“When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin … Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you’re not supposed to be there because … of the color of your skin.” ~ Clarence Thomas
A short film of some controversy and, as such, blogworthy. Watch it and judge for yourself if it is true or false or somewhere in between.
YouTube has a habit of removing videos that offend Muslims (one they don’t seem to suffer from when videos that may offend Christians are posted), so here is a linkto LiveLeak if this one goes missing.
One caution. The film shows disturbing and violent scenes. But then, jihad is by its very nature disturbing and violent.
UPDATE:
According to this report, the film was pulled by LiveLeak due to death threats. I still see the one I posted above, but it’s not the full version. To see the whole film go here.
Death threats? Intimidation? I guess the film was right after all.
This is the threat we face. This is the fight we must fight. Freedom or religious tyranny. And I don’t mean that so-called Christian tyranny of TV preachers and Catholic League boycotts, or Bush pushing through the Patriot Act that the left likes to whine about. I mean real tyranny. The kind that involves mass murder of innocent people, the violent subjugation of women and gays, and the destruction of everything that is free in our culture. That is what radical Islam brings. And if we don’t fight it now, we will be living under it in a not too distant future.
McCain was not my first choice as the GOP nominee, but I keep warming to him every time he says things like this.
“I will not play election-year politics with the housing crisis,” said Mr McCain. “It’s not the job of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they’re big banks or small borrowers.”
While I do not for a second have any sympathy for big banks who may have played fast and loose with figures and regulations and duped some people into buying mortgages they couldn’t afford, I also do not have any sympathy for those buyers who got in over their head because their stomachs were bigger than their eyes.
We bought our home 13 years ago and we have refinanced a few times since then to lower our payments, and every time we were offered those adjustable rate mortgages, we pushed them away like they were radioactive. They were a pipe-dream that has turned into a nightmare for many people, but frankly it is their own damn fault.
I am not a financial wiz by a long-shot, but even I knew they were dangerous. You simply don’t buy a house you cannot afford at the worst of times no matter how tempting it may be.
To sum up - I’m paying my mortgage, you need to pay yours and if you can’t it’s not the government’s job, using my taxes, to bail you out of it.
