NO MORE WHITE PEOPLE!

Let's take you back a few weeks.  We're going to the University of Washington where the esteemed student was considering a memorial on the UW campus to honor Medal of Honor winner Gregory Boyington.  One member of the student senate said that there were already enough memorials on campus for "rich white men."  Never mind that Boyington was (a) not rich, and (b) a Sioux Indian ... the point here is that white men are considered by some to be politically incorrect.

Now let's move across the tip of the country from the Northwest tip to the Northeast tip.  We're visiting Portland, Maine.  There we have a city-owned ballpark named Hadlock Field.  Hadlock Field is the home for the AA Portland Sea Dogs.  The Sea Dogs are owned by Dan Burke, once the president of ABC-Capital Cities.  Burke wanted to do something to thank the people of Portland for their support of the Sea Dogs!  So, when you want to thank some folks, how about giving them a piece of art!  Wow!  What an incredible idea!

So Burke wanders out and commissions a bronze statue.  It's actually quite nice.  The sculpture shows a traditional family of four -- mom, dad, brother, sister -- on their way to enjoy a game at Hadlock Field.  There's a problem though.  Hadlock Field, as I've told you, is owned by the city of Portland.  Burke leases the park for his Sea Dog baseball games.  Portland has a Public Art Committee, and Burke made the mistake of not giving the Public Art Committee their props.  The committee is now on the attack.  How dare they be ignored! 

OK .. now, if I've done my job right, you're wondering just what the big problem is with the statue, and how this connects to the University of Washington case.  To understand the problem let's go to Jack Soley, the vice chairman of the Portland Public Art Committee.  Soley says that if Burke had done what he was supposed to do, and that is to seek input from the committee before he dared to present a gift of art to the city, the committee would have steered him away from a design that featured "white folks on pedestals."  Soley says that Portland already has enough white folks on pedestals, just as that student senate member at UW said that they already had enough memorials to rich white men.  Soley wasn't finished with his comments.  He repeated that Portland has so much statuary that represents white Anglo-Saxon people.  They want more "progressive" avant-garde art.  Yeah .. that's the ticket.

So, there's the story. White is definitely out in Portland, Maine.  In fact, Portland might be a good place to go rent a grass plot in front of a service station to sell your African statuary and those nifty black velvet paintings of Louis Armstrong and Aretha Franklin.  There's money to be made!  Get to it! 

You can read the public's comments about this controversy in the Portland Press Herald.  Here's your link!

WE OWE GOOGLE A THANK YOU!

The feds have demanded that several owners of Internet search engines turn over records for one particular month.  They want to go through these records to see how many people are searching the Internet for porn;  more particularly, child porn.  Most of the owners of these search engines have caved and have handed over the documents.  Not Google.  Google will be in court today fighting the government's demands.  It's  nice to see someone standing up against an intrusive government. 

THE FRENCH ARE RIOTING ...... AGAIN

We had some riots in France yesterday.  The rioters were students at dozens of French universities where, by the way, the principle pursuit is a degree in government dependency with a minor in social welfare state management.  The controversy is something called the First Employment Contract.  This is a new law that allows employers to hire young people under the age of 26. 

France has a big problem with youth unemployment.  The unemployment rate for young people in France is 23%.  In some high-immigration (read Muslim) neighborhoods the rate is 40 percent.  Why?  Because once you hire them it takes a constitutional amendment, permission from the European Union, a bad year for Bordeaux and a total eclipse of the sun to fire them, no matter how incompetent, stupid or lazy they prove to be.  Employers don't like to hire unproven workers when they can't later get rid of them ... so the younger workers go unemployed.

The solution is a change in the First Employment Contract rules.  The change will allow an employer to hire young people under a contract that can be terminated within two years without explanation.  Thus the student riots.  These weasels-in-training have been conditioned to expect the protections of the great French social welfare state, and the very idea that they might have to prove themselves during the first two years of their employment causes them great anxiety and distress --- thus their attacks on police.

It's a wonderful day not to be French. 

CENSURE GOES NOWHERE

The reaction to Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold's call for George W. Bush's censure has officially gone nowhere.  Not only has it been rejected by the Republican majority, but Democrats are running away from it as fast as they can.  Feingold is out there swinging slowly in the wind.

You gotta love Senate Majority Bill Frist's move yesterday.  He schedules a vote on the matter, just to see how many Democrats would publicly go on the record for the censure.  The Democrats refused to even allow the vote to take place, evidently for fear of being embarrassed. 

The real weasel here is Feingold. He's running for president, and he viewed this censure move as a political opportunity.  Isn't this wonderful?  We're at war, and this senator moves to censure the president because he was tapping the conversations of terrorist suspects phoning contacts in the United States.

Can it be said that Russ Feingold has given aid and comfort to the very people who are trying to kill us? 

IRAQ TIMELINE SET

For the last couple years, the Bush administration has told us that setting a timeline in the withdrawal of troops from Iraq would be a huge mistake.  If we did that, the terrorists would just wait us out, we were told.  But now we have a timeline of exactly when those troops are coming home.

In a speech yesterday, the president vowed to turn over most of Iraq to Iraqi troops by the end of the year.  So what happens now?  There are only 9 months left in the year.  Will the Iraqi police and soldiers be ready by then? We certainly hope so.  At some point we just have to cut them loose and find out.  We can't spend the rest of the century holding their hands and occupying their country.  So by 2007, we will have tossed them the keys and told them to make a go of it.

It's a tall order, especially with the left in this country and around the world, along with the mainstream media rooting for them to fail.

MOUSSAOUI CATCHES A BREAK

The feds may have just screwed the pooch in the Zacarias Moussaoui case.  Here's the basic outline of what happened.  Moussaoui is on trial for being a 9/11 Al Qaeda conspirator.  He plead guilty, so the only question left is the punishment.  Life in prison or death.   The judge in the case instructed that the witnesses not be exposed to coaching, the transcript of the trial, the opening arguments...nothing.

So along comes some fool who decides to do just  that...a lawyer from the TSA.  The TSA, as you know, is the fine security apparatus that checks little old ladies for weapons at the airport. This lawyer emails  transcripts and instructions on how to testify to four FAA witnesses.  Defense attorneys for Moussaoui are ecstatic at the gift they've been given...and will now try to have the case dismissed.  This means life in prison for Moussaoui ... not death.

What we're actually seeing here is the fairness of the American judicial system.  Do you think Islamists will take note?  Yeah, sure.  We're all holding our breath waiting for that to happen.

Now THAT'S class!

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Ever wonder what Daisy Duke might look like in 40 years? I think we may have a pretty accurate representation right here. Warning: may not be safe for work, definitely not safe for eyes. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

The former and now convicted mayor of Atlanta may lose his license to practice law.  Golly!  Now that's a shame, isn't it?  Oh, and he won't be able to vote either.

If you're uncomfortable with watching two men kiss, you won't be allowed to immigrate to the Netherlands.

Former Muslim, Wafa Sultan, criticizes Islam as violent in a recent interview aired on Al Jazeera. Watch video. Read partial transcript.

Isaac Hayes is apparently perfectly fine with making fun of Christians, Jews and whatever other religion South Park has taken a swing at, but quits when they have a jab at Scientology. I think we'll all agree that South Park is an equal opportunity offender. If they haven't offended you yet, don't worry, they will.

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