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To: robert b furman who wrote (68880)	3/31/2012 10:12:24 AM
From: John	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

Why does Barack gravitate toward radicals, frauds, thugs, and racists? Muslim Soetoro said that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin, who was exposed as a druggie, a thug, and a racist. Many Black adults, such as Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, look like Obama and Trayvon as well. Each of these miscreants are very angry, bitter, and full of hatred toward Whites, although Whites have played absolutely no role in their misery and grief. Obama and his radical comrades are all frauds and racists! -ng-

To: robert b furman who wrote (68880)	3/31/2012 12:56:44 PM
From: Honey_Bee	6 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

Speaking of vulture hunting. Pat Buchanan's latest column has some mind-blowing statistics in it about black crime in the US. Here are excerpts: (Snip) What did George Zimmerman, self-styled protector of his gated community, see that night from the wheel of his SUV? He saw a male. And males are 90 percent of prison inmates. He saw a stranger over 6 feet tall. And he saw a black man or youth with a hood over his head. Why would this raise Zimmerman’s antennae? Perhaps because black males between 16 and 36, though only 2 to 3 percent of the population, are responsible for a third of all our crimes. In some cities, 40 percent of all black males are in jail or prison, on probation or parole, or have criminal records. This is not a product of white racism but of prosecutions and convictions of criminal acts. Had Zimmerman seen a black woman or older man in his neighborhood, he likely would never have tensed up or called in. For all the abuse he has received, Geraldo Rivera had a point. Whenever cable TV runs hidden-camera footage of a liquor or convenience store being held up and someone behind the counter being shot, the perp is often a black male wearing a hoodie. Listening to the heated rhetoric coming from demonstrations around the country, from the Black Caucus and TV talkers – about how America is a terrifying place for young black males to grow up in because of the constant danger from white vigilantes – one wonders what country of the mind these people are living in. The real America is a country where the black crime rate is seven times as high as the white rate. It is a country where white criminals choose black victims in 3 percent of their crimes, but black criminals choose white victims in 45 percent of their crimes. Black journalists point to the racism manifest even in progressive cities, where cabs deliberately pass them by to pick up white folks down the block. That this happens is undeniable. But, again, what is behind it? As Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has written, from January to June 2008 in New York City, 83 percent of all identified gun assailants were black and 15 percent were Hispanics. Together, blacks and Hispanics accounted for 98 percent of gun assaults. Translated: If a cabdriver is going to be mugged or murdered in New York City by a fare, 49 times out of 50 his assailant or killer will be black or Hispanic. Fernando Mateo of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers has told his drivers, “Profile your passengers” for your own protection. “The God’s honest truth is that 99 percent of the people that are robbing, stealing, killing these guys are blacks and Hispanics.” Fernando Mateo is himself black and Hispanic. To much of America’s black leadership and its media auxiliaries, what happened in Sanford was, as Jesse put it, that an innocent kid was “shot down in cold blood by a vigilante.” Yet, from police reports, witness statements, and the father and friends of Zimmerman, another picture emerges. Zimmerman followed Trayvon, confronted him and was punched in the nose, knocked flat on his back and jumped on, getting his head pounded, when he pulled his gun and fired. That Trayvon’s body was found face down, not face up, would tend to support this. But, to Florida Congresswoman Federica Wilson, “this sweet young boy … was hunted down like a dog, shot on the street, and his killer is still at large.” Some Sanford police believed Zimmerman; others did not. But now that it is being investigated by a special prosecutor, the FBI, the Justice Department and a coming grand jury, what is the purpose of this venomous portrayal of George Zimmerman? As yet convicted of no crime, he is being crucified in the arena of public opinion as a hate-crime monster and murderer. Is this our idea of justice? No. But if the purpose here is to turn this into a national black-white face-off, instead of a mutual search for truth and justice, it is succeeding marvelously well. Read more: wnd.com

To: robert b furman who wrote (68880)	3/31/2012 3:05:03 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Respond to of 103300

The left's sewage-soaked race card Exclusive: Tom Tancredo sees 'the harbingers of a totalitarian state' in Trayvon reactions by Tom Tancredo Saturday, March 31, 2012 wnd.com We should not hold our breath waiting for Attorney General Eric Holder to launch an investigation into the very public death threats against Florida resident George A. Zimmerman. The threats from Spike Lee, Louis Farrakhan and the New Black Panther Party will not be investigated. In Obama’s post-constitutional regime, our federal government only prosecutes civil rights violations against blacks and “protected classes,” meaning friends of Obama and allies of the Democratic Party. The ugly spectacle of mass media, Hollywood celebrities and dozens of Democratic politicians rushing to judge a man before be is even charged with a crime, much less given a fair trial, would be almost comical if it were not so typical of the deeply cynical demagoguery that now permeates our nation’s political discourse. The really scary part is seeing the government itself join in the demagoguery, with the federal government’s highest law enforcement officer joining the chorus. When this happens, you can be sure there is more at stake than the fate of one lone Florida citizen. What is at stake is also more than the fate of one election cycle: We are witnessing, and in fact experiencing, the harbingers of a totalitarian state. Internet petitions calling for Zimmerman’s prosecution are being promoted by celebrities in the film and music industry, while anyone who suggests waiting until all the facts are known is attacked as an “apologist for racism.” Little tidbits of supposed “facts” have been leaked by various parties to support a particular version of events. Headlines in the Huffington Post and other purveyors of leftist orthodoxy play up one set of “facts” while ignoring others so as to keep the pot well stirred and the fires well stoked. The simple truth is, we do not yet know what happened that evening between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. We have bits and pieces and a lot of spin, but the unvarnished facts of the matter are still unclear. If Zimmerman is charged with a crime, he deserves a fair trial, and any judgment made outside that courtroom is based on someone’s political agenda, not the demands of justice. But the American left is no longer interested in justice, racial or otherwise. It is interested only in power. And in practice, for the left today, holding onto power means playing the “race card” at every opportunity. Led by the liberal media and celebrity surrogates, Democrat officials are quite openly attempting to use the tragic death of a 17-year-old black man in Florida to create a massive “backlash against racism.” Their problem is, the “pervasive racism” they scream about exists only in their own fervid imaginations, not in American society. Politically speaking, the motives in this ugly “rush to judgment” are transparent. Obama needs this “backlash” as a distraction from the real problems facing the country. College graduates can’t find jobs? Get them marching to Selma again! The problem for more thoughtful Americans is that this cynical exploitation of a tragic event makes the quest for justice by local authorities and courts extremely hazardous. Have you heard the phrase “tainting the jury pool”? Well, think about the damage done not only to the jury pool but to the national psyche by the dumping of a quadzillion tons of raw political sewage. In the hysterical lynch-mob atmosphere engineered by the leftist media, you can be called a racist for suggesting that “white on black crime” is not quite a national epidemic. Never mind that by all objective measures, a black citizen is nine times more likely to be murdered by a fellow black than by a white person. To these new totalitarians, if you suggest that this rush to judgment is irresponsible before all the facts are known, you are suspect of harboring racist views. If you insist that all citizens, black or white or brown, are entitled to due process and the protections of the Bill of Rights, you are apologist for racism. This well-orchestrated symphony of intimidation is a signal that our media and our cultural elites have lost their moral compass. They have become so invested in the precept that America is a racist nation to the core that every event and every crime must be interpreted through that ideological prism. Are we on a very slippery slope? No, it looks more and more like a water slide fueled by the ideological sewage of “pervasive American racism.” Sadly, our president and attorney general are more than happy to keep the odious sludge flowing.

To: robert b furman who wrote (68880)	4/1/2012 12:31:00 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 103300

Homeless represent a minuscule eight-hundredths of a percent of the population yet account for more than 17 percent of paramedic and ambulance calls and 22% of the ER visits. So how does Obamacare make these non paying users buy health insurance.

To: robert b furman who wrote (68880)	4/1/2012 12:32:30 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 103300

2012 N.Y. Times, heed 1980 N.Y. Times The New York Times sits at the apex of American media. Its decisions on what to cover often define what TV networks and less prominent newspapers think is news. And many times its reporting is groundbreaking and trenchant, which is why the Times has won so many Pulitzer Prizes. Nevertheless, there is often an insular, condescending quality to the Times’ coverage of areas outside the Northeastern seaboard and outside the usual range of values, interests and beliefs of its newspaper’s executives and editors. Says who? For one, its first ombudsman. In 2004, veteran journalist Daniel Okrent wrote that the newspaper treats a wide range of American groups “as strange objects to be examined on a laboratory slide.” A perfect example: the Times’ front-page story about the fiery death of auto racing legend Dale Earnhardt Sr. at the 2001 Daytona 500. Its detached, faintly amused tone led writer Christopher Caldwell to suggest the story should have been headlined “Inexplicably Treasured Cracker with Mustache Immolated in Bizarre Folk Ritual.” But where this tunnel vision is most disturbing is on the U.S. budget and economy. At a time when most of the rest of the world is wary of deficits and confiscatory tax rates, the Times’ opinion writers are often strident outliers. Last week, the paper’s Economics Scene columnist, Eduardo Porter, suggested hiking the top U.S. marginal income tax rate to 80 percent or more. For years, its star op-ed columnist, Paul Krugman, has called for immense new government spending far beyond the record sums spent by the Obama administration, contrary to his anti-deficit screeds under the last president. As for the Times’ editorial page, it too has chosen a demagogic course. In November 2010, it offered a tempered endorsement of the draft conclusions of the bipartisan Bowles-Simpson budget reform commission, which called for simpler but higher taxes; higher payroll taxes and reduced benefits to bring Social Security out of the red; military spending cuts; and health care cost containment. Since then, however, this constructive approach is hard to find. Instead, the Times’ editorial page touts a narrative that Republicans who disagree with Barack Obama’s economic policies do so not because they have different views but because they know the policies will work and they don’t want to help the president win re-election. Bipartisan warnings about the budget nightmare that looms, largely because aging baby boomers will sharply increase the cost of Medicare and Social Security, are framed as being “catchy but false Republican talking points.” What makes this narrative so ironic is that one of the first powerful voices in the U.S. media to warn of the baby boomer threat to the budget was, you guessed it, the editorial page of The New York Times. It outlined the need for changes in Social Security benefit formulas and financing in an editorial headlined “The Toll of the Pension Clock” on June 1, 1980. No, 1980 is not a typo. Thirty-two years ago, the Times saw this problem coming. Now that baby boomers have begun to retire and the problem is upon us, the Times almost reflexively impugns the motives of those who want to do something about it. This is not what we would define as progress. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/mar/31/2012-ny-times-heed-1980-ny-times/