After I read Amy’s comment on yesterdays post, I started posting my own comment. It got longer and longer, so I decided to make it today’s blog post….

I disagree, there is nothing hateful in that message. While I am not particularly religious, I can understand where he is coming from. Keep in mind, this politician is an Australian, not American. America was indeed founded on a freedom of religion. I believe you are free to practice whatever religion (even non-religion) you like. However you do not have to right to force your beliefs on me. Forcing your beliefs on me include doing your religious thing in front of me just to make me uncomfortable. Keep it to yourself.

What I really agree more with are the first three sentences. Immigrants should learn to adapt to the country they are moving to. I shouldn’t have to learn Spanish to communicate with people who are living in MY country… the country in which *I* was born. I shouldn’t have to worry that what I say and do in my own country might offend someone else. In my eyes, I keep my stuff to myself, you should keep your stuff to yourself.

One thing that grips me is that I don’t need more “African-American” awareness… if theyre so African, go live there. I tell you what, they’ll probably like America better. When you start calling yourself an “American”, like I do, I’ll start treating you like an “American”. In my opinion, skin color doesn’t mean anything… I’m not asking you to believe what I believe… I’m asking you to keep your beliefs to yourself, as I do… practice your stuff at home. I don’t need to be “African-American” aware, or “Asian-American” aware…. If you want to start segmenting the population then I’m a “German-Irish American” and you should respect my traditions, whatever they are.

Fuck that, I’m an American… and if you’re here legally, so are you. We don’t need to add whatever continent your great-great-great-grandparents came from. You’re an AMERICAN. ACT LIKE ONE.

I think the final paragraph wraps up everything I like about this entire statement: “If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.”

As usual, I checked this out on Snopes.com before posting it, and this one is true ladies and gents… think we can elect a politician who has the balls to say this?

Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

Separately, Howard (pictured, right) angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation’s mosques.

IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.

This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.

We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society. Learn the language!

Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented.

It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.

We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.

This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, THE RIGHT TO LEAVE.

If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.

Maybe if we circulate this amongst ourselves, American and Canadian citizens will find the
backbone to start speaking and voicing the same truths. Black, white, male, female… I don’t care who you are. If you can stand up and make this declaration… you have my vote.

Here’s another email I just got on racism. It also proved true on Snopes.com

Well, it appears our African-American friends have found yet something else to be pissed about. A black congresswoman from Texas, has complained that the names of hurricanes are all Caucasian sounding names.

She would prefer some names that reflect African-American culture such as Chamiqua, Woeisha, Shaqueal, and Jamal.

She would also like the weather reports to be broadcast in ‘language’ that street people can understand because one of the problems that happened in New Orleans was that black people couldn’t understand the seriousness of the situation, due to the racially biased language of the weather report.

I guess if the weather person says that the winds are going to blow at 140+ MPH, that’s too hard to understand.

I can hear it now: Weathermen in Miami and Tampa saying…

“Wazzzup, mutha-fukkas! Hehr-i-cane Chamiqua be headin’ fo’ yo ass like Leroy on a crotch rocket!
Bitch be a category fo’! So turn off your chitlins, grab yo’ chirren, yo’ Ho, leave yo’ crib, and head fo’ da nearest guv’ment office fo yo FREE shit!”

Now, that is ridiculous… This congresswoman elected by THE PEOPLE is saying that THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN (ie: ’street’) PEOPLE who live in Hurricane zones are so ignorant that they can’t understand basic English? It’s not as though meteorologists use really big words to confuse their viewers/listeners. What’s not to understand about 150+ mph winds and the word HURRICANE? Duh.

I’m also against naming hurricanes with African-American names. It just gives those racist African-Americans another thing to complain about… I can hear it now: “You only name the worst hurricanes after black people because you white folks are racist”… and you know they’ll claim that too, even though the National Weather Service sets the names in Alphabetical Order years in advance.

Here’s a little piece I discovered about our presidential candidates…

‘The Pledge of Allegiance’ - by Senator John McCain

‘As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept us in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA moved us from these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30 to 40 men to a room.

This was, as you can imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred POWs 10,000 miles from home. One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike Christian.

Mike came from a small town near Selma , Alabama . He didn’t wear a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training School Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967. Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of the opportunities this country and our military provide for people who want to work and want to succeed.

As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing. Mike got himself a bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed on the inside of his shirt.

Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike’s shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance. I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed the most important and meaningful event.

One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered Mike’s shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed it.

That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours. Then, they opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as well as we could.

The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept Four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room.

As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag. He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to Pledge our allegiance to our flag and country.

So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our nation and promote freedom around the world. You must remember our duty, our honor, and our country.’

'I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'

Oh……and then you have this ass-clown, who refuses to place his hand on his heart and say the pledge…

Pictured here are Senator Barack Obama, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Hillary Clinton and Ruth Harkin stand during the national anthem. the article said he not only refused to place his hand over his heart during the pledge of allegiance, but also refused to say it.

How in the hell can a man like this expect to be our next Commander-in-Chief?

According to Snopes.com, Princeton was requested to put a ‘restriction’ on distribution of any copies of the thesis of Michelle Obama (a/k/a/ Michelle laVaughn Robinson) saying it could not be made available until November 5, 2008 but when it was published on a political website they decided they would lift the restriction.

In her senior thesis at Princeton, Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama stated that America was a nation founded on crime and hatred.’ Moreover, she stated that whites in America were ‘ineradicably racist.’ The 1985 thesis, titled ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community’ was written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.

Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to ‘Whites at Princeton , it often seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first…’ However, it was reported by a fellow black classmate, ‘If those ‘Whites at Princeton ‘ really saw Michelle as one who always would ‘be Black first,’ it seems that she gave them that impression’.

Most alarming is Michele Obama’s use of the terms ’separationist’ and ‘integrationist’ when describing the views of black people. Mrs. Obama clearly identifies herself with a ’separationist’ view of race.

‘By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight.’

Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to her ‘further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.’

Michele Obama clearly has a chip on her shoulder. Not only does she see separate black and white societies in America , but she elevates black over white in her world.

Here is another passage that is uncomfortable and ominous in meaning:

‘There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the black community first and foremost. ‘

What is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources if she’s first lady that will elevate black over white in America? The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action policies that could be the hallmark of an Obama administration.

‘Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of their enrollments.’

The conclusion of her thesis is alarming.

Michelle Obama’s poll of black alumni concludes that other black students at Princeton do not share her obsession with blackness. But rather than celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common American culture more than they value the color of their skin.

‘I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.’

Is it no wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire? Only 89 students responded out of 400 who were asked for input. Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and see Americans. She sees black people and white people eternally conflicted with one another.

The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama’s thoughts and world view seen through a race-based prism. This is a very divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama administration. Michelle Obama’s intellectually refined racism should give all Americans pause for deep concern. Now maybe she’s changed, but she sure sounds like someone with an axe to grind with

Will the press let Michelle get a free pass over her obviously racist comment about American whites? I am sure that it will. This goes directly against what Martin Luther King, Jr. stood for: equality.

You will remember this MLK quote…

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Mrs. Obama’s views obviously do not support this. She’s obviously supports African-American racial superiority. That is also known as racism, something else MLK, Jr did not support, as evidenced in this MLK quote:

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I feel that I believe what MLK believed in: equality for all men and women. Mrs. Obama obviously feels differently. That scares me very much and probably has MLK rolling over in his grave.

A friend of mine sent me this today… I realize it has a very Republican slant, but watch it without taking sides. See how scary Barak Obama really is… I may just support Hillary just to make sure this guy doesn’t get elected.

OH. MY. GOD. Can someone please tell me when we added more states to this country? There seems to be sixty now.

That’s right… 57, plus one more… oh, and he didn’t make it to Alaska or Hawaii…

And this guy wants to be president?

Okay, what the hell is this? Atlanta has an opening day every day? I know we first saw this ad during the Superbowl, and lately, I’ve seen it all over Atlanta on billboards and quite recently, at the airport. Who the hell thought of this and why? If you go to the website, you’ll even find the official Atlanta theme song. Atlanta has a theme song? And in two versions? R&B *and the Blues? Oooooooo, I gotta have both!

Check out the website… What an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars. It offers nothing, and in fact isn’t even complete yet. Most of the pages that would be helpful to a visitor (neighborhood maps), are listed as “COMING SOON”. As if that screams “WE WEREN’T READY YET!”, I don’t know what does. Everything else is just silly. Links to websites that aren’t a part of this one, government resources, theres a place for all the political pandering Atlanta Not-For-Profits, and then there’s this little blurb:

Atlanta is the ideal gay travel destination. Our gay and lesbian travel guide includes gay and lesbian special events, community organizations, gay neighborhoods, vacation packages, specials, accomodations and more.

Wow, as if that’s not a way to drive away the right-wing family-oriented tourists! I mean, it’s good to be diverse and all, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call Atlanta the “ideal gay travel destination”. I’ve lived here for 14 years and I know all of Atlanta is not the gay-frockling utopia that they would have you think it is.

Not that Atlanta has much to offer tourists anyway. We do have the some of the country’s best restaurants… and um… Six Flags, and oh yeah, the zoo… but most cities have a zoo. Oh yeah, how about the Aquarium? That’s new… good luck getting a ticket. Oh, and then we have the world champion sports teams here like the Hawks, the Thrashers, the Falcons, and the Braves . Oh yeah, I forgot, none of them can win championships. Um… what else do we have?

Well, a recent check of the Atlanta website says that we have “The Stinky Cheese Man” here in town. Wow! I can’t wait, mom can we get tickets? Oh, and don’t forget we have shopping, and the famed Atlanta nightlife stripclubs.

So, if you like boobies, Atlanta is the place to be… so I guess every day is a (bra) opening day!