Who says you can't get ahead

You don’t need a Black President to prove that American is the land of opportunity.  I don’t claim that racism doesn’t exist, I simply believe that if you work hard and stay out of trouble, people of color can accomplish wonderful things in this country.

 

For example, this week Forbes ranked the top earning celebrity couples. 

 

Top on the list were Jay-Z and Beyonce, followed by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith. 

 

I hope once and for all we can put victimization and oppression behind us because there is no excuse for limiting yourself.  Opportunity awaits all that dare try.

 

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/hollywoods-top-earning-couples/15620

 

 

These guys want a bailout...

This is why I oppose any help to the big three US Automakers.

 

Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, signs in, and then starts working -- on a crossword puzzle. Pool hates the monotony, but the pay is good: more than $31 an hour, plus benefits.

"We just go in and play crossword puzzles, watch videos that someone brings in or read the newspaper," he says. "Otherwise, I've just sat."

Pool is one of more than 12,000 American autoworkers who, instead of installing windshields or bending sheet metal, spend their days counting the hours in a jobs bank set up by Detroit automakers and Delphi Corp. as part of an extraordinary job security agreement with the United Auto Workers union.

The jobs bank programs were the price the industry paid in the 1980s to win UAW support for controversial efforts to boost productivity through increased automation and more flexible manufacturing.

 

Read the full story here .  You might want to have a bucket close by cause it will make you sick. 

Favorable Outcomes

My State Assembly, Congressional Representative, and Presidential candidates all lost.  Bad day for the Republican party.

 

Here is my positive spin on the results:

 

1.       The United States elected an African American President.  I hope he is the uniter that he promised to be.  For now, I have wiped the slate cleaned and am giving him a fresh chance.   We will see how he governs.

2.       The Senate didn’t get a filibuster proof majority.

3.       California passed a redistricting measure by the narrowest of margins.

4.       Tom McClintock got elected to the US House.  He is a champion of the taxpayer and should be a great conservative voice in Pelosi’s house.

 

Saddest facts:

1.       Al Franken is close to being a Senator.

2.       John  Murtha was not upset.

 

Fairness Doctrine and the 1st Amendment

The first amendment in the Bill of Rights guarantees some very important things…

 

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

 

I find it no coincidence that the rights guaranteed by the next amendment are provided immediately thereafter…

 

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.