Bush Honors Rosa Parks; Speaks On Voting Rights Act

President George W. Bush, that evildoer to Black people, is at it again.

From CNN.com:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- While honoring civil rights hero Rosa Parks, President Bush on Thursday delighted modern-day black leaders by calling on Congress to renew the provisions of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that are set to expire.

On the 50th anniversary of Parks' refusal to give up to a white man her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Bush signed into law a bill directing that a statue of Parks go up in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.

Parks, who died October 24 at age 92, will be the first black woman represented in Statuary Hall, where many states have statues honoring notable people in their history.

Bush credited Parks for helping to "set in motion a national movement for equality and freedom."

"Eventually the civil rights movement would succeed in persuading Congress to pass more sweeping legislation that dealt with voting rights and discrimination in public places, and school segregation," said the president. "And the United States Congress should renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965."

That declaration surprised many of the civil rights leaders, Parks relatives and politicians who had gathered at the White House for the signing ceremony. They erupted in applause and rose to give Bush a standing ovation.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson lavishly praised Bush for committing to seeing the expiring portions of the Voting Rights Act extended. He called the president's public urging "a significant breakthrough" since he had previously declined even in private to support the renewal.

"That was kind of a double victory for civil rights today," Jackson said.

Now considering how much George W. Bush supposedly doesn't care about us Black folk (yunno, making up lies to start wars, creating hurricanes and planting bombs in levees, etc.), this little bit of news certainly comes as a major surprise. Any wonder that the conspiracy-theorist wing of the Left hasn't said much about it?

Of course, if you're reading this and happen to know Kanye West, please make sure he's notified about it as soon as possible.

Celebrities Are Idiots #1: Charlize Theron

Playing a man-hating, lesbian serial killer can do stuff for you like win a Best Actress Oscar, propel you into becoming an icon within the gay community and even cause you to make dumb decisions in your personal life.

From Spotlighting News.com:

Theron, 30, who met Stuart while filming Trapped in 2001, confessed that, tired of answering questions like when she is going to marry her lover, decided, together with Townsend, to tell the reporters that they're planning a wedding on the day when gay and lesbians will be legally allowed to marry.

Theron tells US news show Extra, "We came up with a new idea that we said that we would get married the day that gays and lesbians can get married - when that right is given to them.

We've decided that we're gonna use that in a positive way, so the day that law gets passed then we'll get married."

Here's hoping Charlize Theron never gets married.

For Supreme Court Seat, Abortion Is All That Matters

So liberals have dug deep and found more ammunition to stop Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

From CBSNews.com:

(AP) As a Reagan administration lawyer in 1985, Samuel Alito made clear his hope that the Supreme Court would one day overturn a landmark ruling that established abortion rights. But Alito, now a Supreme Court nominee, argued against an all-out assault on the Roe v. Wade ruling, fearing such an assault would fail.

Instead, he recommended a policy of "mitigating its effects" by trying to persuade justices to accept state regulations on abortions. While working as an assistant to the solicitor general, Alito called for the office, which represents the federal government before the Supreme Court, to help defend provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act.

Some of the act's provisions had been overturned by a panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists v. Thornburgh. Alito wrote in the memo, released by the National Archives on Wednesday, that "no one seriously believes that the court is about to overrule Roe v. Wade.

"But, he said, "By taking these cases, the court may be signaling an inclination to cut back. What can be made of this opportunity to advance the goals of bringing about the eventual overruling of Roe v. Wade and, in the meantime, of mitigating its effects?".

Let's face it. Where you stand on abortion is not only the defining point of whether or not you'll be on the Supreme Court, its become the ONLY point. A seat on the Supreme Court no longer requires any skills, a resume, Constitutional profiency or previous experience on the bench, it's where you stand on abortion, even Clarence Thomas had enough fortitude to make this point not too long ago.

If George W. Bush nominated Maureen Dowd to the highest court, liberals wouldn't bat an eye, much less make threats to filibuster as they're already doing with Alito. The Liberal Mafia could care less about the integrity of the Court as long as the billion-dollar cash cow that is the abortion industry is protected.

So while our Constitution gives our electors the right to address and question a Supreme Court nominee, instead we are seeing a group of individuals on the Left putting aside what's best for our country in turn for votes from special interest groups. With control of the House and the Senate, Republicans need to do whatever they can to make sure that Samuel Alito, a man who is more then qualified to be on the highest court, gets his due.

Polls They Won't Talk About

I don't believe in polls. To me they're meaningless and a serious waste of time. But I do believe in continual rampant media bias against the right and conservatives. So while liberals continue to punch out numbers that supposedly reflect how the nation feels about our President, here's another poll that will undoubtedly get little to no love.

From the Washington Post:

Democrats fumed last week at Vice President Cheney's suggestion that criticism of the administration's war policies was itself becoming a hindrance to the war effort. But a new poll indicates most Americans are sympathetic to Cheney's point.

Seventy percent of people surveyed said that criticism of the war by Democratic senators hurts troop morale -- with 44 percent saying morale is hurt "a lot," according to a poll taken by RT Strategies. Even self-identified Democrats agree: 55 percent believe criticism hurts morale, while 21 percent say it helps morale.

The results surely will rankle many Democrats, who argue that it is patriotic and supportive of the troops to call attention to what they believe are deep flaws in President Bush's Iraq strategy. But the survey itself cannot be dismissed as a partisan attack. The RTs in RT Strategies are Thomas Riehle, a Democrat, and Lance Tarrance, a veteran GOP pollster.

Their poll also indicates many Americans are skeptical of Democratic complaints about the war. Just three of 10 adults accept that Democrats are leveling criticism because they believe this will help U.S. efforts in Iraq. A majority believes the motive is really to "gain a partisan political advantage."

Of course, despite its bipartisan merit polls like this are meaningless to the Left because they don't reflect negatively on Bush and of course, troop moral isn't important when you have 2,000 unknown pollsters (in a country of 300million+ denizens & a 100million+ voters) telling us what the current nation's temperature is on a daily basis.

Polls? Schmolls.

Joe Lieberman Says We Should Stay In Iraq

Of course, this kind of talk won't get near as much hype compared to when a Democrat comes out and says that the troops should come home.

Fresh from his fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months, Sen. Joe Lieberman insists the U.S. must stay in the embattled nation and not abandon "27 million Iraqis to 10,000 terrorists."

"The Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood – unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn," the Connecticut Democrat writes in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal.

Pointing to economic and political progress he witnessed while in Iraq, Lieberman said:
"People are working their way toward a functioning society and economy in the midst of a very brutal, inhumane, sustained terrorist war against the civilian population and the Iraqi and American military there to protect it.

"It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al-Qaida foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free and modern ...

In 2000, the Al Gore/Joe Lieberman presidential ticket was seen as a vehicle of positive change within the Democratic party. A ticket that would turn the page on the worsening economy and the Monica Lewinsky/Denise Rich scandals that came to mark Bill Clinton's second term. But then Gore lost to Bush and quizzocaily decided not to run again in 2004 (tho' the feeling here is that Gore would've had a better shot of defeating George W. Bush in 2004 then John Kerry).

As for Lieberman, tho' he was highly praised for his centrist views in 2000 (views that many back in '00 thought would propel Gore to the presidency), he has since been castigated by leftist Democrats for not taking on hardline anti-Republican stances including the line they're running with now about bringing our troops home.

Funny how soon things change.

Let Stanley "Tookie" Williams Live

Conservatives are steaming over the news that Tookie Williams may get a chance to live.

From CNN.com -


SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would consider granting clemency to convicted killer Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the Crips gang founder who became an anti-gang activist while in prison and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The governor said Friday he would meet December 8 in a private hearing with Williams' lawyers, Los Angeles County prosecutors and others involved.

Schwarzenegger has the authority to commute a death sentence to life without parole, but he is not obligated to hold a hearing. In Schwarzenegger's case, he decides clemency requests on a "case-by-case basis," spokeswoman Margita Thompson said.

Two other clemency petitions have come before Schwarzenegger. Neither was granted.

Williams, 51, faces a lethal injection on December 13 for the 1979 slayings of a Whittier convenience store clerk and three people at a Pico Rivera motel. He has maintained his innocence and has asked the California Supreme Court to reopen his case, alleging shoddy forensics wrongly connected him to three of the murders. The Supreme Court hasn't ruled on the petition.

I'm against the death penalty, always have been, always will be.

The death penalty is not only immoral, but it's racist and it doesn't do anything to deter crime. The death penalty is nothing but revenge or so-called "just" payback for those who have been convicted of murder. Nothing more, nothing less. It solves nothing. It doesn't take away the pain of losing a loved one. It doesn't bring them back. It's nothing more then a judgment call rooted in anger. A judgment call that no human being has the right to make.

I always find it frightening when so-called "Christians" cry aloud in unison that a human being should be put to death. I always find it mind-boggling that so-called "pro-lifers" ignore their own hypocrisy when they make themselves part of the same group of fiends maddenly in love with the death penalty.

Of course, some conservatives can be excused for just being blinded by the ir utter hatred for liberals.

You see, Stanley "Tookie" Williams' case has been supported and taken up by those on the Left and of course, the simple-minded notion is that anything taken up by liberals must be wrong. But put aside your contempt and you might get to see that Tookie Williams' case has nothing to with Republican vs. Democrat or Left vs. Right or Conservative vs. Liberal.

And mind you, this is all coming from a person who despises liberals.

But Tookie's Williams' case has nothing to do with politics. It has nothing to do with the media hype. It has nothing to do with the treacherous gang he started, the Crips. It has nothing to do with everyone from rapper Snoop Dogg to Jamie Foxx coming out in support of Tookie Williams especially because Jesse Jackson having the gall to cry for Tookie Williams being released from jail only supports my claim of what an ass Jesse Jackson has become.

Tookie Smith's case is about you and me, I and them. In other words, this case is about all of us.

Tookie Smith was convicted of murdering 4 people. He was found guilty through the use of a criminal justice system that so many of us love and support. A criminal justice system that may be far from perfect, but is still the best regardless. So much so that many other countries around the world have adopted our methods of criminology within theirs....tho' some may not admit it, it's still flattering nonetheless, right?

But therein lies the problem

Because in the case of Tookie Williams, what's been going on in his life can't be flattering, it's an insult, especially to the loved ones of those he took away. The fact that Tookie Williams has become an celebrity icon is like a knife being twisted in the back of those he killed, but it also speaks to a penalty phase of our criminal justice system that seriously needs to be fixed. And soon.

You see, I believe that when you are convicted of a crime, any crime, you give up all the right's afforded to citizens who don't commit crimes. But in the case of Stanley Williams this hasn't happened and that's where our outrage should be. Convicted murderers should be locked in a jail cell 23 hours a day for the rest of their natural lives. They should be allowed to bathe once a week, allowed to eat once a day. Their lifetime jail cells should be equipped with nothing but a toilet, a sink and a hard bed made of stone. They shouldn't be allowed to read, write or have any notion as to whats going on in the world outside the bars they now deservedly call home. There should be no relent for "good behavior". No chance for parole, no phone calls either. And they should be allowed visitors only once every 3 months with all conversations being screened and the only family members allowed in being those with bloodlines. Convicted murderers should be made to think about their actions every single minute of every single day of the rest of their lives. They should be broken to the point that they don't want to live. That's the sort of punishment that suits the crime of killing someone.

But our criminal justice system doesn't allow for that sort of longterm punishment and you know that the ACLU will come a running the minute they hear anything of the such. That's what we should be angry about.

We should be angry at a criminal justice system that has allowed Tookie Williams to write books, to make speeches, have movies made about his life and literally become a role model to thousands of young men. We should be mad at the idiots behind the Nobel Peace Prize who had the audacity to elect Williams for their award. We should also remember that most of the people who get the death penalty are nonwhite and poor and that's not something that liberals made up, it's a blatant fact and speaks to another great wrong within our system.

We must remember too that because our criminal justice system is not perfect, the death penalty, the ultimate justice, becomes even more unjust and invalid. Just last week a teenager came forward to admit that he lied about Ruben Cantu, a teenager who was executed for a murder that we now come to find out that Cantu didn't commit. The eyewitness admitted that he was pressured by police into pointing the finger at Cantu. Oh yeah, that's great, but Cantu was executed back in 1993.

Oops!

But how many Cantu's are out there. How many people lie in wait on death row convicted of crimes they really didn't commit? How many death row inmates are victims of bad lawyers or inept witnesses? How often have we read about cases where DNA evidence has freed prisoners convicted of crimes? But death penalty supporters don't seem to have the time for all of that. Then again it's so easy to cop attitudes from afar when you're not the one involved with the crime.

The death penalty didn't prevent the crimes committed by Tookie Williams and it's not a solution to it. Tookie Williams should've been made to rot from the minute he was found guilty. He should've been treated like the murderer he is until his last dying breathe. I don't care about all the "good deeds' he's done since his incarceration because as far as I'm concerned he lost all rights to do good deeds a long time ago. I don't care how much he's tried to turn around his life or how much of an influence he's had on kids. Tookie Williams knew the difference between right and wrong when he killed and what's right is right. But while he may "deserve" to die, it's not on us to make that call.

Since Gov. Schwarzenegger is in his rights to do so, I hope he'll do the right thing by not even considering to grant Williams clemency, but instead converting his sentence to life without the possibility of parole. That way Williams will continue to rot as much as our system allows.