DarkStar Spouts Off

Enough Is Enough

Let's tell the truth.

Jews should be grateful that the Holocaust occurred, otherwise, many of them would not have come to America nor would they have created Israel. Not only that, but because of natural selection, only the stupid Jews were killed in the Holocaust because the smart ones left before they were sent to concentration camps!

Was that over the top?

Hagee got in trouble for saying that Jewish people should be grateful for the Holocaust.

Compare that to what happened when Pat Buchanan spewed forth:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

There was outrage, but only from Blacks, well some Blacks.

Today as I was listening to The Larry Young Morning Show on WOLB, he mentioned that he was part of a panel discussion on race and talk media. Rev. Mushmouth Jesse Lee Peterson said Blacks should be grateful that we were brought over as slaves and that the ride over was rough but no rougher than a crowed airline flight. Larry Young played an audio clip to prove the statement made.

Enough is enough. The next time some fool says something like this, I'm firing back rhetorically with the Hagee rhetorical nuke!

$4 and $300

I just saw that regular unleaded gasoline is $4.00 99/100 at the gas station which I frequent.

My home gas and electric bill is $300 and some odd change.

Solution

• Drill in ANWAR.
• Drill off the coast of the U.S., right next to all of the other countries who are drilling off the coast of the U.S. in international waters.
• Put nuclear electricity generators online.

That is all.

"We" Should Rent A Helicopter

"We" should rent helicopters or hot air balloons:

TAMPA — Next year, a giant Confederate flag may tower above the tree line near the junction of Interstate 75 and Interstate 4.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans wants drivers in the Tampa area to see the massive flag — 30 feet high and 50 feet long — atop a 139-foot pole, the highest the Federal Aviation Authority would allow. It would be lit at night.

And then have a tinkle party over the damn thing.

Baltimore Schools Chief Alonso Is A Putz

About 6 years ago I attended a Baltimore City school board meeting addressing the fact that students who don't live up to magnet school standards, such as those at City, Poly, and Western, were being sent back to their zoned schools. The meeting included students who were sent back. I do not exaggerate or lie when I say THE STUDENTS ADMITTED THEY DIDN'T DO WHAT WAS NECESSARY TO STAY IN THOSE SCHOOLS!

So, when I read this, I went postal!

Baltimore schools chief Andres Alonso is making it harder for the city's elite magnet high schools to remove students who are struggling academically.

Alonso says that the schools are already getting the city's brightest students and that they have an obligation to work with them. Historically, he said, a significant number of students who began as freshmen at Polytechnic Institute, City College and Western High were not still enrolled four years later at graduation.

"That's unacceptable," Alonso said in an interview. "It represents a lack of accountability on the part of the school given the fact that they begin with students who by definition are the most academically able students in the city. ... My expectation is that they succeed with them, that they put in place not only extraordinary educational programs but also the interventions that are necessary."

Alonso is a putz! There ARE interventions in place! Students cannot be returned without having not met the interventions!

Sure, ruin the magnet schools just like the regular schools! AGAIN: Blow up the damn system and let the magnets become charters!

Black Or Not, Off The Hook, Suspend 'em!

I really am sensitive, shall we say, to this situation. My daughter had a teacher who wanted her put on Ritalin because she thought my daughter talked too much. Well, my daughter DID talk too much, especially when she wasn't challenged enough, but for a girl, in kindergarten and first grade, talking too much is normal! For us, her parents, the final straw came when the teacher, again, suggested Ritalin and said if we didn't do it, my daughter's punishment may get more severe which would cause a permanent entry in her school record. My daughter was in the first grade and a woman who had no medical experience at all, was demanding my child be placed on a drug. The school said although there have been complaints by some parents suggesting the woman didn't know how to handle a class, the school would back the teacher. At the end of the school year, we pulled her from the Lutheran school and placed her in a Catholic school.

However, if your child is misbehaving, Black or not, there have to be consequences.

Schools address black students' suspensions

Under pressure to reduce the suspension rate of black students, Anne Arundel County is making progress by training staff in how to work with people of different backgrounds and giving troublesome students more support.

Experts say such training is a key to keeping African-American students throughout Maryland in school. Last year, 13.9 percent of black children were suspended statewide, compared with 5.8 percent of white kids. Studies have linked suspensions and expulsions to lower academic achievement and higher dropout rates.

Teachers and administrators may misinterpret the body language and occasional confrontational behavior that some African-Americans learn in their neighborhoods and use at school as a way of standing up for themselves, veteran educators say. They will often back down if they're made to feel safe.

"Being rude means one thing to you and another to me," said Ella White Campbell, a retired city school teacher and an education advocate in Baltimore County.

While I understand the concern, MAYBE instead of "cultural training" of the teachers, training of the kids may be in order. Again, this seems to come down to home training. Rude is rude no matter what your race.

Day Of Gas Boycott: STOP IT!!!!!!

Look, I'm damn tired of receiving email and text messages saying <fill in the blank> day is a day to boycott gas! This "tactic" will not work because gas is something many of us HAVE to buy because it is an essential product.

Let's say a gas boycott is set for day X. One or two days before day X, gas stations are likely to raise prices because they know that people are stocking up before the so-called boycott. Then, on day X, gas stations are likely to lower prices enough to get people to "break the boycott" because the price is, temporarily, too good to pass up. Then for about 2 days after day X, gas prices go back up to the point they were the 2 days before the boycott because people who were silly enough to take part in the "boycott," have to re-fuel. So, chances are, you are going to pay MORE to boycott!

SO STOP SENDING ME THE CHAIN EMAIL AND TEXT MESSAGES!
Thank you.

Political Correctness

Someone calling a person a "guilty white liberal" is the equal to the use of sell-out by Black people. Only it generally comes from the white side and it is a more polite way of saying someone is a nigger lover.

Comments R Me: Elite This

I commented at Cobb:

OK, and exactly why is he wrong?

You mean to tell me people in small towns who have lost companies, aren't a bit mad? Or those who see their towns change because of perceived illegal immigration, aren't they a bit mad?

Talking heads from the right consistently state "fly over salt of the earth people" are mad about certain things. So, what's the beef?

OH, it was a Democrat.

Never. Mind. Silly me. I'm still THINKING while other people are still knee jerking.

I commented at Cobb, again:

So, when folks in small town PA say PA is REALLY everything EXCEPT Philly and Pittsburg, that's not a put down?

How about when small town folks say city folks aren't real America?

Or when conservative talking snots say "real America" is "flyover country" not the left and right coasts?

At Booker Rising:

Name one person who proclaims themselves to be Born Again, who DOESN'T cling to religion.

No Love For Tavis?

This morning Tom Joyner announced Tavis Smiley has quit the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Tavis has come under a lot of fire from Blacks for directly criticizing Obama and making statements that appear to Obama supporters, to be attacking Obama, even when Tavis didn't mention Obama's name.

So let me understand this.

Black Republicans and Black conservatives whine about Blacks calling them names but they continue on, and Tavis, who has previously come under fire from Republicans and conservatives, now folds under criticism from Blacks? Even if the criticism wasn't in nice words and some taking it too damn far with threats, Tavis, no longer getting the love from some Blacks, quits?

During the primary, Tavis has said he is trying to keep focused on the issues in the race and not get caught up in the typical topical media feeding frenzies. I think he was doing a good job at that, but he was not getting some love. In fact, Tavis started commenting that Blacks need to develop a "Love Language" to disagree in a disagreeable manner. I think he's right about that, but, just because the language is harsh, he folds?

I need a translation. How do you translate "Tavis is a punk!" into a Black Love Language?

[ UPDATE ]

From Tavis Smiley:

There is no way to put into words the love and respect that Tom Joyner and I have for each other, or the love affair that I’ve had with TJMS listeners for almost 12 years now.

Due to the overwhelming amount of phone calls and emails I have received from listeners and other media, I wanted to briefly clarify a few issues that I will address more fully in my regular TJMS commentary on Tuesday morning, April 15, at 8:20 a.m. ET.

I did not “quit” the Tom Joyner Morning Show effective immediately.  In July I will celebrate my 12th anniversary with the show, and as I discussed with Tom, it is my intention to take on the issues of the day in my commentary twice every week with the same energy, passion and commitment until the end of June.

Contrary to what has been suggested, I have decided to clear some things off my plate so that I can devote my time and attention to some exciting and empowering projects that The Smiley Group, Inc. and other divisions of my company have underway this summer, this fall and beyond.

That's what he said.
   

People Making Excuses

Look, just because a person is poor, it doesn't mean they are expected to behave outside of the greater cultural norm.

Just because a person is a child of a single parent, that doesn't mean that person's life is doomed. It doesn't mean that person is to be expected to be lacking in "home training."

More later, but I had to put this out here now.

[ UPDATE ]

I grew up hearing, "Just because people don't have a lot of money, it doesn't mean you can't be clean. It doesn't mean you can't sweep the front. Even if you have one pair of pants and two pair of shirts, they can be clean. And if your clothes are held together with clothes patches, at least make sure your clothes are neat and ironed."

That's how I was raised. That is what I've tried to pass on. I know of poor parents who are raising their children to be good citizens. I know of single mothers who are raising their children to be good citizens. Being poor or the child of a single parent is not an excuse.

So to the left who use poverty as an excuse, stop it. To the right who uses single parenthood as an excuse, stop it.

I'm Sorry

I'm sorry, but I can't join in the chorus of, "It's been 40 years since Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated."

I can't join in the chorus of, "Would would he have thought about Black progress or progress in the United States concerning racial matters."

I can't join in the chorus of, "Condi Rice, Obama, Clarence Thomas, Oprah Winfrey, etc, are blah blah blah."

I'm sorry, I'm just not up for the navel gazing. I just can't get over the idea, to me, that commerating his assassination is not perverse.

Mrs. D.S. speaks:

I understand how you feel, but we can't forget the fact that he was assassinated.

Kids (Really The Parents) Out Of Control And One Hero

I've been busy but I need to comment on these. I'll clean this up later, but except in one case, these kids are REALLY out of control! Actually, it's the PARENTS who have failed to properly raise and control their children!

I'm going to provide personal commentary later, but this is just over the top!

[ UPDATES to include article quoting and my own comments ]

Chicago Sadness

In all, 20 Chicago public school students have been fatally shot so far this school year -- seven in March alone -- compared with 24 the year before, said spokesman Mike Vaughn. Including those who died in non-gun violence, 22 students have been killed this year, and 30 last school year. School officials could not provide precise figures, but said that killings had increased markedly over past years.

On Tuesday, hundreds of Chicago public school students from four high schools gathered downtown to protest the violence and to call for more gun-control measures, with the school district sanctioning their absences and supplying buses, the Associated Press reported. Twenty empty school desks, each representing a fallen student, were set up in front of the James R. Thompson Center, which houses state offices.

A well-known anti-violence crusader on the South Side, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, had also planned a community rally Tuesday, and said St. Sabina Catholic Church will offer rewards for information about the killings.

In response to the increased violence, Chicago police have been increasing their presence at schools and have begun monitoring live pictures from 4,500 school security cameras.

This is a nice stand for the students to take, but gun control isn't the problem. The problem is their peers aren't controlling themselves and their peers aren't controlling themselves because their parents haven't taught them how to control themselves nor do their parents have control of them, their kids.

Teens abducted.

An Amber Alert has been issued for two teenage brothers apparently kidnapped after six gunmen invaded their Catonsville home yesterday, a Baltimore County police spokesman said.

Shortly before 3 a.m., six armed men wearing masks got out of a gray Chevrolet Suburban in front of a house in the 600 block of Plymouth Road and forced their way into the two-story house occupied by two females and eight males, most of whom did not live there.

Once inside, the men awakened the occupants, binding their hands behind their backs with tape and gagging them, said Cpl. Mike Hill, the spokesman.

The armed intruders remained in the house for eight hours, until about 11 a.m., when they left with the brothers, Stephon Blackwell, 17, and Sterling Blackwell, 16, in a black 2004 BMW 645 convertible that belongs to one of the occupants.

You know there is more here. They were living dirty. In fact, "their home" is a group home and police "retrieved" a lot of money, at least, from the home.

7 Year Old with Gun

The guns came from his uncle's house. One tumbled from the boy's pocket and onto the classroom floor. The other, police said, was found in his locker after a teacher took the child to the principal's office.

The boy is 7 years old and in first grade at Randallstown Elementary School.

He was suspended and faces possible expulsion. But police said he will not be charged with any crime, because there is no reason to believe he intended to use the weapons - even though both were loaded, with bullets in the chamber, ready to fire.

"It's a toy to him," said Cpl. Michael Hill, a Baltimore County police spokesman. "This is a first-grader, a 7-year-old. He doesn't know the repercussions of this or anything."

So, you mean to tell me that the parents never checked the boy's bag? After I spent time at someone else's house, my bag was checked. Then, there is the morning when you are going to school. No one checked the boy's bag then? And how can an uncle lose two guns and not know it? This doesn't add up, but if what is being reported is all there is, then, again, the adults didn't do their job.

He. Is. SEVEN. Years. Old!

Oh, this next one... But please read below the fold for a teenager who did the right thing.

Sharpton Gets Spanked

I had this post as a "featured post" because I thought what Sharpton did was disgusting. He should not have been defending the accused rapists of the Haitian woman who lived in Dunbar Village. Please check out this update. I'll post only a small excerpt.

In the past week, a rapidly-moving viral email campaign was launched, and thousands of concerned black citizens spread the word about a shocking crime against a Black woman and her 12 year old son, in which crimes against nature were committed. (read more details of the crime here)

This email, entitled “Stop Al Sharpton and the NAACP from endangering Black Women,”(source1) (source2) described a stunning betrayal in which the NAACP and Al Sharpton held a press conference and demanded bail consideration for three suspects in custody for the crime.

Again, please go to the link because it provides more background links.

Notes On The News

Passing comments on news and opinion pieces of the past few days.

Huckabee on Wright

I've received a few emails about this, and I've seen this a few places on the web. Mike Huckabee goes out on a limb:

And one other thing I think we've gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say "That's a terrible statement!"...I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack -- and I'm gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you -- we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told "you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus..." And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.

I'm stunned.

Sports

Bye-Bye Dookies!!!!!

Second-seeded Duke's quest for a fourth national championship ended abruptly in the second round when West Virginia used an astonishing rally to shock the Blue Devils 73-67 in the West Region on Saturday.

I shall forever despise Duke and their fans because of the racist comments directed towards Patrick Ewing, Sr. when Georgetown played Duke at Duke.

It's About History, If You Are A Terrorist

The next time some jack ass pundit says Blacks should move from areas where they are not wanted, or someone tells you the Confederate Flag isn't about hate, it's about heritage or history, tell them to kiss your a**, and if you're Black, tell them to kiss your BLACK a**, with emphasis appropriately placed where it belongs.

Deana Bryant allowed her 16-year-old son to wear a shirt emblazoned with the flag to school one day last week in open defiance of the ban. Speaking from behind the grocery counter where she works, Bryant said the flag is not about racism.

"It's his heritage," she said, her blue eyes flashing.

The same day, Lakeal Ellis, a nurse, kept her three daughters home from Fort Hill High School. Shaken by the escalating tension, they packed their clothes. The African American family came here a little more than a year ago from the District hoping to find better schools and a quieter life.

The girls were getting good grades at the high school. But after enduring racial slurs and harassment, sometimes at the hands of youths with Confederate flags, the Ellis family decided to give up and return to the District.

"Everything is over with Cumberland," Ellis said. "It's not okay for my kids."

I've been there. The heritage of Cumberland also includes incest. I'm not kidding. Look at where it is located.

Mail List Comments R Me: Eonomics and Political Party

So there is a mini-firestorm happening on an email list that I'm on. It happens to be about voting Democratic vs. voting Republican.

In one of the responses, I wrote:

I don't care if politicians feel my pain. I just want them out of my damn pocket and out of my way.

Later, I wrote the following (with edits) response to the question of how voting for the GOP would fulfill that desire:

Right now, if the tax cuts stay in place, my taxes will be lower because of DS 2.0 and the Mrs. Other than that, they are a waste. But the Democrats are talking about re-vamping income taxes, which means I'm screwed.

I'm going though that now in Maryland, which is controlled by Dems. They have increased the sales tax. The Dem governor, Martin O'Malley, is talking about taking measures to force a decrease in green house emissions by 90%, without even knowing what is possible. He has even said as much. As a result, a lot of people, including some Democrats, are saying the measures  he is talking about WILL drastically increase the cost of living for all people left in Maryland. O'Malley is in a pissing contest with an energy provider in Maryland and there are now lawsuits flying left and right. O'Malley's moves and comments are blamed for about a 15% drop of the company's stock value.

Comments R Me: Cali and Home Schooling

Concerning this bit of news, over at P6's spot I wrote the following comment:

How about this?

When we lock up the parents and teachers and school officials involved in public schools when TayKwan graduates functionally illiterate, then I'll support your point. Until then, Cali is practicing facism.

Yeah, then I'll be down with that ruling.

Comments R Us: Fallout From Obama vs Smiley

Cobb wrote this in response to the "battle" between B. Obama and T. Smiley. Go there to read the whole thing. I think it's unfair to excerpt a piece of it.

In response, I wrote this (with my edits):

Obama said he couldn't take the time but his wife could fill his spot and Tavis declined that offer.

This is something [that] Blacks from the Right are delighting in because of the row about the Black Right being punks and never showing up when invited, now the shoe is on the other foot. But the Black Right is, mostly, deliberately missing the point.

The Black Right claims they want the Black masses to hold politicians accountable and Smiley is doing just that [ by holding Obama accountable to show up ].

It's like when the Black Right says Jackson, Sr, Sharpton, the NAACP, etc "controls the minds" of the Black community but publicly ignores when the same Black community slams Jackson, Sr, Sharpton, the NAACP, etc.

Just look at the split in support for Clinton and Obama. The Black Right likes to point it out but won't go that extra step and ask, "Does OR DID the so-called Black leader EVER lead or determine how Black America thinks or acts?"

No, the Black Right won't do that because then the answer would force people to look behind THEIR curtain.

We all know so-called Black leaders don't determine what Black America does or thinks. But too many people from the left and right need to "perpetrate the fraud" for selfish reasons.

That is what I wrote, but I have to add more.

MD Government Hoses Maryland Residents, Part I

The Maryland state government legislators have done a big disservice to the residents of the Land of Queen Mary.

Last November, the State Assembly went into special session to raise our sales tax rate from 5% to 6%, increase the car titling expense from 5% to 6%, extend the sales tax reach to include computer services, change a flat tax structure to a "progressive" tax structure,  and to increase the smoking tax. Martin O'Malley lied when he stated most people would see a decrease in overall tax obligations and he lied when he said the state is in a deficit. All he had to do was hold spending the same and the deficit wouldn't have been there. Not only that, but once he entered office, he drained the rainy day fund to the legal minimum. So far, all analysis I've read of the new taxes and how it affects people in the state, has said that most people pay more.

So, with some people saying the country is going into (or in) a recession, the Maryland state assembly raises tax rates. So do you think that is going to help?

A Comment

When people hope  you get gang raped in jail because you took part in DOG FIGHTS, you KNOW that "everyday" irrationality is not at the core of the statements.

I Knew It

I knew it. It didn't sound right. I knew it. I even said so to my friend who is a Baltimore City fireman.

A firefighter who reported finding a knotted rope and a threatening note with a drawing of a noose in an East Baltimore station house last month had placed the items there himself, city officials said yesterday.

The man was suspended last week for performance-related issues and will likely face additional punishment, fire officials said. Sterling Clifford, a spokesman for the Police Department and for Mayor Sheila Dixon, said the man admitted to the hoax and will not face criminal charges.

Fire his ass! There ARE problems in the Baltimore City Fire Department. He made it worse.

P.S. The people who cheated on the promotion exam are Black. AND white. Remember this line.

I Wonder How This "Mother" Sleeps At Night

I wonder how this "mother" sleeps at night!

The call was a prank, one of many at the Drews' home this year. A lawn job. A brick through a window. Threatening phone calls. Paintball attacks.

The neighborhood is angry.

Residents are struggling to understand what happened here, in two homes four doors apart.

By now, the story is the subject of both national discussion and schoolyard lore:

One year ago, 13-year-old Megan Meier tied a cloth belt around a support beam in her closet and hanged herself. Her parents first said she was driven by a soured online romance, and the cruel, taunting Internet messages of a boy named Josh Evans.

Then they were told that Josh Evans didn't exist — that the Drews had concocted him to get back at Megan for quarreling with their daughter. According to a police report, Lori Drew said she wanted to know what Megan was saying online about her daughter and had "instigated and monitored" the fake account.

There's a special place in hell waiting for her! I hope her own family is so disgusted with her that they have shunned her!

This Is Not What This Time Of Year Is About

This is not what this time of year is about. This is just sad and sickening.

Thanksgiving shoppers are the earliest of early birds, and they've usually got Christmas on the brain.

Again this year Kmart and Wal-Mart, two of the country's largest retailers, opened their doors on Thanksgiving. FAO Schwartz, the venerable toy retailer, joined in. Its stores in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas were open for the first time on Thanksgiving.

The deals at one Kmart in Burbank, Calif., lured many away from food, family and football. Gary Okimoto saved $260 on a TV, but spent four hours in the cold, waiting for his shopping opportunity.

"We had a heater out there, some lawn chairs," Okimoto said. "I was going to bring the poker table, but I couldn't fit it in the car."

I think I'd lose my job because I damn sure wouldn't be working on Thanksgiving at a department store!

Two Points

I have to simple things to point out:

1. With Pat Robinson supporting Rudy Guliani, is there any further proof that the love of money is evil? Think about this. Pat Robinson is supporting a man who cheated on his wife, supports "the homosexual agenda," made New York City a "sanctuary city," and is a gun grabber. His support CAN'T be about morals because Rudy has none. Some would say it is about "protecting against terrorism" but Rudy was around when the first World Trade Center bombing happened and what did he do to try to prevent a second attempt? It HAS to be about money, meaning business.
2. Andy Reid and his wife should probably be in jail or out on bail. And the NFL should suspend him. I understand that parents can't be held accountable for what their adult children do, but when both are living in your home and are dealing drugs, you have a clue something isn't right.

Drop Squad: Damon Wayans

Damon Wayans, for THIS REMARK, you have been Drop Squaded!

[ Update ]

During a visit to "The View" on Wednesday, Wayans was asked his thoughts about the shock jock, who was fired by CBS in April after making the offensive comment, and recently hired by a rival radio station.      

"Freedom of speech, what happened to that? What happened to expressing yourself?" said Wayans, questioning the outrage that led to Imus' dismissal.      

Wayans later added: "At least I know where he stands. And you know what? When he called them nappy-headed ho's, I went, 'Wow, he's right.'"

I wonder how many fights he and/or his brothers got into defending their SISTER!

Brain Damaged

There is a Cosby skit that has been titled, "Kids are brain damaged." Reading the comments in this Booker Rising entry, makes me, again, state, many Blacks are psychologically damaged.

At 3:30PM, EDT, on Oct 15, 2007, there are about 140 comments and not one mentions mentoring.

Look, people who are doing wrong, and know they are doing wrong and don't care, can be written off, or at least placed at the end of the line for aiding. Those people who are doing wrong, or rather, not doing what is required to do better, should be given a helping hand, and like I wrote before, mentoring is the way to do it.

But, 140 comments and most of the back and forth is, "Cosby is RIGHT!", "Cosby is WRONG!" while people don't offer solutions except, "people need to take responsibility," doesn't cut it. It doesn't get the damn job done.

Yeah, brain damaged.