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Crunch Time For The Health Care Bill

I wish I could express some relief that the vote on the health care bill will be over this weekend. The vote only marks the beginning of a long battle that will have large numbers of political opponents at each others throats for years to come. In what is certainly a pivotal moment for national politics, this health care debate will have serious implications on the midterm elections in November. The Democrats are almost assured a beat down at the polls for their support for Obamacare. Their short lived "super majority" will be firmly in the rear view mirror after January 2011 which will leave President Obama naked for the remainder of his term. The president is in a very unfavorable position of being faced with failure no matter if the bill passes or not. If it passes, the backlash against him and the Democrats will be massive. The Attorney Generals of at least a half a dozen states have already promised lawsuits challenging the legislation's constitutionality. If the bi

More Noose Nonesense

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It seems that there is a severe common sense deficit in Black America, which is evidenced by our knee jerk reaction to the old hanging noose trick. Whenever some dimwit wants get the ire of black folks, he or she simply goes into their bag of gags and hangs a noose. Then, just like Pavlov's dog, The Neo- civil rights mafia comes out in force, staging protest, demanding investigations and giving these childish pranks far more attention than its worth. This reaction only paves the way for the next imbecile. The imbecile in this case is a yet to be identified University of California at San Diego female student who for unknown reasons hung a noose on a lamp in the student library. When will people figure out that the over reaction to this silly attention grabbing stunt is exactly the the end goal? To get Blacks to over react. If some Neo Nazi wannabe or frat boy for that matter wants to piss blacks off or miss class, he just pulls out his noose and watches the fireworks. Even blacks h