The National Conversation (Raw)

Update: China

For the first time ever China has accepted outside professionals for domestic disaster relief. A Japanese rescue crew arrived early Friday - the first international relief workers in the disaster zone.

Initially China was reluctant to accept foreign offers of help, at least help from the U.S., but the Foreign Ministry said early Friday that specialist teams from Russia, South Korea and Singapore were welcome.

I made a wrong call. Things are definitely different in China. Maybe it's because the world is watching and there's no way to downplay the magnitude of this disaster. Maybe there are real cracks in the Communist machine. Whatever the reason,  China is excepting outside help!

Is this the first crack in the Chinese Communist wall?

Hey Sweetie!

"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along." - President George W. Bush (speaking to the Israeli Knesset)

And with this statement, Barack Obama and the Dems go ballistic? I don't know, was President Bush even talking about Barack? Must have been . . . throw a rock into a pack of dogs and the one that yelps loudest was the one hit.

Obama got hit. "Ark! Ark! Ark! Ark!"

What a self-centered moron. What naivety. If I was the Chocolate Jesus, I would have shown more patience, played it smooth, let the reporters come to me and ask about the President's statements.  Then I would have responded with: 

"I agree with the President.  Some people do believe in negotiating with terrorists. I believe in solving problems. What problems has the President's actions solved? Tough talk has never captured a terrorist.  Speaking of terrorists . . . why haven't we captured bin Laden?"

See sweetie? Easy.

"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along." - President George W. Bush (speaking to the Israeli Knesset)

And with this statement, Barack Obama and the Dems go ballistic? I don't know, was President Bush even talking about Barack? Must have been . . . throw a rock into a pack of dogs and the one that yelps loudest was the one hit.

Obama got hit. "Ark! Ark! Ark! Ark!"

What a self-centered moron. What naivety. If I was the Chocolate Jesus, I would have shown more patience, played it smooth, let the reporters come to me and ask about the President's statements.  Then I would have responded with: 

"I agree with the President.  Some people do believe in negotiating with terrorists. I believe in solving problems. What problems has the President's actions solved? Tough talk has never captured a terrorist.  Speaking of terrorists . . . why haven't we captured bin Laden?"

See sweetie? Easy.

Heroes

Milwaukee needs more heroes! (and now days there are plenty of opportunities.)

As you look at the video, ask yourself this question: If John Wayne was on the bus, what would he do? If Dirty Harry was on the bus, what would he do? If Peter Parker, Speed Racer, Samuel L. Jackson (in any role he has ever played) were on the bus... What would they do?

If your father was on the bus, what would he do?

My father would would have kicked that kid's ass... I'm not kidding, or he would have died trying. I don't have an S on my chest or a spider on my butt, but if I was on that bus there would have been an ass whoopin', his or mine. I'm wired like that... like my father.

Maybe that's the problem, a lack of fathers riding the bus... and raising their sons.

Communism Kills

Will the 21st century's new "Master of the Universe" receive aid from the West in the wake of its latest natural disaster?

Are "Super Powers" allowed to receive aid from lesser countries?

The answer is no. With Super Power membership comes pride. China shouldn't need our help, right? But they will because try as they might... they are still communist and being a communist is never having to be accountable.

Remember the great famine that killed millions in the 60’s and the quakes that killed thousands in the 1970’s? Just like the Junta party in Burma, at the time, the Communist rulers of China stood by as thousands of its citizens were buried alive and tens of millions of Chinese people starved to death.

Starved.

The Junta party in Burma… Have you noticed that natural disasters are global but they devastate only non-Western nations? Or maybe I should ask: Why are democracies better equipped to handle natural disasters?

Now that China is a super power will things change? No, because China is still governed by Communist. Welcome to the 21st century, where some things will remain the same.

Come On!!!

Forget the fat, that it's fried or that the food is fake. I could live with that. What I can't abide by is the caliber of people working in and around fast food restaurants today.

Life is fragile, spit is toxic.

There's enough to worry about in the world today like, global warming, Chinese industrialization and businessmen riding their bikes to work. The last thing we should have anxiety over is the possibility of Rufus hocking a loogy in our Diet Coke!

Bastards!

Excellence Starts Here...

I attended my kids’ weekly Monday morning school assembly the other day and had my mind blown (My kids attend a private school which means I choose to pay their tuition, plus foot the bill for the thousands of kids every year who drop out of MPS.). 

School Choice.

Anyway, at the assembly the students were demonstrating their skills.

The program started with my daughter's 1st grade class reciting all 50 states and their capitals to the tune of Yankee Doodle.

Impressive.

Next came the mind blower when the Academy's 5th grade class recited the Gettysburg Address followed by Walt Whitman’s "O Captain! My Captain!" in unison without a missing a single beat.

Wow.

The 5th graders followed the recitation with a PowerPoint presentation in which the students demonstrated their grammatical abilities when they diagramed sentences from the Gettysburg Address...I’m not kidding. The teacher had each student's name on a deck of cards, shuffled the deck, drew ten cards, and called the selected students to the front.  Then one by one, the students explained the grammatical analysis with enthusiasm and pluck. It was truly jaw dropping.
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This is the school where the 7th graders memorize the Declaration of Independence, and students at all grade levels memorize lengthy Bible passages.

It’s Amazing.

The school building is not state of the art, far from it. However, somehow these kids get something that is rare and beautiful these days... a solid classical education rooted in God, country and community.

Oh yeah, the school also participates in the Milwaukee school choice program, and is the most ethnically and economically diverse school in Milwaukee. Eastbrook Academy is everything the left says it wants but we rarely see produced when it comes to education in the city...

Success.

Bananarama

It’s the banana, right? The banana goes too far. Otherwise who could argue the point? There is a resemblance…Obama kind of looks like Curious George! But the banana thing is over the top. It’s down right insensitive, unfortunate maybe… but racist?

Supporters of Barack Obama and other overly sensitive lefties better brace themselves! This is only the beginning. As a black conservative, I'm here to tell you that you ain't seen nothing yet. Ask Condi or Clarance and that was from their own people! You people better man up!

You Ain't Seen Nothin'!!!!!

Rich Man's Fire

Ninety year-old Milwaukee philanthropist, Joseph Zibler, is about to give the city of Milwaukee $50 million over the next ten years to “transform the quality of life in Milwaukee’s low-income neighborhoods.”

Where do I get in line?

God bless you, Mr. Zibler, but I think that this is a bad idea. If you really want to help transform the quality of life in my neighborhood, please... show me how to make $50 million, show me how to make money the way you do. If you’re giving away fifty million that must mean you have millions upon millions of dollars working for you day and night, night and day, even on the weekends... right?

You see, Mr. Zibler, in the immortal words of the orangutan, King Louie, from Jungle Book...

“Oh, oobee doo... I wanna be like you. I wanna walk like you, talk like you, too!”

Show me rich man’s fire, sir...  Show me how to make da moneyyyyyyyy! I promise to share the knowledge with the rest of the community. So lets do this thing Mr. Zibler. That’s the kind of help the inner city of Milwaukee needs.

Knowledge!

Warped

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I hate people who ride their bikes to work. I have no reason to, I just do. I hate them even more if they wear a helmet. They look so... liberal. Look at this picture... the mayor on a bike, in his helmet, riding to work.

Blah.

Only lefties ride bikes. Once you get your temps your bike riding days should be over. Getting a driver's license is a right of passage. Once you can drive, you become a man. Only girls and lefties ride bikes. Show me a man who rides a bike and I’ll show you how to kick his ass. If I can’t, I’ll just run him over in my minivan.

Go ahead! It’s your right. Ride your bikes to work... get your exercise while you save the planet... but know this. I’m out there, in the minivan and I hate you.

The Empire Strikes Barack

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