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You are cordially invited to attend the 2008 Douchebag Summit.

An ACLU Update.

You want to know when you are doing right? When the moonbats flip out, that's when.

An Iraq Update .

Guitar stud Gary Moore turns 56 today.

Yawn. Can this finally be put to rest?

How about a Penn State Athletics Update?

The Hopeful Changer becomes the Obnoxious Panderer.

Today's Illegal Immigration Update.

Religious Moonbattery in Canada.

The Democrat(ic) Douchebag of the Day.

Irony in the glorious Democrat(ic) stronghold of Chicago.

A Religion of Peace Update.

And, in other news, male Clay Aiken pu$$ies, er, fans tend to vote Democrat(ic).

The future of America is in good hands. Yes, indeedy!

And, finally, some information to help you on your new car search.

Speaking as a 35 year old, I truly wish that there were a Dr. King alive today preaching the same message that was preached in 1965.

Equality of opportunity for all without regard to race, creed, or national origin. All races working together to see people as individuals and not merely members of a given race or class.

Sadly instead we get leaders preaching equality of outcome and leaders who see only members of a given race or class instead of individuals-individuals who are to be held responsible for their actions and for their success.

I hope that someday, as the generations who lived under legalized segregation give way to generations such as mine that we can move on and can realize Dr. King's dream of a truly race-blind society.

It's a dream I have.

"Why hasn't there been a viable replacement in the last 40 years which have instead produced folks like Farrakhan, Jackson, and Sharpton... "

...maybe because one is not needed. The United States is just that, a melting pot of people, cultures, races, and religions.

Why do the "Afican Americans" need a "leader" any more than "Hispanic Americans" or "Asian Americans" or "Native Americans" or "European Americans"?

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God has created a world big enough for all the lives He wishes to be born. It is only our hearts that are not big enough to want them and accept them. - MOTHER TERESA

No clue where I was.  Probably sitting way up high in a mango tree in Tanzania, trying not to get too much warm fresh sweet mango juice all over my clothes... yum... :o)

And I really don't remember when I heard about it.  My parents probably heard about it but I wasn't particularly tuned in at the time. 

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"  - Shakespeare

CHARLIE We would like to know first what those snakes in the grass also known as the,"kennedy,s" made to this guy that made him so saintly. Was it not to release the info that, J. EDGAR had on him and the tapes that ole, LBJ used to play for his buddies??.And why are his record,s tied up for, 75 YEARS WHEN OTHERS ARE RELEASED AFTER THE DEATH OF A INDIVIDUAL??. BECAUSE THIS IS WHY WE NOW HAVE THE DOUBLE STANDARDS THAT ARE WRECKING THIS COUNTRY. 

Watching all MLK's contemporaries over the last 40 years, I doubt he would be too much different from them. Probably would not be in line to have a day named after him on the national calendar. He probably wouldn't be too impressed with how his children turned out -- none of them has done much to promote his values from those times. He would more than likely be kind of like Reverend Billy Graham has been to various presidents -- you know, the person prominent people like to have around them especially when they have been caught commiting adultery, or been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, etc.

I was eleven years old when MLK was assassinated and I remember the news broadcast that evening and the somber faces of the teachers and students the next day.

I feel that if MLK was alive today things probably wouldn't be much different than they are, he would probably be ostracized from the black community for speaking the plain truth that blacks should work hard, stay in school and not depend on the government for support.

Of all the black leaders Bill Cosby is probably the most like Dr. King, he doesn't try to blame the white man for all the problems in the black community which has earned him harsh words from the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Julian Bond, to name a few. These so called black leaders have done nothing to end racism but instead promote it, kept it alive and festering in the minds of blacks that whites want to bring back segregation, and keep blacks strung out on drugs and that we're responsible for the large black prison population.

MLK had a dream, but thanks to today's black leaders that dream has turned into a nightmare, because just like the klan, they are spreading a message of hate and divisiveness. I know and most whites agree that slavery and segregation was a dark and horiffic time in our history, but hateful rhetoric from people like Jeremiah Wright tarnishes the memory of Dr. King and continues to fuel the fires of racism.

Dr. King's message was meant to extinguish these fires and promote unity between blacks and whites.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Sir Winston Churchill

 I was a 20 year old member of the USAF stationed in Texas when I heard about MLK's death. I was also a member of a riot-control team from the base where I was stationed. I KNEW that I was going to be issued an M-16 and taken to Memphis, along with the rest of the squad, for riot control. Scared doesn't begin to describe what I felt during those times. Fortunately, we were not needed in Memphis, and for this I thank God. I can't imagine what it would have been like to have a weapon in your hands trying to convince somebody not to do something they were bound and determined to do.

 On another note, can somebody in this discussion tell me which party Mayor Henry Loeb, who was mayor at the time of MLK's death, was a member of. After reading an article in a local paper last week, my brother who is not internet qualified, called me to find out. I have read a lot of stuff from the time period but can find no mention about which party he was a member of. A small bet is involved. Thanks. 

Why hasn't there been a viable replacement in the last 40 years...?
I'm guessing MLK Jr.'s "replacement" was in the 40,000,000 plus babies aborted in the last 40 years. 

All you lefttarded douchebags and Truthmonger, you all might want to send in your resumes to help research this.

You can't legally remove or even mess with hawk nests, even if the nest location isn't convenient and the hawk weirdly (for a hawk) attacks a schoolgirl. Unless you're "state wildlife officials," apparently.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

Another KBR rape case.

Ok, can we seriously do something about these monsters?  Wasting our money, screwing our troops, avoiding their tax duties to America, and raping innocent women.

Great company. 

Cue BD to the propaganda rescue.  Should be interesting to watch him spin rape as a positive.

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Interesting fact of the day:  McCain was 50 YEARS OLD when he voted against MLK day.  Good move.

"like Farrakhan, Jackson, and Sharpton"? These yahoos are Democrats! Martin Luther King was a Republican! Wow, I'd have thought you'd have known this!

I was in Boston MA. When I heard the news, I had mixed emotions. First, A heavy sadness that this man, that I believed was doing great things for America was lost. Secondly, I was even sadder that I was not surprised that it had happened. I am old enough to have seen, first hand, segregation in practice. I was born and raised in New England. I joined the military for the Korean war. Our platoon was transferred from boot camp in Newport RI to Norfolk, VA. Black sailors were sent to their own railroad cars for the overnight trip. Norfolk had segregated restrooms and drinking fountains. One kept one's mouth shut, but this was not to the liking of most who came from the North.

Martin Luther King was changing all that. He was waging a war of peace and a war of tolerance. He was winning. I guess the haters felt he had to be stopped. There are many people in this world who can only attain superiority by assigning inferiority to the people.

"It takes two people to lie Marge" 

"One to lie and one to listen...."

 I live in Illinois and the tax schemes, especially in Cook County, are devious and opressive. Water bottle tax, more property taxes, food tax, ultra high gas, AND they tripled the sales tax etc etc. Now the state is in an even bigger money crunch because people are now leaving to go to other counties or states to buy their goods which is leaving a big deficit in the budget. Sooner or later this state will be another Michagin as people get fed up and leave for Indiana.

The real kicker is, the "media" in our great state said "it was between raising taxes again or slashing into the budget" with slashing being used in a negative, ominous way. I asked my dad, "Is this the best they (the state govt) could come up with?"

Oh, and I was 14 years away from being born during his assasination. I believe my dad was also taking a nature hike through the jungles of Vietnam, or I think he was  in a Navy hospital in Japan at this time. But he was in the Memphis VA hospital when James Earl Ray was caught.

Did somebody piss in Leon's cornflakes today?  Wow, he can't stop replying/posting here.  FYI, Stern jumped the shark when his movie was in production.

Anyways, I was 8 months old when MLK was shot.  I do believe that times would be different.  Black people would've split between the Sharpton/Jackson "handout lemmings" and the MLK respectful (and commanding respect in kind) character set.

With this split, half the vote would go Republican and half would go Democrat and we would've never even heard of Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.  If any democrat got into power it would've been  one that was a conservative, middle of the road type.  Hey, I can have a dream, too.  It's unfortunate (actually, tragic) that the man who had a dream that inspired us all and actually mattered was gunned down 40 years ago.

Per Drudge....Clintons made 109 million! Guess we know where all those campaign dollars are going.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

This opinion is not from a "typical white person." This is a Native American perpective, as if this really matters.

Like most people with moral feelings, I agree that it was tragic and awful that King was assassinated or murdered. I would take this same position with anyone who was murdered. King seemed like a good person, but that being said, there are many good innocent people, famous and not so famous being murdered everyday. So I ask, why is King placed on such a special high pedestal like no other? I don't get it. I really don't!

I am sick of choking on this kind of nonsense the media pushes down my throat. Eat it, and like it, it's for your own good. Making the Kennedy clan royalty, King a saint, Obama the Great One of our time. Please stop, enough is enough.

I don't need to be told what to think by the MSM. God gave every human being, past and present a free mind and free will to use. Since I am the only one that will be held accountable for my own actions, I will continue to think for myself and form my own opinions about things, and with no help from the MSM.

Let's be fair about these different sensitive racial issues. Where is Hispanic month, Asian month, Caucasian month, or Native American Indian month? Why only Black history month? What makes the African race of people so special? My ancestors were mistreated also, to include slavery and oppression. I'm not going to cry about it. I wasn't personally enslaved or mistreated by the Spaniards or the European White Man, it was my ancestors and their ancestors that had the conflict. I don't harbor bad feelings with any race of people. All of God's children have been mistreated at one time or another, no exceptions. I spent time in Iraq and I know for a fact that slavery and mistreatment of people lives on even today, now in the Middle East and Africa. There is no special race of people! God is not color blind. God loves different colors. Just take a look around you.

I'm sorry I am not going to revere any human, including King, Kennedy, or Obama just because the MSM tells me to. Not happening. Call me a red skin Indian racist if you want, you won't hurt my fellings at all. This is my opinion and like an old dog, I am not changing my ways anytime soon!