June 26th, 2008

As far as I can recall, no one ever said that war is fun. As far as I can recall, no one ever said that prisons should be fun places, either.

Still, the Muslim prisoners being kept in Guantanamo have it pretty damned good especially considering why they are there–as terrorist suspects who not only despise America but who may have killed Americans and who, given the chance, would kill as many of our troops in Iraq as they could and perpetrate even more heinous atrocities on our soil.

We could house them and treat them in a Club Med atmosphere, accord them all the rights and privileges accorded our domestic prisoners, including law libraries, gym facilities, conjugal visits (i.e., sexual romps), etc. and then release them so they could continue their terrorist ways.

Instead, we merely provide, “basic supplies, such as clothing, towels, sheets, blankets, soap, shampoo, toothbrush and toothpaste. They also are given a copy of the Koran and three ‘culturally appropriate’ meals. Prayer rugs also are distributed, and a recorded call to prayer is broadcast five times a day.”

Nevertheless, Muslim convert and former Army chaplain, James Lee, and Amnesty International USA, (AIUSA), are currently protesting the horrendous treatment of the terrorist suspects at GITMO.

(http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200806/NAT20080626b.html)

I wonder if Lee and AIUSA officials witnessed the horrendous events of September 11th, 2001 or if they would care if we suffered another such attack?

War is Hell. Keep that in mind, AIUSA and Mr. Lee!

In days of old, that was crudely labeled getting knocked up but these kids don’t see it that way at all. In the very bad old days, teens who had gotten pregnant were packed off to another locale—to a distant relative or a home for unwed mothers—and, if they returned at all, their young motherhood wasn’t advertised. These Gloucester girls not only planned their pregnancies so they could raise their babies together but were disappointed if they weren’t impregnated and, no doubt, will try, try, try again. Those who did succeed were high-fiving one another in the halls of Gloucester High.

I served in the trenches of high school as a teacher for 28 years, so I know something of how these girls think, or used to know. Most are good kids, romantics to the core, infatuated with 13 year old Juliet’s affair with Romeo, somewhat distraught over their unfortunate denouement, who then went on their merry way, content with just being teenagers. I’m also familiar with their teen angst but most lived through it.

Today, they don’t all live through it…
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this is comprehensive, but this article seems to be too short and i’m sure that you can explain a little more. thanks…

Since this particular blog is under the “Uncategorized” category I expect to see a variety of new topics that may show up at any given moment providing our writers are sharing what we honestly believe is Truthful News and are willing to agree that we can disagree in a mature and intelligent manner or at the very worse at least use sarcastic humor for the sake of humor but never for malice. As for me, if I get bored reading something and can’t think of anything funny to say then I’ll likely skip over it rather than waste my valuable time complaining or disagreeing about it.

As for blogging, I’m still unsure how this all works? I registered but did not open a blog, per se, and so far I still can’t edit anything I’ve written under this particular blog? I expected to see an “Edit” button somewhere like other forums have but there is none that I see? I have to admit though, I’ve barely investigated the rest of WorldPress and the most I’ve done is visit this particular blog and then registered to edit a syntax error but still can’t edit anything. I suspect it may require me to actually start up a new blog before I can edit anything anywhere on WorldPress, that’s my guess?

And it’s just my own personal interpretation that the main emphasis of this particular blog is more of a “Truthful News” chat-room-like blog rather than anything else and as such our world is invited to join in and say whatever we want whenever we want.

In summary if anyone has something truthful they wish to express to our world then there’s the offer to do it here, but otherwise I sure as heck hope it’s not about superstition, sports, nor more politics or else I might just suspect it’s a boring neo-communist plot to overthrow my freakin’ mind?

Conyers climbed aboard the Reparations Express in 2000, stressing that the movement was “not coming forward in an accusatory tone toward any citizens or their ancestors,” but that “we simply think that Congress should take a look at the lingering effects of slavery so that we may get a deeper appreciation of them and reach some consensus about what the solutions may be. The issue of reparations is not something beyond our understanding,” Conyers wrote. “It’s a pretty fundamental issue if you look at it. I’m saying it’s time we did.” (http://www.answers.com/topic/john-conyers)

I have a few disquieting differences with that statement, as well as with Conyers’ apparent de-emphasis of the “issue.”
First, if his tone was not “accusatory” then what is it? It certainly isn’t laudatory or complimentary to even suggest that anyone or any entity owes compensation to Blacks for a vile, worldwide, institution that was ended in the United States over seven generations ago at a cost of hundreds of thousands of casualties in our Civil War. As for the “lingering effects of slavery,” that contention too is baffling for the same reason, namely that any victims of Black slavery are long dead and any residual effects that carry over for that length of time must surely be attributable to the victims rather than the perpetrators of the evil of slavery. Finally, if the issue is “fundamental,” I would ask, fundamental to what?

However, more to the point, and aside from the fact that other supporters of the idea of reparations for Blacks include “Reverend” Louis Farrakhan and others of his ilk and aside from the absurdity and impracticality of exacting reparations from Whites when thousands of freed Blacks also enslaved their own in the 1800’s, the whole idea of reparations is as repugnant and as racist as slavery.

I refer the reader to the African-American organization, Project 21, (http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PRReparations802.html), to a very angry White organization, http://www.wewontpay.com/pl10.html, and to a rabid Black reparations website, http://www.blackcommentator.com/10_reparations.html.

My purpose here is not to debate Black reparations. Rather, it involves my initial rhetorical question: Why are Blacks such as Rep. Conyers so quiet on the issue of late?

This is just conjecture but could it be that Conyers and his compatriots know that to talk about reparations now, when Senator Barack Hussein Obama potentially could become the next president of the United States of America, would spook the living bejesus out of many White supporters?

It’s just a thought but I think Whites in America should consider what that would mean. It could make $4.00 a gallon—or $20.00 a gallon– gas prices seem reasonable.