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You Think America Hasn't Changed?

Couldn't help but acknowledge on my blog the story of Mildred Loving, who has passed away. A black woman, she married a white man in 1958. They were charged in Virginia with "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth.”

Last year she penned a message which includes an account of their arrest, treatment by the justice system and subsequent exile from Virginia. Chilling.

Not long after our wedding, we were awakened in the middle of the night in our own bedroom by deputy sheriffs and actually arrested for the “crime” of marrying the wrong kind of person. Our marriage certificate was hanging on the wall above the bed. The state prosecuted Richard and me, and after we were found guilty, the judge declared: “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.” He sentenced us to a year in prison, but offered to suspend the sentence if we left our home in Virginia for 25 years exile.

The New Zoo Review

No, not the New Zoo Review of late 60's, early 70's childhood fame that, arguably, had a hot babe in a mini skirt, a frog and some goof in glasses, as I recall - but the zoo-like quality of growing portions of our human world today. After reviewing some top headlines, all I'm left thinking is Are we not men and women, or are more and more of us simply animals everyday?

Admittedly, this is a hodgepodge of links. But they all have a common theme for me this morning - the degradation of society.

Three purebred animals - looking like products of our liberalized prison system and the Black Muslim Brotherhood, gun down a cop in Phila. I assume they are black muslims, given the beards and choice of disguise. What a tribute to their new found religion. Fortunately, one or two of the vermin was also gunned down in the street by the Phila police. Let's just call those justified shootings, same for the one not found yet, hopefully - and move on, shall we? I think rehabilitation is a bit much to ask.

Yes, it's all because America wasn't kind enough to the scumbags, I know. But, in for a penny in for a pound, I say - so let's finish the job and kill the last piece of sub-human detritus and make a holiday of it, for all I care.

Then there is this bit from Europe. A case that's been in the news. The weirdo in Austria who kept his daughter in the basement for so many years, etc. Apparently the house is becoming something of a tourist attraction. Must we really continue to call the animals who find such a thing tourist worthy "human?" Perhaps it's time for a sub-classification of the species? Any suggestions in comments will be entertained.

And last, we come to another sub-class, of a sub-class of human. I forget my biology, but surely there's a genus and a species, or whatever they are called. From the class of politicians we have a special subclass - black politicians. The Examiner takes a look at John Conyers today. Who Owns John Conyers.

This isn't intended to be racist, white or black - makes no difference to what is happening to people, and politicians today. I could highlight Mark Foley for example. But because of Conyers I started thinking of Maxine Waters, Cynthia McKinney and a few others. Perhaps it's time we admitted there is a crisis in black political leadership these days. I can't believe the idiots mentioned above represent the average hard working, achieving black individual in America today.

The idiot black pols acquire power from being re-elected in the worst districts in America, districts representing all the spoiled fruit of the new-liberalism going back to Johnson. And I can't believe the average successful and truly progressive black individual in America isn't feeling misrepresented by the established black political class. What a shame.

And, yes, I would ascribe most all of what is linked above to the decline of society brought about by post-sixties liberalism. What a miserably failed, self-indulgent and over-hyped decade that one is.

And to think - much if it began with a wholesome looking,somewhat busty babe in a mini-skirt. Who would have guessed?

Hungry Or Angry?

Michelle has a blog report on May Day goings on among illegals. The top pic is priceless. But given the shot frame, it occurs to me the "vagina" in question may not be angry at all, perhaps it's simply hungry? Check out the little Taco Belle!

Obama Plays The Race Card

Someone must have spiked the Kool-Aid at The New York Times. I can't believe I'm reading this in their copy. To paraphrase Lyndon Johnson, if he's beginning to lose The New York Times, he's starting to lose liberal America.

Sure campaigns stack audiences at these events. But that's a perfect rationale for the Times to leave the detail out. Instead they play it up in a story on the race tightening in North Carolina? That's not a good sign for the Big O's Big Mo'.

Advisers to Mr. Obama concede he lost support among some white voters in the wake of the storm surrounding Mr. Wright. Since then, the campaign has sought to increase its appeal to white voters. At Mr. Obama’s first stop in the state on Friday, a rally in Charlotte, most seats in the Cricket Arena were filled with black supporters. Yet many of the seats directly behind Mr. Obama — in the view of news cameras — were filled by white supporters.

So, You Think Liberals Could Get Any More Disgusting?

What the hell is wrong with some of these idiots? It looks like Iowa Politics and the Des Moines Register have the story. I guess they're fighting for the Mike Stark Award now. What a shame they let these idiots roam around unsupervised. Time was they'd all be on a back ward somewhere drooling on their underwear.

AllahPundit reported that at a town hall meeting today a questioner asked Senator McCain if he called his wife a c*nt. Huffington Post called the questioner a "Baptist Minister." HotAir discovered he's a former campaign worker for Joe Biden.

Calling All Conspiracy Buffs

Maybe it was the trailer park come down after living the high-life in DC?

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - Florida authorities confirmed that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, convicted of running a high-end prostitution ring in Washington, is dead in a suspected suicide, NBC News reported.

The body of the 52-year-old woman was found in a shed near her mother's mobile home Thursday morning in Tarpon Springs, about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. Police said in a statement that she left a suicide note, but they did not disclose its contents or how she killed herself.

And They Say America Isn't Kind

For all the liberal talk of George Bush and America not being kind, let this be a lesson for you. We're even obliging terrorists these days. Here, here!

"Our brother martyr Aden Hashi, has received what he was looking for — death for the sake of Allah — at the hands of the United States," Robow told The Associated Press by phone.

I'd Support A Sin Tax - On Government

Here's a thought. If they are so effective, maybe we should start taxing legislators for new tax propsals without a hint of cutting government, or making it truly effective and accountable. Now, that's a sin tax I might actually support!

I love it when politicians go on about taxing the rich, even though they, as much as any informed individual, know that it isn't mathematically, or practically possible to fund much of government by such schemes - unless you create a socialist state and there are no "rich people." This new theme out of NJ informs us what liberal Democrats really think about when it comes to generating revenue.

Which class do you suppose could opt out of junk food the easiest if they wish? Here's a 2007 study showing an increase in "junk food" consumption to roughly 30% of an average diet. That tells the pols where the money is.

Capitalist junk food companies spend huge amounts marketing to the young ... and middle and lower classes. They do that to create a steady and growing market for the future. But apparently our educational system fails when it comes to teaching nutrition. So, now Big Government must step in and combat capitalism in an attempt to modify behavior. And if it doesn't work, no big deal, they still gain more revenue.

Of course it is the lower economic classes that will suffer most from both the taxation and a continuing inability to change their diet. Bottom line - government wins, the people lose. Samol, samol when it comes to the liberal government circle jerks to which we should be growing accustomed to seeing.

WINDSOR, N.J. (CBS) ― The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial "sin" tax on fast food.

Yes, the idea of marking up your favorite fast food burger or pack of fries is actually being tossed around, and it's not settling well with many residents.

Would You Buy A Used Car From This Man?

Obama seems to have lost some of his glow in the eyes of many. Many might expect Michelle Malkin to be unimpressed with Obama's latest response to the Wright issue.

But looking at Memeorandum, the disenchantment seems to be spread around.

Honestly, this just doesn't add up for Obama. His connection with Wright was either very close, or he's the kind of individual who doesn't care about who baptizes his children, marries him, etc. And that would fly in the face of the image he's created -, of a man who cares about everything, all creatures great and small.

The O-gasm might have been nice while it lasted for some on the Left. But the parties over. The lights came up. They're now finding themselves in bed with just another coyote ugly politician. And there's another one with much more experience in the wings that's been around seemingly forever: Hillary Clinton.

Only people as deranged as Andrew Sullivan, or Glenn Greenwald are buying his nosense.

I'll hold off predicting which dog the Dems go home with for now. But I suspect either way, they end up screwed in November.

Also, assuming some libs will respond to this post with the poll of the day showing Obama and or Clinton as a likely winner in the General - give me a break. Those polls aren't worth the paper they are printed on, or the HTML it took to code the web page they're on.

The Democrat's chickens have come home to roost.

Wright's Saddest Truth Overlooked

Everyone has noted and commented upon some of Reverend Wright's worst, most recent rhetoric. Even Sullivan has seen enough. I may have missed it being dealt with directly, as it should be - but the saddest and perhaps most revealing truth of all for Wright and likely some in the Black community is buried within it. It's the last portion of this phrase.

"Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn't make me this color."

Think about what that really means. Those aren't the words of a proud Black individual. They are the words of someone who is angry, primarily, ... because they are Black. They are the words of a racist - of the anti-Black variety; of someone who has come to view the Black race as inferior somehow.

Has Wright internalized White racism so deeply? Perhaps that explains his recent real estate choice, to retire in a gated, predominately White community.

I realize it may sound absurd and certainly isn't politically correct to point it out. But words mean things, as they say. And Wright's own words are revealing of a personal psychology as troubled as any of Obama's current political woes.

Jeremiah Wright simply doesn't like Black people. Why else would he be looking for someone to blame, or holding a grudge simply because he is Black?

What a shame Wright has apparently never come to face his own truth. Perhaps his ministry would have been that much more effective had he focused his career on truly lifting up other Black individuals who feel the same way, as opposed to looking for someone to blame for what amounts to an act of God, or genes, however you want to slice it.