DarkStar Spouts Off

Jamal Bryant, Take Several Seats

Evidently, Jamal Bryant is being called the leader of a protest that happened this morning, in Baltimore, that closed entrance/exit ramp to/from I-95 and I-395. He said it was done as a protest against funding of a juvenile prison while "not funding" schools.

One more time in case you missed it.

Gov. Hogan has increased school funding. What didn't get funded was the OPTIONAL geographic based school funding. Bryant is whining about this, but I think he was silent when, for years, O'Malley didn't provide that same funding,

Here's more on the juvenile prison funding. GUESS WHO PUT THAT IN PLACE, ORIGINALLY?

Yes. Martin O'Malley!

I'm saying it right now. Jamal Bryant is just trying to get media face time.

Period.

Things Many Public Conservatives, Including Black, Don't Want You To Know

I'm tired. So, here are some things that many public conservatives, including public Black conservatives, do not want you to know:

• Blacks don't consider Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, Sr., to be leaders:
  

  8. Which of the following speaks for you most often?

  Person	Percent (%)
  Reverend Al Sharpton,National Action Network	24
  Reverend Jesse Jackson, Rainbow PUSH Coalition	11
  Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D‐CA)	9
  Benjamin Jealous, President&CEO,NAACP	8
  AssistantDemocratic Leader, Congressman James E. Clyburn (D‐SC)	5
  MarcH. Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League	2
  Michael Steele,former Chairman ofthe Republican National Committee	2
  None of the above	40

• A quote from Tim Scott
  

  And unlike other, more prominent black Republicans — Herman Cain or Ben Carson, for example — Scott isn’t likely to accuse black voters of being enslaved to the Democratic Party.

  “That language doesn’t suit me,” Scott says. “It’s really hard to offend someone into changing their minds.”

• Black business creation 2009:
  

  African-Americans and older Americans experience greatest increases in business-creation rates from 2008 to 2009

  ...

  Entrepreneurship rates by race show that African-Americans experienced the largest increase in entrepreneurial activity between 2008 and 2009. Rising from 0.22 percent in 2008 to 0.27 percent in 2009, the rate was the highest over the 14 years of reported data but remains below other racial groups. In contrast, both Latinos and Asians experienced declines in entrepreneurial activity rates.

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  Poor Blacks get LESS of the government benefits:
  Another finding of the study is that the distribution of benefits no longer aligns with the demography of poverty. African-Americans, who make up 22 percent of the poor, receive 14 percent of government benefits, close to their 12 percent population share.
• Black college degree vs. white college degree attainment:
  
• The out of wedlock birth rate for Black women is falling:
  Among unmarried black women, the birth rate dropped 11 percent between 2007 and 2012, to 63 of every 1,000 live births.
  
  

Al Sharpton and Black On Black Violence

*Sigh*

I'm not defending Al Sharpton, but read this:

The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for a high-profile community summit to address black-on-black violence after Harlem was rocked by a wave of shootings over Memorial Day.

"Last year alone, nearly one black child a day under the age of 17 was shot and killed in New York City. Shot mostly by other black city residents," Sharpton said.

"Shootings and violence within our community by one of our own is an outrage and an issue that we must confront as diligently and as passionately as a sensational case of police misconduct or brutality."

If I can do a simple Google search and find this in the first 5 links...

You Don't Leave A Soldier On The Field; Get Him Home Then Go For It

I've heard it said by those in the military, that you don't leave a soldier on the field. So, "trading" for a possible deserter, is an issue for me, but I can understand why it would be done. As has been pointed out, Israel has done far worse deals than what was "proxied" for the U.S.

Get him home and then find out what happened.

• Did he just walk off?
• Did he seek the Taliban as some are saying audio recordings indicate?
• Did his superiors know of his alleged unease at being in combat? If so, why did they not ask him if he wanted to be a conscience objector?
• Did he give away information that put our military at risk? If so, was it under duress or willingly?

 

 

Money Quote From Tim Scott (R)

Here is a money quote from Tim Scott:

Scott says he “has a heart for ministry.” He is prone to offering the tough love, up-from-your-bootstraps message that could come across as harsh if not for the fact that Scott has himself lived through some tough times.

And unlike other, more prominent black Republicans — Herman Cain or Ben Carson, for example — Scott isn’t likely to accuse black voters of being enslaved to the Democratic Party.

“That language doesn’t suit me,” Scott says. “It’s really hard to offend someone into changing their minds.”

That is all.

Results Of Speed Camera Audit Hosing Drivers Was Secret

Pops up head and says, "How can a government agency, which is public, have an audit and then say the results are secret? Can you say corruption? How about the water meter reading mess that resulted in bills being too high because they were not read at all, or misread, or only God knows what? Is there an audit that shows the truth about that but Baltimore City is hiding the results of that?"

This is the direct result of politicians not caring because the population is so beat down by the politicians that the public doesn't vote and one party government.

Baltimore City residents, your government is corrupt (actually, Maryland state government is corrupt). You don't vote, you get hosed.

Baltimore Speed Camera Audit Is A Secret

Baltimore's speed cameras likely charged motorists for thousands more erroneous tickets than previously disclosed, according to data from a secret audit conducted for the city last year and obtained by The Baltimore Sun.

Consultant URS Corp. evaluated the camera system as run by Xerox State and Local Solutions in 2012 and found an error rate of more than 10 percent — 40 times higher than city officials have claimed. The city got those findings last April but never disclosed the high error rate, refusing calls by members of the City Council to release the audit.

The city issued roughly 700,000 speed camera tickets at $40 each in fiscal year 2012. If 10 percent were wrong, 70,000 would have wrongly been charged $2.8 million.

This is some bull.

Net Neutrality: Give Them Enough Rope

Republican politicians who support the anti-net neutrality ruling are either technology idiots or their votes have been paid for by the Internet backbone companies or both. This is what I see happening.

Verizon will go to Google and say, "YouTube traffic is 30% of our back bone and last mile traffic. We are requiring that you pay us extra or we will reduce the YouTube bandwidth over our back bone by 20%."

But check this out it won't stop there.

Verizon will go to their users and say, "Your home usage indicates you streams movies from NetFlix or Amazon that is 20% of your Internet traffic. This puts you in our high use category. As a high use customer, we will add a high use fee to your service. BTW, if you use our FIOS package, on demand services won't count against your network usage."

Then they'll go to Netflix and say a similar thing they said to YouTube. Then Netflix will send you a letter telling you they have raised your rates.

This ruling stinks.

President Mandela IS South Africa

President Mandela IS South Africa.

Mandela is a creation of the system that defined South Africa. He used and supported violence as a means of changing South Africa, but it was a result OF South Africa. He supported peace and reconciliation as a means of moving South Africa forward.

South Africa created Nelson Madiba Mandela. President Mandela IS South Africa.

RIP.

Local Black Radio: I Lost Medical Coverage Because of Obamacare

On a local Black talk radio station, in the morning, there has been discussion concerning people losing coverage under the ACA/Obamacare.

The host, Larry Young, has said that if anyone has had their plan dropped, they should be grateful because the plan they will get after this, will be better than the plan they had because their old plan didn't meet minimum standards. His co-host, "Coach" Butch McAdams said that he received a letter stating his health plan is being dropped and that he had three options. Continue the plan until it terminates in 2014, go to a comparable plan, now, that meets minimum standards, or let it lapse. Coach said his plan is "very good" and will continue until it terminates and then make a decision, but the cost of the comparable plan increases about $125/month. That is a $1,500/year increase in payments.

People who called the show, supported Obamacare and did not support Obamacare. There were a few people who said their coverage has been canceled as a result of Obamacare, according to the letters they have received, and those callers didn't appear to be happy, even with Larry Young saying they will get better coverage.

In listening over a few days, I was disappointed that no one was asking what the minimum standards were. For example, maternity coverage, abortion coverage, and birth control medicine are required to be offered in the coverage. Does a single man need that coverage? How about a woman past her child bearing time?

Also what wasn't discussed was the fact that employers were being forced to offer medical plans that are against their religious beliefs. Of course, the Catholic church is against the abortion coverage mandate.

I may call in if they discuss it next week to bring up things they didn't discuss.

Observations After Juror and Rachel Jeantel Interview

1. Zimmerman won the case when the jury was selected. It was a jury of HIS peers.

2. The juror said she felt pity for Jeantel and couldn't understand her at times and didn't understand her slang at times. Right there is culture clash because I understood everything and it points out that I must be a hood rat or still able to code switch. (Think about it).

3. The juror said she liked Zimmerman and thought that he "went too far when he _CONFRONTED_" Trayvon Martin. So, if Zimmerman confronted Martin, it became self defense because he was getting his butt whipped?

4. On first vote, 3 wanted not guilty, 1 wanted second degree, 2 wanted manslaughter. I'm still wondering why it was a jury of six and not twelve.

5. Jeantel asked, wouldn't anyone feel creeped out if a strange man were following you in the dark and rain?

6. The juror thought walking at 7 PM at night was "late at night."

7. Jeantel's lawyer let her talk and she came across as credible while the juror said she wasn't credible except for the "cracka" comment.

8. The juror said the roles changed and then Trayvon became the aggressor. So, if she were being attacked and got the upper hand, the attacker would have the right to kill her and get away with it?

9. Even though the case was not to be judged on "stand your ground," the juror referred to that standard a few times.

10. Zimmerman won the trial at jury selection.

11. The juror said Zimmerman should have stayed in his car and not followed Trayvon Martin. That seems like a key for the civil suit.

12. Zimmerman won the trial at jury selection.

The Patriot Act

If your congressman/senator voted for it, and now denounce it, they are full of it.

Does The IRS Go After Liberals?

I completely forgot that the IRS has gone after the NAACP, Al Sharpton, the National Action Network, and Black churches during election time. All during G. W. Bush's terms in office.

Whoops....

President Obama As Tricky Dick Nixon?

Is the I.R.S. going after current administration "enemies" a trick out of former President Richard Nixon's hand book?

An inspector general’s report due for release this week says senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew that agents were targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny as early as 2011, nine months before the IRS commissioner assured Congress the targeting was not happening.

The report is certain to raise questions about the timing of the IRS’s disclosure of the targeting on Friday, how high up were the officials who knew about the practice, and whether anyone outside the agency was aware of it.

Details of the inspector general’s audit, obtained by The Washington Post from a congressional aide with knowledge of the findings, revealed that Lois G. Lerner, who oversees tax-exempt groups for the IRS and made the disclosure Friday, knew about the targeting of tea party and other groups in June 2011. In March 2012, IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman told Congress that the agency was not targeting conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status as “social welfare” groups.

This looks shady.

Correctional Officers In Baltimore Are Getting Knocked Up By Inmates

Female correctional officers in the Baltimore jail, got knocked up by an imprisoned gang leader.

All I have to say is, it's institutional wide and not just in the city lock up.

And what does Maryland governor, want to be president of the United States, Martin O'Malley have to say?

"It is because of the revulsion that all of us have towards violent murder gangs in our state, that I view these indictments as a very positive achievement, and a very positive development in our fight to dismantle gangs," O'Malley said at a news conference Tuesday.

If former correctional officers, who quit the system before retirement, were to line up and start telling WHY they left, Martin O'Malley's political career would be over and the United States would have to take over the Maryland correctional institution.

There is a lot to this. You have prisoners and correctional officers coming from the same neighborhoods and you have prisoners who can have the correctional officer's family "touched." You have correctional officers who, even though they are making about $40K/year before overtime, who just want more money. You have correctional officers who, to go home at the end of the day, let "things slide" and before you know it, they are blackmailed into doing real dirt. And you have some correctional officers with gang ties either through family or themselves.

This is real nasty. The only solution, I see, is to ship the prisoners out of state so you don't have "neighbors" looking after imprisoned "neighbors."

Pols Out of Line Although the Gosnell Murder Trial Should Be Covered By All Media

Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and 71 other congressmen sent letters to ABC, NBC, and CBS questioning their lack of coverage of the Gosnell abortion murder trial. I STRONGLY agree that madness should be covered, I think the congress-criters are out of line demanding that the media tell them why they are not covering the case. The news media is protected by the Constitution for a a reason.

Son Of The Patriot Act?

Is this a direct result of the Patriot Act?

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people's emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, released the information on Wednesday.

In a 2009 handbook, the IRS said the Fourth Amendment does not protect emails because Internet users "do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications." A 2010 presentation by the IRS Office of General Counsel reiterated the policy.

What part of unreasonable search and seizure do they not understand? Suppose the people send encrypted email, as I have done, to their tax preparer?

 

 

Sean Hannity Turned Public Black Conservatives Adults Into Babies

On The Sean Hannity show, Sean Hannity just made a group of grown public Black conservatives, male and female -- gender words chosen with care -- a bunch of whining, victim status seeking, babies, with the exception of one Black MAN who is a priest, and I DANG sure I'm not writing about Jesse Lee Peterson!

This Last Paragraph Says It All

Here are links to two quick posts I did concerning Dr. Carson.

1. Dr. Carson OWNED President Obama.
2. Dr. Carson Wants To Compromise.

The paragraph below says it all and someone else is able to catch it.

I was one of those young people. I don’t doubt that Carson was a conservative even then. I knew plenty of black people who loved their community and hated welfare. But white conservatives were never interested in them, and they were never as interested in Ben Carson as they are right now. When the presidency was an unbroken string of white men, there were no calls for him to run for the White House. And then he put on the mask.

Boom.

None Of The Above

Robert Johnson, founder of BET, had Zogby International/Analytics do a telephone poll of Blacks to find out their views on some items. Of those polled, 40% said none of the people listed speak for them most often.

8. Which of the following speaks for you most often?

Person	Percent (%)
Reverend Al Sharpton,National Action Network	24
Reverend Jesse Jackson, Rainbow PUSH Coalition	11
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D‐CA)	9
Benjamin Jealous, President&CEO,NAACP	8
AssistantDemocratic Leader, Congressman James E. Clyburn (D‐SC)	5
MarcH. Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League	2
Michael Steele,former Chairman ofthe Republican National Committee	2
None of the above	40

I've known about this for about a week now, but what has been interesting, to me, is that the list of public Black conservatives that I follow, haven't said a thing about this poll. So, let's be clear about this. Of the Blacks polled, 40% said NONE OF THE ABOVE speaks for them most often.

This result from those polled does some things:

1. It breaks the media narrative of Blacks looking towards "civil rights leaders" as being "The" leader which means Blacks aren't lead by them. I know that's simple but just THINK about it.
2. It breaks the narrative of most public Black conservatives as Blacks being "lead astray" by so called Black leaders. I think this is simple but means something that I think most public Black conservatives want to face because it is hard: If they want to change minds, they have to address people on the individual level, which is something they have not done, for the most part.
3. From above, I think it should make more people wonder exactly if many of the public Black conservatives are serious about change or if they have alternative motives. See Artur Davis for details.

 

Do Blacks "Benefit" In Greater Proportion From The Safety Net?

The following tends to indicate, not:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/who-benefits-from-the-safety-net/

Another finding of the study is that the distribution of benefits no longer aligns with the demography of poverty. African-Americans, who make up 22 percent of the poor, receive 14 percent of government
benefits, close to their 12 percent population share.

White non-Hispanics, who make up 42 percent of the poor, receive 69 percent of government benefits – again, much closer to their 64 percent population share.

Jeb Bush, Go Away! Need I Remind You?

Jeb Bush said President Obama won re-election by dividing the country:

“I think the basic part of his campaign was that those that were successful weren’t paying their fair share, even though we have incredibly high taxes for high income Americans,” Bush said on CBS News’ “Face The Nation.” “I think he ran a campaign of them and us. And it was quite effective, that somehow the Republicans don’t care about the large number of people.”

Shall I remind you that Romney DIVIDED America into a 47/53 percent split?

Romney On "Fox News Sunday"

Mr. and Mrs. Romney were on Fox News Sunday, today. A few things struck me.

1. When Romeny said he would get the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership together and bargain until they came up with a plan, I immediately saw conservatives saying, "See! He's not conservative!" Honestly, how can the leaders of both parties in congress bargain, in other words, compromise, when the Democrats just want to raise taxes and cut defense spending, and Republicans just want to cut taxes and address entitlements that don't affect business?
2. When he said Republicans have to find a way to connect with minorities and campaign in their communities, I laughed. He AVOIDED what he just said Republicans have to do! And let's not forget the Black woman in his campaign in charge of outreach, Tara Wall, didn't do it. And how is it that SHE is not being blamed?
3. How can he say that the 47% comment isn't what he meant and goes against what he has demonstrated in the past?
4. His defense of Gov. Christie was right, but the defense will be blasted as some continue to blame Christie for "helping President Obama look presidential" during storm Sandy.

 

Chris Dorner: Reaction, Part 1

I am really at awe and disgusted at the conservative reaction to the killing and injuring of innocent people by Chris Dorner. Many on the right are so interested in playing gotcha and catching hypocrisy, that they point out physcotic Chris Dorner wrote in his "manifesto", praises of people deemed to be left leaning and then "ask" why the media isn't saying the left is responsible for Dorner's rampage.

So, is it a wonder those same people on the right don't mention Dorner also praised Chick-Fil-A and Tim Tebo?

Since the right wants to claim morality and religion, how about prayers for the families of the victims and praying for the capture of Dorner without no further harm coming to anyone?

 

Dr. Carson OWNED President Obama

Owned. Dr. Carson. OWNED Pres. Obama. Just. OWNED him in his statements at the Prayer Breakfast.

So, AGAIN, I ask, why didn't Republicans and conservatives, ESPECIALLY BLACK REPUBLICANS AND BLACK CONSERVATIVES highlight Dr. Carson's objections to Obamacare, AS WELL AS HIS ALTERNATIVES, when Dr. Carson has been spelling them out for some time, to include, talk radio in Maryland and "60 Minutes"?

I Got Your Gift Right *HERE*, Romney!

Mitt Romney lost the election and now he's blaming the loss on "minorities" and "young folks" who were swayed by President Obama's "gifts".

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/14/reports-romney-says-obama-won-by-offering-gifts-to-minorities-and-young-voters/

"What the president, president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote," Romney said in the afternoon call, according to audio aired on ABC News.

...

"With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest, was a big gift," Romney said, according to The New York Times.

"Free contraceptives were very big with young college-aged women," he continued. "And then, finally, Obamacare also made a difference for them, because as you know, anybody now 26 years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents' plan, and that was a big gift to young people. They turned out in large numbers, a larger share in this election even than in 2008."

The president's health care reform plan, he added, also brought out support from African Americans and Hispanic voters.


Let's see. Forgiveness of college loans hasn't been done, so how is that a gift? Also, Romney said he would push for increasing Pell Grants and offering more of them.

And then there is ObamaCare, which Romney said there are aspects that he liked and wanted to keep, like, ohhhhh, increased dependent coverage age! and portability!

I wonder what his "minority outreach" person, Tara Wall, has to say about his comments.

Yo! Mitt Romney! I got your GIFTS! Right! HERE!
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