The African American Republican

      Here we go again. This is why most of the world does not like us. Other countries do not appreciate one bit being told by the United States a.k.a Big Brother what they can and can not do. This does nothing but aggravate further their frustations with us and makes them want to do things to us to loosen our grip on their society. I will attempt to make an example here using a teenager. This is no disrespect to other countries. What happens when you tell a teenager what to do - they rebel. The are becoming adults and want to be seen as independent thinkers and people the problem is if you don't respect them and allow them to learn they will create many problems for you.

      Iran is and should not be made to look of a threat just like we did Iraq and got nothing for it - except a hot mess. When we accuse other countries of doing things that on the surface look of another its arrogrant presumption. It becomes utterly stupid on our part to act when we are not being allowed in or have never seen anything that fortells of bad business. Then attempting to round up the friends of our "enemy" is futile. If we are to proceed in the future and not find things that we want we must stop looking for them. We can not and should not be the world's police. We have enough domestic problems right here on United States soil to deal with, and we are not giving them the time of day. I want better schools, better healthcare, and better elected officials. I do want my tax dollars to be used for wild goose chases.   

      In such a violent world everyone should have the right to defend themselves. We have nuclear and atomic weapons and it should not be just use that is allowed to have them. If they have them and attempt to use them on us, we have them to and can use them back. Every human has the defined right to self-defense. That should extend further to nations by whatever means they see fit to use.

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Iran inaugurates atomic project - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com

      This once again show the greediness that is in the hearts of people. This man evidently found this ticket in the trash and it was his. This meaning the incident was the epitome of "finders keepers loosers weepers" or "another man's trash is another man's treasure". Either way this guy threw his tickets in the trash and as such became public property and he relinquished all right to anything having to do with that ticket. The legal system that i s built to protect people can also be used as a pawn in someone game. The family wanted to hold his man hostage in court knowing that he was damn near going to die. This show how some human have no respect for other human life. We will not progress forward in our lives if instead of getting our own we take others. It is not what america is built on to expect a hand out. If you need something you need to get off your ass and get it. The same way the 83 yr old man worked through that garbage outside the store.

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$1 million ticket from trash shared - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

      Once again we must revisit the race issue. If by now most American have gotten through their heads the ideas of political correctness then we are sorely educating society. If something would spark racial tensions it should not be done - case closed. I am interested to find out what the school system finds in their investigation before I pass judgment on the school bus driver or the reasoning for these children allegedly being sent to the back of the bus. I would really hope that in the year 2006 human being have gotten the concept that through science we have determined that we are all 99.95% genetically the same. For those that do not understand what I am saying the rest of the .05% is the differences that make us look different and enrich our society.

       It is of the essence of our day to get this behind us. The even possible recreation of a Rosa Parks image would mean that regardless of what laws we have passed or what politician laude - that the past is still haunting us. Dr. King said that he did not want his children to have the same life he had. At one time it was overt and now it is hidden in other things. Sometimes I think I would like to know when people are racist; at least I know where they stand. It is the silent ones that scare me. 

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La. schools look into back-of-bus allegation - Race in America - MSNBC.com

      First of all it sounds like he was not skilled in business dealings at the time and trusted a guy that wanted to make money off of him. Now that he has made it big he wants to capitalize on Hicks fame. You will always have people who will come out of the woodwork and say they “knew you back when” and say “I have this from those days”. Word to the wise - get people away from you who need you for survival if you plan on being someone of note one day. Learn to copyright your intellectual property. After all it is your and someone who did nothing more than give to other will prosper from your knowledge. They will hold your sanity and past hostage, and if they can't get anything from you, they will ransom it off to the highest bidder.  

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Taylor Hicks sues producer over old recordings - American Idol - MSNBC.com

      This is out of control when children have the means to acquire weapons, and subsequently have the knowledge to kill other people. This is apart of degradation of our education system and the oversight of those children that so very clearly have problems. We are afraid to speak up for the sake of other saying we are labeling. It is not a label, but a way to acknowledge a problem and find a path to solution. Our children being frightened to death of going to school and those with problem, and a definite disrespect for human life, thinking that elimination of the person is somehow going to make things better.

       The governments that we pay our taxes to needs to crack down on what our children are seeing on TV. These idea of harm do not just seed from a blank mind, but the television set and adult imagination. The defining admission here is that children do not have the cognitive reasoning skills to decipher that it wrong or all in good fun. We must censor them from these harmful images and teach them about right and wrong before we subject them. If we do not do this we are doing them a disservice and ultimately dooming them to a life that you may very well have done something to prevent, however we will not want to deal with them when they pass the point of no return. You know what that is - when we start building more prisons and digging more holes in the ground.

       If you have children you must be involved in your children’s lives. Do no think of it as being nosey, hindering, or doing something to them that you did not like growing up. It is those same things that gave us boundaries and made us understand what absolutely is unacceptable. It is a known fact that just simply asking question and letting them know you are watching will stop many of the behaviors that are demonstrative of lack of parental involvement. You are not here to be your child’s friend - you are their parent. If you do not know what that is then start with the dictionary, then start asking your kids what the hell they are doing.

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2 dead in Vt. school shooting - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com