What sort of jackass bastard has the FCC decided to saddle us with now? According to several sources, (and here, since I said several) the new FCC "Diversity Czar" is an unabashedly racist, excruciatingly ignorant swine.
Anyone who feels that 'white people must step down and let other races have a go at power' is ignorant of the paths of Western Civilization. BY DEFINITION, white people will have some power; this has been true for, oh, say....4000 YEARS OR SO??? Mark Lloyd needs to actually open a history textbook sometime. Oh yes...news flash: the American people just elected a Black man to be President....but I guess it's not good enough that we've reached the point where anyone of any color can grow up and become an elected official in this country. Or maybe Mark Lloyd would like some "No Whites Allowed" signs on our Government buildings?
Forget it - I'm not gonna waste the space calling this asshole out. Mark Lloyd just pisses me off with his flagrant intellectual shortcomings, his calling the First Amendment out as "communications policies", and his genuinely incredible racism. This sort of Loser being in a position of power is the sort of thing that leads to race riots and revolution....I just hope that the administration takes a cue from it's handling of Van Jones and kicks Mark "I'm a racist jerkoff" Lloyd to the curb.
And kids: racism is ugly, immoral, and wrong regardless of what color you are. Hating someone for something they have no control over is a self-defeating policy of persecution that leads to insane levels of racial tensions (think the Deep South in the early 60s) and causes problems on a widespread scale...the kind of problems that end up with large chunks of neighborhoods being burned down (and again in '92).
Anyone who thinks that this wouldn't happen with ANY ethnic/racial group that feels completely disenfranchised needs to be seriously educated; history is full of rebellions and revolutions based entirely on racial tensions. It never ends well, and is something that we can easily avoid....unless people like Mark Lloyd are there to fuck it all up....
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The Young Plants
The young plants die too soon.
They wither early, then fade
soft cinders sleeping on the grass.
Contracted, spinning on a wire in
quiet breezes; dangling like
Antarctic explorers grappling
with the Roof of the World.
Beauty hangs, precarious,
stretching forth green wires with
!!Coral explosions!!
Shivering in the biting wind,yet unafraid.
They weather the storms as chance may
guide them,
grasping life by the throat,
taking her in green claws rending
(their only voice)
They wither early, then fade
soft cinders sleeping on the grass.
Contracted, spinning on a wire in
quiet breezes; dangling like
Antarctic explorers grappling
with the Roof of the World.
Beauty hangs, precarious,
stretching forth green wires with
!!Coral explosions!!
Shivering in the biting wind,yet unafraid.
They weather the storms as chance may
guide them,
grasping life by the throat,
taking her in green claws rending
(their only voice)
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Some observations on the polls
I was looking over the CNN website this morning, and I noticed that they'd done some sort of nonsense "Second 100 Days" poll, and I decided to check it out. It was actually a series of questions, apparently asked to the population at large (via CNN's website, I believe), and graded along a traditional "school-grade" system. Readers were asked to rate the following:
1. Obama Administration's handling of the economy (C-)
2. Obama Administration's handling of health care reform (D)
3. "" "" handling of foreign affairs (C)
4. Performance of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton (C+)
5. Vice President Joe Biden (C-)
6. The performance of YOUR state's 2 senators (C-)
7. The performance of Congress (D)
8. The performance of the Republican Leadership in Congress (D)
9. The performance of the media (D)
10. Grade President Barack Obama (C-)
The results were kinda fun, if somewhat telling. Most of the grades indicated are averages of huge numbers (388,000) of internet viewers. The numbers also tend to skew HEAVILY into the "F" category, with sometimes 40 or 50% (or more) of those polled responding in this way.
The first thing that popped out at me was the fact that there is no poll to grade Democratic leadership. Are they afraid of the results? The Repulican leadership was roundly denounced in the polls here (although, checking results, they actually do better, on average, than the "Entire Congress" option (question 7), so read that how you will.
Then, looking at question number 6, only one state gave it's senators a grade over a C: North Dakota. I applaud Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad; you both are apparently well-liked by your constituency. I personally think that they just haven't gotten the joke yet (actually read the details of the Dorgan Tourism bill sometime...he's no better than the rest).
Fun Fact: If you check the results of those polled in Question 7, the only place where Congress got better than a D was in Washington D.C. Apparently, they all voted for themselves!
But yeah; I have better things to do than waste my time on internet polls. The internet is an unreliable, fickle creature at the best of times.....and these are definitely not the best of times
1. Obama Administration's handling of the economy (C-)
2. Obama Administration's handling of health care reform (D)
3. "" "" handling of foreign affairs (C)
4. Performance of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton (C+)
5. Vice President Joe Biden (C-)
6. The performance of YOUR state's 2 senators (C-)
7. The performance of Congress (D)
8. The performance of the Republican Leadership in Congress (D)
9. The performance of the media (D)
10. Grade President Barack Obama (C-)
The results were kinda fun, if somewhat telling. Most of the grades indicated are averages of huge numbers (388,000) of internet viewers. The numbers also tend to skew HEAVILY into the "F" category, with sometimes 40 or 50% (or more) of those polled responding in this way.
The first thing that popped out at me was the fact that there is no poll to grade Democratic leadership. Are they afraid of the results? The Repulican leadership was roundly denounced in the polls here (although, checking results, they actually do better, on average, than the "Entire Congress" option (question 7), so read that how you will.
Then, looking at question number 6, only one state gave it's senators a grade over a C: North Dakota. I applaud Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad; you both are apparently well-liked by your constituency. I personally think that they just haven't gotten the joke yet (actually read the details of the Dorgan Tourism bill sometime...he's no better than the rest).
Fun Fact: If you check the results of those polled in Question 7, the only place where Congress got better than a D was in Washington D.C. Apparently, they all voted for themselves!
But yeah; I have better things to do than waste my time on internet polls. The internet is an unreliable, fickle creature at the best of times.....and these are definitely not the best of times
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