A New Find

What do the following names have in common?

• 20) Jesse Lee Peterson: The founder of BOND, television personality, and radio host.
• 19) Deroy Murdock: He’s a syndicated columnist, political talking head, and contributing editor with National Review Online.
• 18) J.C. Watts: The former college football quarterback was a prominent Republican congressman, but lost considerable influence with conservatives when he publicly noted he was considering backing Obama in 2008.
• 17) Angela McGlowan: She’s an author, political commentator, and she ran and lost in a congressional primary in 2010.
• 16) Shelby Steele: The columnist and documentary film maker.
• 15) Ward Connerly: The founder of the American Civil Rights Institute and an activist dedicated to fighting racial quotas.
• 14) Mychal S. Massie: The National Chairman of the conservative black think tank, Project 21.
• 13) Robert George: He’s an editorial writer for the New York Post.
• 12) Ken Blackwell: He ran and lost for Governor of Ohio, was a candidate for the RNC National Committee Chairman; he’s a senior fellow for family empowerment at the Family Research Council and a columnist.
• 11) Star Parker: She’s an increasingly popular syndicated columnist who ran for Congress in California in 2010 and lost.
• 10) Colin Powell: He’s a former general and the first black Secretary of State. Although he still has considerable name recognition and influence with the general public, he has considerably less sway than he used to in the Republican Party since he endorsed Barack Obama in 2008.
• 9) Larry Elder: The sage from South Central is a popular columnist and syndicated talk radio host.
• 8) Michael Steele: He was the first black Republican National Committee Chairman. He’s now a columnist and TV commentator.
• 7) Condi Rice: She’s the head of the Global Center for Business and the Economy at Stanford, a former foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush, and the first black woman to ever be Secretary of State.
• 6) Walter Williams: The professor at George Mason University is a popular columnist and a fill-in radio host on the Rush Limbaugh program.
• 5) Tim Scott: Scott is the first black Republican congressman elected in South Carolina for 114 years.
• 4) Thomas Sowell: He’s a Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution who’s one of the most popular conservative columnists in America.
• 3) Allen West: The first black Republican congressman from Florida since 1876. Keynote speaker for CPAC in 2011.
• 2) Herman Cain: Former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, former talk radio host, and a candidate running for the presidency of the United States.
• 1) Clarence Thomas: Supreme Court Justice.

One correct answer would be they are all Republicans.  The second and most interesting is that they are all black Americans.  They are among a list of the twenty most influential black Republicans by John Hawkins, writing for the Right Wing News 

One name, along with a few others, was new to me; his name is Mychal S. Massie.  

He is singled out as a result of my having read a piece he published in the DAILY RANT titled "Why I Do Not Like The Obamas."  It is widely known that many have those same sentiments but what caught my eye is that these remarks were coming from another black American.  I thought it worth while to discover his beef with the Obamas.

Interestingly enough, his complaints are close to mine and he expresses them so much better.  Aside from the controversies over Obama policy, he strikes at the heart of the man and his wife's character and does so unabashedly.  To be so frank and honest has earned my respect for this man and I urge you to read his hard hitting and fair appraisal of the folks now occupying the house of the nation.

The following excerpted sentence is intended to bait your interest enough...

"I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement – as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare."

... that you will READ the article Why I Do Not Like The Obamas 

Half a Railroad Line

Let's see if if it is possible to "out-do" the insanity of building an oil pipeline close to the terminus but not anywhere near the supply.  That is exactly the idiotic proposal of the Obama administration, called the southern leg of the Keystone pipe line

Put on your time machine hat and go back a hundred years or so.  Folks in New York City had developed a taste for beef.  A rail line from Kansas City to NYC seemed to be a reasonable ticket to satisfy that desire.

However, some "greenies", likely a much less favorable term would have been used back then, came out of the woodwork and screamed you are proposing raping the land.  I know it is hard to imagine, but try.

Suppose the then sitting president, hoping to satisfy everyone in an election year, came up with a novel proposal that included a compromise based on an approval that had already been granted for a rail line from Buffalo, NY to NYC.  He may have even used a term along the lines of "lets get'er done."

This became known as the eastern leg of the so called beef line, or did it quickly become known as the bull line?.  Now to his way of thinking, misnomer though it be, this would have made all those folks in NYC happy, even though there was no intent to ever have the western leg from Kansas City to Buffalo approved.

I doubt some bloke in the Bowery, Bronx or Queens would have been easily fooled.  Most likely they would have been giving that old Bronx cheer, while yelling, "throw the bum out."

Come to think of it, shouldn't we all be doing the same?