Bill Ayers

This is in response to Michelle McPhee article in the Metro paper dated Oct 14, 2008, “Obama eight isn’t enough”. Although I truly if given the opportunity would enjoy going on a rant as long as hers I know I am only allowed so much space. Therefore, in an attempt to keep this short let me get start to the point. She claims that when Sen. Obama states that he was “only 8 years old” when Mr. Ayers and his associates carried out attacks against our country is some how infuriating to her. I find her comments to be both infuriating and amusing at the same time. It amuses me that she and the supporters of Sen. McCain continue to attempt to link Sen. Obama to the actions of the Weathermen simply because Sen. Obama knows Mr. Ayers. What infuriates me is the fact that she and the supporters of Sen. McCain continue to attempt to link Sen. Obama to the actions of the Weathermen simply because Sen. Obama knows Mr. Ayers.

She and others are playing this very dangerous game. In their desire to see their candidate win the Presidential Election, they are willing to place not only the life of Sen. Obama in danger but the lives of his family as well. By attempting to portray Sen. Obama as terrorist supporter while claiming that they are only question his judgment these people are feeding the hatemonger’s. Those whom are looking for any excuse at all to act, lord forbid if anything was to happen to Sen. Obama or anyone within his circle then do we not hold Ms. McPhee, Sen. McCain, and his supporters responsible? Does that in fact make them terrorist supporters if not terrorist themselves for it was their actions that would have caused that harm. Moreover, do we not now question their lack of judgment for using such divisive attacks in the first place?

In fact, why do we not now challenge the entire conservative movement? Are they not the Republican base whom his campaign was addressing with their hate speech? Instead of condemning those speeches, many not only embraced but also attempted to justify those speeches with claims that Sen. Obama said something bad about Sen. McCain. How can you compare anything that might have come out of the Obama camp to the shouts for his death?


I understand the desire to win; I would not want a person that did not want to win in the White House in the first place. If one, does not have the ambition and drive to go all out then what good is that person to the country? However, going all out does not mean becoming a disgrace, to you, what you stand for, or if your actions causes harm to another. That is what the McPhee’s of this country is doing.

Ben Stien Email

This is in response to the email floating around allegedly from Ben Stein; however, we all know it is just a different version of recycled emails. Before I comment on this email, let me point out that I have no religious preference. In stating that, it does not mean I am atheist nor does it mean I am condemning those who choose to worship in any particular manner. What it does mean is I see religion as something created by man to explain what we are unable to explain. Moreover, as man is imperfect so are his creations. With that said, let me start with the beginning of the email.

In agreement with the author of the email, I have no problem calling “Christmas trees” Christmas trees. Granted, it has nothing what so ever to do with the birth of Jesus Christ, it is nonetheless important to those whom practice Christianity then, so be it. Just as I have no problem calling celebrations for the birth of Christ, Christmas parties or anything else along those lines when concerning Christianity. However, this is where the author and I differ from this point on. I believe in the Ten Commandments for it is the strongest foundation that a civilize world can stand upon. If we as a people do not look at it from a religious perspective but that from a logical one, and accept it as a guideline for how humanity should treat one another then how can we go wrong as a species.

At the same time, I do strongly believe in the separation of church and state. For, one person’s religion is another’s mythology. The author states, that the removal of prayer and reading the Bible from public schools and the removal of religious symbols from our government some how is responsible for how our society is today. First, the only religion that was being practice in the schools and the religious symbols were that of Christianity therefore, it was a form of both oppression and force conversion. In simple terms it meant, “Believe as we do our leave until we are done” for schoolchildren. Second, from the time our great country was founded up until the 1963 Supreme Court ruling how many great acts of evil occurred in or by our nation.

Many of the same evils this email decry occurred well before the abolishment of prayer from school along with Slavery, genocide of the Native Americans, Lynching, to the dropping of two atomic bombs where done before the removal of religion from schools. Yes, our planet faces a moral crisis that may condemn us to extinction and currently religion is one of the catalyses pushing us to it.

Michigan GOP

On 10 September 2008, the Michigan Messenger published a report the Michigan GOP plans to challenge voters at the poll based on residence. This action within itself is both legal and practical; something that all parties involved in electoral races should adhere to in order to keep it clean. However, at no point should we as citizen allow either major party to allow such practice to be a tool to disenfranchise voters.


As I stated in the pervious paragraph the Michigan GOP, plans to challenge voters at the poll based on residence, however what I intentionally did not mention is the method this determination shall be based upon. One would believe this challenge would arise from either lack of proper ID, lost paper work, or some other logical reasonable explanation. Sadly, this is not the case; the GOP will attempt to use housing foreclosure listings as an excuse to challenge voters. Is using foreclosure listings truly a factual basis for a challenge to the voter? I am not a legal expert; therefore, I cannot answer this question, I can only give my opinion. Without foretold knowledge as to the status of the foreclosure process of each individual voter on the list then there is no basis for a challenge.

However, in my opinion this is not about ensuring that there is no voter fraud but in fact follows a pattern of actions taken by the GOP to disenfranchise voters that are not members of the Republican Party. It is easy for me to claim that this is a racial issue because an overwhelming larger portion of those whom were con by the sub-prime loans are American of African descendants but this is not the case for all American that were unfortunate enough to fallen prey to such practices were all the same. Either poor or middle class people looking to provide a home for their families. They are hard working, law abiding, good people whose families, their children are facing a major crises and the GOP want to take advantage of it, as they allowed the sub-prime mortgage companies to do.

I cannot stress enough the importance of every citizen to stand up and denounce actions such as this regardless of your party affiliations. To my Republican brothers and sisters I say “Stop chanting country first and place it first for once” and to my Democrat brothers and sisters I say “Stop hoping for change and make the changes” to all I ask, “if you are not your brothers and sisters keepers, then what are you?”


Source: http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

Taken for Granted

We as Americans tend to take far too much for granted, is too trusting of our government and believe the rest of the world knows nothing. Americans believe that the world revolves around us and if the rest of the world complains it is something that they are doing wrong not us. It has become so bad, that our government can openly break international laws while attempting to mislead the world of why it is taking such actions. Not only did we allow our government to lie to the entire world, we allowed them to lie to us. I find that to be truly sad, for we all have become so complacent with our government that we have forgotten the meaning behind these 110 words. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” As most of my fellow citizen, I have heard this part of the Declaration of Independence recited many times and never paid much attention to the meaning of the words. I doubt if many of us have in the last three decades, for as I said we take things for granted.