However, their footdragging and attempts to outright refuse to let the facts face the light of day sound more to me like intentional malfeasance. As such, any legal protection for them starts crumbling.

Actually, it is possible that my argument is used in that way, though I have never seen that. Affirmative Action is still necessary, as is de-segregation of schools. You misread me. The concept that all people of a certain race are part of a sub-culture based solely on race is perpetuating the myth of differences … BASED on race. To continue to support the thinking that “all people of dark skin are part of “the black culture”" is to, unintentionally, support segregation (mentally) based on race. My comment does NOT (emphatically NOT) in any way counter the continued NECESSITY of Affirmative Action. Please try to not interject too much beyond what is actually said. Much appreciated. Thanks. Can we be done with this topic?

Your mentality is what is being used as an excuse to do away with affirmative action.

SEIU Chief Andy Stern is excited about the possibility of becoming relevant in today’s world as a huge purchaser of health insurance for its members. Why else would he capitulate? The leader of a health care employee union should be the last to fall.

Unions want to manage the billions in health insurance premiums, now paid by employees. This us back around to SEIU’s current political theater. While they oppose private equity, they’ll soon be doing a big case of imitation, looking for maximum returns on their investments/reserves.

Money makes the world go ’round. At least that’s the foundation for much of its dysfunctional acts.

Tar and feather Jesse Jackson?

Lynch him, maybe?

Shun him?

Deport him?

What??

WTF is wrong with you, you moron?

He has already been castigated by the ‘librul media’ for this gaffe, and I daresay that not a single one of us here approves of his use of the word. Why don’t you get that?

Or is it that you’re just here trying to bullsh*t us all and pretend that you’re not just another stupid effing troll??

They failed because Americans got fed up with the over-the-top rhetoric, and the corruption.

Yes, governing only to enrich yourself and your cronys, while telling your dumbass base that government can’t work, is a poor way to govern.

As for West Coast dockworkers, the government-industrial monstrosity (GIM) has an answer for that, Mexican ports and highways. I live in West Texas where they’re building the Ports to Plains corridor and a huge road through Marfa, La Entrada del Pacifico. Since we don’t want people coming from Mexico, why the huge roads? They’re for goods.

The GIM, Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex on steroids, wants to break the back of those West Coast unions. Apparently SEIU’s Andy Stern doesn’t want a similar fate and has acquiesced health insurance to the greedy GIM.

A statement posted on the military’s Web site says warplanes attacked rebel “facilities” in the Zab region near the border late Wednesday. There was no immediate information on casualties.

Nice peace and freedom has got the USA in Iraq.

See ya.

when he fails

he retreats.

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congrats fred,

gummitch,

barfly, et al.

another troll

bites the dust…

:)

barfly. Maybe republicans failed because they refused to listen.

They failed because Americans got fed up with the over-the-top rhetoric, and the corruption.

If no one ever challenged your views, would they ever progress?

if you’re not up to task

of challenging conservative

hypocrisy then why are you here?

(i know, because you’re a “concern” troll and

it’s your job. silly question, sorry.)

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oh, backup

(or should i write “captain mantastic”?)

you and your faux didacticism.

why don’t you go to school instead

of trying to take others there?

don’t be such an elitist.

&

keep an open mind.

learn, do.

start with the man in the mirror

and perhaps when you have

truly changed

others will too.

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good luck.

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I see it as a problem, Jackson sees it as a problem. But, you are unwilling to consider it. Why?

When Jesse Jackson, or any other member of the black community, issues you an invitation to join their conversation on the subject, let me know. You persist in thinking that the issue of a white person calling someone a ni$$er is the same as a black person using the word, otherwise you would stop blathering about “racism”.

It is not my responsibility, or right, to tell black people not to use such a loaded word. There are arguments on both sides of the issue within that community and the conversation is theirs, not yours. I personally agree with the public Jackson, but apparently he was less than sincere. In my workplace, the word is not allowed regardless of who is using it, and that’s a policy I support. But I am certainly not in a position to publicly criticize a black man for using it; I’ll leave that to other black men and women.

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I’ve seen a B&W picture of Obama sitting in his bureau under a great painting of Marx (not Julius) in a rightie site…

See ya.

If no one ever challenged your views, would they ever progress?

How precious. The troll who only appeared here, after the “permanent republican majority” lay in ruin, (along with conservative credibility), Deigns to lecture us on sacrificing credibility.

I’m sure the irony is lost on him, however.

You are sacrificing credibility on the issue if you aren’t willing to denounce it universally.

why?

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your fourth post on the same

subject here at this

progressive site.

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i’m sure you are having

equal success at exposing

the hypocrisy of the many

right wing web sites you

comment on, yes?

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