Eric Holder is One Tough Dude!

Today, our abysmal failure of an Attorney General, known as Eric Holder, gave a very brave speech detailing how the Obama Justice Department would challenge the Texas Voter ID law in federal court in San Antonio. Of course he bravely gave the speech 1400 miles away in Philadelphia to a friendly audience at the Urban League Convention.

He cited last year’s law suit regarding redistricting and that same court’s ruling that the maps were drawn in a manner that was overly discriminatory against Latinos. Were they? I don’t believe they were, but I am not a Latino. But then again, in Texas how many of our families are interracial and just how do you accurately determine who is Latino and who isn’t. I mean I have relations in my family and my wife’s family that are of all different colors and cultures.

As a matter of fact, I have a lifelong friend who married a young lady of Hispanic culture and they have three sons who all have German sir names. Are they Hispanic? This same friend’s sister married a Hispanic man and they have two boys and a girl all with Hispanic sir names. Which kids are Hispanic and which aren’t? This is the future of Texas and the United States. All you have to do to see the integration of america clearer is travel to a college or high school campus.

When my parents were in high school they were all segregated. By the time I was in high school integration had been the law of the land for nearly twenty years and while we were fully integrated I am afraid there was still some self segregation in the schools. Today things have changed greatly since the time my parents were in high school. Take a look and see that the kids of today are pretty well integrated when allowed to be so. When I visit my children at college or in high school I am so happy to see this taking place. It reveals a little window into martin Luther King’s dream.

Unfortunately there are far too many older folks including many in my generation who knowingly and unknowingly work to maintain the rifts between cultures and the races they need to survive financially or politically. Regardless of their party affiliation, I look at representatives in government who are of mixed racial and cultural backgrounds and I see people who should be the perfect candidates to help unite Texans and Americans.

Yet far too many of them are worried about winning the next election rather than working for the betterment of society. They can’t see past their own future to take the time to help create a brighter future for all of our children and grandchildren. As a result, I have to say that should we as a country not learn to quit bickering, to address our own flaws as a people, become proactive in our handling of the issues rather than reactionary, to unite, and to work to come together; then our current outlook is bleak.

But then you have race hustlers (who I will leave nameless); people who through their own actions make a mockery of those who came before them. People who make a mockery of addressing civil rights and racial harmony while claiming to carry the legacy of Civil rights trailblazers like Martin Luther King, James Peck, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, James Zwerg, or Octavio Ambrosio Larrazolo.

So to go on the plaque of race hustlers who shall remain nameless, you can etch in the name of Eric Holder because regardless of what else he says, the only way for him to keep the fires from flaming out of the liberal agenda is to keep all the racial fires stoked to an overheated frenzy.

Sadly though, this will be a costly endeavor for both the federal government and the State of Texas; and in the end it will go to the Supreme Court of the United State where they will rule as they have in similar cases in other states and the law will stand. After all, Texas’ law is less severe than the decade-old voter ID laws in either Indiana or Georgia; and amazingly enough in both of those cases minority voting increased after those laws were passed.

But Oh Well, why not waste all those federal dollars….it’s not like they’re borrowed or anything!

Bring your ID with you to the polls in November!!

Bill

What Happened to Habeas Corpus for Guantanamo Terrorists?

During the election of 2008, many liberals kept preaching about how wrong it was for the Bush administration to keep the detention center at Guantanamo Bay open or how appalling it was to hold captured terrorists and try them in a military tribunal. President Obama even campaigned on this issue and demonized the Republicans for not only allowing this to happen but for supporting this.

So there was little surprise when within hours of being sworn in President Obama signed an executive order to shut down the detention center in Guantanamo in the first year of his administration. There was also little surprise when the naive Obama Justice Department announced they would pursue conviction of these terrorists in a courtroom in New York City. To liberals these both seemed like positive moves by the Obama Administration; however, neither of these moves was very popular when it came to the implementation.

Many liberals wanted Guantanamo closed and many wanted the terrorists tried in a civilian courtroom, but no one wanted those terrorists housed in their state nor did too many people look forward to having those trials take place in their courts. It’s sort of the Dog that caught the car syndrome, once people had what they were chasing or working for, they had no idea what to do with it.

So where would we conduct these trials and house these terrorists? Well enter some true congressional bi-partisanship as congressmen of both parties voted to defund the transfer of the prisoners last year and then this year to defund the President’s Czar in charge of closing Guantanamo Bay.

NOW, THIS WEEK, the President announced that the military tribunals would start back up at Guantanamo while side-stepping the entire question on closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. So after Attorney General Eric Holder has towed the President’s line on civilian trials for these terrorists, he was summarily thrown under the bus by President Obama when the President made his statement about resuming Military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay.

Well don’t sweat it too much Mr. Attorney General. You’re in good company. There are many other people who have been thrown under the bus that is the Obama Express. There’s his Grandmother who he threw under the bus for thinking like an elderly white lady, you know…about race and all (no I actually don’t know but it would be nice to have that explanation).

There was former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who was welcomed to the white house as an ally to help make peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, but was thrown under the bus when Egyptians revolted last month.

There’s Jim Johnson who was one of his one of Obama’s primary economic advisors during the campaign and headed his VP search team for a while, but was thrown under the bus when his history at Fannie Mae became an unfavorable issue.

Poor old Reverend Wright preached the gospel to the Obama’s for nearly twenty years, but when the Reverend’s anti-American rhetoric was discovered he was slowly helped under the bus over the course of a couple of weeks.

I could keep going with the names of people living under that bus, but I’ll save that for another time. This blog is about the Democrat’s Habeas Corpus Cry and the 180 degree turn the Obama Administration has taken on this issue. I applaud the President for making a tough choice to proceed with the military tribunals and leave Guantanamo open; I just find it funny and honestly hypocritical of the Democrats and the liberal media for pretending to not notice something that they spent so many years denigrating the Bush Administration for. But then again, what can we expect from our liberal friends?

Wait till the bus makes a complete top before exiting!!
Bill

This week in America – November 18, 2009

Sorry I haven’t been as handy with this as I had wanted but I have been quite busy this summer and football season. Someone gave me a radio microphone this football season and I have been completely engrossed with that. But now it’s time to get back to the grindstone in the issues,

1. Attorney General Eric Holder wants to bring the terrorists in for a civilian trial. Hey Eric, this isn’t “What’s My Line,” or the “People’s Court,”…well I guess maybe it is some of the latter, but you get my meaning. These are dangerous terrorists and KILLERS. They were combatants caught on the battlefield and as such they should be prosecuted in a military court as approved by the Congress a few years ago.

2. Unemployment figures for October 2009 is over 10%...well thank God we passed that stimulus package back in the first few weeks of the Obama administration. Remember that one? It’s the one that President Obama said we needed because without it unemployment might reach 8%. What are they playing by golf scores? Isn’t 10% worse than 8%? Nice call on that one.

3. So in Allentown, Pa., a 17 year-old Boy Scout volunteered his time and worked hard to clear a walking path in a city park as part of his work towards earning Eagle scout. Commendable of the young lad. In this time when most teens are looking for some direction, here is this young man working hard to better himself. Then comes Nick Balzano, he’s the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) boss for Allentown. Nick is threatening to sue Allentown for allowing this scout hoodlum to volunteer when there are plenty of out-of-work union members who could have been used – for a price. You know, the SEIU already seems to have free run of the White House, now they want to go after the Boy Scouts of America – NICE!!

4. So Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Democrat who wants to run for Texas Attorney General says that the 2005 state constitutional amendment that makes the definition of marriage in Texas a union between one man and one women also contains a clause that eliminates marriage altogether in the state – Brilliant. Current Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says this law is perfectly fine and does not mean what Ms. Radnofsky declared. She is going to point this out and try and use this as a campaign issue – Really? Well go ahead Barbara, you should get the vote of everyone who is married and wants to remain married cause that’s what we want, to elect someone who is going to come into office and tell us all we aren’t married.

5. And the Winner of the Day, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ruled in favor of several New Orleans plaintiffs saying the U.S. Corps of Engineers caused the disaster in parts of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina due to their lack of supervision of the levee system. The judge called it a manmade disaster. So let me get this one straight, if you live in an area that is below sea level and a once a century storm blows through, it is somehow the governments fault. Where was this judge when I was growing up and sent a baseball through Mrs. Johnson’s house? I could have sued on the grounds that Mrs. Johnson shouldn’t have built that house there in the first place – This is Genius!!!!

Carry On Folks,
Bill