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Luck? or is there really no such thing…Santorum Lost Michigan…Karma?

Some would say that there is no such thing as luck, maybe just good or bad karma. In the case of Michigan we agree with  that father Santorum certainly had a chance, but kismet as it be he could not help but blow it. The gravitational heart strings that pull a man to the right are just to strong. Santorum quite frankly, got to full of himself thinking that people were actually buying into his right wing brand of social rhetoric, that was not the case. It was just another go round of Bachman, Cain, Perry, Newt and now father Santorum’s turn to rise and fall. It is indicative of Romney not being the idea candidate, but he is by far the stronger and better candidate. Time will ultimately tell.

Romney’s luck

It’s been a wild ride, but the story line of the Republican race remains remarkably simple and constant: It’s Mitt Romney and the perishable pretenders.

Five have come and gone, if you count the Donald’s aborted proto-candidacy. And now the sixth and most plausibly presidential challenger just had his moment — and blew it in Michigan.

It’s no use arguing that Rick Santorum won nearly as many Michigan delegates as Romney. He lost the state. Wasn’t Santorum claiming a great victory just three weeks ago when he shockingly swept Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado — without a single convention delegate being selected?

He was right. It was a great victory. Delegate counts were beside the point. These three wins instantly propelled him to the front of the field nationally and to a double-digit lead in Romney’s Michigan back yard.

Then Santorum went ahead and lost it. Rather than sticking to his considerable working-class, Reagan-Democrat appeal, he kept wandering back to his austere social conservatism. Rather than placing himself in “Grandpa’s hands,” his moving tribute to his immigrant coal miner grandfather as representative of the America that Santorum pledges to restore, he insisted on launching himself into culture-war thickets: Kennedy, college and contraception.

He averred that John Kennedy’s 1960 Houston speech on separation of church and state makes him “throw up.” Whatever the virtues of Santorum’s expansive view of the role of religion, the insulting tone toward Kennedy, who, living at a time of frank anti-Catholic bigotry, understandably offered a more attenuated view of religion in the public square, was jarring, intemperate and utterly unnecessary. Continue reading

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JOE VS. JOSE | If you vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens… You are part of the problem!

We received “Joe vs. Jose” in the Inbox today. We make no claim or authorship, ownership or any other ship, it just is what it is. Joe vs Jose is a widely known internet piece of electronic content about undocumented workers that has been floated around and discussed on Snopes and other sites for sometime. And while Joe vs. Jose is certainly an exaggeration (i.e. 30% on 52K come on..) and while we usually do not re-post internet pass it on emails, we are re-posting this one here for no other reason that to allow our readers to read, be thought provoking, think, and decide. So here we present you with Joe vs. Jose. The timing seems to be just about right.

JOE vs. JOSE

You have two families: “Joe Legal” and “Jose Illegal”. Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California .

Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.

Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash “under the table”.

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A Congressional Outrage: An ACORN Falls from the Tree

commonsense2day.comAs negotiations over Congress’s emergency rescue bill continued over the weekend, repeated rumors leaked out that the Democrats were trying to funnel money to a hyper-partisan organization involved in criminal voter fraud. I’m speaking of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — known by its acronym, ACORN. Although ACORN was cut from the final legislation, it’s important to understand this organization and its long history with, of all people, Barack Obama. And it’s important to see how partisan this emergency legislation has become.

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What Will an Obama Presidency do to Victimization Activists?

Rosa Parks, on December 1, 1955 refused to yield her bus seat to a white bus driver who demanded she move to the back of the bus. With her simple act of defiance, she propelled her legacy as the mother of the Civil Rights movement.

In those days, Jim Crow laws were in place since the post-Civil War Reconstruction, and required separation of the races in buses, restaurants and public accommodations throughout the South, while legally sanctioned racial discrimination kept African-Americans out of many jobs and neighborhoods in the North.

In those days, African-American Senators or Congressman, Supreme Court Justices, Secretaries of State, Corporate CEO’s and many successful business entrepreneurs, and now African-American Presidential nominees for major political party(s) did not exist.

This raises a serious question: Is the civil rights movement shrinking in the face of progress in its cause? Of course, as it should, this is called “progress”. However, the public moneys to achieve civil rights will also shrink as the movement continues to make giant strides forward.

It begs another question however; what will the Jesse Jacksons and other civil rights leaders do with their organizations as their influence in civil rights shrink with the fleeting need for their guidance and leadership. As their organizations shrinks, how will they make a difference, no less a living?

Will they all have to go out and get real jobs? That’s a job that, like most of us, is a job in the private sector and is based on our capitalistic economic realities.

It raises a question and seeds the possibility that these individuals and movements, when viewed strictly from the point of view of the survival of the movement and the financing that affords their place in it, really have more to lose with an Obama Presidency then an Obama loss.

With a win, they will have a hard time convincing people that African-Americans need:

1. Affirmative action (beyond what whites and other minorities need) and
2. Civil rights marches and rallies.

With an Obama loss, they can:

1. Continue to argue that they still live in a state of victimization.
2. Need more attention to African-American advancement
3. Make larger issues of lesser matters because they touch minorities
4. Continue to live as they have since Rosa Parks gave them legs.

In closing, I’d like to pose a very simple question, please let us know what you think.

July 10, 2008
By M Jay Hamada

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The Global Warming Myth, Dr Noah Robinson – Telecosm 2007

The Global Warming Debate continues, there are extreme views and very little middle ground. Each opposing view has a drastic effect on how our elected politicians address the issue as well as future legislation which will effect each and every American citizen. We urge you to listen to Dr. Noah Robinson and begin to decide for yourself on this very important issue.

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