DarkStar Spouts Off

Life Question

A. Newly elected senator, Scott Brown is "pro-choice" and a Republican.

B. Newly elected senator, Scott Brown, is said by some to be the model Republicans need to win big in November.

Question: Does B mean Republican politicians should be A?

Quickie On Children

I meant to post this the other day. With the recent news, this really becomes important.

There are people rushing to adopt children from Haiti, how do the adopting parents know the children they are adopting are really orphans? If you go want to adopt, there are many children in the U.S. waiting to be adopted.

Blacks And Adoptions

Some adoption statistics:

Typically, African-American families have more opportunities for domestic adoptions, experts say.

Black families take in more than 800,000 children in informal adoption arrangements of extended family members, according to the National Association of Black Social Workers.

Black families also have more opportunities to adopt an African-American child in the United States "because the African-American birth mother will place with an African-American couple," Osborne said.

The myth that black families do not adopt has been shattered by research of experts such as Dr. Robert Hill, sociologist and author of "The Strengths of Black Families," which shows that African-American families adopt at a rate three to four times that of any other ethnic group.

In Colorado, African-Americans adopt at about three times the rate of whites and Latinos, and six times the rate of Asians, according to the 2006-08 American Community Survey three-year estimates.

I just wanted to get this information out there.

Hat tip: Black Informant

HAH!!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/scott-brown-warns-gop-he_n_440717.html

Scott Brown says he has already told Senate Republican leaders they won't always be able to count on his vote.

The man who staged an upset in last week's Massachusetts Senate special election, in part by pledging to be the 41st GOP vote against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that he staked his claim in early conversations with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip Jon Kyl.

"I already told them, you know, `I got here with the help of a close group of friends and very little help from anyone down there, so there'll be issues when I'll be with you and there are issues when I won't be with you,'" Brown said Thursday during the half-hour interview. "So, I just need to look at each vote and then make a proper analysis and then decide."

This is funny!!!! As I said, Brown's victory wasn't a Republican victory!

Comments R Me: I'm Not Gloating

This is what I wrote in the comment section on a post by P6:

Simply put, the congress-criters start the session, pass so many laws that I bet you can cross the street, eat a nice meal, fart afterwards, come back to where you started, and you have broken a number of federal laws.

The congress-criters, in their bids to maintain power, send pork the way of their supporters, and create programs that need to be funded, for life because there is rarely, if ever, a sunset provision. The costs of these things builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where taxes are going to have to be raised, and there is ALWAYS a point where those who get hit by the taxes, start to do things to avoid them. Even the "every day man", who can, itemizes his income tax return to get more money back/pay less taxes.

Add that to the fact that the Social Security tax income limit is going to have to be removed, and then they are going to have to raise the minimum age, AGAIN, and probably means test it, so that it doesn't go bankrupt, and the mutual fund 401(K) market has to go boom with the continued sale of stocks for retirees, and you have yourself a coming generational war that is coming that will not be pretty.

I'm really not gloating. I just hope you smart people take off the ideological rose colored glasses and look at the reality of the situation.

We're being screwed in our backsides without benefit of AstroGlide.

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Check out the tone, and not the tone I think you are checking out.

I Have A Lotto Ticket, So Now I Can Buy The 740i

I'm going to buy a Lotto ticket. Because I know I'm going to win big with the ticket, I'm going to buy a BMW 740i. I'll buy it BEFORE the Lotto drawing, but that's just a formality, because I know I'm going to get the money.

If you think that is silly, and you are right in thinking so, check out what the governor of Maryland is doing:

Maryland lawmakers should consider a Plan B in case the roughly $389 million in federal stimulus funds Gov. Martin O'Malley is counting on to balance the state's budget doesn't materialize, the General Assembly's top budget analyst said Monday.

"Some have questioned whether that money is reliably in the bank," Warren G. Deschenaux said at a hearing. "I would say that is not a certainty. The question then is: What to do about it?"

Deschenaux also warned that the roughly $350 million in borrowing from a little-known state-income tax account that O'Malley used to help close the revenue hole "amounts to an erosion of accounting standards." But he stopped short of ruling the transfers out of bounds, saying they had been used during past downturns to keep services going.

This is just like depending on hitting the lottery to pay for things you brought, but the drawing for the lottery hasn't happened yet. This is par for the course for O'Malley.

When he first got into office, he used most of the "rainy day fund" to pay for new services he created. Then, with ALL ECONOMISTS CALLING FOR A ROUGH YEAR, IF NOT A RECESSION, O'Malley and the Democrats in the state assembly, decide to create more services and use rosy scenarios, that they KNEW wouldn't hold true, to craft the budget. When the economy crashed, they had a special session where they raised taxes.

Some Democrats are starting to say that if the current spending goes through, in the next state assembly session, there will be "no choice but to raise taxes." I wonder if O'Malley thinks he's going to lose the re-election and he wants to set up the Republican governor.

Mr. President, You're A Joke

Mr. President,
You have been clowned by people within your own party. You proposed this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012503549.html

Under mounting pressure to rein in mammoth budget deficits, President Obama will propose in his State of the Union address a three-year freeze on federal funding that is not related to national security, a concession to public concern about government spending that could dramatically curtail Obama's legislative ambitions.

The freeze would take effect in October and limit the overall budget for agencies other than the military, veterans affairs, homeland security and certain international programs to $447 billion a year for the remainder of Obama's first term, senior administration officials said Monday, imposing sharp  limits on his ability to begin initiatives in education, the environment and other areas of domestic policy.

A three year freeze? Now, I know this was just for show. I know that you knew CONGRESS, which sets the budget numbers wouldn't go along. I knew a battle would happen, but they didn't even fake it. They just came right out and PUNKED you son!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012601270.html?hpid%253Dtopnews

The Senate on Tuesday rejected a plan to create a bipartisan commission to tackle the nation's budget problems this year, leaving it up to President Obama to create such a panel by executive order.

The commission would have had broad powers to recommend changes to the tax code and cut spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Its recommendations, due after the November elections, would have been guaranteed an up-or-down vote in both chambers of Congress before the year is out.

But the measure won just 53 votes in the Senate, not enough to overcome a threatened filibuster. In rejecting the idea, Republicans opposed to tax increases joined Democrats fearful of being forced to cut social programs.

They did this to dole out the pork to help them get re-elected. Frankly, IMO, you showed you were not much better than a figurehead when you placed the "health care" details into the hands of the Senate and the House.

And then you are now quoted as saying you would much better like being a successful one term President than a mediocre two term President? Does Jimmy Carter mean anything to you?

One World Banking Tax?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0bad2cbd08a59bba35eea63e3cbaa8c5.9a1&show_article=1

Britain stepped up its push for a global tax on financial transactions Monday as part of broad plans to reform the banking sector following the financial crisis, amid concerns that the US may act alone.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted that his proposal for an international levy on financial transactions was "gathering support around the world," a day after Chancellor Alistair Darling hit out at US proposals.

Meanwhile Paul Myners, the financial services minister, said international agreement on an extraordinary bank levy "would be the most important legacy" of the state-led response to the financial crisis.

Over. My. Dead. Body.

Playing For Keeps

This is an example of playing for keeps.

Personal friends of employees at Google, Adobe and other companies were targeted by hackers in a string of recently disclosed cyberattacks, raising privacy concerns and pointing to a highly sophisticated operation, security experts said.

Cybersecurity experts analysing the attacks said the hackers spied on individuals and used other sophisticated techniques, making them extremely difficult to stop. The disclosures come amid renewed alarm over cybersecurity after Google said it had been the target of a series of cyberattacks from China.

Think about how much information is on the Internet grid. Think about the number of businesses that have been blackmailed by cyber thieves.

This happened just because Google said something, publicly. What else is happening we don't know about?

Peeing in the Pool

I have to pee in the pool, cuz' I gotta go, NOW!!!!

• Am I the only person who remembers that after Katrina, the Red Cross received so much money DESIGNATED for Katrina relief, that the Red Cross decided to use the money for other purposes, saying the Red Cross is within its rights to do so?
• With all of the money being donated towards Haiti earthquake relief, how about the same money, or better yet, time, being used at home to meet some of our challenges?

Okay, the water is warm over here.

Political "Kick The Can"

This is a prime example of a political "leader," kicking the can down the road. O'Smelly refuses to make the hard choices because he criticized Gov. Ehrlich for making the hard choices for fiscal responsibility in the state.

Gov. Martin O'Malley plans to rely on a billion dollars in one-time accounting maneuvers to help balance next year's $13 billion state operating budget, avoiding deep cuts to services in an election year.

The strategy drew immediate concern from critics, particularly Republicans, who say the Democratic governor is deferring tough decisions.

O'Malley presented a broad outline Tuesday of how he plans to fill a $2 billion gap between revenues and expenditures in the spending plan he is required to submit to the General Assembly today.

He proposes steep cuts to to hospitals, and wants to continue this year's plan which forced state workers to take up to 10 days off without pay. Counties would receive the same reduced amounts of local aid and highway money they got this year.

I just plain don't like the O'Smelly's "leadership" of this state and he is a politician whose career is ended after he leaves the governor's office.

Here's Something Democrats Don't Understand

Here's something that Democrats in Washington don't seem to understand.

They made the gains they made because people voted against George W. Bush and the way to do that was to vote "for" Democrats and against Republicans.

Why couldn't the same thing happen to Democrats when the Democrats pushed an agenda that wasn't popular? Of course, I'm now of the opinion that they don't care as long as they get their big ticket items. So maybe they do understand.

Leader of Whom?

Obama got 95% of the Black vote.

When Al Sharpton ran for the Democratic nomination, he won ONE mostly Black voting district.

The greater Black population support vouchers and charters but not Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Sr, or the NAACP.

The membership of the NAACP is falling and has been at least since the mid-1980's.

The greater Black population doesn't support gay marriage but the NAACP does support gay marriage.

If "they" lead, who are they leading?

Remember this when people say/write that Blacks are "victims" of Black leaders. Then ask yourself, who is attempting to make Blacks, victims?

Pants on the Ground

This is funny and on point. There is one thing, however. If you noticed, the saggin' just isn't there now as it has been in the past.

Quickie Question of the Day

Who presents Blacks as victims more? Is it "Black liberals" or "Black conservatives"?

More later in another post.

Martin Luther King, Jr Birthday Celebration

I appreciate the lives lost and the work put in to secure the rights that I have to try to reach the American dream, however I define it; or not. I consider the Martin Luther King, Jr holiday a celebration of not just the man, but of all of the people involved in realizing the American ideal and making sure it was for all.

Maybe SHE Needs To Be The One Removed

On Oct 27, I wrote this:

Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, who participated and/or watched MUST be removed from the gene pool with extreme prejudice.

Well, today I read this:

(01-17) 16:07 PST RICHMOND --

A 15-year-old girl recanted her report that she was kidnapped at gunpoint off a busy Richmond street and gang-raped, admitting Sunday that she made up the story because she was late getting home, police said.

The girl's chilling account of an attack Friday night by four strangers - one with a distinctive "Money" tattoo on his neck - had prompted a full-scale investigation. Detectives worked overtime and alerted other agencies to be on the lookout for a black Buick the girl described.The report had also stirred up a new wave of soul-searching in

Richmond, where the brutal October gang rape of a 16-year-old girl outside her high school homecoming dance made national headlines.

My title says it all.

Caddie Health Insurance Tax

I have another question for your consideration. The Obama administration "cut a deal"* with the unions to remove the union opposition to the "Cadillac Health Insurance Tax". Union workers are TEMPORARILY exempt from this tax. Now, let's see if I understand this correctly.

Unions bargain with companies to win health care coverage that may be "so good" that it falls into the category of being taxable.

OK, if that wasn't clear, let me state it another way. ORDINARY BLUE COLLAR workers, who belong to a union, are going to be PENALIZED for having GOOD HEALTH CARE.

Ummm... wasn't the idea of this health insurance bill to insure (hah!) that people have good health care?

* Another question I have about this mess is, why do people who support this mess, do so when insurance companies wrote parts of the bill so that they are highly favored? The same applies for drug prescription companies.

Queue Keith Sweat, "Something Just Ain't Right"

Financial Gangstahs!!! [ Updated ]

You offer "financial packages" that you tout are safe, and actually spend time and money pushing as sound investments. MEANWHILE, you perform financial transactions that essential BET AGAINST the financial packages that you tout as safe.

Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, took the brunt of the questions, especially on his firm's practice of selling mortgage-backed securities and then betting against them.

"I'm just going to be blunt with you," Angelides told him. "It sounds to me a little bit like selling a car with faulty brakes and then buying an insurance policy on the buyer of those cars."

Blankfein replied: "I do think the behavior is improper. We regret the consequence that people have lost money in it." Later, though, he defended the firm's actions as "exercises in risk management."

DAMN! THAT'S GANGSTAH AND THAT'S WHAT THE FINANCIAL MAFIOSOS ADMITTED TO DOING WHEN THEY APPEARED IN FRONT OF CONGRESS!

Oh, They Want Him Gone!

Oh yeah, they want [ Michael Steele ] gone:

Senior Republican National Committee members are preparing a motion demanding that RNC Chairman Michael S. Steele cancel promotional events for the book he wrote as chairman, The Washington Times has learned. The proposed motion, to be presented to the 168-member RNC at its annual winter meeting in Honolulu at the end of this month, also would direct him to donate to the RNC and Republican candidates all proceeds from the book.

I emphasized what caught my eye. I heard him defend himself by saying previous RNC chairs had done similar things. He better come out with names and specific examples.

Quick A.M. Brain Spew

Quickie for the morning:

• If the Haitian immigration policy change doesn't happen after the devastation in Haita, I think President Obama's ghetto passed will be revoked.
• Looking at a Kwanzaa card we received, I laughed because I realized there was not the barrage of anti-Kwanzaa opinion pieces this year. Could it be that critics realized it's not widely practiced and not worth mentioning? Could it be because Kwanzaa celebrations are falling? Or could it be the critics were too busy gunning for big bad Negro number one, President Obama?

To The GOP Shills On Harry Reid

Harry Reid's comments were also made by Black people, as I have noted before. Reid's comments are no big deal. The BIG deal is Clinton's comment when he said to the late Sen. Kennedy, "A few years ago, Obama would be bringing us coffee."

By focusing on Reid instead of Clinton, you are missing THE BEST way to bring up the double standard argument AND the idea that there are racists in the Democratic party.

But what do I know. It's been made clear that you don't want me in "your" party any damn way.

Question For Public Black Conservatives

Care to guess how many articles Black conservatives have written stating Black teens/men who don't speak American standard English are at a disadvantage in the job market?

How is that different from what Reid said?

Race And Politics

What we have here, are two good ones.

The first, I see no problem with, because some Blacks were saying the same thing.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Obama is the nation's first African-American president.

"I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my improper comments," Reid said in a statement released after the excerpts were first reported on the Web site of The Atlantic.

The second, well, what can I say. This can be looked at in multiple ways. I'd like to see which way sticks:

[A]s Hillary bungled Caroline, Bill’s handling of Ted was even worse. The day after Iowa, he phoned Kennedy and pressed for an endorsement, making the case for his wife. But Bill then went on, belittling Obama in a manner that deeply offended Kennedy. Recounting the conversation later to a friend, Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.

My, my, my... The "first Black president", himself...

And while I'm at it, some people are trying to compare what Reid said to what Lott said in 2002:

"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either," Lott said at last week's party.

Let me see if I understand. Reid is saying Obama is a good candidate because of his speech and because he is light skinned. (Not really, but...) Meanwhile, Lott is saying the era of segregation was a good thing. So, what's the comparison, again?