the behaviour of most of his fellow students and later wrote: "I was introduced on the very first night of my arrival to as licentious a set of men as can well be conceived. They drank hard, and their conversation was even worse than their lives." Amongst these surroundings, he befriended William Pitt the Younger who would later become the Prime Minister.

Wilberforce decided to pursue the career of politics so he spent about nine thousand pounds to get elected as a member of parliament for Hull. In 1784, William was converted to Evangelical Christianity. Wilberforce now became interested in social reform, in particular improving working conditions in factories. Millions of men, women and children had no choice but to work sixteen hours, six days a week in grim factories. People had come to the cities to find work but had been exploited and crowded together in filthy apartments. Here, they could easily catch cholera, typhoid, and tuberculosis.

Eventually, Lady Middleton approached Wilberforce and asked him to use his power as an MP to stop the slave trade. Wilberforce wrote "I feel the great importance of the subject and I think myself unequal to the task allotted to me," but he agreed to do his best. On 12 May 1789, Wilberforce made his first speech against the slave trade. He was now seen as one of the leaders of the anti-slave trade movement.
Most of William's fellow party members, Tories, were against any limits to the slave market but Wilberforce persisted. Even when his first bill, in 1791, was defeated by a landslide of 163 votes to 88, Wilberforce did not give up. In 1805 the House of Commons finally passed a law that made it illegal for any British subject to transport slaves but the House of Lords blocked it. In 1807, a man called William Grenville made a speech which said that the slave trade was "contrary to the principles of justice, humanity and sound policy". This time, when the vote was taken, a huge majority in the House of Commons and the House of Lords backed the proposal. It became law on 25 March 1807. After 1807, with the support of friends such as Beilby Porteus, the Bishop of London, he continued to fight for the complete emancipation of slaves in the British Empire.

Although British captains were fined £100 for every slave that was found aboard their ship, this did not stop the trade. If a slave-ship was in danger of being captured by the Navy, the captain would order the slaves to be thrown overboard in order to reduce the fine. Some of the campaigners realised that the only way to stop slavery completely was to make it illegal. Wilberforce disagreed with this because he knew that both the slaves and their owners would suffer as a result. "It would be wrong to emancipate (the slaves). To grant freedom to them immediately would be to insure not only their masters' ruin, but their own. They must (first) be trained and educated for freedom."

Eventually, William was persuaded to join the campaign but he did not have much effect. Having retired in 1825, he did not play an important role. His fellow MP, Thomas Fowell Buxton continued to lead the abolition movement in Parliament. William Wilberforce died on 29 July 1833, a month before the Slavery Abolition Act was passed (an act which gave all slaves in the British Empire their freedom).
Although William Wilberforce is most famous for his work towards the abolition of slavery, Wilberforce was also concerned with other matters.

The British East India Company was set up to give the English a share in the East Indian spice trade (before the Spanish Armada, Portugal and Spain had monopolised the market). In 1793, the East India Company had to renew its charter and William Wilberforce suggested adding clauses to enable the company to employ religious teachers with the aim of 'introducing Christian light into India.' He had also tried to set up a mission in India. This plan was unsuccessful but Wilberforce tried again in 1813 when the charter had to be renewed again. Wilberforce, using many petitions and various statistics, managed to persuade the House of Commons to include the clauses. This resulted in the foundation of the Bishopric of Calcutta. He was also a founder member of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
William Wilberforce was a very dedicated man, compelled into religious action by his religious faith. Wilberforce wrote "God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners."

'Let thy continual mercy, O Lord, enkindle in thy Church the never-failing gift of charity, that, following the example of thy servant William Wilberforce, we may have grace to defend the children of the poor, and maintain the cause of those who have no helper; for the sake of him who gave his life for us, thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, now and for ever.'
The 17th-century house in which he was born is today Wilberforce House museum in Kingston upon Hull.
His children included Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce and Henry William Wilberforce

Sept 24th Deffend the "White House"

The past four years since 9-11 has seen several important and contentious elections. In the West, where the peaceful transfer of power can often be taken for granted, voters returned to power statesmen like Bush, Blair and Howard, who's War Against Terror is being waged also in support of global political liberty. Elsewhere, entire nations selected their own leaders for the first time. In Iraq, where political liberty remains under threat, many died exercising their right to vote while eight million succeeded in spite of the danger posed by terrorists and the disapproval of Western elites.

But in the United States, the Social Justice movement has shown a dismaying lack of faith in Democracy. Because the antiwar proposition lost the election, a mob intends to surround the White House this September 24th to demand President Bush’s removal.

This demonstration, like other large anti-war and anti-Bush demonstrations, is being organized nationally by the usual professional activists from the extremes of the Left. It deserves a national response, both from supporters of President Bush and from people who simply oppose the destructive trend of filibusters, judicial activism, reflexively contested elections and elections disregarded altogether.
We must raise our voices and speak at this crucial time to demonstrate to the nation and the world that we are still a Republic in which the political process is respected and a plurality of views can coexist without hatred.

www.defendthewhitehouse.org/

Founder of Ebony and Jet Dies

John H. Johnson, 87,

founder of Ebony and Jet magazines died today

My heart goes out to this inovative american dream maker!

He took 500 dollars and built an empire!

May God bless him and his family!

John was born in 1918 in Arkansas City, Arkansas died August 8, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois) was an author, entrepreneur, and founder of The Johnson Publishing Company, the largest African American owned publishing company in the United States. Growing up in Arkansas City, Johnson moved to Chicago with his family in the 1930s, where he briefly attended both University of Chicago and Northwestern University before beginning a magazine called The Negro Digest in 1942. The Negro Digest was the prototype for Ebony, which is still published and widely read today. Johnson Publishing also publishes Jet, Black World and Ebony Jr.
Johnson is a prominent member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
Johnson recently attend a celebration in his honor at his hometown of Arkansas City, Arkansas. Students of ARISE Charter School in Monticello, Arkansas attended the event.
Johnson died of cancer at the age of 87.

President Bush didn't "kill" your son madam

President Bush didn't "kill" your son madam

I really find this appalling, a mother who lost her son in Iraq blaming President Bush for her son's death by joining this "President Bush killed my son/daughter" crowd. If there was a draft instituted during this war, then perhaps there would be some merit to her argument but since the army is an all-volunteer force right now, I don't see how President Bush "killed" her son. This kind of behaviour (as well as here) just reeks of grandstanding and using their children's deaths trying to score cheap political points. I wouldn't be surprised if this woman has been a partisan Democrat since before her son was even born.While I do sympathize with the families who have lost loved ones while fighting overseas, this type of behaviour doesn't win any sympathy with those who say that President Bush "killed" their children. I feel sorry for that young man for having a mother like her and other soldiers who have lost their lives whose relatives try to score cheap political points like this.I know the leftists won't like what I just said, so go ahead, flame away

Great reply my Indian Canadian!

www.shamthetoryman.blogspot.com/

Voting Rights Act....The Facts

The historic 1964 Voting Rights Act is up for rebnewal and the black elite, and leftist opportunity
are jumping on the band wagon attacking Republicans!

False claims of Republican intimidation at the polls, and the Florida elections
has fuled a hatred that, makes this law o unique!


U.S. citizens commonly hear of a "right to vote," yet there is no such federal right. The Voting Rights Act and three constitutional amendments prevent discrimination in granting the franchise, yet voting remains a state-granted privilege, not a right. U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. re-introduced House Joint Resolution 28 in March of 2005 to amend the U.S. Constitution and create a federal right to vote. The resolution had 58 co-sponsors as of April, 2005.



The United States Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the requirement that would-be voters take literacy tests and provided for federal registration of African American voters in areas that had less than 50% of eligible voters registered. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965.
The VRA was made necessary by the practices of the socially conservative, southern wing of the Democratic Party. Although the right to vote is guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment, some Dixiecrats argued that Primary elections were an internal party affair, and that the party was a "private club", so that the government had no authority over its criteria for membership and other factors relevant to participating in primary elections.
The campaign to bring about federal intervention to rectify this situation culminated in the Selma to Montgomery marches.

The Act has been renewed many times and remains in force as of 2005: its most used (and most controversial) provision requires that the United States Department of Justice "preclear" any change in a state's voting laws that may have a negative impact on the voting rights of minorities. This in effect gives the executive branch of the federal government a kind of veto power over state legislatures' periodic re-apportionment of legislative districts.
Some portions of the act are up for renewal in 2007, most notably section 5. Section 5 requires "covered jurisdictions" to obtain preclearance before implementing a change in a voting standard, practice or procedure. Section 5, as currently authorized by Congress, stays in effect until 2007. The burden of proof under Section 5 is on the governmental body to establish that the proposed change does not have a retrogressive purpose.

www.votinglaw.com/dojfaq.html#2

Harry is one "Uppity Negro"!

"Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich.
Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value," -

"I work for the United Nations. I go to places where enormous upheaval and pain and anguish exist. And a lot of it exists based upon American policy. Whom we support, whom we support as heads of state, what countries we've helped to overthrow, what leaders we've helped to diminish because they did not fit the mold we think they should fit, no matter how ill advised that thought may be." - Harry Belafonte interview on

Quotes from -Harry Belafonte


Harry Belafonte a "Jamacian immigrant" referred this weekend to prominent African-American officials in the Bush administration as "black tyrants" at a weekend march, and he also compared the administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.

Belafonte, a featured speaker at Saturday's march in Atlanta commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, previously ignited a political controversy in 2002 when he likened then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to a "house slave." At Saturday's civil rights march, Belafonte said the Bush administration has been "rather dismal" for the lives of black Americans. The march, which featured prominent civil rights groups and labor union representatives, was intended to drum up support for extending and strengthening the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Belafonte used a Hitler analogy when asked about what impact prominent blacks such as former Secretary of State Powell and current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had on the Bush administration's relations with minorities.


Harry take youre stupid ass, and all the money you made here in t he USA,
and go to Jamaica!!!

Shut..the hell up Judge!

"It is indeed criminal to steal an election and within two years run up a federal deficit of half-a-trillion dollars, send our young people over to Iraq to die for an unjust war. What they are doing is criminal,"

blah, blah, blah, blah,

I just read on the wires were Judge Mathis has exposd his anti Bush color's!

Instead of working to get the adminstration and Congress, to pass the
Votings Rights Act, the good Judge has attacked the President!

While as a featured speaker at Saturday's civil rights march in Atlanta the Judge said the Bush administration and Republican Party leaders are "thieves" who "need to be locked up" for stealing the past two presidential elections and presiding over federal budget deficits and the war in Iraq.

"They all need to be locked up because they are all criminals and they are all thieves," said Judge Greg Mathis, the star of the syndicated television program "The Judge Mathis Show." Mathis made his remarks to an enthusiastic crowd assembled in Atlanta to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Participants are launching a two-year campaign to extend and strengthen key aspects of the act when it expires in 2007.

Given the good Judge's disliken for sacandals , I am suprised his excellency did not speack out against
the numerous scnadlas under Bill Clinton.

I guess the good Judge only hits the gavel one Republicans!

Where was the Judge on these and other scandals!!!

Travelgate Scandal

Filegate scandal

Chinagate

Filegate

Gennifer Flowers

Kathleen Willey

Lewinsky scandal

Pardongate

Paula Jones

Travelgate

Troopergate

Whitewater scandal


According to Wikpedia Mathis is a hard core democratm, and partisand even at a young age!

Mathis began his political career as an unpaid intern, and his presence in Detroit's City Hall was insignificant until he became an assistant to Clyde Cleveland a city council member. It was at this time Mathis took the LSAT and applied to law schools; he was fortunate enough to be conditionally admitted to the University of Detroit School of Law, which was in downtown Detroit, walking distance from city hall. He passed a summer course and was officially admitted to the night program which took four years to complete.
His career prospered when he was appointed head of Jesse Jackson’s Presidential campaign in the state of Michigan in 1988. Jackson won the Democratic primary, stunning eventual winner Michael Dukakis, and much of the nation. Mathis later became head of Mayor Coleman Young’s re-election campaign and after the victory was appointed to run the city’s east side city hall, a job that took much of his time, but made him certain he could make a difference in the lives of poor black people!


Mathis worked hard to win the judgeship in the city of Detroit. He had many obstacles to overcome. He had failed the Michigan bar exam once, and had been denied a license to practice law for several years after graduating from law school because of his criminal past. He had not accrued an extensive portfolio of legal work, and he was seen by the establishment as someone who lacked the necessary experience and insight to handle the hectic and heavy docket. Yet in 1995, he was elected a superior court judge for Michigan's 36th District, making him the youngest man in the state to hold the post.

"The horses of Famine have come"

"A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer"

-Nikolai Gogol


CNN and the UN are screaming about the famine in Niger

without providing some history to this nation!

I hope my blog artilce

can at least present some historical context!

Of course CNN has sent preety faced Aaron Cooper's to "investigate"!

Cooper's who keeps a splended head of gray hair, but manages to convey

a face right out of the womb, left a week ago to this afar nation!

My suggestion to Arron would be to" stay home and watch tv with his boyfreind

the situation in Niger is beyond CNN, or the world communites ability to handle"

Yes, bringing attention to this crisis, will no doubt feed thousands,

but this "AID money" will only perpetrate corruption, which will in time

leads to more hunger, and more "AID"

What are the saftey checks of all this cash going into a corrupt system?

Enough can never be done. While agencies are helping out a tremendous amount by supplying food, I am afraid that countries may become dependent on goods from these agencies.

I admit, it is extremely hard and difficult to see these malnourished children. Agencies must provide a self sufficient way of living for these people.

Of course If you really want Niger to survive, the answer is 'water' for the long term.

Food aid is just a short-term solution.

If the people of Niger had an artificial freshwater lake and were taught about agriculture, supplied with the solar energy to operate the greenhouse technology they could grow their own foods. No water, no economic growth.

If the corrupt leaders of Africa do not change their ways, they will very soon have no populace to rule over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Niger - " A short history of Niger 4 my blog reader's"

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ng.html - CIA Fact Shett on NIGER

Bush rejects Democrats' requests on Roberts!

In what can only be considered a stalling tactic, Democrats are asking
for personl Whites House Documnets on Roberts!

They have no intention if letting him sit down in his seat, in time for
cases at the Supreme Court!

They are stalling and trying as hard as possibel to come up with something!
Its a crying out shame!

Have the hearings, ask the questions, and vote yea or nay!!!

In the eloquent word's of rapper DMX, the Democrat Judical Commitee is gon' make me lose my mind up in "HERE", up in here



Democrats gon' make me go all out

up in here, up in here

Democrat's gon' make me act a FOOL

up in HERE, up in here

Democrats gon' make me lose my cool

up in here, up in here

www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/scotus/la-na-scotus6aug06,1,7573883.story?coll=la-news-politics-supreme_court

"Racist.....Caught on Tape"

Found this on the yahoo news wire about five minutes ago
This is the kind of shit that gets my blood boiling....


"A white supremacist investigated for a child-killing spree that terrorized Atlanta's black community once praised the crimes in secretly recorded conversations obtained by The Associated Press.

Although Charles T. Sanders did not claim responsibility for any of the deaths, lawyers for Wayne Williams, the black man convicted in two of the murders and blamed for 22 others between 1979 and 1981, believe the evidence will help their bid for a new trial.

Sanders — whose older brother, Don, was a reputed officer of the Ku Klux Klan — told an informant for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in the 1981 recording that the killer had "wiped out a thousand future generations of niggers."


His only complaint was that the killings were prompting police road blocks.

Police dropped the probe into the Klan's possible involvement after seven weeks, when Sanders and two of his brothers passed lie-detector tests, according to documents released this week to the AP following an open-records request!

"They should no doubt full open this case, this is shameful!
This poor guy has been in jail possibly for a crime he did not commit!
Given the time period, and Georgias pass I will no doubt bet he will get off!
Chuck Carlso, who was a prominet Regan Offical, now evangelical has been leading the
fight in areas of prison reform.

Chuck has listed some area's in which American's no matter of party can support!

1)Prisoner Reentry

2)Prison Rape

3)Inmate Health

4)Prison Work Reform

5)Voting Rights for Felons "Yes Chuck Colson suuports voters rights"

6)Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

7)Protecting the Innocent

To learn more about these critical issues, visit! http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Justice_Fellowship1

"A true Revolutionary Dies"

Whenever you meet difficult situations dash forward bravely and joyfully.
- Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure



Given the lefts sick obsession with revolutionary's,
one would have hoped to hear more from them
on the death of the late "John Garang"!

His years of fighting against Muslim Shaiah law, and disrimination and democray
is one to be lauded! With t he help from Colin Powell and Bush, he was able to
broker a deal of land sharing with the Sudanese Goverment!
He was killed the other day, I belive he was killed by the Sudanse goverment!

They may have done something to the plane!
He had just been appointed last week as Vice President!
They had the man killed, I will die beliveing this!

This is a brief history I put together for my faithful blog readers about the crisis,
in Sudan! And who this humble and noble men was was!

This is a revolutionary shirt that any Republican can put on his shirt!!!

John Garang was born June 23, 1945 in Wagkulei Village, Upper Nile, Sudan. After high school in Tanzania, went to Grinnel College in Iowa, and later received a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. Garang participated in military training at Fort Benning, GA, between college and graduate school. He founded the SPLA in 1983 and has led it ever since.



During the 1970s, Garang joined the Sudanese military, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Sudan People's Armed Forces (SPAF). In 1983, he was sent to crush a mutiny in Bor by 500 southern government soldiers who were resisting being rotated to posts in the north. Instead, he started a rebel movement, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), which was opposed to military rule and Islamic dominance of the country, and encouraged other army garrisons to mutiny against the Islamic law imposed on the country by the government. This mutiny marked the beginning of the Second Sudanese Civil War, which resulted in one and half million deaths over twenty years of conflict. Alhough Garang was Christian and most of southern Sudan is non-Muslim (mostly animist), he did not focus on the religious aspects of the war.

The SPLA gained the backing of Libya, Uganda and Ethiopia. Garang and his army controlled a large part of the southern regions of the country, named New Sudan. He claimed his troops' courage comes from "the conviction that we are fighting a just cause. That is something North Sudan and its people don't have." Critics suggested financial motivations to his rebellion, noting that much of Sudan's oil wealth lies in the south of the country.

Garang refused to participate in the 1985 interim government or 1986 elections, remaining a rebel leader. However, the SPLA and government signed a peace agreement in January 2005. On July 9, 2005, he was sworn in as vice-president, the second most powerful person in the country, following a ceremony in which he and President Omar al-Bashir signed a power-sharing constitution. He also became the administrative head of a southern Sudan with limited autonomy for the six years before a scheduled referendum of possible secession. No Christian or southerner had ever held such a high government post. Commenting after the ceremony, Garang stated, "I congratulate the Sudanese people, this is not my peace or the peace of al-Bashir, it is the peace of the Sudanese people."

The United States State Department argued that Garang's presence in the government would have helped solve the Darfur conflict in western Sudan, but others consider these claims " excessively optimistic".


In late July 2005, Garang died after the Ugandan presidential MI-72 helicopter he was riding crashed. He had been returning from a meeting in Rwakitura with long-time ally President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. Sudanese state television initially reported that Garang's craft had landed safely, but Abdel Basset Sabdarat, the country's Information Minister, went on TV hours later to deny the report.


Soon afterwards, a statement released by the office of Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir confirmed that a Ugandan presidential helicopter, crashed into "a mountain range in southern Sudan because of poor visibility and this resulted in the death of Dr. John Garang DeMabior, six of his colleagues and seven other crew members." His body was flown to New Site, a southern Sudanese settlement near the scene of the crash, where former rebel fighters and civilian supporters have gathered to pay their respects to Garang. Garang's funeral is due to take place on August 13 in Juba .



Considered instrumental in ending the civil war, the effect of Garang's death upon the peace deal is uncertain. The government declared three days of national mourning, but large scale rioting in Khartoum killed at least 24 as youth from south Sudan attacked Arabs and clashed with security forces. After three days of violence, the death toll has risen to 84. Unrest was also reported in other parts of the country. Leading members of the SPLM, including Garang's successor Salva Kiir Mayardit, stated that the peace process would continue. Analysts suggested that the death could result in anything from a new democratic openness in the SPLA, which some have criticized for being overly dominated by Garang, to an outbreak of open warfare between the various southern factions that Garang had brought together.



The Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) is a rebel group that was formed in 1983. It has since fought against the governments of Gaafar Nimeiry, Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir. Its was led by John Garang, a Dinka, until his death on 30 July 2005. The SPLA is the military wing of the SPLM, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement.

The SPLA is largely southern-based, non-Arabic and non-Muslim, in contrast to the predominantly Muslim and Arab north. Its declared aims is to establish a secular and democratic Sudan. While the war in southern Sudan has been largely described in religious and ethnic terms, it is also a struggle for control of the oil resources located in the south.

In the early 1990s the SPLA divided into three factions: the SPLA Torit faction led by John Garang that has been the most active militarily; Carabino Kuany Bol's SPLA Bahr-al-Ghazal faction; and the South Sudan Independence Movement led by Riek Machar. These internal divisions have hampered negotiations with the government. The South Sudan Independence Movement/Army and several smaller factions signed a separate peace agreement with Khartoum in April 1997 and formed the United Democratic Salvation Front (UDSF).



The Sudanese government had accused Uganda of supporting the SPLA. The group are alledged to have operated on the Ugandan side of the Sudanese border with Uganda at the southern limit of Sudan.

The SPLA remains the major southern group negotiating for an end to the southern war, though the fighting in Darfur threatens the precarious peace. In 2005, a treaty between the SPLA/M and the Sudanese government led to the formal recognition of Southern Sudanese autonomy

Kanye West..does it Again

These ar the Lyrics from Kanye West new Video. I think Kanye is great, and the most gifted artist I know! Diamonds are forever is a play of of the recent developments of criminality and brutality in Sierra Leone.

The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea on the north and Liberia on the southeast, with the Atlantic Ocean on the southwest. The name Sierra Leone was adapted from the Spanish version: Sierra León, and in turn, from the Portuguese Serra-Leão, which stands for "lioness mountains." It was an important centre of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Much like neighbouring Liberia, it was founded by freed slaves, who in 1791 founded the capital's, Freetown. In 1806, Freetown become a British Protectorate (the remaining country in 1896), reaching independence in 1961. From 1991 to 2002, the country has suffered greatly from a devastating civil war.



Diamonds From Sierra Leone"

[Intro]
Diamonds are forever
They won't leave in the night
Have no fear that they might
Desert me

[Chorus]
Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......

Close your eyes and imagine, feel the magic
Vegas on acid,
Seen through Yves St. Laurent glasses
And I've realized that I've arrived, cuz
It take more than a magazine to kill my Vibe does
he write his own rhymes, so sort of
I think 'em
That mean I forgot better shit than u ever thought up
Damn, is he really that caught up?
I ask if you talkin' bout classics, do my name get brought up?
I remember I couldn't afford a Ford Escort or even a four-track recorder
so its only right that I let the top drop on a drop-top Porsche
- its for yourself that's important
If a stripper named Porscha and u get tips from many men
Then your fat friend her nickname is Minivan
Excuse me,
That's just the Henny, man, I smoke, I drink, I'm supposed to stop I can't because

[Chorus]
Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......

I was sick about awards
Couldn't nobody cure me
Only playa that got robbed but kept all his jewelry
Alicia Keys tried to talk some sense to them
30 minutes later seems there's no convincing them
What more can you ask for?
The international assholes nah
Who complains about what he is owed?
And throw a tantrum like he is 3 years old
You gotta love it though somebody still speaks from his soul
And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame,
When he came, in the game, he made his own lane
Now all I need is y'all to pronounce my name
Its Kanye - But some of my plaques - they still say Kane
Got family in the D, Kin-folk from Motown
Back in the Chi - them folks ain't from Motown
Life movin' too fast I need to slow down
Girl ain't give me no ass, ya need to go down



Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
My father Ben said I need Jesus
So he took me to church and let the water wash over my ceaser
Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
The preacher said we need leaders
Right then my body got still like a paraplegic

You know who you can call you gotta best believe it
The Roc stand tall and you would never believe it
Take your diamonds and throw 'em up like you bulimic
Yea the beat cold but the flow is anemic
After debris settles and the dust get swept off
Big K pick up where young Hov left off
Right when magazines wrote Kanye West off
I dropped my new shit sound like the best of
A&R's lookin' like "pssh we messed up"
Grammy night, damn right, we got dressed up
Bottle after bottle till we got messed up
In the studio, where really though, yea he next up
People askin' me if I'm gon' give my chain back
That'll be the same day I give the game back
You know the next question dog "Yo, where Dame at?"
This track the Indian dance to bring our reign back
"What's up with you and Jay, man, are y'all ok man?"
They pray for the death of our dynasty like Amen
R-r-r-right here stands a-man
With the power to make a diamond with his bare hands...

Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe
Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)
The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme.
Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever? Ever, ever?......

Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
Diamonds are forever (forever, forever, forever)


The Sierra Leone Diamonds

The first Sierra Leonean diamond was found in 1930, and significant production commenced in 1935. Sierra Leonean production is characterized by a high proportion of top-quality gem diamonds. The Star of Sierra Leone, a magnificent 969-carat diamond, was discovered in the Koidu area. By 1937 Sierra Leone was mining one million carats annually, reaching a peak of 2 million carats in 1960. From 1930 to 1998, approximately 55 million carats were mined (officially) in Sierra Leone. At an average price in 1996 dollars of US $270 per carat, the total value is close to US $15 billion.

In 1935, the colonial authorities concluded an agreement with De Beers’ Sierra Leone Selection Trust (SLST), giving the company exclusive mining and prospecting rights over the entire country for 99 years. By 1956, however, there were an estimated 75,000 illicit miners in Kono District - the heart of the diamond area - leading to smuggling on a vast scale, and causing a general breakdown of law and order. The buyers and smugglers at that time were mainly Madingo and Lebanese traders. With the tightening of security between Kono and Freetown in the early 1950s, Lebanese smugglers began moving their goods to Liberia. Antwerp, and then Israeli-based diamond merchants soon noticed the booming diamond trade in Monrovia, and many established offices there. De Beers itself set up a buying office in Monrovia in 1954, in order to keep as much of the trade under its control as possible.

In 1955, the colonial authorities scrapped SLST’s nation-wide monopoly, confining its operations to Yengema and Tongo Field, an area of about 450 square miles. In 1956, they introduced the Alluvial Mining Scheme, under which both mining and buying licenses were granted to indigenous miners. Many of these licenses came to be held by Lebanese traders who had begun to settle in Sierra Leone at the turn of the century.




Siaka Stevens became Prime Minister seven years after independence in 1968. A populist, he quickly turned diamonds and the presence of SLST into a political issue, tacitly encouraging illicit mining, and becoming involved himself in criminal or near-criminal activities. In 1971, Stevens created the National Diamond Mining Company (NDMC) which effectively nationalized SLST. All important decisions were now made by the prime minister and his right hand man, a Lebanese businessman named Jamil Mohammed. From a high of over two million carats in 1970, legitimate diamond exports dropped to 595,000 carats in 1980 and then to only 48,000 in 1988. In 1984, SLST sold its remaining shares to the Precious Metals Mining Company (PMMC), a company controlled by Jamil. Stevens retired in 1985, handing over power to Joseph Momoh, who placed even greater responsibility in the hands of Jamil..

From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, aspects of Lebanon’s civil war were played out in miniature in Sierra Leone. Various Lebanese militia sought financial assistance from their compatriots in Sierra Leone, and the country’s diamonds became an important informal tax base for one faction or the other. This was of great interest to Israel, in part because the leader of the important Amal faction, Nabih Berri, had been born in Sierra Leone and was a boyhood friend of Jamil. Following a failed (and probably phoney) 1987 coup attempt in Sierra Leone, Jamil went into exile, opening the way for a number of Israeli ‘investors’ with close connections to Russian and American crime families, and with ties to the Antwerp diamond trade.[2]



The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel war began in 1991 and soon after, Momoh was replaced by a military government - the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC). Despite the change in government, however, RUF attacks continued. From the outset of the war, Liberia acted as banker, trainer and mentor to the RUF, although the Liberian connection was hardly new. With a negligible diamond potential of its own, Liberia’s dealings in stolen Sierra Leone diamonds have been a major concern to successive Sierra Leone governments since the great diamond rush of the 1950s.

What was different and more sinister after 1991 was the active involvement of official Liberian interests in Sierra Leone’s brutal war - for the purpose of pillage rather than politics. By the end of the 1990s, Liberia had become a major centre for massive diamond-related criminal activity, with connections to guns, drugs and money laundering throughout Africa and considerably further afield. In return for weapons, it provided the RUF with an outlet for diamonds, and has done the same for other diamond producing countries, fueling war and providing a safe haven for organized crime of all sorts.

Lesbian bitch smacks Gay Elite on Marriage!!

I met Tammy Bruce at Columbi Univeristy about 6 months ago, We ate dinner at a great
resturant! She had given a lecture about how conservative ideas's help minorities. I went as areprenstaive of the New York Young Repubican Club. She and I talked a great deal about right and the role of gay people in our society! She is sharp, and classy and a mind as sharp as razor blades!

This is an artilce she recently posted on NewsMax where she is a columnist!
She also takes a swing at Bush!

Respecting Marriage and Equal Rights
Tammy Bruce

Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004
Whoever thought that there would be actual voiced concerns about men in America wanting to marry their goats? Is there something going on in our great Heartland that I’ve missed? Instead of “The L Word” does Showtime have a special series just for the Midwest called “The G Word”?
Of course not.

But the debate over the idea of gay marriage has brought out concerns by one extremist end that it will lead to people marrying their livestock to Gay Gestapo charges of homophobic bigotry against those opposed to same-sex nuptials.

Neither accusation is valid, so as an independent gay woman, I think it’s time to make a few things clear. First of all, despite what you hear from the Gay Elite, there is not a consensus in the gay community about this issue. We do not all operate in the cultural or political equivalent of a Vulcan mind-meld.

I, one among many, respect and understand the growing concern about the disintegration of our traditions and values. I am so concerned, it is the heart and soul of my second book, The Death of Right and Wrong.

Consequently, I respect the majority of Americans and their opinion that marriage should be defined as between one man and one woman.

At the same time, as an American, I also believe that every American deserves the same rights and protections as every other. Most of you do, too. The very same polls that show how united Americans are against “gay marriage” indicate a majority approving of civil unions.

That doesn’t surprise me. It is consistent with the American belief that we can have fair play and equality while recognizing the need to honor traditional institutions.

Frankly, I believe the cultural trouble and moral vapidity in our society today—the moral relativism I write about in DRW—has sprung from the ‘liberation’ movements of the 60s and 70s. It was then that the Left began to attack the traditional in the name of liberation and equality.

Anything that would strike a pose against authority and social norms, ranging from promiscuous sex to drug abuse to adultery to riotous violence, was embraced and encouraged by leftist leadership. The “Counter Culture” was born.

Courtesy of cultural Incrementalism (which I explain in my previous column) what it became has rivaled Rosemary’s Baby.

Today’s struggle with single-parent families, drug addiction, the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases among the young, suicide rates, the devaluing of the family, and even the extraordinarily high divorce rate, I contend, can be traced back to the time which lionized the destruction of the traditional and the elevation of moral relativism.

Despite this, American society remains committed to equality, but it’s apparent that we don’t like the aftermath of taking our traditions for granted. So, yes, we’ve decided to maintain the idea of “marriage” as it has stood, while finding another way to guarantee the rights of gay people.

While this should actually be a relatively easy situation to resolve (heck, Bush, Kerry and Edwards all hold the same position—against gay marriage, for civil unions), all hell seems to have broken loose—not only in San Francisco, but in Washington, DC as well.

On one hand you have the reckless law-breaking behavior of San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom bestowing marriage licenses on gay couples. A few of my gay friends have voiced their support for this. I reminded these friends, who are also pro-choice, that Fresno, California has a pro-life mayor. How would they feel if that mayor decided to ignore the law and keep women from accessing their legal abortion rights?

They heard me, but it was disturbing that I had to put this into perspective.

Now, in Washington, DC the president has declared the need to amend the U.S. Constitution! Really now—that appears to be as much of a stunt as the rogue gay marriages in San Francisco. And this from a man (who along with Cheney) in the last election who said it should be a matter left to the states. It seems, though, only if the states do what you like.



Clearly, the Constitution should be amended as a last resort. Regardless of how you feel about gay marriage, or abortion, or saving the spotted owl (or not), the Constitution is not made of silly putty—to be twisted and shaped and torn apart depending on our national mood. It is written in a way that makes us have to struggle with issues we face.

After all, if we are truly committed to wanting to save and not tamper with our traditional institutions which represent the core of the American value system, doesn’t the Constitution fall into that category as well?

I am heartened by a few true conservatives, including Representative David Dreier whom I got to know on the Schwarzenegger Transition Team, who have voiced concerns about the rush to amend.

We’ve been through worse, we’ve survived and found solutions. We’ll survive this too, but the gay community must come to terms with a few issues first.

Gays ultimately need to stop looking to government for unconditional love and approval of who we are. Andrew Sullivan, a political commentator and writer many of you know and respect, wrote a piece for Time magazine where he actually equated governmental recognition of gay marriage as a necessary element to all gay people feeling accepted and wanted. He claimed that anything other than marriage will “build a wall between gay people and their own families.”

While his story was personal and moving, the argument was, frankly, nonsense, and representative of the general mentality among the gay elite. It also gives the government and other people’s opinions far too much power over the quality of our lives and effectively eliminates our own responsibility for our happiness.

Part of the fight for gay marriage is based in Sullivan’s lament—that it is only governmental recognition of who are that will make us whole. Let’s get real—the only thing that will make gay people whole is personal acceptance of ourselves by ourselves. Instead, we are still looking to Mommy or Daddy, now in the form of Society, to tell us we’re Okay. To sanctify, if you will, our lives and relationships.

Society has been the benevolent parent for a very long time. And it has been amazing, and a testament to the American character, that despite being a people of faith who have legitimate concerns about the gay lifestyle, Americans have made this the best place on Earth for gays and lesbians, where we are free to live incomparably rich lives.

Now, when Americans have said through polls and voting, that they do not want to give up the meaning of marriage but support a comparable alternative, how do the gay elite respond? When you ask for one cultural thing to be left untouched, the Gay Elite become the Gay Gestapo.

It’s a very fast change from the polo shirt to the brown shirt these days.

In classic Thought Police fashion and like children throwing a tantrum, the name-calling flies—those who oppose gay marriage are “homophobes,” “haters” and the label du jour “bigots.” Once again, the left, unable to answer critics with respect, resort to name-calling only to further the divide they need to validate their inevitable victimhood.

Marriage is worth protecting, in more ways than one. It’s also worth noting the cavalier way in which heterosexuals have handled marriage has lent fuel to the fire of this issue.

How seriously can any of us take the president’s vow to “protect the sanctity of marriage” when Britney Spears indulges in it for 5 minutes in Vegas? Marriage has become a television reality game show.

And protecting children? Before amending the Constitution, perhaps the Feds should make divorce a little harder to get. It’s divorce that is ruining children’s lives at the moment, not a couple of lesbians who want to get married (no matter how scary some of those pictures were out of San Francisco).

If George W. Bush is serious about “saving the institution” he has his hands full and he’s running late.



Tammy Bruce is a former president of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW and a contributing editor to FrontPageMagazine.com. She is the author of "The New Thought Police" and "The Death of Right and Wrong."

E-mail Tammy Bruce at
heytammybruce@yahoo.com

God Quotes I love!!!

If we ask ourselves "If there is a God",

then...Why is there so much evil?

We also must ask ourselves,

If there is no God,

Why is there so much good?


God is more truly imagined than expressed,
and He exists more truely than imagined.

-Saint Agustine


If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify Him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
-Carlyle Thomas

I believe Plato and Socrates. I believe "in" Jesus Christ.
-Samuel Coleridge

God is clever, but never dishonest.
-Einstein Albert


They that worship God merely for Fear,
Would worship the Devil too, if he appear.
-Fuller Thomas


You must believe in God,
in spite of what the clergy say.
-Jowett Benjamin



God created man in His own image, says the Bible;
philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
-Lichtenberg G.C


One of God's specialities is to make somebodies out of nobodies.
- Mears Henrietta


Life's greatest tragedy is to lose God and not to miss Him.
-Norwood F.W.

Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him;

who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.
-Panin Nikita Ivanovich

Were there no God we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts
and no one to thank.
-Rossetti Christina

Yes, if the writings,life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, then life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
-Rousseau Jean Jacques

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
-Shaw George Bernard

Our love for God is tested by whether we seek Him or His gifts.
Sockman Ralph


In the faces of men and women I see God.
- Whitman Walt

Good night! Good Night! Far flies the light; but still God's love shall flame above, making all bright. Good night! Good night!
-Anoymous poet


Man cannot stir one inch without the push of heaven's finger.
Chinese Proverb

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
-Allen Woody

Jim, you don't just ask the Almighty for his ID.
-- McCoy, The Final Frontier "star wars"


In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
-Newton Isaac



I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether or not my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-Churchill

I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

-Kerry John (I only quote him becausce he quotes Lincoln)

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh
-Voltaire

Mr. AlGore's Neighborhood

Mr. AlGore's Neighborhood

Al Gorezeera TV came online today to bore us to tears but there is one program that seemed a bit interesting. Here’s a transcript of a show I caught this morning that you might enjoy. I mean that you will enjoy. Well if you know what’s good for you enjoy it…okay start enjoying…now.
Mr. AlGore’s Neighborhood

Cast:
Mr. AlGore - Al Gore
Mr. Touchy-Feely: Bill Clinton
King Yesterday: John Kerry
KKK the Owl: Robert Byrd
Shrillary PussyCat: Hillary Clinton
Michael Moore: Michael Moore
U.N Observer: Kofi Annan

(cue music)
It’s a lackluster day in my neighborhood.
A lackluster day for my neighbors,
They all seem bored,
My name’s AlGore.

It’s a typical day in my community
a typical day for self pity,
Do you have time,
to hear me whine?

I have always wanted to be President, just like him (points to picture of George Bush)
I have always wanted to live in the Whitehouse too…like him.

…so

Let’s do a recount just 1 more time.
I think that it may come out my way this time.
Count hanging chads,
Count dimpled chads,
Won’t you do a recount?

Won’t you please?
Won’t you please?
Please won’t you do…a recount.

(end music)

(Enter Mr. AlGore in his Lumberjack costume)

Mr. AlGore: Hello my loyal constituents. I’m so glad we’re together today. Each one of your votes, I mean you is very special to me. Today I want to talk about something very important. Voting. Do you know what voting is? I thought you did. Voting is where grownups go to a small booth, and put a mark next to a Democrat’s name so the Democrat can be President.

Ding Dong!

Mr. AlGore: That sounded like the doorbell. Let’s see who it is.

Mr. Touchy-Feely: Hey there Al, how’s it goin’?

Mr. AlGore: Hi Mr. Touchy-Feely. My special friends and I were just talking about voting. Do you know anything about voting Mr. Touchy-Feely?

Mr. Touchy-Feely: Awe man, all I know is that those votes are expensive!

Mr. AlGore: They sure are Mr.

"Racist Democrat's" ...and they are Racist!!!!

How do the tolerant left treat, black powerful females, take a look at there photos!
The Democrats are under the surface reactionary racist, it does not take long,
before the Dixicrat comes out!

WANTED..WANTED..WANTED.. for "Treason"

The Agents here at HipHopRepublican.blogspot are offering rewards for information leading to the apprehension of America's Top Ten fugitives! They are all guilty of TREASON. Check out the photos below if you know these people they are very dangerous,and known to be big pie throwning libs!
LIBERAL'S HATE THE WORD..T R E A S O N ..TREEEEEAAAAAAASSSOOON

In law, "treason" is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A person who betrays the nation of their citizenship and/or reneges on an oath of loyalty and in some way willfully cooperates with an enemy, is considered to be a traitor. Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]."



Franken, can sniff my nut sack ,I despise this idiot. He should be th first rounded up!



Maher's motto, "I hate religion, religions fucked me, I hate God, God fucked me,
Atheism:"GOOOOOOOOOOD"..God:"BAAAAAAAAAAD". Did I mention I hate religion, OOh yeah bye the way remmber the crusades..ha ha ha ha! Oh did I mention I hate...God..ha ha ha. I am so enlighnted that all my time is spent meditating while I get sucked off at the play girl mansion!


This one is a "biaatch"!


Where the fuck is PETA?

Bush stands by his man

George Bush has bypassed Congress to appoint John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, to the annoyance of his political opponents and the dismay of many at the UN. But conservatives are delighted that the tough-talking Mr Bolton is being sent to an institution they feel needs reform, fast.

Ha hah hah ha..take that libs!!!

Guns, Germs, and Steel

I recenyly saw this on PBS, It was great and I agree with most of Jared;s Theory! But to be fair there are many who disagree!

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at UCLA. It won the Pulitzer Prize for 1998, as well as the Aventis Prize for best science book in the same year. In July of 2005, PBS broadcast a documentary based on the book, produced by the National Geographic Society.

According to the author, "An alternative title would be: A short history about everyone for the last 13,000 years." But the book is not merely an account of the past; it attempts to explain why Western civilization, as a whole, has survived and conquered others, while refuting the belief that European hegemony is due to any form of European intellectual superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies do not reflect cultural or racial differences, but rather originate in environmental differences powerfully amplified by various positive feedback loops.

The theory outlined
Before anyone developed agriculture, people lived as hunter-gatherers, as some still do.

Diamond argues that European civilization is not so much a product of ingenuity, but of opportunity. That is, civilization is not created out of sheer will or intelligence, but is more like a house of cards, each level dependent upon the levels below it. Specifically, the key to civilization is agriculture. The keys to agriculture are domesticable plant and animal species for food and work. The demands for domesticability of an animal species are particularly stringent. Diamond identifies six criteria including the animal being sufficiently docile, gregarious, willing to breed in captivity and having a social dominance hierarchy.


Transition
GGS argues that cities require an ample supply of food and thus depend on agriculture. As farmers do the work of providing food, others are free to pursue other functions, such as mining and literacy. (Division of labour.)

Essential to the transition from hunter-gatherer to city-dwelling agrarian societies was the presence of large domesticable animals, raised for meat, work and long-distance communication. Diamond identifies a mere 14 suitable candidate species world wide. The 5 most important (cow, horse, sheep, goat and pig) are all native to Eurasia. Of the remaining 9, only one (the llama of South America) is indigenous to a land outside the temperate region of Eurasia. None of the 14 is native to Africa. The Holocene extinction event eliminated many of the candidate species, and Diamond argues that the pattern of extinction is more severe on continents where humans arrived later and with more devastating hunting techniques.

Smaller domesticable animals such as dogs, cats, chickens and guinea pigs may be valuable in various ways to an agricultural society, but will not be adequate in themselves to sustain large-scale agrarian society.


Geography
Diamond also explains how geography shaped human migration, not simply by making travel difficult (particularly by longitude), but by how climates affect where domesticable animals can easily travel and where crops can ideally grow.

Modern humans are believed to have developed in the southern region of the African continent, at one time or another (see Out of Africa theory). The Sahara kept people from migrating north to the Fertile Crescent, until later when the Nile river valley became accommodating. Some peoples, such as the Aborigines of Australia, are believed to have been early emigrants from Africa, leaving by boat.

Diamond continues to explain the story of human development up to the modern era, through the rapid development of technology, and its dire consequences on hunter-gathering cultures around the world.

Germs
In the later context of the European-American conquest of the Americas, 95 percent of the indigenous populations are believed to have been killed off by diseases unwittingly brought by the Europeans.

How was it then that disease native to the American continents did not kill off Europeans? Diamond points out that the combined effect of the increased population densities supported by agriculture, and of close human proximity to domesticated animals leading to animal diseases infecting humans, resulted in European societies acquiring a much richer collection of dangerous pathogens to which European peoples had acquired immunity through natural selection (see the Black Death and other epidemics) during a longer time than was the case for Native American hunter-gatherers and farmers. (He mentions the tropical diseases that limited European penetration into Africa as an exception.)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs_and_Steel